Trapped with all of them
Chapter 1
Sonic the hedgehog stared out of the finely crafted large window into the endless vacuum some people preferred to call "space". He squinted his large, emerald eyes in a mix of confusion and frustration. In retrospect, he had no reason to be frustrated. In fact he should have been rejoicing-
"This…" he said, still staring into the pitched darkness.
"Is a stupid idea!!" he said whipping around to face Shadow the hedgehog.
"What?" replied the ebon male.
"Why the hell did you build a house for us on the tip of the abandoned and in-a-state-of-disrepair eclipse cannon in space!? Huh?" he yelled, holding his hands in front of his own face, twitching them.
"There isn't even furniture!" he yelled, pretending to cry.
"Hah, that's what you think!" said Shadow, crossing his arms.
"For your information, I had Knuckles haul over all of our stuff."
Sonic curled his upper lip and looked at the ceiling.
"Yuck! He bathes in river water, I don't want his grime on my stuff!" as he said this, he got a picture of knuckles washing himself in a waterfall, whistling.
"Shut up" came a deep voice from behind him as a large boot was shoved into the back of his skull.
"You're lucky I'm even willing to."
Knuckles the echidna now stood at the door way to the house with many large boxes poorly wrapped up in duct tape wresting on his broad shoulders.
"Here you go" he said, as he threw one of the largest boxed into Sonics' face, causing him to scream in pain.
"Were are the beds?" asked shadow as Knuckles set down the remainder of the boxes, one of them with the label "this side up" facing the floor.
"Don't nag, they're all outside, all three." He said, jabbing towards the hallway, even though he had clearly used the phrase "outside".
Shadow made a very disgruntled face.
"That's it?!" he screamed, eyes bugging out of his head as he stared at the three small beds.
"Problem?" asked Knuckles.
"Yeah, there are more than three of us!"
Knuckles quickly counted everyone in the room.
Sonic waved.
"Um shadow, did you count yourself twice?" asked Knuckles with half-lidded eyes, beginning to doubt shadows' intelligence.
"HUH?? No no no no no…..no. you don't understand; besides us three, there are others coming too. You'll have to share a bed with someone…"
Knuckles face soon became stricken with irritation.
"Do you think I'm gay?!" as he screamed this, a picture formed in his head of sonic, in the same bed as him, reaching towards him with a disturbed look on his face.
"Fine then, you can sleep with a girl…" shadow said as he whipped out a clipboard labeled "Shadows' clipboard for planning".
"Good!" said Knuckles satisfied he didn't have to sleep with the same gender.
"Who else is coming?" Knuckles asked Shadow, whom looked down at his clipboard to answer Knuckles.
"Well there's Tails…Amy Rose… and Rouge."
As he said "Rouge", Knuckles face went from calm, to a worried look that began to sweat profusely.
Shadow slowly looked up from his clipboard to Knuckles quavering facial expressions.
"What?!" he asked Knuckles.
"Well the bedroom's set up." Said sonic, looking at the newly decorated room.
The room's mechanics had been covered up by the impressive handiwork of shadow, and had a white wallpaper to give the room a nicer look. The three beds where set up with about a foot of space in-between them. On the side of knuckles bed was a vanity, in-between his and Sonics' was a closet with a clever sign hanging from it marked "closet". And in between sonic and shadows' bed was a puny dresser.
"How come you guys get a dresser, and I get a crummy closet?" accused Knuckles.
"You're lucky you got that! You hardly have any clothes to store at all! Not to mention I gave you the vanity- I've even gone out of my way to build a shrine for the master emerald else ware in the house!"
Knuckles just blew steam, growling to himself.
"Hey do we have any food?" asked sonic, rubbing his chin.
"No, as a matter of fact we don't! I would ask Knuckles to go out and get food, but he's a freaking vegetarian and would probably get us a nice sopping mound oaf tofu for dinner!"
"Now you're making fun of me because of our lack of nourishment!? You stupid emo-"
Before he could finish his comeback, shadow had already charged him, and they had begun to beat the hell out of each other.
Sonic watched by idly until he decided to say:
"I have a coupon for that fancy interplanetary restaurant: "expensive cuisine"
Shadow and Knuckles ceased fighting immediately. Shadow ran over to Sonic and quickly snatched the slip from his hand. As he read it, realizing it was legitimate, he began to shout:
"How the hell did you get a coupon for one of the fanciest restaurants in the galaxy?! They make you dress up all fancy just to get in there!"
"I don't get why it's such a big deal…" Sonic said stupidly, raising one eyebrow in a state of absentmindedness.
"You fail to grasp the gravity of the matter…" replied Shadow.
"Now we'll be able to get all six of us dinner, hah, that's a good start." Said Knuckles with a slight grin creeping across his unshaven face.
"Um, you guys do realize it's just a coupon, not a "eat for free" thing, right?" said Sonic.
"Yes I know that, you unintelligible hedgehog!" said Shadow, lashing back at him with an unnecessary insult.
"I wonder when everyone else will get here?" questioned Sonic as Shadow made registrations.
"Hah, for all I care they can take as much time as they want!" retaliated Knuckles, leaving the room in a cloud of frustration, and leaving Sonic confused.
"Damn, I need some fresh air-I'm already sick of these guys." Said Knuckles as he walked out of the room toward the door. (Yes I realize it would be impossible for knuckles to get fresh "air", but w/e.).
As the echidna approached the door, it swung open, and he was met face to face with none other than Rouge the bat.
"AAAARRGGHH!" they yelled in unison, pointing accusing fingers at each other.
"aaaghhh!"
"grahhhgh!"
"Rrrghhhhhhhh…." They both grunted as they contorted their bodies in frustration, clutching their throbbing skulls.
"Rouge must be here…" said Shadow, who had heard the two screaming at eachother from the other room.
Rouge, as soon as she had laid eyes on the hedgehog, ran over and grabbed him by the scruff of the fur on his chest.
"Sh-sh-shadow! Why did you set me up to this?! You didn't say he would be here!!"
"Oh come now Rouge, you wouldn't be so irritated if you didn't like him so much."
Rouge turned crimson red and stormed off, muttering to herself: "Condescending hedgehog!"
"Now she's really on fire-she's got the hots for you man…"
"LoL!" said shadow as he pointed at Knuckles reddening face.
At that moment, Amy Rose walked into the room, arms spread wide.
"Hello everybody! It's me, Amy Ro- aaaahhhhh!" she screamed as she looked on with horror as Knuckles viscously lunged at Sonic and Shadow.
Knuckles had Sonic in a one armed camel clutch, and in his free hand, he held Shadow in the air by his throat.
"Stop! Ackk! My back- I look like the Nike logo!!" Sonic screamed in immeasurable pain.
All shadow was able to get out of his mouth was:
"Oxygen…
Need…
To…
BREATH!". As he sputtered, he clawed desperately at the air in a pathetic attempt to get oxygen.
"Take back what you said about me and Rouge having a crush on each other!" yelled Knuckles in a blind fury.
Amy, whose presence had been unknown to the echidna, said in shock:
"Knuckles and Rouge like each other?"
"AAAARRGGHHH!" yelled Knuckles in frustration.
"Stop overreacting, you just almost killed me and you don't see me screaming" Said Shadow calmly.
"I wonder when tails will get here?" pondered Sonic to himself.
"At this rate, when Hell freezes over" said Shadow.
Sonic then turned his head to the doorway to see none other than Tails standing in the doorway with a horrified look on his face. His only luggage was a suitcase with the label: "Tails' box for storing".
"Tails, when did you get here?" asked Sonic, approaching the fox.
"I came by following Amy, who was following Rouge, who was following Knuckles-"
At the mention of Rouge following him, Knuckles made a strange spasmodic twitch in the background.
"- then I saw Knuckles attacking you and Shadow, so I kept out of it. What was he so upset about anyway?"
Sonic began to whisper the reason for knuckles attack to Tails, as Knuckles ran toward them screaming: "Don't tell tails!"
"That comes as no surprise to me." Said Tails, walking away to who knows where.
Knuckles was about to offer an explanation to Tails, but was interrupted by Shadow, who announced:
"Why are we talking about romance!? Everyone unpack and get into your fancy dress-lets go! Were going out to dinner, we have reservations, and I do not want to be late!"
Little did Shadow know that he would regret going out to dinner with all of them.
AUTHORS NOTE: ok, if this story made little sense or was hard to follow, it is because it is a written form of a comic I recently wrote. I had always wanted to see what a comic would look like written, so this is like my "experiment".
If you're going to criticize, criticize the story, not me, ok?
I will continue work on my other story, "MediAn"
Eventually.