ZairaDrayan: Quick note. HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! Okay. I'm good. I'm sure you know what this is right? No story notes today! Just read the story and enjoy!
Amy was happily strolling down the road when she happened to glance at a calendar. It was the day before Valentine's Day which just so happened to be her second favorite day of the year. The day she'd get to prepare for the greatest day of the year. She had something new for everyone this year. She had just come back from the store and was about ready to set things up. She smirked to herself.
Sonic blinked open his eyes the very next morning. He saw a note lying on his face. It had Amy's fancy writing on it. He sat up and read it out loud.
"You're officially invited to Amy's house for something that you won't believe. If you don't show up, you will be disqualified and have to pay the penalty for skipping out on the greatest day of the year. Be there as soon as you wake up. This should take up most of your day, but it'll be worth it. Hope to see you there. From, Amy," Sonic read.
Sonic thought for a moment. What day was it? He hadn't updated his calendar in months. He flipped the pages and set it on February second. He figured that Amy wanted him to come to her house to see groundhog come out of hiding and tell them how much more winter they were going to have. He hopped out of bed.
"Okay! Groundhog Day take one! Please may the days not loop!" Sonic said to the universe.
Sonic ran out the door without getting his jacket. It wasn't cold at all for the second day after January strangely. Sonic scurried up to the door to Amy's house. Shadow, Silver, Tails, Knuckles, Blaze, Rouge, and Cosmo were there too. They were locked out apparently. Tails knocked on the door.
"Tails, what are you doing here? Here for the groundhog?" asked Sonic.
"Groundhog? It's not the second! It's someone's birthday I thought!" Tails said.
"I thought she was inviting us for a wedding!" Silver exclaimed.
Everyone looked at Silver. Silver flinched and came up with a reason.
"Sorry, I'm from the future! I know everything about you even though you're all dead in my time other than Shadow and Zaira who really can't die very easily!" Silver told them.
"At least I know that I can potentially live forever…," Shadow mumbled to himself.
"I'm gonna die!?" cried Sonic.
"Uh… I shouldn't have said that…," Silver commented to himself.
"Alright! Alright! We all are here because Amy invited us over here for something. We all just don't know exactly what for yet. Although, why would she lock us out?" asked Blaze.
"Wait, if it isn't Groundhog Day… That means that it's…," Sonic voice trailed off. He shook his head hoping that what he was wrong.
The door to Amy's house opened. It was completely dark within her house. They all walked into the room.
"Amy? Where are you?" asked Cosmo.
"Welcome to the party! Where we play a game that everyone will participate in! Mark your calendars because this'll be the best day of my life! If you need to check the date, my calendar is over there!" Amy said from somewhere a light appeared with the calendar in the light. Sonic nearly burst into tears. The doors behind them shut and locked. It was February 14… Valentine's Day.
"It can't be!" Sonic wept.
"That's right! It's Valentine's Day! I have specifically set this up just so that you can experience what true Valentine's Day is. You'll really get a kick out of this!" Amy said. The lights flicked on and everyone could now see that the room was decorated with lots of reds and pinks. Hearts were everywhere as well as sparkles. Shadow was more unnerved by the decor rather than what he was getting involved in. Sonic didn't care about how the room was decorated. He wanted to leave.
"Wow! You must've done a lot to get this all accomplished!" Tails exclaimed.
"Actually…" Amy motioned her hand towards the ceiling. Everyone looked up and saw Kaira and Zaira (they're twins) fluttering next to each other.
"She bribed me," Zaira said with a shrug.
"I just wanted to be here!" Kaira chirped.
"I had a little help," Amy said.
"Well, what's this all about?" asked Silver.
"I've set up the force field around my house (again if you read The Sonic Crew Plays Quelf). There's no escaping from here until you play," Amy said.
"Play?" asked Tails.
"It's called, Date for a Night!" Amy and Kaira said at the same time. Sonic nearly passed out when he heard the name, Shadow looked for a moment horrified, Blaze with Cosmo were sort of baffled, Silver was trying not to smirk at Blaze (he REALLY likes her), Knuckles turned an even brighter red, Rouge got out her lipstick, and Tails looked sort of nervous.
"I wanna die…," Sonic whimpered.
"I've been in too many fan projects to be in this situation! I need to stay available!" Shadow seemed to say to himself. Rouge shook her head.
"Whatever Shadow! You seem to like more humans than I can count. Although, they all died before you can really like them. Then they haunt you," Rouge said to Shadow. Shadow rolled his eyes.
"It doesn't work like that!"
"Whatever! I know the future! It's actually quite humorous and complicated!" Silver said to Shadow.
"You've already said enough," Shadow replied turning away from Silver.
"It's probably better this way. If I say anymore, I could endanger my existence…," Silver sighed.
"The Date for a Night game is actually quite simple. You each only have to answer a bunch of questions and at the end, we match you all up with a date for the night based on your results!" Amy chirped.
"Only one night? I think I can deal with that. Although, if it's with Rouge, I don't think I'll last the night…," Tails said.
"Well! I think that we should start off with asking the men! We'll ask them each four questions. Then we'll ask the girls four questions. Kaira is the only one not participating because she will be reading the questions. All the ladies shall be escorted to the other room," Amy explained.
Everyone other than Kaira and the "men" left the room. The question reader fluttered down from the top of the room. Shadow, Sonic, Silver, Knuckles, and Tails sat down on a long black couch.
"Sonic, we'll be starting with you. The order will be Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Shadow, and last Silver.
"Why do I have to go first…?" asked Sonic.
"You're the main character, so you have to do this!" Kaira snapped.
"No need to go all Zaira on me…," Sonic squeaked.
"Question 1. Who would you prefer to be hanging out with today?"
"I want to be with my couch, a chili dog, and my TV watching action movies on it. Maybe playing some of my video games too," Sonic replied.
"All you ever think about is yourself Sonic…," Tails commented.
"I'm the fastest thing alive! You can't tell me what to do!"
"I invented the spin attack! How about that?!" Tails shot back.
"This is about love and not fighting…," Silver said.
"I'd prefer it to be all about fighting myself…," Knuckles growled.
"Everyone be quiet, and I'll make a fuzzy cat appear!" Kaira yelled. (A fuzzy cat was rubbing against my computer).
"Uh…"
"Nevermind! Tails, your turn to answer the question," Kaira said after scribbling down Sonic's answers on a sheet of paper.
"I guess that's easy. If it had to be a person, It'd be Cosmo. I'm sure that everyone saw that one coming, but it's totally true," Tails answered.
"That's the kind of answer I'd prefer. I want it to be a person, but, hey, objects do work too I guess. Knuckles?" asked Tails.
"I'd want to be with MY master emerald. You know. Better for it to hang out with me rather than that batty thief!" Knuckles snapped.
"Knuckles and his emerald, sitting on a floating rock," Shadow joked.
"HEY!"
"I thought he liked Rouge?" asked Silver.
"KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT YOU IDIOT FROM THE FUTURE!" Knuckles yelled.
"Oh yeah… The Batman and Catwoman incident…," Silver made up.
"Heh! LOL!" Sonic said.
"Knuxman!" Tails sang.
"He's scared of echidnas? Either that, or his own knuckles!" Sonic laughed.
"I'm not scared of anything!"
"Well, now you're not."
"Shadow?" asked Kaira looking over at the dark hedgehog. He crossed his arms.
"Maria," he said without even having to think. At least it was simple.
Kaira nodded and jotted his answer down in two seconds. Everybody then glanced at Silver. His answer was obvious too.
"I'll take Blaze any day," Silver replied with a shrug. Sonic giggled.
"Awwwwwwww… Silver and his little Blazie are going on a cute little date! How sweet!" Sonic exclaimed. Silver sealed Sonic's mouth closed.
"Alright. Question 2. What are your favorite activities?"
"I like running. That's obvious," Sonic commented.
Everyone nodded as if that was all that needed to be said. Kaira moved on to the next person. Tails the Fox was next.
"I would say that inventing is my thing," Tails answered.
"Yeah! Considering how you make such awesome stuff for me all the time, I'm not surprised!" Sonic said giving Tails a thumbs up.
"I like treasure hunting! If not doing that, guarding the master emerald," Knuckles said with a nod.
"Okay… All written down! Shadow?"
"Battling Sonic and playing Shadow the Hedgehog. I still hope that they'll make a second one," Shadow mumbled to himself.
"Dude, that game stunk!" Sonic growled.
"I didn't think it was too bad…," Knuckles said.
"I've never played it. I think I saw the game in a history museum though…," Silver replied thinking back.
Sonic shook his head. "Guess that game will never disappear." He looked over at Shadow. "You know, kind of like you!"
"That's right. I'm immortal. You can't defeat the likes of me with time." Shadow smirks at Sonic. "Although, I can't quite say the same for you."
"Oh really? Well, Zaira still happens to be flying around in the future as well," Knuckles explained.
"That's no surprise."
"Silver?" asked Tails.
"I like to pull pranks on people, but only when I'm bored. If not doing that, I guess that video games are what I do. Pokemon especially!" Silver replied.
"Okay! Question 3! What kind of date would you like being on?"
"A trip to the mountains. That would be nice," Sonic said with a nod.
"I honestly don't care!" Tails replied. He shrugged.
"Angel Island of course!" Knuckles said thinking back on his beautiful island in the sky. The mushrooms and scenery was to die for. "NOBODY WILL STEAL MY MUSHROOMS IF I'M THERE!"
"Your mushrooms?" asked Tails.
"Yes! They are very important!"
"I've never really thought about it. I guess… It would depend on the person I guess. If it were someone I actually liked, I'd go where she wanted, but if not, we drop the date all together and go our separate ways," Shadow replied.
"Wow! So true!" Sonic exclaimed.
"I would probably Go to a restaurant. You know, I have to be the traditional one. Besides, it's always worked in the past!" Silver said.
"Well, what happened to all those gals you dated?" asked Knuckles.
"No. I've only dated one person many times. She enjoyed it each time. In fact we are still dating!"
"Silver, being traditional usually works. I've been traditional before and it worked out pretty good for me," Tails said with a nod.
"That's the first nice thing anyone in this room has said to me!" Silver cried.
"Final question! What was the best thing that happened to you on past Valentine's Days that was romantic?" asked Kaira.
"Okay, Amy got me a chili dog with her own money! She was so nice that day! We spent the entire time window shopping for myself!" Sonic replied. Shadow smacked himself in the face when he heard that.
"You have no idea what romance is do you?!" Shadow snapped.
"Well, what do you know?" asked Sonic cooly.
"More than you might think!"
"Tails, your turn," Knuckles told Tails while the two hedgehogs were fighting.
"One year, I was walking along the seashore all by myself. I thought that it was a good day to be alone for a while. However, Cosmo and Cream were there as well and reminded me what day it was. Cream had to leave, so I spent the rest of the day hanging out with Cosmo down at the park. You have no idea how beautiful the park is at night in the summer. Stars, fireflies, and everything seeming like it came out of a storybook…," Tails sighed.
"I knew that it was going to be a sappy love story!" Silver announced.
"Well, that at least sounds more like love. Sonic's was just greed!" Shadow snapped.
"Knuckles?" asked Sonic not wanting to fight anymore.
"This one year, I happened to be taking a stroll around my island. Of course, it was going to be a great day considering that the master emerald hadn't been stolen. Once I was done walking, I played a long game of checkers with the master emerald. It totally obliterated me…," Knuckles answered.
"Nevermind what I said earlier. Sonic's story was love. That was just ridiculous!" Shadow said rolling his eyes.
"SO YOU HAVE A BETTER STORY FOR ME!?" demanded Knuckles.
"Actually, yes."
"We're going to get a tragic backstory with Maria in it aren't we?" Silver predicted.
FLASHBACK!
"Shadow! Shadow!" cried a young female voice from behind him. Shadow turned. It was Maria Robotnik as he had predicted. She was the only girl on the space colony, so it made sense.
"What is it?" he asked.
"My grandfather told me that today was February fourteenth down on the planet! He told me that in the US it's called Valentine's Day!" Maria exclaimed.
"Yeah? So?"
"I just wanted to experience one of the normal traditions of the people who live down there. It's my dream to go down there, but grandfather says that for the time being, we have to stay up here. I figured, I could at least try to experience one of their holidays!" Maria explained to Shadow.
"You want me to help?" asked Shadow.
"Oh, I'd love it if you did! In fact, that's why I came trying to find you!"
"I guess I could do some of the work but I do need to know about it before I can do anything," Shadow said.
"I can explain it all to you!"
End Flashback
"She told me everything and, believe me or not, I sort of liked the idea, so I helped her out with it. Turns out the first one was my favorite," Shadow explained.
"What about the next one?" asked Silver.
"I don't know. I was in suspended animation. When I wasn't, I was bent on destroying the world."
"Heh! No surprise there!" Sonic exclaimed.
"Silver?" asked Tails.
"Uh… My favorite one was where Amy accidentally evited me on a date instead on Sonic by mistake. Blaze ended up going to Sonic's house while I was stuck with Amy all day!" Silver said. He giggled.
"Oh yeah! I forgot that a while ago! Blaze is really nice when she's not trying to do things herself all the time. One time she even fought me because she wanted to save the world herself!" Sonic said.
"She did? I don't recall that…," Knuckles said.
"Sonic Rush. You know, the first," Sonic replied.
"Oh yeah… The game that was really good, but I was barely in it… I broke a rock," Knuckles replied.
"Alright, you've answered all the required questions. The girls will answer theirs now. All of you guys out!" Kaira commanded.
Five minutes later.
"Okay! We're here! What's the turn order?" asked Amy.
"First Amy, Blaze, Cosmo, Rouge, and last Zaira! You will be getting the same questions as the last group," Kaira replied.
"Alright, let's get this started!"
"Question 1. Who would you prefer to be with today?" asked Kaira.
"My Sonic of course!" Amy squealed.
"Well, this is an easy one!" Blaze replied.
"You said it sister," Rouge commented.
"I'll go with Silver since we've been together throughout most of our childhood lives," Blaze answered.
"Well, for me, Tails was always the one I'd go for," Cosmo said.
"Rouge?" asked Amy.
"That's a tough one considering how I do happen to like both Shadow and Knuckles. I'll just say the two of them so I don't have to pick," Rouge replied with a shrug.
"Okay…" Kaira was fiercely scribbling down the answers as fast as she could. Then looked over at Zaira.
"I probably already know the answer to this one…"
"The fact that I am being asked who I would prefer to be with is unnerving. Just put me down under anyone but Tails, and we'll call it a day," she replied.
"Question 2. What are your favorite activities?"
"I do happen to love baking and doing charity work. Decorating is also something I do," Amy said.
"I do happen to like painting and drawing in my spare time. I tend to like being more creative when guarding the sol emeralds," Blaze replied.
"I like to be in the gardens and stargazing," said Cosmo with a nod.
"Treasure hunting any day!" Rouge answered quickly as if she hardly had to think.
"It's a good thing you put me last… I really like to dabble in a lot of things. Music, poetry, just plain annoying Shadow to death," Zaira said.
Rouge shook her head at the Drayan with a smirk. "You certainly do a lot of that!"
"Question 3. What kind of date would you like being on?"
"I would love to go to the beach… With my Sonic staring out at a beautiful sunset… It would be so romantic…," Amy said with a sigh.
"I'd like to go on a trip to Hawaii. I've heard that it's a great place to be!" Blaze said.
"There are not as many mosquitoes I've heard! Also, NO snakes!" Amy stated.
Blaze's face lit up. "Then I'm going!"
"I wouldn't mind a trip to Hawaii as well!" Cosmo said in agreement.
"I would want to go to a dark cave for a date," Rouge said cringing at the thought of so much sun in Hawaii.
"I'll go anywhere. Doesn't matter to me," Zaira said casually.
"Right. Question 4. What was the greatest Valentine's Day experiences you've ever had?" asked Kaira to Amy.
"This one right now because I can'twait to get the scores!" the pink hedgehog cried.
"Last year, me and Silver went to a beach resort. He ended up almost getting carried away by seagulls because they were attracted to his fur! He had to wear a special football helmet all day just to stay safe from being attacked by birds!" Blaze giggled as she told the story. Amy did also.
"They're not attracted to his fur! They're attracted to his bird brain!" Rouge joked.
"You know, I don't think he was ever able to escape such a heavy birden! (really bad pun… Sorry!)" Amy joked.
"QUIT MAKING FUN OF ME!" Silver yelled from the other room.
"You quit eavesdropping on us!" Zaira snapped.
"I liked it when Tails took me out to the park once," Cosmo said.
"One Valentine's Day, I totally tricked Sonic into a date with Amy after she bribed me with a chaos emerald! It was hilarious seeing him crying in terror!" Rouge answered.
"I didn't like that one…," Amy whimpered.
"Yeah, when it was over, he went to the hospital for a month!" Blaze said.
"Are you kidding?! That was the best part!" Zaira and Rouge said in sync.
"Alright… I've got a confession to make. I've never actually celebrated Valentine's Day before. When Amy told me about it, I liked the idea, so I helped with it a little bit," Zaira admitted.
"NEVER?!" demanded everyone in the room in surprise.
"Never."
"Well, this year is going to be your first I guess. Having a good time so far?" asked Amy.
"I guess," Zaira answered with a shrug.
And so, the six of them went back to the room the five others were. Shadow looked bored out of his mind. Silver was banging his head against a wall, Sonic was talking to Tails, and Knuckles had broken through Amy's wall and was trying to break out of the force field. It was right then that it had suddenly occurred to Kaira. All of the results she got were a little cliche, so so thought that it wouldn't hurt anything to change it up a little…
"Okay everyone! I have the results in!" Kaira announced.
Everyone settled down and payed attention. Kaira almost broke out laughing at what She had planned.
"First, Tails and Amy!" Kaira announced.
The fox and hedgehog looked at each other in bewilderment. This couldn't be right could it? They both specifically said who they wanted to be with.
"Next, Sonic and Blaze!"
"At least, I've spent Valentine's Day with him before…," Blaze said a little disappointed that she didn't get Silver. She looked over and saw that he was staring blankly at a wall.
"Then there's Silver and Rouge!"
"WHAT?!" the bat and hedgehog both screamed in unison.
"NO! I'M NOT DATING THAT HEDGEHOG!" yelled Rouge. "No offense."
"None taken! I'm agreeing with you!" Silver replied putting his hands up.
"Don't blame me. Next, Knuckles and Zaira!"
The Drayan and echidna looked at each other. Zaira shrugged. Knuckles went back to trying to break down the force field now even more desperate.
"Last, Shadow and Cosmo!" Kaira finished. She left the story to avoid being destroyed by Shadow.
"I'm dating… THE METAREX SPY?!" demanded Shadow to the narrator.
Yup. You are dating an ex-metarex spy. Good-luck with that.
Everyone in the room began yelling and arguing at each other. Nothing was making sense anymore. Amy put down the force field.
"There's no way that I'm not going to date Sonic this year!" Amy snapped.
"Well, if we did do this…, it would become more original I guess…," Silver suggested.
"You're the guy from the Future! You know that this doesn't make sense!" Rouge snapped at Silver.
"Right… Let's just make a big deal about it. You all are beginning to be worse than my fanbase… and that's pretty bad…," Silver commented crossing his arms.
"Heh. The only one here I'm concerned for is Cosmo who has Shadow for a date. The rest of us should be fine!" Silver snapped.
Everyone looked around. Silver was sort of right. One night… One nonsense date for one night… Doable?
"Alright, I can handle it!" Sonic said.
He got Blaze. She is a good person. Very unlikely that she would try to kill him like in Sonic Rush again. They were friends.
"Fine, but let's make one thing clear, all of these the writer doesn't ship and neither do we! Silver and Rouge? For crying out loud! Sonaze isn't as bad. Tails and Amy are just friends. Don't even get me started with me and Cosmo. Also, I'm sure that there is nobody on this planet who supports Knuckles and Zaira," Shadow replied.
"Alright… I guess that we have a date for a night…," Tails almost stuttered.
That's the end of chapter 1. Chapter 2 should end this crazy thing. Sorry that it's a day late, but it was longer than I expected it to be. Anyways, hope you had a great Valentine's Day!