Warning: Small rape scene later on.
42 - One Trillion Colors
The divine being who stood at least a few inches taller than both hedgehogs, continued to float away while humming a foreign song. The colors of the rainbow, so beautiful, with terror rising from it's chaotic spectrum. He was leaving, he was going to Ogilvie's room. He couldn't let that happen. No-
"...Stop..."
He refused to let that happen!
Zonic instantly stood up and sprinted forward while raising his hand to seize the hand of the spirit. "I said STOP!" He yelled, using both hands to pull at the deity's wrist. "I won't let you!" He hollered. "I will never let one of you hurt him again!" As he continued to pull harder and harder, the taller hedgehog-looking being just stood in the exact same place. He never turned around, never faced him, only paused for but a moment as Zonic miserably attempted to stop him. "H-He's my responsibility, he's one of my brethren! I'm his big brother, so go away and let me handle it myself! I can do this on my own!"
The deity's long quills that flowed in the air change a particular color, a light yellow. "Oh?" He tilted his head.
"Yes!" Zonic exclaimed. "I can do this all on my own, I don't need help from the likes of you!" With another big pull, Zonic finally mustered the strength to yank the larger being back. "We don't need you! SO GO AWAY!" He screamed as his weight gave in.
The deity slowly floated backwards from his previous spot, having been pitifully tossed from behind. Now, they both could fully see his face.
The face, of one trillion colors.
His own immense aura that was nearly pure white, lightened the color of his muzzle and peach arms. They looked almost pale thanks to that. Fur that was almost just as blank, with an infinite number of spectrums shining all throughout his body. Slowly changing from one color palette to the next every couple of minutes. His eyes, his gorgeous hot pink eyes. Hot pink, or scarlet red? It was hard to differentiate the two. He was so heavenly, so pretty, that even his eyes had long lashes. Beautiful. His fur was so smooth, groomed flawlessly. His lips, full enough to kiss the very sun or the moon. His quills, long enough to be considered voluminous hair. The shoes that their species sported, they were hi-tech but ancient. A mysterious technology crafted his foot ware long ago, handmade himself.
He was so...
So...
...Perfect.
Zonic and Zhadow's tear ducts were now flooding with tears of many shades. Yellows, blues, greens, pinks, they were all falling from their eyes. The divine spirit was so beautiful, they cried tears of the spectrum. Their bodies became weak, with Zonic involuntarily kneeling all over again. He tried looking over to Zhadow, only to see that his superior was absolutely hypnotized by this very being. He was too far gone to wake up. He couldn't help him, he was on his own. While sniffling and desperately trying to wipe his tears away, Zonic tried getting up to move. But he wouldn't, the rest of his body was paralyzed with purity. He was too weak, he wasn't strong enough to stand against him.
But he had to! He had to protect Ogilvie, he just had to! He had to, he had to-
"Cease, Zonic."
His command, was absolute.
He...He had to listen...To him...
Had to...Listen...
Had...to...
Listen...
...
...Display obedience.
"You are far too weak, child." The divine being said as he floated a bit closer in front of him. "My power can easily command the heart and soul of anyone who is too weak to stand against my aura." He lowered his arm downwards, gently caressing Zonic's chin to tilt it up. He looked the God directly in his hot pink eyes, watching small stars and comets whirl inside of his godly irises. "You are Chaos Born, and your bloodline is indeed sacred to us, but right now you are failing me." He squeezed his thumb and fingers against Zonic's face painfully, an angry frown now very apparent on his muzzle. "Your insolence is unbecoming of you, you are asking a painful death for such blasphemy."
Then, a small exhale drifted from his lips. An exhale so gentle, yet so powerful, that a colorful whirlwind of air blew throughout the entire facility in a small instant.
"However," The light one added with a much more softer tone. "I am willing to forgive you. After all, I am not the vengeful one. I," He withdrew his hold from Zonic's face. "Am the pure one, the forgiving one." He held up a fist, tightening it as his fur changed to yellow. "I hold complete control and dominion over everything." That fist loosened, his fur changing to light blue. "I hold the very hearts and souls of all Chaos Born, with sympathy, empathy and love. And I also embody the very essence of obedience, something that you and Ogilvie lack. Still," He looked away as his fur changed to white. "My love for you all overpowers anything that I stand for, even my own ambitions." He slowly turned his back towards him. "Therefore, I will excuse both you and Ogilvie for your treason."
His control of Zonic ceased when he finally stopped looking him in the eye. Zonic regained feeling in all of his limbs again, while his superior fell unconscious. No one could handle that kind of power unless they were full-blooded Chaos Born. He placed his hands onto the floor, pushing himself to try and stand. "Y-You're..." He could barely breathe, his power put way too much pressure on their bodies. "L-L...Letting us...G-Go?" He tried to asked in a deathly whisper. He felt so weak, so tired. So scared.
The deity nodded. "Indeed. But as for your punishment, I will not grant Ogilvie death. I am afraid he must obey our rules first, if he wishes to die." He hesitated. "And," He added another thing. "Please understand, that Ogilvie is way passed due his mating stage."
Zonic blinked. "W-What?"
"Are you aware of female menstruation cycles, Zonic?" The light one asked.
He nodded, unsure of what the God would say next. "Yes."
"And are you aware of an estrous cycle?"
"Y-Yes. But why?"
"You see child," The being turned around to face him, but he did not look him in the eyes this time. He didn't want to paralyze him again. "How a Chaos Born mates is eerily similar to both phenomenons." He crossed his legs in the air, with his hands folded in his lap as he floated. "As you already know, gender is unimportant in terms of possibility. With every reality, the way a male reproduces are usually similar. But for any gender, the way they go through heat can vary drastically. For example," He snapped his gloved fingers, a white bubble appearing before them.
In that very bubble, they could see the other realities and other Sonics that existed in the multiverse.
The light one levitated it closer to Zonic's eyes so he could see for himself. As if looking through a crystal ball, he saw scenes change within it. "Reality 786, the reality of switched genders. You see the female Sonic there?" After seeing Zonic nod with silence, the being moved on. "Her pregnancy is standard for a normal female. Sperm will reach her eggs, she will grow a belly, an embryo will form in her stomach, and she will give birth in a certain amount of months. Chaotic pregnancies are usually rather shorter than normal Mobian pregnancies, but I digress. Her process is simple. The way she gives off heat in this reality though, is different."
He snapped his fingers again, and something else appeared: The very anatomy of a Chaos Born in that Sonic's reality.
"With normal Mobians, they give off heat like a bad stench. You can sense it, and your hormones are easily triggered. But in this reality for Chaos Born, this is not so. Instead of a stench or aura, this Sonic in this reality, will go through intense and unfathomable pain until she is completely satisfied." The bubble showed the anatomy of the Sonic's abdomen. "All of her heat and pain will rush there if she does not mate. This, will be her menstruation cycle." He snapped his fingers again to show a different Sonic, a male one this time. "Reality 2244, reality of switched roles. The Sonic in this one, a male, will go through heat in another way." The bubble changed to show an image of this Sonic's brain. "The heat will act less like a stench, and more of a biological chemical that directly infects the side of the brain that control emotions. He will no longer act like one's 'sidekick', he will be confident, suave, and fearless with a strong sex drive. He will be a completely different person, and his persona will be severely altered for a temporary amount of time."
The nerd-like Sonic in that world, would no longer be so. He'd probably act like some sex-crazed juvenile.
"Also, if he were to mate with another male, the pregnancy process is of course very different. Since males do not hold eggs naturally like females, he must gain them through force. They will need one of us for aid, but either way, one of us would grant him the ability of gaining eggs and the ability to ovulate by committing a Divine Intervention."
A what? Zonic was getting way too confused by all of this. So that joke he made earlier when he first appeared was actually legit information?
"Divine Intervention is a chaotic power that gives a male Chaos Born the ability to reproduce in a certain method. That method, is submerging the male in deep levels of water filled chaos with the combined powers of all four of us at full strength. The process is extremely painful the first time, but it can be done." The images on the bubble changed to the male Chaos Born's abdomen. "They won't grow a belly, and there won't be an embryo. Instead, there will be a soul growing inside until it's big enough to be released. It will then form it's own body with flesh in the very place the male was submerged, and will be born there. It takes a longer time for this to happen, around an entire year."
Zonic slowly shook his head. "Why...Why are you telling me all of this?"
"Because something like this is what Ogilvie will go through if he does not mate. He doesn't even need to lose maidenhood, I just need a single child from him. Nothing more." The light one furrowed his brows. "Every Chaos Born has a due date to discard their chastity and reproduce, but he's long passed due. If he doesn't go through with mating, he will be forced into his own estrous cycle, and he will suffer for it." The light one narrowed his hot pink irises with concern. "In his reality, when a Chaos Born is in heat, they will become weak and tired. So much as walking is an ordeal as their very bones become fatigued. Not only that, but they will give off a horrendous stench of lust, that will attract even the most stubborn creatures. It is so powerful, not even you would be able to resist Ogilvie. You would all be ants fleeing to a rotten apple."
The Overseer's eyes shrunk in alarm. "Y-You've gotta be kidding me." They would all be trying to have intercourse with Ogilvie, all at once? "That, that's just disgusting! He's still just a kid! He's only fifteen!"
"We know it is, but the way you all are created is out of our control. We only have the power to spawn you into existence. Anything else about you is created entirely on the flip of a coin. Your weaknesses, your physical traits, even the way you mate or give birth, it's all out of our control. In fact, we only just figured out how to allow males to breed some centuries ago. Even we are still learning." He sighed. "The worst part, since Ogilvie has weakened himself, he won't even be able to move a single finger. He'll be practically immobilized. The ones attracted to his heat can either be gentle, or violent with him."
"N-No," Zonic whispered. "No!" He yelled. "I don't want him to be forced to do anything! I don't want anyone to hurt him anymore! Do something!"
The light one turned his head away from him while closing his eyes with abrupt agitation. "I am sorry, but you have twisted my arm. If you had let me have my way, I would have made Ogilvie reproduce without pain, nor pleasure. Divine Intervention also has a way of reproducing Chaos Born in a one-sided pregnancy. The process could have been done asexually. It would have been a quick process, but you've already made up your mind, no?" He turned up his nose to him, floating away as the bubble before him popped. "You dare speak back to me, put your filthy hands on me and bad mouth me like I am some evil step parent? Tch, your arrogance has hurt you."
He couldn't let that happen. He couldn't! He had to do something to stop this! "N-No, wait-! Please!" Zonic settled back down on his knees, sinking his head low to show that he was not worthy. "I-I'm sorry, I'll listen! I won't disobey anymore, just help Ogilvie! Please!" He pleaded. "I'll do anything!"
"And now you're begging for help? My," He made a bitter scoff and crossed his arms under his chest. "How the mighty Overseers have fallen. I am done with your indecisive attitude child, this is both your punishment and Ogilvie's for extreme insolence. You for your arrogance, and him for his rebellious nature. My forgiveness can go but so far. You said you could handle this on your own? Well, this is all your mess now, Overseer Zonic. I've other matters to attend to either way."
He couldn't just leave. He can't just do that! "...N-No." He whimpered.
"Goodbye."
"NO!"
He threw his hand back out to seize his wrist but-
-He was gone.
Five hours later, Zonic marched to Zobonik's office and demanded that he shut down the entire facility. He told him to force all workers to go home for approximately one week. With some last minute studying, Zonic realized that Ogilvie would go in heat within three hours. Zonic and Zhadow would be the only ones present in the building. They would lock themselves in their own offices, and would not come out for any reason. Ogilvie's heat rose and lowered every few hours, so sometimes it wouldn't be as strong. Meaning, they'd be able to handle it if it was weak. That would be when they could leave their offices to use the bathroom, or check up on him in the prison. Everything would work out fine.
At least, that's how he wished things went.
Zonic thought he'd be able to argue the fat human down, get his way. But no, that didn't happen. Zonic made so much of a fuss about Ogilvie, Zobotnik grew tired of it and ordered for him to be detained with Zhadow as his escort. He denied Zonic of all of his conditions, and ordered for him to leave his sight and spend a few days in the hole for a while. He knew of the divine spirits, and he knew about the light one. But he didn't believe him about the whole 'mating' thing. However, he also didn't care. This was his prison, his HQ, and he wouldn't be ordered around by some crazy-talking teenager that he didn't even care about in the first place.
Before he knew it, Zonic was in handcuffs. Zhadow tried to fight against this, defend his prodigy and demand that the Warden change his mind. That is, until he was ordered to be detained too. They were both injected with something that knocked them out instantly, and they were dragged to their new cells. The warden just laughed at them as they were taken away.
"Why the hell would I listen to you!? I'm sick of you damn Chaos Born ordering me around like some slave! Well how about this? I'm a rebel too! And I'm not going to listen to any of you wenches! Not you, not those Divine Ghosts or whatever, nobody! This is MY prison! MY HQ, and MY reality! Screw you!" He cackled, and cackled and cackled. "Hahaha, I'm in control here! The sooner you understand that,"
He smirked.
"The easier your life here will be."
That very night, the very doctors who used to give checkups to Ogilvie...
"My," One smiled as they held up a needle. It was a male lizard. "I never noticed this before but, you're quite a gorgeous specimen, prisoner seventeen." They complimented.
Another, a female red panda, spread his legs apart as he whimpered. He couldn't even kick her away. "Oh my, you're not even hard yet." That's because he didn't enjoy this. Sure he may have been in heat, but he didn't want this at all. "We can fix that though, right sweetie?"
The prince tried shaking his head, but he could barely move a muscle. "N-No...Please...Don't..." He couldn't even speak. It felt like he was dying.
Yet another, a male knock-out rat, rubbed his fingers against his peach stomach. "I wonder how you feel inside."
"No...No..."
"Don't fight it, it's love at the end of the day."
Love.
In all of their eyes, were cloudy murkiness of blinded lust. They didn't know what they were doing, they had no idea they were hurting somebody. To them, it was an orgy they unwillingly took apart of. That was the power of Ogilvie's heat. They were hurting someone, raping someone without their own knowledge. Even still, they were the ones hurting him, not the other way around.
They kept touching him, penetrating him, licking him and tasting him for hours and hours. Those same monsters returned to his cell every single night. They wouldn't stop, no matter how many times he begged them to. They just wouldn't stop, never ever stopping. The touching, the groping, the whispering, the laughing, the pain, the humiliation, the pain...So much pain.
Pain...
...That's why, he didn't feel sorry for smearing their body parts all over the walls after he had enough.
And also, that, is when he lost his mind.
That, is when he lost any small ounce of sanity he had left within his mind.
As of now, he was truly broken this time.
As for Zonic and Zhadow, they went through pain as well. They were separated, beaten by other cellmates, spat on and jumped as ordered by Zobotnik himself for their insolence against the warden. After Ogilvie's week of being in heat was over, their temporary sentence was over. In that time, Zonic was no longer that indecisive scared little boy. He finally realized why the divine spirits created him to be emotionless, why his ancestors raised him to be emotionless. Because if he didn't have any emotions, he could have taken those beatings a lot easier. He wouldn't have cried in front of them, looked weak in front of them, be humiliated in front of them. He still would have had his dignity.
When he and Zhadow were reunited, he didn't even smile at his superior. Nor did he even look at him. It didn't take Zhadow long to realize that his little apprentice, was no longer the child he used to know. Then, when they heard the news of Ogilvie's rape, Zonic truly died inside. His bright green eyes, were dulled. No longer did they have a spark in them, no longer were they lime and full of life. They were dead, and cold. And they would stay that way, for years and years to come. Zobotnik did nothing to help him, and even had the incident covered up so no one else would know about this. All they would know, is that Ogilvie murdered three doctors, and that it was all his fault.
That day, Zonic became a true failure.
One more week later, Zonic visited Ogilvie one last time.
Even to Ogilvie, Zonic was entirely different. He was no longer sympathetic, he was no longer the nice Overseer who just wanted to be a friend. He was the empty cold blooded private who wanted nothing more than to release his deepened rage, sorrow and guilt on one person in particular: Zobotnik. When Zonic arrived in his cell with new scars and wounds on his body, Ogilvie stared. His body was sprawled on his bed, his straight jacket not even on. Only his orange prison uniform, which was tattered and ripped. He managed to get out of it somehow. There were writings and carvings on the wall, and so were blood stains. There were many lines on his wrists, he was cutting himself. He looked just as dead as Zonic did right now.
After ten minutes of silence, Zonic finally spoke up. "...Would you like to leave?" He asked in a deathly whisper.
Ogilvie said nothing back. He didn't feel like using his vocal chords. He just wanted to sleep. Sleep. Sleep. Forever.
The failed Overseer continued on anyway. "One of the exits of the prison are open. I will give you a key, and the password to the HQ entrance. I will also give you a small scaled warp ring that leads back to your world. Take all of these items, and leave. Do not turn back." His voice was so monotone and dry, now. "Don't even hesitate. Never return." He kept staring back at the prince. "Do you understand?"
Slowly, he sat up in his bed. Then after a minute, he nodded. "..."
"Good," Zonic stood up from the chair and walked over in front of the bed. He dug in his quills and dropped all of the items he mentioned before in front of him. "Here," He said. He then walked away from the bed, and stepped out of the room. However, it didn't close back and it was now wide open. He paused by the doorway, and Ogilvie watched with ghostly eyes. "Go," He ordered. "Now." And with that, the Overseer was gone.
Ogilvie looked down at his items, before scrambling them all up in his hands and limping out of his cell.
The reason for Ogilvie Maurice's first escape from No Zone Prison, was all thanks to Zonic.
Zonic stood behind the open door to Ogilvie's cell, watching him wobble down the hall and make a sharp right turn. A gloved hand grasped Zonic's shoulder. A familiar heavenly voice laced his hearing, perfect lips whispering beside his ear. "You've done well, Overseer Zonic. At least this way, Ogilvie will no longer suffer here. He will eventually find true love and reproduce, and he will receive what he's always wanted. Death."
Zonic said nothing as the deity floated onwards to the other person who stood there with him.
"And as for you, Overlander," He was speaking to Zobtonik, who was now paralyzed from the light one's direct gaze. He was stuck in a standing position, he couldn't move. The being spoke with disgust at the human. "Are you happy now? One of my children was raped and dirtied thanks to your order to detain and abuse his Overseer." He circled around Zobtonik slowly, watching the human's face become even more horrified with every second he spent around him. "You sadistic, revolting, scum-eating swine. I hope you're satisfied with yourself."
For once in his life, Zobotnik was silent, and very fearful.
The light one scrunched up his darkened face in utter abhorrence and swiftly turned away from the human. "Grotesque is what your species is. And you wonder why you were all eradicated the first go round when my brothers and I were first born. You all sicken me!" He yelled. "Now both of you," He was referring to Zonic as well, who didn't dare look his way. He listened in silence. The light one floated in front of them both. "Listen carefully. Neither of you are to speak of any of this to the Champion. His judgement of us is more important than anything in the multiverse. Your lips," He held up his finger to his own mouth, before placing a small peck to his finger tip. He then tapped that same finger on Zonic's lips, a small surge of a strange power slipping through them. "...Are sealed."
He was never to speak of it again.
"I hope you've learned your lesson, child." The being said to the failed Overseer. "You do not disobey me without paying a hefty price. In this case, your price was your dignity and your reputation as an Overseer." His eyes lowered with dishonor. "Sadly for Ogilvie, it was his maidenhood and his sanity. What a shame...Hopefully with time, he will find his trust in me again. And perhaps one day I'll be able to heal his permanent wounds." He then glanced at Zonic. "If you ever somehow break the seal and reveal this information to the Champion," His hot pink eyes became burning scarlet for a second. "I will not hesitate to make your very existence a living nightmare." He quickly glared at Zobotnik. "That includes you too, human waste."
He then disappeared in a flash of white light.
"I hope we never have a talk like this again. Farewell."
His voice echoed throughout the halls in his absence.
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...
The room they all stood in, it was now on fire. The metal walls, floors and iron bars, they were all rusted. The cot, chair, everything was rotting away into red embers of fire. Small chaotic scarlet flames were slowly growing bigger and bigger. Everyone not including Scourge, were all huddled together in a circle. Sonic, Shadow, Zonic, Zhadow, Zector and Zespio. All of their eyes were drained, with blood dripping from them as red swirls twisted in their eyeballs. Their eyes hurt, they burned from witnessing the truth. Scourge stood in front of them all, his energy fully recharged and returned to him as he watched them all see what he saw: Zonic's memories.
But the weirdest part about this? Zonic was laughing hysterically while crying blood. Scourge had no idea why, he could only assume because he lost his mind from witnessing what he did in the past. After Zonic's memories of the incident ended, Scourge decided it was time to break everyone out of his control. He snapped his fingers, asking for Fleetway to let them all go. "That's enough, Boss."
Instantly, everyone started screaming.
They immediately grabbed at their eyes, hollering and wobbling around in pain. Fleetway didn't have the power of healing others, so Scourge couldn't do anything. He just watched as they were all blinded by the searing pain. He didn't smile at their pain, he didn't even snicker. This wasn't funny. None of this shit was funny. This was pathetic, pitiful, enraging. He just looked away and crossed his arms while closing his own eyes.
Suddenly, Sonic held up one of his hands away from his bloody eyes and called forth for the deities once more. "Hyper," He hissed with agony. "Give me...G-Give me some of your power for just a second! I need to heal everyone!"
With his prayers instantly answered, the hand that he held up had a flash of white light whisk around it. That white light soon became multicolored, surrounding and growing around his entire arm. Then, that white light blinded them all for a few seconds, before fading away. Immediately, the pain was gone. The chaotic scarlet fires, were extinguished. The rotting room, was now back to the way it was. The metal walls and floors were no longer rusty, the chair did not rot away and neither did the cot. Their eyes were no longer bleeding, they could see again.
Sonic scanned the room and saw that everyone seemed fine. Zespio and Zector looked at each other, before glancing over at the blue hedgehog. He then turned to the side to see Shadow, who was looking down at his hands that were previously stained with blood. Now they were white and clean. He moved his head and looked in Sonic's direction, knowing it was his doing. Right, everyone was fine except...for...Sonic looked behind him near the wall.
Oh no.
Oh God, just no.
"Zonic, Zonic!" Zhadow shouted as he shook his commander's body. Zonic's head was laying in Zhadow's lap, his body limp on the floor as he laughed manically. Cascades of tears continued falling from his face as he laughed at something. Or nothing. He was stuck in madness, his own madness. His own guilt for what he had done trapped him, and there was no escaping. "Wake up, wake up damn it!" He yelled desperately as he tried shaking him again. It was no use, he wouldn't wake up.
"Ahahaha...Ahahahahaaaa..." There was a permanent smile on his face. "He's there...He's always there...Standing behind you...Hahaha...Ogilvie...You should say hello! Hahaha!"
Sonic's pupils shrunk in fear. He whipped his head over at Scourge. "Did you do this!? Fix this!" He ordered.
"Before you starting jamming your finger at people, get your damn facts straight." Scourge snarled back at him. "I didn't fucking do that!" He said while pointing to Zonic. "I don't know what the fuck that shit is, but Fleetway had nothin' to do with that."
The hero growled at his attitude. "Then what the hell are we supposed to do!?"
"How should I know? He's not my fucking problem!"
Blue chaos energy roared from Sonic's body as he angrily stepped forward in front of Scourge. "You're the one who ripped his memories out of his damn head, who's to say your power didn't trigger his own insanity?"
Scourge clenched his fanged teeth in just as much exasperation. "And what if it did? It's his own fucking fault."
Sonic's eyes twitched. "...What'd you just say out of your mouth?"
"You fucking heard me, it's his fault!" He shoved Sonic away with large force, shooting him to the other side of the room and his back hitting the metal wall. He even dented it upon impact. He coughed as the very air was taken from him, falling to his knees as Shadow rushed to his side. Scourge materialized a leather jacket on his back, and he zipped it up as he spoke. "Don't fucking come at me like this is all my fault, it's his too! That bastard started goin' nuts the second his ancestors kept isolating him. But he only turned out like this, because his guilt for fucking me over is eating away at him like a damn parasite. This is his despair, and now he's trapped in it after he saw the truth for himself. The truth he tried to look away from, the truth he tried to blind himself to...Now he'll never be able to look away ever again."
Shadow gave him a devilish glare, as did Sonic when he finally got his breathing in order.
Scourge squeezed his eyes shut as he tried to forget. "He tried to forget, but I never did. I never could!" He grinded his teeth back and forth. "They kept shoving things inside of me, over and over. Injecting me with serums to see how my body would react. They kept telling me that's what true love was, to hurt someone like that. Then I realized that...That..." He tightened his hands into fists, they shook with indignity and rage. "...Chaos Born in my reality, that's the only way we can mate. By letting someone rape us like paralyzed cattle!"
"But that's not Zonic's fault!"
"Yes it was!" Scourge yelled, red and black chaotic energy rising from his own body. The entire room quickly went back to it's rotten and decayed state, but with an even worser appearance than before. The metal in the room was entirely rusted, the chair and cot was destroyed. "He could have did something to stop them! He could have tried to escape from his imprisonment, and got me out sooner before they touched me! Or hell, he could have fucking murdered that fat bitch Zobotnik, took control over the entire facility years ago, and warped me back home! He had the fucking power to do it! Even a weakling like Zonic can kill a human! He didn't have to just take it laying down like some pansy! He was supposed to protect me! He was supposed to be MY Overseer! MY Big Brother! And he did nothing! He's pathetic. He should die a slow and agonizing death for all I fucking care!"
Sonic's quills raised, sharpening threateningly. He shoved his fist onto the floor with static sparking in his green eyes. "And what the fuck did you do!?" He yelled back.
"..!?" Scourge was alarmed at his sudden comeback.
"You call him weak, you say he just took it lying down? And what the fuck about you!?" He snatched Shadow off of his shoulder and stood up on his own, marching right back to the green menace. Utterly surprised by Sonic's outburst, perhaps even a little disturbed, Scourge backed away slowly from the hero. His blue eyes slowly shrinking in shock at his words. "You just gave up! You say the divine beings are monsters, but you did nothing about it! Instead, you took the coward's way out and killed everyone else affected by them besides you! You despise them so much? Then why didn't you do anything to stop them!? Why the hell would you put your entire dependency on one person?!"
With some emotions conflicting in Scourge's eyes, he gulped, but growled and argued right back. "I did do something! I freed my people from their power! I freed them from what I would have eventually did!"
"Keyword being eventually, Scourge. Eventually! Meaning, you weren't their puppet yet! You could have did something then! You can't defeat the inevitable but you can't worry about what might happen in the future. You have to live for the present!"
"Bastard..." Scourge's quills raised and sharpened as well, his fangs digging even more into his gums as they grew a little larger. "Don't fucking act like you know me. You don't know what I've been through! What's been done to me!"
Sonic retracted his arm and swung his fist into Scourge's jaw.
"I don't fucking care what you've been through!"
...
"...Wha.."
Huh?
What...?
Did he just...say that?
Scourge stumbled backwards against the iron bars of his cell, watching with wide and shocked eyes as Sonic made his case. "You think that's justified? That because you went through so much shit, you deserve a pass at being a fucking monster!? For killing so many innocent people? For hurting me, for hurting Shadow, for hurting my friends, for hurting Zonic...Destroying our worlds? Are you joking? Really," Sonic repeated. "Are you joking right now!? Because you were a victim, you had to go and take out your wrath on everyone else who don't even know you!? What are you, stupid or crazy!? Don't you dare give me that damn excuse! 'Cause it's bullshit, and I will never accept that!"
Victim? Scourge's mouth twitched. Victim.
No...
He was not a fucking victim.
"I am not-" Scourge whispered. "I AM NOT A VICTIM!" He screamed. "I," Fingers started to shake against each other. "I was never a victim. And don't you fucking get my priorities screwed up." He hissed. "Like I just said, you don't know me. I'm not doing this because I got issues, I'm doing this because I'm trying to save you!"
Sonic stiffened. "What?"
The green hedgehog shoved passed him and walked a couple feet away. "I'm hurting your boyfriend because I want him to see the truth. I'm hurting your friends, because I want them to see the truth. Zonic's hurt, because he already saw the truth. I destroyed our worlds, because I saw it too. And that's why I got hurt, because I didn't stay blind like you did. I killed my people, because I was already infected! It was too late for me!" He turned back around to face Sonic once more. "I'm doing all of this so I can stop your super forms, and kill off all Chaos Born once and for all. As long as the Divine Spirits are alive, no one will ever be safe! Oho yeah, and here's a fuckin' news flash for all ya'll," He pointed his thumb at himself. "You think I like talkin' about my past? You honestly thought that I expected sympathy from any of you bitches!? Hell no! I don't give a shit about that either! My wrath and detest for Zonic isn't justified because of something he couldn't control like me being in heat, it's justified because he gave up too quickly. He gave up on me, and stayed obedient for his warden and the light one until the very end! He's a joke! Why am I the one making a rebellion?! He should be helping me too! But instead, he wants to act like a pussy and kill me off like the mindless slave that he is!"
The enraged hero said nothing back as Scourge continued.
"And as for you saying I gave up too, how about you shut the fuck up? 'Cause I never gave up. If I did, I wouldn't be doing any of this!"
Sonic just shook his head at him. "IQ of over three hundred, my ass. You're so stupid." He spat. "How's this for a news flash? You are a victim, jackass. You were raped for an entire week, straight. Before that, both you and Zonic were beaten. And you were nearly killed several times for a death that you'd never have. Of course I feel pity for you, but that pity-well goes but so deep considering what you're doing now! You say you want me to understand, but how the hell can I understand you if you're trying to kill me and my friends!?"
"Because I've already fucking tried to-You know what?" Scourge asked with half of a bitter smile. "Fuck this. I'm done trying to talk any sense into you anymore, Blue. This is why I don't tell people shit, because they never listen until it's too late." He made a beeline for the entrance of the room, and he waved the middle finger to everyone as he made his exit. "I thought you'd finally get it after seeing all that, but you still refuse to listen. Can't believe I had a fucking crush on you...Hope you all die of gangrene." He simply kicked the iron door down in one hit, and waltzed out.
The hero just watched him leave with a scowl, his hatred for the green hedgehog growing even more. After only a few seconds after his departure, Shadow attempted to get the hedgehog's attention. "Sonic?"
Another angry scowl. "What?"
The ultimate life form ignored his attitude. "Get over here!" He ordered with a loud and grounded tone. Sonic growled and turned to look back in his mate's direction, only to see he was by Zonic's side along with Zhadow. And so was Zespio and Zector. They were all knelt down beside him, but why? That's when Sonic's heart dropped.
Zonic was having a seizure.
Zhadow's face was darkened, while Zector and Zespio slipped their commander into their arms and stood up to carry him out. Foam dripped out of Zonic's mouth, with his eyes rolling behind his head. His hand constantly kept twitching, the rest of his body limp. Slowly, the first lieutenant pressed his fingers into his collar and called for back up. "...We've got a 10-96, I'm afraid second lieutenant general Zonic is having a seizure. I need a team of doctors ready at any available hospital room. Please ensure his safety, officers Zespio and Zectors will be escorting him." He then slumped onto the floor, lowering his head. With a heavy sigh, he dragged his hand over his face.
Sonic just stood there, feeling useless as he watched his best friend get taken away.
END - 42
Okay, so in summation:
Scourge (when he was regular anti-Sonic) apparently slaughtered as many of his people as he could and his surviving family (his father) so that he wouldn't eventually turn and hurt them by the Divine Spirits' order. In his own mind, he thought he was saving them from a painful life by giving them quick and painless deaths. That caused the rest of his world to collapse and riot, ultimately destroying it. That caused him to be arrested by the Zone Cops.
Zonic (who was only a private and an inexperienced Overseer at the time), thought that tyranny and enslavement was a-okay for Chaos Born. That was until he heard Scourge's plight, who realized it was wrong. After hearing Scourge's desperation and witnessing his many failed executions, Zonic finally opened his eyes to the truth: Chaos Born were bad, but the Divine Spirits were worse.
When he tried to give Scourge death, Hyper (the light one) stepped in to give them what they wanted, so long as he got what he wanted: Children from Scourge. All Chaos Born must reproduce before dying, if they can help it. They knew Scourge was trying to kill himself, but they wouldn't let that happen until he gave offsprings. He didn't, so he was denied death. After Zonic mouthed off to Hyper, Hyper decided that he wouldn't do anything and let them be. Hyper could have let Scourge reproduce painlessly and without shame, but Zonic ruined that chance.
Thanks to Scourge's heat, something that no one could control, the doctors of the No Zone Asylum abused and raped him without their own knowledge. Scourge finally cracked, and killed them all. Zonic was imprisoned for irritating the Warden, and was severely beaten and tortured by other inmates by order of Zobotnik. That changed him forever. He then returned to Scourge, and gave him a way to escape. It wasn't the freedom of death, but he would at least be free of No Zone Prison. All by Hyper's order, by the way, when he learned of Scourge's rape.
Scourge's Rage: He was angry because Zonic could have done more to go against the Divine Spirits or the warden, and perhaps could have saved him from being in prison any longer, or even from his rape. Zonic was too weak, and was very quick to give up back then. He blames it all on his weakness for standing up against Zobotnik, or Hyper.
Sonic's Rage: He was angry because it was basically all Scourge's fault that Zonic sunk deeper and deeper into madness. Zhadow's coma, Sonic turning into Dark Sonic to force Zonic to go through the despair of losing his loved one, and finally, opening his guilty memories of the past. He blamed him for the insanity that is slowly but surely killing Zonic. He also hated how it almost seemed like Scourge was making excuses as to why he did the horrible things that he did, but this was not necessarily the case.
Zonic's Guilt: He could have did more to fight back against Zobotnik, and maybe he could have done more to change Hyper's mind. But he didn't try hard enough, and he knows that. That's why he's so violent with Zobotnik now, and why he committed police brutality on inmates. He wasn't just angry because of Zhadow's coma, he was angry at himself. Everything seems like it's all his fault, constantly. And Zonic is painfully depressed to the point where he hates himself. He thinks he is a complete failure to everyone around him, and he wishes he could have saved Ogilvie before it was too late. He was also silenced from telling Sonic the truth in fear of the Divine Spirits killing everyone in No Zone, making him seem like a liar to everyone. This is why he tries so hard to support Sonic, because he does not want the same mistake happening again.
Well...That's ONE reason.
The other reason...