Chapter 13

Walk Home Robot Fight

The wind blew past the tree branches and leaves very slowly. As Sonic the hedgehog known as the blue blur walked through the forest of trees. He was too depressed to bother running at the time. The wind blew past him and he felt the cold breeze go through his quills.

He walked past trees; long, short, tall and wide. He walked through some small bushes and shrubs in his path. Some of the branches scraped against his legs as he walked. But he didn't care. His mind was stuck on the prophecy Lupe had told him. The line "his fate is sealed" was what bugged him the most about this whole werewolf curse he had. Sonic stared at the ground; watching his bare feet move over the soft soil underneath the grass he stepped on. His mind was blank from the fact that he didn't want to think.

Only starting to think now…of how worried everyone must be. His parents, Uncle Chuck, Tails, Amy and Sally. Sonic stopped walking and lifted his head up as he looked around the area he was in. his mind settled on Sallys' worried expression once he turned up at new Mobotropolis. Sonic wrapped his arms around his chest; as if they were cold. A feeling of guilt welled up in his stomach just thinking about his worried family and friends. He left them without giving them a reasonable excuse to why he was leaving.

"Why didn't I tell them?" Sonic asked himself.

Sonic unwrapped his arms from around his chest and clenched his hands into fists.

"I'm such an idiot!" Sonic exclaimed. "If I had told them at the dinner that I was the werewolf I could've avoided this whole mess!"

Sonic brought his right fist up and clenched it tighter as he punched a tree trunk that was near him.

"I could've avoided seeing Naugus and activating stage two! I could've avoided seeing Drago and activating stage three and finding out about the prophecy!" Sonic exclaimed.

Sonic took his hand out of the trunk and lowered it to his side.

"But if I hadn't had escaped from Naugus and Robotnik I wouldn't have saved Maria and Marcos. I guess that is one good thing," Sonic said. "But I can't get the memory of me attacking Sally out of my head."

Sonic sighed at the memory and thought of that.

"I can't believe I did that" Sonic muttered.

Sonics' mind was going crazy at the mix of emotions he was experiencing. Feelings of anger, sadness, confusion and exhaustion were overpowering his mind. He clutched his head with one of his hands and groaned.

"Great. Now I'm getting a headache" Sonic said with sarcasm in his voice.

A rustle in the bushes made Sonics ear flicker as it caught his attention. Sonic took his hand away from his head and looked in all of the directions around him.

"Who's there?" Sonic asked.

Sonic clenched his hands into fists again as he eyed the bushes. Suddenly a bunch of robots came out of the bushes all around Sonic. Surrounding him completely and outnumbering him.

"I'm guessing 'Buttnik sent you tin cans after me" Sonic teased.

One of the robots behind Sonic grabbed him with its giant hand and brought him up to its face. Sonic wasn't expecting that to happen, so wasn't ready.

"Lord Robotnik has plans for you" it said in its robotic voice.

Sonic didn't say anything back to the robot. He just glared at the robots metallic face with anger in his emerald eyes. The robot was getting impatient with Sonic, as it wanted him to reply. The robot started squeezing Sonic with its grip on him. Sonic started screaming as the robot squeezed his small body with its huge hands and mass of strength. The robots eyes suddenly widened as it let go of Sonic. Sonic fell to the ground and landed on his stomach as he was squeezed too tight to be ready to land on his feet. Sonic stood onto his feet and turned to look at his saviour. The fist holding the robot threw it aside and walked up to Sonic.

"Hey Knux. Never thought you'd come to my rescue" Sonic joked.

Knuckles scoffed at Sonics' joke and turned to look at the robots behind him as Sonic did the same. Sonic and Knuckles were back to back staring at the robots in front of them.

From the looks of it there are four robots in front of me and four in front of Knuckles. That means that there can easily be four more behind them and that equals sixteen in total, Sonic thought.

Sonic scratched his head in confusion at what he just thought.

How'd I do math like that? I'm never that good at math it's usually Tails. Maybe this curse is making me smarter. Hope not, Sonic thought.

Sonic stopped scratching his head and stared at the robots once more. Knuckles readied his fists as Sonic started stretching his arms and legs. Knuckles turned his head a little bit to look at Sonic. He saw that Sonics' gloves and shoes were missing from his sight.

What happened to Sonics' gloves and shoes? Whenever I see him, he's always wearing them, Knuckles thought.

Knuckles shook his head and turned back to the robots.

Like that matters right now, Knuckles thought.

Sonic wanted to break the silence between the two rivals so he did.

"How's 'Su?" Sonic asked Knuckles as he finished stretching.

"She's fine" Knuckles answered. "How's Sally?"

Sonic just shrugged at Knuckles' question as it started bringing back that memory of last night.

That memory will always haunt me, Sonic thought.

Since Knuckles was back to back with Sonic, he felt his shrug and frowned.

Why didn't he answer me? Knuckles thought.

A robot stepped out from the others and pointed at Sonic.

"Let us take you back to Lord Robotnik" it said in its robotic voice like the other one. "He can help you."

"Ha!" Sonic laughed. "That's a lie I'm never gonna believe."

Sonic ran at the robot and spin-dashed through its chest. The robot fell to the ground as Sonic landed on the ground after returning from the robots back. All the other robots stared at Sonic in horror and anger.

"Attack!" another robot yelled, but in a more aggressive robotic tone. "Until he is weak enough to carry back to Robotropolis!"

All the robots charged at Sonic and Knuckles as they readied themselves. Sonic ran at the robots in front of him and spin-dashed through them. Leaving a giant hole in the chest of the robot. Sonic looked behind himself and saw he had only gotten the first four.

Four down twelve to go, Sonic thought.

Knuckles jumped onto the chest of the robot in front of him and climbed up its chest to the top of its head. He slid onto the robots shoulder and put his hands under the neck of the robot. He pulled with all his strength, until the robot head ripped off. Knuckles threw the head into the bushes and jumped off the robot just as it collapsed to the ground.

Sonic ran around six robots as he tried to make them dizzy. He saw that the robots' eyes were spiralling around in their heads. Sonic smiled at the robots as he stopped running. Sonic turned to face the robots and ran straight at them. Going into a sonic-spin along the way. All six robots were in a line as Sonic approached them in matter of seconds. His spin made contact with the metal chest of the first robot and he went straight through its back and headed towards the next one in line. He went through the middle of the chest, through the back and continued onto the next robot.

Knuckles ran past each other robot around and punched them in the legs. As they crashed to the ground he gave them a deadly beating with his fists. The last robot he saw he jumped onto it, knocking it down and giving that one a beating with an extra hard final punch.

Sonic stopped after he had gone through the last robot in line and turned to look at the robots lying all over the ground. Knuckles hopped off the robot he had just finished beating up. Sonic smiled at all the fallen robots, but heard a buzzing noise coming from behind him. Sonic turned to face that robot with rage in his eyes. But it wasn't a complete robot. It was the robot head Knuckles had tossed earlier before the battle really began. Sonic frowned at the robot head on the ground in front of him.

How is that robot still alive after being ripped from its body? Its body is dead, but the head isn't, Sonic thought.

"What is in your eyes is anger that only a true werewolf holds" the robot said. "Tonight will be the night you will lose control to the other side of you for a full night. As your will, will need to rest until the next full moon."

Sonic leaned down to the robots' face and clenched his fists as he brought his left hand into the air above the robot head.

"Did I ask for your say in my problem?" Sonic asked.

Sonic brought his fist down and punched the robot head.

"NO!" he answered his own question.

As Sonic removed his hand, the robots' eyes dulled until they were lifeless. Sonic got back onto his feet and walked over to Knuckles; who had an expression of shock on his face.

I have never seen Sonic that angry before, Knuckles thought.

"So Sonic, why are you all the way out here?" Knuckles asked.

"Well…" Sonic cut himself off.

I can't tell Knuckles I ran away and I certainly cannot tell him about me being a werewolf or werehog at night, Sonic thought.

Sonic scratched his head thinking of a lie to tell Knuckles, then it hit him.

"I went after Robotnik to stop him from activating this machine" Sonic explained.

Knuckles folded his arms and lifted an eyebrow.

"What sort of machine was it?" Knuckles asked.

Sonic started to sweat at that question as he thought of an answer.

"…Um…it was like a memory machine" Sonic told Knuckles.

"What was he planning?" Knuckles asked.

Knuckles was getting interested at this new machine Robotnik had built, but he knew it was a lie.

I know Sonic's lying. He's starting to sweat and it's showing, Knuckles thought.

"He was planning on blanking everyones' memories, then taking over new Mobotropolis with us as his servants" Sonic explained.

"How come I didn't know about this?" Knuckles asked.

"I went off on my own before Sal could call anyone" Sonic told Knuckles.

Knuckles eyed Sonic suspiciously, but then smiled.

"Typical of you to go on your own and I guess that does sound believable" Knuckles said.

"What do you mean?" Sonic asked.

"Well, everyone on Angel Island heard that huge howl over the past two nights" Knuckles explained.

Sonic frowned at what Knuckles had just said.

"So your gonna point fingers at me?" Sonic asked.

Sonic was starting to get nervous, but covered that up with anger. Knuckles shook his head at Sonic.

"I'm not pointing fingers at anyone, Sonic" Knuckles explained. "I'm just telling you to be careful."

Sonic folded his arms across his chest.

"That's a first" Sonic scoffed.

"Tell you what. Since that werewolf is still around here, how about you stay at Angel Island for the night and you can go back to new Mobotropolis in the morning" Knuckles suggested.

"Okay" Sonic said, showing a little bit of his nervousness.

I'll just have to make sure no one sees me tonight, Sonic thought.

As Sonic and Knuckles walked halfway through the forest, then Knuckles helped Sonic fly to the island. But as he and Knuckles ascended into the air, he thought if what that robot said was true.

Sorry, it took awhile I had writers block. Now, I'm getting Knuckles and the Chaotix into the storyline. WOW! I hope you guys enjoyed this chap, because in two or more chapters the action and drama will really start to boil. See ya next chap Sonic Fans. SXS OUT.