Thrown out on the Street
Chapter 1: Kicked out and taken in
"I can't believe they would do this to me!" A little bee cried in an alleyway trying to cover up his tears that were streaming down his face. "I'm only six years old, what did they expect would happen if they leave me at the office alone for hours with no food already cooked!"
*Flashback*
"Oh no! This isn't good!" Charmy cried as the fire on the stove started to grow. "NO no no no no fire go out, go out! Why the heck don't we have a fire extinguisher in here?!" Charmy exclaimed.
"Wait! The phone!" Charmy flew to the phone and quickly dialled 911. "Hello? Help I need the fire department quickly my house is on fire! Ah!" Charmy cried as the fire spread from the kitchen to the living room. "Ok my address is 536 Mobian street. Hurry!" He cried as the fire grew closer and burned the phone in the process.
Charmy quickly flew out the window and grabbed the hose from the side of the house and quickly turned the lever on. He was glad to see that their water supply hadn't been cut off yet and flew back in through the same window.
At this point the fire had almost burned the entire room and black smoke filled the room. Charmy instantly started choking on the smoke and took his helmet off and covered his mouth with it with his left hand and used his right hand to move the hose around the room, but it did no good the water wasn't strong enough and just grew larger.
Finally Charmy started to feel dizzy and fell to the ground. The impact caused Charmy to become unconscious as the fire started to surround him. Just when it looked like his life was about to end the door was kicked down by a familiar purple Chameleon. He spotted Charmy almost instantly and dodged the fire and bits of debris. Once he reached Charmy he checked his pulse and picked up and left through the same path.
Once out the fireman finally arrived and immediately proceeded to put out the fire. Vector was not too far away who Espio immediately made his way to. Vector however did not pay attention to him and just stared at the burning building.
After a minute Charmy started to gain consciousness and opened his eye's which Espio noticed quickly. "Charmy you're awake!" He cried in relief.
"W-what have you done?" Vector finally spoke and fell to his knees. "I grew up in that house!" He cried as he banged his fist into the ground.
"V-Vector I-" Charmy started.
"I made it into the agency it was today!" Vector continued with clear tears forming from in his eyes. "And look what you did to it!"
Espio grabbed hold of Vectors shoulder and proceeded to calm him down. "Vector calm down." He whispered to his boss.
"No I will not!" Vector yelled at the ninja. "Charmy. I hate to have to do this, but… You're fired! I don't want to see you face in my agency again!"
At that moment Charmy felt like his world froze. Like his life just ended with Vectors words. "Vector! Are you crazy?! He'll die on the streets at his age!" Espio cried to the Crocodile. Then he turned back to Charmy to find him already flying away with his arms drooped down. "Charmy!"
The bee stopped, but didn't turn around. "Don't worry about me Espio. I won't bother either of you again." Charmy said with clear sorrow in his crackling voice.
"No Charmy, Vector just isn't thinking straight!" Espio pleaded. Charmy however didn't turn back and continued. "Vector please say something!" Vector didn't make a sound and just let the bee fly off.
*End Flashback*
A black red hedgehog was walking through the streets of Station square, holding up his umbrella to protect his fur from the rain. While passing an alley he heard faint sob's coming from the back wall. He was curious so he entered the alley and proceeded towards the location of the sob's. The noise led him to a pile of old cardboard boxes. He moved them out of the way to find a small young bee crying into his hands. The hedgehog recognized this bee and spoke. "Charmy?"
The bee halted his sobbing and lifted his hand from his hands to see the hedgehog in front of him. "S-Shadow?" Charmy whispered.
"What are you doing in this alleyway?" Shadow asked as he knelt down in front of the bee.
Charmy put his face into his hands again and spoke in between sobs. "V-Vector kicked m-me out after I b-burned the office down."
Shadow took a step back. "You… burned own the office?" He asked.
"Y-yeah." Charmy sobbed. "It was a complete accident! I was just hungry and they didn't leave anything for me to eat so I tried to cook something myself!"
Shadow sighed in relief now knowing that Charmy didn't do it intentionally. He then looked at the bee more closely and saw that he was starting to get fairly skinny and looked slightly pale. "How… long ago was that?" Shadow asked.
Charmy thought for a second. "About a week ag-" Charmy was interrupted by a sudden sicking sensation and quickly grabbed one of the boxes puked straight into it. After a couple of seconds Charmy lifted his head and put the box aside.
This was too much for Shadow so got up and extended his hand. "Come on." He muttered.
"Huh?" Charmy looked him confused.
"I may not be the nicest person in the world, but I won't stand to see a six year old child die on the street." Shadow explained. "So come on. You can stay with me for now."
Charmy was shocked that Shadow had offered him a place to stay. Him of all people. Regardless he took Shadow hand and walked with him to his home.
Once there they were stand in front of a small, but nice looking house. From here Charmy could see that it had two floors and an attic. The house itself was painted black with the front door being red, obviously to match Shadow fur colour.
Shadow was rummaging through his pockets to find his key. He was wearing red track pants that reached down to the bottom of his shoes; he also wore a black jacket with a white undershirt. Finally Shadow found his house key and unlocked the door. Once inside Shadow allowed Charmy to look around the houses interior while he set up the guest bedroom.
The house mostly contained the typical ordinary household appliances. The kitchen had a fancy fridge, a stove which Charmy stayed away from like it was poison, a microwave, and an oven. The living room simply had an expensive TV and a couch. He didn't dare enter Shadow's room without permission so continued onto the garage. Charmy opened the door to the garage and flipped the light switch to find it contained, the bike Shadow had grown attached to an even painted it plain and imprinted his logo on the sides. The other thing it contained was a G.U.N buggy.
"Cool!" Charmy cried while he kept his voice low. Charmy had always admired Shadow since he helped him find the five top secret disks back on the nearly destroyed prison island during the black arms invasion.
Charmy closed the garage door and made his way back to the staircase to find Shadow half way down. Shadow noticed him and motioned for him to follow him up to the second floor. They both walked through the small hallway till they were at the end and opened the last door on the left side.
Once the door was open Charmy looked around the room in amazement. The room had a bed, a TV with austar connected as well as an Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii U, and a Sega Dreamcast! There was also a desk with tons of drawing books, colouring books, reading books, and puzzle books, as well as a computer on the right side of the desk. "Wow!" Charmy exclaimed in excitement. "Thank you so much Shadow! This is awesome! But how could you afford all this?" Charmy asked curiously.
Shadow chuckled for a second. "Let's just say that G.U.N has a very… generous payment." He explained with a smirk. "I'm going to get dinner started. Bet you will be happy to eat something after a week of starvation huh?" Shadow asked slightly happy. Charmy nodded happily at the sound of that. Shadow left the room to prepare dinner for the two of them while Charmy stayed in his new room and turned the TV on to watch some cartoons.
Shadow was down stair in the kitchen cooking up some stake with some vegetables. While Shadow was chopping up some carrots however he heard a loud thump from the second floor and stopped what he was doing to check out the source of the noise. Shadow suspected that Charmy must have dropped something or maybe he just fell over, but once he opened his door all he found was an unconscious bee in the middle of the floor. "Charmy!" Was all he said before he placed him up onto the bed and quickly grabbed the phone and dialled in a number.
To be continued…