Chapter Seven: Metal Robotnik
Bunnie gasped and was catching her breath as he ran at a sprinter's pace.
She was lucky to escape with the grafted, extenstion arm material that Rotor created in her robotic arm. She had extended her arm out and grabbed onto anything she could find and threw it at the Shadowbots. Luckily, she grabbed onto a large piece of steel piping and totalled the Shadowbots out of commision. Once they were done, she heard a sound of fire burning and tried to grab it; hoping that it'd help her and not burn herself in the process. It was a torchlight carried by the Shadowbots just recently. She used it to escape out of the unbreakable restraints and escape.
When the robots were communicating to each other about the docking bays and Metal Robotnik, it was less than she hoped her. Robotnik had made a diabocial scheme to take over Knothole with a new weapon, but she knew that she had to stop it.
"Now where's the blasted docking bays...Ahh!" She yelped.
Shadowbots were chasing her and firing laser back at her. She picked up the pace and continued running down a highly lit, corrider, dodging laser beams whizzing past her body. At the end of the corrider she came to a T-intersection and three sealed up holes on the wall in front of her. They were labled jettision tubes.
"Well, maybe those tubes will take me there." She thought.
She was almost out of the clear when a Shadowbot turned on the T-intersection corner and aimed at her. Bunnie gasped and slid, avioding the laser beam that was aimed at her head, and slided inbetween the Shadowbot's legs. She stood up and pushed the Shadowbot towards its commrads and the commrads shot a laser at the bot, intending it to hit Bunnie. Bunnie kicked the glass covering the tube open and jumped in.
The dark slide went on and on and twisted and turned. The tunnel was indeed picth black and she knew that the tube wasn't meant for Mobians to ride in. She closed her eyes and hoped for the best, that it'd take her where she needed to go.
When the ride was over, she went through some plastic flappings on the tube and landed on hard, metal ground.
"Nice ride," she thought.
She looked up and saw hoverunit ships stationed and an exitway on the other side of the room. She looked on a wall and a sign with DOCKING BAYS written on it confrimed that she was where she needed to be. There was only hoverunits here though, Robotnik's newest weapon was nowhere to be seen.
"Bunnie!" She heard someone yell her name.
She stood up and saw a blue blur sped towards her. It was Sonic alright, and he was doing well.
"Bunnie, thank goodness." Sonic said.
"I'm glad you're safe, Sonic. I heard about Robotnik's newest weapon to be here, but I don't see it here. What if we were to late?"
"Then we better better jam back to Knothole," Sonic thought as he smashed one fist into his open palm.
They both looked at the exit for the hoverunits closing and Shadowbots entering the docking bay section giving chase to them and firing at them.
"What now?" Bunnie asked.
Sonic looked around, quickly paning his head, scoping out the surroundings, and he saw a Shadowbot going down an elevator on the side of a wall .
"Towards the elevator! I got a hunch!" Sonic shouted over the laser beams and clanking metal.
Bunnie and Sonic ran towards the elevator, dodging laser blasts and hoping that Robotnik's weapon would still be in his complex. Bunnie smashed the elevator doors open and the two of them grabbed on the elevator cables and slid down the elevator shaft to the elevator. Bunnie tore open the top of the elevator and Sonic jumped down the tear and stomped on the head of the Shadowbot inside. He grabbed at some wires around the Shadowbot's neck and pulled them out, instantly short circuiting the robot.
"I wonder where this here elevator is going?" Bunnie said as jumped down and landed on the body of the robot.
"Beats me." Sonic replied. "Just get ready for anything."
The elevator continued down and stopped with a PHOOMP sounds on the bottom floor. The elevator opened and the two looked out of the doors cautiously.
"We must be underground." Bunnie thought.
The white lights beamed upon them hanging on the ceiling as they looked high above from the catwalk they were standing on. Any traces of the earth were nil to none. The ceiling was of a smooth, shiny metal and everywhere they looked in Robotnik's underground facility was nothing but metal. Boxes and macheriney inside lied around in the facility idly. The two walked on the metal catwalk and saw how empty and devoided of life the place was.
"Look!" Bunnie pointed out in front of them.
North of them was a giant figure standing. The catwalk led them straight to it. Sonic and Bunnie ran towards what could be Robotnik's newest weapon.
"We got to take it out. No telling what Robotnik's plans are." Sonic said.
"Right, Sugar" Bunnie replied.
The catwalk brached around the giant figure that was staring them at the face, when they reached it. They looked in awe at the sheer look of it. The robot was draped in a dark black cape and only its' rounded head with three spikes portruding out could only be seen. The area around it itself was low lit and hard to see.
"Beginning final check...what? You two!" Robotnik's voice blared on an intercom system.
"We're not out of the game by a long shot, Buttnik!" Sonic retorted.
"We'll I didn't take it for a surprise that you two would escape, but to reach Dark Ocean was quite astrodinary. I can finally test Metal Robotnik in combat! BWAA HAA HA! See you in heaven, Freedom Fighters!"
The red eyes of MR flashed over it's metal mouthpiece and the ceiling lights flickered on, making all of Metal Robotnik totally visible to Sonic and Bunnie. The mech threw the cape behind his body, revealing a black pot belly exterior with a shiny, grey circular area and yellow plates on the sides. Small grasshopper like legs were holding the entire robot up, and the two wondered how MR managed to stand under all that weight. The arms had huge, red shoulder pads on them and the arms were skinny with the lower parts of the arm covered in a protective armor. The hands were large circles with fingers that were circular and hollowed, as if something could be fired from them.
MR raised one arm and brung it down on the catwalk, shattering it into pieces. Sonic and Bunnie dodged it and ran to a side of the remaining catwalk. Sonic's side broke and collasped, and fell to the ground. In his sytlish manner, Sonic leapt and kicked off the debirs and leapt towards MR. Sonic charged into a tackle and struck Robotnik straight in the chest. Sonic bounced off the robot and landed off the ground.
MR brushed off the area that Sonic hit him and laughed.
"Try your best, Sonic. You'll never break through this armor." MR pointed at the point where Sonic struck him.
"Didn't scratch him at all. Dang." Sonic replied.
"Shut yer mouth, Robotnik!" Bunnie yelled.
Bunnie jumped off the railing leapt and struck Robotnik, but MR put his arm up and blocked the attack, MR backhanded Bunnie away and aimed his hand at her. MR's fingers moved and formed into one weapon. Sonic ran at Bunnie and jumped towards her. Robotnik fired a spray of bullets out of his fingers. Sonic grabbed Bunnie and dodged the path of incoming bullets. Sonic and Bunnie landed on the ground and they were followed by the spray of incoming bullets. Sonic zoomed in one direction and Bunnie ran in another direction. MR's other hand formed into a nozzle and he targeted both of them. Sonic zigged and zagged to avoid the bullets, leapt and jump-kicked MR in the face. MR's head whipped back, and Sonic flipped in mid-air and stuck with a tackle again, but he bounced off the metal armor.
While his attention was focused on Sonic, Bunnie grabbed the nearest object she could, a metal pipe and threw it at MR's torso like a javelin. The pipe traveled so fast in the air, that it penerated the armor halfway through his armor.
"You'll pay for that!" Robotnik said.
Bunnie ran at Robotnik and looked at his arm to see a dark blue object on his hand, maybe if she could strike it while Sonic was dealing with it, they'd be able to damage it somehow. Unfortunately, she loss sight of the blue object and was looking down the barrel of his hand gun. The barrel made a charging sound and light was enamating from inside. Bunnie gasped and covered her face with her arms.
"No you don't!" Sonic ran at MR.
MR saw Sonic coming and stragetically decided changed his ammunation. He fired at Sonic as Sonic jumped at him and nailed Sonic with his sticky gooey, ammo. The velocity of the ammo sent Sonic hurlting down on the ground, his feet and legs were stuck in a gluey, sticky substance.
"No!" Sonic yelled.
MR fired and a ball came out of the barrel quick and fast with a PHOOMP sound. The blast exploded on contact in the ground in front of Bunnie and knocked Bunnie away and into a pilliar at unpallel speeds. She let out a soft moan and sunk to the floor.
"Heh heh heh, I'll be taking her." MR walked along the floor and scooped her up. Sonic looked at him with the utmost of anger and hatred. "If you excuse me, Sonic my army of Shadowbots awaits!"
The cape disitigrated as a plair of dark wings flapped from behind his back, and a rocket pack appeared also. Behind MR, the wall parted, showing the the dusk of the evening sky and the city of Robotropolis. Sonic tried to get free but Robotnik had laughed in his efforts to do so.
"The next time you see Knothole, it'll be a big, smoking crater in the ground! No one can stop me! Farewell, Rodent, for I have finally won! Bunnie here will join me at my side during the post-apoycalypse of your forest. With a lot of programming she;ll be good as new." MR turned around and ran towards the exit.
"No! I won't let that happen!" Sonic ripped at the gooey material furiously.
The engines on his rocket pack strated up and blasted him into the air. MR turned around to the underground base and raised his arms up. The yellow plating moved and a missile with a spiked top appeared.
"A farewell present for you, rodent, goodbye."
The missile fired and Robotnik sped into the air with extrodianiary speed, with assistance of the power of the Sapphire Stone. He headed to the front of the central core base where his Shadowbots awaited him.
Sonic kicked the last of the sticky stuff off and saw the missile coming at him in his sights.
"Time to bail!"
Sonic ran by the missiles and hurriedly sped off the hangar door. The missiles exploded in the facility and destroyed all the equipment and materials within. Sonic dove out of the facility doors in the nick of time to avoid getting singed by the deafening explosion.
Sonic looked up, admist the flying debris raining around him, and saw that he was on the outskirts of Robotropolis but on the opposite side. The mountains were facing him.
"That was a close call, but I got no time to spare. Knothole's in danger." Sonic thought.
In the air, he saw the mech flying in the distance and a large number of Shadowbots moving in the Great Forest's direction.
Sonic ran back towards the city of Robotropolis as fast as his feet would take him, knowing that the fate of everyone living in Knothole would be decided tonight.
Bunnie gasped and was catching her breath as he ran at a sprinter's pace.
She was lucky to escape with the grafted, extenstion arm material that Rotor created in her robotic arm. She had extended her arm out and grabbed onto anything she could find and threw it at the Shadowbots. Luckily, she grabbed onto a large piece of steel piping and totalled the Shadowbots out of commision. Once they were done, she heard a sound of fire burning and tried to grab it; hoping that it'd help her and not burn herself in the process. It was a torchlight carried by the Shadowbots just recently. She used it to escape out of the unbreakable restraints and escape.
When the robots were communicating to each other about the docking bays and Metal Robotnik, it was less than she hoped her. Robotnik had made a diabocial scheme to take over Knothole with a new weapon, but she knew that she had to stop it.
"Now where's the blasted docking bays...Ahh!" She yelped.
Shadowbots were chasing her and firing laser back at her. She picked up the pace and continued running down a highly lit, corrider, dodging laser beams whizzing past her body. At the end of the corrider she came to a T-intersection and three sealed up holes on the wall in front of her. They were labled jettision tubes.
"Well, maybe those tubes will take me there." She thought.
She was almost out of the clear when a Shadowbot turned on the T-intersection corner and aimed at her. Bunnie gasped and slid, avioding the laser beam that was aimed at her head, and slided inbetween the Shadowbot's legs. She stood up and pushed the Shadowbot towards its commrads and the commrads shot a laser at the bot, intending it to hit Bunnie. Bunnie kicked the glass covering the tube open and jumped in.
The dark slide went on and on and twisted and turned. The tunnel was indeed picth black and she knew that the tube wasn't meant for Mobians to ride in. She closed her eyes and hoped for the best, that it'd take her where she needed to go.
When the ride was over, she went through some plastic flappings on the tube and landed on hard, metal ground.
"Nice ride," she thought.
She looked up and saw hoverunit ships stationed and an exitway on the other side of the room. She looked on a wall and a sign with DOCKING BAYS written on it confrimed that she was where she needed to be. There was only hoverunits here though, Robotnik's newest weapon was nowhere to be seen.
"Bunnie!" She heard someone yell her name.
She stood up and saw a blue blur sped towards her. It was Sonic alright, and he was doing well.
"Bunnie, thank goodness." Sonic said.
"I'm glad you're safe, Sonic. I heard about Robotnik's newest weapon to be here, but I don't see it here. What if we were to late?"
"Then we better better jam back to Knothole," Sonic thought as he smashed one fist into his open palm.
They both looked at the exit for the hoverunits closing and Shadowbots entering the docking bay section giving chase to them and firing at them.
"What now?" Bunnie asked.
Sonic looked around, quickly paning his head, scoping out the surroundings, and he saw a Shadowbot going down an elevator on the side of a wall .
"Towards the elevator! I got a hunch!" Sonic shouted over the laser beams and clanking metal.
Bunnie and Sonic ran towards the elevator, dodging laser blasts and hoping that Robotnik's weapon would still be in his complex. Bunnie smashed the elevator doors open and the two of them grabbed on the elevator cables and slid down the elevator shaft to the elevator. Bunnie tore open the top of the elevator and Sonic jumped down the tear and stomped on the head of the Shadowbot inside. He grabbed at some wires around the Shadowbot's neck and pulled them out, instantly short circuiting the robot.
"I wonder where this here elevator is going?" Bunnie said as jumped down and landed on the body of the robot.
"Beats me." Sonic replied. "Just get ready for anything."
The elevator continued down and stopped with a PHOOMP sounds on the bottom floor. The elevator opened and the two looked out of the doors cautiously.
"We must be underground." Bunnie thought.
The white lights beamed upon them hanging on the ceiling as they looked high above from the catwalk they were standing on. Any traces of the earth were nil to none. The ceiling was of a smooth, shiny metal and everywhere they looked in Robotnik's underground facility was nothing but metal. Boxes and macheriney inside lied around in the facility idly. The two walked on the metal catwalk and saw how empty and devoided of life the place was.
"Look!" Bunnie pointed out in front of them.
North of them was a giant figure standing. The catwalk led them straight to it. Sonic and Bunnie ran towards what could be Robotnik's newest weapon.
"We got to take it out. No telling what Robotnik's plans are." Sonic said.
"Right, Sugar" Bunnie replied.
The catwalk brached around the giant figure that was staring them at the face, when they reached it. They looked in awe at the sheer look of it. The robot was draped in a dark black cape and only its' rounded head with three spikes portruding out could only be seen. The area around it itself was low lit and hard to see.
"Beginning final check...what? You two!" Robotnik's voice blared on an intercom system.
"We're not out of the game by a long shot, Buttnik!" Sonic retorted.
"We'll I didn't take it for a surprise that you two would escape, but to reach Dark Ocean was quite astrodinary. I can finally test Metal Robotnik in combat! BWAA HAA HA! See you in heaven, Freedom Fighters!"
The red eyes of MR flashed over it's metal mouthpiece and the ceiling lights flickered on, making all of Metal Robotnik totally visible to Sonic and Bunnie. The mech threw the cape behind his body, revealing a black pot belly exterior with a shiny, grey circular area and yellow plates on the sides. Small grasshopper like legs were holding the entire robot up, and the two wondered how MR managed to stand under all that weight. The arms had huge, red shoulder pads on them and the arms were skinny with the lower parts of the arm covered in a protective armor. The hands were large circles with fingers that were circular and hollowed, as if something could be fired from them.
MR raised one arm and brung it down on the catwalk, shattering it into pieces. Sonic and Bunnie dodged it and ran to a side of the remaining catwalk. Sonic's side broke and collasped, and fell to the ground. In his sytlish manner, Sonic leapt and kicked off the debirs and leapt towards MR. Sonic charged into a tackle and struck Robotnik straight in the chest. Sonic bounced off the robot and landed off the ground.
MR brushed off the area that Sonic hit him and laughed.
"Try your best, Sonic. You'll never break through this armor." MR pointed at the point where Sonic struck him.
"Didn't scratch him at all. Dang." Sonic replied.
"Shut yer mouth, Robotnik!" Bunnie yelled.
Bunnie jumped off the railing leapt and struck Robotnik, but MR put his arm up and blocked the attack, MR backhanded Bunnie away and aimed his hand at her. MR's fingers moved and formed into one weapon. Sonic ran at Bunnie and jumped towards her. Robotnik fired a spray of bullets out of his fingers. Sonic grabbed Bunnie and dodged the path of incoming bullets. Sonic and Bunnie landed on the ground and they were followed by the spray of incoming bullets. Sonic zoomed in one direction and Bunnie ran in another direction. MR's other hand formed into a nozzle and he targeted both of them. Sonic zigged and zagged to avoid the bullets, leapt and jump-kicked MR in the face. MR's head whipped back, and Sonic flipped in mid-air and stuck with a tackle again, but he bounced off the metal armor.
While his attention was focused on Sonic, Bunnie grabbed the nearest object she could, a metal pipe and threw it at MR's torso like a javelin. The pipe traveled so fast in the air, that it penerated the armor halfway through his armor.
"You'll pay for that!" Robotnik said.
Bunnie ran at Robotnik and looked at his arm to see a dark blue object on his hand, maybe if she could strike it while Sonic was dealing with it, they'd be able to damage it somehow. Unfortunately, she loss sight of the blue object and was looking down the barrel of his hand gun. The barrel made a charging sound and light was enamating from inside. Bunnie gasped and covered her face with her arms.
"No you don't!" Sonic ran at MR.
MR saw Sonic coming and stragetically decided changed his ammunation. He fired at Sonic as Sonic jumped at him and nailed Sonic with his sticky gooey, ammo. The velocity of the ammo sent Sonic hurlting down on the ground, his feet and legs were stuck in a gluey, sticky substance.
"No!" Sonic yelled.
MR fired and a ball came out of the barrel quick and fast with a PHOOMP sound. The blast exploded on contact in the ground in front of Bunnie and knocked Bunnie away and into a pilliar at unpallel speeds. She let out a soft moan and sunk to the floor.
"Heh heh heh, I'll be taking her." MR walked along the floor and scooped her up. Sonic looked at him with the utmost of anger and hatred. "If you excuse me, Sonic my army of Shadowbots awaits!"
The cape disitigrated as a plair of dark wings flapped from behind his back, and a rocket pack appeared also. Behind MR, the wall parted, showing the the dusk of the evening sky and the city of Robotropolis. Sonic tried to get free but Robotnik had laughed in his efforts to do so.
"The next time you see Knothole, it'll be a big, smoking crater in the ground! No one can stop me! Farewell, Rodent, for I have finally won! Bunnie here will join me at my side during the post-apoycalypse of your forest. With a lot of programming she;ll be good as new." MR turned around and ran towards the exit.
"No! I won't let that happen!" Sonic ripped at the gooey material furiously.
The engines on his rocket pack strated up and blasted him into the air. MR turned around to the underground base and raised his arms up. The yellow plating moved and a missile with a spiked top appeared.
"A farewell present for you, rodent, goodbye."
The missile fired and Robotnik sped into the air with extrodianiary speed, with assistance of the power of the Sapphire Stone. He headed to the front of the central core base where his Shadowbots awaited him.
Sonic kicked the last of the sticky stuff off and saw the missile coming at him in his sights.
"Time to bail!"
Sonic ran by the missiles and hurriedly sped off the hangar door. The missiles exploded in the facility and destroyed all the equipment and materials within. Sonic dove out of the facility doors in the nick of time to avoid getting singed by the deafening explosion.
Sonic looked up, admist the flying debris raining around him, and saw that he was on the outskirts of Robotropolis but on the opposite side. The mountains were facing him.
"That was a close call, but I got no time to spare. Knothole's in danger." Sonic thought.
In the air, he saw the mech flying in the distance and a large number of Shadowbots moving in the Great Forest's direction.
Sonic ran back towards the city of Robotropolis as fast as his feet would take him, knowing that the fate of everyone living in Knothole would be decided tonight.