This pollution was thicker then pea soup, thicker then two bricks, and that was saying something in my case 'cause I could break through two inches of solid wood with great ease. I was also one of the highest four ranking in my martial arts class, I had been taking lessons since it first opened so the four students had been going there for nearly six years straight, myself included.
"You know, I may still have mercy if you let me out now." I said.
"Quiet!" Fang snapped.
They were moving again, but I didn't thrash, I figured I'd need that energy for were I was going. Soon I could hear another set of footsteps. Another shadow cast over the sack, one with a very long nose that seemed VERY familiar.
"You've brought the girl we require?" An even more familiar voice said.
"Of course." The bounty hunter said.
"Didn't you take group of SWATbots with you?" He asked, and I figured it was Snivley.
"Yes." Fang said. "But, they were uh…all destroyed."
"Destroyed?! How in the world were they destroyed?" Sinvley demanded and seeing my chance, I cut in.
"'Cause I beat them!" I snapped.
"How could a mere girl destroy a complex robot, let alone a whole group?" He asked.
"And, might I add, caused "Fang" a LOT of pain." I said, rubbing it in.
"Is that so?" He asked.
"You know so, Needle Nose!" I snapped. "And I can take you on too!"
I could very easily take on the little shrimp, or as Dulcy called him, Shrimp Boat. I'd taken home the gold in my first martial arts competition, so I was very good.
"I'd like to see you try." The shrimp said.
"C'mon! I'll take you on with only my left side, and I'm RIGHT HANDED!" I yelled.
"Shut up!" He snapped and kicked the sack, only to not even harm me but hurt his toes.
"Listen, shrimp boat, I can turn you inside out if I wanted to!" I said.
"I'd suggest you pay her heed, she real has quite a grip…for a…child." Fang said.
"I'm not a kid! I'm a teenager!" I snapped.
"Who cares?" Fang asked.
I thrashed about again and kicked him.
"Take her to the doctor at once!" Snivley ordered.
"With pleasure." Bean said.
"This coming from the guy who tried to blow Sonic to bits on his birthday but was beaten when Fiona charmed him with keys?" I snapped.
"How did you know about that?" Bean demanded.
"Why should I tell you?" I snapped again.
He hit the sack but this time it hurt. I guess he got Bark to do that one. They were moving again and I remained quiet. Partly from annoyance and I was curious.
"What does egg belly want with me, anyway?" I asked.
"The good doctor wants some answers from you." Fang said.
"I'm not on any drugs you know." I said to annoy him.
"Oh, funny."
"You know Nack, once I'm out of here, you're gonna pay. Oh! Surprised that I know you're real name?" I said.
"Trust me, pulling my tail in between my legs was painful enough." He said. "And another thing, shut the heck up!"
"So that's what I grabbed." I said, laying back.
"Yes, and I must say, you have quite a strong grip…for a girl." He said. "But are you going to shut up any time soon?"
"Taking that as a complement and no." I said.
The sack was suddenly dumped upside down and I was sent rolling out.
"Ouch." I whispered as I rubbed the spot I had landed on my head.
"We have brought the girl, as you requested." I heard Nack say because I had my eyes closed while I rubbed my sore spot.
"Very good, dismissed." A familiar voice said.
"But sir-"
"DIMISSED!" The voice snapped, cutting Snively off.
I could hear a bunch of scrambling feet trying to get away.
'Cowards.' I thought.
A moment of silence formed between me, and my captor.
"Welcome to Robotropolise."
The HUGE chair in the center of the room slowly turned and revealed the doctor!
"Eggman." I whispered.
He smirked at me it was so sickening. For a second, I thought that I was going to be sent to the robotizer. But almost as soon as I thought this, his look changed from a smirk to extreme anger.
"SNIVELY!"
"WHOA!" I cried. His roar was so loud that it had shaken the whole base. I hadn't seen anything like that since he saw the picture of Sonic when he came back from outer space after a year and everyone thought he was dead. The small overlander came right back in at once.
"You called?" He asked.
"YOU DIDN'T BRING ME THE GIRL I ASKED FOR!" Eggman yelled.
"B-but I had it set on the right house and I used a DNA tracker."
"THEN WHY IS THERE A HEDGEHOG WHERE THE GIRL SHOULD BE?!" Eggman pointed at me while yelling.
I raised my eyebrow at 'hedgehog'. Snively looked at me and gasped.
"Oh, I feared this would happen." He said.
"What are you TALKING ABOUT?" Eggman roared again.
"Well, it was the first time I used it on something that was alive so I didn't know what would happen. I feared that she might transform into something else and it appears it happened. She seems to have transformed into a hedgehog." He said.
I looked at both of them like they were crazy. I just looked over my shoulder and down my back just to be safe. Sure enough, a short blue tail was sticking out! I looked at my hands. White gloves covered them. I felt the back of my head, there were three short yet sharp spines implanted to my head.
"Whoa." I said in a voice so quiet that I even almost missed it.
"It appears that she is now also realizing that she's now a hedgehog." Needle Nose said.
"Very good, dismissed." Eggman said and his short little nephew ran out of the room. "Now, my dear, I have a few questions for you."
"I'm afraid you're gonna need hedge clippers to get rid of those whiskers." I said, pointing to his trademark mustache.
Eggman growled and then picked up my backpack, one of those goons must have grabbed it while I was in the sack. Eggman reached in and pulled something out. My Sonic plushie!
"You have no right to touch that!" I quickly snapped but he seemed to ignore my warning.
"Could you tell me, who this is?" He asked.
Had I heard him right? He wanted to know who THAT was! I smirked boy was this going to make him mad!
"Who is THAT? You wanna know who that is huh? What you see is what you get! Just a guy that loves adventure! He's the coolest, nicest, bluest, and FASTEST thing alive! He's my idol and number one hero! THAT Ro'BUTTt'nik is the one and only SONIC THE HEDGEHOG!" I said loud and proud.
"SILENCE!"
The base was beginning to shake again. Eggman swung his arm and held me nearly five feet above the ground.
"You will show me the proper respect that I deserve." He hissed.
"Oh, but I AM!" I said.
I knew I was probably digging my own grave but I didn't want to let him get to me. Eggman just growled at me and it sent a shiver up my spine but I wouldn't let it show. After a minute, he dropped me and I landed on my feet, must have caught him by surprise because he looked back at me.
"SHADOW! Take our 'guest' to her 'room'. She needs to be rested for tomorrow's 'games'." He growled.
A door opened and in walked the black and red hedgehog I knew all too well.
"Shadow." I whispered so quietly that even my sharp ears nearly missed it.
The ebony hedgehog stopped a few feet away from me. He then looked at me with those blood stained ruby red eyes. He gave me a death glare. Snively and Eggman didn't scare me nearly as much as, that look in his eyes. It was an, 'I'll kill you' look. Shadow's look made me get up. He turned and started leading me away from the chamber. As we walked, I saw something out of the corner of my eye. When I turned to get a better look, it was gone. I didn't know why I was following him, maybe it was that look in his eyes, his dark past, my pity for him, whatever it was, I didn't know. What I did know was as much about his past as he should have.
"Why are you working for him?" I asked quietly.
He remained quiet.
"The doctor is more trouble then he's worth, you've got better things to do instead of helping him out." I said. If I could get him on my side, I might have been able to get out alive AND in one piece.
Shadow just remained quiet and I sighed quietly. I finally realized it was pointless Shadow wasn't talking. I looked back to where I had spotted the object.
'This should be interesting." I whispered.
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Sonic the Hedgehog looked at the footage again, he was just as confused as those around him. None of them had ever seen this young hedgehog before yet she seemed to know about him.
"Are you sure you've never met her before?" Sally asked.
"As sure as I possibly can be." Sonic said.
Sir Charles and Rotor had found the footage while spying on Eggman. They hacked into the files and all they found out about the girl was that she was from a place called 'Earth' and a machine called a Dimensional Displacer had to do with her being there.
"Nicole, look up any place called 'Earth'." Sally told her hand held computer.
"Searching…" Nicole replied. "No such place found."
"But that's impossible!" Sally said. "It says Place of origin: Earth."
"I've already looked it up, nothing came up." Sir Charles said.
"Then what is Earth?" Rotor asked.
"Maybe it's a secret place that our computers don't know about." Tails said.
"Maybe." Sally said.
"Or it could be like Angel Island and be a floating island somewhere that's hidden in the clouds." Knuckles shrugged.
"Possibly." Jullie-Su said.
"Or it could be a flying hideout!" Charmy said.
"That's a little scary." Saffron said.
"Or maybe it's an underground base." Bunnie suggested.
"Zat would be interesting." Antione said.
"What do you think we should do Aunt Sally?" Tails asked.
"I'm not sure, Tails." She said.
Sonic pressed rewind on the VCR and watched everything unfold once again.
"I'm afraid you're gonna need to use hedge clippers to get rid of those whiskers." She said, pointing to the fat man, making Sonic smirk. "He's my idol and number one hero! THAT RO'BUTT'NIK is SONIC THE HEDGEHOG!"
"What should we do?" Bunnie asked.
"I say we go for it."
The others turned to Sonic in surprise.
"She may be in danger." He continued.
"But Sonic, it may be a trap." Sally pointed out.
"Yeah, but you saw how she was, I think that she may really be in danger." He said.
Sally looked at him in sadness. Ever since they're had broken up some time ago, she had been having mixed feelings about their friendship. Maybe Sonic was right and this girl really WAS in danger but she sure didn't act like she was or even scared. Sally pondered these thoughts for a moment.
"I guess we'll find out if it's a trap or not soon enough." She said, looking Sonic right in the eyes.