Chapter 20: South America VI
Somewhere in the Amazon River, the plane turned into a large fishing boat. Tails is driving the boat with Cream and Cheese next to him. Amy reads a guidebook, Sonic looks throw binoculars and takes pictures, Knuckles is sleeping, and Tikal dusts off her souvenir case.
"A girl has got to keep her collection dust-free," said Tikal.
"Knuckles the Echidna! Can you at least enjoy the scene without sleeping your butt off," said Sonic.
"But I spent the sleepless night guarding Master Emerald against thieves and threats."
"Tails, set up cameras for you to sleep."
"Still."
"Hey, Ames. Can you tell me a bit about this river?"
"Sure thing. The Amazon River is the second-longest river on earth. The river is home to the pink river dolphins, piranhas, bull sharks, and anacondas. The river's shores are in Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador."
"What's an anaconda?"
"The world's longest snake," said Tikal.
Sonic jumped into Amy's arms and said, "you know I'm spooked with snakes."
"Sorry."
"This should be a good spot to look. Hey, Tikal. Get out our fishing poles. Would ya," said Tails, stopping the boat.
"You got it, Yellow Sky."
The team fished for the battery and plug for a few minutes.
"Did anyone get anything," said Tikal.
"All I found were two Chaos Emeralds," said Cream, grabbing them from her fishing pole.
"Great job., Cream. We only need to find 5 more of them. At least you didn't catch any piranhas," said Tails, slapping his tails on the boat to get 5 piranhas of them.
When they got off of his tails, they go back into the river, and he said, "you better get back in the river and stay there."
"What about you and Amy caught, Sonic? Amy? Sonic," said Tikal.
Amy is free Sonic from an anaconda; that wrapped him in its coils.
When it left, Sonic said sarcastically, "we had a pleasant time."
Tikal sees Knuckles asleep while holding his fishing pole.
"KNUCKLES! WAKE UP," said Tikal, yelling in his ear.
"Ouch! Keep the volume down. Oh, it's just you."
"Did you even check that you caught something?"
"Not at all."
When he pulls his fishing pole up, he noticed that Zomom is holding his fishing line, and in his hands is a 4 ft battery in 4 ft plug.
"ZOMOM! What are you doing on my fishing line?"
"Waiting for the right time to attack."
Sonic takes the battery and plug from Zomom, and Knuckles puts him back into the river. Zomom jumps out of the water with piranhas biting him, screaming, and runs away on the water.
"Well, that was easy," said Tails.
"Hey, we're entering Brazil," said Cream, seeing the sign "Welcome to Brazil."
"Brazil? The home of Rio de Janeiro? The magical place for carnival? Wicked," said Sonic.
"Maybe that's where the ray is. Because Zomom dropped this," said Cream, picks up a wet ticket.
At Ariau Amazon Towers Hotel, the team is having dinner.
Tails analyzed the wet ticket and said, "Sao Paulo? Sonic, can you recognize this ticket? It's from a Sao Paulo amusement park."
"Hm…. The Playcenter."
"Thanks, Blue Leader. The location of it is only 3 hours and 50 minutes. We'll leave at 10 am; tomorrow."
"Do you think they have souvenirs at Amazon River," said Amy.
"Sure. I got myself four flowers: an orchid, a water lily, passionflower, and a bromeliad," said Tikal, taking out four flowerpots with a flower in each pot.
"Wow. They're beautiful," said Knuckles.
"Thanks. My favorite one is the bromeliad," said Tikal.
10 am, the guys load the luggage into the plane, while the girls and Cheese are feeding the pink dolphins. Tikal whispers to dolphins while looking at Knuckles. Then she and the dolphins laughed when Knuckles notices.
"What's so funny," said Knuckles.
"A joke, you said."
"Alright, girls. Let's hit the skies," said Sonic.
The dolphins wave their fins goodbye to the girls.
"I hope you can have pups soon," said Amy.
"Brazil, here we come," said Cream.
"I play carnival music while we fly there," said Tails, turning on the radio.