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A/N: This is it, boys and girls! This is the chapter that ties everything in! This is the last chapter for me on Mobius... or is it? This is the last chapter that I have to get home or I'll be stuck there forever! Will I make it and will the prophecy come true?
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CHAPTER 15: Escape and Leaving
Sleet ran down into the basement with the SWAT Bot.
"Listen up, metal-head, I want you to use your ignitions to start the building for lockdown," Sleet told the SWAT Bot.
"Affirmative," the bot said.
Sleet and the bot walked further in until they can see the fuse panel in the wall.
"With that, the boy will be trapped in here like a pea in a tin can. We only have a few more minutes until those files are copied and he'll be stuck here forever!" Sleet said to himself evilly.
Suddenly, a dagger was tossed from the shadows. It impaled right in the bot's face killing it. Sleet spun around seeing the SWAT Bot down. Now the lockdown can't be set.
"Hey, dickhead!" a familiar voice called.
Sleet slowly turned his head around. And there he was, Ryan Michael Perreault, walking out of the shadows. Sleet quickly pulled out the dagger from the bot and pointed it at Ryan.
Ryan reached behind him and pulled out another dagger.
The two stared at each other angrily.
"You stunned me in the street on Earth. Unfair," Ryan said.
"Then let's make it fair," Sleet said. The two lunged at each other and engaged in a knife fight. Ryan kept on blocking Sleet's blows with his knife and vice versa. They two kept moving through the basement in karate positions with their daggers.
"You're good," Ryan said.
"I know. I learned all this in karate classes," Sleet said.
The two fought again. Ryan kicked Sleet's legs causing Sleet to fall on his back. He quickly moved away as Ryan was so close to stabbing him. The two continued to knife fight when the two of them lost both of their knives at the same time.
Sleet then ran for the door. Ryan got up and followed him. Too late, Sleet closed the door and he could hear Sleet locking it.
"We planned on robotosizing you... but you were such a trouble maker! Now we plan on killing you. We're going to get that boy from Paris, Texas instead. Happy gassy," Sleet said as he turned a knob in the wall.
Ryan smelt the air and noticed that gas was pouring into the room.
"Oh man!" Ryan said. He was about to be suffocated by the gas. He tried to open the door, but the knob wouldn't budge. He was about to be killed off soon.
Ryan looked around for an escape. To his surprise, he saw an elevator, but he was more surprised to see a robophone next to it.
Ryan picked up his dagger from the ground and pried open the robophone back.
The room filled with gas quickly.
Ryan reached in his pack and pulled out a few small explosives. He attached them to the wires of the robophone. Last, he took out a pen and looked at the robophone number. He wrote the number on his palm:
'555-2546'
He left his pack with the explosives. All he has left is just his black T-shirt, camouflage pants, white sneakers, and a chest gun holder for his M-9 barette witch he's down to his last magazine. He took the magazine out to see how many armor-piercing bullets he has left since he came to Mobius...
"TWO BULLETS LEFT???" he yelled to himself.
He loaded it back in his gun and strapped the gun back in it's holder. He ran to the elevator and tried to pry the doors open.
The gas is slowly weakening him and filling up extremely fast. Finally, with all his muscles, he opened the doors and notices no elevator. He looked up and saw the shaft. He grabbed onto the ropes and dangled there inside the shaft. He had other visions standing there:
Ryan stands at the edge of a helicopter with a repel harness and rope. He repels out of the helicopter.
Next, Ryan is now doing mountain-climbers exercises facing down an incline!
Finally, Ryan is climbing up a rope to get to the top of the logs.
His visions ended while he dangled from the elevator ropes. He then began climbing up them like he was at Boot Camp again. He makes one tear from his eye wishing he was there.
The gas filled the entire huge basement.
***
Sleet walks into the top room with Robotnik and Dingo. He's smiling.
"Why are you smiling? You said that you wanted the place locked down, but it's not," Robotnik asked.
"It's not locked down, sir. But you see, the boy is locked in the basement and I'm filling it up with gas. He'll suffocate anytime, soon," Sleet said smirkingly. Robotnik also smirked.
"That is good news. Good riddance to such a bad boy. Oh well, we'll try to robotsize another one," Robotnik said.
Dingo just stood there looking confused.
"Anyway, no matter what's going to happen," Sleet began to say as he picked up a floppy disk and put it in his breast pocket, "I'll keep the original DMD safe with me."
***
Ryan made it to the top floor. He swung himself toward the closed elevator doors and busted them open. He swung himself in on the floor and pointed his gun around the place. Looked around and noticed it looked familiar... Of course, it was the same corridor he blew up like last time! It was all black and burnt.
All of a sudden, he heard SWAT Bots coming! Ryan attempted to run, but got another idea instead.
He pulled out the gas sprayer he used last time. He used half of it the first time, so he might as well use the other half this time.
***
The whole band of SWAT Bots ran into the corridor where they saw Ryan standing at the edge smiling at them.
"Hey, would you guys like a taste of what happened here like last time?" Ryan asked. He raised his gun and fired a bullet.
***
Robotnik, Sleet, and Dingo smiled they have finally killed Ryan... when they felt that rumbling sound like last time.
"What's that?" Dingo asked.
"Hmm, that sound and feels familiar," Sleet said. Instantly, he went wide-eyed. "DUCK!"
Sleet grabbed Robotnik and Dingo and threw all three of them behind a large computer console. The corridor exploded again into massive fireballs!
"I thought you said you killed the boy!" Robotnik yelled.
"I thought so, too. This may be just a spark or something," Sleet said.
"That's no spark, that's got to be Ryan!" Robotnik yelled.
"Oh well, it can't get much worse," Dingo said.
***
"Now for the coup di gracy," Ryan said happily. He picked up a robophone and looked at his palm. He dialed the number 555-2546.
***
In the basement, the phone rang and the wires sparked the bomb.
KABOOM!!!
The whole basement blew up tilting the building!
***
"Whoa! The building's exploding!" Sonic yelled when he saw it from a distance with his siblings.
***
Aleena nearly lost her balance as the whole building shook!
"Oh my god! This place is going to blow up!" she yelled. She looked behind her and saw the rope and hook that Ryan used to get higher when Ryan confronted Dingo. She opened the window and looked down so she could get ready to repel down.
***
Alarms rang as fire was being sent through the gas pipes!
"This whole building's going to explode!" Robotnik yelled as he got up.
"Hurry up, to the scorpion!" Sleet yelled. They each picked up something and were about to leave.
"DOCTOR IVO JULIAN ROBOTNIK!!!!!!!" a voice rang through the building.
The three bad guys stopped and they looked up in horror.
Stepping out of the corridor and into the room is a shadow pointing an M9 barette at the three. Walking out of the flames is a beat up, cut, sweating, bruised, and nearly burnt up attire Ryan Michael Perreault.
The three bad guys stared at Ryan. Ryan stopped as he kept his gun pointed at them.
"Let me ask you a question... why do you want to robotosize me?" Ryan asked.
"I wanted to try something new. I wanted my first human to be robotosized," Robotnik said.
"Out of a billion people on Earth... you chose me?" Ryan asked.
"Yeah," Robotnik said.
"As we can see, we chose the wrong one," Dingo said.
There was a pause. Ryan smiled.
"Nice digs, Robotnik! You should have done better than a gassed up room to kill me! Give up... you're bots are gone... you three are the only ones left... and I have only one bullet in this gun... question is, who will get it?" Ryan asked.
"Any one of these two!! But you're still not getting what you need," Robotnik said pointing at Sleet and Dingo.
Ryan breathed heavily. Then he shifted his eyes to the computer that has a 98% copy of the DMD being made.
"Whoa, man, that's good thinking. Even if I get the original disk, you guys will still have a backup copy so I'll still lose, eh?" Ryan asked.
"Whatever could you be talking about? How would you know that's a backup?" Robotnik asked, trying to trick Ryan.
"Easy..." Ryan began to say. He pointed his gun at Dingo. "I made Dingo over there squeal to me like a little piggy." He smiles.
"Dingo, you MORON!!!!" Sleet yelled.
Dingo blushed, "Sorry."
"But it doesn't matter, while you have a backup copy and the original is in your breast pocket, Sleet, there is nothing I can do, correct?" Ryan asked.
"Correction.... How do you know I didn't put it someplace else?" Sleet asked.
"I can easily see the disk sticking out of your pocket. Now comes to the ultimate question..." Ryan chocks his gun. "One bullet in this gun... who shall I shoot at? "
The three stand there worriedly.
"Eenie," Ryan said as he pointed the gun at Dingo.
Dingo cringes.
"Meenie," Ryan said as he pointed the gun at Robotnik.
Robotnik shakes in fear.
"Miney..." Ryan said as he pointed the gun at Sleet.
Sleet's teeth are chattering.
Ryan stands there still as a statue pointing the gun with the last bullet.
The computer shows 99% of the DMD files completed.
All three wait to see who gets the bullet.
"MOE!!!" Ryan yelled as he swings the gun and shoots the computer that was in the middle of making the backup copy and all the information is lost and destroyed!!!!!!!!
"NO!" Robotnik yells.
Instantly, Ryan runs to Robotnik, jumps in the air and kicks him under the chin. Then he spin-kicks Sleet. Dingo gets up and runs away.
"Sleet..... Destroy the original disk!" Robotnik yelled as he got up.
"I can't! This is the only information left!" Sleet yelled back.
"I don't care!!! The plan has foiled! But we can't let him escape!!" Robotnik yelled.
In a different room, Ryan and Dingo are fighting. Dingo tried to punch Ryan, but Ryan grabbed his arm and flipped him over his back.
"Do it now! While he's occupied!!" Robotnik ordered. Sleet looked at Ryan and Dingo fighting. Sleet pulled out a laser gun. He fired a laser from it.
The laser blast hit Ryan across the face. He spun around as blood gushed down his face and he fell unconscious.
"Come on, if we can't destroy it, we've got to hide it! The Scorpion aircraft is this way!" Sleet yelled as the three ran leaving Ryan alone.
***
Aleena leaned out the window and grabbed onto the rope. She positioned herself ready to repel.
"Here goes nothing!" she said.
***
The whole building started rumbling ready to explode!
***
Sonic, Sonia, and Manic watched the building as it shook.
"Oh, God, I hope Ryan gets out of there," Sonic said.
"Mom's in there, too," Sonia quickly said.
***
Ryan slowly got up feeling his face. Blood ran through his fingers as he looked as he heard the Scorpion engines starting.
***
Robotnik, Sleet, and Dingo got in the aircraft as it was about to take off.
Ryan ran out onto the roof and saw the craft getting ready to leave. Ryan ran and ran. Just as the Scorpion left the roof, Ryan jumped off the roof and landed on the roof of the Scorpion craft.
***
Aleena repelled all the way down to the ground.
Flames started to spark out of the building! She ran and ran.
Finally, from a long distance view, the building imploded followed by a bunch of explosion flames!
***
"Holy crap!" Sonia yelled as she saw the light of the building burst into flames!
***
Ryan stayed gripped onto the roof of the flying Scorpion craft.
"What was that?" Sleet asked.
"Dingo, look up there!" Robotnik yelled. Dingo looked out a window.
"Son of a bitch! That boy just never want's to give up!" Dingo said.
"Kill him! Push him off!" Robotnik yelled.
Dingo opens the top hatch and crawls up. Instantly, Dingo was met by one of Ryan's kicks. Dingo fell backwards on the roof. He got up and was about to punch Ryan, but Ryan grabbed Dingo's arm and threw him on the roof. Dingo got up again tried to kick Ryan, but Ryan grabbed his kick and flipped him over.
Two times Dingo was knocked down. He ran to Ryan for a last time... Ryan grabbed his legs and flipped him over! Dingo fell right off the roof and his back flew right into the stinger of the scorpion. It impaled through his chest.
"GAH!" Dingo gasped... finally, he died.
From inside, Robotnik heard the punches and kicks. He sighed.
"Sleet, go help him," Robotnik said. Before Sleet got up, Ryan jumps down through the hatch kicking Robotnik in the face.
Robotnik fell backwards. He stood up again. Ryan instantly punched him in the face.
"Ow!" Robotnik yelled.
"This is for tricking Knuckles in 'Friend or Foe'!" Ryan yelled and he punched Robotnik.
"This is for getting Sonia dirty in 'Come out where ever you are'!" Ryan yelled and he punched Robotnik again.
"This is for nearly robotosizing Manic in 'Sonia's Choice'!" Ryan yelled again and he punched Robotnik again. Blood drooled out of Robotnik's mouth.
"And this..." he pulls a lever opening the back hatch where Robotnik is facing his back to "... This is for causing Queen Aleena to separate her children and taking over Mobotropolis!" Ryan yelled. Those were his last words to Robotnik. He punches Robotnik out the back of the high-flying aircraft!
Robotnik fell out down, down, down. He finally lands in a street. Gasps for breath, but stops, closes his eyes and lay there motionless.
"Two dead," Ryan said and he turned to Sleet, "and you're next." Sleet looks around nervously, then whips out disk.
"Another step forward and it's destroyed!" Sleet yelled.
"Smooth move... but how will you destroy the disk if your fly is unzipped?"Ryan asked.
"What?" Sleet asked as he looked down. In a blink of an eye, Ryan kicks under Sleet's chin causing the disk to fall back in Sleet's pocket. He pounces on Sleet and punches him many times. Sleet's mouth started bleeding.
Ryan grabs Sleet and throws him through the hatch and Sleet is on top of the moving aircraft... and he can see Dingo impaled through the Scorpion tail dead.
"Oh... dear... Lord..." Sleet said shockingly.
While off guard... Ryan appears and kicks Sleets feet knocking him on his butt. The two get up on top of the moving aircraft and they look at each other eyes filled with rage and death.
They lunged at each other and they did karate moves like last time.
"I say again, you're good," Ryan said. They kept the fight on while the aircraft is in motion.
After a while, Sleet was off guard and Ryan kicks him in the chest and Sleet falls on his side.
"But not good enough," Ryan said.
"Argh!" Sleet yelled.
Ryan grabs Sleet by the collar and holds him over the edge of the scorpion. He reaches in Sleet's pocket, pulls out the disk and smiles. Then he speaks his last words to Sleet. "I'll be taking this."
With that, he punches Sleet right in the face! Sleet goes falling backwards. Down... down... down...
***
Sonic, Sonia, and Manic look up and they see Sleet falling from high in the sky.
"Holy crap!!!" Sonic said.
"Dude!! Just throwing them off like that?? He's totally different from us!!" Manic said.
Falling... fallling... and finally, SPLAT! 10 feet in front of them...... the grossest thing they ever saw. Sonia faints seeing Sleet's crushed corpse in front of them.
Ryan climbs in the aircraft sighing happily. He sits at controls and flies the aircraft. He looks at disk happily. "Yes!" Ryan said to himself.
***
Meanwhile, in the street, Robotnik still lays on the ground gasping for air. Suddenly, a figure looks down at him.
"No... no... can't be..." Robotnik said. Robotnik looked up at the angry sights of the true ruler of Mobius, Queen Aleena! She leaned down to Robotnik.
"It's all over, Robotnik. Face it, you lost. The Oracle told you that your days are numbered, and the prophecy came true," Aleena said.
"How? I'm still alive," Robotnik said chuckling.
"I know. Ryan couldn't bare himself to kill you," Aleena said.
"And I know you're a peacelover, you wouldn't do anything to me," Robotnik said. Aleena just stared at him coldly.
"Doctor Ivo Robotnik... you have no idea what I'm really like!" She said harshly.
Queen Aleena used her right palm and covered Robotnik's whole mouth while pinching Robotnik's nose with her finger and thumb. She held onto Robotnik tightly!
Robotnik moved his head muffled. Aleena's jugular vein expanded from her neck as she held onto Robotnik.
Finally... Robotnik stopped moving and he slowly closed his eyes. Aleena removed her palm from his mouth and saw that Robotnik was finally dead.
"Congratulations, Queen Aleena," a voice said behind her. She smiled and turned around.
"Thank you, Oracle," Aleena said.
"The prophecy had been fulfilled. Robotnik's forces are gone, and nothing can stop you from forming the Council of Four and reunite this planet," the Oracle of Delphius said to her.
"Well, some of the thanks goes to my children... and Ryan, of course," Aleena said.
"Now that the prophecy has been fulfilled, you can now meet your children again," the Oracle said. Upon hearing that, Aleena teared happily.
"You mean it?" Aleena asked. The Oracle nodded his head.
"You can find them at the portal entrance. Be true to yourselves, and you four can restore the planet again. Good luck," the Oracle said as he disappeared.
Aleena stood in the street all alone and teamed happily knowing she can meet her children. She wonders how they're going to react when they see her. Only one way to find out.
***
The triplets and Ryan are at the open portal to take Ryan back to Earth. Ryan stares at it for a while. He's wearing everything he has since he appeared at Mobius.
"Well... go on. Before your dinner gets cold," Sonic said.
"As much as I would like to head home... I have always been a fan of you guys. I loved your TV show Sonic Underground and all. I never realized this is the kind of thing a freedom fighter does on Mobius," Ryan said.
"Gotta admit, dude. Your style of fighting is totally different than ours," Manic said.
"Not really, Sonia is almost as skilled as me," Ryan said.
"Yeah," Sonia said uncomfortably.
"But, hey, life in the forces is tough," Ryan said.
"True," Sonia said.
"Speaking of which," Sonic said. He held out Ryan's 'Endurance Techniques' book and his 'CAP PJOC' handbook. "You forgot these." Ryan waved them off.
"Keep them. I have others of those books at home. You may want to use them for... future things. In case any other enemy shows up or something," Ryan said smirking. The triplets got what Ryan was thinking.
"Okay, we'll make ourselves a Freedom Fighter Force," Sonic said.
"I'm really going to miss you guys," Ryan sighed.
"Hey, we'll miss ya too," Manic said.
"Stay cool," Sonic said.
"So, for the last time... Sonic, I've always loved your speed and fast reflexes, Sonia I've always loved your strategies and karate, and Manic I've always loved your lingo and thieving skills," he tears, "I'll miss all three of you."
"We'll miss you too..." Sonia said sadly as her green and black facepaint started to smear from her tears.
Ryan got down on one knee and hugged Sonic. Sonic hugs back.
Ryan moved to Sonia and hugged her sadly too. Sonia hugs back sadly too.
Then Ryan looked at Manic and said, "Now Manic, don't swipe anything from me, especially this disk!"
"I promise," Manic said.
Ryan hugged Manic and Manic hugged back. All four are tearing slowly. Ryan stood up.
"See ya," Ryan said. He turned around and walked to the portal. Just as he took one step in...
"Senior Airman!" Sonia yelled. Ryan smiled knowing Sonia got his rank correct. He turned.
"Yeah?" Ryan asked.
Sonia looked at him... then she raised her arm and placed her palm to her eyebrow. She's saluting Ryan!
Sonic stepped in and saluted too. Finally, Manic stepped in and saluted too.
Ryan stood at the portal as another tear dripped from his eye down to his smile. He raised his arm and saluted back. He dropped his salute and so did the three.
Ryan steps through the portal slowly and is gone; the portal disappears from behind him leaving Sonic, Sonia and Manic alone.
"Well.... that's that," Sonic said.
"Just one question.... Now what?" Manic asked.
Then a familiar female voice spoke from the bushes.
"I believe I could answer that question," the voice said.
They all turn around.
"Who?!" Sonic asked.
Stepping out of the bushes slowly is a tall... female... purple hedgehog... with a white royal uniform and a yellow crown, smiling at them.
"Mother!!" Sonia said.
"The prophecy...?" Manic asked.
Stepping out of the shadow is none other than Queen Aleena!
"Hello, my children," Aleena said.
"Hello... mom," Sonic said.
She tears a bit and said, "It's been so long since I was allowed to last see you three. But now since Robotnik and his army are dead, we can be a family again." The looked to where the portal was. "I'm going to miss Ryan. I saved his life on the roof. He told me everything about you, kids."
"Oh..." Sonia asked.
"Well, kids, now that Robotnik is dead, we can restore Mobius again and become the true rulers of Mobius," Aleena said happily.
The three kids jumped up and down happily cheering.
"Besides, I've saved up some extremely embarrassing photographs of you three as babies that I'd like to show to the world!" Aleena said as she opened up her wallet. "Here's one for example."
Aleena held out a pic of a toddler Sonia sittin' on a little trainer's seat all naked.
"GAH! Don't you dare show that to anyone!" Sonia shrieked. Aleena and Sonia's brothers just laughed.
"About time," a voice said.
"Bartlby?" Sonia asked.
Walking to the four royals are Bartlby and the other aristocrats: a dog, a cat, a badger, a wolf, a fox, and a mink. The badger STILL has a bandage on his nose.
"Finally, that dumb boy, Ryan is gone," Bartlby said.
"May I ask why?" Aleena said.
"It's you, the queen!" Bartlby said.
"Sonia, why are you wearing that?" the cat aristocrat asked.
"It looks weird," the wolf aristocrat said.
"Hey! Don't talk that way about my children!" Aleena shouted.
"There's nothing really that can be done. We're in the same situation and yet, Ryan isn't here to leap in defense. Glad he's gone and we can all now live peacefully," Bartlby said as the other's agreed with him.
"Not exactly," Sonic said.
"What do you mean?" Bartlby asked.
"You see, when Ryan was with us, we were kind of studying his moves when he was fighting you," Manic said.
"What do you mean?" Bartlby asked worriedly.
Instantly, all four hedgehogs smirked and stared at the aristocrats.
"This!" Sonia shouted as she did a spin-kick in the cat's groin! The cat falls on his knees and Sonia kneed him in the face.
The wolf was about to claw Sonia, but Aleena grabbed the claw and flipped the wolf over her shoulder ramming him into a tree.
The mink grabbed Sonic's arm, but Sonic knocked the mink off his feet by kicking him there. Then he twisted the mink's arm.
Manic tripped the badger off his feet so Manic was closer to his face. Then Manic grabbed the badgers nose and twisted it!!!
"GAH! MY NOSE!!! MY NOSE!!!" the badger cried.
"You're going to speak nasal for weeks!" Manic said.
The dog was flipped over by Sonia.
The fox grabbed Aleena from behind, but Sonic grabbed him and threw him hard on the ground.
All of the aristocrats, except Bartlby, lay on the ground in pain.
"Ow, my back..."
"She nearly broke my arm..."
"Ow... ow... my nose..."
All of the hedgehogs stared at the shaking nervously Bartlby. Instantly, he ran away screaming in fear. All of the other aristocrats got up slowly and ran behind him, following him.
The three hedgehogs did nothing but laugh. Then they all snuggled together knowing they're going to be a family again.
TO BE CONTINUED...
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A/N: Okay, that's it... or is it? Will I make it home all right?
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A/N: This is it, boys and girls! This is the chapter that ties everything in! This is the last chapter for me on Mobius... or is it? This is the last chapter that I have to get home or I'll be stuck there forever! Will I make it and will the prophecy come true?
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CHAPTER 15: Escape and Leaving
Sleet ran down into the basement with the SWAT Bot.
"Listen up, metal-head, I want you to use your ignitions to start the building for lockdown," Sleet told the SWAT Bot.
"Affirmative," the bot said.
Sleet and the bot walked further in until they can see the fuse panel in the wall.
"With that, the boy will be trapped in here like a pea in a tin can. We only have a few more minutes until those files are copied and he'll be stuck here forever!" Sleet said to himself evilly.
Suddenly, a dagger was tossed from the shadows. It impaled right in the bot's face killing it. Sleet spun around seeing the SWAT Bot down. Now the lockdown can't be set.
"Hey, dickhead!" a familiar voice called.
Sleet slowly turned his head around. And there he was, Ryan Michael Perreault, walking out of the shadows. Sleet quickly pulled out the dagger from the bot and pointed it at Ryan.
Ryan reached behind him and pulled out another dagger.
The two stared at each other angrily.
"You stunned me in the street on Earth. Unfair," Ryan said.
"Then let's make it fair," Sleet said. The two lunged at each other and engaged in a knife fight. Ryan kept on blocking Sleet's blows with his knife and vice versa. They two kept moving through the basement in karate positions with their daggers.
"You're good," Ryan said.
"I know. I learned all this in karate classes," Sleet said.
The two fought again. Ryan kicked Sleet's legs causing Sleet to fall on his back. He quickly moved away as Ryan was so close to stabbing him. The two continued to knife fight when the two of them lost both of their knives at the same time.
Sleet then ran for the door. Ryan got up and followed him. Too late, Sleet closed the door and he could hear Sleet locking it.
"We planned on robotosizing you... but you were such a trouble maker! Now we plan on killing you. We're going to get that boy from Paris, Texas instead. Happy gassy," Sleet said as he turned a knob in the wall.
Ryan smelt the air and noticed that gas was pouring into the room.
"Oh man!" Ryan said. He was about to be suffocated by the gas. He tried to open the door, but the knob wouldn't budge. He was about to be killed off soon.
Ryan looked around for an escape. To his surprise, he saw an elevator, but he was more surprised to see a robophone next to it.
Ryan picked up his dagger from the ground and pried open the robophone back.
The room filled with gas quickly.
Ryan reached in his pack and pulled out a few small explosives. He attached them to the wires of the robophone. Last, he took out a pen and looked at the robophone number. He wrote the number on his palm:
'555-2546'
He left his pack with the explosives. All he has left is just his black T-shirt, camouflage pants, white sneakers, and a chest gun holder for his M-9 barette witch he's down to his last magazine. He took the magazine out to see how many armor-piercing bullets he has left since he came to Mobius...
"TWO BULLETS LEFT???" he yelled to himself.
He loaded it back in his gun and strapped the gun back in it's holder. He ran to the elevator and tried to pry the doors open.
The gas is slowly weakening him and filling up extremely fast. Finally, with all his muscles, he opened the doors and notices no elevator. He looked up and saw the shaft. He grabbed onto the ropes and dangled there inside the shaft. He had other visions standing there:
Ryan stands at the edge of a helicopter with a repel harness and rope. He repels out of the helicopter.
Next, Ryan is now doing mountain-climbers exercises facing down an incline!
Finally, Ryan is climbing up a rope to get to the top of the logs.
His visions ended while he dangled from the elevator ropes. He then began climbing up them like he was at Boot Camp again. He makes one tear from his eye wishing he was there.
The gas filled the entire huge basement.
***
Sleet walks into the top room with Robotnik and Dingo. He's smiling.
"Why are you smiling? You said that you wanted the place locked down, but it's not," Robotnik asked.
"It's not locked down, sir. But you see, the boy is locked in the basement and I'm filling it up with gas. He'll suffocate anytime, soon," Sleet said smirkingly. Robotnik also smirked.
"That is good news. Good riddance to such a bad boy. Oh well, we'll try to robotsize another one," Robotnik said.
Dingo just stood there looking confused.
"Anyway, no matter what's going to happen," Sleet began to say as he picked up a floppy disk and put it in his breast pocket, "I'll keep the original DMD safe with me."
***
Ryan made it to the top floor. He swung himself toward the closed elevator doors and busted them open. He swung himself in on the floor and pointed his gun around the place. Looked around and noticed it looked familiar... Of course, it was the same corridor he blew up like last time! It was all black and burnt.
All of a sudden, he heard SWAT Bots coming! Ryan attempted to run, but got another idea instead.
He pulled out the gas sprayer he used last time. He used half of it the first time, so he might as well use the other half this time.
***
The whole band of SWAT Bots ran into the corridor where they saw Ryan standing at the edge smiling at them.
"Hey, would you guys like a taste of what happened here like last time?" Ryan asked. He raised his gun and fired a bullet.
***
Robotnik, Sleet, and Dingo smiled they have finally killed Ryan... when they felt that rumbling sound like last time.
"What's that?" Dingo asked.
"Hmm, that sound and feels familiar," Sleet said. Instantly, he went wide-eyed. "DUCK!"
Sleet grabbed Robotnik and Dingo and threw all three of them behind a large computer console. The corridor exploded again into massive fireballs!
"I thought you said you killed the boy!" Robotnik yelled.
"I thought so, too. This may be just a spark or something," Sleet said.
"That's no spark, that's got to be Ryan!" Robotnik yelled.
"Oh well, it can't get much worse," Dingo said.
***
"Now for the coup di gracy," Ryan said happily. He picked up a robophone and looked at his palm. He dialed the number 555-2546.
***
In the basement, the phone rang and the wires sparked the bomb.
KABOOM!!!
The whole basement blew up tilting the building!
***
"Whoa! The building's exploding!" Sonic yelled when he saw it from a distance with his siblings.
***
Aleena nearly lost her balance as the whole building shook!
"Oh my god! This place is going to blow up!" she yelled. She looked behind her and saw the rope and hook that Ryan used to get higher when Ryan confronted Dingo. She opened the window and looked down so she could get ready to repel down.
***
Alarms rang as fire was being sent through the gas pipes!
"This whole building's going to explode!" Robotnik yelled as he got up.
"Hurry up, to the scorpion!" Sleet yelled. They each picked up something and were about to leave.
"DOCTOR IVO JULIAN ROBOTNIK!!!!!!!" a voice rang through the building.
The three bad guys stopped and they looked up in horror.
Stepping out of the corridor and into the room is a shadow pointing an M9 barette at the three. Walking out of the flames is a beat up, cut, sweating, bruised, and nearly burnt up attire Ryan Michael Perreault.
The three bad guys stared at Ryan. Ryan stopped as he kept his gun pointed at them.
"Let me ask you a question... why do you want to robotosize me?" Ryan asked.
"I wanted to try something new. I wanted my first human to be robotosized," Robotnik said.
"Out of a billion people on Earth... you chose me?" Ryan asked.
"Yeah," Robotnik said.
"As we can see, we chose the wrong one," Dingo said.
There was a pause. Ryan smiled.
"Nice digs, Robotnik! You should have done better than a gassed up room to kill me! Give up... you're bots are gone... you three are the only ones left... and I have only one bullet in this gun... question is, who will get it?" Ryan asked.
"Any one of these two!! But you're still not getting what you need," Robotnik said pointing at Sleet and Dingo.
Ryan breathed heavily. Then he shifted his eyes to the computer that has a 98% copy of the DMD being made.
"Whoa, man, that's good thinking. Even if I get the original disk, you guys will still have a backup copy so I'll still lose, eh?" Ryan asked.
"Whatever could you be talking about? How would you know that's a backup?" Robotnik asked, trying to trick Ryan.
"Easy..." Ryan began to say. He pointed his gun at Dingo. "I made Dingo over there squeal to me like a little piggy." He smiles.
"Dingo, you MORON!!!!" Sleet yelled.
Dingo blushed, "Sorry."
"But it doesn't matter, while you have a backup copy and the original is in your breast pocket, Sleet, there is nothing I can do, correct?" Ryan asked.
"Correction.... How do you know I didn't put it someplace else?" Sleet asked.
"I can easily see the disk sticking out of your pocket. Now comes to the ultimate question..." Ryan chocks his gun. "One bullet in this gun... who shall I shoot at? "
The three stand there worriedly.
"Eenie," Ryan said as he pointed the gun at Dingo.
Dingo cringes.
"Meenie," Ryan said as he pointed the gun at Robotnik.
Robotnik shakes in fear.
"Miney..." Ryan said as he pointed the gun at Sleet.
Sleet's teeth are chattering.
Ryan stands there still as a statue pointing the gun with the last bullet.
The computer shows 99% of the DMD files completed.
All three wait to see who gets the bullet.
"MOE!!!" Ryan yelled as he swings the gun and shoots the computer that was in the middle of making the backup copy and all the information is lost and destroyed!!!!!!!!
"NO!" Robotnik yells.
Instantly, Ryan runs to Robotnik, jumps in the air and kicks him under the chin. Then he spin-kicks Sleet. Dingo gets up and runs away.
"Sleet..... Destroy the original disk!" Robotnik yelled as he got up.
"I can't! This is the only information left!" Sleet yelled back.
"I don't care!!! The plan has foiled! But we can't let him escape!!" Robotnik yelled.
In a different room, Ryan and Dingo are fighting. Dingo tried to punch Ryan, but Ryan grabbed his arm and flipped him over his back.
"Do it now! While he's occupied!!" Robotnik ordered. Sleet looked at Ryan and Dingo fighting. Sleet pulled out a laser gun. He fired a laser from it.
The laser blast hit Ryan across the face. He spun around as blood gushed down his face and he fell unconscious.
"Come on, if we can't destroy it, we've got to hide it! The Scorpion aircraft is this way!" Sleet yelled as the three ran leaving Ryan alone.
***
Aleena leaned out the window and grabbed onto the rope. She positioned herself ready to repel.
"Here goes nothing!" she said.
***
The whole building started rumbling ready to explode!
***
Sonic, Sonia, and Manic watched the building as it shook.
"Oh, God, I hope Ryan gets out of there," Sonic said.
"Mom's in there, too," Sonia quickly said.
***
Ryan slowly got up feeling his face. Blood ran through his fingers as he looked as he heard the Scorpion engines starting.
***
Robotnik, Sleet, and Dingo got in the aircraft as it was about to take off.
Ryan ran out onto the roof and saw the craft getting ready to leave. Ryan ran and ran. Just as the Scorpion left the roof, Ryan jumped off the roof and landed on the roof of the Scorpion craft.
***
Aleena repelled all the way down to the ground.
Flames started to spark out of the building! She ran and ran.
Finally, from a long distance view, the building imploded followed by a bunch of explosion flames!
***
"Holy crap!" Sonia yelled as she saw the light of the building burst into flames!
***
Ryan stayed gripped onto the roof of the flying Scorpion craft.
"What was that?" Sleet asked.
"Dingo, look up there!" Robotnik yelled. Dingo looked out a window.
"Son of a bitch! That boy just never want's to give up!" Dingo said.
"Kill him! Push him off!" Robotnik yelled.
Dingo opens the top hatch and crawls up. Instantly, Dingo was met by one of Ryan's kicks. Dingo fell backwards on the roof. He got up and was about to punch Ryan, but Ryan grabbed Dingo's arm and threw him on the roof. Dingo got up again tried to kick Ryan, but Ryan grabbed his kick and flipped him over.
Two times Dingo was knocked down. He ran to Ryan for a last time... Ryan grabbed his legs and flipped him over! Dingo fell right off the roof and his back flew right into the stinger of the scorpion. It impaled through his chest.
"GAH!" Dingo gasped... finally, he died.
From inside, Robotnik heard the punches and kicks. He sighed.
"Sleet, go help him," Robotnik said. Before Sleet got up, Ryan jumps down through the hatch kicking Robotnik in the face.
Robotnik fell backwards. He stood up again. Ryan instantly punched him in the face.
"Ow!" Robotnik yelled.
"This is for tricking Knuckles in 'Friend or Foe'!" Ryan yelled and he punched Robotnik.
"This is for getting Sonia dirty in 'Come out where ever you are'!" Ryan yelled and he punched Robotnik again.
"This is for nearly robotosizing Manic in 'Sonia's Choice'!" Ryan yelled again and he punched Robotnik again. Blood drooled out of Robotnik's mouth.
"And this..." he pulls a lever opening the back hatch where Robotnik is facing his back to "... This is for causing Queen Aleena to separate her children and taking over Mobotropolis!" Ryan yelled. Those were his last words to Robotnik. He punches Robotnik out the back of the high-flying aircraft!
Robotnik fell out down, down, down. He finally lands in a street. Gasps for breath, but stops, closes his eyes and lay there motionless.
"Two dead," Ryan said and he turned to Sleet, "and you're next." Sleet looks around nervously, then whips out disk.
"Another step forward and it's destroyed!" Sleet yelled.
"Smooth move... but how will you destroy the disk if your fly is unzipped?"Ryan asked.
"What?" Sleet asked as he looked down. In a blink of an eye, Ryan kicks under Sleet's chin causing the disk to fall back in Sleet's pocket. He pounces on Sleet and punches him many times. Sleet's mouth started bleeding.
Ryan grabs Sleet and throws him through the hatch and Sleet is on top of the moving aircraft... and he can see Dingo impaled through the Scorpion tail dead.
"Oh... dear... Lord..." Sleet said shockingly.
While off guard... Ryan appears and kicks Sleets feet knocking him on his butt. The two get up on top of the moving aircraft and they look at each other eyes filled with rage and death.
They lunged at each other and they did karate moves like last time.
"I say again, you're good," Ryan said. They kept the fight on while the aircraft is in motion.
After a while, Sleet was off guard and Ryan kicks him in the chest and Sleet falls on his side.
"But not good enough," Ryan said.
"Argh!" Sleet yelled.
Ryan grabs Sleet by the collar and holds him over the edge of the scorpion. He reaches in Sleet's pocket, pulls out the disk and smiles. Then he speaks his last words to Sleet. "I'll be taking this."
With that, he punches Sleet right in the face! Sleet goes falling backwards. Down... down... down...
***
Sonic, Sonia, and Manic look up and they see Sleet falling from high in the sky.
"Holy crap!!!" Sonic said.
"Dude!! Just throwing them off like that?? He's totally different from us!!" Manic said.
Falling... fallling... and finally, SPLAT! 10 feet in front of them...... the grossest thing they ever saw. Sonia faints seeing Sleet's crushed corpse in front of them.
Ryan climbs in the aircraft sighing happily. He sits at controls and flies the aircraft. He looks at disk happily. "Yes!" Ryan said to himself.
***
Meanwhile, in the street, Robotnik still lays on the ground gasping for air. Suddenly, a figure looks down at him.
"No... no... can't be..." Robotnik said. Robotnik looked up at the angry sights of the true ruler of Mobius, Queen Aleena! She leaned down to Robotnik.
"It's all over, Robotnik. Face it, you lost. The Oracle told you that your days are numbered, and the prophecy came true," Aleena said.
"How? I'm still alive," Robotnik said chuckling.
"I know. Ryan couldn't bare himself to kill you," Aleena said.
"And I know you're a peacelover, you wouldn't do anything to me," Robotnik said. Aleena just stared at him coldly.
"Doctor Ivo Robotnik... you have no idea what I'm really like!" She said harshly.
Queen Aleena used her right palm and covered Robotnik's whole mouth while pinching Robotnik's nose with her finger and thumb. She held onto Robotnik tightly!
Robotnik moved his head muffled. Aleena's jugular vein expanded from her neck as she held onto Robotnik.
Finally... Robotnik stopped moving and he slowly closed his eyes. Aleena removed her palm from his mouth and saw that Robotnik was finally dead.
"Congratulations, Queen Aleena," a voice said behind her. She smiled and turned around.
"Thank you, Oracle," Aleena said.
"The prophecy had been fulfilled. Robotnik's forces are gone, and nothing can stop you from forming the Council of Four and reunite this planet," the Oracle of Delphius said to her.
"Well, some of the thanks goes to my children... and Ryan, of course," Aleena said.
"Now that the prophecy has been fulfilled, you can now meet your children again," the Oracle said. Upon hearing that, Aleena teared happily.
"You mean it?" Aleena asked. The Oracle nodded his head.
"You can find them at the portal entrance. Be true to yourselves, and you four can restore the planet again. Good luck," the Oracle said as he disappeared.
Aleena stood in the street all alone and teamed happily knowing she can meet her children. She wonders how they're going to react when they see her. Only one way to find out.
***
The triplets and Ryan are at the open portal to take Ryan back to Earth. Ryan stares at it for a while. He's wearing everything he has since he appeared at Mobius.
"Well... go on. Before your dinner gets cold," Sonic said.
"As much as I would like to head home... I have always been a fan of you guys. I loved your TV show Sonic Underground and all. I never realized this is the kind of thing a freedom fighter does on Mobius," Ryan said.
"Gotta admit, dude. Your style of fighting is totally different than ours," Manic said.
"Not really, Sonia is almost as skilled as me," Ryan said.
"Yeah," Sonia said uncomfortably.
"But, hey, life in the forces is tough," Ryan said.
"True," Sonia said.
"Speaking of which," Sonic said. He held out Ryan's 'Endurance Techniques' book and his 'CAP PJOC' handbook. "You forgot these." Ryan waved them off.
"Keep them. I have others of those books at home. You may want to use them for... future things. In case any other enemy shows up or something," Ryan said smirking. The triplets got what Ryan was thinking.
"Okay, we'll make ourselves a Freedom Fighter Force," Sonic said.
"I'm really going to miss you guys," Ryan sighed.
"Hey, we'll miss ya too," Manic said.
"Stay cool," Sonic said.
"So, for the last time... Sonic, I've always loved your speed and fast reflexes, Sonia I've always loved your strategies and karate, and Manic I've always loved your lingo and thieving skills," he tears, "I'll miss all three of you."
"We'll miss you too..." Sonia said sadly as her green and black facepaint started to smear from her tears.
Ryan got down on one knee and hugged Sonic. Sonic hugs back.
Ryan moved to Sonia and hugged her sadly too. Sonia hugs back sadly too.
Then Ryan looked at Manic and said, "Now Manic, don't swipe anything from me, especially this disk!"
"I promise," Manic said.
Ryan hugged Manic and Manic hugged back. All four are tearing slowly. Ryan stood up.
"See ya," Ryan said. He turned around and walked to the portal. Just as he took one step in...
"Senior Airman!" Sonia yelled. Ryan smiled knowing Sonia got his rank correct. He turned.
"Yeah?" Ryan asked.
Sonia looked at him... then she raised her arm and placed her palm to her eyebrow. She's saluting Ryan!
Sonic stepped in and saluted too. Finally, Manic stepped in and saluted too.
Ryan stood at the portal as another tear dripped from his eye down to his smile. He raised his arm and saluted back. He dropped his salute and so did the three.
Ryan steps through the portal slowly and is gone; the portal disappears from behind him leaving Sonic, Sonia and Manic alone.
"Well.... that's that," Sonic said.
"Just one question.... Now what?" Manic asked.
Then a familiar female voice spoke from the bushes.
"I believe I could answer that question," the voice said.
They all turn around.
"Who?!" Sonic asked.
Stepping out of the bushes slowly is a tall... female... purple hedgehog... with a white royal uniform and a yellow crown, smiling at them.
"Mother!!" Sonia said.
"The prophecy...?" Manic asked.
Stepping out of the shadow is none other than Queen Aleena!
"Hello, my children," Aleena said.
"Hello... mom," Sonic said.
She tears a bit and said, "It's been so long since I was allowed to last see you three. But now since Robotnik and his army are dead, we can be a family again." The looked to where the portal was. "I'm going to miss Ryan. I saved his life on the roof. He told me everything about you, kids."
"Oh..." Sonia asked.
"Well, kids, now that Robotnik is dead, we can restore Mobius again and become the true rulers of Mobius," Aleena said happily.
The three kids jumped up and down happily cheering.
"Besides, I've saved up some extremely embarrassing photographs of you three as babies that I'd like to show to the world!" Aleena said as she opened up her wallet. "Here's one for example."
Aleena held out a pic of a toddler Sonia sittin' on a little trainer's seat all naked.
"GAH! Don't you dare show that to anyone!" Sonia shrieked. Aleena and Sonia's brothers just laughed.
"About time," a voice said.
"Bartlby?" Sonia asked.
Walking to the four royals are Bartlby and the other aristocrats: a dog, a cat, a badger, a wolf, a fox, and a mink. The badger STILL has a bandage on his nose.
"Finally, that dumb boy, Ryan is gone," Bartlby said.
"May I ask why?" Aleena said.
"It's you, the queen!" Bartlby said.
"Sonia, why are you wearing that?" the cat aristocrat asked.
"It looks weird," the wolf aristocrat said.
"Hey! Don't talk that way about my children!" Aleena shouted.
"There's nothing really that can be done. We're in the same situation and yet, Ryan isn't here to leap in defense. Glad he's gone and we can all now live peacefully," Bartlby said as the other's agreed with him.
"Not exactly," Sonic said.
"What do you mean?" Bartlby asked.
"You see, when Ryan was with us, we were kind of studying his moves when he was fighting you," Manic said.
"What do you mean?" Bartlby asked worriedly.
Instantly, all four hedgehogs smirked and stared at the aristocrats.
"This!" Sonia shouted as she did a spin-kick in the cat's groin! The cat falls on his knees and Sonia kneed him in the face.
The wolf was about to claw Sonia, but Aleena grabbed the claw and flipped the wolf over her shoulder ramming him into a tree.
The mink grabbed Sonic's arm, but Sonic knocked the mink off his feet by kicking him there. Then he twisted the mink's arm.
Manic tripped the badger off his feet so Manic was closer to his face. Then Manic grabbed the badgers nose and twisted it!!!
"GAH! MY NOSE!!! MY NOSE!!!" the badger cried.
"You're going to speak nasal for weeks!" Manic said.
The dog was flipped over by Sonia.
The fox grabbed Aleena from behind, but Sonic grabbed him and threw him hard on the ground.
All of the aristocrats, except Bartlby, lay on the ground in pain.
"Ow, my back..."
"She nearly broke my arm..."
"Ow... ow... my nose..."
All of the hedgehogs stared at the shaking nervously Bartlby. Instantly, he ran away screaming in fear. All of the other aristocrats got up slowly and ran behind him, following him.
The three hedgehogs did nothing but laugh. Then they all snuggled together knowing they're going to be a family again.
TO BE CONTINUED...
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A/N: Okay, that's it... or is it? Will I make it home all right?
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