Through the Looking Glass: Chapter 10
Ultimatum: Chapter 10
"Okay, Silver, you ready?"
The silver hedgehog was poised in front of the Master Emerald, holding the Chaos Emeralds in his hands. The rest of the group was crowded around it, Tooty touching the emerald as Banjo stood next to her. The sun was just beginning to shine over the landscape, shedding a strange orange light on all that existed. Kazooie was in Banjo's backpack, waiting to deliver a world of pain as Knuckles and Shade stood at the ready. Mumbo, Humba, T.T., and Bottles all stood to the side, their eyes darting around with just the slightest air of nervousness. The atmosphere was pretty tense, as everybody knew that what wold happen next would change the fate of the world. Silver turned to the group and nodded.
"Yeah," he said.
Shifting slightly and taking a deep breath, Silver was ready.
"Chaos Control!" he shouted.
The white light enveloped all of Angel Island once again, but this time the control seemed to go faster. When the light had faded, Banjo was still standing on his feet. Kazooie sighed in relief knowing that she would not have to find a way to wake up Banjo again. Tooty's eyes were open, shining in some kind of great shock as the group that was staying with the emerald gathered around it.
"What did you see?" asked Shade.
"I think we're here," she said, blinking slightly as she tried to put together what she had seen. "I saw it to the south side..."
Knuckles nodded as Kazooie put her legs through the bottom of Banjo's backpack. "All right," said Knuckles as Banjo and Kazooie entered talon trot mode and Silver walked over to the group that was infiltrating the base. "Those of you that aren't coming, stay here, and guard the emerald with your lives. The rest of you, let's go!"
And with this, Banjo, Kazooie, Knuckles, Shade, and Silver ran towards the south side of the floating island, faces set in a quasi-frown as they moved as quickly as they could possibly move.
The race against time had begun.
Everybody was thrown into Tails' prison rather roughly. The ceiling was so high, it was almost intimidating for anybody that was in the room at the time. It was then that everybody was able to get a better look at the arsenal that Tails had at his disposal. Even more dangerous was that all of the weapons were in positions that were all really easy to pick up. Looking at this, those that could stand stood up. Rouge and Shadow both looked at the arsenal, trying to size up what weapons they could use as Sonic and Amy both reeled back in fright. Lord of Games and Gruntilda simply looked on.
"And if you even try to take those weapons, you're dead," said Eggman over a microphone system. This sent heads reeling, and it was at this point that Rouge realized that the window that looked into the controller was one of those windows in which one could only see in and not out.
"You can't guarantee that!" replied Shadow as he moved towards one of the weapons. "I can still--" But when the hedgehog did grip the weapon, a very strong electric shock coursed through his body, and he dropped the weapon while howling in pain.
"And that's why you can't take those weapons," replied the mad doctor. "Because they are programmed to work so that only Tails' DNA can be used to grip them."
"Oh, dear..." said Rouge, shaking her head softly. "This isn't going to be good..."
"Precisely," said Eggman. "Now, I will kill you all one by one! And I'll start with the most insignificant scum..."
Here, the microphone produced a feedback that was so loud it nearly made everybody deaf. Even though the bat could not see it, she was certain Eggman was grinning madly behind the glass that he was situated behind. She could feel it, at any rate, the maniacal grin seeming to haunt her like a ghost.
"Don't you dare call us insignificant scum, I'll hurt you so much you'll cry for your mum!" cried Grunty.
"Tsk tsk tsk..." said the doctor in reply. "You did not want to do that. That was a bad, bad move, you crazy witch, especially now that I know who's a bitch."
The doctor laughed diabolically as Rouge could feel his malevolent stare on everybody below them. She was not concentrating so much on Eggman's mockery of Gruntilda's bad rhymes, but more on the fact that she knew what this was builing up to. Banjo...
"Now, Tails... Kill the talking skull!"
Banjo, Knuckles, Silver, and Shade eventually arrived at the end of the island. When they looked down from where they were in the sky, they saw a rather modest metal building sitting in a barren field. The building was rather large, and it looked like a military compound on a first glance. Turning to the rest of the group, Knuckles nodded.
"Yeah, this looks like a place Eggman would use as a base," he said. "Now, the question is, how do we get down there?"
"Well, we could always use our vehicle," replied Banjo as he scratched his chin.
"And mess up our chance of getting back to this island?" asked Shade. "If his robots are any indication, they will try to destroy it."
Kazooie nodded. "Then in that case, there's only one thing we can do," she said, looking down at the ground below. "We glide down there!"
"Yeah, but how do I get down there?" asked Silver, shrugging.
"I'll carry you down there," replied Banjo as he walked over to the grey furred hedehog. "Kazooie, you think you can handle the extra weight?"
"Yeah," replied Kazooie.
Knuckles had been a little confused when the breegull had mentioned gliding. "Wait, how do you know I can do that anyway?" asked the guardian.
"L.O.G.," was Banjo's reply as he grabbed a hold of Silver's shoulders. "We don't have much time."
"Yeah, we should move," said Shade.
The red echidna simply nodded, first to his counterpart and then to Banjo, and before anybody had known anything they were gliding off the edge of Angel Island towards the metallic building that they knew was Eggman's base.
"Kazooie, I hope you stocked up on red feathers before we left," he shouted to her.
"What, for gliding down?" asked Kazooie. "You know we won't need feathers for that!"
Banjo stayed quiet after this, and instead he held on to Silver as Kazooie, Knuckles, and Shade all glided down to the earth.
It had happened so quickly nobody had really had any time to say anything.
The one moment, Gruntilda Winkybunion was a skull, bouncing around while trying to say the worst rhymes in the world. The next, she was nothing more than a bunch of pieces of bone, all scattered on the ground. Each piece of her head seemed to form an imperfect circle around the head of the hammer that had done what eight years of being under a rock did not.
When the hammer lifted, there was litterally nothing left of the evil witch that had been Banjo's nemesis for so long. Tails looked up, his expression still blank as he looked at the rest of the group wildly.
"My... my god..." said Shadow as he backed up. "The doctor isn't bluffing..."
"You better believe I am not bluffing!" cried Eggman maniacally. "I won't stop until all of you are dead!"
"You'll never take us alive!" cried Rouge, standing up and putting her heart over her breast.
"And yet, I just killed that witch without a second thought!," countered the doctor, giggling slightly. "Who says I can't take anybody else?"
"You..." Sonic was barely even able to stand at this point. The blue hedgehog was kneeling on the ground, an expression of mixed sadness and rage swirling through his emerald eyes as he gazed up at where he figured Eggman would be. "You monster! How could you do this to us? You're a monster! You--!"
"I'll show you who's a monster, you conniving idiot!" cried Eggman. "You took away my chance to be all-powerful, you kept on taking it, and you kept taunting me and taunting me and taunting me every time you stopped me! I'm not going to go down now!"
"I'm not gonna let you take the freedom of anybody else, either!" cried the sapphire hedgehog. "I--!"
"Well, it's too bad!" cried the doctor. "I already took your innocence, you dirty swine! And you're trapped in a room with your best friend set to kill all of you! How does it feel to be on the losing side now, hedgehog? How does it feel?"
Sonic simply growled in defiance as Amy gripped his shoulders.
"You have no such rights!" interjected the Lord of Games, his screen flashing in brilliance as he came forward. "You are a villain, yes, but this is going too far! Villains are never supposed to do things like this!"
"Shut up!" cried Eggman, the speakers nearly blowing out from how loud and shrill this cry was. "You have no power over me here! And to prove that..."
He began chuckling maniacally. Oh no... thought Rouge as she looked at the Lord of Games in shock. Banjo, where are you?
"Tails, kill that computer!"
The instant the group touched down on the ground, they found the entrance to the base that Tooty was talking about. The group instantly broke into a run and came straight for the door. Looking at it, Shade shook her head.
"We're going to have to punch it," she said simply. "I don't think I can hack the security systems fast enough to get us in there in time to save them."
"Punch it?" asked the honey bear, who was slightly confused as to what this entailed.
"Stand back, guys," said Knuckles as he cracked his knuckles and began knocking on the walls. "This might cause a bit of pain."
And without much further ado the echidna had punched a hole through the wall close to the door. An alarm system suddenly started blaring, but this did not affect much as the group still ran through the hole, Silver jumping through with the assistance of a little telekinesis. Right as they entered, a whole bevy of robots flooded the corridor. Seeing this, everyboy got in a fighting stance as Kazooie jumped out of Banjo's backpack.
Without really saying anything, the group advanced amongst the massive army of robots that was headed towards them. Almost without thinking about it, Knuckles and Shade began punching out as many robots as they could in such a short time. Silver, Banjo, and Kazooie were also well at work. Stunning the robots was the best that Banjo and Kazooie could do what with having only a backpack and wings at their disposal, but since Knuckles or Shade usually punched those robots out pretty soon, that was a moot point. Silver, meanwhile, was busy using telekinesis to cause robots to crash into each other. As the explosions began to sound behind them, they slowly advanced down the corridor, dispatching whatever robots were foolish enough to stand in their way.
Somewhere along the line, Knuckles had turned to Banjo.
"Hey, don't you guys have anything else you can use on these guys?" he asked.
"If we did, we'd be shooting things at them!" replied Kazooie as she whacked another robot with a wing attack. "It's not as simple as you think it is, fire head!"
Simply punching the robot that Kazooie had stunned, Knuckles decided to drop it.
The robot army was thinned a little slower than they would have liked. When they finally did get through all of the robot's in the base, they had to take a very quick breather. However, they did not dwell on it long.
"Okay, we got through security, now let's find the prisoners!" cried Knuckles as he and the rest of his group ran through the remaining length of the corridor.
Hang in there, Rouge... thought Banjo. I'm coming for you!
The L.O.G. had dodged a swing from a bat that Tails was holding right as the alarm went off. All heads in the area turned to the area around them as the alarm blared.
Rouge smiled, looking out into the door. "Yes, he's here!" muttered the bat under her breath as all activity seemed to stop. Now all I have to do is hold him off until he can rescue us
A banging of a fist on a flat surface was heard from the microphone. "Damn it, Tails!" cried the doctor. "Don't pay attention to the alarm! Kill that computer!"
The kitsune wasted no time trying to follow the command, but before the object could hit Rouge had kicked the little two-tailed fox in the hand. This in turn caused him to drop the weapon he was holding.
"Oh, no you don't!" cried the former G.U.N. agent. "You wanna get to him, you'll have to get the rest of us first!"
Upon hearing this, Shadow took a cue from Rouge. Rushing forward, he grabbed Tails by the wrist and threw him away quite quickly. Grabbing a hammer and doing her best to go against the electric shock that she knew was hurting her, Amy followed up by hitting the two-tailed fox. However, she had to let go of the hammer all too quickly for the shock had gotten to her system.
"Ow!" she cried, gripping her hand. "That hurt!"
"No time to dwell on that!" cried Sonic as he rushed forward and attempted to tackle Tails to the ground.
However, the fox sidestepped the hedgehog, and Sonic then fell on the ground. Seeing one of the throwing knives close to him, Tails reached down and grabbed it by the blade. Before Shadow or Rouge could react, the sound of glass cracking was heard.
It was then that everybody noticed that Tails had thrown the knife right into the L.O.G.'s computer face. A few stray chips of glass feel down like tears as the light on the L.O.G.'s screen flickered briefly before dying.
Everybody was so shocked by this that Tails was able to capitalize on the distraction. Jumping in with the hammer that Amy had dropped earlier, he bashed the computer over the head. The glass that was left had shattered then, revealing a mess of wiring as the kitsune beat the fallen computer over its monitor again and again and again until it had become a mess of dented metal and severed wires.
Everybody looked at the computer that used to be the Lord of Games in shock. The computer was now on the ground, the grand purple cape that he wore laying in a heap by some of the grains of broken glass that were seen. Hesitantly, Rouge knelt at the L.O.G.'s dead computer, shaking her head.
"Ha ha!" cried the doctor, distracting everybody from their current thoughts as they looked up. "See? You have no power here, and you'll never have power here! I'm better than you!"
"Shut up, Eggman!" cried Sonic. "You--!"
"Shut up, hedgehog!" taunted the doctor right back. "You've caused me enough trouble! I was hoping to save you for last, but you know what? Fuck it. I can't wait any longer!"
Tails looked straight at Sonic, and Rouge knew what this had to mean.
"Tails. I want you to kill Sonic the Hedgehog!" cried the doctor. "And I want you to do it in the slowest, most painful way possible! Kill him!"
And without hesitation, the kitsune leapt towards the sapphire hedgehog. Ducking under the bat, Sonic began a mad dash around the room. It was to his great chagrin that Tails was following him just as quickly, bat in his hand.
They finally got towards the end of the long corridor, and then Shade noticed the doors lining up exactly where Tooty had said they would.
"Okay, we're close to the prisoners' room!" said the tan-furred echidna. "It should be on our right... now!"
They stopped in front of a slidining glass door. Walking up to it, Banjo was surprised that it opened right up.
When they opened it, Banjo was surprised to see the prisoners' room exactly as how he had seen it in his dreams with Rouge. The cells were mostly empty except for a small rabbit girl who was looking up at a source of light in fear.
"Cream!" cried Knuckles, instantly recognizing the little rabbit girl. "You're okay!"
Shocked out of her stupor, the rabbit looked over to the echidna and gasped in surprise as the small group rushed forward.
"Mr. Knuckles!" cried the rabbit as she pointed up at the source of light she had been staring at. "You've gotta help them! They're gonna die!"
Looking up at the monitor, the group saw Tails running around chasing after Sonic. It would have been endearing if not for the fact that he was holding a hammer in his hand.
"Oh my God!" cried Banjo as he noticed Rouge in the room. "Rouge!"
"No way!" cried Kazooie, noticing the bits of crushed skull and the destroyed computer monitor. "He's killed onion breath and Pong face! That's my job!"
"Damn it..." said Knuckles, turning to Cream after seeing this. "We've gotta get you out of here first! Then we'll get to them!"
"Haha!" cried Kazooie, grabbing her wrench from inside Banjo's backpack. "Never fear, this wrench is here!"
Before Knuckles could protest, Kazooie had pointed the wrench at the keypad that was by Cream's cell. A combination was punched in, and then a buzz that nobody had noticed was there when they entered the room died down. Thinking quickly, Knuckles jumped up, opened the cage door, and jumped down with Cream in his arms.
"Okay," said Knuckles as he moved the rabbit over to where Silver stood. "Silver, keep an eye on her. We're going to try to break in!"
The hedgehog nodded as Knuckles, Shade, and Banjo all ran out of the room. Looking up at the TV screen in fright, Silver watched the colors dance brightly on the screen. Cream was instantly crying into the legs of the denizen of the future. Looking down, the albino hedgehog patted the rabbit's head soothingly.
"Don't worry," he said. "Everything will be okay."
At least, he sincerely hoped it would.
It had not taken long for Rouge to attempt to disarm Tails successfully. This had been quite the difficult endeavor, but when she had finally done it she was quite relieved. However, this only made things worse, as he was right next to one of his throwing knives. Thus, Sonic let out a cry of pain when he came crashing to the floor, a knife in his leg. The kitsune closed in as he attempted in vain to stand up.
However, Amy was ready. Grabbing the hammer and withstanding the electric shock again, she went in, trying to hit Tails. Not to be deterred, Amy and Tails fought over the hammer, the kitsune gripping the head of the hammer as Amy grabbed the handle.
"Shadow, help me out here!" cried Amy.
He replied by getting Sonic as out of the way as he could manage. However, the electric shock was beginning to be too much for the pink hedgehog. And after maybe a few extra seconds, she let it go, collapsing to the ground while breathing heavily.
"Damn it!" cried Sonic. "Amy!"
They had no time to dwell on this, however, for then the kitsune had leapt at Sonic after getting a katana that happened to be close by. Getting in front of him, Shadow instantly kicked Tails' hand away, and the two fought for dominance for a brief period of time.
Knuckles knocked on the entire wall surrounding the door to the prisons. He shook his head.
"There isn't a weak spot on this wall!" he said.
"Then what do we do?" asked Banjo, listening in on the events going on in the door.
Shade looked around, her eyes spotting a small door. "Wait," she said. "Let me try to see if I can override the security demands on this door!"
She then ran to the small door and entered.
"This is ridiculous!" cried Kazooie crassly as she shook her head. "I hope she's fast about it."
"Trust me, Kazooie," replied the red echidna. "She came from a dimension where her technology was better. It shouldn't be--!"
And then a scream of pain was heard from within the door's confines. It was the scream of a young teenage man.
"Oh my--!" cried Knuckles, placing his whole body against the door. "It's Sonic! Sonic!"
Shadow and Tails had fought for dominance. It had given Rouge enough time to get behind Tails to attempt to pin the fox down.
It was frightening how it had all gone wrong at the drop of a hat.
Somehow, the kitsune had managed to knock the midnight hedgehog out as Sonic attempted to crawl away. Rouge was then struggling for a bit before she was thrown off by the kitsune when he shook his tails around a bit. The bat then noticed Tails rushing straight for the blue hedgehog.
"No!" cried the bat as she leapt forward in an attempt to tackle the two-tailed fox.
She was only partly successful. She had managed to grab his legs, which slowed his advance on the hero but not much else. However, she attempted to climb back onto Tails again, clamboring as she tried to stop the fox from killing Sonic.
Shade was typing away furiously, trying to find a way to override the command.
"Come on, come on, come on..." she whispered as she typed away.
Tails had been to resilient. He had grabbed another throwing knive and hit Sonic's arm. The hedgehog screamed in pain as he felt the blade penetrate his arm, and his other hand went straight for where the knife had lodged itself.
Rouge, who had already had a pretty feeble grip on the two-tailed fox, found her grip to be slipping.
It only made things that much worse for her when the fox managed to fling her away with the arm that had tossed the throwing knife in Sonic's arm. As she was flung away, she let out a grunt when she hit the ground.
"Damn it, Shade, move faster!" muttered Knuckles under his breath.
The honey bear shook his head. "This isn't going to make it easy for any of us..." said the bear as he backed up, waiting for the door to open as Kazooie looked on intently.
Shade had managed to put up a screen of commands. Smiling, she nodded.
"Okay, now, how do I override other commands?" she asked herself as she looked on the screen.
"No... No!" cried Rouge as the kitsune approached Sonic. "Sonic! No!"
"What the?" asked Knuckles in shock at what he had just heard Rouge yell. "Sonic?"
Cream was absolutely shaking in fright, Silver doing his best to comfort her as he looked on with fear in his own eyes at what had transpired on the screen.
It was like a horrible, horrible dream come true. Rouge looked on where she saw the tip of the katana.
No, no, please don't let it be true, Oh God don't let it be true!
But when Tails turned around to show what had happened, Rouge's fears were confirmed.
Tails had stabbed his best friend with a katana. The edge of the katana protruded out from Sonic's body, the cold silver blade covered in the hedgehog's blood. He groaned slightly from the pain, emerald eyes wide open as he stared blankly at the ground, his body suspended in the air by Tails.
"Soniiiic!" cried Rouge in disbelief as she looked on this.
Amy only had the strength to turn her head around at this point. But when she saw the sight that Rogue had seen, she twitched, seeming to know what had happened.
Slowly, Tails drew the katana out of the hedgehog, bright crimson blood flowing out onto the floor beneath him as he fell to the ground. He clutched the gaping hole the katana had punctured in his body as he let out a series of ragged breaths, eyes wild as he looked up at Rouge. She saw the fear eminent in his eyes, and instantly understood.
But Tails was not finished yet. He made several slashes along the hedgehog's body with the weapon, such that by the end of it, the hedgehog was losing blood way too quickly for anything to be done to save him.
Rouge barely had any time to gather her bearings before Eggman's laughter broke out over the scene as Sonic lay dying in the cold floor of Tails' cell.
"You think you're such hot stuff now, hedgehog?" taunted Eggman from above as Amy regained her strength. "Well, look who's laying on the floor dying now! You're only a teenager, Sonic! You could have avoided this! But no, you had to stop me! You're nothing, hedgehog! I win! I win I win I win I win! I win, and there is nothing you could do to stop me! I fucking win!"
The rose-tinted hedgehog had managed to crawl over to Sonic by this point. "Sonic, no!" she whispered breathlessly as she saw the hedgehog gaze up into her eyes.
Abruptly, the blue-furred rodent had grabbed Amy's hand, the blood beginning to flow out of his mouth as he looked at her.
"Amy..." he whispered breathlessly as he used the last of his strength to pull himself over to her.
And with his head in Amy Rose's lap, Sonic the Hedgehog breathed his last. Amy stared on in disbelief as she began to cry.
"No!" she screamed into the heavens. "Sonic! Noooooooooo!"
"N... no... Mr. Sonic!"
By this point, Cream was bawling into Silver's chest fur. Looking up, Silver could not help but feel sad at this development. Slowly, he cried too, hugging the rabbit girl as she sobbed her heart out.
"No!" cried Knuckles, instantly guessing what had happened.
And despite the fact that he knew nothing would happen, he banged his fists on the door to Tails' overly large cell.
Banjo and Kazooie looked on, their faces showing great shock.
"No..." said Banjo. "Sonic didn't die, did he?"
The echidna simply said nothing, instead slamming his fist on the door in anger.
The solitary tear that rolled down his cheek confirmed the fears of the bear and bird. Kazooie simply nodded solemnly as Banjo looked at the door, eyes squinting into a frown.
The doctor laughed maniacally as he saw the hedgehog he had always hated expire before his very eyes.
"There!" he cried defiantly. "Where's your hero now?"
He continued laughing diabolically as the full weight of what had just happened sunk in to everybody except Shade.
"I thought so!" he cried when he got no reply. "Now all that's left is to take over the world! It's too bad you won't see it!"
He laughed a little more, and Rouge could have sworn something had snapped; if he had said nothing about the alarm as of yet, then there had to be something wrong.
"Now, Tails!" shouted the doctor. "Kill Rouge!"
And then the kitsune was in the air, heading towards the bat. Unable to move much, the bat simply screwed her eyes shut let out a scream of pure terror.
"Okay, I got it!" said Shade as she saw the words 'OVERRIDE SECURITY COMMAND' on the screen.
The door that Knuckles was leaning against slid open rapidly. This caught Knuckles a little off guard, and he fell into the cell face first.
Banjo beheld the scene right as Rouge had started screaming. Realizing what was happening, the bear darted into the room.
"No!" he cried as he ran faster than he had ever run in his life.
And somehow, it was enough, for the honey bear had run in just in time to tackle the kitsune to the ground.
When the bat noticed the absense of pain, she opened her eyes to see the honey bear she had only seen in dreams up to that point pinning the kitsune down to the ground as a bird peeked out from his blue backpack.
"Kazooie, get that thing he's holding!" cried Banjo.
"Will do!" cried the breegull, holding her wrench out and wresting the fox's control of his katana as Knuckles rushed in.
The echidna was quick to act; he managed to get every other weapon in the area as far away from Tails as he could using only his feet. The bat looked at this scene with quite the expression of shock on her face.
"Knuckles...?" she asked. "B... Banjo?"
A groan sounded from Shadow as he looked up.
"Wha...?" he asked. "What happened...?"
It was then that the midnight hedgehog beheld the scene before him. Sonic's dead body being cradled by a sobbing Amy, Knuckles standing there where he had gathered the weapon stache, Rouge sitting there in shock, and a brown bear in shorts pinning Tails down.
The kitsune was not going to go without a fight. He struggled against Banjo's weight as hard as he could. No matter what, though, the combined weight of Banjo and Kazooie was large enough to hold the fox in place. However, Banjo was struggling to keep the fox down, so Knuckles ran over quickly and used his strength to hold some of Tails' appendages in place. The katana high in the air and Tails unable to act, Rouge smiled softly.
Shade, meanwhile, had overriden the security command over the control room, and as soon as Banjo had pinned the kitsune down she was heading straight for the control room.
She burst in quickly, noticing Eggman hunched over his control pad. Quickly, she ran to the pedestal on which five of the emeralds rested. One by one, she tore each of the powerful jewels out of their slots within the pedestal until all five of the Chaos Emeralds were on the floor.
The man known as Eggman simply turned around, grinning deliriously and chuckling.
"He he he..." he started laughing. "Yes... I did it! I took over the world! And now, everything is mine!"
Eggman violently swept his hand around. "Yes, everything is mine! It's all mine! He he he he he!"
"My... my god..." muttered Shade softly. "He's gone mad!"
And then the doctor simply sat in the corner, shaking tepidly and giggling madly to himself as he muttered so many things that Shade could not understand it left her flabberghasted. Slowly, the echidna shook her head. Slowly, she grabbed a pair of handcuffs from where they were on the ground. Cuffing Eggman to her wrist, she walked forward, not saying anything as Eggman giggled and mumbled incoherently.
Knuckles was the first one to notice when Tails stopped putting up a fight. Shortly after he did, his eyes were no longer blank, and the lustre that was in his eyes had returned quite quickly as Tails looked up in confusion at the bear who had pinned him down.
"W... what?" he asked uncertainly. "What...!"
And then, everything seemed to happen at once. He began breathing heavily, struggling against the honey bear that was pinning him down. "Oh, God!" he exclaimed. "Tell me it was all a dream! Tell me it was all a dream! Please! Tell me I didn't kill Sonic!"
Banjo looked down sadly as he slowly got off of the kitsune. It was then that Tails saw the body of Sonic the Hedgehog laying there as Amy bawled over the body.
"I wish it was..." replied Banjo, shaking his head as a tear came to his eye.
"N... no..."
The kitsune simple let out a scream of anguish as the blood on his hands was highlighted in the lighting. He simply looked up, tears coming to his eyes freely as he then cupped his face in his hands and crumpled on the floor.
Rouge had moved over to Banjo by this point, and lightly she tapped his shoulder. The bear looked down and got the first full view of the bat he had gotten in the real world. With a few tears coming to her eyes, Rouge shook her head.
Banjo simply gathered his lover into his arms and allowed her to cry against his chest as he closed his own eyes in grief for a hero he barely even knew.
And all was silent save the sobs and Eggman's muttering and chuckling, even when Silver, Cream, and Shade walked in on the scene. All was silent as everybody in the room grieved the death of Sonic the Hedgehog, Amy gripping his body against hers as everybody looked on the scene that the room held in sorrow.