"Okay, I'll go check on him." Blaze said, finally having regained composure. She got up from where she had been sitting with Tails and Marine and laughing about Sonic's hair mishap and walked towards the stairs to the lower deck of the ship. She headed to the on room that had a mirror: the bathroom. When she walked in she was greeted with the sight of a very distraught blue hedgehog that had the craziest hair she'd ever seen. She covered her mouth to prevent another laugh escaping her, her sides aching from her previous laughing fit. She then took a breath and wiped the smile from her face. She in turn gave a somewhat concerned expression.
"Sonic? Are you… Okay?" She asked.
He looked at her, somewhat flustered. He then shot her a glare. "Do I LOOK okay?"
"…Um... Sure. That hairstyle totally suits you." She gave what looked like a reassuring smile.
Sonic rolled his eyes and chuckled lightly. "Um, no. I think I liked my other hair better."
"Here I'll help you fix it." Blaze offered, wetting her hands with water and attempting to flatten part of his hair.
"Okay, but-" Sonic was interrupted when Marine came bounding down the stairs.
"'Ello mate!" Marine greeted in her Australian accent. "Ooh! Oi'll help!" Marine dunked her hands into a bucket of water nearby and ran over to join them. She began to work on another piece of his hair.
Sonic was bored out of his mind. He'd been placed on a stool for the last hour while the two females of the ship tried their hands at fixing his hair. He was now working his way into the complaining part of boredom.
"Ugh. I'm SO bored! Are you done yet?" He whined.
"No." Blaze replied sounding only slightly irritated. "Your hair won't stay flat."
"What? Let me see." Sonic got up without waiting for a reply. He walked over to the mirror and looked. His hair was almost normal, save for the occasional strands that were sticking out in random areas. "You know what? Whatever. Let's just go." He sighed in aggravation as he exited the bathroom. Blaze and Marine dried their hands off on a nearby towel and followed Sonic up the stairs.
"So, what's the nearest island?" Sonic asked Tails. "I could really use something to eat other than fish."
"Um… I think we'll be nearing the… Eastern islands in about an hour or two." Tails replied. Sonic groaned and slumped down into a chair. Marine snatched the map from Tails and checked it over.
"No! We'll be nearing Christmas Island within 15 minutes!" She shoved the map in Tails' face. "See?"
"Uh… Yeah…" Tails replied somewhat uneasy. He then went up to the steering wheel with Marine before she ordered him up to the crowsnest to search for an island with the telescope.
Blaze joined Sonic and took a seat next to him. "Sonic… I was just wondering why you can't swim…" She said in a somewhat serious tone.
"Uh… well… Amy tried to teach me once but I hate water so I refused… Plus she's always chasing me and she was getting a little close. This one time, I was with Amy at Twinkle Park and she couldn't keep her hands off me. She dragged me onto all these random rides and she forced me onto this lovey-dovey boat thing…"
"Sonic, there is no way Amy could've FORCED you onto that ride. From what I've seen you are a lot stronger than she is and also quite faster." Blaze smirked. "You have feelings for her, don't you? You talk about her all the time, and somehow manage to bring her up in almost every topic I've tried to discuss with you since we boarded the ship on the Southern Islands. You really lo—"
"I don't love her!" Sonic cut in. "She just…"
Blaze raised a brow. "She just what?"
"I don't know. She's been chasing me since we first met." Sonic rubbed his quills and looked away briefly. "When I was twelve and she was eight."
"Ah." Blaze answered half-heartedly. She wasn't fully satisfied with his answer, let alone fully believing his words. "So you've known her for quite a while, and all this time you've been denying her advances?" She had a somewhat shocked look. "That's FIVE years this has been going on!"
"I know…" Sonic said looking at the floor before her words sunk in and he looked up. "I know…"
"Hmm…" Blaze arose from her seat. "Well, this doesn't at all answer my question, however…" She turned away. "That was-" Blaze was interrupted as she was suddenly grabbed by a mechanical arm and pulled away from the ship. She gasped in surprise as she was momentarily suspended above the water and then suddenly flung into the metallic arms of two robots. Angered by being caught off guard, Blaze gave the typical response any woman would have given.
"Don't touch me!" Although she added her own twist by roundhouse kicking them. She then put her hands on her hips and tapped her foot impatiently as she looked around. She was on a typical pirate ship, and the robots were merely robotic pirates.
Very familiar robotic pirates.
"Whisker!?" Blaze said in shock.
"Blaze!" She heard Sonic's voice nearby and turned to see the S.S Marine still nearby next to the ship and Sonic staring at her in shock. Blaze started to run and was about to jump of when someone grabbed her arm.
"Aye, not so fast Sheila."
Sonic watched in shock as Blaze was yanked back by none other than Captain Whisker himself. She was then restrained by the same robots from before and shoved behind a metal door. The door was then padlocked. 'I've got to do something…' He thought. 'What do they usually do in pirate movies?'
He then remembered in pirate movies there were 3 typical ways to cross from one ship to another. The first was to swing over on a rope. The second was to climb over on a well-placed plank of wood, and the third was to simply jump across. He looked around for planks and ropes and saw some coils of rope nearby. But he figured that would take too long to set up and was about to jump when he looked down.
And saw the water.
'I can't…' He thought in a mental panic. 'I can't do this! What if I fall…'
But then he remembered Blaze was padlocked in a room on a pirate ship located a good 5 meters away from the S.S Marine. So he took a couple steps back… And bumped into Marine.
"Oi! Watch where ya goin' ya bloke!" She snapped.
"What are you doing?" Tails asked.
"Trying to jump over." Sonic said bluntly. "Now if you'll excuse me-!"
"Oi wanna go!" Marine said excitedly.
"Screw that. I'll only take a couple minutes!"
"Yeah, but you need someone to back ya up when ya get Blaze here outta that chamber there."
"She has a point…"
"Whatever. I'm going over, and I officially don't care who comes with me… unless you get captured."
"Me? Captured? Your talkin' to the great Captain of this 'ere ship! Oi'm not gonna get captured!"
Sonic merely rolled his eyes. This was wasting time and he knew it. He just took a running start and landed on the other ship with the soft thud of his sneakers hitting the hardwood of the deck. The occupants of the ship turned there metallic heads in surprise, but weren't quick enough to defend themselves from Sonic's Homing Attacks. He knocked down the crew within a couple seconds… Now all he needed was the key.
"That was ripper mate!" Marine said cheerfully behind him. He gave her a quick smile to acknowledge her praise and continued to scan the ship. He began pick-pocketing the robots, and found that none of them were carrying the key. He kicked one in aggravation.
"What's wrong Sonic?" Tails asked.
"I need the key!" He shouted indicating the padlock.
"That's what these are for mate!" Marine pulled out a thin metallic lock pick and eagerly ran over to the door. She fiddled with the lock for a few moments before it clattered to the floor and the door creaked open.
"Marine?" Blaze said momentarily dumbfounded. She then regained her composure and exited the metal coated cell she was placed in. She scanned the ship and saw the crew was knocked down and Sonic and Tails stood awkwardly at the other end of the ship.
"Well, let's go then!" Marine said. She then quickly scanned for any loot the pirates might be carrying and found a small pouch of gold coins. She snickered mischievously as she took the pouch and leapt across to the S.S Marine after everyone else. "Aye, look what oi've got!" She announced as she proudly held up her prize.
"And where, pray tell, did you get that from?" Blaze asked raising a brow. Sonic and Tails gave her a similar look.
"Oi took it from Whisker's pocket!" Marine replied as she strutted off toward the steering wheel. She then turned her ship in a slightly different direction in hopes to sail away before the pirates recover.
A/N: It's so hard to type accents… especially without someone with an Aussie accent to help me…