Chapter 5: New Pet Chao! /What's a 'Birthday Party'?

Well, if you're wondering, I'm not doing this in order. After the day of Tails' and Zero's birthday, I'll skip over a few months. Just letting you know! Here's Chapter 5: New Pet Chao!/What's a 'Birthday Party'?

Yeah at the beginning Sammy is very mean, and since he is based off my brother and when I started this, I got my brother in trouble and was very mad and aggravating.

Zero was up at like 4:30, waiting for the mission. He couldn't stop thinking about the scared chao at the base of Dr. Ender, an evil rabbit. He was lucky to get out of there alive, with his new friend, Angel the cat/wolf hybrid.

Zero sighed, "Get up already!" He saw the clock said 9:23

10 more minutes passed and he was fed up.

"That's it! I'm sick of waiting!" he grumbled, "Time to take drastic measures!" He remembered Sammy saying that, but he wasn't sure what that meant. He created a few snowballs and walked into his room. Sammy was sleeping, and Zero smirked evilly.

"Ready," he held the snowball, "Aim," he took aim, "FIRE!" He through the snowball at Sammy. It hit Sammy dead in the face.

Sammy literally screamed like a girl. He stared at Zero with a glare, "Why'd you do that?!"

"Because you were sleeping, and I want to go now!" Zero snorted.

Sammy growled. He was extremely mad, "I need my sleep. It's better than saving stupid chao from a stupid rabbit guy."

"Chao aren't stupid!" Zero yelled, "I met someone who owns a chao! And they are great pets!"

"Who cares!" Sammy shouted back and covered his face up with his blanket. Zero turned to the window in anger, it was opened still. He snuck out and ran away to save those chao's.

(When Sonic and Tails awoke at the shouting)

Tails fidgeted in his bed. He woke up at the sound of shouting. He looked over and saw Sonic waking up.

Sonic sighed, "Great." Then the fighting stopped. They got up and walked to the two kids' room.

"Yo! Can I come in?" Sonic said, knocking on the door.

"I don't care," Sammy growled. Sonic opened the door and walked in, with Tails behind him.

Tails saw that Zero's bed was empty. Then he saw the window opened.

"Where is Zero?" he asked.

"I don't know, and I don't care," Sammy grumbled, pulling the blanket off his head and showed him wet.

"What happened to you?" Sonic asked.

"A certain jerk threw a snowball at my face!" he shouted, "But he might be going to that place to save those animals."

Sonic face-palmed himself, "Why'd you chase him away?! He knew where the place was."

"Well, I know where he is going, to the Mystic Lake," Sammy said, more calm, "Let's go!"

The three bolted out of the house and to the lake.

(Back with Zero)

'That jerk.' Zero thought, bitterly, 'Wonder what happened to the nice, funny cat I knew...'

He was still running until something ran into him. Zero slammed into a tree, and landed on the ground with a thump.

Zero hissed in pain, "Hey! Watch where you're… going…" He recognized the green fur and red eyes. He also recognized the white chao floating behind the Mobian hybrid.

"Zero!" she squeaked, and hugged him.

"Angel? Rye?" Zero said, still shocked. But hugged back when he was out of his shocked state.

"Chao! Chao!" Rye said, happily.

"I was looking for you!" she told him.

"Why?"

"We didn't save the rest of the chao, so I was wondering if we should save the rest?" she asked him, hope shown in her red eyes.

"That's what I was doing!" he exclaimed, "Do you… wanna… come, with?" He was extremely nervous.

"Yeah!" she jumped, "Oh! And you forgot this!" She handed him the blue cube.

"The hover-board?" he asked, "it's your though."

"Not anymore!"

Zero's heart jumped, 'My very own hover-board!' He accepted the gift and deployed it.

"Let's go!" she shouted already flying away.

Zero smiled and laughed. Then bolted off with his new friend.

They got to the same place they found her chao. Then snuck in the same way.

"Ok let's free the chao's!" Angel cheered. They passed a room that had a generator in it. Zero stopped.

"Hm…" he thought, somewhat evilly, "Do you know how to pick lock a lock?"

"Yeah," she said. She saw his plan and nodded. She unlocked the door and left it open a crack. Then they set off.

Finally they got to a room with things saying, 'Chao! Chao!' in it. Angel pick locked the door again and when they walked in, there was a huge glass cage full of chao, and again, a large window.

The two 4-year olds looked at each other and smirked.

They set up a plan, Angel breaks the window and Zero breaks the cage, simple as that! Or so they thought…

"Ready…" Zero whispered, "Now!" Angel flew up and broke the glass by crashing into it. But that wasn't enough, because alarms started going off. Zero made multiple ice spears and shot them in a circle. He held his hand up for a second and then made a fist and the ice spears exploded, which left a huge hole.

"CHAO!" the chao's yelled and flew out of the cage and flew out the window. He looked at Angel.

"I guess are work here is done!" he exclaimed.

"Not exactly," a voice said. Before Zero got the chance to turn around, he got the burning sensation in his back. Zero yelled out in pain. He knew who it was.

"Dr. Ender," Zero hissed through gritted teeth.

"Correct," The red rabbit walk out of the shadows with his red eyes glowing, "And you ruined what I was going to do!"

"What was that?!" Angel asked, angrily.

"Well, I can't tell," Ender muttered. He charged up his hand and when he was about to shoot it when something shouted, "Chao!"

A yellow chao rammed into him.

"You insolent chao!" Ender yelled. Zero was cheering the chao on.

"Go Goldie!" Zero cheered. Angel looked at him like he grew a third tail.

"You named it?"

"Well, yeah! It deserves a name. So I thought-" He stopped and yelled, "LOOK OUT!"

A laser intended to hit Angel, but it hit Rye instead.

"Rye! NO!" she screamed. The chao fell to the ground, writhing in agony.

Zero got mad because his friend was hurt. He basically froze the whole room! Just picture it looking like an ice rink. He remembered the spin dash Sonic did in the battle a while back.

'Welp, YOLO!' he thought as a started spinning himself. He was at maximum speed, (What a coincidence! His name is Maximum!), and let go! He hit something and he started sliding on the ice covered ground. His mind stopped spinning and when it did, he watched as the back of Ender's head slammed into the wall and blacked out. Zero breathed a sigh of relief.

"Chao!" The yellow chao, now Goldie, was floating beside him. He had the most awesome, most amazing idea ever!

"Do you want to come home with me?" he asked the chao.

"Chao! Chao! Chao!" Goldie exclaimed.

"I'll take that as a yes!" he laughed. Then he remembered Rye. He ran over to the chao, only to see that he was bandaged up, and sleeping peacefully.

Angel looked up at Zero, with cheerfulness in her eyes, "Thank you!" She got up and hugged him tightly, which Zero hugged back.

"I would've done it anyways!" he exclaimed, "I have to bring Goldie to my house! He's my new chao!"

"I wonder what happened to the other chao," Angel wondered. At that moment the chao were already going to their homes, but they didn't know.

"Probably went back to their homes," he replied, "We should too. That burn still hurts!" He looked to the back of his shoulder and saw a huge smoking burn on it.

"Doesn't smell too nice either," she giggled, wrinkling her nose. (And seriously… it doesn't. I smelled burnt skin before… BLEH!). The hybrid and dog flew out of the house. Yes, Angel can use her angel wings to fly! Finally they got to the lake and went their separate ways, but before Zero could do that, the cat/wolf stopped him. He turned around and saw her shuffling her feet.

"Would you… like to come to my house next Sunday?" she asked, "its Tuesday now, so in 5 days?"

Zero perked up at the sound of that, "Yeah sure! Saturday is my birthday! Would you like to come to that?"

"Sure! It my first birthday I've went to that isn't family related!" she smiled.

"Ok! I got to go! Bye!" Zero exclaimed, "Hope Rye feels better!"

"Bye! And I bet he will," she laughed, looking down at the sleeping chao before bolting off in the direction of her house.

Zero looked at Goldie, "Well, let's go home!"

"Chao!" They flew off, not noticing a pairs of beading red eyes watching him.

Zero, and his new chao, snuck back through the window. He decided to use his extra pillow for Goldie, so he can sleep. Finally, he plopped on his bed; he just wanted to sleep, even though it was the afternoon. Sadly, excruciating pain was in his back. He wasn't a big fan of pain, obviously. Who isn't? He went to the kitchen and went to the freezer, then grabbed an ice pack. He turned around and yelped. He fell backwards on his bottom. He was in deep doo-doo. Sonic.

"Where did ya' go?" he asked.

"Uh… out?" he responded.

"Out where?"

"With a friend." Sonic gave him a 'really' look. "Ugh. Fine. I went… to save… the chao."

Sonic shook his head in disappointment, "You were suppose to wait."

"But I couldn't!" he complained. Then he remembered something, "Where's Sammy?"

"Walking around outside searching for you," he replied, "But he's coming back." As if on cue, Sammy walked in. He brightened up and walked over.

"I found you finally!" Sammy, again, forgot about this morning. So Zero didn't remind him.

"I've been home for about 5 minutes."

Tails came running in next, "You… are… fast…"

"I try!" Sammy boasted.

"Zero, our friends are coming here on Thursday!" Tails exclaimed. Zero's heart dropped to his stomach.

"Why?" he groaned, "They probably hate me!"

"Doubt it," Sonic fretted. It was Zero's turn to flash the 'really' look.

"Might as well," Zero muttered. He picked up his ice pack and started walking to his room, "I'm going to take a nap!"

"Ok!" Sammy yelled.

"Oh by the way," Zero began, "I-have-a-pet-chao-and-I'm-keeping-him-no-matter-what-you-say!" He quickly shut his door. But he could hear, "What?!"

He plopped in his bed and covered up with his stuffed bunny. Goldie flew over to him and settled on his stomach and also fell asleep. Zero smiled and shut his eyes and fell into a dreamless sleep, with the ice pack on the back of his shoulder.

2 Days Later…

Zero was nervous when Sonic's friends were coming over. He didn't clarify them as his friends yet. The others gotten used to Goldie around the house. He was actually helpful; cleaning up, helping make food, etc. He was also a great comfort object, which Zero was using right now…

"This can't be happening!" he whispered, "I hate today. I hate today." He keeps repeating that over and over. (I actually act like that… meeting new people is scary…). He peeked out his bedroom window, not seeing anyone. Now he was getting aggravated; he was freaking out over nothing.

"What'cha doin'?" Sammy shouted which made him jump. Zero clutched his heart.

"DON'T do that!" Zero gasped, "But I'm in my room? So what?"

"Sheesh. I was just wondering," Sammy muttered. He ran and flopped onto his bed and let of a large sigh.

"You bored?" Zero asked. Sammy nodded.

(Ok I'm going to skip to when the group comes… I'm bored… literally).

Finally after 5 hours, Sonic's friends come. It was 12:07 when the first couple people arrived. It was Knuckles, Amy, and Chaotix first.

Zero was sitting in his room, still. He was watching Sammy juggle. Surprisingly to him, it was amusing! Sammy ended up dropping them when a shout was heard.

"Some of our friends are here! Come on!" Sonic shouted.

'Friends'. Not exactly, Sonic,' he thought, 'well not yet.' He saw Sammy waved his hand to tell him to hurry up.

Zero felt something land on his head and looked up a bit. He saw Goldie was on his head.

"Chao!" Goldie said pointing towards the door. Zero looked there and saw Sammy waiting there still. He rolled his eyes and ran to the door.

"Took you forever," Sammy laughed. They stumbled a bit over to the living room. They were greeted by Tails. But when they reached the living room, it was already full. It had the people already mentioned.

'This is awkward,' he thought.

"Sonic?" Sammy asked.

"Yeah?"

"Why don't we go outside? It's small in here."

Sonic thought about it a moment and thought it was a good idea, "Yeah, let's take it outside."

Right when he opened the door, the black hedgehog was there, with a white bat!

Sonic jumped two feet in the air.

"Scared much?" the black hedgehog joked. (Not in a happy way though… more of a… well like he acts like in the games and shows).

The big group of friends and soon-to-be friends walked outside. Ms. Vanilla came with Cream and Cheese.

Zero bounded up to Tails, "Who's that?" pointing to the bat.

"Oh! That's Rouge!" Tails whispered, "She's a jewel thief."

"What exactly are we doing here?" Knuckles asked.

"Well, remember we were getting together about a week ago?" Sonic asked. Everyone who had been listening nodded their heads.

'Don't remind them of the battle!' Zero yelled in his thoughts.

"Well there was that battle…"

'I hate you Sonic," Zero's ears flattened… even though they are flattened against his head naturally.

"So I figured we should make it up!" Sonic finished.

"Great idea!" Sammy exclaimed. But really in his mind, he was rolling his eyes.

"Let's just hang out then!" Sonic said. Then there was a flash of light. (Yes I'm adding these characters in).

"Are we late?" a silver hedgehog said (I don't know if he's silver or just a dark white).

"Silver!" Sonic said, shocked, "And Blaze!" There was a purple cat too. Silver had saw the two new kids, and chao, in the group.

"Who are these guys?" Silver asked, pointing to the three.

Tails jumped up, "That's Sammy," pointing to the black and white cat, "And my brother…" He looked at Zero, and he mouthed his nickname. "Zero! Also his pet chao, Goldie!"

Blaze was confused, "How's he your brother? You're not fox." Zero hated hearing that.

"So?" Sonic defended, "I'm his brother but I'm not a fox, and he isn't a hedgehog! So it's an adopting type thing." Blaze nodded, yet confused.

'But I'm his… beo… bio… biological? Yeah! Biological brother!' he thought stubbornly. He ears twitched his ear for a split second.

"You ok?" Sammy looked at Zero with a concerning look. He remembered one time when there were too many people, he screamed and ran. (That happened to me! I couldn't help but laugh at myself after!).

"Of course I am," Zero scoffed. He was lying. The purple cat came too.

"Hi everyone!" Big exclaimed, with his frog in his hands.

"Hey Big," Sonic replied with a smile.

Sammy glanced at Zero again, "That's 15 people! Still sure?"

Zero looked back, "Y-yes?" It was more of a rhetorical question than a statement. Sammy giggled.

"I know something that'll get your mind off that," a voice said behind them, which made Sammy's tail puff out and leapt in the air a few feet. Zero was laughing at him.

"You look funny!" Zero laughed. He had to squeeze his eyes shut and hold his stomach.

Sammy's eyes were huge and his tail puffed out in a weird way. His face was scrunched up, because whenever he's scared, his face nerves act weird. But it was more of the noise he made. It was a high-pitched squeak, which sounded like a mouse!

"Ha, ha. Very funny," he mocked. His tail went flat again and Zero's laughing went quieter. He realized Sonic said that, which made Sammy scared.

"Never saw you scared before, kid," Sonic chuckled and walked over to Tails. Zero nodded in agreement, still smiling. Sammy smiled too.

"That's because I'm not scared of anything!" he yelled.

"What about snakes?" Zero asked. Sammy's smile faded a bit.

"Those creepy, slithering abominations?" Sammy said, rolling his eyes, "N… yes. That's true!" His smile regenerated.

'Nobody knows my fear!' Zero thought, relieved.

"What's your?" Sammy asked. Zero face-palmed himself.

"Uhhhh…" Zero began, "I don't have any." There was always this look in his eyes that would tell you he's lying. One of his eyes would squint a bit, and would tilt his head a bit.

Sammy gave him an intense, yet playful stare. Zero leaned back a bit.

That's it! He couldn't take the stare!

"Fine!" he pulled Sammy closer, "Don't tell anyone but… it's… fire…"

"Fire?" Sammy tilted his head a bit.

"Yes and SHH!" Zero hissed.

"Why?"

"Tell you later. But what should we do?" He complained.

Sammy shrugged. Tails came walking over. He had a pencil and paper.

"You have to write down what you want for our birthday party!" He handed the pencil and paper to Zero. There was a spot that said, 'Tail's list' and another said, 'Zero's list.'

"Uh…" he didn't know what a 'list' had to have.

"Let me help!" Sammy sat down right next to Zero. He started naming off stuff, "Shoes, gloves, toys, probably a chao bed, and new goggles." He pointed at the broken black ones he always wore. Zero did his best to spell correctly. He did 'shoos' 'glovs' 'toys' 'chaow bed' and 'gogls.' As you can see, he sucks at spelling. Zero handed the piece of paper to Tails and then gave it to Sonic.

Sonic started reading some stuff off. But he was struggling to read Zero's writing. Zero laid back in exhaustion. It was not that hot out, a slight breeze. He didn't hear Sonic calling his name, because he was daydreaming. Well, until something landed on his stomach. He yelped in more surprise than pain. He looked and saw Goldie on his stomach.

"What?" he asked, as if nothing happened.

"How do you read this?" Sonic held up the piece of paper in front of him.

'Ouch. That was rude." Was all he thought before speaking up, "Shoes, Gloves, Toys, Chao bed, and goggles." He gave a look that said 'are-you-happy-now.'

Sonic rolled his eyes, "Yeah. What he said."

Zero laid back down. But a thought struck him. He sat up and, thankfully, Tails was near him. He called him over, which Tails walked over.

"What's a 'Birthday Party'?" he asked.

Tails was shocked a moment but answered, "Well, people come to our house and basically congratulates you on turning older!"

"Oh." He laid back down. He looked at the clouds and pondered a bit.

'A new pet Chao, a birthday party?' he thought, 'My life is getting even better!'

So? How was that? Thought on what I should do? Nobody reviewed… Aw well… But if you did after this chapter, THX! Well, next Chapter up soon! It's called: Happy Birthday Tails and Zero!

Well, do whatever! YOLO! If you haven't noticed, that is my catchphrase!