Chapter 2: Caught in the Act
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It's been half a week since the whole stealing act. 'So far so good,' as Sammy would say. They were sitting there in the living room at about 4:00pm.
"I'm hungry!" Sammy whined. He looked at the calendar, "October 9th… hm?" Sammy saw it was Sonic Day.
"What?" Zero asked.
"It's for Sonic, but that means food! And fireworks!" Sammy exclaimed.
"Fireworks?" Zero asked.
"What… Zero, please tell me you know what that is?" Sammy pleaded. He slowly shook his head.
Sammy sighed, "Its fire I guess… and it creates pretty lights too!"
Now it started to seem interesting to Zero now, "When are we going,"
Sammy looked at the time, "We have an hour before people start gathering, so in that limited time we have, I'm teaching you time!"
About half an hour had past… and Zero learned 1:00, 1:30, and above. Now he could tell time!
"Ok, now time to practice that flying!" they went outside and practiced for the rest of the hour.
It was 5:00... And he learn to steady his flying and twist his tails on his own.
"Now were ready!" And they left into the forest and to Station Square. They had their stones with them. They got to the entrance, and Sammy told Zero something, "There is a parade… a parade has these float things, and they will be distracted. And use your ice powers for emergencies! Got it?"
"Got it," Zero smirked.
"To the Best Thieves EVER!" the two 4 year olds shouted. And bolted into the crowd.
"Split up!" Sammy yelled through the loud crowd. Zero wanted to see the floats but he was starving, so his hunger side won. He searched around, but it was hopeless.
Zero sighed, "I can't see through these people!" But he still went on. Zero got to the streets and saw the big… floats, were they called? It was a pirate ship!
"Wow!" he breathed. He shook his head and continued searching, finally he found a snack bar. To his luck, the door was opened. He snuck in and hid in the shadows. There was only 2 people. He had to wait until the both were looking away. Which to him took forever.
'Ugh. It's like taking from 5:00 to 8:00!' he thought, 'Slow-pokes… I have an idea!' He quickly, and quietly, grabbed a rock and through it into the back, which what he was hoping, the 2 people looked behind them and went to the source of the noise.
"Yes," he whispered. Zero ran up quietly to the candy and put some of it in his sack on his belt. He grabbed more and when he had enough, he heard yelling.
"Hey! Thief!" a bear (Boy) yelled.
"Get him!" a flamingo (Girl) yelled. But sadly, to their dismay, the dog had escaped.
Zero fled right when he had enough and ran to the backpack that they set in a bush. He put all the candy in there and sped back to the parade. Everyone was breaking up, and Zero was snaking through the crowd.
"Sammy!" he called, "Sammy, where are you?" He looked for any white (not black because it's dark out). Then he saw the flamingo and bear again, with this weird looking hedgehog and fox, with 2 tails?
"At least I'm not the only one," he said, while throwing his stone in the air and catching it.
"Run, Zero, Run!" a voice yelled. Zero, and even the 4 Mobians talking looked, and saw Sammy sprinting towards him. What was weird was his stone was glowing a yellow color. Then out of nowhere, Sammy's eyes turned yellow and he seemed to dash forward. But, sadly, he tripped.
"Oof!" he got up quickly but the 2 cops that were chasing him, grabbed him by the scruff of the neck.
"You're not going anywhere!" the cop, who was a badger, looked over to where Zero was, but the young pup blasted a few snowballs in his face, which he let go holding his face, crying, "My eyes! My eyes! Where did he get snow from?!"
Sammy tripped the other cop, it was an iguana, with his light power (He used a whip).
"Nice shot!" Sammy called when he caught up to him, and they high-fived, completely oblivious to the fact 4 Mobians walking up to them. But Zero saw them.
"Run!" and they bolted off.
"Do you know who the weird hedgehog is? He's blue!" Zero said in disbelief.
"Blue?!" Sammy shouted, "That's Sonic!" Zero looked down and saw his stone glowing and got scared.
"Sammy!" he whimpered. Sammy looked and saw Zero's eyes had turn completely light (and bright) blue!
Then ice showed up out of nowhere and he went up and up, but not up and up and up, because there was a lamppost. His gut slammed into it.
"Ugh. Ow," he whined. He quickly climbed and hung on, "Keep running!"
"Um… hate to break it to ya," Sammy said, "But I kind of got caught." He looked and saw that this 'Sonic' had caught his friend! He pictured what had happened to him with the bullies… Then the anger came out, which is rarely.
"Nobody hurts my friend!" he yelled and his eyes went blue and his stone glowed. He summoned an ice spear and shot it at him.
"Woah!" 'Sonic' yelped, "Calm down!" Handing Sammy to the police officers.
"Hey… no hard feelings?" Sammy said to the angry police officers.
"No! Let go of Sammy!" Zero shouted, still shooting spears and snowballs. When he summoned up enough strength for a snowball, he sneezed.
"Achoo!" it was high-pitched and he fell back. Luckily he had a free hand and clung on.
"Phew!" he made an ice slide, which went above the group of Mobians. He then slid down, "WEEEE!" But it ended and landed on the street. Then something hit him… not physically, mentally.
'Snow and Ice is water so,' he looked at the sewer drain and concentrated hard. But the lid only flew off and hit the bear in the foot.
"OW!" he screamed.
"Oops. Sorry, sir!" he said, apologetically. He yelped when he felt someone grab his arm hard from behind. He looked and saw that fox.
"Hey! Let go!" Zero yelled.
"No!" the fox said. He sounded like he was 4 years old, "You have to be arrested for stealing!"
He pushed the fox over, "I wasn't stealing! I was… only surviving!"
"That's different!" The fox launched himself at the pup and tackled him.
The band on Zero's tails, that have been holding up for so long, snapped.
"Freedom!" he jumped back from the fox and shook his tails. Which when the fox saw that, he gasped.
"What? Haven't seen a two-tailed dog before?!" Zero bowled the fox over and they fought until Sonic and the cop separated the two.
"Sheesh, it seems like you had a rough life, kid," Sonic said.
"BECAUSE I HAVE!" Zero screamed. His eyes were black again (Which were black during the fight too).
"Um, Sonic?" the young fox said, tugging on his arm.
"Yeah, Tails?" He said looking down.
"Why're his eyes black?"
Zero's eyes turned back my eyes aren't black!" he growled. He sneezed again.
"Achoo! What am I sneezing for?" Zero got annoyed, "Maybe… I'm allergic to you!" He pointed at the cop and kicked him. Which didn't have an effect on him.
"Well, that was useless," Zero muttered. He got thrown into the cop car. He saw Sammy!
"Sammy!" he exclaimed.
"You survived a long time out there!" he said, smiling. He leaned in and whispered, "That's what thieves do!"
"Thieves for life?" Zero asked, putting his hand in the air for a high-five.
Sammy nodded, "Thieves for life!" They high-fived and laughed. They started rustling around.
(Before/During the reuniting: Outside)
"Those toddlers are… strange," the bear cop said, scratching the back of his head.
"Officer Anderson," the iguana came up to the bear.
"What is it, Sheriff Quinn?" the bear grumbled.
"Well," Sheriff Quinn began, "the kids are secure. But, are they part of some… witchcraft?"
"Doubt it," Officer Anderson snorted, "There aren't 'witches' here, Numskull!"
"Hey! Don't talk to your sheriff like that!" The 2 started arguing.
Tails was silent until he asked, "Did I hurt the dog?"
"No, I don't think so," Sonic said, resting a hand on the fox's shoulder.
He looked over and saw the windows were frozen with ice and there was light shining out.
"What happened to your car?" he asked.
"What the?!" they ran over and turned on the heat in their car and the ice melted and the light ceased. Then he rolled down the window with a remote (My idea!) with the keys attached.
The white dog poked his head out, "Yes?" He had an innocent smile on his face. Tails couldn't help but giggle.
"Don't freeze the windows like that!" S. Anderson growled.
The black and white cat poked his head out next, "What're you gonna do? Hit innocent toddlers?"
"Why I outta…" O. Anderson grumbled, rearing up a fist. The dog yelped and ducked, while Sammy just sat there. But S. Quinn stopped him.
"You can't do that!" S. Quinn, "It'll make you lose your job!"
He growled, "Fine." The dog peeked back up.
"I thought he really was gonna do it!" He breathed.
"Nah," the cat said, waving his hand.
Sheriff Quinn walked up to them, "Can you tell us your names?"
"Why do you wanna know?" the cat asked, cockily.
"What's the magic password?" the pup asked.
The sheriff sighed and muttered under his breath and said, "Please?"
"Nope! It was jellybeans!" the 2 toddlers said high-fiving, while laughing their tails off. They weren't the only ones laughing, Sonic and Tails were. (I do that to my brother!)
"They got you good!" Sonic laughed.
The iguana got mad and said, "Fine! How about you try?!"
"Ok," Sonic walked over and looked at them and winked, "What're your names?"
"I'm Sam!" the cat said, "But you could call me Sammy!"
The pup was sitting there thinking. Sonic waved a hand in his face, "Hello? Mobius to… dog. You there?"
He shook his head, "I'm Zero!"
Sonic looked confused, "Zero?"
"Well, I'm really Maximum, but call me Zero, ok?" he pleaded.
"Fine with me! I gave Tails the name he has now!" he boasted.
"My real name is Miles," Tails whispered.
Zero nodded.
(Back with Zero)
"We're going to take you to the hospital," the sheriff explained.
Sammy narrowed his eyes, "Why? Putting us out of our misery?!"
"No! I don't wanna die!" Zero whined.
"No, were just checking your health," Sonic assured.
"Uh-huh," Sammy said, doubtfully, "It doesn't matter, does it Zero?"
"Nope!" he shook his head, with his stone moving. That's when Sonic noticed it.
"What're those?" he pointed to their stones.
"Uh, lucky stones!" Zero blurted out. He felt a soft slap in the back of his head.
"Why'd you tell them, now it's not lucky!" he glanced at Sammy and he winked.
"Well, we're going to have to inspect them," O. Anderson reached for the rocks on their neck.
Zero held a snowball up in a throwing motion. The cop backed away, with his hands up.
"Woah, that's cool!" Sonic said.
"How'd you do that?" Tails asked, amazed.
"I don't know," he admitted.
"Well, let's go!" the sheriff said.
"Meet you there!" Sonic hoisted Tails on his shoulders and sped off.
Sammy leaned in, "Don't talk to the cops, whatever you do!"
Zero nodded and smirked. (But kids… you should talk to cops, it's rude not to!)
They got to the hospital without a peep. Even though Zero was ready to burst. They got out and the two kids yelled, "FREEDOM!" And started running home.
"Not so fast," Sonic grabbed the kids by the arms and pulled them back.
"So close!" Zero murmured.
"You guys will need to get checked," he told the toddlers.
"For what?"
"Information."
"What kind of in-for-ma-tion?" Zero stuttered.
"Date of birth, age, yadda, yadda," Sonic said.
"Ok! My name is Sam Light (Coincidence), I'm 4 years old, my birthday is October 12th, and I don't have a criminal record… yet."
"I'm Maximum or known as Zero, I'm 4, my bir-th-da-y is… August 4, and I don't have a cr-im-in-al rec-or-d!" Zero said, he lied at the birthday part.
"Can we go now?"
"No."
"UGH!" Sammy and Zero exclaimed. They walked in and saw familiar faces glaring at them.
"Uh oh," Zero whispered. They walked to the reception worker (whatever they're called).
"Hello, Sonic!" she looked down to Tails, "How're you doing little guy?"
"I'm good Trinity," Tails blushed. She looked and saw the other two toddlers, then smiled.
"More kids you picked up?" she joked.
"Well, they're homeless, Trin," Sonic said.
"I wouldn't say homeless!" Sammy objected, "We have a home, except it's abandoned."
"Sure, Sam," Sonic said, "Do you have an opening for Dr. Quack?" (The only doctor I can think of).
"One right now is opened," she said, "Would that be good?"
"Yes thanks!" Sammy blurted out, "I want this over with."
Zero turned around and saw the officers still here, "Do you have to stay?!"
"Yes, your outlaws!" the bear growled.
"Sheriff, Officer, LEAVE!" Sonic said, sternly.
"Fine," the sheriff said, "Let's go." And started walking away.
"Don't think this is over!" O. Anderson grumbled.
"Sure, doesn't matter!" Sammy called after him.
The doctor came in, "Sonic, what're you doing here?"
"For these two," Sonic said, grabbing a hold of the cat and dog.
He looked at them, "Ok, c'mon." They got to room 124. It was… very kiddish. It had airplanes, spaceships, cars, everything!
"This is… nice," Sammy said, "Oh! Spaceships!" He ran over and grabbed a toy spaceship and played with it.
'Rules in my book,' Zero thought, '#4: Don't trust the toys people give you… bombs could be in them!'
"Who's first?" the doctor asked, looking at Sammy and Zero.
Sammy pointed at Zero and Zero pointed at Sammy. The doctor chuckled.
"Well, we're going to have to do this the hard way," he said, "Sonic?"
"Sam is going first," he smiled, innocently, while Sammy glared at him.
He went up to the bed and sat down, with his arms crossed. Sonic whispered something to the doctor, and he nodded. (If you want to know what it's this: the power things they have).
The doctor used the stethoscope and listen to Sam's heart. He had a baffled look on his face. He told them, "Sammy's heart beat was light and fast, which is unusual." Sonic was writing this down, while Tails watched. Next was the hammer thing… He hit Sam's knee with it and it shot up lightning fast and knocked the utensil out of his hand. "Well, his reflexes are fast and strong," he admitted.
"Before we do the x-ray, let's do…" he paused and looked on his sheet, "Zero?" He nodded and slowly walked over to the bed and hopped up.
He started with the stethoscope. This even baffled him, "Now your heartbeat is slow!" When he did the hammer thing, his reflexes were fast but not that fast.
"Ok now for the x-ray." They walked to the x-ray room, and Sammy went first, because he thought it looked cool. It scanned him down, and then up.
Now it was Zero's turn, he was hard to stand still so he concentrated and froze his blood for a couple seconds to stand perfectly still.
The two skeletons showed up on screen. They both were bone health but they checked their muscles and the heart were different; one was completely fast, and the other was frozen. The blood flow was the same too.
"Something is wrong here…" Dr. Quack said, "Let's go to my computer." Which they did and the doctor looked it up and it showed up being: The Sun Stone and Moon Stone and two Mobians that will have special power! Which can be used for evil… don't tell the bad guys!
"One power is ice, for the Moon Stone," he began reading, "And the other is light, for the Sun Stone." Zero started clutching his stone.
Dr. Quack continued, "It can only be activated by the two Mobians and nobody else. But those two have to be careful, because the enemies seek power."
"Which isn't a surprise," Sonic murmured.
"I already had to deal with that," Sammy said, "This fat guy caught me when he saw I used this," he held up the Sun Stone, which the 3 widened their eyes at, "He wanted me to join his side or something, BUT I escaped!"
"Where'd you get that?" Tails squeaked.
"It was given to me," he said, "By my parents. And Zero uses this," He grabbed Zero's hand that clutched the stone and held it up.
"You have it too?" the doctor said astonished.
"Well, yeah," Zero said.
The doctor shook his head, "Well, let's get to the blood taking test!" (I forgot what it was called).
Zero's blood went cold… literally, "Does that involve the pointy thing?"
The doctor looked at him weirdly. Sammy said, "Needles."
"Yes," the doctor said.
Zero laughed (fakely) and said, "I'm not doing that."
"Too bad," Sonic said.
About 30 minutes later… they finished. It took Sammy only a couple minutes but it took Zero about 15.
"Never again." Was all he said afterwards. But when to playing with Sammy in a game of: Spaceships vs. Trains
The doctor came back with the results. He was looking sulky and tired. But on top of that he was amused and happy.
"Well, Tails," the fox perked up at his name, "You have a brother."
"Wh-What?" he stammered.
"Maximum 'Zero' Prower is your twin brother," he said with a smile.
Tails sat there… astonished. Then a grin from ear to ear formed, "I have a brother?"
Sonic was happy too, "Another little bro?"
"Yes, and yes!" the doctor said. He was about to continue but an shout interrupted him
"I WIN!" Zero shouted, happily.
"Um, hate to break it to ya' but you lost," he pointed to where the trains were destroyed.
"Oh." He sat back down, "Rematch!"
"There's no time," Sonic said, "Did you hear Dr. Quack?"
Zero shook his head.
"Tails is your brother," he repeated.
"That's crazy, I don't have a brother," he said, factually.
"Well not in this, Maximum 'Zero' Prower," Tails said showing him the paper. Zero just looked at him.
"I can't read."
"Oh, but I am your biological brother!" Tails exclaimed, "We can show you our friends: Knuckles, Amy, Cream, Cheese (They are little), Chaotix, everybody!"
Zero was holding his ears, "Too much noise!"
"Sorry, but let's get a move on," Tails tried moving Zero but couldn't.
Sonic saw that he was sad. He knelt down by the kid, "What's the matter?"
"What… What about Sammy?" He had the real puppy dog eyes.
"He can come!"
"Really?! Will you Sammy?" Zero pleaded.
"Why wouldn't I?" he laughed, "Your like a brother to me, so of course!"
"Bye, Dr. Quack!" they shouted.
They got to the Mystic Ruins, where Sonic and Tails lived. Sonic carried Tails on his shoulders and went sonic fast and Sammy grabbed Zero's hand and ran. Zero hung onto the papers on the way there. He wanted to learn more about him and learn how to read it.
"You're lucky we have a spare bedroom with 2 beds!" Sonic chuckled.
They walked in and again saw a train bed and a spaceship bed.
"I call the spaceship/train bed!" they called simultaneously.
"I'm going to have to keep an eye on him and Egghead," Sonic whispered to himself, "Because he'll find out about them and he hasn't found out about Tails yet and I plan to keep it that way, so I have to do the same for these two!" He smiled and walked in showing them around with Tails dragging Zero everywhere.
But to Sonic's demise, somebody was already watching, through a spybot. And he was grinning maniacally.
His reign of terror was yet to come.
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