Bet on her Heart

Disclaimer: Crossover! None of the Sonic characters belong to me, they go to Sega and Sonic Team, and the later Klonoa characters belong to Namco and Klonoa Works!

Kero Guardian: This is a sequel to my "Joker Mood" for Klonoa series! And contains some references to my "Can Never Replace You" for Sonic series. So if you've never read those other two stories, you might be a bit confused. …Mwauhahaha! I'm finally making a fanfic that isn't going to be all angst!

Tails: Is it proper to be insanely laughing when writing a cheerful story?

Kero Guardian: Not only that, but I've fixed the problems with me using Japanese words.

Tails: Ahahah…Sweat drop.

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Default Chapter: What Competition?

They clapped her hands happily for the anticipating dish. Ever since Rouge declared that the boys have been rather lazy when it came to house keeping, pointing out Maria's efforts, she forced each one of them to cook a morning meal for any girl they chose.

"Now I'm not so sure if this was really such a good idea…" Rouge grumbled, fearing Knuckles' shyness, 'I wonder if that Knucklehead even knows how to boil water…all he's been eating was out and fruits……'

Cream scrunched her ears vertically as a loud crash rang loudly from the kitchen, followed by Tails voice hollering at Sonic, "Sonic! This may be my house, but I am NOT paying for the damages any of you cause to it!" The girls glance nervously at one another before sighing.

"I really should go help clean up the mess." Maria started to rise from her seat, but Rouge caught her by the wrist. "Urm…Miss Rouge? …I can't really go anywhere with you-"

The white bat waved a hand in front of her face, "Just sit down." She stated pointing back at the cooling spot the girl had left, "They'll be fine. Boys are boys, they make a mess, clean it later or…make them clean it." With that she pushed Maria back down, leaving the still troubled blonde's hair a mess.

"WHERE THE HECK IS THE BROOM? OW! ESPIO, YOU SLID THOSE DISH PIECES OVER TO MY FEET ON PURPOSE!" Vector's roar made the girls jump.

"Quiet! Do us all a favor and lower your voice! It's already embarrassing enough having to put up with this, especially since the women are supposed to be the ones who work around the house. Chaos try soaking up the broken pieces." Espio scoffed haughtily.

"Chaos isn't a trash can!" Tikal sighed.

"What was that!" Shadow snapped. "Are you saying Maria is your maid! Why I ought to-"

"You guys! Don't destroy my house, please!" Tails whined. "Shadow calm down! Espio don't degrade the girls like that, it's not nice!"

"Not nice? I think you've been hanging around Cream too much, Tails……freaky." Charmy's little voice squeaked. Then buzzed over to the freezer, gazing at the frozen pancakes. "Ooh! Extra syrup!" Was about to pop it into the microwave, but a certain blue hedgehog yanked them away. "Hey! Leg' go the Egos!"

"Charmy that's cheat….ing." Glares at a certain red echidna trying to make instant noodles. "Grr…"

"Oh no!" Knuckles exclaims, the water's caught on fire!" He cries in shock, holding a container of vegetable oil. "Wait a second, this isn't water! It's oil…thought it was supposed to be black…"

"Aggghhh! Knuckles you idiot!" The stumbling fox screams on his way to fetch the fire extinguisher, passing the frightened girls in the living room.

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"Oh boy! For me Sonic! I love you!" The pink hedgehog gave him a quick death squeeze-hug before taking her seat before the designated dish. "Sonic, what is this stuff?" Amy's voice wasn't chirpy at the moment, staring at the quite sizable and lengthy specimens crawling on her plate, dipped in chocolate, sitting beside the chilidog.

"Huh? Oh, that's just a chilidog, Ames." Sees her pointing at the wiggling crawlers. "Oh, that; well, I kinda figured that hedgehogs eat worms, so I thought you'd eat them too."

"Eww!" Not this hedgehog, she shrieked and threw the plate across the room, not before grabbing the chilidog, though. "I-I'll just eat this S-sonic…" Amy let out a nervous giggle, while taking a bite out of the product in hand, inspecting it first of course.

"Sure, whatever." He grumbled wiping the worms off of himself.

Rouge didn't have any idea what to expect as she gracefully laced a handkerchief around her petite shoulders. 'Here goes.' Thinking to herself, looking at Knuckles' lopsided grin, and opening the decorative cover. "……" Stares down at the food. "Hey, isn't this a fruit salad?"

"T-thought you liked to stay on the healthy s-side…"

"Thoughtful of you, Knucklehead…" She uttered sarcastically. "…are you saying that I've been getting fat?" The batgirl snarled, rising from her seat.

The echidna fell backwards, waving his gloves in front of his face as she moved in for the kill. He dodged her drill kick, but stumbled into his ancestor's chair, knocking Tikal's face right into her meal. "Oh my god! Tikal, I'm…" Pauses as he feels a shadow loom over him. "Chaos! Wait, it was an accident! I'm serious! Aggghhh!"

"Serves him right." Rouge huffed still taking a bite out of the fruit salad.

"Hey, why are you still eating that, Rouge?" Amy frowned, as she moved her hand towards a bottle of ketchup.

"Chao! Chao!" Yelping, Cheese struggled to get the silverware out of her best friend's grasp. The little chao had seen all the catastrophes in which the other meals had caused and didn't want to see what the next one would do to her. "Chao!" Cries out, when Cream takes a bite of what looked like a muffin.

"My, Mr. Tails! This tastes wonderful!" Looks at Tails, who was wriggling his thumbs shyly.

"Wow, really! Thanks, Cream!" He exclaims, blushing brightly.

After putting away the mop, Maria smiled lightly at the yellowish-orange fox; he looked up at her before deepening his blush. "Sorry, Maria…" He whispered, thanking her for cleaning up the flour he'd spilled all over the floor, after tripping off the stool he was standing on while trying to create the delicious meal for his rabbit friend. She snickered a little, patting the already embarrassed creature on the head, then moved to her chosen seat. "?"

That was being fought over by a very frustrated chameleon and an indignant hedgehog. When she stepped over to them, the both pulled it out for her, "Please try my dish, Maria!" They both shouted, then glared murderously at one another, only after she had taken her seat.

The girl was flattered to have both dishes in front of her, and pondered on which to try first. Finally deciding that the sushi entrée was placed closer to her, she strung the fork into the sushi roll and ate it delicately, "Mm! This is very good, Espio!" Giving the magenta colored teen a chance to smirk proudly at the other. "……is this Shadow's?"

Shadow gasped in shock when he caught the sudden look of disgust which lasted for less than a second, "Um…that…that was good…for a first time." She smiles nervously at her childhood friend. "I'm sorry, Shadow."

"………………..it's okay, Maria." He hung his head in defeat, but glared intensely as he spotted Vector marking a notebook. "So I have never cooked before…"

"Uh-huh." Charmy cocked an eyebrow. "The ultimate life form can't cook?"

Sonic and Tails exchanged a wide-eyed gaze and rushed to pull the human from her seat. "Let's get some waters for the girls, right?" They both laughed nervously and nearly dragged her out of the kitchen.

Later that moment was a loud buzzing sound, followed by Shadow and Espio hollering their attacks at one another, and Tails' frantic shouts, "NOT MY KITCHEN, EVERYONE!"

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Kero Guardian: Now how would I describe all of you guys together?

Espio: Why are we together again?

Kero Guardian: A friendship gathering!

Shadow: Sounds like something Cream would say.