Brisk Sunset: Regret
Everything flashed before his eyes as the electricity stunned him. In seconds he was down. The next thing he knew, he was in a large outpost of the coast of Knothole's Central Town. He knew this because there was a window right next to where he was sitting. He was in a large room with fluorescent lights above him and machinery in the center. Nothing he's ever seen before. He wanted to get up to get a better look, but he had something wrapped around his wrists.
Normally, this wouldn't affect him from getting on his feet. But he felt something missing. His Light Bracelet was gone. That had given him a rise in his agility since the Chaos Period of 1999. Now he needed his hands to get of the ground. But they were tied up. Whoever was doing this, knew all about Sonic. And he had an idea of who it was.
Soon the door of the large out post started up and two figures stood in the passageway.
"Sally! Tails! Thanks for ditching me back there!" Sonic said. Sally was the first to apologize.
"Sorry about that. We realized that something was up, so we had to make a…call."
Sonic looked at her for clarification, "What kind of call?"
Sally was about to explain, but Tails stopped her, "I think it's better to just surprise him."
Sonic sighed, "Well could someone at least tell me what happened after I was gunned down?"
"Well, it kinda starts out like this:"
Antoine put his pistol back in his sash and went to go help the mayor off the pavement, "Goodness Gracious Mr. Mayor! Are you alright?"
The Mayor coughed as Antoine dusted him off with a handy feather duster in his coat pocket, "No, I'm not alright. What Mayor comes to his city wanting to breakup a dispute and gets attacked by a hoodlum; then tells everyone that he's as peachy as a carnival groupie? I want to speak to my lawyers! My Wardens!" He then looks over at Sonic on the ground, unconscious, "And I want him, put in the Brisk Sunset jailing and testing district!"
Officer Kildough spoke up, "Now, Mr. Mayor, I must disagree. Detaining this confused deputy is one thing. Other than assault, which for a G.U.N. deputy is a simple probation sentence, this hedgehog is in no need of punishment. Besides, G.U.N. already has men negotiating with Knotholean contractors to use another, larger area of the island for their labs in exchange for the few dozen acres of land they currently hold."
The mayor got a tingle in his eye, "But won't that land be used for your rival territory, governed by General Maxwell? How can you agree to the extraction of land for a rival, good sir?"
The Mayor was staring right at him, but Kildough didn't flinch, "You are speaking to the wrong territorial General about rivalry, Mr. Mayor. My group of soldiers and officers are the lighter heads of this operation." He walked forward causing the Mayor to tremble in surprise and began walking back as well.
This alerted Antoine and his troopers, so as Kildough continued; they aimed their weapons just in case he tried anything hasty, "I suggest you think before you act, Mr. Mayor. If you jail this deputy, when we have clearance over the area you jail him in, we will have the clearance to break him out and…dispose of all resistance in the area…I suggest you do as I say and move your troops elsewhere, and more importantly give us back our National Hero"
The Mayor fell back against the hedgehog. He looked at him and grinned slightly. The Mayor stood as the G.U.N. soldiers once again held up their weapons, "I have but FIVE words for you, General."
"And what's that?"
The Mayor got into the General's face, "You need a breath mint!"
General Kildough stood back and signaled the soldiers to stand down, "You just made a grave mistake Mayor…A mistake you will regret for the rest of your selfish life…"
As Knotholean soldiers boarded the lifeless Sonic onto the mayor's shuttle, Kildough and his troops jumped into buggies and on motorbikes; driving off toward the Central Town. As the mayors soldiers all boarded the tunnel, the mayor looked toward the late afternoon sun, grinning. He knew something…or worse…he was something…"