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Post by Jamie Lee on Feb 12, 2007 2:11:53 GMT -5
" I would need to be either insane or malfunctioning to contemplate otherwise," the robotic hedgehog muttered with a roll of his eyes. Finally, he thought with relief as Rush vanished and he finally allowed his shield to die. A minute or two longer and he would have started lagging. He turned and looked back at Dash. The shot Rush had fired had missed, and now the robotic hedgehog walked over and scooped the head up into his arms. "What was that about not being the Metal you know?" He paused for a moment, blinking as he finally got a good up close look at the robian's face. Something clicked, and his eyes narrowed in suspicion. "Wait. Did you say your name was Dash? As in Dashiel Tadelesh?"
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Post by DB on Feb 12, 2007 12:46:49 GMT -5
The corgi had missed, yes, but it still scared the bajeepers out of Dash. It wasn't as if he had anyway to dodge at the moment either. Plus the fact that this Metal Sonic (who, apparently, wasn't the Metal Sonic he knew) knew his full name was a bit creepy as well. Heck, he didn't think the original Metal knew his full name. "... I thought... I thought you said you didn't know me?"
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Post by Jamie Lee on Feb 12, 2007 12:56:03 GMT -5
The robot's eyes narrowed further. "Who built you? Answer me. Now."
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Post by DB on Feb 12, 2007 12:57:01 GMT -5
"I wasn't built."
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Post by Jamie Lee on Feb 12, 2007 13:01:04 GMT -5
"Now who is not being funny, I wonder?" Without waiting for an answer, Metal began to turn the head over in his hands, giving him a visual examination. When he failed to find what he was looking for, he set Dash's head down and yanked the robian's body away from the wall, beginning to look over it.
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Post by DB on Feb 12, 2007 13:04:28 GMT -5
The tenrec's eyes brightened as the hedgehog robot began molesting examining his detached body. "HEY! HEY! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!"
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Post by Jamie Lee on Feb 12, 2007 13:05:12 GMT -5
"I am looking for your insignia."
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Post by DB on Feb 12, 2007 13:06:41 GMT -5
"My WHAT?"
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Post by Jamie Lee on Feb 12, 2007 13:09:40 GMT -5
Metal inwardly frowned, finding nothing on the robian's body either. "Your insignia. The symbol belonging to the person who built you. Where is it printed?"
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Post by DB on Feb 12, 2007 13:12:48 GMT -5
"I wasn't built! I already told you I wasn't built! I don't HAVE a maker, unless you mean my parents- and even then I wasn't BUILT I was BORN." Sheesh. Hadn't this version of Metal Sonic EVER heard of a roboticizer?
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Post by Jamie Lee on Feb 12, 2007 13:46:59 GMT -5
Metal blinked when he heard this, lowering the decapitated body and looking strangely at Dash. Then his eyes flickered green. "... Amusing." he said flatly, dropping the body then and walking back toward the robian's head. "I am going to make an educated guess since it would appear I cannot get satisfying answers from you," he began to pace. "Dashiel Tadelesh is a terrorist under the employ of Dr. Finitevus, an enemy of the Eggman Empire. Once already Finitevus has stolen my schematics and has built what could be best described as a 'Metal Shadow'. It is therefor my conclusion that he is now creating metallix units of his servants and that you are some sort of 'Metal Dash'. It is also my conclusion that Finitevus is somehow responsible for my transportation here and the scrambling of my com-link and GPS." He stopped and stepped in front of Dash, standing menacingly over him. "Have I hit the nail?"
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Post by DB on Feb 12, 2007 13:51:52 GMT -5
The robot's eyes dimmed considerably. "... no. No, you didn't hit the nail. My name IS Dashiel Tadelesh, but I'm NOT a terrorist and I've NEVER heard of anyone named Finitevus- and whoever that is, he certainly didn't MAKE me. If there is anyone responsible for 'making' me, it'd be YOU." There was a short pause. "At least, the version of you I know..."
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Post by Jamie Lee on Feb 12, 2007 14:14:02 GMT -5
Metal gave a strange look at the robian. "What do you mean 'the version you know'?"
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Post by DB on Feb 12, 2007 14:18:46 GMT -5
"Because you're definitely not the Metal Sonic I know. If you were, you'd of torn that dog that was in here to pieces, not just put a shield up, and you'd DEFINITELY wouldn't of let him get away. Plus, you're actually treating me DECENTLY compared to how he does. I thought you were him at first... but you're obviously not, unless he's gone completely crazy and out of character."
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Post by Jamie Lee on Feb 12, 2007 14:31:04 GMT -5
"Believe me, I would certainly not mind tearing Rush to pieces." he paused, eyes beginning to glow dangerously. "So... there is a copy of me? And he is the one who built you?"
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Post by DB on Feb 12, 2007 14:33:14 GMT -5
"Yeah, I guess there is, but no, he didn't BUILD ME. He was the one that roboticized me. NOT BUILT."
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Post by Jamie Lee on Feb 12, 2007 14:37:20 GMT -5
"... Roboticized?"
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Post by DB on Feb 12, 2007 14:37:59 GMT -5
Well, that answered a lot. "... you don't know what that is?"
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Post by Jamie Lee on Feb 12, 2007 14:40:23 GMT -5
"No."
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Post by DB on Feb 12, 2007 14:41:08 GMT -5
"You come from a very wonderful place then."
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Post by Jamie Lee on Feb 12, 2007 14:42:00 GMT -5
"Hardly. What is roboticization?"
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Post by DB on Feb 12, 2007 14:43:27 GMT -5
Ever see a robot tenrec head get depressed? You have now. "It's... uhm... well... the Roboticizer is a machine that... turns people into robots."
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Post by Jamie Lee on Feb 12, 2007 14:52:52 GMT -5
He gave a flat look. "... 'People' is a broad term. I would like to consider myself a person, thank you," he paused. "... I assume you are referring to organics. Are you trying to tell me that you were once an organic tenrec?"
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Post by DB on Feb 12, 2007 14:53:59 GMT -5
A very very depressed robot tenrec head. "... yeah." Long pause. " Can I have my body back now?"
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Post by Jamie Lee on Feb 12, 2007 15:59:54 GMT -5
Metal arched his brow at the tenrec's reaction. The idea that an organic could be transformed into a robot was... it was creepy. Not to mention sounded like something out of a science fiction novel. He tapped one of his talons on his forearm in thought. Of course he didn't believe such a claim. And yet.. something about the way Dash said it sounded genuine. "Are you sure you are not malfunctioning?" Metal asked as he slowly scooped the robian's head back into his arms "Or that this is not some ploy to get me off guard? I find your claim extremely hard to believe."
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Post by DB on Feb 12, 2007 16:05:16 GMT -5
"I wish it wasn't true either. I hate being like this. Hate it..." The tenrec-bot's eyes dimmed a bit more, and he made a sound quite similar to a sigh.
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Post by Jamie Lee on Feb 12, 2007 16:13:32 GMT -5
"What is wrong with it?" Metal asked as he brought the tenrec's head over toward where his body laid. "Being a robot, I mean. Having your head detached is a little annoying."
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Post by DB on Feb 12, 2007 16:27:51 GMT -5
" A little annoying? It's creepy and weirds the heck out of me, which is pretty much why Met-", he paused, making a quick correction before continuing. "... why the other Metal does it. Or at least, I think that's why he does it..." His eyes flickered a moment before he went on. "I never wanted to be a robot, ever. I never asked for this. I liked being alive. Sure, I had more then my fair share of bad luck and a lot of bad things happened to me, but at least I was alive... and... I could feel things, and could smell things, and... all those other little things I took for granted... and... I miss Alice... and... I... didn't have to do the same thing... every day... over and over..." The tenrec-bot went silent.
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Post by Jamie Lee on Feb 12, 2007 16:48:24 GMT -5
Yeah. He was just continuing to get more and more offended by the tenrec's whining. By this time Metal had crouched down and was inspecting the circuitry in the tenrec's neck, but one of his talons was grinding into a tight fist and his eye flickered in aggravation. " ... I find having a sense of touch and smell to be extremely distracting." he muttered to more-so himself.
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Post by DB on Feb 12, 2007 16:49:50 GMT -5
Regardless, the tenrec-bot heard it. " How would you know?"
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