Okay, here's the next chapter. I'm gonna try and get this done by Christmas, but if I don't I'll get it done by new years, okay? Thanks for the understanding.
Oh, and I know casting Sonic as the Mayor is kinda weird, but think of it. Sonic and Shadow are rivals, Sonic is the most popular among the characters, and- let's face it -Sonic can be self centered sometimes.
Sonic probably won't look too good in some parts of the story, but rest assured, I haven't made our favorite blue-blur the bad guy or anything.
Also, Rouge will pretty much play that Martha person from the movie, and there will be some hinted feelings between her and Shadow, but they will not be a couple. Sorry if any of you are Shad-Rogue shippers, but I just think that while they'd make really good friends, Shadow and Rouge just don't make a good couple.
Okay, now that that's over, enjoy the story!
(What? You expect me to say I own anything in this story? HA! Yeah right! Like that would ever happen.)
( I own nothing.)
Later, after Amy was done with her shopping, she rode home with Knuckles.
They pulled into the driveway, and got out of the car. "None of the lights are on." Knuckles commented. "I thought Tails told you back at the post-office he was heading home?"
"That's what I thought too." Amy replied.
Suddenly, Amy and Knuckles were blinded by dozens of strings of Christmas lights.
"Hi guys!" Tails shouted from the roof. "How do you like my Christmas lights?"
"Do you think you're maybe… overdoing it?" Knuckles replied.
"No, of course not! Why would you say that?"
"Maybe the fact that it looks like you've taken all the lights out of the house to do this?"
"Oh. Well it's all for the cause Knuckles."
Knuckles just shrugged and Amy went inside.
"Just why are you so obsessed with the lights?" Knuckles asked.
"Cause I want to win the Christmas light competition."
"Oh, right."
"No offense Knuckles, but that girlfriend of yours wins it every year, and I'm sick of it. But not this year! This year I'll beat that prissy bat or my name isn't-"
"Tails!" Rouge called from next door. "Hi!"
"Oh, hi Rouge!" Tails called back, trying to sound neighborly.
"Wow Tails! I've never seen so many Christmas lights!"
"Yeah, well I'm just getting into the holiday spirit."
"Me too. Just take a look at this." She uncovered a machine which looked like some kind of canon. Then to Tails surprise, Rouge aimed it at her house and shot strings of lights which landed on her house perfectly. She kept this up until she ran out of lights.
Tails jaw dropped. Somehow she had managed to put up as many lights in 5 minutes as he had in 5 hours!
"Well," Rouge said, with a hint of pride in her voice. "Goodnight Tails."
Tails couldn't even speak.
Knuckles shyly walked up to the female bat. "Hey Rouge." He said.
"Oh, hello Knuckles." She replied. "How's it going?"
"Oh, it's going great. You're lights look really cool. Um… I was wondering… maybe you'd want to go out tomorrow night?
Later, as he lit some candles to light the dark house, Knuckles heard the phone ring. "Hello?" He answered. The person on the phone muttered something. "Is my refrigerator running?" Knuckles repeated. "I guess so."
"Then you'd better go catch it!" Said Shadow, just before hanging up. "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Snax just stared at his master as Shadow laughed his tail off… despite the fact that even he didn't think it was that funny. "HAHAHahaha…ha… Oh, that's a good one…" He noticed Snax staring at him. "Let's go home."
They walked over to the opening to the pneumatic tube, which lead to the garbage dump up on Mt. Jump-it.
Shadow opened the lid and said to Snax, "Fleas before beauty."
Snax backed away for Shadow to go first, and the black hedgehog looked insulted.
As soon as they were both in, Shadow pushed the button and they were sucked into the long pipeline which wound its way up to the mountain.
They finally reached the end of the pipe and landed in the garbage heap high up in Mt. Jump-it.
"A car would have paid for itself by now." Shadow grumbled. He heard something else coming through the pipeline. "Oh goody, another load coming down!" Some bags fell out of the pipe opening and Shadow caught one in his arms. "Ugh! What is that stench! …It's fantastic!" He picked up another bag and stood up. "Snax, grab a bag! We'll come back for the rest. Of course, when I say 'we' I mean 'you'."
Snax carried a bag and followed Shadow as he walked toward his house. "Ya know," Shadow continued. "It's amazing what some people just throw away! Oh well. One man's toxic sludge is another hedgehog's alternate power source."
Back in Station Square, Amy sat in her room, with only a flashlight and some Christmas lights allowing her to see anything.
She walked over to the tree she had set up in her room and looked glumly at the ornaments and began to sing.
"Where are you Christmas? Why can't I find you? Why have you gone away? My world is changing, I'm rearranging. Does that mean Christmas changes too?"
She walked over to her desk and looked at her old stocking. "Where are you Christmas? Do you remember the girl you used to know? You and I were so carefree. Now nothing's easy. Did Christmas change… or just… me…?"
She looked out her window at Mt. Jump-it which loomed in the distance.
