Chapter 8: M-001 Metal Nite
"Cream…" Spike folded his arms over his chest, his right eyebrow twitching slightly as he lay in Amy's bed being taken care of by the young rabbit girl.
"Yes Mr. Spike?" she smiled sweetly at him and the irritated porcupine softened slightly, he doubted anyone could stay mad at the cute rabbit for long. Tails had left a while back to tell his grandfather what was going on. He would have loved to be there to see both Knuckle's and Miles' faces when they found out that Nite could be another Ultimate Life Form.
"Why do you have to feed me, I'm perfectly capable of feeding myself…its my legs that wont work not my arms"
"I know" she smiled cutely "but its cute and I like acting like a nurse. Now open wide Mr. Spike"
The porcupine just sighed and allowed her to feed him, he wasn't going to win an argument with her. His thoughts wandered to his friends: I hope they're alright…GUN can be very dangerous, I should know…and if they know anything about Nite then why haven't they said anything…I mean we were working for them during the whole Streak incident…hmmm I guess that's why Nite seemed so…dark around them.
Just then he heard the door open and turned to see Big step in with his best friend Froggy sitting on his head.
"Hiya Cream, Hiya Mr. Porcupine"
"Hello Big" smiled Cream, Spike would have said hello as well but Cream still had the spoon in his mouth.
"Hmmm, Mr. Porcupine hurt, Amy told Big. I gotta get tough for everybody"
With that the huge cat adjusted his belt and stepped out of Amy's bedroom to go guard the door, or at least Spike thought that's what he was doing. Cream smiled as she fed him the last of his soup and then left with the spoon empty bowl.
This gave the porcupine time to inspect the hedgehog girl's room. The walls, ceiling, carpet and bed were all blue, even the furniture was painted blue and posters of a certain blue hedgehog were plastered just about everywhere. He felt like he was a crime against fashion at the fact of being the only green thing in the room, well not the only green thing, on the bedside cabinet were stuffed toy representations of all of Amy's friends; he smiled as he picked up the stuffed toy version of himself. He then glanced at the others, yep everyone he knew that Amy knew had a toy clone of themselves and the one that resembled Sonic seemed to be hugging the one that looked like Amy.
The porcupine shivered slightly.
This room gives me the creeps…"Awwwwwww so cute!" beamed Cream as she stood at the door looking at Spike holding his cuddly toy clone in his hands. The green porcupine couldn't help but blush.
"Even cuter!"
A flash of light went off and surprised Spike who turned to see the young rabbit holding a camera, he could help but sweatdrop.
What have I gotten myself into?
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"INRUDER ALERT, INTRUDER ALERT!" yelled a loud speaker continuously, that was until a well-aimed blast from Nack's customized shotgun silenced it for good.
"Shaddup!"
"Well so much for a surprise attack…" mumbled Amy as she readied her piko-piko hammer to crush any drones that got close enough to invade her personal face.
Nite shrugged, they had somehow tripped the alarm the second the entered the new Prison Island base. Now hordes of GUN drones were flooding out to greet them and alarms were blasting their noise everywhere.
He grinned as he up-holstered his twin Magnums and spun them on his finger before holding them at ready to destroy anything that got in his way.
"Sounds like a party to me…come on! I'm in front!"
With that the Wolf charged out in front of the other two, Amy slightly behind and to his left with Nack slightly behind and to his right. They charged on through the runway as robots attacked from the front and either side of them, but none of them got close to the two gunners who instantly destroyed them with their firearms while any that got close enough to Amy were quickly silenced by a Piko-Piko smash.
The three had to admit that it was quite fun, none of them had had an adventure in quite some time and right now taking on GUN, they were really enjoying themselves.
The three skidded to a halt as the GUN drones stopped attacking, they turned to face each other to make a plan of action while they had a moment of relative calm.
"Well mates, we should split up and find the General. He should know the most about GUN's history with Gerald and hopefully something to do with Nite"
"Good idea Nack!" beamed the wolf "I'll take the main building, he might not have had time to evacuate yet"
"Alright mate, then the weapons depot is where I'll be headed," continued Nack.
"Which leaves me with the prison" finished Amy.
The three nodded and then took off sprinting towards their desired locations. Each with the desire to find the General and discover as much as they could about their friend's shrouded past.
Amy found the main entrance to Prison Island's prison complex rather quickly, it was after all her second time on the island and they hadn't changed the plans for the place all that much since her last time breaking Sonic out.
She giggled slightly as she hid around the corner from the guard drones; she had tried to get Sonic to say he'd marry her so she'd let him go. He had declined but she helped him out anyway.
She quickly disposed of the two guard bots with her trusty hammer and then continued into the prison complex. The base's outside layout was still the same but inside it was very much different.
"Amy?"
The voice was familiar; she turned to see Doctor Eggman sitting in his cell tinkering with a few gadgets he had made in his spare time.
"Eggman…"
"So Miss Rose what brings you to this dismal place?" the Doctor seemed quite happy to meet her, probably because he never had any visitors. She saw no point in not telling him, it was quite noble of him to give himself up in honor of his greatest enemy though.
"Well we're here to see the General. Nite has a few questions for the old man"
"Ohhh so that's why they wanted M-001, hmmm I wonder…anything else?"
"Well we think that Nite might have something to do with your granddad's past…and what is M-001"
"Hmmm intriguing…oh well he's a metal copy of that Nite fellow you're talking about, GUN wanted me to create him…at least now I know why. Miss Rose you should be careful, M-001 will stop at nothing to complete his objective"
"Which is what exactly?" the young hedgehog asked with a raised eyebrow.
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"Number one objective: Destroy Nite the wolf…" the deep voice of the M-001 drifted through the air as it stood atop Prison Island's main building watching as its primary target entered the building.
"Target…locked…"
Metal Nite then turned around to enter the base via its roof entrance. Soon he would face off against his built in enemy and he would destroy the foul biologic known as Nite. He would destroy the creature that was created by evil, the creature whose soul purpose was to blanket the planet in eternal darkness.
"Nite you and I shall fight, and you will see that you are no match for me"
OOO
Nack hovered down from the fake ground level building into the true underground base. He was going to make his way to the weapons depot where he was going to look for the General, of course first he was going to have a look around for the Chaos Emeralds that GUN had lying around.
"Now…if I was a jewel of immeasurable power where would I be?"
The purple weasel strolled through the halls surprised to find very little resistance; in fact he had only faced four of GUN's lesser drones all of which were easily disposed of. He deduced that Nite was probably causing the most trouble with his blow-everything-up-to-find-what-he's-looking-for attitude; all of the GUN drones must have been trying to subdue him.
"Well good luck to them" he smiled "he could probably take on all of GUN himself and come out smelling like daisies, he doesn't really need our help…better safe than…huh?"
He looked at the small scanner on his left wrist and smiled, the emerald image on it was flashing green. A Chaos Emerald was some where near by.
"And I'm sure Nitey boy won't mind me getting a little souvenir hehehe"
With that he walked up to the huge door which opened automatically into a huge room with various lasers, containers and as he suspected more GUN robots. He shrugged a she hid behind a small canister to check his shotgun. He should have known it wouldn't be too easy.
He looked down at his scanner again; it was still flashing green which meant he still had a little searching to do.
"INTRUDER ALERT!"
Nack looked up in surprise to see one of GUN's camera drones hovering above his head the red light on top of it flashing. He aimed up and fired destroying the machine in a single shot.
"Tell tale…" he mumbled under his breath, he knew he had to get moving or he'd be swarmed by the whole room and a confrontation was the last thing he wanted. He quickly took off down the shadows leaning against the wall as several walker drones came out from around the corner he was hiding behind. They hadn't spotted him and he sighed and looked at his scanner, it was no longer greed.
"Damn…" he whispered the word very quietly so as not to draw attention to himself. He looked around from where he stood for any possible hiding places for the emerald he was looking for. The area above him had various yellow containers. He hoped to what ever god existed that they were unlocked as he hopped into the air and used his jet back to hover up to the ledge above where the main door was.
His scanner started to flash yellow, he smiled as he hovered up to another container and the scanner started to flash red frantically.
"Bingo…"
He hoped that it was unlocked as he grabbed the round handle and started to pull while still hovering in mid air. He strained with everything he had but it didn't seem to be budging, that was until a large energy blast shot past him and destroyed the containers door revealing the Cyan Emerald. He looked over his shoulder and his eyes went wide as he recognized one of GUN's much more serious weapons, a piloted gunner.
"Nack the weasel, stop where you are and give yourself up…" the pilot pressed something "…this is Delta team's Flying Hunter, I have found one of the intruder….what the!"
While the pilot was distracted Nack had grabbed the emerald and flew out the door and further down the hallway.
"I need back up! Subject is on the move, send back up!"
With that the Flying Hunter followed.
Nack charged down the hall, his booster pack going at full blast as the purple weasel hurried to try and escape the huge machine and make it to safety, only to get cornered in another large and rather empty store room.
"Oh no! Where do I go now…" he turned slowly to see the Flying Hunter enter the room and giving Nack his first good look at it, the flying machine was very similar to the Flying Dog model apart from colour, it was painted black and red and had several extra cannons.
"Look mate, can't we talk about this like civil gentlemen?" Nack took the pilot's moment of pause to attack; he quickly aimed and fired his shotgun. The blast was reflected away from the robot.
"Ha! The Flying Hunter is equipped with a special modified magnetic force field, no weapon can harm it!"
"Well in that case…looks like I'll have to fight the old fashioned way…"
With that the weasel charged forward, jumping to the side to avoid the robot's machinegun fire and then using his jetpack to give him an extra boost in his jump as he slammed both his feet into the Flying Dog's cockpit, the shield bounced him back due to his jetpack but not before he did his damage. Cracks were visible in the machine's cockpit glass.
"It won't be easy rodent!"
The two containers at the side of the Flying Hunter opened up and let loose a small barrage of missiles which homed in on Nack. He used his jetpack to boost him to the side a couple of times dodging the attack and then attacking it just like before, cracking the glass even more.
"This is the Flying Hunter, enemy is stronger than anticipated. Where is my back up?"
Nack grinned and shot into the air attacking again, just barely dodging another barrage of missiles as he was bounced back
"Mate, when it gets here that thing will be in a junk pile"
"We'll see about that weasel!"
Just then the three rather large cannons on top of the flying vehicle all aimed at Nack and started to charge up. He dodged to the right, then the left. The cannons were tracking him.
"Uh oh…"
The pilot sneered at him as he tried frantically to try and shake the machines tracking computer, to no avail. In the end he was backed up against a wall with the sound of the three charged cannons ringing in his ears.
"I guess this is it…I'm going to that big junk yard in the sky…"
He closed his eyes tightly, expecting the worse. But nothing happened. As he opened his eyes he saw that the machine seemed to be malfunctioning, the cannons just died down and the pilot panicked trying to figure out what was going on.
Nack grinned, this was his chance. With that he jumped up, placing his feet on the wall behind him and kicking off with the extra boost of his jetpack. He rolled in mid air and then slammed his feet hard down into the cockpit of the machine shattering the glass and the machine's controls in front of the pilot in one attack. He hopped off the back of the machine and smiled at it as it fell to the ground, inactive.
"Looks like I'm keepin' this lil beauty"
He smiled again as he looked at his Chaos Emerald before leaving the room to search for the General, and to avoid the Flying Hunter's back up if it ever arrived.
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Tails walked into his workshop still in deep thought about what Nite had told him, he had left shortly after the group headed out to Prison Island and should have made it home before they made it there. But he had decided to take his time so he could think.
As he entered the building he saw his grandfather, Miles, working on the Tornado. Probably making adjustment to his adjustment from earlier, Knuckles was carrying some of the heavier equipment into the main underground lab. They both stopped what they were doing and turned to Tails, instantly worried by the rather confused look on his face.
"What's up Tails" came Knuckles voice, not a sign of strain even though the equipment he was carrying was quite clearly around about three times his own weight.
"Huh…oh, Nite used Chaos Control and might be another Ultimate Life Form, nothing much" he said it rather offhandedly as he was still in deep thought about it himself.
"Oh that's nice…he what!" Miles spun from his work a look of absolute surprise and shock on his face as he registered what his grandson had just said. Knuckles on the other hand just froze, his jaw dropping along with the equipment he was carrying which promptly fell on his foot. He didn't seem to even register the pain.
Tails looked up from the ground.
"Yeah…he's headed to Prison Island with Nack and Amy…wants to see if GUN knows anything about his past"
The older fox and the echidna just stood in shocked amazement. There was another one now…