My ear twitched as I heard a noise. My eyes shot open as a pod door open. Where was I, and…what had happened to me? I scanned the room from left, to right, and then I shot a glance straight ahead. There was a blue hedgehog staring back at me, as if he was waiting for something. The room that he stood in was a round metal room, and it looked like the pod I stood in was the centerpiece of it all.
I suddenly heard a noise coming from right over our heads. I saw laser shooters point in the direction of the hedgehog that stood there clueless. I immediately jumped into action
"Watch out!" I said leaping toward him pushing him out of the way of the laser. The beam of light hit the floor just as I moved him out of the way. The room was quickly filled with smoke due to the blast.
"Stay here." I said as I got up and started running toward the wall.
Here I was, saving a complete stranger. Although I had a feeling I owed it to him. From the looks of it I had somehow been captured here in this room for a while, and it looked like this hedgehog was here to release me. Even if that wasn't his sole purpose for being here he still released me, and for that I was very grateful.
I ran up the wall as I jumped from one side to the other, easily destroying the laser shooters. It looked like whoever was keeping me here had been feeding me information about this hideout. I already had a plan for getting out of here. I knew every back door, trap, and weakness in this place. Awesome.
Once all of the laser shooters were destroyed I jumped down, entering a code into the keypad beside the door so that it would shut. Once the metal door was closed I turned around to look at the blue hedgehog.
"Follow me. I know how to get out of here." I said still glancing at the stranger that had saved me.
"Yah, and why should I trust your judgment?" he asked me with a hint of amusement in his tone.
Oh great, he has an attitude. Yah well two can play at that game.
I raised an eyebrow at him and shrugged as I started walking towards the exit.
"I don't know, maybe because I'm the only judgment you have to rely on right now?" I asked with the same tone he had just used with me.
He paused but then obviously realized I had a point.
"Uh, ok good point." He said as he ran to my side.
Whoa, he was fast, maybe even faster than me. I smirked. Nah probably not.
Once I found the secret corridor that directed us to an exit we easily found our way out, and with our speed we were out of there in minutes. We ran for a good 20 more miles just to make sure we were completely out of sight. We stopped in, what I was guessing, was a forest of some sort.
It was beautiful here. The grass was a deep green, the trees climbed to a height I didn't think possible. There were flowers growing all throughout the area and in the distance I could hear a water fall feeding into a lake and a babbling brook.
As my eyes searched around the blue hedgehog broke my train of thought.
"Ok time for some answers, who are you?" He asked me.
I furrowed my eyebrows trying to gather my thoughts.
"My name is…Summer, Summer the hedgehog." I said as I kept trying to think.
Why couldn't I remember anything? I remembered bits and pieces but none of it completely made since. I turned and looked at him with worried eyes. All I could do is tell him what I could remember.
"I was…escaping something? Maybe someone? I'm sorry I can't remember much, I think whoever captured me in that pod did something to my memory." I said as I put my hand on my forehead and shook my head.
The blue hedgehog nodded.
"It sounds like something Robotnik would do." He said acting like he was starting to understand.
He then smiled at me as he stuck out his hand as if wanting to shake mine.
"It's nice to meet yah Summer. The names Sonic the hedgehog." He said smiling.
I smirked at him as I shook his hand.
"The pleasure is mine." I said now smiling back at him.
My face changed as I became serious. I wanted to know details about my capturer, and why he seemed so interested in taking full control over me.
"Ok, now it's time for you to do the answering." I said as I crossed my arms.
Sonic shrugged and sat himself down on a large rock.
"Alright, shoot." He said motioning for me to continue.
I paused for a moment to think of the questions I had for him.
"Ok, well first off, where are we?" I asked.
He smirked.
"This is Mobius."
"Who resides on this planet?"
"Who do what now?" He asked confused.
I shook my head trying to talk in a more modern vocabulary.
"What kinds of creatures live on this planet? Are there more people like you here? Or are you a foreigner? " I asked trying to help him make since.
"Oh, well why didn't you just put it that way to begin with?" He said smiling.
"Well there is of course no one on this planet as fast as me." He added.
"Of course not." I retorted smiling.
"But yah there are more hedgehogs on this planet, but there are also rabbits, squirrels, foxes, you know those sorts of things." He said shrugging.
I nodded. So there were people like us, well like him, on this planet. I wasn't completely sure what I was yet basically because I just couldn't remember. I mean I knew I was a hedgehog, that was just common since, but I had no clue who I was mentally, or who I was on the planet I was born on. But I had this strange feeling that I wanted to end up here, and that maybe, just maybe, this was where I needed to be.
"Alright, and who was the person that captured me? You mentioned their name before. What was it, Professor something?" I asked trying to recall the name Sonic had used before.
He raised an eyebrow.
"You mean ?" he asked
I looked at him as the name sounded familiar.
"Yes him." I said waiting for his answer.
"Yah well that's buttnik for yah, he's always causing trouble around here. Mobius was a peaceful place before he came around." He said obviously disgusted by this "Robotnik" character.
"And what do you suppose he wanted me for?" I asked now very interested in getting all of the information I could possibly get.
He shrugged.
"Well I don't know, but I would guess that he wanted you as some sort of minion."
Minion, why did that one small word, hurt so much. It was almost like I had been someone's minion before. Is that what I wasn't remembering?
"Do you know how he captured me?" I asked.
"Well this is just a guess, but I'm guessing that he found you at a vulnerable time. Robotnik's too much of a wimp to attack someone when they are at their strongest." He said trying to answer my questions as well as he could.
I nodded, content with the information I had gathered.
He slowly got up from his sitting point.
"Well it was nice meeting yah Sum but I gotta run." He said as he turned away about to take off.
I stood there and looked down at my feet. Great now I was going to be left alone to figure this world out by myself.
Sonic looked over his shoulder and smirked.
"Well?" He asked.
"Well what?" I said as I looked up at him
"Well, are you going to come with me anytime soon, or am I going to have to wait for three hours while you make your decision?" he asked waiting for me to follow him.
I smiled as I walked up to him.
"I have a feeling you and I will get along just fine." I said as I started to run along the side of him.
As we ran I smiled to myself. Although I couldn't remember much about my home planet, one thing was clear to me. I had a new friend, and a new home, and this time it was permanent.
