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Chapter 40
Knuckles crashes through the wall that once blocked his only exit, landing hard on his back. His body covered in bruises and several cuts yet the Master Emerald guardian fought through the pain, getting slowly to his feet until his own shadow punched him back off his feet and he landed on the ground face-first. The creature stepped, no, hovered into the sunlight and his clones all disappeared upon doing so. He began clapping slowly as he approached.
"Well done echidna, you lasted longer than I thought you would." said Mephiles calmly, "But now the game is over."
"What are you gonna do? Kill me? Steal the Master Emerald? You'd alert everyone who knows about my island knowing something is wrong." said Knuckles as he got to only his knees, having a feeling if he got any higher that he'd be knocked back to being down on the ancient stone flooring.
"You're right. Killing you and taking the Master Emerald would draw unwanted attention to me, as well as a certain hedgehog's which I don't need right now."
"Sonic? He's missing or dead."
"No. Not Sonic. He's exactly where I want him. I'm referring to edgy hedgehog who carries guns and wears a cloak to hide from the fan girls that chase him in this timeline."
"Shadow? Why are you avoiding him?"
"Because he knows how much of a threat I am. But no, my plan wasn't to kill you or to steal the Master Emerald although, you'll make my plan much easier."
"Yeah? And how will I make it easier?"
Mephiles was suddenly in front of Knuckles and his claws wrap around the echidna's throat tightly while also lifting him off the ground. Mephiles' free hand becomes engulfed in purple flame.
"Like this." said Mephiles before slamming his fire engulfed hand into Knuckles forehead, open palm style while also letting go of the guardian's throat, sending him to the ground. The fire quickly goes out and Knuckles slowly gets up, looking confused.
"What did you do to me?" snarled Knuckles, glaring daggers at Mephiles.
"Give it a moment. You're bigger than a Flicky."
"Bigger than a Flicky? What does that me-?" started Knuckles until he stopped as it suddenly felt like something just stabbed him in the brain. He grabbed his head in pain, hunching over in the process as his head began to hurt like nothing he'd ever felt before. His began to turn a darker shade of red, with his white chest crest and gloves turning grey. Black veins spread throughout his scerla before connecting with his violet pupils and turning said pupils a yellow-violet mix. His injuries also began to rapidly heal before he stopped holding his head in pain and slowly stood up before looking Mephiles in the eyes.
"What are your orders?" droned Knuckles, his voice now monotonous. His eyes quickly losing the black veins yet keeping the violet-yellow coloring mix within the pupils.
"If any of the Freedom Fighters show up, for any reason, deny that anything is wrong as the Master Emerald is still on the island. If they insist on your assistance, give it to them. If they threaten my plans, or me, your orders are to ensure they cannot do so. By any means necessary. Just don't destroy the Master Emerald but don't let them use it." said Mephiles calmly as he extinguished the fire on his hand.
"Protect Master Emerald...keep Freedom Fighters from using it..." droned Knuckles before turning and slowly walking back towards the Master Emerald's shrine. Mephiles watched him leave before turning to look at the now corrupted Chaos.
"Go hunt down the Chaos Emeralds. Ignore the Master Emerald. You only need the seven to become a impossible to miss distraction for me." said Mephiles to the corrupted chao guardian. Chaos quickly turned into a water-like substance and moved out of the facility that once held it, leaving Mephiles alone again in the jungles of Angel Island before he turned into black-purple mist and left the island, heading back for Snively's base.
Ten minutes later, Snively's base, Bean Folk Territories...
Mephiles began to reform in the segment of the base holding Sonic and looked at the blue hedgehog who was no longer struggling against his restraints. The only movement giving away he was alive, was the rise and fall of his chest as he inhaled and exhaled oxygen slowly. Snively was nearby, going over the medical equipment's readings.
"Is he finally done?" asked Mephiles as he fully reformed.
"According to all of the readings, his willpower has been broken. Only readings I'm getting now is anger." said Snively as he stepped away from the readout machine, "I take it now we test how obedient he is?"
"Yes."
Snively removed the helmet covering Sonic's head and then deactivated the restraints. Sonic's eyes snapped open, revealing his left eye as still having black sclera with a red pupil while his other eye looked normal until red swirls surrounded the green pupil. He quickly jumps up, catching Snively off-guard before wrapping his fingers around Snively's neck in a choke hold while also tackling the beak-nosed man to the ground. Sonic's eyes filled with years of restrained hatred, now let loose.
"Hmmm. It seems his hatred is no longer kept in check." mused Mephiles as he watched Sonic slowly strangle Snively.
"Get him off me!" wheezed Snively, trying to escape the hedgehog's iron grasp.
"Maybe a little longer."
"If he kills me...*choked gasp*...you'll have a robot army with no idea how to use it and Shadow will find you out before you're...gkkk...ready with whatever plan you have! Gkkkkkkkk!"
"Fine." said Mephiles before having one of his claws become engulfed in purple flames and pointed it at Sonic and made a pulling away motion yet the blue hedgehog seemed to fight it as his black and red eye began to bleed, "Still have some subconscious fight left Sonic? You should have thought about the consequences before you made the deal with me after you drowned."
Mephiles pulled back harder and Sonic fall onto his back, releasing Snively along the way, yet the hedgehog continued to resist until Mephiles made a fist with his hands and the hedgehog fell unconscious. Snively gasped for air and coughed as he got up, holding his neck.
"He can't be used like that! He'll just focus me down!" said Snively as he got to his feet, still holding neck.
"Then install neural inhibitors." said Mephiles calmly, not caring that Snively was nearly choked to death.
"But you hate technology."
"There is a time and a place for it. If he is to be used effectively, his mind will have to be fully suppressed."
"Then why not just have me remove his brain?!"
"Because then he's useless! He needs a brain to be functional! The brain is required for a body to function! Without it, he's just a corpse and might as well be a robot. No, suppress his personality and his thoughts now that his will is broken. Once you have that done, we'll see how well he does as a puppet."
"A puppet?"
"Yes. A puppet."
Mephiles makes Sonic stand to his feet yet the hedgehog is still unconscious.
"And then after that, your Freedom Fighter problems will be over because they won't be able to bring themselves to harm their friend." said Mephiles as he had Sonic move back onto the Mind Breaker 3000A's restraining chair.
"And what if they defeat him without harming him?" asked Snively as he reactivated the restraints.
"Then I pull his body back and go with Plan B."
"Plan B?"
"All in due time Snively. You should get your weapon's arms and legs fixed for now." said Mephiles as he left the room. Snively watched Mephiles leave before looking at Sonic. He then took some measurements of Sonic's head along with an X-Ray and then used a red pen to mark an "X" below Sonic's right ear and then left the room to go get the inhibitor ready.
Sonic's eyes slowly opened again once the two where gone and he struggled against his restraints again. Snively NEEDED to die, just like his uncle. That's all that was on his mind. He felt something nagging at him but he didn't care, he just wanted Snively to die. As well as that no-mouthed freak. His ears twitched and he quickly turned towards footsteps. He struggled more and then he saw the green fur and he felt even more anger.
"Scourge." growled Sonic.
"My, my. They did a number on you huh Sonic?" said Scourge as he walked fully into view, twirling the bowie knife between his fingers on one hand with ease.
"Let me out of these restraints and I'll show you." snarled Sonic as he glared at Scourge.
"No thanks. This revenge scheme of mine is going better than I ever could have hoped."
"What are you talking about?"
"Oh? You didn't know? Let me spell it out for you." said Scourge before grabbing Sonic by the head and forcefully turning it so he could whisper into the blue hedgehog's ear, "I was the one who gave TD the trigger code to trigger future Tails' killcode against future you."
Sonic's eyes widen and he tries to hit Scourge with his head but the green hedgehog quickly backs away from the blue one, a twisted smile on his face.
"You bastard! You're the one who caused all this then!" snarled Sonic.
"Yep. You see, you and all your friends, and your enemies, forgot about good ol' Scourge. That gave me all the time I needed to think of the perfect plan to have my revenge. I didn't plan on future Tails, Shadow and Eggman traveling back in time to remove that programming so I secretly tagged along. Killing future Tails was easy too. Weakening the structure of the Death Egg in just the right spot as it was self-destructing was easy. Robotnik doesn't keep ANY of his plans secure. All of his passwords are 'Ihatethathedgehog6231991!' of all things!"
The sound of a punch impacting is heard and Scourge stumbles back, now having a bloody nose and he looks at his blood-covered hand holding his nose before looking back at Sonic and sees an ethereal golden hedgehog behind Sonic fade from view and Scourge smirks.
"I see they haven't done enough damage yet. I think you need another session." said Scourge as he grabbed the helmet and slammed it onto Sonic's head and turned the machine back on.
"I'm gonna kill you!" yelled Sonic as he tried to throw the helmet off to no avail.
"No, I don't think you will." said Scourge as he wiped the blood away from his nose and walked into the shadows of the room, disappearing.
END CHAPTER
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(1) Fanfiction still doesn't like periods between words, hence the spaces
(2) Not made to be accurate of an actual computer's command lines and options listing