Antoine's Extraordinary Journey Part 4

Antoine clenched his fists at the thought of Rod. He had been 
the center of attention for a week now. Antoine was sick of it. 
He had had enough. He was going to tell him to find somewhere 
else to live. Antoine sighed and got up. He was on his way to 
Rod's new hut. He burst through the door and said,

"Rod! You must leave now! Rod...?" 

He wasn't there.

"Hey Rod! Where are ya? Oh I give up!" Sonic had, to him, been 
looking for Rod for hours.

"Sonic!" Sally cried, "You've only been looking for 2 minutes!"

"WHAT? But that's impossible!" 

He kept on looking. Soon, he'd had enough.

"If he's anywhere in Knothole, he's gonna come out from his hiding 
place." he said. 

Rod was walking through the Great Forest, silently. He was slightly 
homesick, and he was wondering if he still wanted to be a Freedom 
Fighter.

He was so deep in thought, he didn't notice the shadow of another 
body approaching. 

Rod then felt a crackle of magic in the air. Suddenly he was hit 
by a bolt of electricity.

"Aah!" he cried and zapped his persuer with a sleeping spell. He 
lay on the ground, holding his head.

"Oww! Thanks for that! Hey what the..?" He was looking at the 
other's face. It was a wolf. 

At first it looked like he was looking into a mirror image of 
himself. 

It was almost as if... no, it couldn't be. He took the sleep spell 
off.

"What's going on?" the other wolf mumbled. He took a look a Rod 
and gasped.

"What the..?" he started.

"That's exactly what I said." Rod laughed. The other wolf held 
on to Rod's hand and suddenly, in a flash of light, both of them 
were teleported to a strange dark room.

"Are you a warlock?" Rod asked.

"Yes," replied the other wolf.

"Me too!" Rod said and giggled.

The other wolf smiled.

"I'm Freelance." he said.

"I'm Rod. I'd rather not say my full name- it's embarrassing!" Rod 
said, "Ok... it's Ronald Miser William Wolfe... see what I mean?" 

Freelance's jaw dropped.

"But... that's impossible! Mine is Freelance Raphael William Wolfe!
My mother once said I had a twin... Do you realise what this means? 
Omigod! Omigod! Omigod! This is incredible!"

"Whoa! This is very overwhelming!" Rod said. He felt like he was 
dreaming. "Now why'd you electricute me?"

"Well, I thought you were a SWATbot. They've been around a lot 
lately."

"You mistook me for a SWATbot?" Rod asked.

"Sorry. I need glasses and I haven't got them on." Rod rolled his 
eyes.

"Well wear them next time! You could have seriously hurt someone. 
Lucky it was me, because I can heal myself." Rod gave a flourish 
with his hand and produced a pair of glasses. Freelance laughed 
loudly and put them on. 

"Hey, they're perfect!" he giggled. Rod gave another flourish and 
transported them out of the dark room, into Knothole.

"Hey, where are we? This is nice! But where are we?" Freelance said. 
Rod put on a sly grin.

"If I tell you, I'm gonna have to kill you." he joked. Freelace 
rolled his eyes.

"Nice try. So where are we?" he asked again. Rod explained to him 
plainly that he wasn't allowed to tell, otherwise he might tell 
someone that had contacts with Robotnik, and that would be a 
catastrophe. Freelance simply sighed and gave in.

"Ok, whatever you say." he said.

Just as he said this, Sonic came into view. He pulled up in front of 
the two wolves and did a double take.

"What the..?" he said. The wolves giggled.

"Rod, did you make a clone of yourself?" he asked. Rod burst out 
laughing.

"No. This is my twin, Freelance. I just met him." Rod explained. 
Sonic looked surprised. He dashed away to tell the others.

"Come with me." Rod told Freelance. Freelance followed. He was curious 
about this place and its inhabitants. Who was that hedgehog? *It can't 
be Sonic The Hedgehog, can it?* He thought, *It might very well be!*