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Live the live to the fullest,
But dare not think death as frightening,
It is to be, eternity is but insanity,
Simply is reality yet seen complexly in dreams,
So speaks the beings, but not the person who fought.
Morning afternoon sleepily wakes the greenly forest, from a bird eye view it would seem like a tide of green ocean sweeping. Of course, it was just after a mildly quick and soothing shower of rain down pouring around its coasting borders, and thereafter the clouds curtain away as it reveal the sun shining. Though an aftermath of a brief nature, the day sadly struck from immediate chaos.
"Insolent-rodent! You'll not make a mess of my plans!" roared a grumpy mad scientist known as "Dr. Ivo Robotnik".
SMASH! CRACK!
A large bulky-oval designed humanoid-mech from elbow to knee joints as are its hands and rolling round-legs smashed through the walls of the forest. A mad doctor sits from within his floating pod embedded together with his second-join armour.
"Hold still rodent!" grunted the doctor as he sweeps his hands about madly across his panel.
The mech swung its arm towards a speedy blue blur the doctor so agitatedly despised and a thorn almost always on his plans including his ambition. Right as the round-hand swipes across, the blue blur gained further speed a meters away from him, teasing him as he continues to swipe at him as though he is entertaining himself of the deathly chasing-thrill.
"Graaagghhh!" roared the infuriated doctor, "Stop toying with me hedgehog!" he grunted in disarray of his sanity in the tease-insulting action.
As the chase rode on, the route of the blue blur's end is about to stop as beyond him are the cliff's edge leading anyone to their falling deaths at an ocean. With the approach towards the end nears, the blue blur sped forwards in thunderous sonic boom speed as he immediately stops at the edge of the cliff.
"Hah! Nowhere to run now fool!" the doctor grinned insanely as he boosts his acceleration and raised back high of the mech's arm.
The mech's legs rumbled heavy roaring noise like torn earth as it charged right at the blue-furred hedgehog. Unnerved or shaken by the death-frightening charger and pulled a grin that seemed confident. The figure snapped his white-gloved finger, the doctor could not hear the noise but overconfidently believed he surrendered and took his chance.
WHAM!
A large log hammered at the back of the mech's torso right at the centre, sending it overhaul off the ground and flip right over the hedgehog and down the cliff. The poor doctor had fallen into a trap and forced him to surrender his promising creation. Ejecting despairingly with his pod trotting away towards the edges of shore to his base's location.
"It's not over yet rodent! You'll pay Sonic the Hedgehog!" the doctor grumpily roared away as the blue figure stood at the edge of the cliff retaining with his grin.
The hedgehog mocked him once more and stick his tongue out cheekily, it only returned with a distant defeated roar as the doctor fade away from sight.
"Heh! Give us a challenge Eggman, you're getting lame." Sonic the Hedgehog, confidently added with a mockery state of his figured-shape look of an egg.
The famous Mobian's Hero and worlds fastest blue-furred hedgehog alive, clearly confident and thrilled in taking any challenge with his cocky and playful attitude.
"Sonic!" a distant child-like voice called out to him.
Sonic turned to the voice from the sky at a yellow-gold figure at the skies, his tail spun at a blurring speed as he descent to his front steadily. With a thud of his shoes onto the ground he posed a stern salute in front of him and a cheerful smile.
"Tails reporting for duty sir!" Miles 'Tails' Prower, playfully said to him.
A name he's not fond of oppositely of his given nickname from the 'Blue Blur'. A yellow-gold fox with twin-tails, who was pushed around and looked downed upon others as a 'freak' of a nature, and now stronger and courageous as he joins adventures with his friend. Otherwise best friend knowing full well he's not the only 'freak'.
"Geez! Don't be so formal bro'!" Sonic retorted familiarly, pulling his friend around his neck with an arm to his side and 'attacked' his hair.
"Woah! Haha! Cut it out Sonic!" Tails cried, while still being wrapped from Sonic's playful wrestle.
"Not a second off bro'!" Sonic returned while Tails struggle to get off his hold.
"Don't wanna' warn you! There's water below!" Tails stated.
"Yikes!" Sonic yipped fearfully immediately hold off Tails and stepped away from the cliff's edge.
"Hahaha! You should see the look on your face!" Tails said, and spins his twin-tails into a twirling whirlpool and gain height quickly.
"First to reach the plane gets to eat big!" Tails cheekily make his escape before sticking out his tongue and fly away.
Sonic grinned accepting the challenge, before he parts, he watched as Tails flies over the forest towards their transport. With the direction in mind, he smirked in anticipation and with just a blink, he's gone from the cliff with a trail of gushing winds blasting right through the forest. Blasting through blurring greens of forest and their barks acting as walls of brown, Sonic had familiarised with devastating speed that average persons can't keep up or track with. While Tails, flew the skies at similar speed with Sonic's 333mph or more. Using his adventures and days of learning to keep up with him, had earned vigorous stamina and exceptional technique in ways of speed. As both reach to a tied-distance, they have and had been as they had before done this. The thrill to challenge and fight for freedom, in this case however, it's more of a brotherhood spare time.
"Nyaaah~" Tails cheekily pulled a raspberry at Sonic and boosted himself from air as he heaved his legs up to his waist, waiting for the right height and moment while building up energy to his foot and suctioning air with his twin-tails. He soared high and felt the gush of air gathering in a vacuum to his twin-tails and zapped adrenaline into his body,
FZZZT!-SNAP!
he pushed off his legs straight with his twin-tails at his hind turned into jet-like flames only its not on fire. Like a flying or soaring yellow-gold laser piercing, the skies turning puffy clouds with either holes or scattered about, leaving Sonic at ground miles beyond him towards the goal.
"Heh! Nice move!" Sonic commented, impressed but wasn't deterred.
"My turn!" he said to himself, sliding and braking himself as the ground shriek from the soles of his shoes.
Right as he stops, he presses and rests his fingers to the ground as all ten steadied and root to the ground. He positioned one leg straightened to the back and hinged his knees above ground as the other knee rest below his waist while keeping his body cool and ready. His foot rests and arch along with his bents of his body, pressure builds and rise up as energy gather through and forth from his fingers. Instinctively he senses the vibration in his fingers, toes and heart, waiting for the heat of the moment and strike to his attempted direction.
"Here!" He began, palms arched up and body surged with sonic vibration gathered, "We!" thrilled and blasting with adrenaline rushing to his heart, soul and mind, "Go!"
KRACK-BOOM!
Like a loud thunder striking the ground the entire forest were scrambled, as sound was broken. Like a blue-light separating the forest and almost phasing through objects, he caught up and once again at tie-distance with Tails.
However, at their blinding-invisible phasing-speeds, ahead was a blurry-coloured world. Until suddenly two portals split open from thin air one from air and the other on ground as they unwillingly shot themselves into the unknowns.
"Urrrggghhh…" Sonic groaned, dazed and unconscious after somewhat being whirled or 'smacking' into the portal at light-speed.
"What…? Where…? Man…" he began, rising off the ground, it didn't feel right.
"…" pinching his brows and readjusting his thoughts after another wild trip, it was not his first time and that's when he realised something amiss, "Tails!" snapping right into panic then his usual self.
"Where are ya' buddy? Speak up! Tails?" he yelled with his might while retaining his fears, sadly there was no voice nor returned, until he saw that the world isn't colours.
It was grey, everything was grey from tress, branches, soils, leaves, even the skies were but foggy greys and no sign of changing conditions such as a sun or moon as all blended to well to make out what is or was an object. He swiped away observing the world later and prioritize on finding his best two-tailed friend, otherwise to him, his brother. Such that the world is in grey colour it would be better and easier to look-out focus on a yellow-gold fox or figure and anything resembling to Tails. Scanning throughout his current position, there were no clues to his brother.
"Come on little bro' give me a signal, shout to me!" he uttered, almost deprived from his sanity especially how it affects him quickly in this grey world.
"Sonic!" a cry for his name echoed out, "Help me!" Sonic faced west, his friend dragged and tied by a somewhat grey-symbiotic creature holding Tails with its absurd stretched and joined fingers or talons around his body and hung below its belly.
"Tails!" Sonic shouted, "Sonic!" shrieked Tails while struggling from the symbiotic creature flying straight towards west.
"Hang on bud'! Keep shouting!" Sonic yelled instructively, following the flying symbiotic creature at the ground and looking at the 'sky' as it blended well along with the grey skies and hoping Tails would have the might and stamina for Sonic to hear and follow.
"Sonic! Help!" Tails yelled once more, the creature grew tired of his struggle and ceased Tails to shout, wrapping its symbiotic talons around his mouth like liquid ooze.
Tails struggled for air with the creature's symbiotic ooze choking around his neck. Sonic couldn't hear his voice, fearing the worse that he's harmed or hurt, and terrified if dead or killed. Pushing to his limits his legs had turned into an infinity-loop, speeding even further ahead than the creature. Estimating a precise strike, time and moment to spindash as high as possible, unknown to how far or how high the creature had flown.
'Hang on bro'! Stay awake!' Sonic focused intensively as the life of his brother remains unknown to him.
As the creature lay only meters behind and above Sonic, he jumped curled and into a ball and formed into a ricocheting or bouncing ball which could bruise or scar his flesh and fur when smacking as hard as he can onto the ground. Successfully, he remained in his form and this time into a spinning saw-blade and free the ooze unharmed around Tails and tear the creature to shreds. Another success with Tails falling down from the sky freed, but the creature had either disappeared or dissolved along with the 'sky' as Sonic uncurls off his form. Strangely not bruised or wounded despite hammering the ground and with no time to waste, Sonic skydived and loses his ascension. With the creature nowhere to be seen and hoped not to return, he focused onto Tails who is now falling limp and unconscious.
Arching his head towards Tails and keeping his legs, arms and body straight, falling a lot faster and tying his distance with Tails. Closing in he lunged and wrapped his arms around Tails limp body hoping to make a soft landing for Tails as he willingly sacrifice himself with his body the hard ground with his back. Plunging downwards like a falling rock and much to their demise, they fell much deeper diving off and onto the sides of the cliff's edge, and if it should get worse they may hit along the walls of the cliff itself.
Out of nowhere a large brown figure stood by the edge, his pointy-head arched up and followed the falling duo. Right as the moment of their fall were at the edge of the cliff, he lashed out his somewhat large hand that swooped and held the four feet of the duo. The figure held them with one large-hand, he seems unsure of their lives and left them there on air and hung at his hands till they move or emit life. Sonic still held his brother's body, air had not swirled about him nor gave signal of his descent. He flicked his eyes open and the world appears upside-down and seems to stop, doubting himself of being dead with the world still grey. Tails had remained unconscious with his eyes remained closed and twin-tails hung 'upwards', turning his head about and scanning his current position.
'Huh?' Sonic looked 'below' him and it was heavy to look 'down', 'I can't get out of it… odd… it feels like a lot of fur.' he traced the root of the 'binds' and it ended behind him.
Sonic arched his head to a side where the root lies, a brown fat or large tall figure seems to be alive as it heaved its belly, yet the binds are of fur. Worse of all, it had large, long and pointy-end claws similar to a bear's as are its foot with no toes. Similar claws were attached to his 'binds' and definitely a hand but no fingers as the claws attached on around its palms like a basic hand would be modified, but through natural means.
"Hello? Could you let us down on the ground?" Sonic called out to the figure behind him, "On your ground I mean." he added, hopefully that the figure would be a person rather than another predator.
There was no reply from the figure, but the binds seem to wrap a little tight and the world seems to spin around. Definitely however the ground appears or perhaps what seems to lay 'above' him. Slowly he 'ascents' to the ground, the 'binds' unwrap off him and Tails's foot. He too unwraps his arms as Tails roll to the side of his back on the ground, waking himself up and concludes that this is the ground and not in another messed-up unparallel-dimension although still stuck on a grey world.
"Tails!" Sonic snapped off and shook Tails awake gently, "Wake up Tails!" he called, placing a finger below Tails nose, he isn't breathing.
"Don't give up!" Sonic placed both of his hands on Tails's chest, pressing down on him, hoping and if for the better pray he gets up and breathes in air, or is there air at all?
A few presses, he places a finger below his nose and still wasn't breathing, undeterred he kept pressing, a little harder and careful of damaging the organs. Each presses slowly drained his faith, only to hope and struggle onwards for his little brother's life in this unfeeling world.
"Just…! Remember! I'm still your brother!" he remains pressing as his eyes slowly build up speckles of water to his corner while maintaining his courage and heart from sinking to the inevitable.
*Hacked Cough!*
"Yes!" Sonic ceased pressing Tails chest, sitting him up on the ground as he pats his brothers back.
*Hacked Cough!* "Urrrgghh…" Tails groaned painfully as ticklish burns remains in his nose, throat, lungs and liver, he could feel his chest beating of his heart bumping about like a drum seemingly out of his chest 'in a sense'.
*Huff* Sonic sighed in relieve, "How's the sky?" he asked gently and hid away his commotions.
*Cough!* "Phew… really…" *Brief breathing* "Horrible." Tails finished, still coughing but slowly fading away.
"Heh! Take it easy bro', have a brake." Sonic stopped patting his back, he stood up and thanked whatever invisible force that brought his little brother to life, if he had to believe so either way.
"Thanks man!" Sonic complimented heartily and with a familiar signature thumbs-up to the brown-large figure or bear it seems.
The bear returned with a silent stern look of his narrow-shifty square eyes but held a thumbs-up possibly returning response of the compliment.
"What happened?" Tails asked, though he knew he has travelled into another dimension or world, it clearly makes no sense of its bland grey status, despite common forms of objects and shape peculiarly difficult to identify.
"Dunno', it lacks robots though." Sonic stated of his continuous endeavour against the mad scientist's obscure-effective robot.
"Heh! I can agree with that." Tails rekindled cheerfully and rising himself off the ground, even he felt something's wrong with it.
The bear snapped his 'fingers', gaining the duo's attention to him. He waved towards them out as though to follow him.
"Who's he?" Tails momentarily puzzled for once of something that stands out off the grey world, while the bear had paced and walked east of the cliff's edge leaving them to decide.
"Let's just follow him, he'd help us." Sonic replied confidently of the bear's yet suspicious notoriety.
They both nod to each other and followed the unnamed bear, still holding small doubts as this could or may lead them to another trouble unexpected.
"Bleergh…" Sonic grunted in disgust as he looked around the endless greys.
"What is it Sonic?" Tails concernedly asked while following beside his brother along with the bear.
"I don't think the worlds too blunt in colours here." Sonic joked though still puzzled how things work in this world.
"We could try using crayons and colour this world eh' Sonic?" Tails cheekily returned cutting over to his front and facing him while walking backwards.
"Heh, cute Tails… cute." Sonic commented, swiping his arms around Tails neck and ruffled his hair in a brief stop.
"Heheh." Tails giggled comfortably of his brother's knotting.
Sonic stopped a moment and closed his little brother to a hug, this surprised Tails and known something must have caught up on Sonic.
"Sonic?" Tails called out worriedly, slowly returning the hug back.
"Just… don't stop fighting…" Sonic murmured to his ears like a caring wind, "No matter what happens… don't stop fighting." Sonic added, right from the voice of his will and heart as he tightened gently of his hug.
"Heheh!" Tails returned, "No matter what happens we're there for each other even if one of us gone." Tails addition caught Sonic a little shocked, knowing little of his brother's maturity to the next.
"Besides," Tails nuzzled his head like a kitten purring on Sonic's chest, "I only remember you more than I remember anybody else." Tails finished, no tone of fear nor regret as though he knows and believes they'll still find each other should it happen.
"You got me there Tails, we'll be there like we have no matter what." thinking through of Tails own words got him off to think then his usual care-free person.
"Really?" though Tails know the answer he liked to hear of it from his brother.
"Hah! It's what we've been fighting for!" Sonic replied and ruffled Tails hair.
They will not fear death,
Only separation.
"Woops!" Sonic released his hold on Tails.
"Eh?" Tails quizzed and adjusts his hair he favoured.
"Heh! Let's catch up on him." Sonic looked ahead as the bear appeared to shrink into a dot by a distance.
"Race ya' first!" Tails dashed ahead past Sonic.
The Blue Blur once again caught off guard twice, shaking his head and followed suite. Dashing alongside Tails hovering above ground but not any higher with Sonic right beside him and pulling the all too familiar thumbs-up.
GWWWWAAAAARRRRGGGHHKKKK!
A loud ear-piercing shriek came from the bear's front as they run and speed up towards him, though he helped them they don't know if he could fight.
"He's in trouble Sonic!" Tails alarmed and looked to Sonic.
"Let's tear'em! sick'em!" Sonic pulled a smirk and Tails returned it too.
Closing in towards the bear's position, they halted for a moment and faced the similar grey-symbiotic creature that caught Tails with it's grey ooze. With a good look, it appeared organic though seemed to be of ooze and a sort of pterodactyl-symbiotic head and wings, with a body and legs of a raccoon and entirely of grey.
"Watch out for the ooze Tails!" Sonic noted and Tails returned with a nod.
Before they were about to launch themselves at the creature, the bear ceased them from it as he lets out his large grizzly-furred arms out to his side.
"Woah!" Tails nearly bumped too close of the bear's elbow.
"What is it?" Sonic quizzed, wondering of his intentions and abrupt hold-up as he calmly looked at it.
The two looked back to the creature, it didn't attack but kept shrieking at them with its wings apart and legs in crouch position. Something moved from behind its leg, at first they assumed it was its tail in which it is not.
"Huh?" Sonic and Tails quizzed as they examined the peculiar form, hiding behind its leg.
The large creature shrieked and lowered its wing to the little form like a shield though not effective as it seems. The little one looked far out of relation to the larger creature. It held a similar colour of grey ooze and symbiotic form but different form and shape. Its paws and legs are like scales of dragons no talons however, while the body and head are of a deer. Their attention towards the little one frightened it, scurrying behind the legs of the creature with fear, causing the larger one to roar in defence like a warning.
"Heh…" Sonic raised and rubbed with a hand to the back of his head, "We should be more mindful next time… eheh…" he admitted, even they are persons though of different forms, they still protect what matters to them.
Tails stick his tongue out and admits it too, rubbing the back of his head, clearly of what Sonic said ashamed them a little. The bear let down his arms, assured they have understood. He walked forward and with a hand halted to the back of them and folding the other behind him.
"Hey?" Tails called out to him as he approached them with both arms folded behind his back and casually walk to them, trying to appear unthreatening.
The two watched as the large creature spreads its wings at him to frighten him of sorts. The bear stopped only a few inches away as though 'talking' or communicating with it. He stood still, the creature began to roar but he didn't back away. It started to lower its guard but still protecting the little one.
"Do you want to go to them?" the bear sounded, his voice slithers sternly and gently, much like a fighter's or warrior's stern might.
The two raised an eyebrow, his intentions mysterious. The creature stood up and the little one climbed onto the large one's shoulder seeming less threatened by him. They were more puzzled to how they 'talk' or 'speak' communicate in separated or unmatched language.
"I can bring you to them…" the bear started, "but only 'will' will judge onto you." he added and clamps his hands together to his front, one opened the other closed and supports the wrist of his open palm.
"If you allow me, know only that I heard their call and act upon your decision." the bear stated towards them, it seems they understood as the little one nuzzled onto the large one's neck.
The large one wrapped its wing to the little one like a cloak as the other fold to the sides. The bear nodded and bowed at them with the same pose of his hands. The two creatures nuzzled with each other, ignoring the bears action. Until he raised his claws to his side and high ready to launch at them.
"Wait!" Sonic retorted, the bear did not respond along to him and cut them down.
Their eyes shocked in fear, he had killed them. Or did he? Until sprays of glittering dusts burst and explode from them, reforming them into another form and with colours.
"We're going." A female-motherly voice spoke to him.
"Who are you?" another young female-cheeky voice asked him.
The dusts began to swirl and whirl together, forming into persons rather than creatures. Radiant as they are, one a mother and a daughter of feline green wolves, the little one hugged her mother's waist with the mother's hand to her back and their faces to the bear.
"I'm not important," he answered, "Go, before your will can be taken and trapped again." he finished and once more bowed with his hands posed as before and remained that way.
"Thank you." the mother carried her daughter onto her arms as she wrap her arm around her mother's neck and look to the bear.
"Bye bye!" the daughter cheekily said, the two slowly fade and waved their hands to them.
The bear had his head lowered and bowed, the two behind the bear waved back to them, swayed on the turntable of the event.
"Good luck!" Tails and Sonic said to them, still quizzed but clearly and they are definitely persons.
Gone, no longer visible nor seen in sight from their views and their voices too. The bear rose from his still pose, he placed and tapped with a hand to his backbone.
"Bleeeaaaarrrgggghhh..." he groaned to himself and stretched straight carefully.
The two walked to the side of the bear, many questions chiming in their minds though they had to take into the bear's current problem.
"Are you okay?" Tails asked stopping by his side-front.
The bear nodded, and the two could clarify that he is a bear but not the kind of Mobian bears usually seen.
"Where are we? And what happened back there?" Sonic wondered if the abnormality of the bear matches his experience and time here.
"I'll answer your questions, but night's arriving." he stated and raised shifts his back a little, "Though you don't feel the cold winds around or see the colours of the dark, it definitely takes effect within you." he added and arch his head down to them at his taller than a robotic, crocodile or cat's height and buff.
"If you say so, what are we gonna' do now?" Sonic could already feel cold to his flesh, no cold or winds tides at him, yet it tickles him and affects Tails too, rubbing with his palms.
"Up to you, I'm heading towards a shelter with enough room and space." the bear walked ahead to his shelter leaving the two like before to decide.
"Sonic…" Tails called to him, already shivering and had his hands to his shoulders and hugging his bushy twin-tails to his arms.
Again the effect starts to overpower their body, Sonic nodded to Tails and the two would rather not freeze and went about clueless in this confusing-dull grey world. They jogged off and followed at the bear's side, briefly warming themselves a little with the bear walking faster to his shelter.