Second Chance

Chapter 10

(Metal Sonic's POV)

"What about Metal?" Sonic asked Tails.

I had to admit, I wasn't expecting Tails to come over after Sonic asked him to find out how I turned organic the other day, especially when Tails said that it would take a few weeks.

"What in Chaos' name are you going on about?" I questioned Tails.

"I'll show you." Tails replied, taking out a laptop from his satchel.

Tails walked over and placed the laptop on the coffee table, opened it up, and started typing in his password. Sonic stood beside me, both of us giving each other confused looks before we glanced back at the screen of Tails' laptop. On the screen appeared a skeletal structure of me with readings on the top right corner in red while the other ones on the bottom left corner were in silver.

"When I ran some tests on Metal's DNA, I couldn't solve the mystery of how he became a Mobian, but what I did find out is that he's not fully organic." Tails told us.

"Wait, so you mean to say that a part of him is still robotic?" Sonic asked.

"Not exactly." Tails replied. "See the readings in silver?" He asked, pointing at where they appeared on the screen.

"Yeah," I replied to him.

"When I did some studying on them, I found out that there are silver tiny nanobots that partly take over the bloodstream, which means that when Sonic turned you organic, they retreated inside your body to take refuge in since they were outside your body during the time that you were still a robot." Tails told me.

"So you're saying that blast from Sonic should have killed me, but those nanobots saved my life?" I asked.

"Yep, and when they spread more throughout your body, you could gain the ability to shapeshift between your organic form and traditional robotic one." Tails confirmed.

After hearing that, I couldn't help but feel like the air in my throat got too thick to breathe, and my heart started pounding against my chest. If I have a possibility of becoming my robotic self, wouldn't that also mean Eggman would be able to hack my system and make me go back to the way I was before I turned into a Mobian? Anxiety and fear began to overwhelm me as I started to feel lightheaded and I sat down on the couch, earning Sonic and Tails to look at me in concern.

"Metal, are you okay there bud?" Sonic asked me.

I couldn't find it in myself to respond. Instead, I just sat down on the couch and could feel my head getting extreme heat in it at just the thought of being a robot that tried to kill Sonic again.

"Maybe I should go." Tails said before he shut down his laptop and closed it up.

"Was that all there was to it?" Sonic asked him.

"Yes, but I'm pretty sure that there are a few side effects to the whole transformation and nanobots thing." Tails replied.

"Okay, see you later," Sonic replied.

"Bye." Tails said before leaving the house.

The second Tails was gone, I was beginning to get that migraine again, and Sonic sat next to me.

"Are you okay?" Sonic asked me.

"I don't know..." I replied, all of my emotions twisting themselves into a knot. "I guess having a possible ability to turn robotic is just what I wasn't expecting," I said, my voice lowered than I intended it to be.

"You're freaked out about that, aren't you?" Sonic asked.

"I tried to kill you multiple times when I was still a robot, and I don't know if..." I ended up trailing off almost like something was preventing me to speak.