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    "Fire away!" Sonic agreed while miming firing a gun with his fingers. He then folded his arms back behind his head in a more relaxed pose before waiting for Rider to respond. Sonic did take notice of the horns poking slightly out of the hair buns but they didn't look that out of the ordinary. There were tones of animals he knew with horns, but they didn't usually try to cover them up. Was she doing that just for show or did she not like people seeing them..?

    "The most I know about how I got here was: One second, I was napping at my lil buddy Tails' shack after a successful mission; the next second, I'm free falling into some sort of wasteland without even an in-flight movie for my troubles. Talk about bad room service." All of this was true, albeit pretty lackluster. For some reason, Sonic could have felt he had been in a situation like that before but couldn't remember when for the life of him.

[TheSpatialWeeg]

Well, Sonic's response was pretty entertaining, she had to give him that. And his story was pretty bizarre, but she could relate. She felt like she dropped down here out of nowhere, despite she knew exactly what happened. Taking a deep breath, she proceeded to tell her story.

"Well...I live in a faraway planet...I guess. I have a house over at a place called Primp Town. We had these 'Puyo battles' to solve a lot of problems back there. It was kinda crazy, but...it was nice..."

"One day...my friend, Amitie...had vanished. We tried to search around for a week until we came to the conclusion she ended up on another place. I wanted to try to get her back. I needed to."

"Then...I tried to fight a Puyo battle to channel enough energy to travel between time and space...and then...I was here...w-well not quite...I ended up on a place called 'Hyrule Crater', b-but you get the point..."

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    Sonic listened intently to Rider's story, however he may not have looked like it to a bystander due to his eyes firmly closed and his face turned towards the sky. It seemed like all Rider had been trying to do was find her friend and ended up getting stuck in here too, kinda like Sonic had been. The coincidence of warping here for completely inexplicable reasons was certainly prevalent and uncanny.

    After a few seconds, Sonic sat up in his chair and faced Rider now. "So did ya end up finding her, your friend I mean?" He asked while staring intently, the idea suddenly popping into his head that there might be a chance that his friend Tails had been sent here too. Sonic would hate himself if his little buddy had gotten dragged down here too; the two-tailed fox was like a kid-brother to him, and putting him in unnecessary harms way wasn't an appealing thought.

[TheSpatialWeeg]

"N-no, not yet..." Rider went on to lament, taking a deep breath. Finding Amitie was still a priority she hadn't even managed to complete just yet, and it was eating her inside. What if she was there, but she didn't see her yet? Was she abducted by creatures? Did she die? Was she infected by a deadly virus? The paranoia was consuming Rider from the inside and she was not liking it.

"I-I wish I knew if she was okay...b-but...uu..." Rider began to tear up.

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    "Hmm..." Sonic wrapped folded his arms around his chest before closing his eyes in deep thought. So she was missing her friend too... "Aha!" Sonic jumped up with enough force to send the lawn chair he had been in toppling over to the side. A smirk on his face, he pointed at Rider.





    "Dry up the rain train, cause we got some work to do Rider!" Sonic said before picking her back up and running towards the domed city. "We're gonna find your friend at Sonic-Speed! I promise, and that's a Hedgehog-Brand guarantee or your money back!" The blur cut through the desert sand once more and in a few more minutes they were back inside the Life Sphere's domed city.

    As Sonic was looking for a place to set her down though, a paper flying through the air smacked into his face. Not able to see, Sonic came to an abrupt stop before setting Rider down and angrily removing the paper from his face. "See this! Litter is the reason people like Robuttnik are still aroun-" Sonic froze mid rant as his eyes landed on the words of the paper. It was the transcript of some sort of email, and by the looks of it the situation wasn't good...

    "Um, hey; there haven't been any booms, zooms, kabooms, blams, zowies, gazingas, and general rukuses of the explosion variety happening around this place that you've noticed right?" The fast speaking hedgehog quickly asked Rider, who by now was probably extremely confused once more, before looking back down at the paper in his hand.

[TheSpatialWeeg]

Rider hadn't much time to process what happened. First Sonic picked her up, talking about saving Amitie, then he suddenly stops because of a paper. The last question though, she understood, despite sounding like almost complete gibberish.

"You meant to say if I saw any suspicious activity...?" Rider tried to shorten the question, then shook her head. "No...not really. I've been just walking around various places to get familiarized with the whole place...so I'm not exactly the girl to ask that question, Sonic..."

Rider suddenly felt rather weird...was somebody following them?

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    "Oh man. This place is gonna be in mondo trouble." A serious expression overcame Sonic's normally relaxed and happy go lucky face. Looking over at one of the street clocks, it said the current time was 11:00 PM.  This was a major bummer, but the contents of the paper sounded serious. Turning back to the emerald haired girl with a serious expression, Sonic folded his arms. "Rider, I'll try and get back to you soon. I'll find your friend too; but I gotta juice. People are in trouble right now, and that's no good."

    With that, Sonic was gone in a few seconds. As the dust settled from the windy backlash of his sudden velocity, the paper he had been holding fluttered to the ground. On it was apparently an email transcript that was sent a half hour ago. On it was information about a bomb about to detonate in the Bumble Bee Lobby in 2 hours... "Oh yeah by the way, you should probably stay away from the Bumble Bee Lobby place. Gotta rocket, move it, blast off, and burnin way-past-cool!!!" Sonic instantly reappeared for a few moments with that afterthought before once again disappearing in a blur of cyan and a spell of dust.

((OOC: Sonic has left the thread, you can post again after this but its mostly closed! Had a lot of fun posting with you!))

[TheSpatialWeeg]

((Heh, just this one more over here.))

"I-I see...thank you Sonic...!" Rider said, smiling. "For...spending some time with me..."

She saw Sonic blast off into the distance. She hopelessly waved goodbye to him. Now she was all alone again.

Except...

"R-rider?!"


"A-ammy?!"