Authors Notes: Well I have no more reviews. :( More would be appreciated.
Slina is mine whilst the nickname was something very unoriginal but it's suitable. I still don't own any of the original characters.
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Chid
Cream took Sonic around the room bit by bit until an hour later Sonic was slightly sweating and his stomach was complaining that it hadn't been fed in a long time. And he had to agree with it and that it was time for a break, yet Cream wasn't impressed.
"All I am asking for Sonic is chin-ups. It is not exactly hard you know." She said slowly not impressed.
"Hey I know they're easy Cream it's just I haven't eaten anything all day I'm starving" He protested.
Cream shook her head."Even if you hadn't finished your medical I couldn't let you go, you heard what Rouge said. We haven't figured out a new name for you yet."
"Sonic has always been good enough for me. Why should I be called by anything else?" He said raising an eyebrow whilst casually sticking one of his fingers into his ears and seeing if there was anything within that shouldn't be there. Cream sighed, she never remembered Sonic being this difficult but then again the current situation was nothing like those situations they got into all those years ago, for one there were plants trees and forests out there in the world. Now they only were abundant on the Floating Island.
"Well how about an anagram?" She suggested, only to get a blank look from Sonic. She rolled her eyes at that. "Shuffle the letters around to make a new word, or in this case name?" She said and added hopefully, "that way you could still be Sonic but Robotnik wouldn't know it." Sonic shrugged and Cream just pointed at the bar for chin-ups.
"If you have enough energy to argue with me you have enough to do chin-ups. Move" She told him. Sonic glared at her but then sighed and walked over to the bar and started doing as many chin-ups in however long Cream was going to demand.
Another half an hour of exercise and cream let Sonic rest."Well you're in perfect psychical shape. I don't doubt that you could break the speed of sound." Sonic's stomach interrupted with a very loud grumble, which made Sonic shiver.
"Yeah, only after a banquet I'm afraid Cream." He said and rubbed his stomach and looked at Cream almost pleadingly. "Any chance of food yet?"
"No. You need a new name first." She told him seriously.
Rouge walked in and looked at them both."So Cream, is he fit?" She asked. Cream looked at Rouge and nodded.
"Fit as fit can be. He's broken a couple of records and he was hungry when he did them."
"Yeah so any chance of some grub yet or do you want a fainted me?" Sonic asked almost waspishly, if he didn't get some food soon he might just pass out.
"Do you have a new name?"
"No." Sonic glared
"Then you don't leave this room. I guess I could go and get you something." Sonic raised an eyebrow; he could see a very large but here. "But you need a new name first." There it was. He rolled his eyes and laid himself flat on the mat he was sitting on. He saw that one coming.
"It's not original but what about S H?" Cream suggested with a shrug. Rouge and Sonic looked at her, Sonic confused. "Sonic Hedgehog, you can just say that you used Sonic as your first name because it seemed like a good idea." Cream added. Rouge smiled and nodded.
"Then you can still be called Sonic and if we enter you into the computers as S H then you'll be safe from Robotnik's wrath." Rouge added, looking at Sonic who shrugged and gave a nod.
"Sure, whatever as long as it means I get to eat something now!" He said. Rouge shrugged,
"Sure thing S H. Lets get you a nice large meal and then I'll show you 'round." Rouge said with a wink. Sonic flipped up and walked after Rouge quickly, once he knew where the kitchen was he'd be able to eat until he was full.
Cream waved goodbye and Cheese sat on Sonic's head until he left, Cheese flew back to Cream as she started to chat to Cheese about Sonic. Or S H as she had to call him now.
"What's with all the metal rooms and wooden ones?" Sonic asked.
"What? Oh well we're underground at the moment, and we can only scavenge so much metal so we used whatever wood we had left to build the other rooms. Trees are only grown in certain places." Rouge added sadly.
"What happened to all the forests? What's with all the grey suits?" Sonic asked with a shrug. That headache was creeping back again.
"Robotnik cut down the forests saying that they were disgusting, though he has a few left to build houses for his slaves. And the grey suits? They are the general uniform of the slaves, only a few are given permission to wear colours other than grey." Rouge informed him, sadly.
She opened a door and a small hall was inside, tables and benches were the furniture. A wall long hatch was at a short end of the rectangle room. A human teenager stood there, the only occupant of the room.
"Hey Slina. What's for lunch today?" Rouge asked walking towards the human, Sonic was already there with a plate held out expectantly.
"Whose this Rouge?" Slina asked.
"New recruit, S H. And he's underfed so give him extra helpings of whatever you've cooked up today" Rouge said with a grin. Slina grinned and nodded, her short black hair was held back by a bag over her hair to keep her hair from the food. Her green gloves picked up various spoons and pinchers and gave S H double helpings of the meal for the day.
"So Slina what is on the menu today?" Rouge asked as she picked up a plate.
"Well there's some baked beans, dried bread, fish chunks and a sausage each. Or in his case two." She said with a weak smile. "We'll need to raid some more warehouses soon, were almost out of bread and the freezers broke down bout one this morning so most of it's defrosting and will need to be eaten today or tomorrow at the latest."
Rouge nodded. "Any festivals due soon?" She asked with a questioning look whilst Slina serves up her portion of food.
"Well the Twentieth year ceremony is due in two days time?" Slina offered.
"Two days time? Wow. I hadn't thought it was that time of the year already." Rouge sighed, and glanced over at Sonic who had sat himself down at the closest table and had been eating away quickly whilst also listening. "Well. This'll be S H's first ceremony, he knows a lot about the fabled hedgehog." Rouge said with a smile and took some cutlery and sat herself next to Sonic. "Don't you S H?" She said.
Sonic looked at Rouge. "What ceremony?"
"Oh, just the one held every year to commemorate the memory of Sonic the Hedgehog. Ten years ago we had everyone who we could get a hold of who had known the great hedgehog to make a short speech about how they knew him and how he had saved the world. A commemoration." Rouge said and then started her food.
"Yeah I guess I know some stuff about him. But you don't have a video or something of the one ten years ago do ya?" He asked after eating his first half of his food. Rouge thought about it and then nodded, paused in her eating and swallowed before speaking.
"Yeah. I'll get Cream to put it on when you're next in the gym. You can watch it whilst you train." She said before tucking into her food, eyes down and looking slightly sad.
Sonic thought about it for a while before he rushed the rest of his food down as fast as he could. It took only a few seconds to finish it all off and he got up and stretched his arms wide.
"Ahhh...much better" He exclaimed with a large grin on his face.
"Okay then Rouge, show me some of Buttnik's robots and I'll smash 'em into pieces. I'm up for some action."
Laughing, Sonic turned around and saw Slina laughing loudly.
"Has he been like living in a hole for the past twenty years?" She said shaking her head and wiping away tears from laughing so hard.
"Hey. I'll have you know" Sonic started but Rouge stood up and glared at him and looked at Slina.
"Like I said, he knows a lot about Sonic. He's been digging up so much information that he kept on setting his mind like Sonic so he could better understand. However he did it a few too many times and often thinks that he IS Sonic." She said pleased at the reasoning that had just popped into her mind. Slina continued to chuckle but nodded.
"Okay then Rouge, if you say he's a nutter in the head I'll accept that, just make sure he keeps a lid on that attitude if Robotnik's around." Slina suggested and went into the depths of the kitchen. Rouge turned back to her food and Sonic looked at Rouge.
"What was that about?" He asked.
"You want to stay alive long enough to help us defeat Robotnik? Then you are S H. Not Sonic. Understand?" She hissed forcefully. Sonic glared and headed for the door.
"I don't need any of this I'll find Eggman on my own and I'll beat him and sort this out right now. Who needs any of this underground crap?" He said waving his arms around.
"Believe it or not S H but you need our help right now. You're in a world you don't know. Robotnik has advanced his technologies many times over in the twenty years that have passed since Sonic left us. We have survived as long as we have by working together and using all our workforces together. The surface is no place for anyone if they are a member of the Freedom Fighters, even if they are wearing a uniform. You leave now S H and you'll see for yourself how bad the world up there can be, and there's no guarantee that we'll be able to protect you. Or that you'll find a way back here." She said slowly and carefully. Sonic stopped and rested his hands on the door and took in a couple of breaths before banging his fists against it once and looked at Rouge.
"Then lead me to Tails. He'll be able to explain it simply to me, I'll just find out what's going on without getting a headache and being bored and once I know I'll go and beat up Eggman and save the world" He said frustrated.
"Miles' location is unknown." Rouge said dully as she finished off her food. Sonic rolled his eyes and looked at the ceiling.
"Fine then, what about Knuckles."
"Location unknown if he's even alive." She sighed after a short pause. "Look S H, come with me there's things you need to know."
"More?" He asked looking like he'd already had enough.
Rouge nodded and walked towards his and opened the door and lead down the paths, Sonic followed fuming, whatever she had to say had better be good. She stopped outside another metal door and swiped a card and Sonic heard a lot of beeping noises before the door opened and she stepped inside and held the door open for him.
Inside it was a room, which looked normal, with wallpaper, and furniture that suggested a workroom and a room to relax in at the same time. A few jewels sat on the front of a large desk.
"This is my room. We can talk privately here." She said and closed the door behind him. She sat herself in a large, black and well cushioned chair and looked at Sonic.
"Both Miles 'Tails' Prower and Knuckles are alive and well." She said looking at him as he gaped at her.