Chapter 11: Mecha Attacks
The next morning, Sonic woke up to knocking at his door. Sonic waved it off and went back to sleep, but the person kept knocking and Sonic growled.
"Sugah-hog, Sally-girl wants everyone in the meeting room raght away!" Bunnie called.
"Too tired! Ain't going!" Sonic shouted, pulling his covers over him.
"Don't make me break down this door, Sugah," Bunnie threatened and Sonic growled and kicked his sheets off. He unlocked the door and opened it, glaring at Bunnie. "What? If you haven't noticed I'm not in the mood right now for a stupid meeting!" Sonic growled at her.
"Ah can see that, Sugah, but Sally-girl says it's important and wants everyone there. Including you," Bunnie told him.
Sonic grumbled under his breath as he got his gloves on and sneakers on and went back out to Bunnie. "Fine."
He walked out, grumbling the entire way as he did. When he got to the meeting hall, everyone looked at him, including Sally, and frowned as they noticed his anger.
"Sonic...glad you could make it," Sally said.
The hedgehog glared at her and started shouting. "WHY DID I HAVE TO COME TO THIS STUPID MEETING! IT'S BAD ENOUGH I'M FEELING ENOUGH GUILT FOR WHAT HAPPENED TO TAILS! NOW I GOTTA COME TO THIS THING TO LISTEN TO MORE!" Sonic shouted.
Sally's eyes widened and she stared at Sonic, shocked. The others did too. "Fine, then. If you feel that way, then you can just leave," Sally told him. Sonic glared at her and left, slamming the door behind him. Sally sighed and turned back to the others, they had a meeting to get going with. "Anyway...we need to plan out what we're going to do next," she said.
"Like what, Sally-girl? Sugah-hog seems tah not want tah be a part of this," Bunnie said.
"I don't know, Bunnie. Does anyone have any ideas?" They all shook their heads and Antoine was shaking and Sally sighed. "Alright. You're all dismissed; we'll talk about this another time," she said.
They nodded and walked out of the room with her.
When they all walked outside they saw Sonic, waiting by the door outside. "Seems you had nothing to talk about."
Sally looked at him. "Well...we decided to hold the meeting another time."
Sonic scoffed and went back inside his house. "Yeah, right," Sonic said as he slammed his door shut. Sonic sat on his bed and thought. He felt guilty about how Tails had been roboticized. Why had it happened? If only he had stopped it, this never would have happened and he wouldn't be injured. Sonic touched his robotic eye and sighed. "Who knows...I may end up losing a limb next." He hoped that wouldn't happen and continued thinking about Tails. "Tails. I'm sorry, lil' bro. I messed up. I failed you," Sonic sighed.
The hedgehog's eyes closed and he fell asleep.
That night, Sonic woke and looked around his hut. He shook his head and grabbed it. "I'm really hating these nightmares. Maybe I should take a walk."
He got out of bed and walked out of the hut. Sonic sighed as he looked up at the night sky and closed his eyes. A few minutes later, he opened them and went to go for a walk. He walked through Knothole, feeling the cold night wind blow on his face. Soon, he arrived at the lake of rings and sat near the water, sighing. Sonic looked at the lake and became lost in his thoughts.
"What am I gonna do?" he asked himself. He knew that he wanted to save Tails, but how? Sonic sighed and stared at the lake. The water was calming him a little. Movement of the water, made him stand up and look around and then Tails came out of the trees and shot a blast of energy at Sonic and he dodged it. Mecha Tails landed in front of him and swung his tail blades around, wounding Sonic on his chest as a huge gash appeared. Sonic screamed in pain and continued dodging the kinetic energy attacks, which caused huge explosions as trees began to fall and a fire started.
Mecha Tails' other arm suddenly transformed and fired a missile at Sonic. Sonic dodged the middle and landed in the lake. He looked up at where Mecha Tails was, knowing the roboticized fox couldn't come into the water. That is, unless Sonic ran out of air first and the robot just waited for him to come out or worse.
He saw a flash of light and looked up in the air, gasping at what he saw. Mecha Tails had jetpacks that allowed him to fly! The robot fired another laser at the water. Then his hair started sparking and sent a lightning bolt straight into the lake, shocking Sonic instantly. Sonic screamed in pain; he should have known water conducted electricity!
Sonic tried to swim to the surface, popped out and weakly and got back onto the land. His robotic eye shone, dimly, showing how weak he was. He looked over at Tails, panting. "Tails...you're not gonna kill me? Right, buddy?"
The robot landed and glared at him, then aimed his cannons at Sonic and fired kinetic energy, causing a massive explosion in the forest. Trees toppled to the ground, the grass became dead, and a massive fire started in the forest. Sonic covered his mouth, choking on the flames and smoke. He failed to notice Mecha Tails fly away to Knothole before falling to the ground, weak and unconscious.
