Chapter 15: A Generous Donation

Adam continued to stare down at the girls with his blood red eyes as he grew taller and more muscular. The fur around his body grew longer and thicker. It also changed from it's bright natural magenta color to a much darker shade of violet. The white tips on his quills seemed to become more pronounced as his proportions grew and soon enough they now reached up at least half the length of his hair. At the front of his head the spiked out hairs became more wild and began to dangle in front of his eyes. His boots and gloves remained except that there seemed to be even more, pronounced spikes and the fingerless gloves revealed that he now had large claws. His jacket on the other hand wasn't so lucky. As his upper body grew he could feel the tight leather stretch and rip at the mere flex of his muscles until it completely tore off. 'That was my favorite jacket!" he thought bitterly.

The werehog put his head up and gave a howl at an ear shattering volume. As he looked down, he saw that the girls hadn't run away in fear like most others who witnessed his transformation. In fact, they continued to stare at him with blank eyes, as if they were expecting this. 'Looks like they do know what happens at night.'

"So girls," he said with a deeper voice that seemed to have a demonic growling behind it. "Do you still want that blood sample?"

"Listen," Nights spoke up. "We don't want any trouble. If you took the time to let us explain, then we're sure you'll understand."

"You should have thought about that before you tried to knock me out!" Adam stretched his large fist up into the sky and began to slam it down on the two girls. They were both able to dodge it right before it slammed into the concrete sidewalk and created a huge crater. He made his initial attack to be slow so he could allow for the girls to escape, but if they continued to pester him, he won't be so considerate.

"I hate the idea of having to hit a woman," he growled, "but if you don't leave now I'll have to make an exception to that rule."

Neither of them could just let Adam slip away. They looked at each other as Nikki said "Pin his arms and hold him down!" Just as she said this, both of them had dashed forward at remarkable speed. Adam had just enough time to put his arms in front of his chest to defend himself right before the girls had landed a simultaneous kick. Their kick had enough force to knock Adam back and crashing through his fence into his own front yard.

He lay sprawled out on the grass and felt two small figures trying to hold down each of his arms. 'You'll have to try harder than that.'

With his incredible strength he lifted both of his arms up and stretched them up to the sky while the girls were still holding on. Before he could slam his arms back into the earth both girls had let go and landed in the street in front of him. This gave Adam enough time to stand back up.

Nikki and Nights were staring down Adam in his werehog mode. The fact that he grew at least five times stronger than his regular super powered self was already a disadvantage for the girls, but they didn't know that the large amount of moonlight that was coming tonight would only make him stronger. It didn't help that neither of them was quite familiar with his fighting style when he was in this form. To provide an example, while the hedgehogs and werehog stared each other down, Adam stretched his arms and grabbed a post in each hand and centered himself towards the two girls.

Neither of them figured out his attack plan until he slingshotted himself towards them. Predicting that they would run off to opposite sides, he stretched both of his arms to reach opposite sides and clotheslined his two opponents. This plan had worked as now both girls were laying on the ground while he landed on all fours behind them.

Despite being hit pretty hard, Nikki and Nights summoned the strength to stand up again.

Nikki and Nights then dispersed at incredible speeds while Adam searched desperately for their location. He had to admit that these girls were unbelievably fast. Most hedgehogs, including himself, were rather fast, but these girls seemed to be on a completely different level. He could only think of a select few of people who were quite as fast as them.

Before he had time to react, the blue one had appeared right in front of him and started barraging him with a slew of hard punches and kicks. Nikki was a fairly good hard hitter (having punched and kicked through metal practically her whole life) but her attacks seemed to have no real effect on Adam. Though he was knocked back a few times, the look on his face suggested that he was more annoyed than he was hurt.

Adam saw that she left herself open during her attacks and reeled one of his huge arms for a surprisingly quick punch. Nikki ducked under his attack with her unparalleled reflexes. She jumped back up and delivered a high kick straight to his face. This actually seemed to hurt him a little; he closed his eyes and grabbed his face while he stumbled back a few feet. While his eyes were closed he didn't notice that Nikki had stepped to the side as she waited for him to fall forward.

At this very moment Nights had delivered a very powerful spin dash straight to Adams back. The momentum knocked him a few feet forward and falling flat on his face. Turning over on his back, he saw that the girls were high up in the air while curled up in a ball, apparently ready to slam into him. Seeing this coming Adam stretched his arms and caught one girl in each hand. They struggled to free themselves but it was all in vain thanks to his iron-like strength. He raised them both several feet up in the air and slammed them with great force.

Both of them seemed to be completely stunned by the force of the blow. Even Nikki, who confessed to being a werehog herself at one point, seemed to be utterly surprised by the strength that Adam seemed to be displaying up to this point. Nikki and Nights looked up at him and were surprised that he seemed to be hesitant on attacking them again.

"I don't want to hurt you anymore than I should," he said. "Even people as stubborn as you can see what kind of fight you're in for."

Nights thought to herself in frustration. 'I would have never suspected that he would be this strong. Sonic said he was a werehog for a while himself, but even a total showoff like him didn't brag about being so indestructible. He took the full force of our all of our combined attacks and just shook it off like a slight daze. Hell, I used all my strength trying to keep his arms down and he lifted us up in the air like it was a warm-up. How does that work?' She then thought back to what Zorra said about her powers being stronger thanks to the waxing moon.

'Do his powers work the same way? He was naturally born with this ability. Maybe all supernatural creatures have more strength thanks to the moon. The moon wasn't all that high in the sky though. It's not supposed to be entirely full either. Maybe we still have a fighting chance.'

She turned her head to Nikki and yelled this important piece of information to her. "We need to beat him before the moon reaches it's peak in the sky!"

Adam heard this but was rather unphased by what she said. 'So they really have done their research on werehogs. Not that it matters. If these girls are dumb enough to attack a werehog during the night of an almost complete waxing moon, then I need to teach them an important lesson.'

He bared the large claws on both of his hands as he let out a deep growl. Nikki and Nights stood up in a ready stance, both facing the werehog in front of them.

Nikki and Nights once again ran to opposite sides at high speeds while Adam jumped up surprisingly high in the air. While he was in the air he began to twirl at a dizzying speed. This threw both of the hedgehogs off before he suddenly launched one of his stretchy arms towards Nikki's direction. Seeing that he had aimed a punch directly at her, Nikki sped up her pace and completely dodged it before it collided into the ground.

With his fist firmly implanted into the concrete ground, Adam stretched his arm back to regular size and slingshotted himself towards Nikki and the ground. Though he had missed her by a large margin, the impact his body made as it hit the ground made a large cloud of dust and debris rise up around him and Nikki. This and the ever growing darkness of the night made it impossible for Nikki to see where Adam could possibly be. Adam on the other hand had the enhanced smelling senses of a werehog.

It didn't take long for Adam to locate the scent of her cheap perfume. He stretched his arm to her location and wrapped his entire fist around her body. She once again struggled to break free as she felt herself being lifted into the air. Before she knew it she was sent flying straight in Nights' direction.

Lucky for Nights she had just enough reflexes to start sliding on her knees right as Nikki flew above her head. She continued sliding and got back on her rocket heels. When she approached the dust cloud, she was surprised to find a large fist stretching in her direction. She swerved to the side and continued to skate around the dust cloud at the speed of sound. Her scent was practically untraceable when traveling at this speed.

Nights kept skating around the dust cloud until she was practically making her own tornado. Dust was flying into Adam's eye as Nights continued to speed up. When Nikki had recovered from the disorientation of having been thrown, she saw Nights performing a tornado attack and decided to help her make it more effective. She ran up to the tornado at sonic speed and now ran side-by-side with Nights.

The wind that surrounded Adam was unfathomable. Not only was he completely blind to the world around him, he could also feel his feet begin to lift off of the ground. Considering that he weighed close to 400 pounds as a werehog, this could not end well. He felt his body lift higher and higher up into the sky. When he could finally open his eyes again, he saw that he was way up in the air as the moon seemed to be closer than it usually was.

Out of nowhere, he saw a blue ball spinning to his side which was now spinning above him. The ball unfurled to reveal the blue furred hedgehog girl. 'How did she launch herself up here!' As she unfurled she raised her leg high above her head and connected her red boot directly onto his chest. Her kick launched Adam right back into the ground at high speed.

His massive weight and the speed at which he was falling created yet another massive crater in the concrete ground. He closed his eyes as he hissed in pain from the impact his back and chest had received. Up above him he could hear a female voice yelling "The bigger they are the harder they fall!" Hearing this, he opened his eyes only to see a blue ball falling down while spinning at an incredibly high speed. There was no time for him to react as her stomp/ bounce attack was fast enough to hit him dead center. The collision was so hard that it sent yet another dust cloud into the air. Except this time, Nikki didn't need to panic or worry that Adam was still on the move.

When the dust finally cleared Nikki could see that Adam was directly under her feet, clearly unconscious with the wind knocked out of him. If he were in his regular form the injuries would have been a LOT more serious. But seeing how tough his werehog body was tonight, there was probably no need to worry, though he might be sore for a couple of days.

Nights walked up to the landing sight and gave off an exasperated sigh. "I hope he doesn't stay pissed about this. I really don't want to have to explain this to Nebula or her sister."

"There's no need to worry," Nikki said. "If my good luck really is rubbing off on you, he probably won't remember a thing. A tough guy like him will probably just walk it off and forget about it."

They both looked down at the sleeping werehog before Nikki made her final observation. "So would you like to do the honors of carrying him all the way to the hospital?"

...

Nights had used chaos control to teleport Nikki, Adam, and herself to the front of the hospital, but there was still the laborious task task of carrying him into the E.R. Each girl wrapped one of the werehog's arms over their shoulders. Even with the fact that they were both carrying him over a distance less than 15 feet, both were beginning to lose their breath. This is quite embarrassing for two hedgehogs who could run around the world at the speed of sound without breaking a sweat.

They walked to the front desk of the hospital before they heard the nurse scream. "Oh my goodness! What happened to him?!" She asked with a frightened tone.

"Our friend here got into a gang fight," Nikki lied, "but we don't think his injuries are too bad."

"That's not what I meant! Why does your friend look like that?!"

It was at this point that Nikki and Nights finally realized just how odd this situation looked. Here were two girls with tattered and torn clothing holding a unidentifiable creature of the night. The fact that they had been here twice today only made the nurse more suspicious.

"He's got a medical condition," Nikki said. "But he really is hurt! Isn't it your job to offer medical attention to those who need it?"

Seeing as how the creature was asleep and that she didn't really have much of a choice in the matter, the nurse called for two people to bring a gurney into the emergency room. Two men charged in rolling the gurney in front of the girls so that they could lay Adam onto it. The men struggled with Adams weight but they were finally able to lay him down. The gurney creeked and popped down a little bit as Adam lay down but it held up all the same. The doctors then rolled Adam down into the hall at a forcefully slow rate, but before Nikki and Nights could follow them the nurse stepped in front of the girls.

"You two seem to have a lot of friends who visit this hospital," she remarked, remembering them from earlier. "Did you say that this friend of yours got injured during a gang fight?"

"Yeah he did," Nikki answered nervously.

"Funny. We had a bunch of young men come in here earlier today with injuries related to a gang fight as well."

"That is a pretty odd coincidence," Nikki said with a forced grin. "Small world I guess." The nurse looked at both of the hedgehogs and simply walked down the hallway. Nikki and Nights followed the people as they took Adam to the room.

..

Adams appearance had stirred up quite the commotion in the hospital. Many of the doctors flat out proclaimed that they had never seen a Mobian that looked like him. Nikki once again explained that he looked like this thanks to an "unknown medical condition"; this seemed to catch the attention of most of the staff. A doctor had ordered that one of the nurses take a blood sample from him in order to identify what kind of disease he may be dealing with. This was exactly what Nikki and Nights wanted to hear.

They were alone in the same room where a nurse was taking blood from Adams heavy arms. Once she got enough of his blood, she took out the needle from his skin and made sure the bag was secure. She then placed the bag of blood on a tray right before she was called by a doctor to tend to something else. Of course she left the bag behind, making it easier for the girls to take.

Nights walked up to the tray and reached for the warm bag. "Things are finally looking up for us." When she grabbed the bag to see it herself she was surprised to find out that the blood was pure black. Shrugging this off, she turned to Nikki and tossed her the chaos emerald. "Would you care to do the honors?"

Nikki looked at the chaos emerald with a large grin on her face. She walked up to Nights and said the words to return them to the lake. "Chaos control!"

AN: So their speed and maneuverability won them this round. Next time, Sonic and Shadow are still girls, Selene is worried, Adam is pissed, Amy is confused, and Nebula just wants to know what the hell is going on.

Before I leave, I want to clear up that I'm not really sure if Adam can regularly turn into a werehog in Selene the Hedgehog's stories. My cousin is the one who has read all of Selene and Nebula's stories (which was why she originally wanted to write this fic) and when she told me about Adam, she said that he was born to be a werehog. Selene and Nebula are the kind of writers who write tons of AUs for their own stories, so I'm not really sure how true this is, but I decided to run with this idea. Adam belongs to the collaborative minds of Selene and Nebula the Hedgehog.