I was shaken as we were nearing the end of this portal, and the SWATbots held their grip on me tighter, and we landed on solid metal floor. I looked around, and saw not much, other than some faded green machinery at work. "Crap... I better not be where I THINK I am..."
"Oh but you are..."
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I looked up, and saw a large green chair swiveling around, revealing to me the world's fatest guy still living... Robotnik. "So, tell me... what do you think of the place?"
"Looks like any other madhouse of a place that evil guys live in..." I said, rolling my eyes.
"Ah but you see... I've got some things that those others don't!" He gestured over to a large machine that was off to the side of the room. "But I don't plan on using you for that... I'll... save that for someone else."
"Uh, right... get to the point. Why the hell do you want me?" I asked, glaring right at Robotnik.
"Tell me... what do you know about... electromagnetics?" Once more, he swiveled in his chair, this time turning it to the numerous screens in front of him.
"Well... other than they get used in junkyards..." I started, stopping suddenly when the thought hit my mind, "Wait... you don't mean..."
"Yes?"
"A railgun?"
"Ah, so you ARE smarter than you look..." Robotnik said, screens now showing images of some sort of a hangar, with a massive cannon in the large building. "And I plan on testing it out... with a miniature version soon."
"You wanna use a railgun on a person? What the hell is wrong with you!? Why don't you use it on one of your bots!?"
"You see, I want to test it on something that I can actually put the data into... and machinery can't be used for the data I want... Take him to his prison cell! He knows enough already..." With that, several SWATbots grabbed my arms, having let me go earlier. As they dragged me away, me cursing at Robotnik, he turned to the original 5 SWATbots that had captured me, who all were 1/2 their normal size. "Hmm... I wonder how this happened to you... ah, no matter. I'll just keep you 5 for later..."
I smirked as I looked at the 5 myself, noticing how small they were compared to the other normal SWATbots standing next to them, then realizing I was also somehow much smaller myself. I put the thought aside, thinking that was what happened in the portal thing. 'No wonder why I felt sick and those gravity changes...'
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As I was dragged around the corner, a small guy came running past, glancing at me. "I see he finally got a prisoner..." The guy said as he ran into the room I was just dragged out of. I was just about to ask who he was, when we both heard a huge yell from inside the main control room.
"SNIVELY!!!!!"
The short man ran into the room suddenly, and the last thing I could hear before the door closed up was, "Yes sir?"
Putting two and two together, I guessed that the guy's name was Snively. 'Gotta remember that name... he seems like someone important enough to remember...'
The SWATbots (full sized ones) picked me up suddenly as we got outside the building, a hovercraft arriving to transport myself and the 2 to where ever this prison cell was. "Do I at least get a window-side seat?"
I swear, if the SWATbots had an ability to roll their 'eyes', they would have just done so.
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(5 minutes later)
After the long ride around the city, the hovercraft finally came to a stop, and the doors opened to the outside. The two SWATbots were still holding me, and their grip only tightened as I was walked outside the craft, it flying away right after the doors closed.
"So much for getting a comfy seat..." I said as they walked me over to a building, another set of two SWATbots asking for ID from my two guards. They showed their IDs, and the doors opened quickly, and I was once more shoved inside another building. I grumbled, but kept my mouth shut, paying more attention to the area surrounding the building, and any escape routes for later.
The two pushed me into an elevator, and then set it to go to the bottom floor, a B5 floor or something like that, I couldn't tell. The B looked more like a 13 than just a simple B. I wondered why they only pushed me into the elevator, but didn't follow themselves. I figured that out very soon, as I found at the bottom floor that there were another pair of bots waiting to take me to the cell. I shook my head... just trying to keep myself from doing something really stupid.
click
A door opened, and I found myself shoved inside the prison cell, my head hitting the wall severely, causing my earlier headcut to open again. Blood ran down the wall and onto the floor as I tried to hold my head from the bleeding. "Oh my god... what in the hell did I do to you guys..."
"Who eez there?" A French accented voice spoke from behind me. All I could think of right then however, was how I was gonna stop my head from bleeding too much, so I ignored the voice, thinking it was just my imagination.
"Oh fuck, my head..." I said slowly, turning my body around, trying to still keep the bleeding to a minimum (and failing miserably). What I saw kinda freaked me out, I was looking at Antoine, one of the few characters I did happen to know from one of the various multiverses of Sonic. It wasn't the thought of how I was seeing him around, it was more of the thought of how he got caught himself.
"Whoa, your head eez bleeding badly..." Antoine said, reeling backwards in the bed he was in, nearly whacking his own head into the wall.
"Yeah well no shit Shirlock. If it couldn't get much worse... I'd be saying this is the worst moment in my life," I said as I sat up, resting my head on the wall I had just smacked into. I looked back to the door, seeing it had already been closed, and the two guarding SWATbots had already completely ignored what they did to my head. I looked down, seeing the blood just slowly dripping down from the wall onto the floor, making a small puddle of my own blood.
Reaching into my pockets, I found my cell phone, and my pencil, plus the notepad, that flashlight (which was on a neckband), and finally, my wallet. I pulled out my wallet, and opened it, to see what exactly I had in there. "Well... I got 7 bucks USD, 3 paper clips, my driver's stuff, and some random twisty ties... wonder why I got THOSE in there..."
"Why are you looking in your wallet? And WHAT are you looking for?" I looked up to see Antoine trying to see what I was doing in my wallet, and I found myself trying to figure what he just said in his accent. Ignoring his comments, I grabbed my flashlight neckband and put it on my neck. It was starting to take a bit too much room with the other stuff anyways, so I just figured it was the best thing I could do at the moment.
"I'm trying to find out what exactly I had when I first got caught. Not much in there either..." I turned my head, looking around in the concrete prison cell, and not even finding anything useful. "Talk about blank space... this is the worst room decoration I've ever seen," I joked.
"What did you expect, you fuel?" Ant said as he looked at my wallet again, and I put it up.
"I dunno what you just said, but I'm gonna take it you didn't like my joke. How exactly did you get stuck in here?" I then realized I couldn't just suddenly know his name outta thin air, so I also added in, "And what's your name?"
"My name eez Antoine. And if you must know how I got in zis dreaded place, I was on a mizzione here. We were supposed to shut down a power plant. I got surrounded by 50 of zese things and I had to protect myself. So I fought! I destroyed about 40 of them before I was finally caught by them!" I looked at him, trying to hold back a laugh at the absurdity of the story.
"So... you just got caught while trying to shut down a power plant for some random place in this stupid city? I'll take that part, but not the 50 SWATbots and you fighting. That's just completely... unrealistic," I said, smirking. "Me? I got caught when I was in my house, and I just found myself being dragged here. Nothing more, nothing less... but that's besides the point. Name's Adam. And if you don't mind, I'll be trying to bust us outta this damn place now."
"What are you going to do?"
"Watch and listen." I turned to the SWATbots guarding the door. "Yo bots!" The turned around to face me. "You know, I think I'll be a little helpful to you guys here. I've heard some stuff about a certain... dragon that wants to come to this city. He likes to destroy stuff a lot... All I know is two things and his description: his name is Trogdor, Trogdor the Burninator. He's a giant green dragon with a beefy arm coming out the back of his neck, and he's got two tiny wings on him, but he doesn't fly with them often. And... the Trogdor comes... in the night." I said, adding emphasis on how Trogdor comes in the night.
The two SWATbots looked at each other. "Hey, I just don't think you'd like to be turned to scrape, so I'm just trying to help here. I'm not too sure how it'd go over if Trogdor attacked tonight and 'botnik found out you two knew about it and didn't tell him personally." The SWATbots looked at me and then back to each other.
"We will tell him then." And with that, the two guards just left. I just watched them as they left, using an elevator. As soon as the elevator door closed, I just started laughing.
"I can't believe that actually worked on those two idiots!" I said, turning around, only to see Antoine on the ground, shaking all over. "Hey man! You know... that all was just a joke. None of it's real!"
"Really?"
"Ya really!" I said, helping the poor guy get on his feet. "And now... for part two. Here's where you watch."
I got out my wallet, and flipped it around, trying to find my paper clips. I eventually found them, and I bent them all out straight. "It's a wonder how they didn't search me for this kinda crap."
"Maybe they thought you were too weak?"
"Maybe..." I started to look at the electronic lock, noticing how it also seemed to let an old fashion key to open it. I started to put the paper clips in, and I started to pick the lock. First paper clip I used was to keep the lock turned a bit, keeping the correct parts of the lock stuck in. After about a minute or so of messing with the lock, I heard the door click, and I twisted the lock, and the door swung open. "Open sesame! Come on, lets go!"
I started to walk out the open door, and I turned around, noticing how Antoine didn't move a muscle. "What if they find us?"
"Worry about that later, I'm geting outta here, with or without you!" I said, walking through the door, and Ant followed quickly, realizing I was serious. "Now, we gotta keep quiet. I think I saw a way outta here, we just need to use that elevator!"
"Ezin't that the same one zee SWATbots used just a second ago?"
"Yeah, but there's no security up on the ground level. So... lets go now." I hit the button for the elevator, and the doors opened, and I walked inside it. The coyote followed, looking around in the elevator. I hit the button labeled 'G' and the doors closed, and started to ascend.
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The elevator slowed down, and the doors opened, revealing the ground level of the building. Antoine cowered in the corner and I stuck my head out, seeing nothing in sight, except for a vent. "Come on, I see a way outta here!" I grabbed Antoine's hand (which he was using to grab his head and cover his eyes at the moment).
"Yes yes, I want outta here!" Antoine stood up, and I started to ran, and he ran after me (I had stopped grabbing his hand since he'd most likely just fall over if I had dragged him). When we reached the vent, I started to use my fingernails to open the flathead screws and uncover the vent entrance. I just finished getting the 4th and final one when the doors opened to the building.Quickly I took the vent cover off and I jumped into the vent. Antoine grabbed my hand as I pulled him up, and I recovered the vent entrance, where I found I could just twist it to make it stay in place. The two SWATbots from earlier were returning and just using the elvator we were in a second ago, so I figured we had less than a minute before our escape was discovered.
"Come on, we got less than a minute to get outta this building!"
"Why?"
"They'll lock it down when they find we're missing!" I said as I ran through the vent (it being pretty large to stand in), Ant following closely. "You know Antoine, I'd say this is one hell of a bad dream, but since we got outta there, I'm gonna say it's just one helluva fun ride now!"
"How can you said zat?" He said, right as we reached the end of the vents.
"Because we at least have a chance at getting outta here!" I said, as I twisted the vent, finding it had already been opened once before, and I tossed it further into the vent. Ant caught it and set it down, just as I hoped he would. I looked outside the vent, and smirked, seeing only the two main guards at the door entrance. I motioned to my new friend to follow, and we jumped out of the vent, and we ran off to a pile of junk, just in time to hear that we were found to be missing over the building's PA system.
"Lock down the building, prisoners have escaped! This is not a test, this is the real prison break!"
"Well... looks like it's gonna be a bit harder now..." I said, turning to Antoine.
"Zat's about right..."
We started to run to a building further down, and we kept running through several alleyways, trying to find the end of the city. Another minute later, we found ourselves unable to proceed much further since in our way to the outskirts of the city (which we just found ahead of us). The reason was simple, several SWATbots were around the area, patroling. "We just need to wait for them all to move..." I said quietly to Ant, who was now cowering yet again.
"Yes yes..." Ant stopped cowering for a second, and he tripped, knocking over some junk metal, alerting a single SWATbot. "I didn't mean to do zat!"
"Shut up... I got a plan..." I said, covering his mouth quickly. "When it gets over here, we can just stick some of this scrap metal into its sensors and blind it that way..." I picked up a piece of sharp metal, readying myself to stab it into the SWATbot's eye sensors. I had seen this so much in my games with how they can be blinded and unable to do much if they can't see, so I just thought I'd try it myself.
Just as the SWATbot was about to reach our location, it turned around, stating, "Priority one hedgehog found!" I looked over the pile of scrape we were hiding behind, and sure enough, I saw Sonic running around and into the city, where he just simply ran past the bots, and straight for the same cover that Ant and I were located at!
"What eez going on up there?"
"Backup..." I said simply, waiting for Sonic to get over here, and I dropped the scrap metal in my hands. Sonic reached our hiding spot suddenly. "Whoa!" I yelled as I fell backwards from the wind as Sonic blew by me.
"Whoa Ant! How'd you get outta there?" The hedgehog asked as Antoine got up.
"I can explain that one, but I'd like to get outta here first!" I said to Sonic, and he turned to me. "Don't worry, I'm not a bad guy, just a friend."
"Well... just hang on!" Sonic said as he grabbed Antoine's arm, and I tried to grab on to Sonic's backpack. "Hey, I need in there!"
"Oh, sorry!" I said as I quickly let go of the backpack, where Sonic reached into it, and pulled out a golden ring, a very SHINY golden ring.
"NOW hang on!" I complied, grabbing Sonic's backpack again, and he yelled, "Juice and jam!!!"
I was about to make fun of the corny line, but I nearly lost my lunch the instant he suddenly took off, as I'm sure Antoine nearly did too (or rather his dinner). The SWATbots started to fire their laser guns at us, but Sonic was way too fast for them, and he easily outran the laser blasts.
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We finally coasted to a stop, and both Ant and I let go and fell to the ground, trying to catch our breath from the insane speed Sonic was running at. "Oh come on! It wasn't that bad was it?"
"I think my headcut just got bigger..." I said, as I actually noticed it completely healed itself, either from the wind just blowing it so dry that it was a purely dry cut, or somehow that ring thing helped the healing (which I was seriously doubting).
"So who are you?" Sonic asked me when I finally got my breathing back to normal (which actually was just after I noticed my headcut was better).
"My name is Adam..." I said, beginning to tell them everything about what happened to me in the past few hours. When I finished finally, I looked up to Sonic, having sat down.
"Whoa dude. That's a lot for a guy to have to go through in one day! Hey, I wonder where Sal is right now... she said something about going a different way to find Ant..." Sonic said, shrugging his shoulders.
"Sal?" I asked, tilting my head, about to open my mouth to ask about who that was.
"Well Sonic, if you'd ever look behind you for once, you'd see me right here!"
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End chapter. And I know, you wonder why the crap I don't know many character names. I think I said it before, but I'll say it again: the self-insert version of me is one of before I knew barely anything about SatAm, so that way it'd be much more interesting. It's more fun to write it that way also, so... well... yeah. Just the way I wanted to write this story.