Chapter 73: Underground Depth
Within her room, Honey is in her bed thinking about Cream and her fate. "Am I going to be like that as well? To die like a rat to rot on the ground while Miles replaces me with someone else," Honey said as she got a call from Nicole.
"Hello there Honey, I need you to do something for me," Nicole said.
"Is this a mission from Miles?" Honey asked wanting to prove herself.
"Yes, it is," Nicole lied to Honey needing her to gain answers for this world's history. "I need you to go to an old human city deep underground to seek out a server. We are deeply interested in the data there," Nicole said.
"Okay, tell me where it is and I will seek out this place," Honey said as Nicole is secretly going behind Miles' back for he is not telling her the whole truth about the world at large.
"Okay, good luck Honey," Nicole said as she awaited Honey's mission to gain access to ancient human knowledge of the old world. Nicole goes over to Alicia's room to see Mecha Sally sitting on a chair to be in low-power mode.
"Alicia, are you awake?" she asked as Mecha Sally turned on for her eyes to glow bright white.
"Yes Nicole, do you need something?" Alicia asked in a dry robotic voice.
"How long did you know Miles?" Nicole asked as Alicia sighed.
"Since I knew him as a little boy. He was always under Scourge's shadow and deeply envious of him. He was with us when we killed the leaders of the Great Peace including Scourge's mother and father," Alicia said.
"The Great Peace," Nicole said as Alicia laughed at this.
"More like Great Bullshit. I gladly kill off those old folks and send this planet into joyful chaos. They hold everyone back and Miles agrees with this. After his command, everything is held by greed, power, and money which made the whole criminal empire keep going. I became a machine to aid him in maintaining this order we made together," Mecha Sally said as she enjoyed making others suffer.
Nicole can tell this woman is deeply disturbed and is quite capable of torturing others with glee in her heart. "Interesting, despite being robotized. She still maintains her original personality from my records she is very ruthless and relentless," she thought.
"Are you done talking yet, I am going to crush a village that supports Smalls. These dumbasses need to be put in their places. A little fear will fix it right up," Mecha Sally said.
"No more questions. I have my project to take care of," Nicole said as she took notes of this. "Alicia is for Miles and his cause. I need to work this out on my own. Why is he hiding the past from me," Nicole wondered as she resumed her work.
Elsewhere Sonic and Mina are in their shared bed as Sonic is hugging her from behind to smell her pretty purple hair and his cock pressing at her booty covered by her gown's skirt. He strokes her long slender tail to make her beloved wife groan slightly for Sonic to find this so cute.
"Oh Sonic," Mina said as she was still asleep.
'So beautiful babe," Sonic said as he kisses her on the lips to feel her soft juicy lips with him stroking his hand on her perfect ass. "So perfect," Sonic said as he lifted his skirt enough to brush up against her tail to show off her white cotton panties with a blue bow in the front. "Nice," he said as she pulls the tail out of the slit of her gown's skirt to get a better view. Her tail is coming out of the stretchable hole on the back of her panties.
"So big," Sonic can't help but grope her ass making her wife flinch for she has a nice smile creeping onto her face.
"Hey baby, enjoying the view," Mina said as she was awake now to kiss him on the cheek.
"Of course," Sonic goes to kiss her left butt cheek making Mina giggle.
"Did you just kiss my ass cheek?" she asked to be amused by this.
"Yep for an ass this nice, I would kiss it as many times as I needed," Sonic said as Mina laughs for him to be silly. Mina can feel his penis twitching against her plump booty as her tail is sweeping against his chest and untouched muzzle.
"Seems like you got pretty hard. I can take care of that for you," Mina turns around to grab onto his stiff dick to rub the edges of the top with his tiny little hands. "Let's make this quicky honey," she said.
"You know how to take care of me," Sonic said as Mina went to kiss his lips to tighten her grip on the shaft making her husband flinch.
"I am your wife, of course, I know how to take care of you," Mina said as she focused jerking off her loving partner.
"Oh Mina, so good," Sonic groans as Mina is speeding up her hand across his penis feeling how hard and stiff he has come.
"Got hard seeing me in my panties huh?" Mina asked in a sultry tone.
"Well, your big curvy ass makes anything look good," Sonic said as he feels his member throbbing under her grip.
"I know and It drives you crazy. Baby, you are almost there," Mina said as Sonic can't hold it anymore to unleash jets of cum all over her hand. "Oh my, so hot," she said as she licked the sperm off her hand to have a lustful expression on her face.
"Thanks, babe. I needed that," Sonic said as he is out of breath with Mina giving his limp cock a cute little kiss at the tip as she licks all the remaining sperm leaking from his member.
"I know. Come on, let's get a bath and get some breakfast," Mina said as they went into the bathroom to wash each other in the tub.
Shortly after the couple go into the living room to hear a doorbell ringing. Mina goes up to the door to see Mindy through the peephole. She opens the door to reveal the female fox hugging her.
"Hello there Mina Mongoose," Mindy said.
"Hey Mindy, please come in," Mina said as she is wasppy to bring her inside. Sonic noticed the pretty-looking yellow-furred fox woman with long flaming red hair tied up in a high ponytail while she was wearing a white jumpsuit fitting her slender frame.
"Oh, looks like the superstar has come to our humble home," Sonic joked.
"I should be humble here, you two along with your team are raising some hell in this depressing world," Mindy said as Mina laughed at this.
"Yes, we are lighting a big firepit on this world's asshole," Mina said as Mindy smiles at this.
"Indeed. I heard about your unique powers of the Wisp," Mindy said as Mina showed her Rainbow state for the singer is blown away by Mina's power and beauty.
"What do you think?" she asked as Mindy was hoping for joy at this.
"Oh, my goodness You look so fierce and beautiful to boot," Mindy said as Mina's eyes were silver, her fur became white, her hair became shades of Rainbow colors and her body was covered in a rainbow-colored aura.
"A true angel in my eyes," Sonic commented as Mina giggled at his sweet words.
"I use this form to defeat powerful enemies and it's quite handy in this world," Mina said as Mindy was impressed.
"Gee I am not much of a fighter I just like singing my heart out to people," Mindy said.
"I used to be like that too but my husband trained me how to use my super speed and combine my self-defense training to become the fighter I am now," Mina said as she powers down to normal.
"Very interesting," Mindy said as Belle called them on their phones.
"Sonic and Mina, I detected a new Anarchy Beryl come meet me at the research lab to discuss the mission,"
"Duty calls huh?" Mindy said being a bit disappointed by this.
"Oh, I am sorry. When I am finished with the mission, I will come back and hang out with you. I wanted to hang out with you," Mina said as Mindy nodded her head.
"Of course, you got to play heroine now. See you soon and stay safe out there," Mindy said as the two speedsters went towards the research lab to meet with Belle in the main lobby.
"Hey Belle, how is the project going?" Sonic asked.
"Oh yes, we are going smoothly. The materials are coming through but there is some slowdown but nothing to worry about. Right now," Belle lifts her wooden hand to show a hologram of the planet to show a location deep within the rainforest of Soumercia there is a hidden underground city of humans. This place is filled with danger for it has human-made robots protecting this ghost city which is why Smalls uses it to hide various treasures one of them being the Anarchy Beryl," she said as she uploaded the location to their phones.
"Cool, we are going to get the seventh gemstone," Sonic said.
"We are almost 1/3 done with the collecting," Mina said.
"Yes, we are on schedule. Take the Stealth Shuttle and head for the location. Beware of hidden dangers there," the wooden robot warned as the two speedsters headed for the hanger bay to get into the shuttle to exit out of the bubble shield to go through the ocean.
"So many dolphins nearby," Mina said as she looked out the window to see the cute dolphins swimming nearby.
"Very indeed but there is something cuter in the transport," Sonic said as he was driving the transport.
"So smooth," Mina comes over to him to kiss him on the neck.
"Like a glass vase," Sonic said as Mina sat in the co-pilot seat.
"We need to go on vacation. We should head for that lake resort on Demon Island. Everyone says it's pretty great and the Azure Lake is very beautiful," Mina said.
"I heard it is amazing. Ancient ruins, rich forests, and a big blue lake. Seems like a good vacation spot," Sonic said.
"I know right, we need to take a break from this madness out there. We need to take in the pure beauty of Demon Island," Mina said as Sonic kissed her on the cheek.
"All I want to do is take in the pure beauty of my lovely wife," Sonic said as Mina wanted to pounce on him and have her way with him.
"Gee, you are so sweet. Always make me feel so special," Mina said.
"Because you deserve it, babe," Sonic said as Mina looked up to see them get out of the water to be into the sky cloaking against the background.
"Gee, well let's get started on our mission and head for those ruins. I am deeply interested in this, this is a total mystery about the humans here on Moebius," Mina said.
"Seriously, how can they disappear without a trace? No bones, nothing," Sonic wondered as he felt this very weird.
"Yes, it is, Humans and Mobians have a big war here. Humanity lost and retreated into underground cities but then 1000 years ago disappeared without a trace only leaving their robotic servants behind," Mina said.
"Something out of a sci-fi mystery movie," Sonic said.
"Yes it is but it will be interesting to check out the ruins and see what we can find for curiosity's sake," Mina said as her inner history nerd was showing again. They speed towards Soumercia to head for the human ruins.
Elsewhere Anti Honey uses her Color power of Burst to be in her elemental form allowing her to fly with streaks of flames behind her. She is getting directions to the human ruins to see the forest hiding the entrance. "Okay I am in the general area," Honey said via radio with Nicole.
"Okay, there should be a hole in the forest you need to fly through and go through a set of tunnels," Anti Nicole said.
"What do I need to find?" Anti-Honey asked.
"Finding a server that works. It's been over 1000 years since they were used, I doubt most of them are still functioning," Nicole said.
"Why do this?" Honey asked.
"Well, I am curious about my purpose. I was only born a little while ago. Miles is not telling me much due to my limited function to operate his forces, I know I am more than an operating system. Learning about the history of this planet will give me some direction," Anti Nicole said as Honey understands this.
"I see, Miles is a brilliant man and always keeps things close to his chest even with his lovers except for Mina. She is his favorite due to having a curvy figure and beautiful voice," Honey said feeling sad.
"Sorry about Cream," Nicole said.
"We are going to be like that. Hopelessly abandoned if we reach his high expectations. There are only three Hands left, we must be useful or toss them aside," Honey said as Nicole felt worried about this.
"If I don't fulfill my purpose, would I be replaced with another Nicole," Anti Nicole said as this thought was etched into her mind. Honey goes into the hole to fly towards the city and find a server to use.
Back with Mina and Sonic who landed their shuttle in the deep rainforest. "We are here," Mina said as they exited out of the shuttle to feel an explosion nearby. "What was that?" she wondered.
"We should check it out," Sonic and Mina run through the thick foliage trying to find the entrance to the hidden human city.
"You should look for a hole in the ground which will lead into a set of tunnels to head for the city," Belle said on the comlink.
"We felt an explosion nearby," Sonic said as they dodged several trees to speed for the hole.
"Well seems like you have company. Be careful out there, Miles' Hands could be here," Belle said as Sonic and Mina reached a big hole for them to slide down the twisting paths. Sonic curls into a ball while Mina goes into her Spike form to smash through walls of rock to knock them out of the way.
They hammer through the last wall for them to fall into a huge space. Sonic lands on an exposed rock to catch Mina in his hands. "You okay Mina?" he asked.
"Yeah thanks, baby," Mina said as she got onto her feet. Both of them witness the rare sight of an ancient human city deep inside a vase underground cavern. All the buildings are worn out by the long periods with buildings including the skyscrapers having various degrees of rust and decay everywhere. "Wow, this is impressive despite the age here," Mina said.
"Very haunting," Sonic said as they leaped over the gap and landed back on the ground. Mina pulls out the gem radar to detect the Chaos energy from the Anarchy Beryl.
"We need to find the warehouse where Smalls storages his things within this huge city," Mina said as they saw another explosion nearby with weird drones flying towards the blast.
"That is not good," Sonic said as several weird drones detected their presence.
"Detecting targets, kill any intruders in the city," the drone said as they went into attack mode to begin shooting their lasers at the duo.
"Oh great," Sonic said as they used their speed to evade their shots. Mina summons a rocky wall to block incoming lasers with Sonic jumping off the wall to speed blitz the small robots with his Homing Attacks. He leaps on top of a drone to let out sharp energy blades from his kicks to cut down the remaining robots.
Then more drones are popping up as they fly into the building to begin shooting at them. "Well, this is going to get pear-shaped soon," Mina said as they went up a wall of a building to run while the drones launched waves of energy blasts to pepper the side of the rusted structure.
The married duo escapes through a window to avoid them. The drones are following after them as they speed through the torn-up hallways with lasers and rockets blasting out sections. They go outside to head onto a bridge that connects the two buildings.
They are shooting at the bridge to blow off chunks of it with Mina and Sonic using their energy attacks to knock them into walls to burst violently on impact. Some of the drones crash onto the bridge to break it apart as the duo rush to the other building. They leap through the entrance as the bridge collapses into the streets below.
"Gee, the defenses here are strong," Mina said as a lot of drones flew into the building's windows. Sonic transforms into his Mystic state to unleash a big tornado with Mina merging lightning energy into it empowering it further. The energy attack sucked in all the drones to reduce them to piles of ash.
"So much crap heading our way," Sonic said as they keep going towards the signal of the Anarchy Beryl.
Elsewhere Honey is still in her fire elemental form to fly away from the incoming drones firing their rockets and laser bolts. Honey tosses fireballs to let out a big fiery blast burning away the drones to ash. "These defenses are relentless," Honey thought as she took a blast in the chest to knock her through a window to land in a room.
"I heard Miles took some design basics from old human ruins and adopted that tech into his robotic forces," Nicole said as Honey unleashed a big beam of fire to cut through the wall and vaporize a big group of robots.
Honey hears explosions nearby. "Oh great, people here too," Honey said.
"Don't bother with that, focus on finding a workable server terminal," Nicole said on the radio.
"Alright," Honey said as she heard a weird roar nearby. "What is that?" Honey questioned as she headed off to find a server to see more drones trying to swarm her. "Get out of my way," Honey is burning away several robotic targets but two drones slam into her back. They explode on impact to knock her into the side of a tall building with the drones firing focused beams to punch Honey through the skyscraper.
Honey flips back onto her feet to hit them with a wave of flames to resume her search for the usable server.
Sonic and Mina managed to find the place where the Anarchy Beryl gemstone was held inside. "Finally, we got it and get out of here," Mina said as Sonic was concerned about the roar.
"Mina, something is here," Sonic said as they spotted a large Thunderbird which is now turned into a machine via a very similar process to someone becoming a cybernetic being by the Metal Virus.
"A cybernetic Thunderbird looks like something transformed by the Metal Virus," Mina said as the bird let out a piercing scream to unleash bolts of lightning to tear up the area around it. All the buildings begin to fall apart and crash onto the ground.
"This is going to be tough," Sonic transforms into his Mystic Form to fly toward the metal beast casting bolts of flames. The cybernetic monster emits a barrier of electricity to block his spells as it fires a beam of lightning from its beak to slice through ruined buildings for them to fall towards Sonic and Mina.
"Quake," Mina transforms into her Rainbow Form to create a dome of the earth to block the incoming falling buildings. The monster fires another electric beam to slam into the rocky dome to leave a hole that Mina can see through. She made the stone dome explode and unleash shards of stone to dig into the shield to unleash a series of earthly explosions weakening it.
The Cyber Thunderbird is discharging orbs of lightning to pepper the ground leaving craters behind. "Flaming Lance," Sonic drops a spear of fire into the monster's back to emit a big blast to push the monster's shield to its breaking point.
"Eat Plasma," Mina tosses orbs of Plasma to clash against the shield until it breaks leaving itself open. Mina delivers a powerful flying kick to its neck to send it flying into a skyscraper.
Sonic summons several explosive bubbles to seek out the target and take out chunks of its body. Mina uses her Laser state to cut into the body of the robot bird to leave it broken and scattered across the rocky floor.
"That is done," Mina said as she went to grab the Anarchy Beryl. "I found it, let's get out of here," Mina said as Sonic and Mina used their transformed states to fly out of there leaving the ruined city behind them holding onto the 7th Anarchy Beryl to add to their collection.
Back with Honey securing a working server terminal as she begins to work on the holo display to begin turning it on. The holoscreen begins to roar to life as data flies across the screens. She places a data storage unit into the terminal to begin downloading what is left in the databases.
"How interesting," Nicole said as she was searching for the data to see research on something called Project Beacon. "Project Beacon is a secret project involving interdimensional teleportation and the humans here wanted to leave this world to find another one," Nicole said as Honey was surprised by this.
"The Humans just left here?" Honey asked.
"Yes it seems like it and there is data on the project," Nicole said as Honey also noticed something odd about the location they were going called Lost World.
"Lost World?" Honey wondered.
"That is their chosen dimension but we can worry about that later," Nicole said as she was curious about the cybernetic Thunderbird. "That creature was transformed just like Alicia but the humans had their method of doing it. I wonder," Nicole said as she wanted to know about this.
"I got all I could, most of it is corrupted," Honey said as she grabbed the storage unit and flew out of there.
"This project and Thunderbird data I will hold for myself," Nicole said as this deeply interested her personally as she holds it from Miles to research on her own time.