Title: Star Watcher

Author: darklightmessenger

Characters: All the regulars except fugly Eggman (pardon for those who might LIKE him...) and his robots

Disclamer: NO I do NOT own Sonic the Hedgehog or any of the characters. They are property of SEGA no matter how badly anyone (including myself) wants to own them, so there!

Star Watcher

Prologue: Tea Time

Sunlight dimly shone above the leaves of an oak tree at its greenest. Underneath it, a small table was laid out above the grass. A pink hedgehog, orange rabbit, and a strange blue and yellow creature, wearing a bow tie nonetheless, known as a chao were all sitting down at the table, the chao sitting up against a teapot munching a cookie. It turned its head and fluttered its pink wings, dropping the cookie, but forgetting it seeing what was before her: a large tray of strawberry flavored tarts.

Making a noise of pure happiness and bliss, she dove down, snatching a tart from the tray and sitting back in its previous position against the china. As it snacked with delight the rabbit giggled, before looking up.

"Thanks momma, I think Cheese likes them," Cream the rabbit said to her.

"You didn't have to do this for us Vanilla," Amy said looking up.

"Oh heavens no, this is a very special day. Now that you're all back from space and the planet egg is back, I believed it proper for us to have as nice a tea party as possible."

"When you put it that way," she began to trail off.

As she ran through her thoughts, the older rabbit looked around as if confused by something. "Say, where is your friend?" "Do you mean Tails," her daughter proposed. "Yes, he isn't in that workshop of his is he?"

"I think so," Amy said looking up. After taking another sip of her tea, she spoke again. "I feel bad for him really... and I think I understand what he's going through..."

"You do," the both asked her.

"Yes," she started again. "Remember when we were up at the ARK Cream?" "Did something happen when you were up there?"

She nodded in response. "Yeah... for a time I thought I lost Sonic..."

"Please tell us what happened," Vanilla said sitting down, catching the attention of Cheese, who looked up in bewilderment, and after hearing Amy speak, the chao turned to whom was talking.

"It was back when we just arrived at the ARK. After Eggman caught me, he demanded we give him our chaos emerald, so Sonic agreed to give him the fake one. But when Eggman found out, he decided to launch Sonic into space..."

.:Flashback:.

"I shall make Sonic pay for your deception, you crafty creep!" "You let Sonic go right now," Amy yelled at his face with anger.

"Hey, it's okay," the blue hedgehog said clearly trying to calm her down. "Sonic," she said softly with tear driven eyes. Then, he turned to Tails. "You're in charge pal, right?" The yellow fox could not form words due to his tears and shaky voice.

"Now Sonic, it's time to say goodbye!" Then, Eggman landed his index finger on the green button. Before all their eyes, their friend rocketed out of the colony in the tube. "Sonic, no," Amy cried out with hopelessness. Then, she was dropped onto the floor. Watching from the window, she could only watch as her crush, her hero, her friend drift away.

"He's gone," she said with a whimper as the tube began to reach too far for them to rescue, hurtling towards Earth and out of sight...

Then, a white flash of light, followed by a fiery explosion rocked the ARK slightly as its shockwave lunged out at it. Large chunks of metal and glass flew out in all directions she could count. "Sonic," she screamed in pure agony and sorrow.

.:End Flashback.:

"But if he was caught in something like that how could he have survived," Vanilla asked. "We don't know; he never did tell us... Knuckles said something about him suddenly appearing in front of him, but Sonic didn't even say anything to him."

"Maybe it was chaos control," Cream suggested. "If Shadow can use it then maybe Mr. Sonic can to..." "Now that you mention it, both of them can also so into super form... that has to be the answer!"

Vanilla and Cheese briefly looked at each other, both obviously confused at the conversation. "We should go tell Tails," Cream said with triumph. "Oh, right," Amy said with a sigh. 'What will he say? I mean, he obviously is still shook up about Cosmo, so maybe we'll wait until later...' "I think we should leave him be," a voice said from nearby.

The group turned to see a red echidna leaning against the tree, his back facing them. "Why would we do that; he obviously needs help," Amy interjected. "I believe he's right," Vanilla spoke up. "But momma," Cream said looking up at her. "Some say that the best thing for a heart is to give it time to heal, so I think we should do that for him."

"I guess," the pink hedgehog said softly as she glanced at the workshop window once more. 'I know that saying's true, but what about...?'

Suddenly, a rush of wind passed and stopped by them. Sonic stood before them. "Guys, guess what?" "Are you going out with me?" "No..." "Aw..." "What's the news," Knuckles said moving along. "Cosmo says to thank you all..."

End of Part One

Oooo, yaz! Cosmo and Tails forever!

Cosmo: that's sweet, but you know that I'm dead.

So?

Cosmo: Oh well, please review!

note: this is only considered the prologue... as stated in the bar at the top... and the bottom... .