STH © SEGA

Sarah belongs to me. So does Stark and his family and Dave and Ted Barker's family.

Chapter Two:

We Walk?

They had been going for a straight thirty minutes when Sarah heard a pop. She looked in the rear view mirror and saw nothing; she shrugged and went on driving when Scourge said, "Hey Sarah, what's that smell?"

"Oh no…not the…damn…" Sarah muttered, pulling over.

She got out and went over to the water heater. Sonic bent over and looked at his girlfriend, "Sarah? Aren't you supposed to be in the truck?"

Sarah glanced up at Sonic, "Tell everyone to get out and find a phone that'll work."

"That'll work?"

"That'll get reception Sonic."

"Oh okay then, comin' down, Shadow!"

"Faker! Your stupid foot poked Rose in the eye!"

"Sorry, Ames…"

"Damn it, Faker, would you stop swinging your legs around!"

"I gotta get down!"

Sarah listened and rolled her eyes, "Amy, I feel bad for you!" she yelled so the pink hedgehog could hear her.

"I do too!" Amy hollered in reply.

Almost twenty minutes later everyone got out and walked to Sarah, Tails coming first, "Anything I can fix?"

"I need a mechanic, something's wrong with it," she told the kitsune who agreed.

"I have a phone that'll work," Rouge said getting it out.

"I know a mechanic near here, he says he stays at the shop and keeps it running just in case something like this happens," Sarah said.

Sonic eyed her up and down, "How do you know this him?"

"Me and my dad…" Sarah told him dialing the number and walking off.

"Nice going Sonic, first the cat then you have to say something about her dead father!" Manic snickered.

Sonic glared at his brother then he widened his eyes, "Where were you?"

"Don't ask…"Manic said as Sonia shuddered and nodded.

"Okay…" Sonic said, looking back from the two until Sarah got back.

"Okay, Sparks (OC) said we can drive it there and see what the matter is…" Sarah said.

"So?" Knuckles said.

Sarah blinked at them, "So, get back inside the camper, people!"

"Uuugghhhh," everyone said working their way in the camper once again.

When Knuckles and Rouge went up, Knuckles said, "I still don't see how the hell we're supposed to fit in here and sleep in here…"

Sarah drove down the long and empty road with dark pine trees along side it, where the gap of trees was, was where Sarah pulled in. In the gap by the road was a mechanic store called 'Stark's Mechanic and Grocery Store!'

When everyone did get out once again Sonic stood by Sarah, "I thought you said Sparks?"

"I did," Sarah said walking towards the shop.

A green anole lizard with dark brown eyes came out to meet her, "Hey Sarah!" and gave her a hug.

"Sparks! I haven't seen you since…"

"Yeah…it's been a while hasn't it?" he said pulling away and looking at her.

She nodded in agreement.

"Hey Sparks!" Sonic shouted, walking up to them.

Spark laughed and smiled and took out his hand walking to Sonic, "You must be Sonic, Sarah's boyfriend, she told me about you!"

Sonic quit his little temper of anger towards the lizard and shook his hand, "Yeah…funny, she told me nothing about you…"

Sparks laughed again, "You're funny!"

Sonic raised an eyebrow at him as he walked around the blue blur and shook hands with everyone else.

"Um…Sparks is an old family friend; his father Starkowned this place till he died six years ago. Stark's wife Isabella died when Sparks was only three, same as my mom. My dad and I always came up here every summer, near four times a year and we went to the lake and camped, same place where we're going," Sarah explained.

"Uhhh, Sarah?" Sparks said looking to the female.

"Yes?"

"One; the lake is full of cabins now, no camper can go there anymore. Some stupid guy named Mr. Barker said so when he bought the place and two; your camper ain't goin' anywhere for awhile…." Sparks said looking through it.

"Mr. Barker? Like Ted Barker?" Sarah asked.

Sparks glanced back at her, "His brother, Dave Barker."

"Really?" Sarah asked looking at the lizard.

"Yeah, some stupid billionaire dog waltzes in thinking he owns the joint, wanting to make the people know that, he actually bought it. He acts like he was born here with his brother, the accent and all, it really is pathetic."

"Wasn't he raised with his brother?" Cream asked.

The lizard stared, "Cream, right?"

Cream nodded while Sparks shook his head, "Nah, their parents divorced when they were born…kinda like Parent Trap only not, yeah. His father went for more of a Hollywood type of place with Dave and his mother, being a sweetheart, stayed here thank God…I miss her pies though, the apple was the best…." Sparks finished.

"So Sparks…how do we get there?" Sonic walked around.

"Whoa, Sonic, we can't use our camper, well technically Sarah's because it's an only cabin place," Tails explained, "Maybe we should just go home."

"Well, I sure as hell don't wanna quit now! Why not just rent a cabin?" Sonic folded his arms, ready to put up a fight.

"Because the cabins cost money!" Shadow said stepping up.

"So?" the blue blur seemed determined whether Shadow liked it or not.

"We didn't bring any!" Amy tried reasoning.

Sonic shook his head at her, "Maybe Rouge could fly back and get some for us?"

Shadow sighed, "Fine…Chaos Control!"

He disappeared in a flash while the group waited. Five minutes passed and they started feeling the doubt.

"Think he'll come back?" Manic moaned.

"He's got to, Amy's here," Sonic pointed out just to get a punch on the shoulder from the pink female.

Minutes later, Shadow came back, "How much do we need, Sparks?"

Sparks shrugged, "Depends if y'all are gonna share one. They're pretty big; they can fit about what seven bedrooms maybe and if you are all couples….."

"Whoa, I am not sleeping with my sister in the same bed! Not gonna happen!" Manic put his hands out in front of him in a waving motion.

"There's always the couch," Sparks said with a shrug.

Manic looked at him with a 'Gee thanks' expression.

"How do we get there?" Knuckles inquired with folded arms while his girlfriend stood beside him.

"We can walk," Sarah suggested with a short shrug.

"What!"

To her, it seemed the only way to get her friends to come along—to her friends it sounded like death.

"It's not that far, guys," she told them.

Everyone groaned in disagreement.

"Don't worry, guys, I'll keep your truck and camper here; safe and sound," Sparks promised as the group started walking.

"That only makes me not trust him," Knuckles said, looking back at Sparks.

"Come on, he means it, he's been my friend since we were four, now let's go!" Sarah said starting the long-ish walk along the road.

"Uuugghhhh!"

Sonic walked with his arms down to his side while the other unwillingly followed. They were sure—that after this camping trip they'd surely sue.