I must be dreaming (Sonic the hedgehog)

Chapter 13

The afternoon sun shined brightly and as the smell of hot-dogs and freshly cooked burgers wafted along in the breeze, a group of friends gathered together in Amy's back garden.
"Perfect weather for a barbecue.. good thinking buddy" Said Sonic, sniffing the air. Giving his twin-tailed friend a thumbs up as he flipped a burger over.
"Thanks" said Tails, proudly.
"We really should get together like this more often. It's so much fun when we're all together" said Amy and smiled at Sonic as he handed her a hot dog.
"here, take over for me will ya pal" He said, slapping the tongs in to Knuckles hand.
"And where the hell are you going?" grunted the echidna with a frown.
"Gotta take a leak, that ok with you?" replied Sonic sarcasticly and walked off inside the house. Knuckles rolled his eyes and began proding the cooking meat infront of him.

Brea sat quietly on the warm grass under a large sunshade. She smiled, slowly pushing her last mouthful of hot-dog round the plate in her hand.
"Having fun?" said Sonic, startling her.
"Sorry Sonic, didn't see you there" she said and smiled up at him.
Sonic sat down beside her, looking at her. "I like your dress" he said as he lent over to her "It really shows off your figure" he said smoothly giving her an almost seductive smile.
Brea looked at him, blushing as she giggled. "Thanks" she said quietly
"yeah, I really like it. It's almost the same kinda blue as your eyes. It's pretty." he said, a smirk on his lips as he noticed a pair of deep purple eyes now staring at him.

"Up for another?" Sonic asked as he offered to take the plate from Brea.
"Oh, sure. Thanks" Brea replied with a smile, watching the hedgehog curiously as he stood up and made his way over to the sizzling barbecue.
"One for me and one for Brea" said Sonic, waving the empty plate at Knuckles.
"How about you get back to what you were doing" growled the echidna, shoving the tongs at Sonic.
"Wow, take it easy pal" said Sonic, taking the tongs and giving Knuckles the plate. "Here, would ya do me a favor and take this over to Brea... if it's not too much of an inconvenience" he said sarcasticly as he placed a steaming hot hot-dog in a bun and put it on the plate.
Knuckles frowned at the hedgehog then turned around, making his way over to Brea. "Here" he said, handing her the plate.
"Thanks" she replied and smiled at him, blowing on the hot-dog before she took a bite.

Sonic glanced over at Amy, giving her a wink. Amy nodded at him "I hope you know what you're doing" she said under her breath, sighing as she walked up to the hedgehog.
"Did you see his face... man, if looks could kill" said Sonic quietly as he grinned at Amy.
"I still don't think this is a good idea... besides, I think she's already suspicious" Amy replied, almost whispering as she glanced over at her pretty friend.
"No way" said Sonic, placing a burger on Amy's plate.
"Don't you think you were coming on a little strong?" Amy asked and looked at him.
"Maybe.. but it sure got his attention" Sonic smirked, winking at Amy.
"I still don't like it" she said quietly and headed over to Brea.
Tails walked over and stood next to Sonic, scratching his head curiously. "Sonic, is something going on that I don't know about?" he asked awkardly as he looked at the spikey blue hero.
"I'll explain everything later ok buddy?" said Sonic with a smile.
"Ok" replied the fox with an unsure expression on his face.

"What? None for me?" came an all too familiar voice from above them.
"Eggman" Sonic groaned, shaking his head in frustration.
"Get lost Eggman, this is a privet gathering!" yelled Amy and shook a fist at the shadowy figure hovering above.
"How rude! Well, if you're not going to invite me to your little party then I'll just have to crash it!" said Eggman and laughed loudly.
"Get outta here, would ya!" said Sonic, throwing a hot dog bun at Eggman.
"Hey!... why you.." Eggman growled, pulling out a huge, strange looking bazooka style gun and aiming it at Sonic.
"Oh no you don't!" growled Sonic as he looked up "Not today" he said as he jumped up, launching himself off of the garden fence and up, level with Eggman. "Get lost!" he yelled kicking the flying contraption hard, knocking it and Eggman flying backwards and knocking the gun from his hands. Sonic dropped back down and landed next to Amy.
Sonic caught the heavy metal gun as it dropped down. "Nice gun. Lets see what it does" he smirked and pointed it up at the somewhat stunned Eggman.
"Don't you point that thing at me you idiot! I haven't tested it yet!" Eggman yelled, rubbing his head.
"So you thought you'd come down here and test it out on us did you" Sonic frowned, shaking his head.

Brea frowned, snatching the gun from Sonic.
"Hey!" yelped Sonic, staring as he saw Brea standing there with the gun in one hand. Glaring up at Eggman.
"Oh yeah, well test this" Brea growled, taking the gun in both hands and bending it, snapping it in two.
The others stared at her, stunned. "My robo-lazer gun! You broke it!" Yelled Eggman with a shocked look on his face.
"Are you still here?" said Sonic sarcasticly as he looked up.
"Oooh... this isn't over! You hear me!" Eggman barked, shaking his fist angrily as he took off up in to the clouds.
"Here" said Brea, handing the mangled remains of the gun to Sonic. "Eh.. thanks?" he replied, looking at her, then down at the lump in his hands.
"Wow" said Tails, looking at his speedy friend curiously.
"What?" Brea said as she realised the others were still staring at her.
"H-how did you do that?" said Amy, a suprised look on her face.
"What do you mean?" Brea asked, crossing her arms.
"Guess I forgot to tell them" Knuckles smirked with a shrug.
"Tell us what?" said Sonic and tossed the metal heap behind him, hitting the ground with a loud crash.
"Well, seems Brea's actually alot stronger then we thought" replied Knuckles, giving Brea a firm pet on the back.
Amy gave the echidna a suspicious look. "How did you know that?" she said in a demanding tone.
"Hey, she came and asked for my help. Yaknow, to help her improve her moves. Not exactly rocket science" he replied in a sarcastic tone, rolling his eyes as he shrugged at her.
"B-but.." Amy stuttered and looked at the two echidnas.
"I thought I'd told you" said Brea with an awkward smile.
"But how? You weren't... yaknow... not when we met you... no offence" said Tails as he grinned at Brea.
"No idea... it's just kinda, happened" she replied with a giggle.

Amy looked over at Sonic curiously , watching him just standing there as if lost in his thoughts. He looked over and stared at Brea for a moment then a thought pinged in to his head. "The built up energy" he said and walked over to her.
"What the hell are you talking about?" said Knuckles, watching the hedgehog closely.
"Don't you get it Knuckle-head? That built up energy she bought with her, the energy Eggman was after. It's made her stronger" said Sonic, pushing past the echidna and standing beside Brea.
"Of course, Brea's now been here long enough for her to fully adapt and adjust. That built up energy has... well, basicly put, it's become part of her." said Tails with an excited grin.
"Weird" said Amy, giving Brea an awkward look. Un-sure what to make of it.
"It's not weird, it's cool" said Sonic, reaching over and taking hold of Brea's hand. "You're cool" he grinned.
Brea blushed, looking away from him. A look of embaresment on her face.
"Yeah yeah, big deal" said Knuckles, rolling his eyes as he pushed between them. Knocking her hand from his.
Sonic smirked as he watched Knuckles descretely frowning to himself. "Working like a charm" the hedgehog thought to himself with a self-satisfied smile.