Chapter 11: Sonic and Sally:
Sonic's POV:
Sally, Bunnie, and me were standing in a fog in Robotropolis.
Bunnie started to cough. "Oh! Don't ya just love all this fresh air," asks Bunnie.
"Yeah, about as much as I love Robuttnik," I said.
Sally's working on NICOLE while Bunnie's going through my backpack. "Arm cannisters, NICOLE," says Sally.
"Arming, Sally," says NICOLE.
"You're all loaded, sugar-hog," says Bunnie.
"Cool," I said, "synchronize the ole' watches." We then put out our arms and activated a timer together. "Okay, meet you at the usual. If anybody's late, jam back to Knothole. Check?"
"Check," says Bunnie and Sally.
"Good luck, y'all," says Bunnie as she runs off.
"Let's do it, to it," Sally and I said as we did our secret handshake.
. . .
I was in the swatbot factory. There were swatbot guards. "Must've forgot the welcome mat. Gotta find another way in," I said. I then grabbed a piece of metal and threw it at a security camera, destroying it. The swatbots then saw decided to investigate. "Juice time!" I was able to enter. I then hit an edge and when I looked down, I see a vat of hot liquid metal. The garbage is being pushed further into it. "What?! Bad move, hedgehog! Mondo bad move!" I then almost fall into the hot liquid metal. "I'm outta here!" I then jumped on a bucket and started moving around the place.
Bunnie's POV:
Aah was running, but then aah stopped at a ray-ed panel. Aah saw a hover unit approachin'. Aah ducked, but the unit detected meh.
"Alert, Alert. Organic lifeform detected."
"Don't bother. Substation electricity interferes with heat sensor. Ignore."
The hover unit then moved own. Aah then ripped the ray-ed panel open with mah robotic arm 'n then aah checked mah watch. "19...18...17..."
Sonic's POV:
"8...7...6..."
Sally's POV:
"5...4...3..."
Bunnie's POV:
"2...1...Bingo!"
Sonic's POV:
The Swatbot factory is shutting down. Now's the time to leave. "Chao." I then ran.
Sally's POV:
"Come on Sonic...get outta there." A hover unit then fired a laser at me. I had to duck.
Sonic's POV:
Two yellow swatbots were chasing after me. "Yo, botbutts! Looks like you could use a shout!" I then dropped scrap metal on them, trapping them. Then more swatbots came. "Whoa! This dump is getting crowded!" I then had to move. I ran out.
. . .
I got back to Knothole.
"Whoo-whee, aah feel lak aah've bin' dragged through a knothole...so to speak," says Bunnie.
"Hey, did you guys nail a Swatbot factory," asks Rotor.
"Well, honey, Aah don't know," says Bunnie, "Aah had to make a very unladylike retreat." Antoine helps her up. "Thanks, sugar." Her arm then comes off. "Oh! Oh, mah stars! Aah'm just fallin' apart!"
I then jumped in the hay. "It was seismic! Talk about fireworks, right Bunnie?" Bunnie, Rotor, and Antoine brush the hay off their bodies. "Where's Sal?"
"She wasn't at the meetin' place, so aah came own back," says Bunnie.
"I gotta go back," I said.
Sally's POV:
I'm now trapped in a glass prison tube. "I know the hedgehog will come for you, dear girl," says Robotnik, "and when he does, I have a surprise."
"Here it is, Dr. Robotnik, enough memory to duplicate Human complexity," says Snively.
"Excellent, Snively. Install it," says Robotnik. Snively opens up a panel in the back of the robot and installs the chip. "I don't suppose you'd tell me the location of Knothole?"
"SSSSSSSSSuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrreeeeeeeee, I will. When you get a life," I said.
"When you get a life," the robot repeats. I gasped and realized they were planning on making a robot double of me!
"Sonic is too smart to be fooled by a robot," I said, "even a good one!"
"Oh, but we're not finished, Princess. We need to add your spark of personality," says Robotnik.
Sonic's POV:
I arrived at Robotnik's lair, but I ran into Sleet and Dingo. "Let me guess," I said, "this is the part where you turn Dingo into something." Sleet then turns Dingo into a giant snake. "Yep, called it."
Sally's POV:
"Oh, cheer up, Princess. I've sent you a visitor," says Robotnik.
Then I saw her. She looked exactly like me. "Hi! I'm Sally, oh, don't get up! I am a Princess but out in the Great Forest, titles are meaningless." I'm afraid this could fool Sonic! Heck, it could fool me! It was like seeing myself! I'd be impressed if I wasn't so horrified!
Sonic's POV:
I managed to take down Sleet and Dingo and I continued on. I then saw Sally and got her out!
. . .
"You okay," I asked.
"Fine," says Sally, "coming back to my rescue was very brave, Sonic."
"Hey, no biggie. It's in the hero's job description," I said. She then kissed me on the cheek. I then smiled. "Hang on, Sal. Time to light it up!" I then ran out with her.
Dr. Robotnik's POV:
Tomorrow, Knothole will be a wasteland and all the Freedom Fighters, my loyal servants. The image then went fuzzy. "What is this? Snively?!"
"The system's overloaded, sir, I better turn off the..." Snively's console explodes, forcing him away. "The video is gone, sir!"
We then heard Sonic's voice. "Here we are, Sal, home sweet Knothole."
"The communication system works, we can still monitor his every move," I said.
Sonic's POV:
Sally and I got back to Knothole. "Now, there's nothing to worry about," I said.
Tails' POV:
When I was helping Rotor with the tools, I saw Sally and there was something strange. It was like she was trying to avoid the magnets. Weird.
. . .
As we were all eating a dinner Antoine prepared, Sally just threw hers in the lake. Weird for two reasons, one, Antoine's a great chef and two, Sally would never throw stuff in the lake!
Sonic's POV:
I came in just as Bunnie was talking to Sally. "So then, mah doggone arm just fell off. Aah was so humiliated, aah just about popped a bolt!"
"Bad news," I said, "I've just heard the Swat-bot factory is still online. Sal, what happened?"
"Um...t-t-the bots caught me before I could detonate!"
"Then we gotta go back. We leave in the morning, and plan it out," I said.
Dr. Robotnik's POV:
"This time, we light this sucker," says Sonic.
"Perfect," I said.
Tails' POV:
That night, I saw Sally with red eyes. She was emitting a red halo-like scanner from her eyes and was looking out the area. "That's not Sally," I said.
Sonic's POV:
Tails told me everything, but... "Tails, Sal had a seriously hard time yesterday. She's stressing," I said.
"I saw light shining from her eyes, then she went outside and talked to herself, and her eyes turned all red and..." Tails begins.
"Hey, little bud, you must've had one monster dream. We'll talk about it later, okay? I gotta juice." I then left.
. . .
Me, Sally, Bunnie, and Rotor are in Robotropolis where a hover unit discovers us. "They're coming back," I said, "get ready!" We then all took the hover unit down. "Way to go, guys!" When Sally and I did a high-four... she sent me flying. "Yo, Sal. What'd you put in the ole' cereal this morning?"
"Well, that's our third close one tonight. Come on, we gotta move it," says Rotor.
. . .
"Sonic, this is too weird," says Rotor, "it's like the swatbots know every move before we think it!"
"Yeah...the ole' botbutts seem sharper than normal," I said, "but we got work to do. Let's do it to it!" I expected Sally to do our secret handshake... but she gets it wrong. "Tails was right, you're not Sally! Who are you?" The fake then runs past me. I then chased after her.
. . .
I was looking for the fake, but then the fake attacks me. "Say goodnight, hedgehog!" Bunnie then rips the fake's head off. It was a robot!
"They-yur ya go, sugarhog!"
"I owe you one, Bunnie," I said.
"Boy, Robotnik is good. She fooled everybody," says Rotor.
"Except Tails," I said.
"But if that's not Sally, where the heck is she," asks Bunnie.
"I have a guess," I said.
. . .
I then found Robotnik's lab and got Sally out. "NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOO," Robotnik shouts.
Tails' POV:
I wanted to make sure this was the real Sally, so I hid a magnet near her, and nothing happened. Sally then looks. "Just checking," I said.
In the next chapter, the Freedom Fighters meet Billy Hatcher.
