𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗜𝗖'𝗦 𝗣𝗢𝗩
The next day, we again planned to meet at Meh-Burger. Because that's like... the only place we usually hang out. Ahem.
So I stretched my arms and legs, a little warm up. Then I dashed to Meh-Burger, waited 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 to place my order. Once Dave wrote it down, I ran back to my place before halting infront of Ms. Edgy's house.
I doubted she'd join, so I shrugged and dashed towards the beach. Then my communicator beeped, it was Amy.
"Yes, Ams?"
"Sonic, we are almost at the Meh-Burger. Bring Sonica with you. See ya!"
-beep-
And I groaned, stopping on my tracks to turn around to look at her shack. "It will be a miracle if she tags along."
Anyway, I dashed away, stopping at her doorstep. And knocked. "Hey, neighbour. It's me. Open up."
I tapped my foot against the wooden floor as I waited. Then the door opened-
From the way she was trying to fix her quills, it looked like she just rolled out of bed.
"Someone's not a morning-hedgehog, huh?" I smirked and glanced at ny communicator, "Anyways, Amy wants you to join us. So..."
"Where..?" She asked suspiciously.
"To the Meh-Burger. It's where we eat, hang and all. Let's go-" I grabbed her wrist and pulled her along, dashing away from our neighbourhood.
Her eyes widened in surprise but she caught up with my pace 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘺.
"But I don't want to." She complained.
Ugh!
I stopped on my tracks to look at her, exasperated, "Do you 𝘳𝘦𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴𝘦 being difficult or does it come naturally? Because I am telling you, the world doesn't revolve around 𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘺 people. Except some exceptions and you are NOT one."
There was a pause, her ears pinned back in surprise (probably), then she tsked.
"Naturally it seems." I muttered and continued to dash to Meh-Burger, dragging her along by her wrist.
Once we were at our destination, I let go of her wrist and walked to the gang with high-fives and fist-bumps.
"Morning."
"Morning, Sonic. Oh hey, Sonica!"
I claimed the chair beside Knuckles and grabbed a chillidog while...
she just stood there, rubbing the back of her neck.
"It's okay, Sonica. Don't feel uncomfortable. We are happy to have you here." said Amy, pulling Sonica to an empty chair beside her.
She nodded slowly.
"Someone's being quiet today." I murmured with a smirk as I ate the chillidog. That monotone voice always got on my nerves anyway.
Amy shot me a glare.
I looked at her, raising a brow. "What? It's obvious."
She shook her with head with an annoyed sigh and turned to Sonica, sliding the plate towards her. "Here, Sonica. Try some burger, chillidogs or fries. Whatever you want."
"They're 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 good." Knuckles added, taking a bite of his burger, messily.
She glanced at Amy then glanced down, she looked vulnerable for a second but then her "I don't want to" attitude was back.
"It's fine. I... kind of want to leave now..."
Seriously.?
"Aw, don't say that. It's normal to avoid new people because you don't want to make them uncomfortable with your new vibe, but we aren't un-welcoming. Are we, guys?" Amy said with a smile, blinking at us.
Tails and Knuckles nodded, "Yeah, we don't mind."
"I love meeting new people!" Knuckles said cheerfully then paused, pointing st Sonica. "What was your name again?"
I sighed and just focused on my food. "It's not us who'll be hungry." I muttered.
Amy opened her mouth then closed it, sighing in frustration before turning back to Sonica, "Please, try some."
I noticed that, for some reason, Ms. Edgy couldn't look Amy in the eye.
What was going on inside her head?
"I..." She slowly reached her hand towards the plate while Amy watched with hopeful, sparkling eyes.
But then she suddenly got up, said, "I have some work-" and sprinted off, leaving a blue blur behind.
But mine was better.
"Welp, more chillidogs for me then." I said, grabbing some from across the table.
"𝘚𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤." Amy said, crossing her arms.
"Hm?" I responded, chewing the chillidog.
"𝙎𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙘." She repeated, eyes narrowed.
"Ugh, what do you want me to do? She left on her own, didn't she?" I said, not understanding why Amy was so... persistent to involve Sonica. What hospitality.
"She's too edgy." I added.
"She is new here, we need to make her feel welcomed." Amy declared, standing up as she pointed towards the direction where Sonica went. "Bring her back. Now!"
I narrowed her eyes, then groaned, "Fine!" and ran after Sonica.
### A second later :
"There you are-!" I grabbed Sonica by her arms and brought her back to Meh-Burger, like she was a (maniquin) stiff, and still but surprisingly light.
Once we returned at the table, in less than a few seconds, I put her down and immediately reclaimed my chair.
Sonica blinked as she processed what just happened and rubbed her face.
Then Amy held out the plate, "Now you gotta try some! No running away again!"
### A while later :
"You've got some seriously sensitive taste buds."
Then I noticed the glass on Dave's counter started shaking, followed by a stronger shaking of the ground-
It had to be-
"EGGMAN!"
"Everyone, get ready!"
We got on our heroic stances, weapons ready as usual. Dashing background music. Then-
"But who's Eggman?"
Felt like a speed breaker.
Our heads snapped towards her. Ms. Edgy.
"Uh, forget I ever asked-"
"Well, he's an evil scientist who tries to destroy us and the village." Tails explained with a look that expects her to understand.
"But he never wins." I smirked and turned my head towards the direction where the sound of metals' screeches and stomping was coming.
As usual, his useless bots like bee bot, motobug, crab bot, etc etc came first. But this time he had brought a big robot which he himself controlled from inside the robot.
"He never gets tired of losing..." I muttered, crossing my arms as we watched the slow bot approach.
"Be ready to lose, Sonic! Today I will get rid of you and your friends once and for all. Mwahahahahah!"
Eggman and his usual dialogues.
He then slammed a button dramatically.
Missiles launched from the robot's shoulders.
Amy tightened her grip on her hammer.
Sticks spun her boomerang.
Tails adjusted his wrench.
Knuckles cracked his knuckles.
Then chaos officially started.
I tore through a line of badniks with a spin dash while Amy smashed two robots at once.
"Home run!" she cheered.
Knuckles punched a crab bot so hard it flew into another bot.
"TEAMWORK!" he yelled proudly.
"That's not what teamwork means, Knuckles!"
Nearby, Sticks was aggressively fighting three robots and yelling something about 'government surveillance spiders.'
Honestly, pretty normal day.
But Sonica?
She was still leaning against the wall with her arms crossed like she was watching a mildly disappointing play.
Seriously, did this hedgehog ever react to anything?
Then suddenly-
Someone yanked my arm. "Whoa-!"
A massive metal fist crashed down exactly where I'd been standing.
I blinked and looked over.
Sonica had pulled me back. But she was just standing there a just second ago-
"Focus." she said flatly before letting go.
Tch, so what if she can run fast like me? She's still too edgy.
"...Okay, wow. That almost looked like concern." I muttered with sarcasm as I watched her go back to leaning against the wall.
Never mind.
Then Eggman leaned forward with his bot, adjusting his glasses with a frown.
"Wait, there's TWO blue hedgehogs now?! One of you was already annoying enough!"
Sonica just sighed. AT LEAST she did.
Eggman looked at me and I shrugged.
Then he laughed, probably planning to provoke her, "Oh, is the blue rat scared?"
Again, no response. Just a 'Start the show, I am watching' look on her face.
"She... she did 𝙣𝙤𝙩 just dismiss 𝙢𝙚!" Eggman raised his voice, annoyed.
"Oh, she did, Egghead." I smirked, "You'll get used to it."
### A while later :
Another sweet victory. Or so I thought.
Eggman got ejected out of the robot and he flew away in his jetpack while yelling, "Robots retrieve!!!"
"Dr. Eggman! Wait for us!" Orbot and Cubot called as they jumped forward and held onto Eggman's legs.
"Ugh, you little- Get off of me- Get your own jetpacks!"
The other bots followed along, but he did say : "I will defeat you next time, blue pest!" before disappearing into a dot.
"Well, that didn't last long." I said and dashed to the table, grabbing a chillidog. But I spoke too soon-
Eggman's big robot was not shut down yet, it was still stomping around, destroying anything in its path. All mindless. Not that robots have a mind of their own, but anyways-
"Gotta be quick!" I muttered, curling into a spin dash and shooting straight into the robot's control cockpit.
Inside:
"Oh great. Why are there THIS many buttons?!" I groaned as I stared at the console.
"This is either genius engineering or emotional sabotage.!
Then I sammed the first red button I saw.
"Red means stop, right?!"
The robot immediately responded by transforming its arm into a chainsaw.
"...Okay. Not the traffic lights logic, got it." I glared at the buttons then shouted for Tails.
"TAILS! A LITTLE HELP HERE!"
But no response.
Tails was busy saving villagers near a burning house.
Then the chainsaw arm swung toward the nearby houses.
"No, no, no, no- NOT THE HOUSES!" I yanked every lever I could reach.
Nothing worked!
"WHY DOES EVERYTHING REQUIRE A USER MANUAL?! HOW EVEN DID EGGMAN BUILT THIS THING?!"
Then suddenly—
A blue blur appeared inside the cockpit.
It was Sonica.
She looked at the panel, pressed two or three buttons in a calm sequence, and pulled a lever.
The robot slowly powered down.
"...That was it?!" I blinked.
She didn't respond.
Of course she didn't.
But then I realised something important.
There was only one seat in here.
So that meant. . .
Sonica was seated on my lap.
I opened my mouth to say something but she immediately got up like nothing happened, crossed her arms, and looked away.
I followed after her and opened my mouth again, but immediately shut it again and thought to myself, "Nope. Not touching that topic."
Then-
"Sonic! Sonica! Are you two okay?!" Amy, Knuckles, Sticks and Tails came running toward us.
"Where were you, Tails? I was calling you for help." I said, crossing my arms, despite knowing the answer.
"We were helping the villagers. Their houses were on fire." replied Knuckles proudly.
Tails immediately ran over and extinguished the fire on Knuckles' back.
"Oh! Looks like you defeated the robot! Good job!" Knuckles grinned and patted my head.
I swatted his hand away.
"Yeah, yeah. I didn't do it alone." I gestured slightly, "Sonica helped."
I glanced at her.
She gave a small nod.
"Oh! Good job to you too!" Knuckles said, immediately patting her head as well.
She blinked and looked down, kicking a pebble as she tsked. Almost like she was trying to suppress a laugh.
Almost.
"Well, that's new. So she does have settings other than 'blank stare.' Good to know." I commented with a smirk.
Then Amy clapped her hands, "Now let's finish our interrupted meal!"