Chapter 6: Re-adjusting

By

Spyke the Hedgehog

Disclaimer: everyone knows the deal right? I don't own any of these stories only my character Spyke, and several other OCs.

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With this in mind he took note of the monitor's sensors that were on his chest and arms. This set off and idea of almost cataclysmic proportions and he grinned a sinister grin upon its surfacing. His ears leaned back and a phrase escaped his mouth "This is going to be good…" he muttered.

Now back to the story!

Spyke eyed the machinery connected to him mischievously. Many scenarios began to play through his head as to the amount of panic he could inflict on these new comers. Finally, he decided on one particular way of getting their attention… he was going to yank off the heart rate monitor.

Once he made up his mind there was no going back he used his Chaos Eye once more to make sure that they were still there then with little more than a tug he removed each and every sensor from his person.

Alarms went off outside the door and immediately Spyke could hear nurses running to inform the one whom he believed to be the doctor standing outside the door.

When the medical staff burst through the door they didn't find a hedgehog lying on a medical bed they found a hysterically laughing hedgehog in a medical gown nearly dying from laughter. The doctors and nurses present were so far beyond steamed that they all nearly broke their vow to "do no harm" and just kill him where he lay. Lucky for then the three other people outside the door were still watching the scenario unfold and kept them in check.

Now seeing everyone clearly he could make out that the shorter of the visitors outside his door were indeed Anthromorphs. One male squirrel dressed in what Spyke thought was some overly fancy clothes and a crown, a female that Spyke though might be a ground squirrel wearing a blue jacket and blue boots, and a royal almost cyan blue hedgehog with green eyes wearing nothing but a pair of shoes and gloves.

Once things had quieted down and when Spyke had stopped laughing the three Anthros entered his room with the elderly yet strong looking squirrel in the lead. He came to a stop at Spyke's bedside and stood there staring at him for a second. The other two visitors made no attempt to even talk to him during this time, which lead Spyke to believe this was indeed the man or squirrel in charge.

When this leader finally speak his words were quick and too the point. "I am King Maximillion Acorn of the kingdom of Knothole. To my left is my daughter Princess Sally Alicia Acorn and to her right is Sonic Hedgehog. Now who, may I ask are you?"

Yes indeed this man was in control of this conversation. But then again he had the right to be; after all he was a king. For a time Spyke thought about how he was going to reply to this question until he laid eyes on the young male hedgehog, what was his name again? When Spyke spoke he addressed him in a language that wasn't native to Mobius, at least not anymore. "Oi, Gakki!" (Japanese for "hey, kid")

Sonic looked at this new hedgehog with a quizzical look, and why not he is being talked to in a strange language. "What!" was his ever so educated reply.

Spyke smiled and replied to his question "What was your name again kid?" At this Sonic's face showed enlightenment in that he at least knew that it was directed at him in a friendly way.

"Sonic, my name is Sonic the Hedgehog." He said with a slight smirk on his face. Somehow Sonic couldn't shake the feeling he was being analyzed by this strange new comer.

"Somehow I doubt that that is your real name kid." Spyke said with amazing coolness, catching Sonic completely off guard all the while he completely ignored the King's glares. But then the he turned his head back to look straight at King Max and said with a calm and cool voice, "You may call me Spyke, Spyke Hedge."

This caught the small party by surprise but they quickly got over it and the King moved on with his questions. "Now then do you know why you were placed in that cryogenic suspension tube?"

The questions kept pouring out of this old guy. But if this was required then he would answer to the best of his clearance. "I'm not at liberty to say."

"Why is that?" King max came back quickly.

"I am not authorized to answer that question sir. If it were in my power to answer it then I would." Spyke stated firmly yet in a non-confrontational tone.

"I see," was the King's response. "And who gives you your authorization?"

"The President of the United States of America and the U.S. Military gives me my clearance sir." Spyke's equally calm response surprised the princess the blue hedgehog named Sonic but the King was unfazed by his response.

'He is obviously a soldier,' thought King Max as he continued to question the navy-blue colored hedgehog and continually ran into more and more road blocks. 'I haven't leave much about him other than his name is Spyke and that he was a soldier with some sort of super power in his time.' "Well mister…"

"Lieutenant," Spyke interrupted.

"Lieutenant Hedge. I believe we have what we need to help make a profile for you." The king lied through his teeth.

"Don't lie to me sir. You don't have hardly enough there to put together a decent folder and you know it," Spyke added brashly. Spyke looked at the king with a look of defiance and arrogance. This however was only a front to piss King Max off seeing as Spyke hasn't quite finished pulling pranks today. "You really want my information sir? Then I'll be truthful to you now. I've just been getting your goat for the past few minutes and it's been fun and all but I think I need to go ahead and get business out of the way."

The king was taken aback by this hedgehog's statement. He was playing a joke on them this whole time by avoiding his questions. This hedgehog soldier must have been a highly trained officer in order to resist his constant pushing in his questioning.

With Spyke's pranks out of the way, King Max began his questioning again and was able to get some sizeable information out of him. However, there was still information that even King Max was unable to pry out of Spyke such as where was he originally from? Or what were the circumstances for which he was imprisoned? At these questions Spyke would stare off at the far side of the room with a hard look on his face that looked as if it had been carved straight out of granite. King Max eventually just gave up on those questions and figured that in time perhaps when his trust was earned Spyke would give him the answers.

"Well then, do you at least think you're up for a little trip now that you're feeling well?" The oldest member of the Anthro interrogators asked Spyke in a calm and inviting tone.

"Where to? I take it this is someplace that is going to take a while to get to yes?" He inquired

"As a matter of fact yes it does take a while to get there but it should fly by rather quickly," the young ground squirrel named Sally spoke up from the back of the room.

"Still takes too long for my tastes," Sonic added from his seat next to Sally.

"Sure, why not? It's not like I have a lot of stuff to do right?" Spyke answered nonchalantly with a slight shrug and began to get out of bed when a sudden realization hit him. He had no clothes on him except for his little hospital gown. With this revelation in mind Spyke's tan furred cheeks began to blush furiously at almost revealing himself in the company of a lady (Sally is still there).

The other Anthros took notice of his embarrassment and responded with puzzled looks. "What's wrong with you?" the young blue hedgehog, Sonic asked with a slightly annoyed tone of voice.

"Uh… I… uh… have no clothes on." Once again more confused looks graced each of the other Anthros.

Spyke noted that these Anthros were dressed in the bare minimum with the exception of the blue hedgehog Sonic who had nothing but his gloves and shoes. Spyke growing up and living in areas populated with the majority of the inhabitants being humans he was made to wear clothes which eventually became a force of habit for him.

It took a moment for the King, Sally and Sonic to realize what exactly was going on with Spyke not saying a word nor moving from under the covers of the hospital bed which prompted a laughing fit from Sonic that lasted for two minutes.

In that time King Max had gone into the hall and asked one of the nurses to see if they had any clothing available for Spyke to wear. When he re-entered the room Sonic was still laughing only he was rolling on the floor while his daughter Sally was busy trying to calm him done.

Spyke observed the two on the floor, one laughing himself silly the other trying to stop him from laughing himself to death. At this he just chuckles slightly and turned his attention back to the king re-entering the room. "So do you think they'll have anything for me to wear?"

"Most likely, they are overly stocked from what I am told but you may have to settle for children's clothes," the responded without missing a beat.

"As long as they don't make me wear something utterly ridiculous I'm fine," Spyke stated calmly.

A few minutes had past and a quick knock on the door from one of the nurses followed by a prompt entrance after her knock let the others know that she had arrived. "Here you are sir a good set of clothes."

Immediately Spyke wished he had just walked out in the hospital gown for the clothes that the nurse had gotten him where indeed children's clothes, it was instantly made known due to the large amount of "Barney©" patches on them. "It's all we had that would fit you sir. I'm terribly sorry for any inconvenience."

One look at the clothes was enough for Spyke to claw his own eyes out but he remembered an old proverb that always seemed to pop up when he was inconvenienced, 'beggars can't be choosers.' Spyke reluctantly picked up the clothes and asked the others to step outside for a bit. They did so while at the same time tried their best to keep Sonic from laughing his head off again.

When Spyke finally did emerge from his room it was quite a shock to most of the gathered company. Spyke's attire was a child sized shirt and pants with Barney patches on the legs and on the front of the shirt. The shoes, although comfortable, were also Barney clad on the sides. All in all, Spyke felt rather ridiculous in this get up but it would have to do until he could get some proper clothes.

"Let's get out of her quick before anyone else sees me!" Spyke exclaimed as he made his way for the exit. "Man I really need to get some clothes when we get to where we're going! This is ridiculous! I'm a grown man and I'm being forced to wear a child's clothing!" Spyke fumed all the way to the exit.

Once they reached the vehicle that would take them to their transport to Knothole Kingdom the small party met up with what Spyke was informed was the rest of their party. A large purple walrus who Spyke found out to be named Rotor was in front of the other small band of scientists that had accompanied them to help figure out the cryogenic tube. Spyke met each one of them in tandem and proceeded to board the small air craft which bore the insignia "freedom special 1" on its hull. From what Spyke could tell this thing was far more advanced than he had ever seen in his life but its design reminded him of the SR-71 "Blackbird" in the old days of history but unlike the Blackbird this ship was only about twenty feet long instead of fifty-five feet long. Spyke took his seat in the plane and prepared for its take off in a few minutes. As they waited for the last of the scientific equipment into the plane Spyke had fallen asleep. Had he been awake he would have noticed that he had been in a city completely enclosed inside of a mountain. Spyke had slept straight through the take off all the way until they reached their destination, Knothole Kingdom the densely forested metropolis that had been erected after the fall of Robotropolis.

A/N: well that's it for this chapter everyone. Let me know what you think.