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Already two weeks had past since Neko had been allowed to live in the village, part of the days he spent in prison, for his alleged physical attack on Geoff (Geoffrey St. John), and was also convicted as one of the members who abducted, tied him up, and allegedly assault with a weapon. During the time, Neko also decided to have better cloths, ditching the robe he had, and in addition, taking a suit that one of the residents had, it was gray, flexible, and almost as fitting as what the Overlanders wore.
While he was in prison, he didn't have much to worry, since he was the only one convict within the cell, in addition, protected by a few laws passed by the Acorns, that he was never to be mistreated or hurt by the prison guards. Hershey strolled on through the damp and grimly colored prison blocks, moving over to his cellblock, he looked straight at her, sitting on his bed, his face bitter. "Let me guess, visiting?" he answered in a minor and stubborn voice, his face turned to a sneer.
"Yes, Neko you're going to be let out, but there is now a restraining order, that you cannot go within 3 yards near Geoffrey St. John." She said, unlocking the cell door, and walking in. "You are lucky to even get off with a sentence like this, Geoffrey is pissed about getting his ass kicked by you, you're considered a coward since he was not in any shape to fight." Hershey glanced as Neko yawned hearing this, "Fuck that hater, look, is there anything else you need to tell me?"
Hershey sighed, as she continued. "Yes, Sally also wants to speak to you, something about what our spies dug up." Neko stood walking out, of the cell and to the exit, the guards stood down disgruntled by Neko being free, but having no choice, they muttered ignorantly under their breath. Neko walked out of the cell stretching, as he looked around. He was able to walk freely at one time during the day, for training to be a solder in the Freedom Fighters force, but safety measures such as guards were always there to make sure he never tried to escape. Now he was free, and he had only one place in mind to go to.
"Don't even-" "Let him through, he has come to see me." Neko glanced immaturely at the guard, before giving him the bird, then walked on over to where Sally stood. "I wish to speak with you in private, Princess." He said whispering, but his voice tone was demanding. Sally nodded to the guard, who afterward turning to report to another post. Sally finally led Neko to her room, making sure he was not given any problems by other guards. Arriving at her room, Neko took a deep breath before he spoke. "Now that I am free, I want answers to what happen to Geoffrey, and my instinct tells me your responsible, correct."
Sally sighed, as she glanced up at him, a guilty sign on her face, and afterward becoming a frown. "We knew he was the one who poisoned your food, so yes, we tortured him for the truth." Neko sat on her bed, arms crossed. "Why exactly did you hurt him, I am the one who suffered because of it." Sally shook her head, "Neko, he needed a taste of his own medicine, he tried to kill you, so we decided to send a message to him violently, and we did, but we never wanted you in trouble, we wanted to help you."
His face turned bitter and impatient, showing some load of troubles. "I am not a fucking retard Sally, I can take care of myself." Sally shook her head. "He is more then you are Neko, He is part of the service, his reputation is a very high standard, you attacking him makes you more of a thug." Neko snorted, as he layed down. "Well, what exactly is going on in Robotropolis, from what Hershey told me, there is something that is sparking a lot of commotion here?" Sally looked at him with a bothered gaze. "Neko, this is not something you may handle-" "TELL ME!!" Sally gave him the files Neko immediately went wide-eyed.
"These.. are sketches are of me!?" he looked at them trembling, his teeth chattering stridently. The drawing was of him, but the skin he had was pure metallic, baldness around the head rather then some type of hair, the ears still in place, as was the tail, both possible weapons. The cloths though were more of armor, relation to what the Swat Bots frame was like. "Neko, according to what we know, you may be an assassin or a prototype for a super solder." Sally stared down to the floor, not wanting to see him break apart before her vary eyes.
"We don't know for sure, but your memories so far are not giving much up, all you have had is just some of holidays, friends and possibly of struggle." Neko knew what she was talking about; he had one of a winter holiday called X-mas, others days on the street, and one with the same girl he saw in his vision when he visited here. A knock on the door caught Sally's attention, "Come in" she said, as the door opened, Amy entered. "It is time to plan." Amy announced, Sally looked over at Neko. "Remember what I told you, your still part of the Freedom Fighters, and this may require you."
Sally stood up, walking to the door, as she and Amy walked off to the meeting center. Amy had forgiven him after he apologized to her face to face in his cell, this action had convinced her that perhaps he wasn't such a cold hearted bastard after all, and conceivably someone still stressed with his life. Neko stood up, and walked out of the room and the mansion, and while his head gazing downward; his eyes were already showing he was distressed by the truth, maybe even fearing it.
The Freedom Fighters gathered to the meetinghouse, not having to wait long for King Acorn to arrive, he stood behind the booth, looking out to the gatherers, raising a hand up high to call for silence, the crowd silencing in moments. "According to the information that we have, Dr. Eggman is creating a massive army of bots that are in resemblance to Neko." He mentioned showing the blueprints of them on an overhead projector. "Now, Eggman took a big step, producing the bots underground and in tight security that even Sonic wasn't able to break through and infiltrate the facility." He looked straight at Sonic as he made the remark, others also, as all the blue hedgehog could do was scratch his head in stupidity. "AHEM." Sally looked to her dad impatiently; her face gave off a sign that Sonic so often had been known for. " Oh yes, now, Sally has persuaded that she lead the attack, and I grant her permission."
Gasps where heard, as babble started from one to another. Sally calmly walked up, calling for silence in the same fashion as Max had, clearing her throat and taking a deep breath, as she then spoke "I have plans for the divided Teams, Team A consisting of Sonic, Tails, Rotor, me and a few of the solders will create a diversion with the security team, while Team Underdog, consisting of Antoine, Bunnie, Hershey and.. Neko will take the destruction mission, taking out a few of the bots, a few solders will accompany them as well."
Hearing this, Neko sat shocked as he was called, then standing he interrupted Sally. "Wait, I am to be the one helping with the demolition team?" Sally nodded at him, she then turned back to face the crowd, and spoke once more. "We move out at 0500 hours, the ground units shall also be part of the distraction." Neko stood up, and walked off, his destination the pond, the only part of the village where he was alone and more comfortable.
"It has taken a while, but I have to make sure they are in perfect condition and analysis confirm 89% Flawless." Eggman then looked to the screen, as he smiled evil. "Soon enough, I will rule the world." At that second, his body suddenly fell paralyzed, as he was unable to move. "What's going on?" He tried to get up, but found it impracticable. "I can't move!!" A loud laughter was heard, one not familiar, and one seemingly to lurk in the shadows, as Eggman looked around, angered at this. "Who are you!?" he demanded, as the figure walked toward him. "Dr. Eggman, it looks like you're already foolish to hack and take in so secured files, that mistake has not shown your fault in your own system, considering what I have now just done to you, this army will be mine to command."
The man walked into the light, his hair dark as the feathers of a raven, he wore a white trench coat with black trousers, and to top it all off, he wore no glasses, his face handsome to any female who could be charmed by the looks of a man. "You have served me well, and now, you must be put out of the way, but since destroying you is not possibly, so I have locked you in your shell." He then kicked Eggman to roll the fat man on his stomach, as he stepped over to the control panel. "Now, to make me the commander." He typed in the commands, changing the orders to him, as he then looked over the details. "Now, the plans are still in preparation, only I have different intentions, unlike you Robotnik, or is it Eggman now." With that, he walked to the area below, where the bots of destruction were resting. As he gazed over all of them his eyes filled with great joy. "Perfect, now, to prepare a surprise on the fools."
Neko layed down, resting near the edge of the pond; he closed his eyes to dose off, but was interrupted. "What you thinking about?" Sighing, he opened his eyes looking toward her, as he sighed, "Well, about some of the visions, to try to piece each one together." He then looked out at the pond, lit up by the sun, it was a pleasant sight to him. Hershey sat next to him, putting an arm around his back. "So how are you feeling, ready to go out and fight?"
Neko looked at her smiling, "I have nothing better to do, the truth I must find out." Hershey rubbed his back, "Your scared, I know it." Neko closed his eyes, his face turning to the ground "If you had amnesia and found out you were a project, how could you not be." He then looked out at the pond, "Neko, I am sure your not just a project you have a life, you have to be more, nobody is born like this, at least like you." Neko remained silent, as he didn't answer; Hershey stood up and slowly walked away, feeling she let the wrong words slip out of her mouth.
It was after 5:00 hours, and already the solders were suited up, Neko included, as he waited at Hershey's side, bored as anyone impatient could be. The troops after a while finally moved out, as Sally took the main lead. They arrived at Robotropolis soon enough, intense explosions occurred as Sonic moved through buildings and factories, tearing apart many bots and devices in the process manipulating the explosion, while half of the Freedom Fighter solders shot grenades out, blowing up storage depot's, warehouses and any other areas that were used for Eggman's vile plans, a few picking off the Swat Bots "Okay, take out the towers at the right corner." Sally commanded over the communicator.
Rotor took aim with his newly constructed weapon, with the power to send a huge skyscraper in down in rubble. Charging the weapon up to full power, a huge ray went out, crashing into the building, as a loud explosion followed, the building having now a big hole around the middle area, as the top area started to crumble and force the bottom area to start to collapse more, rubble already flying down. Solders and those with Sally cheered seeing this.
Sonic enjoyed making every swat-bot try to kill him before he took them down. Tails at the time of all this was busy rewiring a few of the auxiliary cables, shorting out the power for a few areas' that were left in the city, help aid the Underdog Team in breaking into the main complex, the one where the bots were expected to be. Alas, with all the effort some were pulling, it was all in vain, as what lay ahead of them was more then they could bargain for. Sonic made a run through the factories blowing them up. Laughing victoriously, he was then hit over, as he looked up to the suspect, "N- wait, your not Neko!?" he collapsed afterwards. Sally and the others continued the battering around the city, taking out whatever they could, as Swat Bots who were near fell fast.
"God damn it smells." Neko muttered making vomiting sounds, "Zon't nake mou zick." Antoine said, already tired of hearing the guy speak. "Both of you shut it, or else we will screw this whole operation up." Hershey yelled demandingly, as she looked at Neko saying it. Sighing, Neko shut up, and moved on with no more delays. Sally's team was stopped short, when shots rang out from all corners, as more then 50% of her team died unpleasantly by murder of gunshots, the ones killed fell flat to the ground, blood already soaking their cloths, and bullet holes covered them all over.
Sally had been able to avoid this, as was Rotor and a few others. They looked out seeing the fallen solders and the brutality of the murdering. Soon after, the Nekobots (bots) walked out from every direction, as they held up their hands, a shaft opened, revealing the firearms, "Give- yourselves-up-now!" having no choice, as they saw Sonic already in custody with two other Nekobots, his face was not showing a good sign of success, Sally sighed knowing what had to be done. "We have no choice." Sally muttered, as she put down her weapon as others followed surrendering, the troops were taken away in a marching pattern
Hershey and the others made their ways through the sewers, finally reaching the area where the main shuttlecrafts were kept, plus the newly created Nekobots. "Zer goin to invad za world." Ant mentioned. "Gee, you just realized this." Neko muttered, "Both of you stop your god damn arguing." Hershey fed up with hearing them in the sewer started to get out the bombs that they planned to set, "Sally, you there, Sally?" the communicator went dead on the other end, as Bunnie only got a response of static, "Hershey, we lost communication with Sally girl, we be in some serious trouble." Hershey was about to set the bombs timers and respond to the latest report, until a loud clank was hear, the Nekobots surrounded the team from all sides, with the weapons armed.
They surrendered having no chance against them "Eggman must really have this set up well." Hershey said sadly. They were led away to a room where Sally and the others were, Hershey looked up gasping, there stood not Eggman, but someone else, his hair black, yet a handsome face, his long lab coat down to his knees, and black trousers.
"Hahahaha, you fools, Eggman was only a tool, and he created just what I needed to take over the world, an army of robots that are just as good as Neko, designed to not only be able to move at a speed greater then the hedgehog, but also have built in firearms, they are indeed the ultimate solders." He then smiled, as Neko was brought over to him, Neko's head looked down, as the madman grabbed his hair, pulling it up, to see his face, "So we meet again, Neko, or should I say, David McCreary."
At that name, the bots released Neko, who fell to the ground, shaking like he had a seizure, all of his memories came back to him like a rushing river of water, it all flowed into his head, as he shivered at the thoughts, closing his eyes tightly. After a few moments he stopped, he finally stood up opened his eyes, directly staring to the madman. Breathing hard, his face turned to a blaze of fury, "Dr. Hasagawa, you bastard!" The robots then restrained Neko before he could attack the madman, as the Doctor laughed looking at him. "Hasagawa is dead, I am his great grandson, Carlos."
Carlos took a few steps forward, as he cracked his fists, before he removed his coat. Afterward, he started to punch Neko several times in the face, blood-starting spilling from Neko's nose and mouth. Tails tried to push through the bots; he was thrown back by a bot for his actions, showing the Freedom Fighters just how relentless it would be if they even tried, "Pathetic, your weak, it is no wonder you were left in that capsule." He finished with a kick to Neko in the gut, as the catguy coughed out blood onto the floor, breathing in air fast, Carlos paused for a while.
"I will get back to you soon." He then turned to the Freedom Fighters smiling, "Units, take the resistance to the cell blocks!" Carlos turned back looking at Neko once more. "Now, I am going to hurt you more." With that, he kicked Neko in the ribcage, as Carlos cowardly beat the defenseless Neko from limb to limb. The Freedom Fighters were taken to their cells, thrown in and then locked up. Already bickering of the failed plan, and others over the deaths of solders they had known.
"Neko, so his real name is David, maybe now we can get answers." Sally said, as she looked to Rotor, who sighed in sadness, "If he survives his beating, god knows who could even take it besides Knuckles-" everyone in the cellblocks stopped speaking, the clatter of footsteps was all that was heard.
Many could only look on, as Neko's bloody body was carried humiliatingly through the cellblock hall, they stopped unlocking one of the doors, then throwing him in. Hershey was within the cell he was thrown in. Seeing him, she quickly dashed to his side, as she covered her lips, shaking her head. "Ne-err David." Hershey welled up in tears, as she looked at him, a bloody mess he was, bleeding and bruised, he definitely had his ass kicked. As if a miracle, he sat up, but breathed in fast and deeply, shivering from the pain, as he looked at Hershey "Just call me Neko, please," Taking a deep breath, he then continued. "Hershey, of all I have done, I now feel like shit." He said, groaning in pain, Hershey glanced, noticing something about him showed fear. "What do you mean?" Neko glanced over at her, as he then took a deep sigh.
"As a ..young boy.. I beat.. on kids, why.I hated..them for..something despicable.." Hershey listened, " I hurt so.. many because ..of what.. they where.. religion.. skin color.. or even ..for being.. a homosexual." Hershey could not believe this she shook her head. "No, that cant be, you wouldn't-" "I was.. ever since.. some bastards.. abandoned me.. in an alleyway.. Blunt took.. me in, he was.. like a brother.. he took.. me in.. fed me... and supported me," Taking a deep breath, he continued "and..I even..hated your.. types..death to the Acorns..I used to.. always chant." His tone was very serious.
Hershey then smacked him across his face, as she then looked to him "That is not something you should even mention!?" Neko then glanced away, then layed down, hurt badly and barely able to stay awake. About an a half and hour had past, as abruptly the electricity went off, but came back on shortly after, the cell doors then opened automatically, as few of the freedom fighters walked out to test if it was not a trick. "The locks are out, were free."
Many cheered as they started to walk out of the cells; Hershey glanced at Neko in excitement. "Neko, were free, lets get out of here." She shook Neko, but he didn't wake up, she felt his neck for a pulse, feeling a very weak pulse, it was as though he was hanging by a thread, "We need medical assistance right away." Every started speaking to one another, as none had a clue what do, especially with Neko, but out of the blue, a medical kit was thrown, "You be get' in some help from us!"
Two figures stepped forward, as it was revealed as twin weasels, none other then Nack the weasel and his twin sister Nic. "Fiona, nice work." Nic called up by her communicator, with the response being thanks. "Now, where is the cross-I mean kid." Nic mentioned, as Nack hit her on the back of the head to keep the mission quiet. "Nack, your nothing but a free lancing backstabber, why should we trust you!" Sonic yelled as Sally took a stepped forward. "Your nothing but trouble whenever it comes to anything."
Nack yawned at sally as he looked away from them, to a camera, as he gave the victory sign (Japan style). Hershey stepped aside as Nic waked toward her, knowing Neko had to depend on Nic to help him in order to stay alive, especially since the kit was the bounty huntress's. "Sonic, first hand, I don't work for Robotnik, or should I say Eggman, and second, you should be thank' in us, a good load of payment is best." Sonic could only growl, but knew already he had no chance of hurting Nack without Neko dying. As Nic used a healing shot to heal Neko partly, but in a not so bloody state, she felt the boy's pulse return too normal. Getting up slowly, Neko shivered, his hands covering his ribs that where still were in pain. "Now, you will go with us." Nic drew out her gun; Nack followed puling his out as well, aiming at Neko's forehead.
"We should have known you weren't on our side." Sonic yelled, as he was about to dash at Nack to pound the fuck out of him, but was stopped short, from a familiar voice. "That was my part Sonic." Sonic turned to the voice, while Tails hid knowing who she was, Fiona, a fox that to him was nothing more then a robot who was destroyed. "Sonic, I saved your life, those two helped, but Neko is not our problem now." The weasel twins glanced confused at her. "Our job is to take Neko to the military and that crazy scientist." Nack remarked. "Well, that madman has now left the complex, his destination is floating island." Nic muttered a few things under her breath, lowering her gun.
Neko pushed her to the ground, grabbing the gun, in the same instant, he grabbed Nack's gun as well, shoving him on the ground as well. "You bastards best stay the fuck away from me." He yelled, backing toward the Freedom Fighters. The weasel twins remained on the ground, as Hershey and the others stood behind him, "Neko, were here for you," Sally said calmly, as Neko slowly lowered the guns down.
Fiona walked over to the two helping them up; she then shot a glance to Neko, an ugly one, then to Sally. "You freedom fighters should have attacked this place earlier, then we wouldn't have to deal with this." Sally sighed, but before she could speak, Stu, one of the members of the secret service ran to them a few guards of the palace followed behind him. He stopped to catch his breath, and then spoke, "Acorn already has knowledge of the current situation, we have a radar detection of a huge aircrafts, and they are heading due west." Neko remained silent, the three bounty hunters (whatever you could call them) scattered and slipped away from them, leaving Neko behind to confront the doctor on Floating Island, "All troops, return to Knothole, David, you too." Neko unwillingly followed them back, as he kept his face down, and quiet that he never once said anything on the way back, except one phrase.
"Just call me Neko."
As they returned, Neko walked to the pond where he felt more alone and comfortable, he remembered times that while he shed no tears on, he did feel them eating at him mentally. He remembered how he was an orphan, how he was one of the many that were abandoned by their parents. The orphanage was where he was raised for six years, that place to him was the only home he could ever think of that could be pleasant. Sally walked over; she knew his identity, now she wanted answers from him. Slowly she walked over to him, sitting down beside him.
"Your past sounds very disturbing to us." Neko snorted, as he didn't respond. Sally placed a hand on his shoulder, but as she did, Neko swatted it off. "I would rather not talk about it." He replied angered, Sally still looked to him with more sad yet greedy eyes, "You were a racist, but yet, you haven't offended or despised us, your view of us changed, didn't it." Sighing deeply, he still didn't look to her.
"Yes, I was a racist, a hater, for four years I was. Hurting others, assaulting them with lead pipes, even destroying their homes. I fell in with the wrong crowd, but it wasn't because I was that desperate, it was because of the first ones who took me in, and then how they abandoned me. They only used me to get some kind of money, and then threw me out of the house. I then met Blunt, who was part of a group of hoodlums. He told me that people of religion allowed kids and people to be sacrificed, people of races hated us and would kill us and that homosexuals were nothing more then fools, those who would molest us. Those visions, all were of certain events, the three who were beating me up were doing it because I vandalized and burned the church, I was only lucky to survive because Blunt came in and killed them. The park, I was planning to murder a minister who Blunt said was responsible for the sacrifices, that dog was the ministers and I planed to attach a bomb to it. Some of the time were we even able to escape and few weeks were we not being thugs or haters, but we eventually went head on into the wrong area, arrested and taken away to a camp that was more of mental crap then a rejuvenation center."
He sighed, a tear falling. "I hated it, for about 4 years I had to listen to so much, all this crap that I never would believe, and yet, I realized it was the truth. It all came clear that Blunt was a liar; he must have been on some drug. All the others were able to go clear, but Blunt didn't, he killed himself, at that time, I didn't know what to do, my best friend, my brother, died." He sighed as he sobbed up, tears streaming from his eyes. "So what happened to you after that?" Sally asked a bit sadly, but still wanting to know how he became a catguy. He sighed, the glanced to her fearing, "Well, I was sent to the army for training, and there I learned to hate the Acorn Kingdom."
Sally gasped as she heard this, hearing how considering her family was a enemy of his. "Neko, you can't mean you will-" "Kill you, no." Neko then stood up, as he turned to walk away from her. "Where do you think you are going?" He then stopped, taking a deep breath, as he turned to face her, his eyes still wet from tears, as he sobbed once more. "Somewhere where I don't have to have people asking me questions!"
As he was about to run, Sally then asked him one last thing. "Just tell me, how is it that your half feline?" Neko turned, as he took a deep breath once more, "I went to military school as you know, but I was given a foster father who still would look after me, but I was still disciplined, and a mother as he did have a wife. It was during my 16th birthday that I enjoyed my life, and how things were going. It was near my 17th birthday, how I know is because the orphanage had a record on me, but not by date, but it turns out I had a record that they never showed me cause I was too young."
With another deep breath, he continued with his story. "Well, a doctor that is Carlos's great-grandfather saw how I was an impressive recruit and had plans to improve me. My family was invited to his lab, but there, it was a setup, my father was shot when he shielded me and my mother was also when she attacked Hasagawa. I then was knocked out; waking up to find how horrible I looked. Following after, they ran tests on me, to improve me, to make me something that would be an assassin, but I didn't move at my best, Hasagawa knew he had to do better, the only way was to erase my memories. I was placed in a capsule for this, and I don't remember much afterward. What I do know is that somewhere along the line, the military must have shut his project down when they reviewed it, and I was stored away in some area. Now, leave me alone!!"
He already told her everything, he knew what he had to do, and with some now updated knowledge of the vehicles he learned to maneuver thanks to their teaching, he ran a few idea's threw his head, only one making sense, and he knew it would only be his job, "Best get some supplies." He walked into the dark and always gloomy Robotropolis; he knew only one way to do this, the lone wolf's way.
"Where's Neko?" Sally sighed, explaining to Hershey what he told her. Hershey was speechless afterwards, but just before she could remark to it, "St. John, Hershey, Princess, his Royal Highness wishes to speak with you." The three immediately followed the messenger to where Max was residing, as he glanced at them one by one, his hands supporting his chin, as he looked at each of them, "I don't care about Neko, or what he plans to do, what matters is we at least stop those bots from reaching that island, we are already far behind, so make hace, understood?" Geoff and Hershey saluted him with the hand on the forehead way, followed with the old 'yes sir' only with royalty added.
"Sally, this is more then I bargained for.. I am counting on you." Sally was speechless, her father said he counted on her, and for the first time, he admitted it to her. "Yes father." Max smiled hearing this, "Now go out there and revive the Acorn reputation, Princess." Sally immediately walked out. "Zistems checked." Antoine already had the ship ready for launch, as others started to be loaded with supplies. "These bots designs seems almost old, but the way it is designed is flawless."
Rotor already seen it, but only for a sec, as the plans were to destroy them by bombing the aircrafts, yet no ship other then Tail's Cyclone could reach the shuttles in time, but it only would be able to take out one, and even with its speed, it would not be able to intercept the ships. Once the bots landed on Floating Island, there would be very disastrous results. Rotor though discovered a new problem was in their hands, and one that could be worse for the guardian to even deal with.
"These things have a weakness around this area" Rotor mentioned, as he had a few others looking at the monitor projection, showing the weakness around the upper abdominal, while small in proportion would be easy to hit. "There is one thing that could be different, Fiona did give me this info, but.those bounty hunters may not be giving us the whole thing." Rotor then pointed to two compounds, that some would not understand. "This area, could be used to trigger an explosion" the area was an exhaust pipe for fuel and a certain chip that was not a memory bank. "The outcome of the explosion force is deadly, almost like a bomb that goes off, the difference is this can move, but that would only happen if the creator had already knew of this." Tails nearby gulped in unpleasantness.
"Rotor, Carlos had knowledge of the bots, with what he did to Neko, he must have created that program in them." Sonic who always cheered his buddy up, placed a hand on his shoulder. "Don't get so down, I am sure he hasn't." Tails nodded cheering up, "Tails, the Tornado err Cyclone is in full advantage." Mentioned one of the engineers running over to them, as Tails smiled pleased. "Sonic, time to move out." Tails said, jumping immediately with excitement into the cockpit, as with a few flicks of the switches, they were ready to fly on out into the sky, it was the moment that Tails always had a thrill for, the piloting of a craft such as this was one of his most impressive abilities.
"All solders report to post, all solders report to shuttle crafts." The announcement done by Sally gave the troops the orders to move it or lose it, as each boarded one of the shuttles they were told to be on. "Well, the time has finally come." Sally said, as Geoff and Hershey, ready to head into battle, escorted her to the shuttle. Rotor joined the party, as solders loaded the other shuttlecrafts, which were around five total shuttles (cheap war budgets) not counting the Cyclone.
Tails, having the patience Sonic had, took off at an increasing speed, the others followed behind him, yet not able to keep up with him. Elias, who remained behind watched from the ground point, as the Freedom Fighters took off. "Godspeed, may you all be victorious." He then proceeded back to the mansion, Mina following behind, she was told to stay out of this battle.
Neko walked into Robotropolis, the place was only a wasteland of body's but Neko knew that something was there. Looking at each of the dead corpses, he found a backpack that was in perfect shape, and like any grave robber, removed it from the dead man, taking it for himself. He walked into a complex that had lights on, the Swat Bots were not around, all were lying down like lifeless bots, but only one computer was on in the area, as the others were either off, or broken. Getting in was a synch, since no barriers were on to delay his progress, he started to search for a certain bomb, particularly, remote mines. Receiving a storage area to where the item was, he walked out of the room.
Following a map, dealing with a few twists and turn, he soon reaching his destination. Manually opening the door, he looked through a few of the supply cases, opening one after another, until he finally found what he was looking for. Opening up the box, he started to load up his backpack with the remote mines. He then looked at the remote, a hand gripping type, that had a cover over so it would not accidentally go off.
"These are all I will need, now, I need a ship." Neko said to himself, as he walked back to the complex, doing a few searches, first on the base of operations, a.k.a., the control center of the Nekobots, looking over to the weakness points. Afterwards, he started his search for the ship he would use to go use to enter the base. His search findings were of a few cargo ships, and fighters, but only one caught his eye. The craft was a jet, except it was one that looked upgraded in many ways. It was called 'Fighter', why possibly was its real ability in the sky. It had twin engines; max speed was a mach 11 speed (the tornado is a bi plane, but it's speed is almost enough to match a jet), it had around 5 gunning points, plus target seeking missiles, the thing was a bird of prey to any bogey.
"Perfect, now, to get into it." After reading the operations manual, and copying the map of it to a hologram disk, Neko left the complex once again, this time heading to the hidden location of the Fighter. It didn't take long for him to find it, he spent only a few minutes to get himself more uptight with the computer system for detection, as he smiled, pressing the ignition panel. "Now.. time to settle the score." He then pushed the acceleration key down, the Fighter blasted out and in a loud roar, with a few trails of smoke from behind, as Neko smiled with glee, loving his new toy. "Time to fly high."
Nic: Floating island, you have seen better days, especially now when a fierce battle is raging all over the place. Fiona: The bots hit Floating Island, and even with the army they have now, it is no match against the force that Carlos is commanding. Nack: At least we are not stuck in the middle of it- Nic: Nack, we are Nack: Great, Jonic, you're a fucking asshole Nack flips Jonic the Bird Me: You dare give me the finger you shall feel my wrath. Throws a lightning rod at Nack, frying him to a burnt crisp Nack: OUCH, THAT HURT Fiona: Giggling Next time, "Kamikaze Bots" Nic: See you then.
Already two weeks had past since Neko had been allowed to live in the village, part of the days he spent in prison, for his alleged physical attack on Geoff (Geoffrey St. John), and was also convicted as one of the members who abducted, tied him up, and allegedly assault with a weapon. During the time, Neko also decided to have better cloths, ditching the robe he had, and in addition, taking a suit that one of the residents had, it was gray, flexible, and almost as fitting as what the Overlanders wore.
While he was in prison, he didn't have much to worry, since he was the only one convict within the cell, in addition, protected by a few laws passed by the Acorns, that he was never to be mistreated or hurt by the prison guards. Hershey strolled on through the damp and grimly colored prison blocks, moving over to his cellblock, he looked straight at her, sitting on his bed, his face bitter. "Let me guess, visiting?" he answered in a minor and stubborn voice, his face turned to a sneer.
"Yes, Neko you're going to be let out, but there is now a restraining order, that you cannot go within 3 yards near Geoffrey St. John." She said, unlocking the cell door, and walking in. "You are lucky to even get off with a sentence like this, Geoffrey is pissed about getting his ass kicked by you, you're considered a coward since he was not in any shape to fight." Hershey glanced as Neko yawned hearing this, "Fuck that hater, look, is there anything else you need to tell me?"
Hershey sighed, as she continued. "Yes, Sally also wants to speak to you, something about what our spies dug up." Neko stood walking out, of the cell and to the exit, the guards stood down disgruntled by Neko being free, but having no choice, they muttered ignorantly under their breath. Neko walked out of the cell stretching, as he looked around. He was able to walk freely at one time during the day, for training to be a solder in the Freedom Fighters force, but safety measures such as guards were always there to make sure he never tried to escape. Now he was free, and he had only one place in mind to go to.
"Don't even-" "Let him through, he has come to see me." Neko glanced immaturely at the guard, before giving him the bird, then walked on over to where Sally stood. "I wish to speak with you in private, Princess." He said whispering, but his voice tone was demanding. Sally nodded to the guard, who afterward turning to report to another post. Sally finally led Neko to her room, making sure he was not given any problems by other guards. Arriving at her room, Neko took a deep breath before he spoke. "Now that I am free, I want answers to what happen to Geoffrey, and my instinct tells me your responsible, correct."
Sally sighed, as she glanced up at him, a guilty sign on her face, and afterward becoming a frown. "We knew he was the one who poisoned your food, so yes, we tortured him for the truth." Neko sat on her bed, arms crossed. "Why exactly did you hurt him, I am the one who suffered because of it." Sally shook her head, "Neko, he needed a taste of his own medicine, he tried to kill you, so we decided to send a message to him violently, and we did, but we never wanted you in trouble, we wanted to help you."
His face turned bitter and impatient, showing some load of troubles. "I am not a fucking retard Sally, I can take care of myself." Sally shook her head. "He is more then you are Neko, He is part of the service, his reputation is a very high standard, you attacking him makes you more of a thug." Neko snorted, as he layed down. "Well, what exactly is going on in Robotropolis, from what Hershey told me, there is something that is sparking a lot of commotion here?" Sally looked at him with a bothered gaze. "Neko, this is not something you may handle-" "TELL ME!!" Sally gave him the files Neko immediately went wide-eyed.
"These.. are sketches are of me!?" he looked at them trembling, his teeth chattering stridently. The drawing was of him, but the skin he had was pure metallic, baldness around the head rather then some type of hair, the ears still in place, as was the tail, both possible weapons. The cloths though were more of armor, relation to what the Swat Bots frame was like. "Neko, according to what we know, you may be an assassin or a prototype for a super solder." Sally stared down to the floor, not wanting to see him break apart before her vary eyes.
"We don't know for sure, but your memories so far are not giving much up, all you have had is just some of holidays, friends and possibly of struggle." Neko knew what she was talking about; he had one of a winter holiday called X-mas, others days on the street, and one with the same girl he saw in his vision when he visited here. A knock on the door caught Sally's attention, "Come in" she said, as the door opened, Amy entered. "It is time to plan." Amy announced, Sally looked over at Neko. "Remember what I told you, your still part of the Freedom Fighters, and this may require you."
Sally stood up, walking to the door, as she and Amy walked off to the meeting center. Amy had forgiven him after he apologized to her face to face in his cell, this action had convinced her that perhaps he wasn't such a cold hearted bastard after all, and conceivably someone still stressed with his life. Neko stood up, and walked out of the room and the mansion, and while his head gazing downward; his eyes were already showing he was distressed by the truth, maybe even fearing it.
The Freedom Fighters gathered to the meetinghouse, not having to wait long for King Acorn to arrive, he stood behind the booth, looking out to the gatherers, raising a hand up high to call for silence, the crowd silencing in moments. "According to the information that we have, Dr. Eggman is creating a massive army of bots that are in resemblance to Neko." He mentioned showing the blueprints of them on an overhead projector. "Now, Eggman took a big step, producing the bots underground and in tight security that even Sonic wasn't able to break through and infiltrate the facility." He looked straight at Sonic as he made the remark, others also, as all the blue hedgehog could do was scratch his head in stupidity. "AHEM." Sally looked to her dad impatiently; her face gave off a sign that Sonic so often had been known for. " Oh yes, now, Sally has persuaded that she lead the attack, and I grant her permission."
Gasps where heard, as babble started from one to another. Sally calmly walked up, calling for silence in the same fashion as Max had, clearing her throat and taking a deep breath, as she then spoke "I have plans for the divided Teams, Team A consisting of Sonic, Tails, Rotor, me and a few of the solders will create a diversion with the security team, while Team Underdog, consisting of Antoine, Bunnie, Hershey and.. Neko will take the destruction mission, taking out a few of the bots, a few solders will accompany them as well."
Hearing this, Neko sat shocked as he was called, then standing he interrupted Sally. "Wait, I am to be the one helping with the demolition team?" Sally nodded at him, she then turned back to face the crowd, and spoke once more. "We move out at 0500 hours, the ground units shall also be part of the distraction." Neko stood up, and walked off, his destination the pond, the only part of the village where he was alone and more comfortable.
"It has taken a while, but I have to make sure they are in perfect condition and analysis confirm 89% Flawless." Eggman then looked to the screen, as he smiled evil. "Soon enough, I will rule the world." At that second, his body suddenly fell paralyzed, as he was unable to move. "What's going on?" He tried to get up, but found it impracticable. "I can't move!!" A loud laughter was heard, one not familiar, and one seemingly to lurk in the shadows, as Eggman looked around, angered at this. "Who are you!?" he demanded, as the figure walked toward him. "Dr. Eggman, it looks like you're already foolish to hack and take in so secured files, that mistake has not shown your fault in your own system, considering what I have now just done to you, this army will be mine to command."
The man walked into the light, his hair dark as the feathers of a raven, he wore a white trench coat with black trousers, and to top it all off, he wore no glasses, his face handsome to any female who could be charmed by the looks of a man. "You have served me well, and now, you must be put out of the way, but since destroying you is not possibly, so I have locked you in your shell." He then kicked Eggman to roll the fat man on his stomach, as he stepped over to the control panel. "Now, to make me the commander." He typed in the commands, changing the orders to him, as he then looked over the details. "Now, the plans are still in preparation, only I have different intentions, unlike you Robotnik, or is it Eggman now." With that, he walked to the area below, where the bots of destruction were resting. As he gazed over all of them his eyes filled with great joy. "Perfect, now, to prepare a surprise on the fools."
Neko layed down, resting near the edge of the pond; he closed his eyes to dose off, but was interrupted. "What you thinking about?" Sighing, he opened his eyes looking toward her, as he sighed, "Well, about some of the visions, to try to piece each one together." He then looked out at the pond, lit up by the sun, it was a pleasant sight to him. Hershey sat next to him, putting an arm around his back. "So how are you feeling, ready to go out and fight?"
Neko looked at her smiling, "I have nothing better to do, the truth I must find out." Hershey rubbed his back, "Your scared, I know it." Neko closed his eyes, his face turning to the ground "If you had amnesia and found out you were a project, how could you not be." He then looked out at the pond, "Neko, I am sure your not just a project you have a life, you have to be more, nobody is born like this, at least like you." Neko remained silent, as he didn't answer; Hershey stood up and slowly walked away, feeling she let the wrong words slip out of her mouth.
It was after 5:00 hours, and already the solders were suited up, Neko included, as he waited at Hershey's side, bored as anyone impatient could be. The troops after a while finally moved out, as Sally took the main lead. They arrived at Robotropolis soon enough, intense explosions occurred as Sonic moved through buildings and factories, tearing apart many bots and devices in the process manipulating the explosion, while half of the Freedom Fighter solders shot grenades out, blowing up storage depot's, warehouses and any other areas that were used for Eggman's vile plans, a few picking off the Swat Bots "Okay, take out the towers at the right corner." Sally commanded over the communicator.
Rotor took aim with his newly constructed weapon, with the power to send a huge skyscraper in down in rubble. Charging the weapon up to full power, a huge ray went out, crashing into the building, as a loud explosion followed, the building having now a big hole around the middle area, as the top area started to crumble and force the bottom area to start to collapse more, rubble already flying down. Solders and those with Sally cheered seeing this.
Sonic enjoyed making every swat-bot try to kill him before he took them down. Tails at the time of all this was busy rewiring a few of the auxiliary cables, shorting out the power for a few areas' that were left in the city, help aid the Underdog Team in breaking into the main complex, the one where the bots were expected to be. Alas, with all the effort some were pulling, it was all in vain, as what lay ahead of them was more then they could bargain for. Sonic made a run through the factories blowing them up. Laughing victoriously, he was then hit over, as he looked up to the suspect, "N- wait, your not Neko!?" he collapsed afterwards. Sally and the others continued the battering around the city, taking out whatever they could, as Swat Bots who were near fell fast.
"God damn it smells." Neko muttered making vomiting sounds, "Zon't nake mou zick." Antoine said, already tired of hearing the guy speak. "Both of you shut it, or else we will screw this whole operation up." Hershey yelled demandingly, as she looked at Neko saying it. Sighing, Neko shut up, and moved on with no more delays. Sally's team was stopped short, when shots rang out from all corners, as more then 50% of her team died unpleasantly by murder of gunshots, the ones killed fell flat to the ground, blood already soaking their cloths, and bullet holes covered them all over.
Sally had been able to avoid this, as was Rotor and a few others. They looked out seeing the fallen solders and the brutality of the murdering. Soon after, the Nekobots (bots) walked out from every direction, as they held up their hands, a shaft opened, revealing the firearms, "Give- yourselves-up-now!" having no choice, as they saw Sonic already in custody with two other Nekobots, his face was not showing a good sign of success, Sally sighed knowing what had to be done. "We have no choice." Sally muttered, as she put down her weapon as others followed surrendering, the troops were taken away in a marching pattern
Hershey and the others made their ways through the sewers, finally reaching the area where the main shuttlecrafts were kept, plus the newly created Nekobots. "Zer goin to invad za world." Ant mentioned. "Gee, you just realized this." Neko muttered, "Both of you stop your god damn arguing." Hershey fed up with hearing them in the sewer started to get out the bombs that they planned to set, "Sally, you there, Sally?" the communicator went dead on the other end, as Bunnie only got a response of static, "Hershey, we lost communication with Sally girl, we be in some serious trouble." Hershey was about to set the bombs timers and respond to the latest report, until a loud clank was hear, the Nekobots surrounded the team from all sides, with the weapons armed.
They surrendered having no chance against them "Eggman must really have this set up well." Hershey said sadly. They were led away to a room where Sally and the others were, Hershey looked up gasping, there stood not Eggman, but someone else, his hair black, yet a handsome face, his long lab coat down to his knees, and black trousers.
"Hahahaha, you fools, Eggman was only a tool, and he created just what I needed to take over the world, an army of robots that are just as good as Neko, designed to not only be able to move at a speed greater then the hedgehog, but also have built in firearms, they are indeed the ultimate solders." He then smiled, as Neko was brought over to him, Neko's head looked down, as the madman grabbed his hair, pulling it up, to see his face, "So we meet again, Neko, or should I say, David McCreary."
At that name, the bots released Neko, who fell to the ground, shaking like he had a seizure, all of his memories came back to him like a rushing river of water, it all flowed into his head, as he shivered at the thoughts, closing his eyes tightly. After a few moments he stopped, he finally stood up opened his eyes, directly staring to the madman. Breathing hard, his face turned to a blaze of fury, "Dr. Hasagawa, you bastard!" The robots then restrained Neko before he could attack the madman, as the Doctor laughed looking at him. "Hasagawa is dead, I am his great grandson, Carlos."
Carlos took a few steps forward, as he cracked his fists, before he removed his coat. Afterward, he started to punch Neko several times in the face, blood-starting spilling from Neko's nose and mouth. Tails tried to push through the bots; he was thrown back by a bot for his actions, showing the Freedom Fighters just how relentless it would be if they even tried, "Pathetic, your weak, it is no wonder you were left in that capsule." He finished with a kick to Neko in the gut, as the catguy coughed out blood onto the floor, breathing in air fast, Carlos paused for a while.
"I will get back to you soon." He then turned to the Freedom Fighters smiling, "Units, take the resistance to the cell blocks!" Carlos turned back looking at Neko once more. "Now, I am going to hurt you more." With that, he kicked Neko in the ribcage, as Carlos cowardly beat the defenseless Neko from limb to limb. The Freedom Fighters were taken to their cells, thrown in and then locked up. Already bickering of the failed plan, and others over the deaths of solders they had known.
"Neko, so his real name is David, maybe now we can get answers." Sally said, as she looked to Rotor, who sighed in sadness, "If he survives his beating, god knows who could even take it besides Knuckles-" everyone in the cellblocks stopped speaking, the clatter of footsteps was all that was heard.
Many could only look on, as Neko's bloody body was carried humiliatingly through the cellblock hall, they stopped unlocking one of the doors, then throwing him in. Hershey was within the cell he was thrown in. Seeing him, she quickly dashed to his side, as she covered her lips, shaking her head. "Ne-err David." Hershey welled up in tears, as she looked at him, a bloody mess he was, bleeding and bruised, he definitely had his ass kicked. As if a miracle, he sat up, but breathed in fast and deeply, shivering from the pain, as he looked at Hershey "Just call me Neko, please," Taking a deep breath, he then continued. "Hershey, of all I have done, I now feel like shit." He said, groaning in pain, Hershey glanced, noticing something about him showed fear. "What do you mean?" Neko glanced over at her, as he then took a deep sigh.
"As a ..young boy.. I beat.. on kids, why.I hated..them for..something despicable.." Hershey listened, " I hurt so.. many because ..of what.. they where.. religion.. skin color.. or even ..for being.. a homosexual." Hershey could not believe this she shook her head. "No, that cant be, you wouldn't-" "I was.. ever since.. some bastards.. abandoned me.. in an alleyway.. Blunt took.. me in, he was.. like a brother.. he took.. me in.. fed me... and supported me," Taking a deep breath, he continued "and..I even..hated your.. types..death to the Acorns..I used to.. always chant." His tone was very serious.
Hershey then smacked him across his face, as she then looked to him "That is not something you should even mention!?" Neko then glanced away, then layed down, hurt badly and barely able to stay awake. About an a half and hour had past, as abruptly the electricity went off, but came back on shortly after, the cell doors then opened automatically, as few of the freedom fighters walked out to test if it was not a trick. "The locks are out, were free."
Many cheered as they started to walk out of the cells; Hershey glanced at Neko in excitement. "Neko, were free, lets get out of here." She shook Neko, but he didn't wake up, she felt his neck for a pulse, feeling a very weak pulse, it was as though he was hanging by a thread, "We need medical assistance right away." Every started speaking to one another, as none had a clue what do, especially with Neko, but out of the blue, a medical kit was thrown, "You be get' in some help from us!"
Two figures stepped forward, as it was revealed as twin weasels, none other then Nack the weasel and his twin sister Nic. "Fiona, nice work." Nic called up by her communicator, with the response being thanks. "Now, where is the cross-I mean kid." Nic mentioned, as Nack hit her on the back of the head to keep the mission quiet. "Nack, your nothing but a free lancing backstabber, why should we trust you!" Sonic yelled as Sally took a stepped forward. "Your nothing but trouble whenever it comes to anything."
Nack yawned at sally as he looked away from them, to a camera, as he gave the victory sign (Japan style). Hershey stepped aside as Nic waked toward her, knowing Neko had to depend on Nic to help him in order to stay alive, especially since the kit was the bounty huntress's. "Sonic, first hand, I don't work for Robotnik, or should I say Eggman, and second, you should be thank' in us, a good load of payment is best." Sonic could only growl, but knew already he had no chance of hurting Nack without Neko dying. As Nic used a healing shot to heal Neko partly, but in a not so bloody state, she felt the boy's pulse return too normal. Getting up slowly, Neko shivered, his hands covering his ribs that where still were in pain. "Now, you will go with us." Nic drew out her gun; Nack followed puling his out as well, aiming at Neko's forehead.
"We should have known you weren't on our side." Sonic yelled, as he was about to dash at Nack to pound the fuck out of him, but was stopped short, from a familiar voice. "That was my part Sonic." Sonic turned to the voice, while Tails hid knowing who she was, Fiona, a fox that to him was nothing more then a robot who was destroyed. "Sonic, I saved your life, those two helped, but Neko is not our problem now." The weasel twins glanced confused at her. "Our job is to take Neko to the military and that crazy scientist." Nack remarked. "Well, that madman has now left the complex, his destination is floating island." Nic muttered a few things under her breath, lowering her gun.
Neko pushed her to the ground, grabbing the gun, in the same instant, he grabbed Nack's gun as well, shoving him on the ground as well. "You bastards best stay the fuck away from me." He yelled, backing toward the Freedom Fighters. The weasel twins remained on the ground, as Hershey and the others stood behind him, "Neko, were here for you," Sally said calmly, as Neko slowly lowered the guns down.
Fiona walked over to the two helping them up; she then shot a glance to Neko, an ugly one, then to Sally. "You freedom fighters should have attacked this place earlier, then we wouldn't have to deal with this." Sally sighed, but before she could speak, Stu, one of the members of the secret service ran to them a few guards of the palace followed behind him. He stopped to catch his breath, and then spoke, "Acorn already has knowledge of the current situation, we have a radar detection of a huge aircrafts, and they are heading due west." Neko remained silent, the three bounty hunters (whatever you could call them) scattered and slipped away from them, leaving Neko behind to confront the doctor on Floating Island, "All troops, return to Knothole, David, you too." Neko unwillingly followed them back, as he kept his face down, and quiet that he never once said anything on the way back, except one phrase.
"Just call me Neko."
As they returned, Neko walked to the pond where he felt more alone and comfortable, he remembered times that while he shed no tears on, he did feel them eating at him mentally. He remembered how he was an orphan, how he was one of the many that were abandoned by their parents. The orphanage was where he was raised for six years, that place to him was the only home he could ever think of that could be pleasant. Sally walked over; she knew his identity, now she wanted answers from him. Slowly she walked over to him, sitting down beside him.
"Your past sounds very disturbing to us." Neko snorted, as he didn't respond. Sally placed a hand on his shoulder, but as she did, Neko swatted it off. "I would rather not talk about it." He replied angered, Sally still looked to him with more sad yet greedy eyes, "You were a racist, but yet, you haven't offended or despised us, your view of us changed, didn't it." Sighing deeply, he still didn't look to her.
"Yes, I was a racist, a hater, for four years I was. Hurting others, assaulting them with lead pipes, even destroying their homes. I fell in with the wrong crowd, but it wasn't because I was that desperate, it was because of the first ones who took me in, and then how they abandoned me. They only used me to get some kind of money, and then threw me out of the house. I then met Blunt, who was part of a group of hoodlums. He told me that people of religion allowed kids and people to be sacrificed, people of races hated us and would kill us and that homosexuals were nothing more then fools, those who would molest us. Those visions, all were of certain events, the three who were beating me up were doing it because I vandalized and burned the church, I was only lucky to survive because Blunt came in and killed them. The park, I was planning to murder a minister who Blunt said was responsible for the sacrifices, that dog was the ministers and I planed to attach a bomb to it. Some of the time were we even able to escape and few weeks were we not being thugs or haters, but we eventually went head on into the wrong area, arrested and taken away to a camp that was more of mental crap then a rejuvenation center."
He sighed, a tear falling. "I hated it, for about 4 years I had to listen to so much, all this crap that I never would believe, and yet, I realized it was the truth. It all came clear that Blunt was a liar; he must have been on some drug. All the others were able to go clear, but Blunt didn't, he killed himself, at that time, I didn't know what to do, my best friend, my brother, died." He sighed as he sobbed up, tears streaming from his eyes. "So what happened to you after that?" Sally asked a bit sadly, but still wanting to know how he became a catguy. He sighed, the glanced to her fearing, "Well, I was sent to the army for training, and there I learned to hate the Acorn Kingdom."
Sally gasped as she heard this, hearing how considering her family was a enemy of his. "Neko, you can't mean you will-" "Kill you, no." Neko then stood up, as he turned to walk away from her. "Where do you think you are going?" He then stopped, taking a deep breath, as he turned to face her, his eyes still wet from tears, as he sobbed once more. "Somewhere where I don't have to have people asking me questions!"
As he was about to run, Sally then asked him one last thing. "Just tell me, how is it that your half feline?" Neko turned, as he took a deep breath once more, "I went to military school as you know, but I was given a foster father who still would look after me, but I was still disciplined, and a mother as he did have a wife. It was during my 16th birthday that I enjoyed my life, and how things were going. It was near my 17th birthday, how I know is because the orphanage had a record on me, but not by date, but it turns out I had a record that they never showed me cause I was too young."
With another deep breath, he continued with his story. "Well, a doctor that is Carlos's great-grandfather saw how I was an impressive recruit and had plans to improve me. My family was invited to his lab, but there, it was a setup, my father was shot when he shielded me and my mother was also when she attacked Hasagawa. I then was knocked out; waking up to find how horrible I looked. Following after, they ran tests on me, to improve me, to make me something that would be an assassin, but I didn't move at my best, Hasagawa knew he had to do better, the only way was to erase my memories. I was placed in a capsule for this, and I don't remember much afterward. What I do know is that somewhere along the line, the military must have shut his project down when they reviewed it, and I was stored away in some area. Now, leave me alone!!"
He already told her everything, he knew what he had to do, and with some now updated knowledge of the vehicles he learned to maneuver thanks to their teaching, he ran a few idea's threw his head, only one making sense, and he knew it would only be his job, "Best get some supplies." He walked into the dark and always gloomy Robotropolis; he knew only one way to do this, the lone wolf's way.
"Where's Neko?" Sally sighed, explaining to Hershey what he told her. Hershey was speechless afterwards, but just before she could remark to it, "St. John, Hershey, Princess, his Royal Highness wishes to speak with you." The three immediately followed the messenger to where Max was residing, as he glanced at them one by one, his hands supporting his chin, as he looked at each of them, "I don't care about Neko, or what he plans to do, what matters is we at least stop those bots from reaching that island, we are already far behind, so make hace, understood?" Geoff and Hershey saluted him with the hand on the forehead way, followed with the old 'yes sir' only with royalty added.
"Sally, this is more then I bargained for.. I am counting on you." Sally was speechless, her father said he counted on her, and for the first time, he admitted it to her. "Yes father." Max smiled hearing this, "Now go out there and revive the Acorn reputation, Princess." Sally immediately walked out. "Zistems checked." Antoine already had the ship ready for launch, as others started to be loaded with supplies. "These bots designs seems almost old, but the way it is designed is flawless."
Rotor already seen it, but only for a sec, as the plans were to destroy them by bombing the aircrafts, yet no ship other then Tail's Cyclone could reach the shuttles in time, but it only would be able to take out one, and even with its speed, it would not be able to intercept the ships. Once the bots landed on Floating Island, there would be very disastrous results. Rotor though discovered a new problem was in their hands, and one that could be worse for the guardian to even deal with.
"These things have a weakness around this area" Rotor mentioned, as he had a few others looking at the monitor projection, showing the weakness around the upper abdominal, while small in proportion would be easy to hit. "There is one thing that could be different, Fiona did give me this info, but.those bounty hunters may not be giving us the whole thing." Rotor then pointed to two compounds, that some would not understand. "This area, could be used to trigger an explosion" the area was an exhaust pipe for fuel and a certain chip that was not a memory bank. "The outcome of the explosion force is deadly, almost like a bomb that goes off, the difference is this can move, but that would only happen if the creator had already knew of this." Tails nearby gulped in unpleasantness.
"Rotor, Carlos had knowledge of the bots, with what he did to Neko, he must have created that program in them." Sonic who always cheered his buddy up, placed a hand on his shoulder. "Don't get so down, I am sure he hasn't." Tails nodded cheering up, "Tails, the Tornado err Cyclone is in full advantage." Mentioned one of the engineers running over to them, as Tails smiled pleased. "Sonic, time to move out." Tails said, jumping immediately with excitement into the cockpit, as with a few flicks of the switches, they were ready to fly on out into the sky, it was the moment that Tails always had a thrill for, the piloting of a craft such as this was one of his most impressive abilities.
"All solders report to post, all solders report to shuttle crafts." The announcement done by Sally gave the troops the orders to move it or lose it, as each boarded one of the shuttles they were told to be on. "Well, the time has finally come." Sally said, as Geoff and Hershey, ready to head into battle, escorted her to the shuttle. Rotor joined the party, as solders loaded the other shuttlecrafts, which were around five total shuttles (cheap war budgets) not counting the Cyclone.
Tails, having the patience Sonic had, took off at an increasing speed, the others followed behind him, yet not able to keep up with him. Elias, who remained behind watched from the ground point, as the Freedom Fighters took off. "Godspeed, may you all be victorious." He then proceeded back to the mansion, Mina following behind, she was told to stay out of this battle.
Neko walked into Robotropolis, the place was only a wasteland of body's but Neko knew that something was there. Looking at each of the dead corpses, he found a backpack that was in perfect shape, and like any grave robber, removed it from the dead man, taking it for himself. He walked into a complex that had lights on, the Swat Bots were not around, all were lying down like lifeless bots, but only one computer was on in the area, as the others were either off, or broken. Getting in was a synch, since no barriers were on to delay his progress, he started to search for a certain bomb, particularly, remote mines. Receiving a storage area to where the item was, he walked out of the room.
Following a map, dealing with a few twists and turn, he soon reaching his destination. Manually opening the door, he looked through a few of the supply cases, opening one after another, until he finally found what he was looking for. Opening up the box, he started to load up his backpack with the remote mines. He then looked at the remote, a hand gripping type, that had a cover over so it would not accidentally go off.
"These are all I will need, now, I need a ship." Neko said to himself, as he walked back to the complex, doing a few searches, first on the base of operations, a.k.a., the control center of the Nekobots, looking over to the weakness points. Afterwards, he started his search for the ship he would use to go use to enter the base. His search findings were of a few cargo ships, and fighters, but only one caught his eye. The craft was a jet, except it was one that looked upgraded in many ways. It was called 'Fighter', why possibly was its real ability in the sky. It had twin engines; max speed was a mach 11 speed (the tornado is a bi plane, but it's speed is almost enough to match a jet), it had around 5 gunning points, plus target seeking missiles, the thing was a bird of prey to any bogey.
"Perfect, now, to get into it." After reading the operations manual, and copying the map of it to a hologram disk, Neko left the complex once again, this time heading to the hidden location of the Fighter. It didn't take long for him to find it, he spent only a few minutes to get himself more uptight with the computer system for detection, as he smiled, pressing the ignition panel. "Now.. time to settle the score." He then pushed the acceleration key down, the Fighter blasted out and in a loud roar, with a few trails of smoke from behind, as Neko smiled with glee, loving his new toy. "Time to fly high."
Nic: Floating island, you have seen better days, especially now when a fierce battle is raging all over the place. Fiona: The bots hit Floating Island, and even with the army they have now, it is no match against the force that Carlos is commanding. Nack: At least we are not stuck in the middle of it- Nic: Nack, we are Nack: Great, Jonic, you're a fucking asshole Nack flips Jonic the Bird Me: You dare give me the finger you shall feel my wrath. Throws a lightning rod at Nack, frying him to a burnt crisp Nack: OUCH, THAT HURT Fiona: Giggling Next time, "Kamikaze Bots" Nic: See you then.