If anyone has read this fic, first please review, I love some comments. Second the action finally starts! but only at the end of this chapter.
A word of worrying a main character will get hurt, guess who it will be.
Anyway enjoy.
Chapter 3: The First Attack
It was 5 pm on Friday. It was the start of the weekend. Knuckles and Natalie were planning a night of drinking and clubbing with mates, whiles Jessica was going to see her boyfriend once again. Stars was going to go down to 'The White Swan' for a few drinks, but had to get up early to see Natalie's brother. Amy was making notes for a little while, before going down with everyone to the pub, but had to work the next day.
Sonic was practicing for the audition tomorrow. He was sitting in his room, on a chair, playing on his guitar, singing songs.
At 5:20 Stars entered Sonic's room to ask him a favour.
"I sit and wait," Sonic was singing, "as an angel contemplates my fate.
"And do they know? The place where we go, when we're grey and old…"
"Very good," Stars said.
"I would say practice makes prefect," Sonic said. "But I already am prefect."
"You think that," Stars said. "Anyway I need a favour."
"What's that?"
"Can I borrow your car?"
"Why?"
"I got to go to a posh golf club tomorrow, and I want to bring an expensive car. Anyway you can go on the underground with Amy."
"You make a good case," Sonic said. He grabbed his car keys and threw them at Stars. Stars caught them with one hand. "Bring it back in one piece."
At 6 o'clock most of the group were getting ready to go out. Stars however was sitting on the sofa watching the news.
"This is the six o'clock news with me Anthony Bass," a male horse in his mid-40s said on the screen.
"And me Charlotte Banks," a 28-year-old brown bear.
"Tonight's top stories: Government come back fighting over blockade.
"Hillshire Police appeal for information over the disappearance of Harriet Leslie.
"Earthquake in Pantial claims six lives.
"And in sports news; Easton hire Awe Grumman as their new manager."
Natalie came up behind him and asked: "Anything happen?"
"Nah, same shit, different day," Stars answered.
Natalie took the remote control and turned the volume up.
"After weeks of criticism from opposition parties, the Attorney General has finally spoken out for the Government," a male reporter's voice said. On the screen it showed a tiger in a suit walking towards a podium. On a red background on the bottom of the screen it said 'Paul Walker' and below that on a black background it said 'Political Correspondence'.
Then on the screen showed the tiger at the podium. It said 'Richard Glass KC MP' and below 'Attorney General'.
"Today I speak as a barrister, and as a member of the government," the tiger said. "The blockade of Ferutme is a legal action! The UN states that if a nation is a treat to its neighbours and others countries then we can take reasonable actions against them.
"Evidence from our intelligences agencies, with our allies' shows that Ferutme have expandist ambitions and it would do anything to fulfil them. They have chemical weapons and Ferutme's rights records speak for themselves.
"We are not preparing for war, we just want Ferutme to change its ways."
"However, the government's critics are not silenced," the reporter said. The screen now showed an elephant in a suit with the insides of a white marble hall behind him. The screen said 'John Emerson' and 'Shadow Foreign Secretary'.
"No one is challenging the legality of the blockade," the Shadow Foreign Secretary said, which was a U-turn to what he said a few weeks ago. "But it is ethnical wrong. The blockade is not harming the government, but is starving the people of Ferutme. There is no justifying for why we cannot just negotiate.
"The Prime Minister is leading us down a dangerous path."
"There something for Law on Monday," Natalie said.
After another half an hour Ninja arrived, ringing the doorbell. Jessica rushed to the door and gave him a large hug before he entered the house.
Ninja took his jacket off and showed he was wearing a black shirt with a white Chinese dragon on it. He also had jeans and brown shoes on.
He entered the lounge. Stars and Natalie got and turned to see Ninja.
"How are you mate?" Stars asked.
"Pretty good," Ninja answered. "You?"
"The same," Stars said. "Are you course going well?"
"Its early days, but I'm enjoying it."
Natalie went up to the 6 foot 2 muscular wolf and shook his hand.
"I'm Natalie," she said. She was eyeing him up (checking him out).
Stars walked up to her and put his hand over her eyes and moved her away from him.
Sonic and Knuckles got out of their rooms. Amy came from downstairs.
"Are we all going to the pub then?" Ninja asked.
Everyone argued to go, even Sonic, changing his plans for the night.
The White Swan was just down the road to the group's home. It was typical pub, red carpet, wooden walls at the base and red wallpaper above them. It had wooden tables and chairs around.
Since the city was a university city the pub was full of students, but also had local residents having a drink.
The group were joined by mates from their classes. The idea was to have a couple of drinks before going to a nightclub.
Natalie's friend Gina was telling everyone a story when she was at school.
"In our AS Law class me and Natalie were doing a mock trail," Gina said. "We were sueing a fast food restaurant because a woman sculled herself on coffee whiles she was driving. It was said that she had it between her thighs and she had to brake hard and squeezed her legs together.
"The prosecution questioned our witness, well; the girl sueing. He basically said 'didn't you notice a warm sensation between your legs?' and it got worse because he just dug himself deeper and made it sound more sexual."
Everyone was laughing when they heard the story.
Knuckles got up to go to the bar. He asked for a pint of 'Red Brick'. It was called that because it was a darker colour then other beers. He took a slip of the beer and was about to walk back to table was a small voice said: "hi".
Knuckles turned round and saw it was a pretty female snow leopard wearing a white top that had a pink heart outline and said 'Kiss'. She also had a blue denim skirt, brownish grey boots and glasses with a thin black flame.
"I'm Elizabeth Blake," she said. "But call me Liz or Lizzie."
"I'm Knuckles Echidnal," Knuckles answered.
"So what do you do?" Lizzie asked the muscular echidna.
"First year at Uni. I'm doing philosophy."
"Sounds tough."
"It should be," Knuckles said. "If I do well I should get any job I want."
"I know what I want to do," Lizzie said.
"And what's that?"
"Criminal Psychiatrist. Blame my father, he influenced me."
"What does he do?"
"He the DI at Central Diamond Police station," she said.
"Cool," Knuckles said. "How old are you then?"
"17, 18 in three months."
"Fancy joining my mates."
"Sure."
Knuckles and the girl that was attracted to him went to the table with at the university students were.
Ninja was now telling a story from their school days.
"Stars here had an interview with the head of his course a few months before coming here," Ninja said. "He was worrying over the fact that he couldn't get his eyebrow piecing out."
"He tried everything," Sonic said. "He tried to yank it out. He asked me, Claws, Jessica and their youngest sister to get it out and they couldn't get it out. We even tried using pliers."
"So he enlisted our help," Ninja said, referring to all of Stars' male friends. "We basically took him out on a night on the title and got him as drunk as possible. After that we took it out and we could take it off and he couldn't stop us."
"Yeah," Stars said. "But I still remember. I had to wear a plaster over my eyebrow. I looked like a right tosser."
"But you all ready are," Sonic said.
"Ha, ha, ha," Stars answered back and did a V-sign.
Sonic got up on Saturday morning. He wasn't hangover since he didn't drink that much. He looked at his alarm clock and he cursed by saying: "oh shit!"
He had overslept; the time was 8:30. He had to get ready as quickly as possible. He picked out a pair of black boxers, dark blue jeans, a light blue jumper, white socks and a pair of black and white trainers. He went to the bathroom and had a shower.
After a quick shower Sonic was dressed and went down to the kitchen for breakfast. Amy already made him some toast and a cup of coffee which he got eat and drank very quickly. He then went off to his room to get his guitar and put on his black leather jacket.
Sonic and Amy were out of the house by 8:47 and both were running to the underground station, three streets away. Sonic completely missed Stars in house; Stars was the only other person up.
Amy feared that she would be late for work at the bank. She only started the job the week before and didn't want to gain a bad reputation. She was wearing her uniform which was a dark blue blazer with the company logo on, a white shirt and dark blue trousers.
Both got return tickets at the local station (which was aboveground) and ran onto the train before the doors shut.
Sonic and Amy both sat down together. Sonic had to put the guitar in front of his legs. Amy was panting from running so much. Sonic didn't even break a sweat; he had recovered from his mission in Premier.
The train rolled away from the platform and it would take Sonic seven minutes to get to his stop and Amy ten minutes.
"Must have been a good night last night," Sonic commented.
"Yeah," Amy said. "I noticed that Ninja didn't sleep on the sofa."
"I don't want to think about that," Sonic said.
"I know that Jessica is pretty much your sister."
"Knuckles seem to get on well with that girl last night," Sonic said, thinking about Lizzie.
"I thought she was too sluty for him."
"She seem alright; no different to any other pretty single girl."
"Excuse me; did you just say she was pretty."
"Well, yeah. She wasn't bad. Come on! You must think that they are blokes you think that are good looking."
"NO!" Amy said, almost shouting. "You are the only man I ever loved and you are the only one I'll fancy. I can't believe that you just said that; ABOUT A GIRL YOU DON'T KNOW!!!"
Everyone on the train looked at the two.
"You're making a scene," Sonic said calmly.
"GOOD!!"
"Okay; I admit I just say a stupid thing, but I do find other women attractive. But YOU are the only woman I can love."
"That's not good enough," Amy said. "I have wanted you from the moment I saw. I only ever went out with boys because you had a girlfriend at the same time."
"And I never love any of them!"
"Didn't stop you though!"
"I could say the same about you and your ex-boyfriends."
"That's different."
"HOW?!" Sonic shouted.
"Because you didn't fancy me."
"Oh yes I bloody well did! I just never had the confident to say anything to you."
"Sonic, I know that you love me: but we have issues we need to sort out," Amy said calmly as possible. "So I think we should put the engagement on hold, so that we can sort things out."
The train rolled into Sonic's station. Sonic got up, picked out his guitar, turned towards Amy and said: "we'll talk tonight."
Three minutes later the train stop at Saint John's Square, one of the biggest and most modern in Diamond.
Amy got up and walked out of the train and towards the exit. She was upset from her agreement with Sonic. It had all seem so prefect.
Tears were running her face. She was now wondering if the bank would send her back home; thinking that she would be too upset to work.
Suddenly it happened. There was an explosion at the platform. A large section of the platform turned to rubble and large pieces of stone threw in the air. The force of the explosion made two train carriages go up into the air, setting them ablaze. Everyone that was in them was turned to ash. The train carriages hit the top of the tunnel, making rubble and steel rain on the train and on the platform.
Many people were injured or were dead. A rock hit Amy on the head and metal from the train hit her in her lower back. She was lying on the ground unconscious.
People were running and panicking up the stairs. So was smoke and dust.
People on the surface stopped. Some took out their mobile phones and others ran to payphones to call for the Fire Brigade and Ambulance Service. Others just ran.
A next phase in Mobius' war against terrorism has begun!
To be continued!