I decided to add a little action scene to spice things up. Thanks for continuing to read.

Ch. 5 It's electric

Sonic enjoyed the feeling of his quills quivering to and fro in the wind. He runs quite quickly through a grassy area, passing a cluster of trees here and there. Off to his left, a highway is traveling closer, angled to where Sonic was going. The terrain slowly gets rougher as Sonic approaches the city, he will already be downtown in about 15 seconds. He was mostly quiet through his trip, not really thinking about much, he was just excited for a little action. He was on his way to stop some gang war or something. He wasn't really listening to the news report. His footsteps fade from the soft sound of dirt, briefly to the clattering of gravel, before fading into the smooth impacts of his shoes against the asphalt. Sonic weaves past brightly colored mobians, some jumping back in surprise, some cheering. Sonic suddenly plants his heels down against the asphalt, and skids to a halt on the downtown street where the gang war was supposedly happening. But when Sonic arrives, it is suspiciously quiet. Sonic taps his foot and looks around, it's all quiet, with pieces of rubble and gruff-looking mobians lying unconscious.

"What happened here…" Sonic asks no one in particular, but he gets his answer immediately.

"Sonic!" Amy the Hedgehog comes around the corner, hefting her Piko Piko hammer.

Sonic turns to see her and sighs. "Oh, Amy, I suppose this is your doing" he looks at her, gesturing around at the gang members on the ground.

"Yep!" Amy smiles and tilts her head to the side, closing her eyes.

"Typical…" Sonic is frustrated, a fight is what he needs to spice up his boring day.

Amy just smiles. "I stopped them before you even got here! Who's fast now?"

Suddenly they are both distracted as a pile of rubble nearby is overturned, and a mobian steps out.

"You twos!" It is a yellow-colored raccoon mobian. They are dressed roughly in a torn up grey hoodie, and sport cracked glasses. He hefts a large, long metal object that is coated in wires of red, yellow, and green tip to tip.

"I'm Zack the Racoon, leader of the Yellow Bellies gang!", he pulls a lever on the long metal object, and an electrical current runs through it. "Remember dat, because it's the last name you'll hear!"

Instead of cowering in fear, Sonic actually grins. "You missed one" he looks over at Amy.

Amy just shakes her head and hefts her massive hammer.

"You ain't got your fancy rock collection no more, you gonna die today!" The yellow raccoon pulls a trigger on the device and it fires a lightning bolt, arcing through the air towards Sonic.

Sonic tucks into a roll, Spin Dashing forward, weaving back and forth as the continuous stream of lightning streaks over his head, and all around him. The raccoon lets off the trigger as Sonic approaches, and Sonic jumps up, going in for a punch. At the last second, the raccoon whips the lighting blaster around and pulls the trigger, blasting Sonic right in the chest. Sonic is carried backward on the lighting bolt, launching him into a concrete wall. The raccoon laughs and almost says something, but before they can, they are hit square in the back with a massive hammer. Amy had snuck up behind him while he was focused on Sonic. The yellow raccoon is flung through the air just as Sonic gets up. Sonic jumps up, spinning with his momentum, and kicks the flailing raccoon to the ground. The large electrical weapon flies from the raccoon's hands and smashes on the ground, falling into three pieces. The raccoon, bloodied from the two mighty hits, briefly reaches for his broken weapon, before his hand falls to the ground. Sonic stretches his legs, pretty much unharmed by the lightning bolt. Amy brushes off her skirt and walks over to Sonic.

"We sure dealt with him fast!" Amy says, tucking her huge hammer away.

"Too fast, they don't fight back like robots do" Sonic looks disappointed. "I'm so bored! Nothing interesting has happened in weeks!"

"Well…" Amy smiles, hanging her arms out to the sides. "If you're free, we could go on a date!"

Sonic rolls his eyes. "I'm not that bored" he gets into a running stance. "See ya Amy" Sonic takes off running. As he runs, he mumbles to himself "If only I could fight Metal Sonic or something…".

Amy just huffs and looks down, talking to herself. "Give it a few days… he'll be so bored, he'll have no choice but to go out with you!"

Amy looks around at the unconscious criminals and notices that the yellow-furred raccoon has disappeared.

"Drat" Amy looks around the quiet, empty streets.

Eggman base

Walking in front were Dextral and Sinister, the two identical Shadow Androids, and walking behind them were Scuff, the Shadow Android with the scratched-out eye, and CYBER, the brand-new Badnik. CYBER stares in wonderment at the spotless steel floor and walls around her.

"Where are we going?" CYBER asks Scuff, staring at a squad of motobugs as they roll by.

"Our guard station, Post 2, is on the far side of the command deck, we go there to be charged before our shifts," Scuff says, glancing over with his good eye at the motobugs CYBER seems so enamored with. "It's also where we train and study our enemies' moves and tactics".

CYBER turns back to Scuff, tilting her head. "Who are our enemies?"

"The enemies of Dr. Robotnik are our enemies as well" Scuff turns his attention back forward.

"Such as?" CYBER stared at the side of his face, he was turned forward, so she only got a view of the good side of his face.

"My apologies, I assumed you were programmed with that information" Scuff's good eye blinks twice. "We will have to brief you when we return to our station".

CYBER nods and goes quiet for a moment. There are no sounds but the tromping of the android's feet, and the slightly heavier clank of CYBER's metallic foot against the pristine hallway. Cyber is keeping pace, but she soon looks down at the small turbine on the back of her hand that trails slightly over her wrist. With a little bit of focus, she gets it to come to life. It whirrs sharply on the back of her hand.

"Will you shut that up?" Dextral yells out in frustration.

CYBER stops and looks up to see Sinister glaring at her over his shoulder, Dextral having yelled without taking the effort to turn his head at all. Scuff is facing away from her, looking toward the wall.

"Jeez…" CYBER puts her hand back down at her side.

Soon the four enter through a large metal door, it's wide enough that they can walk through two at a time. The room is very sparsely furnished. It has a repair station with various loose parts, a security monitor with four screens that switch between various hallway views, and a section of wall with four charging chords. The charging chords are flush with the wall until you press a button next to it, which causes the plug to pop out of the wall far enough for someone to grab it. Sinister and Dextral immediately walk over to the security monitors, turning their backs on Scuff and CYBER.

CYBER turns to Scuff. "Why are they so hostile?"

"All Shadow Androids are programmed with the belief that they are the true Shadow the Hedgehog" Scuff turns all the way to face CYBER, showing her the scratched-out eye on the other side of his face. "Even though we definitely aren't"

"Oh…" CYBER quickly glances at Dextral and Sinister, who are still facing away. She then looks back at Scuff. "Am I based on a real person?"

"Not that I'm aware of" His working eye scans her up and down. "Though, I only know of enemies presented in the daily briefings" he points to the screens on the wall.

CYBER nods.

"The mobian, Shadow, which us Androids are based on, is one such enemy" Scuff then gestures to the others. "We all attempt to emulate him in our own way"

"Speak for yourself, it's all of you fakers who are emulating me!" Dextral scowls at everyone else in the room.

Sinister just rolls his eyes and sighs like everyone else is just the dumbest being on the planet.

Scuff ignores both of them. "They seem incapable of understanding without insurmountable evidence" Scuff glances at Dextral.

"Are you calling me dumb?" Dextral scowls and steps towards Scuff, which causes Sinister to turn.

CYBER moves to step in front of Scuff, but he puts out his arm. "Don't fret CYBER, we all have heavy obedience programming, he couldn't hurt me if he tried."

Dextral just growls, and steps back into place next to Sinister.

CYBER is silent for a moment. "I don't detect any obedience programming in my systems"

"Then you are lucky" Scuff finally turns away and reaches for a panel on the back of his head as he approaches the charging station.

The next day

CYBER unhooks herself from the charging cord. The thick cord retracts back into the wall, clicking into place. She got the third spot on the wall, between Dextral and Scuff. She was the last one to unhook that day. Although she did charge faster than anyone else, she just got started significantly late.

"Took you long enough," Dextral says, looking up at the computer monitor.

"At least she isn't another Shadow Android" Sinister says, the first time CYBER had heard him speak.

"Huh…" CYBER looks down at herself. "Why aren't I a Shadow Android?"

She looks around, Dextral and Sinister don't even look at her, and Scuff just gives her a shrug. Just then, the daily briefing comes on the monitors. Across the four screens, each has a fourth of Dr. Robotnik's upper body, like a news anchor.

"Hello, Badniks!" He says with an evil grin. "Today, the briefing is sparse, no large-scale operation is in play currently, but Operation: Full Head is in the wings"

CYBER leans over toward Scuff, "What is Operation Full Head?"

"I do not know," Scuff says, briefly turning toward CYBER to look at her with his good eye before returning to the briefing.

The broadcast continues "In other news, it seems that some of my Egg tech has been apprehended by some less than worthy scum. If you see any of these thief mobians, eliminate them with extreme prejudice". A picture of a yellow raccoon mobian holding a large metal object is shown on the screen, several other gruff mobians around him. "This one was just today seen doing battle with my enemies" A picture of Amy appears on half of the screens, and a picture of Sonic appears on the other screens.

When CYBER sees the picture of Sonic, something in her system activates as familiar. She is caught off guard by this, staring at the picture on the screen. Her mechanical eyes widen, her mouth slacking slightly open, her sharp teeth making a small scraping sound.

"That's all for this morning, get to it!" Dr. Robotnik's symbol briefly flashes across the screen for a moment, before all monitors switch back to showing security footage.

CYBER blinks twice, closing her mouth. "Who was that?"

"What do you mean?" Scuff looks over at her, perplexed.

"That blue Hedgehog" CYBER says softly, she simply had to know more about him for some reason.

"That is Sonic the Hedgehog, Dr. Robotnik's archenemy and by extension, our enemy" Scuff doesnt look at CYBER because she is currently on the side with the scratched-out eye.

"Sonic…" CYBER says softly.

Dextral and Sinister turn, Sinister raising an eyebrow. Dextral speaks up, his tone more confused than rude "Why did you say it like that?".

CYBER immediately turns away, putting her hand on the back of her head, her fingers resting between her spikes. "I don't know…"

Next chapter is in the works, keep an eye out for it.