2: Psycho terror

A week passed and everything seemed to be normal. However, Tails noticed, that Sonic acted slightly different.

He was jumpier, for example when he had sneaked up behind him and said "Boo!". It was a game between them, just for fun, nothing more. This time, however, Sonic had gotten so scared, that he had ran up a tree and stayed there for two hours, before Tails had found him and explained everything. After that, Sonic had played the whole incident down.

But that wasn't all. Sonic got scared by every loud noise, for example, when Tails threw the front door shut like always, and sometimes, he even jumped by mere shadows on the walls – even his own!

He ate less, not even a whole chilidog in a day, and he seemed to sleep longer, straight in the afternoon, Tails noticed, when he had let him sleep to see how long it would take him to wake up on his own. And even then he had looked still tired.

Sonic suddenly didn't like being alone anymore, he followed Tails everywhere, even in the bathroom, always finding excuses for his behavior. But not only for that, he also always had excuses, when Tails suggested to visit one of their friends. Though, not always. He gladly visited Cream, Vanilla and Amy, but when Tails wanted to visit Knuckles, Chaotix or someone else, he refused with excuses, that got crazier the more he had to invent them. He said things like: To Knuckles? Er...I actually wanted to take a swim, you know? or: Rotor? You know, I heard of this really fancy gardening center, I should pay it a visit...

It took Tails a few days to notice a similarity: all the friends Sonic refused to see were males. And as he knew, ukes were careful around males, that could overpower them. Now, that he thought about it...in the book he read, it said, that ukes got easily scared...


When Sonic, seven days after his forced outing thanks to Eggman, for the third time this week refused to join him and Knuckles on Angel Island, Tails asked him directly, what was wrong, not ignoring his changes anymore. Sonic sighed tiredly and plopped on the couch in their living room, from where he hadn't moved since this morning, just watching TV, instead of running like always.

"I don't know. I...I feel weird.," the blue hedgehog said. "Weird ? Weird, like...ill?," Tails asked confused. "No...just...different. I can't explain it.," Sonic sighed and waved his hand to chase a mosquito away. As it was summer, those little beasts were everywhere.

"This uke-thing isn't getting to you, is it? You know, you act a little like one without a seme.," Tails stated, now concerned. "Come on. I'm no typical uke." Sonic flashed him his usual grin and a thumbs-up. He seemed normal to Tails...

They both jumped, when a news report on the television, that Sonic had watched without interest before, suddenly popped up and announced a new attack of Eggman in a city nearby.

"Well, time to work." Sonic jumped up, as cheerful as ever and ran out of the house. Tails, still thinking what might have gotten into him, sat in front of the television and watched the fight from there.


Once Sonic came to the city, he attacked the new giant robot, that was equipped with lots of lasers. Strangely, his attack didn't even leave a dent in the metal, that he normally cut through like a knife did with butter.

Sonic stopped, out of breath. Why was he out of breath!? Running and fighting never exhausted him that much!

"What's wrong, rodent? Too weak?," Eggman taunted and let his robot attack with one of the lasers, aiming straight at him. Sonic wanted to dodge, but- he couldn't move! He got hit in the chest and was thrown in a building behind him, that collapsed, luckily not on him. Instead, he lay on the remains of the building on his back. He tried to stand up, but he still couldn't move, he could only whimper in pain and tremble.

"Look at the mighty Sonic. And you said being an uke wouldn't make you weak! What's now with your strength?," Eggman laughed. "I-I'm not weak...," Sonic tried to convince himself, but his body refused to function. "Now you'll see, what you did by provoking me!," Eggman laughed and let his robot fire in the buildings around him, letting them collapse.

Sonic could hear people scream, in terror and pain. He had to help them, but he just couldn't move! Why? WHY!?

His ears jerked, when he heard the typical sounds of a robot, that got destroyed and Eggman who fled, cursing. Then he heard someone coming closer. He looked up and saw Knuckles above him. "Can you stand up?," he asked, as worried as he allowed himself to be.

Strangely, Sonic could now. He rose to his feet and flinched, when he saw the people gathered around them, all with hateful and disappointed glares. Some were injured, having bloody traces on their faces, in their fur or hair. "Tsk, that's what happens, when you leave important matters to ukes.," one voice in the mass said, loud enough for the hero to hear it and others nodded in agreement.

"Don't listen to him, So-" Knuckles interrupted himself, when he turned around to the blue hedgehog and saw Sonic crying. Tears ran down his face without an end. But – Sonic NEVER cried!

"I'm sorry. I'm sorry.," he whispered again and again, trembling. "Sonic, what's wrong? Pull yourself together!" Knuckles wanted to grab his shoulders and shake some sense into him, but the hedgehog ran away before he could.


Later, much later, at night to be precise, Sonic had returned home to a very worried Tails. The blue hedgehog had been really upset and it had taken Tails more than an hour to calm his brother enough to treat the wound on his chest. Luckily, it wasn't that bad, but unfortunately, it didn't explain the paralysis, that Sonic had spoken of.

Sonic didn't say, where he had been, after he had fled from the battlefield, but the dried tear stains on his cheeks spoke for themselves. He had ran somewhere to cry in desperation... Sonic quickly fell asleep on the couch after eating a little bit, he had exhausted himself obviously.

Tails called over Amy and Knuckles, who brought Sonic in his room and in his bed, before they met in the living room to talk about the newest problem. And it was a problem, Knuckles even left the Master Emerald alone because of the weird behavior of the hero, that should mean something.

Before they could start speaking, the news report of the still switched on television beat them to it. "Today, at 3 pm, during the newest attack of the evil genius 'Dr. Eggman', the popular hero Sonic the Hedgehog showed his worst performance yet, that caused 43 victims in total. There are voices out of the public, that doubt, that Sonic as an uke-"

"Seems like the uke in him is stronger after all.," Knuckles stated and switched the television off.

"No, I bet it's a trick of Eggman! He did something with him!," Amy replied, believing in Sonic like always.

"That's what I thought, that's why I drew some blood from him and analyzed it, but I didn't find anything suspicious. Everything was normal. I did some more tests, but they were negative, too."

"Did you check for mistakes in your analysis and in those tests?," Amy asked. "Five times.," Tails replied. "Oh."

"I remember this report in the radio. The scientist said, that there is an institution for ukes like Sonic. Maybe it's best when we bring him there to find a seme."

"NO!," Amy and Tails shouted at once, making Knuckles nearly fall over. They fell silent, listening to Sonic's room, but didn't hear anything. They didn't wake him up, good.

"We can't do that, Sonic would never agree! And besides, I don't want to lose him.," Tails added sadly.

"You won't lose him. He'll simply get a mate.," Knuckles tried to reassure him. "But he has already changed. Who knows, what these people do to him! Maybe he changes more and I will never get him back like he was before!," Tails cried.

"Tails, Sonic loves you, no matter what. Don't think a mate could ever change that.," Knuckles tried again.

"Well, I agree with Tails. This is all strange. Maybe we'll just...wait and see ? Maybe it's just... a phase, or something like that.," Amy said reluctantly. She didn't want to lose Sonic, too, even though they could never marry. She had already accepted that.

"And if not, Sonic could get in trouble. Half the world already sees him as a weakling. They don't trust him anymore." Knuckles pointed to the television.

"So what? Sonic had one bad day, he can mend it again. I believe in him!," Tails said, determined. Amy agreed and Knuckles eventually, too.

Unbeknownst to them, Sonic had listened to everything. He smiled and had to blink away the tears.

The belief of his friends in him was everything he needed. His decision was clear: he wouldn't let himself get down because of...whatever was wrong with him.


Another week passed and Sonic seemed back to normal. He now had trouble with sleeping, as nightmares kept him awake, therefore he seemed less energetic and more tired, but he ate more again – though he forced most of the food down and ended sometimes up with vomiting it out again – and he was much more cheerful, in comparison to last week.

He wasn't as jumpy and didn't mind being alone or among males anymore. Well, he forced most of his behavior to stay the same as before last week, but for his friends he would do everything. Whenever Eggman attacked, quite frequently in this week he had to say, he forced his body to work, not letting this paralysis take over again.

And it worked! In no time, most people were on his side again, though some were still doubting that he was capable of doing his job. While Amy, Knuckles and Tails were happy for him, that those doubting ones were the minority, one wasn't at all.

Eggman.

"Well, does everything STILL go according to plan?," he asked, pissed. "The hedgehog is more stubborn, than I thought. However, that's easily fixable. We just need to double our efforts.," the other smirked.


Tails and Sonic were just in the park, sitting on a bench to eat their recently bought chilidogs and chat a little, when suddenly a foreign arm snaked itself around Sonic's shoulders and when he turned around, he saw a male hedgehog with yellow fur sitting on his other side, grinning at him like a predator would at his prey.

"Hey there, cutie, wanna go for a walk?," he purred, coming uncomfortably close to Sonic, who simply pushed the stranger off.

"No, thanks. Go and bother someone who's interested, I'm not one of them.," Sonic said and stood up, but the other hedgehog didn't get the hint and snaked his arm around him again, this time around his waist. "Why not giving me a try?," he asked.

Sonic threw his arm off him. "I don't know what kind of drugs you took, but I would step off of it. Let's go, Tails."

Tails nodded and they left the park, leaving the hedgehog. "Oh man, that was weird." Sonic shook his head.

"W-well..." Tails played with his fingers. "What?," Sonic asked. "Well...this was a hedgehog." "Er... yeah? So? " "A MALE hedgehog, Sonic! A seme!" "You mean, he was flirting with me because of this uke-thingy?" "Maybe..." "Aw well, it was only one, right? Nothing to worry about.," Sonic shrugged.


Sadly, that wasn't true. After the meeting with the flirty hedgehog, Sonic couldn't do as much as walk a few meters, before getting jumped by random hedgehogs, that tried to get him to dates or even straight to sex.

Some even followed them home and had to be chased away by Knuckles or Amy, as they didn't listen to Sonic – and he couldn't give them a beat down for being in love, could he?

Finally, Tails decided to visit a library to look up, what he could do against this behavior. Sonic, determined to not let those attacks get to him, waited outside the library for him, to make sure he was safe, as those crazy hedgehogs had started to get aggressive towards everyone in his reach.

It had gotten so bad in the last five days since the first one, that he was close to a mental breakdown. Why did those semes think he was interested? Why didn't they accept his No? They acted as if he didn't have his own opinion...

"Sonic!" He looked up and saw Tails running to him, waving with a book. Just then, he felt a hand grabbing and yanking his tail, making him yelp. He turned around and saw a hedgehog with brown fur standing there, grinning. "Hey, cutie, wanna go in a hotel with me?," he asked. "NO! And don't do this again!," he hissed, trying not to make a scene. "Come on, it'll be the time of your life..."

"Leave him alone!" Tails jumped between his brother and the stranger, trying to protect him like Amy or Knuckles would.

"Go play with your action figures, pipsqueak!," the stranger snarled and pushed him, unfortunately in a bad direction, as he landed on the street – in front of a large bus, that was only a second away from ending his life for good. "TAILS!," was the last thing the fox heard, before everything went black...


When Tails woke up again, he was in their living room, lying on the couch. The memories came back after a few minutes and he shot up. He looked down on his body and was relieved to not see any injuries. Sonic must've saved him! Thank Chaos!

He jumped, when the front door got busted open. Shortly after that, Amy and Knuckles came running into the living room. "T-Tails, are you okay!? Sonic called me, he was crying and said you nearly died!," Amy panted.

"He cried!? Oh no!" Tails jumped off the couch and ran past his friends and up the stairs to Sonic's room. He nearly ripped the door out of its frame in his hurry.

There, on his bed, lay Sonic, curled up in a ball like a feral hedgehog. He shook under his sobs. "Sonic?," Tails asked carefully. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!," was his only reply.


An hour later, Sonic had cried himself to sleep. Tails, who had stayed with him the whole time, covered him with a blanket and sneaked out of his room, closing the door silently.

Downstairs, in the kitchen, he met with Knuckles and Amy. They had waited patiently, though mostly, because they wanted to know, what was wrong now.

Tails plopped on a chair and rubbed his temples. He sighed. "I...read a book in the library about ukes. To find out, why those semes are after him."

"And?," Amy urged, when he paused. "Well, apparently, Sonic gives out a scent, that works like a magnet on semes. They won't stop bothering him, until he picks one of them. And this scent will get stronger and make the semes more and more aggressive..."

"So they will harm you more next time.," a hoarse voice croaked, making them jump. Sonic entered the kitchen. He looked exhausted, his fur was matted with sweat and dark rings were under his tired, red eyes.

"Sonic, this-," Tails started, but Sonic interrupted him. "No, Tails. Do you have any idea, how close this was? I...I'm not strong anymore. I'm not fast anymore. I tried to ignore it, but...but..." He bit back a sob. "I...I can't stay here. Next time...next time...it won't end this well..."

"No!," Tails jumped in Sonic's arm, the brothers now both crying. "You can't leave! Please, don't leave me alone!," the little fox cried.

Amy had tears in her eyes as well, while Knuckles racked his brain for a solution. "I've got an idea.," he finally said and everyone looked at him. "There is this institution for ukes, right? We don't have to bring him there, but we can ask the people there for help."


And here's part two! Hope you like it! And sorry for the one part where Sonic speaks like Infinite - I wrote this before I even knew how he was called. Oh well, it will be the only one, I think. Anyway, I'm pretty busy right now, so I won't most likely be able to upload anything before next Sunday. Hopefully, I'm less busy at February. Have fun reading and a nice weekend!