Lauren the Echidna Chapter 4

Transformation

Sonic finally woke up from being knocked out, and looked up to see Tails budging him a few times. He let out a groan and stood up, shaking his head from side to side.

"Ugh…I can't believe I let that scrap heap get Lauren…" Said Sonic looking down at the ground.

"It's not your fault, Sonic. Let's get Knuckles and go after her!" Suggested Tails, as he started to spin his two tails, flying in front of Sonic. Sonic nodded and they headed to Angel Island, which was hovering over the ocean as it would be any day.

Tails flew Sonic up to the island and they moved through the forests and up to the shrine of the Master Emerald, where Knuckles was asleep guarding the precious gem. They ran up to him, and he wakes up to the sound of their footsteps.

"What's wrong guys?" He asked, sitting up.

"Lauren's been kidnapped by one of Eggman's robots!" Said Tails with a frown on his face.

"What?!" Knuckles quickly stood up.

"We have to go now. C'mon!" Said Sonic running ahead of them. Sonic grabbed a hold of Tails hand and he flew off with him, with Knuckles gliding right behind them, off the island.

Meanwhile, in a base deep in the woods, the robot wolf had spit me out of its mouth and on the ground in front of it. I gasped in pain as I tried to sit up, still throbbing from the pain, but the wolf stomped down on my back with its metal paw, pinning me down and making me grunt in pain again. I couldn't move at all, I could only look up and see a figure walking up to me. I tried to struggle to get free but it was no use, the wolf had me down. The figure walks up to me and gives an evil glare down at me. He looked to be a black hedgehog, spines pointing upward, and red eyes. My eyes widened as I looked to him in horror.

"S-Shadow the Hedgehog…" I said quietly as he bent down to my face.

"Is this the girl, doctor?" He said with his low and soft voice.

Another figure, which turned out to be Eggman had come out as well and walked up to both of us. I was surprised to see Shadow here, but why would he be with Eggman? I grunted again as I continued to struggle.

"Don't waste your energy, kid. I have you down for the count. And now you will pay for getting in my way, and letting that blasted hedgehog overpower me." Said Eggman with an eerie smirk.

My eyes widened as he ordered Shadow to take me and put me into some kind of weird machine that was hooked up when I got there. Beeping was heard and light were shining from outside of it as I laid there trying to get back up. I finally got back up and stumbled to the door of the machine trying to open it. But Eggman shows a smirk and I noticed Shadow beginning to press a few buttons on the control panel. My eyes widened as I knew he was going to activate it and do something to me, so I tried to kick the door open, but since it was hard metal, I failed horribly.

"Now you'll know what it's like to be one of us, kid." Said Shadow pressing a button that finalized the machine to start working. I looked around to see that electricity was beginning to form around me. I shouted from the pain of the shock and continued to shout as my whole body began to glow white. Eggman let out an evil laugh as the machine finally finished what it was designed for.

Shadow stepped away. As Eggman walked up to the door and was about to open it, a voice was heard from the entrance to the base, which turned out to be Knuckles' voice.

"EGGMAN! LET HER GO!" He shouted as he punched Shadow away, then knocking Eggman to the side.

"UNH!" Shouted Shadow in pain, as he got back up and skated toward Knuckles, raising his hand to shoot a Chaos Spear attack at him. Knuckles dodged the attack and kicked Shadow into a wall. But Shadow wasn't done yet, he skates at a high speed throwing a punch and then a kick at Knuckles. Sonic took care of Eggman while Tails attempted to open the door to the machine that I was in.

Shadow throws a few more punches at Knuckles, but Knuckles quickly counters with an uppercut to Shadow's jaw. He shouted in pain and was knocked up into the ceiling of the base. Shadow fell back down and quickly shook it off, diving toward Knuckles, throwing a kick at Knuckles head, landing the kick and it throws Knuckles to the ground. He grunted and got back up, throwing yet another uppercut at Shadow, but he dodges.

Sonic quickly jumps into the battle between the two and spin-dashes into Shadow. Shadow shouted again and then skidded back a few yards. He growled, but then just disappears with Eggman close behind escaping from it all. Knuckles gasps and looks to the machine where I was still being held. He quickly runs up to it, which Tails was still trying to open the door.

"Apparently, there's some kind of code that can open this door. But I can't figure it out. I'll have to mess with it for a few more minutes…" Said Tails.

"We don't have time for this Tails, we have to get Lauren out of there!" Knuckles demanded as he raised his fist to punch the lock on the door. He lunges at the lock and it breaks into several pieces and the door opens.

They expected to see "me" in the machine, but they didn't see me, they saw something else. Long, yellow dreadlocks, three bangs hanging in front of my eyes, long tail, bent in two places, and big boxing gloves on my hands, with two spikes on each glove, along with the red and black t-shirt and blue jeans, and the red and white shoes on my feet. The other's eyes widened to see what I had become. I had become an echidna. Crazy, right? But I sat there, unconscious in the machine, as Sonic, Knuckles and Tails looked at each other in shock.

Knuckles shook off the surprise and got into the machine, picked me up in his arms again, and walked out. My hand, now in a boxing glove, fell limp again, and my bangs covered my eyes. Sonic nodded to them and they all fled the base, back to Amy's house.

So call me crazy but now I'm some kind of echidna just like Knuckles, and no one knows how to change me back except for either Eggman or Shadow, but they had no idea where they were so I was stuck being an echidna for awhile. That's nothing compared to my reaction when I woke to see what I had become.