Chapter 1: It All Changes

"Alright Miles, are you in position?" Sally said as she spoke into her hidden earpiece. She had gotten the Suppresion Squad to work with her to finally defeat Scourge.

"Sure am. I'm ready to go and so are the rest of the S.S." The doppleganger responded. The rest of the Freedom Fighters were hidden in the woods, ready for if their plan backfired.

"Are you sure we can trust these guys?" Rotor asked Sally

"I don't know, but at this point we don't have any other choice." Sally responded. They waited for two minutes without a response from Miles or the rest of the team.

"Miles? Are you there?" Sally asked. No response.

"Miles?" The other line was full of static. The Freedom Fighters began to move in when suddenly Sally's earpiece crackled with life.

"Princess, this is Miles. You aren't going to believe what just happened..." He finally responded.

"What's goin' on?" Bunnie asked.

"Not sure," Sally responded. "Spill it Miles, what's going on?"

"It's Scourge. He gave up." He responded. The enitre team gasped.

"What the hell do you mean he gave up?" Sally demanded.

"He said that he had been like this for too long, and he said that Alicia would take command of the S.S. as of then. Fiona started yelling at him, calling him spineless, a pussy. He told her to shut the fuck up and they got into a screaming match. She blamed me for this and went to attack me, but Scourge shoved her before she got to me. He screamed at her,saying that he shouln't have wasted his time with her, that it was over. She stormed off crying. He sent us back to Moebius with our stuff, along with some of his, just as Sonic and Amy was leaving. We saw Sonic tackle Scourge. Scourge didn't even resist! I think he's coming your way now." Sally put her hand over her mouth. She couldn't believe what was going on.

"All...all right Miles...thanks for the info..." Sally stammered. She took the earbud out and said, "We need to talk to Scourge right now." The rest of the Freedom Fighters ran over to Sonic, who had Scourge in an arm-bar.

"What the fuck are you up to, Scourge?" Sonic asked. He twisted his arm a little more, releasing a sharp pain to Scourge's shoulder. Scourge cringed.

"AHH...nothing dude, I'm done being bad..." Scourge responded painfully. Just as Sonic was ready to twist Scourge's arm again, Sally told him to let Scourge go.

"Why would I do that?" "Just do it, we need to talk to Scourge." "But..." "Sonic..." "FINE." Sonic threw Scourge on the ground face-first. Scourge looked up at the princess. He stayed still on the ground, his hands behind his head.

"If it's any consent, there's handcuffs in my right jacket pocket..." he slowly said. Sally searched it and found a pair of handcuffs. The seemed to be stolen from a police officer except for the fact that they were pink. And covered in faux-leopard-print. Sonic sneered.

"Gift from Fiona?" he said as Sally strapped them onto Scourge. He smiled smugly.

"I didn't think you would know about these, Blue. After all, Fiona told me she never went all the way with you." Scourge responded. Sonic suddenly slugged Scourge right in the face. Scourge immediately fell to the ground, blood flowing from his mouth. He spit out one of his teeth.

"SONIC!" Sally yelled at him angerly.

"Sorry..." Sonic responded. He picked Scourge back off the ground again.

"So Scourge, what I'm having trouble understanding is why you decided to just give up. You had access to weapons, your teammates, your Anarchy Beryl, so why did you simply give it all up?" Sally asked him. He frowned as he began to respond,

"Well, my life's in the shitter to begin with. My "friends" gave me up to you guys, but serves them right because...well..."

"You're what?" Sonic asked. Scourge began to tear up, something that suprised the blue hedgehog.

"I'm a fuckin' asshole, that's why. I took over my world, only to make it worse than it was without me, I stole your girlfriend and broke the hearts of tons of chicks from your own town. I screwed up everything I wanted, and I figured out why this morning. I'm evil, and I don't want to be anymore. Unfortuantely, I realized that isn't easy and I figured that everyone would be better without me. When I let my friends go back home, I was planning on going into my room and just ending it all. Ironically, if you hadn't tackled me and forced me to the ground, I probably wouldn't be alive. Look, I've done plenty of terrible things over the years, and if you want to lock me away, I'm glad. I want to feel like I've done my time. All I ask is that afterwards, we can work as a team." Scourge said slowly, tears running down his face. Sally took the handcuffs off of him.

"You've done a lot of shit to this team, but the way you acted seems to be legit." Sally explained. Scourge gave her a bear-hug.

"Thank you so much Sally. If there is anything you guys need, just tell me." Scourge responded. Sonic suddenly remembered something.

"Oh shit...Sally, did Amy go home with the rest of the Freedom Fighters?" he asked.

"No...I thought she was going after Fiona." Sally responded. Scourge's eyes suddenly grew large.

"Oh no..." he said. Another voice responded, "Oh yes!" Sonic and Sally turned around and watched in horror as Amy slowly walked towards them, with Fiona next to her holding a gun to her head.

"Fiona, drop the gun. This is between you and me." Scourge said in a calm voice.

"No, I won't drop it! I've put up with your bullshit for a whole year! A YEAR!" Not only where you a fucking pussy, but you LIED to me about Alicia, you cheating green bastard!" She screamed. Something inside of Scourge snapped and he lost it. When Fiona looked away for a second, Scourge ran up to her and grabbed the gun out of her hand, releasing Amy from her grip. He forced her to the ground and immediately pointed the gun at her.

"I'm a pussy? I'M A PUSSY?! I fought ALL of your battles for you! All that bullshit about "taking revenge on those who wronged me", all the hatred towards Mobius, YOU were the one who made me take over my home, YOU SELFISH BITCH! And I'm not faithful? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? I devoted my entire life to you! And as for cheating, YOU shouldn't be talking. I'm glad you installed those security cameras in the base, because I saw your boyfriend PERFECTLY. Thank Alicia, THE LESBIAN, for uploading it online for me. And one more thing, KEEP YOU'RE FUCKING RING!" He yelled as he threw a small leather box at her. "When Mina finds out about this, you are so done." he said as he handcuffed Fiona with the same ones that he was wearing just 20 mintues before. As the Freedom Fighters began to lead Fiona back to the city he saw a flash in the bushes, pointing directly at the four of them. Scourge ran into the bushes and shoved the man into the field. The man went for the gun he had dropped and pointed directly at that pink hedgehog that was leading Fiona away.

"AMY LOOK OUT!" he exclaimed as he pushed her out of the way. The man pulled the trigger, and Scourge fell to the ground.

"SCOURGE!" The three Freedom Fighters exclaimed as they ran towards Scourge's body. Fiona ran off with the man as the two escaped through a warp ring. Scourge laid on the ground, blood pouring out of his chest. Sonic and Amy laid over the body, trying to stop the bleeding.

"NICOLE WE NEED AN AMBULANCE RIGHT NOW!" Sally screamed into her mike.

"It'll take too long! I got him." Sonic said as he picked Scourge up and ran off towards Knothole. As he was running, Sonic looked down at his green doppleganger.

"Don't worry bro, I won't let you die.." he thought as he ran into the hospital building.