Umbrellas

Chapter 25: Sssshhhh! Be very, very quiet!

2/5/2012 Deathy: Enjoy another little pun!

2/9/2012 Deathy: So I do not forget my Thank You[s] when I begin typing what I have written of this chapter. Thank you for adding this to your fav story list! Thank you Norman Steel for adding this to your story alert list and your fav story list! Thank you Meemeechan for reviewing! And suspense? Did I really create it? Yes! I have accomplished something! YAY!

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The two brainiacs had built some giant mecha. While it was not meant to cause any harm, it would be sufficient enough to hold Scourge and haul the troublesome nuisance back to solitary confinement in the zone jail under Warden Zobotink. It was massive and had many flashing lights.

"What should we call it?" Tails asked as he marveled the device.

"I'm not entirely sure." Miles replied. The two looked over their creation. A name was going to be very difficult to come up with.

"I've got it!" A light bulb lit up above Tails' head.

"Eureka!" A similar light bulb lighting about Miles' head at the same time.

"The Hedgehog Play Ball!" The two were boisterous with glee. They began doing a happy which could only be described by the two mixing several dances together.

Sonic, hearing their cheerful laughter, slowly opened the door. A pink hedgehog was right behind him. As soon as they laid eyes on the two foxes, their mouths dropped.

"Ahem." Sonic cleared his throat. "So what's with the happy dancing?"

"Why weren't we invited?" Amy teased.

The two foxes stopped their cheer. Miles gave a nervous and embarrassed smile. He wasn't used to being caught acting so childish. Tails just smiled like nothing was wrong! The two pointed to their new invention.

"We finished it!" Tails stated happily. "This should be able to stop Scourge in his tracks!"

"Should?" Miles question. "No. No. No. It will!"

Sonic raised a skeptical eye brow. "A giant hamster toy?" He questioned. "That is your ingenious plan to stop Scourge?"

The two foxes nodded happily.

"A giant hamster toy?" Sonic repeated in disbelief. "Are you serious?"

The two nodded yes again.

"What is this thing called?" Sonic asked. The blue blur couldn't believe it. His best buddy – and little brother – had built a play toy as a weapon to stop an insane megalomaniac!

"The hedgehog play ball." The two answered shyly.

"You guys built Scourge a toy in order to capture him?" Amy question. "Well, this will be hilarious." The pink hedgehog laughed.

"Yeah, he might just laugh into commission." The blue hedgehog joked.

Miles crossed his arms and looked at his prime. "May I?" He asked as he pointed his thumb at Sonic and then to the machine. The orange thought it over and then smiled wickedly as he nodded eagerly. The yellow fox then grabbed Sonic's arm and flew him over to the machine. "Please Oh Great One," He mocked, "test our sweet little machine." Tails by this time had grabbed the video tapping Omochao and turned it on. Miles dropped the hero of Mobius into the hedgehog play ball and pressed a button on his cuff which sealed the escape hatch.

Sonic glared at the fox from the inside. Tails was right to have called his evil counterpart tricky. The light green eyed teen looked over at his little brother, beseeching help. He received a childish smirk and cute little wave. "You're cruel." He mouthed.

"Thank you." was the fox's reply. He turned to Miles. "Do you think he'll figure out how to get out?" He asked.

"Let's give him an hour to escape. If he can't get out by then we'll let him out. Plus we'll know that our machine does work properly." Miles replied as he landed beside him.

"Cool. What do we do until then?" Amy asked.

The boys exchanged glances and smiled. "Popcorn." was the only word to leave their mouths as they left.

The pink hedgehog laughed as she looked at her hero. "Apparently, you're a theatrical film, Sonic!" She said sarcastically.

"Wonderful." He muttered. "Let me out."

"I can't. I don't know how." She explained.

The blue hedgehog pouted.

Tails tossed in a bag of popcorn as Miles stood in the kitchen. "Why don't you call and check up on your team?" The fox suggested. "The phone is right there, already modified for inter-zone communication."

"Okay." Miles picked up the phone and dialed. The yellow fox would later wish he hadn't.

"Hello!" He greeted after Alicia picked up, "How is everything going?"

"Oh, everything is going well." Alicia replied. "The guardian is on full alert for Scourge. Patch and Boomer do regular rounds looking out for him."

"And Rosy?" Miles questioned, eager to hear how she was doing.

"Yeah… about Rosy." Alicia began. "Is she a soldier or your maid? I can't seem to figure it out."

"What has she been doing?" Miles asked.

"Oh, she's been cleaning like crazy. She barely stops doing house work! It's very creepy." Alicia explained. There was the sound of the door opening. "Oh, hey!" She greeted the visitor. "Do you want to talk to Miles?"

"Please don't put me on the phone with Patch." The fox begged.

"Hello Miles!" Rosy's voice greeted.

"Hi Rosy!" Miles replied happily. "How are you?"

"I've been doing well." She answered. She sounded so sweet and innocent. As if she could do no harm to anyone. "By the way Miles, what happened to the house?"

Miles gulped. "The house?" he repeated. He had completely forgotten about his residence. "What about it? I thought you were staying with Alicia?"

"Yeah, well, I thought I would be helpful and tidy up a little over there." She began. "Did you blow up a bomb in there or something? There are holes in the walls. Books, clothes, tools, and trash spewed all over the floor. Everything in the fridge has expired. Frankly, I fear the rotten food has become a monster, because I can't identify over half of the stuff in there. Plus, I could have sworn that I heard the beast speaking to me the other day. Miles, what in the name of the Sunken Island happened to the house?" Rosy was very displeased.

"To be honest," Miles began to think of a way out of this situation. "I don't really know. Maybe somebody broke in while I was gone. Is anything missing?"

"You're lying." Rosy noted simply. "If someone did break in, you would be ticked. You sound nervous and fidgety. What happened?"

He sighed, signaling his surrender. "Can it wait until I'm at home?" He pleaded. "I'll explain it all then, I promise."

"Hmpf!" was Rosy's unhappy reply. "Very well. I'll clean up as much as I can. By the way, I finally got the walls fixed. What color would you like me to paint them?"

"Color?" Miles repeated as he thought. He wasn't sure which color would be a good idea. White seemed to be such a basic, boring color. Black was not a good choice either. Grey, maybe? No. It was too close to black and way too close to white. What color could he stand to look at day in and day out? He finally just shrugged. "I'm not sure, Rosy. Why don't you decide?"

"I'll probably paint them white for the moment then." She told him. "After all, you can never go wrong with white walls." Miles laughed at this thought. "So I'll be seeing you soon?"

"Yep!" The yellow fox replied. "I'll be home very soon!"

"I'm happy to hear that! Oh, Miles would it be alright if I did some gardening? I wanted to plant some vegetables."

"Wha-" escaped Miles' mouth. It was very shocking even for Rosy. Planting was not the normal Moebian hobby. Something strange was going on. Very strange. He would have to analysis this later. "Sure Rosy. Go right on ahead. The back yard gets a lot of sun." He gave her permission.

"Oh, thank you very much Miles!" Rosy said hyperly. "I promise to take good care of it! It'll be the best one around!"

"I'm sure it will be." Miles agreed. It would probably be the only one around. Maybe that's why she always smelled so nice; she liked to make gardens.

"Dude, come look at this!" Tails called, racing up the stairs.

"I'll talk to you later than Miles." Rosy said politely. "Bye."

"Okay. I love you Rosy. Bye." The yellow fox responded without on the jack. He turned his attention back onto his counterpart. "So what do I have to see?" He asked, walking towards the stairs.

"You do realize what you just told Rosy, don't you?" The orange fox questioned. The yellow fox contemplated this rather peculiar question. His blue eyes soon went wide.

"Oh, Ancient Walkers! I didn't – I couldn't possibly have… I-I-I…" The yellow k-9 rambled on. The orange fox sighed as he placed a comforting hand on the yellow fox's shoulder.

"You did." He confirmed. The yellow fox hung his head in shame. The orange fox lead him down stairs. "It'll be okay. She probably didn't even notice."

"The only flaw with the fox's hopeful notion was she did notice. The pink hedgehog stared intently at the phone for a few long minutes. Alicia looked at her questionably as she walked back into the room.

"Did he yell at you or something?" She asked, sounding concerned. Though her expression was more of shock.

"No." Rosy shook her head. She slowly placed the phone back on its charger. She contemplated what was going on. She soon came to her conclusion. "I'm going to make some stew. Miles is sick." The pink hedgehog walked straight out the door and to the grocery store.

Miles sat down in a chair as Tails couldn't help but laugh at his big brother's predicament. Amy was happily eating popcorn as she watched the blue blur fail at escape. Spin dashing didn't work at all. Sonic wand up getting a headache and a funny looking hair do.

"I give! I give! I give! For the love of Uncle Chuck's chilidogs, I give!" The hedgehog finally cried uncle. He was glad that only three people were witness to his cry of surrender.

"Should we let the fastest thing alive out?" Tails asked. Miles looked up at the blue tornado in the hedgehog play ball.

"Let him out Tails. There's no reason to be cruel to him. We need to defeat Scourge." He said with a depressed tone.

"Is Miles okay?" Amy asked his prime counterpart.

Tails paused for a moment and bit his lip. He released his big brother from the machine. "He just has a lot on his mind." The fox left it at that. The pink hedgehog decided not to bother asking any more questions about it.

"Well, I got to hand it to you guys. That thing is sure to best Scourge!" Sonic praised them. "So let's see if we can't find the green jerk."

They searched all of Mobius the best they could, but they still hadn't found the green hedgehog. Everyone was on the lookout for him, but no one could find him. Miles, who had been told to stay at the Tails' workshop, had begun to wonder if he was wrong to assume that he could even come to this zone. Maybe he didn't come to settle the score with Sonic, but then what other goal could Scourge have? The green hedgehog was nowhere near normal, but he was always out to prove he was better than Sonic. Scourge had an inferiorly complex. Miles smirked at this revelation. It was so blatant, it could be obviously be used against him.

"Grrr…" Miles facepalmed. He was starving. He picked up Omochao and head towards his prime self's kitchen area. It was very basic. A rectangular black lurked to the right of the door frame. The fridge had the freezer part on top with the fridge section making the lower half. The fridge had the freezer part on top with the fridge section making the lower half. The fridge was a little bigger than a normal fridge. The light switches were practically hidden behind the fridge. The yellow fox flicked the first switch to turn on the lights. He put the tiny mechanical robot on the table. It was a camera that Tails ordered Miles to keep with him.

"Why on Moebius would he build you?" He asked the robot. "Did he lose a chao and build you as a quick fix?" He opened the fridge and began scanning for something edible. The orange fox was as bad as Miles when it came to dietary habits and stalking up on food.

THU-UMP!

Miles jolted at the sound. He looked at the robot. "I don't suppose you know what that was." He said, picking up the toy. "Do you have anything that can be used to defend us?" He asked hopefully. When the toy did not answer, the fox took this as a no and grabbed his trusty wrench from his pocket. No one was going to get the drop on him. He slowly walked down stairs with one hand clenching Omochao for dear life and other gripping the wrench tightly in his hands. He slowly opened the door to Tails' lab. His mouth dropped to from a big 'O'.

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2/13/2012 Deathy: I'm in physics. I have a test tomorrow. I'm totally prepared… for the moment. I know, I know, I am cutting this chapter rather short. As I did intend to have Scourge appear in this chapter, but I didn't get to him. You all know how much I love cliffhangers. Also, I'm watching Hetalia! Fun show! Also, I finished the MilesXRosy Animation that I've been working on! It's on YouTube and the link is on my page. I'm sorry that the voice acting is terrible, but I was the only one I knew that was willing to do it. So all you guys can enjoy that! And Please READ & REVIEW!