This is for all of you who've been patient with me, thanx! I've fixed the problem of ch's 8 and 9 being the same and I've finished the story. Thanks to Tylec Asroc, Gh0st-Xer0, ShadowBlade13 and Saphire for the encouragement. Enjoy! Sayonara, Shade
Finally the teams were ready to infiltrate Robotropolis, destroy the
remaining robots and security systems, work at finding salvageable items
and begin to rebuild the city. Sonic went with his team and the rest of the
teams. All was going well until they reached an abandoned storehouse.
Hundreds of robots poured out, these weren't regular robots though.
They were what remained of those who were once friends and family,
they were roboticized mobians. Unwilling to destroy them in hopes that a
cure may one day be found all of the teams were forced to retreat. They
were almost out safely when Robotnik's right hand man showed himself
to be alive and kicking. His name was Snively. Far different from his
uncle, Snively was skinny, athletic and deserving of the title evil genius.
While Robotnik's machines were always defective and easily disposed of,
Snively's, the roboticized mobians, were not easily disposed of, even if
one could bring himself to attack one of his own. The weaker team
members were forced to scatter and run for it while stronger fighters like
Sonic organized themselves and prepared to run decoy until the others
reached safety. The last to leave was of course, Sonic.
Snively hunted for Knothole relentlessly, several times coming
dangerously close to it. Sonic had numerous clashes with Snively and
seemed to be getting faster. Sonic thought that was great. Knuckles and
Espio came down from Angel Island to see what they could do to help.
As Knuckles continued to watch Sonic's fights with Snively he noticed
that Sonic was slowly getting stronger, colder and calculating in battle.
To Knuckles' well trained eyes, Sonic was slowly getting taken over by
something dark. Perfectly centered by Sonic's soul was a darker light.
The light was spreading, it went from Sonic's legs up, going about
halfway down his arms. As the light spread Sonic continued to get faster
and stronger. This got Knuckles so worried that he brought the subject
up with Amy. He asked her to keep a sharp eye on Sonic.
Amy kept Sonic close to her and was unnerved at the personality change
she saw in Sonic. He had even tried to kiss her! This had her worried.
Tails had noticed too. He tested Sonic's new strength and went pale with
his findings; Sonic would be twice as strong as Knuckles within a few
days. Sonic had taken to eating more and refused to touch his favorite
food, chilidogs. One day Amy found him outside, laying face-down,
unmoving. Terrified Amy had run towards him. Just before she reached
him he rolled over onto his back, yawned then sat up and opened his
eyes. Amy could've sworn his eyes changed colors. "Sonic? Sonic, are
you okay? You never sleep on your stomach." "Yes I do." He retorted.
Amy shied away from him. "Amy, what's wrong? Why are you scared of
me? I thought. . ." He sighed and closed his eyes. When he opened them
again he seemed different, friendlier. "Hey Amy, guess I must've dozed
off. Were you looking for me?" Amy felt a shiver go down her spine.
"Um, no. I was worried 'cause you were out here face down and you
weren't moving." Amy found herself in Sonic's arms. "I'm so scared
Sonic." In response Sonic hugged her closer. Amy looked up startled
when she felt something wet slide down her cheek. Sonic had a few tears
trailing down his cheeks. "Sonic?" Sonic looked down at her and smiled
gently. "I'm going to get rid of Snively once and for all, so we can all
come out of hiding." Sonic gently pushed her away and took off, leaving
behind a flaming trail, a sonic boom and a very confused Amy.