Chaos: Updating again. Already. Mwah. You'd better all love me for this...ah, only joking. I got REVIEWS! (hiccup)
Sallytherabit - Well, I decided to continue. So sue me. (grin) You can write a separate version if you like, though.
Prince Izzy - Or just Izzy. Anyway, glad you like! I'm not sure about writing humor, but parody seems easy enough.
Kirbs - Have I freaked you out? Hahaha.
NM - Well, I only updated it last evening. (sweatdrop)
Toraneko - Thanks! I'll try to, but only if I think it's still funny.
Sonicrules - Now normally I ignore pleads for reviews but...your story is actually really good. (thumbs-up) Now shuttup and read! No offense. o.O
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Sonic was relaxing in a sun-lounger at the beach. After the freak-storm of about five minutes ago, it was suddenly sunny again, and everything was dry. Convenient...and Sonic intended to take full advantage of it.
Just at that moment (Isn't it always the way?) a sharp voice cut into his thought...ok, mindless dozing.
"Sonic! Sonic! I have to tell you something!"
Now any normal person would have thrown the nearest sharp object towards the speaker who dared to interrupt them. But not Sonic. No no - he was a hero, and expected to do the right thing.
He opted for his iced drink.
"Missed." the voice informed, and he sat up with a sigh, flipping up his sunglasses. The speaker - as he knew already, but you didn't, so I have to mention it - was Tails.
"What's up, Tails? Has Eggman concocted another plot to conquer the world, probably involving a large number of pointless stages and a couple of new characters?"
Tails looked confused as he tried to follow the conversation - Sonic was, naturally, a fast speaker.
"Uh...no?"
"Oh, ok." Sonic promptly lay down and flipped back his sunglasses, preparing to sleep again.
"Sonic!"
Sonic growled something in the back of his throat that wasn't suitable for the 'G' rating of this story, and opened one eye, wishing he had something else to throw. "Yes?"
Tails sighed, and resorted to an age-old tactic...
"Amy's coming."
Sonic was out of his chair so fast that he had time to retrieve his fallen drink and still grab his sunglasses before they hit the ground. He looked from side to side, noticing the absense of a hysterically screaming pink blur.
"I hate you."
"That's ok," Tails replied amiably, "But anyway. I have to tell you - Shadow's planning to kill you and take over the world."
There was a long silence not unsimilar to the one between Shadow and Rouge earlier.
"That's ridiculous. Everybody knows Shadow's a good guy now. Despite a touch of amnesia here or there..."
"No, seriously. He is."
"...no, I'm going to do the stupid thing and assume you're wrong." Sonic replied indifferently, casting a longing glance towards the sun lounger. Tails whacked him with a rolled-up newspaper he had bought on the way there.
What? Foxes like to be informed as well...
Anyway, Tails whacked him with the newspaper. "Sonic! Look, it's here in the news!" He unrolled the battered paper and held it up (Sonic's taller than him, you know) where there was a large black-and-white picture of Shadow.
Glaring in a very enviable manner, of course. Mmm...
The headlines screamed (well, not literally, though it would be cool if they did, hehe)
Hedgehog decides to kill Sonic!
The paper was, of course, the five minute news, so nobody read it anyway, as it was prone to change every five minutes. (duh)
Except for maybe a certain fox.
Sonic pondered this new revelation for a while, as Tails wondered if he could lower the paper, because his arms were hurting. Wouldn't yours? ...oh, nevermind...
"We-ell..." Sonic said finally, "I'm just going to have to assume the paper is wrong. I'm holding my faith in Shadow, despite the fact that he was evil before and bears a grudge against me because I'm better than him."
There was a short break while Tails absorbed this new speech.
Then he threw the newspaper at Sonic.
"Fine! Don't blame me when this happens!" he shouted childishly, quoting from the Sonic Anime movie, and stomped away to do god-knows-what in his workshop. As usual. Aaaaaaaw...
Sonic promptly went into a sulk. After about five minutes he pulled the newspaper off his face and threw it over his shoulder, before lying down on the sun lounger and going to sleep. Shadow, who had been creeping up behind him, was promptly flattened by the paper whirling towards his face.
See! Throw litter in the bin, kids!
"Aaaaargh!!" he yelled, swiping at it and losing a lot of face. Though it didn't matter because Sonic hadn't been watching - only about a hundred passers-by, and nobody cares about them. At least, not until afterwards. The secret power of the media!
Well, anyway...
Shadow scrambled up, pointing at Sonic, and yelled furiously, "You may have won this time, but I WILL BE BACK!!!" Then he stormed off to be moody and plot on his revenge. Before suddenly remembering that he needed to steal the Master Emerald in order to get the Chaos Emerald off of Rouge, thus gaining an unfair advantage over Sonic.
So he walked off in a pointlessly random direction to find Angel Island. (Or Floating Island. Whichever you prefer)
And Sonic, who hadn't noticed anything, of course, started snoring.
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Flower: Very quick update - I post as I write for this one. (wink) I think this may be getting a bit funnier. Anyone have opinions?
