Sonic Series Fan Fiction ❯ A New Threat 2 ❯ Tragedy strikes ( Chapter 3 )

Part 3 is FINALLY here! Trust me! Its worth it! Enjoy!! Warning! This chapter contains violent content such as blood, gore and severe bodily harm, do not read if you are easily offended by such material!

"There it is! The infamous Egg Factory..."

"And inside there is the Mecha Monic."

"Well, what are we waiting for?! Lets go!"

Amy looked at Sonic, then at Michael. Both of them were her best of friends, she only hoped that the team could defeat the Mecha Monic.

"No matter what, never give up!" Little did Michael know that these words would mean so much to the team.

After breaking down a few doors, Michael and the rest of the Freedom Fighters found themselves in an arena-like atmosphere.

"I got a bad feeling about this..."

No sooner had Michael said those words that a bunch of spotlights went on. In the centers were various villians. Suddenly, Eggman appeared in the center of the arena.

"Ahhh! If it isn't my good buddy, Sonic the Hedgehog! And I see he's brought along some company as well!"

"You're through, Eggman! There's no escape for you!"

"We shall see!"

The room suddenlyfills with a bright light as Eggamn is being accomponied by Nick, Neal, Chris, Krayton, and Frieta.

Sonic glared at Frieta, finally, he was going to get his hands on the bitch!

Knuckles looked at the massive Krayton before him; he wasn't going to be any trouble: he had fought Rouge, who was a bat.

Amy took out her Piko Piko Hammer staring down Nick, who had humongous wings, approx. 10 feet in width.

Tails looked at Neal. who had four sets of wings, obviously from a mutation.

Michael looked at Chris, who was the biggest of the group. He had a black bandana on his head. He looked so cocky, Michael hated that look.

Then the room was filled with the sounds of grunts, screams, crunches, slaps, swings, clanging and every other sound possible. The battle was intense, but in the end, only two of the Freedom Fighters were standing, Sonic and Michael.

Eggman and Herring looked at the two hedgehogs left infront of them, battered and bloodied, but still standing. Then Eggman called out his big gun.

A single chamber opened as smoke appeared from the capsule containing the Mecha Monic.

"This is it, Sonic...We fight to the death against this thing!"

"If we're going down, we're going down fighting!"

Eggman snickered as the Mecha Monic appeared before the two; those cold, red eyes staring a hole deep into the duos souls. Then, as suddenly as it appeared, it sprang into action, taking down Sonic with a round-house kick.

Michael quickly sprang after the mechanoid, but it only tossed aside the orange blur. Mecha Monic continued to punish the cerulean hedgehog infront of him, landing punches at the hero's face.

Sonic threw many punches at the robots face, but it hurt Sonic more then it did the robot. Eggman and Herring had built titanium plating on the robot, thereby making it invulnerable from most outside attacks.

Sonic tried an uppercut, but the mechanoid only shook it off as he prepared to rip Sonic's head right off. Michael intercepted, though, and used his flame ring to burn a hole in Mecha Monics' right arm.

Needless to say, the machine was pissed, and it lashed out at Michael, using its super-sharp claws to cut Michael's hand severely. As Sonic struggled to get up, the Mecha Monic shot a missle blast from his finger, causing Michael's right hand to be partly blown off. Michael winced in pain as he saw blood gushing from the wound.

Sonic, enraged at this action, transformed into his super-self. Sonic delivered a volley of punches and kicks to the mechanoid, but it only caused a few dents in the machines plating. The machine easily tossed Sonic aside, as he continued his unrelenting assault on the helpless orange figure in front of him. The Mecha Monic then made the biggest mistake it could ever make; it went after Sonic, just before his claws hit Michael's chest cavity; It could have easily ripped his heart out.

Sonic turned around, only to be met with a rage-filled machine that could easily kill him. The mechanoid went to slash Sonic but the super Sonic dodged the assault without suffering a blow. Sonic landed a nice punch on the machines right leg, causing it to stumble back a bit.

Sonic let loose with his Sonic Wind attack, causing one of the Mecha Monic's eight quills to be sliced off. It was efective, but barely. The mechanoid was back on its feet in no time.

But Sonic made a costly mistake as he went to spin-dash the machine. That Mechanoid saw it coming as it extended its claws right in Sonic's path. All that was heard was a small wince of pain and then the next moment found the cerulean hero face down on the floor with his chest punctured to the heart.

Michael saw the motionless Sonic, his father, on the ground. All he felt was shock; shock of seeing his hero, his father, the one and only Sonic the Hedgehog lying down on the floor, blood gushing from his open wound. Michael felt his heart leap into his throat as his father, Sonic, was not moving at all; blood gushing forth from Sonic's chest.

As the Mecha Monic got up, it turned around and slowly approached the shocked hedgehog. Michael could only stare at the lifeless form in front of him, as the evil slowly approached him, approaching him to kill him. Then, in a flash of pure rage and love, Michael leaped at the mechanoid. He threw the robot around and landed many kicks and punches, but it was to no avail; the robot merely shook it off. It seemed as though this thing would never go down.

Eggman and Herring laughed from a high perch near the roof of the building. They knew Michael couldn't do it alone.

At that moment, Michael was just about to accept the fact that he couldn't do it, not without help. All his help was either dead or severely crippled, the entire situation seemed bleak.

They say that your greatest strength comes during times of deep distress and pain. This was very true in Michael's case.

"You can do it! Don't give up!"

"You're our last hope! We know you can do it!"

"The world is counting on you! We believe in you!"

"You're my role model! I know you can do this! Because you believed in us, we believe in you!"

"Michael, my son...We all believe in you...Now, go! Kick that Mecha Monic's mechanical can!"

"Yes, I will go on! My friends still believe in me, I won't let them down!!! Never!!" Michael started muttering something incoherent, getting gradually louder as he was slowly enveloped in an energy field.

Michael glowed a bright yellow as he transforms into his super-self. Eggman and Herring look on in disbelief; not only is that hedgehog in super-form, but he's fighting with the encouragement of his friends.

The newly enhanced Michael ran towards the Mecha Monic, pinning it to the ground. He then proceeded to hit it with a flurry of kicks and punches. However, this robot was Eggman's greatest creation, it would not go down very easily. The robot reciprocated the puches and delivered a volley of missles from his fingers. They were meant to cause serious harm to the hedgehog.

That is, if they hit.

Michael had to use some difficult bends and twists and jumps to avoid the fast-moving missles. Every missle missed and Michael stared at the cold, hard metal monstrosity in front of him. He was filled with nothing but rage and pain.

Mecha Monic sent a flurry of machine gun bullets at Michael, but he just deflected them all away, some of the bullets hitting the mechanoid. The mechanoid then fired a blue beam at Michael; although he easily dodged it, the beams after-trail could still be felt on Michael's face. The beam was an Ice beam and it left a knick of ice on Michael's right ear.

Mecha Monic then let loose a huge volley of Missles from his 6 metal quills at Michael. Though small, they were very potent, causing tall metal pillars to crumble into nothing. When the smoke cleared, Michael was till standing, and the Mecha Monic had sparks comning out of its body. Michael knew this was his moment to attack, and attack hard.

Michael went to hit the machine on the head, but the robot used its Sonic-like shoes to dodge the attack. Michael was pissed beyond pissitivity, mainly because that Mecha Monic was using Sonic's shoes to try and destroy him.

The mechanoid then released a bright light from inside the back of its left ear, but Michael reflected it using his super-form body. The Mecha Monic was temporarily blinded, and that left the door wide open to end the battle; Michael would not disapoint either.

Michael landed a vicious kick on the machines head, it caused the main circuitry to overload, and the robot exploded. The sight was a miracle to Michael; to Eggman and Herring, it was a sight of disbelief. They had supposedly created the perfect machine. They thought it would never be beaten. However, they underestimated the heart and determination of Michael the Hedgehog.

The explosion caused canisters of fuel to heat up to dangerous levels and exploded. The last thing Michael saw were the two scientists gawking at the sight as everything went black.

<Later>

Michael awoke on a hospital bed with numerous tubes inserted in him. He knew immediately he was in a hospital. However, he was more concerned about his friends, and most of all, his dad, Sonic.

As he looked around the room, Michael felt a strange emptyness in his heart. It was as if something had been ripped out of him. "Why do I feel like this?" Michael had completely forgotten how his dad died, infact, he didn't even know he was dead; the earlier explosion knocked him out cold as well as partially erasing his memory.

Michael was in the room for a good five minutes before someone came in. Amy entered the room along with Tails, Knuckles, and Kyle. They all had bumps, bruises and cuts, but they were going to be okay.

"Hey, guys!" Michael had a huge grin on his face, a trait acquired by Sonic. "How ya doing?"

"Doing ok, despite the fact that we're hurtin' everywhere. How are you feeling?" Amy looked at Michael, those emerald eyes reminded her so much of Sonic...

"Feel like I got hit by a mack-truck...other then that, I'm okay." Michael saw Knuckles look and knew it meant something, but yet it wouldn't click in his head.

"Sally and Bunnie Rabbot found us and transported us to a nearby hospital." Tails said this with a bit of sadness. Michael, being very observent, noticed this and decided to ask what was wrong.

"Why the long face about that? They found us, right?"

"Well, we couldn't find you anywhere. You were under a bunch of rubble and we couldn't see you." As Knuckles explained the story to Michael, his violet eyes hid a deeper story about the events of earlier that day.

Finally, Michael asked a question the Freedom Fighters had hoped he wouldn't ask about.

"Where's my dad?"

Silence followed Michael's question, until Knuckles finally summoned up the courage to tell Michael of his dad's fate.

Michael felt like his heart just got ripped out of him; his dad, Sonic the Hedgehog, had been killed by a machine.

"No...It...It...It can't be. My dad can't be dead!" Tears were starting to form in the young hedgehogs eyes, his sobs partially muted from crying on Knuckles shoulder.

"I was devestated when I heard Sonic got killed...He was my husband, and a very good friend of mine. We will all miss him greatly..."

"Yet, did he really have to die? I could have helped him...Why wasn't it me instead of him?!"

"Noone can ever explain why things happen, Michael...You just have to learn to cope witrh what life brings you on the plate...You gotta accept it, even if you don't like it...Thats the way things have always been, I'm sorry." Knuckles carefully stroked Michael's orange-red quills on the back of his head. He looked so much like his dad, Sonic, except with only three quills. Other then that, he had the face, the grin, the speed, and the attitude. Michael started to calm down as Knuckles continued to massage his neck.

"You did everything you could!" Tails shouted at a higher-then-normal tone for a hospital. "You did what noone thought could be done! You defeated that robot!"

"Yet, my dad isn't here to celebrate it with me..."

"He may not be here, but I'm sure he's with you in your heart...He's looking at you right now as a lifesaver!" Knuckles proudly exclaimed to an emotionally distraught hedgehog. "Michael following in his dad's footsteps! Michael the Hedgehog!" Then he said the words that would rekindle a flame inside of Michael for the rest of his life. "Sonic see's you as a hero!"

Those words sparked a new life in the empty hedgehogs heart. He had been through the biggest battle of his life, witnessing heartbreak as his father was killed in front of his eyes, when the one word he had always looked to his father as being he now was: Hero.

*Meanwhile, somewhere VERY high in the sky*

"So, thats your kid?"

"Sure is...Thats Michael the Hedgehog."

"I remember when we defeated that Biolizard, thats the day I became a hero."

"Well, Shadow, seems as though that the generation of heros continues, even through me to my son."

"I'm really happy for him, I saw the whole battle; he was so brave! I wouldn't have been able to beat that thing!"

"Well, neither did I."

As the two figures watched high above at Michael, Sonic watched as Michael arose from his hospital bed, and left the building with his friends. A grin found its way onto the hedgehogs face as his son, his only son, Michael the Hedgehog, was now what Sonic had raised him to be: a Hero.

Fin

Did you like it? Although this story finished, I'm thinking about doing a series to this! I like the new characters! Its a pity that Sonic won't be in this series! Sorry to all Sonic fans out there, I promise this series won't run for very long! Sonic WILL be back!