Chapter 6: Biker Bar Mayhem

Realizing where Sonic and Eve have gone off to, Tom walks inside a biker bar called the Piston Pit. He searches around for the two hedgehogs as he sees a man riding on a mechanical bull, people cheering, drinking, and gambling, etc. Tom soon notices two small and walks over. One of them is wearing a beige cowboy hat, sunglasses, and a red shirt. The other is wearing a black hat with her quills tied by a red hairband, a dark blue, red, and black shirt, and red bandana around her neck. Tom then taps one of them on the back, and the figure turns around to be Sonic, and the other is Eve.

Sonic tips the hat and says, "Howdy, partner!"

"I'm not your partner. Come on. We're leaving," Tom says.

But Sonic refuses, "But there's a ZZ Top cover band. You gotta see their beards."

"You're gonna have to catch 'em some other time. Let's go! Get up!" Tom says.

But Sonic says, "If we stay, I promise I won't say another word for the rest of the trip, starting… now!"

Eve mutters, "That won't last very long.

Then turns to Tom, "So how was the call go?"

"Well…" Tom begins to answer.

But a waitress walks up to them and asks, "Welcome to the Piston Pit. What can I get you fellas?"

Sonic quickly answers, "Ooh! I want nachos and buffalo wings. Oh, and guac. Funny word isn't it? Guac, guac! Guuaaac!"

"I knew it," Eve replies, rolling her eyes.

Seeing the two hedgehogs, the waitress says, "Hey, no kids allowed in here."

Then questions, "What's they got on, some kind of mask?"

Tom quickly answers, "Oh! They, they're actually 43 years old and suffer from a very rare skin disease that stunts their growth and makes them look… like-like that."

But Sonic says, "The face, I was born with. The confidence, I picked up along the way."

"Sonic…" Eve calmly says, rolling her eyes.

The waitress simply smiles.

Then Tom turns to the waitress, "Make theirs a Mello Yellow, please."

"Okay," The waitress replies and walks away.

Tom places his hat on the table and sits down, "You owe me one."

"I never sat on a barstool before! So squishy! Oh, look at this, it spins!" Sonic says, excited and spins on the bar stool.

He shouts, "Whoa, whoa, whoa!"

"Yes. That's nice," Tom replies.

Eve chuckles, "Oh Sonic.

"Whaa-ha-ha-ha!" Sonic yells, and then stops spinning, "I feel sick."

Then Tom asks, "Are you having fun? Gonna check this off the ol' bucket list, huh? Big night for you."

"A bucket list?" Eve asks, confused.

Then Sonic asks, "What's a bucket list?"

Tom sighs and explains, "A bucket list is, uh, it's a list of things you want to do in your life before you, well, kick the bucket."

Sonic seems excited, "I've never kicked a bucket either! Oh, I gotta make my list!"

Then turns to Eve, "Hey sis, you should start one too."

"Um sure. I have a few things I like to do too," Eve answers.

Sonic then speeds off, grabs two pens, and pads, and comes back to the table.

Sonic then passes a pen and pad to Eve, "Here you go."

"Thank," Eve says.

Sonic is excited, "Uh-huh! Mm-hmm! Oh, Sonic! Ha-ha! Uh-huh!" He tries to write, but stops and lets out a frown.

Tom notices the hedgehog's concern and asks, "What? What's the matter?"

"There's so much stuff we've never done. And now that we're leaving Earth forever, I guess we missed my chance," Sonic sadly says.

"Yeah. There's still so much that Sonic and I haven't done, and now we'll have to leave here forever," Eve says.

Tom looks around and says, "Well, I guess this is the kind of place you could get a lot of living done in a short period of time. I suppose we can spare an hour."

"What? You're gonna bucket list with me?!" Sonic asks, surprised.

"Can we really?" Eve asks.

"Sure, why not?" Tom replies.

"You won't regret this!" Sonic says.

But Tom mutters, "Oh, I'm pretty sure I will."

"Oh Tom," Eve replies.

And with that, Sonic, Eve, and Tom begin to have some fun.

They first start by dancing on the dance floor with some of the patrons.

Then, they place darts. Tom throws a dart and gets a bullseye. Sonic then picks up a bucket of darts, and rapid-fires them. He ends up missing the board completely, but punctures the waitress' hat and beer cans she's holding on a plate. Eve rolls her eyes and takes out the darts in each hand. With that, Eve throws the darts from her hands and all six darts are at the bullseye. Sonic then crosses 'compete in a sport.' off his bucket list.

After that, Tom, Eve, and Sonic are playing basketball. Tom takes a shot, and then Eve takes a shot. Tom then grabs another ball that seems more spiky and furry. He throws it to the shot and scores a slam dunk, but the ball reveals to be Sonic. He sits on the hop and uses his fast legs to build up the high score.

Sonic laughs, "Ha-ha! New high score!"

Eve laughs with a grin on her face.

Sonic then crosses, 'Do a SLAM DUNK' off his list.

The three soon begin dancing again.

"Yippee-ki-yay! Ah-ha!" Sonic cheers.

Soon, Sonic is riding a mechanical bull.

Sonic asks, "Wait a second, is this bull missing a head, or does it have two butts?"

Tonic mockingly yawns from seeing Sonic riding the bull, even Eve is looking a bit bored.

"This is easy!" Sonic says.

Tom then decides to turn up the speed for the mechanical bull by inserting a quarter into the machine, and taps the button on the highest speed. Soon, Tom and Eve begin laughing as they watch Sonic holding on to the bull and being thrown around.

Sonic screams, "Yee-haw! I'm a cowboy, baby!"

Then gets thrown off the bull. Sonic then quickly gets back onto it like nothing happened.

Then calls out, "I'm okay!"

Eve laughs with a smile on her face.

Then Sonic crosses "Tame a wild animal" off his bucket list.

And the three dance again but Sonic accidentally bumps into a female patron.

Tom cheers, "Whoo, yeah!"

But the female patron throws her drink in Tom's face, thinking it was him who slapped her bottom. Afterwards, Tom is drying up while Sonic and Eve are laughing at Tom's plight.

"Yeah, yeah, laugh it up," Tom replies.

"Nice work, Romeo!" Sonic says.

"Yeah. Nice job," Eve says.

Tom sarcastically laughs, "Glad you're having a good time."

"WE ARE having a good time!" Sonic says.

"Yeah. We're having the best time," Eve says.

"Yeah. I mean, what could go wrong?" Sonic questions.

Suddenly, a group of mean-looking patrons approach the three from behind the hedgehogs.

Tom asks, "Uh, heh, can we help you?""

"We don't like your kind around here," The thug says.

"'Our kind' What kind is that?" Sonic asks.

"Hipsters," The thug answers.

Eve glares at him with narrow eyes, "Hipsters?!"

Sonic gasps, "How dare you."

But Tom quickly says, "Hey, you know what? We were just leaving anyway. Weren't we? There's not a problem here."

"No, no, no, it's okay," Eve angrily says.

Tom says, "No, no, no, we're leaving."

"I know exactly how to handle this situation," Sonic says.

He grabs a beer, bottle, stands up, clears his throat, and questions, "Pop quiz, hotshot. You just picked a fight with a poorly disguised hedgehog who's seen way too many action movies. What do you do? What do you do? Ha!"

He jumps up and tries to smash the bottle over the guy's head, but nothing happens.

Sonic looks at the bottle, "Huh? Am I crazy? It's supposed to break, right?"

Sonic then tries hitting the thug on the head numerous times, and his speed increases, "Dink! Dink, dink! Break, please. Break, please. Break this bottle, please. Please, please, please, please, please!

Tom walks up, ""Uh, Sonic?"

The guy then raises his fist.

"Uh-oh!" Sonic yelps and quickly ducks the guy's punch.

But Eve doesn't, instead, she grabs the guy's fist with her hand. Then, Eve punches him in the face, knocking his buddies down.

Then the thug angrily gets up and says, "Why you little…?"

The thug tries to punch Eve again, but Eve dodges, and the thug ends up punching Tom in the face. He topples into a few patrons. One of the patrons punches another in the face. That sparks up into a full scale brawl. Tom ends up punching two brawlers, and dodges the third. Two of the thug's buddies try to attack Eve, but she kicks one in the face and punches one in the stomach.

Sonic laughs, "Ho-hoo! Ho-ho-ho!"

Tom sarcastically says. "Nice going!"

"Thanks! It's awesome, right?" Sonic says.

Then adds, "Plus, Eve punched the guy first."

"Well, you're the one who tried to hit the guy with a bottle, and he tried to punch you," Tom says.

"Still, this is awesome!" Sonic says.

Then is ready to fight, "All right, who's next? Who wants some? Who do I get to beat up?"

However, Tom and Eve are still busy trying to fight the patrons in the building.

Then, begins to ask, "Hey! Has anybody seen my waitress? Still waiting on those buffalo wings."

He soon sees the thug from earlier, cracking his knuckles.

Sonic growls and says, "Why, you!

Sonic then jumps up, and punches the thug in the face rapidly and in slow motion and over his head. Then lands on the ground.

"Ha-ha!" Sonic shouts and blows his fists.

The thug then turns around and growls aggressively.

Eve notices this and shouts, "Sonic, behind you!"

Sonic turns around and says, "Uh-oh!"

The thug then runs to tackle the two hedgehogs, but suddenly, time seems to have frozen in place as both hedgehogs' awareness is increased tenfold.

"Really?" Sonic questions.

Eve turns to Sonic, "Ready to show them how we do things?"

"We sure are," Sonic says.

And with that, Sonic and Eve speed off, leaving the clothes and accessories behind. The two hedgehogs run across the bar as food flies and drinks spilling hang in the air. Sonic then grabs the phone and takes a selfie. Sonic and Eve continue to run, and Sonic runs into a flying boot. They soon see Tom about to be punched by two guys. Seeing Tom in trouble, the two hedgehogs act fast. Sonic pulls down the beanie over the eyes of one guy, then stretches the underwear of the other and hooks it over a cast harpy eagle. Then Eve pushes Tom out of harm's way and into the bar. Sonic then runs to the edge of the bar where a dozen chillidogs hang in midair. Sonic then scarfs down most of them, and belches. He then passes the last chili dog to Eve. Eve takes it and eats the chili dog as well. Sonic then grabs two burning sparklers from the waitress' tray.

Sonic runs to a woman who has two men in a headlock. Then he covers their heads with mustard and ketchup. Then sticks the sparklers in the woman's ears. Eve then wraps two fighters from head to toe with toilet paper. Then, Sonic then weaves a long string of flags through the rest of the battle patrons, including two women with caps and bear bottles. Sonic continues to speed until he is on top of the ceiling and lasso the end of the flags to a ceiling fan. Eve then decides to run up the wall and pulls off the mounted gear's head. She carries the head as she leaps from one person to another until she places the mounted bear head on the guy's head. Sonic and Eve then put their disguises on as they hang from midair. Sonic then grabs a napkin and holds it up like a matador.

Soon, everything returns to normal speed and everyone gets neutralized by the hedgehog's tricks, but most of them are Sonic's ideas. Sonic and Eve move out of the way as the thug charges at them.

Sonic shouts, "Olé!"

Blinded by the bear head, the charging thug crashes through the window, breaking it and falling out. Tom also moves in normal motion, and notices that he's the only one who isn't hurt by the brawl. Then turns to see one guy wrapped like a mummy fall to the ground. Sonic and Eve slide alongside Tom at the bar.

"Well that was very eventful," Eve says.

Then Sonic asks, "So, should we get out of here?"

"Yeah, time to go!" Tom says.

And with that, Tom, Sonic, and Eve rush out of the Piston Pit and make a beeline for the truck.

"Ha-ha-ha! That was amazing!" Sonic laughs with glee.

Then Sonic takes off his disguise and says, "Wait a second, did we even pay our tab? It doesn't matteeer!"

"Watch this, watch this! I always wanted to do this!" Sonic speed ahead with excitement.

He jumps and slides across the hood of Tom's truck in slow motion, barely noticing the fast hood earlier, and he slides into the truck.

"Ooh-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!" Sonic laughs.

Eve runs to the van, and grabs the tray of food and enters the var.

One of the patrons sees them and shouts, "Get 'em!"

Sonic waves, "See ya, suckers!"

"See ya later, losers!" Eve valls out.

Then Tom drives the van away as the bar patrons chase after them.

"I can't say for sure, but I think they liked me," Sonic says.

The bar patron shouts, "Come on! Don't let 'em get away!"

Soon, Tom drives the truck far away from the patrons, and they begin celebrating their victory with laughter.

"Yes!" Sonic cheers.

Tom cheers, "Yeah!"

"Yes!" Eve cheers.

"Ouch!" Tom yelps and holds the side of his face.

"He got you pretty good!" Sonic says.

"I'm all right. I've been hit harder," Tom says.

Then turns to Eve, "I'm surprised that you're able to punch that guy hard."

"I worked out a lot, and there's a lot you don't know about me," Eve says.

She grins and asks, "Did you see how much toilet paper I used?!"

"Yeah! The next person that goes into that bathroom will have nothing to wipe with!" Sonic says.

Sometime later down the road, Sonic, Eve, and Tom are in a hotel.

"The floors were sticky. The crowd was rough," Sonic says.

He jumps excitedly on the bed, while Eve places some ice in a towel.

She then hands it to Tom, "Here you go. Something for that punch you got."

"Thank Eve," Tom says, and places it on his cheek.

Then Eve gathers two more towels and places ice on it. Tom takes one, and Eve takes the other.

Sonic continues, "And the odds were against us. But there was no stopping Donut Lord and the Blue, and Black and Red Blurs! Scratch another one off my list."

Tom sits on one bed as Sonic and Eve sits on another.

Then Sonic crosses 'Start a bar fight' on the light." on his list.

Seeing this, Eve questions, "You really wanted to start a bar fight?"

"Sure did," Sonic says.

"You are both weird little dudes," Tom says.

Tom then hands Sonic a makeshift ice pack. Sonic then takes it and begins to imitate Tom as he tends to his bruise. However, Tom notices it and starts to get annoyed.

"Okay," Tom says, and removes the ice pack.

Then Sonic asks, "So, what are we gonna do now?!"

"I'm gonna pass out watching TV. I think you should too," Tom says.

"But this is my last night on Earth! I want to soak up every last second!" Sonic says.

"Yeah. It sounds really boring," Eve says.

Still tending his bruise, Tom says, "All right, anything you can find to do in this room, you knock yourself out."

And with that, Sonic looks around and zips all over the room, doing practically everything that catches his attention. a self-pillow fight, ripping out tissues, teetering over a light, opening and closing a drawer from the inside, channel surfing, spinning a painting wildly, flushing the toilet, and slipping with a broom. Finally, he finishes up with a shower and comes back to the bed wearing towels on his head and body, and slippers on his feet.

"Good times," Sonic says.

Then Sonic lets out a flatulent sound.

Tom becomes more annoyed, "Oh, come on."

Tom and Eve then wave their hands for air.

"Sonic, that gross!" Eve says.

Tom agrees, That's awful. What did you eat?" And lies down in bed

"I think it's called a… chili dog?" Sonic says.

"You might want to check your fur on that one, buddy," Tom says.

"Yeah," Eve says.

She then walks away and says, "I'm going to go wash myself."

Eve then walks to the restroom and closes the door.

Then Tom asks, "Hey, so, what's this next planet you're supposed to go to like?"

"It's no Earth, I can tell you that. There's no people, just breathable air and giant mushrooms and stuff," Sonic says, shrugging his shoulders.

"Well, look at it this way; at least you won't be the only 'fun-guy.'" Tom says.

"No. Don't ever do that again," Sonic says.

Tom chuckles and says, "I liked it."

Sonic looks around and says, "I'm really gonna miss this place. I know I have to leave Earth to be safe, but what if Longclaw was wrong? Maybe I could have a life here."

Tom then thinks about what Sonic says.

He then asks, "What about Eve? I mean, you've been together practically your entire life, especially since she's your sister."

"Yeah. Even though we think of each other as siblings," Sonic says.

"What does that mean?" Tom asks.

"I'm not really Sonic's sister," Eve's voice speaks up.

They turn to see Eve has already been cleaned up and wears the towel around herself.

Curious, Tom asks, "So you two aren't siblings?

"Not really. We both are very close and think of each other as brother and sister. We met each other when we were little and we've been together ever since," Eve says.

"But don't you both have a family?" Tom asks, curious.

Sonic sadly sighs, "No. Well, I don't anymore, not since I came here."

"And I don't remember mine at all, nor do I even have one. I was found in some capsule when it crashed to earth," Eve says as he walks to the other side of the bed Sonic is sitting and lies down.

"I see," Tom says.

Then Tom says, "All right. We should get some sleep."

"You sleep. Don't worry about me. I'm gonna stay up all night enjoying Earth while I can!" Sonic says.

"Sure, kids. As long as we're on the road by 8:00," Tom says.

Tom then turns off the light and looks to see Sonic and Eve are sleeping peacefully.

Sonic mumbles in his sleep, "I had a chili dog. That's why my farts smell…"

Tom then tucks both the hedgehogs in and notices both their bucket lists. Tom sees that everything in the list is crossed. Sonic has all but one crossed off his lift, 'Make a real friend.' Then Eve has the same thing: 'Make a real friend' but also 'Find birth family.' This makes Tom a little concerned, especially for Eve. Even though she is glad to have Sonic, she still wishes to know her birth family.

His troubles worsen when he hears a news report on T.V.

The newscaster says, "Thomas Wachowski, accused of committing an act of domestic terrorism. Wachowski is considered armed and dangerous. Any information regarding his whereabouts should be reported to local authorities immediately."