Jazzerman here, I do not own any of these characters, they are owned by their respected companies, blah, blah, blah. You've heard this sht before.
But I do own this story.
A Wily tale
Part 14
In Robotropolis, Robotnik sat in his chair, enjoying the thought that he had just destroyed his most hated enemy's home that was hidden from him for so long. The thought of the freedom fighters
"Sir! Sir!" a meek voice called.
"What is it Snively? You're spoiling my good mood with your presence." Robotnik grumbled.
"I have news Sir." The tiny Overlander squeaked. "I just detected a Tower of some sort has appeared on the other side of the Great Forest. And all our Combots are no longer functioning."
"WHAT?" Robotnik yelled, his mood defiantly spoiled now. He grabbed his nephew and shook him violently.
"I'm sorry Sir, This tower just appeared out of nowhere and our bots just suddenly started falling like flies." Snively said as his enormous uncle shook him.
"Let me take a look," He tossed Snivley to the ground and strode over to the monitor. He saw the large skulls that decorated the tower and frowned. "Someone certainly has a very melodramatic taste in décors." he said.
"What do we do know?" Snivley asked, 'You bloated buffoon.'
Robotnik starred at the screen coldly. "We investigate."
Jonny decided to begin with a small tour of the first floor. The FFs felt relieved that the robot known as Skull man was no longer outside in the hallway, but other robots still walked the hall with little to no interest in them.
"Personally, I'm surprised you can even walk straight after that hit you took from Amy's hammer!" Sonic laughed.
Jonny chuckled. "I think I can because these took the worst of it." He said taking out the broken pair of broken shades for a second, then placed them back into a pocket in his coat.
"I guess I'll start with my favorite room, the battle arena." Jonny said opening a door to reveal a large cylinder structure with a clear dome at the top. There were platforms above the structure with stairs leading up to them, monitors were hanging about, all off. Jonny lead them up one of the staircases, the platform was made of simple iron so was the railing. These platforms were suspended by large heavy iron beams. There were two comfy looking leather recliners sitting next to each other, on the seat of each chair sat a M.I.S. headband, these however were equipped with visors.
"Man, you've been busy." Sonic said. He and the rest of the gang were surprised that all this had been built in under a month, even with all of Jonny's robots.
"Thanks," Jonny said calmly, "I'll show you why it's so fun. Sonic, would you take a seat?"
Sonic sat down in the chair, "Comfy."
Jonny went over to the over chair and sat down, "Okay, Now put on the M.I.S."
Sonic did so, then laid back. "Nothing's happening."
"Hold on, I have to put mine on too." Jonny said, putting on the M.I.S. that was on his chair.
The next thing Sonic knew he was standing in a large round room. "Where am I?" He noticed Jonny was standing behind him.
"This is the arena." Jonny said, "We're actually mentally controlling these robotic shells from the comfort of our chairs."
"So what do we do here?" Sonic said looking around, there was nothing but heavily reinforced walls.
"Oh... Something like... This!" Jonny then decked Sonic square in the face, who fell over onto the hard floor.
Much to Sonic's surprise, that didn't hurt. "What the heck..."
"This isn't real Sonic, I made this to be the ultimate stress relief system. Now come get some blue boy!" He threatened with a smile on his face.
Sonic grinned, "This should be fun, he leapt at the shade wearing man. Sonic then unexpectedly shifted targets, the hedgehog grabbed his coat and swung him to the ground, HARD.
"Nice one." Jonny tripped Sonic from his position on the floor.
"Man, I have to admit, that does look like fun." Tails said, watching from the platform.
Yes, eet would be entertaining to fight with out worrying about hurting my opponents safety." Antoine said, jokingly.
"Okay... That's enough." Jonny said, waving a hand.
"Yeah, We'll have plenty of time to continue this since we've agreed to stay." Sonic said, then looked around, seeing no way out of the enclosed room. "How do we get out of this?"
"Just say 'log out'." Jonny's form instantly faded away to reveal a black and grey robot. The only part of a face this one had was 2 blank yellow eyes. The top of it's head was a clear dome, inside it's mechanical brain could be seen, lights flickered inside the dome.
Sonic was surprised, but said "Log out." The next thing he knew, he was sitting in the chair back above the arena.
"So that was what it was like to use that M.I.S. thingies?" Sonic asked, getting up from the chair.
"Yeah, kinda fun huh?"
"Yeah." Sonic shot Jonny a thumbs up.
"Sometimes I even like to go head to head with one of my Robot masters. I open the doors and we throw down."
"You fight those robots and you're still in one piece?" Amy said, surprise in her voice. "What's your secret?"
Jonny snapped his fingers and a hand reading scanner rotated out of the wall. Jonny placed a hand on a scanner, which read his prints and a section of the wall moved revealing what looked like parts to one of his robots.
However these parts were all hollow. There were white boots with black shin guards, 2 large gauntlets that were black with yellow highlights, but the hand portion of the gauntlet was pure white like a glove. There was a black chest plate with shoulder guards, it was outlined with yellow as well, but in the center was a smooth fist sized blue gem. The helmet was black and had curved extensions that looked like kinda like wings, the part that faced out was the same color as the highlights. There was a blue gem on the helmet shaped like a star. Every piece of this armor was shiny and smooth.
"Wow." Amy said, Tails and Rotor both saw this as a sample of the things this young man could make.
"I designed this armor after one of my grandfather's most powerful robots, Bass was his name."
"Is he in the tower?" Tails asked, looking around.
"No." Jonny said, "He was... Uncontrollable, arrogant, and violent, more violent than even Skull man. I refuse to create anyone like him, so I fashioned instead this battle armor after him."
The gang of Freedom fighters looked relieved.
"What made him so powerful?" Sally asked.
"The same substance that powers this Tower." Jonny explained, "Bassnium, the only thing my grandfather ever made that truly had peaceful properties. It's currently the most powerful energy source on Earth."
"Earth?" Sally looked confused.
"Heh heh heh. Oops. Slip of the tongue." Jonny gave a sheepish grin and scratched his head. "Nevermind me, just talking nonsense." He panicked
"Spill it. Who are you really?" Sally demanded, fed up with al his secrecy.
"I might as well explain." He caved, He couldn't stand it when women yelled at him. "I am not from this pleasantly serene planet. I found a device my grandpa had and modified it to bring me here."
Bunnie laughed, "Yer a great joker sugah."
"It wasn't a joke." Jonny said flatly.
All the Freedom fighters gave him a look of uncertainty.
"Tell me Sonic, how many fingers do Overlanders have?"
"Four, like the rest of the people on Mobius." The hedgehog said.
"How many do I have?" Jonny said, holding his hand up for all to see.
Every Mobian stared, counting the man's digits over and over. Each time the total was 5.
"I'm a human, not an Overlander. From what I've seen, Overlanders do much more evil than good. Yet they don't seem to want to reach above that. Of course, I reached this conclusion without further study. I have dedicated my life to find a way to survive and try to clean some of the tarnish from my family name."
"So?" Sally said, not impressed at all by his little speech. "I bet you could've made an extra mechanical finger if you wanted to."
"Maybe, but that would be a waste of resources on my part." Jonny said. "Why would I go through the trouble of doing that? I have no reason for subterfuge here. I swear I'm being sincere."
"Okay, if so, how'd you get here from your world?" Sally asked, skeptical as usual.
"My grandfather once had in his possession a device called the Time skipper. With it, we went back and forth in time, making trouble, but was defeated and put in jail by Mega man." Jonny explained, "After my grandfather supposedly died in his last battle with Mega man, I inherited everything. Lock, stock and barrel. Including his schematics he made of the Time skipper. I knew I'd be mistreated in the future of my world due to my relation to a mad man, and I didn't want to screw up the past. So I simply rebuilt it into a device I called the 'World Skipper'. Same basic principle of transportation though. But far too complicated to say how it works without showing you the schematics."
"Ouch... Sorry man. Even if you didn't like the guy, He was the only family you had." Sonic said, "I didn't know."
"All the authorities found of grandpa Albert was his tattered lab coat, even though the blast was big enough to create a crater almost a fourth mile deep and disintegrate everything in a half mile radius." Jonny sighed. "I loved and hated the man. I loved him because he was family, I hated what he did. He hurt so many people..." He stopped there, not wanting to recall everything that his bloodline had done.
"Where is this device? I'd love to see it." Rotor said, eager to change the subject.
"I... uh... cough cough Dropped it when I activated it... It's back on Earth." Jonny said sheepishly, looking away.
"You're kidding right?" Amy said, sweatdropping.
Jonny scratched his head and gulped, "No. That's what happened. I was spooked by the sheer force the 'Skipper created and I dropped it. Like it or not... I'm stuck here now."
"Can't you make another one?" Sally asked.
"Hell no!" Jonny exclaimed, "That thing more complicated than any machine I've ever seen, and it's only the size of a TV remote!" He exclaimed. "I'd need the schematics to build one, and they're back on Earth too."
"Still, your story would explain a lot." Rotor said, "This technology is unlike anything I've seen. Even Robotnik doesn't have stuff like this."
"Thank you." Jonny said with a slight nod. "Now let's get back to the tour."
Meanwhile, outside, the crowd was all sitting down on the grass, talking about this and that. The shock and sadness of losing their homes had dulled, but it was still there. Their worry now was for the Princess, Sonic, and the others that had gone with, what they thought was an Overlander, into a Tower full of robots. The older Mobians grumbled, recalling memories of the war between them and the Overlanders. Some however talked of the android that they knew as Jonny.
"I can't believe that nice Fox was a robot." "He seemed so... alive..." The crowd said, still a little surprised at what they had seen only a very short time ago...
Both of Search man's heads looked out, watching everything that transpired.
"I wonder what they're talking about Serge." The right head said inquisitively.
"Never mind that Private. We have a job to do." The left barked, "The boss wants us to keep an eye out, so that's what we're going to do."
Ali-Su sat on the grass and leaned against the tower's walls. Trying to figure out to get that guy in the lab coat back. But nothing seemed to come to her that would guarantee her safety. 'This guy just has too many robots to get at directly...' She thought, 'I guess I'll just have to put my plans on hold.'
Ali-su Watched as a tiny robot came around the corner. It was only a foot tall or so, it was basically a grey beach ball like head on two yellow boot like feet wearing a yellow hard hat. It had big eyes and a cute little mouth.
"How cute." Ali-su said, the robot looked at her and gave a spooked "ep!" and disappeared into its helmet like a turtle into it's shell.
Ali-su chuckled and tried to flip it over, but the robot had griped the ground and wouldn't budge.
"I'm sorry little guy, I didn't mean to scare you." She said, trying to sound as harmless as possible.
The robot peeked out of from under it's helmet at the echidna like a 2 year old peeks out of the covers of his bed.
She giggled a little, 'It's so cute. Like a little kid.' Ali-su thought.
"Doc, what are you doing out here?" Search man's left kind head asked politely.
The tiny robot jumped up, trying to look alert. It made a few mechanical chirps and whistles, Ali noticed Search man's heads both listened intently.
"Okay. If that's the case. Carry on. Just don't go far." The Left head said.
"What did he say?" Ali asked the twin headed sentry robot.
"Doc just wanted to take a walk," The right head told her, the left keep and eye on the crowd. "He said was tired of waiting around to see if anyone was going to use the rooms he helped build."
Ali-Su turned to Doc, "Would you like to sit with me a while Doc?"
The robot smiled and did a back flip. Ali-su giggled, she was starting to like this place.
Jonny went on to show them other Rooms. But while walking down the hallway Sonic quite literally ran into himself.
"What the heck?" Sonic said rubbing his head, he looked up to see an exact copy of himself. He then looked at Jonny. "You didn't?" He accused.
Jonny shook his head. "I have to wear the Mental Interface system to control a puppet android."
Sonic raised his hand. The double did the same. He took a step back, the copy did the same. Sonic poked the copy, the copy did the same.
"Dude this isn't funny anymore." Sonic told the human.
"Dude this isn't funny anymore." The copy mocked perfectly.
"You're right. Cut it out Gemini man! It's impolite to treat guests this way." The man called out.
The copy of Sonic instantly faded away. A light blue robot with crystalline spikes on his helmet stepped out of one of the doors, chuckling to himself. "I was just goofin'. Sorry."
"How'd he do that?" Bunnie asked.
"He has a solid hologram projector built into his hardware. He can create almost anything that's as big as he is." Jonny said.
A copy of Gemini man stepped out from behind him. Gemini man looked his copy, the copy did the same.
"Ah, Beauty is a thing of wonder." Both said at once.
Sonic was considering socking the narcissistic robot until a whirring noise interrupted his thoughts.
"Warning! Enemy aircraft approaching!" a feminine monotone voice stated.
Jonny Raced over to a nearby terminal and pressed a few buttons. "Let's see what my Botontons spotted..." He mused, but his expression became hard as stone at the sight of a dozen Bot planes with Robotnik at the lead in his now repaired Egg pod.
To be continued...
