Reality
CLANK!
CLANK!
The slamming, ear shattering sound of cold metal chilled the inhuman bones and blood that boiled fiercely in Sonic's cuffed wrists. The blue hedgehog struggled as he was forced upon a large, metallic table and strapped down to it like a slave. Sally, Bunnie, Tails, and Sonic had made it to Rose's lab, and they were now being strapped down for further examination and possibly, dissection. Armed police guards surrounded every door and window nearby.
Massive weapons were locked and sitting in the officers black gloved hands, preparing to blow away anything that disturbed the twisted doctor as she performed her experiments.
"Talk about you're hospitality" Sonic grumbled.
The laboratory had been completely sealed off by iron, metallic doors blocking the windows, armored locks on all doors, and guards at every inch of the room. Professor Rose smiled and grasped her hands gently together, her digits interlocking as her face brightened up at the sight of her 4 new specimens.
Rose gasped "Wonderful, absolutely wonderful, it's going to be a supreme honor getting to know you fine furry creatures".
Bunnie scoffed "Ya'll pardon us if the feeling ain't mutual sister".
Tails eagerly added "YEAH, what she said".
Rose frowned and jammed her jade colored fingernails across a red button, Bunnie suddenly squealed as violent, electrical shocks pulsated through her body. The rabbit groaned a bit as her fur was singed and smoking a little.
"Good thing I equipped your collars with micro electro magnetic inhibitors, isn't it Miss Cotton tail? Can't have those pesky cybernetic limbs of yours spoiling my fun, although they are quite fascinating" Rose said.
Trevor growled as he bitterly cursed under his breath, his nervous, dark skinned hands angrily grabbed at his desk chair. The young man hated every minute of this. Everything about this situation felt wrong to him, and Rose's sadistically eerie, eager urge to examine these creatures was only making Trevor feel worse. Sonic groaned as he pulled and struggle, his blue quills squished against the pressing steel of the table. Rose chuckled at Sonic.
The woman smirked "Struggle all you like, you'll never break those bonds. I knew that you creatures possessed unique powers, that's why I paid top dollar to make sure no living thing could break free from those cuffs".
Sally frowned "What exactly are you hoping to find inside of us professor? Just because we look different doesn't mean we ARE different, cut us open and all you're going to find is a difference in facial hair".
The gleaming shimmer of a shining blade gleamed brightly in Rose's brown eyes, and Sally's ocean blue orbs.
"Is that so? Well then, there's only one way to be sure" Rose said.
The princess gulped a bit as the blade whirred to life and buzzed around like a high powered pizza cutter. The jagged blades around the whirling disc slowly approached Sally's body, the princess winced and struggled as her brown, angelic body squirmed to move away from it. Rose smirked as she leaned close and aimed the whirring blade at Sally's chest. The princess trembled with fear, her chestnut brown belly fur standing directly on edge.
The buzzing blade was mere inches from Sally's chest as she closed her eyes and waited to hear the crunch.
SPLAT!
Rose gasped as a glob of spit struck her face, Asian features bitterly turned into a savage snarl as she looked in Sonic's direction. The hedgehog's mouth was fresh and wet, teeth gnarled into a loathsome growl at the professor.
Sonic shouted "Hey, doctor bitch! Anything you got to say to Sally, you say to ME first".
Bunnie and Tails gasped as they watched Sonic, secretly whispering to be quiet in fear of what might happen to him. Officers aimed their weapons at Sonic but Rose raised her hand and shook her head. The armored cops nodded and pulled back, Rose looked to Sonic and turned off the buzz saw blade. The scientist pulled a small silver object from her coat, unseen by all. The woman approached Sonic and seemingly carelessly stroked his legs.
"HA" Rose screamed.
Sonic cried out in pain as a scalpel knife was jammed into his left leg, Tails cried out for Sonic as the others joined him in struggle. Bunnie screamed as the shocks became more violent each time she jerked her bionic muscles. Rose grappled Sonic by the spiny head and stared straight into his green eyes.
Rose said "You're lucky I need you alive……for now. But don't bother with these cheap heroics anymore rodent, sooner or later you're all going under the knife whether you like it or not. The world will know of your kind and pay me a fortune just to put your repulsive, freak show carcasses on display. You belong to me, and that's the way it is".
Sonic frowned "It ain't gonna happen. Matt's going to save us, and when he does, were gonna be getting as far away from your sorry ass as possible, straight back to Mobius".
The woman raised the golden power ring before Sonic's eyes and laughed, as if mocking the hedgehog with his golden ticket back home.
Rose continued "So long as I have this, you're not going anywhere. And as for that worthless waste of flesh you call Matt, he'll be spending the rest of his pitiful days in a jail cell, rotting away. And there's nothing you can do about it".
Meanwhile back in Mobius……
"What do you mean there iz nothing you can do monsieur Rotor?" Antoine asked.
The purple walrus sighed; Rotor was too busy rummaging through his unorganized, stock pile of machine parts and microchips to even answer Antoine. The French coyote frowned and crossed his arms impatiently.
Rotor sighed "Exactly what I said Antoine, there is NO way we can get them back, not without a miracle anyway".
Antoine rolled his eyes "Oh pleeze don't be zo automatic".
Rotor groaned "That's melodramatic".
Antoine slapped his face "Who iz caring? All zat I care about iz getting Zonic, my princess, and Tails back home before it iz too late".
Rotor approached a green chalkboard and wiped it clean with a oil stained, hand rag. The walrus flipped his yellow cap backwards as he scribbled on the chalkboard and tried to explain to Antoine what was going on.
Rotor explained "Look, Sonic and the others were transported by a combination of mystical and natural based elements. The storm and the power ring. The lighting somehow absorbed the magic of the ring and mixed their energies together, tearing a hole in space and into another dimension. Even if we don't know where we are, we can at least track the power ring.
All power rings have a unique energy signal, and the signals are so strong they can still be detected even if their on another planet for example".
Antoine blinked "So zen what iz le problem?".
Rotor shook his head "The problem is that it's going to take another storm and another power ring to get them back. And what's worse, is that both worlds must be linked together simultaneously with identical events. In other words, both worlds got to have storms and power rings activating at the same time. The process has to be duplicated almost exactly for it to work.
Sonic and the others will have to find a storm, take the power ring, hold onto it at the same time and wait to be hit with an energy wave. The only way to make the same energy wave that brought them there, is to create a storm in our world with a new power ring at the same time".
Antoine nodded "I zee, well we have the power ring and Zonic will no doubt be able to reclaim ze ring he haz, but what about ze storms?".
Rotor frowned "Well I do have a weather machine but it's still got a few bugs in it, and there's no guarantee it'll give us the kind of weather we want. But as for the storm in the other world……well were just going to leave that one up to fate".
Back on Earth……
The dull, drowning darkness danced across the lifeless window that echoed Matt's eyes of sadness and despair. A wretched feeling of disgust and horror ate away at his stomach as the man sat back and sobbed into his steel cuffs. In just a matter of moments his whole life had been destroyed for a second time. His friends, his family, his freedom, it had all been taken away and torn apart, right before his very eyes. Matt angrily kicked the car seat.
Frank grunted "Hey, knock it off back there, you're only gonna hurt yourself if you do that".
Matt snapped "You sold my friends to the god damned devil you BASTARD".
The bulky officer opened the black cage blocking off Matt's seat from his own, and smashed his gun across Matt's face. The man cried out in pain as he was struck and fell straight to the floor of the car.
"OW" Matt winced, feeling his face start to bleed a little.
But as Matt started to get up, he winced again as he felt something sharp painfully jabbing at his back. The man jerked his eyes back as he tried to see what was poking him. Matt gasped. A small, sharp, blue spine like needle was seen sticking outside of his coat.
"It must have come off of Sonic's back when he helped me out of the bar" Matt thought to himself.
Fumbling fingers twisted and turned around the handcuffs, secretly grabbing the blue quill and jamming it into the lock. Matt silently worked on the cuffs as the officer continued to drive, slowly but surely cracking the lock mechanism, and unlocking the hand cuffs.
15 minutes later……
Frank grumbled a bit "All right hot shot, get out of the OOF".
A powerful fist smashed across Frank's face, and a second fist plowed into his gut. Matt grabbed the cop's gun and ripped it out of the holster.
Matt sighed "I'm really sorry about this".
Matt crashed the gun into the back of Frank's head and knocked him unconscious; he then grabbed Frank's car keys and rushed back into the cop car.
"Hey you, in the car, stop right there" a voice shouted.
The police officers had spotted Matt, he had no choice but to step on the gas and floor the car into full speed. Screaming tires sliced into the pavement as Matt rushed across the road, nothing but fear and friendship boiling in his quivering gray eyes. Bullets splatter across the windshield as glass shattered all around Matt. The young man ignores it and pressed on, as he feels the ground rapidly racing under his foot as he pushed down on the gas pedal.
Matt smiled "Hold on just little longer guys, I'm coming for you".
To be continued……