The Robotnic Complex
Chapter 4
Author's Note:
I took out Antoine's accent because I suck at typing French. Bunnie's was easy
because I am good at understanding southern accents. Now Boston accents,
that is a entirly different matter...
Location: Guardian Ship Blade Runner-Crash Site Date:March 5, 4580
"...Wow..." was all Brian could say when he saw the wreckage. It was spread
out over a strip of over 100 feet. The computer core layed at his feet. He got on his knees
and tried to open it. The handle moved bit the cover did not open to expose the
processing package. Sonic was watching over his shoulder. "We have to take this back to Knothole with us.
It's not the recorder, but it's vital." Sonic moved away as Brian got up. "It is truely amazing
I survived this." He turned to face Sonic. "Can you look for a bright red rectangular box. I need
to find my safe, and it's harder to find." Sonic shook his head yes. "No prob." He started searching.
Brian surveyed the wreckage. He spotted something square and black 25 feet off.
He started walking toward it. He was 10 feet away from it when he knew it was his safe.
He smiled and bent over to examine it. Minor damage, just like the core. And, like the core,
he was going to have to cut the cover off, at Knothole. "Hey, Brian, I think I found it!" Sonic was
waving at him to come over to check it out. He smiled as he looked at what Sonic was pointing at.
"That's it. Let's get back to Knothole." Sonic and Brian put the Flight Recorder and the Computer Core
on top of the safe and started back to Knothole. "Sonic, there is a question I wanted to ask you. What happened
to the city that you abandoned it to automation and live in a village?" Sonic stopped and looked at his new companion.
"That's not what happened. The city your refering to is Robotropolis. It was once called
Mobotropolis, until a Terran-also called Overlander-took it over with a army of Robots. He used a
machine my Uncle Chuck invented-you have to meet him later- called a Roboticizer, to change almost the entire city's
population, into mindless slaves. Only about 100 of us escaped. We moved into the village, and have been
trying to fight the Terran-Robotnic-ever since. We have had minimal success, but we
have done some damage."
They started walking again. Sonic was quiet because he could tell that Brian was thinking
about something important. 'With my gift, I could be a big help in there battle. But what about non-interference?'
He finally decided that he needed to sleep on it. It was dark when they arrived at Knothole 25 minutes later.
Location: Knothole Date: March 5-6, 4580
They went directly to Rotor's lab. "Hi Rotor" Brian and Sonic said. They brought the safe and things inside
and sat the Computer Core on the laser cutter. Rotor walked up to them. "What's this, the flight
recorder?" he asked them after looking it over. Brian looked up. "No, actually it's the Computer."
Rotor's eye's went wide. "This tiny thing ran a spaceship for over2 1/2 milinia?"
Brian smiled. "I built it myself. A bit shoddy, some may say, but she's done me proud."
Rotor looked at the dents and scraches. "Ya think it still works?" Brian reached over to the control and grabbed it.
"Only one way to find out." Using the control, he carfully guided the laser around the access
panel. He reached the last corner and shut the torch off. "Here goes." Brian lifted off the cover
and put it aside. Rotor was gaping inside. "My god. How...We have got to call Uncle Chuck." Brian looked at him.
"Why, is something wrong?" Rotor looked up. "You, are a genius. Do you realize
how long it would have taken us to build this?" Brian smiled. "No idea. A couple days?"
"Years!" Rotor yelled. "I'll be right back. Gotta find Chuck. Hee-Hee." Brian lifted a eyebrow.
"A bit giddy isn't he?" Sonic just smiled. "When it comes to technology, yep. Anything else, nope."
"Chuck!" Rotor yelled into the Knothole Cafeteria. Tails, Sally, Ant, Bunnie, and Uncle Chuck were
there. Antoine and Bunnie were sitting rather close. "What is it Rotor." Uncle Chuck asked him. "Sonic and Brian
just got back. You have got to see this technology! This computer is the size of a briefcase and ran a entire spaceship.
Uncle Chuck and Tails stood up and hurried towards the door. "What is it with them and technology?" Sally thought
out loud. "Ah don't know, sugah. But what ah DO know is that they're gonna have a all-night
chop section. Ahm gonna go to bed. Night Sally-girl. Night Antoine." Bunnie walked out of the cafeteria
and down the road toward her hut. After a few moments. Sally started to talk to Antoine. "Antoine,
I don't mean to be...invasive, but you like Bunnie, don't you." Antoine started to blush. "Am I really that easy to read?"
Sally smiled. "No, actually your not. It took me weeks of watching you to come to that conclusion.
So you do like her?" Antoine blushed again. "...yeah..." Sally's smile grew wider. With a sing-song voice she taunted him.
"I think she likes you..." Antoine turned bright red. "I don't think so. Why would anyone look at me like that? Goodnight
Sally." Antoine walked out before she could stop him. 'Why would anyone look at you like that Antoine? Because they like
you...' Bunnie and Sally had a conversation a few days earlier. When guys came up, Sally said, hands down,
Sonic. When Sally had asked Bunnie, she had blushed bright red and told Sally
that if she told anyone she would kill her. Sally agreed and Bunnie had told her Antoine.
Sally thought back to their conversation. "Why don't you tell him?" Bunnie looked up from her lap and met Sally's
gaze. "Because ahm not sure he feels the same way." Sally stood up and pushed Bunnie out the door.
"Go. Now. Tell him." Bunnie stopped in her tracks. "Alright Alright Sally-girl. Later."
Obviously Bunnie had failed in her mission. Sally sighed. 'Oh well," She thought
"There's always tomorrow." She stood up, shut off the lights, and walked home.
"AHHHH! Jesus christ in a handbasket, do you people have to keep doing that!" Brian turned to Sonic
"Please warn me next time." Brian turned back to the shocked people in the doorway. "I'm sorry. I am assuming
you are Uncle Chuck?" Chuck just looked at Brian. "Um, yeah that's me. And don't worry about
it, happens all the time. Is that the computer?" Chuck walked behind Brian and looked
at the case on the table. It was 1 foot by 1 1/2, 4 inches thick, and held 18 blazing fast
processors, 6 separate memory buffers, and a central control swiching processor. "How much memory?"
Chuck asked, going into techie speak. "15 Terrabytes RAM, 500 Gigabytes ROM, but that's because
the flight recorder saves everything but Navigation. That's in here. What exactly is so remarkable
about this? I built this in my basement." Uncle Chuck looked up. "The best machine we have here
has only 500 megabytes RAM...Why do you need so much." Brian laughed. "Better safe than sorry. Barebones,
the automation system I put in could work on only 15 gigabytes, byt I had a RAM-intensive self-check
running constantly." Uncle Chuck chuckled (AN: Sorry, couldn't resist) "You outdid yourself. Come on, hook
it up. I can't wait to see it on it's feet." Brian looked to Tail's. "Would you assist me? Tail's grin
was too big for his face. "Absolutely." Rotor yawned. "I," he stated. "Am going to make a pot
of coffee. This will forever and a day." Rotor went to the back office. Sonic stood up. "This is way to
tech for me. I'm going to bed. Night guys. Have a ball." Sonic turned and walked out of
the lab. He was going to run, but then decided to enjoy the night. He walked along thinking of Robotnic.
'Now that Brian is here, we can finally beat the fat bastard. If he'll help. But why wouldn't he?
He sounds like a nice guy, and he says he has the ultimate weapon. But is he lying?'
Sonic sighed. 'If he is lying, we'll find out tomorrow'
Brian, Tails, and Uncle Chuck stayed awake till four in the AM. Rotor fell asleep
at Three.Uncle Chuck went back to Robotropolis. They did systems diagnostics to check the condition
of the boards, checked the conectors, and ran a manual check of all components. Tails and Brian got into a conversation.
"By the way, I'm sorry that I blew up on you today." Tails looked up from the circuit diagram he was analizing.
"Don't worry about it, people do that to me all the time." Brian stoped to take a drink of coffee.
"Why?"
"Because, even though I'm 15, people still think I'm a little kid. I pissed off Sally once by
fixing the water collecter by myself. 'You could have broke it' she said. Look at me. I am handling
circuits and chips that I know nothing about like a pro. Yet I am still a kid. Sometimes I really
get fed up with it. I want to tell them all to stick it up their ass, but..."
"You couldn't do that to someone you love."
"They took me in when I had no one else. I at least owe them respect.
"I agree, but don't you think that since your older, they owe you some respect back?"
Tails thought about this for a minute. "Yeah, I guess your right. I should talk to them about it."
"Do that. And by the way, your skill is there, but just a tad bit reckless. Anyone, even me,
could break anything, even something as simple as a collecter."
"Thanks, Brian. For everything. Goodnight."
"Goodnight Tails."
Tails gathered his tools and walked out into the cool night air. He headed toward his hut.
He thought about what Brian said. He already liked Brian, no matter what the others said.
He just met Tails and already treated him like any of the others. He was ok.
Brian set inside, thinking. "Ya know sugah, that mah have not been a very good idea."
Bunnie's voice jumped from behind him. "AHHHH! What is it with you people and scaring me?"
Bunnie steped forward. "Ahm sorry sugah, it's just ah couldn't help but overheah what ya told tails."
Brian slumper in his chair. "It's just that i'm 14, and I know what he's going through. On
Earth, even though I beat the biggest threat we had known, until pollution, I got almost no respect.
And here I am, the sole survivor of a lost race by 25 centuries." Bunnie however, was shocked by
his age. "Your only 14 sugah? I was thinking that you were at least 19!"
"Your not going to tell them, are you. I want to tell them, in my own time."
Bunnie thought about this for a moment. "OK sugah, you can trust this girl with a secret."
Brian looked relived. "Thanks Bunnie. May I ask you a question?"
"Go ahead Brian."
"Were you affected by the Roboticization process?" Bunnie stiffened at this question. Brian looked worried.
"I'm sorry if that was too personal a question for you."
"That's alright sugah, I'd just rather not talk about it. Goodnight Brian."
"Goodnight Bunnie."
Bunnie turned and walked toward her hut, leaving Brian to his thoughts.
'What if she was roboticized? Could I do the same for my arm? Would it work even with no flesh?
If I couldn't control it, would I become mindless too?'
Brian decided to ask for the plans to the Roboticizer from Rotor or...Uncle Chuck! He designed it,
so he should be the one to help brian! But what of the damage already done by this machine?
Would they agree to let a person who so resembles a dictator on their planet to see one
of their most best kept secrets? 'If so," Brian wondered, 'At what cost?'
Chapter 4
Author's Note:
I took out Antoine's accent because I suck at typing French. Bunnie's was easy
because I am good at understanding southern accents. Now Boston accents,
that is a entirly different matter...
Location: Guardian Ship Blade Runner-Crash Site Date:March 5, 4580
"...Wow..." was all Brian could say when he saw the wreckage. It was spread
out over a strip of over 100 feet. The computer core layed at his feet. He got on his knees
and tried to open it. The handle moved bit the cover did not open to expose the
processing package. Sonic was watching over his shoulder. "We have to take this back to Knothole with us.
It's not the recorder, but it's vital." Sonic moved away as Brian got up. "It is truely amazing
I survived this." He turned to face Sonic. "Can you look for a bright red rectangular box. I need
to find my safe, and it's harder to find." Sonic shook his head yes. "No prob." He started searching.
Brian surveyed the wreckage. He spotted something square and black 25 feet off.
He started walking toward it. He was 10 feet away from it when he knew it was his safe.
He smiled and bent over to examine it. Minor damage, just like the core. And, like the core,
he was going to have to cut the cover off, at Knothole. "Hey, Brian, I think I found it!" Sonic was
waving at him to come over to check it out. He smiled as he looked at what Sonic was pointing at.
"That's it. Let's get back to Knothole." Sonic and Brian put the Flight Recorder and the Computer Core
on top of the safe and started back to Knothole. "Sonic, there is a question I wanted to ask you. What happened
to the city that you abandoned it to automation and live in a village?" Sonic stopped and looked at his new companion.
"That's not what happened. The city your refering to is Robotropolis. It was once called
Mobotropolis, until a Terran-also called Overlander-took it over with a army of Robots. He used a
machine my Uncle Chuck invented-you have to meet him later- called a Roboticizer, to change almost the entire city's
population, into mindless slaves. Only about 100 of us escaped. We moved into the village, and have been
trying to fight the Terran-Robotnic-ever since. We have had minimal success, but we
have done some damage."
They started walking again. Sonic was quiet because he could tell that Brian was thinking
about something important. 'With my gift, I could be a big help in there battle. But what about non-interference?'
He finally decided that he needed to sleep on it. It was dark when they arrived at Knothole 25 minutes later.
Location: Knothole Date: March 5-6, 4580
They went directly to Rotor's lab. "Hi Rotor" Brian and Sonic said. They brought the safe and things inside
and sat the Computer Core on the laser cutter. Rotor walked up to them. "What's this, the flight
recorder?" he asked them after looking it over. Brian looked up. "No, actually it's the Computer."
Rotor's eye's went wide. "This tiny thing ran a spaceship for over2 1/2 milinia?"
Brian smiled. "I built it myself. A bit shoddy, some may say, but she's done me proud."
Rotor looked at the dents and scraches. "Ya think it still works?" Brian reached over to the control and grabbed it.
"Only one way to find out." Using the control, he carfully guided the laser around the access
panel. He reached the last corner and shut the torch off. "Here goes." Brian lifted off the cover
and put it aside. Rotor was gaping inside. "My god. How...We have got to call Uncle Chuck." Brian looked at him.
"Why, is something wrong?" Rotor looked up. "You, are a genius. Do you realize
how long it would have taken us to build this?" Brian smiled. "No idea. A couple days?"
"Years!" Rotor yelled. "I'll be right back. Gotta find Chuck. Hee-Hee." Brian lifted a eyebrow.
"A bit giddy isn't he?" Sonic just smiled. "When it comes to technology, yep. Anything else, nope."
"Chuck!" Rotor yelled into the Knothole Cafeteria. Tails, Sally, Ant, Bunnie, and Uncle Chuck were
there. Antoine and Bunnie were sitting rather close. "What is it Rotor." Uncle Chuck asked him. "Sonic and Brian
just got back. You have got to see this technology! This computer is the size of a briefcase and ran a entire spaceship.
Uncle Chuck and Tails stood up and hurried towards the door. "What is it with them and technology?" Sally thought
out loud. "Ah don't know, sugah. But what ah DO know is that they're gonna have a all-night
chop section. Ahm gonna go to bed. Night Sally-girl. Night Antoine." Bunnie walked out of the cafeteria
and down the road toward her hut. After a few moments. Sally started to talk to Antoine. "Antoine,
I don't mean to be...invasive, but you like Bunnie, don't you." Antoine started to blush. "Am I really that easy to read?"
Sally smiled. "No, actually your not. It took me weeks of watching you to come to that conclusion.
So you do like her?" Antoine blushed again. "...yeah..." Sally's smile grew wider. With a sing-song voice she taunted him.
"I think she likes you..." Antoine turned bright red. "I don't think so. Why would anyone look at me like that? Goodnight
Sally." Antoine walked out before she could stop him. 'Why would anyone look at you like that Antoine? Because they like
you...' Bunnie and Sally had a conversation a few days earlier. When guys came up, Sally said, hands down,
Sonic. When Sally had asked Bunnie, she had blushed bright red and told Sally
that if she told anyone she would kill her. Sally agreed and Bunnie had told her Antoine.
Sally thought back to their conversation. "Why don't you tell him?" Bunnie looked up from her lap and met Sally's
gaze. "Because ahm not sure he feels the same way." Sally stood up and pushed Bunnie out the door.
"Go. Now. Tell him." Bunnie stopped in her tracks. "Alright Alright Sally-girl. Later."
Obviously Bunnie had failed in her mission. Sally sighed. 'Oh well," She thought
"There's always tomorrow." She stood up, shut off the lights, and walked home.
"AHHHH! Jesus christ in a handbasket, do you people have to keep doing that!" Brian turned to Sonic
"Please warn me next time." Brian turned back to the shocked people in the doorway. "I'm sorry. I am assuming
you are Uncle Chuck?" Chuck just looked at Brian. "Um, yeah that's me. And don't worry about
it, happens all the time. Is that the computer?" Chuck walked behind Brian and looked
at the case on the table. It was 1 foot by 1 1/2, 4 inches thick, and held 18 blazing fast
processors, 6 separate memory buffers, and a central control swiching processor. "How much memory?"
Chuck asked, going into techie speak. "15 Terrabytes RAM, 500 Gigabytes ROM, but that's because
the flight recorder saves everything but Navigation. That's in here. What exactly is so remarkable
about this? I built this in my basement." Uncle Chuck looked up. "The best machine we have here
has only 500 megabytes RAM...Why do you need so much." Brian laughed. "Better safe than sorry. Barebones,
the automation system I put in could work on only 15 gigabytes, byt I had a RAM-intensive self-check
running constantly." Uncle Chuck chuckled (AN: Sorry, couldn't resist) "You outdid yourself. Come on, hook
it up. I can't wait to see it on it's feet." Brian looked to Tail's. "Would you assist me? Tail's grin
was too big for his face. "Absolutely." Rotor yawned. "I," he stated. "Am going to make a pot
of coffee. This will forever and a day." Rotor went to the back office. Sonic stood up. "This is way to
tech for me. I'm going to bed. Night guys. Have a ball." Sonic turned and walked out of
the lab. He was going to run, but then decided to enjoy the night. He walked along thinking of Robotnic.
'Now that Brian is here, we can finally beat the fat bastard. If he'll help. But why wouldn't he?
He sounds like a nice guy, and he says he has the ultimate weapon. But is he lying?'
Sonic sighed. 'If he is lying, we'll find out tomorrow'
Brian, Tails, and Uncle Chuck stayed awake till four in the AM. Rotor fell asleep
at Three.Uncle Chuck went back to Robotropolis. They did systems diagnostics to check the condition
of the boards, checked the conectors, and ran a manual check of all components. Tails and Brian got into a conversation.
"By the way, I'm sorry that I blew up on you today." Tails looked up from the circuit diagram he was analizing.
"Don't worry about it, people do that to me all the time." Brian stoped to take a drink of coffee.
"Why?"
"Because, even though I'm 15, people still think I'm a little kid. I pissed off Sally once by
fixing the water collecter by myself. 'You could have broke it' she said. Look at me. I am handling
circuits and chips that I know nothing about like a pro. Yet I am still a kid. Sometimes I really
get fed up with it. I want to tell them all to stick it up their ass, but..."
"You couldn't do that to someone you love."
"They took me in when I had no one else. I at least owe them respect.
"I agree, but don't you think that since your older, they owe you some respect back?"
Tails thought about this for a minute. "Yeah, I guess your right. I should talk to them about it."
"Do that. And by the way, your skill is there, but just a tad bit reckless. Anyone, even me,
could break anything, even something as simple as a collecter."
"Thanks, Brian. For everything. Goodnight."
"Goodnight Tails."
Tails gathered his tools and walked out into the cool night air. He headed toward his hut.
He thought about what Brian said. He already liked Brian, no matter what the others said.
He just met Tails and already treated him like any of the others. He was ok.
Brian set inside, thinking. "Ya know sugah, that mah have not been a very good idea."
Bunnie's voice jumped from behind him. "AHHHH! What is it with you people and scaring me?"
Bunnie steped forward. "Ahm sorry sugah, it's just ah couldn't help but overheah what ya told tails."
Brian slumper in his chair. "It's just that i'm 14, and I know what he's going through. On
Earth, even though I beat the biggest threat we had known, until pollution, I got almost no respect.
And here I am, the sole survivor of a lost race by 25 centuries." Bunnie however, was shocked by
his age. "Your only 14 sugah? I was thinking that you were at least 19!"
"Your not going to tell them, are you. I want to tell them, in my own time."
Bunnie thought about this for a moment. "OK sugah, you can trust this girl with a secret."
Brian looked relived. "Thanks Bunnie. May I ask you a question?"
"Go ahead Brian."
"Were you affected by the Roboticization process?" Bunnie stiffened at this question. Brian looked worried.
"I'm sorry if that was too personal a question for you."
"That's alright sugah, I'd just rather not talk about it. Goodnight Brian."
"Goodnight Bunnie."
Bunnie turned and walked toward her hut, leaving Brian to his thoughts.
'What if she was roboticized? Could I do the same for my arm? Would it work even with no flesh?
If I couldn't control it, would I become mindless too?'
Brian decided to ask for the plans to the Roboticizer from Rotor or...Uncle Chuck! He designed it,
so he should be the one to help brian! But what of the damage already done by this machine?
Would they agree to let a person who so resembles a dictator on their planet to see one
of their most best kept secrets? 'If so," Brian wondered, 'At what cost?'