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This half chapter won't be very long, okay. Just a heads up!
Anyway, I don't own sonic anything, at all, and I don't get along with lawyers, I called them names, they spilt my apple juice, long story! Oh, and I don't own American Pie, by Don Mclean, or the "for Dummies" books. Here is part two of chapter two of,
Shadow the Rock Star
Ch 2, part 2
Instruments and Imbeciles(Dummies)
"That's unbelievably selfish, even for you, Rouge," said Shadow, looking confused.
"Well I," began Rouge, trying to defend herself, but not before a loud voice interrupted her.
"Will everyone please report to the workshop A.S.A.P.?" It was Tails' voice on the loud speaker that had been installed in the workshop/house.
Rouge looked at Shadow and smiled and walked out of the kitchen, heading toward the workshop in another part of the house.
Sonic had been watching TV the whole time and when he heard the loud speaker he zoomed to the workshop, racing past Rouge who was knocked to the ground yelling,
"You just knocked a lady to the ground mister!" and flying after him. Shadow was still in the kitchen for a minute and he had just watched Rouge walk out and get knocked to the ground by Sonic. He snorted and said to himself,
"She deserved that," then he walked on his way, the picture of a calm, collected, and kewl black hedgehog, who couldn't wait to get his guitar (and he was all that) . He had been formulating plans to get the money and now he thought he had a really good one, it would work, not like the stupid lemonade stand idea.
It was a good thing that there was, by some amazing stroke of luck, a speaker for the loud speaker outside, where Knuckles had been sitting, sulking. He knew he was being immature, but he was too mad to care. He was sitting, facing the sunset, thinking about how wrong his day went, and why didn't they all just leave him alone? Then he was startled by the voice of Tails on the loud speaker and he jumped almost 8 feet in the air.
"Holy shit!" he yelled and started muttering to himself as he trudged off to the workshop.
When he got there everyone was there and waiting for him, he walked in, and stopped just inside the door, leaning on the door frame.
'I can hear fine from here,' he thought to himself, sullenly.
"Okay," Tails began, "I have been working on the instruments all of about one hour. And, I think (A/N-for time's sake, I'm impatient!) that I am done!"
There were murmurs from the rest of them, most of the murmurs were positive. Tails continued,
"First I analyzed what type and variety of players a band needs and then I assigned you each an instrument and built them." There were large lumpy sheets all clustered in the middle of the room and everyone strongly suspected what they concealed.
"Anyway," Tails continued again, "Well, I figured that Rouge could play the keyboard, and so I built a keyboard first!" He pulled the sheet off of a large iron maiden, a gigantic iron case with huge spikes inside used for medieval torture.
"Oops," Tails said, "Hee hee, um, I don't know where that came from. Really, I don't" his face was red and he covered it up and went to pull a sheet off something else. This was really a keyboard, and it was black and deep purple with an awesome techno shape and all sorts of sound mixing dials and buttons, that were hot pink.
"Ooo!" Rouge exclaimed, "Good job, fox-boy! I like it!" Everyone was in suspense, waiting for the next instrument to be unveiled.
"I'm not!" Shadow and Knuckles said.
'Okay whatever, liars; Sonic and Rouge were in suspense, ahem.'
Tails ignored the disembodied voice and said,
"Next I figured that any great band needs a drummer, so I assigned the position of drummer to Knuckles," Tails said, and with a flourish, he swiped the sheet of a crimson set of drums and cymbals. There were large drums and smaller ones, and the plastic stuff on each drum that was the part you hit had a picture of two large white gloved fists, crossed at the wrists.
Everyone knew Sonic was next and they wondered what his would look like. Tails crossed over to the last lumpy sheet.
"Sonic was the last left so I knew just what to do with him," Tails pulled the sheet off an electric guitar that was blue and gold, so intense and bright a gold that everyone blinked and thought,
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH! I'm blinded!"
"Sonic," Tails went on, "You will be playing bass guitar."
Sonic was silent for a moment while the white spots faded in his eyes, then looking, dumbfounded, at the wonderful guitar, the wonderful, bass, guitar.
"WHAT!" he exploded,
'Finally,' Shadow thought, 'He exploded yay!'
"Shut up," Sonic yelled, "I have to play BASS guitar, while Shadow is playing lead guitar, and getting all the glory! No way!"
"My god, Sonic, you're even more selfish than Rouge," said Shadow, "I started this band."
"Yeah," complained Sonic, "but who is the hero here?"
"Heroism has nothing to do with this, Sonic," Rouge said pointedly, "you are just selfish, and you can't have everything all the time!"
"Yes I can!" Sonic yelled, pouting like a child.
Finally, after standing by the door, being quiet, Knuckles spoke up,
"Don't you all know what you are doing? This is what happens to every band! They each get it in their mind that they are the best and the whole group argues and argues again and again, until the only thing holding them together is their fans and their music. This is how it starts, do you want to be over even before we begin! Put aside your egos and your pride and compromise, celebrate friendship and not yourself. There is no 'I' in TEAM!"
Knuckles finished his ranting and pep talking with one fist in the air and a triumphant look on his face. His triumphant face melted into embarrassment and turned red as the rest just looked at him with disbelieving, and freaked out faces.
"Ooookay," said Sonic, "That was weird."
"He's sort of right," said Rouge, everyone looked at her like she was crazy. "Well he is, I hear about it all the time, and what about that song, "American Pie" by Don Mclean? You know, where that band crashes in a plane?" The rest just looked at her confused. "Fine, I'll just put the song on." She put a CD in the stereo that had just magically appeared and it played,
Bye bye miss American pie, Rouge sped it up to another verse,
I went down to the sacred store, where I heard the music years before,
But the men there said the music wouldn't play. She skipped some more,
The day the music died.
"See," she said, "It could happen."
"What does a plane crash have to do with not getting along?" Shadow sounded peeved.
"I don't know," Rouge snapped, irritated that someone had found a fault in her explanation.
"Okay, wait a minute!" cried a voice, and everyone was surprised to see it was Tails. "I usually just wait on the sidelines while you all argue, but as your newly appointed manager, I have to say I agree with Knuckles and we should start thinking of how to get Shadow's guitar, and how to learn how to play our instruments! Not bickering!"
"Newly appointed manager?" Shadow said, incredulously, "We don't need a little twerp telling us what to do!"
"Don't call him a twerp!" Sonic shouted at Shadow, "I think it's a great idea little buddy," he said to Tails.
"A manager is just what we need," said Rouge, "besides, what else would Foxboy do while we were away?" She laughed good naturedly.
"Okay, sounds cool," grunted Knuckles from by the door.
Rouge frowned in his general direction then spoke,
"Knuckles, stop being mad now! You are just being irrational and silly, we all need to work together to get this band together, and you aren't helping, let the past go and forgive and forget, okay!" She then turned towards the others and said, "Let's get started!" With that said she walked out the door, sweeping closely by Knuckles, her arm brushing his and her thigh barely touching his leg, before he had a chance to move. He looked away, hoping no one would see the bright red tinge on his cheeks.
Sonic and Shadow looked at each other, they shrugged and walked out the door too, giving Knux a wide berth. Tails looked at Knuckles and spoke,
"Are you okay Knuckles? You are always so quiet and then loud." Tails winced at the memory of Knuckles when he was mad.
"I'm fine, kid," said Knuckles smiling reassuringly at Tails, "and I'll try not to yell so much anymore, okay? And I think you'll be an awesome manager."
"Okay, thanks!" Then they both left the room and followed the others to the kitchen.
They went to the kitchen to find a phone book, so they could call around trying to get lessons to play their instruments. After an hour of searching in the phone book Shadow slammed it down in frustration,
"How are you supposed to find anything in here? It's organized like a friggin vegtable soup! Look, Cigarette stores right next to Cardiovascular Treatment Center!"
"Hey, I have an idea," spoke up Sonic, "why not go to the Library and check out some of those '… for Dummies' books! They have got to have some for drums, guitar, and keyboard!"
"Yeah," agreed Rouge, "The other day I saw one that said 'Swimming for Dummies'. Who could learn how to swim out of a book? If there is a swimming volume there should be a volume to suit our needs."
"I'll go to the Library and see if I can find them!" said a voice, and everyone was surprised some more to see it had been Knuckles who had spoken. (A/N-I guess no one will be expected to say anything, huh? Everyone keeps being surprised!)
"You know, to make up for being a jackass?" He continued.
Everyone was touched,
"Not me!"
Shut up Shadow, we know you say you don't feel emotions!
Ahem, Everyone ignored the disembodied voice and was touched by Knuckles admitting he was a jackass and wanting to help. Knuckles walked out and to the Library he went.
After he was gone Sonic asked Shadow a question he had been dying to ask for several seconds.
"Shadow, how will you get the money for your guitar?"
"Don't worry faker, I have a plan!" Shadow started in on an evil laugh he'd been practicing for weeks, but was interrupted when Sonic said,
"It isn't another lemonade stand, man, cause that idea sucked!"
"No," said Shadow, irritated, "It is much better than my old idea, and it won't fail!" Shadow was starting his evil laugh again when Sonic interrupted again,
"We could just have Tails make you one too!"
"No, it has to be that one!" Shadow snapped.
There was a long pause, Sonic got tired of it and asked,
"Well?" Shadow was confused,
"Well, what?" Sonic went on,
"Aren't you going to try your evil laugh again?"
"No, you'll just interrupt it!"
"Fine."
"Fine."
"My god you two are like children," Rouge's voice cut in, "I am going to go for a short walk, well, more like a fly, call me on my cell if Knuckles shows up with the books and I'm not back, okay?"
Sonic and Shadow mumbled 'okay's as she walked out of the door and took flight.
At that precise moment Knuckles walked in the back door and Sonic got the phone out, dialing a number.
"Hello," was heard on the other end.
"Hey, Rouge! Knux is back!" Sonic said grinning.
There was muffled yelling from the other end and outside the door. Rouge walked in looking irritated. She sat down on the couch and snapped,
"I was 10 feet from the door! Where is he?" She almost roared.
Knuckles looked down at the floor, a little sad. She sounded so harsh, when she said, 'Where is he?'
"Hello, Rouge," Sonic said sarcastically, "He's right here. And from the look of it, your snapping and yelling kinda scared him!" Sonic was laughing now.
"Shut up!" Knuckles said, quietly, but angrily. "I wasn't scared!" 'I'm telling the truth,' he thought, 'I really wasn't feeling scared, but I don't know what I was feeling. Normally, I would yell at her for talking about me in that tone of voice.'
"Never mind that, Knuckles! Did you find the books?" Shadow sounded impatient.
"Um… yes," he said, pulling them out of thin air since he doesn't wear pants and thus can not have pockets, and he doesn't have a bag either. "Here they are." Knuckles handed the books to Shadow, who looked with contempt at the covers of the books. He stared for a minute and then said,
"Who the hell is the guy with messy hair on each cover?"
"I don't know," Knuckles said, "but he must be important, he is on the cover of every one."
"Nothing will satisfy you, will it, Shadow?" Rouge said, "first the phone book is hard to read, and now the covers of these books are unacceptable because of a picture of a spiky haired man on the cover?"
They all looked at the books; Knuckles had gotten Electric Guitar for Dummies, Drumming for Dummies, and Keyboard for Dummies.
"I AM NOT A DUMMY!" Rouge raged, glaring at Knuckles as if he had suggested it right there. Knuckles cowered for a moment, then, recovering his dignity, he said peevishly,
"I know, I just wanted to include everyone, see look!" He pointed to another volume on the table titled, Managing Argumentative Animal Bands for Dummies, everyone gawked at it for a moment. Tails skipped into the room and, seeing the cover, started to pout, and said,
"Hey, I'm not a dummy!"
Well, that is it for now. I think I am going to set a standard of 3 reviews before I continue. Other writers are doing it, and it will give me an excuse to take my time writing it! Heehee! j/k. But really, review, because it makes me happy, and If I am happy, I don't grow up to become a tyrannical ruler of the world, so reviewing benefits you in the long run! Till next chapter, Knux girl, Over and Out.