Outcast

Chapter One

"I'M

                           THE

                                                              OUTCAST"

Overhead:

Tails and about twenty other resistance members crowded around a small screen, showing the footage of a security camera in Eggman's base. Tails panned the camera over to a stasis pod Eggman was working on, trying to figure out what was in it. The mad engineer grabbed the phantom ruby and left the room, exiting his headquarters entirely. Several of the soldiers took this as their opportunity to get out of the van they were all crammed into for hiding and check out the base, but the two tailed fox stopped them.

"Hold on! Eggman's Security is still up! Let me shut it down First!'' Tails called, his fingers flying as he hacked further into the Doctor's security. "All right. You're good to go!" At this, everyone flocked out of the van, trooping towards the base once they were sure Eggman left. As if the resistance itself had the same idea, Jet and Knuckles, would search the office and engineering side of the base. Marine and Amy, would search the culinary and living quarters while Tails and the rest would search the labs, (particularly the stasis pod). Tails approached the stasis pod, opening a few menu screens that appeared on a nearby computer, as Rouge wiped as small clearing in the condensation off the glass, peering in. The bat gasped, seeing a figure that resembled Sonic, scathed and ill, enclosed in the pod. Tails tapped on a few more buttons, draining the liquid Sonic's copy was in and opening the pod door. The light blue hedgehog slowly sank to the it's floor, gaining consciousness. His right eye was badly slashed, a large stab wound cut across his chest, and his arm was twisted in the complete wrong direction. The mysterious Mobian whimpered and sheltered his face from staring ones, standing up. "Whoa! Who are you?" Tails asked, moving a bit to the side when the newly hedgehog growled. Sonic's look-a-like took off, dashing out of the room and down the hall. Jet, Knuckles, Marine, Amy, and the others (along with Tails) from the lab, meeting up and chasing after him. The ill hedgehog dashed out of the base, running into the woods, but at this point the resistance gave up. Tails turned on his communicator, scrolling through his contacts until he found Sonic.

"Hey tails! What's up?" Sonic asked.

"Well... I need your help trying to catch a Mobian that we found in Eggman's base." Tails replied.

 "Sure! I'll be there in a jiffy!" Sonic Chirped, hanging up. A minute later, Sonic ran over to them and skidded to a halt, Tails and the others waiting impatiently. "What Direction did my mysterious look-a-like go in?" Sonic asked, raising an eyebrow.

 "He went South, into the woods, but kept running, so he's probably in the Meadow by now." Knuckles spoke, pointing towards the woods.

"Alrighty then! Speed up or give up, my friend!" Sonic shouted, bolting off to find the light blue hedgehog. Somewhere out in a grassy Meadow, Sonic spotted his copy gazing at a golden butterfly in awe, an odd feeling creeping through Sonic's head, until he realized that he was chasing Metal Sonic. Metal jolted up, glaring at Sonic, and took off again, the darker blue Hedgehog following close behind. "Hey, Metal! WAIT UP!" Sonic shouted, soon breaking the sound barrier. The unwell hedgehog sped up too, also breaking the sound barrier, (and used what used to be his overdrive) shooting four times faster than Sonic, and blasted past the resistance that was making their way back to their base. Metal floored it into the woods, Sonic no longer on his tail, but the light blue hedgehog began to cough up blood, the deep wound on his chest now taking it's toll on him. In the far corner of Metal's vision, he could see Sonic approaching, a worried look on his face. The light blue badnik grimaced.

"Fair fight Sonic, you win." Metal croaked, still glaring at the darker blue hedgehog even though he was about to pass out.

"Dude, I didn't wanna claim victory over you! I wanted to get you back to the resistance base to help treat your injuries! Where basically one! I only killed you before because you were a bad guy!"Sonic reassured.

"Not helping my situation." Metal wheezed blacking out on the spot. "Well shit." sonic cursed, his eyes going wide. The dark blue hedgehog picked up his doppelganger, racing against time to get to the resistance base. Sonic stopped at the base door, not knowing if he was about to regret bringing Metal Sonic, who could still be just as dangerous if not more than his assassin Android self, into the resistance base. The nervous hedgehog shoved his worries aside, opening the base door, walking in, and shutting it behind him. The resistance members that were sent out earlier that morning, turned to look at Sonic and the badnik, beginning to bombard him with questions.

"Is he dead?!"

 "Did you kill him?!"

 "Who is he?!"

 "The only one that can go faster than you is Metal Sonic!!!"

 "Does Tails know you're back???"

 "Can we experiment on it??!!"

Sonic ignored them all, running down the hall until he found the medical bay. Sonic busted open the door, dashing over to one of the beds and calling over a nurse that just finished her lunch break. Sonic placed an oxygen mask over his copies mouth, the nurse grabbing a bag of IV fluids and attaching it to a needle.

"So, who is this "friend" of yours, Sonic?" The nurse asked as she inspected the wound on Metals chest and determined what was to be done about his eye after setting his arm into a splint.

"Well... shit, how do I get out of this? Hypothetically, if I were to say this were my copy -  but in a mobian form, would you believe me?" Sonic bluffed, trying to put on his poker face. The nurse chuckled.

"This is Metal Sonic, just organic, isn't it?" The nurse face palmed and grinned at the guilty hedgehog. "You suck at lying. Word will probably spread to the others. You should tell them before rumors are morphed!" The nurse stated her smile fading.

 "You want me to do wHat? Sonic asked, his voice cracking. "I don't know... I think we should wait and ask Metal himself when he wakes up."

 "Well, it's your decision. You're the leader of the resistance." The nurse shrugged. "I have to go to a long-ass meeting. I'll be back in 3 hours. Until then, watch your look-a-like carefully, and if anything happens, wake him up very carefully. With that nasty stab wounds so deep and close to his heart, we can't risk anything." she advised, walking out of the room.

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(Authors note)

Phew! I wrote this story a long time ago, and let me just say - it shows. I only recently have had the courage to publish it but holy crap did it need a lot of editing! It won't be a long story but If anyone likes it so far you can thank a fever dream!

I'm outta here! ;)