Chapter Seven: The Worst Possible Place . . . or one of 'em, anyway . . .
Disclaimer: If these characters were mine, I wouldn't be writing fanfiction about them, would I?
"LET ME OUTTA HERE! I DON'T DESERVE THIS! WHERE'S TAILS? HE'LL GET ME OUT! I'VE BEEN IN HERE FOR SO LONG I THINK I'M GONNA STARVE! AT LEAST GET ME A CHILI DOG!!"
"Shut up, Blue Hedgehog, you've only been here for five minutes," the warden, a white hedgehog armed with a gleaming sword, said.
"And who are you?" Sonic the Hedgehog (from the AOSTH era) exclaimed.
"I was sent here to watch you. If you're smart, you'll stay where you are and don't resist. The military knows how dangerous and unstable you are, so that's why I'm here."
AOSTH-Sonic was about to reply when a beeping sounded off in the dungeon. The hedgehog answered his cell phone.
"Yeah?" he said, " . . . Uh huh . . . An intruder, you say? . . . Broke into the prison? . . . destroying all of the guard robots in his way? . . . All right, I'm on it."
He hung up, then shot a glance at Sonic. "If you move . . ." he unsheathed his sword, "I'll kill you."
He then retreated up to the control room. He called all of the units that were left to report intercept the intruder. Almost instantaneously, the last room was filled to the brim with guard robots. "Let's see you get outta this one." He leaned back in his chair and watched, as if it were TV.
As Tails barreled his way into the room, he quickly made scrap metal out of all of them in seconds.
Shinku leaned forward in his chair. "He's stronger than I thought. I better get down there."
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"Well, that was easy," Tails wiped the sweat off of his forehead.
"Yeah, it looked easy," a familiar voice said from inside the Tornado. Tails gasped as he saw Amy Rose for the first time in the backseat.
"Amy! What are you doing here!? You could've been killed!"
"I hate it when you guys leave me behind, so I decided to sneak in the back of your Tornado. I told you from the start, I came here to save Sonic, so that's what I'm gonna do!"
Tails looked at her. "Amy, when are you going to figure out that Sonic doesn't have a crush on you?"
Amy was about to insult Tails, but just then a white hedgehog walked in. "A mere child defeated all of these robots?" He looked around to see almost a sea of robot parts strewn around.
"Who are you?"
"The name's Shinku." He took a step forward, sword in hand. "That's the last name you'll ever hear," he threatened.
Tails glanced at Amy, then pulled something out of his pocket. "Well Amy, it looks like you get to save Sonic after all," he tossed the object at Amy.
"What's this?"
"It's a key card I swiped from one of the guard robots," he whispered, "It unlocks Sonic's cell."
"Aw, isn't that nice?" Shinku mocked, "Little boys and girls whispering to each other . . .they must be in love!"
"Love?" Tails and Amy both responded to that last comment. Tails recovered first and urged Amy to hurry up. Shinku watched in amusement as she left.
"Gimme your best shot, Fox-boy!" Shinku challenged.
"But I didn't come here to fight you, I only came to get Sonic out of here."
"Your girlfriend might have a slight chance of getting Blue Boy out of there, but to leave, you're going to have to get through me!"
Tails powered up a spindash and barreled forward. Shinku stopped him with the flat side of his sword, Then tried to slash him with it. Tails barely managed to leap out of the way, but not after losing some hair on one of his tails.
As he landed, he noticed Shinku charging him at full speed. Tails frantically fell to the ground, and the sword cut through the wall behind him like a hot knife through butter. After getting up, Tails head-butted him in the stomach, causing him to drop back.
"You're pretty lucky, fox-boy," Shinku muttered, holding his stomach.
He doesn't know how right he is! Tails thought.
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AOSTH-Sonic was pacing angrily, cursing his bad luck, Shadow, and the warden, when Amy came in.
Sonic glared at the door to see a young, pink hedgehog enter the room. "Who're you? Another warden?"
Amy looked at him up and down, then shouted, "You're not Sonic!"
"Say wha?"
"You're not Sonic, you're an imposter!"
"What are you talkin' about? I'm Sonic the Hedgehog, the fastest thing alive!"
Amy crossed her arms. "Prove it!"
Sonic then started pulling off stunts he learned over the years. He did spindash, he ran across the cell, up the wall, and across the ceiling.
When he was done, he did the peace sign. "No doubt!"
Amy's eyes grew huge and glassy. "Wow, Sonic, it really is you!"
Now Sonic was concerned. "How'd you even get here?"
"If you wanna know, I caught a ride with Tails," she answered nonchalantly as she dug out the key card. She was about to slide it through but then pulled it back. "I'll let you out if you promise to marry me."
"No way! I ain't the marryin' type, kid!" Sonic replied, annoyed at her feeble attempt at blackmail.
"Darn! I thought I had you this time!" She said as she reluctantly unlocked the cell.
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"All right, kid, now to finish you off!" Shinku leaped int the air, then tried to stab him with the sword. Tails ducked again, which caused Shinku to crash into the wall. Tails quickly grabbed Shinku's sword.
"I'll get you for this, kid!" Shinku fell out of the wall. It was about then that he noticed his sword was gone.
"What happened to my sword?" He asked just before he saw Tails inspecting it.
Shinku looked up to see Tails with his weapon in hand. "Hey, give that back!"
"You know what? I get the feeling that you can't attack without this sword; it would explain why you use it so much, and why you want it back so bad."
"That's not why I want it back! That sword belonged to my father just before he passed away!"
Tails looked at Shinku. "If I give this back to you, you have to promise to let us leave in peace."
"I don't work for the Government, so I don't care," Shinku replied. Upon receiving the sword, he said, "You're a good fighter, Fox-boy."
"Nah, I just got lucky; and you can just call me Tails."
"Well, I gotta go before I get arrested by the military; you might want to do the same." Tails and Shinku gave each other a thumbs-up sign before Shinku left.
Just then, Sonic came in with Amy. Tails and Amy jumped back into the Tornado. "Whoa, Tails, when did you get this?" Sonic walked up to the Tornado.
"Sonic, you know I built this thing. What'd you do, hit your head?"
"I must've hit my head, cause I don't recall Big Eyes over here," he replied, pointing to Amy.
"Sonic, we don't have time for jokes. You go find out what Eggman's up to, and we'll meet up at the airport, all right?"
Tails was about to leave when Sonic asked, "Yo, Tails, who's Eggman?"
"Sonic, how could you forget that Dr. Eggman is Dr. Robotnik? You're the one who gave him that name!"
"I Did?"
"Sonic, can you save the games for later?"
"Fine," agreed AOSTH-Sonic, who was now more confused and annoyed than ever.
Sonic grudgedly dashed outside, then witnessed something that cheered him up quick: the docks, which were made up of mostly loops and turns.
"Way past cool!" AOSTH-Sonic said. He made his way through the loops and turns until the obstacle course of his brought him to a dense forest.
"Cool so far." He was about to leave, when he saw a familiar black hedgehog on a giant tree root.
"Shadow?"
Shadow turned around when he heard his name. "That blue hedgehog again, of all places!"
"I found ya again, coward!"
"Coward? You dare to call me a coward when you were the one who ran away from the police when I last saw you?"
"Wha? I didn't run from nobody!" AOSTH-Sonic took a closer look. "And you're the hedgehog who framed me; the only good thing about you is you're looks!"
Shadow ignored that last comment and jumped down from the root. "The bank was a small job, and so is this one! Let's finish this now, hedgehog!"
"Wait a Sonic-second!" AOSTH-Sonic dug in his pocket and pulled out a chili-dog and swallowed it whole. Shadow watched in disbelief.
"Let's go!"
Shadow revved up his spindash; AOSTH-Sonic did the same. They both released at the same time, and volently plowed into each other; both jumped back afterwards. Sonic and Shadow both did the homing attack in midair and slammed each other multiple times before landing.
"I don't have time for games!" Shadow lunged forward. Sonic ducked and belted him in the gut. Shadow fell back, caught his breath, then jumped back a little.
"Juicin' already, Black Sheep?" Sonic gloated.
"Fighting this way is useless. I will show you my true power!" Shadow opened up his fist and channeled his energy into his hands.
"What're ya doin?"
"Chaos . . ."
All of the sudden, Shadow's communicator beeped. "Shadow; what are you doing? Hurry and get back here right now before the island blows up with you on it!" Eggman shouted on the communicator.
"Say WHA?!" Sonic shouted.
"Chaos Control!" Shadow erupted into flashes of light and disappeared.
"Aww, man! I gotta find Tails and the pink girl fast!"
Sonic was about to start looking, but then he was surrounded on all sides with guard robots.
Sonic looked around. "You guys love to chase me, don't ya?"
"Surrender now, and maybe we'll forget this ever happened."
"Yeah right, robo-head! I'd love to stay, but I gotta juice!" Sonic spun through one of them and made his way to where Tails and the others were, with guard robots chasing him along the way, of course. Soon, he managed to find Amy and Tails.
"Sonic, what's wrong?" Tails asked.
"No time! This place is gonna blow sky-high!"
Amy and Tails gasped and started the plane. They were already flying when the first few bombs blew. They barely managed to escape the final explosion. After they were sure they had gotten away, Tails switched the plane to Autopilot.
"After this, I'm grabbin' a chili dog!" Sonic said just before conking out in the backseat.
Tails and Amy stared at Sonic for the longest time.
Amy leaned over. "Hey Tails, haven't you noticed that there's something strange about Sonic?"
"Yeah, he's talking weird, he didn't know who Dr. Eggman was . . ."
" . . . His quills are shorter . . ."
Tails shifted his gaze to Amy. "You know, only you would notice that," he remarked.
"Oh yeah? Well, some of us care to notice these things!" She folded her arms and looked over the side of the airplane.
Tails sighed. "This is going to be a long and silent ride home."
Disclaimer: If these characters were mine, I wouldn't be writing fanfiction about them, would I?
"LET ME OUTTA HERE! I DON'T DESERVE THIS! WHERE'S TAILS? HE'LL GET ME OUT! I'VE BEEN IN HERE FOR SO LONG I THINK I'M GONNA STARVE! AT LEAST GET ME A CHILI DOG!!"
"Shut up, Blue Hedgehog, you've only been here for five minutes," the warden, a white hedgehog armed with a gleaming sword, said.
"And who are you?" Sonic the Hedgehog (from the AOSTH era) exclaimed.
"I was sent here to watch you. If you're smart, you'll stay where you are and don't resist. The military knows how dangerous and unstable you are, so that's why I'm here."
AOSTH-Sonic was about to reply when a beeping sounded off in the dungeon. The hedgehog answered his cell phone.
"Yeah?" he said, " . . . Uh huh . . . An intruder, you say? . . . Broke into the prison? . . . destroying all of the guard robots in his way? . . . All right, I'm on it."
He hung up, then shot a glance at Sonic. "If you move . . ." he unsheathed his sword, "I'll kill you."
He then retreated up to the control room. He called all of the units that were left to report intercept the intruder. Almost instantaneously, the last room was filled to the brim with guard robots. "Let's see you get outta this one." He leaned back in his chair and watched, as if it were TV.
As Tails barreled his way into the room, he quickly made scrap metal out of all of them in seconds.
Shinku leaned forward in his chair. "He's stronger than I thought. I better get down there."
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"Well, that was easy," Tails wiped the sweat off of his forehead.
"Yeah, it looked easy," a familiar voice said from inside the Tornado. Tails gasped as he saw Amy Rose for the first time in the backseat.
"Amy! What are you doing here!? You could've been killed!"
"I hate it when you guys leave me behind, so I decided to sneak in the back of your Tornado. I told you from the start, I came here to save Sonic, so that's what I'm gonna do!"
Tails looked at her. "Amy, when are you going to figure out that Sonic doesn't have a crush on you?"
Amy was about to insult Tails, but just then a white hedgehog walked in. "A mere child defeated all of these robots?" He looked around to see almost a sea of robot parts strewn around.
"Who are you?"
"The name's Shinku." He took a step forward, sword in hand. "That's the last name you'll ever hear," he threatened.
Tails glanced at Amy, then pulled something out of his pocket. "Well Amy, it looks like you get to save Sonic after all," he tossed the object at Amy.
"What's this?"
"It's a key card I swiped from one of the guard robots," he whispered, "It unlocks Sonic's cell."
"Aw, isn't that nice?" Shinku mocked, "Little boys and girls whispering to each other . . .they must be in love!"
"Love?" Tails and Amy both responded to that last comment. Tails recovered first and urged Amy to hurry up. Shinku watched in amusement as she left.
"Gimme your best shot, Fox-boy!" Shinku challenged.
"But I didn't come here to fight you, I only came to get Sonic out of here."
"Your girlfriend might have a slight chance of getting Blue Boy out of there, but to leave, you're going to have to get through me!"
Tails powered up a spindash and barreled forward. Shinku stopped him with the flat side of his sword, Then tried to slash him with it. Tails barely managed to leap out of the way, but not after losing some hair on one of his tails.
As he landed, he noticed Shinku charging him at full speed. Tails frantically fell to the ground, and the sword cut through the wall behind him like a hot knife through butter. After getting up, Tails head-butted him in the stomach, causing him to drop back.
"You're pretty lucky, fox-boy," Shinku muttered, holding his stomach.
He doesn't know how right he is! Tails thought.
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AOSTH-Sonic was pacing angrily, cursing his bad luck, Shadow, and the warden, when Amy came in.
Sonic glared at the door to see a young, pink hedgehog enter the room. "Who're you? Another warden?"
Amy looked at him up and down, then shouted, "You're not Sonic!"
"Say wha?"
"You're not Sonic, you're an imposter!"
"What are you talkin' about? I'm Sonic the Hedgehog, the fastest thing alive!"
Amy crossed her arms. "Prove it!"
Sonic then started pulling off stunts he learned over the years. He did spindash, he ran across the cell, up the wall, and across the ceiling.
When he was done, he did the peace sign. "No doubt!"
Amy's eyes grew huge and glassy. "Wow, Sonic, it really is you!"
Now Sonic was concerned. "How'd you even get here?"
"If you wanna know, I caught a ride with Tails," she answered nonchalantly as she dug out the key card. She was about to slide it through but then pulled it back. "I'll let you out if you promise to marry me."
"No way! I ain't the marryin' type, kid!" Sonic replied, annoyed at her feeble attempt at blackmail.
"Darn! I thought I had you this time!" She said as she reluctantly unlocked the cell.
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"All right, kid, now to finish you off!" Shinku leaped int the air, then tried to stab him with the sword. Tails ducked again, which caused Shinku to crash into the wall. Tails quickly grabbed Shinku's sword.
"I'll get you for this, kid!" Shinku fell out of the wall. It was about then that he noticed his sword was gone.
"What happened to my sword?" He asked just before he saw Tails inspecting it.
Shinku looked up to see Tails with his weapon in hand. "Hey, give that back!"
"You know what? I get the feeling that you can't attack without this sword; it would explain why you use it so much, and why you want it back so bad."
"That's not why I want it back! That sword belonged to my father just before he passed away!"
Tails looked at Shinku. "If I give this back to you, you have to promise to let us leave in peace."
"I don't work for the Government, so I don't care," Shinku replied. Upon receiving the sword, he said, "You're a good fighter, Fox-boy."
"Nah, I just got lucky; and you can just call me Tails."
"Well, I gotta go before I get arrested by the military; you might want to do the same." Tails and Shinku gave each other a thumbs-up sign before Shinku left.
Just then, Sonic came in with Amy. Tails and Amy jumped back into the Tornado. "Whoa, Tails, when did you get this?" Sonic walked up to the Tornado.
"Sonic, you know I built this thing. What'd you do, hit your head?"
"I must've hit my head, cause I don't recall Big Eyes over here," he replied, pointing to Amy.
"Sonic, we don't have time for jokes. You go find out what Eggman's up to, and we'll meet up at the airport, all right?"
Tails was about to leave when Sonic asked, "Yo, Tails, who's Eggman?"
"Sonic, how could you forget that Dr. Eggman is Dr. Robotnik? You're the one who gave him that name!"
"I Did?"
"Sonic, can you save the games for later?"
"Fine," agreed AOSTH-Sonic, who was now more confused and annoyed than ever.
Sonic grudgedly dashed outside, then witnessed something that cheered him up quick: the docks, which were made up of mostly loops and turns.
"Way past cool!" AOSTH-Sonic said. He made his way through the loops and turns until the obstacle course of his brought him to a dense forest.
"Cool so far." He was about to leave, when he saw a familiar black hedgehog on a giant tree root.
"Shadow?"
Shadow turned around when he heard his name. "That blue hedgehog again, of all places!"
"I found ya again, coward!"
"Coward? You dare to call me a coward when you were the one who ran away from the police when I last saw you?"
"Wha? I didn't run from nobody!" AOSTH-Sonic took a closer look. "And you're the hedgehog who framed me; the only good thing about you is you're looks!"
Shadow ignored that last comment and jumped down from the root. "The bank was a small job, and so is this one! Let's finish this now, hedgehog!"
"Wait a Sonic-second!" AOSTH-Sonic dug in his pocket and pulled out a chili-dog and swallowed it whole. Shadow watched in disbelief.
"Let's go!"
Shadow revved up his spindash; AOSTH-Sonic did the same. They both released at the same time, and volently plowed into each other; both jumped back afterwards. Sonic and Shadow both did the homing attack in midair and slammed each other multiple times before landing.
"I don't have time for games!" Shadow lunged forward. Sonic ducked and belted him in the gut. Shadow fell back, caught his breath, then jumped back a little.
"Juicin' already, Black Sheep?" Sonic gloated.
"Fighting this way is useless. I will show you my true power!" Shadow opened up his fist and channeled his energy into his hands.
"What're ya doin?"
"Chaos . . ."
All of the sudden, Shadow's communicator beeped. "Shadow; what are you doing? Hurry and get back here right now before the island blows up with you on it!" Eggman shouted on the communicator.
"Say WHA?!" Sonic shouted.
"Chaos Control!" Shadow erupted into flashes of light and disappeared.
"Aww, man! I gotta find Tails and the pink girl fast!"
Sonic was about to start looking, but then he was surrounded on all sides with guard robots.
Sonic looked around. "You guys love to chase me, don't ya?"
"Surrender now, and maybe we'll forget this ever happened."
"Yeah right, robo-head! I'd love to stay, but I gotta juice!" Sonic spun through one of them and made his way to where Tails and the others were, with guard robots chasing him along the way, of course. Soon, he managed to find Amy and Tails.
"Sonic, what's wrong?" Tails asked.
"No time! This place is gonna blow sky-high!"
Amy and Tails gasped and started the plane. They were already flying when the first few bombs blew. They barely managed to escape the final explosion. After they were sure they had gotten away, Tails switched the plane to Autopilot.
"After this, I'm grabbin' a chili dog!" Sonic said just before conking out in the backseat.
Tails and Amy stared at Sonic for the longest time.
Amy leaned over. "Hey Tails, haven't you noticed that there's something strange about Sonic?"
"Yeah, he's talking weird, he didn't know who Dr. Eggman was . . ."
" . . . His quills are shorter . . ."
Tails shifted his gaze to Amy. "You know, only you would notice that," he remarked.
"Oh yeah? Well, some of us care to notice these things!" She folded her arms and looked over the side of the airplane.
Tails sighed. "This is going to be a long and silent ride home."