Sonic X: Clereen's Story

Chapter 3: Mansion of a Rich Girl

“Oh man, oh man oh man oh man!” a blue creature exclaimed in panic to himself. This creature resembled a hedgehog with large blue spikes coming from his back and head like hair. It was yet another creature with a human form and even more apparent with his fat pot belly. 

“What happened? Where am I?” he fussed as he stepped back and away from all the strange unfamiliar sights around him. He jumped at every sound he heard, not realising this was actually getting him closer to the danger he was trying to avoid. Suddenly he heard a loud honk of a horn and he turned just in time to jump away from a truck careening towards him.

“I can’t stay here” he said to himself.

“I gotta find Tails!“ just then the creature found himself encased in a net.

”gotcha!” yelled the young rookie police officer

“my first job is gonna be a snap!” he said to himself. However, it seemed he had spoken too soon as the creature yelled like crazy, wiggling, twisting and squirming until he found his way out of the net. As soon as he was out he bounced away as fast as he could.

“No no NO! Come back!!” The police officer yelled in panic while trying to chase the creature down. However, the creature was too fast for him. He chased the police officer into the tight, dark alley ways where he soon lost him. The creature gave a sigh of relief before wandering off anxiously round the back of the city and into the distance away from all the hustle and bustle.

“If I don’t find Tails, We’ll be done for”.

The creature then proceeded to wander aimlessly heading to where it was quieter and in a blur of blue he was gone into the distance. He quickly came upon the rich district of the city where the houses where larger, farther apart and rather peaceful compared to the city. Just when he started to relax and gave a sigh of relief he slipped and fell into a pool of water. He had carelessly wandered into the garden of a large mansion with a huge swimming pool in front.

The creature flailed about screaming “I can’t swim! I can’t swim!”. Just then, a young girl leapt into the pool and pulled him out as fast as he fell in. This girl was around the age of 16 and had short blond hair with rough edges. She wore a loose rose pink jacket with a plain white T-shirt underneath and rose pink trousers with white pulling ropes. She even went barefoot. He coughed and spluttered, desperately gasping for breath and the girl slapped him on the back. So much so he had to tell her to stop.

“You alright?” the girl asked.

“Yeah, I’m OK” the creature replied before slowly turning his head to face her only to start running the other way.

“W-Wait!” the girl called after him while chasing him down

“Leave me alone. Go away! Stranger danger!” he yelled as he ran further away. Soon the girl stopped chasing as she realised he was running around in circles. Then he stopped and looked around before squealing in fear once more once he saw her again and hiding in a little dark nook between the building fittings. Then it went quiet. The girl walked over to him until she was close enough to hear his panicked whispering to himself.

She tried again “You don’t need to run away. I was just trying to help you”

“That’s what they all say” the creature quickly said in response.

“No, really.” The girl paused and thought for a minute before speaking again. “Are you hungry?” This topic caught his interest and he turned to listen.

“I can make you a sandwich” the girl said in a kind and gentle tone

“Do you have snacks?” The creature responded looking a little brighter.

“yes, I have lots of snacks. Do you like snacks?”

“Yeah” The creature replied shyly.

“What kind of snacks do you like?”

“burgers and chips!” He said now starting to sound excited.

“that’s not a snack!” The girl exclaimed.

“That’s what Tails always tells me” he said sounding rather disappointed.

“Well, if you really want it, I can get you some burger and chips. Does that sound good?”

The creature licked its lips “YES YES YES!!” he yelled before trying to get out of the space. 

However, it seemed his pot belly had got him stuck. The girl didn’t need to be told anything as she quickly got to work pulling him out. He came out very easily when the girl spun him around to a different position.

“oh” the creature said sounding embarrassed as he rubbed the back of his head. The girl couldn’t help but giggle at his foolish behaviour. The creature smiled back before his stomach gurgled a little.

“I better get you that burger and chips then” said the girl before rushing over to the house front door.

“Come on, come in!” She said as she opened the door and rushed inside. The creature quickly followed bounding joyfully behind her.

The girl had her servants make a large serving of cheese burger and chips especially for him and he didn’t wait 5 seconds before starting to stuff his face. The girl giggled again before speaking

“So what’s your name?”

“Sufficcmpf” he said spitting food everywhere.

“I can’t hear you while you’re eating” the girl giggled

“Sonic” he said after swallowing a huge lump of burger.

“That’s an interesting name” Anna said inquisitively.

“is it?” Sonic said plainly.

“yes”. Anna exclaimed.

“Not just that. How you look! There are no creatures here that look anything like you! Where do you come from?”

“Well...” Sonic stopped eating for a bit to speak

“Me and Tails were battling Eggman when” Sonic couldn’t resist for very long and continued to eat mid conversation.

“who is this Tails you keep talking about?”

“Off, hurff?” Sonic said with his mouth full.

“GULP! She’s just my friend. She’s a fox and she makes sure I don’t get into trouble” Then suddenly he realised something while in the middle of the next bite.

“Iff furgoff! GULP! I need to find her!” he yelled desperately while standing up.

“Whoa, wait” Sonic turned to look at her

“Maybe you should stay here”

“why?” Sonic asked before quickly grabbing another chip.

“You said she protects you from danger right?”

“yeah” he grabbed another chip before then taking several more and shoving them in his mouth

“then you should wait here to keep safe until she finds you. That’s what I would do”

“Oh!” Sonic said in surprise

“You’re right! I’ll stay here then”

“Good, you don’t want too many people seeing you because they might try to capture you and do experiments on you” Sonic stared back at her in terror at the idea

“It’s OK. It’s OK! You will be safe here. I have bodyguards and lots of security. There is no way anyone suspicious can come in here. As long as you stay hidden”.

“Good” Sonic sighed with relief. He tried to shove more chips in his mouth but he soon realised he had run out. Sonic looked very disappointed.

“You can have dessert if you want” Anna said when she noticed how sad he looked while circling his fingers round the greasy plate. Sonic perked up and smiled a big grin. The girl took that as a yes and ordered some cake.

“So before the dessert arrives, tell me how you got here”

“Oh, yes! Sorry. Me and Tails were fighting Eggman. Eggman is this big bad guy where we live and we have to stop him causing trouble. So we were fighting him and then suddenly he used the power of the chaos emeralds in his machine but we smashed the controls so the machine went crazy and then there was a big flash of white. Then I woke up and I was here. You know, I’ve never seen a creature like you before either”

“So are you from a different world? WOW!” The girl exclaimed with great excitement.

“I-I guess so” then Sonic noticed the food coming his way and starting jumping about with joy.

“You know, Tails would have never let me do this!”

“Do what?”

“Eat all this food!” he said before trying to stuff the entire cake in his mouth at once

“I think I can see why” The girl said under her breath. However, Sonic didn’t notice and continued to stuff himself with food.

The girl yawned. “Well, it’s getting late. I better get to bed at last. I was just about to go to bed when you fell in that pool, you know?” Sonic put his hand behind his head

“y-yeah sorry about that” he said embarassed.

“Oh, it’s OK. It’s not your fault you fell in there. I doubt you did it on purpose if you couldn’t swim” Sonic smiled at her and continued to eat.

“You better come and get some sleep to” The girl said getting up and walking towards the door.

“After the cake” Sonic said looking worried

“After the cake” she said with a smile before wandering out the door

“you can finish it upstairs. Come on”. Sonic quickly grabbed what was left of the cake and bounded to the door to catch up with her.

Meanwhile, somewhere nearby in an industrial area there is a science lab. Here is where a little humanoid bunny girl creature lies with soft light brown fur and large floppy ears. She wore a little orange dress and held tight to a little blue creature with a little red bow tie. She cowered in fear as the humans busily typed on their computers like futuristic ants and examined her data.

“Goddammit Sonic!” A voice yelled angrily from the streets.

“I’m gonna kill him for this!” a two tailed fox with golden fur and a white crest wandered about the backstreets of the city. Tails then noticed a frilly handkerchief on the floor. She picked it up and examined it before then rushing away. Before long she arrived at the science lab. She paused and considered her plan before unscrewing a vent and crawling inside. It wasn’t long before she came across the forlorn cries of Cream the bunny trapped in a green glass tube. Tails waited for her moment and then threw an explosive to smash the tube open.

The head scientist yelled “don’t let them get away!” but by the time the smoke cleared they were already long gone. However, the security cameras blocked their path. But tails had a trick up her sleeve. She quickly threw out some small devices that landed on the cameras and disabled them with an electric charge. Tails quickly ran down the halls with the bunny creature holding on by one hand and still tightly clutching onto her precious blue chao with the other.

However, the security soon caught up with them and the security guards blocked their way. Cream made a little squeal “What do we do now miss Miles?”

“Don’t worry. Let me handle this” Tails reassured Cream before the little devices which were once on the cameras gave the guards an electric shock and they collapsed.

“Oh! Miss Miles! Are they OK?” Cream said in shock

“they’ll be fine. It’s just enough to stun them but it won’t kill them”

It wasn’t long until they escaped the building. Tails took them far away and into a dark back alley before stopping to catch her breath

“what do we do now miss Miles and where is Sonic?”

“Don’t worry about that Cream. Everything is going to be fine. We need to find a good hiding place to keep you safe at least quite a ways away from here. We will have to keep going until we find it”

“OK Miss Miles.” Cream said shyly.

“chao chao!” said the little blue creature who had now used its little pink wings to fly out of her arms.

“Cheese and I will do anything we need to if that will help” Cream said and Cheese smiled and clapped eagerly in agreement.

“Good. Thank you Cream. You are a good girl. Unlike Sonic who I am gonna-” Tails looked over at Cream as she stared blankly back at her

“I am so mad at him right now!” Tails said changing her tone a little.

“I guess we should try and find him and the others. We will be safer together” Tails let out a deep sigh 

“But for now it’s late so we should rest”

“yes Miss Miles” Cream replied chirpily and with that Tails and Cream settled in the dark alley for the night as best they could.

The next day, Sonic awoke feeling hungry. The girl was still asleep. Sonic tried to get out of his sleeping bag but struggled and wiggled to no avail.

“You need some help?” The girl was awake now and she got up out of bed to help Sonic out of his sleeping bag. It was easy once she unzipped it. Sonic leapt out of the sleeping bag as soon as he could.

“Breakfast! Breakfast!” Sonic yelled excitedly.

“Honestly, do you care about nothing but food?” the girl said jokingly. Sonic went quiet

“That’s what Tails would say...” Sonic stared out of the bedroom window. The girl knew what was on his mind.

“Don’t worry, Sonic. I’m sure, if she is as strong as you said she is, she will be fine” the girl said with an encouraging confidence. Sonic continued to stare out of the window for a while before giving a deep sigh and turning to the girl.

“Miss Rhianna, your breakfast is served” a servant called through the doorway.

“Yes, I’ll be right there!” Rhianna called back before turning back to Sonic.

“So your name is Rhianna?” Sonic asked.

“Yes” She sighed.

“Boring isn’t it? Just call me Anna” she smiled a sweet smile

“Let’s get some breakfast, eh?” Sonic smiled back and he followed her down the stairs. After breakfast they watched some TV. Sonic lay slouched on the couch watching the local news channel until he suddenly jumped up.

“A chaos emerald!!” He yelled in surprise and urgency. There they were talking about a newly discovered jewel found buried in the ground of an archaeological dig started under a building in the city.

“No-one knows how it got there and archaeologists are saying it is a new type of mineral never seen before. The value is estimated very high with its size. This could be the discovery of the century” the TV newsreader continued.

“chaos emerald?” Anna asked inquisitively

“It’s a magic jewel from our world and it’s really powerful. We need to get it before Eggman does!” Sonic said with a sense of urgency that seemed unfitting for him. And with that he jumped up from the couch and rushed towards the door in a blue blur.

“W-wait!” Anna called after him

“Do you even know where the chaos emerald is?” Sonic stopped on the spot and then turned around, rubbing the back of his head in embarrassment

“no” he admitted

“I do” Said Anna rushing to his side

“It’s the building round the corner of the jewellery shop my mum likes. It’s not far from here. My chauffer can help us get there” she said as she quickly passed him and rushed out of the room

“Common, this way!” Sonic followed behind as they raced to the garage.

At this time Tails and Cream were wandering around the back alleys of the city to travel while in hiding. However, something caught Tails’ attention when they were passing by a TV shop in the street.

“...what seems to be a giant jewel...” Tails immediately perked up.

“what is it miss Miles?” Cream asked before Tails shushed her to be quiet. Tails looked very intently at the TV screen for a few minutes until they showed an image of their findings. Tails wasted no time in rushing off with Cream in hand

“argh! Miss Miles must you move with such hast?!” Cream cried but to no avail.

Meanwhile, a humanoid pink creature wandered through the sewers. It had a short pink crop hair made of spikes, tied back with a bright red hair band. It wore a bright red dress and she held some bright red boots to match with her fingers as she walked.

“I can’t BELIEVE I had to go down here!” She said in frustration.

“Those pink freaks will get what’s coming to them, someday. Mark my words. NO-one lays a hand on my dress and gets away with it!” she angrily ranted to herself as she walked. Then she noticed a manhole above her

“Ah, an opening. Finally, I can get out of this filthy hole!” she carefully inched open the lid of the manhole and looked around but almost as soon as she did so she saw a black limo careening towards her. She quickly went under the manhole again and after a few seconds opened it up and peaked out again to see what almost hit her. She saw the back of a creature with big blue spikes on the back of its head and a crisp packet flew into her face from the limo as it went past. She quickly grabbed the crisp packet and threw it off her face

“I would know those blue spikes anywhere” She threw the manhole open and jumped out

“Sonic! It’s me! Amy!” The limo continued down the road at high speed. Amy shook her fists and growled

“That fat BASTARD!” in frustration.

Tails had climbed a high office building and looked down at the archaeological site. Cream was hidden safety away behind an air vent on the top of a building nearby. Tails saw the chaos emerald held in the newsreaders hands while she was filming live. It took mere seconds for her to react and she jumped down to the side of the newsreader just as quickly. She grabbed the chaos emerald out of the newsreaders hand before jumping away onto the scaffolding of the half built building structure on the site.

“sorry, but this is too important for you to be touching like that” Tails said as she stood on the scaffolding of the building site nearby. She was just about to leave when she heard a voice calling to her

“Tails!” she quickly turned back to see Sonic and Anna standing outside a black limo nearby.

“Sonic!” Tails exclaimed with a big smile before rushing towards him. Sonic’s eyes shined with joy at seeing his old friend before he was rudely awakened from his stupor by a hard slap on the cheek.

“You IDIOT, SONIC!!” Tails screeched with her fists clenched either side of her body, trying to contain her anger.

“What were you thinking, destroying the machine. Are you NUTS?!” Sonic hung his head in shame 

“but I was just trying to help” Sonic said solemnly.

“Well, look what that got us into!” She said throwing her arm out to the world around them to demonstrate her point

“Why can’t you just think before you act for once! I don’t even know why we bring you to fight Eggman anymore!” Sonic hung his head in shame. Tails breathed a big deep sigh and paused for a while before responding

“At least you’re safe” she said.

“Have you got the emerald?” Sonic asked eagerly but before Tails could respond Sonic saw a big wide figure stand behind her. Sonic didn’t have a chance to warn her before she was smacked on the back of the head with a huge hand and fell unconscious. 

“Tails!” Sonic yelled in despair as he knelt to see if she was OK. Sonic looked up to see the emerald taken by large hands. He tried to grab it before he did but he was too late

“Looks like I have it now” a man’s voice boldly stated before bellowing a hearty laugh.

“HOOO ho ho ho!”

It was an old man with a large chest and pot belly. He wore a big red shirt with white gloves and tight black pants. His hands and feet were rather large in proportion to the rest of his body even though he was already of a large build, perhaps even twice as big as a normal adult man. He wore giant shiny black shoes with short heels and a large orange moustache that stretched to twice the length of his head from one end to the other.

“What are you doing? Give it back!” Anna yelled at the man before running towards him. However, the large man easily over powered the thin teenager and trapped her behind his arm and against his wide chest.

“Anna, NO!” Sonic yelled.

“It seems I now have two prizes for the price of one. Buy one get one free. HOOO ho ho ho, ho, hooo!” The man laughed loud and bold

“Save us your stupid puns, old man!” The man quickly turned to see Amy standing nearby.

“What would you know about comedy? You can’t even dress for the occasion” as the old man responded Anna opened her mouth wide and bit hard into the man’s huge hand.

The man yelled in agony and loosened his grip enough for her to slip out of his arms and grab the emerald out of his other hand. She then threw it to the closest person she could see. Amy caught the emerald before realising

“Don’t give it to ME?!” she said in panic as the old man turned and stared at her. Amy looked at Sonic in panic but all he could do was watch in horror. The old man didn’t hesitate to pounce towards her but she started running with the emerald held as far as she could in front of her with both hands.

Tails started to snap out of unconsciousness but it wasn’t long before Amy was overpowered by the man’s big black foot and the emerald prized from her hands. The man held Amy tightly under one arm and held the emerald with the other as before but this time he rushed away into a dark alleyway. Tails and Sonic quickly followed but they weren’t fast enough to stop him from rising into the air with his round craft.

The craft was only just big enough for the fat man to fit so he shuffled in it for a minute or so. Amy wiggled and squirmed all the while yelling at the top of her lungs various profanities and insults about his weight. The man ignored her and pressed a few buttons on the control panel in front of him. This made two large, thick metal wires come out from the machine. These wires had three finger like pincers at the end and he proceeded to use it to grab Amy out of his hands.

He squeezed her tightly so she chocked and grimaced in pain, unable to speak. “Aaah, that’s better” The old man said as he wiggled her around tauntingly. Tails looked up at him and grimaced angrily at him before suddenly a blue blur sped into the scene and smacked into the wire holding Amy. However, this didn’t work very well as the wires were too strong to break and he fell back onto the ground, landing on his feet.

“Fashionably late, as usual” Tails said but actually sounding rather pleased.

“You’re bleeding!” Anna cried but it was too late. Tails’ adrenaline had kept her going but when she touched her head and saw the blood she suddenly run out of energy and collapsed. Sonic dashed to her aid and caught her before she hit the floor.

“HOOO ho ho ho!” The old man laughed triumphantly.

Anna held a handful of rocks and stone pieces from the archaeological site and proceeded to throw them at the old man with great enthusiasm. The old man was caught off guard and found it difficult to avoid them. It wasn’t long before one of them hit him directly in the face. When he shuffled to get away from one of the rocks, his fat belly slipped out of place and accidently pressed a bunch of buttons and switches on his control panel. These button presses caused the machine to sway left and right and move around in circles. The long wire arms of the machine lost their grip on Amy as they flailed about in all directions. The old man noticed this was happening and tried to regain control of his hover craft but soon realised he couldn’t see due to his face being swollen by the last rock that hit him.

“I will come back for you. Soon I will find all of them! You wait and see! I am the genius and I have the devices. I’d like to see you find them before me! HOOO ho ho ho hooooo!!” He said before stumbling away into the distance in his machine and almost crashing into the corner of a skyscraper on his way.

“Are you OK, Tails?” Anna said worriedly as Sonic tried to hold her upright.

“Tails” Sonic said with concern. Tails tried to stand still but her legs shaked violently.

“I-I’m OK. I just need to-” Tails said faintly before falling off her feet again and Sonic caught her in his arms once again.

“She’ll be OK” Amy said as she came closer, brushing the dirt from her dress and hair.

“She’s stubborn that way. She just needs to lie down for a while” 

The news helicopters flew overhead and peered down at them and police sirens blared at them 

“Where is she going to rest? She can’t rest here and now they will be looking for us” Sonic said worriedly.

“You can stay at my mansion” Anna said in quick response.

“There is plenty of space for all of you and my security guards will make sure no-one follows us there or enters the house without our consent”

“Are you sure?” Sonic said anxiously. Anna turned and smiled at him

“You get what you pay for. My parents are one of the richest families in the city. That mansion is only the house we use in the summer and it’s especially for me”

“Then let’s get out of here so I can have a wash. GOD!” Amy said before rushing away towards the limo.

“Yes. You do smell a bit. What happened to you?” Anna asked

“Don’t ask” Amy replied. Everyone followed Anna into the limo and they all drove to Anna’s mansion. 

This was their new home, for now.