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A/N: After 12 long chapters of getting into the story... the good stuff finally starts in this chapter!!!

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CHAPTER 13: Inside

It's late at night. Sonic, Sonia, Manic, and Ryan hide by the side of a street waiting for the computer generator to drive by. They know that once it's been hacked, the portal to Earth will open.

"This is taking too long!" Sonic said.

"Shut up," Ryan harshly whispered.

A strange hover vehicle drives by them.

"That's the one, Ryan," Manic said as he flipped open a laptop computer. Ryan hunched over as he crept out of the hiding spot. At the right time, he rolled on his back and laid right under it. He quickly clipped himself to the pipes and is now hooked right under the vehicle.

"I'm under, Manic," Ryan whispered in a small headset.

Manic had a headset on, too.

"Okay, listen up. There should be a bunch of panel doors. Your main focus should be the green panel door. Do you see one?" Manic asked.

"Yes, I see it," Ryan said as he saw a green panel door. "Should I open it?"

"Positive," Manic said. Ryan opened it and saw a bunch of wires. "You should see a bunch of thick wires."

"Yes, I see them," Ryan said.

"You should see three wires that are one half centimeter in diameter. Don't worry about the small wires, just the thick ones," Manic said. "Are the colors red and orange?"

"And green, too," Ryan said.

"Okay. Cut open the red wire cover but don't cut the wire itself," Manic said. Ryan took out some special clippers and cut open the covering. "Clip the wire to the battery." Ryan did so. "Now clip the battery to the red pylon circuit."

Ryan clipped it. "Done."

"I'll take it from here," Manic says. He typed in a few things on the keyboard and the laptop beeped. "All done, Ryan."

***

Deep out of the boarder of Robotropolice, a huge portal opened up in an unpopulated location.

***

"The portal is open, Ryan," Manic said, "so you can go home now!"

"Finally," Ryan said as he's about to unclip himself.

"Now you can play military at home again," Manic said. Upon hearing that, Ryan froze before he unclipped himself. He thought to himself for a second... then he tightened his clips.

"Be on stand-by. Stay right where you are. I'm going inside," Ryan said.

"What?" Sonia asked. "Ryan, the portal is open and you can go home... why are you going inside?"

"Going to do what any American military personnel would do," Ryan said. The hovercraft entered the garage of the main Robotropolice building and the doors closed.

"Ryan?... Ryan?... " Manic said but only got static from his headset. "Shit! He went inside!"

"Why? The portal's open and he can go home... WHY is he going inside?" Sonic asked.

***

The hovercraft backed up into a spot as SWAT Bots everywhere were looking at computers and loading stuff.

Ryan secretly unclipped himself and rolled out from under the hovercraft. He stood up and slowly ran to the garage exit while hunched over.

"Halt! Intruder!" A SWAT Bots yelled.

Ryan just spun on one heel and fired his MP-5 at the SWAT Bots. Most of the bots were destroyed. Ryan stopped shooting and he just sprinted down the corridor. All four the SWAT Bots's chased him!

Ryan stopped and shot more bullets at the bots. Then he continued running.

***

Robotnik was asleep at his desk when the alarm sounded! He woke up to the sound.

"What's that?" Robotnik yelled. Sleet and Dingo ran into the room to meet Robotnik.

"One of the SWAT Bots sounded the alarm that there is an intruder!" Sleet yelled.

"The hedgehogs?" Robotnik asked.

"No, it's that Ryan named boy," Dingo said.

"Dingo, it said 'that boy named Ryan.' Boy is his species and Ryan is his name, dummy!" Sleet angrily said.

"Forget it, there are a bunch of SWAT Bots in here to catch him. Just... like... hey, WHY is he in here?" Robotnik asked.

"We don't know, he opened the Earth portal somehow," Dingo said.

"He WHAT?!" Robotnik yelled.

With that Sleet and Dingo ran out the room in different directions from the loud yell.

***

Ryan runs out of the corridor and notices an elevator in the wall. He puts his MP-5 around his shoulder as he opened the elevator door. It opened and he stepped in. By the time the bots saw Ryan, the elevator door closed. The elevator moved upwards.

***

The SWAT Bots ran up the stairs to catch him.

***

Ryan continued moving upward. He took off one of his packs and opened it. He pulled out his dagger and cut open the elevator control panel. Then he pulled out some strange looking cylinders connected to wires and connected the panel wires with the cylinder wires.

***

The SWAT Bots run up the stairs closer and closer to Ryan.

***

Ryan gets out of the elevator through the top of the moving elevator. He then jumps onto another elevator just passing by heading down.

***

The Bots make it to the floor Ryan would have stopped at. They surrounded the elevator door waiting for Ryan to enter.

The elevator dings...

BOOM! The elevator blows up and blows the bots to pieces as well!

***

The elevator Ryan is on top of starts falling down. He grabs onto a pole and stays there as the elevator he was on top off falls down the shaft. Ryan dangles there on the pole in the elevator shaft. He looks up and notices the blown up burning elevator is falling down to him. Ryan looked around and saw he was in front of an elevator door. He pulled out his barette and fired a few shots at it to open it up. It opened and Ryan jumped out of the shaft and onto the floor as the burning elevator dropped down the shaft.

"Oh Jesus Christ..." Ryan gasped. He sat down to catch his breath. After he caught it, he looked up and saw a window.

Ryan got up and opened the window. He looked down and saw he was quite a few stories high. He looked up and saw the top of the building far high up. He reached in his bag and pulled out a grappling hook, rope, and a hook gun. He loaded it.

Ryan leaned out the window and pointed the gun up. He fired it and the grappling hook caught a ledge. Ryan leaned out the window with the rope in his hands and he began climbing up.

***

Robotnik looked at his security screen and saw that Ryan is climbing up the wall. He can climb down and out, but he's heading up inside.

"He could get out. Why is he so interested in coming back inside?" Robotnik asked himself.

Sleet walked in the room.

"Robotnik, sir, I don't know why he's coming inside. The portal's open so he could go home," Sleet said.

"Exactly. Why is he still coming in?" Robotnik asked. "And where's Dingo?"

***

Ryan continues to climb up and he makes it to the edge where the hook grabbed onto. He notices a window under the ledge. He kicks his feet from the wall causing him to swing backwards. He kicks feet-first into the window and jumps right in the floor.

Dingo all of a sudden walks out of a door marked 'Closet'.

"Can I come out now, Sleet?" Dingo asked. He then notices Ryan. Dingo lunged forward to grab Ryan, but Ryan grabbed Dingo's legs and flipped him over his back. Dingo laid flat on his back on the floor.

Ryan grabbed Dingo's neck and held him against the wall. He pointed his barette at Dingo's face.

"If you wanna live, tell me where are the files being copied?" Ryan asked harshly. Dingo shook in fear.

"Top floor. Main computer room. Only a hour left until the files are done," Dingo said.

"Tell me, why are you copying the files?" Ryan asked.

"Because once you go back to Earth, the portal can't be opened again from Mobius. If a copy has been made, we can still pick up Earthlings like you for Robotosization," Dingo said.

"Where's the original?" Ryan asked.

"Robotnik has it. It's on a floppy disk," Dingo said.

"Which one?" Ryan said as he choked Dingo harder.

"We only have one floppy disk!" Dingo cried.

All of a sudden, a whole bunch of SWAT Bots ran into the room where Ryan and Dingo are.

"Oh, shit!" Ryan yelled. He dropped Dingo and fires his MP-5 at the bots. Most of the bots fell down. Ryan's MP-5 clicked ending his magazine.

The bots raised their laser guns ready to shoot Ryan. All of a sudden, a figure jumps from under the ceiling and kicks down the bots.

That figure is Queen Aleena!

"Get the hedgehog!" a SWAT Bots shouted. A few bots tried to grab Aleena, but she did some fancy karate moves causing the bots fall all over the place.

While Ryan was watching Aleena, Dingo jumped Ryan and escaped.

A bot tried to grab Aleena, but she grabbed the bots arm and flipped it over her shoulder causing the bot to hit another bot. Then she just flat-out punched the last bot right in the face causing it to malfunction.

Aleena turned and saw Ryan.

"Glad you appeared," Ryan said.

"I told people I go into hiding... I never said WHERE! I hide everywhere. I once hid in Robotnik's bathroom... and I caught a very gross sight," Aleena began to say.

"I don't want to hear the details," Ryan quickly said. Ryan turned and ran down a corridor. Aleena jumped up and into a vent and started crawling in it. As Ryan ran, he took out the magazine from his M9 barette and reloaded it with a new one. Ryan had four magazines from the start. He's now down to one magazine left ever since he came to Mobius!

***

Dingo burst into the computer room with Robotnik and Sleet.

"Where have you been?" Sleet asked.

"I got lost," Dingo said.

"You don't even know your way around the place?" Robotnik asked. Sleet's mind was distracted when he looked at the video screen.

"Sleet?" Robotnik asked.

"Robotnik, we have three little hedgehogs not too far from the building," Sleet said evilly.

"Ooh, that is good," Robotnik said.

"Beware you three little hedgehogs, because here comes the big bad wolf," Sleet said as he looked at the video screen with Sonic, Sonia, and Manic on it.

TO BE CONTINUED...

===================================================== A/N: Uh oh, will Robotnik capture the hedgehogs and will Ryan be able to get back home? And will the prophecy come true so Aleena could meet her children? Hang tight, guys, the last part will be coming up soon!!! =====================================================