Chapter 10: Two Days Later:

I'm Dr. Eggman! The (cough) greatest scientist in (wheeze) all the world!

(choke) (gasp) I-I can't believe that...ugh...Sonic bested me again! Brrr...every time I

seemingly succeed in killing him, he (hack) (cough)...ACHOO! He always gets saved

in some way! Urrf! Oog! ...I-I need to get my revenge! (sputter) SOMEHOW!

High on a cold and snowy mountain in Ice Cap Zone were the remains of Dr. Eggman, his robot minions and their personal Egg Mobiles. The breeze was strong and cold, and pneumonia and altitude sickness were inevitable. Eggman, (who had a puddle of blood around his head from the large gashes he had there) weakly got up onto his hands and knees, shivering hard. Orbot and Cubot were on either side of him, shut down and frozen in blocks of ice.

"Ooh…th-that…f-f-fucking …hedge…h-h-hog." He said.

{A brief flashback spontaneously passed through Eggman's mind, showing him and his wrecked pod flying high up into the sky, (while slowly regaining his consciousness) before suddenly coming to a stop and falling straight down towards the top of the mountain. Upon impact, the doctor was knocked out of his Egg Mobile, and proceeded to uncontrollably bounce down the mountain, (letting out an obscenely loud belch each time he did so), before finally stopping on a ledge as his small head crashed into it.}

Seeing this flashback caused him to grab his head in agony with a blood-curdling scream. Not only was he upset that he had lost against Sonic yet again, but he was in severe pain from the two gaping wounds on his head that he had received from both Sonic's homing attack, and upon landing on the mountain. Moaning in pain, Eggman proceeded to vomit uncontrollably, a mixture of food, black bile, and blood spewing out. Too weak to keep himself propped up on his hands and knees any longer, he collapsed into the discolored snow again.

I'm Sonic! Sonic the Hedeghog!

Hot damn, this has gotta be the happiest day

of my life! I just started my first relationship in

years, and it's already shaping up to be WAY

stronger than my LAST one! I guess all it took was

the desire for a break from adventuring to let me finally

settle down!

Sonic woke up. He looked over at his sleeping fiancé. He felt so lucky. Sunlight was shining through the windows. Sonic got up and stretched. He then proceeded to go get ready. With an ear-to-ear smile on his face, he headed to the kitchen, and to his surprise, found Tails and Knuckles there too, eating toast, bacon, and scrambled eggs. They saw him enter and sit down with them, still smiling.

"Uh, Sonic, you're starting to creep me out. What happened?" Knuckles said.

Sonic didn't answer. Tails snapped his fingers in his face, and he snapped out of it.

"Now, as I was saying. What happened?" Knuckles asked.

Once again, Sonic's face was split apart with a smile.

"Oh nothing. I just feel as if I'm flying and it's impossible to bring me down. It's almost like nothing can hurt me." He said.

Tails and Knuckles shrugged, as they watched their friend get up and start picking a cereal from the pantry.

"Dammit! We're all out of 'Sonic Bunches of Oats'! Hmmm...which one should I have today? 'Rouge Krispies'? 'Lucky Charmy Bees'? 'Special Chaos'? Wait, 'Raisin Eggman'?! I thought we said we weren't gonna buy this!" Sonic said.

My name is Rouge the Bat! Better known as

the government agent Rouge! I don't think I've ever felt

so euphoric before! For years I've dreamed of getting with

Shadow the Hedgehog, and just last night, it came true! To

this minute, I'm STILL in disbelief about the whole thing! At

the moment, I couldn't give two fucks about anything else right

now, though admittedly I do have one concern: what could

Shadow be thinking about this?

Meanwhile, Rouge and Shadow were lying in her bed. They had been cuddling all night, soundly sleeping. The sunlight shining in through the skylight woke them up. Shadow let out a yawn and stretched out after assuming the same position for over eight hours. He and Rouge sank into a deep kiss, but before they could do anything more, Silver opened the door. Rouge noticed this, and quickly pulled the strap of her nightgown back onto her shoulder and covered the part of her chest it was exposing with the blankets.

"Fuck, Silver! You scared me!" She said.

"Uh, I'm sorry if you're in the middle of something and I'm intruding, but I just have one request:" Silver started, "I know you guys are serious now, but could you keep it down? It's waking us up over there." He finished, thumbing to the door to his and Blaze's room across the hall.

"Wait! How did you...?" Rouge questioned.

"Guys, it was obvious. We could hear kissing, and happy groans, and that shuffling sound you guys made when you shifted positions." Silver explained.

"OK, whatever." Shadow said.

Silver left. Shadow and Rouge proceeded to get up and walk to the kitchen, holding hands.

Back in the kitchen, Sonic was having a discussion with Tails and Knuckles.

"So yeah, I've decided to move in with Amy now. I hope you guys understand." Sonic said.

"Nah, we're cool with it. You're engaged. It's only fair." Tails replied, though his voice was slightly shaky.

Knuckles nodded in agreement.

"Aw, don't worry guys. We're still pals. Hell, we even live in the same house!" Sonic comforted.

Suddenly, Sonic was taken by surprise as Amy walked into the kitchen, now wide awake, fully dressed, and groomed, and squeezed him in a big hug from behind.

"Morning Sonic." She said.

The couple kissed on the lips for a few seconds. Amy then proceeded to make breakfast. She began to brew some coffee, and cut herself a slice of coffee cake from the fridge. She then grabbed the jar of prunes, and saw that it was almost empty.

"Hey! Who the fuck has been eating my goddamn prunes!?" Amy said in a slightly angered tone.

"Must've been Silver or Blaze. They were the only ones who stayed here for dinner last night, and were probably the only ones who even had dinner." Knuckles suggested, thinking about Shadow and Rouge.

The two people Knuckles was thinking about walked into the kitchen. Tails could see that they were holding hands.

"Alright, there'd better be some coffee still in that pot. If I don't get any calories or caffeine in me, I'll pass out." Rouge said.

She poured the last of the coffee from the pot into a mug and added bourbon, sugar, honey and cream to it.

I honestly don't see why the hell she needs alcohol in the morning. Knuckles thought, rolling his eyes.

Shadow cut himself a slice of the coffee cake and sat down. As Rouge sat down, the strap on her nightgown fell off her shoulder. She adjusted it, and deeply sipped her coffee.

"Um, Rouge? Next time, please make sure you wear something more decent when you come in here. Some of us are trying to eat." Amy rudely commented.

"Amy!" Sonic hissed.

Amy rolled her eyes.

Silver and Blaze entered the kitchen. Unlike Rouge, Blaze was not in her pajamas.

"I see you're enjoying the coffee cake." She commented.

Shadow and Amy nodded.

"Well, we made it last night when we were the only ones in the kitchen." Silver said, eyeing Shadow and Rouge, who were next to each other.

"Oh, don't blame us for skipping dinner. Blame love!" Shadow teased, staring at Rouge, who giggled into her fingertips.

Amy rolled her eyes at that comment and said:

"OK, but next time, ask before eating my prunes, alright?"

"Oh, we're sorry. We roasted a flicky last night. Those prunes made quite the marinade." Blaze said, "There's some still in the fridge if you wanna try it!"

"Yeah, and I just couldn't resist." Silver added.

"Well, if you "can't resist", then buy your own fucking jar." Amy replied, still upset that others were eating her prunes.

Silver and Blaze nodded, and began serving themselves breakfast.