Sonic the Robotic Crisis

Part Seven

Sonic woke up to the sound of Tails' voice; it was saying, "Wake up Sonic. You're snoring. Wake up, I know where the next shard is!"

"Huh? Oh! Tails! Where is it?"

"It's forty five-miles to the south of your position, at the beginning of one of the rivers that goes to Water Base."

"Got it! This whole Time Stone crisis thing will be over in no time."

"Good, I'll call you when I locate the next shard."

"Okay Tails, bye."

"Bye Sonic."

Then Sonic pulled a compass out of his bag, looked at it, then ran south. Two minutes later, Sonic spotted some robots.

Ugh. More Egg Robos. I wonder why Robotnik's been using them so much lately? I guess he really likes to see his face on his robots.

Sonic slowed to a stop, then spindashed. The Egg Robos turned just in time to see a blue ball pierce through them.

When Sonic landed, he looked back at the destroyed robots and smirked. "They just don't make robots like they used to. It's a real shame."

Then he turned and resumed his dash to the next shard.

Around two minutes later, Sonic spotted the river. He dashed to it and ran along side it. Then he saw that there was a long clear stretch ahead, so he dipped his head and pored on the speed.

In a few seconds, Sonic's features blurred and he broke the sound barrier. A large grin spread across his face as he ran faster and faster.

He was about to reach his maximum speed, when he blinked. In the small time it took for his eyes to close and open, he ran straight into a tree.

Due to Sonic's speed, he broke straight through the tree and tumbled to the ground.

"Ow! I need to watch where I'm going."

Then Sonic jumped to his feet and resumed his dash. When he reached he broke the speed of sound, he decided to run on a stretch that wouldn't have trees he could run into.

He jumped to his right, landed on the slow moving river, and started running atop it. Since it was only a slow moving river, the fact that he was running upstream didn't affect his speed.

A smile was on his face as he kicked up the water he was running on. He knew that if he slowed, he would plunge into twenty-foot deep river. He kept running.

In fact, he accelerated. He kept running faster and faster until he reached his absolute maximum speed. All of his body blurred, every footstep on the water heated it so much that it almost boiled.

Sonic continued his mad dash until he saw a glowing light in the distance. He hopped onto land and slowed down.

As he approached the light, he saw that it was the next shard. He also saw that Robotnik had gotten to it first. Robots were lifting it into the air while others held weapons and were scanning the area.

I need to get that shard and get out of here, but how will I do it? Sonic thought as he slowly crawled closer to the robots.

Then Sonic came up with an idea. He grabbed a rock and threw it past the robots that were scanning the area. When they turned to look at the rock, Sonic spindashed into two of the robots and kicked another. Then he jumped and bounced off one the robot's head.

He was soaring through the air, flying toward the robot holding the shard. When he reached it, he yanked it out of the robot's grasp. Then he realized there was no way he could stop himself from falling into the river below. So he attached the shard to his cluster, put it in his bag, and braced for impact.

When he hit the water, his bag was forced open, and his cluster fell out.

Sonic grabbed his bag before anything else could fall out and rose to the surface.

Four humanoid robots floated to him and grabbed him by his arms and legs. They carried him onto land and tied him up with metal chains. Then they started to carry him into the air, floating toward a large air ship that was called Beta Five.

Meanwhile, Robotnik was in a machine, floating toward the lake of lava. He stopped around the edge and pressed a button. An electro magnet shot out of his vehicle and activated.

Then, something started to rise out of the lava. It was a shiny blue object with various holes in it. Once it was out of the lava, it could be identified as Robo Sonic, but not very easily.

His aura was fading, his body was covered with holes, and parts of his armor were black. When Robo flew up and stuck to the electro magnet, Lava pored out of his body and fell back into the lake.

Robotnik floated his machine over land and put Robo on the ground. Then Eggman jumped out of his machine and ran to Robo Sonic.

When he kneeled beside him, Robo said, "I used my aura as a shield, but it didn't hold forever. I have suffered severe damage, and can no longer function. If I am not repaired within three hours, I'll be permanently lost."

"Don't worry Robo; I'll have you fixed in no time at all."

Then Robotnik once again lifted him with the magnet, and flew toward one of his flying ships called Omega Seven.

When he got there, a bird shaped robot informed him of the capture of Sonic. Upon hearing it, he told the robot captain of the ship to head toward the captured Sonic.

Then he carried Robo to a large metal table where he started repairing him.

"I'm actually glad you were damaged to such an extent. I have new armor and some more advanced technology to install. With it, you will be unstoppable! Hahahahahahaha!"

Elsewhere, Sonic was just being dragged into an air ship. The robots dragged him through various parts of the ship, heading toward the detention block.

The final area before the detention block was a room with many turning gears with diameters ranging from ten-feet to thirty.

Once they entered the detention block, they dropped Sonic in a cell. When they tried to shut the cell door, Sonic stopped it with his foot. Then he wiggled to his feet and hopped to gear room.

He walked to a few medium sized gears and wedged a few of the links from his chain in between them. They turned and crushed the chain, letting Sonic free.

Then Sonic wiggled out of the rest of his chains and ran into the next room. He remembered that this room had a map of the ship in it. The map was giant and had a dot in the place that it was. Sonic grabbed the map and started to follow it to the pilot area. After fifteen rooms, he ran into some robots. Their arms turned into cannons that opened fire upon Sonic, but he dodged and ran past them.

The next room was huge, and there was a large robot with two armored legs and large plasma cannons mounted on its shoulders. It also had a machine gun on its chest and rocket launchers on the ends of its bulky arms.

"If you're here to stop me, I have one thing to say. No way."

Then the robot fired four rockets toward Sonic. He dodged by back flipping and jumping to the side. Then the robot unleashed a barrage of machine gun fire which Sonic dodged by running along the wall.

"If that's the best you got, then you don't stand a chance," Sonic said as bounced off the wall and kicked the giant robot.

Sonic's kick did nothing but hurt his own foot. The robot's armor was too thick to be penetrated so easily.

When Sonic landed, the robot fired his two plasma cannons at him. When Sonic dodged, he was surprised to see that the walls of this room reflected the plasma blasts. Sonic could barely track the blasts as bounced from wall to wall.

The blasts kept coming after him; he didn't have any time to think of how to hurt his enemy. Then it hit him; he didn't have to plan at all, just dodge the blasts until they hit his robotic foe.

It took two minutes until one of the blasts to hit the robot. He was expecting the robot to explode or for the blast to pierce through it, but he didn't expect the blast to bounce off it.

It caught him totally off guard. While he was distracted, the other blast almost hit him. When he dodged it, the blast that bounced off the robot soared by him.

Both blasts bounced off the wall behind him and to the other side of the room. Then the robot launched eight rockets at him. He eluded them and started to charge up a spindash.

Then the robot fired a barrage of bullets toward Sonic while he was charging his spindash. When the bullets hit him, they bounced off due to the speed at which he was spinning.

Right when one of the lasers was about to fly back and hit Sonic, he released his spindash and drilled through the robot's leg. Once through, the robot fell to the ground. Then Sonic turned his spindash around and drilled through the robot.

He finally stopped, stood up, and turned around. In a few seconds, the robot exploded. Then Sonic jumped over its remains and dashed out the next door. He ran through a few more rooms before he reached the bridge.

Once there, he destroyed all the security robots and ran to the robotic pilot. He tucked into a ball and spindashed into the robot. The force sent both the pilot and his seat flying.

Then he approached the control panel. He saw the lever labeled 'Vertical Movement', and he moved it so that the ship would take a dive downward.

Once the ship was one thousand-feet from the ground, he started to slow his descent. He finally stopped at twenty five-feet from the ground.

From there, he pressed the self-destruct button. Then he jumped in the air and spindashed downward hard enough to break through the floor of the ship and land on the ground. He looked around and saw that the ship had flown to Water Base.

Then he realized that the ship must have tracked his cluster of shards here. The river had to have carried them deep within the watery power plant known as Water Base.

He looked up and remembered that the ship was due to blow any second. The only place that would be guarded enough to protect him from the explosion was the power plant in front of him.

So he spindashed through one of the walls in the building and ran into the next room. He was knocked to the ground by the shockwaves created by the explosion, but was safe. He stood up and said, "I'm glad that's over. Now where do I go next?"

Meanwhile, Robotnik was finishing his repairs on Robo Sonic. He had installed better armor, a quicker reflex processor, a more powerful engine, and an aura manipulating plate on the back of Robo's hand.

"We're almost there Robo Sonic. Soon you'll be able to kill Sonic. He's chained up waiting for you. All you'll have to do is…"

Robo interrupted Eggman by saying, "I won't just kill him while he's defenseless. I want a fair fight. I want to prove to the world that I am his better."

"Very well then, we'll take him to an enclosed area where you can fight him fair and square."

Then the same robot that told Eggman of Sonic's capture, came in and said, "Sonic has escaped from and destroyed air ship Beta Five. He is inside Water Base, the area that his cluster of time shards drifted into."

"What! How could he escape! Anyway! We mustn't let him get the cluster before us! Stop him at any cost!" Robotnik screamed.

"Yes master. I will transmit that message to all robots in the area," The robotic bird said before it flew away.

A few seconds later, Robo said, "I think I might enjoy this. He runs through Water Base, I chase him. It's perfect for our final battle."

"Yes, I suppose it is," Robotnik said before he left the room and walked toward the bridge.

Not too far from there, Sonic was walking through Water Base. He thought he was hopelessly lost until he found a map and a booklet on a pedestal. He took the map and booklet, and then sat down.

He looked at the booklet and read what it said about happened to the water after it was used to spin the main turbine. It said that the water ran through a second, smaller turbine and was then pumped out into the ocean. The reason behind it is because there was no place to store it.

It went on about how Water Base used to be a big lake and so forth. Sonic was more concerned about the fact that if he didn't find the cluster, and fast…it would be pumped into the ocean.

He looked at the map to see where the next turbine would be and dashed toward it. A few rooms later, there was a door with a security camera in above it.

Unfortunately for Sonic, he didn't notice the camera and dashed right in front of it. It recognized him from the last time he was in Water Base. It set out a class two red alert to all the security systems in the power plant.

Suddenly, two turrets popped out of panels on the wall and fired at Sonic. He barely dodged the blasts by jumping in the air, and in mid jump, he spindashed into one the turrets.

He angled himself in such a way that when the turret exploded, it would launch him into the other turret.

With both of the guns destroyed, Sonic broke the door down by spindashing. Then he walked into an oh-so familiar room. There were catwalks head from every direction to every other direction.

He looked at the map but was confused by how the map showed it. So he clicked a button on his communicator and said, "Tails. Tails, do you read?"

"Yes Sonic, but I want to know why my machine says that your communicator and your cluster of time shards are in different places."

"Long story, but here's the idea. I lost my shards in the river and I was taken on to a ship. From there I escaped and blew it up. Now I'm here and I want to know how to get the shards back before they're flushed into the ocean."

"You should be able to pick the cluster up at the second turbine it goes through. Jump to the platform to your right and walk down it. Then you'll d see seven doors. Go through the middle one. Walk through a large chamber and down some stairs. Then grab the cluster as it comes out of the second turbine."

"I got it Tails. You've been real helpful," Sonic said as he turned off his communicator.

He looked to his right and jumped to the catwalk. He walked to the doors, went through the middle one, and then he stepped into a large chamber. He looked around and remembered that he didn't tell Tails that he hset off the security alarm.

All around him were robots and turrets of all shapes and sizes. He took a step forward and said, "Alright. Come and get me!"

Meanwhile, Robotnik was walking toward the room Robo Sonic was in. When he got there, he said, "We're here Robo Sonic. It's time for you to destroy Sonic."

"Finally! I can't wait to tear that meddlesome hedgehog to pieces!"

"Well, what are you waiting for? Go!"

Robo Sonic dashed out of the air ship and started flying toward water base. He stopped around one-hundred feet above the power plant and scanned the building for Sonic's bio signature.

It took a few seconds find Sonic's bio signature, but once he did, Robo dashed toward the room it was in. He floated three feet above the roof and scanned inside with his X-ray vision.

When he saw that Sonic was in a fight, he dropped onto the building roof and waited. Watching every move his foe made.

Meanwhile, Sonic was in an intense battle. Three humanoid robots shot at him, he dodged by jumping to the side.

Then five turrets released a wave of laser fire that Sonic dodged by doing a back flip.

Then an eagle shaped robot tackled him from behind. He fell to the ground, but jumped in the air to dodge a few laser blasts.

Then he spindashed into a few turrets tucked to dodge a hawk shaped robot. When it flew over him, he grabbed its legs and threw it into a humanoid robot.

Then a spider-shaped robot dropped on top pf him. It had razor sharp teeth and tried to bite Sonic. He grabbed the spider robot and threw it into a few turrets.

Then he tucked into a ball and spindashed forward, destroying six humanoid robots. When he stood up, six turrets released an onslaught of fire. Sonic back flipped to dodge the first volley, and side jumped to dodge the next.

Then he was grabbed from behind by a humanoid robot. When he realized he couldn't wiggle free, he tucked into a ball and spun as fast as he could. He kept going until the robot's arms were sawed off.

The robot tried to step back, but Sonic jumped and kicked its head off. Then he turned around and spindashed into a few dog shaped robots.

When Sonic looked up, he saw a few hawk bots flying toward him. Right as they were about to crash into him, he jumped in the air and landed on top of them.

They hit the ground and were smashed into pieces. Sonic grabbed a few of the plates of metal that came off of the robots and threw them into some turrets.

When the turrets blew up, Sonic spindashed into some of the other various types of robots, causing them to explode.

Then five turrets started to fire at him. He jumped in the air to evade the blasts that soared at him. Then he grabbed a robot that looked like a floating orb and threw it at the turrets.

It exploded on impact, destroying all five of the turrets that had shot at him. Then Sonic turned around to see some enormous crab-like robots with lasers in place of eyes approaching him.

He jumped over one and spindashed downward, piercing straight through it. Then he ran under a second one and broke its legs with a spindash. When it fell to the ground, Sonic jumped on and bounced off it.

He landed on a different one and peeled a plate from its armor away. Then he tore some of the exposed gears and wires out. Then the robot started randomly firing its lasers.

It fired at everything that moved, destroying ten robots in the process. This included two other crab robot; it finally fell to the ground, its power expended. Then Sonic tucked into a ball and spindashed straight through the side of another crab robot.

When he looked up, he saw a different robotic crab aiming its lasers at him. Sonic dashed to the side just in time to dodge the crab's blasts. Then he jumped and spindashed through the robot's face.

When he burst out of the other side, he saw one of the orb shaped robots flying toward him. He rolled to the side in order to dodge the onrushing orb. He looked back and saw explode right where he was standing moments ago.

Then he jumped, spindashed into, and jumped off the last crab robot. He landed and looked back to see the robot he had just hit fall. He turned around and saw the rest of the robots charging at him.

"Ah! This doesn't look good!" Sonic yelled as he turned around and ran.

He could only go ten feet before he hit the wall. Sonic turned around, and saw the army of robots all around him.

They were about to swarm him when something broke in from the roof and destroyed every last robot.

Robo Sonic had destroyed thirty of the enemy robots in twenty seconds. Then he looked up and said, "Sorry. I wanted to finish you off."

"Sorry Robo. Can't fight right now. My shards could be flushed into the ocean at any moment. Glad you understand, bye."

"Can't let you do that. We fight here, and now."

"Ugh! Just hold on! It'll only take a second!"

"No. We fight now!"

"I can't do that. So I'll be leaving!"

Sonic tried to spindash under Robo's legs, but was grabbed and thrown back. Then he bent his legs, tried to jump over Robo Sonic. Right when he was directly over his foe, Robo Sonic flew up and slammed Sonic into the roof.

Then Robo grabbed Sonic's legs and threw him to the ground. Sonic landed with a loud boom on the hard metal floor. He saw that Robo was still above him and dashed toward the stairs that would lead him to his shards.

Robo flew right in front of the door and punched Sonic when he tried to run through it. Sonic fell back, but instantly jumped to his feet and spindashed toward Robo Sonic.

Robo held out his hand, and manipulated all of his aura into a shield. When Sonic hit it, it spread out and formed around him. Robo created a small hole in the orb that enveloped Sonic and started to fire a steady blast at him.

The pain was excruciating. Sonic felt like his body had been put in an oven that was turned to eight hundred-degrees. He knew he had to do something, but he didn't know what.

Then, it hit him. He may not have the rings to use all his emeralds, but he could still use them individually. So he held up the red and blue emeralds and said, "Chaos Control!"

With blinding speed, Sonic broke out of the aura barrier that contained him and dashed down the stairs.

When he reached the bottom, he was amazed to see Robo Sonic standing in front of him.

Robo held out his hand and said, "You're fast, just not as fast as me."

Sonic took one step back in disbelief, then saw the cluster of shards come out of a turbine to his right. He reached for it, but was pulled back by Robo; the robotic hedgehog immediately rammed his knee into Sonic's back.

He broke free of Robo's grasp and dove down into the water tank to retrieve the cluster. He saw the time cluster sinking in the water and swam after it.

When he grabbed it, he looked down and saw the hole that drains the water into the ocean opening. He stuffed the shards in his bag and tried to get to the side of the tank.

No matter what he did, Sonic was still being pulled toward the hole. Sonic hoped that the water would drain before he was sucked into the ocean, but seriously doubted it.

He thought he was dead for sure, he closed his eyes and used every last bit of strength he had to resist being pulled into the drain. To his surprise, the pull started to weaken.

He opened his eyes and saw that the water level was at his stomach. Then he took a few more steps toward the hole and said, "I'm glad that's finally over. I had almost lost hope that it would ever stop."

Right as the water reached Sonic's ankles, Robo flew down and slammed Sonic into the hole. Sonic tried to grab the ledge of the hole, but it was too slippery.

Then he pressed his back against one side of the hole, and his hands and knees against the other. Then he slowly forced himself up the drain. Robo Sonic was genuinely surprised to see Sonic emerge out of the hole.

When Sonic got to his feet, he said, "Come now Robo. Did you seriously think you could get rid of me that easily?"

"I did, but it seems I was wrong. You are more resourceful than I thought. Once again, it seems that I'll have to kill you with my bare hands to make sure you're dead."

"I guess we're both annoyingly clever. I thought I'd gotten rid of you quite a few times, yet you keep coming back."

"That is because I am unstoppable. You, however, are not."

"Alright! I'd like to see you test that theory. Bring it on, faker!"

"All right then, prepare yourself."

To be continued…