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Chapter Three - Realising Mistakes
Meanwhile, back over in Amy's Shack, the three remaining members of Team Sonic were busy trying to clean up the mess made by Sticks in the kitchen. Since there was so much berry juice all over the kitchen walls, Knuckles was the one who had to clean it off with his tall height, & a kitchen rag, while Amy and Sticks tended to the pastry covered counters & floors.
"Sticks, what caused your pie to explode & leave this mess in my kitchen?" Amy asked, as she tried to hold in her frustration.
"I don't know." Sticks responded, who was still covered in the berry juice & pastry, "Whether I put in too much baking soda or I didn't put any flour in the mixture, I just don't know the answer to your suspicious-sounding question.
"Well, once thing's for sure," Knuckles commented, as he cleaned off the walls, "This kitchen certainly has a juicy feeling to it!"
A silence was heard for a few seconds, while some crickets chirped in the background, as both Amy & Sticks didn't laugh or giggle at the sound of the tasteless joke. Knuckles glanced awkwardly at the camera for a second (Fourth Wall BREAK!), before shrugging his shoulders in confusion.
Anyway Amy began again, "Next time you ever cook in my kitchen, Sticks, would you please either give me a warning, or at least close the door?"
"But, wouldn't the door just get blasted off its hinges when a pie explodes in the kitchen?" Knuckles asked.
"No!" Amy said, before she realized something, Oh wait, yes it would.
Knuckles, grinning like an idiot, then got out a small notebook & pen, & wrote down a score sheet with his & Amy's names on it. The sheet had a line in the middle of it, with Knuckles name was on the left, & Amy's was on the right.
"Ha-Ha! Yeah!" Knuckles cheered, as he wrote a score down, "Knuckles: 1 - Amy: 0!
"That'll teach you will it?" Sticks asked teasingly to the pink hedgehog.
Amy only groaned irritably, before the group then heard a knock on the front door. The pink hedgehog then walked over to the door & opened it, where she then saw Tails girlfriend, Zooey, standing in the doorway, with a worried look on her face.
"Hey Zooey." Amy said, trying to smile, "What can I do for you?"
"Hi Amy." Zooey responded, "Have you seen Tails anywhere? I couldn't see him around the town & I'm beginning to worry about him."
"Well, Sonic just went out to go & look for him." Amy explained, "But I don't think he should take too long to come back."
Zooey nodded understandably, before she gave a small smile to the pink hedgehog.
"Okay, thanks." Amy Zooey said, "Uhh, do you mind if I can come in?"
"Of course!" Amy replied, "Please, make yourself at home."
Amy then stepped aside & allowed Zooey inside of her home, who then went over to sit on the couch. And just as Amy closed the front door...
*CRASH!*
Sonic then came smashing through the front door, his blue fur looking quite pale, his eyes looking wide with terror & a large visible bruise mark on his right cheek, from where he was punched. The pale blue speedster then crashed into a nearby wall & knocked over a coffee table, which in turn allowed a vase to smash onto the ground.
Zooey watched these events happen, even just before she walked over to the couch.
"My vase!" Amy cried, "That's the second one, this year!"
"Huh, so much for fine China!" Sticks was heard saying from in the kitchen.
Amy then looked over to Sonic, who looked quite scared out of his mind, due to what he had just witnessed in the jungle, a few minutes ago.
"Sonic, what has gotten into you?" Amy asked, "And did you find Tails?"
"And where did you get that bruise on your cheek?" Zooey asked.
Sonic slowly but surely got up from the floor, as the shattered vase pieces slid off his quills. His eyes readjusted themselves, so that weren't as wide as before.
"Guys," Sonic began, "You won't believe on what I just saw happen to Tails in that jungle."
Knuckles & Sticks came walking out of the still messy kitchen, having heard the sound of Sonic's voice.
"What happened to him?" Knuckles asked.
"Did he tell you that he was a secret government agent?" Sticks asked suspiciously.
"No." Sonic answered, "It was nothing to do with that, Sticks."
"Sonic, just please tell us." Zooey said, calmly yet worriedly, "What happened to Tails?"
The pale hedgehog took in a deep breath & calmed himself down a bit, before he looked at his friends with a worried glance in his eyes.
"Tails has gone dark." Sonic stated.
The group just started at the blue leader, while glancing at one another confusingly. What kind of answer was this?
"What do you mean Tails has gone dark?" Amy asked, "What happened out there?"
"Well," Sonic began, "When I went to look for Tails in the jungle, I heard him talking to himself, before I then went to talk to him. Tails then told me about how his feelings were always hurt by the many times we blame him for the stuff that he doesn't mean to do. I tried to explain to Tails that we never mean any of it, but he went as far to calling us stuck-up idiots, then saying that he never feels appreciate by anyone, & then he tells me that we never give him a chance to prove on what he can do for us."
Amy, Knuckles, Sticks & Zooey all carefully took in what Sonic said. While Zooey was very worried about Tails, as she knew that Tails would never say anything bad about her, Amy, Knuckles & Sticks were left thinking very carefully & even started to feel a small bit of guilt inside of themselves. They have been the meanest to Tails in the past.
"Then, what happened next?" Knuckles asked.
"I saw him change, right in front of my eyes." Sonic responded, "His eyes turned dark red & his fur became pitch black. There was even a purple aura surrounding him. He was really angry at me, & I m pretty sure he's angry with all of us. I call his new form Dark Tails."
Sticks & Amy were left wide-eyed with shock, while Knuckles looked a bit surprised by this, & Zooey was now extremely worried about Tails change in personality. This was certainly not good for the members of Team Sonic.
"But, what caused him to change into that form? Zooey asked, worriedly.
Sonic wasn't too sure, if he should tell his friends about what he said to Tails that made him turn dark & get really angry. But, he knew that if he lied, then the members of Team Sonic would get suspicious & endlessly ask him the same question, over & over again.
Clearing his throat, Sonic then faced his friends while wearing a nervous & lame looking smile on his face.
"Uh well, I kind of accidentally insulted him." Sonic said, while rubbing his head with his hand & chuckled nervously.
The group looked silent, before Amy spoke up, rather loudly.
"What?!" Amy exclaimed, "Sonic, what did you do, this time?!"
"Well, before he changed into his dark form, I asked Tails when he was coming back to the village." Sonic explained, "He told me that he would come back, wherever he felt like it, since he knows most of the routes of the jungle paths on the island. I then said to him that uh, he would have to be a real genius to know all of that."
Now this really made the group looked wide-eyed, since the Blue Leader had just told them that he accidentally insulted Tails, to which in turn made him change into Dark Tails, & punch him right in the face.
In the background, Sticks just face-palmed herself in the face, while Amy & Zooey looked really shocked, & Knuckles was just too busy looking at the large bruise on Sonic's cheek.
Then, at last, Zooey spoke up, with a hint of anger in her voice.
"You idiot!" Zooey exclaimed, "Do you even realize what you've now done to Tails?!"
"Uhh, heh-heh..." Sonic chuckled lamely and nervously, "Yeah, I didn't realize it, until I insulted him, by accident.
Knuckles then spoke up, saying, "Hey Sonic, how come you have that bruise on your cheek?"
"What, this?" Sonic asked, pointing to the bruise mark, "Oh, after Tails turned dark, I tried to explain to him about my mistake, but his reflexes were so fast, that he punched me right in the side of my face & sent me flying into the jungle again. I was so scared of his new form that I just ran like heck all of the way back to here."
"But how strong was Tails when he punched you?" Knuckles asked again.
"Uhh...let's just say that he's tougher than you, Knux." Sonic answered, "Although, I don't know if he'll be stronger than any of Eggman's robots."
The group went silent for a little while, before Zooey spoke up once again, a little bit more calmly this time.
"Guys, what do you think made Tails go dark like that?" Zooey asked.
"Hmm, I guess it could possibly be from the many times that we have all blamed & criticized him for the times that his inventions failed." Sonic answered, "Tails did say that he never felt appreciated by anyone who liked his work or inventions."
"He has got a point there, I guess." Sticks said, as a small tear ran down her eye, "I mean, sometimes I share a bit of the guilt in the group, especially when I made him replant my orchard after he destroyed it. Now, I wish I never made him do that."
"Yeah, & I for one have some guilt in this too." Amy agreed, regret in her voice, "I have been harsh on him from time to time, & criticized his faster ways of sorting things out for us."
"I may be clueless, but sometimes I told Tails that his ideas where not cool." Knuckles added, "Although, I can't remember a time when I was actually mean to him."
"Sometimes, I was also a bit funny with my little bro too." Sonic said, "Sometimes I told him to stop patronizing me, & I even felt guilty for firing him as my sidekick."
"So," in summary Zooey spoke up, "Most of you guys have been mean to Tails in the past, & that's why he has gone dark on us?"
"Yep." Team Sonic said together.
"But only one question remains:" Zooey said, "Who has been mean to Tails the most?"
An awkward silence was heard, as Sonic, Knuckles & Sticks glanced at each other nervously. Then, Zooey got her answer to her question, as the three then immediately pointed to Amy.
"Amy has!" Sonic, Sticks and Knuckles said together.
The pink hedgehog looked at the three with shock, annoyance & anger.
"Hey!" Amy said, "I can't take the blame on this, guys! I haven't said anything bad about Tails in my life!"
"Yeah," right Knuckles exclaimed, before turning to Zooey, "Amy's been the meanest to Tails. She once told him to zip it."
Zooey's eyes widened a bit, while Amy just sat there in stunned silence. The pink hedgehog didn't think that Knuckles or anybody else would bring that incident back up.
"But, that's only because he said I was asking a technical question!" Amy pathetically explained, a nervous glance on her face.
"Amy, may I see you in the kitchen for a minute, please?" Zooey asked, as she got up & walked over to the still messy kitchen area.
Amy just nodded silently, as she got up & walked over to join the female fox in the kitchen.
"This shouldn't take too long guys..." Amy said, "Hopefully..."
Amy entered the kitchen, before a few seconds later, some sounds of crashing, punching & shouting was heard coming from inside, along with a few yelps from Amy.
However, we'll focus on Sonic, Knuckles & Sticks watching from their view on the couch, because we don't want the viewers of this fanfic to see what was going on.
As the three watched from the couch, all Sonic, Sticks & Knuckles could do was watch with wide eyes & cringe at the sight that they were seeing in the kitchen, as it turns out that Zooey & Amy were fighting in the kitchen, with the vixen somehow gaining the upper hand.
"Ooh, that's going to hurt!" Sonic said.
"But it's worth a show to watch!" Knuckles commented, as he started to somehow eat from a bag of popcorn.
"I really hope that we can find Tails and apologize to him, before he tries to kill us all." Sticks said to the two guys.
"Yeah, let's hope so." Sonic agreed, "Because I can't imagine what Tails is doing right now, in that jungle."
End of Chapter Three
Hope that you guys liked this. Chapter 4 will be out later this week. Bye for now.
