The Restoration

<div id="i4c-draggable-container" style="position: fixed; z-index: 1499; width: 0px; height: 0px;"><div data-reactroot="" class="resolved" style="all: initial;"></div></div>"So..." Amy Rose began to say. ", you really don't remember anything else?"

After the short reunion between me and the Rabbits, the Restoration leaders (basically Sonic, Amy, Tails and Knuckles), Amy decided to interrogate me with the others watching, starting by asking me if I remembered anything else from my past.

You know, with that hammer and knowing how obsessed she is with Sonic, she kind of reminds me of Harley Quinn, only good, smaller, and (as far as I know) unable to kill.

"No."

"Don't remember Infinite, the occupation that lasted five months, the battles between your robots and the Resistance?" She asked in an accusatory way.

"No. Well, I do remember about the occupation, but I have no idea of who this Infinite is." I replied in with a sincere tone. I really didn't remember anything, lest of all because I never played Sonic games.

"Amy, we told you already, he doesn't remember a lot of things from his life." Charmy said. "And I'm pretty sure by now he's not faking it. I mean, I asked him if he knew of Silver and Blaze and he stared at me with a stupid expression and everything! No offense."

"None taken, still don't know who those two are." No, seriously, I didn't know who they were, only that they existed. "And I'm not that smart anymore. Well, still am, but more about solving practical problems." I would quote the Engie a lot more in the future, for the simple fact I wanted to. Plus, Team Fortress didn't exist here, so as far as they knew anything that came from my mouth that involved west, guns and mechanical devices was completely of my making.

Amy sighed.

"Okay, I guess it's true, you really don't remember anything. Well, anything important."

"He also made our lives better." Vanilla chimed in. "Well, were didn't have it bad before he arrived, but he obviously wanted to help, to atone for what he did." She said as she smiled at me, a smile that I returned.

And then Knuckles shatters the good ambiance by being the skeptic asshole of the day.

"Now that's what I call a bunch of pahoey." Knuckles spat. ", he's just waiting for us to lower our guards."

He was asking for it, and besides

"Says the guy who's only two steps away from leveling anything near his precious precious just for existing." Yeah, I called the Master Emerald a precious precious.

"Precious precious?"

"We-" Began to say Vector before a glare from his fellow detectives 'reminded' him of what actually happened. ", well, I told him of Knuckles and his job as the guardian of the Master Emerald. And his obsession with it." He muttered the last part, as to not anger the already irated echidna further.

"He's not obsessed with the Master Emerald, or Angel Island for that matter!" Amy whispered back.

"Amy, he goes ballistic if anyone that's not him even looks funny at the emerald. We get some slack because we're his friends, but believe me, I saw it happen. Why do you think aircraft don't fly near it?" Espio replied.

"I'll ask you something." I said, ignoring their little conversation that despite being whispered I could heard perfectly. "Do any of you have any idea of how much damage can a piece of lead weighing 1 metric ton do if it impacts into the ground at a speed of fifteen kilometers per second?" Yes, I was using kinetic bombardment as an example, sue me.

Naturally, none of them had the answer, but Tails, being the genius and engineer he is, only needed a couple seconds to calculate it, judging by his gradually wider eyes and how was he looking at me, even when I made a gesture saying 'I'm not serious'.

"The equivalent of a bit more than twenty five tons of explosives going off at the same time." I replied, earning bewildered and scared looks from the group. "Say, do you know much damage could your island, which HAS to weight at least several thousand tons, do if it fell to the ground at sufficient speed, maybe because some echidna eventually became so obsessed with some random magic rock, or decided just like a black hedgehog that someone who was a villain will remain a villain, no matter how sincere they are at the attempts at becoming good people, and decided to take matters into his own hands by dropping an entire island on his head?"

It happened... not fast enough: he screamed that I was going to get it, the others dogpile on him and he shoves them back, he jumps at me with his left hand ahead and tightened into a fist...

None of the mobians present expected me to catch his fist with my good hand, twist around and slam him into the ground, my hand still grabbing his. Not hard enough to crack the floor or break his face, but enough that he'd get the point (at least when combined with his friends holding him down): DON'T PISS ME OFF.

Okay, a bit of explanation of why I was a jerkass to Knuckles. First, he acted nearly exactly like Shadow, only I this time I didn't want to fight him. Second, as for why I (technically, since he started it) provoked him...

You know who else became obsessed with something so bad that became evil? Sméagol, Big Smoke, that guy from Indiana Jones 4, and a plethora others guys that sought power and ended up being corrupted by it (or in the case of Sméagol didn't, but became obsessed, then a goblin-freak). Yeah, most of them weren't good people to begin with (sans Sméagol), and in Knuckles' case it's more of a job that he really didn't like because it made him watch over a gemstone 24/7 unless in dire situations, and for damn good reasons (one of them being me), but still.

I'm also a bit... okay, completely biased against him because of Ugandan Knuckles. I mean, c'mon, it wouldn't exist if he didn't!

Ok, ranting done, back to the interrogation.

"Mr. Eggman, that was mean!" Cream exclaimed in an angry tone.

"He was mean to me first Cream, and I don't like jerks that refuse to see the truth." I softly said to her before turning back to Knuckles, who was glaring up at me. "Kid." I said as I pulled him up, trying my damnest to not punch his face in, if only because I'd have to do it with my broken arm. Crushing his hand slowly... well, it would have looked a wee bit more sinister than a punch. ", you do that again, I'll beat you like a rented mule, and believe me, now I beat HARD." I said, putting emphasis on 'hard'.

"You started it by saying... all of what you said!" He screamed as I let go of his hand.

"Your own darn fault for acting exactly like Shadow. You know."

"Yeah, he kicked your butt."

"No, I was a match for him, enough to pulverize his hand. And according to Sonic he's the 'Ultimate Lifeform'. Whatever that means."

Knuckles looked at me, then back at his friends, who glared/nodded frantically at him."

"Whatever." He scoffed. "You go back at being a bad guy. I'll put you down for good."

"Kid, at this rate you'll be the one that will become a bad guy and will have to be put down, even if I become 'evil' again."

"Again with that?!" He screamed at me before breathing deeply several times and speaking again, this time more calmly, relatively speaking. "And when, and wy would you destroy me, mmm?"

"Only if your obsession reaches a point... your friends might not do anything, but from me you'll get a...." I began to say before remembering that Tails, Cream and maybe Charmy were not even ten. Getting close to him and whispering it was out of the question too; aside from, well, looking evil, we weren't the only ones in the room. "I won't say it in front of kids, but trust me, whatever I would do would be much, much nastier than a fist to the face."

Like, say, a double-barrelled magnetically assisted Winchester repeater up his behind. Not to be fired, just shoved.

It wasn't Eggman's temper that was flared, it was MY temper; I'm not your average SI, you know it by know, if you make me angry, I will kick your ass to hell and back unless you apologize, and neither Shadow nor Knuckles apologized, nor admitted I was capable of being good. And hey, just because I'm good now doesn't mean I have to be nice.

"Knuckles, give him a chance." Tails said.

"Yeah, cut the guy some slack will you? He decides to leave his villanous past behind, decides to do some good by building weird but useful things." Sonic lists. "He even got shot defending Floral Forest man!"

"Fine, fine, I'll give him a chance!" "Now, if you excuse, I have to go back to that island I'm sooo obsessed with to watch over that 'magical rock' I'm sooo obsessed because it can destroy the world wrong hands. Bye!" With that he walked out of the room, leaving us alone.

That still is not an apology in my book.

"Oookay, now that the not-actually-evil threats are over... What do you plan to do?"

"Make more wind turbines, branch to solar panels, hovercars, make commercial space travel affordable for everyone... You know, typical good smart guy who also wants to advance society stuff. Heck, maybe even built a fusion reactor, if only for the space part."

"Wouldn't that be a bit dangerous?" Tails replied. It turned out that, despite being what you already know, possibly because he didn't know that much about nuclear reaction and was still a kid anyway, he genuinely believed that nuclear reactors were a hazard waiting to explode.

"Nah, it would be perfectly safe, as long as the local idiots stayed away from it." I wasn't just referring to Knuckles, but neither Sonic nor Vector got the memo. Well, Sonic didn't, Vector looked away and

Amy then shrugged.

"Well, I guess you really have gone good for good" Uh. "But still, you'll have to do more than just defending Cream's home and updating it to-"

She was rudely interrupted by a sheep running into the room.

"Badniks, attacking Seaside City!" She alerted before she looked at me and realized that I was unchained. "EGGMAN IS LOOSE!!!" The sheep screamed as she ran outside.

"Typical of sheep, ain't it?" Sonic tried to joke, but no one was in the mood, much less the Chaotix.

"This is no time for joking bluey, my city is being attacked!" Vector screamed at him. "We have to go back, now!"

"Yeah!"

However, before the three could leave, Amy stopped them.

"Wait." Amy said before looking at me with a thoughtful look. "I think we have our 'test of loyalty'."

I just smiled.

"Consider those robots scrap."

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