Chapter 2: Exploration
Author note: The first and second chapters both begin with the letter 'e'! Is it a... SIGN?! No... it isn't because I say so! Enjoy the second chapter of... Adaptability!
Zero woke up with a start, then noticed the sunshine flooding the entrance of the alley, stretching, he walked into the sun.
"It's so warm!" He quietly exclaimed, some people looked at him strangely and one said, "Then don't wear a sweater idiot!" But he didn't hear them, as he was busy looking at the city closely, "This is wonderful!" He whispered. "Yeah well it won't be wonderful for long." Said a feminine voice, Zero whipped around, a light purple hedgehog was behind him, she had light green eyes, blue hair, one lock medium blue, her braid was medium blue as well, and then her other five locks of hair were blue-black, two of them shorter and sticking up slightly, then she had a female version of the kind of glasses Zero had, goggle-glasses, you could say, with red lenses, then she had frosty looking blue lips, - lipstick, Zero realized - a dark magenta purple halter top, a black dress under that that went to her knees, a black vest, black gloves with red belt like things near the ends which almost reached her shoulders, and on the wrists, they were fingerless, and her black knee-high boots had the same belt-like red material for three straps, which seemed slightly out of place on slip on boots, but funky.
"Who are you?" Asked Zero. The girl smirked, "I'm Spazzy." "Spazzy?" "Who are you?" "Zero." "Oh." She noticed the tattoo on his neck, "What's that say?" "Oh this?" Asked Zero rubbing it.
"Pjct: 001." Spazzy's eyes widened, "Whoa... you mean to tell me that you escaped from... Loriels?" "Loriels?" "Loriels, they're a big research facility, second biggest." "What's the first biggest?" "Wouldn't you know? Wouldn't they have mentioned it?" She asked, slightly skeptical. "If they did I don't remember." He said, she sighed, "The ARK is the biggest, Space Colony ARK, but it was abandoned for fifty years, leaving Loriels as the biggest, but then Shadow the Hedgehog came along and he now has the ARK, which is a research facility now for diseases now, strangely enough." "Why is it strange?" Asked Zero, they were now walking along the street, "Well you see, Shadow is supposed to be immune to all illnesses, and to cap that, he's immortal." "Immortal?" "I know, crazy isn't it? I bet the media will be in a real tiz once that guy dies, they'll be wondering how it happened, they'll probably come to the conclusion he's killed himself, fed up with all that Ultimate life form crap." She said, snorting.
"Ultimate life form, that's something I heard about!" Spazzy glanced at him out of the corner of her eye as she crossed the street, "Oh? And what did you hear?" But before Zero could say a black hedgehog with spikes that turned down and reached his shoulders, like Spazzy's, (think of Amy's spikes, that's the kind they have) frosty blue hair, a braid, and the hair on his head was divided into eight locks, a small one at the back stuck up a little, his eyes were dark forest green, like Zero's, he had white chest fur, you could tell the white fur formed a peanut-like shape going from his chest to torso, he had goggle-glasses with light blue lenses, dark grey gloves, a brightish blue muscle shirt, a black halter top vest, black pants, and shoes like Shadow's, (the black heroes shoes had been made into a brand with Shadow's permission, and GUN bought it for it's agents, so it was usually a hard brand of shoes to get).
The black hedgehog stuck out a hand to Zero, "Hey, I'm Drummer, Drummer the Hedgehog. I see you have met my little sister." He said, smiling at Spazzy, "You're siblings?" Asked Zero curiously. "Yes. Drummer is the older brother, I'm the older sister, younger than him so he's the oldest, and I have another sister. Her name is Gloria."
As if called, a light brown hedgehog (with the same style spikes as her siblings) appeared, she had purple eyes, medium brown hair, five locks, three on the right side, two on the left, and the rest of her hair fell to her lower back, and was wavy, then her clothes, she had a light blue sleeveless shirt, a purple vest, a grey belt with two pouches, brown shorts, tan knee-high boots, white elbow-length gloves with purple cuffs, and a tiny microphone concealed in the band of silver she wore around her index finger, on the left hand.
"Hello Spazzy, Drummer, who's your friend?" "I'm Zero." "Zero? I'm Gloria, how about we get some lunch? W need to." Spazzy then whispered confidentially to Zero as he noticed that Gloria also wore bright red lipstick, "She's the youngest, but she looks and sounds like the oldest." Then Spazzy spoke normally, "Hey Gloria, were are we going to eat lunch?" Gloria smiled, her red lips looking perfect against her tan muzzle. "We are going to eat at Rafiela's." "Rafiela's? That means pizza! Great!" Said Drummer enthusiastically.
Gloria looked at her menu, "I think we'll have the pepperoni and cheese, to remain traditional, but also the hawaiian, and one mushroom and bacon please." She said to the waitress, "Make it two of the pepperoni and hawaiian." Said Drummer.
The waitress nodded and walked off. Then Gloria took a little chip like thing out of her pocket and pressed a miniscule button on it, then she placed it on the table, directly beside her glass.
Zero looked at it questioningly, "That's so people can't eavesdrop on us with technology." Said Gloria, by way of explanation. "So, Spazzy says you escaped from Loriels?" She asked. Zero nodded.
"I'm sorry if it brings unpleasant memories but what was it like?" Zero shuddered. "Well, how about I explain that in the evening?" He said, anxious to put it off as long as possible. Gloria nodded, and the pizza came.
Author note: What do you think? PLEASE REVIEW AND TELL ME! Or e-mail me, or something... I hope I didn't rush with adding three new characters all at once, I assure you I will bring in the normal Sonic characters as soon as possible.