World races

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since you liked the last one, here is the other one that i completly finished, I added in some random made up facts and such, but I was bored so this one probably isn't as good as the other one, but here we go!!

WORLD RACE’S
Well someone has done it again, gotten themselves stuck in the human’s world, Earth, only this time they had managed to drag Jet, Storm, and myself with them. In case you haven’t guessed by now, I’m Wave.
So we decided to make the most of it, might as well go and explore ,that’s when Jet brought something up that I hadn’t thought of before.
“Hey Wave, what do you think the humans think of us? I mean they’ve seen Sonic and all those softies before, but never us.” He looked over at me, obviously waiting for an answer.
“I don’t know” I sat down on the edge on the building that we had all been standing on.
“That it! The smartest bird I know and all you come up with is ‘I don’t know!’ I don’t know why I keep you around!”
“Because you would have no chance without me hot-head” I looked off at the sunset. She saw Storm flying back.
“Hey look Storm’s back. Maybe I can get some Intel from him.” Jet started waving at Storm as he landed on the side of the building.
“Yeah Intel from Storm, that worked great last time” I looked over at Storm and lied down on the building and put my hands over my eyes.
“Doesn’t look like the humans like that we’re here boss.” Storm had to flap his arms a bit to stay balanced on the rooftop.
“Well what were you guys expecting, we kind of just invaded there world,” I tilted my head so I could look at the two of them.
They was a long silence when a helicopter flew over the roof of the building with some kind camera hanging out the side, I quickly sat up and looked at the guys, they were too busy gawking at the helicopter, we all watched it land on a building down the street and watched a crew of people pile out of the craft, I could make out a lady in a crisp skirt and a blows with her hair in a ponytail pointing over at us and say something to the camera man. We all heard her say into the camera,
“Is this what our world has come to, letting these aliens run around town?” She look into the camera, I guessed we were in the back ground.
She said something else and the camera guy let the camera fall off of her and back to us just as it turned off. Right as I watched Jet and Storm fluff out there flight feathers and fly up and away, I thought to myself, what are those idiots doing now, right as I heard the woman gasp as she pointed to the two of them circling, Jet let out an all too familiar call the loud screech that hawks always did to each other to signal to attack, I whistled back up to him a warbling cry, to mimic being injured, I knew what he wanted to do, get the people’s eyes off us but I wanted to try something different.
He seemed to realize what I was doing and decided to go along; he knew I could have good ideas all the time; there was always time for a little trick, I made another long cry and the T.V. crew looked from one bird to the other looking a bit worried, I pretended to flap my wings helplessly and the woman clutched her throat, she looked like she was about to cry, I giggled to myself looking over at her, luckily she couldn’t see me smiling through the Kleenex one of the others had handed to her.
This was getting too good; the camera guy had turned the camera back on and was zooming in and out on us, the lady was still crying blubbering into the camera looking like she was regretting what she had said before and was talking to some guy back in the studio, it’s amazing what you can accomplish with a little bit of acting, and had to admit, I thought I was pretty good at it. I fluttered out my flight feathers again and got a couple of inches off the ground, Storm circled down and landed beside me.
“You better figure out how to fly soon, they’ve got a gun in that helicopter and they have been thinking about shooting it at you to kind of, scare you.” He leaned over and whispered to me.
“Pick me up” I looked up at Storm because he was standing so close to me.
“What?” he looked at me puzzled.
“Have you not been fallowing the story, pick me up.” Just then the girl burst into tears again and said something about her husband, and how she wished he treated her better. Me and Storm, just friends so we are all clear on that.
With that Storm kicked off his shoes so his talons could wrap around my waist, I took his shoes from him and was jolted into the air and up up and away we went. I loved the feeling of flying; even being carried was still something, by the time we got back to the altitude Jet was at he looked at me.
“And what was that all about, to show that we’re weak”
“No I just didn’t want to fly right now,” I smiled devilishly at him.
“Hey Storm, drop her and see how long it takes her to say mercy” He stuck his tongue out at me
“How about we don’t and say we did, and I mean how would that look on you guys if you just dropped poor little old me, on live T.V., not very good right?”
Jet rolled his eyes at me and did a mid-air twirl. And started flying out of town, which just happened to be right over the humans heads, they all piled into the helicopter and flew back downtown to what I guess would have been where there studio was.
“Well that was fun, so what are we doing tonight?” I looked up at Jet who was flying just a little bit above Storm and I could barely see him behind Storms wings.
“Drop her” And with that I plummeted down into the forested area below.
I dropped by a tree and grabbed onto a branch still holding onto Storms shoes in one hand and I have to say my landing was kind of graceful. I pulled myself up on the branch as Storm and Jet landed on a tree branch beside the tree I landed in.
“Well this looks like a good place to spend the night” I threw Storms shoes back at him and he pulled them back on happily.
“Yeah sure, goodnight Wave.” Jet pulled his legs in towards his chest; I could barely see his green feathers against the moss covered tree.
“Yeah, goodnight Jet” I paused and stretched my legs and arms “goodnight Storm”
“Yeah night boss night Wave.”
And with that we all settled down against the soft moss covering the giant trees. This was one place I never thought about the one day where we all didn’t want to kill each other by the end of the day. And yet here we were, and I only wanted to slightly hurt Jet. I smiled to myself and curled into the tree.
. . .
I think the worst thing to wake up to in the morning (other than your best friend breathing in your ear) is probably waking up to maybe the world most annoying dog, and a couple of kids yelling. I sat up quickly and looked down from the branch, just what every lucky girl wants in the morning curious kids and panicky yapping dogs. I rolled over and jumped into the next tree as another kid came back with an older looking girl, not as old as the lady the night before, but maybe a babysitter? Anyways I landed in between the two guys and we all looked down as they looked up, we were quite a while above them but they could probably still make us out against the tree.
“Umm, what should we do?” one of the boys looked at the older girl
“We should call the police, they’d know what to do” The older boy said still looking up at us.
“But that might scare them…” The youngest girl looked at the older one.
“Well Laura we aren’t calling the police, sorry Jeff. But does anyone else…” she was interrupted as the first boy yelled up at us. The older girl hit her forehead with the palm of her hand.
“Hello up there do you come in peace?” He smiled and put up two fingers in a V shape.
I honestly couldn’t help myself; I started laughing, hard too. Jet hit me a couple of times but still, I couldn’t stop, because honestly, when was the last time someone asked you if you came in peace? I mean come on! Then I was falling, seems as if I was laughing so hard that I had fallen, I hit a branch, hard, on my back too. There was a simultaneously ‘oh’ from the people on the ground and the guys above me now giggling to each other.
“That had to hurt” I peered over the branch once I had realized that I was only a couple of feet about them now. One of the girls had said it but I wasn’t sure which one.
“Ok so now can we call the police?” the boy asked again
“No, we don’t need them” The older girl looked up at me, “Are you all right?” she asked in a soft tone, she was defiantly a good babysitter, so good that I just had to answer her. Yeah me and my big mouth.
“Yeah I’m ok thanks for asking” I was still rubbing the back of my head when I realized what I had just said. I shrugged my shoulders and swung my legs over the same side of the branch.
“You can talk?” The young girl looked up at me, wide eyed.
“So can you.” I said sarcastically, I don’t think she got it.
“Can your brothers talk to?” The youngest boy asked the one that had first yelled up at me.
“Yes they can talk too, but they are defiantly not my brothers,” I had to stifle a laugh “Most of the time we can hardly stand each other.”
“Well it’s good to see you’ve made some new friends” Jet dropped from the higher branch and landed beside me and sat down. Storm soon flew down after not saying a word.
“Better than you would ever do, huh Michael” the other boy nudged him in the side.
“So what are you three doing out here?” The older girl asked me.
“You know just spending the night, what are you doing out here in the woods?”
“There house isn’t too far away from here, why don’t you three walk back with us?
I looked over at Jet who was clearly ticked off at me still for breaking into a laughing fit and falling out of the tree but, what are you going to do, he rolled his eyes and nodded at me. I smiled back and dropped out of the tree, landing lightly, just to realize what he was really planning, he dropped out of the tree right on top of me.
“Sorry I slipped” he smiled evilly.
“Yeah sure you did,” I nodded at him and then pushed him off.
The two boys exchanged high-fives with Jet, and Storm landed on the ground behind me. It looked like something was wrong; I would have to keep an eye on him, because not only am I the mechanic but apparently I’m the guidance councillor too. I let him walk up behind me and grabbed his hand and looked him in the eyes and smiled. He smiled weakly back; defiantly check back with him later.
While I walked beside the oldest girl, whose name was Jesse and Storm walked behind me and kept looking over at the little girl Laura. Jet, Michael, and Jeff where all talking with each other and running around in circles. Once Jesse and I were ahead of everyone by a little bit she looked over at me and said barely above a whisper.
“I think that there is something wrong with one of your friends…”
“Yeah I know…Storm hasn’t been himself all morning I think I’ll have to talk to him later, but you know how guys are, sometimes they just get over it.” I shrugged my shoulder and looked back at her.
“Storm huh, cool name, and the like guy is”
“Little head strong hawk is Jet.” I had to sniffle a laugh, so I wasn’t the only one who thought Jet looked short compared to me and Storm “And I’m Wave”
“Storm, Jet, and Wave. I like all of your names” She smiled back.
“Me too and you would have never guessed that our parents didn’t know each other, heck, we weren’t even supposed to know each other.” I had to stop myself from bringing up our parents again.
“So how did you guys meet each other?”
“Well…” I looked back at Jet who wasn’t paying attention and Storm who was still looking like he was about to lose, well the last thing we ate, I think fish? “I don’t think the guys will mind, we grew up in a giant flying fortress, an Armada of all Babylonians under a battle lord, now we all had our stories of the Armada, but mine I was being prepared to take over for the last mecha mechanic, and apparently I didn’t have the right to make modifications to the engines without his permission still, and well something like that can be punishable by death, lucky he kind of had a soft spot for me, and then it kind of all started then, turns out the battle Lord said that I needed to be tough a lesson about acting out of order. And they decided to throw me in the dungeons, and that were I met those two, Jet was I pilot and Storm was a solider.” I sighed looking back at the guys again.
“So, they let you out?”
“No we broke out, It was amazing, I’ll spare you the details, but think of it as like, a poorly designed robot army and the whole fighting league, which actually couldn’t hit the broad side of a ship, against three highly trained fighters, plus anyone we could break out along the way, and other who had taken the advantage and gotten out themselves.”
“That quite the story Wave, I actually think it gets better every time.” Jet said over my shoulder.
“It’s even better to think we were how old? You were 9 I was 11 and Storm was 13, and we totally schooled then.”
“And we took out Speedy on the way out too,” Jet said, Jesse looked confused.
“Sorry Jesse, Speedy is the next in line for battle lord; it’s like a heritage thing.” I filled her in.
“So the battle lords son?”
“Yeah but he’s barely a battle anything never mind a lord” Jet butted in again, I giggled again.
“Yeah and the best part was he had this huge crush on Wave.” Storm spoke up from the back.
“It’s not my fault I’m that irresistible.” I flipped my feathers out like movie stars do to their hair.
Jet and Storm started laughing and I did everything I could not to slap them both in the head. The two of them ran ahead of us and the two boys fallowed them, I looked up at Jesse as she nodded and smiled and picked Laura up on her back and ran after the guys, I ran behind her thinking to myself, *well maybe all of these earth people are bad, I know the kids are all fine, I just hope that their parents aren’t home when we get there.* My thought were interrupted by yelling.
“Hey Wave bet you can’t catch me,” Jet had stopped a ways in front of me and was swishing his tail feather back and forth, and Jeff and Michael where mimicking him.
“Yeah come on birdy come and get us slow-poke.” Jeff yelled back.
“Oh that’s what you think boys, up for a game of tag? I’ll be it. Ready, set go.” I kicked it up a notch and let my strides get bigger just like Storm had showed me.
Laura was laughing at her brothers as I past the two girls and the guys really got moving then, it didn’t take long for me to catch up with Jeff and Michael. After that I had to catch my breath as I looked around for my guys, even though we aren’t that fast without our gears, were nothing to laugh at. Then it hit me, *Where are our gears?*
“Hey guys pause game.” I yelled at particularly no one.
“What the matter hot stuff, to tired?” Jet hung upside down from a branch above me and startled me.
“No I can keep up with you guys any day and you know it, but I have a better question for you guys, where are our gears?” I looked at him upside down, “And get off that branch before you…” I was interrupted as he fell out of the tree. “Fall…you know you aren’t part bat”
“Well sorry for having fun, and actually now that I think about it I haven’t seen then since we got stuck here. We didn’t have them when we were on Mobius, who even knows if there hear? And the Zeppelin too.” He casually got up, “And I meant to do that.”
“Sure you did.” I rolled my eyes at him as Jesse butted in.
“Gears? What are those?”
“There racing machines, you see me and my team here are expert riders, even beat Sonic” I gloated.
“Well it’s not that hard, Sonic is so slow, nothing can keep up with the legendary wind master” Jet went for a high-five, and I shot him down.
“Faster than Sonic!” Jeff looked at Jet “But he’s like super-fast!”
“Not really.” Jet sounded casual, he paused and looked around “Wave…?”
“What is it now ‘legendary wind master’?” I rolled my eyes and Laure giggled playfully.
“Where Storm?” His tone had changed from casual to worried.
“I thought he was with you! You weren’t watching!” I was considered slapping him but then thought better of it.
Jet immediately spread out his flight feathers and took off. I started to run down the narrow trail that we were fallowing only to pause and look back at our new friends, smiling weakly, I had to say something, I thought quickly.
“I’m sure he’s not far away, will you guys help look?”
“Sure. Come on guys.” Jesse looked at the kids, “Storms hiding from us, want to help find him?”
She had such a wonderful way with word, it almost made me feel better about it, like we would find him. The kids nodded and then ran out into the woods.
“Be careful guys, always check to see where you are” She came up and put a hand on my shoulder. “Don’t worry Wave; I’m sure he’s not far.”
Jet’s distressed call made me jump, he still hadn’t found anything. I whistled back up to him that we had nothing either. Jesse looked in awe as we called back and forth.
“Couldn’t you just call for him like that?” she asked as we ran down the trail.
“I could try but he might not call back,” I whistled up to Jet to keep talking and I started mimicking being hurt again, because I knew he would come if he thought I was hurt.
I paused and could hear that Jet was losing hope; his calls were getting higher and farther in between, He was mimicking that he was hurt too, and switching in between baby calls that we sometimes made when we were joking around waiting for the other to come back with food. Then everything went quiet as we both listened, I stopped, *what was that?* there was an engine running, close by too, I whistled up to Jet but he had heard it too, He swooped down and landed beside me.
“Well I found the Zeppelin. But it looks like someone else found it before us there are cars all around in and there are people all over.” Just then the kids came running back.
“We found him but some people won’t give him back, they just told us to go home.” Laura said almost in tears.
“Come on Wave, suit up and ship out, get Storm and get out, the less people who see us the better”
“Wait, we want to help” The kids looked at us wide eyed.
I looked over at Jet who shrugged his shoulders at me and ran off in the direction of the noise. I looked back at the kids, I almost regretted dragging them into this.
“Ok just don’t get hurt” I looked at Jesse and she nodded at me smiling. “And don’t tell your parents unless this works 100%, got it?”
They all nodded happily and ran in front of me, Jesse grabbed my shoulder and smiled gently at me, I let out a long sigh and then we ran after the kids. We can to the edge of the clearing and we all knelt behind at large van that said S.W.A.T. on the side. I didn’t know much about how human worked but I knew that word, and in my dictionary, the definition was just, bad news.
I pointed to myself and then over at a large group of people gathered around a table with a paper spread across it, I could see Jet behind a tree, he saw me too and I could just make out him rolling his eyes. I turned back to face the kids and pointed at them and then in the opposite direction, they all snuck off in that direction, apparently they watched a lot of spy movie because they had that sneaking thing down. I turned to look back at the group and more directly at Jet who pointed to a news van and then rubbed his eyes. *The lady from last night,* I flashed him a thumbs up. Then he pointed to another van, Black with S.W.A.T. written on it too. I guessed that was were Storm was, Just then our new friends pushed over a wrack with guns on it and tables turned over and people ran, no one saw the kids.
“Do you think that was the other ones? That we heard calling?” A man said from the other side of the van. I tried to be quiet and Jet kept looking at me as we both tried not to make any movement.
“Could be, I guess they wouldn’t be too happy that we kidnapped there friend.” Just then I heard heels click across the ground.
“I demand that you let that poor creature go right now!” A lady’s voice said not the reporter thought because I could see her skirt under the van on the ground.
“And who do you think you are lady, and no can do, military orders”
“I am Dolly Mackenzie and I work for the peace keeper’s society” She tapped her foot against the ground, and the only thought I had right then was *Man those guys and so busted* “And I heard you talking about more? And where would they be at?”
“its ok lady, we haven’t caught them yet, maybe you and your little group can get them before we do” The two guys started laughing
They said something else but I wasn’t paying attention because Jet was waving at me and pointing at the van, I noticed someone coming up the side I was on and rolled under the van and braced myself in the framework and engine so if he looked under he wouldn’t notice me. The lady had stopped and started talking to the guy who had just walked up.
“Are you here to laugh at me to” She had lost a little bit of her spunk.
“No I thought I saw something white over hear.” There was a pause and I guessed he had shrugged his shoulder, “must have just been a rabbit or something”
*Wow he’s just about as smart as Storm*
I heard boots scuffle and knees hit the dirt as someone looked under the van, I sucked in and hoped my white cloths wouldn’t stand out, I heard more boots scuffle and some yelling.
There I saw something that time over by the zeppelin , and with that I hoped it wasn’t Jet, the men scuttled off and the lady looked under the car right as I dropped down, I was looking at her face to face, and I never thought I would be that scared in my life. Luckily she winked at me and hustled off after the men still talking. I let out a sigh of relief. I looked out from under the van at Jet, still behind the tree; everyone had run of towards our ‘blimp’. It so wasn’t a blimp, I rolled my eyes and waited for Jet’s next signal, I heard giggling and guest it was the kids, saving our butts.
Jet was pretending to hold something, really thin and kept putting them together, *The van Wave, make it go.* I quickly wiggled down to the engine and sat up to the best I could, being a mechanic so had its advantages, a couple of seconds later the van roared to life. I held myself to the frame again and dropped out behind another van when I went by.
“Those sir are my children…there hear to help out the cause…and I think your van is running away.” The lady said standing beside the kids, I looked up to see where Jet was; he was coming up beside me.
We both stood with are backs to the vans door, and waited for some men to run by after the van which had just crashed through three tables and what looked like a little house. Jet knuckle-bumped my hand and I turned and opened the door, Storm was passed out with some kind of dart in his arm. Jet quickly jumped in the back of the truck and I fallowed keeping the door open only a little so I could see anyone coming.
“So what now?” I said barely above a whisper.
“We are going to have to carry him” Jet whispered back pulling the dart out of Storm.
We both stopped as we heard Laura and the woman walk past us and stop on the other side of the van, she soon appeared in one on the windows, she smiled and waved at us, then dropped out of site. Then she whispered back to the lady.
“Yeah mom there in there, what do we do now?”
Jesse, Jeff, and Michael ran past the door too and now joined the other two beside the van.
“Come on Jesse, Michael get in the back, quietly. There are still keys in this van, we can just drive them out of here, Jeff, Laura get in the front with me and sit on the floor” There mom said in a very strict voice.
“Jail break,” Michael whispered and then jumped in the back fallowed by Jesse.
The Van roared and they jerked forward, Jesse sat down beside me, I pulled the door closed and locked it from the inside, she gave me a thumbs up and then looked at Storm and frowned, I mimicked sleeping as best I could do with one hand on the door. She nodded back, there was a crash and then the Van started to pick up speed, I guessed me were in the clear when a little window opened to the front and there mom’s voice came through.
“Are you two ok back there?” Her voice was friendly like Laura’s now.
“Yeah me and Michael are ok.” Jesse replied smiling at me still, I took my hand off the door and sat down beside her.
“What about your friends?” She said ‘friends’ kind of doubtfully.
“One’s passed out back here, sleep dart, but the other two are ok, aside from a little dirt and oil.” She laughed and ran her hand down my back and turns out, I was covered in oil. *Stupid van, made me get all dirty*
“That’s ok we can get them washed up at the house.” I saw her smile in the rear view mirror; I looked at her questionably, not sure if I trusted her.
“Oh Wave that’s Laura, Jeff, and Michaels Mom. Tiffany. You’ll get to know her better; she’s a secret agent, and my aunt.” Jesse smiled happily and looked in the rear view mirror, that now that I thought about it didn’t really do much, other than let you see in the back, the windows were all blacked out anyways.
I nodded at Jesse and then looked back at Jet who was sitting beside Storm and rubbing the feathers on his chest and Michael had his arm around Jet’s other side rubbing him on the back, it was always hard to see one of the team hurt, there like family to me now. A weird kind off bird family, I guess that kind of thing happens.
“Mom where are we going?” Michael asked looking a little down.
“We’re going down town, ditch the swat van for ours and then we are going to go home, it shouldn’t take too long sweaty just hang in there.”
Not three minutes later the van came to a stop and I could see people outside come out of a beat up looking building and talk to Tiffany. She pulled the van around the back of the building and a door opened and she drove inside, I could tell that Jet was silently freaking out, when you have a record like ours you usually don’t do well with enclosed spaces.
Then my whole world was sideways, literally. I had forgotten that I had been leaning on the door and when one of Tiffany’s partners unhitched the lock and pulled the door open I wasn’t paying attention and fell out of the back landing with a grown with my shoes just barely touching the bottom of the door. This van was actually taller than it looked, or maybe it was because everything way bigger on earth, well compared to Mobius.
Jesse quickly jumped out of the back behind me and helped me up, giggling to herself, I had to laugh too it was pretty funny. I adjusted my goggles and then looked at the adult humans, they had all backed up when I fell out of the van, guess I would be surprised if one of them fell out of a van back on Mobius. Michael jumped out of the back of the van and walked over to one of the guys and high-fived him, Jet scotched to the edge of the van and hung his legs out the back.
“Tiffany what did I tell you about bringing your kids here,” one of the guys joked “They could be spies” He picked up Laura as she and Michael jumped out of the side of the van. “And the babysitter” then he stopped and looked me over, “well what have we hear?”
I think I was just about ready to run out of here with Jet, Storm or no Storm I didn’t want this guy checking me out. Jet scooted a little bit further back into the van as the man came closer to him; I did the thing that comes naturally to me. I grabbed his arm and pulled a little.
“Yeah buddy I wouldn’t do that” I smiled devilishly “I could rip your arm off, no hesitation, and you know that I would if you don’t back away from my friends.” I cockily twisted his arm and then he pulled back quickly and rubbed where I had grabbed him.
“Mean little thing aren’t you?” He shook out his arm “So I’m guessing that was your Zeppelin out there?”
“Maybe, what’s it to you.” I said with a calm voice like I’d seen Jet do all the time.
“Don’t worry we’re on your guys side.”
“Yeah I’m standing in a weird place surrounded by people I don’t know. I’m not as gullible as Sonic if you haven’t already noticed.” I looked him in the eyes because he had knelt down to look me in the eye. I liked it better when people had to look up to us; this made me feel, venerable, now I knew how Tails felt.
“So you do know Sonic, figured you’re from the same place.” He looked up at another guy who scribbled something down on a piece of paper.
“Well that’s hardly true; we could be from two different parts of Mobius, like Downunda and the Far East.” They all looked at my confused.
“You mean like China, and Australia?” Tiffany said.
“That might be what they’re called here but not back home.” I think I was getting homesick.
“Back to the matter at hand, you know Sonic? Right?” the guys said again redirecting my attention.
“Everyone knows Sonic. Everyone get along with Sonic.” I paused and wagged a finger “No. Defiantly not”
“I’m guessing you don’t get along,” he said a little depressingly.
“Sorry buddy but no, not really.” I looked back at Jet and Storm, “So can you help me and my friends or not buddy, because I am getting a case of depression in your basement warehouse.” I said almost a little jokingly.
“Yeah sure, I’ll go and get your car Tiffany, and then you can take them back to the house.” Tiffany tossed him a pair of car keys and he walked off.
I walked over to the back of the van, and grabbed Jets hand that he didn’t have on Storm and he helped me into the back again, I sat down on the edge, only to slip off again. I had forgotten about the oil all down my back, apparently we had forgotten to mention it was all over my pants too. Everyone started trying to hold in muffled laughs.
“Yeah go ahead and laugh, it’s really that funny.” I said kind of T-ed off, but then broke out laughing; even Jet seemed to perk up a little bit. It was good to see him laugh, especially when he had been looking so glum lately.
The guy came back with a red van, me and Jet lifted Storm from one to the out and propped him up against the back seat as we climbed into the back of the van. One of the back seats was folded down so I could still see the kids and Tiffany.
Jesse who was sitting in the front seat quietly when the van started and pulled out into the sunlight turned around to look at us in the back.
“You know Wave; you have quite the gift of talking yourself out of situations there.”
“Thanks I pride myself in it, and also list it as a hobby” I smiled back at her and rubbed Storm’s arm “Tiffany, um how long do you think this sleep dart is going to take to wear off?” That was the first thing that I had directed at her.
“Probably not long from now a couple of hour’s maybe? I’m not sure what the effects might be on you guys…” she trailed off and looked back at the road as we drove past a cop car.
For the rest of the ride everyone was silent, I didn’t want to think about it but, Storm might have been hurt, more than what we could tell right now anyways, he had a cut on his leg, and obvious struggle, Me and Jet had patched it up with a first aid kit in the back of the van. No sooner where we pulling up the drive-way of a big house, Jesse had helped us get Storm out of the back and carried him into the house, as me and Jet ran behind her, she had lay him down on a couch in the living room and said that he would be ok there for a while. Then Tiffany had directed me and Jet to a bathroom and given me a pair of Laura’s short and a pajama top, with orders to ‘get clean’ and to ‘not make a big mess, if possible’.
So there we were, me face down in a bubble bath with my hands and knees on the bottom of the tub and Jet trying to scrub all of the oil out of my feathers.
“I’m really worried about Storm…” Jet said still cleaning my back.
“I know Jet I am too…but can we not talk about that right now, considering I’m kneeling half naked in a bubble bath.”
Jet laughed and kept scrubbing till it was all out, or at least close, he turned around and I wrapped myself in a towel and then tapped him on the shoulder and he turned and got into the tub and scrubbed at some of his feathers quickly getting the dust and dirt out. He got out and pull a towel around him neck and turned around again as I pulled on the shorts and top I had borrowed.
We both threw our towels back over the rack and cleaned up the puddles of water and then went back down to the living room to find the guy we had talked to earlier, get this, sitting on the couch beside Storm. Think I nearly laid an egg. He got up quickly and looked at Tiffany who was coming out of the kitchen.
“I’m sorry I just…” he was panicking, and it was fun to watch it while it lasted.
“Don’t worry, not like he was going to notice anyways” Jet said a little depressingly, which was hard for him to pull off fakely.
“Yeah don’t worry, sorry about earlier too, for making you look like a complete goof, wanted to make it look good for the kids.” I put my arm around Jet and he leaned his head on my shoulder.
“Dad your home!” The kids ran in threw a back door. Great more surprises, this guy was their dad?
I rolled my eyes and half dragged Jet over to the couch and we sat down on the floor, I listened to the kids talk about how they had met us this morning and why Storm was passed out on the couch. It was a good story, up until the round of questions started from the parents, and I can’t blame them, I mean it was their jobs to ask questions.
“So you three are from the same world as Sonic?” There dad, Scott asked.
“Yes, and I refuse to answer any more questions regarding Sonic.” I said a little ticked off.
“So that was your Zeppelin, would you guys recognize these, the secret service found them in there.” She handed me two pictures, of our gears.
“Well it’s good to know that someone knows where they are.” I joked around and handed the pictures to Jet, he nodded looking a bit tired and handed them back to Tiffany, who handed them to the kids.
“So are these what you were talking about earlier? Those things you race?” Jesse spoke up.
“Yeah, there called gears.” I fiddled with my goggles again. Jet leaned on my shoulder and closed his eyes.
“You guys race? On those things?” Scott looked at me bewildered.
“Yes, as hard as it is to believe, and not only do I race, I built them.” I had to say that was the best I had felt all day.
“Wow, you are quite the girl you know.”
“Thanks I try to do it all,” I heard someone in one of the rooms in the hall and turned so I could look down, Laura had that little dog in her arms and put it in one of the rooms, not sure where it had disappeared during the day but she still had something else in her arms.
I looked down the hall as she came up and sat on my other side and handed me a tiny stuffed bird, I actually almost started crying, she leaned up against my side and then just fell asleep. So now I was kind of pinned down there, Laura on one side and a just about asleep Jet on the other side, and naturally it looked like no one was going to help me, I put the little bird in the crook of her arm and listened to some more of the day’s stories, but eventually they all blurred together, one word not connecting with the other, and eventually I slide off into a sleep, it had been a very long day, could you blame me?
. . .
Remember I said there was nothing worst that waking up to a dog barking, well I lied, there is actually something worst, a dog barking and kids yelling and adults yelling, and (yeah there’s more) things dropping in the kitchen, I stifled a yawn, Laura was gone I guess in the kitchen, Jet was still asleep, that bird could sleep through a tornado and not even move. I quickly did a double take to make sure Storm was on the couch, almost wishing that he wouldn’t be and maybe in the kitchen, but he was still lying there, I think he might have moved a little bit.
Then there was more yelling and something else dropped, I realized I was actually really hungry. *The guys must be hungry too* I slowly lifted Jet off of me and put him on the floor he curled up and didn’t look to disturbed, I walked into the kitchen to find the father daughter son trio complaining about breakfast.
“Looks like it was Tiffany’s turn to sleep in this morning,” Everyone turned and looked as Tiffany came up behind me in a bathrobe.
“We didn’t wake you guys up did we?” Laura asked sliding off the stool by the counter which was covered in broken eggs.
“Oh no, I was on my way up anyways, I’m going to go out and find something for me and the guys to eat” I smiled at the chaos in the kitchen.
“Oh you don’t have to we have lots of food here.” Tiffany said with her hand on my shoulder.
Just then Jesse came down the stairs, she had spent the night because her mom was out of town on a business trip, and she was looking at a piece of paper singing to herself. She looked up at me not noticing what had just happened.
“Hey Wave, do you guys sing?” I almost had to roll my eyes at her she handed me a piece of paper and I read it over, she had put in a C.D. in a player and the track came on.
The song was called I won’t give up on us, Maybe a good song to set the mood, Jet walked in and motioned to see the paper as the song started, I looked over at the paper as Jesse started singing.
“I won’t give up, on, us, even if the sky’s get rough” she stopped and pointed to us and we started, call it a curse but, were birds, we love to sing.
“Giving you all, my, love, still looking up…” I looked over at Jet, “still looking up.”
I felt like I was going to cry, I was glad when Jesse stopped the C.D. so I could have a moment to clear my head.
“I was going to go see what I could find for us to eat” I said to Jet.
“No let me go you stay here ok?” I was about to protest but then thought better of it, I hugged him and he walked out of the kitchen.
I went back out to the living room where I saw Storm, what looked like to be waking up, I briskly walked over and sat down beside him rubbing his chest, he murmured something and then his eye lazily opened. I leaned over and hugged him, because frankly I didn’t want to say anything because I was still contemplating about crying, Storm’s thick arms wrapped around my back, and I smiled and pulled away so I could look at him. He looked like he was going to cry! And that’s when we both broke down.
“Storm, me and Jet were so worried” I said roughly sniffling back tears. Then collapsing back onto his chest.
I guess that was kind of loud because Everyone hurried out of the kitchen, Scott holding on to Tiffany, It looked like she was about to cry too. Jesse was holding onto Laura who was smiling happily and Jeff and Michael were just as worst as there mom. I felt Storms hand stroke down my feathers and he nuzzled me on the top of the head, then half picked me up half pushed me up so he could sit up. I was still holding onto his side sobbing like a baby when Jet came back with a couple of fish. Which weren’t off the floor very long before he race and practically jumped on top of us crying too, and by then no one was holding it in anymore, we were all sobbing as hard as ever. Eventually Storm was able to mutter out something.
“Ummm, Wave…”
“Yeah Storm…” I was still trying to stop myself from crying
“I’m hungry…” And with that we all started laughing.
. . .
After we had disgusted out everyone as we picked apart the fish, we filled Storm in on everything that had happened. He didn’t look too impressed when we said that we had to rescue him, or that we were still hiding from the swat team.
“So, what are we going to do about the Zeppelin, and our Gears?” Storm asked me and Jet questionably.
Right then the T.V. which had been on all morning brought up pictures from yesterday, and everyone’s favorite news reporter, Millie Jones the lady who was supper emotional. With the video from a couple of days ago of us goofing around on the roof tops when we got here, and then pictures of Storm in the back of the van, and then somehow, video of me and Jet climbing into the back of the van yesterday in the background of Tiffany yelling at the two agents.
Jet whacked me in the back of the head, *lucky camera guy I guess* I was surprised that I hadn’t seen the camera before our daring escape, *at least they didn’t have any pictures of me lying under the van* I listed as Millie started talking behind a desk in a studio this time.
“As some of the viewers might know, we have been documenting some of our newest arrivals lives on earth so far, and by newest arrivals I mean the ones that haven’t been here before”
I heard someone in the living room mutter ‘no kidding’ I guessed it was Scott.
“Most of them seem to be trying to lie low and stay out of the way, and we ask you to please not notify the police if you happen to see any.”
Some pictures flashed up of people we knew, Storm elbowed me in the ribs.
“Hey Wave, it’s your boyfriend” He smiled cockily at me, I crossed my arms over my chest as a picture of Predator and Lightning came up, they were sitting in an alley way down town.
“Boyfriend?” Jesse asked wonderingly
“I’ll tell you about it later but everyone...” I was interrupted by Jet poking me in the head and pointing back at the T.V. Millie had come back on.
“Others seem to be having a harder time keeping quiet.” A picture of Fiona and Scourge surrounded by police officers came up; it looked like it had been zoomed in on from the helicopter.
“What are they doing by themselves, where is the rest of their team?” Storm questioned me, I shrugged and looked back at a picture of Scourge attacking an officer, I heard Tiffany gasp.
“And the rest of them, just don’t seem to care if there seen or not.” A picture of Bean came up, with him a couple of meters away from the camera smiling and waving. The three of us on the couch all started laughing, that was so like him, and another picture came up of Flying giving big thumbs up at the camera.
“You guys know them?” Scott sat down in a recliner looking at the T.V. still.
“Yeah we know them,” I managed to choke out threw laughter, I took a deep breath in and looked over at him, “We work with them sometimes” I forgot that no one actually knew what we did yet.
Then the video of use on the roof came up, with me lying there sunning myself and Jet and Storm bomb diving each other.
“And others just seem to be having a hard time,” Millie had lost some of her happiness. “Tonight our segment is about these three, like usual we aren’t sure if there related or if there all just friends, but there’s one little girl,” a picture of me came up, zoomed in obviously, while I was sitting on the roof “and two boys” a picture came up of Jet, feathers fully extended and in a nose dive, and then one of Storm, being carried by an officer with the dart in his arm.
“Now these three are who we think own the huge blimp, I mean Zeppelin that was found in the forest outside of town yesterday morning were one was captured but then was later rescued by his two friends,” the short clip came up and was highlighted in the corner where me and Jet had hopped into the back of the van. With the kids yelling in the background and Tiffany talking to the guard.
“We are not sure were these three are now but we will try and keep you informed on what is happening…I have just received detail that a demonstration that seem to have been led by professor Thorndyke is taking place outside the White House. We are going live to Willow Jane now.” The camera switched to a split screen and another girl popped up.
“Willow can you hear us” Willow nodded holding her ear “Can you give us any details about the protest?”
“At the moment there isn’t much, just a lot of talk about how we should leave the Mobians alone, and also this is actually attracting a lot of them.” The white house wasn’t far from where we were right now, A live video came up of Lightning and Predator sitting in a tree on the front lawn. Then, just to ruin my day it zoomed over to what the two of them had been looking at, Sonic, standing in the middle of the crowd beside his professor friend smiling and shaking hands, the camera swivelled back to Willow. “Um is it just me or do those two not look to happy that Sonic is here?” she questioned the camera.
“No they don’t, ok go and get more information, we will get back to you later…and now to weather” The T.V. flicked off and Jet turned and looked at me with that look on his face that only meant he was worried.
“Who were those two, in the tree a second ago?” Scott asked us. I looked over to Jet and he nodded the ok.
“That was Lightning Lynx and Predator Hawk…”
“Wave’s boyfriend” Storm butted in.
“You know I think it was better when you were asleep,” I grabbed him in a loss head lock and scuffed up his feathers.
“We should go and check that out Scott” Tiffany said, I hadn’t realized that she was leaning on the back of the couch.
“Yeah we probably should, are you three coming too?” He directed this at me but Jet answered.
“Oh yeah, who would want to miss seeing Sonic?” he mocked and I couldn’t help but giggle, now things were going to get fun,
“And that means?”
“Yeah were coming,” I answered for Jet who was beaming “who knows maybe he brought the shrimp and the red mutt.”
“Can we come too” Michael asked.
“Well… I just you can, what is the damage a couple extra eyes could do.” Tiffany smiled over to her husband.
Jet, Storm and I all pushed on the living room window till it opened and we slid out one by one and spread our wing circling the house a couple of times and then fallowing there van into town, on our way to almost defiantly, another fight.
. . .
The three of us landed in the plaza later as the families van pulled up as close as they could get. The protest had gotten a lot bigger since we had seen it on T.V. a couple of minutes ago. I was startled as Jet made a most unpleasant ‘uff’ sound and turned to face him to find him being attacked by a ‘vicious’ enemy.
“Jettison!! I was wondering where you and the other two had gotten off to” Bean quickly let go of Jet’s leg and ran to my arms as Tiffany ran up looking intense. “Ah! Scary adult” He buried his head into my shoulder as I hugged him back.
“Ah don’t worry Bean, there with us.” Jet smiled as Bark slowly made him was over and high-fived Storm.
“So who’s this Wave?” Scott asked over my shoulder trying to get a better look at Bean. “Isn’t one of yours is it, didn’t think you were that old?”
“Wow you really don’t understand personal space do you man? And no this is Bean, he’s a rogues like us, and his friend Bark” I glanced over at Bark who roughly smiled in his usual way and turned back to Storm.
“Nice to meet you Bean and Bark.” Scott said but didn’t get too much of a response other than Bean jumping out of my arms and going to look at Laura. “And guys this is my wife Tiffany, my kids Jeff, Michael, and Laura and my niece Jesse.”
He beamed unrealistically and Bark rolled his eyes, for a guy who doesn’t talk he displays his emotions very good.
“So do you guys have eyes on Sonic yet?” Jet asked and Bark pointed in a relative direction to our left were most of the crowd was.
“Figured, the attention hog. Ha that was kind of funny” Storm trailed off, I rolled my eyes and looked over to Bean.
“Bean is he with anyone?” I asked.
“Yeah the little needle mouse is with the girly needle mouse and the foxy woxy and the red mutt and his person friend doctor.” Bean smiled excitedly at me “Why what are you guys planning? ‘Cause I am totally in!”
“Yeah we got something planned for him. We just need…”Jet was interrupted as Predator and Lightning came running up.
“Was wondering if the Rogues were going to show up” Lightning said monotone like, as Predator ran at me and wrapped his arms around my waist and threw me over his shoulder.
“Whee!” I yelled as I looked at the ground.
“Like your new look dolly, it’s a great view from back here I’d say” I had forgotten I was still wearing Laura’s shorts.
“Hey! Stop looking at my butt! You guys want in on this gig or not!” I wiggled my legs and he put me down.
“Like we would miss one of your guy’s stunts” Predator rolled his eyes and nuzzled my beak.
“Ok guys huddle up, this is going to be good” Jet gathered us all into a huddle and we whispered back and forth for a couple of minutes while the kids had run off into the crowd to look for Sonic and their parents had gone to scope out good spots to observe.
Our friend from the news room were out there too, and a couple of times they did get a little close but then found some common scents and backed off. After our group huddle, who was standing there, none other than Millie Jones in the flesh, only a couple meters away too. Shaking uncontrollably probably getting paid double to even be here. She shakily asked us all a question.
“So guys…can I ask what you’re doing?” she ask slowly looking like she was about to lose her lunch.
“You can ask but you’ll have to wait and see!” Bean chimed in happily. He loved all the attention he was getting lately.
Millie quickly ran away with the camera man in tow and then we all set off to start with the games, me and Predator walked right into the thick of it, and not to many people noticed because they were too busy listening to Sonic’s earth friend and The Shrimp talk. I heard Bean giggling with Jet a couple of people away looking towards Sonic and turned and saw Bark and Storm around the back, turning back to Predator who was focused on Sonic as he bobbed around. And then of course Lightning who was sneaking up behind them all silently, I loved that he was a ninja. Then our plan got underway as the four of us in the crowd all flew up making all kinds of noise and landed in front of Sonic. Everyone in the crowd went silent.
“So mister needle mouse we meet again” Bean smiled.
“Oh yeah right guys like you would do this here, I don’t have time right now.” Sonic tried to wave us off as Amy, Knuckles and Tails came up behind him
“Sonic, what going on?” his earth friend asked.
“Remember how I said that there were some people that weren’t exactly all in on this ‘come and visit’ idea, these are some of them.” Sonic braced himself to fight and that was my signal.
“Oh come on hedgie, like you even asked us.” I said weaving closer to him till eventually I could lean on him. “And tell your earth friend to calm down, I don’t have a problem with him yet” I smiled devilishly as Amy swung her hammer at me and ended up hitting Sonic instead.
“Yeah right Wave, you wouldn’t have to have a problem with him because you aren’t the boss remember” Tails tried to insult me with.
“And it’s not like your little thrown together group is actually all that together” Knuckles said as Sonic regained his ground and I took a couple of steps back.
“Jet get your friends out of here now before we force you out” Sonic said re-bracing himself.
“To bad Jet isn’t the boss of all of us,” Predator said from behind me, everything was going good so far, a couple more steps and Lightning would have her.
“Good question? Where is my look-a-like twin Predator? Or is he to occupied with his new girl for you guys?” I could tell that got Predator down a bit.
“Oh come on Sonic like you didn’t see him take out all the police yesterday, it was all over this morning?” Bean was still smiling.
“And I thought you and Bark were still with Knack? Guess that didn’t work to well either.” I knew Knack had fired the two of them earlier this week, before we got stuck here. “And what happened too…” He was interrupted as Lightning grabbed Amy and pushed her over to Predator who grabbed her tightly around the arms.
“You let her go!” The earth guy yelled because the others were in too much shock to say anything else.
“Or else what earth boy. What are you going to do, huh? Pull on my feathers till I beg you to stop.” Jet smirked and pulled his shoes off. We all did the same and held them in our mouths as everyone close lunged at us as we pulled off into the sky. Jet was holding onto Lightning and Predator was holding onto a screaming Amy.
Seconds later we were back in the forest were Bark and Storm met us with a rope and some pieces of paper and a pencil, they held and tied Amy down while Jet scribbled our note out onto paper,
Sonic
You get the girl back when you tell your earth friend to give us back our stuff and Flying.
Get it?
Predator had told us that they had managed to kidnap Flying and Bean and Bark were just happy to help out, we figured the human would get it and if not, there is always fun to be had with a defenceless hedgehog.
Jet flew the note back to the plaza adding that we would be back in a half hour and if our stuff wasn’t there the girl was going to get it. All of a sudden Predator grabbed we around the back and pulled me close to him, nuzzling against my beak, I heard Amy go ‘Awww’ as I nuzzled Predator back, and of course Bean make a disgusted face.
“I missed you sweet heart.” He whispered in my ears.
“I missed you too honey” I have to say love does weird things to you, just as we broke apart Jet came back panting.
“Wow, *huh huh* they, they really aren’t happy…but *agh* I think that they get our demands.”
I smiled at Jet who was doubled over still breathing heavy and looking like he had been cut by something, when out of no were Tiffany pops threw the trees looking extremely mad. We all took a couple of steps back as she advanced on us, gun in hand and all.
“What was all of that!” she motioned with her hand to the plaza “all about! And look at this poor little girl, you guys could have hurt her!” she was yelling pretty loud now, Bean was the first to speak up sounding a little scared.
“We, we just, this is what we, we well do for…well a living, we don’t know anything else…” he said shaking as he held onto Barks leg.
“Well if you wanted your stuff back why couldn’t have you just gone to where it was and break in there!”
“That was my second plan.” Jet said trying to look cool but backed away and put his hands up as she pointed the gun at him.
“Why not you’re first, hum? Tell me!” she said swinging the gun around.
“Because it’s easier to do things threw Sonic” Strom chimed in after a while.
“Well you didn’t have to do it in front of everybody like that” she sighed and bent down and put her gun down and then kicked it over to bean who happily picked it up and admired his reflection in it. “And if you were going to kidnap anyone why didn’t you kidnap Mr. Thorndyke?”
“Because none of them that could get close enough could carry him, I thought all people were supposed to have some intelligence” We were all shocked as Amy butted in, “And I don’t mind playing hostage, Sonic seems to like it.” She smiled all girly like; I don’t think I could do the damsel in distress thing.
I saw Jet roll his eyes and then he and Storm flew up over the trees, I sat down and leaned up against a tree as Amy and Tiffany got to know each other better, Predator came up and put his arm around my waist and he sat down and I put my head on his shoulder, smiling contently as Jet and Storm landed again.
“They have Flying over there already, and now Sally’s there with them too.” Jet said landing beside Bean who was chasing after some king of bug.
“I thought we ditched her way back when…ugh I forget, but a long time ago.” Storm said landing on a branch.
“But we are still good on the plan right?” Lightning looked down at Jet from a branch where he was sitting.
“Yeah we’re still going on the plan, just no one tick of the princess, and I’m looking at you Wave” Jet pointed at me and I shrugged my shoulder.
Now all there was left to do was wait for another half hour, this was only going to get worst and worst.
. . .
Well after listening to all the guys bicker at each other for the better part of half an hour and split that between listening to girly talk of, ‘oh I like your hair’ and so on I was glad to be giving Amy back. Once we got to the plaza Sonic was holding Flying’s arms behind his back, and it looked like if he let go he would just crumple to the ground. Amy as best she could, kneel down and bowed her head, I saw Bark and Lightning do the same, to be in the presents of the princess, what an honor! But I guess it’s just a Mobians thing. I heard Jet stifle a huff and saw Predator roll his eyes with his arms crossed as Bean tried to cross his arms like I had mine.
“Ok Jet we couldn’t get your teams things back, because they refuse to deal with terrorists, but we did get your frog back,” Sally said roughly, but in her gentile tone that she always had, well mostly had unless she was really mad.
“Just so we are all clear, on the count of three you guys let Amy go and I let your friend here go too, ok?” Sonic asked gazing at Sally.
“You know I don’t think that’s going to work” Predator said, sounding a little off, but hiding it like he always did.
“Why what’s the problem, don’t you want him back?” Sally asked and I had to give the answer because it didn’t look like Predator or Lightning wanted to say anything.
“No princess we do want him back it’s just that, well if Sonic lets go of him it looks like he’s just going to fall over…I mean we didn’t do anything to Amy and you had to go and wreck it by, Ow!” Jet slapped me in the back of the head. It didn’t look like Sally was too impressed.
“Fine then Wave, you come here and get him on the count of three ready?” Sonic paused rolling his eyes. *how did I get elected to go and get him?* “one, two, three. Go”
Amy ran past me and stood behind Sonic as I slowly advanced and picked Flying up, he didn’t feel to good his skin was all dry and he barely looked like he was awake. I hoisted him to my hip and rubbed his back, I slowly backed up again and Predator came to meet me, taking Fling from me and putting him on the ground propped up against his legs. I’m glad we birds all decided to ditch out shoes, we might need to get out of here fast. I turned to leave but then realized a hand on my shoulder; I looked up to see Mr. Thorndyke.
“Listen, I’m sorry for all the trouble us humans have been causing you guys lately” I looked past him at Sonic who was braking himself in case I lashed out at his friend. “It’s just that Sonic was here before and he wanted to come and visit so…” I interrupted him.
“He used Chaos control which allows a person to travel through space and time, but he wasn’t sure what the effects would be on Mobius but it turns out that he only ended up teleporting everyone within a day’s travel here.” I rolled my eyes and took his hand off my shoulder. “Last time I saw Sonic he told me that your mind was something to rival at but all I’m seeing now is…mush”
“Wave lay off it,” Tails said walking up beside person and pulled on his jacket. “And what Sonic said was right, he could outdo you and your inventions any day.”
“Phish I highly doubt that, but maybe someday we can see his try, if you think he’s good then he mustn’t be too much to rival at seeing all of your accomplishments.” I rolled my eyes at him and turned again to walk away; Jet was looking severely ticked at me.
“Come on Wave let’s get out of here before we get into more than we can handle.” Jet grabbe