Chapter 1
Another Year, another Summer Camp
Sonic wasn't pleased with how fast the bus was going, 30-35 MPH tops. He could get at a run five times faster than this. But then again, if he did run, he'd probably get lost, so he had no choice but to take the bus.
But it stank, nay, REEKED of something horrible, plus that big red guy with the dreadlocks up front was spitting seeds out and they were landing in Sonics face, for his window was open, it was the only one open for some reason.
He soon got incredibly bored and tried to start a conversation with the guy next to him "Man, could this bus get any slower?"
The big purple cat simply stared at him with an odd, wide-eyed, somewhat confused look. Sonic decided to shut up.
He leaned forward on the seat in front of him, looked out the window, and saw the massive 75 foot trees, all green with the blessings of summer….
PHWAP his silent stare was interrupted with a black sunflower seed at the tip of his nose. Sonic could feel his face burning with rage, and he stood up with lightning speed "HEY, YOU BIG RED IDIOT! STOP SPITTING THOSE FREEKIN' SEEDS AT ME!"
Sonic ducked in fear as the big red guy stood up, noticing the massive fists is what made him duck. "WHO SAID THAT?" Sonic whimpered as the guys booming voice echoed shortly through the bus. "NOT MAN ENOUGH HUH? Fine!" screamed the red time-bomb.
Sonic got back up, eyes wide with fear. Then he looked to his left to see that the gigantic purple cat (and his apparent pet frog) was both looking at him, curiously.
"What?" asked Sonic, and was shocked to actually hear an answer from the huge feline.
"Nothing." said a very low and stupid sounding voice.
Sonic dashed off the bus, hungry for fresh air "OH LAND HOW I BLESS THEE WITH A KISS!" he screamed, making a large group of people laugh hysterically.
He then proceeded to run around and play his favorite game, which had no real title but it involved him running around and tapping random "Good looking" girls on the buttocks area and running away, making them look back at him in slight shock and admiration.
But, like he always did, he got tired of the game after a few minutes and decided to lean his back on a random building wall. Unfortunately for Sonic, this same random building wall was also being leaned on by a very silent red echidna with dreadlock-like spines, yet the blue hedgehog didn't notice him.
"Do I know you?" asked a familiar deep voice from behind Sonic, frightening him to the bone. But he turned and looked at the big red guy, who was now wearing a Crocodile-Dundee-like hat, which was drooped slightly over his eyes, and was still spitting seeds. But Sonic remained cool and collected.
"Well, you should know me, cuz I'm the only one around here who seems to be getting any chicks, you might need to take notes or somethin'"
The red echidna studied the blue, ego-filled idiot "Great, another punk." He said.
Sonic immediately jumped on this "What was that?"
"You heard me."
"No, no I don't believe I did."
"Alright, let me spell it out for you… YOU'RE A PUNK."
A crowd of people, having heard the latest insult, quickly gathered around the opposite colored duo, expecting (and hoping) for a fight.
Sonic glared at the red guy, hatefully. "What's your name…wait don't tell me, its Butt Lick isn't it?"
This, to Sonics pleasure, agitated the echidna to his core "No, in fact its not my name… my names Knuckles."
Sonic chuckled "Why's that? Is Butt Lick not an embarrassing enough name for ya?"
This hit the echidnas last nerve, hard "No," he said, grating his teeth. His left fist flew into the side of the over-egotistical hedgehogs face, knocking him to the ground as fast as the punch "THAT'S why."
The crowd was now laughing at him, even his co-admiring females. Sonics eyes darted to and fro, trying to think of something, he wasn't going to let this… buffoon make him the laughingstock of the whole summer…. He had it.
He turned back to the big idiot, who was having a pretty hardy laugh, himself. "STOP LAUGHING," Screamed the hedgehog in utter embarrassment and rage "Cuz you don't even wanna know what my name is."
Knuckles found this as a perfect opportunity to show off his quick-witted nature "What is it, 'Trips the happy spastic squirrel?"
Sonics blood was boiling so much that his fur actually became a dark purple. Now the crowd was laughing even more "NO," he screamed again. "The name is Sonic, Sonic the Hedgehog."
"Makes sense." Said the red one, chuckling.
Sonic didn't hesitate to ask. "Why's that?"
"Cuz whenever someone lightly taps you on the face, you hit the ground with a Sonic-boom…."
Sonic, however raged, wasn't really insulted by that stupid comment. "No… by the way that was dumb…" within a few milliseconds, dust was kicked up, and the blue hedgehog was gone, leaving Knuckles with his fists up in a defensive form.
He turned to someone in the crowd, fists still raised in preparation for an attack "where'd he go?" the person just shrugged, not knowing.
Then something unbelievably fast collided with Knuckles forehead, and he soared for a few feet before landing on the ground, face-first. He looked up to see if the attacker was in front of him, which he was… about four or five times, for there was a blue and red blur circling Knuckles on the inside ring of the crowd, creating a cyclone of massive amounts of dirt and dust, until a spiny silhouette appeared in the dust, with its arms crossed and its face raised in pride. Then the dust cleared, and the silhouette gained color, a pure blue, with red shoes.
"THAT'S why!" said the hedgehog proudly, grinning. The whole crowd was now cheering on the amazingly fast hedgehog for his speed, but also seemed to congratulate Knuckles for his strength.
Then the red echidna looked back up to the hedgehog to see an odd and unexpected sight. The blue blur was holding his hand out for support. Knuckles took the hand, and pulled, lifting himself off the ground.
"I gotta hand it to ya," said the blue hedgehog "No one's ever had that much stomach to take ME on like that."
The red echidna just stared at the egotistical hedgehog with an I-cant-believe-you-just-said-that face "Shut up."