Chapter 3: Eve's New Friends
The next day at the garden of the Acorn Palace, young Princess Sally is playing with her friends. Bunnie Rabbit. Roter the Walrus, and Antoine D'Coolette, and sitting on a bench is a female Mobian woodchuck. She has white hair in a bun, and wears a blue dress and a red hooded cape. Her name is Rosie Woodchuck.
Sally walks up to her with a small computer, "Rosie, can you watch Nicole. I don't want to drop her."
"Of course dear," Rosie says.
She places a small computer on the bench, "Now you keep Rosie company while I play with my friends."
"Of course Sally," A female voice says from the computer.
The small computer name Nicole is a gift from an old friend of her father's. After placing the computer down, she begins to play with her friends.
Walking into the garden, Chuck is with Sonic, Sonia, Manic, and Eve. Of course, Eve is hiding behind Uncle Chuck.
"Alright kids, it's time for you to play, and I'll be at the lab," Chuck says.
"Okay," The kids says.
Sonic walks to Eve, "Home in Eve, we want to introduce you to our friends."
"Okay," Eve says with a small smile.
Eve and Sonic take each other's hand and head over to where the other kids are playing. Still playing, Sally and the others are playing a game of tag. The kids turn to see Sonic and the others, but notices another hedgehog with her. The kids run over to the four hedgehogs to see them.
"Hey Sugarhogs, how are young?" Bunnie asks.
"Who's your new friend?" Roter asks.
Sonic says, "Guys, this is my new sister, Eve."
"Sister?" The four kids asks.
"Yeah. She can out of the sky in some strange capsule. The next thing we knew, she was in there," Sonic says.
"Our family said we can keep her, and now is a part of our family," Manic says.
"Cool," Sally says.
She walks to Eve and says, "Hi, my name is Sally. I'm the princess of the castle."
"It's nice to meet you princess," Eve says.
"Please, call me Sally," Sally says.
Bunnie says, "I'm Bunnie Rabbit."
"Roter the Walrus," Roter says.
The young coyote walks over and shyly ays, "I… I'm… Antoine D'Coolette."
"It's nice to meet you," Eve says.
Sonia hugs Eve, "Isn't she cute."
"Hello Sonic, I see you have a new friend," Rosie says.
"Close, this is my new sister, Eve," Sonic says.
Rosie kneels down to Eve, "Hello Eve, my name is Rosie. It's very nice to meet you."
"It's nice to meet you Rosie," Eve shyly says.
Suddenly, Sonic has an idea, "I know. How about get get a snack. I'll head to the chilli dog stand really quick."
Sonic brings out his super speed and zooms out of the yard in second. Then comes back with a medium sized box of chilli dogs.
Sonia and Sally groan, "Oh brother."
"Alright, chilli dogs!" Manic cheers.
Sonic, Manic, Roter, Bunny begin to eat the chilli dogs. Sally, Sonia, Antoine decide not to have any. Eve is looking at the snacks with curious looks.
Eve asks, "Um, what are those you eating?"
"Those are chilli dogs. They're the best food in the city," Sonic says.
"Chilli dogs?" Eve asks.
Sonic hands Eve a chilli dog, "Have some."
"Um okay," Eve says.
She takes the chilli dog from Sonic and looks at it with curiosity. She sees a long meet in a long bun covered in hot and spicy chilli beans with onion and anything that the delicious treat has. Eve begins to take a bite of it, and begins to eat it. Eve thinks of the taste as she chews the food in her mouth. Finally, swallows it.
Eve smiles, and says, "Yummy! The chilli dogs are good."
"Knew you like it," Sonic says.
Sonic then takes another chilli dog and begin to eat it, while Eve eats the rest of the snack she has.
Sally says, "Sonic, that's your fifth one."
"What? These chilli dogs are the best," Sonic says.
"And you're the best at stuffing his face," Sonia mutters.
Sonia and Sally begin laughing with smiles on their faces.
Antoine asks, "Um princess, think we should get somethin' else to eat?"
"That's a good idea.," Sally says.
Eve walks over to Sally, "Sally think we can play afterwards."
"Sure," Sally says.
Sally, Sonia, Eve, and Antoine walk into the castle while Sonic and the others are having the chilli dogs.
Sally and the others walk down the halls of the palace to get to the kitchen. Eve is amazed to see so many different vases, statues, and other fancy stuff. Eve may not remember her past, but she has never see any of this before.
"Your house is so big Sally," Eve says.
"Actually Eve, it's a castle or a palace. Either way, it is very big. There's enough for you to play hide and seek. Of course, daddy says not to play in the palace when he's working," Sally says.
She then says, "Just follow me and you won't get lost."
Sally continues to lead the kids down the halls. Eve stops to see an open door. Curious, Eve decides to take a peek and see who is inside. In the room she can see a squirrel that is dressed like a king, Uncle Chuck, and someone else is with them. There is a large man wearing a white outfit and has a tall black hat. He is also wearing a black mask and has a orange mustache.
"This is the last of the blue prints your majesty," The man says.
"Thank you, Julius, that will be all for today and thank you both for the help. We'll discuss this at a later date," The squirrel king says.
"We sure had a lot of work cut out today. I need to get back to my lab to continue my research project," Chuck says.
He then turns his head with a smile, "Hello Eve, what are you doing here?"
The squirrel and the man turn their heads to see the little hedgehog hiding behind the door.
"Um hello uncle Chuck. I was um, working what you were doing," Eve says.
Chuck walks over to Eve and picks her up, "Nothing much, just having an important meeting. Eve, this is King Acorn. Your majesty, this is ne new niece, Eve"
"Hello," Eve says.
"Hello Eve, it's very nice to meet you. I must say, it's unique to see a black and red hedgehog," King Acorn says.
The man walks over, "Yes. It's quite rare to see a hedgehog of that color."
"Eve this is Julius Robotnik. He's helping us with special project and helped end a terrible war a couple of years back," Chuck says.
"Um, it's nice to meet you Mr. Robotnik," Eve says.
"It's a pleasure," Julius says.
Chuck walks out with Eve, "Now, I'm sure Sonic and the others are wondering where you are. Let's go find the others."
"Okay Uncle Chuck," Eve says.
Uncle Chuck and Eve leave the room together. King Acorn follow after them. Julius Robotnik stay behind to see them leaving. Once he's sure he's alone, he picks up a communicator.
He answers, "Snively, do you read me."
Hours go by and it's already late afternoon, while Bernadette and Aleena are watching the children. Jules and Uncle Chuck decide to bring the capsule that Eve has been in when she crash to this planet. They open the capsule and look inside.
Jules stares at it, "I don't understand. We looked around this capsule from top to bottom and we haven't found anything that can give us a clue about Eve."
"Hmm, I'm a bit baffled myself. The machinery seems to be rather old for our time. There doesn't seem to be anything else but young Eve. Not even a note of some kind," Uncle Chuck says.
Jules looks around in the capsule to see if there's anything, even if it's something small. And then something catches her attention.
"What's this?" Jules asks.
He goes in the capsule to reach what is inside. He takes out a light blue headband.
"A headband?" Uncle Chuck asks.
"That seems to be the only thing that's in there. There's doesn't seem to be a name on it either. Maybe it belongs to Eve," Jules says.
"Could be," Chuck says.
At the end of the day, Jules and Uncle Chuck are back home with the family. So far, they are unable to find anything in the capsule, except a light blue hairband. Jules and Uncle Chuck decide to give it to Eve when they arrive.
Jules presents the headband to Eve, "Eve, is this yours? I found it in the capsule that brought it to you."
Eve takes the hairband and looks at it very careful. She doesn't remember if it's hers, but feels that it's something for her to hold on to.
"I… I don't know if it's mine, but I feel that it's very important to me," Eve says.
"Do you remember anything else?" Manic asks.
Eve shakes her head in reply.
"I see," Sonic sadly says.
The other hedgehogs sadden as well.
Eve smiles, "Don't worry, I'm sure my memory will come back someday. I think I'll hang on to it."
Eve then places the headband on her head and looks at the mirror with a smile. Sonic and his family are glad that Eve is trying to put on a positive smile. They want to be sure that Eve is happy with her life here, and they will get to be one big family.