Chapter 2: Tails Meets Sonic/ Why Should I Worry
Morning comes with Tails still sleeping underneath the truck. Two men are heard offscreen as one of says, "Forty seconds."
"All right. Here we go," said another man as he starts up the truck. The sound of the truck wakes up Tails instantly as he sees the truck moving above him. He runs away to a safe distance to avoid being run over. The truck drives away as Tails tries to get his bearings on where he is. He looks down the alley and sees a sidewalk full of people walking. Hey, maybe I can find someone to adopt me! Tails thought and makes his way down.
Tails walks out of the alley and cautiously looks around to see anyone who could adopt him. Car horns are honking with the sounds of sirens wailing in the distance. People chattering as a black man is dancing to rap on his stereo. Tails likes the rhythm of the music and dances to it as the black man dances away.
You see the feet walkin' down the street in the fast lane,
Walkin' on the street where they goin'
Just makin' a move, tryin' to survive,
Find a way or not to stay alive.
Cool cat in a cruel world, knows good from bad, his mind is in a swirl,
Got to look out and open your eyes,
If you're in a jam
You got to realize,
You're in the fast lane
Wait, wait, wait, wait a minute
In the fast lane
Wait, wait, wait
Tails continues dancing until he nearly trips over his two feet. But he catches himself and stops dancing. He sees a man walk up follow by a woman who says to the man, "Hi. Sorry I'm late." Tails tries to get their attention but they were too busy talking to each other.
"That's all right," the man said and they walk away without noticing Tails.
People are walking by Tails without so much as a glance at the fox. Everyone was so busy trying to get work that they don't have time to stop and see a fox wanting for attention. But one boy saw Tails and wanted to pet him. Tails thought he had found someone until the mother took the boy away. "Come on, sweetheart, we're late," said the mother. "You can play with the fox some other time, honey. Come on."
The mother and her son cross the street as Tails follows them. But he is stopped by a crowd of people crossing the other way. Tails gets kicked unintentionally by someone as he falls to the ground. He then hears someone walking by him.
"Hey, 'scusa me. Don't ya see I'm pushin' somethin' here? Thank you," said a man, who spoke with an Italian accent. Tails looks up and sees a man pushing a hot dog cart. This man is named Louie as he continues singing in Italian. "Hey, come on, folks! Step right up! Get your hot dogs!" Louie calls out for people's attention to buy his hot dogs.
Tails could smell the hot dogs and they smell good. Tails realized that he was hungry and he was hoping maybe Louie could give him a hot dog. "The best hot dogs in all of Gotham! Hey, it's a beautiful day, eh?" Louie said to someone. "Come on, folks! Step right up!" Louie whistles a tune as Tails walks up to the cart and smells the hot dog, hanging off of the cart. Louie sees Tails and said, "Hey. Go on. Get outta here. Shoo! Get outta here. Go on, kitty." Louie shoos Tails away from his cart. "Get your sausages. All right, let's go, folks. Step right up. I got the hottest dogs in the whole city!"
We turn away from Tails, who stills wants a hot dog from Louie, and turn our attention to a parked taxi and the other side of the street. Walking along the sidewalk, we see a blue animal with red and white shoes strutting down the street. He continues dancing when he sees someone walk by him. "Hmm."
That someone was a good-looking female hedgehog, who seemed all preppy and too rich. "Psst. Psst," she hears a sound and turns around to see who made the sound of tires letting out air. Sitting on top of the taxi was a blue hedgehog. His name was Sonic. He makes kissing sounds at the female hedgehog and said, "Hey cutie!"
The hedgehog gasps and goes, "Hmph!" she turns her head away and walks away with her head up. Sonic was taken by her attitude and said, "Ooh. Me like!"
Suddenly, Sonic hears Louie yelling about something. "Hey! Hey, get off of me! What's the matter with you? I said get outta here."
Sonic sees that Louie was fighting off Tails, still wanting a hot dog. "Well, well. Looks like Louie's got a visitor. Could be time for Sonic to make this a 'foxy' turns of events," Sonic dashes away from the taxi.
"Hey! Get off me! Hey! Get outta here. Go on! Shoo!" Louie kicks Tails away and Tails hits a garbage can. A banana peels lands on his head and Tails feels a sense of defeat.
"Boy buddy, you sure picked the wrong guy to get hot dogs from," Tails looks up to see Sonic, sitting on top of the garbage can.
"Get away from me!" Tails said and got into a defensive stance.
"Whoa! Chill out, buddy. Do I look like the kind of guy that would kill foxes? I've been watching you, and I think you're in serious need of some professional guidance," Sonic jumps down from the can and helps Tails up. He knocks the banana off Tails' head. "Now, what do you say we team up and change old Louie's mind... about sharing those hot dogs?"
"Yeah right. I'm not going back there again," Tails begins to walk away but Sonic grabs one of his tails.
"Hey. It'll be easy buddy. I'm an expert at these things. All you have to do is learn some moves."
"Moves?" Tails asked.
"Yeah, you know. Tempo, a rhythm," Sonic said with a little dance. "This city's got a beat. You gotta hook into it. And once you got the beat, you can do anything."
"I can?"
"Absolutely kid," Sonic takes to Tails to corner not far from Louie. "The man you see before you is affectionately known as 'Angry Louie'," Louie squirts mustard onto a hot dog with an angry look on his face. "A well-known enemy of folks like us. Our mission, buddy, is to liberate those all-beef Kosher Franks, and hightail it outta here," Sonic moves Tails into position in the line of sight of Louie. "Startin' to feel that rhythm?"
"Well, uh...," Tails starts to think when a Jackhammer pounds the pavement. He felt the rhythm. "Yeah! Yeah! I do feel it! When are we gonna get those hot dogs?"
"Right... now," Sonic said and starts "attacking" Tails. Tails panics and they start running towards Louie.
"Hey! Stupid hedgehog!" Louie gasps when Tails jumps on top Louie. "Hey! Get outta here! Hey!"
"Hey! Hey. Get outta there!" As Louie struggles to get Tails off of him, Sonic nabs all of the hot dogs out of the cart and manages to make a chili dog. He eats the chili dog in one bite and dashes away.
Louie screams, "I'll get you!" Tails gets off Louie and hits the mustard bottle. The bottle squirts mustard all over Louie's face. Tails flies away when Louie throws a mustard bottle at Tails. "Get outta here!"
Tails stops to catch his breath at a construction site. He hears someone humming and hides in a concrete pipe. Turns out it was Sonic humming. "Hey, nice work buddy. You really got that rhythm," Sonic said.
Tails slowly emerges from the pipe. "Uh... yeah? We were good, huh?" Tails catches up to Sonic. "So when are we gonna eat?"
"We?"
"Yeah. I'm starving," Tails said, couldn't wait to take a bite out of a hotdog.
"Yeah, I hate to break it to you buddy, but the dynamic duo is now the dynamic uno," Sonic said as he straightens his quills.
"What do you mean?" Tails asked.
"What I mean is, our partnership is no more. This Batman no longer needs Robin," Sonic hops onto a concrete pipe that is being carried away on a crane.
"But, wait! Wait. You're not being fair!" Tails realized he has been duped!
"Fair is for tourists, buddy. Consider it a free lesson in street savoir faire... from Gotham's cool blue hedgehog. Check ya later!" Sonic jumps off the pipe and runs off.
"Hey, wait! I helped you get those! Half of those are mine!" Tails runs after Sonic, using his two tails to give him a boost.
Sonic slows down to look behind to see if Tails is following him. Tails catches up to him and walks on top of a steel beam that is being carried over Sonic. Tails falls and lands in front of Sonic. Sonic sees him and said, "You want them? Come and get them!" Sonic runs overs Tails and Tails continues to chase Sonic.
One minute I'm in Gotham Park
Then I'm down on Owens Street
From the Bowery to St. Marks
There's a syncopated beat
Tails chases Sonic on top of a cement truck. Tails tries to grab the string of hotdogs but fails and falls onto wet cement. Sonic jumps to join Tails on the wet cement and dances off.
Whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo
I'm streetwise, I can improvise
Whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo
I'm streetsmart, I've got Gotham City heart
Why should I worry?
Why should I care?
I may not have a dime
But I got street savoire faire
Sonic washes his shoes off a fire hydrant that is spouting water out. As Tails runs towards Sonic, Sonic moves his shoe to let the fire hydrant spew water at Tails.
Why should I worry?
Why should I care?
It's just bebopulation
And I got street saviore faire
Sonic walks across an air vent in the sidewalk that is blowing air from below, drying him off. Tails walks over the vent and the air blows all over him. Sonic stops to turn around and see Tails has turned into a large ball of fluff
The rhythm of the city
But once you get it down
Then you can own this town
You can wear the crown
Tails sees the string of hotdogs rolling up underneath a table selling sunglasses. Tails runs faster, hoping to grab them. But Sonic was on the other end and pulls the hotdogs away from Tails. Tails runs into the table, causing the sunglasses to fly into the air. One pair lands on Sonic and he continues singing.
Why should I worry?
Why should I care?
I may not have a dime
But I got street savoire faire
Sonic jumps into the air and lands on a piano being carried into the air by a crane
Why should I worry?
Why should I care?
It's just bebopulation
And I got street saviore faire
Two girls hear and see Sonic singing as they join in. Sonic grabs flowers from a vase and throws them to the girls.
Ev'rything goes
Ev'rything fits
They love me at the Chelsea
They adore me at the Ritz
Why should I worry?
Why should I care?
And even when I cross that line
I got street savoire faire
Sonic continues dancing his way across Gotham as he makes his way to the port. Tails is able to catch up with Sonic and follows him surreptitiously. Meanwhile, the day is slowly turning into night.
Wow, Chapter 2 already? How about that? Join me next for Chapter 3. Also, feel free to offer feedback and advice on how I can improve my fanfiction! I greatly appreciate it! NO FLAMING!