Robotropolis- Do not pass GO!

[AnT]

Robotropolis...if the area around the Great Forest and Robotropolis was like a pizza, the side this city represents was much more than burnt...it's moldy, stinky and unsantising for the human hands.

Yes the city, where looking at the buildings is a nightmare enough, is where we find Tekno and Shortfuse trying to sneak under the detection of the robots.




"This way! This way!" Tekno whispered loudly as she quickly ran though a trashy alley, hoping to keep away from any robot's sights.

Her Robian friend followed suit but halted when his attention was averted to some SWATbots way down the road. Tekno quickly reeled him in by his metal tail.

"You bloody nutter! You could've gotten our cover blown!"

Shortfuse lifted his shoulders. "Well...I was making sure they weren't looking and stuff."

She glared at him. "You just wanted to blast their heads open. I know you."

"Do not!"

Rolling her eyes, Tekno carefully and slowly advanced through the alley. There was a large pile of garbage in the middle of it, but she walked over it, carefully trying to walk low.

"This hellish city has more security than San Grandia. I wished I spent more time on downloading the files of this place."

Shortfuse followed, not even worried about keeping low. "Eh, but more bot-heads makes me more merry."

"I'm sure..." she muttered as she looked at a mini-computer.

Unlike Sally's, Tekno wasn't that advanced. It can't show holographic images, but it did have a stylus. Writing on the screen with it, Tekno looked at the maps.

"Hmm...there's a security entrance on the corner of the HQ that leads to the cell-blocks, but it uses security cards to get in. The workbots should have them."

[Lans]

From one of the rooftops above them, they would hear a slight thud as something landed on it. Silver had found no sign of Metal Sonic on the route that the other robotic unit had pointed out to him, but from the air, he could clearly see Robotropolis, even without his newly restored hack into Robotnik's sattelite network. However the basic data he had suggested that an outright assult would have a high probability of failure due to the main HQ's defenses, so he needed to locate a more subtle way inside.

[AnT]

"The hell?!?" Shortfuse's wrist reeled out a blaster nozzle, as he stood guard from that sudden noise.

"Don't, Shorty!!" Tekno reeled him by his tail down the junk-pile, leading him to the dark shadow of the alley. "It's probably them bloody SWATbots being dropped off. They won't notice us from up there."

"Arrrgh! I was hoping they did." And the Robian sunk the nossle back in his arm.

Carefully, Tekno peaked over the corner of the alley. She can the road; no workerbots, and she can see that dreadful egg-shaped tower standing mighty and tall over the buildings. "There's got to be a way in there."

[Lans]

However, Silver's audio receptors being of much better quality than the average SWATbot, Silver heard Shortfuse's outburst.

The two would probably be startled by another, slightly mufflled by judicious use of his jets, thud as Silver landed in the alley behind them. As he stood up from his landing crouch, his eyes looked them over.

"...Please identify yourselves," he said in low tones.

[AnT]

Shortfuse did not hesistate to aim his blasters at the newcomer, charging it with energy. "The last thing you'll see!!"

Tekno was startled off her feet. "Oh no!"

[Lans]

Silver seemed unimpressed. "Please, deactivate your weapondry, I intend you no harm."

[AnT]

Shorty ignored his request. "Keh! You hear that, Tekno? A Robotnik-bot says that? Wow, I never met the guy and I find that funny!"

But this puzzled Tekno. This machine seems related to that Metal Sonic robot she read about during Nicole's hacking. It was suppose to be one of Robotnik's deadliest, so why would he say he intend no harm? Is he trying to use reverse psycology to lead them to the Robotizcer? No, it doesn't seem like the style of someone who owns the entire planet....

...unless...

"Um...are you a Robian?"

[Lans]

Silver took a moment to check the term 'robian', determining that she meant one of the roboticized citizenry. "Negative. I am Silver Sonic Mk 3, Prototype GUN Refit Model Protection Unit."

[AnT]

".........you know, fat-face needs a better taste in names."

"GU...N?" Tekno stood up, studying the blue robot. That sounds like the name Nicole mentioned "Are you from that other world?"

[Lans]

"If you are implying that I am not native to this dimension, you would be correct," Silver answered, "I seek a stealth entrance to the city's main command center so that I may complete my current primary mission."

[AnT]

"Why? Fat-face took the key away from ya?" a electronic humming sounded from his blasters as it made a gun-click sound when he pumped them.

"Shorty! If he was Robotnik's robot, he would've dragged us to Robotnik's by now!"

"What?! You gonna trust this robot?! The thing might be-"

"Shorty!!" Tekno barked. She then motioned to Silver Sonic. "Look, we're working on that since we're new to the city. Robotnik captured some people from your world, especially some guy named Dr. Fini-ti-voo or something. But why are you so interested in accessing to the main HQ?"

"ARGH! I don't believe this!" Shorty threw his hands up as he took a few steps in the alley.

[Lans]

Silver mulled the question over for a moment, but could think of no reason to keep his purpose classified. In fact, they may even be more inclinded to help him if they knew.

"Primary objective: Eliminate Dr. Robotnik of this world."

[AnT]

"......."

"......."


".......Yeah, he's lying!" Turning around, Shortfuse marched back to the Metallix, aimming his charged weapon.

"Shorty!" she aimed some kind of remote at her Robian friend. "Don't make me."

"Eep!" the squirrel flinched.

Tekno eyed at the blue robot. "Look, luv, you maybe set to make everyone's dream come true, but that's suicide, even for you. Robotnik might be surrounded by security to the teeth that'll lead you to your grave...erm, recycle-bin."

"Keh, why not? Let him...'kill fat-face'." Shorty said, using air-quotes. "He'll be doing everyone's job."

"You're using air-quotes? Ha...interesting." Tekno went back to the edge of the alley, peaking over to check the road. "But look, obviously you're not gonna listen to our warning, but since we're heading to the same place, you might as well tag along."

"WHAT?!"

"Shorty, clam it!" Tekno spotted a Tank-bot, followed by two SWATbots, and they were heading by the alley. "Just in luck; a Tank-bot! They usually have clearance-cards. We just need to take out those SWATbots quickly before they phone home."

"Beat-down in five seconds? My favorite part!" Shortfuse punched his metal-fist as he was about to head out of the alley.

But Tekno held out a arm in his way. "Wait for it."

"Aw man!"



Two SWATbots marched like military soilders, following a short, cyan-Tank-bot. As they were about to pass the dark alley Tekno, Shortfuse, and Silver Sonic hid, one of the SWATbots took notice at the alley.

[Lans]

Behind them, Silver's hands switched over to claw mode. "Enemy unit: Targeted."

[AnT]

"Not before I take dibs!" Shortfuse's wrists armed with blasters.



"Intruders detected! Freeze intruders!" the two SWATbots marched over to the alley, readying their own wrist blasters.


But not while Tekno tossed some kind of darts that look like hair-pins. They stabbed the twin SWATbots and the Tank-bots, electrocuting them for a bit, but they didn't stop them from coming fowards.

"That should disable their systems so they won't call for help! Hurry up, that'll last a few seconds!"


"This won't take long, Tek!" rocketing away, Shortfuse charged at one of the SWATbots, prepared to punch its head off.

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BAM! And off with the bot's head it goes!



The second SWATbot fired lasers at Silver.

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[Lans]

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However Silver was already in motion, blasting forward and along one of the alley's walls, the laser hitting where he'd been less than a second ago. He didn't even bother with his own blasters as he leaped off the wall and tucked into spindash mode, emmiting a sound like a power saw as he sliced towards the SWATbot's chest.

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[AnT]

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Done like dinner. The SWATbot dropped to the floor, sliced in half.


Now all that was left was Exosuit-bot, and they weren't equipped with weapons of their own...sometimes. "Intruders! Intruders!"




"Last up! Go easy on it, luvs! There's a Robotiszed person in there!"

"Yeah, yeah..." blasting off, Shortfuse tackled the thing and pinned on the floor.

The sirens were still going wild on the Tank-bot.

"Shut this stupid thing up, Tek!!"

Jumping on the bot, Tekno grabbed Shortfuse's arm. "Gimme your finger, luv."

She connected his finger on the hair-pin thing Tekno used on the Tank-bot. Twisting the finger, the Exosuit was electrocuted.
The sirens were silenced.

"HEY!" Shorty whined, reeling his hand.

"Had to transfer your power to increase the Jam-pin, luv. Now help get the Worker-bot out! It should be knocked out too."

Opening the head of the Exosuit, Tekno and Shortfuse reached in and pulled out the Worker-bot, which looked like a.....
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[Jamie Lee]

... Petite little rabbit girl. She couldn't have looked much older than six. Her lop-like ears hung back behind her like pigtails and her torso had the appearance that at one time she'd been wearing a sun dress. Her LED eyes were completely dark, a sign that she was currently offline.

[Lans]

Meanwhile Silver quickly zipped around the area, making sure to take out any remaining SWATbots in the area before finally skidding to a halt next to Shortfuse and Tekno...and then twisting around to blast a spy orb that had just come around the corner.

[AnT]

Tekno gasped, not at the Spy Orb that almost caught them, but at the Robian they pulled out of the Exosuit. "Bloody hell...she...she's just a lil girl."

"Grrrrrr!!!!" Shortfuse tightened his fist so much, sparks came out.

Tekno feared the trama and emotional scars this girl has now. She never knew Robotnik could go that low...okay, it shouldn't be a shock, but it still was.

"Come on." Tekno tried to drag the robot-body over to the alley, but she could barely move it by inches for every tug.

"What are you doing? Just grab the stinkin card!"

"Just help me with the lass! Bury her in that trash pile in the alley."

Shoving Tekno away, Shortfuse dragged the robot with ease over to the dark alley. Doing what Tekno said, Shortfuse just tossed the bot in the trash pile.

Running over there, Tekno placed some kind of pin on the rabbit's head.

"Just why hell we doing this?"

After taking the card from the compartment of the bot's arm, Tekno shot a glare. "Did you get a good look at her?!? She's a bloody kid!! I'm not leaving her here! As soon as we're done bailing out the other-world crooks, that tracking chip will lead me back to this girl so we can take her with us."

"Ohhhhh....nice....um..." carefully, Shortfuse knocked her head like a door. "Yo genius! She's not gonna be 'happy n sunshines' when she wakes up...not while she's still in 'Robotnik god! You die' mode. I know!"

"We'll figure it out later, but I will NOT leave her! Now come on!" she ran out the alley. She waved to Silver Sonic. "You too, luv!"

"Jeez, when will she stop trustin ROBOTS?!" Shorty grumbled as he walked after her.

[Lans]

"She appears to trust you," Silver pointed out as he moved to follow the canary.

[AnT]

"I'm a Robian! That don't count!!" rudely bumping past Silver Sonic, Shorty chased after her.