It has been a week since Sonic's and Eggman's fateful battle, the town it took place in completely destroyed, as if it had gone through a war. Walking through the battle field a lone figure scanned the ravaged earth and destroyed buildings seemingly searching for something, though it doubted it would find it in the lifeless town. The figure paused hearing a faint sound nearby in a pile of rubble and slowly and stealthily padded over to where it came from. Carefully digging through the debris, the figure discovered the body of a hedgehog, the sound being the barely audible rasping breaths escaping the body's mouth, the chest barley rising and falling.
The fur color was indistinguishable do to the fact that it was covered in filth and burnt with reddish brown liquid everywhere. The figure assumed it was the others blood. The body was badly wounded and barely alive as the figure continued to move the debris out of the way finally picking up the wounded other bridal style. The battered hedgehog feeling the others touch, slowly became conscience, opening his eyes to stare at his rescuer. Upon looking, the battered hedgehog saw a tuft of pure white chest fur in front of his dirty face, before looking up into the ruby eyes that stared down into his own emerald orbs.
The others fur was a midnight black and had blood red stripes down his quills, which seemed to defy gravity, going up at the ends instead of down. The battered form quickly realized that he was only still alive, even if only just, because of the chaos emeralds that were still hidden away in his quills, (having gone back into their hiding place when the super form was dispersed) still supplying him with just enough energy so that his body did not completely shut down.
After making this realization, the hedgehog started to black out again. The last thing he saw was deep enticing ruby eyes staring into his own before going out cold. The midnight hedgehog stiffened a bit when the battered one's body went completely limp and the vivid emerald eyes that had been staring at him rolled into the back of his head, though he was still just barely breathing, however difficultly. The striped hedgehog took the limp form from the destroyed town and went into the forest, taking the body to the base that has been his home ever since Dr. Eggman woke him up from his deep 50 year sleep.
Back at the base the ebony hedgehog brought the barely alive figure to the fully stocked, built in hospital wing and demanded the surgeons to save the battered hedgehog. After taking charge of their new patient, they began to clean up and tend to the numerous wounds the comatose hedgie had. Seeing as how he had lost an enormous amount of blood and was severely malnourished, they needed to get him into surgery as soon as possible if his life was to be saved.
After going through the surgery (which was successful) and getting a blood transfusion, the patched up hedgie that was now clean, had been placed into a monitored room with various machines hooked up to him as the surgeon's nurse called his rescuer to give the older hedgehog an update on his condition.
"He will live but his body will need to rest for a while. Most of his wounds will heal fairly quickly, however, when we had an X-ray done, we found that he did have severe head trauma and will most likely have amnesia when he wakes up that might be permanent." The nurse reported.
"I see. That will be all, however keep me updated on his condition. If there is a problem, notify me immediately." The hedgehog commanded.
"As you wish." Replied the nurse before leaving the two mobians alone in the hospital room.
The older hedgehog walked up to the side of the others bed and stood there staring down at him. Now that his fur was all clean, the ebony one could see that he was a vibrant sapphire in color with peach arms, muzzle, and belly. He was slightly smaller in stature, his quills slicked back giving the blue hedgehog an aerodynamic appearance and his legs were extremely muscled, looking strong like they could do serious damage if their owner so chose.
A few minutes later there was a voice over the intercom that announced the arrival of the infamous Dr. Eggman. It seemed that he was severely wounded and had been taken into surgery immediately upon his arrival with serious burns all over his body, the most serious being one on the back of his head. His personal hovercraft was all but destroyed, making it a miracle that it even managed the trip back to the base at all.
After about a day of intensive care the only wound the Doc had left was the burn on the back of his head that would most certainly scar. But with the help of the new burn cream his scientists had developed, even that wound would heal up in about another hour or two. Later that evening after Dr. Eggman had gone to his lab, the ebony hedgehog came to find him and inform him of the patient that he had found.
"I found him in a destroyed town when I went out looking for you. He was barely alive when I found him so I brought him to the base to be treated. The nurse said that he had severe head trauma and would probably have amnesia that would most likely be permanent." The midnight one reported.
"Take me to where he is Shadow!" Dr. Eggman demanded of the dark hedgehog.
"Yes Doctor." Shadow replied as he led the evil scientist to the room their injured guest was currently staying in.
