After leavening Amy's apartment sonic looked around, he had almost forgotten the layout of the city, he sighed and decided to take it slow as not to get lost looking up at the sky he realized fully for the first time how long he had been gone suddenly he felt a sharp pain in the back of his skull and a force causing him to fall over onto the ground "ouch…ah what hit me?" he looked backwards to see knuckles standing above him with one arm extended and holding a toaster under the other one
"Hiya sonic." He said with a smug look on his face "so your back already?" sonic nodded as he stood with a little groan feeling the back of his head.
"Yeah, I missed you so much I couldn't stay away." he said in the most sarcastic tone he could muster. "And what's with hitting me? Are you trying to make me as dim as you?" he laughed some at his own little joke. "And why aren't you on Angel Island?"
Knuckles ignored the joke at his expense barely flinching an eyebrow "Well you see not too long ago chaos freed himself, he must have been paying attention to the things that we did on Ark and he started to guard the master emerald for me we also rebuilt the shrine for him and returned the chaos emeralds to Angel Island" he started walking past sonic who started walking beside him "so I decided to get an apartment here in the city and relax some. I'm just going to tails shop to get my toaster fixed
"Ahh… I see well I was heading that way too so I guess ill make sure you don get worst" he laughed and ducked a straight punch as they walked towards tails' new workshop in the city when they arrived sonic opened the door causing a bell to ring. Eggman came out from the back of the store. Sonic shook off the initial shock remembering that Eggman had gone legit and ran the workshop where tails worked "so Eggman is tails here?"
"Sonic! How are you? Its good to have you back everyone missed you. Of course of course he's in the back let me get him for you" Eggman went to the back of the shop and closed the door after a second tails walked out wiping something that looked like oil from his hands with a towel as he saw sonic his eyes lit up her jumped at sonic acting more like Amy than even Amy had, Sonic took a step back avoiding the foxes pounce.
"Sonic! It's been forever since you last sent word I didn't think you were coming." He pulled up some chairs from the side of the shop turning the open sign on the door around to closed.
"Yeah well I just decided to take a shortcut over the ocean." Sonic made a sigh of relief as he sat down for the first time in days.
Tails looked at knuckles that stood with his toaster under his arms "oh no I'm not fixing that thing again we handle high tech machines here knuckles take it to the normal repair shop! Last time I found fifteen fork prongs and a wad of aluminum foil inside"
Knuckles blushed some and sat it down "yeah well I didn't know I couldn't put a hot pocket in the toaster, and I thought I just did it wrong the first couple of times."
Sonic rolled his eyes inwardly giggling at the dozens of jokes scrolling through his mind. "So anyways tails what's been going on? Anything new or interesting to tell me about?"
Tails shrugged and begin to tell sonic of the past years events. The different things that he and Eggman had been working on "yeah we just got a big contract from the government. We're working to create some new robots." Sonic nodded along in time to make sure tails knew he was interested. "Oh yeah… Sonic, shadow is alive."
Alright I don't own sonic because if I did it things would be different... btw this story is set three years after sonic adventure 2. sonic heroes and shadow the hedgehog have no relevance either (because they both kind of suck)