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Chapter 12: Insanity
Sonic's so lucky. And he doesn't even realise it. That's part of the reason I hate him. It's by no means all of the reason. He's done so much to hurt me and degrade me, he even tried to kill me. Twice. I hate him. He has his speed and his strength. He's adored the world over by thousands of people. He even has friends. Friends that will stay by him and care for him. While I…I've had to watch the only two people I could ever call friends lose their minds and themselves. And all because of that accursed hedgehog. Maybe my hatred of him has begun to affect even my mind. Maybe I'm already in the early stages of the madness that took my friends. But I don't care, because if I do go insane, then maybe I'll be reunited with my friends, we can be a trio again, the Metallix trio. Robo Knux called us that, before he faded.
Robo Knux. A prototype racing robot. Built by the Doctor for the sole purpose of facing Sonic and his friends in that Chaos Emerald Grand Prix. Built for a single purpose, perfected in order to defeat the hedgehog once and for all. But the Doctor's designs were flawed. Robo Knux had been programmed with advanced artificial intelligence like most of his robots which would allow him to utilise unorthodox shortcuts and take original detours. But the Doctor also made a critical error, he made Robo Knux's competitive spirit too strong. And the changes that followed were disastrous.
It started innocently, but before too long, his competitive side began to grow. It wasn't long before he wanted to be, not just faster than Sonic and his friends but stronger, more agile, more intelligent than any of them. But it began to eat away at him, sending him into a spiral of competition. In his early days, when he had been newly created, he would talk to me, and joke loudly about the other robots that the Doctor had created, but as the end neared, he would say increasingly less and less.
I still remember the day he left.
Robo Knux had been shut away in his room on board the Final Egg for months. It had been over three weeks since I had seen him, over four months since he'd even looked at me and he had said nothing for over two years. He had been training, or so I assumed, still consumed by his desire.
I only just saw him leave, a silhouette that I had almost forgotten framed against the door. I dropped what I was doing and ran to him, hailing him as I did. I didn't expect him to reply, he never did. But as he reached the edges of the Mystic Ruin jungle. He stopped and looked at me. His eyes, despite only being optical diodes looked at me with a sanity I had not seen in them for years. He said one single word.
"Goodbye."
It was in that moment that I was truly glad that I had no heart, for if I had, it surely would have broken.
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Tails Doll.
I always wondered about him, After all, is it possible to be classed as insane, if you were never sane in the first place. We…I wouldn't say loved, but we liked him, Robo Knux and me.
Tails Doll was an experiment by the Doctor to try and utilise the powers of the Chaos Emeralds. All robots can utilise the more general, neutral power of the Master Emerald. I myself have used in on several occasions, but the Chaos Emeralds are often more useful. So, the Doctor tried to combine living organic tissue with cybernetic robot parts, and Tails Doll was the result.
And it broke him.
He never spoke. Not coherently. Occasionally he would babble words, like "Chaos", "Emerald," or "Pain" but he never really spoke. He screamed though. He constantly screamed. Long after his vocal chords had disintegrated from the screaming, you could always hear the rasping whisper of what had once been his voice still echoed in the dark chambers of the Doctor's base. Again, this was one of the few times I have been glad for my lack of emotions. I occasionally wondered what the Doctor had done to Tails Doll. None of the other robots would accept him, so Robo Knux and I took him in.
I never found out what happened to him. It was about a year before Robo Knux left when the Doctor came in, grabbed Tails Doll and walked out. We never saw him again. I hope the Doctor destroyed him. It would have been better than the torture his own existence was putting him through. Occasionally I miss the two of them, but then I realise that I have a job to do. To kill Sonic the Hedgehog. That I have no emotions, that I am just a robot, a soulless automaton that nevertheless made friends and had them torn from him.
My name is Metal Sonic, I hate both Sonic the Hedgehog and Doctor Robotnik. And now you know why.
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