Cut You A Piece

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Agent Stone walked into the laboratory that Robotnik was known to always be in holding two lattes.

He was looking at the lattes happily as he entered saying," good morning doctor! I know you've been working hard and felt like you could use a latte."

He looked up to see a empty laboratory lights off signiling that the doctor wasn't there. It was strange to say the least so Stone did the one thing he knew how to do.

" Doctor?" He called out getting no response.

He walked deeper into the laboratory calling out the word again only for no response once more. At that moment, he dropped his lattes and rushed out of the room looking for any of his higher ups to ask about the whereabouts of his doctor.

He was trailing behind one of his higher ups asking about the doctor.

" Sir please!" Stone had said stern." We should at least send out a search party or something to find the doctor! Why do you insist to ignore the situation at ha-"

he was interrupted by the superior turning his head to Stone and saying in a stern tone," The government has all agreed that these past few days events are to never be spoken of again. That includes that man who disappeared. Besides, his genius was an excuse of insanity."

The supervisor turned fully around to face Stone now.

" And as your higher up, I order you to never speak of those events to anyone. We must keep these events from the public and move on from the incident. Is that understood Agent Stone?"

Stone held himself back from asking and insisting to look for the doctor and simply said," yes sir."

The higher up nodded and then said," I want you to look through that van of his and make sure that it is ready to be secured up in a storage facility. Once you do that, report to me and I shall finish up sweeping this mess under the rug."

Stone nodded and held himself high as he said," yes,sir."

Stone walked back to the tech savvy van and his thoughts consumed his mind. Why was no one acknowledging the doctor?? Why did no one care of his disappearance? Despite the constant questioning of it in his mind, he knew why no one cared. It was because the doctor had always thought of humans as inferior and was always an ass to everyone.

Still, Stone felt they could've done something, anything. But they didn't. Before long, Stone was at the van. The place full of memories of the two good or bad. Despite the constant abuse from the doctor, Stone knew the man had a soft side when it came to Stone. It was a tough relationship to explain to people so he never acknowledged it to anyone.

He hesitantly entered the place seeing how dark and silent it was. As Stone ventured through the lab and doing as instructed, his mind couldn't help but to replay some pleasant memories to him. Stone felt a bittersweet happiness to all the memories as he checked the place for the last time.

He was soon almost done. All he had left was the doctors 'office' or lab, either or. His hand went to open the door to the lab but stopping short. Stone was confused by the sudden defiance in his body to open the door. That's when he realized that his hand was shaking a bit. Stone felt his emotions rising in him but quickly suppressed it like he had taught himself to.

He swiftly opened the door and examined the room. As he examined it, visions and sounds of memories of the doctor in the room flooded Stones mind. How the doctor would dance in this room to music through his headphones. How intent he was when he was building robots. How intent he was when he was observing something.

Stone loved it all.

He loved the passion the doctor had for his craft which was considerably rare nowadays. His eyes then locked on an item on a counter within the room. It was a pair of the doctors shades. The new ones he had ordered for the doctor after the incident that damaged the last one. Stone went over to it and picked it up, memories of the doctor with them flooding his mind. Without a second thought, he put them on before leaving the room and addressing his higher up that the van was clear for storage. With that, the van was never to be seen again.

Stone had been going through different jobs throughout the different branches of government and at the moment, his mental health was not well. Stone had begin to eat less, and less always saying that he just wasn't hungry. He slept less and less due to his thoughts constantly troubling him and all that could be seen in his work. He became a bit slow in his work and even forgot simple protocols.

The reason for all of this? His feeling of the missing doctor. Everyone acted as if life was fine, but for Stone it felt as though the world had crashed around him. No one motivated him like the doctor did. The way he would always have the highest of expectations for Stone and when he met them recieved a compliment from the doctor.

" Agent Stone!" Said the higher up before him.

Stone snapped out of his thoughts and looked at the higher up straightening himself up.

" That's the fourth time today that you've drifted off Stone." The higher up said upset.

" Sorry, sir." Stone replied hiding his emotions once more.

The higher up sighed and said," Stone, the other higher ups and I believe that you need to be on leave for a while."

This made Stone's heart stop.

" It's just that, you've been drifting off lately and many say that you barely take any breaks."

Stone began to argue the higher ups arguement but was stopped buy the higher up saying," it has already been decided. Starting now you are to go home and clear your mind until you are prepared to come back with a clear mind and ability to work efficiently."

With that Stone simply nodded and said," yes, sir."

With that he left and headed back to his home.

Once home, he had no idea what to do. The silence began to eat away at him as his thought began to fill his mind. Don't do anything. What's the point? He's not here anymore. No one beats him. He decided to take of his suit jacket and shoes and went to his room. There he just flopped into his bed feeling a bit numb. As he laid there, his thoughts began to continue to swirl ending with Stone falling asleep.

Stone was back in the laboratory and he was holding two lattes as he entered the doctors office.

" Sir I have a latte for you. Just the way you like it!" The agent said with a smile.

The doctor did not respond instead he simply stood up and looked at Stone with a death glare. It was something Stone never expected to see from the doctor.

" Agent Stone, unfortunately it seems like your usefulness has run out." The doctor began to say coldly." Since I have no more use for you , I'm firing you. And this is affective immediately."

Stone dropped the lattes and felt fear grip him as the doctor moved closer to him.

" Wa-wait, si-sir." Stone said weakly surprised by the doctors words.

" You heard me Stone." The doctor said coldly grabbing the agents uniform roughly and pushing him to the lab door." I never want to see your disgraceful face again."

The words causing Stone to tear up a bit. This was all happening to fast for Stones liking.

" You're dismissed forever." The doctor said, throwing Stone out the lab door only for him to end up falling into an abyss.

Stone shot up from his sleep in a panic. He looked at his surroundings to see that he was still in his bed from passing out earlier. His breathing was heavy and he was sweating. Stone felt the tears urging to be released. The tears he had been holding in for so long.

Stone tried to control his emotions. He tried and he tried but to no avail. The tears spilled out uncontrollably. He huddled his legs to his chest and his head in his arms trying to make himself small and disappear from the world around him.