" Your gonna regret you'd ever challenged me to a race!" Sonic got ready to run. Tikal just yawned.
" So um...I guess...we should race from here to that rock over there..." Tikal pointed to a rock that wasn't so far away from where they were all standing. Sonic stopped and looked at her.
"What, are you SCARED?" Sonic asked.
Tikal just folded her arms. "I'm not scared. I just think it's mean to make babies cry..."
Sonic got angry in an instant. Amy noticed him ball his hands into fists. "Looks like he's already about to cry… and you haven't even won yet." Amy started to laugh. Tikal eventually joined in too. Knuckles instantly got angrified (angry) himself.
"DON'T YOU GUYS EVER QUIT! DON'T YOU HAVE A HEART OF ANY KIND!"
"DO YOU HAVE A BRAIN OF ANY SORT!" Tikal snapped back.
"Could you guys---" Tails started, but his voice drowned out as Tikal, Sonic, Amy, and Knuckles continued to fight. "Hey um..." he stopped again. Eventually, his adorable cute nature disappeared and he got frustrated with all of them. "ALL OF YOU SHUT -UP! If you guys want to find your friends SOOOOOOOOOOO bad wouldn't you be not arguing for awhile and come on! You guys fight like married people!" he started to walk off.
Amy looked over to Tikal who just rolled her eyes. "I wouldn't marry either of them even they WERE the last 2 guys in the galaxy." She started to follow behind Tails. Amy watched her and thought to herself for awhile. "Wouldn't that be sorta lonely?" She called out as she ran behind to catch up with Tikal.
"Sonic I hate you…." Knuckles growled.
"It's okay. I never knew you'd be dumb as you are now. I shoulda figured when you told me your name..." Sonic started to slowly wander on behind Tikal. Knuckles instantly got furious.
"WHATS WRONG WITH KNUCKLES! SONIC IS THE DUMBEST NAME I'VE EVER HEARD!"
" Not as bad as yours..." Sonic kept on walking. Knuckles having no choice followed also.
"WAIT A MINUET! WHATS SO WRONG WITH KNUCKLES! KNEECAPS IS WORSE!" Knuckles caught up and they all continued to walk.
Hours passed by and they were all tired. Sonic sat down and layed back on a rock. Everyone else sat down either with or around him.
"Man" Tails began "This is tiring...how much longer do we have to get there?"
"Let's just say a long time...(sigh) we've gotta find a faster way to travel."Sonic complained
"WellI think all of our dead weight i.e red boy is dragging us down..." Amy said.
"I AM NOT DEAD WEIGHT! I'M FASTER THAN YOU!"Knuckles screamed.
" Yea well you haven't really proved that now have you?" she said back. He sat there angry again and turned around.
"Look you guys don't you think it would be better if we held off the fighting for at least tonite?" Sonic moaned.
" I don't need some little bloo thing tellin me what to DO!" Amy yelled.
"I'm not telling you what to do I'm just suggesting that you SHUTUP!" Sonic yelled back
"Well lookie here. Maybe you should keep your suggestions to your self" she said. As the trio continued to argue Tikal walked away with Tails.
"So you said something about having an idea on how to get to eggmens place faster right?"Tails asked.
"Yea. You see i'm a princess-the princess of echidnas actually but the thing is I can fly and I'm pretty sure you can too. Now with our ideas of flight don't you think we can come up with a way to build some kind of plane or something that we can all ride in?" she asked already knowing he had something in mind.
" THE X TORNADO!" He exclaimed "I didn't even think of that! I have the remote with me! All I have to do is press this button and-" seconds later a huge plane whizzed over their heads. Tikal looked up. It was pretty big.
"Wow...nice..." Soon enough the other three ran over wanting to find out what was going on.
"Now why didnt I think of this before?" Knuckles asked himself.
"Ummm because maybe you dont THINK!" Sonic walked toward the airplane.
"M-maybe we should...umm...I..." Amy nervously said as she backed away from the plane.
"Awww! Amy! You can b scared now! Dont you wanna go save everyone!" Tikal asked her.
"Yea but..." Amy moaned and stepped back somemore.
"Whats up with her?" Sonic asked.
"Afraid of heights..." Tikal responded. She and the others walked off while Sonic went back to Amy.
"Hey...are you..scared?" He asked.
" WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE TO YOU!" she screamed. "I'm sorry I really don't like heights...at all..."
"well don't worry. you don't have to be scared. If anything happens I'll protect you." He smilled in an assuring way. Amy looked at him and felt herself blush. She looked down.
"uhhh...th-thanks..." she said.
" no problem." He began to blush also noticing that he was comforting her. he quickly widened the space between them."" SO uhhhhh I think we should be getting back now!"
"Yea!" she said still turning red. He ran off to where the others went and she held her chest as if something was wrong. Clearly she had now seen him differently. And she liked it but that was scaring her. He too felt a little different about the beautiful hedgehog. He shook his head to try and clear the thoughts of her away but it was no use. He would now have to be stuck with the thought of her in his mind..and oddly...he found it appealing also.