sonic: Take it All the Way
TAW
Volume 1: In the Beginning
by Brandon Morey
Lightning Bolt Publishing
SSSC Enterprises ltd, Inc.
QUEST INC
BLAST INC





Part 1
1
	Sonic the Hedgehog and his band of Freedom Fighters were approaching the outskirts of Sector 102 of the Great Forest.  It was in this sector in which the Freedom Fighters' Knothole Village, their hideaway and base of operations were.  The Freedom Fighters fought against the tyranny of the evil Doctor Eggman Ivo Robotnik, former Warlord Julian Ivo, who had overthrown the loyal king, King Acorn and named himself dictator of the planet Mobius.  The king's daughter, Princess Sally Acorn was the leader of the Freedom Fighters. 
	  Sonic the Hedgehog swiftly gave commands to the Freedom Fighters.  Sally and Rotor set Nicole, Sally's pocket computer, to scan the area for any of Robotnik's robots.
	"Scanning..." said Nicole.
	Beep! Beep! Beep!
	"Swatbots approaching..."
	Bzzap... Zorch...
	"Correction," said Nicole, "Robots approaching, identified, Combots..."
	Oh no, thought Sonic, Combots are Robotnik's new robots much more capable than Swatbots!
	Combots bristled through the bushes, but didn't see the Freedom Fighters.
	The Freedom Fighters scurried behind a fallen log.
	No luck, the Combots turned in their direction and hit the log with their lazers.  The log burst into flames.  There were about seven Combots.  One Combot got stuck in the fire.  His arm melted, then he exploded.  The explosion caused another Combot to die.  The five remaining Combots began to change their military green and brown outer color to a solid gray.  Mechanisms shot up from each of their heads, then the mechanisms released a glass-like red cover over their heads.
	"These mechanisms will allow the Combots to be fire-repellent," said Nicole, "They can now plunge through the fire without being harmed."
	"Eek!" said Antoine, "I do not like zee looks of zee theengs!"
	A Combot plunged into the fire and zapped at Bunnie Rabbot, the half-rabbit, half-robot.  She engaged her shield on her right arm, which was robotic, draining the Combot's blast.  Another Combot blasted at Antoine, and he was hit.  He fell to the ground, unconscious.  The Combot extended his arm and grabbed Antoine.  He and one other Combot blasted their jet packs and flew away to Robotropolis with Antoine, leaving the Freedom Fighters to battle the remaining three Combots.  Sonic delivered a flaming punch to a Combot's head.  He performed a Sonic Spin to finish off the 'bot.
	Sally delivered a flip back kick to a Combot's chest.  Nicole sent a surge to finish it.  The final Combot turned.
	"Surge activated..." said the Combot, "loading systems... target applied... blast computed... locking.. locking.. locking.. target locked..."
	Sonic got up behind it, ready to spin into it.  Suddenly, it turned to face him.
	"Target lock deactivated..." it said, "new target: priority one...  quick targeting..."
	Sonic jumped, then executed his Sonic Spin.  At that same moment, a huge red blast emerged from the Combot's system.  It hit Sonic.  A surge of electricity trickled through Sonic's body.  Electricity shot from Sonic's fingertips.  Sonic's gloves burned and turned to a crisp black.  Sonic dropped to the ground.  The Freedom Fighters weren't sure if he were alive.  Sally sidewinder kicked the remaining Combot, and it exploded.  Sonic lay on the ground, his skin mostly a gray-blue color and his socks and gloves a charred black.  Sonic didn't move.
	"Antoine is is the hands of Robotnik," said Sally, "and I'm not totally sure about Sonic's condition."
	"Sally, I'm detecting an army of Swatbots," said Nicole.
	In seconds, the Freedom Fighters and Sonic's body were surrounded by about fifteen Swatbots.  Behind them, were about four Combots and a Neurobot.  Behind them, was Robotnik himself.
	"SurrenderMMM" said the Neurobot.
	"Resistance is futile," the Swatbots said.
	"Prepare to honor Ivo Robotnik," a Combot said.
	PrepareMMM" said the Neurobot.
	Robotnik held a lazer gun to Sonic's head.
	"Surrender and become my slaves," he said, "or this will be the end of Sonic the Hedgehog! HA, Ha, ha, ha, ha!"

2

	THE Freedom Fighters surrendered, if for nothing else, then for Sonic's life.  Sonic's body was locked in a cage and put in Robotnik's hovercraft.  The Freedom Fighters were handcuffed and locked in a magnetic field so they could not escape.  The Neurobot, four Combots, and fifteen Swatbots formed a line, with Robotnik's ship in the lead.  Eventually, they reached Robotropolis, Robotnik's renamed capital city and headquarters.  Robotnik landed his craft in the docking bay and carried Sonic's cage, Sonic still unconscious, leading the 'bots and Freedom Fighters into the Main Structure.  Robotnik led them to the prison cells, where the Freedom Fighters were thrown into.  Sonic's cage was taken to the end of the prison hall and thrown into a special cell.

**********

	Later, in Sonic's cell, Sonic's eyelids slowly rose above the lowermost part of his eyes.  As Sonic regained consciousness, he blinked rapidly, then came to and realized he was in a cage.  The cage was so small that it bars squeezed tightly at Sonic's gut.  Sonic quickly initiated a Sonic Spin to destroy the cage and came to a kneeling position.  Sonic then sprang up.  There was a huge monitor on one of the walls of the cell.  It filled with static, then Robotnik's huge face filled it.


	"Ah, hedgehog," said Robotnik, "I've been waiting for you. The bars and walls of this prison cell are made entirely of steel-titanium alloy, so your ugly spin maneuver can't cut through it."

	"I'll get out of this yet!" said Sonic.

	"Ah," cackled Robotnik, "so you think.  The proceeding will prove me correct!"

	Then, at that moment, the monitor filled with static, but Robotnik's face did not vanish from the screen.  In the floor of the cell, a crack appeared, then the two sections of the floor formed by the crack spread away from each other.  Sonic's legs went into the splits as his feet were spread apart, pulled by both platforms.  Sonic jumped onto one platform.  As  the platform got closer to the wall, so did Sonic.  The platform got really close to the wall, and the wall pushed at Sonic.  Sonic jumped off, and grabbed onto the edge of the platform.  The platform went into the wall, and Sonic fell off the edge, into a steel-titanium circular chamber, with exhaust pipes and air vents.  At the top of the chamber, there was a digital pad that said "CURRENT DEGREES".

	The top (the floor of the old cell) closed behind Sonic, until its crack seemed to vanish, creating an airlock.  Sonic kneeled on the cold, hard surface of this new chamber.  Suddenly, the digital pad came to life.  It read 75 degrees.  A voice echoed throughout the chamber, "Current temperature: seventy-five degrees."

	Suddenly, freezing cold air burst out the the exhaust pipes and the air vents slammed shut, not releasing themselves again.

	"Current temperature: fifty-one degrees."

	Sonic covered himself with his arms, trying to warm up.  It worked a little, but only enough to keep Sonic breathing at a normal rate.

	"Current temperature: thirty-two degrees."

	The cold air got to Sonic through his arms, sending chills down his spine.

	"Current temperature: twelve degrees."

	Sonic's breathing rate went off key and Sonic gasped for air, his new rate in this exceeding cold air was too slow.

	"Current temperature: three degrees."

	Sonic tried to return his breathing rate to his normal pace, but the deathly air wouldn't allow it.

	"Current temperature: negative ten degrees."

	Sonic's lungs didn't function properly.  He got a breath every forty seconds.

	"Current temperature: negative ninety-eight degrees."

	Sonic's lungs froze in the cold air and Sonic couldn't get a single breath to enter his lungs.

	"Current temperature: negative one hundred fifty-seven."

	Sonic's lungs tried to expand, but simply couldn't move.  Sonic's brain went numb, suffering in trying to get his heart to beat and his lungs to expand.

	"Current temperature: negative three hundred eighty-nine."

	Sonic's lungs collapsed, unable to allow air in.  Sonic's heart pumped slowly, his brain requesting more blood.

	"Current temperature: negative five hundred eleven."

	Sonic's heart pumped once, then stopped.  Sonic's brain seemed to electrocute itself without air or blood.  Sonic's eyelids slowly closed as his heart sawed backwards and off key, managing to send a drop of blood through his arteries, the blood in his veins frozen in place.

	"Current temperature: negative nine hundred fifty-one."

	Sonic's brain almost exploded, but resisted and simply shut down.

	"Current temperature: Absolute zero," the machine said, then short-circuited from the extreme coldness.

	Sonic opened his eyes and saw only blue, the frozen air, then saw only black, the black of extreme unconsciousness.    

3

	Princess Sally pulled herself from the ground.  She was in a prison cell with Bunnie Rabbot, who's right arm, body, and legs were mechanical, but her heart was still pure, and had a rabbit right arm and head.  Bunnie had been sent to Robotnik's roboticizer, his machine that turned living beings into robots, living only to serve Robotnik.  Sonic had performed a daring escape, saving her, but not before she had suffered some roboticization.  Bunnie got up.

	"Oh mah stars," she said, "don't you think they were a bit harsh, sugar Sal?"

	"I think," said Sally, "that you should malt these bars with your lazer."

	Bunnie activated her lazer.

	KAZORCH! BAM!

	The beam hit the bars, then reflected off them, bouncing back and hitting the back wall.  The wall caught fire.  Flames surrounded Sally and Bunnie.

	Nicole, who had fallen out of Sally's pocket when Sally was thrown into the cell, and was lying in the center of the fire, said, "Extreme heat.  System overload."
	"Nicole!" screamed Sally.

	Sally dove into the flames after Nicole.  Nicole came out of the fire, in such a manner that you'd believe Sally had thrown her out, but Sally didn't come out of the fire.  Bunnie caught Nicole and Nicole's internal systems rebooted.  Nicole came back to life and she ejected a mechanism which extinguished the fire.

	Bunnie found Sally charred, lying on the ground of the cell, not moving.

	"Computations show no pulse," said Nicole, "Sally's brain is almost completely shut down."

	"Noooooo-----------------" screamed Bunnie.

**********

	In the Control Room, within the Main Structure, Antoine was handcuffed and placed in a seat before Robotnik.  His legs were cuffed to the chair legs and the chair was bolted to the ground.

	"Where is Knothole?", asked Robotnik, "Where can I find the remaining Freedom Fighters?"

	"I weel neevar tell!" shouted Antoine.

	"I will ask one last time, feeble Freedom Fighter-- Where is Knothole?"

	"Never!" shouted Antoine.

	"You are useless to me, Freedom Fighter," said Julian.

	"You will get nothing from me, Roboh..."

	Robotnik raised a gun and shot Antoine in the forehead.  A hole was in his forehead where the bullet had entered.  The once shouting Antoine was suddenly silent.  Very silent.
4

	Bunnie pulled Sally from the ground.

	"Nicole," said Bunnie, "can y'all cut through these bars?"

	"Yes, these bars are made with Zildon, a chemical used to power protection shields," said Nicole, "This allows them to be repellent.  But lazers with LT7 power can penetrate Zildon.  Now activating LT7 lazers."

	ZZAR!  ZZAPP... BLAM!

	The Zildon bars exploded, alerting a bunch of Swatbots.  Three Swatbots surrounded the door to the cell.  One Swatbot activate his Vidcam.

	"Search for server 'Robotnik'," said the Swatbot, "urgent message from PATROLa217@Botserve.com."

	Bunnie Blasted 'bot #217, shattering its components.

	"Lazer 2-Secon complied," said another 'bot, "target applied."
	
	HUMMM... ZZARR... BLAM!

	The 2-Secon minority lazer hit Nicole, who was suddenly surrounded by electricity, short circuited and shut down.

	Bunnie engaged her pulse cannon and took both 'bots out in one shot.

	Crying, Bunnie collapsed in front of the unconscious Sally and the short circuited Nicole.

**********

	In another cell, Rotor and Tails tried helplessly to open their cell door.  Suddenly, the door creaked and Tails and Rotor collapsed on the floor in front of a Swatbot.  He grabbed Tails and Rotor and carried them to the Control Room.  They were thrown to Robotnik's feet.

	"Roboticize the critters immediately!" shouted Robotnik.

	Tails and Rotor were taken to the ZIG room, Antoine, who was cuffed to a chair in another corner of the room, almost seemed to cry.
5

	Sonic's blood thawed as a thread of heat reached his body.  The air vents creaked open and heat waves allowed Sonic's brain to be rendered useful.  Sonic slowly began to realize he wasn't dead.

	How did the vents open? thought Sonic, Oh well, at least I've a chance to escape.  And what happened to the other Freedom Fighters when I was neutralized by that 'bot?

	Sonic rose and saw a shadowy figure enter the cell.  It looked like a mighty creature.  It did not allow itself to be seen, because it suddenly vanished again.

**********

	Bunnie, at the front of the Jail Hall, pushed Nicole into her pocket and dragged Sally out of the Jail Hall.  She then pushed an air vent away and climbed into the wall.  Bunnie kneeled and activated her force field which surrounded both Bunnie and Sally.





Part 2
5

	With heat restored, Sonic revved into Super Spin mode, forgetting about the muscular figure for a moment.  He crashed through the metal barrier then aimed for the bars, but fell backwards.  Suddenly, red lights flashed on the ceiling and the bars slid upwards.  Sonic who, when fell backward, had fallen back through the hole he made in the floor with his Sonic Spin, began a Super Peel-Out figure eight maneuver (last seen in Sonic CD), allowing him to hover.  He began another Sonic Spin, flying back through the hole he had originally made and then through the entrance to the cell where the bars used to be, unaware of how the door had opened, who the muscular figure was, or how the freezer unit had shut off.  He was also totally unaware of what had happened to Sally, Nicole, or Antoine, or of the situation which Rotor and Tails were in, or of the fact that Bunnie was in the Main Structure.  All of this unaware to Sonic, who was also in terrible danger.

*********

	Tails and Rotor were kicked into the ZIG room by one of Robotnik's Swatbots.  The door slammed shut and locked.  Robotnik's voice came in through the PA system in the ZIG room, "Hope you like my new roboticization unit!" he said.
	Rotor gulped.  A block of metal at the front of the room seemed to melt, until it formed a giant robot with a Roboticizer in each arm.  Holes were in the palm of each hand so victims could be sucked into the Roboticizers.  The robot, apparently called ZIG, had infra-red optic units, equipped with lazer beams.  The robot came to life and the holes in its hands became vacuums, trying to pull Rotor or Tails in.  Suddenly, the Roboticizers flipped over, revealing chambers filled with sleeping gas, apparently so if Rotor or Tails were caught, they'd be put to sleep so Robotnik could see the whole Roboticization process, later, in his own Roboticizer.  Suddenly, the vacuum caught Tails.  Tails struggled with all his might to get away, but ZIG pulled him in.  Tails was sucked into the chamber in ZIG'S left arm, and the gas got to him, he was put to sleep.  The hole in ZIG'S left hand closed, so Tails couldn't slide out.  Rotor pulled out a neutralizer, which he used to shoot ZIG, who short-circuited.  Rotor threw a bomb at the side wall, which exploded.  Rotor scrambled to get out.  Rotor escaped, but Tails was submerged in the sleeping gas in ZIG'S left arm.

**********

	Bunnie hid Sally deep in the walls of Robotropolis.  Bunnie ripped the force field generator out of her arm and left it with Sally, protecting her.  Bunnie pocketed Nicole, secretly memorizing the location of Sally.  Bunnie set off. Bunnie cautiously rounded corners, with her pulse cannon set to stun.  Bunnie crept along the walls, watching for any signs of Sonic, Tails, Antoine, or Rotor.  Bunnie slowly moved along the walls, then came face-to-face with five Swatbots and, just what she didn't need, two Combots.  Bunnie blasted at a Combot.  It was stunned by the pulse cannon's stun ray, but after a few seconds, it crashed to the floor.  Three Swatbots, all at once, blasted at Bunnie with their lazers.  Bunnie barely got her shield up, deflecting the blasts.  Bunnie quickly set her pulse cannon for kill and knocked out two Swatbots, leaving a Combot and three Swatbots.  She blasted at the Combot, but her pulse cannon was out of fuel!  She was immediately apprehended by the Combot.  The Swatbots guarded Bunnie as she was taken to the Control Room.  Bunnie was thrown to the floor in front of Robotnik.

	"Ah, Rabbot!" said Robotnik, "You're just in time!  You get to see your friend Tails get roboticized, but don't be jealous, you'll get to finish the process, too!"

	A Roboticizer was rolled into the room by two Swatbots, with the sleeping Tails inside it.  All of a sudden, Tails woke up.  But it was too late.

	"Engage the machine!" shouted Robotnik with a curled lower lip, "Roboticize the fox!"

	One Swatbot pulled on the lever and the machine started to hum.

	Bunnie was tied up by the Combot so she could do nothing to help Tails.

	"No..." cried Bunnie.

	Slowly, Tails became a robot.  A tear fell from Bunnie's eye.  All that was left of Tails was his right arm and head.  The rest of him was robotic, even his two tails, which had melted together forming a real mechanical helicopter.  Tails' right arm became robotic, then his head.  The Roboticizer's door opened.

	"Meet Tails," snarled Robotnik, "The first in my new line of defense!"

	"No...." sobbed Bunnie, who lowered her head and cried in front of Robotnik and his newest robot, Tails.
6

	Sonic ran at top speed toward the exit of the Main Structure.  He was so fast, no 'bot could stop him.  He got out of Robotropolis and entered the Great Forest.  Suddenly, a shadowy figure jumped out of the woods.  It was the muscular figure again!  But the figure came out into the light, so Sonic could see it.

	"I'm Crash Chaotic, but I'm better known as Clash," he said.

	Crash thrusted out his hand and Sonic shook it.

	"I deactivated the freezer unit and opened your cell," said Crash.

	"Thanks, Clash!" said Sonic, "Me and my pals the Freedom Fighters fight against Robotnik.  Do you want to help?"

	"No," said Crash, who ran back into the forest, leaving Sonic alone again.

	Sonic continued into the forest, toward Knothole, unaware that the Core Freedom Fighters were not there.

**********

	Rotor trudged along, with a pack full of bombs, and with his neutralizer in hand.  But as luck would have it, Rotor bumped into trouble.  Trouble with a capital 'R'.  'R' for Robotnik himself.

	Rotor immediately activated his neutralizer, but Robotnik drained the blast by activating his shield.  Rotor grabbed a bomb from his pack, threw it and fled.  Robotnik quickly pressed a button on his robotic left hand, changing his uniform to a metal "Eggso-skeleton", protecting him from the explosion, but allowing Rotor to escape.

**********

	Bunnie, taking advantage of Robotnik's absence, pushed her robotic right hand into her right arm and ejected a spinning saw, cutting through the ropes she was bound in.  She had been left alone.  The Swatbots and Combot had left, along with Tails the robot.  Now she escaped.

	She, very slowly and cautiously, made her way back to the vent.  She checked her pocket and found that Nicole was now running.  Bunnie ducked behind some crates and spoke to Nicole.  Nicole didn't answer, just short-circuited again.  Oh, great! thought Bunnie, who tucked Nicole back into her pocket.  Bunnie eventually found her way back to the vent and deactivated the force field.  Bunnie plugged the force field generator back into her system, then held Sally close to her, using the super strength in her right arm, carried her one-handed with her right hand.  Bunnie turned the force field generator on and made her way out of the Main Structure.  Bunnie then hid in the ruins of an old Acorn building in Robotropolis, planning her next move.
7

	Rotor was still in Robotropolis and he struggled to keep undercover.  He ducked behind walls in the nick of time a lot as robots passed.  He finally made it to The Command Center.  Using a wrench, Rotor loosened the doorknob form its place, reached through the hole where the doorknob used to be, and unlocked the door from the inside.  He slipped the wrench back in his pocket and entered the Command Center.  But he encountered a few 'bots, who tossed his trouble.  But Rotor ripped the wrench from his pocket and hit them on the head with it, knocking them out cold.  He quickly got the wrench and continued on.  Finally, there it was.  The Control Room.  He had to make sure Robotnik wasn't in there.  If this was a mission, he really wanted it to be successful.  He'd trash Robotnik machines and go.  Or so he thought...

**********

	Bunnie was hiding in an old Acorn ruin, when she heard a mechanical voice of a Swatbot.
	"Sensors identifying life forms near," said the Swatbot, "Comparing DNA structure to that in file.  Identified as Bunnie Rabbit, Freedom Fighter."
	Bunnie gasped.
	The Swatbot then said, "All units in Sector B-3, report to Sector C-9 immediately."
	An army of Swatbots came at Bunnie's hiding spot.  Bunnie scurried deeper into the ruins of this old Acorn house.  The clank of the Swatbots was getting closer.  Three Swatbots entered the structure and Bunnie burst out of the ruins.  Using all of her might, she swung at the Swatbots with her robotic left arm, knocking them out cold.  The other Swatbots aimed their weapons at Bunnie and said, "Halt, Freedom Fighter!"
	But Bunnie wouldn't take it.  After all that had happened today, she wouldn't become a prisoner.  Not for herself, really, but for Sally, who was still in the ruins.  Only Bunnie knew about her, and if Bunnie herself didn't take care of Sally, then she'd die unconscious in the ruins of a house of her family.  So Bunnie prayed that her pulse cannon had recharged, set it for kill, and...
	Blam!
	The blast from her pulse cannon destroyed the Swatbots like never before.  An amazing explosion, almost like a fireworks display, occurred.  Unfortunately, the explosion was so powerful that it heaved Bunnie clear across the ruins and the impact with the ground knocked her out cold.

**********

	Sonic decided that with all that had happened today, he needed a rest.  He would have gone to Knothole, but he was too tired even for that.  He crawled into a hole in a tree trunk and made his bed there.  And he slept...

**********

	Rotor peeked through the window.  There was no sign of Robotnik, so Rotor entered, cautiously.  Then, Rotor saw Antoine.  He felt for Antoine's pulse, but there was nothing.  Rotor used a lazer beam to cut through all the chains and bolts holding Antoine to the chair.  Then he bolted for the door.  He escaped from the Command Center and kept close to the walls in the Main Structure.  Rotor approached the exit and sighed once he found himself in the open of Robotropolis.  Rotor slowly moved through the polluted air.  Robots of all kinds patrolled and Rotor ducked behind factories and piles of trash, docking bays and ruins.  Rotor then approached the ruins of the Acorn house which Bunnie had hidden in.  Rotor turned, knowing he was close to the city limits, but saw Bunnie there.  Rotor pulled her from underneath the fallen 'bots and checked for heartbeat.  Suddenly, she woke up.

	"Oh mah stars!" she cried, "Rotor!  How'd y'all find me?"

	"I was on my way out of Robotropolis," said Rotor, "with Antoine.  He appears to have been shot and it doesn't look good."

	"Sally's in these here ruins," said Bunnie, "Her conditions don't appear near perfect, either."

	Bunnie tried to approach the ruins and dig Sally out, but her robotic limbs wouldn't react.

	"I can't move!" she cried.

	Rotor put his hand to Bunnie's left leg and shook his head, "Your robotic limbs are malfunctioned."
	"Well, Rotor," said Bunnie, "Can't y'all fix these legs?"

	"In my lab, yes," said Rotor, "Not in the middle of Robotropolis.  I'll go in for Sally.  We've got to get you, Sally, and Antoine back to Knothole immediately.  And Sonic.  Tails, oh, my precious life!"

	Rotor crawled into the ruins and dragged out Sally's body, "She's burnt badly."

	Rotor carried Sally in his arms.  How're we supposed to bring Antoine and you back to Knothole?" asked Rotor.

	Bunnie pulled out Nicole, "Can y'all fix her?"

	"As a matter of fact," said Rotor, "I've just the device."

	Rotor pulled out a gizmo and plugged it into Nicole.  Almost instantly, Nicole rebooted.

	"Nicole," said Bunnie, "Repair my robotic parts."

	Nicole said nothing, just zapped  Bunnie, who thrust her right foot outwards, "Rotor, I'll carry Antoine.  Let's go!"

	Bunnie thrust Nicole back into her pocket and carried Antoine in her arms.  Rotor had Sally and they all headed for Knothole.



	In Rotor's lab, Nicole was attached to one of Rotor's machines and it was plugged into some lazer device.  Sally was on the operating table and Rotor pulled on some dark glasses to protect his eyes.  He handed a pair to Bunnie, who put them on, too.  Rotor stepped back and turned on his device, "Go, Nicole," he shouted.

	"Engaging internal medicine system," said Nicole.

	The lazer device shot out a blinding white light at Sally.  After only a second, the light vanished and Rotor shut off his machine.  Rotor touched Sally's breast area, feeling for any signs that the heart was circulating blood.  Then, he felt it.  It was weak, but it was there.  Sally's heart was beating.  Rotor spoke into the PA system, "Get Doctor Quack here on the double!"
	A middle-aged duck burst through the door.  He was white with a green lab coat and glasses.

	"Yes, Rotor?" said Doctor Quack.

	"We've a patient for you," said Rotor, motioning to Sally.

	Doctor Quack rushed out of the room and came back with an operating table.  He pulled Sally onto it and took off for the medical room.

	Rotor then put Antoine on the table and engaged his machine again.  Rotor found a pulse on Antoine, too, after the process and called Doctor Quack back in for Antoine.  Rotor unplugged Nicole and said, "You did great!"

	"Thank you, Rotor," said Nicole.

	Rotor placed Nicole into his pocket and followed Sally and Doctor Quack into the medical room.  Doctor Quack then did a series of medical tests including checking her pulse, checking her urinal and breast areas, and checking her temperature.  Sally then stopped breathing.  Doctor Quack performed a mouth-to-mouth resessetation to keep her breathing going and Sally slowly got up.

	"Where," said Sally, "Where, where?  Oh'm I?"

	Antoine was quickly placed on the operating table.  Quack felt his penis and checked for a pulse.  He then used the stethoscope and found a very, very weak pulse.  But Antoine was breathing.  Quentin pinched Antoine's nose shut.  Antoine's mouth opened, trying to get air, and Quack poured some medicine down his throat.

	"He should recover soon," said Doctor Quack.

	Sally came to her senses.

	"Sally, hon," said Bunnie, "where's sugah Tails?"

	"I, I, I," stammered Sally, "I... I don't know!"

	"Oh mah stars!" shouted Bunnie.

	"And Sonic?!" shouted Sally.
	"They a musta been captured by hoo-ha Robotnik!" declared Bunnie.

	Antoine came to.

	"Rotor, you are to keep control of Knothole," ordered Sally, "Bunnie, Antoine, and I are going to search for Sonic and Tails."

	"Yes, m'aam!" replied Rotor.

**********

	Sonic pulled himself out of the tree.  He pulled on his "camouflage" shorts and his socks.  Then, he pulled on his shoes.  The shoes.  They had been given to him by his Uncle Chuck, known as Sir Charles back then.  Back then.  Back then...

	Sonic ran down the path and bumped into Sally.

	"Sally Alicia!"

	Sally Alicia, Princess Sally Alicia Acorn, and Maurice "Sonic" Teyeken ran to the palace, where Sally and her father, King Acorn, completed all their tasks to keep the planet running.  But not all liked them.  Especially a clan of badgers, the clan which Spartacus, one of Maurice "Sonic" Teyeken's close friends.  But Spartacus did not.  But one badger was not enough to stop a whole clan from believing nonsense.

	As Sally and Maurice entered the palace of Acorn.  But, as Sally tried to get to the Throne Room, a hand grabbed her and Maurice.  It was Rosie, Sally's mentor, and Julaya, Sally's nanny.

	"Get no closer, Alicia!" whispered Julaya, who always used Sally's middle name, "Doom is near for Acorn and we must not let it achieve us!"

	"What do you mean?" asked Sally.

	"Yeah," said Maurice, "what uncool is happ-nin'?"

	"See for yourselves," replied Rosie.

	Rosie led Julaya, Sally, and Maurice onto a banister overlooking the Throne Room.  Julian, son of Ivo, the King's warlord, was in front of King Acorn.  But he had a new uniform on.  And an army of Swatbots were surrounding the King, apparently under Julian's control.

	"Warlord Julian is no more," says Julian, "from this point in time, I am Ivo Robotnik.  And you, Sir Acorn, are banished, to the Zone of Silence forever!"

	The Zone of Silence was an alternative Zone invented by Ivo Kodos, the apparent care/owner of the threat to the King now.

	"You'll never get away with this!" shouts King Acorn.

	"I don't see anybody stopping me," replies Robotnik, "and while you're there, say hi to Ixis, the Zone's inventor, and Kodos, your former warlord!"

	And with that, the Swatbots opened the portal to the Zone of Silence and released the King.  He was falling into the Zone of Silence and nobody could save him, he would be imprisoned forever...

	Sally and Maurice stared in horror, but, Maurice,  realizing he was now Sonic, his thoughts ended.  Maurice vanished.  As did the 
King.  As did any hopes of ever finding him...

	"Sonic" awoke from his daydream.  The wave of the past had caught him by surprise and now realized his legacy:  not to defeat Robotnik, but to overthrow him, and return Mobius to King Acorn.  But now he only wanted to get to Knothole.  Sonic ran down the path, but something caught his eye.  It was a device of some sort.  Sonic picked it up.  It had a flashing red LED (lighted electronic device) and a yellow button.

	I wonder what this could be, thought Sonic, or what this would do.

	Sonic pressed the yellow button.  The red led stopped flashing, displayed a solid color, and then turned green.  Part of the forest, air, and trees, moved up.  The planet itself seemed to shift as a cliff was revealed behind this camouflaged area.  Sonic walked out onto the cliff and looked down.  He saw a village of foxes.  But one of them caught his eye.  It was closer to a yellow color than the orange of the others.  But Sonic's thoughts ended as one of them saw him.

	"Intruder!!" shouted the fox.

	One of the foxes, apparently the weapon holder, armed his gun and aimed at Sonic.

	"3... 2... 1..." he said, "ready... aim... fire!"

	"No!" shouted the yellow fox, leaping at the weapon master, "Hold your fire!  I know him!"

	The yellow fox was someone Sonic knew too.  It was...
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	Antoine, Sally, and Bunnie approached the outer limits of the Great Forest, unaware that Tails had been roboticized, or that Sonic was in an unknown village.  They saw, in the distance, the smoky smog from Robotropolis' factories.

	"Let's move out," said Sally, who had Nicole back in her possession.

	"Nicole, robot scan, on!" ordered Sally.

	"Robot scan on, Sally," said Nicole.

	Bunnie ejected her robotic legs to full length.

	"We're in an unknown territory between the Great Forest and Robotnik's city," said Bunnie.

	They trekked on, until they entered Robotropolis.  They moved slowly and cautiously, but, amazingly enough, they were never tracked down by robots.  They approached the Main Structure.

	"Nicole, access code," ordered Sally.

	"Computing," said Nicole, "access code broken."

	The door creaked slightly and Sally pushed the rest of the way open.

	"Are you sure weer safe, Princess?" queried Antoine.

	"I'm not sure of anything," replied Sally, "except that we have to save Tails and Sonic."

	They found the Jail Hall and searched the cells, finding nothing.

	"Where could they be?" said Sally

	"You need not to concern yourself about that", a voice behind them said.

	Antoine turned around.

	"Robotnik!" shouted Antoine.

	"Very observant," said Robotnik.

	Two Combots came from behind Robotnik.

	"Surrender to Robotnik's empire and allow roboticization," said the Combots.

	"Quick, Nicole," whispered Sally, "surge!"

	"Surging, Sally," replied Nicole.

	Electricity trickled from Nicole's main output, hitting and short-circuiting the Combots.

	"Run!" shouted Sally.

	Antoine, Sally, and Bunnie ran down the hall.  They barely escaped from an army of Swatbots, but finally made it out the Main Structure.

**********

	...Crash.  It was Crash.  Crash had saved Sonic from certain doom.

	"It seems Clash knows you, stranger," said the head fox, "come down."

	Sonic did so.

	"Who are you, stranger?" asked the head fox.

	"Sonic the Hedgehog," said Sonic.

	"Well, Sonic, do you know Clash?"

	"Yes, I do," replied Sonic, "he saved me from Robotnik. My friends may still be with him.  I must save them."
	"I'd like to help you, Sonic," said Crash.

	"So be it!" said the head fox.

	Crash and Sonic set off for Robotropolis.  With Sonic's speed, they were at Robotropolis in no time.  Sonic used his Sonic Spin to cut an opening in the door to the Main Structure, then both he and Crash went inside.  They went down a hallway, with Sonic in the lead.

	"Crash, let's check the Jail Cells," said Sonic.

	When there was no reply, Sonic said, "Crash?, Crash!"

	Sonic turned around.  Crash was gone.

	Then, all of a sudden, a robot came and attacked Sonic.  It was Tails!

	"Tails!  You've been roboticized!  No......" shouted Sonic, as he ran away.  Sonic spun into the Control Room, where Robotnik was.

	"Sonic?" said Robotnik, "You were frozen to death!"

	"Oh, yeah?"

	Robotnik grabbed his minor lazer and shot Sonic.  The beam hit him in the sneaker, which burned up.  Sonic kicked off the shoe and spun at Robotnik.	Robotnik was hit in the stomach, an easy target for anyone.

	Whoof!

	Robotnik  recovered, but Sonic spun at him again.

	"What is the reason for your attack?" asked Robotnik as soon as he recovered.

	"You roboticized Tails!" shouted Sonic, with a tear in his eye.  Sonic almost cried, but delivered a flaming punch to Robotnik's head.  Sonic now knew the meaning of war.  Not a single wisecrack escaped his mouth.  But, in war, he had to fight with all his might.  Sonic was serious, for once in his life.

	Tears poured from Sonic's eyes as he kicked Robotnik, sending him to the ground, then spun at his back.  Robotnik swung his robotic arm at Sonic.  Sonic fell to the ground.  With tears in his eyes, he said, "This is for Tails!!!"  and spun his feet.  They went  in a figure eight and Sonic did a Super Peel out.  Sonic let momentum take over as he surpassed the speed of sound in the short distance from him to Robotnik, knocking into him at full throttle.  Robotnik lost his consciousness and Sonic spun into Robotnik's main computer, short circuiting it, "This is for Tails!!!"

**********

	Antoine got up and said, "Okay, now weel retreat!"

	"No, Antoine," said Sally, "Sonic's always helped us when we needed it.  And now he needs our help.  But, even without that, Tails has to be in there, and, Antoine, show some respect for kids!  He needs our help!  We're Freedom Fighters!  We help others!"

	Sally headed back for the Main Structure, with Bunnie close behind.

	Antoine Sighed, then followed them.  They entered the Main Structure.  Sally ran down a hall, with the others close behind, only to run into...

**********

	Crash pulled himself up from the jail cell he was in.  He had been captured by a Combot.  Actually, an army of seven Combots had attacked him, but he had destroyed six of the seven, only to be caught by the seventh.

	Creak!! The door to Crash's cell opened.  A huge shadow entered the cell.  Ten Combots and three Nuerobots entered after the shadow.  The gleam of the Combots' eyes reflected of the shadow, revealing it.  It was Robotnik.

	"Who in the freakin zone are you?!" cried Crash.

	"You fool!" shouted Robotnik, "What group of Freedom Fighters do you belong to?"

	"Freedom Fighters?" said Crash, "Who or what are they?"
	"You cannot deceive me!" shouted Robotnik, "where is your hideaway?"

	"Aw, clog your butt!" retorted Crash.

	"Let's see if you can learn REAL language," said Robotnik, "inside a roboticizer!"

	The two lazer powered Neurobots grabbed Crash and carried him to his doom.

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	Sally pulled herself up from the ground only to find herself staring at Tails.  Only he was different.  He was roboticized.

	"Tay-eels!" shrieked Antoine.

	"INTRUDER ALERT." said Tails, "IDENTIFICATION- GROUP 02- KNOTHOLE FF- ID- 0741- ANTOINE D'COOLETTE.  TARGETING... TARGET LOCK APPLIED... BLAST SET MAX... READY... AIM... FIRE."

	The blast hit Antoine, almost surely killing him.  But as it did, time itself collapsed.  The world became tinted purple and rotated 360o.  The Freedom Fighters blacked out.

**********

	Crash was taken to the ZIG room.  ZIG, who Rotor had short-circuited had been taken apart.  ZIG's components were in a heap in a corner of the room.  ZIG's roboticization units were both attached, vertically, to the wall.  A control center was in another corner of the room.  Crash was held tight by the Nuerobots.  Robotnik entered the control center.

	"Nuerobots!" commanded Robotnik, "Put the victim in the roboticizer!"

	Robotnik pressed a button and the door to the first roboticizer slid open.  The Nuerobots put Crash inside it.  Robotnik pressed another button and the door to the first roboticizer slid shut.  The door to the ZIG room creaked from its hinges as Sonic entered.

	"You're too late, hedgehog!" cackled Robotnik, who engaged the roboticizer enclosing Crash.  Sonic, moving at TransSonic speed, spun at the base of the roboticizer, short-circuiting it.  Crash scrambled out of the roboticizer.  His right hand was robotic.  Sonic, with Crash, spun his feet and blasted off at UltraSonic speed.

	Once outside Robotropolis, Sonic spoke, "Crash, everything's wrong!  I can't find any of my friends.  Tails is roboticized.  I thought I knocked Robotnik out, but apparently he collected himself in time to attempt your roboticization.  I have to save Tails though, Crash.  I'll need a deroboticization unit.  Our first hope is my uncle's place.  Uncle Chuck.  He's a robot, but he has complete control of his mind.  Let's go!"

	Sonic and Crash headed for the boundary of Robotropolis.  They approached the garbage dump that had camouflaged Uncle Chuck's hideaway for so long.  Sonic peeled out at SuperSonic speed and jumped up in time to to release Crash and pull open a code key.  Sonic punched in Unc's code and the garbage in the center of the dump opened, showing that the dump was hollow and held together only by crude glue.  Sonic entered and saw Uncle Chuck.

	"Sonic," said Uncle Chuck, "Who is your friend?", motioning to Crash.

	"Unc," replied Sonic, "This is Clash.  Crash "Clash" Chaotic.  He's some kind of mutated fox."

	"Mutated?" shouted Crash, "I thought we were friends.  Actually, it was my grandmother, Zinc, who was "mutated", as you call it, she had been in a chemical accident from the polluted waters of the Eternal River.  It turned out it wasn't so "eternal" after all.  But she was gotten by the chemicals.  She gave birth to my mother and died only a few days after.  My mother showed resemblance to a fox, but her fur was more yellow than most foxes, but not nearly as yellow as mine.  She mated to my father, and when I was born, a was hardly a "fox", with only a few resemblances to one, and my fur was purely yellow, not a tint of orange.  I don't know what animal I'm after, but I rip off the shit of the basterd who polluted the Eternal River.  It wasn't the Robotnik ironhead that I met, he wasn't born yet.  But luck takes away any chance.  Luck is against me.  Luck is against our group.  Luck is a prime enemy."

	"So what are you here for, Sonic?" asked Uncle Chuck.

	"We've come for a deroboticization unit," replied Sonic, "Tails has been roboticized.  I must save him."

	"Well, Sonic," replied Uncle Chuck, "I've only one left, but here it is."

	Uncle Chuck gave Sonic a small device.  It was labled F10-40 ETH-UNDO.  Sonic rippled it, then blasted off at TransSonic speed.
	As he approached Robotropolis, he held the deroboticization unit tight.  Crash came slowly behind Sonic.  Sonic walked at half-UltraSonic speed, a very fast pace for only walking.  Crash ran his fastest just to keep up.  Sonic walked only a few more paces before becoming surrounded by SwatBots.

	"Surrender, hedgehog," said the SwatBots.

	"Not today," said Sonic, "Not any day!"

	Sonic hurled his backpack around to the front of him and grabbed a Power Ring from his backpack.  He held it above his head.  The Ring glowed yellow, the glow surrounded Sonic.  Sonic grabbed Crash, then moved at HyperSonic speed and went into a Super Sonic Spin to cut through the enterace to the Main Structure, destroying any/all the SwatBots in his way.  Sonic, now inside the Main Structure, put the Ring back in his backpack.  Sonic headed for the Control Center.  Sonic spun through the door.  Crash followed Sonic, quietly.

	I wonder where the 'Tails-Bot' is, Sonic thought.

	But Sonic had no time to wonder.  He came face-to-face with Robotnik, in a new hovercraft.  Crash outstretched his claws and jumped at the hovercraft.  He ripped at the bottom, the craft's wind modulator (the thing that makes it hover).  The damage tipped the craft in one direction, but Robotnik just hovered higher, to prevent Crash from attacking it again.  Robotnik flew directly overhead Sonic, then blasted a beam from the bottom of the ship.  But Sonic moved at SuperSonic speed, avoiding the blast.  Robotnik pressed a button, opening an opening in the bottom of his hovercraft.  From it, a huge spiked ball fell out.  He swung it at Sonic.  Sonic ducked, and the ball missed him.  As he got back up to make a wisecrack for Robotnik, the ball, on its return swing, hit Sonic in the head.  Robotnik then shot Sonic with a lazer beam.  Robotnik lowered his craft, to pick up Sonic, when Crash attacked.  Crash knocked full-force into Robotnik with his fists extended.  It slowed Robotnik down, but Robotnik recovered in time.  Crash then swung at Robotnik's ship.  Robotnik jumped out just as the ship exploded.  Robotnik grabbed Sonic, who was unconscious, and pressed a button on his belt.  Red beams formed rings around Robotnik, then a plasma of red lazer surrounded Robotnik and Sonic, then a huge explosion took place where Robotnik had been standing, with red electrical currents coming from the central point.  It blinded Crash for a moment, then Sonic and Robotnik were gone.  But the one key thing... was still there...

**********

	Sally awoke to find herself in a medical room with Bunnie and Antoine in medical tables beside hers.  Their clothes were hanging on a clothesline about fifteen feet away.  Sally had a pain in her head.

	The door to the medical room creaked open and Sally saw someone enter the room that looked familiar.  It was her!!!  The Sally that entered the room had on a white lab coat and mechanical shoes instead of Sally's normal blue vest and blue boots, which were now in another side of the room.  Sally  pulled herself into a sitting position.  The sheet fell, exposing Sally's breasts. 

	"Who are you?" said Sally.

	"I am you," replied the other Sally, "The you of the year 3212."

**********

	Uncle Chuck checked his spy monitors.  He saw Sonic in the hands of Robotnik.

	Uncle Chuck set off, hoping to free him.  He slowly and quietly, being seen a few time by SwatBots, but being let go by showing his ID, toward to Main Structure.

**********

	Sally, naked, got up.

	"How could you be me?" asked Sally to the lab-coated Sally.

	"Our technology is VERY advanced now," replied the other Sally, "We have created a time machine, which we used to bring you here."

	"Our fellow Freedom Fighter, Antoine, is very badly harmed, can you do anything for him?"

	"I think that, first," said the other Sally, "that you should get dressed.  Even though you are me, I don't exactly ENJOY staring at you naked."

	Sally blushed.  Even though it was her own self, this was strange and she didn't enjoy being SEEN either, even is this WAS real.

	Sally ran to the other side of the room, where her clothes were, but the Sonic of the year 3212 stepped in and saw Sally.  He covered his eyes as Sally slowly pulled on her clothes.

	When Sally came back to the center of the room, she said, "So our fellow Freedom Fighter, named Antoine, is seriously harmed.  Can you help him?"

	"Well, we already know who Antoine is," said the Sonic, "We are you.  And there's only one way to help him.  That way is to use a..."

	**********

	Uncle Chuck approached the enterance to the Main Structure.  He pushed his ID into the slot and the door slowly opened.  He passed the door, and the motion detector detected no movement and the door slowly closed.  Uncle Chuck moved slowly toward the ZIG room, where he suspected Sonic was being taken.  But he could also be in the Control Room.  And it would be hard to save Sonic without arousing suspicion that he had regained control of his mind.  And if he was suspected, he would be terminated...
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	Sally continued, "...time machine and go back in time to stop Antoine from being hurt.  Our Antoine died years ago, beacuse of what happened to hime very close to YOUR present.  I will now take you to our time machine."

	Sally walked over to Bunnie and woke her.  He shot up and the sheets flew over the foot of his bed.  Bunnie blushed as she found herself naked in front of two Sallys and Sonic.  Sally explained to Bunnie where they were and what had happened.  Bunnie then got dressed.  She hardly had anything to show.  Her ass was roboticized.  And her breasts weren't very large, so she managed to walk over to the other side lf the room without Sally shielding her.