BalletGirl537: Wooo I'm on a roll here! No homework plus free time equals this! A nice and long chapter updated only a day after the last one! :DD Enjoy! ^.^

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The scientist swung around in his chair, hands folded neatly on his lap. In which one leg was crossed over the other.

"Enter!" He said in a very disturbed tone. Oh that moment when the doors began parting. Like two lovers enjoying their last moment as one. The shadow of the young fox creature grew slowly on the metallic flooring. But that shadow was soon distorted by another behind him. Eggman's face wrinkled from the flaccid grin on his face.

"Here he is." Tails Doll said casually. He gestured to the one behind him-Eggman's bounty. The man in red stood and began a torturous slink toward his prize. Tails doll's eyes were on Eggman, but the scientist was eyeing his enemy, who was still in a trance of complete hypnosis.

"Wonderful…" Eggman said stroking his mustache.

"Can we play now?" Tails Doll asked, a pleading face that of a puppy's on his face. But Eggman grew perverse. He ignored his creation's plea, but put a hand upon the blue hedgehog before him's head.

"I shall contemplate the idea." He said.

"Why not now?" Tails Doll whined.

"I am a scientist and a genius! It means I'm busy and have many projects!" Eggman shouted. The little fox creature took offense to that. He didn't show it however, only walked out, melted into the shadows.

"And so it begins." The scientist stepped back and took a scalpel from a nearby table.

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"So you're saying he just walked off?" Amy Rose asked Tails, clarifying that she'd heard everything right. Tails nodded, taking another swig of his water.

"That's not like him at all." She said thinking hard.

"Actually it is." Tails retorted. "Just, in the scenario we've been in lately, it scares me. I know that most of…all of his solo adventures start off weird, but with past events…things are just weird Amy."

"What do you mean by 'past events'?" Amy queried. She leaned in quite a bit. Tails grew uncomfortable at this.

"Do you believe in ghosts?" Tails said softly. But he regretted such a question. So he stood and made a covert motion toward the door while Amy pondered in confusion. Perplexed, she made to grab Tails' wrist.

"You can't stay alone now! Especially like this. Stay here for a while, at least until you aren't this worried." Tails gave the pink one a look as if to say 'you've got to be kidding me'. It was something that grew on him from Sonic. He gave in however, since it wasn't up to Sonic on whether to stay or not, he sat back down.

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Everything felt shaky, and, mechanical. His eyes opened slowly to a bright light like that of one that hovered over an operating table.

"There there, that wasn't so bad." Said a voice all too familiar to him. Sonic jolted at said voice. Out of defense, the hedgehog sat up. There was a stiff pain on the left side of his head. A gloved paw rose up and rubbed the area. But like a fresh scrape on the knee, it's raw, sour pain kept the paw at bay.

"That's only for drastic measures; I hope we won't have to use it." Eggman said from a shadowy corner.

"Eggman." Sonic growled in the man's direction.

"Heh, I'm surprised you remember." Eggman scoffed. "We wiped all of your good memories after all." Sonic looked down at his paws. They trembled at the scientist's words. The hedgehog growled again.

"Who's to say I won't just blast straight through you?" Sonic said. Eggman simply chuckles. The hands that were neatly folded behind his back readied on a small remote. Sonic jumped off of the table he was on and made a motion towards the scientist. Eggman pressed a button behind him, which stopped Sonic right at the doctor's feet and sent him into a seizure. The man stood and watched the hedgehog suffer, convulsing and drooling into the tiles. But Eggman decided to save most of the fun for later, and pressed the button again. Sonic's frantic seizing's came to an end. He hung limp on the floor, on his side, facing away from the enemy. He came to quickly, but was weaker than he'd ever been in his entire life. His body felt like a sandbag: pounds and pounds of something so small.

"Now now," Eggman began, reaching into a drawer, "don't wear yourself out yet." He then put a cold pack on Sonic's head.

"W-wh…what happened." The weak hedgehog asked, his voice cracking slightly.

"The consequences of defying me." Eggman simply said, standing over his enemy, who struggled to catch his breath after such a foreign event. The one on the floor paid no attention to what Eggman had said. But was in a puddle of self pity, sulking, on the verge of tears after he had been thrown on the floor by himself and sent into an epileptic fit past anyone's control. Eggman then grabbed Sonic's scruff and held him up to his face.

"Sonic the hedgehog, you're mine."