Angel: Full disclosure, writing dance moves is not as easy as it looks XD So bare with me if I mess something up or I missed something.
Back at the Russian bar, the waitress places down three bowls of stew...but they all have large tongues in them. "Ugh!" Tails gives a look of disgust by them. "Uh, I'm sorry, but I asked for the beef stew," Tails speaks into his translator, Sonic about to poke the tongue when Sophia stops him.
The translator speaks Russian, but tells the waitress... 'Your breath smells like goat poop.' The woman looks offended as she places her hands on her hips.
"(What did you say?)" She demands the three of them.
"Uhh..." Tails gives a nervous look as he doesn't know what's going on now. She shouts in Russian to the customers and they all gather around the table.
"Uh, what's going on?" Sonic looks around at them.
"What did you tell her?" Sophia whispers to Tails in alarm, as all of them look like they want to fight them...
"Maybe they think it's my birthday?" The fox asks while fiddling with his device, and they all stare at the trio with mean looks.
"Don't worry, I'll take care of this," Sonic stands up on the table, holding up his hands. "Okay, everybody. Take it easy, I'm sure there's a perfectly good explanation for whatever our friend said or did."
"Blue bear, they don't speak English, remember?" Sophia tells him quietly and he winces as he remembers that fact.
"Oh..."
"Man, I wish Russian was a language class they offer at school," The pink hedgehog rubs her neck awkwardly.
"(Stand back)," The device speaks up for them. "(We just farted)."
They all murmur in disgust as they glance at each other, before ripping the clothes off the trio. Everyone gasps at their appearances, Sonic freezing in alarm. "Uh...meow?" He asks nervously as he tries the same attempt with them as he did when he first met Tom.
"(Throw these monsters in the fire)!" A customer screams from behind. The crowd cheers and the three are suddenly grabbed from three men, who hold them above their heads. The waitress looks pleased as the three try to break free.
"Oh, no, no. Come on, guys! Take it easy. Let's talk this through!"
"We don't need to resort to this!" Sophia adds in, and then they see that they're in front of the fireplace.
"Let's talk this through!" Sonic yells urgently while looking at the flames. Tails whimpers a bit while looking at his device, the three prepared to throw.
"Come on, come on. Scanning Siberian customs," Tails urges as they're swung back and forth. "There's gotta be something in here."
"Tails, whatever you're doing, do it fast," Sonic urges him.
"Yeah, I don't wanna be dinner to these people!" Sophia jerks her head to the crowd.
"Ooh! I think I got it!" He exclaims as he apparently has found what he needs to do. "Pivonka! Pivonka! Pivonkaaaaaaaaaaa!" He shouts, and suddenly everything stops. The three look at the fire, wondering why everyone's stopped.
"Oh? Pivonka?"
They place the three onto the ground safely, murmuring Pivonka to themselves as they glance at each other. The crowd suddenly moves away to look at one person, who has on a red leather jacket and a bear on it wearing a crown. The man wearing the jacket slowly turns around to them, getting onto his feet. He approaches them slowly, staring them down.
"Da. Pivonka!"
Everyone then starts cheering, Sonic glancing between them and the others while Tails looks at his device. "Tails, what's a pivonka?"
"It's a Siberian custom to resolve disputes," He explains after he's looked it up. "If we win, they let us go. If we lose..." The flames ignite and the three scream.
"But what is it we have to do?" Sophia wonders and they watch everyone clear away the tables. They start shouting and the trio are just confused by what's going on.
"Okay, we have to grab the map and get out of here. Oh, where's the map?"
"Oh, no!" Tails gives a worried look. "I left it on the table. Look!" He points to the map getting snatched by the waitress.
"They're not gonna let us grab it, there's too many of them," Sophia glances around at the crowd, the one with the red jacket ripping it off...to reveal a tattoo of him T posing, and he's pulling it off right now. The crowd claps while they're just confused.
"What?" Sonic raises a brow at the two-tailed fox and his girlfriend. The crowd has gathered around in a circle between the three and the man. He starts clapping and pumping up the crowd while a band plays music. He then hits his feet several times with his hands, clapping and bending down, balancing on one hand. A spotlight falls on him as he kicks his feet into the air multiple times, kicking both into mid-air. Two back-up dancers join him, following his moves. They flip around and strike a pose, smiling. "Oh my god, it's a dance fight," Sonic realizes as the three men step back, waiting for them to make a move.
"I can't dance!" Sophia bites her lip nervously. "I've got two pink left feet!"
"Sonic, what do we do?" Tails turns to him, the blue hedgehog placing a hand on his shoulder.
"We dance and get that map," He clenches a fist, looking at the men across. "Here we go." They attempt to pull off the same moves from earlier, but Sophia is dancing really bad, and Tails falls onto the ground.
"Ow!" Sonic trips over him and the crowd jeers at their poor attempts of Russian dancing.
"Okay, now let's do-" Sonic brings his hands together, hopping one foot and Tails tries to do something similar. "No, we're gonna go-" Sophia attempts to twirl, but they all just fall again. The Russian man balances himself again, kicking up his feet twice more. He spins on the ground, his dancers following his moves to the T.
"Ah, okay," Sonic grunts in pain as he, Sophia, and Tails try and fail to do their moves. The bartender looks at the map he was using to wipe off glasses and tosses it. The man jumps into the air while the other men move in a circle around him and he spins around, the other dancers holding out their arms as the man strikes a pose. "Okay, this is not going well. Channing Tatum makes it look so easy," Sonic says in dismay as the three hold each other up, hopping around.
"Wait, guys. Look!" Tails points to the man, who actually has the map stuck to his foot as he kicks up his feet again.
"Opa! Opa! Opa!"
"The map!" Sonic exclaims as they look pleased. "Come on, let's grab it!" He inches forward, but the man grabs the map and holds it up above his head.
"You want? Come get," He challenges the group. "Freaks!" He tucks the map into his pants, the crowd jeering. Sophia looks around sadly as the crowd starts calling them that.
"Freaks! Freaks! Freaks! Freaks! Freaks! Freaks! Freaks!"
Tails looks around at the crowd, the old lady still holding up her skull blanket. Sophia lets her ears fall as Tails whimpers, as he didn't like what they were saying about them. Sophia backs away a bit, holding her head. Sonic places a hand on Tails' shoulder, pulling Sophia forward.
"What's wrong, guys? Come on, I need you!"
"I can't do this, Sonic. I'm not brave like you," Tails tells him. "My gadget got us in this mess, and I lost your map, and we're gonna get tossed into a fire!"
"Sunshine, what is it?" Sonic notices her being upset.
"Sonic..." She squeezes her eyes shut. "They're right, I am a freak. Look at me!" She gestures to herself and his eyes sadden. "I'm not...I'm not human anymore. I'm just someone people laugh or gawk at...why can't I just be normal again?" She lets some tears fall and he realizes that up until now...she wasn't being laughed at like this, or mocked. In school, she never had that problem, but now she's facing that tenfold with being a hedgehog...it's the first time she's been actually called a freak in public, because in Green Hills, they were accepting and didn't care.
Sonic frowns and then glances to the side, seeing an amp. "Ah..." He rushes over to it, grabbing the cord. "New deejay coming in," He plugs in his phone and puts in a new song. This cuts off the band and Sophia looks up in confusion along with others as Uptown Funk starts playing. Sonic nudges them both, starting to dance. "Come on, guys. I got an idea."
"What are you doing?" The pink hedgehog murmurs, wiping at her eyes with the back of her hand.
"They called us freaks..." The man turns to them slowly as Sonic spins. "So let's get freaky." He holds out his hands to them, but they hesitate. "Just follow my moves. You'll be fine."
Tails takes his hand and so does Sophia. He pulls her to his right, earning a sound of surprise as he waves his arm. He then makes a wave between all three of them. Tails looks at his free hand and raises it, doing the wave back. They all jump up into the air, leaping forward and swinging their legs around. They spin around their bodies while balancing on one hand. Then the three spin on their heads, landing on their feet. Sonic hollers as they continue dancing and he grabs Sophia's hands, twirling the both of them around. He shimmies his arms and she looks down at her feet, baffled that she's actually good at following his moves. She then smiles up at him and they both twirl while holding each other's hand, the pink hedgehog laughing ecstatically as he pulls her closer. He smiles at her as she seems much better after being laughed at.
The crowd claps along to the music, the rival dance group just baffled by this. Sonic spins himself and his girlfriend back to Tails and they all stand next to each other, waving their fists up and down while shuffling their feet. Tails lets out a laugh as Sonic jumps over him, Sophia twirling around them. They flick their hands into the air, stepping backwards. The man looks to the clapping crowd while they watch.
Tails takes out his device and uses it to make some clones of himself. "All right! Back-up dancers!" Sonic twirls in the air as Sophia shakes her hips.
"Go, Tails!" She encourages, and the man is literally taken aback so much he falls backwards into his own back-up dancers. More clones form as they all step forward, spinning around.
"Here we go!"
The Tails clones do a formation and they launch Sonic and Sophia into the air. "Ha!" Sophia does a quick 180 spin along with him, and he strikes a pose while she straightens herself to spin towards the ground in quick fashion. They land next to each other and he takes her hand as she laughs, the two shuffling their feet together.
The man traces his tattoo before attempting to dance along with the music.
"Whoa!" Sonic exclaims as Tails grabs both him and Sophia, flying them into the air. The other clones do the same as Sophia and Sonic clones appear, and they all spin around while holding hands. The crowd goes wild for it, the man shaking his head in disbelief. Sonic hollers, Tails laughing and Sophia cheering. The man looks bewildered by everything as he looks up at the multiple clones. "There's a lot of us up here!"
The man spins around, going to the floor and the three laugh at each other. Tails tosses the two onto a chandelier and they hang from it as it spins. "I love pivonka!" Sonic yells and the man stops dancing. "And big dismount!" Sonic shouts as all the clones disappear and the three spin into balls, landing on the floor safely. Sophia spins around a bit as Sonic grabs Tails' hand. "Yeah!" He holds it up and Sophia looks over Sonic's shoulder.
"That was great!"
The man then falls to the ground in defeat as the music stops. Sonic laughs and speeds over to the man, taking the map. "I'll take that." Suddenly some people hold up the three winners into the air.
"Whoo-hoo! We did it!" Tails hollers and Sonic turns to him. If it wasn't for him, they wouldn't have gotten the map.
"That was amazing! Way to go, Tails!" He beams happily for the praise, Sonic nodding at him.
Because of the storm still outside, everyone had spent the rest of the night partying until they all passed out on the floor. Everyone except Sophia, Sonic, and Tails themselves. Even if the humans were awake, the storm is still going. The three lay on the table, looking up at the ceiling.
"Ha, wow! Only Sonic and Sophia could win a dance battle that epic," Tails tells them.
"Actually, until tonight, I didn't even know I could dance that good," Sophia smiles at her boyfriend.
"Well, stick with us, pal. Earth can be a scary place, but we know everything about this old pale blue dot."
"Hey! I was born on this old pale blue dot," The pink hedgehog smirks in amusement.
"Well, yeah, but I've seen most of the world already," He points out playfully to her.
"Do you really mean that?" Tails sits up, looking at them.
"I mean, not everything. But we watch a lot of Discovery Channel and-"
"I meant about me being your pal," He smiles, gesturing to himself. Sonic and Sophia sit up to face him.
"Of course, buddy."
Tails smiles and hugs them both. "Ho, ho, ho," Sonic gently pushes him away. "Comin' in hot."
"Not that we're not grateful, but why even ask?" Sophia wonders to the fox, who looks away forlornly.
"Growing up, I didn't have any friends. Everyone in my village thought my two tails were weird..."
The two glance at each other, as they could feel that just like Sonic, he was usually lonely too. But unlike Sonic, who met Sophia and her family...Tails didn't seem to have anyone like that back where he's from.
"Hey, I know that feeling."
"But then I saw you guys, the fastest creatures in the galaxy. You were weird too," Sophia raises a brow as she doesn't know if she'd call herself weird, but to each their own. "But you were legends!" He gives a look of awe. "That made me think, maybe being weird isn't so bad. You guys inspired me to leave my village, to find you and help you in your mission."
Sophia gives a small smile at him, since his statement about being weird...might be useful to her. "We're really glad you're here, Tails."
"I'm glad I'm here too, Sonic," He confesses and jumps off the table. Sonic reaches up and grabs Sophia's waist, putting her down. They watch Tails walk up to the fireplace and he turns to his girlfriend.
"Hey, Sunshine...I'm sorry about earlier. I know it's hard watching everyone else live their life while you're stuck like this," He gestures to her. "I wish there was something I could do. I-If I could figure out how to turn you human again, I'd do it in a second."
"It's okay, blue bear. It's...it's still hard for me, but I have you at least," She tells him quietly and then hugs him. "But the dance actually helped. Thank you."
"For what?" He asks his girlfriend in confusion.
"For doing what you always do: Put a smile on my face after you help me feel better," She smiles softly at him and he returns it, remembering when he left a rose at her window before they met. "That's all I need if I'm gonna continue being a hedgehog."
He doesn't believe that but gives her a quick kiss and then they walk up to Tails. "Well, might as well get some sleep. This feels like a good place to spend the night," He grabs a small blanket. "You'll be able to get clear readings on your gizmo thing once the storm is over."
Sophia places a hand on his shoulder, but he doesn't pay attention to it. "So I-" He then sees what his girlfriend is seeing: a sleeping Tails on the floor. Sonic smiles as they step up to him, bending down and placing the blanket over him. "Night, Tails," He lays on his side and Sophia does as well. He hugs her waist to act as her blanket...and then Tails in his sleep moves over his tails to place over Sonic's body.
Sonic smacks his lips as it's morning, stretching his arms. Once his eyes open, he gasps as he sees that he and Sophia are being hugged by a woman, and it's uncomfortable... "Tails, Tails!" Sonic whispers as he tries to move. "Soph, we have a situation..."
The two just keep snoring, though.