Chapter 3 Bootz vs. Nicole
Welcome back dear readers, seems you've stuck with us quite a bit. And we haven't even gotten to the middle of our story yet. Regardless, let's join Bootz as his ventures continue in New Mobotropolis. As we last left our feline he had met one of the other inhabitants of the new area, a female hedgehog by the name of Amy Rose, quite a rose indeed. Anyway as we had last left off we found her, he and Cream the Rabbit on their way to a preview concert. The main star of said concert being a female mongoose pop idol by the name of Mina Mongoose of the 'Forget Me Knots,' heh, see what they did there? As we catch up we find the three standing on line trying to get to said preview concert, the long line obviously not setting well with the three ... or one party in particular.
"Urrrg! Why the heck does this line have to be so long?!" Amy growls out as she stops and then taps her foot impatiently.
"Well you DID say she was popular."
"Hush," the pink hedgehog then says to the feline, the feline looking ahead of the line raising an eyebrow.
"Say ... how popular is she anyway?" Bootz then starts out, raising an eyebrow as he sees a banner being set up as they wait. "I mean, not to sound cynical-"
"Too late," the pink hedgehog comments with a smirk as the feline rolls his eyes.
" ... Not to sound cynical or anything ... but I heard about some 'new edge' kinda thing she's workin' on? Sounds kinda like propaganda," Bootz finishes with a shrug as Amy blinks and tilts her head, Cream having no clue what the two were talking about before she tugs on his pant leg. "Hmm? What's up?"
"What does 'sin-ical' mean?" the bunny then asks, the feline blinking and clearing his throat before trying to choose the best answer.
"Umm ... well ... it means when you see the world as a bad place ... where you think everybody's bad, everybody has bad intentions ... again pretty much thinking the world is nothing but a bad place."
"So does that mean that you think that people are bad? That we're bad..?" Cream then asks starting to get teary-eyed before the feline's ears go straight up at the sight before kneeling down to the bunny.
"N-no no n-no, course not! The thought never occured ta me!" the feline says smiling nervously, Amy giggling as he does his best to make Cream smile again. "What I ment was that my comment sounded as if I didn't like her music at all and making it seem that I don't like the person as a whole, as for an in depth meaning of the word well it's better you don't get it from me," the feline finishes as the bunny giggles and laughs before nosing Bootz gently, the feline blushing a slight bit and smiling gently.
"Hee, you know for a 'criminal' you're awefully bashfull around lil' old us," Amy bluntly points out, this causing the feline to blush a bit more.
"H-hey leave me alone, I'm already dyin' of cuteness and kindness over here.." Bootz jokes making the girls giggle a bit at the comment.
"I'm only teasing, you gotta get some thick skin on ya!" Amy teases as the feline rolls his eyes chuckling a bit. "Well anyway I don't blame you for thinking that, however a lot of stuff happened in between. Stuff I don't think I'd be able to tell you due to ... well I'm not sure if I'm allowed to or not but otherwise its probably best NOT to sturr up old memories and such.." she comments as she look around.
"Yeesh you act as if a bombs gonna go off or somethin'"
"Oh just hush and just go with it for a while," Amy argues as she stands in place tapping her foot. "Grrr ... move alraedy!"
Bootz then snickers as she sees the pink hedgehog's outburst before noticing a slight hole in the stadium before them in a blind corner. "Hmmm ... hey ... I COULD check out that corner over there and check to see if we could sneak through a blind spot.." the feline whispers into Amy's ear, the hedgehog immediately pointing a finger at him. "Woah ... that thing loaded?"
"No. We are NOT going to do that. The last thing we wanna do is get caught by some body guard pulling that, and I'd rather NOT get on Mina's bad side.." the hedgehog explains a slight bit.
"You act as if you know her personally."
"I do actually," Amy then states as the feline raises an eyebrow.
"Well if thats the case then why not get her to cut the line? Not actually let us in personally but you know, make it shorter?" the feline then asks with a shrug.
Amy then shrugs looking at the front of the line. "Were it so easy ... grrr ... even if I WAS willing to follow you through 'you know what' how do you know you'd be able to get in there?" she then asks before blinking, realizing he wasn't there the moment she turned to face him. "Bootz..? Mr. Kitty?" the then calls out before catching a glimpes of the feline pretty much on the other side of the stadium at said blind spot, the pink hedgehog horrified before thowing her arms up mouthing the words 'I give up' as she then signals him to stay low.
All the while the feline did just that as he had just snuck in on a slight meeting between the band and the lead singer herself, Mina. Bootz keeping low as the band members and lead singer talk, the feline hearing their conversation as they stand there.
"Phew! Alright guys, I think we're just about ready to give our fans a taste!" a perky mongoose exclaims to the team as she looks onto her rather worn out band members.
"Christ Mina .... with the way you've been slaving us ... it's like we're practicing for the real thing ... and the real thing isn't till 2-3 weeks from now.."
"Yeah."
The band pleads as the lead singer looks to her band with a slight sigh, reaching out for a random water bottle that just so happened to be near where our feline hero was hiding. Trying to be discrete as possible he gently pushes the water bottle with his finger before the mongoose finaly grabs it, unaware that his bandaged hand was right near a particular plug.
All the while Mina takes a quick drink of her water before shaking her head and smiling to the group, wiping the sweat off her brow. "Alrighty then guys, let's take a quick break. I'm sure not many people are gonna come to this lil show anyway," the popstar says with a bright smile as she walks ahead of the band, the members following leaving the room vacant making it easier for Bootz to slide from the corner he had hid in.
"Yeesh ... lady if you only knew," Bootz then said in responce to Mina's comment before looking around sneaking as best he could till he reached a point to where he could easilly let Amy and Cream in. "Ah ... now here's a spot that'd make it easier to get in undetected.."
"Who goes there?"
"Holy Fuck Balls!" Bootz then yelped out, immediately covering his mouth before the band members stop momentarilly.
"You guys hear something?"
"Probably just some rabid fan ... like always. Just ignore it," one of the band members then says as they keep on walking leaving the feline extreamly lucky this time.
All the while Bootz then turned around to see just who had attempted to stop him, as he turned around he was faced with a beautifull linx with brown fur, black tips on her ears, greenish blue eyes wearing a purple dress reaching just above her ankles. The lynx leavng the feline dumbstruck, blushing brightly as he looked to the mobian unsure what to say.
"May I ask what you're doing here?"
"Uhh ..... " the feline answered the Lynx, blushing as he looks to the Lynx.
"Umm ... sir..?"
Bootz then shakes his head before looking back to the Lynx with slightly better composure, clearing his throat as he brushed his shirt off slightly. "Hi there, what can I do for ya?"
"This is a restricted area and your not really supposed to be here, is there any reason you decided to sneak under that crack?" the lynx asks the feline, raising an eyebrow causing Bootz to chuckle nervously.
"Eheh ... well ... I'm with a few people ... a pink hedgehog, a little bunny with a ... blue ... smurf ... thingy..anyway they weren't too happy with the line sooo I figured I'd see if this is a way to get them in without having to go through the line and such," the feline explains as the curious Lynx raises an eyebrow, finding the descriptions quite familiar.
"If you mean Amy Rose and Cream, I do know them, if your with them then that doesn't make you any threat," the Lynx says with a slight sigh of relief before looking back to Bootz trying to sound firm. "Regardless I can't let you pass, it's ... a restricted area till the preview show starts. Even then there's a slight selection process."
"Selection process? Ya mean the mass amount of people that're waiting on line might not even get to watch those guys perform?" Bootz questions with a raised eyebrow. "Yeesh, talk about bean counting."
The Lynx then shakes her head, crossing her arms as she did so. "It's not as you think ... however I'm not really sure of the methods behind said action but I'm sure it's nothing selfish ... I should hope," the lynx says with a bit of unsurness in her voice.
"Huh ... you don't sound very sure yourself.." Bootz then comments raising an eyebrow as he looked to the Lynx. "Well anyway, since you know them can't you make it to where they'll get selected? They've really wanted to see this lil' shin dig ya know?"
The lynx shakes her head with a slightly sad look to her face as she looked back to the feline. "I'm sorry, I can't do that. If I did that I'd get not only them in trouble but I'd get in trouble as well ... I'm not necessarily on good terms with a lot of people at the moment.." she says with a slight sigh, rubbing her arm as she does so.
"Huh, can't imagine why," the feline comments with a shrug. "Well ... I can see your dilema ... however I assured them I'd get them in here ... how are we gonna solve this?"
"I can't let you pass. I still have a duty to uphold," the lynx says firmly as she looks to Bootz narrowing her eyes slightly. "I'll ask only once, please come with me."
Bootz blinks and looks around, crossing his arms in thought. "Hmm .... this is a tough one ... since there's only one of you I'd feel like a creep if I decided to take advantage of said situation. However ... I DID give them my word ... " he says with a slightly evil grin as he dashed to the side and ran right past her. "Nothing personal but I don't wanna see them unhappy," he says with a grin before stopping in place before noticing the same lynx standing in front of him. "Woah, that's fast.."
The lynx then taps her foot and gives Bootz a stern look, folding her arms as she faces him. "You don't seem like a bad person ... but you seem quite bent on breaking the rules," she says raising a slight brow.
"Eheh ... sorry, kinda within my nature. I has a slight problem with authority," Bootz answers with a slight shrug before steping back a slight bit and getting in a slight stance. "I get the impression that you're gonna try and stop me right?"
"If I must."
"Alright then, brace yerself!" Bootz says with a wide grin as she dashes in toward the lynx, jumping up in attemps to land a spinning drop kick towards the lynx as she just stood there with her arms crrossed. As she did this this left our feline hero feelling slight confident with the feeling of a great fight ahead of him, little did he know that his kick was in vein as he found himself literally going through the lynx falling flat on his face as it had turned out that his current opponent was really a hologram.
"Oh thats nice ... let me know the moment I fall RIGHT on my face.."
As the feline fell, the lynx turns around looking to the feline raising a slight eyebrow. "You're not from here are you?" she then asks as rings start to form around her, bits of coding and digital windows popping around her. "Hmm, it would explain why I can't find anything on you. Regardless I'm going to have to take you with me."
The feline just got up and brushed his shirt off, shaking his head a bit. "Huh ... well this is a one sided bout ... say any chance I can just walk away and act like this never happened?"
"Who are you?" a voice from the back of the feline calls out, the feline turning around only to see another mongoose with black shaggy hair, a white dress shirt with a t-shirt, green jeans and black boots. "And just what is 'SHE' doing here?" he then says pointing to the lynx causing her to step back a bit, hiding her face slightly as she looked away from the angered mongoose.
"Umm .... doing her job?" Bootz then answered as the angered male mongoose walked past the feline, completely ignoring his comment.
"Some protector you're supposed to be, not only was he able to get in under your 'watch' but you were probably about to send him to some dimension so it'd be like it never happened weren't you?" the angered mongoose accused, the lynx looking down not sure what to say.
"I .... I-"
"Hey hey hold on 'Iorn Lung' she was just doin' her job, nothin' else. The hell's your problem?" Bootz intervined raising an eyebrow
"Butt out, you're in enough trouble," the mongoose growled out
"Yeah yet somehow she's the one getting scolded when she barely did, oh I dunno, absolutely nothing," the feline then argues with a shrug. "Seriously, what is your deal? Or does being a twat always come this natural to you?"
The guards behind stand there with their eyes widened as the angered mongoose clenches his fists, all the while the lynx's eyes were also wide in shock and confusion as they were just fighting minuites ago finding it odd that he would suddenly protect her all so suddenly.
" ... Well since you're so curious, it's THAT program. She can monitor everything. She sees all, knows all and practically IS all and I don't like it. You coming in here out of nowhere also kinda grinds my gears so frankly it's both of you that are my problem at the moment," he then answers narrowing his eyes as he looks from the hologram lynx to Bootz. "Now how about you? What's your problem? Why do you think you need to speak for 'that' while you're in enough trouble?" he then asks the feline, the feline adjusting his glasses with an irrate look on his face before closing his eyes, taking a breath and smiling to the mongoose.
"Hmm, let's see ... what if I told you that I'm here trying to see that a few friends o' mine get in here to see the show so they don't have to be cut out by your 'selection' bullshit, then when I'm about to get in a bit of a confrontation with said program or whatever 'she' be you come outta nowhere scolding her for absolutely no reason other than your blind arrogance and ignorance while she's trying to do her job. So ultimately, you're my problem," Bootz finishes explaining leaving the lynx and the guards dumbfounded, the mongoose growling before adjusting his own pair of shades.
" ... Well then, at the risk of sounding arrogant, since you decided to piss me off and stick your nose where it doesn't belong I can make sure that they WON'T be seeing the show if your friends are anything like you," the mongoose starts out as he crosses his arms, giving a slight cocksure smirk to the feline. "What do ya have to say about that?" he then says before he feels a fist come into collision with his face, the feline having just about enough of the arrogant mongoose as he decides to punch him square in the jaw causing him to crash right into the tables behind him and the guards.
"Absolutely nothing," Bootz then says with a grin, the lynx covering her mouth as she stares in shock and awe more confused than ever at his actoins.
All the while the guards stare and look at the mongoose as he lay unconcious, soon turning over to the feline in anger as they walk closer to the feline. "Big mistake buddy," one of them say as they crack their knuckles, the feline blinking and smiling nervously as they come up close to him.
"Eheh ... any way of us talking this out?" he then asks before getting grabbed by collar of his shirt, looking nervously to the guard that did so. "Eheh ... no? Ok then," he then says with a slightly evil smile before he viciously knees the guard in his jaw, a loud crack could be heard as he did so before falling back to the ground sweep kicking both guards causing them to fall into one another, the loud clunk of their heads being heard as they fall face first onto the ground.
"Oh dear.." the lynx says as she looks at the two fallen guards and the fallen mongoose. "This is bad.."
"Ah don't worry about it, I didn't knock 'em that hard," the feline says with a grin. "Sides nobody'll suspect-"
"Oh my god! Ash!!" a female voice called out, the feline then turned to see Mina kneeled over to the fallen male mongoose.
" .... Umm ... I say we bail how about you-?!" he then says soon noticng the lynx had disappeared leaving the feline all alone faced to face with the pop star. " ... Ah ... somehow ... I should've seen this one coming.."
"You, you did this didn't you?!" she calls out angrilly, standing up growling at the feline.
" ... Well ... in my defense ... he was kinda a dick so-" before our hero could say another word he soon felt a fist dug within his torso coliding with another fist causing him to get tossed back a bit onto the stage that the band was to perform on. "Gahh ... damn, that was unexpected.." he says as he then finds the pop star walking out from backstage, narrowing her eyes at the feline.
"It's bad enough I gotta worry about this concert and Nicole going about hearing and seeing everything we do.." the angered pop star says taking off her earings, tossing them aside as she looks to Bootz angrilly. "Now I gotta worry about some punk knocking my boyfriend senseless, there's NO way I'm gonna you get away while I can do something about you," she exclaims as she cracks her knuckles slightly.
"H-hey hold on this is all a misunderstandin', look I was just tryin to get my friends thruogh so they could see your show and well one thing led to another, that guy was being a douche bag and-"
"Save it! That was my boyfriend you knocked into a wall just now, whatever reason you had for trying to sneak in here, it's still no reason for knocking out my boyfriend," she says as the feline stepped back ever so slightly. "And right now talking time's over." as she started charging up a spindash, a move that would commonly be executed by a hedgehog which led the feline perplexed but standing cautious all the same as she aimed for our hero.
"Yeesh ... well this chapter title was rather misleading.."
As we stop on a rather ... abrupt cliffhanger we now find our hero in a rather awkardly dangerous situation, Bootz now face-to-face with the popular popstar known as Mina. All the while his new friends having no idea what was going on but soon about to find out, how you ask? Well ... that'll all be explained when we see the conclusion of said battle next time folks.
