Archie Luke narrowed his eyes. "He's found Knothole...how..." he muttered as he reached for his weapon and retrieved it- a redwood oak staff about the size of his own torso. He stood his ground for a bit, before a voice cut through the air. "It doesn't matter, counterpart." his own voice said, but wait it didn't come from his mouth- and hte voice had been darker, more solemn then his. "Wha?" Archie Luke mumbled.

Almost on request, Fleetway Luke jumped down from his posiston in the tree. Landing right next to Archie Luke- who jumped at the action. Well more by who it was then the landing. "-the heck?"

"That's what I thought at first." he said.

Archie Luke blinked. It was him, but not him at the same time.

"Now you see what I'm going to do? I'm going to gather my energy. Maybe you should too." he chuckled.

He closed his eyes and put his hands together. Archie Luke looked at Fleetway Luke as he did this. "Gathering energy, eh? But viole-"

"It's either do or die, my friend." Fleetway Luke droned as he gathered energy.

"Yeah, yeah- okay." Archie Luke then did the same. And gathered natures energy. There was two ways the energy could be interpted now. As a spirital shield of energy around knothole- a barrier. Or a blast of nature's essence at the robots.

They choose the latter.

The arrival of the army of Troopers and Swatbots was no doubt a surprise to Bunnie, after all the day had started out so seemingly peaceful yet had all crashed down when this new Sonic had suddenly arrived and attacked. She wasn't about to stand still and wait for the others to simply decide on a course of action, rather Bunnie instinctively jumped forwards, and with her jet thrusters improving her speed, had reached a pair of Troopers before they had expected.

Bunnie grabbed the one on her left with metallic arm, and threw him at the other Trooper next to it. As they crashed together their metallix bodies caved in from the force and the two were in a sense stuck together as they fell to the ground.

"Error, error! Girl's power higher then anticipated." The Trooper shouted out.

"Ya know, I preferred when you guys just didn't talk." Bunnie angrily added, and then slammed her foot down onto the Troopers' heads, caving them in and destroying them.

She then turned to look to the other approaching machines. There were far too many of them, but despite it, she wouldn't give up fighting.

IC:

Tech and Amanda were now within sight of the mansion hideout.

"Good! We're almost there! I gotta get on my computer and find out what's happening!" said Tech.

"Yeah! I have to..." Suddenly Amanda was cut off by Tech pulling her behind a bush!

"Wait here Amanda! Something's wrong! I can feel the ground shaking!"

Tech took to the air and looked around the forest. About 4 miles back, he guessed, was a HUGE battalion of robots heading in the direction of Knothole!

Tech was horrified and quickly flew back to Amanda.

"Quick! We gotta get back to the base!" He said. "Grab all the files you can from my computer room! I'll do the same, but I'm going to get my portable PC and some other stuff first! We've got 10 minutes! Then we head for Knothole!" he said.

"Tech! What is going on? Jet told us to stay at the mansion!"Amanda replied.

"Jet didn't know that an army of swatbots was heading this way! We have to grab what we can and leave NOW!" He exclaimed.

The two dashed to the hideout and went straight for Tech's computer room grabbing files and CDs and forcing them into two backpacks. After grabbing his portable PC, Tech and Amanda were gone!

Though they went as quickly as they could, when they reached the Village area, the treestump was already gone! It was destroyed by something!

"Oh no! We're too late!" Tech exclaimed as an army of robots continued to pour into the village!

"What do we do now?" asked Amanda. "We can't go in now! We'll be seen!"
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Knothole

Jet was definately worried now!

"I hope they're safe!" he thought as he charged in to take out some bots!

Jet didn't use any actual weapons. No! He used his claws. They were unusually sharp and strong so he had no trouble slashing the robots wide open and busting them up with his tail!

"I have to help!" he thought as he slashed a robot open and kicked it into the group behind it destroying three!

"Aunt Bunnie behind you!" The youthful voice yelped out from her side. Bunnie whirled around in time to see Toby's small form grapple with one of the Troopers.

Before she could move something trigger a slight twitch in her robotic parts. A twitch she knew well enough by now, she felt the ground rumble slightly, her keen ears picking up the buzz of an electrical charge. She knew what was coming.

Rico was a rather odd figure, he seemed to like to be in control but never really helped with any missions. He butted heads with Sally almost constantly because of that. But she knew what he was capable of, so did most of knothole. It allowed Sally to leave less than a skeleton guard in knothole when they were on missions.

Buzzz... Like a fly in her ear. She heard it while she slammed her metal fist into another trooper. She paused almost not believe her eyes. It happened in a flash, she saw Toby's thin arm lurch back like he was going to hit the trooper in the gut. Suddenly the grinding of gears as the troopers internal gyro failed to keep balance after the impact. Rico's tell tale bark hit the air moments before the attack, "Telum no hac CALEM!" *CRACK* The initial crack and flash made her tense and protect her ears from for massive explosion of sound that came afterward. The flash left the robot attacking Tobias and another behind it charred, before they fell to the ground completely short circuited. She gave a smirk knowing this was precisely why Rico never left knothole and charged another robot.

"YAH!" Rico roared out charging another Trooper and jamming his sword into it. The Troop returned by picking the fox up like a doll and tossing him into a tree. It almost smiled raising its weapon to finish the job. "Leave 'em alone!" Came the particular youthful battlecry from behind the Trooper. It moved to intercept the small bunny but found the speeding rabbit dodging right under its legs. It whirled around again to see - nothing. The rabbit had finished.

*CLANG* It's internal controls went haywire. The trooper teetered, something very powerful had hit it from above crippling its movement. The rabbit bounced to the ground, then fell on his rump clumsily. The damaged robot stumbled toward the boy fumbling to aim its weapon.

It sound almost like a buzzsaw, the robot's midsection jerked forward and exploded with a blur of blue. It fell leaving a smirking hedgehog staring at the rabbit. "Careful kid, you may be stronger than ya look but you're no Sonic." He winked. Toby smiled and stumbled to his feet, "Thanks Son... LOOK OUT!" Another robot from behind charged. *SHINK* *CACKLE-BUZZ* The robot fell to the ground cackling with electricity, a sword in its power core.

"Thats probably a good thing." Grunted Rico's voice painfully. Toby rushed over and helped the fox to his feet. "They aren't going to stop. We have to get everyone out of here. NOW, Sonic, before more people get hurt." Barked Rico's counterpart running over.

IC:

Jet took out about three more bots before dashing over to the group. He hated the thought, but...

"There's waaay too many Sonic! He may be right! We have to help whoever we can and get out of here!" Jet spoke as he met up with the group.

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Meanwhile, Tech and Amanda were hiding in a group of bushes as the armies marched by.

"Why are we just waiting here? Shouldn't we try to leave?" Amanda asked.

"Do you WANT to be spotted?" We wait until we can get by without attracting any unwanted attention."he answered.

"But they may need our help!"

"We haven't got a choice! there's too many of them now."
The two then focused their attentions back on the robots. Hoping to catch a break of some sort!
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OOC: Sorry if it sucks. X(

Trees, another of natures grate goliaths that stand testament to the test of time far better then life ever could, and like many other such wonders of the natural world, they change very, Very slowly. This is just as well, as when you're running across the canopy using memory alone to guide you, you tend to rely on the fact that nothing has changed since you're last visit. A single tree that fell in the storm, a single branch that fell apart from woodworm, that would be all it would take to send the hybrid plummeting to the ground. Four years had passed since Logan had taken the high rout though the grate forest, and it was by shear luck alone that he hadn't yet come across a patch with a missing tree. In the approaching distance, he could see smoke rising from his destination, a withered gray column that suggested the battle had begun long before.
After a few more minuets of leaping across the canopy, the Fulf vanished beneath the leafy green cover, perching on a lower branch to asses the damage around the entrance to the secret village below.
Around thirty bots were still filing their way though the relatively small gap that they had blasted in the Thorn-Wall, their sensors focused on the task at hand, none of them looking back for any signs of pursuit. And why would they? They were defiantly a force to be reckoned with. But now they were all tightly packed into such a small space. Dozens of M-tech micro reactors just feet from one another... They might be a force to be reckoned with, but they were still cannon-fodder in Logan's eyes. Needless to say, no saboteur in his right mind ever left without a good pound of high explosive, and Logan was the type that always checked his wiring twice.

It's difficult to imagine what must have gone through the primitive 'personality-chips' of the swatbots as four fists sized frag-grenades clattered down passed their metal shells and onto the forest floor.
Maybe it was something like: "Awww cra-"
Or just possibly: "Damn, I've wasted my li-"
Though it was more likely something along the lines of: "Warning, proximity to high explosives detected, taking evasive ac-" (or "110010110111000010100110101 011010111101001 1011 101101101 1110-)
Whatever it was that coursed though their minuet silicon brains at the time, there defiantly wouldn't have been any chance to finish their train of thought, the grenades exploding almost the instant they touched the ground. If that wasn't bad enough, the secondary explosion from the bots themselves certainly took the prize for the 'most impressive bang'.

Logan clung to his branch, keeping his eyes tightly shut as the scolding hot air rushed past him. It seemed to last an eternity, the shockwave leaving the Fulf partly stunned and sweltering heat singeing his fur as the flames rose up through the branches as though propelled by an unholy wind. Fianly, the torrent seemed to wane, and the hybrid pealed his claws out of the bark of the bough, looking down on the scene of utter destruction below. The entrance to Knothole was now completely blocked with burning scrap metal, the stench of incinerated Chrome plating and smoldering engine oil lacing his nostrils like a thick layer of tar. Bits and peaces of the ill fated robots were imbedded along the full length of the surrounding trees and a good majority of the surrounding foliage was now ablaze. What few bots near the entrance who had escaped the carnage were now left either on fire or with limbs missing from the flying shrapnel. Around a half dozen were still holding position just out of range of the blast, surprisingly without a scratch but left devoid of orders, their instructions to go though the main entrance no longer plausible under any stretch of the imagination.

Logan nodded silently to himself, satisfied that the waves of attackers had been subdued for the time being, but heaven only knew how many bots were already within the village walls. There couldn't have been more then twenty or so outside, but there were usually to sixty in every battalion, and needless to say there would undoubtedly be many more on their way. The battle was far from over, and if the evacuees of the Rail-Road were to stand a chance, knothole had to hold until their arrival.

However, just as the hybrid was about to ascend to the tree tops once again, he spotted something to the far left of the fire, cowering behind the foliage. Squinting slightly, he could make out two shapes through the smoke and heat distortion, clinging to one another in shock, their eyes firmly fixed on the now obliterated entrance to the village. They seemed unharmed, thank the havens, but shocked never the less.

"So, ya gona help them?"
The Fulf gave a start, clinging first to his hart and then to the tree trunk as he nearly fell from its side. Looking up to where the voice had come from, he spotted a small grey fox kit, sitting quite calmly on a branch just above his own, seemingly oblivious to the battle raging below.

Not more then eight or ten years old, the child truly looked a right sorry sight. Scrawny, flea-bitten and with such a week complexion that it appeared as though he would faint at any second, a runt in the worst kind of way. His tail was drooped lazily over the edge of the branch, unmoving and without prepuce. In fact, from the way the boy was sprawled out on the frail limb, it was as though he had the weight of the world upon his tiny shoulders.
The Kit sighed again "Well.. go on then. Run off and save them. They always do.. need saving I mean."

Logan tilted his head slightly, staring at the depressed boy and screwing his features into an extremely confused expression "What the heck are you doing out here, kid? Don't you know its dangerous!"

"No its not the bots never look up, and their too busy with the village."

He had to admit, the boy had him there. But the fulf wasn't about to give up at that.
"Ok then, but you still shouldn't be here. Where are you're parents?"
"Dead."
"Guardians then?"
"No idea."
"Well 'Someone's got to be looking after you?!?"
Again the child sighed lightly, turning his head to look down at the stranger below him, his eyes meeting the Fulf's with a near tangible melancholy. A spike of pity jabbed into Logan's stomach as he stared deep into the long-dead pupils. It wasn't something you could simply put your finger on, not something that could be easily described, but it was compelling none the less. It was as though the glimmer of childhood had been sucked from them, innocence forcibly torn away. Even those who had been victim to this horrendous war still had that shine of blamelessness deep within the shadows of pain. But within this kit's eyes there seemed to be nothing but agony.

"Look, Thanks for the worry, but I'm quite fine right here."

The Fulf shook his head, quietly grumbeling something about 'babysitting' in frustration as he quickly scrambled up to the branch, grabbed the boy by the paw and slung the kit roughly onto his back.

"Ok kid, hold on tight an' keep shtun'. Got it?"

The boy barely had time to protest before the Fulf leapt to one side of the branch, dug his claws into the bark of the tree and began to slide down. Suddenly, holding on for dear life didn't seem such a bad idea, the kit screwing his eyes closed and clinging to his kidnapper with all five limbs as they slid, bounded and swung their way down to the forest floor.
Mere seconds later, there was a soft thump as they reached fair terra-firma, the fulf making sure to land out of sight and as quietly as possible. The boy was still clinging to his back, shaking pathetically and refusing to let go even when Logan tried to prize him off. Giving up for the time being, the fulf quickly made his way around the battle site to where the two others were hiding. Gently he tapped one on the shoulder, his paw barely having time to stop Amanda from yelping in surprise.

ooc: Shtun': 'keep Quiet'.

"Stop griping and fight, we can talk about running when we don't have an army of robots coming down on -"*thud*

"Rick! Som'on help!" Toby yelped feeling the fox go limp, a large chunk of metal from the massive explosion at the robot entry point at been thrown all the way into his side.

Meanwhile outside the wall gunfire ripped through the air. It's source was a gerbil with clearly not-natural black headfur. He took a large acrobatic leap backward and land by a gray rabbit in a rather bright red jacket.

"So you're saying you're not Kinnear, you're from another reality, you're from THIS planet in another reality, and IN this other reality you're a close friend of the Rico Underwood from THAT reality." The gerbil sneered in between rounds of his handguns.

The rabbit darted forward and slammed an oddly shaped weighted staff into a SWATbot, then finished it off with a strike across the face to knock its head off. "Thats *YA* about the siz'a it. Take it you kow ol' Rick then." The gerbil gave a smug look, fired the last of his clip into another bot then swiftly changed to a spare clip, slamming it into place. "You could say that. Lets start moving, this place is getting boring." The rabbit nodded, "Right behind you. Still gotta find the others."

IC:
Jet was startled by the flying schrapnel(sp?). There really wasn't anything he could do with all the robots around. They were coming faster than ever now. Rico would have to wait. They risked him getting hurt more if they were to move him while under attack. They would need a distraction in order to safely help the fox.

"Hmm. Maybe I'll just stop talking." he said as he trashed 4 bots from spinning his tail around. He realized they were stuck here until the robots were all destroyed! But there were so many. They just kept coming! Then he remembered! He can use energy attacks too! He used them not too long ago! That would make a nice diversion for the robots!

Jet jumped over the robots and decided to get in as far as he could before trying anything. He didn't want anyone other than robots to get hurt. Once he was in a very fair distance and was out of range of the Freedom Fighters he decided he could go ahead and try his plan out.

"Alamaris Perithus!" he shouted. He had no clue what the words meant, but once he said them a purple and teal colored light formed in his hands. A quick jerk of his wrists and he sent it sailing into the on coming group of bots smashing 7-10 he counted, and damaging about half as many, though not seriously. He was right. the debris wasn't going far enough to threaten the group at the front. He went through and finished the damaged bot's with his claws by slashing them open and throwing them into the ground.

He then started taking out bots with his claws! He had to give himself a moment before attacking again or he'd use it up and have to wait a week before he could conjure up so much as a spark. He had noticed that his attack slowed them down slightly as they had to go around the rubble from the destroyed robots. It wasn't much of a slow down, you don't really notice. But if he kept it up, he might be able to buy himself and the others a bit of time. Besides trashing bots was the whole idea!

With that he charged another attack and struck down 6 this time! He went and finished them off the same way he did the others.
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Amanda nearly screamed when the fulf tapped her shoulder. He quickly put his hand over her mouth before she said a thing though and simply whispered to her," I'm just here to help you out."

Tech was a bit unsure but still, he wasn't gonna refuse help. "We have to get into Knothole. Our friend is in there and we need to find him and help!" he said. "Any ideas?"

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OOC: I figured that I needed to point out Jet's abilities here so folks know. This is all he can do though. He hasn't learned enough about his power to do any other attacks. Ok... I'm done now.

The Fulf put a finger to Tech's lips, nodding over at the swatbots that were now sifting through the ruble trying to clear a path. Slowly, he began to back off from the two, giving one last glance to make sure they hadn't been spotted and then beckened the two away from the entrance, moving back through the foliage.
With the two friends following him, Logan quickly made his way around the side of the wall guarding Knothole, making sure they were out of range of the swat bots before talking again.

"You're lucky they didn't see you." the fulf said gruffly, altering the wight of the kit still firmly clinging to his back, "We're gona have to take the water entrance, keep close. Hay? Either of you know this one?" He added, nodding to the kit.

"Tech your equiptment." Amanda whispered.

"Don't worry. I took care of that before we left." he whispered back. "I've never actually taken the water route, but I know of it." Tech quietly stated.

"We're trying to find our friend Jet." Tech said as he followed the Fulf.

Even with all the elements at disposal, this was a predicerment that could not be solved so direly. Archie Luke blinked. "Theres too many, we gotta move back." Fleetway Luke narrowed his eyes. "Panzy. If you run they will only follow."

"I seriousily suggest you stop being so.... aggrivative." Archie Luke droned. "You down every non-offensive thing I say."

"Its do or die." Fleetway Luke said.

"Well-" Archie Luke began as he used his short staff to knock back a robot, he continued. "-I would rather live than stay here and die."

"Bah."

Archie Luke sighed as he looked for anyone he might reconize. "Dier Tellon. Anti-Me." Luke droned as he stepped off of these 'front lines'.

"Pitiful." Fleetway snorted.

Logan shook his head " 'Fraid I've never heard of him. Still, if he's a refugee, then usualy this is the right place to look."
As the small group continued following the thorn wall, the turain sudely became far rockier, with bolders and random hillaks dotted accross the gradualy sloping forest floor. Logan kept one eye back on the path they had just troden thought the forest, experiance telling him that you could never be too sure that you wern't being followed. Within a few minuets, the babbling sound of a small brook could be heard, a substantial stream coming into view as the hybrid pushed his way though the dence bushes. Stopping to prize the young child off his back, Logan gave the boy a quick "Stay" comand before walking over to the point where the stream disapeared into the walls around knothole. Cearfuly, he inspected the defences, being sure not to get too close to the 'Acid creepers' that had been planted around its edges.
"Damn.. trust them to finaly block this thing up."
Turning around, he walked swiftly past the three-sum that had followed him, eyes scanning the as thought serching for something important. Sudenly he scooped down to pluck the small peace of drift wood from the water's edge.

"This is the stream that feeds the Ring pool in Knothole." He informed them as he walked briskly back to the sealed entrance "I used to be the second entrance, for emergancies only. Unfortunatly it hasn't been used in donkies years."

With all the gentelness of a troll trying to do origarmi with chopsticks, the Fulf slid the drift wood into a hole in the brire and widened the gap open untill it was large enough for a hand to fit though. Reaching back into his long coat, he rummaged around for something while looking back at the others now leaning over to get a look at what he was doing, a small mettal 'ping' issuing from under the gament as he found what he was looking for.

"You might wana stand back." He muttered calmly, lifting out the last of his frag'nades and holding its releace leaver firmly while he positioned it over the curved peace of drift wood, ready to role down into the crevice.

They had once been busy exploring the newly arrived forest that had appeared from nowhere into the Emerald Hill zone. Now, however, they found themselves fighting for their lives against a large and almighty force of Troopers; and a new but strange breed of machines known as Swatbots.

Tails! the grey furred rabbit called out, slamming the tip of his metal staff against the right hand side of a Troopers jaw, and then caving the entirety of the machines face in. I dont understand this; Robotniks forces were all but depleted! Where on Mobius did he get the resources to do all this?

I dont know, Johnny. Maybe hes co-operating with some new people that we dont know from Shanazar, or maybe even the Drakon Empire again? Tails replied, the youthful kitsune rapidly flying about in the limited space given by the overbearing trees and taking the attention of the rapidly firing, and missing, laser bolts belonging to the machines.

These machines though, I havent seen. Kevin muttered, shooting and destroying a series of more swatbots.

Well, all we really need to do is hold them all long enough until Sonic comes! Hell be able to deal with them. Tails slammed into a Swatbot, pushing the machine backwards into a Trooper. Stray gunfire smashed into the two, destroying themselves.

But we dont where he is, or whether hed be able to handle so many! Johnny jumped, narrowly dodging a streaming laser blast that scorched a hole into a tree. Sonics tough, but Im not sure

Suddenly, a thick black net had come from behind Johnny and descended upon his body, covering him and trapping him. The lead balls upon the ends of the net slammed into the ground and made it impossible for Johnny Lightfoot to free himself.

Johnny! Tails exclaimed, turning to fly towards him and help him.

Ugh, no Tails, Kevin! Get out of here whilst you can, theres just too many! We wont be able to do any good if youre captured, as well! Johnny shouted towards his companion. Needless to say, through the ruins of the decaying forest poured out even more machines, an almost never-ending supply.

Tails hesitated. He knew that what Johnny said was right, but he couldnt leave behind a friend, no matter what! This hesitation cost him, however, as another black ensnaring netting came over him from his back as well, and brought Tails slamming into the ground, trapped. They were both unable to move, or escape!

Kevin however, remained untrapped. He continued to battle the robots, unable to risk giving an inch to aid the allies or else face likely capture too...

OOC: Reread my post Pach. Won't be hard to fix, just edit around Kevin in a few spots.

OOC: My apologies, Rico. I have no idea why I didn't read your post as the grey rabbit to actually be Johnny. =/

OOC: Because I usually have a grey rabbit running around. lol, no harm done, this makes my subplot even better.

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"Son of a @#%$, alternate or not BOTH Rico's will kill me if I leave you two here." Kevin snapped running over and trying get Johnny loose, "Hang in there kiddo, I'll get you next."

Kevin initially tried to pull the netting up and over Johnny, but found this to be insufficient in freeing Johnny. The grey rabbit remained trapped within the netting, and during the time with which Kevin initially tried to remove the netting, it might have proved too late.

"Kevin! Behind you!" Tails shouted out. As Kevin turned around, he was able to find a Swatbot right behind him with his own weapon aimed squarely at Kevin's chest. There was hardly any time to be able to react...

IC:

As Jet fought the robots he heard a familiar voice amoungst the chaos.

"Kevin! Behind you!" it shouted.

"Tails?" Jet wondered. But as he was momentarily distracted, one of the robots knocked him upside the head sending him flying. He flew clean across a veritable sea of robots and landed in front of several armed with nets!

"Oh great!" Jet cursed at himself. Jet got up and quickly started fighting the bots while trying to avoid their gunfire, and especially their nets! He wondered if he should try to help Tails. He was within sight...

Tails' eyes blinked, as something at the edge of his vision sparked his attention, enough to look away from Kevin and Johnny. What he found, made his eyes widen in surprise and almost fear itself.

It was Jet, a criminal that would constantly cause danger from zone to zone. Of course, this wasn't his Jet, not even his universe, his dimension's Jet. But Tails didn't know that, and all he could do was scrape back as far as possible within the netting. Suddenly, what seemed to be the means of capture resembled more something akin to safety, in a small manner.

"Back off, Jett!" he shouted, unaware of who the weasal before him truely was.

*Whiff*

He wasn't strong. He didn't wield power magic. He wasn't intimidating. In fact Kevin hardly ever seemed anything but a normal freedom fighter. Untill events like this, there was no time to move, yet one moment he was in the path of the weapon, the next he just jerked out of way in a very acrobatic pose.

"Shaddup kid! We need all the help we can get!" He snapped at the trapped fox. Then eyed Jet, "Hey you, do something useful and cut these two free. I'll try to keep the trashcan's attention." The small gray gerbil sneered and sprinted away from the bots firing wildly to hit as many as possible.

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Jet was extremly confused by the way Tails reacted to him. He'd helped out before. Tails didn't seem to mind either.
"Something useful?" He thought as he cut the net apart by cutting a few knots with his claws. "
Wasn't he being useful right now by fighting bots? He also noticed that once he got them out Tails sorta shoved him away and took to the air while the gerbil and the rabbit followed him smashing robots in his way. After they took off without even a thank you, Jet went back to fighting the robots too. He was a bit worried though. First he was worried about Amanda and Tech, and now he also worried about why Tails seemed to dislike him after being friends for a little over a year now.

"Did I mess up something?" he thought as he took down two more bots.
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OOC: What's awesome about those posts is that you played out what I hoped to do with Jet PERFECTLY! XD

As the group retreated backwards, Tails within the air, and Johnny and Kevin running along the ground, Johnny simply too the time to speak to Kevin through a mutter.

"You're quite... different from the guy I know." Johnny spoke aloud.

"That's what different dimensions do for ya." Kevin replied. "Where's he going?" Kevin asked, pointing above to the flying Tails.

"Not sure, but seeing Jet must have spooked him bad. I'm guessing that Jet's collaborating with ol'Egg-breath." Johnny's eyes narrowed.

"Jet? No, from what I know he's an upstanding guy." Kevin replied.

"Another two very different people..." Johnny trailed off. "Despite his earlier help though, we can't be certain whether he's from mine or your dimension."

"True, that. But from what we've seen, he's obviously from mine. Tails there needs to be told and made understood about it quickly." Kevin replied, their pace increasing.

Sure that the others were clear, the Fulf braced his legs, releasing the nade and turning to run as it clattered down into the depths. However, moments before reaching the safety of the bushes, something he'd seen out of the corner of his eye finally dawned on him, and he turned back. The kit! The boy was still standing where Logan had put him down, staring at the brook with near terror.

"DAMN-IT KID!"

There was a muffled 'Bwom-pha' from deep within the wall, bits of roasted foliage falling like a small meteor shower over the bank as the small dust cloud settled, leaving the entrance cleared of brambles. The Fulf had only just managed to grab the boy in time, pulling him to the side and shielding him from the blast shrapnel. Logan picked himself up, dusting the branch shards that had landed on his coat and dragging the child to his feet by the wrist.
"Fesp kid! What were ya doing?" He yelled, ducking down to the boy's eye level "Ya trying to get yourself killed?!"
The boy seemed a little confused, looking around as though not really sure where he was or why this stranger was shouting at him. But then he spotted the river, his eyes glazing over slightly as he sunk back a few steps, moving so that the stranger blotted out the view of the rushing creek.
It took a few moments of looking between where the kit's face and the river upon which his gaze was fixated before it clicked, the fulf looking back into the child's cold eyes for confirmation of his realization.
"... You're afraid of water, arn't you?"
The child looked at the stranger for a moment, as if wondering how the hybrid had known, then nodded lowly, his head and ears dipping in shame.
Sighing distastefully, Logan stood up again, taking off his coat and turned to the other two who were emerging from a bush "Ok, the entrance should be clear. I'll head down first to make sure the area's safe, then you lass -along with the kid-, then you follow on last, lad."
Finally, the hybrid turned back to the small kit, rapping the long coat around him and looking at the child seriously "Ok, now listen up. This coat was given to me by a real good friend of mine, and if I go down there with it on it might get snagged. So I want you to look after it for me. When Missy over there carries you, rap it around you tight and keep your head down. Ok?"
The shaking cub looked up at Logan defiantly; he knew exactly what the stranger was up to, and he wasn't going to be fooled.
"It doesnt work like that." He said plainly, looking a little nauseous. However, after a moment of glaring between the two, the kit looked away and pulled the edges of the long coat around himself.
"Good," Logan muttered, standing up and wandering back to the hole where the stream vanished into the wall. Checking his glock holsters, body armor and various pockets for anything loose that might snag, the hybrid looked down into the darkness that awaited him "Ok, give me.. thirty seconds to reach the bottom and about two minuets to clear the area. Oh, and missy, when you follow down with the kid, don't let go of him when you hit the water."
With that the Fulf sat down the rushing water, the current taking him suddenly from view and down into the hart of the bramble wall.

Archie Luke had gone away from Fleetway Luke, who really didn't seem to be being much help- only defending himself as he tried to make way out of the woods. Archie Luke, being attached to so many of these Freedom Fighters; them having helped him so long. Had the feeling that if he could help by staying that is what he would do. The crimson one-tailed kitsune took a quick breath as he dashed off - twirling his short staff in hand. Dealing back some more SWAT's and the new robots. Who he had never encountered before. Suddenly he heard a footstep behind him. He twirled, but saw nothing. Well thats his eyes anyway. He quickily knew how fast he would have to act. Nature called to him, he called to it. And he sensed what his eyes said that wasn't there was.

TWAP!

A good smack of his stick to the "air" was heard as it hit cold metal.

CLANK!

Another good hit and the combBOT's stealth camo was disabled and soon its head was removed. Lucas blinked. "ComBOTs....just great." he muttered. He decided to yell as he backed up. "COMBOTS!" he shouted. Knowing their presence was known, the good 20 or so comBOTs came out of cloaking and attacked. Nets, Sticky Goo, Darts, whatever they were equipped with.
Luke gritted his teeth and held out his hand. "Nature feel through me, as a door to protect your need to survive. You forest, you grass, you wind. Come to me. So no harm may come to you." he muttered in a chalant voice. His eyes having a green hue. A good elemental barrier came in front of Lucas. It would hold off the incoming bots, but let any mobians inside until it would be broken. Lucas taking a quick breath - saw from the other side of the barrier, Rico and Toby trying to make their way to the side. But between comBOTs, swatBOTs, and the other robot type. It was being extremely difficult.

Luke bit his lip as he ran through the barrier and threw his staff like a javelin at the ground near Toby and Rico- more near the bots pursuing them really.
"Nature's fire, nature's whim. Lightning strike, and wind. Offensive elements- please defend - the forest depends." he muttered again, the hue getting brighter. The area around his staff soon sparked a large fireball - engulfing the robots and giving Rico, Toby and any others some time.
Though the robots kept coming.

"...damn..." Luke muttered. He knew a retreat would be emminent.

"Take the injured and run." The uninjured Rico snapped at the rest of the group. That fox wields the druidic magic I do. Good, it will be useful. Rico thought smirking, "Troublesome things." He spoke aloud before narrowing his eyes focusing. "Kanpuu*", his voice was low and carried through the air which suddenly was hit with an icy wind.

The freedom fighters shuddered from the sudden freezing wind. It seemed to slow both animal and robot alike, however the robots heated from Lucas's attack froze in their tracks, their frames cracking the extreme change from hot to cold. A number shuddered and fell to the ground broken.

In a few moments it was gone, leaving Rico looking on nonchalantly as Toby took the break to find a place to hide with his half brother.

* - Kanpuu: A word meaning cold wind. In this usage it refers to 'freezing winds', one of Fleetway Rico's abilities that allows him to use ambient Art energy to create a short lived area of strong, frigid wind.

Luke smirked- even though it was a second Rico, he knew that the Fleetway Rico could be dire help. He decided he could actually help out more than he had previousily thought. Hell, he didn't know how to really manipulate ice yet. He had always focused on Earth, and Fire more than Wind, Lightning, and Ice. He smirked breifily as he looked at the remaining bots, and muttered a chant again.

"Fire...I know you want to unleash the passion you hold. This forest, it depends on you- go on flow through, defend." he chanted and his eyes glew brighter in that green hue. As well, a good attonement of fire latched to some other robots.

But he'd wonder how much energy nature would have to offer....

Rico groaned, he could feel himself being carried. He knew his brother's smell anywhere, Toby was carrying him, he was safe.

"I'm begining to like this guy. He's very useful." Rico said aloud. He gave a characteristic grin that he and his counterpart shared, a half face cheeky grin. "Stupid bots, go home." Again he narrowed his eyes, this time holding a hand up with his finger pointing up. "Toukan*" He snapped his finger loudly and as if in response several robots making an almost ringing noise as it enveloped its targets. Several shattered due to the same 'hot-to-cold' effect as before. Other, unable to defend themselves, were taken down by the remaining freedom fighters.

Overlooking the battle from a hut on the outskirts was a lone rodent-like figure. Different realities... Interesting, this could be interesting. A undescript smile crossed his face before he vanished from view.

* - Toukan: A word meaning frost or bitter cold. In this useage it refers to 'bitter frost', one of Fleetway Rico's abilities that allows him to use ambient Art energy to flash freeze multiple opponents.

OOC: Lets move past this asskicking and get to something else. o.o

Meanwhile, across the other side of the village the small army of swatbots was finding very little resistance from the inhabitance of knothole. Already many buildings were ablaze, the citizens running for their lives as the squad continued its systematic street-by-street eradication of the populous. Now they had reached the farthest point of the village, the ring pool, the bodies of those who had hidden in the foliage now floating upon its crystal surface, their blood slowly tainting the water with an ominous satin silhouette.
As the bots made their final sweep and turned to their next objective, a large splash alerted them to a new target, and they spun back quickly, scanners scouring the disturbed pool and its embankment for signs of life. For a moment it seemed that it might have just been loose rock falling from the waterfall, the bot's systems showing negative on thermal and motion scans they were wrong.
Beneath the murky surface, Logan watched carefully, waiting for the right moment, his signature masked by the lifeless floating body of a young squirrel above him. As the metallic soldiers lowered their weapons, the Fulf saw his opotunity. Standing up quickly, the hybrid burst though the surface, pushing the body to one side as his first voliy lanced forth from the twin pistols, the rounds striking their targets before the water had even begun to fall back to the pool. Logan rushed forward though the ristricting water, rapidly depressing the triggers in tandom and plunging slug after slug into his targets. The bots only had the time to retern fire once before they colapsed back upon the soggy earth, grate clouds of spark riden smoke fizzeling out from their damaged circuets and their giro's falling silent.
The fulf stepped up onto the embankment, panting slightly as he calmly alowed the expended clips to drop from their chambers, reaching around to insert their replacements that hung on quick releace braces along his back.

It was far worce then he first thought. The vilage looked like a total war zone, bodies laying everywhere amung the ruins of their homes, the civilians having nowhere to run and no one to defend them in this quater of the habitat. Logan let a silent breth of remorce, and waited for the others to follow.

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IC:

Jet noticed that Toby and Fleetway Rico were carrying the injured fox to safty. Jet was relieved but now what does he do about Amanda and Tech? He didn't even know if they made it to the mansion safely. All he could do was hope as he trashed robots in a seemingly neverending stream of them.
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Amanda and Tech weren't sure how exactly they were going to get the young boy to let them carry him through the watery passage. Amanda took his hand and led him to the water.
"It's ok. Tech and I will keep you safe." she said. The boy nodded, but it was still obvious that he was scared. The three each took a deep breath and went into the water. The boy simply clung to Amandas shirt as she swam as best she could. Tech went behind to keep a watch on them in case they snagged. They passed many possible snags, but fortunatly they didn't get caught by them. When they reached the ring pool they were all horrified by what they saw! The water was being tainted red by the bodies of the villagers! Amande quickly swam to the edge and climbed out with the boy still clinging to her. Tech jumped out next and shook his fur dry once on shore.
"Oh no! This is horrible!" Amanda said. The boy was also nervous by the scene.
"We're too late?" Tech asked.
============================================================ Jett had finally left the Chemical Plant and was heading for Metropolis Zone! If there was any news about what was happening, Metropolis would be the first place to hear of it!
"I'll just find out where the new arrivals are, and then I'll have a better idea of where to find my counterpart." he thought to himself. "Boy. Two of me. Imagine what I'll accomplish if there's two of me!" he mused.

Tech was back at Chemical Plant running more numbers through his computer.

"Boy! This is taking forever! Must have something then."
After a few minutes the computer finally displayed it's results.
"Oh cool! So the second Jet is most likely in... Robotropolis? Wonder what that place is like." After looking he read some more. "Oh! There's two spots he could be at! Knothole? Okay... I guess I'm not done yet. I gotta find these locations now!" He thought. "Wish Jett woulda waited. He's so impatient!"

With that he started typing numbers into his computer again and started another search.
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OOC: I agree with Rico. We should try to end this battle somehow and move on. It's fun, but you can only do so much.

"Not quite" Logan muttered, "There's gun fire coming from the other side of the vilage, near the entrance. What ever's left of the resistance must be holding up there,"
For a moment, Tech strained to listen into the wind, catching the tiny distant 'pop' of laser fire "Chigger's, how did you hear that over the waterfall?"
The Fulf looked back nonenchelantly, as though the fox had said something a little insulting "Wolf senses, kid. Comes from my mother's side."

Several feet away, the cub had scrabbled back from Amanda and the edge of the pool, eyes wide with shock, making no attempt to dry his sodden fur or remove the water locked coat that still trailed along the ground as he retreated. Suffice to say, his mixed expression of semi terror and dumbfounded annoyance wasn't the only thing that screamed of his unhinged nature, his stance week and conserved, tail tucked right under his legs as though someone had just belted him for no apparent reason. Stranger still was the fact that the boy seemed totally unphased by the various partly dismembered bodies around him, his gaze firmly riveted on the rippling surface of the ring pool, attention so drawn that he barely noticed the Fulf walking up to check on him.

"You ok, kid?" Logan muttered, ducking down and expecting to have to prize the kits eyes away from the watery deaths through which he'd just been brought.

The reaction, however, was instant, and somewhat shocking "NO! No I Am NOT Ok! I've been kidnapped, bashed around, tortured, experimented on, rescued just before I was about to be robotosized, been shot at, dragged halfway across the freekin' graveyard of a city, catapulted into another dimension, haven't slept in three weeks AND After EVERYTHING that's happened, I was perfectly happy sitting in that tree by myself until you came along an' Dragged me across the forest and over a DAMN waterfall!" The kit trailed for a second, panting wildly and shaking like a leaf, a slightly vacant expression washing over his distraught face, as if lost as to what else he could throw at the stranger "...I HATE WATER!"
Logan blinked, eyebrows razed slightly and cocking his head to clear his ringing ears, clearly the kit had been though a little more then first apearances could disern. However, the past wasn't his main consern, staying alive being a far grater priority. The Fulf slowly he got to his feet ".. I'll take that as a no then."
Assessing the area one last time, checking that the new clips were securely within the Glocks' loading chambers, the hybrid turned back to Tech and his partner "We'll head for the gunfire, hook up with whatever's left of the resistance. Any questions?... good." The Fulf relaxed his guns and began to stalk off toward the front of the village, eyes and ears constantly scanning for danger "Keep tight people."

ooc: agreed, we need to move on. I'll try to get mine and Jet's charactors to the main group before hand. Oh and Jet, what specie are Tech and amanda, I don't see any profiles for them or prefixes in posts x.x

(OOC: I'm back from holiday all^^

Wow, this has taken off! I'm glad^^ But yeah, I hear you about the moving on part, so that's what's gonna happen here. A short boss fight, to get everyone together, then...well, wait and see^^

I have a couple of major plans for this that I'll be instigating very soon, but after that I have no plot planned, and we can just see where it takes us^^

So, without further ado...)

IC:

From the transport, the two Robotniks watched, their faces frowning.

"Curses!" muttered Ivo angrily. "Where did that explosion come from???"

"I have no idea." replied Robotnik, scratching his chin. Both the doctors had been so fixed on the battle that neither had seen Amanda, Tech and Tobias pass through.

Ivo stood up from his wide, low seat in the transport's control room, turning to his counterpart. "It seems we will have to bring in our weapons, my brother." he murmured, slightly resignedly, but with a hint of gleeful excitement in the undertone as well.

Robotnik stood too, nodding. "The army was a start." he murmured. "Now we have the honor of finishing!"

Both doctors began to laugh manicly as they turned, heading towards the large door at the back of the room. As they stepped out into a short corridor with a lift at the end, an alarm bleeped through the transport.

"Grimer to Doctor Robo...ah...Ivo, come in please."

Ivo tapped a button on a control pannel on the wall as he strode into the lift. "What is it Grimer? It'd better be good!"

"It is sir." replied the thin green face of his assistant, glowering from a screen built into the wall of the lift. "Snivley is now overseeing the final assembly of opperation E.S. We estimate it's completion within the week sir."

"Excellent...excellent!" crooned Ivo as he pressed a button on the lift control panel and the room began to descend. "And the other opperation?"

"Opperation Chaos has already departed. Estimated time to arrival, ten minutes."

"I trust those roboticized Mobians will perform up to the tandards you claim, my dear Robotnik?" asked Ivo, turning to his spectacled brother and stroking his moustache. Robotnik glowered.

"Oh, they will, they will, and with your assistance too they will be unstoppable! Have no fear."

The lift stopped moving and the duo emerged into the cavernous cargo hold of the transport. Both were wringing their hands as they surveyed the two large metal sillhuettes stood silently in the massive room, mighty metal obelisks of power.

"Let's see those rodents get up after this!" exclaimed Robotnik. "Come on, let's go!"

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High on the Floating Island, three metal shapes passed through the energy field surounding the land mass. Flying in tight formation, they roared over the open, grassy fields of the Marble Garden Zone, booster rockets leaving long vapour trails in the sky. The two outer objects were only small...perhaps eight feet long and only three across. The center was much larger, a big troop carrier with long wings and helecopter blades as well as thrusters.

Seeming to find a place they liked, the objects suddenly began to descend. The troop carrier deactivated it's afterburners, dropping down to the grass on it's propellers. The two torpedo shapes simply angled down, racing towards the floor at breakneck speed! A moment before they hit, however, their sleek, oval forms split like pea pods, sections of their hull shattering away into small component parts! Something droped from each one...

The transport landed, and instantly disgorged a crowd onto the grass...a metal crowd...a crowd of Robians, at least thirty strong! They quickly took up stations around the area, guarding any possible approaches.

The objects that had burst from the torpedoes dropped on either side of the carrier with twin thuds, knocking deep creaters into the soil. They were red...metal...something curled up...

No sooner had they landed than they unravelled, standing up on two silver metal legs. Long metal dreadlocks swung back across their shoulders, and large metal spikes gleamed on their hands. They spoke in robotic voices, one after the other like a machine gun:

Metallix A reporting.

Metallix B reporting.

The leader of the Robian force, a large gorilla, stepped out of the carrier and surveyed the taskforce. His mechanical voice rang out over the group: "Primary objective: Aquire the Chaos Emeralds. Secondary objective: Eliminate Knuckles the Echidna, Emerald Guardian. Form up...Metallix units take point. Move."

The group quickly organised themselves and set off through the Marble Garden, looking for any sign of life...

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He was actually beginning to enjoy this! Okay, there was the possibillity of quick and untimely death, coupled with the fact that an imposter, possibly working for Robotnik, was right next to him and probably going to turn on him at any moment, plus the fact that reality had altered in some strainge, unspeakable way and the universe wasn't as it should have been...

...but he was enjoying it!

Sonic streaked forward, bowling over a thick group of swats and troopers like skittles! "Strike!" he shouted as he raced past. "Top marks to me, I win!"

"You're all show and no go, lameo!" retorted his other self, who was in the process of setting up a domino run with another group of robots. "You need the overwhelming power of the chilli dog to rank up your style!"

"Will you shut up about chilli dogs???" retorted Sonic. "It's all you've been ranting on about for the past ten minutes! Anyway, that's not how you take them down..." He spun round and streaked towards the crowd of bots again, crouching and turning into a ball. "...this is!"

"Will you two stop playing around and concentrate???" shouted Sally angrily as she fought her own way through several troopers who were racing towards her. "There's already a few that have got past us! Who knows what they're doing to the village right now???"

"Well no more are getting past, that's for sure!" growled Sonic as he rebounded off the oncoming crowd, clenching his fists.

"Got that right!" retorted his brother. "Say, that mean we trust each other now, cause we're agreeing?"

"Don't push it bub. You're still the phony, and once this is over I'm gonna see just who you are, for real!"

"Charming!"

"Princess, the army is retreating."

Sally blinked in supprise. "What Nicole?"

"They are retreating." repeated the computer. "All robots in the area are pulling back."

Arche Sonic raised his fist into the air. "Yeah, that's the way to do it! Runnin' like the cowards they are!"

"We had them beat and they knew it." agreed Sonic, grinning.

Sally stepped up to them, her face worried as she looked down at Nicole's screen. "We did have them beat, Sonic, thanks to that explosion of unknown origin taking most of them out, but..."

Arche Sonic turned to her, raising an eyebrow. "What's wrong Sal?"

Nicole answered for her. "We do not believe that is the reason for their retreat, Sonic."

"You what...?"

"QUITE RIGHT, YOU PRATTLING LITTLE BOX OF BOLTS!" boomed a thunderous, echoing voice from behind the trees ahead of them. "THEY ARE MERELY CLEARING THE PATH FOR US!"

A massive foot crashed down, compacting several of the fleeing trooper/swatbot army into the grass with scant remorse! The ground shook and the air was filled with a steady, repetative booming as the objects emerged from the foliage...

"Robotnik!" exclaimed both Sonics in unison.

Coming towards them were, not one, but two huge robo-suits, each over four stories tall, striding over the retreating army like giants over twigs! Each was fitted with different robotic attatchments, from spiked claws, to missile tubes, to lazers, and each was colored a bright orange, one with dark glasses on it's big red nose, one without.

"BWAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!" the insane, manic laughter pealed from one of the two machines. wE EXPECTED YOU TO BE FAR LESS PREPARED THAN YOU WERE, RODENTS...YOU HAVE ALREADY AMAZED US, HOWEVER THIS FOLLY ENDS NOW!"

The other machine spoke up: "THIS JOINED MOBIUS IS OURS, AND THERE IS NOTHING YOU OR ANYONE CAN DO TO STOP US! PREPARE TO MEET YOUR DOOM, SONICS!"

(OOC: Boss fight.

A little info on the bosses:~ Both are equipped with different weapons, and have different waknesses.

Battle Suit Alpha
Weapons: Spiked claw on one hand, similar to the Sonic 3 Final Boss. Can pick up things or people and throw them, or crush them. Spiked mace on the other hand, constantly swinging around. Shaft can extend some way on forcefields, giving long range, but too far and the fields will lose cohesion and collapse, making the mace fall apart. Rocket launcher on the back fires off missiles into the air, that arc down to the ground.

Weaknesses: The head is weakly armoured, although getting up to it is very touch, and the legs are supporting a lot of weight, so it could be easy to trip. Also very slow moving, but armour is extremely tough everywhere else.

Battle Suit Beta
Weapons: Twin gattling cannons for arms, a flamethrower in the mouth and lazers that can fire from the eyes. Also has spiked feet, and is much quicker than Suit Alpha, making crushing or kicking a real danger. Can lay mines from a port in it's back that detonate when motion is detected nearby.

Weaknesses: Not as heavily armoured as the other Suit, although much faster. The flamethrower in it's mouth is volitile and if it were to be blocked it would cause a big explosion. Also, the mines it lays are indescriminant to the type of movement that triggers them, wether organic or mechanical.)

From in front of the two behemoth's Johnny, Tails, Kevin and several others retreated back to the rest of the freedom fighters. Kevin almost instantly put himself next to the two Underwood brothers and started complaining, "One second we're bustin bots, the next that metal king kong is trying to squish... ah @#%$, you already got yourself cut up?"

"What are we gonna do, now? Rico can't fight like this." Toby yelped helping his older brother keep himself standing.

The uninjured fox sneered, "This is bad. I misjudged the strength of the enemy. I don't have enough energy left take either of those down." He studied Lucas, "Unless you have some secret weapon, I think its time to run like hell."

"Eh, stop being a wimp. We're not done yet." He heard behind him. The injured fox forced himself upright with a grunt, his younger companion hesistantly letting the fox push himself. "Innocent people are dieing and you want to run. Some Warden."

His look-a-like sneered, "A live Warden is a little more usefull than a dead one." Rico smirked painfully, "Doesn't matter if the live one is too chicken to stand up to bullies."

"Hey, kids, in case you hadn't noticed we got freakin battle mech's coming. Now shaddup before the bunny and I hog tie the both of ya." The injured fox glared at the gerbil. Lightfoot smirked at the injured Rico.

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OOC: You bet they aren't.

IC: Jet was stunned at the sheer SIZE of the two monster mechs. He jumped back and joined the rest of the group!
He stood watching the movment of the robots and noticed something.

"Hmm... The one with a mace for a hand is slower than the other one. Should we take him out first so the second has no help?"Jet thought out loud.
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Jett was surprised to say the least! He finally reaches Metropolis and it's almost unrecognizable!

"Boy! What else has changed?" He wondered. "Doesn't matter! I've got business to tend to." With that he headed into the city.

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OOC: Sorry about that last one! Let's try those links again.
Here's Amanda. She reminds me of a mole.
---~~>www.deviantart.com/view/28052770/
Here's Tech. He's not really anything. He just looks like a ferret with wings. XD
---~~>www.deviantart.com/view/27267525/
Here's a couple of Jet. Sorry. I figure if you need to know what Amanda and Tech look like, Knowing what Jet looks like may be needed too.
The only thing this one is good for is that you can see what his outfit looks like.
---~~>www.deviantart.com/view/26890648/
This is one where I like how his face turned out.
---~~>www.deviantart.com/view/27845489/
And so you know. I'm still working on the fleetway versions of Tech and Jet. I'm done.

.... Is this RP dead or just really slow?

OOC: I'm wondering that too. Hey! Can I get a GM here?

OOC: A GM? You mean a car, or something else? I'm very...slow.

OOC: GM or Game Master. The term stems for the D&D term DM or Dungeon Master. Game Master as in the person controlling the story/plot, the RP creator. In this case "Wraith the Echidna". :3

OH! Of course! Why didn't I think of that. Oh well. So... Should one of us try getting in touch with him? I personally would like to continue this RP, but I'm not sure about Wraith.

OOC: I'm not one to beg. PM sent in standard Rico format.

Ah! Very good. Hopefully we can get this ball rolling again.

One note Jet, quick replies always have the custom signature icon on, and they're not supposed to be in the Role Players Guild. I don't particularly mind or anything, but it's something to be aware of, that you should untick the box before replying. ^_~

(OOC: Woah say what? Okay, I posted up the boss fight and waited for people to get involved, but nobody else besides Rico and Jet posted, so I figured ppl had lost interest and left it to die. If people still want to continue this, though, I'm still up for it. Who exactly is still here then?)

OOC: I am! ^_^

OOC: Dude, you can't just chuck an event at people and exptect them to do the rest, you've got to keep pushing the plot, especialy if its slowing down.

(OOC: I hear ya Astral, but I kinda expected some reaction to the scene too. I figure if there's a major situation change in an RP, the characters would still react, even if they don't know what to do, and when few ppl reacted, I figured people had got bored.

But yeah, we can carry on if everyone else wants to^^)

IC:

"Dang." muttered Archie Sonic as he looked up at the metal obelisks stepping towards them. "This is bad!"

"Meh, I've seen worse."

"Oh okay then mister know-it-all, I'll let you deal with it then!"

"I thought you'd never ask!" grinned Fleetway Sonic as he raced forward, dodging inbetween the two machines quickly. "Whatch and learn!" Increasing his speed until he was a blur, he began to spin round and round the first of the mechs, using his speed vortex move again. "Man, two Robotniks!" he muttered as he ran. "The world just can't handle that ammount of unglyness!"

WHOP his attack was suddenly halted by a powerful punch from the mech's claw, sending him flying across the grass and landing some way away in a heap! As he picked himself up, putting a hand to his head, the other Sonic stepped up to him casually.

"I'm watchin', but I ain't learnin' much." he grinned slyly.

Fleetway Sonic gritted his teeth, shooting him a murderous glance. "Oh, shut up."

Jet stood watching. He wasn't quite sure what to do. He didn't want to get in anyones way, but he had to help somehow. He was becoming anxious as he watched Sonic and... Sonic fight the mechs.

"Do we have some sort of attack plan or what?" he asked the others.

Archie Luke looked at the approaching Mech which were trying to get taken down by the Sonics. He wiped his face, this was going to be a long day. He blinked. He doubted he had enough energy to course the elements through him to send the enemy back, let alone destroy it. He bit his lip, and held his hand out. He would target on one- the slower one.
His eyes began to glow lightly again, as he chanted some words under his breath- and fire once again bursted towards the enemy.

He only hoped it would be enough....

(OOC: Sorry for the delay in posting)

"FOOLS!" roared Ivo's voice from the machine as the fireball hit. "YOU CANNOT DEFEAT US, NOT EVEN WITH YOUR FANCY LIGHTS DISPLAYS!" The mace on the battle suit's arm swung forward, extending on it's forcefield chain, and Luke and some of the others had to jump out of the way as it landed with a THUMP in the grass where they had just been standing! The forcefields were quickly retracted, and clods of earth were torn up as the mace lifted again.

"ALLOW ME, BROTHER!" boomed the voice from the second machine as Robotnik manuvered his suit forward. The air was filled with a thunderous rattling sound as the twin gattling guns on the machines arms roared into life, calving pathways of bullet holes in the grass as they swung around, trying to target the group!

Archie Sonic grabbed Sally and ran sideways, the gunfire following their path not two feet behind! He quickly dived for cover behind a rock, listening to the PINGS of metal as the bullets ricoched off the stone. "This sucks! We have to find a way of disabling their weapons!"

"I don't know about their weapons." muttered Sally, peeking out from behind the rock. "But did you see how that first machine rocked when the fireball hit it? It had to take a step back to stop itself falling over!"

"So?"

"So I think it's top heavy! Maybe we could topple it over somehow!"

Sonic glanced out from behind the rock himself...Robotnik had switched his aim to the other freedom fighters by now. "That's an idea." he muttered. "We have to tell the others!"

Fleetway Sonic, meanwhile, was running round and round in circles in the middle of the battlefield, barely visable from his speed. "That's it lardbelly!" he muttered as he watched Robotnik's robosuit stepping forward, it's guns aiming for him. "Concentrate on me, ignore the others."

What Robotnik hadn't noticed was he was slowly moving off to the side, making the machine turn to follow him, and slowly turning side-on to the rest of the group, who had taken cover behind whatever shelter they could find! "Come on guys." Sonic muttered, gritting his teeth. "I can't keep this up all day...someone must have something to take out those guns, especially from the side or the back!"

Robotnik was getting annoyed. "STAY STILL, YOU FOOL!" he roared through the suit's speakers. Suddenly the machineguns on the suit's arms stopped, and there was a flash of light as two beams of energy lanced from the robot's eyes, right towards the blue blur as he ran! Sonic barely had time to blink...at the last moment he threw himself sideways, the beams missing him by inches as they burned into the floor!

"Yipe! That was too close!"