A soul of steel
A red echidna stood on a cliff side staring off into the distance with his arms folded. No hero may last for ever but then some heroes will never settle down and embrace the quiet life. Knuckles had a certain dislike towards the whole Idea of settling down. Now sure Sonic, Silver and even Shadow had settled. And well Tails has some relationship with a rabbit.
"My god life's become boring. Eggman has resorted to sitting in a cupboard picking his nose so who I am supposed to be guarding the emeralds from?" grunted knuckles.
He went back to his shack and turned on the TV.
"We are getting live reports of a humanoid shaped flying object. Oh my g…..." The screen went blank.
"Looks like something to do I guess" mumbled Knuckles. He set out staring into the unknown.
"Well this place is a dump." Muttered Knuckles to himself
"Look who it is" said a feminine voice from behind.
"Oh sugar" Knuckles turned around to see an attractive but dislikeable bat standing there grinning.
"What the hell are you doing here?" He shouted
"Investigating, You? Said Rouge.
"Looking for adventure I guess" He grumbled.
"The solitude has really got to you; anyway let's find what started this."
Hours later the two adventurers got no where. "Stupid rock it's the wrong colour"
"What the hell have you got against an inanimate object?" Rouge queried.
"You're a bloody inanimate object!" He shouted.
"Well sorry" Said Rouge.
A silver flash flew through the sky only just visible to an eye. A second later Knuckles and Rouge felt the ground shaking and the remains of the flaming wreckage started to collapse. Knuckles and Rouge were well aware that this was no earthquake. "No!" shouted Knuckles as the remains of a skyscraper tumbled his face went white and was stricken with fear.
Knuckles woke with a massive scar down his chest. He was rasping as he crawled out of under the Rubble. All of a sudden a metallic voice rung out "What a pathetic excuse for a heroic echidna" He laughed manically. There stood a robotic echidna with red eyes and a body of steel. "I am Dimitri."
"Impossible" grunted Knuckles.
"A heart or brain may be destroyed but never a soul. These mechanics allow me to touch and feel like I used too."
"Leave this planet at once and you will be spared" knuckles croaked.
"Is that supposed to be a threat coming from the weakling" laughs Dimitri.
He propels his leg into Knuckles chest and Knuckles was sent flying back into a brick wall. The wall is splattered with blood. Knuckles was too weak to speak let alone haul himself up onto his feet. To the surprise of both the echidnas surprise beeping sound rung out. Dimitri looked down and noticed the detonator then BOOM! An explosion roared and Dimitri flew into the air giving Rouge time to grab knuckles and get away.