Yoshi
Stadium
Yoshi drops to his knee. �We need a miracle now��
Syaoran glances nervously at the door.
�Piiii chuchu pichu piii! (Let�s get out of here!!!)�
The ground rumbles, fire begins rushing up from the ground.
Syaoran takes a last look at Tails and Amy outside the door. He closes his eyes, and presses the button. *I�m sorry�*
Naturally, she attempts to pry the door open. Since the ship is so rusty, it somehow does open. With her last ounce of energy, she flings herself into the ship, somewhere, Tails in hand�
The fire seemingly reaches out from the ground, attempting to grab the ship. But the rockets finally kick in, launching the heroes into space, escaping some stupid danger again�as usual.
Tails sits up, his eyes darting around the room. �Uh�Amy? I have something to tell you��
Smash Bros. X
Another Stupid Plot Twist
Episode 19: Marmalade Hedgehog Pt. 1
There is silence in the cargo hold. The usual, awkward, moment of silence...
"Uh, Amy...I..." Tails wobbles around a little bit, weary. "...shoot...dizziness taking over...not...now!"
...followed by the interruption.
Tails's body decides it is not ready for any mental or physical exertion, and Tails falls back onto the floor, unconcious again.
"Hey, it's MY job to be helpless! Tails..."
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The rest of the group sits in the main area, pondering what went on, while the ship autopilots to PopStar.
Zelda suggests, "You know, they probably aren't dead. We're not even 1/3 of the way through the series! We can't kill off the main romance lead(s)!"
A recent memory seems to flash in Syaoran's eyes. *Yet, it is ok to kill off the secondary romance lead?*
"Pi chuchu pichu pi chupi. (Thank you for making us feel better.)" Pichu dryly comments.
*Any time.*
Yoshi tries to break the sorrow by also mentioning, "You know, I'm wouldn't be surprised if they happened to be in that rusty cargo hold down there. They probably broke the door open or something."
"It-a seems to be-a the right-a point-a for an I'll-believe-any-a thing moment-a." Luigi agrees.
Suddenly, the aformentioned cargo hold opens, and Amy pops her head through, holding Tails. "Hey guys!"
Yoshi looks up. "Holy cow, it worked!"
"Well, I guess it's my turn." Zelda mentions the rotating role of saying the obvious. "Ahem...Amy! Tails! You're alive! Although...not in great shape."
Amy sweatdrops. "Well, Tails fainted twice, and I can't imagine that's be good...or why."
Syaoran comments, *This is where I'm supposed to crack some wise comment, but I'm busy remembering painful memories.*
Screech! The ship comes to a sudden halt in the middle of ship, tossing the crew across the ship.
Tails wakes up. "Mgmspgh...er...why are we all plastered to the left wall?" he asks.
*The ship stopped for no reason at all. Also, I'm surprised that you and Amy aren't in your traditional awkward heap.*
"Yeah, me too. I got lucky...or not. I'm still not sure."
"What does any of that have to do with me?"
"...Uh...I dunno."
Zelda clears her throat. "Ahem- Cliche #432: I hate to interrupt you guys, but..."
The group turns their heads to look out the window of the ship. Surpisingly, or not, the Egg Carrier v3 hovers next to them in space.
"How dumb is that? Of COURSE they're floating. We're in space." Tails comments. "It's not like we're going to fall..."
3...2...1...fall. For no explainable reason, the two spaceships plunge toward the nearest nondescript planet.
"And how are we surviving such a-"
*Tails, just shut up.*
Eventually, right before the ships make a crash landing on Boring Grassy Planet #2, they immediately right themselves and land cleanly and gently. About a second later, the crew of both ships is tossed out of the ship by the same strange force. Because you know, when a vehicle incurs enough damage, it feels the need to get rid of its occupants...oh, never mind.
While the heroes spend a time that feels like an eternity flopped in a heap on the ground, the door of the ship still lying next to them opens. That is, without spewing people out.
Robotnik walks out in a very high-and-mighty manner. "OK, let's make this interesting!" he shouts.
Tails stands up. "OK...conflict. This took a month to script so it better be dang good."
"As you wish!" Robotnik seems to be rather pompous. More than usual, anyway. "Pink girl!" he commands. "Stand up!"
Zelda gets off the ground. "What do you want with me?"
"No, not you! The other one!"
"Fine, fine...should've known that..." Zelda flops back into a heap.
Amy slowly and deliberately stands up and dusts herself off. "Man, that'll take years off this skirt's life..."
"HELLO!?! Up here!"
"Oh, right, evil villain to the east." Amy clears her throat. "What do you want this time, Eggman?" she says in her best heroic voice.
"Oh, nothing..."
"Oh, really? Ok."
"EXCEPT THE DEATH OF ONE CERTAIN BLUE HEDGEHOG!!"
Amy looks nonplussed. "It wasn't my fault Shadow doused himself in blue paint and started acting like a moron..."
"NO! YOU IDIOT! SONIC! I WANT TO KILL SONIC!"
Amy gasps! *insert musical score here*
"And just while I'm captured in the moment, let's reveal my overly-detailed and complicated plan!" A TV screen is lowered out of nowhere.
"See? This is Sonic. In a space capsule. We launch him off the side of the planet, once he clears it, BOOM! End of problem. And Sonic!"
More gasping!
Syaoran raises his hand. *Question.*
"Yes, Japanese sword guy?"
*Wasn't this the same stupid plot you used in Sonic Adventure 2?*
"...so? If it worked once, it'll work again."
*...it didn't work.*
"Your point?"
*...forget it.*
A loud voice comes from inside the ship. "JUST LAUNCH THE STUPID THING ALREADY!!"
"Yeah, yeah, I'm getting there!" Robotnik turns to face the crowd of heroes again. "But first, we must have the screen of the tortured hero saying goodbye!" He moves out of the way of the screen, revealing Sonic again.
"Actually, this isn't too bad." Sonic mentions. "I mean, I'll never have to see YOU again." He points to Amy.
"Yeah, yeah, I know. Absence only makes the heart grow stronger...or something like that." Amy says in her usual Sonic-obssessed tone.
"YOU JUST DON'T GET IT DO YOU!?" Sonic screams into the camera with an unusual fury. "WHAT PART OF "I HATE YOU" DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND!?!?"
"Well, just the-" Amy looks up. "WHAT?"
"I hate to break it to you, Amy- no wait. No I don't. I've wanted to tell you for a long time that I never really liked you at all. You were just another rabid fangirl. You still are. I've had enough of those. This capture really hasn't worked out too badly, because I will never have to deal with you again. That's how it should've been from the start."
Amy gapes at the screen. Her mouth opens and shuts repeatedly, but words refuse to come out. Her eyes start watering up, and without a second thought she flees in the opposite direction as fast as her legs can carry her, in an aimless direction, only hoping to get away.
Tails is suddenly in a torrent. "Sonic, how could you!? I always believed that you were a hero, a nice guy, a person everyone could look up to. Amy would do anything for you, she loved you with all of her heart, and you don't take ANY of that into consideration!? You should be glad that you are looked up to, admired, posted up in children's bedrooms! What has happened to you, Sonic?! I never thought...you could...be like this..." he drops off quietly, in kind of a depression.
Yoshi sticks his finger in his ear. "Wow, they're really going at it."
"Do you think you have it any different Tails!? You're just like Amy, except you're a guy! Always following me around! I never have any time to myself between you two! Can't you understand that I need to have some time to myself!? I don't need friends like you...if this is what people are going to be like, I don't need, nor want, anyone. I can save the world just fine by myself! You guys...make me sick."
"You tell them, Sonic!" Robotnik cheers Sonic on.
"You stay out of this, Egghead. Anyway, I've had enough of this. I'm leaving." Sonic smashes the camera with his fist.
Zelda questions, "Should we go save him?"
Robotnik steps away. "Well, I'll go run and hide in my ship while I wait to launch Sonic into oblivion. You guys can go steam over in confusion. I'll go set up the traps." He sneaks off the scene.
Pichu repeats, "Pii chuchu pichu pii chu? (So, do we save Sonic or what?)"
Syaoran shrugs. *Well, I'd say it's Tails's call on this one. It's his issue.*
"Good point." Yoshi agrees, and the rest of the group murmurs something along similar lines.
*Well...what's it going to be?*
Tails shakes, his entire body a mixture between uncontrollable rage and emotional breakdown. "...No." He turns and walks off in the direction that Amy left.
Yoshi looks confused. "Um...OK."
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Tails walks around, looking for Amy. "Lessee, if I was rejected by the love of my life, where would I run and hide?" After a slight pause to survey they area, he finds a small opening in a hill. "Yeah! A cave!"
Moving closer, he hears a distinct sobbing sound from inside. "Yup...that's her all right." He steps inside the cave. Amy is curled up in a corner. She looks up at the sound of Tails entering.
"...Tails? What are you doing here?"
"The same thing you are, probably."
"I know...Sonic...how could he? I always thought that he was...I mean...that...but...waaaaah!" she bursts back into tears after many attempts at a coherent sentence.
"...Amy..."
"I always thought that he really did like me. I believed him. I LOVED him. But, then, I don't understand. How he could just be so...cold. I thought he cared. But he didn't. Nobody does. Nobody wants a stupid useless pink hedgehog who only shops and chases people around. Nobody cares anymore..."
"...there are...other people in the world who...care about you very much, Amy." Tails blushes and attempts to put words together.
Amy looks up. "Who?"
Tails goes back to looking down at the ground, then glances at Amy hopefully. "Well, for one......me."