Adopted! (By RAWN)
Chapter 2: Grounded
From behind solid metal bars, the blue hedgehog was glaring daggers at his captor.
"I hope you realize that this is considered child abuse?" Sonic asked dryly, with an expression that clearly told the other that he was NOT
amused.
Eggman merely chuckled at this.
"I hardly think that a little punishment for your years of disobedience will qualify as an abuse".
Sonic continued glaring at this, clenching his shining sharp teeth, and a low growl starting to form in his throat.
Not particularly impressed by this, Eggman raised an eyebrow before adding "Don`t tempt me to prolong your grounding to indefinitely"
followed up by a satisfied smirk.
Sonic turned his back at his so-called `father`, his quills bristling in anger, before he came to realize something important. "I`ll be sixteen next
week you know?" he said with a hint of his good old confidence.
When turning sixteen, parents had no say if their child wanted to move out, which was a law Sonic most definitely would take advantage of in
his situation.
Eggman grinned evilly "Oh? But I already have other plans. We have missed out on too much quality time, so I`m going to do something about
it".
Sonic didn`t comment on this, only gave the crazy doctor a suspicious glare.
"I`ll take that as a cue to leave you alone for the moment, but don`t worry…I`ll see to you tomorrow" announced the doctor in a cheerful fake
politeness before leaving.
Sonic was annoyed beyond words. How could this have happened? He shouldn`t have been so easily distracted by his enemy suddenly
declaring that he wanted to adopt him!
He stopped pulling frustrated at his ears long enough to recall what had happened.
Well…to his defense, it was a rather shocking and completely unexpected declaration (to put it mildly). Besides, the robot that caught him had
come floating silently from behind, and would have been hard to detect, even if not distracted.
After that, of course, he had been brought to Eggman`s fortress and thrown into an empty cell without any opportunity to struggle free.
These excuses didn`t reassure the upset hedgehog much at all…
Thinking about what he should or shouldn`t have done, would not get him out of this heavily guarded fortress.
Instead he tried spin-dashing the metal bars, but to his disappointment, he didn`t even leave a scratch and ended up having a splitting
headache that lasted for well over an hour.
The cell was only measuring 3 meters in every direction, and felt somewhat claustrophobic to Sonic, who preferred wide open spaces.
Not being one to give up that easily, he tried his spin-dash a couple of times more, before finally giving it up.
"Figure I just will have to wait here like an obedient `son` until tomorrow then" he thought gloomily while sitting down in a corner with arms
and legs crossed, his head aching way too much to conjure up something more clever than his failed forceful breakout attempts.
