July 4th
Drabble # 4
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T.A.R.N.S: Hi everybody. Let's see how Sonic and the gang are celebrating this July 4th.
Disclaimer: Sonic and all related characters belong to Sega.
Claimer: Zelda Robotnic and the plot belong to The All Real Numbers Symbol.
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"So tell me again what are we doing here?" Shadow asked. Sonic looked down from the chair he had placed on the wing of the X-Tornado and grinned.
"We are tailgating." Sonic replied.
"Isn't that usually done with a pickup truck?" Shadow asked. "Yes." Sonic told him. "But we don't have a pickup truck, so we're using the X-Tornado."
Shadow rolled his eyes.
The whole gang had headed out to the Station Square Park to have some Fourth of July fun, to have a cookout and watch the fire- works.
A few feet away, on the ground, Tails was cooking burgers on the small charcoal grill that they had brought. He flipped the burgers, but none of them landed on the grill. Three burgers landed on the ground (which the ants, birds, and squirrels promptly stole), and the fourth one landed on Knuckles' head.
"OW!" Knuckles shouted. He pulled the burger off his head and stormed over to the grill. "Move over, Tails." Knuckles said. "I'm cooking the burgers."
"So what am I supposed to do?" Tails asked.
"Start setting up the chips, dips, snack foods, cups, plates, and drinks." Knuckles replied.
Amy was using the jet on the X-Tornado to cook hotdogs. She stuck on a stick into the flame, and then quickly pulled them out. "Perfect." Amy set the cooked hot dogs on a platter and stuck some more on her stick.
Zelda flew down a few moments later, and added hotdog and hamburger buns to the snack table. "Hi guys." She said. "Are we ready to eat?"
"Yep." Knuckles replied. "The burgers are ready."
Amy scurried over with the plate of hotdogs. "The hotdogs are ready, too." She said.
"Oh boy, food's ready." Sonic jumped down to the ground and raced to the food table. Shadow followed at a slower pace.
Sonic put three hotdogs on buns, then reached into hammerspace and pulled out a vat of chili and added it to the hotdogs. "Perfect." He picked up the plate and raced back to his seat.
Shadow selected his food and sat down in the grass. A moment later he heard Amy call, "Can somebody help me move this?" Shadow stood up and went to help Amy. The minute his back was turned though, the birds, squirrels, and ants promptly stole everything off his plate.
When Shadow came back a minute later, he saw his plate was empty. "I thought I had food on this plate." He said.
Sonic grinned and pointed at Shadow with his chilidog. "You gotta watch the critters in this park." He said.
Just then a bird swooped down and stole Sonic's chilidog. "My chilidog!" Sonic exclaimed. Shadow smirked.
As they ate, Shadow noticed a squirrel eyeballing his food and he shot a Chaos Spear at it. The squirrel ran away from the Chaos Spear and avoided being hit, but the Chaos Spear kept traveling and lit a few fireworks.
They next thing they knew, various other people in the park were being chased by fireworks. After the danger passed, the other people in the park gave them dirty looks. "Oh c'mon." Shadow muttered. "If I was trying to kill them, I wouldn't have missed."
"Um, perhaps it's time to leave." Sonic suggested.
So they group packed their stuff up and left for Tails' workshop in the Mystic Ruins.
"What are we gonna do now?" Amy asked after they arrived. "I got an idea." Sonic said, and he raced away to Drywall-Mart.
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Sonic reappeared a few minutes later with a bunch of fireworks. "Let's have our own fireworks show." He suggested.
So Sonic and Knuckles set up the fire works, and they watched their own show.
"Who says we can't put on our own fireworks show." Zelda smiled. "Happy Fourth of July, everyone."
Fin
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Happy Fourth of July from Nyoshi & The All Real Numbers Symbol