S2
Sonic had been forced to watch his attempted rescue on a screen showing him a feed from one of the Badniks, he saw the commando team get torn apart by the juggernauts, he saw the round that exploded the left side of a blue hedgehog's head, and he saw them retreat, taking the blue hedgehog back to where he could receive medical attention.
Sonic ranted and raved as he struggled, unsuccessfully against his bonds, cursing Robotnik with every slanderous remark he knew. After a while he gave up, he was secured at his ankles, his wrists, around his waist and by his spines, Robotnik had waited a long time for this prize, he wasn't about to let it get away.
With a hiss, the door opened and the egg shaped dictator stood in the doorway; his loathing of living flesh had extended to himself and he was riddled with implants and cybernetic replacements making him an even more imposing figure.
"So hedgehog, how did you enjoy the show?" he asked, laughing in a half mechanical voice, the sound rebounding from the metal walls.
He gestured to the two Badniks beside him and they walked to Sonic's restraints, sonic tensed, ready to spindash the moment the restraints were unlocked, but it was not to be as the two cyclopean robots attached the restraint frame to wheels and began to push him, frame and all, out of the room and into another, the door sliding shut behind them.
A screen activated on the far wall, showing Robotnik's metal encrusted visage, grinning at the helpless hedgehog, as the two Badniks released him from the frame, becoming heaps of rubble in return,
"Ha Robutnik, so much for your lackeys, I'm just going to leave, have a nice day," Sonic said to the grinning face on the wall, spindashing at the door…and bouncing straight off without causing any damage,
Ringing, tinny laughter came pouring out of the speakers like a tidal wave of noise, reverberating off walls and filling the room with so much noise that Sonic had to clap his hands around his ears.
"Ahhh, Sonic. I've been planning this for much longer than you'd think, the entire room you are in is a giant Robotiser, the walls and floor are shielded and the screen is a plasma thinscreen hung on the wall, you have absolutely no chance of escape Hedgehog, 10 seconds until Robotisation,"
The ceiling began to glow a hot white as the Robotiser activated, causing Sonic to spindash everything in his panic, smashing the screen and a speaker, but still drowning in the reverberating laughter and his own terror,
5
He hit the door, trying to break through,
4
He tore the damaged speaker out to see what was behind it, it was wireless,
3
He tried to spindash the glowing lens, but bounced off of its shield,
2
He wildly looked about for any exit whatsoever, spotting the camera,
1
He launched himself at the camera, screaming in rage and terror
There was a flash as the Robotiser activated, the bright white light filling Robotnik's screen and after a few seconds it receded, showing Robotnik an empty room. He panned left and right, no hedgehog, he panned down, and found a blue metal robot laying on it's front on the floor, his laughter would have deafened Sonic completely, had he been able to hear.
000
Sally was standing in the medical bay, beside an otter, Dr Brookflow, looking at a pitiful blue figure in a pod, floating in the green liquid, half his head missing.
Half an hour ago Mist had patched into the Robotropolis mainframe and had been able to grab the feed from the Robotiser, and the command staff had watched, Sally retiring to her room for half an hour, looking at the ring on her finger, something Sonic had given her before he had left on his last mission.
"How will he be Dr?" she asked the otter,
"I'm not sure, that kind of damage should be fatal, yet here he is, we got the bio-shield installed so there should be no necrosis in the remaining tissue before Tails gets a hold of him" he replied, checking the monitors attached to the pod
"Do you think hardiness was something Dr Nox added to him?"
"Who knows? The Bio staff certainly don't, he's the only one of his kind"
Sally nodded and left the room, only one of his kind? No he had had Sonic, but now…yes, he was now one of a kind, and he wouldn't take it well.
She went back to the control room and returned to her duties.
000
The blue hedgehog opened his eyes, looking about himself, judging by the walls and floor he could only be one place, the Tech wing, referred to as 'Tails' Domain', but was he doing here? Then he remembered the burst of fire, the bright light, the pain, god the unimaginable pain, then the cool, calm darkness of unconsciousness. He put a hand up to the left side of his face and felt cold metal, and then he noticed the light green readout scrolling across his vision.
He stood up, his head feeling swollen and heavy as he walked over to the water fountain in the corner of his room, he heard footsteps as he drank and turned to the door to see Sally walk in,
"Hey Sally, how are you? How's Sonic, I bet Robotnik's furious" he began, before he saw her face fall, "Sal? Sal what's wrong?" he asked, sitting down on his bed,
"I…it's…Sonic, you…the mission…" she took a deep breath, and the blue hedgehog could see she had been crying, "S, when you were hit you were brought back, the mission failed…Sonic…has been…Robotised"
Sally sat on the bed as she burst into more tears, S, the blue hedgehog, put an arm around her, a tear welling up in his organic eye.
When Sally had left S2 checked for a certain program in his implants,
-I-I- S2 System log -I-I- Log 01…I failed…