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War for MobiusAct 1 Chapter 9

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War for Mobius
Act 1 Chapter 9

Long before they arrive at the base, The Freedom Fighters begin to taste the toxic chemicals that have begun polluting the air.   As they get closer the trees in the forest begin to change color and die away.  The grass becomes brittle and dead before opening up to dirt.  The dirt itself is also cracked and burned, killing anything that grew out of it.  
It would take Nature a very long time to recover from this horrendous attack.  Worse still was the attack had barely begun.

“Alright, does everyone remember what they have to do?” Sally checks with the group, “The Chemical Plant is only a little bit farther up ahead.”
“Team A’s first Priority is to find and destroy the Robot factory,” Rotor replies.
“Then we take out any of the bots that have already been created,” Bunnie adds.
“Then w-we go home,” Antoine adds in hopefully.  
“What’s wrong Ant,” Sonic teases, “Scared that you might get caught?”
“I-I’m not afraid of anything other than the safety of my Princess!” Antoine snaps.
“Stay focused people,” Sally scolds, “Anything can happen here so we can’t goof around!”
Sonic scratches his ear, “Yeah, yeah.  Team B’s job is to….”  
Sonic pauses.  After a minute he nudges Miles.
“Oh!” the Fox boy exclaims, “Team B’s job is to blow up the chemical plant so the pollution doesn’t spread!”  
Sally sighs, “Very good, at least one of you are paying attention.”
“Hey!” The Hedgehog exclaims, “I thought we were supposed to stay focused!”

A few moments later Team A approaches a large garage-like building.
“Ya’ll think that might be it?” Bunnie asks her team.
“Not sure,” Rotor replies, “there are no guards, or defenses.  It’s too unprotected to be it.”
“Maybe we could be using it as a hiding place?” the coyote nervously suggests.
Rotor considers it for a moment, “Good idea, if nothing else we can use it as a base for our search.  Bunnie could you pry the door open for us to slip in?”
“Sure’nough Sugar” the cyborg rabbit proudly replies.  Moving slowly to avoid drawing attention to herself she moves closer to the large garage door.  Taking only a moment to look around for any signs of danger, Bunnie digs her robotic arm deep underneath the large and slightly rusted metal door.  With a large heave she lifts the door just enough for the others to squeeze underneath, “Hurry up boys, this suckers heavy!”
“Good job Bunnie!” Roto congratulates as he and Antoine slip through the gap, closely followed by Bunnie herself.  She slowly lowers the door behind them to hide that they were ever there.
Rotor takes a quick look around the dark room.  The room is lit only by a small window on the roof, but even in the dim light, it is clear the room is empty.  Completely empty besides the Freedom Fighters.  
“Something is wrong here….”

Sonic skids to a stop and turns back to the other members of Team B, “I’m waaaaaaiting.”
“Sonic Hedgehog, if you dash ahead of us one more time I’ll….” The princess starts but as she does Sonic takes off again.  She shakes her head in defeat, “He just has to act like this is a game right now.”
Miles looks at Sally confused, “But wouldn’t it be faster if he just took the bombs and placed them himself?”
“It would be but we don’t want the chemicals to contaminate the surrounding area, so each explosive will have to be carefully placed to prevent spread,” Sally explains to the young mutant fox, “Unfortunately our Hedgehog friend doesn’t have the best eye for such delicate work.”
“That makes sense,” Miles nods understandingly, “We want to clean up after Ro-butt-nik’s messes not spread them”
“You got it,” Sally smiles, “C’mon, if we don’t catch up with Sonic we may never catch up with him.
The two hustle after the speedy blue hedgehog.  

A loud KLANG fills the empty garage.
“What was that!?” the cowardly coyote shouts nearly jumping to the ceiling.
“It sounded like it came from over by the door,” Rotor answers.  He and Bunnie race for the large rusted garage door with Antoine chasing behind.  When Bunnie arrives she tries lifting it again.  It doesn’t budge.
“We’re locked in!” Bunnie informs her companions, “It’s a trap!”
“Right you are Freedom Fighters!” a voice cackles through the room, “And this time I’ll finish you off but good!”
A long thin hole opens up in the floor and a screen rises from within it.  The screen flickers on revealing Snively’s face.  His cackling laugh fills the room again, “Now before I have you all turned into machines , I want to know who your contact is!”
“Contact?  What on Mobius are you talking about?” Rotor ask the screen.
“Don’t you dare play dumb with me,” Snively shouts back nearly blowing the screen’s built in speakers, “I know someone tipped you off to this facility!  Who was it!?”
Bunnie gives the screen a very un-ladylike gesture involving her fingers, “Here, lemme point ‘em out.”
For a moment Snively appears as if he’s about to explode through the screen but suddenly a eerie calm sweeps over his face, “Well that’s okay, once you’re Robots I can pry the data right from your brains.  It’s too bad you won’t get to say goodbye to your companions.  Being turned to ‘bots is the least of their worries”

Just as Sonic skids to another stop, a SWATbot Blaster Bolt explodes just a few inches behind him.  The blast knocks Sonic off his feet, but even so, he calls out to Miles and Sally, “LOOK OUT!  AMBUSH!”
Sally’s first instinct is to provide back-up to Sonic, but she quickly remembers that Miles is still inexperienced and young.  She quickly pushes him behind one of the nearby pipes, “Get down!”
“But what about Sonic?”
Even as Miles asks, Sonic is back on his feet, “You SWATbutts couldn’t even hit me if I was standing still!”
A shot explodes where Sonic was just standing, “Well…maybe if I was standing still.”  Sonic charges the nearby robot.  At the last second he breaks to the left going around it.  The robot turns after but Sonic was already moving between the machine man  and the next SWATbot in line.  The two both target him and fire but he’s way too fast.  The two shots wiz past each other and slam into the opposing SWATbots, destroying them both.  
Sally and Miles begin moving up, “Keep your head down Miles, and stay behind me.”

Bunnie slams her metal arm against the wall of the Garage again.  The dent she had been making gets a little bit larger but still hasn’t punched through.  Meanwhile Rotor uses his tools to try and hack into the screen Snively had been speaking to them in.  Robotnik’s nephew had turned his attention to the others leaving Team A to their own demise when the SWATs showed up to capture them.  But Rotor wasn’t going down without a fight.  And he certainly wasn’t going to let Bunnie or Antoine go down either.  
“How’s it coming Bunnie?”
“Shoot,” Bunnie replies, “If I didn’t know better I don’t think Needle nose wanted us to leave.”  She slams her fist into the wall again.  Still no escape route, “How ‘bout you two?”
“We’re getting there,” Rotor gives Bunnie a Thumbs up, “Right ‘Twan?”
Below the heavy-set Walrus, Antoine groans, “Rotor, I am believing you need to be putting off the pounds.”
“Do you mean lose weight?” Rotor tries to hide the annoyance in his voice.
“If you lost it, I’ve found it!” The coyote groans back.
“Sorry Ant,” Rotor shakes his head, “I can’t reach the switches without your help.”  The Walrus pulls on a wire sending a shock through him and his “assistant”.  They both yelp for a moment.
“Please not be doing that again, Yes?”
“I’ll try.”

Without any warning a ‘bot drops from the off the side of the pipes at Sally.  She barely dodges the attack in time.
The Large Yellow and Black, Robotic Spider grasps with its legs at the ground where she had been standing.  The pointed tips pierce the concrete leaving spider-webbing cracks in the ground.
“That was close!” Miles lets out a sigh of relief.  
“Too close,” Sally agrees, “If I hadn’t noticed it’s shadow as it was coming down….”  She shudders thinking about it.
Miles kicks the Robotic-Spider’s head, “It doesn’t seem to do much though after it drops though.”
The Metal Arachnid stares coldly at them, but does little else.  It gives Miles the shivers.
“We better watch out step,” Sally advises, “There are probably more of them lying in wait.”

Sonic crashes his foot down on the head of the last SWATbot.  It tumbles to the ground and lands in a heap.  The Hedgehog rubs the back of his heel.  
“Man, there sure are a lot of these pests,” he grumbles.  He takes a look around, “Great.  Now I’ve lost Sally and Miles.”
“That’s not all you’ve lost, Hedgehog!”
Sonic dodges almost effortlessly causing the missiles to careen right by, exploding harmlessly behind him.  Well, as harmlessly and exploding the defeated SWATbots is.
“Well if it isn’t Snot-ly,” The Blue Hedgehog Sneers, “I guess all the chemicals here must have masked your rancid odor.”
“BLAST YOU RODENT!” Snively howls, slamming his fist into the control console of his hover pod, sending dashing to the right for a moment before he regains control, “You just got lucky!”
“Yeah, lucky that you’re such a windbag that you announced the attack before it hit me.”
“Why…You little….I ought to…..” Snively stumbles over his words.
“As much fun as it is to watch you choke on your own words,” Sonic mocks, “I have Chemicals to blow and Tyrants to overthrow.”   Sonic hops over Snively’s pod and giving it a slight kick to use as a boost.  However Snively anticipated the attempt and whirls around using the kick to kick start his own momentum.  A small sprayer pops out from below the pod and sprays a chemical towards Sonic’s landing spot.
The Hedgehog barely manages to pull himself out of the line of fire and land just to the side of the spray.  The reeking substance burns quickly through the pathway causing it fall away into the pinkish muck down below.  
This was the first time the Hedgehog even noticed the stuff.  Was that what was left of the river?  No, the river should be a ways off still.  One of the vats must be leaking.
“Enjoying the moat hedgehog?” Snively cackles, “Care to take a dip?”  The human scientist fires more acid at the Hedgehog.  Sonic now being on the ground is easily able to dodge it and jumps to another pathway.  
“Naw, you go first!” Sonic kicks off the second pathway allowing more acid to shoot beneath him.  He lands just next to Snively.  However the Human is still one step ahead.  He pilots his pod above across the collapsed pathways, leaving Sonic stranded on the other side.
“I’d love to stick around Hedgehog,” Snively Chortles, “But I have a Princess to Smash and a Rebellion to Crash!”  
Snively’s Pod mad dashes in the direction Sonic left Sally and Miles behind.  
Sonic curses.  Snively somehow managed to mislead him and played him like a fool.  And now Sally and Miles are going to pay the price.
Oh look, I'm being productive again.

So I just got back from Vacation which I apparently forgot to state here ...oops.

Anyways Car rides are long so I actually got some work done on my War For Mobius Story and some of my other projects.

What other Projects you ask? Well other Writing Projects. I do have the next page of M300X Done just haven't uploaded it due business, and the first page of MotRD drawn just not inked. I haven't decided if I wanna computer ink that one or hand ink it.

Ah well. Hopefully I'll have everything up by tomorrow. Right now I'm doing some last minute editing.

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