I hope you guys like this one. It's how my FC Eternal, who is modeled after me, meets Sonic.

I had been walking through the city that day. It couldn't have been any more normal.

It was so normal it was boring.

A low engine could be heard over the horizon, but I didn't make much of it. I passed it off as a plane.

The engine humming soon became roaring, and I looked up to see a large red ship hovering over the city.

"What is that?" I muttered.

Before anyone could do anything, a panel on the bottom of the ship opened, and released many large robots.

I knew exactly who was doing it. Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik. I'd never met him, but I knew that he was bad. Real bad.

But Sonic the Hedgehog always stopped him...

I took a step back as the robots began to slowly swarm the city.

Sonic would be there any moment.

As if on que, the blue hedgehog raced on scene, followed by a small yellow fox and red echidna.

He ran right past me, and I felt the wind created form his speed. I'd never been so close to him like that.

Before I knew it, the whole city was sort of in terror.

Realizing the threat, I ran into the closest building I could find, that being a small banking office.

I hid there in the corner for a bit, watching Sonic do his work...

There was suddenly a crunching sound coming from above me. I looked up just as the ceiling caved in.

I screamed and put up my arms to block my face, and everything went black.

I truly thought I was going to die.

When I started to regain my senses, the first thing I was aware of was the wind hitting my face.

I forced my eyes open, despite the pounding in my head.

I was quite surprised to find Sonic himself carrying me.

I knew then that he and his friends had saved my life.

"Oh, hey! You're awake!" Sonic grinned wide, it was so... Differant... Seeing him so close.

"Sonic... Do you think you should be going so fast? She hit her head pretty hard..." the fox behind him suggested.

"Naw... I-It's fine..." I struggled to speak.

"But, Miss... You hit your head really hard and-" I didn't let the fox finnish.

"I'm fine. And don't call... Don't call me 'Miss'," I was losing conciousness, but I at least wanting him to know how not to adress me.

He said something, I could tell he did, but I couldn't make it out.

"Tails... I think she's out,"

When I woke up again, there was no wind, no movement.

I slowly opened my eyes. Something cold was on my forehead.

"Nngh? What the-?" I slowly sat up, removing the cold item from my face.

"Oh, you're up. How do you feel?" I looked across the room and my eyes slowly focused on the fox from before.

"Huh? I-I'm fine... I think... My head hurts, but I think I'm okay..." I rubbed an impact spot on my head and flinched feeling the bruise.

"You outta keep the ice pack on," the fox told me.

I turned my attention to the cold ice pack in my left hand. "Naw, I'm fine. I never use ice packs, really..." I said, tossing the ice pack onto the table by the couch, hoping he wouldn't mind.

"Alright. If you insist. I'm Miles, but please call me Tails," teh fox introduced himself.

"The name's Ashley. But I beg of you to call me Eternal," I said, leaning back to stretch.

"Nice to meet you," Tails turned in a rotating chair to a computer screen.

"Where's Sonic and that other guy?" I asked, shoving off the cover that was on me.

"'That other guy' is Knuckles, and he's asleep over there. Sonic is showering," Tails said, motioning to the red echidna whom was softly snoring in a recliner in the corner of the room.

"Oh... What happened?" I asked.

"You don't remember?" Tails turned to look at me.

"No, no! I remember what happened, I mean after I blacked out!" I laughed nervously. I always confused someone somehow.

"Well, if you hadn't screamed so loud, we wouldn't have heard you. So after we dispatched Eggman's machines, we dug you out and brought you here," Tails swiveled back to his computer.

"Ah, okay. Thanks. I'd be dead if it weren't for you guys," I said.

"It's nothing! It's what we do," Tails replied.

"Still. Thank you," no one had ever done anything like that for me before, and I felt like I needed to pay them back.

A door opened somewhere down the hall, and in a moment Sonic walked into the room with a bath towel draped over his shoulder.

Upon noticing me awake, he grinned. "Hey, you're up! How's your head?" he asked.

"Fine," I told him.

"That's good. Hey, I never cuaght your name," Sonic pulled the towel off his shoulder and dropping it on Knuckles' head.

I laughed as he did this. "Ashley. But please, call me Eternal," I replied. "And you don't have to go through the whole into thing. I know who you are,"

"Well okay then," Sonic nearly jumped into a chair across the room. "So, where do ya live?"

"What? Oh... Um... Eheh... I dunno..." I was sure I was blushing as I said this. I was embarassed that I didn't know my own adress.

"You don't know you're home adress? What about phone number?" Tails asked.

"Nope.. Sorry..."

"That's okay. Do you know you're way back from the point you were at before?" Sonic asked.

"Well, yeah... But..." I wasn't sure how to tell them I wanted to pay them back somehow.

"What? What's this?" Tails was suddenly leaning forward to almost be nose-to-screen with his computer.

"What is it?" I asked.

"No.. No this is not good... Not gooood..." the fox began rapidly typing and clicking.

Both Sonic and I got up to see what the fox was doing.

"I'm real lost here, but I'm going to ask; What's the problem?" I brushed some of my hair out of my face.

"It's hard to explain, but, Eggman is trying to open a portal to another demention, and send us there, as well as ship the sun there to send the entire planet into eternal darkness!" Tails was still banging on the keyboard.

"I see... That would really just kill the planet... Without the sun, there would be no rain, no way to fetilize plants because the water would just sit there. No solar energy to power some buildings, there would basically be no energy..." I was sort of rambling off what I learned from science.

"E-Exactly!" Tails sounded almost surprised that I caught on to the problem so fast.

"Greeeaaaatttt... Another scheme to stop..." Sonic laughed.

"I want to help," I bluntly came out and said it. I wanted to help them.

"Huh? You... Want to help us?" Tails looked at me like I was insane.

I nodded. "I want to repay you for saving my life. I want to help," I said.

"You don't know what kind of trouble you'd be getting into..." Tails sounded worried, which I could imagine that he was.

"I'm ready for it. I want to help you," I wasn't too scared at that point.

Tails sighed. "Okay..."

"Hey, I think it'll be fun to have a girl along!" Sonic clapped me on the shoulder.

"Don't underestimate me, got it?" I said, raising my fist as a warning.

Sonic laughed. "Got it!" he gave me a thumbs up.

The echidna then began to stir.

"What is on my face...?" he murmured.

Both Sonic and I laughed as he pulled the towel off his face, glaring at Sonic.

"Soniiiicc... When will you stop dumping your towles on me?" Knuckles roared.

"Never," Sonic laughed.

Knuckles sighed. "Aren't you supposed to take her home?" he pointed to me.

"She wants to stay and help," Sonic put his hand back on my shoulder.

"She wants to what?" Knuckles looked at me as if I were truly insane.

"I want to help. Question me if you will. But I'm helping, and that's that!" I told the red echidna.

"You're getting yourself into a ton of trouble," Knuckles tossed the towel behind him.

"Knuckles. At least have the decency to put them in the laundry basket," Tails sighed.

"Hey! He's the one who doesn't put them where they belong!" Knuckles growled, getting up and picking the towel up.

"At least he doesn't dump the on the floor," Tails made a few rapid clicks.

I returned to sit on the corner of the couch. I was a bit tired, but I expected that was from the hit I took.

Sonic grabbed a remote from off the table and pointed it at a stereo system, hitting a button at the top of it.

The stereo clicked on and Sonic began shuffling through CD's while the radio played country music.

Sonic found a CD he liked and shoved it in the stereo's CD player, and switched it to CD mode. He let it read the disc and hit the play button.

It took a moment for me to beable to hear the song, but once it came on I recognized it as Three Days Grace. It was the One-X album.

"You don't mind, do you?" Sonic asked, looked at me.

"Not at all. I've got a copy of this album at home," I replied, flicking my wrist dismisivly.

Sonic nodded and fell backwards into his chair.

Tails suddenly spun around in his chair to look at me. "Eternal! Won't your parents be worried about you?"

"Oh, shit..." I mumbled. "My mom... She's probably called the police by now..."

"Want me to take you back home to tell your mom that you're okay?" Sonic offered.

"Yes, please. I don't want her worrying as much as I sometimes hate her," I said.

"Alright then, c'mon," Sonic stood up.

I got up and let Sonic lead me to the door.

"Be back soon!" Sonic chirped and opened the door.

We headed out, and Sonic suddenly picked me up and started running.

"Huh? What are you doing?" I gasped.

"Don't ya wanna get there faster?" Sonic grinned.

"Yeah, but do you know where to go?" I asked.

"Yup. Back to the place where we found you," Sonic adjusted his grip on me.

I sighed. "Okay,"

I suddenly noticed that Sonic was really warm. I liked it. I had the urge to get closer to him, but I didn't want to do anything embarrasing. For either of us.

It didn't take but a moment to return to the place of the battle.

Sonic skidded to a stop and put me down. "Where to from here?"

"That way," I pointed towards where I knew home was.

"Then come on," Sonic sounded sort of impatient.

I started walking down the street. Sonic was right beside me.

"So, what's your mom like?" Sonic suddenly asked.

"Huh? Oh, she's... Old... She's short... Crabby... She has graying hair she likes to dye blonde... Her hair flips up in wings... She's just... Old, there's nothing else to say!" I really couldn't describe my mom well.

Sonic laughed at the 'old' part. "Your dad?"

"Well... I haven't seen him in three years, since my mom divorced him, but he was tall, fat... That's all I can really say..." I wasn't sure how to describe him either. But I missed him.

"Oh. Any sisters? Brothers?" Sonic asked.

"Nope. I'm an only child. My mom called me her 'miracle baby' once or twice..." I remembered my mom saying something about that a few times.

"Hmm... Sounds boring," Sonic concluded.

"Most of the time it is," I agreed.

We walked the rest of the way in silence. I don't like silence.

When we reached my house, there was a cop car there.

"Aw, crap..." I groaned.

I slowly knocked on the door.

The deadbolt unlocked after a moment, and then the knob lock, and then the door opened.

"Ashley! There you are! I went and called the police! Where the hell have you been?" my mom roared.

"She's been with me," Sonic said, stepping into my mother's view.

My mom seemed to calm down at the sight of Sonic. Even she trusted him. But she was obviosuly still mad.

"Let me explain. I was downtown walking around. Eggman sort of decided to attack the city, and I hid in a building. And it just so happens that the roof of that building fell in on me," I started to explain.

"You were there at that fight? And a roof fell in on you?" my mother was nearly screaming this time.

"Calm, down. She's okay. After the roof fell in and me and my friends got rid of old Egghead we dug her out and brought her to our place. She's fine," Sonic leaned back on the hood of our car.

"Well... Thank you for saving her. Now get in here, Ashley," my mom demanded.

"No. I'm helping them. They saved my life, so I'm repaying them. There's nothing you can do about it," I added the last part because I knew I'd be saying it eventually.

"No, you are not!" I saw that one coming.

"Yes, I am. I'll be in good hands," I knew very well that Sonic wouldn't let anything happen to me.

"How do you know?" my mom was so black and white. She didn't see much.

"Mom. I'll be with Sonic. He's the hero of Mobius. You think he wouldn't take care of me?" I shifted my right hand onto my hip.

"But what if you get hurt?" my mom countered.

"I won't let that happen," Sonic came next to me and put his hand on my left shoulder. "I'll keep her safe. It's my job,"

"But when will I see you again?" my mom asked.

"When we're not doing something I'll let her come see you, how about that?" Sonic offered.

My mom sighed in defeat. "Fine,"

"Thank you, mom," I said.

"Wanna pack anything to bring? It can get kinda boring when we're not fighting Eggbutt," Sonic said.

"Um... Yeah, sure!" I hated being bored, so why not.

I stepped inside then turned to Sonic. "Come on in," I said.

Sonic followed me in.

The police officer, who had not said anything since we arrived, stood, and began speaking to my mom.

I headed to my room, and started packing things.

"It's a mess in here," Sonic commented as he looked around.

"I know it is. I can't keep very much clean. I can't even keep a computer hard drive clean," I joked. But I meant it. I'm always losing computer files.

"I can tell. There's stuff piled everywhere..." Sonic was eying my dresser, which was covered in everything and anything. Topped with my headphones.

I grabbed the yellow backpack I often used for sleepovers, and shoved my sketchbook into it.

"You draw?" Sonic asked.

"Yeah. I always have. I've been creative since the day I was born, I guess," I told him as I packed in my pencils and drawing supplies.

"Are you right or left handed?" he asked, seemingly studying my drapes.

"Right. Why?" I pushed a few notebooks into the bag as well.

"Tails said something about left handed people being more creative," Sonic mused.

"I've heard that, too. I don't really belive it, but I've never met any left handed people, so I can't really say," I pulled my thick binder of art bases out of my school backpack and shoved it in there too.

"Ya know... I think this backpack is too small..." I said, looking at the straps.

"Then use a differant one," Sonic stated the obvious.

"Okay... This may take a bit," I muttered.

"Take all the time you need. As long as you don't take forever," Sonic said, still looking at my drapes.

I took out an uneeded things from my school backpack, and started putting everything I had packed in the other one into it.

After I'd done that, I put my iPod and it's headphones into the small pocket on the side of the backpack, where I usually put it when I took it to school.

I put the iPod's USB cord in there, too.

"You think Tails would mind if I charged my iPod with his computer?" I asked as I tossed a few erasers into the compartment I kept my writing things for school in.

"Probably not," Sonic said.

"Good. Charge on that thing sadly can't last forever," I then pulled a duffel bag out of my closet and started packing clothes into it.

"How much longer is this going to take?" Sonic asked, sounding impatient.

I laughed. "Not much longer, I hope,"

I packed as many clothes as my duffel bag would allow, threw in my hairbrush for good measure, and zipped it up. Not like I ever used my hairbrush...

I turned off the lamp and the power pack to it, and lifted my backpack over my shoulder, and picked up the duffel bag.

"I'm ready,"

"Alright, then. Let's go!" Sonic exclaimed.

I opened my door and walked out, Sonic following right next to me.

"I'll see ya later mom! And for the love of Christ, leave my power pack in my room off!" I yelled. My mom was obviously in her room. She was always disobeying my rule, though, which was 'Leave the power pack off when I'm not home'.

"Okay! Bye!" I doubted that she'd listen to what I said.

We headed out.

"Shall I carry you again?" Sonic offered.

"With my backpack and this thing?" I held up the duffel bag. "No. We'll walk,"

Sonic sighed. "Fine..." he sounded a bit sad at not bieng able to run, but I knew he'd live.

I also knew that it would be a long walk back to their place.