San Grandia- Grand Theft Dragon

[AnT]

The planet, Mobius, not much of a vacation spot. It would be if you planned on visiting there over ten years ago, because most of this planet turned into a waste land, thanks to the evil Dr. Robotnik. His evil influences spread and took over most of the planet, and this city was no exception.

In a gray, smoggy dessert, a VERY polluted river is there, which parts around a large island that holds a big city, San Grandia. This city seems like a cross between New York and Las Angelas, only it looks like the apoacalpyse visited. Buildings are in ruins, and disgusting factories accompanied these buildings, releasing thick poison smoke in the sky, much like in Robotropolis.

But this thread doesn't take place inside the city. No...it starts a mile or two outside, where a portal spits out two figures in the dirty dessert.



A green dragon slid through the floor, hard, almost hitting her face against a large rock.

"Uuuugh....back from school, maaaa..." muttered Dulcy who was once again feeling dizzy. Shaking her head as she picked herself up, the dragon then gasped at the city afar. "Oh no...Robotrop....er...ugh, my head."

Quickly, Dulcy ran behind the rock, resting her back on it.

"Better hide, Nicole, until the blue spots in my eyes go away." she said to her lynx captive, who was trapped within the grip of Dulcy's tail.

[Lans]

However Nicole could not immediatly answer. She stared blankly where she had landed for a moment, then blinked as her momentarily stunned systems reset themselves. "...Where are we? Why did you abduct me?"

[AnT]

"Abduct?" That word pretty much shocked the dragon. "What do you mean? I rescued you!"

Cautiously, Dulcy peaked over the rock, staring at the deadly city.

"And as for where we are, Robotnik's smelly dump; Robotrop...wait...Robotropolis looks different."

Arching a brow, Dulcy scratched her head. But then, she snapped her claws.

"Oh yeah! I think I passed by this place before. This is San Grandia, but it's still Robotnik's terroritory. So we still gotta be careful."

Leaping off the rock, Dulcy looked down at the lynx.

"I wonder how Robotnik ever got a hold of you. The only good thing about this is that you look really pretty, Nicole. Since when did that slime have a imagination?"

[Lans]

"No, you abducted me, and quite abruptly I might add. And I've also never been in the company of Dr. Robotnik." She told Dulcy as she got to her own feet. "Now, where exactly is this San Grandia, and was is your connection to Sally Acorn?"

[AnT]

"Never been? Guess Robotnik never got to finish you personally. You would've attacked me like all his other..."

She trailed off when she heard Nicole's second sentence.

"Wait...what do you mean connection? Don't you remember me?"

Dulcy was now really worried. Robotnik must had done something to her, because she doesn't seem to remember her. She seems to remember Sally, but she gotta be sure how screwed up her memory banks are.

"Well...what about Sonic, or Bunnie? Rotor? Antoine? Tails? Any of them?

[Lans]

Nicole was starting to feel...she belived the term was annoyed. "I do not know two of those names, but Sonic Hedgehog and Miles Prower, nickname 'Tails', are world reknowned heroes, if vigilantes. And Antoine D'Coolette is a mid level GUN agent." She paused, considering something, "Is that it? Was this supposed to be an extraction operation? Because I did not request one and your methods leave much to be desired if that is the case."

[AnT]

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"Extraction? Um...I'm not very good at math, you know." Dulcy scratched her head. "Boy would Princess Sally be worried about this."

[Lans]

"...Undoubtedly. And based on that, I am willing to guess that you are not from GUN. Yet you say you know...'Princess' Sally?" As far as Nicole knew, no one had called Sally princess besides her father...and that had been many years ago...and she should probably delete those journal files left over from when she was Sally's handheld computer.

[AnT]

"Gun? Um, you know us Freedom Fighters don't allow guns; Sally said so. I think it started by her royal folks and all, I'm not sure."

Craning down at the short lynx, Dulcy eyed her with a worried look. "Yeah, Princess Sally. She's the princess of Mobius. Nicole, Robotnik must had done something to you."

Standing up straight, she rubbed her forehead in worry. "Oh boy...which means Robotnik probably took all your computer info stuff...including the location to Knothole! Great, and since you're a computer, Robotnik probably kept copies of your stuff, so getting you out of there didn't help. Oh boy, I hope that part isn't true, but we gotta hurry anyways!"

Spreading her wings, Dulcy then hovered a foot over the soil.

"I think San Grandia is pretty far west from Knothole, so we gotta motor fast and head southeast....or is San Grandia east? I forget. Um, Nicole, you can still make those floaty maps, or do you need Sally or Sonic's permission?"

[Lans]

"I am not about to go anywhere with you unless you can coherantly explain what is going on." Nicole said, with a slight stubborn tone. "You have interfered with a Guardian Unit of Nation, GUN, operation, abducted me, and I am beginning to doubt that we are both speaking about the same Sally Acorn, as standard equipment for GUN agents of her rank includes a standard issue laser pistol."

[AnT]

"What? But Sally Acorn doesn't use guns! And what the heck is..."

Her speech came to a halt when something attracted Dulcy's attention, and that something seems to be at the distance of the dessert.

"What's that?" she spoke out loud.

[L]

An ebony and crimson hedgehog sped by, not too far from the location of the dragon and the android lynx, carrying a young lady in tow behind him. His red eyes suddenly noticed the two standing adjacent to his position in the distance. "Maria, hazzizzle!" He commented to his traveling companion.

[Jamie Lee]

Maria blinked when the swirls of color stopped flowing around her, glancing at the hedgehog in confusion. "What's wrong?"

[L]

Wide-eyed, the hedgehog continued his alarmed sounds. "Hazizzle. HA-ZIZZ-EL."

He pointed over toward the dragon.

[Lans]

"That is..." she 'squinted', adjusting her optics to view long distances, "Shadow the Hedgehog...and..." she paused, searching for her records for almost 15 seconds (a long time for her) before coming up with an answer, and then spending another ten trying to make sense of it before she finally responded, "...Maria Robotnik?"

[AnT]

"You know them?"

Squinting her eyes, Dulcy looked over at the newcomers. Being a dragon, she has great sight range.

Indeed it was a hedgehog, and by the way he was shaped and how fast he was moving, she thought it was Sonic. But as this Shadow was getting closer, she can see his black fur and red markings. Defiantly not Sonic, but she thought Sonic was the fastest thing alive. Boy is Sonic gonna be jealous

She then spotted a young girl in blue clothes holding onto him. But....

"And Overlander?!" she shouted. Since she and the gang barely saw any humans, other than Robotnik and Snively, well...they don't take kindly to them. "And you say her name is Maria...Robotnik?.....Maria.....


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ROBOTNIK?!?!"


Dulcy slammed her foot on the floor with a thunderous force, preparing for these two. A Robotnik? Dulcy didn't know Robotnik had ANOTHER realitive! And knowing the Robotniks, they're all insane. And that hedgehog is probably another one of those Mobian-robots, just like in that place she rescued Nicole from.

"HEY! YOU!!!!" she shouted at Shadow and Maria.

[Jamie Lee]

Maria gave an exasperated sigh and pushed her palm to her forehead, her crystal blue eyes gravitating up toward where the hedgehog pointed.

A dragon and a lynx.

Correction, an angry dragon and a lynx.

Maria squeaked a bit and shuffled behind Shadow.

[L]

The confused and slightly unnerved ghettohog continued toward the dragon and the lynx.

[Lans]

Nicole just continued to stare at Maria, trying to validate her presence there. Knowing Project Shadow's mindframe concerning the girl, could he have cloned her? But no, recent records of his sightings had not placed him in or near any labs with the technology needed to even attempt it. "...She is...deceased..." Nicole said quietly, "...this does not make sense!"

[AnT]

"Deceased? But...how is...?"

Dulcy took a few steps closer to the two, who were still standing a good distance.

"Hey, I heard your name is Maria ROBOTNIK! But...if she said you're dead, then how are you here? Don't tell me your uncle or grandpa or whatever Robotnik is to you cloned you!"

Glaring at Maria, Dulcy then shook her head.

"No way, after how he treats his nephew, I doubt he cares for his family."

[Jamie Lee]

The young girl drew her hands in her to her and gasped, visibly shaken. "R-R-Robotnik?!" she said timidly. "N-no! M-my name is Maria R-Roderick!" She gave a worried glance at her hedgehog companion. "S-Shadow? W-what are they talking about?!"

[L]

Shadow as even more wide-eyed than before. He caught Maria's glance whilst trying to think of a way to handle the situation. "Whatchu talkin' 'bout, dragon?" He said, arching a brow.

[AnT]

Narrowing her eyes, Dulcy studied Maria's expression. At this point, Dulcy wished she was one of those dragons who can sniff out lies, but too bad she doesn't have that ability. But that doesn't mean she can read faces. This girl looks a bit too timid, and she doesn't look like someone to be related to those Robotnik slimes.

But then again, she could be acting and....Oh wait, Nicole is having a malfunction.

"Um...sorry I did that. I thought you were....well, my friend here said your last name is Robotnik, but...well see she's a computer, and right now she's a little bit...er, screwy, so pay no attention to her; she's talking nonsense right now."

[Lans]

Actually, she had devoted so much resources into to trying to solve this logical impossiblity that she had actually lagged herself. However, when Maria anouncing her last name as Roderick got processed, she seemed to snap out of it. "I...apologize. There appears to have been a case of mistaken identidy. However, you are Shadow the hedgehog, correct?" she asked Shadow.

[L]

Shadow glanced over at the lynx. "Yeah, I am. Wutzit to ya?" He replied.

[Lans]

"Just checking. Where are we? And where might I find the nearest office of the local law enforcement?" She asked.

[AnT]

Baffled, Dulcy looked down at the short lynx. "Local law enforcement?"

That was pretty much off the wall, since all law is controlled by Robotnik.

Grinning, nervously, Dulcy pointed down at Nicole. "That would be the part where you don't listen to her."

Dulcy held out a paw for a handshake.

"Hi, I'm Dulcy, and this is Nicole. We're from the Knothole Freedom Fighters."

[Jamie Lee]

Slowly, timidly, the girl cautiously stepped out from behind Shadow. "Um... I'm... M-Maria... I guess you already know that..." she began tugging at her hair nervously. ".. H-how... um... did you know that...?"

She glanced at Nicole. Despite her scared demeanor a sense of interest seemed to spark in hearing her be referred to as a computer.

[AnT]

Grabbing her hand, Dulcy shook hands with Maria, giggling like a child. At least hopefully that show her she's harmless.

"Well like I said, Nicole here is a computer, Princess Sally's computer, well robot actually now. I don't know how, but Robotnik somehow got her data and put her in this robot. Although, I thought Nicole only had names of Freedom Fighters, unless you guys are Freedom Fighters." she asked, then eying at Shadow.

[L]

"We is." Shadow said, casting a glare back at Dulcy.

His piercing glare moved onto Nicole. "You tellin' me that dis robot knows the names of all da' Freedom Fighters?" He asked, sounding highly suspicious and uneasy about what he'd just learned.