X Marks the Spot: Pt 3
"I'm so sorry about this whole mess, Mr. Sonic." Charles Thorndike apologized. "I told Chris he could have anything he wanted for his birthday because his parents couldn't come to see him, but I'm afraid he reached a little too far this time and got himself in trouble."
"I want to apologize as well, Mr. Sonic, for Cream's part in abducting you." Vanilla agreed shooting an angry glare at her daughter that told the smaller rabbit that this was not over. "I should have done a better job in disciplining my little girl. I hope this will not cause any diplomatic problems between West Side Island and the United Federation."
"Nah. Don't worry about it, Miss Rabbot. It's cool." Sonic answered waving his hand dismissively. "I've had worse happen to me than this. Besides, I'm perfectly happy with making birthday visits provided I'm asked instead of kidnapped." Everyone in the room winced at his comment; just then, a knock came at the door. Ella walked over and opened it.
"Hey Sonic, how's it going?" A yellow fox asked, walking through the doorway. "I was wondering what happened to you."
"Tails," Sonic asked in surprise. "How did you get here?"
"Oh, Officer Speed came and told us that you were visiting this kid for his birthday. So, the rest of us decided… to…" He said, but his eyes went wide with horror. "Oh no, not her."
"TAILS!" Cream squeaked jumping up and bolting straight towards the yellow fox.
Before anyone could utter a word, the two mobians were out the door like a shot. Miles racing along through the air propelled by his two tails. Cream flapped her ears in hot pursuit keeping pace with the terrified fox. "YOU GET BACK HERE, MILES PROWER!" She screamed frantically. "I've got my wedding dress all picked out, and you need to be fitted for your tux."
"SONIC, HELP ME!" Tails shouted. "I don't want to be a child groom." Sonic shook his head.
"Kids today. When I was younger, I was the one chasing girls not the other way around." He stated. The next one who came through the doorway, dashed passed all the other humans a look of burning hot rage on her face. And a large piko hammer slung over her shoulder, marching right up to Chris. She glared at him with an evil eye.
"Excuse me, are you the one who hognapped by Sonic?" She asked.
"Yeah, what about it?" Chris snapped looking at the little pink hedgehog girl in contempt. "He's mine, what are you going to do?"
"YAHBOOM!" She shouted, smacking him on the head with her hammer. It was another boy running for his life from a girl, this time trying to stay ahead of an angry female smacking him on the noggin again and again. This happened as he fled in terror.
"MR. TANAKA! GET HER OFF! GET HER OFF!" Chris screamed in a panic. "SHE'S GONNA KILL ME!"
"Poor Master Chris taking it on both ends." Mr. Tanaka sighed wiping a tear away with his handkerchief. "They grow up so fast."
"Sonic, what's up?" Knuckles asked, coming in the door after the other two. "I heard you came to visit some kid on his birthday. Though I'd come by and share my awesomeness with the birthday boy too."
"Oh, yaa. It's the cute little echidna." Ella declared patting the dreadlocked mobian on the head. "Aren't you da cutest little thing?"
"BY THE ANCIENT WALKERS, IT A MOVING MOUNTAIN!" Knuckles declared as he took a step back in fear. "And it speaks its own language too."
"But that's impossible, I heard echidna civilization went extinct decades ago." Grandpa Thorndike exclaimed. "Wait, I got it. It must obviously be some kind of robot." Running over to a drawer in a nearby tool bench, Charles Thorndike pulled out a screwdriver and immediately picked up the unsuspecting echidna. "Now, let's see if I can get the darn thing open and figure out how it works."
"No, wait? What are you doing with that screwdriver?" Knuckles flailed and whined in a panic. "Hey, that doesn't go there. STOP, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
It was several hours later, when all of the mobians and humans were seated at the dinner table as Ella worked in the kitchen.
"I'm so happy that all of you agreed to join us for dinner, as an apology for what Master Chris attempted to do to Mr. Sonic." Mr. Tanaka bowed politely. "Unfortunately, Grandfather Thorndike will not be joining us for the meal due to Mr. Knuckles knocking him unconscious."
"HEY! Do you know where he was going to stick that thing?" Knuckles stated, crossing his arms angrily. "It was self-defense I tell ya."
"Who cares if Grandpa went to take a nap? I'm hungry." Chris whined holding the ice bag on his head as he was sitting on a soft pillow Ella had placed. "Let's eat. I'm tired of waiting."
"But the food isn't ready yet." Tails protested, looking over the small rabbit staring at him longingly. "Unless, you guys are interested in my specialty dish, roasted hare."
"Tails, get serious. Stop trying to annoy the girl." Sonic rebuked. "I don't want any more fighting. I just want to eat."
"I had Ella look up all your favorite dishes and I think you'll be extremely pleased with what we have." Mr. Tanaka explained. "For you most honorable hedgehogs, I give you the gift of…" Ella brough in a large serving tray. She lifted the lid to reveal the most beautiful sight Sonic had ever seen. "Freshly cooked chili dogs."
"My gosh…" Sonic wept. "It's so beautiful." Within seconds, the stack of nearly fifty dogs was engulfed in a blue blur. All of it disappearing within seconds. "BEEEERRRRRP!" Sonic commented, falling back into his seat.
"HEY, YOU RUDE PIG!" Amy snapped. "Some of those were for me too, you know."
"Don't worry about it, I left you one, see?" Sonic pointed at the tray, where one chili dog remained. "Besides, it's not like you… gulp… eat chili dogs."
"If I didn't know you needed all those calories to run at super speed, I knock you through the ceiling with my hammer for that." Amy's eye twitched in anger.
"Forgive me, Miss Amy. Perhaps this will be to your liking." The butler stated, snapping his fingers. "As you can see behind me, Miss Ella has prepared four pepperoni and sausage pizzas with stuffed crest and I heard you greatly enjoy-" Mr. Tanaka was interrupted as a speeding pink blur spun around the three whole pizzas leaving not even a crumb on the tray.
"Urp." A small lady-like burp came out of the pink hedgehog. "Oh, excuse me."
Ella, then, set down two trays in front of Tails and Cream. The little rabbit pulled the lid off of her tray.
"Yay, carrots my favorite." She answered, smiling. "What did you get Tails?"
"Roasted rabbit." Tails grinned licking his chops.
"Roasted rabbit?" Cream whimpered, her eyes filling up with tears. "WAAAAAAH!" The little rabbit just sat their bawling, while Tails consumed his entire dish. Still feeling hungry, Tails' eyes turned towards Cream picking up the salt shaker off the table he began to sprinkle some of the salt on her head, when a large frying pan came down on his head.
"Don't even think about it, young man." A scowling mother rabbit glared at him. Finally, a tray was set down in front of Knuckles.
"And for you, Mister Knuckles, an echidna delicacy." Mr. Tanaka bowed. "I present to you, frogs legs."
"Oh boy, I haven't had these since Grandpa Athair died." Pulling the lid off and picking up his silverware. "I can't wait for this!"
"NOOOOOOO!" a shout came from outside the house. As a large purple cat smashed the door down running over to where the frog legs sat in front of Knuckles. He picked up the barbequed appendages up and held them tightly. "You barbarians." He stated before walking out the door holding the legs. "Don't worry, buddy. I'll get you to a doctor. You're going to be okay." He left the room where the real Froggy was on his back.
"Well, that was certainly… dramatic." Amy said with a nervous laugh. "Sorry about that he was visiting Station Square to try the fishing around here and we kind of invited him along."
"This is certainly an interesting dinner." Mr. Tanaka noted looking over all the mobians and humans enjoying their meals. "What do you all think would be an appropriate after dinner activity?"
"Well, maybe we could…" Sonic started to suggest.
"Wrestling." Knuckles blurted out. "I've heard the IWF is having a match today at Station Square Garden." He exclaimed, punching his fist. "There's nothing I love better than watching two humans beat each other senseless in their underpants."
"Oh yeah… that sounds like a whole lot of fun." Amy groaned, rolling her eyes. "A bunch of large muscular men punching each other senseless."
"You are quite correct, Miss Amy." Vanilla replied sipping her tea gracefully. "A bunch of half-naked males getting all sweaty and dirty, how crude." The two women looked at each other and then turned back to face everyone else.
"So, when do we leave?" They both replied simultaneously.
"Yeah, it sounds like fun." Sonic yawned. "Better than just sitting around here."
"An excellent idea my friends." Mr. Tanaka suggested. "However, may I suggest that Miss Cream and Mr. Tails stay behind and watch the house. Miss Vanilla, may I get your coat?"
"Wait, don't leave me here with…" Tails pleaded, but they were all out the door before he could finish. The young fox ran over to the door and began pulling on the handle, but found it locked and the key nowhere in sight.
"Oh, Miles…" A voice said. Tails turned around and suddenly backed against the locked door. A small rabbit girl in a wedding dress and carrying a banquet of flowers, slowly walked towards him. "Here comes the bride." Finding nowhere to escape, Tails rolled up into his head and he fainted. Before losing consciousness the last thing, poor Miles Prower heard was. "Yay, now it's time to celebrate the honeymoon."
Back at Dr. Eggman's vacation headquarters, the doctor was tucking his fat into his wrestling trunks and trying to stand up straight in sports clothing that was obviously two sizes too tight.
"Well, boys. I'm off to the wrestling tournament." The doctor declared throwing a feather boa around his neck. "How do I look?"
"Doctor Eggman, I think you'll have no trouble with your opponents." A-ko replied. "One look at that outfit and your opponent will pass out from laughter."
"Bah, my wrestling attire is perfect." Eggman boasted, eating a taco. "My grand appearance is awesome enough to destroy nations."
"If you eat too many of those tacos and burritos, your butt gas will be powerful enough to destroy nations." B-ko replied shaking his head in disgust.
"It's all part of my wrestling gimmick." He slurped down a cheesy burrito and a chimi changa. "I am El Gordo Grande: the fattest wrestler in all Mexico."
"So, you're the pro wrestler who will die of congestive heart failure first?" Bounta-kun said, sarcastically. "Your worst opponent in the ring is going to be the tag team of Weight Watchers and Overeaters Anonymous."
"You're all just jealous I can throw my weight around." Eggman yelled storming out the door. "Now, be sure to watch my match telecast on the monitor. I'm going to make a big splash in the world of wrestling."