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Chapter 2 - Explainations

I woke up and immediately bolted upright. My eyes flickered wildly around the room and lay to rest on a fat, bald man with a big mustache sitting beside my bed.

'Professor!' I exclaimed. 'Wh-what happened? Wh-'

The man put up his hand for silence. Now that I looked at him, he wasn't the Professor at all. For one thing, he was younger. his mustache was bright orange (ugh) and his outfit was red (ugh). I didn't say this out loud though.

'Oh! I-I'm sorry, sir! Who are you?'

The man didn't answer. He turned and picked up a bundle of clothes which he gave to me. 'You'd better put these on, my Dear....' he said a bit awkwardly.

I realized I was completely naked and blushed scarlet. Dammit, of course I was! I'd just come out of stasis, idiot! This poor man, he'd been very careful not to look anywhere but my face, too! I immediately took more of a liking towards this guy. Maybe he could tell me what was going on.

The man turned his back while I got dressed. 'To answer your question, my name is Dr. Eggman.'

And a very fitting name it is too, I thought. 'Well, you probably know this already, but I'm Berri.'

'Yes, your file did say something about liking to be called Berri.'

'You can turn around now.'

He did so and put on a serious face. 'Now, I suppose you're wondering what's going on here.'

'Yeah. Kinda.'

'My Dear, you've been handed a very raw deal indeed.'

I frowned. Raw deal? I remembered my tank being filled with ultra-pure water, but surely that was a mistake? 'How so?' I asked.

He paused. 'You've been in stasis for sixty-eight years.'

I choked on absolutely nothing. 'Sixty-eight.....what the hell to you mean, sixty-eight years?!'

He paused again. '.....My birth name was Ivo Robotnik.'

'I-Ivo? Ivo? But....but I celebrated your first birthday just last week!' I dropped to my knees. This couldn't be happening. This WAS NOT happening. I couldn't think. 'Where's the Professor? Maria? Let me talk to them.' I said in a croaky voice.

'I'm sorry, my dear. They're both-'

'NO!' I roared, putting my hands over my ears. 'No....please don't say-'

I felt a hand on my shoulder. 'Berri, I can't help you if you won't let me.'

I pushed Ivo's hand off and glared at him. 'Explain, then.'

'It's a long story-'

'You think I care how long it is?! I wake up, it's sixty-eight years later and you think I care how long it is?! EXPLAIN!'

Ivo didn't seem to mind being yelled at. 'You already know, of course, that you were created as Ultimate Lifeform. Professor Gerald programmed you with many amazing and very powerful abilities. And for about 13 years, he was happy with you.'

'Happy with me? What- hey, when I was thirteen? That's when.....'

'When your symptoms started, yes. But it wasn't because of that. I'll get to that in a minute. No, he really changed his mind because he learned that he could make an even stronger lifeform. He had met the leader of the Black Arms, a very powerful alien race. His name was Black Doom. The Professor made a deal with Black Doom; He would give him the chaos emeralds if Black Doom would give up some of his blood for the new project. His blood would make the project stronger than ever.'

My body shook with anger. 'So. I was abandoned because I wasn't strong enough?'

'That's...the bottom line of it, my Dear.'

My anger was overwhelming now. No! I must not get any more angry. Notangrynotangrynotangrynotangrynotangrynotangryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

Ivo saw my trouble and produced a syringe from seemingly nowhere. I eyed it warily, still barely in control. 'What's that?'

'Calming medication. Affects nothing but the anger emotion.'

I sighed in relief and stuck out my arm. 'You came prepared.'

Ivo injected the medicine into my bloodstream and I immediately calmed down. In the place of anger, however, came a million thick tears streaming down my cheeks and splattering all over the floor. I was sobbing like a little girl lost, something I hadn't done since I was the age of five. 'W-wh-why w-would he d-do this? Why? Wh-why did Maria l-let h-h-h-him?'

'Maria was reluctant at first,' Ivo said slowly.

'Reluctant? Reluctant? What the fuck! Reluctant?'

'I could not believe it either when I first heard of it....' he said uncomfortably.

I put my head in my hands. 'Just- keep talking. How does my condition fit into this shit?'

Ivo paid no attention to my language. 'Your condition, yes. Maybe it would be best if you looked for yourself.' He pulled out an old-looking disk from his pocket and removed the protective plastic he had put over it. Then he inserted the disk into a laptop (also brought out of nowhere) and gave it to me. I opened it dreading what I might find. Still crying heavily, I found myself on my own progress file.

As I scanned its contents my eyes became more and more horrified. When I finished I shut the laptop and let out a strangled breath. 'So.' I said with a clear tremor in my voice. 'The Professor secretly injected me with a virus of his own creation, just to make it look like he had no choice but to shut me down. He only told Maria the truth months later and she did nothing. Then she and the Professor finished the creation of the new Ultimate Lifeform, Project Shadow.' I spat the name.

Ivo kept his eyes on the ground.

'Professor Gerald Robotnik effectively killed me because I wasn't strong enough.'

The floor was apparently very interesting.

My body was shaking. I knew that if I were to continue like this, I would overcome the injection Ivo had given me.

I can't really remember when I stopped thinking. Just like always, it was like there was someone else controlling me. I was completely conscious and I realized what I was doing but I was powerless to stop myself. I couldn't even warn Ivo to get away from me. All I could do was hope that he had taken precautions against this.

Something hit me on the back of the head.

Ow.....

When I woke up but kept my eyes shut. Something metallic was holding me bridal style and it was extremely uncomfortable. I opened my eyes to find myself in a different room entirely with an orange robot holding me. A really ugly orange robot.

I let out a shriek and jumped out of the robot's arms. 'Wh-wh-wh-wh-'

'I see you're awake.'

I looked around. Ivo was sitting behind a desk behind me with his fingers laced. I was about to answer when a flash of pain burst in my head. I moaned and held my head in my hands.

'Headache?'

'Yeah.' The realization of what had almost happened suddenly hit me. 'I-I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to- are you hurt?' I stuttered. I would never have been able to forgive myself if I had hurt the boy I once considered to be a kid brother, no matter how much older (and uglier) he may be.

Ivo smiled and put up his hand. 'No harm done. I managed to inject you with a much stronger dose before you hurt anyone, but unfortunately I had to knock you out. I'm sorry....'

'Heh! No, no! R-really! Thank you! It was my fault, if I hadn't gotten so angry at....ah.....' The realization of what I was angry about in the first place hit me and I hugged myself tightly, shivering.

Ivo looked pained. 'This must be terribly hard on you, my dear. I can't even begin to imagine-'

'Why?' I choked quietly.

'Beg your pardon?'

'Why didn't he tell me?' I was bawling now. 'I would've understood! I wouldn't have cared, he didn't have to....he didn't.....' I lost the ability to form comprehendible words, and soon I was just sobbing. I always had been quite emotional.

After a bit, I finally calmed down enough to ask one last question. 'Why did you reactivate me?'

His eyes lit up with something I could not determine. 'Well, firstly, I couldn't bear to leave you like this.....'

I allowed myself a small smile at this.

'...And secondly, I could use your help.'

I looked up. 'My help? Anything! Anything you want! It's a small price to pay....'

That strange glint in his eye appeared again. 'You have my thanks, my dear.'

'As you have mine. What do you need me to do?'

'My problem lies with a group of teenagers consisting of two hedgehogs, a fox, a rabbit, and an echidna,' Ivo stated. 'That have got the chaos emeralds in their sights. You see, I was conducting an experiment with them that went wrong and caused the biggest chaos control I'd ever seen. It transported the whole headquarters through time and space to a planet called Mobius. The chaos emeralds scattered again.'

I nodded. Fair enough.

'Mobius was inhabited by animals. The chaos emeralds corrupted these animals and they soon gave in to greed. Among them were two hedgehogs, two rabbits, a cat, a bee, a crocodile, chameleon, fox and echidna. They went in search of the chaos emeralds.
Meanwhile, I had sent my robots to find the emeralds as well. They managed to collect most of them and bring them back to eggquarters.'

Uh, did he just say eggquarters?

'But the group of animals had learnt of the location of the base, and they came to steal the emeralds.'

'Another chaos control, right?'

'Correct, my dear. it sent us all back here, and now they're wrecking havoc down on Earth. I've found a way to send them back without sending the chaos emerald back with them, but I'll still need them for powering the machine.'

I understood. 'So you need me to get both the chaos emeralds and those retards?'

Ivo paid no attention to my language and nodded. 'There's no rush. You'd better have a few days to get used to life on Earth before trying anything. They're no match for you anyway.'

'Yeah. The professor made sure of that.'

Doctor Eggman watched as Berri strapped herself into his spaceship. All that nice-talk and smiling gave him a headache. It had been worth it, though. She was completely fooled, and all he had to do now was make sure she stayed fooled. If she didn't, if she found out, he'd be screwed. Seriously screwed. He didn't think she'd take too kindly to being lied to again. This had to be one of the most dangerous schemes he had ever come up with. If he succeeded, however, he would be rid of Sonic and his little furries forever.

And as for Project Beryl, well, she would soon be having a deja-vu experience. Only this time, she would stay asleep. It's kind of hard to reactivate someone that's in pieces. It would be a mistake to keep someone as dangerous as her alive.

Eggman just managed catch himself before he laughed like a maniac.

DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUNNNN!

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