Pawn By: David Hayes Disclaimer: MOST charecters are a copywrite of Dic Entertainment, MOST all other charecters are a copywrite 1998 Life Journey Stduios and Productions. Packbell is a copywrite of David Pistone Chaos is a copywritre of Dan Drazen Bookshire is a copywrite of David Pistone Timeline: A month after "Dark Emerald". E-Mail The Author: DHayes432@aol.com ________________________________________________________________ Chapter 1: Robotropolis had experienced a huge amount of damage from the two major earthquakes, and it wasn't till later he discovered what the freedom fighters had done. Swatbots moved everywhere rebuilding, while Dr.Robotnik was checking energy fields in the Great Forest area. His enormous videoscreen hung before him. He saw a pink flashing light coming slightly to the northwest of the middle of the forest. "Snivley! Come here!" he yelled. Snivley came bumbling in with a construction hat and a billboard. "Yes, sire?" "Send out a scout probe droid to this location." said Robotnik pointing to the flashing light. "Yes sir. Right away." Chaos was in his heaved palace in the alternitive Chaos Dimension. He created Mobius, and he could destroy it with a wave of his hand. He had no regard for life whatsoever, he craved power, and people falling in his name. He was no species, and poeple didn't think of him as a thing, more of as a god. He was not the most powerful though. He over-looked the coming of the chaos emeralds, so over-looking the coming of the ancient walkers. They were one of the only two peoples he knew that were more powerful than him. He wasn't making that mistake again. He'd been monitoring the ancient walkers ever since then, and he knew of the Chosen One. Little did the susposed "Chosen One" know it, but if he collected all the emeralds, he'd be more powerful than Chaos. Chaos looked at Tails, watching him do daily things. "So? Only a tiny fox? This will be simple." Chapter 2: Tails was fishing out on the border of Knothole, not knowing he was being watched. He heard a click, then a rewind. He turned around seeing the probe. He started to run after it, but it was much too fast. It speeded off out of the hills, toward Ground Zero. He ran off back to tell Sonic. "There was a probe droid Sonic, and it saw me!" said Tails. "Uh-oh. That is way uncool." Sonic turned around to find Sally standing there. "A probe droid? Are you sure Tails?" asked Sally. "Yeah, I'm positive!" he said. Sally and Sonic exanged expressions, they knew this wasn't good. "Tails, did you see if it was Robotnik's?" asked Sonic. "I'm not sure about that, but it looked like one." he said. Sally said, "Sonic, get ready for a mission to ground zero. Tails, you get ready to go too." "You mean it, Aunt Sally?" "Yes I do." Robotnik was waiting for his prize to arive. "This could be the end of the freedom fighters as we know it!" he said. A swatbot walked in. "There-is-a- security-breech-in-sector-seven-o-powerful-one." "WOT?! Make sure NOTHING leaves sector seven! I want this operation to work!" yelled Robotnik. "Swatbots-number-J1200-through-L1000-report-to-sector-seven-right-now." said the swatbot over his intercomm. A second swatbot entered the room. "The-scout- droid-is now-exiting-sector-six-and-is-entering-sector-seven." said the swatbot. "NO!" sreached Robotnik. He grabbed the swatbot by the neck and crushed it. He turned to the other swatbot. "Make sure that the probot is well protected. Good luck, for your sake." "Gulp!-Yesir!" said the bot who ran off. Sally was looking through her binocluars. She saw an army of swatbots coming. She dropped her bionocuals. "We've got company." she said. Sonic jumped off the building ready to fight. "Easy Sal, all I have to do is juice'em and reduce...gasp!" Sonic stopped short. He was outnumbered. The swatbots aimed their blasters at him. "Sonic!!!!" yelled Sally. But it was too late. Sonic was blasted back at least twenty meters. Other swatbots from the opppisite direction picked up Sonic. "Subject:-Hedgehog, Sonic-bring-him-to- Eggman-at-once." said the leader. Tails started to fly off. "No, Tails!" shouted Sally. Tails stopped in the middle of all the army. "Hey, boltbrains! Come and get me!" he said 10 meters above. Half of the swatbots raced after him while he was heading for the water. He stopped and went as far left as he could. The swatbots stopped. They looked around but couldn't find him. From a corner Tails threw a grenade and it blew up where the swatbots were. If you didn't blow up from the blast you were thrown into the river. He pulled out a GPS unit locating the nearest emerald so he could channel and harness it's power. The nearest one was in Knothole. He shut his eyes trying to concentrate. He got the conection and ran toward the other half. He jumped at them all at once, fighting, punching, and blasting. High up Sally was watching the battle. Huge steam rose and you couldn't see a thing. Though she was hearing the blasters. Then it all of a sudden it stopped. When the steam and smoke lifted, she saw swatbots lying everywhere, and Tails dragging Sonic. Chapter 3: "WHAT? ARE YOU SAYING THAT KITKOON DESTROYED THE ENTIRE ARMY?" boomed Robotnik. "Ya-ya-yes-sir." said one of the swatbots. Robotnik's face turned red. "Now-sir....-remember-your-high-blood-pressure..." Robotnik punched the swatbot into the wall and it exploded. "Sir, the probebot is in!" said Snivley. "Ooh... bring it in now!" said Robotnik. Snivley nervously talked over the comm. "Bring in the probot now!" Tails and Sally were carrying Sonic out of Robotropolis when five swatbots appeared infront of them. "You-there!" said one of them. "Tails, go tell the freedom fighters and bring Sonic!" yelled Sally. Tails airlifted Sonic out of Robotropolis. "You,-go-get-them!" said one of the swatbots to another. "Come- with-us-princess." Robotnik was infurriated when he watched the tape. All it showed was someone fishing. The door opened and they had Sally. "Here-is-a-pisoner-Lord-Ivo." said the leadbot. "Ah, hello princess. Put her in the chair." said Robotnik. The swatbots put Sally in a chair with an electric needle infront of her, and a Robotisizer above her. "Leave." said Robotnik to the swatbots. They all left the room. "So princess, what brings you around these parts?" chuckled Robotnik. Sally kept a strait face. "You know, princess, I've always admired you. You are very cunning and seem to always foil my plans. So use that intellect to answer this question- Where is Knothole Village?" "I'll never tell you!" said Sally. "I know you would say that, so I'm forced to do this." Robotnik pressed a small button, and the electric needle came close to Sally. It touched her neck and a large bolt shocked her. She wailed in pain, and Robotnik watched in pleasure. He pressed the button again, and the needle backed off. Sally was breathless. "So princess, you were saying?" "Over my dead body." said Sally. Robotnik chuckled. "That's the idea." The robotasizer tube started to come down. It stopped right above her head. Robotnik walked over to Sally. "This is your last chance." said Robotnik. Sally spit in his face. "That's it princess!" "One thing you gotta learn, doctor, is to bolt the feet down too." said Sally kicking Robotnik down. She kicked her leg up so Nicole flipped out of her boot and landed in her lap. "Nicole, un-lock the-" her sentance was broken by the needle shocking her. She was knocked out now. Robotnik was just about to press the Robotasization key when he heard a familiar voice from behind him. "Move and die, tubby." "Oh good, a two for one sale." said Robotnik turning around. "Hello you two-tailed freak!" Tails revved up his tails, and put both his fists out, and rammed into Robotnik. Dr. Robotnik went flying through the wall. Chapter 4: Tails was shaking Sally. "Comeon, Sally! Please wake up!" Sally's eyes barley opened. "Sa-Sonic?" "Nope, Aunt Sally." said Tails. "You can stop calling me AUNT Sally, Tails." said Sally. She hugged Tails. "Thanks buddy." she said. "Now let's get the heck outta here!" said Tails. "I don't think I can, Tails. I'm very weak." said Sally still half awake. She smiled, but Tails was determened. He picked her up with all his strength and ran out the door, outside. He grabbed her hand and started to fly, which was much easier than carrying her. Robotnik slowly got up, woozy from the fight. "Oh, how I hate that fox!" he said. He pressed on of the control buttons on his golve. "Bring in Commander Packbell." he said over his commlink. A few seconds later the door swooshed open revealing Packbell. "Hello Commander. I assume you saw what that acursed Miles Prower did?" asked Robotnik. "Yes sir." said Packbell. "Well it appears that Miles was the energy source I saw on the map. So all we have to do is track Miles, then we can, get the point?" said Robotnik. "Find Knothole. Great idea!" said Packbell exitedly. "Wait, I want you to send out our best spies to figure out exactly what Miles posseses. I'm not making the same mistakes again, Packbell. I'm not sending in a huge strike team to be led off another cliff." "Why not capture a freedom fighter and replace it with an automation?*" asked Packbell. Robotnik paused, considering the idea. "Very good idea, Packbell. I want one of your spybots to capture... hmm..." Robotnik had another idea. "Princess Sally. She our best hostage we could have and eventually we could have every single freedom fighter!" said Robotnik. "Yesir! I'll get right to it!" said Packbell stepping out. What a joke. thought Packbell. Tails lowered Sally into Knothole. Sally was starting to regain strength, and she was now strong enough to walk. Chaos saw Princess Sally. From what he'd heard about her, he would picture her as rugged, ugly, very muscular, and runned down. But no, he was wrong. She was very beatiful, and kept good hygine. She was stumbling into her hut with Tails. "Ah, The Chosen One." said Chaos. He was about to go into reality, one thing he never usually did. He hated becoming mortal, because you could be hurt. But oh well. He appeared right infront of the hut. He opened the door and stepped in. "Hello Princess, Miles." he said with an evil smile. "Who are you?" Sally angerly demanded. "Why, you don't even reconize your creator." said Chaos. "Chaos!" she said. She fell to the floor with both arms out in honor. Tails was just stepping back, a strange calmness coming over him. "Ah, Secline." said Chaos. "Who-who is that?" said Tails trembling. "Oh that's the name you were given before you were born." "What do you want?" asked Tails scared of such a mighty being in his presence. "Oh I just want to warn you of something. If you happen to run across a red emerald with a black spot in the middle, don't even touch it." said Chaos in a deep voice. "Wha-why?" said Tails. "Because then you will die." said Chaos stepping up to Tails. "Don't think me of someone as evil, Miles. I created Mobius, I will destroy it, and people will fall in my name. You, inparticuarlary I have on the good side." said Chaos vanishing. Tails looked down at Sally, who was still trembling. It reminded Tails of a tiny, scared animal that humans kept for pets. Tails sighed and put his hand on her shoulder. "Don't worry, Sally. He's gone." For the first time in his life he noticed that mature people get scared to. Shaking, Sally got up. "What did he do, big guy?" asked Sally. "Nothing harmfull. He was just warning me not to collect a certain type of emerald. *( Automation- A android; and autoly created being copying off a real, living flesh. ) Chapter 5: Sonic, Sally, and Tails were sitting down on a bench, talking. The utter silence in the air was broken when they heard a huge humming noise, one that would have came from a motor. They gritted their teeth and covered their ears. "There's a settlement!" said one of the humans in the hovership. The auto droid beside him said, "No. It's all ainimals." Sonic wasn't taking this. He jumped up and turned into a spindash. He blasted at the ship and it collided in the middle of the village. Oh Sonic, thought Sally. When will you ever learn? At this time all the Knothole Villagers had gathered around the ship waiting for whatever was in it to come out. The door slid open. A dark figure stepped out. It was a strong human, and looked about the same age as Sonic. Everyone was studying him, they never had a human in Knothole. Sally walked up to the human, the crowd not sure what to think. "Welcome to Knothole Village. I am Princess Sally Acorn, and you are?" "Hiyas. I'm Nick Hitchdack. I'm from Earth2." said the human. Sally thought, where had she heard earth two before? Oh yes, when all the resources of earth were used up, and smoke covered the planet, the humans moved to a new planet, a half soundyear away. "And where were you going?" asked Sally. "I WAS going to scout this area of Mobius, until your friend there stopped me." said Nick smiling. Sonic grunted. "And just who do you work for? Robotnik?" asked Sonic. Sally jabbed Sonic in the stomach. "No. I've heard of him though. He sounds like an evil tyrant." said Nick. "Well now were fighting him, for the good of Mobius, in this secret village of Knothole." said Sally. "Well," said Nick looking around. "It doesn't look like I'll be going anywhere soon. My ship is busted up to bad to be repaired, and my droid is damaged. Oh well. I need to get away from 'them' for awhile." "Who's 'THEM?'" asked Tails. "Hey there little guy! Well, the Gallions. That's the group I WAS in, they went mad and set their course strait into a star. So I excaped on my hovercraft, looking for somewhere to stay, while I build a spacecraft." said Nick. "You're more than welcome to stay with us. You'd be a great asset to-" Sally's speach was broken by Sonic. "Come on, Sal! He's a human! He can't be trusted!" "Oh. That's ok. As soon as my droid is repaired I'll leave." said Nick sadly. "No Mr. Hitchdack. You can stay as long as you would like." said Sally showing an angrey expession at Sonic. "Thanks, Princess Sally." said Nick. "Oh, I'm seventeen." he said. Oh great. Now I have two bozos older than me, Antoine and now this joke. thought Sonic. After they showed him to a hut, Sonic recommended he have a talk with Sally. "Sal! Are you crazy? He's a human!" said Sonic. "But Sonic, he seems very kind and he dislikes Robotnik as well!" "Looks like I gonna get anywhere with you Sal." said Sonic pulling out his arm. "Well Sonic, there's another thing I have to tell you." said Sally sighing. Sonic was looking grimly at her. "Yes?" Chapter 6: Sonic sat down hearing what she had said. He was shocked. He remembered what she had said. "I don't know, Sonic. Maybe I'm crazy, or going out my mind. I've had so many doubts the last few weeks. Robotnik seems to powerful. I just wish I had a normal life, Sonic. Like we had second chance... sometimes I just feel like dying, and ending all this greef. And whatever happens... I fear we may never take back Mobius. Sometimes, and I've always kept this a secret. I'm almost to the point of giving up. There's no way we can destroy him." Sonic had been baffilled by this. So that's it her deepest secret. "Sally, think about what your saying!" At that point Sally had reached insanity. She gave out one large scream then started to run around Sonic's hut bursting in tears. She fell to the ground. Sonic got up aproaching her. Sally got up and pushed Sonic down on the floor, then started to kick him back. Sonic had to much air knocked out of him. When she finally stopped, Sonic was unconsious. She started to knock over things screaming her lungs out. Then she broke out of her insanity. She looked around. What had she done. "Sonic!" she said, kneling before him. "Look at what I've done!" Then at that moment Nick and Bookshire ran in. "What happened?" asked Nick conserned. Sally bowed her head. "I can't say." Nick looked around. "I'll clean up the mess. Bookshire can look at Sonic." said Nick. Nick extended his hand toward Sally. She grabbed it and Nick helped her up. Later, Sonic came to his sense. "Sa-Sal...Sall, Sa...." said Sonic breathless. Sally sat down by Sonic. "I'm sorry Sonic..." That's all she needed to say. Sonic and Sally could tell what each other were feeling. Sally was filled with doubts, and Sonic was filled with sorrow. Bookshire got up. "You're going to be fine Sonic." he said stepping out. Nick knew they needed to talk alone, so he walked out of the hut too. Chapter 7: "Sonic I, I don't know what to say." said Sally. "Then don't say anything Sal. I think you need some sleep." Sonic and Sally stepped outside the hut. Sonic put his arms around Sally and gave her a kiss. "Goodnight Sally." he said. Sally slowly and sadly walked over to her hut. These had been hard times for the freedom fighters, with the death of Uncle Chuck and Muskki, and that Bunnie is handicapped, what the Dark Emerald had done, Robotnik tightening his grip and all... Nick stepped up to Sonic. "Poor girl." he said. Sonic felt like letting his hatred toward humans kill this "friend" beside him. "I understand you must of had a rough past with humans, Sonic. But I promise I'll help." said Nick. "You betcha I've had a rough past. Your kind is the people who struck war on the planet, killed my parents, and still controls Mobius. You don't care about anybody but yourself and you just want power." said Sonic fast. Nick was hurt by this, but he didn't resort to violence. He simply walked away. "Ez... Sonic. You don't have to treat zem him zo bad." said a voice from behind his hut. "What is it Ant?" said Sonic hesitly. "Zonic, name one zang he evarr deed to you." said Antoine. "It's not a he, Ant. Humans are self-programmed monsters. They fight for other things that are already someone elses. They are evil." said Sonic. "Like I said before, Zonic. What did he evar do to you?" asked Antoine. "Nothing so far." said Sonic. "So far." The morning finally came. Sally esembled the freedom fighters. "Ok, people, today were going all out. Were taking in alot of troops in the air duct, going after Robotnik." The freedom fighters were shocked. "You heard it. Today Robotnik will fall." A little later the people who were going were in the briefing room. It was a team of Sally, Sonic, Rotor, Tails, Nick, Bookshire, Antoine, and Nick's Droid And1. "You're some of our best men. Today our mission is called 'Bot Storm.' Sonic's cousin, Laken, has provided us a new device called Chronosphere. It allows us to transport from one area to another without crossing the space inbetween. It's going to chronoshift us in the air-duct right above Robotnik's main chamber. Put on these watches." said Sally handing out watches. When they were all on, she pressed a button, and then... They were right above the war room. "When I say go..." wispered Sally. "GO!" They all dropped down the duct. Their was Robotnik, and in a Robotasizer was... Sally? "Move and die." said the Sally not in the robotasizer. Then, a hundred swatbots from every direction came out. "Welcome to your fate. Your Sally isn't feeling herself today." chuckled Robotnik. Sonic turned around seeing that she was aiming a blaster at him. "I'm gonna turn you into vapor, blueboy!" said the Auto-Sally. Sonic turned around again looking at the real Sally. Atuo-Sally then fell to the ground. Nick had knocked her out. "Looks like you have a new freedom fighter." said Robotnik. Then tubes came down on everyone execpt Nick. "Start the robotasazation process." said Robotnik. Nick watched as one of the swatbots was walking over to a panel. His eyebrows slanted. He ran as fast as he could and slammed the swatbots into a group of others. The he busted the controls. Then he felt it. Heat. Nick fell to the ground, having third degree burns on him. The swatbots hit him hard. "No!!!!" shouted Robotnik. Auto-Sally got up and walked toward the swatbots. She ran into one, then they all started blasting each other in a mad rage. "Stop you fools!" boomed Robotnik. He pressed a button, and flew down a shaft. Auto-Sally walked out when every bot was dead, then she fell to the ground. Nick slowly got up, but bursts of ache exploded everytime he moved. He pulled a "Reverse Tube" lever, and the tubes arose. Rotor and Bookshire ran over to help Nick. Sonic and Sally embraced each other. "How long have you been gone?" asked Sonic. "Last night, when I walked into my hut, I was stunned by the automation." said Sally. Sonic smiled, and Sally smiled back. "Sonic I think there's someone you need to thank." said Sally. "Who?" Sally pointed to Nick. He saved your life. Do you trust him now, Sonic?" asked Sally. Sonic didn't reply. He gave out a deep breath and walked over to Nick. "You gonna be ok?" asked Sonic. "Yeah... I think I just got a big sidecramp." said Nick squinching his eyes. "Look, Nick, I'm sorry..." "That's ok Sonic. I understand." Sonic then left Nick. Chapter 8: Robotnik moaned. "This should have worked. Bring in Packbell right now!" he screamed over the comm. A second later, Packbell slowly came in. "Ya... yes sir?" "I thought you said that automation was made out of titainium!" boomed Robotnik. "It was, sir." "Then that guy... conquered titainium?" asked Robotnik. "I believe so, sir." said Packbell trembling. Robotnik's face turned red. "Leave before you suffer the same as the robots!" said Robotnik. Packbell ran away. Back at Knothole, everyone was congradulating Nick. They now had a new freedom fighter, and a good one at that. Now they had someone who could quickly figure out what other evil humans like Robotnik was thinking, and he was also very strong. Later that evening, Sonic and Sally were walking in the forest, when they stumbled upon a small part of Nick's ship. They both grabbed in at the same time, then a huge electric shock came out, which didn't let them go for ten seconds. They flew back, unconsious... The next sight they got was of Nick in a hospital room. "You guys took quite a shock." said Bookshire. "And the strange thing is, we found traces of Sonic's blood in Sally's, and the exact same thing in Sonic's." said Bookshire. Sonic and Sally smiled, lifting up their scars under their wrists. "See, we became blood brothers, by making slits in our wrists and puting them together. It's a long story.*" said Sally. "Other than that, you guys are perfectly okie dokie!" said Nick. They both got up. * ( Which happened in the storyline, "Saying Goodbye", You can request it by e-mailing me at DHayes432@aol.com ) Epilouge: That night, Sonic started to feel very cold and sad, but he didn't know why. He walked into Sally's hut to find her sobbing in her pillow. "Sally, is everything ok?" "Oh Sonic, no it's not... Rosie is very sick, and is planned to die..." said Sally falling into Sonic's arms. "Somehow, Sal, I knew that before you told me..." said Sonic. "Huh, how?" asked Sally, "I dunno... I felt cold and a sweep of sadness, and it signaled me to come here." said Sonic, not believing this was coming out of his mouth. "Yeah Sonic, and... oh...my...gosh..." Sally ran out f her hut toward Bunnie's. She ran in and asked, "Hey Bunnie, do you still have that sheet I did on telepathy?" Bunnie moved the wheels on her wheelchair to her desk and opened the drawer. "Letme see..." Chaos watched this. "So now the little princess and the fast hedgehog have telepathic powers, eh? Great. More mortals getting new powers. Oh boy. Have fun, while I'm stuck up here watching everything! Oh well, my armageddon will come soon enough..." Armageddon? Is he talking about... THE END Note From The Author: ( Armegedon- The end, or end of something usually with violence, pain, sadness, death, or something that many people would not enjoy. ) So how did you like the story? Though I've wrote alot of other stories, I'm taking the story "Dark Emerald" to shoot off my new series. If you're wondering what Sally means about "telepathy," and what Chaos is calling his "armagedon," your answers will be answered in my next fanfic! Catch ya later, David Hayes