STH © SEGA

Sarah belongs to me. The twins belong to me. Alicia belongs to aliciathewolf45.

Chapter Six:

We Should've Listened To Them

Amy put her hand over Cream's mouth as she heard the rabbit whimper a little as the little bat's feet were near the bed, "Where o' where could you be?"

Amy looked at her feet as they walked around the bed to her side, "Hello?"

The pink hedgehog leaned back as the girl came closer, "I know you're in here…"

Amy's eyes widened as she saw knees bending then eyes of the little bat. She smiled, "I found you."

The two stared at and she giggled and ran away, Amy raised an eyebrow as Cream asked, "What was that?"

"I…I don't know…" Amy said as she heard feet come back.

She leaned closer to Cream again as the bat looked under the bed again, "Are you comin'?"

Amy looked at Cream then to the girl and watched as backed up, Amy slid out from under the bed halfway and stared at the girl, "What?"

"Hide and seek," the bat frowned, "I don't wanna play alone…"

Amy watched as her eyes got big and all of a sudden Amy felt bad. This cute little girl was playing hide and seek all along, but then why was attacking the guys? Amy was in thought as Cream slid out and looked at the bat, "What's your name?"

"Alina," she answered.

Cream tilted her head, "Why are you chasing us?"

"I wasn't chasing, I was playing!" Alina held her hands up in the air and Amy almost squished the girl in a hug from all the cuteness.

"Why did you tie up Sonic? A-And throw things at Shadow and Knuckles?" Amy asked getting out and standing up.

Alina looked down, "…"

"Are you okay, sweetie?" Amy asked getting on her knees and looking at the little girl.

She shook her head and Amy saw tears going down her face, "Amy? Cream?"

Amy looked at the doorway and saw Rouge, Sonia, Sarah and Blaze, "What are you doing! She could-"

"She was playing hide and seek with us," Cream answered.

"But then…why did she hurt the guys? Or try to?" Blaze asked.

Alina broke in tears and clung onto Amy. Amy was taken by surprise but wrapped her arms around the girl, "Shhh…it's all right…" Amy whispered to the girl.

~~~.~~~

The girls watched as Alina ate chocolate chip cookies with a glass milk next to her.

Rouge leaned against the table, "I wonder where her parents are…"

"Yeah...they're probably worried sick by now," Amy agreed.

Blaze's eyes narrowed in confusion, "But why let your kid get out of your sight when they're only five years old?"

"Yeah…" the girls said watching Alina take a bite out of her cookie while watching them.

"AHHHH!"

"Run!"

"There he is!"

"No, he's right there!"

"Where?"

"There!"

"AHHHH!"

Sonic watched as Manic ran beside him and Vector and Charmy ran off. Silver was running in circles and he had no clue where Espio went, "Where's Espio!?"

"I don't know!" Manic yelled as he dodged a paint balloon.

"Silver!" Sonic yelled as he didn't see Silver anywhere.

Vector and Charmy were nowhere to be seen and Scourge was tied upside down in the tree, "Help!" he called out.

"We're not saving you!" Manic yelled.

"Why the hell not?!"

"Every man for himself!" Manic yelled zooming off.

"What!" Scourge asked before turning around and around, cursing like there was no tomorrow; which for him, might just be true.

~.~

Silver ran in the trees and looked back when all of a sudden he felt no ground underneath his feet, "Wha-"

Just like Shadow, Silver fell in a hole, "AHHH!"

~.~

"Run, Vector!"

"Charmy!" Vector yelled at the bee who was flying, "You can get away easily so don't rush me!"

Fritz came out from the tree flying. Vector looked at Charmy as Fritz aimed a paint balloon at them.

"Okay...I take that back."

~~~.~~~

Espio crouched down and watched as they ran around like idiots, "Hmph, they aren't getting anywhere."

"It's funny though!"

He jumped and looked up in the tree and saw something brown, "Who's there?"

A wolf swung on her legs and came upside down to look at him, "Who!" she made an owl noise.

Espio just stared at her with a raised eyebrow, "Who are you?"

"Who," she swung forward and poked his horn, "Are you?"

"Espio."

"I'm Alicia!"

He stared at her, "Were you watching them the whole time?"

"Well not exactly, I mean I went back and forth from watching you and them then going back to you then looking at them, so in my opinion…nope!"

He looked at her as if she were the stupidest person here, "Riiigghhtt."

She smiled and swung up. He stared up at the trees where she disappeared, "Where'd you go?"

He heard a thump behind him and he turned around to see this Alicia girl sitting on the hard ground. She smiled, "I…I did that on purpose…"

"Sure you did," Espio pulled her up.

"Thank you," she blushed in embarrassment.

Espio watched as she dusted herself off then headed off towards the guys, "Wait!" he grabbed her wrist, "What the hell are you thinking!?" he yelled at her.

She smiled at him, "One way to calm a little boy comin' right up!" she winked at him and left for the clearing.

He watched her from the trees and soon followed her. The two walked in the middle as normal people would, the guys beside them were running like it was the end of the world.

He looked from Charmy and Vector to Scourge, who was still tied up in the tree. Alicia watched as Charmy zoomed above her head and she waited for Fritz. When he did, she leaped a little with her arms stretched out, "Gotcha!"

"Ahh! Hey not fair!" Fritz looked at her.

He glared and about bit her when Alicia touched his nose, "No! Bad!"

Fritz stopped and looked at her, "You're not the boss of me!"

Alicia glared at him this time, "Stop it," she said slowly.

"Alicia!" he whined.

"Wait, he knows you?" Espio asked.

Alicia looked at him, "Yes," then she looked back to Fritz, "I'm his babysitter from time to time and it just so happens you came camping the same time I did."

She hugged him to death, ignoring his complaints, "Alicia!"

"Aww, you're just being a baby, Fritz!" Alicia hugged him more.

~~~.~~~

"So where are we?"

Knuckles looked around, "Not sure."

Shadow sighed and got up, Knuckles looked at him, "Where you going?"

"I can't leave Rose to defend for herself," Shadow told him, not looking back.

"So, you're calling your own girlfriend weak?" Knuckles got up and walked towards him.

Shadow stopped, "I didn't mean it that way…"

Knuckles laughed, "I'm telling her you said that!"

Shadow watched as he ran, "Wait! Don't! Please!"

~~~.~~~

The girls watched as Alina ate, "I don't get it."

"This is her twentieth cookie…" Rouge watched in amazement, "I get sick after one."

They heard the door open and watched as the boys with Alicia and Fritz came in, "What happened?" Blaze raised an eyebrow.

"Where's Knuckles and Shadow?" Rouge stood up, clasping her hands.

"Where's Scourge?" Fiona looked at them. She had hid downstairs in the coat closet.

"He's tied up in a tree," Sonic came and sat down in a chair at the counter across from Alina.

They looked at each other as Alina paused with her mouth open and the cookie a millimeter from her lips.

"Manic," Sarah stared at Sonic's brother.

"Fine…." He sighed and headed outside to get Scourge.

They watched him go before turning back to the situation at hand.

"So where's Shadow and Knuckles?" Amy asked.

"We don't know, they ran off again," Vector shrugged.

"Yeah! Just poof!" The teenage bee said as he sat by Fritz eating cookies as well.

"That's not such a good idea," Espio pointed to him looking at Alicia who stood behind the boys.

She shrugged, "Seems okay to me."

He sighed, "Just wait…"

They heard a big thump and looked to the door. It was open and there stood Manic with his foot on top of Scourge who was tied up, "Got him!"

"Hey!" Scourge yelled as Manic rolled him towards the group.

"Anyone got scissors?"

~~~.~~~

"Okay, I think we need to go north…"

"No, south!"

"No, it was north!"

"No, it was south!"

"Knuckles! We headed south when we ran away!"

"…Let's go your way."

"I thought so."

~~~.~~~

"Okay so…you know them…where are their parents?" Rouge asked Alicia.

Alicia looked at her, "Their mother is somewhere around here I guess..."

"What about their father?" Sarah asked.

Alicia looked down, "The reason why they attack the guys is that…they had an abusive father…that's all they ever knew…how to act around guys. He's gone now, out of their lives forever," she kissed Fritz head as he ate another cookie.

"Maybe if they hang with the guys and us, they'll understand only some people are mean," Amy said to her.

"Maybe…but their mother tried that and it didn't end up well…they busted a guy's nose, broke one's leg and one is still in the hospital after they tied him up and dropped them from the top of their roof, how they got up no one in hell even knows…" Alicia explained.

"I see…" Amy trailed off in thought.

"The roof?" Sarah asked.

Sonia was looking at the ceiling out into space, "Sounds like Sonic sleep walking…"

"Hey!"

"Just think though, Sonia, he's got a better way of waking up now! The river," Manic told her.

Sonic about punched his brother but Amy stopped him by holding his arm.

"Maybe we can help, they're calm now, and if," she looked at Sonic, "we don't show any meanness to each other they'll think these guys are nice, which they are," the guys all smiled, even Scourge, "Most of them…" they frowned and looked at Amy.

"Well…it's worth a shot…"

Later that night when Alicia went to the twin's cabin to find their mother, she came back with a reddish brownish bat that had blue eyes.

"Everyone this is Ginger," she introduced them.

"Hey," the guys said as they sat around the campfire.

"Listen, I'm happy we're doing this but…what if doesn't work?" Ginger asked, fidgeting nervously.

"Don't worry, we'll help the best we can," Sonic reassured her.

Fritz and Alina poked their heads from behind their mother, "Well…go on, I promise they won't hurt you if you won't hurt them," Ginger said to her kids.

They looked up to her and then looked to the guys.

Alina stepped forward while Fritz watched her, unsure. Alina walked to the closest one there was, which just had to be Scourge. Amy glared at Scourge and bared her teeth, reminding him of his warning, since he would be the toughest. But he wasn't paying attention to Amy, his eyes were on Alina.

Alina smiled at him, "Hi, you!"

He actually smiled, "Hello," he said leaning over to her, "How are you?"

THUD!

Amy looked down at the unconscious Sonic.

Alina stepped closer to him and lifted her arms up, warming up to him immediately, "Good," she answered as he picked her up and put her in his lap.

"That's good," Scourge said looking at her and bouncing his knee a little making her laugh and hug him around the chest.

Amy's mouth practically dropped to the ground, "What?"

Scourge looked at her, "You said no beer, no smoking, less swearing and being nice to them, you don't think I can do all that?"

"Nope," Rouge said looking at him, "Because you don't seem like the fatherly type."

"I'm not," Scourge smirked, "But I can make a crying kid laugh in minutes…if I want to and I'm scared enough to pay attention to what she says," he motioned to Amy.

"Good choice," Manic nodded.

~~~.~~~

After a successful night, Ginger and Alicia went back to their cabins with the kids. It was nearly one in the morning, so for fun, the guys took out flashlights and went out to the creek, even Sonic, to blind fish.

The girls weren't that stupid and didn't want to get in that cold water so they headed up to bed. Amy was freezing in the bed, along with Rouge and Blaze. Where the hell were their boyfriends? Well if they ever did find them, they'd each probably get a good slap.

"Guys! Guys...Guys!"

Silver wouldn't give up.

"How long did it take them to dig this hole!" he jumped and to the top, "Yes!"

He grabbed up and tried pulling himself, he started slipping, "No! Not again!" he yelled as he fell in the whole.

He sighed, "Guys!"

~~~.~~~

"Let's all just listen to Shadow the Ultimate Life Form!"

"Shut up!"

"No! We're probably miles away from the camp!"

Shadow sighed in the night, "Wait…why didn't I just Chaos Control back!? God I feel like Sonic right now."

"Yeah do that!" Knuckles nodded rapidly.

Shadow looked at him, "Nah, I think I'll leave you here, watch out for the bed bugs, Knuckles," Shadow snickered before zooming off.

"Shadow?"

"Shadow?"

"Shadow! I don't wanna sleep near bed bugs!"

"…Shadow, come on…I hate bed bugs…" Knuckles looked around, "You know I'm scared of the dark!"

Nothing. He knew Shadow had run off and chaos controlled then so Knuckles wouldn't see the light of the emerald and touch Shadow, going along with him.

Knuckles looked around in the dark, he could hear the creek but where the hell was it? He looked around and kept twirling till he tripped over a root.

"Oof!"

Flat-face on the ground he yelled into the dirt, "Shadow!"