Sonic 13
				A Sonic X Title
				      By
				David Carter
			     Another Couple Problem

CH.1: Cold morning

	Chris Thorndyke rolled onto his side and tried to avoid the sunlight bursting 
through his window. Opening his eyes he saw the clock chime at 8:30 a.m., another day 
of nothing. Throwing his covers off he proceeded down the stairs to see everyone eating 
breakfast. His grandpa sat at the head and he remembered his parent’s anniversary. Sonic 
and Amy were on the couch, what weirded him out was it was quiet. Tails was playing 
with his toast and Cream and Cheese were glaring at each other. He rubbed his eyes 
trying to shake an image that wasn’t true, but sure enough it was. “Grandpa what’s new 
today?”
	“Well…another car crash happened, but no serious injury,” he said not interested. 
Mr. Tanaka came by and put a tray of muffins on the table, to which Chuck Thorndyke 
nodded his head in thanks. Picking up a muffin Chris went into the living room and found 
the T.V. off. Chris stared at his muffin glumly and put it down on the table with lost 
interest. Picking up the remote he turned to a channel that would allow his 12 year old 
mind to escape this world of boredom. He was almost 13 and the only entertainment he 
had were his friends…now the T.V. The cartoons got boring after half an hour; which is 
the usual length, so he decided to get dressed and go exploring. After dressing for fun he 
raced outside and smelled the aroma of fun. He was drenching wet and as he looked up 
into the sky got his face even wetter then before. However a bright light in the distance 
caught his eye. Could this be a sign of adventure? With a slip he ran into the screen door 
and not really caring about his nose he yelled out-.
	“Hey guys something just landed we should-,” he stood there for a minute and 
hung his head down in embarrassment. They were in the living room watching T.V. and 
he stood there with a bloody nose and dripping wet body, how sad am I, he thought 
sourly. Stalking up the stairs he slammed his door shut and with a tantrum took off his 
wet shirt and plopped onto his bed. My parents are away, Sonic and the others are 
uninterested, and I’m not allowed out in the rain, he thought. The ceiling gave him no 
answer; the wall wouldn’t lend him an ear…maybe Knuckles will help! Rolling off his 
bed he pulled on his wet shirt and went into his closet to get his least worn rain jacket. 
Since no one cared he decided to take the window. Within a few struggling minutes he 
lowered himself to the ground and with an about face ran.
	“Chris I can’t leave the master emerald,” Knuckles explained to Chris. “Besides 
that shouldn’t you be in doors where it’s warm and you have the protection of Sonic and 
the gang?” For a human he has guts, Knuckles admitted to himself, to brave such weather 
and to get up to my island…but how did he get up here? “How-?”
	“I’ll explain later Knuckles,” he said. Then he appeared to vanish; but how he 
really got up and down was the X Tornado; just very wet. The rain splashed against the 
wing frame and Chris adjusted his flight path. The light he saw couldn’t register as a 
Chaos emerald, so it may be a life form, he deducted after getting blanks. I should call 
in…just to reassure everyone I’m doing well, he thought. “Sonic do you read…over.”
	“Hey buddy we were worrying about you, where are you?” Sonic held the mike 
and everyone in the kitchen was pacing and were as nervous as teens awaiting a new CD 
release. After being bored out of their minds they planned on a board game, that is until 
Chris called. “You know…maybe we should’ve not ignored Chris,” Sonic said, “then he 
wouldn’t have left into the rain. Hey Tails let’s go get the X Tornado and go look for-.”
	“Sonic its gone!” This brought some panic, but in a way the X Tornado was the 
only ship with a radio in it, still its wings couldn’t stand water, especially a downpour. 
“Chris land somewhere not near water…better yet just land now…over.”
	“I’m having difficulty getting the landing gears down,” he said with a struggle. 
Chris’s face had much perspiration on it and his mind was a whirlwind of calculations; 
one tiny error and he’d land in a watery area of doom. The radar picked up the signal he 
had sought, but it was fainter, the area looked to be his right. Pulling the control right he 
swung the ship from a watery grave to at last land in the middle of some isolated island. 
“Sonic…can you hear me…over.”
	“Chris…yeah we read you…over,” Sonic said. In the kitchen everyone was 
relieved and Sonic sat in a chair exhausted. “Ok Chris, now tell us where you are…over.” 
Static came out and Sonic dropped the walkie-talkie to the floor smashing it to bits. The 
stares he got weren’t happy and with a quick step out of the kitchen he was up the stairs 
in a lick. I messed up, he thought with remorse, please forgive me Chris.
	“Sonic…do you read?” The rain continued to pour down and Chris again saw the 
light, but this time brighter. “Sonic I’m going to investigate the light, don’t worry I’ll take 
every precaution before leaving the ship.” Unstrapping his buckles Chris pushed the 
hatch release and pulled his hood up as the rain entered the cockpit. Taking careful steps 
down the ladder he kept his eyes on the growing light. Every noise made his head turn, 
every squish in the mud made him jump; the island itself felt alive to the preteen. “Hello? 
Can anyone hear me?”
	“Yes…we can hear you,” a gentle voice replied. Chris was scared and his flesh 
crawled with goose bumps, the fact it was human made him curious, but the “we” made 
him very cautious. Inching nearer his heart beat hard and his mouth became dry, was he 
that brave? Finally after what seemed like a long stall he came around the rock and saw 
in the bright purple light two figures. One was a girl in a purple light gown with silver 
hair; the other was, to his surprise a female hedgehog with silver, her very eyes drove 
daggers in his heart. Chris’s hand slipped on the rock and when he looked up he was 
staring into the hedgehog’s eyes…but that would mean… “Michelle please get off the 
nice human boy now.”
	“But how do we know he won’t report us in to his leader?!” she snapped. The girl 
looked like a teenager, and by the way she acted it appeared she wasn’t human. “Where 
did you come from human low life? Can you swim? Did you fly? Answer me!”
	“I…I…flew,” he replied scared. The shoes this hedgehog wore were digging into 
his chest and her methods were too much interrogative, perhaps they worked in a prison, 
he thought as the boot didn’t leave. The female walked forward and took the hedgehog 
off forcefully and as Chris relaxed felt the shoe again. “Ah…little girl, is it just my 
imagination or is your-?”
	“Michelle! I asked you nicely, if you don’t comply I will take away your guitar!” 
Michelle ran over to the very end of the island and sulked there. “I apologize for my 
friend’s attitude, it’s just we come from a place where formality is uneasy. My name is 
Lucy,” and with this she walked forward.
	“Ah…my name is Chris,” he replied. Her hand was warm and her perfume 
reminded him of spring. Michelle came back over, but alarm was clearly evident on her 
face. Chris heard the engines overhead and panic made him act irrational. He had both 
Michelle and Lucy’s hand and with a dash rounded past the rock just as it was pierced 
into a million bits. “Sorry Lucy, but the introductions will have to continue elsewhere. As 
you can hear our situation is in…dire circumstances.”
	“Is that…your ship?” When they were on the ground both women couldn’t move, 
Chris couldn’t believe that even when in space they never saw a sight like the X Tornado. 
“We always travel by beam of light, but never by a luxury liner.”
	“Yeah…but can you admire the ship another time,” Chris said a little uneasy. The 
threat became even more extreme as the ship above started tearing up the ground. “Hurry 
on board now!” As they raced up the ramp the spot they currently stood on was engulfed 
in a deadly green blast. Chris jumped into the pilot’s and with a quick flip he had the 
engines going in a second. The whole island began to shake and all around the X Tornado 
dirt clouds were sent up. Chris brought up the landing gears and with dots perspiration 
dotting his stressed head he struggled to bring the X Tornado up. Michelle jumped into 
co-pilot seat and with expert ease found the thruster controls. Pushing these sent them 
into their chairs and with a rush away from the now sunk island. “Whoa…that was a 
close call. How did you know-?”
	“We may travel by beam of light, but when in the city you get to know the basics 
of air travel. Now that we’re safe, tell us who that jerk was,” Michelle questioned to the 
point. This kid can keep his cool even in the most messed up situations, Michelle noted 
while Chris flew them. The morning air was cold and would have been colder if Chris 
hadn’t come at the right time. But still-.
	“That jerk goes by my many names, but the one we most prefer is Dr. Eggman. 
He is an evil scientist obsessed with destroying his nemesis Sonic the hedgehog. I can’t 
tell how long they have kept this battle going, but believe me when it’s long. Dr. Eggman 
also has lackeys; they mainly go by: Decoe, Bocue, Rouge the bat, Bokunn, and the ever 
elusive Shadow the hedgehog. It could take me hours explaining their story, so the short 
version is they seek the ever powerful and rare Chaos emeralds. This goes even for our 
side.
	“Up ahead is my home…there you’ll find Sonic, Amy, Cream and Cheese, my 
grandpa Chuck, my parents, Miles “Tails” Prower; and up on Angel Island is the lone 
protector of the master emerald Knuckles. Dr. Eggman may have backed off now, but 
he’ll be back…and in greater numbers.” A warning light appeared on the console board 
and it was Lucy who pointed it out to him.
	“Chris…what’s with the landing gears?” Chris noticed the warning light and 
slapped his head, which minutes later he regretted. His landing on the island had 
scratched up the landing gears, he should’ve checked them upon landing, but his big 
curiosity of the light overruled that. The possibility of a safe landing now was 
nonexistent. “Isn’t there an emergency-?”
	“Ah…no, I guess Tails was installing it still when I stole it,” he said with a 
nervous laugh. Steering the X Tornado away from the mansion he aimed instead to the 
only other possible landing place, Station Square. A green flash was seen out of his 
window and already his gut took a drop. “Hang on, it may get bumpy.”
	“It’s him isn’t it…that Dr. Eggman you were talking about right?” Chris swerved 
around the Station Square train station and sped through the city; his silence answered 
her. Another green blast came at them and scored a hit on their aft thruster. Chris grunted 
as the blast shook the ship and caused the ascending flight to be a descending spiral.
	“Hold on I’m going to make an emergency landing,” Chris said with fear touching 
his belly. Chris looked at the map and found most of the city packed with curious 
onlookers; there was no way he could land here without taking people with him. With a 
desperate maneuver Chris swung the ship around in a 180 degree circle then shut the 
power down. It was a close call too as the ship fell to the pavement in front of the casino. 
	“Now what do we do Chris?” There was no fear in Lucy’s voice and Chris could 
only pat her hand reassuringly not sure how to comfort her. Eggman’s ship landed 2ft 
from then and as his ramp descended he could already picture the large man in his 
suspenders accompanied by his dimwitted lackeys. The cold morning had ceased, but 
Chris feared it was getting hotter.