Traitors! Shadow thought. How could we've been tricked so easily? How could I let my guard down? Shadow glared angrily at Megan and Maddie. It won't happen again.
Maddie's fur on the back of her neck stood up as she felt the hedgehog's eyes on her. They seemed to burn a hole into her pelt. She looked over her shoulder to see the angry hedgehog curl up his lip. Maddie, not really understanding, curled up her lip too. Right at SHADOW!
Shadow's scarlet eyes widened with shock. How dare she! That fur ball curled up her lip at me! Me!
Just as Shadow was thinking up a great come back, Megan announced that they were there. Everyone stopped walking and looked at the restaurant.
"This is it?" Sonic complained. "They don't even have a statue of me! Of my face at least."
Knuckles rolled his eyes, "Sonic, that would drive business away." Sonic made a rude gesture with his hand. "Ha ha very funny Knucklehead."
"I thought so," he said with a smirk and received a high five from Espio.
Rouge grinned too. She went and sat on one of those red and blue benches. After she had seated herself, the bat looked down at her twisted leg. It was pretty screwed up. Damn it Eggman! Why here?
Rouge then tried to move it but got no response besides a sharp pain traveling up the leg into her thigh. She winced, not going to show the tears that welled up in her eyes. Get a hold of yourself! You've faced worse than this. Even though she told herself this Rouge didn't have much hope for hiding this pain for long.
Meanwhile, Maddie and Megan were trying to get everyone's orders together. They went from creature to creature. (What, I can't say person.)
"Okay Amy what do you want?" Megan asked getting ready to write down the order on a napkin that Maddie had found on the concrete ground. The pen she found in her back pocket, still wondering how it got there.
"Sonic," the pink hedgie said with sparkly eyes.
Megan grinned, "Something I can get you? I can't even get myself a boyfriend."
Amy smiled, "Oh I don't want to be his girlfriend. I want to be his wife." (You can here Sonic choking in the background.)
Megan laughed and said, "I wish you luck! Now what to eat?"
"I'll have a corn dog."
"C-O-R-N-D-O-G," Megan spelled carefully writing the order down. (Hey, no one said I was good at spelling!)
Maddie smiled knowing that they were almost ready to place the order when once again she felt someone's eyes on her. The tortoise shell kitten looked over her shoulder and sure enough, saw Shadow scowling at her. Maddie narrowed her eyes and turned around to face the black hedgehog.
"What's your problem?"
Shadow narrowed his eyes too, "That we've been so stupid to listen to you traitors."
"What do you mean?"
Vector overheard the conversation, mainly because he was eavesdropping. "Traitors? What's going on here?" he asked a little to loudly. This got everyone's attention.
"What?" Sonic asked completely lost, like usual.
Shadow realized this was his chance, "These two," he said pointing at Megan and Maddie, "are leading us into a trap!"
Megan's eyes widened and her mouth went dry. Amazingly she managed to spit out, "No… we're not..."
"Yes you are," Tails accused spinning his tails, "I heard you on the phone telling someone named 'Alex' to meet us here."
Maddie looked at Megan and said in a small voice, "Is that true? Is Alex really coming?"
Megan nodded.
Maddie slowly turned to Tails and looked at him with a face of pity, "May God have mercy on your soul."
No sooner had she said it, a scream was heard from behind the little fox, a scream Megan and Maddie knew very well.
Tails was about to turn around to see what all the hubbub was, but was lifted off the ground quickly and brought into a hug.
"Ohh, he's so cute!" Alex cooed squeezing the poor fox even tighter. "Sooo, Cute!"
Megan grinned happy to see her best friend, "Hey, Al. Uhh…"
Tails tried to squirm out of her grasp, but failed. He let out a muffled cry, "Help!"
Alex brought him out to arm's length and stared at the wiggling ball of fur. Tails stopped struggling and looked at his attacker who was staring into his blue eyes.
And then… "AHHHH!!!!"
Shadow closed his eyes and brought his hands up to his ears. Not again!
Alex dropped Tails and let out another ear-piercing screech. Megan clapped a hand over the girl's mouth.
"Calm down Alex. You can't make a scene."
Alex finally stopped and looked at all the characters around her, staring at her.
Megan removed her hand from Alex's mouth. Alex's eyes looked ready to burst. "Please tell me I'm not dreaming."
Megan grinned, knowing Alex would be excited, "Al, you're not dreaming."
Both girls looked at each other, grinned, and then let out a shriek at the same time.
Shadow pulled out his gun and aimed at Alex, "Who are you?"
"I'm Alex," she squeaked a bit terrified now. "Please don't kill me Shadow…"
Shadow narrowed his eyes into little slits and growled, "How do you know me? I've never met you in my life."
Alex, still terrified, said, "Obsession."
Shadow looked confused so Alex pulled off her backpack and rummaged through it, "Uh… I know I put it in here… somewhere… Here we go!" She pulled out the Shadow the Hedgehog video game for Gamecube.
Sonic quickly snatched it out of her hand and began reading the back.
"No way! This game is about… Shadow?!"Sonic said, eyes wide.
Alex looked a bit uneasy and held out her hand, "Uh… if you… give it back…I can…explain."
Sonic ignored her, completely focused on not being the main character. He flipped the game over, "Hey, my picture isn't even on the front. What are people thinking?"
Alex was very ticked by now, "They're thinking you should give me back the game!" And she dove for the hedgehog.
Sonic easily avoided her by swiftly running over to Megan. You couldn't even see him move.
Megan laughed at the look on Sonic's face, "I guess I should explain, if you ever touch Alex's game, she has to supervise. Also, if you have the first controller longer than a few minutes, she snatches it from you. These things are basically her babies."
Rouge huffed, "She needs a life."
Alex looked at the white bat and said, "Like you should be talking, Miss, 'All the jewels are mine to keep.'"
Rouge ginned and looked at a certain red echidna, "Well, it's true."
Knuckles rolled his eyes.
Megan looked at Alex with confusion, "Hey Al?"
"Hm?"
"Wasn't Eli coming too?"
"He's here. I just don't know where…"
Megan told Alex to stay here with everyone, and try to get the food order right, while she went to look for Eli.
Figuring everyone was pretty hungry; Alex placed the order on the napkin Maddie gave her. Her questions could wait.
When she was done Alex stared at all the characters, which were staring at her. Her gaze shifted from face to face. Finally Alex decided to just stare at Maddie.
"You look familiar. Have I seen you before?" Alex asked.
Maddie laughed, "Can't quite place me?"
Alex squinted at the kitten and lifted up her glasses to get a better look. She put them back down and shrugged her shoulders, "No sorry. Are you a new character? Or are you in one of the comics?"
Again Maddie laughed, "Neither silly! I'm real!"
Just then, Megan and Eli came walking over. Eli's eyes were huge, like dinner plates.
Eli opened his mouth and said, "So these are…"
Alex nodded, "Yeah."
Eli grinned a Jackpot grin, "AW- SOME!
Sonic looked at his friends, "Is anyone else here feeling like an animal in a zoo?"
All the Sega characters raised their hands.
"Good," the blue hedgehog said, "so it's not just me."
"Took them long enough," Amy grumbled. All the characters were hiding behind a Dumpster as the waitress brought out the food, so not to be seen.
Sonic nudged Shadow in the rib, "Hey Shads, you could get a job here."
Shadow pushed Sonic away and rubbed his side, "What do you mean Faker?"
Sonic ignored the 'Faker' comment and pointed at the waitress's roller skates, "You'd be a natural. You got the skates, the speed, the balance. And most importantly, I bet you would look great in the apron."
"What you say!" the black hedgie yelled and clenched his fists. The others laughed.
Sonic put his hands up, "Hey I gave you three compliments and when I say something nice about how you look, you freak out on me. Gosh, Shadow you are so hurtful." Sonic put a hand to his heart to add drama.
Shadow grumbled, "You gay little monkey."
Sonic just laughed.
Megan came over to the Dumpster and crouched down to their level, "Could you guys be any louder? Eli had to fake a coughing fit to drown out your voices so the waitress couldn't hear you."
Sonic rolled his eyes, "Yeah, yeah did you get the food?"
Megan sighed, "Yes we got the food. You little pig."
Maddie giggled, "No, he's a gay monkey."
Everyone burst into laughter, but Megan just stood there confused. She shrugged it off and told them to follow her.
Author's Notes: Oh yeah I'm done! (Crowd goes wild!) Thank you! Thank you! I'd like to thank my mom and dad and Alex and Eli. Without them I could not have achieved this goal and won this beautiful trophy (Holds it up and realizes that it's Knuckles). Ohh! Huggles!
"Ahh!" Knuckles screams and runs away. (Leaves a trail of smoke)
Okay, well all Sonic characters belong to Sega. Sorry it took so long (again) but school, writers block, mom and dad, and confirmation got in the way. P.S. Go to my website and you'll see why. (Grabs butterfly net and chases Knuckles!)