Wrote by JOSH. (LORD_FORD_BREAKER@YAHOO.COM)
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comics. The Highlander series/movies are copyrighted to whoever owns it.
RATED R for blood, graphic violence and occasional swearing.
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"Has he woke up yet?" Roscoe asked a female canine as he entered the makeshift infirmary. "Not yet. From everything I can tell, he's just fine. No injuries at all. Evelyn must not be making her story up." "Can you wake him?" "Sure. But with medical supplies being low I would try the same method you use on other who fall asleep while on duty." With a smile creeping across his face he said, "No problem, I'll be right back." Getting a few towels ready while Roscoe was gone she check him out once more just to make sure he was actually okay. After a few minutes Roscoe came back in with a large bucket. "Help me get these towels around him first. I'm having enough trouble drying out the last sheet you got wet." While leaning the overlander forward while she placed the towels he told her that some of the others were out looking for needed supplies since the Swat-bots patrols were checking on the explosions around the statue. "Whatever they find will be greatly appreciated. Especially if it's pain killers and such. I only wish I knew what those other crates with medicine in them were. Alright, he's as ready as I can get him so splash away." Swishing the bucket around a few times he dumped it right on the overlanders head. "AAAAAAGGGGGGG...pppppppp...what...rrrrrrrrrrr....." Focus yelled while trashing a bit. "So, your awake?" Roscoe said gesturing for the doc to come over. Taking the bucket from him she existed the room. Shaking some water out of his hair he yelled. "What the hell was that for! If you wanted me awake you could have try normal methods, not try and drown me!" "Well if what I heard from Evelyn is correct drowning you wouldn't kill ya so I figured, why not." "Smart guy huh. At least somebody around here makes some sense." After finishing wiping the water off his face Focus turned to the voice talking to him. "WHAT THE!......WHERE AM I!...." Seeing the overlander overacted, Roscoe reached for his stun pistol on his hip. "Whoa! Hold on there, I'm not going to try anything so there's no need to start pulling weapons." he said holding his hands up. "Then what's with the crazy act?" Roscoe said still with his hand on his holster. "Crazy act? I don't understand." "You act like you've never had water splashed in you face for one." "Well never by a talking raccoon or any other animal for that matter." Focus said while looking strangely at him. "What do mean animal? Mobians are almost impossible not to miss unless your under Robotnicks rule." "MOBIANS!" He exclaimed with a start. "Mobians...then I must really be here." Completely ignoring the raccoon he got out of the bed and started pacing. "If I'm actually here then....no no no....this is just a dream. Its got to be. I'm mean sure I've always wanted to be in this universe, helping in the fight against that blow hard Robotnick, but...there's no way....is there." Roscoe watched him pace around in his underpants mumbling something about dreams. It wasn't until Evelyn and the doctor came in that he came out of his stupor. "Roscoe, what is he doing?" "I don't know. What'd ya say his name was?" "Focus." Evelyn said. "All right Evelyn enough talk , I need to get that wing checked out." The doctor said. "Mr. Focus." Still pacing and mumbling, he was completely oblivious to being called until he heard a loud whistle. "Mr. Focus. I need you to answer some questions." "Very sorry, I was thinking about...." he made a gesture around the place. "What did you want..." He then noticed that they weren't alone anymore and that he wasn't fully clothed and mostly importantly the other two were women. "Ahem. Very sorry ladies." he said grabbing the sheet off the bed and wrapping it around his waist. "Can I have my clothes back please." "Yes. There this way." Roscoe said heading out of the room. As Focus came out of the room he noticed two, what looked to be pit bull guards, in brown uniforms following behind them. He also heard the two girls laughing. "I'd be surprised if there weren't guards behind me. I understand why you don't trust me." Heading into a room with a table Focus saw his clothes neatly stacked on it. His long black trench coat was placed over the chair and his suit coat was under that. His black jeans with a few added pockets on the side with his white long sleeved silver button up shirt were there on the table. His reddish vest was on the floor with his outer steel toed kicking boots. Everything else that he had on him was at the other end of the table where the raccoon went and sat down. The guards closed the door but stayed in the room next to it. Taking his pants he put them on first. "Hmm...Nice sword. Pretty light for it's size to." Roscoe said. "If you don't mind telling me, I'd like to know who I'm talking to." "Roscoe." "That's cool." Focus said finishing the last tie on his boot lace. "What did you want to know...or wait, you probably want to know what I'm doing here, how I got here and why. I once daydreamed something like this would happen but certainly in a different place so here goes. What I'm doing here, well, here I'll answer in a different order. Why I'm here, don't know. How....maybe something to do with that torch landing on me. What I'm 'GOING' to do here is gut that fat, overbearing, rotten excuse of a human being, Robotnick with that sword. Then.... I not sure after that." After finishing Focus leaned back in his chair and placed his feet on the table while crossing him hands behind his head. "Feet off the table." "Sorry." he said taking them off. "Now..." Roscoe said looking through the mess in front of him. "Those sort of question were going to come later, and still might since I'm not sure about you yet." "Understandable considering." "What are you implying?" Roscoe said with a scowl on his face. "Never mind." "No. I want to hear this. How does a overlander understand anything we've been through. You act like you know what's going on, but won't tell." "Really, I have not idea what's going on. I just know what Robotnick has done and wish I could help undo it." Roscoe was about to say something when a badger stuck his head in the door announcing that the Tornado was on approach and going to land soon. "All right sonny. Bring the occupant here when they land." "Yes sir." the badger said then closed the door. "Tornado.....Tornado...that sounds familiar. I know that he didn't mean the nature kind cause New York never had any of those." "New York?" Roscoe said with a questioning look. "This." He said gesturing around. This was one of the great cities in America. The only real reason that I know this is New York is because of what's left of the Statue of Liberty that I woke up on." Raising an eyebrow Roscoe said. "I had to ask. Back to business, what is this?" he said picking up a bottle of pills. "A bottle of cyanide pills. Lethal t.." "All right. We know what they are. Now this." he said holding up a box. "A box of bubble gum. I carry that for when I have to walk home from far away places." "And?" "And what?" "What's it for?" With a laugh. "You chew it. But don't shallow it. Come in a variety of flavors." Seeing that it looked like he was going to ask for more info Focus continued. "It's a thing like candy, except you just chew it, ya know, blow bubbles, it really doesn't serve a purpose other than to keep a nice taste in your mouth. And NO it can't kill you unless you swallow the whole box." "Okay...." Roscoe said setting it aside. He picked up a pen looked at it and then set it aside as well along with some keys, change, fingernail clippers, and large leather belt with five rectangular attachments on it, a comb and his ring. Picking up his pocket and wrist watch. "These are watch's I presume?" "Yes." "This one's broken." showing the wrist watch. "Again! Not another one. That one was suppose to be protected from being electrified." "And this?" picking up his wallet. "Worthless to anyone but me because of sentimental value. It's my wallet." "A wallet hmm?" Looking through it he found nothing dangerous so he set it aside. The only thing left not set aside was a strange looking gun, five clips and a large holster. Before Roscoe could speak Focus spoke up. "That is my 44 desert eagle magnum custom special. It has a laser site built on it, with a 20 round capacity because of the extended clips. Packs an enormous punch and kick. Not as loud though due to a special made barrel. But if you wanted to know if it was a weapon, yes it is. Comes with a scope too." Not seeing it on the table anywhere or on the floor Focus checked his pockets and found it in it's secret pocket. "Here it is." he said sliding it across the table. "I thought you guys checked his coat?" "We did sir. I don't know how we missed it." One of the guards said. "Don't worry. That's the only thing that was hidden in my coat." Roscoe was about to say something when there was a knock at the door. "Yes." Opening the door two others walked in. Turning around to see who it was shocked Focus enough he nearly fell out of his seat. "Well if this isn't way past cool I don't know what is!" Focus said getting up. "Hey! That's my line mister!" Sonic said going into a fight like stance. "Whoa there Sonic. I just wanted to shake you hand." Seeing the guards moving closer Focus sat back down. "Sorry. Just seeing two of the greatest hero's around here made me forget were I was. Nice to see you to Tails. Enjoy the flight here." "Yeah it was great!, we saw...wait a minute, I thought he was suppose to be a bad guy. He doesn't act like one." "Were not sure yet." Roscoe said getting up to shake Sonics hand. "Glad you made it here peacefully." "Not a problem. Butt-nick's keep'n quite for so reason so I was happy to get out of there for awhile." Turning to Focus and pointing a finger. "This better not be some trap to get me away..." "It's not a trap, I DON'T work for Robotnick, and I'm not here to hurt anyone. Geez, if I knew it would be this hard to become even slightly trusted, I would have tried to find another way to shore after commandeering that hover-unit. Should've just jumped into the water and swan away. I know overlanders cause you trouble in the past but I wasn't one of them. I NOT a Bad guy." Focus said then turned away from everybody. "You don't seem like a bad guy to me." Tails said. "Thanks Tails. Your the only one who seems to care." Turning back around to Sonic. "I would have at least thought you might be partial Sonic. Other than Snively and Ro-butt-nick, the other overlanders you've encountered weren't bad to you and the rest of Knothole so I don't see why your attacking me." "What overlanders and how do you know about Knothole?" Sonic said with a angry look. "Station square." "Never heard of it." "Great I landed in the past." Focus said hitting his head into the table and leaving it there. "My grave just opened before me and it's getting deeper and deeper." "How do you know about Knothole?!" Sonic said pulling Focus up by the collar. "I can tell you and only you, with the exception of Tails who can stay, but you'll probably not believe me." "Fine. If I don't like what I hear..." "I know you'll see I never see the light of day or something like that. I got it." "Can you leave us alone for a few minutes Roscoe?" Sonic said letting go of Focus's collar. Shrugging Roscoe said sure taking the guards and Focus' stuff with him. "Alright over..." "Please, its Focus." "Your name's Focus?" "Yeah. I never found out way I was called that though." "Fine Focus. Start explaining." Focus told him about the fight that happened before he woke up and saw Evelyn and everything he remembered from before he woke up were they were now. "That's what you wanted them to leave the room for?" "No. What wanted them to leave for is because you are the only one that probably will believe that it's possible that I'm from another universe or dimension. Whichever way you want to call it." "Go on." Sonic said sitting down for the first time. "Here's how it is. Where I'm from your extremely popular." "I'm popular almost everywhere, except with Ro-butt-nicks gang." "Yes, BUT like I was saying where I'm from your just a comic book character, a series of great games and most importantly, a popular cartoon. The year I was in before I got sent here was a few seconds before 2000. Now I've somehow been sent a 1000 plus years into the future but to your universe. For me I started to believe this was a dream come true till I finally realized that it doesn't look like I'll live long enough to experience it. I know that this sounds strange, but that's the truth." After Focus finished he sat back in the chair, crossed his arms and waited. Sonic stroked his chin a moment before answering. "The only real way to find if your really from another dimension is to have Nicole scan you, but..." "You mean Sally's hand held computer right?" "How did you know Nichole was a small computer of Sally's?" Tails asked. "Because of the comics and cartoon shows. Here. I know that you somewhat full name is Sonic Maurice Prime, but Sonic is not your real name because your embarrassed or something about what it really is, and no I don't know what it is. Your girlfriend is Sally Alicia Acorn. Yours..." he pointed at Tails. "Is Miles Prower. Tails is your nickname because of your two tails. Robotnicks is really Julian of the house of Ivo. How about this clincher. Knuckles knows this but hasn't said anything or he might not know it yet. Your grandfather is Merlin Prower." "I have a grandfather?" Tails said with surprise. "Did you know that your the chosen one?" "Yemph." Sonic coved his mouth before he could finish. "All right you've proven your point. Taking you back to Knothole better not be a mistake." "Thanks Sonic. I won't let you down." After Sonic and Tails left Focus got up and paced the room. "Well that could have gone better. Usually Sonic reserves judgment."
Outside the room, Sonic, Roscoe, Tails and Evelyn were talking when the doctor showed up. "Okay Bess what did the blood test say?" "He's is an overlander or Human as they call themselves, but I have no idea why he heals so quick." "What da mean heals so quick? You mean that story he said about falling off that area when he found you was true." Sonic asked. "I know it sounds hard to believe but I was there. One moment he was dead. I could see he had a lot of broken bones and his leg was impaled on something but a few minutes later he got up as if nothing happened." Evelyn said. "Believe it or not he did save my life." "Your sure he's not a robot." "Perfectly sure." Bess said. "I believe him." Tails spoke up. "Why is that Tails?" Sonic said kneeling down. "I don't know. For some reason I just know he not lying." "Are you taking him with you then?" Roscoe said. "He knows way to much about Knothole and other things that even Robotnick doesn't know. I going to let Sally decided what she wants to do." "All right by me. The bright side is that he managed to take out all but one of the hover-units around here with the exception of the one Evelyn brought back." "So he did help out." Tails said. "It will take weeks before Robotnick has any more units sent up giving us time to scout around better." "You want to take this all with you?" "Yeah. Sally will probably want to see that to. Have it put in aft compartment. Tails will show you." Sonic went back into the room while the rest went away. Focus was sitting down with his head on the table. "Were leaving soon. I don't want any trouble from you." "If you hate me that much why even have me come along?" "Sally's going to want to talk to you." "Well if it would calm your nerves, you can tie me up till Sally says otherwise." he said looking at Sonic. "Hey if getting you to possibly even believing that I'm on your side you can tie me to the underside of the plane the whole ride." "What!?" Seeing the seriousness in his eyes, Sonic could tell he wasn't joking. "Tying you to the seat is the plan right now. Now let's go." Heading out the door, Sonic stay behind him. Focus shook his head as they walked up the corridor. Just before getting near the infirmary walked into a crate he didn't see. With the crate already damaged by weather and other things he fell through it. "OUCH!!! Where'd that box come from?" As he tried to get up he fell back down crushing a few bottles. "What the?" Guards came rushing up as Bess came out of the infirmary. "Great. I knew this would happen." she said seeing Focus holding a few bottles. "Sorry about that. This wasn't here before when I came through." he said picking up some more bottles. "I'll help pick them up if I can." Looking at Sonic. "Since you made the mess." Sonic said helping out. Bess came back out with what looked to be a old clothes hamper from hotel laundry rooms Focus noticed as he dropped them into it. "What happened! Did the prisoner esca...oh.." Roscoe said running up and seeing the situation. "Since we haven't figured out what these are I was having them removed till I had better equipment. Unfortunately it was placed in a badly lit area and well..." Bess said shrugging. "Wait. You don't know what this says?" Focus said showing her a faded label. "I can read it but none of us knows what it means and testing it was out of the question." Shaking his head with a slight laugh he continued picking them up. "Do you know what they are?" "There anti-inflammatory pills. Naproxen." He said dropping the last few in. "Really?" Bess said turning the cart around. "I told you what I know them to be. Weather you believe me or not is up to you." he said wiping his hands off on his coat. "Can I use him for a moment?" She said turning to Roscoe. "What for?" "Humor me." She said motioning for Focus to follow. Roscoe motioned for him to follow her. Sonic close behind Focus went over to were she was standing. Opening a few crates she pulled several objects out. Figuring out what she wanted he spoke up before she did. "This is insulin. I didn't see anybody here that looked like they needed it so I'll explain what it does afterward. This is Tylenol 3, heavy pain killer. Hmm...you've got quite a supply of a muscle relaxer here along with several boxes of de-worming agents." "And what is this?" She said opening a box full of leaves. Taking a few sniffs he closed the box quickly. "Your better off throwing that away. That is marijuana, a very powerful painkiller but with bad side effects. Where I'm from people pay thousands for this and then go crazy when they need more. If you never trust me on anything, trust me on this get rid of it. Don't burn it though. There's enough in there to make a couple hundred people go wacko." "We figured that out the hard way. That box was just a test." "You already knew the rest then." "No, this last one was a test. And we do know what insulin is luckily we don't need it. Thanks for your help." "No problem."
At the plane Tails was closing up the aft compartment when Sonic and Focus came out. "Wait a minute. I thought the Tornado only had one seat?" "After our last crash we put one in." Sonic said getting some rope out. "I'm not surprised. Standing on the wings is dangerous." "I still do it from time to time. Read to go Tails?" "All ready up here Sonic." Tails said starting the engine. Getting into the back seat, Focus put on the seat belt. After Sonic tied him up he climbed onto the wings. "It was nice seeing you all again, catch ya later." Sonic yelled to Roscoe and the others outside as the plane zoomed off.
Robotnick came back a hour or so later. Snively was glad that what was left of the patrol up north had found what had happened but figured that Robotnick was going to beat him when he heard the news. "Well Snively what did you get?"
"The Swat-bots left were able to determine that someone or something used a sharp object to cut large pieces of the statue off the top of the head dropping them onto the patrol was sent there. None of the hover-units or Swat-bots there survived." he said still cringing. "Well what is left up there?" "Just eight Swat-bots." "Eight hmm. Out of 30. Was it those accursed Freedom Fighters/" "No. They detected no since of them ever being there." "What about the energy reading we read earlier?" "They found it was a energy signature that portals give off. But the portal had already closed some time before the first patrol got there. Whatever it or who was had already left before the second patrol got there." "Hmmm. Send a squad of 22 more Swat-bots up there. Have them search the city in grid sections. That should bring out the intruder. In the meantime I have an idea I've been mulling over. Once the power station is back online have all worker bots report to hanger 7. I going to give Sally exactly what she wants just not in the way she wanted it. HAHAHAHA!" Robotnick said laughing as he left. Snively calmed down once Robotnick left. One of these days you fat bastard, I'll be in charge and then I'll win quicker than you ever could. Turning back to the computer he input the command for Robotnicks next order.
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"Has he woke up yet?" Roscoe asked a female canine as he entered the makeshift infirmary. "Not yet. From everything I can tell, he's just fine. No injuries at all. Evelyn must not be making her story up." "Can you wake him?" "Sure. But with medical supplies being low I would try the same method you use on other who fall asleep while on duty." With a smile creeping across his face he said, "No problem, I'll be right back." Getting a few towels ready while Roscoe was gone she check him out once more just to make sure he was actually okay. After a few minutes Roscoe came back in with a large bucket. "Help me get these towels around him first. I'm having enough trouble drying out the last sheet you got wet." While leaning the overlander forward while she placed the towels he told her that some of the others were out looking for needed supplies since the Swat-bots patrols were checking on the explosions around the statue. "Whatever they find will be greatly appreciated. Especially if it's pain killers and such. I only wish I knew what those other crates with medicine in them were. Alright, he's as ready as I can get him so splash away." Swishing the bucket around a few times he dumped it right on the overlanders head. "AAAAAAGGGGGGG...pppppppp...what...rrrrrrrrrrr....." Focus yelled while trashing a bit. "So, your awake?" Roscoe said gesturing for the doc to come over. Taking the bucket from him she existed the room. Shaking some water out of his hair he yelled. "What the hell was that for! If you wanted me awake you could have try normal methods, not try and drown me!" "Well if what I heard from Evelyn is correct drowning you wouldn't kill ya so I figured, why not." "Smart guy huh. At least somebody around here makes some sense." After finishing wiping the water off his face Focus turned to the voice talking to him. "WHAT THE!......WHERE AM I!...." Seeing the overlander overacted, Roscoe reached for his stun pistol on his hip. "Whoa! Hold on there, I'm not going to try anything so there's no need to start pulling weapons." he said holding his hands up. "Then what's with the crazy act?" Roscoe said still with his hand on his holster. "Crazy act? I don't understand." "You act like you've never had water splashed in you face for one." "Well never by a talking raccoon or any other animal for that matter." Focus said while looking strangely at him. "What do mean animal? Mobians are almost impossible not to miss unless your under Robotnicks rule." "MOBIANS!" He exclaimed with a start. "Mobians...then I must really be here." Completely ignoring the raccoon he got out of the bed and started pacing. "If I'm actually here then....no no no....this is just a dream. Its got to be. I'm mean sure I've always wanted to be in this universe, helping in the fight against that blow hard Robotnick, but...there's no way....is there." Roscoe watched him pace around in his underpants mumbling something about dreams. It wasn't until Evelyn and the doctor came in that he came out of his stupor. "Roscoe, what is he doing?" "I don't know. What'd ya say his name was?" "Focus." Evelyn said. "All right Evelyn enough talk , I need to get that wing checked out." The doctor said. "Mr. Focus." Still pacing and mumbling, he was completely oblivious to being called until he heard a loud whistle. "Mr. Focus. I need you to answer some questions." "Very sorry, I was thinking about...." he made a gesture around the place. "What did you want..." He then noticed that they weren't alone anymore and that he wasn't fully clothed and mostly importantly the other two were women. "Ahem. Very sorry ladies." he said grabbing the sheet off the bed and wrapping it around his waist. "Can I have my clothes back please." "Yes. There this way." Roscoe said heading out of the room. As Focus came out of the room he noticed two, what looked to be pit bull guards, in brown uniforms following behind them. He also heard the two girls laughing. "I'd be surprised if there weren't guards behind me. I understand why you don't trust me." Heading into a room with a table Focus saw his clothes neatly stacked on it. His long black trench coat was placed over the chair and his suit coat was under that. His black jeans with a few added pockets on the side with his white long sleeved silver button up shirt were there on the table. His reddish vest was on the floor with his outer steel toed kicking boots. Everything else that he had on him was at the other end of the table where the raccoon went and sat down. The guards closed the door but stayed in the room next to it. Taking his pants he put them on first. "Hmm...Nice sword. Pretty light for it's size to." Roscoe said. "If you don't mind telling me, I'd like to know who I'm talking to." "Roscoe." "That's cool." Focus said finishing the last tie on his boot lace. "What did you want to know...or wait, you probably want to know what I'm doing here, how I got here and why. I once daydreamed something like this would happen but certainly in a different place so here goes. What I'm doing here, well, here I'll answer in a different order. Why I'm here, don't know. How....maybe something to do with that torch landing on me. What I'm 'GOING' to do here is gut that fat, overbearing, rotten excuse of a human being, Robotnick with that sword. Then.... I not sure after that." After finishing Focus leaned back in his chair and placed his feet on the table while crossing him hands behind his head. "Feet off the table." "Sorry." he said taking them off. "Now..." Roscoe said looking through the mess in front of him. "Those sort of question were going to come later, and still might since I'm not sure about you yet." "Understandable considering." "What are you implying?" Roscoe said with a scowl on his face. "Never mind." "No. I want to hear this. How does a overlander understand anything we've been through. You act like you know what's going on, but won't tell." "Really, I have not idea what's going on. I just know what Robotnick has done and wish I could help undo it." Roscoe was about to say something when a badger stuck his head in the door announcing that the Tornado was on approach and going to land soon. "All right sonny. Bring the occupant here when they land." "Yes sir." the badger said then closed the door. "Tornado.....Tornado...that sounds familiar. I know that he didn't mean the nature kind cause New York never had any of those." "New York?" Roscoe said with a questioning look. "This." He said gesturing around. This was one of the great cities in America. The only real reason that I know this is New York is because of what's left of the Statue of Liberty that I woke up on." Raising an eyebrow Roscoe said. "I had to ask. Back to business, what is this?" he said picking up a bottle of pills. "A bottle of cyanide pills. Lethal t.." "All right. We know what they are. Now this." he said holding up a box. "A box of bubble gum. I carry that for when I have to walk home from far away places." "And?" "And what?" "What's it for?" With a laugh. "You chew it. But don't shallow it. Come in a variety of flavors." Seeing that it looked like he was going to ask for more info Focus continued. "It's a thing like candy, except you just chew it, ya know, blow bubbles, it really doesn't serve a purpose other than to keep a nice taste in your mouth. And NO it can't kill you unless you swallow the whole box." "Okay...." Roscoe said setting it aside. He picked up a pen looked at it and then set it aside as well along with some keys, change, fingernail clippers, and large leather belt with five rectangular attachments on it, a comb and his ring. Picking up his pocket and wrist watch. "These are watch's I presume?" "Yes." "This one's broken." showing the wrist watch. "Again! Not another one. That one was suppose to be protected from being electrified." "And this?" picking up his wallet. "Worthless to anyone but me because of sentimental value. It's my wallet." "A wallet hmm?" Looking through it he found nothing dangerous so he set it aside. The only thing left not set aside was a strange looking gun, five clips and a large holster. Before Roscoe could speak Focus spoke up. "That is my 44 desert eagle magnum custom special. It has a laser site built on it, with a 20 round capacity because of the extended clips. Packs an enormous punch and kick. Not as loud though due to a special made barrel. But if you wanted to know if it was a weapon, yes it is. Comes with a scope too." Not seeing it on the table anywhere or on the floor Focus checked his pockets and found it in it's secret pocket. "Here it is." he said sliding it across the table. "I thought you guys checked his coat?" "We did sir. I don't know how we missed it." One of the guards said. "Don't worry. That's the only thing that was hidden in my coat." Roscoe was about to say something when there was a knock at the door. "Yes." Opening the door two others walked in. Turning around to see who it was shocked Focus enough he nearly fell out of his seat. "Well if this isn't way past cool I don't know what is!" Focus said getting up. "Hey! That's my line mister!" Sonic said going into a fight like stance. "Whoa there Sonic. I just wanted to shake you hand." Seeing the guards moving closer Focus sat back down. "Sorry. Just seeing two of the greatest hero's around here made me forget were I was. Nice to see you to Tails. Enjoy the flight here." "Yeah it was great!, we saw...wait a minute, I thought he was suppose to be a bad guy. He doesn't act like one." "Were not sure yet." Roscoe said getting up to shake Sonics hand. "Glad you made it here peacefully." "Not a problem. Butt-nick's keep'n quite for so reason so I was happy to get out of there for awhile." Turning to Focus and pointing a finger. "This better not be some trap to get me away..." "It's not a trap, I DON'T work for Robotnick, and I'm not here to hurt anyone. Geez, if I knew it would be this hard to become even slightly trusted, I would have tried to find another way to shore after commandeering that hover-unit. Should've just jumped into the water and swan away. I know overlanders cause you trouble in the past but I wasn't one of them. I NOT a Bad guy." Focus said then turned away from everybody. "You don't seem like a bad guy to me." Tails said. "Thanks Tails. Your the only one who seems to care." Turning back around to Sonic. "I would have at least thought you might be partial Sonic. Other than Snively and Ro-butt-nick, the other overlanders you've encountered weren't bad to you and the rest of Knothole so I don't see why your attacking me." "What overlanders and how do you know about Knothole?" Sonic said with a angry look. "Station square." "Never heard of it." "Great I landed in the past." Focus said hitting his head into the table and leaving it there. "My grave just opened before me and it's getting deeper and deeper." "How do you know about Knothole?!" Sonic said pulling Focus up by the collar. "I can tell you and only you, with the exception of Tails who can stay, but you'll probably not believe me." "Fine. If I don't like what I hear..." "I know you'll see I never see the light of day or something like that. I got it." "Can you leave us alone for a few minutes Roscoe?" Sonic said letting go of Focus's collar. Shrugging Roscoe said sure taking the guards and Focus' stuff with him. "Alright over..." "Please, its Focus." "Your name's Focus?" "Yeah. I never found out way I was called that though." "Fine Focus. Start explaining." Focus told him about the fight that happened before he woke up and saw Evelyn and everything he remembered from before he woke up were they were now. "That's what you wanted them to leave the room for?" "No. What wanted them to leave for is because you are the only one that probably will believe that it's possible that I'm from another universe or dimension. Whichever way you want to call it." "Go on." Sonic said sitting down for the first time. "Here's how it is. Where I'm from your extremely popular." "I'm popular almost everywhere, except with Ro-butt-nicks gang." "Yes, BUT like I was saying where I'm from your just a comic book character, a series of great games and most importantly, a popular cartoon. The year I was in before I got sent here was a few seconds before 2000. Now I've somehow been sent a 1000 plus years into the future but to your universe. For me I started to believe this was a dream come true till I finally realized that it doesn't look like I'll live long enough to experience it. I know that this sounds strange, but that's the truth." After Focus finished he sat back in the chair, crossed his arms and waited. Sonic stroked his chin a moment before answering. "The only real way to find if your really from another dimension is to have Nicole scan you, but..." "You mean Sally's hand held computer right?" "How did you know Nichole was a small computer of Sally's?" Tails asked. "Because of the comics and cartoon shows. Here. I know that you somewhat full name is Sonic Maurice Prime, but Sonic is not your real name because your embarrassed or something about what it really is, and no I don't know what it is. Your girlfriend is Sally Alicia Acorn. Yours..." he pointed at Tails. "Is Miles Prower. Tails is your nickname because of your two tails. Robotnicks is really Julian of the house of Ivo. How about this clincher. Knuckles knows this but hasn't said anything or he might not know it yet. Your grandfather is Merlin Prower." "I have a grandfather?" Tails said with surprise. "Did you know that your the chosen one?" "Yemph." Sonic coved his mouth before he could finish. "All right you've proven your point. Taking you back to Knothole better not be a mistake." "Thanks Sonic. I won't let you down." After Sonic and Tails left Focus got up and paced the room. "Well that could have gone better. Usually Sonic reserves judgment."
Outside the room, Sonic, Roscoe, Tails and Evelyn were talking when the doctor showed up. "Okay Bess what did the blood test say?" "He's is an overlander or Human as they call themselves, but I have no idea why he heals so quick." "What da mean heals so quick? You mean that story he said about falling off that area when he found you was true." Sonic asked. "I know it sounds hard to believe but I was there. One moment he was dead. I could see he had a lot of broken bones and his leg was impaled on something but a few minutes later he got up as if nothing happened." Evelyn said. "Believe it or not he did save my life." "Your sure he's not a robot." "Perfectly sure." Bess said. "I believe him." Tails spoke up. "Why is that Tails?" Sonic said kneeling down. "I don't know. For some reason I just know he not lying." "Are you taking him with you then?" Roscoe said. "He knows way to much about Knothole and other things that even Robotnick doesn't know. I going to let Sally decided what she wants to do." "All right by me. The bright side is that he managed to take out all but one of the hover-units around here with the exception of the one Evelyn brought back." "So he did help out." Tails said. "It will take weeks before Robotnick has any more units sent up giving us time to scout around better." "You want to take this all with you?" "Yeah. Sally will probably want to see that to. Have it put in aft compartment. Tails will show you." Sonic went back into the room while the rest went away. Focus was sitting down with his head on the table. "Were leaving soon. I don't want any trouble from you." "If you hate me that much why even have me come along?" "Sally's going to want to talk to you." "Well if it would calm your nerves, you can tie me up till Sally says otherwise." he said looking at Sonic. "Hey if getting you to possibly even believing that I'm on your side you can tie me to the underside of the plane the whole ride." "What!?" Seeing the seriousness in his eyes, Sonic could tell he wasn't joking. "Tying you to the seat is the plan right now. Now let's go." Heading out the door, Sonic stay behind him. Focus shook his head as they walked up the corridor. Just before getting near the infirmary walked into a crate he didn't see. With the crate already damaged by weather and other things he fell through it. "OUCH!!! Where'd that box come from?" As he tried to get up he fell back down crushing a few bottles. "What the?" Guards came rushing up as Bess came out of the infirmary. "Great. I knew this would happen." she said seeing Focus holding a few bottles. "Sorry about that. This wasn't here before when I came through." he said picking up some more bottles. "I'll help pick them up if I can." Looking at Sonic. "Since you made the mess." Sonic said helping out. Bess came back out with what looked to be a old clothes hamper from hotel laundry rooms Focus noticed as he dropped them into it. "What happened! Did the prisoner esca...oh.." Roscoe said running up and seeing the situation. "Since we haven't figured out what these are I was having them removed till I had better equipment. Unfortunately it was placed in a badly lit area and well..." Bess said shrugging. "Wait. You don't know what this says?" Focus said showing her a faded label. "I can read it but none of us knows what it means and testing it was out of the question." Shaking his head with a slight laugh he continued picking them up. "Do you know what they are?" "There anti-inflammatory pills. Naproxen." He said dropping the last few in. "Really?" Bess said turning the cart around. "I told you what I know them to be. Weather you believe me or not is up to you." he said wiping his hands off on his coat. "Can I use him for a moment?" She said turning to Roscoe. "What for?" "Humor me." She said motioning for Focus to follow. Roscoe motioned for him to follow her. Sonic close behind Focus went over to were she was standing. Opening a few crates she pulled several objects out. Figuring out what she wanted he spoke up before she did. "This is insulin. I didn't see anybody here that looked like they needed it so I'll explain what it does afterward. This is Tylenol 3, heavy pain killer. Hmm...you've got quite a supply of a muscle relaxer here along with several boxes of de-worming agents." "And what is this?" She said opening a box full of leaves. Taking a few sniffs he closed the box quickly. "Your better off throwing that away. That is marijuana, a very powerful painkiller but with bad side effects. Where I'm from people pay thousands for this and then go crazy when they need more. If you never trust me on anything, trust me on this get rid of it. Don't burn it though. There's enough in there to make a couple hundred people go wacko." "We figured that out the hard way. That box was just a test." "You already knew the rest then." "No, this last one was a test. And we do know what insulin is luckily we don't need it. Thanks for your help." "No problem."
At the plane Tails was closing up the aft compartment when Sonic and Focus came out. "Wait a minute. I thought the Tornado only had one seat?" "After our last crash we put one in." Sonic said getting some rope out. "I'm not surprised. Standing on the wings is dangerous." "I still do it from time to time. Read to go Tails?" "All ready up here Sonic." Tails said starting the engine. Getting into the back seat, Focus put on the seat belt. After Sonic tied him up he climbed onto the wings. "It was nice seeing you all again, catch ya later." Sonic yelled to Roscoe and the others outside as the plane zoomed off.
Robotnick came back a hour or so later. Snively was glad that what was left of the patrol up north had found what had happened but figured that Robotnick was going to beat him when he heard the news. "Well Snively what did you get?"
"The Swat-bots left were able to determine that someone or something used a sharp object to cut large pieces of the statue off the top of the head dropping them onto the patrol was sent there. None of the hover-units or Swat-bots there survived." he said still cringing. "Well what is left up there?" "Just eight Swat-bots." "Eight hmm. Out of 30. Was it those accursed Freedom Fighters/" "No. They detected no since of them ever being there." "What about the energy reading we read earlier?" "They found it was a energy signature that portals give off. But the portal had already closed some time before the first patrol got there. Whatever it or who was had already left before the second patrol got there." "Hmmm. Send a squad of 22 more Swat-bots up there. Have them search the city in grid sections. That should bring out the intruder. In the meantime I have an idea I've been mulling over. Once the power station is back online have all worker bots report to hanger 7. I going to give Sally exactly what she wants just not in the way she wanted it. HAHAHAHA!" Robotnick said laughing as he left. Snively calmed down once Robotnick left. One of these days you fat bastard, I'll be in charge and then I'll win quicker than you ever could. Turning back to the computer he input the command for Robotnicks next order.