— Tᕼᗴ - ᑎᗴ᙭T - ᗪᗩY—
𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗜𝗖𝗔'𝗦 𝗣𝗢𝗩
"Morning guys!"
Oh.. When did I fall asleep?
"Let's meet at my house today since you don't have any other things to do." It was Amy speaking.
I looked at my communicator while rubbing my just-woken eyes. Definitely didn't sleep well.
"Hey! We have things to do!" Sonic said back to Amy.
"Mhm, like what?" Amy replied.
"Like... uhh.. eating chillidogs and running around?"
That made me chuckle quietly.
"...Ugh. See you all in 10 minutes-" With that said, she hung up.
I yawned and stretched a little before starting my morning routine.
Then I quickly put my shoes on and dashed outside, but then—
"W-Whoa—!"
Our voices came in unison as my head hit something and I stumbled back but quickly balanced myself and looked up to see that it was Sonic!
"Sorry—"
"What are you doing here?" I frowned while rubbing my head.
He cleared his throat and dusted off his handkerchief. "You are my neighbour. Is it so surprising that I think it will be better for us to go to Amy's house together?"
I held back a sigh. "No, it's not... surprising.."
I just wanted to see Key..
"Let's go." He grabbed my wrist.
"Wait—"
But he immediately dragged me along, without listening further!
I will be back, Key!
"Your wounds have all healed..?" He said while we were still running.
"..yeah, seems like the herbal paste is amazing.." I muttered, running beside him.
No way I would reveal that my body heals itself after 24 hours!
Soon we reached Amy's place and I let him knock on the door which was answered by Amy.
"Well, well, well," she said, putting her hands on her hips, "The two fastest hedgehogs arrived the latest!"
Yup..
𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗜𝗖'𝗦 𝗣𝗢𝗩
"Only once, Amy." I replied to her and invaded the couch. "Hey, guys!"
"Hey, Sonic! Hey, Sonica!" they replied together.
"Hello.." She rubbed the back of her neck and sat on the couch beside Sticks.
"Anything wrong?"
"No, no. everything's fine. It's just- I came here for the first time so..." replied Sonica, rubbing her arm.
Huh.. Suspicious.
"Okay! Does anyone know why I called us here?" Amy stood Infront of us, arms crossed.
We shook our heads as a 'NO'.
"Then listen. I—" *ᵏⁿᵒᶜᵏ ᵏⁿᵒᶜᵏ*
After a pause, she walked to the door and opened it to reveal. . . Orbot?
"Did something happen to Eggman?" I asked, clearly uninterested.
Orbot shook his head, "Nothing happened with Dr. Eggman. We just wa—"
Sticks immediately stood up, pointing at the red robot, "Wait! How did you know that we were in Amy's house?! Were you stalking us?!"
Orbot replied, hands clasped together, "Well, due to the help of Dr. Eggman's spy bot or you can say fly bot."
"Oh. Okay. That makes sense." Sticks sat down again, "Continue."
"Right.." Orbot cleared his throat and spoke. "Even though you all are our arch-nemisis , we want to invite you to 𝗗𝗿. 𝗘𝗴𝗴𝗺𝗮𝗻'𝘀 𝗯𝗶𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘆."
"H I S W H A T ? !"
Orbot, startled, dropped a few cards or papers, one landed on the rug. And upon looking over, I realized it was an invitation card. Pfft-
"I never thought about Eggman's birthday. Is this some kind of trap or something?"
"No, Sonic. We just—"
"Yeah, it must be some kind of trap and we are not falling for that!" Sticks said while crossing her arms.
"Please, listen—" Orbot tried to say but Amy shut the door.
"Hm, Eggman's never going to change." Sticks muttered, crumbling one of the invitation cards and tossing it away.
"Yeah. Remember last time when we met cow bot?" I said while looking at everyone, "He used 𝘂𝘀 to improve his defense system."
"Oh yeah."
"Yes."
"That time."
𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗜𝗖𝗔'𝗦 𝗣𝗢𝗩
While they discussed, I looked out the window and saw : Orbot sighed and lowered his head while returning back.
I don't know why but I felt like we should... attend the birthday party.?
I secretly picked up the crumbled invitation card and couldn't help but smile. I could guess it was made by Orbot and Cubot since it was like a child's drawing.
"Wait, Sonica, you aren't thinking of attending his party, are you?" asked Sonic, leaning against the couch.
I looked at him then at the card, and asked, "Why not?"
"Because he's an evil scientist who only cares for himself!" Sticks yelled.
Everyone else nodded.
". . ."
"So, as I was saying," Amy continued while I got lost in my own thoughts.
...Everyone deserves to celebrate their birthday happily.
I don't even know Dr. Eggman, so that doesn't give me any right to judge him.. But could Sonic and the others be right?
But then who would use their birthday as an excuse to.. do whatever rivalry stuff they do?
Trust is such a fragile thing..
"Sonica?"
I snapped out of my thoughts and looked at Amy. "Yes?"
"Were you even listening?" asked Amy, placing her hand on her hip.
I sighed and stood up. "I... am sorry. I remembered I have a work at home. I have to go.."
My voice changed to a montone one.
"What work?" asked Sonic, standing up as well.
"..It's personal. So I hope you understand..." I cleared my throat. "Bye–" And I ran straight home.
After I got home, I quickly did all the things that I had planned on the way. And after everything was ready, I ran straight to none other than Dr. Eggman's lair.
— Iᑎ - ᗪᖇ. ᗴᘜᘜᗰᗩᑎ'Տ - ᒪᗩIᖇ —
Just three, gentle.. *ᵏⁿᵒᶜᵏ ᵏⁿᵒᶜᵏ ᵏⁿᵒᶜᵏ*
The metal door slip open and Orbot peeked his head out, disappointed. "Why are you here now?"
"I am here to help you.. for Eggman's birthday party." I said, rubbing the back of my neck.
"Help?" Cubot popped out behind Orbot.
I nodded slowly.
"Well, thank you! We really needed help. We had no idea about the decorations, cakes and all." Cubot said looking at Orbot then at me.
"I thought so." I chuckled slightly. "Don't worry, we will figure it out."
// '𝘞𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘵, 𝘚𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢. 𝘋𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘤—' //
Professor's one of the best lines I wish I could hear again..
"So, where's Eggman?" i whispered, glancing around.
"He's alseep. He watched T.V all night." replied Orbot.
"And he ate 6 ice-creams!" added Cubot, hands in the air.
Whoa..
"Why?" I asked, again in a whisper.
They just looked at eachother and looked down.
..The ice is definitely too thin here.
"Okay, nevermind. Let's start now." I scratched my head while looking around the lair. It was pretty nice. "So.. Cubot and I will do the decorations first, Orbot, you go buy a birthday cake."
They looked at eachother then at me.
"Oh, right! Here." I handed some money to Orbot.
"Y-You are giving your money?!" asked Cubot and Orbot in unison, surprised.
"Yeah." I rubbed the back of my neck, feeling awkward. "Just go and bring a cake he will like—"
And I got hugged by the two bots!
Surprised, I patted their heads after a pause and whispered, "Now, let's get everything ready but don't make any noise. We can't wake him up."
They nodded with a salute.
That made me chuckle again.
— TIᗰᗴ - ՏKIᑭ —
"Finally, all done." I sat down on the floor with a sigh of relief and looked around the room and decorations.
Then Orbot brought the cake and we looked at it analytically.
"Hmm, something is missing.."
"What?" They said together.
I took some cream and made Eggman's logo/symbol on the cake.
"Now it's done." I chuckled while they cheered in silence , not wanting to wake Eggman up right now.
"What time is it now?" I whispered.
"Let me check." Orbot processed through his in-built system clock and said, "It's 1:30 P.M"
"Okay." I stretched my arms a little, "Now let's relax while—"
"Who's there?"
Oh, shoot.
I looked around and saw there was no spot to run or hide. It was a open room! So before we could do anything else, walked in Dr. Eggman from his bedroom and saw everything. Just then—
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DR. EGGMAN ! !" Orbot and Cubot shouted, hands raised in the air.
"Happy birthday... Dr. Eggman.." I mumbled while scratching my head slowly and clearing my throat.
This was awkward than I imagined. . .
𝗡𝗢𝗥𝗠𝗔𝗟 𝗣𝗢𝗩
Dr. Eggman was just standing there, frozen and shocked, his jaw already dropped. Just then, he remembered something from his past..
He remembered that no one had showed up in his party when he was a kid. No one came at all. And he had thrown everything that was on the table, including the cake.
Rubbing his face, Dr. Eggman sighed and walked towards Orbot, Cubot and Sonica.
"You all did this... for me?" He gestured around the room then at Sonica. "Even you? ..another blue..pest like Sonic?"
..Holding back a sigh, Sonica said. "Don't enemies need to celebrate their birthdays? Though you are a villain, but even villains deserve a day to celebrate their birthdays.. happily."
He got emotional and quickly shook his hands with Sonica's, "Thank you very very much. You must be tired now. It's also lunch time. Sit down. No battling today...or maybe never again.." He murmured the last sentence very lowly.
Before Sonica could question anything, he quickly dragged her to the couch and sat down, keeping a distance.
"Orbot! Cubot!"
"In 5 minutes, Dr. Eggman." they said together with a salute and went to the kitchen to make something to eat.
Sonica covered her mouth to hold back a yawn. She was tired after doing most of the work. And she eventually slumped on the soft couch.
Then, Orbot and Cubot came with two plates of pancakes and two glasses of juices.
"Ooo, pancakes." Eggman and Sonica said together and they both chuckled.
"Alright, let's eat." said Eggman as he took a plate and started eating while Sonica kept the plate on her lap and took a sip of the juice.
Eggman continued eating and soon Sonica took a bite of her pancake as well.
"Sonica, if you don't mind, can I ask something?"
Thinking it must be something related to his birthday, Sonica nodded and took a sip of the juice.
"What's between you and Soni—"
Sonica immediately spit out the juice and started coughing, her cheeks had turned red. "Don't. Mention It."
"Oo, does it mean..." Eggman cooed, a teasing look in his expression.
"No! Its nothing like that!!" Sonica shouted, covering her face with her quills.
Eggman laughed and ate a mouthful of pancakes before speaking, "Ha, so obvious."
"Cut it out." Sonica crossed her arms while looking away, still blushing. Her ears were flattened for this moment.
"It's okay~" Eggman patted her head and muttered. "Though I don't like Sonic, I think you aren't that bad."
"It's.. not like.. ugh.." She sighed, swatting his hand away. "We are just friends."
"Sure, sure." Eggman laughed while rubbing her head.
Just then— Sonic and his friends made an entrance by breaking Dr. Eggman's wall.
"Hey! I just had it repaired a week ago! At least today, you could have used the door!!" Eggman shouted, annoyed.
"We were about to knock but we heard you laughing so we thought something might be wrong!" Sonic said with his arms crossed and looked at Sonica. "Sonica, are you okay?"
Sonica rubbed her face and muttered, "You said you will not come to the party. What happened now?"
Sonic scratched his head and glanced at the others, "Yeah, we wouldn't but I— 𝘄𝗲 were worried about you. I found the invitation card at the doorstep of your house and 𝘄𝗲 thought you would be here. And..."
"Happy birthday, Eggman!" Amy, Tails and Knuckles said in unison, making a group pose.
Sonic sighed and muttered. "Yeah yeah.. Egghead. Happy birthday."
"I hope you won't attack the village today." said Amy, walking over to sit beside Sonica.
"Nope." Eggman replied, finishing his pancakes. "And maybe never again."
Orbot and Cubot looked at eachother.
"What do you mean—" Sonica got cut off my loud music which was turned on my Cubot.
"Let's partyyy!" Knuckles yelled, sharing his enthusiasm with the others.
"And... sorry for your wall, Eggman." Amy said, glancing at the others.
"Nevermind. It's my birthday party!" shouted Eggman and everyone except Sonic and Sonica were like "Y A Y Y ! !"
Then they played cards, and luckily, Dr. Eggman won. Then he broke the pinata as well but everyone quickly pounced on the pile of chocolates so Dr. Eggman was left with a toffee, which was then eaten by Knuckles. And he groaned.
Later, Eggman cut the cake and Sonic smashed some cake on Knuckles face while Knuckles did the same.
And everyone shared a laugh.
"NOW IT'S TIME FOR GIFTS~!" Amy shouted as everyone held up boxes in thier hands.
Well, everyone except Sonic who's eyes went wide.
Then they gave Dr. Eggman gifts, one by one.
Only Sonic and Sonica remainined.
"I.. uh.." Sonic rubbed the back of his neck but then Sonica nudged him by her elbow and handed him a gift box behind his back.
"Oh, uh, here, Egghead- I mean, Eggman." Sonic handed Dr. Eggman the gift and sighed.
"I didn't expect you to bring a gift. You all are my enemies." said Eggman, while accepting the gifts.
"But it's your birthday today. So, it's not a big deal." said Amy with a smile.
"And.. um, I am sorry.. I haven't brought my gift." Sonica said, rubbing the back of her neck.
Sonic felt a pang of guilt in his chest.
"You already did enough. I know you were the one who did all the decorations and made other arrangements. Orbot and Cubot couldn't have done so." Eggman chuckled, tossing the wrappers aside.
Sonic looked at Sonica while thinking to himself : "She..did so much, and even gave her gift to me..? Why am I like this? Why is she like this?"
"Hey, it's okay." whispered Sonica, poking Sonic's arm.
He snapped out of his thoughts and whispered back, "Thanks."
Soon everyone was dancing, taking control on the dance floor. But Sonica sat there on the couch, alone.
Then Sonic walked to her and held out his hand, but she shook her head as a 'NO'.
But Sonic pulled her to dance. Then Tails intentionally changed the music to a romantic song.
"Sonic, I don't like to dance.." Sonica whispered, embarrassed.
"It's okay." Sonic whispered back and smirked.
He placed his one hand on Sonica's waist while his other hand was holding her hand and they started dancing.
Sonica felt a bit uncomfortable. She looked around and saw Eggman giving a thumbs up with a wide grin on his face while made her internally facepalm.
"Why do I feel butterflies in my stomach?!" She thought to herself while trying to stay calm.
Then Knuckles turned off the music—
"Hey?!"
Everyone frowned towards Knuckles while Sonica quickly moved aside and stayed a bit far from Sonic.
"What? I am hungry!" Knuckles said, crossing his arms.
— TIᗰᗴ - ՏKIᑭ —
Everyone was seared their respective chairs, eating their meals— Orbot and Cubot had to go back and forth between the kitchen and the table to serve the food items.
Then Eggman whispered something in Cubot's ear and he nodded. Then he served everyone with a glass of drink.
"Here. Have it. This drink makes you stress-free." said Eggman, lifting his glass.
"But what is it?" asked Amy, swirling the glass slowly.
"Wine."
"Uh..."
"No thankyou."
Everyone put the glasses back down on the table.
But. . .
"Sonica?!"
"What? He said 'stress-free'." said Sonica, followed by a hiccup.
"Want some more?" offered Eggman, holding out the bottle.
"Sur-"
"NO!" Amy cut off Sonica and frowned.
"Okay, okay, fine." Sonica muttered.
Sonic scratched his head and asked, "Are you okay, Sonica?"
But Sonica was slightly tipsy now. "Mhm." She replied. "Absolutely. Never been better" and she focused on the food. "Yum.."
— ᗩᖴTᗴᖇ - Tᕼᗴ - ᗪIᑎᑎᗴᖇ —
"I am full." said Sonic, leaning against the chair.
"I thought you were Sonic. Hi, full." said Knuckles and everyone chuckled.
"Lets play truth or dare!"
"Yess!!"
"Wait, before we begin, Sonica tell me honestly how much did you drink?" Amy asked, looking at Sonica.
"Um...5 glasses...?" replied Sonica while holding up 3 fingers.
"What? When?" Amy asked, surprised.
"When you were busy talking with Sonic and Sticks. Eggman said it makes us stress-free." said Sonica and scratched her head.
Amy glared at Eggman.
"Anyways, lets start the game noww." said Sonica, placing the bottle down horizontally.
They nodded and Eggman spun the bottle. And its head pointed at Amy.
"Truth or dare?" asked Eggman.
"Dare." replied Amy, squinting her eyes at him.
"I dare you to slap someone within 3 seconds. 3, 2—" * ˢᵐᵃᶜᵏ *
"Ow.." Sonica slowly rubbed her cheek.
Amy slapped Sonica because she was right beside her.
She wouldn't pout if she weren't drunk.
"I-I am sorry, Sonica." Amy said trying to check if she was badly hurt.
"Its fine, Jami." said Sonica, still rubbing her cheek.
"Jami?" Amy blinked.
"She is really drunk." said Eggman with a chuckle.
ᖴᗴᗯ ᗰIᑎᑌTᗴՏ ᒪᗩTᗴᖇ :
"Okay, Sonica. Truth or dare—?"
"Truth!!"
"Okay... One of your embarrassing secrets?" asked Tails, everyone else leaned in curiosly.
Sonica huffed and poked Amy's cheek. "..my embarrassing secret..? Hmm.."
Everyone else waited curiously, making assumptions and all.
Then she hid her face with her quills and mumbled. "I don't know how to tie shoelaces.."
Everyone blinked in surprise before bursting out laughing. Most were hugging their stomachs and curling up.
"It's not funny.." Sonica huffed, hiding her face.
"Totally—!" Sonic and the rest continued to laugh.
— ᗰᑌᑕᕼ - ᗰᑌᑕᕼ - ᗰᑌᑕᕼ - ᒪᗩTᗴᖇ —
"Thanks for the party, Eggman." They said as they stood up, ready to head home since it was already late. "Goodnight. Happy birthday once again."
Then they left but Sonica walked towards Eggman and said in her drunk/slurred way, "Look Eggman, I know it'zz hard to be a villain, especially a villain who loses always! But don't give up. No matter how many times you lose, always try your best! Even if you don't believe in yourself, I believe you! So-"
"Sonica, come quick. The rest are." Sonic called and crossed his arms.
"Right!" Sonica started walking but her legs wobbled and fell down, after all she was drunk.
Then Sonic sighed and picked her up. "You are a baby sometimes.. You shouldn't have drank so much. Goodnight, Eggman. Happy birthday once again." He said and started to walk out while carrying her.
"No matter what! Don't give up!!! Losing is a victory in one way!!!" shouted Sonica before Sonic ran out of sight with her.
After a pause, Eggman sighed and smacked Cubot's head. "She's right! I can not give up! I will try my best! And maybe one day, I will be successful!! And finally get rid of that blue pest!"
Orbot and Cubot were so happy and relieved to heart that, though Cubot was still rubbing his head.
"Thank you, Sonica." They whispered, including Eggman.
Meanwhile Sonic reached home with Sonica in his arms. She was mumbling something which he couldn't understand. Then he walked to Sonica's doorstep, slowly pushed the door open with his foot and walked in. Then he struggled to find the light switch. But when he found it, he quickly turned on the lights with one hand. He gulped and slowly carried her to her bedroom and placed her on the bed.
"Goodnight, Sonica." he whispered but then— Sonica quickly pecked his lips!
Sonic's eyes widened and his face flushed red.
"Goodnight.." she mumbles softly, her eyes were still closed as she snuggled into the pillow.
Sonic quickly turned off the lights, closed the door and quickly ran (god knows how many) laps around the whole island.
"She was drunk! She was drunk. She was drunk. She was drunk. She was drunk. She was drunk. She was drunk. Don't think that wayy!" Sonic whispered to himself, running faster, blushing madly, his quills also perking up.
Then he bit his bottom lip, quickly bouncing on his tippytoes. "Calm down, Sonic. Calm down. She was just drunk. Just drunk. Nothing more."