Chapter Ten – Confrontations
It was several hours later before Shadow finally come too, extremely dizzy but largely fine. However, it was physically impossible for the drugs to physically block all five of his separate but powerful Chaos Powers. The Super-Speed, Super-Strength, Super-Durability, Super-Jump, and his enormous Chaos Wield. (His abilities to use just one Chaos Emerald for an array of different skills. Chaos Blast, Chaos Spear and Chaos Control, and Super-from with all seven). None of them had been blocked completely, but all of them had been heavily numbed, which truthfully, had left Shadow feeling extremely groggy. He also had enhanced abilities as well, which the drugs also blocked but he'd developed those over time, and they were classed differently to Chaos Powers.
His temper exploded upon awaking but thanks to the drugs, he was quickly calmed as the others successfully talked him down. They told him everything they knew, and he too tried the door of his cell, and again, failed to his utter frustration. He sits back down on his cell bed, which buckles slightly under his immense weight, and waits. Locked in and going nowhere, right now, that is all any of then can do.
Thankfully, they don't have to sit around long, as suddenly, the was commotion outside, as the door of the prison was thrown open, from the outside, and a large Dog scientist in a large, long, white coat, rudely ignoring everyone as he walks in. He checked his clipboard, deeply fascinated by the contents. He was immediately followed by two guards carrying someone. He turns around in the centre of the room, looking at his followers. He growled.
"Right, throw him in there." He ordered, indicating a cell one down from Shadow. The door was thrown open, and the prisoner was dumbed on the bed. Everyone was completely and utterly stunned into silence by the sight. The two guards buckle over in exhaustion. One of them panted.
"Oh my Chaos. He's heavy. I thought the Blue Blur was lighter then that." He heaved, looking back at the unconscious Blue Hedgehog now in the cell. But the Dog scientist, just smirked, into his clipboard.
"Well, it seems he's gained significant weight since surviving Eggman, as well as acquiring a few other additions." He growled, indicating the tattoos, not liking them at all, but he sniggered. "It seems the trauma of surviving such a incredibly brutal fight, had lead him to have a rebellion." He hissed. "Not surprised, to be honest. But a full medical examination had shows that these changes are entirely environmental. A full D.N.A. test and complete body scan has proved that he is indeed Sonic The Hedgehog." He added. One of the guards just gasped, as he slammed the door of the cell on the Blue Hedgehog.
"But how?" He stammered.
"That's what the Boss wants to know. How did he survive? For all intents and purposes, he should have died. That fight was brutal, and yet here he is, in flesh and blood, in front us." He hissed, indicating the cell. But the guard just growled.
"Are you sure, he's not..." He wondered, but the Dog, just cut across him. He smirked.
"An imposter?" He glared. The guard nodded. But the Dog Scientist just heaved. "Truthfully, the Boss thought the same when he first saw him too, hence his order for his immediately capture. These are just cannon fodder." He snarled, to the others in the jail cells, but much growling, but he heaved. "But no. I have done the check throughly myself, even ran the tests twice. He is the Blue Blur. According to his medical records, Sonic was born with unique physiology. He wasn't born with a skeleton of bone. His was entirely made of hugely re-enforced cartilage, that can bend and flex like no other. The only known case in the whole of Mobius. That is how he can run as fast as he can. He body just bends with the immense g-forces." He leered. "This Blue Hedgehog has that trait. It is him." He nodded, indicating him through the cell. But the Dog Scientist just sniggered. "Maybe his announcement to the world, of his return, with those stupid but distinctive Sonic Booms at Speed Alley, might not have been wise after all." He smirked, as suddenly he turns to leave, looking at the guards. "Come. I have to get these results to the Boss. He can decide what to do with him next." He added. Suddenly, the Blue Hedgehog's cell was slammed shut and the door to the prison was swung open again and the three of them leave and within minutes, they are gone, the door locking behind them.
Everyone just blinked at what they had just heard, but just stare at the Blue Hedgehog opposite. It was incredible. Sukko was lying flat on his back on the cell bed, completely out cold. His head silent and still, his long blue quills spread out everywhere, his hands dangling either side of him, his legs out straight. One foot was down the other propped up. The enormous full tattoo of the phoenix could clearly be seen down his whole torso. It ran the entire length of left hand side of front of his body. The phoenix had a side profile, with the head, body and tail in a curving arc formation. The head was across the front of his shoulder, with the sharp curved beak pointing down, with one wing spread out across his chest, and the other pointing backwards down his left arm, along with the long head feathers.
The black phoenix's body curved round the front left half of his torso until the talons of the birds appeared at his lower ribs. Then came to the tail, which was so long that it curved around his hip and then beautifully finished down his leg, ending at the knee. The entire bird was surrounded by deep rich black flames, which was what gave it away as a phoenix, and the skin beneath it was still slightly red, as it was very relatively recently done. The quality of the work was exquisite, and everyone got the impression that one, there was hours of work there, extremely painful, and two, it was potentially the biggest tattoo the artist had ever done.
Seeing Sukko without his coat on, was just mind blowing. He was the Blue Blur, as though Sonic has laterally come back from the dead. Now everyone knew why he wore it. Just to distinguish himself from his brother. Tails knew about identical twins and how genetically alike they could be, but this was ridiculous. It was a though Sonic had been cloned. But as much as he stared at Sukko, the Sorcerer wasn't the Blue Blur and in the end, everyone knew that. Despite the likeness. The fact that the scientist had been so mistaken, wasn't that surprising. Tails had researched Sonic's background, in detail. Aside from the time written on his birth certificate, Sukko literally didn't exist. No paperwork at all. But he was a Doctor, he had to have had paperwork, but the documents for both him and his entire family were so well hidden, that no one could find them. Except for the mighty Sorcerer himself. Tails knew about about Sonic's cartridge skeleton, but as absolutely identical twins, Tails wasn't surprised that Sukko had it as well, though now he was curious as to what he'd use it for. He stared at the Blue Hedgehog. Sukko looked unconscious.
But he wasn't.
Suddenly, he opened one eye, ever so lightly, about fives minutes after his captors left, and whispered over to Shadow, who, completely dumbfounded, just looked up.
"Oi, Stripes, have they gone?" He hissed, under his breath. Suddenly, Shadow just outright smirked.
"You've been conscious this entire time, haven't you?" He leered, his smirked broadening. Sukko, now outright giggling, suddenly, and very quickly, sits up on the bed and props himself up on his heals. He grinned.
"Of course, I have." He grinned. He instinctively looked around and noticed that the prison only had one camera, pointed straight at the entrance and exit door, nothing at the cells. Sukko quickly clocked the make of camera. Standard prison issue, which meant no microphone. They were free to talk. He heaved. "The tranquillizer darts they have been using are sedative based, which don't work on Psychics. I actually woke up on the examination table." He grinned. Suddenly, he rubbed his face and ran his hands through his quills on his head. He heaved. "How tired was I last night? Anyway, you need to use specialist tranquillizer darts that are anaesthetic based, to successfully knock someone like me, with a strong mental Chaos Power." He heaved, suddenly, he went very dizzy. "However, their Beta Blockers are hefty." He sighed, rubbing his eyes and the back of his head again. Tails piped up.
"The Chaos Power drugs?" He asked. Sukko nodded.
"Yes. Beta Blockers. Extremely power drugs designed to block the frontal lobes of brain, where Chaos Powers are concentrated. Extremely effective on Psychics. However, get the dosage wrong, and it can quickly goes from effective to fatal." He heaved. "That's why, despite being conscious the entire time, I didn't intervene, especially when I saw Beta Blockers were involved. They can be quickly turned into lethal injections at a moment's noticed if trouble looms. I just didn't want to risk anything." He admitted.
Everyone when white, as they all gulped. They had all been given Beta Blockers. Sukko's knowledge of the situation was exceptional, but as a Doctor, not that surprising. The tattoo of the serpent-entwined rod, Asclepius, in black, could clearly be seen on his right arm. The highest honour in Mobian medicine. The Echidna nodded.
"Thank you." He breathed, as everyone agreed. Sukko heaved.
"Pleasure." He nodded. "But I did take note of the dosage used. Twenty-four hours, then back to normal." He sighed. But Rouge frowned.
"Then what?" She hissed. But Sukko shrugged.
"I have no idea." He admitted. "That Dog Scientist. My goodness, he loves to talk. I can tell you entire life story, family, kids, you name it, but as to who his Boss is? I don't know. He didn't mention him my name, and he never came to see me, in person." He added. "As to where we are, I can't tell you. The P. A. is down." He giggled. But Knuckles just frowned.
"Er. P. A.? As in Personal Assistant?" He wondered, but immediately got giggled at. Sukko rounded on him through his jail cell. He grinned, inanely.
"Ooo, are you applying, because there's a position available." He sniggered, to much laughter. But Tails just looks at Knuckles who is now really confused. He grinned.
"No, Psychic Abilities." He nodded. Finally, the Echidna understands. He gasped.
"Oh, you mean..." He stammered, but got immediately cut across by Sukko, who growls at him and hard.
"Yes, and but we don't talk about that, remember." He hissed, very coldly, indicating the camera. Everyone saw and immediately quietened. Suddenly, everyone looked at Sukko and nodded. The Chaos Sorcery was strictly off the conversation topics, especially here. But Tails rounded on Sukko. He frowned.
"Is anything working?" He gulped, hoping for something. But Sukko shook his head.
"Like I said, their Beta Blockers are good. Beyond the brain of total mush, and the enormous migraine I have, unfortunately, I've got nothing, I'm afraid. But, hopefully it shouldn't last long." He smirked. He looked at Shadow. "Stripes here, has multiply Chaos Powers in one body. That's what makes him so strong. Mine, is one Chaos Power split into multiply parts, or techniques, as I call them. Eight in total. I hoping that as the Beta Blockers wear off, bit by bit, those techniques should kick back in one by one. It's going to explode, I'm afraid, and I am not going to be able to stop it. I'm hoping that in the utter pandemonium of us leaving, nobody will actually notice what it is. I may have to cover it up later." He growled. "I've had Beta Blockers before. But I do have another Chaos Power too. Sonikku had two and so do I, but it's dead. Already tested it as well as the Orbing." He hissed, throughly unimpressed. To lose the Orbing was annoying, his main form of transportation, and now he felt very isolated. But thankfully, it wasn't permanent.
Sukko was a ruthlessly powerful Sorcerer, with an impressive array of skills, especially in Chaos Sorcery. His incredible Magical casts included the techniques of Force-Field Generation, (and the slight variation on that, Disintegration, which was a shockwave exploded of a force-field wave that vaporised anything metallic.) Illusions, Invisibility, Telekinesis, Pyrokinesis, Telepathy, Conjuring and Healing. The Super-Flight was a separate Chaos Power entirely and the Orbing was from his Whitelighter grandfather, a Guardian angel sent down from the heavens. This made Sukko a White-lighter-Sorcerer Hybrid. More commonly known as a Halfbreed. The twins maternal grandfather was a Whitelighter. A pure one. He came from the heavens to guide his maternal grandmother who was a Sorcerer, and they fell in love, stayed and had children, breaking all the rules. But Sukko hardly ever used any his powers nowadays. He was of the believe that, it wasn't what powers you had that made you who you were, it was how you used them, that mattered. But Tails frowned.
"Orbing?" He wondered, but Shadow cut across him, smirking.
"His method of teleporting." He hissed, indicating the Sorcerer. Sukko nodded, but before anyone could say anything. The door was rudely flung open again and a girl was marched into the prison, by two guards, either side of her, right to the cell between Shadow and Sukko. Promptly and rather violently, the door was thrown open and she was dump in, falling to her knees, on a floor. Her sudden arrival left utter bewilderment and confusion behind her as well as silence. Sukko got off the bed, and start walking around the cell, towards the girl, reading the situation beautiful. But before he said anything, he gave Knuckles a piercing look with his deep, emerald-green eyes. No Telepathy, it was blocked. The Echidna knew why. Sukko was asking for permission.
Because the girl opposite him was Amy.
She looked exactly as she did, just after the Blue Blur's death, but she now wore a long maroon dress and headband, and brown boots. Her pink quills were now very long, reaching down to her waist, and she had slightly filled out around middle, heavily suggesting she been pregnant, at some point, baring children. To Sukko's keen eye as a Doctor, at least twice. She had not been seen by anyone in ten years.
But what was she doing here? No one had any idea, but all eyes are on Knuckles, and everyone from the campfire remember from the previous night. Gulping hard, Knuckles nodded, as curious as everyone else there as to why the pink Hedgehog was here. Sukko, stops just short of the bars between the cells, just out reach and folds his arms. Amy immediately get up when the door was slammed behind her, making a beeline straight for him. She cried.
"Sonic?" She sniffed, reaching for him, but missed. But Sukko just sighed, knowing what he was about to do was going to be intensely difficult, for everyone. He gave a Amy a small smile. Difficult for a girl he felt absolutely nothing for. Sukko had jumped the fence since Martha's death, unable to find another female companion, to match her. So nowadays, he finds love in other males. Sonic knew, but didn't really care. Whatever made his brother happy. He heaved.
"Hey, Ames." He hissed, his voice only sightly warm. There was instant silence and a lot of shuddering. That voice. He was the Blue Blur. Knuckles put his hands over his ears. He just couldn't take it. But Amy, not noticing at all, just squealed.
"Oh, thank Mobius, your alive. I thought you were dead. I heard your Sonic Booms and just couldn't believe it. It had to be you. So I went to look for you. But when I saw Dr. Starline and his goons drag you in here, and went after you, but unfortunately, got myself caught. Stupid me, to be honest." She admitted. Everyone gasped.
Dr. Starline.
He was a fan of Eggman and believed that he could actually run his Empire better then he could. He was thought to be dead, falling to his demise, in Imperial City just before it's destruction, a few years prior to Sonic's death. Tails rounded on her. He growled.
"Amy, are you sure?" He hissed, but Amy just nodded.
"Yes, even after all these years, I can recognise that Platypus anywhere, even if he is mostly robot. My Chaos, I hate him so much." She spat. They had history, mainly by him treating her very badly. Suddenly, all eyes are on Sukko. Tails shrugged.
"Now, what do we do?" He heaved. But Sukko heaved. He'd met the Platypus before but he was certain that the Doctor wouldn't have remembered him, hence his mistaken identity. He didn't like him then, and hated him even more now. But as Sukko deeply thought, according to Amy, Dr. Starline was now mostly a robot. Sukko suspected how that had been done. The Medical Community had been developing a form of Robotisation as a method of saving lives. Plausible, yes, but Sukko didn't approve. He just saw the technology being abused far too easily. Even a bad guy had already got his hands on it, despite it's infancy, and had obviously used it to save himself. But the technology was untested. No one knew of the long term affects of the Robotisation on the body and mind, and early trials had showed trances of insanity, hence they were stopped, to allow for further development. Regardless, it left Sukko with a bad feeling. He heaved.
"At the moment, nothing." He hissed. "Bound and powerless, there isn't much we can do, until Dr. Starline shows us what he's planing." He heaved. But Tails growled.
"Well, good luck with that." He leered. The Platypus was well known for keeping his infamous schemes very close to his chest. Sukko was aware of this. He nodded, and cocked his head to the side. He smirked.
"Quite." He nodded, rather coldly. Everyone nodded and agreed. But Amy had been staring at him. She jus couldn't believe what she was seeing. The change of attire didn't faze her, with the brown boots and the silver bracelets, from the famous red and white shoes but after ten years, she was, sort of, expecting that. But the tattoos were a surprise. There were stunning, but not to her taste. She immediately spotted the Phoenix down the front, but it was the Dragon down Sukko's back that was just incredible, as she watched him walk around his cell.
The jet black tattoo was stunning. The head of the dragon was on his left shoulder, with the creature curving it's upper body and arms horizontally across his shoulders through his spine and back quills (which had to be removed when the tattoo was done, but they grew back), to it's wings spread out across his right shoulder. Then the dragon's lower body, and hind legs, curved right round until vertical, following Sukko's spine down his back. At his hips, the dragon's body ended but then the creature's long tail, which swerved around all along his lower back, crossing over itself and ending at Sukko's own tail.
It was pristine, and the lines were still sharp. He regularly attend the studio to have maintenance work done on it, and the other tattoos. He absolutely loved them, and there were very much him.
Not the Blue Blur.
Amy looked at Sukko, desperately wanting to be in that cell with him, not understanding who or what she was looking at. She heaved.
"Sonic?" She whimpered. But Sukko just glared at her, still staying well out of her reach. She wasn't touching him, thank you very much. She sighed. "I know your still angry with me, but when we got out of here, we can start over." She pleaded, but Sukko just almost lost his temper with her. But he just about fought off the dark aura. He growled, still sounding like his brother.
"To do what, Ames? So you can abandon your husband and two children." He hissed. She gulped, and everyone just stared. How did he do that? She cried.
"Oh, so you know about that then?" He stammered. Sukko smirked. No, but very little gets past the super observant King of Stealth. Her tell tale figure, and the line on her finger from the missing wedding band, gave her away. Completely faking it, he nodded. She heaved. "Actually, we're divorced. He wasn't as good to me as I thought he would be." She sighed. But she looked up at the Blue Blur, as suddenly, she remembered, about how she ended up in that situation in the first place. She growled at Sukko and hard. "You lied on our wedding day, Mr. Phronshentico, nullifying our marriage. Why?" She spat. Sukko just outright smirked.
He knew why. Sonic had told him. He remembered him crying over him for days afterwards. Never forgave her for it, and still didn't. Sonic did genuinely love Amy, and was going to tell the truth. He'd even arranged for Sukko to show to sign off on the marriage, as his family, making it legal, but something happened that changed his mind, causing him to call the whole thing off. Sukko heaved, still sound uncannily like his brother.
"I caught you, Ames, in the arms of another guy, the night before the wedding." He spat, to much gasping around the room. The Pink Hedgehog went absolutely white, her jaw dropping, her hand over her mouth. She swore.
"Wait, you saw that?" She stammered. Sukko didn't but Sonic did and nodded anyway. Amy just panicked, pleading through the bars at him. "It was nothing. Just an old school friend I hadn't seen in years, long before I met you." She defended. But Sukko just growled.
"But you were kissing." He hissed, coldly, to yet further astonishment. But Amy panicked still further. She cried.
"It was just a quick peck on the cheek, I swear." She cried, but Sukko just hissed.
"That's not what I saw, Ames." He growled, still pretending. They was exactly how Sonic described it him. But Amy sighed. She'd blown it and she knew it.
"Ok, your right. I did kiss him. For old times sake, you know. But you weren't meant to see it. He was just sending me on my way to my newly married life, but because you lied, that didn't happen. Then alone, and with you gone, I was forced to go back to him. But he wasn't the Hedgehog I remembered from school. He'd changed. He just wanted me for the mating and nothing more. He was very abusive, to be honest." She sniffed. "So abusive, in fact, that the two times he did actually get me pregnant, he beat me so badly I lost both the babies. There are no children." She sniffed, to gasps of horror around the room. But she smiled. "But I only got my divorce finalised a few weeks ago. Now I am free of him. I'm safe now." She wept.
But Sukko just stared at her. The cold, hard stare that could only come from the super cool, calm King of Stealth. He felt for her, he really did. Even after treating Sonic so badly, not even she deserved to be abused that horrendously, if at all. But with four children and the intense love for Martha, he still had, there was nothing he could do her. She desperately needed a fresh start, fine, just not with him. Though he had a slight hunch who might, sightly forgiving her. She just didn't warrant the punishment she got. But he heaved.
"Sorry, but I can't help you." He spat, truthfully, definitely saying that as Sukko, not Sonic. Everyone silently blinked, as Amy pleaded with him.
"Please." She begged, but Sukko rounded on her, and this time, his temper did explode. He had had enough. The entire situation had been grating heavily on his temper, as he just lost it. His body began to emit a deep, dark purple aura, his quills turned upwards and his eyes vanished, leaving just the whites, as he throws everything he has at the bars between them, bashing them with his hands, making then wobble. Amy immediately backs off, very frightened.
"I said, no." He roared. Immediately he turned around and walked away, heaving heavily. They all stared. They had heard of Sonic's infamous temper but few had actually witnessed it, but they had now seen it on Sukko. They all gulped. It took a lot for Sonic to loose his temper and an extremely long time for him to calm down afterwards. But they watched Sukko intently and noticed the dark purple aura around him, had already vanished and he was calming down very quickly.
Maybe to quick. Sukko walked to the opposite end of the cell to Amy and placed his back again the wall, and close his eyes. Within minutes, his back to normal, panting hard. He had one very short fuse, the complete opposite of his brother.
He was three minutes older then Sonic, and the eldest of the brothers. He was a powerful Sorcerer, highly proficient in Chaos Sorcery. Personality wise, Sonic and Sukko
are very different and are completely and utterly the opposite of each other. Sukko had Magic, a mental Chaos Power. But Sonic had a physical Chaos Power, with the Super-Speed. Sukko was cool, calm, quiet and reserved, Sonic was fast, active and very hyper. Even their food choices reflected this. For Sonic, anything hot and spicy, including Chilli-dogs, with loads of coffee but for Sukko, it's cold and cool. He's a massive fan of guacamole and avocados in general, especially in mayo wraps, with large quantities of tea, of course. But their opposite natures doesn't rule everything the twins do. There are some crossovers. Neither Hedgehog is evil, and both desperately want to help the people of Mobius. It is just that each of them found their own individual way of doing this. Sonic became the Hero of Mobius, a soldier, before he died, and Sukko, a Doctor.
Amy was shaking in pure fright. Never had her Sonic completely lost it with her, so quickly. In fact, he often went out of his way, to avoid it, no matter what she did. She looked back at the Blue Hedgehog. He looked like Sonic. Heck, he even acted like him, but now Amy was beginning to believe that he was not her old beloved, but someone else. She frowned. If so, then who?
But before she could do or say anything else, the door to the prison was flung open again and the talkative Dog scientist, with his clipboard, was back followed closely by, none other then. Dr. Starline himself. The Platypus had white fur that covers most of his body. His beak was black-coloured and narrow with nostrils on the front, and he possesses red eyes, black eyelids, and a thick tail. He had three thick hair turfs on his head that are combed over the right. His front hair turf also possesses a grey highlight. He wore a purple and red-violet satin tuxedo with golden cufflinks, a red-violet t-shirt underneath, orange pince-nez glasses, and two grey webbed gloves. He wore a webbed brown glove on his left hand with a gold insertion clip and golden-tipped fingertips. A darker brown ring can be seen on the palm of the glove. He bore some kind of device on his left glove though the other appeared slightly charred, leaving behind a few patches of burned skin. He wore brown boots with golden buckles, red-violet soles, medium-high heels and upward-turned pointy toes and light red-violet socks underneath.
But where his right arm, torso and right leg should have been, they had been robotised to a ornate decorated metallic replacement, which with wires coming coming out of his shoulder and into his head, via plating and sockets. One of his eyes had also been robotised showing as a black background with a bright red light for iris and pupil. There was so much robotisation, that was his whole body was now entirely dependent on the robotics for it's survival. Sukko gulped, when he saw him, swearing hard under his breath.
There was no way that Dr. Starline could have that much robotisation, and not suffer from the side effects. The technology was very new. Ignoring everyone in that room, he quietly spoke with the Dog scientists ahead of him several times, looking at Sukko, and then after a few minutes, the scientist hands over his clipboard and leaves, closing the door behind him.
Sukko fixed the now alone, Platypus, with a very cold stare, but said absolutely nothing. Even without telepathy, Sukko could immediately read all over Dr. Starline what he was wanting. His secret of him surviving the final fight against Eggman, especially unscathed. The thing was, he, i.e. Sonic, didn't, but the look of desperation on the Platypus's face, Sukko suspected time was not on his side.
His metallic parts were very worn, creaking, and Sukko wondered how much longer they would last. Months, maybe. He couldn't re-robotise them. That was not how the technology worked. Organic to metallic only, and no one yet had enough advance training to repair the parts, Sukko suspecting that they were beyond even Tails's knowledge as an engineer.
In Sukko, Dr. Starline was desperately looking for a miracle. But there was nothing the mighty Sorcerer could do, especially powerless. As a Doctor, he was legally honour-bound to help, regardless. All Dr. Starline had to do was ask, but now, with more then half of him robotic, no amount of healing was going to help. It only worked on organic beings, and Sukko was no mechanic.
But the Sorcerer just fumed. He was still recovering from his temper explosion at Amy, and now he just growled at the Platypus. This situation could have been dealt with so much better, rather then by capturing and then violently removing everyone's powers. But Sukko got the impression that Dr. Starline's mind was not as stable as he once was. That the intense insanity had left it all but broken. Regardless, he was not telling him anything. He folded his arms, as Dr. Starline approached his cell, completely ignoring the others. He hissed rather coldly.
"Well, your awake sooner then I thought." He growled, glancing down, for a moment, to his clipboard. Sukko in his usual King of Stealth mode, said nothing. He was done pretending to be his brother. The conversation with Amy had been very emotional painful and now it was he'd just had enough. Right now, he just didn't care about Dr. Starline. He had peeved him off beyond actually giving a dam anymore. From what Sukko could see, the Platypus was a good as dead anyway. If Dr. Starline was expecting banter and outrage from him, he was talking to the wrong Blue Hedgehog. The Platypus cocked his head to the side. He heaved. "Mm, not very talkative today." He growled. But yet again, Sukko said nothing. He just watched him closely. Everyone watched silently through their bars, desperately wondering what the mysterious Sorcerer would do next. They all had no idea, he was to intensely difficult to read. Sonic, they could guess, but Sukko, no, and all were extremely interested.
But Dr. Starline was getting very impatient, as he walked right up the bars and growls at the Blue Hedgehog. His temper exploded.
"This defiance will not be tolerated. If you won't tell how you survived the final fight against Eggman, unscathed, then I'll make you." He hissed, raising his left hand right up towards Sukko, and clawed his fingers. The golden-tipped fingertips began to glow white as he began dictating to Sukko that he worked for him now. Making sublumial suggestions and giving him orders. Sukko heavily scoffed a laugh, desperately trying to keep a straight face. It is physically impossible to hypnotise a Sorcerer, even a powerless one. They are just too mentally strong, especially Sukko, or indeed anyone with psychic Chaos Powers such as Silver. Dr. Starline's efforts did absolutely nothing to him. Sukko smirked, this was just too good.
Still saying nothing, he walked right across the cell and faced Dr. Starline through the bars. Sukko cocked his head, still silently watching him, as the Platypus got more and more frustrated at the completely lack of anything happening. It was rather amusing.
But suddenly, they heard it, all of them. In the distance, but definitely heading their way, a enormous shockwave of the sound barrier breaking. Extremely loud, very distinctive. Suddenly, it as followed by even louder explosion of sound, with it tell-tale rainbow shockwave, giving the Hyperblast away. It violently shook the entire area, including the prison. Everyone heaved, but beamed, knowing the cause.
Max.
Suddenly, everyone giggled, to Dr. Starline's completely and utter confusion. He looked at the Sukko, and then out the window, towards the sound and then back again. That sound was the Sonic Boom. It was the Blue Blur, and yet here he was in front of him. He even looked at Shadow, the only other speedster, but just coldly smirked and shrugged. Dr. Starline was dumbfounded. He rounded on Sukko.
"But who?" He stammered, but Sukko didn't give him a chance to work it out, taking full advantage of the beautifully timed distraction. Sukko had decided he'd had enough with this and had closed his right fist. He then without warning, as quickly as he could and with as much might as he could muster, he punches Dr. Starline in the face, right across the beak. The Platypus is thrown backwards against the main door of the prison, and then slides down it to fall to the floor, unconscious. Completely out cold. Sukko is growling in full temper but it left him, bend double, heavily shaking his hand, very painfully, as that scull was metallic, swearing extremely hard. So hard, in fact, that he left everyone white.
They had never seen a Blue Hedgehog hurt someone like that before, and were shocked. But the swearing was so bad, that Tails growled, intervening.
"Sukko! Language please." He spat, but the Blue Hedgehog just rounded on him through the bars. Finally dropping all the 'Sonic' persona. He wasn't the Blue Blur. He growled.
"Right now, Fox, I couldn't care less." He hissed, very coldly. Suddenly, he spoke rather quickly. "And besides, if you think my language is bad, you should have heard Sonikku on a bad day. Now that was appalling. He was the only person I knew of that proved the existence of the Doppler Effect by swearing at it." He outright giggled, grinning hard. "Oh boy, I'll never forget him travelling at Mach One, cursing his head off, simply because he could. But it did prove the theory. He never swore in public, mind, a.k.a., in front of you guys, he knew better. All because he had a 'reputation' to uphold." He hissed, rolling his eyes. He heaved. "A reputation? What a massive piece of crud that was." He hissed, then he pointed at Amy, growling like mad. "Even Madam Pink Thing, the Tarot Card reader, over there, barely knew him." He spat.
But Amy just when white and Tails just heaved. What Sukko was saying did make sense. To have two personas as the Hero. Sonic clearly was one way with his family, and entirely different with them. The public. That was perfectly normal, if a little shocking. It meant the 'real' Sonic they knew was entirely dependant on what the Blue Blur was willing to share with them, which as they were learning, wasn't actually a lot. He said nothing of his family, or, as Tails just outright giggled, of his fantastic sense of humour, or the bad language. He heard it on Sukko, so why not on him. But for Sonic to swear at the Doppler Effect was actually very funny, but as the Fox sniffed, he never saw any of that. In fact, as he cried, there was so much of the Blue Blur he didn't know about and now he'd just wished he's taken more time for him. But Sonic may have died, but in his twin brother, he definitely wasn't gone.
But the simple truth was, only Sukko, knew the 'real' Sonic, but then the mighty Blue Hedgehog just smirked, and he rested his head the bars, as he looked to the window by the side of his cell. He grinned.
"Anyway, Fox, forget it. The kids are on their way!"