Chelsea/Allie hedgehog: Was Axl really a girl all this time? Maybe he's a mutant alien from the planet X! Ahh, noo! We're all doomed!
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I don't like the ending of this chapter. Ah well. Next chapter later today; I gotta help my dad open the pool.
THIS CHAPTER UP LATER THAN I WANTED BECAUSE FANFICTION IS STUPID AND WOULDN'T LET ME PUT IT UP
"Dun na dun na dun na dun na dun na dun na dun na dun na BAT MAN!" The 'Bat Mobile' was an old Chevy truck. It was the only thing that was owned by hunters that Zero was allowed to drive. After the infamous tree incident in 2134 he had been banned. Oh, sure, he had tried to explain to them that the tree was out to get him and that it jumped into his path but that's bureaucracy for you. He had saved the world from the wrath of the evil tree and he was punished. Le sigh.
Massimo felt more than just slightly nervous as he boarded the vehicle. His large frame barely fit – he had to roll the window down so that his shoulder could stick out and hunch his body down so that his head didn't go through the ceiling. The truck groaned if he so much as shifted his weight. "Um, Zero? Are you sure this thing actually works?"
Zero laughed maniacally in response and slammed the driver's side door shut. "Oh Massimo, ye of little faith. I assure you, this baby works. It's as fast as any of the ride armors and chasers here, if not faster. Cause, you see, the top secret mechanic has been working over time on it!" With that he turned the key and gunned the engine. To Massimo's surprise it was a smooth purr, not the horrible growling and clunking he had expected.
"All right, but how are we going to find Alice?"
"And yet another stroke of genius by the master top secret mechanic." Reaching up, Zero pressed down on the small compartment in the ceiling meant for holding sunglasses. When it opened, however, an LCD screen appeared with a map of the city on and it several blinking dots. "I have this baby set to track Alice, you, me, X, Marino, Cinnamon, Layer, Alia, and Pallette."
"… I find it a little creepy that you have the truck set to track as us."
"Hey, find it as creepy as you want. This is what's going to allow us to track Alice down, though."
"The… the… the prisoner escaped!" Vile stared at HDW, horror dawning on his face. "We're both going to die! Oh shit, does Sigma know about this?"
"Actually, yes, he does." The girl in question calmly strode into the room and plopped down on the couch where Vile had been sitting. Both HDW and Vile stared at her, unsure of what to do now. "He let me go, well, let me out of the cage because I was driving him mad and he couldn't get me to shut up."
"And he didn't inform us of this why?" Alice shrugged and picked up the controller.
"I dunno. Maybe he figured you guys would figure it out on your own. What games you got to play? I'm bored." Sneaking a glance up at HDW, Vile stood up and eyed the pink-haired girl suspiciously.
"What were you doing that made Sigma so frustrated that he just let you have free roam of the entire Maverick base?"
"I was singing. Very badly and off key."
"Ah." Vile nodded. "That would do it."
It was the car ride from hell. Saying that Zero knew how to drive was like saying a toddler knew how to speak. Both were technically true; nobody wanted to rely on their skills. "AH! ZERO! SLOW DOWN BEFORE YOU KILL US BOTH!"
"Muahahaha! Never Robin!" In response to Massimo screeching Zero gunned the engine, pressing the pedal down to the floor of the truck. The truck jumped forward in response, pressing both of them back against their seats. "Alice is straight ahead! Ramming speed captain!"
Oh. Dear. Lord! Straight ahead was a brick wall! Zero couldn't be serious about that ramming speed bit, could he? No, he wouldn't. He was going to stop the truck right before it hit and they'd both get out and figure out a way to get inside the building without crashing into the wa-
CRASH! THUNK! CRACKLE! RIP! TEAR! Awful noises filled Massimo's ears as he was thrown forward, face pressing against the windshield. Zero must have replaced it with something other than the normal glass it was made out of.
"What the Jesus Christ?"
"AH! Look Robin! They have her captive!" Prying his face off of the windshield, Massimo looked around. Zero had jumped out of the truck and was running around, screaming things like that crazy fool he was. Alice was standing on top of a couch with a man in purple clutching her for dear life. Another… person was running around, chasing after Zero. The insanity was making his head hurt.
"Alice?" The girl looked over at him and pushed the man in purple away from her. Massimo running his temples. "Come on. We're rescuing you. Grab Zero."
"Wait. Wait wait wait wait wait." The man in purple finally recovered himself and shook his finger, walking over to Massimo. "You can't just take her. You have to fight me for he-" He was cut off by Massimo's fist in his face.
Fight you for her? Fine. I just did and won.