WORDS: 6552
CREATED: September 30, 2016, 12:05 PM
FINISHED: October 21, 2016, 7:18 PM

Act Two:
Part 1:

The Iron Inferno

Date: 9 / 18 / 3287

Sonic The Hedgehog laid on his back with his head resting on a sofa with Shadow The Hedgehog next to his left on the couch, and Tails The Fox resting on the right of the couch on the floor seemingly fallen off his chair. The three of them didn't have gloves or shoes on but did have socks on. Cans and bags of food laid around the floor with a large TV in front of the couch along with boxes and bean bags to the far right of the room with a single circle sized light in the center of the room. Cream The Rabbit came into the room through the door from the left of the room with a small smile on her face she placed a green and gray container next to the door. She picked up the cans and threw them into the gray container and picked up the bags and threw them into the green container some bags were placed next to the green bin. She looked around the room and nodded as she left the room picking up the container and the bags with her, she closed the door behind her which caused a loud slam which caused to Sonic to jolt his head up and open his eyes quickly. "Tsh, what was that?" Sonic closed his eyes tightly and shook his head then he placed his right head on the right side of his skull. Sonic squinted as he looked around the room. "...Oh." Cream The Rabbit came back into the room holding a broom and a broom sweeper. "Hey Creamer….."

"Hello Mr. Sonic. You three stayed up all night watching your shows."

"Again. This isn't the first."

"Well it was mine. I couldn't even sleep at one point."

"Sorry we kept you up all night."

"No problem, gotta adjust my schedule but eh what-are-you-gonna-do?" Cream handed Sonic his wrist communicator. "Huh?" Sonic grabbed the communicator from her hand and attached it onto his right arm.

"Vibrated a couple times but I kept it safe."

"Thanks! You're a fantastic assistant for Tails." She blushed and walked out of the room. Sonic turned his communicator on and looked at it. It was a message from Eggman. "Eggy?" He clicked on the message and it opened up to reveal a date. 9 / 19: 4:20 and an airhorn next to it. Sonic thought for a second and his eyes shot open. "9-19…..four-twenty…..oh my god." Sonic placed his arm on the couch's side and cushion and pushed himself up. He walked over towards the door and opened it to see Cream standing there in next to him holding some bottles.

"This is his medicine."

"Yeah, yeah, Cream he-he takes medicine?" Cream nodded and showed Sonic the bottle.

"It's for his blood pressure, he's been passing out lately so this atta help him."

"Hopefully. Take care of the guy-Cream what time is it?"

"Ummmmm, last time I checked it was five-thirty-eight-pm." Sonic clapped his hands.

"Good good, perfect time. Thanks Cream." Sonic started jogging towards the door then stopped at the handle. "Hey Cream. Take care of Tails, and if Shadow disappears don't worry he does that." Cream nodded and waved her hand. Sonic gave her a thumbs up and bolted out of the door and jogged towards the sidewalk and started speed walking straight through the roads, the central plaza, another couple roads and ended up running towards the Mobian Spire. Sonic got up towards the area and jogged up the stairs looking at the statues of spears with an infinity sign under the spear tip. Sonic shrugged and walked up to the large light blue doors in front of the wine red and silver Spire. The doors opened automatically and Sonic walked into the shiny silver and rosy red room with a female receptionist wearing a white and red suit along with a white cap with red outline. She was a teal-green eyed white bat with a light brown muzzle and large white ears poking out of the cap. She had white wings with black near the back of them. She had black eyelids and markings around her eyes along with long eyelashes. She had white hair coming out from the bottom of her head and down to the top of her spine. Sonic slid both of his hands onto the table. The receptionist was on the phone and looked up at Sonic with her eyes widening. She spoke softly into the phone. Sonic started looking around the room waiting with nothing very 'interesting' to see. She put her phone down, folded her hands and looked up at Sonic.

"Well if it isn't the Blue Blur himself. Why brought you here this time?" Sonic looked at the receptionist and grinned.

"Little r&r if ya Rouge The Bat. But all serious now, I need to talk to uhhhh what's her name?" Sonic started snapping his right fingers. "Still little tired-Tibleam!" Sonic pointed his right finger at Sally.

"She's busy."

"This is 'about Eggman." Sally's eyes widened.

"What about him? I can send a message-."

"He's gonna attack tomorrow." Sally stopped in her movements and looked up at Sonic.

"What?"

"He's gonna attack to-."

"I know what you said but how and why do you know that?"

"I…...I don't have the authority to say that." Sonic said crossing his arms.

"What do you-."

"Sonic." A voice called out from Sonic's left and Rouge's right to which they looked in that direction. Sally stood there then moved her head towards the hallway and walked off. Sonic pointed both of his fingers at Sally.

"Day and time. Amy's out." Rouge smirked while raising her hand and waving him away while closing her eyes.

"Busy all week." Sonic snapped his fingers into thumbs up.

"See ya babe!" Rouge rolled her eyes and snickered as Sonic jogged to where Sal was who was in fact waiting against the wall with both her arms and legs crossed. "If it ain't the princess herself."

"If it ain't blue britches." Sonic shrugged in response. "What are you doing here?" Sonic placed his hand on Sally's right shoulder.

"I need to tell you something." She put all of her attention onto Sonic. "Illuminati confirmed-Eggman's attack." Sally shook her head then looked at Sonic in a dumbfounded expression.

"Did you just-how do you know? Wait its that thing you and Eggman have isn't it?" Sonic just stared at her.

"...Yeah."

"When?"

"Tomorrow."

"At?"

"Four-twenty."

"Seriously?"

"No really he picked my favorite three numbers. What a guy."

"AM or-."

"PM. You know him."

"Not as well as you."

"He gives me a heads up because he wants to conquer not destroy. Errr…..he doesn't want to kill the ones he wants to conquer. What a guy."

"Okay so at three-pm we will force the citizens into Bunkers and will wait out the battle like usual. Why are you telling me now?"

"I just woke up. And yesterday was Saturday. You know. Fun day."

"Oh right. Well we gotta plan this out now. So we would have to warn the citizens at twelve-am tomorrow. Open up the bunkers at 1am Then prep the city for lockdown at three-twenty-pm and wait out for him to spawn."

"Spawn? What is this an MMO?"

"Question is. How's nature gonna be?"

"Huh?"

"Hold on." Sally reared the corner and yelled at Rouge. "Rouge what's the weather gonna be today and tomorrow?" Rouge looked down and moved over to her computer on the right. Sally reared back to Sonic. "Cause if it's sunny then no problem, if it's cloudy then he might get the element of surprise if it's-."

"Ms. Sally!" She back away and looked over the corner and at Rouge. "It will be cloudy for the rest of the day at three-pm and it is predicted that there will be light rain at one-pm tomorrow aaaaand heavy rain at four-pm and thunderstorms around five-pm tomorrow." Sally gave Rouge a thumbs up and she nodded. Sally reared back to Sonic.

"And there's heavy rain. Great."

"Rated M for Memes."

"How greaaaaat!"

"I should buy a jacket."

"Now this means they're gonna get the highest tier of surprise."

"Tails is gonna get scared again."

"Were at a disadvantage again!"

"Thanks Obamasnow."

"Change of approach!"

"Rain isn't that bad. Water. Oh that's the reeeeal villain. It's got everything nobody likes."

"Should we alert earlier?"

"It's got starfish, sharks, fish, seaweed, jellyfish."

"Should we lie to the public?"

"Water, water, water, there's a lot of water and…..oh god…..and whales! Not the whales! There the worst!"

"You're not even listening to me."

"I'm not listening to you-what?"

"Sonic can you take this seriously!?"

"With what? It's Eggman. The best he can make is like 12 fierce robots in like a week-that's actually really good numbers….."

"We have to take care of the citizens!"

"That's your job."

"Our job."

"YOUR job, my job is fending the robots off and BAM safe city."

"Damages? What about those? Remember last time?"

"That was not my fault last time."

"You destroyed forty-three windows and blew several apartments up! It was definitely your fault!"

"It was collateral damage." Sonic's voice cracked.

"Your collateral damage."

"Good one."

"Okay then, what really happened?"

"A little tiny booty bot threw me into a couple buildings."

"Well can you for once worry about the city and not about yourself?"

"Hey i'm all about that bass." She rolled her eyes up and loudly groaned.

"We nearly fell into the dump because of YOU last time."

"Me? What about EVERYBODY else?" Sonic complained as he threw his arms up.

"You're the only one here."

"Fine then, what do you WANT me to say?"

"Say I won't blow up the city."

"You won't blow up the city."

"SAY THE DAMN WORDS SONIC!"

"Alright alright." Sonic breathed in and out. "I want blow up the city." Sonic said laughing between words.

"You're crossing your fingers aren't you?"

"I definitely am not-." Sonic raised his right hand up to show his index and middle finger were crossed. "Ah sh*t look at that." Sally put her hands to her face, covering it.

"Don't you sass me boy."

"Oh but it shaboi Sassy Sanic in the house who is da host of The Roast Of Sally Acorn, welcome evrryone!"

"You're paying for whatever you destroy."

"A'ight."

"Hey, Sonic. Do you know how much concrete costs?" Sonic looked at her with the smuggest of looks. "$90 per cubic yard."

"I was never good in math."

"$60 per load for every wall you destroy. That's without adding glass, furniture, time, and EVERYTHING ELSE."

"I don't even have that much and I plan on buying a jacket."

"Welp you're gonna have to make a lot of dough." Sally then walked away from Sonic and then turned a corner and started walking up some stairs.

"Who do I look like? Kevin Hart? I can't make 87 million dollars in one sitting!"

"Well you're gonna have to find a way then blue britches. But hey don't take it personal." She said walking out of sight leaving Sonic alone in the hall.

"Hm. Guess this is what I get for smack talking…..was totally worth it though…..tsh, welp." Sonic then jogged around the corner, waved at Sally and exited the building. Sonic looked around the area and shrugged as he jogged down the stairs.

SHADOW

Shadow is seen rubbing the drowsiness out of his eyes as he slowly stood up off the couch and placed a hand onto his forehead. "What the hell….." Shadow blinked and looked around the room to see Tails now on his back with his eyes closed and some yellow chip crumbs in Tails' chest fur. Shadow put his left hand on his left knee and pushed himself up with his right hand. Shadow walked around the couch and opened the door to see Cream waving at the door as it closed it behind him. "What are you waving at?" Cream looked behind her and saw Shadow looking at her. She clasped her hands together, having the bottle between both hands and had them below her belly.

"Good afternoon Mr. Shadow." Cream said bowing. Shadow raised his hand then lowered it quickly. "I was just waving at Mr. Sonic who just left."

"Really? What did he have to do?" Cream shrugged.

"He asked me what time it was." Shadow was opening his mouth. "It's 5:39 if you were wondering." Shadow closed his mouth and nodded. "Um, Mr. Shadow?" Shadow's eyes put their attention on her. "Mr. Sonic said that I am the perfect assistant for Tails...do you think I-."

"I don't hang around you nerds so I wouldn't know." Shadow said shaking his head. "Just ask Tails." Cream looked down and started fidgeting with her fingers. "Let me guess. You're too shy?" Cream nodded which caused Shadow to groan. "Well I don't know then." Shadow walked towards the door and snagged for the doorknob.

"Mr. Shadow?" Shadow sighed, rolled his pupils and turned to Cream.

"What?!" He said in a snotty attitude.

"...Do you need me to check your feet for any malfunctions? Upgrades? Bugs?" Shadow looked to the side and let go of the doorknob.

"Guess you can't be too risky, sure." Cream smiled and escorted Shadow to a metal table as she jogged over and moved a scooter chair close to the end of the table on the left side of the room.

"Alright sit in the chair and put your feet on the table."

"What do you think I am? A puppet?"

"What do you think I am? Joking?"

"Ok that's fair." Shadow sat on the chair and placed his legs on the metal table. Cream pulled another chair near Shadow's shoes and sat in it, taking a screwdriver and moving it to the underside of Shadow's shoe and started screwing the red-orange plate off of the bottom side of Shadow's shoe covering the jet holes. She slowly detached it showing some silver screws on the bottom of the shoe which she screwed off, to which she removed the silver plate on top and around the red jet holes to reveal large amounts of circuits and wires to which Cream helped herself too. Shadow leaned his head over and watched Cream's full attention on his shoes, he returned to his original seating position.

"So the main problem I see is that the battery is a little outdated but overall the circuitry is perfectly fine, no bugs. But that may not go the same for the other shoe." She moved her index and middle finger through the circuits and plucked the blue, yellow, silver and black battery out. And showed Shadow a new battery, it was bigger, whiter, greenier, blacker, and yellower…."You only get two of these Shadow. Their impossible to make."

"What are they?"

"Their really expensive to make but they're useful because they use Chaos Energy as their fuel source."

"How?"

"I…..I don't know. There testing out new fuel and such like that."

"Ah makes sense…" Cream placed the battery into the shoe then moved the circuit back into place. She placed the silver plate on, screwed it then placed the orange-red side plate onto the shoe and screwed that on. She then did the same to Shadow's other shoe and worked through the wires and replaced the battery and hooked the pieces back onto the shoe. She patted Shadow's left shoe, stood up and smiled.

"Your shoes. Donzo!" Cream said pointing the screwdriver at Shadow who slowly took his feet off of the table and onto the floor as he dusted his arms off.

"Your payment and job. Donzo." Cream jumped up and down excitedly.

"Ya-ay!"

"Alright kid don't get cocky." Cream stopped and bowed to Shadow.

"The Prower Workshop is here to help, if it's metal it can be fettaled with!" Cream said while extending her thumb, index, and middle finger on the right side of her forehead. "Still working on the chant though…"

"Hmph. I give you a good review on Yelp." Shadow said walking towards the door. The door from where Shadow and Sonic came from opened up and Tails came out holding his head.

"Hey. What time is it?" Tails said rubbing his eyes and his fur. Cream looked at her communicator.

"It's….4:53 am."

"Man we need to get a better clock."

"Purposely didn't wake you up."

"Why?"

"You need sleep after that Tails."

"You're the perfect assistant for nerd fur here…" Shadow opened the door and saw Sonic having his right hand staying afloat with Sonic in a not so pleasant mood.

"I am the one who knocks!" Sonic said throwing his arms to his side and wide open.

"Back so early? What did you do?"

"Oh nothing went across the road, went into a building and chatted with bark climber back there."

"And?"

"Well i'm buying a jacket."

"Okaaaaay."

"Oh, and we're going to war." Sonic casually said while walking back into the house, scooting through Shadow. Sonic trucked past Cream and Tails and into their room. With all three of them just staring back.

"What does that mean?!" All three of them asked.

"It means exactly what it means! We're gonna war with Eggy tomorrow, so we have to prep the city." Sonic said coming out of the room with some clothes that looked like his. "So yeah."

"Great. So what did Sally say?" Shadow said crossing his arms.

"Well she left me standing in the hall..."

"Kay…"

"And she said don't take it personal…" Sonic said wagging his finger. "C'mon b-b-baby carry on."

"It's time to sing a different song."

"Ayyyyy, and as she walked out of my life forever she said for everything I destroy, I pay. Probably a joke though."

"Hope it isn't." Shadow said snickering under his words.

"Thanks Shad. Words of motivation AND confidence appreciated!" Sonic gave Shadow a thumbs up and gave a silly grin.

"Hmph." Shadow grinned. Tails looked between the two.

"So me and Cream need to finish the Bunnox and we are gonna need your help Shadow."

"The what?"

"The Bunnox-Oh. Well the Bunnox is a large mech suit created by me and Cream designed to be of equal level among you guys. But we are missing a couple components...like a suitable energy source. We condensing Chaos Energy was the best solution and seems to be the best case of energy."

"It's not that easy to condense Chaos as you think it is."

"We know that's why we've made batteries from the Chaos Emeralds on Angel Island to supply large quantities of energy but we have no one to power it."

"I see, and you need me to power your mecha." Tails nodded.

"Yes but not now cause it doesn't need to run right now."

"Alright tomorrow is when i'll run it." Tails nodded again. Sonic clapped his hands together.

"Okaaay! So we got the four of us on the job, Sally, Knuckles if he's willing to do it, Amy is in the South for another couple more days. Is that it?"

"Well we do have most of the Mobians in the Mobian Spire…" Cream said shrugging.

"Their gonna hide like the cowards they are." Shadow noted.

"Greaaat we got five maybe six to defend the whole city. Good thing he won't destroy the city at random." Sonic said walking to the door.

"You have too much trust in him." Tails angling his body towards Sonic. Sonic shrugged as he reached towards the doorknob.

"I've known him for years Tails. This doesn't change anything." Sonic opened the door and light drizzle started to come down from the sky. Sonic closed the door and turned around to the three. "Lets just work on equipment for now. Okay? Okay." Sonic, Shadow and Cream walked over to different tables and started working on things. Tails walking over to the back of the room and opened a hatch to the downstairs. "Everyone come down here. We want to show you the Bunnox." Everyone stopped what they were doing and walked to the hatch for which Tails climbed down with Shadow, Sonic and Cream climbing down in that order. They were downstairs were metal tables surrounded most of the back of the area where the latter was. The other half of the room where the wasn't, were silver ladders platforms going up the room with something at the center of the room, it was raised a bit into the air, it had a large teal blanket over it. Tails and Cream jogged up the left and right platforms respectively with Cream grabbing the teal blanket. Sonic and Shadow stopped half way across the room with Shadow folding his arms with Sonic on his left with him placing his hand to his right thigh. Cream pulled the blanket off of the object and revealed the Bunnox.

The suit was a dark apricot color. The front of the suit was mostly just a large curved sapphire blue tinted glass window with a circular light on top of it. The top of the mech was curved at the front and the sides but was flat otherwise however near the back it slants upwards and has a small rectangle sapphire tinted blue window then it went flat. It had to stubby but thick and lengthy legs hanging down with a white tube connecting to the back. It had two thick and long black and gold arms with a white tube connected the back of the arm to the back of the mech. The arms had a circle around the palm with thick black wrists. The sides of the mech were completely clean besides a vent on both sides of the mech but they slanted upwards and pointed outwards similar to wings of a plane. On the back was a black block with two jets on the side of it with the four tubes on the arms and legs connecting to the block, there was also two small sapphire blue tinted windows on the top side of the mech and little but in front of the back block. On top of the mech were two large ears like Tails' and they were around the front top but didn't interfere with the glass window. But behind the mech and below it was some equipment. There was a large six barreled chain gun, a large metal wire with a four fingered claw at the end and a small light blue glass palm in the center, both of these were connected to the bottom back. "Here it is! The Bunnox Prototype!" Tails said showing Sonic and Shadow his weapon.

"Looks very silly but also super deadly. Also prototype?" Sonic said shaking his right hand.

"We only recently got to developing this thing." Cream noted climbing onto it a opening a plate on top of the black block.

"Soooo, can you give us a tour of the…..Bunnox?" Shadow asked with his eye raising upwards. Tails snapped his fingers.

"Righty alright then!" Tails nicked on the side of the mech. "The metal on the mech is made of a metal strong enough to withstand several buildings falling on it but is light enough for flight. I believe it's Titanium...not sure…" Tails jumped onto the top and moved to the front window. "This glass is very strong, powerful, and bullet-resistance because bulletproof is a myth." The two nodded. Tails then pointed to the arms. "Those arms have built in pistons to hit with the force of a truck at full speed, wanna know why the wrists are so thick? There's a cable built into it, it's a grapple hook!"

"Oooooo." Sonic said paying more attention with Shadow completely unappeased.

"The arms also have a built in laser cannon around the palm which is what the tube is for, it sucks energy out of the battery to fire a beam of energy. If you didn't know this black block is its battery."

"Kinda small…" Shadow said pointing the underside of his finger at the mecha. Tails shrugged.

"If it was any bigger it would weigh the mech down. Anyway on the bottom are two weapons. A high powered six barreled minigun that is remote controlled via a moveable cable which will latch itself to the top of the small glass windows up here and if someone like you two, hops aboard the back then they can use the minigun themselves which fires seven point six by fifty millimeter NATO rounds with a rate of fire of two thousands rounds per minute. While it is much weaker than most traditional miniguns it does pack a fine amount of wallop. It's powered by traditional means but we have wanted it to use unique energy like Chaos to use it. BUUUUT. We don't ever plan on using the thing due to how powerful and unnecessary it is."

"Sounds like my kind of gun. Anything else." Shadow said with more interest and leaned to his right and looked around.

"Yes. Two more. There's a four fingered metal claw that is used for grabbing and moving objects around, there's also a part around the palm of it that fires the same energy as the arms. Its overall length is about from here to the end of this room and back to here."

"Damn."

"And the last ones, the puppies of the litter, the special bullet, the general in the army. These." Tails patted on the two ears of the head. "Bit of an exaggeration."

"Those? The ears? How are the ears the most powerful weapons?"

"Because these aren't just for aesthetic purposes, they're missiles. They're still being tested but they pack enough punch to blow up a whole building floor."

"Hwow." Sonic said nodding and grinning as well. "That's an impressive machine."

"We expect it to go a long way." Cream said patting the machine. "And the machine itself must be piloted by two people for the best abilities. Another person can be on top of it to make it a fantastic team mecha." Sonic nodded and turned to Shadow then turned back to face the mech all in one action. Sonic shrugged and backed up a bit.

"Well guess we should move onto the equipment we wear…" Sonic backed away slowly. "Amazing mech Tails, I dunno what else to say, sooooo." Tails' two tails twirled in the air and lifted him up into the air as he went over and picked up and unsuspecting Cream, who yelped as Tails carried them both to the ground. When they landed they gave each other a little smile. The four walked towards the latter and climbed back up to the ground floor. Tails jogged into his room and came out holding four gold rings and handed to Sonic who took em out of his hands. "Whatcha do to em?"

"Well there snap on now. Just make em wrap around yer wrists and BAM. Defense weapons. Sure their small but if you shield it right you can block ANY attack, Chaos,Energy, Force, nothing stands in the path of the Gold Rings."

"You've outdone yourself this time Tails." Sonic with one hand flicked the Gold Ring up and it snapped off, Sonic then whipped the Gold Ring onto his left wrist and over the black band on his gloves. He did the same for his right wrist and placed the other two between the cuffs of his shoes. Tails turned so half his body was facing Shadow.

"Now, Sonic, Shadow, your Combat Gloves...you wanna keep em the way they are or do you want me to enhance the metal?" Sonic looked at his Combat Gloves which were like Shadow's except instead of red metal it was blue metal. Sonic shook his head while Shadow looked at Tails.

"Kevlar is already really flexible and strong, if you've got anything stronger and more flexible then please share."

"Well there's Graphene buuuut…..it conducts electricity like really well and since we are entering a storm during this battle I think it'd be best to leave your gloves alone." Shadow nodded. Tails snapped his fingers and jogged over to the metal table on the left and picked up a tan oak rectangle box and handed it to Sonic who hesitated and opened his mouth. "This is for Aunt Sally." Sonic closed his mouth and took the box. "It's 6:06. It's still open."

"Wonder if she'll let us sleep there." Sonic wondered as he then turned to Shadow who frowned and shrugged. He turned back to Tails and nodded. "Well...we'll be seeing you later Tails, probably tomorrow." Tails bowed down to Sonic's waist and Sonic bowed down to half of his waist, he then jogged over to Shadow with both the oaky box under his right arm.

"Tell Aunt Sally I said hi." Sonic nodded and placed his left hand on Shadow's shoulder and happily smiled as Shadow groaned and the two turned pure blue and white and disappeared in a flash. Tails folded his arms and looked to Cream who shrugged. Tails moved to the left table and Cream to the right table and they continued working.

SONIC

The two hedgehogs in a split second warped in a blue flash at the bottom of the stairs in front of the Mobian Spire. The color of their bodies quickly returned to them and Sonic bent his knees, curled his left hand up in a ball and placed it to his mouth with it enlarging then Sonic swallowing, he returned to his normal stance but with a disgusted face and glared at Shadow. "How do you NOT GET SICK?!" Shadow shrugged and trotted towards the doors of the Spire. "Thanks for clearing up the subtlety." Sonic lagged behind Shadow but caught up to him. The two went inside with Rouge hanging up her phone and noticing the two.

"Oh Sonic~. You brought my favorite man!" Rouge said as she clasped her hands together and smiled. Sonic moved to Shadow's left.

"You know it girl!" He nudged Shadow with the elbow of the arm holding the box and leaned in. "I'll go on and deliver the package while you have a little 'Fun' time." Sonic whispered and snickering at the end. Sonic moved the box to his left arm and placed his right hand on Shadow's back and pushed him towards Rouge. "Have fu~n!" Sonic said waving his fingers at Shadow as he reared the corner with Shadow growling at Sonic before he left. He sighed and looked at Rouge who had put her hands together and placed them under her chin and giving Shadow some bedroom eyes. Sonic reared the corner and carried on and his took a left, then another one, another one, and another. Sonic lugged the oaky box with a small sweat drop dropped from the side if his head as he reached the top floor. He went straight across a lounging area in the middle of the room and went up some more stairs on the other side of the room and hit a floor where their only was a door and no stairs but a ladder to his left. Sonic opened the red and silver door and entered Sally's quarters where their was some chairs along with a desk with a name tag on it: Sally. Sonic bordely looked at it as he searched for Sally who was nowhere in sight. "SALLY~! Where are you~?!"

"Gimmie a minute Sonic!" Sally yelled out from a room far to the right with the door slightly open. Sonic turned to look at the door.

"What're you doing?"

"Some jackass spilled their drink all over my clothes so i'm changing!"

"Oh." Sonic snorted as he curled his hand up and put it to his mouth as he laughed a bit. "Do you...do you need help with tha-ha-hat." Sonic softly laughed.

"Hardy har! Aren't you clever! Asking a defensively girl if she's changing or not." Sonic stopped laughing, raised his head and concerningly looked at the door.

"You just made that creepy." Sally walked out of the door wearing large blue cargo pants and a large light blue coat.

"It's what it felt like." Sally walked up to Sonic and folded her arms. "What do ya need?" Sonic placed both of his hand on the ends of the oak box then spun it and moved it to Sally.

"Present from Prower Workshop." Sally took the box with Sonic smacking his left palm with the back of his right hand. Sally placed the box on her desk and opened it to reveal a rapier sword. Sonic folded his arms and slowly back away a couple steps. She pulled it out and the two examined it. It had a silver cylinder handle protected by a small light blue shield forty-five degrees in front if the handle. She held the sword and twirled it around. She turned the sword a bit then flipped it so she was backhanding it. "It fits you." She reached back into the box and pulled the sheath out and she did that to the sword. Sally took the sheathed sword and the now closed box and took em to her room. Sally came back out and folded her arms to Sonic.

"So what else do you need?"

"Oh, can me and Shadow stay the night so we can be ready for tomorrow?" He said while clasping his hands and happily smiling. Sally blinked at him.

"..." Sally groaned. "Sure…"

"SWEET!" Sonic said raising his fist in the air. "Exquisite sleeping for the win! JUESS!"

"I can't stop you anyway."

"Let's go eat now!"

"Might as well." Sonic jogged towards the door and held it opened for Sally who walked through and gave a half bow. "Thank you sir." The two jogged downstairs to see Shadow coming into the room. "You are free to do whatever you need to do till tomorrow Shadow and after that. BOOK IT!" She said pointing the back of her thumb behind her. Shadow nodded and sat down on one of the two red couches between a glass table but Sonic dashed over to the kitchen room and walked into the room. Sally trotted to the other red couch.

"Hey Sal? Where's the lamb SAUCE!?" Sonic yelled from the kitchen with Sally stopping before she sat down and jogged over to the kitchen.

"Its right here." Sal said walking into the kitchen and guiding Sonic's arm to a glass bottle with brown. "Oh sh-wait."

"Sally that's the soy SAUCE!" Sonic put his index and middle finger and rubbed his eye.

"Oh my christ. This gonna be a long niiiiight….." He said putting his right arm on top of the couch's back.

TOMORROW

Date: 9 / 19 / 3287

Sonic and Shadow walked out of the Guest Room which was right across the Kitchen. Sonic was wearing his blue metal Combat Gloves along with his four Gold Rings and his strong attitude. Shadow was wearing his usual which was his Combat Gear. The jogged down stairs and onto the next lower floor which was more of a control room. The two entered and saw Sally and many other Mobians looking at radio coms and other heavy duty equipment. Sonic exited the Control Room and walked down the stairs as an intercom went off. "Attention all citizens of Mobotropolis. This is city wide warning. A large battle is taking place at around 4:20pm and we address that all citizens enter the Bunkers now. This is not a drill, I repeat, this is not a drill, once more, this is not a drill." The intercom spoke out with Sally's voice. Sonic was trotting down the stairs looked outside and saw the downpour, rain was everywhere and he heard a little rumble from outside. Sonic's eyebrow rose a bit.

"Guess Tails is out for this battle…stupid lightning…" Sonic grumbled out. Sonic started to ramble for a bit as he reached to the last floor. He reared twice and reached to the front desk to see Rouge sitting there with her legs up on the desk and her hands behind her back. "You should get to the Bunker. It's not safe here."

"Not safe is what I like." Sonic shrugged and reached towards the door. He placed his back to a corner near the door.

"Fair enough. Hey tell me when it's four-ten, kay?" Rouge nodded and the two waited. And waited and waited.

"Now."The door opened up by itself and the whole room was taken over by the sound of violent rain. Sonic sighed and jogged out if the building and his first step into the street made a splash of water that went up to his cuffs and sunk back to the height of his soles. Sonic growled and held his arms close to his body and he sprinted across the street and he slowed down after passing three intersections and stopping half way across the fourth and looked around as the rain eased a bit. Sonic turned around and looked around the area the then looked up to see the clouds part away just a tinsy bit then something flew at a slight angle straight down but slowed down near the end and landed on the concrete without breaking it. It was hard to see because of the rain but that doesn't matter as a large flash of white light came from its face which caused Sonic to raise his left arm in front of his eyes which were squinting. He slowly lowered his arm and grinned as it was his great rival. "Metal. Sonic. Should've expected."

"Negative. This is designated unit codenamed: Metal Prime. Orders are to destroy. Sonic The Hedgehog."

"Well ya found him, Prime. Whatcha gonna do? Beat me till I cry grandma? Jokes on you! You ain't got one-wait…"

"Insult verify. Retort. You added accessories to body to make fashion police not arrest you for horrendous body color."

"Ooo-ho-ho-hooo. Scathing. Anything else?"

"You are carbon copy of me."

"Engwish isn't your specialty I see."

"Being useful isn't YOUR speciality."

"Oh captain, oh captain, I'VE BEEN INJURED. Well imma make you wished that you hoped the rusty train straight to the dump instead of fightin' me!"

"You're gonna beg for those prison beats after i'm done."

"Aw man, the edgehog is back...so." Sonic slammed his right fist into his left hand. "Want me to lend you a hand to your ass?"

"Threat verified. Initiating battle."

"Awesome, imma deck you in the schnauze!" Metal Prime said bending its knees and its engine seemed to start revving up. Sonic smiled and bent his knees like Metal and placed his right hand onto the ground as the two glared at each other. Sonic's feet ran and ran creating a cloud of screeching shoes and Metal's engine roared to life as Metal boosted across to Sonic without his feet lifting off of the ground. Sonic forced his hand back and that increased his start-up speed as he boosted towards Metal Prime and grinned at him.