"Hey, Sonic!"
Tails flew up to me and landed. He was about to speak until he say Lindsey. "Who's this?"
"Hi, I'm Lindsey Whiskers." she said holding out her hand.
"I'm Miles Prower. But you can call me Tails." Tails smiled and shook her hand, the looked back at me, "Did you - ?"
"Got it covered." I said, holding the box and swinging it around in my hand.
"Good, you wanna hang out later today?"
"Sure!" I said, however I couldn't help but eye Lindsey. "But, do you mind if Linds comes with us?"
Her head shot up at the sound of my words, and her face lit up, a toothy grin replacing the small one she gave Tails.
"Of course. How 'bout we all have a picnic on the beach, or we could go to the park."
"Let's go to the park." I decided. I'd do AMYTHING to be away from water.
"Alright! See you then." he approved and flew away.
"Thank you, Sonic!" Lindsey thanked.
"No problem. Now, I gotta go give this to Amy."
I was just about to run off when she asked, "Who's Amy?"
"She's the girl I bought the necklace for."
"And . . . you're going to give 'Amy' that necklace . . . at 6 in the morning?"
"No. But I've got other plans." I bayed and took off for Cream's flat.
I peered into the living room after 3 seconds of running. The lights were out and Cream lay asleep with Cheese in her lap, but Amy was nowhere in sight.
The sound of someone breathing heavily came from the pond near the house. I walked in the light of the moon to the body of water and found Amy's sleeping figure at the bank.
What was she doing out here? There's not much to see at this time of night. I knelt down next to Amy and picked her up. In my arms, she smiled and cuddled close to my chest. I couldn't help but smile, too.
I carried Amy back to Cream's house, jumped onto the window seal, and gently placed her onto the couch next to the little bunny. I tucked the blanket around the pink hedgehog and kissed her on the forehead. "Good Night, Ame's. Or should I say 'Good Morning'?" I chuckled.
. - + * + - .
Tails, Lindsey, and I sat in the park around noon.
"So, Tails, what have you been working on lately?" I asked.
"Oh, I'm trying to do experiments on the X - Tornado, you know, see if I can accelerate the horse power of the engine and increase how high it can go in the atmosphere, but I'm stumped at the moment." Tails peeped.
Lindsey was laying on the green grass, quiet the whole conversation until she spoke up.
"Have you tried using the silver Chaos Emerald? Not only is it the 2nd most powerful Emerald next to the Master Emerald, it will boost whatever thing you want in your plane, including the horsepower, the battery, the weapons, and how high you want it to go by at least 50%."
Tails stared at her, wide eyed and jaw dropped.
So were mine.
"What?" she questioned.
"How did you know that? Even I don't know that!" Tails razzed.
"My dad used to be a pilot and a mechanic. I've learned a few things from him."
"Really? What happened to him?"
Lindsey's face saddened and she looked down at her feet.
"Oh . . . I see . . . sorry."
"It's alright."
"But how do you know about the Chaos Emeralds? And the Master Emerald?" I asked.
No one knew about the Emeralds except Team Sonic and Eggman.
"I don't know. I think my dad told me several legends about them when I was little.
About their powers and how it can give its command to a pure heart for a period of time." she answered.
"So, what else can you do? Besides knowing what girls want, knowing about the Emeralds, and machinery?"
Lindsey smirked, "That's for me to know . . . and you to find out!"
Tails leaned over to my ear and whispered, "I like her!"
"I know, right?" I whispered back.
"What are you going to tell Amy?"
I froze. I totally forgot about Amy! I hope she was okay.
This reminded me that I didn't give her her gift from me. It was sitting on the coffee table in my house.
I could run over to get it and then run to her apartment and give it to her, but I had a feeling she didn't want to see me.
"Sonic?" Tails asked, snapping his fingers in my face.
"What?"
"Are you okay?" Lindsey questioned.
"Um . . . ya . . . I'm just hungry."
"Well, let's go get some lunch!" Tails suggested. "Wanna come, Lindsey?"
"Sure!" she replied, lifting herself off the ground.
We all walked over to the Midnight Café and chose a booth. Tails and I sat on one side while Lindsey sat on the other.
A waiter soon came by, "Hello, I will be your waiter today. Here are your menus. And what can I get you to drink?"
"A Coke, please." Tails asked.
"Coke," I stated.
"Iced tea, please." Lindsey swallowed.
The waiter wrote the drinks down and walked to the kitchen.
Tails picked up his menu and looked over his choices. Neither I nor Lindsey touched them
"Yo, guys, what's up?" Knuckles walked over to our table. Lindsey scooted over and he sat down.
"Hi, Knuckles," Tails greeted behind the small booklet.
"Who invited you?" I snorted.
But he ignored me, and looked over at Lindsey with a bit of interest. "Who's this lovely lady?"
She turned her head the other way, but I could see her blush a little.
"Her name's Lindsey Whiskers." I answered.
"Lindsey, Knuckles. Knuckles, Lindsey." Tails gestured, still reading the menu.
"Well, hello Lindsey!" Knuckles yapped. He held his hand out. She grabbed it, and they shook.
The waiter came back with our drinks. "What would you like to order?"
"5 chili dogs." I prayed.
"A hamburger, please." Tails gulped.
"The Farm Fresh Salad, please." Lindsey answered.
The penguin - looking waiter wrote them down, and then saw Knuckles. "Would you like something to drink, sir?"
"Water." Knucklehead clarified.
Once the waiter strolled back to the kitchen, Tails and Lindsey started talking machinery. It sounded like they were planning to build some kind of flying skate board together. Then he came back with our food and I started a new conversation.
"Hey, Knuckles? Did you know Lindsey knows about the Chaos Emeralds?"
The red echidna was in the middle of sipping his water and the lime green cat stuffing leafy greens in her mouth. But once I said that, it went all downhill from there... She started choking and he did a Spit Take on Tails.
"Ugh! Nice going, Sonic!" Tails lipped.
"You do?" Knuckles asked when the chaos ended.
"Yeah. I've heard legends about them. Actually, my bracelet has a bit of the Master Emerald in it." she resounded, holding her right wrist out over the table for everyone to see.
Indeed it did. I'm not one to talk about jewelry, but she had a bronze metal band around her green wrist. In the middle was a small, circular chunk of the mint green Master Emerald.
"Well, I'll be!" Knuckles whispered. Taking her hand and turning it side to side.
At that moment, her bracelet glowed and a picture appeared.
Amy was in a capsule on a ship, her arm and leg cut and bleeding, coughing her guts out. I was on the other side of the glass, trying to get her out, but doing a useless job of it.