Chaos Corrupts Absolutely

Chapter 2

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[Time - 11:45 A.M.)

[Date - June 29th, 23XX)

(Location - The Sapphire Sea, Dr. Robotnik's Egg Carrier)

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Sonic's eyes slowly opened, his vision hazy and unfocused. It took him a bit to do anything other than stare straight ahead. As reality came back to him, he started looking around, realizing that he didn't know where he was at. Upon that realization, his head jerked up to see a sterile white metal room with medical equipment scattered around making beeping sounds. The hedgehog's immediate reaction was to try to jump up from the bed he was laying on. When he tried, he found his movements were completely restricted by thick leather straps on his legs as well as his arms, keeping him laid out in what appeared to be a hospital bed. "W-What is this!?" He said aloud with a voice that was raspy from not being recently used. "Where am I!?"

Further examining his surroundings, he took note of the IV tubes going into the backside of his elbow via a tapped-on cannula. A bag of fluid hung on a rack above him. The typical hospital curtain was off to the right, obscuring his view of the rest of the room. "HEY!?!" Struggling against the restraints, he found that the movements caused him to feel pain in his chest, head and arm. Nonetheless, he began shouting, planning to get the attention of whoever it was that put him here.

Thankfully, there wasn't a need to do much else as before he could break free, he heard a doorway slide open with an accompanying whooshing sound. "Hello? Is someone there?" Sonic asked while keeping his neck bent upward so he could look around. He could hear what was clearly wheels squeaking, indicating somebody or something was coming toward him. "Who are you? Where am I?" Sonic continued demanding answers as the sound grew closer. "Please, I can't remember what happened! I'm in so much pain!"

Eventually, a shadow grew larger on the hospital curtain, proving that there was indeed a presence on the other side. The hedgehog's heartbeat increased alongside a deluge of thoughts about being unable to prevent himself from getting harmed by the unknown individual. Soon, the curtain began to move as it was pushed aside, unveiling the person to actually be a robot. It was a medical robot shaped like a box on wheels, with a rectangular monitor for a face, one thin hydraulic arm to manipulate the environment and another with a series of different attachments built-into it. Right from the get-go, he understood it to be a creation of Dr. Robotnik, for the Eggman logo on the screen was a dead giveaway.

"You. are. awake." The robot spoke to him in a mechanized monotone. "This. is. good... I. shall. notify. Dr. Robotnik. of. this. development." Following that, the Eggman Empire logo on the robot's monitor changed to that of an emoji representing an old rotary phone. Noise coming from it resembled a retro dial-up modem. Afterward, the original emblem re-appeared on the screen. It wheeled closer to him and extended out its tool-filled hydraulic arm.

"LET ME GO!!!" Sonic hollered, still fearing for his life while fighting his restraints. "I SWEAR TO GOD, IF EGGMAN DID THIS TO ME, I'M GOING TO KILL HIM!!!"

In response to Sonic's threats of violence in addition to thrashing about on the bed, trying to break the restraints, the medical robot cycled through its options before settling on extending a syringe. "Please. Relax..." It said in that same flat voice. "Your. pulse. has. increased... This. is. bad. for. your. current. condition." Using a tube inside of its arm that was connected to an internal reservoir, the syringe filled up on its own with a blue fluid. "I. must. administer. to. you. a. mild. sedative. and. a. pain. reliever."

Sonic kicked his feet as fast as he could, repeatedly slamming them against the mattress of the hospital bed. The entire bed rocked side-to-side as he tried to free himself. His hands grabbed at the bed frame before scratching at the leather straps holding him back. Nonetheless, he couldn't get a decent enough grip to remove the restraints. He found himself unable to do anything other than flail about while watching the robot go up to the IV bag hanging above the hedgehog's head to inject it. "The hell you will!! STOP!!! STOP!!! I DON'T WANT WHATEVER IT IS THAT YOU'RE GIVING ME!!! STOP IT!!! TAKE THAT NEEDLE OUT!!!"