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Chapter 19: Wasteland

"Damn it, Bark! Let me up!" Fang struggled to get off the coach as Bark, quite easily, held the sniper in place with one hand. He was slowly getting annoyed-not because Fang was being difficult to hold down, but because Fang wasn't getting it that he shouldn't be walking around.

When the Weasel had woken up an hour ago, he was happily greeted with a note from Fiona that told him that her and Bean had set off to fulfill a deal with Eggman, collecting Chaos Emeralds. Fang wasn't furious by the fact the deal was closed without his consent, who was angry about being left behind!

"I said let me up!" Bark sighed, having enough of this as he released Fang, "About time!" Fang forced himself off the coach and stood on her feet, only to fall flat on his face, his body not fully recovering. "...Don't say a word." Bark, indeed, said nothing as he helped Fang up and back on the coach, "Fine...but what made you think it was a good idea to leave Fiona along with Bean?"

"Ugh...I can't believe G.U.N. hid one of the Seven Legendary Chaos Emeralds in this...dump!"

Calling the place a dump was the greatest compliment Prison Island had taken in years. The once luscious jungle that was G.U.N. research facility was now a run down muck inhabited only of G.U.N. droids with rivers of an odd, glowing green muck of some toxic substance. If there was any life on the island, it had to have been dead.

"I don't know, Fi-Fi. I think the place has a rustic charm!" cheered Bean, "We should go camping here! You, me, and the guys! It would be fun!" Fiona shivered a bit at the idea of sleeping on this island.

"Bean, if I slept on the ground, I would probably wake up with a new arm." Fiona criticized.

"Cool! Let's-"

"No! Now focus: Eggman said that the Emerald should be in the center of the island, so lets go!"

With Bean on his own Extreme Gear board and Fiona on her board, the duo rode down the river of toxic gunk as they looked around. The place looked entirely destroyed and robot pieces drifted up and down the horrid green waters, ominously. Fiona felt chills going up her spine, but kept it down as she kept going.

"Hey, Red! Do you think we'll find any mutants on this island! Like in the comic I read where these turtles got mutated and became ninjas! That would be so cool!" Bean thought aloud with glee. Fiona felt a bit disturbed, but played it off as annoyance.

"Bean, get a grip. We 'might' find some lingering 'G.U.N.' bots, but there is no way we'll actually find-whoa!" The two bounty hunters found themselves under fire as G.U.N. Gun Beetles fired multiple shots from their attached Machine Guns at the duo. Oddly enough, the paint on the droids was peeling and they looked as though they were given recent repairs.

Too bad for them, they were firing at Bean the Dynamite.

"Cool, robots!" grinned Bean as a bomb materialized in his hands, "I love to blow those up!" With impecible aim, the demolitionist tossed the bomb over head as it hit a droid, exploding it to shards and burning bits into the radioactive river. The remaining four continued to open fire upon the outsiders as Fiona weaved and maneuvered the best she could to evade.

"Uh, Bean! Care to pick up the pace?!" Fiona urged.

"OK!" Bean summoned three more bomb as he tossed them up and round house kicked them all, each explosive hitting the now destroyed droids. "WOO HOO! Three points!"

"Show off...if you fall in that water, I won't be fishing you out." Fiona assured him. Bean just chuckled without much of a care as he noticed something to his left. He tried to see what passed him by, but saw nothing.

"Yo, Foxy! Did you see that?!" Bean cried as he stopped, trying to identify what the shadowy figure was.

"All I see is garbage in this pool of scum and radioactive toxins. Why?" asked Fiona as she looked to see Bean halted, "Why did you stop? We've gotta keep going!" Bean kept looking, but kept moving as the duo ventured further.

Our bounty hunters eventually coming across a piece of land that appeared to be safe to walk across. The Duck and Fox hopped off the Extreme Gear and strapped them to their backs as they began walking. The grass appeared to be growing, although a darker shade of green, and all the trees on the island had died, unable to survive.

"Alright, Bean. The Emerald shouldn't be too far." Having been an experienced Treasure Hunter, Fiona was more than capable of finding the Emerald without some gizmo Eggman could have supplied. The duo began to get going, when a spear had landed right in front of them, "What the-"

Without any other warning, laser fired rained down on the two Bounty Hunters, forcing them to jump back. Bean and Fiona looked forward to see G.U.N. soldiers, but they didn't look like regular Overlanders. They looked even further devolved: parts of their uniforms were missing, showing they had grown fur as if they were Monkeys and even ape-like tail. Their hands had grown out their nails to the point of being mole-like claws.

Their eyes glowed an odd pink iris as they panted heavily, snarling as they held various weapons: from lasers possibly ripped from G.U.N. Bots to regular AK-47 and 44. Colts. Some were wielding clubs and sharpened claws as they leered at Fiona and Bean.

"What the hell are these?!" cried Fiona, positively freaked out and repulsed by the sad excused for Overlanders or even Humans.

"Mutants!" Bean shouted, "What did I tell ya, Foxy?!"

"Outsiders!" grunted one, "You die! You no wanted!" Various of these Mutants opened fire upon the Hooligans as they ran and ducked to avoid fire, barely missing the volley of gun fire.

"Gee, Fiona! This isn't worth 2 dozen cupcakes at all!"