Author's Note:
Wow I'm really cruising here. Keep reviewing and I'll keep writing! I'll
update as often as possible, and hopefully, you all enjoy every bit of it.
Also, I'm mixing a bit of things from the Sonic comics in this chapter and
the next ones, so don't mind that. You all know who they are copyrighted
too. ;)
***Station Square Amy's apartment***
Morning came. The sun's golden light spread through the peaceful City of Station Square. Residents and daily business resumed in the presence of daylight, and soon, the city was teeming with customers and tourists. One such apartment, however, had been active all night. Sonic and Tails had stayed by Amy's side all night, sponging her head with a cold cloth. For some reason, her body temperature kept rising, and she always needed to be cooled down or given some medicine. Her breathing was terribly labored, and she hadn't rested well all night. "Tails.." Sonic said. "Is there a way you can bring one of your computers to scan her? I think whatever Metal Sonic injected into her system is causing this virus."
Tails head popped up, he had almost dozed off on the couch. "Uh yeah, sure Sonic." Whirling his tails he quickly ran from the house, but by the time he got to the train station, he was already exhausted. After all, he had gotten little sleep. "Perhaps the train is the better idea.." He thought. Climbing aboard, the host of the train immediately noticed Tails.
"Why! You're the one that saved Station Square from the Egg Walker! Oh MY GOSH! I just have so much to ask you Mr. Tails. ....Mr. Tails?"
The fox had already fallen asleep on the comfortable seats. The host pulled herself together, and a chuckle arose from the small crowd on the train. "Um all aboard...stay in your seats." She said, leaving the room as red as a brick. The train carried Tails off.
***Back at Amy's apartment***
Sonic paced nervously around the room. This couldn't be happening, Amy had saved his life. How could she do that? "Perhaps she really meant it when she said she was going to improve herself. Maybe I have...underestimated her.." Thought Sonic. His emerald eyes drifted to sick hedgehog, and he felt something, deep in the pit of soul. The compassion in him was rising, and this frightened Sonic. No way could he feel sorry for Amy Rose, or even think of her...that way. He threw up his hands in stress, grabbed a chair, and settled by Amy's bed. Propping his feet up on her bed, and sponging her forehead one last time, he drifted off to sleep, glad that his body could rest. "Tails..will be back soon... " he thought.
*****Mystic Ruins Eggman's base*****
The doctor rose from a somewhat relaxed slumber. Grunting and scratching himself, he walked into the main control room, only to find the cloning machine beeping wildly. "What?! Whats going on?!" The doctor ran to the console, and read it. "Process complete." It read. "Hmmm I thought it would take another day, I guess that chaos emerald is more powerful than I thought. Computer, Analysis please." The computer began to beep and scan the organic life form inside its chamber. "Complete doctor, would you like to view the results?" Eggman scowled. Machines, such stupid things, of course he wanted to see exactly what he created. "Yes! Open it up you stupid thing!" The doors of the chamber opened, releasing some strange liquid into the drains. Robotnik's eyes widened. "NO NO NO NO!" The contaminated capsule had indeed, changed the results of the "Sonic clone". Instead of a blue male hedgehog. It was an Aqua green hedgehog, and her quills resembled that of Amy's. She wore a green vest, and the machine had placed matching special sneakers on her feet. An oxygen mask was on her face, and she was still in suspended animation. Robotnik could only look at the creation out of pure disgust. "What a waste of my time!" He paced back and forth mumbling angrily. Just then the door opened, and Metal Sonic stepped in.
The first thing he noticed, was the rather good looking female hedgehog. "This must be the result of that machine." He thought.
"Back from setting up the security settings?"
"Yes sir."
"Good! Are the new swatbots and worker bots up? I need my newest Egg Carrier in commission as soon as possible!"
"Yes sir, and reports read it should be ready in only 4 hours!"
"Excellent! Now out of my sight and do your duty, before I ponder deactivating you!"
A thought crossed Robotnik's mind.
"Wait! Before you do, did you do a scan on the forest for any of those pests?!"
"Yes sir."
"Well?"
"Sensors indicate that Tails is moving toward his laboratory in quite a hurry. My theory is that he is trying to use his machines to diagnose Amy. That poison is having quite an effect on her. But she will not die, she should recover soon."
"Follow him, and make sure he is up to just that, I want a full report on any changes."
"Of course sir." Bowed the robot before speeding out the room.
Robotnik immediately began to ponder just what exactly to do with this now useless clone. Scowling and slapping the computer console (which broke one of the keyboards) He left the main bridge, and headed down to the Final Egg complex. Inside, Swatbots were easily reconstructing the Egg Carrier at phenomenal speed. Robotnik's lips curled into an evil smile, soon his plan would take full effect
***Mystic Ruins Main Area Tail's Lab***
"Lousy old coot...ugh" sighed Metal Sonic as he moved like the wind, plowing the trees and leaving a cloud of dust in his trail. He quickly moved through up to the Jungle's entrance, hopped in the trolley, and soon found himself not far from Tail's workshop. The young fox entered his area, and immediately began to go through all his small electronics. Metal Sonic crept up the hill and peered through the window. His eyes widened when he saw the Tornado 2. It really looked souped up and powerful. Taking out a communicator, he paged Eggman, who was still marveling over his flying fortress.
"What is it?! This better be good!!!"
"Sir, Tails has upgraded the Tornado 2, and it now seats 4 instead of 1. The weapontry looks like it has been updated as well."
"Hmmm, I was hoping I could use this for a more better, more destructive cause. But no matter. Mecha, open your back panel, inside should be the fake emerald Tails made back in the Space colony. What a fool he was to lose that thing, now I can finally give him a taste of his own medicine." A hideous laughter came over the com-link, and the doctor continued. "I want you to remove its power source and place this one inside it. It will power it to fly, but if it tries to fire on anything, it will explode." Mecha Sonic himself couldn't help but smile on this one.
"Yes sir, Mecha Sonic, out."
"Man, its got to be around somewhere!" Tails said as he began to become frustrated. Finally, he found a small chip like computer. Moving to sink, he gently cleaned it off, and pressed a small button, opening it up. "Nicole online." Said the computer.
"Hey Nicole!" Said Tails. "I know I haven't activated you for a long time, but I have a job for you. Whirling his Tails, he quickly ran off, without giving the computer a chance to reply to his statement. Metal Sonic grinned sinisterly as he stopped the door from shutting and auto-locking. Slipping in, he immediately began to prod the plane, in search of its power source. It took a lot of banging and few screw removals, but he finally found it. To his luck, the chaos emerald contained inside the plane's unit was yellow, like the fake emerald. Switching them, he quickly shut the panel and withdrew from the area, making sure everything looked normal. "This is Mecha Sonic reporting, mission accomplished."
"Good, return to the base." Replied Robotnik.
Robotnik ceased viewing the progress on his ship and returned to the bridge. Looking at the "clone" once more, he scowled again and ordered the computer to drop the clone in some unknown area as soon as they lifted off. Metal Sonic just happened to step in when he heard the command. Immediately, he felt sort of sorry for the creation, it wasn't her fault that the machine had gone wrong. He narrowed his eyes, but said nothing.
"I see your back." Robotnik said.
"Yes sir, and I have the real chaos emerald."
"Anything else to report?" Robotnik said, taking the chaos emerald from the bot.
"No, only that the Tornado is taken care of."
"Well done, you may go back to your post now, I have some business to take care of. I am putting you in charge of the Swatbots and the worker bots, be sure to monitor this progress with precise attention, failure is not an option."
"Yes sir."
Robotnik turned and left, leaving Metal Sonic alone on the main bridge. Metal Sonic went to the main computer, and looked at the stats of the clone. "There has to be a way I can access the panel, my master did say I was in control." He pressed a few buttons, and the computer came online. "Identity check, please state your name." The mecha gave a questioning look, but decided to give it a try. "Metal Sonic." To his surprise, the computer's light flashed green. "Access granted." Smiling, the robot turned on the security monitors, all was looking well. Despite the fact that the project was going very well and he was very busy making sure everything was orderly, he still couldn't help but think of the encapsulated clone, waiting to be dropped or brought to life.
"Computer, access cloning machine and open up chamber doors."
At once the doors opened.
"Awaken subject."
The computer beeped a few times, and the mask was removed. After a little while, the green hedgehog began to stir.
"Wha-what?"
"Its ok, your at Eggman's base, your creator's home."
The she-chog looked around confused, but was soon prodding about, inspecting everything. She had Sonic's movement, and her voice held a slight masculine touch, but she was very pretty, and still had a feminine feel. "Wow, this place is something..but, but what is my purpose here?"
Metal Sonic sighed, he really didn't know what to tell this innocent clone. It would surely die, but the again, maybe not, she did seem rather intelligent.
"I must warn you, to return your chamber. Do you know anything?"
"I know how to survive and such, and the events of the past. I know of the final hazard, and all of the other events, and that a certain hedgehog, that Eggman, once worked with, died after the whole ordeal. But as for my purpose or my orders, I have no idea."
"You must return to your chamber, Eggman, or my master, does not want you, and you'll die if he finds you here!"
This look brought horror to her face.
"Hurry...now!"
The green hedgehog immediately ran back to the area of the chamber. "Computer! Put subject back into suspended animation status!" The chamber doors shut as the computer complied. It did it just in time, for Dr. Eggman was just walking right in. "The Carrier is complete, Mecha Sonic, we have a nice fleet of robots and plenty of subjects. It won't be long until I rebuild Robotropolis, on Station Square's ruins!!!!! HAHAHAHA!!!" Metal Sonic Shuttered.
"Report to the bridge of the ship, we will be lifting off soon!!"
***Station Square Amy's Apartment. ***
Sonic was well asleep, and snoring by the time Tails came in. "Mmmmmm chili dogs." Sonic muttered in his sleep.
"Sonic, I got Nicole out!" Tails muttered as he walked in. A smile formed on his face when he saw his buddy sleeping. "And he said he wouldn't slack off." Tails said. Walking quietly, as to not wake up his friend, he opened Nicole. "Nicole, scan Amy and identify problems."
"Scanning now."
Tails tapped his foot impatiently.
"Censors show that there is a poison in her immune system. However, it is subsiding, and should be gone in an hour."
Tails sighed with relief. "Thank you Nicole."
"Your welcome Tails." Tails shut her down, closed her up, and fell on the couch, glad to rest once more. He eventually fell asleep. Not to far away, a dark object could be seen in the sky over the Mystic Ruins.
"Computer, did you drop unwanted cargo?"
"Yes sir."
"Excellent. All systems, full power!!"
The Egg Carrier sped up, and made its way toward Station Square quicker than ever.
The fortress's power shook the whole city when its presence became known. "Ready the laser! Now!" The bots got to work, and Metal Sonic quickly began to punch in statistics for the computer. "Estimated time, 5 minutes sir!" Robotnik nodded, and quickly set out security fighter ships to secure the ship's outer borders and its sky deck. People began to scream as they saw their lovely city danger. Sonic and Tails quickly woke up and ran out. They too, even gasped in horror when they saw the impending danger upon the city. Sonic quickly ran inside the apartment and grabbed Amy. They ran, for it was the only thing they could do. The laser powered up, and what happened next happened super fast. The laser plowed through the city, exploding the buildings and killing lives. People could only screamed in agony as their lives and home disintegrated. Sonic had to close his eyes, his heart filling with pain and anger. They ran as far as the could, out running the explosions.
And through it all a sinister laughter could be heard. Robotnik had destroyed the once lively city, Station Square..
***Station Square Amy's apartment***
Morning came. The sun's golden light spread through the peaceful City of Station Square. Residents and daily business resumed in the presence of daylight, and soon, the city was teeming with customers and tourists. One such apartment, however, had been active all night. Sonic and Tails had stayed by Amy's side all night, sponging her head with a cold cloth. For some reason, her body temperature kept rising, and she always needed to be cooled down or given some medicine. Her breathing was terribly labored, and she hadn't rested well all night. "Tails.." Sonic said. "Is there a way you can bring one of your computers to scan her? I think whatever Metal Sonic injected into her system is causing this virus."
Tails head popped up, he had almost dozed off on the couch. "Uh yeah, sure Sonic." Whirling his tails he quickly ran from the house, but by the time he got to the train station, he was already exhausted. After all, he had gotten little sleep. "Perhaps the train is the better idea.." He thought. Climbing aboard, the host of the train immediately noticed Tails.
"Why! You're the one that saved Station Square from the Egg Walker! Oh MY GOSH! I just have so much to ask you Mr. Tails. ....Mr. Tails?"
The fox had already fallen asleep on the comfortable seats. The host pulled herself together, and a chuckle arose from the small crowd on the train. "Um all aboard...stay in your seats." She said, leaving the room as red as a brick. The train carried Tails off.
***Back at Amy's apartment***
Sonic paced nervously around the room. This couldn't be happening, Amy had saved his life. How could she do that? "Perhaps she really meant it when she said she was going to improve herself. Maybe I have...underestimated her.." Thought Sonic. His emerald eyes drifted to sick hedgehog, and he felt something, deep in the pit of soul. The compassion in him was rising, and this frightened Sonic. No way could he feel sorry for Amy Rose, or even think of her...that way. He threw up his hands in stress, grabbed a chair, and settled by Amy's bed. Propping his feet up on her bed, and sponging her forehead one last time, he drifted off to sleep, glad that his body could rest. "Tails..will be back soon... " he thought.
*****Mystic Ruins Eggman's base*****
The doctor rose from a somewhat relaxed slumber. Grunting and scratching himself, he walked into the main control room, only to find the cloning machine beeping wildly. "What?! Whats going on?!" The doctor ran to the console, and read it. "Process complete." It read. "Hmmm I thought it would take another day, I guess that chaos emerald is more powerful than I thought. Computer, Analysis please." The computer began to beep and scan the organic life form inside its chamber. "Complete doctor, would you like to view the results?" Eggman scowled. Machines, such stupid things, of course he wanted to see exactly what he created. "Yes! Open it up you stupid thing!" The doors of the chamber opened, releasing some strange liquid into the drains. Robotnik's eyes widened. "NO NO NO NO!" The contaminated capsule had indeed, changed the results of the "Sonic clone". Instead of a blue male hedgehog. It was an Aqua green hedgehog, and her quills resembled that of Amy's. She wore a green vest, and the machine had placed matching special sneakers on her feet. An oxygen mask was on her face, and she was still in suspended animation. Robotnik could only look at the creation out of pure disgust. "What a waste of my time!" He paced back and forth mumbling angrily. Just then the door opened, and Metal Sonic stepped in.
The first thing he noticed, was the rather good looking female hedgehog. "This must be the result of that machine." He thought.
"Back from setting up the security settings?"
"Yes sir."
"Good! Are the new swatbots and worker bots up? I need my newest Egg Carrier in commission as soon as possible!"
"Yes sir, and reports read it should be ready in only 4 hours!"
"Excellent! Now out of my sight and do your duty, before I ponder deactivating you!"
A thought crossed Robotnik's mind.
"Wait! Before you do, did you do a scan on the forest for any of those pests?!"
"Yes sir."
"Well?"
"Sensors indicate that Tails is moving toward his laboratory in quite a hurry. My theory is that he is trying to use his machines to diagnose Amy. That poison is having quite an effect on her. But she will not die, she should recover soon."
"Follow him, and make sure he is up to just that, I want a full report on any changes."
"Of course sir." Bowed the robot before speeding out the room.
Robotnik immediately began to ponder just what exactly to do with this now useless clone. Scowling and slapping the computer console (which broke one of the keyboards) He left the main bridge, and headed down to the Final Egg complex. Inside, Swatbots were easily reconstructing the Egg Carrier at phenomenal speed. Robotnik's lips curled into an evil smile, soon his plan would take full effect
***Mystic Ruins Main Area Tail's Lab***
"Lousy old coot...ugh" sighed Metal Sonic as he moved like the wind, plowing the trees and leaving a cloud of dust in his trail. He quickly moved through up to the Jungle's entrance, hopped in the trolley, and soon found himself not far from Tail's workshop. The young fox entered his area, and immediately began to go through all his small electronics. Metal Sonic crept up the hill and peered through the window. His eyes widened when he saw the Tornado 2. It really looked souped up and powerful. Taking out a communicator, he paged Eggman, who was still marveling over his flying fortress.
"What is it?! This better be good!!!"
"Sir, Tails has upgraded the Tornado 2, and it now seats 4 instead of 1. The weapontry looks like it has been updated as well."
"Hmmm, I was hoping I could use this for a more better, more destructive cause. But no matter. Mecha, open your back panel, inside should be the fake emerald Tails made back in the Space colony. What a fool he was to lose that thing, now I can finally give him a taste of his own medicine." A hideous laughter came over the com-link, and the doctor continued. "I want you to remove its power source and place this one inside it. It will power it to fly, but if it tries to fire on anything, it will explode." Mecha Sonic himself couldn't help but smile on this one.
"Yes sir, Mecha Sonic, out."
"Man, its got to be around somewhere!" Tails said as he began to become frustrated. Finally, he found a small chip like computer. Moving to sink, he gently cleaned it off, and pressed a small button, opening it up. "Nicole online." Said the computer.
"Hey Nicole!" Said Tails. "I know I haven't activated you for a long time, but I have a job for you. Whirling his Tails, he quickly ran off, without giving the computer a chance to reply to his statement. Metal Sonic grinned sinisterly as he stopped the door from shutting and auto-locking. Slipping in, he immediately began to prod the plane, in search of its power source. It took a lot of banging and few screw removals, but he finally found it. To his luck, the chaos emerald contained inside the plane's unit was yellow, like the fake emerald. Switching them, he quickly shut the panel and withdrew from the area, making sure everything looked normal. "This is Mecha Sonic reporting, mission accomplished."
"Good, return to the base." Replied Robotnik.
Robotnik ceased viewing the progress on his ship and returned to the bridge. Looking at the "clone" once more, he scowled again and ordered the computer to drop the clone in some unknown area as soon as they lifted off. Metal Sonic just happened to step in when he heard the command. Immediately, he felt sort of sorry for the creation, it wasn't her fault that the machine had gone wrong. He narrowed his eyes, but said nothing.
"I see your back." Robotnik said.
"Yes sir, and I have the real chaos emerald."
"Anything else to report?" Robotnik said, taking the chaos emerald from the bot.
"No, only that the Tornado is taken care of."
"Well done, you may go back to your post now, I have some business to take care of. I am putting you in charge of the Swatbots and the worker bots, be sure to monitor this progress with precise attention, failure is not an option."
"Yes sir."
Robotnik turned and left, leaving Metal Sonic alone on the main bridge. Metal Sonic went to the main computer, and looked at the stats of the clone. "There has to be a way I can access the panel, my master did say I was in control." He pressed a few buttons, and the computer came online. "Identity check, please state your name." The mecha gave a questioning look, but decided to give it a try. "Metal Sonic." To his surprise, the computer's light flashed green. "Access granted." Smiling, the robot turned on the security monitors, all was looking well. Despite the fact that the project was going very well and he was very busy making sure everything was orderly, he still couldn't help but think of the encapsulated clone, waiting to be dropped or brought to life.
"Computer, access cloning machine and open up chamber doors."
At once the doors opened.
"Awaken subject."
The computer beeped a few times, and the mask was removed. After a little while, the green hedgehog began to stir.
"Wha-what?"
"Its ok, your at Eggman's base, your creator's home."
The she-chog looked around confused, but was soon prodding about, inspecting everything. She had Sonic's movement, and her voice held a slight masculine touch, but she was very pretty, and still had a feminine feel. "Wow, this place is something..but, but what is my purpose here?"
Metal Sonic sighed, he really didn't know what to tell this innocent clone. It would surely die, but the again, maybe not, she did seem rather intelligent.
"I must warn you, to return your chamber. Do you know anything?"
"I know how to survive and such, and the events of the past. I know of the final hazard, and all of the other events, and that a certain hedgehog, that Eggman, once worked with, died after the whole ordeal. But as for my purpose or my orders, I have no idea."
"You must return to your chamber, Eggman, or my master, does not want you, and you'll die if he finds you here!"
This look brought horror to her face.
"Hurry...now!"
The green hedgehog immediately ran back to the area of the chamber. "Computer! Put subject back into suspended animation status!" The chamber doors shut as the computer complied. It did it just in time, for Dr. Eggman was just walking right in. "The Carrier is complete, Mecha Sonic, we have a nice fleet of robots and plenty of subjects. It won't be long until I rebuild Robotropolis, on Station Square's ruins!!!!! HAHAHAHA!!!" Metal Sonic Shuttered.
"Report to the bridge of the ship, we will be lifting off soon!!"
***Station Square Amy's Apartment. ***
Sonic was well asleep, and snoring by the time Tails came in. "Mmmmmm chili dogs." Sonic muttered in his sleep.
"Sonic, I got Nicole out!" Tails muttered as he walked in. A smile formed on his face when he saw his buddy sleeping. "And he said he wouldn't slack off." Tails said. Walking quietly, as to not wake up his friend, he opened Nicole. "Nicole, scan Amy and identify problems."
"Scanning now."
Tails tapped his foot impatiently.
"Censors show that there is a poison in her immune system. However, it is subsiding, and should be gone in an hour."
Tails sighed with relief. "Thank you Nicole."
"Your welcome Tails." Tails shut her down, closed her up, and fell on the couch, glad to rest once more. He eventually fell asleep. Not to far away, a dark object could be seen in the sky over the Mystic Ruins.
"Computer, did you drop unwanted cargo?"
"Yes sir."
"Excellent. All systems, full power!!"
The Egg Carrier sped up, and made its way toward Station Square quicker than ever.
The fortress's power shook the whole city when its presence became known. "Ready the laser! Now!" The bots got to work, and Metal Sonic quickly began to punch in statistics for the computer. "Estimated time, 5 minutes sir!" Robotnik nodded, and quickly set out security fighter ships to secure the ship's outer borders and its sky deck. People began to scream as they saw their lovely city danger. Sonic and Tails quickly woke up and ran out. They too, even gasped in horror when they saw the impending danger upon the city. Sonic quickly ran inside the apartment and grabbed Amy. They ran, for it was the only thing they could do. The laser powered up, and what happened next happened super fast. The laser plowed through the city, exploding the buildings and killing lives. People could only screamed in agony as their lives and home disintegrated. Sonic had to close his eyes, his heart filling with pain and anger. They ran as far as the could, out running the explosions.
And through it all a sinister laughter could be heard. Robotnik had destroyed the once lively city, Station Square..