About a month had passed since the break-in at Spagona University; it had elicited a paragraph in the local press but nothing more than that, even Sam managed to keep his job somehow. In fact Mobius had been resoundingly quiet for the most part and the world's fastest hero; the blue hedgehog Sonic, had been taking full advantage of this along with his inseparable companion and kid brother of sorts Miles 'Tails' Prower by taking a holiday at the beach.
Sonic was lounging on a deck-chair wearing a pair of sun glasses and swimming trunks. To the casual observer he appeared to be perfectly content, yet Sonic was internally vexed with the current situation, more to the point, he was bored. The holiday at first had begun well as Sonic and Tails had spent many a happy hour playing on the beach, meeting people and reading books however all of these activities after a while begin to lose their savour when you've been doing them for a fortnight as they had done.
Tails on the other hand was quite happy; he lay on a beach towel reading a thick volume. He was so engrossed in it he failed to notice that he had a white blob on his nose from the ice cream he was absent-mindedly licking. His two tails were casually rotating to provide a cooling breeze for the two. Suddenly Sonic sighed loudly.
"What's the matter Sonic?" said Tails not even looking up from his book.
"Well bro, it's just we've been here for two weeks now and nothing's happened."
"But I thought you were having fun." Tails said now trying to lick the ice cream off his nose.
"Well I was, but…" Sonic sighed again, "I just wish something would happen!"
And so just as Sonic wished, something did happen; a young pink Hedgehog girl in a pink shirt and orange dress appeared at the other end of the beach.
"SOOONIC!" the figure cried as it rapidly closed the distance between itself and the boys lounging spot.
Sonic's eyes went wide and a mortified look stole over his face as he turned his head in the direction of the noise. Then quite suddenly he grabbed the confused Tails and ran in the opposite direction of the young girl.
"W-who is that Sonic?" said Tails holding on for dear life.
"Someone I knew before I met you" Sonic replied succinctly turning his head back to see the figure which to his dismay could clearly keep up a pace.
"Boy, I knew I wanted some action but not this sort of action!" He said to no-one in particular.
Sonic continued to run and his eyes grew wider in horror, he was running out of beach! The sand ahead grew more and more narrow as the cliffs and ocean flanking it closed it. He skidded to a halt looking for any possible escape and found none. He could barely swim and the cliffs were too high. Sonic then came to the conclusion that if he could not escape he might as well as accept his fate with dignity as he turned round to meet the oncoming girl.
He gulped as the pink figure closed the distance, then another look of shock came over his face, how did he forget?
"Tails, you can fly!" he said as though this were a completely new discovery. "Get us outta here!"
Tails wound up his namesakes and grabbed onto Sonic's arms as the two rose up into the air just as the hedgehog girl reached where they were.
"Wait, Sonic! Don't go!" she cried jumping into the air in a vain attempt to catch them.
When they reached the top of the cliff the two sat down heavily, panting.
"So who was that anyway?" Tails said gasping for air.
"That Tails, was Amy Rose, we go back a long way" said Sonic.
"How long?"
Sonic cast over his memories to the moment when he first met Amy Rose. He explained to Tails how a few years ago he had travelled to a place called Never Lake where every year a small planetoid called Little Planet appeared in the sky. When he got there he found it had been chained to the ground and under the command of Dr Robotnik, not only that but he met a girl by the name of Amy Rose who was utterly infatuated with him despite his indifference. However before she knew it a robot swooped in and kidnapped her, so being the high-speed, one-of-a-kind, super-duper hero-hedgehog that Sonic was he set out to free Little Planet, stop Dr Robotnik, pull his moustache, and rescue the girl.
"And then what happened?" said Tails fascinated by this little shred of Sonic's life he never really knew of.
"Well kid, she was a bit, uh, 'clingy' for my liking so I said we could just be friends, but she got it stuck into her head that I'm her boyfriend!"
Tails laughed at this and began to sing, "Sonic and Amy sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S…"
"Shut up Tails!" said Sonic irritably.
"Well it is kinda funny how shy you are!" said Tails with a roguish look.
"I'm not shy; I just don't like it when she gives me one of those bone-crushing hugs. You'll understand when you're older…" the hedgehog sighed as saw Tails was still smirking. "Come on, let's buzz cuz!" He said grabbing Tails by the arm and running off into the distance with the fox in tow.
They sped through the countryside until they came to the last town they visited; Apotos, described as a 'charming little sea-side town' which was indeed the case. Sonic skidded to a halt in the town square and took a moment to admire the white stuccoed buildings and churches.
"Well Tails, I guess we'll be spending the night here. Hopefully Amy won't be thinking the same thing" said Sonic with a smile.
"I'd rather hope Dr Robotnik doesn't decide to come here Sonic, I'm quite liking this vacation" said Tails who was considering the wider picture.
Unlike Sonic however Tails's wish was not granted. On the far outskirts of town Dr Robotnik's newly constructed aerial-battleship was drifting overhead. On the bridge the crazed madman raised a glass to himself and turned to Scratch and Grounder.
"Well boys, we are now heading towards the first known Temple of Gaia! Soon, we will reawaken Dark Gaia and my dominion of Mobius will be at hand!" he cackled manically.
"Your genius knows no bounds your bloatedness!" fawned Scratch.
"Indeed" said Robotnik in a voice that superficially suggested humility yet brazened odious smugness.
"This is easily the best plan you've ever come up with!" supplied Grounder not to be outdone.
"This plan is so great they'll never be able to top it!" said Scratch with an edge of testiness to his voice.
"Oh yeah?! Well Dr Robotnik is so smart that he could easily come up with an even greater plan with his hands tied behind his back!" yelled Grounder putting his face right up close to Scratch's.
"YEAH?! Well Dr Robotnik is so gre…"
"SHUT UP!" boomed the Doctor at the two squabbling badniks. "Go and tidy up the kitchen! I have more scheming to do!"
The two reeled out of the bridge while Robotnik looked out of the window towards the setting sun.
"Tomorrow belongs to me…" he said in a soft voice which was far more terrifying than any angry shout he had given that day.
Author's Note: Well people I'm glad you've enjoyed what I've written so far, I decided to give Amy an introduction of sorts as she doesn't appear in AoStH (which I always thought was rather a missed opportunity for some gags but oh well). Obviously this is longer than an episode of AoStH but I think we can assume that this would be a multi-episode story arc or something like the Chaos Emerald arc.