Untamed (by RAWN)
Chapter 1: Infiltration
When Sonic, earlier that day, had, by sheer dumb luck, stumbled across this new fortress of his old nemesis, he had first thought of altogether ignoring it and letting
Eggman make the first move as usual.
His adventurous spirit and unquenchable curiosity, however, were of a different opinion. Urging him to return after dark, and for once, foil whatever plan the doctor
was working on before he had time to put it into action.
The evil scientist had been quiet for an unusually long amount of time, which usually signified that he was working on something big and elaborate. This, of course,
had further intrigued the blue hedgehog to the point where he found it completely irresistible to perform a closer investigation to figure out what his enemy had been
secretly working on for so long.
To his disadvantage, as he was currently crawling on all fours through the shadowy shafts, he couldn`t see much; or anything at all really, except whenever he
passed a grate near one of the numerous hallways. Getting lost in here would undoubtedly be all too easy, so he made sure to memorize which direction he chose at
every intersection he encountered.
His nose twitched in discomfort due to a tickling sensation caused from inhaling dust, and he constantly had to fight the urge to sneeze. Should he fail; the resulting
sound of that would create a loud echo that would be enhanced by the bare metal walls and channel through the entire base, inevitably attracting unwanted attention
and warn his enemy of his presence. In other words; he had no choice but to endure this mildly distracting torture.
He wasn`t sure of exactly 'what' he was looking for, but he felt certain that he eventually had to find something he could destroy in this godforsaken maze of metal
that would thwart whatever Eggman was plotting. Or perhaps just a big good old-fashioned shiny red self-destruct button he could press. Though he seriously
doubted he would be 'that' lucky.
Again.
Eggman wasn`t prone to repeat past mistakes, and would undoubtedly have made the necessary precautions to prevent his fast and furry nemesis to reprise such a
humiliating victory a second time.
Anyway, to the doctor`s bitter resent, the quick thinking and impulsive acting hero always seemed to discover some flaw or another that would tip the scales in his
favor no matter how bad the odds were against him. So Sonic wasn`t too concerned about not knowing what to do, there was always a way. And this time, for a
change, his enemy didn`t even know he had intruded his home base already. Seemed like a promising start, although he wished he hadn`t been as thoughtless as to
not bring a flashlight at least.
He mentally cursed when his left hand bumped into a dead end which forced him to crawl backwards, due to the limited space not allowing him to turn around, until
he reached the last crossroad enabling him to choose another direction.
Sonic proceeded to go deeper and deeper into the increasingly more complex network of ventilation shafts, once in a while pausing to listen if he could pick up any
sounds.
After repeating this procedure for the seventh time, his triangular ears finally pricked up at a peculiar noise.
"What the…is that…snoring?" he mused in slight confusion. Curious, despite his better knowledge, he listened intently while rotating his ears to try and pinpoint the
exact location of where the sound emitted from. Stealthily, he crept closer. He took a left turn and then a right, and continued a little further when suddenly the
surface beneath him creaked and gave after. His lightning fast reflexes kicked in, and he snatched the falling grate with one hand and kept himself from tumbling
down by grabbing ahold of the edge of the newly created hole in the ventilation system with the other.
"Whoa! That was close" he thought, barely stifling a nervous chuckle from relief. The screws on the grate had probably not been fastened properly, and had not been
able to withstand the hedgehog`s weight.
Luckily, this little accident hadn`t been loud enough to catch anyone's attention, and he could still hear snoring.
The mid-sized room he currently found himself in had windows, which allowed enough light in for Sonic to be able to make out contours. Glad to finally get to use his
eyesight again, even if only to a very limited extent, he decided to inspect the room further by letting go of his grip on the ventilation shaft. Landing with a soft
unheard thud on the floor below him, he carefully put down the rectangular metal netting so he could freely explore what seemed to be a…bedroom?
"Guess that explains where the inhuman racket I`ve been following came from" Sonic smirked. There wasn't anything interesting to check out in the relatively small
furnished room. Other than a wardrobe door, which revealed a remarkably large dressing room, and a nightstand where he was fortunate enough to find a flashlight.
Right after he had picked this useful item up; a faint snorting sound could be heard from the sleeping form on the bed, like if someone was about to wake up.
Sonic froze for a brief second, his thoughts racing to find a way out of this. Preferably before the doctor woke up to find a rather agitated blue hedgehog who,
momentarily, felt like he might have been a little too clever and precipitous in his latest choice of actions.
