Ok, so this is a fanfic I created and wrote a little of last night. I've just always felt that the girls Sonic is 'officially' paired with are more of a burden than a joy, so yes this is a Sonic/OC story. No sues, no gimmicks, and no Amy chasing or Sally nagging! The female character in this is purely the type of girl I think Sonic would click with; this is hard to explain but she is not my fan character (even though, I guess she is now since I created her?), I don't draw Sonic, I'm simply a fan of the games. I made up the girl as I made up the story- and I still need to come up with a name because writing 'she' constantly will be annoying am I right!

As for events and the 'world'; let me just say that I'm not too bothered about getting things right geographically, and that I like to think of Sonic and his games as him growing up, the classic look and games are him when he was younger, and his present look and games are him as a fifteen+ year old. I like to think that that would explain why he used to be short and round with little quills, and now he's tall and lean with longer quills- it's puberty people!

But it is important to me that Mobius stays as it always has been, no humans and their earth like cities, save that for Sonic X!

That's enough justification from me, please enjoy my story.

Sonic had been awake long before the rest of Mobotropolis, he had already sped through the cities, ventured through Emerald Hill, and watched the sun rise as he lounged among the flowers growing on top of heavenly scented mountains. By the time the residents of Mobotropolis were making their way to work, or packing their beach gear and trekking off to the beach to enjoy what was left of summer; Sonic had already stopped by Angel Island for a quick tease with Knuckles and journeyed as far as 'Casino Night'.

Robotnick had originally filled the place with badnicks and a whole variety of other painful deaths, but, even though he was still a young hedgehog back then, Sonic had cleared the place and beat the egg head with ease; nowadays the Dr simply used the place for its only other- non hedgehog murdering- purpose, entertainment.

'Casino Night' was now a very popular venue for gambling addicts and families alike, all of the old mechanisms were still in place- aside from the obvious racks of spikes- and slot machines were aplenty; the Sonic Team did consider demolishing the place completely in the thought they'd be nipping a potential problem in the bud, but Sonic objected, he saw no wrong in Dr Robotnick making a half honest living, as long as money was all he was after with this endeavour. Besides, in order for the games to keep coming, Sonic's enemy needed some kind of funding.

Still the hedgehog was a regular visitor of 'Casino Night'; he was going to hold himself responsible if anything sinister should happen with the place and its innocent customers.

Sonic perched on top of a floating platform after a seriously powerful vault sent him sailing through the air a good hundred meters- just because he was investigating didn't mean he couldn't have fun! He took in a deep breath and looked around his elevated surroundings, deciding that he definitely got a bigger kick out of the place at night; although all of the machines were on, the blaring neon lights were reserved for the night which made 'Casino Night' seem kind of lifeless right now. And the place was surprisingly tame during the day, despite still being open- the only people that would usually hover around were the addicts or mischievous kids trying out their latest Extreme Gear modifications.

That thought made Sonic give out a slight chuckle; if only Tails were more rebellious. He would love to see his shy little brother shuffle his feet in approaching the other kids…and then blowing them out of the water with his sheer genius. But no, Tails was far too conscientious to screw around on someone else's property, instead the little fox was holed up in his workshop tinkering with new ways to find and harness chaos emeralds, or upgrading the Tornado; anything he could do to help Sonic in his constant battle against Dr Robotnick.

The teen continued to giggle to himself; he found Tails' serious attitude to what Sonic considered his favourite game so endearing- he'd been caring for Tails since the fox was very young and even though he was now an eight year old with the maturity and intelligence of an old timer, Sonic knew that no matter how old his little bro' was, he'd still carry that slight air of naivety which kept him from realising why Sonic would pat his head and laugh on his way to another 'Eggman' ass kicking.

Said 'Eggman' had been extremely quiet recently, which the blue blur found both slightly worrying and extremely exciting, the longer the Dr was away the bigger his schemes always turned out to be. And we weren't dealing with your everyday badnicks in these plans; it was always some kind of powerful robot army packing plenty of firepower; and, the best thing, new mecha playgrounds!

The enticing daydream sent a sudden surge of adrenalin through the hedgehog's body and had Sonic skimming through the Casino in the need for some kind of entertainment, maybe Knuckles was up for a fight- surely seeing Sonic's cocky grin twice in one morning would send him into the frenzy Sonic wanted, if not then Sonic figured he'd seek out Shadow for a race, and if that failed…he'd simply wander around until the pink one spotted him.

Still on higher planes, Sonic stumbled in his attempt to halt his rapid footwork; he stood poised as he silently watched the stranger clinging to the edge of the casinos first platform, peeking over the rim and looking onto the prop filled gorge below whilst groaning to herself in nervousness.

The girl was willing herself to go over the edge but she just couldn't do it, the porcupine's eyes were now screwed closed and she was mentally kicking herself for being such a wimp; she had vowed to use her last week of freedom to cross off various activities from her 'Things to do before I kick it' list, and exploration was dotted around the piece of paper far too much to avoid it.

The female sighed and rose to her feet, scooping up her battered old backpack on her way back to the casino's entrance; Sonic also felt himself sigh in disappointment, he had somehow gotten drawn in to this little spectacle and it was already over before it even began.

'Perhaps I should-' Sonic's thoughts halted when the stranger suddenly dumped her bag and threw herself over the platform edge! Sonic let out a small yell of surprise but he stopped himself from intervening when the girl's shriek had transformed into laughter, possibly because she was now effectively a furry pinball.

Sonic found himself jumping from platform to platform completely captivated in the porcupine's tiny adventure, it was plain to see that she was extremely unsteady as the various mechanisms sent her flying and spiralling all over the place- she had no control over where her body was being flung to, but still she was laughing. Sonic felt waves of nostalgia running through him, he remembered when he was still in single digits and stumbling through one of Dr Robotnick's metallic parks for the very first time; he was just there to have fun but he accidentally wore down Robotnick's androids and caused the Dr's plan to break down.

He tracked the pale blue stranger as she darted across the casino, jumping great heights and achieving sharp speeds- for a slow person anyway- Sonic hung back and stayed out of sight in this game; he thought that with that performance, she'd die of humiliation if Sonic The Hedgehog showed up!

The fourteen year old collapsed into a panting, giggling heap at the end of the circuit, the little spinning sign post at the end had taken her finishing photo and was printing out the image of her victory as the screen flashed from her winning photo to a grotesque portrait of the casino owner, whose strained smile simply revealed more of his ugly features.

"It's a shame that moustache doesn't cover his whole face." she sighed, raising a small, limp hand to pull her photo out from the sign's side dispenser and perking her ear up at the sound of distant laughter- probably some junkie.

She stuck out her tongue in disapproval of this unflattering photo, she never thought of herself as someone 'drop dead gorgeous' but she knew she was a pretty decent specimen, not this…mess! She always kept her long quills tied back in a ponytail type fashion, using anything from rags to ties to string them back; she kind of resented her thick quills, wishing she had inherited her mother's fine hair instead. She was the spitting image of her mother, a pale blue and very small porcupine with bright yellow eyes, her ebony father, on the other hand, was a giant of a porcupine; everything about him was strong and powerful, if not for her thick quills and the bushy black fringe that fell all over the front of her face, people may have questioned if she was his daughter at all.

"I really should get out more." She said stroking at her muzzle, her usually white muzzle made her little nose stand out but her face was so red in the photo that none of her features could detract from the blazing red cheeks.

The teen dug around in her little backpack and pulled out the list that was to blame for today's events.

"See, I told you I'd do something new." She mumbled with a pen lid in her mouth as she crossed off the offending task in an extravagant sweep.

Sonic, who was on the verge of leaving now that the show was over, paused at this sudden disclosure; was this her very first run?

After stealing a quick glance at his stranger acquaintance, Sonic zipped through the exit and sped on home…after a quick pit stop at the chilli dog stand that is.

So that was the first chapter I guess, more characterization will follow if I decide to do anymore (that's the only thing I'm concerned is lacking in this chapter). I think this story is going to be a slow burner.