14 Months Chapter 25
Over at the park outside Station Square, everyone was there with everything ready for their picnic. All they needed to do now is wait for Eggman and Sonic to arrive. Hopefully this won't turn into a disaster plus this was their only chance to have a real conversation with Sonic. Cream the Rabbit, her best friend Cheese the Chao and her mother Miss Vanilla were also there including the Babylon Rouges and Team Chaotix but they were only in the background doing their own things. It was their idea to decide on this picnic as well as see if they can make any progress with the 14 months saga, but they planned to just catch up, if Sonic agrees to it.
"So is everything ready everyone?" Vanilla asked them to make sure it was all ready to go.
"Sure is. All we need to do now is wait for Eggman and Sonic to arrive." Tails answered.
"I can't wait to see Mr Sonic again. It's been a long time." Cream said as she was so desperate to see him again.
Everyone told Cream and Vanilla about what was going on between them and Sonic, which they were very shocked about. Cream was very disappointment and Vanilla was just in too loss of words. She didn't know if Sonic was mad as well. Neither of them did.
"Can we eat now?" Charmy asked.
"No we wait until Sonic and Eggman arrives." Vector replied.
"Speaking of Sonic and Eggman, wonder when they'll turn up?" Knuckles then asked them.
Just as Knuckles asked the question, everyone saw the two arrive. They were all quite nervous because they really didn't know if Sonic was going to either talk to them or yell at them. While the two were walking towards them, Eggman was talking to Sonic and how to get him to calm down around them just to make sure what he tried doing to Tails doesn't happen again.
"Just remember Sonic, keep calm and don't get angry at them. I really don't want to see that and neither does the others." Eggman explained to them.
"Okay I'll try. Why are you telling me what to do lately?" Sonic argued.
"I'm trying to help you here. I really don't want to see you raise your voice at your friends. Just try to drop the whole thing for one day around them."
"That's what I've been trying to do!" Sonic shouted. It was lucky for them that everyone else was too far away to hear the two enemies.
"Still just relax around them okay?"
Sonic took a deep breath and kept walking beside Eggman to the others. Everyone watch them turn up and was ready to hopefully have a nice, peaceful day.
"Hey Sonic. How are you today?" Tails calmly asked.
"Fine." Sonic only said.
"Hello there Miss Vanilla." Eggman greeted her.
"Dr Eggman. It's been awhile since we've encountered with each other." She greeted back.
The first time these two met was when Eggman kidnapped Vanilla and Cream for one of his latest schemes until later the two were rescued by Sonic. Not much happened between Eggman and vanilla after that because they never encountered with each other very of then after that. While the two were slowly catching up, everyone else were eating.
"So Mr Sonic, how have you been lately?" Cream kindly asked.
This was the time to not get angry here for Sonic. He never got mad at Cream, actually, no one gets mad at her. She was too kind, polite and beautiful. If anyone got mad at Cream, her heart would break easily.
"It's not too bad really." Sonic replied.
He didn't look at the other's faces at all while answering these questions. He just didn't feel like it.
"Hey um… Sonic. I'm sorry for what I did. I just lost control of myself. Do you forgive me?" Shadow nervously apologized.
That was one of the most mistakable things he's done in his life and he hoped Sonic can actually forgive him, but that didn't look like it was going to happen at all. Sonic didn't answer to Shadow, instead he was just eating quietly and hoping that this whole situation can be dropped. Shadow decided that it should wait until Sonic wasn't too aggressive about this.
Shortly after lunch, Most of the gang started having fun. Charmy did something annoying so Vector and Espio were chasing him all over the place. Also Jet was a victim so he's doing the same thing with his Extreme Gear with Storm laughing his head off. Sonic found this amusing to watch but wasn't in the mood to laugh. The girls were just throwing a Frisbee around which left Tails, Knuckles, Shadow, Miss Vanilla and Eggman with Sonic.
"How is everything going for you today boys?" Vanilla asked them.
"It's alright but watching Charmy get chased around is very funny." Knuckles answered.
"Sonic you've been quiet the whole time you've been here." Tails pointed out to him.
"Aren't I allowed to?"
"Well… we just want to know the real reason why you're not forgiving us."
There it goes again. Sonic knew they were going to ask that question to him. Nothing's that simple to them just for one thing. He's so glad that Vanilla hasn't asked that question once but that's because she was always at home with her own life and looking after Cream and Cheese.
"When are you guys going to drop this?" Sonic asked while irritated once again.
"When you tell us why you can't forgive us and when you decide to do it." Shadow answered for Tails.
Sonic was at his limits and needed to get out of this conversation fast, even away from everyone. He stood up and headed to a different direction.
"Sonic where are you going?" Eggman asked.
"For a walk." He said and walked off leaving everyone, even the others to stop what they're doing, watching him.
"Ha ha! You didn't catch me! I win!" Charmy cheered.
"Shut up Charmy!" Vector said.
"What's up with Sonic? He just walked off." Wave asked them.
"I think he got mad again when we tried to find out why he won't forgive us." Tails explained to her.
"Sonic wanted all of you guys to drop it today and hopefully for a while, but you all keep pushing the point." Eggman explained to them.
They were all silent after what Eggman said to them. Each and every one of them had nothing else to say, until someone broke the silence.
"Maybe I should go look for him. Dr Eggman look after everyone while I'm gone." Miss Vanilla pointed out then she headed off to the direction Sonic went. The others watched her walk off and hoped she can get anything out of Sonic to why he couldn't accept their apology.
"I can't believe Eggman is left with us." Knuckles said.
Meanwhile with Sonic, he was about a few minutes away from everyone and was walking in some unknown place. Sonic though he knew every inch of Mobius. Right now he was looking around the place then all of a sudden he knocked his head onto a tree he didn't know about.
"Ow!"
He rubbed his head then his mind clicked in with some of his old memories. Like the time when he first met Tails, followed by Knuckles, a new enemy Metal Sonic, also Amy at that event. Time after time, he became friends with Shadow, Rouge, The Chaotix, Babylon Rouges, Blaze and Silver, also some new friends along the way. They were precious memories which all of a sudden, tears started coming out of his emerald eyes uncontrollably. He tried wiping his eyes but more came out. He then noticed a shadow behind him.
"Sonic?" Came a worried, sweet voice.
Sonic turned around and saw Vanilla standing there. She saw the tears as well.
"Are you okay dear?"
He didn't know what to say at all.
"I-I… gotta go." That was the only thing he could say which then left him dashing off back home. Vanilla was heartbroken to see such a thing from Sonic. She wanted to know exactly why he was crying and why he wasn't accepting everything that has happened. She then started walking over to Sonic's House to find out everything she needed to know.