O.K! Chapter 2! Thank you to everyone who reviewed! I know that this is not as good as my first chapter, but I did my best on it.
Disclaimer: See Chapter one
A peaceful evening seems to be coming for the City of Station Square. The moon was shining, everyone was happy and life was good. However, the silence was split by a heartfelt scream, piercing the night air like a sword.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! Pwease, NO! I don wanna!"
"I DON'T CARE WETHER YOU WANT TO OR NOT, SONIC!!!! YOU ARE GETTING IN THAT TUB AND THAT IS FINAL!!!!!!!!!"
Charge chased the little blue hedgehog around the house. Even as a toddler, Sonic was still pretty darn fast. He was also coated with mud after his adventure in the park. Most of this mud was ending up everywhere he ran, which somehow included the walls and the ceiling. It was also getting onto Charge's expensive hardwood floors, where it would take eons to clean it off.
Charge was not much better off. It had taken him a while to get all the kids back to his house, where it would be easier to take care of them. Noting that most of the kids were dirty, he had proceeded to give them all baths. For the most part, this had been easy, but due to Sonic's morbid fear of water, he had refused to go in. Charge had tried everything in his arsenal, from toys to candy, but Sonic stood firm. Then, when Charge attempted to force him in, he had taken off. Now, a wild game of tag had begun. Charge almost had Sonic before something caught his eye.
"TAILS, DO NOT TOUCH MY T.V!!!!!" he yelled at the young fox, before continuing to chase after the blue blur.
He finally caught Sonic and dragged him off kicking and screaming into the bathroom. The blue hedgehog looked like he was willing to commit hari kari with a comb to escape the torture of being washed. The terrified Sonic looked at his former friend with horror in his eyes. Charge ignored the look and continued to drag him to the dreaded bathtub. Once he was in, he repeatedly yelled that he was going to drown.
"NO TODDLER HAS EVER DROWNED IN LESS THAN FIVE INCHES OF WATER!!!!!!!!!!!!!" shouted Charge, his eyes growing dangerously white. "BUT THOSE TODDLERS DIDN'T HAVE 50,000 VOLTZ OF ELECTRICITY IN THE WATER, EITHER!"
A cell phone ringtone interrupted Sonic's apparent doom. Charge knew the caller immediately. The tune, Dreaming of an Absolution, was his friend, Silver's, favorite song. Surely enough, the caller was such. Charge let Sonic out of the tub, passing him a towel on the way, before answering the call.
"Hello." he said
Silver's voice answered "Hey, Charge, how's life been treating you?"
'Let's see, I found out today that I have to deal with eleven kids, who just so happen to be my friends, and now my house looks like it's been nuked, which it technically has.' thought Charge, shuddering while remembering when Shadow threw a Chaos Spear at one of his lights.
"Not bad." he replied "You?"
"Not bad either. Listen, Blaze and I need somewhere to sleep tonight. Eggman bombed our house, so we can't go there. Everyone else ain't answering."
Charge closed his eyes and tried to remember where all of the kids had been last spotted. Amy had been sleeping on his couch, Tails had been tinkering with his old T.V, Knuckles, for reasons unknown, had been hugging a cantaloupe, Vector had been over by his stereo system, Charmy, who hadn't changed much, was looking for sugar (Charge had his it in preparation), Espio was stabbing a watermelon with a small samurai sword, the Babylon Rouges were running around harassing everyone, and Shadow was on his refrigerator.
"I don't know if now is the best time." he sighed
"PLLLLLLLEEEEAAAAAASSSSSEEEE?!?" came the reply from Silver. Charge knew he was doing that ridiculous puppy-dog eyes thing.
Charge palmed his face. Even through the phone, the thing was too annoying to resist.
"Okay, Okay! I guess for a night or two won't hurt." he finally replied "But don't be surprised if the place looks like Eggman used for a weapons testing ground. I kinda have a …party going on here."
"SWEET!!!! We'll be there in an hour!" came the excited reply from Silver
"WAIT A SEC…"
The line disconnected.
Charge sighed and went to prepare for the night ahead.
One hour later:
The doorbell rang. Charge had just finished putting the last of the kids to sleep, when he went to go answer it. As he quickly walked towards the door, he checked that his fur was in good order. After assuring himself that it was, he approached the door. Looking through the peephole to be sure, he opened the door to the lilac cat and white hedgehog.
"Hi guys! C'mon in!" he said, opening the door fully.
The two passed through, glad to be out of the chilly night air. They looked around the house. It sure looked like it had been hit by an earthquake, but there was no signs of a party.
"You guys need anything? Food? Something to drink?" I asked politely.
"No, thanks." was the reply from Blaze.
"I'm good too." Silver added. He then voiced what both of them were thinking "Hey, where is everybody? I thought you said there was a party going on."
Charge sweat-dropped. "Uh…it isn't quite like that. You see, I went to the park and…"
"Who's dat?" came the small, high-pitched voice from behind Charge. He turned to see Baby Amy, who I had put to bed about a half an hour ago. Charge crouched down next to her and let his gaze lock with hers.
"They're a couple of friends of mine. Why aren't you in bed?"
"I can't sweep." she said, pouting "And I don wanna, eider"
"Now Amy, do you know why you need to sleep tonight?"
"No." she admitted. "Why?"
He grinned, "What if I told you that first thing tomorrow, everybody's going to the carnival."
Her eyes grew huge "Really?"
"You betcha. My treat." Charge said, cunningly adding "But you can't go if you don't go to sleep."
Before "go to sleep" was even out of his mouth, Amy was K.O on her sleeping area. Charge stood and turned to his guests. Both were standing open mouthed and staring with huge eyes.
Blaze spoke "Was that the…uh…real Amy?"
Charge sighed "Very long story. I guess I might as well tell you everything."
