When the group went back to Sugarcube Corner, Discord was continuously tapping in frustration, looking at Sonic waiting for him to tell him about what Sonic had meant earlier.
“Yo Discord, why are you just staring at me, I mean do you see something you like?” Sonic joked, to which Discord kept a serious look at Sonic. “OK it’s definitely not that sooo… Oh yeah, you want to know what I meant earlier when were talking about the oh so hateable Flash Sentry, OK basically, y’know how there is Positive Chaos and Negative Chaos? Imagine me in a form of Negative Chaos, that’s what I meant” Sonic explained.
“How are you still able to be so kind hearted, from what we've seen, with Tirek being the shining example, how are you able to be so good?” Discord pondered.
“Well, I was only in that form for a grand total of around 2 minutes and I’m not as good as you’d think, the only reason I’m able to be good is because of my Super Sonic consciousness, which is a totally pure form of positive chaos energy, it is the balancer for my other forms” Sonic explained.
“Cheers for Super Sonic!” Tang said, raising his glass to which the other hedgehog’s also raised their glasses and clinked their glasses together.
“Here here, in any case, there is no reason for us to stay here, I mean, Tirek’s gone, Kint’s back and my life doesn't seem like such an emotional roller-coaster” Sonic said, to which Kint and the rest of the group looked at him with a confused look. “What? We have no real reason to stay here, I mean if you want to stay for another week then sure, but I have no obligation here, and besides even if Tirek did get his power back he’s still gonna be beaten by us, so we’re just wanderers in a world that isn’t ours” Sonic simply justified.
“Why can’t you just try and not be so cut and dry like Shadow, you’re Sonic the hedgehog and as such, you’re supposed to the funny guy who helps people and has no problem staying in other dimension… Blaze’s world” Tails said fake coughing at the mention of Blaze’s World.
“OK ‘mister not subtle’ we’ll stay here for another week, two at most” Sonic replied, finishing his hayburger, and walking out of Sugarcube Corner, with Tails following.
“So bro, when were you ever gonna tell me you were scared of your speed, and of your past, and of anything else?” Tails asked, only for Sonic to ignore his brother. “When were you?” Tails said, a little more forcefully.
“When I saw you didn’t need me anymore, when you could handle what I could handle, Tails… you have a loving family that cares for and considers your every move in life, I have a roboticized father and a loving mother, I wouldn’t change them for the world, but whilst you’ve had it easy I’ve had it hard, having to deal with a break up twice to someone I loved and leaving that to rot and starting to become a bit more evil, you don’t have that, so how could you know my pain, my reasons or my motive? And whilst I have my family to, one is robot that I’ll never see age and I can’t see him be a regular mobian again, because he may die from the process” Sonic replied, to which Tails looked back at him with a hardened resolve.
“And so that’s what I am for you, a support mechanism for your angst? And you can’t leave it behind because it was so easy to do for most of your life, wow… I didn’t know you had become so pathetic” Tails said, unaware of the anger he had just unleashed.
“Pathetic? You’ve never went through what I’ve went through, you’ve never nearly lost your life, you’ve never been broken up with twice, you have it good, I have to constantly look at my dad and Sally and see the scars Robotnik dealt my family, so Tails, if Robotnik killed or roboticized your family or you got your heart broken again by Fiona Fox, don’t come crying to me or venting your frustrations, because I’ll be in another dimension listening to your sorrows and laughing, so if you want to talk about pathetic, live my life then if you go through it without shedding a tear, and can stand up after that, then shove it in my face all you want, but until then, don’t call something pathetic if you haven’t lived it” Sonic said, a black aura, abundantly clear on his fur, though as quickly as it came it went and Sonic was already in the Everfree Forest, leaving Tails there a shocked and fearful face apparent on him.
“What happened, Tails? I could feel something really, really bad” Tang asked, looking into Tails petrified eyes. “What happened?” Tang asked again.
“I think Sonic’s turning dark,” Tails said. It didn’t take a genius to figure out what he meant.
“Are you sure? I mean you could just be a bit paranoid, I mean Sonic rarely likes anyone questioning why he didn’t tell anyone about his backstory, seems you and him are on rocky terms on that aspect of your brotherly bond” Lightning pointed out, showing he had a complete understanding of what they were talking about.
“Wait you heard all that?” Tails asked.
“Yes, I don’t think being angry with a guy who tried to keep a secret that would've protected you and not jeopardized you on any mission back in Knothole deserves a little bit of slack, he’d never want to have you get hurt and I’m guessing he never told you, because he didn't want you to be mad or angry with him and then let that get in the way of your friendships or whenever you took out another one of Robotnik’s schemes, you are his brother and he would never want to hurt, if anything he’s angry at himself for not telling you sooner… Listen we’ll go and head to Sonic’s and try and help him get out of his miserable state, you head with the girls and Big Mac back to the Castle's of Harmony, we’ll be there soon” Lightning said, placing his hand on Tails shoulder before signalling his brothers to follow him into the Everfree Forest.
And in that instant Tails had tears down his eyes as the group started moving back to the Castle of Harmony.
The Chaos Kids made it to the Everfree Forest in a few seconds, only stopping outside the house to find Sonic weeping and clenching his sides in anger. “I can’t believe it!” Sonic said, angrily snapping and throwing his fist around in a rage. “Why didn't I tell him? I could've stopped this whole thing from breaking our trust, and now he probably hates, I gotta go back!” Sonic said, still not noticing the Clones’ presence.
“Sonic, having a heavy heart will tear down his trust in you, you’ve gotta get over your past, you didn’t tell him because you didn’t want him to get hurt and that didn’t work, you shouldn’t focus on what you didn’t achieve, you should focus on the here and now, you’ve got to get out of your rut of blaming yourself and trying to be Sonic the Hedgehog, you’ve got Kint and now with your new brother you no longer have to keep that responsibility of his corruption, you need to let go” Jade explains, to which Sonic, stops sniffling getting rather vexed at his counterpart.
“Just let go? Let go of Pain that’s been in my life for 8 years” Sonic asked, angry that his clone would suggest moving on so quickly.
“From what Kint tells me, you didn’t cry when he was back,” Jade replied.
“I finally had my life back on track, I have a lot on my plate and also I was too wrapped up in the feeling of going on an adventure to notice the pain I’d feel having Kint back” Sonic lied.
“You’re just making up excuses, you wanted to have Tails not bring up your past, same with Kint and since you love to put on a brave show you never cried or even made it seem as though it phased you that Kint was back, when really you wanted to cry” Jade explained.
“Shut up! Live my life then, live with the guilt of the one person you were never able to save being right in front of you and have your brother realise you’re here and now hates you!” Sonic yelled.
“I’ll never be able to live that, but we gotta move one, Sonic just at least try to lighten up, we’re gonna be heading back to Castle’s of Harmony, you’re welcome to join us, Rainbow said she’d really like you to be there” Jade replied, as him and the other clones, headed out of the house that they had made and left Sonic, stuck in his room, wondering to himself.
What’s wrong with me?
Castle's of Harmony
“Well it seems like Sonic’s having a hard time, he’s still living in the past, he doesn’t like his past being brought up, we’ll wait for him until he gets over it… but for now let’s check on the girls” Lightning said to Tails as they all started walking past the front door of the castle, but were totally in darkness when they went inside.
“Huh? Who turned out the lights? Twilight? Rainbow? Pinkie?” Tang called out.
“SURPRISE!” The girls yelled, having the castle light up again., and having party banners everywhere, Discord and Kint were beside the girls smirking in an endearing fashion, to which they returned the smirk.
“Where’s Sonic?” Rainbow asked.
“Well, he had something to work out, he’s gonna be joining us soon I think” Lightning half-lied.
“”Well, while that’s happening let’s party!” Tang said, rushing past everyone towards the kitchen to dine on the food.
“Will he ever change?” Jade asked to Lightning, to which Lightning could only shrug his shoulders. Later on all the gang were conversing talking about Sonic and their adventures in both their worlds. They were all happy and just having a good time, then Sonic came through the door, looking down at the ground, before looking up to them and smirking, his all too delightful smirk and flashing it so abundantly, it almost seemed fake.
“Hey guys, you were right, I need to head to Pinkie’s parties more often, so have I missed anything?” Sonic asked, now beaming with positivity.
“Nothing much bro, what did you have to do that you couldn’t come earlier?” Tails asked.
“Well, I was re-evaluating my life, finally decided I wasn’t gonna be Shadow the Angsthog, and just decided to have fun for once, in any case have Kint talked you about anything, specifically about me?” Sonic asked, almost seeming like he was hiding something.
“What is Sonic talking about?” Kint asked, coming up to the two brothers.
“Well, we were talking about the chaos emeralds and how we may not need them anymore” Sonic lied, surprisingly fluently too.
“Oh… wait, nice try Sonic, I can read you like an open book, even when you seem to be telling the truth you’re lying, and also your nose is twitching, that’s how I know your lying” Kint said.
“Wha? How could you tell?” Sonic shockingly questioned.
“You used to do it all the time back in the day, you used to twitch your nose whenever you lied, and I could tell, probably due to the rushing of blood to your nose, caused by your increased heartbeat to pump blood faster around your body and thus…” Kint said, trying to finish his scientific analysis.
“Doc?” Sonic interrupted.
“Yes?” Kint replied.
“You’re nerding out again, in English please” Sonic replied.
“Basically, your nose twitches when you lie, there happy?” Kint asked.
“Yeah, 100% better, you get an A* Doc” Sonic cockily answered.
“Wait the percent thing is my thing, I call dibs! And that makes you unoriginal” Rainbow butted in.
“Wait, you guys were apparently brought together by Rainbow’s speed right?” Sonic asked.
“Yeah, so?” Twilight asked.
“How is that not stealing? All my friends became friends because of my speed, Tails became my bro, after Kint became Eggman… Amy became my stalker after reading about Tarot cards that predicted me to be with her, saying a swift hero would be her husband, Knuckles became my rival due to me racing on to his Island without a passport, and Shadow became my rival, due to our speed, and another thing, you have a move known as the Sonic Rainboom? You took that name from me, I can do the same thing, I call it the Sonic Boom, and you just put Rain in the title, how is that any less original?” Sonic replied.
“Well, you…” Rainbow tried to say, only for her lips to fail her.
“See, totally genderbent rip off, even has my good looks, and does that make creppy or just plain weird to tell a mare she looks good? Wow, I cannot keep my mouth shut” Sonic said, somewhat blushing at his statement.
“You think I look good?” Rainbow asked, flushing in the same colour as Sonic.
“Looks like somepony’s in love!” Pinkie and Tang yelled.
Needless to say Sonic and Rainbow Dash both thought the same thing in their heads.
He/She couldn't love me?