Different Beginnings
A/n: I'm really sorry about the delay, studying and everything has gotten in the way
Asher Tye: He may have found one emerald, but will he be able to find them all.
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Chapter 11 Miles' Master
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Tails awoke to the sound of water slowly dripping nearby and machinery noisily working in the background. He slowly opened his eyes and was surprised to see absolutely nothing but darkness. Yawning loudly, he tiredly tried to pull himself to his feet, but before he moved an inch up from the ground, his leg was painfully withheld by a metal brace. Feeling around, he quickly realised that he was chained tightly to the ground, the chains already beginning to painfully rub with skin raw through his fur.
Investigating the matter further, he realised that his legs were held flat on the ground in a brace, while his wrists were attached to a single point behind himself with short lengths of chain. Feeling along the chains, he realised that he was completely stuck. The braces and restraints were all tightly locked and there was no way he could physically remove a single restraint.
Sighing, he lent back against the wall, twisting his neck to try and loosen the muscles. He frowned as he slowly came to the realisation that he was wearing a collar. He nervously moved one of his chained hands up to his neck and felt along the smooth collar, realising almost instantly that it was his electric shock collar.
"I knew I couldn't trust him" Miles muttered to himself miserably, as he rested against the damp stone wall. "And now that stupid choice has me chained up and waiting for the human to come down to me and either cause me great harm, or finish me off. I wish I wasn't held captive by that violent idiot"
The poor fox, didn't have time to further speculate on the issue, however, because as soon as he uttered the bare insult, lights suddenly lite up the area around him. The young fox recoiled back in both surprise and horror when he saw the evil Doctor standing just feet away from him. Miles quickly glanced around the room and immediately saw exactly how much trouble he was in.
The kit was chained in a large naturally occurring cave, the walls damp with water, which seemed to be deep underground; well he figured it was deep underground since there was no light source apart from the electrical ones surrounding him and the Doctor.
"Let me go" Miles demanded as soon as his eyes had adjusted to the new bright surroundings. "I haven't done anything against you, heck I even made you all those robots, so I've more than paid any debt that I owe you for looking after me. So let me go"
The Doctor slowly walked up the scare fox, his mouth twisted into a sarcastic sneer "I think not. Now, here's the deal" He pulled out a small remote control from his pocket, which Miles instantly recognised as his collar's remote. "You will do exactly what I say, when I say it, otherwise...well"
There was silence between the two for just a moment, before the Doctor's finger 'slipped' and the fox let out a scream of pure pain as the two metal plates in the collar suddenly charged up and released an enormous spike of electricity through the weak captives body, shooting along all of his nerves and lighting them up to their max. With another, second, strangled cry, the poor fox collapsed and fell into an uncomfortable sleep. His body still spasming from the attack.
The Doctor frowned and fixed an angry eye at the spasming fox. "I'll teach you for falling asleep during a demonstration" He muttered to himself as he lowered the voltage on the controller.
The fox screamed as the second electrical shock threw him awake, his body acting on automatic and struggling to escape from the pain, flailing its limbs against the chains, with little result. However, the charge soon stopped and the tired fox slowly raised his eyes to look at the Doctor, his body shaking in fright at the mere though at how much more pain his young body could soon be experiencing.
"Let's get straight onto the rules, shall we?" The fox's tormentor began, his fingers still idly playing with the remote. "You will do what I say, when I say, and you will not question me. If I tell you to create a machine to blow up a city, you will do it. If I tell you to build a robot to kill someone, then it had better kill them. I don't care if you think that you can do something better, I am the on in charge here, and if you don't want me to 'accidentally' press that button again, you will do as you're told. Or, I might just throw you out in front of that hedgehog, I'm sure I've told you enough about how dangerous that hedgehog is by now."
"Just remember that from now on I am your master, and you are my slave. If you say anything out of turn, or walk anywhere without permission, or if you merely get on my nerves, expect to be punished severely for it" The sadistic Doctor slowly smirked at the small fox "Do you understand?"
Miles slowly raised his eyes back to his new master "I-I d-do, M-Master" he stuttered, his mind to worked up in fright to properly manage talking. "I will not fail you, Master"
The evil genius just chuckled, then suddenly grew serious "Get up, you have work to do" His foot suddenly shot out and impacted painfully against the poor fox's ribs.
Miles, worried about disappointing his master, and getting more punishment, tried to get up but was unable to do so due to his restrains. Unfortunately, as soon as he tried to inform his Master that he couldn't, a shot of electricity shot through his weak body, bringing him crashing back down to the ground. Struggling to remain conscious, the fox felt the chains around him be released and he soon was struggling to get up onto his feet. Eventually he stood before his master, his body swaying uneasily as he tried to retain his balance in his weakened state.
He felt a metallic hand roughly grab hold of his shoulder and lead his weak body along the uneven cave floor.
"Now here's what you are going to do for me" The evil Doctor began as one of his robotic minions led Miles along behind him "I need you to create a whole lot of those useful robots you were telling me about. I need you to make twenty-five BurraBots, six Undies and about twelve Jaws. And I expect them done in a few hours. If they aren't done completely and working in the correct fashion, you are going to have an extremely uncomfortable stay here. Do I make myself clear?"
"Yes, Master. Crystal Clear." Miles told him quietly, wondering how on earth he was going to complete two days work in a few hours.
The young fox didn't waste any time complaining to his master about the time limit. He knew that any arguments would end in pain and a shorter limit, so he didn't even bother. He merely rushed over to the multitude of robotic components provided and began construction, mentally forcing his body to ignore his tired state.
Hours past and Miles was started to sweat profusely, realising that he wouldn't be able to finish the robot before his master came. The tired fox rushed as quickly as he could, throwing the components together, he had no time to care whether they worked completely correctly, and rapidly tried to get the robot working before his time ran out.
He quickly attached the large collection of robots to the large generator to begin charging the batteries and barely had time to turn it on before his master arrived and quickly began an inspection of the robotic fighters.
Miles sat down, exhausted, and allowed his body to collapse against a wall to conserve energy and allow his tired muscles to recharge.
The evil Doctor didn't even check on the fox. He just barked out orders to one of his minions robots to check the robots for flaws and, once the robot had confirmed that they were all completed to a satisfactory degree, turned them all on and sent the robot fighters out to face the blue hedgehog that his sensors had detected only a short while ago.
"With this weakling helping me" The Evil Doctor chuckled "I will finally be able to defeat any enemy, especially that irritating blue hedgehog"
And with those sweet parting words, he turned back to his captive, flicked the remote controls again and chuckled as the fox cried out in pain as the high voltage engulfed his body. The shock eventually released the fox into an unconscious state.
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a/n: I've just noticed that whenever I write a story, I favour using Imperial measurements, even though where I live we use metric. I guess I'm favouring certain audiences.
Oh, and a few reviews would be nice.