You are tossing and turning in bed. You were having a nightmare, but the whole thing is foggy and a blur of images. You see what you can only describe as a tornado of images--laser-shooting Egg-bots, serum-filled test-tubes, golden rings of different worlds, flashing boxing gloves, and a singular blue fairy wand-- that swirl in and out of focus.
You wake up in a cold sweat. You mutter to yourself, "I got to stop eating the ghost-pepper nacho plates with the ghost movie marathons with Knuckles. I never sleep well with those churning in my stomach. Ok, go through your checklist to start the day. I am Sonic. I am the fastest blue hedgehog in the--" Why does that sound wrong to you?
You snap your eyes open. Looking up at the ceiling, you see what appears to be a pure white ceiling, with embedded and protected light fixtures--huh, protected? But something is wrong with your vision. Where was your black ball nose? You reach your hand to your face and see something wrong. Your gloves are missing--forget your gloves, as your arm looks tan and white, with a tinge of blue-colored hair in patches all over your arm. You feel your face, and don't touch your muzzle, but a stub of a nose, and are those lips? This cannot be real.
You pull the sheet away from your body and toss it aside. You try to roll out of bed, but you collapse on the floor. You put your arms under you and lift yourself on all fours. Your arms look so much muscular from before. You lift your body's head up and see what appears to be a wardrobe and a full body mirror. With a bit of a struggle, you crawl over to the wardrobe and mirror. As you grab the front of the drawers, and lift yourself up, you stand on your feet and rise to your full height. This gives you your first chance to see what is wrong with yourself.
You are a human. With the size of the mirror, it looks like you are so much taller than your normal self, possibly a 7-foot-tall human. Your ears are no longer on the top of your head, but appear to be on the side, and quite oval shaped. You pull your hands to your ears, and pull them to see if they are real, and you wince in pain as you feel the pulling on the earlobes. Looking at your face, your eyes still have their green iris, but they don't appear as big as before. That is not as big a problem as your nose and mouth. They are 2 separate body parts, and your mouth looks like it could fit 1/2 a dozen chili dogs in 1 shot, which may be the only upside to this new face.
The biggest difference is your spines and fur--they are simply gone. Your fur seems to have been shaved or trimmed away, with blue patches here and there on your arms and legs. It also seems to have lost the full thickness and the remainder is wispy where it exists at all. On your head you witness what remains of your spine hair do. You reach a tentative fleshy hand and try to feel your spines, and you realize you were wrong about something. They are not spines, but what looks to be dreadlocks of serious length, draped past your shoulders, and 1/2 way down your back. They seem to be at least 3 feet long or longer. What confused you before seems to be the hair color. Instead of a normal human color, your hair retained the blue hues from your past, although you cannot tell if it is a true hue, or possibly a dye job.
With your limbs, they all seem so muscular. The human arms and legs seem to flow with such power, and they would put most human athletes to shame with the muscles bulging under the flesh. As you look down at your body in the mirror, you seem to be wearing either a bath robe--or is it a hospital patient gown? What catches your eye is what appears to be a large weight of metal encasing both of your ankles. This new accessory must have caused your earlier imbalance falling out of bed.
With the realization that this was not what you were dressed in before--or that you ever had a full set of clothes before--you look around the room, and realize that the place is in a/the --
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