Well, I've got anudder chappy for you! This one is a lot shorter than the last chapter, so you won't have to read for too long. I'm trying to stay 2 chapters ahead typed then the ones I've got posted, so I don't end up slacking off for a month and then randomly begin to type the story again. Strike while the iron's hot, they say, but wouldn't that hurt if you struck the iron while it's hot? Or even when it's cold, for that matter ... sorry, I rambled again.
Enjoy!
Disclaimer (since I forgot last chapter): I don't own Sonic the Hedgehog, or any related characters. They are copyright to Sega. I didn't make The Wizard of Oz. I wasn't even alive when they made it. I think MGM owns the rights to it. Could someone tell me? Oops, rambling again ... sorry ...
Chapter 4 !!!!!1!!1!!11!!!11!!! Stupid Scarecrow Sidekicks
Cream was skipping along the yellow brick road, tightly holding onto Cheese. A little too tightly. He was already purple in the face and his tongue was lolling from his mouth. Suddenly, they came to a fork in the road. One road was yellow, the other was orange. "Now, what did Black Doom say?" pondered Cream. All she really remembered about what he said was "orange brick road", so she thought she was suppose to go that way. As she set her foot on the road, though …
"Don't go that way!" a voice hollered. Cream spun around and dropped Cheese, but the only thing in sight was the corn field around her and a scarecrow standing in the field.
"Chao (Ow)!" said Cheese.
"Who said that?" she asked.
"I did!" The voice came from the corn field.
"Show yourself!" said Cream.
"Can't you see me? I'm right here!" the voice said. Cream stood there, dumbfounded.
"Chao chao, chao (It's the scarecrow, dumb ass)!" yelled Cheese. He was pointing at the scarecrow.
"You think if was the scarecrow? You're silly, Cheese!" Said Cream. She patted the chao on the head as it sat on the ground, pouting, and planning how to impale Cream on the fencepost.
"Actually, he's right," said the voice again. Cream looked at the scarecrow and noticed that it looked a lot like Sonic. "I am the scarecrow." Cream jumped when she saw it's mouth move and tried to find a place to hide. "Don't be frightened, little rabbit, I wouldn't hurt you even if I could move!" he said, trying to stop Cream from being afraid.
"You can't move?" asked Cream.
"Nope! I've been tied up here pretty much my whole life after the farmer broke my legs. I think he abandoned me. It's probably because I'm a lousy scarecrow. I can't even scare them away! It's like I attract crows or something" he said. As if on cue, a flock of crows swooped down and began pecking at him. "AAAHHH!!! The pain!!!" he screamed, then his arm fell off of him and the crows picked it up and carried it away, "No! My arm! Bring that back!" he yelled after the crows. They then flew back over his head and dropped his arm on him. He sighed and sewed the appendage back on, and then started to cry.
"Aw … don't be sad mister Scarecrow," said Cream, "We'll get you down!"
"sniff R- Really?" he asked.
"Sure! Then you can move again," Cream said happily, "We just need something that can cut you down. Cream then looked over at Cheese, who was inching towards her with his trust knife, which he then hid behind his back, but not quick enough. "Hey, Cheese! You found a knife! We'll use that to cut mister Scarecrow down!" Cream exclaimed. Cheese silently cursed Cream under his breath as he gave the knife to Cream. "Thank you, Cheese!"
"Chao (Screw you)!" said Cheese. Cream then flew up to Scarecrow and cut his legs loose, and then his arms, and accidentally cut off one of Scarecrow's arms in the process. "Ahh! Oh my god! I'm so sorry! Oh, blood is everywhere!" Cream kept on going on like this for a few minutes while Scarecrow just simply picked up his arm and started stuffing and sewing it back on.
"Um … scarecrows don't bleed …" said Scarecrow.
Cream slowly calmed down and realized this, "Oh …" Cheese promptly slapped himself in the forehead. How, how could anyone be such an idiot? "Well, are you all right?" she asked Scarecrow.
"Oh yeah, I'm fine," he said. Cream stood there staring at him as awkward silence filled the air. "Uh … could you help me up? I haven't really walked that much." Cream walked over and grabbed him by the arm. When she tugged on his arm, it ripped right off.
"Ahh! Oh my god! I'm so sorry! Oh, blood is everywhere!" screamed Cream again. She dropped Scarecrow's arm and began running all around the place screaming her head off. Scarecrow then picked up his arm again, stuffed it, and sewed it back on.
"Um … little rabbit?" Scarecrow began to say, but then Cream remembered that scarecrows don't bleed.
"Oh, right …" she said. She started to walk over to the scarecrow.
"No! Don't come over here! Don't touch me!" he said. Cream stopped walking and looked at him funny. "Uh … I can do it myself now, I don't need your help." he said quickly. He then reached for the poll he was previously tied to and tried to pull himself up, but he lacked the upper arm strength to do so. On his second attempt, both his arms were torn right from his body and remained clutching onto the poll.
Cream then screamed, "Ahh! Oh my god! I'm so sorry! Oh, blood is everywhere!"
Scarecrow just stared at her as she ran around, screaming her head off again as Cheese slapped his forehead. "… could you grab my arms for me, little chao?" Scarecrow asked Cheese. Cheese stared at the being for a few minutes. He was contemplating whether to really help the guy or just stand there and stare at him mindlessly. He had chosen the latter. Scarecrow sighed, "I'll never get out of this corn field," he mused. Then Cream suddenly stopped screaming and put a hand on her chin while thinking.
"I could just drag you along with us until you remember how to walk again," said Cream slowly. Scarecrow was slightly surprised at this revelation. Did she think he was a cripple? No way he'd be dragged around like a rag doll!
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Cream was skipping down the road again, with Cheese's throat clutched in one hand, and Scarecrow's throat in the other, "You weren't gonna be dragged around, huh? Well, look at you now! At least you don't have lungs, like the chao over there. Poor chao," Scarecrow mumbled to himself.
"Did you say something mister Scarecrow?" asked Cream.
"Um, no, nothing!" replied the scarecrow that was Sonic's double. 'Whew, that was close,' he thought to himself.
"Okay then!" said Cream. Then as she began skipping again, Scarecrow began to wonder something.
"Uh, where are you going?" he asked Cream.
"I'm off to see The Eggman so he can take these boots off of me and possibly send me back home!" she replied.
"If he can send you home, can he give me a brain?" he asked.
"Chao chao chao (I don't think you're the one who needs a brain)," muttered Cheese.
"Why do you need a brain? Don't you already have one?" asked Cream back.
"Well … I don't know. I don't have any other body parts," he replied, "Also, I need to learn how to walk again. Maybe The Eggman can help with that too!" he stated.
"We'll have to get there as fast as we can then!" proclaimed Cream, and she began to skip faster down the yellow brick road.
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Rouge … err, I mean, The Wicked Witch … was sitting on the couch in her tower room watching The Devil Wears Prada and eating popcorn. The bat was incredibly bored because Shadow hadn't come back yet from his latest assignment. "I hope they didn't get him drunk and make him make-out with other drunk clones again. I'll probably never hear from him again if that happens." Rouge said to herself. She sighed and glanced over at her crystal ball, and then noticed that it was showing the little rabbit again. Rouge quickly got up to go investigate. "Oh, so she's picked up a friend, has she?" she said to herself.
"Doesn't that guy look familiar?"
Rouge let out a short scream and turned around to find Shadow standing directly behind her. "Don't … DO THAT!" shouted Rouge.
"Do what?" asked Shadow. Rouge knew he knew what she meant, but he was just being a smart ass. She sighed and turned back to the crystal ball.
"Where were you? It usually doesn't take this long for you to do a simple task," she said.
"Well, I went to the strip club to go collect my clones, when one of them talked me into getting a drink, and …" Shadow paused and squinted his eyes as he tried to remember the rest.
"Weeeeeell?" an annoyed Rouge said.
"… the rest is kind of a blur to me …" he said, "I think I was making out with some chick,"
"Yeah, chick, you keep thinking that," mumbled Rouge. "Anyway, what were you saying?" she said.
Shadow then stepped closer to Rouge and looked over her shoulder. "I thought that that scarecrow looked familiar," he said. Rouge took a look at the doll Cream was dragging around.
"Yeah, isn't that the scarecrow that was running around here a while ago?" mentioned Rouge.
"Oh yeah!" said Shadow, "That's the one the clones enchanted with your magic. I had to catch him and break his legs so he'd stop moving. Then I put him in that corn field." he finished.
"How did he escape?" pondered Rouge.
"Um … doesn't it seem obvious?" asked Shadow. Rouge then turned her head to look at Shadow and noticed how close he was standing to her. She blushed and pushed him away slightly.
"It doesn't matter. As long as she doesn't free that annoying lumberjack we won't have to worry." she told Shadow.
"Uh, it looks like they're heading towards the forest we hid him in," Observed Shadow.
"No matter. The bunny is just a stupid twit. The chao is probably doing all the work," said Rouge.
"Weren't you suppose to be watching her?" asked Shadow.
"And aren't YOU suppose to be gathering your clones?!" Rouge retorted. She then picked up Shadow by the scruff of his neck and flung him out the door. What followed was a series of crashes and strings of curse words. Those were proceeded by the slamming of a door. Rouge then went straight back to the couch to continue watching her movie. She was not in the mood to deal with Cream right now, and hoped that the trees in the forest would deal with her, or possibly the hot-tempered lumberjack.
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So Cream has found one of the sidekicks already! Whohoo! What other strange fellows will they meet on their way to see the Eggman? Will Rouge ever get and competent sevants? More on that next chapter ;)
