The room in front of us was not like the ones before.
"What is this place?" Shadow asked, looking around the room.
The room was like an underground bunker, with a pile of water bottles and canned food in the corner. There were some pillows and sheets of blankets as well in case anyone needed to take a quick nap.
"There's even a bathroom here. What is this place?" Knuckles noted, echoing Shadow.
The voice came from above once more.
"Everyone who entered the room, initiate resting activities for the next 12 hours. If you are to refuse, a level 1 shock will be applied."
"Do they honestly believe that anyone will trust that? What if the food is rotted or the water is poisoned? Why would we ever believe-"
Tails was cut off by the sound of a can of food being opened, and then quickly swallowed by Sonic.
"Come on, guys. They're keeping us here to torture us as much as they want. That also means keeping us here long enough without us starving to death." Sonic finished the rest of the food, whatever it was, and laid down on a thick blanket. "I'm taking a nap. I'll talk to you guys later."
It took everyone a while to process what Sonic had just said, but eventually, everyone followed through. Almost everyone, at least.
"I'm not eating." Silver said adamantly.
"Silver, who knows how long we'll be here? We need to-" Tails wasn't being allowed to finish sentences today, since Silver butted in with a simple, "Go wash the blood off your face, Tails."
Tails did as he was told, and nobody else told Silver to eat. Shadow was the last to pick up a can, and when he did he made sure to pick up the one that was nearest to the one Sonic ate.
Afterward, Shadow and Amy proceeded to wander around the room aimlessly. Knuckles sat down on one of the seats with Tails, and Silver stood in the corner by himself.
Sonic had woken up after a quick 30-minute power nap. He followed Amy in wandering around, not saying a thing as he followed her footprints exactly.
"Sonic, what do you want?" Amy asked, stroking the dead Chao in her hands.
"Just looking around. Same as you."
"Well, can you do it somewhere else? You're starting to freak me out." Amy turned her back against Sonic, and just when she was about to walk away again, Sonic tapped her shoulders.
"Amy?"
"Yeah?"
"Throw that thing away."
It took a second for Amy to register what he had just said, and when she turned around angrily he was already gone.
"Hey Knuckles!" Sonic waved, walking up to him and Tails.
"Oh...hey," Knuckles looked up, as he was staring at his feet the entire time.
"What's the matter? Besides the obvious I mean. You seem to be deep in thought."
"I feel like I had an important dream, Sonic. I swear it felt important, but I can't remember anything about it. It feels just like a distant memory, but…"
"Knuckles, dreams don't matter. Forget about it, and don't spend energy on useless things, okay?"
And with that, Sonic was gone once again.
12 hours seem like a long time, but it can go by quickly once you go to sleep. That's how it was for Sonic, who slept relatively peacefully after he went around harassing everyone like that.
Exactly 12 hours later, not a minute early or late, the door with an exit sign over it unlocked with the voice above informing them as such.
All 6 of them left through the door, and the new room was just like the ones before. A small table in the middle, white walls all around, and an opaque glass wall behind it.
On the table was a kitchen knife, one you would see around the house everywhere.
"Sonic the Hedgehog, commit self-harm within the next 5 minutes. If you are to refuse, a level 10 shock will be applied to Shadow."
Sonic approached the knife without a word and without hesitation.
"Sonic, what are you-"
Shadow held out his hand trying to stop his friend, but all Sonic did was lightly tap the tip of the knife against the tip of his finger so that a drop of blood would spill.
"Didn't say how severe the harm needed to be." Sonic shrugged, sucking the blood on his finger and wiping it off with his fur.
"I see…" Shadow nodded, putting his hand beside him once more, retrieving it slowly.
"Don't do something so reckless again, Sonic." Tails begged, wiping the sweat off his forehead.
The glass wall behind them opened, revealing another passageway. Everyone walked through it, but Sonic was still carrying the knife with him. Amy, who was standing behind Sonic, noticed.
"Sonic, why are you keeping that around?" She asked, worried.
"I don't know, thought it might be useful. You never know, right?" Sonic shrugged, acting as if it wasn't a big deal.
Amy nodded, but she didn't really get it either.
The next room was a room with a chair.
"What is this chair?" Knuckles asked, walking towards it cautiously.
"It looks like an electric chair." Tails answered, observing it from a distance. Everyone else did as well, except for Shadow, who also wanted to take a closer look.
"One they use for executing people?" Shadow looked around it, trying to see if there was anything else in the room.
"That's what it seems like it."
"There is a bomb in the room." The voice above declared.
Everyone froze.
"The bomb will be destroyed once it is electrocuted."
Everyone's eyes went to the chair again.
"Time until the bomb explodes is 60 minutes."
"Bomb? What bomb? There's nothing here except us and that chair. And there's no way that chair's the bomb…" Knuckles shouted, but the realization struck everyone just as Knuckles finished speaking.
Everyone's eyes went around the room, hoping that they could find anything else in this room.
There was nothing.