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Sarah belongs to me, BlackPetals23. Flame and Sunny belong to Phantomask. Alicia belongs to aliciathewolf45.

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Chapter Six:

Working Out

"So…Alicia and Vector did what?" Shadow held a confused stare on his face, his arm around Amy's waist.

They were in the lobby—in front of the doors to the swimming pool and the gym. Amy wasn't dressed in her bathing suit, and neither was anyone else. Sonic was the only one being forced to change. Sarah and Rouge stood in front of the ebony hedgehog and explained what was going on.

"I never actually put all of us on the list to go swimming. Mainly Sonic. Alicia and Vector sign up to be his helper."

"Why?"

"He needs to learn how to swim, pronto," Sarah said. "We're near the beach. And besides, he's gotten better during the camping trip."

"Yeah, without being traumatized," Amy snorted.

Shadow pinched her side and she glared at him, whacking his arm away. He sighed grumpily. "So, what are you guys gonna do?"

"We're going to the gym; you can do whatever you guys want. The day isn't over yet," Rouge replied, in her black gym shorts and a sports bra that was black.

Amy was in the same attire and so was Sarah, though Amy's shorts were black whereas Sarah's were blue. Shadow paused, in white and black shorts and a red tank top, "Fine. Knuckles and I will watch you and the others can do what they want."

"Tails is going with them and so is Cream. Blaze is trying to hide from Silver so we might see them around every once and awhile. Um, Charmy and Espio were just going to hang out, I guess. Charmy didn't want to go swimming, duh, so he begged Espio not to go."

"Okay," Shadow said. "I still don't quite understand what we're doing."

"Tricking Sonic," Amy whispered to him. "Us three are going to talk about wedding plans. I feel like running on a treadmill. You and Knuckles can help us with wedding plans."

"On the other hand, I think him and I will just go wander around," Shadow left the lobby and headed out to Knuckles, bringing out his phone.

Amy sighed in relief. "Finally, I thought he would never leave."

Rouge rolled her eyes and dragged her two friends into the gym. It wasn't loud out in the lobby, but once the three females walked through the glass door, Radioactive by Imagine Dragons was playing loud enough.

Six male Mobians watched them, most of them were just picking up weights, and others were on the bench.

A white fox with green eyes was spotting a brown hedgehog with blue eyes. They both stopped as the song continued. A light blue echidna was lifting weights when he stopped to stare at the girls with gold eyes.

A red wolf with black hair was watching them too, after setting down his weights next to the echidna. He had blue eyes as well as the brown hedgehog that sat up now. A badger with hazel eyes was doing pull-ups when the grey hedgehog in front of him stopped him and motioned to the girls.

Rouge walked over to the empty treadmill with Amy and Sarah very casually. Sarah nervously turned her's on with the two. The white fox turned off the music and stared at them.

"Umm," Amy stuttered. "Hi?"

The echidna nodded his head, "Afternoon."

Amy smiled in a thin line and gripped the handles of the treadmill. Rouge set out a wedding magazine she had and was already running. It was obvious to the guys that Amy and Sarah were more nervous than Rouge, but the bat also clearly had experience with this sort of thing.

Sarah narrowed her eyebrows while they stared. "What?" she hissed.

Amy glared at her but she stopped while the white fox answered her. "The last girls to come in here told us to turn off our lousy music. We were just wondering if you were the same."

Sarah got off the treadmill, walked over to the white fox and turned the music back on. "Not at all," she said before walking back and starting to run with Amy.

The guys looked at one another before continuing what they were doing. Rouge sighed as she flipped the page. "Okay, blue or purple?"

"Purple," Amy and Sarah both said. Sarah shook her head. "God knows what Sonic would think if you put blue out there."

"What?" Rouge laughed.

"He'd be thinking Knuckles was his new best friend."

Amy giggled. "Maybe he should've come with Shadow. What do you think they're doing now?"

Rouge shrugged with Sarah. "Probably standing outside in the lobby and thinking of some way to prank Sonic."

Amy laughed while nodding her head. "I'd wanna see that."

"Well, they were chased by a bear two weeks ago," Rouge reminded.

"A bear?" the white fox asked.

Amy raised an eyebrow, "Eavesdropper?"

"Nope, you just talk loud," the echidna answered.

"And being chased down by a bear?" the badger snorted as he did another pull-up, "Seems unlikely, or like a tall tale story."

Amy looked to the two females in the room and they broke out in laughter after remembering Shadow and Knuckles' tall tale of a story about Fritz and his sister. "What?" the brown hedgehog switched places with the white fox.

"It's a long story," Sarah shook her head.

The men stopped instantly and rushed over to them, leaning against the front of their treadmills. The red wolf smirked while leaning against Amy's with the echidna.

"We've got time."

"No way! So they caught the guys who buried the dead Mobians near the mountains?" the grey hedgehog, Dan, asked.

The badger, Marty, shook his head in disbelief but amazement, "No way."

"Way, I have a column about it in the newspaper and a magazine that wanted it," Rouge said. "I'm a journalist, you know."

Amy nodded her head. "And Scourge saved the little girl from being run over."

"Did you hear?" Sarah asked Amy.

"Hear what?"

"Fiona's pregnant."

"What!?" Amy whispered harshly. "And no one told me!?"

"We learned yesterday, Sonic told me."

"When?"

Sarah stayed silent. Amy scrunched up her nose, "Nevermind."

"It wasn't that!" Sarah objected. "He told me when I was taking a shower."

"What was he doing in the bathroom with you?" Rouge raised an eyebrow.

Sarah shrugged. "I don't exactly know. He wasn't in the bathtub; he was just talking to me."

"Good," Amy put her hands up. "Anyway, we stayed the next week and helped Ted out with destroying the first few cabins. Now he's planning on making it back to campers."

"What about Mr. Barker?" The echidna, Vince, asked.

"He's in jail with the other two," Amy said. "I forget their names…but they were dumb names!" she laughed.

"What are the odds?" Rouge asked. "Scourge saved their butts."

"No, his friends did," Sarah interrupted. "Though, yes, they stole the helicopter, they still saved our guys."

"So, who are they again?" the white fox, Lenny, inquired with his arm propped up against Rouge's treadmill.

"Sonic the Hedgehog, Shadow the Hedgehog-"

"Wait, wait," Marty interrupted Rouge, "The heroes? Lost in the mountains? Camping! Ha! Like I'll believe the whole story after that!" he waved them off and walked away.

"Do you even know who we are?" Amy put her hands on her hips.

"Nope."

"Amy Rose."

The guys stopped and stared at her while Rouge nodded. "Rouge the Bat. We're both heroes as well."

Sarah nodded. "Sarah Hutchington, not a hero but you know…dating one."

Suddenly, the door of the workout room was yanked on. It was a push door though. They could hear Shadow's voice. "It's a push door, Knuckles!"

Knuckles must've nodded because he finally got the message and opened the door. He smiled at first but stopped when he saw the guys around his fiancée's treadmill. "Are we disturbing you?" he raised an eyebrow.

"Oh, no!" Amy jumped off while Shadow came through the door.

"Wow," Marty said. "The story is true."

"It's true," Dan agreed with his friends.

"Yes, it is," Sarah walked after Rouge who went to Knuckles.

Amy stopped while Sarah almost tripped over her while they smiled innocently in front of the two. Sarah stood up straight. "How's Sonic in his swimming class?"

Shadow smirked slightly.

Flashback

They had nothing to do. So, they wandered around until they stopped at the indoor swimming pool door. Through the glass, they see could Sonic in floaties while Vector swam around him and Alicia was actually helping.

Sonic didn't seem to care.

"HELP! I HATE THIS! SARAH!"

"I thought Rouge told me he was doing better," Knuckles snorted while leaning against the door.

Shadow shook his head. "He only spent a couple days in water, it's not like it's gonna cure him."

"What's his deal anyway? It's just water and he's in the three feet part."

Shadow and Knuckles glanced at each other. Shadow cleared his throat. "We're basically three feet, Knuckles."

"You know what I mean," Knuckles waved him off.

"Huh uh," Shadow nodded slowly but surely.

They continued to stare until the echidna looked at Shadow again. "I'm nearly four feet."

"Congratulations."

End of Flashback

Shadow's smirk vanished and he looked down at Amy rather hard for her taste. "Why don't we join him and leave these…" he glanced at the six Mobians, "men to work out? Hm, Rose?"

The six behind them gulped and stepped back while Shadow's narrowed eyes stayed on his girlfriend. Amy smiled with a nod. "Sure, let's go!" she tugged on Sarah's arm.

Knuckles pushed Rouge after them. When the door was fully closed, Knuckles and Shadow folded their arms and watched the six males in front of them fidget. Marty nodded to them. "Sup. Big fans…we are."

Shadow and Knuckles glimpsed at one another before keeping their hard stares locked on the men. Dan smiled and backed into a weight, causing it to roll on the ground.

"So," Shadow tightened his folded arms. "What'd they say?"

"What do you mean?" Dan asked, stuttering at first.

Knuckles rolled his eyes. "You either tell us what they said or we'll make you."

All at once, the six Mobians started talking over one another.

Pushing her arms back and forth, Amy was swimming on her back. She kicked her feet slightly while Shadow caught up with her in the deep part of the pool.

"Rose?"

"Hm?"

Amy had her eyes closed while floating on her back. Shadow sighed. "You love me, right?"

Amy opened one eye and glanced over her boyfriend. "Why would you ask that?"

"You didn't answer me," Shadow stared into her green eyes that she opened all the way.

"Yes."

"Good," Shadow nodded his head slightly, trying to float as well as her.

"Why'd you ask?" Amy inquired with her ears towards him.

When he was silent she gaped and got off her back, wading in the water, "Shadow! You wouldn't think I would like any of those men in the gym, would you?"

"You seemed well acquainted with them," Shadow grumbled.

Amy shook her head and swam over to him; putting her hands on his chest and making him get off his back as well, wading in front of her. She kissed him short and light but only for pool rules. She sighed and put her hands on his cheeks. "You are my…second love."

"That speech just backfired, didn't it?" Shadow chuckled.

Amy laughed. "You know what I mean! Sonic was just a crush."

"Then I came along," Shadow hummed and circled her.

Amy grabbed his hands and they made a small whirlpool, "Yup."

Shadow stopped and held her waist. Amy watched as he put their foreheads together. "Then you came along," Amy sighed.

"That's a good thing, right?"

Before Amy could reply, they heard Sonic screaming at the other end of the pool. This time, he was sitting on the tile with his feet barely touching the water. Shadow could've sworn he saw tears threatening Sonic's "manly" composure.

"STOP!"

Sarah was holding onto Sonic, no—Sonic was holding onto Sarah. His grip was on her arm and it looked as if the circulation wasn't working on her left arm. Her brown eyes seemed wider and showed fright as she tried to get away from her boyfriend.

"WATER! SARAH! STOP!"

Vector was trying to pull Sonic into the water while Alicia was trying to push him in, standing by Sarah who was still trying to make a run for it.

Shadow shook his head and got out of the water with only his red trunks on. He walked over to Sarah while listening to Sonic scream. Thanks to his screaming and yelping, no one else was in the pool. It was worse than a baby that wouldn't stop crying.

Amy watched in curiosity as her boyfriend whispered something in Sarah's ear. Sarah smirked, "Hey, Sonic. I'll give you the count of three to let go."

"NO!"

"You're gonna regret it," Sarah warned while Shadow got back in the pool.

Shadow's teeth gritted, "Cold."

Amy giggled. "Like that time when we were camping and you were asleep in the creek?"

"No, I was cold when you pushed me in there!" Shadow growled.

SPLASH!

Shadow and Amy looked back to Sonic who had wide eyes. He was frozen in the pool, not daring to move while Sarah laughed at him from the tile floor, not even a drop of water on her. Alicia covered her mouth to stop from laughing so hard while Vector was frozen like Sonic. The crocodile wasn't sure what to say.

Shadow smirked while grabbing Amy's waist. "Why don't we go back to the room and come back during dinner?"

Sonic glared at Sarah but the lime green hedgehog was already pointing at Shadow. "It was his idea, Sonic."

Slowly but surely, Sonic was turning around to face his rival/friend. Shadow waved sweetly with a grin on his face. Sonic raised an eyebrow as if to say, 'What the hell?'

In a flash, Shadow and Amy were gone. Sonic frowned while Sarah clapped. "Congrats, honey, you've been in the water for more than ten seconds."

Sonic growled and grabbed her legs. The lifeguard blew his whistle and dove in while Sarah was dragged underneath with Sonic. Alicia gasped but watched the otter grab Sarah by the waist.

He came up and put her down. "Are you alright?"

Sarah kept giggling though, "Yeah."

"Shouldn't someone get him?" Alicia pulled bang a hair strand in her way while she looked down into the pool.

The otter frowned but jumped in after. He stopped while staring at Sonic who was sitting down at the bottom of the pool, arms crossed and eyes glaring at him while he held his breath. The otter rolled his eyes and grabbed his arms, hauling him up and out of the water.

Sonic coughed up water but stared at the otter who had his hands on his hips. "You just broke the rules."

"What are you gonna do about it?" Sonic glared at the otter.

The otter just gave him the look and let out a big sigh.

"I got in trouble on the second day—technically the first since we got here yesterday," Sonic stated while he walked out of the bathroom with a towel around his waist. "And I can't believe you guys did that to me. Making me be the only one in swimming class."

Amy was on her bed and looking at the magazine. She looked up and coughed, "S-Sonic? Why aren't you wearing anything?"

Shadow was snoozing next to Amy, cuddled into her stomach. Amy patted his quills softly to make sure he was still asleep. Sonic shrugged. "What? We guys didn't wear clothes before, Ames. Why worry?"

"I'm guessing it's just because we got use to you guys wearing clothes."

Sarah shook her head. "Get something on besides that towel."

Sonic frowned but grabbed his boxers and dropped the towel. Amy looked away while Sonia face palmed. Sarah shook her head with a small smile. "It's not like there's anything bad, Amy."

"Is he showing it?"

"God, Amy, your pathetic," Sonia snorted. "The boxers are already on."

She was telling the truth. Sonic put his towel on the heater to dry while jumping on his bed, making Sarah sigh and flip through her magazine. It held food within its pages while Amy's had almost everything. Sonia and Sunny were just reading watching TV quietly.

It was nearly nine when Shadow groaned and wrapped his arms around Amy's waist tighter, burying his cheek into her and nuzzling her stomach. She blushed while Sonic and Sarah looked over—Sonia and Sunny looked back.

Amy giggled nervously and shrugged innocently. "Good dream?"

~~~.~~~

Tails watched while Cream slept. Her hair was longer now and in a braid for the night. Espio was asleep already next to Alicia who had the tendency to talk in her sleep.

She had already said some things while Tails lay awake. He sighed and rolled onto his back, putting his arm around Cream.

"Hmmm…" he closed his eyes.

Maybe this trip won't be so bad.

"Mhmhmh," Alicia giggled in her sleep. "Please stop…don't….don't do that…"

Tails opened his eyes and growled quietly.

He glanced over to make sure she and Espio were asleep. Espio's face was looking at them but Alicia's wasn't, so he knew Espio wasn't doing it. Something in her dream was, or someone.

Tails shuddered. "Please, God…just let her sleep…silently."

~~~.~~~

Rouge flipped the wedding magazine with Blaze as the alarm showed 9:15 P.M.

They were lying on the bed while Silver slept on the couch, having fallen asleep while watching TV. Knuckles was watching the late news, going through sports and then a quilting show. He stopped and watched as the leopard with long, dark, red hair in a French braid continued to talk while pointing at various spots of the quilt.

"You can see the stitching on the side is very orderly and the design on the quilt is showing memories of a farm."

Knuckles stared at the quilt on the TV rather hard. "Showing a tractor in a field of grain isn't showing memories…it's showing a tractor in a field of grain…"

Rouge and Blaze looked up and giggled quietly. Rouge hummed. "Learning some tips, Knuckles?"

"Hm," Knuckles answered his fiancée.

Blaze shook her head and looked down at the magazine. "I like this one," she pointed to a bouquet of white carnations.

"Yes, but they're twenty bucks extra and plus, I like the baby's breath better."

"Yeah, and they're twenty-five dollars cheaper than the carnations," Blaze agreed anyway.

"Baby's breath," Knuckles watched the leopard on the TV continued to point at the tractor and then put her hands in a circle motion around the machine and grain, saying "texture" a bunch of times.

"What about it?" Blaze inquired, flipping the page. "Ooh, roses."

"You do know we could just get flowers that grow by the Master Emerald," Knuckles stated.

The girls were silent before closing the book and grabbing another one. Blaze sighed. "Okay, bridesmaids."

"Alright," Rouge brought out a list on a notepad. "Blaze," she grinned at the cat.

Blaze nodded. "Amy, Sarah, Cream, Fiona, Alicia and I'm gonna see if Sonia and Sunny wanna do something."

Blaze nodded. "Sonia can do hair, I've heard she a natural. Sunny might be able to do make-up or get the dresses or something…"

Rouge nodded. "We'll talk about it tomorrow."

"What kind of dresses?"

"Strapless," Rouge said while pointing her finger through the dresses. "Colorful…"

Blaze nodded and pulled open her laptop that was white. The desktop background had Silver kissing her cheek in the hotel room up against the bed—Rouge had taken the picture. Blaze opened the internet and Googled it. "I love Earth's ideas, but I love living in Mobius," the cat said.

"Doesn't everyone?" Rouge chuckled.

"Bridesmaids dresses…ooh! Rouge, look!"

Rouge glanced at the computer screen while Blaze popped up the picture. The models only showed the dresses on their bodies, all the dresses were alike while their bouquets were different colors of flowers. The pattern reminded Rouge of a woven basket but with orange, pink, light pink and some purple. The ribbons were stitched on just under the breasts of the models and were pink and shiny without any pattern design. The dresses were strapless and almost made a sweetheart neckline.

Rouge nodded. "Get that website."

Blaze clicked it and was busy searching while Rouge flipped through a different magazine—one special and important to her. She was looking something more of her style to wear for a wedding dress but none of the white dresses seemed to match her taste. Rouge glimpsed up at her future husband and sighed silently.

She was on vacation with her fiancé and friends—this was going to be a perfect vacation.