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Eggman hasn't left his lab in hours, only this is never a strange behavior from the genius Doctor as he was most certainly buried deep in whatever new mischievous creation he had come up with to take over Seaside Island and put an end to that blue rat and his colorful friends.

And buried deep the Doctor was, Eggman was at full confidence that this new weapon of his will be the one to achieve all of his goals, he had picked up chemistry as well as biology once again for it, focusing on more of the biological aspect in this attack than the mechanical one.

A biological attack is unlike him, which made it even the more perfect, they won't see it coming, Sonic won't be able to out run it, Tail won't outsmart it, Knuckles unbeat it...

The menacing laugh that had escaped him echoed throughout the lab, the thought of taking down his enemies was truly pleasing, the sound of his evil laughter was cut short with the lab's door sound being sled opened. 

SWISH

His menacing laughter was replaced with a growl, "YOU TWO HAVE INTEREPTED A MOME-", The man turned his head around ready to insult his two usual helpers: Orbot and Cubot, only for his rage to fade away just as fast as it had appeared, when he was met with the most beautiful earth shattering brown eyes.

"Stone!", Eggman dropped the screw driver he had in hand to fully turn and giving his beloved his full attention, "I thought you were Orbot and Cubot", he explained himself feeling guilty to yell at the most gorgeous man his eyes ever laid upon, the poor man was frozen like a deer in headlight, his eyes darted away from Stone's, waiting for the wave of guilt to wash away, so instead they landed on the lattes in his hands.

"It's alright, dear", Stone soft spoke moving closer to his Ivo, "I know how frustrated you get when you are pulled out of your zone", he stopped only inches away from the other man, offering the latte in one of his hands, "latte?"

Ivo sighed a sigh of relief, he would rather have the earth being split open in halves and swallow him whole over hurting Stone.

"With stea-med austrian goat milk" they finsihed each others sentences.

Giving one another a warm smile, "thank you", Ivo took the latte, glancing at the adorable floating hearts in the drink's foam, while leaning forward placing a kiss on Stone's forehead, Stone chuckled at the gentle gesture.

They both took a sip of their lattes, the Doctor closed his eyes letting the warmth of the drink and its sweetness dance within him, as he felt it spread through his body, he had been way too much in his zone, that this is the first latte or anything that matter fact, he had in hours.

The ever most sentimental Stone, had stopped by to drop plates of food announcing its presence and where he had put it, but never staying for long, so he doesn't interrupt the Doctor's geniuses, he had been deep in his work he hadn't spent much time with Stone in the past few days, he will have to repay his lover later on, when he reopened his eyes, he was facing the desk at the other end of the lab by the door, as two plates still full of food sat there.

"What have you been making?"

"Huh?", Ivo stared back at the source of the question, Stone was looking at the machine behind him, nodding his head towards it.

He was so glad Stone is here now, that he didn't just give him the latte and left, be loved being around Stone, the best company anyone could ever ask for.

"It's a machine to put an end to all of our problems"

"Dirty dishes", Stone stated with sarcasm in his voice, crossing his arms as if his answer was the correct one.

"Think bigger, my love", Ivo turned around closing the gap between them, standing side by side, he threw a hand on the shorters man shoulder.

"With this machine I assure you", he paused, gently spinning Stone around to face him, "not only Seaside Island will be ours", pulling the man closer to him rounding his arm around his shoulder, "but the whole world", he waved the hand with latter in half circle around the lab, he pulled him closer letting their bodies click with one another like a puzzle.

Stone almost dropped his latte due to the fast grab, thankful for the training he had while he worked for the government, at no matter what pressure, sudden painful or not painfull movements, he should never drop what's in his hand, which mostly was his gun.

"That sounds lovely, dear", Stone left the arm wrapped around his shoulders, dropped his mug on the nearest desk, "but you still haven't told me what it does", he went on and rounding the machine like a shark with admiration in his eyes.

No matter how many times Stone had called The Genius Doctor Ivo Robotnik with various pet names in the many languages he spoke, each and every one will make him feel a fuzzy feeling in his chest, and the growing heat he felt in there was not from the latte.

"You're in luck, my Stone", The Doctor placed his mug next to Stone's, "one more step is left for it to be complete", heading away from the machine to a vault's steel door, not even the biggest bank in the wolrd has one like it.

He swang the door open after various typing, eye scanning, voice scanning, hand scanning, you named it, Stone only rolled his eyes at how much his lover has to be over the top with the smallest things, its not like he is hiding the codes to set of all the nuclear warheads in the world...does he?

Ivo disappeared from his view when he walked into the vault, only to return with a black sealed box.

Stone let out a small laughter, okay this is really over kill at this point, he thought with his curiosity growing bigger when the man in front of him put the box on the near table by the machine, and when it was opened with few clicks there and there, a fog came out of it, followed by a chill in the air, flickering mixture of light beaming out of the box.

"Behold Stone...", Ivo got a glowing flask in both hands, its light reflecting on all that is around it, "The energy of the Chaos Emeralds"

Stone's eyes widened take in the beauty of what he was seeing, the flask held the energy with its seven colors flouting around it, of course his genius Doctor was able to harness such power even if so ever so little.

"H-how did yo-", Stone rubbed his temple a little confused, yes the doctor is capable of such a thing its the how he did it brought the confusion.

"I may have had the emeralds within my grasp for mere moments before that stupid echidna and the edgy hedgehog took them from me", he tightened his gripp over the flask at the mention of the sad events of him losing his precious emeralds, with venom in his voice, "but even with the little time I have got to spend with them, I was able to harness small fraction of their choas energy", his voice gone soft when he held out the flask to Stone.

Stone with his jaw still dropped took the flask ever so gently into his hands, still admiring the flouting glowing colors in it, dancing inside of it in harmony, so dangerous yet so beautiful to look at, just like his Doctor.

"For my final step", Ivo moved behind his machine pushing a red button, a small drawer slid open out of its side, "I want you to do the honor of completing it".

Stone's entire body reacted to what Ivo was offering him, he knew the final touche on his brilliant machines meant so much to him, it is the moment he loves the most about the whole process of making a new creation, not the blueprints, not the building itself, not the testing, but the final step is what matters most to him, as it allows him a moment of peace to admire his hard work.

Stone's face heating like an oven, his heart could jump out of his chest and tap dance at any second he was sure of it, and then...came the overwhelming feeling of not wanting to ruin this final moment, it means a lot to Ivo, he has to focus, not only not to ruin the final touch his Doctor has entrused him with but also the fact he had the most powerful energy within his hands, and he really doesn't want to blow both of them up.

"Just pour the energy in here for me, woul you?", Ivo tapped the drawer with a welcoming smile on his face.

Stone paid him back with a wide, ear to ear smile before nodding and putting on his serious face, he had to lock in.

Swallowing his pride for being the first person offered with such an honor from the future ruler of the world, Stone walked to the drawer taking a very deep breath as he slowly poured the energy the way he was instructed, the energy of the Chaos Emeralds didn't fall like water or honey or any other liquid, feather falling in its place was more accurate description, he kept the flask in place not moving a muscle till the very last glow was gone and moved into the machine.

Stone took a step back from it, hopefully he didn't mess it up, the machine stayed silent for a moment, and if it weren't for the soft hand placed on his back by the love of his life, he surely would've started panicking, that is untill...

The machine had started to glow, all the seven colors it had absorbed started to light the machines wires, beaming colorful lights coming out of the cracks in between the parts of the machine, a rainbow of colors breathed within it, a light shining reaching the ceiling of the lab, and every corner of it.

Stone let out a sigh of relief as this clearly a sign he hadn't messed up anything, he looked at his Ivo

The Doctor had his eyes admiring his creation beaming of light, the light reflecting of his face and glasses made Stone's heart beat even faster, he leaned into Ivo's touch in his back, admiring the dancing lights as well, untill...

WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!

The robotic voice came from the screens behind them, the bold word on each screen as it flashed in red, the whole room is in fact red now.

"Damn it!", Ivo cursed under his breath removing his hand from Stone's back leaving the man yearning for the warmth in the spot it left, Ivo moved quickly to the screens, flipping through one screen to another, still mumbling cursing words Stone couldn't hear.

He watched Ivo move fast trying to shut the alarms but also finding the cause of the distress of his lab, when the light in the corner of his eyes started to glow brighter and brighter.

Stone turned his head to the machine to see its light growing bigger by the second, the machine had started to make very unpleasant noises, instead of trying to run away from the clearly about to exploded machine, Stone just stood there frozen, thinking this is happening because of him, what could he have done wrong to make it act like that, maybe if it was Ivo to put the energy, this wouldn't have happened, then he wouldn't have to deal with the feeling of him letting his Ivo down.

Speaking of the Doctor, the growing warnings were too much, with each one he closed three others appeared, he turned around frustrated to see Stone still standing in the same place, "Stone!", Ivo called out for the man in a warning tone among all the chaos.

Except Stone clearly no hearing him still fixated on the machine as the light surrounding him had grown much brighter and the noises coming from the machine had become much louder than tha alarms, so he moved and he moved fast, reaching his hand for Stone, "ABAN STEP AWA-"

before he could even finish his sentence, a bright blinding light of an explosion came from in front of him, came from the machine, the machine Stone was standing few steps away from, his Stone.

When stone gained back consciousness, the very first thing he felt was a sharp pain in his chest, his heart felt heavy and so his eyes, the pain felt like a needle being poked on every organ in his chest, his head wasn't doing bettter either, is this what dying feels like?

But nope, it's wasn't dying, slowly but surely the pain had fully faded away, like it was never there, he let out a shaky breath, to get himself together and at least try to open his eyes.

He opened his eyes wincing at the bright light in his blurry vision, a bright light, a bright light was the last thing he remembers before, before...? 

He blinked several times quickly waking up his eyes with him, once his sight was more focused he recognized his bedroom's ceiling, Bedroom?, Stone was fully sure the last time he was awake he was in Ivo's lab, and he was there with him...Ivo was with him.

"IVO!!", Stone forced his body upright pushing away the blanket that covered him, to only cover his lower half now.

He looked to his right in the room, he was laid down on his bed, everything felt very unfamiliar and gave him the creeps, his vision was messing up the proportions of everything surrounding him, he felt small, awfully a lot small, both physically and mentally.

Well that was the case untill he heard a small yelp coming from behind him, with the sound of a chair almost breaking under pressure.

He immediately turned not only his head but his full body to the left, surprisingly it was easy to do so, the feeling of unfamiliarity didn't only come from the room but also his body now, it came from everything except for one thing and one thing only.

The very familiar never to bring uncomfort to him man in front of him, sitting in a chair so out of place with the rest of the room's decor, Ivo had been asleep when he made his scream of horror, he can recognize the face of his beloved when he had just woken up in a very unpleasant way anywhere.

Ivo rubbed his eyes a little, Stone took in notice he wasn't wearing his usual attire, no glasses on, no red jacket, the goggles were messing too, it was the last thing he remembers the man wearing before he was was out of commission, he was now wearing some very casual clothing, grey sweatpants and a red turtleneck, his mustache was a mess, probably from the lack of sleep that led him to sleeping on a chair like always.

"Stone?", Ivo got up from his seat and knelt down by the side of the bed, eyes locked in with Stone's.

Is either Stone was having a concoction or Ivo had grown larger than the last time he saw him, no it can't be the second one, definitely the first.

"Ivo!", Stone stared at him trying to read his face, it was full of guilt, confusion and...fear.

"Ivo what happened?", Stone stated about to reach a hand to Ivo.

To his shock, Ivo backed away from him before he could even get his hand from under the blanket, this made his heart shatter into millions of pieces, his loved one just flinched at his attempt to reach out for him, and he had disgust in his face, no, no not disgust but fear, Ivo was afraid of him.

Stone felt the burning feeling in his heart moving to his eyes, "Ivo!", Stone's whole body shivering in how much confused and scared he now felt on stop of feeling small, he had no idea what was going on, what had happened in the lab, the last thing he remembers is a very bright colorful light, so how did all of this resulted in Ivo stepping away from his affection, he never did that before.

Ivo swallowed the lump in his throat and leaned back forward towards the bed, closer to Stone, "Stone, dear, is it really you?"

"Is- is it really me? wha- what huh what kind of questions is that, my love?", Stone answered Ivo's question with another one of his own, tapping a finger on his own chest, the touch felt weird but he needed to gesture its still him, still his Stone, his only and truly, and whatever had happened it won't change that fact.

But what had happened?, Stone felt his head hurt again trying to remember what happened, in the lab, bright light, Ivo was there, bright light, Ivo was there, he tried to remember anything else but the headache was only making it hard for him to remember or think straight.

"Aban, what is the last thing you remember?".

Aban, Ivo had used his first name, the name only used in dire situations or when they are making love, again, no it can't be the second one, definitely the first.

"I'm- I'm not sure! I can't remember anything"

Stone's headache came back with another annoying wave, he grunted at the pain shutting his eyes close to rub them with his hand once seated on his lap, his eyes felt heavy, his eyes were big, he has always been told that but gosh they definitely were not that big, it took insane amount of energy to rub them whole.

It only hurt his head more, so he moved his hand to the top of his head and that's when it made contact with something, something hard, he moved his hand away from it, as he froze in his place, opening his eyes looking at Ivo as he also been frozen in place.

His trembling fingers came back to inspect what was that, he was sure it was a hammer, flown by accident in the lab and now it's stuck in his head, that should explain the headaches but no, the hard thing on his head felt organic, he felt its texture, it was weird, this whole situation was weird, he moved his hand slightly to make another contact to the same pointy organic smothed textured with a curved thing, whatever was on his head, there is two of it.

Stone threw the blanket that had been covering only his lower half thus far away, he crawled out of the bed with only one gaol in mind, to make it to the full length mirror in the bedroom, he didn't care how much his bed felt bigger now, everything did anyways.

"Aban wait!", Ivo tried to stop his fast pacing that oddly enough had a clicking sound following each step, he didn't stop to anything untill he was standing in front of the mirror, and when he did.

What he saw in the mirror turned his stomach into a knot, ready to throw up all that had been inside of it into the mirror, he looked at the reflection on it, it was most definitely not his, panic grew more and more inside of his body

"Aban, I know-", Ivo's attempt in comforting him, was awfully interrupted by a loud glass shattering scream.

"AHHHHHHHHHHH"

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Stone looked at the reflection in the mirror.

He saw the body he is now trapped in, this got to be some nightmare, it has to be?, two almond colored horns coming out of his head at the top, carving to point backwards a little, so that's what it was, two floppy ears to each side of his head, slightly bending upwards at the end, mocha brown fur covering him head to...wait...what the actual fuck?

Stone turned slowly to his left facing his lover, the sparkling eyes covering more than half of his face, his chest rising and falling at an insane speed, "i have hooves!", Stone murmured in disbelief, that made the clicking sound that followed him makes more sense now, he looked down at his feet at the different shade of brown fur they were, almost a light coffee brown color, he felt every muscle of his new body ache in pain, trembling in horror, Stone huffed quietly at the stupidity of his current thinking, he woke up in a new body and all he could do is compare his new pallet of colors to coffee, he was losing it, he was sure of it.

"I can see that", Ivo has been approaching him slowly while he inspected himself in the mirror, giving him as much space as he needed, to try and process what has happened to him.

Stone moved his hands in front of him, his eyes widened looking down at them, each furry arm stretched its short brown fur till his hand, it changed color to a the brighter shade of brown and shorter fur, his hooved fingers definitely didn't go unnoticed, he let out a shaky breath in defeat, looking back over his shoulder to the mirror.

He had a small traiangled nose in the middle of his brown muzzle, of course he had a muzzle too, why not?, the very short fur color of his muzzle matching the one of his hands and feet, the area upove his nose however had a darker brown gowing up stopping halway in the area between his eyes, his torso's fur had the same light brown color.

Everything had changed about his appearance, well, everything except maybe for his brown eyes, the only recognizable part he had from his old self, the only thing that's left of him, of 'Aban Lee Stone Robotnik'.

"What am I?", eyes dead losing focus, if this was indeed a nightmare he wanted to wake up from it now.

Ivo crouched down next to the smaller figure, to be on eye level with him, he knew when Stone is about to explode of all sort of emotions, "you're still my husband", Ivo soft spoke, extending his hand holding into Stone's chin turning his head towards him very gently.

Ivo noticed how Stone's tense body relaxed at his touch, letting his head rest on his hand, he brought out his other hand, cupping his cheeks with both hands now, Stone relaxed more, closing his eyes taking in the warm hands that cradled him now.

It was all nice, and most importantly, it was familiar, the comfort he was feeling didn't last long when his mind came with a harsh realization, the realization of him being a mobian now.

Whenever Stone was stressed, this was Ivo's go to move, seeing his beloved closing his eyes as his entire body melts into the hands, watch as all that pained him leaving his body with the deep breaths he lets out, and he definitely loved the most what it would always follow with, Stone opening his deep brown eyes, pushing himself forward till he was deep into Ivo's chest, feeling each others heartbeats so close to one another.

Ivo was fully sure Stone, even in his new form now, would soon give in, and he will get his chance to wrap him around his arms, soothing the back of head, another tactic brought him comfort.

Stone opened his eyes again, looking down instead of into Ivo's eyes.

Okay, a slight change from the usual, Ivo thought taking a very deeo breath, puffing his big chest more, tuning himself into a pillow for the head about to rest on him, smiling wide.

To his absolute surprise, furry hands grabbed his, lowering them away from their current place, away from Stone's face, pushing them away, Stone sniffed before waking away from the affectionate touch, he took few steps away from the still crouched down man, leaving him stuned in his place.

Ivo's smile has been dropped to his lips being parted slightly, brows lowered frowned, he felt his heart breaking into millions of pieces with a lump developing in his throat, he couldn't speak, even if he could, he was too lost to know what to say, it's not like there is a manual for "what to do when your husband accidentally is turned into an anthropomorphic animal because of one of your evil creations", if were to be one, he would be the author of it.

Stone digging his sharp hooved fingers into his arms, hugging himself tightly, stopping his movement just few steps away from Ivo, his back turned to him.

There was a moment of silent between the two for a good minute, before it was broken with the sound of cries coming from the smaller figure, Ivo had been knelt down looking as the bedrooms carpet, his mind rushing of many endless thoughts, going through all the blame a person can feel, the sound of the cry pulled him back to reality.

When he looked at him, Stone's body was shivering, he tunred around with tears in his big eyes, sobbing with hiccups, "you hate me now!", he manged to say in between cries.

Ivo's jaw dropped, as he couldn't believe what he just heard, "What??", he got himself ready to get up, his knees making such a task a little hard on him for being bent for longer than they have liked to be, "Where is this coming from dear, I do not hate you, I assure you that", he got back to his feet growling in annoyance at his weak body.

Stone wiped away the growing tears in his eyes with the back of his hand, seeing the blurry big red approuching him slowly, "I have become the very thing you despise", he sniffed away tears, "I have become one of them now", he let his arms stretch to his sides, putting himself out for display, the many times Ivo had stated his hatred to Sonic and His friends playing in head, this is how Ivo felt of him now.

"Stone!"

"LOOK AT ME!!!", he yelled sentence before falling into his knees into a coughing fit and cries, "I am not the man you fell in love with", he gathered himself together to say that, before breaking again going back to sobbing, clearly this was more than just about Ivo's acceptance of his new look, but instead his own.

Ivo felt a knife twisting in his guts, "Stone, dear, look at me", he knelt back down in front of Stone, "Please my love, look at me", Ivo pleads to him, wanting his cries and pain to end, if he could take it all and carry it for him, he would, he won't even hesitate a millisecond, because he knew that would hurt less than hearing the messy cries of the most important person in his life.

Stone released his head from his hands, looking at the man in front of him, he looked for that look of disgust and fear he wore when he woke up, but it wasn't there, Ivo had only greeted him with a soft pained smile... he looked hurt, but not disgusted.

"First of all, you are not one of them, as you are way smarter than any of them for you to be their equal, and second...", Ivo began, pointing his index finger up like he always did when stating facts.

"I would never hate you", Ivo held Stones hands, smaller in contrast to his, somethings just never changes, "it is simply impossible for me to hate you, whether you are a human or an anthropomorphic...", Ivo paused, pointing at all of him, "goat! I have nothing but love for you, no matter what version of you i get, i just know I'll love you in every universe in this vast multiverse"

Stone was the one to put on a pained smile now, recalling one of the late night talks they would have together, it was Stone to bring up the multiverse topic after watching a movie about it that night, the movie had really resonated in him, especially the line "in another life, I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you", He couldn't stop thinking about it.

"Do you think we are lovers in every universe?"

Stone had asked Ivo laying down on his back starting at the ceiling, drown in his thoughts, while Ivo was writing down some updates on a new printed blue prints in his hands.

"I dont see the reason why not"

Ivo shifted in the bed putting down the blue prints on the bedside, before turning to the man next to him, pulling him closer, letting him rest on his chest, with both of their hands on each others waists, as they both drifted away to sleep.

"I will always love you, my Stone", Ivo cupped Stone's face once more, placing a kiss on his forehead, this time, Stone let out a weak chuckle pushing himself forward, collapsing in the hands that cradled him, burying his face in the big warm chest.

Ivo wrapped his arms sround him, letting out a sigh in relief, he felt somthing moving, brushing against his bare hands, he opened his eyes looking at the lower back of the goat, to see Stone's tail was wagging fast, and his heart almost explode of the cuteness aggression he was feeling at the moment.

"Besides...", Ivo was the first one to pull back, standing up, pulling Stone upwards with him, but not before playfully ruffling the fur on Stone's head between his horns, his knees screaming at him once again, but the pain he felt in them was washed away by the love he had for Stone.

"You are too adorable to be one of them", he placed a hand on each hip, "like sheesh have you seen them? they are all ugly", he crossed his arms rolling his eyes.

That let out a laugh out of Stone, his laughter was cure to all illnesses, Ivo was fully convinced of that, but his laughter was cut short when a bleat had also made its way out of him. Baaa

With a swift move he slapped both hands across his mouth, as his eyes widened, shocked from the very noise he made.

"Well that's new", Ivo expressed in slight enthusiasm.

He has been cataloging their situation ever since he saw the goat on the floor of his lab when the smoke cleared, he had only taken physical notes thus far, such as his height being slightly shorter than Sonic's, how even when unconscious the fluffy tail would twitch, the small fangs he had despite being a goat.

Added now to his mental notes, the clear signs of body dysmorphia it gave Stone, guess thats only logical for someone going from a man to a mobian, the only ever case he heard of.

He's got to admit, the bleat was a nice touch. 

"All of this is new", Stone's brow frowned crossing his arms too.

"Fair enough"

"So", Stone sniffing away some final tears, "the machine", he walked back towards the the mirror, "it's what did this, right?", looking at Ivo through the mirror's eflection.

Ivo's eyes widened at the mention of his most recent failure, he fidgeting his fingers a little before bringing his hand, rubbing back of neck now, clearing his throat, "It's not the machine in particular, it was the explosion that caused this", he started tapping his chin, "I suppose the chaos emeralds energy was too powerful and unstable for the machine to handle"

"Still doesn't explain the reason why I am a mobian now"

Stone frowned angrily at his own reflection, the irony in his mobian form being a goat, this got to be some type of universal karma.

"It must be the fact I have put DNA specimens of the island's residents in it-", Ivo was brushing his mustache in between his fingers, when a loud, "WHAT!!!", came from Stone made him flinch.

Stone tapped his nose few times with his eyes closed in frustration, "Ivo Gerald Robotnik Stone", he said the man's full name in a rough voice.

Ivo knew he was in big trouble, swallowing the lump in his throat, Stone opened his mouth to say some more when a loud explosion sound blasted in the lair.

The explosion made the entire building shake, few decorations in the room moved and fell from their assigned place, the bedroom started to flash in red, with alarms coming to life, Ivo felt like he was back in the lab, when everything had went wrong, only this time the robotic voice repeated the word

INTRUDERS! INTRUDERS! INTRUDERS! 

He immediately looked down to check on his lover to find him layed down on his back on the floor, arms and legs up bent in the air, he was frozen, unmoving.

Ivo's heart started racing, the memory of smoke clearing in his lab, as he moved rushing to where the explosion had went off, the panic he felt when he didn't see Stone still haunts him, but instead he found a goat laid down knocked out on the floor, the small creature was wearing the clothes Stone had on but clearly much larger than him, ash was covering it's fur with colorful aroma of fading lights dancing around him, he shock away the memory focusing on the present hurrying to check on Stone.

"Aban!", Ivo called out for him as he made contact with the fallen fur ball.

With his touch, the goat came undone, collapsing to his sides, his body parts hitting the floor going limp with another bleat mkaing it out of him out of control, "w-wha", Stone tried to speak, feeling strong big hands helping him sit up.

"What was that?", Ivo had him pinned down stable by the shoulders, clearly not meaning the explosion in his question.

"I don't know", Stone's ears twitched, "I just...froze?", he explained.

Which wasn't a total lie, one second he was ready to put some sense into Ivo when the explosion went off, he croched slightly at it when all of a sudden he felt every muscle in his body stiffens, locked up not allowing him to move, making him faint immediately on the floor, what bothered him the most, is he didn't exactly faint, he was pretty much conscious, feeling the pain when he hit the floor.

Ivo again helped Stone back on his hooves, he almost fell again but Ivo gave him the support he needs to stay standing, the alarming voice had stopped but the room continued fading in the red light.

"The explosion came from the ground floor", Ivo stated, "I will go and see what is it, you stay here", Ivo started moving to the door when he was stopped by hard fingers and fur.

"I'm coming with", Stone's face was as serious as an adorable goat can try to look tough.

Ivo was really fighting the urge to squish him with all of his might.

"It's best if you stay here, my love", Ivo grabbed Stone's hand trying to drop it, but the grip the goat had over him was stronger than it looked, he also hated how much Stone's puppy eyes have became bigger and harder to resist.

Both of them were about to protest some more, when the door of the room behind Ivo swang open, with screams, Orbot and Cubot had walked in, flying their slim robotic arms in the air waving them in distress, spinning around each other.

Ivo looked away from Stone to the yellow and red bot, "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU TWO!!!", Ivo snapped at them, feeling the hand on its own slip away from him, so now he can fully throw a fist at the two bots, the two coming to a halt.

"It's Sonic, sir", Orbot hovered closer to his boss, he clasped his hands in front of him.

"Him and his friends made a big explosion to the kitchen wall, boss", Cubot outed hands on his cubed head.

"THE KITCHEN!!!", Stone bolted out from behind Ivo.

"Oh, Mr Stone, you're awake", Orbot smiled to Stone.

"good to see you up again sir", Cubot flown in front of Orbot with a smile as well.

"Thank you two", Stone returned them with a smile of his own, he was a bit surprised they didn't ask any further questions about his new form, showing their curiosity on the matter like they do with everything, he bet Ivo had to do something with it.

"That blue rat!, i'll destroy him", Ivo clawed his habds and started moving again to the door angrily, existing the room, Stone had started to follow him but not even getting the chance to get out of the room with him, stopped at the door frame by a bug hand thrown in front of him.

"Ah ah ah ah ah", Ivo wiggled his index finger in Stone's voice, "you stay here", pointing inside of the room.

"Like the hell I will!", Stone snapped crossing his arms slamming one of his hooves down.

"Trust me my love, it's best if we kept your new form a secret for now", Ivo crouched down to place another kiss on his forehead.

Stone's relaxed his body, he knew Ivo had already thought out some type of an evil scheme involving him, he was definitely excited for them, but to be fair, he wasn't feeling like staying a goat for another second, he inhaled deeply, exhaling loudly, "fine!"

Stone stepped away from the door, "I was looking forward for a fight", said disappointing.

"And you will get your fight my love, but not now", Ivo straightened himself back up, "YOU TWO!", he pointed at Cubot and Orbot still in the room, they immediately hovered closer to him giving him a salute, "keep your stupid optics on him", pointing down at Stone, ignoring how his jaw dropped, "CLEAR?"

"Crystal, sir", Orbot nodded

"You got it boss"', Cubot nodded after his red comrade.

Stone was looking at the two bots, when Ivo saw it as his perfect moment to close the door behind him quickly, and so he did, he couldn't bare looking at those gigantic brown eyes, he had to be stronger.

He moved away from the door when he was sure Stone won't follow him, he knew how much Stone was attached to Orbot and Cubot, he definitely wouldn't want to put them under any insults and punishments for not achieving the order Ivo had given them, at least they'll keep him company now that he is not there.

Ivo made his way down the elevator not before noticing almost everything had moved from its place due to the explosion, he had his hands in fists the whole way down to the ground floor.

When he stepped out of the elevator, the state the place was in was even worst than he would thought, the two ten cans weren't kidding when they said a big explosion to the kitchen wall, the whole kitchen was practically gone, only rubble left, he was glad he left Stone In the room, if that ma- or goat now, saw what had happened to his kitchen...even Ivo was terrified of what he could do, his body shivered at the reminder of the time he burned it down, a not very fun week it was.

Thankfully the voices shouting at one another made him stop going deeper in the memory, the voices came from around the corner to where he keeps all of his machines in a large storage room, making his way over the chaos, blood boiling hot inside of him, he could feel steam coming out of his ears.

With longs strides grunting under his breath the many ways he want to end those stupid colorful creatures when he made his way around the corner, a metallic object was thrown at his way, thankfully he was able to dodge it.

"HEY!!!", he shouted at the five Individuals to busy destroying his precious babies, they looked like they are in search of somthing.

They all looked at him, not fearing him much, Sonic was the one to step forward and started talking, "Hey there, Egghead", his ever smug smile spread across of his face, "looking good"

Ivo didn't even care he was dressed casual in front of his enemies, they were the ones to storm into his home unannounced in the first place.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE!?"

Reference to what Stone looks like and his height in comparison to Ivo :