Disclaimer: I do not own Over the Hedge in any way.

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Chapter 1: Forced Guests

"Tiens! Tu ça va?

Seto slowly opened his eyes pushed off the ground to sit up. He looked around to find that he was in a cage along with another possum. He turned to the other possum looking at him confused.

"Parlez-vous en Français?" he asked.

"What?" Seto asked confused.

The possum chuckled. "I guess not, are you okay?" he asked.

"Yeah, fine, but where am I?" Seto asked.

"You're at a vet" he answered.

"Who are you?" Seto asked again.

"Ah! Excuse-moi, je m'apelle Jerôme, mais vous pouvez m'apeller Jerry" he answered grinning.

"Okay…" Seto said still confused.

"Comment t'apelles-tu?" he asked knowing that Seto couldn't answer him.

"Stop that!" Seto said.

Jerry laughed "I asked 'what is your name?'"

"Oh, my name is Seto" Seto said dryly.

Jerry laughs again "don't worry you'll understand some of this soon enough"

"What do you mean?" asks Seto.

"Vous verrez"

Seto ignored his response, getting annoyed.

A human walks up to the cage and picks it up

"Hey Spike you ready to go home?" she asked

"Oui…" Jerry sighs.

"So… are you from the wild?" he asked

"Uh, I guess… why?"

"What's it like? I haven't been free since I was a child and I was taken from my family, my brother, father, and friends. Speaking of my brother… you know, somehow, you look a lot like him."

"Well… uh, I don't know how to explain it. These last two weeks have been rough on me" Seto said.

"Oh, I'm sorry…"

"It's okay, I'm sure you've had it worse"

"I suppose… but hey, you can't dwell on it forever, learn to have fun!" Jerry said making Seto giggle "All situations have there ups and downs, it's up to you to choose which one to look for"

"So what's the upside of being taken away from your family?"

"Well, I still haven't found one, but if I had to choose something, it's meeting new friends"

Seto smiled, "How do you say thank you?"

"Let me think, Ah! Merci!" Jerry answered

"Okay, then Merci, your right"

The human sets the cage down in the passenger seat of her car.

"Hi there, my name is Sarah, what's yours?" she asked.

"I know! I'll call you Kenny!" she said again.

Sarah shut the door and got into the drivers seat of the car and turned it on.

"So what was your family like?" asked Jerry as Sarah drove the two to Seto's 'new home'.

"Well, I had a small family, just me, my three brothers, and my mother, but just two weeks ago my mother died, leaving me to take care of my younger brothers. Soon after that my brothers were taken from me and I had no where to go, I was alone until I met RJ and his friends, and for the first time since my mother died I felt like I had a family. It made me realize that I might still have the real thing so I left to look for my brothers" Seto explained.

"I'm sorry" Jerry sighed.

"It's okay, it's not your fault" Seto said.

Jerry just smiled with a tear coming down his face.

"You okay?" Seto asked confused.

"Yeah I'm fine" Jerry answered.

"Well what's wrong?" Seto asked.

"Nothing, it's nothing" Jerry insisted "Hey, we're here!"

Sarah opened the car door and grabbed the cage as she got out of the car. Seto and Jerry held on to the swinging cage as Sarah opened the front door and walked inside. She spotted a cage on a desk in the living room. She set the cage Seto and Jerry were in down on the desk and opened it letting the two walk out. She then picked up Seto and placed him gently in the other cage and then Jerry. The cage had two floors with a small pad on the top floor for Jerry to sleep on. It had an exercise wheel on the bottom right of the cage.

Jerry sighed and said "Welcome to my humble home, feel free to anything here. I'm going to go up and just think. If you need anything just ask"

Picking up a small guitar Jerry walked up the ramp and sat down on the pad and set the guitar aside.

"Je vous manquez tous…" he whispered to the wind as he laid his head back and fell asleep.

Seto looked around for some food. He spotted something in a bowl to his side. He picked up one of the pellets inside of it and sniffed it. Repulsed by the smell he dropped it back in the bowl to look for something else. He spotted a bowl of water next to the other bowl and walked up to it. Sniffing the water, Seto shrugs and begins to drink it. Seto walked up the ramp to ask Jerry were the food was but he was already asleep so Seto decided he should go to sleep too. He laid down next to Jerry and quickly fell asleep awaiting a new day in his new home.

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There's chapter 1.

I hope you liked it. The translations are…

Tiens! Tu Ça va?

(Hey! You Okay?)

Parlez-vous en Français?
(Do you speak in French?)

Ah! Excuse-moi, je m'apelle Jerôme, mais vous pouvez m'apeller Jerry

(Oh! Pardon me, my name is Jerôme, but you can call me Jerry)

Comment t'apelles-tu?

(What is your name?)

Vous verrez

(You'll see)

Oui (Of course you probably know this one)

(Yes)

Je vous manquez tous

(I miss you all)

And there's a short French lesson for you!

Please if there is anything wrong with the French grammar or if there is anything bad with the translations TELL ME!!! I don't want to butcher a perfectly good language.