Chapter Five: Infinity Battle
Metal Robotnik was almost finished. Just about anyway. Minor details such as the targeting system and mobility functions were being ironed out by his Shadowbots. He found out that the stone was in fact a very strong essence of power. His early testin readings had gone off the charts and deliberiately broke them. He remembered when he connected it to his battle robot, the stone emitted a dark blue glow and the entire robot was glowing with a sapphire colored outline during the trial and tribulations. It was amazing what the raw power of the Stone did for the Metal Robotnik. The aspects were uncanny, as his fuel was running at triple the power, the armor's defense mechinizism and overall duriablity dramatically increased to new levels unheard of, and he even unknownly released the power of the Stone in a strong, large focused beam. How he did it he didn't even know but when he did several Shadowbots and a back wall were desintigrated in the wake of destruction. Everything was going along to plan and even moreso increasing his chances of destroying Knothole, but he felt like something was missing to add to this wonderful day.
It was those bothersome Freedom Fighters he had on his mind. They'd invade his quarters and try to put an end to him, no doubt. Fortunately, he was ever ready for him. He'd give them a surprise or two if they plan to show up tonight, and for some inuiative reason, he'd put money on it that they would show up tonight.
"They'll have to get through my army of Shadowbots first." Robotnik said aloud.
Robotnik checked his screens, there were no signs of any Mobians anywhere. It was quiet, too quiet in his fortress, except for the metallic clanking of his Shadowbot guards patrolling about. There was never the sound of quiet in Robotropolis, but when it was or felt like it, it made Robotnik uneasy about situations.
Robotnik pressed a button on the armchair to signal more monitoring orbs in the second and third quadrants of Robotropolis. There was the chance that something would blow up without him even knowing so he had to be alert.
Maybe they'll actually get to see Metal Robotnik in action before I decimate their forest.
The sun setted behind the horizon , and even from the hazardous billow and smoke coming from pipes, the sky in Robotropolis had a reddish-orange color to it. The earth at Robotropolis was littered with high rising, buildings, robots and the very evil that made this place Robotnik's home.
Sonic and Bunnie made it to the outskirts of Robotropolis and it was nessacary that they immidately had to take cover, for the numbers of patrolling Shadowbots and hoverunits were in far greater numbers than on a normal mission. The air sounded like it was looming with the low zipping sound of hoverunits, and the clanking noise of Shadowbots moving around didn't make things any easier. They took shelter behind a wall of a building and looked around for any signs of the enemy.
"Looks like Robotnik's a-waiting for us," Bunnie said.
"Yeah, making our job harder than we thought." Sonic said. "Let's hit it. Watch your back, Bunnie. Remember, if the plan derails bail back."
"Got it, sugar. Be careful, hon."
"You too."
"I'm looking forward to that party as well, sugar," She informed him.
Sonic smirked, knowing that his resolution had gotten ear, and that it would be one hell of a party for freedom once they earned it.
The're fists tapped once in a vertical motion, twice and then their fists tapped together. Their pinkies overlapped each other's and then they pointed at each other. It's was a gesture they did for good luck on every mission.
"It's cool." Sonic told her as he checked the path for any Shadowbots.
They both left seperate ways, with the hope and desire that they'd put Robotnik under wraps once and for all.
Sonic manuevered in the shadows and took a heed of caution towards anything coming at him. He pressed himself on a large building and stood to the wall with his senses on full alert. Assorted junk and old vehiciles were scattered about in the area that he was in. The good part was that the junk and old material could provide cover for him, but what if there was a trap waiting for him? It was things like that that made him very cautious in Robotropolis. Robotropolis could make a death ray with a camera flash if he wished. Setting that obscoure thought aside, Sonic slowly traversed the wall, and through the sounds and sights, it suddenly came to him as he was sneaking along the wall.
"Wait a sec." Sonic stopped and looked up.
There, indeed were large smokestacks a top of the building churning out heavy fumes of smoke.
"Jackpot! This has to be a generator or something."
Any farther along and he would have been clearly spotted by the camera orb floating by. The camera didn't instantly turn the corner, so Sonic had time to duck to avoid being spotted. The floating camera turned the corner of the wall and checked out the surroundings.
Go already!
The camera turned around and quickly moved to its predestined route on its predestined route.
"Too close." Sonic thought as he wiped his forehead.
Sonic ran up the wall of the building and prayed that nothing or nobody was stationed on the ceiling. He hopped on the top of the building and hit a crouching position.
"No alarms going off. Good, I'm still in the clear."
On top of the buliding, there were a couple of blue paneled window skylights to let air and sunlight in. Sonic slowly raised the window up and took a peak inside.
"Oh, yeah!"
Inside the building were large, active, slender looking objects, being protected by Shadowbots, other robots and the like. Sally said something eariler that the large engines were runned by turbines and turbines made a wavy, noisy sound.
"Time to put this baby in use."
Sonic tossed the backpack in front of him and took out a Semtex explosive and the remote control. A green light was on and bright on the remote control and Sonic took notice of it. It must of been an activation switch Rotor planted in.
"Rotor did say that the back was adhesive. If I could chuck it on the generator from here, I don't have to worry about making a scene."
So, going on his plan, Sonic threw the explosive frisbee-style at the front of the generator, and with success, it stuck to the top of the generator without any of the robots taking notice.
From the moment he'd press the button, he knew that every Shadowbot and there mom would be on the wreakage like white on rice. He'd have to watch his back, and he saw hoverunits, but they were nowhere in the airspace of the building. He remembered what Rotor told him about the explosion and decided to high tail it first.
"Here goes nothing!"
Sonic pressed the activation switch and ran as fast as he could. He hightailed off of the building and jumped onto the ceiling of the nearest building. There was a deafening blast behind him that blew away the entire structure of the building. Sonic looked back and saw clouds of fire and debris shooting off in the air. Hoverunits whizzed through the air to the wreakage and familiar clanking lingered in the air.
"What a punch! That'll sure get Buttnik's attention." Sonic looked around and saw that lights to the building structure were still operating. "Huh? What gives? Must've been a back-up!"
Robotnik's power was still online, but they still had another chance. He just hope that Bunnie was faring well upon the situation
Bunnie made it inside the huge Shadowbot factory from a ventaliation shaft, when he heard a large, muffled explosion so strong that it rattled her bones a bit. It sounded like Sonic had already started the fireworks without her. Seems that she better get started also.
After the crawling episode in the rusty, web filled air duct, she kicked open the grate and looked down to see a iron bridge. She jumped onto the bridge and knelt down in a crouch as she landed.
"Hope that no one's in," She thought.
She was in the Shadowbot factory though, so there was a low chance of that happening. She heard rapid metal noises suddenly becoming distant in the air.
'What in tarnation?" She asked herself.
She didn't wanted to get spotted, but she looked over the railing anyway. She caught a glimspe of the last Shadowbots leaving out of the exit and the door closing and locking itself. To her luck, the factory was indeed empty. The only sounds she heard was of the machinery that kept producing more Shadowbots.
"Time to shut this puppy down."
First, she made sure that the coast was clear from all sides, and then she jumped over the railing to the ground floor. With a small thud, she placed a palm on the ground to hold her balance. Within her sight, she could see numerous assembly lines putting together Shadowbots piece by piece. On the long belt lines, there were robotic arms and machines at various points were structed to fix and create his robotic warriors. With her back to the nearest wall, Bunnie followed the assembly line to the beginning, if it had one.
There was a small whiring noise and she looked up, it was a stationary camera positioned upon the assembly line and was paning the assembly line from left to right. Knowing about a camera's blindspot, she easily sneaked underneath it without any problems.
Undected, she made it to the back of the building and saw the origin of the assembly line. A large tube, locked on the wall spewed out the nesseccary parts in order to construct a Shadowbot.
"So that's how these bucket of bolts are made," She casually thought.
Soon, she'd destroy it, and they'd be no more. They'd be one less pain in her side to worry about. Working fast, she put one of the explosives on the long tubing, and placed another put on under the assembly line.
"All that's left is to head to high water and hit the switch."
"[Intruder.]" A mechanical voice altered.
A lurking Shadowbot came from the shadows quickly grabbed her arm and raised her in the air. She grunted and tried to pull her arm out, but the robot maintained a tight grip on her. The hulking Shadowbot viewed her with his red, scanning cybernetic eye.
"[Surrender all hope now, and prepare to--]
Had he been able to finish, she would've cared even less, but with a sharp kick to the Shadowbot's face, there wasn't a need to listen to the robot's technobabble. The rest of the body collasped over on the ground, and Bunnie was out of the robot's grip. Bunnie pulled out the remote switch out of the backpack.
"Time to mosey on out of here!"
More moving Shadowbots could be heard, she ran towards the entrance, but looked up and saw a step ladder for the bridge. She jumped, lunging at it with outstreched hands and grabbed it easily. She pulled herself up and saw the ventallation shaft within her sights.
"Sonic!" She gasped.
All of the Shadowbots leaving the factory, must've been exiting for something. Sonic must've been in trouble. There was no time to spare. Once she blew the factory sky high, she'd rendevous with Sonic and get the mess out of Robotropolis.
"What the hell?" Robotnik nearly leapted out of his chair.
It was clear as day in the evening sun as Robotnik saw the second of two buildings exploded in his monitor. He fumed with anger as he saw the colaberation of dust and fiery explosion going off into the air.
"The generator and the Shadowbot factory in the thrid quadrant has been destroyed." An indicator telled him on the screen.
It had to have been the Freedom Fighters, no doubt. They were always a force to underestimate, and how it seems that they themselves have gotten a hold of weapons of mass destuction of some sort. Either that or they self-destructed his systems somehow. Anyway, the point was that two important buildings of his was bursting into flames.
"They're trying to dismantle me, piece by piece." He clearly moticed from the method of attack. "Too bad it won't work."
Shadowbots and hoverunits were already stationed a plenty at the main generator, so there was no way they were going there. He was lucky that he ordered all of his Shadowbots out of the factory and to the wreckage site of the backup generator before the factory exploded. There was a hunch in the back of his head that it was the work of Freedom Fighters, but Robotnik wanted a visual or a prisoner to be sure, and not some freak accident on his part. Effortlessly, Robotnik presssed a green button on the metallic armrest of his chair. It was a communicator link between him and his Shadowbots.
"Shadowbots at Quadrant Three, report! Status! Give me some visual!" Robotnik spouted out.
[Sir, we've corralled the intruder and he's--]
The connection on the line went dead except for static sounds of laser blasting and crunching metal. When Robotnik recieved a visual from on of his camera orbs, he was more than pleased, in a sadistic way.
"All Shadowbots, report to Quadrant Three, and keep the hedgehog busy until I arrive."
The Hedgehog, his sworn enemy was on chartering upon his grounds like always, but his inconvience would dearly cost him this time around.
It was the perfect oppurtunity to captailize on the matter, and it would be best that he'd show up to personally take care of the situation.
Sonic looked all around him and wondered how did he ever get in this mess. He was surrounded up to the teeth in Shadowbots. They posted positions on buildings, on the ground in heavy numbers, they had also possibily unintentaionally blocked his route to the main generator. Each and every one of them were fixated on him like predators hunting their prey.
"Nothing's easy anymore," Sonic thought.
The Shadowbots were located everywhere in the quadrant, and were only increasing in numbers, but Sonic only kept his cool and tightened his gloves. If it was one thing he knew how to do, it was to tear up shop, but things had just seemed very against the odds.
Walking bolts and blue armor plagued the buildings and ground that was the third quadrant. There sure as heck was no way around it, but he wouldn't let them get it his way. Sonic remembered his promise he made to Sally, and he was sure to keep it for her. It seemed that Robtonik was undergoing a major development in Shadowbots, and it sure showed. Where was Bunnie right now?
[Surrender, Sonic Hedgehog, and prepare for imprisionment.]
"Big whoop, bucketheads. Get out of my way!" Sonic retorted.
And with that, Sonic raced towards a line of Shadowbots in front of him. The robots facing him put one arm up and red laser beams shot out of their arms. Sonic zigged and zagged, losing the beams in their wake. In no time flat he was in front of the first wave of Shadowbots, jumped up and jump kicked one in the chest. Off of the leverage of the first Shadowbot, Sonic wipped around and jump kicked another Shadowbot, that fell over and took some friends with him. His path was blocked when more Shadowbots took the place of its fallen brothers and contiuned shooting. Sonic doubled back soon as his feet touched the ground and narrowly dodged the laser blasts passing him. Heading ot the other direction was a bad idea as well, as Shadowbots waited for him and drew their arms and fired. Sonic hurridly jumped in the air and avoided the blasts yet again. In an amazing balancing feat, Sonic landed a handstand on a Shadowbot's head and springed off just before another fired, and destroyed his comrad's head in a fiery explosion. Sonic spun into a ball, charged and pummeled any bots on the way down. With circuits and body parts flying everywhere, Sonic landed on the ground and narrowly rolled out of the way of a large blue, stomping foot. His swiftness and agility was more so put to the test when he was dodging blows swung by the Shadowbots. After getting tired of the tag game, Sonic jumped back to the open area of the street.
"It's nice playing with you guys, but I got to go."
As the mindless drones they were, the Shadowbots paid no attention to his words and advanced upon his position.
Sonic looked and saw the Shadowbots closing in on him from both sides. They ran with the fury and aggression like noboy's own, and they were ready to assualt and capture him at all costs. Sonic looked ahead of him, and he found a means of his escape. Sonic reaced towards the wall of a building and started running up it, hoping to get some higher ground on the bots. The sky was getting dark as Sonic saw the cloudy sky, and buildings in his vertical state. Still in pursuit of the hedgehog. the Shadowbots fired laser beams at Sonic.
"Man, don't these guys give up?"
Sonic reached the top of the building and with enough speed, he launched himself in the air. Sonic gasped as he saw several Shadowbots greeting him on the rooftop of the building with arms raised.
"Oh crud!" Sonic yelled.
They were targeting him, and he'd be dead, and he'd broken the promise, but-- what was this?
Something was tossing the Shadowbots like ragdolls off the roof. Numerous robot bodies were coliding with one another, until they were spirialing in the air. Something, or rather, someone had saved him in the nick of time.
"Sugar hog!" Bunnie yelled out and waived.
"Bunnie! She's safe!" Sonic thought as he relieved himself.
Sonic landed on the rooftop and was happy enough to see Bunnie again, but their happiness was put on hold when a Hoverunit hovered in mid-air and was suspened in their direction.
"How many did you hit, sugar?"
"I got the backup generator, but that's all. You?"
"The 'Bot factory is Kaput, but It looks like we'll have to duke it out."
"No kidding, Bunnie. We may have to use those explosives"
"I hope you two are having fun down there," A voice shouted over a audio feedback system.
Sonic and Bunnie knew that voice too well, too well to predict who was in the hoverunit, the man who they were trying to shut down and take out of action all this time. The tyrant who had hurted others and quested for power.
"Robotnik, why don't you come down here and say that!" Sonic yelled, hoping he'd get a piece of him.
"I would, but sadly I don't have the time, but you'll have enternity!"
The Shadowbots were making their way onto the building and had Bunnie and Sonic surrounded. They stood still, but didn't fire at them. What excatly was Robotnik planning? Bunnie and Sonic stood back to back as Shadowbots had encircled the entire building.
"You two must feel successful upon the destruction of those buildings that mean importance to me."
"You're right about that, lard butt!" Bunnie replied.
"But how are you two planning to escape when Sonic doesn't even have a power ring?!" Robotnik yelled.
"What the...?" Bunnie and Sonic gasped.
It was the effects of asborbing the power of the Sapphire that made him able to sense energy mentally and pshysically. The Sapphire Stone was quite a marvelous product, if he said so himself.
"I got one of these, and it'll blow you sky-high!" Sonic took out an explosive out of his backpack, and threw it onto Robotnik's hoverunit.
The explosive latched onto the hoverunit and stuck on the front side of the vechile. For some reason, the hoverunit didn't budge an inch from where it was suspended.
"...You think that scares me?" Robotnik scoffed in confidence and pride.
There was an electrical distrubance in the air, that sizzled and conducted with sounds in the air, but nothing could've been heard or seen. Bunnie looked down at the remote for the Semtex and saw that it wasn't reacting to anything.
"Sonic! The remote!" Bunnie told him.
Sonic looked at his and experienced the same thing. The button on the remote, faded out and died.
"My electro-magnetic pulse worked perfectly! Don't you know that you're dealing with state of the art technology here! You're out of your league. Shadowbots, I want them alive, seieze them!"
"Any ideas?" Sonic peered over his shoulder.
A lone Shadowbot ran towards them, ready to scoop them up in his arms. Bunnie charged back and punched the bots chest so hard that it left a crater hole where plating and wires used to be. She ripped her arm from the cavity of its body and the body fell to the ground.
"I'll fight until I can't breathe anymore, suga," Bunnie told him.
"Let's tear tome metal, and get outta here!" Sonic replied.
Multiple lasers were fired and Sonic jumped in the air. Bunnie had managed to bypass the onslaught of red beams by ducking low. Bunnie ran with her body to the ground, jumped out and uppercuted a Shadowbot's head off. While in mid-air, she grabbed a Shadowbot's arm and kicked the bot's body so hard, that the body seperated clean off from the entire arm she was holding. Bunnie made use of the arm and smashed it with a massive smash on the head of another Shadowbot, and used his body for cover when Shadowbots started firing their lasers. The Shadowbots decided to change plans from an all out attack to a more simple stragetey. The Shadowbots started to throw out iron coils wiring at Sonic and he dodged many and took out some Bots in the process with cunning agility, but a coil snagged his foot and was dive bombing to the ground. Sonic was stunned long enough for multiple coils striking like snakes and wrapping around Sonic's arms and legs. The coils wrapped around Sonic's body like they had a mind of their own and zapped him with an electrostatic current. Sonic yelled but subdued and hauled off by the Shadowbots.
Bunnie had just jumped kicked a Shadowbot's head off when she heard Sonic yelled out in pain. She ran after him, but a coil out of nowhere wrapped around her neck and strangled her.
"Sonic!" Bunnie yelled.
The coil grew tighter and tighter and she coughed and fought to get it off, and fell to her knees. An electrostic charage was sent through the coil and shocked Bunnie throguhout her entire body. She yelled for all that she could, moaned quietly and collasped to the ground, with the last sounds of metal clanking and evil laughing ringing in her ears before hitting unsciousness.
"They're not responding..."
"What?"
Sally and Rotor were both watching Nichole's monitor in astoundment as the remaining cluster of blips disappered totally from off the screen.
"Something's not right." Rotor smashed his fist on the wall of his house. "We got to do something!" Rotor turned and looked at Sally.
Sally tried to establish a frequency connection with the remaining explosives, but to no avail was a connection working.
[The explosives seem to be offline, Sally] Nichole told her.
"Oh!" Sally scoffed in frustration.
"Robotnik must've gotten to them, we got to do something."
Sally closed her eyes and thought about Sonic, and knew that it wasn't the first time that he wound up in trouble, but what if Robotnik was pulling out all the stops this time? What if he was gearing weapons of mass destruction aimed directly at Knothole Forest and the means of stopping him was stuck at Robotropolis in some holding cell, or worse...
"I trust them, and they'll come out on top, Rotor," She held her hand to her chest."Have Antione scout the outer area of Robotropolis to see if there around."
"Ok, but I got to do something, Sally. I feel like it's my fault, they trusted me with my machines and I failed..."
"Oh, Rotor. Don't say that. There must've been some reason why the frequency was diconnected." She walked over and put a hand on Rotor's massive shoulder for support. "I miss them too, but we got to be ready for anything."
"...Thanks, Sally. I'm going to help Tails touch up his Tornado for old Iron Lips. If something comes up, tell me."
"...Ok. I might have to rally everyone in the center area, so don't go too far off." She replied.
"Allright!" Rotor responded with a new sense of vigor in his voice.
Rotor ran off, with determined hopes to set things straight. To make a bigger change within his limits.
She looked into the sky and saw the sun ready to go on and under the horizion. The final days of the sun reminded her of the final hour that she predicted. They pitted themselves against Robotnik for once and for all; fighting for the very freedom that they once had. Why didn't she go with him, instead of staying at Knothole? If they failed or succeeded she wanted to be with him, but maybe Sonic was thinking more than just that.
"Sonic, Bunnie. What's happened to you? Don't die on us."
Metal Robotnik was almost finished. Just about anyway. Minor details such as the targeting system and mobility functions were being ironed out by his Shadowbots. He found out that the stone was in fact a very strong essence of power. His early testin readings had gone off the charts and deliberiately broke them. He remembered when he connected it to his battle robot, the stone emitted a dark blue glow and the entire robot was glowing with a sapphire colored outline during the trial and tribulations. It was amazing what the raw power of the Stone did for the Metal Robotnik. The aspects were uncanny, as his fuel was running at triple the power, the armor's defense mechinizism and overall duriablity dramatically increased to new levels unheard of, and he even unknownly released the power of the Stone in a strong, large focused beam. How he did it he didn't even know but when he did several Shadowbots and a back wall were desintigrated in the wake of destruction. Everything was going along to plan and even moreso increasing his chances of destroying Knothole, but he felt like something was missing to add to this wonderful day.
It was those bothersome Freedom Fighters he had on his mind. They'd invade his quarters and try to put an end to him, no doubt. Fortunately, he was ever ready for him. He'd give them a surprise or two if they plan to show up tonight, and for some inuiative reason, he'd put money on it that they would show up tonight.
"They'll have to get through my army of Shadowbots first." Robotnik said aloud.
Robotnik checked his screens, there were no signs of any Mobians anywhere. It was quiet, too quiet in his fortress, except for the metallic clanking of his Shadowbot guards patrolling about. There was never the sound of quiet in Robotropolis, but when it was or felt like it, it made Robotnik uneasy about situations.
Robotnik pressed a button on the armchair to signal more monitoring orbs in the second and third quadrants of Robotropolis. There was the chance that something would blow up without him even knowing so he had to be alert.
Maybe they'll actually get to see Metal Robotnik in action before I decimate their forest.
The sun setted behind the horizon , and even from the hazardous billow and smoke coming from pipes, the sky in Robotropolis had a reddish-orange color to it. The earth at Robotropolis was littered with high rising, buildings, robots and the very evil that made this place Robotnik's home.
Sonic and Bunnie made it to the outskirts of Robotropolis and it was nessacary that they immidately had to take cover, for the numbers of patrolling Shadowbots and hoverunits were in far greater numbers than on a normal mission. The air sounded like it was looming with the low zipping sound of hoverunits, and the clanking noise of Shadowbots moving around didn't make things any easier. They took shelter behind a wall of a building and looked around for any signs of the enemy.
"Looks like Robotnik's a-waiting for us," Bunnie said.
"Yeah, making our job harder than we thought." Sonic said. "Let's hit it. Watch your back, Bunnie. Remember, if the plan derails bail back."
"Got it, sugar. Be careful, hon."
"You too."
"I'm looking forward to that party as well, sugar," She informed him.
Sonic smirked, knowing that his resolution had gotten ear, and that it would be one hell of a party for freedom once they earned it.
The're fists tapped once in a vertical motion, twice and then their fists tapped together. Their pinkies overlapped each other's and then they pointed at each other. It's was a gesture they did for good luck on every mission.
"It's cool." Sonic told her as he checked the path for any Shadowbots.
They both left seperate ways, with the hope and desire that they'd put Robotnik under wraps once and for all.
Sonic manuevered in the shadows and took a heed of caution towards anything coming at him. He pressed himself on a large building and stood to the wall with his senses on full alert. Assorted junk and old vehiciles were scattered about in the area that he was in. The good part was that the junk and old material could provide cover for him, but what if there was a trap waiting for him? It was things like that that made him very cautious in Robotropolis. Robotropolis could make a death ray with a camera flash if he wished. Setting that obscoure thought aside, Sonic slowly traversed the wall, and through the sounds and sights, it suddenly came to him as he was sneaking along the wall.
"Wait a sec." Sonic stopped and looked up.
There, indeed were large smokestacks a top of the building churning out heavy fumes of smoke.
"Jackpot! This has to be a generator or something."
Any farther along and he would have been clearly spotted by the camera orb floating by. The camera didn't instantly turn the corner, so Sonic had time to duck to avoid being spotted. The floating camera turned the corner of the wall and checked out the surroundings.
Go already!
The camera turned around and quickly moved to its predestined route on its predestined route.
"Too close." Sonic thought as he wiped his forehead.
Sonic ran up the wall of the building and prayed that nothing or nobody was stationed on the ceiling. He hopped on the top of the building and hit a crouching position.
"No alarms going off. Good, I'm still in the clear."
On top of the buliding, there were a couple of blue paneled window skylights to let air and sunlight in. Sonic slowly raised the window up and took a peak inside.
"Oh, yeah!"
Inside the building were large, active, slender looking objects, being protected by Shadowbots, other robots and the like. Sally said something eariler that the large engines were runned by turbines and turbines made a wavy, noisy sound.
"Time to put this baby in use."
Sonic tossed the backpack in front of him and took out a Semtex explosive and the remote control. A green light was on and bright on the remote control and Sonic took notice of it. It must of been an activation switch Rotor planted in.
"Rotor did say that the back was adhesive. If I could chuck it on the generator from here, I don't have to worry about making a scene."
So, going on his plan, Sonic threw the explosive frisbee-style at the front of the generator, and with success, it stuck to the top of the generator without any of the robots taking notice.
From the moment he'd press the button, he knew that every Shadowbot and there mom would be on the wreakage like white on rice. He'd have to watch his back, and he saw hoverunits, but they were nowhere in the airspace of the building. He remembered what Rotor told him about the explosion and decided to high tail it first.
"Here goes nothing!"
Sonic pressed the activation switch and ran as fast as he could. He hightailed off of the building and jumped onto the ceiling of the nearest building. There was a deafening blast behind him that blew away the entire structure of the building. Sonic looked back and saw clouds of fire and debris shooting off in the air. Hoverunits whizzed through the air to the wreakage and familiar clanking lingered in the air.
"What a punch! That'll sure get Buttnik's attention." Sonic looked around and saw that lights to the building structure were still operating. "Huh? What gives? Must've been a back-up!"
Robotnik's power was still online, but they still had another chance. He just hope that Bunnie was faring well upon the situation
Bunnie made it inside the huge Shadowbot factory from a ventaliation shaft, when he heard a large, muffled explosion so strong that it rattled her bones a bit. It sounded like Sonic had already started the fireworks without her. Seems that she better get started also.
After the crawling episode in the rusty, web filled air duct, she kicked open the grate and looked down to see a iron bridge. She jumped onto the bridge and knelt down in a crouch as she landed.
"Hope that no one's in," She thought.
She was in the Shadowbot factory though, so there was a low chance of that happening. She heard rapid metal noises suddenly becoming distant in the air.
'What in tarnation?" She asked herself.
She didn't wanted to get spotted, but she looked over the railing anyway. She caught a glimspe of the last Shadowbots leaving out of the exit and the door closing and locking itself. To her luck, the factory was indeed empty. The only sounds she heard was of the machinery that kept producing more Shadowbots.
"Time to shut this puppy down."
First, she made sure that the coast was clear from all sides, and then she jumped over the railing to the ground floor. With a small thud, she placed a palm on the ground to hold her balance. Within her sight, she could see numerous assembly lines putting together Shadowbots piece by piece. On the long belt lines, there were robotic arms and machines at various points were structed to fix and create his robotic warriors. With her back to the nearest wall, Bunnie followed the assembly line to the beginning, if it had one.
There was a small whiring noise and she looked up, it was a stationary camera positioned upon the assembly line and was paning the assembly line from left to right. Knowing about a camera's blindspot, she easily sneaked underneath it without any problems.
Undected, she made it to the back of the building and saw the origin of the assembly line. A large tube, locked on the wall spewed out the nesseccary parts in order to construct a Shadowbot.
"So that's how these bucket of bolts are made," She casually thought.
Soon, she'd destroy it, and they'd be no more. They'd be one less pain in her side to worry about. Working fast, she put one of the explosives on the long tubing, and placed another put on under the assembly line.
"All that's left is to head to high water and hit the switch."
"[Intruder.]" A mechanical voice altered.
A lurking Shadowbot came from the shadows quickly grabbed her arm and raised her in the air. She grunted and tried to pull her arm out, but the robot maintained a tight grip on her. The hulking Shadowbot viewed her with his red, scanning cybernetic eye.
"[Surrender all hope now, and prepare to--]
Had he been able to finish, she would've cared even less, but with a sharp kick to the Shadowbot's face, there wasn't a need to listen to the robot's technobabble. The rest of the body collasped over on the ground, and Bunnie was out of the robot's grip. Bunnie pulled out the remote switch out of the backpack.
"Time to mosey on out of here!"
More moving Shadowbots could be heard, she ran towards the entrance, but looked up and saw a step ladder for the bridge. She jumped, lunging at it with outstreched hands and grabbed it easily. She pulled herself up and saw the ventallation shaft within her sights.
"Sonic!" She gasped.
All of the Shadowbots leaving the factory, must've been exiting for something. Sonic must've been in trouble. There was no time to spare. Once she blew the factory sky high, she'd rendevous with Sonic and get the mess out of Robotropolis.
"What the hell?" Robotnik nearly leapted out of his chair.
It was clear as day in the evening sun as Robotnik saw the second of two buildings exploded in his monitor. He fumed with anger as he saw the colaberation of dust and fiery explosion going off into the air.
"The generator and the Shadowbot factory in the thrid quadrant has been destroyed." An indicator telled him on the screen.
It had to have been the Freedom Fighters, no doubt. They were always a force to underestimate, and how it seems that they themselves have gotten a hold of weapons of mass destuction of some sort. Either that or they self-destructed his systems somehow. Anyway, the point was that two important buildings of his was bursting into flames.
"They're trying to dismantle me, piece by piece." He clearly moticed from the method of attack. "Too bad it won't work."
Shadowbots and hoverunits were already stationed a plenty at the main generator, so there was no way they were going there. He was lucky that he ordered all of his Shadowbots out of the factory and to the wreckage site of the backup generator before the factory exploded. There was a hunch in the back of his head that it was the work of Freedom Fighters, but Robotnik wanted a visual or a prisoner to be sure, and not some freak accident on his part. Effortlessly, Robotnik presssed a green button on the metallic armrest of his chair. It was a communicator link between him and his Shadowbots.
"Shadowbots at Quadrant Three, report! Status! Give me some visual!" Robotnik spouted out.
[Sir, we've corralled the intruder and he's--]
The connection on the line went dead except for static sounds of laser blasting and crunching metal. When Robotnik recieved a visual from on of his camera orbs, he was more than pleased, in a sadistic way.
"All Shadowbots, report to Quadrant Three, and keep the hedgehog busy until I arrive."
The Hedgehog, his sworn enemy was on chartering upon his grounds like always, but his inconvience would dearly cost him this time around.
It was the perfect oppurtunity to captailize on the matter, and it would be best that he'd show up to personally take care of the situation.
Sonic looked all around him and wondered how did he ever get in this mess. He was surrounded up to the teeth in Shadowbots. They posted positions on buildings, on the ground in heavy numbers, they had also possibily unintentaionally blocked his route to the main generator. Each and every one of them were fixated on him like predators hunting their prey.
"Nothing's easy anymore," Sonic thought.
The Shadowbots were located everywhere in the quadrant, and were only increasing in numbers, but Sonic only kept his cool and tightened his gloves. If it was one thing he knew how to do, it was to tear up shop, but things had just seemed very against the odds.
Walking bolts and blue armor plagued the buildings and ground that was the third quadrant. There sure as heck was no way around it, but he wouldn't let them get it his way. Sonic remembered his promise he made to Sally, and he was sure to keep it for her. It seemed that Robtonik was undergoing a major development in Shadowbots, and it sure showed. Where was Bunnie right now?
[Surrender, Sonic Hedgehog, and prepare for imprisionment.]
"Big whoop, bucketheads. Get out of my way!" Sonic retorted.
And with that, Sonic raced towards a line of Shadowbots in front of him. The robots facing him put one arm up and red laser beams shot out of their arms. Sonic zigged and zagged, losing the beams in their wake. In no time flat he was in front of the first wave of Shadowbots, jumped up and jump kicked one in the chest. Off of the leverage of the first Shadowbot, Sonic wipped around and jump kicked another Shadowbot, that fell over and took some friends with him. His path was blocked when more Shadowbots took the place of its fallen brothers and contiuned shooting. Sonic doubled back soon as his feet touched the ground and narrowly dodged the laser blasts passing him. Heading ot the other direction was a bad idea as well, as Shadowbots waited for him and drew their arms and fired. Sonic hurridly jumped in the air and avoided the blasts yet again. In an amazing balancing feat, Sonic landed a handstand on a Shadowbot's head and springed off just before another fired, and destroyed his comrad's head in a fiery explosion. Sonic spun into a ball, charged and pummeled any bots on the way down. With circuits and body parts flying everywhere, Sonic landed on the ground and narrowly rolled out of the way of a large blue, stomping foot. His swiftness and agility was more so put to the test when he was dodging blows swung by the Shadowbots. After getting tired of the tag game, Sonic jumped back to the open area of the street.
"It's nice playing with you guys, but I got to go."
As the mindless drones they were, the Shadowbots paid no attention to his words and advanced upon his position.
Sonic looked and saw the Shadowbots closing in on him from both sides. They ran with the fury and aggression like noboy's own, and they were ready to assualt and capture him at all costs. Sonic looked ahead of him, and he found a means of his escape. Sonic reaced towards the wall of a building and started running up it, hoping to get some higher ground on the bots. The sky was getting dark as Sonic saw the cloudy sky, and buildings in his vertical state. Still in pursuit of the hedgehog. the Shadowbots fired laser beams at Sonic.
"Man, don't these guys give up?"
Sonic reached the top of the building and with enough speed, he launched himself in the air. Sonic gasped as he saw several Shadowbots greeting him on the rooftop of the building with arms raised.
"Oh crud!" Sonic yelled.
They were targeting him, and he'd be dead, and he'd broken the promise, but-- what was this?
Something was tossing the Shadowbots like ragdolls off the roof. Numerous robot bodies were coliding with one another, until they were spirialing in the air. Something, or rather, someone had saved him in the nick of time.
"Sugar hog!" Bunnie yelled out and waived.
"Bunnie! She's safe!" Sonic thought as he relieved himself.
Sonic landed on the rooftop and was happy enough to see Bunnie again, but their happiness was put on hold when a Hoverunit hovered in mid-air and was suspened in their direction.
"How many did you hit, sugar?"
"I got the backup generator, but that's all. You?"
"The 'Bot factory is Kaput, but It looks like we'll have to duke it out."
"No kidding, Bunnie. We may have to use those explosives"
"I hope you two are having fun down there," A voice shouted over a audio feedback system.
Sonic and Bunnie knew that voice too well, too well to predict who was in the hoverunit, the man who they were trying to shut down and take out of action all this time. The tyrant who had hurted others and quested for power.
"Robotnik, why don't you come down here and say that!" Sonic yelled, hoping he'd get a piece of him.
"I would, but sadly I don't have the time, but you'll have enternity!"
The Shadowbots were making their way onto the building and had Bunnie and Sonic surrounded. They stood still, but didn't fire at them. What excatly was Robotnik planning? Bunnie and Sonic stood back to back as Shadowbots had encircled the entire building.
"You two must feel successful upon the destruction of those buildings that mean importance to me."
"You're right about that, lard butt!" Bunnie replied.
"But how are you two planning to escape when Sonic doesn't even have a power ring?!" Robotnik yelled.
"What the...?" Bunnie and Sonic gasped.
It was the effects of asborbing the power of the Sapphire that made him able to sense energy mentally and pshysically. The Sapphire Stone was quite a marvelous product, if he said so himself.
"I got one of these, and it'll blow you sky-high!" Sonic took out an explosive out of his backpack, and threw it onto Robotnik's hoverunit.
The explosive latched onto the hoverunit and stuck on the front side of the vechile. For some reason, the hoverunit didn't budge an inch from where it was suspended.
"...You think that scares me?" Robotnik scoffed in confidence and pride.
There was an electrical distrubance in the air, that sizzled and conducted with sounds in the air, but nothing could've been heard or seen. Bunnie looked down at the remote for the Semtex and saw that it wasn't reacting to anything.
"Sonic! The remote!" Bunnie told him.
Sonic looked at his and experienced the same thing. The button on the remote, faded out and died.
"My electro-magnetic pulse worked perfectly! Don't you know that you're dealing with state of the art technology here! You're out of your league. Shadowbots, I want them alive, seieze them!"
"Any ideas?" Sonic peered over his shoulder.
A lone Shadowbot ran towards them, ready to scoop them up in his arms. Bunnie charged back and punched the bots chest so hard that it left a crater hole where plating and wires used to be. She ripped her arm from the cavity of its body and the body fell to the ground.
"I'll fight until I can't breathe anymore, suga," Bunnie told him.
"Let's tear tome metal, and get outta here!" Sonic replied.
Multiple lasers were fired and Sonic jumped in the air. Bunnie had managed to bypass the onslaught of red beams by ducking low. Bunnie ran with her body to the ground, jumped out and uppercuted a Shadowbot's head off. While in mid-air, she grabbed a Shadowbot's arm and kicked the bot's body so hard, that the body seperated clean off from the entire arm she was holding. Bunnie made use of the arm and smashed it with a massive smash on the head of another Shadowbot, and used his body for cover when Shadowbots started firing their lasers. The Shadowbots decided to change plans from an all out attack to a more simple stragetey. The Shadowbots started to throw out iron coils wiring at Sonic and he dodged many and took out some Bots in the process with cunning agility, but a coil snagged his foot and was dive bombing to the ground. Sonic was stunned long enough for multiple coils striking like snakes and wrapping around Sonic's arms and legs. The coils wrapped around Sonic's body like they had a mind of their own and zapped him with an electrostatic current. Sonic yelled but subdued and hauled off by the Shadowbots.
Bunnie had just jumped kicked a Shadowbot's head off when she heard Sonic yelled out in pain. She ran after him, but a coil out of nowhere wrapped around her neck and strangled her.
"Sonic!" Bunnie yelled.
The coil grew tighter and tighter and she coughed and fought to get it off, and fell to her knees. An electrostic charage was sent through the coil and shocked Bunnie throguhout her entire body. She yelled for all that she could, moaned quietly and collasped to the ground, with the last sounds of metal clanking and evil laughing ringing in her ears before hitting unsciousness.
"They're not responding..."
"What?"
Sally and Rotor were both watching Nichole's monitor in astoundment as the remaining cluster of blips disappered totally from off the screen.
"Something's not right." Rotor smashed his fist on the wall of his house. "We got to do something!" Rotor turned and looked at Sally.
Sally tried to establish a frequency connection with the remaining explosives, but to no avail was a connection working.
[The explosives seem to be offline, Sally] Nichole told her.
"Oh!" Sally scoffed in frustration.
"Robotnik must've gotten to them, we got to do something."
Sally closed her eyes and thought about Sonic, and knew that it wasn't the first time that he wound up in trouble, but what if Robotnik was pulling out all the stops this time? What if he was gearing weapons of mass destruction aimed directly at Knothole Forest and the means of stopping him was stuck at Robotropolis in some holding cell, or worse...
"I trust them, and they'll come out on top, Rotor," She held her hand to her chest."Have Antione scout the outer area of Robotropolis to see if there around."
"Ok, but I got to do something, Sally. I feel like it's my fault, they trusted me with my machines and I failed..."
"Oh, Rotor. Don't say that. There must've been some reason why the frequency was diconnected." She walked over and put a hand on Rotor's massive shoulder for support. "I miss them too, but we got to be ready for anything."
"...Thanks, Sally. I'm going to help Tails touch up his Tornado for old Iron Lips. If something comes up, tell me."
"...Ok. I might have to rally everyone in the center area, so don't go too far off." She replied.
"Allright!" Rotor responded with a new sense of vigor in his voice.
Rotor ran off, with determined hopes to set things straight. To make a bigger change within his limits.
She looked into the sky and saw the sun ready to go on and under the horizion. The final days of the sun reminded her of the final hour that she predicted. They pitted themselves against Robotnik for once and for all; fighting for the very freedom that they once had. Why didn't she go with him, instead of staying at Knothole? If they failed or succeeded she wanted to be with him, but maybe Sonic was thinking more than just that.
"Sonic, Bunnie. What's happened to you? Don't die on us."