Lincoln was helping Maria in her bookshop when the cat got an idea

"what if we pay sonic a visit today?" Maria asked

"pay him a visit?" Lincoln asked "sure why not I got nothing better to do."

"right I'll get shadow and-" Maria began but Lincoln stopped her

"I'm pretty sure he's public enemy number 1 there other than your cousin and I'm a robotic sonic so before we do anything we need disguises." Lincoln said

later

"why must I wear this?" Shadow asked

"do you want sonic friends to attack you without getting a chance to explain?" Lincoln asked

"no..." shadow said

"that's what I thought, besides it's just gonna be a quick in and out." Lincoln said

he made sure his metal quills were less visible this time

they entered the village and looked around and didn't see sonic

eventually lily spotted him at meh burger struggling to order something

"huh?" Maria said "I thought sonic was loved here."

"something isn't right here." Lincoln said quietly

" im gonna help him." Maria said

"ok good luck." Lincoln said before his group decided to hide

Maria walked to where sonic was

"can I get two chili dogs?" Maria asked Dave

quickly she was given them

"hey sonic here." Maria said handing him one to the shock of everyone there

"oh hey Maria thanks." Sonic said as they sat down ate their chilli dogs

"what brings you here?" Sonic asked

"oh just in town saw you were struggling a bit? No money on you?" Maria asked

"no it's not that." Sonic said

they sonic's friends showed up and noticed Maria

"oh hey you're the cat who froze eggman's statue maria right?" Amy asked

"that's me." Maria said noticing that some villagers were glaring at her

"I was wondering if you wanted to come with us to our sensitivity camping trip? I feel like you would fit right it and we can understand the true meaning of friendship." Amy said

Maria felt that something was wrong here...

so she decided to test it

"no thanks I'm gonna be hanging out with my friend sonic here." Maria said

the atmosphere went sour

"why is everyone looking at me like that?" Maria asked

"first she gets him a chilli dog when he doesn't deserve it and now she's choosing to hang out with him!?" Comedy chimp asked

"okay clearly I'm missing something here." Maria said "can someone explain something to me?"

"have you heard of the Mike situation?" Comedy chimp asked

Maria shook her head

"I'm not from around here." Maria said

"Well, it all started when Knuckles here just wanted to spend just a bit of time with Mike a friend of his. However, Sonic insulted him, right to his face, and that was the most unacceptable thing I have ever seen. So then Amy decided to host a Sensitivity Training Seminar so that he'd see the error of his ways. Alas, it's simply not meant to be. Sonic will never change his ways and now we all have to suffer for it! Poor Mike!" Comedy chimp explained clearly exaggerating

"what did he call him?" Maria asked

"just a guy" can you believe it!?" Knuckles said "just because he doesn't have powers! How low can you get!"

Maria knew that was some bullshit

"no wonder you're the last echidna." Maria said

"wait what?!" Knuckles said

"you're stupid enough to treat sonic this way because of a simple mistake!" Maria said "a guy is a descriptive word people use it all the time! If all echidna's are this dumb then it's no wonder you're the last."

that caught everyone off guard

"Maria why would you say that?!" Amy asked

"because when your cousin is eggman and your brother is shadow the hedgehog you tend to be a little more angry over people doing dumb stuff like that." Maria said "because you're all a bunch of dumbasses in simpler terms."

"but why defend him!?" Comedy chimp asked

"how many?" Maria asked

the group was confused

"how many times has sonic saved this place?" Maria asked

"that doesn't matter." Any said

"it should." Maria said "because that's how many times sonic could've let this place burn but he didn't out of the goodness in his heart."

"I-" Amy began but was cut off

"you say everyone has feelings correct?" Maria asked to which Amy nodded "including the villains?"

Amy nodded again

"so just because sonic messes up one time he's invalid for having feelings?" Maria asked "couldn't knuckles just moved it? Or is that insensitive by your standards?"

"I-" Amy began but was cut off

"just so you know by treating sonic like he's a horrible person you are worse than him." Maria said

everyone gasped

"Maria that's not true! now you have to join us to fix that rude attitude!" Amy said

"tell you what." Maria began "if you 4 can beat my village's hero's I'll apologize but if you don't everyone in town will apologize to sonic. Deal?"

"deal." Amy said shaking Maria's hand

despite both of them wearing gloves Amy could feel the cold through Maria's gloves clearly showing how angry she was

"now where are they?" Sticks asked "I want to show them what I can do!"

"your skills are impressive." Lincoln said from above

they group looked up and saw 3 figures on a roof

all 3 jumped down

"but they will not save you." Lincoln finished

Maria walked over to the 3

"now then let's get started." Maria said

"what are you doing over there??!" Amy asked

"I'm one of the heroes!" Maria said "last chance to back down and apologize to sonic."

sonic hoped his friends would listen because he didn't want to see them get hurt badly but if they didn't well they brought it upon themselves and he was done catering to everyone if they were just gonna treat him like this after one mistake

"I'm not letting you cater to sonic's ego." Amy said "he needs to learn."

but of course he can't have nice things. Can he?

(I just hope they don't kill them.) sonic thought to himself

"your funeral." Lincoln said taking off his cloak revealing his metal body "I'm Lincoln."

"a robot sonic!?" Sticks questioned

"I'm sorry rose but no amount of baked goods can save you here." Shadow said taking off his cloak

"shadow!?" Amy questioned

"it's quite the shame." Lily and the phantom ruby said in unison while taking off their cloak "we could've been good friends."

"another tails!?" Knuckles said

"knuckles that one is a girl." Amy said

"a female tails!?" Knuckles said

Amy face palmed

"sonic can you lend us a hand?" Amy asked thinking that he would help

sonic was baffled they would ask him that

as much as he didn't want he said "no"

everyone (minus the out of town heroes) looked at him shocked

"this is your fight not mine." Sonic said

" but there's a robot sonic!" Tails said

"his name is Lincoln and he's cool." Sonic said

"shadow's here!" Amy said

"Amy don't act like you don't have tea parties with him." Sonic said

Amy was confused on how sonic knew that

"there's another tails!" Knuckles said

"that's Lily you threw her through eggman's computer monitor." Sonic said before sitting down "and plus there's four of you Maria said you four not you five."

"sonic!" Amy said

"don't kill them." Sonic said to the hero's from out of town

"no promises." Lincoln said

almost immediately Lincoln charged at knuckles

knuckles managed to catch his hands but Lincoln was pushing him back while grabbing his hands back

sticks tried throwing her boomerang at Maria but she froze it mid air and broke it

"freeze." Maria said before throwing ice blasts at sticks which sticks was dodging

shadow was kicking the shit out of tails

and Amy was trying to deal with Lily and the phantom ruby

"Lily what game shall we playwith her?" The phantom ruby asked as they put amy in a separate pocket dimension

"don't get hit." Lily said as objects rained down from above

with Lincoln

after trying to get Lincoln to let go of his hands knuckles head butted him but Lincoln laughed it off and head butted him even harder

this caused knuckles to stagger leaving him open to a kick in the stomach and a leg grab

Lincoln began swinging knuckles around like a club slamming him into the ground over and over

with Maria

sticks tried jumping on Maria but Maria sidestepped out of the way and kicked her in the gut

sticks tried biting Maria but it didn't even break the skin

Maria bit sticks and ripped off a piece of flesh and spat it out

"try again for a buck?" Maria asked wiping her mouth

with shadow

shadow was jumping on tails like a trampoline before sitting down

"you're done." Shadow said as tails let out a small painful noise

He wrote something down on a sticky note and put it on tails's hand before walking away

with Lily

Amy was trying to dodge everything from hammers to hearts to tarot cards and baked goods

suddenly she got punched in the gut knocking her to the ground

she looked up and saw that the phantom ruby had transformed lily into a dark quilled sonic

"What's wrong Ames? You scared of me?" They asked in unison intent on beating a lesson into them

"I-" Amy said backing away

"what happened to your "darling Sonic?" They asked "did you push him away from you because of a mistake he made?"

"I didn't I just wanted to show him to control his ego!" Amy argued hit the dark sonic with her hammer "for him to not think he was better than everyone!"

"there was nothing to control." The phantom ruby said

"he stopped thinking he was better than everyone the moment he turned into this." Lily said as she began to transform

their bones cracked as they changed into a werehog

"this is what he becomes at night." The phantom ruby said as they punched Amy "until we fixed it he had no control over this form."

"this is what killed his better than everyone attitude and instead replaced it with fear." Lily said while punching amy again "the fear that he would kill everyone."

"and yet here you are." The phantom ruby said they punched her again

"trying to kill what's already dead." Lily said they punched her again

"while he worries that he might hurt or even kill you by accident if he lost control." The phantom ruby said with one final punch knocking the pink hedgehog to the ground "granted that won't happen but who knows with how everyone's been treating him he might stop caring."

"shut up!" Amy said as she got up and smacked the two with her mallet

she began to hit them again and again

"I. Just. Want. To. Help. People!" Amy said

"yet you do this?" The phantom ruby's voice ringing in her head

she looked at her handy work And saw she had turn the two's head into a fine red paste

all eyes were on her

"No no!" Amy said

suddenly she was grabbed by the throat and lifted up by the headless corpse as the fake reality crumpled like glass taking them to a black void

Lily's body regrew its head

"this is over." Lily said as she prepared one final punch

in Amy's head she was in a white void

"what am I doing wrong!? I'm just trying to help!" Amy said

"you're trying to help the wrong people or help for the wrong reason." The phantom ruby said

Amy turned and saw the ruby in a human like form

"sometimes people don't need help and others have problems you're not paying attention to and you focus on the wrong things." The phantom ruby said "but there will always be people to help and sometimes it's yourself."

Amy let out some tears at her mistake

"don't cry child." The phantom ruby said "I've fought many different beings while in the possession of others. And you're one of the better ones I've fought. You entertained me for a bit."

Amy wiped her tears

"stand proud Amy rose." The phantom ruby said "you are strong."

and everything went dark as lily knocked Amy out with her punch

with Lincoln

Lincoln finished slamming knuckles around before throwing him into a rock

he flew toward knuckles and kicked him in the gut knocking the wind out of him

"look at you. Wasted and gasping for air but you don't get to go yet. When you've paid for your mistakes and corrected them then you have my permission to die peacefully." Lincoln said before rejoining his group

knuckles fell unconscious after that

with Maria

Maria was still fighting sticks when Lincoln flew by and kicked sticks in the side knocked her out

"I had her." Maria said

"yeah but she would've died before giving up." Lincoln said

"fair enough." Maria said as they rejoined the others

meanwhile

dr.eggman was glad he didn't get involved in this

he decided to wait things out in order to set a good example to Sage knowing that if Lily found out he told sage to torment sonic with it she would most likely end her friendship with Sage which would hurt her a lot

but he wondered why Lincoln was so violent these attacks were ruthless and brutal

then he decided to check something

he looked and saw that Lincoln was connected to his servers

then everything made sense

his violent attacks against knuckles and why Sage couldn't hack him

he was already connected to the servers

but with his human mind he couldn't detect the changes to his personality

now while the mad doctor couldn't permanently reverse this he could make make sure it didn't grow any more and possibly go down a little bit

so he disconnected Lincoln from the servers

with Lincoln

"you think we went a bit too far?" Maria asked

"nah." Lincoln said before raising his foot with intent to crush knuckles's skull

then he suddenly turned off

"uh Lincoln?" Lily asked

then Lincoln rebooted

"what was that?" Lincoln asked "well now I don't have the urge to crush his skull any more."

then in an instant the pile of heroes was gone

"I took them to a hospital." Sonic said "it's the least I can do."

"sorry we beat them up so badly." Maria said "they won't be able to apologize for a while."

"yeah but these guys can." Lincoln said pointing to the villagers "hey you heard me! apologize!"

the villagers looked pretty afraid of them but muttered apologies regardless

then an ox in a cast stepped forward

"hey Mike." Sonic said

"hey sonic. Sorry For causing this mess." Mike said "if I had known things would go this far I'd would've let knuckles go fight eggman."

"hey it's not your fault you just wanted some time with your friend we all do." Sonic said

"well glad that has a happy ending." Lincoln said

"Lincoln you broke knuckles's ribs." Sonic said

"and he threw my sister into a computer monitor so the way I see it we're even." Lincoln said "also you aren't mad at me for that?"

"hey they brought it upon themselves." Sonic said "you guys gave the multiple chances and they ignored you."

"so sonic what are you gonna do?" Maria asked

"I'm not sure." Sonic said

"why not stay with us for a bit?" Lincoln asked

"I'm not sure." Sonic said "the village will be defenceless."

"I can have sage defend the village from other enemies while you're gone." Eggman said from above

they looked up and saw the mad doctor

"and why would I trust you?" Sonic asked

"sonic parenthood changes a person and I can see you need a break, even heroes and villains need their breaks." Dr.eggman said "and plus consider it an apology for Lincoln breaking knuckles's ribs."

"why would you need to apologize for that?" Lincoln asked

"because you were hooked up to my servers which made you more and more violent." Dr.eggman explained

"that explains a lot." Lincoln said

"so sonic what do you say?" Maria asked

"I'll grab my things." Sonic said

"sweet!" Lily said

"but if eggman tries anything I'll be back in an instant!" Sonic said

"and one more thing." The phantom ruby said before they teleported away and came back

"I healed their broken bones so they won't be in the hospital for months." The phantom ruby said

"good." Sonic said before going to pack his things

and after sonic packed his things they left

VS Amy rose, knuckles, tails, and sticks rank

score: 500000

Disrespect: plus 500000

total: 1 000 000

Rank: P plus

bonus

spark was working in his lab when he got a knock on the door

he opened it and it was Evan

"hey bolt what's up?" Evan asked

"nothing much." Spark said

"man it's still weird hearing you talk." Evan said

they entered the lab

"so there's something you want to talk to me about?" Evan asked

"yes." Spark said "you see..."

"you're not Lincoln just a robot piloting his body." Evan said

" how the hell did you figure it out?" Spark asked

"Lisa told me in an attempt to ruin our friendship but that's never gonna happen." Evan said

"glad to hear it!" Spark said giving Evan a high five

yeah he made the right decision choosing Evan to be his friend

that's it for now

also for those wondering why Lily just basically mentally tortured Amy there it's because the phantom ruby is slowly driving her mad due to not releasing the energy like the path 1 version of her

not even the phantom ruby itself knows it's doing this it's just going along with Lily

also if any of the group killed any of team sonic dark sonic would be coming out the only reason why sonic was okay with the group kicking the shit out of his friends was because A. He knew they wouldn't kill them (he said don't as a one final attempt to get them to back down) and Lincoln has helped him before twice so he's willing to take the risk with them

see ya next time