Blaze and Silver's Winter Wonderland: Part 1
It was mid-December in Oceanside City, the capital of Down Unda. Even though there wasn't a drop of snow on the ground, there was a festive mood in the air. Palm trees were decorated with Christmas lights and tropical wreaths were hanging on every door. And everyone was greeting their neighbor with a warm smile. It was enough to raise Blaze's spirits a little bit but she couldn't get her mind off the one member of her group that was unhappy.
"Krickey, Blaze. You sure are lookin' like a downer on this happy haliday." Marine stated as the two carried stacks of gift boxes back to the hotel. "I mean, if I know you were gonna so depressing I would've spent the halidays with Tails, throwin' a few shrimps on the barbie."
"I don't know, Marine." Blaze shook her head. "I thought a nice Christmas in the city for the five of us would be a heartwarming experience, but everyone just seems to be acting crazier and crazier."
"Ah, don't let it get you down, princess." Marine reassured her. "The others will come around in a jiffy." She said holding up a peanut butter jar. "Sorry, couldn't resist the joke."
"I guess you're right, Marine." Blaze sighed. "I mean it's the holidays. How crazy could they possibly..." Blaze was interrupted, by Sticks and Machopper walking by. When Blaze overheard a completely insane conversation going on between the two.
"Blimey, you mean Santa's elves are all part of a conspiracy?" Machopper asked in disbelief. "I always thought they were just cute little buggers."
"It's all a part of a conspiracy, I'm telling you." Sticks replied; her eyes twitching with paranoia. "Those helper elves are watching us all the time. Reportin' to Santa Claus if we're naughty or nice. We're never alone." As the two walked on, Blaze had to resist the urge to burst into tears.
"All I wanted was a normal Christmas." She moaned. "Is that too much to ask?"
"Don't worry about it. I'll deal with those two, blighters." The raccoon girl answered. "You go and see how Silva is doing?" The mobian cat nodded and walked into the double hotel suite the group was sharing. Seeing the partition door between the boys and girls room open, she sat down the gift boxes and walked over towards the connecting door.
"Silver, are you in here?" She asked, grabbing her nose. "Eww, what's that hideous stench?" The only response she recieved was a loud belch.
"BUUUUURRRPP!" Silver belched. Looking down, Blaze saw the hedgehog laying on the ground surrounded by root beer bottles and munching on a half-full bowl of spilled pretzels, staring at a dimly lit TV as he guzzled another bottle of carbonated soda. "Oh Blaze... how nice to see you. *hic* You want a bottle of good old B&W?"
"Silver, what in the world are you doing?" A horrified Blaze asked. "I'm out Christmas shopping while you're supposed to be putting up decorations; and here I find you getting smashed."
"What's the point? It's all so useless." He groaned, throwing his head back and taking another swill. "My family has been overthrown. By kingdom is gone. There's nothing left for me; but to lay here, get drunk, and wallow in my own self-pity."
"Uh, Silver. This is root beer. You can't get drunk on carbonated water." Walking over, she smacked him on the head with an empty can. "You need to get a hold of yourself and stop acting like a spoiled baby."
"I am a baby, Blaze. I'm only a few months old... technically." He stood up starting to clean up the mess he made. "I just found out I'm a real faker. Of course, I'm going to be a little down-in-the-dumps."
"Silver, it doesn't matter whether or not you're King Sylvanus." Blaze pointed out. "What matters is your Silver the Hedgehog, blood relative to the hedgehog royal family. And hero of Mobius."
"Yeah, whatever." He shook his head. "Look. I'm trying really hard to get into this whole Christmas thing, but it's not very easy to be really cheerful when everything around you is so messed up."
"Oh, so you're not happy with Christmas, huh?" Blaze started putting the tree. "Well, I'm not going to let all the bad stuff going on ruin the holiday season. So why don't we just decorate the tree and try to enjoy things the way they are."
Silver silently nodded and walked over to help her put decorations on the tree. It wasn't even a few minutes before the two heard a loud crash coming from outside. BOOM!
"What in the world was that?" Silver exclaimed as he and Blaze were knocked over. "Sounds like a freight train crashed on top of the hotel." The two ran up to the roof, only to find... a crashed red sleigh with eight unconscious reindeer and two angry elves sitting behind the reins.
"Hey, Jingle. I thought I told you to take the left turn at Central City." One of the elves groaned. "Now, we're stuck down under in Down Unda."
"Well, sorry." Jingle groaned. "I thought we were trying to reach West Side Island by the afternoon, so we could find some help."
"Uh Blaze..." Silver spoke rubbing his eyes. "Did I drink too much root beer or am I seeing two tiny elves flying in a reindeer sleigh?"
"Nope... you pretty much hit it on the head." Blaze replied. "It really is two of Santa's elves and his sleigh.
"Jangle..." Jingle spoke up. "I think I'm seeing talking animals with clothes on. Are you sure we're not still at the North Pole?"
"You haven't been out a lot since the last Gaia wake-up, haven't you?" Jangle sighed. "Look folks, we don't have much time here. Could you please tell us where we can find the hero known as Sonic the Hedgehog?"
"We don't know where he is. He disappeared some time ago." Silver answered. "Why are you looking for Sonic?"
"You see we kind of need his help." The other elf replied. "Robotnik Claus has taken over the North Pole and we need Sonic's help in defeating him."
"Robotnik Claus what?" Blaze responded in confusion. "Don't tell me Eggman's trying to ruin Christmas. That is even too silly for him."
"He's trying to ruin Christmas." The two elves wailed. It was at that moment that a black and white wooden sleigh with a siren mount came whistling up. Another elf walked over to the crashed sleigh. He was dress in blue with a white helmet on in head.
"Alright, everybody, out of the sleigh." The new elf grumbled. "I'm taking in whoever is responsible for this mess." The two mobians looked at each other for a moment before Silver spoke up.
"Uh, excuse me, officers?" Silver asked. "But do you think you could possibly leave the two with us? I promise we'll keep them out of trouble."
"Well, since you might be Sonic's father or something. I guess we can trust you." The sleigh cop replied. "We'll just need a tow."
After the sleigh had been towed and repaired, and the reindeer recovered, the two elves met with the five mobians and began to explain the situation.
"So, let me get this straight." Machopper asked. "You bloaks work for Santa and your boss has been overthrown by Eggman."
"Yep, we're elves." Jingle confirmed. At which, Sticks promptly exploded.
"THEY'RE HERE!" She screamed. The badger throwing her arms into the air and running to some cover, frantically. "The Santapocolypse is nigh." She put on her tin foil hat.
"Sticks, would you quit bein' such a bloody wanker and calm down?" Marine groaned. "So, you two need our help rescuing Santa Claus?"
"That's right." Jangle replied, handing over a rolled up scroll. "This is a map on how to get to the North Pole. I'm sure Santa will reward you all with lots and lots of toys."
"TOYS!? DID YOU BLOOMIN' SAID TOYS!?" Marine's eyes lit up light two Christmas trees. "WHAT ARE WE WAITIN' FOR? LET'S GET TO THE NORTH POLE AT ONCE!" Grabbing Silver with one arm and Blaze with the other, she zipped out the door.
"Couldn't any map do?" Machopper asked.
"Not if you want to find Santa's hidden palace and workshop." Sticks replied, climbing out from underneath the bed. "We're going to need to go through the hidden paths if we want to avoid the hot and cold brothers fighting."
"That's just in the movies." The two elves replied. "You guys get going. Santa needs you."
"Blimey, Sticks. I thought you were afraid of the elves." Machopper asked in a confused tone. "Why would you want to help out if you hate Santa?"
"Me hate Santa? No, he's a good guy. I just think his elves are plotting against him." Her eyes twitched. "This way I can get straight to the heart of the evil elf conspiracy." The five mobians climbed into the sleigh and took off the two elves waving until they were out of sight.
"Are they gone yet?" Jingle asked.
"Yep, they can't hear us anymore." Jangle replied.
The two elves went downstairs, turned on the television and sat down to watch Mobian Pro Wrestling while eating a big bowl of popcorn.
"Good thing we got those five shmucks to rescue Santa for us." Jingle laughed. "that way we don't have to do the work ourselves."
"And I heard Miss Blaze had had this whole hotel room paid up til after Christmas." Jangle replied. "I wonder if the hotel has a swimming pool."
Blaze, Silver, and the others raced across the ocean with the sleigh and its nine reindeer crew. As they soared towards the arctic circle, Sticks called out to the lead reindeer.
"Hey, big nose. Might want to do something about that cold." She yelled. "Or did you have one too many bottles of vodka?"
"STICKS, STOP BEING SO INSENSITIVE!" Blaze shrieked, smacking her up alongside the back of her head. "Sorry about that, Ruddy. She didn't mean it."
"Blimey, how long is it going to take to get to the North Pole?" Machopper asked.
"I think about eight hours." Silver replied, checking his watch. "But the days are six months long up here. So we could be middle-aged by the time we get there."
Eight Hours Later, the sleigh approached a frozen castle made from wood under the Northern lights in the middle of the night.
"Fina-bloomin-lly." Marine sighed. "We made it."
"Gee, Silver. You don't look happy to be here." Blaze noted.
"Huh? I fell asleep. Where are we?" Silver asked.
"We're at the North Pole dummy." She answered, rolling her eyes. "I think we're stuck in one of those bad Christmas specials."
"What makes you say that?" Marine asked.
"What? Don't you notice all the stop-motion?" Sticks answered as the rest looked at her like she wasn't sane. "What? It's true." The sleigh came in for a landing on the open ice away from the castle.
"Alright, everyone. Out of the sleigh." Blaze ordered. "But let's be quiet and... Sticks? Marine? What are you two doing?" The two were licking a giant striped pole that said 'North Pole' on it.
"What do you know." Stick said. "It is made of candy."
"Tastes like peppermint." Marine replied, taking a bite out of it. Blaze smacked the two on the back of the head before dragging them away with the others.
Meanwhile, inside Santa's workshop, the tied up Kris Kringle was watching his evil disguised counterpart looking at a monitor screen.
"You won't get away with this, Robotnik Claus." Santa warned. "My two elves, Jingle and Jangle, will bring Sonic the Hedgehog back here and he'll kick your egg in."
"I don't think so, Santa. I'm taking over your whole operation because you never gave me a present as a child." He replied.
"When were you ever a child?" Santa asked.
"Silence." The crazed fake Santa replied. "You will now make toys only for me, and I will take over Christmas. Yay!" Just then, an alarm went off and Robotnik Claus saw the five approaching mobians on the monitor screen. "Ah, Silver and his cohorts; snooping as usual I see."
"Silver? I thought they were bringing Sonic." Santa shook his head. "I'm giving those two lazy elves switches and lumps of coal this year."
"Well, if those heroes think they can get the better of me. Wait 'til they encounter my abominable snow yetis." Robotnik Claus laughed insanely.