Again, Jasmine is not my character, she's Shadow lover 123's character. Hope you enjoy this chapter! Enjoy!

Chapter 2 Fear to Pancakes to Fear Again

A black and red hedgehog flung his eyes open and sat up. He scanned his surroundings. He was in a bright room. He rubbed his eyes and looked around again. It was a bedroom. He felt oddly comfy. He felt like he was on something soft. He looked down at what he was sitting on. A bed. He was on a bed. The hedgehog had no idea where he was or why he was here but he didn't like it one bit. Where's the grey walls? Why am I on a bed and not on a cold steel floor? Why is there a window? What happened? How did I get here? He had so many questions but no answers came.

Suddenly, pure anger and fear was in his eyes. Where were his siblings? He instantly looked around him and found that his siblings were sleeping next to him. The hedgehog felt his heart slow its pace as the fear slowly evaporated. Now only anger remained. He was mad at the person that brought them here. He was mad that whoever they were had touched his siblings. He had no time to worry about this now, he needed to make sure his siblings were okay.

Carefully, he began to count each hedgehog as he examined them. The first hedgehog he checked was Sonia, a dark pink fashionista. Sonia looked perfectly fine so he crawled over to the next sibling, Scourge. Scourge was a dark green bad boy who only cared for his family and himself. He looked okay too. The black and crimson hedgehog headed for his next inspection. Sonic the blue daredevil was moving around in his sleep, perfectly normal for the speedster. Figures. Even in his sleep he can't stay still. The dark hedgehog thought. He crawled over to the twin light pink hedgehogs, Rosy and Amy. Despite their similar looks they were quite different in personality, one a hot-tempered girl and the other a hopeless romantic. Slowly, the hedgehog with red eyes moved over to his next sibling, Silver. Silver was a very polite nerd and the dark hedgehog was quite proud of him for his longing to learn. The crimson and black hedgehog looked for his next sibling but could not find him anywhere on the bed. Oh no! Where's Manic?

Quickly, the big brother began to wake each of his siblings. He could feel his heart speeding up again. "What is it, Shadow?" Sonic looked at his big brother determined to know why he waked him up. Sonic's anger disappeared when he saw that the toughest of their siblings was sacred and if Shadow was scared something must be terribly wrong. "What's wrong?" The blue hedgehog asked, unsure he wanted an answer.

Soon the rest of his siblings started to ask the oldest sibling similar questions. Shadow couldn't take any more questions and shushed them all. Once everyone was silent Shadow spoke, "Manic is missing! Before anyone panics I would like it if we all look around the room for him. We need to find him!" Immediately, the hedgehog family got to work.

Sonic, Rosy, Sonia, Scourge, and Shadow climbed off the bed to look on the floor will Silver and Amy searched the bed once more. Silver and Amy came up with nothing and jumped off the bed to join their siblings in their search. All siblings all had the same thought, where could he be?

Shadow examined every possible hiding place from under the bed to even looking at the ceiling. "Shadow?" Shadow was snapped out of his thoughts by his littlest sister. He gave Amy his full attention. "Do you think the men in white coats took Manic?" Shadow's frown deepen at the mention of those viscous creatures. Shadow decided to stop focusing on the men and focused on how to answer his little sister's question. To be honest, he had no idea and hoped beyond hope that Manic wasn't with those terrible men. He had witnessed the great pain those men had caused to him and his family. Shadow struggled to find an answer that would give the girl some hope.

Shadow kneeled down to Amy's level, "Well, um…" He cut off his own sentence when he saw something behind his sister. It was the door. It was open! He couldn't believe he didn't notice this before. "Guys! The doors open!" All siblings stopped what they were doing and gathered around the open door, wondering if they should walk through it.

"Do you think it's safe?" Sonia asked. Everyone in the room wore an unsure look.

"We should go out there! Manic might be out there and in danger! We want to protect him don't we?" Sonic asked his siblings. He was the closest to Manic and was determined to get him back unharmed. Every hedgehog nodded and followed the daredevil as he raced out the door.

…o0o…

Laney was making breakfast which was pancakes and eggs. Her radio was on and it was playing one of her favorite songs, Safe by; Britt Nicole. She couldn't help but hum along. Eventually she was singing to her hearts content. She only sang a few verses when she heard someone walking down the stairs. At first she was on alert until she saw familiar messy green quills. "Good morning, Manic! Did I wake you?" As Laney asked this question she flipped some pancakes.

Manic went to the island in the middle of the kitchen and climbed onto one of the stools in front of it. He looked around the kitchen to find that it was very neat, besides the mess from breakfast. "No. I smelt something good and wanted to know what it was." He smiled at Laney and looked at what she was making. "What are you making?"

Laney answered the green hedgehog's question with, "Pancakes and eggs, with strawberry syrup." She turned to look at the green hedgehog. Manic had a very confused look on his face. His face reminded her of Kane, her partner on the field. He use to always get that face in interrogation when he didn't believe somebody. "What's wrong? They're just pancakes and eggs. It's a regular breakfast food." Manic's face didn't change.

"Why aren't you just making bread?" Laney seemed confused by Manic's question. She started to laugh and took it as a joke but Manic wasn't laughing, nor smiling. Manic seemed genuinely confused by her outburst. She stopped laughing and started blushing. What happened to these kids? Manic asked why she had laughed.

"I thought you were just messing with me. Apparently you weren't." Laney let out a sheepish laugh. "I'm not making bread for breakfast because we need more flavor then just plain bread." Laney decided to ask a question that hopefully Manic would have a positive answer to. "Manic? Have you ever had anything besides bread?"

Manic thought for a few seconds then came up with an answer. "Water." Laney had a worried face on. She looked at the hedgehog again and noticed he was very skinny. Usually that be quite normal for a kids his age to be skinny but he was really skinny. Manic just watched her stare at him. "What's wrong?"

Laney snapped out of her trance and put on the fakest smile that anyone could see through. "Have you had anything besides bread and water? You know fruits, meats, vegetables? Have you even had candy?" Laney hoped she was wrong and the hedgehogs were fed right but she had her doubts and those doubts were confirmed when Manic answered.

"What are those?" She instantly felt really sorry for him. Her emotions poured down on her. She was angry that Manic and his friends had not been fed right. She was sad that they barely got anything.

She stayed in complete silence until she realized the pancakes were burning. "Oh no!" She cried as she rushed over to the pancakes and turned off the heat. After she examined the pancakes to make sure they weren't burnt, she walked over to a kitchen cabinet and grabbed some plates. That's when she heard Never knew I needed by; Neyo playing and instantly knew her cellphone was ringing. Manic jumped at the sound. "Relax. It's just my cellphone?" Manic was about to ask what that was when she told him to be quiet. She set the dishes on the counter and answered her phone. "Hello, this is Laney. Can I help you?"

"Hi! Haven't talked to you in a while, sis. How's your vacation going?" Laney's sister, Jasmine, was on the phone.

"Um…" Laney looked at Manic, wondering what she should say. "It's been interesting." Laney wore sheepish grin and was sure her sister could see it through the phone. I can't just tell her I found eight cartoon hedgehogs! What would I even say? 'I found eight cartoon hedgehogs that shouldn't even exist by the way would you like to come over for lunch?' That would be stupid!

"Really? What happened?" Laney could hear what sounded like a blow dryer on her sister's end of the phone.

"Jasmine? Are you getting your hair done?"

"Yes. I'm going to a party tomorrow. Oh! By the way I'm coming to your house next weekend, is that okay with you?" Her sister said in a cheery voice.

"Well…"

"Good! I gotta go, sis. Talk to you soon. Love ya!"

"No! Jasmine! Wait!" It was too late her sister had already hung up. Groaning she set the cellphone on the counter and ran her fingers through her hair. "Sometimes she drives me nuts!" Laney sighed.

"Um, Laney?" Manic gave her a worried look. "Are you okay?" Good question. Was she okay? She didn't know how long Manic and hid friends would stay here and somehow she had to find a way to tell her sister about them. What's a woman to do?

Suddenly, Laney heard more footsteps coming from the stairs. Must be the other hedgehogs. She thought. They didn't sound like they were walking, they sounded like they were running. As soon as the other hedgehogs made it to the kitchen a blue blur snatched Manic from the stool and made it look like Manic disappeared and reappeared in his friends' arms. All the hedgehogs swarmed around Manic, asking if he was okay, except three who glared at her. If looks could kill Laney would have been incinerated. One of the glaring hedgehogs was black and red, the second one was a dark green, and the last one was a blue hedgehog.

The red and black hedgehog intimidated her. The dark green one frightened her with his vicious smile. The blue one just kept giving her a death glare. The blue hedgehog failed to hide all the fear in his voice as he shouted, "You mess with our brother, you mess with us!"