Cr4ZyFr0G100: This story has been floating around in my mind for a few days. I figured I'd give it a shot.

Disclaimer and warnings: I don't own Sonic the Hedgehog or NiGHTS. Also, there will be soft yaoi later on between NiGHTS and Sonic. Well, it will be yaoi if you consider NiGHTS a man, but justto ruin it for you all, he's going to be a girl in this story. If that bothers any of you, please don't get pissy.

"…onic?"

Sonic the Hedgehog was once again in a meeting with his fellow Freedom Fighters in the mighty Castle of Acorn. The troop was sitting together at a long, wooden, rectangular table; Sally Acorn, Bunnie Rabbot, Rotor, Miles 'Tails' Prower, Antoine D'Coolette and NICOLE, a small super advanced talking computer. NICOLE was considered a Freedom Fighter as well. She is Sally's closest friend, right next to Bunnie of course. And probably the most useful piece of technology they had. NICOLE could do virtually anything. With out her, the Freedom Fighters probably wouldn't stand that big a chance against Doctor Ivo Robotnik.

"Sonic!" Sally shouted a little louder then intended.

"Ah think he's zoned out, Sally." The yellow-belly rabbit informed.

Sonics left ear twitched, "Yeah, Sal?"

"Did you hear anything I said?" Sally huffed.

"Uh, yeah." Tails giggled at his 'brother.' He really did look up to Sonic, and no matter how much of a bad example Sonic set up at times for the young kit, Tails was still as intelligent as he was innocent.

Sally rolled her beautiful azure eyes, "No you didn't. I said that -"

"- That we need to enter Robotnik's lab from the east wing because the defense there isn't as great as the other 3 wings are. I know."

Sally smirked leaning on the polished table with her left elbow, "Ok, smarty. Then tell me this; why are we raiding his lab again?"

"Uh, because your royal highness, Eggman has zis new weapon that is making ze night longer. And is also summoning zese weird creatures." The French coyote said to ease the tension.

Sonic snickered at a perverted thought that entered his head, earning himself a nudge from the blubbering walrus that sat next to him.

"Thank you, Antoine. At least someone is listening." Sally said sending a glare at her cocky boyfriend.

Sonic waved his hand at her. They had a tight relationship but recently Sonic felt like it's been deteriorating. More missions kept coming ever since this whole 'night' thing started. And Sonic really didn't have much time for her anymore, let alone himself. Sally was also banned from joining missions. The missions used to be Sonic and Sally's time together but since her father, King Maximilian Acorn banned her from joining in on the missions, their time together was cut even shorter. He just wanted his darling daughter and princess to be safe. Sally also didn't have time for Sonic because of her duties as princess. Their relationship was extremely hard work, but somehow the couple managed.

Sonic's foot suddenly started jittering, making the table shake slightly. He was starting to get restless. He held his head in his right hand, taping his index finger just above his eye. He then sighed.

"Sonic, stop shaking the table and looking for attention." Sally said re-reading the details NICOLE carried about the mission.

"I can't help it, you're boring me." He said glancing at her with his sharp emerald eyes and a small grin on his face.

Sally met Sonic's gaze, "Rotor, how many more minutes has last night lasted?"

Rotor flipped through some papers with his thick purple fingers, "Approximately 5 minutes and 33 seconds. And also, there was another one of those creatures outside of Knothole again. Geoffrey St. John and his crew managed to scare it off."

Sally ran a small light brown hand through her wavy chocolate brown locks, "Geez. Ok guys, let's start getting ready. Rotor start the truck. Bunnie, get the gun ready for the truck and bring mortars just in case. Tails get that new computer hacking software. Sonic -"

"I'm a thousand of steps ahead of ya, Sal." He said taking off, the sound of the sonic boom following shortly after him. Papers flew all over the place and his chair snapped into pieces at the sudden burst of air that Sonic produced. Sally and Tails fell off their chairs and the hinges on the door snapped off letting the doors fall as Sonic burst through them like a free bird.

"He never stays still! He's gonna get himself killed!" Sally shouted, pushing her thick hair out of her face.

"No he won't Aunt Sally!" Tails chirped, picking up some of the papers and handing them back to Rotor, "He has a lot of luck."

Sally smiled warmly at the young orange fox, "Yes, that he does Tails. But one day he's gonna hit an expiration date."

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Sonic dodged to the left, then thrust himself to the ground in a tight ball, avoiding all sorts of gun fire. He bounced a couple of times before homing in on a robot twice his size. It exploded, leaving Sonic little pieces of metal in his soft sapphire quills. He landed on the ground, using the strong force of gravity to his advantage, then darted off again. He curled once again into a tight ball, and pushed forward through a large cannon, shooting out from the other side of it. He landed gracefully on his feet, just like a cat would.

Electricity surged through the cannon for a spilt second before exploding, causing Sonic to grin. The explosion warmed up his lithe body and made his quills sway up and down slightly. He took off, once again curling into his signature blue ball and spun through a steel wall, creating his own personal door. He landed on his feet and in seconds took off at a comfortable pace.

Sonic felt his heart beating in his chest. Tiny beads of sweat started to form on his smooth, peachy skinned chest and stomach. His quills started to cling together from the sweat, taking away their soft appearance. His feet felt sweaty in their thick white socks and his hands were balled into tight fists, the soft fabric of his gloves wrinkling in his grip.

The halls were dark, there were no cameras, at least none that he could see. The sound of his sneakers echoed throughout the long halls. He took extremely slow and steady breaths. He inhaled and exhaled through his nose only, never through his mouth because it would get dry. His throat would also get sore. Air was taken in through his nose all the time, except for when he slept or when he was sick, which rarely happened. He breathed through his stomach, never through his chest because he could take bigger and steadier breaths that way.

Suddenly, a dimly lit room caught Sonic's eye as he passed by. He to skid to a sudden halt. Smoke came up from his red sneakers that his generous uncle Chuck made for him so he could run at his nauseating speeds. He took 10 paces back and jumped in front of the door and looked up in horror and disgust.

The room was tight and dark, except for the light that the capsule gave off in the room. It was made of glass and was obviously transparent. It was filled to the top with a tinted olive green liquid. There was also an organism in there, wires and cords were attacked to it in all different places. A fresh air mask was attacked to its face, and its eyes were closed. Sonic cautiously walked up to the capsule. He looked up to the creature's face, who wore a jesters hat and was clad in purple. He could help but notice the large red gem that jutted out from his slightly broad chest.

"What is it?" He thought to himself. He pressed a white gloved hand to the glass, as if the creature would wake up.

It didn't.

Sonic looked around for the controls to it. He looked to the left and spotted the glowing buttons to the control center. He gently ran his hand over the buttons.

"What if it's evil? Could this be the creature that's making the night last longer?"

Sonic thought for a few seconds about hitting the 'release' button. He was about to make up his mind when he heard an explosion and a thick southern accent. It sounded like muttering since he was inside, but he knew that accent anywhere.

"Y'all take that, ya bunch 'o skunks!" Bunnie shouted outside, firing the large gun that was mounted on the old war truck which was being driven by a nervous Rotor. Tails was enjoying sitting in the front passenger seat. To him it was like a ride.

Sonic flinched at another explosion with a shit eating grin on his face. He loved it when Bunnie fired any gun. It was just to hysterical hearing her yell with that yellow-belly slang and blow something up. She enjoyed it just a little too much. He looked up at the purple clad creature before taking off to help his friends. He burst out the entrance that he made himself and made a link of homing attacks on a bunch of robots.

"Sonic, behind ya!" Bunnie pointed behind the hero.

Sonic turned around a moment too late and was knocked right to his bottom by none other then the Doctor himself.

"Eggman!" Sonic snarled.

"Well it didn't take you vermin too long to discover my new plan. What else is new?" He shouted from behind the safety glass of his latest invention. He himself didn't even know what it was. All he knew was that it could shoot and walk.

"Ah shaddup ya fat 'ol chunk!" Bunnie said before firing a newly loaded mortar at Eggman. The gun gave Bunnie a recoil, making her country hat fall off her head. Rotor ducked down at the loud 'BOOM' the gun made. Tailing stuck his index fingers in his wide fuzzy ears.

The robot skid backwards a bit before firing a missile of it's own. Sonic ran out of the way just in time meanwhile, the truck went flying backwards, its riders with it.

Rotor became stuck under the truck. He was probably better off that way since he wasn't a fighter, but he needed to go help Tails. He noticed that the young kit somehow managed to crawl out from underneath the truck, avoid Eggman and sneak into the lab with the hacking aquipment.

Bunnie on the other hand struggled to pull herself up. "Y'all stink, Eggman." She mumbled to herself, when she noticed a huge rip in her favorite brown cowboy jacket. Reaching for the gun, she used it to try and pull herself up. Her right robotic leg had a gash in it, making it difficult for her to rise by herself. When Bunnie finally helped herself up, she yanked the gun off the truck, then grabbed a mortar that fell from the truck.

Sonic was busy distracting him while Bunnie was getting ready to fire again. Rotor had his tiny ears covered with his meaty hands in attempts to drown out the bombastic sound effects. Hoisting the gun up onto her robotized shoulder, Bunnie aimed with precise accuracy. Bracing herself for another strong recoil, she pulled the strong trigger and hit the front of the machine. Striking the engine it blew up, the rest of the contraption went with it. But Eggman of course, managed to eject before suffering any more injuries.

He tried to retreat into his base, but it was way too late for him.

"Sorry, Eggman!" Tails called safely from inside, "We already locked you out!" A grin could be heard in the youngsters voice. Eggman didn't bother trying to blow a hole through the wall himself. He didn't want to risk himself being beaten personally by Sonic or the bionic rabbit.

"Damn you! But no matter, it is too late for all of you. All of Mobius will be consumed into complete darkness!"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah." Bunnie said waving the old man off with the gun still slung over her silver shoulder, "'O course it will."

Sonic had no retort, no sarcastic comment or a ridiculous pun. He just watched the old genius fly off safe and sound once again. Bunnie watched the blue hero with concern. He always had something to say after a battle. Placing the gun down gently she walked over to her friend. "Y'all alright, sugah hog?" She said placing her non-robotic hand on his shoulder.

Sonic looked up at her with a reassuring smile on his young face, "Better then ever, Bunnie."

"Uhh, a little help here." Rotor interrupted.

"Oh, opps." Bunnie giggled and she ran over to help her friend, "Ahm sorreh, hun." She said lifting the truck off of Rotor with her behemoth strength.

Rotor crawled out from under the truck. Standing up slowly, he brushed the dirt off his blubbery body, then took his hat off and shook the dust off of it. Then he did the same with his cozy brown jacket. Bunnie flipped the dented truck back onto it wheels with a huff. She too picked up her hat shacking the loose dirt off of it.

"There we are." She said kicking a dent out of the truck after placing her beloved hat on her head, "Good as new!"

"We should go check up on Tails," Rotor said eyeing the hole in the wall, "Nothing got through during that whole ordeal did it?" Rotor asked slightly nervous.

Sonic waved his friend off, "Nah, big guy I did that when I got here." Sonic had that huge cocky grin on his face again.

"Oh which reminds me, Sally said she's gonna rip all your quills off when you get back. I figured I'd warn you." Rotor said smiling.

Sonic's grin fell off his face, "I figured she have some violent comment. Oh well, she'll have to catch me first." Sonic said walking ahead of his friends and towards the hole he made in the wall.

Bunnie giggled again and Rotor sighed, shaking his head. The two followed the blue hedgehog to the wall. Bunnie was too tall for it and Rotor was too tall and wide. So Bunnie thought of a solution; blow a bigger hole in the wall with her left arm cannon.

The three walked through at a quick pace hollering for the kit.

"Tails!" They called in unison.

"Over here! You guys aren't going to believe this!" They heard the sweet voice of the 11 year old, and ran towards it.

"What is it, hun - Oh my…" Bunnie said gasping as she looked up at Tails' discovery. Her ears fell back in shock.

Sonic had that previous look of disgust on his face again from when he first saw it.

"Wow." Rotor said obviously not bothered by it. Or maybe he was and he just wasn't showing it.

"Yeah, isn't it sad?" Tails asked, his sky blue eyes drooping slightly in sympathy for the creature.

"… Wow." Rotor said again. Yeah, he was shocked. "Sonic, did you see this when you were in here before?" Rotor said examining the purple jester.

Sonic nodded, "Yeah I did. Was gonna let 'em go but then I heard you guys outside."

Rotor nodded looking over the equipment that controlled the capsule. He opened his jacket and pulled out NICOLE from an inside pocket. "NICOLE, would you be able to tell me what this is?"

NICOLE beeped a couple of times before a number of letters and words spread across her screen, as if she was overloading. "I am not quite sure, Rotor. But sources indicate that this is where all of this… Night time is coming from."

"And those creatures?" Tails asked hopping up and down, trying to see NICOLE's screen.

"Yes. But I detect no evil from this being." NICOLE said in her female monotone voice.

"So we could let 'em out?" Bunnie asked with hope.

NICOLE beeped again. "I do not see why not. After all, he is the source to all this mayhem. So clearly he should be released. Also, this creature is not from Mobius. I could not tell you where it originated from."

Rotor walked over to the controls and pressed a button. The capsule hissed then all the fluid in the capsule drained through the bottom. The creature slowly followed the fluid down, then all the wires and cords detached themselves, causing the weak jester to go limp. Luckily Bunnie caught him just in time when the capsule opened up.

Sonic and Bunnie were both having negative flashbacks; Bunnie being robotized and Sonic being robotized a long, long while ago as a plan which faltered. And also him loosing his parents, uncle and dog to Eggman.

"At least it wasn't a robotizing machine. I don't think we have the de-robotizer anymore." Rotor said as if reading their thoughts.

"Yeah, good thang ain't it?" Bunnie said bitterly, cradling the unconscious creature.

Sonic looked the purple clad being over. He shook his head when he caught himself staring at it. He ran a hand over his now dry azure quills. He felt his head heating up and sweat was starting to form on his head and the back of his neck. "Look, guys, you think we could go now?"

Rotor looked at Sonic, "Really? You don't wanna stick around and break things like you sometimes do?"

Sonic felt his face flush. He felt immature when he heard Rotor say that. "Uhh, no, big guy. I kinda wanna get home."

"Y'all feelin' sick, sugah hog?" Bunnie asked leaning down into Sonic's face. She was almost as tall as Rotor, who was probably a good 6 foot 3 inches. She was also just as tall before she got a third of her body robotized.

Sonic nodded, "Yeah just a bit nauseous." He lied holding his stomach.

Rotor nodded, "Just let me hook up NICOLE here to download any data that might be available and we'll be off. Why don't you and Bunnie go back to the truck. Tails and I will meet you there in a few." Rotor said smiling.

Sonic shrugged and stalked off with Bunnie following closely behind.

"What's his problem?" Tails whispered.

"I'm not too sure, kiddo." Rotor said with a sigh, then plugged NICOLE into the control panel.

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Bunnie placed the jester comfortably in the bed of the old dirty truck. Sonic was sitting in the back seat of the old war vehicle. Bunnie opened the door and scooted in next to him. The silence wasn't awkward, but it wasn't comfortable either.

"Ya know," Bunnie started breaking the silence, "Most of us have bad memories of all the things Robotnik has done to us. I mean with all his old wacky experiments and stuff. Turnin' us into robots 'n all that." Bunnie turned her head to look at blue hero, "It's ok to talk about it." She said softly placing her soft furry hand onto his gloved one.

Sonic sighed, "It's not just the bad memories, Bun. The way that thing just looked in there it just bothered me. I mean with all the other disturbing stuff I've seen, this one just took the chilli dog for some reason."

Bunnie bit back a giggle from his chilli dog reference.

"I just, I dunno. Maybe this whole war thing is finally starting to get to me. We've all seen some pretty nasty things."

"Eggman's a sicko is what he is." Bunnie said. Her soft voice made Sonic smile. "One day he's gonna be defeated, don'cha worry, hunny bun."

Sonic looked up into her grass green eyes with a smile. Her messy blonde hair was covering her eyes a bit. Her hat had a few small holes and loose pieces of fabric. Some of her purple eye shadow was smeared over her plump white and blonde face, along with some soot and dirt. Sonic probably didn't look so clean himself, not to mention smell good.

"Thanks, Bun." Sonic smiled at her.

"D'aww shucks, sugah." Bunnie said blushing. "Yo sure do know how ta make a yellow-belly smile."

Before Sonic could answer, he turned his head when he saw a large purple figure emerge from the dark steel wall. Tails was trotting close behind him. The two looked like the were talking, and Sonic saw NICOLE safe and sound in Rotor's arms. Finally, they could go home and figure out what this jester was, and what it was doing here. Sonic could also finally afford some alone time to himself, and sort out his cluttered mind.