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((Tagging @sonic for convenience!)

Rider wasn't exactly in the brightest of moods. Then again, she has a hard time classifying what exactly was a 'bright mood' for her.
Oh well.

She casually strolled around what would be "Brightwing Lane" - in order to know more about the Life Sphere's places - with no set goal in mind. I guess this was the place where she would get her own house? Or at least a counterpart of something back home?

....Home....She missed that place, and she longed to return to it. However, fate seems to despise Rider on this planet. Nothing seems to be leading towards her home...

"...I wish I knew why I can't go back." Rider went on to lament.

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    Sonic was having a great day. Sure, he was suddenly stuck on an unknown world and sure he didn’t know if he could ever get home, and sure there were weird monsters swarming the entire planet except for a small domed city… “But at least I have chili-dogs! Ah, god’s gift to Hedgehog-kind.” Sonic gleefully sucked the extra sauce off of his gloved fingers after downing the holy treat in two bites.

    
    As he sped around from block to block, a turbulence whipping the wind behind him, the people who caught a glimpse of the blue blur stared at it with angry expressions; it was as if they were already mad at Sonic for something? But that couldn’t be it, he had only been in this place for a day! While Sonic was traveling at what he lovingly called “cruising speed”, he worked his way through 2 more dogs while seemingly defying all physics as he held a stack of 12 or so more tucked in his arm without spilling any of the sauce on himself or at all!


    Finally catching a good spot to rest, Sonic rolled to a stop at a table a little ways off the sidewalk, which also happened to be a few feet away from Rider. It looked nice enough to eat on but… “Ah I can get this dig ship, shape, and tricked up to the max!” In a tornado of blue that dashed to and fro from god knows where, Sonic set up an umbrella over the table, set an expensive china plate with complementary knives and forks, a romantic lit wax candle, and a fancy chair in the span of seconds. Setting down the dogs on the plate and hopping into the chair, Sonic licked his lips in anticipation. “Let the snackage begin.”

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Rider felt a blast of wind suddenly come by. And it had vanished mere seconds later. What was that? That wasn't any natural wind, that's for sure. She didn't think too much into it, though. This place was already weird and off-the-wall, so this may become normal after a few days. She continued walking around with no sense of goal...

Until she saw a table apparently being occupied by...someone. She couldn't tell who was, they were too fast for her to see. At least until they slowed down.

A blue hedgehog-like...thing was sitting on a table, eating what seemed to be like hot dogs with a special sauce.

...Huh.

"A-as if this place could not get weirder..." Rider went on to mutter. She found herself sitting on a nearby bench, looking at the sky above.

Looks like she was having memories of home again.

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    It wasn't until a minute or so later when Sonic had finished every Chili-dog except one, licking the plate with satisfaction. As he leaned back in the chair with a satisfied burp and smile, his wandering eyes glanced to the forlorn girl with the green hair. She looked pretty melancholy right now, her stunning blue eyes absorbed with gazing at the sky. Well, what better to cheer someone up than the stunning, the bombastic, the radical, the one, the only, SONIC THE HEDGEHOG!

    In a blur, the chair was empty and the chair spun diagonally on one leg in a circle several times before settling down. Within an instant, Sonic stopped right next to the forlorn girl, with his form springing back like a bent spring upon his abrupt stop. "Well hello beautiful." He whistled before hopping into the seat next to her on the bench. "You don't mind if I take a squat too right?" He asked, mostly as a curtsy.

    He stuck out his hand at her sideways, offering her his last Chili-dog in hopes of giving her something to snack on and brighten her day. "Have a dog. It does wonders for your complexion."

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"...E-eh?"

The hedgehog apparently talked as well. Not only that, but he was flirting with her as well. She shyly offered him space to sit on the bench...and then he offered one of his lookalike hot-dogs. Well, she found that kinda weird, but...she reluctantly accepted it.

"U-um...thank you, mister...!" Rider said as she took a bite of the 'chili dog' now in her possession. Well, it was...definitely spot-on with the 'chili' part of the name. She didn't knew what to think of the food. She wasn't a big fan of spice...but the rest of the food was good enough.

"W-who are you...?" Rider proceeded to ask the mysterious blue hedgehog next to her.

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    Sonic chuckled at the girl's shyness. She seemed like a nice enough gall, so Sonic was gonna treat her right. He jumped up at her question though, a grin on his face. "Oh who am I? Who am I!?" Getting posing as if getting his picture taken, Sonic stood in front of the girl.

    "I'm Sonic. Sonic the Hedgehog!" He wagged his finger back in forth before zooming behind the girl's chair and clapping while letting out "ooh"s and "aah"s. Dashing back in front of her, he took a mock bow in a grandiose fashion. "Thank you! Thank you!" His form once again moved instantly back onto the bench next to the girl while he raised his hand to his head in mock salute. "I was built for speed and born for danger. Speed is my middle name and danger is my game!"

    "So does that emerald hair come with a name, gal?" He decided to ask in a split moment decision. It'd be easier to talk to a person if Sonic at least knew their name.

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...Sonic. Sonic The Hedgehog.

Hm, he clearly had a way of speech that was...radically different that what she was used to. Well, she WAS dumped into another world, so everything would be somewhat different. Regardless, she decided to keep herself polite. She would feel the need to be slightly more informal when the person's a very close friend.

To be honest, Sonic looked a little silly, if not a bit endearing, with his "wild" entrance. It sounded like he came from a different time period. Then again, her not-really big brother was from a different time period. So was Arle. Huh, maybe the dialect difference left her a bit jaded.

"I-I'm Rider...!" Rider said, curving her upper body down. "Pleased to meet you, Mr. Sonic...!"

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    "Now, hold it right there, missy." Sonic stuck his hand out and blew a safety whistle that he suddenly had around his neck. "That's no good. Drop the 'Mister' and stick with the Sonic!" He jumped up from the chair once more, as if it was simply impossible for him to stay in one place for more than a few seconds. Plus being called Mr. made him feel old and Sonic wasn't any uncle chuck just yet!

    "So Rider, since your looking pretty down; how about i turn that around?" Offering his gloved hand to the green haired girl, Sonic gave a cheeky grin. Throwing his voice once more by running behind the bench, Sonic put on a fake announcer voice before speaking again. "Aaaaaaaand, behind door number 1, Rider has won an all expense paid run around the town with the dashing, the daring, the way-past-cool charmer himself Sonic the Hedgehog! Will she grab the prize now  or try for door number two!?" In an instant though, he was back in front of Rider with his hand outstretch once more for her to grab.

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"U-um...sure thing Mist--I mean, Sonic...!" Rider gagged up a bit. Well, this was unusual. People usually didn't mind when Rider directed at them with "mister" or "miss". Sonic though? Not only he wasn't keen on the idea, he was actively against it. Now that was kinda odd....for her at least.

Now Sonic seemed to be keen on cheering her up. And for the most part, it seemed to be working. The way Sonic was faking voices, and sounding like he was some super-duper-cool-awesome hero, were earning giggles from the supposed imp girl. Well, he seemed to want to take her somewhere now...

"Hm, I wonder what you will offer me...?" Rider said as she grabbed Sonic's hand.

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    "Alright, let's ditch the gloom-fest!" Pulling at Rider's arm with surprising strength, seemingly able to pull from her seat and into the air without much force so as to hurt her, Sonic grinned after waiting a second. Stretching out his arms in front of him, Sonic caught Rider in his arms and began carrying her Bridal style.

    "Alright, passengers; please fasten your seat-belt and keep all hands and feet in-the-hog at all times. Thank you and enjoy the ride." Sonic teased Rider while emulating a theme-park ride attendant. Winding his legs up in a figure eight while running in place, dust began flying behind him as Sonic was about to rush forward. "Hang tight , Rider. WE'RE JUICIN' WARP SEVEN!!!" With that, all that was left in the spot were they had previously been standing was a dust cloud and kicked up debris; trees shook as the shock-wave from the instant start caused a turbulence like a mini cyclone.

    

    

    As Sonic ran aimlessly with Rider in his arm, he made sure to do so in a manner that his speed cut through the air and made it so she could feel normal and not pressured by the intense velocity. In seconds they had completely cleared the domed city and were going around the desert at an alarming rate. To any normal passerby, it would look as if a blue blur was carving the land in half! "Wooooooooohoooooooooooooooo!" Sonic yelled out in satisfaction as the land spread out before them. "Welcome to my world! No bums, to tums, and especially no Robuttniks to bring you down!" As per usual, he didn't have anywhere specific he was running to; but maybe Rider might want to go visit some far away place if she was in the mood?

    "Hey Rider, wanna take a pit stop? Your options are anywhere and every place. Nothing's too far and wide cause we're burning WAY PAST COOL!" To emphasize his point, Sonic braced her tighter in his arms before jumping what looked to be a giant canyon. In seconds, they had leapt across and he decided to set her down on her feet slowly. He hoped he hadn't gone overboard and Rider had gotten a chance to process it all!

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Rider was surprisingly calm about Sonic hoisting her up into the air and grabbing her later. She already knew size didn't equal strength. Onion Pixy was a good example, I mean, that club he carries around may be tiny, but it may weight a ton for them. Yet he swung that thing around like a toy.

Then her mind traced back to Sonic as they 'juiced warp seven', according to him. He blasted into supersonic speed, and now Rider's was experiencing it firsthand. It was kinda scary for someone like her, but Sonic's calm banter while running did huge favors for her...as in, maintaining her calm and--

Wait...did they just jump off a canyon? How fast was that guy?!

"O-okay, I think that's enough...!" Rider tried to say to Sonic. It was too much adrenaline for one day.

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"Oops, sorry. Guess I am a little too much."

    Steadying Rider on both sides with his arms, Sonic let go of her and dashed away at his full uninhibited speed. Before she hit the ground, he had returned with a lawn chair; positioning the chair directly behind her so that she would fall comfortably into it. "That better?" He asked before taking a seat on another folding chair he brought.

    "Ah it really is great to kick back and get a little sand and sun. Deserts are the best things in the world if you ask me! It's all the sand, sun, and fun of the beach without the ooginess of the ocean." Sonic didn't like water, not in the slightest... But nevertheless he snapped himself out of his stupor to wait and hear how Rider was. "So you have any spots you wanna visit? It's my treeeat." His voice slicked in a sing-songy tone while he folded his arms behind his head to relax.

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Rider was still getting used to the fact that Sonic was super fast, so she was briefly shocked she thought she was going to hit the sandy ground when Sonic suddenly put her on a chair. In the middle of a desert. How far did they go?

Sonic sat on another chair, complaining about the ocean. "Huh...guess that makes two of us...I don't like the sea...I...actually can't swim at all...w-well, kind of...S-shallow water's fine...though...!" Rider blurted out, twiddling her fingers hidden within her sleeves. "I-I'm not aquaphobic...that's what I'm trying to say."

Rider was stuttering due to her shyness again. This was normal. Really, really normal.

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    Wow, another person that didn't like water too! "Well ain't that a coincidence. I also can't swim, not that I'd ever want to learn. Water and me don't mix, shaken or stirred." That was the truth of it all. Sonic was the fastest thing alive, stronger than most regular people, toppled empires almost weekly; however, his one weakness that he could never avoid no matter what was water. His body just wasn't built for traveling through water, and combined with the fact that he could really only survive underneath it for 30 seconds without air and water was a deadly thing for the Blue Hedgehog.

    "But enough about me. Tell me about yourself!" Sonic interjected, trying to get his mind away from the topic of the deathly transparent liquid. "You could call me a temporary tourist of this country, so why's everything fifty shades of doom, gloom, and bad cartooon?"

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"Hmmm..." Rider thought for a while. Well, she actually notice the overtone of unease around...well, pretty much everywhere, but she didn't know why or when this started happening. She was still pretty much a stranger to Li, and people she ended up asking said excuses like 'you're too young to be involved in this' or 'children like you should stir away from that kinda trouble'. Sonic was literally asking a stranger to that land what was going on.

"I wouldn't be able to tell you about this whole 'situation'...but I can tell you why I ended up here, if that would be enough...?" she offered, tightening her buns around her horns. She felt they ended up a little more loose after Sonic's speed break. Not that it apparently made any difference to the blue hog.