Soul Eater but it's Sonic

Chapter 36

Sonic woke up in a sealed room alongside Silver, Blaze, Tails, and Knuckles. The five of them each had a wheeled hospital bed. The room was composed of smooth, featureless concrete. One long mirror ran across the wall opposite each of the beds. Their injuries had been tended to with no serious injuries.

Being the last one awake, Sonic felt resistance when he tried getting up. Thick leather straps bound his wrists on the handrails of his bed.

"What the?" The blue hedgehog tried pulling his arms up, but the restraints held firm. He saw Tails and Knuckles sitting on their respective beds next to him. They were seated on the ends turned toward each other. If they had been speaking, their conversation had long since concluded. "Guys! Little help?"

Tails's eyes widened. "Sonic? Why are you restrained?"

"Good question!"

Tails and Knuckles undid the restraints. Sonic rubbed his wrists while scanning the room.

"What is this?" A surge of fear hit him. "Where's Shadow?"

"No idea," Knuckles replied.

Silver and Blaze, having only woken up a minute or two before Sonic, walked over and joined the group. Sonic noticed everyone else was wearing their clothes from yesterday, while he was the only one in a medical gown. At the end of his bed were his shoes alongside black pants and a white collared shirt. A black tie was included instead of the kind of long cloak that Sonic usually wore. He'd been given the standard uniform of a meister of his rank. He tossed aside the black tie, took off the gown and got dressed.

"Are we in quarantine?" Silver asked.

"Could be. This room is blocking my soul perception. I can't see who's out there," Tails gestured toward the door.

"No, but I imagine they can see us," Blaze peered at the mirror and slowly paced along the reflective surface. "Whoever's out there watching, tell Lord Death we're all awake now,"

There was no spoken reply or feedback of any kind. However, Eggman did enter the room only a few minutes later, so the others felt confident in Blaze's assessment.

"You're all awake," Eggman didn't look pleasant. "I would like to thank you all for your efforts in defending the DWMA from a sudden invasion,"

"Why are we being held outside of standard medical procedure?" Tails asked.

"Bringing you here was just an extra precaution based on your close exposure to the kishin's chaos wavelength,"

"Where's Shadow?" Sonic demanded.

"He was given his own room,"

"Where?" Sonic moved to leave the room. Eggman held out his hand.

"You can't see him now,"

Sonic looked at Eggman with stifled hatred. "Why not?"

"You'll remain in this room until information regarding yesterday's emergency mission is made clear," Eggman spoke with subdued anger of his own.

Blaze stepped forward. "Then let's start with the kishin. Why does he resemble you?"

"Did he..." Eggman examined the faces of each person in front of him. "...say anything when you saw him?"

"Shadow's weapon form caught his attention. Aside from that he was focused on escaping," Blaze replied

"I see," Eggman cleared his throat. "As you all know, the Robotnik family has overseen the DWMA for generations. He looks like me because he's a member of my family. One that became corrupt. He was powerful and intelligent but he was also distrusting of those around him,"