Written by PrincessLeoStar
Based on the original comic book story written by Ken Penders for Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog Issues 150-151 and an unused storyline written by Karl Bollers and published by Archie Comics.
This re-write is intended for entertainment purposes and is also intended for those who feel the original story was lackluster and could have been better. No offense is intended for anyone who enjoyed the original story.
Evil May Care - Part 2 - No More Mr. Nice Hog
"Ugh… what happened…?" Sonic the Hedgehog slowly wakes up, his vision is slightly blurry and clears. He looked left and right, he's inside a solitary area with logs and roof for walls. He looks down and finds his feet wearing black boots.
"Woah!" He finds himself wearing a black leather jacket and boots. "Waah! What's with the ol' grease look?! Did Travolta play dress-up with me while I was sleepin'?"
"Wait," Sonic finds a mirror in the small room and looks closer at the black leather clothing in the mirror. "…that black leather looks kinda reminds me off…" He remembers being attacked by a shadowy figure. Sonic was hit in the head real hard before he could get a proper look of who it was. He gets a clear thought of whom the culprit was that knocked him out. He' wearing black leather, and the only one he knows that wears black leather is…
Sonic rushes out of the cabin to find the one who did this to him.
Back in Knothole City, after being praised by everyone for saving their city from an attacking Shadowbot, Anti-Sonic is in the bedroom of Sonic the Hedgehog as he prepares his plans to get rid of his Mobius Prime counterpart, permanently. He grabs a dagger from Uncle Chuck's desk in his study. Since Chuck is away, it hasn't been used. However, he had to find a key for the door since it is locked. Thankfully, the keys to the study were tucked away under the kitchen draws.
"Alright! I'm all set now! Now to get back to where I dumped Sonic Prime!" said Anti-Sonic. All ready and packed up for his deadly mission, Anti-Sonic wastes no time, he runs down the stairs, heading for the front door. As he grabs the nob, Bernie catches Ani-Sonic at the door.
"Sonic! You goin' somewhere?" asked Bernie, as she just notices her son who's just about to head out.
"Oh yeah! Goin' out for a run 'cause, you know what I'm like!"
"Okay, sweetie. Be back by dinner!"
"Will do, mom. See ya!"
After waving bye to Bernadette, Anti-Sonic runs out of the house, leaves Knothole City, and sets off into the Great Forest. Until he's completely alone, he acted completely like the Sonic the Hedgehog of Mobius Prime to not give away his true nature. Finally, out of the city and entering the forest, he no longer as to pretend that he is his Prime counterpart and can be himself with no witnesses around to see who he really is.
"Now, to find Sonic the Hedgehog of Mobius Prime… and put him outta his misery!" he says with a sinisterly evil grin on his face, and lets out an evil laugh as he scrolls through the forest to find the cabin that's holding Sonic prisoner.
Meanwhile, Sonic is running through the Unknown Forest, looking for Anti-Sonic for payback. He was super tricked, having been ambushed by him, knocking him out cold, and locking him away with Anti's clothes. He is not going to let Anti-Sonic get away with it this time.
"Just, where is he?" thought Sonic. "Oh, how I'd like to turn him into a can opener once I get my hands on that big fat joke of an evil twin! I'll kick his ugly butt back to Zone Jail-!"
Just as he streaks through the wood, suddenly, Sonic unknowingly rams into one another and land on his rear. He rubs his head from bumping into someone, not knowing who they ran into, until Sonic Prime opens his eyes, seeing Anti-Sonic in-front of him. He flinches, backs up from surprise. He couldn't believe this; Anti-Sonic has a knife at hand and he was trying to stab him with it. But there's no way he's not going to hold back; he's going to fight Anti-Sonic. Sonic Prime takes off Anti-Sonic's black leathers and tackles him with a Spin Attack. He has the evil version of himself pinned to the ground by the shoulders.
"Alright, other me! What's the big idea of posing as me?!" Sonic threatened.
"Ah, Sonic the Hedgehog-Prime! Just the hog I was lookin' for," said Anti-Sonic, and while he was still pinned down by the good version of himself, Anti-Sonic takes out the dagger and tries to slash Sonic in the stomach. But in time, Sonic catches what his Anti counterpart was just about to do and quickly jumps off, while Anti-Sonic gets back up on his feet.
"Woah! What d'you think you're doin'?" said Sonic.
"The big idea, doomuss!" replied Anti-Sonic. "Since I enjoyed your world much better than my own original crummy world, I have the bright idea to replace you, permanently!"
The evil version attempts to attack Sonic again, this time, with a knife at hand, but Sonic evades it in time before the dagger would hit his stomach. Sonic's temper was beginning to rise for that assault.
"Now that's just plain dirty!" yelled Sonic.
"So what? I always play dirty!" replied Anti-Sonic. With his plan revealed, Anti-Sonic swings his dagger again, trying to slash Sonic's stomach again. Every time Anti-Sonic swings his dagger, Sonic quickly dodges each slash. Left and right, he swiftly avoids the blade until his upper left arm is cut slightly. "Ha! For the 'fastest thing alive', you couldn't even dodge a tiny dagger attack" mocked Anti-Sonic. Sonic's teeth gritted in anger from Anti's comment. Anti-Sonic picks up his knife before striking Sonic again. After avoiding Anti-Sonic's dagger, the fifth time, Sonic kicks the dagger off of Anti-Sonic's hand, getting Prime's leg cut in the process. Sonic lands on his knee, clutching onto his injury.
Anti-Sonic tries to retrieve his dagger, but it has landed in the river with the sharp rocks. Seeing how dangerous it, he decides it's not worth dying getting his knife back. Meanwhile, the other Sonic was back on his feet and ready to kick Anti in the teeth even further, much to which to Anti's worry. But seeing the dangerous river, this gave Anti-Sonic a great idea, and before Sonic could do anything, Anti-Sonic left the knife where it is and then proceed in finishing Sonic Prime off. He steps in with his fists closed.
In spite of his cuts, Sonic picks up some speed and goes in to attack Anit-Sonic with a Spin Attack. But Anti-Sonic, taking advantage of his injuries, evades and kicks Sonic Prime in the gut before he could get a chance to finish. Sonic groans from the pain, and Anti grins as he feasts his eyes on his hurt foe.
"Aww, what's wrong? Can't recover from the cuts you sustained from before?" gloated Anti-Sonic before kicking Sonic in the chin. Sonic clings onto his chin with his right hand with his left hand supporting him.
"If it didn't hurt so much, I wouldn't believe any of this!" Sonic thinks to himself, as he tries to get up from the kick, he endured from Anti-Sonic but is immediately pinned down by Anti-Sonic's boot.
"Sorry, Sonnie. Your days of heroism are over!" he says and he stomps Sonic Prime in the face…
A few minutes later, Sonic wakes up, facing upwards towards the sky with the clouds. He soon discovers that his hands and legs tied with a rope, being carried up by Anti-Sonic by a river. Sonic starts to panic.
"Whoa?! What's goin' on?! Why am I-?" cried Sonic.
"Your indefinite ending, Sonic!" said Anti-Sonic evilly.
"You annoying, rotten…! You're gonna get a major smackdown when I get my hands on-!"
"Yeah. Kinda a bummer, Sonic…" said Anti-Sonic, as he prepares to throw his prime counterpart into the river. "…but then again, you've had this coming for a long time!" he catapults the hands that are holding Sonic and prepares to send him to the river below. "Bye-bye, Primey! I hope you enjoy your swim!" said Anti-Sonic before throwing a tied-up Sonic into the river, and Sonic comes plummeting down, splashing into the water. Anti-Sonic watches in glee as he sees his double, Sonic the Hedgehog drown.
Meanwhile, Sonic is underwater, dropping the bottom like an anvil. Sonic is holding his breath to keeping his lungs from filling of water; however, it wasn't enough because his nose cannot be held due to tied hands. This is bad. Sonic is super slow while underwater and he cannot swim either, never mind the fact that his hands and feet are tied. There are no air bubbles nearby and there's not much time left. He had to find a way out of the water and back to the surface of the earth before he's a goner. He looked around for any sharp object he could use to cut him free from the ropes. After looking around franticly as each second, he loses his breath, he spots the dagger that Anti-Sonic dropped earlier.
With no options left, he desperately hops his way to the dagger. As he got to it, he realized that he had to turn around to grab the dagger since his hand is tied behind his back. After reaching it, he turns and struggles to retrieve the dagger and use it to cut himself free. By the time that he was able to grab the knife and proceed to cut the ropes with it, he was almost out of time so he had to hurry. He has the blade at the rope, struggling to cut as he cannot see the blade cutting the rope so that his hands can be free. He also can't hear the blade cutting the rope due to being surrounded by water. He pushes and pulls in and out as fast as he could on the rope as his head becomes dizzy from losing oxygen every second. However, his hands have begun to feel a little looser, meaning that he must be doing something right. But as hands are breaking free from the rope, his eyes began to droop and his chest his beginning to hurt; Sonic is right now about to drown. Slowly but surely, he brings the knife to his front and starts cutting the ropes tied to his ankles. In spite of the pain he feels in his chest, he was able to free his feet from the rope and tries his hardest, despite not being able to swim, to reach back to the surface…
While back by the river, Anti-Sonic has a closer look to see if his enemy has drowned. He looked around where he dropped his counterpart, but couldn't seem to find him anywhere. Finding him nowhere to be found, he closes his eyes and gives off an evil grin. "I guess he wasn't the hero everyone on Mobius thought he was." Said Anti-Sonic as he turns around and walks away, satisfied with his kill. "Good riddance."
As he makes his way, all of a sudden, Sonic out of the water, appearing behind Anti-Sonic, surprising the anti-hedgehog.
"Hey ya, Anti." exclaimed Sonic. "Did ya miss me?"
"What?!" screamed Anti-Sonic. "Dunno how you even avoided death from drowning, but you will not get away with sneaking up on me and scaring me half to death!" Anti-Sonic swings a kick to Sonic's knees, but Sonic avoids the kick, and spin attacks into Anti-Sonic's gut, flipping backward in the air and lands on his head on the hard, dry soil of the earth.
"That #$* &! Hurt!" He says after spitting out the ground. "I'll make sure you pay for that, Sonic Prime!" Anti-Sonic gets back up on his feet and charges in to attack Sonic again, headbutting him in the gut. He then jumps to get behind Sonic and hits him in the back of the face with a spin attack. Sonic hits the ground on his face. However, Sonic got back up and gave Anti a bit of a smirk.
"Nice move, Anti-me, but can you counter spin this move super-fast?!" Sonic then does a Sonic Wind Attack, doing a circle around Anti-Sonic and conjuring a tornado, sending Anti-Sonic flying and making him dizzy. After a few seconds of the spin, Sonic stop, allowing Anti-Sonic to fall, unable to do anything in his status condition and is knocked out by Sonic, hitting the river face first.
After giving a real good beatdown against his Anti-self, Sonic looks over the river to see if Anti-Sonic had drowned after the fall. To his dismay, he discovers Anti-Sonic climbing out of the river, trying to escape. Like a bullet, he rushes in with a spin dash, hitting Anti-Sonic in the gut, tripping him. Sonic is standing on top of Anti-Sonic with his left foot. Sonic Prime looks at Anti-Sonic with glee as Anti-Sonic stands on his foot, defeated.
"Game over, Anti-Sonic!" exclaimed Sonic, holding his slightly injured upper right arm. "You're going back to the No Zone Jail where you belong!"
Anti-Sonic is enraged by Sonic's comment, he charges at Sonic again, only this time he had the energy left to attack again despite his injuries, while Sonic, astonished by Anti's attack didn't have time to move quickly, resulting in the two getting into a tussle, with both their hands grabbing one another, wrestling.
"No way in heck I'm goin' back to that !#$*%# place!" said Anti-Sonic, angrily as he had his hands grappled onto Sonic. While Sonic is struggling against Anti trying to let him go, but end up fighting viciously all over again.
As they continue to go at it, just then, the Cosmic Interstate portal opens suddenly and, unbeknownst to the two hedgehogs, he wound up jumping into the portal. The portal closing behind them after entering.
Inside the Cosmic Interstate, Sonic and Anti-Sonic are in a huge scuffle on the cosmic path, rolling up and down, tumbling through the interstate at each other's necks. They eventually stop on Anti-Sonic's back, near an edge, giving Anti-Sonic the opportunity to get Sonic Prime off him. While still on his back, Anti-Sonic raises his feet and pushes Sonic off himself, freeing Anti-Sonic, but also pushing Sonic Prime towards the edge, causing him to fall. Anti-Sonic crawls to the edge which Sonic fell off from and watches Sonic falls further into the Cosmic Interstate. Unbeknownst to Ani-Sonic due to Sonic having disappeared from his view. Sonic sees a starlight, galaxy-este path, aims for it and lands on it with his feet. However, the impact of the fall causes him to fall flat on his face. Nevertheless, he landed safely and manages to get back up after a few moments laid down flat on the path.
As Sonic gets back up, Zonic arrives with three other zone cops, much to Sonic's dismay and annoyance.
"Freeze! This is as far as you go, Sonic-347!" shouted Zonic with his gold zone gun pointing at Sonic, with two other Zone Cops by Zonic's side. One is a tall, green, and muscular crocodile. The other is a bit shorter, fuchsia-colored chameleon. They too are ready to arrest Sonic and take him back to No Zone Jail. Sonic himself freaks out and has his hands out, waving and shaking his head in a panic.
"What?! Z-Zonic!" As the Zone Cops approaches their target, Sonic stops shaking and sees Anti-Sonic walking on a higher plane on another path of the Interstate, entering the portal back to Mobius Prime. Sonic is in no mood to stand by and be accused by his No Zone counterpart, he needs to leave and catch up to Anti-Sonic before he gets away. "I don't have time for this, I have to stop my double from causing any more havoc at home! See ya!"
"Wait!" yelled Zonic as Sonic runs away from the Zone Cops. He swoops around them before the cops could even get a chance to catch him and Sonic starts running through the Cosmic Interstate to catch up to his Anti counterpart. In a flash, Sonic has nearly left Zonic's sight, prompting the Zone Cop to follow suits. "Stop! Let's go after him!" orders Zonic, and he and the other two Zone Cops begin to chase after Sonic.
Sonic is running through the Cosmic Interstate, searching for his Anti counterpart while being pursued by the Zone Cops. The Interstate is so huge, he could get lost in this crazy, dimension for hours. He can't get stuck in this place; he needs to find Anti-Sonic. Sonic just saw his anti-counterpart leave the Interstate through a portal, so he has to follow the path until he gets to the portal that Anti just went through. The portal back to Mobius wouldn't be open for long so he has to hurry.
Meanwhile, the Zone Cops are behind Sonic's tail. But even so, Sonic is much too fast for them to keep up with the blue blur. However, they do have their radar so that they can track down Sonic Prime's every move, that way, they can pinpoint wherever their target is going. They see Sonic head to the top of the path and jump through the portal that Anti-Sonic has entered earlier.
While Anti-Sonic has come out of the portal, landing in the Great Jungle on Mobius. Believing that his prime counterpart is a goner since he's witnessed him falling into the abyss of the interstate, he moves on forward with a smirk on his face.
"Finally, I can get back to Knothole and live out my new, peaceful life, free from that my primey-self outta way." He says to himself, just as he jumps out of the portal and tackles Anti-Sonic again.
"Guess again, creep!" yells Sonic as he does so.
"You just can't lemme catch a break?!" snarled Anti-Sonic.
"You impersonated me and tried to kill me!"
Anti-Sonic kicks Sonic in the gut, sending the latter flying off the former. Anti then proceeds to pummel Sonic to a tree with a karate chop to the throat.
"Why can't ya stay dead already?!"
Sonic angrily breaks free from Anti's grip, while barely reclaiming his breath after having his throat hit pretty hard. But before Sonic could completely recover, Anti-Sonic sucker punches Sonic in the chin, and Sonic retaliates, rushing in and spins attack him, pinning Anti to the ground. Anti tries to punch him, but Sonic rolls out of the way and manages to trip Anti up. They scuffle so hard, that they lose their shoes and boots, making them look exactly identical. Punches and kicks were thrown and dodged as the fight between the two blue hedgehogs become more and more intense.
The Zone Cops arrive from the Cosmic Interstate to secure their target, and to their surprise, they see the two hedgehogs brawl it all out. Without the clothes, they can't tell Sonic apart from his Anti-counterpart.
"There's two of them?!" cries the first Zone Cop.
"Which means one of them is the Evil Sonic that was on Mobius Prime this whole time!" says the second Zone Cop.
"But which one do we arrest!?" asked the first Zone Cop.
"Can we just arrest both of them and figure this out later?" asked the second Zone Cop.
"No!" protested Zonic. "Our priority is Sonic-347! We should put all our focus on him!"
"But they're both completely identical, we can't tell which one's the Sonic we're after!"
The two hedgehogs recognize the voices and realize that the Zone Cops have arrived to arrest them. Both Sonics are standing with one of Sonic's arms around the other's neck.
"I am!" the two blue hedgehogs shouted.
"Zonic! Arrest him! He's the Sonic you're after!" One Sonic calls out.
"No! Arrest him! He's the Anti-Sonic!" The other Sonic calls out.
One breaks free and starts grabbing the other's throat, strangling them, and the other goes and does the same. The two Sonics struggle; with both on their knees and strangling each other, trying desperately to break free.
"This is bad, majorly bad." Thought one Sonic. "If I don't think of something, Zonic is gonna arrest the wrong Sonic. I gonna convince them which one is Anti-Sonic, but how?" Finally, that Sonic has thought of something; he sets the other Sonic free and comes over to Zonic with his hands up.
"Okay, Zonic." Says one Sonic. "I confess, I'm Anti-Sonic, the Sonic that you're after." Zonic is confused.
"C'mon, Zonic.
"I… err… of course."
Just as Zonic walks over to the surrendering Sonic to arrest him, the other one begins to laugh at the other Sonic's surrender. "Really?" he says. "That's how you give up and surrender yourself while pretending to be me? Geez, you're pathetic, Sonic!"
Following the insult, the other one grins; his plan worked. Before Zonic could grab Sonic's hand, his hand swoops off and points to the other Sonic laughing at him. "Hey, Zonic! We have your Anti-Sonic right here!" he shouts. Anti-Sonic realizes what's going on and becomes dumbfounded, having been tricked by Sonic.
"Oh, &%£$%!" he says having fallen for Sonic Prime's trick.
"Game over, Anti-Sonic!" says Sonic Prime while pointing to him. "There's nowhere else left for you to do to getaway. Zonic, book him!"
But before the Sonics did anything else, Anti-Sonic, incensed from Sonic Prime's trick, as well as the fact that now he has to go back to No Zone Jail, speeds over to Sonic Prime and Zonic and knocks the former down with a Spin Dash to the head, punches the latter in the face and jumps onto of the two Zone trying to corner him only to get their heads bashed into each other by Anti-Sonic before landing by them. "Like before, no freakin' way I'm going back to that place!" Anti-Sonic rushes towards the rock where his leather jacket was thrown to when he and Sonic Prime got into a scuffle. He grabs the Zone Link Generator from his Leather Jacket pockets and opens the portal to the Cosmic Interstate.
As Zonic and Sonic Prime get up, the former holding his face from the impact Anti-Sonic gave him. He rushes to try and catch up to Anti-Sonic.
"If there was one thing, I liked about playing the hero in this world, I at least know the good benefits of being one." He says, looking sad while thinking about the parents of Sonic, Jules and Bernadette and how they treated him.
"Hold it right there, Anti!" yells Zonic as he's nearly close to catching up to Anti-Sonic.
"Yeah, stop where you are!" yells Sonic Prime, who was the first to catch up to his Anti-counterpart. However, Anti sucker punches him, throwing him away to the ground as the portal begins to close.
"Sayonara, suckers!" says Anti-Sonic as he jumps into the portal, before closing and disappears. The Zone Cops did try to go after him as he leaves, but it was too late.
"Shoot! He got away!" said Zonic, tightening his fist in fury, having failed his mission to recapture Anti-Sonic.
"We were close." Said the first Zone Cop.
"But we were still slow." Said the second Zone Cop.
"Despite the fact that there are two speedsters within the area." Said Zonic.
"Where'd you think he disappeared to?" asked Sonic Prime after getting back up from the punch he received from his Anti counterpart. Zonic raises his head, facing his Prime counterpart.
"Anti-Sonic went into the Cosmic Interstate. If the portal has taken him anywhere in the multiverse, then he shouldn't have gone far." Zonic pulls out his communicator to contact someone to send a portal to bring Zonic and his team back to No Zone.
"So what's the plan now, Zonic?" asked Sonic Prime.
"We'll head back to HQ and begin our search to retrieve Anti-Sonic and make sure that he's locked away for good. Right now, I'll contact Zotor to open up another portal that will take us back to the No Zone. And Sonic…? No hard feelings."
"None at all," says Sonic as he stretches his arms upwards and his fists clenched. "just as long as I can get back home, and take a hot shower."
An hour or so later, Sonic is back on the ground of Mobius Prime, finding his way back home in Knothole City. The blue hero is ready to go home and relax after two stressful days of being imprisoned by Anti-Sonic, then beaten down brutally and almost killed by his anti-twin that put him in that position, to begin with. Then along comes Mina, coming over to him.
"Hey, Sonic!" greeted Mina. "Hope there's no hard feelings when I ended our date yesterday."
"Date!? What date?" Sonic exclaims. "What's with Mina?" He asks himself. "I don't ever remember taking her out on a date!"
As far as Sonic knows, he never went on a date with Mina. At that moment, Tails comes by, and Sonic sees him. He goes over to him.
"Tails!" He shouts to his little fox friend. "Do you have a minute?"
"Oh! Hello, Sonic" snarls Tails. "You need anything as long as your 'sidekick' is here?"
"Woah? What do you mean?" he asks with a confused look on his face.
"You said that if you needed a 'sidekick', you'd let me know, while you were making out with Amy!"
"What!? I'd never say anything like that! W-Waitaminue! Me and Amy?!"
Before Sonic could say anything, Tails walks away, ignoring Sonic pleading and calling out to him until Tails has left. Sonic just couldn't believe this; First of all, the girl that he knew and accidentally left behind, Fiona hates him and now likes him for some reason, then Mina comes by and tells him about the date he never actually had with her, then his best friend and little brother tells him that he caught him kissing Amy of all people.
A confused Mina comes over to comfort Sonic. "Sonic? Are you ok?" she asks, but Sonic doesn't reply. He's too shocked to say anything to Mina who's concerned about him. This has gone from a rough three days to an insanely confusing mess. Sonic was completely mortified.
"What did that evil twin of mine do!?"