Chapter Twenty-Three:
"Interrogating" The Manhog
'Ooooh, man. Gotta go fast, gotta go fast, gotta go fast, gotta go fast...'
His head was throbbing and he felt... very dizzy, that came with the throbbing head. The humanoid hedgehog's sight was dark, his eyes were still closed. His body felt heavy, held down by some unseen force binding him. Faint voices filled his ears, a light flashed on, and then he could feel something pressed against his ribs and arms.
"...Looks like he's coming to."
"So, who's the good cop and the bad cop?"
'Jeeze. This has to be the worst fever dream ever.' Sonic thought.
He opened his eyes, sitting up in a chair in what looked like some underground lab. The funny blue hedgehog looked up and saw other blue hedgehogs almost like him. He looked down, seeing he was roped up. Jeeze, now that was restricting.
"Man, I will admit, you look ugly!"
Sonic looked up, staring into the eyes of one of the blue hedgehogs. He had blue arms like him and he was slimmer than him. He looked over the blue-armed hedgehog's shoulder to see another blue hedgehog, one who wore a scarf. The other hedgehogs had tan arms, then he could notice the tall man in black standing close by with a twin-tailed fox.
Wait a sec, the last thing he remembered was seeing a mustached man in black, who'd shot him, along with a twin-tailed fox, two hedgehogs with blue arms and another blue hedgehog with tan arms.
"Move aside, Sonic. Let the science boys handle it!" Tails said to Movie Sonic.
"Yeah, we don't need to be reminded of how... weird he looks, especially for someone who is supposed to be Sonic." One of the Sonics remarked.
"Sonic, would you be interested in the... 'interrogation'?" Tails asked.
"Interrogation ain't my style." The blue hedgehog quipped, "I'm a nice guy and I got my principles. Luckily, Shadow isn't here, he'd probably rough him up. Do I look like the interrogation type?"
"I'll handle it." Tails walked in front of the tied-up Sonic with the Miles Electric in hand, the manhog-hedgehog noticed there were other twin-tailed foxes in the room, many of whom looked a little like the one standing in front of him now.
"Alright, mister!" He heard the fox say in a kinda gruff voice, "Who are you? Why are you here in our world, multidimensional stuff aside, and what do you want?"
Everyone listened and watched as he chuckled. "I'm Sonic, Sonic the Hedgehog..." The blue manhog said, "...I'm from another world and I have special powers, some weird portal appeared out of nowhere while I was running around and, basically, it looks like I'm going to have to help you guys save your planet..."
"Ok, we're gonna have to stop you there, dude." Movie Sonic walked forward, "You say you're 'Sonic the Hedgehog', but you don't look like A Sonic, even though you kinda look like a hedgehog and you say your name is Sonic. You're perhaps the most uncanny being that anyone's ever encountered."
"Yo, don't forget about savin' the multiverse!" AoSTH Sonic called.
"...And look at your teeth, pal!" Movie Sonic cried.
"Ugliest Sonic EVER!" Underground Sonic yelled.
Movie Sonic held a hand. "What is your world like? Are there other hedgehogs who look like you?" The blue-armed speedster remarked, "Does the name 'Longclaw' mean anything to you?"
Manhog Sonic's eyes widened. "DID YOU JUST SAY 'LONGCLAW'?!" He exclaimed.
Silence in the lab.
"No way..." Movie Sonic breathed, "You're... You're a version of me, despite the uncanniness."
"Longclaw raised me, she was my mentor, the Obi-Wan Kenobi to my Luke Skywalker or my Anakin Skywalker." Manhog Sonic said, "We all lived on another planet in a gorgeous environment called Green Hill, then bad guys came for us to get my powers and we fled to Earth. Longclaw didn't stick around after a while, but I never forgot her and how kind she was."
"Whoa, we both lost Longclaw and bad guys are after our powers! Y'know a fella named Tails? I bet he looks as uncanny as y-"
KA-BOOM! The lab shook and dust fell from the ceiling as an explosion shook the world above...