Chapter 1 - The Plan.
For a girl who enjoys the finer things in life, Amy Rose often finds herself dragged into battle with the rather repugnant Doctor Eggman. While she'll always help fight, she'd rather be shopping. Amy also finds time to socialise, eat out, raise money for charities, enjoy fine art, clean her house constantly and of course dream about her crush Sonic. Yet the world constantly needs saving.
It was less than a week after the last major battle with Eggman, half the village was in ruins, the population once again rebuilding. Amy's patience for rubble and recovery was at an all-time low, she wanted to do something fun again. Inspiration came to her in the form of a swimsuit, she was helping clean out defunct Badnik's in a clothing store when she came across the swimsuit section. Looking at them all, it hit her instantly what she'd rather be doing, having a beach party! She wanted it bad and she wanted it right now (now meaning next Saturday). First, she'd invite Sonic, then Cream (along with her mother), then Tails and she'd have to invite Knuckles as well she knew.
Almost instantly Knuckles rejected the idea, he had to defend the Chaos Emeralds, "I haven't the time to be playing around" he said in what he had attempted to be a polite decline but came across more as a snarl.
Sonic being scared of water was naturally hesitant about the idea, insisting that he'd only go if Tails would go (partly because he assumed Amy would be less likely to entrap him that way).
Tails, however, looked slightly puzzled at her when she suggested they do it right away, "I'm sorry Amy, but now is not a good time" he said to her as worked on repairs to the power grid. "So much work needs to be done, can't we do it after?", he was only half paying attention to her as he concentrated, the glint of joy in his eye as he loved tinkering and fixing things. With Tails out, Sonic was out.
The last bastion would be Cream. "Oh yes, that sounds lovely!" Cream replied with a happy smile, although her mother was less enthused. Vanilla gave a polite, but concerned smile. "It's not a great time," she said, "Also that beach… well, there's no lifeguards there sweetie, even as an adult I wouldn't go to a beach with no lifeguards." Amy pouted, "It's the reef, there are no waves, it's always calm!". Vanilla gave that stern motherly look, "No I'm sorry Amy, but it's irresponsible to swim anywhere without supervision."
With that, Amy was left alone. However inside Amy burned not only that desire to get away from the constant work, but also the burning angst to prove Vanilla wrong. She was just a fussy old woman, an overprotective mother as far as Amy was concerned. "Amy Rose, now there's a name folks know," Amy said aloud to nobody inside her bedroom. "Not only am I sweet, and beautiful, and caring… but also strong! I take the time out of my day to save this village, I am an independent woman!" Although woman Amy was not, yet age matters little in Mobius.
Amy stood up and strode across to her wardrobe, she pulled out her fire-engine red one-piece swimsuit, looking at it. She smirked, "I'll do it… nobody can stop me having fun!"
