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It's instantaneous when a giant neon red ring manifests itself out of thin air. The color changes to that of a green shade of neon spinning itself around at an alarming speed! As it spins round and round, screaming can be heard followed with something being shot out from within it! That something is the body of a hedgehog man colliding with grass and soil leaving an impacted trail along the ground. The moment he's outside of the ring does it turn to the color of shimmering gold before winking out of existence!
When the man picks himself off said ground does he turn his head spitting out a huge chunk of grass and dirt. While he's spitting out any terrain still stuck in his mouth he stands to his feet. Magenta striped dark hair quills spill over his shoulders from having lost the hairband holding them up. A gloved hand pats around the top of his head realizing his Chef's hat is missing. Fingers on the opposite hand flex in noticing the lack of fabric around them. One of his feet immediately steps up off the ground upon feeling blades of grass tickling the underside. So he's also missing a glove and a shoe. …great. A random breeze rustles his clothes and the inside of his shirt feels drafty. The man heaves out a sigh upon looking down at his exposed chest fluff. A few buttons are also missing. Those green eyes, that are the same vibrant shade of the landscape, then notice that his poor apron's hanging off to one side over one of his bony legs. Hands reach for its laces to untie them only to realize how stretched tightly they are to a point where doing so was impossible. With another sigh of discontent, he snaps the laces to remove the apron from around his narrow waist.
As bony fingers fold up the apron does he take the time to observe his surroundings. Pink ears pin back the moment they notice the constant staticky humming in the air. An unnerving feeling churns in the pit of his stomach and an uncomfortable tingling crawls along his fur…! It could be his imagination, but he's pretty sure he feels someone watching him. For miles upon miles he sees only nature. There's grassy green meadows and hills, waterfalls that cascade into shimmering rivers, puffy white clouds floating along the clearest and bluest skies he's ever seen, and the biggest healthiest sunflowers peppered throughout the landscape. If it wasn't for the uncomfortable buzzing of electricity in the air, this would be paradise…~
It's sudden when an overwhelmingly powerful aura washes over his senses submerging them to a point where he can barely breathe…! His breathing becomes labored upon him remembering to do so. A hand trembles as he raises it to his chest clutching at it. His heart is beating so fast that he's afraid it'll jump out of his chest! In the back of his mind a whispering chant of feed, feed, feed escalates into a deafening roar blocking out any other thoughts.
The silhouette of the other being dwarfs him with its shadow engulfing the pink male. Its gaze is blank despite the sharp toothy grin plastered on its muzzle as it just… stares. High pitched distorted laughter fills the silence when his breathe hitches in the back of his throat.
The little pink hedgehog has to be careful. While he doesn't sense malice in the creature, he can't deny how deliciously powerful it is…~ Despite struggling with the urge to slip off his inhibitors and feed, he dons on his warmest smile up at the hedgehog-esque being. Grinning upward seems to make it widen its own showing off more sharp teeth. The hand still wearing its last glove extends as far as it can up at the other being. "Hello, I'm Max!~" A verdant little eye gives the taller of the two a wink. "And who might you be?~"
Max lets out a yelp when a massive hand encases around his much tinier one yanking him against the creature's equally massive sized body. The hold around the smaller man is quite tight, but not in a way to cause discomfort or pain. Once again there is that same laugh, though in his ears this time. He feels claws flex in his hair quills and fur rub up against the side of his head. One of the horns? quills that resemble horns? accidentally jabs him to which he lets out a noise that is more of him being surprised than it hurting him.
"mAx! You are M4x!" It speaks in a sing-song tone with the volume jumping from normal to higher pitched as if it's struggling to control it while his voice seems to glitch out.
Max shimmies his head so that he is able to look up at the other hedgehog. The bottom of his chin rests against the creature's smooth chest with his pointy black nose in-between the dip above. Those red dotted thinly black irises have formed into happy looking slits. "I'm RESonic! But everyone 0ne c4lls me RE!" RE bounces from side to side excitably. "Y0u aRe so CUTE!! My cu7e little friEnd!!"
The shorter of the two sighs out in relief. This RE is a little... scary looking (in a cute way, Max guesses), but as of now they aren't as scary as they seem. A gulp slides slow and heavy down his throat. Now that he doesn't need to worry about his safety, he needs to keep his hunger at bay. That same high-pitched distorted laughter fills his ears once more. "1'm flAtteRed friend, but 0Nly one h4dgehog gets to FEED on me and 7hat's my mAte!~"
"Are you fucking kidding me?!"
Max finds his body being ragdolled as the taller hedgehog swiftly turns their body around towards the booming voice behind the both of them. Their detached head tilts to one side having their multicolored head quills spilling to one side. "K1dding...? But I dIdn't 7ell a J0ke."
"It's a figure of speech, ya git!!" Bellows the same irritated voice underneath them.
While the taller of the two is distracted with this new person, Max is able to shift around to where he can look over RE's massive arms.
Standing up to about as tall as RE's waist is another hedgehog. His fur is a sunny yellow with the ends of his head quills a fiery orange. Maybe his mind is playing tricks on him because he's certain he feels a warmth radiating off of the other's body. Between the warm hues and how they billow upright thick and smooth in hypnotic slow motion, the ends of his quills remind Max that of lava. That tail of his is the same way being long for a hedgehog tail reminding Max of a bent candle stick. His right eye has a normal white sclera with a burning red iris and manic red rings that swirl around the iris. The sclera of his left eye is a deep violet with the same colored iris and ripples around the iris. Along the left side of his body from the collar bone down to the hip is encased in a jewel-like hot pink. Jutting out of the left shoulder and elbow are crystallized spikes. On the left wrist and a bit on the left arm and hip are jagged black stripes with a large pentagon shaped one along his left side. Numerous cracks branch off of the jeweled part of that body, as if that side broke out from underneath the flesh. There's a frown on his sun-kissed muzzle that he's scowling up at RE and Max.
Hot red eyes seer into fresh verdant ones. "Go back the way you came here and get out!!" The hedgehog sneers at Max with venom dripping in every word.
Arms hug Max's tiny body tighter against RE's soft chest. "Aww but he just got here...! And he's so cute and friendly! Let me keep him, Phantom!~"
Oh, it seems his voice wasn't glitching out anymore... A bead of sweat trickles down the side of his head while an anxious grin widens along his lips showing off his teeth. "So, uh, about that... I was taken by some weird giant ring and it spit me out here before it disappeared. I don't know how to get back home or else I would leave..." Max looks up at the hedgehog who's grasp he's still in. "No offense, RE."
That detached head of RE's cocks again quizzically. "Why would I be offended?"
"...great. That's just fan-fucking-tastic!!" By this point this Phantom guy is stomping around, and Max swears he feels him emanating a hotter temperature than what he felt earlier.
Pink ears pin back again. RE really didn't understand a lot of phrases, did they? The pink male directs his attention back to the hotblooded hedgehog. "What's got you so upset?" Besides me, obviously. Though he decides to not voice that a loud as to anger Phantom farther.
"Are you daft?!" Phantom yells up at Max upon halting in his angry to glare at him. "Enjoy your eternal life here, loser, 'cause you can't get back where ya came from!"
Time seems to slow down to a screeching halt. The man blinks once, then twice, then thrice. "...what...?" He asks without a second thought.
Him acting dumbfounded only irritates the other man farther. "Did I fucking stutter?? You're stuck here, and with no way of getting out!" His anger is then directed up at RE who is simply standing there holding Max just listening and staring down at the two smaller hedgehogs. "And you. Did you not learn from the last visitor??" A gloved hand runs along his body. "How much more of me are you going to have reconstructed before you stop being so fucking friendly to intruders??"
The world around Max becomes suffocating with all around him sounding muffled and incoherent. His vision spins with him being thankful for someone holding him upright. He's stuck in this new world with no way back home...! Fingers dig into the arm around his body gripping it tightly. Oh, Chaos, what was he going to do...??
Is this really his new life...?