A Boy, a Girl, and Hedgehog 2: The Good, the Bad, and the Spiky

Chapter 1

Tonight at Six

"I don't see it." I said to David, as he pointed to the map on Google Earth. "It's right there! You can't tell that's where EggmanLand was?" He said as he tapped the computer screen. "No, David. It's not there dude." I said as I laughed. He shrugged and closed the window. "Either way…" He began to say, "It's not there?" I cut him off. "I don't think the government would allow that type of information to get out, you know?" he nodded his head. "Yeah, I guess." I jumped on his couch and pulled out my cell phone. It has been almost a year since our adventure with Sonic, nothing interesting has really happened since then. Okay, granted, I turned seventeen. But I don't find that much of a big deal. The clean up of Hillsboro and everywhere around it ended a few months ago. Surprisingly, there wasn't too much damage, and no one got severely hurt, that was a major plus. Once people started disappearing, everybody else took cover luckily.

I always thought that the government was doing a good job covering up everything. But I tried to not think about that as much. "Well, hey I'm going to be getting home." David looked over at me, "Do you want a ride?" I shook my head, "Nah, I'll walk. It's a nice day, so you know I might be back." David chuckled, "Alright see ya later." I walked out the door and down the steps of the apartments. I looked over at the apartment building that the robot attacked. It was actually an entirely new building; I guessed the damages were too serious to just rebuild the destroyed part. I walked down the street and passed our friend Deanna's apartment in the next apartment complex over. "Hmmm, are you home?" I looked at the top level window, the blinds were closed. So I looked for her van. "Nope." She wasn't there, I'd text her later and hang out with her some other time. I kept on walking.

I got into deep thought while I was walking. I thought about Sonic, and our adventure. I chuckled at the fun it was, I wished it would happen again. I turned and took a shortcut through the school. Tomorrow was the last day of school before Spring Break, so school was out for the next week. I was excited for that. It was our Junior year this year, I was excited for it to end. It was a great year though. I didn't go around running my mouth about Sonic and what actually happened during those days a year ago. It was more frowned upon for some reason, I don't know why. Then again, I never thought twice about it. I figured I would keep my mouth shut anyways. After my shortcut through school I walked out the back subdivision and down to my road, I jogged the rest of the way home. When I got to my property I stopped and looked back, "Eh, not the fastest I've ever gone."

I walked up my long driveway; my two dogs Austin and Biscuit were barking and jumping. I knelt down and petted them, "Hey boys." I said as I patted their heads. I stood back up straight and walked in the house. No one was home yet. I went and grabbed a glass of water and sat down on the couch to rest. I looked at the clock, it was almost 4:00. Mom would be doing her daily routine of calling and seeing what I was up to on her way home from work. I flipped on the T.V. and started scrolling through channels. Nothing was on, but some judge shows. They always kinda interested me, so I decided to watch one.

My phone began to buzz, "There's mama!" I said as I grabbed my cell phone and answered it. "Hello?" I answered, "Hey, are you home?" My mom asked me, "Yeah." I replied, "Will you make the coffee?" I face palmed, "Oh so now you are going to tell me to make it over the phone, you normally tell me when you get here, what's up with that?" I laughed. "I dunno, less to do later?" she replied with a small giggle, "Yeah, I guess I'll make it for you." I told her as I stared at the T.V. The judge show went to a commercial. It was previewing the upcoming 6 o'clock news. My mom started talking about work, and about her boss who is a jerk, and our friend Li. I listened to her stories, but multitasked, a Channel 2 News commercial then started saying something interesting. It was about what happened a year ago! "Mom-whoa!" I said as I dropped the remote and my phone. I scrambled to pick up the remote and rewind the T.V.

"What?" Mom quickly asked me, "Hold on, it something about what happened last year, with Sonic." I rewound the T.V. using the DVR. The news lady said,

"Real live superheroes? Two teens are discovered as the ones who saved us all from certain destruction. More on who they are, at six."

I dropped the remote, and my cell phone and stared at the T.V. "I-I can't believe it!" I said as I put my hands on my head. "Dylan? Dylan?" I heard my phone talking. I reached down and grabbed it, "Mom, it was about me and Courtney!" there was a sudden silence. "Record it, and we will watch it when I get home." She said sternly. "Okay, I gotta text Courtney, bye." I said, "Bye." Mom replied. My hands were shaking as I texted Court and told her to turn on the Channel 2 News at Six. She said she would. I nervously waited for six to come by, I didn't know if this was going to be bad, or be good. We could possibly be recognized at heroes, but that comes at a cost, a lot of unwanted attention.

When mom got home she changed and sat down on the couch with me. "Well, we really didn't have to record it, we still have an hour." I said to her. She shrugged, "Oh well, where's Sharami and Chris?" I had no clue where they were actually. "Probably at Jessie and Jordan's." I said, Jessie was Chris' sister and they both went there a lot. "What do you think this is going to be about?" I asked my mom, as I pointed to the T.V. "I don't know," She replied, "But whatever it is, don't worry." I could tell she really didn't know what to say to my question, she was probably just as nervous as I was. We flipped through the channels watching different things to burn time. When six came around, we both watched silently as the news started. They did a couple of smaller things, like the weather before the got to their top story.

"A brutal take over of Hillsboro, was it the start of something much bigger? Luckily, the day was saved by two teenagers." A news lady wearing a red dress said, "Many people saw the two teenagers pick up what appeared to be a bomb from the center of Hillsboro, carrying it out of the atmosphere just before it went off. Are they true heroes? Or were they part of the elaborate plan for world domination?" I shook my head, "I would never!" My mom shushed me. "We have video evidence of the two teens. They somehow seemed to acquire superhuman abilities. Top scientists working on the investigation say it was physically impossible. But others claim to have seen the truth. We received a call from a local Hillsboro woman, claiming to have captured it on film."

"Please don't have a video, please oh please don't have a video…" I said as I bit my nails. "Here is the exclusive video." I face palmed. "Crap." I said as a video began to play on the T.V. It was me and Court in our super forms, the video started at the time when I threw Eggman down, and was examining the bomb. I couldn't even tell it was me. "Wow, you look flipping cool." Mom said without taking her eyes of the T.V. "Yeah, I guess I kinda do." I said as I laughed. The person holding the camera was shaky, as they probably figured they would be the only one with actual footage. It showed me beginning to pick up the bomb, and then Court flying in to help. As we flew into the air with the bomb, the camera person zoomed in right on our faces and right when I looked back at all the people cheering. Turns out Court did the same exact thing. "You know, I couldn't really tell it was you and Courtney at first…" My mom began to say, "But now you can?" I finished her sentence. "Yes, but only because you are my son." She said with a straight face.

The video went until we were out of the atmosphere, and it showed the bomb exploding, followed by a lot of cheering and hollering. Then it was over. "That's it! We have those two to thank for the protection of our world!" the news lady carried on. "We have had video specialists take a screenshot and digitally enhance the picture of the two heroes. Although we have no reports on names, or any other information about the two, more investigating is to be done in Hillsboro tomorrow." She said as a picture came up on the screen of me and Court's faces. "Well, hopefully no one will realize who the true identity you two are. Look, you can't really tell, see? You're glowing and your hair is straight and golden yellow. I think you'll be fine." My mom said. I took a breath of relief and looked down at my phone; I had just gotten a text. Actually, I had just gotten three texts.

Dylan! I just saw you on the news!

OMG! I can't believe it was you!

How did you do that?

The first three texts of many, basically saying the same thing, but luckily they were all from known friends and numbers. So I shook off the scared feeling and texted them all back, and explained. They all agreed to keep their mouths shut. I was very relieved. I was a little excited, now that some people knew though. Out of all the texts, Court's was the first one. It said, I can't believe it! My parents are freaking out; they are worried that something bad might happen. I reassured her and told her it was hard to tell that it was us in the first place, and that it would be okay. She agreed and her parents eventually calmed down. I kinda wanted to see the look on her oldest little brother Kyle's face, I like to mess with Kyle. He thinks I hate him, but I actually think of him as more of a "little brother that I like to pick on a lot" type thing. It's okay though, he doesn't have to believe that I actually like him though; it makes it more fun, even though I constantly tell him I do.

We watched the rest of the news, just incase anything would be called in and be considered breaking news or something. Nothing did, thank goodness. I then went upstairs, put on music and laid in my bed, just so I could think. Man, I hope no one else realizes that was us, that could get around school, and then possibly worse. I tried not to think about it. So I jumped up and got on the computer, I wasted about two and a half more hours before I went to bed. But when I went to bed, my body didn't want to go to sleep, I felt tired, but I just couldn't go to sleep. I guess it was because of I was a little in shock, or it could be because tomorrow was my last day of school before I was free for Spring Break. Nothing to do but see friends, relax, and have fun. But, after laying there for about an hour, I finally drifted off into sleep.