STRANDED [ON HOLD]

Rejoice

Within the first couple of minutes, the group of Sonic, Blaze, Silver, Shadow and Amy run into a group of zombies, but all that is needed to take them down is a swift motion from Blaze and her powers. They continue running on and into the forest near them, where they will find wood and sand with the nearby oasis after the forest.

    "Blaze, Shadow and I will take the forest, you guys take the oasis. Blaze can burn down the stump areas of the trees the best she can, Shadow can cut them with the machete briskly, while I chop the rest of them with my power and put them into piles." Everyone signals that they are going to do their task. Blaze starts burning the bottom of the trees to make it easier for Shadow to chop with his machete, just as Silver suggested. Tails would've given them the axe, but he just broke it earlier because of its flimsiness. He only used it less than thirty times when he went to hit trees. Silver starts dropping the wood into piles and this process continues.

Sonic and Amy make their way over to the oasis about five minutes later, with Sonic's superspeed of course. It would've taken them over half an hour to get there if they were just to walk. He sets her down and she takes in the magnificent scenery of the oasis around them. Not a zombie in sight, just tall grasses surrounding a flower bed like a wall with lily pads in the small puddle-shaped deep water hole.

    "Wow... I've never seen a place like this ever..." She smiles as she bends down and drags her fingers across the water.

    "When this is all over, because I guarantee we will get out of this alive, I will take you to some of my favorite places." Sonic smiles at her and she chuckles a bit.

    "What, like a date?" She purrs and he lowers his eyebrows and smirks.

    "Do you want it to be?" He challenges her back and she blushes a deep red.

    "Umm, I don't know, maybe haha uhh..." She stumbles over her words and he snickers.

    "You still like me, don't you?"

    "What??? Noooooo.... Maybe." She admits and looks down at her feet.

    "Yep, I thought so." He laughs and she growls and hits him on the shoulder. "Oww, hey!"

    "Think twice before you make fun of me."

    "It was a jokeeee!!"

    "Yeah, and there's more where that came from!" Amy bends down to start grabbing sand and putting it in a bucket. It's quiet for a couple of minutes until Sonic gets the courage to say the next set of words.

    "I... never told you if I liked you." He starts and she stops what she is doing and stares at him. She sets down her bucket and moves so she's sitting on her knees instead of bending over while on them. He kneels down and copies her position. "You never finished asking who Tails was being my wingman for."

    "Go on..." She lowers her eyebrows with a longing gaze.

    "There is someone I do like, and you know her very well, even better than I do." He starts and cringes a bit to himself, that was the best he could come up with? She looks at him and her expression hardens a bit, curious to know who this mystery girl is. "She's got beautiful eyes that I get lost in constantly. We've known each other for a while, ever since we were young, and I'm her hero. I met her when I saved her. She has soft hair and lips as sweet as a peach. I've only kissed her once... and it was my first kiss ever." He rubs the back of his head, and she finally understands where he is going with this. "Her hair is the color of my favorite type of cotton candy, whatever the pink one is, and she has this spunk to her that I've never seen in someone of her stature. Lady-like with some sass, and it makes her even more endearing. Amy, the mystery girl is you. Ames... I think I'm in love with you." Amy's eyes go wide. This is the phrase she has been wanting to hear from her beloved hero, Sonic the Hedgehog, for as long as she could remember. What a beautiful day it is indeed.

    "I... I've always been in love with you." Amy smiles softly and they hug on their knees. There was no kiss, they have to get back to their friends soon. Sonic stands up and offers her his hand, which she gladly accepts. They both get on their feet, and Amy grabs the two buckets of sand Tails gave them to get. Sonic picks her up and starts running towards the other group again, who ended up with twenty bundles of wood.

    "Woah! How much wood did you end up getting?" Sonic asks the trio.

    "Twenty bundles." Silver says.

    "TWENTY?!" Sonic and Amy ask in shock.

    "We got a little... carried away." Blaze sweat drops and rubs the back of her neck.

    "Alright, let's get back to the workshop before we see any more zombies!" Silver mentions. Sonic runs through and the others and bob and weave through trees and a zombie or two. The sand buckets are heavy, let alone he is carrying another person as well, so it would be difficult for either of them to fight and for him to hold her for a very long time. They arrive at Tails's workshop fast, he sets her down and she places the buckets on one of the tables where they keep the flamability and putting out fire tables. Silver had to move two zombies into Blaze's fire to kill them, and Shadow shot the five zombies down that were about to start circling the duo. They arrive at the base and Tails locks the door.

    "A job well done, I presume!" He smiles and they nod. Sonic yawns.

    "I'm gonna hit the hay. Have a nice night everyone!" He walks over to his room and collapses on his bed.

    "I am as well, night." Blaze walks to her room and starts her night time routine.

    "Rose, are you down for some tea?" Shadow asks Amy, who smiles.

    "Yes please."

"We haven't had time to do this in a while!" She runs over to the kitchen and grabs each of them their preferred tea, Peppermint for Shadow and Honey Vanilla for Amy. She puts water into the tea kettle and lets it boil on the stove.

    "So, how have you been?" He asks her and she shrugs.

    "Same old same old, what about you?"

    "Not much, and what happened in the past couple of minutes that made you so giddy?" He smirks and she blinks a bit.

    "Whatever do you mean?"

    "Don't play dumb with me."

    "Damn, I can't ever get anything past you, huh."

    "Never, now what happened with you and Faker?"

    "Whaaaaaaaaaatttt, nothing happened with me and Sonic! My life doesn't revolve around him! ... anymore." She mutters that last part and he rolls his eyes.

    "Dude, I know you."

    "Bro, stop it."

    "I hate you for that."

    "Don't call me dude then."

    "FINE! He likes me and I like him! We don't have a label or anything, but yes! We like each other! Happy?!"

    "Everyone owes me so much money, so yeah, I'm ecstatic." Shadow said, amused. Amy rolls her eyes and pours them both water for their tea bags with their respectable mugs. Shadow's reads "I love guns" and Amy's reads "Sonic is my life". Who do you think got them those mugs? Of course with them being besties and all, they got each other those mugs last Christmas, and luckily for Amy, Sonic wasn't there when she got her mug which spared her the embarrassment. Within minutes the minty smell and honey with vanilla rushes into the air as it starts to combine well together. The mint compliments the ever-so sweetness of the honey and vanilla, creating a lovely homey feeling. As homey as a bunker to hide from an apocalypse could be. They each finish their teas, nod each other good night and split off to their rooms.