SuperSonic Speed- Chapter 18: The steep freeze
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Knuckles dangled from the V220, holding on for dear life as he started to fall towards Hill Top Zone's majestic green landscape. Knuckles felt terrible, he was giving up his island to his enemy. This was extremely unlike him, how could he do such a thing? He couldn't, he told himself, that would be an admission of defeat.
"Tails!" Knuckles yelled over the roaring of the wind, "PULL UP! Get to the islands surface!"
Tails began his ascent, "Why?"
"We're gonna take this island back or die trying!!!"
"Yes sir!"
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Flying Battery
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The prototype layed sprawled on the main deck, convulsing every few seconds. Sparks emitted from it's body and a wail of pain came from within.
"Oh, dang," Shady thought nervously, "Robotnik's going to have my hide for this one!" While yes, the prototype was functional, it WAS a prototype, and had dozens of bugs, flaws and defects, perfect for the enemy to exploit. Many times, in the middle of an assault, the silver robot would malfunction and collapse right then and there. Naturally, this had happened in the middle of a chase, which had allowed the traitor to escape.
Shady thought it was a memory overload, Robotnik thought Shady was stupid and that it was his fault. The Lieutenant couldn't figure out which was worse, the truth or the assumed. What mattered now though, was fixing the robot so he could be redeployed somewhere else with the main objective of causing a chaotic tragedy.
A all-too familiar sounding psychotic voice barked through Shady's headset, anyone outside within a ten foot radius of the headphones would be able to pick up on the conversation. "DANGIT LIEUTENANT! Have you not gotten that robot fixed up yet or what?"
Shady gulped, letting out a slow, quivering, "No, sir."
"WHAT? You haven't even started on it have you!"
Shady gulped again.
"ANSWER ME LIEUTENANT!!!"
It came out, "No."
"WHAT WAS THAT LIEUTENANT?"
He quickly straightened up his head and quickly said, "I meant 'no, sir' my appologies, commander."
Robotnik relaxed in his seat, shady could hear Robotnik's rear end squeal against his seat. "Get your rear in gear Lieutenant, before I have my SWATbots come and help you get it in gear!"
"Yes, sir. Right away, sir." Shady quickly hussled over to his workstation, pulled out his screwdriver and immediately got to work on the protoype.
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With our team
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Juke slowly, shakingly, pulled herself onto the island. Her upper body strength had never been any good, and it showed now. It reminded her why she'd chosen to use her gun rather than her fists. She laid on the ground panting.
"Are you alright Juke?" Knuckles asked, concern in his eyes.
"Yea... I'm fine... hehe, ain't used my... arms in sometime."
Sonic groaned as he laid on the V220, which was now functioning as a strecher. "Oh wow," Sonic said quietly as he stumbled to his feet, clutching his side in pain.
"Sonic! How are you feeling?" Knuckles asked, now turning his attention to the blue hedgehog.
"Oh, wow. I can walk, I think I might be able to run a l'il bit, my side sure hurts like heck though, 'killin me." He walked in a small circle trying to loosen up.
"Okay guys, here's the plan. I realized that if I would have just abandoned the island now, we would have an absolute zero chance of retaking the island because that flying ship will be there the first few days, and after then, it will be too infested with robots to even attempt to take back," Knuckles breathed as he got ready to unleash his assault plan, "Okay, first off, you see those mountains not too far away in the distance? Those are the Ice Cap mountains. They're not too difficult to climb, it's just that they're ridiculously cold. From the top, we should be able to grab a hold of that airship.
Now, Sonic, its time for a little military technique. Once inside, we're going to go in standard formation, or for you two, Sonic and Tails, we're going in in a two-by-two square. Me and Juke will be in front and you two will be in back.
Now, before I continue, let me just say that no matter HOW INENSE things get, you must always stick to the plan, and believe me, you'll live longer that way. Unless I say so, you are to attack ANYTHING that moves." Knuckles then began to whisper the rest of the plan in each of his team's ears, each one's eyes bulging and arguing in disbelief of what they had just heard. "Okay, it's time for us to mooooove out."
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Flying Battery
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The prototype stood standing, ready to be used again. "Dang, I am SO good," He tried running the thought program again, it was up and running, he set it on auto, and programmed the robot to kill anything that wasn't recognized as being allied with Robotnik. Some guard duty should help the bot get used to his job.
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One hour later at the foot of the Ice Cap mountains
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Sonic shivered, he was painfully cold. The freezing temperature chilled his bones and made his stomach and side ache much worse than they already did, it made him wish he was back in his boring old house in boring old Grotto Village. He never imagined he could feel this cold, it was like being stuck in a freezer set on "extra high". Tails was shivering too, making the blue (make that frozen blue) hedgehog feel slightly better in the fact that he didn't have to endure the cold alone. Knuckles wasn't shivering at all, Sonic wasn't surprised, nothing seemed to affect the echidna.
"Yuh, yuh re, ready tuh, climb, that thing, Knu, knuckles?" Sonic asked, his teeth chattering.
The echidna nodded his head thoughtlessly, beginning the first part of the journey. Sonic's mind was racing, he wouldn't tell Knuckles, but he was scared, terribly scared, he had a feeling that the cold would kill him. He figured that Tails was scared too, but little did the hedgehog know that The guardian echidna was more scared then Sonic and Tails combined, and for good reason too...
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Knuckles dangled from the V220, holding on for dear life as he started to fall towards Hill Top Zone's majestic green landscape. Knuckles felt terrible, he was giving up his island to his enemy. This was extremely unlike him, how could he do such a thing? He couldn't, he told himself, that would be an admission of defeat.
"Tails!" Knuckles yelled over the roaring of the wind, "PULL UP! Get to the islands surface!"
Tails began his ascent, "Why?"
"We're gonna take this island back or die trying!!!"
"Yes sir!"
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Flying Battery
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The prototype layed sprawled on the main deck, convulsing every few seconds. Sparks emitted from it's body and a wail of pain came from within.
"Oh, dang," Shady thought nervously, "Robotnik's going to have my hide for this one!" While yes, the prototype was functional, it WAS a prototype, and had dozens of bugs, flaws and defects, perfect for the enemy to exploit. Many times, in the middle of an assault, the silver robot would malfunction and collapse right then and there. Naturally, this had happened in the middle of a chase, which had allowed the traitor to escape.
Shady thought it was a memory overload, Robotnik thought Shady was stupid and that it was his fault. The Lieutenant couldn't figure out which was worse, the truth or the assumed. What mattered now though, was fixing the robot so he could be redeployed somewhere else with the main objective of causing a chaotic tragedy.
A all-too familiar sounding psychotic voice barked through Shady's headset, anyone outside within a ten foot radius of the headphones would be able to pick up on the conversation. "DANGIT LIEUTENANT! Have you not gotten that robot fixed up yet or what?"
Shady gulped, letting out a slow, quivering, "No, sir."
"WHAT? You haven't even started on it have you!"
Shady gulped again.
"ANSWER ME LIEUTENANT!!!"
It came out, "No."
"WHAT WAS THAT LIEUTENANT?"
He quickly straightened up his head and quickly said, "I meant 'no, sir' my appologies, commander."
Robotnik relaxed in his seat, shady could hear Robotnik's rear end squeal against his seat. "Get your rear in gear Lieutenant, before I have my SWATbots come and help you get it in gear!"
"Yes, sir. Right away, sir." Shady quickly hussled over to his workstation, pulled out his screwdriver and immediately got to work on the protoype.
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With our team
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Juke slowly, shakingly, pulled herself onto the island. Her upper body strength had never been any good, and it showed now. It reminded her why she'd chosen to use her gun rather than her fists. She laid on the ground panting.
"Are you alright Juke?" Knuckles asked, concern in his eyes.
"Yea... I'm fine... hehe, ain't used my... arms in sometime."
Sonic groaned as he laid on the V220, which was now functioning as a strecher. "Oh wow," Sonic said quietly as he stumbled to his feet, clutching his side in pain.
"Sonic! How are you feeling?" Knuckles asked, now turning his attention to the blue hedgehog.
"Oh, wow. I can walk, I think I might be able to run a l'il bit, my side sure hurts like heck though, 'killin me." He walked in a small circle trying to loosen up.
"Okay guys, here's the plan. I realized that if I would have just abandoned the island now, we would have an absolute zero chance of retaking the island because that flying ship will be there the first few days, and after then, it will be too infested with robots to even attempt to take back," Knuckles breathed as he got ready to unleash his assault plan, "Okay, first off, you see those mountains not too far away in the distance? Those are the Ice Cap mountains. They're not too difficult to climb, it's just that they're ridiculously cold. From the top, we should be able to grab a hold of that airship.
Now, Sonic, its time for a little military technique. Once inside, we're going to go in standard formation, or for you two, Sonic and Tails, we're going in in a two-by-two square. Me and Juke will be in front and you two will be in back.
Now, before I continue, let me just say that no matter HOW INENSE things get, you must always stick to the plan, and believe me, you'll live longer that way. Unless I say so, you are to attack ANYTHING that moves." Knuckles then began to whisper the rest of the plan in each of his team's ears, each one's eyes bulging and arguing in disbelief of what they had just heard. "Okay, it's time for us to mooooove out."
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Flying Battery
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The prototype stood standing, ready to be used again. "Dang, I am SO good," He tried running the thought program again, it was up and running, he set it on auto, and programmed the robot to kill anything that wasn't recognized as being allied with Robotnik. Some guard duty should help the bot get used to his job.
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One hour later at the foot of the Ice Cap mountains
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Sonic shivered, he was painfully cold. The freezing temperature chilled his bones and made his stomach and side ache much worse than they already did, it made him wish he was back in his boring old house in boring old Grotto Village. He never imagined he could feel this cold, it was like being stuck in a freezer set on "extra high". Tails was shivering too, making the blue (make that frozen blue) hedgehog feel slightly better in the fact that he didn't have to endure the cold alone. Knuckles wasn't shivering at all, Sonic wasn't surprised, nothing seemed to affect the echidna.
"Yuh, yuh re, ready tuh, climb, that thing, Knu, knuckles?" Sonic asked, his teeth chattering.
The echidna nodded his head thoughtlessly, beginning the first part of the journey. Sonic's mind was racing, he wouldn't tell Knuckles, but he was scared, terribly scared, he had a feeling that the cold would kill him. He figured that Tails was scared too, but little did the hedgehog know that The guardian echidna was more scared then Sonic and Tails combined, and for good reason too...