Sorry, everybody! I just discovered that I am really bad at managing six stories at a time! I probably should have started off with just two or three stories…whatever, too late now.

Anyways, this is just a stupid filler chapter I felt like I had to write. I guess this kinda-sorta ties along with Sonic Underground, since Eggy doesn't like music in that show. And, I just used 'Shake Your Body' because I couldn't think of anything else…

I'll let you read this now. But before you do, I don't own any characters except Elise, James, Mark, and Ben the pen. :D

6

Music…?

"C'mon, Elise! I wanna show you and your brothers something!" Sonic exclaimed. I turned around from the puzzle Espio and I had been solving together. Espio looked up.

"You're gonna show them the Recording Studio, aren't you?" he said.

"Yes…"

"Good. They could probably use some good music after being locked up in Eggman's bases for all their lives until now."

"What's 'music'?" I asked. They both turned towards me with shocked faces.

"What do you mean, 'what's music'?!" Sonic asked in pure shock "Who hasn't heard it?"

"Apparently, my brothers and I."

"Hm…maybe this is Eggman's weakness! Maybe he hates music so much that he—nah, that'd never be it!"

"We're taking you to the Recording Studio now!" Espio said, grabbing my hand and tugging me to a room. Inside it was a few microphones, like the ones Dad used for speeches. And nearby were a few…things.

Sonic picked one up and a blue plastic triangle. He then sat on a speaker, in front of a microphone. Espio, during the meantime stood in front of another microphone. He opened his mouth, but then turned around to a corner, where a few 'cans' stacked on top of a few metal bars stood.

"Sonic, we need someone on the drums." He stated.

"Huh, oh, right!" Sonic put the object he had been holding down, and zoomed out of the room. A second later, he came back in with Mighty in tow.

"You need me to play the drums again?" he asked.

"Yeah, these kids have never heard of music before!" Sonic said.

"What? No way!" Mighty exclaimed as he grabbed a few sticks from a shelf.

"Yes! Hey, Espio, you can play guitar, right?"

"Uh…yeah, I'm no professional, though." The chameleon stated.

"Wanna switch instruments?"

"I thought we were doing 'Team Chaotix'."

"Why not start them off with the King of Pop?"

"…I can see no reason why not. Which song?"

"Billie Jean."

"Oh, cool. I can play that." Espio took the 'guitar' from Sonic, and grabbed a purple plastic triangle from a shelf. Then he sat down. Sonic stood in front of the microphone and counted to three.

"Wait!" Espio said. Sonic turned around with a groan.

"What?!" Espio pointed on the wall to another guitar, but it only had four strings instead of six.

"We need a bass player."

"Oh, this is just wonderful! Anything else we need?!"

"…a violin player?"

"Oh, great; I don't think anyone here can play that. Let's just do 'Shake Your Body', alright?"

"We'd need a piano player."

"I can find one of those! Amy! I need you!" Sonic shouted. Immediately, a pink blur ran into the room. Once it stopped, it revealed itself as Amy Rose.

"Yes, Sonic?" she said.

"You play piano, right?"

"Yeah, why?"

"We're introducing these guys to music, and we need a piano player so we can do 'Shake Your Body'. You can play that?"

"Of course I can!"

"Alright, lets do this!" Amy ran over to a nearby…thing and held her hands up over the black and white 'buttons'.

"One…two…a-one, two, three, go!"

Once he reached three, Amy used her fingers to press the buttons on the object, and a sound came out. Mighty tapped his foot, and a 'heart beat' boomed. After awhile of that, Espio slid his hand along the long-end of the guitar, then started to pluck at the strings with the triangle. Sonic clutched the microphone.

"I don't know what's gonna happen to you, baby! But I do know that I love ya! You walk around this town with your head all up in the sky, but I do know that I want ya…! Lets dance, let's shout!" he said, his voice varying in highs and lows.

"Shout!" everyone else said

"Shake your body down to the ground! Let's dance, let's shout!"

"Shout!"

"Shake your body down to the ground!"

By the time the music was finished, James, Mark, Ben, and Shadow had come in. Shadow looked pretty impressed, while my siblings and I were surprised. This 'music' thing was cool; why hadn't Dad shown us this before?

"That's a nice band you conjured up in two seconds, I must admit." Shadow finally said.

"So you said this is 'music'?" Mark asked.

"Yeah; you like it?" Sonic replied.

"Like it?! I love it! Why didn't our Dad show us this before?!" James exclaimed.

"I think I may know the answer." Mark said. "When I was nine, I saw Dad writing this list of rules he would enforce when he made his empire. Of course, back then, I thought he was talking about the penguins." Amy began to giggle, while Sonic chuckled a bit. Even Shadow and Espio let themselves smile "But that's besides the point! When he went to check on the food, I saw one of the rules was 'No Music'. Dad said that music made him sad, because Mom used to like it a lot. And I hadn't listened to music ever since…until now."

"Wow…" Mighty murmured.

"So this is the first time that the rest of you have ever heard music?" Amy asked.

"As far as I can remember…" I murmured.

"Hm…so, your dad hates music?" Sonic asked.

"I wouldn't say he hates it; it just makes him so sad that he doesn't listen to it." Mark said.

"Even this up-beat song?"

"Probably."

"We could probably find a way to use this to our advantage…"

"Well, I think I'm ready for that party Charmy mentioned earlier," I said

"What? It's six already? Alright, lets do this!" Sonic exclaimed, zooming out of the room. The rest of us walked out like normal people to help Charmy set up decorations.

Happy Veterans day! Anyways, next chapter will probably be another filler. But whatevs.

I still don't own SEGA. I just own Elise, James, Mark, and Ben the pen.

Adios!