Gathering Hopes
Chapter 1
Saving Dreams
It was a stormy late summer night, all that could be heard was the wind howling and the thunder outside. A young girl whimpered from under a bed, she was only 8 years old. Her name was Cake. She was half fox and rabbit. She took on most of the physical traits of a fox. She had longer ears than a fox though. The tips of her ears where a dark brown. The rest of her fur was a pale brown. Around her eyes she hard also the darker brown marking. Cake looked out from under the blanket she had been covering her head. The lighting flash outside and the light from it filled the room. She screamed frightened and hid back under the blanket.
The door to her room opened, it was a young fox boy. He had orange fur and on the tips of his two tails and his ears were white. "Cake? Are you ok, I heard you scream?" He turned on the bedroom light. Cake looked out form under the bed at him. She got up and ran up to him and hugged him crying. "D-dad.. er tails.. Im scared. I had a bad dream and the storm" Tails looked down at her, he still wasn't used to the idea that she would be his future daughter. He had allowed her to stay at his house until he found a way to send her back.
"Its ok Cake, nightmares don't come true and the storm won't hurt you ok." She let go of him whipping her tears and nodded a little. "Y-yah" Tails patted her on the head. She looked up at him with her deep blue eyes it looked like she might start crying again. He looked at her trying to think what to do, but he was lucky that Amy and Cream would come over during the day to take her places. " Uh, Come on lets go make a milkshake?" He hoped that might cheer her up a little. "R-really? WE can have some??" She smiled and he nodded and took her hand walking her into the kitchen. Tails words 'nightmares don't come true' would come back at him.
Tails started get all of the ingredients to make a milkshake. Cake sat down on a chair, she shook a little and looked at the ground thinking. " T-this is like my dream, no dad said they don't come true" she shook the thought away. Tails looked back at her "You ok Cake?" She looked at him and smiled " Yah im ok." The lights flickered a little from the storm and Tails looked up at the lights. " Must be a very bad storm."
Cake looked at Tails and stared at him and her eyes started to water. " We have to get out of here Dad please. We have to get out of the house!!" cried Cake. Tails looked at Cake and didn't' know what to do. "W-why Cake what's wrong??" He walked up to her. She hopped off the chair she was on and grabbed his hand " This is just like my dream." She had tears running down my face. "you die the floor above caves in and you risk you life for me! So please can we leave the house" Tails looked at her as she cried. He looked at the clock it was 1 in the morning and it was storming.
She tugged a little on his hand, he sighed and picked her up. She hugged him tight as he walked to the garage door. Tails looked at her and she still had tears running down her face. He opened the door and walked into the garage and closed the door. He walked up to the tornado 2 and sat down on the ground.
"Hey, Cake will we are safe in the garage?" She opened her eyes and looked at him. "I think so." She whimpered a little and looked at the ground. Tails didn't know what to do so he sat on the ground in silence holding Cake.
It felt like a hour or so Tails had dozed off and Cake had fallen asleep. Suddenly there was a loud crash in the kitchen and Tails eyes shot opened. Cake stared at the door that lead into the living room. Tails stood up and set Cake down and looked at her " You stay here got it ok. Im going to see what that was." She looked at him and here eyes got rather big and teary eyes. " But I wanna come too," she said quietly. Tails looked at her and the last thing he wanted was her to start crying again. He sighed a little " ok, you stay right behind me got it" Her eyes light up and she nodded. " Ok!"
Tails walked up to the door and opened it. He looked into the living room and some of the roof could be seen in the living room. The sound of the rain could be heard in the house. He walked inside to the living room and looked into the kitchen.
The floor above the kitchen had collapsed in, Tails looked back at Cake who was holding onto one of his tails. He looked back at the kitchen where he was standing in there was the worse of the damage. He knew now, that Cakes dream could have come true. Knowing them, they would talk for a good hour and drank their milkshakes. If they did stay there he would had died from the floor cave in.
Tails then noticed what looked like to be a cat tail in the rubble of the floor. "Stay right there Cake." He ran up to the pile and started to lift up parts of the floor. He's fur started to get soaked by the rain but it didn't bother him. Cake ran up to Tails and started to clear the pieces of the floor. Tails looked at her " Do you know how to stay? Your going to catch a cold, Cake." Cake looked at him and smiled " i know how to help" He smiled a little at her answer and shook it off as he went back to work.
After five minutes the two managed to drag out a young human looking girl. She was bleeding pretty badly and her clothes were tattered. She had to cat ears they looked like they where white but they were soak with blood. "Cake go Call 911 now, this girl needs help now." He looked at Cake. Cake nodded and ran up to a phone in the living room.
"Tails! The phones are dead!" She looked at him her ears where down and she was dripping wet from the rain. Tails picked up the human girl and walked over to the couch and laid her on it. "Cake, i need you to do a big favor ok. I want you to go get rags and the first aid kit and start wrapping up her wounds ok." He looked at Cake his fur had blood on it now, from the girl.
Cake stared at the blood on his fur and her past started to creep its way back to her. She shook the stare off and nodded running to the bathroom. Tails looked at the human girl and ran to the garage and started to dig though some of his gadgets. He pulled out a phone and looked at it and sighed know only Amy and Sonic he would be able to reach with it. He started to dial Amy's number cause he knew that he would need help with Cake.
Cake ran up to the human girl, Cake knelt down and started to clean up someone her wounds. Cake looked at the girl and wondered who she was and how she managed to survive the fall. Tails walked up to Cake and looked at the human girl. Cake had managed to get most of her wounds wrapped up. " I got hold of Amy, she's going to come over right away. I think she might get Sonic and Cream too, but its late so its hard to tell."
Cake looked at Tails and looked at the blood on his fur. Tails notice what she was staring at " er ill go clean that up ok. Will you be ok here a little longer, Cake?" He looked at her. She nodded a little" ill stay right here ok" she smiled at him. Tails nodded a little smiling and headed to the bathroom.
Cake looked at the girl and noticed something hanging out of her pocket. It looked like a cube, she looked around and took it the rest of the way out of the girls pocket. There was a numerical pad on one side of it. Cake sat on the ground and lend against the couch and started to press random numbers into the pad.
The doorbell rang and Cake jumped and the cube hit the ground and Cake got up and ran to the door opening it. It was a pink hedgehog and she was wearing a red t-shirt and some baggy pj pants. This was Amy and she yawned and looked at Cake smiling a little
" How you doing sweety?" she walked in and patted Cake on the head. " Im doing ok I guess." Cake closed the door still a little shocked about the hole accident that happened. Amy walked into the living room and looked at the girl on the couch who was sitting up holding her head. " Well it looks like she woke up" Amy said as she sat in a chair.
The girl looked at Amy and stared at her and then to Cake. "You ok miss?" Cake walked up to the Girl. "Im just in a lot of pain right now... but ill be fine in a little while." She lend against the couch and closed one of her eyes. "Do you need anything? Miss?" Cake looked at the girl worried about her. Amy looked at Cake "Well I would like a drink, if you can get anything since your kitchen is destroyed." Cake looked at Amy and nodded a little " Ok and you miss?" She looked at the girl. The girl looked at Cake "if you have an ice pack that would be nice.."
Cake nodded and ran into the kitchen to see if she could savage anything. Amy looked at the girl and then looked at Tails who walked into the room. " What happened to Cake??" He looked at Amy, he didn't notice that the girl was awake. Amy smiled at him " She went to get me a drink and your guest an ice pack." Tails looked at the girl " You should be laying down miss." He walked up to her and she looked at him. "Ill be find really, I need to get going too." She tried to stand and she yelled in pain and sat back on the couch. " No your staying here till your wounds healed." He looked at the girl. " No, I don't want to cause anything to happen to your family."
Tails studied the girls words. "Don't worry about it, Tails and me we can take care of anything. And if worse comes Sonic will come save us." The girl looked at Amy and then to Tails. She looked worried and a little scared.
"Im Tails" He held out his hand to the girl hoping to change what ever she was thinking of. The girl looked at his hand and she slowly shook his hand " I-im Brat." Cake ran into the room her hands full of sodas and an ice pack. "I thought you all might be thirsty so I got everyone something." She set them on them on the coffee table and held the ice pad to Brat. "Here you go Miss" Cake smiled and Brat slowly took it and held it to her head.
"Oh Brat, this is Cake and that is Amy." Tails said pointing to them when he said their names. "Its nice to meet you both?" Brat didn't seem to confident of herself at the moment. Amy opened a drink and drank a little of it "So what happened?." She glanced at Brat. Brat looked at the Amy and then to the ground. Cake sat next to Brat and looked at Amy.
" Let Miss Brat rest Amy. She crashed into our roof and I don't think she needs to explain anything yet." Brat looked at Cake and smiled a little, she reminded Brat of one of her friends. Tails sat down in a chair " Hey Amy do you think we could crash at your house for the rest of the night? I don't think we will get much rest here." Amy looked at Tails " Yah sure if you don't mind sleeping on the ground, Tails, Cake." She looked at the two. "I can sleep on the ground there" Brat said looking at Amy and Cake grabbed Brat's arm. " No, your hurt and you get Amy's bed. You need plenty of rest." Brat looked at Cake and Tails laughed a little. " You can't argue with her she'll bug you or just drag you to that bed herself Brat." Amy laughed some too. Cake looked at Tails and Amy confused why they were laughing. Amy looked at Cake"you need to get out of those wet clothes missy before you get sick." Cake looked at her clothes " Ill be fine Amy" She smiled and Tails looked at her. Cake looked at Tails and darted upstairs. Brat watched Cake run off and then look at Amy and Tails. "We're going to have to get you some new clothes Brat, before you get on my bed. Im not cleaning blood off my sheets."Amy looked at Brat "Amy! Don't be so rude to Brat" Tails looked at her. "Hey if you cleans your sheets you would know how annoying it is to clean them. But no, Creams come over so willing and does that for you" Amy gave tails a dirty look.
" Hey please stop fighting, I understand." Brat looked at the two, her ears were lowered. " Oh sorry Brat" Tails looked at her and Amy looked at the ground feeling a little stupid. She was jealous of Tails, Cream and him the get along and everything. Sonic is to busy chasing cars and crime to even pay attention to her. Cake ran into the room holding a stuff animal, it was a unicorn it was a gift from her uncle. It was a very special stuff animal that only Cake new the secret of it. " Ok im ready to go" She looked at the group. She had on a rather large light blue night shirt and blue pants and they had little unicorns on them.
Amy stood up and Tails did as well "Ill go and pull up my car closer ok" She darted to the door she had a couple of tears starting to run down her face. Amy slammed the front door shut. Cake and Brat looked at the front door, tails sighed a little. "You need help walking Brat?" Brat looked at him she was very stubborn hated to get help from others but she knew how much it hurt getting up. She looked at the ground " er yah some..." Tails walked up and helped Brat up.
" Tails what's wrong with Amy?" She looked at Tails as she opened the front door for him and Brat. "She just having problems being up this late that's all Cake" Tails looked at Cake and smiled a little.
Amy got out of her car and opened the back door and Tails helped Brat into the back seat and he looked at Amy and she looked away from Tails. Cake ran and jumped into the back seat with Brat and slammed the door shut. Amy looked at Tails and they both stared at each other as the rain continued to pour down. Cake rolled down the window and yelled" Tails! Amy!!" Brat looked at them " Come one you two your going to get sick and poor Cake here will be taking care of all three of us."
Tails looked at the two in the car. He was tired and knew if he went with them he would have to listen to Amy rant about sonic. That's the last thing he wanted on his mind. " Cake you be good ok, im going to stay here and fix the roof I don't need my house rotting from the rain ok." He tried to smile. "B-but" Brat put her hand on Cake's shoulder. "Its ok Cake he'll be fine"
Amy got into the car she was mad and soaking wet. She started to the car and started to Drive off. Cake waved out of the window at tails. He watched them drive off and he walked inside and sighed sitting on the couch.
Cake looked at the ground of the car as the window went up. "Im sorry about that you two." Amy looked at them though the mirror. Brat looked at Amy and then to Cake. "I just get mad at Tails, ok not mad, just jealous! He has Cream and who do I have some Jackass! I just want Sonic to love me.. like tails does Cream. But no im not good enough for him!" Brat looked out the window, so had a habit of people ranting their lives to her. Cake stared at the ground trying to grasp all what Amy was saying. The two in the back stay quiet as she continued all the way to her apartment.
Amy looked at the two when she park, she had a couple of tears running down her cheeks. " I-im really sorry about that I just" Cake interrupted her " Hey don't worry about it" she smiled at Amy " you sometimes just have to get stuff off your chest" Amy smiled at Cake and ruffled Cake's fur on her head. "Thanks little pipsqueak" Brat smiled at the two a little, as she watched them.
Amy looked at Brat " well now to get you into the house." She got out of the car and Cake got out and held out her hand to Brat. " Ill help you Brat" smiled Cake, Brat took her hand and Cake helped her up. Amy shut the doors to her car. Cake and Amy helped Brat into Amy's room.
Brat sat down on a stool in the kitchen and looked around. Brat noticed a picture it of Amy with a blue Hedgehog. He didn't seem to happy with Amy holding onto his arm. Brat guess that this was the Sonic who Amy was crying about in the car. Cake ran up to Brat and held out from pj's to her. " Amy said you can borrow these Miss Brat. She said some of her human friends left them here so they should fit you." She smiled as Brat took them.
"So where's the bathroom?" Brat looked at her as she slowly got off the stool she was sitting on. Cake stood Brat's free hand and started to walk her towards the bathroom. " Its this way Miss Brat." Cake looked at Brat and smiled. Cake didn't get to meet a lot of new people since she live away from everyone with tails. Cake pointed into the bathroom and Brat walked in and Cake closed the door for her.
Cake sighed and sat next to the door and lend against the wall. She hoped Brat might be her friend, she always wanted more friends in this time period. Tails and the others didn't think that would be too good of an idea because, she was from the future. They didn't want her to get to involved with the past, so Eggman himself still doesn't know of her existence in this time. Cake used to be rather shy but she's slowly conquered that so when she had a chance to make a friend she could.
Amy walked out of her bed room with some blankets. " Hey cake do you want to sleep on the couch?" Cake looked at her and stood up. " No, ill be fine sleeping on the floor" she said taking a couple of blankets from Amy. Amy smiled and started to fix up the couch for herself.
"So how long to do you think it will take for Brat to recover from her wounds?" Cake asked Amy as she laid out a blanket on the floor. Amy started to walk back to her room to get pillows " Well humans heal a lot slower than us. So many weeks or even a month all depends how bad her injuries are." Amy looked at Cake and then walked into her bedroom.
Cake fixed up her bed thinking that would be enough time to get to know Brat and maybe have her as a friend. She knew the first thing she would show Brat. It was a field of flowers that Tails had showed her. Cake really like flowers and hoped Brat liked them too.
Brat had got into the tub and was washing off her blood from her wounds. "Now I got three people involved in my mess" She lend back in the tub looking at the ceiling. Brat sighed a little and held her side. She looked at her side it was bleeding again" how do always manage to get my self hurt when I travel." Brat grabbed a towel and got out of the tub. She wrapped up all of her wounds again and got changed into the pj's that Amy lend her.
Cake was watching out a window at the storm as Amy was writing in her dairy. Brat opened the bathroom door and Cake looked at her. Brat was wearing blue pj's and they had white doggy paw prints all over them. Cake looked at her and ran up to her smiling " You feeling better??" Brat looked at Cake and put her hand on her shoulder for support. " Yah, thanks Cake." She smiled a little and looked at Amy.
Amy looked at Brat and Cake"Cake you want to show Brat to her bed?" Cake nodded and led Brat to Amy's room. Brat sat down on the bed and Cake jumped up next to her. " So you going to stay with me and Tails?? Till you get better?" Brat looked at her wishing that her wounds were healed. "Well, I might. Im going to talk to Tails about it ok" Cake smiled at Brat and nodded a little.
"Heh, I guess you don't have a lot of friends" Cake looked at the ground and nodded a little. "Well im from the future and im not suppose to interact to much with this time period." She looked at Brat, knowing that she shouldn't had told her that." Oh no! I shouldn't had told you that! If tails and the others find out." Cake started to whimper a little she didn't want to get yelled at. Brat put her hand on Cake's head. "I know its hard for you, I know how it is in some ways. Im not from this planet. How bout you keep that a secret and I won't tell your friends that you told me your from the future." Brat smiled and Cake nodded and hugged Brat. Brat closed her eyes a little from the pain but, she didn't want to say anything.
Brat could tell that Cake has hard time adjusting to this new life here. Cake let go of Brat and realized she had forgotten about Brat's wounds. "Im So sorry Brat! I just" Brat put her hand on Cake's head "Hey its ok"she smiled at Cake " I had worse injuries than this and someone hugged me even tighter than you did." Cake nodded a little but still felt bad. Brat laid back and she closed her eyes. "You should head to bed Cake its been a long night and you need sleep." Cake looked back at her. "But I want to stay and talk with you." Cake looked down at the bed. Brat smiled a little, "We can talk later ok" Cake looked at her and nodded. She hopped off the bed and ran to her bed and laid down. Cake slowly drifted off to sleep.
Amy had went to the bathroom to get Brat's tattered clothes so she could wash them.
"Hm I do say she does where pretty weird clothes. Amy noticed that the pockets of the pants where full. She didn't want to wash the stuff in the pockets so she grabbed an empty laundry basket. Amy started to take some weird objects out of her pockets and put them in the basket. After a little bit she managed to get everything out, Amy looked at Brats wallet and decided to take a look in it.
Amy picked up the wallet and sat on the ground opening it. She found a licence for a space ship in it and some other weird cards. She noticed a piece of paper fall out of the wallet. She picked it up and looked at it. It was a folded paper and Amy opened it. On the paper was a picture of Brat and it said "Wanted" above her picture. Amy stared at it and then looked at the bottom of the paper. Amy read what it said 'Brat Conway Wanted for the Murder of 100,000 on Space Station Orion 3404. She is very dangerous call the authorities if you see her. Reward for her capture is 900 trillion in your currency. Any crimes you commented will be erased from the records. From the Dimensional police.
All Amy could think about was her safety and Cakes. Amy then pocketed the paper and put the wallet in the basket with Brat's other belongings. "But how could she kill so many people she seems so nice. It must me an act she puts on for people. I should call Tails er no I could call the police." She couldn't decided what she wanted to do with the startling news. She decided to sleep on it, since she know that Brat couldn't walk very well at all. Amy sighed and walked up to the couch and looked at Cake and smiled at her. Amy laid down and fell to sleep. Brat stared at the ceiling as she laid on the bed. She slowly dozed off.