Disclaimer: Me no own sonic anda me no own other sonic characters too. Me do own unsonic things!
Chapter Two: Knuckles
Sonic sat outside Knuckles' room, room 272, waiting. First, he sat on the chair and waited. Later, he started to tap his foot and look at his watch impatiently. Then he amused himself be staring at the doctors in the eye and making them avoid his gaze. Fortunately for the doctors, Sonic fell asleep soon from boredom. A few hours later in the evening, a loud moan came from Knuckles' room and startled him out of sleep.
Sonic opened the door and peered in through a crack. Knuckles was lying straight on his back and staring unblinkingly at the ceiling. Sonic opened the door wider and tiptoed in. Knuckles still didn't move.
"Hey Knuckles, you're awake!" said Sonic. Knuckles still just lay there, but he turned his head stared with his purple eyes at Sonic. Sonic, tasting his own medicine, looked away.
"Hello?" said Sonic, waving his hand in front of Knuckles' eyes, "Is anybody home?" Knuckles suddenly jerked his head forward and bit savagely at Sonic's fingers. Sonic screamed in agony and leapt away from the wild echidna, his finger bit to the bone. Knuckles jumped out of bed and landed on all fours, snarling. He jumped at Sonic and punched him with his massive fists. Sonic instantly was out cold and fell like a potato sack. Knuckles smashed a glass window and leaped away.
On an island, far out in the sea…
"Yes!" Eggman shouted, pumping his fist into the air. "Yes! Yes! Yes! I am such a genius! It worked!" Gleefully he spun his chair around.
"What is it, o great and evil lord?" said a voice behind him.
"My invention, my friend Tails, though only three quarters of it was injected, it still worked! I didn't think it would work, but once again, my geniousness reigns supreme!" said Eggman, who stopped spinning and was once again was concentrating on his computer with his back turned to him. Tails wondered if "geniusness" was a word, but he walked beside Eggman anyways. Eggman started to do what he loved best: explaining his inventions and ingenuity. "You see, Tails, my purple mind-control liquid is no ordinary injection. Not only can it be stored in one of my special darts and be used as a throwing weapon, it does one thing that is very, very horrible."
Eggman put his arm around Tails' shoulders and drew him in close and said in a soft and dangerous whisper, "My injection gives me complete control of your movements and expressions. I control every one of your movements all the time, 365 days a year, 366 days in a leap year. I control everything, everything except for your eyes. Unlike other mind-control devices, mine keeps you conscious of your movements. You still see with your eyes, hear with your hears, and keep a memory and be able to think. But your body moves all on its own. It provides the agony of watching yourself hurt friends and innocent people and not being able to do anything about it. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Eggman suddenly burst out into an evil laughter. Seeing that Eggman wasn't going to anything more (except laugh), Tails bowed and said, "I shall leave." Eggman only laughed harder at Tails' face, his face unexpressive, but his eyes were burning with fury and hatred.
Eggman paused briefly in his laughter to shout "Go to the dungeon!" and then burst into laughter again. "Your wish is my command," said Tails inexpressively and turned and left. Eggman stopped laughing abruptly and sat back down on his chair. He looked at his three screens on Knuckles: one birds' eye view, one from Knuckles' point of view, and one from third person point of view. "Blast these dumb microchips in the mind-control liquid. I hate how they have to recharge from midnight until 1 in the morning because in that one hour, they are free. Grr…I gotta find a way to let them charge instantaneously."
Eggman turned back to the screen. Knuckles had just jumped out of the window. Eggman pushed a red button that read "Return to Island". Knuckles started gliding in the direction of the island as if he had always been going there, even though Knuckles had never been there himself. It would be another couple hours before he would reach the island and do something useful for Dr. Eggman. He yawned and looked at his watch, "What! It's already nine o'clock? Oh well, time flies when you're having fun! Eggman sat back in his chair and watched Knuckles glide across the ocean. "When I have Knuckles with me, he shall team up with Tails and capture Sonic, and then I shall have control over him and the chaos emeralds! And then, my quest for world domination shall be successful without the annoying "superheroes" in the way! MUAHAHAHAHAHA!" Eggman laughed a classic villain laugh.
"Do you think he's all right?"
"I don't know, but just look at his face!"
Sonic slowly opened his eye and the swirling room slowly came to focus. He saw Amy, Cream, and Rogue standing over him. note how I said "eye" and not "eyes" Slowly, he touched his other eye and felt a huge lump that kept his eye swollen shut.
"Agrfa…" he moaned, "I don't feel great."
"Yeah probably," said Rouge sarcastically.
"Since when were you interested in my well-being?"
"I'm not, I just want to rescue Knuckles."
Sonic sat up straight suddenly. "Rescue Knuckles? What do you mean 'rescue' Knuckles? That mental echidna nearly killed me!"
Amy pushed him back down and said gently, "No, we think Knuckles has been behaving oddly the last few hours Sonic snorts. Punching you and then flying out the window toward some odd destination is just not like him."
Cream says, "Tails has been gone for a long time, and I don't see him a lot anymore. Whenever I call him, he's always either not home or he says he's too busy to go out with me. He won't tell me what's up."
Rouge says, "The ceiling is up, but sometimes it's the sky."
"Eggman must be behind this somehow. Tails and Knuckles are my closest friends, he must be trying to set a trap or something by bribing them to do whatever his evil plans are," says Sonic.
"Great, so now what do we do?" says Rouge.
"Umm…" says Sonic.
"Uh…" says Cream.
"Hmm…" says Amy.
One hour later…
"I don't know actually," admits Sonic.
"Oh really? That's what I was thinking an hour ago! We have so much in common!" exclaims Amy.
"Let's think some more," suggests Cream.
"Oh I got an idea!" shouts Rouge excitedly.
"What!" shouts Cream, Amy, and Sonic even more excitedly.
"CHICKENBUTT! Sorry, I had to say that. All right, gang, here's the plan…" says Rouge.
The moonlight shined outside and every window was dark for everybody was asleep. All except for the hospital room 272, which still had its light turned on with three people listening to another person. What they were saying, Eggman didn't know because he didn't have a spy there. But he will soon so that he could have someone spying on Sonic. Then, he could finally have a good night's sleep with a smile on his face.
A/N: Sorry for the slow update, I was too busy with homework and other stuff. Also, I might not update for a while because I still need to think what Rouge's plan will be. heehee
