Chapter 3 — The Party
It was a sunny day in Canterlot High. At first, nothing special was happening. Students were having classes, teachers were lecturing. And as always, Sonic was bored to death. He and Tails were having physics class. Sonic was looking bored for the teacher and his eyes were almost closed, but Tails was looking closely at the teacher, listening carefully to every word. Sonic looked at the clock and noticed that there was just 30 seconds left for the end of the class. The teacher was about to give the homework when the bell rang, and Sonic ran outiside at full speed making all the papers fly away. That made not only the teacher mad but also the stundents, and they all looked at Tails with angry faces.
Tails: Ehehe, what can I say? He doesn't like physics. Hehe...
After that, Tails was looking for Sonic. He ran so fast that Tails did not saw where he went. Some time later, he finally found Sonic, he was looking at a poster about a costume party that the school was going to have in the night. Tails slowly walked towards Sonic and grabbed his shoulders screaming "Boo!". Sonic ruffled his hair and jumped to the top of a pilar that was at his side. He looked down with his eyes widened and saw Tails trying his best to not laugh. He slides down the pilar and gave a friendly punch on his shoulder.
Sonic: Ha ha ha, you're so funny, Mr. Miles Prower.
Tails: Oh wow, you must be angry. You just called me by name haha.
Sonic: Who? Me? I'm the definition of "patience".
Tails: Says the guy who almost ran over the teacher.
Sonic: Of course, Physics, is an exception.
Tails: Haha. Anyway, what are you looking at?
Sonic: Tonight, the school is having a costume party. And, must have a costume to enter.
Tails: And you're going to this party?
Sonic: Of course! Ain't no party without Sonic the Hedgehog!
Tails: And you're going with what costume?
Sonic: I don't know. Maybe if I ask Eggman some of his clothes, I can make a cosplay of him!
Tails: Yeah, it will totally fit in you.
Sonic: Actually, I was planning in dress up with a horror costume.
Tails: You're going to dress up like who?
Sonic: Heh, just wait and see...
What costume will Sonic put for the party? Will he dress up like Eggman? Only time will tell. Sonic and Tails headed towards the cafeteria. They saw the main 7, Shadow, Silver, Phoenix and Knuckles sitting in one of the tables. Sonic and Tails got there and sat too. Everyone was chatting, eating and laughing. Until Sonic brought up the party to the table.
Sonic: So, what costumes are you guys will wear for the party tonight?
Rainbow Dash: Uhh... What party?
Tails: The costume party. You didn't saw the poster?
Sunset Shimmer: I didn't knew we're having a party tonight.
Sonic: Yup. A costume party. And you must have a costume to enter.
Pinkie Pie: Oh oh! I'm going as a spy! — She grabbed an binoculars with night vision out of her hair — Ooooooh Night Vision...
Sonic: Anyway... Tails told me he's going as a pirate.
Tails: I didn't say that... Ok, I said that.
Silver: I'm going as a Time Traveller. Just like the movie we watched.
Phoenix: What a irony.
Knuckles: Glad I still have my hat!
Rarity: Why don't you all come to my shop? I can make fabulous costumes for everyone!
Sonic: Wow really? Nice one, Rarity!
Rarity: Everyone at my shop after school, ok?
Everyone agrees and they headed back to their classes. Sonic and Phoenix had free period so they decided to walk around. They began to talk about what costume wear for the party. But Sonic didn't told anything about his costume. What is he hidding? Even after asking for the 7rd time, he didn't said anything about it. Phoenix decided to stop asking and they walked towards the front of the school. They were waiting for the others. After a while, the group finally got out of their classes and everyone headed to Rarity's shop. There, Rarity asked to everyone about what costume they wanted. Phoenix walked to her and asked
Phoenix: Do you have a jacket with spikes on the edges and shoulders?
Rarity: Sure Darling — She grabbed the jacket — Here you go but, who are you going to be?
Phoenix: No one. I have this mask that change the leds on the glasses to make an expression based on my mood — He put the jacked and the mask — It also changes my voice — He said with a robotic voice
Everyone was changing into their favorite costumes and Sonic was in the bath room. He was painting black a contact lens leaving a small hole and in this hole, he painted red. Then he took some gooseberry and placed under the eyes. The gooseberry is a dark and vivid red, which makes it look like blood. Then he took a black marker and painted his teeth to stay sharp. He took a little blackcurrant and spent a bit in his teeth. His costume was ready. Now he was . Sudenlly he heard and knock sound and the door opened. He quickly turned off the light and hid. Phoenix entered the room and turned on the light but he didn't saw no one.
Phoenix: Sonic? Is everything ok? You're taking a sweet time in here — He looked at the sink and saw the black marker and everything — Ooh so you're making your make-up! Hey I won't judge! — X|X
The "X|X" is the expressions that the mask is making
Then the light turned off "by itself". And Phoenix quickly looked back and saw Sonic looking to the ground. He called Sonic but he didn't answered. Then Phoenix took a step towards and put his hand on Sonic's shoulder. Sonic slowly looked up and Phoenix saw the red glowing eyes and the blood that he was "crying". He took a step back and he stumbled on his on feet. He fell and Sonic came closer. He came closer and closer. Next to Phoenix's right ear, Sonic whispered
Sonic: Got ya! Hahahaha
Phoenix: Oh my God SONIC — 0|o — Don't scare me like that man. I feel like my heart is coming out my mouth — !|!
Sonic: Hehe it's just a prank bro
Phoenix: So this is your costume? — X|X
Sonic: Yup. Pretty cool, right?
Phoenix: If you want to scare someone to death — ;|;
Sonic: Aw come on, It wasn't even scary
Phoenix: Yup, the true nightmare is behind the make-up — ~|^
Sonic: Ah screw you — He gave a friendly punch on his arm. — That's why you use a mask
Phoenix: Shots fired — 9|9
After that, they made their way to Canterlot High. Some of the group was already there like Tails, Knuckles, Shadow and Silver. They haven't saw Sonic's costume yet. The school was full of people dressed up like cartoon characters, movie characters and even animals. Sonic and Phoenix arrived first, then, the main 7 reached the school. They enter the school and saw a lot of decorations, food, drinks and Flash's band was playing the music. Sonic was looking for Tails to get his revenge for scaring him. He saw Tails talking to Knuckles next to the table of cupcakes. He slowly walked towards Tails. Knuckles saw Sonic and his eyes widen. Tails looked back and saw Sonic with a creepy smile. Then Sonic thickens his voice and says: Do you want to play with me?
Tails and Knuckles screamed and ran away. Shadow, Silver and the main 7 saw Sonic with his black eyes with only a red glowing dot in the middle and the "blood" under his eyes. They took a step back and Sonic looked at them and said: Who's next?!. Silver fainted and the others ran away screaming. Sonic couldn't hold himself and he began to laugh uncontrollably. After that, he took a long breath and began to seek for the group. He was in the main corridor when he heard Shadow talking to someone. He peeks in the corner and saw Shadow talking with Tails, Knuckles, and the main 7 (Silver is uncounscious). He was talking about a plan to get everyone out of the school and move to another country. Sonic stepped on and said
Sonic: Hey, I was just kidding! Calm down.
Shadow: How can we know you're the real Sonic?
Sonic: Shadow this is my costume. I'm not an .EXE! — He passed his hand on his teeth and the ink got on his fingers — See? It's fake!
Tails: How could you do this to us?
Sonic: Aw c'mon, it's just a prank! I'm sorry ok! I didn't mean to scare you like that. And I think we're even.
Tails: All of that was just a revenge?!
Sonic: Pretty much, hehe.
Rainbow Dash: Then you better get ready to our revenge. — She smirked
After that, Sonic apologizes everyone and they went back to the party. Phoenix was drinking a soda when Sonic sat at his side and slapped his back at the same time, making the soda shed a bit on Phoenix's mask.
Sonic: Mission Complete, and sorry hehe
Phoenix: They're not mad at you? — ?|?
Sonic: Well, at first yeah but now it's everything fine.
Phoenix: Alright, so, now you're here with me, I need your help. — ~|^
Sonic: With what?
Phoenix: Just follow me — X|X
Phoenix led Sonic to a old area of the school. It has many junk but most of it was eletronic pieces. Phoenix began to dig in one of the piles of trash. After a little while he finally got out with something in his hands. He turn back to Sonic with a toaster in his hands.
Sonic: Haha, wow man, I hope you kept the recipes.
Phoenix: Alright, so this is an generic toaster, you may think. Well, you're completely right! — ^|^
Sonic: So, we're here for a broken toaster?
Phoenix: Not quite, but close — He walked towards the school.
They went back to the main corridor. Sonic and Phoenix reached Phoenix's locker. While he was opening the locker, he told everything about Eggman's new plan.
Sonic: Ok so, Eggman is building a new robot called Egg Beatle 2.0, and a chip that is inside this toaster is the key to create a detonator for the robot.
Phoenix: Yup, that's why I've been trying to crack 2.0. There's just... One... — \|/ — teeny... Little... Problem! — He said trying to open the toaster — 0|o
Sonic: What?
Phoenix: The chip...— He was trying to crack wide open the toaster — is a little — The toaster finally opens — hard to get out...
Sonic: You just did it...
Phoenix: Look there's no point in trying to use the previous version's hardware to jack the new OS. Why? — ?|? — Because they change the ports! — !|! — Following the Capitalists' Guide to Forced Obsolescence!— o|o — But luckily, a little fox told me that Eggman is buying the parts needed with 0 days of use and absurd power. — ͜ | ͜
Sonic: Oooooh. Now that just might be a shame.
Phoenix: Oh yeah. That's why you, my friend, are going to help me prevent the delivery, before some do-gooder White hat tells Eggman how to stop us.
Sonic:... You... You got a weird relationship with technology. You know that right?
Phoenix nodded while Sonic slowly walked bacwards to the party again. Phoenix looked at the chip in his locker and said: "He didn't mean it". He closed the locker and followed Sonic back to the party. There, Flash's band already finished their musics and Vinyl Scratch took their place with eletronic music. Tails was drinking punch with Sonic, when he saw Flash talking with Twilight. Everything was ok when he saw Twilight blushing and he already knew what was going on. Sonic noticed that Tails was a little sad and he decided to ask him what happened.
Sonic: Hey buddy, you're still mad at me?
Tails: Hm? Oh, no, I'm not.
Sonic: Then why you look sad?
Tails: It's nothing... I'm fine, but thanks for asking...
Sonic: Hmm... — Sonic looked around and saw Flash talking to Twilight — It's Twilight, isn't it?
Tails: *sigh* Yeah...
Sonic: Why don't you go ask her to dance?
Tails: Easy to say.
Sonic: And easy to do too.
Tails: For YOU it's easy to do!
Sonic: Wha!... What was that supposed to mean? Say one time it was easy for me!
Tails: Sally, Rainbow Dash. And Sally is a princess! You dated a princess!
Sonic: Oh c'mon Tails! You fought Eggman with me many times! How difficult is to call a girl out?
Tails: I... I don't know...
Sonic: You'll never know if you don't try.
Tails: But what if Flash is actually her boyfriend?
Sonic: Little bro, you need to stop living in "What if?". Just do it!
Tails: You're right. I'll go talk to her!
Sonic: Yeah!
Tails: I won't be afraid!
Sonic: Yeah, and then you go behind her and I push you!
Tails: Ok, we don't need to exaggerate.
Sonic: Oh... Anyway, I'm proud of you buddy.
After that, Tails waited until Flash was away and walked to Twilight. Sonic was watching from distance and saw Tails blushing and talking to Twilight. Sonic didn't knew what Tails was saying, but, it worked! Twilight nodded to what Tails said and he gave his hand to her. Sonic smiled when Phoenix came slapping his back a little stronger than Sonic when he slapped Phoenix
Sonic: Ouch! Hey, I didn't do it that hard.
Phoenix: Sorry — ~|^ — Yo, is that Tails dancing with Twilight?
Sonic: Yup, *sigh* they grow up so fast...
Phoenix: Yeah... — -|- — Hey, did you heard that?
Suddenly a white van parked in front of the school. Sonic and Phoenix noticed that. They didn't want to crash the party just because of a van so they didn't told anything to the group. Sonic and Phoenix ran outside and saw no one inside the van. Sonic decided to check the front of the van and Phoenix went inside the van's back. Sonic did not found anything, but he heard the sound of boxes hitting the ground. He got out of the van and saw boxes flying out of the van.
Phoenix: Trash... trash... Trash... Ooooh! Wait a minute
Sonic: Hey tell me we got something good.
Phoenix: Nope. Trash... — He said throwing more boxes — Traash... Ohohooo...
Sonic got more close to the van and saw Phoenix opening a huge box with a robot inside.
Phoenix: Well, you got THE goods. — ~|^ — Is it actually good? It might be evil! — 0|o
Sonic:...
Phoenix: ?|? — I don't know. A random van just dropped by — ^|^ — Alright, well, I'll get this little guy prepped while, you my friend, go get us some caffeine — ~|^
Sonic: Wait, you want me to get you two coffee?
Pheonix: No...— X|X — He's a robot! I want you to get US caffeine.
Sonic: Ok...
Phoenix: He'll take a decaf — ^|^
Sonic laughed and went back to the school. Of course, the school didn't had coffee, but the school had energy drinks which have caffeine. He grabbed two energy drinks and headed back to the van. He was doing fine when Fluttershy stepped in front of him.
Fluttershy: Hey Sonic, have you seen Phoenix?
Sonic: Uhh... — He looked at the window and saw Phoenix carrying the robot and shaking his head sideways — Noo...
Fluttershy: Oh...ok if you see him, please tell me.
Sonic: Sure, hehe...
Sonic rushed outside and began to look for Phoenix. He saw him at the Soccer Field dismantling the robot. Sonic threw the energy drink and Phoenix got it without looking back. Then Sonic ran to him
Sonic: Why you didn't want to see Fluttershy?
Phoenix: Do you have any idea how to explain a random van that leaves a robot. And the robot can be dangerous? — ?|?
Sonic: Good point.
Phoenix: Ok, so, this guy can be from any one. It can be from Eggman or any other enemie. It can even be from Amy to spy on you — !|!
Sonic: *spits the energy drink* Wowowow, first, how?
Phoenix: I'm speaking hypothetically, but yeah, Amy do this kind of stuff — X|X
Sonic: We should destroy this robot, right now.
Phoenix: Let's first find out who made this robot, then we can destroy it, only IF this robot is a threat — ^|^
Sonic: And where will you hide it?
Phoenix: Probably at Fluttershy's house. Or I'll give it to Tails but first, I need to hide it somewhere else — °|°
Sonic: And where?
Phoenix: Well that's the part where you take in— ~|^
Sonic: What do you mean?
Phoenix: I'll go talk to Tails about this robot while you are going to hide it somewhere — ^|^
Sonic: What?! How am I supposed to do that?
Phoenix: I don't know. — ?|? — Use your imagination! — X|X
Sonic was about to answer but Phoenix already left. Phoenix rushed inside the school and began to seek for Tails. The music was too loud, no body could hear Phoenix from distance and the lights was making difficult to see anyone. Phoenix finally saw Tails when he felt someone holding his hand. He turned back and saw Fluttershy holding his hand.
Phoenix: Oh hey Fluttershy — !|!
Fluttershy: Where have you been? I was looking for you.
Phoenix: I was... Taking care of some... Things... — o|o — But now I'm here, what do you need? — ?|?
Fluttershy: I just wanted to spend some time with you. You've been kinda away from me in the past few days...
Phoenix: (I hate you butterfly effect) I'm sorry dear, but right now I can't. But I promise, I am going to spend more time with you, but right now I have serious things to take care — ;|;
Fluttershy: *sigh* Ok... I understand... — She looked really sad
Phoenix: I'm sorry — He put his hand on her shoulders — Can you forgive me? — ?|?
Fluttershy: Don't worry, I forgive you.
Phoenix: Thank You! — ^|^ He hugged her — I promise. I'll spend more time with you, ok?
Fluttershy: Ok. Now go finish your business. — She looked a little bit happier
Phoenix: Thanks. I love you, ok? — S2|S2
Fluttershy: Yeah, I know...
Phoenix left her and ran towards Tails. He saw him talking to Twilight. Phoenix stopped behind Twilight and tried to get Tails attention by waving his hands in the air. Tails looked at him without making Twilight notice and some letters passed on Phoenix's mask: M|E, T|M, E|O, U|T, S|I, D|E, ~|^. Phoenix left Tails and headed to the front of the school. Tails said to Twilight: "Can you give me just a minute?", she nodded and Tails left Twilight. Tails followed Phoenix and saw him and Sonic at the Soccer Field and a robot. Tails got excited and ran towards them.
Tails: Where did you find it?
Sonic: A white van parked at the front of the school. This little guy was inside the van.
Tails: And who made it?
Phoenix: That's the big question — -|-
Sonic: We're trying to figure it out.
Tails: So, why did you call me?
Phoenix: The robot won't turn on because is missing one of its parts. So I need your help to create another — ^|^
Tails: Hm... — He took a look on the robot — I think we'll need more help...
Phoenix: *sigh* Oh well — u|u
Suddenly, the main 7, Shadow, Silver and Knuckles appeared with confused faces. Sonic quickly got in front of the robot and Tails and Phoenix walked towards them.
Silver: What are you guys doing here outside?
Phoenix: Yeah, we were going ask the same thing, why aren't you guys enjoying the party? — ^|^
Shadow: Because you all were acting suspicious.
Sonic: Oh c'mon Faker, everything for you is suspicious.
Shadow: And what are you hiding behind you?
Sonic: Uhh... Behind me?... N-nothing...
Rainbow Dash: Sonic, I've told you already that you're horrible at pretending.
Phoenix: Waitwaitwait! — !|! — Before that, I got a question for you guys... Despite Tails, who knows a lot of robotic? — ?|?
Only Twilight and Sunset Shimmer lifted their hands. Phoenix looked at Sonic moving his head up and down. Sonic slowly moved away revealing the robot. Everyone got surprised about it. Phoenix explained everything about it. After that, Twilight and Sunset Shimmer agreed to help create another piece of the robot. Everyone got to Twilight's house, because it was big enough to everyone. Phoenix got all of his tools, placed the robot on the ground and said
Phoenix: Alright guys, ready to rock it? — ~|^
Everyone (except Shadow) screamed "Yes!". While Phoenix, Tails, Twilight and Sunset were working on the robot, the others were helping with supplies. Tails and Phoenix was studying the robot's system. What language the robot uses and what commands the robot knew. Twilight and Sunset were working on the new Motherboard, they were studying the robot's components. To make the new Motherboard, they had to know how the robot was built. Phoenix was trying his best to program information for the new motherboard but he couldn't do it.
Phoenix: I did the best I can man... — =|=, X|X
Sonic: Hey, you did a good job...
Phoenix: I'm not saying that you're blaming me, I'm just saying that without the right components... — \|/
After a while, things were getting stressful. It was really late, everybody was tired and they weren't getting nothing. Sonic was grabbing some energy drinks when he saw Phoenix and Shadow arguing with notebooks in their hands. Sonic ran saying: "Wowowowow Alright stop! That's enough!". But, after that they already made peaces, so everything was good again. More time later, Tails and Phoenix was programming at one of the computers when they finally got the motherboard programming and they were ready to put it into practice
Phoenix: *gasp* — 0|o — Yees! Nice! — ^|^ — Good job man, good job... See, that's exactly...
Even more time later they were doing the final steps to create the new Motherboard. Twilight was going to Tails with energy drinks when Sonic came taking the drinks out of her hand
Sonic: Wowowow no more of energy drinks. This things are like liquid drugs! Do you think that was a good idea for Tails? Nope, never happened.
After 6 hours of pure hard work, Phoenix was putting the new Motherboard on the robot. Everyone was nervous, it was too many hours of work, it can't be all in vain!
Phoenix: Here we go — He puts the Motherboard on the robot o|o, the robot turned on — *gasp* YEEEEAAAHHH — !|! — WOOHOOO... I love you... — S2|S2 He hugged the robot
Sonic: Yees! Good job everyone!
Tails: Woohoo we did it!
Silver: This is amazing! How are we going to call it?
Phoenix: ¬|¬, X|X, ?|? — Name it?
Silver: Yeah. How about... Kuma?
Sonic: Kuma? Yeah... I like it
Phoenix: The power that was given to me, A.K.A Silver suggested it, I grant you the name of Kuma!
The robot made some sounds, shaked a bit and made a smile face on his screen. Then the robot said
Kuma: Hi! I am Kuma, the multi-tasking robot. I can go into any network and perform any task you send me.
Phoenix: 0|0 — It's... So... Beautiful — S2|S2
Tails: Ok...so... Kuma, connect into Twilight's WIFI and call Sonic.
Kuma: Yes, calling Sonic
Then, Sonic's cellphone began to ring and Sonic picked up the call. What Sonic said, the robot reproduces. Everyone was really excited. Now they have a robot that can do anything they want. Now, Kuma, is going to be very useful when Eggman shows up.
And that's it for today, dear readers. It was really fun to write all of this (Holy Mobius 3.969 words). Anyway, don't forget to comment what do you think of the series, Follow and Favorite this story :D. And now you must be thinking: Where's the Q&A? Well, in this chapter it's going to be a little different. You are going to ask me any question you want! So if have any question, don't forget to write down in any chapter of this story. And don't worry, I'll only do this in some chapters ;). Anyway! Thank you for reading and I'll see you in the next chapter. Bye bye!