"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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[3rd person scene!
"Oomph! There ya go!" Bunnie said as she set down the sleeping Adam onto a bed, back in Knothole inside of Bunnie's house.
"You okay Bunnie? He heavier than you thought?" Sally asked as she came up from behind Bunnie, closing the door behind her.
"Oh heck no! Actually I think he's the lightest one around here..." Bunnie said, scratching her head.
"He doesn't look all that heavy either. I wonder..." Sally said, suddenly grabbing Nicole off her boot. "Nicole! See if you can show us what he's dreaming!"
"Affirmative Sally."
A large hologram projection appeared in front of the two, showing Adam's current dream. The environment seemed to be of an island with some random trees, with a bridge off in the distance, and a large tower in the center of that island.
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[my perspective - dream sequence
I looked around, not seeing anything in sight. "Damn... where the hell did those stupid ShinRyuus run off to..."
I started running towards the bridge, noticing a small speck of light aqua blue flying across the bridge about 700 feet from my current position. "Ha! I found something!"
I kept running to that bridge, bringing up my weapon, an assault rifle of sorts to be exact, an M50 from Ballistic Weapons, as my dream was of a run I did in Unreal Tournament 2004.
The closer I got to the bridge, the larger that speck got, until it was obvious of what it was. It was in fact a ShinRyuu, one of my opponents. I grinned and pulled my gun up to the iron sights, and I fired a small 3-round burst at the robotic GodDragon. Of course though they all missed, and the ShinRyuu then noticed me, firing an M75TIC Railgun slug at my direction, missing by a few feet.
I started sprinting towards the enemy, not noticing a jumping BX-5 landmine right in front of me. I noticed it at the last moment, and just screamed "SHIT!" as the explosive jumped up and exploded, right in my face.
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[my perspective
"AHHH!" I yelled as I woke up suddenly, startling both Sally and Bunnie a lot (Nicole's dream sequence projection ended the instant I woke up), and Sally dropped a small pocket PC like object onto the bed I was on. I was sweating profusely, and breathing heavily. I looked around, realizing it was just a dream, and I started to breath more normally, while my red body started to cool down literally, and I blinked a few times. "Where am I? This isn't another dream is it...?"
"What was THAT!? You sure are scary to be around!" The rabbit said to me, and I turned my head in her direction.
I blinked once more, opening my mouth to ask why she said that, when my eyes fell on the mini computer. "What's that? And..." turning back to the rabbit anthro, "what makes you say that?"
Sally regained her composure and she calmly picked up the mini-computer, placing it on a loophole in on her boot. "It's my my computer, Nicole. And-"
"Lemme guess? You see my dream with that or something weird like that?" I said sarcastically. "Don't try watching them much, 'cause all you'll gett outta them are things like that. Or worse. I tend to go through stuff I do in my games over in my dreams. And that just happens to be one of my runs with one life in one of my more gory games."
"Wait... that was just a game? That didn't LOOK like a game to me!" Sally said, looking at me with that same 'Are you SURE you're not crazy' look from earlier.
"Trust me, that WAS from a game (a very gory game at that). Of course that was a mod for a game, but still. Just from a game. Anyways... I never did get to ask what's yer name?" I asked to the rabbit.
"Oh! I'm Bunnie! You're Adam, right?" Bunnie, the rabbit I'd not known the name of this entire time, asked as she put her elbows on the edge of the bed.
"Yep. Justa Adam. Nothin' more, nothin' less. And don't mind my changing accents, I do that lots. Tis what I do, eh?" I said, changin my accent once more. "Eh... I just pick up an accent and use it without meaning to. So... were exactly are we now? I don't really recognize the 'terrain', if ya know what I'za mean."
"We're in Knothole, and this is Bunnie's house," Sally told me, turning to a window as she heard a chirp. I looked over, seeing a mechanical bird with something on it's side. Sally took a slip of paper from this small compartment, and started reading it. She put a hand over her mouth as she read on.
"Uh... is this a good time for me to ask what's wrong, or to leave?" I asked Bunnie. Bunnie stood up, turning to Sally, but looking at me still.
"Iunno sugar! Sounds like it might be pretty darn bad!" Bunnie said, now looking over to Sally. "What's the matter Sally-girl?"
"It's Uncle Chuck!" Sally simply said, still reading a bit more.
"Uncle who?" I asked, getting up off the bed, letting my legs dangle over the edge.
"Uncle Chuck, Sonic's uncle! He says he's got some new info on the... oh my gosh... he's got information on that railgun you talked about, and some things about... you!" Sally said, turning to me, handing me the letter.
I started reading it quickly, gathering only the main points. According to the letter, the Railgun Cannon Robotnik was planning on testing, a miniature model, was successfully tested and proved to be able to destroy a small blast zone of about 1 foot radius. Later, the letter said of how the actual Railgun itself was actually 256 times larger than the test model, and actually required a targeting system to actually use it.
As I started reading the last paragraph, my heart stopped for a moment. This Uncle Chuck person found that those MiniSWATs were being armed with the latest technology Robotnik had been making, the miniature railguns! Reading the last bit, I found that these remaining 5 were specifically meant to eliminate me the letter specifically only saying "...a certain person of interest, but I haven't figured who that is just yet...", as I figuerd I'd be the obvious interesting person, since I was nearly killed by the MiniSWATs earlier that night. Speaking of the MiniSWATs... "Hey, Sally? You know where that shotgun is?"
"Well... we dropped it off over at Rotor's workshop... so you could find it over there," Sally said, still a little shook by the letter. "But... aren't you more worried about what was in the letter?"
"Really? Yes and no. Yes because of the Railgun threat, and the MiniSWAT threat to me. No because the main Railgun Cannon isn't finished yet most likely. It could be days before it's ready if you think about it. If they just finished testing the miniature version, that would make them need to calibrate the Railgun Cannon, and that'd mean they have to test the first shots at a known location to pinpoint it's aim. Without getting it's targeting system setup right, it will be firing blindly."
"You're right. So we need to take out that targeting system first in that case!" Sally said, slamming her fist into her open palm.
"No."
"What!?" Both Sally and Bunnie looked at me suddenly.
"You heard me. No. The best idea is to shut down the main power source to the Railgun Cannon. It probably takes a ton of power to get the Railgun to work, what with the size of the electromagnetics in the cannon. I have a plan already, but I think it's best if we talked about it with the entire group." I said, starting to head out to the door. "By the way, thanks for carrying me here Bunnie."
"No prob suga!" Bunnie said as i opened the door. "Hey, I can show ya where Rotor's lab is!"
"Thanks, but no thanks. If it's a lab or a workshow, it's probably someplace made of metal, right? Would make sense..." I said, setting foot outside the house, the rush of heated night air hitting the side of my face.
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[3rd person scene!
As Adam left, Bunnie turned to Sally, saying, "He shure is a smart one!"
"I home you're right Bunnie... how he could come up with a plan that quickly..." Sally wondered, dismissing the thoughts though.
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Adam walked through the village, looking up to the night sky once, and smiled. It had been a long time since he'd been outside at a time like this, and an even longer time since he'd been in a forest a night. He looked back forwards, and at the ground, making sure to not trip on anything like a log or something, which he'd just barely noticed in time when he first left the small house. Adam suddenly stopped as he noticed something shiny on the ground. He stooped over and picked it up, flipping it over and around. "What the..."
Adam pocketed the small object in his cargo pocket and continued on, seeing a metal plated house-like place. Knocking, Adam waited outside. From inside, Rotor called, "I'm coming!"
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[my perspective
I heard the voice from inside yelling, so I kept waiting patiently. The door opened, and (as I assumed from what Bunnie and Sally said earlier) Rotor looked out, seeing me. "Oh hey! Sally told me you might drop by when you woke up. Uh... come on in!"
I smiled, and as Rotor moved out of the way a bit, I walked in. "Whoa, nice place. By the way, name's Adam. You're Rotor, right?"
"Yeah. Nice to meet you Adam. Uh... I'll show you around I guess." Rotor said, motioning around, and closing the door behind me. "This is my lab here. I just use it for everything really."
"Cool. Pretty nice place you got here. Full of technology too I see," I said, pointing to some of the computers around the room. "Just wondering, you ever been finding random things appearing around the place lately?" I pulled out the object I picked up earlier.
Rotor took it from my hands, looking at it. "No, not really. Where'd you find this?"
"I found it ouside when I was walking over here," I said, taking back the silver object. I looked it over again, and smirked. "But you know, I already know what it is. This is my exact iPod Nano I have back at home."
"What!? That can't be possible!? Can it?" Rotor said, surprised by my knowledge of what it was already.
"It's mine through and through." I went through the song list in the iPod, showing Rotor some key songs. "See? All the songs I put on here are my favs. Most people would put about 500 songs on their iPods, but I only put my favorites. Like here: Sea of Lies, Paradise Lost, Serpent's Kiss, Juke Box Hero, and Play With Me. I can't doubt that this is mine. I only had about 90 or so songs on it, and this list says I've got 103."
"So it's your iPod, whatever that is, but how? I mean... you didn't bring it with you, or did you?" Rotor asked, puzzled by what I was saying.
"I'm thinking more stuff will start appearing around the place. If you see anything weird that you pick up, I guess... tell me. I'm starting to think we've got a bit of a problem here with that..." I said, looking back at my iPod, and repocketing it. "But you know, it's only 4:57 for me... so... what's that for you? 1?"
"Huh? Well, yeah. How's it 5 for you?" Rotor asked (he seems to do a lot of asking, eh?).
"My time back at home is supposed to be 4. I checked when I was using my iPod. And I remember when I asked Sally earlier and she said it was actually around 11:30, when I asked at 3:30 my time. Confusing yeah, but... meh. I'm still a bit tired from a while ago, so... you got anywhere I could sleep? I'll admit, my stamina is horrid. I actually passed out from running outta Robotropolis."
"Uh... well. You can use the couch I guess. It's not exactly the best place to sleep but... better than on the floor, right?" Rotor said, walking towards the back of the place, and I followed him over to where there was a couch and some tables, most likely his living room of sorts. "I'm gonna work a bit more on looking at that shotgun Sally brought me though."
"That's fine. It's outta ammo though. I used it on a SWATbot, and it went FLYING off..." I said, as Rotor walked back to the front of the place. I laid down on the bed and closed my eyes, trying to sleep again. That... took a while, considering the noise from Rotor's workshop and how I don't usually sleep at 5 in the afternoon.
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End chapter. I tried to add a bit better dialogue, and I'm still not too happy with it. Oh well... you'll be seeing more stuff around later though. For you who don't really know, but the 's are for down here. Nothing down there right now is important at all.
ShinRyuu is a custom bot you can add to Unreal Tournament 2004
M50 is something of an M4 type gun, except bunches better and with a camera that you can place on walls
M75TIC is just another weapon in UT2k4 with Ballistic Weapons, but is a sniper type weapon meant to take out vehicles
BX-5s are landmines from BW that have two modes, landmine and jumping mine