Back to the Future: Sonic Style

Chapter 2: The Hedgehog Family

"'Too Loud.' I can't believe it!" Silver said, feeling ticked and miserable a bit, as he and Blaze were walking back from school, a sample tape of his music in his hand, ready to be posted, "I'm never gonna get a chance to play in front of everybody!"

"Silver, one rejection isn't the end of the world." Blaze said, trying to comfort Silver.

"Nah," Silver replied, doubtfully, "I just don't think I'm cut out to music."

"But you're good, Silver," Blaze spoke back, "you're really good. And this audition tape of yours is great, you gotta send it to the record company."

"It's like Doc's always saying…" Blaze continued, until Silver finished her sentence.

"Yeah, I know," he said, a little gloomy, "'If you put your mind to it, you could accomplish anything.'"

"That's good advice, Silver." Blaze said as she flirted a little.

"All right, okay, Blaze…" Silver said with a small smile, as he went up to the letterbox and posted the audition tape, before they continued walking.

"What if they listen to the tape I've sent and they don't like it?" Silver then stated, with worry, "I mean, what if they say I'm no good? What if they say, "Get out of here, kid, you got no future." I mean, I just don't think I can handle that kind of rejection." At that point, Silver's eyes winded a little at an odd realization, "Jess, I'm beginning to sound like my old man!"

"C'mon, he's not that bad." Blaze explained to Silver as they stopped by a bench, next to a charity stand as she continued, "At least he's letting you borrow the car tomorrow night."

"Whoa, check out that 4x4!" Silver pointed out as he and Blaze then spotted a brand new pickup truck getting brought into display at a car shop, "That is hot!"

He then got up on the bench as he looked to Blaze, "Someday, Blaze, someday."

Blaze as he continued, "Wouldn't it be great to take that truck up to the lake? Throw a couple of sleeping bags in the back, making out under the stars…"

"Stop it…" Blaze blushed.

"What?" Silver asked, confused.

"Does your mom know about tomorrow night?" Blaze asked.

"No, get out of town," Silver said as he confessed, "my mom thinks I'm going camping with the guys. Well, c'mon, Blaze, my mother would freak out if she knew I was going up there with you. And I get this standard lecture about how she never did that kind of stuff when she was a kid, now look, I think she was born a nun."

Blaze then flirted as she tilted Silver to face her, saying "She's just trying to keep you respectable."

Following what she was, Silver smiled as he replied, "Well, she's not doing a very good job…"

At that, they then brought themselves closer, as they slowly brought they lips together and-

"SAVE THE CLOCK TOWER! Save the clock tower!"

That shout instantly ruined the moment, as both Silver and Blaze blushed madly as they interrupted at a very bad time as a raccoon came up with a charity tin and a program flyer.

As the couple looked, the raccoon explained, "Mayor Might is sponsoring an initiative to replace that clock."

Following where the raccoon was pointing, Silver and Blaze turned to look at the Green Hill town hall, where a clock was perched on top, but wasn't moving.

"30 years ago, lighting struck that clock tower and the clock hasn't run since." The raccoon explained, "We at the Green Hill preservation society it should be preserved exactly the way it is as part of our history and heritage."

Being a bit charitable, Silver helped with the payment, "Here you go, lady, here's a quarter!"

"Thank you!" the raccoon said, gratefully, "Don't forget your flyer"

"Right." Silver said, not quite a bit interested as he was handed the flyer to save the clock tower and the raccoon conitued her chants on saving the clock tower.

"Where were we?" Silver asked, turning his attention back to Blaze.

"Right about here." Blaze replied, as they tried again on the kiss, only for a car horn got Blaze's attention, resulting Silver to kiss her on the cheek (though he didn't quite mind).

Seeing a car come by up to them, Blaze instantly recognized the driver.

"That's my dad, I gotta go!" Blaze sadly admitted to Silver, who let out a small sigh.

"Right," he said, as Blaze was about to leave, he said to her, "I'll call you tonight!"

"I'll be at my grandma's," Blaze said, as she then took the flyer and wrote something on the back, "Here, let me give you the number."

After writing the phone number down, she handed Silver the flyer back to him, before saying "Bye."

Before she left, she gave Silver a loving kiss, both of them wishing it would last.

After Blaze left, Silver looked back to the flyer, seeing the phone number, which along with it were the words 'I love you' written next to the number, much to his happiness.

Soon it was time for him to get going as well, doing the same routine he did on the way to school.

Marble Gardens

Marble Gardens was were Silver lived with his family, it was a nice neighborhood, despite times when it's at it's lowest, but still, it was a nice place to live, especially if you have friends and good neighbors to get along with.

For Silver, it was a chance to get the truck, call Blaze and head down to the lake with her tomorrow night. The perfect plan.

If only it stayed perfect.

As Silver reached his house, he noticed that a tow truck was out front, as he approached the truck, there, to his shock and disbelieve, was the truck that he was going to use, and it was wrecked pretty bad.

"Perfect. Just perfect!" Silver said, annoyed.

As he approached the front door and entered the house, he heard an argument going on inside, as, sure enough, was one face that Silver was annoyed to see.

There were two hedgehogs that were part of the argument, one was blue and feeling a little nervous and uncertain and the other was green and down right ticked, being the one doing all the arguing.

The blue hedgehog was Silver's dad, Sonic, who was having a hard time with his supervisor, the green hedgehog, named Scourge Tannen, who would at times treat Sonic like a pushover.

"I can't believe it! Do you realize it?" Scourge said to Sonic, "I can't believe you loaned me your car, without telling me it had a blindspot!"

"Now, now, Scourge, now, I never noticed any blindspot before when I were driving it." Sonic stated.

Sonic then spotted Silver and gave him a weak wave, "Hi, son." He said, in an awkward, nervous tone.

Silver remained silent as he continued listening to the conversation, though, deep down, he felt sorry for his dad, even though he saw him being a doormat to everyone, mainly Scourge.

"What? Are you blind, Sonic?" Scourge scoffed, "It's right there. How else do you explain that wreck out there?"

"Now, Scourge," Sonic said, in a desperate attempt to calm the green hedgehog down, "um, can I assume your insurance is gonna pay for the damage?"

"MY INSURANCE?!" Scourge shouted back, "It's your car, your insurance should pay for it! Hey, I wanna know who's gonna pay for this?" he said as he showed off his buttoned shirt, revealing it to have spilled mark on it.

"I spilled beer all over it when that car smashed into me!" Scourge explained, "Who's gonna pay my cleaning bill?!"

Silver looked away in annoyance, as he couldn't believe what he was hearing from Scourge.

"And where are my reports?" Scourge then asked.

"Uh, well, I haven't finished them yet," Sonic convinced, "But you know, I figured since they weren't due till…"

"Come here." Scourge said, as he pulled Sonic's arm to him, and starting knocking on a nervously chuckling Sonic's head, "Hello, hello, anybody home?!"

"Think, sonic, think!" he continued, "I gotta have time to get them retyped. Do you realize what would happen if I handed in my reports with your handwriting? I'll get fired. You wouldn't want that to happen would you…?"

Sonic was quite at that point, until Scourge pulled him in, his hand on Sonic's throat, as he threaten repeated the question, "Would you…?"

"Of course not, Scourge," Sonic said, as he was free from the green hedgehog's grasp, "I wouldn't want that to happen."

Scourge went over to get some M&M's in a glass bowl next to Silver, as he then spotted the white hedgehog looking at him, only Scourge to ignore him as he heard Sonic speak.

"Now, uh, I'll finish those reports up tonight and I'll run'em them on over first thing tomorrow, all right?" Sonic stated.

"Hey, not to early," Scourge explained, chucking some M&M's in his mouth, "I sleep in on Saturday."

Scourge then looked down and pointed to Sonic's shoes as he said, "Oh, Sonic, your shoe's untied."

As Sonic looked down, Scourge lifted the hand that he was pointing down with back straight up with a fwip on Sonic's chin.

"Don't be so gullible, Sonic." Scourge said, as he headed for the kitchen, leaving a nervously chuckling Sonic behind.

"You got the place fixed up nice, Sonic," Scourge complimented, as he then entered the kitchen and opened the fridge for a drink, "I have your car towed all the way to your house and all you've got for me is light beer."

Taking a drink of the light beer, he saw Silver giving him a serious look, before coming face to face with him saying, "What are you looking at, Butthead?"

As he left, Scourge called to Silver, "Say hi to your mom for me."

After Scourge left, it was just father and son at home for the moment, Sonic very a little sorry for himself and nervous, while Silver was furious with Scourge.

"I know what you're gonna say, son, and you're right," Sonic said, shamefully letting out a sad sigh, "you're right, but Scourge just happens to be my supervisor, and I'm afraid I'm not very good at confrontations."

"The car, dad!" Silver sadly complained, "I mean he wrecked it, totaled it! I needed that car tomorrow night, dad, I mean, do you have any idea how important this was…? Do you have any clue?"

"I know, and all I can say is… I'm sorry…" Sonic sadly said, as both father and son let out a sad sigh.

Later on

"Believe me Silver, you're better off not having to worry about all the aggravation and headaches of playing at that dance." Sonic said to Silver as they and the rest of the family were having dinner, Sonic having heard about what happened at the auditions.

"He's absolutely right, Silver," Silver's older brother, Manic, said, "the last thing you need is headaches."

Soon both Sonic and Manic returned to watching TV, a comedy show was currently showing as they were laughing at the funniest moments.

Soon, Silver's mom, Amy, entered, drinking some light beer while holding a cake, Amy had gained a little bit of weight, and her quill hair seemed quite ragged.

"Kids," she sadly said, getting Silver and his siblings, Manic and Sonia's attention, "we're gonna have to eat this cake by ourselves, Uncle Axel didn't make parole again."

She then carefully dropped the cake on the table, which had a picture of a flicky flying out of a cage, with writing saying, 'Welcome Home, Uncle Axel', before sitting herself down with her family.

"I think it would be nice if you all dropped him a line." Amy said with a smile.

This, however, took a negative effect on her kids, having heard what happened and having to have an uncle in jail.

"Uncle 'Jailbird' Axel?" Silver asked in small alarm.

"He's your brother, mom!" Manic explained.

"Yeah," Sonia nodded, "I think it's a major embarrassment having an uncle in prison."

"We all make mistakes in life, children." Amy said, sadly.

Manic then looked down to his watch, and realized he had to get to work at the fast food joint he was working at.

"God damnit! I'm late!" he sweared.

"Manic! Watch your mouth!" Amy scowled at Manic, "You come here and kiss your mother before you go, come here."

"C'mon, mom, make it fast!" Manic said as he approached his mother, who gave him a kiss on the cheek, "I'll miss my bus!"

He then walked over to his dad, "Hey, see you tonight, pop." Then, for some reason, he kissed him on the top of his head, until he realized what he did as he chuckled, "Woo, time to change that oil."

Sonic let out a nervous chuckle as Manic left, once he was gone, Sonia turned to Silver.

"Hey, Silver, I'm not your answering service," she said, "but while you were outside pouting about the car, Blaze called you twice."

This got Amy's attention as she rudely said, "I don't like her, Silver, any girl who calls a boy is just asking for trouble."

"Oh mom," Sonia said, "there's nothing wrong with calling a boy."

"I think it's terrible. Girls chasing boys." Amy said, "When I was your age I never chased a boy, a called a boy, or sat in a parked car with a boy."

"Then how am I supposed to ever meet anybody?" Sonia asked, which was responded with a small smile from her mother.

"Well, it will just happen, like the way I met your father." She said with a smile, though Sonia looked disbelieved.

"That was so stupid," she said, "Grandpa hit him with the car!"

"It was meant to be…" Amy said, as the family had finished dinner, she began putting away the dishes, "Anyway, if grandpa hadn't hit him, then none of you would have been born."

"Yeah, well I still don't understand what dad was doing in the middle of the street…" Sonia said, with half-open eyes and curiosity in her voice.

"What was it, Sonic? Flicky watching?" Amy asked her husband.

This startled Sonic out of his work, "What? Amy, what?"

"Anyway," Amy said, as she got back to the table with a fresh glass, "Grandpa hit him with the car and brought him into the house, he seemed so helpless, like a little lost chao, my heart just went out to him…"

"Yeah, mom, we know," Sonia said, with a bit of annoyance, "you've told us this story to us a million times. You felt sorry for him, so you decided to go with him the fish under the sea dance."

Silver, who hadn't said a word, listened in as he looked to his mom and then his dad, wondering how those things were like and how they did happen.

"No, it was the Enchantment Under the Sea dance," Amy corrected Sonia, "our first date. It was the night of that terrible thunderstorm, remember, Sonic?"

Sonic wasn't quite listening at the moment, as he was watching the TV show that was showing.

"Your father kissed me for the very first time on the dance floor," Amy said with a sigh, "it was then I realized I was going to spend the rest of my life with him."

The moment was a little bit broken, as something funny showing on TV made Sonic chuckle awkwardly, giving the three an awkward, not-quite-amused look on their faces.

Though while they were a little annoyed at him for the moment, they still felt sorry for him.

Silver, meanwhile, wished for a bit of changes for the family…

Author's Note:

I know it's been a while, but remember that I have other fanfics I'm working on, as well as everyday stuff I have to do, so remember to be patient.

For those who read the comics, Scourge is the evil alternate Sonic from another universe, so I thought, having seeing the confrontations between Sonic and Scourge (especially how Scourge is sickened on seeing Sonic being so nice), I thought it would be a great idea for Scourge to do the role of Biff.

Next up, though, will be the appearance of the Doc himself, and the Time Machine!