Chapter 36: Metalhead - Part 4
Alora's POV
Kraang Metalhead had begun firing at us with his laser torch, having Leo, Raph, Mikey, and I move and dodge them in a quick pace. I, on the other hand, used my aural flight to swerve and fly pass them as the Kraang controlled drone began firing up from above, trying to hit me. I easily flew by the blasting lasers, but I still held a worriedsome look upon the situation.
'I hope Donnie gets here soon. I don't know how much longer the guys and I can keep this up,' I stated within my mind.
I then began to think back to the Lair where Donnie was at; that after he heard Mikey's screaming through the TV's sound box, he would start to go in a panic, moving the controls on his controller to see if anything works, but nothing does. He then gets on his knees next to a device connected to the TV, muttering to himself about overriding the system to get control on Metalhead again, when Master Splinter grabs his attention by placing a firm hand on his right shoulder and saying, "The time for games is over". Donnie, understanding that there was nothing else to do with his technology, narrows his gaze and tosses his controller away and removes his head-microphone and then begins to head out. But Sensei stops him, having the purple-clad Turtle turn back as Master Splinter throws him another Bo-Staff. As Donnie grabs it with both hands, he looks at it and realizes it's the only weapon that he is truly capable of handling, so he spins it to his side, bows to Master Splinter, gives it a good twirling before placing it behind his shell and running off towards the entrance. With Donnie out of the Lair, with Master Splinter staying behind with a little nod of profoundest.
I was then brought out of my train of thoughts as I saw Leo and Raph with both weapons out charging straight towards Kraang Metalhead, passing through the lasers without hesitation. As both Turtles jumped into the air, I turned to my right to see Mikey coming in from behind with a nunchuck in his right hand, spinning it around before throwing it right at the laser-firing droid as it wrapped itself around the laser torch, having it pulled back, and firing upwards. Now was the perfect time to spring into action as Leo and Raph landed right behind Metalhead while I landed right next to Mikey, who had his other nunchuck out spinning, with both my hand-held fists at my side illuminated with aura magic.
"Give him everything you've got," Leo ordered.
We charged in with Raph jumping into the air with both Sais and charged in, jabbing them across Metalhead's face that cling from every hit. Leo tried slicing him through his chest plates while Mikey whacking on Metalhead's shell and me using my powered punches on his left arm and leg. But no matter how many times we hit him, nothing could penetrate him, even my powers weren't taking any damage. Donnie must've made him power-proof if I ever took an opportunity on attacking him; smart.
"Nothing works! None of our attacks are taking effect," I stated worriedly, still using my power punches to try and hurt the drone.
"He's gotta have a weak spot," Leo implied, also still whacking his katanas away on Metalhead.
"This always works!" Mikey said with a smug grin.
When he placed both the sides of his nunchucks under his arms, he kicks under Metalhead's shin with a karate yell as his foot hit it that made a bang sound. But went wide by the impact that took on his foot and grabbed it with both hands, bouncing on one leg while whining out "OW!" and outstretches his other leg with his foot throbbing in pain, making me cringe at the sight of how it must've really hurt.
"Well, usually," Mikey winced out.
Just then, Kraang Metalhead threw a punch at Mikey, having him thrown back and landing on the floor. Metalhead then turned to Leo and gave a straight in punch that knocked him to the ground. Then he turned to Raph and did the same, landing along with the rest of his brothers. I gasped with wide eyes before looking back to Metalhead with a narrowed glare and a scowl surging in my throat. Kraang Metalhead turns toward me and starts charging right at me, but I wasn't going to let that creep-controlling droid get the upper hand. I raised both my arms up with aura-filled fists and began punching right at him, sending massive power punches, only that Metalhead was moving swiftly and dodging without any trouble. I was starting to panic a little, but I kept my guard up as I then send a power wave, roundhouse kick that the wave was coming full speed toward Metalhead's chest plates. I thought I finally got him but to my utter shock, Metalhead did a major jump-flip over the wave as it passes him into a wall. I stood there completely speechless as I heard a loud *THUD* right behind me, having turn around sharply with a light gasp to see Metalhead stare right at me with those magenta-colored eyes. Before I could react, Metalhead then high kicked me in the chest, having me sent hurdling over to the others with a 'thud', my arms spread out at my sides as I groaned in pain. I began to sit up with my elbows supporting me as I felt the aching pressure on my chest from the hit, having me glance over to see Raph on the ground before a shadow was casted over us. We all then turned our heads to see Kraang Metalhead, along with several other Kraang droids with blasters in hand aiming at us, but we wouldn't back out this easily as the guys and I struggled to get up and pose out fighting stances with weapons and magical, powered fists up when ready.
"Now Kraang will destroy you," Kraang Metalhead informed as we narrowed our stares at the alien robots while they began powering up their weapons, "Which one wants to be first to be destroyed by Kraang?"
"Me!" We heard a familiar voice yell out, having all of us (the Kraang included) to gaze up to see Donnie fall in in a Ninja-style way while twirling his newly furbish Bo-Staff and holding a battle mode stance with a narrowed glare.
"Donnie!" Mikey cried out happily, as we all seized our stances with satisfied grins, "Bangin' entrance, dude!"
"You guys deal with the droids," Donnie instructed to us before turning back towards Kraang Metalhead, "I'll handle Metalhead."
Leo, Raph, Mikey, and I understood as we all charged pass Donnie and Metalhead, only for me to stop short right next to Donnie as I turned to him with a determined frown.
"Give'm shell, Donnie," I encouraged, having Donnie nod in approval.
I then charge straight into the Kraang droid fight with Leo, Raph, and Mikey. I flew right into a couple of Kraang that didn't see me crashing in, giving them good punches that knocked them down. I then landed with a flip-and-land routine as I began sending power punches in every direction. The Kraang droids fired at me with such fury that I ran in with my aura held fists at my sides as I came in and gave a power punch to one on my left, and then a powered uppercut to the other on my right. One that was firing at me from behind a few feet away, I glanced back with my eyes furrowed and used my aural flight to have me back-flip high up into the air before coming down and crashing feet first on the Kraang droid, smashing it under me with satisfaction. I smiled triumphantly with my hands on my hips as I looked over to the others, but my smile quickly turned into a frown when I saw a couple of Kraang droids coming toward Leo from behind with blasters still firing at him. I gasped horrified that Leo was too busy paying attention on what was in front of him that he didn't seem to notice the sneak attack, so I decided to handle this matter before it was too late. I narrowed my eyes with an 'hmph' and ran over a few paces while Leo was still attacking the Kraang droids that he could see, I stop short a foot away when the Kraang from behind the blue-clad Turtle were closing in. I held up my fists in front of me, the aura swirling from around my hands and wrists shimmered brighter, feeling a surge of magic flowing through my body as if I was becoming stronger within seconds.
"Leo! Heads up!" I called out, having the sword-wielding Turtle turn to me in puzzlement.
I then punched out two huge power punches straight at him, making him go wide-eyed at that before he ducked just in time only for it to knock out the two Kraang droids from behind him. Leo came back up and looked over, seeing both droids out on the floor with steam trailing from their robotic vessels, and gazed back to me with a grateful smile along with a thumbs up.
"Thanks Alora," Leo called back as I nodded with a smile.
Although, Leo's expression suddenly turned into a worried one then a narrowed look as I gazed at his side to see him pull out three Ninjitsu stars, having me give a confused expression at his strange reaction when I felt a few auras, filled with red-curdling hate, coming up behind that made me realize what Leo was doing.
"Get down!" He cried out as he threw all three stars at once.
I went wide-eyed and ducked while glancing behind to see the Ninjitsu stars hit direct target at the Kraang droid's heads. Mechanical gibberish was heard from them, along with the dysfunctional buzzing noises and sparks flying out of the star's hit-points before all crashing to the floor lifeless. I stood back up while keeping my eyes on the motionless bots then turned back looking to Leo as I also gave a grateful smile.
"Thanks Leo," I called in appreciation.
"Right back at ya," He replied with a grin and a twirl of his right katana.
When he did that, I felt my heart start to beat like a speed train while I blushed madly with a shy smile, but I pushed it off and regain composure as I nodded in gratitude.
After we saved each other's lives, we went right back into crashing some more Kraang droids and, to be truthfully honest, both fun yet exhausting. The Kraang kept on coming, but not as many as the last few times. Everything was alright to say the least 'til I looked on over to see Donnie and Kraang Metalhead's fight. Kraang Metalhead was firing his laser torch while Donnie flipped and dodged over near a metal pole with lasers passing like they were nothing. Metalhead kept on firing as Donnie held up his Bo-Staff for protection, only for a laser to break the right end of the Staff with a *SNAP*, having me flinch in worry upon Donnie's reaction to his usual weapon.
"Not again," I heard Donnie say with little irritation.
Then Kraang Metalhead sent out a small, eye-bomb explosion right at Donnie, having the Ninja Turtle perk up at that before swiftly moving out of the way before it exploded, sending out a loud *BOOM* and knocking Metalhead on the floor. Though I was distracted, I felt an aura that indicated it was one of the guys or a Kraang droid, it had a radiation of anger and hatred running through it, so basically, it was definitely a Kraang. I looked over to see a Kraang droid firing at me in maximum variety that had me narrow my eyes at it before sending a power punch at it that took it out hard. So far, Leo, Raph, and Mikey had everything under control since there was so few of Kraang left; I felt I should let them have the fun when Donnie's voice caught my attention.
"Hey, Kraang!"
I turn my gaze back to the on-going fight between Donnie and mind-controlled Metalhead to see the purple-clad Turtle behind a sideway oil container until Metalhead began shooting from where he was. Donnie quickly ran over from behind some crates and such, leaving black scorch marks on them as he dodge-rolled over near the metal pole once again, only this time, it was losing position and starting to crumble from its support, having me let a side grin crawl on my face since I knew what the scientific Turtle was planning.
"The one who is called your mother wears the boots that are made for combat!" Donnie mocked out, trying to lure Kraang Metalhead with the insult.
"The comment that is made by you shows ignorance of Kraang!" Kraang Metalhead replied with his laser torch steaming from the laser firing, "The ones known by you as mothers – "
"Just come get me!" Donnie states with determination and confidence.
Just as Donnie said that, Kraang Metalhead crouched and released several dozen of eye-bomb explosions straight toward Donnie. I felt we were all in slow motion as the explosions drew nearer straight at him, but little did Metalhead know that he just fell for the trap. Right at the exact moment as Donnie stood his ground when ready, he then charged in with a battle scream while avoiding the explosions that pass by him and hit the bottom end of the metal pole. When Donnie was running toward Metalhead, he jumped high into the air, up, over, and around Metalhead while the drone was firing at him with his laser torch. As Donnie touch-landed behind Metalhead, the metal pole began to break from its hold and tumbling down right to where both Turtle and drone were. The creaking sound was inevitable when the pole came down at them fast, unknown to Kraang Metalhead, Donnie was on the floor in a sitting position with his half broken Bo-Staff pointed outwards while his head was slightly turned, eyes closed and grunting in hope he would not get squashed. The pole came down and crashed, only for the upper end to land on two big crates that was behind Donnie, clouds of dusts forming everywhere as I held my arms out to shield myself from the dust and dirt. I then looked back with a horrified gasp in hoping that Donnie was okay, but when the dust cleared, I inhaled and sighed out in relief on what I saw. Donnie was still alive, with his head still turned away and eyes closed, but when he poked on eye open to see what had happened, he turned and looks up in surprise to see his broken Bo-Staff stabbed into Kraang Metalhead. The alien-control droid was caught standing between the pole and the staff jabbed into his chest, sparks crackling out of it. Donnie just simply stared at it with a blank expression, expecting anything that might happen, but let a small smile form before he shouted out in victory:
"Booyakasha!"
I chuckled at that, feeling so relieve and happy that Donnie learned to improvise with his chosen weapon.
"Sounds weird when he says it," I heard Mikey say from behind me, having me turn to see them taken out all the other droids as Leo took one of his katanas out of one of them.
"Sounds weird when you say it," Raph retorts randomly.
I just simply grin until Kraang Metalhead's voice spoke up that had me turn back around at where he and Donnie were.
"That which is the revenge will be hand on those who are call themselves the Turtles and the Noble Light."
After that threatening sequence, the slight open gap of Metalhead's mouth compartment that showed the metallic teeth sunk inside before the compartment snapped shut and the magenta eyes faded off, indicating that Metalhead had been turned off. Then all of a sudden, the Kraang that sat on top of Metalhead jumped and landed on Donnie, who screamed from the attack as the alien sprinted off of him and scurried away, screeching. We all went over to Donnie, still in a state of shock after that, and perked up when he saw us with big smiles on our faces.
"Nice job, bro!" Mikey congrats.
"Wayda go, Donnie," Leo complimented.
Donnie then got up from under the pole with a smile on his brother's compliments when I suddenly went up and tackled him into a hug, hearing a surprised 'Oomph' from him before I felt his arms wrapped around me.
"You did it, Donnie!" I cheered happily before I pulled away still smiling, "I always knew you would."
"Yeah, not bad," Raph replied before stating, "Except for that part when you built the thing in the first place."
While Raph was stating the obvious about Donnie's screw up on building Metalhead, Donnie began to frown in annoyance while I gave a 'really' look with my hands on my hips and lolling my head to the left side.
"And the part where it broke. And the part where it tried to kill us. And the part – "
"Ok, I get it," Donnie snapped in irritation before looking down in guilt.
I gave a look of sympathy as I went over to his side and place my right hand on his shoulder, having him look up at me.
"The important thing is that you came for us and stopped your creation from causing any more harm; that's what counts," I reassured.
Donnie gave a small but appreciated smile that made me feel good that I was able to make him feel better about himself. Then just a few seconds, his eyes trailed down and his smile went into a surprising frown with wide eyes, having me give a puzzle look at what he was staring at.
"Um… Alora?" Donnie said with weariness.
I still gave a puzzled expression when I felt warmth radiating on my chest; the same warmth I felt that night after the battle against Baxter Stockman. With widen eyes, I immediately gazed down and softly gasp to see my stone necklace glowing once again. It still held that shining glow like it did that other night, the Celtic symbols showing on its surface in glory.
"Dudette? Your necklace's glowing," I heard Mikey told me in wonder.
"She already knows that, Shellhead," Raph said dryly.
"But why is it glowing?" Leo questioned in curiosity.
While the guys were too busy discussing about this surprising occurrence, my gaze was still glued to the stone as held it in between my right thumb and index finger. It shined brighter as I held it up, reflecting into my eyes like a bright star. I then suddenly felt a presence nearby; one that I felt with utmost familiarity from not so long ago that made me gaze straight ahead with widen eyes and a soft inhale.
'It's him! It has to be!' I said in my head as it spun rapidly on suspicion.
I frantically looked in every direction in hoping I would see the presence that I distinctly felt, looking at nothing but crates and oil containers. While still looking, I could see that the Turtles were giving me weird yet confused expressions on what I was doing.
"Alora? What's wrong?" Leo asked.
"You okay there, Dudette?" Mikey wondered.
But I paid no attention nor replied as I kept moving my head around in search for the strange sensation that clouded my mind. When I looked at them, I stopped and saw a figure a few feet away from behind them, next to a stack few of crates. My eyes grew wider as I clearly saw the same, glowing colored light that showed like mine; the same glow that I saw on the street outside of a neighborhood that very night. I took a few, slow steps closer to look clearer to see that it was him again. It was Alon; the same Alon that was emotionless and grim-looking. His eyes still were dull with no spark of life glinting in them; his arms hung at his sides, but he stood straight and tall like a warrior would. For where he and I were both at, we just simply stared at each other, no words have been said, not a single sound or movement was made. As I looked into his half-lid, lifeless eyes, it felt like he was staring straight into my soul, having both my heart stop beating and my breath caught in my throat. Even though I was still keeping my gaze on Alon, I was brought out of my trance when I saw Leo, Raph, and Mikey turned to where I was staring, looking as if they could actually see him.
"What the – ?" Leo muttered in shock in seeing Alon, having me look in surprise at his and his brother's expressions.
"Dude, who the heck is that," Mikey questioned curiously.
"More importantly, where did he come from?" Donnie stated confusingly.
"I'll bet he's some kind of spy; probably working for the Kraang," Raph judged too quickly, as he pulled out his Sais, twirled them, and held them firmly with a glare, "I'll handle this."
Just when Raph began to charge in with a yell, my insides instantly told me that this is wrong, making me snap out with fright, yelling out aloud:
"Raph, DON'T!"
Raph stopped midway and turned to me with a bewildered expression. I jogged right on over to him but still kept my eyes on the quiet boy in front of me. Alon and I's eyes were connected as if we were one person with one mind; seeing clearly on his face like he was trying to tell me something. For some reason it felt like it was urgent, something he wanted me to know, something that could help me. I began to feel the warmth of the stone against my chest growing warmer and warmer, nearly to the point of burning my skin, but I didn't care how much it stung. I was staring hardcore into Alon's eyes when his feet began to move, having him turn to his left and walking over behind the crates, breaking the eye contact as he walked away.
"NO,WAIT!" I cried out desperately with an outstretched hand as I ran over from behind the crates and gazed to see no one there.
I stared in shock and disappointment to see that Alon had vanished from me again. It was the second time he appeared and then disappeared, just like that. I look on from the area where Alon walked over to as I heard footsteps pacing over from behind me, knowing that it was the Turtles staring from my back where I was.
"He's gone," Donnie said surprisingly.
"Whoa, dudes. Where did he go?" Mikey said in an awestruck tone.
"Beats me," Raph replies before hearing him mumbling in irritation, "Thanks to Alora here who let him get away."
"That's enough, Raph," Leo stated firmly to his brother before I heard say softly, "Alora? Is everything alright?"
While still staring at the opening clearing, I slightly glanced back and began stumbling on my words, trying to figure what to say and how to phrase it.
"Um, y-y-yeah, yeah. I 'm just, uh… just feeling a bit frazzled, yeah. Frazzled, that's… that's all."
I just simply stood there with my back still turned from the guys, feeling utterly dumb, confused, and, of course, frazzled at the same time while an awkward silence filled the air that lasted for only a few seconds or more.
"Do you guys feel like we're missing something here?" I heard Donnie asked, probably to his brothers.
"All-the-time," Mikey responded, just with much confusion as Donnie's tone was.
I can feel their eyes staring behind me like through the back of my skull, probably with suspicious and curious looks on each of their faces upon what just happened. I then realized that I couldn't feel the stone's warmth on my chest anymore, having me look down at it to see it didn't possess that mystical glow anymore. I didn't know what was going on; my stone starts glowing again like before (without singing at all), Alon just appears again, staring at me as if he was trying to tell me something, the others could see him other than me, and then, he just disappears? Something didn't seem quite right, as if everything I've witnessed was all out of place. My thoughts were interrupted when I felt a hand touch my right shoulder, having me look over to see Leo next to me with a concern look.
"I think we should probably head home, okay? We're all pretty exhausted from the fight," Leo informed.
I glanced down then turned to the clearing again with a weary look, but nodded nonetheless. Leo and I both turned around while I still gazed on before tearing it away as we started walking away and back to the Lair with Mikey, Raph, and Donnie following from behind. While we were walking, I could still feel the Turtle's gazes right at me, but I kept my head down as my eyes stared at the walkway with each step I took. I still couldn't take my mind off about Alon, our necklaces glowing, and the way he looked at me, like it was all supposed to happen right at that exact moment. Even though I was thinking, it gave me a bit of a headache from all the tension and confusion coursing in my brain cells as the guys and I continued our pathway back to the Sewers and home.
After we left the 'war zone' warehouse in complete shambles, we managed to return to the Lair in twenty to half an hour. During to the point when we had to carry back the broken-down Metalhead and escorted April back to her apartment, telling her everything that happened back there that left her utterly shocked and amazed. As we came home and rested for a good hour or so, we all did some activities that kept us occupied from our ecstatic fight with the Kraang and Kraang-controlled Metalhead; Raph, Leo, and Mikey were at a videogame arcade set, having Raph playing and trying his darn-est to beat Leo's high score. Donnie, on the other hand, was a few feet behind them sitting above the concrete couch, looking guilty and shameful about what had happened with his latest invention. With me, well, I managed to recuperate myself from my forensic state by splashing my face with water from the bathroom to ease the pressure and getting a glass of water from the Kitchen. I walked in between the Living area walkway over to the others, seeing the three, over rambunctious Turtles going crazy of the arcade game.
"Oh, so close to my high score. Oh!" Leo happily said in relief, having Raph growl and getting all frustrated while Leo and Mikey chuckled and laughed.
I smiled at their attitudes before I gazed over to Donnie to see him using his Sautering Iron while looking miserably, having me frown in sympathy upon how he was feeling. I walked over to the somberly purple-clad Turtle, came down, sat next to him, placing my glass of water to my left side and turning back to Donnie as I bent over to get a better look on his face.
"You feeling okay, Donnie?" I asked softly.
Donnie sighed to himself while still using his Iron on the new and improved Bo-Staff he was upgrading, hearing the buzzing from the tool to insert his tech.
"No," he finally admits but still kept his eyes on his work, "I feel like I placed you and my brothers in absolute danger just because I let myself get the better of me on how obsessed I was on upgrading my weapon."
"Hey, it's okay," I reassured while placing my right hand on his lower arm, "I actually knew how much you wanted to be useful in helping us take down the Kraang".
"Well, I also wanted to get even with them, too, but - I'm guessing you already knew that, right?" Donnie asked skeptically, turning to me finally with a small smile.
"Eh, pretty much," I replied before letting out a little chuckle.
Then I felt an aural presence as I looked behind Donnie to see Master Splinter walk in in a calming manner 'til he saw us with a curious demeanor.
"What troubles you, Donatello?" He asked, walking over to us.
Donnie glances over to him before he sighs miserably again to himself with a frown. "This is all my fault, Sensei."
"You are responsible, yes," Splinter admits rather truthfully.
Donnie looks away and down while muttering, "Yeah," but I knew that's not what Sensei was referring to.
"Responsible for destroying the mutagen," Master Splinter began stating, having Donnie's expression slowly change from his Father's words.
"Responsible for saving the people of this City," Sensei continued on as Donnie glanced back once more before fully turning his head with a content smile.
"Responsible for defeating advanced technology using only ingenuity, bravery, and a stick."
Donnie then got up and stood in front of Sensei with the genuine, gap-toothy smile that I was happy to see again, having me let out a big grin of my own.
"Thanks, Sensei. Maybe you're right," Donnie says in gratitude.
"I am," Master Splinter replies with confidence.
I got up and came over, standing right next to Splinter's left hand side with a beaming grinned expression.
"Guess it's a lot more clever to improvise with a simple weapon such as a stick, huh," I mentioned.
"Yeah," Donnie replied, "I guess with proper training, there's nothing better than a wooden stick."
But the moment was short-lived when Donnie held a new, rocket-fueled Bo-Staff that had wingspans and tailfins to steady like an actual rocket ship with the head plate painted like a shark's face, having me give a worried look upon this since I knew what was going to happen in a few seconds.
"Except a laser guided, missile-launching wooden stick," Donnie stated theatrically, moving it and giving it an easy-going twirl as he held it rocket headfirst up and looked like he was going to stamp the bottom of it down.
I held a frightened gaze as I said aloud, "Donnie, wait - !" but it was too late.
When it hit the floor, the rocket-launching Bo-Staff began making beeping and buzzing sounds while moving around frantically like it was ready to take off, having Donnie look at it wide-eyed as Splinter simply stared at it and I gave a sheepish expression.
"Oh, boy," I muttered with worry.
I then heard groaning from the others, glancing over to see Leo struggling in a headlock by an infuriated Raph, who had two red-angered veins popping on top of his head while Mikey was trying to pry them apart, but all stop when the heard the noises coming from Donnie's rocket Staff, looking at our direction with shrunken pupiled eyes.
"It's not supposed to do that!" Donnie informed fearfully before turning to his brothers frightfully, shouting out, "RUN!"
Leo, Raph, and Mikey did as their scientific brother told them, running for their lives while screaming their heads off and taking cover to who knows where. Master Splinter was stroking his thin beard with his head down and eyes closed, looking complete calm-like but with utter hopelessness. I was simply shaking my head with a hopeless smile while gesturing my opened palms up with a shrug that said…
'Guess-things-don't-always-go-according-to-plan'.
Alright! Donnie has saved the day! Kraang Metalhead has been defeated, thanks to his improvisation of using a simple weapon - a stick. At least Donnie 'sort of' learned about upgrading weaponry, even though it literally 'blasted off' in the end. Although from the claimed victory at the Kraang warehouse, Alora has once again encountered the mysterious yet motionless Alon. Only this time, the Turtles had their very first glimpse of him! Unable to get any answers on his second appearance, the strange boy disappears again without a trace, leaving our Ninja heroes in total confusion and wonder. Will the Turtles find out who this mystery boy is? Will our Noble Light tell them about Alon? Find out next time!
To answer one of the reader's reviews; Yes, I did once watch 'Sonic X', several years back. It was a long time ago, but I remember it very clearly. So which one was my favorite character? Well… I don't know. I liked all the characters (minus the villains, though), but mostly I liked Sonic the Hedgehog, Tails, Cream and her little friend Cheese, and of course, Cosmo. I hope that answers your question.
Stay tuned and thanks for reading!