I WAS PLAYING ON MY BROTHER'S PS2 WITH A SONIC GAME WHEN I CAME UP WITH THE IDEA TO INSERT AN OC INTO SONIC X. I'M KINDA OUT OF MY DEPTH HERE, SEEING AS I KNOW NEXT TO NOTHING ABOUT THE SONIC THE HEDGEHOG FRANCHISE, BUT WISH ME LUCK! I DON'T OWN SONIC THE HEDGEHOG! I OWN RAIN! THIS CHAPTER TAKES PLACE DURING EPISODE 1.

RAIN THE HEDGEHOG

PROLOGUE: WHAT THE HELL!

15-year-old Ariana 'Rain' Johnson lay on her bed, facing the ceiling, her head draped over the edge of the bed as she stared upside-down at her TV screen, flipping through the channels. "Nothing...nothing...nothing...WHY IS NOTHING ON!" She pulled herself up into a sitting position and slid off the edge of her bed, studying her reflection in the mirror. She had short black hair with blue highlights, tan skin, and silver-blue eyes that when she got angry, turned to 'ice daggers', as her friends put it. She went to get dressed, finally choosing a blue tank top, white leather jacket, faded blue jeans, and white leather boots. She ran down the stairs, grabbing her wallet and stuffing it into her back pocket.

"Hey, Rain! Come look at this! Guys, wouldn't this look SO good on Rain?" Rain stared in horror at the incredibly revealing blue dress. Tom, her best friend who was constantly trying to get her to go out with him, smirked. "I wouldn't mind seeing you in that." Rain glared at him, and his brother, David laughed. "Not like there's that much to see anyway." He and Tom bumped fists, and then he yelled in pain as Rain punched him in the face. "Asshole." She snatched the dress away from her friend. "Emily, there is no way in hell I'd be caught dead wearing that." Emily pouted. "But it's so cute!"

Rain rolled her eyes. Sometimes she wondered how it was that she and Emily were best friends, when they were complete opposites. Emily was captain of the cheerleaders, had almost every boy in the school panting after her, and was a complete airhead; Rain was a complete tomboy, was on the swim team, and took karate and had learned how to use a gun and knives. That bit had come from having a dad in the military. He wanted his baby girl to be able to look after herself, and had taught her since she was 12. Since her dad had died last year, her mom had withdrawn into herself, and started drinking heavily, so whenever Rain was actually at home, she found her mother passed out in her room. Rain had gotten a job to look after her and her mom six months ago, although her mom had found herself a 'boyfriend' who got her anything she wanted, but absolutely hated Rain. Therefore, her mother was now staying with him most of the time, and Rain had moved into a smaller apartment by herself. Her mother only came home enough that Rain wouldn't be taken by ACS.

Rain stretched. "See you guys. I gotta get home."

Rain threw her backpack down on the floor, and frowned when she heard her TV on in her room. "Huh?" She strode into her room. "That's odd." She went to turn it off, since it was turned to some show involving some blue hedgehog. "I didn't leave the TV-" She screamed as her TV screen began glowing, enveloping the room. Thirty seconds later, Rain had vanished from her room.

Rain groaned. "Ugh...what happened?" She shook her head and sat up. "Where am I?" She heard a loud siren and stood, heading for the noise. "Wonder what's going on..." She came to a hill and saw missiles chasing some blue streak, as well as giant robots. A plane roared overhead, and she heard a yell. "SONIC!" Who the hell is 'Sonic'? One of the missiles hit the plane, and it caught fire. Shit! Meanwhile, the blue blur had destroyed most of the robots.

Rain turned her attention back to the smoking plane, which had made a rough landing and was headed for a large rock. They're gonna crash! She raced towards them, but when she was about 15 feet away, the rock was smashed to pieces. "KNUCKLES!" Rain repressed a snort. 'Knuckles'? Does everyone here have weird names? Suddenly, yet another bright light began coming towards her. She groaned. "Not again..."

Rain got to her feet. "Great. Now where am I?" She looked up just as a blur blur smashed her, sending both of them flying over the edge of the road. "AAGH!" She looked up, and saw a blue hedgehog holding onto her. She looked down, and screamed, seeing the city about 20 miles below them as they hovered over it. "Sorry! Didn't see you!" She stared. "D-Did you just talk?" The hedgehog grinned. "Yeah." She scoffed. "Great. A blue talking hedgehog. What next?" He chuckled, then suddenly froze. "Hey, what's wrong?"

"A-A pool?" Rain glanced down. "Yeah. A pool. What's your point?" They dropped though the air like a stone, both screaming. This is gonna be one nasty hit. She crossed her arms as she fell into the pool. Both of them made a large splash, and she came to the surface. "Hey. Where'd Blue go?" She sighed and dove back down as someone else entered the pool. The boy grabbed one of the blue hedgehog's arms, and she grabbed the other, towing him up to the surface.

Rain, the boy, and the blue hedgehog sat by the pool. "That was close. Are you okay?"

"Yeah. Thanks a lot." Rain cut in. "Hate to interrupt your little emotional party, but what's going on here? How come you can talk?" The blue hedgehog frowned, sitting up. "Well, you can talk too."

"Duh! I'm human! I'm SUPPOSED to be able to talk, idiot!" He frowned at her. "You're not human."

"What are you, blind? Of course I am!" He sighed. "Look in the pool." She did, and saw a female hedgehog with dripping white fur, silver-blue eyes like her own, white quills with blue highlights, a blue crescent moon on its right arm. It wore a soaked blue tank top, faded blue jeans, and white boots. She looked back at the blue hedgehog. "Yeah. What's your point?"

"That's you." She shook her head. "No, it's not."

"Do you see any other hedgehogs around?" She froze. "Shit." The boy blinked. "That's awesome! That you two can talk, I mean. My name's Christopher. Do you have a name?" Rain crossed her arms. "Ariana Johnson. Call me Rain." He turned to the blue hedgehog. "And you?"

"Yeah, I have a name. It's Sonic the Hedgehog." Rain stared at him in incredulity. This was just too much. First she finds out the thing can TALK, then she finds out that SHE'S a hedgehog. Now she finds out that it's that blue hedgehog from those video games! Her eyes rolled back in her head, and she passed out. "Quick, catch her before she-" THUD! "Ooh."