Welcome to Chapter Five of Eleven Kids, One Cat! I discovered that I have time on my hands, being the weekend and all, and since all my homework is done, I can now use this time to my discretion.

Thanks to all who reviewed my last chapter.

This will be a fight in this chapter. Put on some Linkin Park to get in the mood for that part. New Divide or Numb work best. Either that or Mortal Kombat.

For the romance part (It's very brief, StarVix!), play Fix You by Coldplay

IMPORTANT: In chapter six I will have a gathering of OC's. Anyone who wants one of their OC's in the story, please say so in the review. I have space for maybe 5, so please tell me!

Disclaimer: See Chapter 4

I flew above the Station Square Summer Carnival. Normally, this was a place where people fought to get into. A place where kids could be kids, or, in other words, get hyped up on sugar and go crazy. Now, however, most of the carnival was a smoking wreck. People had screamed and shoved to escape. Station Square Police closed off the entire carnival ground. That carnage was the result of what Charmy called the "Scary Clown".

Scary Clown just happens to be a robot called Metal Sonic.

I really don't like Metal Sonic.

I landed in a space between two booths. Looking around, I knew Metal Sonic had been here. There were multiple craters in the earth, the remains of what used to be carnival booths, and lots of disemboweled stuffed animals. Nearly everything was on fire, for that matter. It looked like the crowd had caused some damage as well. Any booths that weren't blown out of existence had been toppled over and been trampled.

I suddenly heard a very light sobbing. I instinctively turned and dropped into a fighting position. The sound was coming from one of the very few lightly damaged tents. I slowly inched towards the door flap, caution in my every move. Before I stuck my head around the flap, I charged up a little ball of static electricity, perfect for overloading systems. Metal Sonic had occasionally played the sounds of someone in distress to lure us heroes out into the open.

Ever so slowly, I put my head through the flap.

The sight that greeted me was shocking.

A young sky-blue hedgehog was lying with her back turned to me. She looked like she was my age, about 15 or so. I knew she was hurt, because her right leg was caught beneath one of the fallen tent support poles. She was sobbing lightly to herself, crying into her red shirt. It nearly broke my heart to see something like that.

As a first impression, I managed to fall flat on my face coming into the tent.

Pulling my muzzle out of the ground, I looked up to see the hedgehog staring at me with terror in her beautiful brown eyes. She tried to pull herself away from me, but she cried out in pain because of her leg. After I managed to get to my feet again, she stared at me with those gorgeous brown eyes. My legs immediately felt weak and I nearly fell straight back down.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a gust of wind picked me up and threw me into the side of the tent.

Picking myself back up, I looked at her in mild annoyance. She returned the look defiantly.

I was then thrown by the wind into the side of the tent again.

"Okay, please stop throwing me into the wall. It gets annoying after a while!" I complained as I got up again.

"Go away." she replied angrily "You and your robotic friends won't take me to Eggman."

"Uh, Update Alert! Not with Eggman and here to destroy his stupid robots, for that matter!" I returned "And how do you know Eggman anyways?"

"I don't trust you."

"You probably shouldn't' for that matter. Metal Sonic could be-"

"Right behind you." a cold, metallic voice that sure sounded a heck of a lot like Metal Sonic chortled.

I was then run over and into the ground by a spin dash attack.

Picking my face out of the dirt, spitting out rocks and grass once again, I glared at the robot.

"I am really tired of being used as a plough, thank you very much!" I yelled, seriously ticked off.

He began laughed metallically.

He was still in that ridiculous clown suit. However, he had lost the nose and the wig, so now he just looked like an evil robot with a ridiculous suit. I decided to use this to my advantage.

"Nice suit. So you've gone from being Eggman's maid to being his jester. What's next, his page?" I laughed provocatively.

He stopped laughing and snapped "Your one to talk. Getting beaten up by a hedgehog with a broken leg. How pathetic."

Now we began to exchange taunts

"Metal maniac!" was mine

"Arrogant fool!" he replied

"Robo-slave!"

"Walking Magnet!"

After the last taunt, he launched himself at me. I Light-warped out of the way and watched as he crashed into a pile of broken timber. He scrambled his way out and looked like he was going to attack me again, when suddenly his eyes flared in triumph, staring at something behind me.

I turned to see what it was and ended up staring down the end of an ion cannon.

The wrong end, for that matter.

"Put your hands behind your head and get down on your knees." the quiet voice of Shadow Android told me.

I complied. I saw that Blaze and Silver had been captured as well. Neither would meet my gaze, and Blaze looked pretty angry. However, behind the two of them was Metal Knuckles, pointing an ion cannon to the back of their heads.

Metal Sonic walked over and triumphantly took of my Static ring. I knew that the moment that the ring came off, I couldn't go to my Turbo or Over forms. Seeing as all three Metals were here, I would need one of those forms to fight. In other words, I really needed to get that ring back, and soon.

Metal Sonic was inspecting my ring. He seemed pretty interested in the writing on the sides. I wasn't sure why until he grabbed me by my chest fur and yanked me up to look into his eyes with and indignant "Hey!" from me. I stared into those empty LED screens and tried to send all the disgust and hatred as I could into that glare.

He then turned my head towards the ring in his other hand.

"Now I want you to read me what that inscription says," he demanded forcefully.

I glared at him "What makes you think that I'm going to do that?"

Shadow Android prodded the back of my skull with his ion cannon.

"Oh yeah, that reason." I said quietly. Sighing, I turned to the ring. I knew the entire inscription by heart, and it was not a good idea to recite that.

"He who wears this ring will be granted the power of light and thunder and shall be a bringer of justice to all who commit wrongdoings. But to achieve this, he must be of pure of heart." I said, trying to sound as convincing as possible, although I knew it was fully false.

Metal Sonic chuckled. He looked at me with those blood red eyes and triumphantly said, "Well, it looks like the wielder of light has been brought to his knees. And now for the more important question: Where are the toddlers?"

With those words he leaned straight into my face. I think he tried to psyche me out, but I didn't falter.

"Go jump in a car compact." I spat at him.

He smirked "Very bad thing to say. Now, I believe we have a few toddlers to round up. Shadow Android, give him an anesthetic."

Just as Shadow Android was about to knock me out, a gust of wind blew him and Metal Knuckles away. The same gust also blew the ring out of Metal Sonic's hand and onto the dirt in front of me. I quickly put it on and felt the power coursing through me as I stood up. Within seconds, I was in Turbo form.

Blaze and Silver also got up. Blaze looked really mad, staring at Metal Knuckles like he was going to melt into a puddle right then and there. Silver was giving Shadow Android a dirty look, while picking up a few large boxes with his telekinesis.

I took Metal Sonic, feeling the electric dagger form in my hand. Now it was my turn to smirk "Any last words, jester?"

His response was to come at me full speed.

I sidestepped in a flash of light and swung my dagger backhand. The cut took his jet boosters and his legs out in a fraction of a blink of an eye. He collapsed, unable to stand. I walked up to his head and crouched down. He glared at me for a second, and then attempted to punch me. I caught the punch easily, breaking his fist into tiny pieces.

I pointed a light charge at his head "Score two to the heroes."

A blinding flash of light, and then his head slumped back, short-circuiting.

I turned to my partners, ready for a fight, but no assistance was needed. Shadow Android was crushed beneath a pile of large boxes. Metal Knuckles was burnt all over and broken in quite a few places. After finishing their respective jobs, Blaze and Silver turned towards me. I looked up and closed my eyes as I came out of my Turbo form. Soon I was just plain old Charge.

"You guys okay?" I inquired.

Both nodded. Silver had a small cut on his calf, but it wasn't serious. Blaze just looked happy that she got to smash Metal Knuckles. Frankly, I couldn't blame her.

"What do we do now?" Silver asked.

"Priority number one is we check that all the kids are okay." I replied "Then we get them home A.S.A.P."

"Then let's go!" exclaimed Blaze.

As I was about to go, I remembered the hedgehog.

"Uh, you guys go ahead. I gotta check one thing first." I said nervously.

Blaze and Silver both looked at me strangely before shrugging and taking off.

I walked back over to where the sky-blue hedgehog was. She was now unconscious, her beautiful brown eyes closed, exhausted from crying so much. I walked over to the tent support pole and used my electrokinesis to pick it up and move it. I then knelt down and picked up the sleeping hedgehog, checking her leg to see if it was broken, which it wasn't. I walked out into the open, and warped the two of us to the outside of the carnival grounds. Standing there, I looked down at her face one more time before setting her down on the ground.

Backing away, I wondered if I'd ever see her brown eyes again. As if on cue from the big man upstairs, her eyes opened to look at me. They were the same as before, except the terror was now gone and replaced by confusion.

"Oh." she said "It's you."

She then looked around in amazement. "Where am I?"

"Just outside the fairgrounds." I said

She looked at me and asked a very difficult question:

"Why did you bring me here and not leave me back in the tent?"

I struggled with the question for a few seconds before replying:

"Because you saved my life."

She narrowed her eyes and nodded slowly. She then started to get up. I rushed forward to help her, but she waved me off.

"I'm fine, I'm fine, just go away and leave me alone." she snapped, finally getting to her feet.

I turned away, stung. I walked away for a little bit before turning back to look at her. She was watching me with wide eyes. I turned back around and prepared to take off.

Before I got ten meters above the ground, she yelled: "My name's Cloud by the way!"

I turned back to her, confused: "Why tell me that?"

She smirked "Maybe I trust you a little more now that I'm out of there. Now, it isn't polite to not tell me your name."

I grinned. I really liked this girl.

"Charge is my name, since you asked." I said, "Will I see you around?"

"That's for me to know and for you to find out!" she shot back

I laughed and flew off into the night.

Several hours later:

I quickly ran through my day in my head as I got into bed.

So far I had kept the kids happy for the whole day, solved the Mystery of Missing Cheeseburger, met a nice girl, given Metal Sonic a sound beating and got everyone back home in one piece.

I was really looking forward to tonight's sleep. I slipped into the covers and closed my eyes. Just as I was about to finally get to sleep, a shriek interrupted my rest:

"MONSTER!!!" came the scream from Baby Vector.

I sighed. Looks like sleep will have to wait for a while.

And remember kids, post OC's for inclusion and always floss your teeth!

~Charge the Cat~