Hello all! It turns out that there was no mistake on the way the last two chapters that uploaded. It's just my computer is on the fritz. Anyway I hope you enjoy this next part. It's Cruise Day everybody!
Chapter 10: Future City Escape
"Metal Sonic...I trust everything is going according to plan."
"Yes sir."
"Have you successfully hacked into Eggman's teleportation system?
"Yes. What exactly is it that you wish for me to do?"
"Use it to travel to the other worlds and place it on any spot in the ground. The seed will sink directly into the ground and send of a homing signal. Once the 'Fate Rising' has begun they will sprout and I will be able to pinpoint their location. Now get going!"
"Right away sir." Metal Sonic said charging up Eggman's huge teleporting machine. The white chaos emerald that was jammed into the machine's engine compartment started to glow and send off a huge amount of chaos energy. It wasn't long before the machine hummed and was up completely. A pink vortex suddenly appeared in the teleporting machine. "Well here I go." Metal Sonic said pulling out a bag filled with the small seeds his new master spoke of. Without any hast he jumped into the vortex and let it run behind him.
Meanwhile at the command center of Eggman's fortress"Well have you spotted the knothole yet?" Eggman asked as he lazily tapped the computer's keyboard.
"Not yet Doctor." Decoe answered.
"It seems we are having trouble locating its exact position." Bocoe informed.
"Well keep looking! That place was the very same where most of the previous Sonic and the now broken up resistance group lived. I was informed by Darkness that they are having a little reunion there, and I'll be there to crash the party! I'll finally destroy all the pests that tried to take me down when I had an empire." Eggman said evilly.
"You had an empire?" asked Decoe.
"Of course he did. Dr. Eggman once had a million fortress's like this one stationed at areas all around the world but then that blue pest Sonic ruined everything." Bokkunn explained coming over.
"Yes, it's true. However back then Sonic wasn't even blue." Eggman said.
"He wasn't?" Bocoe asked.
"What do you care? You've never even seen Sonic." Decoe reminded him.
"So what? I still what to know." Answered Bocoe.
"Well I still remember the incident. You see it was a few years after I had completely gotten my empire started. Many people were under my command and I was feared all across the planet. Then one day my fortress landed on a small island called Christmas Island. It was said to be Sonic's birthplace (True fact). Anyway once we got there I sent out my scouter robots all over the island to look for residence. Somehow, while I was watching through the monitors I placed in the scouter robot's eyes, a brown hedgehog was said to have snuck on board." Eggman began.
"That was Sonic wasn't it?" Bocce asked.
"Exactly. You see at the time Sonic was a normal, brown, yet still super sonic speedy, type hedgehog. Being a kid he probably thought it would be exciting to search something that looked this cool. After my scanners picked him up I sent attacker robots to go take him out. When the robots got to his position he immediately freaked out and ran toward the central control room where I was. Unfortunately, I was working on a gene splicing experiment that was suppose to convert matter inside of the living and turn them into humanoid beings of mass destruction. When the hedgehog burst in he startled me. I immediately called for my guards and the robots burst in and started to idiotically shoot everything in sight. They ended up blasting through one of the pipes that was in my machine. The still freaked out hedgehog eventually rammed into me and pushed both of us into the machine."
"Whoa! What happened next?" Asked Decoe.
"Well when we went into the machine the gene splicing machine went on the fritz and electrocuted both of us to the limit. Soon the electricity shot out of the mechanical antenna and destroyed the guards as well as the control center. My ship was fried to the max. Once it stopped me and Sonic exited the machine. Apparently the gene splicing material had different effects on us. The shock reshaped my body to that of an egg and it bleached Sonic's fur blue. He thought it would be fun to destroy the rest of my ship and get me to retreat on my Egg-mobile. The hedgehog soon set up a resistance area in Knothole about 3 months later. He ended up destroying all of my ships and ending my rule!" Eggman concluded.
"That's so sad doctor." Decoe said.
"Yes I know. But that will all change once the rest of the emeralds are collected. I'll start my empire recovery by destroying Knothole!"
"Doctor, we've found a reading that might be that place you're looking for." Bocoe said.
"Good then lets get there quick! I'm not going to wait any longer to kill the rest of the resistance!" Eggman shouted.
Back in Future City one day laterThe lobby of the hotel was reasonably quiet, that is until the police burst in uninvited. They, unnecessarily, kicked the doors open and ran to the counter with their guns out. They all looked serious and ready to fight. This was after all the Future city police department. These guys were extremely organized and well ordered. There was no such word as 'flaw' or 'mistake' to these guys.
"Can I help you?" asked the hotel manager completely ignoring the fact that he glass door had a large crack in it from the boot that kicked it open.
"Yes. We're looking for a blue hedgehog wearing red and white shoes who was said to have been followed by a small 4-year-old fox with two tails and shoes of the same color." Asked the apparent leader of the troops.
"Why yes. They checked in yesterday. Why?" The puzzled manager asked.
"Maim, are you aware that those two are wanted for killing innocent people and disturbing the peace?" The cop asked.
"…Um…no…that's why I asked why?" she answered back.
"…Right, well we need to get to him and arrest him for this unspeakable crime." He continued.
"If it's unspeakable that why did you tell it to me?" she asked getting sarcastic. She knew who these guys were and she just loved messing with their heads.
"…Uh…just give us the room number and floor we need."
"Okay."
Meanwhile on the second to the highest floorSonic had already scrubbed the little foxes gloves to the max yesterday! He wanted to make sure every single bloodstain was gone before he presented them back to Tails. It was now 9:00 am and also the day the cruise was suppose to take place. Tails didn't feel comfortable putting his gloves on immediately after Sonic gave them back to him so he put them on the dresser. The first thing Tails did when he and Sonic awoke was put them on however. Tails put them on slowly and quietly; he made not a single sound. Sonic looked at the poor and clearly scared fox as he sat on the bed in complete and utter silence. The hedgehog had seen him depressed and scared before but not like this. Tails told Sonic about the dream he had before he became silent. It was pretty freaky. He ends up killing all these people in his dream then wakes up with blood all over his hands. It sounds so horrific. It also seemed unfair. A child this young shouldn't have to be presented with this much death in is life and yet it seemed as though Tails we exposed to it everyday. Sonic just had to comfort him.
"Tails…" Sonic said while sitting on the bed next to the fox. He honestly didn't know what to say. This would freak any normal 35-year-old man out to the limit. Tails was only four and yet he was so quiet. "…Look, I know that you're a little scared by this but…trust me, we'll find out what's going on and we'll get through it together." Sonic choked out. Tails said nothing. Sonic stared at him for about a minute hoping he'd get an answer. It never came. The hedgehog sighed and put his head in his hands in frustration. What exactly was going on? Why does it seem like it is centered at Tails? What does this so-called 'Darkness' person Tails told Sonic about in his dream want?
"Sonic." A silent and scared voice spoke. Sonic looked down at Tails and saw the frightened light blue eyes of the fox staring at him.
"Yeah buddy?" Sonic merely asked.
"I've been thinking a lot about this and I was wondering…could you…could you…" Tails had trouble getting his statement out.
"Could I what?"
"…Could you use your powers to…to…to kill me!?"
"What!?"
"Please Sonic!"
"There is no way I'm doing that Tails! Why would I?"
"Because I'm dangerous!"
"Huh?"
"I know it was really me who killed all those people at the mall. I even remember doing it now."
"Y-you do?" Sonic asked. This is what Sonic was afraid of. He was afraid of how the fox would react if he knew he was the one who killed all those people.
"Yeah…I remember that police officer who hit you and me on the head. It got me so angry that I guess I went out of control and I killed him. Then I remember going after the cop's partner. After that I started killing everybody there so wildly and…" Tails began. That's when Tails' voice stopped sounding scared and started sounding a little happier. "…And those people's screams and the way they ran…" Tails' voice had perked up even more. Sonic had noticed this and wondered what was happening to him. He listened as Tails continued. "…And the way I slaughtered them ALL! The way their blood splattered all over the floors and walls!" Tails now was sounding like an evil bloodthirsty maniac who loved the sight of humans getting killed or tortured. Tails sounded scary, really scary! Sonic was freaked out when he heard Tails talk like this. It was as if his innocence was completely drained and all that was left was a ruthless murderer! Tails continued on and his voice sounded a lot more scarier and demonic with each word he spoke. Sonic finally couldn't take it anymore. He thrust his hand hard at Tails' cheek and slapped him painfully.
"Get a hold of yourself man!" Sonic shouted.
"…I…I'm sorry…I don't know what happened." Tails said returning to his scared and innocent little self. Sonic saw that Tails was beginning to cry. "See Sonic! This is why you need to kill me! If I keep getting eviler and eviler I'm afraid that I will…kill you." Tails said as the tears began to flow. Sonic just stared at the fox and watched him cry. "I don't want to kill you Sonic. I don't want to kill anybody." Tails' crying increased.
"I know you don't buddy." Sonic said while pulling the fox into a well-needed hug.
"Then 'sob' then why have I 'sob'? Tails asked as he continued crying.
"I…I don't know Tails…I just don't know…but I'm not going to kill you in order to stop this. I've always found a peaceful way to end a conflict and I won't stop now! I refuse to!" Sonic said in a determined voice.
"Thanks 'sob' S-Sonic 'sob'." Tails said continuing the on slot of tears. Suddenly they both heard a loud bang on the door. Sonic looked up at the door and the knocking increased.
"We know you're in there hedgehog! Come out now!" said a demanding voice.
'Oh crap. This has got to be the worst possible time.' Sonic thought in his head. "Tails." Sonic began. The fox looked up with his tear filled, red, and puffy eyes and listened up.
"I want you to go into the bathroom and climb out the window. Since you can fly I know you'll be alright, okay." Sonic said. There was another loud knock at the door.
"I'm going to count to three hedgehog! If you don't come out we're coming in!" shouted the same angered voice.
"Now go Tails." Sonic commanded. Tails looked at him for a while before he nodded slowly, got out of Sonic's embrace, and went into the bathroom. All of a sudden the door was blown through by a small pocket bomb. The door flew into the room and landed in front of the bed. However this act didn't surprise the hedgehog. The men immediately ran inside and pointed their guns out at him.
"Freeze! We won't shoot if you come quietly!" The officer stated. Sonic raised his hand s up playfully. He had a plan, as always, but Tails at least needed to have the window open for it to work. "Men go search the bathroom for the fox." The solider said.
"Boy you guys don't miss a detail do you?" Sonic asked.
"Be quiet! We did not give you permission to talk." The officer said as he held the gun out at Sonic's face. The hedgehog was confident that his plan would work. Just than he heard the officers shout.
"Get your hands up fox!" The officers shouted as they extended their guns at the fox who had succeeded in getting the window half way open. Sonic looked in the direction of the bathroom and put his hands down. The officers immediately noticed this and pointed their guns at Sonic.
"Put those hands back up!" The officer shouted.
"Naw, I don't want to." Sonic said before he jumped to the ceiling, ran across the top, and kicked the leader over the head. The officer fell to the ground immediately. The officers all of a sudden started firing wildly at Sonic. The hedgehog, being to fast for them to hit, ran into the bathroom and did a huge homing attack at all the officers in there. He knocked them all over with one hit and ran to the window, which Tails had just crawled out of. Unknown to him however, there was an officer who was standing on the rooftop across from this apartment with his gun pointing at Tails' back. As was stated before, these guys were extremely organized and well ordered.
"Hurry up Sonic." Tails motioned as he saw the hedgehog climb out of the window and stand on the window seal. The officers inside the bathroom were recovering fast and they had to move fast. The hedgehog grabbed on to Tails' hands and he lifted him off the seal. That's when an unexpected gunfire was heard. Sonic's ears perked up when he heard it. He looked up at Tails who was staring out into space. Sonic then noticed Tails' leg was bleeding. The hedgehog turned his head to see an officer on the roof across from him cursing at himself because he missed his exact mark. He did manage to hit Tails however and that was enough.
"Tails! Are you alright?" Sonic asked. Tails said nothing. Instead he screamed really loud in pain and let his tails stop spinning. This act caused the two to immediately start plummeting to the ground. They were so high up that the resulting impact would kill them. Tails continued to scream in pain while Sonic held on the fox's hands for dear life.
"Tails, you have to spin those tails of yours or we'll both die!" Sonic shouted. Tails acted as if he didn't hear him. He was so focused on the pain in his leg he didn't even notice that he had stopped flying. Sonic had no choice but to save them both, but how? He had to think quickly, and the only thing he could think of doing was rolling into a ball, so that's what he did. He pulled Tails inward to his body and rolled into a ball that concealed Tails curled up into a ball inside as well. Sonic didn't know if this was going to work or not but it was the only thing he could think of. Sonic held his breath while desperately hoping this would work. Soon the ball they both formed slammed into the ground. The ricochet it caused made them bounce off the ground and back into the air, leaving a huge crater in the street. The ball bounced down the road rapidly, making a dent in everything it hit. This included the cars, the mailboxes, and even the streetlights at times. Eventually the bounce turned into a long roll down the road until it eventually stopped. Sonic and Tails uncurled and sat there on the warm road.
"Whoa…thought that would never work." Sonic panted in relief that something that crazy turned out okay.
"S-Sonic…I'm bleeding…a lot." Tails wept as he held his leg in pain. Sonic looked down and saw the blood endlessly flowing out of the fox's penetrated leg. He then growled in disgust. Sonic couldn't stand the sight of police officers shooting little kids. The hedgehog had seen it happen right in front of him before. He sometimes wondered why he would always help them with their problems. Then he remembers that there are still good cops out there who want to help instead of using violence to solve everything. Plus it really wasn't for the cops. It was for the people. Sonic shook the thought from his head and glanced down at the matter at hand.
"Don't worry Tails." Sonic put his hand on the fox's shoulder as he continued to cry his eyes out. "We'll get you a doctor. Tell me, are you feeling dizzy." Sonic asked.
"…A little…" Tails said bobbing slightly back and forth. That's when a startling bullet shot at the ground directly in front of them. Sonic jumped a little when he heard it slamming against the ground. The blue hedgehog looked up and saw many police cars coming at the two.
"Damn it! Again the worst possible time! How'd they get to their cars so fast anyway?" Sonic said hoisting Tails in his arms and running at full speed down the road. "Today is the day for that cruise the paper that Rouge gave me was suppose to happen. I'll be damned if I let these orderly losers stop me from following an obvious clue to Tails' past. Not on THEIR life!" Sonic shouted as he continued running. He heard the sound of many up coming police sirens but no sound of wheels spinning against the ground. He thought this was strange but kept running nonetheless.
"Give up hedgehog! We just want the kid!" said a familiar officer through a megaphone.
"If that's true then why were you going to arrest me?" Sonic loved to mess with these guy's heads.
"…Because shut up." He shouted while picking up the speed of the car. Sonic turned a corner and shot down the next road leading to the highway. The hedgehog new where the docks were in this city and he wasn't going to waist anytime getting there, especially while holding a bleeding and woozy fox in his hands. The police cars were now nearing mach 1 speed, which was a little lower then what Sonic was going while trying to reach the interstate. Sonic had never seen nor heard of cars that could travel so fast. He had to see what they were driving in. He turned his head slightly and saw the police riding not in regular police cars but in hover cars! He should've guessed. Future City was known for its vast technology and fast paced cars. Sonic turned back to the road and noticed a pole coming up ahead. He quickly moved to the side and ran down the next street. As soon as he did a barrage of bullets started to fire at him. Sonic knew their aim was always precise so he had to find some way to dodge them without actually taking his mind off his destination. The hedgehog rounded another corner, as did the cars. At the rate he was going he was never going to lose them. The hover cars' roofs then opened up and out ejected laser cannons. They all shot vigorously at the hedgehog, not caring if they missed and hit any buildings or cars, which they did.
"Just like cops like these to not care about their surroundings." Sonic mumbled. His feet picked up an enormous amount of passé all of a sudden. Soon he left the hover cars nothing but a long blue streak for them to follow.
"Hehehehe…Idiot hedgehog. If he thinks he can get away from us by just running, he got another thing coming." Said the unimpressed officer.
"There, I finally lost them." Sonic said satisfied as he kept running through the high tech city.
"Oh you think so huh?" said a voice clearly emitting from a microphone. Sonic's ears perked up when he heard it.
"Where did that…?" He began when suddenly 5 hover cars crashed through a building in front of Sonic and started to go after him. The hedgehog freaked out and turned around. That was really unexpected. He ran back in the direction he came not knowing the other squad of cops was dead ahead.
"We've got you now hedgehog!" Shouted the leading officer from a car that was approaching Sonic fast, as well as a couple more cars behind it. Sonic looked behind him and forward. He was trapped! If he kept running he'd surely crash into one of them…, which wasn't a bad idea really. Sonic pulled the now extremely dizzy and woozy fox in toward his stomach and presumed spin dash position. "What in the world is he doing?" The cop asked looking very interested. Sonic all of a sudden shot forward and sliced the leading officer's hover car in half. The car, now separate, stopped hovering, fell on the street, and slid across the road, sparks emitting from the bottom as it did so. The lead officer immediately jumped out of the car and rolled on to the street. He then ducked and covered as many hover cars zoomed over his body at now mach speed. "Damn you hedgehog!" The officer shouted in anger.
"Your welcome!" Sonic shouted back then turned forward realizing he was about to hit a building. Behind him many of the hover cars spiraled out of control when the unexpected car split in half and collided with most of the cars. Many ended up crashing into each other. Others bypassed the rest and kept in pursuit of the two runaways. Sonic, still nearing a face impact with the building, jumped and fixed his feet so they would stick to the wall. Once that happened he continued running up the side of the building. He thought this would get the cars out of his pursuit but he was wrong as usual. The advanced technologies of Future City hover cars were able to do the exact same thing as Sonic did. This appalled the hedgehog. He grew even more appalled when he saw two hover cars right beside him. 'Great! Now they're catching up to me! I seriously need to lose them!' Sonic thought. He looked forward as he neared the top of the roof. That's when a crude smile appeared on his face. 'This plan is incredibly crazy and stupid…and I like that! I think it will work' Sonic rushed even more as he neared the top. 'Just need the right timing.' Sonic then got about one inch away from the ledge of the top of the roof. 'NOW!' Sonic shouted in his head as he used his foot to slam into the ledge of the building and used it as a trampoline to launch him high in the air. The cars immediately stopped when they came on the roof. The officers got out of their cars and looked up to see the hedgehog flying above the clouds.
"He may have been able to survive the building drop but he will never survive a fall like that." Said one officer.
Sonic flew higher and higher above the clouds as he held on to Tails, who was in desperate need of medical help. The fox was visibly bleeding on to the street the whole time. It wasn't a hard thing to miss. Now to the matter at hand. Sonic had successfully escaped the officers but now he was plummeting down to Earth with intense speed. He couldn't even roll into his ball form anymore.
"Damn! I wish there was something else I could've done." Sonic said as he saw the highway approaching below. Suddenly the falling stopped. Sonic was a little puzzled by this. It now seemed like he was floating toward the Earth. This was even more disturbing. Sonic didn't know what was going on until he heard the familiar beating of twin tails.
"Tails?" Sonic looked down at the fox, who was still conscious, twirling his tails at a fast passé. "What are you doing?" Sonic asked.
"Saving…you…" Tails said in a weak voice. Sonic looked surprised for a second then smiled at the sight of this inspiring scene.
"Thanks kid." Sonic said as they neared the sidewalk on the side of the highway. When they landed Sonic immediately kept running toward the dock area. He was so close to it he could feel the salty sea breeze slapping against his face. He just prayed that he wasn't to late.
At the dockMany rich aristocrats were now boarding the huge cruise ship. The ship looked like a futuristic version of the Titanic. It seemed extremely upper class. This didn't stop Rouge however. She, Big, and Froggy went up to the stairway casually. Rouge noticed Big was trying to hard to be casual which made the way he walked look strange.
"Um Big? Try to act a little less casual then that." Rouge warned. Big shrugged and walked regularly. When they made it up to the ramp leading on the ship there was a man with slightly frazzled hair and a white trench coat on standing there with a bright smile on his face. "Let me do all the talking Big." Rouge said.
"Okay." Big said.
"Ribbit." Froggy said as well. Rouge walked up to the ramp and toward the man.
"Hello there handsome." She said smirking.
"Hello maim. Do you have a pass?" The man asked.
"Why no but…"
"Then I'm afraid I can't let you on."
"What! Do you know who I am?"
"No."
"I am the richest aristocrat to be known all across Mobius! Woman like me don't need passes." Rouge lied.
"And what may I ask is your name." The man asked ever so politely.
"Uhhhh….R-Rose…Yeah Rose Mary Limpkin. That's my name." Rouge said.
"I've never heard of you. The only person with Rose anywhere in the name is the rich aristocrats Tanya Rose, her husband Marlin Rose, and their daughter Amy Rose." Informed the man.
"Well I am young Amy's aunt Limpkin."
"I thought your name was Rose Mary Limpkin?"
"It is…backwards…I meant to say Limpkin Mary Rose." Rouge was doing a terrible job at fibbing all of a sudden and she knew it. The man raised his eyebrow. He clearly wasn't buying it. That's when Big unzipped the handbag they had brought with them and took out the purple chaos emerald. The man quickly caught sight of it and went bug-eyed.
"My word! I've never seen an emerald shine so bright! What pray tell kind of gem is that?" The man asked. Big didn't answer. Instead he shoved the emerald back in the bag and zipped it up. The man looked slightly disappointed.
"Well that should be enough to confience you right?" Rouge smirked.
"…Uh?"
"You might want to hurry up with your answer. You're holding up the line."
"…Oh of course." The man stepped aside and let them pass.
"Thanks Big. I guess I was a little nervous. After all I have never pulled off a heist where I presented myself in front of the victims before." Rouge admitted.
"Its alright, after all I get nervous too. Right Froggy?" Big asked. The frog croaked happily. Rouge just shrugged and continued walking.
'Hmm…the Rose family huh? I bet I could score big time off of them.' Rouge thought in her head.
Back at the rampSonic ducked and dived through the crowd while hanging on to the still bleeding fox. He needed to get there fast. He pushed people violently out of the way and didn't even care. Eventually he got to the front of the line and he walked up to the man.
"Please I need to get on board. My friend is bleeding badly and he needs help." Sonic pleaded.
"Well if this is true then why didn't you go to the hospital?"
"This was the closest place." Sonic lied. "Please just help me."
"I'm sorry but this cruise is liable to only rich aristocrats. Plus we're leaving in a few minutes. If you came on board to get him fixed up we would have already set sail." The man explained.
"I know that. I don't care." Sonic said with a straight face. The man looked down at the poor, struggling, and bleeding fox. He felt sort of sorry for him, especially since he was such a young age.
"…Very well. I happen to be a doctor anyway." The man said grabbing Tails and pulling him into his arms. By now Tails had fainted from blood loss so he didn't try to squirm out of the grasp of someone he didn't know. The man then whistled using two fingers. Immediately after he did so a man wearing a white navy suit came over.
"Yes sir?" asked the man.
"I need you to cover for me while I take this fox to the infirmary." Said the apparent doctor. The man wearing the amazingly clean white suit nodded and Sonic and the doctor were on their way to get Tails some help.
Room 103 on board the ship"Oh yes this looks marvelous." Said an astounded Tanya Rose as she held the beautifully woolen pink dress.
"Why thank you I made it for a special gallery at the young woman's ball association." Said a frilly woman in a puffy pink dress. Marlin Rose was sitting in a pink chair that matched everything else in the room. The whole room was embroidered the color pink. Marlin personally didn't like it but was too transfixed on the newspaper he was reading to care. The woman continued talking about the small pink dress filled with flowers and layers of monochromatic shades of the overly used color. At the table beside them sat their extremely board daughter, Amy Rose.
"Amy, I want you to try on this dress." Said he mother as she approached her.
"Come on mom, I've tried on loads of dresses today. Can I please leave this room so I can go search the place? It looks huge and it might be really fun to explore and…" Began Amy.
"Amy Rose! You are a young adult and you will act as such! You always have this crazy idea that girls your age can go running around looking for action all willy-nilly. Well I won't have it young lady…"
"Mom! Stop calling me a young lady! I am a young girl! For goodness sake I'm 8-years-old! Stop treating me like I'm old and wrinkled like you!" Amy shouted knowing her mother had no wrinkles on her face.
"I'm not treating you like you're old, I'm treating you like a respectable rich aristocrat!" Tanya argued.
"But I don't want to be rich!" Amy blurted out. Her mother, father, and even the old woman holding the dress gasped when they heard this.
"Y-you what?" The mother asked surprised.
"You and daddy like living like spoiled and uncaring tyrants! I'm not like that. When are you going to realize I'm not you mom! I don't like wearing frilly dresses! I don't like firing a butler or a maid just because he or she missed a spot! I don't like using our money to send people to jail just because they won't move out of our way! I just plain hate being rich!" Amy blurted out loudly.
"…Amy Rose, how could you say such horrible things about our family?" Tanya asked shocked by her daughter's sudden outburst.
"I say them because they're true." Amy said. "You even had my best friend's parents arrested because she was a normal neighborhood kid with a regular life who liked me and liked playing with me. You guys thought that just because she has less money means she is lower class. Now she is living in a foster home because of you and I bet you don't even feel sorry for it!" Amy shouted while starting to cry.
"Why of course we don't!" Marlin said slamming his paper on the ground angrily and walking toward his daughter. "That girl had no right to play or even talk to her superior!" He said angrily.
"I'm not superior to her dad! You only think that because we are rich!"
"Well I don't know about you but I am damn proud we are rich! If you don't like it we can always send you to a foster home like your so-called friend goes to!" Marlin shouted meaning every word. Amy looked up at her father in disbelief.
"You'd really do that?" she asked as her tears fell down her cheeks.
"I'm sorry honey but if you can't learn the basics of our family then we have no choice but to send you away."
"But you do have a choice. You can treat me as an individual and let me be who I am."
"Sorry sweetie but this is the way it is." Marlin concluded. Amy didn't say anything. She turned and ran out of the room in tears.
"Marlin, do you think we will ever teach our daughter to get used to this life." Tanya asked.
"…I don't Know Tanya." Marlin answered while walking back to his chair.
Out in the hallAmy was crying her brains out. She had always been different then all the other rich aristocrats she had come in contact with. Amy loved pink like her mother but that was all they had in common. Amy had always had this weird sense for adventure and action. She was caught by her mother multiple times in the open spaced meditative room of their house swinging her Piko Piko hammer around the room fiercely. Amy was also longing for a boyfriend as well. Her parents had set Amy up with a future husband already. His name was Bartleby and he acted as rich and as snotty as her parents. He was aboard this ship as well, out getting some catering done for something special that is being planed for tonight. Amy didn't really care about Bartleby, not one bit. He was so careful and slow. She wanted someone fast and handsome. She longed for a person who wasn't afraid to jump into battle even when the odds were against him. She was looking for someone that would look good together with pink. She was looking for a hero. Suddenly a blue streak zoomed past her with lightning fast speed. Amy looked in the direction the streak was headed and thought.
'Blue? Hmmm…I wonder who that was? A blue streak huh? I'd better follow it.' Amy thought as she ran down the hallway.
Down the hall"Mr. Hedgehog, could you please slow down a bit?" asked the doctor as he was being carried by the blue hedgehog.
"No way! Tails needs medical attention fast!" Sonic eventually stopped in front of a door that said infirmary. He burst inside and set the doctor down. The other doctors that were in the room were startled by the intrusion. The doctor set Tails down on the bed and he and the other doctors immediately got to work. Tails had lost a lot of blood on the way over and Sonic knew it. He just hoped he wasn't to late. Soon the all the doctors except the one that brought Tails here dispatched from the bed Tails was on and went over to Sonic.
"You look like you could use some medical help as well." One of them said eyeing the huge amount of blood on Sonic's lower half of his body.
"What? Oh you mean this blood?" Sonic pointed to the blood. "This is Tails' blood, it just got all over me is all." Sonic explained. The doctors all nodded and turned back to Tails' bed.
"So how is the fox doing Morris?" asked the doctors.
'So his name is Morris huh?' Sonic thought. "Yeah, how is Tails doing?" Sonic asked equally concerned.
"Now, now, let me actually examine him first." Morris stated. He looked at Tails' blood covered leg. He was about to examine it more closely when he noticed something weird. The wound was healing fast, really fast! It was almost completely gone. Morris stared at the fox in pure shock.
"Well?" Sonic asked growing impatient. Morris quickly grabbed his bandages and rapped them around the shot area of the fox's leg. He then turned to face the concerned hedgehog.
"Don't worry, you friend will recover. He just needs some rest and he'll be alright." Morris said. He neglected to tell Sonic about the wound healing so fast however. He knew if he did the hedgehog would get more wondrous about this fox's past.
"That's a relief." Sonic said wiping the beads of sweat from his head. Unknown to him Amy was right by the door watching the hedgehog closely.
"Are you sure you're okay?" asked another doctor.
"I told you I'm f-" Sonic began before he fell backward and passed out. The doctors and Amy all gasped when they saw this.
"Quick, get him on a bed." Commanded Morris.
Back on the ramp"Excuse me! Out of the way! Coming through!" SmokeStack said while he and his men pushed their way through the crowd and walked up to the ramp. Unfortunately he was stopped by the man in the white navy suit.
"I'm sorry sir but I can't let you in without a pass." Said the man. Smoke just growled at him and moved his hand away. The man in the suit immediately put it back.
"Look buddy, I'm with the military and I need to get aboard this ship now!" Smoke commanded.
"I'm sorry sir but the rules clearly state…" The man began before Smoke grabbed his collar.
"Look pal! I don't give a damn whatever the hell the rules say! Now if you value your meaningless and drained life then step aside and let my men through so I can kill the two-tailed bastard that's on this ship!" Smoke demanded. The man in the suit slowly nodded in agreement. Smoke tossed him to the side without even looking at where he threw him, which was over the edge of the ramp and into the sea. Smoke and his men stomped on board and looked around
"Listen up men! We need to find and kill this fox in a salutary and secluded area. We can't afford to stir up any ruckus on this ship, alright?" Smoke explained. His men all nodded. "Good then let's move out!" He shouted.
There you go! Same deal as before, Read and Review please. I will update again soon, and make sure to drink plenty of fluids…not sure how that came up exactly but who cares, I have 70 reviews so far! Whooo!