Chapter 63

"No! Shut up!" Sonic hissed, making a motion with his hand like zipping up a bag. Pico looked at him in shock and disbelief.

"Pa..." Pico whined. Tears made their way into his eyes.

"No! You zip it, you oversized throw pillow!" Sonic hissed again, not even acknowledging what were Pico's first words towards him. Pico almost jumped back. Sonic stamped onto the ground, making a visible crack in solid concrete. He swore in his head that he didn't mean to hit the ground that hard. "I've had it up to here with you. Just shut your mouth before you get us all killed!"

Everyone stared at Sonic dumbfoundedly. Even Tails. Tails, his best friend for his whole life, was mad at him and it was all this stupid little runt's fault. At least, that's what was going through Sonic's irrational mind.

"Well fine!" Sonic shouted at Tails, ignoring the fact that he wanted everyone else to be quiet. "If you like him so much, why don't you go be his best friend? Oh, look at me! I'm Pico! I'm 'cute' and annoying just for the HELL OF IT!" Sonic imitated trumpet sounds and whines repeatedly. He had completely lost it.

"Uh, Sonic?" Tails asked.

"Oh, what? You don't like me making fun of that stupid rejected piece of dino food?" Sonic asked, mockingly. He knew what he was saying was horrible and completely uncalled for, but he was so mad he didn't even care. What an ungrateful child. He had saved Pico, after all. "This little shit had it coming to him!"

Sonic lunged for Pico, his fur flashing black and his bracelet gem glowing purple for a second. He was going to hurt Pico. Badly. All of this rage had been boiling up in him since the Death Egg, and he was finally going to let it all out on Pico the baby Woolly Mammoth. Maybe he'd hit him against the wall. Maybe he would make him eat dirt. Maybe he would make an incision in his stomach and tear through his insides with his bare hands. Maybe he'd do everything Zavok did to him and worse. He was Sonic, after all. He knew he was stronger.

Sonja, in one swift motion, reached her arm forward and punched Sonic hard in the nose with both her fist and a harsh reality check. Sonic went flying to the ground, which he made a strong impact with. Blood leaked from a loose tooth from the punch. He instantly turned over, regret washing over him like a scalding shower.

"Sonja..." Sonic mumbled. He saw everyone circling him. Even Tails. "Whoa there, guys. I didn't mean to... I wasn't going to hurt him that bad!" Sonic lied. "I was just gonna give him a little spanking, you know how it goes!" Sonic made a spanking motion in the air.

Everyone looked down at him with a mix of anger and pity. Pico looked horrified, but still had a loving tinge in his eyes. That wasn't the case for Buck, Sonja and Tails however. It felt like any respect or care they had for Sonic was gone. Crushed into little bits of dust.

Sonic felt they were going to hurt him as they closed in. His irrationality twisted their now concerned faces into grinning, angry expressions. "No..." Sonic said, holding up his arm. "You all get away from me!"

Sonic, still on the ground, swiped his leg and hand under everyone but Sonja. Knocking them off their feet. He Drop Dashed the other way as the others fell onto the ground. He then broke out into a mad dash. He didn't know where he was going, he didn't pay mind to the fact that the sand in the hourglass was now floating up to the other side of the glass. He just ran.

But then, there was a rumbling sound from beneath the ground. The rumbling grew closer, as Sonic completely stopped. He had to focus on balancing as to not fall over. If he tried to run he would just fall instantly.

So he just stopped.

After a while of this, the ground began to crack. Something was hitting it from below. Sonic was bounced up slightly into the air. Then, the ground in front of him shattered into a hundred pieces as a large, dark, shadowy figure burst from the ground.

It grabbed him. "No! Stop!" He shrieked. He broke into another sneezing fit. He was in grave danger. This thing wanted to kill him. And so it did. It grabbed him, and threw him into its mouth. Sonic fell through it, feeling as though he was in a never-ending void.

He fell and fell, until he felt himself dissolve. It started on his hand, and grew up his arm. Looking over, he had no arm left to speak of. Then, it continued. His whole body was digested inside this black hole.

His body was devoured, and his soul crushed to bits inside this being. Content and satisfied with its meal, it slithered away back into the ground.

Bad ending reached: "Devoured"

To undo Sonic's fate, go back to Chapter 62