To poison a dark

Nine

-few days later-

Quickly they hurried through the town, they had just figured out where Sonic might be and they needed to hurry, they were determined to get him back and nothing was going to stand in their way.

Going as fast as they could they soon made it to their destination and immediately came to a stop at an abandoned apartment building that looked rather iffy, after sharing a few confused glances they went in and searched every room all the way up to the top floor.

"Father quick!" Shadow called.

Mephiles quickly went to where Shadow was and froze at seeing Sonic on his hands and knees his head hung low as he panted but his breathing was coming out in short ragged breaths, his whole body was trembling and he was definitely in poor shape not to mention he had shadowy chains around his wrists legs neck and middle and those chains appeared to be giving off a strange pulse.

"Sonic.." Mephiles mumbled, kneeling in front of him and reaching out a hand to Sonic.

He put his hand under Sonic's chin and gently lifted it up but Sonic's eyes were closed and his face appeared to be twitching like he was having a nightmare.

"What do we do?" Scourge asked, staring at Sonic.

"Break him free." Mephiles answered, lowering his hand away from Sonic's chin.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you." Someone said from behind.

The four quickly turned to see Darkspine standing on the other side of the room.

"What have you done to him?" Shadow demanded.

"Don't worry he wasn't harmed, yet." Darkspine smirked.

"Release him." Mephiles ordered.

"I would but oh wait no I wouldn't." Darkspine taunted. "It is the perfect plan and we will not allow you to interfere."

"What do you even want with him?" Umbra questioned, trying to get him to spill it.

"Revenge," Fleetway answered, stepping into the room. "We want our revenge and this little monster is the key to that revenge."

"We won't let you do anything else to him." Shadow snarled.

"Alright then break him free, see what we care." Fleetway said, crossing his arms over his chest.

"Wait," Shadow put a hand on Mephiles' arm. "What if it's a trap? It could kill him for all we know."

"He has a point." Umbra agreed.

"Fine, don't free him. What is it to us if he suffers these nightmares or not?" Darkspine shrugged.

"Though since we tortured him for this long I guess we can give him up, I mean we already had our fun." Fleetway waved off.

Suddenly they heard a gasp and they quickly looked to see Sonic laying on the floor in a heap gasping for air.

"Sonic." they gasped in shock.

The blue hedgehog tensed at that and he slowly got back up his head hung low as he stood up, ears pinned back he slowly lifted his head but they all froze seeing the emotionless and blank expression Sonic wore on his face, he was completely out of it.

"What is wrong with him?" Umbra asked, staring at Sonic who wasn't really responding.

"Sonic." Fleetway called.

Sonic's ears twitched forward and he marched over to Fleetway who smiled evilly. "Yes master." Sonic looked down in respect.

"What have you done?" Mephiles demanded angrily.