Chapter 10- Battle in the Lobby
Shadow sat in the corner ranting about how this is just a story. (A/N: Suuuuure Shadow, you keep thinking that.
Shadow: YOU JUST PUT IN AN AUTHOR'S NOTE! IT'S DEFINATLY A STORY!)
Sonic ran towards Eggman and his robot and leapt at him and turned into that whirly ball and used the 'homing attack' thing (whatever it's called), and launched himself at Eggman.
He struck the metal of the robot and just bounced off.
Sonic landed on his back on the carpet of the lobby floor.
"HAHAHA! You like my new robot Sonic?" Eggman laughed, "You can try that a thousand more times and all you'll get is a concussion!"
And so he did!
Sonic launched himself at the robot again and bounced off, he tried again, and again, and again, and again, and- you get it.
Finally, Sonic fell to his knees on the carpet, gasping for breath, he had worn himself out trying to break through the metal.
Eggman laughed at his adversary, "Foolish hedgehog! You should have taken my advice! I warned you!"
Then a metallic claw came off the robot and headed straight for Sonic.
Sonic was too exhausted to care, he just sat there on the floor panting.
Luckily for Sonic, Knuckles had come into the lobby and jumped in front of Sonic and used his amazing strength to grab the claw just before it could grab Sonic. But Knuckles was slipping backwards, the force from the robot was too powerful!
"Sonic… quick, move!" Knuckles shouted.
Sonic looked up at Knuckles and managed to pull himself up and ran back towards Amy, Tails, and Hannah. (Shadow was still ranting off in the corner)
Knuckles finally lost his grip on the claw and it snapped onto him! He cried out in pain, then the claw picked him off the ground and threw him through the wall and out towards the pool.
Eggman laughed, "HAHA! Did you wonder why you hadn't heard from me in months? I was busy working on this robot! I've outmatched you Sonic! None of your friends can help you now, I've added features to combat all of your friends' powers too! You're done for!"
"We'll see about that!" Amy said taking out her hammer.
Amy ran towards the robot and drew back her hammer and whacked the robot… nothing happened.
She hit it again and again and again and again and again… okay, you get it right?
Then she dropped her hammer and looked at her feet, "Oh… I can't break it…" she whined.
"If Sonic couldn't break my robot, what made you think you could?" Eggman asked, slightly amused.
"Well… usually in the Sonic X cartoons whenever Sonic's in trouble I always manage to win a fight…" Amy said.
Shadow's ears perked up, "SEE! SHE JUST SAID CARTOON! THAT'S NOT REAL EITHER! IT'S THE SAME CONCEPT!"
"Suuuuure Shadow…" Tails said, "you keep thinking that."
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Shadow screamed, "WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE! WHY DON'T YOU BELIEVE ME! YOU DID THIS IN CHAPTER SEVEN TOO! DAMMIT!"
"I think you should take your friend to a good therapist…" Eggman said.
"I'M NOT MENTALLY ILL!" Shadow screamed.
"Yeah, sure… what was I doing…? Oh right, I was just about to crush Sonic!" Eggman's robot stepped over Amy and towards Sonic. Tails stepped in front of Sonic, "You'll have to go though me first Eggman!" he shouted.
"Oh please…" Eggman pressed a button and a laser shot at Tails and blew him through the wall towards where Knuckles had gone.
"AAAAAAAAAAH!" Tails screamed.
"Tails!" Sonic shouted.
Eggman looked over towards Shadow and Hannah, "Would you two like to make any objections?" he asked.
The two of them glanced at each other then looked back at Eggman, "No." they said in unison.
"Didn't think so." Eggman said smiling.
Then the large metallic claw that had thrown Knuckles swooped down on Sonic and grabbed him, lifting him up the cockpit where Eggman was, "Well Sonic! It looks like this is finally the end for you!"
Eggman pushed a button and the claw started to contract around him. Sonic screamed in pain, he was going to be crushed if he didn't do something soon!
Then a voice rang out through the hall, "HEY, YOU!"
Eggman was startled and he looked around, he didn't see any one though.
"DOWN HERE YOU FAT FUCK!"
Eggman looked down near the feet of his robot.
A girl was standing there glaring up at him. Her dark blue eyes were contorted with rage.
"Liz!" Sonic shouted, "Oh God! I'm screwed now…"
"What do you want little girl?" Eggman asked.
"Little girl, eh?" Liz asked, "You obviously don't know who I am."
"Apparently your name is Liz, now get out of here, I have a hedgehog to crush!" Eggman shouted, then he pressed another button and the claw contracted even tighter around Sonic, at which he let out another scream of pain.
"Drop the hedgehog and no one gets hurt, Egghead!" Liz shouted.
Eggman looked down on her and laughed, "You think you can stop me when Sonic and his friends couldn't?"
"I think I can, your machine doesn't have anything to protect you against my powers." Liz said.
"Oh, your powers!" Eggman laughed, "And what might your powers be, hm?"
Liz smiled, "Glad you should ask."
She pulled out a long chain of paperclips from her pocket, "OFFICE SUPPLIES!" she shouted proudly holding them up for all to see.
Eggman collapsed with laughter, "OFFICE SUPPLIES!" he mocked, "That's great… That's just great! HAHAHAHA!"
Liz glared up at Eggman, "Never underestimate the power of paperclips!"
She swung the chain around like a lasso and tossed it into the air towards Eggman's robot. It hooked onto the side of the robot and she pulled herself up towards Eggman. She pulled one of the clips off the chain and bent it so the sharp side was exposed, then she drew a large circle in the glass of Eggman's cockpit and punched the hole out.
Eggman had stopped laughing by this point, "What! HEY! Cut that out!" he shouted.
Liz drew the paperclip back and brought it down into the controls, jamming them and smashing open the control panel.
"NO! YOU FOOL!" Eggman shouted.
"Like I said, never underestimate the power of paperclips… especially in my hands!" Liz said smiling, then she jumped from the robot just as it exploded. Eggman was thrown from the robot and out onto the street.
"I'll be back! And next time I won't underestimate you, Liz!" Eggman shouted as he ran off down the street.
Liz turned to Sonic who was lying on the ground charred and black from the explosion. He sat up and looked at her, "Liz…" he said, "You… You saved me!"
"No one hurts Sonic-" she said proudly.
"Oh, Liz! Thank you so much!" Sonic ran up to her and hugged her.
"What!" Liz stared at him, "You didn't let me finish! I was going to say: No one hurts Sonic… EXCEPT ME!"
She grabbed Sonic around the neck and started choking him, "I'LL SHOW YOU TO SWITCH ROOMS WITHOUT ASKING ME FIRST YOU LITTLE BASTARD!"
"IT'S JUST A STORY!" Shadow shouted from the corner.
"Suuuuure Shadow, you keep-"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"