Chapter 4 - Change

Amanda awoke about an hour later with a blinding pain in her forehead. The first thing she noticed was that she was in a well light room. Then, as she regained consciousness, she could make out a glass capsule, about six or so feet high keeping her contained. And she could make out a staircase winding up to the upper levels. Amanda tried to think, but her head was in to much pain. She hardly even noticed the yells in the next room. But it was so hard for her to concentrate over her throbbing forehead. “Why am I even …?” She couldn’t finish the sentence, for every word she spoke hurt even more. So she slumped against the glass wall and pondered the robot’s motives.………………………………..................................................................... “So, you three made a bet?” The three robots had confronted the doctor with their agreement, and metal shadow demanded his reward. He stepped forward and explained the bet to him. “Yes, we made a bet that whoever captures two humans’ first gets the upgrade you were working on. Yes, we know about the upgrade,” He said after the doctor gave him a look of suspicion. “We overheard Robo Tails talking about it. And since the competitive factor made the capture even quicker it would be within you’re best interest to see to the demands of the winner, me.” Dr. Eggman scratched his head as he explained to them. “Well you got here too late; Robo Tails arrived before you did and persuaded me into giving him the upgrade.” “What?!” the three robots said simultaneously “That’s right!” Said a familiar yet sinister voice from the hallway. Coming from the poorly lit corridor walked…Sonic the hedgehog. The three robots stood there, stunned. They all were thinking the same thing, what is Sonic doing here? Is he working for the Dr now? How did HE get in here?” Sonic seemed to read the silence. “Confused? Well this should clear things up a bit.” He put his hand on his wrist and tapped it a few times. A light a surrounded him, and in a few seconds Robo Tails stood gloatingly where sonic once was. “Like the new upgrade? I can change my appearance into that of anyone I’ve seen.” The three robots were livid. But they were able so suppress there anger enough for them to not shoot him on the spot. Something almost definable as a curse word escaped from Robo Knux’s mouth. Robo Tails took this as another moment to gloat. “Well, those humans aren’t going to test themselves, are they? You three better get on it now. Of course, All I have to do is push a button. I hope you three don’t mess anything up.” “The three stormed off, barely able to contain there fury. After a few minutes and well out of the doctors hearing, all three of them broke into a fit of swearing. ………………………………............................................................... “AAAAAAAAAARRG!” Amanda was woken up with a start. Something bad was happening somewhere close, she could feel it. Someone in the next room was yelling, and something mechanical was laughing. Then there was silence. Amanda had almost fallen asleep when the yelling voice came back. “WHAT DID YOU DO? TELL ME WHAT YOU DID TO ME!?!” “Get him out of here and get the last one.” “ANSWER ME!!!” Amanda never heard an answer, but she could vaguely recognize the voice. It hurt her to have to listen to him, emotionally and physically. Her head still hurt. The sound of wheels came ringing though the hallway, accompanied by heavy metal footsteps. The robots were coming back. She closed her eyes and slumped over, pretending to still be unconscious. It was pushing something that sounded like a large grocery cart. Something was beating on the glass, and then stopped. Whatever was pushing the cart was fooled by Amanda’s trick. “Pathetic human, unable to recuperate after over an hour.” The footsteps faded, but Amanda stayed still, just to make sure. “He’s gone, you know. You can stop pretending.” Amanda sat up, startled. She turned around to look at whoever had addressed her, and instantly turned around. “…Do I look that bad?” She turned around and looked at him. There, sitting in a glass capsule like herself, was a miserable orange hedgehog. It sat there, his back facing her, seemingly oblivious to all goings on. “Umm, how did you know I was faking it?” “I could hear you moving. You aren’t the quietest person in the room.” She sat there, amazed at what she was seeing. He had four long spines at the back of his head and was wearing familiar clothes…Then she realized something, something horrible. “Uh, what’s you’re name?” “………Danny” “Oh, my god…are you really?” “Why do you-?” He turned around. His face was quite handsome now, for a hedgehog at least. But Amanda was focused on his brilliant blue eyes, witch stood out magnificently against his bright orange fur. He seemed to only just realize who he was talking to. “Oh my god Amanda, it was horrible in there. There were robots, and a crazy fat guy, and then that red guy shoved me into this big capsule thing, and the smoke, and the others…and…and…” He started to sob. “And you’re next!” Amana was worried, but his last words had sent her into panic. She tried to remain calm and calm him down. It was awful to see her oldest friend crying like this, and even more awful to see what had happened to him. She tried to get some information out of him, while trying not to break out into tears. “What, what happened to the others?” He was wide eyed with panic now, the fur around his eyes thoroughly soaked. He couldn’t bear to look at her. He whispered to the floor. “Same thing…I think, I was only able to see Ethan getting rolled out of the room by some blue robot, Screaming and shaking, inhuman…” Danny finally broke down, he turned around and resumed sobbing, shaking all over. Amanda knew she wouldn’t be able to get anything else out of him. The only thing stopping her from holding him was three feet and two glass walls. In fact, the only reason they were even talking to each other was for the fact that there were a bunch of small air holes at the top. “Danny I…I’m so sorry…I-” “Aha, she’s awake.” The red robot was back. Now Amanda was scared. Danny turned around again when he heard the voice and, being the loaded pistol he is, he started yelling again. “THERE YOU ARE, YOU COWARD! WHY WONT YOU ANSWER ME? ARE YOU AFRAID OF ME? WHAT ARE DOING WITH US?!” The robot was obviously on a bad mood. Amanda could tell that something bad was going to happen soon. The robot stopped, faced the capsule with Danny in it, and decided to yell back. “SILENCE YOU INSIGNIFICANT THING! HOW COULD I , IN MY GREAT SUPIRIORTITY, BE AFRAID OV YOU? YOU WEAK, PATHETIC PIECE IF MUTATED SCUM! DON’T YOU DARE ADRESS ME!” “DON’T TALK TO HIM THAT WAY!” Amanda had spoken out. The robot turned his focus toward her, his green glowing eves full of rage. Her blood was pumping in her ears, making her head hurt worse. He strode over silently, as if the final straw had broken. He stopped in between the two capsule, facing Amanda with ever growing fury. “How dare you, a feeble little human, address me in that tone. You are more pathetic than you’re little friend over there. If I could have my way, you wouldn’t have as many limbs as you are accustomed to…and I will eventually have may way.” And to finish it off, he swiftly banged Danny’s capsule with his gigantic fist. Then he grabbed the handles on the other side of Amanda’s capsule and pushed it into the other room. “Amanda!…” Danny called in despair, but it was too late. The robot had already wheeled her into the next room. He sat down and tried to pull himself together. It was hard to get comfortable with his new spines. He tried to imagine what she would be like when she came out. Then Danny remembered something. He forgot to tell her about the yellow robot.………………………………......................................................................... Down the hallway they went, and all Amanda could see was darkness. She didn’t dare turn around and look at the robot. She closed her eyes and wished desperately for this to be over. Maybe it’s just a dream, she thought. Maybe if I close my eyes for long enough it will all go away. She tried that, tried becoming oblivious to all of her surroundings. She almost was able to slip into a sleep-like state, but she was thrown into a bigger capsule, breaking her heard earned concentration. The room was small, circular, with high ceilings and wires everywhere. A large machine that looked like a demonic boiler stood in the back of the room. Thick pipes and hoses would from the top and connected to the top of the capsule she was in now. There were two tubes on the top. One had something glowing inside it, the other held purple gasses that swirled inside venomously. ON the other side of the room was a control booth with a set of controls inside. The capsule was in the middle of the room, so she could see in every direction. Then, two figures walked into the control booth. One was a tall, rather chubby old man with a red jacket and a large mustache. She expected the red robot to be the other, but instead there was a yellow robot. It’s glowing blue eyes standing out in the darkness of the room. ………………………………......................................................................... “Well, this is the last one” muttered the doctor. It was late, and ever since he had discovered coffee he had depended on it to stay awake. Robo tails Like the machine, how the humans could not be unconscious during the process. He liked to watch their confused, horrified faces as best he could through the smoke. Unfortunately, none of the first five tests showed any signs of loyalty to the doctor. He decided to try to infuse the process with his tainted emerald. A long time back Metal sonic tried to alter a chaos emerald’s power to become ten times more powerful. He ended up with a corrupted duplicate emerald that could be used for very little and shorted out often. The tainted emerald was black, and yet had a sickly green glow. Dr. Eggman had put it in the tube to see if it would make a difference. “Robo Tails, activate the Mobitizer.” Robo Tails looked at him in a funny way. “Mobitizer huh, is that what you’re calling it now?” “Why yes” Said Eggman looking proud. “I thought it sounded rather catchy.” Robo Tails shrugged. “Well it is you’re machine. Activating the…” He chuckled a little bit, “Mobitizer” And as Amanda watched in horror, he pushed a big yellow button. The gears on the Mobitizer started to turn, pumping the purple gasses into the tube containing the tainted emerald. As soon as it contacted the glowing aura, the gasses turned a smokey black color. Then the gas went down into the pipes where the hoses were connected. Amanda could tell that those gasses were bad. They were pumped into the hoses, and from there into the capsule. Amanda tried to hold her breath as the gasses surrounded her. But as her lungs started to implode she forced herself to take a breath. As soon as she opened her mouth, let alone inhale, her body went numb. She couldn’t feel anything on her. Then she couldn’t see anything, her anything, she couldn’t even smell anything. It was as if her ears, eyes, and nose were gone. Then here senses returned, but in a different way. She still couldn’t see anything except the black gas, but when the gas had first arrived, it had no smell. Now it smelled like burning rubber and sewage. And she could hear different things. She hadn’t really been able to hear anything over the machine’s constant rumbling. Now Amanda could hear everything. The gears turning within the machine, the laughter of the robot, the metal footsteps of another robot, even yells coming from the other room. Then she remembered what happened to Danny. Amanda was to panicked to figure it out before, but know she realized. Whatever they did to Danny, turn him into a hedgehog or something, they jut did to her. She was to horror stricken to look at herself, even though she could feel the fur on her arms.                       

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