Mobius

Chapter 3-

Now since I'm attempting to write chapters in advance, yet again, every chapter's going to be posted on Saturday... for now... It depends on how much I can get done. I'm still in high school, so don't be surprised is a chapter suddenly is not posted on Saturday.

~KF

"So I was like, you know how ridiculous I would look in that tunic of his? No way I'm being Link for a day, you know?"

Some time ago, Vector was asked by Blaze if he thought of being the savior of Hyrule, Link, for a day after he successfully completed The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. As soon as he brought the topic back up when he and the others were in the restaurant, Knuckles, Charmy, Jet, and Sonic all chuckled slightly. They tried their best to hide their laughter, but it was obvious that they were never good at it.

"...What?"

"...You should have been Zelda..." Rouge rolled her eyes with a smirk resting her elbow on the table.

That only caused the laughter to get louder.

"...Okay, now that was just rude Rouge!" Vector stared angrily. "And plus, I've actually talked to her before when Sonic invited me, Espio, and Charmy to come to the mansion."

His sentence made Rouge lift her head up nimbly with a look of surprise and confusion. "...What?" She almost immediately glanced at Sonic. "...They visited the mansion already this year and I didn't?"

Noticing the bat's glare, Sonic tried to think of an excuse. Yet, it was hard to think of one when you're frightened of what was going to come, say if the excuse was lame. "...Uh,... you didn't ask...?"

"Try better next time, hedgehog. You know I liked going there." Rouge crossed her arms. "Either Charmy, Vector, or both probably did something stupid, anyway..."

"...Well, Charmy took Fox's blaster and he almost shot Crazy Hand with it..." Espio brought up.

"I wanted to see what it could do!" The six year-old bee defended himself. "I heard that they had 'Target Practice' there and I wanted to test it out!"

"...I'm creeped out..." Jet had a somewhat terrified facial expression.

"...Why?" Knuckles picked up his pair of chopsticks.

"...Charmy,... using a firearm... Charmy,... using a gun..." He wanted to whisper the last word.

The moment he did, everyone else had their eyes staring from Jet to Charmy. There was a mix of confusion, frightening, and shocking faces.

"...Please don't hurt me!" Sonic now had both of his hands out in front of him.

"..." Charmy sighed. "Look, I know how to not go crazy with a weapon. I'm not that stupid..."

"If you weren't, you never would have used that blaster to almost accidentally shoot Crazy Hand!" The leader of Team Chaotix shouted. "Do you have any idea of what he and his brother Master Hand would do?"

He only shrugged in response.

"...Uh,..." Sonic was glazing his eyes at him as if he had two heads. "You clearly don't know Master Hand very well, do you? You may not know this, but he was the one who created the Smash World in the first place..."

That made Charmy froze in place with his jaw dropping.

"...Yeah..." The fifteen year-old hedgehog nodded his head rapidly. "Why do you think he's called Master Hand and not... I dunno Sushi Hand..."

The next thing Sonic knew, all eyes were on him. Most, if not all pairs were looking at him funny. Vector was about to place sushi in his mouth, as a matter of fact. But he couldn't, for he then lost his grip of the chopsticks and let the sushi fall to the floor.

"...What? It's an example!"

"...Master Hand as sushi..." Jet was lost. "...Okay, I need a moment to think about this..."

"So,... Master Hand as Sushi Hand..." Knuckles had to reflect with that thought as well.

Espio was simply dumbfounded as ever. "So, Sushi Hand is a hand that is made out of sushi... A hand of raw fish- what?"

"Really?" Vector raised an invisible eyebrow.

"I'm sorry!" Sonic apologized.

"No, it's not that!" The crocodile shook his head. "Raw fish?"

The chameleon shrugged his shoulders. "That's what sushi is..."

With that being said, Vector quickly pushed his food away from him. "Jet, you're not the only one who is disturbed, here..."

"Let's get back to the plan for Blaze's birthday..." Knuckles desired to change the subject. "So far we have nothing, so it would be a good thing if we can actually think of something."

Espio couldn't agree more. "And besides, this is the first birthday party when we're gonna do something creative, so we need to put all of our heads together and think. Let's start off with a question. What does Blaze like?"

"Silver." Jet promptly responded.

"... ... ..."

"...In that way?" Rouge raised her eyebrow. "...You do know that Silver and Blaze do not go out, right?"

"...They don't?"

Sonic did not looked pleased at all. "...Jet, if you were smart, you would know that you do not believe everything on social media... Even though that they could be a perfect couple... But, it's not true..."

"...Aw, dang it!" The irritated hawk slammed his fist on the table.

"SHUT. UP!" An irked man shouted from a table near him.

"..."

"...Anyway," Espio really wanted to get the topic going. "What does Blaze like, other than people?"

"...Well,... fire..." It was the best Vector the Crocodile could think of. "It's her own power, of course..."

"What does that have to do with anything?" Rouge questioned.

"Well, maybe we could have... like a blazin' theme for the party." He pointed at the female. "...We could, um... you know, maybe the decorations can... resemble the colors of fire, or something."

Everyone else exchanged glances to see each other's reaction.

"You know,... that could work." Sonic nodded with a smile. "And when we make the banner for it, we can only use orange, yellow, and maybe a little bit of red... But, that could lead to a problem... Fire can be all kinds of colors... Like, blue..."

The leader of Team Chaotix had to pause for a moment. "That never crossed my mind... But, we can simply ignore it... We don't see blue fire very often..."

"Everyone cool with that?" Earning a nod from the rest of the group, Espio nodded himself for confirmation. "Okay, so we have fire... Oh, hey maybe we can bring-"

"Sonic, SONIC!"

That voice could only mean one thing for the world's fastest hedgehog. "Oh, no..."

Said voice belonged to his self-claimed girlfriend, Amy Rose. She already had her hammer in her arm, ready to fight something, or someone just in case. "Why didn't you tell me you were eating lunch here today!?"

"...Um, excuse ma'am?" An anthropomorphic brown fox wandered to her. "We don't allow... hammers... in our restaurant."

"Well, I've already did, did I not?" She stepped closer to glare at him.

That look was more than enough to make the waiter run away in fear. Walking directly to the table, Sonic's eyes met with the angry pink hedgehog. "Why didn't you tell me that you were eating here for lunch? Jet told me everything!"

With a scowl coming from her 'boyfriend', Jet fiercely slammed his fist down on the table again. "Dang it!"

"SHUT. UP!" yelled the man for a second time.

"Don't think I will let you tell me what to-"

"Jet, enough!" Espio intervened with a hand out. "We can't afford to be kicked out of another restaurant!"

"...Another?" asked a bewildered Miles.

"We might as well say that we're used to it..." Vector rolled his eyes in vexation. "Some paparazzi showed up and took pics last time..."

Tails couldn't believe it. Stuff happened around the Sonic crew so often, they couldn't even eat a restaurant right. "Embarrassing..."

"You guys!" Sonic waved rapidly to regain everyone's attention. "Someone just interrupted us! We don't have time to talk about our problems with the public!"

"I interrupted you!?" Rose tightened her grip on her hammer. "You mean to tell me that you don't want me to be around!?"

"Look," The savior of Mobius explained. "we're trying to think of ideas for Blaze's birthday party, so I suggest you keep calm and-"

"Woah, woah, woah, Blaze's birthday party!?" Amy said surprised. "And no one told me that we're gonna come here, so I can help!?"

"I didn't know you wanted to come." Sonic excused himself. "Now, if you want, you can sit down and discuss some ideas with us."

"Fine..." The hammer wielder finally decided to let it go and sit down at the table with her friends. "So, what do you guys have so far?"

Espio allowed her to see what he had written down. "We were thinking of making the party have a 'fire' theme, only because it's Blaze's power. So, we are planning to decorate Sonic's place to make it look like... a fiery lair, or something. You like that idea?"

The girl shrugged her shoulders. "I think it's pretty cool."

"Good." He nodded. "Now we all know that Blaze is a very skilled fighter. Sonic, when you told me about King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, you told me that when you were on that adventure, she takes her sword-fighting seriously."

"Ah, I know where you're heading." Sonic smiled. "So, we can make some sort of 'knight armor' and swords and stuff like that, right?"

"Correct."

"This could be fun!" He expressed his excitement. "We can like, make some pretend swords and other weapons and hang them on the walls and everything. And about the 'fire' part, we can like light some torches and-... Hey..."

He suddenly looked over to Shadow, who only stared at him back oddly. "Is there a problem, Faker?"

"...Actually,..." His rival thought for a moment. "yes... You haven't said a word since we started eating."

It took the others a couple seconds, but they eventually realized where Sonic was going.

"You know what, you're right." Rouge nodded in agreement, turning to face her fellow employee at G.U.N. "Sounds like Mr. Ultimate Lifeform wants to stay out of this... Talk about no help."

"You weren't helping them either, Rouge." He pointed out with folded arms. "The only people who gave ideas were Faker and Espio. Now, if you want an idea so much, I suggest we can bring Silver over as well."

His fellow Mobians all exchanged glances once more.

"...You know what, that's a pretty good idea, Shad..." Knuckles had to admit. "Why haven't we thought of this, sooner?"

"And I don't even talk to her nearly as much as I talk to Faker over here..." He resumed his stare with Sonic. "And that's sad..."

"I still know her better than you do!" The younger hedgehog argued back. "Last time I checked I met her before you did, so we're both even on this!"

Shadow still wasn't done talking. "Don't get jealous just because I thought of contacting Silver for some ideas before you did."

"You guys!" Jet the Hawk's fist met the brown table for a third time, not even thinking twice of what was going to come.

"SHUT. UP!"

That was the last straw for the leader of the Babylon Rogues as his exasperation got the better of him. "Don't make me come over there! You want me to shut up, make me!"

While he was looking, everyone else at the table were viewing him as if he was an alien to them.

"...What?" Charmy simply couldn't think of anything else to say.

"Make you!?" The voice belonged to a rather tall, black hedgehog who looked like he was in his late teens. His girlfriend, who happened to be a purple raccoon, had her phone out to record of the events that was yet to come.

"No one talks to me like that!" The hedgehog pointed a finger at his chest.

"Well, no one tells me what to do!" It was Jet's turn to direct his own finger at the other party. "You... grake!"

"OH!"

"...What's a grake?" Charmy whispered to Vector.

"I don't know, but I heard no one says that anymore."

The two found themselves observing each other with their now enraged eyes. Tails facepalmed himself, knowing that things weren't going to end well.

Looks like Sonic and the gang are going to be kicked out of a restaurant again...