章 35: Chapter 35
Sonic and Sonja ran into the next room. Sonic, for once, was the one locking the door. He couldn't risk Mr. Smuggles getting in. Immediately, he turned to Sonja. "Sonja, are you okay? Did he getcha?" He asked. She was looking down at the line where the wall met the floor. Sonic heard gasps and sobbing. "Sonja...?"
"Sonic..." Sonja whimpered, she turned to Sonic. The tears in full flow down her face. Sonic's expression grew sad as he took in the sorrow his friend was in. It was contagious. She turned her gaze back to the wall. "I can't believe you would do that..."
"Do what?" Sonic asked, putting both his hands on his chest. His heart rate was still off the charts. "Sonja, did I do something wrong?"
Sonja looked at his hurt face. She would say that he killed her best friend. But she knew he wouldn't take that too well. For all he knew, he was saving her from another terrible monster. But at the same time, it didn't feel like he felt any remorse for what he had done, only how she reacted.
She exhaled. "No, no..." Sonja sighed. "It's just... whatever... We need to keep moving."
Sonic looked concerned. "Alright. Tell me if I bother you..." He sighed. Sonja didn't respond. They stayed like that for a while, just moving along down the hall. Then, they heard it again. The voice from inside the walls.
"Haha! My friends, my friends!" The voice cried. Sonic jumped, and Sonja looked all around her.
"Who are you?" Sonja called out.
"Yeah, man, what's the matter with you?" Sonic shouted. "Get lost unless you're going to tell us what's going on here!"
"Aw, but wouldn't that just ruin the fun of it all?" The voice asked.
"What part of this is fun?" Sonja replied with another question. She seemed angered.
"Aw, are you saying you're not amused?" The voice sobbed. Sonic could tell he was faking tears, but Sonja seemed convinced. "Ha! Then maybe we should crank up the heat!" There was a sound of a switch being pulled. "Let's play a game of chase... YOU LOSE, YOU DIE!" The voice cackled.
A trap door at the other side of the hallway opened, and out of it came more of those monsters Sonic and Sonja had seen before. The ones that poorly resembled Sonic's animal friends. Huge bears with four mouths ran forward, along with detached rat heads that had legs and tails on their back ends. Skeletal dogs that appeared similar to dogs you could see on Earth. So many monster incarnations of animals. And they were approaching fast. Immediately, Sonic turned to Sonja. Sonic could outrun these guys just fine, but Sonja would lag behind. Unless...
"Sonja, I have an idea, and you need to listen to me!" Sonic stated, dead serious. Sonja nodded. "We have to Double Boost, we don't stand a chance against all these guys."
"Double Boost?" Sonja asked, shaking her head. "I don't even know what that is!"
"Just trust me," Sonic said. His voice was precise and careful. He held up his fist. "We can start it... with a fist bump!"
"Ok...?" Sonja questioned, not quite sure of how this was supposed to work. She held up her fist. The two floated up into the air as their fists glowed a sky blue.
"Next, we have to synchronize our heart beats..." Sonic informed Sonja. "Do you feel your heart beat?" Sonja nodded. She very much felt it. It was beating right out of her chest! She wanted to scream at Sonic to do something already! "Slow and steady, slow and steady... Breathe."
Sonja looked to her side, and saw that the monsters had almost caught up with them. So she bolted forward. Sonic tried to deliver a fist bump, but instead hit thin air as the two stumbled forward. The monsters were gaining on them. The monsters were right behind them, when, grasping at each other's finger tips, they finally got a hold of one another's hand!
They boosted forward in a blue and white blur at speeds not even Sonic could reach alone, leaving the monsters in the dust. They ran down the corridor, dodging monster animals as they burst through the walls and out of the floor. Their minds had become one as they ran forward, almost always synchronizing their actions with the other. But their energy was faltering. There was a haphazardly made wall in their way, which they broke right through. They received not a scratch.
"A rocky transition there, but the beginning isn't everything!" Sonic exclaimed. "We've got each other, and we have power and speed on our side!" He looked over to Sonja, who seemed to be thrilled by this sudden burst of energy she was experiencing. They kept running forward, until their energy faltered. The speed came to an instant stop as they hurdled forward.
They crashed right into another wall and fell to the ground. They could hear the stampede of monsters gaining behind them. Sonic got up and held his head. "That's not good..." He groaned.
"Well, what now?" Sonja asked. She was in a panic.
"Hmm..." Sonic thought to himself, taking his precious time. The monsters would soon be approaching to tear them apart. "Well, we're stuck at a dead end. There's no doors to run into, and soon ugly, horrible monsters will come to presumably eat us."
"And?" Sonja asked.
"And I don't know what to do!" Sonic cried. He pulled out the hourglass from his bag. Familiarity glinted in Sonja's eyes. "This thing has to have some sort of on switch to make us travel through time like earlier, right? That I keep managing to press by accident through my bag?"
"That hourglass..." Sonja whispered. She looked at it in disdain. She didn't like it for some reason.
"Do I turn it upside down, or something? That's usually what you do with these," Sonic asked, turning the hourglass upside down. Instantly, the monsters coming their way stopped as they disappeared from sight.
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