Chapter#7 A Trip to the Doctors

Knuckles was walking down the street that afternoon. It had grown gray and cloudy, and a little breeze was kicking in. Knuckles picked up a coffee and was sipping it, he didn't usually drink coffee, but today he was thirsty and a little to absent minded to care. He had another coffee too. One for the doc.

Knuckles was visiting the Doctor on his theory about Sonic and the Chaos Emeralds. The Doctor's name was Dr. Smith, a very common name. He and medical experts had been checking up on Sonic, this doctor's were human. Knuckles opened the door, passed the lobby and walked down the hall to smith's office, where he gave him his coffee and sat to talk.

"So" Knuckles said after greetings and 'how do you do's' "Um Sonic came in contact with a chaos emerald and-" the doctor cut him off. "A chaos emerald?" Smith asked "Yes, and-"the doc cut him off again "Let me guess, it restored some of his memory?" "Yes!" Knuckles exclaimed surprised. The doc looked down, and sighed, his eyes grew dark, and the room became quiet.

Knuckles knew something was up "Why, what's wrong?" Knuckles asked in a worried little voice. "Well it's a good thing you told be this soon Knuckles" the doctor said. "Well" he began "The Chaos Emeralds have supreme power as you obviously know, and it is true, by a small percentage that all seven can restore his full memory, but, now that Sonic has been exposed to some of that memory, his brain will keep reprocessing that information until…" The doctor's voice trailed off into space. "Until what?"

"Until, it is all the brain processes, and Sonic will be immobilized, and unable to talk, he will be in complete paralization," The doctor couldn't look at Knuckles, he continued to look down "I'm sorry." Knuckles felt numb, he felt like he was drowning, Sonic would be paralyzed; his best friend, gone forever, but what was more horrifying Eggman could have a shot at world domination with Sonic out of the way.

Knuckles jumped up "Wait!" he exclaimed "If I find the seven chaos emeralds, can it cure him!?" the doctor said "Yes" and before he could say anything else Knuckles was gone.