Episode 10: Sonic's Bizarre Day
Grunts echoed from inside of Tail's workshop as the twin-tailed fox set to work on fixing the TV Sonic had accidently broke on his way out of the house that morning. Ever since that horrible event last Valentine's Day, the blue hedgehog had just never been the same.
Amy had broken up with Sonic, over the misunderstanding that Sonic had a new girlfriend to occupy his life. That fact wasn't true at all, Perci already had a boyfriend in Scourge, and was just visiting to have a good time.
However, given the evidence of this new female hanging around Sonic, and the fact that Sonic actually hit Amy after he paused their fight to explain the truth, Tails highly doubted that the heartbroken pink hedgehog wouldn't give a dime to hear what Sonic had to say now.
Not long after the breakup. Perci excused herself to go back to her home village, while Sonic cursed himself and angrily wondered how much inexcusable damage he had caused his relationship with Amy.
Tails was just happy Sonic was on a run right now. The poor hedgehog had been cooped inside of the house for days, just moaning with his mourning, trying to think of desperate ways that he and Amy could ever be friends again.
"You'll think of something Sonic," thought Tails hopefully, finally fixing the TV repairs before turning his eyes to his other projects.
One down, a dozen to go. Today was going to be a busy day.
However, before the twin-tailed fox could get set to work on his second electronic device, a knock came on the door, only to be rendered useless as the entrance swung in, allowing the wild, Sticks the Badger to enter the space.
"Hey Tails" said Sticks, as soon as she came " do you have some wood and some paste."
"Um sure" said Tails confused " what do you need it for?"
"Oh" said Sticks "Some beetle-faced aliens tried to abduct me from my house last night. I need to build a stronger defense. A deep moat with flesh-eating piranhas doesn't just cut it these days."
A sweat drop appeared on Tails forehead as Sticks walked over to grab some wood. Just then, the gleam of one of Tail's inventions caught Stick's eyes.
"Hey what's this?" asked Sticks, reaching her finger to push the button on a cannon-like device.
"Sticks No!" yelled Tails, but the fox's warning came to late as Sticks was zapped where she stood.
In an instant, a bright flash illuminated the room, and Tails quivered with fear, worried that Sticks had been hurt. However, when the light faded, Tails was relieved to see Sticks unharmed. The badger was still in perfect health, but that device, what did it do to her?
A fierce hissing sound suddenly caused both Sticks and Tails to glance up, and see a group of huge spiders hanging from Tails ceiling with long hair and dripping fangs. Sticks instantly screamed.
"Jamaican Spiders!"
That was how the craziness began.
Meanwhile, down at the Meh Burger, Knuckles had just finished getting his hamburger order and was looking for a place to sit, when he spotted a familiar, pink figure sitting at a far away table close by.
"Amy?" questioned Knuckles, taking a seat in front of the pink hedgehog " What are you doing here?"
"Huh?" Amy looked up in shock, then relaxed when she saw Knuckles. "Oh, Hi Knuckles, I was just…thinking about things."
"Uh huh" said Knuckles, staring at Amy's invisible lunch " like ordering a real burger and fries?"
"No" said Amy, shaking her head " it's Sonic. Ever since I…you know…nothing has really been the same."
"Don't tell me about it" said Knuckles " I was shocked. I knew Sonic hanging out with Perci would lead to bad things. I just didn't realize how bad."
"But Sonic says it wasn't his fault" said Amy " and I don't know what to think. He's tried so hard to apologize, but when I remember the end of our fight…when he…,"
"Slapped you?" asked Knuckles, gaze turning fierce. Amy nodded.
"I just can't forgive him for that," said Amy " Knuckles, what should I do?"
Knuckles wasn't sure what to say next. How could he convince Amy on what she should do with her relationship with Sonic? He was no master for giving out relationship advice.
Luckily for the echidna, he didn't have to make an excuse as a strange sound suddenly caught his ears. Turning quickly to identify it, Knuckles violet gaze widened with surprise as a whole pod of green frogs, armed with sushi knives came hopping in on the Meh Burger floor, wetting their lips with their long tongues.
"Alright men" yelled one frog, waving to the Meh Burger customers " today, we feast!"
And with that said, all of the knife wielding frogs plagued the Meh Burger restaurant.
Meanwhile, not far away, in the forest, Sonic was on a run to clear his head from the trouble with Amy when a shocking vibration suddenly rumbled through the ground.
"Whoa, what was that?" said Sonic, stopping in his tracks.
Without warning, a moving mound of earth suddenly rose up from the ground, tunneling its way straight into Sonic's path. Acting immediately, Sonic jumped out of the way, and landed nimbly in the branches of a leaning tree, watching as the arrow of earth moved past.
Whatever was going on, that thing in the ground burrowing right towards Sonic's hometown. Knowing that he needed to take action, Sonic jumped off from his perch and speeded after the tunneling creature.
It was time to play the hero, and leave his troubles behind.
Meanwhile, back at the Meh Burger, Amy and Knuckles found themselves busy battling against hundreds of little, knife-wielding frogs. From every punch and hammer blow that seemed to knock down one, another dozen or so soon came to replace it.
Sweat poured relentlessly from both of their bodies. Amy and Knuckles were becoming fatigued. It seemed like this would be fight they just couldn't win. Oh well, things couldn't get any worse right?
As if the very thought had summoned trouble, the ground suddenly shuttered and shook, surprising the frogs as well as Amy and Knuckles. Fearing immediately for their survival, the knife-wielding frogs jumped away, leaving Amy and Knuckles alone to face the threat.
Unleashing a last great rumble, the ground burst up in front of Amy and Knuckles eyes and giant worm with razor-sharp teeth rose out from below, basking in its menacing glory.
"Amy look out!" shouted Knuckles, shoving the hedgehog out of the way just as the worm lunged in to strike.
Traveling all this way underground had given the worm a massive appetite, and Amy was almost frozen in shock when it lunged at her for a snack. Luckily, Knuckles quick-thinking save rescued her from becoming worm chow, but there was still a danger of coming up on the menu as the worm raised up for another strike.
"Aah!" Amy and Knuckles screamed as the worm lunged again, but this time a miracle came to their aid.
Speeding in fast like a bolt of blue lightning, Sonic the Hedgehog suddenly appeared and struck the worm hard in its side. Roaring in pain, the worm missed its snacks and ended up crashing into Meh Burger, destroying the hamburger stand in the process.
"Are you guys alright?" said Sonic, running to his friends.
"It's about time you showed up," said Knuckles, standing back up on his feet.
"Sorry" said Sonic with a grin " couldn't handle the traffic. What do you say we take this worm down?"
"I'm ready," said Knuckles, pounding his fists.
Meanwhile, back at Tail's workshop, things were getting bizarre. Jamaican music played out throughout the room as the giant spiders from before played their metal drums, while Sticks ran around in panic, covering her ears to block out the music.
Tails tried to ignore all the chaos around him, focusing his attention on fixing the machine that Sticks set off. In order to reverse the damage it caused by releasing the strange thoughts in Sticks mind, he had to find out which wires to reconnect.
Suddenly, the fox's mind was interrupted by a knock on his door. Thinking that it might be Sonic, Tails immediately stepped up to answer it, and was surprised by seeing Eggman covered in some kind of yellow, gel-like goo.
"Eggman, what are you doing here?" asked Tails. " And what happened to you?"
"I was just relaxing inside my lair" said Eggman " when a storm raining banana smoothies decided to pour down inside. It ruined a very good nap. My computer told me that the source of the storm came from here so…What do you know about this?!"
Sighing, Tails quickly explained what Sticks had done and now that every thought in her imagination was running wild and free. Eggman frowned when the whole story was explained, and seemed a little skeptical that Tails had invented a device that could unleash someone's mind, but it still made better sense than what was happening in his home.
"Alright" said Eggman, looking at the fox determinedly " let's set things right."
Meanwhile, back outside, Sonic, Amy, and Knuckles were busy standing their ground against the giant worm. However, they were having very little success.
Sonic's homing attacks, Amy's hammer blows, and Knuckles fierce strikes only served to make the subterranean beast even more upset.
The ground around the Meh Burger and the beach was now completely torn up and rearranged, spiking into peaks of rugged, earth-hone dunes. A perfect worm paradise.
"Where did it go?" asked Knuckles, as he and Sonic hid out behind one of the dunes. They had lost of both of the worm and Amy a few minutes ago.
Deciding to check things out, Sonic sped his way to the top of the dune, and immediately scanned the area with his eyes. Off to the East, there appeared to be vibrations rumbling through the ground, heading towards a grove of palms on the beach.
The rumblings were obviously caused by the worm, and if he was closer to the beach, than he was well away from where Sonic and Knuckles hid. Unfortunately, the same could not be said for Amy, who was hiding on top of one palms in the grove the worm was heading for.
Clearly the female hedgehog thought she could be safe from the worm if she climbed higher above. She was wrong. The worm was now barreling towards her at full speed, and it wouldn't be long until her entire hiding place was destroyed.
Aware of the immediate danger, Sonic sped to where Amy hid just as the worm burst out of the ground and stuck its giant fangs into the palm tree where Amy was.
With his super speed, Sonic climbed up the palm in a flash as the worm lifted it into the air. Grabbing onto Amy, Sonic tossed her into a nice, soft patch of sand below as the worm started shaking the tree with furious might.
Sonic tried to hang on to no avail, the shaking was just to much and his hands flew free from the bark, catapulting him straight beneath the ocean waves.
"Sonic!" cried out Knuckles worriedly, having the watched the whole event from his dune.
When he saw Sonic's body plummet beneath the waves, he instantly got up and moved, dashing past the worm and Amy who still stunned that such an event had took place.
Sonic couldn't swim to save his life, skipping the lessons about how to survive in water and feared what lurked in the hallows beneath.
Taking a deep breath, Knuckles dived into the ocean and pumped his arms with powerful strokes. The water was a bit murky, but Knuckles could still make out Sonic's form.
The hedgehog was still alive but holding still, fighting the urge to close his eyes and give into the aura of drowning around him. He wouldn't last long Knuckles feared, and pushed himself even faster to save him.
However, as he grew closer to Sonic, Knuckles started to notice a change in the tide. An undertow had formed, dragging water from out of the beach and spewing it into the ocean, and he and Sonic were caught right in the middle of it.
Steadily the current grew stronger, and as Knuckles grabbed onto Sonic's hand fear entered his mind. Could he really save them both from all of this? Could he really rip Sonic away from the tide?
And if he couldn't…would they both drown?
Meanwhile, at Tails house, Tails and Eggman both grinned in success at getting Tails little Thought Gun, geniusly reversed. Tails had to admit that having his arch-enemy around to assist was a really big help.
If the Doctor didn't spend so much time trying to do evil deeds and destroy his friends, perhaps the two of them could have hanged out a bit more. But the twin-tailed fox was quick to dismiss the thought. That would never happen, no matter what changed.
"Argh!" Sticks growled, trying to get out of the crazy jacket both genius's had stuffed her in, before gluing her to a chair to make sure that she stayed still. "Get this thing off of me!"
"Ready?" said Tails, nodding at Eggman, as he aimed with the gun.
"Ready," said Eggman.
"Fire!" screamed Tails.
And with that said, they blasted Sticks.
Back down deep in the ocean, Knuckles was holding onto Sonic for dear life as he fought his way up out of the undertow. Slowly, the echidna was losing his battle against the current, and his air supply was running thin. It looked like on this day, both he and Sonic would truly die.
Slowly, Knuckles felt his own eyes begin to close, ready to join Sonic in his passed out state, which the hedgehog had entered only seconds before. Images of life started to flitter across Knuckles mind.
He saw all of the good moments he had shared with his friends, the places they had passed whenever adventure called, and even the memorable fights they shared. The battle against Lyric standing out the most vividly of all.
"Lyric…," Knuckles thought slowly, and then opened his eyes with a snap.
How could he have forgotten the power he had absorbed into his body before that powerful snake was released? The Chaos Crystals possessed more than the ability to grant physical might.
Concentrating hard on the crystal powers within him, Knuckles called up its magic to get him and Sonic out of the undertow and back on dry ground. A few seconds later, the crystal responded, and Knuckles entire body glowed red.
Feeling invincible at that moment, Knuckles resumed his efforts to pull him and Sonic out of the sea. The undertow's powerful current had been lost as Knuckles pounded away from its pull. Soon, the echidna was breathing in relief as his head finally popped out of the surface of water and tasted fresh air.
"Knuckles, over here!" Amy yelled from the beach, waving her arms.
Looking at the pink hedgehog for a moment, Knuckles nodded his head, and pulled him and Sonic ashore. The red glow had faded away from Knuckles fur, meaning that his crystal power up had worn out.
As soon as both boys were on dry land again, Amy immediately raced over to Sonic's side, and started doing CPR to make Sonic breathe. Tears of pain, worry, and guilt flooded from Amy's eyes.
"Oh Sonic, I'm so sorry" Amy said as she paused in between breaths while performing CPR " Please don't die! I forgive you Sonic. I forgive you. Please…,"
"Cough cough!" choked Sonic, as water spewed out of his lungs, and his green eyes reopened to the waking world to see Amy smiling over his chest.
"Thanks Amy," said Sonic, and Amy happily hugged the blue hedgehog with her arms.
Knuckles smiled for a bit at the beautiful moment, before curiosity overwhelmed his mind.
"Hey, what happened to the worm?" he asked.
"I don't know" said Amy, breaking away from Sonic looking confused " before you guys came back up, it just roared and disappeared, vanishing away from sight."
Now all three of them sat in confusion, wondering about the kind of foe they all just faced. Knuckles just shook his head at the thought, the answer wasn't as important as the fact that they were all still alive.
Amy and Sonic were back to being friends, and all was well, except for the sharp pain that flared up inside of Knuckles chest, where his chaos crystal glowed clear and bright.