"Have you done it?" Eggman asked, stroking his squirrel-tail mustache.
"Yes." Sylvia replied as she entered the control room. "It is done."
"Good. Very good." Eggman said a grin spreading from mustache to mustache. "Eggwonna,"
Eggwonna walked up to the doctor, "Yes, sir?"
"You've bought some popcorn, right?"
"Yes, sir."
"Good. Go and get some, this calls for a celebration!"
"Yes, sir!" She scampered off.
Sylvia rolled her eyes, and then asked, "When do you want him to be released?"
"All in good time, feather face, all in good time."
"I wonder what Eggman is up to." Sonic said, still with his eyes closed and on the couch. He hadn't moved an inch.
Silence.
He opened an eye. "Guys?"
They were nowhere to be seen.
"Hey, Sonic!" Amy called from the kitchen. "I made some cookies. Wanna try some?"
"…"
Somewhere in the mansion, that they were staying at, Coal is giving Silver a pep talk (not that she's good at it or anything).
"I don't know what to do!" Silver threw his hands up.
"About Icefire or helping Blaze?" Coal asked, sitting on a bright green beanbag.
"Both!" He plopped down on the bed in desperation.
"Well, explain how you know Blaze to Icefire, for starters." She said.
He sighed. "I don't know how I met her 'cause I've known her for so long."
"Oh, well, that's a problem." Coal leaned on an elbow.
"Yeah, exactly."
"So… why wouldn't you want to help Blaze?" She asked, slightly changing the subject.
"It's just that…You know… Icefire… L-Emeralds… and all…"
"Do you like Blaze…?"
"…It's complicated."
"I'll take that as a yes." She leaned back. "Dude, your life is complicated."
"You don't think I know that?" He looked up.
She lifted her hands up in defense. "Hey, just pointing out the obvious."
"Agh!" He fell back on the bed, arms stretched strait open.
"Why not just go help her, and then forget about everything?"
"…It's complicated."
"Look, your life is complicated, but not that complicated. Just go for it!" She jumped to her feet. "I gotta go… somewhere with Shadow… he didn't say… but
anyway, think about what I said."
Silver nodded. "Okay, thanks for the pep talk, Coal."
"No problem." She called back as she left the room and headed downstairs.
Silver stood in front of a window with his hands held behind his back, deep in thought. He turned around towards the windows looking out into the front lawn,
when he saw a small light brown and cream bunny coming up to the gates followed by a light blue Chio with yellow markings. He waited by the door until he
heard a knock, and then opened it for her.
"Hey Cream… Cheese." He greeted them.
"Hi, Silver, I heard you were sad, so I made this for you." She smiled and held up a yellow flower chain. Silver forcefully smiled back and let her put the flowers
around his neck.
"Thanks Cream."
"You're welcome." She said as he heard Cheese, who was behind her, make a chu noise.
Silver moved aside and let Cream and Cheese in. The bunny and Chio started up the stairs when Silver called out to them, "Have you two seen Icefire around?"
Cream turned around to face him and said, "No, sorry." Then began to head up the stairs again.
Great. Silver thought. He started out the door to look for her. Where in the world could she be?
Then he remembered a place that Icefire always loved to go, she had brought him there once before. He decided to check there first.
"Icefire?" Silver poked his head through the bushes.
She looked up from where she sat in the middle of the clearing.
"What?" She sniffled.
He stepped next to her and sat down. "Hey."
"…You have a flower chain. Did Blaze give it to you?" She scowled.
"What? No! Cream did."
She only grunted.
A moment of silence passed between the two.
"Are you going to help her?"
"Yeah. But I'll be back." He said. "I promise."
Icefire dropped her gaze to the flowers around his neck. "I'll miss you."
"And I'll miss you too."