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Chapter two: Deathbed

Ghost woke up to find out that he was laying on a bed inside someone's bedroom.

"Good, you're awake," a female voice said to him.

"Where am I?" he asked bitterly. He turned to the person who was sitting in a chair beside the bed and saw that it was Rouge.

"You're in my apartment," she told him. "Sonic and the others had to take Eggman to the hospital. By the way, what's your name?"

"Let me guess, they don't want me to try and kill the fat prick so they had you watch me since you're the most qualified. And my name's Ghost the Hedgehog," Ghost said.

"That's right, you have a problem with that?" she asked.

"As a matter of fact I do."

"And why's that?"
"Because I'm going to kill the doctor whether you like it or not," he hissed, getting up out of the bed and heading for the door.

Rouge saw this and grabbed his arm. "You're not going anywhere, now get back in that bed," she ordered.

Ghost whipped out a pistol and pressed it against her head. "Do not get in my way; if you think that I won't pull this trigger on you then go ahead and try to stop me," he stated in a deathly serious tone. "I've killed agents working for GUN before, and I'll do it again if I have to."

"You know that if you kill him, the media will turn you into a villain, and GUN will hunt you down," Rogue stated, still trying to convince Ghost to change his mind.

"First, I don't care what the media or the public believe me to be. Secondly, I'm already being hunted down by GUN so this incident won't change things that much," he said as he took out a red chaos emerald. "Chaos Control!"

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Ghost knew that it would not be easy getting past Sonic and his friends in the hospital, but they probably weren't expecting him to regain conscious for quite a long time; he had only been out for about 45 minutes. When he reached the hospital, police cars and news vans were all parked by the hospital. Walking in through the front door, Ghost went up to the light blue fox.

"I'm here to see Sonic the Hedgehog, I'm an old relative of his," Ghost lied.

"And you are?" the female fox asked curiously.

"Samuel the Hedgehog," he said.

"He's currently watching over a current patient right now, but I think you might be able to speak with him for a short while," she said. "He's in Room 2527 on the second floor."

"Thank you," Ghost thanked politely as he walked past the desk and to the elevators. Ghost entered the elevator and pressed the button labeled "2". Walking out of the elevator, he found room 2527 right next to the elevator, with two police officers standing guard outside of the room in full uniform.

"Hold it," the man said, stepping in Ghost's way. "Only authorized personnel are allowed in this room."

Ghost took out a small dagger from his belt and stabbed the officer in front of him in the throat. Blood poured out of the man's neck as fell to the floor. The other officer drew his gun but Ghost was able to stab the man's wrist in time. The officer screamed in pain, but was silenced by Ghost's blade slashing his throat. Ghost entered opened the door to the room to see that Eggman was the only one in the room.

"Hedgehog probably left to grab a snack. Figures," Ghost muttered, shutting the door behind him.

Ghost looked down at Eggman, who was currently asleep and hooked up to IVs and life support. The doctors had managed to stop the bleeding from the bullet Ghost shot into Eggman. The black and grey hedgehog grabbed the evil doctor by throat, immediately waking him up from his sleep.

"You have some very good doctors," Ghost stated evilly, pulling Eggman's head up so that he was eye level with him. "But all that doesn't really matter, you will die," he continued as he began to squeeze harder on his victim's throat.

The heart monitor attached to the doctor began to beep faster and faster. Eggman began to try to flail around, but was hardly able to move very much due to his injuries. He stopped his flailing soon after and became limp, the heart rate monitor giving off a solid beep.

"Good riddance Eggman, I only wish I could have tortured you even more before killing you," Ghost said mostly to himself.

Suddenly, the door burst open with police officers armed with assault rifles and shotguns charging into the room.

"Put your hands in the air! Do it now or we will kill you!" they yelled.

Knowing that reaching for his emerald would probably get his head blown off; Ghost complied and put his hands in the air. Sonic and Shadow were right behind the police officers and pushed their way through.

"I told you not to leave the room Faker," Shadow growled, clearly annoyed. "Now look what happened: the doctor's dead." Walking away from Sonic, Shadow got face to face with Ghost and looked him dead in his eyes. "I'm going to have a word with you once these humans get you contained," Shadow stated coldly.

"I'm looking forward to it," Ghost replied, keeping his glare entirely fixed on Shadow.

As soon as Shadow turned away, the officers cuffed Ghost and escorted him into one of the police cars.