Chapter 6: BUG! Part 2

Sonia, Manic and Rudy where waiting for Harry and Sonic to return. Manic had taken to flying around in the air around the van to pass the time.

"Any sign of Harry Rudy?" Sonia asked in concern.

"No. Nothing." The lizard man said. Suddenly there was a blue flash across his binocs. "Wait. Somethings coming. But its moving so fast I can't see-"

"Its me." Sonic said as he stopped. "

"What about my village?" Rudy asked the blue hedgehog. "Did you see?"

"Sorry Rudy." Sonic shook his head sadly. "Its burned. Everything's gone. No sign of Freedom Fighters.

Rudy roared to the heavens "NOOOOOOOOO!" With his knees on the ground.

"We'll find them Rudy." Sonia assured their new friend.

"We've got to stop them." Rudy said suddenly in anger.. "Its those flies."

"Oh, speaking of which." Sonic said before handing the jar with the FLYbot. "Check this sucker out."

Rudy took the jar and shook it. Hearing a metallic clink.

"Where's Harry?" The Blue hedgehog asked as Rudy let the mechanical fly fall into his hand to check it out while Manic observed.

"Harry flew off to get one of those," She shuddered, "icky bugs. And he's not back yet. I'm worried Sonic." '

"Their Robotnik's flies all right." Rudy said with anger. "Their metal."

"How do those FLYbots make you loyal to Robotnik?" Manic asked curiously from Rudy's shoulder.

Rudy opened the fly to show Harry's older siblings. There was a green liquid inside it. "It must be this serum. They must inject it into you through their stingers."

"Fake flies with Full Metal Jackets?" Sonic asked with distaste. "Oh just what we need." He said in a joking manne

A few hours later...

"What time is it now?"

"Five seconds after the last time you asked." Sonia said to Sonic irritably as he continued pacing the area around their van. They had been waiting for Harry for hours.

"Hi. I'm back." Came from the air. They all saw Harry jump down to the ground from his airboard.

"Where were ya bro?" Manic demanded.

Harry suddenly looked nervous as all of his siblings seemed a bit mad at him. "I'm not really sure myself. I chased one of those bottle fly things. But it got away."

"Their not flies." Sonic told the human.

"Woah. This is a new low even for Butnik." Harry said as Rudy explained and showed him the fly they took apart. Then he got mad. "Dad must have given him the idea."

"What makes you think Sleet would give him this plan?" Sonia asked.

"Dad and Uncle Dingo aren't idiots sis. They captured A to S class criminals in mom's time." Harry told his older sister. "Using a robotic fly with a sleeping serum was one of his Dad's favorite tactics."

"They went after S classes?" Sonia gasped.

"Uh, a little explanation sis?" Sonic asked in confusion.

"Its the rating system of how dangerous the criminals of Mobius are given." Sonia explained to her un educated brothers. From the weakest to stronges, its D class, C class, B class, A class and the strongest is S class.

"Intelligence gathered by the Resistance says Robotnik's now labled all of you together an S class group." Rudy told Sonic. "But individually your B to A class. With Harry being High B class because he's young."

"While that is flattering, check out the heavy hitters." Sonic said to Harry pointing up to new additions to the van on the top. Two laser guns.

"Woah, awesome!" Harry said eagerly. "Where'd you get those?"

"Remember the Stealth Bot that was on your tail?" Sonic asked.

"We scavenged the parts and Rudy and Manic gave the van a major upgrade." Sonia said with a smirk.

"We're going to destroy those bottle flies."

"Cool." Harry said as he got on top of the van into the cockpit of the Sniper Pit as it had been named. "So uh...how we doin' it?"

"By the oil wells." Sonic told him. "At dawn."

"Dawn?" Sonia asked with distaste. "Can't it be like 9:30 ish? I hate to lose my beauty sleep."

Sonic and Manic looked at her with a glare while Harry rolled his eyes . Rudy gave Sonia a pleading look. "All right all right." She finally relented.

Later that night, everyone was asleep. Getting rest for their mission. Harry and Rudy had to sleep in the same bed as they only had four beds. Harry slept closest to the door in case he had to go to the bathroom.

Buzz. Beep!

Harry woke up in a zombie like state. He walked out into the area surrounding their van and hid behind a rock with his legs spread with his communicator in hand. "This is Harry calling Dr. Robotnik. Come in."

A few hours before dawn, Sonic woke due to a breeze. "Huh?" He asked outloud. He checked on Harry and he was snoozing away next to Rudy. "Little guy must have gone to the bathroom and forgot to close the door." Then he heard something. And he zoomed away a few miles to see what the noise was. It was a fleet of SWATBots and Robotnik's personal tank. "Time to launch some major haunch." He said and he rushed back to the van and woke Sonia, Manic and Rudy but let Harry sleep as kid's need their sleep.

"How did Robotnik find out?" Sonia demanded.

"Oh I'm clueless sis." Sonic said in confusion. "We need to hide this tank. Any ideas Rudy?" He asked thier lizard friend.

"There's a cave just south of here." Rudy told Sonic.

While Rudy was telling Sonic where to go, Manic had been going over battle plans and only Sonia heard the Buzz Beep sound that came from Harry's area. "Huh?" She asked as she saw Harry walking zombie like to the bathroom that couldn't be used unless the van was online. "Harry are you all right?" She asked her little brother. Her suspicion was increased as he ignored her and went into the bathroom. She made a face and walked over to listen in.

"This is Harry calling Dr. Robotnik. They know your coming." She heard him say and she gasped. "Their headed for-"

"Harry what are you doing?" She demanded as she took the communicator from Harry and canceled the transmission.

"Robotnik. Must contact Robotnik." Harry said in a drone voice.

"Oh my gosh." Sonia said in realization. He's a FLYbot victim!

"Boy come in." Robotnik ordered from his tank. "BOY!" He shouted in anger and threw the walkie talkie that was connected to the Tank at the wall which caused it to shatter.

"Harry? Talking to Robutnik?" Sonic asked skeptically.

"I heard and saw him talking to him with his communicator." Sonia said.

Sonic looked skeptic again. "Maybe he hasn't cut all ties to Sleet and Dingo like we thought?"

"I don't think that's it." Cause I heard a-"

"Hey guys, what's going on?" Harry asked as he suddenly

"You don't remember talking to Butnik?" Sonic asked as he stopped the van.

They where all around Harry studying his panicky expression. "Why would I talk to Butnik? I hate him just as much as anyone." The ten year old pointed out as he sat on the floor.

"Maybe to talk to Sleet?" Sonic suggested.

"No way. While I'll always be grateful to him for taking me in when I needed him, I hate him just as much as Butnik."

"Cause you where injected with a serum. Which makes you loyal to Robotnik." Rudy said after a lengthy discussion as to why Harry would contact the mad robotics expert.

"I was stung by a FLYbot?" Harry asked in confusion. "But I don't re...member..." He got the same look in his eye that Sonia saw earlier. She "Hmmed." in skepticism. They all heard the Buzz Beep.

"I've heard that sound before." Sonic said.

"Me too." Rudy agreed.

"Its coming from his fanny pack." Manic said as the green furred hedgehog pointed to the fanny pack they bought together when it was by two get two free at some market place.

Rudy eyed it suspiciously. Sonic opened it and a FLYbot flew out. Rudy gasped as it flew for him and he ducked to avoid it. He ducked several more times as it flew around the van as did Sonia and Manic. Sonic summoned his Guitar Laser and zapped it when it landed on a wall.

"Oh my gosh!" Sonia gasped as she picked up a part from the wall where it went SPLAT. "This one's radio controlled. That's how its been stinging Harry."

"I wonder." Sonic said and he picked up Harry's pack. "Holes." He said in anger. "Harry's a human pin cushin."

Harry shook his head suddenly. "I feel like road kill." Manic helped the young human up and patted his back. "I'm gonna get Butnik for this." He growled in rage.

"We're with ya little bro." Sonic said in equal anger. No one messes with their little brother and gets off unharmed.

"But first we need a plan" Sonia said to their trigger happy oldest brother.

"Don't worry sis. Plan is my middle name." Sonic said eagerly.

"Uh huh." The purple hedgehog female said skeptically.

"No listen. I've been talking it over with Rudy." Sonic let the lizard man take it from there.

"First we use the van as bait." Rudy said eagerly. "Then we use it to lure the flies to this place I know." He fisted his right palm eagerly as he explained the plan.

The plan worked. Harry, Sonia and Manic took turns manning the new laser toys on the roof and got their fair share of FLYbot slaughter while Rudy drove. Sonic lured the rest to a lightning field. "This looks like a good spot for a fly roast." He said with a smirk after checking the wind. He yelped as he was struck by a bolt of lightning on one of his spines. The lowest to his rear. He flew fast on Harry's airboard as the flies came after him. A bolt came down and electrocuted the lot into malfunctioning.

"Sweet." He said in victory. Then he yelped again as a bolt struck him again. Several more did until he left the area.

Rudy crushed one last FLYbot for good measure. "I think we got 'em all." He said as he made his way over to the van. Sonic came flying back.

"Did ya get 'em bro?" Manic asked when Sonic landed. They all noticed Sonic's smoking behind and stared curiously.

"Course I got 'em." Sonic said with his hands on his behind. "I just want to be left alone." Sonic said in a unreadable expression. Rudy, Harry, Sonia and Manic looked at each other weirdly before they all heard "OWWWW!" From the van.

The next day they went back to the ruined village.

"Everything's gone." Rudy said with a tear.

"Rudy look!" Harry said eagerly and waved to other Freedom Fighters as they all came out of hiding.

"Shiela." Rudy said happily as a female lizard person came running up to him. "Your alive!"

"Rudy!" She said as she hugged him.

They both said "Its great to see ya mate." At the same time and Rudy went over to greet his other fellow Freedom Fighters.

"The SWATbots burned the village. But we got away." She said to her friend.

"Where are the others?" Rudy asked.

The small family smiled as Rudy was reunited with his fellow Freedom Fighters. "Well we got rid of the FLYbots. But we missed mother AGAIN." Sonia said in despair.

"No biggie. We'll catch up to her." Sonic assured their only sister. "Now lil' bro. About your going solo?" He turned to Harry who had the decency to look sheepish.

"I know I know. Dumb idea." Harry said to his older brother in apology. "From now on its all for one and all for...Robotnik." He said in the same tone he used when high on the loyalty serum. "Must contact Robotnik."

"Oh my gosh!" Sonia panicked and the three hedgehogs prepared to restrain Harry if necessary.

"Gotcha." Harry said with a smirk. They all had a good laugh as they walked over to introduce themselves to Rudy's group of Freedom Fighters.

To Be Continued...

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