"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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"Huh?" I asked stupidly as I turned around at the same time Sonic did, only to see yet another anthro-type character, a squirrel-esque one (who apparently held the name of Sal, but then again... seemed like this Sonic liked to shorten names). "Hubbaduhwhabbaduh?"
Right after I made that REALLY weird sound, pretty mcuh everyone looked at me, with looks ranging from amusement to confusion. "What was THAT? And who are you?" Sal looked at me, like I was completely crazy after saying that 'line'.
"Uh... err... I'm... Adam. And trust me," I started, looking around shiftily with my eyes, now noticing a bunny-anthro with what were apparently robotic legs, and a robotic arm, "I'm not crazy." I kept looking around, trying to notice anything at all that would point to them thinking that I was crazy. I eventually just stopped, realizing I prolly looked crazier by doing what I was doing right now. I also noticed I was shaking... and turning very red. When I say I turned red, I don't mean just my face, I mean literally my entire damn body turned red.
"Okay... aside from that... Sonic, why'd you bring someone like him here?" Sal asked Sonic, who was previously just snickering at my random sound. "I mean, how can you trust him?"
"I'll answer zat mai princess," Antoine said, causing pretty much everyone to turn to him. "Zis man resqued mai life from zee terreeble prizon cells. He eez a hero! I'd have been roboticized if it wasn't for heeim!"
"Dude, all I did was use a few paper clips and jingle them around until the lock opened."
"Hey, I'm trying to help you out here!" Antoine replied, glaring at me for a moment, then turning back to Sal. "Surely we can trust heeim."
"But you barely even met him! For all we could know, he could be on Robotnik's side and trying to trick us! How can you trust someone that quickly!?" Sal said forcefully to Antoine. I then took this moment, pretty much the worst moment, to suddenly split.
"WHAT!!! Are you SERIOUS!?" I practically yelled at her, visibly becoming pretty damn angry, "I was TAKEN from my HOME forcefully by those damn SWATbots, then told about some RAILGUN before I got thrown in a prison cell with Antoine, busted us both out, and got us out of the city for the most part with Sonic helping for the final half of our escape! You THINK I WANTED to even get thrown in JAIL!? For what? Playing on my PC!? I was just choosen randomly to be the TEST SUBJECT OF A FUCKING RAILGUN!!"
I took a single breath and started again, "Look. If you don't want my damn help, I'll go take out that thing MYSELF, "I pointed a finger in the direction of Robotropolis, "With or without YOU," finger now pointed at Sal, "I'm gonna try to save your asses from total destruction!! Unless you WANT me to do this all alone, I'd be thankful for what Sonic alone did for us both (meaning me and Ant if you can't tell)."
I had a large frown as I turned my back to the group, who were all VERY stunned at what I had just said. "And furthermore, for the record, I'm gonna make sure when I DO get something done, I'll leave something around to SHOW you what I'm doing." I stuck a finger back in Sal's direction once more, finishing by saying, "Don't you forget this..." Right after that, I suddenly turned back around and walked off towards Robotropolis, intent on doing some major destruction, unarmed.
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[3rd person scene!
"Well THAT was sure scary suga!" Bunny said, putting her flesh hand on Sally's shoulder, who was visibly shaken by Adam's words. "But I sure hope he'll be all right!"
"What have I done?" Sally said, looking up to the sky.
Off in the corner, Antoine was shaking and curled up in a ball.
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[my perspective
I started running towards the city, still fuming over the earlier events. I felt myself starting to get tired out, so I stopped to catch my breath. My mind ran to whatever I could that would try to help ease my stress, and I suddenly just started to mumble a few lines from a few different songs. "Looking down from the furious skies, sudden crystaline tears I cry, for all must say their last goodbye, to paradise... As I adjust to my new sights the rarely tired lights will take me to new heights. My hand is on the trigger I'm ready to ignite!! Tomorrow I might not make it but everything's all right!"
I suddenly just felt like I just hit a huge adrenaline rush in my mind, and I just started to run like crazy to the city, eventually making it there within the next 3 minutes. I just started to smirk like a madman, and I saw the first thing I wanted to destroy, a small outpost building with an exterior panel that looked to hold a bunch of wires to the place. I snuck up to the building, looking around for a quick glance, and found nothing to be looking where I was.
I took this chance to glance back once, where I thought I saw a bit of brown among the dark blue and gray of the buildings around me. I ignored the thought and opened the panel, only to see a dial. "Damn... so much for just ripping wires out..." I started to rip off the dial, realizing it was actually a fake, and under it was a small knob. I looked at it for just a second, and without thinking, I twisted it. I instantly regretted it, as alarms started sounding. "WHY!?"
I found myself starting to be surrounded quickly by a horde of SWATbots, and this time, with no cover or junk to fight back with. "Surrender now!" I just stared at the one bot that said that, and I didn't comply. "This is your last warning! Hands UP!"
I started to finally do as it said, until I saw 6 very small SWATbots turn the corner, and their apparent leader just said a few words that made my blood run totally cold... "Subject priority one target located! Exterminate!" My mouthopened wide as I saw all 6 MiniSWATS (as I just decided on calling them in my mind) brought up their guns, which I instantly saw them as not laser guns meant to simply stun me, but full blown SHOTGUNS aimed right at my torso. I dove instantly to the side, just as they fired at me, and I was lucky enough that nothing hit my body at all. My pants however... had a few holes in them now.
The other SWATbots that were only apparently on orders to bring me in turned to the MiniSWATs. "What is your malfunction?"
"There is no malfunction, Units 4823, 4826, 4872, 4893, 4894, and I, Unit 4822, are all on separate orders to specifically kill the subject named Adam." I was still trying to escape from shotgun fire from the other 5 as the normal SWATbots were actually moving out of the way to not be shot themselves. I actually got lucky once by hiding behind one SWATbot as it got completely destroyed by one shotgun blast.
Using this opportunity, I tried to run to cover, only to get cut off by a hovercraft. I turned back around, and found the 6 MiniSWATs getting their aim ready, and I simply closed my eyes, waiting for the impact of 6 shotgun blasts from only 30 feet away. I heard a distance rush of wind go by very quickly, and I reopened my eyes, seeing Sonic suddenly, who was now actually destroying a MiniSWAT, while the other 5 left quickly around the same corner they turned back from in the first place. Right after that, I saw the other 3 rushing in and helping Sonic destroy the remaining SWATbots.
The hovercraft behind me suddenly took off again and left the scene after the majority of the normal SWATbots were destroyed, and I went around over to the destroyed MiniSWAT to pickup its shotgun, where I was able to blast a single SWATbot right in the face before realizing that... the shotgun only had that last shell in it anyways. It also seemed that the only SWATbot remaining now actually took this opportunity to run away, not knowing that I was training an empty shotgun at it.
I smirked as I watched it run away, then turning to Sonic, I gave him a thumbs up, "Thanks man. Wouldn't be here if it wasn't for ya!"
"No prob! But... YOU are their priority one now!?" Sonic said with apparent surprise on his face.
"I guess, but only those MiniSWATs as I call them... so..." I turned to Sal, "do you trust me now?"
"Well..." Sal looked around to the rest of her group.
"I'm not gonna go crazy on you like earlier. Promise!" I said, giving a thumbs up to her.
"They DID say you were their priority one..." Sal said, still pondering over what to say.
"Come on Sal! It's not like we get extra help all that much! It couldn't hurt!" Sonic said, leaning against the side of a building.
"He did save Antoine's life earlier Sally!" The half-rabbit said, and I raised an eyebrow for a sec.
'So Sal is just a nickname Sonic gave her I guess?' I thought to myself mentally, now looking around the place (aiming my empty shotgun in my direction of vision), making sure nothing was around, trying to spy on us. Finding nothing, I relaxed and let the gun rest in my right hand, leaning on the ground slightly.
"Okay, but I'm going to keep an eye on you for a while. Don't you forget that!" Sally said, reaching her right hand out to me. I quickly switched gun hands and shook her hand lightly with my right hand.
"Oh come on Sal! Show him the handshake!" Sonic said suddenly, and we turned to him, Sally with a near blank look on her face, and me with an eyebrow raised.
"It's okay, I'll learn it later," I said simply, nodding to Sonic, hoping he'd understand. Apparently he did since he didn't respond any further. "So... what now?"
"You said something about a railgun earlier when you were yelling at me? That's a start."
"Okay, fair enough. As I said before, there's a Railgun in this city somewhere that I would easily bet he's wanting to use pretty soon. I got to see it from his main room's TV monitors, and it's... huge. I'd say it easily could decimate a 40 foot radius and give a very big shockwave of about 90 to 100 feet radius. Anything within 60 feet of the blast zone probably would be killed by that large a slug form that thing. Err... you DO know what a Railgun is, right?" I asked suddenly, realizing that not much could make sense later on if I didn't have it explained then.
"I, for one, do not know what a Railgun eez!" Antoine said as he pointed a finger into the air. And I thought they thought I was the crazy one...
"It's kinda long for the rest of what I'd wanna say though. And I don't think it's a great idea to be planning or explaining anything in the middle of this city! Got anyplace we could try planning this outside the city?" I asked, looking to Sally, who seemed to be the obvious leader of the group.
"We can go back to Knothole and you can tell us the rest tomorrow then," Sally replied. Getting up, she started to head back out the city, along with the rest of the group.
I got up as well and was about to start following them when I reached down into my pockets and got out my cell phone, opening it. "What the hell? It's only... 3:28!?" I said as I looked at the time.
Sally stopped instantly as she heard my comment on the time, saying, "It's 11:36, not 3:28." That's when she noticed my cell phone... "Wait... what's that?"
"Uh, it's my cell phone. I'm guessing there's a time difference between my world and yours. That makes me wonder...Time passage might be way different from your world and mine also... crap." I said, shutting the cell phone, not realizing that I also hit the left button and then the select button, turning the phone to it's photo mode. I raised an eyebrow as I saw the screen change suddenly to what was behind me, and I turned, finding exactly what I saw on the screen. I realized what I did, so I opened the phone again and changed it back to the main menu instead. "Sometimes I hate when I accidentally go to camera mode..."
"Hurry up guys! I'm starving!" Sonic said from ahead, along with Antoine and the rabbot standing next to him, looking at Sally and me talking over my cell phone. Right then, Sonic turned back around, grabbing the two by him and ran off into the distance, with Antoine starting to yelp for a moment.
'He always do that?" I asked, laughing internally with a smile on my face. To me, it was kinda funny.
"..." Sally just sighed as she started running after Sonic's trail.
"Hey! Wait for me!" I yelled as I thrust my phone back to my pocket, and started running after Sally.
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[3rd person
Sonic stopped at the edge of the Great Forest, looking back as he let off Antoine and Bunnie, Antoine gasping for breath. "Ya think I left them a bit too far behind?"
"They'll catch back up suga-hog!" Bunnie said. "Might take 'em a while though..."
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[my perspective
We were still running towards the forest ahead, and I started to jog, panting for air. "Hey... wait... I can't run like this all day ya know!"
Sally slowed to my speed, knowing she couldn't leave me behind and be expected to find my way around. "We're almost there!"
I took one deep breath and kept running, trying to take my mind off the pain in my legs by singly a few lyrics from a song, hoping that'd work. "... and be a Juke Box Hero... stars in his eyes... he's a Juke Box Hero... it took one guitar!" I eventually stopped, as I noticed Sally was looking at me funny. "Sorry... thinking about a song I like. And screwing up the lyrics badly too..."
The rest of the way we were silent, and about 4 minutes later (as I found on my cell phone), we finally caught up to where Sonic, Antoine, and the rabbit were all waiting around. "Took you long enough! Let's juice!" And with that Sonic was off again, but this time he went alone.
"That's starting to become a bit annoying..." I stated, panting heavily. "I need to get more stamina." Right after I said that, I suddenly fell over, and fell alseep that instant.
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End chapter. Stamina is NOT my strong suit I tell ya. Best I did was getting second to last in an 800 meter enduro. Besides that... I'm just not a good runner. And now, how will everyone react when I tell them everything I can tell them about railguns as I know them?