Sonic X: Penny's Tale: Book One

Sunblock Solution

It was New Year's Day at the Thorndyke's yacht. Everyone was enjoying themselves. Chuck smiled at the group. "Just a few more minutes to go!"

Amy grinned. "This is the perfect way to start the new year!"

"I agree!" Penny grinned.

"Yeah!" Chris said with a smile. "Much better than celebrating it at midnight!"

Ella smiled. "Celebrating the first sunrise of the new year!" She looked at Mr. Tanaka. "Great idea, Mr. Tanaka!"

Mr. Tanaka smiled. "Thank you!"

Penny smiled at her friends and family, holding a box of noisemakers in her arms. "Get ready, everybody!" She said with a smile. "As soon as the sun comes up, we'll pull up our noisemakers!" She said as she took one of the toys from the box. Everyone smiled as they took a noisemaker from the box, but Cream and Cheese were hesitant.

"Hold on, Penny, I think we should just wave to the sun instead, because if we make too much noise we might scare the sun away!" The little bunny cried. Cheese chaoed in agreement, hopping up and down in the air as she flew.

Penny smiled at Cream. "The sun isn't going to go away." 

Vanilla smiled lovingly at her daughter. "Don't you worry one bit, dear." Vanilla said. Cream looked up at her mother. Vanilla continued. "The sun will be happy to get such a nice welcome!"

Cream finally smiled. "Okay!" At that, the little bunny danced over to Penny, followed by Cheese, and took noisemakers of their own. Penny smiled. Okay. That should be everybody.... Wait.

Someone was missing.

"Sonic needs one too!" She said, looking around for him. Tails laughed. "Look up there!" He said, pointing to the yacht's wing.

Penny followed his direction and saw Sonic sitting there, staring out into the sky. She wondered why he was standing there alone.

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"I'm about to get the first rays of the new year, Rouge." Topaz told her bat friend as she layed down on a fold up chair on the beach.

"Jacques." Rouge answered. "When I go on vacation, I pick someplace nice. Like a dark cave!"

Topaz giggled. "That doesn't sound very appealing to me."

"I'm a bat. For me, a cave's a perfect place to hang out and chill!"

Topaz chuckled. "Well hanging out in a hole is just plain depressing. Now I see why your social life's so dull."

Rouge grumbled on the other end.

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Mr. Tanaka smiled at the group in front of him, holding out his noisemaker. "Okay! Let's get ready!" He announced. "We will pull the strings all together. I will give you a signal as soon as the sun comes over the horizon. A few seconds more... the sky is getting lighter....lighter....it's almost here....."

Everyone gasped in excitement as the sun rose in the air.

"GO!"

At Mr. Tanaka's signal, Penny, Blaze, Silver, and everyone else pulled their noisemakers and cheered.

However, something dark caught Penny's eyes. She turned around, and to her shock, it was the Eggmoon. It covered up the sun completely, like an eclipse.