Me: Hey bitches! I return again!

Silver: Are you going to make this chapter…oh…I don't know. Better?

Me: Alright. I admit the last one was a bit pointless. But I promise this one will be more interesting.

Silver: Good.

Sonic: So…are the rest of not gonna be in it for a while?

Me: Sorry, blue boy. But that's affirmative.

Shadow: What about me?

Me: No. I'm already focused on you enough as it is in my other story.

Tikal: Baby, let him write.

Shadow: Fine. Just make it good.

Me: Very well. I'll be doing the disclaimer this time around. I do not own Sonic the Hedgehog or any other characters in this story. They all belong to Sega.

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It's Blazing on the West Side

Chapter 5: Day 1- San Diego

(Downtown San Diego; 8:30 AM)

It was still early in the morning, but Silver knew he was going to need a full breakfast if he wanted to spend the whole day tracking down Blaze. The hotel had breakfast prepared every morning and it wasn't bad. It wasn't the best Silver ever had, but it wasn't the worst either. After finishing up, he went upstairs, showered up, put on a clean pair of boots and gloves, and walked out the door of the hotel and into the city. All Silver had to do at this point was decide where to look first. He immediately ruled out Sea World because Blaze hated water anywhere. He took the smart move and checked the phonebook first. Blaze wasn't listed. He searched under the last name, "Cat". There was no such name. So he had to walk on.

San Diego is a big city like Station Square. So maybe she liked to hang around the same places. But then he realized that he might get a better view from above. He concentrated his psychokinesis and his body began to glow with a light blue energy. He took off flying like Superman with everyone watching him go. Silver flew slowly over the streets of downtown trying to find her. It shouldn't be that hard. There aren't a lot of people out there with purple fur. There were a few Mobians but that was pretty much it.

"Let's try the beach. She hates the ocean but she loves the sand at the beach." Silver thought out loud.

Silver concentrated even more and he flew faster towards the beach. He flew over to the very start of it and started to look for lavender fur. But he had to descend a few times when he saw some girls covered by umbrellas. The beach was miles long and Silver spent hours in the air trying to find her. Exhausted from overusing his powers, he landed and took in a lot of deep breaths to regain his normal heart rate.

"HEY! LOOK OVER THERE!"

Silver looked up to see where that voice had come from. It wasn't Blaze, but he knew the tone unfortunately all too well. It was the voice…of a hippie. He slowly turned around and saw a whole group of them in tie-dye t-shirts and bikinis. Even some of the men were wearing bikinis.

That's odd.

The white hedgehog began to panic in place. Never before had he seen so many hippies in one place. And they were all looking at him. Well…actually they were looking at his quills. And that wasn't good news for him. It was right there that Silver had forgotten to bring that sombrero he had back at the hotel. He was exhausted from flying, but he had no other choice here. He turned and ran away from them. The group of hippies started to take chase and the ground trembled as all of them ran as one cluster of people.

Silver's eyes literally popped out of their sockets like a looney toon and yelled like one too. Then he turned and ran away from the oncoming group of crazed stoners. Why was it every day he had to run away from hippies? And Shadow was right. There were a lot of hippies in California. Silver ran for half a mile but then he stopped when he realized something.

"Oh right. I can fly with my powers."

He covered himself in telekinetic energy and moved himself off the ground and into the sky. He landed on the top of a tall building and thought out loud.

"Okay. I need to strategize here. I can't just go flying all around this city the whole day. I need to divide my search evenly with the sections of the city so I won't get worn out. And that means I'll need a map."

Silver jumped off of the building and lowered himself onto the ground gently. He bought a map of San Diego and then got a pen to go with it. He began to circle the areas that he would search today and the ones that he would search on the other days. After he got that all figured out, he made one last stop at his hotel room and got his sombrero. It wasn't easy, but he was able to fit his five front quills into the hat and hide the "leaf".

Then he commenced his search starting with North Downtown. He shortly found out that it was very crowded with people there. So it was going to be a bit harder to spot Blaze from above. But it shouldn't be that hard right? How many purple cats can there be in the world? He searched around the whole area on his map. He saw a few purple Mobians, but none of them were cats. It was now almost 8:00. He decided to search behind the Home Depot before going back to the hotel. There was only a lot of Mexicans there, much to his expectations. He had no idea why he was even searching there. It was just on his way back to his hotel, so why not check it out just to be on the safe side?

"You lost, jeffe?" one of them asked.

"No. I'm just trying to find someone. She's not here." Silver turned to leave.

"So it's a girl you're lookin for?" the same one asked. "Sit down. Papa Sergio has a story for you."

Sergio. That must be his name.

"Uhhh…okay." Silver didn't really have anything better to do.

He took a seat by Sergio. Silver told him his name and then he began to talk.

"Now you listen to me, Silver." Sergio said. "I lived in Veracruz most of my life. There was this girl. Her name was Claudia. I wanted to be with her so badly. But she moved up here before I got the chance to tell her I loved her. Do you know how that made me feel, man?"

"Oh I'm pretty sure I do." Silver knew EXACTLY how that felt.

"Yeah well. I snuck over the border a few years ago to try and find her. And I found her a year later. You know what happened? She got married." Sergio explained. "It tore my heart to pieces. I assume you are here to confess feelings as well?"

"You're right. I am." This guy wasn't psychic, but he was good.

"Then you listen to me. No matter how hard things get, no matter how hopeless everything seems, you never give up in finding your chica. Because su corazon will never be the same without her."

"That's exactly how I feel Sergio." Silver said. "But she could be anywhere in this whole state. And I only have five possible cities in which she might be in."

"What does she look like?" Sergio asked.

"You seen any Mobian cats around the city?" Silver asked.

"Mobian cats? Actually…I did see one cat."

Silver immediately jolted into a straight position.

"Really where?"

Just then, sirens went off and a bunch of trucks pulled up with the letters, INS on them. Men poured out of every truck and started to grab everyone who was illegal. But then something strange happened. One of the men saw Silver in a sombrero, and grabbed him too. Silver tried to get away, but he was cuffed and thrown into a truck with Sergio and some other guys.

He couldn't believe it. Silver got deported. It took nearly an hour for them to get to the border and then he and Sergio were thrown into a holding cell.

"I can't believe this. This is bullshit!" Silver kicked the bars. "I can get out of here no problem! Why aren't I?"

"Easy there, jeffe. Take a breather." Sergio tried to calm him down.

"How can I calm down? I've just been deported! And I'm not even Mexican!" he shouted.

An officer came in with the keys to the cell and opened it up.

"Silver the Hedgehog." He said.

Silver looked at him.

"You're free to go. Sorry for the mix up. The guy that arrested you was a new guy. He thinks anyone who wears a sombrero is an illegal." The officer said.

"Isn't that racist?" Silver asked.

"Well sure. But then again, everyone who works for the INS is a racist." The officer replied. "Why were you wearing a sombrero anyway?"

Silver took off the giant hat and revealed his quills.

"Imagine you were a hippie. Would you be able to resist this?' Silver pointed to his hair.

"Ooooooohhhhhhhh." The officer understood now.

"I'll be out in a second." Silver had one order of business. "Sergio. You said that yo saw a cat in San Diego. A Mobian cat. Was it a female?"

Sergio thought really hard. "Yeah. Female, good with fire, anything else?"

That was all Silver needed to hear. "Thank you. Thank you, Sergio."

Silver ran out of the cell and put his hat back on.

"You go, Silver! Find your gato chica!" Sergio shouted to his friend.

As soon as Silver made it outside, he took to the skies and flew back to the hotel in San Diego. The people at the border wouldn't miss one hedgehog. When he finally got back to his hotel, he fell asleep right as soon as he hit the pillow.

Day one in the search, and Silver got chased by a mob of crazy hippies, and got deported. What else was in store for him?

He will soon find out.

Me: I am so sorry it took me so long to get back with this story again. I've been busy with my other ones. I'll try to update on this one again as soon as I can. But until then, peace bitches.