Chapter 20: Mother (Sonic)

"Mother, is that really you?" I asked, confused.

"Yes my son. It is me. I'm so glad to see you. I hate that it had to be so late in your life, please forgive me for that. I…I…I'm just so happy to have my family altogether again." She had tears in her eyes, and so did I. For years, I forgot I HAD a mom. Now that she was right in front of me, it just seemed that I knew who my family was. Kinda like my life is a jigsaw puzzle; mostly complete but missing some pieces, and one of those pieces was just found. More of the pieces still need to be found though, but they can wait for later.

"But I thought…what I was told…I thought it was supposed to be under different circumstances. I thought that we were supposed to rule Mobius, the world. Isn't that why we were looking for you?"

"What you were told was a sham; A ploy by Robotnik, or Eggman nowadays, to gather us in the same place to finish us off at once. But what impresses me is that you remember why you and your siblings were together: To find your mother."

"Wait, I do! I remember everything: The band, the adventures, even the Oracle and Uncle Chuck! Wait, Uncle Chuck…Uncle Chuck was roboticized wasn't he?"

There was an odd pause in the air, that feeling where everyone knows the answer but you, and they won't tell you.

"Well, wasn't he?!"

"…yes Sonic, he was. All our 'families' were. But we got over those loses and gained each other in return!" Sonia said. She seemed like the type to be upset one minute and then try to cheer everyone up later. Girls are so bi-polar, I'll never understand them.

"No, no, that's impossible. That's IMPOSSIBLE! He couldn't have been roboticized, could he?"

"What your sister says is the truth son," said my mother, "my brother was in fact roboticized, and he still is. He remembered free will, and escaped Robotnik's influence."

"I refuse to believe that! I refuse!"

"Why do you refuse my son? I speak the truth."

"Yah, like you had your little 'Oracle' friend tell us that we'd rule once we got reunited. But did we? Nooooo, instead, we meet inside a dark cave underneath my friend's workshop! And I know that I'm probably rushing things, but that is a lie! Even if we are supposed to rule, I wouldn't want to. I'm not the type of guy to rule over people. I want everyone to have their own wills, their own opinions. Not have someone telling them what to do and what to believe!"

I was angered. I was told my entire childhood by some slobby green elephant-looking guy in a cloak that once I found my mom, I'd rule the world with her and my sister. We would overthrow Eggman/Robotnik and send the world into freedom. Now that I've been separated from them, I forgot all about that and just knew to stop evil that was happening at that moment with my friends. Not my family, but there was one question that stuck to the back of my mind.

"Son, listen, and I'll explain everything."

"NO! I don't want to listen! I'm tired of listening to people that I barely remember!" I know that one hit hard with my brother and sister. It had to, but my next comment would sting even more. "And besides, how do I know whether you are even my real mother or not?! How do I know that Sonia and Manic are my actual brother and sister?! I don't! Are you even my mother? Are you guys," I gestured to Manic and Sonia, "my real family? No, you're not!"

"WHAT?! You don't believe that we're actually your family? You lunatic!" Sonia was screaming. I knew this would happen (or did I?). But what really scared me was that Manic and my "mother" were actually laughing. It's like they thought my rant was funny.

"How did you catch on so fast?" Said my mother.

"Yes bro, how did you catch on so fast? I thought my story was quite believable."

"What?" Sonia and I exclaimed at the same time.

Then Manic's eyes got red. My mother's did the same. They then began to speak in metallic voices, "You are not easily fooled."

I looked over at Sonia, expecting to see her eyes turn red, but they didn't. "Will someone tell me what is happening?"

"Yes," said my mother and Manic in unison, "this is where you and your sister die."

Sorry for the surprise twist at the end. I realize that it might not seem right of me to just throw away the idea of the Sonic Underground, but relax, I'll reveal why I did this, later. I felt that it was getting to boring and that I needed to throw a little twist in there, just to spice things up.

So it turns out that Manic and Sonic's mother are robots, but not Sonia. She seems normal, and more scared than Sonic. How will Sonic react to this? Did Sonia know the entire time? Will Sonic escape? Will he destroy his brother and mother? Is Sonia actually Sonic's sister? Will Sonic help Sonia escape? What's actually happening to Sonic, and what actually happened during his childhood? Did he grow up with Sonia and Manic? All will be revealed, in due time.

I think that I'm going to make the story linear from now on. I feel that it's better that way. Expect the next chapter in a week. Sorry for such a late date (heh heh) but I've got a lot of stuff going on.

Regards, Steel