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Knuckles, Silver, and Tails stopped walking and glanced around the small, yet homey cottage they were in. "Huh. I gotta admit, this place is actually kinda nice," Knuckles commented, "but it's missing something."
"You know, a lot of cottages have a fire." Silver pointed out and the trio looked at the fireplace to see nothing there.
Knuckles replied, "That's what it's missing! We need a fire in the fireplace!" He looked at the other two with a certain gleam in his eye that gave Silver and Tails the creeps. "Oh, I totally call making it!"
"Uh, okay," Silver responded and he took a step away from the crimson echidna, "we won't stop you."
"Uh, we kinda have to." Informed Tails. He pointed at an empty pail next to the fireplace. "We don't have any wood."
"Well, if that's the case…I'm going to go get some wood." Knuckles stated and picked up a brown paper bag and an ax before shoving Silver down and leaving the cottage with a smirk.
Getting to his feet, Silver called, "Hey! What was that for?"
Whistling as he wandered through the forest, Knuckles looked inside the paper bag to see a sandwich, some fruit, and a juice box and smiled as he remarked, "Heh. Looks like I got a pretty good lunch. It's perfect!"
Closing the bag, he saw Eggman sitting on a stump, clearly depressed about something and, even though his conscious was telling him to just keep walking, Knuckles felt some pity for the evil genius and went over to him. Seeing the Guardian of the Master Emerald, Eggman greeted half heartedly, "Oh, good day…to someone as happy as you."
"What's the matter?" questioned Knuckles, still hardly believing that he was having a conversation with Eggman even though he should be following through on what he said and nailing Eggman with some punches.
"Oh, I'm just so hungry." Answered Eggman. He saw the brown paper bag in Knuckles's hand. "Oh, is that your lunch?"
"Uh, yeah. So?" replied Knuckles.
"May I have some of your food please?" Eggman requested and Knuckles was stunned from the manners Eggman had, but was conflicted about giving up some of his food.
"Tsk. Forget it," Knuckles decided, "besides, if I gave you some…I wouldn't have any for myself."
Before Eggman could get another word in that could guilt him into changing his answer, Knuckles quickly strolled away, not looking back. After a few minutes, he came up to a tree that looked perfect for cutting and he quickly woofed down his lunch before Eggman decided to come and steal it while he was busy cutting wood. Beginning to chop wood, Knuckles soon stopped and dropped the ax with a yelp of pain as he held his right arm that now had a fair sized gash in it. Forgetting everything, he began to race back to the cottage for help.
Seeing Knuckles come into the cottage holding his injured arm, Silver and Tails rushed to the injured echidna and Tails asked, "What happened?"
"I don't know Man. It happened too fast. I was just cutting wood and then it must've slipped." Explained Knuckles, clearly traumatized from the accident or being an extremely good actor.
Checking the injury required nothing more than stitches, Tails wrapped the injury in bandages and informed, "Well, we still need wood."
"What are we going to do?" questioned Silver and Tails thought for a moment.
"Okay. I'm gonna go get some wood." Decided Tails and, like Knuckles, he picked up a brown paper bag and an ax before pushing Silver down and leaving the cottage.
Standing up, Silver shouted, "Hey! That was uncalled for!"
Humming no tune in particular as he strolled through the forest, Tails opened the bag and smiled at the lunch he had. Closing the bag, he continued humming until he saw Eggman sitting on a stump, sighing in depression. Knowing he should keep walking and ignore the moping evil genius and his best friend's nemesis, Tails sighed and went over to the gloomy man. "Uh, are you okay Eggman?" questioned Tails and Eggman looked up at the young fox.
"Oh, it's you Tails. Good day to you…someone who is always so happy and cheerful like you." Replied Eggman with another sigh of depression.
"Uh, I just asked if you are okay."
"No. It's just an awful day that I'd much rather not talk about."
"Can I help you with something?"
"Actually yes. I'm awfully hungry." Eggman answered and pointed at the paper bag in Tails's hand. "May I have some of your food?"
Tails looked between Eggman and his lunch and conflicted because of how pleasant Eggman was being and it was Eggman asking for his lunch, began to think what Sonic would do in this situation. "No way! And if I did…I wouldn't have anything for myself to eat!" Tails stated and, before Eggman could get another word in to guilt him into changing his mind, quickly rushed away.
After he was certain he was a fair distance away from Eggman, Tails came to a nice tree that looked perfect for chopping and quickly woofed down his lunch in worry that Eggman would come and steal it all for himself. Going up to the tree, Tails began to chop wood and after a few minutes, dropped the ax with a yelp of pain. Looking at his right leg, Tails saw a nice sized gash in it and began to fly back to the cottage for some help.
Silver sighed as he finished wrapping some clean white bandages on Knuckle's arm. He really should not be doing this after the way Knuckles treated him, but the bandages needed to be changed and he was not squeamish when it came to things like this, so he decided to take some pity on the Guardian of the Master Emerald. Just as Silver was about to put the bandages away, the door opened and the ivory hedgehog and crimson echidna saw Tails fly into the room, holding his injured leg. Landing on the ground and sitting on a chair, Silver dashed to Tails and asked, "What happened?"
"I don't know. I was just cutting wood and I must've gotten distracted by something or something like that and I got my leg," responded Tails as Silver patched up his leg, "and I didn't bring any wood back. What are we going to do?"
"I'll go." Silver volunteered and Knuckles and Tails looked at him like he was a few Chaos Emeralds short of going into his super form.
"No way! Silver. You can't go and chop wood." Tails responded.
"Why not?" questioned Silver.
"Cause you'll get hurt like Tails and I did." Replied Knuckles.
"So? You both went. It's only fair I go. Besides, I could always use my psychokinesis and I wouldn't even be touching the ax." Silver stated as he picked up a brown paper bag and an ax before leaving the cottage.
Shuffling down the path in the forest, Silver opened his paper bag and gave a disgruntled look as he saw what he had for lunch. Quickly closing the bag, he grumbled, "You know, those guys are jerks. They take good food and they give me some leftovers they don't want."
Half-tempted to just throw it away, Silver walked a few more minutes before he saw Eggman sitting on the stump all melancholy like and, being as naïve as he was, Silver went over to Sonic's arch-nemesis without thinking of what his options were. Stopping on front of the evil genius, Silver questioned, "Hey, are you okay?"
Looking up at the ivory hedgehog, Eggman unenthusiastically greeted, "Oh, hello Silver. It is a lovely day…well, for everyone but me."
"Uh, my day hasn't been too awesome, but you didn't answer my question."
"Oh, I'm just so hungry."
"That's it?"
"Well, I'm so hungry…I'd eat anything already." Eggman told the young hedgehog. He saw the paper bag in Silver's hand. "May I have some of your food?"
Feeling some pity for Eggman, Silver opened the bag as he replied, "Well, I can share what I have, but there's nothing impressive."
"That's not a problem." Eggman responded with a smile.
Reaching into the bag, Silver smiled as he saw he no longer had a lunch he detested, but was instead everything he liked. Giving half the lunch to Eggman, there was an awkward silence as the pair ate the food, Silver now being unsure of why he chose to agree to lunch with the person responsible for them being in the situation of trapped in fairy tales. Soon, Eggman was finished and told Silver, "You have a good heart and since you were willing to share with me, I'll give you good luck. There's an old tree not far from here. When you get to it, cut it down and you'll find something at the roots."
"Hey, wait-" started Silver, but Eggman had already strolled away and Silver was not in the mood to chase after him to ask more questions about the tree. "How am I supposed to know what this tree looks like?"
Sighing as he shook his head from the lack of information, Silver began to look for the tree he was supposed to chop down and find something at the roots.
After a couple of hours, Silver was getting annoyed as he used his psychokinesis to chop down another tree. He had been cutting down trees for hours and was starting to feel bad about cutting them down. "This better be the right one." He fumed to himself.
Finally, he finished chopping down the tree and began to search through the roots. Something flew out at him and Silver stumbled back, narrowly avoiding landing on his rear end. Regaining his balance, he saw what flew at him and saw it was a Flicky that was a bright gold color and the golden feathers glimmered brightly from what light there was. . "Hey, it's a Golden Flicky. Looks pretty nice." Commented Silver and the Golden Flicky smiled at him. Starting to walk down the path with the Golden Wisp following him, Silver looked at it. "I'll give you a name…eventually."
After a few hours walking down a dirt country road, Silver and the Golden Flicky stopped outside a quaint little inn and looked over it. "Huh. This inn looks like a pretty nice place to stay for the night." Silver commented as he looked over the inn. He looked at the Golden Flicky. "C'mon. Maybe I can think of a name for you after a good night's sleep."
The Golden Flicky nodded in agreement and perched itself on Silver's shoulder before he went inside the inn. Going up to the counter, they saw Amy and Rouge chatting about something and Silver coughed to get their attention. Stopping their conversation, Amy and Rouge looked at Silver and Rouge interrogated, "What do you want?"
"Uh, can I have a room for the night?" replied Silver and Rouge gave an annoyed look as she fished out a key and dropped it into Silver's hand.
"Second floor, room six." Rouge told him and turned away, only to have Amy elbow her and point at Silver.
Seeing Amy and Rouge peek at the Golden Flicky on Silver's shoulder with extreme interest and curiosity, Silver raised an eyebrow and explained, "I found it in the roots of a tree and it doesn't have a name yet and I don't know why it's gold or anything."
Before Amy or Rouge could say another word, Silver took the Golden Flicky in his hands and rushed up the stairs to the room.
Amy wandered through the halls of the inn in her pajamas and squinted to see the time on the clock that was hanging on the wall. She had not gotten a wink of sleep due to Silver's loud snoring that echoed through the inn. Luckily, it was a slow night at the inn and he was the only guest for the night, so she and Rouge would not be ambushed by crabby guests who did not sleep and demanding some compensation for it in the morning. "It's 2 in the morning." She heard Rouge inform and turned to see the treasure hunter standing behind her in her pajamas as well. "His snoring keeping you up too?" questioned Amy and Rouge put a hand on her hip as she nodded.
"Yep. It sounds like a train's coming at you," Rouge responded, "would you tell anyone I smothered Silver because he was snoring too loud?"
"Rouge!" Amy replied, slight shock at what the bat was saying.
"Oh, relax. I'm just kidding…somewhat…" Rouge told the pink hedgehog, resulting in Amy giving her a small look of disapproval.
Taking out a key, Rouge unlocked the door to Silver's room and crept inside. Giving a slightly worried look, Amy followed her and saw Rouge searching the room for something. "Rouge. We really shouldn't be in here." Amy whispered and Rouge stopped her searching as she faced Amy with a hand on her hip.
"Oh, relax Amy. We're just looking for something so we can muffle his snoring and get some sleep." Rouge whispered back and resumed searching.
Shaking her head, Amy joined Rouge and her hunt for something to quiet down Silver's snoring. After a few minutes, the pair stopped their search and both of them noticed the Golden Flicky perched on a chair, peacefully sleeping. Going up to it, Amy remarked, "It's so beautiful, isn't it Rouge?"
"Yeah, sure, whatever," Rouge replied, obviously not paying attention to what Amy said and her turquoise eyes focusing on the gold feathers, "Oh, all the rings I could get for one feather..."
Reaching to pluck a single feather off, Amy grabbed Rouge's hand and told her, "Maybe we shouldn't touch it."
"Why not?"
"We don't know what could happen."
"What's the worst that could possibly happen?" responded Rouge as she wrestled her hand out of Amy's grip and touched the wing of the Golden Flicky.
Rouge swore as she tried to pull her hand away and Amy cried, "Rouge! Take your hand off it!"
"I can't! I'm stuck!" Rouge answered as she continued to struggle to tug her hand off. Amy went to pull Rouge's other hand, so she could pull Rouge off. "No! Don't touch it!"
Amy grabbed Rouge's hand and tugged, but could not pull neither Rouge off the Golden Flicky or her hand off Rouge's hand. "Oh no! I'm stuck too!" exclaimed Amy. "What do we do now?"
A few attempts later of trying to free themselves, Amy and Rouge knew they were stuck to the bird like their hands had super glue on them. Sitting on the floor next to the Golden Flicky, still firmly stuck to it, Amy and Rouge attempted to get some sleep until dawn came. Silver's snoring ceased and he bounded out of bed, grabbed the Golden Flicky that just woke up, and left the room, dragging Amy and Rouge behind him.
Whistling as he marched down the country road with the Golden Flicky on his shoulder, Silver looked at the sky while Amy and Rouge resumed trying to free themselves when they passed a Dark Chao in a field. Flying up to them, the Dark Chao saw Amy and Rouge going after Silver and scolded, "Chao chao chao chao chao chao chao chao!"
Seeing the Dark Chao give them a judgmental look, Rouge told them, "It's not what you're thinking. It isn't what it looks like at all."
Ignoring what Rouge said, the Dark Chao grabbed Amy by her hand to pull her off, but, like Amy and Rouge, became stuck and was forced to follow Silver. A few minutes later, a Hero Chao saw the group and flew towards them. Reaching to grab the Dark Chao's hand, everyone in the group except for Silver and the Golden Flicky shouted, "Don't touch it! You'll get stuck!"
However, the Hero Chao already grabbed the Dark Chao by its hand and joined the rest in being stuck. A bit farther down the road, the cluster of people came across three neutral Chao and before the group could say anything, the neutral Chao became a part of the people that were stuck. Meanwhile, Silver was oblivious to the procession following them. He was too busy thinking of names that the Golden Flicky would shake his head at. Not paying attention to the pleas of him to stop and help them become unstuck, he tramped towards the castle, the train of Amy, the Dark Chao, the Hero Chao, the three Neutral Chao, and Rouge behind him.
Sonic sat in his throne, giving Blaze a disapproving look as she gave a sigh of depression. He hated the mood Blaze was in and there was no reason for her to be such a downer. After all, she was a Princess. She had not laughed in a fair amount of time, so, since he was the King, he forced her to sit and watch TV with the rest of the castle. By the end of the evening, everyone had laughed for hours at the ridiculous antics of five geeky guys and a pretty hot blonde gal…except for Blaze, who did not even crack a smile. As a result, he had put out a decree that if anyone could make Blaze laugh, their reward would be that they could crash at the castle as long as they would like. Originally, he was going to say that they could have their own game with SEGA, but he decided to go against it. Hearing the sound of someone coming into the room, Sonic jumped out of his throne and saw Silver and his procession enter the room. "What the fudgesicle? I want a somewhat reasonable explanation to why you've got a ton of people following you!" Sonic demanded.
"What?" Silver responded. He looked behind to see the train behind him and gave a look of shock as he turned back to face Sonic. "I have no clue what's going on! I just noticed them!"
"Yeah, right." Replied Sonic and the two hedgehogs began to bicker with each other about the subject.
Peeking over Sonic's shoulder at the sight, Blaze grew a small smile and it slowly got larger as she looked at the train of people before eventually giving a small giggle and unable to hold her laughter in any longer, began to laugh uncontrollably, causing everyone to look at her in surprise and shock. Finally, Sonic came out of shock from Blaze's reaction to the scene and faced the ivory hedgehog as Silver did the same. "Okay, I heard something about if I got Blaze to laugh, I get to stay at the castle as long as I wanted. So, I got her to laugh…Can I crash here at the castle?" Silver questioned and Sonic was caught in a dilemma.
True, Silver did get Blaze to laugh, but the idea of sharing his castle with someone so funny looking revolted him. After a few seconds of thinking and seeing Blaze was still laughing from the sight, Sonic decided, "Nope."
"Why not?" Silver interrogated, slightly upset about the answer.
"Not unless you find someone to drink a whole ton of apple juice." Stated Sonic and Silver scoffed before he sulked out of the room.
Strolling down a path in the forest, Silver sighed and hoped this walk would clear his mind. The Golden Flicky flew away the instant the challenge of finding someone to drink all the apple juice Sonic wanted and left him to deal with the problem alone. "How am I supposed to find someone to drink that apple juice? I have one glass and I'm sick. Who could possibly drink all that?" Silver pondered, praying he would have some sort of epiphany or revelation. Suddenly, the light bulb in his head went off and he smiled. "I know exactly who could help me!"
Continuing down the path, he soon came across Eggman sitting on a stump and was once again gloomy. "Oh, hello Silver." Eggman greeted.
"Listen Eggman. You owe me for the food I gave you, so I need you to-" began Silver.
"Oh, I wish I could, but I'm just too thirsty. I can't drink any cold water and I've already drank so many glasses of apple juice, but nothing's quenched my thirst," Eggman interrupted, "what am I supposed to do?"
"That's something I can help you with," responded Silver with a smile, "just come with me."
Going to the cellar of the castle, Eggman and Silver saw hundreds of barrels full to the brim with apple juice. Looking at Eggman to see him smiling, Silver permitted. Okay Eggman. Have at 'er."
Still smiling, Eggman took out a giant straw, went to the first barrel, and began to drink. Watching Eggman as he finished the first barrel and continued the cellarful of apple juice, Silver could not help feeling a bit nauseous from the sight. A few hours later, Eggman let out a loud burp after he finished the last barrel and stashed his straw away as he turned to face Silver. "That was just what I needed. Thank you Silver." Eggman thanked and Silver did not know how to react as Eggman strutted away.
Processing what just happened, he heard someone enter the cellar and saw it was Blaze and Sonic. Surveying the scene, Sonic silently swore as he saw the barrels of apple juice were completely drained, not even a sign that they were full to begin with. "Okay. Apple juice is gone," Silver started as he turned to face Sonic, "now can I crash at the castle?"
Looking at the psychic hedgehog, Sonic quickly thought of his options and stated, "Nope."
"Why not?" fumed Silver, clearly angry about being denied staying at the castle a second time.
"If you find someone who can eat a whole ton of bread….then we'll talk about it." Sonic told him and Silver mumbled something as he stalked away.
Silver raced down the forest path, not going to waste any time searching for a solution to complete Sonic's new challenge. He was just going to go straight to Eggman. "If he can drink all that apple juice…he can eat all that bread." Silver reasoned out loud.
A few minutes after the reasoning, Silver gave a confused look as he saw Eggman tying himself up around the stomach with a strap wearing an awful look. Looking at Silver with his questioning look, Eggman explained, "Oh, I'm so hungry. I ate a whole ovenful of bread rolls, but they did not even satisfy me enough. My stomach is still empty and I have to tie myself up so I may not die from hunger. What am I to do?"
Realizing that Eggman's hunger could benefit him, Silver told Eggman with a grin, "Okay, there's no need for you to tie yourself up. I can help you get enough food in your stomach that you won't die with hunger. Just follow me."
Coming into a room in the castle, Eggman and Silver saw a huge mountain of bread and Silver told Eggman as he saw the evil genius smiling, "What are you waiting for? Dig in?"
Eggman's smile grew bigger and he pounced on the mountain of bread and began to eat it. Seeing Eggman as he devoured the mountain of bread, Silver resisted the urge to throw up the contents of his stomach from the sight. Finishing the bread a few hours later, Eggman let out a burp that echoed through the room and Silver remarked, "Eggman. That was totally disgusting and probably one of the most disgusting things I've ever seen."
Ignoring what the young hedgehog said, Eggman thanked, "Thank you Silver. This bread has filled me right up. It was just what I needed."
Before Silver could say another word, Eggman proudly left the room, leaving Silver stumped at how it was possible for someone to eat that much bread without emptying the contents of their stomach. Still processing what just happened, Silver's thoughts were interrupted when Blaze and Sonic entered the room. Once again, Sonic silently swore when he saw the mountain of bread was gone, not even a single crumb left. Facing the cobalt hedgehog, Silver asked, "Okay. Bread's gone. Now can I finally crash at the castle?"
Sonic quickly thought of a plan to keep Silver out of the castle and the instant he thought of an idea, he decided, "Let me think…no."
"What? Why not?" Silver protested, clearly upset and shocked about being denied staying at the castle a third time.
"Find me a boat that goes on water AND land and coming sailing here in it and we might have a deal." Sonic stated and Silver gave an irritated look.
"Ugh. Fine. The castle better be worth it." Huffed Silver and he stomped out of the room.
Once again, Silver rushed down the forest path, just going straight to Eggman. Coming across Eggman sitting on a stump, obviously content and whistling happily, Silver went up to him and Eggman cheerfully greeted, "Oh, hello Silver. It's a wonderful day."
"Yeah, yeah. I don't have time for chit chat," Silver responded, "I need a boat that goes on water AND land and I need to know if you can help me."
"Since you were so nice to me, I'll help," stated Eggman and he stood up, "I'll get you your boat."
Sitting in his throne, Sonic smiled at his clever idea. There was no way Silver would be able to find a boat that could go on water AND land. Hearing shouting, he peeked out the window and his emerald eyes widened in surprise and shock as he saw a sailboat go from the lake outside the castle onto land and still gliding smoothly. Rushing down to the boat, Sonic joined Blaze who had an awe-struck look on her face and the boat halted to a stop. Silver appeared and jumped off the boat and went straight towards Silver. "Okay. There's your flippin' boat!" Silver began as he looked at Sonic. "Now can I finally crash at the castle?"
Realizing that he had no other option left, Sonic sighed as he looked at Silver and agreed, "Okay, okay. There's no need to be so hotheaded. You can crash at the castle."
"Yes!" Silver cheered and pumped his fist. "Finally!"
Blaze, Silver, and Sonic heard a ding and the trio saw the elevator doors were open and the three of them dashed through before they closed.
Skidding to a stop in the elevator as the doors closed and the elevator began to move, Blaze, Silver, and Sonic saw Amy, Knuckles, Rouge, and Tails were waiting for them. "Oh man! How much longer is this gonna go on? This is getting crazy already!" Silver exclaimed and Rouge turned to face him with her hands on her hips and an annoyed look on her face.
"Shut up and deal with it Silver Boy." She snapped and Silver clenched his teeth.
Making a rude gesture to the female treasure hunter, the psychic hedgehog retorted, "Shut up Rouge."
"Oh, do you really wanna play that game with me? Because you have no idea who you're dealing with." Rouge responded, clearly getting angry with his attitude towards him.
As Rouge and Silver edged towards each other, the other members of the group exchanged looks and the instant the elevator stopped and the doors opened, shoved Rouge and Silver through before following them.
My comment:
Eggman was the Little Man because he could do all the drinking and eating no sweat.
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