(WOOTZ! I'm trying as hard as I can to be finished by Thanksgiving (November 26th). Anyway, there are 3, maybe 4 charapter left, and then on to my next story. As for now, as Last time, Eggman said his name was Kintobor. if anyone doesn't know who that was, here is a brief bit fron wikipedia about him =)

"Originally a benevolent scientist named Dr. Ovi Kintobor (an anagram of "Ivo Robotnik"), Dr. Robotnik starts out as a friend to Sonic, even helping to develop the hedgehog's super-speed. Kintobor later tries to eliminate all the evil in the world by absorbing it into the chaos emeralds, but the experiment goes awry, instead shocking the Doctor with "10,000 volts of pure evil energy."

Anyway, I've read this used in another work, (Secret of the Emeralds by JudasFM, Very good story, go read it if you havn't ) and in bits of others work. I liked it so much, I wanted to use it. So now that we have had our Sonic history lesson, on with the show ^^)

Sonic scowled as if this were a bad joke with an even worse punch line. " You can't be Kintobor."

Eggman smiled softly "And why not?"

Sonic glared at him, feeling his loathing for the doctor increase. "Because," he informed Eggman tightly, "Kintobor is gone. He left when I was 10."

Eggman looked completely amused, "And where did he go?"

Sonic half turned from him to look at the wall. "He didn't go anywhere, physically, he left mentally. The way he acted, the way he was. That's whats left... "

Eggman shook his head and got up from where he was sitting. He turned to look out a window. "That's not answering my question. Why can't I be Kintobor? Why is it so out of the question tha—"

That was as far as he got before Sonic's anger got the best of him. "BECAUSE! Kintobor was a person who cared about others! He didn't go around flying battle ships and trying to take over the world! You're not him, and no matter what you try to do, I won't be convinced otherwise." His words started in a snarl and ended in a hiss.

Eggman gave him a look that was neither angry nor annoyed. He didn't seem at all like he was about the engage in a yelling match with the hedgehog. He wore more of a sad look, almost like Sonic was a friend that had let him down, his gray-blue eyes filled with hurt at his words. "If that's how you feel"

Sonic was momentarily taken back by his words. This wasn't how Eggman acted. Not sure what to say, or do, he turned and started looking for his room.

On another day, (day 5)

Knuckles sighed, "This isn't going to be easy," He thought as he stood outside Tails workshop. He needed to go in and tell the fox that Sonic was dead, but it just wasn't that easy. How do you go tell an 8-year-old that his older brother, the person that he adored, is dead?

Pushing his feelings aside, Knuckles knocked on the door.

A few second later, it was opened and two beautiful blue eyes lit up as they saw the echidna. "Knuckles!"

The said echidna took a deep breath, "Tails I have something I need to tell you, and its really important."

Tails cocked his head to the left, and his eyes grew large, "Did Rouge take the Master Emerald again?"

"No, its fin--Wait, what do you mean again? Did you hear something?" The scarlet echidna felt his heart rate speed up as he pondered if the note was a trap to get him away from the Master Emerald.

"No." the fox kit shook his head, making his fluffy ears flap back and forth. "No, thats just almost always the reason why you would leave it..."

Knuckles forced himself not bark back that wasn't the ONLY reason, reminding himself that what he would tell the fox in a minute would make him very upset, and he didn't need to add to that grief.

"No, kid." Knuckles knelt down so he was at eye level with the fox, "Youre not going to like this"

Tails eyes widened "What?"

Knuckles took a deep breath, "I'm sorry kid, but Sonic is... dead."

Tails didn't react in the way the echidna thought he might, he just stared at Knuckles for several seconds. "That's not funny Knuckles, Sonic is coming back." He stated in a flat stubborn voice.

Knuckles rolled his eyes. This kid gave new meaning to the word 'stubborn'. "Tails, Id wish for the world he was, but he's not."

"You'r lying!" The 8 year old shrieked, "He's coming back, and that's mean of you to say things like that about Sonic! He doesn't do stuff like that to you!"

"I beg to differ." Knuckles thought. Out loud he said, "Tails, I'm not saying this 'cause I have nothing better to do then say things about people. I have proof." And then put the note with the picture into Tails hand.

Tails stared at it for several seconds with large tear-filled eyes before he looked back at the echidna. "NO! Its not true!" He screamed before he ran upstairs.

Knuckles watched the fox go. As smart as he was and mature for his years, he was still only 8. Shaking his head, and planning to check on him later, the echinda left, feeling slightly guilty.

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(Back in eggman's place..)

Sonic, after 2 hours of trying to find the room he had started in, and couldn't (since there was no way he was going to ask Eggman for help), had decided to stay in the first interesting room he found.

Eggman's words rang in his head over and over. "If thats how you feel." The way he said it, his eyes were full of hurt, as if Sonic's words had hit a nerve.

"What if he is Kintobor?" Sonic said slowly, out loud. "He can't be he was shocked by the Emeralds, and turned into the evil Doc... But what if?"

Sonic shook his head, making his quills flying around, "No, he can't..."

"Can't what?" Eggman commented as he walked past the surprised hedgehog and put a robot piece on a shelf.

"Nothing." Sonic mumbled, who hadn't realized he had been speaking out loud until Eggman came into the room.

"No, really; you don't talk out loud to yourself unless somethings bothering you."

Sonic curled his lip. "Why do you care?" He snarled, not bothering to keep the venom out of his voice.

Eggman shrugged, "Pretend I do."

Sonic stared at the wall for several seconds, "You can't be Kintobor.."

Eggman sighed, "Are we going to go through this again? What if I prove to you that I'm Kintobor and I have changed?"

Sonic eyed him, "Okay..."

With out saying another word, Eggman pulled out several blueprints and showed them to Sonic, and then started ripping them up into tiny pieces.

Sonic watched him turn several plans (Most of which were plans labeled "Take over the world" or "kill Sonic.") into shreds.

After the 14th one was turned to confetti, Eggman held him hands out as a pacifist gesture.

Sonic stared at Eggman, then looked down at the ripped pieces of paper, then back to Eggman's face. Trying to read his expression, he got nothing. Eggman's blue-gray eyes told him nothing. "I'm not convinced." The blue hedgehog said softly, sounding as if he wasn't sure what to think.

Eggman drummed his fingers again the wall, "Sonic, you sound like you hate this Eggman person... If you hate him, he must hate you back, and from the looks of these plans, you are not his favorite person."

Sonic blinked twice, thinking. He had never viewed the Doctor as someone he hated. He just didn't want the world at his mercy. Sonic by far didn't like Eggman (or trust him), but he didn't want him dead.

Eggman smiled and turned to look a window, "IF I was this guy, and I hated you, why would you even be alive? I would have killed you or totured you. Why would I have rescued you and given you medicine?"

"Maybe it is poss- Wait, what do you mean rescued?" Sonic had on auto pilot as his mind went over Eggman just said and stopped on "Rescued."

"I found you sick, in the woods, all alone. You might of died if I hadn't done anything. Is that the kind of thing a person does to another that they hate?"

Sonic said nothing, glaring at the tile on the floor, and then looked up. "Are you really Kintobor?"

Eggman smiled gently, knowing what Sonic was saying. "I am."

Sonic stared into his eyes for almost a minute, making Eggman feel uneasy under his sharp gaze. "Okay.." Sounding for all the world like he wanted to believe him, but he wasn't sure.

Eggman took a deep breath and smiled. "Good, 'cause there's something I need you to do."

Sonic cocked an eyebrow. "What?"

"I need you to get the Chaos Emeralds."

Sonic rolled his eyes. "Let me guess: its 'cause you have a battle ship that is out of power, and you need the emeralds to power it up to you can fly away and have a pleasant life. Yeah right. I'm not as gullible as Knucklehead."

"No, I have no interest in a Battleship."

Sonic looked surprised, he hadn't in a million year expected Eggman to say no. "Then what do you need them for?"

"The last time I saw you, I was working on a project to rid of all the evil, by sealing it in the chaos emeralds. I made a mistake in the estimates of what I thought I could seal in the emeralds. I know now, and I can seal the emeralds. Think about it."

Without another word, Eggman turned and left the room.

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After several hours of thinking about it, Sonic left the room to find Eggman.

It was dark (due to the fact it was 11:00 at night) and Sonic finally found Eggman in a small room, sitting in front of a fire, reading a book.

"I have an answer for you."

Eggman looked up in surprise, and looked at him with an interesting look on his face. "Well?"

"I'll do it."

(heh, Cliffhangers are so fun. So, so, sooooooo sorry about the wait, the next chapter will be faster. As I post this, the next chapter will be finished and started editing.

Also, a very big Thanks to FantomoDrako, for faithful reviews, and for kind words when I need them. Thanks Dude!

And because I'm not sure what story to do after this is done, I put up a poll, please vote for the next one, and always review.)