"Wave, where are you going?" I ask. Wave was standing on her board, about to fly away.
Right now, both of us are on the top of our Zeppelin. Unlike her, I am here, working out with weight bands of around thirty kilograms on both my wrists and ankles. It feels great to practice martial arts with them, on the loneliness of the Zeppelin, with intense winds both filling the air and shaking my feathers. This is great.
But even then, I am not too deep on my exercises to not notice her about to take off. "I am going out." Was all she said.
I go closer to her, looking down on her. Physically, not like with airs of superiority. I... had a growth spurt a few years ago, when I finally turned taller than her, and still grew a few more inches. Gotta admit, it still brings too much joy after years of being a 'shorty'.
"Are you going to be fine?" I ask.
"Yeah. Will be hanging with Cream. Nothing more." She admits and shrugs her shoulders. But it was then that I tensed.
"Wait, so you are hanging with Sonic and his crew?" I say. She better not be hanging with the enemy. Especially that cry baby fox.
She rolls her eyes, an expected reaction. "Jet, I am hanging with Cream. Or are you that concerned about me leaving the team?" She asked, with a smug smile.
... If you ever saw her being extremely supportive of me, maybe even worship me, it was mostly an act for the camera. This is when she is acting naturally with me: an older sister that likes to tease. I ignore that for now.
"Recently, you have spent more and more time with them. How can I not feel threatened?" I reply with a similar tone to her sass.
"Don't worry, boss." She mocked the final word. "Everything is alright. They are fine, but you guys mean much more."
"What about the fox?" I brought it up. We both knew this was coming. The memory of the ballroom where she and the fox spent way too much time together. And she manages to hide her real emotions with a smirk.
"What about him?" She asks.
We continue our staring contest, and then she turns around and finally leaves. I give it some thought, as I throw another punch to the air, continuing my exercises. Could she be planning to meet the fox in secret? I throw another jab. Or is it just to mess with me? Another punch.
Where is she going? One more. Can I follow her without her noticing? Is she planning on stopping elsewhere to try and shake me up?
It isn't long until my mind is made up, deciding to follow her to the best of my capacity. I completely trust her, but I don't trust them.
Some time later
What is going on down there? I am high in the sky flying using air shoe type extreme gear, standing still, observing down there. There is a lot of movement because of Sonic's friends. Screaming, dragging, fighting… there is even Amy smashing her hammer into a door. Just what is going on down there? These are supposed to be the 'good guys' but they are acting like mad men right now. Still, I observed where Tails and Wave entered. Now, I just need to go to the control room.
I scouted the place, so I know exactly what to do: I first nose dive, reaching incredible speeds, the floor getting closer and closer to me. With ease, I shift from going vertically down to horizontally, going into the control area for that attraction. I rush past the workers, hitting and knocking them down with blistering speed. I am moving so fast, they will be lucky if they see a green blur. I waste no time, grabbing the knocked out workers and lock them up in different lockers.
Now, I go and force the lock. It takes me a minute or two. Not happy about that, but I managed to get in soon enough. I force it in.
"Hey…" That's all they can say before I pull out my fans, waving them to powerful winds. That was enough to push them around and knock them out. I quietly drag them out again. Now, I start working on the computer. It's… not easy to crack this up. That is usually on Wave. I am not terrible at it, but she would be done by now.
Then, I feel a massive blow at the side of my body. "Gah!" I scream. What was that?! I quickly go to the door and barely notice a blur. I instinctively threw a kick and managed to hit this attacker right on the face.
"Gah." I don't process the scream that person produced, I just go and throw my body down on top of the person, landing on their stomach with my elbow. "GAH!"... That sounded like a girl. It finally registered that this attacker was a female. One that I know all too well.
"Oh, you gotta be shitting me!" I cannot stop myself. It's the pink girl that's crazily obsessed with Sonic! Seriously, what the hell is she doing here?! Nobody could have seen me! I was too fast, yet silent. I don't have the chance to think any further when she hits me with her head with her own.
Fuck! That hurt like hell. I need a second for my head to stabilize and it seems she is in the same boat after my last attack. Seriously, that strength must come from having nothing up there.
It seems she is who gets back up first, as she runs toward me, arms up. I try a high round kick, but in a blur, she disappears. The blur comes from below, and I barely have enough time to side step, but it grazes me on the face. I retaliate with a punch of my own, which is enough for her to fall to the floor. I throw my body on top of hers to restrain her.
"What do you want here?" I order. Then, she somehow pushes both of us with so much force we crash into the roof. "The hell…" I left out weakly, taking the brunt of the force from her last move. I got back up, only for her to punch me back down with a massive punch. Seriously, it rattled my brain. But not enough that I don't feel how she grabs and twist my arms behind my back, making me grunt in pain.
"What were you planning?" She then twists my arm even harder. Fuck.
"I just want to stop Wave and Tails date." Shit, I give up way too easily.
"Are you serious?" I nod, rather too much. But, she let's me go, so that is all I care about right now. "Why would you screw your partner's date?" She asks as I get back up.
"Wave deserves something better than that fox." I tell her and she seems so offended by it.
"Excuse you!?" She puts her finger right on my face and I actually have a small urge to bite her, to hurt her. "Wave doesn't deserve him." … Now that I think about it… Why is she here alone? If she saw trouble, why not bring security? Or help… unless…
"So, you are here for the same reasons as me." I take a guess and her face tells me everything I need to know.
"I don't know what you are talking about." She is terrible at denial.
"Look, get out of my way, and then I will forget about those cheap shots you gave me." I add, thinking that I had the edge.
"My Cheap shots?!" But of course. This girl has a too high opinion of herself if she thinks otherwise.
"A girl like you can't handle me if I actually try." To that, she answers by summoning her hammer with a snap of her fingers. "Wait..." All my bravado from before was gone in an instant. She then hit me in the stomach, forced me into the floor with another blow, then she twisted her metal stick around my arms, trapping them. I had not even recovered when I felt her stomping my back, grunting in pain.
"For your information, I wasn't trying either." … I have seen Sonic fucking with that girl. Why? She is kind of a menace.
"Ok, let's start with..." Then there is silence, following by rather frantic *tac tac tac tac* from the PC. She better not have ruined the progress I have made. I try, but I can't break free from this thing. Still
"Feeling overwhelmed?" I tease her. She pretends to not hear me, but she is moving even more chaotically than before. I got her "Look, let me wreck their date, and you never have to worry about them becoming a thing. What do you say?" I negotiate.
"Shut up." I got her. I allow silence engulf us before she comes to me. "Like you know anything about this. When it came to machinery, Wave did everything."
"Not that different from you and foxy." I shot back. She glares at me, and I just smile back… It kinda feels like she is pouting, which makes me smile inwardly and outwardly. "Look, you lose nothing by letting me try." She turns around, looking at the machine. She then sighs and the hammer disappears. Good.
"Ok, let's do this." I stretch a little as I walk to the PC. It takes me some time, but I actually make it in. And she clearly is impressed. I bask in it a little
"I may not be Wave, but I know a bit about machines."
"Just like Sonic." She adds up. That really bothered me. Seriously, I get that we are rivals and all, and that she admires him and all, but she better not be making shit up like that.
"Liar. That blue idiot made the fox do all the dirty work." I rebutted. She looks unimpressed.
"While he does that, he is no Knuckles either. He built his first airplane, for starters." I… can only blink at that. Seriously!? Everything that that punk has and it turns out he is also intellectually smart.
"I am tired of that guy and the comparison." I can't help but mumble. I want to turn around and see if she heard me, but I think that would make this more suspicious. Forget it for now. Focus on the task at hand.
The fox and the swallow are walking on candyland. But now, I turn this into a hellish horror landscape, with nothing but dead plants. I change the background music to the most unnerving sounds that I can find in the machinery. And now, let's reap the results. Except both him and Wave are just acting overly dramatically, mocking what I tried to make.
"Are you kidding me?!"
"If I have to guess, they are letting their rational side take over." She added. I sort of glare at her, annoyed, but yes, she has a point. Still, I don't want to let her win.
"Then what do you suggest, miss know-it-all?!" She seemed to get more and more uneasy all of the sudden.
"Does Wave have any irrational fears?" … Girl going for the jugular huh? Guess it's easy to toss people you see as bad guys under the bus like that.
"No." I shot back to her
"Guess you aren't a good leader then." I see what you are doing, it is not going to work
"It is not something that simple. If I do it, she will figure something is wrong. It is not something anyone would present in a horror ride." This is the truth. And she seems to accept it. OK, let's try to think of something else.
"Put gunshot sound effects." … What? Why would that work? I look at her, but I see as if she suddenly was… small, like she had just done something real awful. I don't question it further and do it. After the first magnum shot sound, Tails just throws himself at Wave. I was going to protest, but Wave just shakes him off. Then we see that he is on the floor. Damn, it is only one sound effect, but it is enough for him to have a panic attack or something. What happened to him? Shot after shot, he just panics harder and harder, shaking more and more, becoming a little pathetic thing… I close my eyes, this is hard to watch. I don't dislike any of these guys, I never wanted something like this to happen to them.
"Jet, turn it..." She started, then she shifted to an offended. "Hey!" I looked again and Wave went to the fox and comforted him. He has normalized after a while. Another gunshot comes, but Wave grabs the fox' hand and practically dragged him out. Great, that might have gotten them closer. I then glance at the hedgehog… She doesn't voice it, but she looks absolutely fuming about it. I feel the need to put a hand on her shoulder.
"Let's continue with the next part of the ride." Chaos, what have I gotten myself into? Amy always struck me as a bit crazy, but not this cruel. She just threw his friend under the bus like that. I don't know what else she is capable of.
Not that long after, they reach the next area, with lots of water. "Any ideas?" I ask her. She is considering it, when I get an idea. I instruct the robot to grab them and place them on the canoe, with Wave the smaller one below the fox. They tried several times to reposition, but the robot just kept repeating it. It gets a chuckle out of us. Hopefully, this calms her down.
"Any other ideas?" I ask again.
"How about we bore them?" Good ideas as any, I guess. I introduce new instructions.
Five minutes later
"This is the worst." Seriously, what were we thinking? At least what we tried before was mildly amusing.
"Change of tactics?" She asks.
"Scare them again?" I ask her. Then… we hear footsteps. Dammit. How long have we been here? This should be too soon, right? Either way, I make one last desperate attempt. I instruct the rowing machine to go at its max speed. Hopefully this doesn't hurt them too much. I don't really pay attention to what is happening, and instead focus on grabbing this girl.
"Eeep!"
Immediately I open a window. Then, I tap the heel of my feet with each other, turning my shoes into extreme gear, air show type. Then we fly away, before anyone can even get a glimpse of us. It's like taking a leap from our spot into the outside of the park. Feels awesome to be able to do this with such ease.
Now that I think about it, why did I drag her with me? I should have just left her behind. Pin the blame on her. Then again, she is a hero. Maybe they would believe her if she said that she was innocent. Ah, whatever, we are here now.
I look at her and I recognize that expression. She is loving this. She is agape about it. Shouldn't she be way more used to this? She is an extreme gear rider at pro level.
"Seems like someone is enjoying the ride." I say. She rolled her eyes, then her eyes land on me. She seems frozen in time for a second, then, she smacks be. This fucking bitch, what is she thinking?! This makes me lose some control and now, we are no longer going in a straight line, but losing altitude. I should easily be able to regain control easily, but she is gripping my neck like a vice! I can hear it pop! We are going too fast and I can see us about to hit the floor. This could be nasty.
I barely managed to land. I was hoping to manage to stop dead on my tracks, but the impact made her grip me harder. Like this, the best I can do is bounce. It made me lose some speed, but I need to do this several times before I can fully stop myself, traveling way farther than I ever intended. Still, I feel everything going white, so I can barely say.
"Let… go…" I thought I was a goner for a second, but she finally let me go.
"God, you are a pain!" I complain, gasping for air. Seriously, this bitch. At least she finally let me go and I can rest. How does Sonic or anyone deal with this.
"Windy Valley?" She asks. Let's just be done with this.
"Where do you live?" I ask her.
"Why do you want to know that?"
"I will take you. Or do you plan to walk there from here?" I don't think she is carrying her board. I am tempted to just leave her here, but, maybe I should not push it for the next time we see each other.
"Ah, Station Square." I then try to pick her up bridal style, but she avoids me. "I will get on your back." Fuck that! I don't allow her.
"I am not letting you grab onto my neck while I carry you. Or I will die!" She seems annoyed, but this works, as she allows me to carry her. And we start moving.
"Hey, answer me something." That gets her attention. "Why do you hate Wave?"
"I don't hate her."
"Really? Then what was all I saw there?!" All the bullshit you were willing to put him through just to fuck with my sister. How is that not pure hate?! How does pure hate from you look like?
"Tails… he needs peace. He has been fighting for all his life. Almost as much as Sonic. He has been at his side more than anyone else. He is hurt, he needs to heal. He has a fire that he can't turn off, not without help. I can't imagine Wave making his burden lighter, but instead, make it worse for him." … That's a lot of info to process.
"Why are you doing this yourself? Is it love?" She asks me this time.
"Nah. Wave is my sister. Never seen her as more than that. It's just… a lot of Babylon traditions get in the way of a relationship like that." I explain.
"Would you let traditions like that ruin your relationship with her?"
"Old Babylon stuff has a mind of its own. You have seen it. I don't have a say in the matter." I left out that it can also get fairly painful and brutal. Ancient societies weren't messing around.
"And what? If Tails and Wave hold hands, or kiss on the cheek, they will get smite by a Babylon God?"
"They need to fuck before anything bad actually happens." She shakes at the idea. "Which part of the city do you live in?" I ask her. It seems she had not even realized we had made it this far.
"Actually, I will walk there." She says. Before she can go however, I ask.
"How horny is the fox?" She looks astonished at the idea of me asking.
"Who asks that?! What would you reply if I asked you about Wave?" She screams and I only laugh about it
"Forget it. Later!" I start walking away.
"Leaving so soon?" That stopped me dead on my tracks. That wasn't Amy. "Would you like to stay for dinner?" It was Cream the rabbit, who grabbed my arm. I just shook it off.
"Would you like to stay forever?" This time, it was an orange echidna girl. This one I don't really know. She grabbed my arm like the other, so I try to shake it, but… it doesn't move. In the slightest. How strong is she?!
"Jet run!" The absolute panic in Amy's voice terrifies me enough to do as she told me, without even thinking. I do that, blitzing away at incredible speeds… and this girl isn't letting me go! I am literally dragging her at insane speeds, possibly shaving several centimeters of her skin, but she isn't letting go.
"You all are crazy."
"Crazy for love!" She replied, then, I somehow hit a rock, stopping us. But, how? There wasn't anything there a second ago. I am dazed and needing a second, but she is already up. Then, she races both of her arms and surrounding us, a wall of rock erects, a giant circle of rock around us. Guess that explains what happened before.
"Girl. I don't want to date you!" And I thought Amy stalking Sonic was as crazy as this got.
"Oh no. I want you to date Amy." ... That's worse! "If you aren't already. I bet you spent a romantic lovely night with her."
My eye is twitching... I am not dealing with this. I pulled out both my Bashosens, and with one swipe of both, produced a powerful gust, enough to actually tear apart this rock trap. Also she is sent flying like a little doll. I should have more self restraint, but she should easily take this after everything. Then I just fly away.
Amy huh. They are that desperate to get her a boyfriend? What about Sonic? I thought they were a thing? I am guessing they will take anyone if they are trying to ship me with her. What did dad use to say...? Don't stick it in Crazy? Probably for the best.