OH MY GOD, DOUBLE DIGIT REVIEWS!!!
I've never been so happy! I can't believe everyone is so interested in my story!
Okay, I'll admit I have slightly low expectations. So, actually getting ten reviews is a big deal for me. Bear with me, I just had two sodas.
Disclaimer: See previous five chapters. Plus...
People have asked about the nanos. I know, I did an evil thing to Shadow. But I promise, he'll be better soon. Plus, that's nothing compared to what I'm going to do to him later.
Heh heh heh...
PS, [blah] is a special type of thought talking that will only be around for a few chapters.
I may have just spoiled major parts of this one already...
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I'm not certain how long I've been in here. Sometimes it seems like forever. They
run tests on me, take samples of my DNA, observe my motor skills. I can't even begin
planning an escape, the nanoprobes took care of that. Nothing but my eyes remains under my
control. And it's not like they let me out of this stupid tube anyway. My life has reached
an all-time low. Being wired up to machines and treated like this is a fate I wouldn't wish
on my worst enemy. Well, maybe that stuck up General Vox. He's the one who ordered me
captured. You'd be amazed at the things humans let slip in casual conversation. Right now
he's here on 'observation'. I really hate him. Completely bald except for his stupid
handlebar moustache. I tried insulting him once. But of course I can't control my own
mouth. So I just glare at him. It doesn't matter, he never really looks at me anyway, and
if he did he still considers me as 'Project Shadow', not a real person. They recently
installed a new Nano Tube, as they're called, next to mine. I wonder what poor soul Vox is
after now…
I was dozing when the alarm went off. "Intruder has entered the base. Warning.
Intruder has entered the base." The scientists all stopped their experiments and left. I
tried to get a sense of what was going on. A handy trick I know. I sensed confusion
mostly, but also a great deal of anticipation. Whoever was attacking the place was walking
right into a trap. I could just sense whoever it was. Determined, grief-stricken, why was
it so familiar? I felt the intruder get knocked out, and then carried to the lab. When the
guards brought him in, my heart sank. The bruised, unconscious body they carried was Sonic.
I watched as they opened the top of the tube and threw him in. He looked like he
had fought hard before they got him. The scientists came in, all of them talking about some
'correlation study'. They went to their work rapidly, and I heard the word 'nanos' and
sighed. The large gaggle of scientists blocked my view at first, but I saw his tube fill
with the same green stuff as mine. And I could hear him scream. If I could have, I'd have
been trying to block the awful sound or running as far as I could from it, but the nanos
prevented that. He fainted from the pain after the worst ten minutes of my life. The thing
was, I could still hear him crying out inside my mind for a bit. It was like I had a direct
line into his head. That was almost a relief. I had been dying for someone to talk to.
He was out for a while; in fact, he was out for most of the rest of the day. It was
an hour before the scientists usually left for the night when I heard him wake up. […oh my
aching brain…] The words were perfectly clear. I braced myself while Sonic discovered what
had happened to him. [AHHH! LETMEOUTLETMEOUTLETMEOUT!] Since that was understandably very
annoying, I cut in. [For the Love of Chaos, STOP SCREAMING!] That got him. [Shadow?]
[Obviously. Now, calm down before you rupture my eardrums.] [What's going on? Why can't I
move? How can we talk like this? And why can't I see?] I sighed. [Okay. We're in a lab
under the control of GUN, currently under study.] [Study? I'm a free person! They have no
right to 'study' me!] [Not that that has anything to do with our present situation.]
[Guess not.] [Second, the reason you can't move. What do you remember before waking up?]
[Well, I thought I was being carried somewhere, and then - ] [Sonic?] [Pain not fun.]
[Hey, at least you weren't awake for all of yours.] [What did they do?!?!] [They use these
things they call Nanoprobes. They take control of all the parts of your body.] [Is that
why I can't see?] [No, I think that's because your eyes are closed.] I saw him open his
eyes and look around. [Whoa. Egg-head would have a field day to be in here. Shadow?]
[Right next to you.] He saw me then. The monitoring equipment our little tubes were on was
curved slightly, so it was easy to see each other even though we couldn't move our heads. I
could see him trying to talk with his mouth. [You can't move anything but your eyes,
remember?] [I was kinda hoping you were exaggerating that part.] [I never exaggerate.]
[So, what now?] [Beats me. You're the first person I've been able to talk to since I got
here. How long has it been, anyway?] [Believe it or not, just about two weeks. Uh,
Shadow…] [Yes?] [How can we talk like this?] [Not really sure. Unless…Sonic, were you
holding a Chaos Emerald?] [Maybe…] [Did it glow and disappear? Because that's what mine
did when I was captured.] [Yeah, and it felt weird, like it was going inside me…] [That
means that because we both carry Chaos Emeralds inside, we can talk like this.] [Never knew
they could do that.] [Me neither.]
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Mwahaha! I am so evil! In case you're wondering, I have no proof that Chaos Emeralds can actually do that.
In case you aren't, just Review!
I've never been so happy! I can't believe everyone is so interested in my story!
Okay, I'll admit I have slightly low expectations. So, actually getting ten reviews is a big deal for me. Bear with me, I just had two sodas.
Disclaimer: See previous five chapters. Plus...
People have asked about the nanos. I know, I did an evil thing to Shadow. But I promise, he'll be better soon. Plus, that's nothing compared to what I'm going to do to him later.
Heh heh heh...
PS, [blah] is a special type of thought talking that will only be around for a few chapters.
I may have just spoiled major parts of this one already...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I'm not certain how long I've been in here. Sometimes it seems like forever. They
run tests on me, take samples of my DNA, observe my motor skills. I can't even begin
planning an escape, the nanoprobes took care of that. Nothing but my eyes remains under my
control. And it's not like they let me out of this stupid tube anyway. My life has reached
an all-time low. Being wired up to machines and treated like this is a fate I wouldn't wish
on my worst enemy. Well, maybe that stuck up General Vox. He's the one who ordered me
captured. You'd be amazed at the things humans let slip in casual conversation. Right now
he's here on 'observation'. I really hate him. Completely bald except for his stupid
handlebar moustache. I tried insulting him once. But of course I can't control my own
mouth. So I just glare at him. It doesn't matter, he never really looks at me anyway, and
if he did he still considers me as 'Project Shadow', not a real person. They recently
installed a new Nano Tube, as they're called, next to mine. I wonder what poor soul Vox is
after now…
I was dozing when the alarm went off. "Intruder has entered the base. Warning.
Intruder has entered the base." The scientists all stopped their experiments and left. I
tried to get a sense of what was going on. A handy trick I know. I sensed confusion
mostly, but also a great deal of anticipation. Whoever was attacking the place was walking
right into a trap. I could just sense whoever it was. Determined, grief-stricken, why was
it so familiar? I felt the intruder get knocked out, and then carried to the lab. When the
guards brought him in, my heart sank. The bruised, unconscious body they carried was Sonic.
I watched as they opened the top of the tube and threw him in. He looked like he
had fought hard before they got him. The scientists came in, all of them talking about some
'correlation study'. They went to their work rapidly, and I heard the word 'nanos' and
sighed. The large gaggle of scientists blocked my view at first, but I saw his tube fill
with the same green stuff as mine. And I could hear him scream. If I could have, I'd have
been trying to block the awful sound or running as far as I could from it, but the nanos
prevented that. He fainted from the pain after the worst ten minutes of my life. The thing
was, I could still hear him crying out inside my mind for a bit. It was like I had a direct
line into his head. That was almost a relief. I had been dying for someone to talk to.
He was out for a while; in fact, he was out for most of the rest of the day. It was
an hour before the scientists usually left for the night when I heard him wake up. […oh my
aching brain…] The words were perfectly clear. I braced myself while Sonic discovered what
had happened to him. [AHHH! LETMEOUTLETMEOUTLETMEOUT!] Since that was understandably very
annoying, I cut in. [For the Love of Chaos, STOP SCREAMING!] That got him. [Shadow?]
[Obviously. Now, calm down before you rupture my eardrums.] [What's going on? Why can't I
move? How can we talk like this? And why can't I see?] I sighed. [Okay. We're in a lab
under the control of GUN, currently under study.] [Study? I'm a free person! They have no
right to 'study' me!] [Not that that has anything to do with our present situation.]
[Guess not.] [Second, the reason you can't move. What do you remember before waking up?]
[Well, I thought I was being carried somewhere, and then - ] [Sonic?] [Pain not fun.]
[Hey, at least you weren't awake for all of yours.] [What did they do?!?!] [They use these
things they call Nanoprobes. They take control of all the parts of your body.] [Is that
why I can't see?] [No, I think that's because your eyes are closed.] I saw him open his
eyes and look around. [Whoa. Egg-head would have a field day to be in here. Shadow?]
[Right next to you.] He saw me then. The monitoring equipment our little tubes were on was
curved slightly, so it was easy to see each other even though we couldn't move our heads. I
could see him trying to talk with his mouth. [You can't move anything but your eyes,
remember?] [I was kinda hoping you were exaggerating that part.] [I never exaggerate.]
[So, what now?] [Beats me. You're the first person I've been able to talk to since I got
here. How long has it been, anyway?] [Believe it or not, just about two weeks. Uh,
Shadow…] [Yes?] [How can we talk like this?] [Not really sure. Unless…Sonic, were you
holding a Chaos Emerald?] [Maybe…] [Did it glow and disappear? Because that's what mine
did when I was captured.] [Yeah, and it felt weird, like it was going inside me…] [That
means that because we both carry Chaos Emeralds inside, we can talk like this.] [Never knew
they could do that.] [Me neither.]
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Mwahaha! I am so evil! In case you're wondering, I have no proof that Chaos Emeralds can actually do that.
In case you aren't, just Review!