I apologize for being in writers block since 2019 for this story. I am trying to take my stories to career and the stress has been harming my performance. I use to write stories easily day by day, but trying to pull through with week by week is exhausting. I wish to finish these stories for you guys since you've all stuck around for me and I'm sorry for not keeping up; I will do my best to battle my writers block because of my viewers needs for me to finish my stories.
After a few hours had passed Sonic and Miku's remaining friends chose to stay in the corporation building in order to keep by their injured young fox boy's bedside until further good progression went underway. Meanwhile the two different blue colored hair teens had went along with their friendly outing as they travelled towards a different city section; this part was not like before at the High School where the Human and animal hybrid trio got to practice their new down graded abilities over at a private location only the few knew about rather this one was public. There were various people in their 20's to 30's strolling around the walkways in the shopping areas just like any other city day of course this seemed like an unusual action that goes against the policy and risk for the Vocaloid Project since they were very strictly to be kept secret.
At one of the sections of the attractive outlets Sonic was able to blend into the crowd by simply wearing a full dark blue baseball cap that was turned backwards and covered both of his furry blue ears along with a same colored hoodie and with him was his Vocaloid companion but surprisingly she had dark crimson red long stretched out hair this time replacing her trademark pigtails with a plastic looking round headband tying around her entire strands and a black long sleeve jacket very different from how she usually looked; this was obviously a disguise for an event such as this one.
Sonic observed and thought. "So what you are wearing on your head is a prototype device that can change the color of your hair?"
"Yes and because of my experience with my voice I can easily change it to not sound anything like how I normally talk." Miku explained with her different vocal tone that sounded less like a girl her age and instead an older and more mature woman.
"I can't believe that the doc approved of doing this for you guys. You would think that going out like this even with those things tied to your hair this would still be questionable." Sonic thought.
"Dr. Makato thinks ahead." Miku admitted quickly.
Sonic still felt the need to ask some questions. "But wouldn't the closer you are to the public eye would increase the chances of exposure to the Vocaloid secrets?"
Miku stopped walking and stood infront of him in order to be more direct in what she had to say this in turn would make him stop at the same pace and listen to her face to face. "Sonic we may be Vocaloids but were are still technically Human, and Makato doesn't just think of us as scientific discoveries or experiments he thinks of us as people like everyone else. Like most Humans he knows that isolation isn't something that you can keep a person in for so long as everyone needs to experience the outside atleast once in awhile."
Sonic listened easily. At first he seemed to keep his guard up and be cautious but it seemed Miku did have a point. "I see. I don't mean to be critical it's just that well, ever since Eggman and Tails I'm alittle worried."
Miku did share abit of a frown but it wasn't enough for her to lose her positive attitude. "I understand but he very much watches over us and knows the best way to take care of us. Plus if anything were to happen well you are here with me aren't you."
Having more of a desire to continue with the trip for the two of them the teenaged Vocaloid swiftly grabbed her same aged Hedgehog Humans''s hand and pulled him in for doing more of some shopping around.
"Come on hero keep up with me if you haven't lost your speed yet." Miku happily teased.
"Eh!" Her forward attitude had caught Sonic off guard as he was forced to follow.
At a distance and keeping an eye out for the pairing of Humanoid teenagers there were a team of many employees from the Vocaloids hideout that were tasked with making sure Mikus first test with the disguise mechanics were working and their secret wasn't caught. These workers were the companys agents also undercover just like Sonic and Miku against the regular everyday people wondering in the streets. Because Miku wanted to be with Sonic and interact with the outside world the willing blue boy was made with the special assignment of being sure to use any means neccessary to get their artificial pop star out of trouble should something happen; in short Sonic was put to being her bodyguard while she would treat it as a kind of date.
"How are you two holding up Sonic?" A man in a tan brownish trench coat made communication with Sonic as he had his hand near his face indicating he had a talking device with him.
Sonic had the listening piece inside of his disguised hat while his talking one was within the sleeve of his jacket which he would use for contacting the watchers.
"There doesn't seem to be anything bad happening and Miku seems to be covered well." Sonic answered back.
"Alright good to know. We'll update again in 30 minutes depending on the event." The voice on the Hedgehog boys device finished before leaving the rest of the evening with him.
After the conversation was put on the hold the man that formerly chatted with Sonic tuned his device off with his partner next to him confirming their current position and awaiting for things to go by further.
Now that the event went by smoothly Sonic continued accompanying Miku as they both walked further down the district with her leading the way and because the teenaged artificial Human had more social skills developed than him she was already familiar with what shoppers experienced; the first thing she came across were some interesting Manga displayed in one of the nearby outlets.
What Miku picked up was a slice of life romance genre type of book which she gladly shared with her blue hero companion as she opened it and had one of her hands split open a page and holding one side of the book while Sonic was holding the other side and read long with her.
"Holy cow this guy has multiple girls in his home. Is that even legal?" Sonic humorously questioned.
Miku laughed at his first view of that type of manga. "This is called a Harem type of story. They often deal with one individual and his relationships with all those girls. People like reading them because it's fun to have the main character interact differently with all those relationship; it's funny too."
Sonic would decline his interest in the type of material. "Meh I prefer my main characters to just stick with one otherwise you have too many mouths to feed." He signed.
Miku sweated and gave in. "Should've known this wasn't your type of thing."
Shortly after exploring the Japanese comics section the two had made their way to the next shop nearby; it was a jewelry store like any common shop for gold, silver, and platinum small item wears.
Miku took interest in some plain golden chain bracelets and offered to introduce the shining yellow material to Sonic to see his thoughts.
"What do you think about this?" Miku asked him.
Sonic observed abit but was quick in his brief opinion.
"I kinda prefer plain round rings and separated gems. It's mostly because I've seen them come out so much bigger than that." Sonic easily answered.
"Really you've seen larger than these?" Miku questioned.
Sonic smirked as it was now his time to impress his friend with an experience with precious items he had before, and enlightened her.
"Why yes Miku. They are like give or take 20 or 50 times bigger than everything you see here." He spread out his arms and palms all over the store to show off his superior description of what he was talking about.
"Oh really." Miku sarcastically remarked with a challenging smirk.
Excited to further prove to her, he continued. "Of course; but it's not the size of the jewelry but it's power."
"Powerful? Jewelry? No way." Miku challenged.
Sonic went on. "I know how it sounds but it's not what you think."
He then reached his hand down in what would seem to be his pocket; he wanted to bring out more solid evidence.
After pulling out his gripping palm he then opened his white gloved fingers infront of Mikus view and showed her a bracelet sized solid gold round ring within his hand. It was perfectly circled and the gold plating was too smooth and shiny that nothing in the store they are in could even compare.
The more the curious teen girl observed its' looks the more she was enchanted by the large ring. She could not take her eyes off of it as it was a new form of something otherworldy just like her voice she was gifted from birth.
"Wow, I have never seen anything like this before; this can't be real." Miku grew amazed at the treasured item.
Sonic smiled. "It is. I've always kept enough around when I needed them."
"What are they used for?" She asked on.
"The power behind them had kept me from death on many occasions. I never go anywhere without a single one of them." Sonic explained.
Immediately after he was done introducting to her his valuable yet magical possession he caringly reached out with his other free hand and gently held onto Mikus own; she welcomed his grasp as she showed no resistance letting him do the action.
"I want you to hold onto this." Sonic offered Miku. He proceeded to lay his ring holding hand into her open palm before releasing the shining gold powerful item now given to her.
"If I'm not around to protect you then I'm hoping this will atleast keep you safe and away from harm." Sonic explained with cautious direction.
Taking in his source of value both physically and mentally Miku immediatley accepted his gift trusting her Human/Animal friend even further than before understanding full well of his battle experience and his new knowledge for the future.
She closed her fingers within her soft palm before answering back to him with a kind gesture of approval as she lightly nodded her head. "Thank you Sonic."
The hedgehog boy would reply back with the same attitude as he smiled.
After the two have finished with their time at the jewelry store they decided what was next after shopping was getting something to eat. They had hit a hotdog cart standing not far from them and picked out their favorite bun covered food.
Sonic would have the chili dog while Miku had the bacon hotdog much to their enjoyment.
To be continued...