Madness (Sonic the Hedgehog AU)

Chapter 3: Rest Refusal

So I noticed some things that weren't accurate in my last chapter TuT I wasn't going to change it though because I will learn!! :D
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★ Anyways another chapter!!! Yay!! Sorry for the wait, motivation disappeared

- ‎Animals would be referred to as 'mobini(s)' -

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SMALL TW: MENTIONED CANNIBALISM.
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Sonic stepped to the edge of a cliff as he looked down.

There was a forest below, trees that stood tall with dark leaves, bushes that provided the little mobinis that scurried around some deserved shelter. His eyes drifted up at the trees that were far across the hills, the line where the sky met the Earth's foliage.

If he were to fall, he would survive. He fell from space into the ground multiple times before and lived. He had nothing to worry about. The most injured he got from falling was a couple of scratches across his body. He would just get a nosebleed from landing face-first.

The hedgehog sat down at the edge with a sigh. He had the thought of checking Eggy's base again but what was there to look at? Some hidden room that might be there? Would it even be worth checking again after the past times where he found nothing else?

Sonic swung his legs over the edge and kicked them back and forth in the air, his elbows on his knees and his chin rested on his gloved palms.

The warm, golden rays of the descending star that the Earth orbited hit one side of his body. The sky was a dark purple that faded into orange near that blinding, bright orb while being clear of any clouds.

Silver mentioned that there were giant insects in the future, and the butterfly Tails had been using for research had been getting bigger.. and Tails said that the bug had some sort of virus? Was that what Silver was talking about?

Sonic should be doing something to help. He shouldn't just sit there, thinking about the events that had happened in the past week. Maybe Eggman did have something to do with it. Maybe he should go back to the old man's base and triple check for anything suspicious.

Sonic had gotten a notification on his communicator - which was under his left glove - that caused him to jolt in surprise. Small rocks crumbled out of place and fell to the ground below upon him swiftly placing both hands on the ground, the edge, between his legs, to avoid falling off.

He shifted backwards, to ground that wasn't a danger hazard so he wouldn't be coming home all dirty, all wounded up, and having to go take a shower. He then checked what the notification was. It was a message from Tails.

"Sonic, I had decided to put the butterflies in the same enclosure to see what would happen, because of the thing infecting the butterfly. I was just curious.

"I left them be for about the whole day. I came back an hour ago to check up on them and saw the other one (the one that isn't weird,) missing! Turns out, the infected one ate the other.

"From the research I have done, these species aren't cannibals. I don't know what had caused them to do this!! Do you think that it's because of the virus??"

Sonic stared at the message for a few moments as he processed what he had just read. Some butterflies ate each other? That was strange, but with something that isn't cannibalistic.. Suddenly Sonic didn't want Tails to be near that insect.

"Maybe but I want you to be more careful around that thing," Was what Sonic had typed out and sent to Tails.

Sonic twisted the communicator towards his hand and under the cuffs of his gloves.