Lauren the Echidna Chapter 1

Confrontation

It's kind of hard being a kid sometimes, even though I'm a teenager, it's just hard. Being at school, doing homework, projects, all that stuff, you start to think about when it's all going to be over. When is all this going to be over with? Where am I going to college? How am I going to apply myself? All the same questions veered inside everyone's head during the last few years of their school-days.

Me, I'm a senior at my school, soon to be graduating and leaving school for good, with the exceptions of classes at college or anything like that. But what if one day you had woke up and became something you weren't? Well, for some people that would be weird, but that…didn't happen to me. It's kind of hard to explain but I'm going to explain anyway.

A normal day at school wasn't that difficult to handle, because of the teachers giving you homework and just talking about some things that pertain to nothing that the class is about…no it wasn't that hard.

As a teenager in class, most of the time not listening since the teacher is off subject, I sat there doodling in my notebook, wandering off in a daydream while staring at the book. It was pretty boring listening to my teacher go on and on and on, but later he finally got on subject and I continued writing notes.

Since it was Friday, the Activity Period was actually chapel day so around eleven-thirty we made our way to the gym and sat on the bleachers that were suspended about I'd say…seven to nine feet high. As all the high school listened to the speaker, the light shining through the windows of the roof and the sound of the creaking of the bleachers because of everyone shifting their position to get comfortable, there was suddenly a crash coming from outside. Everyone began to evacuate like lightning, but I was curious as to what crashed. It couldn't have been anything like a meteor, but it sounded like a missile or some kind of bomb. It couldn't help but be pushed out by one of the teachers behind me telling me to get to a safer part of the gym.

I began to think to myself, why was this happening? There aren't any terrorists that could've had enough patience to bomb us for no reason. The crash got louder as all the high school kids were shivering in fear not wanting to die. Being me, I wasn't that scared. I didn't want to die either, but I just had a curious look on my face as I helped everyone calm down, even though they really didn't want to listen to me. We managed to keep ourselves safe for the next ten minutes, and finally I couldn't take it anymore, I had to know what was going on. Most of the teachers had peeked outside to see what was happening. So I, with my blue jeans, and red and black t-shirt, snuck out of the locker room which is where everyone was, and walked out the other door of the gym. Some of the kids told me not to, but I didn't care, and why did they care anyway?

The light was still shining bright, as it was still morning, and I looked around, seeing nothing but the school, so I made my way cautiously around the side of the gym, and avoiding the sight of the teachers. I looked ahead and spotted a few figures fighting some huge robot. I couldn't help but ask myself, why was a giant snake-like robot out here? And who were those other people fighting it? It just wasn't natural. My eyes narrowed as I kept watching the three figures fighting the robot for the next few minutes.

Finally, one of those people was shot back onto the wall of the gym. I took cover from some of the metal debris that had flown toward me, but I was okay…for the moment. I looked back around the corner and noticed that one of the figures was actually a red echidna, knocked unconscious for the count. I blinked and then my eyes widened as the snake-robot had made its way through the other two people and slithered it's metal body toward the red echidna.

Taking a step back to keep the metal snake from spotting me, I was about to turn around to warn the other kids, but out of nowhere the metal tail of the snake wraps around me and lifts me up in the air in front of it. I screamed once and looked into the eyes of the beast. This robot was being manned by someone, but I couldn't recognize who. The man opened the hatch of the head of the snake and let out an evil snicker as his glasses shined in the light. My eyes widened as I saw who it was…even though it couldn't have been possible.

"Hehehe…well what do we have here? A scared little girl running for her life? How pathetic." The man said.

Well, also being me, I hated being called weak or pathetic, so I narrowed my eyes and let out a simple "hmph" at the man, still struggling to get free.

"What's the matter," He said as he brought me closer with the robot's tail, "afraid to say something to me? I know who you are girl…"

I looked at him with a questionable look. "How do you know me…you aren't even real!"

"Not real, eh? Well, see if this is real!" The man replied.

He pushes a button on the dash of the robot's head and the tail tosses me onto a small hill that led up to the school. I shouted in pain as I hit the bottom part of my back. Grunting and barely moving, just to try to get away. I couldn't bare the pain that was throbbing on my back, so I looked back to the man in the robot, with a terrified look on my face, which was sort of a first. He gave an evil laugh as he made his way closer to me with the metal snake. My eyes widened more as I could barely move due to the pain and all the fear. A human like me couldn't take on a big robot snake. I was helpless…

The tail of the robot wrapped around me again and picked me up. I tried to scream for help, but my voice had disappeared from the fear.

"There's nothing you can do now to save you're friends! Think of them all, shivering in fear inside that gym. I could just take down that gym…couldn't I?" He smirked and laughed again as he was about to sling me for the second time, which in fact, could have knocked me out or killed me.

I hung my head down for a sec, but then rose it back up, on account of hearing a voice from behind the robot, "Hold it Eggman!"

I looked up, seeing a figure, which was a blue hedgehog with green eyes jumping on top of the metal snake's head, glaring down at the man. Right then, someone else, as a red blur, nabbed me out of the clutches of the snake's tail and jumped away from them all. The red echidna looked to me and asked, "Kid, are you okay?"

I couldn't answer. My hand fell limp and I was out for the time being. The echidna growled.

"Hey, you get her out of here! We'll take care of Eggman!" Shouted another figure, who was a yellow fox, flying with his two special tails helping the hedgehog. The echidna nodded and jumped off toward the forest nearby, and he set me down gently underneath a tree. He wanted to go back and help defeat the man known as Eggman, but for some reason he didn't want to leave me sitting there. So he stood there, pacing back and forth waiting for me to wake up.

Meanwhile, the hedgehog and fox had defeated Eggman and destroyed his robot, sending him running for cover back to his base. The two got all the kids and teachers to safety and explained what had happened. It was quiet until one of the kids asked, "W-Where's Lauren?" The hedgehog, who's name was Sonic, looked to the kid fox, Tails and implied that the one that the echidna, Knuckles, had taken off somewhere, was me. Sonic and Tails told them I was fine and they left the rest to the police to set things straight.