TekkaSonic...Part Three: Broken Hearts Can't Be Fixed By DemonKlaw ============================================================================ Characters portrayed in this story belong to DIC, Archie comics and SEGA Inc. Inspirational material provided by Tekkaman/Teknoman: the series. Planets and BION are trademarks of Terminal Reality corp. and Microsoft. Mach the Porcupine, Amelia Grayfox, Tom Weasel and DemonKlaw are creations of Nabeel Mohammed and are not to be used without expressive written permission by the aforementioned person. Somebody said that I was just looking for stuff to put here...uhh...am not! Ultra the Bat/BlackWing is copyright Chris Mack. ============================================================================ Author's note: For the best reading, I suggest that you listen to Killer Cuts the CD while reading this story. At the end, I have placed a listener's reference as to what track to listen to while reading what part. Cool, huh? Oh, and please contact me at cybermohd@trinidad.net if you would like to see my best friend Dominic Fernandes as his alter ego, "Scourge the Raccoon," in chapter four! He's an ace pilot with a knack for getting razzed, but his buddy always pulls him out of it! He's the only real "friend" that Mach has. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Lowdown: Sonic and Knuckles are going on an expedition around the city to find out the reports of other Teknowarriors are true. Meanwhile, Sally is recovering and Bunnie is there to help. Amy Rose still dosen't know that Knuckles is her half-brother and she may die soon.The megalith robot Twin Clawz has arrived and is patrolling the city and Anubis is experiencing "emotions" even though he is a class Phoenix leader 'borg. Life is hell. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Knuckles stepped out of the tent, his hair tied behind him in an uncharacteristic ponytail, rather than his dreadlocks. It swayed behind him as he strode towards the other tent. Inside, Rotor was attending to Amy Rose. She lay there on the bed, awake, yet visibly in pain. Her eyes widened when she saw Knuckles' head pop into the tent entrance. She sat up and motioned for him to enter. Rotor eyed the situation and decided that a moment alone was in the need for these two. "Hi...Knuckles..." she strained. Knuckles felt a knot at the pit of his stomach. It panged in an achingly curving arch of burning sensation. He wanted to tell her that they had the same father, that he was her brother. That he would take care of her. Instead, he settled for mussing up h er quills and greeting her. "Well, well, bad boy, I like the new 'do." She giggled at him. "Oh, yeah." Knuckles rolled his eyes and frowned, it hadn't been his choice, and the armor didn't fit any other way. He looked into her eyes for a minute, thinking about all he had missed by not being there for her, not even telling her. He sighed and lo oked down. "Sonic and I are gonna go check out a few reports of trouble around the city." "Oh?" she grinned broadly, "trouble for us or the Bions?" "Strangely enough, for the Bions," he chuckled. "We heard about two, maybe three more warriors out there. We gotta find 'em and let 'em join up with us." She slipped back onto the cot and let out a heavy sigh. Even sitting up had become a chore. The armor didn't agree with her particular body, anyhow, no way. Her body ached fiercely and she had sweated all night. Knuckles saw the obvious strain and leaned over her to give her a kiss. "Gee, Knux," she murmured, the sedative taking effect, "you're gonna be all...alone ^yawn^ when you go out there." He watched her fall asleep, then crept out of the tent into the early morning sun. "All alone," he muttered. * * * (1) Sally drenched her face in the cool water from the sink. She held it there for a minute, then reached for a towel and cleaned up. Throwing on a robe over herself, she stepped into the living room where Bunnie dozed on the couch. Sally walked out onto the balcony and looked through the early morning haze at the city's heart. She thought about all she had lost. She lost her one true love, Sonic, she lost her kingdom, again and she lost the closest thing she had to a son. "Oh, Tails..." she moaned softly. * * * Miles strolled down the streets, his head bowed. It didn't matter where he was, where he was going or where he thought he was. All that mattered was how far away from Sally he was. He had been walking since last night, stopping only once to get a bite to eat. His childhood lost, tarnished beyond happiness, he could no longer feel happy. "Tails? Is that you, kid?" Miles looked up in terror. He didn't recognize the voice, or who would still know him as 'Tails.' He saw no one before him, so he turned around. There, in trench coat two sizes too big, clutching at the collar and turning to face him, was a face that pul led him back to his childhood. Memories of two friends, whom he had watched fall in love. "Amelia? Oh my goddess!" Miles lunged at her and tackled her into an emphatic embrace. "Tails! It's been so long!" Amelia Grayfox trilled, pushing her arms back into the coat arms to hug him back. She pushed her red hair out of her two-tone eyes and went down on one knee to level herself to the cub. "Where have you been? Where's Sonic and Sally?" "Sally..." Miles looked uncomfortable, "she's...okay. Bunnie too." "But, what about..." she looked hesitant, almost tentative. "Sonic?" Miles felt the tears tug at his eyes, but he stifled them back with visible effort. "I...I don't know. I think he's...h-he..." "Shh, kid," she said, knowing that he should go no further. "It's okay. I didn't mean him, I meant Amy Rose." "I don't know." Tails sighed. He pulled out a small item from his pocket and dangled it in front of Amelia's eyes. "This is all I have to remember her by." Amelia grasped the object and held it in her gloved paw. A small heart shaped pendant. She turned it over and read the inscription on the back. It read: "To Amy, I will always love you." Amelia released it and Miles shoved it back down into his jacket. "But, what about you, Amelia? What about you and Mach?" Amelia sniffled a bit. "Well," she began, "a few days before the invasion, Mach and I were supposed to get married. But he... he started getting quiet, almost cold. Then, when the invasion started, he brought me to his hideaway outside the city and left." She looked away from Tails. "I haven't seen him since." She let her tears drop. "Are you still waiting for him?" Miles asked, cautiously. "Tails," she said, " I love him more than anyone will ever know. But..." she sighed, "he just hasn't been there for me lately..." "You're moving on?" "You make it seem as if I left him..." she joked, "but I've met someone. His name is Tom, and I'm living with him now." "But what if Mach comes back?" Tails squeaked. "He's not coming back GODDAMN IT!" she shrieked. Then she saw the hurt look in Miles face and put her hand on his shoulder "if...if he does come back...I-I don't know. I love him, I still do, it's just that Tom has cared for me, and...well, things just happened so quickly..." she saw the way Miles looke d at her and she averted her eyes. "I'm getting engaged tomorrow." She wrung her hands in anxiety. "You can't. Aw shit, you told him...you told him that it would last forever..." "Tails, I gotta go..." she looked around hastily, "I'll see you around," she stood up, kissed him politely and hurried down the busy street. Miles watched her go disappear into the sea of faces before he turned back the way he was going. "It's not the same love she had for Mach," he told himself, "It won't last." Cold eyes watched from above...protecting Amelia. * * * (2) Anubis mulled over his programming changes. Yes, this would definitely turn TwinClawz into a fighting machine. His hand grazed the table and scratched its glowing surface. His eyes flashed as he transmitted a signal to the guard outside. {{Bring the Mobian in.}} {{Yes, my lord.}} A burly Bion soldier entered the room and dragged a bundle toward Lord Anubis, deposited it at his feet, saluted and left. Anubis strolled around the bag twice, then lightly kicked it with his foot. A small groan escaped from the inside. "You are in there, aren't you?" Anubis said, in actual words. A large, bulky form slithered out of the bag and crawled to the corner, whimpering. "Dulcea? Is it Dulcea?" The dragon looked at him coldly, defiantly. When she realized that he thought nothing of it, she turned away, shamed, flustered. "I mean no harm. I want to talk." "Fuck you." The words came to her mouth and dropped right onto the floor. "I want to know about lust..." "That's why you keep me around this castle? To ask me what it's like to be alive?" she stormed, unnoticing of the fact that Anubis was advancing on her. She looked up and found herself staring at Anubis faceplate. "What now?" she spat. Anubis grabbed her, one hand pressing its fingers into her underdeveloped chest and the other cupping her crotch, and laid her onto the ground, spreading her thighs apart. Dulcy didn't have the will to fight it anymore, so she let herself go limp. He gro ped around with his left hand, slipping it farther down her crotch. When he slipped into a moist crevice, he stopped. He pulled back a little, then began to rub furiously, listening to the girl's moans as metal scraped tender, virgin female flesh... ...And feeling good. * * * (3) Sonic and Knuckles, in their regular forms, cruised through the Great Forest on their sky-boards, one of Rotor's fine achievements. They stood tall upon the flying platforms as they cruised through the forest, swerving to avoid the giant redwoods. Knuck les' face was stern as his ponytail flapped behind him. Suddenly, he was aware of an audible *wumph* at his side. When he turned to look, Sonic's sky-board was cruising along... ...without Sonic. "Sonic!!!" Knuckles curved high into the air, looking frantically for the hedgehog. "Kuckles! Help!" Sonic's small form cried out as he was carried along the tree-tops by a black form. Then, Knuckles came to notice a small fact about the figure as it moved along at high speeds below him. It was a Tekno-warrior. "TEKNO-POWER" Knuckles yelled. In an instant, the armour shredded through his skin and applied itself. CrimsonClaw swooped down on the sky-board, axe in hand. "Knuckles! Watch it!" Sonic shrieked as CrimsonClaw swiped repetitively at the dark figure. Suddenly, Sonic began to plummet to the foiliage below. Knuckles rushed toward the ground, just in time to catch the scared hedgehog. "Next time," he said, calmly, "transform." "Next time," Sonic replied, "I'll shove my damn crystal up yer ass before..." "Hmm...Sonic and Knuckles...I'm glad to see you." Sonic sprang to his feet and glanced around. Knuckles returned to regular form and looked around too. A shimmering form caught thier eyes and they turned to see a bat-like form take shape out of nothingness. "A cloaking device," Knuckles mumbled. The tall black Teknowarrior was visibly of Bat race, and heavily armoured. He stepped back from them and gracefully swept upwards to a tree-branch, dug his talons into it and dangled from it. "You can de-acitvate the armor now," Sonic said, "we are all Teknowarriors here." "I'll keep it on thanks," the bat whispered. Knuckles produced a small wooden flute from unseen pockets. He began to play it in a tune that seemed very familiar to Sonic*, a song which he heard so many years ago on Angel Island. (*The song that plays in Sonic 3 whenever Knuckles appears.) The bat began to shiver as the armor de-activated and left him defenseless. He dropped from the branch and stared up at the two, his face now clearly visible. Knuckles continued to play as a purple crystal floated out of the bat's hands and hovered above him. When he stopped abruptly, the crystal dropped onto the bat's head. "Who are you?" Sonic asked. "Ow! The name's Ultra," the bat said as he got up and dusted himself off, "I've been looking for someone who can explain this phenomenon," he indicated the purple crystal as he picked it up. "How did you know our names?" Knuckles asked, hefting the flute as if it were a weapon. "Are you kidding," Ultra said, "Antoine yakked all the time..." "Ant?!" Sonic yelled, "where is he?!?!" "I'm sorry, Sonic," Ultra lowered his head, "he died when the Bions came to take prisoners. He tried to fight them off, but then," Ultra shuddered, "they ripped his guts open. He came to me. He yelled 'aidez moi! Aidez moi!', with his guts in his hands.. ." Ultra couldn't say any more. Knuckles explained the Chaos Emerald change as Sonic went off to find his sky-board. He was weeping. * * * (4) Bunnie's eyes opened slowly, but she could make out Sally, standing on the balcony. The railing of the balcony. "Sally! No!" she shreiked as she shot up and use her metal hand to pull the princess down. Sally clutched her strongly and wept. "Bunnie," she wept, "I have nothing else...nothing." "Shh, honey, I'm still here..." Bunnie cooed. Sally looked up into Bunnie's eyes. In this early morning light, the tom-boyish rabbit looked very feminine. Sally felt very strange all of a sudden... And they kissed. But it was not a kiss of friends. The kiss was deep and loving. Sally was just as shocked as Bunnie, but enjoyed it just as much. Bunnie stared at Sally when it was over. "Sally-girl," she said softly, "what-what was that about?" "Bunnie," Sally began, "what I want to do with you is wrong, we both know it. But let me, please." "Sally, you know I'm..." "Shh." Sally took her robe off. She dropped it onto the balcony floor as she led Bunnie back into the apartment. Bunnie, although stunned, allowed herself to be seated on the couch as Sally kneeled before her. Sally began to kiss Bunnie's metal thigh. T he cold touch at her lips excited her and she longed for more. She reached up and peeled Bunnie's top off of her firm chest. Her breasts shook as they burst free of thier confines. Sally moved her back onto the couch and began to tounge her nipples. Bunnie reached down to where Sally's spread legs straddled her own strong legs and felt the warm junction of the thighs. Sally cooed in delight, putting her own hand there and guiding Bunnie to the exact spot... "Oh yes Bunnie," she moaned, "you're still here." * * * (5) Amelia unlocked the door and stepped in. She shook off her coat and hung it on the rack, straightening her blouse. She stepped into the next room to greet Tom. The third story apartment was unusually cold as she looked around for Tom. But Tom was on the floor, bleeding. "Oh God! Tom!" She rushed to his side and helped him up as he put his hands to his scarred face. "Amelia...who was he?" the weasle groaned as he leaded on the couch. "Who?" she said, stunned. "He...came...through..the window. He said...to stay away from you. His head...metal...a metal quill...on his head..." "Oh my God," she saw the open window. "Did he say what his name was?" Tom thought hard for a moment as he eased down onto the couch. "He said...to call him DemonKlaw." ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Well, well, can we sense a little match here? Anyway, what we really want to know is what's gonna happen with Sally and Bunnie? Wow, this is really beginning to suck, huh? Don't worry, Sonic will save the day...I think. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ================ Listener's Index: Killer Cuts ================ (1)Track 5: "It's A Jungle" |-| /| |---| | | / / | I| (2)Track 13: "Ya Ha Haa" | | / / | I| | | / / | I| (3)Track 11: "Trailblazer" | | / / | I| | / / ILLER | I|NSTINCT (4)Track 8: "The Instinct" | \ \ | I| | | \ \ | I| (5)Track 12: "Tooth & Claw" | | \ \ | I| | | \ \ \\\||