Chapter 4
A Day in the life of mortal Sparky
It was a bright and sunny day, and Sparky who'd had grown into a ten-year-old alien boy had become a member of the Sonic's family. He was a bit fatter, and he also wore a blue vest. He was eagerly pulling a cart of various goods into town, but it seemed he was pulling it about 30 miles per hour. His adoptive father, Sonic was riding on the cart, along with his two friends Shadow and Silver, who usually did the pulling. But they could never go as fast as Sparky so they stopped pulling it since Sparky was five.
"Sparky, slow down!" yelled Sonic, trying to maintain control the cart. Sparky ignored him, but then they came to the arch leading into town. "Look out!"
Sparky was going to fast that he nearly hit two people. "S-sorry guys!" he called.
"Hey, watch where you're going!" they yelled.
Sparky finally needed to stop, and he skidded himself into the ground.
"Thanks, son," said Sonic. "When Silver and Shadow lost their energy back then when you were younger, I thought we were done for."
"I could've gone faster if Silver could catch up." Shadow complained.
"Are you implying I'm slower?" Silver asked angrily.
"Yes I am." Shadow sneered.
"All right, bring it on, Faker!" Silver yelled.
They all of a sudden got into a quarrel until Sparky broke it up and then used his strength to hold up all the goods.
"No problem, Pop, I got it!" said Sparky, already holding up some of the goods to unload.
"Don't- don't unload just yet, son. First I have to finagle with Apu." Sonic told him
"OK," said Sparky. And he dropped the goods back onto the cart with so much force, that it catapulted Silver and Shadow up into the air. "Whoops! Heh…sorry, guys!" he called.
"It's okay!" Sparky hears Silver's voices call from up in the air.
"Now, Sparky, this time, please just…" Sonic began telling Sparky.
"I know, I know," said Sparky. Down came Shadow and Silver, and he caught them. "Stay by the cart."
"Ha, that's my boy." Sonic smiled, ruffling Sparky's head. With that, Sonic left.
Determined to make himself useful anyhow, Sparky heard Edward, the local Vase shop owner, trying to carry many vases of things at once.
"Oh my goodness…whoa!" he was saying to himself.
"I'll be back in a minute!" Sparky told Silver and Shadow.
"A minute is just enough time for you to do something dangerous Sparky!" Shadow called out.
Sparky didn't pay attention to Shadow as headed towards Edward.
"Careful!" said Sparky, catching one of the vases just in time.
"Oh, why thank you," said Edward, unaware of whom had helped him.
"No problem!" Sparky smiled, coming out from behind the vase.
"Why Sparky…!" stuttered Edward, seeing who it was. "It-it-it…it's you!"
"Le-let me help you with that," Sparky offered. But Edward knew how clumsy Sparky could be when he didn't control his strength, and insisted he do it himself.
"Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. I got it. I got it!" he grunted, trying to hold "Run along!"
"You sure?" Sparky asked.
"Oh yeah!" Edward reassured, and he went back into the store. Sparky knew he wasn't wanted, so he slowly backed out of the shop. He was still looking back when a Frisbee landed at his feet.
"Yo! Give it here!" yelled a black and white dog-like creature, and named Yakko. Then he gasped when he saw who's hands the Frisbee was in.
"Hey, you need an extra guy?" asked Sparky, desperate for friends and something to do.
"Uh," said Yakko, trying to reject Sparky politely. "Uh, sorry, Sparky. Uh, we've already got…five…and we want to keep it an even number!"
"Hey, wait a second, five isn't an even-" Sparky said, realizing that five wasn't an even number.
"See ya, Sparky!" said Yakko, snatching back the Frisbee and running off.
"What a geek," he heard them laugh, along with "Destruct-o Boy!" and "Maybe we should call him Sparky the Stupid Head!"
With a frown on his face, Sparky sat down by himself on the edge of a fountain, and hung his head. People seemed to move away from him wherever he went. Like he was radioactive.
"HEADS UP!" cried one of the same boys. The Frisbee was heading Sparky's way.
"I-I got it!" Sparky exclaimed.
"No, don't!" Silver cried, predicting something bad was gonna happen, but Sparky had already leaped for the catch, and had flung himself a little too hard. He slammed into a pillar with incredible force, and it began to topple.
"Uh…oh…" he said. "Oh, oh no!" But when he used his strength to hold the pillar still, he accidentally swung it around and hit another one. Then they all started to fall like dominos!
"Son…" mumbled Sonic, just noticing what was going on.
"Sorry Pop…" Sparky said as he ran by. "Be right back!"
"No, no, no, no…!" rambled Edward, who was still holding many vases. The pillars went in a circle, and they were toppling over and coming at him from both sides. Luckily, they stopped when they fell into each other, right above him. He sighed in relief. Unfortunately, Sparky slipped and came sliding into him.
"Whoa! LOOK OUT!" Sparky exclaimed
"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!" Edward and Sparky cried. CRASH! That did it. They entire town square crumbled to the ground.
Amidst the dust, Sparky stood up, the Frisbee he'd caught in his hand again. Yakko then grabbed it back. "Nice catch, Stupid Head!" he said sarcastically.
"Oh, Son…" said Sonic, as he came to Sparky along with Silver and Shadow and pulling his own fingers down his own face. Before he could say anything else, Edward popped up from the wreckage, with a vase stuck over his head.
"This…is the last…STRAW, SONIC!" Edward yelled, pulling the vase off of his own head, and smashing onto the ground. Soon the whole town began angrily crowding around Sparky and Sonic.
"That guys' a walking, talking disaster zone!" said Yzma, angrily.
"Yeah, he's too dangerous to be around NORMAL people!" said Jack Spicer angrily.
"C'mon guys, he didn't mean any harm; he's just a kid…" Sonic said, trying to defend his son and reason with the crowd. "He just…can't control his strength."
"I'm warning you," said Edward warningly to Sonic. "You keep that, that, that…that…FUH-REAK away from here!"
Everyone in the crowd agreed. "Yeah! Freak!"
With that, the crowd dispersed, leaving Sparky , Sonic, Silver, and Shadow standing there sadly. Sonic put a hand on Sparky's shoulder.
Sparky was officially an outcast to everyone in town.
