"We gotta get inside Nichole" Tails states in a light panic. Every second that he spent out here was another second Sonic was in danger. Looking around, he noticed a little touch pad next to the door that his hedgehog friend was dragged through. Moving closer to it, it looked a little to complicated for his technical ability… maybe the little palm computer could help.
"Can you hack it Nicole?" Tails asked.
"Affirmative…" The machine responded in its usual monotone voice.
He holds it up to the keypad. "Hack it…" he ordered.
"Crackin' Tails." The computer responded, to which Tails couldn't help but chuckle, the little gadget had defiantly been in Sonic's hands too long. A second later of blips and beeps the door suddenly opened with an 'access granted' calling out.
"Way past…" Tails said as he snuck into the door.
Deep in the futuristic base, a pointy nosed human looked over his dimensional transport, it was quite a piece of work if he did say so himself. Even his uncle would be marveled at the capabilities it had. It wasn't just any transport; it had also the ability to move through each different dimension. The second, third, and even the fourth dimension were his to explore, every point up down and in between. Of course, he'd be using it's fourth dimension feature, which would enable him to travel through time. The other two would prove pretty much useless, he pretty much owned this planet already, except for where those fur balls were hiding. If he went back in time he could make sure the freedom fighters would never be a nuisance to him now.
"Snively sir, we have positive news." Came a robotic call, interrupting the human's thoughts.
The vertically challenged one turned around, lightly fuming to himself. Why did these contraptions choose the most inopportune time to interrupt him? "What do you want?" He sighed.
"It's about the hedgehog, sir." The robot responded instantly perking the humanoid's interest. Anything concerning the hedgehog was defiantly something that required his full attention; he had come too far now to be stopped.
"What about him?" he asked lowly to the metallic soldier.
"We have captured him." It responded.
With those four simple words the mood of the pointy nosed human suddenly shifted to something a little more positive. "Very good," he said with a sly grin on his face. "Where is he now?"
The door to the chamber opens as if one cue, a rodent struggling in the grip of a swatbot that entered through the opening.
"Well, well, well… what do we have here?" Snively chuckled his low signature laugh with the funny squeals.
The hedgehog, even though captured and he couldn't really move, let a grin out at the short man. "What's the matter? Is the big man too little to face me himself?" He asks with a laugh.
When Snively figures out who the hedgehog is talking about he lets off a shrill laugh, he knew he was good, but he didn't know how he was able to fool the Freedom Fighters for so long. He smiles, it shouldn't matter if he let the hedgehog in on his little secret, he wouldn't live to tell the others. As soon as he was done in the past there wouldn't be any others anyway. "Oh my dear, dear hedgehog… You still think that Robotnik is alive?"
"Are you off your knocker Sniv? Or did you just hit your head to much as a kid?" Sonic asked with a little annoyance in his voice. "Your kind uncle has been causing a rukus over the past few years. You never saw the Death Egg?"
Snively had another chuckle at the hedgehog's expense. "Oh my dear boy… of course I saw the Death Egg… I'm the one that had made it operational, and used it."
Sonic stopped shifting around in the robot's grip and just stared at the pointy nosed human. "What are you talking about Snootley?"
Sighing, the human shook his head. "You'd never figure it out hedgehog, so I'll just tell you what I mean." Snively stated as he moved over to his chair and sat down to make himself comfortable while he explained. "When you destroyed the Doomsday Project you knew my uncle was in the area when it was destroyed. You Freedom Fighters probably assumed he was dead, but never found a body, as I never had." He smiled.
"Get to the point while I'm young Sniffley…" The hedgehog said very annoyed with being told about the stuff he already knew.
"You remember those Robotnik Clones you encountered in the Sky Sanctuary?" Snively asked.
The hedgehog nodded, they were launched from the Death Egg as it made its way to the upper stratosphere. They were obvious copies, because they had a chrome top, ironically making them official chrome domes. They had jetpacks and laser guns and tried to slow him down. They were slow and clumsy however and he easily destroyed them.
Seeing the nod Snively continued. "Let's just say those were the failed experiments… you see Robotnik disappeared after what happened at Doomsday. Just like the older Tails did after he fought Uncle Chuck…"
Sonic growls as he finally puts two and two together. "It was you this whole time? The Death Egg, the burning of the Great Forest, my Uncle Chuck, it was all you? You bastard, how could you?"
Snively just grinned. "Just for the name calling I'm gonna make sure you suffer a horribly slow and painful end. Take the rodent to the garbage compacting unit, and make sure he put him in feet first. That way he'll be able to feel himself being crushed, slowly." He laughed.
Sonic growled to himself. Tails, if you're out there you'd better hurry, he thought.
The fox peeked around the corner, the coast was clear, which was strange how quiet it was. Maybe they didn't think anyone was with Sonic. Maybe it was that they didn't see him as a threat and had all the security around the hedgehog. Either way they were making this way too easy. He had to slow down Robotnik, now doubt he'd be using the elders in his evil scheme, and he also had Sonic who would be either ready to kill him, or robotosize him.
As he made his way down the corridor there was a little sign that caught his eye that said 'Power Room'. He smiled to himself, it was time to have a little fun.
The hedgehog found himself stuck to a conveyor belt in a very musty room. Megamuck covered him like a blanket, he couldn't move an inch.
"Any last words rodent?" Sneered Snively as he flipped the switch to turn the unit back on, the blue hero moving slowly toward a rotating stubbed wheel made to grind and compact anything unfortunate to get caught in it.
Sonic growled at the humanoid as he made his way down the belt. "You'll never get away with this Tails will stop you." He shouted, and then instantly was silent realizing he just gave his buddy away.
The pointy nosed one laughs. "If you mean that little twerp then I have nothing to worry-" he was interrupted when suddenly the room became swallowed in darkness. There was a moment of silence which was ended when Sonic let out a laugh.
"You were saying Snootley?" came the rodent's voice in the darkness.
The backup lights clicked on as the hedgehog let out an inward sigh of relief, the belt had stopped for the moment and he had more time to try and loosen himself from the muck.
"Repairbots to the power room immediately!" Snively shouted a growl in his voice. If the power remained cut then his teleportation devise would fail to charge. He wasn't about to lose his dream of conquest because of some stupid little flea-ridden furball.
The kit chuckled to himself as he saw repair bots bolting into the power room. It'd probably take them at least ten minutes to sift through the mess he made, which was plenty of time to find Sonic, and hopefully the elders. Tails was easily able to hack into the system, it was as if Snively hadn't prepared for an intrution as he had before. It was very strange that the short man was able to make schematics for cloning his fat uncle, but the fox was able to find schematics for them. Looking over the security video records, it was obvious that the man behind this was Snively. He had to tell Sonic of this, but first he had to find him.
"Hey Nichole, can you bring up the base schematic we got?" Tails asked, and instantly a hologram image of the base layout came up. Luckily he thought of searching through the database for a map of some kind before he trashed the power grid.
"Alright Nicole, now where's Sonic?" The fox asked.
The computer searched a bit and found it rather quickly, there wasn't many creatures to sift through in this area. A blue dot blinked on a point on the schematic and then the machine started to translate. "First take a left, then a-"
"It's ok Nichole, I can read a map." Tails said with a laugh. Nichole had definitely been around his friend far too long.
Hold on Sonic, the fox thought to himself, I'll be there in a second.
Sonic pulled against the muck with all of his might, but it was of no use, he couldn't reach the power ring he had stuffed in his pack. This mega muck was the good quality stuff, if he could only reach the power ring though it wouldn't stand a chance.
Suddenly there was a flash of light and a whirling noise, the power was back on! The conveyor belt had started to move again, and the hedgehog tugged with renewed vigor.
The intercom cracked, and the shrill voice that could only belong to Snively spoke. "I'd love to stay and watch your demise rodent, but I have a date with the past, and don't want to miss it."
Tails heard the voice and gasped, he had to hurry, everything was happening so fast.
Sonic sighed and stopped struggling, he was out of strength. His breath was heavy as he found himself hoping that Tails would be ok, where ever he was. As the clanking of the crushing compactor started to get louder and louder in his ears he closed his eyes. This was truly the end… he tried to get his mind on something else however the grinding sound continually got louder and louder as he inched closer.
Geez, simple mode editing isn't working, my HTML is minimal at best. I'll have to put seperations in once FF gets the Simple mode fixed. Sorry this one was short, getting ready to go back to school, and it's not easy since this ones farther away. My next update will be on September 9th, and will be the last one for the summer, so they ought to get better. Let me know what you think, even though this chapter was under par IMO. It'll get better from this point onward.