Cuffed and Questioned

By Ryo-The-Wonkey

Warnings: AU, Mobian/Human, SonicX/SonicComic x-over

Disclaimer- Me no own, leave me alone

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It wasn't the first time he had been handcuffed and sat at a metal unforgiving table, across from an officer of the law. This wasn't new to him by a long shot, but he wasn't an 'expert' in this field by any stretch of the imagination.

Though the last time this had happened, he had been on earth and the officer questioning him had been his Uncle Sam. …was still totally not his fault they'd turned that one-way sign around. But a still awkward moment he hoped never to relive.

"So Mr. Thorndyke, you are being charged with illegal passage through Zones without proper clearance or licenses. Also said travel has resulted in your current physical situation." The officer drawled out shuffling some papers in front of him, familiar green eyes staring at him, familiar face stoic and familiar voice, maybe slightly deeper with a hint of an accent. "What do you have to say for yourself?"

Chris gaped at the achingly familiar hedgehog in front of him, blue eyes round, staring in wonder and slight horror. "…Am I being punk'd?" He squeaked in his high voice, still in his twelve year-old form, his cheeks flushing pink in embarrassment.

The officer rolled his eyes a bit, "No. You are currently in the interrogation room of Zone Prison and my name is Officer Zonic."

"…Zonic?"

"Officer Zonic." Zonic snapped curtly.

"Right sorry…Officer." Chris lowered his eyes, "I just…I'm not sure I understand what's going on here." He twisted his wrists in the tight cuffs, wincing a bit as metal bit into his flesh. "I mean…Zone Police? Zones? I had no idea…I just…I think I'm getting headache."

Chris brought his cuffed hands to his forehead, trying to calm throbbing behind his eyes. This was just too unreal…

Zonic's mouth twitched a hint of a smile on his tan lips, "It's a common side effect when someone first visit's the No-Zone. You'll get over it."

"Though since that blue hedgehog came into my life…it's a wonder I'm still surprised by anything." The redhead groaned into his hands, drawing a chuckle from the officer across from him.

"So what kind of trouble am I in?"

Zonic rolled his shoulders and cracked his neck, "We'll see after I'm done questioning you." He said, catching Chris' eyes with his sharp green. "It could be a mild sentence or something worse. Negligence or not. Only yes or no/true or false answers unless I ask you to elaborate, if you would kindly. I don't think I have to remind you to answer truthfully."

Chris just sighed, headache pounding at his temples and acknowledged the officer affirmatively.

"Right then," the blue hedgehog began, "Is it that true that you were visited by individuals from the X-Zone to your Zone six years ago?"

"X-Zone? Oh Sonic's wor- …Yes sir."

"And they eventually returned to their own zone, yet one, X-Zone's Sonic, stayed behind for a while before returning?"

"Yes sir…"

Green eyes stared at him unblinkingly, "Elaborate."

Chris squirmed in his seat, "I…prevented him from returning."

"Explain."

Chris closed his eyes, taking a deep breath, "I was a very lonely, selfish, stupid child at the time and I wasn't ready to say goodbye to my best friend yet. But he humored me, helped me grow up a bit and went back on his own." he smiled a bit, lost in a memory.

"Hmm so X-Zone's Sonic is moderately decent at manipulating Chaos Control and the emeralds." Zonic said, more to himself than his captive, scribbling something down on one of the papers in front of him.

"Then for the following six years you studied and eventually built your own Zone Gate?" Zonic continued a bit louder, startling the red head out of his thoughts.

Chris' brows frowned, "Zone gate? …Oh! You mean my dimensional porta-err…yes sir." He winced at the sharp look the officer sent his way.

"Upon completion of the Zone Gate, did you use it to travel to the X-Zone?"

"If you mean Sonic's world then, yes, yes sir I did." Chris nodded to the officer, blue drifting over the other's face, so similar to his best friend's, but those eyes, the same emerald color, but the sharpness behind them made the human uneasy.

"And you stayed in the X-Zone for at least," The officer paused to look at another folder, "…seven months before attempting to return to your home Zone, where upon you were taken into custody and brought here?"

"Yes sir." Chris blinked, had that whole Metarex adventure taken seven months? …It seemed so much longer, a vision of Cosmo flashed across his mind, yet so short to lose a friend.

Zonic leveled him with a serious look, "Are you aware of the time difference between the two Zones?"

"Yes I-" Suddenly something clicked into place and Chris felt like he had been submerged in ice water. "Wait s-seven months…that means-"

"It means seven years have passed in your Zone. Currently you have been legally declared dead by your Zone's laws." Sharp green eyes watched as pale skin became even paler, making the dark circles under the human eyes more prominent. He stood and with two quick strides was at the human's side as the redhead swayed into him, out like a light.

Zonic stared down at the top of the human's head and sighed, pushing the other to lean back on the chair he was sitting in. He brushed the other's clothes straight and pushed the ginger bangs from Chris' forehead, he patted the human's cheek, but he didn't stir.

Zonic sighed and promptly poured a cup of water over Chris' face, the human coming back to the land of the living with a sputter, almost falling out of the uncomfortable metal chair. Chris coughed and Zonic ran his hand through the human's hair as he headed back to his own chair.

"Now that you've got that out of your system; you've answered my questions and pleaded guilty to the crimes you are being charged with-"

"Wait, wait!" Chris coughed, shaking his head, ignoring the droplets of water that fell from his hair and the pounding of his headache that only had become worse. "You can't just…I can't believe…this-"

"Yes you have been declared dead and you are guilty of the crimes you admitted to. As such you are to be sentenced to Zone Prison for a minimum of ten years with no parole."

Chris' head spun and turned green, "I think I'm going to be sick…"

"…if these were normal circumstances that is." Zonic continued, pushing the files away except for one. "Luckily for you, I can shorten your sentence…provided you do me a small favor first." Zonic reached across the table and cupped the human's cheek in his gloved hand, "And I'm not asking, I'm telling. Not that you have much of a choice, dead man." Chris stared at the officer as he smirked, feeling his heart drop into his stomach.

"Now let's see if my little experiment works."

Less than an hour later he was sitting across from another hedgehog with green fur and blue eyes, still extremely familiar in all sorts of ways neither right nor wrong. His cellmate grins a nasty grin and wiggles his fingers in a mockery of a greeting, "Well how you doin'? I was wondering who Officer Asshole was going to drop in hear. What are you in for?"

"…Am I being punk'd?" Chris asked no one in particular, mind reeling at the weirdness around him. He thought he was used to the weird and odd now, but being surrounded by doppelgangers of Sonic in an interdimensional prison was just too much.

The other seemed to mull his words over and nod, "Oh I see first time in the slammer, huh? He sent me a greenhorn… Man he's dumber than I thought." He snickered, throwing his legs off the bunk and stood, making a show of cracking his knuckles.

The hedgehog grinned at the look of fear in the redhead's eyes, prowling closer. Chris jumped to his feet trying to put space between them, "Woah, I don't want any trouble, mister! Look I'll just stay here and-"

"The name's Scourge, kid, baddest speedster in the multiverse and let me welcome you to hell." The other cut him off, in both speech and movement, pinning him to the wall with hand twisted into the fabric of his prison uniform. Chris yelped, cursing his child body for the millionth time in the last seven months, grabbing the other's arm.

Damn these anthromorphic talking animal and their damned superpowers!

"Please don't smack me around this room, I get enough of that from Shadow." He whined, half in fear, half in exasperation as he rolled his eyes heavenward, asking for help and answers. Scourge frowned, narrowing his eyes, "Stripes? You know Stripes?" he asked a little unbelievingly, tightening his hand on the boy.

"…You know Shadow?" Chris asked in the same tone.

"Yeah I know Mr. Pissed Emo, always strutting his stuff whining about 'ultimate this, ultimate that' and 'Mariaaaa'." Scourge then squinted at Chris, "You know….you look a lot like picture I've seen of the broad."

"I am NOT Maria and I'm NOT a punching bag!" Chris scowled, pushing the other away in surprising burst of strength. "I'm so tired of that! I may be a human but that does not put a big 'HIT ME' sign on my face!" Scourge raised an eyebrow in surprise as the other raged, not knowing whether the boy was insane or just stupid.

"Now look I'm having one hell of a bad day, I just found out I'm in prison for trying to get home and it looks like I'm going to be here for a very long time!" His chest heaved and his heart pounded as he struck a martial arts stance that got him laughed at last time he used it, "I don't have any pride, dignity, patience or sanity left, so come at me, I'm going down swinging, you jerk! I've already been declared dead!"

Silence rang in the cell for several pregnant moments, before Scourge snickered, then fell onto his back howling in laughter. Chris stood there for moment before feeling anger drain from him as his cellmate rolled on the ground in front him. "Damn, you've got some balls, don't you, Kid?" Scourge gasped for breath, wiping tears from his eyes, "I don't know whether you're stupid or just bat shit crazy."

Two shades of blue eyes met as Scourge sat up, still snickering, "Who the hell taught you a stance like that? You look like a sad kung fu movie." The red head's shoulders drooped, thinking of his faithful butler, "The sad fact is…you're most likely right about that." He deadpanned, causing Scourge to laugh again.

"What's your name? And what's good little boy like you doing in a place like this?" The hedgehog grinned, eyes sparking in a mischievous way. Chris felt a shiver up his spine, still uneasy about his cellmate, "Chris…and pretty much wrong dimension, wrong space/time… you know, the normal stuff."

"Yeah I do, Chris. …Nah I don't like it, that name doesn't fit and you seem a little bats" He made the 'crazy' motion next to his temple for emphasis, "I'll call you Bats instead." The human grimaced at the nickname, causing Scourge to grin, "See? You like it. …You know, I think we're going to get along just fine, Bats."

Chris had a feeling in the pit of his stomach that he was going to regret meeting this hedgehog. This was proven when Scourge grabbed the front of his jumpsuit, but instead of pinning him to the wall again…he was pinned to the other's chest and kissed very roughly.

Oh yeah he was so going to regret this.

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Zonic figured two hours was long enough to see if his experiment worked as he approached the cell block that held the particular human he was thinking about. He was confident his hypothesis was correct and wasn't disappointed when he came around the corner and saw the cell wide open and several guards unconscious.

"Cell block 8, we have an escape." He said into his radio as a distant explosion echoed in the prison, followed by alarms. Zonic was sure, knowing Scourge, the two were long gone by now and after reviewing the security footage, the last part in particular, he knew he had been right about the human.

Things were about to get a lot more interesting, he thought with a grin.

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