Replacement by Lightning Eyes
Chapter 4: Return of Eggman
"Zonic." Zonic continued to say his name as he ran. "I like the way it sounds…Zonic."
Zonic grabbed a chilidog as he ran past a chilidog stand. He stuffed it all in his mouth at once and closed his eyes as he ran.
"Why are these things so good?" he questioned as he reopened his eyes.
Zonic sighed as he passed the town for the seventeenth time, it was getting a bit redundant. After leaving Tails' house he went for a run but it didn't take long at all. So he decided to go to his house after a while and just chill out. As he walked he noticed Amy sitting on a bench along the way.
"Hey Ames." He called and waved.
She looked up momentarily and gave a small smile and wave before looking back down at a book in her hands.
Zonic started to keep going but he changed his mind. "What are you up to?"
Amy, noticing he was heading for her, put the book behind her back and stood up. "I was just taking a breather and now I'm on my way to…to the store."
"Want company?"
"No," she answered too quickly "I mean no thanks. I'm fine…I have to go home first anyway."
Sonic gave her an odd look. "Sure Ames, whatever you say."
He didn't finish his sentence before she had started fast walking away, in his opposite direction. She was going so fast that she dropped her book and didn't even notice.
"Hey, you dropped-" by that time she was out of sight so Zonic just picked it up. It was a scrap book called 'Sonic and Me' "You're book." Zonic rolled his eyes and started back to his own house. It didn't take him long to get there and when he did he felt a sense of relief. He was happy to be away from everyone and wanted to relax.
He grabbed himself a few chilidogs and took a seat on his couch. He turned the tv on and watched reality shows and cartoons for a while. He even found the movie he liked earlier that he didn't know the name of. After an hour or two he grew bored and fell asleep on his couch.
After another hour or two, at around five, he woke up and stretched.
"That was a good nap." He yawned.
He was going to call Tails but then he fell something under him. He reached under and pulled out the scrap book from earlier.
In it was pictures of Amy and Sonic, some together and some individually and some with their heads glued on different bodies. Zonic chuckled and flipped through the pages until he got to the end where there was a picture of him on the back. He stared at the picture…it was him…but it wasn't, that was Sonic…but he is Sonic now…no, he was Zonic…but regardless he was still a part of Sonic. The thoughts floated around in his head and made him confused.
Then, startling him out of his thoughts, the phone rang. Zonic sighed and stood up, already knowing it was Tails…but he didn't answer the phone though.
"I think I'm going to return this to Amy and drop by Tails' later." Zonic decided aloud.
He left his house and headed for Amy's, walking instead of running. As he walked he looked around at all his friends' houses. Creams, Rouges, Blazes, Silvers, Shadows, Tails', Tikal's, Amy's, all except Knuckles who lived on the Floating island not too far from there. Zonic started to think about how he was to grow on them like Tails said. It's like trying to start from square one, gaining their trust and friendship all over again. It wasn't going to be easy, that's for sure.
He could probably just give Rouge something shiny or jewelry, help Cream with Cheese somehow, help Knuckles guard the emerald, help Silver practice with something, and it didn't seem like he needed to earn Tikal's or Blazes friendship. And Shadow, well he was never cool with Shadow so there was no need to do anything there. Amy would most definitely be the hardest, he was going to have to put in work for her.
"Watch it!" Shadow grunted as Zonic bumped into him while they were walking. Zonic was so deep in thought that he didn't notice Shadow walking.
Zonic chuckled. "Faker."
"Hypocrite." Shadow retorted.
Zonic continued to walk until he reached Amy's house. He knocked on the door and waited for her to open it.
"Hello." Amy said in her dead voice as she opened the door. When she saw Zonic she had a look of regret on her face. "Oh…it's you."
"Yeah, hey listen, you dropped your book." He handed it to her.
She looked everywhere but at him as she took her scrap book. "Thank you…goodbye." She started to close the door but Zonic put his foot in the doorway.
"What's wrong with you? I'm back so I don't see why you're still acting like this. Why does it seem like you're avoiding me?" Zonic demanded.
"Because I am." She stated simply. "You're not Sonic."
"You're right, I'm not…I'm Zonic." He moved his foot. "And I'm the next best thing because your Sonic isn't coming back."
"You're half right," Amy glanced at him for a few seconds. "Sonics not coming back…but I don't know if you're the next best thing."
And with that she closed the door causing Zonic to roll his eyes. He didn't waste any more time at her house as he quickly headed for Tails'. When he got there he was surprised to see Tails on his front step with a worried look on his face.
He ran up to him. "What's wrong Tails?"
Tails looked relieved to see Zonic but he still had a worried look about him. "Zonic…I just got some really bad news…it's about Eggman, he's returned."
Wow I updated fast! This is a new record! I hope you liked the chapter but personally I didn't…I thought it was short and didn't have enough action…but I have to set it up like that and cant immediately jump into the next big part, I tried to leave you guys a bit of a cliff hanger though…oh and I want to apologize to unknownman55() first because I didn't include him in the people of anonymous reviewers that I needed to thank. So I'm sorry and Thank you. Next Thanks to Ghostkid33() again and to all the reviewer Thanks. Now you all seem to think/want the real Sonic to come back… -grins slyly- He's dead…isn't he? It's possible he could come back…but then again who knows? Oh yeah…me! And I'm not going to give away anything. You guys will just have to wait and see! Read and Review!