Everyone was in an old barn, setting up the place for a big production. Bunny was helping Sally with what looked like a wedding dress, Tails and Sonic were zooming around, building chairs and the altar. Collin was in the rafters, working on lighting and safety features. Antoine however, had accidently stepped up in some rope that Rotor was pulling the other end of, causing him to be pulled upside down, swinging over the group.
"This old barn is the perfect place for our wedding, Sonic." Sally smiled.
"I'm not so sure, Antoine would agree with you, Sal! Looks like he's gotten himself caught up in the festivities!"
Collin looked up from his task and frowned as he saw the poor French coyote swinging precariously 20 or so feet above the ground. "Oui! I have been swept off my feet! Don't just stand zaire! Do something!"
Sonic zoomed around the room and then ran up next to Collin on the scaffolding to laugh at Antoine. "I am doing something, 'Twan! I'm laughing my hedgehog head off! It seems like I'm not the only one around here with a case of the wedding bell blues!"
Collin cuffed Sonic's ear and made his way over to where Antoine was swinging. "Here, give me your hand." He reached out and caught hold of Antoine.
Sonic smirked and helped to untangle Antoine. "A little advice, Ant, next time you put your best foot forward… don't."
Bunnie and Sally rolled their eyes as they looked up at the trio. "Ah think that th' boys are takin' this whole production less than serious, Princess." Bunnie pointed out.
"So, what else is new, Bunnie? They're a couple of animals!"
"HEY!" Collin snapped at them. The girls blushed. "Watch your language, Princess." Collin reminded her as he finished freeing Antione.
Sally nodded and sighed. "Still, I did agree to go through with this. Now let's make sure we get things right the first time, Bunnie." The group were unaware of Motobug, a bug robot on one wheel, was spying on them. "I want everyone to see me at my best, tomorrow!"
Motobug raced back to Robotropolis as fast as he could. "Princess Sally and Sonic? *Click-whirrr* I suppose stranger things have happened! Wait'll Dr. Robotnik gets a mustache full of this!"
A few minutes later in the office of Dr. Robotnik…
"An urgent message from Moto bug, sir!" Crabmeat exclaimed as he raced to his master.
"Moto Bug? To him, everything is urgent! Toss it in the garbage with him!"
"Uhh… I really think you should read it!"
Robotnik was throwing darts at a target with Sonic the Hedgehog's face on it, and failing miserably. "Oh, very well! This had better be good!" He snatched the paper and read it over. "What? That blasted hedgehog?! And Princess Sally?!" He crumpled the papers in disbelief. "Blah! Unintelligible intelligence! Someone's wires must be crossed!" He tossed the paper away. "Couldn't possibly be so!" He grabbed the newspaper and started to read the back of it. 'Aren't they only children still?'
"But, sir…" Crabmeat insisted. "The truth is staring you right in the face! Or at least it would be…" Crabmeat helped to turn the paper around. "…if you'd only turn it around!" The title of the headlines was "It's official: Sonic and Sally To Tie the Knot!"
"Hmmm… The Times does have a reputation for accurate reporting… Still…" Robotnik buzzed for one of his bots. "It never hurts to check the facts!"
"You rang, Herr Doktor?" came the German voice of a bat based robot; Bat Brain.
"Indeed I did, Bat Brain! There's a party in progress and I wasn't invited! Go to the abandoned barn on the outskirts of the city… and gather me some intelligent intelligence for a change!"
Back at the Barn…
"Tomorrow's the big day, Sally!" Sonic pointed out as they gathered on the stage. "Are you sure you want to go through with it?"
"Hrmph!" Sally rolled her eyes. "That's a silly question! You know as well as I do that we've come too far to back out now!" She was back in her casual outfit of blue boots and a blue vest. Bunnie was holding her gown. Sally waived her bouquet at Sonic, as though to hit him. "Besides, this was all your idea in the first place!"
"My idea? I thought it was yours!" Sonic smirked with that cocky grin that annoyed all around him.
"Ooooo… you're not taking this seriously!"
"I am!" Sonic defended. "I just got a classic case of cold feet… or in my case, maybe that's cold sneakers." He got down on one knee though and pleaded. "When tomorrow comes, I'll be there to say, Yahoo, I do!" Sonic then got up. "And you can count on… HEY!" A dark bat shadow had covered them. "What's the big idea?"
Collin had already spotted the problem. "We've just got a bat in our belfry." Collin chucked a large heavy book at it, causing a window to break as it barely hit Bat Brain. "Stay out, ya pest!"
"Do whatever you like, ugly Hog Boys… I've already learned vat Heir Robotnik needs to know!" Bat Brain made his way back to Robotnik while Collin cleaned up, knowing that tomorrow was going to be exciting.
The next morning…
"I suppose you're all wondering why I called you here today!" Robotnik was standing in front of the largest number of robots ever assembled. "Well, wonder no more!" He growled. "Gentlemen… we have a wedding bash to crash!" He wrung a whip in his fists. "For far too long, Sonic the Hedgehog and his ridiculous band of Freedom Fighters have thwarted my best efforts. That's because our best efforts haven't been good enough! But, no more!" He cracked the small whip. "Today is the day that we destroy them once and for all! Many of you will not return from the coming conflict! Frankly, I could care less!" Wow, motivational, right? "All that matters is that our objective is achieved…" Robotnik howled. "…At ANY Cost! Onward, troops! To victory!" As the robots turned to march out a good number of them were already getting destroyed by marching into each other, or their fatal flaws were showing.
Junior was standing to the side, watching the production. He sighed. He knew they wouldn't win today, but meh, at least he was built sturdier… why was that anyway?
Part 2The barn was set up perfectly, like a chapel, there was a penguin at the alter as the preacher. The Royal Guard that Antoine had been training was all in their dress blues. Anyone else was dressed up in their suits or best outfits. Antoine didn't look impressed, but that's just because he was jealous of Sonic. Collin was wearing his nicest dress greens as it were, or more accurately, one of his usual green button ups that was ironed out, along with black slacks and his boots that had been shined. He merely looked amused. Tails, Rotor, and a few others were already tearful. Bunnie was holding the train of Sally's dress. Sonic just had a black bowtie on other than his usual sneakers. Willis, the penguin, was reading the last part of the speech before pronouncing them husband and wife, when the army of robots crashed in, surprising most of the group.
Sonic responded with jokes, like usual when in danger. "I didn't invite these guys! They must be from your side of the family, right?" Both Collin and Sally were unimpressed by the hedgehog's humor. The Swat Bots started to shoot their lasers at the duo at the alter. "WHOA! Get down, Sally!" He pulled Sally down with him as they dodged lasers. "These 'bots mean business! I've heard of shotgun weddings…" A blast just barely missed them. "…but this takes the cake!"
Willis had his own words. "Stop that!" He shouted at the bots. "This is a holy sanctuary! You're desecrating centuries of tradition!"
Sonic managed to pull him down as well as his tail feathers were zapped! "Better chill, Willis!" He grimaced. "Or this could go from my wedding, to your funeral!"
More of the bots started to show up, hoping to secure the perimeter, allowing none to escape, until the arrival of Dr. Robotnik. Robotnik was landing his cruiser just outside the old barn as Junior and his team of bots surrounded the barn, ready to fire at anyone who tried to escape.
Sonic was smashing bots left and right as fast as he could. "It's no use! Sooner or later, someone's bound to get hurt in these close quarters!" He barely dodged another blast and raced towards Sally. "Only one thing to do…" He scooped up the princess in bridal style, of course, and started for the door. "It's getting a little stuffy in here for my taste, Sal! Let's blow this joint and catch a few rays!" He skidded to a halt in front of a very bored looking Junior and a team of Swatbots ready to blast them with their own rays, from ray guns that is. "Uh-oh… not quite what I had in mind!" He reversed course quite quickly. "Back inside, quick…" The bots were left in dust, only Junior having no problem seeing them, but he didn't fire. He found he didn't feel like it for some reason. "Before things get any worse!"
Inside, a Swatbot was aiming its ray at Antoine, who had nowhere to go, and his weapon had been knocked aside. "Your money or your life" The bot said as though he was a movie mobster.
Antoine was surprised. "You mean I have zee choice?" The French coyote didn't have long to think on that, as a large sandbag smashed down on the bot. "?"
"I do believe I got the drop on him, eh, Antoine?"
The coyote looked up to see Collin with his sword in hand and a dangerous look on his face. "Collin?!" Collin jumped down in a spin attack with his sword, slashing through a few more bots as he came down near the coyote.
"Here," He tossed the boy the sword he had lost. "Your father would never forgive me if I didn't make sure you got his sword back." Collin grinned.
Antoine nodded and the two were back to back against the barrage of bots. "Merci beaucoup, Uncle Collin."
Sonic meanwhile had grabbed a rope and had stolen an arm from a Swatbot, using it to swat the other bots. He then threw the arm when he landed, just as Robotnik was entering. "Hope I haven't missed the vows and the… reception?"
Sonic was waiting near the altar, and was tapping his feet. "If you were expecting a warm one, forget it!"
"Sonic?! You're still standing at the altar!" Robotnik growled, "Where's Princess Sally?"
"Up here, Doctor Robotnik…" Robotnik looked up to see Sally was in the rafters with a knife to a rope. "Since Sonic raised the curtain…" The rope was cut, and a heavy blue curtain fell on the remaining bots and Robotnik, flooring him. "It gives me great pleasure to bring down the house!"
"GYAHH!" Suddenly, the entire barn was filled with cheers. Sonic took a bow as Sally directed light onto him. "Applause? A standing ovation? What kind of wedding is this?"
Collin was the one to answer that. "You really should learn to read the fine print, Julian." Collin smirked as he walked over to the fat man while Sonic and the other Freedom Fighters took a bow. He unrolled the newspaper with the article about the wedding. His sword sheathed at his side in a belt. "Your silly laws say that we can't sing, dance, have music, or play games and such, but my word, what's this?" Collin looked at the paper in mock surprise before showing it to Robotnik. "They don't say a thing about acting or plays!"
"You mean…?"
"That's right, Uncle Julian." Collin rapped his uncle's head with the paper once. "It's all just a play. For goodness sakes, they're not even sixteen, either of them. You really think I'd let them get married this young?" Collin raised a brow. Robotnik blushed and groaned in embarrassment. "Personally, I wanted to do Hamlet, but then I realized that one probably hit a tad too close to home." Collin snickered.
Junior finally entered the building and helped his creator, and any remaining bots, to leave and head back to their city. Before he left though, he grinned at Collin when Robotnik wasn't around. "Not a bad show, cousin. 8/10 in my book." Collin merely raised a brow and looked amused as the bots left, wondering what was going on with that bot's coding.
The Next day…
The Freedom Fighters were busy cleaning up the mess that Robotnik and his bots had made the previous day. Rotor was half asleep from all the work, and Antoine was reading the reviews for the play in the Mobius Free Press. "The reviews are in, and they are tres fatastique!"
"That's nice, 'Twan." Tails grinned as he moved some stuff. Collin was sorting out robot parts to see if he could actually use the junk.
Sonic was sweeping. "Too bad that was the first, last, and only performance of our play." He sat on the edge of the stage and looked at Sally. "Guess we're not cut out for show biz, huh, Sal?"
Sally grinned. "Oh, I don't know! You'll always be my leading man!" She then sat down next to him and got him more flustered while Rotor finally woke up and laughed. "And I still think this old barn is the perfect place for our wedding, wouldn't you agree, Sonic?" It was at that point that Sonic finally fled the scene with a "Ping!" leaving all of his friends to laugh while Sally rolled her eyes and groaned.
Collin just kept snickering while he sorted. "Oh yes, because that's what twelve-year-old boys think of; marriage."
Sally gave Collin a small glare while the others kept snickering. "And what about you, Collin? You're 18 now, so what do you think about?" With her hands on her hips, the young princess only looked comical to the young adult who had recently turned 18.
Collin looked up at Sally with a raised brow. "I think about getting your kingdom back, and our families back, Princess. What else would I think about?" The others finally stopped laughing.
Sally blushed as she thought about his answer. Did Collin really have no interest in having a family of his own? And really… what could she say to something like that?