A friend gave this to me but i dId not take it CHAPTER ONE - A NEW THREAT It was a normal day at the Freedom's fighter village. Sonic and Tails were improving their running skills, Rotor was in his workshop and Sally was working with her computer. Suddendly, the peace was broken by Bunnie that arrived and yelled "Hey guys, I've got bad news. Robotnik is creating another factory near Never Lake. Sonic, Amy may be in great danger!" "Are you sure you saw well?" Asked Sonic. "Sure I do, pal. And look at this wound!". Actually, Bunnie had a small cut on the face. "This made me Nack with his knife. Fortunately, I've knocked him out with my fist before he could finish me". Tails said "But are you all right, it's true Bunnie?". "Oh, yes Tails. Don't worry about that. Let's worry about Amy and the factory now." "Ok, let's go to the briefing room. There, you will explain us the work that we have to do." They moved to the briefing room and Bunnie started. "This is the factory. I've seen two turrets from this side and two from the other. Another turret is placed on the top of the building, so is very difficult to approach to the building. If you seek the entrance, you will be fired upon by the turrets, with the hang-glider, you will be shooted down by the main turret. That's a fortress, Sonic. Nobody will be able to go in there". "You're wrong, Bunnie. You said North, South, East, West and Top... but you've forgotten the bottom!" "Oh yeah? And how do you suppose to dig? With a shovel?" "Wrong. With a pair of strong knuckles!" "Great idea!" said Sally, "We only need to contact Knuckles and tell him the situation. Just hope that he will help us..." "Sure he will" said Tails, "we helped him last time with the Chaotix, now he will have to help us!" "I've given him a radio trasmitter. We've got to call him. Rotor, can you use your radio station to contact him?" said Sonic. "Well... I think so. Just tell me the frequence and..." "34 Khz. Fm. But hurry up, we don't have a lot of time to waste. It's time for actions!" CHAPTER TWO - THE PLAN "Sonic, I called Knuckles. He said that he can come in three hours. I made my best but... you know how Knuckles is made..." "Yeah, I know. But he's our only hope to destroy the factory." "Sonic, I'm going again to the factory. Maybe I'll find something that will help us." Said Bunnie "Good idea, but be careful" replyed Sonic. So Bunnie left the village. "I've got a bad feeling about this, Sonic. I think that something bad's going to happen." Said Tails. "Come on, pal. Don't worry about it. After that will be over, I will personally play with you. OK?" "Thanks Sonic. You're the best of the best!" "Yeah, and I'll be it for a lots of years!" After two hours, Bunnie returned. She runned as fast as possible and started shouting: "Sonic! Big troubles have happened at Never Lake! The factory is operational and Amy has been captured by Metal Sonic!" "Oh, no. That's awful. We'll have to do a double mission today. I hate those situations." An hour later, Knuckles arrived. He said: "Okay, here I am. Tell me what I must do. But quickly, because I must return to Floating Island." "Welcome old friend!" said Sonic "Let me explain the situation... in private". "Ok. But be brief. I hate to wait!" Tails was confused. Sonic told always to all what were the plans. He asked Sally: "Sally, is Sonic angry with us today?" "Oh no, little boy. Maybe he just want some quiet. Maybe he didn't sleep well this night!" "I hope it. But I've got that bad feeling that torture my mind. I'm afraid that someone will die in this mission." "Don't be stupid" said Rotor, "nobody has ever been killed and nobody will ever be killed here in the Freedom Fighters!" After a few minutes, Sonic and Knuckles left the room. "Okay, we're ready." said Sonic. "That's the plan: Knuckles, you'll dig exactly in the middle of the factory. Most of the success of this mission depends on you. Bunnie, you'll alert me via radio if something is closing to the factory. Sally, you're going to alert me if you see with your computer some presences inside the building." "But Sonic... what can I do?" asked Tails. "Nothing. This mission is too dangerous for you, and I don't want to come and rescue you too." "But Sonic... I..." "No. I said No. You would be only an obstacle now. Go to sleep or go to do something useful." "But... but why are you treating me in this way, Sonic? I... I'll try not to..." "GO! I don't want you in my way this time!" Tails was really sad and angry. "Yes. But remember, if something will happen to you, I'll be happy! Did you understand? Happy!!" "Ok, but now go." Also Sonic was sad. He never treated this way his best friend. "Let's resume the plan." said Sonic. "I'll go inside, place the explosive charges and go away. Then Sally will make them blow up. Then I'll go and rescue Amy." There were some seconds of pause. "So, these are the mission objectives. Knuckles, come with me. We must act quickly!" "Yes Sonic. After that, my debt will be removed, okay?" "Promised. Let's do it to it, boys!" And all but Tails shouted "For freedom on Mobius!". CHAPTER THREE - NEAR THE BUILDING "Okay, everybody stand here." Said Sonic. "Sally, you will move on that hill, Bunnie, you on that tree. Follow me, Knuckles. We must get to work now!" "Aye, Aye, Sir." Said the red echidna. They moved in a plain near the factory. Sonic said "Okay, dig here. Bring the hole to the target point. After that, come back." "Yes." So Knuckles started digging. After 5 minutes, he returned. "Ouch! the metal of the factory was pretty solid. But it was no match for my knuckles!" "Great job, Knuckles. Now go near Sally and watch the fireworks." Sonic used is arm-transmitter: "Sally, does your computer reveal nothing?" "Nothing to report." "Ok, I hope all will go well. Sally, can your computer reveal Amy's position?" "It would require time. I can scan the building now." "Yes, scan. Then tell me the report after. I'm going in." CHAPTER FOUR - INSIDE THE BUILDING As sonic entered the factory, he looked inside. He saw some stairs leading up and some robotics spare parts. He went upstairs and found some harmful robots that were assembling lots of Metal Sonics! "I must stop this. If Robotnik's going to produce lots of Metal Sonics, nobody will be able to stop him!" said Sonic. "Yeah, not even you!" A monitor lighted on and Robotnik's face appeared on it. "Little stupid hedgehog, you've fallen in my trap! Now you will blow up with all the factory! Ah! Ah!" All the robots disappeared and appeared lots of stranges boxes. "Oh no, they were just holograms! What can I do now?" Said Sonic. "Nothing, because this building is protected by a force field that doesn't allow radio waves to enter. You can't ask for help! You'll blow up! Kaboom! Ah! Ah! Ah! I don't want to see your death, so I'll turn off my monitor. I don't like blood. See you in the hell, stupid hedgehog! Ah Ah!" And so the monitor turned off, while the boxes turned on. CHAPTER FIVE - KABOOOOM!!! "Oh no, they are bombs! Sally, help me out of here!" Asked desperately Sonic, but nobody answered. Meanwhile outside the factory, Sally noticed on the computer some stranges lights. "Knuckles, look. Those are bombs! Sonic made it! No, wait a minute... those are not our bombs! Something has gone wrong!" She looked at Bunnie's tree but she hadn't seen her. "Where the hell is her, now. Knuckles, stay alert. We may need another rescue mission." She turned on the transmitter: "Sonic, get out of here! It's a trap! Repeat! Go out of that factory! It's a trap! It's a..." Suddendly the building exploded! Sally was frightened: "Sonic, please answer! Sonic! Sonic!" But she received no response. On Sally's computer, Robotnik's face appeared. He said: "Ah, Ah. You've just lost your best Freedom fighter and your lair-mate. What are you going to do now? Will you surrender?" Sally said "No. Sonic will have probably escaped from your trap, egg head. We made a tunnel to get in the factory, he will have escaped by it." "Oh yeah? Well, take a look at the hole then... Ah! Ah! Ah!" And he disappeared from the monitor. Sally runned to the location of the hole and saw Bunnie on the ground and a giant stone on the hole. "Bunnie... Bunnie... are you all right?" Said Knuckles "What... oh yeah... Sonic... trapped insied... big stone... Metal Sonic... I'm sorry... I tried to stop him... but... he was... too fast... Sally... Sonic is dead in the Explosion!" Sally said "Wh... What? What happened...? Sonic... is... dead?!?!?" "Yes... Metal Sonic carried that big stone on the hole. I tried to stop him but he overrunned me. It was terrible... Sonic was asking for help from the hole... he was saying "Please! it's burning all! Remove that stone! Aargh! It's hot! Help!"... I'm really sorry, Sally." Sally dropped on her knees. She couldn't believe that Sonic was died. But when he saw the stone and the smoked that exited from it, she started to cry. CHAPTER SIX - SADNESS Sally to said "Oh no! That's not possible! Why Sonic? Why? I can't believe it!" Knuckles said "Listen Sally, I've done my work and now I must go." "How can you think to go when that tragedy happened? I thought that Sonic was your friend! You can't leave now!" "I'm sorry, it's really late. Goodbye." "Bastard! Never come back to seek our help! We'll kill you if we will ever see you, Knuckles!" The echidna didn't replied. He travelled south without saying a word. Bunnie said "Come on, Sally. Even without Sonic, we will free this planet from Robotnik." They returned to the village with a really sad face. Tails noticed them and asked "Hey, what happened? Where's Sonic?" Sally kissed Tails and said "Tails..." "Well? Go on!" "Sonic... is..." "What is Sonic? He's an hedgehog, right? What's that, a game?" Sally started crying again while she said "SONIC IS DEAD, TAILS!" "No... that's not possible... Sonic is immortal... he always said that... It's a joke, that's true Sally?" "I'm afraid not. He exploded in the building. And Metal Sonic blocked with a stone his way out. Sonic burned in the factory!" "No... It's all my fault... I jinxed him and now he's dead!" Bunnie said "Ehi, wait a minute. If Sonic have used the emeralds before dying in the passage, he could have been transformed in Super Sonic and could have saved himself" "That's right" said Sally "He always bring with him the chaos emeralds! So maybe he's safe!" "I'm afraid not, Sally" said Rotor. "He gave me those before leaving. He said: "I want you to create a new gun that uses the emeralds. I can manage this situation without them.". I made the gun... but I think it's useless now." "No! That was some sort of suicide!" said Tails. "My feelings were right, and now... I've lost my best friend." Then, looking at the stars in the sky, he said "Sonic... where are you now?" CHAPTER SEVEN - ATTACK ON THE VILLAGE Suddendly Antoine arrived and said "Princess Sally! Red alert! Robotropolis troops are closing to the village! Call Sonic! We must be prepared!" "Antoine... " Said Sally "Sonic has just died in an explosion in the new Robotnik's factory!" "Oh no, we're sitting ducks!!!" "Antoine, how many are them?" "Fifty. I must go now, I've got an appointment with my doctor!" "Antoine, coward! Don't go! We need every fighter we've got!" But he ran away saying "Hey, I'm not a fighter! I'm a minister!". "Oh shit. Now what? Tails. You are our only hope. You must fight... or we all will perish!" Said Bunnie. "But I don't know if I can manage all of them... I mean... That would be a work for Sonic!" "If only that Son-of-a-gun of knuckles wouldn't have gone away..." said angrily Sally "Ok, we must fight, thats clear. Tails, you are the best fighter we've got now. You must fight to save us. We will help you as we can. Rotor, give me the gun. I'll help Tails in his work." "But princess Sally... that's dangerous! We must protect you!" Said Rotor. "Can't fight? Must die." said Sally with a serious voice. "Now let's go, Tails. All the village counts on us!" Tails feeled important and frightened at the same time. He replyed "Yes Sally. Let's do it to it!" "Wait a minute, I'm with you too!" Said Rotor. "Count on me, Sally!" Said Bunnie. "Thanks a lot, my friends. Now let's go. This is the moment of the truth. Or we, or Robotnik will die today!" CHAPTER EIGHT - THE END OF THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS With her gun, Sally destroyed some robots, but they were too much and captured her. They put her in a Robot-prison. Also tails destroyed ten robots but then he become tired and was captured. Rotor used some of his gadgets to stop the robots, but they were too much and overwhelmed him. Also Bunnie soon was captured by some big robots. When the four Freedom fighters were captured, Robotnik appeared with his space ship. "So, you really thought that you could have resisted to my assault? Ah! Ah! Ah! Really amusing. Now I'm going to roboticize you all, so you will obey to my command and help me to conquer all Mobius and the galaxy! Ah! Ah! Ah!" "I'd rather die, Robuttnik" Said Tails. "Kill me so I might join Sonic in heaven!" "Death is not for you Tails. Your fate will be different. You have destroyed lots of my best warriors. You have earned a place in my army. If you reject, I'll kill first your beloved Princess Sally, then Rotor and finally Bunnie. What do you say, then?" "Sigh... I have no choices. I must join your army." "No! Tails don't do it! Sonic would't be happy!" Said Sally "Remember that Sonic will always be with us even if now he's dead!" Added Rotor. "You're right, my friends! Robotnik, screw you!" Shouted Tails. "Ah. So if you think so, I'll have to kill your princess..." He pressed a button and two big gun exited by the ship. "Sally's on my lock. If I just press a button, you can take her with a spoon. So, will you Join or not?" Asked Robotnik. Tails didn't know what to say. He wished to say "yes" but that would have been quite dishonorable. With a "no", his friends would have been killed. Suddendly, all Robotnik's robots exploded and a familiar voice said "He'll never join you, because you don't deserve an hero like him!" Robotnik was astonished. He said "No... that's not possible... NO!" In the distance, a blue hedgehog was closing to Robotnik's ship... CHAPTER NINE - SONIC RETURNS! "I saw you burning in the factory... what the hell have you done to escape, damned hedgehog?" "You see, dear Robuttnik, I suspected of a betrayal in my group, so Knuckles excavated an emergency tunnel." Said Sonic. "When you were coming here, I freedo your prisoners!". "What... betrayal? Who is that traitor?" Said Sally "Bunnie... if my memory don't fails me, this morning you received a wound by Nack the Weasel... but I can't see it anymore..." "It was Bunnie... It was bunnie... All this time... She had us bugged!" Shouted Tails. "Right, my little friend. She put the stone on the exit of the tunnel. Fortunately, she didn't know about the other exit." Knuckles arrived with the true Bunnie and with Amy. "Can I enter your home, your majesty?" He asked cooly. "Yes, my dear knight!" replyed Sally, and after she laughed. She was too happy for the return of Sonic!!! "I'm sorry about my behaviour, but that's was part of the plan. If you want to cheat the enemy, first you must cheat your allies!" Said Knuckles. The Robot-Bunnie said "Sonic, you're dead now!" and she pointed her roboticized arm toward him. Sally freed herself by the robot-prison and fired to the arm, destroing it. "NO! MY FINEST ACHIEVEMENT! THE CLONE! DESTROYED! NO!" Robotnik was desperate. "YOU MAY HAVE WON THIS BATTLE, HEDGEHOG. BUT THE WAR IS STILL LONG!!!" The doctor escaped on board of his ship. CHAPTER TEN - GOOD FINAL Sonic freed his friends from the robot-prison and said: "It was lucky that Nack wounded you today, Bunnie! We've been saved by one of our enemy!" "Yes that's true. When I've gone scouting again, Robotnik captured me and closed in the prison with amy" Said Bunnie "Then he created a new Bunnie with his computer. I was frightened!!!" Then Sonic looked at Tails. Tails said "So you knew about the betrayal from the beginning, do you?" "Yes my little friend. I'm sorry to have treaten you in that way, but I had to be sure that only Sally, Knuckles and Bunnie were present at the moment. Are you still angry with me?" "Yes! And do you know why? Because I thought that your death was caused by me! I said "I'll be happy if something happens to you" and after Sally told me that you died! I felt guilty... But you're still my best friend!" "Thanks, pal. Hey, where's Antoine?" "Oh, I saw him going in his house. He's a real coward" said Rotor. "Me? A coward? Oh, no, I was going to prepare myself for the battle!" Said Antoine, while he was exiting from his house. "Well, you'd better hurry, because Robotnik's is coming back!" said Sally "NO! HELP! SAVE ME! PLEASE! YOUR MAJESTY, HELP ME!" "Hey, I was just joking!" And all laughed. Sonic return was celebrated with lots of Chili dogs and with a big feast.