Yay! First fanfic eva! Lets hope its just as good as everyone else's, hmm? Well, here goes nothing! ^w^

I do NOT own Sonic nor any Sonic-like characters. Except my own OCs. Of which i have none to date.

The Debts to Tails

Chapter One - "HOW MUCH?!?"

Tails walked into the room slowly and quietly, remembering what had happened the last time he woke up Sonic after a party like that. Even though the hedgehog wasn't a happy drinker, Amy always managed to get him to say 'ah, one more wont hurt'. And every time, that 'one more' would give Sonic a hangover only rivaled by Knuckles and Shadow, who would be going through a keg of beer a day if they had the money.
Tails sighed quietly. Between Sonic, Shadow, Knuckles (when he wasn't on Angel Island), Silver (whenever he needed 'Trigger Iblis', which still confused Tails), and himself, the royalties from his inventions (the latest being his 'Cradler' – a machine that act as a mother to a child as the actual mother sleeps) were only able to pay so much...
He looked at the pile of paper he had pulled from the mailbox and sighed.

Gas bill:$2040

Electric bill: $3602

Water bill: $1038

Insurance: $503

Damage to the city due to a drunk Shadow: Too much.

Tails flung down the bills onto the coffee table and yelled to the ceiling. "How am I supposed to pay that?!?" his answer was several things thrown at him – a rocket shoe, a chili dog, a chaos emerald, and a screaming Shadow (silver also was drunk last night, and had stayed the night) – wait, was that really a Chaos Emerald? Tails decided to pocket that himself.
Shadow sat up, having been bounced off the wall. "Dammit, Tails, why did you wake us up?"
Sonic walked over, yawning and eating a chili dog. Tails wondered where he got them from, since they had run out of food days ago (the party food was brought over by Amy, who knew Tails was having problems with money due to his 'roommates', one of which (Silver) was her current lover). Amy's lover and Knuckles soon followed, looking for the emerald that sat in Tails' pocket.
"Knuckles, why did you throw the emerald in the first place?" Silver asked.
"I have a hangover! What did you expect?"
"So do I. But I didn't throw anything valuable. Just Shadow."
"Silver..." Tails sighed.
Shadow glared. "I AM valuable. Hell, I'm more valuable than anything in this dimension!"
"Remember, I'm from a DIFFERENT dimension. Therefore you are WORTHLESS."
"Silver... watch it..." Tails saw Shadow's face. Not good.
"Im more valuable than you!" Shadow yelled. "I'm the Ultimate Lifeform!"
"Would you quit saying that!" Sonic complained.
"Please. We all know I'm better than YOU, faker."
They stared. Then burst out laughing, even Tails was holding his sides. Shadow just pulled out one of his several signature guns, and shot up the roof. "Shut it!" he yelled.
This 'gun show' however, just hurt everyone's heads (except Tails), and made them glare, then, without warning, jump shadow. Tails sighed, and pulled out his PalmNote – another invention of his that let you write hundreds of notes, but could shrink to the size of the head of a pin – and started writing away. The list looked like this:

Sonic: $30,210

Knuckles: $46,857

Silver: $1,655 (He had actually PAID Tails.)

Shadow: $726,528,153,742 – *Add the cost of the new roof*

Tails sighed – something he found himself doing often recently. Then he turned to the now-broken shadow situated between the other three. "You need to get a job. In fact, all of you do... Except Silver."
Sonic raised an eyebrow. "why doesn't Silver need to get a job?"
"Because, unlike you, Sonic, he doesn't eat me out of house and home-"
"Except cheese" Silver interrupted. "Mmm.... Cheddar...." another one of Tails many cheese wheels vanished into Silvers mouth.
Tails nodded. "Except cheese. BUT! He pays me back for every wheel that he eats-" at this, Tails pocketed ten dollars he had been handed by Silver. He then looked at Knuckles "AND he doesn't break everything-" Now he turned to Shadow. "Nor shoot up the city and leave me footing the bill!"
The two hedgehog rivals and the echidna just shrugged. "So?" the glare they received even had shadow quaking in his rocket shoes.
"Okay, okay! We'll get a job!" Sonic begged. "Just please calm down!" Bad idea.
"Calm down?" Tails' eyes were twitching. "CALM DOWN?!? WHY SHOULD I CALM DOWN!" he paused, the red in his face fading, and a smile growing in his place. "Okay, I'll calm down..." He picked up a phone.
Sonic started to sweat as Tails dialed. "Uhh... Tails? Who are you..." Tails held up a finger, and Sonic heard a certain purple cat picked up.
"Hello, Blaze?"

"NOOOOOOOOOOEEEEEZ!!!!" Sonic yelled as Blaze dragged him off.

"How dare you take advantage of your own brother!" She scolded.

Meanwhile, Shadow was being massively scolded for how much he owed by several women – one of them being Maria, who Tails himself had brought back to life after Shadow rescued him and Sonic from Eggman's clutches. Right now though, between Maria, Cosmo, And Amy, Shadow wished he hadn't saved them.

"Really, Shadow, that much?"

"Maria..."

"She's tight. How did you manage to owe my Tails so much?"

"Well..."

"Yea! After all, MY boyfriend certainly paid off most of his."

"Amy!" Silver exclaimed. "How could you say it like that?!?"

"Silver, Honey, You're from the future AND you're jobless."

"Oh... Right..." Silver turned to Tails. "So, Blaze gonna pay off Sonic's debt to you?"

"Well, Yes and no..." Tails sighed for the umpteenth time. "she's paying off some, but

Sonic still has to get a job. Blaze is just paying for what I need at the moment."

Silver's eyes lit up. "Like cheese?" Amy laughed, and Tails smiled. "Yes, Silver. Like cheese. And..." He looked over at Knuckles, who had just walked over with Rouge, sporting many cuts and bruises. Tails winced inwardly. "Maybe I'll get some grapes for you Knuckles."

"Thanks, Tails, but I can't have grapes for a month." Knuckles sighed, his eyes tearing up, and everyone but Rouge gasped.( A/N For those of you who don't know, Knuckles can barely live without these purple spheres that we call 'grapes' ). Knuckles pointed a thumb at Rouge. "She said that until I pay you back, I can't have any grapes, and that I only have a month to pay you back."

"That's a shame." Tails smiled. "And to think that I just bought several bags, too." Knuckles mouth started to water badly, saliva literally dripping from it, but Rouge smacked him for it. Meanwhile, Tails and Silver high-fived behind their backs.

Sonic walked over with a glum look on his face. "I got good news for you, bro." Tails looked over at him, wondering why he looked so depressed (other than Blaze yelling at him). "Blaze is going to pay off not only all of my debt, but also Knuckles and most of Shadow's, too." Everyone Gasped (Again). "There's one condition though..."

"And that would be...?" Knuckles asked.

"...We have to be Tails' slaves...

WHOO!!! first fanfic chapter – DONE! Now I just have to do some more... might be a few weeks before the next chapter is up. Sorry about the length, but most of them probably be this long. Hope you enjoy! And don't be afraid to review. I don't bite... much ^w^

also, sorry if there's any spelling mistakes. I tried to look but its hard when the computer says that every other word is mispelled even when its not .