"Seriously what do you eat?" I asked the hedgehog who had made himself quite at home on my couch. His feet were kicked up and his eyes were closed.
I had forced Sonic to wear my coat I had stored in my employee locker for rainy days and I passed him off to my boss as my sister's kid. I had gotten my pay and I walked home. Apparently Sonic thought it was too boring half way through the walk and decided that trying to run ahead would be fun.
Less to say, I ended up nearly getting run over by a truck and I became utterly pissed at Sonic.
I spent the rest of the night trying to fall asleep, but I couldn't. The events being too strange and surreal. Sonic then explained that he wanted something to eat, so I asked what he wanted and he shrugged. This lead me to scouring my kitchen for something the hedgehog could consume without getting poisoned. The last thing I needed was taking a talking hedgehog to a vet.
"I like chilidogs." Sonic told me from the living room. I grumbled under my breath.
"How about a taco?" I held up a cold burrito for him, he didn't respond right away, but I eventually got tired of his silence and closed the fridge. "Taco it is." I walked into the living room and gave him the half eaten food. He seemed impartial to the idea but he didn't complain.
"So what do you even do around here?" Sonic asked, his mouth slightly stuffed with taco.
"Eh.. I watch T.V... Deal with Bills... Boring things." I picked up the remote off of the table in front of us and flipped on the news.
"The supersonic Speed Team and seen here on police helicopter video has the city fanful." The news anchor explained with the same 'fake' tone all anchors have. The screen flipped over to a fat police officer.
"It was about this high, it was blue and it looked like a freak!" I raised an eyebrow and glanced over at the cross hedgehog who hadn't taken a liking to what the officer had said. The screen flipped over to a skinny white man with a green t-shirt.
"I was doing about 60 when this thing went "wooo" right by me!" The screen changed once again and I snorted at the fat woman who was currently trying to choke a small pooch with too much clothing
"That thing moved too fast to be a regular animal!"
"They're talking about you?" I asked Sonic, my arms crossed slightly as a scientist came on screen.
"As to the question of whether this is a UMA, Unidentified Mutant Animal, it is positively not. Even the cheetah, which is widely believed to be the fastest member of the animal kingdom cannot outrun a speeding Formula-One police car. Because of this "thing", in an inescapable conclusion one must inevitably come to is that this so-called "hedgehog" is a reality of a machine." I watched as Sonic finished the taco and hopped off of the couch, starting to stretch.
"You a robot?" I questioned.
"No, I'm a hedgehog." Sonic stretched out his arms.
"You know hedgehogs can't speak." I huffed.
"All the hedgehogs I know can." Sonic told me. I blinked.
"There are more of you?" I furred my brow, conflicted.
"Yeah. There is Amy, Tails, a fox, Knuckles, an ekidnda, Cream, a rabbit, and cheese, a chao." Sonic named them off.
"Hm... Is that one of them?" I pointed at a strange rabbit on the screen, who also had a floating blue creature in her arms.
"Cream! Cheese!" Sonic suddenly dashed towards the t.v, his eyes wide. I blinked at the sudden burst if speed. "I knew I couldn't of been the only one transported here... I have to save them!" Sonic then ran towards the door, practically a blur. He jumped up to grab to handle, but he couldn't reach it. He jumped again, and failed to turn the knob. "Darn it! Let me out!" He jumped again, his gloved fingers brushing against the knob.
I let off a sigh and heaved my self tiredly off of the couch. "Hold your horses Sonic." I walked over to the door and put my hand on the knob. "Do you have any idea where they are?" Sonic blinked, then stopped jumping.
"No..." He crossed his arms, tapping his foot impatiently.
"Any plan how to get them out?" I huffed.
"No..."
"Then what are you doing rushing head first like that?" I scolded him like a child he grumbled something under his breath, but didn't respond. "Now," I turned on my heel and pointed at the t.v. "If you waited five seconds, the t.v would have told you where they are." I crossed my arms at him. "They're at area 99. A top secret base." I explained.
"What!?" He yelped at me.
"They catch anyone on the grounds, and it will take two bullets before you can't even crawl." I heard him laugh.
"That is if they can catch me!" Sonic pointed his thumb at his chest. "I can out speed anything!"
"Sure, and when you make one mistake and Cream and Cheese are locked in that tube forever, how will you out speed that?" Sonic blinked, then looked away. I could hear his ego deflating slightly. "Of course, you always have a human who I think is a pretty good actor, on your side now... So.." I grinned. "I've got an idea to get you in there."
I had Sonic once again in my jacket, much to his discomfort, and I had lead him to the outside of town. I casually stole a car from some unsuspecting couple who were eating at a mcdonalds and drove down the long highway to area 99.
Sonic had insisted at the time that he would run there, but I promptly threw him in the back seat of the grey blue minivan and drove off.
I'm pretty sure he was still angry when we arrived an hour later because he was giving me the silent treatment.
"Alright, so I'm gonna give you an opening and you'll have to sneak inside. Don't use the ducts, because in all the spy movies I've seen, they use the ducts so they've gotta be booby trapped." I looked up at the base's fence not fourteen yards away. "There's gonna be camera everywhere so be careful too about that too." I pulled out the small pistol I had gotten from my job to warn off 'suspicious' activity from my pocket. "This is a gun. You see this, they want to kill you." I bluntly told him. He didn't seemed phased. "Get it away from the person using any force needed." I pushed the gun back in my pocket.
"Are you done?" He had his arms crossed. I frowned at him.
"Yes." I grumbled at him and grabbed some dirt off of the ground. I rubbed my face, then my arms. "You've got one change. You mess this us, I get shot." I stood up and started walking towards the electric fence. Acting class don't fail me now...
"Hello?!" I yelled out to the two armed guards. One tilted his head while the other remained still. "Hello! I need help! My car just broke down and my grandpa can't survive in this head for much longer!" The seemingly younger guard turned completely and started walking towards me. The older looking guard didn't even flinch.
"Miss, what are you doing near this premise? Don't you see the sign?" He pointed to something engraved several feet away on a steel sheet. I blinked. I had seen the sign. Right before I put on my acting face, and it was a warning that all trespassers will be shot. My mouth ran dry and I licked my lips.
"I know... But if I don't get help my grandpa could die in this heat!" I explained, my heart racing. The realization that I could die hitting me like a train.
"Miss." I blinked as the older man walked up, his gun pointed at my chest. I jumped back and raise my hands. "Step away from the gate."
"Hey, don't do that." The younger male scolded the older one. "She needs help." The younger man pushed down the older one's large gun and walked up to the large gate in front of me. The younger man pressed a button on the side of the building and the gates started opening up electronically. My eyes glanced to the side as I watched a blue blur run through the gate and past the older man.
"Y-yes! This way! Please hurry!" I motioned for the heavily armed man to follow as I headed to the car. Instead of waiting for him to catch up, I ran ahead, practically losing him behind me.
Once he was out of sight, I dove for the minivan and opened the hood to reveal the engine. I pulled out some of the tubing and then shut the hood. I opened one of the side doors and glanced around.
I guess he could really move fast.
I heard the panting of the young man trying to catch up. I darted up to him, trying to act like something terrible had happened. Instead of answering the man's questions, I just jumped around them.
"What happened?!" He grabbed onto my shoulders and shook me. I blinked, pretending to calm down.
"My grandpa is gone! I can't find him anywhere!" I cried out as I turned around, trying to summon crocodile tears.
I wasn't successful so I just hiccuped.
"Alright, alright... I'll call up a small patrol and we will find your grandpa." The man then pulled up his radio, but when he hit the button, sirens could be heard and people were panicking. I blinked.
Dammit...
"W-what's going on!? What's happening?!" The man cried out into the device. No answer was responded, only continued sirens and the sound of gunshots. His radio lowered as I put my hand on my gun. "You did this..." Before I could pull out my weapon, the man had turned around and was pointing the barrel of his gun at my chest. I let out a yelp and dove for the ground, the sound of a gun going off above where my head was not five seconds ago. I jumped into the man's back, trying to keep him from aiming the gun at me.
I pulled out my own gun and hit the man in the back of his head with the handle of my own gun...
Multiple times...
He fell down to the ground. I was gasping in shock as I held onto my chest. My heart felt like it was going to explode from this action. I took a few steps back from the man and fell on my rear.
Oh my god...
I rubbed my head with my hands and plucked the radio out of the man's hands. I pressed the button and listened to the sound of pure chaos. I stood up and rubbed my head. A headache forming.
I started walking back towards area 99 when I saw a large red airplane flying overhead. I peered closer to see a certain blue hedgehog waving to me from the wing of the plane.
Iblinked and stared in awe as it flew farther away.
He had a plane...
Dammit...