Chapter 5: Dinner with the Gillmans
Back in the other world, later on, after taking Queen Nerissa back to Captain Lighthouse, who never suspected she was gone the whole time, apparently she was right, humans are stupid, Ruby with Agatha, Brill, and their New blue friend arrived back at home by the time it was now the evening.
Inside the Gillman house, we see Arthur Gillman, Ruby's Dad, in the kitchen cooking dinner, and looking over is 3 Identical little Krakens, the one in Red clothes is Sam, the other in Blue is Max, and the last one in Green is Zac, playing video games, and over to the side is a Baby Kraken, named Jake, wearing a yellow baby outfit, who was in his play area with baby toys, and all 4 of them are Ruby's brothers.
"Go! Go! Go! Go!/Almost There!/Hit It! Hit It!/YEAH!!!!" The triplets won their game and did high fives and victory dances.
"Alright Boys, turn that off, dinner's ready." Arthur told them, who sighed and obeyed, as he went to his baby boy.
"Hey little man, you hungry?" He asked Jake as he picked him up, took him over to the table, and put him in his high chair, soon the Girls and Brill came in the door.
"We're home." Agatha said.
"Hey honey, just in time, food's ready." He said as they made out, right in front of the triplets who were grossed out by it.
"I think I lost my appetite!" Max said.
"Suite yourselves, I am starving." Brill said popping out, surprising Arthur a bit.
"Oh, wasn't expecting you here." He said.
"What can I say, I'm a tagger." Brill said.
"Also, he's just here because something happened." Ruby said.
"Something Happened!?/Was it huge!?/A Monster attack!?..." The trips kept asking questions.
"We met someone, someone who we thought was a Giant Kraken." Ruby said as Boys were a whole lot of suprised.
"Another Giant Kraken?!/Is it a relative?/Maybe an Aunt or a long lost cousin?/Or both?" The Trips asked once more.
"Not really, Boys, it's someone who wasn't even a Kraken at all and not from this world." Their mother said as the sighed again.
"Ok... what do you mean?" Arthur asked.
"Perhaps you should see for yourself." Agatha said as the all raised their eyebrows while tilting their heads, then Ruby stepped aside and Brill had to move to and behind him revealed a large Blue Hedgehog who was minding his own business, then turned around to reveal himself to the rest of her family, whose eyes were wided and looking speechless, Sonic gave a sheep smile, barely waving to them.
"Oh. that's what you meant." Arthur said.
"Dad, Brothers, this is Sonic the Hedgehog." Ruby introduced him to the rest of the famliy.
"Yo." He replied.
"A Talking Hedgehog!?/Now this the coolest thing ever!/Are we gonna adopt him?" They said with Sonic sweat dropping by that last one.
"Well then, Welcome Mr. Hedgehog." Arthur said shaking his hand.
"Please, call me Sonic."
"Who would name a hedgehog something like that anyway?"
"Zac!" Ruby said, but Sonic didn't mind, then he caught the smell of something, familiar, then his eyes focused on something at the table and dashed over in the blink of an eye, while also surprising the family, excluding those who already know, and the triplets with their eyes shining, that he has super speed.
"Whoa!! That's Why!" Zac taking it back.
"Is this a Chilli Dog?" Sonic asked about the food looked like a chilli dog but it was found from the Ocean.
"Ah, I see you caught the eye of my famous dish, the "Gillman Sea Dog."" Arthur said as the family then sat down for have their meal.
"What's it made out of?" Sonic asked as Arthur chuckled.
"You don't wanna know, a chef's secret, but help yourself." He said as he shrugged his shoulders and tried it anyway, soon with one bite, Sonic eyes popped out.
"Woah! This is actually good!" He said eating the rest of it in one swallow.
"Though I'm a Stick Snack Guy, But That's How Ya Do It!" Brill said having his with one swallow and it was gone.
"Nice to see some who eats like Brill." Ruby said with a sweat drop, soon Sonic was licking the plate with more showing as he then squealed like a girl and, along with Brill chowed down on more of it.
"At least save some of us." Sam said, soon the frist batch was empty and Sonic was sucking what was left over on his fingers.
"Ah. My complements to the chef." Sonic said leaving Arthur a good review.
"Thank you, that actually... means alot." Arthur said, wiping a tear off him, then Jake was about to have a bottle, till Brill burped really loud, and the noise caused the bottle to slipped out and about hit the ground, predicting to make a spill.
The Burp also caused Arthur, who was bringing over more Sea Dogs, to slip, And Max was on his phone and the burp caused it to slip out and hit the floor, Sonic then noticed all this and timed stopped for a second.
He dashed over to catch the flying sea dogs and brought them to the table safely, next went to Max, caught his phone and left right next to her plate, then went to Jake and quickly caught his bottle before it was about to hit the floor, then time went back to normal.
"Huh...? Wha...?" Arthur was really confused, first he was about to make a mess, but he saw the sea dogs were at table safety.
Max was expecting something bad to her phone but saw it was back on the table, he and the rest of the family looked at Sonic with shock.
H-How did you-?!" Ruby was about to ask something.
"How fast are you?!/Faster than are race car?/a fighter jet?/Time itself?!" The triplets interrupted being really amazed with his ability.
"Yeah, you could say that." He replied.
"So Cool!/I really like him./Amazing!" The Trips said with stars in their eyes, Sonic then remembered the bottle in his hand.
"Oh, this yours little guy?" He asked giving the bottle back to Jake, and patting his head.
"You know how to handle kids really well, do you?" Agatha asked.
"Let's just say I'm familiar with brotherly love." He said as Ruby started to think about her relationship with her brothers.
"You know, it'll probably be about time we started to talk to each other." She then suggested.
"I was thinking the same thing." Sonic agreed, soon the family finished dinner, and gather in the living room to know about their Blue Friend and tell him about themselves.
"So, as you know, we're Kraken, but we are part of a Family that turn into Giants." Agatha started.
"Well, only the women do, the men just become older, rounder versions of ourselves." Brill added as the triplets once again sighed by that.
"Anyway, we protect the ocean and it's creatures from tyrant monsters that wanna control the ocean for their own personal gain, like Nerissa, the mermaid queen." Agatha continued.
"You mean that red head chick from before? She's a Mermaid? and a Tyrant?" Sonic asked as she nodded, Ruby then sighed, still feeling like being scarred through the heart after the betrayal, Sonic could see it and remember she said she's her "Ex Bff." he didn't know why, but didn't wanna bother to ask as he somehow knows it's THAT personal, and so he started his story.
"Welp, guess it's my turn now, as you know, Sonic's the name, and speed's my game, though I don't know how I got this ability, but I don't complain, I fight for my home planet and protecting it's creatures along with my friends since I was just a kid, somehow like you guys, facing tyrant enemies of my own, from genies, to monsters, to robots, to literal gods living inside the planet's crust, long story. Oh! And a psychopathic scientist that wants to control the world, all the time, probably like your mermaid nemesis, but spoiler alert, all he ends up getting is a foot mark that was kicked in his butt, by yours truly." Sonic finished pointing at himself with a shining smile.
"Cool!!" The triplets said with their eyes shining even more.
"Now then, if that's the case, then how did you get the power of a Giant Kraken?" Arthur asked.
"Well, the last thing I remember is that I ended up in water when I came into the other side, I tried to get to the surface, but I got stuck at the last second, and things started to go dark, but when I woke up, I was on land and found this." Sonic finished taking off his glove showing tentacles for fingers, which shocked the family.
"How did you get this? And what do you mean end up on the other side?" Agatha asked.
"That's it, I don't know, earlier back on my world, my friends and I were having a beach day and then another friend came by and told me there was an energy source coming, we looked over and into the water, something glowing from underneath, and out bursted a beacon of green light and created a vortex, I saw my friend about to fall in, I ran over to catch her and threw her out of it, but I couldn't save myself, so I fell in, and that's how I ended up here."
"And you don't recall anything that you might've come acrossed when you came in before?"
"Nope, and honestly, I thought you might have known something about this." Sonic shook his head, with Ruby thinking.
"Green light... why does that sound so... familiar?" She thought to herself.
"So... what exactly is your plan now?" Arthur asked.
"Simple, I find the Chaos Emeralds, and then I'll be on my way outta here."
"Chaos... Emeralds?" Sam asked tilting her head.
"Oh, just 7 mystic gemstones that glow, they actually came in the vortex with me, probably." He said not remembering if they did, but it made Brill remember something.
"Oh, so that's what this thing is." He said bringing out the Cyan Emerald he found before coming to land, surprising the family, except Sonic.
"You found one!" He said.
"I meant to show it to Ruby when I came onto land before, but it slipped my mind."
"Shiny!" Max said.
"So that's it? Just like that?" Ruby asked.
"Yeah, I tried searching the whole town for them, but found nothing, so maybe I'll have better luck tomorrow, but I do have a question."
"Yes?" Agatha approved for the Hedgehog's question.
"What were those things that almost attacked us, earlier?"
"What things?" Zac asked.
"I don't know, they looked like a Kraken but not giant, and they were green giving a glow." He said giving his best to describe it.
"Oh yeah, I almost forgot about that." Ruby remembered, so did Agatha and Brill.
"I still don't know what that was, either." Agatha remembering back to time in the ocean when she has encountered lots of creatures, but not the recent ones though.
"Whatever they were, we now know they aren't so friendly." Brill added.
"Boy, these are alot of chores in one day, from me coming here, to getting tentacles for hands, losing the Emeralds, again, and now green freaky creatures." Sonic rambling about recently with Ruby thinking.
"Hmm... I might know someone who can also help about what's going on here."
"Oh really?" He asked as she nodded.
"But like you said, tomorrow would be best." She said as Brill yawned.
"Welp, Guess I'm gonna head out now, it is getting late, night fam." Brill said as he left for the door.
"Brill?" He stopped by the words from his sister.
"Forgetting something?"
"Oh yeah! Here ya go, blue." He remembered the Chaos Emerald and tossed it to Sonic.
"Thanks, big guy."
"Oh, and if you ever wanna find me, just swim 50 paces to the left of the Northeast canyons, turn sideways then dive exactly 10 paces down, you know I always forget to get directions, and the ocean is truly, infinite... welp, later!" He said leaving closing the door, with most of the family having mixed reactions about him.
The scene then changes to the room having the lights off and Sonic was on the couch, sleeping, then zooming in to see Sonic's hand glowing from the inside of his glove.
To be continued.