I Spy
Today is everyone's least favorite day: Monday. Before first period class starts, Sally Acorn and her friends are standing at their usual spot by the lockers.
"I may be grounded for life, but I don't even give a flying shit about it. It was worth it," Fiona finishes her story.
"Um, you do know that you can get arrested for stealing a pack of cigarettes from a convenience store, right?" Blaze informs her, "Especially when you're underage."
"And also," Rouge finishes off for her, "you could be under surveillance."
Fiona scoffs, "Not if you know how to get away with it… the right way." She grins maliciously. This scares Blaze, Mina, and Rouge, but they decide to go with it anyway.
"Ok, Sally's turn," Mina says and everyone glances at the leader. "Sally, what did you do this weekend?"
Sally seems disappointed about something. "Well, I went shopping yesterday, so I can at least find something new to impress Sonic and win him back from that slut. There was a sale going on at Eternity21 and I happened to come by the sexiest top I've ever seen! I wanted to get it in my size, but when I asked the lady about it, she just told me that they just sold the last small!" She growls and then stomps onto the floor in frustration.
"Aw, that sucks," Mina responds to it. "But I'm pretty sure that there will be a new shipment somewhere in the future."
"Besides, why can't you get one in medium?" Rouge asks.
Sally continues, "Yeah, right. Like I'll look good in a top that is one size bigger than me. It'll take like months until they come back to the store, and by the time I get it, the style will be over." Then, the chipmunk takes out her phone and goes through her photos. "Here, I took a pic of it, I want to show you what it looks like."
She shows them a photo of the shirt she heavily indulges. It's black and it kind of looks like a tank top but with sleeves; what's unique about the article of clothing is that the sleeves are entirely made of transparent dark-grey fabric—so see-through that the arms would look tinted if it is worn.
Mina, Fiona, Blaze and Rouge looked so stunned by the design, even the fashionista bat would want one for herself. Although, they feel bad for Sally, that she's too late to purchase one. Sally shuts off her phone and puts it away.
"And I swear," she continues with a disdained snarl, "if I ever find the bitch who bought the last small before me, I am going to—" she gets cut off when the sounds of awestruck compliments are being heard.
"Oh, my God, that top looks so amazing on you, Amy!" a female student is being heard. The five girls turn and walk to where the commotion is happening. When they found whom they were looking for, they can't believe their eyes.
"I swear to God, you have such an amazing taste in fashion. You're even more stylish than Sally Acorn or Rouge the Bat." The girl who just complimented was Tikal the eco-friendly Echidna and she's holding hands with her jock boyfriend, Knuckles, who is wearing his varsity jacket. Along with them, there's Cream the preppy Rabbit and her boyfriend Tails the intelligent-mechanic Fox. All four of them are standing around, complimenting at once and talking to Amy Rose.
To make matters worse for Sally—Amy is wearing the exact same shirt that Sally's been dying to get. As for the accessories to go with it, Amy is wearing a black leather-studded bracelet on her left wrist and a black dog collar around her neck. She's also wearing dark-blue skinny jeans, another pair of black combat boots (that is differently designed from her previous pair), and a grey shoulder bag. Sally lets out a shocking gasp as she sees the pink hedgehog showing her two best friends her new look.
"I know, thank you so much," Amy responds to Tikal's comment, "I just went shopping yesterday and I got this shirt on sale at Eternity21. I still can't believe that I got the last one in my size! I was so lucky that I got there before all of the small ones are sold out." She giggles.
The five are eavesdropping on the Rose again, even Sally; she's starting to lose control of herself when she just found out that it was Amy who bought the shirt before her.
"Looks like the new girl beat us again," Blaze says in a hushed tone. They persist glaring at her.
"You know," Tails begins with a smug on his face, "since the Hedgehogs 5x are all single, you can use that to get their attention." He grins mischievously.
"You still like Sonic, don't you?" Knuckles playfully picks on her and Amy blushes. "It's your chance to win him now." He smirks.
"Well, I don't know," she trails off in embarrassment, "I kind of like Silver, Scourge, Manic, and Shadow, too. So, I'm a bit torn now." This angered the five even more. Their faces are now green with jealousy.
Cream instantly changes the subject. "Amy, I have to be honest with you. You seriously have the most perfect body that I've ever seen!"
"Yeah! What is your secret?" Tikal asks her.
"My secret?" Amy remarks.
"How did you end up so—beautifully and perfectly thin?" Cream finishes the question for Tikal.
With modesty, the Rose answers, "Oh, it's no secret. I just—" she pauses for a moment, "Happen to have a healthy diet, that's all. You know what they say, you don't have to eat less, you just have to eat right." She laughs nervously. Some thoughts came up to her, reminding her that she mustn't let anyone know about her real secrets.
At that moment, the bell suddenly rings for first period.
"That's the bell," Amy says, "see you guys, around." She then exchanged goodbyes to the four right before they head off to their separate ways until they meet again.
With that done, Amy faces to a different direction and heads off to class. Sally and the gang immediately step away from her and then they hide themselves behind the corner of the hallway, just to make sure that she doesn't see them. Otherwise, Amy may think that they're some kind of creepy stalkers.
"Bitch," Fiona silently whispers when they just saw her passing by.
Amy heard the voice; inquisitively, she stops walking for a moment to see where it was coming from. She looks back and glances around, oblivious enough that she's being spied on.
"Hm," she says. Thinking she's just hearing things, Amy manages to shrug it off. She faces back to her direction and resumes strolling to her English class.
As soon as Amy is out of sight for them, all five came out of the corner and Sally lightly slaps Fiona in the back of the head.
"Nice going, she nearly caught us," she says dryly at the rebellious fox.
"So it's official," Blaze commences, "Amy Rose is perfectly flawless. She has everything what a man needs." Everyone groans to that statement.
"Now what are we going to do?" Mina asks the leader, "How are we supposed to compete with that?"
"There has to be some kind of flaws for Amy. I mean, no girl can be that smart, stylish, and popular all at once." Rouge says.
All of a sudden, an idea has flashed inside Sally's head. "Maybe there is," she responds with a malice smirk on her face.
"Huh?" they simultaneously ask in perplexity.
Sally continues, "Think about it. Don't you guys remember the other day when she walked into the school? She did have some things that she's been hiding from everyone else." This came to an understanding.
"Oh yeah," Fiona remarks, "Like that time when I tripped her and that—thing fell off from her bag. But what was that anyway? Looks kind of painful to be carrying that around you."
"According to my research," Blaze answers, "I assumed that those are some sort of blades."
Mina's eyes widened, "Seriously? Why would she carry those? Most importantly, how the hell did she kept them in school without ever getting caught?"
The intelligent cat shrugs, "If only I knew."
Sally interrupts them, "Ok, enough with that. There's something else about her that we should know." Just then, the second warning bell rings. Everyone sighs.
"Looks like we're going to have to put this on hold until the next time we meet again." Sally says. Her followers nodded in agreement. "But don't worry; I'll come up with something. In the meantime, just make sure that Amy Rose stays away from the guys, okay?"
"We really should get going, otherwise, we might get our asses kicked for staying in the hallways during class." Blaze informs as she carries her bag, "I'm not looking forward to have this in my permanent record."
"That's the risk I'm willing to take," Fiona remarks with a smile.
Soon afterwards, all five disperses into their own separate directions.
Hours later and it's time for Amy's free period. Instead of going to the library, she decides to go to the cafeteria, just to see what it's like over there. Before she goes to the lunch room, Amy has to go to her locker for a moment. On her way there, she's unaware that she's being watched by Sally as they exit out of the classroom. It seems that the two are in the same Trigonometry class together.
Sally quickly makes her way to her locker, which is where she will be meeting the rest of her friends/cronies, right before Amy catches them. There, she sees Fiona, Mina, and Rouge standing there, waiting for her.
"Hey, guys," Sally begins. She looks at them and she notices that they're missing one, "Where's Blaze?"
"She has something important to do," Mina informs, "and she said she can't really make it."
"Did you come up with anything on how to get rid of Rose?" Fiona asks.
"Sadly, no," she answers, "I really hate to admit this, but this girl is unbeatable. I have her in Trig and it's hard for me to come up with a plan with her acting like some sort of a mental calculator."
"Mental calculator?" Rouge asks.
Sally sighs. "She can literally answer a math problem under seconds—without making any mistakes AND without using a damn calculator."
Fiona groans, "Oh great, just what we need. More brains."
"I know! It's seriously getting on my freaking nerves!" the chipmunk concludes.
At that moment, Amy shows up and she passes by them; she has a pair of headphones on and she's listening to music. She's also humming and singing along the lyrics and the song she's currently listening to is 'Teenage Dream' by Katy Perry.
The four watches her as Amy sings the verses and chorus of the song quietly to herself while undoing her locker (that happens to be nearby Sally's). She opens it and minding her business, Amy is getting her books out of her bag and she transfers them into her little storage. She sees her assigned book for her English class and she decides to take that with her, so she could do some reading during lunch period.
With everything done, Amy closes her locker and she runs into the group—yet again. She stops her singing.
"Oh, hey," Amy begins as she pauses her music player in her phone and then hangs her headphones around her neck. "How's everything?" She says innocently. She thought that if she played nice to the girls, they wouldn't give her the cold shoulder anymore.
"Don't 'how's everything?' us," Sally begins with coldness and then she crosses her arms while glaring at her eye to eye. Unfortunately, playing nice isn't really working for the Rose.
"Huh?" she replies. Suddenly, Mina, Fiona, and Rouge surround the hedgehog; to make sure that she doesn't escape from them. If only Blaze was there, Amy'd be completely locked down.
"We know exactly what's been going on with you. You've been faking everything just to get attention," Sally persists, "Care to tell us the whole fucking truth about yourself?"
"What are you talking about?" Amy raises her eyebrow.
"Don't play shit, we knew all along that you have been—" Once again, Sally gets cut off by someone else.
"Special delivery for Amy Rose!" Knuckles happily shouts out as he inexplicably appeared out of nowhere; he's standing behind Sally. Everyone looks at the jock echidna. He's holding a bouquet of roses that is beautifully wrapped in transparent pink rolling paper and is tied with a red ribbon.
Amy steps closer to Knuckles; now, the group is standing behind her. He hands her the bouquet and she takes it into her hands.
"Oh, is it really for me?" Amy says, feeling stunned. With a closer look at the bouquet, all of the flowers are roses; they're only five of them and each rose are in different colors: Red with a Black lining, Light Green, Blue, Dark Green, and White. Amy gasps at the beauty and she immediately took a hint of what each color represents.
"Yep," Knuckles answers, "they're all from Shadow, Manic, Sonic, Scourge and Silver. It's really a gift from them and they told me to deliver it to you."
She looks at the tag that is attached onto the ribbon. It simply says, 'To Our Favorite Rose: Amy. Love…' and then all of their names are signed underneath.
"Aw, that's really thoughtful of them. And they exactly know my favorite flower." Amy takes a whiff of the roses and she carefully snuggles it into her arms.
"And there's more," he continues, "They also told me that they have more surprises in store for you in the cafeteria, and they want you to go there right away." Then, Knuckles clicks his tongue before he turns around. "See ya, Amy." Finally, he walks away.
Amy turns back to the girls. They're completely paralyzed in disdain and envious. "Sorry, everyone, I have to get going," and soon, she left them, quickly making her way to the cafeteria.
As soon as she left, Blaze the Cat suddenly appears to them. She tells them, "Hi. Sorry I'm late. I know I said I wouldn't make it, but I—," she notices something isn't right for them; they gaze at her with their still-disdained facial expressions.
"Did I miss something?" she asks.
"Yes, you did," Mina answers her, "Our men just gave her flowers as a gift! Including your Silver!"
Blaze gasps. "No,"
"Yeah, it's official," the mongoose continues, "she won."
There's silence for a mere minute.
"So, now what, Sal?" Rouge asks.
Sally answers with a serious look on her façade and she makes eye contact with them, "We're not going to give up that easily because deep down, there are some heavy flaws in every person, including Miss Perfect. And if we want to go deeper, it looks like we're going to have to take some drastic measures."
Rouge cuts in, "But you do know that we can't keep spying on her. The more we do that, she'll become more suspicious."
"Exactly, Rouge."
Fiona interrupts, "Then, how are we—"
"Don't worry, Fi," then, Sally lets out another malice smirk, "I know just the right person for this job and she happens to be a natural at this kind of stuff."
Then, Sally takes out her phone and dials a number.
With Amy…
Amy sets foot into the cafeteria and then glances around. All over the room, there are students walking around from counter to table to table and it's filled with loud voices from all that incoherent chattering, even though Amy still has her headphones on; the music she's listening to are muffling the sounds of the raucous students. She can also smell the delicious cafeteria food, but alas, the self-pressure is averting her.
"I wonder where they are," Amy says to herself while searching for the five hedgehogs that they said they'd be here.
After a second of looking around and still seeing no sign from any of them, she decides to go to the vending machines to buy a quick snack for herself. From two different machines, one beverage and one snack, Amy purchased a bottle of fruit water and a bag of pretzels. She took a quick look at the number of calories on the food label before she puts the pretzels into her bag to save for later. Afterwards, she walks to an empty rounded table with her water and her flowers still in her arms.
With that said, the pink hedgehog sets the roses and her bag on top of the table and then she pulls out a chair to sit. Taking a sip from her fruit-flavored water, Amy takes her book out to read while waiting.
After reading several pages for a few minutes, Amy has a strange feeling that she's being watched; the feeling when somebody is behind her and he's suddenly sneaking around, while he's seemingly checking her out.
"Hm?" she squeaks.
Instantly, and out of the blue—the Hedgehogs 5x pop up and leant themselves against the table, all giving her eye contact (and it sure was a surprise). It startled the female a little, and it also feels kind of awkward for her.
"Hey," the guys say inarticulately.
"Oh, hey," Amy replies as she turns off her music player, closes her book, and then hangs her headphones around her neck.
"Did you like the gift we gave you, Ames?" Sonic says while looking at the bouquet in front of them.
"Yeah, I love it so much," she strokes the ribbon, "How did you guys know I love roses?"
"It was a lucky guess," Scourge answers.
"And they sure remind us of you," Shadow finishes, "a lot."
This warms Amy's heart, "Aw, you guys are so—" she gazes at the flowers for a second and then back to them; it's the colors of the roses that catches her eye, "symbolic."
It's Manic turn to speak, "We were going to find a pink one to go with it, but sorry to say, it's too rare."
Silver finishes it for him, "However, it turns out that it does have a pink rose all along—it's you."
They all smile.
"By the way, I believe that Knuckles told me that you have more surprises for me. Is that true?" Amy says.
"Yes, we do." Sonic persists. "We were going to ask Knux if he can bring these to you along with the flowers, but I decide that it's best if we save these for the last."
"You?" Shadow, Silver, Manic and Scourge all said in unison to the jock.
"Ok, I meant 'we'," he answers honestly.
Amy chuckles, "Well, what is it?"
Silver takes out a large shopping bag from underneath the table and then sets it on the tabletop. Then, he takes out one present.
"We also got you some sweets," he pulls out a plastic container that holds a dozen mini cupcakes; all golden and have pink frosting. The tiny little pastries are indulging for Amy. Silver continues, "I told them that we should give you cupcakes instead of chocolates. To me, it sounded cliché."
"Wow, that looks so delicious," she comments as she stares at the mini cakes. She has the impulse to take a piece but—she averts herself from doing so.
"And," Manic pulls the bag closer to him and he stuck his hand inside, "you're going to like this, Amy. We also got you…" Swiftly, he pulls out a stuffed panda bear with big beady eyes, "Panny the Panda!"
Instantly, the female gasps affectionately. "Aww!" she coos at its adorableness; she couldn't resist the cuteness. She takes the bear into her hands and she snuggles it into her warmth, "She's so cute! I love her!"
Manic, arrogantly, looks at Scourge and Shadow. He whispers to the two, "I told you guys that she'd like the panda better than the elephant and the giraffe."
Shadow replies, "Ok, you win."
Scourge remarks, "Still, elephants can be lovable, too."
Amy makes eye contact with all five of them, "Thank you so much, everyone. You guys are truly the best." She's about to shed tears of joy due to the compassion and charity that they have done for her. She manages to hold back the tears. They looked at her, more sincerely than ever.
Sonic commences, "We just want to do something very special to a girl like you and we think that you deserve the best on your early days at Chaos High."
It is a really touching moment for the Rose. Suddenly, Amy checks out the time on her phone.
"Hey, before lunchtime is over," she asks them, "think you five can walk me to my locker and help me carry them back?"
Of course, they cannot say no to her. They immediately accept.
"Great," Amy stood up from the chair, "Let's go."
Everyone assembles all of their belongings and they all together walk out of the table. Unbeknownst to any of the six hedgehogs—they're being surveillance by someone.
A Mobian, with a very petite feminine body type, happens to be sitting at the table behind them and she has been watching this whole time. She lifts her head up from an opened textbook that she uses to pretend to read during her observation. It's unknown who this Mobian is; her identity is completely hidden underneath a black hoodie and the hood over her head covers her eyes entirely. She's also wearing dark jeans and a pair of black and white sneakers, along with her magenta backpack with a black skull print.
During the hedgehogs' private meeting, the mystery Mobian has been writing down notes and taking perfect shots of them (with the flash and camera shutter off). She's still watching the six as they all step out of the double doors of the cafeteria.
Soon, the mystery girl gathers all of her personal belongings. She continues to go undercover while following them as she, too, exits the lunchroom.
Out in the hallways, she hides herself around the corner and observes the hedgehogs standing by Amy's locker; the boys were helping her store her items into her storage and the girl can see them laughing and talking all at once. There are also some hints of romance between the six.
That's just the beginning:
The mystery girl proceeds her agenda throughout the rest of the school day until dismissal. She went into extremes by literally watching every move Amy makes. Heck, she even hacked into the Rose's locker and took some more pictures in there, including her gifts from the guys. She even secretly recorded each of the male hedgehogs' private conversations on her notebook and most of them pertains to their infatuation—for Amy.
Even worse—she has already went too far when she followed Amy into one of the girls' bathroom. Without ever getting herself caught, the mystery girl has found out about Amy's two biggest revelations.
Getting enough evidence on the Hedgehogs 5x and Amy Rose, the hooded female Mobian scurries her way into the library as soon as the students leave for dismissal. There, on one of the tables, she finds whom she's looking for: Sally, Fiona, Mina, Rouge and Blaze. She makes her way to them; it seems that she works for the five as well. She then sets her backpack on the table right in front of her.
Sally lets out a smirk while twirling her pen into her fingers, "Did you get the stuff?" she asks the spy.
"Yup, like you said," the girl answers as she takes out all of her notes from her backpack for them to see. She takes her phone out and shows them every photo of evidence she has taken.
The five girls begin to scroll through everything… and most of them are too shocking for them to know. Albeit, some of them are perfect for them to use—to get their revenge.
They glance back at their spy.
"You did such an excellent job. Now, we have just about everything we need to teach Amy Rose a lesson," Sally chuckles malevolently. "Thank you again… Rosy."
After saying her name, the girl unveils her hood, revealing herself as—Rosy the Rascal.
She is a hedgehog too and she has the same resemblance as Amy; both have pink fur and they even have the same green eye color. The only major distinction is that Rosy's quills are styled in a different way; her back quills are in three spikes, just like Sonic's and Scourge's except they're more downward and longer, while her chin-length front quills are covering one of her eyes, like fringes.
Rosy lets out a crooked smile, "No problem," she replies to the leader.