Sonic tapped his foot impatiently as he stared at the clock. "What's taking so long?" he said in annoyance.

"Relax Sonic, they'll call us when their ready," replied Tails, who was sitting on a couch, reading a book.

"I don't know why you're being so impatient anyway. Where just going to be in another fanfiction, with another oc," said Knuckles, who was sitting next to Tails.

Sonic turned his attention to the other Mobians in the room. Charmy and Cream were sitting at a table coloring with a box of crayons that had been given to them, Marine was absentmindedly banging a stick on the edge of the couch, Silver and Blaze were making shapes in the air using their powers, Rouge was conversing with Amy, Espio was meditating in the corner,Omega was by the door on standby, and Shadow and Vector were watching the tv on the wall.

Rouge looked up from her conversation with Amy. "-And she's probably a Mary Sue."

"We don't know that," replied Sonic.

Shadow glared at Sonic. "We don't know that," he said in a mocking tone."Have you not been in the past THOUSAND OC fanfictions we've been in?!"

"Who knows, maybe Sonic's right," said Amy.

"I honestly have no idea how you two stay so optimistic about these OCs," said Silver. "I mean seriously, how many of them have been recolors? or female versions of Sonic or Shadow? Or Mary Sues? How many of them had lifeless personalities or their only purpose was to get with one of us and be some sort of wish fulfillment?"

"Too many to count," said Knuckles.

" And that's not counting the actual stories. Friendships and relationships happen too quickly, easily,or without any substance or reason, fully capable characters become useless, everything comes too easy for the hero/heroine, and many other things not including mistakes in sentence mechanics," said Tails.

"I'm surprised you're not sick of fanfictions by now considering out of all of us, you and Shadow are the most common characters featured in it, Sonic," said Blaze.

"But hey, remember that we've also been in a few good OC fanfiction stories. There's still hope," said Sonic as he sat on the arm of the couch and turned his attention back to the clock.

"Who wants to bet that the OC is a teenage female?" Shouted Vector."

Everyone but Sonic, Amy, and Cream raised their hand.

Every looked at them, their eyes unflinching. Finally, Cream and Amy raised their hand.

Amy looked at Sonic. " I'm sorry but most fanfictions are written by teenage girls and it's more likely than not that the fan character is going to be female and within our age range."

"Sure, we've had some teenage guys but, the odds are leaning toward female, Sonic," said Tails.

"Heh. Guess I can't really argue with that, can I?" He replied.

" Why don't they ever make OCs that are adults or even making a kid character?" asked Silver to no one in particular.

" It would be nice to have a new play mate," Cream commented.

"Yeah," said Charmy.

Marine started hitting the stick against the couch harder and harder until finally she threw it into the air. "Crikey, what's taking so long?!" she shouted, finally losing it.

Silver face palmed," Dear God, Marine pleas-".

" No! I'm tired of waiting!". Marine marched up to the door and swung it open. "I'm going to-"

She closed her mouth. In front of her stood a young, female owl. She gazed at Marine and slowly blinked before she turned her attention to everyone else in the room.

"Please excuse the wait. The lady of the building has had some technological difficulties this past few weeks before you came. I would explain, but the lady would like to see you guys in the Creation Room to tell you why this is relevant," she said. "Please follow me."

They all glanced at each other before they all went out the door.

"I wonder what the OC is going to be like this time," said Cream

The others wondered too, despite many feeling pessimistic about the new OC and the fanfiction they were going to be in. After all, it's not like they could just leave. Being canon characters, when they are requested for a fanfiction, they have to participate and do whatever the writer has written them to do,whether they like it or not.

Sometimes the fanfictions were actually pretty fun to do. Even if bad things happened to them while in the story, the plots would actually be really good. The best stories were the ones that got their characterization right and had a great plot, like Meeting the Enemy by ShinyShiny9. Others, however, are not so fun. Shadow and Sonic could testify to that. It's very weird that there are so many Sonadow fanfics out there considering that they are both anthromorphic hedgehogs from a series of video games that have nothing to do with romance, and have never interacted with each other in a romantic way.

Shadow has tried to shoot himself after each one, repeatedly. At first they stopped him each time he tried until once he actually succeeded and survived. Since apparently he wouldn't die from it or get brain damage they decided to let him be. He however stopped trying after that as it wasn't helpful at all.

"Here we are," said the lady owl, standing in front of a door that was marked 'Creation Room'.

She opened the door and allowed them all to walk inside. As they looked around they saw various computer screens and keyboards all over the room. In one corner was a desk with papers, markers, pencils, and color pencils strewn all over it, some of the papers were drawn on. In the center of the large room were two large, glass capsules, too misty for its contents to be seen from the outside. At a large control panel close to the capsule stood a teenage girl, about eight inches shorter than Vector. By human standards, the Mobians could say she was African American, judging from her brown skin and how her hair was braided.

"Hello!" she said, looking up from her work and pushing up her glasses.

A mixed array of greetings came in reply to her.

"So, I take it that you're the fanfiction writer?" said Shadow with his arms crossed.

"Uh, yes, my name is Areeta and...I already know who all of you are," she said with a wide grin.

For a second no one responded. They just stood and stared at her. Cream held Cheese close to her chest,

She stood and looked back. She began to tense up. Why were they just standing there like that?

"Okay, she hasn't fangasmed over one of us yet, she's not crazy," said Espio.

The others let out sighs of relief and Cream released Cheese.

"Wha-?"

"Don't worry about it, it's just that some other fans have tried to kidnap us, forcible ship us, even when we were not working on their story, some other stuff that was not very age appropriate, and nearly strangled us using hugs," said Tails.

"Congratulations, for now, you're an okay person in our book. Nice to meet ya," said Rouge, holding out her hand to Areeta.

Areeta took her hand. "Thanks," she said, smiling awkwardly.

She sighed internally. Thank God, I restrained myself. I mean, look at Tails's fur! Look at it! I looks so clean and soft and- OMG he's so fluffy! I want to hug him so bad! Well, at least I made a good impression.

Sonic looked around the room expectantly."So, where's the OC?"

Areeta looked away and put her hands behind her back.

"Oh yes, that's why I called you guys in here. The OCs aren't ready yet."

"Wait, there's more than one of them?!" asked Vector.

"Er, yes, is that a problem? If it is I'm-"

"Hey, no need to apologize. It's cool, we've worked with multiple OCs before," said Sonic with a reassuring smile.

Areeta nodded her head."Okay then."

"What do you mean by their not ready?" asked Amy.

"Well, you see, while creating the ocs, I had a few errors. Previous designs didn't come out right or their personalities were incomplete. I didn't want you guys to have to be in a story OCs that weren't fully fleshed out. So I decided to remake them," she said, pointing their attention to the two glass capsules.

" At this point, I've already made their bodies and I've set up personality and skills into them."

"So what's the problem?" asked Knuckles.

"I'm not sure how many of you know this, but OCs aren't made the same exact way as you canon characters. You guys are often made with more advanced technology. Once your personality, relationships, and abilities are graphed into you, you can use them immediately after exiting your capsule."

"We know that," said Shadow.

" But that's not my point. OCs are different in that when they have all those things graphed into them, once they get out of their capsules the traits need to be unlocked and relationships need to be built manually," Areeta said with a sigh. "It takes about two weeks for the OCs to gain all of their personality traits, memories, relationships, backstory, skills, and abilities needed for the story."

Areeta walked to the two capsules and looked at my creations. "When they come out they'll basically be a blank slate. Since there's two of them, it may take longer for me to make them to be fully fledged OCs and be ready for use in fanfiction."She sighed once more and placed her hand on the glass. "What am I going to do with you two?"

"Hm..." Sonic walked up to one of the glass capsules and looked inside. He could vaguely see a figure standing stock still as grey mist surrounded it. He remembered when he was in a capsule just like this. Of his friends, he was the first to be created by Sega. He wasn't completely conscious during his time in it but, he remembered hearing the voices of his creators as they worked to make him. Occasionally, they would speak to him through the glass.

He even remembered how many of his comrades were created. He would often sneak into their creation rooms just to peek through the glass to see his new soon to be friend, rival, or foe. His favorite memory was of Tails. They both were still in their classic style then. At first Sonic opposed his creation, he thought that Tails would take the spotlight from him, but after some thought and weeks of the little guy following him around, he grew very fond of Tails.

Sonic turned to Areeta. "What if we help you?"he said.

Areeta and the others turned to him in surprise.

"Really?!" Areeta said in amazement.

"Yeah, I mean, why not you guys? They have to have relationships with us anyway," said Sonic.

"This is going to be tiring ,isn't it?" murmured Shadow.

"Affirmative," replied Omega.

With a bit of hesitation or alacrity, depending on who it was, all of them agreed to help with the OCs.

"Couldn't we have just waited a few weeks until they finished developing themselves?" said Shadow in annoyance.

"Yes, but that wouldn't make for a very interesting story now would it?" said Rouge.

Sonic turned back to Areeta. "So what are you waiting for? If they're ready, open the capsules!"

"Right!" she said, pressing a large button on the control panel.