Don't mind me. Just another writer, making another story while I have other stories I promised to finish years ago. Nothing to see here.


Sonic was feeling a variety of emotions. His tenure as a 30-year-old man had only lasted two days yet it was more eventful that the last decade of his life. His birthday was on a Monday. Usually, Amy would be nagging at him to get out of bed early to start work but since it today was a special occasion, she bit her tongue. Amy was uncharacteristically calm and cheery. Sonic guessed it was because almost all their friends were able to take a couple hours out of their busy lives to see the domesticated couple. Sonic's party was nostalgic. It was like he was celebrating his 16th birthday all over again. His friends weren't kidnapped from halfway through. Everyone together in room, happy, laughing and forgetting their mundane lives for a while.

Sonic was especially glad to see Tails again since he seemed to work 24/7. Even when Cream was attentive enough to order lunch for the fox, which Sonic delivered, every time he saw him, it looked like the life had been drained out of him. Sonic related to that more than he should have. Tails initially seemed to land his dream job working at a computer company in Grand Metropolis to help to develop clean energy. Although a minor at the time, the company offered him an internship working in administration team with the promise of a fast track to move into engineering once he was old enough. 5 years later, Tails was still hanging on to those words and working as a drone. It didn't help that his boss insisted on calling him 'Miles'. At least Cream and Cheese were there to help make the work bearable.

Sonic sighed. He felt bad for Tails, more so himself. All of his friends seemed go down a strange path. Knuckles became a recluse, never wanting to leave the comfort of his island. The Chaotix disbanded, stopping their perpetual poverty of self-employment with Vector joining the local police force while Espio went back to his roots and continued his ninja training. Only Charmy wanted to keep the team alive to no avail. Rouge, still worked for G.U.N. but to shock of everyone, she expressed her desire to stop stealing. Her only motivation being 'I have all the treasure I need'. And Shadow. Sonic hadn't seen him in years, not even Rouge knew where he was after he quit G.U.N.. Knowing Shadow, he would probably be on his motorcycle, traveling in solitude, seeing the world Maria dreamed of so much.

Eggman ironically was the glue that connected that connected all his friends together. Ever since Eggman fell ill to his own ageing years ago, everyone went their separate ways. Of course, Sonic was glad to have the mad doctor stop his reign of terror of his world, yet a part of his missed him. The hedgehog always found it amusing that he and his sworn enemy shared the same birthday. Their years of fighting, granted them a bond that not even Tails or Amy had with him. So, when Eggman attacked the city in the middle of his delivery run, it felt like old times. For the two of them, their age had caused the demise of their freedom, and sanity in Eggman's case. Sonic felt like a hero for the first time in years. A hero who was more liable to pull a muscle, but he didn't care, especially not over the sounds of girls cheering and cooing over him. It reminded him of how Amy used to...

'OH GOD AMY!'. The thought of this wife brought him back into reality. It was Tuesday. His birthday was now a lifetime away. It was back to normalcy. Back to work. Back to domestic bliss.

"Sonic! Are you even listening to me?!" She stopped cutting the vegetables she was preparing for dinner. Amy, dressed in her pink dress and homely apron, stabbed the knife in to the cutting board, a sight scarier than any Eggman robot Sonic had encountered. Sonic was sat on the couch in the room adjacent to the kitchen. Bottles of alcohol and pizza boxes were littered on the floor. Sonic never liked the taste of beer, but the affect it had on him was welcomed. Amy naturally hated the mess, but tolerated it since the free food was a perk of his job and saved them money.

"Amy, I said I was sorry, can't we drop this."

"Oh yeah, I'm sooo sorry for slacking off at work to fight a defenceless old man and flirt with women half my age."

"Eggman still has his mechs-"

"So, you don't deny the flirting?"

"I AM denying it." He took a sip of Chao in Space VI themed beer. "I could flirt with anyone I wanted to," he admitted absentminded, not aware of Amy's anger boiling over. "But I didn't." He kept drinking, ignoring her.

"Because girls these days like fawning over washed up hero who can't even afford to feed his family without kicking him in backside! I am sorry you're forced to be married to ugly hag."

Sonic smiled. The alcohol numbed usual effects of Amy's words and hysterics. Every other day, his wife would start ranting about something or other. When they were younger, Amy lectured that this behaviour would give a person frown lines and age you. While she clearly didn't listen to her own advice, Amy looked great considering she was entering her thirties soon, although her choice of housewife chic aged her which Sonic found unflattering. Amy was now in his face. She muted the TV, stopping him from watching the movie Hollywood made about him as few years back.

Amy was furious, more than usual, yet Sonic didn't care. Sonic wasn't sure if was the fight with Eggman yesterday or the alcohol that emboldened him, but his brain didn't filter what he said next.

"You look so hot when you're angry," he said with his trademark smirk, the one only years ago would make his wife melt at the sight of it. Now it only enraged her.

"WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU!" Her hand was itching to summon her hammer. "I don't know if Eggman hit you on the head or something, but whatever sense he knocked out of you needs to stop."

Her Piko Piko Hammer materialised. Since Eggman stopped attacking, she only used in emergencies, or when Sonic needed some extra motivation to work. Sonic, now out of his drunken stupor, flinched. Amy remembered that she had promised to control her temper. Sonic's fearful expression humbled her. Before she knew it, she had tears coming out of her eyes and dropped her hammer.

"I'm a terrible wife."

"No, you're not." Sonic tried to consoled her. "Yes, I am. Why did you marry me, Sonic the Hedgehog?" Amy took a seat next to Sonic on the couch, internally trying not to scold Sonic for not cleaning his crumbs again.

"I thought yesterday would be a turning point. That when you turned 30, you'd wake up and say Amy, y'know what?, I'm gonna' grow up. I'm gonna' get a better job and then I want start have five kids with you. But then during the party, you so looked so happy, talking about the old days. And now today, the bills are still overdue, Eggman attacks and you're going off galivanting like you're 15 again."

"I was trying to help."

"The police can deal with Egghead without us, he's not a threat anymore."

Amy wiped her tears and used her apron to clean the cheese off his mouth. "I'll clean up and I'll cook dinner tomorrow. You can finish watching your movie, just don't say up too late."

"Wait!" It was only a little graze, but Sonic didn't want it to end. He took his hand over hers and kept it on his cheek. "Amy... What happened to us?"

"What do you mean?"

"Y'know Amy."

"When was the last time we held each other like this," he asked.

Amy stuttered, but couldn't come up with an answer. "When we got married you would kiss me every hour, hug me at every opportunity, cook chili dogs every Sunday and I'd get you a rose after every run and you would plant them back in the garden."

Amy couldn't respond. She cried again, although this time silently. Sonic wiped her tears. "Even though I hate seeing you upset..." He turned to whisper in her ear. "I do love it when you're angry."

Amy blushed and experienced a rush of energy that she hadn't felt in years. She tried not to release a giggle but she couldn't hide it. "Sonic," she said in faux anger.

"As much I'd love you to be the perfect husband. A part of me does miss the adventurous side of you." Amy shrieked as Sonic hopped flawlessly on to the coffee table and held out his hand to her.

"Then let's go!"

"Go? Go where?"

"Anywhere!"

"But we can't just go!" she replied, incredulous he would make such as sudden decision.

"Why not? We haven't been on vacation since our honeymoon, and you always complain I don't treat you."

"Well for one, the house isn't-", Sonic finally made use of his supersonic speed and cleaned the house of all its trash. 'And she says I'm a terrible househusband.' Sonic joked.

"Well, okay, but," she paused, the house was cleaner than when they first moved in.

"What about the bills? We don't have the money to go on vacation."

Sonic was barely listening. He ran through the house, collecting their belongings (mostly Amy's clothes) and stuffed them into a suitcase. The hedgehog was used to packing light, at most a backpack, but he knew Amy like to be prepared for anything.

"Then sell the house." He yelled from upstairs.

"Sonic! Are you insane?!"

"Why not, then you don't have to clean it or pay to keep the lights on anymore." Amy was feeling a mixture of confusion and fright. Outside of being a delivery boy, she hadn't seen Sonic be this active in years, the beer belly he'd developed was proof of that. She hadn't seen that spark in his eye either for so long.

Sonic retuned downstairs with a red backpack hanging off one shoulder, his smartphone in one hand, and Amy's hot pink suitcase in the other.

"Sonic! -" Her husband dismissively shushed her while he made a phone call. "Yo, Tails..." She couldn't hear the fox on the other end but she could sense annoyance at the late-night call. Sonic put him on speaker.

"Yeah, yeah, I know you're working the late shift, but I need a massive favour. I need Cream to housesit while Amy and I are gone, and you need to deliver Amy's suitcase to our hotel in Spagonia via air mail by Thursday at the latest."

"ARE YOU INSANE?!" Tails yelled though the phone, hurting Sonic's ears. Amy was just glad that she wasn't hallucinating Sonic's sudden midlife crisis.

The best friends argued back and forth until Sonic broke a deal, "Bro, if you do this for me, you'll never have to work a desk again. I owe you remember." To Amy's surprise, that seemingly shallow promise made the fox agree.

"Ok, but give me until Friday, I haven't had time to repair the Tornado II in ages. I never need to use it anymore"

"Then take the One."

"Sonic, you know we sold that to help you pay the bil-"

"Alright, see you this weekend." Sonic hung up nervously and looked at Amy, she started to cry again. 'Crap, she heard.'

"Tails sold your plane for us."

"He didn't. I asked him to." He admitted embarrassingly. "I knew money was tight and I didn't like you being so stressed out at the time, so I thought I would just put some stuff up for auction. Lots of merchandise of me exists and like an idiot I never accepted a cut of the profits."

Sonic sighed. "But then I got sentimental and wasn't willing to let a lot go, so I went to Tails and asked what the most valuable thing I had was. At first, we joked about stealing the Master Emerald, then Tails seriously offered up the Tornado. I said no, but he wouldn't have it."

"Oh Sonic! I'm so sorry. I've been calling you a deadbeat and you've been willing to sell your prized possessions." She hugged him so tightly Sonic couldn't breathe. "You're so kind even when I'm mad at you. Even when I start throwing my hammer you still come back to me. I love you."

Amy looked up at him with those star-studded jade eyes and slowly leaned in to kiss him on the cheek which he accepted. He smiled. The spark was back.

At the corner of eye, he looked at his phone notifications and smirked so loud Amy was about questioned it.

"You're going to love me even more when I tell you how much the Tornado sold at auction."

"Oh, how much?"

"Five Hundred Thousand rings."


I've been sitting on this idea since June and I wrote this all in an afternoon, so I'll probably edit this later. Sorry I go on perpetual hiatuses every 6 months.

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