Lauren the Echidna Volume 3

Chapter 3

Jamie Dawn

It was nothing more than a deja-vu for me in this world. The echidna that I had become in the dream, finally happened to me in real life. I walked out in nothing more than the same blue jeans, black Trix Cereal hoodie, and white tennis shoes, still in my human form. I just crossed my arms and smirked.

"I think it's time I got some help. Maybe others in this world will be willing to help me out in defeating Mephiles once and for all."

"Huh? Mephiles? We defeated him over a year ago. How is he still alive?!"

"Well, apparently he's back. And I have to stop him." I said walking ahead, a small orange aura coming off of me as I walked by Sonic. He grabs my arm and stops me,

"Hold on now, Lauren. You don't even know what he's planning."

"Yes, I do actually. He's planning to release the power of Solaris again...but from inside me..." Sonic's eyes widened to this and let go of my arm.

"No way...we got rid of Solaris!"

"Yeah, well he's back AGAIN! AND THROUGH ME! If I'm to get help I'm gonna need a way to...huh...that's it...Sonic, do you have a Chaos Emerald on you?" I asked him as I turned to him.

Sonic's expression turned from concern to anger. He stepped a step back and crossed his arms with his eyes narrowed.

"How do I know you're not up to something?"

"Sonic, you're the last one I know that would expect someone to be up to something. That's Knuckles' job." My eyes narrowed as well. "Hmph...I'll find one myself. If you don't believe me I'll show you." I stormed off out of the base and was now running through the forest behind that base to get back to my hometown.

My feet left the ground in another instant, causing them to become black and dark red tennis shoes with a wind design on them, a dark red hoodie and black baggy cargo pants with red trim. My fur was the same bright yellow color, bangs covering my face with a pair of dark purple glasses in front of my eyes, since I had my actual glasses on at the time. I smirked again, knowing where to go first, running faster than Sonic ever could in an instant. Sonic's eyes widened more to see such speed, and how the hell I could use that speed in the first place.

"Hm...I gotta find Tails and Knuckles." Sonic said to himself as he ran off back toward my school, where many cop cars and firefighter trucks were found, cleaning up the mess that Mephiles left behind.

"I know I'll find the right ones to help me...and there's only one way to start..." I smiled a bit, realizing the closest person near me.

After a few minutes I arrived at a long driveway in the middle of many trees. I walked down the driveway, looking to my left for the house I was after. Finally stopping, I come to a somewhat large house that was white/tan with a light colored roof. My frown came to a smile, seeing a black Equinox and a burgundy colored Toyota Camry sitting in the houses driveway. I finally had reached the house of my long time friend and close sister, Jamie Powers.

I walked up to the door and knocked, seeing that the lights were on in the house, then was answered by a somewhat skinny tall woman, known as Lee. In other words, her mother.

"Oh, hey Lauren. What're you doin' here?"

"Hey, Mrs. Jernigan. Jamie's home right?" I said as she urged me to come in.

"Yeah, of course. Jamie! Lauren's here. You can go on to her room. She's probably on the computer." She replied as she walked into her own bedroom, letting her husband know I was here. I didn't waste any time though. As I walked into Jamie's room, all around the room were black lights. Mainly on her ceiling fan and one against the wall. Those were the only lights that lit up the room so it was halfway dark.

"Jamie. Hey." I said as I walked in her room. This girl was my best friend. Even more like a sister. I smiled a bit, then saw her eyes meet mine, her long curly brown and blonde-highlighted hair overlapped on her shoulders.

"Hey. What are you doin' here?" She asked.

"I'm here to ask you something."

"Okay. Can you close the door?" Since her low toned voice was only heard by me, I was able to speak my own normal voice without any delay.

"I...need your help. Ya see umm...this is gonna be hard to believe but..." I motioned both my feet out about two foot apart and closed my eyes. Again, a small flash shown in front of Jamie. Her eyes squinted a bit to the flash, her being not used to bright flashes like this. My arms and legs got shorter as my whole body was now white, then my hands turning into fingered boxing gloves with two spikes on each, and the same outlook I had before. My long yellow bangs were covering one of my eyes as I opened them, to see that Jamie's expression had changed from awe to confusion. I looked up at her, being about her size since she was sitting down, and blinked.

"Yeah...I know it looks um...really unbelievable...but - "

"No I believe it. I thought this was just a fan fiction of yours." She said, still not knowing what else to say.

"Well um...I have so much to explain right now...it's really complicated, but I'm sure you could follow." I said scratching the back of my head as I turned away slightly.

"So what do you want me to do?"

"Say no more. Just watch." I smiled and walked closer to her, raising my finger up to her chest and poking it with a soft touch. A small hot pink colored aura had surrounded her. She just let out a "Hm?" as she looked around her body, now being the same size as me.

This girl was different than the others. Having an amazing talent of making her own clothing line, she of course had an outfit that matched her personality. A teal blue colored plaid shirt was over top of a black t-shirt, the sleeves of the plaid shirt stopped at her elbows. Several stripes of her teal shirt were of the colors yellow, teal, and hot pink. Below the black t-shirt was a pair of light gray and faded jeans, a bit ripped at the left knee, followed by a pair of black and pink low tops with laces. Making up all of this amazing clothes, was her hot pink colored fur. Black bangs had covered one of her eyes, also covering her white sunglasses that covered her entire eye. The sunglasses, being white with a bit of black fringes was a big part of her power. She wasn't yet able to reveal that since it was her character. She had become her self character, Jamie Dawn the Echidna.

"Heh...how does it feel, James?" As I would call her by this nickname, she looked to me and tilted her sunglasses down.

"Well, I can see how it feels to be like that hedgehog." She smirked a bit. "But I think I can handle it...plus I need to get away from them." She said pointing toward the door where her parents were. I chuckled and smirked back to her, holding out my hand. She took it and kept that smirk, shaking it.

"But I think we should find a way to tell your parents..." Jamie looked to me with a confused look.

"You really don't think they'll approve do you? Pssssh...cmon, Lauren. Heh heh." I blinked for a moment, then smirked, knowing exactly what she meant.

"Alright, shall we take the fun way out?" I bowed to her with a wink and stood back up. "Let's go."

We both burst out the window to her room, which got the attention of her parents to rush into her room with surprise.

"Jamie?!" Said her mother.

"JAMIE! Where the fuck are you?! LAUREN!" Her father shouted. As they looked out the window, they noticed two figures jumping away from the house through the trees back toward the town. I looked back and the two noticed that it was actually me and Jamie as the two echidnas.

"Don't worry, you two! I'll take good care of Jamie! And we'll keep the planet under control, I promise!" I said with a laugh as Jamie and I disappeared into the trees. Her parents looked to each other and blinked, then watched as we disappeared.

It was clear that Jamie had loved the idea of us being partners in this fight against Mephiles...but there were still many questions to be answered...

"So what do you plan on next, huh?"

"Heh...I think it's time we visited some other friends of mine..." A smile spread across my face. "And I think I know exactly who to start with..."
Jamie blinked...then rolled her eyes with a chuckle.

"You don't think the people in the boonies of Ohio will mind, do you?"
"Hahaha...no I don't think so." The smile got wider across my face...we were now headed for Fletcher, Ohio...the one place I've wanted to visit for quite sometime now...