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 16
Robotnik landed in his city of steel, his Swatbot greeted him with salutes, but he gave them as much thought as you might give your furniture. He stomped into his control room and plopped down into his chair, why it never broke when he did this was anyone's guess.
"What's wrong Sir? Did the battle go well?" Snivley mocked.
"Shut up Snivley." Robotnik spat. He normally would've hit Snivley for a remark like that, but his thoughts were on Jonny's robots. "Those robots were fantastic... So much destructive power in just one robot... I must have them."
Meanwhile in Skull tower, Sally, Sonic and Rotor had rejoined the crowd and began to explain what they had seen to Bunnie and the others. Jonny had taken the Skulker to its docking bay on, or rather IN the roof of Skull tower.
"Princess?" The human's face appeared on the monitor screen. "You there?"
Sally walked over to the terminal in the wall. "I'm right here. What do you want?"
"Might I suggest that you all settle in before we continue with our tour?"
"I guess that may be the best thing to do." Sally said to the picture of Jonny on the screen.
"Then I bid you all find your rooms, and settle in. You have the entire day to look around and get your bearings." He looked off screen, "Oh, I see Wave man and Bubble man have come back from the river with nets full of fish. Supper should be ready in an hour. Remember, its first comer first serve." Jonny said with a cheerful laugh.
"And what will you be doing?" Sally asked, frowning.
Jonny pushed his shades back and frowned, "Making repairs, a few of my robots were damaged in that little skirmish outside." He said.
'I guess she still doesn't trust me completely. I don't blame her for being cautious, I mean she is responsible for all of their lives.' He thought.
"Okay, one last thing. I left your rooms pretty much blank, so you can do what ever you want with them. Go nuts." Sally didn't have time to respond before Jonny turned off the monitor.
Sally fumed. 'The man's as annoying as Sonic.'
The Mobians took the hour they had to select their rooms. Jonny had been true to his word, the rooms were all a sterile white. In each room was a bed, a few shelves, and private bathroom. There wasn't much else to look at, so they spent the rest of their time wandering around the tower. At few stopped and started to play games in the arcade, Sonic included. Others discovered the auditorium and all the musical instruments it had. Luckily for everyone the walls of the auditorium were made to be sound proof.
When the hour was up, they heard announcement by one of the Robot master inviting them to the cafeteria.
The cafeteria was huge, long rectangular tables lined the room, with more chairs than were really needed, Jonny had just wanted to be through. Wind man, an orange robot with huge fans for shoulders was handing out the food. Sonic and the gang each took a plate and looked at the food he had given them. The food had defiantly been prepared by skilled hands. The Mobians stuffed themselves, having not eaten since breakfast. The room was filled with chatter as the Mobians talked. The room went dead silent as Jonny entered the room though. He could feel their eyes boring into his back as he took his plate and sat in the corner alone and ate his dinner in silence. The talking resumed a while later. Sonic looked over at him, Jonny was eating fast, real fast. He seemed nervous, but who wouldn't with so many eyes watching you. Sonic wrote it off as the jitters. The silence and stares returned when Jonny got up to hand his plate to Wind man.
'I hate crowds.' Jonny thought. In truth, he was actually deathly afraid of crowds, he couldn't remember why, but somehow managed to maintain some composure. "Wind Man, you defiantly have talent as a cook, great job." The human told his creation, giving him a thumbs up.
Wind man beamed with pride, "Plant man helped, he was the one who got me the spices I needed."
Jonny nodded. "Keep up the good work." Jonny turned and left the cafeteria in a big hurry, his nerves almost gone. He could feel the Mobian's stares boring into his back.
Sonic and the others noticed how nervous he had acted, you didn't need to be a rocket scientist to see it.
"Sonic, I think we should talk to him." Rotor told his friend. "He isn't going to be accepted if he acts like a recluse."
"We'll talk in the morning." Sonic said, "I mean his did say he had some stuff to do, and he did want us to look around. Everything'll be fine. Trust me."
Sally winced, whenever Sonic said 'Trust me' usually meant bad news.
After had given their plates to Wind man, the Mobians split up and resumed looking the place over. The only thing that was different was the large blue robot guarding one of the elevators.
He was an exceptionally large robot, a deep cobalt blue with gray highlights. He had a cylinder like head with hard yet piercing eyes. His arms were crossed as he watched everyone that got near him and the elevator he stood in front of.
"Who are you?" Ali-Su asked him.
"I'm... Hard man..." The robot spoke very slowly, his voice deep and metallic.
"What are you doing?" She asked, trying to look innocent.
"I'm... Not supposed to say..." Hard man said, looking up and down the hallway.
"Come on..." The echidna goaded, "You can tell me."
The huge robot sighed, he couldn't help it but he did have a soft spot for nice girls. "I'm... guarding the lab entrance." He whispered to her. "Don't tell anyone..."
"I won't. I promise." Ali-Su said, walking off. A smirk on her face, 'I'm going to get that Overlander for this, stealing all of Jonny's plans and calling him one of your robots. He was too real to be one of his machines!" Ali-Su fumed, and went to look around the Tower for Doc. She couldn't help but likethe cute little robot.
The next day, Sally and the gang met Jonny at the elevator to his lab in the basement.
They all entered the cramped elevator and rode one floor down. The doors opened to show nothing but a dark room, so dark in fact that nothing could be seen. Jonny reached around the corner and flicked a switch. The lights came on in rows, revealing many machines of varying sizes and shapes. Many unfinished. In appearance, it was the same as the hallways in the first floor, black floors and white walls.
"Welcome to my lab, make yourselves at home." Jonny said, "You can look around, as long as none of my experiments are broken, I'm happy."
Rotor was blown away, Jonny was going to let him work with all this equipment? He felt like a child in a candy store. He stopped at the large computer in the center of the enormous room.
Sally looked at the computer, then at Jonny. "How did you build all this, I mean, you couldn't of memorized all this."
"Very insightful Princess." Jonny walked over to a desk that was sitting in a random spot in the lab and opened a drawer, inside was a multitude of rolled up papers. Jonny pulled one out and laid it out on the desk, showing it to the Freedom fighters.
Everyone crowded around the desk, looking at what Jonny had unrolled, "These are Quick mans blueprints." Jonny explained. The plans were extremely detailed, showing every part and where it went.
They were then, abruptly interrupted by a screeching sound, as a Botonton flew out of nowhere and began to screech and fly around them excitedly.
"Ah... Botonton number 12, was your mission a success?" Jonny asked with a smirk.
The robot bat screeched softly and bobbed in midair.
"Excellent..." The human said, drumming his fingers. "Now interface with the computer and download what you scanned."
"Mission? I wasn't told anything Jonny." Sally narrowed her eyes at the larger human.
"Sorry if I over stepped my bounds Sal." Jonny raised his hands in defense, "I needed to do this."
The Botonton however had meanwhile download everything it had seen into Jonny's computers via a cable in it's round mouth. A detailed blueprint of a large machine appeared on the computers screen.
"That blueprint looks familiar..." Sally said, cocking her head.
"It might, it's the plans for the Roboticizer." Jonny smirked, he then motioned for the robotic bat to leave, which it did. Disappearing into a small hole in the wall.
"WHAT?" The FFs all cried.
Jonny sighed, not surprised at all by their response. "Let me explain. Ever since I built my first robot I wished it was an actual living thing. I then took it upon myself to create a machine that could turn metal and circuits into flesh and blood." He turned to face them. "I believe that the Robotizier is the key to creating this machine. Believe me when I tell you I have no interest in conquest, and I find the thought of robbing someone of their free will appalling. Free will and thought is what I gave my robots, they only work for me out of obligation, that I built them and the only one on this planet that can create the thing that powers them. After Robotnik is defeated, I want Plasma to become a standard power source so my robots can not force themselves to return to this tower whenever they must refuel."
"Why care so much for your robots?" Sally asked, "Don't you see them as tools to make your life easier?"
Jonny took off his shades, for the first time what his eyes where like. They where a pretty grayish blue with small flecks of brown and green. Jonny's eyes had a soft and kind appearance, but behind them it was clear to see the sheer amount of sadness that he had suffered in his life.
"They do have practical purposes, most of them anyway." He looked at them, "But they're also my friends, and I never mistreat my friends. It's... part of a set of rules I follow."
He turned to the computer, "I've never had many friends guys, being related to Dr. Wily was like being related to Robotnik." He sighed, "Imagine it, having to go by aliases all your life, running for your life when people found out who you really were. It hurts when the friends you make suddenly turn on you for the sins your grandfather makes." He sank to his knees, recalling many memories of said events. The Freedom fighters saw his eyes where starting to water. "All I ever wanted was people to like me for who I am." Jonny looked at the ground, he was tired of running he wanted to stop feeling this powerful sense of loneliness that had plagued him ever since he was old enough to remember.
He suddenly felt a hand on his shoulder, he looked up to see Tails smiling at him.
"I'm your friend Jonny." The young fox said. "I don't know who your grandfather was of what he did, so there's no need to dislike you."
"Yeah, you haven't hurt anyone." Rotor said, trying to sound sympathetic. "You did trick us with that android fox, but you did save lives by ordering your 'bots to help us when Robotnik attacked Knothole."
Jonny smiled at the fox and dried his eyes with his sleeve. "Thanks guys, You have no idea how much that small amount of encouragement means to me." He took his shades and placed them back on.
"Tails, I just want to say that I'm sorry to you."
"What for? You already apologized for tricking us." Tails said, confused.
"Remember that time you went out for a walk and you ran screaming back to the village?"
"Yeah! I won't forget that for a long time!"
"That was me. I'm sorry little guy." Jonny said looking at the fox, "And since you were the first Mobian I saw, I modeled the grey fox android after you Tails."
"Really?" Tails asked.
"Yeah, sort of an 'I'm sorry' part of its design."
"That's kinda sweet sugah." Bunnie told him.
"There's one thing I'm sure of." Sonic smirked and pointed at Jonny's shades. "Dude, you must be from another world, I've never seen eyes like that."
"Hey, what's that over there?" Rotor just noticed a large heavy iron door in the back of the room. A large purple robotic wolf stood guarding the door.
"That's Treble. Bass had him as a partner back on Earth." Jonny said, "But since I didn't build him, I chose for Treble to guard the door to the goes to the Sub-basement. Where I store all my failed experiments and robots that are just either too dangerous or unstable to let walk around unattended."
"Iz he nice?" Antoine asked.
"As long as you don't try to go down there, he's... um... very committed..." Jonny trailed off.
Treble watched them, he gave a growl like a car engine and laid down watching every one of them intently.
Antoine gulped and backed away from the wolf, even though he was all the way across the room.
Jonny and Sonic both snickered.
"You know what guys?" They looked at Jonny. He smiled. "It's nice to have friends."
To be continued...
A/N: Hazel eyes are brown with small flecks of green and grey. I did give Jonny my eyes, which really are like that.
