It took a while, but sonic managed to follow them home to a decent sized house. As he looked in the window, he saw the father tuck her in, almost exactly like longclaw would for him. He then realized that he couldn't do anything without being exposed, as much as it pained him, he couldn't be seen. After some walking and thinking about what he saw, he came across a cave that was bigger than his current one, he then thought of a solution. he could stay closer so he wouldn't have to wait for her to come to him.
As the years went by, sonic grew up alongside her without her knowing of his existence, he took to calling her gymnast queen, due to seeing her perform acrobatics class since he could never get close enough to hear her real name. And as he got older, his feet grew as well, forcing him to have to find shoes that fit him, and due to his speed, they wore out quickly, so he had to be careful.
One day, a few days after sonic turned 9, he was scrounging around for food in a city dumpster when he saw gymnast queen walking towards a an animal shelter with her father, he then peaked through one of the windows to see the girl had chosen one of the dogs from the kennel, one he had never seen before.
He then saw as the girl knelt down and played with the dog for a bit before giving him a collar. Sonic couldn't hear much through the window, but from what he saw, it looked like they enjoyed each other's presence. Sonic smiled but then looked down, remembering that he didn't have a family to do this kind of stuff with.
As he neared his cave after finding a good amount of scraps of food to eat, he noticed what looked like a small tortoise looking around and walking slowly."hey little guy." he spoke as he walked to it and kneeled down in front of it." are you lost?." he asked the small animal as it looked up at him."must be tough being slow all the time...hang on." he told the turtle as he looked in his bag and pulled out a small bit of lettuce."here, it's not much, but it should be healthy for you." he explained as the turtle ate it up.
Sonic then smiled, realizing he made a little friend in the woodland creature, he then pet the turtle and gently picked him up.`` How about I bring you home with me, little guy?" sonic told him as he walked to the cave with his bag of food." I'm sonic, what's your name?" he asked as the turtle simply looked at him." no name, huh?ok...i'll call you speedy."sonic exclaimed as he pet the turtles shell, then he jumped into his cave and set speedy down." I can tell we'll be good friends." he said as he petted his new friend once more.
Over the next 6 years, sonic had grown accustomed to earth's to some of the humans most popular music, trying out some sports like table tennis, and bowling. He had a treadmill made out of a washing machine, he managed to collect a whole library worth of comic books, and he set up a little spot so speedy can hang out,get wet in the water and relax.
If sonic was caught, he would use the rings longclaw gave him to escape to a new world, one full of mushrooms. But nowadays, he didn't have to worry about it, because far from his home was sausalito california, to him it was the greatest town on earth. He loved this town, and all the people in it, even though they didn't know he existed.
His favorite person was the one he met all those years ago, gymnast queen, and her new sidekick dog general lightning, sonic calls him this because of how fast he is. Though not as fast as sonic, he's one of the fastest he has seen so far.
Gymnast queen lived with her father, who sonic has decided to call science wizard, due to the fact that almost everytime sonic sees him, he's working on some kind of formula when he's not hanging out with his daughter.
Despite all these people, deep down. ..he was still lonely, still afraid that if he exposed himself to the people they would get hurt or come after him. He was afraid of being alone forever…
It was a different story however for Gymnast queen and General lighting, whose real names were Penny forrester and her dog bolt, though they're life was fairly normal, weird things have been happening.
About a month ago, Penny thought she heard something in the backyard, but when she went to look, there was nothing there, except for what appeared to be a blue quill had found its way onto her porch. A few days after that, her father had taken bolt to work with him, and when they came back, the canine had some kind of lightning bolt tattoo on his side, and no amount of washing could make it go away.
On top of that, after bringing bolt back, Penny's father began acting distant. They still talked, but not as much, he became unusually quiet when she tried to talk about her canine friend's new mark. What made her really curious is when bolt showed signs of being a bit faster than usual.
She didn't know what to think about all this, she kept the quill by her bed in hopes to try and figure out what it belonged to, and she tried to figure out why bolt had this tattoo and how his new speed factored into her father's work, little did they know the answers she sought after would be coming sooner than they thought.