The Great Swamp scramble

[OctaScratchRock]

Meanwhile, Snively was busy doodling on notebook paper with crayons.

"Revenge......revenge......X3......" he muttered to himself.

Suddenly, the door burst open. Robotnik stepped in.

"Have the new wave of SWATbots picked up any distress?" he asked.

"No, sir." replied Snively. "I was just sending them out back to be washed."

Robotnik was about to turn around and leave the room when he stopped.

"Are those.......crayons?" Robotnik asked.

"It's complicated, sir." replied Snively.

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Robotnik blinked, then looked up as the siren rang out from the console.

abandoning his crayons, Snivley raced to the console as a picture came up of Sonic and Tristina, the latter of which was holding Robotnik's Accelerator.

"Forget the wash," said Robotnik, hurrying to his command chair. "I want that Accelerator and those hedgehogs!"

"Sending out the newest batch of Swatbots sir." said snivley, pressing a button.

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"Think blubber butt got the message, blue?" asked Tristina, waving the accelerator once more for good measure.

before Sonic could answer, a telltale siren pierced the air along with the call of "Halt, Hedgehog Priority one. turn over the Accelerator."

"Go, Sonic! Go!" Tristina cried, holding tight to the Accelerator while Sonic revved up his legs.

"Your gonna have to be my eyes, Tiff. I cant see around the wheelchair."

"Got it, just juice!" Tristina cried, starting slightly as Sonic grabbed her wheelchair handles and pushed her down the alleyway

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"Priority One hedgehog and Priority two Hacker bearing Sector 34, Quadrant 5, Victor Zulu"

Robotnik and Snivley watched tensely on the monitor as the spy orb flew overhead, giving them a birds-eye view of the chase. Sonic had his head down, pushing Tristina's wheelchair as hard as he could. Snivley noticed Tristina's lips moving from time to time when Sonic took ethier a left or a right.

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Robotnik was puzzled. "What's that hacker telling Sonic...?"

Snively began typing away at the keyboard. "I'm trying to turn the camera audio system on. We need to have a listen in."

Robotnik squinted at the screen, hoping to hear something valuable.

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"Left, Sonic. It's a dead end"

Tristina's voice came up, which caused both Snivley and Robotnik to look to one another. had Tristina PURPOSELY directed Sonic to a dead end?

"Prepare my Hovercraft." Robotnik ordered, standing as Snivley mumbled 'yes sir' and started pressing corresponding controls. "Time to get to the bottom of this."
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"Well, that was fun." panted Tristina, looking at the accelerator once again.

"Sonic, Robotnik is on his way. I just heard him order Snivley to prepare his hovercraft." Tristina whispered,

"Is the hover mode thingy on your wheelchair fixed?" Sonic breathed back.

he frowned as Tristina shook her head.

"We can't go over, so through?" Sonic asked.

Tristina smiled, nodded, and fingered the Turbo Mode button on her wheelchair while Sonic quietly slipped the power ring from his backpack.

"Ready, Tiff?" Sonic whispered, Tristina smiled and nodded, then looked up as Robotnik's hovercraft landed just outside the alleyway.

looking above them, she noticed the spy orb watching them.

frowning, Tristina formed a throwing knife and hurled it at the orb.

"Snivley was listening to us," Tristina whispered without preamble. "I'll start bashing the bots," Sonic instructed. You ram 'buttnik, drop the Accelerator, then use Turbo Mode to juice outta here. I'll do the same with the power ring and Swatbots. Meet at the junkyard and we'll head home."

Tristina smiled briefly, then looked up as Robotnik and 4 Swatbots approached them.

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The SWATbots immediately aimed their weapons out.

"Freeze, intruders!" one of them said.

"But they don't look too cold to me!" another SWATbot remarked.

"No." the first SWATbot said. "Freeze is just a figure of speech. It means to stand still."

"Oh....." the second SWATbot remarked.

The SWATbots looked back at their victims to find them gone.

"Darn it." the first one said.

"What does THAT one mean?" asked the second SWATbot.

For asking this, he was shot.

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"At least this was not a total loss." said Robotnik, picking up the Accelerator Tristina had dropped. "The hedgehog and hacker's days are numbered."

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Tristina sat alone in the junkyard, frowning. she and Sonic had left the alleyway going (moderately) the same speed. However, when Tristina had arrived at the junkyard, she noticed Sonic was nowhere in site.

hearing a Sonic boom, Tristina sighed as Sonic soon ran into view.

"ready to head home?" Sonic asked.

"where were you? we left the alley at the same time, didnt we?"

"stopped for a chili dog. oh, here."

Tristina looked down at the hot dog with smothered chili, cheese, onion, and one green piminto olive on top. taking a bite, she smiled at the mixture of meat, seasoning, and onion parading across her mouth.

"Race you home!" Tristina called, finishing the rest of the chili dog in one bite. "Go!" Sonic called as the two ran (and wheeled) for Knothole.

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Robotnik called out into the distance.

"I'LL GET YOU BOTH SOME DAY!!!!!!!!!!!"




The End