Back in the hospital room, Sonic grimaced as the doctor inserted a fresh IV.
"Well, thanks to your little escapade, you won't be getting your full dose today." Sonic ignored the doctor.
"What is this place?" Sonic tried to sit up, but the doctor had him restrained. For your own safety. He had said.
"This is my lab. I call it GAMA. Stands for Genetic Altering and Mutations Associate. You like?"
"What's the purpose? Kidnapping and torturing?" Sonic glared at the man.
"Very funny Sonic, but no. I plan to find a way to trigger the inner beast."
"Inner beast? Sounds very scientific." Sonic couldn't help but laugh.
"Laugh all you want Sonic, but hear me out." Dr. Greenbrooke began to reattach the sensors. "I believe that many animals have higher potential that is hidden beneath their outershell. And the emergence of the Werehog has proved me right. That change can happen, but only through certain conditions. Ever since you turned into the Werehog, Robotnik and I have been experimenting to further the change. But I have been doing experiments since way before the Werehog. One of my first enabled a fox to fly." Sonic felt like he couldn't breathe. Was he talking about Tails? But that was impossible. Tails would have mentioned it before. Wouldn't he?
"How dare you! How dare you do that to such an innocent young child!"
"Oh my friend." The doctor said sadly. "He is not as innocent as you are lead to believe."
"What do you mean?!" Sonic was shouting now.
"Calm down Sonic. Calm down and let me explain myself! He was given to me to do as I pleased when he was just a child. He was donated to science. Him and his brother. X1 was weak, and didn't last more than a few weeks even under intensive care. But X2 was much stronger. He contained much potential. We had already given him a mutatious gene, which gave him his twin tails and ability of flight. So we exposed him to radiation and the DNA mix we gave you during the procedure. The results were fantastic! Whereas you are strong and bulky during the transformation, he was lean and lithe. We used him to save lives. For example, X2 would enter a burning building and rescue survivors. He also would swim to a shipwreck and rescue people. He could pull lifeboats and twenty people could fit on his back. He could swim for days in that condition. X2 seemed so perfect it was breathtaking. But then he started to show signs of break down and mental wear. He would have extreme seizures and began to turn on the scientists who raised him. Including me." Dr. Greenbrooke lifted his sleeve to show an extremely skinny arm covered in various scars. All the muscle was gone. "The project was annihilated. We had to force the DNA mix out of his body. This procedure almost killed him. We had to use an AED on him four times during it. We put X2 in an tube next to his brother's. He was given oxygen through a tube that went down his throat as we studied his vital signs and brain waves. We wanted to keep him alive in case we could figure out a way to recreate 'Survivor' as we called it. But one day he broke out, using his marvelous tails to escape." The doctor looked at Sonic, expecting a reaction. But Sonic didn't feel anything. He felt numb inside. Tails. His adopted little bro. This X2 could not be the same. It couldn't. Tails was so innocent, so vulnerable.
"Now you Sonic. I am quite interested in how your story will unfold." Greenbrooke looked at his watch. "And look at that- the sun has almost set."