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Surge had been causing a lot of chaos. That chaos caused a few civillian's death.
Now people were demanding for the police, the military, the diamond cutters, and especially sonic to do something.
And after the metal virus sonic knew he couldn't let her walk free this time, and that despite what he desperately wants, he can't afford hand out a second chance.
"So sonic, what are we going to do about her? We can't let her roam free you know-" Tails says before sonic cuts him off.
"I'm thinking! I'm thinking tails. Just... I know what I'm going to do, we're going to send her to a special jail that can contain her... I need to figure some things out." Sonic goes to leave, then turns to tails, "I know you've been going through a hard time, but I need you to get GUN to make preparations to hold her, and hopefully prepare her to get help, like therapy"
"You can count on me sonic" tails smiles.
"Im glad I can buddy" sonic smiles and runs out. "I'm going to try and figure out how we can capture her
Sonic knows what to do. He needs to get her detained. He already knows how he can, if he puts some real effort in, even get someone like shadow to help it should be easy. But he can tell that she's hurting. And both her and kit deserve a chance to move past what happened and live a better life.
But it's clear now that she's a risk to everyone. And sonic can't have the same thing that happened with me tinker happen again.
But sonic is struggling to grapple with what he has to do. Lately, he's slowed down and chilled with his friends. But that also mean that he hasn't been doing things to keep his mind occupied, meaning he's had to confront a lot of what's happened within the past few years that he never gave himself time to process. From chaos, to shadow, to chip, to me tinker, to sage, and to surge. And everything.
He almost fell apart. Almost. He talked with amy about it. He felt a little better but she seems stressed about it...
But thing is, he didn't know what to do. How to process his feelings. He's never done it before. He's always moved on after everything. He's always repressed it.
So that's maybe why he came here. To the chaotix's office. He would have gone to vanilla's house but vanilla is more of a shoulder to lean on, and she hasn't exactly been through similar things to sonic so she couldn't teach him ways to cope that actually work outside of the typical advice of not isolating and blah blah blah.
He knows that what he needs to deal with when it comes to surge will be a cherry on-top of his already messy mental state. So maybe for once, he needs to talk to an adult. he never thought he'd think that but here we are. Sonic might not be a teenager anymore. But his frontal lobe still has not developed. Especially after all of the trauma.
He knocks on the door. Vector answers.
"Oh sonic, what's up? You here to help us with a job?"
"Uhh. Maybe later. But I need... To talk to you..." Sonic says putting on a confident smile that hides how nervous he feels. He doesn't even know why he feels so nervous. Maybes it's because he doesn't typically ask for help. He's never really needed it.
"Sure, come on in" vector says sounding a bit concerned. They walk in, "is this more of a private thing?"
"I'd prefer it to be" sonic mutters. Vector nods, they walk past espio and charmy who are doing their own things. And vector takes sonic to the crammed back room which holds a bunch of files of documents.
"So what's happening kiddo?" He asks.
"Uhm, well. How do you deal with having to do a bad thing for the greater good?"
"Is this about that lightning lady?"
"Yeah. I think I have to detain her. And get GUN to lock her up. But she's hurting. Both her and kit. They... They deserve ho but hey refuse to get it."
"That sounds tough. I'm not really the type to be able to redeem folks like you can. But I'm sure whatever choice you make will be great." He smiles reassuringly
"But what if it's not? What if it turns out like me tinker-" sonic snaps then cuts himself off and sighs. "I have made up my mind. I'm going to detain her. But, this and everything else that's happened, especially recently. I don't know what I'm going to do next. I don't know how to move on and be okay."
Vector is a bit taken it back. But then looks around then back at sonic. "It's okay to feel bad about these situations. But remember, this isn't your fault, you're doing what you know is best. And you can decide what to do to move on once you cross that bridge." He says like he's saying something profound.
Sonic tenses. That isn't what he needs to hear. He feels like he's going to fall apart if anything else happens. He knows it's okay to feel bad. That it's just apart of being human. But for him, for sonic the hedgehog, falling apart isn't an option. And he needs to be told and figure out how to keep himself together in a healthy way. He doesn't need to hear that 'its not his fault' and everything else vector said.
"But what do i-" sonic is cut off by charmy yelling out
"VECTOR! A CLIENT IS HERE!"
"COMING!" Vector yells before getting up and turning to sonic, "glad I could help sonic" he smiles. Sonic smiles back. He tries to bring himself to say something. But anything he can muster he holds back as it sounds overly mean or sarcastic. Which is not something vector deserves.
Sonic takes a deep breath.
That's okay. He can ask someone else. Maybe Amy? But she's been so stressed out lately. Tails? No, not only is he stressed out but he's only a kid. Shouldn't handle his older brother's burdens. Shadow? Ehh, shadow wouldn't really care, or maybe he would?. And even if he did... Not like shadow has better coping mechanisms. Who else would be able to give him advice who he is 1, comfortable with and 2, knows how to handle this stuff, and 3, is doing okay, and can handle him.
No one, no one off the top of Sonic's head.
As sonic exits the chaotix's office he sees some explosions in the distance. Trouble. Sonic can't help but feel both giddy and dread. He sprints to the scene. And sees surge and kit causing havock.
Looks like sonic is out of time to change his mind.
"SURGE! I'm giving you one chance to come with me peacefully to get help. This ends now!"
"YOURE RIGHT! this ends now! only One of us will walk away from this!" She screams, smiling cruelly.
"Im not going to kill you" sonic says scoffing.
"THEN ILL KILL YOU!" She yells, jumping towards him, electricity running through the bones in her fingertips. He almost reacts too late but dodges and kicks her to the floor.
They start fighting. Of course sonic barely breaks a sweat, while surge gives it her all. Eventually tails and some soldiers come in. But they only make it worse.
As surge attacks sonic she then laughs maniacally, then Sonic's heart drops as she mutters "if I can't kill you... I'll hurt you!", she suddenly turns around to electrocute tails, sonic pounces on her to tackle her, she reaches for his throat and manages to start to electrocute her.
Through the yelling, feeling of being shocked and the other chaos happening, it is sliced to silence by a singular gunshot. Then the electrocution stops. Sonic takes this as a chance to kick surge off of him. But he opens his eyes to find blood on his shoe. He sits up to see surge laying still.
They shot her. He immediately crawls over to check her. She's still awake. The bullet hit her lungs.
"Get a medic over here now!" Sonic shouts. A medic runs over as soldiers go to apprehend kit. But not resists and goes to tackle tails to use him as a human shield. But tails thinks quickly and quickly places a device to taze kit. As kit is restrained by soldiers he comes out of his daze and screams at tails.
"IF THAT WERE SINIC YOUD BE MAD TOO!"
the rest of the next few minutes is a blur. They're taken away. Sonic and tails are left standing in the middle of the street.
Sonic's mind is racing. That just happened. And not only did it just happen and freedom was stripped away for not and surge. But now surge is very possibly going to die. Well probably not considering a medic got to her quickly... But still! That is almost the worst case scenario!
No time to ask anyone how to cope with this. Uhh what usually helps? Going in a run. Yeah. Going on a run.
Sonic goes to run off but then hears a sniffle come from tails. He turns around to see tails hold back tears.
"Are you okay little buddy?" Sonic says kneeling down to tails
"Not really... That was bad huh...? Is she going to die?"
"No. It's going to be okay. We'll help them." He says pulling tails into a hug.
Sonic takes a deep breath and pushes everything down. He needs to be there for tails. Tails is only a kid. He needs to be comforted. Sonic CANNOT fall apart on him
"How about we go and get some... Mints?" Sonic asks. Tails nods.
They walk off feeling a bit shaken up, but sonic gives a reassuring smile despite his new found internal crisis.