Here's #2! Hope you like! And, of course, when they turn into humans, kinda
imagine them as Manga characters, ok? That's how I got the ideas. From a
"learn to draw" type book.
-Chosen One
All of a sudden, Knuckles felt scared. What was happening to Amy? Usually she would say something back at him. Knuckles noticed Sonic, who was next to her. His eyes shut and he all of a sudden looked petrified. Knuckles felt more pain in his eyes. He fought the force that was trying to get his eyes closed, but it didn't help.
Knuckles opened his eyes after what felt like sleep. He walked out of the light, and looked at Tikal. She seemed small. Tikal ran in fright, back to the ship.
"Hey!" He yelled. Knuckles saw the ship fly by the window. She had taken their only route home. Knuckles looked at his fists. They weren't the huge, powerful hands he normally had. They also felt very light compared to his normal fists. "So this is what it's like to," He was cut off by Sonic.
"Knux?" Knuckles turned around. A human. Sonic was a human, and so were the others! Knuckles looked at his reflection in the window. He was different him-self.
"Sonic, what happened to us?" Knuckles asked. One by one everyone walked out of the light, which was now dying.
Sonic had short black hair in the back, but in the front, his bangs were out-of-control-long and they were blue. He was wearing a blue T-shirt and zip-off pants, [you know, the ones that turn into shorts.] and blue sketchers sneakers.
"I guess the front of my hair never changed." He suggested.
Knuckles was obviously a red-head with spikes (gel) and some bangs in from of his face. He wore a gray 'muscle shirt' [that's was I call them] with black baggy pants. In one of the pockets in his pants, there was a pair of metal knuckles that you put on your fist. His shoes were the huge 'punk' ones.
"Hey, at least I get these." He said, examining the knuckles.
Amy walked out with long blond hair with pink and blue tips [died pink and blue, duh]. The hair went down to her behind, and was in pony tails on the left and right side of her head. She had bangs that neatly went of to the side of her face. She was wearing a short red skirt with white halter top with a heart in the center. Amy could pass a cheer leader. She had the same shoes as before. Amy looked at her hair.
"Hey, Sonic, I got some of your blue in MY hair!" She said happily.
Then, Rouge. Rouge had short hair that was blond with some lavender streaks through it. You can only guess what she was wearing. VERY short- shorts with a purple belly-shirt. No sleeves. She was the only one with gloves. They were brown leather.
"Still lookin' hot." She said, straightening her gloves. Her shoes tapped on the floor. She had a pair of deep plum purple heels on with strings that tied up her leg. [It's a look that a kid in my school wears.]
Tails had short, 'dirty blond' hair, with no special bang style. He was wearing a green shirt with his logo on it [the two tails. If you look closely at Cyclone then you can see them] and blue pants. His shoes were brown. Tails looked at little under-age to be hanging out with this bunch.
"Look! My logo!" He exclaimed, admiring his shirt. Shadow walked out from the machine.
"What?" He said. Shadow had black hair, which went in every direction. It kind of looked like 'bed-head' except as if he had done it on purpose. Red streaks went through it. His eyes were burning red. He was wearing a white shirt under a black leather jacket. His pants were worn-out jeans, and his shoes were Nike sneakers. Shadow reached into his pocket and found a gun.
"What's this for?" He questioned, looking at it.
"I want a gun!" Rouge complained.
"Well, first, we have to find a way out of here, before we get any new things. I don't see why you would want anything else. We have new bodies and everything." Sonic said.
"Except new names." Tails reminded. Knuckles saw something out of the corner of his eye run across the hall on the other side of the door. They weren't alone. And Knuckles, being who he was, made it his own one-man mission to find out what Eggman was REALLY up to. [Eggman couldn't run that fast anyway]
"I can keep the name 'Amy', right?" Amy said, proud that she had the only name that could be kept.
"Sure. But WE need to come up with new names." Sonic answered, thinking. Rouge was first with her name.
"I'll be Niki." Everyone looked at her. "I mean, Niki as in Nicole."
"I'm Tyler!" Tails said, repeating his name, obviously liking it.
"Kevin." Knuckles said blandly.
"Sam." Shadow said, still looking at his gun.
"I'll be," Sonic couldn't think of a name. "I don't know. How about Derek?" Everyone nodded in agreement when Knuckles pointed out that they didn't have a ride home because of Tikal being scared and ran off with the ship. Sonic sighed and remembered seeing some other ships when they came in.
Everyone started walking away from the room. Knuckles was trailing behind. When they were a ways down the hall, Knuckles looked back. He saw another blur, except this one was going into the room. Knuckles thought he saw a flowing dread-lock. 'Where have I seen that before?' He thought. He chose not to tell anyone about this.
"How do we know we can all fit in one?" Amy asked.
"Hey, if Eggman can, we can. He's fat enough!" Sonic answered. Everyone laughed except Knuckles. He was in his own world again.
Sonic got in a space ship. "Hop in, everybody!" He exclaimed, getting the controls ready.
"We're so much bigger than before." Shadow said trying to figure out how many feet he grew.
"How will we all fit?" Tails asked, as if to himself.
"Tails, you come with me and Amy. Knuckles, Shadow, and Rouge, go in the one next to this one." Sonic ordered.
"Yes, ma'am, er-SIR!" Knuckles kidded while marching over to the other ship. Knuckles got into the control seat.
"Hey, Knux," Shadow whispered, while jabbing Knuckles lightly in the arm. "Look around. Before there were 6 ships, not counting ours, now there are 7. How is that possible if Tikal LEFT with our ship?"
"Umm," Knuckles said, pretending to be busy.
"You know something, don't you?" Shadow said in an edgy tone.
"Why would you think that I know anything, Mr. I-Want-Revenge?" Knuckles accused.
"Hey, hey, hey! Are you saying that I have something to do with it?!"
"That's what you were sayin'!" Knuckles said. Both were getting ticked off at each other for no apparent reason.
"Hey, guys, I want to get back on Planet Earth, so can we get this vehicle going?" An impatient Rouge pestered.
"Whatever." Shadow and Knuckles said at the same time.
Back on Earth.
"So what do we do now?!" Rouge demanded, looking at Angel Island as they approached it in the helicopter that Tails just 'happen to have'.
"We can't go to the island, we'll scare every echidna there." Knuckles said, once again thinking of his island before himself. "Tails, or, Tyler, turn back NOW. We'll go to America."
"Where's A-mare-i-ca?" Amy asked stupidly.
"A place where you've obviously never been. Now turn around or I'll take the controls!" Knuckles threatened. Tyler (Tails), responding immediately, turned sharply, causing everyone to bump into a wall or the person next to them. Rouge purposely fell into Kevin's (Knuckles) arms. "Rou- I mean, Niki, get off." He said, but not pushing her. She stayed there in his arms for two more minutes then got off. "I think your change is an improvement." Kevin flattered.
"Hmf." Niki shook it off, but secretly smiling.
"SONIC!" Amy shouted, trying to get his attention, but he cut her off.
"Amy, you have to call me Derek now."
"But Derek is nothing like Sonic, how will I remember?"
"I don't know; just don't call me Sonic until we're our normal selves." Sonic finished the conversation, and Amy looked down at her hands sadly and started to cry.
"Oh, great, now we also have to BABY-SIT! What's next, switching genders?!" Shadow, I mean, Sam said impatiently.
"Amy, what's wrong?" Derek said drearily.
"What if we never become our normal selves?! What if I can never call you Sonic again?!"
"You're crying about THAT?!" Sam butted in.
"Ditz." Derek said, turning his attention toward Tyler.
"LANDING!" Tyler shouted as they started to land. Amy looked down at where they were.
"WATCH OUT FOR THAT BUILDING!!" She screamed.
"THAT'S WHERE WE'RE LANDING, IDIOT!" Sam couldn't stand Amy's stupidity any more. She crossed her arms and claimed that she knew, but was just making sure.
When everyone was out of the helicopter and Amy looked down at the city below.
"Wow, that's pretty far down. How WILL we get down?" Amy asked anyone who was listening.
"We're going to jump. Go ahead--jump." Kevin said with a smirk on his face. Amy turned to Derek.
"Are we really going to jump to get down?" She asked.
"Before I answer your question, answer mine. Would we want to kill ourselves?" He said in a smart-alick tone.
"NO WAY!"
Derek snapped. "That's what I was gonna say!" Derek walked over to Sam. "Sam, how are we going to get down?"
"Tyler said that this building was a clothing department."
"CLOTHING?! THIS WHOLE BUILDING IS FOR CLOTHING?!"
"They also do they're modeling and designing. Some people who work here even live here."
"Oh, good. But what does that have to do with getting down?"
"I was answering your question."
"Yeah, but I also asked how to get down." Derek reminded.
"Okay--well, we could just go down stairs and take the elevator the rest of the way." Sam pointed to an open door and in the door was a stair case.
"Oh. Okay." Derek walked over to Tyler who had just finished flying the helicopter to the other side of the building roof. "We should get everyone now."
"Right." Tyler said, whipping the sweat off his forehead. After they collected everyone up, they made they're way down the stairs.
"Oh-no. We're in the woman's department, aren't we?" Derek whispered. "I know she's gonna say it. I know for a fact that in 5-4-3-2-1-,"
"SONIC! Can you buy me this dress?!" Amy shouted, obviously not caring whether anyone heard her call him Sonic.
"NO!" Derek yelled, walking over to her. Everyone immediately scattered, looking at different fashions they liked. Sam and Kevin went to another department, and Tyler did the same.
Kevin walked into an area where the clothes looked punk-like. "cool." He said as he looked at a pair of pants. He heard a giggle, and looked up. A beautiful girl was behind a rack of clothes. She had long blond bangs that went over her eyes. Her hair was long, and blond. There was a tiny lavender braid that went down the back. "Have I met you?" He asked, not really knowing. She only giggled and ran in the opposite direction. "Girls." He commented. Mean while, Niki snorted at the girl, because she had caught Kevin's attention.
Then he heard another giggle. It didn't sound like the same girl. He turned around.
"Niki, you look like a retard. What are you trying to do?" Kevin went back to his browsing. Niki had been hiding behind a rack just like the girl, but she was in a bikini. She sighed and walked away.
"I didn't like the bikini, anyway." She mumbled.
"Come, on, guys! This isn't the time to shop! We NEED to get out of this building!" Derek yelled, trying to get everyone's attention.
"Hey, Derek!" Sam yelled. "Look at this cool Matrix-like stuff!" He hugged it. "I'm getting it!" Sam kidded. "I like Modern clothes better than urban, anyway."
"Huh, well, why don't you bring your stupid modern clothes, and let's get out of here?!" Everyone in the Matrix/Modern clothing section (including Sam) looked at Derek.
"Gasp, DEREK! Don't EVER say that!" All the Matrix fans started mumbling to themselves as they gave hateful looks to Derek.
"Okay, okay, let's just go!" Derek finally said, before taking out all the cash everyone wanted for clothes. "Good bye, my poor savings!" he said sadly as everyone gave him a weird look for copying Miki in "Marmalade Boy" when she had to bring Yu's old girlfriend out to lunch, or what ever it was. "Hey, I like that Manga." He said.
FINALLY, they got out of the building. "So what are we going to do about housing?" Kevin asked.
"You HAD to bring that up." Derek sighed. "You guys used all the money we could have used for an apartment for your clothes!"
"Hey, look at this!" Amy said, kneeling down to pick up a poster lying on the ground. "It says 'Get up on stage! Be a star! Show the world who you are! Come to the Galaxy Theatre, and get up on stage. If your band is good enough, you might become famous!' maybe that's how we can have enough money to get an apartment. Maybe THREE apartments!" She squealed.
"Does that mean that I can rap?!" Kevin asked, all of a sudden out of his trance.
"I'd rather sing soul or jazz." Niki commented.
"We can sing anything we want, as long as it's techno-like." Sam butted in.
"OH, there you go again, acting like HENRY FORD!!! Will, you shut up?!" Derek accused.
"HEY! Henry Ford was a great man! And why are you telling ME to shut up, faker?!"
"I'M NOT A FAKER! YOU'RE A FAKER!!
"YOU ARE SO A FAKER! HOW COULD I BE A FAKER?!"
"BECAUSE YOU WERE MADE, NOT BORN!!"
"YOU GOT ME MAD, SONIC!!"
"WELL, YOU'VE GOT ME MAD, SHADOW!!"
"SHUT UP!!!" Kevin yelled at the both of them. They both immediately started pouting and pointing at each other. "Derek, what happened to the rule that we're to call each other by human names?" Kevin demanded.
"Well, well, well-he started it!" Derek accused.
"What ever."
"WELL, HE DID!! What, you don't believe me?! KNUX, I thought you were my friend!"
"HYPICRITE!" Sam yelled. Derek and Sam quarreled while Kevin, Amy, Tyler, and Niki decided what they were going to do.
"I vote for being a music band. I started piano lessons a while ago, and I'm not too bad at trumpet." Tyler said.
"I play Saxophone and the Xylophone." Niki added. "And plus, my voice is SPECTACULAR!"
"Sure it is." Kevin answered. "And I'm a natural at the drums."
"Hey, Rouge! I mean, Niki! We have something in common! We both play the XYLOPHONE!" Amy squealed. "I also play flute and I can help out with extra sounds."
"Oh, that's terrific." Niki moaned.
"But what about Derek and Sam?" Tyler reminded. They all looked back at the two of them fighting impishly. "What do they play?"
"OOH! OOH! I KNOW!" Amy jumped up and down with her arm up.
"WE'RE NOT IN SCHOOL, YOU IMP! JUST TELL US!" Kevin yelled, now realizing what Sam went through at home.
"Okay, okay. I know that my Sonniku plays guitar!"
"Yeah, and what does Shad-er, Sam play?" Tyler corrected.
"Well, he plays his bass guitar for me once in a while, so that must mean-HE PLAYS BASS GUITAR!" Amy said, proud that she had figured it out.
"Hey, no kidding!" Kevin said sarcastically.
"Well, we've got plenty of talents for the band, but how are we going to get the money to buy these instruments?" Tyler asked.
"We could rent some, I guess. Usually music stores have instruments you can rent."
"How would you know? Stole a few pearl valved trumpets, and just happen to see a sign on the way out 'Renting Instruments'?" Kevin commented.
"Does that matter right now?!" Niki demanded. "You're just making it harder for us. Could ya help instead of making rude comments?!"
"Fine, fine."
"We need to get a little more cash even to do that." Tyler said, making it harder with all his reminders.
"Well, I guess for now we should stay in one apartment together while we're looking for jobs." Kevin suggested, crossing his arms.
"I know! I'll work for Dairy Queen!" Amy shrieked.
"You do that." Kevin answered.
"I'll stay at home. I DON'T want to work for some fast food store." Niki said, in a 'holier-than-thou' tone.
"Oh yeah? Look who's making it harder now!" Kevin retorted. Sonic walked over in pain. "And Sonic can work at MacDonald's!" He exclaimed.
"Yeah, whatever. As long as Sam works at Burger King." Sonic winced.
"Ow---," Sam moaned.
No one knew, but around the corner, someone was watching them.
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Yay! Another Chapter done! It took a long time, didn't it? I'm sorry. Well, anyway, I'm getting the next one going soon. PLEASE REVIEW!! And where should Knuckles, Rouge, and Tails work? I'm thinking of making Amy work at a day-care center instead of Dairy Queen. And Tails is too young to work any where, really. I'm not sure yet. Help with those ideas. And sorry there isn't much mystery yet. But in later chapters, you will see that there IS mystery. Just think about everything, and you see. THANKS FOR READING!! -me!!
All of a sudden, Knuckles felt scared. What was happening to Amy? Usually she would say something back at him. Knuckles noticed Sonic, who was next to her. His eyes shut and he all of a sudden looked petrified. Knuckles felt more pain in his eyes. He fought the force that was trying to get his eyes closed, but it didn't help.
Knuckles opened his eyes after what felt like sleep. He walked out of the light, and looked at Tikal. She seemed small. Tikal ran in fright, back to the ship.
"Hey!" He yelled. Knuckles saw the ship fly by the window. She had taken their only route home. Knuckles looked at his fists. They weren't the huge, powerful hands he normally had. They also felt very light compared to his normal fists. "So this is what it's like to," He was cut off by Sonic.
"Knux?" Knuckles turned around. A human. Sonic was a human, and so were the others! Knuckles looked at his reflection in the window. He was different him-self.
"Sonic, what happened to us?" Knuckles asked. One by one everyone walked out of the light, which was now dying.
Sonic had short black hair in the back, but in the front, his bangs were out-of-control-long and they were blue. He was wearing a blue T-shirt and zip-off pants, [you know, the ones that turn into shorts.] and blue sketchers sneakers.
"I guess the front of my hair never changed." He suggested.
Knuckles was obviously a red-head with spikes (gel) and some bangs in from of his face. He wore a gray 'muscle shirt' [that's was I call them] with black baggy pants. In one of the pockets in his pants, there was a pair of metal knuckles that you put on your fist. His shoes were the huge 'punk' ones.
"Hey, at least I get these." He said, examining the knuckles.
Amy walked out with long blond hair with pink and blue tips [died pink and blue, duh]. The hair went down to her behind, and was in pony tails on the left and right side of her head. She had bangs that neatly went of to the side of her face. She was wearing a short red skirt with white halter top with a heart in the center. Amy could pass a cheer leader. She had the same shoes as before. Amy looked at her hair.
"Hey, Sonic, I got some of your blue in MY hair!" She said happily.
Then, Rouge. Rouge had short hair that was blond with some lavender streaks through it. You can only guess what she was wearing. VERY short- shorts with a purple belly-shirt. No sleeves. She was the only one with gloves. They were brown leather.
"Still lookin' hot." She said, straightening her gloves. Her shoes tapped on the floor. She had a pair of deep plum purple heels on with strings that tied up her leg. [It's a look that a kid in my school wears.]
Tails had short, 'dirty blond' hair, with no special bang style. He was wearing a green shirt with his logo on it [the two tails. If you look closely at Cyclone then you can see them] and blue pants. His shoes were brown. Tails looked at little under-age to be hanging out with this bunch.
"Look! My logo!" He exclaimed, admiring his shirt. Shadow walked out from the machine.
"What?" He said. Shadow had black hair, which went in every direction. It kind of looked like 'bed-head' except as if he had done it on purpose. Red streaks went through it. His eyes were burning red. He was wearing a white shirt under a black leather jacket. His pants were worn-out jeans, and his shoes were Nike sneakers. Shadow reached into his pocket and found a gun.
"What's this for?" He questioned, looking at it.
"I want a gun!" Rouge complained.
"Well, first, we have to find a way out of here, before we get any new things. I don't see why you would want anything else. We have new bodies and everything." Sonic said.
"Except new names." Tails reminded. Knuckles saw something out of the corner of his eye run across the hall on the other side of the door. They weren't alone. And Knuckles, being who he was, made it his own one-man mission to find out what Eggman was REALLY up to. [Eggman couldn't run that fast anyway]
"I can keep the name 'Amy', right?" Amy said, proud that she had the only name that could be kept.
"Sure. But WE need to come up with new names." Sonic answered, thinking. Rouge was first with her name.
"I'll be Niki." Everyone looked at her. "I mean, Niki as in Nicole."
"I'm Tyler!" Tails said, repeating his name, obviously liking it.
"Kevin." Knuckles said blandly.
"Sam." Shadow said, still looking at his gun.
"I'll be," Sonic couldn't think of a name. "I don't know. How about Derek?" Everyone nodded in agreement when Knuckles pointed out that they didn't have a ride home because of Tikal being scared and ran off with the ship. Sonic sighed and remembered seeing some other ships when they came in.
Everyone started walking away from the room. Knuckles was trailing behind. When they were a ways down the hall, Knuckles looked back. He saw another blur, except this one was going into the room. Knuckles thought he saw a flowing dread-lock. 'Where have I seen that before?' He thought. He chose not to tell anyone about this.
"How do we know we can all fit in one?" Amy asked.
"Hey, if Eggman can, we can. He's fat enough!" Sonic answered. Everyone laughed except Knuckles. He was in his own world again.
Sonic got in a space ship. "Hop in, everybody!" He exclaimed, getting the controls ready.
"We're so much bigger than before." Shadow said trying to figure out how many feet he grew.
"How will we all fit?" Tails asked, as if to himself.
"Tails, you come with me and Amy. Knuckles, Shadow, and Rouge, go in the one next to this one." Sonic ordered.
"Yes, ma'am, er-SIR!" Knuckles kidded while marching over to the other ship. Knuckles got into the control seat.
"Hey, Knux," Shadow whispered, while jabbing Knuckles lightly in the arm. "Look around. Before there were 6 ships, not counting ours, now there are 7. How is that possible if Tikal LEFT with our ship?"
"Umm," Knuckles said, pretending to be busy.
"You know something, don't you?" Shadow said in an edgy tone.
"Why would you think that I know anything, Mr. I-Want-Revenge?" Knuckles accused.
"Hey, hey, hey! Are you saying that I have something to do with it?!"
"That's what you were sayin'!" Knuckles said. Both were getting ticked off at each other for no apparent reason.
"Hey, guys, I want to get back on Planet Earth, so can we get this vehicle going?" An impatient Rouge pestered.
"Whatever." Shadow and Knuckles said at the same time.
Back on Earth.
"So what do we do now?!" Rouge demanded, looking at Angel Island as they approached it in the helicopter that Tails just 'happen to have'.
"We can't go to the island, we'll scare every echidna there." Knuckles said, once again thinking of his island before himself. "Tails, or, Tyler, turn back NOW. We'll go to America."
"Where's A-mare-i-ca?" Amy asked stupidly.
"A place where you've obviously never been. Now turn around or I'll take the controls!" Knuckles threatened. Tyler (Tails), responding immediately, turned sharply, causing everyone to bump into a wall or the person next to them. Rouge purposely fell into Kevin's (Knuckles) arms. "Rou- I mean, Niki, get off." He said, but not pushing her. She stayed there in his arms for two more minutes then got off. "I think your change is an improvement." Kevin flattered.
"Hmf." Niki shook it off, but secretly smiling.
"SONIC!" Amy shouted, trying to get his attention, but he cut her off.
"Amy, you have to call me Derek now."
"But Derek is nothing like Sonic, how will I remember?"
"I don't know; just don't call me Sonic until we're our normal selves." Sonic finished the conversation, and Amy looked down at her hands sadly and started to cry.
"Oh, great, now we also have to BABY-SIT! What's next, switching genders?!" Shadow, I mean, Sam said impatiently.
"Amy, what's wrong?" Derek said drearily.
"What if we never become our normal selves?! What if I can never call you Sonic again?!"
"You're crying about THAT?!" Sam butted in.
"Ditz." Derek said, turning his attention toward Tyler.
"LANDING!" Tyler shouted as they started to land. Amy looked down at where they were.
"WATCH OUT FOR THAT BUILDING!!" She screamed.
"THAT'S WHERE WE'RE LANDING, IDIOT!" Sam couldn't stand Amy's stupidity any more. She crossed her arms and claimed that she knew, but was just making sure.
When everyone was out of the helicopter and Amy looked down at the city below.
"Wow, that's pretty far down. How WILL we get down?" Amy asked anyone who was listening.
"We're going to jump. Go ahead--jump." Kevin said with a smirk on his face. Amy turned to Derek.
"Are we really going to jump to get down?" She asked.
"Before I answer your question, answer mine. Would we want to kill ourselves?" He said in a smart-alick tone.
"NO WAY!"
Derek snapped. "That's what I was gonna say!" Derek walked over to Sam. "Sam, how are we going to get down?"
"Tyler said that this building was a clothing department."
"CLOTHING?! THIS WHOLE BUILDING IS FOR CLOTHING?!"
"They also do they're modeling and designing. Some people who work here even live here."
"Oh, good. But what does that have to do with getting down?"
"I was answering your question."
"Yeah, but I also asked how to get down." Derek reminded.
"Okay--well, we could just go down stairs and take the elevator the rest of the way." Sam pointed to an open door and in the door was a stair case.
"Oh. Okay." Derek walked over to Tyler who had just finished flying the helicopter to the other side of the building roof. "We should get everyone now."
"Right." Tyler said, whipping the sweat off his forehead. After they collected everyone up, they made they're way down the stairs.
"Oh-no. We're in the woman's department, aren't we?" Derek whispered. "I know she's gonna say it. I know for a fact that in 5-4-3-2-1-,"
"SONIC! Can you buy me this dress?!" Amy shouted, obviously not caring whether anyone heard her call him Sonic.
"NO!" Derek yelled, walking over to her. Everyone immediately scattered, looking at different fashions they liked. Sam and Kevin went to another department, and Tyler did the same.
Kevin walked into an area where the clothes looked punk-like. "cool." He said as he looked at a pair of pants. He heard a giggle, and looked up. A beautiful girl was behind a rack of clothes. She had long blond bangs that went over her eyes. Her hair was long, and blond. There was a tiny lavender braid that went down the back. "Have I met you?" He asked, not really knowing. She only giggled and ran in the opposite direction. "Girls." He commented. Mean while, Niki snorted at the girl, because she had caught Kevin's attention.
Then he heard another giggle. It didn't sound like the same girl. He turned around.
"Niki, you look like a retard. What are you trying to do?" Kevin went back to his browsing. Niki had been hiding behind a rack just like the girl, but she was in a bikini. She sighed and walked away.
"I didn't like the bikini, anyway." She mumbled.
"Come, on, guys! This isn't the time to shop! We NEED to get out of this building!" Derek yelled, trying to get everyone's attention.
"Hey, Derek!" Sam yelled. "Look at this cool Matrix-like stuff!" He hugged it. "I'm getting it!" Sam kidded. "I like Modern clothes better than urban, anyway."
"Huh, well, why don't you bring your stupid modern clothes, and let's get out of here?!" Everyone in the Matrix/Modern clothing section (including Sam) looked at Derek.
"Gasp, DEREK! Don't EVER say that!" All the Matrix fans started mumbling to themselves as they gave hateful looks to Derek.
"Okay, okay, let's just go!" Derek finally said, before taking out all the cash everyone wanted for clothes. "Good bye, my poor savings!" he said sadly as everyone gave him a weird look for copying Miki in "Marmalade Boy" when she had to bring Yu's old girlfriend out to lunch, or what ever it was. "Hey, I like that Manga." He said.
FINALLY, they got out of the building. "So what are we going to do about housing?" Kevin asked.
"You HAD to bring that up." Derek sighed. "You guys used all the money we could have used for an apartment for your clothes!"
"Hey, look at this!" Amy said, kneeling down to pick up a poster lying on the ground. "It says 'Get up on stage! Be a star! Show the world who you are! Come to the Galaxy Theatre, and get up on stage. If your band is good enough, you might become famous!' maybe that's how we can have enough money to get an apartment. Maybe THREE apartments!" She squealed.
"Does that mean that I can rap?!" Kevin asked, all of a sudden out of his trance.
"I'd rather sing soul or jazz." Niki commented.
"We can sing anything we want, as long as it's techno-like." Sam butted in.
"OH, there you go again, acting like HENRY FORD!!! Will, you shut up?!" Derek accused.
"HEY! Henry Ford was a great man! And why are you telling ME to shut up, faker?!"
"I'M NOT A FAKER! YOU'RE A FAKER!!
"YOU ARE SO A FAKER! HOW COULD I BE A FAKER?!"
"BECAUSE YOU WERE MADE, NOT BORN!!"
"YOU GOT ME MAD, SONIC!!"
"WELL, YOU'VE GOT ME MAD, SHADOW!!"
"SHUT UP!!!" Kevin yelled at the both of them. They both immediately started pouting and pointing at each other. "Derek, what happened to the rule that we're to call each other by human names?" Kevin demanded.
"Well, well, well-he started it!" Derek accused.
"What ever."
"WELL, HE DID!! What, you don't believe me?! KNUX, I thought you were my friend!"
"HYPICRITE!" Sam yelled. Derek and Sam quarreled while Kevin, Amy, Tyler, and Niki decided what they were going to do.
"I vote for being a music band. I started piano lessons a while ago, and I'm not too bad at trumpet." Tyler said.
"I play Saxophone and the Xylophone." Niki added. "And plus, my voice is SPECTACULAR!"
"Sure it is." Kevin answered. "And I'm a natural at the drums."
"Hey, Rouge! I mean, Niki! We have something in common! We both play the XYLOPHONE!" Amy squealed. "I also play flute and I can help out with extra sounds."
"Oh, that's terrific." Niki moaned.
"But what about Derek and Sam?" Tyler reminded. They all looked back at the two of them fighting impishly. "What do they play?"
"OOH! OOH! I KNOW!" Amy jumped up and down with her arm up.
"WE'RE NOT IN SCHOOL, YOU IMP! JUST TELL US!" Kevin yelled, now realizing what Sam went through at home.
"Okay, okay. I know that my Sonniku plays guitar!"
"Yeah, and what does Shad-er, Sam play?" Tyler corrected.
"Well, he plays his bass guitar for me once in a while, so that must mean-HE PLAYS BASS GUITAR!" Amy said, proud that she had figured it out.
"Hey, no kidding!" Kevin said sarcastically.
"Well, we've got plenty of talents for the band, but how are we going to get the money to buy these instruments?" Tyler asked.
"We could rent some, I guess. Usually music stores have instruments you can rent."
"How would you know? Stole a few pearl valved trumpets, and just happen to see a sign on the way out 'Renting Instruments'?" Kevin commented.
"Does that matter right now?!" Niki demanded. "You're just making it harder for us. Could ya help instead of making rude comments?!"
"Fine, fine."
"We need to get a little more cash even to do that." Tyler said, making it harder with all his reminders.
"Well, I guess for now we should stay in one apartment together while we're looking for jobs." Kevin suggested, crossing his arms.
"I know! I'll work for Dairy Queen!" Amy shrieked.
"You do that." Kevin answered.
"I'll stay at home. I DON'T want to work for some fast food store." Niki said, in a 'holier-than-thou' tone.
"Oh yeah? Look who's making it harder now!" Kevin retorted. Sonic walked over in pain. "And Sonic can work at MacDonald's!" He exclaimed.
"Yeah, whatever. As long as Sam works at Burger King." Sonic winced.
"Ow---," Sam moaned.
No one knew, but around the corner, someone was watching them.
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Yay! Another Chapter done! It took a long time, didn't it? I'm sorry. Well, anyway, I'm getting the next one going soon. PLEASE REVIEW!! And where should Knuckles, Rouge, and Tails work? I'm thinking of making Amy work at a day-care center instead of Dairy Queen. And Tails is too young to work any where, really. I'm not sure yet. Help with those ideas. And sorry there isn't much mystery yet. But in later chapters, you will see that there IS mystery. Just think about everything, and you see. THANKS FOR READING!! -me!!