Chapter 5: Adjusting.
A/N: Sorry about the delay, ear infections are the worst. But I'm back with chapter 5. I'm going to try and pick up the pace, next chapter.
I do not own Sonic The Hedgehog.
It's been a week since Robert came to the future. He had met everyone besides Sally, each of them had similar reactions as Sonic and the others.
Shadow was the only one who reacted differently he had become a good judge of character since he joined G.U.N.
Robert and Tails have been working on the "Time Hopper" as Sonic dubbed for the sake of ease.
"This is pointless I'm stuck here, even if we fix this thing, we're too afraid to try it," Robert said in defeat.
"Don't give up we'll figure this out if I gave up every time I hit a roadblock I wouldn't be inventing anymore." Tails reassured him.
"Thank you Tails, but I can't help but feel homesick." He replied.
"Hey guys, hows it coming along?" Sonic asked as he walked into the workshop.
"Not so good Sonic, I think it's best to leave us alone for a little while. I'm gonna try and cheer up Robert." Tails answered.
"Alright, I guess I"ll go for a run," Sonic responded.
"Sonic wait before you go here take this." Tails said, handing him a high tech watch.
"What's this?" Sonic asked.
"It's a communicator, I haven't worked out all the kinks yet so right now it can only send and receive messages, I already gave one to Amy earlier today, both of you should have each other's contacts already programmed in." Tails explain.
"Cool, I'll try it out later with Amy, see ya," Sonic replied, then he ran off.
Meanwhile at Station Square.
Amy had heard about a new cafe had opened recently in Station Square, so she decided to check it out.
She had been walking around for about a half hour looking for it, when she finally found it, it was next door to Sonic's favorite place to get chili dogs.
Amy stood in front of it. "The Vista Deck Cafe. I like it!" Amy said excitedly, she then headed inside and was greeted immediately.
"Good Afternoon Miss what can I... Oh hey, Amy!" Said a familiar voice.
"Oh Lily hey, I didn't know you worked here!" Amy replied.
Amy and Lily had been friends for a while, ever since they met at her Dad's restaurant.
Amy had heard about the place from Sonic, he had praised it for its chili dogs, but he said that it served a huge selection of dishes.
So Amy decided to check it out, and there she met Lily they started talking, and the rest was history.
"No silly I'm the owner!" Lily replied smiling from ear to ear.
"Oh, that's so cool! So you finally achieved your dream of owning a cafe!" Amy responded, happy for her friend.
"Well technically, my dad is the owner, but I run everything about it, so I count it as being the owner!" Lily said still smiling.
Lily gestured Amy to a table, Amy walked over sat down and was handed a menu by Lily.
"So what do you want Amy?" Lily asked.
Amy looked at the menu it had the usual things a cafe would sell, she then noticed the bottom of the last page of the menu.
"You can order from your dad's restaurant?" Amy asked confused.
"Yeah I came up with that idea, I thought what if someone wanted something from my dad's place, while they drink their beverage. It also works the same way at my dad's," Lily explained.
"I see," Amy replied.
Amy then ordered, "Well anyway, I'll just take a cup of tea and some coffee cake."
"Coming right up!" Lily replied after she finished writing the order down, then walked way.
Amy sat and waited while waiting she looked around the cafe.
She noticed while looking around that, the tables and chairs looked like they belonged on an outdoor deck, and above them hung lights that looked like umbrellas. Amy figured that was the motif.
Amy also saw waiters serving other customers and noted their uniforms, white long/short sleeve dress shirts with black pants and gray vests. Amy noted how some of them wore their uniforms differently.
Lily walked back with Amy's order and placed it on the table.
"Here's your order Amy. By the way, I love your outfit." She stated.
Amy was wearing the same outfit that she bought a month and a half ago. A blue sleeveless turtleneck, knee length white skirt, and black boots.
"Thanks! I like the uniforms they're simple," Amy replied.
"Really?! It was difficult finding the right style, but one of the employees helped me figure it out." Lily said with glee.
"They must good tastes in fashion!" Amy responded.
"I guess so. I need to go help other customers I'll talk to you later Amy," Lily said waving as she walked off.
"Ok see ya later!" Amy said waving back. She drank, some of her tea, then started, to eat her coffee cake.
'With how good this is, they shouldn't have a problem with sales!' Amy thought.
Amy took another bite of coffee cake when her watch buzzed, she looked at it and saw she got a message from Sonic she read it.
"Hey, Amy. I stopped by your house, but you weren't home, had to get out of the house for a while, wanna hang out?" Amy was surprised by the sudden message, so surprised that she started to choke.
"*Gasp Gag*" was the only sounds she could make.
"Amy! Are you alright?!" Lily cried out, Amy put one hand on her neck and used the other to hit her chest.
"*Gasp Gag*."
"She needs help! She can't breathe!" Lily shouted.
One of the employees was walking out of the back, and heard Lily yell for help he rushed over to help.
He immediately got behind Amy and placed his left hand on her stomach and used his right one to, hit her hard on the back a few times clearing Amy's airways, making her able to breathe again making it possible for her to catch her breath.
"*Pant Pant* Are you okay miss?" He asked, out of breath from running over.
"*Caugh Pant* Yeah, thanks a lot," Amy said turning to the employee.
He was a red hedgehog his quills were pointed forward in a similar style of a short faux hawk. He wore the cafe uniform, with long sleeves on the long sleeve shirt rolled up past his elbows, his vest was closed, and he wore a red tie.
"Sorry about that I didn't have time to think, so I just did the first thing that came to mind, I'm glad it worked." He said, smiling awkwardly and hands raised up defensively.
"Me too," Amy replied.
Amy noticed he had something on his hands, him seeing that she was staring looked at his hands then looked back at her.
"Oh no, I'm sorry! I guess I wasn't paying attention and got some jelly, from one of the orders on my hands, and now it's all over your shirt!" The hedgehog said giving Amy some napkins.
"It's ok. You didn't mean too," Amy replied, with a gentle smile.
Amy started wiping the jelly off the front of her shirt, while Lily helped clean her back.
"I have an idea!" He declared. The hedgehog took off his vest, then looked at Amy.
"Here, put this on it should hide the stain." He suggested.
"Chief, can I take a 15-minute break." He asked.
"If you tell me what you're up too... Then I may give you 10-minutes." She replied.
He whispered in her ear. Lily nodded.
"Alright, I'll be back in 10 minutes!" He stated, then ran out.
Amy looked at Lily confused, Lily smiled.
20 minutes passed, the hedgehog walked back into the cafe with a bag in his hand.
"Sorry, it took so long there was a line." He explained.
"Here you go, Miss." He said handing Amy the bag.
Amy looks inside to see a blue sleeveless turtleneck. "You didn't have to do that," Amy argued.
"No no, I felt it was right, It's my fault your shirts dirty." He stated.
"Thank you! That's very kind of you. I'm Amy Rose, by the way." She said.
"Nice to meet you Miss Rose, my names Dax." He replied.
"You can call me Amy. You know a friend of mine could learn a thing or two for you, Dax!" Amy stated.
"Speaking of which I need to reply to his message." She said.
Amy paid for her food and was about to leave when she remembered. "Oh before I go, I need to give your vest, back," Amy stated.
"Don't worry about it, I have another one just in case that one got messed up, you can give it back when you come by again." He replied.
"Hopefully this didn't affect your experience," Lily said.
"Don't worry about it Lily, I'll be coming back," Amy assured her.
Lily and Amy said their goodbyes and Amy left the cafe.
Lily looked at Dax seriously. "You don't have an extra vest do you?" She asked bluntly.
"Well Actually Chief, I do, I had a feeling I would need an extra." He answered with a cocky grin.
"Ok smart guy. You're on dish and trash duty." Lily retorted.
"And stop calling me Chief!"
Back with Amy. She was walking back to her house thinking what to reply to Sonic.
'I don't want to sound desperate.' She thought, pulling up the message interface on her communicator.
"Sorry got held up. Yeah okay, that sounds like fun, I'm heading back to my house to do something, so meet me there." She sent then closed the interface.
Amy got home, and was greeted by Sonic what did she expect? He is the fasting thing alive after all.
"Hey Amy, sorry but I beat you here!" He said, as cocky as ever.
"I figured." She responded bluntly.
"One second, let me change my shirt then we can go!" She said walking into her house, two minutes later she walked back out wearing the new turtleneck.
It looked exactly like the other one, Sonic looked confused and asked. "Weren't you wearing that a second ago?"
"This is a different one, the other one got dirty, so I had to change out of it," Amy answered giggling.
They started walking back to Station Square. They were about halfway there when Sonic asked. "Sooo, how did your shirt get dirty, and did it have something to do with, why you took so long to reply to my message?"
Amy was a bit shocked by the sudden question. "Why do you want to know?" She replied defensively.
"I was a little surprised usually you'd jump at the chance to hang out. What happened?." He asked curiously.
"Just because I love you, doesn't mean I'll drop everything the moment you want anything to do with me. Why are worried about it anyway?" Amy replied, angered by Sonic's question.
A/N: I rewrote Amy's line several times trying to get the best effect.
"Woah Woah, Amy I didn't mean it like that, calm down," Sonic replied trying his best to calm her down.
"Sorry, It's just... Been a long day, how about I tell you later. Alright?" She said.
Sonic nodded, and they continued walking in silence.
During the silence, the only thing Amy could think was 'This day couldn't get any more awkward.'
Back at Tails' workshop, Tails and Robert were working on the Time Hopper again.
"You know, Tails it's quite fun having someone, to work on inventions with when I get back I should get a lab partner." He stated.
Tails wondered how could a nice guy like Robert become as evil as Eggman.
"That sounds like a great idea!" He said, pushing that thought to the back of his mind and getting back on the subject.
"Back to the topic at hand. I think the power source is still too weak, we need, something that can generate a lot of energy." Tails suggested.
"I agree. But what can we use?" Robert asked.
"I have something in mind, but I'm saving it as a last resort." Tails answered.
"Why?" Robert wondered.
"Because It's hard to find, and it could be a bad idea, the power source is sought after by many different kinds of people. So I want to be cautious." Tails explained.
"Ah I see but we are running out of ideas, so we might want to start considering it." Robert Suggested.
"Yeah, I agree..." Tails' responded, "But for now I think we should take a break since we've been working on this all week, let's go relax at the house." Tails suggested.
Robert nodded, and the duo walked over to the house.
Tails and Robert sat down on the couch. Tails turned on the tv and started flipping through the channels and stopped when a news headline caught his eye.
'Jewelry store crime spree.'
"Today our top story, a string of thefts at Jewelry stores across Station Square. Witnesses say they saw nothing, as if one second the Jewel's were there and the next they were gone, security cameras didn't pick up anything of use at the time of the crimes." The female news caster reported.
"I wonder who would have done such a thing." Robert thought out loud.
Tails didn't respond and listened to the details, his curiosity peaked.
The female news caster continued. "Sources say each of these locations had large gemstones on display. They were said to be among the stolen jewels."
'Could she be talking about Chaos Emeralds?' Tails wondered.
Who could be behind those robberies? Eggman, or another evil.
A/N: There he is Dax the Oc, I wanted to have someone who would be support for Amy but also help Sonic and the others, but he's not going to be the focus of the story.
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