The winds of change
Chapter 1: The First Day
It had to happen. He needed it to happen. He would finally be able to break the chains bounding him since that incident oh so many years ago. Thoughts of joy swirled in the mind of Sonic the Hedgehog as he waited for the train leading to San Francisco, the "City of Miracles" in his eyes. As the train arrived in front of the sea blue hedgehog, he was the first one to step aboard before the rest stormed in. He could have just run to his destination, but he knew just how serious his intention was. He was thinking about running anyway, but the door had closed, finalizing his decision. As he sat down, he noticed someone sitting down next to him. A young, yellow, two-tailed kitsune decided to sit next to his friend.
"Why did you get on this train?" Sonic said.
"I just wanted to see why you were getting on it. So why are you riding?" Tails replied.
"I have certain reasons I'd rather not talk about. Let's just say I need to do something there that I don't have the money to do anywhere else that I know of." Sonic Replied.
Tails had recently read an article that he thought may have something to do with why Sonic was going to San Francisco. He remembered the subject matter, and he believed something like it could never have anything to do with sonic. He wanted to watch Sonic's every move to find out what his goal was. A couple hours later, Sonic began to get hungry, so he decided to down to the dining car. Along the way, he came across a very odd sight. Two of the passengers were two women he thought he would never see sitting together from his favorite cartoon growing up. In front of his eyes were Jenny Wakeman and Vexus from My Life as a Teenage Robot, strangely sitting together calmly instead of trying to kill each other.
"Of all the things I'll ever see, that alone is one of the funniest things!" Sonic said, laughing heavily, thinking it was a joke.
"What, you can't grasp the idea of us being more than friends just because of what you've seen on the show?" Jenny angrily asked, her face growing redder and redder till it looked like it could burst at any moment.
"There is no reason to get angry, Jenny. We're used to this stuff." Vexus reminded Jenny, with a surprisingly calm tone in her voice.
"Sorry to offend you, it's just that you two are usually fighting. Wait a second, did you say "More than friends?"" Sonic Replied in a notably confused tone during the second sentence.
"Well, to put it as bluntly as possible, we're lesbians. Vexus and I are about as much opposites attracting as cats and dogs being friends." Jenny replied.
'Well, no worries, I see no reason of hate on people who happen to be gay, especially considering what's to come of me once I reach San Francisco" Sonic said, in a tone of voice that seemed like some of what he'd said he'd rather prefer not to have said.
Why, what's going to happen to you when you reach San Francisco?" Vexus said, in a tone of voice that seemed to hint that she and Jenny already knew the answer, but were unsure if the answer was true or not.
"Oh, nothing" Sonic replied
Jenny and Vexus just stared at Sonic, as if they were solidifying their assumptions with the hints they had gotten with this conversation, as Sonic began to seemingly fade of consciousness into a very disturbing memory of his childhood, in which he was tied to a chair by his mother for wearing his sister's clothes, not by dare, but because he felt a strange sense of comfort.
"There are no fruitcakes! Men love women and women love men! A man loving men and women loving women is unnatural and wretched! As soon as you learn this, you'll be the nice little boy you always were without a tainted mind!" Aleena shouted in her son's face.
"Mother, for the last time, I'm not gay! Please, Mother, let me go!" Sonic said, crying deeply in physical and mental pain.
"As long as you keep doing what you're doing, you will never reach heaven. You have essentially chained your fate to hell. If you are not gay, then why do you keep wearing Sonia's clothes?" Aleena said in a sudden calm tone.
"I wish I knew. I really wish I knew why it feels so good to do it." Sonic barely said, nearly suffocating from crying in his pain, as he returned into conciseness, to the confused eyes of Jenny and Vexus, along with many other passengers who saw Sonic black out.
"What happened to you? You blacked out for forty-five minutes. We were really worried about what happened to you." Tails said who presumably came to the fourth cart due to what happened to sonic.
"I witnessed a memory I hoped never to see again. Just let me return to my seat" Sonic said, in a notably shaky tone, as he got his food and walked back, Tails following suit.
A couple hours later, Sonic began thinking to himself abut Jenny and Vexus. "Seeing them is almost as if I was seeing my future. It was almost as if some unknown force led them here to shine this message upon me. Could they be a message by my mother from beyond the grave to show me the mistake of my action-to-come? That would be stupid." Sonic thought to himself as he noticed Tails had fallen asleep. Sonic then made a strange cup with his hand onto his own chest as if to simulate a woman's breast.
A few hours later, as Sonic and Tails, along with the rest of the passengers were asleep; Sonic woke up and looked towards the night sky. Sure, the night was absolutely gorgeous, but his true interest was in the shape of the moon. That night happened to be a full moon, and as sonic gazed at the fully spherical moon, he quietly hummed to himself, "O shining light in the blackest of nights, might your form tonight be a telling to me that my desire to change how my body is aligned bears no reason to be shunned upon? If only your eye of light bared a pupil to gaze upon me as I gaze upon you." As Sonic slowly fell asleep for the night.