There you go, another chapter of Devil Hedgehog.
I having quite a hard time writing all these chapters, there's the one that started it all and my most famous one, Sonic Tamers. There's my runner up with a decent amount of views, Devil Hedgehog. And there's the ultra violent, politically incorrect and other nasty stuff that is Sonic the Hedgehog, my most original one and yet, my less viewed of them. I have to work in all three of them, since I decided it was a good idea to have three stories at the same time, and since I don't want to neglect one to continue the other, I write the chapters one at a time for each. First Sonic Tamers, then Devil Hedgehog, and finally Sonic the Hedgehog.
Also, I'm going to set up a poll in my profile. This poll is "What transformation should become Sonic's Devil Trigger?", if you're already used to and knows how to vote than go there and vote. But if you're a newcomer to the site and by a stroke of luck found this fic, you just need to click on my nickname that appears at the top of every chapter and click on vote now, if you can't do that, then I have bad news for you. The poll will be closed once I upload the next Devil Hedgehog chapter.
Now, without further ado.
Devil Hedgehog
Sonic's place, 13th Avenue Street, Residential area
The residential area, a place that was known for its politically incorrect establishments like strip clubs and bars. You'd think that someone would never want to live in such place, well, you're quite wrong. Although the place may have these dirty places, the neighborhood itself is quite pacific and friendly, reason why our hero never left this place, he found it the best place for himself when wanting to relax alone.
"Humm" Sonic groaned a little as he kept sleeping on the couch of his main lobby/living room, covered by a white blanket. The little living doll sleeping, or at least what it seemed, on top Sonic's covered chest. After a few more minutes of snoozing, Sonic finally, but slowly opened his eyes.
"Ugh" Sonic groaned as he got up to a sitting position on the couch, making the doll fall from him to the floor, waking it up. Sonic picked it up and placed it back on the couch as it went back to sleep. He stood up, only wearing his pants, the rest of his clothes neatly folded on a chair nearby.
"So much for being a…" Sonic started as he started to stretch himself "Gentleman" he stated, hearing a pop from his back "I just hope she didn't mess up my room too much up there" Sonic muttered as he yawned.
"Who do you hope won't cause too much of a mess?" a voice asked from behind him.
"Trish of course" he responded, still to sleepy to notice something was off "She's sleeping on my ro…" he interrupted himself, he knew that voice, sweet yet sick happy tone only used by women when they're really angry.
A feeling of dread started to creep through his spine, as if he just made his grave. He dared to turn his head to the side just to have a quick look at the one who just invaded his house.
It was pink.
'Shit'
It wears red.
'Shit'
And it has a giant hammer.
'Shit, shit, shit…' Sonic continued to chant the foul words in his head as the only one who he didn't want to discover where his house is, discovered his house. Shaking his head, Sonic tried to act his way out of the situation.
"H… hey Amy, whatcha doing here?" he asked between stutters, waving his hand a little.
"I came here to visit my boyfriend of course" she smiled rather too sweetly at him.
'I'm not you boyfriend god dammit' ,"H… how did you find this place?" Sonic stuttered again, backing away when he saw that Amy was taking out her hammer from only God knows where.
"I sniffed your scent and it led me here" she said, waking up to him as he backed away, as her smile started to become creepier and creepier as time passed.
"Wait" Sonic stopped, holding his hands up "Are you telling me you smelled my scent all the way from Twinkle Park to my house?" he started to back away even more after that, until his back touched the wall, now he had nowhere to run.
"But of course" she giggled, it didn't sound so cute right now "How could I not, we were meant to be with each other" she said, walking up to him and cocking her hammer like a shotgun.
'Shit, shit, shit…' he kept chanting in his head.
"Now tell me who is this slut that's sleeping in my Sonic's house" she threatened the terrified hedgehog.
The hedgehog was sweating bullets already, he didn't want to die but he also didn't want his new friend to suffer the wrath of the pink menace. Deciding it was a noble cause, Sonic gulped as he kept quiet, deciding that sacrificing his life for Trish is more rewarding that going out with Amy on a date.
"Well?" she asked, but still nothing. After a few minutes Amy lifted her hammer above her head, seeing that, Sonic immediately closed his eyes and placed his hands protectively over his head, waiting for the impact that would his life.
But it never came, he waited a few more seconds, thinking that she was deciding what to do to him after clobbering his head. He decided to try his luck and opened one his eyes, widening both immediately after. What his saw was nothing short of a miracle, Trish was standing there holding Amy's hammer from behind her, and unlike Amy who seemed to have trouble pulling the hammer out of Trish's grip, she didn't have any trouble holding the hammer from hitting Sonic in the face.
"Who are you and what are you doing here?" Trish asked rather boringly, holding he hammer with easy.
"I'm the one who should ask that" Amy said, turning around to meet Trish face to face. She was very surprised o see that Trish was a human, but since it's not uncommon for Ancient Ones and Human to end up together, she wouldn't let her guard down.
"And why is that?" Trish asked uninterestedly, still holding the hammer.
"Because Sonic is my boyfriend of course!" Amy said angrily, Trish's eyebrow lifted, behind Amy, Sonic was making an X sign with his arms.
"Sonic's girlfriend?" Trish's eyebrow still up as a smirk started to cross her features "Well, I'll let you know" Trish started as she yanked the hammer from Amy's grip and threw it behind her, breaking the floor 'First my door, now my floor too?' she heard Sonic shouting in the back ground.
Trish started to walk around Amy, making her way toward the shirtless hedgehog. When she got to his side, Trish leaned forward and hugged Sonic's head while drawing circles on his chest with her fingers.
"Sonic here never told me he had a girlfriend last night" she said, with a sensual and teasing tone coming from her voice.
The reactions were mixed, Sonic's eyes widened in fear as he knew that Trish just sent him to his grave sooner than he expected he would. Trish had a shit eating grin after joking with someone for the first time in centuries, and she kept hugging Sonic just to annoy this Amy girl. Amy on the other hand, had her hands and head down, a shadow looming over her eyes, making them impossible to be seen, after a while she started trembling in place.
"L… last night?" she asked, her voice was a stutter "W… what happened l… last night?" her trembling got worse and Sonic started to get a little worried, he was about to say something when Trish beat him to it.
"We had a lot of fun last night, if that's what you wanna know" her smirk widened even more, she could feel Sonic's heart beats increasing from how terrified he is right now.
"Stop twisting what happened last night" he almost shouted to her "I don't want to die this young" he muttered in her ear.
"You…" Amy muttered rather darkly "You…" she crouched a little "YOU SLUT!" Amy screeched as she lunged like a wild animal toward Trish.
Time seemed to slow down in Sonic's eyes, all he saw was a wild beast lunging in his and Trish's direction. Her eyes were white from the rage she was feeling in the moment. Sonic wanted to run away, but the amount of killing intent that Amy was releasing was keeping him from running. As Amy got closer, purely on instinct, Sonic did the unthinkable.
"Huff" Amy huffed out as she her face slid from Sonic's feet. As she fell down, Sonic was still trying to comprehend what the hell just happened.
"Did I just?... What I think I did?" he muttered slowly, as he saw Amy on the floor, not moving.
"If you're talking about placing your foot right in front of her face when she neared you?" Trish stated the obvious "Then yes, I think you did" she smirked while finally unhanding Sonic's head.
"Crap" Sonic said, when Amy wake up later, he was sure she would hunt him down "If there was only a way to make her forget everything that happened" he sighed, ready to pick her up and put her on Tails' workshop, he knew Tails didn't like Amy there, but he didn't knew where she lived and didn't want to know.
"Out of the way peasant" Trish joked as she moved Sonic out of the way and made her way to Amy's unconscious figure, making Sonic lift an eyebrow in wonder.
"Haven't you done enough already" he said, kind of pissed that all of this situation conveniently happened right after Trish appeared in his life.
"Nah" she said, kneeling beside Amy's body "You will feel when I have done enough later" she responded as her fingers started to spark as her electric abilities kicked in "Now stand aside as I do my job" she smirked rather evilly as her hands neared the pink menace's head "CLEAR" Trish shouted as she lunged her hands toward Amy's head, or at least would've.
"Wow, what the hell do you think you're doing?" Sonic shouted as grabbed Trish from behind from behind her, locking her arms with his "What are you trying to do?" he asked frantically.
"Frying her head of course" Trish answered with a very out of place casual voice.
"WHAT?" Sonic shouted back.
"Look" she said, trying to force her way out of his grip "I know what I'm doing, so let me go" she used more force into her struggle.
"Not until you explain me what you're going to do" Sonic demanded as he too struggled to keep her within his grip, which was showing to be a quite a difficult task.
"Alright, alright geez" she agreed, huffing as he let her go, she turned around and sent a small glare to her hedgehog partner, he just crossed her arms and cocked an eyebrow, expecting to receive an answer "I going to fry her some of her neurons" she sighed, but seeing Sonic eyebrows lift up in surprise made her rush her answer "What I meant was that I was going to burn off pinkie's most recent memories out of her head" she explained.
"Is that going to hurt her?" he asked worriedly as he looked at Amy sprawled on the floor of his apartment.
"She'll only feel a headache when she wake up later, nothing too serious" Trish explained "But why do you care?" she asked confusedly "It's not like she's really your girlfriend" she said.
"She's not" Sonic sighed "However" he started, walking to Amy and picking her up "I have known her for almost six years" he said with a tint of nostalgia on his tone "And I can definitely say that she's like a little sister to me" he smiled warmly as he set her on his couch "I'm just afraid of hurting her emotions too bad, I don't want to see her miserable because of me" he said sadly, walking over to his desk "That's why I usually run away from her, in hopes that she'll eventually grow past her obsession with me and move on with her life" he sighed as he sat on it.
"I didn't ask for a back story" Trish answered rather bluntly, making Sonic frown at her "But I know that what you're doing is not right" she told him with a serious expression, having passed through a similar situation, only she was the one in love, although it wasn't a fanatic obsession.
"I know it's not" Sonic confessed "And I know that what I'm doing is wrong" he said with a heavy sigh "But with the way Amy obsesses with me, I'm afraid of what will happen to her if I ever tell her the truth" he confessed "She tends to overreact to anything, and well" he sighed "I don't doubt she would think of suicide" he closed his eyes, placing his hand on the side of his face, thinking of what he should do about this situation.
It's not the first time that he ponders about this situation, he has actually been thinking about this for the last two years. Amy is almost an adult, just like Sonic is one, so a relationship between them is allowed. But the real problem is that although Amy has the appearance of an adult, she has the mentality of a five years old, only a few times she did act according to her true age, and those were for about a few seconds.
"One day you'll have to tell her" Trish said "One way or another" she sighed as she made her way to the downed pink hedgehog, her fingers sparking with electricity. Sonic was still cautious about this method, but she was Dante's best friend, so even if he was cautious he trusted her, he knew she would not hurt his friend on purpose.
As she approached the hedgehog, Trish leaned forward and placed her hands on the sides of Amy's head. After a few seconds, she started sending small waves of electricity through the girl's head, directing it toward her brain, the electricity would travel through her brain and go the part where her memories are kept, and burn them away from her memories, only to the moment when she fainted after seeing Sonic in Twinkle Park.
"Done!" Trish said with a smile.
"Is that really supposed to happen?" Sonic asked worriedly as he pointed smoke started to come out of Amy's ears.
"Oh that?" she asked "It happens every time, it's nothing to worry about, just some smoke" Trish smirked as she cleaned her hands with one another, contemplating her awesome handwork.
"Well" Sonic sighed, getting up from the desk "Better deliver her to Tails' " Sonic said as he walked up to his clothes folded on the chair.
After putting on his boots, he started to put on his upper body clothes. Sonic still felt a little strange by using clothes, he had never dressed himself up before. But he had a legacy to continue, and they actually looked cool on him, but the real reason was that because of his rather fast growth, a rather unpleasant sight for the male population and the easily offended stood out, unlike before.
"Looking good" Trish complemented Sonic as he finished putting on his trench coat, he just pointed at her and flashed a smirk "It kinda reminds me of a certain someone" she placed her hand on her chin, in a mocking thinking position "I just can't seem to remember why" she even hummed, making her act quite believable to normal people.
"Really?" Sonic lifted an eyebrow, deciding to play along "Then he must be as incredible as yours truly" he said, walking up to Amy and hefting her over his shoulders, any wrong impression in front of the media and BAM, "Sonic and Amy are dating" will be the next headlines in all newspaper.
"Yup" Trish said with a nod, making Sonic smirk victoriously, thinking that she confessed how truly badass he is "An overconfident jerk addicted to junk food that can't earn money to improve this place even if it hit you in the face" she smirked as her jab hit Sonic like a truck, making him face fault so hard that the floor broke under the pressure. Great, now he had two holes to fix, and a door... and his wall.
"Yup, just like him all right" she crossed her arms under her bosom as she saw the grumbling hedgehog starting to rise from the floor and going for the sword and guns on the back of his living room. Placing it on his back, he walked up to where his door was supposed to be and was about to leave the place to deliver Amy to best friend, Tails.
"You're not going out while carrying that, right?" Trish asked, Sonic just turned around lifted an eyebrow in confusion.
"Um... Yes?" Sonic said, trying to figure what she just meant.
"Oh my god" Trish sighed quietly, rubbing her temples with her right hand "I knew you shared the same personality, but not the same recklessness" she sighed again "You're going out carrying a huge ass sword on your back, that's going to freak people that live outside of this neighborhood the fuck out" she said, knowing that the people who lived around here, although peaceful, were bat-shit crazy. Funny how that hadn't changed after a millennium.
"Humm?" with a hand under his chin, Sonic hummed as he contemplated her words "I guess you're right" he agreed "But what about my guns? Should I leave them here too?" he asked her.
"Nah" Trish just waved her hand dismissively "They're hidden under your coat, so unless someone decided to peek under your clothes for whatever sick reason they got, no one will notice them" she finished.
"Well" Sonic chuckled at her innuendo "Alright then" he picked up the sword and threw it to Trish, who caught it just as easily as she did with Amy's hammer. Talking about hammer, Trish looked around the living room and didn't see it anywhere.
"Where is the..."
"Hammer?" Sonic interrupted, receiving a confused nod from Trish "I don't know" Sonic shrugged "After Amy summons it from whatever pits of hell that thing came from" Sonic remarked, causing Trish to giggle, it seemed Sonic's relationship with that hammer seemed to be hitting some bumps on the road "It simply disappears, normally with a puff of smoke" he explained "Now if you excuse me, I have an unwanted present to deliver to my friend" she giggled one more time as Sonic finally ran out of the building, on the direction that his friend's house was located.
Trish walked up to the door way and leaned herself on if, watching as a lot of dust got kicked up in the distance by her new partner. She made a surprisingly warm smile at the sight, Sonic was exactly like Dante. A fearless man with a great amount of honor and a just as great sense of humor to boot. The kind of guy who wouldn't think twice before endangering himself for the safety of others or just laugh out loud in the face of their enemy, although there seemed to be a tiny bit of difference between them. Sonic seemed to be more responsible about his action and think a bit more before heading for combat that Dante did.
'Dante' she though slowly as her warm smile became a sad one.
She missed Dante, a lot. When they first met, she thought he was just a punk that was lucky enough to be the son of Sparda and though he was good enough to go around killing demons. Oh boy was she wrong, behind that laidback façade was a great man that would never stop until his goal was completed, and even after telling him that she was a creation of Mundus and was made to attract him to the island so Mundus could kill him, he didn't think much of it and even forgave her. That was the first time someone ever showed her compassion and kindness.
And thus, because of said compassion and kindness, she, a demon, ended up falling in love with him. At first she thought that it was a thing of the moment, being the only one to treat her like a person and not a subordinate or a demon, but later it became obvious that it was not the case. And even though she knew he would never feel the same toward her because of her appearance, she still found comfort in just being by his side, helping him with the shop and defending the world against the demons that threatened it.
By being here she felt like she was reliving all these moments, the day before she had attacked the hedgehog and partially destroyed his living room. And even you just said it was supposed to be a test, no one would be willing to believe in your words after breaking their house, but he did, he believed her and forgave her almost immediately.
Suddenly she felt something staring at her, she turned her head to the inside just to see the doll floating in the middle of the room, looking directly at her, as if trying to burn two holes in her head.
"What?" Trish asked, an uninterested expression on her face.
XXXXXXX
Tails' workshop, Mystique Ruins
A metallic line trembled as a train horn made it's sound to the people on the Mystique Ruins, signalizing that it was nearing the place's train station.
"I almost forgot about that" Sonic sighed relievedly(1). Sonic took his hand from Amy's ears. Sonic was atop of the train, catching a free ride, why? Because he felt like it, but he almost didn't remember the horn, that would definitely wake her up, and he didn't want to deal with her thinking that he had finally decided to kidnap her and do naughty things to her, things that normally only happened in her head while Sonic was hauling ass away from her.
When the train came to a stop, Sonic got up from his seated position and hefted Amy on his shoulders once again. Before anyone could see, Sonic ran forward and used the momentum to propel himself to the open area just beside Tails workshop. As he landed, Sonic let out a nostalgic smile.
After rescuing the Master Emerald from Eggman's clutches back when he was a kid, the mad scientist disappeared from the face of earth for three years. And was in this place, when Sonic was accompanying Tails' to see if he could power the Tornado with a Chaos Emerald, that Eggman finally decided to show up, and Sonic decided to wipe his mustachioed face on the floor. But even then, the fight was enough to keep Tails distracted enough for Eggman to snatch the Emerald and feed it to Chaos.
"Tch" Sonic clicked his tongue in an annoyed manner "I still have to remind Tails to fix my plane" after the air fight against the Egg-Carrier, Sonic's plane, which Tails had kindly repainted with his own colors and insignia, much to Sonic's charging, became nothing more than a failed attempt to show how to chop metal in half with a giant laser, it still did its job though, rendering the plane useless.
After the event, instead of trying to fix Sonic's plane, Tails decided to build a new plane for himself, entitled the Tornado 2, and then another one called the Cyclone, and then another one called the Tornado-03, and then another one called the Tornado Racer. It annoyed Sonic how Tails kept making new planes for himself and didn't fix Sonic's old one.
"Well at least I'll finally get back at him for that" Sonic chuckled in a rather sinister way.
He walked up the second flight of stairs that was next to the open area he landed on, heading directly for his best friend's workshop. As he neared the door, he saw that it had a password security system next to it, but he knew it before hand, Tails told him and Knuckles the password. The reason for getting a password system? So Amy would not enter without asking when looking for Sonic. Sonic wiggled his fingers as they neared the number-pad and quickly typed down the password.
'S-I-D-E-K-I-C-K-S-F-T-W' he had to hold a chuckle this time, the boy really should try to make a name for himself instead of being known as the Hero's Sidekick.
His train of thought came to a stop when the door opened, reveling the interior of a normal house, he walked inside and looked around for any sight of the yellow fox. No fox in sight, good. Sonic sneaked his way to the couch, thinking about placing Amy in it, it sure would be a surprise for him. But then he remembered something, it was still morning, and Tails don't like waking up early. A small, but maliciously mischievous smirk made its way to Sonic's muzzle as he chuckled just as mischievously.
With the sinister smile on his face, Sonic walked up the stairs of the workshop, where all the rooms and guest rooms were located, and made a bee line to his little brother's room. Reaching the doorknob, he slowly turned it, when he heard the click, he pushed the door forward as slowly and quietly as possible.
There he was, Miles Prower, or just Tails, sleeping peacefully on his bed, mumbling about machines, Chaos Emeralds and how the Tornado was the best plane he ever had. At the last sentence, all the hesitation that Sonic might've had went to god knows where to never come back, in that moment of course. His he sneaked his way to the bed, and slowly placed Amy's body by Tails' side, but that wasn't enough, that's when his smile turned into a sadistic like grin, with sharp teeth and all as he looked down at the fox and the hedgehog.
"Time for a little payback" he mouthed, without muttering a single word out loud.
Sonic closed his eyes as his hands moved closer to Amy, he sure as hell didn't want to see how terrifying Amy might look under these clothes, just that though made him shudder. After finishing taking off all her clothes, surprising even himself for not waking her up, he backed away to the wall as slowly as possible, reached for the door and passed it, closing it behind him with a click.
"Humm"
XXXXXXX
Outside Tails' Workshop, Mystique Ruins
Sonic slowly walked out of the house, closing the door behind him, he walked down the small steps of the house to a stop as he whipped out of nowhere a pair of black sunglasses, right when he placed them on his face, it happened.
"GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH"
Sonic just smirked and sped off into the train's rails, next stop? His house of course, he had the suspicion that Trish would mess the place up even more than she did before, and not even an entire day have passed. That is, if a different kind of scream didn't make it to his ears.
Sonic's ears perked up instinctively and pointed in the direction where the screaming came from, which was coming from the cavern that held the entrance for the Ice Cap. Sonic turned around to see what the commotion was, but it looked like it was happening inside the cave, he was so engrossed in the scream that he didn't notice another train coming until it blasted its horn. Without looking, Sonic vaulted over the long train up to the station's roof, completely missing the train.
"What's going on there?" Sonic asked to himself, a frown forming on his face.
Jumping over to the ground below, Sonic sped off in the direction of the cave, jumping from rock to rock to reach the entrance, even if it now had a staircase if people wanted to explore. Reaching the entrance, Sonic went directly at the Ice Cap entrance. There were warnings in there telling this was an off limits area, the entrance was opened, meaning that something or someone got inside.
"Great, I hate when people don't listen and end up getting in tight situations" he groaned with an annoyed sigh "It's just as the saying goes, if you tell someone what it can't do, it'll have something it wants to do" he said, walking to the entrance, seeing a small wooden bridge on the middle of the entrance's pond.
"How the hell does the security never notices something like this?" he mulled over, walking past the small bridge and reaching for the stairs at the end of the entrance, the stairs that would take him to the Ice Cap. As he reached the end of the stairs, he noticed that the metal bars of the stairs were completely frozen from half way up, it wasn't like this the last time he came here.
"D… damn it, it's cold out here" Sonic shivered as he finally reached the Ice Cap "Much colder than before, and back then I didn't even wore clothes" he mulled over. It was stupidly cold in here, he knew he was in a slope because that's where the stairs lead to, but the blizzard at the moment is so heavy that he couldn't see a hand front of his face
Sonic then started walking slowly, cautious with the elevations like rocks and more snow, or even a avalanche, last time he was here, just the sound of his shoes against the icy/rocky floor that was near the snow, triggered an avalanche so big that Sonic had snowboard himself away from it. Sonic continued walking slowly, nothing really happening, but he didn't trust that, years of fighting made him smart enough to realize that no matter how good a situation might look, it can, and will, change for the worst.
His theory was proven right when a sound came from the howling winds that the blizzard let out. The sound in question sounded like a roar, Sonic stopped to have a better perception of what he was hearing, but the blizzard's sound wasn't making it easy, he could not pinpoint from where the roar came from. Suddenly, feeling something invading his personal space, Sonic dived to the right just in time to miss being impaled by what looked like a giant ice claw. He turned around to find himself surrounded by three lizard looking creatures, nothing more could be described as the visibility was almost zero. Sonic smirked got into a fighting stance.
"Who wants to go first?" he asked them, not that they could respond, but it was fun taunting them knowing that they had almost no idea what he was saying. So, they just roared in response, charging at him at the same time.
Sonic's immediate reaction was jumping up, making the three beasts miss him, but they stopped right before colliding with each other. Sonic frowned, looked like they were more intelligent then they appeared to be. One of the three looked up and jumped in Sonic's direction as the same was falling. The lizard that jumped sent one of its arms forward and shot ice spears toward his falling enemy, Sonic's response was to spin dash as he dived head on to the spears, reflecting the attack in all possible directions, not only getting the lizard beast next to him but the ones on the snow as well. When the lizard in the air recoiled in pain, Sonic took this chance to dive kick it in the head.
Both plummeted to the ground below, kicking up a lot of snow, which unfortunately made Sonic's visibility even less effective. This was proven right as one of the lizard too advantage of the enemy's visibility to slash it across the chest. Sonic was sent backwards as blood spilled from the open gash on his torso, he rolled a few times on the snow, staining it red, but immediately rolled himself back into a standing position, the gash on his chest already healing.
Sonic heard a rumbling sound coming from under him and saw the snow vibrating, he jumped backwards, just missing the third lizard's icy uppercut. Sonic saw his chance and dashed forward when the creature's feet touched the ground, giving it a heavy punch in the abdomen, causing it to double over in pain, not missing a beat, Sonic started pummeling the beast with punches and kicks. First, he sent a left liver blow to the beast's torso, making it bend in an awkward way to its right, next was a jumping spinning kick to the creature's head. Sonic was about to sent a second spinning kick while he was still in the air, but his head was grabbed from behind by frosty claw, and thrown in the direction of the first lizard, who was ready to impale Sonic with its claws.
As the image of the lizard neared Sonic's vision, he rolled himself into a spindash and homing attacked his wannabe executioner right in the face, sending it backwards into one of the many pointy rocks that littered the place, effectively impaling it from behind. Sonic cringed as he saw the creature agonize in pain, feeling a little sorry for it, but then he saw it burst into ice, not only that but the blizzard got a little bit weaker, enough for Sonic to see exactly what he was fighting against.
The two remaining lizard things had a humanoid like body structure, but not like his, they were more animalistic looking. Their bodies had parts covered in ice, armor looking ice to be more specific, they had spiked ice shoulder pads, long ice blades on their right arms and ice claws on their left arms.
"What the…?" did that thing just exploded into ice? He'd never seen someone do something similar to that other than… "Oh, now I see it" Sonic smirked, whipping out Ebony and Ivory out of his holster "I thought you guys were just the townspeople from around here" Sonic closed his eyes and spun the guns in his hands "But since you're a pair of lesser demons" he turned around and aimed his guns at the beasts before him "I won't hold back my punches anymore" his eyes opened with an intense amount of excitement, his attackers just roared in response as they charged at him.
Sonic started shooting bullets at the charging beasts, disrupting them a little of their way. Holstering them, Sonic started to focus some energy on them as he charged at the beast who had stopped to protect themselves from the shots and kicked one in the head. As the kicked one was sent flying, Sonic kicked the second one upwards, jumping upward in order to pummel it some more.
The lizard demon got itself straight in the air as Sonic approached it, as he got closed, the lizard tried to slash it but Sonic maneuvered himself in the air, dodging the blow and sending a punch of his own, that was blocked by the beast's ice blade arm. The two of them kept trading blows for blows, not stopping, even when gravity decided to do its job right and started to move their bodies closer to the ground, where the demon that got kicked was waiting for a chance to rip the hedgehog apart.
As they neared the floor, Sonic felt the pistols on their holsters heated up from the charged energy. When the two touched the floor, Sonic was immediately attacked by both who tried to slash him in half. But they were met with nothing but air as Sonic jumped backwards, somersaulting to a stop, and whipping his guns from their holster, you could see that they were clacking with energy red electricity.
Both creatures, not caring about their now predictable situation, charged at the hedgehog once more. Sonic waited a bit for them to reach him, when he finally moved, he disappeared from their eyes, appearing right between them with his trusty pistols crossed over his chest, a smirk plastered on his face.
"Jackpot" he said simply.
The next thing the two lizard demons noticed was that their heads, along with their whole upper bodies being completely disintegrated but the energy shots coming from the gun's barrels, soon, they exploded in ice just like the first one. When he finished, Sonic stood straight and walked forward, bringing the guns up to his mouth and blowing the smoke coming out of their barrels, then spinning them back into their holsters.
As Sonic holstered the pistols, he noticed that the blizzard had weakened, but not that much either. He could see things around him better, but anything that had a decent distance from him would still be invisible in his vision. Sonic continued upward the snowy slope, but this time not shivering in cold, the fight from moments ago was enough to keep his blood pumping hot in his veins, preventing him from feeling cold. Sonic was so engrossed in getting to the cave entrance on the side of the slope that he didn't notice something sticking out of the snow, and consequently, tripped on it.
Sonic looked forward to see what he just tripped, it wasn't a rock, it was a jump panel, he grinned when he saw that, looked like lady luck was on his side. Stepping over the orange colored panel, he looked around until he noticed orange glows coming from the blizzard, it wasn't strong, but was enough for Sonic to see it, and that's what is important.
Crouching low, Sonic launched himself to one of the panels scattered all over the place with a jump from his powerful legs. If his memory didn't fail him, the one he launched himself to would lead to the cave's entrance that was on the inside of the Ice Cap Mountain. Sonic flipped in the air as he landed on the second jump panel, which was curiously located on the wall above the entrance, causing Sonic to flip himself once more in order to nor fall on his head.
"Heh" Sonic smirked "Easy peasy" he said to himself, making his way into the cave's insides.
As Sonic walked through the entrance, which was a decently long corridor, he started to remind the first time he ever came here. It was way back, when Chaos could be considered threat, they needed o collect all the Chaos Emeralds so Eggman wouldn't find them and feed them to his new lackey.
Sonic's train of thought was interrupted as he heard the screams one more time, it seemed to be more than one, not only that but in danger too. Quickening his pace, in about a second he stood on the end of the cave's corridor, overseeing the situation below him. On the ground level of the cave, if you can even call it that, were two people being surrounded by two more of these ice lizard things.
Without a second thought or a strategy, Sonic sprung in action, jumping from his high up position, he dived heel first into the head one of the two lizards, breaking the ice floor beneath him, but jumping up just in time to not sink into the freezing water.
"Are you guys alright" Sonic asked, not taking his eyes from the enemy as he positioned himself into a fighting stance in front of the two in order to protect them. The other lizard seemed to be waiting for Sonic to distract himself before attacking as the first one burst through the ice floor and landed beside its partner.
"S… Sonic!" one of the innocents said, making Sonic send a quick smirk at them "Y… yes we're alright" the other one spoke in a hurried manner.
"After I'm finished with these two gecko flavored popsicles" the two victims chuckled Sonic's remark "We'll have a talk" but then shut up when he directed his words at them.
Sonic turned his attention back to the lizard demons in front of him, here we go again, it seemed like the author was lacking any skills to add variation to the enemies. Not a second later, Sonic dashed forward at break neck speeds, slamming one of the demons backwards, the other one tried to slash Sonic in half, only for the one being slashed lean backwards and grab its ice blade hand.
With the beast's blade claw firm on his grip, Sonic started spinning around like a top. The other demon that had being throw was back in the game and charged itself toward the blue hedgehog. Seeing the incoming enemy, Sonic kept spinning, when the lizard came close enough, instead of releasing the demon in his grip, he used it as a bat and slammed the demon away, again. Not wasting any precious chance, he released the demon from his hands sending him flying over to the other one. They collided with each other and slid on the icy floor.
"Too bad we didn't get to know each other better" Sonic feigned sadness as he pulled out his pistols "But I don't usually sympathize with those that hurt innocents" he said, pulling the triggers and showering the demons with dozens of bullets. After about ten seconds of non-stop shooting, their bodies exploded in ice, telling Sonic that they were not a problem anymore. Sonic sighed at the lack of challenge these things provide, before knowing they were demons he pulled his punches thinking they were normal living beings.
"So" Sonic started, holstering his guns "Care to tell me why you're here?" he asked the two victims he save, finally having a good look at them.
One of them is an adult Human male, he was wearing heavy clothing to protect him from the freezing temperatures, along with a face mask, a bonnet and a pair of snowboard goggles. His clothes looked like those that field researches usually use when doing their scientific things on cold places, he was so heavily clothed that it was impossible to see his face, or any trait for that matter.
The other was a female Ancient One, she was an Arctic Wolf, her fur was obviously white, although she had platinum silver hair, didn't wear as much clothing as her partner due to her species being used to cold places, but the temperature here was higher than normal, so she wore some. A furry white coat with white cotton trousers along and brown hiking boots and of course, a pair of white gloves. Sonic started to wonder why everyone used white gloves, it seemed like he was the only exception, but he also used to wear them.
"Well" the guy said with a muffled voice while bringing down the face mask "As you can see we are researchers" he told Sonic who just nodded in response "We're here because of the sudden blizzards in this place" he said.
"I know what you mean" Sonic said, receiving odd looks from the two researchers "I came here a few years ago, and it was just a snowy place, it had absolutely no Blizzards" he said, in which both researchers nodded.
"Exactly" the wolf girl said, her voice sounded very mature and had a British accent to it "We came here in hopes of learning what is causing such strange phenomenon in the area" she explained their purpose here "But as you could see, we were ambushed by these monsters, if it weren't for you, well..." she cringed at the thought of what would've happened.
"I see" Sonic mused to himself "I got a vague idea of what may be causing this" he told them "But I'm not entirely sure" they looked at him curiously.
"What do you have in mind?" the male researcher asked.
"You know about the sudden demonic appearances in random places happening over the world, right?" Sonic asked them, which they both nodded in response "These monsters you just saw were demons" their eyes widened in terror "And you saw that they were not able to control ice, but were made of it as well" he explained them.
"And your point is?" the wolf girl gulped, rubbing her neck with her hand.
"As researchers you know that normal snowstorms aren't nowhere near as powerful as this one" the nodded once more "My theory is that there's a demon causing this blizzard" he finished.
"A demon is making this snowstorm?" the man asked incredulously, how could a demon change the environment of an entire mountain?
"Yes, and I think you guys should head back to the ruins while I take care of the situation" Sonic said.
"You're going to take on the thing by yourself?" Sonic nodded at the girl's question "But it's too dangerous to go alone" she warned him.
"Tch" Sonic clicked his tongue, annoyed at her lack of faith on him "Nothing is too dangerous for Sonic the Hedgehog" he smirked at them "Also, this is kind of my job, so it's no big deal" he told them, going to their sides and hefting them up to his shoulders, the wolf squeaked in surprise and blushed at the sudden intrusion of her comfort zone. With a mighty push of his legs, Sonic jumped up to the stone corridor from where he came from.
"Now go back through the mountain's entrance, you'll probably encounter Tails, a friend of mine. He'll definitely be looking for me, tell him I sent you there, he'll understand and will help you out in anything you need" he placed them on the ground.
"A... alright then" they agreed and started to make their way back to the entrance. They decided to have one last look at their savior, but he was nowhere to be found, as if he disappeared.
They looked at each other in confusion, and shrugged, making their way to the mountain's entrance.
XXXXXXX
Frozen Cave, Ice Cap Mountain
Sonic jumped up the levels of the cave, cautious not to slip on the frozen floor of the upper levels. The higher he got, the colder it get, after more jumping, he reached the top. He noticed that the top was lower than the last time he came here. He looked up and saw that the ice roof looked a little strange, he was sure it wasn't there before. Not waiting for something to happen, Sonic jumped up and Spin-Dashed the ice roof, drilling it while completely ignoring the laws of physics by going up without anything to push him.
When he finished drilling, Sonic jumped up and landed on the upper side of the ice roof, now he could see the exit of the cave, but there was something else in here, something big, really, really, big. Sonic turned around and widened his eyes at what stood in front of him.
There, in front of him, was a giant three headed dog, or a Cerberus for short. The thing that got Sonic's attention the most, were the layers of ice that covered its huge body. It had obviously three heads, but each head seemed to be of a different breed of dog, but the ice covering their heads did not allow Sonic to see what their breeds were.
The Cerberus, was sleeping when Sonic started to drill the ice it was standing on, the drilling sound of Sonic's attack woke it up from its slumber, and when it fully woke up, a surprised expression endowed its face as the one who disrupted its slumber was nothing more than a mere blue humanoid hedgehog. And of course, like any rational being, he was pissed beyond normal.
"You" the middle head muttered, lowly, its booming voice echoing through the frozen cave "How dare you walk into my lair?" the Cerberus growled.
"Your lair?" Sonic asked, a smirk making its way to his face "Last time I checked, this cave was a public attraction" he told the ice beast, he had the slight impression that he had seen this thing before.
"Yes, my lair" the Cerberus stated as a matter of fact "I made this mountain my domain, and no one is allowed to cross its borders without my permission" it roared, showing that he was this mountain's "king".
"You've been here for about a week or two and already think you're a king" Sonic smirked "And they think I'm too arrogant" Sonic muttered as he turned to the screen.
"Now, I'll give you a warning" it said with a growl "Leave now, or suffer the consequences" it muttered lowly.
The thing saw Sonic putting cupping his chin with his hand, probably thinking about something. Sonic then opened his eyes and started to look at him more carefully. The ice Cerberus was about to command the hedgehog to leave once again, but was interrupted by the hedgehog himself.
"Now I remember!" Sonic bumped his closed fist against his open palm in realization "You're the talking mutt" he smirked, pointing his finger in the dog's direction.
"Talking?…" it muttered, remembering the only time someone ever called him that "MUTT!" the Cerberus roared with all of its might as the head on the right took the place in the middle, making ice stalactites fall from the cave's roof into the ice floor.
"Hey" Sonic complained "Be careful with that" he said, dodging the spears as they fell "You could hurt someone real bad" he finished.
"I'M GOING TO HURT YOU REAL BAD!" the Cerberus roared once more, charging directly at Sonic "ENOUGH SO YOU WON'T SURVIVE!" he shouted as he reached the hedgehog, ready to tore it into pieces with his razor sharp teeth.
"Now we're talking" Sonic smirked as he dodged the incoming demon with ease.
After dodging, Sonic himself charged a Spin Dash in place and rushed at the Cerberus, hitting it on the left head. Sonic drilled against the ice protecting its head for a moment and broke some of its ice armor, but as that happened, Sonic found himself being batted away by a huge ice claw. Sitting himself straight, Sonic landed on the ice, skidding away, his back hitting against the ice wall.
Seeing his chance, without even charging, the Cerberus changed heads one more time and released a huge beam of ice in Sonic's direction. Sonic jumped upward in order to dodge the ice beam, but was surprised by the enemy's reaction time, Cerberus had changed his head to the previous one and roared right after releasing the beam, causing more ice spears to fall from the roof.
Sonic managed to maneuver himself between some of the spears, but one of them pierced him right in the leg, causing Sonic to grunt un pain as the spear came down so fast it pierced right through his leg going directly to the floor, staining the floor with some of his blood. Ignoring the pain and wound, Sonic flipped himself in the air and landed on his feet, grabbing Ebony and Ivory and pelting the giant dog with as many bullets he could shoot.
Cerberus backed away from the shots, they were piercing his ice armor and hitting him with deadly precision, not to mention that they hurt a lot. He roared one more time and charged at Sonic with a burning rage, this creature reminded him too much of that prick Dante that defeated him before. He had blessed the son of Sparda with his powers, but only once that idiot used him. After that he became trapped in weapon form, a demon can only return to its original form after centuries, so he had to wait in a closet until the time came and he could transform himself back, he felt as if blessing Dante with himself was a waste of time.
Sonic's eyes widened, he did not expect the Demon to charge at him while receiving a rain of bullets, so he wasn't fast enough to dodge. Cerberus rammed on Sonic head first and kept going, exploding the ice wall behind Sonic revealing yet another slope, this time even more inclined. While they were falling to the slope, Sonic, who was still on Cerberus' snout, placed his feet and hands on it and launched himself off the demon. While still falling, Sonic looked down and aimed himself to the nearest tree he could find and landed on it feet first, breaking the tree and giving him an emergency makeshift snowboard.
"Woohoo" chanted Sonic as he started snowboarding his way down the slope with a house-sized, three headed dog made of ice hot on his tail "Think you can catch me?" he shouted at the Cerberus running after him like an avalanche "You better think again ice breath" he finished, drawing a roar from the mad demon.
Sonic continued to snowboard at high speeds down the slope, never wasting the chance to show off his skills, always going for jumps flips and rail grinding the downed trees in his path. Sonic would purposely slow down to just to tease the three headed dog and make it even more pissed. Looking ahead, Sonic saw that he was nearing the huge snow clearing of the mountain. Sonic crouched on his makeshift board to gain more speed and jumped from the ramp, free falling directly to said clearing, of course, not without doing some snowboard's stunts.
While falling, Sonic threw away his makeshift snowboard and flipped himself in the air, landing on the snowy ground and sliding a few meters back. He noticed that the snowstorm here was also pretty damn powerful. Sonic suddenly felt the ground shake, he looked up to see the silhouette of the Cerberus and its glowing eyes through the blizzard.
"Fool" the Cerberus muttered slowly, his silhouette slowly fading through the snowstorm "You just guided me to your grave" he said, even his eyes had faded.
Sonic looked around back and forth, left and right, turning around rapidly every now and then in order to spot the demon dog before it could attack him. Sonic felt the ground suddenly rumble under him and jumped up just in time to avoid being chopped in half but the demon's huge jaws as it exploded from the ground for a surprise attack. Sonic looked down to see the demon changing heads once more.
"Not again" he sighed, closing his eyes in annoyance.
Cerberus released another ice beam, this one struck Sonic head on, sending him up in the skies. He was sent so high by the attack he was launched out of the blizzard and could see a good part of the mountain. Sonic had his arms crossed n order to minimize the damage and prevent himself from becoming an ice cube.
"So you want to play seriously" Sonic smirked, arms still crossed over his chest since they were now glued together with ice "Then I'll play seriously" he broke his arms off their ice shackles, a wild smirk donning his muzzle.
Sonic started to spin dash at an insane amount of speeds when his body plummeted toward the ground, orbs of light bluish green energy started to encompass his body. Soon enough he stopped spinning as his entire body had the same bluish green hue the orbs possessed. He watched as another ice being was blasted through the snowstorm in his direction, the smirk on Sonics face never ceased to exist.
"Light Speed…" Sonic said as he readied himself "ATTACK!" he shouted with all his might, as he launched himself at the speed of light, ripping apart the beam attack like it was made of paper. Everything happened so fast that not even a second later, an explosion happened o the snowy ground bellow, blowing the snowstorm to the sides, giving Sonic plenty of room to see his adversary, who was currently laying down on the snow with one of his heads completely destroyed, with blood staining the white snow below him.
Sonic cringed at the sight in front of him, but he had no choice, it was either the demon or the innocent lives that he endangered and could endanger. Sonic thinking that he had finished it off, started to walk back to Tails' Workshop, he had a lot to explain. He stopped when he noticed that the blizzard blown away by his attack's impact hadn't dissipated yet, and still lingered around at the sides of the clearing, but it was so little that is was almost unnoticeable.
"Where… do you think you're going? Hedgehog" Sonic heard, he turned around with his eyes widened in real surprise. He literally had ripped apart one of its three heads, the middle one to be exact, he knew the demon could change heads, but he thought that destroying the one controlling the body would kill it right away "I'm not done with you yet" it breathed, quite tired, that one blow took a lot out of him, he was using the energy that should be used to slowly regenerate his head to stand up, his pride would not let him be defeated again this easily.
"But I am done with you" Sonic said simply, he had done his job, he had calmed the blizzard, so he had nothing more to do here.
"Fight me" The Cerberus said, moving one of the two remaining heads to the middle "I'll only stop when one of us is dead" he said with conviction.
"Is that a matter of honor or just some stupid way invented by demons" Sonic shouted back, pissed at this guy, he was willing to throw his live away just because he can't accept defeat. He hates those who disregard other lives, but he hates even more those that disregard their own life.
"W… what?" it said, genuinely surprised by the hedgehog's outburst.
"I just came here to stop the blizzard, I don't want to kill you" he explained "But you attacked me and I had no choice other than strike back" he told the demon "All I wanted was to have a chat with you and see I we could have an agreement, your actions are putting innocent lives in danger and I cannot allow that to continue" Sonic explained, surprising the Cerberus "But I also don't want to kill you just so others can live, sacrificing a life is wrong, no matter who or what you are" he told with conviction, surprising the demon even more.
Cerberus thought that this creature was just like Dante, but he was wrong, although similarities were obvious, their ways of thinking and acting are completely different when dealing with the enemy, by now Dante would have killed him already, but this hedgehog didn't, he didn't want to kill him, just stop the blizzard that he was unconsciously making. Perhaps…?
"Boy" the demon called Sonic with a surprisingly calm voice "What is your name?" he asked, surprising Sonic.
"My name?" Sonic pointed at himself, the demon nodded his heads slowly "My name is Sonic, Sonic the Hedgehog" Sonic said with conviction, doing his usual striking stance. Sonic's eyes widened he e heard the demon's deep chuckle. They were different, yet the same, it was strange, he felt like he was seeing Dante in front of him, but he was also seeing Sonic, as if both were in front of him right now, it's weird, but he had seen weirder things.
"Sonic" the demon called "You're an unique creature, you showed me compassion when others would either run or outright try to kill me. You came to me with the intent of having a conversation, and because of my rash reaction a fight was started between us. And instead of finishing me, you allowed me to live, simply because of your belief that killing is wrong unless extremely necessary" he said, in a surprisingly understanding tone "I can see in your eyes that you're having a hard time trying to deal with the situation, having to break your own beliefs in order to maintain the safety of those around you" he told the hedgehog.
Sonic was stunned, this demon was able to read him like a book, just by looking into his eyes, and the fact that he was acting this calm told him that not all demons are wild beasts, Trish wasn't an example because she was created to be like a human.
"I know you won't commit the same mistakes that Dante did" Cerberus said, his form started glowing "So I bestow you my powers, I know you will use it correctly" Cerberus glowing became stronger, forcing Sonic to shield his eyes.
When he opened them, he saw a little cyan orb made of light, he didn't knew why, but felt that he should grab it. Sonic extended his hand forward and closed it tightly around the orb, it shone a bright white light, making Sonic close his eyes once again. Once he opened his eyes, they widened in surprise, the orb on his hands was no more, in its place, a triple nunchaku with its handles made of ice and their metal chains all connected to a round ring in the middle.
Sonic eyed the nunchaku with curiosity, turning his hand left and right to see the sides of the weapon. A smirk slowly formed on his muzzle, he started spinning the weapon around him, hitting an invisible enemy, jumping up and doing air moves along with some kicks of his own, and landed it a pose that would made the most veteran of Super Sentai proud.
"Nice" Sonic said with a genuine smile, placing the nunchaku on his waist, walking back to the mountain's cave.
'Glad to see you like it' Sonic stopped mid step, and looked at his waist, his nunchaku was there, unmoving, when he was about to open his mouth 'Yes I am talking to you' the nunchaku glowed at each word.
'Not again' Sonic thought 'I just hope he's not as annoying as Caliburn' "So you can talk, huh?" he mused, stroking is chin "How come you never talked to Dante?" he asked Cerberus as he started walking back to the mountain, he had to explain Tails why he did what he did.
'I don't know how you know about Dante, but I'll answer anyways' Sonic sweat dropped at the sword's remark, he didn't even wanted to know how Sonic knew about Dante, his dislike for the deceased devil hunter must be really big 'I and the other Devil Arms were forbidden by Dante himself to ever talk to him or anybody, according to him, talking weapons are annoying' he finished.
'I can attest to that' "Devil Arms?" Dante didn't explain him what were Devil Arms, he just taught him the basic of the basic and trained him to use Rebellion and Ebony & Ivory.
'Devil Arms are what we, the demon turned in weapons are called' Cerberus explained 'The more intelligent demons can retain their mind even after becoming a Devil Arm, like me for example, but others who rely on strength alone just cease to be sentient and become pure weapons' he finished.
"I see" Sonic mused, an understanding tone to his voice as he jumped up the hole which Cerberus slammed him through, that's when he remembered something "Wait, you said I wasn't going to commit the same mistakes Dante did" he reminded the nunchaku "What did you mean by that?" he asked while going to the hole he drilled and jumping down.
'Dante had the habit of keeping all of his Devil Arms in a closet and never using them again, preferring to use his personal sword' Cerberus told Sonic, with a hint of annoyance in his voice.
"How cold of him to do that" Sonic frowned, chuckling right after at his unintended joke.
Sonic dropped right in front of the ice corridor from before and walked into it, intending to go to the entrance of the mountain, thinking that he had overstayed his welcome, and it was also pretty boring right here without anything to do or anyone to fight.
'I just wish I could maintain by normal form' the Cerberus sighed, making Sonic cock an eyebrow in wonder.
"Why is that?" Sonic asked him, curiosity taking control of his mind.
'When a demon becomes a Devil Arm, he can't go back to its original form for centuries, being stuck in a weapon form until centuries have passed and you're able to transform back' he explained the concept for Sonic.
"But if you don't like being stuck in weapon form, why did you turned into one for me?" Sonic asked, confused and a bit guilty for taking Cerberus' freedom from him.
'Because I know that unlike Dante, you won't neglect me, also…' Cerberus started 'I couldn't let such potential be wasted, I know you'll need my help for something great that's going to happen, call it a gut feeling' Sonic could almost feel the smirk on Cerberus voice when he told that he had a lot of potential.
"Well" Sonic also smirked, finally reaching the staircase, only instead of climbing down, he dropped down with a jump "We will be tackling the king of the demon world after all" Sonic said casually, landing down and walking past the little wooden bridge. If Sonic could see Cerberus' face, he would have laughed really loud, it was priceless "And don't worry" Sonic said, breaking Cerberus' out of his self induced petrified state "I'll find a way to make you able to revert yourself to your original form, that's a promise" he said with conviction. Cerberus' didn't knew why, but he couldn't help but feel that Sonic's words were not to be taken as a joke.
XXXXXXX
Tails' Workshop, Mystique Ruins
As Sonic reached his friend's workshop, he extended his hands to punch in the password when the door burst open and a yellow blue tackled Sonic, sending both him and the blur to the ground. Sonic then felt someone sitting on his stomach and taking a good grip on his trench-coat's collar.
"WHY DID YOU DO THAT?" Tails half asked, half demanded "DID YOU WANTED TO GIVE ME A HEART ATTACK?" he started shaking Sonic's collar up and down, in a comical fashion.
Out of his workshop came the two researchers now wearing normal clothes, the male researcher now had his features out to be seen by the world. He had the bishonen type of look, which was a big contrast seeing that his voice was rather low. He has a messy brown hair that reached his shoulders, brown colored eyes, and was rather slender, his clothes from before made him look a lot bulkier.
"Well" Sonic started "I just wanted to play a good prank" he said, talking Tails' hands off his coat. When Sonic stood up, he was still holding Tails' hands, who now was hanging a few inches above the ground as Sonic kept him on eye level "Nothing to fret about" he said, he's not one to charge his friends of something, but he did enjoy playing a good payback prank.
"NOTHING TO FRET ABOUT?" Tails shouted back, trashing left and right trying to free himself from Sonic's grip "I.. I" he stopped trashing, his voice becoming lower and scared "S… saw her naked" his voice trembled, Sonic released the boy out of pity "It was awful" he fell to his knees, grabbing his head by the sides "I WANT TO FORGET WHAT I SAW" Tails shouted once more "B… but now it's too late, her image is now engraved on my brain" he mulled.
A purple cloud of moodiness hovered over the fox's head. Feeling sorry for the boy, the arctic wolf crouched beside him, hugging the boy and whispering soft, sweet words to him, all the while glaring rather harshly at Sonic. Sonic's eyes widened when she did that, and she just kept staring at him with an angry look on her face.
"What?" Sonic finally asked, no longer standing her eyes trying to burn hole through his face.
"How could you?" she growled lowly "And to a child no less" she hugged the by closer to her, the other researcher joined her and also started to glare at Sonic.
"Why are you acting like I am the villain here?" Sonic asked annoyed "I just saved your lives and this is how you thank me?" Sonic crossed his arms in front of his chest and huffed.
"We are thankful for your help" the researcher said "But what you did to your friend is just inhuman" he rose his fist to make a point.
"I'm a hedgehog, bishie" Sonic pointed at himself.
"You got what I meant" the researcher told him "Now, I think you shou… DID YOU JUST CALL ME BISHIE?" the researcher shouted in indignation.
"I'm not apologizing, he had to learn a lesson" Sonic crossed his arms and huffed once more.
"A lesson?" the wolf asked, still glaring at the hedgehog "What lesson?" she asked once more, patting Tails' head.
"He had to learn not to break others things and not even say sorry?" he told her, but she still glared at him.
"And what, pray tell, did he broke to make you go to such extremes?" she asked, thinking that a reason like that was stupid, the boy was probably scarred for life "I bet it's something stupid like a cell phone or a computer" she said, her voice seeped with confidence, sure that his reasons were stupid. Sonic saw the look on her face and smirked mentally.
"Nothing too serious" Sonic closed his eyes when he saw a smirk on the girl's face "He just crashed my plane" he smirked, pointing dramatically at Tails 'I should stop playing Phoenix Wright' He thought.
The word plane seemed to break Tails out of his stupor as he jumped out of the wolf's arms and looked around frantically.
"Plane? When? Where?" he said. Tails stopped when he noticed that Sonic and his guest were looking at him oddly "Did someone say plane?" he laughed nervously.
"So, you're saying that this boy crashed your plane?" the male researcher asked. Tails gulped when the man said that, he knew he had forgotten something important.
"Yes" he said, giving Tails a disappointed look.
The boy squirmed under the look, leaning his head down, not wanting to make eye contact with his older brother. He never liked when Sonic gave him these looks, it normally meant that he did something that he should've not done. Sonic sighed at the sight he was given, he hated making Tails feel bad, but he had to educate the boy, he didn't want him becoming a punk like Jet.
"Tails" Sonic called him, but the boy didn't look back. Sonic walked up to his little brother and crouched before him "Look Tails" Sonic said in a soft voice, placing his hand on top of Tails' head "I'm not angry that you crashed my plane and didn't repair it" he said, making Tails' head snap up in surprise "I'm disappointed because you didn't apologize to me after that" Sonic told him "I taught you better than that and yet, you ignored it, in favor of making more planes for yourself" he looked into the fox's eyes, which started to water "You don't need to repair it for me, all I wanted was an honest apology from you" Sonic told Tails "But you never gave me one, so I decided to teach you a lesson" he confessed "Although I believe I went a little overboard" Sonic laughed nervously.
When Sonic saw that Tails' eyes were watering, he placed his right arm around the boy's neck and brought him closer to his body, in the form of a brotherly hug. They stayed like that for a few minutes, and while Tails sobbed on Sonic's chest, he would gently rub the boy's back in a comforting manner.
"Sorry" Tails said, it came in a muffled sound as he was still clinging to Sonic's chest.
"You don't need to apologize me anymore" Sonic said softly, taking his had away from Tails' neck and placing it back on his head "You just showed me how much you were sorry" he smiled.
"But still" Tails sobbed "I was so engrossed in my own selfish projects that I never once thought of apologizing for trashing your plane" he said while looking at Sonic directly in the eyes.
"It's okay now" Sonic stood up "You're sorry for what you've done and you also apologized, and that, is what's important" Sonic said, poking Tails' chest, making him chuckle as a reaction "So, are we cool?" Sonic said, extending his fist.
"Yup" Tails nodded with a smile and bumped his fist against Sonic's.
"Now that everything is sorted out" Sonic said, stretching his arms above his head "Let's go back to my place, there is someone I want you to meet" he said, walking away from the workshop, with Tails right after him.
"Hey Sonic" Tails called Sonic, noticing something hanging on the hedgehog's waist "What is that?" he pointed to his wais when Sonic turned around.
"This?" now Sonic pointed at Cerberus hanging from his waist "It's a long story" he said, making Tails' ears plop down "That I would love to share with you" his ears perked up at the prospect of hearing about Sonic's latest adventure.
XXXXXXX
"Did they just ignored us?" the male researcher said, with a sweat drop.
"Well, it's no surprise, we are cannon fodder after all" the wolf said with a sigh.
"Being a figurant is not easy" the male researcher said as they made their way to their next expedition.
Damn, that's one long ass chapter, at least for my writing standards, I almost never reach 8K words, and here I am writing over 10K in a single chapter.
This chapter was pretty fun to write, especially Sonic's interaction with Trish, Amy, Cerberus and Tails. The two figurants too, but not as much.
So, Sonic played a good yet traumatic prank on his brother. I also have something to ask, I know the concept of bashing a character, and although I don't like Amy Rose, I still try to be as faithful to her as possible and not so hateful toward her stupidity. I know that bashing a character normally involves the character being treated like shit or being beat up pretty badly just by words, mean words. I want to know that if what I did to Amy was bashing? I really don't want to deal with Amy fans sending PMs to me or loading my review section with things like "this story sucks" or whatnot.
(1) Is that a real word, I'm confused. Could you guys please answer me?
Well, I hope you guys enjoyed it, don't forget to review it. If you have any questions PM me or write it down on the review box.