Chapter 4 - Brotherly aftermath *NEW ONE!!*

                                                                                                        Brotherly aftermath.

Note: Aw man, I can't think of a good title! Anyway, I promised this up before christmas and I'm so sorry its been prolonged but here's my reason: My buds were on my laptop mulitple times and they went on sites with viruses so all of my files were deleted (I very nearly killed them!) Anyway. Remember, age order, simply, Manic: Oldest, Sonic Youngest. That's all ya need to know. Oh, and its not like the other fics, this one's well...aftermath ^^

Sonic swore to god he'd NEVER heard his sister scream so loud. He ran into her room, covering his ears as he entered "Sonia! SONIA!!" He cried out, countering her screams and shutting her up "What The Hell?!?" he cried out. Sonia raised a shaky hand and pointed to the wall opposite her. Sonic blinked confused and looked over
"Huh?"
"THAT is the biggest bug I have EVER seen!!" she cried out. Sonic lowered his eye lids
"your scared of that?" he asked
"Of Course I Am!!" she cried out "And if you love me you will GET IT OUT!!" she cried out. Sonic made a joke of it by leaving "Sonic!!"
"Only joking! Heh, couldn't resist," he laughed, going over and picking it up off the wall. Sonia wasn't exactly letting her fear getting the best of her, it was a pretty big bug, as big as his palm at most. He examined it, noticing something weird about it "Hey Sonia, I don't think you have to worry about your 'bug fear'...I don't think its real," he told her, going out into the main part of the van. Sonia blinked and let her curiosity get the better of her by following him out of her room "Hey Manic!" Sonic called, looking around, not seeing the green hedgehog anywhere "Manic?" he called again
"What's up bro?" he heard him call, unfortunately, he couldn't see him anywhere. Sonia and Sonic looked to each other
"You hear that?" she asked. He nodded
"Uh...Manic? Where are you?" he asked
"Up here"
"Up where?" he asked again
"The ceiling! Wait there a sec..." they both looked up to hear a scuffling noise, then they saw him open a panel and hover down upside down on cords. The other two blinked "What?" he asked
"um...?" Sonia pointed upwards
"Oh! Remember when the lights went out the other day? Tryin' a fix it. And Sonia's screaming didn't help thank you very much." he told her. Sonia looked away with a blush. Sonic presented the 'bug' "It was on Sonia's wall...its not real though. We know how much you like electronics so..." he trailed off, giving it to him
"You shouldn't have..." Manic rolled his eyes, taking the bug "Ok, wait there, lemme get my tools and get right side up." he flipped himself over, dissappeared into the ceiling, and reappeared a few seconds later, tool belt around his waist and cords left up in the ceiling. Manic took out his screwdriver "Alrighty then...lets have a look what we got here..." he narrated as he took off the bottom panel to the electronic bug and started to investigate "hmm...wires...bolts...hello!" Sonic looked over his shoulder
"What? Whatcha find?" he asked curiously
"Hey...Oh crud!!" Manic suddenly yelped out
"What?" Sonic asked again
"Its not just a bug, its a video camera!" he told them. Sonia's jaw dropped
"And it was in my room the whole time!!"
"As far as we know. It coulda been all over the place and back if it was here long enough," Manic continued "When you guys say you find it?"
"Just now," Sonic told him
"hmm..." his brow furrowed "Wonder what it caught..."
"No need to ask who sent it," Sonia rolled her eyes, thinking of Sleet and Dingo, but then remembered something "Wait a second...is that thing still recording?" she asked. Manic nodded and his eyes suddenly widened in realization
"Crud!!" he used his screwdriver to poke around inside it a little more, then ultimately removing the camera part of it "Ok. Got it out." he stated, presenting the small component, throwing it to the ground and crushing it. Sonic suddenly caught an idea
"Now all we gotta do is find a way to get revenge," he told them, catching their attention
"Revenge? What for? Shouldn't we first try to see WHAT they got?" Sonia asked
"We could do that...and then we get revenge," Manic evened it out. Sonic and Sonia shrugged in a yeah ok manner. "Alright, so what's your plan?"
"Easy..." he rubbed his hands together in a plotting motion, much to the interest of the other two...

Meanwhile...
Sleet and Dingo where laughing their heads off at the scenes their bug has automatically taped and saved. Right now, it was the rendition of Manic's 'trying to talk to girls' speech. The high pitched flattery was proving hillarious to them "H-He's, He's...BWAAAHA!!" Dingo laughed out, choking on popcorn in the process.
"I know! I know!! Ok..what's next?" Sleet asked, calming down and flicking through chapters until he came to something interesting. Raising an eyebrow, he turned to Dingo, who was stuffing his face with large amounts of junk food "Hey Dingo. Do you know which one of the hedgehogs was born first?" the grey wolf asked. Dingo shrugged
"I always thought it was Sonic, ya know, loud mouth leader..." the orange mutt trailed off, eating more. Sleet nodded
"Hmm...Rally the Swatbots! I have an exeedingly humiliating idea..."

And back with these three...
"So I go over here and-" the sound of a beeping scanner cut Sonic off. Sonia ran over to see what was going on with the appliance. Manic leaned in closer to listen to his brother's plot. Sonia suddenly gasped "Oh my gosh, guys! There's a massive and I mean MASSIVE gathering of swatbots in the town central." she told them
"How massive?" Manic asked
"Remember that field we took a trip to last week?" she asked. Manic nodded "That big" she finished. Sonic immediately stood up
"Alright then! I'll scout ahead, you guys follow up! Meetcha there in a little while." He instructed
"Wait there bro! We don't know what's going on there from the outside. And if its as big as that field, then how are we gonna find ya?" Manic asked
"uh...?" Sonic thought
"Exactly. So we'll go TOGETHER, park the van outside and then sneak in." Sonia told him. Sonic lowered his eyelids
"Well why can't we just speed things up a bit?" he asked impatiently
"Lemme put it this way. Remember last month when Sonia and I made it so you couldn't sit down for a few days?" Manic asked. Sonic winced, that pain and embarrassment was something he did NOT want to feel again. He backed off
"Heh...ya know, I'm kinda tired. I think I'll just settle with driving there." he nervously smiled and ran to the driver's seat. Manic and Sonia exchanged knowing glances
"He's learning something..." Sonia whispered
"Makes ya proud, don't it?" Manic asked, following Sonic to the driving area before he had a chance to take off.
They travelled to the city centre, Sonic driving as fast as he could, obviously trying to make up for lost time by him being unable to run. Unfortunately, that driving was more than a little bit reckless, he swerved into a nearbye alley way to stash the van, then he had to wait for the other two to cathc up to him so they could walk to the 'event' that was taking place. Manic blinked in confusion "Hey, Sonia, didn't you say it was Swatbots all around here?" he asked. She nodded
"yeah...maybe we need to fine tune the scanners?" she suggested. Instead of Swatbots, there was a crowd of people, rich folk by the looks of things. Manic blinked, looking at all the pockets waiting to be picked
"Ya know...I have a strong overwhelming urge to pick a pocket or two..." he confessed
"Don't. Please Manic, it was embarrassing the last time." Sonia put a hand to her head in rememberance. Manic fought his urges 'damn why's it so hard?' he thought to himself 'damn kleptomania' Sonic looked forward in interest, there was a giant stage there hooked up to a giant screen. He blinked 'wonder what's going on?' he thought "Hey guys. You see that screen up ahead?" he asked
"Hey yeah...maybe there's a concert or something?" Manic suggested with a shrug. But that suddenly sounded unbelievable even to him, so he quickly had another thought "Or...Eggman's up to something...lets get closer," they pushed their way through to near enough the front, when suddenly they were grabbed from behind and Sonic had shackles attatched to his feet while Manic had them attatched to his hands. Sonia was pretty much left free. They struggled as they were dragged to the stage and encased in a cage. Sonic tried to run over, but the shackles on his feet prevented him from moving very far without falling flat on his face. Sonia went over to the side of the cage, trying to get a good look at what was going on. She growled "Sleet and Dingo..."
"Oh great. Just wonderful! They trick us TWICE in one lifetime, perfect!" Manic exclaimed sarcastically. Sonia watched intently as Sleet came out onto the stage with an obviously morphed Dingo microphone
"Hello South Side City!!" he called into the microphone "Your probably all wondering why we forced you all to come here! Well, first: Who likes the resistance towards Eggman?" he asked. The rich inhabitants of Mobius were obviously not too keen on it, or they were frightened of being cast to the street, either way, the reaction was of boos and hisses. Sonic rolled his eyes
"perfect..." he muttered bitterly
"Well! Do we have a treat for you! Who wants too see how mobius' greatest 'heroes' truly are?" he asked, that got many cheers and shouts of happiness from them. Sleet snickered "Perfect. Well...lets start off with the oldest in the family, shall we? Manic Hedgehog!" he pointed to the screen behind him. Manic's name flashed on, and then suddenly, he was shown talking into the mirror, immitating a girl with flattering words "Oh Manic, You're so handsome" were the words that got the crowd laughing their asses off. Manic blushed as Sonic and Sonia looked to him with a curious gaze "It was a long day, I was tired and bored, leave me alone." he explained to them, looking away. Sonic looked back to the screen
"Hey Sonia, here's your name" he pointed out. Sonia looked over in worry
"Oh No!!"
"Next, we go to the middle child, Sonia...what are she and Bartelby doing hmm?" he asked seductively. Sonia blushed as it was shown. Bartelby and her were cuddled up and sleeping, problem was, Sonia wasn't aware of her snoring. Manic blinked at the sight "Hey sis, when was that? Was I in the house? I think I was in the house!" she blushed further
"We're talking about getting back together..." she mumbled. That continued for a while, plagued by cruel laughter. Finally, that clip went away, and Sonic's name flashed up
"Now. How's about we look in on the surprisingly YOUNGEST, the baby of the family? Shall we?" the silver wolf asked. Sonia suddenly realized
"Sonic...I think I know what he's doing...I think I know what he's got..." she told him. Sonic was looking at it intently
'please don't let it be...please not those ones!' he prayed. His fears were soon confirmed though, it flashed up with Sonic over Manic's lap, recieving the spanking of a life time. Sonic blushed a deep red as he heard his own screams and sobs mixed in with the hillarious laughter of the crowd, it got worse when they saw Sonia dishing out her fair share of things, and then all laughter was increased by so much when the image of him standing in the corner, looking weak, helpless and infantile came up. Sonic looked down, blushing deeper than ever, if he could, he would have spun his way out of there. Adding to the laughter, Sleet came over to him, holding the mike up "What did you do Sonic? Must have been bad to have your big brother and sister SPANK you like that!" he laughed out. Sonic glared at him "Shut up!" he yelled, taking a swing and getting him clear on the side of the face. Sleet pulled back, angry with him at first, but then a thought came to him, just to add to his obvious embarrassment "Guards! Bring him out here! I think its time to give the public a live screening..." his tone was sinister. Manic suddenly became protective
"Don't You Dare!!" he snapped, but that threat went unheaded as swatbots came in and held the older two back while carrying Sonic right out and throwing him at Sleet's feet. Sleet snickered and put the dingo mike to the side, then grabbed Sonic by the arm and picked him up, letting him dangle there. Sonic struggled and kicked as best he could with his shackles on. Sleet snickered and raised a hand in the air, then brought it down hard ten times on the hedgehog's rear. Sonic yelped out and struggled worse. Manic broke free of the swatbot's grasp but unfortunately couldn't get out there to save his brother, the cage door was firmly locked "Sonic!!" he called out. Sonia ran over "Manic! Can't you pick the lock?!" she cried out
"Not unless you can get my hands free!" he told her
"Tell me what to do!" she cried out
"Alright! Get some wire or a hairpin or something" Manic started off. Sonia reached into her pocket anc produced a hairpin
"Ok, now what?" she asked, taking his handcuffed hands
"You see that hole? Get it in there and to the side! You'll feel a tension, drive it in there until it breaks. Hurry up!" he urged her. Sonia did as he said, she was able to get him free after a while
"Done!" she proudly stated as he took the pin off her and used it on the cage. Then, ran out to help Sonic. He ran over, drumsticks bared "GET OFF HIM!!!" he yelled at the top of his lungs, promptly joined by Sonia who had her keyboard turned into a gun. Sonic had been stood at Sleet's feet, silent as the laughing crowd quickly converted into a screaming one due to the destruction that was taking place. Manic unfortunately didn't get there in time to get his hands around Sleet's neck, or around Dingo's, both of them had dissappeared, leaving him and Sonia to destroy the swatbots. Manic eventually ran over to Sonic and was able to get the shackles off of him "Sonic! C'mon! Spin some bots here! Sonic?" he asked, looking at him. The younger one was looking down at the ground, a deep and hot blush covering his cheeks, it was apparrent that it was taking everything he had not to start crying of both pain and humiliation right then and there. Manic suddenly felt an even deeper rage than he had before, he slammed his sticks into swatbots around the area. Finally, the battle was over and the crowd had dispersed. Manic and Sonia looked over to their little brother in worry. He hadn't moved an inch since Manic had got the shackles off him. Sonia put a hand on his shoulder "Sonic..." she whispered. Sonic tensed, and his breath hitched, suddenly, he took off in a blue streak "Sonic!!" Sonia started to follow only to be held back by Manic
"Let him go Sonia," he told her
"But-"
"He's just been humiliated infront of the entire upper class of mobius. I think we owe him a little privacy right now...especially since we were the ones on that tape..." he added guiltilly. Sonia looked down
"but...but he's so vulnerable...he's my little brother...I love him, I don't want to leave him like that Manic, I can't!" she exclaimed
"I don't want to either. But we have to. His pride's just been beaten down to the ground, besides, I need you to help me get revenge," he told her
"Revenge? How?" she asked, suddenly intrigued
"We're gonna make it even more humiliating than what Sleet did to Sonic. Ya don't mess with the little siblings and get away with it. Not on my watch atleast. Come on, you know people and we need some pretty expensive stuff..."

Sonic laid there on his bed, tears of shame silently dripping down his cheeks and onto the pillow, in which his face was securely buried. He was so embarrassed, so humiliated. He couldn't believe that had just happened. He felt like going into denial, but he knew that not even that would make all the pain go away. He refused to let himself sob, only let stray tears go. Suddenly, a knock was heard at the door
"Sonic, Sonic c'mon out," it was Manic
"Go 'way!" Sonic snapped
"C'mon bro, we got a surprise for ya..." he trailed off interestingly
"Go Away!" Sonic snapped again, more forceful this time. A sigh was heard from Manic
"Alright, but here," a note was pushed under the door "Be sure ya read it, trust me, its important,"
Sonic waited until he was sure that Manic was gone, then he went to see what the note said. He blinked away the tears that were blurring his vision so he could get a good look at the text
Gone out, tune into channel 4 at 3:00pm.
-Manic and Sonia
P.S. We're sorry and we love you!
Sonic looked away and placed the note on the bedside table. He sniffled and tried to calm himself down, he hated feeling weak.
3 o'clock came around pretty quickly, by that time Sonic had calmed down and was ready to watch whatever his siblings wanted him to watch. He got himself comfortable and turned the TV on to the desired channel
"...And now we have a special program produced by Manic and Sonia hedgehog, over to you guys." the presenter announced. Sonic turned his head to the side in wonder
"Thanks Suz! Hey South Side! How's it going?" Manic started off in a peppy attitude "Today, every single rich brat in this city witnessed a pretty embarrassing scene for me and my younger bro and sis...well, me and my sister are over it, but our brother...not so much. So...What do we do? Easy! Bring 'em out Sonia!" he called. Sonic looked as Sonia wheeled out Sleet and Dingo. Both of them where cadged, tied and gagged up. Sonic looked absoloutely fascinated 'what are they gonna do?' he thought to himself Manic was laughing "Ha! Yeah, hey Sleet and Dingo! You guys like to embarrass people eh?" he asked
"Well we think its about time you BOTH got a taste of your own medicine!" Sonia told them "Lemme give you a hint: What did Sleet do to Sonic?"
Sonic blinked 'huh? What did...What? Their not gonna...are they?' he wondered, watching with wide and intense eyes. Manic was laughing again
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Strong words! So, ok, why are we prolonging this? Ladies first little sis. And guess what! Sonia gets to choose who she takes punishment on!" he dragged the camera closer to the scene. Sonia was inside the cage, and she was making her way towards her victim. She stopped at Dingo "Found him!" she called, standing him up and pushing him against the wall. Sonic watched in slight horror and surprise as his sister delivered ten swats to Dingo's butt with her oak hairbrush "w-whoa...I think she went easy on me..."
Manic nodded "Ooh! He's gonna be sore tomorrow! Ok. Now its my turn. C'mon Sonia, take this mike" he told her. Sonia took it
"Alright Manic, I guess I know who you're taking," she commented. Manic went over into the cage and hoisted Sleet up to his feet against the wall
"You embarrassed my little brother, you gave him ten swats, so now, I'm gonna double your's. Your gettin' twenty. Ten for my brother's embarassment, ten for my anger," he told him. Sonic's eyes widened as he watched Manic unleash his wrath onto Sleet's rear 't-they actually-they stood up for me like that?' he thought in amazement. They had stood up for him before, but they'd never gone to extremes like this, it was really touching 'they must really care...' he thought in wonderment.
Manic took the mike back "Hey! Sleet, Dingo! Take this as a warning! You bite us, we bite back but take a couple of limbs off!" he called "And all those other resistance guys! We got it covered! We might not be as organized as everybody else but we got it covered all the same!" he told them. Sonia took the mike off him
"And to our brother Sonic. See how much we care for you? This is proof, we love you so incredibley much." she told him. Sonic looked up at the screen in amazement 'wow...' he never knew either of them cared that much. He knew there was an endless amount of sibling love between them, but he never thought to consider that it ran that deep between them. Manic took the mike back "Yep. So true guys. Well, we've taken up enough time, back to you Suz"
"Pretty powerful message. Now in further news we-" Sonic switched the TV off, taking his time to come to terms with everything "I've been taking 'em for granted. I love 'em so much, but I don't think I can ever be more grateful to them than I am now..." he narrated to himself "I know they only did what they did to me a few months back because they care about me. Manic didn't want me to get into any kind of trouble because of my bad attitude and Sonia was worried enough to spank me when I ran off on her one time...they just don't want me to get into trouble...and I guess I kinda did ask for it..." he continued to narrate, looking back on his personality and on some of the times he'd actually gotten into trouble and needed both of his siblings to bail him out, on more than one occassion "I gotta try and straighten up and fly right. I wanna stay with my same personality but maybe..." he trailed off in thought.
It was dark out when Manic and Sonia came back to the van "You think he's ok?" the pink hedgehog asked
"Hope so, if he watched it...but ya gotta admit, it was pretty fun to get out that frustration on Sleet and Dingo," he shrugged
"I hope he watched it, I hate it when he gets upset like this," she expressed. Manic sighed and looped and arm around his sister
"Aww, don't worry. Little brother's tough. He'll be ok, eventually." he reassurred. Sonia looked down with a nod. Manic opened the door
"I mean, its not like we didn't try to do something nice for-"
"Shh!" Manic shushed her, pointing over to the couch. Sonic had fallen asleep on his stomach, arms tucked into his chest. Sonia ran over to her purse and produced a bottle of cold cream, then she ran back over to the sleeping form of Sonic
"His rear looks a little bit red still, I gotta take care of that." she told him. Manic nodded understandingly as he stretched one arm and used the other to run a hand through his naturally messy quills "Hey, wonder if Eggman saw the show?" he wondered with a chuckle, getting a giggle from Sonia
"Heh, if he did, Sleet and Dingo might not be employed for long!" she laughed quietly, putting the lid back on the cold cream "I hope this gets Dingo off my case..."
"I don't know Sonia...depends,"
"Depends on what?" she asked
"Depends on how you did it..."
"What?...Oh Manic!" she rolled her eyes at his laughs
"Ok, ok, low shot. Seriously though, no more Bartelyby around here." he told her
"I won't bring him around as long as YOU stop talking to mirrors," she defended, getting a blush from her older brother
"I told you, it was late, I was bored...I'm only human! Sorta..." she laughed again
"You always make me laugh Manic," she giggled as he came over and leaned against the back of the couch "Did I ever tell you that your doing a good job?"
"hmm...Good job of what?" Manic asked, snapping his head around to her
"Being protective." she smiled up at him, then caught him in a strong hug. Manic felt the oxygen being pushed right out of him, but he allowed her to bear hug him
"Aww...oxygen sis, oxygen," he reminded her after a while. She let go of him with a sigh, then turned back to Sonic
"When he wakes up in the morning, we have to tell him how much we care about him. Not just tell him, show him and...where are you going?" she asked, noticing Manic walk off
"To bed. All that anger and spite took the energy right outta me. Night Sonia." he stretched and went into his room
"Night Manic." she went to the cupboard and brought back a blanket for Sonic, draped it over him and kissed his cheek "Night Sonic." she whispered. And so, the lights went out, ending another hectic day for the SU team.

The End (Why can I never think of good endings?)
I know the ending kinda sucked...but I don't really care ^^ I'm just happy I got this finished in one day (Mainly 'cos I got sick, so I had ten hours to work on the thing) anyway, thanks to the Mouse of Anon for giving me some of these ideas (Owe ya one!) and thanks to everybody else who has reviewed the series (And Yay to VanillaREM. She got a pic of SA style Manic up on Devart! Go check that out, its awesome! ^^) I worked on my grammer, anybody noticed? No...just me then? Ah well, tell me whatcha think ^^.

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