And here is the promised and (hopefully) awaited chapter! Just how is everyone supposed to escape from the burning house? Well, let's not wait any longer shall we?
Edited 5/19/15: To fix the abrupt ending of chapter 7 and beginning chapter 8 that occurred because I was brain dead from studying for tests I have edited the chapters. I have moved a scene from the beginning of chapter 7 to chapter 6, and combined chapter 8 with chapter 7, deleting the redundant chapter 8. I have also edited my author notes in the three chapters. No scenes have been deleted (some minor edits have been done though). Sorry for my mistake and any inconvenience it has caused!
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters in this piece, but I have taken the liberty to twist their personalities to the point where they are barely recognizable as the characters they're supposed to be.
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Sonic, Amy, and Tails were in the living room when Sonic smelled it. Smoke. All three of them froze hoping against hope that it wasn't true. At that moment Charmy came zooming in screaming, "Ffirreee!"
With neck breaking speed, Sonic grabbed Charmy by the neck out of the air and began to choke him. Shoving Charmy into Sonic's face until they were inches apart, Sonic asked angrily, "Did you cause this?" Charmy couldn't answer even if he wanted to.
"Sonic, no!" Tails cried as he ran up to Sonic. "Let him go!"
"Why?" Sonic said turning his head a gross 270 degrees to see Tails who was behind him.
Everyone was thrown to the ground as the oven exploded in the kitchen. It shook the entire house as though there was an earthquake. The flames began to lick the doorway to the living room. Sonic propped himself up in time to see Charmy grab the blanket on the couch and fly towards the kitchen. "Charmy, no! That won't work!"
If you didn't notice, Charmy is very small. He's also a six-year-old. Charmy flailed the blanket at the fire as hard as he could but he only succeeded in getting the blanket on fire.
"Charmy, you moron! STOP!" Sonic cried.
For a long second or two, Charmy stared at the blanket in his hands. It wasn't until the flames brushed his hands did Charmy scream. "Aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Charmy back peddled and flew through the living room with the fiery blanket right behind him.
Tails and Amy stood up just in time for the blanket to slam into their faces. Sonic dove to the ground, the blanket soaring above him. Amy, the smart one, immediately dropped to the ground and began to roll. Tails, the dumb one, totally freaked. Sonic couldn't see Tails, but heard his screams fade father away into the house.
"Tails!" Sonic shouted. He turned his head to see that the couch and the broken furniture laying on the floor caught on fire. Sonic swore loudly. "All I wanted was to watch some #$%^& TV!"
In a normal situation the first and foremost thing that should have been on Sonic's mind was locating his friends and bringing them to safety. After what was happen today-and what happening now-Sonic didn't give a crap if his friends burned to death. Besides, at the rate the fire was spreading it would be just enough if Sonic got out alive. Sonic only knew a few of the locations of his friends and a good percentage of them were missing in action. From now on everyone was on his or her own.
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A certain animal awoke to the sound of nearby explosions. The explosions were caused by machines catching fire and blowing up. After a pause the animal sat up slowly. He or she could only remember a few choice things about his or her life. The figure heard the explosions but it didn't register. So as the entire lab was exploding around him or her, he or she just looked at his or her hand trying to remember… A part of the wall behind him or her smashed into his or her head knocking him or her a full 30 yards. He or she should have definitely been killed instantly or at least knocked unconscious, but instead… a miracle occurred. The creature stood up, overjoyed, and jumped up and down screaming at the unseen skies, "I remember! I remember! IIIII REMEMBBBBEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRR!" The creature stopped abruptly and looked down at his fist. "I'm gonna kill that-"
The ceiling collapsed on the creature covering him or her completely in rock and rubble never to be heard from again.
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Omega was trying to somehow fit onto the stairs leading upstairs. Shadow and Rouge yelled impatiently at him in a vain attempt for him to go faster. They had smelt smoke earlier and were trying desperately to get out with no results. Omega, Shadow, and Rouge had been trying to go upstairs for nearly a half hour and all of their tempers were shot. They already visited the staircase they used earlier to get down here, but the stairs had collapsed under Omega's one thousand pound frame. There was another rumored stairwell in Tails' personal lab, but that was on the other side of lab, behind a titanium door, and password protected. If the three were forced to find that stairwell Shadow would have a heart attack.
"Move it, Omega! Or I'll throw you up there!"
Omega tried for the fifteenth time to go up the stairs sideways. A stair broke. "I'M TRYING BUT IF YOU REALLY WANT TO THROW ME UP THERE, GO AHEAD. IN FACT PLEASE DO. THEN I DON'T HAVE TO BE AROUND TO WITNESS ANOTHER MAKE OUT SESSION WITH ROUGE."
Needless to say, Shadow was ticked. Instead of admitting to his desire to crawl into a hole and die, Shadow lunged at Omega.
Omega spun his head around. "FOR THE LOVE OF…" Omega grabbed Shadow's face midair. Omega spun his torso still holding Shadow, and let him go. Shadow collided into Rouge and the two went flying across the lab. It would be up to them to find a way out.
Omega laughed. He turned and put his foot down on the next stair. The stair broke.
"D*** IT."
Then the entre stairwell fell apart in cloud of dust and wood.
"SCREW THIS." Omega raised his arm as his rocket propelled feet took off. He punched through ceiling and the next. If only there were more milkshakes in the world there wouldn't be this mess.
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Vector and Knuckles still stood waiting for Charmy. The fire was practically in their faces. Knuckles knew that no matter what, he would stand there and wait for Charmy. It would be the only good thing that he had done today. Vector didn't think so.
"Uh… Knuckles?"
"Yes, Vector?"
"Shouldn't we, uh, go?"
"You go ahead, Vector. I'm waiting for Charmy."
Vector looked at Knuckles with deep veneration in his eyes. "I… I have a confession."
Knuckles nodded, still facing the fire. "Okay."
"I… I love Cream's mom."
"That's nice, Vector."
"And… I don't know her name."
"…"
Vector cleared his throat. It was getting increasing dry. "Do you have any confessions?"
"I have no regrets."
Vector nodded. "I'll remember that. I hope. …Bye." With that Vector ran off at the speed of sound.
Knuckles stood with his arms crossed staring down at the fire. It was just him, the fire, and Knuckles' fiery spirit in his heart that would never die even if Knuckles' body did.
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Amy stopped rolling after a swift kick from Sonic to the ribcage. Before Amy could yell at him, Sonic was gone. Amy's eyelashes, eyebrows, and part of her hair were gone. She whimpered and gingerly touched her forehead. She wondered briefly when everything went wrong. But there was no time for that. The fire was all over the room and if she didn't hurry, the flames would consume every way out. Since the front door was the closest, she ran that way. Charmy must have come this way with his flaming blanket because the entire doorless door frame were on fire. Amy heard a loud creaking noise. She snapped her head up just in time to see a support beam of the house was falling down on top of her!
"AAAHHH!" Amy screamed as she dove backwards. The beam smashed behind her, blocking the front door with a roaring fire. Amy picked herself up and hugged her knees. She had almost died. This was by far the scariest night of her life. She choked back a sob. More creaking sounds scared Amy out of her hysterical state and propelled her up the stairs.
Upstairs everything was aflame. Amy covered her mouth and nose with her arm as she stumbled forward looking for a window. Using what breath she had she screamed, "Help! Somebody!" No one answered. Or no one cared.
Amy burst into Sonic's room. There! A window was on the opposite wall of Sonic's bed. And it wasn't on fire! Amy was about to run towards it when the floor exploded. She was knocked back and only barely caught a glimpse of flying red metal smashing through the ceiling. After taking a few moments to regain her breath, Amy stood up and examined the two holes. One below and one above to the roof. The rubble from the ceiling blocked the window and the hole in the roof was too high to jump to. The dresser, the highest object in the room, was totally destroyed. Amy wiped off the sweat from her forehead. She was going to die here. Alone. She crumpled to her knees and sobbed. A stray little flame flickered in her face, then winked out. It reminded Amy of Tikal, the most magical person Amy had ever met. …Magical.
Amy stood up with a new goal stuck in her mind and a new strength in her limbs. She gripped her piko piko hammer in her hands. Amy took a few steps back then ran forward. She slammed her hammer into the ground and catapulted herself upwards-toward freedom. This was it! She was going to make it! She was going to live! She was gonna wake up from this cursed nightmare!
Amy spun head over heels in the air. She was so close, so very, very close! She reached up her arm and felt the night air on her fingertips…
While Amy's arm made it, the rest of her didn't. Amy's face smashed into the side of the ceiling. She briefly felt the sensation of falling before blacking out.
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Blaze was trapped. And try as she might, she couldn't get out. She was stuck there, alone, cold, and wet, just wishing it all to be over. She never dreamed in her wildest imagination that she would be kidnapped while visiting Sonic's house during what was supposed to be a date with Silver. She had no way out and she was certain that once the fire reached her she would explode. Literally.
Not to mention that she barely fit in there. Blaze had to hug her knees to her chest and push down on her head as much as she could. On her back. She had been stuck in that position for over two hours. All she could hear was the loud sound of her panicked breathing and water dripping on her shoulder. And the smell has horrendous. The place reeked of moldy detergent. In this position Blaze couldn't see outside very well and only out of the corner of her eye. She knew about the fire because she smelt it. Now she was just waiting… for her amazing savior, or her fast approaching death.
Much to her surprise Blaze heard beeping from above her. She thought she was going insane. But she heard it again. Blaze tried to move but couldn't. Then she heard the sound of a door opening above her. Filled with desire of being freed Blaze tried to stand up to escape. A red ribbon floated in followed by a ton of white powder. Then the lid was shut. Blaze mewed in protest, gagging.
The sound of beeping stopped from above. There was a long silence before a deep voice asked, "Is that… a cat in there?"
Blaze tried to reply but ended up hacking. She tried to see who it was but all she saw was the color blue. And the flames half way across the room.
"It IS a cat in there! WTH? What are you doing in there?"
Blaze rubbed her eyes as best as she could while trying to place the voice with a person. She couldn't. Still the flames approached ever closer…
"I'm trying to wash my ribbon, thank you very much, you #$#! I would appreciate you leaving. Now."
Blaze strained to move her head as much as she could. She saw that the flames were almost right behind the person talking to her. He or she was very small. Tiny, even. She froze. Blue. Red ribbon. Male voice. Tiny. It couldn't be…
"GET THE H*LL OUT, *& #! You son of a gun! I'm just trying to wash my bowtie! Do you know you I am? I'm Cheese the Chao with an attitude!" Cheese turned around. "WTH?! Go away fire! I'm trying to wash my bowtie! GET THE H*LL OUT!"
Blaze cried. It was about 30 seconds until the fire reached them. She would die forgotten by everyone she loved with the stupid Chao cursing at the fire as her company. She was so close to salvation, only to be condemned.
In a washing machine.
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Amy was wrong about one thing. There was someone upstairs with her. He just couldn't respond.
When Tails' face caught on fire, he didn't know what to do. Everything he was thinking suddenly went blank. Then he panicked. He ran down the hallway in an attempt to run away from the fire. He ran blindly completely unaware of his surroundings. He tripped on the last step and fell on his face. Only then did Tails roll. After rubbing his face searching for damage, Tails examined his surroundings. He was upstairs. Flames were already present and quickly spreading. He needed a way out of there. Tails scrambled up and into his room. His room was on fire as was everything else in the house. Tails gaped. Everything was destroyed. His bed, his desk, his inventions… The fire couldn't have done this. Only those buffoons of the Chaotix could have done this.
"How… could… they?!"
If they had even moved Tails' stapler to the other side of his desk, Tails would have yelled at them for an hour about how not to touch his things. Now if Tails saw them he would kill them. Hours and hours of work and blueprints went down the drain and up in flames. And while Tails was fuming the fire only grew bigger and hotter…
The fire snapped Tails out of his anger, reminding him that there were far more important things to do right now. The only way Tails could escape was through the window. Unfortunately, fire covered up the window. Tails gritted his teeth. This was going to be painful. Tails covered his mouth and nose, stiffened his resolve with images of him burning the Chaotix to death, and ran toward the window going through fire…
…to going suicidal by jumping out a window. Never mind that Tails can fly.
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Now that Vector was gone, Knuckles could be the coward that he really was. He turned around and ran screaming his head off that there was a fire.
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Shadow and Rouge had searched all over for a stairwell that Omega hadn't broke. It never seemed to matter before but now their lives depended on it. Shadow and Rouge were now huddled in a corner with the flames coming fast. Earlier, Rouge watched Shadow try his best to destroy the door to Tails' personal lab. He failed. For some time Shadow sit down for a bit, only to attack the door again. He had long since given up and sat down next to Rouge. As the conflagration crept closer Rouge couldn't help but feel like crying. There was no escape for them.
"I'm sorry, Rouge…" Shadow whispered.
Rouge tried hard not to sniff. "It's okay." The two of them watched the roaring inferno come closer. The flames leapt up to the ceiling, over twelve feet. The fire didn't seem afraid to burn two animals to death. Rouge turned to Shadow, "Isn't there a way out?"
Shadow shook his head. "Even if I busted down the door if bet there'll be fire behind it."
Rouge sighed. At least she wouldn't die alone. If only she could pray to be teleported from this.
Shadow muttered, "If only I had a Chaos Emerald…"
The two stared at each other eyes wide. They spoke at the same time.
"I'll kiss you again if you have a Chaos Emerald."
"Right! I have one right here- Wait, what?"
Before Shadow could finish, the two were gone.
Forever.
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"Shadow and Rouge weren't the only ones huddled in the corner as flames approached," the narrator grins forebodingly. "Maybe you forgot about this character. That's okay. You weren't the only one. But unfortunately for this character there was no way out. First, let's go back in time a little bit."
Cream rocked back and forth on the ground with her knees to her chest. Her eyes brimmed with tears long dried out by the fire. She was terrified. Staring at the flames, Cream whispered to herself, "This did not happen last year. This definitely did not happen last year. I just wanna… c-can we go back to last year… please? Please? Somebody…anybody…"
There was no feasible way for Cream to escape. She was stuck at the heart of the fire, in the kitchen. Which is also the hottest. She was forgotten by everyone. It was a cruel joke that Cream was supposed to be the one to watch over the others. She was a six year old bunny trapped in a rabbit hole. Her only company was Cheese who was in her arms.
Cream hugged Cheese as best as she could. "I'm sorry, Cheese. I never meant for this happen. It's not my fault…"
Cheese crossed his arms. He snapped, "Yeah right."
Cream froze. "C-c-c-cheese? I-I must be going insane."
Cheese turned in Cream's arms. "Insane? Everyone is insane! And I'm sick of you!"
"C-cheese?"
"'It's not my fault.' Yes it #$%#$ is! If you weren't sobbing all this time so concerned about what happened last year then we wouldn't be in this mess! And now this year is gonna be our last year! Our last day, too you %#& #!" Cream just stared blankly at Cheese. "Look at this! My bowtie is dirty!" Cheese shook his head in disgust. "And another thing! I'm sick of being your Chao! I was first attracted to you because I loved the mean side of you, you show when no one was around. But I'm so sick of you sucking up to people!"
"Cheese…"
"Well?"
Cream frowned, "Well, what?"
"You ain't gonna see me no mores. Or anyone. Last words?"
Cream clenched her fists. Anger coursed through her. She never asked for this. She never wanted to come here. She was forced to come here just like she was forced to be her mother's pretty sweet natured doll at all times. She was going to die as somebody's puppet, somebody's idea of a joke. If there was one thing that Cream was sure of in her life it was that this was not her fault. It was everyone around her.
"Yeah. This is not my fault. This is everyone else's fault. I swear that if I die here, I'll haunt them and murder them when they least expect it."
"That's cool. Wish I could be there with you."
"What?"
"You heard what I said. Mah bowtie's dirty. I'm going to find a washing machine and clean it. Have fun, kid." Cheese began to beat his tiny angelic wings.
"What? You're leaving me? But you're going to die!"
Cheese smirked. "You listen to me, kid. I'm a magic Chao, sweetheart. And I'm gonna go. Buh bye."
Cream screamed as loud as she could, "No! No, don't leave me here! You can't! You can't leave me here! You must stay! As reparation! GET BACK HERE!"
"Nope, sweetcakes. Life's tough but you're dead now. I got my whole life ahead of me." Cheese flew into the fire out of sight.
Cream tried to watch Cheese, but couldn't because of the flames. The flames were the only thing Cream could see. Gleefully and eager, they licked her feet. Cream tried to scoot back into the corner more away from the fire. The wall hit the back of her head. Cream closed her eyes as insane thoughts rushed around in her head. It was everyone else's fault. She was going to die. It was everyone else's fault. She was going to die. Now. Here. Alone.
Because her stupid Chao could talk, wanted to wash his bowtie, and didn't give a crap if she burned to death.
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Sonic wasted no time. After he kicked Amy in her side Sonic bolted out of the room. He ran out of the front door before flames rendered the escape route unusable. He didn't stop running until he was quite a ways from the house. Sonic skidded to a stop and turned around. Stupid Charmy must have flown all over the place with his burning blanket. Not just the kitchen, but the whole house was catching fire. It was bad enough that Charmy had stabbed him. Now his house was burning to the ground.
Realizing that he couldn't reenter the house to call firefighters, Sonic dashed to Tails' Tornado and called from there.
"Hello. This is Smokey the Bear Forest Fire Fighters. May I help you?"
An explosion rattled the house almost knocking Sonic from the Tornado. Sonic spoke, "Uh, Whoa! …I uh, ugh… yeah! I need help!"
"Sounds like it, feller. What can I do for you?"
"Dude, you're the firefighters, right? Aren't you, like, tracking my call and sending your firemen as we speak?"
"You never said there was a fire. Is there one?"
Sonic groaned to himself extremely frustrated. More idiots. "YES, you moron! Why else would I call! My house is burning down as we speak!"
The man on the other end laughed. "No need to get your knickers tried in a knot. But, we are Smokey the Bear Forest Fire Fighters. We only stop forest fires. Have a nice day."
"What? No!" Sonic cried. The man hung up. "You $$****!" Sonic redialed.
"Hello. This is Smok-"
Sonic gripped the phone in his hand as hard as he could. "I know who this is!"
"Oh good. Is there a forest fire?"
"…Yes! Please hurry! All the animals in the forest are going to die if you don't hurry! It would be so heartbreaking."
"…You sound like that young feller with a house fire that just called."
"Me? I-I mean who? Please hurry!"
"…Okay, ma'am. We're coming."
"Thank you so much, you b#$ #." Sonic hung up and sighed. He watched his house… his home go up in smoke. He loved that house. Sonic hugged his knees to his chest. A cold, chilling wind blew through the valley stirring memories of old. Sonic let his mind wander through all the memories spent here. Before he knew it there were tears streaming down his face. Sonic thought of this morning. All he wanted was to have some French toast and eggs. A breakfast! And then some football and a quiet evening. That was so, so far away from now. Never to happen ever again.
It was fifteen minutes later when the phone rang. Startled, Sonic answered, "H-hello?"
"Hi. This is Smokey the Bear Forest Fire Fighters. You're the one who said there was a forest fire, right?" It was the man from before.
"Uh…" Sonic switched his voice to a grandma's. While Sonic was forced to play this dumb game part of the house collapsed. "Yes, I uh, holy s***! I-I-I mean, yes come quick! Uh… why are you calling me?"
"You never gave us an address."
"…"
There were so many things wrong with what he said. Sonic was too pissed to answer. After a moment Sonic whispered angrily in his normal voice, "Listen to me you son of a. If you aren't here in an hour my house will be ashes with everyone inside, not that I care about them. But if you're so incompetent, I swear I'll just run over to where you are and drive all the trucks over here myself. I bet I can do it faster than you!"
"Wait, what? You're gonna run us over?"
Sonic exhaled through his nose. "Omg…"
The man on the other end sighed. "Look, ma'am. Just give me the address of the forest and we'll be there."
Sonic gritted his teeth. "…I don't have an address."
"What?"
"I said I don't have an address, moron."
"How can you not?"
Sonic closed his eyes and tried not to cry. "I don't have one. I wanted to have a house away from civilization and surrounded by nature so that whenever I felt like it I could run away. I live 50 miles away from our nearest neighbors with no road to my house."
"…This is Smokey the Bear Forest Fire Fighters. Have a nice day." He hung up.
Sonic swore loudly. Sonic paged through the emergency telephone numbers Tails had on speed dial looking for another firefighters. He could hear pounding in the distance growing closer. "Come on, come on…" The pounding grew closer. Sonic began to sweat from fear. He began to slouch in the pilot's seat trying to hide. The pounding was on top of him when Sonic hid under the dashboard.
"I MADE IT OUT UNHARMED. I HAVE AMY."
Sonic peeked out from under the dashboard. It was Omega. Omega dropped a smoldering Amy on the seat. She looked negatively horrible like a zombie. Sonic shoved Amy out of the plane. "Don't put her here! I'm trying to get help!"
"…YOU DO THAT."
Sonic continue to search the list of phone numbers murmuring the names to himself, "Domino's Pizza… Mina's Hair Salon... Wes Weasley … Fiona?!"
Omega watched Sonic. "…JUST CALL 911."
"Shut up, tin can! I don't need your commentary!" Sonic dialed 991 and explained the situation to the dial tone.
"…NEVER MIND. I'LL JUST DO IT MYSELF."
A half hour almost everyone from the house arrived and joined Sonic, Omega, and Amy. Vector was next after Omega. He was completely covered in ash talking about love and Knuckles. Five minutes after Vector arrived, Knuckles appeared scared out of his wits. Vector and Knuckles immediately began to argue about something unimportant like trust or something. Sonic yelled at them to shut up until his throat was sore, but he couldn't stop them from strangling each other and rolling on the ground. Instead Sonic was reduced to sobs trying to think straight. Not a minute later, Tails was at Sonic's shoulder trying to comfort Sonic, but crying over the house himself. Last to come was Shadow and Rouge who teleported. Omega then yelled at the two of them too.
By that time the firefighters and ambulance appeared the house was completely covered in flames. The firefighters quickly went to work trying to put out the fire. Doctors and nurses ran around examining people and telling who needed to go to the hospital. After five minutes past after their arrival, the firefighters gave up trying to put out the fire. Instead, they were only using the water to put out the flames long enough to send men in to find the remainder of Sonic's friends. Helicopters from Fox 29 news, CNN, other news casting stations were broadcasting the disaster to the world. Firemen constantly shouted at each other, giving orders and nurses continuously fainted at the sight of how burned Sonic and his friends were.
Sonic's friends didn't help either. Shadow yelled at Rouge, Omega yelled at Shadow and Rouge and kept on tossing them. Knuckles and Vector continued to fight even though the nurses finally separated them after threatening to use Tasers. Amy was still knocked out but nurses were working on reviving her. They said that she would awake soon. Tails continued to comfort Sonic, but Sonic was beyond all hope.
Sonic sniffed. He had been crying for almost an hour straight. "Why… why can't they stop? Don't they… don't they realize… what they've done?"
Tails wiped his eyes. "I… guess not. They're just… I don't know…"
Sonic narrowed his eyes and clenched his fists. He hissed, "I'll make them realize…" The he sighed, swinging back to his sadness. "How could we have lost the house, Tails? Why didn't you make me breakfast, Tails? We take turns. I made you dinner last night… or should I say two days ago? It's *sniff* probably past midnight. But *sniff**sniff* I wouldn't know! We don't have a clock no more!" Sonic broke into loud sobs.
Tails took a step back just finally realizing all that they had done to Sonic. "…Uh… Sonic?" Sonic only continued to sob.
"WAIT!"
Everyone turned at the voice. One of the ambulances began to sound its siren.
"Wait! *hack* *hack* I'm sorry!"
It was Silver, though he wasn't silver anymore. Not with all that ash and soot. He was running toward the ambulance with the screaming siren. Hands outstretched, running, Silver screamed, "I'm so sorry for forgetting about you! Forgive me! Bllaaazzzeeee! Come back! …"
The ambulance turned around and drove away with Silver chasing after.
A firefighter approached Tails and Sonic. He glanced over at Sonic and asked Tails, "Does he need some help?"
Tails waved his question aside. "Are you going to save the house?" The fireman shook his head. Tails bit his lip. "Is there going to be anything left?"
The fireman shrugged. "You can never be completely sure about that kind of thing. But I can tell you this, there won't be a lot left."
Sonic whispered loudly, "D*** you, Smokey the Bear."
Both Tails and the fireman stared at Sonic for a few seconds before continuing. The fireman said, "I need one of you to identify a body we found in the house."
Sonic stopped sobbing and stared at the fireman wide eyed with shock. Several times Sonic thought that he didn't care if his friends burned to death, but he never meant it. Well… he did, but he didn't think it would actually happen. He wasn't that lucky. "What… are you sure?"
The fireman nodded. Tails gulped. "I… I'll go." The two walked off.
Sonic stared in the direction that they left. It wasn't long until Tails appeared with Amy beside him but it felt like forever. Under the ash and the red of Tails' multiple cuts, Tails looked a little green. Amy was sobbing.
"Sonic…" Tails started. "Sonic… it's…"
Sonic closed his eyes and bracing himself against the blow. "Who, Tails?" Sonic asked quietly. Which person was… lost?
"It's… Cream."
"She…?"
"She's gone."
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I stood up and everyone behind me froze then faded to nothingness… "And another meanwhile. Yes, it's me, Narrator. I apologize for my appearance in the story. I'm sure that threw you off. You see, I just had to explain what was going on. And yes I had to introduce myself that way, because… because it was awesome that's why! And I can do whatever the h*ll I want. Don't even think about the cavehedgehog. I still have a lump on my head. …Oh there I go again. I don't usually ramble… Anyway, let me ask you this. How do you feel? Are you still laughing at Cream's demise? Alas, that's one of the advantages of having this story written. I don't get to see your reactions. Though it is frustrating. Are you repulsed? Shocked? Well, there was plenty of warning. I expect that you were laughing at plenty of the events. If that's the case…that's the most horrible thing you could have done. This is not something to take lightly. This is a warning! This madness can happen! If you realized this, I'm sorry. And yet you have to agree with me that I have to warn the public. Unless you're already as insane and fabricating stories like I am. I mean, NO! I did not fabricate this! I couldn't! Only the most insane of the insane could have! Just ask Sonic! …no you really shouldn't. He already killed several of my past readers because they asked. Ask someone else then.
Now for all of my rambling, where are you? The end? No, sorry. There's still a little more. Though, yes you read all manner of insanity and figured out why Sonic acted that way in the beginning, there's still more. When you see my italicized words again, then yes it's the end. I'll answer any last minute questions you have then, but for now we go back to the scene we left hanging at the beginning. Sonic was just about to tell you something. Best get on with this… see it on through! That's a chap! And don't forget to prepare yourself! I'll see you again…" I bow and everything behind me fades in to a clear image…
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Though I try to help him, the narrator loves to not explain things in his own telling of the events. Therefore I must pick up the slack. The mysterious unnamed person that is crushed is Espio. He remembers all that had happened that day, all of his other missing memories, and his burning desire to kill Knuckles. Only to be crushed afterward. I am aware that Cream's mom has a name, but Vector must be too shy to ask. Why thinking of Tikal causes Amy to remember her hammer is because her hammer, at least to me, seems magical. Unless of course you believe she can shrink and enlarge at will and is attached somewhere to her dress. Fiona, the woman in Tail's speed dial in case you didn't know, is a fox in the Archie Sonic Comics that Tails liked. So the fact that she's in speed dial implies that Tails has been hiding something… Believe it or not, Cream's position is not what I had originally intended to be. It just kinda happened as I was typing... Same goes for Cheese. You get a cake and two dozen cookies if you guessed that was Cheese and an entire birthday party if you figured out that Blaze was in a washing machine before I "told" you. :)
With this being the second to last chapter, it's time to leave some reviews! Who exactly do you think is most at fault here? Is it Knuckles, Charmy, Sonic? The narrator? Be nice to this writer and take ten to thirty seconds out of your day to let me know what you think in a review. I am super appreciative that you are reading this silly, crazy thing. :) Thank you!
I'm sorry, Chris and WHAOH, but with all my tests (which on the whole have gone pretty well in case you were wondering), I haven't had the chance to watch any of SMG4's videos. But I will by the time I post the last chapter and I'll tell you what I think. Thank you, Chris for explaining it to me and thank you WHAOH for suggesting it.
Next chapter: The End and epilogue! I won't say anything more than that, because you'll have to read it for yourself!
Thank you for giving this crazy story a chance and sticking with it until now. Please continue and finish the story with me.