Close Companions: The Movie
By: Metal Sonic EX
Disclaimer: I do not own Sonic the Hedgehog, Ristar, Vectorman, or anything that pertains to any of their worlds. If I did, I'd be busy surfing the Internet, looking at all of my fans talk about me in cruel and obscene manners. However, in reality, I don't. Reality sucks. So don't sue me.
Hello again! I just want to inform everyone that when you beat the classic Vectorman, what is mentioned in this chapter does not happen! You destroy Warhead, Earth is saved, and everyone goes on with their lives. Earth does not… Well, why spoil it? Enjoy!
Scene Five
The Final Days of Earth
The group quickly grew silent. "What do you mean by 'what happened'? Did it disappear or something?" Rotor asked and Greedy chuckled. "I fear the Earth suffered a much more, dare I say, deadly fate." It grew quiet again and the only sound came from Eggman and Inonsis working on rebuild the robot. Lara-Le spoke up. "Deadly fate? Like what? And what are they making?" Greedy chuckled again. "I assure you, I'll answer all of your questions. But, it would be all-the-more easier if I could show what happened." Inonsis stopped working. "How about that! I created a holographic simulation to what happened, precisely for this purpose too!" Inonsis scurried over to his worm-like robot and pushed a button. The room was almost instantly covered in darkness. Inonsis, Eggman, Uranium, and the planets of Valdi were no longer visible. "Well, that's interesting. Anyways, let me begin at the beginning…"
(Vectorman (Sega Genesis, PC) - Intro/Credits begins playing)
(Remixes)
None, that I know of…
The hologram changed to the outside of a tall building that spiraled upwards. An odd-looking dump truck was scooping up an odd grayish substance off the ground. The truck was piloted by an odd-looking robot. Suddenly, for no apparent reason, another odd-looking robot ran up, pulled the truck driver out of the vehicle, and started to beat him up.
"The year was 2049. Due to a problem with mass amounts of sludge, humanity escaped to the void of space. As the humans left, they left behind highly advanced robots known as orbots. These orbots were programmed to clean the planet."
The scene changed to the inside of a building that have thousands of TV's on the walls. Numerous orbots were scattered around. In the center of the room, a giant orbot stood with his arms crossed. He didn't appear to have a head, but his body was heavily-built and made of what Tails took to be something similar to titanium. His shoulders were giant balls of metal and around his mid-torso, his chest became a cylindrical triangle. A ball was floating below it and below that were two heavy-looking legs.
"A powerful orbot known as Raster oversaw the cleaning of the worldwide ComNet center. However, due to unknown circumstances, many of the attendant orbots Raster was in charge of attached a nuclear missile to Raster's main control circuits.
(A.N. That is his name. Please don't get it confused with Ristar. They're part of two different games.)
The scene changed to many orbots and Raster against a wall with a giant missile being lowered down onto Raster's head.
"Thus, Warhead was born."
Suddenly, the scene changed to Raster with the missile on his neck. The missile, oddly enough, opened it's eyes and threw its hands and head into the air.
"Warhead stood for tyranny and evil. And, upon his command…"
The scene changed again to one were the orbot known as Warhead thrust his finger skyward and thousands of orbots began to scramble around a giant laser that was pointed at a twinkle in the sky, something Tails took to be a space station or shuttle of some sort.
"Earth was turned in a deathtrap for the returning humans. Only one orbot wasn't affected by the evil mind control being broadcasted everywhere from the ComNet center."
The scene changed to a rooftop with a giant ship landing on it.
"Partially because he hadn't been on the planet at the time that the disaster happened."
The ship's door opened and an odd-looking orbot stepped out.
"This orbot was known as Vectorman."
The orbot's body consisted of numerous orbs. His feet were orbs with flat attachments. His legs were made of small white orbs and larger green ones. His stomach was one big, green ball. Like his legs, his arms were made up of white and green orbs. His head was a big, green ball with two red, robotic eyes.
"He had been delivering a load of sludge to the sun at the time and, upon his return, learned of the disaster. He swore that he would not rest until Warhead was defeated."
Vectorman jumped off the building and began running towards a large, purple tornado in the distance.
(Vectorman (Sega Genesis, PC) Intro/Credits fades out)
Suddenly, the holographic field disappeared and the group found themselves in Greedy's space city once again. "Uh, Inonsis. What just happened?" They looked over to the now nervous wreck, trembling and sweating like crazy. "Uh. Um. Well. Hehe. Please don't kill me." Eggman was still working on what everyone now knew to be Warhead's body. "Why would I kill you?" Inonsis grew even more nervous. "Multiple reasons. First, um, well… you remember the shooting star?" Greedy nodded. "Well, you see. He's kind of… you know…" Greedy pieced it together and then did something that not only woke Kneecaps up, but startled everyone as well.
In a split-second, Greedy somehow teleported over to Inonsis, picked the whole Magnum Worm by the head, and threw it into the wall on the other side of the room. He then teleported over to Inonsis and threw the Magnum Worm across the room again. "MORON! IDIOT! INFIDEL! YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY DIDN'T MEET UP WITH EACH OTHER!" Inonsis was practically bawling his eyes out, as was Kneecaps.
"I'm sorry! My monitor received a mechanical interference and it made it appear that the hedgehog was at one place when he was really at another! I didn't know! I swear!" Greedy started. "What do you mean he's somewhere else? Where is he?" Inonsis lowered his head so that only his eyes shown and he brought up a shaky hand, pointing at the window. "There." Greedy threw his head at the window. "WHAT!" He ran over to it, looked, and, lo and behold, there it was. Slowly passing Planet Flora was the ship from the hologram!
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Greedy shouted at the top of his lungs and Kneecaps continued to bawl out a river of tears. Well, actually, it was more like an ocean of tears. Nonetheless, Greedy had had enough. "AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" He threw his hands in the air and thunderbolts shot up from them, striking a chandelier that hung from the ceiling. The chandelier began pulsing with electricity and everyone, and I mean everyone, Kneecaps included, shut up instantly at this spectacle. The rope that held the chandelier snapped and it began to fall to the ground. Greedy slammed his hands to his side and spun around to look at the captives. They just stared at the ex-space pirate with the deranged look in his eye as the chandelier came crashing to the ground behind him. "NEED I SAY MORE!"
When no one answered, he almost immediately calmed down and said, "Well, then. I'm glad I've made my point. Inonsis, continue the hologram." Inonsis obediently did so and they were once again consumed by darkness. This time, the first scene showed Vectorman in the middle of a field with TVs, lawn chairs, you name it, surrounding him. Warhead fell from no where and began exploding. Obviously, the hologram had continued playing when Inonsis had interrupted them. Greedy shrugged and continued.
"Anyways, Vectorman went on to defeat Warhead. But, it was then the horrible truth was revealed. About a week ago, Warhead's missile had been activated and Vectorman had destroyed him, but his victory came too late."
Vectorman walked up to Warhead's wreckage and a flash of white caught his eye. He moved closer, saw an open panel in the missile, and his worst fears were confirmed.
0:00:04…
0:00:03…
0:00:02…
"Oh, crap."
The scene suddenly changed to somewhere far away and, in the distance, the mushroom cloud from a nuclear explosion could be seen. The shockwave soon came rushing at the captives from out of nowhere.
"Vectorman was destroyed instantly. As for the shockwave, it hit the laser with such ferocity and speed, that the planet couldn't endure it. And Earth was destroyed."
The scene changed to a large view of the planet. Suddenly, cracks of light began coming from the planet, and soon, more and more until the planet was covered in a white flash and Earth exploded. Chunks of rock came flying at Sally and the others, but it never hit them. The scene changed again to several badly burnt spheres flying through space with a couple chunks of rock.
"Vectorman's wreckage floated through space for three months until his human creator, Aura, gathered what remained of him, rebuilt him, and activated him from a distance. No one knows why, but she was always secretive and careful not to reveal her identity. Vectorman, some say, became a bounty hunter although no one knows for certain. As for the humans of Earth, many say that they traveled to your planet and eventually evolved into what you call overlanders."
(A.N. Vectorman's creator, Aura, was not in the classic Vectorman games. She came in to the picture in the recently scrapped PS2 version of Vectorman.)
With that, the hologram disappeared and they found themselves in the room once again where Inonsis, much to the dismay of Greedy, was panicking again. "Now what?" Inonsis blabbered out a quick answer, then pointed at the window again. "We've received another interference! THEY'RE CLOSER!" Greedy ran to the window again and, sure enough, there was the ship again. But this time, there were passing Planet Scorch. "How'd they get so close so fast!" Inonsis shrugged. "I don't know!" Eggman stopped working and looked at Inonsis. "Am I supposed to build this thing by myself?" Greedy stopped Inonsis before he could shoot something back at Eggman. "That thing might just give us a needed advantage against those brats." Uranium nodded. "Believe it or not, I actually agree with you."
"We're almost finished." Greedy looked at Inonsis, then at the orbot. His upper torso was almost completed. "What about his legs?" Eggman cut Inonsis off. "With the hedgehog making this much progress, we may not have time to complete them." Greedy pondered this for a few seconds. "No matter. Finish what you can, then activate him." Antoine let out one of his famous 'eep' noises. "Activate? As in, BOOM, we all blow to pieces!" Greedy sighed. "No, you annoying coyote. I mean as in activate him push a few buttons so that he comes back to life." Antoine shook his head. "I tink I like that ting better dis way!" Greedy shook his head and began walking back to his throne-like chair. "Just finish it…"
Whew! That's a load of my chest. This chapter, scene, whatever you want to call it, is actually one of the bigger storyline changes that convinced to turn this into a fanfic. It kind of makes sense now…
Sonic: Here I come to save the day!
Metal Sonic EX: Hey, Sonic. It's that time again.
Sonic: Don't kill me!
Metal Sonic EX: Don't worry. This time, I'm not laying a finger on you.
Sonic: You're not?
Metal Sonic EX: Nope. -whistles- Too bad I can't say the same for Sparky here.
Sparky the rabid raccoon: -jumps on Sonic's face and starts tearing it to pieces-
Sonic: My face!
Metal Sonic EX: Read and Review please! -points- I know where you live!