Chapter 3 - Brotherly brattyness

Brotherly Brattyness

Rivalry

Manic groaned as Sonia and Sonic yelled their lungs out at each other. What they were fighting about this time was a mystery. It had been the same in and out for the past week. Sonic commented, Sonia commented back and suddenly they'd start to fight worse than a debate team
"I Told You-"
"I Can Handle It!" Sonic interrupted his sister

"No! You Can't! The Plan Was-"

"I Told You! I Can Handle It On My Own!" Sonia growled as Sonic interrupted her again. Manic had to shield his ears on that one, Sonic could yell loud! "What if you got yourself killed?" Sonia asked "What would Manic and I do then?"

"You wouldn't have to worry cos I can't get killed by that fat load Eggman!" Sonic defended cockily

"Yes you can! Your NOT immortal! You can easily get hurt!" she told him

"No Way! I'm too fast to get hurt by Eggman!"
"No one said ANYTHING about speed! You've been captured a couple of times! If he can confine you he can hurt you!" Sonia yelled

"He can't 'Confine' me, if he can't catch me!" Sonic yelled back. Manic grinded his teeth
"Look Why Don't You Just-"
"SHUT UP!" Manic yelled, silencing them both "Your giving me a headache! If you can't be civilized to each other for five freakin' minutes then neither of you should be in the same freakin' room!" he yelled. Sonia blinked, shocked at the outburst while Sonic just folded his arms and pouted. Manic frowned at them both. He wanted to yell something else at them, but there was no point after all, he only wanted them to shut up in the first place, he wasn't asking for them to follow any orders, just to shut up. He walked away massaging a migraine that was forming. Sonic growled
"who does he think he is?" he muttered

"What's wrong with you? Don't think you've ever been bitter when Manic's around...not since we-"
"Do me a favour sis? Shut up!" he snapped. Sonia scowled

"Now hold on a minute! I've never been like this to you! Why the sudden anger rush?" she asked

"What anger rush? I have no anger rush!" he snapped again, stalking off. Sonia growled
"Grr! He...Gets me so...MAD!" she cried out. In the past when this happened, she'd go complain to Manic to take care of him, even though that had some kind of an effect it didn't seem to be enough and she'd never actually known the punishment to stick. It was obvious she had to do something herself, but she didn't know what 'think Sonia, think!' she told herself 'suss this out rationally. What does Manic do?' she wondered, trying to think back to the last time when her brother had become nostalgic (talks about the past and blabs out painful memories). She concentrated on it for a minute and finally remembered. Manic spanked him, Manic always spanked him when he got like this. She blinked and started to contemplate this; she COULD do it, but...he was her brother! But if she didn't do it then he'd just get worse 'He does deserve this, he never listens to plans, he's getting spoilt and angrier...but he's such a good person...he's a brat...he's my brother though too...my YOUNGER brother!' that was all she needed to think to come to a decision.

Disobedience

Sonia knocked on Sonic's door "Sonic? Sonic you in here? I'm coming in, I have something...to...say..." she trailed off as she opened the door and found that he wasn't there "huh? Don't tell me he's gone out, at this time of night alone!" she was suddenly worried, Sonic NEVER went out at 11:00, he knew as well as anybody that it was too dangerous. She noticed something pinned to the door "huh? Gone after Eggman. No plan, no preparation, I know exactly what to do? MANIC!"

Searching

Sonia drove the van at full speed "So lemme get this straight. After I left, you guys fought again and Sonic stomped off. Then you went into his room and found him not there?" he asked
"Yeah! And I know he's gonna do something stupid. I know he's hurt! I know he's in trouble! I-"
"Sonia! Relax! Listen. If were gonna get him to come home then we're gonna have to be calm and rational" Manic told her

"I know...its just that I'm worried! He's compulsive, outta control. It won't take much to get him riled up right now" she explained

"True, true, but what are we gonna do when we get him back?" Manic asked

"Just let me handle it for once. I know EXACTLY what to do!" Sonia told him. Manic nodded, feeling a little unsure about it though, but he had to trust her on it.
They drove around for a while, looking for any sign of Sonic, a blue streak, some destroyed robots, something. Sonia scanned the area with eagle eyes 'he is SO dead!' she thought bitterly to herself, thinking how she could go about this entire situation. Manic glanced up as he tiredly tapped a slow and soothing drum beat to try relax Sonia out, unfortunately that wasn't going to happen. He glanced up and his eyes widened "Look! There!" he pointed to a near bye factory that was blowing up. Sonia turned sharply and drove right towards it, stepping on the brakes when she saw Sonic. Manic opened the doors as Sonia stood there, tapping her foot with an angry look on her face. Sonic stood there with a cocky grin on his face "heh. See the fireworks?" he asked

"A little much don't you think?" Manic asked, motioning to Sonia behind her back. Sonia growled and immediately reached out for his wrist, catching it in a vice like grip. Sonic gasped surprised as he tried to pry her off "Hey!" he cried out. Sonia dragged him to his own bedroom. Manic was tempted to follow, but he knew that they needed privacy 'if it gets too rough, I'll go pull 'em apart' he thought, nodding and going to a chair to tap another drum beat on the table to mellow himself out.

Different yet the same

Sonia pulled Sonic to face her "ow! Man! Sonia you grip hard!" he whined as Sonia locked the door and turned to face him, a defiant scowl on her face "Sonic. I swear, I could take a lot of the stuff you've done, but out of all of them...THIS IS THE STUPIDEST THING YOU'VE EVER DONE!" she screeched at him. Sonic winced and took his hands away from his ears, looking up at her
"I just wanted to prove that I can SO handle everything! And guess what, I Can!" he defended

"Not the point!" she told him

"Then what is the point?" Sonic asked, rolling his eyes. Sonia felt her eyelid twitch

"The point is how I'm going to deal with you!" she snapped. Sonic let out a laugh
"Ha! Oh yeah. How ya gonna do that?" he asked mockingly. Sonia took a breath and her voice dropped from high and angry to low and serious
"Bend over the edge of your bed. I'm gonna do what Manic does whenever you get like this" she told him. Sonic blinked and he felt himself suddenly pale
"y-you mean...?"
"Its for your own good. Now do it!" she snapped. Sonic didn't move, he just stood there, staring at her
"b-b-but..."
"But what?" Sonia sighed

"But...y-you never...I mean I don't think you'd ever...I never thought that..." Sonic was struggling for words

"What? Just because I'm a girl? I'm also your older sister by one and a half hours! So that gives me a right to it as it does Manic!" she reminded

"b-but y-you-I mean I-I-y-you-I-"
"Just Bend Over The Bed, Rear High!" Sonia interrupted his stuttering. Sonic's ears flattened, even though he knew he needed to do what she wanted, he just couldn't. Sonia growled and lashed out for his hand, catching it in that same vice-like grip and dragging him over to his bed and positioning him just right. Sonic shivered, there was just something about his sister's bear hand against his rear that frightened him. Sonia reached into her pocket and pulled out a wooden oak hair brush "I think you should know that this will be sufficiently different to our brother's form. I'm not going to use my hand, I'm going to us a hair brush. Also your obviously not going over my lap, but if you don't learn anything you might go over Manic's" she explained. Sonic's eyes widened and gulped. Sonia pressed down on his back so he couldn't escape then rested the cool shiny wooden brush against Sonic's rear. Sonic shivered and gasped as Sonia brought the brush down hard against him, then again, and again. Sonic clenched his hands into fists against the duvet, with Manic, he had a little while before he felt this level of immense level of pain, this HURT, it REALLY HURT "Sonic. Tell. Me. Why. I'm. Doing. This!" Sonia told him. Sonic let a small whimper followed by a yelp go as Sonia made his bottom turn deep red "b-because, I didn't listen to the plan...OW!" it wasn't long before tears were coursing down his cheeks "S-Soniiiaaaa" he moaned

"Don't. Even. Think. About. Begging! Keep. Telling. Me!" she scolded. Sonic felt himself losing control of his yelps and sobs "a-and c-cos I ran off-OWW! SONNIIAAA!" soon he wasn't even sure which was which as they both sounded so similar. Sonia continued to spank his rear, completely missing his thighs. When she was done, her brother was reduced to a sobbing wreck over his bed. Sonia sighed, catching her breath, she'd put so much force into the whacks that she was partially out of breath "Ok. Now what to do to make it stick?" she wondered out loud "I know. I'll ask Manic" she nodded

"No need. I know exactly how to handle this part" Manic had a slight frown on his face "You take a break Sonia" he told her. Sonia nodded, grabbed her hairbrush and walked away. Sonic was sobbing uncontrollably into his duvet when Manic saw him. The green hedgehog sat next to him and flinched slightly at the damage that had been inflicted on to his brother "calm down. You know its not over so I wouldn't start crying yet" he told him calmly. Sonic tried to kick him away only to find that his legs were surprisingly weak "n-no!" he cried out. Manic reached out. Sonic thought he was going to pull him over his lap, and was extremely surprised when he felt Manic rubbing his back "Shh. Your not ready right now, it'd be cruel to do it all at once" he comforted. Sonic sniffled, eye wide at his brother's sudden change of heart, he cuddled up to him, trying to keep as much pressure off his rear as possible. Manic held the sobbing mass that was his proud and powerful brother "Shh. Hey, come on, this isn't like you. You hardly ever cry" he told him
"it hurt! It hurt! You guys can't do this! I'm not a little kid!" he cried out almost hysterically

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, easy. Listen Sonic nobody's doing this because they like it! We're doing because...aw hell! You know the story! You know why! You know we love you! And you really scared us today!" he cried out
"huh?" Sonic whimpered

"Yeah! You did. Just going off like that? Sonic what were you thinking?" he asked "You were so stupid! Just going out and destroying a factory? Sonia was right!" Sonic's ears flattened at what was coming "You could have been hurt!" Manic told him. Sonic blinked up at that part, he was expecting him to yell and kick him out or something, not show concern for him. He started sobbing worse, he hadn't cried so much since the last time Manic had done this to him. Manic secured his arms around him "shhh bro, shh" he whispered, petting his quills in an affectionate way. This continued for a while until his sibling had calmed down enough "hey, its ok" he told him "but...you know what we have to do right?" Sonic gulped with a sniffle

"u-u-h-huh" he nodded, voice stammering a little as he crawled over Manic's lap. Manic looked down, he really didn't want to do this. Manic took a deep breath and scanned for a spot that would sting but wouldn't send him sobbing as soon as he touched it, he noticed that Sonia had completely missed out his thighs 'there's a good place to start' he thought, peeling off one glove and placing a hand on the small of his back to prevent him jumping up to escape. He raised his hand in the air, and brought it down swiftly on Sonic's thighs, then repeating the performance over ten times before moving up to the undercurve of his rear. Sonic was sobbing again while clutching to Manic's ankle for some sort of comfort. Manic soon took pity on him and stopped, allowing him to cry the stinging out as he rubbed his back and murmured words of comfort to him. Sonic soon calmed down again "p-please..."
"please what Sonic?" Manic asked softly

"please...d-don't stand me in the corner Manic, pl-please don't!" Sonic begged as he was hoisted up on to his feet. Manic shook his head
"I won't. Not today, today I got another way to make it stick" he told him, resting a hand on Sonic's shoulder "h-huh?"

Apoligies are always hard

Manic pushed Sonic in front of Sonia. She was sitting on the couch filing her nails, a look on her face that seemed to show some remorse. The pink hedgehog looked up "hmm?"
"Sonic. Go." Manic whispered and walked away. Sonic stood there, seeming to be looking for the right words. Sonia patiently waited, not taking her eyes off him

"um...Sonia, I...I...um..." Sonia blinked up at him

"hmm? What is it?" she asked

"I...I wanted to say that...I'm sorry" Sonic finally came out with it. Sonia stood up, putting the nail file down on the table. Sonic's ears flattened as she walked around him

"You know I was hurt by the things you said before you left and I was really worried when you ran out" Sonic gulped looking down "But I forgive you" she said as she hugged him tightly. Sonic hugged back
"I love you Sonia" he whispered

"I love you too Sonic" she whispered back. Manic smiled as he saw the sight from behind the door. He came out from his 'hiding place'
"Hey. Is this a private hug or can anybody get in on it?" he asked, going over and joining in.

Learning a lesson

Sonic tried to settle down in his bed but he couldn't get comfortable. Too much pain had been inflicted on his rear, he just knew he'd be up all night for atleast a month. He groaned and rolled onto his stomach, that didn't help much seeing as the blanket rubbed against his sore bottom, he kicked it off only to find that he was cold when he actually did that. It was official, his siblings had outdone themselves "Oww!" he moaned silently. He had a thought suddenly 'do we have ice?' he thought, getting up and going into the kitchen. When he got there he found Manic still beating a drum beat into the table. He stopped and just watched him for a while, listening to him hum a few bars of a personal favourite songs of his "uh...Manic?" he asked. Manic looked up
"Huh? Oh! Man...how long I been drummin' that beat?" the green hedgehog put a hand to his head, obviously a little confused and dazed

"'bout an hour" Sonic answered

"whoa...sometimes I REALLY lose myself in those!" he laughed slightly "Anyway, what's up?"
"Need ice" Sonic told him, reaching into the freezer, grabbing an ice pack and sticking it to his stinging bottom. Manic raised an eyebrow
"I guess Sonia and I did quite a number on ya. But anyway, what was with the sudden mood swing today?"
"huh? What?"
"This morning. You and Sonia were fighting and she mentioned something about age order and you snapped! What's up?" he asked again. Sonic groaned slightly with a sigh, he wasn't getting out of this one "well...remember when we thought I was the older one?"

"Yeah"
"And I was the leader? Well when we found out I was younger, its like...I can't lead well anymore...like...like..." this really wasn't his day with words
"Like you can't figure out ya place?" Manic tried to finish

"Yeah! Yeah...I don't know where I belong anymore" he looked away, kind of embarrassed
"Ya know, even if you are younger...I'd still let ya lead" Manic told him
"y-you would?" Sonic asked

"Yeah. I mean, lets face it, I aint no leader, and you aint exactly a follower" he chuckled "I mean, I didn't exactly ask to be the oldest...just happened"
"but I always thought the oldest was supposed to lead" Sonic commented, taking the ice away from his rear for a second
"So? Lets be a different family! We'll go with the unique approach" Manic shrugged "After all, I like different, and we kinda need it in this stupid war" Manic rolled his eyes at the thought of the fat idiot who was trying to take over this place, then he slipped an arm around the youngest one “and admit it! You totally need somebody to take care of you”. Sonic blinked

"whoa...that's deep"

"Yeah, I read" Manic shrugged again and stretched "Ok. I'm goin' a bed. Good luck coolin' ya rear end down"

"kay. 'Night...big brother" Sonic sampled it and he liked the phrase

"heh, 'night lil' bro" Manic chuckled, going into his room 'Whoever made up the phrase sibling rivalry is an idiot!' he thought smugly.

The end



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