Sonic Haven Season 2 – Episode 10
Mighty looked up to see the bottom of the elevator coming down on him! He had no time! Thinking on his feet, he started sliding down the cable in the shaft as fast as he could! He wasn't going to even reach the bottom before the elevator did, let alone be able to swing over to one of the doors on the side of the shaft without getting smashed! If only he'd thought of the fact that maybe elevators over here actually worked, unlike his home dimension, where all of the elevators had been abandoned for over a decade and no longer worked.
Just as he braced for impact, the elevator suddenly slowed. It had been stopped by the emergency brakes! But it didn't last. Someone, likely the owner of the gruff voice he'd heard earlier, cut the brakes and let the elevator freefall!
He looked up in panic as he continued his rapid descent of the shaft. It was free falling now, and would crush him within moments! He touched the bottom of the shaft and tucked into a hemispherical shape by ducking inside his shell. He braced for impact!
SLAM! The elevator came down on his head, crushing him!
Mighty raised his head up into the trashed elevator car that had just come down on his head. He pulled himself through the hole in the floor and stood up inside to dust himself off. If not for his incredibly hard shell, he would've been toast!
After making sure nothing was hurting, he jumped up and knocked the emergency door open on the top of the car and climbed out. Then he jumped up and grabbed onto the cable and started climbing again. Thankfully, he was an excellent climber and was at the top of the shaft after only a few more minutes. Hopefully that time spent in avoiding the elevator car wouldn't break the operation going on up on the roof.
Once he reached the top, he wrapped his leg around the cable and stretched across the distance to the wall, grabbing onto the threshold of the door to the top floor. He let go with his legs and swung to the wall, then he simply scurried up the short distance to the door and pried it open to step through to the top floor.
He stepped out into a bright white hallway that took him by surprise. This was so much cleaner and much better maintained than the rusty and broken world he'd been living in since he was born! He didn't let it slow him too much though, as he still had to make it up to the roof.
He jogged down the hallway, breathing heavily from the climb he'd just made. As he came to a stairway, he turned and ducked inside the stairwell, but there was no roof access from this point. He was apparently in the wrong stairwell.
He didn't even turn around. Running over to the landing, he jumped out the window, crashing through and sending glass spraying everywhere. Mid-flight, he reached up and grabbed onto the top of the window frame. Gripping it firmly, he flipped himself around in a semicircular arc to land belly first on the roof and found himself relatively undamaged, save for a handful of cuts on his arms and hands.
He rolled over to his back quickly, then leaned back on his hands before swinging his body forward in the air to land on his feet in a crouching position. He swept his eyes across the roof to see what was going on.
He saw several individuals surrounding a small gray device in the middle of the roof. It seemed that they were trying to get around the robots that were standing guard over the device. If he could just find a way through the robot's defenses then he could turn it off and remove the barrier that surrounded the city.
Mighty yelled out to the group. "Hey, what's their weakness?"
Several in the group turned around very surprised. Among them, however, was Knack, who'd already integrated himself into the fight. It was him that called back. "Get in undah the' chest plates an' rip out the' wiyuhs." He said in a shout of his own.
Mighty nodded and ran forward to insert himself into the conflict, jumping up and over a red echidna that'd just been knocked backward by the robots, landing in front of him in a battle ready pose.
Mighty took one big step forward and planted his hands on the sides of one of the robots, ripping at the chest plate Knack mentioned, but it wouldn't budge! He shook his head and bared his teeth as he instead lifted the bot up and over his head and slammed it down on the roof in a nasty piledriver! Then he jumped on top of the bot and used one hand to lift the corner of the plate with all his might, thrusting his hand inside to get to the softer wiring, grabbing hold of it, and ripping out as much as he could in one handful.
As he stood up, he could see two more bots on either side of him! He prepared himself for another takedown, but the one on his left fell down before he could act. He could see the echidna standing behind it with a handful of his own wires as the bot fell before him.
Mighty got an idea. "Hey spikey fisty guy, you strong?" He asked shortly.
"My name is Knuckles, and yes." Knuckles said, answering the question and getting the useless nickname out of the way in the process.
"All right then Knuckles," Mighty said as he jumped toward him, "throw me at that thing as hard as you can!" Then he tucked himself inside of his shell.
Mighty took a breath and waited for only a heartbeat before he felt himself hurtling through the air toward the hapless bot! Within a second he hit the bot at full force, plowing through its chest and leaving a sparking hole behind. His momentum was cut drastically by the impact, slowing him enough to keep him from sliding off the roof entirely, though he did have to grab the edge as he slid off to keep himself from falling to his death.
He clutched the edge of the roof with his left hand and looked down passed his feet to see the ground swaying about a hundred feet down. Letting out a sigh, Mighty lifted himself over the edge of the roof once again and got to his feet as soon as he could, not wanting to leave himself open for a surprise attack.
Once he stood up, he took a quick count of the bots that were left. There were two off to his right and one to his left, three total. Yeah, they could totally do this!
Off to Mighty's left was Tails who was doing his best to not get knocked into next century by the S.W.A.T. Bot's massive arms! He ducked under its right arm as it swung once more, his tails grazing the underside of the arm as it whooshed by. He jumped up and floated mid-air by spinning his tails underneath him to create lift, then kicked the bot in the chest. It barely moved.
Tails cringed from the thought that he could do little to nothing against these tank like bots. Still, he refused to give up hope! Maybe he could help someone else.
"Tails, watch yer head!" Bunnie yelled from off to his right. She slid under the legs of a S.W.A.T. Bot and extended her robotic right hand to catch the bot's arm and pull herself up in front of Tails between him and the bot that'd just tried to catch him off guard.
She thrust her hand up behind its chest plate and straight through the body to come out the other side holding a handful of wires. The lights in the S.W.A.T. Bot's elongated eye flickered out and Bunnie pulled her hand back to let it fall to the ground.
"Thanks Bunnie." Tails said as he let out a sigh. "That was a close one!"
"Don't y'all worry yer pretty lil' face Tails." Bunnie replied kindly. "Just watch yer back next tahm. All rahght?"
"Yeah, sure." Tails rubbed the back of his neck in embarrassment. He looked in the direction she'd come from to see Knuckles and Mighty dropping the last of the S.W.A.T. Bots, effectively giving them the roof to themselves.
As Nicole walked over to the device to disable it, Sally approached Knack to ask him about her friends. "So, you came from another dimension like Scourge did right?" She asked.
"Yeh." Knack replied shortly. "If askin' 'bout Sonic, I don' know sheila. Last I saw he wen' to the fact'ry to take out some koind ah weather machine. I came o'er 'ere 'fore had a chance tah come back."
Sally noted that although Knack's broken English made it seem like he was slow or unintelligent, that was hardly the case. He actually seemed to be somewhat quick-witted and caught on to things pretty easily. "Well." She said in reply. "That is what I was going to ask." She paused for a moment before speaking again. "How many more of your group are there? There's at least You, Scourge, and Mighty over there." She gestured toward the Armadillo with her head. "How many more?"
"Two." Knack said quickly, then shook his head as his ears drooped a little. "Er... one mohre. We loss one 'long the way."
Sally's expression changed from one of casualness to one of empathy. "I'm sorry." She opened her mouth to say more but was cut off by a crowd full of cheers behind her as the barrier that had trapped them in here for so long slowly dissipated, allowing them a means of escape.
"Well, least 'eres some good news eh?" Knack said as he perked up a little.
"Yeah." She said with a smirk.
Meanwhile Mighty turned his head from the clearing sky over to the two-tailed fox standing not too far away. "How'd you get here so fast?" He asked.
Tails turned and faced him before replying. "I jumped through just before you did. After that, it was just a simple matter of finding the nearest window and jumping out. I can fly up a lot faster than I can climb stairs!"
"Heh, so that's why I didn't see you in the building when I got back. You were already making your way up to the roof." Mighty said in a moment of clarification.
"Yep. I wanted to get up here as fast as possible just in case they needed my help." Tails said with a smile. "Though I guess they really didn't. I don't think I really helped all that much."
"Not true." Mighty said cheerfully. "At the very least you gave those bots an extra target, and a hard to hit one at that."
Tails smiled himself. "Yeah, I guess you're right." He turned his head up to the sky and watched as the last remnants of the barrier faded from existence. Little did he know that there was still much left to do.