A/N: Ok, well, this chapter is a lot shorter than the others but, I don't know, I just thought it needed to be on its own. After this I'm thinking only two more chapters then I'll be done. Well thanks again for all the reviews! Wow, over 40 now as well as more than 2000 hits! :D Thanks!
Disclaimer: Sega owns the characters, I own the story, but hill-billy Joe is up for adoption.
Minivan!
"The wheels on the bus go round and round! Round and round! Round and round! The wheels on the bus go round and round! All the way to Station Square!" Charmy buzzed. Due to the lack of Sonic's speed, Tail's plane (it was inside Chris' house), and all together general intelligence among the group, they had been forced to cram into a minivan as their only option of transportation to get to Station Square, so they could get the antidote, which they weren't even sure Eggman had, so they could turn everyone back to normal...it was going to be a loooong 15 minutes to town.
"The baby on the bus goes whaa whaa whaa! Whaa whaa whaa! Whaa whaa whaa"
"Whaaaaa-haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" Shadow cried.
"Charmy"
"Yes Vector?" Charmy asked the angry croc at the wheel.
"SHUT UP!"
"SIGH! FINE!" Charmy pouted. Espio just rubbed his eyes whilst attempting to meditate with all the noise, trying hard to retain his composure. Actually, I'm not even sure why Chaotix are on the bus; I think they just wanted to come, oh and they needed Vector to drive. Anyway, it wasn't helping the situation in the slightest it was just making the all ready cramped van more cramped.
"Peace brothers! Peace!" Amy said meditating with Espio...which Espio found kind of annoying, hey; it was 'his thing'.
"Oh my gosh Knuckles, I don't see why we had to bring hippie Joe with us" Rouge whispered.
"Hippie Joe? Great! Don't tell me we picked up another hitch-hiker!"
"No, I'm talking about Amy! She's seriously...er...weird to say the least"
"Well...yeah...but...I thought you were talking about that guy" Knuckles said pointing to some hill-billy that Vector had picked up at the prospect of a few cents.
"Hey yall!" The hill-billy said, "You ma'am are pew-retty!" The hill-billy said to Rouge who in turn slapped him.
"I only have eyes for Knuckles!" Rouge said dreamily, Knuckles just tried to disappear in his seat.
"Duuuh-haa-haaa!" Tails said while pressing his face against the window and making ugly expressions to whatever poor kid happened to pass the minivan. Espio looked disgusted, but he was more concerned about Shadow who was currently bawling his eyes out beside him for who knows what reason this time.
"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
"SHUT IT YA BIG WIMP!" Cream yelled from behind which made him cry even more.
Charmy sucked in a huge gulp full of air, "Nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety nine bottles hanging on the wall!"
Rouge groaned and pretended to fall asleep on Knuckles' shoulder, who quickly pushed her head away with surprising force.
"Hey Knuckie...I didn't know you where that strong?" Rouge said, "Been working out?" She said feeling his muscles which Knuckles found disturbing.
"Uh, um yeah!" He said a tried to hide the pineapple which he salvaged from the wreckage of Chris' house, behind his back.
"HEY! SPIKEY PRUNES GOT CHUCK NORRIS!" Tails yelled.
"Hey! Who ya calling a spiky prune?" Knuckles said in annoyance, unaware that he just blew his cover.
"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Misty loved prunes!" Shadow started bawling on Espio who patted his back in annoyance, clearly wondering why he had to share his seat with the ultimate cry baby.
"My Knuckie would never steal! Especially not that dumb pineapple that we spent two hours looking for in the wreckage of Chris' house before we left" Rouge said, "Isn't that right Knuckles?"
"Err, um, yeah!" He said nervously, well hey! It wasn't fair, if they found it then they'd give it to Sonic because just soooo awesome. Knuckles rolled his eyes at these thoughts.
"HEEEEEEEEEEEEY" Sonic said in slow mo, it was now that Knuckles realized he was voicing his thoughts aloud.
"Knuckles, is this true?" Rouge said with a saddened look.
"Well, um...err"
"Cool a pineapple!" Charmy said looking at it, Sonic made a slow motion grab for it...which obviously failed.
"I am a bee! A buzzing bee! Buzz buzz!" Amy said said while flapped her hands.
"No you're not!" Charmy looked offended, he did not 'buzz' around like...like that! "This is how you do it!" He said buzzing his wings which kept hitting Cream in the face.
"ARGHHHHHH! YOU'RE ASKING FOR IT NOW BUMBLE!" She said as she made a grab for him. Charmy squeaked and threw the pineapple in self defence, which hit Shadow, who took it personally and started explaining his life story to Espio and why everyone hated him so much.
"Don't make me come back there!" Vector yelled from the front. The noise immediately hushed to a whisper until hill billy Joe decided to speak up.
"Hey! Would ya'll like to hear a song?" The hill-billy hitch-hiker asked then got out his banjo without waiting for a reply, "Ooooh! If it hadn't been for cotton-eyed Joe, I'd been married a long time ago! Where'd you come from, where'd you go? Where'd you come from cotton-eyed Joe!"
"Knuckles how could you!" Rouge wailed, "You can't steal! That's..that's...totally horrible and mean! And to think I loved you!" Rouge said then covered her mouth in a dramatic way and pretended to look shocked at what she said. Knuckles simply rolled his eyes.
"You stole Chuck Norris!" Tails said pointing a finger at him.
"GIIIIIIIIIIVE IIIIIT BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!" Sonic said and slowly unbuckled his seatbelt.
"And I remember when I was, sniff, standing on the ark, looking out the window with..with...MARIA!" Shadow kept bawling on Espio who felt like yelling out that he was a ninja not a counsellor.
"Ok Knuckles! Now you know! Yes, I love you!" Rouge said in a dramatic way while Knuckles tried to ignore her.
"You stole Chuck Norris!"
"Lotus flower! Extend your leaves! Purity! I am pure!" Amy said while doing some Yoga in the cramped van. One of her legs pushed the pineapple oh so conveniently in Sonic's directing who went slowly to pick it up. Knuckles saw this so got up and tried to grab it, but before he did but Tails got in his way.
"YOU STOLE CHUCK NORRIS!"
"Ugh! Let me through!"
"KNUCKLES, Does the bee get pulverised or chucked out the window? PULVERISED! SAY PULVERISED! SAY YES TO PULVERISATION!" Cream yelled as she held a terrified Charmy.
"Err..." Knuckles didn't want to get 'pulverised' himself, but Sonic was getting really close to the Emerald pineapple now.
"SAY YES!"
"Are you a lotus flower? Do you live like a lotus flower? Will you be the lotus flower with me?" Amy asked
"Um!" Knuckles said trying to push his way to the back of the bus.
"Knuckles! Ok, I told you! But...Do you love me?" Rouge said with puppy dog eyes.
"SAY YES! PULVERISATION! PULVERISATION!"
"Are you a lotus flower? Lotus flower?"
"Knuckie?"
"PULVERISATION!"
"Uhh...yes?" Knuckles said, Cream laughed evily, Charmy gulped, Amy started doing a hippie dance and Rouge started to get teary eyed with happiness. Knuckles still had no idea what he said yes to but he smirked an evil smirk as he reached out to snatch the pineapple from Sonic who had almost grabbed it. "Ha ha ha! Nothing can stop me n-mmmmmmmph!" Knuckles was caught by COMPLETE surprise as Rouge pounced on him from the other side of the bus and kissed him square on the lips.
"YES!" Sonic cheered as he finally grabbed it, "Ha! In your face...Knuckles?...WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?"
"PULVERISATION!" Cream broke everything up as she chased Charmy round the bus which shook the whole vehicle.
"AHHHHH!"
"Yeah, feel the love brother!" Amy said then resumed her 'buzzing bee'.
"I don't buzz like that!" Charmy said annoyed while running for his life.
Knuckles was completely frozen, as stiff as a board on the ground while Rouge was just looking at him, wondering what could have made him like this.
"If it hadn't been for Cotton-eyed Joe!" The hill-billy continued to sing.
"Buzz, buzz, I am a buzzing bee!"
"Chuck Norris? CHUCK NORRIS!" Tails started wrestling Sonic for the pineapple.
"Nooo! Tails buddy! Let go!"
"Where'd you come from where'd you go?"
"PULVERIZATION!"
"Vector help me!" Charmy cried.
"MAARIA!" Shadow cried
"Vector..help me" Espio said.
"Knuckie?...Are you ok?"
"Vector help me!"
"Argghh! Tails let go! Vector HELP!" Sonic said. Vector's eye started twitching.
"Buzz, buzz"
"Where'd you come from cotton-eyed Joe!"
"PULVERISATION!"
"buuzzzzzzz"
"Whaaa-haaaaa! Maria!"
"Vector!"
"Tails let go!"
"Vector?"
"Where'd you come from, where'd you go!"
"Ve-e-eeeeectoooor!"
"Knuckie?"
"Vectoooooor!"
"YOU'RE GOING TO GET CREAMED!"
"VECTOR!"
"Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz"
"ARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!" Vector yelled and slammed on the breaks which made everyone jolt forward, then he turned around viciously, "You just made me come back THERE!"
Everyone immediately went silent and gulped.
"NOW IF I HEAR ONE MORE PEEP OUTTA YOU! OUTTA ANY OF YOU! THEN I'M GOING TO STOP THIS CAR AND MAKE YOU WALK THE REST OF THE WAY!"
"No!" They all murmured. Walking was hard! True, Sonic could now run there if he wanted to, but running down the streets holding a pineapple was completely lame, everyone would think he's been...eugh...grocery shopping or something.
"SO AMY QUIT BUZZING! SONIC AND TAILS I WANT YOU TWO SEPERATED! CHARMY QUIT SINGING! CREAM MAKE A DECISION WHETHER YOU'RE GONNA PULVERSISE OR NOT, JUST QUIT YELLING IT OUT! SHADOW PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER! ESPIO STOP ACTING SO CALM! AND KNUCKLES AND ROUGE QUIT MAKING OUT!"
Knuckles choked at this last sentence, "We-we WEREN'T!"
"Yes they where I saw them!" Charmy said being a little tattle tale.
"NO WE WEREN'T!"
"Yes you where!"
"Can we have peace? Let's all take a few nice, deep breaths..." Amy sighed.
"I DON'T WANT TO!" Shadow screamed in her face.
"Hey Knuckles" Rouge said grabbing his hand. Knuckles was blushing like crazy and was still recovering from the previous...incident.
"OK! THAT'S IT! EVERYONE GETS NEW BUS BUDDIES!" Vector yelled which was met by an 'aww' from half of the bus. "Charmy you're with Shadow"
"What? No!"
"WHAAAAAAAA! EVERYONE HATES ME!"
"Aww man!" Charmy slumped over there.
"Cream you're with Espio" Cream grunted over to Espio's seat who gulped.
"Tails you're with Rouge!"
"Awww, but!" Rouge tried to argue in vain as dummy Tails took Knuckles' seat.
"Knuckles you're with Sonic!" Knuckles stumbled over to his seat, still red...well redder than he usually is. Sonic smirked and started making kissy faces which didn't help in the slightest, it only made Knuckles stack and face plant into the chair.
"Amy you're with...um...hill-billy Joe"
"Please! Call me cow lick!"
Amy ran over and sat gleefully next to him, "Hey Brother!"
"Humph, don't know what she's so happy about" Sonic muttered under his breath. Knuckles made kissy faces at him which caused the two to get in a sissy slap fight...which Knuckles was obviously losing.
"On second thought, Knuckles go with Amy and Sonic you're with...er...cowlick"
"WHAT?" Sonic said in frustration as the hill billy got comfortable next to him.
"Hey, would yall like to hear a song?"
"No"
"Ok then! Oooooh! If it hadn't been for cotton eyed Joe"
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Sonic's yell could be heard outside on the street as the minivan disappeared up the road.
A/N: Ooh well, Vector seems a little mad, Shadow seems a little sad but Sonic's found a loop hole and is back to normal, talk about unfair!
Review Questions:
Will Vector stop the car and make everyone walk? O:
Will Knuckles ever fully recover? D:
Will Charmy get pulverised? (:
Thanks for reading! Next chappie will be longer! Oh, and if you have time could you go to my profile and vote in my poll? Which character transformation do you find the most entertaining! Thanks :D
