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 21
"I swear Unc, the guy's brilliant, he may even be smarter than Robotnik. And yet all he wants is some friends, he says wants to 'wipe some of the blood off his family name'." Sonic was laying on an old recliner chair in Uncle Chuck's spy shack under one of the junk heaps of Robotropolis. "His Robot masters tore Robotnik's fleet of robot planes apart like toilet paper! You should've seen it Unc."
Uncle Chuck laughed. "He sounds like a nice guy Sonny. But what you told me makes sense, all the disappearing robots and equipment. Old Lard for brains was so angry he actually tore apart any Swatbot that got in his way for hours after he got the news. Probably why Robotnik attacked Knothole."
"What!?" Sonic leapt to his feet. "What do you mean Uncle Chuck?"
Think about it, what if after this 'Jonny' stole Robotnik's equipment and robots, he thought it was you guys, and thought 'this is the last straw' and attacked.
Sonic was silent for few minutes, this new info was something he'd have to talk to Sally about.
'Is this really what happened? Did Jonny cause this?' he thought. "I gotta go unc... I got a race to win. Later."
Sonic hugged his uncle and raced off.
Uncle Chuck snickered and turned back to the monitors that sat in front of him. "That boy'll never change."
Thanks to Dr. Quack, Jonny had only 2 other shirts. A yellow sweater, and his favorite, a black T-shirt with a Tiger fighting a Chinese dragon with a shattered yin yang in the background on the back and a yin yang on the front. Jonny was wearing the latter now under his lab coat.
Jonny put his shades on, and sighed as his gaze fell on the chair next to him. "Another day in the chair... I never noticed how much I liked being able to walk. I'll be glad when I can finally get these casts off."
Jonny pulled himself into the wheelchair and rolled to the elevator.
After reaching the first floor, Jonny slowly rolled to the separate elevator for the lab. His mind drifted back to the talk he and Ali-Su had. He quickly shook his head, dismissing the thought of asking her out. He knew he liked her, but knew that she'd never go for a guy who's nearly two feet taller than her. 'Hell, I don't even know how old she is... I admit she's cute but I don't she'd go for a guy like me. No girl back on Earth ever did.'
He was so lost in thought he didn't notice that the very girl he was thinking about was behind him, helping him to the elevator.
"Hi Jonny." Ali-Su said, causing Jonny to nearly leap out of the wheelchair.
"Ali! Don't scare me like that!" Jonny looked at the echidna, frowning.
Ali-Su laughed, and turned the chair to look him in the eye, "Come on Jonny, can't you take a joke?" She asked, putting her hands on her hips.
Jonny sighed, he didn't really have a lot of experience with the opposite sex, and not much more about echidnas, so he didn't really know how to handle things like this.
He looked away from Ali, trying to hide his red face. "Ali, I don't normally eat lunch with anyone, would you mind if..." Jonny trailed off at the end.
"If you could eat with me?" Ali-Su finished his question, a small smile on her face. "Sure, why not?"
Jonny smiled, "Thanks Ali. It means a lot to me."
Ali was a bit confused, 'Does that mean he likes me?' she wondered.
Ali-Su wheeled Jonny to the elevator, "Thanks again Ali."
"Say, what is on the menu for lunch?" Ali asked.
"I dunno, Wind man's in charge of lunch." Jonny said, rubbing his chin, noticing he needed to shave. "I guess we'll have to wait till then."
The doors closed. Ali-Su walked off with a sigh. She remembered his eyes, such a pretty sight... unusual yes, but she thought they were pretty. 'I like that shirt.'
Sally was sitting in her room enjoying one the few moments when she could be alone and have nothing to work on. Sally's blissful silence was shattered however by a knock at her door.
"What now?" She grumbled as she opened the door, there stood, or rather floated, the always nervous Astro man bearing a message from Dr. Quack.
"Telegram." Astro man said nervously, handing the note to the princess.
Sally read the note. "Looks like that moron that attacked Jonny, in his own robot filled tower no less, finally woke up."
"You aren't going to try to dismantle me are you?" Astro man's red eyes bounced around in fear on his TV screen eyes. Astro man put his hands together like he was pleading. "Magnet man told me you guys don't like robots."
Sally was a little surprised, she had looked into some of Jonny's files during the past five days, and this robot was among the most powerful. And yet here he was, practically begging her not to harm HIM. Sally felt kinda sorry for the robot, she had also seen him being picked on by the other robot masters.
"No, I'm not going to take you apart." Sally said, trying to look and sound as calming as possible. "Magnet man was just teasing you. I'd never take apart on of Jonny's robots unless it was trying to kill me or someone else."
Astro man looked like he was relived. A little at least. He didn't reply, he only flew off as he heard some other Mobians come down the hall.
Sally, for once in her life, decided to go back and lie down. Lunch would be served soon, and she'd rather have a full stomach when she'd talk to a guy who tried to kill a friend of hers.
Sonic arrived at the outside of the tower, there stood Quick man, along with two other robots. One was Turbo man, a green and blue robot with spokes sticking out of his back and small tires on his feet and shoulders. The other was Top man, an orange robot with a head shaped like a top and a handsome face.
Sonic looked at the other two robots, then at Quick man. "These are the guys that we're racing with?"
"Yeah we are, and you don't wanna mess with the King of the road!" Turbo man boasted loudly.
"'King of the road' huh? You look like a clunker to me." Sonic mocked.
"CLUNKER!?" Turbo man shouted, exhaust fuming out of his spokes, and raised his fists attempting to squash Sonic like a bug.
However he was stopped before he could do this by Top man and Quick man holding him back.
"That wasn't very bright Sonic." Top man said in a charming tone. "Around Turbo man you have to play it smart."
"Playing it smart was never my style." Sonic said, "Let's get this race started!"
"You start when my bomb goes off." Said Crash man as launched his Crash Bomber at a rock, which instantly drilled into the rock and began to beep."
Crash man smirked, he was as proud of his bombs as much as Grenade man loved the loud noises and bright lights they made. After a full ten seconds, the bomb went off, blowing the rock to bits. Sonic and Quick man were off like greased lightning.
The onlookers were surprised when Turbo man transformed his body into a dragster version of himself and sped off, while Top man extended hi arms and spun like, well... a top, and shot off after the others.
The racers were close, Sonic had gotten a split second late start and Quick man was ahead of him. Sonic however wasn't paying attention to who was next to him, as Turbo man, without warning, sideswiped the hedgehog sending him head over heels at over 80 MPH. That wasn't all that happened, as Sonic crashed into Top man, both fell to a dead stop in the dirt.
"That's cheating!" Sonic yelled at the dragster robot.
"Nothing cheating for the king blue dweeb!" Turbo man shouted back at them.
Quick man had seen the whole thing from first place, and doubled back to help Top man and Sonic to their feet quickly before they all got back in the race.
"Thanks buddy!" Sonic called to Quick man.
Quick man looked back, "No prob! I just didn't want ta beat ya like that! Now you know why I told you to use your brains when you race Turbo man."
Sonic smirked, as all three of them quickly caught up to Turbo man. The trees of the forest were little more than blurs as they sped by.
Jonny meanwhile was down in the lab with Rotor and Tails, who were again looking through Jonny's video files.
Tails looked over to see Jonny working on the buster cannon from his power armor. "What are you doing Jonny? Something brake during the fight with Fire man?"
Jonny didn't look up from the cannon on the desk. "Nah I'm giving it a new ability. One I forgot to put in, the power shot."
"What's that?" The young fox asked.
"Basically I concentrate the energy into one large blast, it takes a while to charge, but it's worth it."
"Cool! Can you do anything else to enhance it?" Tails asked, wanting to know more.
Jonny thought for a second. "There is one thing, but that would take some time to create."
"What's that?" Tails asked.
"Take a look at video file number 5571." Jonny stated flatly, pointing at the terminal with his screwdriver.
Rotor opened the file. The screen showed Bass along side Treble. Tails and Rotor where surprised to see both robots merged into a bat-winged horror and began to fight Mega man.
"Why was Bass so obsessed with destroying Mega man? He fights with a zeal that borders on insanity." Rotor said, pointing to the screen.
Jonny sighed, "Bass thought that he was the strongest, that he was the greatest, and he should be able to beat Mega man easily. But the reason why he always failed was because he fought for personal gain, to assure himself that he was the most powerful robot in existence. Mega man always beat him because he fought for everyone's future, his own selflessness and courage was all he needed to defeat Bass, even when Treble aided him in combat, Bass always lost."
Rotor turned to face his friend and fellow tinkerer. "And that's why Bass was so hard to control, you told us that. If that was such a problem, why didn't Dr. Wily just create mindless robots, like Robotnik does?"
"While the idea of an army of mindless robot slaves was an appealing thought, grandpa realized that to combat sentient robots, his own creations would have to think for themselves as well." Jonny explained, setting down his tools. "However, he did not want them to have total free will, or they may one day defy him and turn against his cause. So he programmed them with the directives to never harm him, to never allow harm to come to him, and to look at him as their creator, mentor, and leader. He soon found that this does not mean that they were incapable of expressing their own desires or forming their own motives. But none would ever defect or question his leadership, no matter how badly treated."
Rotor gave a look of disgust. "Your grandpa was some piece of work."
"Yeah." Jonny turned back to the buster cannon and started to put the finishing touches. "But he did teach me how to make robots, plus he taught me some German."
Tails smiled. "You know another language? That's cool, can you teach me some?"
"Well, the German word for 'where' is 'Wo'. I didn't become very fluent in German, I just learned bits and pieces form working with him."
"That's cool Jonny, but when do you think we could get back to the roboticizer?" Rotor inquired, eager to get back to work.
Jonny smirked, "Now. I'm done with my buster cannon. Let's get this machine built, I wanna get it up and running ASAP."
Tails placed the shades that Jonny made for him on, and they all got to work.
Amy was in the crowd outside, watching Sonic race the Robot masters. Amy scowled when she saw Turbo man pull that stunt.
"What a jerk!" she muttered, however, she was relived when Sonic got up and resumed the race thanks to the help of Quick man. That's when the pink hedgehog noticed that a certain yellow echidna was next to her.
"What do you want?" Amy's voice was full of angst, she still wasn't too happy with Ali for being so rude to her and Sonic in the cafeteria, and for instigating the fight that could've taken her human friend's life.
"I want to say I'm sorry for what I said back then, I was behaving like a child." Ali-Su said, her face had a very sorry look on it.
Amy's smug look softened a little. "Sure. Did you make up with Jonny?"
"Yeah. I wish I had done so earlier, he is kinda sweet." Ali-Su said, then blushed and looked away from Amy when she realized what she said.
Amy grinned evilly, "Kinda sweet huh? Maybe you should've gotten to know him better before you got those guys to beat him up."
"I meant he's sweet, but he's not my type Amy." Ali quickly defended, but she truthfully didn't know if this was what she thought or not.
Amy chuckled softly, hiding her smile with her hand.
Sonic and Quick man were now jockeying for first place, with Turbo man right on their heels and Top man right behind him. They had passed the half way mark and could now see the tower, and the finish line.
"I ain't losing this time hedgehog!" Quick man taunted, smirking evilly.
"You guys are never gonna beat me in a race!" Sonic taunted right back.
If Turbo man could've grinned, he would've, he kicked in his nitros and rammed into Sonic, knocking him into the air and taking the lead.
Turbo man had not, however, planned on where Sonic would land. Which was right on his sleek race car like body.
"Get off!" He bellowed angrily, red points of light glowing through his black visor, "I can't see!"
Sonic shook his head and grinned. 'Payback time.' Sonic thought.
"Hey Quick man! Toss me a Boomerang!" Sonic shouted back to his first real robotic friend.
Quick man didn't see any reason not to, and managed to get enough speed to catch up and hand Sonic the 'rang of his left arm.
Turbo man began to swerve, trying to shake Sonic off him. In his struggles, he only managed to sideswipe Quick man, sending him careening off into the woods to their left.
Top man saw this, despite the sheer speed he was spinning at and raced off to help his 'brother'. Leaving only Turbo man and Sonic in the race.
Sonic raised the sharp boomerang like a knife and popped Turbo man's left front tire, then jumped off as Turbo man began to spin out of control. The so called 'King of the road' rolled over twice before transforming back to his humanoid mode.
Turbo man, in a desperate attempt, began to run. However, in his humanoid mode his was in truth a clunker. A slow clunker. The boomerang still sticking out of one the tires on his feet.
Sonic had no problems crossing the finish line, which he did by slowing down to a calm walk and stepping over the line with a smug grin. A cheer erupted from crowd, Sonic bowed a few times as he accepted their congratulations.
Turbo man crossed the finish line the yellow blade still in his tire. "You cheater." he hissed, he was towering over the hedgehog clenching his fists.
Turbo man, however couldn't figure out why Sonic was grinning at him. That was, until he felt someone pull the boomerang out of his foot. He turned to see a very angry Quick man and Top man.
Turbo man began to back off, then broke into a full bore panicked sprint. He didn't get far, as Top man tackled him, knocking the green and blue robot to the grass. Turbo man rolled over to see Quick man and Top man glaring down at him.
"Uh... Hi guys." Turbo man said shakily, he knew what was coming.
Top man and Quick man dog piled the racing robot and preceded to pound the living crap outta Turbo man for making them lose the race.
"Shouldn't we separate them?" Sonic asked.
"Nah, let them fight it out." Sonic turned and saw Search man, once again on guard duty.
A bell rang from the PA system.
"Ah, lunchtime." Sonic said, rubbing his stomach, "Hope there's Chili dogs."
"You always want chili dogs." Amy said, rolling her eyes.
Everyone began to head in for lunch. Leaving Turbo man to his well deserved pounding.
Rotor Jonny and Tails had put down their tools and when now on the first floor.
"I wonder what Wind man made for lunch today..." Tail said.
"Who make what now?" came a voice behind them, they turned to see the orange robot that was Wind man.
"Wind man... Tell me you didn't forget to make lunch..." Jonny said, a tiny amount of fear in his voice.
"No, someone else offered to make lunch today." Wind man explained, glad he wouldn't be doing the dishes this time.
Jonny grasped Wind man by the shoulders. "Tell me it's not who I think it is!"
Wind man didn't have time to answer, as Antoine burst out of the cafeteria and began to drink from the water fountain like crazy.
"What's with him?" Rotor asked, raising an eyebrow.
Jonny sighed heavily. "Heat man made his atomic chili."
Tails, Jonny, and Rotor were a little late as everyone else was already sitting down. Each of them got a tray and got some food and got the largest drink they could.
"Hey Jonny!" Jonny turned to see Ali-Su over at one of the tables.
He quietly rolled over and sat across from her, everyone of Ali's neighbors quickly scooted away, leaving them alone at the table.
"Sorry. I didn't mean to cost you your eating buddies." Jonny apologized.
Ali-Su gave a kind smile to her new friend. "It's okay, I really didn't know them that well."
Jonny noticed she was about to eat a spoonful of atomic chili. He pushed his glass of water to her. Ali paused and looked at Jonny with a quizzical look.
"If you eat that, you're gonna need that water." Jonny warned as he took a bite of bread.
"Is it hot?" Ali-Su asked.
"It could melt steel." Jonny shuddered, "Heat man made that for me once during the month I was underground making Skull Tower. The top of my head nearly erupted like a volcano."
"So tell me about your world." Ali-Su said, putting down the spoon and taking a bite of her bread.
Sally looked over at the human and echidna who were now sitting and chatting about Earth and the like, "I'm glad those two made up."
Sally took a bite of chili, and then promptly downed her entire glass of water. Sally coughed, she'd NEVER tasted anything so spicy.
"Wow.." The princess said, "That stuff's so hot it felt like my entire head was set on fire..." She looked over at Sonic, who was inhaling the stuff.
Everyone at the table was staring at Sonic, who looked up and said "What?"
Everyone thought it best not to ask, and said didn't say anything.
"So on your world, robots and your people work together?"
"Yeah. We have robots that help us in all walks of life. Construction robots, law enforcement robots, mining robots... All to help mankind to build a bright future." Jonny looked down at his tray. "But my grandpa went a little nuts after the death of my grandmother, and began get delusions of grandeur. Now some people hate robots as much as they hate my grandpa." He looked up at Ali-Su "I hope to create a whole series of robots after Robotnik is taken down. I want to help rebuild what Robotnik destroyed."
Ali-Su smiled and leaned on her elbows, "Okay. So what's your greatest fear?"
Jonny frowned. "Besides unruly mobs, becoming like my grandfather or worse. You?"
"Right now? Going through that whole incident again. I don't want to hurt anyone." Ali-Su looked down, a frown on her face.
Ali-Su looked up at Jonny. "Can... I see your shades?"
Jonny shrugged and took off his shades and handed them to the echidna. Ali-Su sighed softly when she saw his eyes, she mentally slapped herself.
'Get a hold of yourself girl!' she thought, placing the sunglasses on her own face.
"How do I look?" She asked smiling wryly.
Jonny chuckled. "They look good on you. I can make you a pair that fit you if you want."
Ali-Su blushed a little, but the sheer size of the shades hid it. "You'd do that for me?"
"I'd do anything for a friend." Jonny smiled.
Ali got up and placed the shades on Jonny's face.
"You're sweet." She told him, "I'd love to have a pair of these."
Ali-Su walked off with her tray.
Jonny watched as she walked off, and he then covertly dumped his chili in the trash, then returned to the lab. His heart felt a lot lighter than it had ever felt.
To be continued....
