Here we go! Chapter 3! I hope you enjoy it. Before we get into it though, I'd like to give a few shout outs. AmyVideogamer for being the first person to add Speed Trap to their story alerts and LittlelNotini for being the second, and also for their review. Thanks guys! Also I'd like to thank all the people who have read my story so far, whether you liked it or not, I'm happy you gave it a shot.
Disclaimer: Sega owns Sonic, I just have a few copies of the games.
Chapter 3
Sonic eventually came to, his vision was blurry and his head was pounding. He pushed himself up as everything came back into focus and began looking around trying to piece together what happened. Suddenly it all came back to him, Amy, the robotic double of him, he wanted to call out to her but he knew it was useless, they were long gone by now. As Sonic dragged himself to his feet, he realized that his communicator had been beeping this whole time. He pressed a button and Tails' worried face appeared on the screen.
"Sonic! Are you alright? What happened? I've been trying to get in touch with you for over three hours!" 'Three hours?' He thought to himself, 'Its really been that long?' He turned his attention back to Tails. "I'm okay, just sore. I had a run in with Eggman's new toy, He really did it this time." He said as he rubbed his arm, noticing a large bruise on it. Tails spoke up again, "Where's that girl from before? What was her name again, Amy?"
A disheartened look came across Sonic's face and he didn't respond. 'It got her and it's all your fault. You couldn't protect her, you couldn't even protect yourself.' "Sonic!" Tails yelled, snapping him out of his thoughts. "It... It took her."
"What took her?" Tails asked, growing more concerned. "Do you remember those two times Eggman tried to make a robot version of me?" Tails nodded. "Well, this time he got it right." Tails gasped in shock, but then a look of determination came over his face. "I'll be there as soon as I can Sonic." Sonic smiled at this. "Thanks buddy."
Sonic was about to shut off the communicator but then he remembered something, pulling the gem Amy gave him before out of his bag, he held it up in front of the screen, Tails cocked his eyebrow curiously, "What's that?" Sonic shrugged, "I have no clue, it's not a Chaos Emerald, but, it feels... Powerful..."
"Do you think it might be a Time Stone?" Sonic nodded, "Yeah, I mean I wasn't sure about the stories myself, but this thing has such a... I don't really know how to explain it." Tails stroked his chin in thought. "Well it's a safe bet that you should keep that out of Eggman's hands, if it is a Time Stone, then there should be six more left to find. You got your work cut out for you Sonic, from what you showed me before, he's been here a while and has a good head start."
"You're right, between Eggman, the Robot, finding Amy and all the Stones I got a lot on my plate, how soon can you get here?" Tails began scratching the back of his head nervously, "About ten hours I guess." Sonic groaned, "Ten hours?" "I'm sorry Sonic, that's the best I can do. Try to hold on 'till then, okay?" He sighed in response, "I'll try buddy, see ya when you get here." "Bye Sonic." With that said, Sonic shut off the communicator and put the Gem back in his bag. 'Now what?' He thought to himself. He knew the general direction of where Metal Sonic took Amy, so he figured he'd start there and see if he could find any clues to their whereabouts. 'I hope she's alright.' He thought as he sped off into the distance.
"LET ME GO YOU MONSTER!" Amy yelled as Metal Sonic held her over its shoulder while walking through one of the cold dark hallways of Eggman's fortress. She struggled to break its grip, futilely reaching for the walls, the floor or any thing she could get her hands on. It eventually stopped in front of an open door and unceremoniously tossed her into the room, Amy quickly got up and ran for the door, but it closed before she could reach it. She began pounding her fists on it, realizing it was useless she turned and sat down, leaning her back against the door she pulled her knees up against her chest. 'Now look what you got yourself into.' She mentally scolded herself. 'You just had to have a big adventure with your hero, he warned you about this, he said you shouldn't follow him but you did anyway. Why?' That, Amy realized, was actually a good question. Why did she follow him? What compelled her to do something like this? It was so unlike her. Maybe it was the risk, the danger she knew she'd be in, she had grown up in a boring small town where not much happened after all. That and seeing Sonic in person, did something to her. She didn't know what it was, her stomach felt weird and she went weak in the knees whenever he looked in his eyes, and seeing how easily he handled Eggman just excited her in ways she never felt before.
Amy's thoughts turned to her home. Would she ever see it again? Amy brushed the thoughts aside, 'Sitting here and moping won't help at all' She thought, 'I need to find a way out of here.' She got back to her feet and began looking around the room for something, anything she could use to make an escape. The room itself was bare, gray steel walls on all sides, an uncomfortable looking bed in the corner. There was a vent on one side of the room, too high up for her to reach, and even she could, it was too small to fit through. The bed frame, upon further inspection, was bolted to the wall. Amy sighed and plopped down on the stiff mattress, 'There's no way out, the only thing to do is sit here and wait for Sonic I guess. Well, better use this time constructively.' She thought as she reached into her bag, pulling out a pen and notebook, she did the only thing she could think of, write.
As Sonic was running, something on the ground caught his eye, he skidded to a halt, he stooped down and picked it up, it was a card. 'Wait a second, this is one of Amy's cards.' He looked ahead and sure enough, there was a trail of them. 'Good thinking Amy.' He thought with a smile as he began following the trail he knew she had a good head on her shoulders. Eventually the trail lead him to what appeared to be a temple. The entrance hall was lined with pillars carved out of some kind of blueish-green stone, they were decorated with various pictures and symbols which he didn't understand. He whistled, impressed with how beautifully surreal it all was. "This is some place, I wonder who built it? Obviously not Eggman, then these carvings would all be of him, plus maybe an oversized statue or two."
Sonic continued walking down the entrance hall of the temple, still in marvel at sheer size of it all. As he traveled further in, it began getting darker. He reached into his bag, searching for his flashlight, after he found it, it wouldn't turn on. 'Figures.' He thought as he banged it against his hand, after a few times it weakly flickered to life, causing Sonic to smile. Unfortunately, the floor below him began giving away and before he could react, he found himself plummeting into the water below. Sonic struggled to keep his head above water and air in his lungs, he blindly reached for anything he could get a grip on. Finally he felt something solid and pulled himself up and out of the water. Gasping for air, Sonic stood up and began trying to shake the water out of his fur.
"What the hell? I'm gonna complain to the manager about that." Sonic quipped as he sat down. He took his bag off of his back and began rummaging through it hoping the water didn't damage anything important. "Well, the maps soaked, and the- Wait what?" He cut himself off when he noticed something was glowing in the bag, he reached in and pulled it out, it was the stone from earlier. "It glows in the dark? Neat." He said as he tossed the jewel up in the air and caught it with a smile on his face. He got back to his feet, put his bag back over his shoulder and continued on, using the stone as a makeshift flashlight. As he continued on, he noticed that the stone was glowing brighter. "Must mean I'm going the right way."
Sonic eventually came across a strange pedestal, as he got closer the stone's glow became overwhelmingly bright and then suddenly dissipated. "What now?" he asked, then suddenly he felt a strong jolt go through his hand and a bizarre tingling feeling shot throughout his entire body. "Whoa, this is too much! What the heck is going on?" Sonic yelled as the pedestal began to glow and the entire temple began to shake. Sonic quickly decided that sticking around to see what would happen next wasn't a good idea, so he quickly sped off. As he picked up speed, the tingling began getting more intense, before Sonic could even process what was happening he heard a loud crack and everything around him looked twisted and distorted, the rumbling stopped and he skidded to a halt. Everything seemed to turn back to normal. Sonic looked around and noticed that there were lit torches lining the walls. 'Those weren't there before, I wonder where they came from?' he pondered, when suddenly he heard a loud explosion off in the distance, followed by screaming. Realizing there were more urgent matters at hand, Sonic sped off in the direction the sounds came from.
The hallway soon opened up into a humongous room, there was a statue of what looked like a person standing in the middle of it, light shone down on it from a large hole in the ceiling, Sonic could see something large had crashed down onto what used to be the statues head. He recognized it immediately, it was one of Eggman's generators Sonic was about to charge forward and destroy it before it any of Eggman's robots showed up, but he stopped when someone's voice rang out behind him.
"WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO OUR TEMPLE!" Sonic quickly spun around saw the voice came from a black female rabbit wearing a toga, she entered the room from another hallway, she was flanked by several other male rabbits, dressed similarly, except with bronze chest plates. All except the woman were holding vicious looking spears at the ready. Sonic held his hands up defensively, "Whoa, whoa, WHOA! I didn't do anything!" Before Sonic could state his case two of the spear wielding rabbits charged him. He Sonic swiftly rolled to the side to dodge the two, "You'll pay for what you've done cur!" one of them yelled, causing Sonic to scratch his head. "What the heck is a cur?" One of the other rabbits responded with a flying kick to the head, flooring Sonic. He quickly hopped back up to his feet and found himself surrounded with spears pointed at him from all sides. "A cur," the female rabbit said as she stepped forward, a smug smile on her face "is a worthless mongrel."
"I'm not a mongrel, I'm a hedgehog!" Sonic yelled before leaping into the air, the group looked at him in shock as he landed several yards away. "Sonic the Hedgehog!" he finished with an even smugger grin. He was about to charge towards the generator, but several of Eggman's robots dropped from the hole in the ceiling, they quickly pointed their guns at him and Sonic dodged out of the path of their shots even quicker. He rolled into a ball and sped towards them, then quickly unrolled and planted his feet into the head of one of the robots, toppling it over and knocking it and the other robots over as well. He used this momentum to launch himself into the air towards his original target, he rolled himself up again before colliding with the generator, destroying it. When he landed, he ran off again down a nearby hallway.
'What in the world was all that about?' Sonic wondered as he ran down the hallway. 'Where did those rabbits come from? And why was Eggman's generator just now getting planted? He's already taken over the place, they should all be set already, unless he-...' It was then that something dawned on Sonic, causing him to skid to a halt in shock. "There's no way..." He pulled the gem out of his bag and looked at it in shock. "Am I... in... the past?" That, Sonic realized, must have been what all that weirdness with the stone and the pedestal was before. That was why the temple changed so much, that was why those rabbits came out of seemingly nowhere. Sonic was in the past, "WOO-HOO! I JUST TRAVELLED THROUGH TIME!" He smiled and raised his arms at his newly realized triumph. His celebration was short lived however, as exciting as this was, he still wasn't done, he had a girl to rescue, a cheap knockoff to dismantle and a scheme to thwart. This is shaping up to be quite an adventure, now, I guess I better find a way back to my time.' he thought as he continued onward.
Well there it is! I TOLD you there would be time travel! Let me know what you think.