The Knothole Mobotropolis Exploits: New Teams Arise

(A/N: Second up today. Sorry for any one being out of character. I know nothing about the comics.)

Team Gentry

He had overheard. The young man pulled back behind the curtain, from peeking out. Spying wasn't all it was cracked up to be. What were they talking about? How had he even gotten here, in the throne room, without his parent's knowledge? Why hadn't he simply left? He had a family to go home to. Seeing his father so disturbed, though, had perked his curiosity. Elias rubbed his chin thoughtfully. A team was a good idea. He could watch over Sally, his family, and get in some excitement as well. Who knew, maybe someday Sonic would need help. Now who to get?

Antoine and Rotor were walking through Knothole. "Stupide weather. Why eez eet so hot?" Antoine complained.

"Because the sun's out and it's summer," Rotor replied, as if it were obvious. Antoine looked disdainfully at him, then looked around. He shuddered. Rotor saw and asked, "Antoine, what's wrong."

"There eez zis feeling that we are being watched," Antoine replied uncertainly.

"By who?" Rotor questioned.

"Ow am I supposed to know? Must I think of everything?" Antoine demanded.

Rotor narrowed his eyes coldly at Antoine. All at once, though, his eyes widened, and his mouth fell open. "Antoine, look out!" he cried. Antoine whirled with a gasp. He barely managed to dive out of the way of a spray of gunfire. People began to scream. Rotor dragged him back up, and the two watched in horror as five swat bots landed by them!

"Sacre bleu!" Antoine exclaimed. "Run!" He grabbed Rotor and tried to run, but all at once they were surrounded.

"Fight!" Rotor barked. Antoine drew his sword swiftly, preparing for battle.

Meanwhile, up in the throne room, Elias had heard the screams outside. He ran to the window and looked out over the streets. He gasped on seeing Antoine and Rotor surrounded by swat bots! "Oh no," he said. "Antoine, Rotor, hold on!" he called, leaping from the balcony and, with a new ability he'd picked up, flew towards them like a flying squirrel!

Antoine struck at the bots swiftly, taking out two of them, though slower than he used to. He frowned. It had been a while since he'd fought them, true, but was he really that out of practice. As a third shot, he determined that he was. Rotor tackled that third, grappling with its gun arm, forcing it to fire on itself.

The two heard guns charging behind them, and knew they'd never move in time. All at once, however, there was the sound of metal being brought down. Rotor and Antoine looked around, only to see Elias attacking the last two! "Elias!" Antoine and Rotor exclaimed. Instantly they dove in to help, and in seconds the last two had been beaten.

Panting, the trio rose to the cheers of the citizens, looking around at them all. "Thanks for your help Elias. I thought we were done for," Rotor said.

"No problem. Are you two okay?" Elias questioned.

"Yes, of course we are. Why do you even ask zis question?" Antoine boasted.

Elias frowned and was about to retort, but all at once his eyes lit up in realization. He had just been wondering who he could team up with, and now the answer was staring him right in the face! He looked the two over, eyes ponderous. Antoine raised a curious eyebrow. Instead of answering Antoine's question, Elias asked, "You two know, as well as I do, that if all of Sonic's stories are on the level, things are going to get difficult. The freedom fighters need all the help they can get. How would you two like to join me in a team up? Mom and dad each have teams, Sir Charles is going to form one. We'll be the basis for protection. Anything we can't handle, the other freedom fighters can, but we keep everything we can away from them."

"A team up?" Rotor asked.

"What would we be called?" Antoine curiously asked.

"Are you in or out?" Elias asked.

The two looked at each other, then back. "I am always een. You could use my speed," Antoine replied.

"Me too, I'll take care of the heavy lifting," Rotor nodded.

"Good, then Team Gentry it is. Our first mission, find out what to do about the threat of these robots," Elias remarked with an excited smirk. "The Sonic Underground mentioned Mobotropolis as the area where they had the most problems with swat bots. Maybe we can pick up some tips from the Freedom fighters there on how to deal with them."

"Let's go zen. I shall tell Bunnie we weel be going away for a leetle while," Antoine stated.

"All right, come on," Elias prompted.

"Antoine!" a fearful voice suddenly called.

"Hey, they found us," Rotor remarked.

"Bunnie?" Antoine questioned as the rabbit threw herself into his arms, holding him tightly.

Elias watched, surprised that they had been so loud. "Elias!" a voice cried. He never even had time to turn before Sally had latched onto her brother.

"Sally, little sister, I'm fine," Elias assured. Sally looked fearfully at the swat bot remains.

"Oh Antoine, darlin' I was so scared you was hurt," Bunnie said through tears.

"Eet ees all right," Antoine reassured. "Elias saved us. Bunnie, we plan to go to Mobotropolis to look for ze information on zese improved swat bots. Zey have had more experience een general fighting them," Antoine quickly explained.

"You've formed a team?" Sally asked Elias.

"Team Gentry," Elias confirmed.

"Why bless ma soul, so have me and Sally," Bunnie stated.

"Really? Who's the third member?" Rotor questioned.

Sally and Bunnie fell silent, exchanging looks. They knew that Elias, Antoine, and Rotor wouldn't approve of who it was, so they had to keep quiet. "Err, never mind. Good luck on your trip. I have to plan our next move," Sally quickly brushed off. "Uh, see you," she added, grabbing Bunnie and dragging her off. Antoine looked after them, annoyed Bunnie had been pulled from his arms.

"We should head out now," Elias said to the others two.

"Okay," Rotor agreed.

"Let us, as you say, get zis show on ze road," Antoine confirmed. With that he raced towards Mobotropolis, the other two in tow.