Chapter 4: Out, but not in the open

"Hey! No fair!" Sonic shouted angrily.

"Well, you are trying to beat the living flesh out of me, so its completely fair." Tails smirked. He was inside the pool, and due to Sonic's curse he couldn't follow him in. Or thats what Tails thought...

"Ok, you wanna play dirty?" Sonic did the unexpected. He jumped at the pool, splashing water everywhere. Tails could only look at Sonic's fur turning red under water.

Then, the now female hedgehog rose up from the water.

"Lets play dirty then." She said grinning evilly.

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"That really hurt! Tails rubbed his head after Sonic had almost made a hole in it rubbing it with her knuckles.

"Then don't make a party without my permission!" She said grabbing the bucket with the now hot water and drenching himself with it.

"Do you think I'm a fortune teller to know what was happening to you?" Tails complained and sat on the couch.

"Whatever, Just... ask me before doing a party, can you?" He said throwing the bucket away and sitting on the couch with Tails.

"Ok, but Sonic?"

"Yeah?"

"Well, uhh... I don't know how to ask you this..." Tails was trying to find words to explain Sonic and important matter.

"Did you made up another party?"

"No! Its just that, don't you think you should start using clothes, in case you get an accident?"

"Yeah, I'm going to buy another pair of pants and..."

"You know that you can't run with those because of friction, do you?"

"Then what do you think I should wear?"

Tails looked at him with a nervous smile. Sonic wasn't sure what was he talking about, then it hit him.

"I think I know what you are talking about, and I have to tell you... That will never happen, EVER!"

"In that case, you know you will not be able to run when you are wearing pants, unless you are sure you aren't going to get splashed or if you want to have fire in your legs. Your call." Tails concluded.

"Man, I like running, but I have dignity you know? I guess I'll stop running until I find a cure to this" He sighed "Something tells me it will not be easy..."

"Maybe we can find out on my lab" Tails suggested.

"Oh yeah, I forgot you built a lab underground last year. What are we waiting for then? Lets go!" Sonic said rushing for the lab.

"*Sigh* I will need some of these." He said grabbing some buckets and filling them with water.

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Meanwhile, very far away, a canadian lynx and a hedgehog were walking in a forest.

The lynx had normal fur color, gold eyes and waist-length silver hair with black tints at the end of it, she also had bangs pointing to the middle of her face. She had a black cloth tied around her head. She was wearing a black short sleeved shirt with a metal surrounding under her chest to the end of the shirt, khaki shorts and black steel-toed knee-length boots with metalic soles. She was also wearing wrist-length black fingerless gloves, with a metal encasing nearly the lower half of her arm. She had a metal claw on her left hand and a katana strapped at her hip.

The hedgehog had an ebony fur with purple streaks and she had slanted red eyes. She had a sakura styled hair that covered her left eye and a purple jewel incrusted on her forehead. She was wearing a short black dress with a black belt with a purple buckle, a purple vest and gloves that had silver spikes at the wrist. She also had a lightning-bolt mark in her chest.

"I can't wait to make her pay for what she did to us!" The lynx seemed angry.

"She ain't done anything to me or anyone else in the clan, you are just mad because she beat you, but I don't know why you are making such a rant." The hedgehog tried to calm her down.

"I got beaten! After 3 years of never losing I got beaten! By a stranger!" She was getting angrier by the second.

"Come on! She won by a ring out! Not by actually hurting you, I don't know why you think that is too shameful when both of us know she cannot beat you in a real battle." The hedgehog was trying her best to calm the angry lynx.

"Shut up already, Rae. You weren't the one that got beaten."

"Syra, we both know I would be at my home if that happened to me, if it wasn't for that rule, of course.

The hedgehog and the lynx kept walking, trying to find the red female hedgehog that defeated Syra and make her pay.

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"Man, i'm not sure about this." Sonic said. Tails had put him inside a glass tube.

"You will not have to do much, I'll just have to scan your biometrics then I'll be able to see how does your body changes shape. I'll also be able to figure out if you only look like a female or if you actually are one." He said pressing a red button.

Sonic heard some beeping noises coming from the floor of the glass tube. "So, I just have to stand here?"

"Yes, that simple." Tails replied pressing another button.

Suddenly, cold water started dripping from atop the glass tube, drenching Sonic with him and turning him into a female. She instinctively covered her lower and upper parts of her body.

"Hey! You could have told me something like 'Sonic, I'm going to drench you with cold water' or something before you actually did it." Sonic complained.

"Its done!" Tails pressed another button and hot water dropped from atop the glass tube, returning the hedgehog back to normal.

"Thank you so much." Sonic said with a sarcastic tone.

"Let me check this out..." Tails headed for a monitor to see the results.

"Hey, when am I getting out of here?" Sonic tapped his foot impatiently. In response, Tails pressed a button and the glass tube disappeared. As soon as he was free, Sonic went for Tails.

"What the... I don't get it..." Tails was looking dumbfounded at the monitor. "This... This is just unreal." The screen at first showed the biometrics of Sonic as a male hedgehog, and all of a sudden, they changed to the biometrics of a female hedgehog as if it was like changing channels from a TV.

"I don't get it, this must be some sort of trick..." Tails was trying to find a good explanation for what he was seeing, but he could find none. Like if life was a big house and science had just been kicked out of it.

"So, I guess you don't know how to cure it..." Sonic said disappointed.

"No, but I have found differences between your male and female form that are kind of interesting... You wanna hear 'em?"

"Well, I don't have anything to lose so, go ahead."

"You want to hear the good part or the bad part first?"

"I want to save the best for last, thank you."

"Ok." Tails flexed himself and then looked at the monitor. "When you turn into a girl, your biometrics change radically, not only in the fact that you are actually a girl, but your statistics are also affected."

"English please."

Tails sighed. "As a girl, you have less strength and less endurance, like 30% less of each one approximately, that means you will not have the same strength when you are fighting as a girl and your body will be more fragile, meaning that your body won't take as much punishment as it would take in your male form. Also, your hormones are also affected, meaning that you may end up acting like an actual girl in some scenarios."

"Great! Just Great! I think I'll just avoid contact with cold water for the rest of my life!" Sonic was now irritated, he could end up acting as a girl!? Man, he was totally not going to touch cold water, ever.

"Don't you want to hear the good part?"

"Whatever... Not going to touch cold water no matter what you say."

"First, due to the reduction of strength and endurance, your spikes grow and they become sharper, making your spin-dashes more deadly to use against people." Tails explained.

"And second?"

"Second, your brain actually reorganizes itself and you are able to do 2 and even 3 things the same time."

"What do you mean?"

"Do you remember that time when we saw Amy listening to music while talking with Vanilla on the phone AND reading a magazine?"

"I gotta admit it, it still freaks me out. But I don't think I'll use that ability because you know I spend 90% of my time running."

"I was just about to tell you something related to that."

"What? My speed increases as a girl?"

"Not only your speed in running, your overall agility is increased dramatically. Not only you are able to run faster, but also punch, kick and those kind of things."

"Oooooh, so that theory that says that boys are stronger but girls are more agile is true."

"Yeah, but is kinda an overkill in your case."

"Why do you say that?"

"Because I have an estimated number on how faster you can run as a female and... well... you aren't going to believe me but... as a girl, you can actually run 2 times faster!"

Sonic felt like Shadow just kissed him and then bitch-slapped him. He could run 2 times faster AS A GIRL!? I mean, no one could keep up with Sonic's speed, not even Shadow, but, being to run 2 times faster than THAT!? Not possible.

"Tails, you are joking, right?" Sonic smirked. But Tails looked dead serious.

"I mean, i'm already the fastest thing alive, but 2 times MY speed? That's just impossible! Isn't it?" Sonic wasn't believing it.

"Let's find out then..." Tails went to the garage

"Hey, wait!" Sonic followed after him.

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Sonic, running 2 times FASTER!? God save us, is this actually true? And when did Sonic met Syra? And most important of all, when and where she defeated her?

All your questions will be answered... In the next chapter!