Coruscation

A Flash of Light

It was Sonic's turn to guard the Master Emerald, but today he'll unfortunately also be the only one watching over the house since he is still grounded for not telling Tom and Maddie about that egg-head Eggman, luckily Ozzy is there to keep him company. Tom is out doing his patrol before going into the office to work on police reports with Wade for the rest of his shift, as it was only a couple weeks ago nearly the whole town was in ruins. Maddie is shopping with Knuckles and Tails for food, but they were probably going to do a little bit of regular shopping for other things too. BUT! That doesn't mean he can't have fun while they're gone.

Throwing himself out of his shared bedroom, Sonic makes his way out of the hall with Ozzy hot on his tail. Making his way over right into the kitchen, going into the pantry Sonic got out two popcorn bags. Pushing a stepping stool that Tom had bought for him and his brothers in front of the microwave, jumped up, and threw one of the bags into it. He went over to one of the cabinets and pulled out one of the large bowls Maddie and Knuckles liked to use for popcorn, sliding it over the counter back by the microwave.

"So, Ozzy," Sonic looked down at his most beloved Earth animal companion, hands perched on his sides "What should we watch while the others are gone?" Ozzy looked back at him from looking at the loud microwave and barked. "Hmm, I don't know, scary slasher movies when it's only 8 in the morning. Hard pass!" Sonic dramatically stated for his own entertainment. When the popping started to slow, he took the bag out and let it finish cooking itself while he set the other bag to take its place.

"We could watch at least a few movies while everyone's gone," Sonic took hold of the now-silent popcorn bag, opened it, and took a big whiff. "Oh, that smells good! Wanna sniff?" Sonic held the bag closer to Ozzy's nose. Ozzy tried to shove his snout inside to get some. "Hey! No no, if you wanted to have some you could have just asked." Sonic pulled the bag back up and poured it into the bowl while pushing back on Ozzy's snout to make sure that he wouldn't try anything else.

Sonic looked back down at Ozzy, who was now using the ultimate weapon in his arsenal against him. Puppy eyes, "Fine you win. But only because I like spoiling you." Sonic said with a smirk, grabbing a handful of popcorn, and kneeling at Ozzy's level. As he was still standing on the stepping stool, letting him eat out of his hand.

Hearing the popping starting to come to a slow pace again he went back to taking care of the bag, even if Ozzy wanted to keep licking his buttered-up hand. He repeated what he did with the other one, opening it and pouring it in. He made his way to the fridge, and in the bottom cubby was the Master Emerald surrounded by a couple of fruit and yogurt cups. Sonic picked up the huge emerald into his open arm and then closed the fridge door with his foot.

Sonic and Ozzy made their way over to the rebuilt living room. This time Tom and Maddie had gotten a larger couch to compensate for his new brothers so they could all watch movies or play games together more easily. Sonic set the bowl onto the new coffee table since he didn't want Ozzy getting to it as he went through all of his parent's 'old' movies.

Sonic eventually found a short series about cool-looking space robots. "How about this one Ozzy?" Showing off the cartridge to his fellow companion "Look cool enough?" Ozzy responded with a confident bark from atop the couch. "Let's get this marathon going!" Sonic put the first movie in, grabbed the TV remote, jumped into his favorite spot next to Ozzy popcorn bowl in hand, put the Master Emerald at his side, and pressed play.

It was when Sonic got to the last movie of the series, that he started to feel like something was off. It started with a feeling in his chest, like a line of wire slowly but progressively turning into a tight coil, but he put it off as just nerves and anxiety from not seeing either his parents or brothers since saying their goodbyes that morning.