Sonic Series Fan Fiction ❯ Fresh Start: The Sequel to "Brainwashed" ❯ Darkness Falls ( Chapter 3 )

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Ch. 3: Darkness Falls

"Monic reporting in, it seems as though Michael has taken a little snooze...shall I proceed with battle procedures?"

"No, this is not the time to attack...wait until he comes outside...if he suspects that someone is in, it will completely negate the purpose you have been following him; to attack stealthy and deadly." replied the professor.

"Affirmative...what about the echidna?" asked Monic.

"He is the only obstacle blocking our paths towards Michael's...he must be eliminated at all costs!" replied the professor.

"Over out! Tracking Knuckles as we speak.......................he is near the shrine of the Master Emerald, Angel Island." confirmed Monic.

"That shouldn't be a problem for you, Monic...go! Take care of business!!" the professor shouted before the moniter went blank.

"Well...my good friend, you have been waiting patiently for this day...the day when all the heros are gone, and the rise of evil shall begin...Monic is the starting point for us...as soon as Michael is out of the way, then my friend, we can proceed with our plans to rule the world!" the professor shouted to a figure encapsuled in a stasis tank.

"Damn...why did I get this starnge prescene of some strong energy?" Knuckles said to himself as he got himself ready to fight whoever was intruding near the emerald.

"Ah, if it isn't Knuckles the Echidna! Sonic has told me a lot about you, Knuckles...how you and him used to fight all the time...quite a funny story, if you ask me...but now, Knuckles, your time on earth has come! You shall fall prey to the deadliest claws in the world!! By way of mine! Monic!!!!" Monic shouted, striking quickly and deadly: with one swipe he ripped Knuckles chest open, penetrating his heart.

"You...b...bastard!............................................. ................................." Knuckles managed those few words then fell dead at Monic's feet, those claws covered in Knuckles blood.

"Hehhehehe...thats it, my friend, sleep...the time has come for me to deal with that rotten son of Sonics...with you out of the way, nothing can stop my plans to destroy Michael! He has no idea what I've become...how powerful I really am now! He will realize that soon enough, however...you tell Shadow and the other heros down there that the reign of truth has ended! The Dark Reign has begun!!!" Monic laughed as the sun began to set under the hilltops of Angel Island.

<Meanwhile, far from the tranquility of Eagle-Eye>

"Ahhhh...what a night, Sonic..." Amy was taking in every moment of this time with Sonic, who was enjoying it just as much as Amy was.

"You said it, Amy...Ahhhhhhhh...I wonder what my son and that knucklehead are doing?" Sonic asked.

"Who knows...probably beating up the evildoers of the world..." Amy said happily.

"You are probably right...yet, why do I have this feeling in me that something isn't quite right?" Sonic's expression changed to that of a grim future as he felt something in his heart that something had happened, yet he didn't know if it was him or if it was reality.

"Shinglemen, mission accomplished: Knuckles is dead and awaiting further directions from you, sir!" Monic reported in, he was still half-robot, half-hedgehog, so he had human qualities, but still had some of the old parts of his former self during his battle against Michael and Sonic.

"Good work, Monic...now, when Michael leaves that house, then you strike immediately! I don't want you leaving that area until Michael leaves that house! If he sees you, he'll want to fight, wait until he least suspects it! Then you may strike!" the prof. resonded before the screen went blank.

"Yes sir...over out!" Monic cut off his screen on his hand (he still had some qualities from the past-self) and hid up on a tree, awaiting Michael's first mistake: leaving the house.

<Meanwhile, back at Angel Island>

"Knuckles!" Tikal called out to Knuckles but got nothing. "Knuckles...Knuckles?!" Tikal was frantically looking for Knuckles but couldn't find him anywhere...that is, until she found the body. "Knuckles?!?!?!?!!!!!!!! NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Tikal screamed and cried that Knuckles had been killed, she pounded her fists on the emerald itslef, cursing it for allowing something like this to happen to the guardian of the emerald.

Tikal; didn't regain composure until two hours later, wherefore she dialed Michael's house, which woke Michael from his sleep.

"Michael!! You need to get over here, now!! Knuckles is dead!! He's been murdered!!!" Tikal was frantic on the line, Michael could hear it and he rushed to the scene.

Monic had been waiting, but Michael was moving so fast that Monic didn't even see him leave the house.

"Just you wait, Michael, the time will come when you have to leave that house...then I will kill you like I did Knuckles." Monic snickered, unaware that he had missed catching Michael.

"Tikal!" Michael ran towards Tikal, who was in tears, and did his best to comfort her.

"Kn-Kn-Kn-Knu-Knuckles-is-i-i-is dead!!" Tikal was speaking through tears and crying.

"Where is he?" Michael said cooly.

"Over there by the emerald..." Tikal managed to speak out.

Michael waslked up to Knuckles life-less form and examined his wounds.

"Hmmmmm..." Michael was thinking out loud, which caught Tikal's attention.

"What is it, Michael?" Tikal asked.

"These calw marks...these are too deep to be from something human or one of our own kind...these look like...a machines." Michael said, thoroughly inspecting each claw mark and the features of each.

"Who do you think did this?" Tikal asked.

"I'm trying to find some sort of pattern that I might be able to match with someone..........." Michael looked at the markings, giving peculiar attention to a certain area of the heart vessels.

"What is it, Michael?" Tikal asked, very nervous of what he was going to say.

"Thses markings...the patterns...like the ones on Sonic when we fought.....NO!!! It CAN'T be him!!!!!!" Michael looked terror-struck as he realized who had done the deed.

"Who did it?!!!!" Tikal had had enough of the suspense.

"Monic..." Michael said gravely.

"Monic?" Tikal didn't recognize the name.

"Remember when my dad and I fought a machine called "Mecha Monic"? this is that machine!" Michael was about to cry.

"No..." Tikal suddenly remembered the robot that Michael was talking about and shuddered that the thing was still alive.

"That means...he is probably after me..." Michael said depressingly.

"Your father is so far away...he'd never get to you in time!" Tikal said.

"The thing is...I don't even think my dad's help could stop him this time...he's gotten...much much stronger...the cut intensityn and ease of tearing through the bone...this thing...isn't like it was...this thing...is...enhanced..." Michael said as he truned towards the sky, staring at the clouds, which were beginning to darken.

"That means..." Tikal was fearing the worst.

"I'm next..." Michael said as he looked towards the moon.

End ch 3