[moving through the forest... you can smell a faint... then strong, and stronger still, scent of metal.]
[sniff sniff]
ick, that doesn't seem good...
[he immediately tries to check out the source anyway]
[as you walk deeper into the forest more and more things seem to be evidently covered in metal... or maybe made of metal? both? it was hard to tell exactly.]
[and in the middle of it all, atop a rock, a Sonic was sitting there... clutching his head, facing away from you, some light leaked through "metallic" leaves, which was the only reason you were able to see it was a sonic at all...]
[i wonder what's happening to him]
huh... another sonic. maybe he knows what the deal with this place is.
hey there, chap. do you know what's going on here?
[the hedgehog murmurs something... you can't really quite make out what it is, his body trembled a bit... then you can finally hear it]
h...h...e...help... m...me...
[sonic's ears stand erect and his eyes narrow, now alert for danger.]
did something happen to you? come on, i'll getcha somewhere safe.
e-verything... h-hurts... i c-cant remember w-what h-happened...
[he turns his head and body slowly, flinching at least twice from some form of pain, two soft emerald eyes stare at you from the dark, perhaps the light shone just enough to be reflected by what appears to be... tears?]
it's alright, we can get you somewhere safe and i can come back and try to figure out what happened. maybe with some backup.
[sonic is now attempting to be more alert about his surrounding in case something tries to beat him up.]
[the hedgehog nods, and attempts to stand up, but falls back on his knees]
a-agh!
[yeah he's going to need help just to stand on his own feet]
oh, geez.
[sonic extends a hand towards the silhouette in the dark.]
come on, i won't let you pass out on me.
[he extends his arm as well, trying to stand up again]
t-thank you...
[the sonic stumbles forward, holding onto the body of the other hedgehog, he feels really cold to the touch, almost unnaturally so, perhaps he is in a worse state than what it seemed so far]
i-i...m s-sorry...
no big deal, pal. let's get you somewhere safe fast.
[he's shivering a little]
Im... so... so s-sorry...
b-but...
we need to do this...
So, don't take it personally, pal.
[the hedgehog bites deeply into Sonic's shoulder, you can feel something really cold seeping down with his fangs into your flesh]
There we go!
[he pushes Sonic away]
AGH
[sonic flinches back and hisses through his teeth.]
i was trying to help you, you bloody wanker! gah...
[sonic looks down at his arm, the bite left a red mark, but the thing that scared sonic more than that was the cold, weird... gunk? that was now spreading on his arm]
what did you do?!
Why dontcha see it for yourself?
[he punches a tree, which clanks like a metallic surface, rather than wood. Silver-coated leaves fall down like gold leaf sheets... letting the light shine through, the thing in front of you was made entirely out of metal, so was the forest around, and the strange fluid in your arm, was also metallic in nature]
[sonic's eyes narrow and he steps back slightly. this felt all too familiar now, the metallic copy of him, the metallic environment... this was just like what the metallix had done to his version of little planet.
but this new metallic gunk spreading on his arm... that was new.
he couldn't let this guy get to anyone else.]
grr...
[the crystal in his chest glimmers as it hits the light, sonic spins in the air and dashes toward the metallic creature, hitting it in the torso.]
CRAP!
[you go through the body of this metallic hedgehog, only the uppermost layers of his body actually felt like solid metal, but the insides seemed to melt down into a cold liquid.]
Objective met. Initializing tactical retreat.
[the hedgehog "pumps" out his chest as if to appear intimidating; except it was for a more practical reason, for this motion caused the gap through his body to fill with metal]
NO theres no way I am running away like a coward-
That is not for you to decide.
[the hedgehog is now preparing to run away]
oh no you don't!
[sonic charges up a spindash and aims right for the legs.]
FUCK DAMNIT.
[the hedgehog falls towards the floor, already recovering the missing limbs]
You do realize this is only going to hurt you righ-
[the hedgehog smiles maliciously and prepares to jump on Sonic]
weird... from how you tend to talk to yourself i'd swear there was someone in there. i guess i was just stupid enough to fall for some robot's programming trick.
[sonic grimaces to himself as the cold feeling spreads throughout his arm, but still he rolls up and points out his spikes as much as they can be pointed.]
[the hedgehog jumps on Sonic, failing to notice- or maybe in spite of-- sonic pointing his spines outwards, you can feel a cold soft substance, like flesh, be pierced by your quills... and then starting to slowly crawl across them, almost like trying to adhere to your skin, maybe you should try rolling, that will definitely help :)]
