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Disclaimer: This story is based on Sonic The Comic
(UK) and partly the "SegaSonic" (games) continuities of Sonic. All characters copyright Sega Limited or Egmont Publishing.
All Rights Reserved.
Emerald Power
A FanFic by Luke "Buzz Bomber" Fletcher
1 Prologue
Sonic and
Tails had saved the day again! Everyone on the Planet Mobius couldn't be happier that their two saviours had triumphed over
Doctor Ivo Robotnik once more. Well, everyone except for Robotnik himself, of course.
The fat Doctor sat in his revolving
chair (which he'd only bought because he liked to spin round in it. Well, when I say bought I mean- of course- stole). He
was looking through some Badnik designs that he'd come up with. He sighed to himself. He couldn't hide it anymore.
Without
his faithful Grimer, his Badnik designs were simply slightly upgraded versions of older models. And it was a long time since
Sonic had trouble smashing a Crabmeat Badnik.
Robotnik flipped through the next few designs and diagrams. He could
no longer think of anything to do. He had to rebuild it. He had to recreate his deadliest machine ever, but make it stronger.
He had to rebuild.
.The Death Egg.
Unfortunately- for Robotnik anyway- he would need to steal the Chaos Emeralds
in order to power such a craft. However, this time, he would need them all, not just the Master Emerald. If he could get all
the Chaos Emeralds, he would have a totally indestructible Death Egg.
There was only one thing to do. And that was
to begin right away. First, though he would have to build new Trooper Badniks. Luckily, he still had a huge pot of molten
metal and so that would be easy.
He set to work.
2 Chapter 1: A day in the life of a cool, blue hedgehog
Not
for the first time- and probably not the last, either- Sonic and Tails were up against a small regiment of Troopers. This
time, however they had to run away, not something Sonic favoured doing. He liked running perfectly well. It was the whole
running away thing that he didn't like.
Tails dared a glance over his shoulder and didn't like what he saw, "Sonic,
I don't like what I see," he said. Sonic listened to his friend and replied with, "What's that, then?"
"Well," Tails
answered, "will a fleet of EggRobo do you?" Sonic's eyes widened. "A fleet of EggRobo and a regiment of Troopers?" Sonic smiled,
"No problem"
With the style and grace of a ballerina (though not quite as pink), Sonic flipped backwards- without looking,
as usual- and landed right on top of an EggRobo. Sonic grinned widely, "Hmm. EggRobos. You're the ones with the guns, right?"
Before his enemy could answer, Sonic swiftly snatched the EggRobo pistol right from its owner's gloved hand. "Yep," Sonic
smiled to himself, "you're the ones with guns, alright"
Sonic being Sonic took this opportunity to move. He wasn't
dumb. He knew that all the other EggRobos and the Troopers would be aiming right at him. Badniks didn't care whether they
were killed as long as Sonic could go, too. They weren't programmed to.
After what happened with the Metallix and Commander
Brutus, Robotnik had decided that all Badniks should have knowledge of a self-destruct chip deleted from their files. That
way, if they turned traitor, then they were exploded.
However, Sonic had inadvertently leapt right into the centre
of the EggRobos and Troopers. Sonic knew, though that Badniks were dumb. As all the Troopers and EggRobos took aim, Sonic
prepared himself.
Then suddenly, they shot.
All at once they blasted away at their target. Destroying it. Blowing
it to pieces. Their target was no more- it wouldn't pose a threat to them again.
Though quite how a cement floor can
pose a threat to anyone is unknown. Sonic had leapt up milliseconds before being blasted. Now he was using a very sneaky tactic.
Drawing enemy fire to other enemies he was stood near to. If he wasn't Spin Attacking the robots, then they were being shot
anyway.
A few minutes later, Sonic stood victorious on top of a pile of scrap metal. He cheered himself on, "Once again,
the hero of Mobius saves the Metropolis Zone and the crowd go wild! Raaaaaah!!!"
Tails watched on. He knew just how
smug Sonic could be. This was a prime example of this. He also knew that Sonic wouldn't shut up about it on the way home to
the Emerald Hill Base. Modest, Sonic wasn't.
Tails flew over to where Sonic was standing, "So, now are you happy?"
he enquired. Sonic grinned broadly from ear to ear, "Never been better, my two tailed chum!"
Yes, thought Tails, it'll
take a lot to shut him up, now.
Hours later, back at the Emerald Hill Base, Sonic was recalling the story to
the gang for the fifth time that day. Truthfully, though they sat in supposed amazement, they'd lost interest the second time
round.
For Tails on the other hand, it was the first time round- just after Sonic had said that there must have been
"at least 500 Troopers there and 300 EggRobo". Tails wasn't a great counter of crowds, but there were no more than 30 of each
kind of robot there.
"So," Sonic carried on, "there I was, heroically standing my ground when these 800 Badniks appeared."
Shorty the Squirrel- also known as Shortfuse the Cybernik when he was wearing his new armour made by Tekno the Canary as he
still wanted to help Mobius- was bored rigid. He wasn't great at remembering things, but he was sure the last time Sonic had
told the story, Tails was actually in some way involved.
Amy, as much as she cared for Sonic, wanted to punch his lights
out, right now.
And as for Tekno, she would much rather have been working on a new invention to help Mobius, rather
than listen to this drivel.
Even the Kintobor Computer was becoming tired of this little tale. And the Kintobor Computer
wasn't even programmed to become bored.
Honestly speaking, Kintobor believed that his programming might have become
a little broken over recent months. He reasoned it was when Sonic spilt Diet Koke down his main keyboard and then tried to
wash it out with soapy water.
Kintobor had noticed since then that he had been bored, tired and even slightly in love.
With Amy's laptop, of course.
The Kintobor Computer had been programmed by Doctor Kintobor himself. Porker Lewis had
later reconditioned him and so some important files were accidentally lost- for example which parameters to stick to.
Thankfully,
though, there was no chance of him being hacked again, like the time Grimer made him into the ultimate nightmare Badnik.
As
Sonic reached the part where the EggRobo's gun was snatched, he realised no one was listening. In fact, they weren't listening
because they were all asleep. Sonic decided to follow suit.
Early on the next morning Sonic and the gang were
rudely awakened by Tails. Well, Tails' scream at any rate, "Yiiiiiiikes!" yelled the little fox. Sonic ran immediately to
the source of the shrill call and found Tails was being dragged off outside. As it transpired, a Grabber Badnik with castor
wheels attached had Tails in its horrible grasp.
Sonic grimaced horribly. One of the reasons Robotnik had made Grabber
a spider Badnik was that Sonic had terrible arachnophobia. Sonic knew that he had to be careful, now. If scared, a Grabber
Badnik would explode, which was bad news if it had a hostage.
"Hey, you!" Sonic risked. The Grabber turned on its squeaky
wheels. Clearly, Robotnik hadn't put much thought into a Grabber with wheels. "What?" the robot enquired. Sonic had already
leapt up into a Super Sonic Spin Attack. "That was a bad move" said the Grabber, turning red. Oh, flip! What've I done now?,
thought Sonic.
Tails- now really scared- shouted, "Sonic! Smash it, quickly before it can blow up!" Sonic, however,
was way ahead of Tails and had slammed into the Grabber with a Spin Dash Attack, blasting the eight legged terror to oblivion
and releasing a Flicky.
"That was close," said Sonic, who was glad Tails was safe.
"Way too close," said Tails,
who was all too happy to be free.
"Tweet," said the Flicky, who had no idea what was going on.
Sonic figured
out that Tails was going to have been taken in so that Robotnik could use him and want the Chaos Emeralds as ransom. How did
he figure it out? Well, a little bird told him. Or, rather, it'd told Tails who could understand Tweet.
At any rate,
Sonic now had to find out why Robotnik would want the emeralds. True, he'd always wanted them before, but why right now? Sonic
sat in deep thought.
Eventually, he realised he was completely stumped, "I'm completely stumped," he said, "Tails,
the only way we're gonna find out what Robotnik needs the Emeralds for is to go and attack his base"
"You're right,"
Tails concurred, "let's go!"
He dashed off before noticing Sonic hadn't moved. He walked slowly back towards Sonic
who asked him, "Where are you going?"
"To Robotnik's base" Tails replied
"Tails? Where IS Robotnik's base?"
asked Sonic with a slightly impatient air.
"Um, well.I don't know" Tails was forced to say
"No, I didn't think
you did. Come on, maybe we'll find some clues in the Aquatic Ruin Zone"
"Why the Aquatic Ruins?"
"I just have
a feeling, that's all. I mean- Robotnik's not used that place in ages." a pause, "Ever. Well, once. So I guess, since he's
been around the other Zones recently, he'd try this out"
"Oh" Tails answered
"Let's go, then!" and with that,
Sonic sped off in the direction of the Aquatic Ruin Zone with Tails only about half a metre behind him.
Sonic knew
Robotnik wasn't in the Aquatic Ruins. He also had a plan as to why he'd want Robotnik there.
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