Prelude to Chaos
Part I of the Mecha-Wars Saga
By Hack Emery


Sonic the Hedgehog is the property of Sega Enterprises, but my robots
belong to me.  All Mecha-Warriors are my idea.  Hack Emery belongs to
me, 'cause I'm Hack Emery.  This story must not be altered in any way,
but you can download it and read it and stuff like that.  Send praise,
and polite comments about mistakes and opinions to
hackemery@hotmail.com.  All flames will be forwarded to the FBI, who
will in turn arrest you for mail fraud.

Note:  This story takes place before the Doomsday project



Robotnik turned in his giant chair.  He smiled as he looked out at the dark
city around him.  This was not his command center; it was the remains of an
abandoned SWAT-Bot factory.  And while it wasn't the nicest place in
Robotropolis, it was perfect for the experiment.
       "Engage."
Snively hit the button, and the machine surged to life.  Millions of volts
churned through the machine.  It lit up, and a soft voice intoned, "Roboticizer
operational.  Please insert innocent victim now."
       "It's a success, sir!" said Snively.
        Robotnik's huge body shook with happiness.  "This is sure to spell doom
for the Freedom Fighters!"
        "Um, sir," said Snively, scratching his head.  "It's just a
roboticizer.  How can it spell doom for the Freedom Fighters?"
        "Let me show you," said Robotnik, grinning.  "Bring in the first
victim!"
        A door opened, and a SWAT-Bot walked in.  "Yes, master?"
        "Sir, it's a robot!" said Snively.  "You can't roboticize a robot!"
        "Just watch.  Step into the entry chamber, please!" said Robotnik,
smiling.
        The SWAT-Bot climbed through the portal, and Robotnik slammed shut the
door.  "Now roboticizing.  Please enter design specifications."
        Robotnik stuck a CD into a small hole and watched it whirl.  Snively
tried to figure out what was going on.  Suddenly, the entry hatch opened
and the SWAT-Bot stepped out.  Well, it was no longer a SWAT-Bot.
        "I... don't believe it...." Snively gasped.  "You've been trying to
build that 'bot for years!"
        "Yes, Snively.  My new roboticizer can modify the SWAT-Bots.  It also
has a supercomputer which allows it to find the errors in my designs,
and then it creates the weapon of destruction I thought of!" cackled
Robotnik.
        The new 'bot stared coldly at Snively.  "Um, hi," said Snively
nervously.
        "You must be roboticized for the glory of the great Ivo Robotnik!"
snarled the robot, beginning to move towards Snively.
        "Eek," Snively squeaked.
        "Stop!" shouted Robotnik.  The robot stopped.  "Snively is not to be
roboticized."
        "Affirmative.  Hello, Snively!" said the robot.
        Snively sighed with relief.  "What is it's name?"
        Robotnik shrugged.  "I haven't thought of a special name for this
robot, but he's the first of the next generation of 'bots!  And that
generation will spell doom for the Freedom Fighters!"
        Snively nodded in agreement.  "I'm impressed."
        "I am a Mecha-Warrior," said the robot.  "And Sonic the Hedgehog is
doomed!"

        Sonic the Hedgehog ran through the forest, bouncing off rocks, leaping
over bushes, and just generally having fun.  "Come, come on," he
muttered.  "You've got to be here somewhere."
        Suddenly, he heard a rustling of branches.  Looking up, he spotted
Tails above in the tree.  "Ah-ha!" Sonic said, as he began to climb up
the tree.  Tails grinned, and leapt to a neighboring branch.  Then Tails
reached out and broke the branch he had been sitting on before, so Sonic
could not pursue him.
        "You can't catch me!" said Tails, as he leapt from branch to branch,
using his two tails to help himself balance.
        Suddenly, Sonic heard a rumbling noise.  "Do you hear something?" asked
Sonic.
        "No," said the fox.
        Sonic looked at the ground.  You couldn't really hear it.  It was more
liked something you felt.  Some things were funny that way.  "Come down
here, Ta--"
        Suddenly, a hand burst through the ground and a robot followed it.
"Woah!" yelled Sonic, leaping out of the way as fire erupted from the
'bot.
        "Freeze, hedgehog!" yelled the robot.  "You can't fight the
Mecha-Warriors!"
        "Mecha-What!?" asked Sonic.
        "Mecha-Warriors," repeated the robot.  "Let me introduce you to my
friends..."
        Suddenly, the tree came to life, and flung Tails to the ground.  A
robot came from the tree, and it said, "I'm Mecha-Earth!"
        A gush of water sent Sonic sprawling to the ground.  Another robot
came!  "I'm Mecha-Water!"
        "Not good.  Way past not good," said Sonic, getting to his feet.
"These robots are using nature against us, Tails!"
        "I know," said Tails.  "Robotnik must have built them based on one of
the ancient Greek theories!"
        "Greeks?  What about them?" Sonic asked, leaping out of the way as more
water threatened to engulf him.  "And what theory?"
        "The Greeks believed that Mobius was made of four things," said Tails,
dodging another attack from Mecha-Fire.  "Earth, water, fire, and--"
        "Air!" finished Mecha-Air, as a gust of wind flung Tails and Sonic
against a tree.
        "Tails!" gasped Sonic, attempting to fight the winds.  "Go for help!"
        Sonic performed a Sonic Spin, burrowing into the ground.  Distracted,
the Mecha-Warriors peered into the hole.  Seeing this, Tails flew away.
        Mecha-Water started to go after Tails, but Mecha-Fire stopped him.
"Fire into the hole!" said Mecha-Fire.
        Mecha-Water activated his water bazooka, and Sonic heard the water
rumbling behind him.  Sonic spun faster, desperately attempting to
escape being slammed into paste.  He turned, heading up, hoping that his
direction was right.
        "Unnh!" grunted Mecha-Fire, as Sonic slammed into him.  Sonic ran for
cover as the water covered Mecha-Fire.
        "Hey!" shouted Sonic.  "Mecha-Water!"
        Mecha-Water stopped pouring water into the hole and turned.  Sonic
slammed his fist into the 'bot's face.  Mecha-Water fell into the hole.
        Sonic grinned.  "Two down!" he said.
        Another burst of flame.  "One down, you mean!" said Mecha-Fire.
"Robotnik built us so that we could resist on another's attacks!"
        Sonic frowned, and ran for cover.  He hid behind a rock.
        Suddenly, the rock topple over, nearly crushing the hedgehog.  "Hey!"
cried Sonic, as a giant hand made out of rocks came from the ground.
"No fair!"  He wrenched himself free of the iron grip of Mecha-Earth,
only to find that he couldn't breathe.
        "Where's... where's... Mecha-Air?" he gasped, swinging his fists
wildly.
        "You can't see me, hedgehog!" said Mecha-Air.  "While my Mecha-Warrior
brothers required a robot body, I do not!"
        Sonic frowned, then swung again.  He heard a grunt.  "You mean you used
a cloaking device!" Sonic snarled, kicking some dirt onto the
Mecha-Warrior.  The dirt came back at him, as spikes!  Sonic leapt out
of the way.
        Suddenly, the onslaught stopped.  Sonic turned his head, wary of
another attack.  It came.  All the 'bots attacked at once.  Sonic leapt
out of the way as Mecha-Earth and Mecha-Fire slammed into one another.
They exploded in a burst of flames.
        "I thought you could stand each others attacks!" said Sonic, confused
momentarily.
        A deep voice rumbled, "We can!"  A chunk of molten rock nearly tore off
Sonic's head.  "We are Mecha-Volcano!"
        "Oh, great," Sonic groaned.  He glanced at the new cone-shaped figure,
then realized that the two Mecha-Warriors had merged into one robot.  At
least now he only had to dodge attacks coming from two different
directions.
        Mecha-Air leapt at Sonic, who delivered a wicked left uppercut aimed at
Mecha-Volcano.  Mecha-Volcano dodged, but Sonic's fist connected with
the Mecha-Air robot.  Mecha-Air twirled wildly as his cloaking device
was destroyed.  He fell into the hole that Mecha-Water was floating
about in.  Another explosion, as water flew everywhere.
        "Oops," said Sonic.
        "Mecha-Typhoon is here!" shouted another voice.  "You cannot defeat
us!"
        Sonic gulped.

        Tails touched the ground and shouted to Antione, "Sonic is in trouble!"
        Antione frowned.  He was on look-out duty, and hoped that he would not
have to look out for anything.  He began to sound the alarm.
        Sally was the first out of her hut.  She had just awoken from an
afternoon nap, and yawned.  It was probably another false alarm.
"What's up, Ant?" asked Rotor, scratching his head.
        "Zee hedgehog eez in zee trouble!" said Antione, frowning even more.
        "Yeah!" said Tails.  "We got attacked by Robotnik's new robots, called
Mecha-Warriors!"
        Sally didn't like the sound of that.
        "Tails, can you show us where the sugar-hog is?" asked Bunnie.
        Tails nodded nervously.

        "Unnh," grunted Sonic, as he felt himself being carried away by the
winds.  He grabbed onto a branch and held on as tightly as he could.
        "We are invincible!" laughed Mecha-Typhoon.  "You cannot defeat us!"
        "Oh, put a sock in it, you Mecha-Menaces!" Sonic snarled angrily.  He
felt the branch began to snap.  Once he was in the air, Mecha-Volcano
could easily kill him.  He held on desperately, and reached for another
branch.  It was close... so close....
        A blast from Mecha-Volcano sent the branch flying away.  Mecha-Volcano
aimed carefully.  Sonic had an idea.  He turned on his anti-gravity
soles, and due to the winds, flew every which way.  Mecha-Typhoon,
confused that he could not control the hedgehog's movements, stopped his
attack for a moment to compute what was going on.  Sonic took this
opportunity to turn off his anti-gravity soles and slam into
Mecha-Volcano below.
        Suddenly, a robot fist connected with Mecha-Typhoon, sending him
sprawling.
        "Y'all know better than to mess with the sugar-hog, don't you?" asked
Bunnie, grinning.
        Sally crouched low and tripped Mecha-Volcano, who went crashing to the
ground once more.
        "Get them!" shouted Mecha-Volcano, leaping towards Tails.  Tails took
off into the air, narrowly avoiding the lava that flowed from
Mecha-Volcano's cannon.  He grinned as he got an idea.  Mecha-Typhoon
circled around the fox, searching for a good chance to attack.
        Mecha-Typhoon fired, and Tails leapt out of the way.  The blast slammed
into the Mecha-Volcano, who spluttered as he began to smoke.
        "Let's get out of here," snarled Mecha-Volcano, as he backed away from
the Freedom Fighters.  Tails grinned as the robots retreated for the
relative safety of Robotropolis.
        "We did it!" laughed Bunnie.
        "I brought Aunt Sally and Aunt Bunnie here as soon as I could!" said
Tails.
        Sonic grinned.  "Way to go, little buddy!" he said,
        "Thanks, Sonic!"
        "What were those?" asked Sally, frowning.
        "Mecha-Warriors," said Sonic.  "And I don't think we've seen the last
of them, either."

        Robotnik smiled.  "Everything is going according to plan."
        Snively nodded.  "Now that some Mecha-Warriors have experience with
battling Sonic, they will be able to give that data to the new ones you
create.  Brilliant, sir.  Did you decide on a name for your new
machine?"
        "I call it the Mechanizer," said Robotnik, grinning.  He turned to face
the newly-named roboticizer.  "Initiate phase two!"
        The Mechanizer hummed to life, and prepared to unleash it's new weapon
of destruction.

To Be Continued....