Abandon
Cold stinging splashes of icy water rained down upon the lumbering mass of frightened flesh, a human, bound by absolute terror. Matt's world had been turned upside down in a matter of hours, and things looked like they were only going to get worse. Two staggering shadows smirking in the darkness, wavering a gleaming blade before the man's frightened gray eyes.
"Aren't you the lucky one today?" the man with the knife said, chuckling a bit.
The man's hair was long, pale blond, and straggly in the drenching cold rain. The thug beside the blonde haired man wore a black cap over his head. Tattoo's wreaked over the cap wearing man; he rubbed his black fingerless gloves eagerly.
Matt gasped "Look guys, I don't want any trouble and I don't have much cash, so what do you say we just relax and don't".
The cap man grabbed Matt and slammed his back into the alleyway, right into a wall. Crunching knuckles plow into Matt's chest, garbled globs of spit and blood flew from his agonizing screams. The blonde man leaped forward and slashed his knife across Matt's chest, both thugs pinned Matt still against the cold, wet, rain soaked stone walls.
Matt cried out "AH oh god, please stop, stop".
The man laughed and struck Matt hard in the chest once more. Wobbly legs stumbled into the cold, wet ground as Matt fell down hard.
The knife man nodded "All right then, get his wallet, then let's deep six the sucker and get lost".
The muggers started to grab towards Matt's pants pocket to get his wallet, suddenly something struck the knife man in the head.
"OW, who the bloody hell threw that?" the man shouted.
A tin can was chucked at the mugger's head.
The cap man blinked "Uh Cliff, you seeing what I'm seeing?".
Cliff turned angry eyes towards the alleyway. But much to Cliff's surprise and annoyance, he saw who threw the can. It was what appeared to be a kid in a blue, cartoon, hedgehog like costume. The creature almost seemed too comical to even be real.
Cliff raised an eyebrow "What the shit is this? Some sort of stupid little joke?".
The hedgehog growled "I'm only going to say it once pal, leave the guy alone".
Cliff laughed "Well Joey, looks like Halloween came early now didn't it?".
Joey gulped "Come on man, I don't wanna cut no little kid, let's just beat it".
The knife man smacked Joey across the head and screamed "Shut you're trap, I'm not taking crap from some 9 year old in a bloody costume. Now, I think it's time we sent you back to bed you little".
Cliff blinked as he saw the blue hedgehog was gone, suddenly the man was knocked right off his feet. Joey blinked as a blue sonic blur suddenly slammed right into his chest.
"AHHHHH" the thug screamed as he flew into the air and crashed his back into a steel dumpster.
Cliff growled as he saw the hedgehog, standing right behind him and smirking.
Sonic smiled "Not bad for a 9 year old, wouldn't you say?".
The mugger screamed and slashed his knife towards Sonic's face, the hedgehog jumped and landed right on his arm.
Sonic smiled "I call this the sonic 600 step".
The hedgehog ran up Cliff's body and slapped his feet over his face. Using super sonic speed to rapidly face slap Cliff over a 100 times with his speedy red shoes. The robber dropped down and cried out in pain, rubbing his throbbing face with enraged frustration.
Joey shouted "I got ya back Cliff".
The man grabbed a rock off the ground and was about to hurl it at Sonic. Suddenly a powerful force yanked on Joey's pants.
"OWWWWW" Joey screamed as he was given an atomic wedgie from behind his back.
A 2 tailed, grinning fox smiled at him as he brushed his white gloved hands clean off Joey's briefs.
"And I got your back too Joey, ha, ha" Tails giggled.
Cliff growled and forgot all about Matt, he tossed his knife away and removed a gun from his pocket.
The robber hissed "That's it blue boy, you're dead".
BANG! BANG! PING! PING! The bullets bounced off, the clanging echo of the clashing metal howled like a scream in Cliff's ears, he gasped in horror. Some girl in a bunny suit just stopped Cliff's bullets. The girl's left arm looked like it was made completely out of metal, so were her legs.
The rabbit smirked "Y'all need to learn to how behave sugar".
Bunnie extended her dark, plum colored robot arm and grabbed Cliff's gun, crushing it into dust in an instant.
Cliff shocked lips stuttered "You're not human".
The robber turned to run, only to receive a metallic kick in the butt from Bunnie's robot legs. Cliff screamed and ran off, a terrified Joey following right behind him. A weakened and exasperated Matt slowly tried to stand on his trembling pain, his body still racked with cuts, bruises, and shivering sensations.
"Uh Matt is it?" Sonic asked.
The man said nothing and simply stared. Matt's heart was beating so fast he could barely hear Sonic's voice.
The hedgehog sighed "Look I know you must be really wigged out right now but, I want you to know that……I'm really, really sorry. I didn't know that you had".
Sonic's apology stopped cold as did Matt's very body. The tired man dropped down to the ground and passed out, exhausted and totally overwhelmed by the excitement of everything that had just happened. A half an hour later, Matt's weary gray eyes slowly opened up in a blurry daze. The human had found himself back in his apartment, and he was surrounded by 3 furry faces.
Tails asked Sonic "Do you think he's going to be okay?".
"CHRIST" Matt screamed as he jerked away in wild panic.
The man's eyes were bulging out with utter horror, his whole world was lost in a bewildering blur of confusion. Sonic and the other creatures moved towards the frightened human. Cautiously, Sonic tried to speak to Matt.
Sonic said "Look chill dude, its okay, were not gonna hurt you".
Matt laughed "Yeah right, that's what you said before you strangled me. Just stay the hell away from me okay?".
Sonic groaned as he clearly felt bad about what had happened, a brown furry hand slapped the back of his head.
"I told you, you shouldn't have acted so hastily like that Sonic, really, you ought to be ashamed" a female voice said.
The owner of that voice slowly stepped into view, it was none other then Princess Sally Acorn. The enchanting, brown, furry princess entered with a dark blue, house hold blanket wrapped around her body, tightly holding it. Matt blinked and sighed into a state of almost total relaxation. Warm red colors painted Matt's blushing cheeks, actually enchanted by the beauty of this other worldly creature. The voice sounded like a sweet, sweet melody.
Sally smiled "I'm terribly sorry for Sonic's actions Matt, he had no idea you took me out of the rain and dried me off".
Tails blinked "You mean he really was trying to help you, not kidnap you Aunt Sally?".
The princess chuckled softly "Of course he wasn't Tails. Although I had to admit, at first, I didn't know what to expect from him. I landed in a garbage littered alleyway, with no idea of where I was or what had happened. Then there he was, just staring at me as I lay there on the ground, soaked, cold, and completely helpless.
Matt took me in and wrapped me in several warm blankets, trying to dry me off as best he could. He promised he wouldn't hurt me and that he would return my royal vest. You see, he didn't want me to catch a cold by staying in my wet clothes. So Matt took my vest and tried to ring it out when he went looking outside for any other blankets or cloths. That's when all of you found Matt and assumed he kidnapped me".
Matt sighed with a glorified gasp of long needed relief, he felt a thousand times better now. The human had simply been misjudged.
Sonic gasped "I'm really sorry about that bro, I had no idea. But that doesn't mean I should have freaked out on you like that, it was totally un-cool, and I hope you can forgive me".
Bunnie nodded softly "All of us".
It seemed clear that these furry creatures were quite friendly, and Matt had already taken a shine to Sally.
The young man half smiled and shrugged it off "It's all right, you're forgiven……eh Sonic was it?".
The hedgehog nodded and smiled.
Bunnie, Tails, and Sally introduced themselves to Matt, and he gladly did the same.
"It's a pleasure to meet all of you, though an unexpected one, one that I'm still wondering whether or not I'm high or stone cold drunk or something" Matt groaned.
There seemed to be a lot of confusion going around, for both sides of these fractured groups of friends. Sally sighed and decided that it would be best if she explained how they got here to Matt.
Sally began "Okay, it all started like this"……
As Matt listened and listened well to the words of the breathless beauty known as Sally Acorn, he almost thought he was dreaming. A mechanical tyrant, enslaved robot minions, freedom fighters, power rings, chaos emeralds, the Kingdom of Acorn, and another planet called Mobius?
The human gasped out loud in exhaustion "Good god that is one hell of a story".
Sonic nodded "And that's how we crash landed here into you're world Matt, we got no idea of where we are or how we got here, or how to get back".
Matt frowned "Well I don't have any damn idea how you guys got here or what caused it, but I can at least tell you about where you are. You're on a planet called Earth, inside a city called Chicago, one of the biggest ones in the United States of America. That is also essentially where you are. Now, I never heard of these Overlanders you mentioned, but we are called human beings. Well, some people don't really deserve that right".
The young man was referring to his despicable boss and the 2 thugs he encountered earlier tonight.
Matt continued "As amazing as your story is, I find it hard not to believe, especially after that little scuffle in the alleyway. But until you guys can find a way back home, I think it would be best if you stay here……with me. Everyone else is gonna think your wearing costumes. If anyone knew the truth, they'd ship you off to freak shows and science fairs. Treat you guys like experiment subjects and lock you up, I can't let that happen.
I don't know how the hell I'm gonna be able to help or why you guys should trust me over anyone else, but I am offering my trust to you now. I would be honored and……(smiles a bit) privileged if you guys would like to stay with me, though I'll understand if you choose not to".
The 4 furry creatures looked at each other and nodded, Sally approached Matt.
Sally smiled and kissed his cheek "I'm sorry to say you're wrong about something Matt, it is we are who are honored. We'd love to stay……with you, thank you".
To be continued……