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Mother: Chapter 7 - Solutions
The ebony hedgehog ran back to the laboratory as fast as her painful legs could carry her. Her right hand was still on her shoulder as she ran, trying to numb the stinging pain that got harsher with every breath she took.
Her careless running turned against her as she slipped over the steel floor and fell face first onto the ground.
She stayed still for a few moments before she groaned and pushed herself up on her hands and knees, making sure not to put too much pressure on her left hand. Instead, she brought that limb up to her face and rubbed her nose and chin as that had been the place she landed on first.
A chuckle interupted her groaning and she looked behind her to see the G.U.N Commander standing there.
The ebony hedgehog sat down on her knees with her body slightly turned towards him and kept her eyes focused on him.
She never liked him. She could even tell he was bad news when she first saw him when she had just woken up. She didn't know what it was that made her so suspicious of the other, since they rarely saw eachother they didn't anything of one another, but there was just something about him that made the fur on the back of her neck bristle.
"Commander." The words rolled off of her tongue with an obvious mistrustful tone as she acknowledged the older man.
"Lab rat." He returned the 'nice' gesture with the same tone of disdain in his voice.
The said 'lab rat' narrowed her eyes at the nickname he had given her.
"On your way to professor Robotnik's lab, I see." He said.
The hedgehog stayed quiet, she knew he wasn't finished yet. There was always something rude and hurtful he wanted to say.
She felt sorry for Abraham for having such a father. Such a man as a parent would only lead to the child being just as bad in the future.
"Do you have any idea how much money we're wasting just to keep you alive? Heaps of money that could be used to benefit mankind. Money that allows others to find cures for diseases, perhaps even Maria's disease. And it's all wasted on you." The Commander said. A smirk spread on his lips as he saw her ears flatten, knowing that his words had atleast caused a bit of strain in her heart.
'I don't have time for this.' The hedgehog thought as she got up from her kneeling position on the floor and walked away.
"Don't think that this will last. One day you or that mad professor of yours make a grave mistake and that's when you will finally realise that your mere existence was a flaw of it's own." He said.
She fastened her pace, making sure to elave the Commander far behind her as she made her way towards her creator's lab. Much to her relief, it didn't take long for her to arrive.
She pressed the right buttons and opened the door. She walked inside and looked at the desk. Just like she guessed, professore Gerald was sitting at his computer, trying to solve any problems that plagued his current projects and prevented them from reaching the success he had been going for.
"Gerald?" The ebony said softly as she approached him, trying not to startle the poor old man as he was so concentrated on his work.
"Yes." He said with a voice that made it obvious that he didn't like to be disturbed in the middle of all this work.
His creation was a bit taken back, but she easily shrugged it off.
"I met Commander Tower in the hallway. He was talking about making mistakes and that there would be great consequences for us." She said.
"The Commander? I'm sure he was just trying to scare you. That is just one of the things he likes to do." The professor answered, not taking his eyes off of the monitor.
"I guess." She answered, not really convinced that it was just an attempt to scare her.
"Is there something else you wanted to talk to me about?" The professor asked.
"Huh? Uh, yes! I think I might know how to cure Maria!" The ebony yelled.
The tapping of fingers against the keyboard stopped before Gerald turned to look at her from over his shoulder.
"Cure Maria? Listen, we've talked about this before. You just got into this world just like Maria. I'm not going to risk losing you to." He answered and went right back typing on his keyboard.
"I'm talking about a way that doesn't involve killing me." She said.
Gerald sighed and stopped typing. He really didn't want to talk about this. Especially when there was still so much work he needed to do. But his experiment just wouldn't let the matter go.
"Than what do you suggest we do?" He asked and turned the desk chair around until he was facing the female hedgehog.
After much hesitating, she finally found the courage to tell him her idea.
"Get me pregnant." She simply said.
The elderly man nearly fell of his chair with a heart attack when she proposed something so insane. He watched her in shock.
"Pregnant? Are you insane?! How is this going to cure Maria without harming you?!" He said and pushed himself up with the help of his desk. It was obvious that he was angry with the idea she had just come up with.
"Well... I wasn't created with the alien DNA, was I? If you get me pregnant with whatever you have left of this Black Doom, the child will be born with the DNA and the cure that Maria needs without dying like I am." She explained.
It seemed to make sense to her, but her creator didn't seem to like the idea at all.
"No! There is no way I will allow such a thing to happen!" The professor said.
"Why not?! This might be the only way to save Maria. Do you really want to miss this opportunity?" She asked.
Gerald just looked at her, not knowing what to respond or even think, other than that she did have a point. What she said made sense and if this really was the only way to save his granddaughter, than wouldn't it be for the best if he atleast tried it out?
"Fine."
