Ch.8: A New Purpose

Alternate Sonic couldn't believe his ears once everyone had gotten through explianing that he had been possessed by an evil spirit, destroyed most of Mobius, and tried to kill them all. However, when Scratch showed him the shattered shards of the Black Chaos Emerald he began to believe it.

" So my Tails sent Scratch back in time to kill me and he wound up in your time instead?" asked Alternate Sonic.

"You got it," said Sonic, throwing his counterpart a thumbs up.

"Well" said Alternate Sonic " thanks for bringing me back. It seems like I have a lot of work to do to make for all the evil I've done in the last few days. See you later guys,"

"Hey wait for me!" yelled Alternate Tails, chasing after his Sonic.

Once the troublesome duo was gone, it left the rest of the group stewing in their thoughts.

"Well, what happens now?" asked Vector.

"I guess we go home," said Sonic.

"Not right now" said Knuckles " that battle with Dark Sonic drained almost all of my energy. I need some time to rest before I ask the Master Emerald to take us home,"

"Well you guys can sleep here tonight" said Scratch " this fortress still has plenty of room,"

"That would be great, Thank You," said Julie-Su.

Once they had their guests escorted to their rooms, Scratch and Grounder went over to the living room in order to talk in private. Silence passed between the bots for a long while, before either of them decided to speak.

"Scratch" said Grounder " what are we going to do now? Robotnink's dead. We don't have a Master anymore,"

"I know" said Scratch " I've been asking myself that same question ever since I got sent back in time. There's nothing left for us to do here. We're not the SSSS Squad anymore. We need a new Master to serve,"

"But who?" asked Grounder.

"I know just the person" said Scratch, with a grin " we'll ask him tomorrow before he leaves,"

The next morning, everyone was gathered outside of Robotnink's fortress to be transported back home. Good night's rest had done good for Knuckles, as he felt ready and willing to go back home.

"Wait!" said Scratch, him and Grounder unning up, before Knuckles could cast the spell " Stop! Don't go yet! Me and Grounder have something to ask you first,"

"What is it?" asked Knuckles.

"Can me and Scratch go with you?" begged Grounder " Please?"

"Huh?" asked Sonic's group surprised.

"Why would you want to come with us?" asked Tails " isn't this your home dimension?"

"It is" said Scratch " but now that Dr. Robotnink's gone, there's no reason for Super Sonic Search and Smash Squad to exsist. We lost our purpose, and we both think that following Knuckles we'll find a new one,"

"You want Knuckles to replace Dr. Robotnink?" asked Mighty, stunned.

Sonic and Tails couldn't help it, they laughed out loud.

"Wow" said Sonic " never in my life would I believe that someone would actually say that. Well it's your choice Knuckles, do you want Scratch and Grounder to become the new members of Team Chaotix?"

Knuckles closed his eyes, arms crossed over his chest, mumbling in confusion. How come, everywhere he went, the strange stuff always happened to him? Scratch and Grounder stood nervously looking at Knuckles, awiating his decision.

"Alright" said Knuckles to the two nervous robots " you guys can come with me,"

"Yeah!" shouted Scratch and Grounder, jumping in the air, and slamming a high-five.

Sonic shot a grin at Knuckles as the echidna chanted the spell to send him and the others home. Only this time, when the green light vanished, Scratch and Grounder were taken along for the ride.

Weeks later, everything was as normal as ever in the Sonic Universe. Back in Scratch's dimension Sonic and Tails were working overtime to undo all the damage Dark Sonic had done to their universe. Things were coming along well from what they heard. Some of the Mobians that survived Dark Sonic's reign of terror were even helping clean up.

Meanwhile, Scratch and Grounder were having fun in Echidnapolis living with Knuckles and the rest of the Chaotix. Grounder and Mighty would race each other just to see who was the fastest, while Scratch still kicked Vector's but at videogames. Ha, the croc owed Scratch ice cream sundaes for a week!

Espio would just find a queit place where he could peacefully meditate, but whenever Scratch and the others decided to play football, he had to make use of his ninja skills to aviod their charging wake.

Knuckles grinned at all the chaos happening below, from his position on the Master Emerald's alter. The Chaotix were crazier than ever since Scratch and Grounder had joined the team, and Knuckles couldn't help but laugh at their antics.

Even though the echidna would never admit to himself or anyone else, he loved having some new friends to hang by his side. And he would have never have met Scratch and Grounder had Scratch not been sent back in time to kill Sonic.

"Hmph" thought Knuckles " I guess I owe that hedgehog again. Whenever he screws up, something happens to me. Thanks, Sonic the Hedgehog,"

The End