Southside Island
Chemical Plant
Sonic comes flying in with his tornado. A cloud of smoke almost blinds the guy, who has to swerve out of it just to see. It's not easy on the eyes. Sonic leans forward, frowning at this sight. "What the hell did he do to you?"
The trees that once stood are piled up in the water. The once glistening grass has been turned into a cold, Metal terrain. The lack of chirps, chatters, and chomps are like deafening silence to the hedgehog. The island doesn't even move as quickly as it used to. Sonic can barely tell the difference.
"You cut all that for..this?" Sonic questions, getting his first look at the Chemical Plant. "It looks so..boring. Nothing stands out at all. Could have taken over the world and THAT'S what you build? Not even a rocket?"
Sonic spots the cause of the change, waving with his ugly mustache sticking out. His assistant dawning all back stands next to him. The old man's got a comically large loudspeaker. "Welcome back my little blue wrecking ball! Care for a latte?"
"Not a coffee guy!"
That slaps an offended look on Stone's face. "He'd rather use energy drinks? He's even reckless with his health plan."
"He doesn't even know what a health plan is." Robotnik roasts, watching as the hedgehog lands the Tornado. He almost hits a large steel beam, but stops the propeller an inch before.
"How does he know how to fly?"
The Doctor shrugs. "Don't know. Don't care."
Sonic hops out, brushing his quills off after the TV fiasco. Robotnik chuckles at the view. "Did our gift blow your mind?" he asks, cackling at his own horrible joke.
"..you've gotta work on your puns."
"You won't laugh anyway." Robotnik answers, getting a remote handed to him from Stone. He clicks the big blue button, and the Death Egg Robot projects a video from its eyes: Tails, banged up, locked up, and messed up, is strapped to a chair right in front of a metal fox.
When Sonic spots the open hatch, he instinctively kicks a foot back, but stops himself when the doctor sets both hands out. "Ah ah ah. Hold up your end of the deal, and I'll hold mine.."
Sonic's eyes follow the two emeralds in his hands. Glowing bright, about to be stolen by a dark force. Robotnik rips the treasures right from him! "Clocks not getting any slower.." is all he says, turning his back on the hedgehog. "Stone…take care of him."
"On it."
Stone whistles, leaving Sonic to the hoard of Badniks to surround the hedgehog. "Deals off, huh?"
Robotnik spins around, with that evil grin. "You didn't see this coming?"
Sonic starts messing with the Miles Electric. "Oh I did." TEN clones appear on his left. TEN more on the right. The first back of clones decimate the Badniks around the main one. The next ten rush inside the Plant themselves, taking care of business inside.
The sounds of crashes and explosions shake the very ground they stand on! Sonic smiles at the mad doctor through the rumbling. "Didn't see THAT coming?"
The Doctor rubs his eyes. "I've seen too much today." He tries to flee back up top, but gets tripped up by the fastest humanoid alive! He loses grip of the emeralds, and they fall right back into Sonic's hand. He wags his finger at the doctor, pissing him off more. "Impossible..how did a pest like you get the upper hand?"
"You were too obvious, Eggman."
"I AM NOT AN EGG!"
Robotnik tries to slap him, but Sonic catches his hand..and laughs in his face. "Come on, EGGMAN. Show me how big and strong you are."
BAM!
A tail whacks Sonic into a silver beam! The impact shakes his whole body! The emeralds are out of his hands once again. To make it worse, he hears unnatural hissing that can only come from another machine.
Hissss….
A silver snake slithers up. It's sharp tip at the end of its tail shines, looking like it can cut through anything like paper. Someone's in for a severe puncturing. The controller is none other than Agent Stone, jumping back into the action.
"Welcome back to the Mean Bean Caffee. Would you like yourself whole or sliced?"
Sonic looks the imposing figure up and down..and smirks. "Looks like egghead gave ya an upgrade. At least you can get pummeled with style this time."
Stone ends the chit chat by raising that tail, and bringing it down with force! The attempted shiving fails because Sonic won't stop dodging. The movement is simply too slow for him. Each attempt drives more cracks into the solid floor, Stone huffing at each miss.
"Stay down!"
"No!"
Sonic grabs onto the tail, looking to crawl up, but Stone sends the tail into pipes, beams, and walls surrounding the area. It even smacks a running Robotnik, dropping the emeralds again! "GET A GRIP, STONE!"
"SORRY DOCTOR!"
Chunks of debris from their surrounds collapse, further walloping the tail. Fumes hiss from the damaged pipes. Stone peers closer…no hedgehog. He brushes his forehead. "THIS is his biggest challenge?"
Tap!
Tap!
Stone moves the snake's head up, as white gloves rub themselves on it!
"You've gotta be kidding.."
"Nice shot! Throw me a little harder next time."
Stone shakes the snakes head hard, anything to nudge Sonic off. His grip is too tight though. "Wooo! This is the spice I've been lookin' for!"
Stone goes as far as punching the ceiling just to make him stop, but the regret jolts down his wrist. "Ow…" With one good hand, Stone maneuvers the tail upwards, that sharp end pointed towards the nuisance. "I'll do the Doctor a service and rid you and your awful puns from this world!"
Despite the danger, Sonic chuckles. "Didn't know your hate cut this deep!"
"Little shit.." Stone mutters, forcing that tail to shoot forward, ready to take chunks from him. He should have considered that Sonic's the fastest person he knows, because he jumps out of the way in no time!
He leans on the window, and acts like he's seeing stars. "Good view from up here!"
Stone wraps the tail around Sonic, pinning him to the window again! The sharp point looks like it has a mind of his own, slithering above the hedgehog, ready to finish him where he stands. Sonic turns himself to face Stone.
"You may wanna move."
The blade lunges forward, and just like that, Sonic moves. All Stone can see is a deadly weapon coming right for him. He jumps from the chair, getting a mere cut from his machine! Suddenly, he goes flying to the other side of the brain! There must be an outside force…
Sonic rips that tail from the brain, eying up the idle death robot. His arms are shaky, but Sonic grits his teeth, forcing himself through the pains of his own plan. He launches the stinger right at the back of the bot! Not only is the machine damaged, but now there's an easy route in..
Robotnik shoves Sonic out of the way, still having both emeralds. "Outta the way, porcupine!" He can't get very far when Sonic pops in front of him. In a blink of an eye, the doctor can't feel those emeralds. Sonic's blasting ahead with a thick blue trail, going right for the imposing machines back.
THUNK!
THUNK!
Robotnik's not going to stand there and let Sonic get his way THAT easily. With a loud whistle, his Eggmobile comes floating over on its lonesome. The Doctor hops in and gives the front a rub. "Good girl.."
As Sonic hammers his greatest creation so far, Robotnik's Death Bot eyes the creator. "Open up!" The robot's head pops open like the lid of a soda can, allowing the Doctor easy access. He parks his mobile inside, and gets greeted by another holographic map. There's three levels.
Two inside the body.
The heads on top.
Despite the danger, Robotnik slaps on a cocky grin. "One more bargain.."
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Sonic finally punches a hole through the back! The first thing he sees is Tails, strapped to a heavy chair, with the prototype in front of him. Tails' body looks limp, but there's still his heavy breathing, elevating the chest he might not have soon.
Sonic makes his way over. Tails head slumps over, but those blue eyes tell a different story. The fox's gloves clench the seat and the wriggling begins again. Sonic rips him free of his shackles! Tails tries to fly over for a hug, but he falls over instead! "Ahhh—"
Sonic catches him, letting the kid lean on his shoulder. "Kid needs a rest.." Sonic mutters. He sees a blue aura around his gloves, and traces it up his arm. When he sees the glow of those emeralds, it adds up.
Tails starts snuggling up on the hedgehog. He's the closest thing fox has had to a pillow in generations.
A green lazer rips into a few of Sonic's quills, and causes a little burning sensation too. Sonic brings two fingers to the wound..and sees some crimson on his glove. He turns around to find Robotnik, with his finger aimed right at his new nemesis.
"Put those emeralds where i can see them.."
"You gonna point at us till we die?"
Robotnik fires a lazer to the side, and blows his finger out. "Does THAT answer your question? Can't clone your way out of this."
Sonic, with that blue aura hits a mean shot to the punch, causing the doctors saliva to fly out! He get sent crashing into a red computer screen, causing cracks to form, and glass to fall. Robotnik's panting at the raw impact he just took. "F..formidable.."
He crawls over to a cabinet, and swings it open, but Sonic grabs the foot and yanks him back! He gets to the contents instead, and pulls a bag out. The emeralds glow blinds the hedgehog..
Enough for a shot to penetrate his leg!
Sonic collapses to a knee, dropping Tails in the process. He's losing control of his senses, the lightheaded feeling kicking in. His leg's shaking involuntarily, as if that shot severed it. That menacing doctor simply takes the bag..and smacks it across Sonic's skull, all out of pettiness!
"We could have been something. The smartest human, the smartest creature, and the fastest thing alive. We would have been a power trio. We wouldn't have to run. We wouldn't have to hide. This world would have been ours to mold!"
Robotnik sets a foot on Sonic's throat.
"You have the power to conquer galaxies, yet you stand here wasting it! It's maddening! Why fight for these random creatures when you can gain something MORE? They'll all die off! For the love of chaos those left won't even appreciate you when you're gone! Say..what happens when your people feel threatened by you? What about the Earthlings? What's stopping them from harming you?"
"Fine speech, Eggman.." he grunts. "But I don't care."
The Doctor snaps his head down. "After ALL THAT—"
"B-blah blah blah." Sonic gets a meek hand up to mimic a mouth, but it gets swatted down. I'm not some god..I'm j-just a hedgehog living life to the fullest..is there anything wrong with that?"
"Plenty..but I've said more than enough." Robotnik answers, aiming that deadly finger. A green dot appears on Sonic's head. "Any last words before I make mincemeat out of you?"
"You..better not miss.."
His defiance puts a half-smirk on the doctor's face. "Very well then. Sayonara, Sonic the Hedgehog.."
Cliffhanger! Tune in next time to see the fate of not just Sonic, but Robotnik as well. If Robotnik pulls the trigger, nature better kiss itself goodbye..
See ya! :)
