Chapter Two:
James' POV
I woke-up later that afternoon and stepped outside. The sky was now a light blue and few clouds covered the sky. I looked out at the city, somewhat glad I didnt live out there and lived out in the country. I stopped short, when I noticed a small rumbling coming from the east and there was sudden large burst of fire from the other side of the city. I squinted and saw a few bodies fly, bursting into flame, arms and legs falling all over. I cleared my throat and saw a couple of buildings fall on top of one another like dominos. I hadn't played with dominos for awhile. Last time I made a path that covered the doctor's desk.
Doctor Eggman was the one I had grown up with. He raised me for as long as I could remember. The doctor told me he had found me knocked out in an old war zone. I never knew how I got there and neither did he, so we just let it go. He decided to call me James, named after the general who had won that battle. I forgot the details, but it had been a fight over who got the land. Eggman had taught me how to fight, and how to use machines. The two of us had gotten separated when some hedgehog named Sonic had destroyed the doctor's base and the doctor had been captured by GUN. I've been trying to find and save him for the past three months now.
A second explosion soon brought me back down to earth and I watched as more people explode into the air and more buildings collapsed. It once again reminded me of dominos. I wonder what ever happened to my domino set. I scratched my head and looked back into the house. I looked at the pile of rubble and thought to myself for a moment or two. I walked over and took down a piece of rubble and started working.
Jenn's POV
I parked into the driveway, almost running into the garage because of the sound of an explosion. I got out and hurried into the house with my groceries, setting them down on the table. I would have gotten home earlier, but I decided to look for that black hedgehog. I searched all over, but with no luck. I unpacked my groceries and heard another explosion, causing me to jump. I glanced out the window, just in time to see a blue blur rush by my window and zoom off down the street.
I made my way outside again, just in time to see another yellow blur zoom by. What's with all these people in such a hurry? I thought to myself. I shrugged and made my way to my house, hearing a loud noise coming from behind me. I turned just in time to see a large creature coming at me. I didn't have enough time to see what it was, because I was hurled backwards, hitting my head on the pavement with enough force to kill someone. Luckily for me, I was strong enough to survive it, but not strong enough to fall into unconsciousness.
James' POV
It was bothersome to be knocked out in the middle of my little shack. With no door, I didn't here the weird creature come in and sneak up behind me. When I had awoken what seemed like a few hours later, I was in a small and dark cell. I looked around and saw spider webs on the walls, a small bench and the floor was semi-flooded. I got up and scanned the room, catching a glitch of someone lying in a cell across from mine. I examined them and realized it was a girl. I think she was a bat, a mammal similar to me. She was lying on her back, covered under a sheet. The piece of material was barely enough to cover her, so I saw her black pants and weird heart shaped top that left her back exposed. Her wings lay open on the floor. I looked around; all the other cells were empty.
I sniffed the air and smelled something weird in the air. It was some sort of drug. I picked up a small rock and threw it at the other cell. I managed to throw it far enough to reach the bat girl's cell, but far enough to not hit her. Her large ears flicked and I watched her get up. She held her head as she got up and groaned in pain. I waved over and she looked around.
"Where am I?" she asked bluntly. I shrugged.
"My guess is as good as yours" I told her. She looked around then looked over at me.
"Who are you?" she asked, squinting her eyes, straightening out her outfit.
"I'm James" I told her "What's your name?"
"I'm Rouge the bat" she explained. She looked around her room for a moment and then bit her lip, looking over at me "Turn around for a sec" she told me. I turned around and looked out the window. I heard cloth hit the ground, then a small rattling. I heard her cell door swing open and then a rustling of clothes "Alright you can look now." I turned back around and saw her fixing the back of her suit. I tilted my head, watching as she walked out of her cell and look over at me "You need help getting out?" she asked. I thought for a moment. I looked at the lock. It was old and rusty. I grabbed it and easily pulled it off the door and pushed the door open.
"Nope, thanks for asking though" I said with a smirk. She giggled and looked around. I looked around as well, the place was full of spider webs and I noticed that the floor was flooded up to our ankles. We both looked turned to look at the door as we heard massive foot steps approaching.
Jenn's POV
I woke up to the sound of feet rustling and an opening and closing of a door. I slowly opened my eyes to see a shadowed figure standing over me. I jumped slightly and stared up at them, wondering where I was.
"Your awake, that's good. You must have had a nasty blow to the head to be out for that long" the figure said. I blinked and sat up, rubbing my sore head.
"Ok, where am I, and who are you?" I questioned them. I heard them chuckled and saw them shake their head.
"You are at your house, but as for my name, I cannot tell you. All I can tell you is you know me and I'm a male" e answered, touching my forehead. I winced, my head still aching from when I hit the pavement.
"So, what was that thing that ran me over exactly?"
"That was a blue creature called a Lusterror. They are called this because of their lust for bringing terror to the hearts of the innocent. I must leave you now, but heed this warning, stay in your house and stay covered; they're coming back for you." With that, he left the room, vanishing out of sight.
I shrugged and got out of bed, moving towards the window and peered outside. All was calm, but it seemed too calm. There was a sudden rumbling and a large creature came into view, a pink hedgehog in his clutches, followed by a orange fox, a red thing and a blue hedgehog that looks oddly like the blue blur that just ran by many hours or days ago. I moved to go downstairs, but decided against it, the cloaked figure advised me not to, but why?
I sat back down on my bed, looking at my arm in a sling and bruises all over my arms. What the hell happened? I thought to myself. I shook my head, I laid back down, catching glimpse of a little rabbit peering in the doorway. I blinked, titling my head to the side, "Hi there. Are you here to see me?" She nodded shyly, opening the door slightly and walking in, "My name is Cream and I was told to make sure you didn't leave the house" she smiled sweetly, sitting down on the bed. I also noticed a weird blue floating thing above her head, but decided not to question it. I raised an eyebrow at her
"Ok. One, what makes you think a little rabbit like you can stop me from leaving my house. Two, what is that thing over your head?"
"To answer your question, one this is Cheese, he's a Chao. Number two, I've got a gun, so don't even think of leaving." She pulled off the mask she was wearing, revealing the black and red hedgehog, "The names Shadow by the way. I've been sent by GUN to protect you."
"Ok, then why are you wearing a dress and why are you threatening to shoot me if you're supposed to be protecting me?" I questioned, a grin spread across my face, holding in a laugh. His eye twitched, as he pulled out his gun.
"Its part of the costume. If you say one more thing about it, I'll shoot you, got it?" he aimed the gun at me. I looked at him nervously and gulped, moving in the other direction away from him I gasped as I fell backwards off the bed.
"Ow..." I muttered softly, rubbing my sore arm. Shadow looked over at me, a brow raised.
"Either you're a klutz, or your very accident prone…" he took my free hand and pulled me back onto the bed. "Now stay here and I'll be right back" he got told me, getting up off the bed and left the room, leaving the door open behind him.
James' POV
Rouge and I managed to get back into our cells and convinced the weird looking blue creatures we hadn't been out of our cells and were still asleep. After a bit they had attempted to wake us up, so we quit pretending to rest. The creatures were massive and muscular. One of them opened Rouge's cell and made her enter the cell I was in, shutting the door behind us. He looked down at us and started talking in some weird language. I looked at Rouge and she shrugged. We looked at it and it finally shook its head and cleared his throat.
"Sorry, I forgot you speak a different language. I am one of the Lusterror rebels and I have come to save you're people from extinction." I tilted my head "I know it may seem odd that we leave you such odd areas, but is the only room on our ship that looks 'normal' to you earthlings." I shrugged and nodded, understanding that their technology may shock us if we woke up beside some weird looking creature.
"Well how do you expect to save us all if you only rescued just the two of us?" Rouge asked puzzled. The alien raised a brow.
"Why do you think we got a male and female from the planet?" he asked bluntly. I blinked a few times and then realized what he expected us to do. My face turned slightly red and I lowered my eye lids glaring at him slightly. I looked at Rouge and saw her hold her breathe and could almost see the steam rolling off her face and then she seemed to think of something. Rouge walked over closer to me and held me close.
"Well, if you would leave us to get to it then?" she said seductively. The creature nodded then left. Once we were sure he was gone, Rouge let go and looked around. We only had so long before they would probably check on us so we needed to escape, or else I'd be forced to do the unthinkable with someone I just met. We looked around and eventually Rouge found a vent and we crawled into it. Rouge insisted I go first, I understood why; it was no mystery she didn't fully trust me, seeing as she'd have no way to stop me from getting at her from behind. I didn't care about going ahead, if she tried to hit at me, I could use Chaos Control and crawl ahead.
We traveled through the vents and soon found a grate that let us see the room below. Once we were sure it was empty we opened it and hopped down. Rouge and I looked around and she went over to what looked like a computer. She examined it and then quickly started hitting keys and weird screens popped up. I decided to look around while Rouge played with her toy.
The room was large and everything seemed to be coated in silver. I stretched and soon Rouge walked past me to a small device and a small paper popped out. She took it and looked it over. I peeked over her shoulder and saw it was a map of the ship. She found a button and pressed it and a window opened, what we saw shocked us both. The stars were beautiful, but watching Earth shrink in the distance was rather disturbing.
Jenn's POV
I resisted the urge to break out of my own house and boot it out of there. I instead decided to go into my drawing room and search for a way to get out of there. I quickly bolted to my room when I heard frantic footsteps coming my way. I pretended I was sleeping, but obviously he didn't buy it,
"Why were you trying to escape? Don't you know that there are huge killer blue things out there. I mean I'm here trying to protect you and you're trying to escape so that you can get killed by those things. You should be grateful I'm wasting my time on you. I don't even know why GUN sent me to protect you…" he groaned, closing the door and locking it, "Now stay here or I'll kill you. And don't try to break out that open window that I'm too lazy to close…" he sat down on a chair near the door and leaned his head back. I slowly got out of bed and moved towards him, getting right in his face.
"You know, you're kind of cute for a prick" I smirked, staring at him. Shadow opened one eye and glared at me.
"Sit back down" he said in an annoyed tone. I looked around, and then sat down on the floor, staring off in space.
"So…how are you…? Nice weather we're having, eh?" He looked down at me.
"I'd be fine if you would go sit down for a while and do what I ask for once…" he said sighing. I frowned, getting up and sitting on my bed.
"You know, your mean you know that? Really mean…"
"Ok, I get the point I'm mean. Deal with it." Shadow got up and sat down on the bed beside me, "Now have a nap and don't try any funny business" he grumbled.
A few hours later, or so it seemed, I woke up to see Shadow right over me. I jumped and almost fell off my bed, luckily he caught me before I did, "You know, I wasn't really going to kill you. You don't have to be so jumpy" he muttered. I turned my head toward the window when I heard a voice coming from outside.
"Hey Shadow. You need any help in there? You look like you have your hands full" the voice chuckled.
"You'd be more problems then assistance hedgehog. Now go off and go bug Tails or something" he snarled.
"Heh, heh. I thought you'd say something like that. Well if you need anything just let me know. Nice girlfriend by the way." With that he dashed off. I blinked rapidly and turned to Shadow, his face matching his streaks.
"Hey Shadow, who's that?" His eye twitched, with a vein throbbing on his forehead, "That's mother natures biggest mistake. Sonic the no good son of a hedgehog" he steamed, as he sat back down on the bed. I leaned over toward him and pat his hand comfortingly.
"It's ok Shadow…" I took his hand and held it, "It will be ok…"