Robotropolis Main Lab - Slugfest

[Jamie Lee]

Now here was a truly rare and bizzare, if even unique sight; Metal Sonic actually seemed to be happy as he strolled along down the barren corridors of Robotnik's citadel, following along behind him a newly roboticized fox.

As the two made a series of crisses and crosses through the massive complex, eventually they came to a standstill down the end of a long hall whose only exit was a door on the side. The door whisked open to allow the two entrance.

Metal came to an abrupt halt, turning to face the fox. "You will remain in this room until further notice. Robotnik will likely contact you with your duties shortly."

Without waiting for a response, Metal turned and left the room.

However, another occupant of the room heard the commotion, promptly halting what he was doing and spinning around in his seat to inspect it.

"... Metal Sonic?" Finitevus asked, slightly surprised to see the metallix as he ordered the small boy with him around. Something was noticeably different about him though. Though there was obviously some sort of recent damage done, he could tell beneath it the metallix's armor was dingy and scratched. Hardly like the metallix he knew, who always seemed meticulously spotless. Ah, this world's version of him, surely. he thought.

And then that's when it struck him who the smaller robot with Metal was. "Tails!"

[Topaz Mutiny]

Tails was glumly led to his new stupid room, and while Tails felt spiteful about his new command, he was doubtful his programming would let him leave.

And then someone, a voice very familiar, but somewhat different, called his name. Tails snapped to attention, focusing his sights on the robian before him. Black and white pangolin... with glasses.

"Finitevus?" The fox pondered. He had been turned into a robot as well! Then that must have meant...

*click*

That was the sound of all of the puzzle pieces in Tails' mind finally fitting together.

"I hope you have a good reason to have that happen to you..." he hissed, mentioning Fini's roboticized form. His hands were clenched tightly into fists, so much that both of them could hear the grating noise of metal-on-metal.

[Jamie Lee]

The pangolin nonchalantly glanced down at his mechanized form as it was referenced, then glanced back up to Tails and shrugged. "Terribly unnecessary if you ask me. But the overweight tyrant insisted otherwise."

[Topaz Mutiny]

Rage quickly filled the kit's body, causing him to shake, "That's no reason at all! And now that son of a 01100010 01101001 01110100 01100011 01101000 knows all there is to know about the Chaos Emeralds!" Tails snarled. His entire body quivered, and his eyes glowed fiercely with the extra energy output.

"Why in Chaos' name did you tell them about me!?"m

[Jamie Lee]

Finitevus resigned himself to what sounded similar to a sigh. A fake sigh, since he was no longer able to breath, but it still felt appropriate as he rubbed at the bridge of his nose. "I did not want to. Believe me, Tails, I did not want to. But I had no choice."

He turned in his seat, gesturing at the computer he had been sitting at. "This world's Robotnik had me changed so that I would be more..." he scrunched his mouth and nose up, his hands tightening, "... Cooperative. He has me currently gathering and studying data to build him his own personal version of our portal gate to take him into our world. The schematics for the portal itself were taken from me and to my knowledge are in construction as we speak. I've been trying every way I can think of to discourage him or generally weasel myself out of doing this."

He then stood up and approached Tails, holding his hands out in a way that begged for understanding. "I did try to protect you. I really did." his fists closed and then he dipped his head down, grimacing and looking away. "But I suppose you can see how successful I was. When my programming realized how vital the information I was withholding was I was immediately forced to report it."

[Topaz Mutiny]

Tails' fury seemed slightly put off by Fini's compassionate-like gesture, and the fact that this other-world Robotnik was planning an INVASION, but there was still something he needed to ask.

"I sure know the feeling about giving up something you want to keep secret. But my main point is this: HOW did he capture you in the first place?" The way the kit asked the question gave it an air of dire importance. One wrong word would probably send the kit over the edge.

[Jamie Lee]

The pangolin returned an annoyed glare in response. "Don't ask me that in such an accusing tone. To be perfectly honest, the last thing I clearly remember before waking up face to face with Robotnik in one of his jail cells was being involved in an aircraft wreck after GUN had shot me down."

[Topaz Mutiny]

Tails folded his arms, seeming to contemplate the pangolin's words. It seemed entirely possible that Fini was knocked unconcious and woke up as a prisoner and...

He blinked. "GUN? Where the heck were you flying when they shot at you?" he asked. This seemed to make Tails recall Sally, "Was that Acorn Agent there?"

[DB]

A large monitor screen, previously scrolling portal related data suddenly switched to a live feed of a particularly troll like man.

"Ah, I see we're all settled in, hmm? Was I correct in my assumption that this was the 'Tails' from your universe, Dr. Finitevus?"

[Jamie Lee]

Finitevus paused for a brief second, contemplating over exactly how much he should tell the boy. He supposed he didn't really have anything to hide as he he gave a hardy chuckle.

"Agent Acorn? More along the lines of Prin--" the robian pangolin made a face as he suddenly found himself interrupted. He gave a passive-aggressive glare to the monitor and simply folded his arms, remaining silent.

[DB]

"Now is not a time for the silent treatment. Answer."

[Jamie Lee]

The pangolin visibly winced, his teeth gritting. "... Yes. Yes you were."

He glanced over at Tails quickly, sending him a silent transmission whether or not the boy had figured out how to work it yet. <For the love of Chaos, Tails, please tell me you don't remember the fake emerald formula from memory or have documents on you.>

[Topaz Mutiny]

Well, Tails would have answered Fini, except that he had been instantly distracted by Robotnik. Tails immediately figured that this was Eggman's counterpart, as the mustache seemed to have quite a bit resemblence to the docs.

And all Tails could do was stare.

"... Good grief, that is the UGLIEST talking blob of lard I've EVER SEEN. It's fatter than Eggman!" Tails eventually exclaimed. "... How can you live without coronary failure?"

[Jamie Lee]

Finitevus craned his neck around stared at the kit in surprise after his outburst.

Then he covered his mouth in a futile attempt to contain the fit of giggles that had just struck him.

[DB]

Robotnik's mustache... twitched... at that comment. But other then that, there was no response to that grievous insult. Well, except for maybe...

"Enough of that."

And then carrying on to...

"Dr. Finitevus has told me that you're capable of creating a power source for the portal device he is creating for me. Is this true?"

[Topaz Mutiny]

This time it was Tails' turn to wince as his programming made him answer the fat man. "Unfortunately for us, it is true."

Tails finally transmitted an answer to Finitevus' question. <I only have a few notes. I never put the entire thing down on paper because I never expected something like this to happen. ... I remember most of it, but there are a few important things I can't.>

[DB]

"Good, because that is what you are going to be doing. Make a list of the supplies that you require to make the power source, and we'll go from there."

[Topaz Mutiny]

"Joy." Tails said dryly. Meanwhile, his mechanical mind was already creating a list of materials, filing it away as a document in his brain.

"And while I can make one... there happens to be some things about creating it that I can't remember. And my notes for those are back in my dimension." The fox had folded his arms, and he had to resist plastering a grin over his face. It was the truth, plain and simple, but he was also interested in seeing Robotnik's reaction, since there was no reliable way to cross between dimensions.

[DB]

"Perhaps it'll... come back to you. For now, I have other things to attend to. Submit your list of materials in and they'll be delivered to the lab shortly."

And the vid flicked back to it's previous state.

[Topaz Mutiny]

As soon as the screen went blank, Tails stuck his robotic tongue out at it. "Ugly old fogey." he growled, unable to stop the transmission of the materials he needed. He glared at the moniter, before setting his sights on Fini.

He looked pretty angry. "So now what?"

[Jamie Lee]

Finitevus gave an aggravated sigh, spinning around in his seat to once again study the monitor now that Robotnik's fat mug was no longer obscuring his work. "For the moment, I suppose that we... do as we're told." he ground his hands together into tight fists, the last few words themselves sounding bitter and forced.

[Topaz Mutiny]

Well, Tails had already done that, and until that ugly THING forced him to make the fake Chaos Emerald, there was really nothing to do except vent the anger he had struggled to keep under control.

All of a sudden a metal fist lashed out, slamming down into the back of Finitevus's skull. At the same time, Tails screeched out in fury, "01000100 01001111 00100000 01000001 00100000 01000010 01000001 01010010 01010010 01000101 01001100 00100000 01010010 01001111 01001100 01001100 00100001 00100001"m

[Jamie Lee]

Before the robotic pangolin even had a chance to blink, he found his face being slammed into the console. A few sparks flew from the machine and an alarm siren instantly rang out in response.

Finitevus pulled himself back up, whipping around to look at Tails and angrily hissing, "01000001 01001100 01001100 00100000 01011001 01001111 01010101 01010010 00100000 01000010 01000001 01010011 01000101 00100000 01000001 01010010 01000101 00100000 01000010 01000101 01001100 01001111 01001110 01000111 00100000 01010100 01001111 00100000 01010101 01010011 00100001"

... Apparently just because someone was turned into a robot didn't automatically make them fluent in binary. I'm pretty sure he meant to say was 'What was that for?!'

[Topaz Mutiny]

Tails glowered at Fini, but was no longer in an aggressive pose. He spat back, "01010100 01001000 01000101 00100000 01000011 01000001 01001011 01000101 00100000 01001001 01010011 00100000 01000001 00100000 01001100 01001001 01000101 00101110"

[Jamie Lee]

Why am I doing this? Finitevus just made a face. "... Speak english."

[Topaz Mutiny]

"Don't look at me like that," Tails said, mocking Fini's earlier, similar statement, "I've been having a REALLY bad day, and I needed to vent."

In the meantime, the techbot in the room immediately rushed to fix the keyboard, and had contacted Robotnik to tell him of the disturbance.

[Jamie Lee]

"And you honestly believe that I haven't?" Finitevus asked, remaining calm despite the firmness in his tone. "Perhaps I should stand up right now and also vent my frustrations on you. Or wouldn't you like that?"

[Topaz Mutiny]

The fox grinned rather evilly.

<Plus, in a way, you'd be defying that fat man.>

[Jamie Lee]

The doctor seemed to consider this for a moment.

<Intriguing point.> Finitevus said as he calmly stood up and took the time to dust himself off.

... And then took a swing at the boy with his tail.

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[Topaz Mutiny]

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Tails swung up his own tails to block the attack, and with his spinning momentum, he hopped into the air to deliver a kick to the pangolin's face.

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