My birthday's soon! And, we've hit over 100 views on this book! Thank you so much for reading! It means a lot! (I own some of the characters in this book (I.E Kaos the Hedgehog). Any other character in this book (I.E Sonic the Hedgehog) belongs to SEGA).
Chapter 5
I walked outside to the courtyard, and, surprisingly, it was packed. Pretty much every person not in a guard uniform was there, either playing basketball, gossiping about my grand entrance that occurred ten minutes ago, or just sitting around. As soon as I stepped on the pavement, everyone froze and looked at me. After a few seconds, some waved friendly, and some just ignored me. At the moment, I didn't really want to strike up a conversation, so I just decided sat down near a conveniently placed tree.
When I got to the tree, I noticed a sign on the tree reminding everyone not to litter. "Cute…" I thought. I sat down, and my mind began to spin. I'm guessing it was an after effect from learning a whole bunch of things in one flash. After the spinning subsided, I looked up to see a blue bulldog standing in front of me. "Is there a problem?" I ask.
"Depending on these next few seconds," He said. "They're may or may not be one. Has anyone told you about your original others?"
"No…" I said, confused. "What about them?"
He rolled his eyes. "I'm surprised no one told you. Sans didn't get you right first try. He had other Kaos'. Nine of them, I think." I was about to speak, but I paused. "But no one really knows what happened to them. Everyone else thinks that they malfunctioned shortly after they were created."
"So how does that deal with me?" I ask. "You want me to find out what really happened?" He laughs, sending a chill up every bone.
"No, silly," he says, snapping his fingers. "I'm here to make sure the tenth one doesn't get away."
After that, I knew what was going on. I got up, but a circle of the bulldog's friends trapped me in. He pulled out a knife. "This ends here, right now." He lunged forward, but time seemed to freeze, and a voice popped up inside my head.
"You have enhanced genes from the entity known as Sonic the Hedgehog." The voice said. Clearly a robot's voice. "You can reach speeds surpassing light with the enhancements in your genes. For example-" Time seemingly unfroze, and I dashed to the side, avoiding the lunge.
The bulldog looked confused for a second. "Oh, right. Super speed, duh." He snapped his fingers again, but I knew two of his friends we're going to hold me in place. Because that's the only logical answer to the situation. I ran up the tree, jumping outside of the circle.
"Why you little-" Suddenly, another voice interrupted his.
"Stop this, Tyrone!" I turn to see Sans standing at the doorway. "Can you please not kill any more mutants?!" Mutants? Now that's a new one.
"I've spent my entire creation preventing Project Kaos's completion," Tyrone points at me. "And I won't let this numbskull get in my way!" He lunges towards me again.
"Look, man," I said, dodging another attack. "I haven't done anything to you, so if you could just leave me alone-"
"Die!" He lunges again and successfully stabs me with a knife. To be honest, I didn't feel anything. I just looked at him, rage filling me. "How?!" He wonders aloud. "I-"
"Allow me to repeat that," I said murderously, making him flinch. "Leave," I push him away, pull the knife out, and drop it on the ground. "Me," I rush forward and deliver an uppercut, sending him hundreds of feet up in the air. I jump up to meet him. "ALONE!" Flipping over, I send him back down towards the ground, making a huge crater on impact.
I landed on the ground, only to have everyone stare at me in shock. Two guards pulled Tyrone the Crash Dummy from the crater, asking Sans aloud what they should do with the body. "Take Tyrone's body to solitary for attempted murder. Set him in the tube for punishment." The guards hauled Tyrone's body to wherever solitary was. "Kaos," Sans said, his tone darkening. "Come with me.
"Where are we going exactly?" I asked, holding the spot on my chest where I was stabbed tightly. The wound had already began to heal when I jumped in the air. However, it was still bleeding.
"I'm going to show you where we took Tyrone." He said. He reached a door labeled, 'Solitary', and opened it. "This…is Solitary Confinement." The room was surprisingly large, with a few tubes scattered around. I noticed that Tyrone was in one of the tubes. "In here, we let inmates who have done bad things reflect on what they've done."
"What are the tubes for?" I asked, a bit unnerved by the fact there were bodies gagging in the tubes.
"Simple. You go in, and we suck almost all of the air out of the tube so you're gagging, but you have enough oxygen to stay alive."* I nodded, silently freaking out a little. "Your stay depends on what kind of trouble you've caused."
"Why do you keep mentioning me?" I asked.
"Well, you single handedly leveled an entire room in a few seconds, and knocked another inmate out cold. That's on the terms for an hour in one of those tubes." I backed up a little, ready to put my newfound speed to good use. "However, it's your first day, so I'm letting you off the hook for now."
I opened my mouth to thank Sans, but he spoke first. "Don't thank me. Next time you won't be so lucky." I froze, but my eyes flashed a look at the door. He smiled. "You can leave now." I left the room, fighting the urge to take off running.
"Well that was something..." I said, a little winded. I thought I was warming up to the place, but those feelings seem to shut out. It seemed darker than I thought it was. I couldn't stop myself, but I thought about other bad secrets this place held. Other forms of torture besides solitary? Manual labor? The thoughts were endless…
"That is, until a green fox and a purple echidna snapped me out of my thoughts. "Are you okay?" the fox asked. I shook my head to snap out of my daze.
"Yeah," I replied, somehow still winded like before. "Just lost in thought, that's all."
"I understand," the echidna said. "You're the first one from the Project Kaos line that's survived more than five minutes. You should get a medal or something." I laugh.
"Not that," I replied, pointing at the door. "That."
"What? Solitary? Please. If you think that's bad, that's nothing compared to the MindScape."
"Wait…" The fox, said, seeming confused. "What's in solitary that's so bad?"
"Tubes that apparently suck all of the air out from within it." I started. "But-"
"Wait, what?!" He interrupted. Before I could continue he turned and ran off probably as fast as I could have. "I don't wanna suffocate!"
The echidna sighs. "Excuse Sam over there. He was just created a few minutes ago. The name's Henry, by the way."
"Kaos," I said, shaking his hand. At least I had two new friends to keep me safe from Tyrone.
Just then, Sam peeked his head out from a wall. "Are the tubes gone yet?" He asked.
"Yeah, it's okay," I told him. "It's Sam, right?"
He stepped out from behind that wall. "Yeah..." He replied. "And you're Kaos. The guy that somehow got very popular with absolutely everyone in the first five minutes of his life."
I laugh. "That's right, and accurate, if you take Tyrone into account." Sam laughs as well. Something told me we would be great friends. Suddenly, a bell rang loudly, echoing throughout the entire facility.
"Dinner time," Henry said, mildly excited. "If we hurry, we'll get something halfway decent." Without any more words, me and Sam follow Henry to the cafeteria.
So, I finished writing this chapter a few days after my birthday! I'm officially one year older now! I would have finished this chapter earlier, but Breath of the Wild has me hooked. Something tells me I might do a crossover in the future…let me know what you think!
P.S: I've also started referencing things!
*: The Deadpool Movie. They had a machine that sucked all of the air out of the general rest area, but left enough to survive. Something like that.
