Well, CC, sorry 'bout that... I just was a bit afraid, I'm not so much now... I thank you all for the support...
A little quote that I like in this chapter... "I worked with your dad's friend, and their daughter too.. and soon I may be working with you..." (Take a random guess who said that.)
Enjoy!
The sentries that had been chasing the escaped experiment had by now either died, or gave up and returned to base.
Inside the control room of this laboratory, a young doctor twirled his bright orange beard.
"Why did he have to escape?" He muttered. "I built the darn thing! It was supposed to be the ultimate weapon against Sonic and his friends! A tool, one that could adapt instantaneously to any given environment, even my father would've been proud. But, alas, I cannot control it. Well, at least those pathetic sentries can get it back."
"Doctor Damian? We have our report." A mechanical voice buzzed in on the main speakers in Damian's office.
"Good. Put the creature back in his cell, and get me some coffee."
"Um… Doctor?"
"Is there a problem, my dear sentry captain?" His voice was too calm to be authentic.
"If having to report that the creature escaped my diligent forces is a problem, then…"
"Then I have no use for such a worthless piece of scrap. Goodbye." Damian pressed a small button on the vast control panel in his room, and the he could hear a small explosion on the speakers. "Worthless… I will have to find it myself then!"
Damian looked at a portrait of his father. "I've come from a family of worthless genius's, all claiming to be the greatest of the great. Every single one of them has failed. From Professor Gerald Robotnik, to his father, Doctor Ivo Robotnik, who always was called Doctor Eggman, probably as a joke to his slightly round shape. They all had made great things, but could never use them.
Gerald had created the world's Ultimate Lifeform, but he failed to control it. Eggman had created thousands of robotic armies, only to be destroyed by Sonic the Hedgehog.
After his father ran away in exile, after Damian was cloned from him, Damian had been trying to create a name and title for himself; one that would give the world a sense of fear and respect for the name 'Robotnik'. He didn't have to be evil; he barely wanted to in fact, he just wanted justice upon that dratted Hedgehog who so easily mocked him and his father. Ivo wouldn't do anything, he was too broken to act, but Damian was young, daring, and able. And he had something his father didn't; a real motive for his work.
"I shall bend that creature to my will and motives, and I shall use him to eradicate Sonic and his pathetic family from the face of this planet! Muhohohohohohoho!"
(A/N: Insert: bag guy number 1.)
Amy cradled her small, ten year old daughter in her hands gently. She rocked the sleeping girl calmly in attempts to get her up.
"Sarah, Sarah my little angel, it's time to get up. You've got a new school to go to!" Amy cooed softly.
"Huh? I'm too tired."
"No you're not. You're your father's daughter. He is never tired, and neither are you." She said still calmly.
"Amy… how did I get up when I needed to?" Sonic mused. "Sarah! How would you like a chilidog for breakfast?" Sarah, as fast as a hummingbird can beat its wings, was standing up her father's feet with innocent eyes. (A/N: I wonder where she got that trait from...)
"Really?" Her eyes twinkled more than her smile.
"No, you have school today. We are going to go to Tails' house for a quick breakfast, and then you are going to go to school with Daisy, Brunis, and Brian, ok?"
"But… I liked my old school better!"
"Don't be silly! You are great at making friends; so this school shouldn't be a problem for you." Sonic said with an encouraging voice as he held Sarah's hand and they began to walk back to Tails' house.
At the Prower residence, Tails and Cosmo had just started making breakfast, and people were already beginning to move about. Tails ears perked up when he heard a knocking noise coming from his front door. As he opened the door, his old buddy was standing at the door, his wife and daughter standing behind him.
"May we eat breakfast here? We are kind of pressed on time." Sonic begged.
"Sure, but Sonic, after this, please rely on yourself a bit more, there really is not enough room in this house for three more to feed. But, for today, until you get a house and job to satisfy yourselves, sure, it seems perfectly reasonable." Tails let the trio enter. "Hey Cosmo? Can you help me whip up a few more servings of pancakes? We've got company!" The golden fox called out.
"Sure honey! I'd be glad to!" Cosmo returned to her singing as she cooked.
Sarah wandered into the bathroom. She was a bit messy, and was in a great need to clean herself up. Like her father, she was incapable of swimming, as far as she knew, at least. But, unlike him, she wasn't afraid of a shower. She cast off her emerald green jacket, fit to match her eyes, and stepped into the cold water. After being frozen, standing in the running water, she began to warm up to the cold feel of the liquid running through every strand of hair on her small, blue body. She silently thanked her dad's friend for being a mammal, and having some sort of shampoo for her to use, and then applied it accordingly across her body.
As she was washing herself off, she heard the door open. Sarah peeked her head out of the shower curtain, and saw Brian at the sink, brushing his teeth.
"Get out of here! Can't you hear the shower?" Her eyes flashed red as she barked at him.
"EEK!" Brian shrieked as he ran out of the room with toothpaste in his mount still.
Sarah, after calming down, and getting dried off, began to laugh at that situation.
"I'm not sure…" She thought aloud, "Was Brian shrieking because of my voice? Or because he didn't know that I was there?" She laughed, and stood in front of the mirror to comb and style her hair for school.
Unlike her father, Sarah's hair was rather short, and rather like her mother's. But unlike her mother, her hair didn't fall down like human hair, but was naturally swept backwards like Sonic's. It gave her an odd, tomboyish look, which matched her 'I can do it' personality perfectly.
After shaping her hair perfectly, which didn't really take much time or effort, she stepped out of the bathroom, and walked off to the breakfast table to the taunting aroma of pancakes; the first amount of food she'd had in more than a day.
As Cosmo picked up the dishes from the rather groggy, uneventful breakfast, the kids sleepily walked outside to the smell of the fresh outdoors.
"Hey Tails? We want to walk to school, is that ok?" Brunis called to his soon to be father-in-law.
"Sure, just stick together. Bye Brunis!" Tails answered.
"And could you take Sarah with you? She is going to go to school today." Sonic added.
"With pleasure Mr. Sonic sir." Brunis bowed in the general direction on Sonic, and Sonic returned the favor with a smile.
Daisy and Sarah walked next to Brian and Brunis slowly. They felt too tired to really get going anywhere.
Beginning to feel bored again, Sarah put her hands behind her head, and sighed.
"This is boring. Where is the school? I want to run ahead." Sarah complained.
"What? You think you'd get there any faster?" Daisy cocked an eyebrow. She had no idea who she was talking to, or exactly how fast the person she just challenged was.
"Um, yeah. Wanna race?" Sarah's face changed from boredom to interest faster than she could run.
"Ok then. Brian, get on Brunis's shoulders, and he will get you to school faster, ok?"
"Ok big sis!" Brian clambered onto the back of his future brother-in-law. Brunis, with Brian secure, began his tank like speed, starting slow, never stopping, and ending fast, in any hopes of beating his fiancé to school, which he knew deep down was never gonig to happen.
"So you really think that you, a little ten year old, can beat me, the queen of the track field, who also happens to be almost six years older than you?" Daisy looked at her competition with an almost mocking attitude.
"Heck yeah." Sarah replied with her father's overconfidence. Daisy was taken aback by Sarah's attitude.
"Then the race goes like this; we start here, and run in the general direction of that grey blob on the horizon. It is the school, standing three stories into the sky, about two miles away. Do you really think you can win?"
"If I cannot, then I should be punished." Sarah cracked her knuckles and brushed the underside of her nose with her index finger, as her father instinctively did before a race or challenge.
"Then we start. On your mark." Daisy set herself up for a track start.
"Get set." Daisy looked at Sarah, who was just standing there, not getting ready.
"GO!" Daisy took off, and left little Sarah in the dust.
Sarah watched as Daisy ran off. Daisy was fast, Sarah noticed that much, but she knew inside that poor Daisy wouldn't be able to stay ahead for more than half of a minute.
Sarah stretched, and then, after sighing, bolted it like only her and her father could do.
Daisy looked behind, satisfied with the fact that Sarah wasn't in seeing range. She calmly looked ahead, and kept her pace, trying to get as much distance between her and Sarah.
Then she noticed something odd. She saw the silhouette of Sarah appear for a brief second in front of her, and then it disappeared. She then felt a faint tap on her shoulder, and looked behind her, only to see nothing.
When she looked forwards, she saw Sarah, keeping up with her, running backwards, smiling and waving at her.
"Why hello Daisy. Still think you can win?" Her smile made Daisy's temper flare.
"Why you little!" Daisy sprinted towards her, and Sarah laughed, turning around, and disappearing beyond the horizon towards the school.
Daisy stumbled into the front doors panting for breath.
"What took you so long?" Sarah smiled menacingly at Daisy.
"Shut it twerp!" Daisy fumed off to her locker.
Sarah smiled at her victory, and watched as the angry flower girl became an erupting volcano in the halls. Sarah could only laugh at Daisy's hopeless pride.
Sarah wandered through the halls of her new school. She was lost, though her own pride and self-confidence prevented her from admitting it, even to herself.
"Maybe I can pick up my schedule at the office…" She mumbled as she passed by a group of kids.
"Hey cutie!" A random older boy looked down at her as she passed by. "You lost?"
"Absolutely not! And back off sir, this merchandise is not for sale." She declared with a bit of extra sass, and moved on. The boy followed her though.
"I think you are; because you are walking away from me." The kid again looked down at her, trying to act cool.
"Ok, listen here. I am a fourth grader, and you are a what? Ninth grader? I am way too young, and besides, you just aren't my taste." Again Sarah moved in the direction that she thought was that of the main office. But, again the kid blocked her path.
"Shut up girl!" The kid tried to grab her, and Sarah responded justly by kneeing him hard in his groin-area. The kid fell down, writhing in pain. (A/N: Ding One hit Knock Out!)
"When I tell you to back off, I mean it." She glared at him for a few more seconds, to assure her status was above his, and then moved on.
She chuckled to herself. That went quite well. She thought humorously as she made her way to the main office.
Minutes later, a sign with the words 'Main Office' appeared in front of her.
She grudgingly made her way into the door, not knowing what to expect.
Inside, a person that looked to be the principal was arguing with a metallic robot.
"No Mr. Xavier! I do not need better security systems! We've got budget problems as it is!" The Principal like figure roared at the robot.
"But sir, I can personally install them. A gift it would be! All I need is the metal and the permission!" The robot pleaded. (A/N: You wanted XT? You got him.)
"No Mr. Xavier. Not this time. I didn't give you permission to 'upgrade' our gym, and now no one has seen the inside of it!"
"Not true. I and the students-"
"Important people! Not students!"
"The students make up more than 90 of the population here. They are the true rulers, if you need to know."
"No they aren't! And we don't need a new security system!"
"Yes we do. I cannot save this entire school at one second. People all over the school are being bullied, touched in appropriately, or beaten up. It has to stop!"
"Those are only rumors! Hey little girl, come here." The Principal pointed to Sarah.
The robot also turned in her direction. Upon its eyes meeting Sarah's, it seemed to perk up, as if it knew her or something.
"Me, sir?" Sarah tentatively asked.
"Yes you. Have you ever been touched inappropriately, beat up, or bullied before?"
Sarah sat back in the chair and laughed in hysteria.
"Ok, that is funny, you asking me that, and I just got into this school for my first time."
"Oh, then you couldn't answer well then."
"Actually," the robot's face crept into a grin as she spoke, "I can. In the time it took me to walk from the front door to here, a boy tried to grab me, and was trying, most pathetically if I may add, to flirt with me in order to, no doubt, seduce me as his girlfriend." The Principal's face was stricken with horror. "Furthermore, when he did try to grab me, after having me trying to get out of his way three times, I had to kick him in the forbidden zone to get him to stop."
"I think that answer's you question very well Mr. Principal Sir. Shall I get the security system's materials now?" The robot said mockingly.
"Yes Mr. Xavier… go get the materials." The Principal said in defeat.
"Yippee!" The robot jumped up and fluttered in the air on a set of massive wings. "And, to you Sarah Rose, I don't think we've met yet, have we?" It held out a large metal hand to her. The hand seemed capable of grasping her entire head and smashing it into pieces in one grab.
"How do you know my name?" Sarah asked, shaking the hand carefully.
"I know many things Sarah, I helped you father's friends get married, and their daughter's too." And then mentally added; and soon I might be working with you…
"Well, who are you?" Sarah foolishly asked.
"I am Xavier, model number XT-421 of the Rinocian Empire, I am a fully sentient artificial intelligence being on a mission to heal the hearts of creatures throughout existence!" He proudly declared, his voice speaking so fast it was hardly comprehendible.
"That's nice. Um, Mr. Principal, may I have a schedule? I kind of want to get on with my life here…" She barely understood her somewhat rude comment.
"Sure, Sarah… um… what is your last name little missy?"
"Rose sir, Sarah Rose." Her little eyes twinkled innocently at the Principal.
"Ah Sarah. Rose? Are you by chance… No, he's long dead… Never mind. Go on little Sarah, have fun at school."
"With big bad boys like that one poor dude who got kicked by me? Yeah right…" She mumbled as soon as she left his audibility range.
(Notice, I fixed the 'Sarah Prower' problem... my mistake, sorry...)
Ok, well, I am right now REALLY angry with myself. The last time I tried to write this (this is after I restarted on the writing...) I got caught up in a Legend of Zelda fanficiton, and I am REALLY afraid that it is gonig to happen again.
I don't want any of you to get mad at me, but I may start writing another story, and altogether 'pause' this story (again) to write the other one...
If I do that, how angry would you all be? I mean, I would still try to update this story, but it would be VERY VERY slow, (even in comparison to a normal person's story, where they might update once every three days...)
I really do want to write this other story locked in my head... but I'm afraid you'll al get VERY mad at me for doing so...
Even if,
More coming soon...