Forever Beautiful
Chapter 1: Forces of Nature
Special Note, this story takes place during the Archie Sonic comic's timeline. Meaning that certain characters will be directly from the comic's, I apologize if these characters confuse anyone and I will do my best to try and introduce them to you. Thanks for listening and enjoy the story" The Author.
The sorrowful sound of innocence runs through the trees, the cold but soothing winds caress the fur and flesh of those around it, the serene beauty of the forest blesses Mobius with its grace. Suddenly the rolling sounds of metallic thunder squashes the virginity of the emerald forest like a bug. Massive monstrous mechanical footsteps crunched blades of grass and flowers into mush, an army of robotic soldiers raped the landscape.
The massive army of cybernetic cronies known as Swat-bots, or more accurately Shadow Swat-bots took immediate control. "Keep moving, keep moving, the master demands the drilling commences immediately" a Swat-bot commanded. Bright silvery crate like vehicles were driven onto the forest grounds, razor sharp drills were attached to the gigantic machines. Swat-bot drivers nodded and flipped the multicolored control panel buttons.
VVVVRRT! The colossal drills sliced into the ground like butter, whirring chunks of dirt and stone splattered against the trees. The robots had at least 10 different drilling machines, each one drilling into a different area, fault line, and location. The commander Swat-bot beeped "Accelerate drilling velocity, increase laser optic guidance systems, the good doctor wants it as precise as possible". TINK! A small rock bounced off the Swat-bot's head.
"Hey robo-boob, I didn't know Robuttnik had a green thumb, I just assumed it was the same finger he picked his nose with" a familiar smug voice said. The Swat-bot turned around and widened his red visor eye in shock; there standing before the robot's shaking scanners was a certain blue hedgehog. "Designation acquired: Sonic the Hedgehog, priority AWWK" the robot's voice box was suddenly shattered as Sonic triple spin sliced his head off.
Sonic smirked as he tapped his thumping red sneakers by the robot's head, "You guys really need a new vocabulary or at least enough sense to know when to duck". ZAP! ZAP! ZAP! Lasers started to blast as Sonic spat out a snickering raspberry and sonic sped out of the robot's lasers path, recoiling back into a bush. There Sonic had met up with the rest of his team mates, Sally, Rotor, Bunnie, and Antoine. "How's that work Sal?" Sonic asked.
Sally smirked "Not bad Sonic, not bad at all", Sonic frowned "Hey I was kind of thinking along the lines of stupendous, fantastic, distraction job oh mighty hedgehog of glory". Sally shook her red hair and sighed "Why are the cutes ones so full of", another blast shot over Sally's head. Sonic quickly ducked down the princess as the blasts continued. The Swat-bots were launching a firestorm of lasers into Sonic's hiding bush with all their might.
"Whew thank you Sonic, all right now before we take out those drills where's number 2?" Sally asked, "He should be here right now" Rotor said. SPLAT! Splats of slime, rotten fruit, and sticky goo splashed all over the Swat-bot's visors, a rain pour of water balloons and bad fruit struck the robots down. "I prefer Tails to number 2 Aunt Sally" the twin tailed fox said cheerfully, eagerly air bombing the robots into further mass confusion.
Sally, Rotor and the others then quickly proceeded to the drilling machines, their mission was to distract the robots and take out the drills at once. Though neither of the furry Freedom Fighters had any idea what Robotnik was digging for, they had no intention of letting him succeed. The beautiful Princess Sally quickly gave everyone their orders, "Okay guys here's the plan so let's do it to it fast. Our mission is to take out every 1 of those drills.
Antoine you and Rotor sneak up behind and plant the time bombs on the sides, Bunnie and Sonic will take out any guarding Swat-bots. I'll go help Tails distract those bolt brains long enough to get this done quickly". The gang nodded and quickly broke into their teams, Sally ran off towards to aid Tails. Unknown to the lovely Sally or the heroic hedgehog Sonic that a mysterious pair of eyes, and ears had witnessed everything they had said.
The cloaked stranger watched behind orbs of dark purple, acting as neither friend nor foe, simply an observer……for now. Rotor huffed and puffed as he sprinted behind a massive drill unit, he slapped a flat disc like time bomb onto it. "Locked, loaded, and set to blow these bots sky high" Rotor said, Antoine gulped "I am hoping this so very much. I am also hoping your bombs do not how you say blow up in our faces mess pa?". Rotor nodded.
"Me too good buddy (bites lip) okay let's get the next one now" the walrus said as he continued his mission, constantly checking his back in case of Swat-bots. "Excuse me sugar but mind if I drive?" Bunnie said sweetly, as she violently ripped off the drill machine's pilot door and yanked out the Swat-bot. The rabbit's robotic arm making quick work out of both the drill machine's Swat-bot driver, and the drill machine's control panel as well.
Bunnie smiled "Ya'll need to be more careful when driving without a license (BAM) or a steering wheel". Bunnie's robot legs pumped themselves quickly as she ran away from the drill machine, watching the machine explode immediately. Sonic's buzz saw spines sliced through robot after robot like they were bowling pins, spare parts and robot limbs lay scattered everywhere. "Come on guys don't go to pieces over me now" Sonic said.
KABOOM! Massive explosions vaporize drilling machines, 1 by 1 they were being crushed, sliced, diced, and bombed into scrap metal by Sonic and his furry freedom fighting friends. Tails hovered in the air as his white gloved hands held onto a coconut, "Time for my favorite game, bowling for dumb bots". The young fox hurled the coconut at the robots at top speed. The hard shelled fruit bashed through the robots cyber skulls with ease.
"Alpha Swat-bot leader to Team 6-4, send in reinforcements immediately" the Swat-bot said, just before Sally delivered a decapitating jump kick. The young princess shouted quickly to Sonic, "Guys we got to hurry up, reinforcements are on their way". The speedy hedgehog nodded in response "Ten four Sal, time to kick this up a super sonic notch and go into turbo mode". Sonic quickly spun himself into a cyclone and dug underground.
The hedgehog was planning to use his super speed and create an underground cyclone, hoping to "spin" out any other of Robotnik's drilling devices. "Hold on Sonic I'll come with you AH" Tails cried out, a laser blast struck his spinning tails and blasted him to the ground. Before Sally could react a steel tentacle like wire wrapped around her throat, she gargled under the wire's powerful force. Another wire soon encased Rotor's waist as well.
"What ez happening? I do not zee ze enemy" Antoine pleaded, seemingly only half visible shapes of bigger and meaner looking robots. Sally's blue eyes widened with fear as the robots revealed themselves; she watched cloaking devices reveal the dark Com-bots. "AH that's why we didn't see them, Robotnik's Com-bots were camouflaged the whole time" Sally said. Rotor gasped "No wonder they got here so fast, they were always here".
Bunnie squealed and raged, feeling military green robot arms grab her robotic and furry arm tightly. "Y'all really need to learn how to treat ladies more respectively bucket head" Bunnie struggled. KABOOM! Sonic was blasted right out of the tunnel by a powerful laser, the hedgehog groaned as he lay burnt and battered on the ground. More Com-bots emerged from the tunnels, the military mechanical monsters had every escape route planned.
"Surrender and prepare to be roboticized in the name of the great Dr. Robotnik" the Com-bots and Swat-bots said. Sally, Sonic, Antoine, Tails, and Bunnie all struggled fiercely against the robot's ropes, fighting bravely but sadly in vain. Bunnie's green eyes flinched as she snarled, "Stepping on flowers is one thing but when you mess with my friends you, YOU GRR". Bunnie screamed and bashed both offending Com-bots off with her arms.
The super charged rabbit kicked her robot legs into the bots chests, crunching the circuit boards into toe jam. "Neutralize and detain, neutralize and detain" a Swat-bot said, Bunnie smirked and aimed her right robotic arm at the charging Swat-bot. "Sorry sugar but that'll just wreck my good hair day" Bunnie said, a powerful blast easily destroyed the robots on impact. "Bunnie LOOK OUT" Sally pleaded, Bunnie turned but a bit too late.
The powerful steel tentacle of the Com-bot's robotic wrist snared Bunnie's neck like a frog snatching a fly, the young rabbit struggled angrily. The Com-bot's red eyes flared "Subject: Bunnie Rabbot, status: uncooperative and increasingly violent, solution: terminate effective immediately". "LET HER GO YOU GRAHH" Sonic cried out, the striking shock of Swat-bot tazers kept Sonic helplessly pinned. Bunnie gasped as the rope got tighter.
The sweet southern belle's voice was starting to crack and break down, her young heart and limbs slowing down. Death was near, Bunnie could tell, could feel it as her vision started to black out. Tears well up in Bunnie's eyes, her sweet voice gasping "Not now……please no……didn't even fall in". WHOOSH! The steel wire suddenly dropped from Bunnie's throat, her metal feet struck the ground as she weakly coughed fresh gasps of air.
"Couch, oh my I just (looks up and gasps) oh mah stars" Bunnie said, for a second she thought this might be some kind of afterlife dream. But soon reality started to kick in, and she realized what she was seeing was real. The Com-bot that was mere seconds away from breaking Bunnie's neck, and the ones that had captured her friends, were now floating in the sky. "What the hey? Since when do Com-bots just up and fly?" Sonic asked confusedly.
Sally, Tails, everyone was staring like a deer caught in the headlights, totally entranced by this sight of Com-bots flying helplessly in mid air. "Sonic, I don't get it, they had us right where they wanted us, why would they just fly away without taking us back to Robotnik?" Tails asked. But the spiny blue hedgehog was just as lost as Tails was, "I'm not so sure there doing this themselves little buddy. This is way weird, and I mean WAY past weird".
The Com-bots continued to sway and squirm in the air, their robotic limbs and weapons proving useless to assist in their bizarre loss of gravity. Rotor nodded "Your right Sonic this is strange, as advanced as the Com-bots are, they have never been able to fly. Besides even if they could, why fly away when they had us cornered? It's almost as if someone or some THING else is doing this". Curiously Sally pulled out her hand held computer, Nicole.
"Okay Nicole time to play detective here, can you help us find out what's going on?" Sally asked. The small machine blinked it's scanners as it searched, the female voice replied "Scanning gravitational variables Sally". While watching the robots simply hover there for a few minutes, Antoine squealed "AH Sacre Bleau' something is happening to the bots of combat". The Com-bots suddenly slammed into each other at super high speeds.
Whatever invisible puppet master was tugging these robots strings, was now smashing them into each other, destroying the robots by their own force. "I, I d-d-don't believe it, the robots they just, just smashed themselves in mid air" Sally said perplexed. The snap of a twig caught the attention of Bunnie's big ears, she gasped to see a Swat-bot aiming a blaster at Sally's head. "SALLY GIRL LOOK OUT" Bunnie cried as the Swat-bot fired.
The princess turned around and screamed at the sight of an oncoming laser, Sonic zoomed towards Sally shouting "I'm coming Sal". Fearfully Sally closed her eyes and awaited impending doom or rescue, her eyes wincing tightly in anticipation. However as a few seconds pass she soon realized she had received neither, Sally pried her blue eyes open to see what had happened. The laser had suddenly stopped mere inches from Sally's face.
Neither Sonic, nor Sally could muster a response. This was truly too bizarre to even put into words. The laser beam then suddenly reversed its destination and blasted its own creator right in the visor, the Swat-bot collapsed down dead. Other then the clanking gears of the Swat-bot slowly shutting down, nothing but silence escaped the trembling lips of the frightened Freedom Fighters. "Oookay would someone tell me what just happened?" Sonic said.
Chilling winds prickle the spines off Sonic's back, his blue quills and green eyes shutter at the chilling feel of a mysterious presence. Tails blinked "Hey who's the guy in the cape?", everyone suddenly turned to the figure Tails was referring to. But just as quickly as he came the stranger was gone from sight, Sonic immediately sped into the woods after the shadowy figure. Sonic pumped out all his speed but ultimately failed in finding the culprit.
Sonic gasped "I just don't get it, no one's EVER been faster then me but this dude still gave me the slip. I juiced like it was free chili dog day, it's like he just……disappeared. I don't like this…….I don't like this one little bit".
To be continued……