Sonic slowly awoke. Sonic truly hoped that what he had dreamed about being turned into a baby, but quickly dashed those hoped as soon as he realized that there was a pacifier in his mouth. Sonic quickly sat up and pulled it out of his mouth and places it down next him. He quickly noticed that he was sitting in, what was more then likely, a crib. Sonic quickly crawled over to the bars of the crib and hoisted himself into a standing position getting his first real look of the room.

To the little hedgehog the room was huge, but to any full grown person it was about 15 feet long and 12 feet wide, with light blue walls and a beige carpet. The crib was on the shorter wall that was opposite the door. Right up against the right wall Sonic could see a table that, after a moment, he realized was more then likely a changing table. positioned against the left wall was a big playpen that was filled with baby toys. A little past the playpen was a large doorway that seamed to lead into a kitchen. In the rightmost corner of the room sat a rocking chair and in that chair sat Sonic's metal counterpart staring at the little hedgehog with cold, metallic, eyes.

Then within a second metal was gone. 'where did he go?' Sonic wondered as he looked around the room for him.

Just then Sonic could hear the slamming of doors coming from the kitchen area. 'what is he doing in there?' Sonic asked himself before he heard a growling coming from his stomach. 'man. Why didn't I eat before I left.'

then, in a second, metal appeared in front of Sonic scaring the little hedgehog so bad that he let go of the bars and fell back onto his tail. Metal them picked up the little hedgehog and carried him over to the rocking chair. As soon as metal sat down he placed Sonic in his lap and pulled something out from behind his back. A baby bottle.

Sonic's eyes widened. He was NOT drinking from that! He'd rather die!

Metal brought the bottle closet to the little hedgehogs mouth, but found that the little hedgehog was covering his mouth. Metal had known this would happen. "it's either this or a having a tub shoved down your throat." metal threatened.

Sonic thought for a moment 'ether way there going to get... what I'm guessing is milk into me. so the real choice is whether I want a tub shoved down my throat or not, since I already lost most of my dignity when that pacifier calmed me down and put me to sleep.'

with a heavy sigh Sonic uncovered his mouth and allowed metal to put the bottle into his mouth. As soon as Sonic finished the bottle metal did something Sonic hadn't been expecting. He placed Sonic over his shoulder and started patted him on the back. What surprised Sonic the most was that he, after a few pats, emitted a "small" burp.

Sonic blushed like mad as metal stud up and placed him into the play pen. Sonic looked around the play pen. He did not like anything in the play pen it was all things an infant would fall in love with, but he thought was primitive. There was that toy that you had to put the right shape in it's hole along with a bunch of building blocks, but mainly plushy.

He really did not want to play with anything, but he wanted to bite something. So Sonic grabbed one of the stuffed toys, a brown bear, and started to teeth on it's arm. Metal must have noticed Sonic chewing on the bear because the next thing he know the bear was pulled away and replaced with a teething ring. Sonic then started chewing the ring like it was his job.

Metal then returned to the rocking chair and re-zoomed watching his young counterpart. In truth metal didn't want anything to do with his young counterpart, but Eggman had threatened that if he didn't take care of him he would be deactivated until he was needed. He'd rather take care of the the annoying kit version of his rival then be deactivated.

At that moment metal started to hear a beeping sound. He looked over to Sonic and saw that he didn't even seam to hear it. 'Eggman.' metal thought before he allowed the transmission to come through. "what do you want?" metal said into the transmitter.

"ah metal, I was hoping you could come to the command room for a few minutes there is some maters we need to... discuss." Eggman said through the communicator.

metal thought for a moment as he took a look at his "charge". It was very unlikely that the young hedgehog would not even notice his departure. "alright. Be there in a minute." metal said before he ended the transmission and exiting the room, not closing the door all the way.

As soon as Sonic was shore that metal was gone he gave a smile and said "stupid robot."

Sonic had heard the beeping, but made it look like he hadn't heard it. He know that if he acted like he wasn't paying attention to anything, but the teething ring metal would be sloppy and not close the door all the way. Sonic quickly dropped the teething ring and crawled over to one of the walls on the playpen. With some effort Sonic pulled himself over the the play pen's wall and started to crawl away.

Once he was out the door Sonic started crawling corridor after corridor. After a few minutes Sonic realized he didn't even know where the exit was or any way to undo what Eggman did. "maybe I should just head back to that nursery." Sonic said to himself. He then turned around and realized that he didn't know the way back. "uh oh."

meanwhile metal and Eggman chatted. "no." metal replied to Eggman's suggestion.

"well he's the only person I can think of to watch him while you search for the emeralds, unless you'd rather me watch him." Eggman remarked with a conniving smile smile on his face.

Metal processed this for a moment. He knew that if he left his counterpart with Eggman by the time he returned he wound more then likely find him injured by some experiment the doctor had preformed on the kit. "why not get one of the thousands of robots you have to watch him?"

"none have the necessary knowledge, or appendages, to take care of a being as young as he is now." Eggman replied.

Metal knew for a fact that Eggman could easily fix problem number one by uploading all the necessary information into one of the meany robots in the base, witch is the only reason he knew how to take care of his young counterpart. The other reason was a liable excuse. None of the other robots in the base had hands just claws.

"fine." metal said at last "he can watch him when I have to go search for the emeralds."

just then metal felt something. Like in the old days metal was connected to Sonic, but because of how young the hedgehog is all he could feel was his emotions. And what he felt was confusion and uncertainty coming from the kit.

"i must go now. He has realized I am gone." metal says as he walks away.