Sonic: your back! how'd it go?

Shadow: we didn't catch a wisp of him!

Glassplant: *roles her eyes* I'm going to check my PM.

Sonic: how could you two not find him?!

Shadow: I don't know, but the next time he comes back he is getting a beating!

Glassplant: oh... my... gods...

Shadow: what's up?

Glassplant: I got PM by one of my favorite authors here that he likes this story!

Sonic: cool. not start the story.

Glassplant: fine. begin.


For the next 20 hours or so Tails runs his tests on Sonic, taking a brake every now and then so that Tails could take a short nap. Finally at around 3:00 in the morning Tails finished all the tests he could think of at this moment and let Sonic and Shadow leave. Thanks to chaos control the two were gone in a snap. As soon as they were at Shadows apartment Sonic collapsed onto Shadow's couch and fell fast asleep.

Shadow on the other hand walked to his room and changed into a pair of pajama pants. As he was about to get in bed he realized that he still hadn't re-bandaged Sonic's frostbite or neck wound. So Shadow heads to his bathroom and grabs a role of bandage before heading into his living room and bandaging Sonic's hands, feet, and neck.

Shadow, being as tired as he was, didn't feel like walking all the way back to bed. So he pulled a blanket over Sonic and himself before falling fast asleep.

About two and a half hours pass before Shadow is rudely awoken by someone knocking on his door. Shadow looked at his clock and saw that it was 5:28 AM. 'who comes knocking this early in the morning?' Shadow asks himself as he got up and through the blanket over, the still werehog, Sonic to prevent the person at the door from seeing him before going and opening the door.

As soon as Shadow opened the door he saw Rouge. "hows it going sugar?" Rouge asked as she gives Shadow one of her world class smiles.

Shadow, not being enticed by Rouge's smile, asks "why are you here?" in his normal flat tone.

"what? Can't I come visit my favorite black hedgehog?"

Shadow gives Rouge a flat stair that clearly meant 'not without a reason.'

"okay, fine." Rouge says as she pulls out a folder and hands it to him "the commander wanted me to give you your next mission."

Shadow looks over the mission file. It's a simple recon mission that is stationed to commence in two months somewhere in northern mountains at what they believe might be one of Eggman's bases. They wanted him to go in and find out if this is one of Eggman's bases and neutralize it if it is.

Shadow closes the file and hands it back to Rouge before saying "tell the commander thanks for the offer, but that I decline." as he closes the door.

Rouge sticks her foot in the door just as it was about to close. Rouge opens the door before asking "whats up hun? You've never declined a mission before."

"So!?" Shadow spat as the calm look on his face disappeared being replaced by anger as Rouge entered his apartment.

Rouge stared at for a moment before saying "well it looks like someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed."

a sharp growl came from the agitated hedgehog as he walked in front of the bat and said "get out."

Rouge instantly knew something was up. The black hedgehog hadn't been like this since before his rival, Sonic, went missing. That's when it struck her "you found him didn't you?"

"who?" Shadow asked knowing perfectly well who she meant.

"you know who I mean! Now were is he!?"

"i haven't seen him in months Rouge." Shadow said as as he crossed his arms.

Suddenly something between a morn and a growl is heard from Sonic before he changes position in his sleep. As Sonic changes position the blanket Shadow had thrown over him fell off revealing the bulky werehog. As soon as Rouge saw Sonic her eyes widened. Then right before she started to scream Shadow covered her mouth and said "if you wake him up I will skin you alive."

Rouge looked into Shadow's eyes and saw that this was no idle threat. She quickly nodded before Shadow uncovered her mouth. "what is that thing doing here!?" Rouge asks with a wispier.

"that 'thing'" Shadow remarks "is Sonic."

Rouge's eyes widen as she looks over at the wolf-like creature that destroyed half of East city. "that's Sonic?" She asked with aw.

"yeah. We can thank Eggman for Sonic's new look."

"Egghead? How did he do this?"

Shadow points at Sonic before saying "he said that he used a laser or something, but don't worry he'll be back to his annoying self once the sun's up."

"why would Eggman want Sonic like this anyways?"

"i don't know, but it must be important because he's searching for Sonic like a mad man, witch I guess he is, and has armed his robots with only tranquilizer darts."

"yeah, it MUST be important if Eggman sent his robots after him."

suddenly Sonic makes a sound somewhere between a morn and a growl as he roles over and falls off the couch. As Sonic hits the floor he yelps in pain. "you okay blue?" Rouge asks.

When Sonic sees Rouge, as he sits up rubbing the spot on his back that hit the floor the hardest, he quickly gets up and backs up to the window. "whoa Sonic, it's okay!" Shadow says in an attempt to calm down the terrified werehog "Rouge won't tell anyone about this. Right Rouge?"

Rouge then looks from the terrified werehog to Shadow before saying "yeah, I won't tell anyone."

Sonic didn't move a muscle he just stud there paralyzed in shock. Shadow stepped closer to Sonic asking "are you alright Sonic?"

Sonic then snaps out of it, opens the window, and jumps out of the apartment. Shadow heads over to the window and looks out to see nothing but empty street. "where did he go!?" Shadow asks as he frantically looks around for Sonic. Shadow quickly rushes over to his closet and pulls out a heavy coat. As he puts it on along with a pair of boots Rouge asks "where are you going?"

"to find Sonic." Shadow says as he opens the door and runs out.

after hours of searching for Sonic, Shadow returns to his apartment. He opens the door to see Rouge sitting on his couch. "any luck?" Rouge asks as Shadow takes off his coat.

Shadow shakes his head "not even a quill."

"now what?" Rouge asks.

"nothing." replies Shadow "There is nothing we can do."

Rouge stands up and starts to pace "shouldn't we tell G.U.N to put out APV on the blue hedgehog!?"

Shadow shuck his head "no, Sonic doesn't want G.U.N to know anything about this."

"then why did he trust you with this!?" Rouge asks.

"he didn't." Shadow replies "at least not at first."

"what do you mean?"

"-sigh- Sonic started talking in his sleep. He talked about Eggman doing something to him. I asked him about it when he woke up and he kinda just told me everything."

"oh."

Shadow then sits down on the couch massaging his temples before saying "i hope he's alright."

Sonic wondered through the nearby forest. He had changed back to his normal hedgehog about an hour ago, but he couldn't go faster then a slow walk because the frostbite on his toes hurt him more with each step.

Not that far off Sonic could hear the sound of metal feet. He tried to go faster, but the more he tried the worse it got and the more tired he got. Soon he gave up and sat down on one of the roots of a tree. Within a few minutes a group of 10 robots come and surrounded Sonic. "hey."

the robots then take aim at Sonic. Sonic doesn't even flinch, but says "if your going to take me to Eggman then get going already. I don't have the will or strength to stop you lug-nuts."

two of the robots then break the formation and grab Sonic's arms before the whole battalion flies of with there prisoner.

Soon the robots placed Sonic onto a cold, metal, table inside what was more then likely a medical lab inside Eggman's ship. Sonic sits on the table for almost an hour taping his foot like crazy in an attempt to keep himself from dying of boredom. Finally Eggman decided to enter the room "my, my, Sonic. You look like you've been on the run from something for six and a half months." he says with an evil grin.

'he's not wrong.' Sonic thinks as he remarks "yeah, and you look like a supper module."

the smile on Eggman's face quickly disappears. "there's no reason to be rude."

Sonic just turns away. As he faced away from Eggman he felt something being placed around his neck. Sonic quickly moved so that Eggman misses his mark. "what are you doing egghead!?"

"trying... to... get... this... ah! Got it!" Eggman says as he finally gets the collar around and locked onto Sonic's neck.

As soon as the collar was on Sonic's neck he could feel it pinching a nerve. Sonic's hand instantly shot up to loosen the collar. "i wouldn't do that if I were you." Eggman warned.

"you can't tell me to do." Sonic said right before he put his hand on the collar. "yow!" Sonic yelled as he felt thousands of volts of electricity flow through his body.

Sonic quickly jerked his hand away from the collar. "i tried to warn you." Eggman said with a laugh "it's the special fetcher of the collar. If you try to remove it you will be shocked."

'great.' Sonic thinks as he lets himself fall back onto the table "so what else does this stupid thing do?"

Eggman gives an evil smile before saying "you'll see."

that's when Eggman finally noticed, as he looked over the blue hedgehog, that he had bandage where his boots and gloves should be. Eggman raised a eyebrow before asking "where are the boots and gloves I gave you?"

"sorry egghead. I left them someplace and forgot to get them when I was leaving."

Eggman then started to examine one of Sonic's hands. As he touched Sonic's fingertips he noticed that Sonic cringed and started to curl up a bit. Eggman slowly touched Sonic's fingers again and found he got the same reaction. He slowly undid the bandage and saw the almost white fingertips. Eggman laughed for about a minute before saying "so it looks like even the great blue blur can get collateral damage."

Eggman then starts to mess with Sonic's frostbite seeing witch hurt when he touch them. Witch was most of it. By the time Eggman was done Sonic was curled up into tight ball. Eggman's smile increased before he asked "do you want something for the pain?"

if Sonic could understand anything but the pain at the moment he would probably have begged Eggman to make it stop, but the pain would not let him think about anything else. He clenched his teeth in an attempt to lesson the pain. Eggman watched this for a moment before heading away from Sonic.

Sonic noticed this and said as he curls up more "what's up egghead? Can't stand to see the pain you caused?"

Eggman doesn't reply, but sets to mixing medicine together. As soon as he finished he put the medicine into a needle and heads back over to Sonic. Eggman tries to use the needle on Sonic, but Sonic's quills were up and he couldn't get close enough to inject the medicine. "relax you little vermin. This will help."

Sonic slowly uncurls himself enough to let Eggman get to his arm and inject the medicine. Within a few minutes the pain lessened, and Sonic could finally relax. Soon after all the pain vanished Sonic's eyes started to get heavy and his mind started to cloud over. 'not again.' Sonic thought right before he fell asleep.


Glassplant: I can't believe they like my story!

Shadow: yeah it's amazing. now get over it. you have work to do.

Glassplant: fine. if you like the story and want more tell me in the comments!


note: some ideas and inspiration for this story were driven from the writings of sonicxjones. go check him out!