Chapter Two: Morning
Bunnie Rabbot arose to a bright, chilly morning. She blimked her eyes quickly and she wondered about the dream that she had. It was a dream of her flying over the forest. The thought of her flying seemed ridiculious, but most of the time her dreams never made sense anyways. She sat up in bed and yawned heavily. In her sleepy haze, her hair and ears drooped over her face. The other day, before she went to sleep, she put on a pink shirt with a yellow smiley face on to keep herself warm. Unfortunately, she still felt cold all over. Maybe someone would knit her a sweater if she asked around. She cocked her head back slightly to shake her ears and hair backd. Being half robotic on a cold morning wasn't really fun at times. It was like trying to sleep and feel warm for instance. Her normal hand brushed against her metallic legs and a chilly reaction made her came to her senses.
"I'm so tired I could just fall to pieces." She said to herself.
There was nothing to be tired from, aisde from the normal work, conditioning and more work that she did. More sleep would be nice, but she knew that she had to get up. Ingoring all that she thought to herself, Bunnie plopped herself back on the pillow and curled herself tighter to get some warmth on herself. Sleep sure felt good. It was like a soothing shower, only without the hot water.
After an extra hour of sleep and a mellow dream with the sun and the sky, she woke up. The first thing that she saw was sun beams entering through her window and shining on her sheet covers. She pulled the covers over and sat on the edge of her bed. She looked at her hair and ran her hand through her tuft of hair. Her feet patted on the edge of her bed, they made loud, rhymthic sounds in the room. She stood up and stretched her arms behind her head and yawned again.
Her hut was filled with sunlight and she surveyed her room all around, there wasn't much in her one room house besides her mirror that was tall enough to see her whole body, some tables and chairs, and some other stuff.
When the thought of time entered her mind, she almost forgot that she and the guys had some tasks to do, and it was no better time to do it than while the sun was out. She walked to her mirror and took off the shirt. She quickly checked herself out in the mirror and in her pink, one-piece shirt.
"You're looking good as always, Bunnie girl," she said to herself in humor as she smiled.
She went outside and when she opened the door, the breeze of the fresh air hit her on her way out. The sun's light made her squint her eyes, but it didn't take long for her to adjust.
Bunnie came out of her hut and stepped on the green grass. She stretched her arms out and smiled to the new day. The villiage of Knothole was very active in the morning. Many of the Mobians were out doing daily routines and scheduling the very day before them. A couple of Mobians ran by carrying wooden boards and tools in their hands. From their pace, they were in quite a hurry. She was just one of the many residents from the city formly known as Mobotropolis, and now they had to band together against Robotnik and live in the dense and majestic forest. In every mission, she put her life on the line in the war against Robotnik, but she wasn't just the only one trying to make a change.
"My dear Bunnie, I'm zo glad that you are awake," Antione's french accent rang in the air.
The most dearest Mobian she ever met and also a member of the selective Freedom Fighters had greeted her at her hut. Antione D' Coolette was the sweetest friend she ever met. Sometimes he'd go a bit overboard on the charming, but he was a spirited soul nonetheless.
" 'Ello my buttercup," He said as he hugged her.
"Hey, sugar," As she hugged him, she could feel the freshness of his jacket and hair. He was such a tidy guy, he probably shined his boots as well. "So what's on the agenda today, hon?"
"I heard that there would be a mission tonight, but I haven't been informed of anyting."
"Well, where's Sonic and Sally at?" Bunnie asked quizzically as she looked in his eyes.
"Sally iz zound asleep in her room, and you know Sonic. Zipping off somewhere no doubt." Antione paused, and then added "Bunnie, if we're going to be hitting Robotnik tonight, then let's go together,"
Bunnie felt mildly shocked; her eyebrows jumped up in appreication at the thought. Antione never did go on many missions anyway, and he wasn't the powerhouse freedom fighter like herself, but he could pull his own weight when needed. It was just that she didn't want to see him get hurt, or worse, dead. She'd have no one to lean on or talk to in that special way. Besides, Sonic and herself was cheifly all the power they needed on missions.
"I would slash up the Shadowbots like thiz!" Antione stepped considerably away from his love.
Antione took out the sword out of its shieth and the light reflected off of the hand made metal blade. He swung it around swishing air by him in smooth circular motions. The grace and skill that he showed was quite outstanding. With the air as his practice target, Antione slashed and stabbed with the style and grace of a professional fencer. He even added some fancy kicks to his arsenal; as he tried to steal the show. After the small exhibitional display, he then held the sword vertical and had his other hand by the sword, but not touching it entirely. He ended up with his back facing Bunnie, and Bunnie walked up to Antione and draped her arms over his chest.
"Oh, Antione...You're good at protecting the villiage. If you miss me, then I'll just come back, hon," She said. "It's just that it would just kill me if I lost you..."
Bunnie could fell Antione's shoulders sag slighty and his sword dropping to the ground. She smiled, trying to cheer him up...
"Come on, Antione. Perk up, muffin." She peckered a kiss on his cheek. She thought of telling him that she'd guarantee him arriving home, but facing Robotnik always meant that NOTHING was guaranteed. Even if a plan was planned perfectly.
The kiss seemed to shake Antione baack to good health. Ant placed the sword back in the shieth and turned around to see Bunnie's natural happy look staring him down.
"But you are zust a pretty face, no? Let's go take a walk "
Bunnie giggled and smiled at Antione, she never thought that Antione D'Coolette of the French regieme would ever show her his skills.
After meeting Sally yesterday, it was uncanny that such a device had resided in Nichole's data file. Sally was extracting files and data from Nichole's memory banks when she found out about the Semtex and brung Rotor over. After viewing all the specs, they figured that the Semtex could be the very key to stop Robotnik together, but Sally was against a couple of factors.
First, she didn't want to level Robotropolis, after all they did used to live there when it was Mobotropolis and maybe one day they'd go back to it and be able to live it. In defense of the plan, Rotor said that they would only hit Robotnik's generators, and the Shadowbot factories.
The second factor was that because of the material they'd have to slim down the number of FF's for the mission. Sonic could plant them, ignite them and hit the next one, but Robotnik could catch wind of the plan in a hurry as the explosions would be a dead giveaway. Also, the mission was way risky. There was too much of a high risk factor, and the last thing she wanted to do was to lose anyone.
They decided to talk their plan with the rest of the Freddom Fighters. Rotor went to bed with the thought of totally putting Robotink out of commission, but at what cost? As far as he was concerned, he didn't want to lose anyone in the war either seeing no one had to die in vain.
The next day was alreadly upon him and he still that thoughts and envisions of the talk with Sally last night. Rotor got out of bed and went outside to clear his head. The front of his hut was shady, so he decided to hang around there for a while.
" 'ello, 'Rotar," Antione said as he strolled by.
Rotor waved at Antione and he waved back in response.
Hey, where's Ant going to today, and with his sword too! Lest hope he doesn't get into trouble.
Rotor rested himself on a wooden banner, wondering what he, as well as the Freedom Fighter's planned to do about this situation.
He wondered if Sonic would be around early in the day. Rotor adjusted his hat and looked around. No one otherwise the Mobians walking and working about. Suddenly a blue blur came across his view. Rotor waved him down and Sonic altered his course and curved over to see his friend. The obstacles of Mobians and various huts were nothing for the speedy hedgehog. He easily cruised through the houses and some shocked Mobians until he was over at Rotor's hut.
"Sonic! You got a few minutes, I got to talk to you." he asked in his heavy, nasily voice.
"Sure, no sweat, Rote," Sonic replied.
Sonic followed Rotor into his hut and had to watch out for the gadgets, electronics and blueprints that laid on the table and floor. Rotor closed the door and picked up some stray papers, but for the most part he left everything where they were. What he was about to uncover was so urgent, that neatness would have to take a backseat for now.
"You got any grub over here, bro" Sonic asked as he zipped into a table chair in the kitchen.
Rotor carried his bulf into the kitchen, where he took out two glasses and a container of red soda. He poured in both of the cups, sat down and began to drink his.
"Sonic! Sally and I just stumbled along one major breakthrough we found yesterday,"
"What's that, Rotor?!" Sonic grew very intrested in what his friend had to say.
"Something that could turn this war against Robotnik in our favor!"
"Well, don't just sit there, tell me!"
For Sally's sake, he didn't want Sonic to know about it, but he'd find out sooner or later and the rest of the Freedom Fighters would know as well.
"Well, I was checking out some data on Nichole's memory yesterday and saw a data file on an explosive material called Semtex."
"What's Semtex?" Sonic asked as he finished up his drink.
"Seems that the Mobians used it in construction and deconstruction of their modern structure. If we can cluster multiple Semtex bombs together, we could do some serious property damage to Robotropolis."
"How much damage are we talking about?"
"We're talking major. The Semtex together act as cluster bombs but they feed off the heat of other bombs and the destructive power of additional bombs increase. The design of the Semtex isn't difficult to make and the file gives blueprints, but there's one catch."
"What's that?"
"The Semtex has to be activated by a remote control and because of the only power supply I could find may jam up the signal, but I'm not sure until I get a sample."
Sonic stepped from his chair and walked around in the room."That certainly sounds difficult, Rote, but where can we get a sample?" He turned to Rotor and said.
"There's a mountain west of here that has plenty of raw crystal, but Sally wasn't feeling too hot about the plan. She said that you'd want to do it anyway, she didn't want to lose anyone trying this stunt..."
"Well, she's right about one thing, We got to do it. With the Semtex, we could permently put Robuttnik out of business!"
"But it's too risky, Sonic! Even for you!" Rotor put his hands on his hips, and his attitude against the mission grew.
"By the time Buttnik knows what wrong, he AND Robotropolis will be ten feet under the ground! Besides, we got to try. Geurilla tactics can only work for so long, ya know."
Rotor paused for a moment and looked to his equipment and materials and wondered if this plan would even work. Sonic walked to him and patted his hand on his broad shoulder.
"Rotor, if its one thing I don't do, I don't disapoint. Let'd do this for everyone, come on." Sonic encouraged him.
For a while, Rotor didn't budge. He didn't want to see Sally distraut over Sonic's loss or anyone for that matter, but he knew that they had to take action with what they have. If anyone could do pull the stunt off without a hitch it was his Sonic.
"...Ok, let's do it. I need the crystal in the mountains soon, so I can experiment them. Sally is going to conduct a meeting later, so I want to have them up to spec."
"Way ahead of ya, bro."
Sonic was already out the door and running to the westerly mountains. Roter sat down and looked at his blueprints and unfinished gadgets, and wondered if this would be the day that Robotnik's rule would be over. If everything turned out right they would have an early celebration, but they knew that they had to be on their toes and on their guard once they hit Robotropolis, their was no suspescion of what latest weapon of destruction Robotnik had planned for them.
Bunnie Rabbot arose to a bright, chilly morning. She blimked her eyes quickly and she wondered about the dream that she had. It was a dream of her flying over the forest. The thought of her flying seemed ridiculious, but most of the time her dreams never made sense anyways. She sat up in bed and yawned heavily. In her sleepy haze, her hair and ears drooped over her face. The other day, before she went to sleep, she put on a pink shirt with a yellow smiley face on to keep herself warm. Unfortunately, she still felt cold all over. Maybe someone would knit her a sweater if she asked around. She cocked her head back slightly to shake her ears and hair backd. Being half robotic on a cold morning wasn't really fun at times. It was like trying to sleep and feel warm for instance. Her normal hand brushed against her metallic legs and a chilly reaction made her came to her senses.
"I'm so tired I could just fall to pieces." She said to herself.
There was nothing to be tired from, aisde from the normal work, conditioning and more work that she did. More sleep would be nice, but she knew that she had to get up. Ingoring all that she thought to herself, Bunnie plopped herself back on the pillow and curled herself tighter to get some warmth on herself. Sleep sure felt good. It was like a soothing shower, only without the hot water.
After an extra hour of sleep and a mellow dream with the sun and the sky, she woke up. The first thing that she saw was sun beams entering through her window and shining on her sheet covers. She pulled the covers over and sat on the edge of her bed. She looked at her hair and ran her hand through her tuft of hair. Her feet patted on the edge of her bed, they made loud, rhymthic sounds in the room. She stood up and stretched her arms behind her head and yawned again.
Her hut was filled with sunlight and she surveyed her room all around, there wasn't much in her one room house besides her mirror that was tall enough to see her whole body, some tables and chairs, and some other stuff.
When the thought of time entered her mind, she almost forgot that she and the guys had some tasks to do, and it was no better time to do it than while the sun was out. She walked to her mirror and took off the shirt. She quickly checked herself out in the mirror and in her pink, one-piece shirt.
"You're looking good as always, Bunnie girl," she said to herself in humor as she smiled.
She went outside and when she opened the door, the breeze of the fresh air hit her on her way out. The sun's light made her squint her eyes, but it didn't take long for her to adjust.
Bunnie came out of her hut and stepped on the green grass. She stretched her arms out and smiled to the new day. The villiage of Knothole was very active in the morning. Many of the Mobians were out doing daily routines and scheduling the very day before them. A couple of Mobians ran by carrying wooden boards and tools in their hands. From their pace, they were in quite a hurry. She was just one of the many residents from the city formly known as Mobotropolis, and now they had to band together against Robotnik and live in the dense and majestic forest. In every mission, she put her life on the line in the war against Robotnik, but she wasn't just the only one trying to make a change.
"My dear Bunnie, I'm zo glad that you are awake," Antione's french accent rang in the air.
The most dearest Mobian she ever met and also a member of the selective Freedom Fighters had greeted her at her hut. Antione D' Coolette was the sweetest friend she ever met. Sometimes he'd go a bit overboard on the charming, but he was a spirited soul nonetheless.
" 'Ello my buttercup," He said as he hugged her.
"Hey, sugar," As she hugged him, she could feel the freshness of his jacket and hair. He was such a tidy guy, he probably shined his boots as well. "So what's on the agenda today, hon?"
"I heard that there would be a mission tonight, but I haven't been informed of anyting."
"Well, where's Sonic and Sally at?" Bunnie asked quizzically as she looked in his eyes.
"Sally iz zound asleep in her room, and you know Sonic. Zipping off somewhere no doubt." Antione paused, and then added "Bunnie, if we're going to be hitting Robotnik tonight, then let's go together,"
Bunnie felt mildly shocked; her eyebrows jumped up in appreication at the thought. Antione never did go on many missions anyway, and he wasn't the powerhouse freedom fighter like herself, but he could pull his own weight when needed. It was just that she didn't want to see him get hurt, or worse, dead. She'd have no one to lean on or talk to in that special way. Besides, Sonic and herself was cheifly all the power they needed on missions.
"I would slash up the Shadowbots like thiz!" Antione stepped considerably away from his love.
Antione took out the sword out of its shieth and the light reflected off of the hand made metal blade. He swung it around swishing air by him in smooth circular motions. The grace and skill that he showed was quite outstanding. With the air as his practice target, Antione slashed and stabbed with the style and grace of a professional fencer. He even added some fancy kicks to his arsenal; as he tried to steal the show. After the small exhibitional display, he then held the sword vertical and had his other hand by the sword, but not touching it entirely. He ended up with his back facing Bunnie, and Bunnie walked up to Antione and draped her arms over his chest.
"Oh, Antione...You're good at protecting the villiage. If you miss me, then I'll just come back, hon," She said. "It's just that it would just kill me if I lost you..."
Bunnie could fell Antione's shoulders sag slighty and his sword dropping to the ground. She smiled, trying to cheer him up...
"Come on, Antione. Perk up, muffin." She peckered a kiss on his cheek. She thought of telling him that she'd guarantee him arriving home, but facing Robotnik always meant that NOTHING was guaranteed. Even if a plan was planned perfectly.
The kiss seemed to shake Antione baack to good health. Ant placed the sword back in the shieth and turned around to see Bunnie's natural happy look staring him down.
"But you are zust a pretty face, no? Let's go take a walk "
Bunnie giggled and smiled at Antione, she never thought that Antione D'Coolette of the French regieme would ever show her his skills.
After meeting Sally yesterday, it was uncanny that such a device had resided in Nichole's data file. Sally was extracting files and data from Nichole's memory banks when she found out about the Semtex and brung Rotor over. After viewing all the specs, they figured that the Semtex could be the very key to stop Robotnik together, but Sally was against a couple of factors.
First, she didn't want to level Robotropolis, after all they did used to live there when it was Mobotropolis and maybe one day they'd go back to it and be able to live it. In defense of the plan, Rotor said that they would only hit Robotnik's generators, and the Shadowbot factories.
The second factor was that because of the material they'd have to slim down the number of FF's for the mission. Sonic could plant them, ignite them and hit the next one, but Robotnik could catch wind of the plan in a hurry as the explosions would be a dead giveaway. Also, the mission was way risky. There was too much of a high risk factor, and the last thing she wanted to do was to lose anyone.
They decided to talk their plan with the rest of the Freddom Fighters. Rotor went to bed with the thought of totally putting Robotink out of commission, but at what cost? As far as he was concerned, he didn't want to lose anyone in the war either seeing no one had to die in vain.
The next day was alreadly upon him and he still that thoughts and envisions of the talk with Sally last night. Rotor got out of bed and went outside to clear his head. The front of his hut was shady, so he decided to hang around there for a while.
" 'ello, 'Rotar," Antione said as he strolled by.
Rotor waved at Antione and he waved back in response.
Hey, where's Ant going to today, and with his sword too! Lest hope he doesn't get into trouble.
Rotor rested himself on a wooden banner, wondering what he, as well as the Freedom Fighter's planned to do about this situation.
He wondered if Sonic would be around early in the day. Rotor adjusted his hat and looked around. No one otherwise the Mobians walking and working about. Suddenly a blue blur came across his view. Rotor waved him down and Sonic altered his course and curved over to see his friend. The obstacles of Mobians and various huts were nothing for the speedy hedgehog. He easily cruised through the houses and some shocked Mobians until he was over at Rotor's hut.
"Sonic! You got a few minutes, I got to talk to you." he asked in his heavy, nasily voice.
"Sure, no sweat, Rote," Sonic replied.
Sonic followed Rotor into his hut and had to watch out for the gadgets, electronics and blueprints that laid on the table and floor. Rotor closed the door and picked up some stray papers, but for the most part he left everything where they were. What he was about to uncover was so urgent, that neatness would have to take a backseat for now.
"You got any grub over here, bro" Sonic asked as he zipped into a table chair in the kitchen.
Rotor carried his bulf into the kitchen, where he took out two glasses and a container of red soda. He poured in both of the cups, sat down and began to drink his.
"Sonic! Sally and I just stumbled along one major breakthrough we found yesterday,"
"What's that, Rotor?!" Sonic grew very intrested in what his friend had to say.
"Something that could turn this war against Robotnik in our favor!"
"Well, don't just sit there, tell me!"
For Sally's sake, he didn't want Sonic to know about it, but he'd find out sooner or later and the rest of the Freedom Fighters would know as well.
"Well, I was checking out some data on Nichole's memory yesterday and saw a data file on an explosive material called Semtex."
"What's Semtex?" Sonic asked as he finished up his drink.
"Seems that the Mobians used it in construction and deconstruction of their modern structure. If we can cluster multiple Semtex bombs together, we could do some serious property damage to Robotropolis."
"How much damage are we talking about?"
"We're talking major. The Semtex together act as cluster bombs but they feed off the heat of other bombs and the destructive power of additional bombs increase. The design of the Semtex isn't difficult to make and the file gives blueprints, but there's one catch."
"What's that?"
"The Semtex has to be activated by a remote control and because of the only power supply I could find may jam up the signal, but I'm not sure until I get a sample."
Sonic stepped from his chair and walked around in the room."That certainly sounds difficult, Rote, but where can we get a sample?" He turned to Rotor and said.
"There's a mountain west of here that has plenty of raw crystal, but Sally wasn't feeling too hot about the plan. She said that you'd want to do it anyway, she didn't want to lose anyone trying this stunt..."
"Well, she's right about one thing, We got to do it. With the Semtex, we could permently put Robuttnik out of business!"
"But it's too risky, Sonic! Even for you!" Rotor put his hands on his hips, and his attitude against the mission grew.
"By the time Buttnik knows what wrong, he AND Robotropolis will be ten feet under the ground! Besides, we got to try. Geurilla tactics can only work for so long, ya know."
Rotor paused for a moment and looked to his equipment and materials and wondered if this plan would even work. Sonic walked to him and patted his hand on his broad shoulder.
"Rotor, if its one thing I don't do, I don't disapoint. Let'd do this for everyone, come on." Sonic encouraged him.
For a while, Rotor didn't budge. He didn't want to see Sally distraut over Sonic's loss or anyone for that matter, but he knew that they had to take action with what they have. If anyone could do pull the stunt off without a hitch it was his Sonic.
"...Ok, let's do it. I need the crystal in the mountains soon, so I can experiment them. Sally is going to conduct a meeting later, so I want to have them up to spec."
"Way ahead of ya, bro."
Sonic was already out the door and running to the westerly mountains. Roter sat down and looked at his blueprints and unfinished gadgets, and wondered if this would be the day that Robotnik's rule would be over. If everything turned out right they would have an early celebration, but they knew that they had to be on their toes and on their guard once they hit Robotropolis, their was no suspescion of what latest weapon of destruction Robotnik had planned for them.