#raggh sonic..

[dive2themellow]

Sonic felt a wash of relief at Henrietta's agreement to help, listening raptly--or as raptly as Sonic could, foot eternally tapping. But his eyes didn't stray from Jaeger at all, not even for a second. It was obvious the human had his whole attention. "Gotcha," the hedgehog affirmed when she laid down her conditions; apart from his whole let others do as they please attitude, Sonic wasn't going to beg on GUN's behalf, not in a million years. As far as he was concerned, they could deal with whatever they had coming to them. Of course, Sonic was also not aware this would impact Rouge--or people like Rouge. "Like I said, we'll take anythin' you're willing to give...so...thanks."

He did have a million questions for Henrietta. How could he not? Given permission to ask, Sonic's mind was a blur moving about as fast as his feet, metaphorical wind whipping heavily in his face. He didn't know where to begin. Sonic frowned tightly. "Yeah, I do...I won't lie, every part of me wants to ask about what he was like before everything, push for stories about Ivo-before-Eggman, how you guys met, if there's a baby-Ivo running around, and all that. But also then I think...does it really matter? I don't believe in letting people's pasts dictate their futures, and right now all I know for sure about Eggman and what he's doing is that I gotta stop him." His expression was serious, guided, resolute. "I guess when it comes down to it, the only thing I really gotta know is: are you alright? With how things turned out, I mean."

His expression lightened like morning light filtering across a grassy plain. "...And I figure the other stories--they'll come up, if and when you ever wanna talk about them. But I don't need em to do my thing."

【🦾】 — THE former wife of Robotnik simply sat and listened, one leg crossed over the other, as she occasionally sipped from her teacup. Her expression as Sonic regaled her with what all had happened almost didn't change at all, save for the occasional wrinkled nose, or eye twitch, or frown deepening, then lightening to a more neutral frown. She frowned a lot.

———-> WHEN he was done, she simply let out a quiet huff through her nostrils.

———-> ❝PROJECT Nano vas intended to artificially replicate Shadow's abilities, und zhat's exactly vhat he managed to do. Zhe only reason vhy GUN was unsuccessful und zheir nanites are not as effective ist because Ivo intentionally sabotaged zhem vhen he found out about his grandfather und zhe ARK incident.❞

———-> ❝ZHIS friend of yours, zhis... Yoo-nay? I could take a look at him if he vants, he shounds innocent in all of zhis. I make no promises of being able to remove zhe nanomachines, but neurosurgery is a side specialty of meine. I could shee about disabling the mind control chip.❞ She paused for a moment, then looked up at Sonic again, looking a lot more... terse than usual.

———-> ❝BUT as for vhatever Ivo plans on doing to GUN's soldiers who have zhe nanomachines within zhem? I'm not going to help you zhere. Zhey all deserve vhatever ist coming to zhem.❞

———-> HENRIETTA waited for a moment, and then added. ❝Now zhen... do you haff any questions for me? Certainly you must, considering... you know.❞