Sonic the Robotic Crisis
Part 8
Prologue
At the end of Sonic the Robotic Crisis Part Seven, Sonic stopped himself from being sucked down a drain into the ocean. When he climbed out, Robo Sonic was facing him, ready for a rematch. Sonic decided that he'd agreed to the battle and prepared himself.
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Part 8
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Sonic took one step back, then spindashed forward through the air. Robo sidestepped then punched Sonic in mid flight. Sonic was sent flying into a wall by the immense force behind the punch.
Upon impact, the wall that Sonic hit started to crack. Sonic started to stand when Robo held out his hand and fired a blast at Sonic. When it hit, Sonic was forced two foot into the wall.
Robo used this time to fly backward, then charge straight toward Sonic. He forced Sonic through the wall and into another room. Once there, Robo grabbed Sonic by the neck and squeezed.
Sonic was gasping for breath, trying to remove Robo's hands. He was trapped; he thought there was nothing that could save him. Then water rushed from a hole in the side of the wall and fell on Robo.
Robo let go of Sonic and started twitching. He seemed to be reacting violently to the water. Sonic glanced at Robo one last time before spindashing through a wall and entering another room.
Unfortunately, for Sonic, he forgot that making a hole in the wall would drain the water out of the room he was in and into the one he was going to. When he realized this, he looked back and saw Robo Sonic floating in the air.
Sonic didn't know that Robo's recovery would be so quick. So he spindashed through another wall and entered a large square room. From there, he spindashed into all three remaining walls, leaving holes in each, and picked to go through the left one.
When Robo started functioning properly, he followed Sonic's holes all the way until he hit the square room. He looked around and saw three holes.
Sonic, did you actually think you could fool me that easily? Robo thought as he wirelessly hacked into Water Bases security cameras.
Once Robo found where Sonic was, he dashed toward him. When he was nearing Sonic, he poured on his maximum speed and slammed into him. Sonic was sent crashing through ten walls and out of Water Base.
"Ow!" Sonic screamed as he stood up and looked for Robo Sonic.
It took one second for Sonic to see Robo dashing toward him at blinding speeds. He instantly turned tail, and dashed into a nearby forest. He hid in a large pile of leaves and waited.
When Robo flew by, Sonic curled up into a ball and spindashed into him. Robo was sent flying into a tree that snapped in two on impact. When Robo stood up, Sonic ran and drop kicked him.
Robo was knocked to the ground, but quickly jumped to his feet. Then he saw Sonic curl up and start charging a spindash. So he gathered his aura at his two hands and charged.
When Sonic released his spindash, Robo stopped him in mid dash by shooting him with two blasts of energy. Sonic was sent flipping and tumbling backward until he hit a large rock.
Then Sonic looked up and saw Robo flying toward him. He rolled to the side and jumped back. Then he flipped through the air and landed a kick to Robo's head.
Robo's knees bent two inches due to the force of the blow, but Robo was relatively unharmed. When Sonic jumped off him and landed, Robo instantly fired his engines at maximum power and aimed himself at Sonic.
He slammed into Sonic going at speeds of Mach 3.5. Sonic was sent flying backward into a deep part of the forest. From there, he found a large tree with an almost completely hollow trunk and went in it.
Sonic waited in the trunk one minute before something caught his ear. It sounded like something large stepping through a pile of leaves, so he peered out to see what it was.
Then he saw it, Robo Sonic was searching for him. When Robo turned toward him, Sonic pulled his head back into the tree and held his breath. He waited as Robo slowly walked through the forest in his search.
When Robo turned to examine a squirrel that was running through a patch of leaves, Sonic took a quick breath. Robo heard the sound and resumed his course. When he looked into the hollow trunk, Sonic spindashed straight into his face, sending him flying, and dashed further into the woods.
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When Robo stood up, he floated above the trees and angrily roared, "You can run but you can't hide! Especially once I burn this forest to the ground!"
Then he held out his hands and fired two blasts toward a cluster of trees, causing them to start to burn.
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"I think that put some distance between him and I. I'll just wait here for a little while. I hope he won't find me too soon. I need to tend some of my wounds," Sonic said as he reached into his bag and pulled out a first aid kit.
He applied some medical cream and was about to apply a bandage when he smelled smoke. He quickly slapped it on to his leg and looked for fire. Sonic looked and saw that the fire was only twenty feet away.
So he dashed toward the tallest tree he could find and ran up to the tip of it.
"Wow! That fire sure has spread. This must be the work of Robo…" Sonic was interrupted by Robo Sonic who slammed straight down into him.
The force of the blow split the tree right down the middle. Both halves fell to opposite sides, while Sonic fell in the middle.
Robo looked down at Sonic, then flew beside him and grabbed one of the tree's halves. Then he lifted it above his head, and slammed it toward Sonic.
Sonic instinctively rolled to the side and jumped to his feet, thus dodging the particularly large tree half. "Alright faker! If you want a fight, come and get it!"
"Very well, but I must warn you, it's your funeral."
"I'm willing to take that chance, so prepare yourself!"
Then Sonic grabbed a vine and swung toward Robo Sonic. Right as Sonic was about to hit him, Robo sidestepped and cut the vine with his claw. Sonic's momentum kept him soaring through the air until hit a tree and fell to the ground.
"You're going to have to try better then that if you want to beat me."
"That was just warm up! Now I'm gonna show you what I can really do!" Sonic said right before he jumped and kicked at Robo.
Robo jumped to dodge and punched toward Sonic who was right below him. Sonic saw this coming and twisted to dodge the punch, then attacked with a spin kick.
Sonic's kick slammed into Robo's head, sending him flying into a large collection of vines. Robo became twisted and tangled between these vines so badly, that he couldn't move.
"Once again you have been defeated so very easily by guess who. Yup, yours truly, Sonic the Hedgehog!"
"I swear! Once I get out of these vines, you're mince meat!"
"Well, I think I'll at least be fine until then. Smell you later!" Sonic said as he dashed off as fast as he could.
In a few minutes, Sonic was out of the forest and in a large cave with a rocky entrance.
He jumped behind one of the rocks and glanced over it. When he saw that Robo wasn't in sight, he pressed a button on his communicator and said, "Tails! Tails do you read? Robo came back, and I just stopped him. I need to know where the next shard is, and fast."
"Hold on, just one more sec… there! It's two miles north of your position, in a large rock quarry. The hardest part about getting it will be finding it. It's practically buried under a mountain of pebbles!"
"No problem, I'll find it in a few seconds. All I have to do is find the place where weird things are happening and go there."
"That's right, good luck."
"Ok, bye," Sonic said as he jumped out of the cave and dashed toward the quarry.
A few seconds later, Sonic was standing at the edge of the quarry, looking around for a glowing light. Once he saw it, he tucked into a ball and spindashed straight to it.
The glow was barely noticeable, probably because the actual time shard was underground. So Sonic leapt into the air and spindashed into the rocky dirt.
A few seconds later, Sonic reached the area underground that the shard was located. From there, he grabbed the shard, connected it to his shards, and started climbing back up the hole he had made with his spindash.
Once he reached the top, he pulled out a bottle of water and a chilidog that was safely stored in a plastic bag from his backpack and started eating.
When he was finished, he put the empty bottle in his backpack and used his communicator. He pressed the button and asked, "Where's the next shard Tails? I already have the last one you told me to get."
"It's twenty five-miles east of your location, hidden in the dunes of a desert."
Sonic grimaced as he thought of a certain bottle that he had just 'liberated' of its contents. "Oh great! I just drank all my water!"
"It's all right, you'll find a river before you reach the desert. You can use it to refill."
"Thanks Tails, bye."
Then Sonic turned off his communicator and dashed off. When he reached the river, something caught his ear. There were a few humanoid robots with boosters instead of legs coming from behind him.
He turned around and immediately ducked to dodge a laser blast. Then he jumped on top of one of the robots and started steering it toward another. Sonic jumped off at the last second so that he wouldn't be caught in the explosion.
When he landed on the ground, the last robot slammed into his back and grabbed him. Its arms had spikes all over them, and they were digging into Sonic's skin.
Sonic broke free of its grasp by twisting to the side, but it caused the spikes to tear deep cuts into his skin. "Agh!" Sonic screamed as his cuts started to bleed.
When the robot dashed at Sonic again, Sonic smiled, then tucked into a ball and spindashed. He slammed straight through the robot so hard that he broke straight through it.
When he hit the ground, he put on a cocky grin and went to fill up his water bottle. Once it was filled to the top, he resumed his dash toward the desert.
The scenery changed in the blink of an eye. The nice green grass changed into dry sand. The humid air instantly christened. Sonic was so shocked by the instant change from a humid environment to an arid environment that he slammed his heels to the ground and stopped.
"Wow! That was fast! Why didn't Tails tell me about the rapid change in climate?" Apparently, he was too hyped up from the battle to think about why exactly he SHOULD be surprised by a desert's dryness. "Anyway, how do I find the shard in such a massive expanse of desert?" Sonic said as put his hand above his eyes and looked around.
While he was looking, a sandstorm started to rise in the distance. When Sonic saw this, he pulled out a pair of goggles from his bag and dashed into the desert.
With his goggles on, Sonic plowed straight in the sandstorm and emerged out of the other side. However, he was hurt. The enormous winds blasted sand into the cuts on his body, causing them sting even more.
Sonic was forcing himself to run faster, even though the cuts on his side felt like people were driving daggers into them.
He forced himself to run deeper and deeper into the desert. The sheer force behind each of his steps was strong enough to kick up a giant trail of sand.
He kept up his speed for a few miles, then he slowed to a stop when he was halfway up a sand dune. He collapsed on the dune's side and reached into his bag. When he felt his water bottle, he grabbed it and started drinking.
He kept drinking until he was out of water, then he remembered what Tails said.
Tails said that the shard was in the sand dunes. That means I must be close. I just need to hold on a little longer.
With his new determination, Sonic stood up and started running toward the top of the dune. When he reached the top, he curled into a ball and rolled down the hill.
Right when he the bottom, he noticed something. The time shard was jutting out of the sand in front of him. He calmly pulled off his goggles, letting the shard's glow flicker off of his green eyes.
When Sonic bent over to grab the shard, it popped out of the sand and into his bag. That's when he realized something. His cluster of shards was getting so big that it was starting to act like a super magnet.
So he pulled his cluster out of his bag and attached the shard to it. Then he called Tails and said, "I have the shard. Where's the next one?"
"It's thirty miles south of your position, in a small valley."
"Thanks, bye." Sonic said as he dashed off in the direction Tails told him to.
Around twenty seconds into his dash, Sonic ran into a robot that was carrying someone away. "Help! Help!" The person cried as the robot dragged it toward a cage.
"You let that guy go! You hear me?" Sonic angrily growled.
When the robot turned around, it said, "All robots, all robots, report to sector seven. I have located primary hedgehog."
Sonic took a step forward then said, "Drop the guy now. Or else I'll turn you into spare parts!"
Then the robot released the creature from its arms and fired its lasers at Sonic. He easily dodged the blasts by hop to the side and back flipping. Then he jumped in the air and spindashed straight down onto the robot.
When he hit it, the metal crumpled, and when he pushed off, the robot fell to the ground. When Sonic landed, he was surprised to see ten flying snakelike robots around him.
When the first charged at him, leaned straight backward, (like in the Matrix) and grabbed its Tails as it flew over head. Then he started swinging it around like a whip.
Once he destroyed four other robots with his new whip, he crushed it against a rock, shattering it into many metal shards. Then he grabbed those shards and threw them at the other snake robots.
After all the robots were destroyed, Sonic used the last of his first aid kit treatments on his various sand blasted cuts. Then he resumed his dash toward the valley.
Around five minutes later, Sonic was standing on top of one of the mountains that tower over the valley.
"What a view," Sonic said as he looked around.
Sonic kept looking until he spotted a glow in the forest. He dashed down the mountain and ran straight to it, but Robotnik had found it first. There were dozens of robots standing around the shard.
When Sonic took a step forward to try and count the number of robots, a red humanoid robot flew to him and said, "YOU ARE THE PRIMARY HEDGEHOG! You must be destroyed! All robots, attack!"
Then the dozens of robots all held their lasers up and fired. Sonic dodged by jumping as high as he could and spindashing downward. He slammed into the ground with such force that cracks spread out in every direction, causing half the robots to fall in them.
When Sonic stood up, he saw that fifty robots remained, and they were pointing all their blasters at him. Sonic took a step back, and then dashed into a group of bushes.
The robots looked at each other in confusion, then started grouping together.
"Bad move!" Sonic said as he dashed behind them and spindashed into them like a bowling ball. Once Sonic completed his attack by piercing through the group, he turned around just in time to see the robots explode.
Sonic put on a cocky grin as he walked over to the shard and grabbed it. Then he reached into his bag, pulled out his cluster of shards, and attached the new one to it.
Then Sonic stuffed the almost complete cluster of time shards in his bag and pressed a button on his communicator.
"Tails, Tails. I have the shard you told me about. Do you know where the next is?"
"Yeah, it's in some underground tunnels around sixty miles from your position. The tunnels lead to an abandon iron mine. You'll fid the entrance on the side of a mountain."
"Thanks Tails! Soon the Time Stone will be complete, and all will be set right." Sonic said as he dashed toward the mountain with the tunnel's entrance.
Once Sonic reached the mountain, he reached into his bag and pulled out a waterproof flash light. "Sometimes all the stuff I put in this bag is worth carrying, even though it weighs like twenty pounds." The extra musculature it would develop would be worth; he had to admit that his upper body was nowhere NEAR as strong as his legs.
He pressed the on button and cautiously walked into the cave. Sonic took a few steps, then stepped in something squishy. He looked down and said, "Ewww. I just stepped in bat guano."
How does he know a word like guano?
Then a swarm of robotic bats (Sonic briefly fought down revulsion and confusion at how guano could come from robotic bats) flew down and started biting Sonic. Their armor was weak enough for Sonic to break it with one hand, but there were so many of the it didn't matter.
After a few more seconds of them biting him, he tucked into a ball and broke them off by charging up a spindash. When every last one was destroyed, Sonic looked at the bite marks they left.
Each robot had four teeth that left half-inch deep holes in his skin. He glanced down at the robots one last time then preceded his walk into the cave.
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Meanwhile, Robo Sonic was finishing a program he had been running since he had gotten stuck in the giant group of vines. "Hmm…that communicator of his…" He had a hunch about who was on the other end of Sonic's communicator.
And he had an idea.
Robo pressed a button on his arm, causing all of his aura to morph onto the plate on his right hand. Then he started to manipulate the energy into different shapes. Once he formed a sword out of energy, he reached out and grabbed it. He used it to cut all the vines that entangled him. Once free, he turned his engines to maximum power and dashed toward Robotnik's base.
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Meanwhile, back at the abandoned iron mine, Sonic was continuing his search for the time shard. He was jogging (jogging for Sonic is like running 60 mph) through the cave while scanning the walls of the tunnel with his flashlight.
He kept up his pace until he saw a metal support beam in front of him. When he noticed the beam, he instantly slowed down and curved around it. Then he saw some more complete beams and a few broken ones.
He started to slow down, allowing him to dodge all of the beams while looking out for bat robots. Around thirty seconds later, He started to see old, deactivated robots holding piles of iron ore.
What could cause a place like this to shut down so fast that the carrier robots were just turned off? Sonic thought as he grabbed a chunk of iron ore and tossed it up and down.
Beats me, but anyway, I have to keep searching for this shard. I can't be too far from it now.
Then Sonic dropped the chunk of iron and ran faster. He kept running faster and faster until finally, the tunnel started to get brighter. Sonic knew that meant that the shard had to be close, and he was ready to get it and get out of there.
As Sonic kept running, the lights got brighter and brighter. It kept getting brighter until its glow was so prominent that Sonic couldn't see anything else.
It was so bright that Sonic was forced to squint his eyes so that the light wouldn't blind him.
I wonder if the reason why each shard seems to glow brighter than the last is because they are reacting to my increasingly large cluster of shards. Ah, who am I kidding? That's something Tails should think about, not me. Sonic thought as started to hold his hands to his eyes.
Sonic slowed to walk when the light became so bright that it was hurting his eyes when they were closed.
While Sonic was covering his eyes, he tripped on what he thought was a long steak, but when he grabbed it, he realized that it was the time shard he was looking for.
He instantly reached into his bag and pulled out his cluster of shards. He rammed it against his new found shard, hoping they would fit. While the push didn't make them connect, it made the shard stop glowing.
So Sonic opened his eyes, but made sure that his cluster and the new shard were touching at all times. It took him around thirty seconds for him to find the exact place the shard fit, but once he did, he curled into a ball and spindashed out of there.
Once he was completely out of the tunnel, he came out of his spindash and sat on a pile of leaves. Then he activated his communicator and said, "Tails, I have the shard fully attached to my cluster, and I'm all the way out of the tunnel. The cluster looks like it's almost complete, where's the next piece?"
"Oh, well… From where you are, it's five hundred-miles, and my house is on the way. So you should come back to my house and stock up on food and medical aid, then you can go for the shard."
"Got it Tails. Just let me eat my last chilidog and I'll be there."
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Meanwhile, Robo Sonic was just getting within eyesight of the fortress that Eggman was in. The mad dictator had flown to this base when he saw Robo Sonic selfishly destroy the robots that were about to destroy Sonic so that he could kill him himself.
Once he reached the gates of the mighty fort, he simply crossed his arms and waited. A few seconds later, a small robotic orb floated to him and asked, "What business do have at Robotnik's grand palace?"
"I have vitally important news for him. Just tell him Robo Sonic's at the gate."
"I shall be back soon with what Robotnik has to say."
Then the robot floated over the wall and slipped into a small hole in the fortresses wall. A few seconds later, the gates opened and Robotnik floated toward Robo Sonic with a jetpack that could fly at fifty mph, and projected a force field around him.
"What is it!" spouted the angry tyrant. He had good reason to be livid. "You betrayed me by preventing Sonic's death! And you were too selfish to let my other robots kill him, so what do you want?" Robotnik furiously asked.
"I have good news," muttered Robo Sonic. "I analyzed his communicator. Just hear me out."
Robo Sonic quickly relayed his plan to Eggman. The doctor's anger slowly gave way to silence, then to awe, then to uproarious joy.
"That's genius Robo! This plan will take care of two birds with one stone! Ahahahahahahaha!" Robotnik screamed. "Soon, Sonic will be gone, and we will do as we please."
"Yes Robotnik, as we please," Robo said as he walked beside Eggman.
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Elsewhere, Sonic had just finished the last of his chilidogs and was dashing across an enormous field. His legs were a blur and he bore a cocky grin on his face.
Since he saw such a giant field ahead, he decided to go as fast as he possibly could. A blue line trailed him as he sprinted across the vast expanse of terrain. He kept running faster and faster until his whole body started to blur.
"Yahoo!" Sonic screamed as he broke the sound barrier.
The sonic boom sent out vibrations that shook the ground below Sonic. He didn't care, he kept running. It wasn't every day that he found a giant field that he could freely dash on.
He was enjoying every second of it. However, his running met a screeching halt when the field ended. He didn't have time to slow down, and ran straight into a forest, tripped over a stump, and rolled into a tree.
"Whoa, that came out of nowhere." The hedgehog dizzily stumbled, chuckling absentmindedly at his misfortune. "Hahaha, I guess I ran into a tree once again." Sonic shook his head, steadied himself, and continued his dash toward Tails' house.
Around an hour later, Sonic was closing in on Tails' home. When he opened the door he said, "Hey Tails! Tails! Anybody home?"
"I'm right here Sonic!" The two-tailed fox walked out of his workshop with a tray full of chilidogs. (What? You don't think he has a fridge in his workshop?) "I made some chilidogs for you. I also got your favorite drink!"
"Thanks Tails! You know me too well," Sonic said as he drank all his drink and ate his chilidogs. "I'll have to be going now. I need to get that shard before Robotnik."
"Ok." Tails waved at his best friend; things were going to get hectic now. Dr. Robotnik and Robo Sonic definitely weren't going to let up now. "Bye Sonic! Be careful!"
Sonic waved with a self-assured grin and dashed out of the door.
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To be continued…