Chapter 20: Shocking News:

I am Blaze the Cat! The former princess of the Sol Dimension!

Ever since that triple-date, I've been absolutely ecstatic! After what felt like

years of being treated like fucking nobody, Silver's finally started to treat

me like an actual girlfriend again! And to think that all it took was a date and an

outfit! Today, I'd better make sure he stays this way, and I think I know just the trick!

A week had passed since Sonic had rescued Amy from Dr. Eggman and destroyed the Death Egg. It was 7:00am, and everybody was sleeping in, except for Blaze. Still in her pajamas, she was busy preparing something in the kitchen. After a spell, she set three pieces of raspberry and cream cheese stuffed French toast on a tray along with a glass of high-pulp orange juice, a helping of scrambled egg-whites, a helping of hash-browns, and two strips of turkey bacon. Silver was in their room, sound asleep and softly snoring. Blaze quietly walked in with the tray of breakfast. Silver rolled onto his other side.

"Hey. Wake up." Blaze whispered.

Silver half-opened his eyes. The smell of the breakfast was slowly waking him up. He rubbed the sleep out of his eyes as he sat up in bed. He saw his girlfriend standing at the foot of the bed holding a tray of eye-catching food. Now that he had finally woken up, Blaze set the tray down in front of him.

"Thanks." Silver sleepily said as he began to eat.

"You're very welcome." Blaze replied as she sat down next to him.

After Silver finished his meal, he set the tray down on the nightstand and got into a more relaxed position. He stretched his arm out, and Blaze leaned into the newly-created gap. The couple sank into a deep kiss. Blaze trembled with delight as she felt Silver's tongue enter her mouth.

Meanwhile, Rouge woke up. She was still in a fetal position under the covers, with Shadow wrapping himself around her body. Her large ears were picking up noises from Blaze and Silver's room.

"Ugh, damn hypocrites." She sighed, "They tell us to 'keep it down', and yet they do exactly what they told us not to do."

Shadow woke up also.

"Well, it's 7:30 anyway. Waking us up was actually a favor." He said, getting out of bed.

Rouge rubbed her eyes and did the same.

Knuckles slept in until 7:45am. He stretched and cracked his oversized knuckles. Shielding his eyes from the sun that was coming in through the window right next to him, he quietly climbed off the top bunk, and near the bottom of the ladder, he stopped dead in his tracks. Tails was gone.

"Hey. Where's Tails?" Knuckles asked, scratching his head with his foot, for he knew that Tails always slept in until 8:30am.

My name is Miles Prower! But everyone calls me Tails!

Today, I've got a move of my OWN to make! I'm finally gonna

reveal who the guy behind Cream's present really was! Eeyaah!

I can almost hear her now, speaking to me in her enamoring voice:

'Oh, Tails! What a romantic! What a gentleman! May we remain a couple

for eternity and spend every second of free-time playing your spin-off games!'

...Of course, there's also a chance that she won't accept me, but let's be honest!

The probability of THAT happening is probably around the 0.00001st percentile!

Tails, meanwhile, was flying his Tornado back to Cream's house, determined to make a move. He parked the plane along the side of the street, between two cars. When he got close to Cream's house, he made sure he was not anywhere in view from the front windows and took a deep breath. With a trembling hand, he rang the doorbell.

C'mon, be cool. Be smooth. You got this Tails! He thought as he waited for Cream to open the door.

Cream finally answered, and Tails' heart rate immediately picked up. He did not know it, but Cream's heart was beating hard as well.

"Oh, Mr. Tails. What a surprise!" She said.

Tails paused for a moment, trying to get his thoughts organized.

"Uh, well…um, you see, uh…" He uttered.

Cream was still listening.

"Well, you see…uh, you know those chocolates you got last week?" Tails finished.

Cream nodded.

"Well, uh, those were from me." He added, blushing with a hand behind his head.

Cream was awestruck.

"Ohh, I-I don't know what to say!" She said.

The two embraced in a hug. Tails' plan had finally worked. Cream gave the yellow fox a kiss right on his cheek. Tails returned the favor by planting a kiss on her cheek. A new relationship had taken root and was starting to sprout.

I'm Sonic! Sonic the Hedgehog!

Even though it's been a week since I thwarted

Eggman for the umpteenth time, I still feel as though

he or Sally might show up and try to fuck with me again!

Thankfully, none of my fears have come true, but still,

you've gotta admit it's pretty damn stressful! Today, I decided

to finally fight back against this tension by spending some more

time bonding with Amy, and what better place to do that than at

Emerald Coast?

At noon, Sonic was in the kitchen wearing his red swim trunks with white stripes and a gold buckle holding them on his waist. He was making sandwiches and putting them into bags. He then put a large snicker-doodle cookie into another bag and got out two bottles of iced tea. He put them all into a picnic basket and headed to his and Amy's room. Amy was in the bathroom brushing her fur. Sonic knocked on the door.

"Come in. I'm decent." Amy replied, not looking away from what she was doing.

Sonic came in.

"Hi. Um, would you like to go for a picnic on the beach?" He asked.

"Oh sure," Amy replied, "I'm almost done with this."

Sonic nodded and stepped out into the bedroom.

Shortly later, Amy came out, wearing a white two-piece bikini and white flip-flops. The two hedgehogs got into Sonic's personal car and headed off to Emerald Coast. At the beach, Sonic unrolled a blanket on the sand and put the basket on it. He and Amy then sat on it and got into relaxed positions. It was so peaceful that Sonic lay down on his back and closed his eyes, but after about thirty seconds, Amy got his attention.

"Hey Sonic, could you do something for me please?" She said.

Sonic sat up and saw that she was lying on her stomach.

"Could you please rub sunscreen on my back?" Amy asked.

"Sure thing. I forgot to apply sunscreen to myself too." Sonic replied.

He proceeded to get out the bottle of sunscreen and rub it on Amy's back. She relaxed and sank into the blanket a little as he did this. Afterwards, he applied it to his hairless chest and arms and lay back down.

It was 1:00pm. The two hedgehogs were enjoying their picnic lunch and gazing at the scenic views off of Emerald Coast. Sonic took a big bite out of his muffaletta. (He had decided against bringing chili dogs on the picnic, since he did not want to turn Amy off). Amy took a swig of her iced tea and ate some of her already half-eaten Italian beef sandwich. Cuddled up together on the soft cotton blanket, Sonic and Amy did not notice a figure walking by and spotting them. It was Sally Acorn, wearing a blue bikini and carrying nothing but a towel, the hair between her ears having only grown back a few centimeters. She was shocked to see the two hedgehogs there. As much as Sally still had feelings for Sonic, she was held back from intervening because she thought that they looked so happy together.

What am I doing? I can't do this. She thought, leaving the beach.

Sonic and Amy took no notice of what had just happened. After another short span of time, Amy stood up and stretched. Sonic sat up and began to finish his half of the cookie.

"Ah, what a beautiful day! It's a perfect time to go to the beach!" Amy said staring off at the glimmering waters from up the beach.

Sonic got a playful smirk on his face.

"Yeah, and there's one thing we haven't done yet while we're here." He said.

"And what's that?" Amy replied.

Sonic proceeded to sprint up to her, arms out.

"GETTING WET!" He shouted, picking her up like a baby.

"Oh no! AAAAAGGGHHH!" Amy screamed as Sonic carried her down Emerald Coast.

Sonic was running fast. He accidentally tripped and both hedgehogs fell into the water. Luckily, the bottom was nothing but soft sand, and the water was shallow enough to stand up in. Sonic and Amy popped back up at the surface laughing. The laughter came to a halt as the couple sank into a deep kiss. Dripping wet, Sonic walked back up to their picnic spot, carrying his fiancé like a baby. He gently put her down on the blanket and grabbed a towel to dry himself off with. A few seconds later, the small radio they had brought with them stopped in the middle of a song and Omochao came on discussing some news.

"Good afternoon, this is Omochao here with today's top story:" He began.

The two hedgehogs were listening hard.

"Our cameras have come across the remains of the Death Egg, which was destroyed last week. The remains of Dr. Eggman were found inside the wreckage, and he was pronounced dead just a few short hours ago!"

Amy let out a gasp, while Sonic adopted a shocked facial-expression.

"According to the paramedics who have arrived on the scene, he died from major blood loss, severe smoke-inhalation, massive artery blockage, and of course, the explosion of his fortress. We're lookin' at quite the combo here." Omochao finished.

"O-Oh my god!" Amy said.

She and Sonic proceeded to gather their things and head home.