Once they arrived back in Knothole, Sonic refused to see the doctor. He was under the assumption that Dr. Quack would take a blood sample, then try and clone the perfect army. Everyone respected his wishes and called it a night early. The next morning they all gathered in the living room.
"Does it hurt?" Tails questioned.
"Does what hurt?" Sonic countered.
"Like…uh…anything."
"It feels like someone played a full season of hockey with my balls as the puck. Is that what you wanted to know?" Sonic asked.
"Huh huh, zees croissants are exquisite, no?"
"I'm not a big fan of your funny, Frenchy doughnuts, mate. At least Robotnik's bloody fortress is clapped out for now."
"One day, you're gonna have to teach me all your slang words, Sugar," Bunnie requested.
"And that day may never come," Sonic replied. "What's keeping you so quiet, Sally?"
"I'm just sitting here 'drinking it all in'," Sally said smiling.
"Damn it, I know you guys don't believe me, but that's a real phrase," Sonic insisted. "Do I look like a guy that would make shit up?"
"Huh huh, NO!" Antoine responded.
"Thanks Antoine, I knew you'd say something useful."
"You see that, I knew you guys could get along. It just takes a catastrophic near death experience," Sally observed. "And now everything is as it should be."
"No rules, just right," Knuckles put in.
"I love happy endings, Hun," Bunnie said with a smile.
"They kind of make me feel like vomiting," Sonic admitted.
"I know deep down inside you like this sort of thing," Sally said, pinching Sonic's cheek.
"Yeah, deeper and deeper, way, way, down," Sonic scoffed, slapping at Sally's hand. Suddenly, Antoine came over to the couch and stood directly in front of Sonic. "Is there something I can do for you?"
"We are being ze friends now, no? I will be giving you ze hug," Antoine said.
"Uh, no I think I'm good. Thanks for the thought though," Sonic replied. Sally elbowed him in the ribs. "Shit, okay, how about a handshake?" Antoine nodded in approval, and they shook hands. Antoine made his way back to his chair.
"What about you, Tails? Do you want to give Sonic a hug?" Sally asked grinning. Sonic rolled his eyes and sank into the couch.
"Yeah, Auntie Sally, I want Sonic to know we're friends now too." Tails flew over to the couch and hugged Sonic while he was sitting down.
"Okay, get off me," Sonic gasped.
"Not until you say we're friends," Tails responded.
"Yeah whatever, we're friends. Now get the fuck off me!" Sonic brushed himself off in a disgusted fashion. "I've told you once, there are only two of you that have the special permission to hug me, so the rest of you can fuck off."
"How shall we fuck off?" Knuckles asked.
"Oh, a smartass," Sonic responded. "Why don't you come over here and say that, I'll put my boot up your ass."
"Well, who has this special permission?" Sally inquired.
"You and Bunnie are the only ones that have the permission to hug me. I established this rule long ago, just for times like these." Bunnie and Sally looked at each other, and nodded in approval. After their 'shared' moment, they both rushed over to Sonic and group hugged him.
"Wow, I never thought I'd see a three-way right here in the living room," Rotor said disbelievingly.
"Really, could you guys get a bloody room if that's what you want to do?" Knuckles asked looking away.
"Zis is better zen ze zings I download on ze internets," Antoine replied. "Wait, zat is my couch!"
"Hey Sally," Sonic said as soon as he could breathe. "I think that Bunnie is trying to get you and me together in a three-way. That would be pretty hot."
"I don't know," Knuckles interjected.
"Think about it," Sonic requested.
"Yeah, it is kinda hot."
"I don't think it's hot at all, just wishful thinking on your part, Sonic. Furthermore, Bunnie and I have no intention of ever doubling up on you, so just wash it from your mind. Plus, I just want to keep you all to myself."
"Bitch," Knuckles whispered in Sonic's direction. Sonic responded by flipping him off.
"But with that said, I don't see how we could have setup a more perfect ending," Sally concluded.
"Could be better," Sonic claimed.
"And how's that?" Sally asked.
"Well there is this one particular idiom that would end this proper."
"No, I'm never going to say that phrase again. You've destroyed any meaning it may have had at one time," Sally explained.
"You blokes speakin in code now?" Knuckles asked.
"What is zis you cannot say, no?"
"Well if I said it, it wouldn't be something I couldn't say, would it?"
"I got lost somewhere around the 'it'," Tails said.
"You didn't say you couldn't say it. You said you never wanted to say it again. Can't and won't are two different things," Rotor clarified.
"Alright, I'm not going to say it again. Does that meet with your approval?" Sally inquired.
"I really don't understand what's going on here," Tails pouted.
"Uh oh," Sonic responded.
"Well I'm not too sure myself, Sugar," Bunnie told Tails.
"I'm pretty sure the only blokes that know what's bloody goin on are Sonic and Sally. Must be an inside joke or somethin." Knuckles acknowledged. "Are ya gonna let us in on it, or just fuck off?"
"How shall we fuck off?" Sonic mocked. "C'mon Sal, just say it, I promise I won't laugh."
"No Sonic, I'm not going to ask if you're going to munch this or what. I won't do it."
"You just said it," Sonic pointed out.
"No I didn't," Sally insisted.
"Well, you do need to rephrase your answer in the form of a question."
"That was really anticlimactic, mate," Knuckles said. "I was waitin for somethin bonzer, and all I got was a bloody shit sandwich."
"I don't swim in your toilet, so don't piss in my pool," Sonic responded.
"I wasn't pissin in your pool, mate."
"It was a pun," Sonic explained.
"A pun?!" Knuckles questioned.
"No sorry, it was a symbolic metaphor. I'm saying you're shitting all over the parade."
"And you blokes try and tell me my slang is confusin. I don't know what the bloody hell you're ever talkin about."
"It's just Sonic, Sugar. Don't get too frustrated about it," Bunnie told Knuckles.
"I heard that," Sonic replied.
"Now that that particular ordeal is over with we can move on," Sally said. "I guess now we have the perfect ending, unless someone objects." Sally looked around the room. "Good. We stopped Robotnik's evil plot and even become better friends because of it. "
"Yeah, but we never did find the 'can' thief," Sonic brought up.
"Well, we can't do everything can we? Past that everything worked out for the best and we're all alive and well," Sally stated. "You even saved my life a couple times, Sonic. I never said thank you."
"And you'll never have to."
