(A/N) Hello and welcome to my first published story/fan fiction on

I hope you will like what you read, and I hope that my writing is readable (English is not my main language.)

Anyway, we will see us again, at the end of the chapter.

Good Luck, and enjoy the reading and, have interest ^^

"No! Right, I said right! Stupid controller!" The figure on the Screen made a move to the right, but too late. The green-red colorized monster touched the blue figure and a big black and red blinking "Game Over" appeared on the TV-Screen followed by a deep voice who also said "Game Over! You lose." Cassia wanted to throw the controller right in the metallic wall but right before she could smash the joystick in her anger, the door to the room opened and her older sister, Clove, stepped in, together with a Doctor. "Sis!" shouted her younger sister excited. They both hugged each other.

"How are you?" asked Clove with a worried tone in her voice. "As always, I'm fine. Well….I would feel better If I finally could get out of this stupid room". "Just one more day, Cassia. Tomorrow you can leave. She can leave am I right?"

"Of course Lady Clove. The last day is always just about observation, nothing more. No more treatments or studies."

"Thank Chaos! It was boring and I couldn't play Video games until now…" "The Game devices could let the medical equipment malefu…" "I know. It's not like you remembered one million times." Cassia took the cushion under her head, putted it on her face and let out a grunt. "Cassia behave yourself….the time will past fast."

"I hope you are right. Or I'm really dying because of boredom." Exactly after Cassia finished her sentence the Door opened again. An Egg-Soldier stepped in. It was a Deer, around Cassia's age and also with a similar height: "Lady Cassia. I brought the supplies you asked for." His voice sounded nervous and a bit annoyed, annoyed because he didn't like the smell of sanitizer that was in the air and because the box was a pretty heavy. "Finally, now the day gets a lot more interesting". The older Pronghorn watched as the Egg-Soldier put the box on the left side of the bed and opened it. There were more than thirty games in the Box. But not only games, there was also another console.

"Cassia, are… are you going to play all of this games? In one night?" Clove was a shocked and worried. "Chill sis. I'm not playing all by myself, the guy here l is supporting me." The young deer gave Clove a nervous nod. Clove really wanted to talk it out from her sister, but she was really exhausted. She didn't get really any sleep. "Good….but only this time…Cassia I will be back in an hour just to see if everything is alright. Doctor would you mind to come with me?"

"Of course not, Lady Clove." The doctor took a clipboard with some papers and her filler. Since her sister didn't gave her a response she asked again: "Cassia. Have you listened to me?" The younger Pronghorn gave an annoyed nod. She was completely concentrated in winning the game both played right now. Clove gave a sigh before she left with the doctor.

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"Of course I understand your concern about your sisters health, but I can promise, Lady Clove, that as long as she is not getting injured….there is no need to worry."

"That is the problem. She will get injured. Even if she just trips and get a small cut of it... And please don't tell me the chances are minimal."

"I understand that you are worried, but there is right now nothing else that we can do against her sickness". The Doctor, a female racoon, thirty-five years old with light brown short hair, sat down near a table and gave Clove a mug before she walked to a kitchen cabinet, taking out a little box full of tea bags that where filled with black tea. Clove waited a bit until the water coloured itself dark from the tea, and then she took a sip: "I know, and I can't even leave with Cassia". She spoke the last sentence very silently. "Understandable. He is cruel, one of the cruellest persons I have seen in my live. Lady Clove, I really would recommend that you would get some sleep", Clove wanted to object but the Doctor continued talking: "I know you are worried about your sister. But there is nothing going to happen. It's just observation, nothing more. And I hope you don't mind my talk, but you don't look too great. "

Clove went silent for a moment. She took another sip of her tea. "Maybe you are right, but…it's complicated. I want to be there for her. She is my little sister. I was there for her since the beginning. Since bad luck came over both of us, I want that she have a good life, a better, a safe life." It was the Doctor who now became quiet. "I'll better take a look after her, just for a minute." "Will you go to rest after that?" asked the racoon with a tone of worried distrust in her voice. "We will see" Both made their way down to Cassia.

"That he is capable for something like this is truly savage. But I'm sure there will come the time for you and your sister. Someone told me a long time ago that 'Hope dies last'" "I hope that you are right. "Clove went quiet again and touched her head. It was like someone or something stabbed her in the head. A slight pain at first became worse and worse in a matter of seconds. She breathed heavily. As the Doctor saw the breakdown of Clove, that she didn't look well and lean herself on a wall, she went back to the Egg Boss: "Are you not feeling well?" Every muscle inside her burned like fire. "You have fever. Shall I…" She couldn't feel her skin anymore. Her Hands, she couldn't control them and her legs where shaking in an extremely manner. Then she fell. She couldn't raise her voice. Nothing. She couldn't move an inch in and of her body, except hearing. That was all. There was panic everywhere inside her head, fear and the worry about Cassia.

"Lady Clove!", the Racoon Doctor stared in shock and dismay. She had luck that two egg-soldiers were patrolling in the near of her in the next corridor. They haven't noticed yet what happened. "You two, help me!" As they two saw what the doctor meant and wanted, they were there as fast as they could. "Doctor what happened!? Is she..." "No she is breathing and alive, but..." In sets of three they carried the unmoving body of the Eggboss. "If I guess right, I hope that I'm wrong. I really hope so. Help me to bring her in the patient's room!" Carefully the soldiers took her whilst the doctor went ahead. Still with the fast working in her mind what to do and the activating of her Pager to inform other doctors and medical staff and also with the though ….what to tell Lady Cassia.

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"The Winner is…CASSI3R" "But, but that…that's the eight time in a row? How?" the deer asked in shock. "I told you my moves are better", Cassia stuck her tongue out. "No way… you are cheating!" "Cheating?! Just admit that you can't win", Cassia grinned. "Then…let…let's switch controllers. I'm sure this here is defective." "Yeah yeah yeah, it's the Controllers fault. But fiiine, here" Slightly bugged she switched the controller with the Deer: "Let's make a bet. If I win this time, you have to do my shift." Ok. And If I win….I…I..I want that you g…"

Suddenly the sound of the game was outplayed by fast running. Someone tried to open the door by pushing it, but realized soon that they had to drag the handle. The Door was opened with brute force so it hit a small table with a vase that started to shake dangerously but fortunately did not fell on the floor and broke. "Hey! What..?" A group of at least twelve members of the Medical team tried as fast as they could to squeeze themselves through the doorway at the same time. The medics started to fix the room up for another patient. Some of them prepared medical equipment; others put cover on a second bed, arranging it correctly.

Every one of them was in a nervous haste. "Do you know what's up?" The deer shrugged with his shoulder. Two egg soldiers who carried a person came in the room. But Cassia couldn't see who it was, because the medical staff started to surround the two Egg Soldiers. A nurse took the curtain of the bed, pulling it open. Luckily for Cassia, a nurse came out from behind of the curtain to search for something.

„Would you please tell me what's going on here? ", she asked. The nurse glanced at Clove, and then she made a worried and nervous expression. She tried at first to say something; she didn't; turning around and went back to the patient who couldn't be seen thanks to the white curtains. Cassia tried to speak with other people from the medical staff but every one of them just tried to ignored her. And that really angered her. „Can someone finally tell me what's going on!" Slowly, the racoon doctor walked towards her. She looked tense.

„Lady Cassia, there was an incident and your sister..."„What is with my sister? " The young pronghorn stared at the racoon. The doctor remained silent „What is with my sister? " Her tune sounded a worried and Cassia began to shake her by her shoulders. „Your sister was involved" She shoved the doctor, the curtains and some people from the medical staff away. „Clove? " Her sister didn't move. The eyes, concentrated on the celling. „Clove? ", asked Cassia again her sister didn't response.

With the thought that her sister was completely motionless and that she couldn't do anything about it brought tears of sadness into the young Pronghorn. But the sadness soon turned into anger. The pronghorn pulled down one of the medics so they would stand at the same height: „I want to know exactly what happened! " „I always thought that it was some kind of hoax", he answered afraid. Cassia let him go and turned to the doctor.

„But it's true. It's not a joke. Between doctors, it's real, not a hoax, not a joke "„What is real? I want to know it right now! "„Maybe we should..." „I want to know it here and right now! " „It is something that is called... it doesn't have a real name, but we call it spontaneous cybernetic failure. It's very rare, only 0,08 percent of the people with cybernetics are affected from it" „I want to know what it does to my sisters. No statistics, no gossip. I want to know what it does to my sister! "

„Every one of us has cybernetics in us. It's a demand when we become citizens of the Egg Empire. I got them, you got them, your sister got them…every one of us has hem. They cybernetics in your sister failed and it proceeded in a lockdown which affected the whole body of your sister. She can't move, she can't speak, I don't even know if she can hear or see. And the worst is that we can't do anything against it. There is no solution to it. That's all I can say. I'm sorry"

Cassia was like split in two. On the one hand she was sad, wanted to cry, to go to her sister give her a hug and try to help her. On the other hand she was angry. Not at the medical staff, but angry at the Cybernetics, angry at the failure, angry that there is no cure and angry at him, Eggman. She let out a scream, filled with anger, hate and also full of sadness. She whipped her tears and ran away, out of the room. She closed the door fast, with force. The draft was strong enough to let the white vase fall on the ground, and shatter her in pieces.

(A/N) And here we are, at the end of the chapter ^^

Not really something happy and maybe even enjoyable what happened here.

Truth to be told I can't say when I will publish the next chapter. I'm really sorry for that but I'm a pretty slow writer and I don't know if my beta reader has always time to help me with my story (Since he has work and I have soon school again)

I hope you could enjoy the first Chapter of my story and I hope we will see us again in the next Chapter of "Counting Black Sheep and Days" ^^

Wit friendly greetings

The Bowlerhatwearer