Lauren the Echidna Volume 2
Chapter 2
Regeneration
This day is nothing but another...unless you call two years being an echidna got a bit tiring after awhile, for me at least. I never thought transforming back had such an affect on how my life went as a human. The insults got more insulting, and the beatings from the enemies and crime inducing people got more...well, beaty. Everything changed since the day I changed back to human. My parents had kept their forms as hedgehogs and had transported back to Sonic's world, only because they would be happier there without me. Even though they were still separated, they kept their power under check, and were able to master the things that Sonic and the others had taught them. Of course, my mother would be one of the harder ones to deal with, since she actually acted like a mother to Amy and the kids, but otherwise she was alright to them. And saying good-bye to my one love in the world, Knuckles...was one of the hardest things I had to do, but I know that in his world, he's happy.
Two years...has this really gone by? I wasn't so sure as to why this sudden appearance by Scourge, and him...saving me from a near death experience. It was indeed shocking to know this, but as I watched him walk off, something in his eyes seemed different than usual. I stood to my feet and put my hands in my pockets, then moved away from Scourge, knowing that at the time, he would cause no damage.
I had gone back to where Eggman's old base was left in ruins, its metal frame rusted to the core, but its machinery was still intact, due to my last bit of power. During the last two years I have been patrolling this city and its people in it. Many of those people appreciate what I've done over the past two years, but most still don't care. I've done many things, but to leave my parents behind in the Sonic world? That didn't seem like me...but I began to think again...what would happen if I went back and became what I once was? I found myself standing in front of the machine that had changed me back then, my eyes narrowed.
"Hmm...should I...?" I muttered to myself as I stood there. The machines circuitry was a bit shot, so I spent about a half hour working on it, since I finally learned some talent from my dad as a mechanic, then smiled at the work I did to it, which wasn't as bad as I thought. I wiped a bit of sweat off my forehead and sighed, finally realizing what my decision would be.
Meanwhile, Scourge had been casually walking around my town of Hillsborough, constantly glancing around for me, keeping himself cautious as to whatever would happen. A few regular guys wearing masks had just come out of a local bank known as Bank of America, and alarms were blaring as loud as they could, the men running for their lives from the cops, carrying big bags of cash. Scourge knew they were trouble, only smirking at the thought of guys stealing money. He felt that for some reason he needed to do something, but at the same time to just watch. Scourge 'hmm'ed at this and just continued his walk, until he heard a familiar voice shouting from the top of a building. He looked up and blinked, lowering his sunglasses.
That one very echidna that saved the planet before was back. My yellow fur had blown in the wind from the high altitude and my green eyes had gotten darker over the past two years, glistening in the moonlight. I gave the same smirk I had when I first became an echidna. In my right hand was the staff I had equipped, and my dreadlocks were now decorated with a bit of bionic metal, one dreadlock in the front was completely bionic due to my own choices. My outfit changed as well. Now with a black hoodie, two white stripes going down each sleeve in a zig-zag motion, white pants with black flamed designs on them, and black shoes with a white stripe. I smirked and my eyes narrowed down to the criminals that were robbing the bank and then ran down the side of the building at a high speed, leaving behind a few yellow sparks flying off into the air and disappearing.
The men from below glance up and their eyes widened to see this same hero that had destroyed that evil abomination, Mephiles the Crystalline Hedgehog. The staff was weld high in the air, above my head, the entire bandages around it covered in only a few genuine and pure rubies that were shining in the night light, and I swung down at them with one swing, sending out at least three white energy blades at the men, thus knocking them back onto the ground and blacking out for the time being. I stood there, twirled the staff and landed on my feet with ease and stood upright, spinning the staff again and slamming it down to my side.
"Hmph...and that's how to do it...bitches. Hmhmhm." I smirked as I stood there, in clear view of Scourge's blue eyes. He just narrowed his eyes and looked downward a bit over his sunglasses, the finally spoke,
"I see you've come back, Lauren. Tell me...what is it that made you change your mind?" He lowered his sunglasses again and smirked, showing those fangs of his.
"Who really wants to know, Scourge. I had my own decisions to make over the years. And coming back to this...was one of my last choices..." I kept my eyesight away from Scourge, keeping my staff held by my side, then it vanished into thin air.
Scourge blinked to this, remembering he heard that I had enjoyed being like the others such as Knuckles, but he just crossed his arms and stepped forward, taking off his sunglasses and placing them on top of his head, his sky blue eyes in full view.
"Why wouldn't you want such power as we have? WE are superior to the normal human beings! Why must a kid such as you hate to have such power!" He stepped forward again, clenching his fist in front of him in an angry motion. Not believing a word of this out of my mouth, he quickly spins into nothing but a green ball of razor bladed spines spinning out of control and launches off of a nearby building or two like a pinball and comes toward me. But what he didn't expect was that I was prepared entirely for his encounter, I raised up my hand and without any other movements in my body and stopped him in his tracks, even though he was still spinning and seeming to be cutting my glove into pieces. Another few seconds had passed and my eyes shot open to glare over at him, my glove being unscathed by his attack, and all I did, out of boredom, was flick my wrist upward and shot him up high into the air.
"Ngh! WHAT THE?! How can she..." His eyes quickly widened to see that I was already floating in front of his face, landing a quick lunge punch into his scarred stomach and launching him down to the ground with amazing force such as a meteor crashing to Earth. He shouted and gagged, spitting up a bit and hit the ground leaving but a crator around him about twenty yards wide. I just floated there in my place and glared down at him, then finally descended after another moment. My footsteps were heard as they came up to Scourge, who was just now getting up, coughing and grunting from the attack.
"Gahh...h-how can...someone such as you...have so much power..." He growled grabbing his sunglasses that had fallen off his head, then stood to his feet with a bit of stagger.
"You see Scourge...having the life of an echidna like Knuckles was all that great at first...but then when you have something inside you that wants to come out and reek vengence on you and destroy your planet..." I picked Scourge up by his jacket collar, "then wouldn't you want to stay normal?" My grip slipped and Scourge fell to the ground with a thud.
"Ngh...why you son of a b-" But before he could finish, he looked up into my eyes, noticing something...different. This anger in my eyes was completely different than any kind of anger that Scourge has ever prepared for. He just growled a bit and sat there, gripping his sunglasses tightly in his hand.
I then turned and walked off, turning my back to him as he scowled. My job wasn't over...there was still one specific evil that I had to attend to...whatever it was...I knew about it...I just didn't tell any of them what it was...or how dangerous it would be to them...
