Human-Hedgehog

Meet Eggman

Jackie
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I walk out the front door to get the bus to school. I see Sonic at the window as I sit down. He gives me a thumbs up and I give one to him as the bus sets off. This past month has been so cool! The boys are so kind, but I know it can't last forever. They'll have to go home soon, and I'll be alone again.

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At lunch, I finally get something to eat: Fish and Chips with Mushy Peas, with a side of Coca Cola and a dessert of Chocolate sponge, drenched in a chocolate flavoured custard.
"Jackie, over here!" My friends call me to sit with them, so I do.
"Hey, what's up?" I ask.
"Nothing much," she says, "but word is some weird aliens are living at your house for the past month."
Someone's been spying on my house?!
"That's ridiculous," I reply. "Aliens don't exist."
We giggle, and dig into our lunches.
Suddenly, the left wall is crashed into and a weird hovercraft emerges. Inside it sits a fat man wearing red, with bald hair and a ridiculous moustache.
"Which one of you goes by the name of Jackie?" he bellows. My friends try to hold me back, but I step forward.
"So. You are the legendary Jackie," he says. "I am Dr. Eggman, the greatest scientific genius in all of the world!"
"Dream on fatso," I shout back. "You ain't gonna be a scientist with a body the size of an egg! No wonder you're called Eggman!"
"Jackie, are you okay?" I hear a voice in the distance.
Sonic.
I see him running towards me. "Thank God you're okay!"
"I'm fine, Sonic," I reply.
"I should've known you'd be here, Sonic the Hedgehog," Dr. Eggman says to Sonic.
Sonic points a finger up at Eggman. "You DARE lay a finger on Jackie, and I swear to God, you won't see daylight again, Egghead!"
"I should've killed you when I had the chance, hedgehog," is all Eggman can say.
Sonic picks me up around my legs. "Hold on tight."
I wrap my hand around his neck, and he starts running back home. He's super fast. I feel like I'm on a roller coaster that doesn't go up or down.

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"Eggman crashed into your school?" Tails asks me.
"Yes. He asked for me, then I saw Sonic running towards me," I reply. "He picked me up and then came back here."
"Clearly we're not safe here anymore," Silver adds. "We have to get home soon."
"You guys arrived in that capsule in the park right?" I ask. "It's still there. You can use it to get home."
"You mean we," Sonic replies. "You're coming too Jackie."
I look at him in shock. Me? Going with them?
"What? But..."
"It's okay," Knuckles says. "You're able to come."
"We had a vote about going home today, and majority voted for you to come with us," Tails adds.
"Then we should try find the capsule," I reply. "It's in the park, like I said."
But we don't get to. Because Eggman breaks the garage door open, and snatches me up.
"Got you, Jackie!"
"Get your filthy robot hands OFF me, Eggman," I shout back at him.
He flies up to his machine that hovers in the sky.
I am now his prisoner.