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 27
"Are you sure about this Sir? This is the highest amount of robots that you've ever wanted to use for a mission..." Snivley asked.
"They're just machines Snively, I can always build more." Robotnik said as he watched as this army rolled off the assembly line. "Every robot is expendable."
Metal was listening from the shadows, a new habit he had picked up that he found useful. And he was none too pleased with that last comment.
Sally was just walking out of a self defense session with Yamoto man, which she enjoyed thoroughly.
"Princess, I need to talk to you." Sally turned to see Geoffrey St. John leaning against the wall.
"What is it Geoffrey?" Sally asked.
Geoffrey walked over to the Princess. "Our... 'Host' may not be as good as he claims to be."
Sally raised an eyebrow at her old friend. "Oh? And what makes you think that?"
"Well for one, I saw him and Metal Sonic talking outside the tower."
"I've been told that Metal was seen inside the tower, and he wasn't acting like his normal destructive self. Maybe Jonny did something to him." Sally crossed her arms. "What do you have against Jonny? He's a nice guy, and his robots are more or less so."
The skunk narrowed his eyes. "Because your father doesn't trust him either. And if the King doesn't trust someone, that's good enough reason for me."
Geoffrey then walked off, leaving the princess with a stunned look on her face.
Geoffrey had never acted this way before. He had a suspicious streak sure, but he was never like this. Sally knew something was really wrong here, and she had to find out what.
"Hey Jonny, I see they let you out of that chair." Rotor said.
It was true, Jonny was no longer in that accursed wheel chair. He still had a cast on his left arm but he was walking.
"Yeah, I'm finally able to break in these shoes Needle man made. He kept asking me if I had tried those shoes he made. was starting to drive me nuts." Jonny laughed.
I see you got rid of that fur on your face." Rotor joked, rubbing his own chin emphasizing what he had just stated.
"Yeah, I don't plan on growing a beard or a mustache like my grandpa for a LONG time." Jonny said.
Rotor helped Jonny worked on the Roboticizer for a while. Tails, meanwhile was looking through some of the files on the main computer when he stumbled across the blue prints for Skull castle. The young fox looked over the detailed map for a few moments but found something that puzzled him.
"Hey Jonny, what's this room?" Tails said, pointing to a deleted section of the castle designs.
Jonny took a look at the screen and frowned. "Oh... THAT room. I don't know. Even after my grandpa kicked the bucket I couldn't get into that room. I spent a total 15 hours trying to hack into the systems to override the pass code, that didn't work. I tried bashing down the walls, and even through the floor and ceiling, found out there was a force field that was around the whole room. I cut the power found out the room had its own generator... Finally after a week I gave up."
"You ever see what was in that room?" Tails asked.
"Yeah, there was some sort of capsule. And the lettering on the door said "Project 0"."
"What's 'Project 0'?" Tails asked.
"I don't know. I do know that grandpa was obsessed with it. He called it his masterpiece, but whenever I asked him about it he'd just change the subject."
"Why is these blueprints even in here? I mean there's a whole lot of stuff in this computer that are kinda pointless." Tails said.
"I just made a copy of the computer core after I downloaded a few music files and other stuff. I brought a lot of stuff with me when I came here you know." he quietly added "I admit some of the stuff I brought here I have no idea what it is..."
Rotor cocked his head. "So you haven't looked though all the stuff in the computer?"
"Exactly. There's a LOT in there. And I haven't taken the time to look." Jonny said.
"What was Dr. Wily like?" Tails asked.
Jonny smiled and took off his shades. He hunched forward and drummed his fingers together. Jonny then imitated his grandfather's thick German accent perfectly. "With Project 0, I shall take over ze VORLD! Bu haha hahahaha!"
Tails and Rotor just looked at Jonny for a second. Then Rotor spoke up. "You must've heard that all the time back on your world."
Jonny sighed and ran a hand through his hair. "Everyday. The worst thing is that he'd go on and on about how Mega man. 'He's destroyed this, and he's wrecked this and he's just ruining my plans...' believe me, it gets old fast."
"Man, your grandpa must've been one of the biggest nutcases ever." Tails said.
They all laughed.
"Do you plan on ever building Skull castle?" Tails suddenly asked.
Jonny looked at the fox for a minute, then sighed. "Me? Own a castle? No way, I'm content with this tower. If we require something bigger than I'll build it. Otherwise, I'm not even going to bother. I don't like to waste resources if we don't need to."
All three of them turned as they suddenly heard the door of the elevator open.
Geoffrey St. John stepped into the lab with a cold look on his face. "Mr. Wily, the King has requested your presence."
The reply was so forward and fast that it took Jonny a moment to respond. "What does he want with me?"
"You'll find out. Come with me." Geoffrey stated coldly.
Jonny shrugged. "Fine. I'll go." With that Jonny and the skunk walked to the elevator and the doors closed behind them.
Tails turned to the walrus next to him. "Did you see the look in St. John's eyes?"
Rotor nodded. "They were so cold, I wonder what's up."
"So did you tell him?" Amy asked.
Both the pink hedgehog and Ali-Su were in the arcade. They had just exhausted all the coins they had and were sitting on one of the benches.
Ali-Su looked at her feet. "I choked. I couldn't tell him."
Amy frowned, "I don't see what's so hard. IT wasn't hard to tell Sonic how I felt."
"It's just that Jonny's becoming so... Hard to reach. Have you seen him lately? He looks horrible." Ali-Su said, concern in her voice.
"Yeah, but it's not just him. A few people I know have been acting... strange..."
"How strange?"
Amy put her hand on her chin trying to recall how her friends were behaving. "Well, some of them act like a family member died all the time, and others are constantly acting like something's aggravating them."
"That is strange. But, then again, when I thought Jonny was a thief I had so much hate in my heart I couldn't listen to anyone. It was like something was telling me to hurt him..." Ali-Su looked like she was going to burst into tears.
'Come on Amy, you gotta find something to cheer her up.' Amy's mind raced for a second. Then smiled. "Maybe, but you stopped before you hurt him too badly. And he did forgive you didn't he?"
Ali-Su wiped her eyes and smiled at her friend. "Yeah, he's sweet. I've made up my mind to tell Jonny how I feel."
Amy smirked. "And when will you do that?"
"Whenever I can get enough courage." The echidna smiled weakly.
Amy sweat dropped. "You're hopeless you know that?"
Ali-Su laughed and put her hands on her hips. "Yeah. What are gonna do about it?"
This time it was Amy's turn to laugh. "Nothing. Now let's go get some more coins, I wanna play another round before we go bug Crystal man by browsing his store but not buying anything."
"You're evil." Ali-Su said, getting up.
"I know." Amy grinned as they both went to see Clown man for some more coins.
Jonny followed Geoffrey down the hall, all the time the skunk said nothing but maintained a overly serious look on his face. From the moment Jonny had met Geoffrey he had a disliking of him, he had a hard militaristic way of doing things that Jonny had an even stronger dislike of.
As they came to the conference room Geoffrey went straight in and stood by the king, not even showing the slightest courtesy to Jonny.
"Well young man I see you've regained the use of your legs." The king said.
Jonny looked down for a second, then back at the king. "Yes. The good doctor removed my cast earlier today." He waved his still broken left arm a little. "As you can see I still am not up to snuff quite yet."
"So I can see. Please, please have a seat." The king said firmly.
Jonny took a seat at the opposite end of the table facing the king.
"Let's get right to the point of the matter. Yesterday, one of my agents saw you release Metal Sonic so he could return to Robotropolis. Is this true?"
'Man, I hate it when people like him do this...' Jonny sighed. "Yes, I admit, I repaired Metal and upgraded his CPU."
The King's eyes narrowed slightly. "And why did you do that?"
"He was damaged in the arena after Shadow man captured him. Single handedly I might add." Jonny noticed that King Acorn was giving him a hard stare, he cleared his throat. "I assure you this was totally on impulse. I performed a little experiment on Metal while he was here, and I think it went well."
"What exactly did you do?" The king drummed his fingers together.
"I revamped his programming software so he's now self aware and has a will of his own." Jonny smirked. "Robotnik won't be able to control him at all."
"So you made him more deadly? Is that what you are saying?" Geoffrey accused, narrowing his eyes at the human.
Jonny blinked. "Wha? Well, not really. I felt like Metal could grow beyond his simple programming. That's all."
"I've been kind not to ask anything of you, Jonny. But from now on, I demand that you give me reports on what you've done in your lab."
Jonny stood up and leaned on the table. "What!? Why sir? I haven't done anything to hurt anyone!"
"My decision is final." King Acorn stated flatly, giving Jonny a steely look.
Jonny gritted his teeth. He was starting to understand why Robotnik became the mad man that he was.
'If this is how he treated that fat tub of crap, it's no wonder he turned bad.' The human thought. "Very well. I'll do so for now."
Jonny walked out of the room, leaving the king and Geoffrey alone.
The king turned to his personal bodyguard with a frown on his face. "I want you and the men to watch him more closely. He may try something and I want to know what happens before it happens."
Geoffrey bowed, "As you wish majesty."
Sonic was taking a strolling around the tower as he noticed a familiar green and blue robot approaching him.
"Hey Turbo man." Sonic said. "I see you got your wheels back."
"Very observant blue boy." Turbo man said. "Look, I'm sorry for what I did back when we raced."
Sonic smirked, "Forget it. No one was hurt and I had fun. If you ever wanna race again, you got it."
"You're on." Turbo man said, but before Sonic could turn to walk away he added; "If you don't mind, don't tell the other Robot masters about what I said. I have an image to protect."
"Sure. I promise, no one will ever know you weren't acting like a pompous jerk." Sonic laughed.
Turbo man huffed and stomped off, suppressing his urge to beat the living tar out of the hedgehog.
Sonic sighed and decided to head to the cafeteria to get a chili dog, or three, or ten.
That night Jonny sat on his bed, dreading that voice would come again like it had for the many nights before.
And like always it spoke from the shadows with a rasping voice that was neither male nor female. "The king wants to destroy you. You know that don't you?"
Jonny said nothing, he just laid back on his bed and closed his eyes. He had grown tired of arguing with that wretched voice, and kept silent.
"Destroy them first. That way you know you will be safe. That's the only way you will be safe." It rasped.
Jonny put his pillow on over his head trying to drown out the voice. He tried to get to sleep as the dark voice continued to rant and rave about everything that was trying to destroy him and all that he had made. Yet somehow, Jonny managed to get to sleep.
In the Sub basement the voice's true form had grown inside its container. It knew it's time was coming, and it was impatient to be released.
To be continued....
A/N: This is the first story I've ever made with any real romance, so if it sucks, sorry. The plot's gonna speed up a little, and if you enjoy this story and you're reading this: PLEASE REVEIW!
