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, 6 Years later.
Part 7
Blood. It was all over the street. Blood is often called the life force of the body, but that's only the case if it's inside the body.
Jonny lay on the ground clutching his shoulder, blood spurting from the socket. Anyone near him could see the mangled nerves that were attached to the plug in his arm now dangled like wet noodles amid the gore.
Zero stood with his foot on Jonny's chest, the robotic arm that was now no longer attached to Jonny's shoulder had been cast across the pavement. Zero dipped his head back and let out a maniacal laugh, he was clearly enjoying seeing his victim slowly slip away.
Jonny had stopped longer screaming, having blacked out from the pain and the loss of blood only moments ago. But Zero's bone-chilling laughter still continued to echo through the streets. And it was really getting under both Knuckles and Sonic's skin.
Sonic clamped his ears to his head, but even that didn't block out the maddening sound of Zero's laughter. "Man... I swear I'll tear my own ears off if he doesn't stop soon!"
"I know what you mean! This is torture!" Knuckles cried, not that Sonic heard him. "Forget this guy, I'd rather be fighting Enerjak and Robotnik all over again!"
Remington however was much more poised. He looked over at Jonny's broken body, he could see the bones and the nerves in the socket, the blood pumping out of it was a horrible sight. Remington grimaced, realizing that if this scene had been shown to him years ago, he would've been cheering for the robot. Remington had hated Overlanders with a passion before he had come to know Jonny. Although now he knew now that Jonny wasn't an Overlander, but when he first met the human he nearly tossed him straight off the island. But now, after all the things that Jonny's done to improve Mobius, Remington would gladly take a bullet for him. Jonny had never irked him, heck the human had actually tried to get on his good side by inviting him to his wedding. Remington began to fiddle with his tazer, his adrenaline beginning to over ride his sense of reason.
"Remington! What are you doing?" Knuckles called after the brown echidna, who had just bolted out from the alley.
The police chief didn't respond, he just ran towards Zero with the tazer in his hand. The laughter stopped. Zero roared with pain as Remington shoved his tazer into the back of Zero's neck. Electricity, whether from the tazer or from Zero himself no one was truly sure, shot from Zero's body as he began to smoke. After a few seconds the battery in Remington's tazer ran out of power and Zero fell to the pavement and lay as motionless as Jonny.
"Vas is this?" Dr. wily cried, looking down at Remington, who stood above a nonfunctioning Zero. "Filthy creatures! You'll pay for striking my precious Zero!" Dr. Wily screamed. "Enker! Get Zero over here now!"
Enker frowned, wishing his creator would just junk the powerful beast and create something with much more grace. But he complied and dragged Zero's offline body back to the other Elite masters.
"Sonic, get Jonny out of here!" Remington cried, keeping the Elite masters in his line of vision.
Sonic needed no further prodding, he grabbed Jonny, slung him over his shoulder along with his coat, grabbed Jonny's arm and sped off.
"Come back here you filthy rodent vith my grandson!" Dr. Wily spat at the hedgehog. Dr. Wily then spun his head to glare down at his robots. "Enker, King, the rest of you! Destroy those creatures!"
'He could say please once in a while...' Quint thought.
The Elite masters where about to spring towards the Robot masters when a shower of meteors hit the street in front of them. Driving the Elites back away from the group.
The group of Robot masters and Mobains looked up to see a familiar robot hovering in the air.
"Astro man! Excellent timing!" Guts man said, glad to see the former tour guide robot.
"But a lousy shot, as always." Skull man said harshly. "Astro man couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with an atomic bomb."
Dr. Wily grinned. Astro man may have been powerful, but he had very limited ammunition. He would run out of meteors soon. It would just take a little patience. This would give him all the time he needed to repair Zero.
Sonic raced down the street towards the hospital as fast as he dared with Jonny in his arms. Sonic burst into the lobby, only to find that there was no one there save other infected and lifeless drones.
"What's going on here?" He exclaimed, hoping his cries would attract someone's attention.
"Sonic, where are you?" Sally's voice came over the cell phone.
"Right here in the hospital Sal." Sonic said. "Look, Jonny's hurt real bad and I need to find a doc-"
"Sonic, Shadow man told us what's going on. we've rounded everyone in the city into the transport stations... Echindaopolis is being evacuated." Sally sighed, then took a deep breath, it sounded like someone was bothering her on the phone. "Bring Jonny to the hotel, there are still some doctors and other people here that wouldn't leave here and the Robot masters are protecting this place."
"Good thinking Sally, just like in the old days. I'll be there soon." Sonic said, picking up Jonny again after turning the phone off and tucking it back in Jonny's coat. The hedgehog then raced off again hoping his friend would hang in there.
Sally sat next to Ali-Su, a worried look on her face. "Let's hope not too much like the old days."
"What's wrong Sally, what's wrong with my Jonny?" Ali-Su asked, understandably worried about her husband of six years.
Sally looked at Ali-Su. Her distraught look made Sally feel guilty for having to tell her this btu she felt it best that she was honest with her friend. "He tried to fight that off robot that was terrorizing the industry district. He's alive, Sonic's bringing him here for treatment."
Ali-Su's face when from worried to terrified. 'Oh Goddess... Please let him be okay...' She prayed silently as her eyes watered up with tears. Ali-Su hugged her children, hoping to get some comfort out of holding her dearest treasures. The six and five year old didn't understand what was going on but they hugged Ali-Su back, not wanting to see their mother cry.
"Don't cry momma... Or else Alison will start crying..." Jack said, which his younger sister was about to do.
Ali-Su kissed both her children on the forehead. She hated to see her children cry like any mother, she had to try to cheer them up... Even just a little bit. "It's okay... Mommy's just a little tired that's all... Why don't you go play with Manic and the other children..."
Jack and Alison both looked at each other and slowly walked back to where Sonic and Sally's children and Knuckles and Julie-Su's daughters where sitting.
Just then Sonic came to a screeching halt in the room. "Man Jonny, remind me to tell Ali-Su to put you on a diet."
Ali-Su cringed when she saw the blood. But in almost no time flat the three doctors took Jonny into the room and closed the door. For Ali-Su, this time felt like an eternity. Jack and Alison could easily tell that their mother was worried, but Ali-Su couldn't bear to tell them what had happened. Not yet anyway. After an hour of comforting her children Ali-Su looked up as the Doctors came out of the room, their masks off and all three of them looking rather tired.
"Well, how is he?" Sally asked, before Ali-Su could. Sally may not have been married to the human, but she was worried about her friend just the same.
"We've stopped the wound from bleeding... But we don't have the expertise to put his arm back in... only Jonny himself would know how to do that..." One of the doctors said, taking off his gloves.
"Is he awake?" Ali-Su asked.
"Yes, but he's still weak. Apparently the amounts of echidna blood we had brought with us aren't doing much for him." The doctor sighed. "Just try to keep him from moving around too much."
"Can I see him?"
The doctor nodded.
"Jonny?" Ali-Su asked as she entered the room. She nearly fainted at the sight of him. She had seen him many times with his arm disattached, but never with that bloody depression in his shoulder. He also had a bandage over his left eye that was only partially concealed by his sunglasses. Ali-Su rushed over and cradled her husband in her arms.
"Ali..." Jonny said weakly, looking up at the echidna. He tried to reach up to touch her, but found that he couldn't... looking over he saw that his arm was no longer in his shoulder, but he could also feel that the plug that held in was gone too. "Oh god..." He said hoarsely, obviously shaken up from finding that he now only had one arm...
Ali-Su choked back at hearing how bad he sounded and nuzzled him softly. "How do you feel?"
Jonny looked at his right shoulder, seeing the bloody dressings where his arm should've been. "Peachy..."
Ali-Su felt like slapping her husband. "How could you have taken on such a powerful robot? Look at what happened to you! What if you had died?
Ali-Su's look softened as Jonny placed his remaining hand on her cheek, smiling weakly up at her. "I know what I did was stupid... But I had to judge this thing's power for myself. And my news isn't good..."
Ali-Su placed a finger on Jonny's lips, signaling him to stop talking. "One second love..." Ali-Su stepped to the door and called for Sally and Sonic to come in. "Now what is it you were about to tell me?"
"Do you remember me ever telling you about Project Zero? Jonny asked them.
Sally closed her eyes for a second. "Vaguely, something about your grandfather being obsessed with it."
Jonny continued. "This red robot that appeared with my grandpa IS Project Zero. And I hate to admit it, but I don't think any currently active Robot master could possibly fight and win against Zero."
"What?" Sonic said in disbelief. "What about the old tower Guardians?"
Jonny winced. "I dismantled them after Robotnik and the remaining members of his pose were tossed into the Void." Jonny said. "And as for how powerful he is, I punched him in the head with Guts man's signature attack and it only seemed to succeed in amusing him."
"Well, you have any contingency plans for anything like this?" Sonic asked.
Jonny looked over at the small device that Sally held in her hand and smirked. "Where did you get that Sally?"
Sally looked at the device, it was small, about the size of a television remote control and shrugged. "I'm not sure, Shadow man snagged it from Dr. Wily. I guess it's important."
Jonny took the device and looked at it carefully. "I may have just got an idea..."
To be continued...
A/N: For those of you who've read the comics, Remington never seemed to DO anything of significance... I felt he needed to do something in my fic.
Shadow: No. X is still just beingdesigned in Light's lab, and this isn't the real Zero as I said, it's a imperfect prototype the red reploid we all know and love.