Hello fans of Sonic the Hedgehog!
*Crickets chirp.*
Anyways, I'm just a random author browsing fandoms at the moment. I was going through one of my old writing notebooks when I found this old story and I thought, why not post it? I ain't got much else to do. Knuckles is indeed my favorite character and well, there's not much else to say.
I don't own any characters mentioned in this story.
Oh, and there's no Chris in this, I don't like the guy. Couldn't they just make a show about the normal characters without centering it around a human? Sorry, but it sounds like an act of your typical fan fiction author.
Here we go!
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Chapter 1-Decision Bittersweet
The hallway was semi-lit by heat generating lights as the red echidna made his way down it, his violet eyes hiding, something. Just something.
An automatic sliding door in front of him opened, he stepped through and kept walking towards the star studded space sky in front of him as he spoke, "I've drawn all the power from the Master Emerald that I can."
He reached the far glass window as he finished his sentence and a voice behind him spoke up distractedly, "Thanks Knuckles."
Knuckles turned slightly, one eye watching the twin tailed fox that sat at the helm as he typed fiercely, his eyes darting back and forth to the screens surrounding him.
"Tails?" a soft but high voice asked on the fox's right.
The fox paused and glanced to his right where a young rabbit was standing, her wide, amber eyes completely drowned in worry and a bit of fear.
"Cream, why don't you go help Amy?" Tails suggested, his own blue eyes strayed away from their determined look to one of worry similar to the rabbit's.
Where was that pink hedgehog? She could calm Cream down.
Cream shook her head, her eyes narrowing even though tears were building behind her eyes, "Amy has to help Sonic. I want to help here."
Tails frowned, bit his tongue and nodded, motioning to the seat behind the rabbit, telling her to maintain a vigil on the ship's condition.
"Tails?" another female's voice spoke from his left.
Tails turned and met the worried blue eyes of his newest friend, "What is it Cosmo?"
The blue eyes danced back to the screen in front of the girl before the entire plant girl turned to stare at the captain, "They've rerouted most of their power to their shields."
Tails gritted his teeth and slammed a fisted hand down onto the control panel that he was typing on, "That means that the cannon alone can't get past their defenses."
"A wonderful day to get caught by a fleet of Metarex," Knuckles said, turning around to lean his back against the window and stare at the three before him.
The fox gulped and brought up a link to the medical lab. A female pink hedgehog stared back at the open screen.
"Any luck Amy?" the captain asked.
Amy's green eyes were wide and sad, "Sonic hasn't woken up. He won't for another few hours."
"Keep trying Amy."
The pink hedgehog nodded the screen went blank.
Knuckles scoffed and turned his head to look back out across space at the specks in the distance that would reach them in a matter of minutes.
And destroy them too.
Yeah, there was that.
Well, if the idiotic blue hedgehog hadn't super sped himself through a belt of asteroids earlier he wouldn't be unconscious. You know?
"What do we do Tails?" Cream asked, as a blue creature floated up beside her shouting a single word over and over.
In response the fox groaned and buried his face into his hands and the rabbit turned to embrace the small blue chao, "It's OK Cheese. We'll be OK."
Cream smiled as the blue creature buried its head into the rabbit's shoulder and then looked at the others as if to ask, 'Right?'
"We can't let them get much closer or we'll be in range," Cosmo reminded the others.
"But the cannon's not powerful enough to break their shield," Tails protested, "We need Sonic."
"Isn't there anything we can do?" Cream asked as Cheese began crying against her shoulder.
"Could someone take Sonic's place in the cannon?" Cosmo asked, truly wondering, surely one of them could-
Tails' eyes widened before drooping, "Cosmo, there's no way anyone on this ship could withstand the speed that the cannon shoots them at. Not you, me, Cream, Amy or even-"
"I'll go," the red echidna said, stepping towards them.
"What? But Knuckles you can't!" the fox protested.
"And why not?" Knuckles said in response, "I can keep up with Sonic's speed. I fight him all the time, plus I'm a chaos controller too. If I can transfer all the energy from the Master Emerald to this ship's engine, then why not the cannon?"
The young fox bit his lip as his eyes darted from his friend in front of him and out to the distance where the Metarex ships were heading towards them. He ignored the protest coming from Cream and Cosmo's inquiries.
"Go," he muttered under his breath.
He didn't see or hear the echidna leave.
If Knuckles didn't survive this, it would be all his fault. How would he tell Sonic? He gulped and shook his head, he'd just have to trust his judgment.
Still ignoring the questions and protests from the girls, Tails readied the cannon. They had this one chance. If they did manage to pull out of this battle alive, their only hope was that no other Metarex attacked them.
His finger hovered over the button.
"They're getting ready to fire!" Cosmo yelled as a warning.
Blue eyes narrowed and Tails pushed the red button.
No.
He might have just pulled the trigger.