Return the Darkness

by StarryKirby

Sequel to Any Dark Deed. A few months later, Sonic has returned home to defeat Mephiles, who is planning to take over. But because of what happened, Sonic is willing do a few dark deeds himself in order to win...rated M for rape and language.

10. Inside

For selling himself for the first time, it wasn't all that bad.

Perhaps it was due to the fact Sonic had gotten used to being roughly invaded from Wario. Maybe because lately he had dreamed of Mephiles mounting him almost every night, the idea of being used as a sex toy and meaning nothing more to the other person wasn't a big deal again.

Or it could be because Sonic pretended it was Shadow taking him, and not some seriously messed-up human. The idea of humans wanting sex with him didn't bother Sonic as much as the fact that there was a secret group that actually talked about what they'd do if they got to hump him in great detail. Talk about an obsession.

A sharp yank on one of his head quills brought Sonic back to the present. He was on his hands and knees in the backseat of a car, with a naked human man holding onto his hips and enjoying himself a little too much for Sonic's taste.

While Bob wasn't as rough as the mind-controlled Wario was, "Or as big," Sonic thought with a silent sigh of relief, this sex was still painful. Every thrust sent jolts of pain through Sonic's body, with the deepest humps tearing tissue and muscle that had taken over a month to heal last time.

"Shadow wouldn't be doing this to me," Sonic mumbled to himself, "I wish it was him instead…"

"What was that?" Bob gasped, panting from lust.

"Nothing. You finished there, or what?"

"Not yet…you're so freaking tight…" Bob began to speed up his thrusts, "Spread your legs apart a little more, will ya?"

Sonic silently obeyed, his right leg nearly slipping off the seat while his left was pressed against the seat back. The human moaned and slapped Sonic's ass a few times, still grinding deep into the hedgehog's body. Sonic sighed and looked down, no pleasure running through his body. It was difficult to distract himself, especially when Bob reached between Sonic's legs, fumbling around for the hedgehog's pouch, "Show me your sweet little dick, Sonic…"

X

Shadow reached between Sonic's legs, expertly locating Sonic's hidden pouch and softly rubbing the opening, "It'll help distract you from the pain, Sonic. I'll go as slow as I can, but there's going to be a little pain, regardless of what I do. Just relax…"

The black hedgehog bent down to the tip of Sonic's organ beginning to poke out from the pouch. Shadow licked and nuzzled at Sonic's stiffening organ, moans of pleasure escaping from the blue hedgehog's mouth. Slowly sucking Sonic's erection, Shadow relaxed his blue lover, who in turn pushed the black hedgehog over and started to return the favor.

X

Bob attempted to push his pointer and middle fingers inside Sonic's pouch, and Sonic's body naturally reacted to having a foreign object in a sensitive place, attempting to press the muscles together to block the invader from getting in.

"Fuck! Why you…" Bob yanked out of Sonic's backside and flipped the blue hedgehog onto his back, "What the fuck do you think you're doing?"

X

After making sure every bit of his fingers were coated with lubricant, Shadow rubbed Sonic's tummy as he pushed his pointer finger into his lover's backside. The tight, silky muscles immediately squeezed Shadow's finger, but soon relaxed, allowing for another one. Shadow began stretching Sonic's entrance, preparing the younger hedgehog for what was to come.

Once Sonic's muscles were relaxed, Shadow removed his fingers and lubricated his erection, wanting to satisfy his needs as well. Sonic whimpered as Shadow spread his legs apart, gently pushing himself in between. Shadow looked at Sonic's face and kissed the two tears that had escaped the blue hedgehog's eyes and were trailing down his cheeks, "Sonic, if you want me to stop, just say so. Sex is supposed to be for you and me, not just me. I won't do anything that you don't want me to."

X

"Answer me, you little whore! What the fuck are you doing?" Bob screamed at Sonic, his thumbs digging into Sonic's hips. He leaned over the blue hero, face red with anger and teeth clenched together.

"We never agreed on you touching me there," Sonic said calmly, "If you want access, that'll be extra."

"How much?" Bob growled.

"A thousand."

Bob thought carefully for a moment, and then said, "I'll give you two if I can finger your ass, and get an extra blowjob."

"I already sucked you off. You're not getting a second round."

"You got a better deal?"

"Six thousand for the whole deal - a blowjob, fingering, and the humping."

Bob sat up with a start, his naked body a soft orange in the light, "I can get that for less than three hundred bucks from any ordinary hooker!"

"I'm no ordinary hooker - and I really need the money. I wouldn't have contacted you if I wasn't this desperate."

The CEO looked down on the young hedgehog, and slowly nodded, "Six thousand for that, and the extra blowjob."

"Alright." At least Sonic was able to up the price a bit. Less than ten clients at this price and he'd have already earned all the money he needed.

Bob looked between Sonic's spread legs, and then reached into the small compartment between the two front seats. He opened the lid, took out a small package and tried to open it.

"What are you doing?" Sonic asked, "Don't you already have a condom on?"

"I do," Bob said a little icily, "These are baby wipes. I don't care to get blood on my fingers."

"Wha-?" Sonic sat up on his elbows and looked between his legs. A small trickle of blood was coming from his entrance and forming a small pool on the dark leather seat. "Oh, I see."

"I'll just clean you up here," Bob said, smacking his lips together as he roughly wiped Sonic's entrance, "And you'll be ready to go again."

X

"We got a little carried away, Sonic. You're bleeding." Shadow came back into his bedroom with a wet cloth, the blue hedgehog lying on his back, panting from the sex they had had until Shadow noticed a bit of blood coming from Sonic's entrance. Shadow had then pulled out and left the room, Sonic calling after him why they didn't finish. Once Shadow had returned, he made Sonic lie on his stomach and then held the cloth against Sonic's backside. "We'd better stop for tonight."

Sonic was still panting, his love for Shadow and lust for sex with the dark hedgehog overriding any pain from his torn inner tissues, "Shads, come on! I'm ok! Let's keep going."

The black hedgehog shook his head, "I know you didn't get to release, and for the record I didn't either. But if we keep going, I could damage you quite a bit. You know how rowdy we get when we have sex."

The blue hedgehog looked up at his lover, his eyes sparkling like emeralds in the starlight, "Please, Shadow…you know how good it makes me feel when we make love, especially since…I thought no one would ever want to."

Shadow quickly lowered his head while his left hand turned Sonic's head towards him. He kissed the blue hedgehog, slowly and sweetly. He pulled away after a bit and whispered into his lover's ear, "Don't you dare think that for a moment. You're the greatest lover anyone in the whole world could have…and I'm so lucky that you chose me."

X

Thrusting his pointer finger in and out of the blue hedgehog while sticking two fingers on his other hand into Sonic's pouch, Bob was testing Sonic, and smiled with the results, "Nice and tight everywhere. After a fucking you go back to being tight again, like nothing has ever happened. Nice…" Bob smiled, removing his fingers and grabbing the hedgehog's hips.

"Lubricant," Sonic said, sitting up on his elbows. Bob grumbled and little, put paused to put a squeeze of the gel onto his erection before entering Sonic once more. Sonic clenched his teeth together at the first few thrusts, "Not so fast." Bob didn't seem to care, only pushing harder to penetrate the tight muscles pressing together with the pain.

Eventually Sonic's body relaxed, allowing Bob to speed up. The human once again seemed to forget who was thrusting into and focused on his own pleasure, eyes closed and moaning in satisfaction. Knowing that Bob was too busy to do anything else and lying on his back with an erection once again jammed into his backside, Sonic simply placed his hands behind his head and waited for Bob to finish.

The moon was only a sliver of silver light from behind the clouds, and the trees were slowly waving in the soft breeze outside. Sonic sighed. Out there, it was calm and peaceful. That's where Sonic belonged - not in the back of a car with someone he barely knew, selling his body.

X

Shadow insisted that they waited until Sonic stopped bleeding. Once he did, the black hedgehog added more lubricant and then carefully pushed back inside his lover's tight ring of muscles, making sure Sonic had plenty of time to adjust. Shadow then pulled all the way out and then went back in again, starting slow at first but gradually speeding up his humps.

Sonic hips thrust upwards with every hump, wanting Shadow deeper inside. The blue hedgehog grabbed Shadow's shoulders and wrapped his legs around the black hedgehog's slim waist, moaning in pleasure from the continued thrusts into his body. The black hedgehog grinned, slipping his right hand around Sonic and gently pushing just below Sonic's neck, forcing the blue hedgehog to sit up a little more so Shadow could pull him into a deep kiss.

"More Shadow…please, more!" Sonic cried out, Shadow thrusting into him hard.

Shadow moved around a little. Once he found Sonic's prostate, he began slamming into it as hard as he could without injuring his lover. "Do you like that?" Shadow purred, enjoying every cry of pleasure from Sonic's lips.

"Yes, oh yes! Make me yours, Shadow!"

The two hedgehogs kissed again, Shadow chuckling softly once they pulled away, "You are mine, Sonic, just like I am yours."

X

Sonic let out a gasp at a particularly painful thrust, but Bob didn't seem to notice. Instead, Bob grabbed Sonic's ankles and pushed them closer to Sonic's chest, allowing for more access into the blue hedgehog's body. Sonic struggled to get into a more comfortable position; basically impossible due to the rough sex and death-like grip on his ankles. Now he was nearly curled into a ball, with his feet right above his head. After a couple of minutes in that position, Bob grabbed both of Sonic's ankles in one hand and pushed them against the seat back. This tightened Sonic's muscles more; giving more pleasure to Bob's already pleased erection.

Despite the extra pressure, Bob simply plowed on through the tightness; Sonic feeling more tissue tear. His prostate was hit a few times, but with the random thrusting it wasn't enough to make Sonic feel that good. It was simply another sign on how Bob didn't care about anything but himself - and Sonic suspected it wasn't just himself who went through this with Bob. No wonder the guy had to hire prostitutes to get any action.

Another sharp jolt of pain went through Sonic's body, and the hedgehog winced. He was going to be sore tomorrow.

X

Pleasure was building up inside both hedgehogs. Shadow and Sonic had been fighting with their tongues, and eventually Sonic had managed to push Shadow back into his mouth. Tracing Shadow's teeth and poking the dark hedgehog's tongue with his own, Sonic had been sure he had won, until Shadow removed one hand from Sonic's hips and put it in between his lover's legs.

Sonic gasped and pulled away from Shadow as the black hedgehog began pumping his erection, speeding up his climax, "No fair, Shadow! I won your mouth and you know it!"

Shadow chuckled at his blue lover, who was pouting good-naturedly at Shadow's extra attention, "Well, I suppose since you hand yourself over to me, I should hand over myself to you, hmm?"

Shadow didn't have a chance to say any more as Sonic grabbed his head quills and pulled him into another kiss, only pausing for a moment to say, "Damn right, Shadzie."

X

Pleasure was building up in Bob. With both of Sonic's slim ankles in one hand he pushed the fingers on his other hand into Sonic's pouch. It took a lot of willpower from Sonic to keep his muscles from clenching up again as the fingers squirmed their way inside his body.

It only took a few more thrusts for Bob to finish. The human let out a deep sigh, still inside Sonic, "That…was great…"

"Yeah…uh…are you going to pull out now, or…?" With a grunt, Bob yanked out of Sonic, and then slipped the condom off and tossed it to the ground.

"You owe me more sucking, Sonic…" Bob panted, pinching Sonic's tail.

"Get another condom on first," Sonic replied, sitting upright. Sonic's backside ached, but at least the worst was over.

After the protection was in place, Bob pushed Sonic to the car floor and pulled his head up, "Start sucking."

Sonic took the soft organ into his mouth, nibbling the end while pumping the rest. Bob quickly became hard, moaning at the blue hedgehog's attention.

"Faster," Bob panted, "Faster." Sonic obeyed, speeding up to satisfy his customer.

After a little more than five minutes, Bob let out one final groan before releasing. At least Sonic didn't have to taste anything, which was huge improvement compared to Wario. Afterwards, Bob held Sonic's head in place for a few moments to calm down after his climax, Sonic having to keep limp organ in his mouth for a little longer. Then Bob simply started to get dressed and handed Sonic a baby wipe to clean himself, barely acknowledging what the two had just done together.

X

"Did you enjoy that?" Shadow asked, panting. He looked at the blue hedgehog snuggled up against his chest and wrapped his left arm around Sonic, digging his bare fingers into the blue quills.

"Yes," Sonic replied, also panting. He pushed his nose into Shadow's white chest and let out a soft sigh, "I love your chest fluff."

"Chest fluff? Don't you mean chest fur?"

"Nope. It's too fluffy to be fur," Sonic said, letting out a little laugh and burrowing deeper into the fluff.

Shadow laughed as well, "Fine then. Sweet dreams, Sonic. I love you."

"I love you too, Shadow."

X

"I enjoyed that, Sonic," Bob said, driving back the way they came. After cleaning up, and getting dressed, Bob drove to the bank to withdraw more cash to pay the blue hedgehog. "If you'd like, I can have another date set up for you tomorrow."

"Fine by me," Sonic replied, "Boy or girl?"

"Depends on what I can get. Same price as for me?" Sonic nodded. "We'll have to see, then."

"I'll call you tomorrow afternoon. Don't call me - I rarely answer the phone anyways," Sonic said as Bob pulled away from the bank's drive-through window. He counted the bills three times to make sure there was enough, and then tucked the money into his left glove.

"Alright with me. By afternoon I should have a few clients set up - when I tell them about your nice, tight ass, they'll be willing to pay the high price."

"They'd better," Sonic grumbled, tired and simply wanting to get home.

"Shall I drop you off here again?" Bob asked, pulling up to the park corner.

"It's fine. Thanks." Sonic opened the door and got out of the car, "And tell your friends that if they won't use protection, I'm not interested." He slammed the door shut.

"Yeah, yeah…" Bob grinned at the blue hedgehog, "Sweet dreams, Sonic. I know I'll have them, because I loved having sex with you."

XXXXXXXXX

Having arrived back home at three in the morning, Sonic slept until past noon. Finally getting up at a quarter past twelve, after taking a shower he made his way downstairs to ask Tails where his lover was.

Tails was busy in his workshop trying to figure out a way to guard the Chaos Emeralds the group had already collected; covering their energy up so Mephiles wouldn't know they had the gems.

"Your hedgehog isn't here," Tails immediately said once Sonic asked, "They've gone to get some cash to help with our bribe."

"Oh," Sonic said, "Well, I can help with that." Sonic dropped the wad of twenty and fifty dollar bills on the table.

Tails looked up at the sound and picked up the pile. "Six thousand?" Tails asked after counting the bills, "How the hell did you make six thousand dollars so fast?"

"I just asked a CEO of a toy company. After all, since they do have a line of me-themed toys, I felt I was a little entitled."

The fox looked up at Sonic with an eyebrow raised, "Really, now."

"Yes. And I might get even more tonight, depending on how well he can convince some of his friends to buy in."

Tails was about to ask more about the company and the CEO's friends, but he didn't get a chance as Amy rushed downstairs, "Sonic! We have a chance to earn a good two thousand if you hurry up!"

"What would be doing?" Sonic asked as the pink hedgehog ran up to the two.

Amy took a deep breath and rubbed her arm a bit nervously, "Well…you remember that little moneybags, right?"

Both Sonic's and Tails' eyes went wide. "You've got to be kidding me," Sonic said.

"I remember that kid! She wouldn't stop yanking on my tails! Count me out!" Tails said, crossing his arms.

"You're safe, Tails. It'll be me and Sonic who'll have to suffer," Amy replied, sighing.

"Oh boy…how long we will have to stay there?" Sonic asked.

"It'll be about thirty second-graders hyped up on cake, ice cream and fruit punch. We could probably sneak out in under an hour."

"That's not bad for two thousand bucks," Sonic said, admitting that it would be a quick and easy way to get some cash, "I'm in, I guess."

"Sucker," Tails said teasingly, picking up his pencil and looking over his blueprints again.

"I hate you right now, Tails."

"And I hate you too. Now get out of here - you're making me lose my concentration."

"Just please tell me we won't have to do anything extra when we get there, like sing or wear a stupid costume," Sonic sighed, following Amy up the stairs.

Amy turned around and bit her lip, "Well, actually…"

Tails couldn't help but laugh when he heard Sonic groan.

XXXXXXXXX

Shadow and Isis were waiting outside Eggman's base for Rouge to return. She had snuck into the Doctor's base once again to try and track where Mephiles' messages had come from. The Ultimate Life Form leaned against a tall oak tree, the shade providing a nice place to wait - close enough to see the base but far enough away to stay hidden from any cameras or other alarm systems.

"So, you wish to help us because you don't want your friends to be hurt, right?" Shadow asked, looking to his left. Isis was lying down against the tree, eyes closed, but still awake.

"Mm-hmm," Isis replied affirmatively, eyes still shut.

"Seems a little odd if you ask me."

"How so?"

"If your friends are so powerful, they wouldn't need your help. And you could just warn them. Helping us out isn't necessary."

Isis opened her left eye to stare at the dark hedgehog, "You accusing me of lying?"

"Yes."

The psychic laughed and sat up straight, "I like you, Shadow. You never sugarcoat anything."

"Are you trying to change the topic?"

"You bet."

"Did you lie?"

Isis looked at Shadow, the sunlight coming through the remaining dry leaves on the tree making her eyes flash, "Perhaps."

"I didn't sugarcoat anything for you. Will you do the same to me?"

The two stared at each other quietly, black fur and black leather shining with the warm sun. A strong breeze came, rattling the trees and sending a wave of dried leaves onto the pair.

Shadow immediately brushed the leaves out of quills, while Isis let them dangle from her black hair, still looking at the dark hedgehog. Finally, she said, "I guessed that sooner or later one of you may have gotten a little too suspicious. Since I respect you as a fighter, I will tell you - yes, I lied about my reasons for being here and helping you. Are you happy?"

"Why?" Shadow asked, looking at Isis, "Why are you here?"

"That does not concern you."

"Of course it concerns me!" Shadow turned to face Isis, anger beginning to enter his voice, "This fucking madman comes down to my…my home, threatens to take it over and has badly hurt one of the few people I care about! This means a hell of a lot to me!"

Isis stood up as well, looking down at the Ultimate Life Form (only due to being nearly two feet taller) with calm lavender eyes, "I'm surprised, Shadow. You should know by now how to control your anger."

Shadow chuckled, "For me, this is controlled. Two years ago, I would have killed you."

"A human, perhaps, but I am not human. Hurt me, maybe. Killed me? No."

The dark hedgehog glared at Isis, "Do you doubt my power?"

Isis matched Shadow's stare in both anger and power, "Maybe I do, for I do not see why I should tell you anything more."

Another breeze went through the trees, sending another wave of leaves down to the ground.

Without saying a word, both fighters lunged at each other.

XXXXXXXXX

"This stupid crown keeps sliding over my eyes," Sonic muttered to Amy, pushing the gold plastic garland back up to his ears.

"Hey, we won't be here for very long. Just grin and bear it," Amy whispered back as she fiddled with her own tiara. The two hedgehogs were in a small sitting room, just outside of the hotel's grand hall where the little heiress to the Petran fortune was hosting her seventh birthday party. The girl's parents owned a giant chain of jewelry stores and spared no expense for their only child.

The girl, who was named Helen, absolutely loved Sonic and Amy. For two years now her parents had been trying to get the two hedgehogs to play with Helen, but neither could stand the girl. She was bratty enough to start off, but one year ago at a street fair she had grabbed onto one of Tails' namesakes and wouldn't let go. It turned out that with all the sticky candy she had been eating the two were stuck together. Helen had screeched and kicked at Knuckles, who held her tightly while Amy and Sonic attempted to separate the two. After twenty minutes and quite a bit of struggling, Helen went away with yellow fur covering her hands while poor Tails had a good patch of fur missing. At least his fur was thick enough so his tail wasn't bald, but it was still obviously thinner than the rest.

Sonic had no desire to get stuck to any small child - in the past he had managed to get half a bottle of wood glue on his head quills, and sitting around for three hours while Amy painstakingly pulled out all of the ones that they couldn't wash the glue out of was torture. The last thing he needed was a kid tugging at his quills and adding to the pain.

A hotel worker opened the door behind the two hedgehogs and motioned for them to follow. They silently walked down the hallway until they came to a pair of tall wooden doors. "Good luck," the worker said, "You'll need it." He then departed.

Amy looked over at Sonic. The blue hedgehog, much to his annoyance, was wearing a gold plastic crown, a long blue cape and a belt with a sword tucked in the side. Amy herself was wearing a similar outfit, but her cape was pink and she had a sparkly wand accompanying her sword. "Ready?" Amy asked.

Sonic sighed, "Ready as I'll ever be."

XXXXXXXXX

Although Isis did not have super speed, she was surprisingly fast. The fight had been going on for a few minutes now, but neither had scored a good hit.

Shadow ducked a psychic blast from Isis and countered with a Chaos Spear. Once again Isis put up a shield, blocking the attack. Both fighters quickly realized that ranged attacks were useless, as Shadow was too quick and Isis just blocked with shields.

Isis threw a punch at Shadow, well-aimed and strong, but the hedgehog dodged and countered with his own thrust. Isis blocked the attack with her left arm, grabbed Shadow's right arm and slipped behind him, twisting the hedgehog's arm in the process.

Shadow let out a growl and twisted with Isis, ignoring the stabbing pains shooting through his body. Isis let go quickly - a sign that she probably didn't really want to break Shadow's arm. "Good," Shadow thought, "She may not be willing to really hurt me, but I'm ready to hurt her badly!"

The two threw a flurry of punches at each other. Most of them were blocked, but one of Shadow's final ones managed to get through, knocking the wind out of Isis. She rolled backwards and came up on the balls of her feet, staring into Shadow's flashing ruby eyes.

"Giving up already?" Shadow asked, grinning at Isis.

Isis chuckled, "Hardly. Enough with this fist-fight - time to show you some of my abilities!"

A purple light flashed in front of Shadow's eyes, and then the world began to blur. Shadow turned left and right, but everything was spinning so fast he couldn't even begin to figure anything out. He was used to taking in sights at high speeds, but this was too fast for even his powerful eyes to take in. Isis was only a dark blur, only distinguishable from the dark blurs of the trees by her movements.

Isis got a number of powerful hits on Shadow before he managed to snap out of his confusion. Shaking his head back and forth, the dark hedgehog once again focused on his target before slamming into the psychic with his Spin Dash. But before he could roll around for another attack, he was floating in midair.

Shadow struggled against Isis' hold, managing to look around at the psychic. Her eyes were glowing purple, the same color as the thin aura surrounding Shadow as she held him in place with her psychokinesis.

The Ultimate Lifeform chuckled, "Cheater."

Isis smiled back, "Am I really? Don't all things go in a battle?"

Shadow wouldn't even give Isis the satisfaction of flinching when she slammed him into trees and the ground, over and over again. After one final slam into the ground, she let go, and immediately Shadow tackled Isis again.

The two fell onto the ground in a tangle, but even at such close range neither would give up. Shadow immediately grasped Isis around the neck with one hand while holding down her small wrists with his other, thinking she would submit if she ran out of air, but the psychic refused to even acknowledge the fact - simply attacking his exposed belly with psychic blasts.

Isis tried to throw Shadow off of her, but only succeeded at rolling them over, so now she was on top. Shadow tightened his grip on Isis' neck, now becoming a little concerned - he had to have been blocking off Isis' airway completely for a good two minutes now, but she didn't even seem to care. Even Sonic, stubborn as he was and always refusing to give up had to admit defeat after a few minutes with no air. Shadow had even managed to knock Sonic unconscious from lack of air once, but that was (more or less) an accident. The way Isis refused to quit, he was ready to knock her out. Sure, it would be difficult to explain to Rouge later, but it would be worth it just to get under Isis' skin.

Neither of them was going to give up - but now Isis must have gone a good five minutes without air, and showed no signs of weakening. "She said she wasn't human, though…perhaps her species doesn't need a lot of oxygen, like me."

That wasn't the only thing different about Isis, though. In one quick attack, Isis bent down and sunk her teeth deep into Shadow's shoulder.

XXXXXXXXX

"Amy, Amy! Come make princess hats with us!" Two young girls wearing princess outfits complete with long dresses, crowns and shoes dragged Amy over to the craft table.

"Sonic! Let's fight!" A young boy ran up to Sonic with his foam sword and swung at the blue hedgehog.

Sonic could have easily jumped out of the way or pulled out his own foam sword to defend, but at the moment he was attempting to fend off a group of girls, including the little rich brat herself, who wanted to dress up Sonic's quills in glitter and hair clips.

"Girls, seriously - my quills are too sharp for that. You'll get hurt." Not entirely true - he could decide whether or not to harden them. Either they'd only be sharp at the tip, or regardless of where you touched them you'd get your finger cut off. And certainly slicing off little kids' fingers wasn't good manners.

"Please, Sonic? It's my birthday!" Helen pleaded, along with the other four girls.

"Sorry, no can do. I have to go find Amy."

"Princess Amy," Helen insisted.

"Yeah, sure, whatever. Amy!" Sonic dashed away from the girls over to the craft table where Amy was gluing purple foam stars onto a pink construction paper cone, "Can we leave yet?"

"Soon," Amy promised, "We just have to wait for the photo shoot with each kid. Then we collect our money and scram. The Petrans wanted us to stay longer but I said we had other business to do. As well, I made them promise to quit bothering us."

"You're a life saver," Sonic sighed, sitting down on the edge of the bench, "How much longer?"

"Not much." The pink hedgehog pointed to a corner where a small cardboard castle was being constructed in front of a garden background, "When that's set up, we can start."

"Good. Just the thought of being covered with plastic flowers and butterflies makes me want to run away. I think Eggman would terrify me if he came after me with so much cuteness."

Amy just laughed, "I believe the sword tournament is starting. Go play."

"Yes, ma'am," Sonic replied, doing a quick bow before making his way over to the crowd of kids with foam weapons. "I wish Shadow or Knuckles were here. The idea of either of them being covered with sparkles and rainbows makes me crack up."

XXXXXXXXX

Shadow let out a gasp at the surprisingly powerful - and painful - bite. He let go of Isis' neck and pushed her off, sitting up to look at his wound. The bite mark wasn't from ordinary teeth - nine almost perfect round holes were on the front of his left shoulder, and Shadow was positive a matching set was on the back.

The Ultimate Life Form looked at Isis, who was now standing up and panting. Blood dripped from her human-like teeth, but the mark he received looked like that of some sort of carnivore.

"You…you bit me," Shadow said slowly. Isis could see Shadow was attempting to figure out how flat teeth could possibly produce such a mark.

"I did," Isis replied, just as slowly. Then it hit her, "I fucking bit Shadow. I don't do that during practice fights. I actually bit him. I was really attacking him. If I'm to fix everything -"

"Stop, stop, both of us, stop," Isis said, shaking her head back in forth, "What the fuck is wrong with me? We're both warriors. We shouldn't be fighting like this. We're acting like little children who've just figured out they have super powers." Isis moved towards Shadow, hands at her sides and shoulders relaxed, "I'll be the first to say it - I acted irrationally and now I've hurt you. We shouldn't be fighting. I'm sorry."

Shadow looked at Isis walking towards him, trying to judge whether or not she was being sincere. She seemed to be truly sorry, so he responded, "I accept your apology. And…and I'm sorry, too."

The two looked around the forest, with Rouge still not around. "So…" Isis said after a minute, kicking the ground with her toe, "I should clean your wound. I can release poison when I bite, although I tried not to with you."

The black hedgehog shook his head, "Not necessary. As the Ultimate Life Form, I am immune to all poisons."

"Suit yourself," Isis said, shrugging, "By the way, define 'Ultimate Life Form.' What do you really mean by it?"

Shadow stood up, swinging his left arm back and forth slowly to try and lessen the tension in his shoulder, "In short terms, it just means I'm extremely fast and powerful, I barely age and I am indestructible."

"I can buy the first three, but I doubt you're indestructible or perfectly immortal." When Shadow narrowed his eyes, Isis held up her hands in defense and smiled back, "Let me explain. To most things, yes, I'm sure they can't kill you, but if I were set off a landmine in your stomach, roll over you with a steamroller, put the remains in a woodchipper, dump that into a volcano and then blow it all up with a hundred atom bombs I'm pretty sure you'll be dead."

Shadow chuckled, "Yeah, I kind of figured that too. Professor Gerald said I could never die, but under those circumstances I think I'd be done for. Normally, I think I'll be alright."

"Me too," Isis replied. She offered her hand, "Truce?"

"Truce," Shadow agreed, shaking it.

XXXXXXXXX

The photographer waved the next child in, "Ok, right between the two hedgehogs - Sonic, straighten your crown, and Amy, hold up that wand. Nancy, tuck your dress in and - one two, three!"

"Three more," Sonic whispered to Amy.

"About time," Amy replied, "I can't wait to get out of here."

In the next picture, the kid jumped up at the last minute and grabbed onto Sonic's crown, pulling the garland over Sonic's eyes and making the hedgehog topple forward. At least the photographer got the shot before Sonic fell over.

"Bloody kids. I don't think I'll ever want children," Sonic grumbled, straightening his crown again. One of the jewels fell off, but Sonic simply threw it to the side not caring about the empty spot.

"Oh, I'm sure you'd change your mind if you knew the child well. What if Tails had a son? Would you never do anything with the kid?" Amy asked.

"Of course I would! My friends' kids would be an exception. But for the most part, I think I'll pass."

Amy just laughed, "I'm sure you'll change your mind later, Sonic."

"Yeah, yeah, whatever. Alright, last two kids. I can't wait to get out of here."

After the final photo was taken, Sonic and Amy quickly made their way to the door and slipped outside. After collecting the cash from the Petrans (who wouldn't stop thanking the hedgehogs for making it to Helen's birthday) the two dumped their costumes and ran outside.

"Ah, freedom!" Sonic said, jumping into the air, "And an extra five hundred buck bonus! Doesn't that bring us to almost 30,000?"

"Yep! I'll be glad when this is over," Amy replied, walking slowly to the happy Sonic. "I don't like it when you're sad," Amy whispered.

Sonic trotted over to Amy and placed his right hand on her shoulder, "I don't like anyone to be sad. And…I'm doing ok now. But I miss my lover at my side at night. Sure, it's nice to have extra space…" Sonic's eyes met Amy's, and while his still sparkled, it was softer than normal, "With everything going on right now, I need them more than ever."

"I'm sure your lover will be with you tonight," Amy said, smiling and taking Sonic's other hand in her own.

Sonic sighed, "I wish. I have another appointment tonight to see if I can get some more cash. No cuddles for me, I'm afraid."

"Don't worry about it," Amy whispered, moving closer to Sonic, "Love will always come through…"

Sonic smiled, and then squeezed Amy's shoulder and said, "I'm off on a run. I'll be back in an hour or two."

"Take all the time you want. I'll go looking for more opportunities like this one."

"Sounds good - but please, please not so much cuteness next time? I can stand a little, but being surrounded by butterflies, flowers, stars, hearts, kittens, puppies and rainbows in a million different colors is just too much for anyone with any sense!"

Amy laughed, "It was too much for me too. No more little girl parties, I promise."

"Unless it includes chili dogs - then I'm all for it."

"Of course…see you, Sonic."

"Later, Amy." Sonic winked at the pink hedgehog and dashed off; glad he was able to hide the growing fear of what he'd be selling tonight.

XXXXXXXXX

It took over an hour for Rouge to sneak in, trace the messages and sneak out without being detected. So far Eggman hadn't decided whether or not to take Mephiles up on his offer - but if they didn't counter the offer soon, Eggman probably would accept.

Relieved to have finally gotten out of there, Rouge made her way back to Shadow and Isis. The hedgehog and psychic were leaning against a tall oak tree, eyes closed.

"Hey! Were both of you sleeping this whole time…?" Rouge then noticed the white bandage wrapped around Shadow's left shoulder, "What happened? Did something attack you?"

"Oh no, just a friendly brawl," Isis quickly replied, standing up and stretching, "Where to?"

"It's a forest near the ocean, actually quite close to here - only about 500 miles south."

"Great," Shadow grumbled, standing up, "Let's go get something to eat and then start out. I'd rather have full energy when taking Mephiles on."

Rouge nodded and pumped her wings, pushing herself into the sky. She looked down at the two twelve feet below before heading towards the city.

Isis put a hand on Shadow's shoulder before he could start running, "Wait a minute, please. I know you care about Sonic and everyone, and especially with your past, so…" Isis sighed, "I'll tell you why I'm really here."

"Now?"

"After we get through Mephiles' base tonight."

Shadow raised an eyebrow, "You serious?"

"May I die if I don't tell," Isis whispered, placing a hand over her heart.

"Must be her world's version of, 'cross my heart and hope to die,'" Shadow thought with a chuckle, "Ok, but don't think I won't hunt you down if you're lying."

"I never go back on my word with a friend. I will tell you." Isis then let her hand drop and raced after Rouge, struggling to think of a way to explain the dilemma.

XXXXXXXXX

When nightfall came, the three set out. With the coordinates Rouge had found, the three had no trouble locating Mephiles' base - at least, where it should have been. The three were on a plateau above the forest, but couldn't see anything that looked remotely like a base.

"It must be below the treetops," Isis sighed, "We'll have to go down and search the whole forest."

"That doesn't make sense. Even if the base was lower than the trees, Mephiles would still have had to clear away trees to make room. And I don't see any clearings whatsoever." Rouge flew back towards Shadow and Isis and landed, "He could have gone underground, but I don't think the soil would support such a thing."

"Are you sure we're in the right spot?" Shadow asked, looking at the forest.

"Yes, I'm positive. It's here…" Rouge crossed her arms over her chest, thinking.

Isis looked at the forest, then at the cliff, and leaped off the edge.

"Isis? What the hell are you doing?" Rouge called out, watching the psychic fall.

In a flash, Isis turned around and grabbed the rocky wall, bringing herself to a complete stop without making a sound. "Get down here and I'll show you," Isis hissed from three dozen meters below.

Rouge and Shadow looked at each other before following. Rouge held Shadow's hand and slowly lowered them to Isis' level, "What is it?"

"Right there," said Isis, pointing at chunk of rock sticking farther out than the rest, "What if Mephiles didn't build his base in the forest? Look at that rock. You could land a small plane on that no problem and it looks like a hole is in the wall."

"You think it's the entrance?" Shadow asked.

"Only one way to find out."

XXXXXXXXX

Bob picked Sonic up from the same corner and same hour as before. He gave the blue hedgehog's shoulder a little squeeze, "Hey there. How's it going?"

"Fine. What's on tonight?" Sonic asked, having no emotion in his voice.

Bob smiled and pulled away from the corner once Sonic had his seatbelt on, "A very good friend of mine recently inherited a large sum of money - and she's happy to spend it on a hero."

"She? So a woman this time?" Bob nodded.

Sonic was a starting to get a little nervous now. Sleeping with a man was one thing - most of the time he was on the bottom - but with a woman, he'd have to make himself aroused. That was going to be difficult, considering all of the stress he was under.

"Something wrong?" Bob asked, giving Sonic a sideways glance.

"No, nothing. She's agreed to use protection?"

"She's on the pill."

"That won't protect me from diseases. No condom, no deal."

Bob's hands tightened on the steering wheel as he pulled onto the highway, "How much would I have to pay to spank your ass for being so fucking picky?"

Sonic shrugged, "A thousand, give or take."

Bob nodded, still driving down the highway, "I have acreage out here. Riley will join us in an hour."

Sonic sighed, "You looking for some action too?"

"Damn right," Bob said. The two were then quiet, and a few minutes later Bob pulled into a long driveway. He parked in front of a medium sized house, a dark grey due to the cloudy night.

Bob unlocked the door and let Sonic walk in, shutting it afterwards. He turned on the lights, and Sonic glanced around the kitchen, with honestly the ugliest wallpaper he had ever seen - pale orange with roosters in a darker orange. Sonic didn't even know such a thing existed.

"Right," Bob said, pushing something against Sonic's back. The hedgehog turned around to see a wad of bills held out to him, "A thousand for the spanking, and another thousand for a blow job."

Sonic looked at the money, and slowly nodded, "With a condom."

"Of course."

The hero sighed, "Alright. What do you want to do first?"

XXXXXXXXX

Isis was correct - a small opening was in the rock wall right at the cave shelf. It was too big for any normal-sized human to get through, but easy enough for Shadow and Rouge to crawl through. Isis transformed into her panther form and followed, squeezing herself right after the other two.

The tunnel went a long way through the cliff, going down and twisting and turning constantly. The tunnel also narrowed considerably the further they got through, and at the end it was so narrow Shadow and Rouge had to each take a black paw and pull Isis out.

"Looks like you need to lose some weight," Shadow said, teasing Isis as she lay sprawled on the rocky floor.

Isis stuck out her tongue at the hedgehog before getting up, shaking like a wet dog and then trotting after Rouge. The three quietly made through the rest of the cave. With Rouge being a bat, she was adapted to darkness and able to detect objects just fine. Shadow had been designed to see well in the dark and had no trouble keeping up. Isis also had built-in night vision - although her eyes glowed a dull purple, it simply wasn't bright enough to be noticeable.

After a few minutes of walking in silence, Rouge held up her hand for the other two to stop. "I hear voices," Rouge whispered, "I'm going to check it out. Alright?"

Shadow nodded while Isis let out a chuff. The bat disappeared around a bend in the cave, and came back in only a few seconds, "You guys have got to see this."

XXXXXXXXX

Smack!

"Ninety-seven."

Smack!

"Ninety-eight."

Smack!

"Ninety-nine."

SMACK!

"A hundred," Sonic gasped, finally allowing his body to relax again. Bob had led him to the living room, also done in horrendous wallpaper - light green with darker green flowers (although the flowers were so poorly done, they really could have been anything) - then stripped naked, sat down on the sofa and make Sonic crawl onto his lap. Sonic then laid face-down on the human's bare legs and counted out the hard slaps on his backside. This wasn't the first time Sonic had even been spanked - there had been a few incidents in his childhood, some with fans and a couple with mind-controlled Wario. Certainly the only time he had ever liked it was when his lover gave him a small smack, but that was out of love and nothing else. This was, well…just plain creepy.

"Your ass is getting a little red," Bob said, patting the hedgehog's backside, "But I don't think you're done yet."

"Yeah, well if you wanna continue paddling me you'll have to pay up," Sonic said, twisting around.

"Ten bucks a spank? Are you serious?"

"Hey, it's Sonic the Hedgehog you're spanking, not some random prostitute."

"You want my help getting cash or not?" Bob said, smiling at Sonic.

"That jerk is going to try and play the 'I won't help unless you give me what I want' card…" Sonic growled, "What do you suggest for a price, then?"

"A dollar each."

"No way! You're not gonna smack me a thousand times!"

"What do you suggest then?"

"Five bucks each, if that makes it better."

"Hmm…" Bob looked down at Sonic's rear end, only having a slight red tinge to it. It could take a long while before he could make it bright red…"Tell you what, Sonic - I'll give you a thousand more, and I get to spank you until your ass changes from blue to red. What do you say?"

Sonic frowned. He couldn't really tell how red he was at this point - so either he'd be getting extra or ripped off. Still, a thousand was fine considering all he had to do was bear the pain, minor compared to other things he had gone through.

"Alright," Sonic said, holding out his hand. Bob reached for his wallet sitting beside him on the couch, counted out twenty fifty dollar bills and handed them over. Sonic tucked the money into his glove before settling down on Bob's legs again, "Go ahead."

"Start counting where we left off," Bob chuckled while raising his hand.

Smack!

"One-hundred one…"

Smack!

"One-hundred two…"

XXXXXXXXX

"What is that? Some sort of cannon?" Shadow whispered. The three were tucked into a small crack in the cave wall just outside of the open doorway, allowing for them to observe the area without being spotted.

The cliff had been completely dug out; with the path the three had traversed leading to one grand circular hall, at least 100 feet in diameter. Sitting in the middle of the place was a giant metal tower. At the top was a hint of something glowing, and at the bottom, some control panels - but as for what the heck it was, none of them had a clue.

Metal walkways circled the huge room, on four levels. Below the three were one walkway and the ground floor - above, two more metal walkways. Every so often a strange creature walked by, ranging from the freaks in the jewelry store to creatures that seemed ghost-like to just plain mindfucks. But for the most part, the place was empty.

"It's night now. Mephiles must be sleeping and sent his minions away so he wouldn't have to monitor them. We've come at a good time," Rouge whispered.

"Alright, we'll split the place up. Rouge, take the top two floors. I'll take the bottom two. Isis can take this one - looks like this floor has the most hallways. Sounds good?" Shadow looked at the two girls, who both nodded, "Let's go."

"One minute, Shadow. You and I can communicate with these," Rouge said, tapping her wrist. The watches she and Shadow both wore had a built-in communicator that would allow instant contact with each other, but Isis didn't have one, "What about Isis?"

"No worries." Both Shadow and Rouge seemed startled to hear Isis' voice, and the panther laughed, "I'm in your head. I can speak telepathically. Shall I check in with both of you every twenty minutes or so?"

"That's fine. Now let's hurry up and get going before something notices us."

Once the coast was clear, Rouge flew up to the floor above, while Shadow carefully jumped his way to the ground. Isis looked back and forth, and then carefully disappeared into the next hallway.

X

Isis groaned inwardly as she recognized the hallway - at least, the design of it from before, when she had seen Mephiles' base for the first time. It seemed that the whole base was designed like this, which would make it difficult for her to find her way back.

"At least in panther form I can follow my scent," Isis said, carefully scanning the walls and space ahead of her to make sure she wouldn't run into something or set off an alarm, "And I suppose Shadow's so fast he won't have a problem finding his way out. I just hope these hallways aren't too confusing for Rouge…oh, I'm sure she'll be fine."

It wasn't long before Isis came upon a familiar set of tall doors. "Oh, joy. Am I just destined to be a bookworm?"

X

Shadow kept to the wall as he made his way to the ground floor. As messed up as these creatures were, they weren't especially bright. He easily made his way past three different monsters before getting to the base of the tall metal tower.

The first thing he noticed was the seven holes around the machine, obviously meant for the Chaos Emeralds - luckily or unluckily, Shadow wasn't quite sure which; no Emeralds were in the holes. The base of the tower was only about ten feet in a diameter, quite a contrast to its great height about ten times that. The only other interesting thing about the tower was a door in it, with a keypad next to it. Shadow dared himself and pressed a few buttons, but nothing happened. Either the thing wasn't working yet or it wasn't on.

There was only one hallway on this floor, and Shadow could already see to the end of it. With no monsters in sight Shadow got to the end of the hallway and slid open the metal door. The room was only occupied by a large machine, a long metal table and shelves crammed with pots and boxes of random materials. Compared to the rest of the base so far, it was quite messy, with papers, scrap metal and all kinds of junk coating the floor.

Trying his hardest to not disturb anything, Shadow made his way to the strange machine. The cylinder-shaped metal machine had a door with a small window and was covered with keypads and levers. The larger metal cylinder was connected to a smaller one a few feet away with a long plastic tube. The machine kind of resembled a teapot, for two huge, clear plastic curly tubes, one at the top and one at the left side looked like handles, while the longer plastic tube looked like the spout. Steam was also escaping from near the top, although the smell was obviously chemicals and not tea leaves. Teapot or not, someone had put a lot of effort into this machine. This thing seemed to be working, for a giant light in neon orange was on, and it read, 'In Progress'.

"What's in progress?" Shadow mumbled to himself. He stood on the tips of his toes to try and peer into the cylinder, but all he could see was a thick white cloud of steam.

Deciding not to break the thing open lest he let loose some monster, Shadow went to look at the shelves. Most of the containers weren't open, but Shadow easily recognized them as different chemicals, like silver nitrate and aluminum oxide, and of course sulfuric acid. The only ones that had been opened, however, were only labeled as 'white' 'black' 'orange' and so forth.

"Hmm…" Shadow grabbed a small scoop that had been set on top of one of the containers and dipped it into the one marked 'red'. He came up with a tablespoon of red powder.

"What is this stuff?" Shadow looked at the powder, and then it came to him.

X

When he had been little and aboard the ARK, the day he learned to walk was also a day that Gerald and Maria had continued to tease him about years later. Of course, at the time he had been so young he couldn't talk or stand up yet, so really it was nothing to be embarrassed about; but even here all alone, a small blush formed on Shadow's cheeks.

A couple of other scientists were working with Professor Gerald to study Maria's condition that day, who patiently waited as was in her nature (unlike Shadow, who barely tolerated anyone poking things into him except for Professor Gerald, and even then he was no saint). With no one to baby-sit the little Ultimate Life Form he had been placed in a small cage until the tests were finished. According to Maria, Shadow had howled and cried until finally Gerald said to let Shadow loose in the lab, as nothing was in his reach and he was too young to do any harm.

Shadow could crawl by this point and happy to be free had set about exploring the lab. No one was quite sure what had exactly happened, but it seemed as though Shadow wanted something on a small metal bookcase with only two shelves. But even though the first shelf was only two feet off of the floor, at his current crawling height and without the ability to stand Shadow couldn't reach it.

Much to the baby Ultimate Life Form's dismay, even if he sat up he couldn't get the object of his desire. It was assumed that the little hedgehog then seemed to have realized that if you were on two legs, you could get things from higher places. Having figured this out, Shadow struggled to pull himself to his little feet. Time and time again Shadow tried to stand up, as he couldn't seem to figure out how to make himself balance. Surprisingly enough, nobody had seemed to notice that Shadow was trying to stand and walk - every time they looked at him he was sitting or lying down, probably from his failed attempts.

Still unwilling to give up, Shadow probably noticed at a pile of books a few feet away from the shelf. The pile would have provided something for Shadow to hold on to and pull himself to his feet. Having finally managed to do that, the young hedgehog could slowly take his first few steps and make his way to the shelf. The only things on it were small metal containers - perhaps it was the shine or the splashes of bright colors on the containers that had initially attracted Shadow. Regardless, Shadow had managed to make it while walking; he reached for whatever object he wanted…

…and pulled the lightweight aluminum shelf over, sending it toppling to the ground with a tremendous crash. Now he got everyone's attention, as a wave of different colored powders were sent into the air in puffs of chemicals. In the middle of the mess sat Shadow, covered from head to toe in the strange powders. He looked at himself, now a mixture of greens and grays and purples, and then up at Gerald with bright red eyes and an expression that read, 'What happened?'

Apparently everyone had a good laugh at seeing the young Ultimate Life Form in such a state and completely confused, before Gerald Robotnik picked up the young hedgehog and said, "Ah Shadow, you little rascal. I guess we won't be painting anything anytime soon. Looks like all of our powder coatings are mixed into one huge mess."

"What are you going to do with him?" another scientist asked.

"Give him a bath and put him to bed. I think he's had enough adventures for today. Although I'm surprised he was able to bring that shelf down - he wouldn't have been able to reach it unless…" Gerald paused for a moment and then smiled at Shadow, "He learned how to stand!"

"Already? He's not that old…" a different scientist said, looking at the multi-colored Shadow.

"He's developing quite nicely, although perhaps I should have focused a bit more on making his cerebral cortex develop a little faster. Maybe then you would have judged your environment a bit better and realized that putting all of your weight on the edge of a shelf isn't a good idea, hmm, Shadow?" Shadow simply giggled in response.

"Well, it's bath time for the baby. I'll clean up his mess when I get back. You're growing up so fast, aren't you, my little Ultimate Life Form?" Maria giggled at her grandfather talking baby talk to Shadow and then tickling the little hedgehog's tummy.

The rest of the day wasn't as 'adventurous', although apparently Shadow had found the multi-colored bathwater very amusing and continually splashed, trying to grab the colors. As well, after Gerald had placed Shadow in his crib he now attempted to get out. He had managed to nearly pull himself over the top bar before Maria had stopped him, picked him up and then cuddled him to sleep.

"It's a good thing I did get a crib for the little guy," Gerald had said when Maria told the scientist of Shadow's escape attempt, "A cage would have made him cry, and in a regular bed he would have gotten out no problem. I'll have to put up a little barrier to prevent him from getting out. Now that Shadow's learned to stand, more things are in his reach. He'll be a handful to watch now."

X

It was a cute little story, but of course Shadow was young so he couldn't remember a thing. Well, he sort of remembered the colored water and bubbles, but that was it.

"Wait, why am I thinking about me getting bathed as a child when I'm in the middle of a madman's base and just discovered something? Focus, Shadow!"

All of the stuff in the color-labeled containers and the red powder in the scoop was powder coating - a kind of paint used on metals. Now, it wouldn't have been a real discovery - after all, Eggman often painted his robots, so it was possible Mephiles was going to do the same - if it wasn't for a few things. First off, there was pink powder coating. And pink really wasn't all that threatening.

Secondly, the colors were very specific hues. The blue powder was exactly the color of Sonic's fur, while the yellow was the perfect shade to match Tails' coat.

"Something's not right here…" Shadow muttered to himself, "Why would the colors be so precise?" Shadow then turned around to look at the teapot machine, a flash of inspiration hitting him, "Unless…"

X

Rouge carefully navigated her way through the hallways of the top floor, each looking the same as the last. A number of strange creatures were walking through the halls, but not a single one thought to look up.

Most of these rooms had nothing interesting in them, but eventually Rouge came to one small room, no bigger than twelve feet across, and the walls completely covered with bookshelves. In the center was a light-colored wooden desk with the top slanted downward, and a little piece of wood at the bottom to prevent pencils and papers from sliding off. A thick green book with a metal coiled spine sat on the desk, with a pen tucked into the coil. A plush green chair sat in front of the desk, at a 45 degree angle. The floor also had numerous piles and boxes of both artwork and writing, although whether or not Mephiles had done them himself Rouge did not know.

Quietly Rouge stepped into the room and shut the door behind her. She made her way to the desk and opened the book to a random page. Immediately what she saw made her feel sick.

Tucked into the two lined pages was an extremely graphic drawing of Mephiles raping Silver.

XXXXXXXXX

Sonic was on his knees in front of Bob, sucking away at Bob's covered erection. Bob had one hand in Sonic's head quills, pulling the blue hedgehog forward. Sonic complied and took more of the organ into his mouth, his sore backside still red after the hard spanking.

Bob had almost finished when a woman in about her mid-thirties walked into the room. Sonic and Bob turned to look at her, although Sonic didn't stop sucking. She was fairly pretty, with curly brown hair and a short red dress. However, her brown eyes held the same predatory look that Bob's had when he looked at Sonic.

"He really is sucking cock, isn't he?" She asked, smiling, seemingly unconcerned about who Sonic was sucking off.

"Sure is," Bob grunted and tapped Sonic's ear, "This is Riley, Sonic. She's paid to fuck you tonight."

"And I'm looking forward to it," Riley said, looking Sonic up and down, "He looks pretty talented with his tongue. I can't wait for oral from him."

Sonic pulled away for a moment to say to Riley, "Look, I'm not going to perform oral on you unless there's something in between your privates and my mouth. I'll be wearing a condom when we have sex, but that won't help if I do oral."

Riley looked at Bob, who sighed and said, "The little whore won't do a damn thing without protection and lubrication. And considering how much he costs, that's quite a price to pay."

"For simply wishing to protect myself? Are you serious?" Sonic once again pulled away from Bob, "I don't want to risk the chance of getting some disease, alright? There's nothing wrong with that!"

Bob shrugged, "It feels better without a condom."

"For crying out loud, you can barely feel the damn things! Have unprotected sex with your lover, I don't care - but with me, it's barriers or not at all."

Riley sighed, "Well, I have always dreamed of doing this…so I'll place something overtop so you don't have to touch my skin. Alright?"

"Yeah," Sonic replied just before Bob pushed his erection back into the hedgehog's mouth.

"I'll be in the bedroom whenever you two are done," Riley said, winking and walking off down the hallway.

"Chaos, these people are crazy. If I were to walk in on one of my friends getting oral from a human, I would at least be concerned!"

XXXXXXXXX

Once again in the library, Isis began her search of the room, still in panther form. It didn't take long to find what she was looking for - the black book with the silver corners. Another entry had been added, but all it said was that Plan Two was going along as, well, planned and that Eggman might take Mephiles up on his offer.

"However," Mephiles had written, "Eggman seems very suspicious about what I want with Sonic. I'm not surprised, considering it's very odd to have someone spontaneously come up to you and offer to take your worst enemy away for good. Eggman said he'd have to think about it for a few days. I hope he makes up his mind soon…just the thought of that blue hedgehog squirming underneath me makes me all excited…"

"Too much info there, buddy!" Isis thought, and placed the book back. The psychic continued her search of the library. This time she was able to make a more thorough search and ended up in a corner of the room. A giant table was there, covered with all sorts of blueprints. "Hey, these kinda look like that tower…but I can't understand all of these words. Oh, I wish Sun was here…I don't think I could take any of these without Mephiles noticing. These don't look complete yet either - although I can tell the tower's designed to do multiple things. For now, that's all I have to take away from this."

Isis padded around the room, still in her panther form. There had to be something here to help her figure out what Mephiles was up to…

The psychic's gaze landed on a small, indigo colored book. Could that hold the secrets she was looking for?

X

After the initial shock was over, Rouge studied the picture a bit more carefully. The background was nearly all black, with slight hints of columns and vines beyond the main scene. Right in the foreground were Mephiles and Silver, lying on what looked like a dark blue Roman couch. Silver was on the left, with all of his regular clothing on. Both of his hands were chained to the wall behind the lounge. The small of his back was right where the armrest began to curve into the actual seat, with his lower half in the direct center of the picture. Silver's legs were apart and his entrance clearly shown being penetrated by the other hedgehog. Silver's expression wasn't one of great pain or confusion - Silver simply looked defeated. His chin looked like it was wobbling and a few tears were coming out of his sad golden eyes, but other than that his face seemed stony.

Mephiles, on the other hand, practically reeked of evil. His face was shrouded in darkness and his sharp teeth seemed to glow through the shadows. Mephiles also was completely clothed, although his privates were visible. His hands were digging into Silver's hips, like they were holding the psychic hedgehog in place. The whole scene looked so lifelike Rouge had to close her eyes for a second to stay calm; to remind herself it was just a picture…

But there were more of them - hundreds, possibly thousands of these drawings. Rouge focused her attention on them first, the bright and dark pictures catching her eye easily. They weren't just of Silver either. Sonic, of course, showed up often, but Shadow, Knuckles and even herself did as well. Not all of them were rape pictures, but in each one if you weren't Mephiles, you were in great pain.

Only two of the ones of Shadow she had found were of him being raped - both oral for some reason as well. The rest were all of Shadow being beaten and tortured, limbs being amputated and his back whipped to shreds. She and Knuckles had most of the same stuff as Shadow, with a few sexual pictures as well. Blaze had a few rape and torture pictures, but most of the others made her look like a prostitute more than anything else. Amy seemed to be shown most often as some sort of domestic slave, but that didn't let her escape from some of the more graphic ideas. Tails seemed to escape the drawings in most ways, although he was also a slave in some pictures. And there were thousands more containing other anthromorphs, humans and other races she didn't recognize all going through the same thing.

The whole thing was so overwhelming Rouge sat down in the chair, holding a picture of Sonic, Silver and Shadow all chained at the neck and looking down in sadness. 'My Little Sex Slaves' the picture was titled.

Words could not even describe the sadistic power in this room. "This is wrong…so wrong…" Rouge whispered, closing her eyes. The only thing that made her feel better was the fact that these were not photos. The pictures were drawn incredibly well, but they were just that - drawings. None of these had truly occurred.

"But just to think that Mephiles…is so interested in this…makes me feel sick." Rouge had just placed the picture she was holding back on the pile next to the desk where she had found it, when something caught her eye. A drawing was tucked in underneath the green book. This seemed to be Mephiles' latest creation, and not quite complete, as the border had not been filled in yet. Rouge carefully extracted the drawing to examine it.

Even after looking at so many drawings, each one more sadistic than the last, this picture was the one that chilled Rouge to her very core. The setting seemed to be a darkened bedroom, with Mephiles standing in a doorway in the background, head thrown back in laughter. Moonlight streamed through the window onto the ground, lighting up two figures on the bed, both completely naked. The bed was set up so the headboard would have been closest to the viewer, although only a little bit was shown in the picture. It was also set at an angle to give the clearest view of the two occupants on the bed - the part that scared Rouge the most and she didn't scare easy. Knuckles was being held down on the bed, wrists trapped by smaller hands. His hands, ungloved, were being pushed against the headboard. The echidna looked frightened, his eyes practically pleading with the person on top of him to stop the unwanted attention. His mouth was gagged with a white cloth to silent his cries that would have come from the fact that his legs that had been forced apart by his rapist. But the thing was…Knuckles' rapist wasn't a man.

It was Rouge. Her bare chest rose above Knuckles' heaving one, her breasts shining in the moonlight. Two fangs slightly poked out from underneath her blood-red lips, and her tongue was licking the lower lip in anticipation of gaining her prize. She was sitting on top of Knuckles, having lowered herself onto his unwilling erection, pushing his legs farther apart with her own. Her eyes seemed glazed over and predatory, completely ignoring the echidna's fear. The muscles under both of their skins were incredibly detailed - you could see every curve of both fighters' bodies. The dark green bedding bunched around Knuckles' waist, the tree outside of the window with an owl on a branch, the television set in the background with a small penguin figurine sitting on top - no detail was spared. Out of all the drawings this one seemed just so realistic Rouge almost expected to feel the cotton, hear the thumps and moans of the sex, sense Knuckles' fear…

"I'm thinking way too much about this," Rouge thought, shaking her head back and forth. She placed the picture back where she had found it and thought, "Some of these are signed…Mephiles did have his own signature on his messages to Eggman. If I can just get a few of these pictures and show him, I'm sure he would change his mind. I would change my mind - anyone with any shred of a heart would turn against Mephiles!"

Rouge set herself up to the task of finding the best pictures she could, although she couldn't help but think of the one under the book. Something seemed different about it compared to the others…what, though, Rouge couldn't quite put her finger on.

XXXXXXXXX

Having finally finished with Bob, the CEO gave Sonic an extra smack on the ass and turned towards the television.

"Go to the bedroom and do whatever Riley wants. She's got the cash. She'll pay."

Sonic nodded, trying to calm his pounding heart and think arousing thoughts of his lover instead. It was easier to do when he was alone, but once inside the bedroom any arousal vanished from Sonic's mind.

Riley was naked, her legs spread apart and awaiting attention from the blue hero. She patted the space beside her and after shutting the door Sonic sat down. "Now Sonic," Riley whispered, rubbing a hand through his quills, "You'll be a good boy and do as I tell you, right?"

"Yes…if you have the money."

"The deal was five thousand for oral, fingering and the hump, right?"

"Six, actually…"

"Oh, I'm only gonna finger you a little. That's fair, right?"

Sonic sighed, already feeling tired, "Alright, but if you do a lot you're paying."

"Fine!" Riley gestured to her open legs, "Get down there. I want to see what you can do."

X

"My turn now, Amy," Sonic whispered, ducking between her legs. Sonic started with a few slow licks on the outside before moving inwards.

"Sonic! Right there, please…" Amy arched her back with pleasure "Oh, that…yes! Faster Sonic!"

Sonic grinned and obeyed, holding down Amy's hips so he could control his licks better. Amy didn't mind that Sonic was still too nervous to push his tongue in deep, because he was doing the best he could. Amy rubbed Sonic's back, expertly avoiding the quills and nuzzling the top of Sonic's head. "Are you enjoying this?" Sonic asked after a few minutes, looking up.

Amy smiled, sat up and kissed Sonic's forehead, "The best part is that it's you."

X

A condom had been cut and opened up so it was like a square. This had been placed over Riley's privates, preventing any real skin-to-skin contact from occurring. Sonic licked and nuzzled at different points, but he failed to get a lot of arousal from Riley.

"You have to go deeper with me, Sonic," Riley said, panting slightly, "Real deep with your tongue. I don't care what you think - you have to, or no money."

X

Sonic had tried to go deeper when Amy asked, but he just couldn't do it. He became scared and started shaking, prompting Amy to make him stop. Sonic moved up and snuggled in next to his lover, while she kissed him and rubbed his groin.

"Don't worry about it, Sonic," Amy whispered softly, rubbing the top of Sonic's head, "You just go as far as you feel comfortable with. I can't enjoy it if you're not enjoying it. Every time we can go farther until you're ok."

"Thanks for being so understanding, Amy…" Sonic whispered back, planting a soft kiss on Amy's lips, "And not calling me a wimp or anything."

Amy let out a soft laugh, "Wimps are people who cry for hours over a stubbed toe or freak out about a small scratch on their phone. You aren't a wimp if you're nervous about sex, regardless of gender. We'll just take our time, and everything will be alright."

X

Sonic obeyed the command, feeling more scared with every bit he pushed in. He had never gone this far before in oral - sucking on a man's erection was one thing, for he could see everything, and excluding that one time with mind-controlled Wario in which he had performed oral sex on Wario's ass, he had only done a few licks around the surface. This was new, and frightening. Riley didn't seem to care, but just kept snapping at Sonic to hurry up and get in there.

Finally, with his tongue nearly all the way in, Riley let out a groan, "Oh yes…right there, Sonic! Like that…yeah!" Now at the correct depth, Sonic twisted his tongue around inside, grateful for the latex wall separating the two. He lapped at anything he could find, trying to find a pleasure spot for Riley. At one point he managed to get a loud moan from her, and then Sonic began focusing solely on that spot.

"Oh gods, yes, yes! Sonic, you're just amazing…more, more!" Riley pushed Sonic's head down, the built-up pleasure in her body tightening her muscles around Sonic's tongue.

Sonic just thought of the dreams he had had before he had decided who his lover was. He had them of both Amy and Shadow, and while he had reenacted the ones of Shadow with Bob, he reenacted the ones of Amy with Riley. It made things a lot easier if he pretended that he was pleasuring someone he loved instead of some freak.

The blue hedgehog continued to wiggle his tongue around inside, starting to become a little more relaxed. As long as he pretended it was Amy, he could do this. He had to do this.

X

After Amy reached her climax, Sonic lapped up the remains before kissing up her stomach and sucking on her neck.

"Oh Sonic…that was amazing…" Amy panted, just as Sonic moved up and began to kiss her. The blue hedgehog let the pink one push her tongue into his mouth, and for a minute they softly kissed one another, savoring the other's taste.

When they broke apart for air, Amy let her hand rub down Sonic's side and onto his rear, "Do you feel like taking tonight one step further?"

"I'm very relaxed now," Sonic purred, kissing Amy's neck once again, "Let's give it a try, shall we?"

"I am on birth control, but we can still use a condom if you'd like."

Sonic thought for a moment, gazing past Amy at the starry night outside. "I think I'd like to try going without," Sonic decided, looking down at his pink lover, "But still, I really appreciate the offer - knowing that you'd be willing to go with one for me just seems right…"

Amy wrapped her arms around Sonic's neck, pulling her blue lover into a deep kiss, "I'm glad you're willing to wear one too. Lovers should be like that. But if you want to go without, I'm fine with that too."

The pink hedgehog began to rub Sonic between his legs again, and the blue one couldn't help but let out a moan. "We'll begin whenever you're ready, Sonic," Amy whispered as she pulled Sonic in for another kiss.

X

After finishing Riley, Sonic sat up and licked his lips. Not because of any taste, because thankfully he couldn't taste a thing, but because his lips were dry from lapping away for so long.

"Ooooooh…you're very good, Sonic," Riley said, petting Sonic's cheek, "Now, why don't you come a little closer?"

"Umm…ok…" Sonic crawled on top of Riley, sitting just above her hips, "What do you want me to do?"

Instead of responding, Riley pushed Sonic's head down towards her breasts and held him there. Sonic waited for a moment, but Riley didn't give any further instructions. The blue hedgehog gave a small lick on one nipple, which sparked a giggle from Riley, "Atta boy, Sonic. I knew you'd figure it out."

"Oh," Sonic thought, this time taking the nipple in his mouth, lightly nibbling it. While Sonic teased Riley's right breast, her hands moved down his sides and grabbed Sonic's hips, forcing them up and his head to go down. Sonic's tail was poking nearly straight up, forcing him to place his feet on either side of Riley's hips to keep his balance. Sonic unwittingly let out a small squeak as he felt a finger prod his backside.

"Just relax and keep sucking, Sonic…" Riley whispered, stretching Sonic's rear end and slowly inserting a finger in his backside, "I'm just testing something out, is all."

"What are you testing?" Sonic asked; wincing as a second finger followed the first.

Riley stretched Sonic with the two fingers, rubbing his left butt cheek with the other hand. "None of your concern," Riley replied, attempting to push a third finger in, "Not unless this works, anyway."

X

Because of past experiences, it often took some time for Sonic to become fully aroused. After applying a coat of lubrication on her pointer finger, Amy carefully inserted the finger into Sonic's backside.

Sonic's eyes opened wide, but he did not become frightened because he knew that this was different than before. The blue hedgehog moved down to Amy's chest to tease it while she searched his rear for his pleasure spot.

It didn't take long to find the gland. Sonic let out a soft moan as soon as Amy's finger brushed it, and his moans got louder as she softly stroked his prostate.

"Amy…" Sonic panted, becoming more aroused with every passing second, "Don't stop…oh!" Sonic arched his back, wanting the finger deeper in, "More Amy, more!"

X

Riley's fingers had found Sonic's prostate, but Sonic didn't have the same reaction as when his lover fingered him. True, the same bolts of pleasure shot through Sonic's veins, but by now the blue hedgehog knew that it was his body's natural reaction to being touched there, and not of his own accord. Besides, Riley's fingers were quite rough from the beginning, while his lover took it slow to give his body time to adjust. With Sonic's past sexual history, he really needed that extra time to feel safe.

Despite the rough touching, Sonic's body reacted to the pleasure, and Sonic couldn't help but blush as his hardening organ began coming out of his pouch.

"Ah, there it is…" Riley continued to finger Sonic while her left hand began to inspect Sonic's growing erection, "You look like a good six inches or more, Sonic. That's pretty big for someone of your size…"

"Yeah…great…" Sonic bit his lip, a little nervous about being on top this time, "So…you have a condom?"

Riley rolled her eyes, but reached over, picked up a small package and slapped it into Sonic's palm, "If you must, then put it on." Sonic's shaking fingers somehow managed to rip open the foil. He carefully rolled the condom over his erection and nodded at Riley, showing he was ready. "Rub yourself," was all Riley said, removing her fingers and then leaning back against the pillows.

Sonic began rubbing his hand up and down his length; shame forcing his cheeks to go red and his eyes start to tear up. Even before he had been raped, Sonic had rarely pleasured himself in a sexual way, preferring the pleasure of high speeds to sitting in his room and touching his privates. After the whole incident at the Smashers' Base, doing so had simply made him feel wrong, as if he was doing something foul and dirty. Time and time again he had been told that there was absolutely nothing wrong with exploring your own body, but he just couldn't do it. He could pleasure someone else and they could pleasure him, but there was simply no way he could do it himself now.

His lover didn't know at the beginning how wrong Sonic felt pleasuring himself, so when they asked him to rub himself, as he was doing now, Sonic managed to do it about seven times before bursting into tears. After his lover calmed him down, Sonic explained about how he felt about touching himself, and the other hedgehog then apologized and promised never to ask again. Dr. Nam tried to assure Sonic that in time he wouldn't feel bad and could try touching himself again, but Sonic wasn't quite sure.

In any case, enough time certainly had not passed to make Sonic feel comfortable yet. The blue hedgehog squeezed his eyes shut, willing himself not to cry as he rubbed himself. "Pretend it's Shadow," Sonic thought, "Or Amy. Just don't think about it being you!"

X

With Sonic fully pleasured and Amy waiting, the blue hedgehog carefully lowered himself inside his lover. Sonic paused once he was fully inside, allowing both hedgehogs to adjust, before slowly rocking his hips back and forth.

"Faster Sonic!" Amy cried, and the blue hedgehog happily complied. He sped up his thrusts, Amy gripping his shoulders and thrusting her hips up in time with Sonic.

"You feel so good, Amy…" Sonic panted, love and lust shining in his eyes, "You're very tight…"

Amy pulled Sonic into a deep kiss while wrapping one of her legs around Sonic's waist, "You're my first and only, Sonic. Every part of me is for you."

Sonic lowered his lips to Amy's chest, sparking a number of moans from the pink hedgehog. He looked up and smiled, "You may not have been my first, Amy, but from now on I promise you'll be my only."

X

"Very nice, Sonic," Riley said after a few minutes, completely ignoring the fact that Sonic wasn't comfortable in the slightest with touching himself, "Shall we get started?"

"Whatever you wish," Sonic said, shrugging. Riley motioned to her lower regions and Sonic complied, inserting himself into the female human. He started pushing in and out, slowly to start, like his lover let him, but Riley wouldn't have any of that.

"Speed up, will you? Perhaps you're used to younger women who like that, but I like it rough. Come on now!" Riley slapped Sonic's cheek, startling Sonic and stopping his motions.

"Get a move on!" Riley hit Sonic again, and this time Sonic began thrusting as fast he could, wanting to get this over with as soon as possible.

Riley didn't give any more commands to Sonic, only letting out moans and groans of pleasure. Sonic simply focused on his thrusting, outside seeming uncaring but inside shaking like a butterfly in a tornado. Starting sex quickly was nerve-wracking for him, but if he didn't comply, he wouldn't get any money. And without the cash, the possibility of never being able to start slow again was the least of his worries.

X

Both pink and blue hedgehogs were basking in the afterglow of their lovemaking, both naked and cuddling in the soft bed together.

"I really enjoyed that, Sonic," Amy said softly, nuzzling into Sonic's neck.

"Me too," Sonic replied, stroking his lover's side, "But it's late…I suppose we should stop for the night."

"You're right," Amy agreed, pulling the covers up over their bodies and snuggling closer, "I love you, Sonic."

"And I love you too, Amy. Goodnight."

X

Riley's moans got louder and louder, but Sonic was already going as fast as his scared body would allow. Riley didn't seem to care, reaching her climax and clawing Sonic's shoulders in the process. Sonic hoped that the marks wouldn't show well, otherwise his money-making secret would be out.

"Ah, Sonic…for only being seventeen, you're certainly great in bed." Riley's head was back, and she was panting heavily. Sonic was feeling awkward being inside of her, still hard, and attempted to pull out. Riley placed her hands on Sonic's hips, holding the hedgehog down.

"One humping is equal to one orgasm. I gave that to you. We're finished," Sonic said, trying to keep the nervousness out of his voice. Riley sighed and let Sonic pull out, staring in shock at his still hard organ, although it was already going soft. "You could have still kept going? That's impressive! You've got a lot of stamina!"

"Thanks…" Sonic mumbled, pulling the condom off. He held out his hand, and Riley grabbed her wallet to count out the money. Sonic's organ went soft and slipped back inside his pouch by the time the last twenty was deposited into his hand.

Riley wrapped her arms around Sonic's waist and pulled the hedgehog close, planting a kiss on his cheek, "That was fun, Sonic. I really enjoyed that."

"Sure thing," Sonic replied, pushing her away and getting out of the bed. He left the room, ignoring Riley's pleas for another round, and went back to the living room. Bob was watching pornography on the big-screen TV, pleasuring himself at the same time.

"Will you have another date for me tomorrow?" Sonic asked, trying his best to ignore what Bob was doing.

The male human nodded, "Come see me at three. You're sending quite a buzz in our little community. And no worries - we won't tell a soul outside of it. We don't want to share!"

"Of course. Well, see ya." With a good eight thousand tucked safely in his left glove, Sonic left for home.

Tears freely streamed down his cheeks as he ran; his lover's face appearing in his mind, telling Sonic that they loved him. Sonic wanted nothing more to crawl into bed with his hedgehog and make love, but after selling himself his lover obviously deserved something better. If he didn't finish getting the money soon, Sonic didn't think he'd ever be able to have sex with someone he truly cared about ever again.

Long chapter is loooooonnngggg. 37 pages on Word. I wanted to split it into two, but if I did that then there really wouldn't have been much plot in the first part. Besides, don't all love a good long update every so often? *coughs*

Yes, that little-Shadow scene was random…to be honest the main reason why I added it was because I had a dream of Shadow covered in multiple colors. This seemed like a cute explanation as to why.

And don't you all love how I like mess with people's minds? Were those little italic parts all dreams…or was one a reality? Mwa ha ha ha ha! You won't find out today!