I know, you guys want me to update my other stories, but I just had this idea...! Don't kill me, please... You might just enjoy this...
This is Book 1 for Artemis, and before Sonic's birthday for him. Holly never happened. Neither did the fairies.
Chapter 1: Trapped!
Day 0
It was the blackest part of night. Butler and Artemis hunkered down in their tent. Butler longed to say something, to whistle, to make some noise to break the terrible silence, but he knew that Artemis would not have it. The child genius needed absolute concentration.
Now was the time to spring the trap. They had obtained information about his whereabouts from a cat, of all things. A cat named Blaze. They had managed to convince her that they were on his side. Butler still found himself struggling to believe this was all true. But Artemis had the plan worked out in entirety. Yes, Master Artemis always had a plan.
Butler could hear him in the distance now, the patter of feet, running impossibly fast. He crouched, his stance stealthy but ready to spring into action, a large canvas sack in hand. Artemis had planned to prey on the individual's cockiness and pride, and Butler had absolute confidence it would work.
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Sonic dashed across the darkened countryside. He had to run, run, run off some of that nervous energy. It was two days before was the Day. The Day that would change it all. And tomorrow was the day he announced his plan.
His birthday. He had promised to finally make peace with Eggman for his 'Sweet 16.' And Eggman had promised to put a stop to his crazy schemes.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, he felt his foot make contact with a trip wire. Eggman! He knew he wouldn't come through. Reacting instantly at his loss of balance, he rolled safely out of the way as a large iron cage dropped from a tree.
"Ha" he began his signature taunt, looking into the tree, convinced that that was where Eggman's robotic toady was hidden. "Too slo-"
He was cut off abruptly by the sack that had been thrown over his head, and tied off at the bottom as he felt something- or someone- lift the sack.
"Hey! Lemme outta here!" he shouted, but to no effect. And his thrashing around seemed to have only one effect: a monstrously large hand, a human hand, reached inside, groped around for his arm, and applied a sedative patch. Sonic ripped it off, but it was too late. He could already feel his eyelids drooping…
Just before he drifted off, he heard an icy cold human voice say: "Not so slow, am I now, Sonic the Hedgehog?"
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Artemis had no qualms about what he had just done. The sedative patch would wear off in eleven hours and thirty minutes, plus minus two minutes, taking into consideration his captive's accelerated metabolism and proportionally large body mass, leaving no lasting effects. The mixture inside was of his own concoction, the dose precise to the thousandth of a milliliter. His captive had behaved exactly as predicted.
The lie he had concocted to Blaze had been without flaws. He had simply explained to her that her friend had contracted a rare virus, of which he himself did not know, and that if he evaded out capture long enough he would die. And just to make sure, as he thanked her, shaking her…paw, he had injected a mild drug that would leave her memory of the past few days so scrambled that she would be lucky to recall the color of the sky.
He allowed himself a smile of satisfaction as he boarded the rental Jeep. Nothing could go wrong.
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Oh! And next chapter, you get introduced to someone special...
Artemis: Why? This is humiliating. She is humiliating.
Me: Artemis! No hints to the readers!
Arty: That is disappointing...
Apollo: Heya!
Me: No! Nonono... this isn't your scene yet! GET OFF MY KEYBOARD... AND NO HACKING, ARTEMIS, OR I'LL TELL MINERVA-
Arty: Shut up! *turns pink*
Apollo: Tell her what?
Me/Arty: NOTHING!
Me: -cough- C'mon, review, guys?