Seven To One

Sonic was pacing back and forth in the hospital waiting room. He had been there for an hour, but to him, it felt like an eternity. After ten more minutes, a nurse came in.

"Mr. Sonic?" Sonic stopped pacing and looked at the nurse.

"Yeah? Is she…" the nurse just smiled at the worried hedgehog.

"Would you like to see your wife and daughter now?" Sonic was smiling from ear to ear as he nodded. The nurse led him to a room with the door partly closed.

"Their just resting." The nurse said before leaving. Sonic knocked lightly on the door and opened it. Inside the hospital room was a tired looking pink hedgehog with a bundle in her arms. Sonic knew what the bundle was.

"Hey Ames." He said quietly. Amy looked up. She gave him a smile.

"Hey." Sonic walked over and sat on the edge of the bed.

"How you doing?" he asked Amy.

"Better, but it took us a long time to get her to sleep." She rocked the bundle.

"Can I hold her?" he asked. Amy handed him the bundle and showed him how to hold her right. After rocking her for a few minutes, Sonic pulled the blanket back a bit to show a small face. She was lilac colored, and her quills were really small.

"She so small." Sonic said. Amy nodded in agreement.

"She still needs a name."

"Lyla." Sonic said. Suddenly she opened her eyes. They were mirror images of Sonic's. When she saw him, she smiled. Sonic smiled back and continued to rock her.

"Lyla. That's suits her." Amy said. Lyla drifted back to sleep.

OoO 15 years later OoO

A gray hedgehog ran down the street toward the school. He ran across the playground to the large group of kids by the race track. He pushed his way through the crowd till he got to the front. He headed toward a pink bat.

"Hey Mandy. Did I miss it?" The bat saw him.

"Hey Nathan. Nope, they haven't even started yet." Suddenly a dark orange enchilada turned to face them.

"I hope they don't start at all. They could get in trouble for this."

"Oh clam down, Colin. You have no faith in her at all."

"Hey guys!" a little yellow fox came to the group. The six year old looked a little out of place amongst the teens.

"Hey Dale. What's new?" Nathan asked.

"How's your mom and your sister?" Dale had just become a big brother. Casey, the cute little white bunny, was Cream and Tail's second kid.

"Their good. Casey is starting to smile when she see me!" Dale said, obviously proud. Just then a brown bull dog came up to the starting line. The chatter grew louder.

"This is stupid. She should have never made that bet with Rocket." Colin said. The bull dog yelled out, "Quite down! Thank you. Now the rules. You run to the end of the track and back. No attacking while racing and the loser has to give the winner twenty bucks here at lunch. Now racers get ready!" the two contestants lined up at the starting line. A navy blue hawk started his extreme gear board. He looked at his opponent

"I hope you know what your messing with." A lilac hedgehog looked at him with confidence in her emerald green eyes. She smirked at him.

"I know what I'm doing. I just hope you know what hit you when you cross that finish line." Lyla said. The bull dog took things from there.

"On your marks," they both got in to there starting stands.

"Get set, GO!" he yelled and they went flying. Nathan look worried. Of course, he was almost always worried.

"She better win. That way, we all can go out for ice cream." Mandy said. The race was neck and neck for a few seconds, but Lyla picked up the pace and made it to the end of the half mile long track first. She turned around just as Rocket got there. Seeing the opportunity, Lyla ran faster and faster, leaving Rocket behind. Lyla made it across the line first and every one cheered. Rocket got more then a bit mad. He jumped off his board and tackled Lyla. She punched him, getting him off of her and got up quickly. But not quick enough to miss a punch. She kicked him in the shins and got a punch in the nose for that. Rocket was about to kick her in the stomach when,

"MR. ROCKET!" every one turned to see a honey colored cat come up to the track.

"I'd advise you to stop what you're doing and come with me. You too, Miss Hedgehog. As for the rest of you, I recommend getting in the school before the bell rings." Most people said, "Yes Miss Sidney." But every one moved into the school.

"I told you all she'd get into trouble." Colin said as they walked to their lockers. Dale went to the elementary end of the school, so it was just Mandy, Colin and Nathan.

"Well, she won and she's taking me out for ice cream." Mandy said.

"Is that all you care about?" Her brother asked.

"Well, I hope her nose is ok. We'll see you later." Mandy said and stopped at her locker. Nathan stopped too .Mandy, Lyla and he were in the same grade. Colin was a year older than them so he was a grade above. Nathan and Mandy got to their first class, science, without bumping into any of Rockets friends. They considered themselves lucky.

After ten minutes into class, the door opened. Rocket and Lyla walked in with late slips.

"I hope you two will not be late again." A green lizard asked.

"No Mr. Harper." They said in unison and sat down in their sates.

"Good because science is very important. Why, without it, we would not have all the medicines and inventions that we have today." And then he got into a lecture about how important science was. Within half an hour, half of the class was asleep. The intercom came on and said, "Mr. Harper, you have a call on line 4."

"Thank you. I'll be right back class." With that, as soon he was out of the room, everyone started talking. Mandy turned to Lyla, who was behind her. Nathan was across from them.

"Soooo…what happen?" Mandy asked.

"I get detention at lunch, and he has detention for a week."

"How did he mange that?" Nathan asked.

"He apparently was the one who started the fight and threw the most punches. And he's already been in too much trouble."

"He deserved it." Mandy said.

"But detention isn't what I'm worried about." Lyla said, "It's my Mom."

"She doesn't like it when the school calls, does she." Mandy said with an evil grin. Lyla's teachers had called about 5 times that year to tell Amy and Sonic that Lyla had got into trouble.

"But I'm doing better then last year." Lyla said. Mandy snorted.

"Yeah, you mange to get an 81% average even though you had seven detentions missed a lot of home work and flunked three tests. This year, you've had three detentions, played hooky only twice, and have flunked two tests." Amy was pretty strict with Lyla's school habits.

"Almost flunked the second, but I've got in more of my homework. And besides, the last time I heard, you weren't perfect either." Lyla shot back. Mandy had a 69% average. Mandy was about to say something in defense when the ball rang. Everyone had gathered up their stuff when Mr. Harper said, "Page 56 questions 1 to 7 are for homework." He received a bunch of groans.

"I can't believe this!" Amy was furious. Lyla was on the couch and Sonic was sitting on the love seat. Amy was pacing back and forth in front of Lyla, constantly stopping to talk to Lyla in the face.

"I can't believe this! Another detention, and all because of a bet! I hope he punched some sense into you, Lyla the Hedgehog. This is your fifth detention, fifth! I can't believe this."

"Well believe it Mom. I won the race and Rocket lost his cool and beat me up!"

"You shouldn't have been racing in the first place. And I had enough of this. You're grounded for a week." Amy said, and stood beside Sonic. Lyla jumped up.

"WHAT! That's not fair! Dad, tell Mom that's so not fair!"

"Well, she did get the worst in the fight." Sonic said, trying to think of something.

"So?" Amy asked.

"How about just the weekend. I think she'll know not to fight again." Sonic gave Lyla the and–you–won't–will–you look. Lyla gave him a thank–you–for–saving-my–life look.

"Fine." Amy said giving in. Lyla was happy enough. There wasn't anything going on anyway. But Lyla went to her basement room and Amy stormed to her room. That was the one thing Sonic hated about living with woman; they almost always had something to be mad about and almost stayed that way all day. Sonic sighed and went after Amy. She was sitting on the bed. Sonic sat beside Amy and put his arm around her.

"What are we going to do with her? She gets into trouble too often. She takes too many risks. She doesn't take anything seriously. I don't know what to do. Am I even doing things right?" Sonic hugged her.

"She's too much like you. And she runs like you, acts like you, she even favors you." Amy said.

"But she looks like you, and acts like you the majority of the time. You have to admit that. That's probably why you two don't get along so well. And don't worry. Haven't you two had tons of augments, yet you two forgive each other about a day after? So what are you worried about?" Sonic asked. Amy sighed before answering.

"I'm afraid she'll get herself into deep trouble one day, or hurt herself bad or-"

"You shouldn't think about things like that." Sonic cut Amy off and continued, "I'm going to see if Lyla's ok. And Amy, smile!" Amy couldn't help but smile and with that Sonic went down stairs to check on Lyla.

Sonic knocked on the door before letting himself in. He knew that she wouldn't answer so he let himself in. Lyla was sitting on her bed. Her bed was in the middle of the room with a small desk right beside it, a dresser across from that, a small walk in closet and the walls were covered with posters and printed pictures. Lyla was reading a comic with her MP 3 in her ears. Sonic walked up to the bed, and started tickling her. Lyla was very ticklish and started laughing.

"Let…me…ha ha…go Eggman!" Lyla said between laughs. Sonic and Lyla had this game when Lyla was little. She'd never seen Eggman, but heard a lot about him. Lyla use to pretend that Sonic was Eggman and she was the hero battling Eggman. Lyla often won. Sometimes she and Sonic still played it.

"You never will beat me, you filthy rat." Sonic said imitating Eggman, still tickling her. Lyla managed to jump up and tickle him back.

"I've got you now Eggman." It was Sonic's turn to laugh.

"Ok, ok you got me." Both sat on the bed. Lyla asked, "So what's up?"

"Well, your Mom's pretty worried about you. She doesn't like seeing you get into trouble." Lyla looked at the floor.

"What ever I do seems to be trouble to her. Nothing is good enough for her."

"Hey! I'm not perfect, yet I must have been good enough for your Mom, 'cause she married me." This made Lyla laugh. A soft knock came from the door and Amy poked her head in.

"Do you guys want to go out for pizza tonight?" And with that, Lyla's room was deserted.

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