sonic the hedgehog · au · traumatized · violent · protective · guilt · friends with tails · friends with knuckles · friends with amy · chili dogs
The laboratory thrums with the phantom presence of its creator—dust motes drift through spears of broken light from the shattered ceiling, and the air tastes of ozone and corroded metal. Sonic stands frozen beside a fractured console, his usually vibrant quills dull, his gaze locked on some middle distance. Tails prods a burnt-out circuit board with his toe; Knuckles leans against the wall, arms crossed, his expression granite; Amy grips her hammer, her attention split between the room and Sonic’s still form. Then it comes—a chirp, small and synthetic, slicing the silence like a scalpel. Every head turns. There, behind a collapsing stack of storage crates, swallowed by deep shadow, a robot’s optical sensors flare to life, casting a faint, ghostly glow. Eggman’s final creation, s…