Lien-Da's Regressive Vacation

Chapter 1
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    It was a quiet night on the out reaches of the Eggman Empire in one of the lesser used Egg Bases, as it’s only inhabitant bickers to herself “Curse that Robotnik!” Lien-Da yelled out “It’s one thing to force me and my men under his command, but to send me, the Grandmaster of the Dark Legion, here on grunt work!” Lien-Da held her fist high as she shook it before slumping over in defeat “If he is going to order me around at least do it right.” the Echidna Egg Boss grumbled out with crossed arms “’You’ll figure at what to do there.’ What does that even mean?!” she yelled once more “This is why scientists shouldn’t be leaders.”

    As she continued aimlessly walking the dark halls, unknown to Lien-Da, a pair of long robotic arms activated, being comprised of long gray metal limbs with white gloved hands on the end, and began to slowly lowering themselves behind the Echidna, who was too distracted muttering complains to herself to notice.

    “WHAT IS THIS PLACE EVEN FO-”

    Just as she screamed that out, an undignified yelp left Lien-Da’s mouth as she found herself being lifted off the ground by the pair of robotic arms. “What the- put me down!” the Echidna Egg Boss demanded as the arms carried her to another room were she was dropped onto a large pillow, landing facedown into it.

    “Grrr, that’s not what I meant.” Lien-Da growled out, her voice muffled by the pillow, before she pulled herself up onto her knees. Looking around, the Echidna saw the room she was now in was some kind of factory floor, with the pillow she was on lying on a convertor belt which ran through a large machine. Suddenly, the conveyor belt turned on, slowly moving Lien-Da towards the machine “I am not going into that.” the Egg Boss declared as she went to move only to find her legs refused to follow her commands.

    “What! No no no!” Lien-Da cried out as tried to get her legs to move, somehow they were being paralyzed by this pillow of all things, but it was a fruitless endeavor as she soon entered the machine. The Echidna now found herself in a metal tunnel, its walls covered with round panels while its ceiling was a plain sheet of reflective metal, which was soon filled with the sound of the machine powering up. Lien-Da closed her eyes, knowing she would be helpless against whatever happened next, only to hear the sound of lights turning on. Opening her eyes, the Echidna saw she the round panels had lit up now giving off a green glow as they softly hummed “Really lights? Can’t believe I got worried over that.” she muttered out, crossing her arms, ready to wait for this to be over.

    However as she looked down at her crossed arms, Lien-Da noticed her hands were now covered by her sleeves, despite the fact they shouldn’t be long enough to do that, “What the-” the Echidna muttered under her breath. Lien-Da rolled up her sleeves, only for them to seemingly grow before her eyes quickly covering her hands again. The Echidna’s mind was in a panic as she tried to figure out what was happening, especially as she now noticed not only were her clothes seeming to grow, with her jacket beginning to billow out on her chest, her pants no longer tightly hugging her waist, and her boots almost slipping off her feet, but everything around her was getting larger by the second. “What is happening!?” Lien-Da yelled out, only for her to be met with another surprise “M- my voice!?” she questioned, hands shooting up to grab her throat, as a much higher pitched sound left her mouth.

    Finally, Lien-Da caught her reflection in the ceiling of the tunnel, seeing not her mature and toned body of thirty three years, but rather the innocent and frail body the Echidna hadn’t seen since she was at most ten years old. “I- I’m a child again?” Lien-Da muttered out in shock as stared down at her still regressing body again, only to soon notice another pair of robotic arms reaching for her clothes. “No don’t you dare!” the Echidna turned child cried out, batting her fists at the arms before they could strip her. However the arms were clever, gently knocking Lien-Da onto her belly before quickly grabbing the Echidna’s pants and boots. “NOOO!” she wailed out in embarrassment as she was stripped of her lower clothing, although there wasn’t much need for that as her jacket was now large enough to cover her completely.

    As the arms carried off her pants and boots, Lien-Da took in the current state of her body, finding herself to be toddler once again, about four years old at best, with baby fat beginning to bubble up her on body. “Dis- this can’t be ‘appening to me.” the Echidna tot stammered out, blushing slightly at her lisp while tears began to form in her eyes. Then the arms returned, sitting Lien-Da back up before reaching to grab her jacket. “No! NO! NOOOOO!” the toddler vigorously flailed about, not realizing the irony of her throwing a tantrum, however this time the arms merely circumvented the problem, with a third arm coming down behind her to pull her jacket down while the other two lifted her up by her armpits.

    As the arms held her up, Lien-Da could sit helplessly in their palms as her regression finished, leaving the former Egg Boss as a mere Echidna baby, just under a year old at best. A few seconds later the arms set her back down on the pillow, laying the baby down on her back, before leaving again and soon returning with baby powder and a diaper. Lien-Da didn’t even bother to let out a squeak of protest, knowing she was powerless to stop the arms as one grabbed her ankles to lift her of her butt while another slid the diaper underneath before applying a healthy dusting of baby powder to it. Afterwards, the arms set her ankles back down before folding and taping up the diaper, before they sat Lien-Da back up and left, but not before one gently patted her now diapered bottom.

    “W- wat jus ‘appen?” Lien-Da babbled in confusion as she finally reached the end of the conveyor belt and her pillow was safely deposited on the floor.

    “OHOHOH!” Booming laughter echoed throughout the facility, and if Lien-Da was in a better state she would have recognized it as belonging to Eggman, but the regressed Echidna was too busy shaking in fear as her diaper fulfilled its purpose, “I see my machine worked wonders on you Lien-Da!” the bulbous scientist observed, quite pleased by his minion's current state, as a large robot wheeled into the room, its “face” a large monitor projecting the doctor's face.

    Lien-Da blinked on confusion, before her face twisted in anger as she remembered why she had come here “U- u sent me ‘ere to make me babie!?” the Echidna infant squealed out in anger, thrashing her limbs about in tantrum like rage.

    “Ah good you're still mentally there.” Eggman noted with a smile, ignoring the Echidna as she continued screaming, “Too bad I can't use it on Sonic and his friends, the miniaturization technology isn't there yet and well…” he paused, looking down at Lien-Da as his smile grew, “They aren't stupid enough to just walk into a trap.”

    Lien-Da opened her mouth to protest, only to let out a squeak as the robot lifted her up by the back of her diaper, giving the poor Echidna a painful wedgie, “I bet you’re wondering why I did this.” Eggman said as Lien-Da dangled in front of the screen, with tears beginning to form in the corners of her eyes, “Well I’ve felt as of recently you’ve forgotten exactly how our relationship works, so I figured you could do with a reminder so to speak.”

    Lien-Da babbled in confusion “B- but ‘ow I posed two overthwow u if I babie?” she asked, mentally noted the strangeness of reminding a dictator that the only reason he had her around was to potentially overthrow him.

    “Oh this isn’t permanent.” Lien-Da let out a sigh of relief at Eggman’s words “I mean if it was I wouldn’t have even bothered to pick you up. Maybe I would have sent an anonymous tip to that sister of yours to see if she would even bother to reraise you, but that’s besides the point.” Eggman’s grin grew as he noticed a heavy blush on the Echidna’s face from the latter comment “So, let’s see if you’re more agreeable after a few days in the nursery.” he said as the robot wheeled down the hall, presumably to said location Lien-Da thought.

    After a few minutes, they reached the nursery, it looking just like what you would see in any daycare just with Eggman logos plastered everywhere, and the Echidna infant crossed her arms with a huff “This is demeaning, but at least it can’t get worse.” however that thought was soon proven wrong.

    “You can consider this a vacation of sorts, I’ll even send some of your men over to help!” Eggman boomed out, making sure Lien-Da had heard, the look of horror crossing his infant minion’s face greatly pleasing him as he finished with a laugh “I’m certain they won’t think any less of you after changing your diapers.”

    At that, Lien-Da broke into full on infant wailing, it being painfully clear to her it was going to be a long couple of days.