Hey everyone so my first story didn't go well and I was hopping that this on did but if it doesn't... A true writer plays his/her game to the very end of it all.
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Chapter 1: These hands can feel…Everything
Hydra's POV
Last thing I remember was… Me being alone and so cold in a dark horrid place, then a man took me in his care for a while… the rest was blurry and confusing but I didn't really feel anything other than my body trembling to the sight of something.
Was I dreaming? All I kept seeing was a door, a struggle, I heard myself cry out, then a blank image. I couldn't put a finger on who I saw, where I was and what I was doing, it had just came back in my dreams every time just more graphic and more, horrifying.
Why was I screaming? I was in good hands and I wasn't alone. After those episodes in my mind I pictured a tall man, chubby looking with a shiny mustache and dark blue goggles, pick me up and take me somewhere safe. Yeah, he rescued me and took care of me like I was his own.
That pain, ah this headache in my head hurt, it was like a hammer hitting me over and over and this wasn't the first time but today it felt like it was at the zenith of all pains I ever had. With each of its pounding blows I could feel something that I hadn't felt in a long time. My fingers. I could feel them lock together in a clutch and… my feet. Yes, I could feel that too, I could feel my toes crunch up around a jelly like substance.
Having felt the tickle of my breath against my muzzle and hearing something unfamiliar to me put me in a confusing trace. It was like I was in a pool and all I could hear was the current of this liquid around me and some bubbling. Like a large blast that came from nowhere it woke me up I shot open my eyes and all the senses in my body heightened to it.
My body was like an adapter with all types of plugs in me, I could feel them on my limbs and stomach, my breaths deepened and my vision blurred by the gel in my eyes, yet it didn't hurt. The gel was warm and it was like a hugging sensation around me and the cables were not hurting me at all. No, they just made the area around which they were plugged thump.
Plus I was floating which was very cool but the warm colors of red and yellow entered my blurry view and then the air changed to something a little comforting and yet weakening. All the tension that raced my heart and that heightened my senses slowed down, so much so that I heard my heart through the gel thump loudly in my ears then my vision darken.
Thump-thump…thump-thump…..thump-thump…thump—
I had blacked out again.
Narrator POV
Dr. Eggman had stood by the incubation pod with robots, Orbbot and Cubebot hovering by his side watching a grey female bat release the clutch on her feet and hands and shut her eyes.
"That was close sir, she might have woken up too soon." Orbbot said while his hands were rubbing over each other.
"This is highly concerning…" Eggman mumbled in fret as he made his way to another part of his lab which had large monitors lined up against the wall. He watched as the markers went from a low and stable state and rocket to unstable, "This might be the time but I don't think she's ready."
The two robots had hover over to his side and watched him stroke his mustache between his two fingers as he observed the markers dwindle down to stable. His mind focused on the next moved supported by the change in the markers but it was too soon to call. It wasn't stable for long though as it shot up again and higher than before, "Orbbot, Cubebot, stabilizer her one more time." He commanded.
The two quickly got to the control boards and had started to key away to the maximum of their capabilities, "Sir we almost have it," Cubebot cried and presses a final button to his typing. Major error and a critical one indeed, he just pressed a button that would lead to a change in the whole game.
"You imbecile! That was to drain the nitric fluid from the tank!" Eggman scolded with a whimper.
As they spoke and argued she was awakening from her long sleep, she did not know how long since, it felt like a nap but it must have been longer. The liquid that drained down at the bottom vents controlled by the button carelessly pressed by Cubebot left her hanging by the steel cables.
Then the long cables that merged with her legs, arms, and abdomen had disconnected from her and recoiled to the side of the glass pod. This left four dots arranged like the corners of the square and rimmed by a dark blue circle, it looked like a button was printed on her skin. The mask had unleashed from her muzzle and for the first time in ages she took in a long and hard gasp of the atmospheric air. All of the items that were on or around her during her incubation period had left her and now she knelt down on the floor without any support other than the glass wall she leant on.
Her eyes opened and a jolt rocked her body once more but with so much fear and for once so much pain. She was in that chamber for so long that her body couldn't cope on doing everything on its own, her limbs and stomach ached her lungs were on fire and her body was cold.
She heared the footsteps of someone coming up to her, the pod had opened its glass wall quickly letting in a new dosage of air but, made her tumble forward. At that point it was scary, her vision blurred again and then she falls to the floor, laying her frightened bare body on the cold surface.
Her gasps increased with each passing second making it harder to keep awake, her lungs felt like the desert, dry and empty and she was panicking due to what feels like the lack of air coming in. In her mind she thought "I'm going to die, what's going on!"
"You two get me an oxygen mask, a sedative, and begin the activation process now. And hurry idiots I don't want to lose her, she's very important to—"
She blanked out but that voice sounded familiar to her, like the voice of the man that took her in at night and comforted her in the… darkness. That jolt faded and that fear slipped out of her system by hearing that voice.
Eggman picked her up and held her cold, in shock and nitric fluid dripping body to a room far away from the lab. To him it was no use on getting her back in, she was already awake and her body had already adapted to the usual environment.
"This is bad, I hope she will be able to adapt to the systems. It's just not safe to carry out anything at the moment we just have to wait and see" He thought as his eyes wondered down to the unconscious bat in his arms.
A few hours later in a warm room where the light poked through the blinds and onto the little bat's skin, she lay their silently and calmly in a warm bed. No one had been in the room since Dr. Eggman injected her with the sedative and got her breathing to the best possible condition so all they had to do was wait.
And wait…. And wait….
This was taking forever, it was past midnight and she seemed to have fallen into a deep coma which was quiet possible according to Dr. Eggman's analysis. And where was he? He remained in the lab with a locked door and his goofy robots on sleep mode in their confined spaces so that he could work in peace.
He was making sure that his prize possession remained stable for the moment and that most of his systems were on. These systems were very important to his plan, he had one small part down so he didn't need another to go AWOL.
"No, no, no! This can't be! Grrrrr must try harder to… oh come on!" Two parts of the system were offline and shattered the plan entirely. His best option was to stop what his doing and hope he didn't ruin the little bat's future.
Speaking of her she was having a vision of her in dark place, it was coming back to her in a more clearer manner. She was in a dark room all by herself and she seemed to be waiting for someone but that someone never came. Until, the door unlocked and swung from its hinge reveling a spine tingling sight, Sonic and his friends.
To her the sight of the Sonic, Knuckles, Tails, Amy and Sticks were violently shaking her into a state of a troubled girl. She was all alone and with no one to help her she was doomed. She began to scream as Tails and Sonic inched closer to her with Amy and Sticks holding some rope. She struggled to get out of Sonics' grip and was held down pretty tight by the others.
"No please!" She begged on repeat but it seemed like Sonic and his friends didn't gave her no care whatsoever, just the look on faces showed the pleasure in her fear. Then the lights went out and then came back on with everyone that she feared gone and only Dr. Eggman in the room, "I have come to save you Hydra…"
Hydra… that name rung through her mind several times, even in her sleep she mumbled Hydra over and over and Eggman –who had a video feed- saw her go over her name Hydra. His cold grin slipped it's way in and his signature laugh broke out.
Had one of his cold sinister plans gone right or did she remember something she had seen some time ago? Whatever it was, turned her soul into something dark. It was darker than most villains and colder then that a frozen abyss. She saw them attack Eggman and she saved him, she didn't know how she did it but she managed to evade and defeat them. In her dreams they scampered off and left only her and him.
"You're hurt child, do you have a home?" Eggman asked
"No, I have no home… Not after what Sonic and his pests did." She replied with her eyelids rimming with hot tears and her body in pain.
"Come I can take care of you, give you a good home and make you my own."He advised and had let out his hand sort of accepting her into his world. She would love that so much after all she went through all she needed was a home and someone to call her own. She stood up and leisurely hobbled and shambled to him not only stretching out one but two arms for a hug.
Her eyes fluttered open to a dim room lighted by beams of lights, "Where am I?" She mumbled then located her hands near her waist on the soft bed and raised herself. She was alone in the room, "Did Doctor bring me here?"She asked in her thoughts, she pulled the sheets up to cover her bare body from exposure and ponder more.
The light opaque glass door slid open and got the little bat's attention. Her smile grew on her face but in a different type of happiness came along with it, "Doctor it's been a while."
"Yes Hydra it has…" The evil scientist made his way to the side of her bed and sat down watching her smile turn from a slightly innocent to an evil grin. Eggman was please with her new change, his plans were working accordingly, "So how did you sleep."
"Oh I just had the worst dream-"
"About Sonic and his friends?" Eggman butted in and caused the bat to look into his eyes and think 'how did he know?'
"Yes… how did you—"
"For the past year you kept of having dreams about it and mumbling it in your sleep, so just yesterday I gave you a little pill to erase you memory but, it seems some memories are hard to forget."
To Hydra it explained the reason why she didn't remember much about Eggman other than his name but the name Sonic, that caused a black flame to burn in her lavender eyes and a fang to be exposed from her growl.
"I know you must have mixed feeling for your killer but—"
"I hate Sonic," She yelled "he killed my family and everyone I loved!" She blustered out and shut her eyes. That anger was so immense it caused a string of hot tears to soon follow then quite sobs.
Constant patting on her shoulder calmed her down, "My child, I know you angry but crying won't help we must seek vengeance upon that blue menace."
"Vengeance?"
"Yes Hydra, he messed with the wrong bat because you have the power that no living creature in this universe possesses… The power to master every move of your victim and use it against them, in other words my dear, you have the power to steal and keep special traits of whoever you link your mind to."
That was amazing but to Hydra it was too much to take in, all this stuff about possessing and linking minds seems, complicated and challenging for her to do. Eggman could see the worry in her eyes as they glanced away from his, "Don't worry my child I shall teach you how to use your powers wisely and then we shall strike with my plan."
"What plans Doctor?"
"Ones to get them out of our lives once and for all!" He cried casing the bat to jolt up from her bed and make her heart race. A glance over to her side and Eggman could tell he had a lot to do before he could set her out for her task.
"You must be parched and famished my girl, would you like something?" Eggman suggest and walked over to the glass door.
"All I can think about is ice cream, I think I can't remember when the last time I had it?"
"Yesterday," Eggman lied but Hydra felt like it was a joke and snickered to it, her laughs were sweet like a child and would make most people around her happy. Oh if only she remembered her past like she wished but in her mind she expects Eggman to be by her side always.
It's sad that she might have wanted her memory removed due to the nightmares but I guess as long as her buddy was next to her she was dandy as can be. Although, one thing buzzed in her mind and she couldn't rest until she got it out, "Doctor… how do I use these powers?"
Good question, why learn something you barely remember about if you remembered a thing at all, Eggman had a lie for that,
"Oh my child I wish you never talked me into making you take that pill. Your hands are special to the point where a single touch can read the complex of minds and understand them so well.
But, like all powers they have a flaw, is seems that you can only channel information when the subject is in a calm state or keeping very still. Not to worry over time you shall learn to control you wonderful powers and destroy Sonic but just to give you a feel of what you can do, here." Eggman handed her a rob from the bedside drawer and walked out the room
Hydra quickly wrapped herself with it and ran out the door and followed her father figure to a room not far from hers. His hand slid open the door and soon the curios bat entered with a little distort.
The room was empty but in the corner a chained, wild wolf growling at them. His growls and snarls at the two where intimidating and did make Hydra scared but Eggman pulled her forward and knelt her down on the floor.
"You must face a fear in order to take control my dear, this wolf is nothing to you because one you posses it, you shall become its Alpha."
Her breaths deepened as her lavender eyes locked with the dark blue eyes of the grey wolf, he snarled yet again revealing his fangs to her and making her shift back. Eggman stopped her again and pushed her forward close enough for her to lay a hand on it, and for it to scrape it's fangs on her.
"Now without fear lock your eyes together and calm it down by thinking of a calm moment in your life."
Calm moment, all she could think about was when Eggman got her away from Sonic and she had a new home, the fact that she was in Dr. Eggman's care. A dream and love was what comforted her and so did the wolf as it lay down and looked around calmly but it was like an instinct to place both her hands on both sides of its temples and with their eyes locked.
With a long hard look her hands began to glow a light blue and her eyes change to a shade of blue like the wolf's own. She stopped and pulled away only to extend her claws and for her teeth do be sharpened just enough to cause a bruise on her tongue with a single scrape. Not only that but she felt the spirit of the animal inside her she could read it's mind travelling deep into the source and rooting out every dripping ounce of knowledge.
"This feels great… I want more." She thirsted for the power and knowledge she needed and Eggman was behind her all the way, "Yes my child you shall have all the knowledge you desire and the revenge you seek and in due time you shall meet with Sonic and his friends and we will begin our plan." He told her as she felt the power coarse through her body and stop at the heart with a favorable speed, making her ease he eyes shut and grin devilishly.