Chapter 1: No Hope?
Water drizzled from the watering can onto the flower. The girl smiled at her flowers, her brown pigtails blew in the wind.
"Kailey!" she heard a voice behind her say.
She didn't even turn around, she already knew who it was. "Good morning, Josh," she said when the footsteps got louder.
"Mornin'."
Kailey turned around to face him. "Do you ever comb your hair?" she asked motioning to his blue spiked hairdo.
"Of course I do! How do you think it stays like this?" he pointed at his hair.
Kailey rolled her eyes.
Josh frowned at Kailey's house.
She turned to see what he was frowning at then turned back to him. "What is it?"
"Why did you pick the house at the edge of town away from everyone?"
"It was a good spot for my garden. Here I can be alone just me and my flowers," she narrowed her eyes at him, "except someone keeps coming over here."
"What? You'd kick your own brother out of your garden?"
"I'm teasing you of course!" she walked away and Josh followed her. "So why did you pick the house near Town Hall?"
"That's easy, so I could be in the middle of all the action!"
"Of course," she smiled slightly. "So what are we doing today?"
He ran up to walk beside her. "Usual schedule I suppose, check Nook's shop, check the Able Sister's shop, check the recycling bin, fish, catch bugs, go to the beach…"
She looked down. "I'm not sure I feel like playing much today."
He looked at her, concerned. "Why not?"
"I just don't feel like it."
"Is it because of what happened to Lucy the other day?"
She looked away.
"Just because the town's not in the best shape right now doesn't mean we can't have fun. What? No one else is happy so you feel guilty being happy?"
She looked up. "It's just-"
He put his hands on her shoulders and turned her toward him. "Just smile, Kailey."
"Smile?"
"Sometimes smiling can make things a little better. Besides if we don't then who's going to?"
"Now you sound like mom," she said pulling away from him. She walked away.
"Do I really?" he asked before following her.
They kept walking toward Tom Nook's shop. Two animals ran past them.
"Someone stop them!" a Dalmatian screamed as she ran up.
"What's wrong Portia?" asked Kailey.
"Those ruffians just ran off with my art collection!"
Kailey looked down.
"Kailey…," said Josh.
She looked up at him. "Just smile?" she asked with a look that to Josh seemed to say "I use to trust you".
"Kailey-"
"I got to go!" she ran off.
He sighed and looked up at the bright blue sky. "If there's a shooting star up there somewhere then I wish someone, anyone would come and save us, someone my sister could actually trust," he whispered. He didn't believe in wishing upon stars, yet there he was wishing anyways.
Evil laughter echoed through the metal halls. "Muahuahuahuahuahuahua! Any minute now that pest will come crashing in here and I'll be rid of him forever! Is that machine ready?"
"Yes," said a small robot.
He laughed evilly again. "All we have to do is wait."
Crash!
A blue ball came spin-balling through the door and landed in the middle of the room. "What's the big idea this time, Eggman? Kidnapping Amy and Cream, then sending Cream to tell me Amy's in trouble. You're obviously setting a trap for me, so what is it?"
"Ah, Sonic, you're just in time. Behold!" Eggman held out his hand as a giant robot slowly stepped forward from the back of the room.
The robot was rectangular shaped and painted red and there was a symbol that looked like Eggman's face painted on it's chest.
"The Egg Guard!"
"You seriously don't have much imagination when it comes to names."
"Nice knowing you, Sonic the Hedgehog," Eggman grinned evilly.
Sonic looked up at the Egg Guard. "Can we make this quick? I'm kinda strapped for time."
The Egg Guard tried to stomp him but he jumped to the side.
"Guess that's a no," he ran to the back of the room and ran up the wall. When he got high up on the wall he leaped off and hit the back of the Egg Guard's head.
It fell and crashed through a wall.
Eggman gaped.
Sonic landed on his feet. "Give it up, you can't kill me. You should know that from the last one hundred times you tried," he stepped closer to Eggman.
Eggman fell on his knees. "Please don't hurt me, I can change!"
"Oh come on! Last time you tried that you split the world in to pieces and turned me in to a werehog. Just let Amy go so I can get out of here before she catches me."
A sly smile came across Eggman's face. He slammed his fist on a button on a control board next to him.
The sounds of a machine starting were heard. Lights came on in the back of the room to reveal a gate looking machine.
Sonic's head whipped around when he heard the machine.
A portal opened in the gate.
Sonic took a step back. "Woah!"
The Egg Guards eyes lit up and it slowly lifted it's head, it jumped to it's feet shaking the whole room in the process.
"Huh?" Sonic turned around in time to see the Egg Guard's giant hand grab him. He struggled to get free but failed.
The giant robot threw him toward the gate.
Eggman laughed evilly as Sonic disappeared into the portal.