~ Chapter 4: Bar Fight ~

Tom, Y/N, and Sonic are driving through the foothills, continuing their journey.

"Alright, there's gonna be rules on this trip. Number one, do exactly as I say all the time. Got it?" Tom said.

"Got it." Y/N nodded.

Sonic gives Tom a little salute with his fingers.

"Got it, Donut Lord."

"Would you stop with the 'Donut Lord'?! I have a name. It's Tom."

"I'm Sonic."

"And I'm Y/N."

"Sonic. Y/N. So you've been spying on us all these years?"

"I mean, I wouldn't call it "spying." We were all just hanging out, only we weren't invited and no one knew we were there." Sonic explained.

"It's most likely spying..." Y/N said in a deadpan tone.

"I can't believe Crazy Carl was right all this time!" Tom said in surprise..

"Yeah, you should call him Super Observant Carl instead." Sonic commented.

"Uh-huh."

"Oh, my God, stop the car right now!"

Sonic gets up and leans out the open window, alarming Tom and Y/N.

"What, what?! What?"

"What is it, bro?! Are we in danger?!"

Y/N was about to bring out her weapon when they pass a billboard advertising the World's Largest Rubber Band Ball.

"'The World's Largest Rubber Band Ball'? We gotta see it!" Sonic suggested with excitement.

"Are you serious right now??" Y/N exclaimed in disbelief.

"No, no. No, this is not some fun family road trip, okay? The government wants to dissect you and your sister and arrest me. This is serious." Tom declined.

Sonic gives Tom a smug smile, speeds out of the truck and comes back in the blink of an eye with souvenirs like a baseball cap and some small rubber band balls.

"Eh, you're right. It was lame. Gift shop was cool, though!"

Sonic shows a mouse pad that reads "I Heart Rubber Band Balls" to Tom and Y/N.

"I got you a mouse pad. When are we gonna get there?"

Sonic holds up a paddle ball and plays with it at a very fast speed while looking at Tom with a playful smile.

"We will get there when we get there!"

Sonic continues playing with the paddle ball until Y/N has enough with that annoying batter and snatches the paddle ball away from her brother and snaps it in half, scaring Sonic and Tom.

"I'm never letting you shop any ridiculous things ever..." Y/N glared.

Tom, Y/N, and Sonic pull into a rest stop on the other side of town and the truck pulls up to a fueling station and Tom gets out of the truck and puts a hat on and walks to the other side of the truck.

"Alright, I'm gonna go check in with Wade, see if he knows what's going on." Tom said.

"You're gonna see Wade in that glass thing? What is it, a teleportation box?" Sonic questioned.

Tom looks behind him and back at Sonic and Y/N.

"It's a pay phone. It's mostly for drug dealers and fugitives from the law, which is us. Stay in the car. I don't want anybody seeing you two.

"Ugh, fine." Sonic groaned.

"Don't worry. We'll stay put." Y/N assured.

Tom walks to the pay phone and goes inside. Meanwhile, Sonic is horsing around in the truck, pretending like he is actually driving it and making engine noises, when he spots a large gathering of bikers off to the side and he gasps with wonder before ducking down behind the door. Y/N notices it and gives her brother a look.

"Okay, okay. That is the coolest place on Earth, but you have to stay in the car!"

"Sonic, I know you're excited, but you have to resist and be rational about this."

Sonic slowly peaks his head up to continue watching everything play out in front of him, and it causes him to hyperventilate, fogging up the glass on the window, which he wipes away to keep watching. He's still fighting his excitement by rocking back and forth in the driver's seat.

"Be strong, be strong!"

"Sonic..."

Not taking it anymore, Sonic spots a pair of sunglasses and gets an idea.

"Sonic, don't you dare..." Y/N warned.

"Come on, sis. Have some fun." Sonic pleaded.

"No."

"Plea--"

"No!!"

"Pleaaaaasssseee!!!"

Sonic gives her the puppy eyes, making her groan in defeat.

"What am I going to do with you?"

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Meanwhile, Tom is on the phone with Wade.

"Hello. Green Hills Police Department." Wade greeted.

"Wade, it's me." Tom said.

"Hi. I'm so glad that you called. Uh, so, some guys came in asking some questions. Uh, they're a little creepy."

Wade chuckles nervously.

"Kind of reminded me of, uh, the guys from Men in Black, but not as likable or, uh, charming as Will Smith."

"Wait, what kind of questions?"

"Um, questions about… terrorism? Heh, I told them that I've gone ice fishing with Tom. He doesn't know how to make a bomb! He can't even make bait in the cold!"

"Alright, Wade, listen to me. This is really important. Don't tell them that we talked, okay?"

In the Police Station, Wade looks up and sees Dr. Robotnik and Agent Stone staring him down.

"You know, I think they already know. "

Dr. Robotnik grabs the phone from Wade.

"Mr. Wachowski."

Hearing his voice, Tom rolled his eyes.

"Ugh, Tom."

"I want you to know that the only person who ever punched me in the face was the school bully. He hit me in the cafeteria, causing a blunt-force contusion to the soft tissue surrounding my orbital bone. Humiliated me in front of the entire school! And you know what I did in response?"

"Uh, I'm assuming that you reported him to the principal's office ‘cause , you know, that kind of behavior is really unacceptable." Tom guessed.

"No, I examined the inefficiency of a world where brawn trumped brain, and I used technology to resolve that inefficiency. The boy ate his meals through a straw for a year. And I have never lost a fight... until today."

"Hey, hooray for me then, huh?"

"No, because you're about to become the bully with the straw! I'm coming for you, Mr. Wachowski. And when I catch you, I'll--"

Tom hangs up, not wanting to hear another word from him. He then comes back to the truck with a fast food meal.

"Okay, not exactly the healthiest meal, but…"

Notices Sonic and Y/N are no longer in the truck.

"Sonic? Y/N?"

Tom looks over to the biker bar and realizes Sonic and Y/N might be in there.

"No, no, no, no, no!"

Tom sets the meal down on the hood of the truck and rushes to the biker bar. He enters the biker bar, called the Piston Pit, and looks around for Sonic and Y/N, which he finally sees Sonic sitting at a table wearing a cowboy hat, sunglasses, and red shirt. Tom taps Sonic on the shoulder and he turns around, tipping his hat to Tom.

"Howdy, partner!"

"I'm not your partner. Come on. We're leaving. Where's your sister?"

Y/N, in her black outfit wearing a hood over her head, raises a hand to show Tom that she's here right next to Sonic.

"Right here. Sorry I couldn't stop my bro from coming here since he's too excited for his own good."

"But there's a ZZ Top cover band. You gotta see their beards." Sonic said, not wanting to leave just yet.

"You're gonna have to catch ‘em some other time. Let's go! Get up!" Tom urged.

"If we stay, I promise I won't say another word for the rest of the trip, starting… now!"

Waitress walks over to Tom, Y/N, and Sonic.

"Welcome to the Piston Pit. What can I get you fellas?"

"Ooh! I want nachos and buffalo wings. Oh, and guac. Funny word isn't it? Guac, guac! Guuaaac!" Sonic said with a laugh.

"Hey, no kids allowed in here. What's he got on, some kind of mask?" Waitress said.

Y/N mumbles to herself that she told him and should've gone with a better disguise to be more stealth. She brings her hood down to cover her face more and to ease down her embarrassment her brother brought to himself. Tom quickly explains with a made-up story.

"Oh! He, he's actually 43 years old and suffers from a very rare skin disease that stunts his growth and makes him look… like-like that."

"The face, I was born with. The confidence, I picked up along the way." Sonic added.

The waitress smiles.

"Make his a Mello Yellow, please. And Y/N?"

Y/N silently shook her head.

"No thanks."

"Okay."

The waitress walks away as Tom sits down at the table.

"You owe me one."

"I never sat on a barstool before! So squishy! Oh, look at this, it spins!"

Sonic spins around on the barstool.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!"

"Yes. That's nice." Tom and Y/N said in unison.

"Whaa-ha-ha-ha!"

He then stops spinning.

"I feel sick."

"Are you having fun? Gonna check this off the ol' bucket list, huh? Big night for you." Tom said.

"What's a bucket list?" Y/N asked.

"A bucket list is, uh, it's a list of things you want to do in your life before you, well, kick the bucket."

"Huh... Like performing in front of everyone." Y/N said softly.

"I've never kicked a bucket either! Oh, I gotta make my list!"

Sonic speeds off and grabs a pen and pad and comes back to the table, writing down his list. Y/N though doesn't need it as she has a lot of thoughts in mind.

"Uh-huh! Mm-hmm! Oh, Sonic! Ha-ha! Uh-huh!"

Suddenly, Sonic stops and frowns.

Tom and Y/N notices Sonic's concern.

"What? What's the matter?" Tom asked.

"There's so much stuff I've never done. And now that I'm leaving Earth forever, I guess I missed my chance."

"What he said..." Y/N said slightly looking down.

Tom looks around.

"Well, I guess this is the kind of place you could get a lot of living done in a short period of time. I suppose we can spare an hour."

"What? You're gonna bucket list with me?!"

"Really? You sure?"

"Sure, why not?"

"You won't regret this!" Sonic smiled.

"Oh, I'm pretty sure I will."

Tom and Sonic have a blast in the Piston Pit; dancing, playing darts, playing basketball, which Tom uses Sonic as a ball and Sonic uses his fast legs to build up Tom's score as he sits on the hoop ring.

"Ha-ha! New high score!"

Y/N shook her head at his cheating. Sonic and Tom are dancing again.

"Yippee-ki-yay! Ah-ha!"

Sonic is riding a mechanical bull.

"Wait a second, is this bull missing a head, or does it have two butts?"

Tom mockingly yawns from seeing Sonic ride the bull.

"This is easy!"

Tom decides to turn up the speed for the mechanical bull by inserting a quarter into the machine and tapping the button for the highest speed. Y/N sees it and begins to laugh along with him as they watch Sonic hold onto it and being thrown around.

"Yee-haw! I'm a cowboy, baby!"

Sonic gets thrown off the bull but speeds back onto it like nothing happened.

"I'm okay!"

Tom and Sonic are dancing again, but Sonic accidentally bumps into a female patron.

"Whoo, yeah!"

The female patron throws a drink in Tom's face, thinking it was him who messed her up. Afterwards, Tom is drying up while Sonic is laughing at Tom's plight while Y/N is shaking her head.

"Yeah, yeah, laugh it up." Tom grumbled.

"Nice work, Romeo!" Sonic joked.

Tom made a sarcastic laughter.

"Glad you're having a good time."

Y/N notices the small stage with a microphone in front of the stool the woman was sitting earlier until she left. Y/N looks down at her guitar case and back to the stage, thinking this through before she made up her mind. She grabs her guitar case and gets over to the small stage. Tom and Sonic notices it.

"Y/N??" Sonic called, looking confused.

Tom though smiles, knowing what going to happen. Y/N sits on the high stool for her to reach the microphone and pulls out her electric guitar. She sets it up and looks at the crowd who are sitting, eating, drinking, or chatting. She takes a deep breath and begins to play the song she had in mind and sings.

Sonic was surprised that his sister can play and sing so well as the people watch her performance. Tom smiles at this. After she was done, everyone claps for her, making her blush in embarrassment and nod to them gratefully. She gets off, grabs her stuff, and comes over to Sonic and Tom. Her brother gives her a hug.

"Wow! Sis! I didn't know you play! Man, I'm having the best time! We're having the best time! I mean, what could go wrong?"

Suddenly, a group of mean-looking patrons approach him, Y/N, and Tom.

"Uh, heh, can we help you?" Tom asked as Y/N got defensive.

"We don't like your kind around here." Thug said.

"'Our kind'? What kind is that?" Sonic glared.

Y/N slowly got herself into a fighting position with her emerald necklace glowing in the process.

"Hipsters." Thug said, making Sonic gasp and then glare at him.

"How dare you?"

"Hey, you know what? We were just leaving anyway. Weren't we? There's not a problem here." Tom suggested, not liking this tension.

"No, no, no, it's okay." Sonic assured.

"No, no, no, we're leaving." Tom shook his head.

"Sonic, you better be careful what you're doing." Y/N warned.

"Relax, sis. I know exactly how to handle this situation."

Sonic grabs a beer bottle, stands up, and clears his throat.

"Pop quiz, hotshot. You just picked a fight with a poorly disguised hedgehog who's seen way too many action movies. What do you do? What do you do? Ha!"

Sonic jumps up and tries to smash the bottle over the guy's head, but nothing happens. This made Y/N mentally facepalm herself at this..

"Huh! Am I crazy? It's supposed to break, right?"

He tries again, numerous times, his speed increasing as well.

"Bink. Bink, bink. Break, please. Break, please. Break this bottle, please. Please, please, please, please, please!"

"Uh, Sonic?" Tom called.

The guy raises his fist.

"Uh-oh!"

Sonic quickly ducks as the guy goes to punch Tom in the face instead, when Y/N goes in between them and grabs his fist with the help of her power as her hand glows green. The thug looks at her in shock. She glares at him then twists his arm, making a sick crack and pushing him away, which knocks him into more patrons, sparking a bar fight.

"Ho-hoo! Ho-ho-ho!" Sonic grinned.

"Nice going!" Tom scolded as he got into his defensive stance..

"Thanks! It's awesome, right? Alright, who's next? Who wants some? Who do I get to beat up? Hey! Has anybody seen my waitress? Still waiting on those buffalo wings!"

Sonic sees the thug from earlier that Y/N beats up as he fixes his arm before cracking his knuckles after seeing him.

"Why, you!"

Sonic jumps and punches the thug in the face repeatedly in slow motion, somersaults, and lands back on the floor.

"Ha-ha!"

Sonic blows on his fists and the thug turns around and growls aggressively.

"Uh-oh!"

The thug runs to tackle him, but now time seems to have stopped and everything is frozen in place as Sonic's awareness is increased tenfold.

"Really?"

"BOOM" by X Ambassadors plays as Sonic runs around the bar and setting up pranks and traps for everyone, even catching a selfie with one of the patrons, eating chili dogs, setting a bear head trophy on the thug from earlier, and getting a boot to the face. Finally, the bar fight ends with everyone getting entangled in Sonic's traps, and Sonic imitates a bull wrestler by using a checkered napkin as the thug runs past him and crashes through the window.

"Olé!"

Only Tom is left standing due to Sonic saving him from the fight along with Y/N, who's about to fight off the guys that attempt to attack her, and found herself sitting in the chair next to Tom. Tom and Y/N looks around at the injured patrons and even sees a patron wrapped in toilet paper fall to the ground, and Sonic sides up alongside them at the bar.

"So, should we get out of here?"

"Yeah, time to go!"

Tom and Sonic rush out of the Piston Pit with Y/N roller skating behind them, carrying her guitar case, and make a beeline for the truck.

"Ha-ha-ha! That was amazing!"

Sonic throws his disguise off to the side as Y/N pulls the hood off from her head..

"Wait a second, did we even pay our tab? It doesn't matter! Watch this, watch this! I always wanted to do this!"

Sonic jumps up and slides across the hood of Tom's truck in slow motion, barely noticing the fast food from earlier, and he slides inside the truck. Y/N swiftly goes through the open window and slides inside to the backseat.

"Ooh-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!"

"Get 'em!"

Sonic gives them a wave as Y/N salutes them with her tongue sticking out..

"See ya, suckers!"

The bar patrons chase after the truck.

"I can't say for sure, but I think they liked me."

"I don't think so, bro."

"Come on! Don't let 'em get away!" Bar patron said.

Sonic, Y/N, and Tom are now far away from the patrons and they're celebrating their victory with laughs.

"Yes!"

"Yeah!"

"Whoo!!"

"Yes!"

"Did you see how much toilet paper I used?! The next person that goes into that bathroom will have nothing to wipe with!" Sonic laughed.

"That would be so gross and embarrassing!" Y/N laughed.

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