Planet of Drones (Sonic meets Murder Drones)

Chapter 2: Infiltration

Pain rushed through Sonic as he felt the bullet being fired by the pigtailed robot jab into his shoulder, the impact knocking him to the ground, crimson red blood oozing out of it. Much to Sonic's surprise, he saw worry and rage in Shadow's face before the ebony hedgehog rushed in front of him, protecting him. Sonic was at a loss for words, not that the pain on his shoulder kept him from saying anything either way.

Sonic glanced up as both robot girls landed, the pigtailed one looking almost as insane as the short-haired one, but she looked much more collected and intelligent than her friend.

As he heard low growling, Sonic looked up at Shadow, seeing his quills ruffled and rising with his ears pinned against his head, looking ready to tear the robots apart if they didn't leave now.

"What do we have here, V?" The pigtailed robot asked the short-haired one, hand on her hip as she glanced at the two hedgehogs in interest.

"Two hedgehogs, at least what they claim to be, J." V, the short-haired robot, replied, hers and J's eyes normal.

Sonic forced himself up, holding onto his shoulder, the blood dribbling down his arm soaking into his fur, making him shiver just slightly due to it and the cold weather. "Look, I don't know what you two want, but I can tell you that we didn't exactly come here intentionally." he said to V and J, trying to talk them out of wanting to keep attacking him and Shadow.

J's eyes narrowed, her long pigtails moving in the wind. "And what can you two do when we gave you both quite a bit of injuries?" she jeered.

"Because you're crazy friend here attacked us first, it was self-defense." Sonic replied, gesturing to V, J glancing at her.

"So?" J asked, glancing back at Sonic.

"Listen, there has to have been a misunderstanding, so maybe-"

Before Sonic could finish speaking, a loud boom was suddenly heard, causing a small earthquake that nearly knocked the two hedgehogs and robots from their feet, Sonic glancing over to see a green flash of light just fading, the sight having him raise a brow in confusion.

"Ugh. Looks like some dumb worker drone invaded our home again." J said, rolling her eyes in annoyance.

'Worker drones?' Sonic blinked in confusion, wondering if these worker drones were the workers of this world and J and V were possibly the assassins based on how they attacked him and Shadow. In that instance, both V and J spread their wings out and flew towards the structure.

"Okay... what just happened?" Sonic asked, the gears in his brain spinning slowly in lack of understanding.

"We were attacked by some murderous robots." Shadow replied, his voice in a slightly more guttural growl than usual.

Sonic glanced at Shadow. "I meant the random green explosion. It looked like the same green glow whenever you warp or chaos control." he said to the ebony hedgehog, only to spot a robot with gothic clothes, purple hair, a winter-looking hat on its head, and on the robot's back was a blaster, running out of the structure, a third winged robot looking like J and V with much shorter hair and a pilot's hat, chasing after the purple-haired robot.

Getting a feeling that the purple-haired robot needed help, Sonic dashed toward it, ignoring Shadow yelling at him, and scooped the purple-haired robot up in his arms just before the winged robot landed.

"Let me go, freak! I had things under control!" the purple-haired robot, turning out to be a young girl one, yelled, thrashing in Sonic's grip, causing him to grit his teeth as pain shot through his arm where J shot him earlier.

"A simple 'Thank you.' would have sufficed." Sonic replied.

"Bite me! I didn't need any help!" the purple-haired robot exclaimed angrily.