Chapter 6: Curiosity.
A/N: Sorry that it took awhile to update dealing with minor writer's block. I also spent a lot of time playing Sonic Mania and playing SA2 for the first time between writing sessions.
This chapter will end up following the Dax more than intended.
I do not own Sonic The Hedgehog.
"Tails are you alright?" Robert asked.
"Y-Yeah sorry was just got lost in thought." Tails replied coming to his senses.
Tails continued his train of thought.
'If they were Chaos Emeralds they would be displayed in a museum or an art exhibit or even be held by government organizations like G.U.N. But jewelry stores I don't know it seems fishy.' Tails thought.
"Hey, Robert why don't we go check it out." Tails suggested.
"Are you sure it's ok for me to go out in public Tails?" Robert asked.
"Don't worry if we use your nickname it'll be fine." Tails assured.
"I've been wondering why people keep reacting to my name in such negative way?" Robert questioned.
"I'm sorry Robert I... I-It's hard to explain, but I think It's better that we don't tell you because once you hear it there is no going back and, it's something that's not easy to cope with." Tails replied giving a sad look.
"I understand, forget I even asked. Well, shall we get going?" Robert asked changing the subject to cheer Tails up.
"Yeah, sure!" Tails responded.
Meanwhile at Eggman's secret base.
"Orbot any word yet from the recon team?" Eggman inquired.
"Getting a report in right now Sir," Orbot responded.
"Good, what does it say?" Eggman wondered.
"They say Tails was sighted leaving his home with an unknown human." Orbot read.
"Hmm, do you they have a visual?" The doctor asked.
"Yes, Sir they have sent a photo along with the report." The small robot answered.
Orbot displayed the image on the large monitor.
"He doesn't look very threatening, must be one of their puny little friends... I must say he does look familiar." Eggman said putting his right hand up to his chin thinking.
"No matter, keep an eye on them for now." He ordered.
Meanwhile in Station Square.
Dax had gotten off his shift had started walking around the streets. He looked into his wallet to check how much money he had.
'Man my back hurts from dish duty, and I spent the money I was going to use to buy dinner with to replace that shirt for Miss Rose. Well, I guess I'm cooking tonight...'
'I mean I'm not a bad cook I just really don't feel like doing it... Oh well if this is what kindness gets me then I can live with that!' He thought to himself.
Dax put his wallet up and continued walking for a half hour, he turned a corner and noticed a large crowd of people.
"Huh? Whats going on here did someone spot a celebrity or something?" He thought out loud.
"No actually, a jewelry store was robbed a few minutes ago, and now everyone's curious." An orange twin-tailed Fox explained.
"Oh yeah, I remember hearing something about someone going around only stealing from stores with large gems on display. I find it a little strange if I were them and I wanted to steal expensive jewels, I would go after high-class places like exhibits or museums." Dax responded, mostly talking to himself.
"Oh sorry I tend to think out loud sometimes." He apologized.
"It's alright don't worry about it." Tails replied.
"Well sorry to take up your time I'll head out have a nice day," Dax said walking away from the crowd.
"You too." Tails replied walking back to Robert.
"Hey, Robert see anything?" Tails asked.
"Not much, all I can see is the front, but it doesn't look like anything's broken from here," Robert answered.
"That's interesting." Tails replied.
Meanwhile not far from the crowd.
Dax was walking away deep in thought while thinking he pulled out a pair of red goggles and put them on.
"Alright, Alice time to boot up," Dax said to himself.
'Hello, Dax I am the Artificial Linguistic Intelligent Computerized Entity A.L.I.C.E. for short how may I help you?' Read the text on the inside of the goggle lens.
"You're finally working?! I really, need to come up with a better name for you... Either way, can you give me information on the recent jewelry store robberies?" Dax requested.
'Analysing request. Searching for "information on the recent jewelry store robberies" *Searching*' Alice responded.
News articles popped up, but the goggles shocked him before he could read any of them.
Dax quickly took them off and shut the system down.
"Ahhh, careful. Great I thought finally I fixed the short-circuiting." He said disappointedly.
While Dax wasn't paying attention, someone running the other way bumped into him, knocking them both to the ground.
"Hey, Watch where you're going you could have killed me." Said a blue hedgehog.
"Sorry I didn't mean to, you were the one running how is it my fault?" Dax replied annoyed.
"Yeah yeah just be more careful got it." The blue hedgehog replied agitatedly.
Dax noticed a duffle bag and picked it up.
"You dropped this." He said ready to hand over the bag.
"Give me that!" The blue hedgehog shouted, snatching the bag and running off.
"Well, that was rude..." Dax said with curiosity.
He started to think then he started shaking his head and biting his lip.
"*Argh* Fine ill follow him something about him bugs me..." Dax stated.
He followed him for about 10-minutes, he ended up following the blue hedgehog into an ally, where the blue hedgehog stopped and started talking to himself.
Dax hid carefully behind stairs with a dumpster behind him hiding him from anyone behind him.
"If it weren't for that red hedgehog I wouldn't be late luckily he didn't get suspicious." The blue hedgehog said.
'Yeah you're so not suspicious enough for me to follow you to this ally...' Dax thought to himself.
Several minutes later. Dax heard beeping, followed by a voice speaking from above the blue hedgehog.
"Do you have the bag?" The voice questioned.
"Yeah, right here I made sure it had the jewels and everything." The blue hedgehog responded giving a mischievous smile.
"Good now in the duffle bag..." The voice started.
"I know there is a backpack I put it on and press the button on the left strap to activate it blah blah blah I built the thing you don't need to explain it to me." The blue hedgehog interrupted.
"Well anyway, you know where to meet." The voice replied then left.
"Yeah yeah I know." The hedgehog mumbled in a mocking tone.
The blue hedgehog placed the duffle bag down and opened it and took out a backpack, and put it on then closed the duffle bag.
After picking up the bag, the blue hedgehog pressed the button on the backpack, revealing an engine a long pole came out of the backpack on it were three small helicopter blades.
'Wait, what?! No no no!' Dax thought to himself almost jumping out of his hiding spot.
The blades start to spin, and the hedgehog takes off out of sight.
"Crap! he got away." Dax said frustrated.
Meanwhile in Station Park.
Sonic and Amy, ran laps around the park, Sonic suggested doing it as a start to Amy's training. They had kept this up for about a half hour.
Amy's pace was slowly picking up while Sonic continued to lap her 5 or 6 times every 2 to 3 laps, him going easy on her would be a major understatement.
Amy stopped running and sat down on a bench catching her breath.
"Not too bad Ames," Sonic said giving her a thumbs up.
"*Pant* Y-Yeah I'm doing the best I can *Pant*," Amy replied out of breath.
"I'll go grab some water," Sonic said walking off.
Amy looked around the park. She saw groups of children playing.
She smiled. 'It would be wonderful if Sonic and I had kids, we would take them to the park and play games and have family picnics and...' Amy shook her head erasing the thought from her head.
'I'm getting ahead of myself right now I need to worry about whats right in front of me.'
Amy looked around the park some more and saw Sonic waiting in a line tapping his foot being as impatient as usual.
'How long is this line going to take!?' Sonic thought while rubbing his temples.
After several minutes, Sonic was able to buy water, he could have gone somewhere else with his super speed to get water, but he didn't think about it.
He started walking back toward Amy when he heard someone call his name.
"Sonic!" A female voice called out. He turned to see it was Sally.
"Oh hey Sal, whats up?" Sonic greeted.
"Nothing really, just walking around Station Square, how have you been?" Sally replied.
"Same as always, ready to kick Eggman's mustachioed butt whenever he shows up again." He said giving a grin.
Sally laughed.
Amy was curious who Sonic was talking to because the person he was talking to was behind a fountain.
"Anyway, Sally, I can't talk right now, Amy and I were training, and I left to buy water a while ago, so I don't want to leave her hanging," Sonic explained.
"Alright have fun!" Sally said smiling and walking away.
Sonic walked back over to Amy and handed her a water bottle.
"I bumped into Sally a minute ago," Sonic said.
"So that's who you were talking to," Amy responded.
"Yeah," Sonic answered.
"Why don't we go look for something to eat all that running made me hungry," Amy suggested.
"Now that you mention it me too, why not," Sonic replied.
The duo processed to leave the park, heading back into the city.
Meanwhile, Sally continued her walk around the city.
She enjoyed walking around Station Square seeing how busy it was and all the people walking around, gave her an odd feeling of satisfaction.
'I wonder how Amy's doing, she seemed pretty calm around Sonic, I'm so happy to see them hang out without Sonic trying to get out of it.' Sally thought to herself.
Sally continued to take in her surroundings. She somehow could never get over how large the city is.
Sally kept walking until she got to a large group of people on the sidewalk, they all were looking at a large digital screen talking about the recent news, Sally looked up at the screen to see if anything interesting happened when she heard something that caught her attention.
"Sorry Ma'am, excuse me Sir sorry, come on let me through..." She heard a male voice speaking in the crowd.
She turned her attention to the crowd and saw an arm flailing around trying to get out of the sea of people.
Sally grabbed the arm and pulled, the person attached to it was pulled out, knocking both of them to the ground.
They both got up Sally looked to see who she help, It was a red hedgehog wearing a white rolled up long sleeve dress shirt with black pants a gray vest and red tie.
"Thanks for that, I was trapped in there for at least 10-minutes, I thought I would never get out." The hedgehog said expressing his gratitude.
"No problem, you looked like you needed it," Sally replied.
"Yeah, I did again thank you." The hedgehog said as he walked off.
Sally walked back the way she came and used a crosswalk to get to the other side of the street and continued walking until she saw Tails.
"Hey, Tails Fancy seeing you here." She greeted him.
"Oh hey Sally, how you been?" Tails greeted.
"Who's your friend?" Sally wondered.
"Right you weren't there when we introduced him to everyone." Tails remembered.
"Sally this is Robert. Robert this is my friend Sally." Tails introduced them.
"It's a pleasure to meet you, Sally." Robert greeted.
"Nice to meet you too," Sally replied.
"I'll tell you more about Robert later. Why don't you join us if you're not busy." Tails suggested.
"Sure I was just walking around aimlessly anyways," Sally responded accepting the invitation.
Back with Sonic and Amy.
"That's why you took so long to respond," Sonic replied.
Amy told him how she almost choked to death at the cafe earlier.
"Yeah kinda embarrassing," Amy said.
"Don't worry about it. I would be surprised, if someone who acted the way I did toward you, messaged me out of the blue," Sonic replied.
"Well, it was nice of that guy to buy you a new shirt after messing up your other one," Sonic commented.
"Yeah but he, really didn't need to," Amy responded.
Over on a nearby roof, someone is looking down at Sonic and Amy through a scope of a laser rifle.
"Got you now you pesky hedgehog." A male voice said as he aimed at them.
Back down on the ground, Amy pulled out a compact mirror.
"Amy I'm telling you there is nothing in your hair..." Sonic groaned.
In the corner of Sonic's eye, he saw something on one of the roofs in the reflection of the mirror.
Before he could figure out what it was, Amy had finished fixing her hair and closed the mirror, right after that a laser blast hit the ground near them.
"What the?!" Sonic exclaimed.
Everyone nearby panicked and took cover.
Sonic ran to the roof he that he saw in the reflection.
Sonic busted through the door, on the other side was a red hedgehog surprised by Sonic's sudden appearance.
"YOU!" They both exclaimed.
Things are developing interestingly.
A/N: The blue hedgehog that Dax follows in this chapter is obviously not Sonic, but there is a connection to him which will be more obvious how in later chapters.
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