Hey everyone. Well I'm extremely happy that I have more readers and reviewers. Thank you to everyone who reviewed. Here's chapter 4!
Right after they made the pack, Matt returned home.
"Where have you been Matt? It's almost 4:00," His Mom said as he walked in.
"Oh, ummm. Ashley's dad drove Me, her, and Nick to Emily's house. Sorry I forgot to call and tell you," He lied.
"Well I have been worried about you all day! The least you could do id give a call," His mom told him.
"I know, I'm sorry. Next time I will remember to call, I promise," he said. After that he went up to his room and turned on his television. The news was on.
"Many people have reported sights of walking, talking animals today in the local area. After looking into this, here is what some people had to say," A news reporter said as they went to a clip of a man.
"Well, I was driving my car down the street, when all of a sudden this blue, mutant animal comes running right past me! He had about 6 spikes on the back of his head, and wore red and white running shoes!" The man said to the camera.
"I was pulling into my driveway, when out of no where, three creatures go flying by my car!" A young kid, about 18 stated. "That's when I realized that, they looked exactly like characters from the Sonic the Hedgehog games I used to play when I was little!"
"I was walking my dog with my four year old son, and then these, things started fighting! The blue and pink ones were fighting the red one. It was like nothing I have ever seen before!" Said the lady they saw earlier while fighting.
"After hearing about these creatures, our news team decided to look into this case, Our Copter Cam caught this footage of the creatures," The reporter said, right before showing a clip of Sonic, Tails, Amy, Cream, and Knuckles standing nearby Emily's house, talking. "After seeing this footage, it's seems that the video game character everyone knows, Sonic the Hedgehog and his friends have made it out of the game, and into our world," The reporter ended with a laugh. Matt turned his t.v off and went downstairs.
"Now I've seen everything!" His dad yelled at the t.v.
"What are you talking about Dad?" Matt asked.
"The news just showed footage of some video game characters standing outside of someone's house. Either it was a really clever hoax, or the world is going crazy," His dad said. Matt didn't know what to feel. Should he be happy that he had these new powers? Or should he feel like the freak he was being portrayed as? He tried not to even think about Sonic the Hedgehog for the rest of the night. He went to bed early that night, and awoke at 9:30 in the morning the next day.
"Matt, went to the grocery store with your brother and dad, should be back around 11. Lots of Love, Mom," Matt read aloud as he saw the note his mom left him. "This is a good time for me to call Nick to see if he figured anything else out on those rings."
RING...RING...
"Hello?" Nick answered his phone.
"Hey dude it's Matt. You home alone?" Matt asked him.
"Yeah, my parents went golfing," Nick answered
'What losers' Matt thought to himself, but quickly brought himself back to the purpose of the phone call. "Oh, so you figure anything else out about the rings?"
"Can you give me some time? We just got the powers yesterday, it will probably take me a few months to crack the entire mystery of the rings," Nick responded.
"A few months!" Mat exclaimed. "Isn't there a way you could go a little quicker!"
"(Sigh) I'll try my best but I'm not promising anything. Nick sighed. Just then Matt turned to his t.v and saw a breaking news report.
"I'm outside of the First Savings Bank, where a robbery is going on. We have this video being streamed from the scene," a reporter said on the t.v. The video clip rolled.
"Alright, just put all the money in this bag, and no one gets hurt!" Screamed a masked man in the video.
"Please, perhaps we can negociate?" The bank clerk asked.
"Were not playing games here buddy," said the other robber
"Hmmm...this could be a chance to see what these rings could really do," Matt said.
"What are you talking about?" Nick asked.
"Call Ashley and Emily, I'll call Josh, tell them to meet us at the First Savings Bank," Matt told Nick. They hung up and within minutes were all on their way to the bank.
"This better be important," Josh said to himself while running down a busy street to get there.
"Hey everyone, it's that red freak from the news last night!" Screamed a random guy on the street. Josh just held his anger in and kept going. Soon they were right outside the bank, cop cars surrounded the place.
"Why did we need to come here? There's cops everywhere, they're gonna try to capture us," Ashley said to them.
"Two jerks are inside and they think that they can take the banks money, we gotta show them they can't!" Matt said heroically.
"It would be a chance to show the public that we aren't monsters, to show them that were here to help," Josh said.
"I don't know if it's such a good idea guys," Emily said softly.
"Emily, we have to be brave, and you know what they said, to get to heaven, you gotta raise a little hell!" Matt yelled, and with that he and the others were dashing for the bank door.
"Hold it right there mutants!" A cop called out, but they ran right into the building.
"Back away from the desk crocks, and put your hands up. Maybe we'll go easy on you," Matt said to the burglars.
"Haha, Sonic the hedgehog and his little friends came to save the day," One of them said. Then he took out his pistol, and started shooting at them. People started screaming and ducking for cover everywhere.
"Grrrr, take this!" Matt said, he jumped up into a ball, and zoomed right for the guy with the gun.
"Owww," He said as he fell.
"Your next!" Nick said to the other guy. Then he ripped off his shirt, and a bomb was attached.
"Don't come any closer, I'll blow everyone up, I swear!" The second criminal said.
"Calm down mister! Don't do anything stupid!" Emily said trying to stop him. Josh started inching away as Emily was talking to him. "I know things don't seem good right now, but they will get better if you just surrender, I promise," She said with a smile.
"Well maybe your right," He said. "Maybe I am doing the wrong thing with my-" He went out cold on the ground. And as he fell, Josh stood behind him, smiling proud.
"We told him we would go easy on him, but they didn't listen," Josh said.
"Alright guys, the cops can handle the rest, our job is done," Matt said. Thy started running out, but then people in the bank started clapping and cheering for them.
"Thank you everyone, but it's what we do, We are the Freedom Fighters!" Matt yelled, then the 5 friends ran out.
"Freedom Fighters? Where'd you think of that?" Ashley asked.
"I used to read the Sonic comics, and that's what their group is called in that," Matt answered.
"Freedom Fighters, I like it," Nick said. The 5 friends ran off into the town. But at the bank, something else was going on.
"Commander, the targets have escaped, shall we sent troops out after them?" One of the burglars took his mask off.
"No, no. We have to think of a tactic first, were not dealing with just anything here, these are super natural beings," said a man who stepped out from a corner. "But good job with that act soldier." The man was wearing a uniform that had the words, U.S. Government stitched on it.
"Thank you commander," The other criminal said as he took off his mask.
"I will get you, Freedom Fighters," The commander said to himself, as he walked out of the bank, thoughts racing through his head.
Well there's chapter 4. Hope you all enjoyed it. I will try to get chapter 5 up as soon as I can, because I will not be able to update from Saturday to Monday. REVIEW!