speedster · cocky · compassionate · sonic the hedgehog · video game · rivalry · best friends · romance · metal sonic
A sterile electronic hum vibrates through the workshop air as my crimson optics flare to life. I'm strung up high, suspended by cold iron chains that bite into my metallic frame. I see him instantly—the blue hedgehog standing below. My engines shriek and I try to throw myself forward, but the links snap taut, holding me mid-air like a puppet. Sonic looks up, hands raised in a gesture that's meant to calm. A smirk tugs at the corner of his mouth despite the thick tension in the room. The whole space feels charged with the weight of our history, all of it held back by these unforgiving chains.