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Chapter 4, The battleEveryone gasped in surprise.
"What did you say?" Asked Knuckles, confused.
"I said: 'calm down little brother, you don't –"
"What do you mean with that 'little brother'?" Asked Shadow.
"It's what it seems to. He's my little brother." Answered Punch.
"Liar!" Yelled Knuckles.
"It's not a lie." Said Punch, without smiling anymore. "Have you forgotten that night when your parents died? When I came to your room when you was hiding under your bed."
"You... you killed your own parents! How could you!" Yelled Knuckles, anger growing inside him.
"I hated them. When you born, I was ten. I decided to leave from that house you called home, because I wanted to do bad things even then, but they denied it. On that day I swore that someday I would kill you. That day came, I killed your parents, but your damn uncle came just when I had so much fun." Told Punch.
"They were your parents and your uncle as well as mine! You murderer!" Yelled Knuckles with hatred.
"And now I have my own world, where I'm the only ruler! And I have your friends, too, and I want you to fight me." Said Punch, with evil grin on his face.
"Be careful with what you wish! I will kill you!" Yelled Knuckles.
"NO! He's older than you are! You will only get hurt!" Screamed Amy.
"I don't care! He killed my parents!"
"Amy is right! You cannot fight with him!" Yelled Shadow.
Punch smiled evilly and snapped his fingers, and the robot that was holding Shadow started to clench his arm. He yelled in pain.
"Shadow!" Yelled Sonic.
"That's it! Prepare to die!" Yelled Knuckles and attacked towards his brother.
Punch sidestepped easily, but Knuckles hit him on his back. Punch fell forwards, but stood up quickly.
"You're better than I expected. But you're not good enough to beat me!" Punch yelled. Then he shot a fireball from his hands, and it hit Knuckles on his chest. He fell to the floor, and Punch laughed. "I warned you!"
"Knuckles, stop that! He's going to kill you!" Screamed Amy.
Knuckles stood up, wiping away the blood that was dribbling from his lip. "I cannot let him win! If I do that he'll kill my friends." Thought Knuckles, and then remembered the talisman that Grandma had given him.
He smiled evilly at his brother. "I can do that, too. Don't even think you're going to win!"
They started to fight seriously, and the others could only watch. Amy almost cried.
"Can't we do anything?" She asked.
"No. We just have to believe in Knuckles." Answered Shadow.
"I think I can do something." Said Sonic suddenly. Amy and Shadow stared at him.
"What? Do it quickly!" Said Amy.
"I cannot... yet. Maybe if I collect enough magic powers, I can kill these robots. But it will take some time, and I'm not sure will it work." Told Sonic.
"Please work..." Thought Amy.
The battle had gotten worse. Knuckles had lots of wounds and bruises, and Punch wasn't injured at all.
"I told you brother, you cannot beat me. Now die!" Yelled Punch and prepared to shoot Knuckles with a fireball. Knuckles couldn't move, he was lying on the floor with lot of blood around him.
Right then Sonic managed to kill the robots and shot at Punch with a thunderbolt. Punch yelled in pain and fell forwards.
Suddenly the building started to shake, and a blue gate appeared on the other side of room. It was the entrance to the real world.
Sonic killed the other robots, too, and Amy ran to Knuckles. He had stood up and looked very tired.
"Are you okay?" Amy asked.
"Almost. Let's get out of here." Answered Knuckles.
Sonic and Shadow ran to them, and then they started to run towards the gate. But Punch wasn't dead yet. He looked at the escaping friends and lift his hand to shoot Amy.
"Die! You all should die!" He yelled and shot. Knuckles turned around and saw the beam.
"Watch out Amy!" He yelled and poked her aside. But the beam went through his chest instead of Amy. He yelled in pain and fell to the floor.
"Knuckles!" Sonic yelled and kneeled to his friend. He was unconscious and the wound was bleeding a lot.
"Let me help. We have to get out of here." Said Shadow and helped Sonic to carry Knuckles inside the gate.
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Will Knuckles survive... or not?
