SONIC HEROES: THE SERIES

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Sonic characters, just the OC's

Chapter Seventeen: The Perfect Gift

It was a peaceful winter night for the Sonic Heroes. The leaves of the trees were completely gone and the ground was covered with powdery white snow. But this was no normal winter night. This was the night of Christmas. To commemorate their first Christmas together, the Heroes decided to throw a Christmas party. Everyone went around inviting everyone they knew to join. The guests of the party were: The Sonic Heroes (of course), Team Virtex, Vanilla (Cream's mother), Chaos and Tikal, The chao from Chao Garden, The G.U.N. Commander, Shahra and the Arabian Nights characters (Which caused a lot of confusion and nearly had Amy beheaded), and Princess Elise. Everyone was chatting and enjoying the party. Well...almost everybody.

"WHERE'S SONIC?!?!?!" Amy suddenly screamed.

Amy's screamed caught everyone off guard and caused them to trip on there own two feet. It was true that no one has seen Sonic since this morning. Sonic said he left to get something, but it's been hours since then. Quite frankly, Amy had a reason to be upset. After all, it was Sonic's idea for a party in the first place.

"Calm down, dear. I'm sure Sonic is on his way." Vanilla assured her.

"But what if he doesn't?" Amy cried. "What if he's never going to come?"

"I'm not complaining." Recter stated. Shahra slapped him over the head. "Ow!"

"Don't worry, Amy." Howl said. "Sonic isn't the one to let people down."

"Yeah! He's probably already on his way!" Raine cheered.

"This is definitely not the way wanted to spend Christmas." Sonic said.

Sonic was eagerly making his way back to the base when he accidentally ran into Eggman and Metal. Sonic was running across the snowy plain at breakneck speed with Eggman in his Egg-Mobile close on his tail. Eggman pressed a button on his Egg-Mobile to shoot a laser that barely missed Sonic. Sonic turns around and starts running backwards while forming his signature attack.

"SONIC WIND!"

Sonic threw the attack at Eggman's Egg-Mobile and blew it up. Lucky for Eggman, he pressed the eject button before it blew up and was now parachuting down to the ground. Suddenly, Bokkun flew out of nowhere and started laughing.

"Haha! You blew up!" Bokkun laughed.

Eggman then pulled a wrench out of nowhere and whacked it across Bokkun's head.

"That oughta take care of them for a while." Sonic said. Sonic suddenly stopped running when he ran into something from behind. Sonic looked up to find Metal Sonic looming over him. "Uh...Hi."

"Bye." Metal said.

Metal struck his claws down, but the hedgehog quickly flipped forward to avoid it. Sonic tried to make a run for it, but Metal quickly jumped to block him off. Metal swiped his claws several times, but Sonic was lucky enough to dodge them. At one point, Metal lost his balance, which gave Sonic the opportunity to counter. Sonic grabbed Metal by his arm and swung him over his should and throw him into pile of snow.

"I'd hate to hit and run, but I have a party to get to." Sonic said.

Sonic turned to run, but accidentally slipped on some ice and flew across the frozen ground to ram into a tree.

Back at the party, Jet took Shahra and the Arabian Night characters outside to introduce something they never see in the desert: snow. The characters watch idly as the snow fell from the sky and touched softy on the ground. King Shahryar held out his hand to catch a flake, but it melted in his hand.

"So...this stuff is called snow, right" Shahryar asked.

"Yep. I bet you don't see this kind of stuff in your book." Jet said.

"Except for Solomon's domain, I have never seen such things before." Shahryar said. "What are they used for?" Shahryar was then suddenly pelted by a random snowball. Shahryar looks over to see Jet laughing. Shahryar draws his blade and holds it to Jet's neck. "You dare to strike me!"

"N-n-no, wait! It was part of a game!" Jet screamed quickly.

"A game?" Shahryar asked.

"Yeah. You're supposed to make snowballs and throw them at each other." Jet explained while forming a new snowball. "Like this." Jet threw the snowball and landed a direct hit on Sinbad. "See, its fun."

"You mean, I just do this..." Shahryar followed Jet's example and formed his own snowball. "...And just throw it?" Jet nodded. Shahryar threw the snowball and nailed Ali Baba directly in the back of his hooded head. At this, Shahryar started laughing. "You're right, it is fun."

Suddenly, Jet and Shahryar were bombarded by a barrage of snowballs. After being hit, Sinbad and Ali Baba started to fight back. Jet and Shahryar teamed up against Sinbad and Ali Baba and began their own snowball fight. Back inside, Shahra was watching her friends play through the window. Just then, Wave walked up to her.

"Hey, you're Shahra, right?" Wave asked.

"Yes, I am." Shahra answered.

"I never got a chance to introduce myself. My name is Wave." Wave said.

"Oh, so you're Wave." Shahra said giddily. "Jet talked about you a lot during our adventures. You're his girlfriend, right?"

"Yeah and I couldn't be anymore proud of it." Wave smirked.

"It's nice to see that you two are happy." Shahra smiled. "But tell me, how can you stand someone as clumsy as Jet?"

"Clumsy?" Wave repeated.

"Jet was always such a klutz back in the book." Shahra said. "I have loads of stories about them."

"Are any of them embarrassing stories?" Wave asked.

"The best ones are." Shahra answered.

"Let's start with those." Wave smirked.

"This day just gets better and better" Sonic said sarcastically.

Currently, Sonic was running through a forest while being chased down by all four Dark Rulers. Erazor reeled out his razor blade and swung heated blades to Sonic. Sonic quickly jumped from side to side to escape becoming dinner. Sonic run up a tree and jumped off in his ball form. Nazo and Mephiles jumped out of the way while Sonic nailed Erazor in the face and caused him to knock into Black Doom.

"Grr, you imbecile." Black Doom said as he pushed Erazor away. Let me show you how it's done. SWIFT STRIKE!"

Sonic jumped on a nearby tree, but quickly jumped off when Black Doom's attack came closer. When Black Doom had not taken into account was him cutting down the tree and having him and Erazor both being crushed under its weight. Sonic smirked and turned to leave but was blocked off by Nazo.

"You may have made a mockery of those two bumblers, but not me." Nazo said.

Nazo jumped straight forward at Sonic and punched him in the jaw to throw him back. Sonic quickly jumped to his feet and jumped back when Nazo struck again. Nazo was coming at him again when he noticed Mephiles running at him from behind. Acting fast, Sonic jumped up and watched as Nazo became tangled in a web of purple ooze. Sonic chuckled for a moment before leaving.

"IDIOTS!!!" Nazo yelled at his team.

Back the base, Cream was helping the guest with some drinks when she noticed Tail. Or more specifically, what was above him. Hanging on the roof above Tails head was a small piece of mistletoe. Cream saw this as an opportunity to get close to the two-tailed kitsune.

"This could be my only chance. I can't waste it." Cream thought.

Cream slowly made her way over to Tails and prepared herself. Her heart was beating faster with every step she took towards him. Cream was only a few steps away when a small Cream Chao came out of nowhere and beat her.

"Hey, how ya doing." Tails greeted. The Cream Chao pointed up and showed Tails the small plant. "Oh, mistletoe." The Cream Chao kissed Tails on his cheek. "Well, thanks."

Tails walked away, leaving Cream heartbroken. Cream held her head down in a depressive state. Just then, Blue came up to her.

"Hey, Cream, what's wrong? Blue asked.

"I just missed my chance with Tails under the mistletoe." Cream said sadly.

"Why? What's wrong about missing him under the mistletoe?" Blue asked.

"Don't you know?" Cream asked. Blue shook his head. "When two people stand under the mistletoe, they have to kiss. It's part of a Christmas tradition. One time, Amy tried to get Sonic under the mistletoe and somehow got him in jail."

"Really..." Blue said interestingly as he looked at the small plant. He then turned his attention to Tikal, who was talking with Vanilla. Blue quickly reached for the mistletoe and ran off. "Thanks, Cream."

On the other side of the base, Tails was setting a bowl of pretzels on the table when he found Vector.

"Hey, Vector." Tails greeted.

"Hey, kid." Vector returned. "Hey, what happened over there with you and that chao?"

"Well, she found me under the mistletoe." Tails explained. "You how it is. Two people under the mistletoe have to kiss."

Really." Vector said. Vector felt stupid for forgetting one of the biggest traditions of Christmas. Vector turned his attention to Vanilla, who was talking to Tikal. Just then, Vector pulled a strand of mistletoe from out of nowhere and ran over. "Thanks for the tip, kid."

Both Blue and Vector ran over to the girls without showing any signs of stopping. Too bad for them, the two females walked away from the spot they were talking and the two ran into each other. After recollecting themselves, they both noticed they were holding mistletoe over each other. They took before screaming and running as far away from each other as possible.

"What do you think got into them?" Vanilla asked.

"I don't know." Tikal said. "The minds of men are vastly mysterious."

"Ok. I can understand Eggman and Nazo chasing me, but this ridicules!" Sonic exclaimed.

After escaping Nazo, Sonic ran past a farm where he unfortunately was found by an army of cows riding in flying saucers. The cows were chasing after Sonic through the sky and were firing laser beams at him. Sonic moved sideways to avoid the lasers.

"Hah! You're going to have to be quicker then that." Sonic smirked. Sonic continued to run until he realized...he wasn't touching the ground. Sonic looked down and saw that he was slowly floating into the air. Apparently, the evil space cows caught Sonic inside a tractor beam and were pulling them towards their ship. "I don't have time for this!"

Sonic quickly curled into his ball form and started spinning in place. When he was within range, Sonic blasted upwards with his spin dash attack. Sonic landed on the ground with a big smirk on his face. But that smirk suddenly disappeared when even more space cows showed up.

"Ugh. Can't I ever get a break?" Sonic whined. The space cows all aimed their lasers at the blue blur until a pack of Earth cows passed by. The space cows quickly forgot Sonic and started chasing after them. "Not what I was expecting, but I'll take it."

Back at the base, Princess Elise was sitting at the couch with Silver and Blaze. Silver and Elise were telling Blaze all the stories of what happened during the Solaris incident since she couldn't remember herself.

"...And that when we first kissed." Silver said. "I still have nightmares of you dying like that."

"Don't worry, Silver. I'm not going anywhere." Blaze assured him with a kiss on the cheek.

"You know, I still don't understand how I still remember everything when no one else does." Elise said.

"I don't know. During one of our battles, Mephiles once told me that he and I were not affected by the timeline. That we both exist outside of time." Silver explained. "How you can still remember is still a mystery."

"Did someone say mystery?" Vector and Charmy asked as they appeared out of nowhere.

"Not that kind of mystery." Blaze said. Espio quickly tied them up and dragged them away while apologizing for their actions. "Those guys really need to get new jobs."

"So, did you tell them about your relation to Sonic and Amy?" Elise asked.

"Well...I didn't, but Metal sure did." Silver said.

"So how did they take it?" Elise asked.

Well, Amy was happy and Sonic was placed under government security." Blaze said.

"From who?"

"From Amy's overprotective big brother, Rector." Silver said.

"So...does Rector know that he kissed Amy?" Elise asked.

"What?! Someone kissed my little sister!" Rector said with outrage.

"Now he does." Blaze stated.

"Whoever did it is going to die!" Rector yelled

Rector then proceeded to chase down all the men in the base (With the exception of Howl, Jet, Silver and Shadow). Many tried to escape, but ended up only making the pain worse. A couple moments later, Amy and Wave were dragging all of the injured into the emergency ward.

"Well, that's one way to start the holidays." Blaze said.

"Oops." Elise said meekly.

"I know I'm not the luckiest guy in the world, but there is no way that my luck is this bad!" Sonic screamed.

Now, Sonic was not only being chased by Eggman and Metal, but also the Dark Rulers and the space cows. Metal threw waves of electricity, Eggman and the space cows fired lasers, and the Dark Rulers all used their signature attacks on the poor hedgehog. Sonic dived from blow after blow that just didn't seem to end. Finally, Sonic had enough. Sonic raised his hand to the group of evil.

"Hold it right there!" Sonic said with authority.

All the evil entities stopped in their tracks with confusing expressions on their faces. Well...expect for Metal.

"What now?" Metal asked.

"Why are you doing this?" Sonic asked.

"I don't you know by know?" Mephiles asked. "It's because we're evil, that's why."

"But it's Christmas." Sonic argued.

"We don't care what day it is." Black Doom said. "Either way, we are going to kill you."

Give me a break." Sonic sighed. "Listen, all I wanted to do was to get something important. A perfect gift for someone I really care about." The villain's evil features slowly started to dwindle. "I mean, it's this is probably the one chance I have to give something back. After all that this person has done for me, I just to pay them back. So please, just give me a break."

Pretty soon, all the villains were starting to feel pretty bad for all the things they did today. Even the seemingly heartless Nazo was starting to feel sympathetic for the little blue hedgehog.

"Well...I guess we can let you off with a break." Nazo said uncomfortably since he was not used to doing this. "I mean...after all...it is Christmas." Sonic smiled happily knowing that they were finally letting him off. "But once this holiday is over, we will come back to destroy you. Hopefully not those cows. Things are weird enough as it is."

"MOO!!" the cow mooed angrily.

"Thanks, guys" Sonic said.

"Now that that's settled. Who wants hot chocolate?" Eggman asked.

"Ooh, that sounds heavenly." Nazo said.

"I wouldn't mid some." Metal said

"MOO!"

soon, all the evil villains left together for a cup of hot chocolate. Sonic stood there like an idiot with a crazed expression on his face. Then after a minute, Sonic remembered his task and quickly made his way back home.

Back at the base, the party was slowly dying down and everyone would be leaving soon. Everyone seemed to have had a good time. Everyone except Amy. Amy sat depressed at the window the entire time waiting for her Sonic to come home. Recter walked up to her had placed his hand on her shoulder for reassurance.

"Are you ok?" Recter asked.

"I've been better." Amy answered sadly.

"You can't let Sonic get to you like this." Rector said

"I know. But it was just hope this Christmas would be different." Amy said.

Amy continued to watch the snow fall outside with of her Sonic trudging through it just to see her. Amy held her head down in depression. She knew that Sonic would never do anything g like that. Just then, there was a slight cold breeze passing by followed by a familiar voice.

"Hey, guys! I'm back!" Everyone looked towards the entrance to find that Sonic had finally returned. Everyone ran to Sonic's side except for Amy and Recter. Instead, Amy stomped over to Sonic with flames of rage in her eyes. Everyone slowly backed away from the infuriated Amy. Sonic turned around when he noticed her. "Hey, Amy."

"Don't you 'hey, Amy' me, Sonic the Hedgehog!" Amy yelled, catching Sonic off guard. "Where have you been all this time?! Do you know how worried I have been?! I have been waiting for you all night and just show up like nothing happened!" But even with all of Amy's yelling; Sonic could only smile. "I was hoping that just once, you would think about how others feel and just..." Amy paused for a moment when Sonic presented Amy with a sparkling yellow rose. Amy hesitantly grabbed the rose and asked. "What is this?"

"This is the reason I was gone." Sonic explained. "I traveled to the other side of the world to get it for you."

"Wow! Do you know what that is?" Raine said excitingly.

"What is it?" Howl asked.

"That's a rare Topaz Rose." Raine explained. "I heard that the last one went extinct over a year ago."

"It did. I was lucky enough to find the last seed half a year ago." Sonic said. "I took it to an underground spring to keep it safe. I was planning to give it to Amy when I found her again. But when I did find her, I completely forgot. So I was thinking of getting it for her for Christmas."

"Oh, that's so romantic." Cream said. Recter's eye started to twitch at the thought. "And speaking of romantic. Look up."

Sonic looked above their heads and saw a small strand of mistletoe above them. Amy's eyes sparkled at the sight of the small plant piece. Normally, it would be Amy jumping all over Sonic, but it was different this time. Sonic beat Amy and gave her a quick kiss on the cheek. Amy sighed happily and nearly fainted. Sonic looked over and found Recter looming over his with his fist held high. But instead of punching Sonic, he pats him on the back.

"I'll let it slide this time." Recter said. "Mary Christmas, Sonic.

"Marry Christmas, Recter." Sonic said. "Marry Christmas, everyone."

At it went on from there. Blue and Vector tried to get Tikal and Vanilla under the mistletoe, but failed every time. Cream tried to get close to Tails, but the Cream Chao always beat her. No one saw that chao again. Presents followed and everyone was happy. Everyone except Shadow, who was avoiding Kumori's kissing. The villains enjoyed their own Christmas party, but they all received coal for Christmas. Everyone except Bokkun, who received a teddy bear. He is currently locked in a closet. Christmas has now come and gone and a new adventure was beginning at first sun set. Or at least it would if Eggman didn't block it with a machine.

"Here we go again." Sonic said.

The greatest gift is the one from the heart. Marry Christmas everybody.

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