They reached the Emerald Republic six hours later, Sonic drooled on his seat, Tails with one eye open and the other halfway closed landed the plane at the Emerald Republic International Airport in the capital of the province, Emerald City. Sonic and Tails shuffled through the crowd to make it outside the airport; Tails was surprised to see how many people were there at the airport.
"You really managed to turn this place around, I'm impressed." Said Tails, still figuring out how Sonic managed to completely turn a slum as bad as this one around.
"Thanks, wasn't easy but it's great to see how the airport alone is doing good." He said stretching out his legs and arms; Tails kept on the lookout for their taxi, but one didn't stop for them.
"Sonic… where's our ride to your mansion?" asked Tails slowly with regret, realizing what his answer might be.
"Isn't it obvious? You're looking at him!" pointing a thumb at himself with a bright smile; Tails gulped.
Sonic grabbed Tails and lifted him on his back and sprinted at full speed across the entire province; Tails screams in fear for his life. They zipped pass Emerald City, the life of the country with its traffic, skyscrapers and colorful green lights shining in the night streets, they passed Emerald town next with their assorted street markets and shops, followed by the suburbs with houses lined up row by row and finally they reached the beach.
Emerald Beach had dimly lit lamp posts in a row at about 25 feet apart across the beach sidewalk. The full moon shined its lunar light at the Black ocean, with waves crashing into the sand with rhythm. Sonic and Tails arrived at Sonic's mansion, the only home for miles.
"Oh my…" gasped Tails, approaching the gigantic mansion; Sonic walked up to the front door, an eye scanner was next to the door, Sonic put his eye up to the scanner to get it scanned for access.
"Come on in!" Invited Sonic, unlocking the door and immediately running to the living room and crashing on his couch; Tails walked in, taking the amazing sight of the minimalist design and color way of Blue and Gray.
"Sonic…" he mumbled; Sonic already fell asleep on the couch.
Tails grabbed his bags and headed upstairs to find a guest room to stay in; Sonic began snoring loudly with a bubble emerging from his nose. Upstairs had a nice décor just like downstairs although, the mansion as a whole seemed to be lacking in furniture and other necessities. Tails picked a random guest room from the eight present and walked into the room, finding the minimalist design even more appealing than in a bedroom than in the whole mansion. Tails jumped into the bed and sighed of great relief, smelling the sweet pillows.
The next morning, Tails woke up and walked downstairs; there was a pleasant smell coming from the kitchen. Tails walked and in and saw Sonic cooking breakfast with the TV on in the background; Tails stood there more confused than ever before.
"You can cook?" yawned a sleepyhead Tails, stretching.
"Yeah, you took forever to wake up, I'm going to do some major shopping today and have this place looking nice!" said Sonic with excitement, flipping the pancakes; Tails took a seat at the dining table.
"But what about our mission to locate Dr. Eggman? To bring him down after the drought? Isn't that the reason why we're here?" Asked Tails, hoping to get him back on track; Sonic flipped the pancakes again and began whistling a tune of sonic boom.
"Tails, in the last two years we've spent away from fighting any enemies, I've realized just how nice this life is…"-setting the pancakes on plates and heading into the fridge to grab fruits-"life is more than just a job, we have to enjoy it regardless of what's going on." He added, slicing up strawberries and bananas and even a tangerine.
"Sonic, you're even more laid back than before." Said an irritated Tails, accepting the breakfast and enjoying every bite of the pancake; Sonic looked at him hoping Tails would give him a compliment of his skills.
Tails stared at Sonic, "Disgusting! This tastes terrible! You're lucky that I happen to be hungry." Barked Tails, taking another bite and savoring it in his mind; Sonic dropped to his knees, shocked by how cold Tails was to him.
Sonic gave Tails a tour of the mansion; showing him the 12 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, massive kitchen and dining room and the backyard that had a giant pool with a court yard behind it. But, Sonic still lacked sufficient furniture for anyone to simply live here.
"Tails, I'm going to head to the city and buy all the stuff I need, head to the basement, I have a high-tech room set up especially for you to work on your nerdy stuff." He dashed away drove off in his updated speed star, it strikingly resembled a Mazda RX7 and Audi R8. Tails had an annoyed look, "Arghh I'm not a nerd!" shouted Tails with Cruciform veins popping out on the right side of his head and shaking his fist with fury.
Sonic drove to the Emerald city, admiring the gorgeous morning that awaited him as he passed the towns people waving hello.
"I'll pass by you later!" he yelled cheerfully passing them by.
He continued his drive to the city and arrived at Sid's furniture, ordering all the minimalist style furniture imaginable. Afterwards, he went to Great Buy and ordered a bunch of electronics and appliances. Sonic's appearance hadn't changed much in the two years, unlike Tails, he didn't wear glasses or any accessories on him, although his quills were slightly longer and messier; he looked way more mature than before.
Sonic entered the book store looking to buy books to decorate around the house after purchasing a monumental bookshelf. Sonic walked the perimeter, grabbing a copy of every book he could and entered the archaeological section of the store. He had so many books in his hands that he couldn't see where he was going and accidentally bumped into a girl, a Pink hedgehog to be exact.
"My apologies I didn't see where I was going." Apologized Sonic rubbing the back of his head, not yet looking up at the girl. He looked up at her and realized that he'd seen those same eyes before.
"Amy!?" tilting his head to the side in shock.
"Sonic!?" she replied in equal shock, scooting back away from him.
"What are you doing here!?" they said in sync.
They both gave each other a strong hug, swinging side to side, "It's been so long! Man, you don't know how much I missed you and the others!" he said with joy, being reunited with Amy; Amy's smile disappeared and she gently pushed herself away from Sonic.
"What's wrong?" asked Sonic, sensing some discomfort from her.
"It's nothing, I just wasn't expecting to run into you, here of all places." Holding her arm and looking away from his eyes; Amy's appearance was beautiful, she grew out her Red dress and instead wore a Reddish-Pink t shirt with Black jeans and white high tops with sparkling diamond earrings in both ears. She also had longer quills than before, with them all tied back in a braid.
Sonic helped Amy up and together they picked up Sonic's books and placed them in shopping cart. They walked down the aisle together helping Sonic pick out books, Amy avoided as much conversation and eye contact as possible.
A faint howl came from behind Sonic and Amy; it was Cream running at full speed toward Sonic with fire in her eyes. She drop kicked Sonic into a nearby shelf, dropping all the books onto him; Amy's eyes widened looking at the rubble of books and then Cream.
"Amy, you OK? I saw a suspicious man with you so I took swift action." Said Cream with pride; the rubble of books began to move and Cream leaped into battle stance.
"Ow" muttered Sonic, emerging from the pile of rubble; Cream realized who it was and approached him at full speed again.
"Mr. Sonic!" she screamed, jumping into his arms with heavy tears.
Sonic calmed her down and the three left the book store walking to Sonic's car, "We'll catch up on old talk later, right now, do you guys have a ride? A place to stay, perhaps?" asked Sonic opening the doors for them.
"We got here by bus, but we don't have anywhere to stay yet, I was gonna book a room for us at a hotel." Responded Amy, giving him her full attention.
"No worries, you can stay at my domain." Suggested Sonic; Amy got red faced with smoke coming out her ears and turned away holding her head with huge smile on her face.
Sonic turns to Cream, "You've grown up since the last time I saw you!" he said with glee.
"Yeah, I've been on adventures with Amy." She responded casually; Amy still was in her world.
Cream's appearance was much different, she also ditched the dress, but instead wore a Polo shirt with a Brown side, Sky blue number on the sleeves and a Cream color serving as the base of the shirt with a sky blue skirt to go with it. Also, she wore Hipster glasses similar to Tails.
They accepted Sonic's gesture and drove with him back to his mansion, learning that they'd also see Tails, causing a light to shine in Cream's eye as she quickly accepted.