Other-M is copyright to Ian the Potto, while Sonic and the gang are copyright to SEGA/Sonic Team, of course! Great! Now I can get started. Hope you like it! I don't mind reviews, whether good or bad (since this IS my first shot), I just want to know other's opinions. So, here we go.
Chapter 1 AwakeningHe struggled to open his eyes. His head was spinning and began to feel a headache rush through. Mind still dazed, he had no feeling of his entire body. Almost as if he was levitating, weightless…
(Ugh…Where am I this time?)
Slowly regaining consciousness, he saw something that he didn't quite recognize at first. But as he began to see, Sonic notices that everything is of a shade of green.
(What…the?!?)
He finally opens his eyes and began to freak. Sonic can't help but look frantically through the stained glass. Everything seems so familiar, and yet so surreal. He begins to scope the room around with his eyes to see where exactly he is. There were many different types of tools lying around. Boxes filled with parts, oil leaks on the pavement. And in the far end of the room, he saw many different types of mechanisms and computers. But could it be…
(Wait a minute…that's the Tornado. I must be in Tail's Workshop! Wait…should I be happy or afraid? Just where am I really? Which world is this?)
But as he tries to walk, he realizes that he can't even move a finger. Somehow he has been immobilized into whatever he was in, but he wouldn't give up.
Taking what seemed to have been an eternity for the powerless hedgehog, he then was able to gain control of his finger. His arms. His legs. Slowly but steadily he gets into a curled position and begins to spin, as his speed increases by the second. Everything becomes a blur now as he was spinning rapidly in spot until finally, crackling of glass was heard.
*CRASH*
Shattered glass flies everywhere along with the release of the green substance that was sheathed along with the grave. After freefalling for about 20 ft. from the ground and landing with poise, he slowly regains stability and gasps for air. Almost unexpectedly remembering how it felt like to breathe once more, he then takes curiosity towards the wall in which he just escaped from. Sonic then realizes that what he was in was actually a capsule for reasons unknown. Investigating in his mind, it seemed to have been sustaining him for quite some time now, as it was wired to what could have been dozens of computers hooked up as a network. But why was he in that thing? But more important things suddenly popped in to mind.
"Oh my god, my feet! They're not roboticized?!? This is getting weirder and weirder by the minute. I wonder…if I'm anywhere near the battlefield…or is this another dream? Am I confusing this with reality again? Am I…am I back home?" he asks himself, but is so bothered by it, that he sits back down again and lays his forehead against his palm.
"Oh man, my head hurts."
But as soon as he had a reality check, the lights dimmed to a bright red. An alarm was set off. "Damn! I set it off. Can anything else go bad?" he asks himself. Then, he heard another voice approaching, growing louder and harsher.
"NO! The chamber! It's broken! Shit, how could this have happened?!"
A voice far away yet so close, it had a sense of panic and nervous tension. He was able to distinguish that whoever it was, they were still young, maybe around their teens also, but that didn't matter. Somehow, the voice rang in his head and it somehow began taunting him.
"That voice. It sounds so familiar."
And almost suddenly, the echoing of doors slamming open rushed through the melancholic garage, taking Sonic for surprise and instinctively zips across the room and hides near the Tornado. Silence fell for about two seconds until it was drowned with screams of terror.
"NOO! SONIC! SONIC!!!"
The cries have bewildered the teen, as he cries frantically on the floor. Sonic peeps out a bit and becomes confused. He can't still make him out due to the dimness of the entire place, but somehow, he felt sorry for that person. Watching it cry in the shadows was something Sonic couldn't stand. It suddenly reminded him of all who have lost everything to the Dark Legion.
The little girl who had lost her mother, crying right beside her bloody corpse to wake up suddenly flashed before his eyes. The faces of everyone he loved came into sight as well; making him realize that everyone he loved was now dead. It was he right there who was weeping as well, holding Fiona in his arms while she breathed her last breath and became colder. How it would be the last time he would ever see her emerald-green eyes. Mysteries were unsolved, and anything, or anyone, who could tell him the answers to what happened in the end have all disappeared too, just like his sanity. And Sonic wept along with the shadowy figure but still concealing himself away from him, from everybody, as he still wouldn't let his guard down completely. But then, the cries became weeps, and everything fell silent. Then pants were heard.
"Nobody fucks with me and gets away with it!"
Anger has now built up on his tone.
"You don't know who you're messing with grave robber…"
("Grave robber?")
"…and you must still be in this room, too. You think you're so smart, stealing the only memory I have of my past. My only friend in this godforsaken world."
A whooshing sound can be heard, now a fluttering in the air growing louder by the second.
"Well you know what? That's not going to happen here, pal! You can kiss your ass goodbye bitch, because you're not coming out of here alive!"
Then it hits him. "WAIT! I know that voice! It's—"
"—GOTCHA!"
"ACK!"
Sonic barely dodged a swing of a dagger and then clumsily runs away. The figure laughs maniacally as the other shadowy figure (Sonic) stumbles and manages to get away.
"Geez, what has gotten into him? I'm no grave rob *gasp*—"
"Going somewhere?"
He was standing right in front of him, but it was still so dim. Although it was dark, they each kept eye contact. And that was all it took for Sonic to recognize once and for all who it was, and was really bothered.
"You know," says the attacker with a smirk, "I could easily kill you right now, you worthless prick. But I must admit, your speed is quite admirable. Where did you get such a talent anyways? Tell me before I slice your throat open." He says following with a snicker, laughing at his own joke.
"You of all people should know, Tails."
A sudden gasp followed the statement. He dropped his dagger.
"Tails, it's okay, its—"
But he stops speaking, as now he notices that his hands have clenched his fists.
"How…dare…" He then struggles to hold back his tears and begins to breath heavily. He shuts his eyes harshly and points his face towards the oil-stained pavement.
"HOW DARE YOU CALL ME BY THAT NAME, STRANGER!!!"
Tails shrieks with agony as he flies his fists madly towards him, zooming in for the punch.
"Tails, please! Listen to me! It's me!"
"Never Never Never NEVER!!! You will NOT take away Sonic! NEVER!"
Sonic was helpless. There's no way he could possible throw a punch at Tails, because as he hastily dodged his punches, the thoughts of him being the only one he has left was unbearable. Has everyone gone mad?
"Please Tails! Open your eyes!"
"Stop…calling…me…TAILS!"
Then suddenly he kicks Sonic right in the head with pure force triggered by his pain and anger. He helplessly zooms across the air and then crashes right against a wall near the lighted computer monitors.
Pure silence.
Tails hovers towards the figure he had just kicked, the expressions in his face reverting from complete hatred into great shock and denial, as he begins to shake his head harder and harder, whimpering the word "No." He begins breathing heavily once more and slowly yet meagerly lands on the ground. Tails hasn't locked the still figure out of his sight.
"What…what have I done?" He whispers as he raises up both of his hands in front of him, somewhat leaving space in-between them to still have Sonic centered in his view, and clenches them. So many emotions filled through him that he had become a total wreck. He then runs towards Sonic so fast, the tears building up slide past his face. Tails grabs and then hugs Sonic in the ground as he cries harder than ever. But he is smiling and laughing with joy at the same time.
"Sonic! You're alive! I knew you were alive! After all of these years believing that there was hope, I knew you weren't dead! I just knew it! Nobody believed me, they always said that I needed to let go of the past, but I showed them! So many have died, believing you were lost forever; if only they were here…"
"…Tails…"
He opens his eyes and remembers what he has done to his friend. Tails slowly and gently picks him up and heads out of the dimmed garage.
"Sonic. I am so very sorry for ever doubting you were alive" *umph* (he begins to fly) "And I'm even more sorry that I've nearly killed you, again, hah! But it's been so long since I've heard your voice, saw your eyes once more, please forgive me. Once I get you to my Hospital Wing, we can talk and laugh once more just like old times. Life here is so miserable without you…"
"…I missed you…"
Tails looks at him. Sonic's eyes are barely open, injured, and yet has a smile etched on his face. Tails can't help but feel so happy that a miracle has happened tonight.
"I missed you too, Sonic the Hedgehog."
—End Chapter 1—
