The end?

Sorry about the horrible spelling. When I wrote the last chapter I kind of rushed it and I guess it shows. By the way, if your losing interest in this story don't stop reading! In the next chapter everything will start happening again so be patient. This chapter is only here because I wanted sonic to get used to his new life before I through him into a new adventure. Now , on with the story!

Disclaimer: sigh (IM already getting fed up with doing this) I don't own any of the sonic characters. The ones I own are jarula, shimmer and zero.

I pressed my back against a slimy concrete wall , Knuckles was to my side, a weird looking gun in his hand.

After a few days in the company of an older knuckles, vector and a few of their 'friends', knuckles has come up to me and told me that we would be making an assault today, and that I would need to come with them.

" WHAT!" I screamed, loud enough for the whole room could here. Several people turned towards me and Knuckles rolled his eyes

" yes sonic, why do you think I freed you anyway? "said Knuckles . I thought for a moment then said

" Because I'm your friend?" Knuckles opened his mouth but shut it again. What I said had thrown him. I still hadn't gotten used to the fact that knuckles and no-one else hadn't seen me for 11 years . To me it was like I had seen them just yesterday. This timeline was still terribly confusing to me. He shifted uncomfortably then said

" well yeah that ...but I also freed you could you could turn the tide of the war for us, so you've got to help".

So that was it, I had ended up in a battle I didn't want to fight in. But I suppose non of the others did either. Suddenly Knuckles communicator device flashed. He turned it on and the face of shimmer came up, a black male fox with eyes so shadowed they almost blended in with his fur. He was the teams sniper expert and was currently posted on top of our hideouts roof.

" talk to me" said Knuckles in a commander like way. The black fox replied with no sign of emotion.

" Neo was taken down, but I believe I have located the power source for the security robots" his screen fuzzed and yelling could be heard. The fox could be seen shooting at something with a primitive laser. Suddenly he vanished from the small view of the screen , leaving knuckles and me at a loss as to what happened. Soon the shooting stopped and the foxes head came back into view his hand covering the left half of his face.

" What was that?" Knuckles asked . The fox growled and said in an angry tone

" A standard laser guard, stupid fucker, it got my eye" the fox removed his hand from so that his eye was visible. It was nothing but a bloody mess, beginning to leak blood extremely badly . I grimaced at the sight and Knuckles sighed , too used to the sight of injury to be really bothered . He moved of, the rest of use followed. Jaruala walked behind me, a heavy laser in his hand. He gave me a dirty look , as I hadn't bothered to ask for a weapon. I didn't need it, I told him , but for some reason he thought that I was boasting about how tough I was. No chance. Being 'tough' is exactly what got me into this mess and right now I wished I was just normal, so that everyone's hopes were not resting on my shoulders.

Suddenly , a robot appeared in front of us, the blood of who I guess was Neo splattered on its front. Knuckles charged forward, using his mechanical arm to knock of an exposed scanning device. But suddenly, from around the corner of a scrap of old robot, another appeared, which was almost immediately shot down by vector. Another two appeared and I used my spin dash on one of them, knocking of its main laser but not destroying it. Another shot from knuckles gun finished it off, but soon two more appeared. Zero, a red tiger with white strips and four wheels were legs should, fired his weapon, destroying another robot. I did a spin dash into another, injuring it. But by the time I had finished my attack, five more identical robots appeared. I began to panic, we were being surrounded. For each robots we destroyed , another two appeared , exactly identical. These things must be being constantly churned out of a factory somewhere . I saw Knuckles dodging attacks and fiercely sending his arm through the power core of the robot , growling savagely as he did so He whirled round, sweat running down his forehead, but came face to face with a long laser gun.

Without thinking I spin dashed forward, knocking the robot aside. Knuckles jumped up and thanked me, then rushed of to tackle another robot. I saw vector and jarula working together to defeat the robots. The stood back to back and rotated as they fired their identical weapons. I turned round to see myself up against four robots. I panicked and did a weak spin dash on the front of one, but a shield covered it and I bounced of. I stepped back as they raised their lasers, gulping as I did so. There lasers fired and I jumped out of the way, narrowly avoiding being burnt to cinders. I gasped for breath, next time I may not be so lucky. They prepared to fire again. I was about to run when two of them mysteriously spluttered and died.

The others turned around and faced upwards, aiming their lasers at the unseen threat. I saw the opportunity and spin forward, crashing through the weak, unshielded backs of the robots.

I glanced up and saw on the roof, with his modified sniper riffle, shimmer the fox , a bandage covering his shot eye . I smiled and gave him a thumbs up, to which he returned a simple nod. I shrugged, as far as I knew, this was about as friendly as shimmer got. When I looked up again he was gone, probably trying to keep his cover, I thought to myself.

" HEY SONIC! QUIT DAY DREAMING!" Yelled jarula as he fired almost endless shots out of his laser cannon. I shock my head and rushed over, getting their in a second. The young crocodile stood dumbstruck for a second, as he had never seen my amazing speed.

" Hey jaws, quit day dreaming" I joked . The crocodile, however, wasn't in a laughing mood and gave me an angry glare. Luckily knuckles came to my rescue and as he rushed up and said

" Come on sonic, we've located the control system!". I followed , wondering if we would end up winding our way through dozens of security systems in a gigantic base , that it would take all day to get to. But to my surprise I was Soon there. All it was a small box slightly dug in the ground. I narrowed my eyes in suspicion and said

" Is this it?" Knuckles nodded and got out a small , round discus. I watched , confused as he placed it on the box. It began beeping loudly. Knuckles turned to me and said

" Quick exit please sonic". I nodded and grabbed both his and jarulas arms, then began powering my feat. Soon we were being chased by many dark robots, their plating sinister and spiky. Suddenly , one particularly streamline on raced up to me , somehow matching my speed. I gritted my teeth as it aimed its gun at us. Suddenly , a low rumble shock the ground , slowly increasing in force. I looked back to see a enormous explosion coming from where knuckles had planted the small device. As the biggest shock wave from the blast hit us , I was thrown into the air, just about managing to keep hold of knuckles and jarula and miss the fire of the speeding robot as well.

" AH!" I shouted as I jumped out of the way , as it began firing again . Dragging alone an echidna with a heavy metal arm an a muscular crocodile wasn't exactly helping my speed and one shot from that laser and I'd never run again. I carried on sprinting at high speeds, jumping and dodging the robots laser half the time and the other trying to watch were I was going. I saw the robot swing round and come up behind me , forcing me to go faster with its spiky front and waste all of my energy. But I just kept going. However by now I realized that I had traveled too far , and was know running in a large empty desert with the occasional sign of an old ruined building. I looked directly in front of me and saw that , to my horror , we were heading straight towards a huge factory, its roof heading well above the dark clouds. Out of its base I saw hundreds of identical robots being pored out every second and out of its walls I saw just as many hovering planes and flying robots flooding out of its many doors.

What was powering this huge factory? I didn't have time to wonder as the robots began shooting. Quickly the had all detected me and I found my self swerving to my extreme left to right just to avoid the long range lasers. I knew I couldn't turn round, as that would lead a million robots to our secret hideaway. There was only one thing I could do now.

I reached the base wall, knuckles and jaruala helping to blast a path for me with their stolen laser and gun . I began running straight upwards, trying my best to avoid any plains that were coming from its walls , although one occasionally caught me by surprise and I had to spin dash out of its way , leaving knuckles and jarula a little dizzy and shocked.

By now the entire lot of robots had spotted us and were firing. Some used heavy weaponry like huge powerful bombs and others fired a continues stream of bullets. I heard jaruala yell in pain as a bullet hit him in the leg. I tried to pick up the pace , any more hits and he would be done for.

By now the door from which the robots came out of had stopped and only the aircraft were firing now, the ground robots left behind as I ascended higher and higher.

Then , I saw what I was looking for . A glow through the gloom of the murky clouds. My heartbeat began to race as I excitement swept through my body, I had found what I was looking for.

There , right at the top of the roof , balanced between two spikes that were draining its energy for the factory to use, was a ring. I yelled in triumph and spin dashed forward , knocking out the final defense force field that surrounded it. As I grabbed it in my hand , I felt a stream of energy flow through my body. Letting go of knuckles and jarula , I entered a powerful spin dash , firing forward from the building then swooping back , like a boomerang, to the factory. A smile crept onto my face as I approached that wretched factory.

" Your finished "I said under my breath as I speed towards it. Finally , I reached outside wall , using the rings power to rip through the machinery and wires and straight through the other side. I then rolled back up to the top of the building, quickly grabbed knuckles and jaruala, then jumped of the side. As I sped forward , through the junk desert , the factory exploded , lighting up the sky as a huge fireball ripped through it, like fire from a demons mouth. Pieces of robots and the factory itself rain down around us like meteorites. I looked back and grinned, feeling happier than I had for a long time. It was almost like the old days again, with my friends at my side and no cares in the world. Getting that feeling back again felt great, as is my old life had suddenly been handed back to me on a plate. Feeling the excitement and over confidence sweep over me like it so often did , I failed to notice the same robot that had been chasing me earlier was behind me once more.

I first noticed something was wrong when I heard a low moan of an engine and saw that knuckles was looking behind at something behind me , A look of shock and anger on his face. Next I heard a familiar clicking noise as the robot loaded its gun. My old life vanished once more and I spun round to face the robot , only to see that it had began firing its deadly weapon. I watched in horror as the bullets raced towards my eyes , trying my best to dodge a weapon that was specially designed to destroy me. I closed my eyes as I felt the bullets slid into my skull, ripping away tissue and skin in the process. I felt no pain and suddenly realized that I could feel nothing at all, as if my mind had begun to turn off. Then , from some isolated part of my subconscious, I heard the faint words in a robotic tone

'system...shut down" .All of my senses failed and I found myself slipping back into the feeling of non existence that I was freed from only months before.

So ...this was death...

AUTHORS NOTES

Oooooo , cliffhanger! Is this the end of the story? Or is their more to be uncovered? Sorry about making you put up drug names because I don't think i'll be needing them now. I remade the plot because the old one wasn't really that good and didn't make sence. In the old one I was going to have knuckles talking to some dogdgy guy about selling him drugs, but I didn't really need that in the story so I took it out. Sorry! The next chapter may take some time to come up because I want to read any reviews for this one first and try to take the advice that people give me. If your wondering why this chapter took so long you can thank celistial the hedgird , who pointed out all the faults with my old chapter and I had to make sure I didn't make the same mistacks with this one. Not that I mind, feel free to do it again celistial or anyone else. Is it any better? Or worse? Please tell me so I can improve it if needed. Im going on work experiance next week! woohoo! I think...