Lauren the Echidna Chapter 2
Is This Possible?
This can't be possible...I was just attacked by a killer snake robot and rescued by three human-like animals! How can this be possible? Seriously...you don't see this everyday, but why was it me? Even most of my friends are worried sick about me. And what's worse, they called my parents and told them what happened and now they're going crazy wondering where I am and how I'm doing and all that. But back to the story...
Sonic and Tails ran off to the forest in search for me and Knuckles. They zig-zagged through trees and jumped over rocks that were in the way, and they finally saw a glimpse of Knuckles as he was sitting in a tree. Knuckles looked to the side and saw Sonic running up and Tails flying. He jumped down from the branch he was sitting on.
"Did you get rid of Eggman?" Knuckles asked.
Sonic nodded and so did Tails. Tails then looks to me, and I'm still knocked out, and wonders,
"Is she okay, Knuckles?"
"I'm not sure yet, she's still out. Guess we'll have to take her somewhere safer than here." Replied Knuckles.
"Let's take her to Amy's house." Sonic suggested. They both nodded and Knuckles picked me up in his arms and ran off with Sonic and Tails close behind.
About ten minutes later, they arrived at a small house with a red roof and tan lining around the place. Apparently, this was Amy's house, so they ran up to the door and Sonic knocked. The door knob turned and Amy, a pink hedgehog with a red dress and red boots, opens the door and a smile appeared on her face at the sight of Sonic.
"Oh, Sonic! I'm so glad to see you're okay!" She quickly hugs him and kisses him on the cheek as he tried to pull away.
"Okay, Amy! Okay! Let me go!" She finally lets him go only to see me in Knuckles' arms. She blinked and looked at him curiously.
"Who is that, Knuckles?" She asked.
"We heard that her name is Lauren. She was almost killed by Eggman earlier...we were wondering if you we could keep her here for awhile until she wakes up?" Replied Tails.
Amy urged them inside and up the stairs to a bedroom, with a bed covered in yellow and pink sheets and a comforter. Knuckles puts me in the bed as Amy pulled the covers over me. Knuckles stared at me for a second, lost in thought. Sonic taps his shoulder and he looks at him. Knuckles told him there was nothing wrong. So Sonic, Tails, and Amy had walked out of the room while Knuckles stayed in the room waiting for me to awake.
About a half an hour passed and Knuckles was standing at the window staring out of it, until he heard a soft moan from me. He shifted his eyes back toward me as I began to sit up.
"Ungh...w-where am I..." I said as I looked around, then seeing Knuckles. I didn't say anything, I just stared at him for a second.
"Ok, I'm dreaming right...?" I wondered as I still stared at him.
"No, you're not dreaming, kid." He replied.
"But y-you can't be real...you guys are just cartoon characters..." I said shaking my head and throwing my feet on the side of the bed, looking at him with a confused look.
"Well, face facts," He said walking up to me, even though he was only looking at me eye to eye as I was sitting down, "this is the real deal, kid."
"If you haven't realized yet, I have a name." I said with a little glare.
"Yeah, I know. Lauren." He smirked with a small chuckle. I blushed a bit knowing that I couldn't come up with a good enough comeback, so I just looked away.
"Hmm...well, we should let everyone else know you're awake." Knuckles said as he walked to the bedroom door.
"Everyone else?" I wondered getting up and following him.
"Yeah. Now c'mon. I'll let Tails explain." He said opening the door, which led into the kitchen then the living room.
Everyone: Sonic, Tails, Amy, and now another character, Cream, who was a rabbit, and Cheese, who was a small, blue and yellow creature called a Chao, were sitting there in all the chairs and they all looked at me. Me, being a foot or two taller than Knuckles, stood there with my hands in my jean pockets and looked to them all. Sonic walked up to me and smiled his showoffy smile.
"So how ya feelin' Lauren? You took quite a fall." He asked.
"I uhh...I'm fine I guess. I'm just still shocked to see all of you for real." I stuttered.
"What do you mean 'for real'?" Asked Tails, who was sitting on the edge of the couch.
"Well, I kinda know about all the games people have released about you guys, and the tv show and everything...well yeah you get the idea. But it's just weird seeing all of you in real life." I replied.
"I think you're just a bit confused about how we got here. You should know," Tails said as I sat down in a chair beside Amy, "we got here by Chaos Control...again, since Eggman is, for some reason, unleashing some new evil on the world to establish his Eggman Empire."
"I know how you guys felt." I said sitting back in the chair.
As they continued to tell me the rest of the story, I told them my story of how my childhood was and all the same old stuff I told everyone when they asked where I came from. I started to bond with them, with a smile on my face, as I continued to talk with them. But later on, my cell phone, which was surprisingly still in my pocket, started to ring. I looked at the caller ID and noticed that it was my mom. Oh crap how am I going to explain this? Well, no choice but to answer it.
"Lauren? Lauren! Where are you? Are you okay?" Began the worried talk of any other mom on the planet.
"Mom...Mom! I'm fine will ya calm down? I'm fine I was just talking with someone." I replied as I stood outside the house.
Knuckles and the other peeked outside at me then went back to whatever they were doing in the house. I went back inside after finally telling my mom I was okay, and spoke to Sonic and the others for a few more minutes. Amy looked to me and insisted I stayed with her for the night, on account of Eggman may have been looking out for me, wanting revenge. So I agreed and stayed with her for the night as everyone else went back to their own homes.
The first day wasn't all bad, except for the fact of a giant snake robot attack, and me meeting these cartoon characters in real life, and yeah, I had a good start of my weekend, but the next day kinda turned out a bit bad.
