Sonic Series Fan Fiction ❯ The Great Chao Search ❯ Surprise In Pink ( Chapter 9 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
Int.

In the lair, a female echidna was seated on Menniker's lap locking lips with him, while the Dark Legion echidna was following suit, softly rubbing her back in the process.

After what seems like a couple of minutes of soft moaning and pleasure, they both released their kisses and gazed each other with wicked smiles on their faces.

"You are magnificent." The female echidna spoke seductively

Menniker chuckled softly.

"You're not so bad yourself, dear."

She giggled a bit before speaking.

"How's our guess doing?"

In another part of the room, Cheese was feverishly panting and sweating while imprisoned in the cage. From the looks of him, his coloration was slowly changing into a soft black color.

"Our guess is doing fine. But I wouldn't worry too much about 'em. Because by the time he goes dark, this island will be ours."

The sound of evil giggles was heard echoing in the background, but due to Cheese's condition, he wasn't able to hear it that much.

Ext.

As their waltzing journey concluded, Cream and Tails halted themselves by the time they reached the end of the forest to come across a wide-length puddle of mud pond.

With shocked expressions glued to their face upon this indication, they slowly looked up and saw a huge mountaintop cliff nearby.

Swallowing saliva a bit, Tails gathered up the energy to speak.

"Please tell me we are not back to where we started."

Silence a bit, Cream shook her head before speaking.

"It's not."

With his eyes droned to the mountain, Tails spoke.

"How do you know?"

"Look at the pond."

As he did so, he took notice of the mud before speaking.

"What about it?"

Slowly drawing her attention to the puddle of mud, Cream spoke.

"Think about it. An exploding jeep, us tumbling down the mountainside, splashed into a big pool of water with the flaming jeep following suit afterwards, which, by the way, almost got us killed. Ring any bells?"

Silence a while with a slight pain rushing inside his temple; Tails lowered his head a bit before he started rubbing his forehead with his left hand.

Afterwards, he spoke.

"You know, I must be having a migraine at this point. But I seem to get what you're saying. Are you telling me that this little scenery standing before us is a little different than the one that we death-defiantly came and survived upon?"

Silence a bit, Cream nodded.

"Yeah, that pretty much sums it up."

Lifting his head up with his gaze forward to the puddle, Tails slightly nodded and spoke.

"Ah. Okay. One question, though."

Cream looked at Tails.

"Yes?"

Tails gazed her and spoke.

"How is this any different than the one that we encountered?"

Cream smiled and drew her attention back to the puddle of mud before speaking.

"Well, for one thing, there's mud here instead of water. It doesn't take a day for water to quickly dissolve into mud. And for another, there's no jeep."

"How do you know it's not sunken into the mud?"

"Like I said, water doesn't quickly dissolve into mud in just one day."

Turning his gaze forward, Tails nodded comprehensively.

"Ah. Good point. Anyway, what are we doing here besides staring at something familiar?"

"Well, this traces back to the town."

"So?"

As he looked at Cream, who constantly has her eyes set on the mountain, he noticed the devious smirk planted on her face.

To that indication, Tails eyes widened in shock before speaking.

"No." He said before Cream gazed him with the look intact to her face. "N-You-You are not suggesting that we climb all the way up that mountainside to get into the town."

Cream issued a slight nod in response before Tails shook his head in refusal.

"No. No, I'm not--"

"Tails..."

"No, forget it, Cream."

"Tails..."

"No! No, No, No, No, No."

"Tails...calm down."

"I want you to listen to me, Cream, and listen good. No way in hell that I am going to climb that goddamn mountain."

With the expression still intact to her face, Cream nodded.

"Okay. Suit yourself."

As Cream began to walk across the mud pool, Tails noticed and halted her from that attempt, prompting her to gaze him upon that.

"Where you going?"

"Up this mountain."

She started to go, but Tails halted her back again, which forces her gaze to him.

"What, by yourself?"

"Yeah. You said yourself that you weren't going."

"Yeah, but..." He stopped himself and sighed deeply before resuming. "Is he really worth it to you?"

Cream slightly loses the smile and nodded.

"I told you. I would do anything to get him back."

"Really?" A voice said

Both Cream and Tails looked behind them upon that voice to find the few Dark Legion echidnas led by Menniker and Sojourer.

Sojourer, who had a .45 caliber pistol gun aimed in Cream's direction, had a smirk on his face before speaking.

"Does that include dying?"

He, along with Menniker and the DL Echidnas started laughing evilly, which eventually died down as Cream and Tails glared them on.

"I'm wondering here, but how did you keep finding us?" Cream said

"I have my little secrets. You know, I tried to be civilized. We could've handled this like normal medians. But it seems that you continue to force my hand."

"You'll be forcing mine if you don't aim that gun away from me." Cream lectured

"Not till I get what I came for."

"What you came for has been thrown in the lake." Tails said

"And I checked. Nothing." Menniker said

"So save us both the trouble and hand that chao drive over." Sojourer said

Cream shook her head in refusal.

"I'm sorry. I can't do that."

Sojourer lowered his gaze a bit with a deep sigh escaping his breath before speaking.

"I was hoping it wouldn't come to this."

Then, with his gaze to her, cocked the hammer back on the gun and spoke.

"Any last words?" He asked

Before the two could speak, they heard the sound of someone clearing their throat nearby.

Simultaneously, Sojourer, Menniker, and the DL Echidnas turned around at the sound of the voice while Cream and Tails stared passed them in shock at who they saw.

In front of them was a tall, female hedgehog wearing a pink tank top, black jeans, and black tennis shoes.

She has pinkish hair between her small ears; small eyelashes on her eyes, and a smirk crept on her face.

As she firmly patted a mallet-shaped hammer, that was held handle-first by her right hand, on her left hand, she spoke.

"Yeah, I got some last words for you."

"Really?"

As Sojourer made his way in front of the group, he instantly aims his .45 pistol in the female hedgehog's direction before speaking.

"And what might that be?"

With the smile still crept on her face, the female hedgehog used the mallet-shaped hammer in her right hand to backslap the pistol from Sojourer's hand.

As Sojourer yelped in pain from the impact of that attack, his pistol landed onto the ground next to the tree.

"No guns." She said

Sojourer held his hand before glaring the hedgehog on with his teeth clenched.

"You nearly broke my hand, you bitch!"

"Good. And the names not bitch. It's Amy."

Tails eyes widened at a large rate of shock at the sound of that name.

"Amy?!"

A DL Echidna made a dash at Amy for an attack. However, she was quick to have both hands on the handle of her hammer before knocking the echidna on the head with it.

A second one rushed her way and she threw a back swing of the hammer to the echidna's face, literally flipping him to the ground from the harsh impact of the blow.

She noticed a third one dashing her way before throwing a hammer uppercut to the chin, which got him in midair and down to the ground unconscious.

Both Cream and Tails were in a bit of shock at the moment.

Eventually, Cream threw a slow gaze to Tails before speaking.

"This is your girlfriend?"

Silence, Tails nodded.

Amy, with the smirk still intact to her face, slowly gazed from the three DL echidnas to Menniker and Sojourer before speaking.

"You guys wanna be next? If you do, my best specialty is pancakes."

With his teeth still clenched, Sojourer spoke.

"Let's get the hell out of here."

In shock, Menniker threw his gaze to Sojourer.

"What? We can't. We're this close."

"He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day. Now get them up and let's go."

Growling in anger, Menniker glared Amy on before speaking.

"You and me will be seeing much of each other real soon, baby."

Eventually, Menniker gathered up the three DL Echidna's before meeting up with Sojourer and leaving their line of sight.

After their departure, Amy, with her left hand on the handle, rested her hammer onto her left shoulder before noticing the expressions on both Cream and Tails face.

"What? Got here too late?"

With the shocked expression still intact on his face, Tails, with Cream following suit, slowly approached in Amy's position before speaking.

"Amy?"

With her facial expression changed to a seductive smile, Amy spoke.

"Yes?"

Tails hesitated for a while before speaking.

"What the hell are you doing here?"

Instantly, she dropped her seductive look with an expression of surprise.

"What?"

"No, scratch that. How did you get here?"

Amy scoffed in bitter surprise before speaking.

"Oh, yeah. Some thanks I get for saving your ass."

While this was going on, Cream watched the whole display before walking over and making herself comfortable standing by the nearby tree. While doing so, she kneeled and picked up the .45 pistol before disassembling it. Afterwards, she threw the disassembled pieces to the ground.

"Alright, fine."

Then, Tails crossed his hands together and issued an adorable look to his face before speaking.

"Thank you."

Amy smiled in an unconvincing way before speaking.

"Your welcome."

Tails dropped the adorable look when he noticed the tone in her voice was very unconvincing. Naturally, he ignored it before speaking.

"Now, answer my question."

"Fine. I used your teleporter device to get here. So--" She started

However, Tails, with a shocked look on his face, cut her off in an instant.

"You used my teleporter? You--Ugh!"

Tails grinded his teeth and had his hands ready in an attempt to strangle her, but resisted the urge and, in his frustrated state, turned his back to her.

Eventually, he sighed in calmness before turning and pointing his finger in Amy's direction.

"Something is wrong with you. You know that, don't you?" He said, nearly on the verge of sobbing.

"Oh, yeah?"

"Yeah. You-You got a real problem."

"Yeah? Wh-what's my problem, huh?"

"The problem is that you don't respect other people's shit. But you...you just keep on!"

"Oh, come on, Tails. What do you expect me to do, huh? You want me to-You want me to wait in that workshop of yours while somebody around here already kicking your ass?"

Slowly approaching towards her, Tails stopped in her position with his finger gestured in her face before speaking.

"Let me explain something to you. I appreciate your help, but I am not a little kid anymore. You hear me? I can take care of myself."

With that being said, he waltzed away from her and stopped at the edge of the dirt path.

"Cream, are we going over or what?" He asked with his gaze at the mountain.

Cream, who was leaned against the tree, started to head in his direction, but stopped and noticed Amy shaking her head.

To that indication, Cream stepped aside while Amy approached in Tails direction. When she got there, she spoke.

"No. You are."

Instantly, she shoved Tails from the edge of the dirt path and straight into the mud pond in a splash.

Yelling at the top of his lungs, Tails, who covered all in the muddy substance, resurfaced from the mud pool, literally spluttering out mud from his mouth as he does.

Humorously shaking her head, Amy watched with a smirk on her face while Cream approached by her side, watching along in confusion.

"Boys." Amy said, literally hiding the annoyance from her face

"Was that necessary?" Cream asked

Amy nodded.

"Yeah. So you're going up there?"

With her gaze to the mountain, Cream nodded.

"That's the way to the city."

"Alright. Let's help Tails out and start climbing."

As the two girls started pulling Tails from the muddy grasp, they resumed their venture forward and started climbing the mountain.