Sorry for the long wait. I was starting to run out of ideas. Here's the next chapter. I promise not to take to long on the next one.

Chapter 12: Station Square is Under Attack by Robots!

The train pulls into a train station and the train hatch open. "We're here," says Sonic. "Welcome to Station Square!" The Smashers got out the train station, and the first thing they say is, "So?"

"Doesn't it look special to you?" asks Tails. "This is the capital city of South Island."

"Fourside is practically the same as this," says Samus. "It's nothing new to us."

"Why not come over to my house first?" suggests Sonic. "Come take a seat before going on your mission." The Smashers agree and follow Sonic and his two other companions to a large apartment. "It's not a really neat place," says Sonic while on the way. "But it's better than nothing!"

They got into the apartment and went into Sonic's room. "Okay… It's not as neat as ours…" says Roy upon seeing the room, which is filled with junks lying around.

"Oh, Sonic…" says Amy with a sigh. "Have you ever thought about neatness? It's been a while since I came to your room!"

"I didn't spend much of my time at home anyway," says Sonic. "That's why!" Fox glares at him and says sternly, "It's no excuse. It is important to keep your room clean."

"Says the guy whose room is filled with random stuffs," says G&W. "That's not me!" Fox protests. "That was Falco! He always messes up the room!"

"Wanna come see my room?" Amy asks the Smashers. "You'll surely love it!" The pink hedgehog takes them to her room, which is just across Sonic's room. The first thing they see when they go in are pink things: furniture, wallpaper, electronic devices, and dolls. "Pink maniac…" whispers Mewtwo to himself. "Somehow, it's stinging my eyes."

"You have to see my bedroom too!" says Amy. "It's as good as the living room!" They go to her room and see a pink bed that looks comfortable, but their focuses are on the wall, which is taped with tons of pictures of Sonic.

"Is that how your room always is!" cries Sonic. "Oh! But I can't sleep without looking at pictures of you!" says Amy, winking her eyes sweetly at Sonic.

Meanwhile, in a secret base…

"According to that flying security camera of mine, the Smashers are now in Station Square!" says Eggman. "It's a good time to wreck the city too! Hehehe!" He gets up and walks to his army of robots. "Listen, my henchmen! It is time for some exercise!" The robots cheer excitedly upon hearing this. "Wreck the city as much as you want!" continues Eggman. "But don't forget your main target: The Smashers and that annoying blue hedgehog!"

"YAAAAAAY!" cheer the robots.

"You must make sure every one of them dies!"

"YAAAAAAAAAY!"

"Crush them bad! Smash their brains! Gouge out their eyes! Fry their bodies!"

"YAAAAAAAAAAAY!"

"All right! Get going!"

"YAAAAAAAAAAY!"

"GET MOVING!"

The Smashers are now going around separately, touring the city. Mario enters a tool shop and looks at the tools. "Theez tools are so cheap-a! They were expensive back-a in Onett!"

"You have great eyes, customer!" says the seller to Mario. "These are the finest plumbing tools of Station Square! They are made from special materials that won't rust or broke! This is the only place you can find it the cheapest!"

"Great-a! I'll buy eet!" says Mario happily as he places the money in front of the seller. The seller looks at the money and then says, "Um… You do notice that this is Eagleland currency, don't you? This is South Island, not Eagleland!"

"Oopsy-daisy!" Mario then walks out the store shamefully.

Mewtwo is floating around in the streets. "I need to level up my psychic skills. I can tell that in the future, enemies will become stronger and stronger. I'll look for a good place to meditate." He spots a tall street light that looks perfect to him, so he floats to the top of it and sits there, leg crossed and eye closed. Many eyes are up looking at him, wondering what the hell is this Pokemon doing.

Roy is standing on the sidewalk, acting cool, in hope of attracting girls to him. Poor guy, he didn't get any luck. Roy sighs and says to himself, "I have to practice how to be a popular guy…" He then notices a bunch of crowds gathered around a few meters beside him. He goes over and sees the attraction of the crowds: Parry!

"And the pig says the horse, 'Why the long face?'" says Parry. This joke makes everyone listening to him laugh out aloud. "What do you get if you cross a rooster and an alcoholic drink?" asks Parry, and then he says out loud, "Cocktail!" Again, this made the crowd laugh and give him a round of applause.

Seeing this made Roy jealous a little. "A little parrot is able to attract that much people… I should learn from him!" Just then, he notices a bookstore next to him, and behind the display window, he sees a big book entitled "How To Become a Popular Person". Excited, Roy runs into the bookstore and reaches for the book. He opens it and starts reading, "Tip #1: Have sense of humor. Tip #2: Have unique skills. Tip #3: Have a kind heart and good manners. Tip #4…"

"Either buy or leave!" says a deep, rough voice. Roy looks up from the book and sees an angry bookseller glaring at him. "I'll buy it!" says Roy. The bookseller immediately changes attitude. "Why don't you say so earlier? You're welcome to buy it, young man! This book is perfect for someone your age, when one wants to get a good girlfriend!" The bookseller runs behind the counter and Roy walks up to him. He takes out some money and shows it to the bookseller. The bookseller looks at the currency and says, "This is not South Island's currency!"

"Oops… I forgot…"

"Get out of here if you don't have money!" Roy returns the book and quickly runs outside.

Samus is walking around the place without her armor on, just in her casual clothing. "This place is so peaceful," she thought. "Makes me wonder if Darkling have invaded this place or not." Game & Watch runs up to her and says, "Samus! Do you have any plans on how to find the Dark Reactor? We can't just roam around here forever!"

"I forgot about that! I think we should start by searching for Darkling. Perhaps the reactor is in where Darkling gather."

"Up until now, I haven't seen a single Darkling." Then something came to G&W. "Wait! Didn't we rescue Tails from a Darkling back in Mystic Ruins?"

"So?"

"That means the Dark Reactor must be somewhere there!"

"You can be right."

Suddenly, a nearby toy store explodes, sending debris flying everywhere. Samus and G&W quickly duck down to avoid the flying the pieces. "What the hell was that!" gasps G&W. "Over there!" cries Samus as she points at a missile flying towards them. They quickly jump aside to avoid the missile, which keeps going until it impacts with an empty van and explodes. "Who's doing this!" asks Samus angrily.

Soon, they see the entire crowd running for their lives. A giant egg-shaped spider robot appears on the street, blasting the entire city with missiles! "Who's behind this!" asks Fox as he runs into the scene. "Don't know, but could be the Darkling," replies Samus. The giant robot spots the three Smashers and says in a robotic voice, "Target Found. Destroy at once." The robot fires a couple of missiles at them, but Fox quickly puts on the Reflector, bouncing the missile back to the robot. The missile flies back to the robot and hits it on the head, making a big explosion. When the explosion clears, a crack can be seen on the front part.

"Looks like it's working," says Fox. "Let's try this again!" Then a huge horde of robots appears out of nowhere and surrounds them! "We're surrounded!" cries G&W. "We can't beat up so many of them!"

"I don't even have time to put on my battle armor!" says Samus. Suddenly, Sonic zips up in front of them and says, "Leave this to me!" Sonic dashes at the robots and spins through it, then he rolls around like a buzz saw, cutting down every single robot within a few seconds.

"That was cool!" exclaims G&W. "You are fast like they said!"

Suddenly, the rubbles from the torn down toy store next to them starts moving, and Popo and Nana rises from the rubbles! "I thought we were dead…" says Popo. "It's so great to be alive!" says Nana. "Whoa! You duo survived the explosion!" exclaims Samus in awe.

Meanwhile, Roy, Mario, and Parry are in another part of the city, dealing with smaller robots. "I'll take the ones on the left," says Roy. "You take the right!"

"Okey-dokey," replies Mario. Roy pulls out his sword and slashes the robots to his left with a single swipe. Mario runs up to a robot and grabs it by its head, and then he swings the robot around before throwing it against the other robots. Parry grabs a brick, flies into the sky, hovers above a small robot, and then drops the brick on the robot, destroying it. "I killed one robot!" says Parry excitedly. "Aren't I great?"

"Try to protect yourself!" says Roy to Parry while killing some robots. "You can get killed easily judging from your size!" A robot fires a bullet at Mario. Mario avoids the bullet by jumping over it and then he stomps the robot hard on its head, creating a dent. Mario then drops down behind the robot and delivers a powerful kick at the robot, sending it to fly forward and crash into another robot.

A one-eyed robot sees Parry and aims its gun at the parrot. Parry, seeing that it has only one eye, dives straight at the robot and impales through its eye using his beak. The robot malfunctions and collapse onto the street. "I got another one!" exclaims the parrot happily.

"That's every one of them," says Roy as he takes out the last few robots. "I wonder how are the others."

On the other side…

"Judging from the body shape of that spider robot, it's got to be Eggman's creation!" says Sonic. Sonic dashes towards the robot and jumps high into the air and rams into the front section of the robot, pushing it back a little. Fox uses his laser gun to fire at the robot and G&W constantly flip burning sausages at it. Samus comes running back into the scene, this time in her armor. "I'm back! Now's my turn!"

Samus aims at the giant robot and fire several super missiles at it. The missiles hits the robot the blasts off a huge chunk of it. Sonic curls into a ball and launches himself at the robot. He hits the robot so hard that he bores a hole right through it and emerges on the other side! The robot collapses onto the floor and explodes in a huge blast. "Too easy!" says Sonic as he drops back onto the ground. Amy comes running up to Sonic and says, "Don't worry! I'll help you, Sonic!"

"It's already dealt with…" Popo tells her. "Oh! I'm late! I should've come faster!" says Amy.

"You're not late for this yet," says a voice from nowhere. The Smashers look around to see who is speaking, and they see three figures standing on top of a random store. "You guys are strong," says one of them. "But then, it could be because that robot is very weak."

Sonic recognizes on of them and says, "You! You're Quickman!"

"Yes, it is me," says Quickman. "I see that you're back in good health again." Amy steps up in front and calls out to Quickman, "You're the one who hurt my Sonic, right?"

"And what if I say yes?" came Quickman's reply. Amy holds up her hammer and yells at the top of her voice, "THEN I'LL KILL YOU!" Amy jumps up into the air and towards the three figures. "Don't be so loud," says one of them, and then this person fires a purple energy beam at Amy. The beam hits Amy and she immediately freezes, and then drops back onto the ground! "What have you done to her!" asks Sonic angrily when he sees this. "Don't worry, she'll be motivated again after a few minutes," says the person who did this.

"Who are you guys?" asks Fox. "And are you related to the Darkling?"

"The hedgehog just said my name," says Quickman. The other person, who is actually a robot, says, "I'm Turboman! I'm a good friend of Quickman! I'm also the fastest being ever created!" The third robot, which looks like a vampire, says, "Shademan at your service. As for your question about the Darkling: yes. We have ties with them."

"What do you want to do?" asks Fox. "Follow our boss's orders," replies Shademan. "Well, he isn't really our boss. We're just sent as a reinforcement to help Eggman."

"You work for Eggman!" asks Sonic, shocked. "Then I will destroy you all like I did to Eggman's robots!"

"You still want to fight?" asks Quickman as he prepares to attack. Turboman pushes him aside and says, "No, I'll test him!" Turboman immediately transforms into a car and zooms off the roof of the store! Sonic quickly jumps aside to avoid getting hit by Turboman. Turboman makes a u-turn and charges at Sonic again. This time, Samus gets in front of the car and fire plasma shots at hit. Turboman takes the shot, but continues to move forward. Samus is then hit by the car and sent flying backwards.

"Samus!" cries Fox upon seeing this. Turboman turns to Fox and zooms towards him. Fox quickly jumps into the air to avoid it, but is then grabbed by Shademan. "You shouldn't have jumped," says Shademan. "Now I'll just drop you down!" Shademan begins to fly higher and higher into the sky. "Let me down!" cries Fox. "That's what I'm doing," replies Shademan as he lets go Fox.

"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!"

Game & Watch quickly pulls out a trampoline out of nowhere to catch Fox. Quickman charges at G&W and punches him in the head and then kicks the trampoline away. "Don't mess up the fun," says Quickman. Tails quickly flies into the scene and grabs Fox by his leg, saving him from the drop. "Thanks…" says Fox.

Sonic curls into a ball and charges at Quickman. Quickman easily dodges aside the attack and then turns around to throw boomerangs at Sonic. Sonic uncurls and then quickly jumps into the air to avoid the boomerang.

Amy comes running up to Quickman with her hammer raised. "You don't hurt my Sonic!" When she is about to hit him with it, Quickman throws a quick punch at Amy, making her fall onto the ground. "Don't hurt her!" shouts Sonic angrily. He dashes at Quickman and throws a punch at him, but the robot master grabs his fist and tosses him aside. "You cannot defeat me," says Quickman. "Flesh beings will never be more superior than machines."

Samus fires several shots at Turboman, who is driving around in car mode. None of Samus's plasma shots seems to affect him. "You cannot hurt me!" says Turboman. "I am invincible!" Turboman immediately switches back to his normal form and jumps into the air. "Scorch Wheel!" he shouts as he launches 4 fireaballs at Samus, who quickly jumps aside to avoid it. Turboman then performs a jumping kick and lands his feet on Samus's head, and then he punches her hard in the visor, making it crack a little. Turboman immediately switches to car form and charges at Samus will full force. The bounty huntress flies backwards and smashes through a brick wall. "Ugh…" grunts Samus. "What a tough opponent…"

Fox fires his laser gun upwards at the flying Shademan. Shademan keeps on flying back and forth, avoiding all the laser beams. "Man! He's swift!" thought Fox. "I'll have to try something else!" Fox withdraws his gun and jumps up into the air. Immediately, his entire body gets covered in fire, and then he shoots towards Shademan like a rocket. "What the!" exclaims Shademan as he quickly flies aside. It was a really close call; Fox was just a centimeter close to his side. As Fox drops back to the ground, he quickly faces Shademan and suddenly zips forward in a blink. Shademan didn't see that coming and is rammed by Fox. Fox drops back onto the ground and looks up at the still flying Shademan.

"That blow was nothing at all!" says Shademan. "I don't even feel a single pain!" Shademan stretches his wings out wide and bats appear from his wing as if there's a warp portal there. G&W runs up to Fox and says, "I can deal with them!" He pulls out a frying pan and it starts to shoot sausages. The sausages hit the bats and explode on contact, demolishing the bats. "You destroyed my little friends!" says Shademan angrily. "You'll regret!"

He dives down at Game & Watch and swipes his claw at him, making a slash mark across the flat paper man's chest. "AAAAAAAACK!"

"Game & Watch!" screams Fox as he runs up to him. "Are you all right!"

"Uh… I'm fine…" grunts G&W. "I can still live for another 10 years… I think…"

"You probably won't live that long now," says Shademan. "It's going to end this hour!" Shademan aims his arm cannon at the two and fires a supersonic wave. Fox activates the Reflector and, to Shademan's surprise, reflects the wave back to him. Shademan gets hit by the supersonic wave and, surprising enough, absorbs it into himself!

"What!" gasps Fox. "Thanks to you! I have absorbed my own Noise Crush and is now stronger than before!" When he has finished saying this, he fires an even bigger Noise Crush at him. Again, Fox puts on his Reflector without thinking. The supersonic blast hits the reflecting shield and bounces back to Shademan. This time, though, Shademan gets short-circuited and drops onto the ground.

"NOOOO! What have you done to Shademan!" cries Turboman when he sees this. "Ugh… I forgot…" grunts Shademan. "If I absorb it the second time… The energy inside me will become so much that it will try to burst open me…"

"You're not too smart after all," says Fox. "Now I can take on you easily!" Fox aims his gun at Shademan's head and is about to pull the trigger when Turboman runs forward and punches Fox away. "DON'T HURT HIM! SCORCH WHEEL!" Turboman launches several fireballs at Fox. G&W jumps in front of the fireballs and pulls out a bucket. The bucket absorbs the fireballs into it and G&W dumps it back onto Turboman, severely burning him! "HOOOOOOOT!" screams Turboman. "I NEVER THOUGHT THE WHEELS WOULD BE THIS HOT!"

"Hot wheels! Get it?" says G&W jokingly. Turboman quickly runs to the nearest fire hydrant and kicks it open, making water burst out and soaking him out. "Phew… That's better…" Then he angrily turns to G&W. "I'll kill you this instant!" Shademan have also gotten back up and says, "Me too. You still haven't pay for killing my friends!"

The two robot masters charge at Fox and G&W. "Oh no! They're coming for us!" cries G&W. "Get ready to face them!" Fox tells him. Just as they are closing in on the duo, two figures jump down in front of the robot masters and deliver a powerful blow to send the two robots flying backwards.

"Roy! Mewtwo!" exclaims G&W happily. Indeed, there stands Roy and Mewtwo. "Sorry, we're late," says Roy. "I had to take time meditating," says Mewtwo. Mario runs into the scene and is panting heavily. "Huh… I'm tired… You guys run-a so fast-a!"

Turboman and Shademan get back up and face the new foes. "You baddies!" says Turboman angrily. "How dare you hit us hard!"

"We will teach you manners!" says Shademan angrily. Mewtwo steps forward and says, "You're the ones who deserves some manners." He points his finger at the two robots, making them freeze. "What's happening to me!" asks Turboman. "I can't move!" cries Shademan. Mewtwo then makes several strange gestures, causing the two robots to fly around in air and bumping each other. Mewtwo then points into the far distance, and the two robot masters gets fling far away.

"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!" screams the both of them, all the way till the end.

Quickman turns to Mewtwo and says, "What have you done to them!"

"Just gave them a lift," replies Mewtwo. Quickman stares angrily at him and dashes at him. Mewtwo really didn't see that coming, and is punched in the stomach by Quickman. "Ugh!"

Roy draws his sword and says, "How dare you hurt Mewtwo like that!" He swings his sword at Quickman, but the robot master jumps up to avoid the slash and throws a quick punch at Roy. Mario runs to Quickman to deliver him a punch, but Quickman kicks him in the belly before the plumber can have a chance. Suddenly, Quickman is hit in the back by a strong blow. Sonic had curled into a ball and pelted him hard in the back. When Quickman collapse face first onto the ground, Popo, Nana, and Tails come running up to him and whack him with their hammers (Tails got a random hammer from nowhere). "DIE! BASTARD!" they shout in unison.

Quickman somehow performed a quick leg sweep, kicking the three away. He gets back up and says angrily, "I'm getting serious now!" He charges at Roy and punches him hard across the face, then he zooms to Mewtwo and kicks him in the chin, and then he grabs Mario by the moustache and hurls him away!

Samus quickly fires a missile at him, but Quickman was able to avoid it. He throws a boomerang at Samus, who dodges it easily, but she didn't notice the boomerang flying back, so it hits her on the back of the helmet and knocks it off. Quickman then picks up the helmet and throws it at Fox, directly hitting him on the nose. Amy and G&W come running towards Quickman from both sides, ready to hit him with their hammers. Quickman jumps up into the air and the both of them clash with each other and pass out.

Quickman drops back onto the ground and says, "Is there no one who can challenge me?" Sonic steps up in front of him and says, "I can."

"Stop joking. You can't."

"Oh, but I can," says Sonic, and he dashes at Quickman to attack him. Quickman simply dodges aside, but when he tries to move again, he leg doesn't seem to respond! He looks down and sees a line of energy wrapped around his left leg! "I got him with my grapple hook!" shouts Samus. "Ice Climbers!"

"Yes ma'am!" shouts Popo and Nana. The Ice Climbers run up to Quickman and starts blowing air at him. "Agh! What the! The air is so cold!" cries Quickman. Starting from the legs, Quickman's entire body starts to turn to ice, all the way until the chest level. "Argh!"

Sonic turns to him and says, "This is actually part of my plan. Now to finish it!" Sonic curls up and begins spinning in place. As he spins, a strange blue aura forms around him. "What kind of energy is that?" thought Quickman. "Darn it! I must get out of this ice!" Hard as he struggles, he cannot break free from the icy prison.

Sonic continues to spin in place and glow with a bright blue aura. "Here we go!" he shouts before shooting forward. Quickman can't do anything but see Sonic coming closer and closer towards him. Sonic bashes into Quickman's head so hard that he breaks free from his icy prison, and the impact even cracked open his head! Quickman collapse onto the ground and didn't budge at all. Tails runs up to the fallen robot master and checks on him. "Nice job, Sonic!" says Tails. "That blow you land on his head destroyed his main computer chip. In other words, you destroyed his brain!"

Amy runs up to Sonic and hugs him tight. "You did it! I know you can do it, my beloved Sonic!" Sonic's face turns red and says, "Cut that off, Amy!"

Samus giggles and says, "Look at that one-sided relationship." Then a large crowd of people appears and approaches them. "You have save us!" says one of them, who appear to be the president of Station Square. "How can we ever thank you?"

"Now need for thanks," says Mewtwo. "This is part of our mission."

After the people have thanked them and left, the Smashers all go back to Sonic's house.

"What's next?" asks Parry. "Those robots said that they are following Eggman's command," says Sonic. "So I think we will go get him next!"

"And one of them even said they have ties with the Darkling," mentions Fox. "So maybe this Eggman guy knows where the Dark Reactor is located."

Roy stands up and says, "What are we waiting for? Let's go kill Eggman and destroy the Dark Reactor!"

"But where do we find him?" asks Nana. "I know where he lives," says Tails. "His latest hideout is hidden somewhere near Mystic Ruins. We'll go back there and find him. By the way, I also want to return to my workshop and bring along something useful."

"Good! Let's get moving!" says Roy as he points toward the door. "Indeed! A large cockroach on the door!" says Popo in awe. "That's the largest I've ever seen in a while!"

"That's not why I pointed to the door in the first place…" says Roy with a anime-style sweat drop.

Eggman is in his base, pounding the control panel hard. "Argh! Those three robot masters are defeated! Dr. Wily's robots aren't what I think after all! Argh! The Smashers have teamed with Sonic! This is the worst thing that can happen!" He pounds the control panel even harder, causing several mechanical hands holding wine bottles to splash drinks at him. "YAAAAAAARGH!"

TO BE CONTINUED…

That's quite a long chapter, isn't it? I'll get the next chapter as soon as possible. Wish me luck!