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S.O.N.I.C; GO!

S.O.N.I.C: GO!

GO, GO, GO, GO; LET'S GO!

Episode 3: Awakening

All Sonic could feel for a long time it seemed was the wet, clammy coldness of the substance around him. It wasn't air; that was obvious from the start. As strength returned bit by bit to his tired arms and legs, the blue hedgehog pushed one eye open slowly. His sight was blurred and all he could make out were shaped and a few base colours. There no outlines, only blurs. One thing he could make out however was the familiar pink blob just to the left. He managed a smile, feeling the edges of an oxygen mask around his mouth.

His stomach growled angrily at him, reminding the blue hedgehog that he had not eaten for half a year. It wasn't just a low rumble either; it was loud enough for his ears to actually hear it. Unbidden, thoughts of dozens of cheeseburgers began to drift through his mind.

His strength began to return in greater bursts, but he chose not to make it known that he was awake just yet. He watched through half closed eyes as his sight began to clarify and he could make out that two people sitting on the bench just next to the stasis tank he had been asleep in for the past half year. Sitting closest to him was the black and gold robot Emerl, with Cream asleep on his lap. Sitting next to him, looking up at the ceiling was Amy. By the look of it, she hadn't moved for some time.

By now Sonic could feel the burning energies inside him, one his own life-force and the other the ever presence tingle of Chaos energy that had remained with him ever since he had first laid eyes on a Chaos Emerald.

He made a few movements to test his own limbs. They really needed a good stretch, but apart from a few cramps they seemed well enough. He paused, a sudden near impish idea coming to mind. He was Sonic… He couldn't just wake up. He had to have some sort of memorably comeback.

Amy looked up in surprise as with a sudden flash of green light, Sonic's body disappeared from inside the tank. She sprang to her feet, staring at the empty space, the electrodes and oxygen mask hanging in the liquid alone. Emerl looked up, moved Cream down to sleep on his seat and then stood. Sonic had completely disappeared without a trace. One minute he had been there, the next he was gone.

There was a loud rustling sound from the door behind them and both the robot and the pink hedgehog turned. Standing there in the doorway, drying himself off with a towel taking from the janitors closet down the hallway was Sonic.

"Come on guys. I like to sleep in, but six months?" He asked, shaking his quills to dislodge some liquid. "Why didn't anyone wake me up?" Amy just stood perfectly still, her mouth hung open. The faint touch of tears stung her eyes, before she leapt forward and slapped him hard on the face. Sonic staggered backwards, looking stunned. "What was that for?" He asked, rubbing his cheek with an irritated look on his face.

"You utter bastard!" She snapped at him, her eyes aflame with more emotion than Sonic had anticipated. "Six months you've been floating there and then you just come back like nothing at all happened." The blue hedgehog looked stunned. "I thought you were never going to wake up. I thought you were just going to float there forever. Do you understand!" She bit her bottom lip, clenching two fists by her side.

"I…" Sonic began, unsure of how to begin for a moment. "I'm sorry." He ended up saying but instead of lack of vocabulary, he found that he really meant it. He realized exactly what she must have gone through while he was out of it. Amy loved him, which was no secret. She had had to wait half a year for him to wake up, not knowing if he was ever going to. Amy was silent, still shaking a little from her outburst before her expression softened.

"Don't be." She replied, before hugging him tightly, her hot tears dripping onto his shoulder. "You're just being you. I won't have you behaving any other way." Without even thinking about it, he hugged her back.

"You won't have anything to eat would you?" He asked with a grin. "Only it feels like I haven't eaten for half a year." Before Amy could answer, Cream woke up.

"SONIC!" Came a high pitched voice as a orange blur flew across the room and knocked him over with a bear hug. After they pried Cream off him, Sonic was reintroduced to the buffet table. Which proved to be a mistake as within moment half of it has been stuffed down the blue hedgehog's throat.

Amy had seen Sonic eat before, but never quite like this. Within minutes the food laid out for the technician team had all but gone, a few rare scraps left at the far end.

Emerl eventually lost interested in watching Sonic stuff his face and turned to Cream, who by now was watching one of the overhead television screens in the mess hall. A news report was one, showing the attack doing disastrous wrong across the English Channel.

"Uh oh." Sonic muttered to himself, seeing the reports flash up on screen, battleships being forced under the water by thousands of giant metal shells. "I'll have to take this to go." He added, grabbing what he could from the buffet table and stuffing a loud more into his mouth. Gulping it down as fast he could he then downed an entire litre glass of lemonade.

"Don't even think about leaving without me." Amy stated, clamping a hand on his shoulder before he could race off. Sonic was about to say something, but he then noticed that with her free hand she was holding another variety of hammer. The one with only one blunt end and a curved blade on the other, the lights reflected ominously in its surface. There was to be no arguing with her.

Sonic nodded, swallowed an entire piece of toast before racing off with Amy in tow.

Another directly hit by a missile and Okida's Mech Walker collapsed, it's legs temporarily paralysed. The Major tried to force the machine up but the controls refused to budge.

These badniks, are their com-signals identified them were twice as strong as their machines and could take twice the punishment. Eggman's forces had forced them into a fighting retreat across the French countryside. Their ships wrecked on the coast, their only means of salvation now being reinforcements from the local garrison. But now Okida was beginning to think that even that wouldn't been enough.

These robots were everywhere, tearing their forces to shreds with their large talons. The bat backed up into the cockpit when a large black figure came hovering into view, the only thing separating him from it being an inch of glass.

The pane shattered as a set of claws thrust themselves forward, grabbing Okida by his shirt, pulling him roughly forward, pushing his face in line with the metallic barrel of a laser rifle. Okida forced his eyes shut, barring his teeth as he wanted for the literal ear splitting bang.

Then it came, and the claws relinquished their grip as a blast of swirling blue energy tore the robot from the ground as cast it high into the air.

"I knew it, I KNEW IT!" Eggman muttered angrily to himself, slamming his fists down on the desk as the blue blur on screen flew across the battlefield, sending several badnik's flying into the air in the process.

With Amy on his back, Sonic darted just close enough to each of the black androids for hammer to deliver a solid blow to each of them in turn, knocking them into the ground. Pushing off Sonic with her hammer firmly in hand, Amy confronted several of the humanoid robots, each lifting their large laser rifles towards her. They never even got the chance to fire; their weapons became crushed by a deafening whack from the blunt end of her blunt weapon.

Hammering down one badnik, Amy twisted her body around to smash another directly in the face with the sharp end of her hammer, impaling it's head on the spike.

Grabbing one of the robots across the shoulders, Sonic somersaulted in mid air, casting it over his body and straight into another pair that were trying to come at him from behind.

Another flew came, talons out stretched but never reached it's target as Sonic completely disappeared in a flash of green light. The badnik stopped, looking confused as its head swerved this way and that desperately trying to re-establish a lock on its target. Remerging out of Chaos Control behind it, Sonic floored the robot with a sharp kick.

Turning, he saw a good dozen of them come charring at him in a flying V-formation, their laser rifles held at the ready. A wide grin crossed his face and he held both hands out in front of himself, channelling his energy through his arms.

"SONIC WIND!" His version of Shadow's Chaos spear attack rocketed forward as a twisting spiral of blue light that engulfed the badniks, crashing them against each other violently before finally flinging them across the battlefield to crash directly into the side of a downed Turtle Mech.

Okida's Yahger finally made its way back to it's feet and from this vantage point, The major could see all that was going on. A smile crossed his face. About time too, Sonic had been cutting into their medical budget quiet a bit with his long nap. His radar blipped angrily and Okida looked to his left to see a cluster of Eggman Empire Drop ships heading in their direction from the horizon. No doubt to deliver reinforcements to the troops Sonic and Amy were beating the living daylights out off.

"Not on my watch guys." He muttered to himself, before turning his Walker around and opening every missile bay inside his Mech's armoury. Seeing his example, others began to do the same thing and when the Major gave the order they fired whatever ammunition they had left directly at the incoming ships, striking the leader across the side, sending it crashing down engulfed in smoke.

Sonic barely looked up when he heard the explosions going off in the background, he was to busy dodging lunges from the robotic soldiers in front of him. Those talons were capable of carving a hole through rock. He hated to think what they might do to soft flesh. Sliding to the side, he threw his weight forward and began spinning on the spot before propelling himself forward in a super spin, slamming hard into the side of the badnik, throwing it violently down to the muddy ground.

Sonic didn't stop then, he kept rocketing forward slamming into bandik after badnik, knocking them sideways. Something however seemed wrong as Sonic came to a stop, leaving a muddy trail across the ground. He'd hit these new toys with some of his most powerful attacks and they simply refused to break down. Whatever metal Eggman was making these new things out of was certainly impressive.

He grimaced as the robots he'd just knocked down got right back up again, their on eyes visors blaring bright red.

"Just what is this?" Amy asked blankly, staggering backwards as the badniks she had smashed down seemingly rose from the dead, even the one she had stabbed through the head.

Sonic charged forward again, slamming a punch followed by a swift punch against one of their number. The robot simply staggered backwards a few paces before regaining its footing. Shocked, Sonic let his guard down long enough for another one to grab his foot and toss him down into the ground, it's claws held uncomfortably close to his neck. Vanishing a flash of green light, Sonic re-emerged some distance away before spinning his entire body around and firing a Sonic Wind straight at them.

Again all his attack did was knock them down. They just kept getting back up to come at them again.

Amy wasn't having much luck either. Her hammer would only keep them at bay, even the sharp end could not slice its way into the armour plating of his this new metal.

No robot was unbeatable. Sonic had proven that time and time again, and this would be no different. Spinning around on the spot, he began gathering speed as the badniks came souring at him. He ignored them and just kept spinning, winding his body's tension up as far as he could.

Then he realised that tension in one huge burst, rocketing forward with a sonic boom; slamming into the nearest robotic solider, tearing through its upper body; ripping off it's left arm and bust. The blue hedgehog didn't spot, he just kept going slamming into another and another cracking them open like egg shells.

"Hah, there's no clunker that I can't smash." He stated, putting his hands on his hips as he looked back with a wide, almost sadistic grin. That grin faded however when he saw what came spilling out of the shattered remains of the Badniks. Every single robot had had a mobian inside them, clawing at the ground and air, desperately trying to pull themselves out of the metal which had held them prisoner for so longer, desperate tears of frustration on their faces.

Okida had been watching all this as well from his Mech. Had Eggman been putting people inside these things? Why? "Hey are you ok?" Sonic asked, helping a mole out from underneath the metal. She appeared week and almost certainly traumatized, tears in her eyes and a wide terrified look on her face. "Amy, go easy on these things, there are people trapped inside!" He yelled out to the pink hedgehog; who was busy fending off several more that came across her left.

"Easy for you to say!" She yelled back, sliding to the side before handing a hammer stroke directly up across the head.

"HEDGEHOG!" A voice yelled and Sonic looked back just in time to see a set of large steel claws come flying at him. Side stepping, he narrowly avoided a slash from Metal Knuckles, who swung his large arm back across Sonic's side, catching him on the leg.

The blue hedgehog yelped and collapsed to the ground, the fur on his leg stained red. His eyes blaring bright green, Metal Knuckles grabbed him around the neck with it's free hand and lifted Sonic into the air, tightening its grip around his throat. The hedgehog struggled, desperately trying to pull himself free, but the robotic Echidna's iron clad grip was like a vice.

Just as Sonic left the last breaths escape his body. Amy swung her hammer around and smashed the blunt end directly into the back of the robot. Metal Knuckles crashed to the ground face first, letting so of the blue hedgehog's throat. Sputtering, Sonic collapsed to his knees, desperately out of breath. Metal Knuckles back flipped and before Amy had a chance to react, the robotic echidna smashed a kick directly into her chest.

Swinging back, Metal Knuckles tried to impale its claws directly through Sonic's head. The blue hedgehog lashed out at the last minute, tacking out of each side of the large metallic bracer with his hands, before pushing it away and smashing a punch forward.

Amy pushed herself out of the mud, anger with herself for letting that kick through and even more angry for Metal Knuckles to ruining one of her best outfits. She shook the mud out of her quills and reached for her hammer. Just as she was about to launch into another attack, from somewhere someone fired a laser beam directly at her. The blast narrowly missed her, striking the mud on her left. Swinging around, she saw another of Dr. Eggman's robots come flying at her.

It was Eggrobo; one of the Doctor's elite. A robot with an artificial intelligence far superior to anything G.U.N had in production. While it didn't have the physical traits the other Elite had, this android could outthink nearly any opponent. Amy grinned and held her hammer up.

Sonic, despite the nagging pain in his leg, managed to deflect a swing from Metal Knuckles before slipped to the side; sliding in the mud. Before the Robotic echidna could react, Sonic held both hands out in front of himself and fired a Sonic Wind straight into Metal Knuckles' chest. The blast of swirling blue energy sent the robot flying into the air, disappearing into the clouds above.

Sonic didn't have time to relax through as a scorching pillars of fire came sweeping down across the muddy field, burning the edges of his quills. E1004: Theta landed on the ground with a loud thud after being hot dropped in by one of Dr. Eggman's fraters. He'd been updated since the last time Sonic tangled with him. He had more than one flame thrower on each arm now and had a greater amount of armour overlaying his limbs. The small red eyes blared at the blue hedgehog from behind a black visor.

"You should have stayed away blue boy!" Theta remarked coldly, holding both of his flame throwers up. "Time for a hot spell!" Ropes of flames began lancing through the air and it took every ounce of Sonic's famous agility to dodge around it, before sliding through the mud underneath them to get in close. This was Theta's one weakness. His weaponry was nearly useless in close range combat. Drawing a fist back, Sonic prepared a punch.

!" Theta remarked coldly, holding both of his flame throwers up. Ropes of flames began lancing through the air and it took every ounce of Sonic's famous agility to dodge around it, before sliding through the mud underneath them to get in close. This was Theta's one weakness. His weaponry was nearly useless in close range combat. Drawing a fist back, Sonic prepared a punch.

But the attack never it home as at the last minute, a pair of large metallic arms grabbed him from behind, pinning his own arms to his side. Metal Knuckles tugged him back, holding him in place as Theta backed off to a good distance.

"Burn him NOW!" The robotic Echidna called over as the blue hedgehog struggled to free him self. Without hesitation, Thetha fired both barrels straight at the two of them, sending a sheer wall of flames flying forward. Sonic felt the faint brush of the heat touch his face, before both her and Metal Knuckles vanished in a green flash just before the fires arched forward, scorching everything in their path.

Repapering out of Chaos Control some distance away, Sonic had just enough to head-but a stunned Metal Knuckles in the chin, before spinning out of his grip.

EggRobo seemed to be blocking every attack Amy made with her hammer, reflecting it with just one of his arms. This robot was predicting all her attacks before she made them and reacted with equal force, the two attacks cancelling each other out. With it's free hand clasped around a laser rifle, the robot used momentary breaks in the action to fire a few pot shots at her. Amy was by no means as fast as Sonic but she had some of that natural hedgehog agility that let her dodge around the blasts.

"Hold still you little…" Theta screeched, fire blazing forward as Sonic darted forward, before somersaulting over the flamethrowers blast, his entire body spinning around. Taking the full extent of a spin attack head on, Theta was thrown violently to the side, landing with a deafening thud against the mud.

Metal Knuckles came flying at the blue hedgehog from behind, but Sonic ducked at the last minute, before swinging a leg around; smashing a kick at super fast speed directly into the robotic Echidna's face. With both opponents floored, Sonic paused to catch his breath.

He didn't get much of a chance as nearly instantly the two robots were back on their feet, like they hadn't even been trying before. Their eyes glowing bright red, just like those badniks.

"Don't you guys have anything better to do?" He asked, before they lunged at him with steal claws and burning fire. "Guess not…"

Eggrobo finally made a mistake and that was the only incentive Amy needed, bringing her hammer right around and slicing one of it's arms off with the sharp end of her hammer, taking a large chuck of the torso away with it. Stumbling backwards, the robot nearly fell over; its weight greatly unbalanced.

"FOUR!" Swinging her hammer around, Amy struck the damaged robotic solider directly across the chest plate. Sending it flying into the air like a golf ball, disappearing off the horizon with a faint flash of sun light across its metal body. Sonic slid back across the mud with his arms spread wide, energy gathering between his fingers, the flames from Theta's flamethrowers burning all around him.

There was a bright flash of blue light and the charging E1000 robot was sent flying backwards straight into the ground. Sonic turned to face Metal Knuckles who as coming at him from behind, but not fast enough to avoid a hard bash from a kick. Stumbling, Sonic left himself open to a head butt, followed by another hard kick. His eyes glowing bright red, Metal Knuckles brought his larger arm around preparing to slash him in half with his large claws.

Sonic managed to gather enough wits to disappear in a green flash from Chaos Control; reappearing behind the robotic echidna with a fist drawn back. His punch didn't hit anything as Metal Knuckles' torso whipped around and the robotic echidna caught the fist in mid air before landing a kick straight against Sonic's stomach, flooring him.

As Sonic lay in the mud clutching his stomach, Metal Knuckles raised his claws, their sharp blade like edges blaring against the faint sunlight.

Just before the robot could swing down and finish the blue hedgehog, it violently shook as Amy's hammer slammed directly it's head, the sharp blade like end stabbed directly through it's robotic brain.

Metal Knuckles staggered backwards, its movements no longer under its control as it stumbled across the battlefield; before collapsing into the mud; it's red eyes dying down to nothing.

"Amy, you rock." Sonic admitted as the pink hedgehog helped to him back to his feet. His quills were nearly completely covered in mud and he then made the mistake of shaking it off like a dog, covering Amy's pants in dirt. "Mud, the only thing worse than water." He said to himself, picking a wad of it out of his ear with a finger.

"I know." Amy replied flatly, scrapping it off her legs.

"Yo Eggman!" Sonic cheered up at the flying robotic surveillance device floating above them, a single optical device staring down at them. "Your robots are smashed, trashed and even broken. What are you going to do now?" He asked, assuming a game show host like voice. The floating device buzzed wildly, before a holographic projection was cast down towards the ground, forming a translucent face. A sneering pair of eyes glared at Sonic from behind a pair of glasses with a large orange moustache bristling beneath the oversized nose.

"You're a tad confident for a late arrival!" The Doctor commented dryly. Sonic shrugged.

"I overslept." He replied, folding his arms. Eggman sneered at him.

"Joke all you want blue boy. Within a single year, the entire world shall share the same fate as the United Kingdom."

"Not while I'm around it won't." The two of them, foes since they first met stared each other down, conflict sparking in the air between them. Eggman ended the stalemate as his image disappeared and the small robotic device made a hasty retreat, vanishing into the air.

There was a loud buzzing sound and the remains of Metal Knuckles and Egg Robo disappeared in a bright flash, transported by to Eggman territory for drastically needed repairs.

Flip Card 1:

Name; Sonic

Age; 18

Sex; Male

Species; Hedgehog