FRIENDS A Sonic The Hedgehog Story By butcher@iaw.on.ca (Paul Lapensee) This story is protected by copyright laws. Feel free to distribute this story, but the author does not allow any unauthorized alteration of the story or distribution for profit. All characters depicted herein are the creation and property of Service and Games (SEGA) and/or Archie Publications and/or DiC. Blood and Metal and Haunted Fantasies by David Gonterman Davey Crockett by David Gonterman Kickaha by Edward Becerra Old Man Coyote based on actual Native American legends, adapted for BAM by Edward Becerra and David Gonterman Kain "Kix" Trevor Knight by Brandon Stewart Sonia Hedgehog and Lutherain by Emily Smith Blood and Metal by David Gonterman Packbell by Brookshire Ryan Nightweaver by Ryan Huber Sasha Prower by Rottinkid MechTail by me Paul Lapensee Foxglove Wingtail by me Paul Lapensee Now that I got that out of the way. Time to start the story. Note this story takes place around the same time as BAM's Haunted Fantasies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Part 3 At Knot Hole in the infirmiry room. Tails is up and walking, Dulcy is holding a bag of ice to her head. MechTail is still out cold and laying on a bed. Bookshire, Uncle Chuck and Sasha Prower where there. Sally walk in. "How is he?" Bookshire had a puzzled look on his face. "Well he is quite fine. No signs of injury." Sally looked walked up to MechTail and put her paw on his head. "How can that be? He got hit in the back by a laser rifle." Uncle Chuck looked at Sally. "We need to run some more tests." Sally looked worried. "He's not a androd, is he?" "No he's not, he fully flesh and blood." Bookshire said. Sally sighed a sign of relief. Sasha had a sad look on her face as she looked at the squirrel. "I sense such pain from him. It's not physical pain through." Sasha walk up to the gray squirrel. "It's feels something like loneness and home sickness, there's more." Sasha paws glowed as she touched the squirrel. Images of furrys apeard. Pleading for him, beging him not to push the roboticizer switch. He could not help him self. Packbell is laughing as MechTail see's his friends getting roboticized. The image changes into a mirror and MechTail is looking at him self, anger is in his face as he looks. MechTail smashs the mirror and starts crying. The image changes again a strange alien with silver skin is dying and there is nothing he could do to help. The alien spook. "I'm sorry Paul I can't help you get back. It's up to you now." The alien dies. The image changes to a human family reaching out to him. "GET OUT OF MY MIND!." MechTail pushed Sasha away, he was awake. Sasha fell on her bottom. She was still in a gaze and slowly came to her sences. MechTail looked around, then looked at the surpised look in every ones face. "Sorry, I didn't meen to push you." MechTail said as he looked at Sasha. Sally looked at MechTail. "Are you ok?" MechTail checked him self out. "I'm fine, except for this headache." Sonic zipped into the room. "Hi Sal, how's the new guy?" Sonic looked at the gray squirrel, and extended his paw. "Hi pal, I'm Sonic The Hedgehog!" MechTail shoke his paw and got out of bed. "Hi Sonic. You can call me MechTail." Sonic had a smirk on his face. "I know." Sally walked up and interduced the squirrel to every one. Later on that day MechTail is walking alone near the pond. Uncle Chuck walked up to MechTail. "I have study the readings I got off of you earlyer." MechTail turned to face the hedgehog. "And?" "This is amazing. The readings I got where the same as a power ring only a little different. It apears that when the roboticizer overloaded. It's energy was chaneled into the power ring and the ring inverted the effects of the roboticizer energy. It changed the roboticizer into a de-roboticizer. Not only that. The power ring seems to have been intergrated into your nerves system. It's a part of you now." MechTail eyes were wide. "So your saying that I and the power ring are now one?" "Yes. So if any energy is blased at you. You just azorb it." Uncle Chuck said. A idea came to MechTails mind. "If what you say is true, then a power ring connected in the right way to a roboticizer will inturn de-roboticize!" "Fully the only problem is to ajust the energy levels just right or the power ring will distroy the circutry." MechTail looked at the hedgehog. "Well I looks like you have alot of work a head of you Sir." Uncle Chuck smiled. "Please call me Uncle Chuck every one else does." "Ok the Uncle Chuck see you around." MechTail said. The hedgehog hog walked away into Knothole. "I see you have alot to offer Knot Hole MechTail." Sally said as she walked up. "I have been talking to the E.F.F. and they said that you where there leader for a short time." MechTail sighed. "What else did they tell you?" "They said that you where leaving." MechTail walked towards a trail near the pond. "Yes, I am." Sally looked sad. "Why?" "It's hard to explain." "I'm listening." Sally walked beside MechTail. "Well I have seen too much death and don't want to take on the responablity anymore." Sally looked at MechTail's eyes they where glosy. MechTail turned to face Sally. "There is a personal reason to, which I won't say." He turned and walked some more. Sally in away understood why MechTail was feeling this way, she too once felt like giving up, but over came that feeling because she new giving up was just as bad as telling Robotnik where Know Hole was, and not only that she had a responablity as the princess of Mobus. Sally wanted to cheer up MechTail, a thought came to mind. "There is a dance tonight, would you like to come?" MechTail stoped. "Err I don't know." Sally smiled and grabed onto MechTail's arm. "Remember you asked me once." "I... I did?.....Ohh I remember now at Robotropolis." MechTail smiled back. "OK then I'll see you at 20:00 hours." Sally let go of MechTail's arm and walked back to Knothole. MechTail stood there watching her, then he talked to himself. "Is just me or did she make a pass at me." He pinched him self. "Ouch. No it's not a dream." Later on that day. MechTail came across Antoine. Antoine was busy telling some other freedom fighters where to put the lights. "Non, non to tha away. A non down. Oui there." MechTail smiled at the grumbling furrys. Then walk up to Antoine. "Having fun. Antoine?" Antoine turned around. "Ah there you is, MechTail. I am how you say chiling." "Oh I see and you are telling these guys where put the lights." "Oui, I am helping with the decorations, for the dance." "Ah I see, but woulden't be easier if you just nailed them to the trees, then trying to hang them on the branches?" MechTail said as he pointed at the trees. A bunch of lights fell on Antoine. "Aaah some one get these things off me." Sonic zoomed up. "Ha Ant looks like you just seen the light!" "Sonic get these things off me." Antoine said as he tryed to untangle him self. "Sorry Ant I got to go a power ring is coming." Sonic zoomed away. "SONIC COME BACK HERE." Antoine sat down still tangled up. MechTail grabed the wires and started to untangle Antoine. "Merci MechTail." "Your wellcome Ant." Sally sighed as she watched the tall gray squirrel through the window in her hut. She had alot on her mind. There was a knock at the door. "Sally its me Bunnie are you there?" Sally opened the door. "Hi Bunnie." "Hi Sally girl, so this is where you have been. I have been look for you." "Well you found me. Any thing wrong?" Bunnie smiled. "I was going to ask you that." Sally sighed. "Not realy I just have alot on my mind." Bunnie looked out the window. "Ahh its about him right?" Sally noded. "Yes. I am worried about him." "I don't see why Sally girl he seems to be doing fine." Bunnie said. "I just don't want him to just give up. Like what I have heard and seen him do, it's incredible. I have only seen that type of determination in Sonic at times." Bunnie watched as MechTail grabed the stage and dragged the whole thing a full 10 feet. "My word Sally did you just see that. That suger is as strong as me!" Sally's eyes where wide. "Like I said incredible, it has something to do with the power ring inside him." Bunnie looked at the way Sally was looking out the window. "I think there is something else, ah Sally girl." Bunnie was teasing Sally. "Oh Bunnie do I look that obvious?" "Yes you do Sally girl. Now if your not all careful you could end up having a broken heart or a certain hedgehog I know will." Sally turned to face Bunnie. "You could all ways read me like book Bunnie." Around the same time in the main control room Packbell is as anger as ever. Not only that a large number of Swatbots where distroyed, his pride was hurt. That gray squirrel blasted his hand to bits. Packbell stretched out his newly replaced hand and made a fist, he knew that MechTail surived, after all when most people get shot with a laser rifle at full power there's nothing left to pick up. "I know your alive MechTail and your going to pay for this! Even if it means killing every one on this planet, I'll get you." A Swatbot walked in. "Sir we have searched the whole area around the great swamp and found no sign of the E.F.F. Or the gray squirrel." Packbell rased a laser rifle and aimed it at the Swatbot. "Give me one good reason not to blast you now." "Sir we have found a female bat hiding in a cave." Packbell lowered the gun. "A bat I thought all the bats where roboticized." A smile formed on Packbells face. "Bring her in I want to ask her some questions." The Swatbot left. A short time later the Swatbot came back with a bat tided up with electric restraints, she was shaking with fear. The Swatbot sat her in a chair. Packbell got up and walked up to the bat. "Welcome my dear. Now listen carefully, I have some question I wish to ask you. If you answer turthfully I might have the heart to let you go and If not well lets not get into detail about that." The bat sliently noded. Sometime later on Packbell was showing the bat pictures of freedom fighters. "No I sorry I don't know her." Packbell was starting to get frustrated. "Ok then I have one more picture to show you, please tell if you know him, its really important, it could be a mater of life and death." A picture of MechTail came up. The bat's face lit up and Packbell saw it. "Do you know him?" The bat didn't want to say anything. Packbell grabed the bat by the head. "Tell me or I'll crush your head. Foxglove was all most in tears. "Y..yes." Packbell let go and all most jumped for joy. "As Robonik would say BINGO!" To be contiued. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oh yes there's more. Bye.