Jazzerman here, I do not own any of these characters, they are owned by their respected companies, blah, blah, blah. You've heard this sht before.

But I do own this story.

A Wily tale

Part 30

Metal, Ali-Su, even the almost feral Jonny stared at the glowing form that was Sonic.

Blue light poured from very crack and crease in Sonic's metal frame, giving all things within the room a blue tint.

Ali-Su stared in awe at the hedgehog, he seemed a blue star among this drab atmosphere. Jonny snarled at the light with distaste while Metal thought little of it.

The light slowly retreated into Sonic's form, ever crack and dent repaired as if by magic. The only change was in Sonic's eyes. The same blue light that had repaired him now shown brightly in his eyes. Sonic stood up, seemingly defiant of all that Jonny could possibly do to him.

Metal quickly resumed his fight with Jonny by planting his steel fist square in the possessed human's face, knocking him backward to the ground. It did not take even an instant afterwards for Jonny to counterattack. He thrust his leg out and locked his knee and swung it hard send, knocking the robot hedgehog over and planted his boot on Metal's chest.

Ali-Su looked over at Sonic, he seemed to be just standing there looking off into space. 'Why doesn't he get off his can and do something?' she thought, then returned her attention to the fight between Metal and Jonny.

Metal scratched at Jonny's chest from his pinned position on the ground, but that did little to sway Jonny to release him. Jonny slapped Metal's hands to one side. This was not meant as an attack, only a momentary opening for an attack. Jonny then with surprising speed, broke Metal's arms like toothpicks, then followed up with Metal Sonic's legs. Metal looked in terror, a new sensation to him, as Jonny tossed his limbless body across the room like a rag doll. Jonny made a hiss like growl at Metal, letting him know he wasn't done with him yet, then turned to Sonic.

Jonny ignited his jets and lunged at Sonic, who simply sidestepped and calmly, almost serenely, watched as Jonny smashed into the hard metal wall. Jonny dent left a huge dent in the wall from where his head had hit, but he got up like nothing had happened. Jonny lunged again and Sonic like wise sidestepped, but this time was different. Jonny's hand grabbed Sonic's left 'wing' and threw him across the room, landing on the broken Roboticizer.

Sonic had barely pulled himself to his feet when Jonny let out what could only be described as a war cry and charged Sonic. Using his huge left as a shield, Sonic blocked the first few blows to avoid being pushed backward, then preceded to side step the attacks, leaving after images of himself for Jonny to target.

Jonny was not amused, he wanted blood. Miraculously, he managed to grab Sonic once again by his 'wing', and slammed him into one of the room's support metal beams, knocking it out of the ceiling.

Despite being hurled into the massive beam, Sonic managed to get up and saw Jonny charge once again. Sonic brought his enormous fist to Jonny's chin in the form of an uppercut, sending his enemy flying into the air with such force that his spiked helmet became lodged in the ceiling.

Sonic looked up and smiled as Jonny flailed his legs, He heaved a sigh and relaxed. But his smile disappeared as he heard Jonny start to chuckle evilly. Jonny tore some of the tiles out and tossed them down at Sonic, who had little trouble avoiding them. Jonny placed both his hands on the ceiling and broke his helmet free of the metal tiles that it was wedged in.

Sonic had not been idle and grabbed the human from behind, wrapping both his arms around his chest and lifted him off his feet and had planed to execute a suplex but never got a chance.

In a flash of cunning, Jonny fired his jets to get them air born, spun, and slammed Sonic into the wall. HARD. Before Sonic could get to his feet Jonny crashed down on Sonic's back and wrapped his hands under Sonic's chin and began to pull.

Sonic pounded on Jonny's sides with his fists in an attempt to break the hold Jonny had on his head. This made Jonny only tighten his grip as he tried to separate Sonic's head from his body in a show of brute strength. The sound of metal straining and squeaking could be heard throughout the room, followed by a mad laughter from Jonny's twisted smile.

"Stop it Jonny! You're gonna kill him!" Ali-Su Screamed from her hiding place behind the sheet of metal.

Jonny stopped his attempted decapitation and looked coldly at Ali-Su. He tossed Sonic aside and in no time had Ali-Su off the ground and in a choke hold, grinning wickedly.

"Jonny... Don't you remember me?" Ali-Su managed to choke out. "It's me... Ali..."

Jonny's smile faded into a hateful frown, he bared his teeth and growled at Ali, his eyes seemed to burn with a dark fire.

"Jonny, I hope you can hear me in there... You were always so kind to me..." Ali-Su could feel her neck being slowly crushed in Jonny's hands like a paper cup. "And I had you beaten because I wouldn't even listen to what you had to say. And you still forgave me... You showed me your past and shared your talents of singing and your desire to right what your grandpa did wrong."

Ali-Su could see the dark fires in Jonny's eyes seem to fade a little, and his grip seemed to loosen somewhat. Her hopes rose a little, she might be getting through to him. She smiled at him and looked him in the eyes.

Ali-Su took as much a breath as she could with his hands around her neck. "Now you're selling your soul to save me... But if you don't fight it you'll end up just like your grandpa. Please fight it Jonny, I love you."

Jonny's face wore a look of shock, his solid blue eyes shown with remorse with what happened. He dropped Ali-Su to the ground and turned away, seemingly in pain.

"Jonny? You okay?" Asked the echidna, not caring for her own well being, she quickly gathered herself up and rushed over to him.

Jonny held his head in pain and let out a deafening scream that only sounded partly human. He slowly sank to one knee, trembling in pain, then fell to the floor and lay motionless.

Ali-Su rushed over to comfort him, but Jonny pushed her away.

Ali-Su was about to try again when a giant hand rested on her shoulder. Sonic was battered, but otherwise he seemed okay.

"What's happening to him?" She asked Sonic, deeply concerned for the human that was hunched over in obvious pain.

Sonic's eyes were glowing blue. "He is resisting the Evil energy. If had given in, it would have made him a beast, but now it's killing him."

"What? You gotta help him Sonic!" As soon as Ali-Su said this, Jonny let out a final scream and collapsed to the floor.

"I will try." Sonic said as he walked over to the black form lying on the floor.

Sonic rolled the human over and placed his glowing hand on the container on Jonny's chest and frowned. "It has spread throughout his entire body. I will do my best young one."

Ali-Su had to admit, although she did not know Sonic as long or as well as most, but she knew he was NOT acting like his normal self. But it didn't seem to her like he was going to jump up and go berserk like Jonny did.

The light from Sonic's giant hand intensified and Jonny's body began to convulse and jerk under the power of Sonic's probing Justice energy. Sonic drew his hand back, pulling with it a multitude of tiny black balls of energy. Then crushed them in his huge gauntlet. Jonny's face reverted back to its normal form, and the elongated spikes on his helmet and wings shrank into nothingness. But he still remained motionless.

"Is he going to be okay?" Ali-Su asked.

"I believe so. The energy has done considerable damage, I cannot be certain what he will be like when he awakens." Sonic said, his voice seemed to having a soothing effect on Ali-Su, his very words made her feel relaxed and calm.

Ali-Su looked down at Jonny with a smile, she was glad that his face was back to the one he had showed her weeks before. "How are we going to get back, I don't think you can carry us both Sonic."

Sonic smiled warmly, then began to glow once again. But this time his body itself was shedding this brilliance, and his body seemed to be changing.

Ali-Su stepped back, a large ball of light was floating in the spot where Sonic had been standing. "Sonic? Is that you?" She asked the ball.

With out any real hint of comprehension, the ball zipped by the room, engulfing both Metal and Jonny before returning and absorbing the echidna and shooting out the hole in the way and back towards Skull tower.


"Sally! Something's coming towards the tower!" Tails cried.

Sally turned to the fox, who sat at looking up at the main computer screen. "Is it Sonic?"

Tails scratched his head. "I don't think so, he must've taken some flying lessons, because he's coming in fast."

Before Sally could consider this, a large ball of light shot in though the unrepaired hole in the lab wall, zipped around the lab a few times and landed gently on the floor. As Sally and the others looked on, the light slowly faded to reveal four familiar forms. But they were both surprised to see Metal with them, and how badly he was damaged. Sonic still held the unconscious Jonny in his hands, Whose armor had been repaired somehow from the current fight.

Sally ran and hugged Sonic, "Sonic are you okay?" The Princess let go and looked into Sonic's eyes. "Sonic?"

Sonic just looked at Sally absently then set Jonny on the floor. The way he was acting seemed wrong for Sonic, like he was someone else.

Tails ran up and smiled up at Sonic, "I knew you could beat'em Sonic!" Tails gave his hero a thumbs up.

Sonic looked quizzically at Tails for a second, then slowly mimicked the sign that the young fox had shown him.

Sally turned to the broken Metal Sonic, who Sonic had rested on the floor next to Jonny.

"What are we going to do with him?" Sally asked, referring to the broken robot on the ground.

"He did help us, do you think he could be repaired?" Ali-Su said.

Rotor shrugged. "Jonny may be able to. I can repair Metal's body, but only Jonny knows Metal's programming."

"I must admit, I'm surprised you have your free will Ali-Su." Sally said, giving the echidna a smile.

Ali-Su looked down at the ground. "Jonny removed the programming that took away my will before he went..." Ali-Su stopped, not wanting to remember how horrific Jonny had looked.

Treble was whimpering a little, he had separated from Jonny and was gently licking his master's face in an attempt to wake him up. Tails walked up to Treble and petted the robotic wolf on the head. Treble wagged his tail a little and looked at Tails.

"Poor guy's really worried about Jonny." Tails sounded pretty forlorn, but it was nice to know Treble was worried too.

"You first Ali." Sonic said, it was more of a demand than a request.

Ali-Su saw no reason to argue, she didn't like seeing the world through artificial eyes. The echidna stepped into the Roboticizer and watched as the door on the chamber closed. Sally activated the machine, she felt a hint of irony that she had roboticized the 'hog she loved to save a friend, she sighed and pushed the thought out of her mind, not wanting to think of it anymore.

Sally meanwhile as a little more worried about Sonic. There was so little information on Justice energy and she worried about it having some unforeseen effects like those of the Evil energy. Sally opened Sonic's chest (with little objection from Sonic) and removed the container of Justice energy from the compartment, quickly noticing how much the ball of energy had grown. Sonic, meanwhile quickly reverted back to his normal mechanized form, however his eyes continued to glow a brilliant blue.

"I could not remove all of the energy with out destroying the young man in the process. The stress was too great." Sonic stated flatly, turning to Sally. "But worry not. It is isolated in his buster cannon. The inert residual energy will not harm him, or become a danger to anyone else. However-" Sonic stopped in mid sentence as the light in his eyes faded to normal. Sonic looked around, "Um... What just happened?"

"You were saying something about not being able to remove all of the energy..." Sally said to her robotic friend. "Don't you remember what you were saying? That last part seemed important." Sally said.

Sonic scratched his metal head, trying to recall what had happen. But drew a complete blank. "Sorry Sal, but I don't even remember coming back to the Tower."

At that moment Ali-Su stepped out of the Roboticizer, once again a flesh and blood echidna.

"How do you feel?" Sonic asked, somewhat nervous.

"A little dizzy, but other than that I'm okay." Ali-Su replied, glad that that was over.

"Your turn Sonic." Sally said, motioning to the Roboticizer.

Sonic let out a metallic sigh and slowly got in the machine. Both nervous about the de-roboticization process, and anxious to get this whole thing over with.

After a few minutes Sonic stepped out of the Roboticizer and was back to his old self. He was greeted with a tight hug from Sally.

"Miss me?" Sonic grinned.

Sally smiled at him. "Shut up."

"Ahem..." Tails said, frowning at the older couple. Causing both Sonic and Sally to blush and break the embrace.

After setting all the parts of Metal's broken body on a table, Sonic and Rotor both managed to lug the still unconscious Jonny into the Roboticizer and closed the door. As Sally and Tails started up the machine again, they saw as Jonny began to stir inside the chamber.

However, their sense of relief that it was over was cut short as the Roboticizer began to smoke and rattle and shake violently, the screens of the computer read the red words 'Error' and 'malfunction'.

"Sal what's wrong?" Sonic shouted over all the noise.

"I don't know, the Roboticizer's having problems reversing the process! I have to abort or it may overload and explode!" Sally said as she shut the Roboticizer down, the machine letting out a loud whine as it stopped.

Everyone turned as the door of the Roboticizer opened again, Jonny was seen propping himself up using his left arm, his right however was hanging limp as a rag. Jonny gave them a weak yet warm smile as he stepped out of the Roboticizer. Then promptly fell lifelessly to the floor, a loud clang echoed throughout the room.

To be continued...

A/N: for reasons unknown to me, when I first uploaded this, all the question marks disappeared. first it was the spacing, the lack of other punctuation marks, I hope this is a ONE TIME THING.