Launch Base Zone

[Gerald Robotnik]

It was fairly obvious to him that his plan didn’t quite work. Aw, well, at least he tried; Though he felt much more useless than before. He’d soon find himself surprised as Eggman’s machine went up, quite close to the cat walk he was on. As it started to rise up near him, there was a sense of urgency he felt about the situation. Perhaps it was the glow that emitted from Chadin; or the fact that he was dangerously high. But Gerald couldn’t just stand by now when he was so close to helping out. But at the moment he didn't have much anything else to do.

[Rose Fox]

Around that time Rose and Snively would reach the factory floor, seeing the site of the battle first hand.

“Oh my…”

While everyone else was up near the top, Rose and Snively where on the bottom of the factory floor; which was wet and most of the toppled over molten steal had cooled down. They both avoided it as they made there way to the center.

“What is that man doing up there?” Snively questioned aloud as he looked up towards the fight and had his right hand over his eyes.

Rose looked off to the side, the wheels in her head starting to twirl. All she was concerned about was getting there and helping Robotnik. She spied her way up with her eyes, before grabbing onto her umbrella. She left Snively’s side, jumping up to one of the vats and using the end of her umbrella to pull herself up. Once she managed to get on the lip of the vat up she jumped using her umbrella to help her up again to the catwalk. As she got herself over on that, she made her way over to the area Gerald was standing in; extending the poll of her umbrella full length. While she didn’t command the nanties to turn into the axe, she did make sure that the umbrella was in a much more solid state.

After all, should couldn’t risk hitting Robtonik with an Ax.

“Excuse me!” Rose said aloud as she gracefully dodged the Swatbots that had surround Gerald on one side. She needed to get herself closer on the catwalk.

[Dr. Robotnik]

[The pod actually has a solid glass canopy, not a metal roof. Regardless I'll run with it.]

"Prisoner," Gerald's escort SWATbot said in a monotone. "Please come with us. You have caused enough trouble for one day." The SWATbot would start to gently push Gerald towards the nearest exit, although not too hard as Robotnik wanted to avoid harm to him. If Gerald was going to do something before he was herded back off to a prison cell, he'd need to do it now.

The SWATbots, recognizing Rose, allowed her to push her way through. However, despite their robot nature, a few couldn't help but do a double take at her sudden change in getup and looks. Gerald might even get a chance to see how Rose had changed so much in just the past hour or so.

---

When Chadin's knife stuck straight through the roof of Robotnik's cockpit, he gasped and ducked down, covering his head with his hands. Although after he realized he wasn't hurt yet, the doctor spared a look at his deer friend. For a second, Robotnik almost thought he was staring into a man possessed by the devil. Chadin would actually see Robotnik shrinking back into his seat in terror.

However, the doctor realized if he wanted this demon gone, he'd need to do something to get rid of him. The doctor promptly abandoned his plan of merely tilting the ship forward to get rid of Chadin, and instead started twisting and turning the yoke all over the place. The ship would now buck and twist like crazy, as if Chadin were riding an angry bull. The entire time only one thought repeated in his head.

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[Chadin]

[Oops, my bad on the pod. Been a while since I've played that level. Must have got confused with one of his OTHER death machines. XD]

With my knife deeply embedded inside Robotnik's machine, I used it like the saddle horn of a rodeo horse as Robotnik bucked his machine like a mechanical bull. Unfortunately, that was about the only thing I had to hold onto, so the rest of me was left flailing in which ever direction Robotnik chose.

As much as it hurt every time I slammed back down onto Robotnik's machine, I was also getting more and more determined to finish this. My scars were glowing a bright, bluish-white now and now my eyes were completely glowing the same color as my scars. Electricity arched between the tines of my antlers.

I could feel the energy building up inside me now. And now I planned to use it. "IT IS OVER, ROBOTNIK!!" I screamed in fury as I unleashed the built up electricity inside me, through my blade, and straight into Robotnik's ship.

Unless Robotnik's pod was insulated for such attacks he would definitely feel the surge of electricity, causing violent muscle spasms. His death machine would most likely face no better. The surge wouldn't be enough to completely fry every system, but it would certainly cause some damage. Maybe even set off the fuel for his flame throwers.

Unfortunately, I am no more immune to my own electricity as Robotnik as my hand clamped down on the handle of my knife with a vice-like grip and my body paralyzed. My whole body screamed out in such pain that I could not even vocalize a real scream from my mouth. It ended up being more like a prolonged grunt.

[I leave you to decide the extent of damage, but refer to 2 round charge on Chadin's profile if you need any background info. Note, surge will stop on my next turn.]

[Gerald Robotnik]

[I’ll save you the trouble of the next Swatbot post for escorting Gerald out.]

Gerald looked at Rose with wide eyes, seeing the sudden change in outfit. But once the SWATbot nudged him, it didn’t seem so important. Lowering his head in defeat, He took a step forward.

“Alright….alright…” Gerald replied wearily.

But as he was being escorted along he’d hear Chadin’s, (and most likely Robotnik’s too) and he’d turn on a dime; almost as though he was trying to reach out to him.

“CHADIN—GAHH!” His efforts to break through the line failed, as the SWATbots would simply grab ahold of his arms. They started dragging him away, Gerald latterly kicking and screaming “LET GO!!!" He yelled out in defiance. Everything else poured out of him, like a desperate attempt to somehow 'reason' with the bots. " LET GO OF ME THIS INSTANT! I, I CAN'T LEAVE HIM LIKE- LIKE TH--!!!"

Before he could even finish, the robots went through the exit; the door slamming shut. Anyone near the vacinity would hear some muffled screams through the metal walls, before it would eventually fade off.

[Rose Fox]

Rose would put a foot on the railings and lift herself up to put her other foot on. This way, she would be out of the SWATbot’s way as they dragged Gerald away. She watched as Robotnik franticly began to move all around, as she put her left hand over her forehead to see better.

“How on earth am I supposed to help if you don’t keep still!” Rose shouted aloud. She could jump to his position, but she wouldn’t be able to stay stable on that kind of ride.

But things would change for the worse as she saw Chadin’s attack electrify the entire pod. For now, all she could do was reacting with a large gasp.

---

Meanwhile on the floor level, Snively was trying to find his own way up. Not to help of course, but to survey the situation and perhaps advise a retreat. There wasn’t much of a reason to be sticking around here and playing with some freedom fighters.

But as he was nearing some steps, he saw Gerald’s bow and curiously picked it up. Of course, he questioned how anyone could find any-use in a bow without a string; but perhaps it snapped. He supposed the deer had something to do with it.

With his hands spaced, Snively raised the stick up and attempted to break it with his knee. After all, Rose had promised him that one of his new perks was strength. But he was in for a rude surprise when it hit his knee and didn’t hardly budge. He did let out a small yelp and grabbed his knee with his hands as he let go of the bow; the hit smarting badly. Letting out a growl he picked up the bow again and was about to try and smack it hard against some metal, but it soon changed when he heard the screams above.

Looking up for a brief secondly he could only look baffled at the sight of the deer and the electricity he seemed to be producing. As he lowered his head to level height, he began his ascent up the stairs with a bit of a rush.

[Dr. Robotnik]

[Since Chadin will be leaving soon, I'm going to wrap this up. I think this is a great post to end things on anyway.]

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!"

Robotnik screamed long and loud as the electricity surged straight from Chadin, through his death machine, and into his body. Everyone in the room would hear it loud and clear over his loudspeaker.

The doctor shook all over his seat from the pain. He truly had never felt such an intense, burning pain in all of his life. Normally his machine protected his own puny flesh and blood body from all harm, so any attacks directly on him really, really hurt him. Finally, mercifully, he passed out from the sheer pain and slumped forward over the controls.

If he were still conscious though, he'd see red lights flashing all over his control panel, indicating Chadin's electrical attack had done critical damage to many of the machine's systems. Most importantly though, the thrusters keeping the machine aloft were no longer working properly. Underneath the death machine, the hover jets started to make audible puttering noises as they began to cut in and out.

Without Robotnik awake to bring it down gracefully, the death machine began spinning out of control and smashed directly into the machinery off to one side of the chamber. Unfortunately, that was also where the primary smelting vat in the ship was. The hard impact left a big crack in the side of the vat. Everyone would hear an audible crunching sound as the crack spider-webbed across the surface. Hot, molten metal began seeping through, which caused the cracks to expand even wider.

At long last, the vat just collapsed wholesale, showering molten metal all over the inside of the ship and liquifying pretty much everything it touched. Before long the entire floor of the ship had become covered with the stuff, and even that was starting to eat through the bottom of the ship. If Snively didn't get up some stairs quickly, he would be liquified along with everything else.

Meanwhile, Robotnik's ship bounced away from the impact and smashed into the machinery on the other side of the factory floor, coming to a halt as it wedged itself in between several support beams. If an observer looked at the cockpit, they would see the glass had completely shattered. Blood softly dripped over the controls and down the side of the machine...with a slumped arm gloved in Robotnik's jacket hanging outside. The doctor himself had his head down in a small pool of his own blood on the controls.

Meanwhile, a loud alarm echoed throughout the chamber, as red lights began flashing all around everyone.

"DANGER! DANGER! SHIP HAS SUSTAINED CRITICAL STRUCTURAL DAMAGE! EVACUATE THE SHIP! ESTIMATED TIME TO SHIP COLLAPSE DESTRUCTION IS THREE MINUTES! EVACUATE THE SHIP IMMEDIATELY!"

All bots in the immediate area would promptly abandon chasing the intruders and start looking for the nearest exit.

[Chadin]

Gerald told me that Chaos energy is tied to emotion. That the electricity I could now seemingly produce within my own body was my emotions given a physical, tangible form. If that is true, than I poured every ounce of frustration and anger into a spot somewhere inside myself. I could FEEL it; like, a biological battery or capacitor, and I focused all of it toward the figure I most dearly wanted to deliver it to.

I couldn't physically make a sound because my body was almost completely seized up from the surge flowing through me, out of me and back inside again. I didn't care how bad it hurt, I wanted to give Robotnik a taste of every horrible thing he'd ever done to me. The lost of my family, my friends, my home, the experiments, my whole dimension. It felt like all I was releasing all that pain and suffering and directed it to him. It was almost liberating.

But the pain... OH! The PAIN! I couldn't take it any longer. The electricity stopped and I slumped over the top of Robotnik's machine. My fur crackled and singed with the smell of burnt fur. Just like before in the bulldozer, I felt so completely exhausted I could barely stay awake.

But falling asleep however, would prove to be difficult to achieve, when Robotnik's ship suddenly started drifting out of control; bouncing off the large smelting vat like a pin ball and then crashing between two support beams. The resulting impact managed to jerk my knife loose from Robotnik's ship and sent me flying onto a metal platform beyond. My knife clattered to the floor beside me.

I just barely managed to muster enough resolve to look over my shoulder to look at the wreckage, to see for myself what the final outcome was. What I saw chilled me to the bone. I know I should have been happy, relieved even, to see that bloody trail and gloved hand stick out from the shattered cockpit. But somewhere, deep down, I could feel my stomach turning over in revulsion.

Sure, my Dad killed plenty of Overlanders during the war. But even so, I'd never killed another living thing before. But somehow, I couldn't shake the feeling that this was different somehow. He killed because he had to. Because if he didn't kill them, they'd kill him. Yes, this was basically the same thing, so why did I feel like this? Maybe because I had fought, not to protect a family or the innocent, but because I wanted my own selfish, petty revenge.

"DANGER! DANGER! SHIP HAS SUSTAINED CRITICAL STRUCTURAL DAMAGE! EVACUATE THE SHIP! ESTIMATED TIME TO SHIP COLLAPSE DESTRUCTION IS THREE MINUTES! EVACUATE THE SHIP IMMEDIATELY!"

I slapped my hand over my eyes. Looks like I'd have to save introspection for later... again. I tried to pick myself up off the floor as best I could, but my muscles just did not want to cooperate without a fight. Of course, the blaring alarms and the sight of molten steel slowly expanding across the floor certainly went a long way to motivate me. I quickly retrieving my knife and sheathed it.

Clutching my aching chest and limping on my now especially sore ankle, I tried to limp my way toward the nearest exit. Hopefully the bots would be more concerned with either saving the ship or themselves to worry about me.

[Gerald Robotnik]

In the halls, things were looking bad for Gerald’s situation. He continued to struggle in vain from the robot’s grip as they dragged him. But in a complete stroke of luck, the sudden lurch of the ship with the damage it sustained caused a part of the hallway to fall down; right on top of the head of one unsuspecting SWATbot.

The moment he felt some lee-way, Gerald managed to break from the line. The other SWATbot followed with trying to shoot him with stun rounds, but as soon as Gerald rounded the corner it would seem like the SWATbot forgot everything.

"DANGER! DANGER! SHIP HAS SUSTAINED CRITICAL STRUCTURAL DAMAGE! EVACUATE THE SHIP! ESTIMATED TIME TO SHIP COLLAPSE DESTRUCTION IS THREE MINUTES! EVACUATE THE SHIP IMMEDIATELY!"

Gerald didn’t need anyone to tell him to leave. With his heart pounding, he made his way to the hanger. Hopefully, he would be able to start one of those flying machines he’d been carriered away in.

[Rose Fox]

Not only did Rose’s heart seem to stop, but the sudden damage the ship was taking almost caused her to fall over. But, she was able to keep her balance; hopping down onto the catwalk.

Feeling an intense about of anger (to the point of tears), Rose called out to her new companion.

“SSSNIIVVEELYYYY!”


Snively was already booking it up the stairs, fleeing for his very life (dropping the bow in the process). He must have been half-way up by the time the vat was turned over, and seeing the floor disappear with hot lava was a good way to get one to rush. He heard Rose cry out his name; and while he would have been happy that she wasn’t calling him Colin, it sounded all too familiar to the same tone He would use.


“COMEING, COMING!!!” Snively yelled franticly; not so much as afraid of her as the lava below.



The moment he’d finally reach the women’s side, he found himself being forcefully pulled down the catwalk as she ran; Trying to get closer to Robotnik’s location. Once close enough she would leap from the rails and over to Robotnik’s machine (all the while Snively shrieked).

Once landed, Snively would begin to desperately cling onto Robotnik’s craft, and get onto the other side of him while Rose kept herself on the side where Robtonik’s arm was bleeding. The sight, made her tear up more than before.

“OOoohhh, my poor Ivo!” she began, sounding as though she was about to sob, “What did that horrible deer do to you!”


Snively attempted to go for the controls of the pod, but the sight of his uncle’s blood everywhere on the panel made him cringe.

“EEEEEGGGGG!, Gross!” He shouted out, his lips curling in disgust. “His Blood’s spilling all over the control panel!”


The look of sadness that had gotten onto Rose’s face from Robotnik’s position soon changed to a very, chillingly dark face. Her words began to seethe through her gritted teeth in an acidous tone.

“Oh, it is? Well, if someone doesn’t move this thing soon, there will be a lot –more. AND IT WON’T BE HIS!”


Giving another small shriek, Snively proceeded to forget about the blood all over the controls and press the eject button. Much like all of Robotnik’s machines, the Egg-Pod portion ejected from his now-crashed death machine. Soon Snively was flying it awkwardly (his left arm had to reach over Robotnik’s slumped body in order to reach the flying controls) out of the ship and into the air; to join the mass of the remaining fleet.


Once in the safety of the air, Rose grabbed into her bag and pulled out a somewhat large syringe; filled with a strange semi-blue liquid. Getting one of the needles she had in her bag she attached it to the syringe and proceeded to Gently lift the Doctor’s arm up. She wasn’t going to look at all the damage now, but she was somewhat sure that Robotnik’s arm was the worse injury; and that all of the blood on the consol was just from a cut. She could deal with busted skin on the fore-head latter; the arm looked as though it was in much more serious. And she could get a report of just how bad once the nanites hit the blood-stream.

Turning his wrist to the side, Rose put the needle where she though the blood vessel and injected the nanites in. There, they’d not only be able to give her a detail of how bad the injury was, but they could begin to patch up the minor problems.


[To Egg Fleet Retreat]
[1 out of 5 syringes]