Chapter 4: BURNiNATiON
I dunno, just decided to have a joke chapter title. And I found a few mistakes in my last chapter in spelling, including spelling Tails's name Mailes instead of Miles, and a few other random mistakes. THey're fixed on my computer, but too much a hassle to fix them up on here... Have to upload a new chapter and then replace it... And my computer hates doing those things... So no fixes, I'll just say them here.
Expect weekly chapter updates, I promised myself on this story to both get weekly updates AND a sequel (a first for me). The sequel will be of couse on this story. I've got stuff planned out for the sequel too, so don't worry about it too much now. But for the most part it's gonna go add new bad guys never seen before and add more chapters, both from the Sonic universe and UT universe. Maybe even some ChaosUT characters, if I feel like it, but I doubt it.
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"Does he always do that?" Lauren asked after Sonic had run out of visual range of the 4's sights.
"Well, that's Sonic for you! Fueled by adrenaline, even when it could kill him. Hey! WHat's that all about?" Tails yelled at the three after they shared smirks and chuckles. "It's how he lives, on the edge! What's wrong with that?"
"Nothing, we do more than that though. Usually. We live past the edge, fueled by both normal adrenaline and Tournament adrenaline. Kills us, but we don't care. Just respawn, that's it. But here, we don't know if we can respawn or not, so we're gonna hold back just a little." Malcolm explained to the young anthro.
Lauren looked over to Brock, who had his ear radio turned off from the group, and to his music. "Hey, cut out your stupid music and at least pay attention for one damn time Brock!" And with that, Lauren smacked her fist to his ear, changing the radio back to the group and turning off his music.
"WHAT THE HELL!" Brock practically screamed, then sighing and glaring at Lauren. "Mrrrnnn- Let's just go..."
Both Tails and Malcolm just stared at Brock, with one eyebrow raised each. Rolling his eyes afterwards, Malcolm turned back to the fox, getting on one knee to talk to the small animal. "Where to? I mean, doesn't help much if we're just standing around, right?"
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Sonic ran in the general direction of an old base once occupied by GUN, several decades ago, since that's where the next Emerald was supposed to be. Whoever puts these things in these places really had to be going all out... Sonic though as he ran though several buildings on the base site. Nothing but rusting bunkers were around him, but he kept looking around, until he came upon something not rusted out.
It was a silver robotic sentry turret with a red stripe running through the middle of it. The feet of the thing was also red, but in a pattern of black diagonal stripes running on the red strip itself, like those construction lines telling that only authorized personel could go past kind of lines.
It also had a large set of twin blasters and 2 rocket packs on the back of it. A compartment was under the 2 rocket packs, large enough to holster a pair of Chaos Emeralds. Seeing this thing made Sonic shiver, thinking how this used to be the technology used back in the day. It was still a very powerful looking machine, if not more powerful than any GUN robot used currently.
Sonic ran past it, going into another building, looking around. A loud noise was heard outside, getting the attention of the hedgehog, so he ran back outside. And then he saw Eggman opening the back compartment and placing in it 2 Chaos Emeralds, one the doctor must have had before, and one he apparently found before Sonic had in this abandoned base.
"Where you think you're going Eggman?" Sonic shouted to the evil doctor, causeing Eggman to turn around.
"Oh-ho-ho, so the hedgehog finally catches up to me! As you can see, I've already gotten these 2 Emeralds, so leave now and I won't have to destroy you!" Eggman replied as he lifted himself into the machine's cockpit, activating the thing.
"You already know my answer! I'd never run from a good fight!" SOnic smirked as he ran to the frontside of the machine, prepping for a long and hard fight against the old GUN robot.
"You know, I'd never have thought to ever find one of these. You see, GUN made these 30 years ago, but only discontinued them because they were dumb and lost blueprints to these things and then sent them to war. Well, I've found the prints, and now that you've accepted my challenge, let's see how well it does against you Sonic! Prepare for your demise hedgehog!" The robot stomped the ground, and fired a pair of missiles at Sonic.
"Whoa!" Sonic shouted as he barely dodged the speedy missiles. I've got to watch out for those things! They're faster than any missile Eggman's used before!
"What's the matter? Scared of a little missile? Have a taste of these then!" Eggman said, mocking Sonic, and then hitting a button, firing the twin laser blasters.
This time however, Sonic didn't have time to dodge. "AHH!" The pain seared through Sonic's right arm, and he grabbed it, trying to stop the pain, but to no avail. Gathering himself, Sonic ran up and tried a Spindash at the robot, but was stopped suddenly by a shield around the robot.
"Hahaha! As you can see, they even had the blueprints to their shield technology. Let's see you get through it! It's powered by the Chaos Emeralds you know..."
Great, just great, a Chaos Shield around an already powerful robot. What's next? A cannon? Sonic dashed around to the backside of the robot, hoping the shield was none-existant in the back, but still to no avail after he tried another Spindash at it. "I'll admit, you really did your math this time Eggman! But there's always a weakspot!"
"Yes, there's always a weak spot, but that's covered by the shield... you'll never beat this robot!" Eggman proclaimed, firing a missile.
"I'll MAKE a weak spot then!" Sonic said as he dodged the 2 missiles again. Unofrtunately, the explosions still hit Sonic, causing him to be knocked over. Sonic came to a skidding halt on his face. Hey, I think I saw something when he fired those missiles! Maybe that's when I can attack!"
Eggman fired the lasers again at Sonic, but this time prepared, Sonic was out of the way before Eggman even hit the button. "What? I need to speed up..." Eggman muttered as he turned the robot back to Sonic, who managed to get to the backside of the robot again.
But one thing Eggman didn't know was that Sonic was just waiting now, waiting for Eggman to hit the missile launchers again. "Come on Eggman, I thought you were better than THAT!"
"Grr, I'll make you eat your words for that one Sonic the Hedgehog!" Eggman said, getting furious over Sonic's taunts, and then hitting the missile fire again. This exact moment is what Sonic wanted, and he did a Homing Attack on the robot's compartment this time, but only after the missiles were just launching from the robot.
This better work... Sonic thought as he flew through the air, about to hit either a shield or a metal compartment. Then, miraculously, he hit the compartment, causing it to shatter and drop the 2 Chaos Emeralds, and the missiles also turned and hit the robot since Sonic was under it. "WHAT?" Eggman screamed, extremely mad that Sonic had actually broken the shield, leaving the robot to be just a normally armored bot with good weaponry.
"What's the matter Eggman? Mad that I found a weakspot?" Sonic taunted again, and he smashed into the robot again, this time destroying the robot's rocket packs.
"Don't you worry, I've still got a few tricks up my sleeve!" Eggman said quietly, hitting a button on the robot's console. This caused the robot to retract it's arms and replace them with grabbers, and this caught Sonic off guard, and Eggman moved the arms to grab Sonic successfully by the legs. "I've got you now hedgehog! You have any last words?"
The robot let go of Sonic with one arm and changed back to a gun, and aimed straight at Sonic's head. "Yeah, I've got a few... next time, make sure to cover the wires better."
As Sonic said that, Eggman had already hit the fire button, but the robot's arm began to malfunction and it exploded violently next to Sonic's head. The arm's gun was the only thing that saved Sonic's head from being ripped off, as it was able to shield Sonic as it was hit by the explosion in the upper arm. "Noo! How did you do that?"
"Easy... I just ripped the wires saying gun arms." Sonic said, and the grapple arm squeezed on Sonic, beginning to crush him.
"Well, either way, I'll just have to break a few bones instead! I knew I shouldn't have labeled those wires anyways..." Eggman said, getting out of the cockpit of the robot, and walking out of the base after grabbing the 2 Chaos Emeralds from behind the robot's back, letting the robot's arm continue to squeeze on Sonic's legs.
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The 4 had started walking about 5 minutes ago, heading to a harbor town near the abandoned GUN base, hoping to meet up with Sonic after he finished looking for the 4th Chaos Emerald, not knowing he was stuck there in the clutches of a GUN robot of the past, having his legs broken. "Hey, how much farther until we get to this place?" Lauren asked Tails as Tails was flying in the front towards the place.
"Not much farther, just about a mile. The place we're meeting up with Sonic, though, is at the docks. A little shop called Denny's Hot Dogs. It's a place that Sonic likes to go eat a lot. I wouldn't doubt he's already there, just eating a bunch of chili dogs, just waiting for us!" Tails laughed as he kept leading.
"You think it'd be a good idea if one of us went to the base anyways to make sure nothing happened to Sonic?" Malcolm asked, getting ready to head off to the base. He'd wanted to go look at the old GUN base anyways, since he wanted to know what GUN did for bases, even if it was 30 years ago since it was last used. Maybe do a comparison to the NEG (New Earth Government) bases of the past also.
"How would you be able to tell us though?" Tails asked, looking back at Malcolm.
"I'll answer that. We've got little ear radios, so we can talk to each other when we need to. Really handy, especially during CTF matches, or even Double Domination matches." Brock looked over to a tree (after explaining), seeing an arrow in it, and then seeing an adult cat practicing archery with the tree. He was actually a pretty good aim with it too.
"What's Double Domination?" Tails inquired.
"2 points to control, and all you need to do is contol them both for 10 seconds and you get a point. I hate it though. Really annoying when you have one point, but can't get the other because the entire other team is protecting it." Malcolm sighed, remembering playing through those matches, and recalling them as matches from hell, since heis team had to fight against The Corrupt in the first round. The Corrupt were considered the best team, followed right behind with Malcolm's team.
"I guess you could go check the base out if you want Malcolm, but I doubt you'll find much to look at." Taiols turned in mid-air, and pointed. "It's in that direction, you can't miss it, The only place that's rusting around here really."
"And where exactly is here, anyways..." Brock muttered.
Malcolm nodded and turned from the group to investigate the base. I'll just look for 5 minutes, and if nothing comes up, then I'll just radio in and go to that place they're talking about...
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End of chapter 4.
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