Amy sat back down on her chair as they watched the news alert of Sonic being alive.

"It's fun hearing that, isn't it?" Amy said, talking about the cheering in the background.

"Definitely humbles a guy," he smiled.

The pink hedgehog picked her remote back up and changed the channel to a sports station. They were talking about Sonic as well. She flipped channels to the cooking channel. Even they were talking about Sonic. Amy turned the television off.

"Wow, talk about breaking news," she laughed and stood up. "Are you hungry?" she asked.

"Nah," he shook his head.

"OK," Amy responded, "Well, I think I'm going to go cook myself something."

As if further proof were necessary, the pink hedgehog's stomach roared with the ferocity of a lion. Sonic chuckled a little bit as Amy walked off.

Amy opened her fridge and pulled out leftovers from one of her meals with Sonic. As she placed it in the microwave, she began to drift off into her own thoughts.

One second Sonic was all but dead. It was then that she truly realized that Sonic meant more to her then a crush. The feelings she had for him were more mature then that. If only he knew... If only he felt the same.

Interrupting her thoughts, she heard her door swing open and hit the wall.

"Surprise!"

On the couch, Sonic cringed. He had no idea what was happening. His first thought was that Eggman was invading to finish him off. He got ready for the bullet or whatever would happen to come next, but...

No bullets; nothing lethal. He opened his eyes from his cringe.

"Oh," he noticed Knuckles and Tails.

"Knux? Tails?" he said slowly.

"Yeah! Come on bud, we couldn't not have a party when we caught news of your survival!" Knuckles exclaimed excitedly.

Sonic smiled.

"Awesome. Thanks for coming guys. Just, can't move much for a little while."

"Well, I kinda figured that," Tails said, "But we can still have plenty of fun."

Knuckles and Tails shut Amy's front door. The pink hedgehog, scared witless, marched in, asking, "What is going on in..."

She trailed off when she saw Knuckles and Tails.

"Did you just barge into my house?" she shouted at them, drawing the piko piko hammer.

"Oh no," Tails gulped.

Amy started chasing the two around the house. Sonic tried to call out her name and tell her to stop, but she couldn't hear him. Then, there was a loud bang. Knuckles came stumbling down the stairs.

"I'm good," he said with a dazed expression on his face.

"Really?" Sonic asked. Sure enough, the echidna collapsed on floor in front of the couch Sonic was on. "Thought so," Sonic laughed. Still, Amy was chasing after Tails who was running all over the place. Sonic was cheering for the two-tailed fox. "Come on Tails! You can do it!"

Sadly, it only went on for another few seconds before the second bang was heard, followed quickly by a third. Tails came staggering into the living room, a big goofy smile plastered onto his face. "Wuh heppend? Ah don feel so good," Tails said, dazed and confused.

He promptly fell right onto Knuckles, who gasped a little at the sudden weight on his stomach. Next to come in fumbling around was Amy.

"Amy? What'd you do, beat yourself in the face?" Sonic asked.

"Think so," she said and fell down, right onto Sonic.

The blue hedgehog groaned in pain as his already-weak body just became weaker. That was painful.

"A-A-Amy! Get off!"

By then he was gasping for breath, but Amy wouldn't come to. He struggled for breath for the next handful of seconds before Amy finally woke up.

"Get! Off!" he shouted, about as blue in the face as his fur was.

"Oh, sorry," Amy smiled sheepishly and stepped off of him.

She didn't realize that Knuckles and Tails' knocked out bodies were right below her and stepped on them. This woke the two up and everyone was up again.

"Alright boys! I need a good explanation," Amy pulled out her mallet again, "Why are you here?"

"To party," Knuckles responded simply.

"To party?" Amy repeated.

"Yeah, you know. Dance, sing, celebrate, have a good time? Ring a bell? For Sonic being alive," Knuckles explained.

"Oh, now I get it. You should've told me you were just coming to party!" Amy laughed and put the piko piko hammer away, "Do you know how much you scared me?"

"Lighten up," Knuckles shrugged it off, "Besides, didn't you hear us yell, 'surprise?'"

"No."

"Oh gosh," Tails sighed and threw his head back. The house wasn't that big, was it? After their discussion, the four decided to continue on like it were a normal party. Soon after, Knuckles came up with a brilliant idea.

"I think we should invite more people over."

"Are you certain, Knuckles? This house is only so big," Amy questioned him.

"Of course! I'm not worried."

"Yeah, but I wouldn't want everyone making a mess of the house," Amy said worriedly.

"Don't worry, we'll keep this house squeaky clean!" Knuckles reassured.

"Are you sure?"

Knuckles smiled and nodded honestly.

"Well, alright then," Amy sighed.

Knuckles grinned widely and picked up her phone. He got Rouge, Shadow, Silver and Blaze to come over. He also invited Jet, Wave and Storm, but they said they were busy. Happy with himself, Knuckles put the phone back.

To say the least, she was nervous about the prospect of a party being held in her house. Especially before she had set stuff up. Also, Sonic was basically immobile, so how would he truly be able to participate?

Shortly after, the door started receiving knocks. Silver was the first to arrive and Blaze was with him.

"Hello you two. Thanks for coming," Knuckles ushered the guests in.

Silver and Blaze walked over to Sonic, who was sitting upright on the couch.

"Hey tough guy. Way to hang in," Silver gave Sonic a nice handshake. Blaze smiled warmly and said,

"I can't believe it. I heard all of the reports. Truly amazing."

"Thanks guys."

"So, how much time do you think you need to heal?" Silver asked.

"Oh, I don't know. My guess is about two, maybe three days."

Silver nodded and said hello to Knuckles, Tails and Amy. Blaze stayed with Sonic.

"So, do you remember much?"

"What?"

"From everything, you know, what happened yesterday?"

"No. Just know I started fighting against Eggman."

"I hate it when that happens, forgetting stuff like that."

"I like it!" Sonic laughed, "Who would want to remember nearly dieing?"

Blaze shrugged. She smiled and moved over to Silver. Sonic sat back and watched it all start to unfold. Soon after, Rouge arrived; following about 15 minutes later was Shadow, filling up the house.

Sonic watched everyone having a good time as he answered the questions Rouge and Shadow asked him, which were the same as Silver and Blaze's. Sonic began to wonder, why did Knuckles want to have a party? It's not like he could do anything. He thought that a party sounded fun, but maybe two or three days later when he had healed. Not when all he could do was sit lazily on the couch.

It was a reasonably standard party. Everyone was talking, watching TV and generally having a good time. Rouge and Knuckles became noticeably irritated at the lack of alcohol at the party.

"Amy," he walked over to the pink hedgehog after everyone had arrived, "Do you have anything to drink?"

"Sure. Soda? Water?"

"No, more like beer."

"No, I don't have any, sorry."

Knuckles sighed at this. Without even asking for permission, the echidna announced to everyone he was going to the grocery to buy beer.

Hearing this, Amy set out on the offensive. She picked up her hammer and ran up to Knuckles just as he laid his gloved hand on the doorknob. "Don't you dare!"

"Why not?" Knuckles shrugged.

"Because I don't want my house turning into a nightclub," She explained somewhat softly, trying to stay calm.

"What's so wrong with that? I think it'd be fun," Knuckles replied simply.

"You don't get it, do you? I don't want you guys being around here drunk and ruining my house."

This time Amy snapped. Knuckles was pushing her just a bit too far and she'd reached her limits.

"Whoa, who said anything about getting drunk?" Knuckles asked.

"I know what happens! I'm smart enough to realize!" she spat.

"And you really think we'd ruin your house?" Knuckles asked, sounding offended.

"I have my doubts," Amy said and shoved Knuckles's hand off the doorknob.

"Ooh," he mocked, "I'm so scared."

Amy swung the hammer and hit Knuckles square on the head. Right around where the first one hit him. "I'm still not scared," Knuckles collapsed.

"Well your down!" Amy said harshly and walked back to the couch Sonic was sitting on.

The blue hedgehog was just sitting there. He had a look of confusion on his face. Before he could say anything, Blaze approached Amy.

"Whoa Amy... What was all that for?"

"What?" She answered.

"You do realize what you just did, right?" Blaze cocked her head towards the door.

"Uh, yeah. Knuckles wanted to get everyone all drunk and wild. I won't have that in my house."

She responded promptly, still fired up.

"So? You don't know his intentions. Couldn't he have simply just wanted to have a good time celebrating the fact that Sonic was alive? He never clearly mentioned getting drunk, did he?" Blaze mentioned thoughtfully, "I understand your view. I also understand you've been alone and in the dark with the whole situation yourself. I know all the bottled up emotions that must've come out, but was it really right to just take it out on Knuckles like that?"

With the truth out, Amy was brought to tears. The pink hedgehog couldn't do anything but sob uncontrollably into the cat's shoulder. Knowing this would probably happen, Blaze just rocked back and forth as she tried to comfort Amy.

Sure, Amy felt like a moron breaking down in front of everyone like that, but she couldn't help it. Everything Blaze said was true, and it hit her hard. Almost as hard as the hammer she had just lowered onto Knuckles' head. She was scared being alone with Sonic. She thought he was dead, for goodness sake! Who wouldn't be scared?

Then the regret hit her. She did take it all out on Knuckles, didn't she? He never really did anything wrong, at least not knowingly. She never said anything about her problem with drinking after how drunk she got at Rouge's house on Shadow's birthday. Why did feelings have to be such a difficult thing?

She sniffled and lifted her head to the warm and forgiving faces of everyone in the house. Even Knuckles didn't seem mad, although he wasn't as happy as everyone else either.

"I'm sorry Knuckles." She choked a bit, sniffling again, "I lost control."

Knuckles took a moment. He finally said, "Forget about it."

"Thank you." She said quietly and stood up.

"Alright! Well, we still have a party to celebrate, right?" Knuckles asked and cheers broke out.

The house, once again, turned back into a fun place. Conversations and stories were again being told, most of which revolved in some way around Sonic. Everyone was letting loose and enjoying.

After another half hour or so of talking, everyone began snacking. Amy broke out a bunch of sodas and water and brought out a couple bags of chips she had.

As Sonic watched everyone eat, he tried to think of some way to stay involved in the party. Out the corner of his eye he noticed the Xbox 360 Amy had. He smiled and thought for a second, then suggested playing it.

"You know, I can move my fingers," he joked.

The focus in turn shifted to playing multiple video games from Mortal Kombat to the various Arcade games Amy had.

The house had truly become the place to be.