Im Not Worth Your Time

05. Fire And Stars

Tails lands on the runway in front of the hide out dropping Sonic and Amy on the ground gently, the two hedgehogs holding baskets of food from a nearby market that was close to their place.

"Man, those prices were something else" Sonic says looking through the bag.

"We could have gotten them for free Sonic" Amy says crossing her arms as they started walking towards the giant metal door.

"Eh, If you ask me, it's better to just be honest and pay the full price. It was nice of that old lady to give us a discount though" Sonic responds, picking up an apple from one of baskets.

Tails trails behind them, not wanting to speak to Sonic as him and Amy continued to debate whether it would have been better to get their food for free or to pay anyway, then Tails looks up towards the door and notices it's open. His eyes go wide, no one besides Knuckles was there and he didn't go outside at this time of day.

"Guys" Tails says, horror clearly displayed on his face.

"3 in e-currency is better than 6" Sonic says, not hearing Tails.

"Yeah but she was so insistent on giving it to us for free! She said we saved her grand daughter a year ago" Amy responds.

"What can I say? It's all in a day's work" Sonic responds, throwing his hands up.

"Guys!" Tails says louder.

This time they hear him and turn around, Tails points at the door, the hedgehogs look back towards the door and Sonic does now notice that the door was left open.

"Crap" Sonic says, in a flash he runs towards the door and what he sees horrifies him.

Inside, The Four Seasons and Knuckles were in the heat of battle the workshop was a mess, tools and ripped papers scattered about, shell casings and laser burns littering the ground. Sonic watches as Autumn comes from above, planting a drop kick on Knuckles' back, throwing him forwards, Summers foot flies into his face.

The agile fox then proceeding to pummel the daylights out of Knuckles as he reeled from the concussion the kick caused. Spring jumps from atop the tarpped object in the centre of the room, spinning in the air, grabbing Knuckles as she spun, causing him to fly up backwards the world spinning as she finally landed and slammed the echidna on the ground.

Winter steps on Knuckles' chest, pulling a knife from his belt, about to plunge it into the struggling echidna's lungs.

"No hard feelings warrior" Winter says, his mask hiding his guilt in what he was about to do.

"No!" Sonic shouts, unable to watch anymore of what he was seeing, he speeds in and knocks Winter off of Knuckles with a spin dash, the wolf slides on his feet coming to a stop near the chair.

Summer unsheathes a dagger from his belt and takes a swing at Sonic who dodges the attack and punches Summer in the face throwing him backwards.

Spring presses a button, now seeing as their opponents speed would be a problem, she could now predict and track Sonic's speedy attacks. She pulls a pair of batons from her belt and charges at Sonic, the hedgehog dodges the first swing but doesn't see the next one and is struck in the cranium with the second stick. She kicks Sonic in the stomach and takes a second to combine the batons into her staff and cracks Sonic in the ribs sending him flying like a baseball into the catwalk above them.

Amy is next to come in, wielding her piko hammer, she attacks a recovering Summer who rolls out of the way before she had the chance to make him a pancake. Summer goes into his utility belt and pulls out a pair of brass knuckles.

"I don't like hurting girls" Summer says raising his hands into a fighting stance.

"And girls don't like when you hurt their friends!" Amy shouts, taking a swing at Summer who drops to the floor, rolls out of the way and throws himself at Amy, Superman punching her, the blow hitting her square in the face, she stumbles backwards as Autumn tosses a lasso which wraps around her neck.