Tails POV
I awakened to a clanking sound. I looked around at my surroundings. I was in my secret lab. How late did I stay up last night? 'I must have fallen asleep working' I reasoned. I groaned and went to rub my head but felt something cold and metal stop my wrist. Confused, I moved my head around and got a better view of my position. I was dumbfounded. I had been strapped to the workshop table where I had been working on my robot. I looked around for escape but there wasn't anything close enough to me that I could use. I was stuck. This realization brought back a flood of memories from the night before. I had been performing my first full test on the tails robot when it had some sort of malfunction and attacked me. After surprising me and knocking me out he must havee strapped me down here.
My thoughts were interrupted by a loud clank as if a metal tool had been set on the floor. I heard pacing outside my vision. "Help!" I shouted, hoping it was sonic. No such luck. Robot tails finally walked into my vision. "Finally awake are you?" He asked before giving me a big smile. On me this was always cute, but knowing that this robot was up to something, I found it creepy. "Why are you doing this?" I asked. "Why?" He repeated, "Because you programmed me to. You want me to protect sonic so he never feels pain. Seeing you hurt just hurts him. If that means taking you out of the picture for him to never feel pain again then so be it." I was surprised. This robot had somehow confused the logic I programmed into it and was now marking me as a threat. I cursed myself for not thinking to work in a better failsafe.
"What will you do now?" I asked, "kill me?" "No no no," he mumbled before laughing. He moved over to a computer monitor. "I'm going to make you watch me ruin your life." He shrugged at my lack of understanding. "you deserve to be punished for hurting him." I kept a straight face, but inside I was panicked. I couldn't let this robot impersonate me in the real world. My friends were in danger! I began to plot out ways of escaping when the giant screen in front of me changed from statistics to camera feed. It was from the robots point of view. "You won't get away with this!" I yelled out. He just laughed as he headed out the door. I had become frustrated and began to struggle against my metal confinement. He'd better not touch my Sonic!
I watched the monitor in horror. The robot went to the kitchen and began making chili dogs. Sonic would be so distracted by food he wouldn't realize it wasn't really me! I cursed the robot and myself for getting into this situation in the first place. Suddenly sonic came into view. "Sonic no!" I yelled at the screen, wishing more than anything that he could hear me. I listened as sonic questioned the robot almost seeming to recognize it wasn't me. Hope filled me. This robot couldn't fool his lover. He was proud of his sonic. That's when it happened. Sonic tried to make a move but was shoved back. The robot then told a horrible lie. Hearing sonic cry out and say me he loved me broke my heart.
The robot then left to return to the lab and I could hear the hidden door to the secret lab slide open. I wouldn't let this monster see me cry though. I stayed strong, for sonic, and for all my friends. He walked up til he was right next to me before looking me in the face. "I see you still have hope for escape, we both know you designed this table to be foolproof. There will be no escape and you will suffer. Give up, I am you now." I spit in his face. He laughed and wiped it away. "Have a good rest, Ill be working on your next greatest invention." I couldn't help but let my face shift to a look of confusion before he walked out.
I watched him make his way to the metal scrap and begin picking out peices. This was for what I could only assume would be another terrifying creation to match its inventor. I let the tears fall then.
