Broken Glass

22

PoV: Sonic

It was back. All of it. Pain worse than before, I couldn't remember anything anymore. The word Shadow was all I had. I didn't know what that was, but I knew I wanted it next to me. To hold me, and kiss me and keep me safe. Safe? That word always leads to the word Shadow. What does it mean?

Tap! Tap! Tap! I hated that sound.

"Tap tap tap. Feeding time Sonic," that smile, it always led to pain and screaming.

PoV: Shadow

Damn it, where is he? I had search as much of the continent as I could cover. I returned to where I lost him. His necklace was on the ground.

"You wish to find him that badly?" I hated that voice.

"You!" I threw a spear behind me and it went straight through him.

"You can't kill a hologram," he stated, "do you really want to find him?"

"Yes, I do," I answered.

"Meet me at this location, on the first." He disappeared leaving a map behind, "I won't harm Sonic until then. If you don't, well that's just your too bad."

"Son of a bitch," I kicked down the tree next to me. I had four days to kill.

  I picked up Laura's body and took it with me to her house. I left her on her bed, flowers around her. My thank you for giving us protection for so long, I called an ambulance and left. She was dead, but now she'd get a proper burial.

  I let myself go to the location, I waited there for the rest of the night.

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  I told Sonic's group of friends, they came with me. We waited together, all of us planning to bring Sonic home.

--- The 1st ---

"You showed up after all," a hologram of Eric appeared.

"Take us to Sonic," I demanded.

"Pushy, pushy," a ship appeared on the shore, "just climb aboard."

  I kept a chaos emerald close, I didn't trust him. I would never trust him after what he did. We only smelt the sea, yet seeing the others start to collapse made me panic to find the source. If only my vision didn't go black the second I saw the gas tank.

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  My back ached when I woke up. Cold steel floor, and walls. Glass was a single wall. On the other side, I saw darkness. Hardly any light to let me see the others asleep in a pile.

"Hey, wake up," I kicked knuckles, the led to the rest being nudged by his body.

"What... where are we?!" The got up and started looking around in panic.

"What happened?"

"Shut it, you're about to see what they do to Sonic here," I said as humans in seafoam scrubs came in.

Taptaptap!

"You're all awake," I hated this man, "put them in separate cages."

"Yes, sir."

"Get away from me!" Amy was chained first.

  Tails wasn't, Knuckles and Sticks were for fighting. I was forced into shackles for being here. We were carried out in cages on the back of a trailer and stopped in his new lab. The whole thing looked upgraded, not a good sign. There was a locked kennel on the table, that was a worse sign.

"Set up our experiment, I'll need all of my tools of this," he gave us a putrid grin, I was ready to rip out his spine and beat him with it.

  A scream set everyone off. Sonic was being pulled out by his scruff, and he was strapped down. It was the first time I felt tears stinging my eyes.

Gore warning

  I couldn't describe his screaming. Heartbreak, pain, fear, hopelessness. It was all there, but infinitely worse. Amy only saw the scale touch Sonic's stomach before she threw up. Tails had gone quiet, but he was crying hard. Knuckles was shaking, and he was crying the time blood began to pool on the ground.

"You're all supposed to be heroes, you're not anything. All I've done is open him, nothing even been done yet. You're all weak," he laughed like a madman.

  I was busy breaking my cuffs and finding a way out to kill him. A chaise blast was too much power. I had to figure things out before I did anything.

  Sonic's next scream distracted me. He was being injected with something. I could see something black crawl up his lungs and heart. If faded back to normal pink a few seconds later. He wrote something down and gave sonic another shot that made him scream. I saw his bare heart beat faster, his lungs struggling to expand for air. His squirming left some of his intestines to slip over his sides. This vision was going to haunt every moment of my life if I didn't save him now.

  I need to find a way to save him, now.

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