Marine & Sticks: Buddies
Requested by Missplayer30
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Amy, like all of Blaze and Marine's other friends, went straight toward Sonic's place when he messaged on the group-chat that Blaze was visiting. And that she had brought Marine. Marine, who Amy had befriended only a couple months ago, and who was cheerful and carefree and adventurous and actually very, very, almost eerily similar to Sticks – another one of Amy's dimension-hopping friends. They even looked alike…
Amy wasted no time mentioning it to Sticks, and her response: "She acts like me? What sort of conspiracy is this-"
"She's a raccoon sailor."
"…You call that similar to me?" A flat stare. "I'm a jungle-badger!"
"I know, Sticks…" And then Amy had decided, "You're coming with me to meet her!"
Bursting through Sonic's apartment door, however, Amy was nearly having second thoughts. What if… Sticks and Marine wouldn't like each other? Wacky Sticks and stubborn Marine disliking each other? Was Amy going to have to talk things out with them and try to patch up bleeding noses? –was that a boomerang Sticks was carrying?
So, they burst inside the apartment. Sonic, Blaze, Tails, Knuckles, were all scattered throughout the room, glancing up when the girls came running. Blaze waved, Sonic smiled, Sticks stopped to look suspiciously, Amy halted to wave excitedly at Sonic- and then Marine jumped out from another room, beaming.
"Amy! Mate, it's good to- wait, who's that?"
Her excitement stopped abruptly, and she stared at Sticks – Sticks, staring back just as suspiciously with narrowed eyes. All conversations died of awkwardly in the background, the world zeroing in on Sticks and Marine, while Amy hesitantly stood on the side, do I have to say something-
"…Crikey, is that a boomerang? Awesome! By the way, are you a beaver? Your ears kinda-"
"I'm a badger!" Sticks interrupted, exclaiming loudly. "A jungle-badger! …And yes, it's a boomerang."
Marine's eyes glowed. "Can you show how it's thrown?"
And that's when everyone simultaneously ducked, since Sticks just whipped her weapon out and threw it, the boomerang flying in a wide arc across the whole room. Marine watched in gleeful awe, as Sticks then plucked the weapon out of the air with a smirk. "Whoa, whoa – that was amazing! Can you knock over that pot, mate?" –cue faint, 'No, Sticks' sounds from Amy-
-and a loud crash, when the pot broke against the floor…
Blaze 'suggested' that they should head outside and throw things at traffic signs instead. Amy ushered the badger and the raccoon out, the both of them having launched into excited chatter about boomerangs, government agents, robot-pirates, dimension-traveling, apocalypses and how to build rafts…
…and after the second destroyed window, Amy had managed to convince them to stop throwing the boomerang around. Amy kind of wanted to go back inside and hang out with Sonic and Blaze… but it was a delight to see Sticks and Marine befriending each other! Sticks, animated and grinning, explaining something with large hand motions- Marine, chattering and throwing her arms out to emphasise a point, pigtails bouncing.
"You know," Amy says, when she's close enough for them to hear. "I thought you two would be more bothered at how… similar you are."
"What? Why?" Marine cuts off mid-rant to ask Amy. "Sticks is cool. We're the bestest of mates now!"
"I don't have besties," denies Sticks, and Amy's confused- but then she grins evilly, and says, "We're partners in crime."
"Crew-mates!" agrees Marine. And turns to hug Sticks, one of those tight hugs when you're concerned your spine will break- and Amy just blinks, as Sticks and Marine pick up their discussion again, acting all best-friendly…
Maybe Amy shouldn't have had second thoughts after all.
A/N: did I send you the same PM twice? Oops…
Also, Forces Hype, am I right?
