Chapter 2
~Tails's workshop~
The sound of impatient footsteps filled the room.
Miles "Tails" Prower was currently under the tornado, doing the usual maintenance check and trying not to get distracted by the impatient of his best friend/older brother Sonic.
"It's strange," Sonic simply stated, "Egghead isn't known to take that long to attack again."
"Sonic" Tails began, "If you're so worried that Eggman is planning something big, why don't you simply go and check on him?"
The impatient sound of Sonic feet stopped, "Good idea, Tails. What would I do without your brain?"
"Looking dumb"
"Hey!"
"Just picking up your attitude." Tails said with an innocent smile.
"Geez, you're growing to be a real charmer, buddy. Anyway, off to Eggman!" The blue blur speeded away.
"Well, guess it's just you and me." Tails said to the plane.
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~Eggman base~
Sonic expected a lot of things, ranging from giant robot, to a new metal copy, even some eldritch godlike entity Eggman somehow got under his control.
He was not expecting to see a kid that's at best is a few years old, playing with spare part of some badniks, he checked, none of them were sharp.
A door open, "Alright, Harry, just a few more test and I can build you some toys that won't short circuit when exposed to your power." The mad scientist look up from his notes to look at the boy, only to lock eyes with the blue intruder.
"What are you doing here, hedgehog?" The Hedgehog in question look at the small child, then back at Eggman.
For all his blunders and moments of stupidity, Sonic was as fast at thinking as he was at running.
'Okay, first, there's a child in Eggmans base.
Second, the child is neither contained in a cell or a test tube. Third, it seems Eggman is the one providing for said child. That all leads to one conclusion.'
"YOU HAVE A CHILD!?!" Sonics face had shock and disbelief writing in it's expression, "But... How?"
Eggman raised an eyebrow, insulted by the insinuation that it would be unbelievable for him to have some action.
But he grin evilly, Sonic just gave him the best opportunity for THIS.
"I guess I shouldn't be surprised that you don't know how babies are made, giving your home situation, or lack there off." Sonic eyebrow twitched at the verbal jap, "Then it's up to me, as the most prominent adult in your life to give you 'THE TALK', Metal, take Harry out this room, he isn't ready to here that" Metal wordless obeyed and took the small boy away.
"Wait, where is he taking him, and what's that 'talk' you're yapping about?" Sonic confused about this situation, in his head he thought that maybe he should go after the child, but if he was correct, that was Eggheads son, and for all his evil the doctor wouldn't bring harm to his own... probably.
Eggman wicked smile dropped for a second, did his archenemy really didn't know how kids were made? The wicked smile began blooming on his face again, 'Even better'.
"You see, Sonic, when a man and a woman love each other very much....
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"So you," Sonic pointed at him to emphasize, "did that with a woman?" Sonic, now green, face gave the expression that he will throw up any second now, the image of Eggman of all people doing THAT was just too much for the blue blur.
"Nope, that's just the general way most go about it." Eggman said smugly, highly amused by Sonics nauseated state. "He's actually the son of my late cousin Lily."
Sonic took it deed breath, 'Okay, Eggman did not to the dirty, that image can go out of my head now'
"So what, you're retiring from world conquering to raise him, if so, congratulations, let me call my friends and we throw you a party for the occasion."
"I'm flattered, hedgehog, but that's unnecessary, because I'm not retiring, I'm simply taking a break, call it a parental leave if you like." Eggman sure did not plan on retiring, as soon as Harry big enough to operate some mashines himself, he will double down on on his efforts, especially since he will have someone as smart and callable as himself on his side he sure that his dreams of world domination comes to fruiting.
But he needed time, time to raise and teach the boy.
After all, even he, Ivo Robotnik, needed years to become the man he is today. He couldn't just expect that the boy would become a genius like him over night.
"You said something about powers that short circuit your toys." Sonic brought him out his thoughts. Eggman looked down at him 'maybe a second opinion on it would help'
"Yeah, you see, every time Harry gets upset things happen, ranging from elevating toys to him to vanishing food he doesn't want to eat. He also randomly teleports right into my workshop when he wants my attention. Once he had such a tantrum other a nightmare that the electricity in the entire building fell out."
Sonic rupped his chin, "Sounds like chaos energy to me, bit it seems to get less along with technic."
"How very helpful, rodent, I couldn't tell that myself" the sarcasm was hard to miss, "Listen, Sonic, could you do me a favor and look up if humans ever used something like chaos control?"
"Sure, got nothing better to do with you on break, see ya"
And as fast as he go in, as fast has he left.
Eggman smirk, 'that hedgehog can be useful when he isn't busy smashing my brilliant creations'
Ivo look at his board, "secret community?" Was written above it. Reports of children going on some mysterious boarding school from the age of 11 to 17 and then disappeared from the public entirely, reports on how some people were found dead with autopsy giving no reason why there died, no poison, no wounds, not even a stroke or a heart attack, as if they body just were turned off by magic.
Magic. The doctor replayed the audio recording of his talk with Petunia. "I don't want that freakishness in my house..." "she bewitched our parents, I know it, she made them pay more attention to her than me, even when she was at that freakish school..." "she wasn't normal, Ivo, she made things levitate, she made dead flowers blown, she blown up the bulbs, I swear she did it just to scare me..."
He ended the recording.
The things Lily did, according to Petunia, were pretty similar to the things Harry does, so the conclusion for now that it's a hereditary talent. But more importantly, there's an entire secret civilization full of people with that talent.
While the existence of magic, even more, a magic community living right under normal people's noses would sound to most like a looney conspiracy theory, but for a man who main issues are anthropic animals who can use ancient gem stones to beat him it sounded like an opportunity.