Sonic RPG 5: Indefinitely Detained

Faint echoes. That's all he could hear. Just faint echoes. Eddie's eyes slowly opened as he found himself lying on the ground. He gets up, but he feels woozy all around as he tries to figure where he is.

Eddie: (rubs head) Oh, man. I was just celebrating my twenthieth birthday at an arcade gallery.......

Suddenly, he is alarmed by a voice.

A.I.: Greetings, young wolf.

Eddie: (looks around frantically) Who's there?

A.I.: There's no need to be alarmed. I'm here to give you advice.

Eddie: Pfft! I don't think I'd need it, thank you very much.

A.I.: Oh, but I insist. That is if you want to make it out of here alive.

Eddie: (ears perk up) What do you mean?

A.I.: What you are about to go through is simply a test with obstacles coming across your path.

Eddie: And what are these "obstacles"?

A.I.: Mainly death every which way you look at it.

Eddie: Some test this is.

A.I.: There will be androids along the way, there may not. However, there may be androids that are out to kill you.

Eddie: Let me guess. I have to kill them if I want to survive.

A.I.: See? Aren't you a smart wolf? I recommend that you do leave at once.

A doorway opens in front of Eddie.

A.I.: Your journey begins now.

Eddie: (skeptical) Looks like I have no other choice. Are there any others?

A.I.: What do you mean by others?

Eddie: (thinks) I guess not.

Eddie steps into the doorway which closes immediately after he steps in.

A.I.: Good luck.

Note: Okay. How was that?

Before Eugene opens the door, he notices another camera. He thinks to himself "I really don't like this place..." He grins...

"You know what to do" He looks at one of his nodes. It flies towards the camera, and "harvests" the camera like before.

The voice is heard again. "Vital Test-ing appar-atus des-troyed..."

Eugene smiles. "Don't act like you hate it. You WANT me to break your equipment." Noting that the computer isn't responding to his sarcasm, he turns back to the door. He hears a loud buzzing sound from behind him. A grid of lasers is approaching his position quickly. "Now how many times are we going to have to go through this...?" He thinks to himself. He opens the door, then slams it shut when he's through. He felt pretty good about himself, until he realized that he wasn't alone in the room. He turns to see a fox jumping along hovering platforms.

"I hate this place.."He mutters to himself. There isn't any specific location to hide at the moment, so he just tries to stay as inconspicuous as possible. He begins to think to himself: "I assume these are the very unmerciful androids I've been hearing about..." He sighs. "Now, I wonder. If they're technically androids, why are they so bent on fulfilling this computer's demands, unless they weren't androids at all, of course, and were simply mindless machines. But if they are androids...what would convince them to act in such a way as to be mindless servants? Unless of course, they are in the same situation I am in. Perhaps this whole 'test' is just a procedure to bring in new loyalty soldiers and replace outdated models with them. If that is the case, this creature has an equal possibility of being an ally as it does an enemy. Now what if they aren't servants at all? I've always been one to enjoy mind games, but at the moment I can't quite seem to find the humor here... It is illogical, at the moment to make unnecessary risks." He notions to one of his nodes. It hovers silently above him. He gives it a simple order: "Stay close enough to monitor it, but make no attempt to expose yourself." The node flies off, and begins to survey the actions of this fox (or in this case, Janis). Eugene decides that he'll follow along until he can make an accurate analysis of this creature, and will use the node to monitor him from a safe distance. "Now" he says to himself "I just hope he didn't hear that rather unfortunate noise I just made..." He glares towards another camera. His face has an apparant "You're next" look to it. But he wont risk it until Janis is out of this room, and he is free to move about.

In the next room, Eddie sees a bottomless pit and looks up to see a ledge with a door opened.

Eddie: Okaaaaay.... I guess I'm suppose to jump.

Eddie runs and jumps across the pit.

Eddie: (advances towards the door) Pfft! That was difficult.

In the next room, there is yet another bottomless pit only it's slightly larger than the previous.

Eddie: This has to be a joke.

He performs the same action as he did in the previous room and walks through the door. He sees yet another bottomless pit only this one seems to stretch out likea football field.

Eddie: Maybe I shouldn't have made that previous statement. Oh well. Here goes.

Eddie focuses his energy on his feet and makes a huge jump across. When reaching about halfway, a walk suddenly comes up from underneath and stops Eddie forcing him to cling on the ledge. The wall starts to lean in the opposite direction, and Eddie tries to climb over the slick surface in a panic craze. He's able to climb over it, and he jumps from the other side of it. He thought he was able to land on the surface towards the end of the room, but he ends up clinging onto the ledge. As he tries to climb onto the surface, he hears creaking coming from behind. He looks back to see that the wall is leaning towards him at an increasing rate causing Eddie to climb for dear life before it crushes him. The wall thuds loudly to the ground, and Eddie is on the floor leaning close to the door panting. He gets up slowly and looks at the wall that nearly crushed him.

Eddie: (wide-eyed) Just what is this place?

A.I.: This is a testing facility, of course.

Eddie: Some test that was.

A.I.: At least it's true about your kind.

Eddie: What?!

A.I.: Oh. Just stating a fact for myself. I've heard many things about you, and you seem very promising for the time being. Please go through the next door.

Disgusted by what he had heard, Eddie walks through the door.

@sonicphc: I plan to have my character Cyber trying to find Dem, but only rarly post about him and he will have little (if any) effect on the prompt.
and is Gladys the one gives you hints in Portal? I still like G-Man better.
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Dem: Let's so how badly engineered these androids really are.

Dem fires a barrage at the the Cyber Sonic android. It survives with minor damage. It rushes at Dem. Dem slasm his fist through its face. It explodes around Dem's fist.

Dem: You need to build better androids. Maybe I can help, if you release me.
"Your purpose isnt ful-filed yet. You are ours. We dic-tate when you can leave."
Dem: I figured that, but unlike some others you might have, I will never die.
"We will test your ther-y. We hope you will en-joy your stay."
Dem: If you keep sending me things like this, I just might.
"Pro-ceed to the next room."
Dem: I wonder what is going on with the real Cyber and Magna.
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Will post Cyber's bio soon, if sonicphc allows me to have him on the outside.

"It wasn't me! I didn't do it! I was frightened!

"Of what?"

"Even with it, they still would have taken G.U.N.'s side. It was my only slight chance of attaining freedom."

"So you blackmailed G.U.N. with it in order to achieve this freedom?"

"No! I mean, yes. But you must understand...."

"Understand what? You are a criminal, Crimson. You are no better than when you were a thief."

"No!"

"Yes, why just surrender yourself over to them for your freedom, when you could have prevented them from carrying on with their war crimes?"

"I told you! Even with, G.U.N. would have just gotten away. You Kow how politics work."

"Yes, but it's better to take the honorable choice, rather than the one that will give you what you want, no matter the circumstance, and you shoud be smart enough to know that. In fact, you should be brave enough to do that. Which makes me believe that you are lying. Ah, yes, it's about that Dr. Malcolm Betruger,isn't it?"

"No!"

"Yes it is. You just wanted to rejoin G.U.N. so that you could use it as a launching pad for revenge, didn't you?

"NO!!!! SHUT UP!!!!"

"I was wrong about you all along, Crimson. You are a horrible person."

"SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!"

"You don't give a damn about anyone else. Just you....and Betruger."

"STOP IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Your armadillo friend was right. You are just as bad as you were a Babylon Rogue. Crimson, I summon you to meet your justice."

"AAARRRGGGHH!!!!!!!!!! SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!"

Crimson shoots his head up from the floor of the long hallway. He is laying down, and immense pain has filled his body. A huge android with dual mini guns and the word "JUSTICE" in bold letters on it's left arm stands before him.

@sonicphc: Alright then, his noinclusion won't change Dem's story.
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Dem: Now what?
"You have done well so far. Now the time comes for a pro-per challen-ge. You must reach the ex-it, but you cannont es-cape this gravi-ty. It is too strong. You start now."
Dem: Gravity, oh.. that's what they were talking about. I can still walk, this shouldn't be too hard.

A large wall appears in front of him, along with a puzzle only passable by getting off the ground.
Dem: This isn't good. I can't jump or fly in the gravity but I can't reach the ledge to climb. How can I do this?
Dem thinks for a while. He comes up with an idea.

Dem: Lets try bringing the walls down.
He fires some chaos shots at the walls. They shots hit and damage them, but not much.
Dem: This could take a lot of energy, but thankfully I still havemy chaos emerald. I couldn't do that if they woul dhave took it. Ok, time to fire away.

Dem starts shootng at the walls, they start crumbling. He shoots most of the walls down, but the rubble is piled high. he begins to try to climb it. The gravity wears at his hydralics as extreme pressure is needed to climb. He finally makes it tothe end.

Dem: There, you happy now?
"Good job, Dem. But man-y tasks still await you a-head. Please pro-ceed to the next area."
Dem: Turn off the gravity first.
"Hurry to the next area, or we will kill you."

Dem turns around to see a laser gri of death coming towards him. It cuts through the rubble like it is not even there. Dem hurries and open the door. He makes it to the other side slightly ahead of the laser. Gravity returns to normal.

"Your next challenge will be bas-ic combat.Kill themwithin 5 min-utes, or the grid will re-turn.
The androids appear. There is one of Sonic, Knux, Tails, Big, Vector, Espio, Metal Sonic, Shadow, and Blaze. Dem only recognizes a few of them.
Dem: I don't like having to kill you guys, but I prefer living.

Dem: This could be a bit diffucult, but I have a plan.
"The door will be un-locked when you are finish-ed. Good Luck."

Dem goes invisible and hides out. The other search for him, but he stays hidden. 5 minutes pass and the laser grid of death returns.
Dem: Perfect, I'll end this quickly.

Dem starts knocking the enemies into the grid. They are shredded into pieces and explode. He knocks the Sonic android in last. The door unlocks and he escapes with mere seconds remaining.

"Ver-y good, robot. You next challenge is anoth-er mind game. This in-volv-es shifting dirt and a block-ed exit. Pro-ceed with you miss-ion."
Dem: Constantly shifting, lets first figure out the pattern.

The ground starts noving around randomly. Pieces go to the ceiling and cause an explosion. The square Demstands on is the only no-moving peice. Dem continues to search for apattern.

Dem: Cyber do you read me? Cyber?
"You cann-ot comunicate with the out-side. Please proceed to the puz-zle."
Dem: Yes, Cyber got away. Magna, do you copy?
"It is fut-ile."

The node attempts to move out of the way, but it is still hit with the electric blast. It begins to spark, and pieces of it burst from within. It emits a high pitched frequency, and retreats back to Eugene. It barely makes it back to the platform, and falls to the ground. Eugene looks at it for a second, then picks it up. He remembers that the node is still actually hot from the attack, so he quickly puts it back in its socket. He glares towards Janis. "Oh you SON OF A *****. Do you EVEN realize how much this is worth? No wait, DON'T ANSWER THAT! Because if you DID know that it is most likely worth more than you'll make your ENTIRE LIFETIME you WOULDN'T HAVE SHOT AT IT."

His face turns a blood red. The other node pops out, and phases out the two cameras that were "harvested". The node starts to reform the materials into spare parts for the other node. It uses its laser to repair the damaged node with the new parts.

He starts his tantrum again. "What the **** IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE? It's BAD enough that I'm stuck in CRAZY-FREAKIN-LAND with a PSYCHOTIC robot that wont shut up! THERE! You feel better NOW, ey? YEAH, you got me angry. EXTREMELY ANGRY. SO I guess that means MISSION ACCOMPLISHED, you DROVE THE little man CRAZY." He starts flaying his arms at this point, he is quick to anger...

"YEAH! YOU KEEP ON GOING THROUGH THAT DOOR! And go tell your "Friend" that WHEN I find a way out of here, I'm going to use you all for SCRAP METAL? YOU HEAR ME? SCRAP-METAL!!!!"

The broken node makes a noise, and seems operational again. He holds it. "Whew...that was a close one." He eyes Janis again. "AND YOU STAY AWAY FROM MY NODES!" His eyes begin to twitch a little. "Whatever this place is trying to do..." he thinks to himself "if it involved getting me annoyed...they sure succeeded..."

He remembers that the voice mentioned hostile androids, and so he carefully watches Janis, prepared for an attack.

Dem: I guess you are right, whoever the hell you are. I can't figure out the pattern.
"Thre is no pat-tern. You must get past here on luck."
Dem: Luck is for the ignorant. I can baet this.

Dem steps off the platform and the ground below him shoots up the ceiling. He is knocked back onto the nuetal platform. He steps off thesie. Once again the dirt jumps to the ceiling.
Dem: This is an impossible challenge. You have total control of the ground and you want me dead. How can I solve this problem.
"There is a solu-tion, you just have to find it."
Dem: I have one.

Dem shoots the camera with a chaos shot and rushes at full speed towards the door. He breaks down the door and lands on the other side. He stands back up and sees nothing. He is in pure darkness. With no light for his night-vision to amplify, he is stuck.
"That was fool-ish of you. Now this chal-lenge is in total dark-ness.Good luck"
Dem: This challenge would have been like this anyhow. You are not fooling me.
"Why don't ry to fool you. Pro-ceed to the ex-it. If you can find it."

Dem is carefully feeling his way through the room. he recieves Magna's transmission.

Dem: Magna? I am somewhere in a strange room. I was abducted by something, but Cyber got away. I have gone through several challenges. I'm currently in a very dark room.
"What are you doing mach-ine?"
Dem: Making a collect call.
"Get back to the chal-lenge."
Dem: I will once you turn on the lights.
"I had high hopes for you ro-bot. I didn't think I would have to re-sort to this."

The laser grid of death started up again. It illuminated the room just enogh for Dem to see. HE easily finds the door and escaped.
"Cle-ver Dem, you seem to be a quick think-er. You have pot-ential."
Dem: Magna Respond and report.

Dem: Maybe, this place seems big. They have good technology as well, I can't use a tracking device.
"Continue on to the next chall-enge. I would hate to get rid of such poten-tail"
Dem: In a minute wierd thing, I'm busy.
"Wierd thing? You do not under-stand my po-sition."
Dem: Fine, what is this challenge?
"You must show us the extrem-ities of your stealth. Complete the course with-out being seen."
Dem: Why not, I don't have anything better to do. Wait, yes I do but I don't really have a choice do I?
"No"

The course appears, it is a warehouse area with a lot of guards. Dem knows he needs to try to keep as much of his abilities a secret. He sneaks around, without his stealt activated. He manages to get halfway before he is detected. A guard fiers a gun at him. It misses and Dem rushes towarsd the door. He tries to open it but it is locked. He breaks it down and avoids getting killed.
"Why did you not try your skill?"
Dem: I know you want to know everything I can do, so you can find a challenge I can't beat and kill me.
"We only wish to do re-search. You need to follow the rules."
Dem: I need a vacation.
"This is your va-cation. Pro-ceed with the next task."
Dem: Give me a few minutes.
"A few minutes are yours."
Dem: Magna, only use as few skills as possible. They want to design a challenge you can't complete. Complete them with only what you need. I have a feeling we won't get out of here for a long time.

"Time to meet JUSTICE, Crimson the Cardinal" the android speaks slowly.

"Not yet." Crimson slowly gets himself to his feet and stares down his enemy.

"You know something, whoever that was..........he was right. I don't give damn about anyone. Just me..........and Betruger. And....after all....it's Betruger that made my life this way....and I'll make him pay for this." Crimson's balance fixes as he starts to stand more upright. "And I'll take out anything that gets in my path."Hiseyes start to glow a boiling hot red.

"Good, you are progressing well" the android responds.

Set The World On Fire by Annihilator starts to play.

Dem: roger that.
"Your few minutes is up, lets get back to the task at hand."
Dem: That is?
"You have had man-y abttles with this one. Please dem-onstrate how you won."
Dem: I have had many battle with a lot of people. Be more specific.
-A Shadow android walks in-
"Show us how you defeated the ultimate life form."
Dem: Let's make this quick, I have nothing else to do.

Shadow charges at Dem. he launches a barrage of Chaos Spears. Dem dodges them a kicks the machine in the groin. IT is unfazed. Dem grabs the androids head and crushes it.
Dem: You should make better copies of people. They don't seem to do very well.
"In time, but we have nt fin-ished our prerequisete test-ing proceed-ures. Continue to the next room."
Dem: So be it, almighty weird voice.

Crimson jolts at his enemy, knocking it all the way across the hallway, followed by a distant explosion. Crimson grins evilly. "Looks like JUSTICE has been served." He runs through the hallway until he reaches what, apparently, remains of the android, and a door blown wide open. His eyes turn back to yellow, and he falls to the floor.

"Oh, what was that?" He gets up and proceeds through the door.

Eugene stands triumphantly. "Well, I got rid of THAT threat." He chuckles. "And now I'll just..." He walks towards the door he had entered from. A few seconds later, he realizes that he's just going back where he came "Oh for crying out loud...". He mutters something to himself.

He watches Janis and Wind closely. "What is with this place? Everything here is crazy..."

The voice is heard again: "Please. Con-tinue with your ex-ercise. Do remem-ber to des-troy all other and-roids on your way out. Fail-ure to do so will re-sult with an un-satisfactory mark on your record...foll-owed by death."

"See if I care!" Eugene mumbles. He looks back at the camera he saw before, a menacing glare comes upon him. "Sure...I'll....'continue' with my 'work'...heh..." His nodes harvest the camera. He has the nodes recall the metal from the camera, along with a few other materials that were harvested previous to his capture. He begins to reshape the components. After a moment or two, he fashions a metal glove of some sort. He attaches it to his hand, and aims it directly towards the next platform.

The hand bursts forward, revealing a sturdy rope connecting both the projectile and Eugene. The metal hand latches on to an edge, and it begins to pull Eugene towards the platform. He stands up, and has a happy look about him. He then notices that there are multiple platforms. He grumbles a bit to himself. "This is going to be...'fun'....".

He decides to keep himself at a distance from Wind and Janis, knowing that he would most likely lose any confrontation with them. "You know, this place is really getting on my nerves. Either these guys are trying to escape like I am, or someone went through A LOT of trouble to stage a pointless experiment. Either way, this will be fun to watch." He keeps the hand clutched to the edge, in the event that something will cause him to fall. He has his nodes prepare a second hand in the event that he'll need to change platforms quickly.

Cronic realises the hedgehog got hit hard (Gale) while they ran into each other so he left a ring behind to help him. Cronic: Sorry man but I gotta get outa here hope you do too. Cronic speeds down the hall way and finds a path with a bottomless pit hole he easyly jumps over and gose threw the door and finds another he once again passes it Cronic see's a Wolf at the other end of the hall (Eddie) resting by the door Cronic runs on the wall pasting the gap and checks him to see if he has answers to where they were.Seanronnie22

Eddie: W-Who are you?! (touches Cronic's arm) Oh, good. You're not an android although I haven't met one just yet. I take it that I'm not the only one here.

He waits for the response.

Cronic: Yep I don't think were alone here past a green hedgehog on the way here after pasting the traps but he got knock out then I saw you hoping you would no where we were gesse not.:( Look at the bottom of the gap they went over and saw Lava rising and the door infront of them lock but a hole appeared on the ceiling. Cronic: Crap we gotta get up there or be fryed give introudutions later can you stand?Seanronnie22

Eddie jumps up towards the ceiling with all his might, and the two go through the hole. It closes once they pass it.

Eddie: (sighs) That was close. (extends hand) Eddie Wantanabe.

"ANDROID?" Eugene yells back. "Do I even LOOK like an android to you? What kind of IDIOTIC comment is that? How on EARTH could you even POSSIBLY consider ME an android?! The sheer THOUGHT of that is pathetic! PATHETIC! Why is it SO hard to find a DECENTLY mannered anthropomorph? Geez! It's like you're ALL out to kill us or something! MAN! So rude...." He then remembers the two floating nodes he is currently controling, along with his metal hand guns. "Oh great, way to ruin it guys!" He says to his nodes. They make an irritated noise.

"Okay then, FINE! I may be a bionic, but I am certainly NOT an android! Show some respect!"

"A WATER CONTAINER? JUST WHO DO YOU THINK YOU...." He notices Janis slip through the exit. "Oh NOW look what you've done!" (His following mumbles are spoken while he uses his fist-guns to get to the exit passageway.) "If you want something DONE you got to do it yourself...."

"Man I hate this place...."

"Creepy psychic....thing..."

"Water Container...PAH....I'll water container YOU!!...."

"I need a camera to harvest..."

He reaches the exit passageway. He turns to Wind. "Look, I don't care who you are, you can either leave me be, or start helping me escape." He brings out his two nodes. They start to fire their lasers at the door.

"Hmm....it is barely even scratching. This is a very bizarre material....I might want to take a sample at some point..."

The voice is heard: "Hav-ing some troub-le?"

"Don't you have better things to do?" Eugene asks in an annoyed tone.

"No. Not rea-lly."

Eugene mutters an unflatering remark under his breath. The voice begins: "I think that you will fi-nd this door im-possib-le to o-pen. Per-haps it has to do with your weak flesh body."

Eugene glares upward: "Yeah you just keep telling yourself that. After all, you need some sort of method of making yourself feel better, it must get a bit lonely to be sealed in some cold, life-less metal casing."

"Al-though you have har-vested vital test-ing mater-ial, the only thing you've man-aged to break, is my he-art."

He turns back to Wind. "HEY! Psychic boy! The door's no good, any ideas?"

Eugene smiles. "What? Can't you, like, read my mind or something?" He then pauses for a second. "Right, sorry about that. I'm Eugene, I use jokes to make me feel better." He steps behind Wind.

The voice is heard again: "It is ad-vised that you assa-sina-te this an-droid, as he will most like-ly kill you the first ch-ance he gets."

Eugene mutters: "Oh shove it you old hag..."

"You don't even kn-ow any-thing a-bout me, why do you s-ay thi-ngs that hur-t me?"

Eugene responds: "Because your senile remarks bug me, so I 'advise you' to get out of my face..."

He puts his hand on Wind's shoulder. "So, how long's this gonna take?"

A tiny whisper of the voice can be heard in Eugene's ear: "Kill....Kill....KI-LL..." He slaps his ear. "Shut up..."