Time for a trip to the hospital! Guess who else is in there?

Chapter 2: Shadow's Secret

"The Time Garden is on ARK?" Boomer gasped.

" This is a problem… if Trez finds the garden, he could go back in time and wipe out our ancestors." Ghost explained.

'Trez… that name sounds familiar.' Scribbles wrote. Flame was holding Inferno tightly when Maria walked into the Neutral Garden.

" What's up?" Techno asked.

" You should go see Shadow in the hospital." She said. Later that day, at the Station Square Hospital, A group of six chao tried to get the attention of a nurse. Scribbles hit her with a sign that read, ' Hey!' The nurse spun around to see the normal chao writing another sign.

' Could you direct us to where Shadow is?' the mute chao wrote. The girl smiled and pointed to the room on their left. Inside were five beds. Metal Sonic had a hole in his abdomen as well as chipped paint. Sonic still had spray paint in his eyes and had a bandage wrapped around his forehead. Tails appeared to be asleep. One of his tails was nailed to a wall. Knuckles had a fishtail swishing in both of his ears.

" Is Tails sleeping?" Flash asked. Flame looked at the chart.

" It says he's in a salt water induced coma. Ouch…" Flame winced. Scribbles pushed the call nurse button on Sonic's bed. Almost immediately a nurse rushed in. The chao stared wide-eyed in terror at the pink face.

" CODE PINK! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!" Flash yelled. Sonic heard this and began to struggle out of his bed, but he was not fast enough to escape Amy. The Pink Demon grabbed the hedgehog by the scruff of the neck and drug him out of the room. Ghost pushed the button on Tails' bed and waited for the fireworks. Big ran in dressed as a doctor and saw the poor kitsune.

" Der…Time to operate!" he said as he grabbed Tails' head and skipped out of the room with the fox in tow. Flash hit the button on Knuckles' bed and watched as Cream walked in.

" Oh, dear. Is it time for your shot already?" the six-year-old nurse sighed as she left, only to come back with a syringe twice as big as her body. Knuckles got up and hobbled as fast as he could while Cream gave chase. A minute later, a painful scream broke the silence.

" Chao bio signs confirmed…" Metal Sonic stated. Ghost grabbed the metallic menace and hurled him against the wall several times before successfully heaving him out the window and onto the parking lot.

" Wow…someone finally shut that faker up." Shadow muttered.

" Mr. Shadow, how are you feeling?" Spic asked as she fluffed his pillow.

" What's the deal with the Time Garden?" Ghost asked.

" It was a side project of Professor Gerald's. He wanted to change the past for the better. When he was taken by madness, he sealed it up in the space colony ARK." Shadow explained.

" We need to stop Trez before he can open the seal." Flame said.

" I put the ultimate defense in to protect it." The ultimate life form grinned. Back on the ARK, Trez stood outside the door where the Time Garden waited. A door with a push sign was the only barrier.

" Hmm…too easy!" the evil chao smirked as he pushed the door. It didn't budge.

" So, let me get this straight. You put a push sign on a pull door? Ha! Priceless!" Ghost laughed.

' We need to get Techno to make a ship to get to the ARK.' Scribbles wrote.

" Better go now. My nurse is here." Shadow whispered as Rouge strutted in wearing a revealing uniform. The gang ran out of the building, making sure to kick Metal Sonic for good luck.

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