Chapter 6: Happy Birthday Tails and Zero!
I'm posting so fast right now! It's because… SCHOOL IS OVER! Actually I'm kind of sad… I'm going to miss the teachers… I originally got done June 5th but eh. I hope you enjoy this chapter! Well… whoever reads it…
Disclaimer: Don't own any of the characters except my 6 characters I created! Also I own the plot!
Zero had only one thing in mind… his birthday!
Today was his 5th birthday! They were going to the beach for the party; and everybody was invited. The party was at 1:00 but right now it was 11:34. But Zero was lying on his bed, not getting ready.
Goldie was flying above him in circles. He landed on Zero's stomach and fell asleep when Sammy came in.
"Dude? Why aren't you getting ready?"
"I don't know," Zero muttered. He didn't get much sleep, so he was tired.
"Are you tired?" Sammy guessed. In response Zero yawned.
"I'm going to say that's a yes!" Sammy laughed, "Go to bed, Zero!" He walked out, grabbing the stuff he needed. It was actually more than tiredness. He's been trying to figure out what you do at parties. He'd always seen parties at parks. You'd have cake, presents, a piñata, and games. That's all he knew, but during that thought, he fell asleep for over an hour.
Zero felt someone shaking him. He already knew who it was.
"Get up, Get up!" Sammy repeated. Zero groaned.
"What?"
"We're leaving in 20 minutes!" Zero's eyes snapped open. He saw Sammy had his headphones around his neck, his blue pants on, his red gloves, and red shoes on. He also had his stone around his neck, too.
Zero bolted up and ran to the bathroom to get ready.
13 minutes later…
Zero finally got done. He wore his ripped up gloves and boots, his broken flight goggles, his belt he had found recently, and also his stone around his neck.
"Are you ready?" Sonic called.
"Yes!" they yelled in unison. They walked to the front door to see the other two waiting.
"Let's go!" Tails cheered. Sonic had picked Tails up and ran out the door.
"C'mon slowpokes!" he yelled. Sammy deflated a bit.
"That was rude," he murmured. Zero nodded and ran with Sammy. He grabbed Zero's hand and teleported! They were at the entrance of the beach. Suddenly they heard a zooming sound, which they knew was Sonic. Sammy had leaned on the sign when Sonic and Tails arrived. Sonic was shocked.
"What took you so long?" Sammy joked.
"How… When… What?!" Sonic stuttered. Zero had a half smile on his face, he was trying to hide the smile.
Sonic smiled, "Alright, let's go. They're probably waiting."
Which when they got to the spot, they were. The ones who were invited all came, even Shadow!
It was very festive. There were yellow and white streamers, balloons, hats, and all the party stuff.
'This is what a party is?' he thought. He had one but not this big.
"Went a little over board, didn't they?" Sammy asked him.
"I think it's cool," he admitted. Everyone crowed around Tails when they saw he was here, while Zero and Sammy ran to the edge of the sand where it met the water. (I forgot what it's called…)
They saw fish in the shallow water, but Zero saw, off the corner of his eye, Sammy raising is arm to push him in.
"Don't even think about it," Zero said, smiling. He saw Sammy's shocked face when he turned around.
"I'm already bored," Sammy muttered.
"Hey you two!" Sonic yelled within the crowd, "Get over here!" Zero looked at his friend.
Sammy shrugged and walked over, with Zero skipping behind him. They stood there when the crowd split up. Zero saw Sonic and walked over to him.
"What're we doing first?" he asked. Sonic thought a moment.
"Piñata," he replied with a smirk, "My favorite part!"
Sonic pointed to the piñata shaped like an airplane. It was red w/ yellow lines. They all gathered there, and Tails was given a bat. Zero never knew how piñatas worked. But when Tails hit it, he finally knew what to do. After Tails hit it about 5 times, he handed the bat to him. He ran up to it and whacked it. There was already a hole or two in it after 2 more tries. He turned and gave it to Sammy.
Sonic shook his head, but still smiling, "Oh no…" Sammy brought it up and basically slammed it and the airplane snapped in half. Candy poured out. All the kids ran up and got candy.
"Now what?" Zero asked again.
"Uh…" Sonic didn't know what at first, "Presents?" Everyone nodded and went to the present area. Zero was about to follow when there was a slight tapping on his shoulder. He turned around and saw his cat/wolf friend.
"You came!" he exclaimed.
"Sorry it took long," she apologized, "Parents were cleaning the house. And I had to help."
"That's fine!" he said. He was happy that his friend was here. He led her to the group. He was stopped by Sammy.
"Who's the hybrid?" he asked, eyeing Angel.
"That's Angel!" Zero answered, "I met her recently." Sammy nodded and sat down in a chair. Nobody else asked. Zero walked over, tails swishing happily behind him, and sat down next to Tails. He leaned over.
"You go first," he said. Tails smiled and nodded to him. He opened one gift, which was from Ms. Vanilla, Cream, and Cheese, and it was a winter jacket. Tails smiled.
"I figured with the cold weather coming, you'd need one," Ms. Vanilla said, smiling.
"Thank you!" Tails said. He open more which were toys, clothes, plane gears, and tools. He got a shirt from Sonic that said, "Fly High," in cloudy letters, with a plane on it.
Zero had gotten him something too. It was in a small box, with yellow wrapping on it. He held it out to Tails. He grabbed the box and unwrapped it. It was a model airplane. The color was blue, with yellow racing stripes.
"Wow! Where did you get this?" Tails asked, amazed, "I've never seen these in the stores!" Zero was and wasn't hoping he'd ask that. But he asked so he had to tell.
He took off his brown gloves and reveal many cut, bruises, and blisters. Sonic winced.
"Ouch." Sammy did the same and reveal his cuts, bruises, and blisters.
"Why'd you do that?" Tails asked, making a weird face at the hands of his brother.
"Buying stuff gets kind of boring," Sammy muttered.
"Thanks!" Tails said. Now it was Zero's turn! He got the first one, because it had cool wrapping paper. It was snowflakes! He saw it was from Silver. It was a box so he lifted the cover off. It was shoes! They were blue w/ black lacing wrapping around it, with a golden buckle on the sides of it.
"Cool!" he smiled. He kicked off the worn out boots and put them on, "Thanks!"
The next ones were red and grey gloves, blue flight goggles, a blue, fluffy chao bed, and some clothes. One shirt said 'Fire & Ice' and another said, 'Ready, Set, Snow!' He also got a light blue winter jacket and a stuffed teddy bear from Ms. Vanilla. But he got a weird rectangular box thing from Shadow. When Zero opened it had a weird black thing, with a button and two silver things sticking out the top. When he pressed the button, electricity went through the silver needle things.
Sonic looked at Shadow, "A Taser?!"
"He's got to protect himself when he's alone," Shadow growled. Zero's ears perked up at that. He always wanted to protect himself without anyone's help.
"Thanks!" he said, happily to Shadow. He smiled at Shadow and he gave a swift half-smile back.
Tails gave him two boxes, "The white one is from me and the green one is from Sonic!" Zero unwrapped the green one. It had two circular light blue metallic toys with a string attached to it.
"What are these?" he asked.
"They are yo-yo's!" Sonic replied with a smirk, "When you're bored when I'm out fighting Egghead, you can use those to occupy you! And when you get into trouble with people, you can whack them with it, because it's basically metallic." Zero put them back in the box and opened Tails' box. It had a multicolored train!
"Cool!" he put that back in the box and into the pile, "Now what?" he looked at Sonic.
"Cake!" he grinned. They brought the cake to a table. It had white frosting, w/ blue frosting acting as the sky. It had a red biplane flying in the sky, and a dark blue train zooming on the train tracks. There were clouds, grass, and dandelions too. And in yellow and white writing it said, "Happy 5th Birthday Tails and Zero!" (Happy, Birthday, and Tails were yellow and 5th, and, Zero, were white).
"Wow!" Tails and Zero said, simultaneously. There were 5 candles on each side. On the top left is where the plane is, is where Tails' candles are, they are blue. And right in front of the zooming train is where the lighter blue candles are, which are Zero's. They were lit… with fire. The group of friends sang the 'Happy Birthday' song. But Zero didn't hear it because he was looking at the fire, his worst fear. Sammy saw this and looked around and made a little wind and blew them out when the song was done.
Zero blink his eyes out of the state of fear. He quickly put on a smile. Luckily, the group of friends didn't notice… except one of them felt it. Sonic put his arm around Tails and said something, but Zero wasn't paying attention. Silver had walked up to Zero and ruffled his hair.
"Happy Birthday, squirt," he said, smiling. Zero giggled.
"Thanks!" Silver walked back to Blaze. Angel had come and sat by Zero who was right next to Sammy, who also sat next to him.
"What was that about?" she asked.
"What?" Zero tilted his head to the side.
"You were scared." Zero froze.
'Aw crud.' His ear twitched before answering, "Um, well, I kind of…" This was so hard.
"He's scared of fire," Sammy said, earning a shove with Zero's elbow.
"I figured," she said, "Well, I'm scared of being alone. That's why I have Rye!"
"Yeah, and I'm scared of snakes," Sammy piped in, "That's why I don't venture alone… or go to deserts."
Zero rolled his eyes, "But what made you get that fear?" Sammy and Angel looked at each other.
"Let's go… to that rock pile over there!" Sammy pointed to the only rock pile on the beach, which was ominous, but nobody cared. They had gotten to the pile and climbed it. Zero got to the top and you could see everything! (Think of the song 'On Top of the World' by: Imagine Dragons playing!)
"I'll go first," Angel suggested. The boys nodded. "Well, I had a friend, her name was Cleo. She was a cat too. At the time I met her, a cabinet at my house fell on top of my tail. So she thought I was just a cat. Well, we became good friends… until… I got my bandages off and she saw I had a wolf tail and I had to take off my gloves so they wouldn't get dirty and they were wolf paws… she left me when we were in the forest… She practically ran away screaming. I was left alone not knowing where to go. So I got scared… because I was lost and alone… then I found Rye! I didn't feel alone anymore!" She looked at her chao playing tag with Goldie, "I couldn't be happier!"
Zero looked at her sadly. He knew what that felt like. Sammy jumped up a bit.
"My turn!" he sat down again, "Well, I had a pet snake named, Speedy! He was a great pet! We went everywhere and scared a bunch of people! But this is the bad part… we were in the forest, near where I found you! It was the same day too! But he saw another snake and slithered away. When I walked to him, he wrapped his tail around my throat!" He was shaking at the thought, "I was losing breath and nearly died until I hit him with a rock… he didn't die though… he escaped with the other snake… traitor… But to make sure, I hid in that tree you were under!" Zero had a flashback. He remembered when he met Sammy. He had scratches on his chest, throat, and chin, also parts of his face. His throat was red and puffy looking. Zero also remembered that his eyes were bulging in fear too.
Angel looked at him, as if she'd seen a ghost, "When was that?"
"Um… about a month ago. Why?" Sammy asked, suspiciously.
"When I met Rye, we thought we were hearing someone choke… but we then thought it was just us," she trailed off, looking away, thinking Sammy would be mad.
Sammy was the opposite, "Aw man! We could've met each other at the time!" Angel was shocked but then smiled in relief.
"Well it's your turn, Z," Sammy said, looking at the dog caught within the conversation.
"Oh…" he said, "Well…"
Flashback Time!
Zero, at the time Max, was stuck in a burning building. It was set on fire by a crazed red rabbit. Max's eyes were leaking, or known as crying. He was trying to find a way out. But what caught his eye was a burning person. He was screaming bloody-murder.
"I'm on fire! I'm on fire!" the mobian kept screaming. Until he fell to the ground dead. Max screamed in fear, but then screamed in pain as fire scorched his back. He fell to the ground screaming and twitching in pain.
"Somebody help!" he yelled. He saw a light, but not the right light… It was the gateway to heaven. He blinked it away, "I'm not dying yet!"
He got up and staggered to find a way out. Finally there was a door, which had a hole in it, he crawled, painfully, through it. He saw firefighters and he yelled out to them.
"Help!" he shouted and fell to the ground, he looked up and saw firemen coming towards him. He smiled and the world faded into blackness.
End of Flashback...
"I ended up getting saved and brought to the hospital! I've been scared of fire ever since…" His ears and tails were twitching the whole time. Sammy and Angel had scared faces on them.
"You watched someone die?" Angel asked, horrified.
"You nearly died?" Sammy asked, shocked.
"Yes, and yup!" Zero replied. Unbeknownst, someone had been listening. That person had been listen, with it recording, and smirked evilly. He pressed a button that said 5 seconds on it.
5
Zero heard ticking…
4
A bomb!
3
He grabbed Sammy's and Angel's arm
2
He took all his might and tossed them into the ocean
1
He couldn't get out in time…
BOOM!
(With Sammy)
He felt someone grabbed his arm and toss him in the water. He didn't get time to say 'What?' because he was already underwater. He saw Angel get tossed too, but not his best friend. He resurfaced, along with Angel, and saw the explosion at that second, which was where the rock pile was. He swam towards shore. But Angel flew up and carried Sammy towards shore. He looked and saw the others standing there, wondering what happened.
'Note to self: Kill them for not helping my friend!' he thought bitterly. He ran towards the smoke, and saw nothing but black, but then he saw a dirty, white lump of fur sitting there. No.
"No, No, NO!" Sammy cried. He ran to the lump of fur and turned him around.
Zero.
"Zero? Zero, wake up!" he cried to him, "Maximum! Say something!" He couldn't even look at his friend.
Zero had blood everywhere. He was more black and red, rather than white. His arm was twisted in a weird direction, which probably meant it was broken. Blood was seeping out of his mouth and nose. There was a chip in his ear, a large gash over his eye. His bandanna had burnt holes in it. Luckily, he took his new shoes off and replaced them with the old boots, which were now nearly burnt off his feet. One foot had nearly been blown to pieces, but it was just very, very burnt. His ripped up gloves were in shreds, which is a good thing. He broken flight goggles had been broken in half too. His tail had tufts of fur missing. There was also a gash on his chest, which was seeping lots of blood. As well as the gash on his eye… it wouldn't stop bleeding a lot. Half his face was already bloody.
Like I said, Sammy couldn't even look at him. Angel was beside him, crying. She didn't want to lose another friend. Sammy couldn't hold it in, so he cried out. He screamed again. There was a bunch of gasps. Sammy looked and saw the rest of the group.
"WHY ARE YOU STANDING THERE?!" Sammy screamed. He charged up a light blast and threw it at them. They all nearly got hit, but dodged it, "HELP HIM!" He felt someone behind him turn him around and embraced him in a hug. It was Angel. He hugged back, muttering to himself.
"Why him…" he muttered, while sobbing. His eyes turned to anger, he let go of Angel.
"We have to get him to a hospital." He turned around and grabbed under Zero's arms, careful of the broken one.
"Hey what's going on over here?" a voice said. It pushed through the frozen animals. It was Tails. He gasped, "No!" He ran over, "Sonic help him!"
Sonic snapped out of his frozen state and ran over, "Don't worry, Sam. I got him!" He picked up the limp dog and sped off towards the hospital.
Sammy glared at the others, except Silver wasn't there. Then he remembered seeing him run in the direction of the hospital.
'At least he helped,' Sammy thought. He looked toward the sky, "Be ok, Zero." Then he and Angel ran towards the hospital.
(With Zero, during that… incident)
Zero blacked out right after he heard his two best friends scream. Now he was standing there looking at Sammy and Angel hunching over the body of… himself?!
"How?" he asked himself, "Guys! I'm right here!" Nobody paid attention. He figured he was just a ghost at the moment. Zero saw Silver run towards the hospital. Why? He walked over and saw himself. Zero was then scared when he saw his body. It brought back the fire memories. He then was struck with more horror when he saw Sammy throw one of his light beams at their friends.
"Sammy, No!" he called, but didn't hear. Because he was screaming himself.
"WHY ARE YOU STANDING THERE?!" Sammy screamed at their friends, "HELP HIM!" Then he saw Angel turn him around and hug him.
Zero had tears in his eyes too. He didn't want to leave his friends! Zero saw 4 year old Cream crying in her mom's arms. He then saw Tails run down toward his body.
"Sonic! Help him!" he called to Sonic tears escaping his blue eyes. Sonic snapped out of his state and ran over.
"Don't worry, Sam. I got him!" Sonic said picking him up. Zero ran over and saw his body up close. He was horrible! He touched his body, then everything went black.
(At the Hospital)
Zero woke up with Sonic in his arms. Then the pain washed over him. He screamed loud, startling Sonic a bit.
"Don't worry, littler bro I'm getting you to the hospital!" Sonic said. He'd call Zero that often, since Tails was his lil' bro, he was that. That didn't keep the pain away. There were very loud screams, muffled sounding cries, and whimpering.
Sonic hadn't been running fast because he thought he was going to hurt him. He looked down and saw Zero's eyes weren't the joyful, happy orbs of light; they were full of excruciating pain, and fear. Sonic was choking on sadness. He didn't like seeing him like that.
Zero only had one thought running through his mind, 'I'm going to die! I'm going to die!' He started seeing stars.
Stars.
One of his favorite things. But seeing these stars made him panic even more. His eye was swollen shut, so he couldn't see out of that eye.
Finally they arrived at the hospital. But sadly Zero blacked out again. Sonic saw Silver there. He watched Silver wince at a closer look of his new friend. He had one thought going through his mind too.
'He only turned 5,' Silver thought sadly. A stretcher was brought out and the limp form of Zero was placed on it. While he was taken away into the ER, a doctor walked up to him.
"We need additional information," the doctor said, "Full name?"
"Maximum Prower."
"Age and Birthday?"
"Just turned 5 and his birthday is today."
"Parents names?"
Sonic froze, "Um… I'm his adoptive parent." The doctor nodded.
"Thank you," the doctor said, "We'll come and get you when it's done."
Sonic turned and saw Sammy, Angel, and the rest of their friends. He looked down and saw blood on his chest, and he also had a handprint of blood on his shoulder.
"Fight this! You're stubborn! You can do this," Sonic whispered and sat down in the waiting room with his friends.
ZERO NO! WHY? WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO YOU?! Oh right. I already know!
This was an interesting twist! Well, Review on how it is so far! YOLO!