Chapter 3: Hedgehog Alert!
Disclaimer: Just in case you didn't realise, I don't own any of the characters in this story they all belong to SEGA. Also I am not gaining any money from this so if you want to go to court to take all the money I have made from this then you will probably earn around minus 3 hours worth.
Author's note: OK, so it didn't take me quite as little amount of time to do this chapter as I thought it would. In fact it's taken me at least half a year to even decide to do this chapter! Sorry about that.
Since re-reading the first and second chapters I have realised that for anything that was said in chapter two to make sense, it must had happened AGES after chapter one! Which is the reason for the big time jump that's going to happen in this chapter.
Robotnik was pacing around his lab, munching on boiled eggs (His favourite snack) and occasionally jotting down ideas of how to kill Sonic. He had found it quite peaceful, having returned to the mountain fortress for a 'holiday' after so many years. Firstly because that irritating little hedgehog didn't know he was here and secondly because he had those twelve dumb-bots down in the bean machine to shout at and do everything for him.
He munched on another boiled egg and washed it down with a gulp of creamy hot chocolate. This certainly WAS the good life.
"This is bad, this is bad, this is REALLY, REALLY BAD!" Humpty panicked.
"Calm down, Humpty. Everything will be fine." Coconuts said soothingly.
"FINE! You think things are going to be FINE!" Grounder said, joining the panic mode club. "We've spent the last three years making good badniks, we've just sent out a huge army of them to spread love and peace, and then Robotnik's come back here for a holiday and you think everything's going to be FINE! Are you NUTS?"
"Why the hell is everyone going psycho about this anyway?" Spike asked, "It's not like Buttnik is gonna come down here and inspect the beanies is he? He thinks they're ancient and useless!"
"What if those new robots he brought with him see what we've done though?" Davy pointed out, "Y' know, those ones he brought 'cos he reckoned Scratch and Grounder weren't up to the job any more."
"Those things are too stupid to realise ANYTHING." Both members of the now Ex SSSSS Squad sneered.
"So the general consensus is that Robotnik isn't going to notice what we have done then?" Arms asked.
"Yes!" Coconuts replied.
"And even if he should do so? What should it matter?" Sir Ffuzzy Asked. "For there are twelve of us and only one of him, and our strength is much higher than the strength of his guards!"
It took a while for the others to digest this speech.
"Are you suggesting…" Scratch said slowly, as if he didn't believe what he was saying, "That if Robotnik gives us any trouble we should…kill…him?"
"Well, why no…" Ffuzzy-Logik started before being cut of by the alarm.
"HEDGEHOG ALERT! HEDGEHOG ALERT!" The alarm blared.
"What should we do?" Grounder panicked.
"Stay here, Robotnik said he doesn't want us to be part of the security anymore." Coconuts pointed out.
Unfortunately, Robotnik's voice came through over the intercom. "Can't you dimwits hear the alarm? GET TO YOUR BATTLE STATIONS!"
"Now what!" Scratch snapped.
"Humour him, I guess. We'll have to pretend to guard the lab."
But what if Sonic sees us? We're on HIS side now, but HE doesn't know that!" Frankly pointed out.
Coconuts thought about this. "Try and tell him what we're doing without letting Robotnik hear!" He said. Before they all ran to their battle stations.
"YEHA! The Blue bomber does it again!" Sonic shouted as the last of the guard bots smashed into pieces.
"Great jo… Oh no! There are more of them!" Tails said.
"What?" Sonic was amazed, "Buttnik's not used this place in YEARS! Why's it so well guarded?"
"Maybe that Coconuts guy upgraded the security system while you were gone!" Knuckles suggested as his fist pounded into a group of buzzniks.
"Then that whole nicenik thing must have been a trick!" Tails concluded.
"Remind me to smash him properly when we see him!" Sonic muttered as he prepared another onslaught of pain of the badniks.
Meanwhile Amy was in trouble. She had managed to get all the way to the front gate of the fortress before being set upon by a huge group of badniks, way too many badniks for her to take out with just her crossbow. So now she was running don the corridors of the fortress, looking for something, ANYTHING that she could use as a weapon.
She took a quick look behind her, only to find that the number of badniks following her had increased. "Great! No wonder Sonic told me to stay behind!" She thought. "This is as bad as it gets!" She turned back to the direction she was travelling in and groaned inwardly. "No. THIS is as bad as it gets!" Right in front of her was a large impressive looking guard. He was a knight made out of silver metal and had a feathery plume around his neck and was carrying a trident taller than Amy. The guards turn around and his eyes flashed when he saw her. Then he suddenly ran towards her, but instead of attacking her, he attacked the badniks.
Amy stared, she had never seen robots attacking each other before and neither had the badniks, at the start, most of them stopped and watched in puzzlement as the newcomer smashed their fellows to bits. However, although the knight was a good fighter, it was clear that the badniks had an advantage in numbers. The knight seemed to realise this.
"Good lady, step away!" He shouted and switched something on his trident.
As Amy stepped backwards a huge amount of electricity started to crackle on the trident. This meant that now every time he struck a robot, it overloaded and exploded.
Soon enough the knight, now covered with black ash, was stood on his own with a sea of metal parts around him. He dusted himself off and then walked over to Amy.
"Sir Ffuzzy-Logik at your command, Milady." He said, solemnly bowing down in front of her.
"Might I suggest we leave this place before more adversaries arrive?"
"Um… OK." Amy muttered.
"As you wish, fair maiden, there is a place of sanctuary this way!" The knight told her before jogging down the corridor.
And so Amy started to follow him.
Coconuts was sprinting up to his battle station, hoping that Sonic wouldn't find the stash of inactive beanie bots that they had spent the last three years making.
He needed have worried about that, because Sonic found him first.
The first he knew of this was hearing a voice shout "There you are!" before being struck on the chest, hard.
He fell to the floor as Sonic rebounded off his chest. "Wait! You're making a mistake!" He shouted, as soon as he realised what was going on.
"Oh, Come on! Do you honestly expect us to believe that whole 'beanie nicenik' thing?"
"But it's true!"
"Your tricks don't fool us Coconuts!" Sonic snapped, "This time I'll make sure you're out of commission for good, along with all the rest of your junkyard friends!" He then started to rev up the biggest spin dash of his life.
Author's note: I'm not going to make any promises about when chapter 4 of this is up. But I CAN promise that if you review I'll probably get it up quicker than I would if you don't.