Of Thieves and Hearts
:in a semi creepy yet almost peppy voice: Hello:end creepy voice: How is everyone? Good, I hope. This is a new fic. Yes, I realize I'm working on two fanfics now (three if you count my unpublished one). Sorry, but this fic just begged me to be written. Don't worry, I'm working on this one at school and writing it all in my notebook. It's just a randomly inspired Sonic Underground fanfic. I hope everyone enjoys it. Please forgive me if their personalities are just a LITTLE off. I TRIED to make Sonic be his normal, joke cracking impatient and hard headed self. I really did try. Same thing with Manic and Sonya. I've only recently started liking SU even though I know their personalities by heart now I still have trouble putting it in my own way. Ok, enough of my babbling, enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own Sonic. I do NOT want to own Sonya. And I don't own anyone else. I do own Marisha and Todd. I wish I owned Manic….very much.
"Halt, citizen, you are under arrest!" came the lifeless, robotic voice of a SWATbot.
Sonic, Manic, and Sonya were in Robotropolis on another Resistance raid. Cyrus, one of their friends in The Resistance, had told them Dr. Robotnik had some prisoners in his dungeon awaiting robotisization. Their mission: Infiltrate the base and rescue the captives before they're robotisized. Unfortunately, they were spotted by SWATbots who were now chasing them.
"Manic! We could use a downbeat, like NOW for instance!" Sonic yelled dodging one SWATbot's attempts at blasting him with a laser.
"One downbeat comin' right up!" Manic responded ducking behind a compost heap of scrap metal. After the SWATbots passed him and his siblings acted as the diversions he quickly brought his hand to his medallion.
In a few sparks of green light his drum set appeared in front of him. The SWATbots weren't too far from him. One of them noticed him and began to run in his direction. It never made it because of Sonya's high kick.
All clear now from distractions Manic started playing and beating the drums with his drumsticks. As he played the ground beneath them began to rumble. Within seconds the ground beneath the bots opened and they fell in, leaving Sonic and Sonya safe and unharmed.
"Nice save, bro!" Sonic exclaimed smirking and running up to his "younger" brother and giving him a high five.
"No prob," the green hedgehog replied. "Now let's get moving before Sleet and Dingo find us. I vote the Thieves Highway!"
Manic was referring to the network of pipes and ventilation that he and other thieves used when they stole from Robotnik as kids. Sonic and Sonya agreed it was the best way to infiltrate the base.
Some time later the triplets were crawling inside the network of pipes that traveled through Robotnik's base. Their destination the dungeon they silently crawled through the ventilation—until Manic suddenly stopped making Sonic and Sonya bump into him.
"Yo, Manic, what's wrong with you? Why the sudden stop?" Sonic whispered, annoyance evident in his voice.
"Guys, look!" Manic whispered, pointing with his left index finger to a vent he had stopped in front of.
Curious, his brother and sister silently crawled around him and peered through the vent. Through the vent they saw Dr. Robotnik talking to Sleet and Dingo. Said wolf and jackal were tightly holding on to a female hedgehog. It wasn't until she was forcefully pushed forward that the triplets got a good look at her.
Her fur was a bright crimson, some of her quills were styled into a high ponytail while three or four longer quills hung down at the sides of her head. Three vertical bangs hung down in her face, two separated bangs were on both sides of these bangs. On two of the long quills on the sides of her head were white hair bands. Her bangs were colored white with the very tips dipped yellow. Both of her ears were pierced twice with black studs. She wore a black shirt with sleeves that extended to her elbows. A silver bandana was hung loosely around her neck. On her hands were fingerless, black gloves with a square shaped hole on the back of them. She also wore plain, black pants and black shoes. On her wrists were spiked bracelets like the ones Manic wore all the time, only the female's bracelets were black with metal spikes.
As the triplets continued to watch the scene they noticed she was handcuffed—well, Manic did anyway.
"I'd really hate to break up the spying but don't we have prisoners to set free?" Sonic asked impatiently and annoyed.
At this time Sonya saw as well that the girl was handcuffed.
"Sonic, look, that girl is handcuffed! She needs our help!" Sonya whispered a little agitated at her brother's impatience.
Sonic just crossed his arms.
"You two can stay here and watch whatever's happening, I'LL go save the prisoners." The blue hedgehog announced rather irritated.
With that said Sonic crawled past his pink-haired sister and continued to follow the air duct to the dungeon.
Sonya rolled her eyes then resumed looking through the vent as Manic was still doing. Silently they listened and watched as the scene happened beneath them.
"So, you're the little rat that my SWATbot Surveillance found rummaging through my warehouses?" Robotnik asked in his deep, evil voice.
The red hedgehog didn't say anything; she just glowered at the fat tyrant.
"Answer your Supreme Ruler when spoken to, vermin!" Sleet ordered striking at the girl's back making her almost fall over.
Her face distorted into one of pain but quickly resumed its glower.
Still glaring daggers at Robotnik the girl responded with menace in her voice,
"Yes."
At this point Robotnik released an evil laugh.
"Tell me, little rodent, do you know what I do with thieves?" He asked innocently but malevolently.
The red hedgehog said nothing, only continued to glare at the rotund, evil man in front of her. She showed no fear to a face that everyone feared and Manic was admiring that. Robotnik suddenly sneered.
"Take her to the dungeon! I'll deal punishment tomorrow." He ordered.
Sleet and Dingo nodded and, while still tightly holding their prisoner, stalked off to the dungeon.
Fwee! First chapter! Yay! This story will be LONG so, fair warning. Next is already written along with part of Chapter 3 so I just need to type them up. Please review, I would appreciate knowing what you all think of it so far. No flames please, constructive criticism and comments accepted. My apologies if this chapter didn't seem long. I'll try making the other chapters longer. I promise.
Kalana Fox