Sonic & Friends:
Stranded with no way out!
Chapter one: An Average Cruise Day
Sonic watched as the crystal-blue water splashed up the sides of the S.S. Marble, the personal ocean liner that he, Tails, Knuckles, Rouge, Shadow and, unfortunately for him, Amy Rose, were riding to get away from it all. He smiled, remembering how he had knocked her out earlier and put her in the closet in his cabin. At least he had time to watch the sun rising up ahead. Sonic put on his sunglasses and relaxed in his lounge chair. Well, he tried to anyway, for at that moment Amy had regained consciousness and burst out of the cabin.
"Sonic!" She shouted, in an infuriating tone.
Sonic, who was startled by Amy's sudden appearance, jumped a foot in the air, landed back on his lounge chair, and the chair snapped closed on him.
"Amy," Sonic said, pulling his leg out of that death trap of a chair. "I'm a little busy right now. Can you bother me at eight o' clock. That's in about two hours."
"Busy my foot!" Amy cried. "You knocked me out and shoved me in your closet!"
"Hey, I didn't want you coming with us, but no, you had to threaten us with that darned hammer of yours!" Sonic screamed right back, having finally removed his foot from the closed lounge chair.
By now, because of all the shouting between Sonic and Amy Rose, the rest of the cruisers had woken up.
"Shut up over there!" Rouge shouted at the two, "Some of us are trying to sleep!"
"Yeah!" Shouted Knuckles, a cabin over. "This was supposed to be relaxing, not irritating!"
The captain, Tails, called down from the bridge, "I know this is hard for you to understand, Amy, but some of us are watching over their ship!"
"Yeah, Amy," Sonic said, "Go back to your cabin and let the rest of us relax!"
Amy stomped off, mumbling, "I get no appreciation at all. Why can't they appreciate my company for once." She went into her cabin with a loud slam of the door.
"I'm glad she's finally shut up now." Knuckles said. "I was getting a headache from her shouting."
Rouge, who was wide awake now and had changed into her day clothes, walked out of her cabin onto the deck.
"I'm surprised Shadow didn't wake up. He normally shoots out of bed like a bullet every time I knock on his door." She remarked.
"How would you know that?" asked Sonic, who was now checking over his re-opened lounge chair to make sure it wouldn't close on him again.
"Well, if you must know," Rouge replied, pacing up the deck, "I put motion sensor in his room at his house."
"Hmm." Sonic said, who had now put his sunglasses on and lay back down on his lounge chair.
Knuckles, who was also now wide awake, walked out onto the deck and sat in an unfolded fold-up chair, his face buried in his weekly issue of Gem Guarders Magazine.
Rouge paused from pacing for a moment and looked out at the sparking blue ocean. A chilly breeze blew across the S.S. Marble. Finally figuring out what to do, she went into her cabin and changed into a pink bathing suit, coming out and getting into the spa on the deck.
Tails thought differently of the weather and had changed into his swim trunks, which bore pictures of planes on them. Knuckles averted his gaze from his magazine to the top of the bridge, where Tails was now standing.
"Tails, get down from there, you're going to get hurt." Knuckles said.
Sonic raised his glasses and looked up at Tails who looked like he was going to jump off. "What are you doing up there?" Sonic asked.
"I'm gonna dive into the pool!" Tails replied.
And with that, the two-tailed fox jumped off. Sonic, Rouge and Knuckles watched as he landed in the pool with a loud SPLASH!
The remainder of that morning was a little more quiet, with Knuckles surrounded by his Gem Guarders Magazine, Rouge relaxing in the spa, Tails swimming around in the pool, and Sonic snoring on his lounge chair.
By nine in the morning, Rouge had changed back into her normal clothes, Sonic had waken up, and Knuckles had read his magazine cover-to-cover five times. Tails had dried off and started up the stove in the galley, where he started making his world-famous pancakes for breakfast. He also made scrambled eggs, toast, and made his very own, fresh orange juice.
Shadow, who was snoring loudly in his cabin, woke abruptly to the smell of Tails' great cooking, which had made its way into his room. He got up and followed his nose to the dining room, where he eagerly to his seat, waiting for Tails to set the food on the table. Rouge, Sonic, Knuckles, and a re-awaken Amy took their seats around the table.
"Glad to see you're awake, Shadow!" Sonic said, seated on Shadow's left.
"What, did I miss something?" said Shadow through a mouthful of pancakes.
"You bet you did!" Knuckles said, after piling ten pancakes onto his plate. "Sonic and little miss hammer had a rather loud argue. Isn't that right, Amy?"
"Shut up, Knucklehead!" Amy retorted, "You weren't knocked out and shoved into a closet, now were you?"
After hearing what had happened to Amy, everyone at the table let out a childish "Oooooooooohhhhhhh!"
"Yeah, so maybe I did." Sonic said, gulping down some scrambled eggs.
"I did that to Shadow once." Rouge said, who was sitting on Shadow's right. "Remember?"
"Oh, yeah, I remember." Shadow said, with a snicker. "I was soo mad, I punched Rouge in the face!" Shadow took a bite of his toast.
"Yeah," Rouge said, rubbing her hand over her eye.
Tails chuckled. "So, everybody, how's breakfast?"
The instant rush of compliments knocked him out of his chair.
Knuckles took a sip of his orange juice before starting up another conversation. "So, Tails, are we going to stop at the Caribbean islands or at Hawaii?"
"Well Knuckles," Tails said, climbing back onto his chair, "We are scheduled to stop at Hawaii for food and supplies. Don't forget, this is supposed to be a two-week-long vacation."
"Yeah." said Amy, getting up and stretching. "I'm going down below."
Amy took her plates to the automatic dishwasher and headed down the stairs to the game room. Sonic followed, accompanied by Tails and Knuckles. Shadow and Rouge changed into their swimming clothes to go for a swim. After all, who wants to wait an hour after eating to go swimming?
"So, Tails, do you think you can beat me this time at Super Smash Bros. Melee?" Knuckles challenged.
"You're on!" Tails accepted.
While Tails and Knuckles battled it out over a match between Mario and Link, Sonic was surrounded by his Sonic Rush DS game. The fact that he couldn't master his own speed on a video game was enough to keep him playing. Amy was painting her nails a soft blue.
"Yeah!" Shouted Tails as he shot into the air as the announcer on the Gamecube said, "The winner is………Mario!"
Knuckles grunted. "You wouldn't have won if I hadn't gotten KO'd by that Bob-om!"
"Yeah right, that's what they all say!" Tails said as he did his victory dance.
"I challenge you to a rematch!" shouted Knuckles.
"Bring it on!" replied Tails, sitting back down.
Meanwhile, Shadow and Rouge were engaged in a conversation.
"So, you've had to become a government spy to get yourself out of jail because of a jewel heist you pulled off?" Shadow asked.
"That's right." replied Rouge. "My sentence would have been five years if I hadn't accepted!"
"Wow, and to think I had it hard."
"Yeah, but I still made loads out of my thieving days."
"But Rouge," Shadow said, diving into the pool and surfacing a second later, "You're still a thief."
"Yeah, I know. Come on, let's go get some popcorn and watch a movie." Rouge got out of the pool and headed towards her cabin to change.
Shadow climbed out of the pool too, so he could change and prepare his cabin room for a movie.
Back in the game room, Tails had won his thirtieth battle in a row, and he and Knuckles had played thirty games.
"So, who's the master now?" Tails said, sticking his tongue out at Knuckles.
Knuckles, who had steam coming out of his ears by then, shouted, "That's it! One more game, and then we'll be done!"
"Knuckles, you said that last time." Sonic said, re-emerging from his DS.
"Yeah. Let the pros show you how it's done!" Amy said, having finished painting her nails.
"Amy, you couldn't win a battle in that game if you were against a rock." Sonic said.
"Oh, you're on!" Amy cried. Instantly, Sonic and Amy were battling fiercely at the Hyrule Temple stage.
"Want to go see what Shadow and Rouge are doing?" Knuckles asked.
"Sure." replied Tails. The two headed up the stairs just as Amy shouted "HAH! How'd you like that motion sensor bomb?"
When Tails and Knuckles reached Shadow's room, they heard a movie playing inside. Tails knocked on the door. No one opened the door. Knuckles said, "Wanna just enter?"
When Tails opened the door, it wasn't the best sight he and Knuckles had ever seen. There, in Shadow's bed, was Shadow and Rouge, kissing!
Rouge and Shadow darted up, a startled and angry look on their faces.
Eyes wide open and face pink, Tails and Knuckles slowly closed the door and took off running. No sooner than that door had been closed than it opened again, with Shadow and Rouge chasing after them.
"SONIC! HELP!" Knuckles and Tails cried. Pausing their game, Sonic got up and went up to the deck to see what was going on. To his astonishment, and great amusement, he saw Shadow and Rouge chasing Tails and Knuckles all over the ship.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, take it easy!" Sonic said. "Tell me just what exactly happened!"
Tails, who was in the middle of being beat up by Rouge, screeched, "Shadow and Rouge were kissing!"
"Yeah! They were making love!" Knuckles said, who was then punched in the face by Shadow.
"You came in unannounced, you idiot!" Shadow shouted.
"Well we're sorry," Tails said, "but it's not my fault you like each other!"
"Well, uh, I think you have every right to be beating up Tails and Knuckles," Sonic said as the sky turned dark and the boat started to shake. "But shouldn't you return the captain to the bridge? A thunderstorm is starting!"
And Sonic was right, because suddenly there was a gigantic flash of light in the sky.
Tails, who had been released from a headlock by Rouge, ran up to the bridge.
"Everybody, get into your cabins, please. A severe storm is coming!"
