Author's Note :I made a mistake Bernie Stolar was no longer the president of SEGA in 2001 the president of SEGA was Toshiro Kezuka. I made changes to fix the mistake. all but one mentioning of Bernie Stolar in this chapter have been changed to Toshiro Kezuka.
Beta Edited by iammemyself
Disclaimer I don't own sonic the hedgehog.
Or any other SEGA employees, staff or representatives.
The names of actual people are only used for the
purpose of authenticity. The opinions expressed by the characters do not necessarily reflect the positions of actual SEGA employees, staff or representatives.
The Third Party
Sonic and Tails had not been playing Sonic 3 and Knuckles long, but Sonic was taking full advantage of Tails's ability to fly him to higher platforms. Although Tails was mildly annoyed by this, he preferred his flying to be taken advantage of to his supposed invincibility.
Sure, no matter how many times Tails got killed in a 2-player game with Sonic, he always came back. And although playing the games never actually put either one of them in any danger, Tails swore he could feel it when he died in the games.
Shortly after they had finished there was a knock at Sonic's door.
"Hey Sonic, open up", said one voice. "Yeah, let us in," came another. "You better listen to them, Sonic," the 3rd voice said. "They never listen to any one".
"Oh great," Sonic said sarcastically. "It's Vector and the psychotics."
Sonic ran over and opened the door before it was destroyed.
In came Vector the Crocodile, Charmy Bee, and Espio the Chameleon.
"Hey Sonic," Vector said. "We heard what happened, are you doing okay?
Mr. Kezukatold us you were really upset about SEGA going third-party."
"Don't really understand that," Charmy yelled out. "I love parties".
Espio, the most sane of the Chaotix, put a hand to his forehead.
"Charmy, he did not mean SEGA was having a third party," Espio tried to explain, "he means they are not making hardware anymore."
"No more hardware?" Charmy asked. "Good, I do not like anything that is hard to wear."
Sonic put his head in his hands. "They haven't been here 2 minutes and I already have a headache," Sonic thought.
"Oh Sonic!" a high-pitched voice called.
"Oh no, not now," Sonic said as Amy Rose ran up to him and grabbed him in a death grip hug.
"Whatever happens, Sonic, I will always be here for you!" Amy said.
"That's what I was afraid of," Sonic mouthed over his shoulder to Tails.
Another high-pitched, but more chipmunk-sounding voice came into the room. "They call me Sonic, cuz I am faster than sound I keep on jumping around, blue hedgehog Sonic, with incredible speed I'm moving my feet…"
Sonic pulled away from Amy and looked to see the source of the music .
"Hey, Charmy!" Sonic yelled, more fearful than angry, "bee.. careful, that arcade game is…"
There then came laughing. "He said bee careful!"
As Sonic was trying to protect his SEGASonic arcade game, someone else came to the door. "Well well, one of the only 2 games I was ever in," a voice said.
"Mighty!" Sonic said, "Mighty the Armadillo, never thought I would see you again, have you seen Ray the Flying Squirrel?"
"Nice to see you too, Sonic, and no, I have not seen Ray since SEGASonic arcade was made."
Mighty came in with headphones and a walkman.
"Sorry, Mighty, it is good to see you," Sonic said.
"Well, I guess you're not alone after all," came another voice.
"Knuckles," Sonic said. "I was wondering why you had not shown up".
"I was in the workout room. They need a new punching bag by the way. Mr. Kezuka told me you were upset about what happened to SEGA. I did not think I would find you here celebrating".
"Well," Sonic said, "I was not exactly celebrating, but it is starting to look like a party in here, isn't it."
Sonic quickly looked out the window. It had stopped raining.
"But how can it be a party without chili dogs? I'll go get some."
Sonic first ran over to Mighty who was showing Charmy how to play the arcade game. "Hey Mighty, make sure Charmy doesn't break that thing".
He then told Knuckles and Tails to keep an eye on the others, and ran off.
Some music started and everyone looked to Vector, who had his headphones on and was standing in front of a DJ machine he had been setting up.
Sonic ran down the streets of San Francisco to get chilidogs. Sonic grinned when he reached his destination.
"Now to see if they have finally realized I should get free chilidogs here."
Sonic then pushed the red button.
"Welcome to Sonic, may I take your order?" the voice said.
"Yes, give me 5 dozen foot long chilidogs," Sonic replied.
"5 dozen foot long chilidogs?" the voice repeated In disbelief.
"That's what I said," Sonic said in annoyance.
"Are you sure about that?" the voice asked.
"You're right," thought Sonic. "Better make it 6 dozen."
"How can you possibly eat 6 dozen foot long chilidogs?" the voice replied.
"I am not going to eat them all, I am getting them for a party," Sonic said. "Besides, I am on a diet, I only plan on eating 1 dozen myself this time."
"How can anyone eat a dozen foot long chilidogs?" the voice said.
"You burn a lot of calories running at Mach 1," Sonic said.
"Running at Mach 1? But- oh my, you're Sonic the Hedgehog, I can see you out the window! Sorry, Sonic, I will have your order in a little bit," the Voice said.
"I'll be waitiiiiing!"
After what felt like eternity to Sonic, someone finally came out with several large bags.
"Hey slow mo," Sonic said. "I thought this was fast food."
The young man laughed. "Sorry Sonic, 6 dozen foot long chilidogs take a long time to wrap. Anyway that will be…"
"What do you mean?" Sonic interrupted, "this is Sonic drive-in, I am Sonic the Hedgehog, shouldn't I get my chilidogs free?"
The young man laughed again. "If it were up to me you would."
Meanwhile, back at Sonic's room at Sega, Rouge the Bat and Shadow the Hedgehog had shown up. Rouge was doing her best to annoy Knuckles as Shadow was ranting about how Sonic was a faker and Shadow should have his own game. Not long after they had arrived there was another knock at the door. Thinking it was Sonic with the chilidogs, Tails went to answer, only to find that it was not Sonic, but another friend he had not seen in a long time. "Sally!" Tails said happily, "is that really you?"
Sally smirked. "So you still need proof?" she said.
Sally then kissed Tails on both cheeks and then his nose.
"Is that enough or do I need to do the witch voice too?" Sally said, smiling.
Tails was blushing.
He then saw that Bunnie Rabbot, Rotor Walrus, and Antoine D' Coolette were with Sally as well.
"Well, come in," Tails said. "Sonic should be back with the chilidogs soon."
"Chilidogs!" Bunnie said "Well I swear, sugar hog will never get tired of them!"
"Well, hopefully he will not eat all of them on his way back," Rotor commented.
" What does Sonic see in these chilidogs?" Antoine commented. "They are just cheap sausages."
"Watch it, Antoine," Tails said, "You do not want Sonic to hear you say that."
As the others were coming in, Amy saw Sally.
"Who are you?" Amy called out.
"Oh hello, I am Princess Sally Acorn, Sonic's girlfriend from Knothole."
"Girlfriend!" Amy screamed. "I'm Sonic's girlfriend."
Amy was about to pull out her hammer when she suddenly stopped.
"Wait, you're Princess Sally, the one they confused me with in the American Sonic CD? You don't look a thing like me."
"Tell me about it," said Sally. "It's not easy being mistaken for a pink psychopath."
This time Amy did pull out her giant hammer.
It was just this time when Sonic arrived.
"Hey everyone!" Sonic called out. "I got chilidogs."
Everyone in the room except Amy and Sally crowded around Sonic to get chilidogs.
"Hey hey!" Sonic yelled. "Some of them are mine, you know."
The crowd finally went away, and Sonic looked down at the empty bags on the floor.
"No, there's got to still be some left," Sonic said frantically.
Sonic found that one of the bags still had 6 chilidogs in it.
But it was at this time that Sonic saw what was probably the worst things a guy in his position could face.
Two girlfriends meeting each other. Or rather fighting each other.
"Hey Amy, Sally," Sonic called. The two of them stopped fighting and turned to Sonic.
"Amy," Sonic said, "this is Princess Sally Acorn, and Sally, this is Amy Rose".
Sonic tried to introduce his two girlfriends to each other.
"How come you never said you already had a girlfriend?" Amy fumed.
"I could ask the same question," Sally said darkly.
"It wasn't my idea," Sonic protested, "it was SEGA's idea, I had nothing to do with it."
Sally and Amy looked at each other. "Truce," the two said, shaking hands.
They then turned to Sonic. "Let's get him," they both said together.
Sonic gulped and turned to Tails. "Guard this for me," Sonic said, handing Tails the chilidogs.
Sonic then put both his hands up in defense as the squirrel/chipmunk hybrid and the pink hedgehog were both threateningly approaching Sonic.
"Ha ha ahum, girls, gulp, it wasn't my idea, it was SEGA's," Sonic said, "it's all SEGA's fault."
Sonic was suddenly saved by the sound of a new voice
"SONIC HEDGEHOG!"
Sonic turned to the door to see his mother, Queen Aleena Hedgehog, as well as his sister Sonia the Hedgehog, and brother Manic the Hedgehog.
"So you thought you would throw a party and not invite your own mother, your brother, and sister?" Aleena scolded.
"Hey Mom, hey Sonia, hey Manic, sorry, this was not exactly a party."
He then turned to Tails. "Give them each a chilidog, little bro," Sonic said.
Tails walked over, giving Manic a dirty look, who was also giving Tails a dirty look.
"You know, it would not have killed you to have let me be in at least one episode of Sonic Underground," Tails said.
Manic glared. "Well, I AM supposed to be Sonic's real brother, you're only adopted," he argued. "At least you were in every episode of Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic SatAM."
"Sonic SatAM only got 26 episodes, and I hardly got any good screen time. I think Antoine got more screen time than me in Sonic SatAM," Tails said, "and thanks to Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog I am now incapable of spelling the word sez properly."
"Well," said Sonia, "it just annoys me that Sonic cares more about you than his mother, his brother, and his sister".
"Yeah well, I have been with Sonic longer, I was made in 1992, one year after Sonic," Tails said. "You three were not made until 1999."
"Yeah," Sonic said, "it's not easy having a mother that is actually 8 years younger than you, as well as being with triplets when a brother and sister that were created 8 years after you, and are not any younger than your mother."
"Well SONIC HEDGEHOG," Aleena scolded. "I may actually be 8 years younger than you, but I am still your Mother."
"So is Bernie, from the comics" Sonic replied.
Upon hearing this Vector scratched the record on the DJ machine.
"Bernie," Vector asked, looking at Sonic. "Your Mother is the former president of SEGA?"
Sonic slapped himself in the face "No, Vector I am talking about Bernadette from the comics, my other Mother, and she is also younger than me."
Vector tried to understand what Sonic was saying.
"What," he said. "I am confused, can you explain that'?"
Sonic asked how could he explain something he barely understood himself to someone like Vector.
But once again Sonic was saved by another voice.
"I knew I would find you here, Sonic."
"Metal," Sonic said, and smirked. "Why wouldn't I be here, this is my apartment."
"Yes," Metal Sonic replied, "but had I come earlier you would not have been here. You would be still buying chilidogs. Or did you forget I know everything you're going to do?"
Sonic actually smiled at this. Metal had just given him the perfect setup.
"Well, you may know everything I'm going to do, but that's not going to help you, because I know everything you're going to do."
But before Sonic could finish the quote, the rest of the onlookers finished for him, "Strange, isn't it?"
"Hey!" Sonic yelled, annoyed that his line had been stepped on.
This allowed for Metal Sonic to catch Sonic off guard and pin him to the ground.
"Now now Metal Sonic, you know what will happen if you ever actually kill Sonic," came yet another voice.
"Dr. Eggman!" Sonic yelled.
"Oh ho ho ho," Eggman laughed. "You need to be more careful Sonic, Metal Sonic almost got you this time. If I had not arrived to call him off…,"
"Shut up, Eggman!" Sonic said. "Your schemes never work".
"Of course they don't. As much as I despise you, Sonic, I can never actually defeat you. If I did I would be endangering the continuation of my own existentence. You yourself have the same problem. If you ever defeat me permanently your games would have no villain, they would be boring, no one would play them, Sega would stop making them, and you and your friends would stop existing."
"This is true," Tails said suddenly as he helped Sonic to his feet, "but it's something we try not to think about."
"How true, how true," came yet another voice.
Tails gulped. "Tails Doll," he said nervously with a look of horror, "What are you doing here?"
"Oh Miles," Tails Doll said in a cheerful, but somehow disturbing voice, "it's so nice to see your frightened face again."
The Tails Doll hovered over to Tails and began circling him.
"Oh Miles, as much as I would like to destroy you, there is that annoying fact that I, too, would endanger my own existentence, but there are still other things that I can do for you, and your friends. But my dear Miles, you're the most fun to play with, you know. I assume you remember those wonderful nightmares I gave you? How you could not sleep at night, and kept passing out in the middle of the day. How you were so scared at night, you could not keep yourself from..."
"Hey!" Tails yelled. "I thought you liked scaring me, you don't have to embarrass me too!"
Tails Doll laughed. "Okay, Miles, I will not tell everyone about your problem... just keep in mind what I can make you do tonight, I am really looking forward to it."
What Tails Doll had not realized was that Sonic was preparing a trap for Tails Doll.
Sonic had found his copy of Sonic R and had removed the disk from the box.
Sonic was watching the window and when the sun came into view, Sonic called out.
"Hey Tails Doll, can you feel the sunshine?"
Tails Doll turned to face Sonic, and Sonic reflected the sunlight off the shiny side of the Sonic R disk, and focused it like a laser on the small red jewel on top of Tails Doll.
"No!" Tails Doll yelled.
A beam of energy came out from the Sonic R disk and began to pull Tails Doll towards it.
"No no!" Tails Doll yelled defiantly, "you may have stopped me this time, but I will be back, anytime anyone beats Sonic R with the Tails Doll, another copy of me will be released, I will return my dear Miles, and I will give you nightmares inside of your nightmares, I will returrrn!"
Sonic then put the Sonic R disk back in the box and put it away.
"Well, now I know why Sega discontinued the Sega Saturn so soon after Sonic R came out."
There then came a new voice, "SEGA, SEGA, SEGA, SEGA, SEGA, SEGA."
Sonic said, "It must be Sega." Sonic pulled back the cuff of his glove and revealed a wrist communicator.
Sonic then answered, "Hello, this is Sonic. Oh really, I am sorry, yes, goodbye".
"That was SEGA, they said we were making too much noise. The party is over," Sonic explained.
Everyone in the room began to groan as they all left the room.
Tails was about to leave as well, but he felt something, or rather someone, pull at one of his tails. The fox turned to see Sonic behind him, and the hedgehog made several gestures with his hands. Tails gave Sonic a knowing look and walked out the door.
After everyone was gone, Sonic looked around the room. "What a mess!" Sonic thought, and began to clean up the room at Sonic Speed.
It did not take long, and Sonic then sat on the foot of his bed waiting.
The door opened and Tails walked back in. "Well, Sonic, what did you want?" he asked.
Sonic smiled. "Thanks, Tails, you helped me a lot today. If you have not come in earlier, I would have been a wreck when the others arrived."
"Oh, I did not do much," Tails said.
"No, Tails," Sonic continued, "you really got me out of my depression".
Sonic got up and started walking towards Tails.
Upon seeing this Tails spun his namesakes and flew to the sealing.
"Hey," Sonic called up, "what's wrong?"
"You're trying to prank me, well it won't work Sonic, I am too smart."
Sonic laughed. "Oh Tails, I am not trying to prank you, come down from there."
"No way, Sonic," Tails called out.
Sonic then got an idea.
Sonic opened a cabinet, pulled out a container, and opened it.
"Oh Tails," Sonic called, "I have peppermint candy down here."
"No way, Sonic," Tails called, "I am not falling for that."
"Well, you're going to be falling before too long, you can't fly forever".
Tails then began dashing back and forth across the room, and Sonic was following him trying to stay underneath him to catch him when he was no longer able to stay in flight.
Tails was getting tired and made a mad dash towards Sonic's bed.
However, when Sonic tried to get under Tails he fell flat on his back in the bed.
At first Sonic was relieved that he had a soft landing, but then he looked up and saw Tails falling down towards him.
Sonic could not get out of the way and Tails landed on him.
Tails stared at Sonic. "I finally got the drop on you, Sonic," he said.
Sonic laughed. "So it was you all along trying to prank me."
"That's right, Sonic," Tails said, still on top of Sonic. "I finally got you. I hope you're not mad?"
"No," Sonic said, "I can't be mad at you, you're my best friend and you really mean a lot to me."
Unfortunately, right when Sonic said, "you really mean a lot to me", Mighty the Armadillo came in the room.
"Hey Sonic, I think I left my walkman in here somewhere, oh my gosh!" Mighty yelled seeing Tails on top of Sonic in bed.
Sonic then threw Tails off of him and ran to Mighty in a panic.
"Mighty!" Sonic yelled, "this is not what it looks like!"
Later that evening, Sonic was in the SEGA workout room, on a treadmill.
He needed to get some good running in or he would be up all night
He had convinced Mighty the Armadillo that Tails and himself had not been doing any thing… inappropriate.
It had not been an easy discussion for either Sonic or Tails, or Mighty.
But it was all settled now.
There came a voice on an intercom.
Attention all characters Attention all characters SEGA is shutting down for the night. The SEGA
character curfew regulation requires that all characters return to their respective apartment
levels. All characters are advised to remain in their rooms until morning, and are forbidden from leaving their levels until morning.
Sonic groaned. "Stupid curfew," Sonic thought to himself. Sometimes SEGA's rules really bugged him.
Sonic made his way back to his room.
Least he was allowed to run the halls of his level at night, that was good; in fact it was an improvement. At one time Sega had wanted all the characters to stay locked in their rooms at night. But seeing how Sonic sometimes needed to get up and run at night, Sega adjusted the rules. Also at one time Tails had had a vary bad nightmare and Sonic had been the only one who could calm him down afterward. Seeing as how Sonic looked after Tails in the game and cartoons, Sega had no objections
This behavior, in fact any behavior which reflected the personalities of the characters that they played was mostly encouraged. In a way Sonic was a method actor. He played Sonic the Hedgehog even when he was not doing his job making games and cartoons. He was still Sonic the Hedgehog, not exactly the same Sonic, but he had all the memories of the Sonic he played.
Sonic still hated the rules. However he understood that his life could have been a lot worse. At least he had his own room. He knew that if SEGA wanted to they could have kept him locked up in a cage like a real hedgehog. And force him to eat cat food. There had been one time Sonic had complained too much about not being treated properly, and for two days and one night someone at SEGA had actually put him in a cage, gave him only cat food to eat and on top of all that made him watch a documentary about real hedgehogs in the wild. Sonic had hated the cage and the cat food so much that for a time he had agreed to do anything SEGA wanted. But thankfully now things were better. Far from perfection, but things were still good. After all he was now on a first-name basis with the president of SEGA.
Sonic went over to his bed and flipped a switch, and the SEGA logo on the headboard glowed blue. He then switched off the overhead light and the SEGA logo dimly lit the room.
Sonic then removed his shoes and gloves and put them on the floor next to the bed,then went in the bathroom to brush his teeth, take a shower, comb his quills, and well, you know.
Sonic then came out of the bathroom, got in bed and switched off the SEGA logo light, and finally fell asleep.