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There was general disbelief between Knuckles and Tails. "Your twin? Like brothers?" Knuckles asked, shocked.
"Yeah..." Sonic sighed his head still down. "I had a life before I met any of you guys you know. Nicole would know a bit more than you guys."
"But if he's your brother why does he want to hurt you? That's not right!" tears filled Tails' eyes as he asked the question.
"I'd have to tell the whole story so you guys could understand..." He saw Knuckles lean against a pillar focusing on him and Tails sitting down doing the same.
Sonic gave a weak chuckle. "I guess you guys really want to hear it." He sat down against the pillar he was on and started.
"Okay my life before you guys was... Much different. I was born in a family of four kids, two sets of twins. Me and Scourge were the younger pair. I had another brother named Manic and a sister named Sonia. We were a band, the Underground. We were okay for about two years people liked the music and came to all of our small concerts. My mom, Aleena wanted us to be bigger though she wanted us to be the best band we could. She was nice but stubborn, determined really.
"She put us in bigger venues we even got to headline a couple of bigger bands. People in the mainstream started to like us, and were focusing on me and Scourge. I played guitar, he played bass. We were so in sync on the stage and the crowd ate it up. That's when trouble started.
"My mom called a band meeting one day, she told us that we needed a front man for our band, a face. Me and Scourge were the obvious choices because the crowds loved our antics. But after a heated argument we decided that the name "Scourge Underground" or any variation of it didn't fit our music, so we changed to Sonic Underground.
"It wasn't long until Scourge faded to the background and the media began eating me up. Though I never did stay long enough to answer more than a few questions.
"I can feel Scourge getting jealous of me after that, I got all the praise and recognition we used to share. And sad to say I got more attention from mom. She loved us all, anyone could tell that, but she had to make sure I was okay at any given moment, it was little things, like getting an extra present at my birthday, getting a slightly newer this and a shinier that. She's the one who actually gave me Nicole, as ironic as that is." Sonic let out another weak chuckle and looked at the cot by the shrine. He spotted Shade, listening while she looked at her injured mother. 'When did she get back?'
"Scourge had enough of it. He got so mad that he punched me. Mom didn't take kindly to that and he was reprimanded pretty harshly. I was upset and sort of lost so I did what I always do. I ran. I wasn't gone for good but long enough for mom to call a search party. I did this periodically every time, we went to a different concert, I ran away for hours at a time. We were on Westside Island when I didn't come back alone. I'd found Tails curled up, in the back alleyway of some houses and I brought him home. Nicole and I agreed that we had enough money to take care of him, adopt him so to speak." Sonic saw Tails' ears droop and his eyes looked at the floor, he pulled him into a hug.
"My mom didn't agree. I don't know why and I don't want to understand. I was mad and angry and sad and confused... I just left. I took some money that I'd hidden away, found the Tornado in a junkyard and left that crappy island with Tails and Nicole.
"Last I know they still live there. That's the reason I hate the island so much and I guess since then Scourge has sworn vengeance or something. I haven't seen them since."
Knuckles looked away with a solemn look on his face. Tails was sniffling into Sonic as the blue hedgehog rubbed his back. Shade hadn't moved.
Sonic stood up bringing Tails with him.
"I don't want you guys getting in this, especially not you lil bro." He grabbed Tails' shoulders and pulled him into a hug. He gave Knuckles a look and said, "Watch him for me."
With a nod he took Tails from Sonic. "Get him one for me." Sonic smiled before heading to the warp ring. In a flash he was gone.
He returned to a nearly destroyed platform in windy valley. The ground no longer ripe with grass, the rocks torn from the ground. It looked like a wasteland.
In the centre of it was Scourge, still raging from Sonic's escape. Stepping out from the warp ring's hiding spot Sonic called out.
"I heard you were looking for a fight." Sonic deadpanned.
Scourge turned the scowl on his lips changing to a cocky grin. "So you had the balls to come back, eh?"
Sonic said nothing as he blasted off. Heading back to the Mystic Ruins. He flicked Scourge's nose as he sped past him. "You'll have to catch me first."
Angered, pissed off, surprised, annoyed, and blood thirsty. Those were Scourge's emotions.
He wasted no time chasing his twin.
"I'm not looking for a fight... I'm looking for a murder."
Blue and green blurs blasted through the valley. One anxious the other ravenous for revenge.
So the final showdown begins with a bit of backstory.
Who will win? Will Scourge's Emerald boosted powers give him the advantage? Will Sonic be Sonic again and just kick butt? Why didn't I do a flashback? I don't like flashbacks. Why am I asking you this?
Stay tuned for what might be the final part of this story, "A Family Matter."
I will never do this type of outro again.
Thanks for reading!
