Smile Like You Mean It - A Sonic OC Story

Garden - Chapter 2

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As far as they can tell, they're in a forest.

On top of their car, mind you, but in a forest nonetheless.

At night.

Where there could be wolves, or alien wolves, or—

Yeah, okay, it's Scorch Get In Car Time.

Might as well sleep until it's daytime, anyways.

...

..

.

After locking themself in their car, Scorch casts a quick spell to make sure they aren't damaged.

And... it's negative. No damage.

Good. Great. In an alien world or whatever where they aren't supposed to be, teleported with their car, with no rhyme or reason to it. And there's no broken robot pieces anywhere, so they don't even know if they're where the government is going to be collecting those parts for damages.

So... Nap time. Might as well sleep until they can properly take in their surroundings. Besides, they have everything that they need for... basic survival. On Earth.

This was some Karmic Justice or something, wasn't it?

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The day greeted Scorch the best way it could: by the sounds of birds being so annoying that sleep could no longer reclaim them.

Then again, this world had birds. It couldn't be that different from Earth.

Still, since hiking was going to be necessary for, you know, food and water and stuff, it was probably time to swap from Work Clothes to their usual gear. Wimpy work shoes were swapped with their favorite, well-worn pair of steel-toed boots, skirt was swapped with emergency jeans, light and airy blouse swapped out for a black t-shirt and a leather jacket. They were ready! All their work clothes were tucked back into their bottomless backpack. Perks of being not entirely useless with magic is Infinite Storage!

They left their car, backpack over their shoulder, and looked all around them. The trees towered overhead, easily taller than the trees back on Earth. The shrubbery came to mid-chest height, and it looked like there were some fruits and berries growing on some of them. They'd ended up in a small clearing, the car parked squarely in the middle.

So, now they just had to... Pick a direction, and go. From what they could hear, there likely wasn't a stream nearby.

"Okay..." Scorch's voice echoes in the clearing, just barely audible over the birds. "Where do I go?"

In front of them seemed as good a starting point as any. Plus, they had some water in their bag, so they'd be alright for a while.

And so, after locking their car (with what little good THAT would do), they head off in that direction. If they're lucky, they'll reach something resembling civilization.

Or, you know, whatever qualifies as civilization in this world.

Walking is Boring.

They've been walking for So Long, they've forgotten what Not Walking feels like. Ignore the fact that it can't have been more than an hour or two of walking at most, that's not important.

But!!! The edge of the thick-ass forest is close.

Hopefully.