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Sonic. Just standing there. He's been... quiet recently. Not in the way that he always is but in the way he holds himself. It's strange. Concerning. Tails had been able to tell something was off with him, but he couldn't tell what (considering he was stuck in some sort of... digital hammer space of some kind, it made enough sense).

He calls to his brother, and the hedgehog stiffens and turns around, then smiles. His joints pop as he walks over and Tails wonders,

How long has he been standing there?

. . .

Knuckles spotted the hedgehog and called his name, though he didn't answer. Figuring the wind covered his voice, he got just a few places away, calling his name again. He didn't answer.

He looked at the static red pattern that marred his pelt, swarming and stretching unnaturally across his body. It made him feel sick just looking at it. How could he stand that?

"Sonic?" Closer now, he noticed how...oddly he was standing. Sort of hunched like he was tired, but also immensely still. Like he wasn't breathing. The fluctuating pattern swarmed almost angrily about his features, and he didn't even twitch.

Knuckles grew closer, and swore he heard clicking. What?

"Hey. Blue?" He rested beside the azure, and his breath caught.

The unnatural effect had settled over one eye, it's iris glaring a bright, almost iridescent red. It was like his super form, but sickly, infinitely worse somehow. And the clicking... Sonic's mouth was mostly still save for the repetitive movement of his tongue, "tik, tiktik krr"

"Sonic." The echidna called again, walking in front of him. He didn't respond, only stared, right through his body. Knuckles didn't like that.

"krrrrut'ik tik krrr tiktiktik -"

"Sonic!" He finally reached the frozen gaian, and the gain finally blinked. Once, twice, then a deep shudder as his body straightened up.

"Huh? Knux?" He would have deflated if that were physically possible at the moment.

"Finally! What's up with you?"

"What? Can't I enjoy a sunrise every once and a while?"

"The...?" The echidna frowned, looking out to the horizon where Sonic had been staring. There was nothing but the sea and clouds and sky. The sun was actually far overhead already.

"Oh! Well would you look at that."

"You. Have been standing there for five hours."

"Seems that way, yeah?" Sonic picked up a leg, joints cracking noisily.

"Ow."