Note: All characters associated with the 'Sonic the Hedgehog' series belong to Sega Games/Archie comics. I only own Logan Schwarzwald and for the idea of this story.

Unidentified Lab, in an Unidentified Location...

In a large laboratory, filled with devices and tools of all kinds and all sizes, Logan lies unconscious on top a metal table with two strange devices circling above while emitting wide beams of light on his body as they circled around. They were scanning and transmitting data to a computer terminal next to the table, with Snively behind the controls and overlooking the unconscious boy alongside Snively.

"Sir, scans show that this boy is not an overlander." Snively said as he was reading the data showing up on the computer screen.

"Not an overlander?" Eggman replied as he eyed Snively with a questioning stare.

"Yes Uncle, according to the scanners, the genetic make-up doesn't match to that of Overlanders. The readings show that this is a Human."

"Human, as in those of Station Square?" Eggman exclaimed as he was surprised of this news.

"Yes sir. Further readings indicate that the boy is of 18 years old, brown hair and eyes, a relatively slim build that complements his sort stature for his age. As well as he could be a soldier of some kind of, possibly a mercenary, judging by the strange uniform he's wearing." Snively said directed his attention towards Logan, he was still in his Lost Planet 2 Waysider costume. "However the equipment that he's carrying appears to be made of scrap metal and plastics. all except for the one piece that was recovered from his pocket. Some sort of communication device."

Snively then picked up a small rectangular device that was placed besides the console. The device was small enough to fit into the palm of your hand, had a screen on one side that showed an assortment of things of unknown meaning, and a casing that was customized with a black and green pattern. It was Logan's Iphone.

"That much I can clearly see without the readings." Eggman bluntly stated and snatched the device out of Snivelys hand. "Hmmm, a human this far away from Station Square and United Federation settlements, what an unusual turn of events. But a fortunate one as well."

"How so Sir?" Snively questioned.

"Because he be a perfect test subjects for the Nano-Borge Project." Eggman grinned while snively gave a perplexed look. "As your no doubt aware, the Nano-Borge Project is a program that consists of creating new breeds of weapons from and into organic beings. Much more so than average Cybernetics, with mechanical implants attached to living tissue, or robotinization. But using living tissue mixed in unison with cybernetics via my newly developed nanite technology."

"But Sir, we've already made 12 attempts, all resulting in failure." Snively stated with grimace. "We've even used live subjects of Mobians and Overlanders, what's to say that this boy will survive the process?"

"True the attempts have all resulted in failures, this being because of the nanites becoming unstable during the binding process to the organic tissue, but I have managed to isolate the cause and have determined that attempt 13 will succeed!" Eggman announced as he was making his way towards the doorway of another section of the large Laboratory that was separated by glass and steel walls. "Have the boy brought to Lab X-1, I'll be overseeing the process. You will oversee the final preparations on the Egg Fleet. Meanwhile, I'll also find out what I can from him before initiating the procedures."

"Yes Sir! Uh... but sir, what exactly is the cause for the nanites unstability?" Snively questioned.

"Heh-heh, all will be explained after the procedure, Snively." the Doctor answered and walked out of the lab while fiddling with Logan's Iphone. "Hmm... I could use this."

Lab X-1

"Ugh... wha-...ugh... what happened?" Logan groggily said as he was slowly picking himself up from the floor and rubbing his head from pain. "Man, what what the heck was that light about? Ugh- my head feels like it's being pounded like a Congo drum! In fact, so does the rest of me. Ow! Huh-? What is this place?"

Once Logan gained his vision after seeing blurs from waking up, he noticed his surroundings. He could see that he was in a large room with everything around him, various forms and shapes, were covered with darkness and shadows. The only light in the room was coming from above the large circular platform he was standing on.

"Um, where am I? This isn't my room!" Logan said as he was scanning the room while walking towards the edge of the platform. "First, a strange light comes out of a comic book, then I find myself somewhere else. What next? Oof-!"

Logan was soon knocked a few steps back as he walked into something. When Logan checked to see what he had bumped into, he saw nothing. He walked forward towards the edge again, but had extended his arms in front of him to have his hands feel what's in front of him. Once his hands reached above where the edge of platform was, he could feel a invisible wall of some kind. It was glass, which was encasing around the platform around Logan.

"What is this?" Logan yelled as he was pounding on the glass casing. "Now I'm behind a glass wall?"

As Logan continued to pound the glass casing, he noticed something else. He noticed his hands, thought still covered by brown leather gloves, had brighter shade of brown with a dark outlining. He proceeded to then look at his arms and at the rest of his person. Logan could see that his entire costume and person had brighter shades of colors than he originally had with black detailing on his shape. It was as if he was colored in and bordered with paint and ink. It was then that he noticed his reflection from the glass. He saw a animated version of himself in the reflection with a shocked look on his face. Logan had slowly moved his hands up to his face and felt around it to see if what he was looking at was really him.

"What's Going on here?" Logan silently said.

"Ah, I see your finally awake my boy!" said a voice from behind Logan. "I was hoping to ask you a few questions."

Logan turned around to see who it was that was speaking to him. What he saw was a tall, obese but burlie figured, a man with long and thin arms and legs. His head was round in shape and had a pointed nose above a long and bushy orange colored mustache. His eyes were hidden behind behind a pair of dark blue tinted pince nez glasses. The man was wearing a red coat that had two square gold buttons on both sides of the chest with white stripes running down the sides of the long sleeves from the shoulders to the yellow cuffs at the end, and a pair of black pants with matching boots that seemed to be attached and bearing circular plates on the sides of the ankles. Also, he had white gloves on his hands and a pair of goggles adorning the top of his bald head. Like Logan, the colors of his clothes and being was bathed in brighter colors and bordered details. In reaction to seeing him, Drew could recognize the man and was put into a state of shock again.

"You- your-!" Logan could manage to say.

"Dr. Ivo 'Eggman' Robotnik! The most brilliant mind that has ever existed! At your service!" Eggman announced while he took a bow, leaving Logan in a gaping mouth silence. "Judging by your reaction, I'd say your aware of who I am! Unfortunately, I don't know who you are, care to fill me in?"

Logan remained frozen in place with shock and fear plastered on his face. He was standing in front of a legendary/fictional madman from one of the most beloved series of all time. The Dr. Eggman! The arch nemesis of the famous blue speed demon 'Sonic the Hedgehog' in the games, tv shows, and comics. Also that he looked like he did in the recent comics, as well as how Logan also looked like a character in the comics. The whole situation made his brain go into a reboot.

"Well? No response? It's quit rude to not introduce yourself to someone who doesn't know who you are." Dr. Eggman said while waiting for a response from the silent Logan.

"La.. Lo-Lo... Lo-Logan. Logan Sch-Schwarzwald." Logan managed to utter as he was still overcome with shock.

"Logan, eh? And 'Schwarzwald'... hmm... an interesting last name. I believe it means 'Black Forest', correct?" Eggman commented as he was analyzing Logan's name.

"Uh, yeah." Logan answered

"That name seems familiar to me. Like I've heard mention of it before." Eggman responded to himself then waving of his hand to move along the conversation. "But that doesn't really matter now. What matters now is the set of questions that you need to answer!"

"And those questions are...?" Logan raised an eyebrow.

"What were you doing outside of New Megaopolis ? Who sent you? and why?" Eggman leaned in slowly on the glass casing in anticipation of Logan's response.

Logan took in the three part questions and tried to piece together a response with what he knows now. He took a deep breath and decided to tell the blank truth, hoping for the best.

"Well... I don't know." Logan's meager response made Eggman slam his face at the glass in a comical manner. "Honestly... one moment I'm at my home returning from a party, and the next I wake up in a room with some kind of glass dome surrounding me!"

Eggman had been rubbing his forehead from his little comedy act while following along with Logan's explanation. With disappointment of getting nothing useful from Logan, he proceed to walk towards a nearby control panel that was coming up from the metal floor next to the glass surrounded platform.

"Oh well, since you have no useful information to give me. I'll just have to get some use out of you in another way. The most painful way possible!" Eggman stated as he was hitting an assortment of keys on the control panel that was setup besides the glass dome.

Logan looked on and was starting to revert back to his previous state with shock and fear. He knew that when a man scientist has you locked in some kind of containment chamber/dome and says that he has plans for you, than that usually means something bad and painful was going to happen. Eggman noticed this reaction from Logan and proceeded with explanations.

"I'm sure your wondering what I had meant on the most painful way possible, correct? Well, allow me to explain from the beginning." Eggman flipped an assortment of toggle switches that activated a set of large mechanical arms to come down from the ceiling. Both which featured a set of suction cups that had visible sparks of electricity running through them. The two arms were drawing close to the sides of Logan's glass dome platform. "You see my boy, you are about to take part in greatest moment in the history of the Eggman Empire! An evolutionary step in the field of nano-technology. And a step towards ultimate conquest against my enemies."

Eggman then went to tell a detailed story about how he had come to create this 'Nano-Borg' project while he was pacing around Logan's platform. He explained that a couple of years ago, back when he was simply known as Robotnik, he had devised a way to make organic beings turn into a robotic being. The process was called roboticization. He was able to make all who were roboticized his unwilling servants. He even made himself into a robot. Until a certain blue hedgehog, a wretched princess, and a group of rebels had found a way to break his control over the robotic slaves. However, It wasn't enough to stop him and the roboticization process from turning everyone into robots. To make matters worse, the arrival of an alien race called 'The Bem' had reversed the roboticization and made everyone on the planet immune to it. Including Eggman himself. So with his ultimate means of gaining dominance over the world now gone, he had to rely on the old fashion means by using robots and weapons that would serve under him in his empire. Later, with the disappearance of his most hated enemy for a year because of another alien race called the Xorda, he was able to make major steps in his conquest with expansion of territory and his technology/weaponry. A perfect example would be the creation of the microscopic robots called Nanites. These robots worked by recreating more of themselves from whatever they can breakdown and absorb, like cells replicating, to come together and form practically anything. Everything was progressing beautifully. That was until the blue pest returned. Thanks to this, he now has to construct even more advance robots and weapons to fight him and his allies off. Eggman also explained about his two 'children', a female humanoid android named Mecha, and an A.I. called A.D.A.M (Autonomous Digital Assault Microbe). But A.D.A.M wasn't given a physical form like his sister. He was given control over the Nanites instead. Yet still, Eggman wanted to ensure that he would always have the upper hand over his enemies. So that's when he realized that he would use the nanites to strengthen his forces, including using them to effectively turn organics into super soldiers/weapons he could use.

When Eggman had finished his tale, he proceeded back to his position at the control console pressing buttons and throwing a couple of switches. Logan recalled everything Eggman said that he had already known from reading the entire Sonic the Hedgehog comics that he had already read. All except the last part of using the nanites on organics to make them like living weapons. Such a horrible plan was never mentioned in the comic. What's worse is that he now knows that Eggman intends on using him in this insane project. Logan then noticed that the electric-charged suction cups were attaching themselves to the glass and was making it radiate with a strange glow. As well as a set of mechanized tubes were attaching themselves to the air duct that was connected at the dome on top. Logan was becoming shaken with anxiety of what was happening.

"Now I'm sure your wondering what's happening now, hmm? Well my boy, the energy charged arms are pumping a special kind of energy, chaos energy, that I have managed to save and store over the years. The glass surrounding you is made with a special blend of silica and grinded power gems to allow the energy to flow through and radiate the inside with chaos energy and charge the air particles inside. The result will allow the chaos energy to react and charge your organic cell particles as you stand." Eggman explained as he was motioning to the energy arms and the dome. He then motioned towards the mechanical tubes at the air ventilation. "These air tubes will release special nanites that I have altered for this project. They will be attracted to the chaos energy pumping through your cells. Chaos energy is necessary to allow the nanites to bond to your organic cells since it would take massive amounts of energy for the bonding process. The result will then make you the first organic to bond with and control the nanites... hopefully."

"Hopefully?" Logan questioned as he heard the doctors last word.

"Yes, well, twelve attempts have been made before using both mobian and overlander subjects before you. All of which had resulted in failures. However, this will be a first attempt with a human subject, and with the adjustment I've made from the previous trials there should be more successful. If not, then... well there will always be a nasty stain to remember you by."

Logan gulped hard as he hoped that he would survive this.

"Oh, one more thing, this is going to hurt..." Eggman mentioned and pulled a large switch on the control consol. "Alot!"

Before Logan could react, a loud hissing sound was herd as the air duct was releasing the nanites into the air. Logan couldn't actually see the nanites because of their microscopic size even though he knew they were there. He and the doctor waited to get some sort of reaction from the nanites. Then, after a minute, something happened. Logan began to get an itching sensation on the right side of his face next to the eye. When he went to scratch it, he noticed that his brown leather glove was dissolving. He looked at both his hands and saw that they both were being eaten away. Logan tried to shake the remains of the gloves off but was unable to. Then he saw that the dissolving was progressing up his arms. As well as from his boots going up to his legs. Once the gloves and part of the sleeves were gone he felt the same itching sensation he first felt on his face from the exposed skin. The itching soon became a stinging sensation and was becoming more and more painful. Logan realized that his skin was being eaten away by the nanites! The same was happening at his feet with them exposed from the boots now gone. He frantically tried to rub the nanites off with his hands to no effect. The more he tried, the more his limbs were being worn down. He finally noticed that most of the flesh was gone down to practically seeing whats underneath. Exposed muscles and bones with little to no blood being dropped. The nanites were eating the blood along with the flesh.

"Waaahhh!" Logan screamed and cried out of unbelievable pain and the overwhelming fear.

Thing were getting really bad when he noticed that he was getting shorter. When he looked down to see that his feet were gone with his legs following like he was melting. His hands were also gone with most of his forearm. With his feet gone and his legs down to nubs, his balanced was broken, falling forward onto his stomach. With what little strength he had, he lifted his head to see Eggman standing there with the look of a cruel smile on his face. He tried to claw and wiggle around with what was left of the nubs that used to be his limbs. All the while staring at Eggman with the look of developed pain and anger. Along with tears flowing from his eyes. Then Logan was only able to see at half his vision. This is because of the itch from earlier on his face was actually the nanites taking apart his skin and eye. Now their getting in his head through the right eye socket and into his brain. The overall pain had finally become too much for his body and mind to handle and resulted in him passing out. That moment was when the nanites had stopped devouring him. All that remained of Logan was his head, with the exception of his right eye area now gone, and a torso. What was left of his waysider costume were the green turtleneck with the tattered tunic around his neck and the red M34 field cap on his head.

Eggman watched the whole sequence happened before his eyes with no interference coming from him. When Logan had finally fallen and passed out, Eggman went to watching the screen of the control panels monitor that was showing Logan's vital signs. After a few blips the vitals went to a long bleep. Eggman furrowed his eyebrows with disappointment.

*sigh* "Another failure. So much for the 'Human' factor, and the data seemed so promising too. He didn't even end up like a smoldering pile of goo like the others. Ah well, there's always the fourteenth time charm." Eggman sighed as he turned away from the console and headed for the lab exit. With his latest subject now dead he will have to spend another long night going over analyzing over what went wrong.

As soon as he was near the doors, he heard a noise. "Blip" came the noise. Eggman stopped in his tracks and heard the sound again. "Blip... Blip..." this time the noise became more frequent and realized that it was coming from the dome control console. He rushed over to see that Logan's vital signs were returning. He typed in a command to scan Logan's body to see if what happened was what he thought what happened. The scans had taken a minute to finish the diagnostics and show the nanite bonding process was... a success. Eggman then broke into a wide grin that would stretch over a mile wide.

"Mwha-ha-ha-haaa!" Eggman had laughed. "Success! Mwha-ha-ha-haaa!"

Eggman ran over to a communication pad that was attached to the wall next to the lab doors.

"Snively!"

"Yes sir?" Snively replied on the other side of the line.

"The project has resulted in success. Report to lab X-1 and transfer the subject to the operation wing. I'll meet you at there in about an hour. I have something that will direct my immediate attention. Have everything ready. We've got work to do." Eggman ordered before ending his side of the transmission.

"Yes Sir!" Snively enthusiastically replied and ended his transmission.

Eggman proceeded to leave the lab again through the doors and pulled out Logan's Iphnoe from his pocket.

"Now let's see what you can do." Eggman said as he began to press on the touch screen. "Hmm? What's this? A game of some sort? 'Angry Birds'?"

Savvyman52: Ha-ha! chapter one is up, only the first page mind you, and I finished it so quickly! Next comes page two of the chapter. With Logan getting his 'New Look' and Eggman discovering 'Angry Birds'! Outragous! Also, I'm sure you can figure out 'what time during the comic' does the story take place in. I'll upload the next page in a couple of days. See ya!