Request: Sequel to 'I'll show you guys young!'
(A/N: Sorry for the delay! -.-)
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"This is all your fault!" Sticks yelled angrily at Amy, who ran in front of her. Okay, more like sprinting like the village was burning, but running works too.
"My fault!?" Amy screeched back. "It was Sonic who had to go and leave and-!"
"I DON'T CARE!" Sticks screamed back at her. "Tails the monster is still chasing us and it's YOUR FAULT!"
"Isn't anything MY fault?!" Knuckles chimed in. Two pairs of angry eyes snapped over to him, and the girls shouted in unison 'NO!'. Then they turned back forwards, concentrating on moving their feet. The village was approaching rapidly, and Amy was just hoping they could hide there without causing too much of a ruckus.
"Come on!" Amy shouted, and they ran into the village. Not a soul was too be seen, but leaves were dancing all over the place thanks to the wind. Amy led them into the deserted marketplace, were they then stopped. Amy didn't know where to go, and besides-
-they were too out of breath to do anything right now.
Sticks' eyes scanned the place as she slumped down onto the ground, breathing like she had run all way through the jungle just for the hell of it. Knuckles just fell down dramatically, like he had gotten shot in a movie. Amy just put her hands on her knees, leaning over while taking deep, deep breaths…
…And something howled. Or rather, someone.
Three pairs of eyes snapped over to a certain stand, on which a certain fox stood. Or well, what had recently been a fox, that is…
Ears in a colour of autumn leaves at night was turned back, pressed against his head. Blue eyes shimmered like lakes under the moon, looking down at them. Two grey-ish tails patted against the wood under him, as he stood there, on all fours like wolf under the moon.
Amy slowly realised it had not been a good idea to piss him off. At all.
She took out her hammer, getting into a defensive stance. She tried to ignore how her lungs still craved more air, and looked at Tails. Who glared back, before jumping down from the stand. Sticks' boomerang whizzed through the air, and Knuckles clenched his fists. And then all hell broke loose…
Tails lunged.
Sticks threw her weapon.
Knuckles jumped forward.
Amy charged.
A flash of grey, and Knuckles was flying backwards. Sticks' boomerang slammed onto Tails' head with precision, and then she was wiped off her feet. Knuckles jumped back up, and Amy slammed her hammer down where Tails had had an arm, or was it a leg?
-And then her hammer was taken from her, and snapped in half.
Snapped. In. Half.
Amy stared. Tails glared. Sticks' boomerang flew past, and Tails caught it in the air. Literally just… caught it. Mid-flight. And he broke it.
"I've got this!" Knuckles suddenly calls, and Amy just stares. Tails broke her hammer, so know she just… just…
The echidna charged forward, Tails whipped around, and then his arms like stretched and- and-
-And Knuckles went flying straight into a stack of watermelons.
Team Rose was officially beaten.
"Please Tails, I can explain-!" Amy tried, begged, to the fox. Sticks and Knuckles looked apologetic too, even though… Okay, maybe it was Amy's fault after all. Maybe.
"Explain what?" Tails interrupted her coldly, his eyes like ice. "Explain how you talk behind my back? How you laugh at my inventions?" His eyes saddened. "H-how you never even give me a c-chance to prove what I'm worth!?"
Amy looked away, face seemingly burning with shame. She didn't think, she didn't…
"You know what?" Tails suddenly stated. Amy looked at him, and so did Sticks and Knuckles.
"I've had enough." Tails stated simply, getting back up on his feet much too swift for a creature that large. They had all sat down to talk, but now, when standing, he practically loomed over the others. "You guys have had this…"
Tails rubbed his hands together, and Amy's heart took an extra turn somewhere cold as she saw his claws. They glistened in the moonlight, and… oh Lyric how could he have claws like literal Japanese cooking knives?
…"Tails?"
They all abruptly glanced over at the owner of the sudden question, who had emerged from a house somewhere. She stepped into the marketplace, and Amy recognised her as Zooey, the girl Tails used to hang out with. Her golden hair was ruffled like she had been sleeping, and she looked at Tails with careful eyes.
Not careful like she afraid of him, no, but careful and… tender. Like she didn't want to hurt him.
"…Zooey?" He asked, voice noticeably softer.
She took a step forward, and then another. She glanced briefly at Amy and the others, brows furrowing in thought. "Tails." She said again, looking into said fox's sapphires. Tails looked back, looking at her like she was the sun albeit he was slightly confused and still very sad and angry.
"…They're your friends." She then said softly. Amy held her breath.
"Even though you're angry now, but… You will regret this later, trust me." Zooey still held eye-contact with Tails, and then she said, quietly, "Sonic wouldn't do this. You wouldn't do this either." She glanced down. "Tails…"
Said fox sighed. And sighed again. Then he sat down, and Amy just stared. She wasn't sure if she should feel relieved, or happy for him and Zooey, or angry at him for breaking her hammer-!
Tails sighed a third time, and then he muttered, "You're right."
"And…" He glanced down. "I'm sorry you guys…"
Sorry? Wait, he was apologising?! Amy's brain then kind of went into auto-pilot, and she blurted out, "I'm too."
She breathed. "I…"
Didn't realise how you felt.
Couldn't see behind your happy façade.
Acted like a total asshole.
"…am so sorry." She looked down. They had really been horrible to him in the past…
Sticks then said, "Boy, next time, just tell us before something like this happens!" Knuckles nodded with a remorseful expression. Zooey smiled slightly at this, and turned to Tails. She offered him her hand, but he stood up on his own, as she probably couldn't support his weight anyway.
"Thanks…" He whispered. Zooey smiled, and her eyes could light up the whole village in the darkest of nights. She leaned closer, her lips brushing against his in a fleeting kiss. And he howled at the moon, and she giggled…
