This is a chapter full of adorable stuff, corny stuff and just overall SonAmy shenanigans but in the Boom continuity. COMEDY EVERYBODY!
Also thanks to the reviews I had to watch the episode Tails' Crush which just turned me into Amy because I was aww-ing heavily. Granted with episodes like that for any show I find them hard to watch because they're so cringy past age 5 – but I still found it cute just because I tend to think of Sonic characters as animals and floofs first...
And gosh darn it Zooey has an adorable design too, only thing I would change about it is to not have her wear such a dark red because it doesn't look the best with such bright yellow fur.
But I'll gush over cute animals another time... Onto the fic:
(EDIT: 12/22/17: If you're reading this, you might notice some nice additions to the chapter thanks in part to mass-editing. Enjoy the fic.)
Just as Tails was having enough of everything going on, so was Sticks, cursing the writer for her illusion of choice in staying out of the events to unfold. She kicked Knuckles aside, getting up and entering the workshop.
"Tails, if you wanna get this schlock over with you have to face the truth... ANIMALS MATE. It's a totally normal thing! I know it's a difficult thing to realize, but you need to grow up!"
But Tails already reassembled his sheet metal house in the corner, not listening.
"Tails, don't make me come in there..."
"I'm not letting anyone in... I just wanna be a kid forever and never grow up!"
"See, this is why I don't mess with technology... You got all the wrong ideas being BEAMED into your brain and now you're just a scared pup who doesn't wanna face reality!" She pushed all of his sheet metal aside. "Nobody exists on purpose, nobody belongs anywhere, everybody's gonna die... So quit being a baby and tell me what's been goin' on?"
The small fox continued to sit being pouty in the corner, looking at the floor and hugging his tails instead of looking at Sticks.
"Fine, you wanna play like that: I'm glad badgers can delay their fertilization - cuz I know I certainly can't deal with this! Now I'm going home, sitting tight in my bunker and that'll be the end of it!" And just as she turned for the door, she felt a pair of hands around her hips.
"Okay I'm sorry, just don't leave me alone!"
Needless to say she hugged the little guy back...
"Good to see everyone finally getting along again..." And the Knuckles picked the both of them up for another hug only to get kicked between the legs by a badger who had quite enough of the echidna's antics. "ALRIGHT! I WON'T PICK YOU UP AGAIN!"
"Good" Sticks spat. "Now why don't we head to my bunker and get you away from all of this technology helicopter butt?"
"As long as you don't show me anything weird..."
"Eh... Not something I can promise but I'll manage..."
While Sticks and Knuckles tried to deal with an anxiety-ridden Tails off screen, Amy had gotten rid of every splinter in Sonic's back and was currently petting him like a cat with his head on her lap.
Normally being in such a compromising position in public or private would make Sonic feel vulnerable and sometimes even stupid. After all he was supposed to be the cool, radical hero! And heroes didn't have time to being vulnerable. But here he was, getting his back scratched out in the open for all to see. He could almost purr like an actual cat but -being a hedgehog and not a cat- purring wasn't possible. Instead every now and again he found himself snorting just a bit...
Amy started scratching behind his ears. "It's nice not having to worry about battling all the time."
Sonic just stood silent, being content with being scratched by a pretty member of his species.
"Also I think this is the first time you've spent this much with me, just the two of us." Amy sighed, scratching her blue beau's quills. "I can't even remember the last time we had so much undisturbed time alone together."
Trying to suppress the urge to squeak he forced himself to sit up, blushing a bit. "Y-yeah... You know, fighting, friends, filler episodes that don't involve just the two of us going on our own adventures..."
"That's true..." She put her head on his shoulder, making him loosen his neck scarf. "I enjoy being with you."
"You're not bad company either." He put his arm around her hip, pulling her close. "So... I was thinking..."
"Yeah?"
And then he got a good whiff of her. "Hey, is that new perfume?"
"Oh! You just noticed now? Yeah it's new. It's this rose scent mixed with tulips. I got it just the other day." Amy being the cute girl she was just seemed to get snugglier making two drastically different parts of Sonic's brain act two drastically different ways.
Inside of his brain his rational side of his brain wrestled with the part of his brain that just wanted to MATE. And both sides of his brain were wrestling relentlessly while the body was just a shell acting of it's own accord or acting on instinct without going too far...
"Heh... Hey baby, you wanna ride my quill?"
"OH FOR THE LOVE OF CHAOS, WE'RE NOT SAYING THAT TO HER!"
"But why not? I mean she wants to turn you into a blue blur if ya know what I mean..."
"I can't do that to Amy! We're friends! Teammates!"
"But she does smell nice and those quills look so biteable..."
"Heh... Yeah those quills are adorable... Wait. NO! NO! She's still a friend... I need to respect that..."
"HELLO! SHE'S RIGHT THERE! IT'S TIME TO MATE!"
"I don't care about that... I like Amy... I don't wanna hurt her just because of some primal instinct..."
...
And then a female voice called out to him, getting him out of the wrestling match inside of his brain.
"Everything okay Sonic? You looked like you were having a nightmare..." Amy said, clearly concerned.
"Nightmare? How long was I out?"
"About 15 minutes?"
"Shoot... Sorry about falling asleep I guess..." He scooted over to maintain a certain distance away from her. "I've got some things on my mind... I wouldn't wanna bother you with them. You know, since we're friends and all..."
"But if you ever want to express your feelings, you know you can come to me, right?"
But hearing her say something so simple just made him angry... "How are you so calm about it?"
"Calm about what?" Amy tilted her head a bit as though she was confused but she still had that same smile as though she was taunting him.
"Seriously... You talk about the hoglets you're going to have and you've been trying to make room for them and you're ignoring ME! What, like, do my feelings not count of something?!" He was mad... "Amy, we've been friends since... A long time ago! Other continuities ago! Needless to say it's complicated."
"But what about it is so complicated?" Amy sat, arms crossed and actually growing frustrated herself. "If you don't expand upon these feelings, nothing will ever get solved. So just spit them out if that's whats easiest."
Scooting back closer to Amy, Sonic scratched the back of his ears.
She leaned on his shoulder again. "Just say it already... You don't need to get all blue in the face about-."
"I love you and I wanna bite your quills – I SHOULD GO." But as he got up to dash off, Amy got up with him pressing her nose against his.
"Boop"
Needless to say... He was a pile of mush on the inside. "So you're not mad?"
"Meh, I was able to tell on some level..."
"THEN HOW WERE YOU SO COOL ABOUT IT?!"
"Testing the waters I guess... So..."
"So what?"
"You wanna extend the adventure or just head to my place?"
"Well, I'm up for anything. Rolling around at the speed of sound, going to Meh Burger, farmer's market, going for a swim..."
"Sonic, you hate water."
"You make me do crazy things."
Amy booped him on the nose again, grabbing him by the arm. "Then why don't I make us something to eat and we can spend time at the beach... You know – just the two of us surrounded by nature. I mean forget about Meh Burger anyway... I can cook."
And quicker then you could be reminded of the Chez Amy episode, Sonic picked her up and dashed off to her place...
Chapter 5 end
Oh goodness this series is perfect to work with so I don't have to break the fourth wall so much in my other fanworks... I know that was a major complaint in my Huniepop fanfic (I just really love fourth wall breakers and I wanna boop Kyu's nose and steal her clothes...)
It also occurred to me that since Sonic Boom is set on an island surrounded by water, it seems like Sonic's fear of water has been ignored to some degree. It's only been brought up in 2 episodes from what I've seen so it doesn't seem like too big an obstacle compared to his Sonic X incarnation (who nearly drowned in a pool in the first episode and avoids going to the beach at all costs in the beach episode until Eggman shows up and even then faces difficulties with the ocean what with robots trying to drown him and it's AMY that ends up coming to his rescue) Just something I noticed after watching so much Sonic X for research purposes...
Animal trivia for chapter 5:
You got hedgehog trivia, you got echidna trivia and in this chapter we learn some of the weirdest trivia about badgers: female badgers can delay the fertilization of their eggs! They're one of the few animals that can suspend the the development of their young in the womb by delaying implantation of a fertilized egg. This is because they can maintain a small ball of cells (called a blastocyst) in suspended development for up to nine months until it implants In the womb. So for example, a female badger could mate in March, but not actually be officially pregnant with young until December. They can also have blastocysts from several different partners so it's possible that a litter of badger cubs may all share the same mom, but have different fathers.
Now I envy badgers for having such a unique skill when it comes to getting pregnant...
Onto the hedgehog trivia:
A lot of people think hedgehogs can purr but they can't.
That little fact segways nicely into this piece of trivia: the reason why hedgehogs are called hedgeHOGS is because of the sounds like make. While they do squeak like other rodents, they're also known to make snorting sounds reminiscent of pigs – another word for pig being hog. That's why the werehog concept is a big misnomer. Hog is a suffix for pig. Were is a suffix for man. So by that logic the werehog is a man pig...
Special Thanks:
A special thank you to NeckBreak for contributing some trivia to this little fanfic! They posted some trivia about hedgehogs of their own in the review section. Their contribution in this chapter was the fact that hedgehogs don't purr.
Another special thanks goes to my boyfriend Twisted Hero for giving all of the cheesy pick up lines and other flirty and cringy lines I made use of in this chapter. He does that to me a lot to attempt to make me cringe – he does an impression of the SA1 Sonic's voice and says very cringey stuff to me to freak me out but at this point he does it so often it has no effect on me unless he says something offensive or gross... If you wanna hear me audibly die and confirm that all these lines were real, you could find our let's plays on the youtubes. So far we've played Sonic Adventure 1, Lost World, Generations and 06 – my personal favorite and a game he's actually pretty good at (so we guarantee we'll finish up the game in less than 100 episodes).
On an even cornier and more sentimental note, part of Sonic's conversation with Amy (you know the one) was very loosely based on how the boyfriend confessed that he liked me with him as the Sonic. To make a Sonic X comparison, he was the Amy (Japanese dub of course) and ironically enough I was the Sonic in that scenario... Now excuse me while I get a bunch of lavender roses...