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 18

"Are you serious Tails? Ali-Su really thinks that the android Jonny used to learn about us was the real Jonny?" Sonic said.

"Yeah, and she thinks that the android was a Robian and that the real Jonny stole all the ideas for the Robot masters."

"That's harsh. Why on Mobius would she think that's the case?" Amy wondered. She and Sonic were sitting inside the auditorium, Amy in the first row and Sonic was sitting on the stage, his feet dangling over the edge. He was playing with a guitar he had found in the back room.

Magic man, the robot put in charge of this room, watched the Mobians from his seat in the back of the room. As a robotic magician, Magic man was a charming illusionist that loved to visit the children and do a few tricks for them during recess outside. They loved to see him do card tricks and other things, but they loved it when he'd make something disappear and reappear. The only thing he didn't like was when Toad man came in to sing, Toad man was tone deaf so it was no chorus of angels.

"Beats me." Tails sighed, then shrugged. "Could you talk to her Amy? She may believe you more than me."

"Maybe." Amy said, standing up. She stretched and added, "I can't promise anything. But Jonny's a nice guy, he shouldn't have to slink around his own tower to avoid us."

"Thanks Amy." Tails said, turning to his hero. "Sonic are you gonna go too?"

"Yeah, I gotta meet Quick man for another rematch tomorrow." Sonic said, setting the guitar down and hopping off the stage. "And he said he had some friends that wanted to race too."

"Thanks guys, I gotta get to the lab Rotor and Jonny will start to worry."

"He sure has taken quite a shining to that echidna." Sonic said, which was the truth. Jonny was in actuality an alien to their world.

"The guy has a kind personality Sonic." Amy said taking his arm, which made Sonic feel uneasy. "Jonny's the kind of guy who just wants the people around him to be happy."

It didn't take long for Sonic to wiggle his arm from Amy's grasp. The two walked off, looking for the echidna named Ali-su.

Tails walked back to the elevator and pressed the down button. Jonny was his friend and he wanted to help him to feel accepted, but due to the fact that he looked so much like an Overlander did make that hard. Plus the knowledge that he built robots made that even harder. Tails sighed as the doors opened on the elevator opened to reveal the tiny lobby that separated the lab from the elevator. Tails put the keycard that Jonny had given him and put it in the slot.

"Hiya Tails!" Jonny greeted his young friend as the doors opened.

"Hi Jonny, hey Rotor." Tails said, the doors closing behind him.

Jonny was working on the Roboticizer, as he had since he had first shown them the lab. His life's dream was within his reach, he was not going to stop. He was glad for Rotor's assistance, the walrus was more familiar with this technology than he was.

Jonny allowed Tails to do make whatever he wanted in the lab, and Tails was thankful. Tails sat down on a stool, pulled out on of the rolls of paper, and carefully looked over the plans for Jonny's robots. Jonny didn't seem to care.

Tails pulled out another one of the rolled up plans out of the metal deck and looked at it a second. "Hey Jonny! Can you come here?" he called over to the human.

"Just a sec." Jonny stood up from the machine that had caused Mobius so much pain and walked over to the fox. "What is it?" He said cheerfully.

"What is this? It doesn't look like anything I've seen in the tower." Tails pointed to what looked like giant robot eye with diodes sticking out of it in various places.

That's the only real component to one of the guardian robots that protected my grandfather. That one is called 'Green Devil' because it could manipulate a artificial green ooze into a body.

"Did you build it?" Rotor asked.

"It's in the sub basement. I don't plan on using it. The Devil series robots are violent and very dangerous."

"Why build it at all then?" Rotor asked. "Besides, I thought you said you'd never create anything that was violent as that Bass robot you talked about."

Jonny looked at Rotor a second, then gave himself a slap in the face. "I don't know... I guess I wanted something to do."

Rotor and Tails looked at each other, giving each other a sort of 'that was a dumb answer' look.

"Just kidding," Jonny laughed. "The Devils are controllable, unlike Bass. But their appearance is... unsettling to say the least."

Tails and Rotor both nodded.

'This from the guy who decorates his home with skulls.' Tails thought, a tiny snicker escaped his lips.

Sonic and Amy walked down the corridors on the first floor. Amy had known Ali-Su for some tie now, and she knew what Ali liked to do. They had searched the arcade, now they looked into the room labeled 'Crystal man's shop of mystery'. Inside the room were bookshelves filled with hand made mystic items. Dream catchers, tarot card decks, incense burners (and incense), and books on astrology, UFOs, astral projection and lots of other things. But the first thing one noticed when Sonic and Amy noticed was the sheer amount of crystal balls that decorated the room, these crystals were of every size and color and were all for sale. There was dark jungle green robot sitting behind the store's counter, he had a crystal ball on his forehead, in the center of his chest, in his shoulders and in his wrists and knees. His feet and hands were as white Amy's gloves and he, like many of the other Robot masters had a metal plate over his mouth. Business must've been slow because he was playing solitaire with some playing cards.

Crystal man then noticed that he had customers, and quickly put the cards away. "What can I get you two?" He tried not to sound desperate. No one had even offered to trade something for some of his merchandise. "Would you like a palm reading? Want to trade for a nice crystal? Tell your future? Please, Not one person that's come here to Skull tower has been interested in my shop."

Amy shrugged, "I've never seen a robot that was so interested in the paranormal. I wouldn't mind a palm reading." she smiled at the robot, taking off her glove. "Does it cost anything?"

"Nah, first customer gets a free reading." Crystal man took Amy's hand and studied it the best he could. "Um... I seem to have a problem with reading your fur covered palm miss... Would you settle for a tarot reading?"

"Amy, we're supposed to be looking for Ali-Su, not fooling around with a fortune teller." Sonic scolded.

"I know that!" She snipped at Sonic, who backed off. "Let the nice man do his thing."

'Note to self: Do not tick off this organic.' Crystal man thought, pulling out his special tarot cards. He shuffled the deck and placed the cards down as they're supposed to do. Then flipped them over.

Amy gasped as she saw that one card that was shown was the death card.

Crystal man noticed her scared expression. "I see you now little of tarot." He held up the death card. "The death card is neither good nor bad. It represents transition, change."

Amy gave a sigh of relief. "I didn't know."

Crystal man looked over the other cards. Then widened his eyes in shock. Amy noticed his expression, and grew afraid.

"What is it Crystal?" Amy asked, putting her gloves back on.

"Some one you know is going to be hurt." He looked at Amy, regaining his composure, but his eyes still looked surprised. He made a sound like a gulp. "Possibly die."

"Who!? Where!?" Amy cried, she pounded the desk with her fists, the cards on the counter shook and moved a little.

"I don't know, the cards are vague and mysterious." Crystal man told her sternly. "But I can tell you this, something strange is going to happen here. I may be a robot, but even I can sense when something's amiss around here."

"It's all a bunch of hooey, Amy." Sonic said, grabbing Amy by the wrist and pulled her towards the door. "Let's go."

Crystal man called them as the left "Be sure to tell your friends-" the door slammed shut.

Crystal man sighed and pulled out the playing cards again. "Wish I'd get some customers, there's nothing happening here."

Jonny, Tails and rotor had been working in silence for quite a while. Until Tails asked the inevitable question.

"Do you miss your world?" Tails asked, handing Jonny a welding torch. "I mean, you've been here for over a month and you may never get back. If I were in the same situation, I'd be homesick, but you seem cool as a cucumber."

Jonny looked up from his work and sighed. "Tails, there wasn't really anything back home I had that made me happy. I had only a few friends, everyone hated me, and all my family is dead. All I owned was a tiny island in the Pacific Ocean back on Earth that I inherited from grandpa Wily." Jonny forced a smile. "And I mean TINY, Skull castle barely fit on the dinky thing.

"You mean this tower is really supposed to be a castle?" Tails said, his eyes told Jonny he wanted to know more.

"No, Skull castle was remade countless times by my grandfather. Each time Mega man, Dr. Light's warrior robot, defeated the Robot masters and entered one of the fortresses, grandpa either would set the self destruct code on the castle, or something else would happen, destroying the fortress in the process. This Tower is a recreation of his eighth design, Wily Tower.

"Wait, isn't this Tower named 'Skull Tower'?" Rotor looked at Jonny, slightly puzzled.

"Yes... But I opted for this modified design. I wanted Robotnik to see his future everytime he looks out and sees the skulls that are a part of this Towers structure."

"That's kinda sick." Tails said frowning.

"Looking back on it, I think of it more than a bit melodramatic." Jonny smiled sheepishly scratching his head. Rotor and Tails both looked at each other and shrugged.

Jonny snapped his fingers. "I almost forgot."

Jonny walked over and patted Treble on the head. The robotic wolf wagged his tail and gave his master a content look. Jonny pulled out a can of plasma and poured it into a nearby bowl for Treble, who greedily drank it down.

"You're a great guard dog Treble, you make me proud." He told the wolf, who only nodded slightly in response.

Jonny stretched then stretched, "Hey Rotor. You look like you could use a break, wanna go to the arcade?"

"I dunno, we should finish this. I mean, this machine you want to build could also be used to help Bunnie."

"Huh? What do you mean? When we finish building this Roboticizer we could just deroboticize her." He stopped and noted the fore longed look oh his friends faces. "What?"

"I guess you never heard." Rotor said soberly, looking square at the human.

"Heard what?" Jonny asked, returning the look at the walrus.

"Bunnie's mechanical limbs have had so many upgrades that she won't survive deroboticization. She has to keep upgrading or she may die."

"I... Never knew." Jonny said, looking at the ground. "Good thing you told me before I said something that could've gotten my butt whooped." He tried to lighten the mood with a joke, as was his nature.

Tails chuckled. Despite the sobering predicament that Bunnie was in, he laughed at the thought of Jonny being kicked around by Bunnie.

"Come on Rotor, you've been working without a break for the last few hours." Tails said, "You go have some fun, I'll work on the Roboticizer a bit more."

"Okay, just be careful Tails." Rotor said, waving off the offer. "But you are right, I could use a break let's go."

"Treble! Keep an eye on things while I'm out." Jonny called to the wolf, who had finished off the plasma in his bowl and was laying in front of the enormous door that lead to the Sub basement.

Treble watched as his master left, the wolf stretched and relaxed. Nothing ever happened in the lab, but he still was obligated to keep a close eye on the fox.

Ali-Su was in the cafeteria, she was sitting at one of the tables talking with some of her friends. Talking on this and that when Sonic and Amy found her.

"Hi Sonic, Amy, what do you want?" Ali-Su asked them.

"Hi Ali-Su, we came to talk to you." She said the last part sternly. "Alone."

"We'll see you later Ali-Su." the warthog said, getting up and leaving with the rest of the group that Ali-Su was sitting with.

After they left Amy and Sonic sat down at the table.

"So what's so important that we had to chase off my friends?" Ali-Su asked, giving them both a bad look.

"You now that guy who runs this place?" Amy asked.

"Hmph." the echidna turned her nose up, "That Overlander? What about him?"

"He told us that you think that the android that he made was a Robian." Sonic said.

"So... You believe that Overlander over me?" Ali said, she still thought the human had stolen the plans for the robot masters and hated the human for it.

"He's a nice guy Ali, the guy's been through a lot and has even made an enemy of buttnik." Sonic explained, "All he wants to do is apologize to you."

"Then why not come himself?" Ali-Su said, as stern as Amy had been earlier.

"He tried to do that, but you yelled at him and stomped off." Amy scolded, standing up.

Sonic was getting annoyed. "He, at least, wants you to stop treating him like an enemy. Why not give the kid a break?"

Ali-Su was fed up with this argument, she stood up. "I don't see how you are still alive Sonic Hedgehog! You and Amy are so gullible!" Ali-Su stomped off. Leaving Amy and Sonic with stunned looks on their faces.

"Well that went well." Sonic said sarcastically.

Inside the arcade were rows of many rows of games. Some fighting games, puzzle games, shooter games, even pinball games. Clown man was the Robot master that Jonny had put in charge here, Clown man had wanted to be in charge of the auditorium, but Jonny had decided that Magic man was better suited for that job.

Jonny asked for two dozen coins from Clown man, which he was glad to do and split it with the walrus. Rotor watched as his human friend walked up to a rather morbid machine and motioned him to come over. The machine had two shotguns attached to it with cables, at the top read 'CarnEvil'. The human took off his lab coat and laid it on the seat of a nearby racing game. Rotor noticed that without that coat he looked like a punk because of black shirt and the huge shades he wore.

Jonny took one of the shotguns from the holster and put a coin in the machine. "Trust me on this Rotor, this game is fun." He smirked, cocking the gun.

Rotor studied the games rules that were printed on its sides before doing the same. After a few minutes and a few coins, Rotor had gotten the hang of the game. Jonny and he were plowing through this game, only stopping their barrage on the enemy clowns and zombies to switch hands on the trigger and pump. By the time they reached the last boss, a small crowd of Mobians, including Sonic and Amy, had gathered around them watching them shoot the tall figure that shouted 'OBEY ME!' and 'You can't destroy me!' threw lit bombs and shoot at them with an elephant gun.

"Rotor, I got the projectiles, you go for Tokkentakker." Jonny said, shooting the oncoming volleys of fireworks before they impacted, damaging neither of their life bars.

"Right on." Rotor quickly fired and reloaded and fired again. Emptying the last part of the boss's life bar. The tall figure on the screen flew back into the propeller blades of the blimp they fought on.

The crowd crongratulated Rotor and Jonny as the final scores read: Player 1 accuracy: 64.2 percent, Player 2 accuracy: 49.1 percent. Jonny had the higher percentage and gave Rotor a high five.

"Nicely done Rotor." He sighed as the credits rolled, he grabbed his coat and slipped it back on.

"You were right, that was fun. Morbid, mind you, but fun none the less." Rotor said, rubbing his wrists. "Why'd you make the games coin operated? Money doesn't have any worth since Robonik took over."

Jonny shrugged, "It adds to the feel. Besides, the coins are free."

As they walked back from the game, two Mobians grabbed the guns and started to play.

Jonny noticed the hedgehogs that were in the crowd, "Hey Sonic, Amy, how'd it go with Ali-Su?"

Sonic and Amy both frowned and shook their heads.

Jonny tried to sound and look cheerful. "Well. Thanks for trying guys." Jonny walked off, taking the elevator to his personal floor.

After Jonny was out of sight, Amy turned to Sonic and said, "Ali-Su is so stubborn. She's so hung up on that android she can't see anything else."

"What do you mean Amy?" Sonic asked his young admirer, a puzzled look on his face.

"Come on Sonic," Amy put her hands on her hips. "Why else would she be so obsessed about avenging her friend?"

Sonic gave her a surprised look. "That puts things in a new light."

After opening the door with his pass code, Jonny walked through the unfinished frames that were going to be walls. He laid don his bed, hoping tomorrow would be a better day.

How wrong he was.

To be continued....