Chapter Three: You're Alive!

Sonic raced back to his house, holding Chip so he wouldn't get hurt by the speed Sonic was going at. When they entered Sonic's home, Chip said in awe "How do you run that fast!? That was amazing!" Sonic simply shrugged. He didn't know where he got his speed, he just realized when racing others as a toddler, he would be VERY fast compared to even the other fast Mobians, the fastest other than him running at about twenty-nine miles per hour, which was NOWHERE close to Sonic's speed. Sonic grabbed a chili dog, and sat on the couch and turned on the TV, expecting something big. He got more than he expected.

"Hello, my name is Marcia Wellingtill, and I'm here with a report of a worldwide catastrophe. Early this morning, earthquakes and tsunamis were being reported everywhere. It wasn't until just a few hours ago we got footage of what really happened. The planet seems to have split apart! To you, Mike." The camera switched to a young reporter sitting in a helicopter, flying over the new ravines that dropped into the fiery orb known as the center of the planet. "Hey, I'm Mike, here at a crack in the planet's surface. As you can see, it's a very long drop into the core. Scientists are baffled by this phenomenon everywhere." Sonic switched off the TV and just sat there, freaking out in his mind.

Oh crap.
Oh crap. Oh CRAP. What am I going to do? My cocky behavior led to this! People died because of your stupidity! What the fuck am I going to tell Tails?

Chip saw Sonic sweating and asked "Is something wrong?" Sonic, lost in thought, muttered "Yeah, something's definitely wrong." Sonic grabbed Chip, left his house and started running to Tails' house. When he got there, the biplane was gone. Sonic realized Tails must think he's dead right now, but had no way to tell him he wasn't. He was about to slump onto the ground when he saw a biplane heading for the dirt runway by Tails' house.

Tails was crying, tears streaming out of his eyes. He couldn't find Sonic's body, and thought he had been burned up by falling into the center of the planet. He saw a blue figure by his house, and realized Sonic wasn't dead. He landed the plane and rushed to Sonic stammering "S-Sonic! I thought you were d-dead! Please don't scare me like that again!" Tails hugged Sonic, and Sonic hugged back, comforting the fox.

"Hey, at least I'm alive. That's all that matters." Tails calmed down after a few minutes and asked Sonic "What happened up there?" Sonic described everything except his transformation into... THAT. He mentioned the machine he had been trapped in, but had tweaked his story about what happened. Tails, now annoyed and frustrated, said to Sonic "You should've stuck to the plan, you idiot! Now the planet's shattered! Oh boy, how are we going to fix this?" The two went in and started planning their next move. After about a couple of hours of planning, Tails mentioned someone he knew in Spagonia. They couldn't meet the professor until tomorrow night, when he got back from a work trip. Sonic ran back with CHIP to his house. Sonic bad told Tails how he met Chip but didn't go into much detail.

It was about 8:29 PM when Sonic got back home. He decided to nap on the couch then go to town for a few items he had to get for the house, like food and maybe some new movies. Just when Sonic fell asleep, a sharp pain in his gut woke him up. Chip, woken up by Sonic jumping up, asked groggily "Are you OK?" Sonic responded with "Yeah, just had a spoiled chili dog. Just gotta take a-AGGH!

Sonic, fell to the floor, and started to shake. Something told him that he should take his gloves off, so he did. He increased in size, going from a 3.3 to a 4.1 in seconds. His arms expanded and his nails grew and sharpened. His shoes became the maroon cleats from really early in the morning today and his teeth lengthened into fangs and his eyebrows became furrowed. The transformation stopped temporarily here, and Sonic looked like he had lifted weights and was mad about something. He began to continue transforming now. His cobalt blue fur darkened to midnight blue and became longer, his arms grew the same fur. At his wrists, a white ring of fur started where his midnight blue fur ended and his hands became a bit fuzzier and icy blue. His chest fur became 'poofy' and light blue and so did his muzzle, which didn't grow any extra hair. His muzzle pushed out slightly and the ends of his quills became white.

He got up, and dusted himself off. So when it's night, I turn into THIS!? It was bad enough once, but every night!? Chip interrupted his thoughts when he began to fall off the couch. Without thinking, Sonic attempted to grab Chip, even though the distance between the two was too far for even Sonic's long arms. His arm stretched, however, and Chip landed in his hand back first. Confused, Sonic put Chip down and retracted his arm, looking at it. In a daze, he muttered "That's just weird..."

"Your arm j-just STRETCHED! It stretched like rubber!" Chip exclaimed with a freaked out tone. Sonic responded with "I know... where the hell did I get an ability like this?" Sonic knew his plans were ruined, but he was still going to go to Apotos. He grabbed Chip and put him on his back, and ran to town.

About thirty minutes later...

Sonic and Chip got to the small town of Apotos. Chip had napped in his long fur and Sonic had run here on all fours, using his arms as front legs. He found it quite easy to run like this in his new form, and it was more convenient. He could tell something was wrong; he couldn't see it, but the area gave off a bad vibe. He saw the same human who ran the ice cream stand sitting on a curb, sobbing. Sonic decided it would've been best to leave the guy alone and ran along the road.

He had been running around town, and had found these little creatures. They were mainly purple, but had glowing green parts and big, bright orange eyes. The small ones were kind of frog like, but the bigger ones were bipedal and even sometimes held clubs in their huge, misshapen hands. When Sonic swung at them, they disintegrated into purple smoke, as if they weren't physical beings, but merely dark energy. He then heard a shriek.

It was Tails, and he was in danger.

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