Chapter 4

Sonic tossed and turned as the hint of light came into the room. He simply couldn't sleep. Of course it's not his fault he had to be in bed by 7. Okay, so it sort of was his fault. But he never expected Eggman to follow through on his threat of a grounding.

Something about that made Sonic smile. Maybe he could get revenge on Eggman for grounding him. But he would have to be inconspicuous. Don't want to get spanked again. Sonic shivered at the thought, putting a hand over his bottom. He shook his head, and made his way down to the kitchen. He turned on the stove, which was gas powered, and turned it up to the highest level of heat. Sonic snickered, and blew out the match he used to light the stove. Dropping it as he heard the alarm sound, he turned on his heel and ran back up to his—oof!

Sonic froze, his face implanted in something soft and warm. He felt around, and feeling an arm and a bushy mustache, guessed who he bumped into. It was indeed Eggman.

Sonic looked up, and gave a nervous smile. Eggman looked at the stove, and calmly pushed the hedgehog out of the way, and put out the fire with the fire extinguisher under the sink. After stooping the spray, Eggman turned to the hedgehog, and put the extinguisher down, walking over to Sonic. Sonic backed away each step Eggman took, but was soon left with no place to back up as he backed against a wall.

"What were you thinking, Sonic!? You could have burned the whole house down! You could have gotten hurt or worse! Don't you ever think!?"

Sonic winced at his words, and gulped as Eggman took hold of his ear, marching him up the stairs and to his room. Sonic had to almost jog to keep up with Eggman's long strides.

"Eggman…I didn't mean to-"

"Quiet. I have had it with you. You are about to face a punishment you won't soon forget. I'll make sure of it."

Sonic whimpered as they entered his room, and Eggman went into the closet, pulling out a red paddle with several-maybe six-holes drilled through it. Sonic, pride forgotten, dropped to his knees and begged, "Eggman, no! Please, I wasn't thinking! I'll do better, I promise!" By the end Sonic was sobbing as he buried his face in his palms.

"Get up, and come here. I've had it with your foolishness and disobedience, now come over here and accept your punishment."

Sonic, hoping Eggman would go easy if he obeyed, shuffled over to Eggman sitting on the bed. Eggman grabbed Sonic's arms, and had Sonic stand between his knees, lifting his chin with a finger to see the emerald eyes.

"Now Sonic, this is how it is going to play out. I am going to spank you with the paddle for your recklessness, and afterword you will sit-and I mean SIT- in the corner for 15 minutes. After that you will come back over here and I will smack those naughty palms for touching the stove which could have burned down this whole house with both of us in it. Do you understand?"

Sonic bit his bottom lip, ears down, eyes shut tight, and nodded. Eggman held Sonic's hands, and asked, "Now, what is our policy?"

Sonic whimpered, and shifted as if he was already spanked, stuttering, "G-good…h-hedgeh-ogs get r-rewards…n-n-naughty…hedge-hogs… get spanked. I….I was….a naughty…hedgehog. For turning on the stove…and…I'm gonna…get spanked…"

Eggman nodded, and placed Sonic over his lap. Sonic took hold of the bed sheets, and whimpered as he felt Eggman raise the paddle up high. With a loud whooshing sound and a crack, the paddle struck its target, and Sonic howled as if he had been scalded. Soon, he was punching the bed and wailing and kicking his legs in all directions, trying to get Eggman to stop. Or at least give him a moving target to save his rear from the line of fire.

Eggman rewarded this with a hearty two spanks to his lower thighs, making Sonic squeal. "Quit struggling. You've been very bad, hedgehog, now lay still and let me finish up." With that, the spanking continued, until Sonic's bottom was a bright ruby red.

"Ow…ow ow ow…owww…" Sonic groaned as he was stood up and led over to the corner he sat in yesterday. He looked at the chair, its wood looking so hard and uncomfortable.

"Please don't…don't make me sit…" Sonic complained as he was set down in the chair, his request obviously ignored as when he tried to get up from a jolt of pain, Eggman pressed his hands down on his shoulders to make him stay put.

Sonic sniffled and choked all throughout his time in the corner, white-knuckling the sides of the chair. After his time had passed, Eggman called him back over to the bed, a wooden ruler held in his hand.

Sonic rose, and shuffled over to Eggman. He put his palms up, biting his bottom lip. Six wallops later, Sonic couldn't control himself and was crying all over again. Eggman sighed, and lifted the poor hedgehog to his shoulder, and patted his back. When he heard soft hiccups and sniffles, showing Sonic had calmed down; he put Sonic in bed, despite Sonic's mumbling that he wasn't tired. Even though he had yawned several times throughout the mumbles. Eggman chuckled as Sonic put a thumb up to his mouth, and started to suck on it. Eggman pulled up the blankets to Sonic's chin, and exited the room, going downstairs to see the damage to the stove, after checking to see the hedgehog was asleep.

And it wasn't even noon.

R&R!