Sonic watched as a big truck backed it's way onto his land. After it stopped, the driver hit a button on the inside of his vehicle that made the truck dump all it had out. Sonic thanked the man and then went back to his house to call Amy.

It was about noon and the sun was bright and strong. It was unusually hot outside today and Sonic was wondering how much they were going to be able to do under the heat. The blue hedgehog checked the temperature. It was about 100° (37° C). He was almost sweating just thinking about it.

Sonic picked up his phone and dialed Amy's number.

"Hello!" He heard.

"Hey Amy, I was just-" He was cut off by her continuing.

"I'm sorry, but I can't get to the phone right now. Just leave me a message and I'll get to it as soon as possible. Thanks."

Then he heard the automated voice telling him to leave a message at the tone. Voice mail...

He left a short message to inform her that the stuff was here and to meet him at his house whenever she could. Putting the phone down, he decided to play the Wii for a while until she made it over.

Right in the middle of his game, he heard a knock on the door. He called out to whoever it was to come in. As Sonic had suspected, it was Amy.

"Hey Sonic, sorry I wasn't at home a while ago."

"No problem."

Amy smiled and checked out what Sonic was doing. It was Wii Sports boxing.

"So Sonic, are we ready to get started?"

Sonic nodded and turned the game off and took a few waters from the fridge. He came back with three waters and a toolbox which he said he'd bought and stocked yesterday. With that they started on their walk to the land, making comments about the heat, which hadn't really let up in the hour and 25 minutes it had been.

Amy took a moment to look at all of the materials laid out for them and eyed Sonic suspiciously.

"Do we really know what we're doing?"

"It can't be that hard. The DIY instructions I read online gave me easy directions. Just follow my lead and we'll probably be done by the end of the day!" Sonic proclaimed.

~One Hour Later~

Sonic had bruises on his body and sweat was dripping from his forehead. His body was soaked and he didn't look so good. His cheeks seemed a little greener then usual. Then, he puked. Amy dropped what she was doing and looked away before her small meal came up as well.

"Man, I knew those chili dogs were not a good idea on a hot day like this," Sonic groaned. Amy sighed. "Can you hand me a water please?" Sonic asked, reaching his hand out from his spot on top of what he thought was a good foundation. Amy ran to where they kept the bottles.

"We're out!" she told him.

"Great! This couldn't get any worse!" Sonic exclaimed as threw his hands up for emphasis.

Amy then heard an odd sound. Before anything even happened, she muttered, "It just did."

And sure enough the foundation collapsed. Sonic cursed aloud about his luck not being there at all.

"Oh, Sonic, I just remembered! We didn't dig up for the basement. So this gives us the chance to!" Amy reminded him.

"Finally, something right happened today," he said from on the ground after the wall threw him off it.

Sonic said he was going to go back to his house to get shovels and more water. Amy tried to call out to him, but he was long gone. Amy put her head down and shook it in dismay, thinking about how clueless he was.

Some thirty minutes later he was back. He looked a lot better then he had when he'd left for his house. His face was cleaned up and his body wasn't drenched. He offered water to Amy. She took the bottle and started gulping it down.

"So," Amy started, "I don't quite think it went well."

"No," Sonic agreed, wondering where it all went wrong, "What do you do?"

Amy shrugged. Although Sonic had cleaned himself up, Amy was still a sweaty mess. She wanted to go clean herself up, but wasn't just going to leave Sonic to try and build the foundation himself. She asked him if he'd looked at any more instructions for building.

He shook his head.

"Well, we could always get someone to build the foundation for us. Then we could finish off the rest. I'd be happy to help pay for their services."

"I guess we don't have much of a choice here, do we?" He laughed, "I appreciate you helping out, but I can handle this myself."

Amy tried to argue her way into paying, but Sonic wouldn't allow it. In the end she had to give up and let Sonic get a guy to help them out.

Amy told Sonic she was going to go back to her house and take a shower. The blue hedgehog nodded and then ran off to his own place to call somebody. With frustration clearly in his voice from the unsuccessful day, Sonic got a guy for a relatively reasonable price. He said that he would be at his house within 72 hours.

Fustrated that it was going to take longer then he expected, Sonic took a seat and decided to call Amy. He got the message machine again and waited for the beep. "Hey Ames. Thanks for all the help you provided. Sorry it was all for nothing. I thought I had it all down when I didn't. The guy I called to get the job done is going to be a while," Sonic sighed, "Oh well. Guess you can't win them all. Hopefully I'll do better in the future. Bye."

Sonic took a minute to let it all sink in. The excitement of getting the nice plot of land, the true kindness of a friend in which he had rejected so many times before, the dismay of a failed project, the coming lack of what to do for the next couple of days, just trying to figure it all out. He tried to think of what to do tomorrow, but nothing came to mind. He'd just have to think of it when the time came.