~ Chapter 81: Practice Makes Perfect ~

The next morning, Y/N, Eclipse, Dark Arms, and Kirby were having breakfast as they chatted when they heard a knock on the door. Alarmed, Y/N stood up and walked over to the door while Eclipse and the Dark Arms hide behind the couch. She opened to reveal Tails, holding the box.

"Oh, morning, Tails."

"Morning, Y/N. I got you the disguise gadgets just like you asked me to. You just need to tap it and it will change your form."

Y/N takes the box.

"Thank you. This means the world to me."

"No problem. See you in the rehearsal."

With that, Tails took off into the sky using his twin tails. Y/N closed the door and opened the box to reveal watches.

"Come here, Eclipse."

Eclipse got out of his hiding spot and approached her as she pulled out the watch.

"Give me your hand."

He did as he was told. Y/N placed the watch around his wrist, making sure it is a little tight before pulling away.

"Tap it and see how it goes."

Eclipse curiously tapped the watch and his form began to change into a dark gray hedgehog.

"Whoa!" he gasped and tapped it again to see him back to normal and did it again.

"Tails... Your geniuses paid off." Y/N grinned. "Hey. How about you and the Dark Arms join in for the show?"

This made him turn to her with his nonexistent eyebrow raised as the Dark Arms squeaked in confusion.

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Y/N made it into the stage as the stage crew and her friends were busy until Sonic noticed her.

"Hey, sis. Just in time."

"Hi, bro."

"Hey, who's this?" Amy asked, pointing at someone behind her back.

There stood behind her is the dark gray hedgehog, wearing yellow gloves and yellow shoes. He gave them an awkward wave.

"Oh, I'm glad you noticed. This is my friend... Sharad the Hedgehog. He's going to be playing a role for the planet of Black Comet. Along with his adorable wisps."

On cue, the flying wisps came out from behind Sharad looking around the room in awe.

"Ohh, they're so cute!!" Amy squealed.

Sonic walks up and holds out a hand.

"Sup! Name's Sonic! Nice to meet you. Looking forward to working with you."

Sharad reaches his hand and shakes it.

"Same."

"Alright, everyone! Back to work!"

Everyone get back to what they were doing as Y/N guided Sharad and wisps for a tour as she explained along the way for the show and other things he had never heard of. He was fascinated with it and interested to see how it will go. That's a good work in progress. Y/N then took them over to Bunnie.

"Sharad, this is my good friend Bunnie. Bunnie meet Sharad."

"Hello, there!" Bunnie waved.

"Hi.." Sharad nodded.

"Is it okay if you can teach him some singing lessons?"

"Sure! I'm free for it."

"Great! Good luck, Ec-Sharad. As for you wisps, Cream, Cheese, and Chocola will be helping you with some dance moves. They're already here."

As if on cue, Cream and the two Chao came over. They stopped right in front of her and saluted.

"Cream the Rabbit, Cheese, and Chocola reporting for duty!"

Y/N giggled and patted their heads.

"That's great. I know you won't let me down. Just need you to help the wisps with some dance lessons. They could really use it. And maybe give them a tour when you're done."

"I will gladly go, Ms. Y/N." Cream smiled and turned to the wisps. "Come on. Let's take you somewhere where you can relax and feel safe."

The wisps look at Y/N with uncertainty, but she give them an assuring smile before they left with Cream and the two Chao. Hopefully, things will work out.

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"And... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7..."

Hamlin smacked the wooden pole where everyone is using it to hold as they did the pose, raising their hand up. Hamlin walked around them and shouted at their faces to make sure they're correcting their position.

"And 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and..."

Freddy barged in, panting.

"Sorry I'm late, Mr. Hamlin. I was practicing all morning and I just lost track of time."

Hamlin stopped and turned to him and gave him a sarcastic smile.

"Oh, I thought maybe you have been involved in a terrible accident and we never have to see you again, but never mind."

"Seriously? Why did you have to be so mean all the time?"

"'Cause only when we suffer..."

Hamlin smacked the Mobian warthog with the staff, making him yelp in pain.

"...can we be great. Places, everyone!"

Everyone formed a circle, holding a wooden staff. Hamlin turned to the Mobian tiger.

"Riot! You'll be playing his opponent to the climax on the scene. Now..."

He tosses Freddy the wooden staff as he caught it.

"Let's see if little Freddy has learned the steps."

Freddy gulped as he and Riot get in the middle of the circle. Riot spins his two staff and kneel into his fighting position. Freddy raises his two staffs. They circle around each other as the people that surrounded the two began to hit the ground with their staff. Riot swung his staffs towards Freddy, who quickly deflects it with his own. Then, Riot and Freddy turned around and placed their feet against the staff as it held them up high and crossed their staff against theirs, only Freddy fell off as he couldn't control the balance of the staff. Riot jumped off from the staff, staring blankly at Freddy.

"Sorry, sorry, so sorry."

Hamlin comes over and smacks Freddy on the head.

"Ow!"

"Wrong!" Hamlin growled.

"Sorry!" Freddy straightened up.

"Again!" Hamlin ordered.

Riot and Freddy tried again as they did the same thing on standing on the staff to hold them up, but Freddy fell down again. This made Hamlin mad.

"Oh! So bad! Again!"

Riot and Freddy did again, but as usual Freddy fell again after Hamlin smacked his arm to get his arm up to cross his staff against Riot's.

"Again!"

Every time Freddy tried, he ended up failing.

"Come on! Yuck! Again!"

After another try, Freddy collapsed.

"Come on!!" Hamlin shouted.

Freddy couldn't take it anymore as it was now night time and he ran out. He looked at his hand to see it shaking, making him clench it and kick the trash can in anger. Freddy panted heavily, feeling so tired of Hamlin's shout and brutal teaching.

"Oh, man..."

The next morning, Freddy was taking a walk to calm himself down when he heard music. Curious, he sees everyone surrounding something or someone and decides to go over to see what was going on. Freddy goes into the crowd and sees Honey the Cat dancing. She then begin breakdancing. She did cat claw gestures as she did the pose after bending her back almost all the way to the ground before going back up straight. Honey noticed a Mobian turtle kid and goes on four and crawls over to him, surprising him and making him back away with a giggle. Smiling at him, she goes back to dancing as Freddy watched her keeping up with her steps as she got on the ground and spun around with her legs up in the air in a freestyle mode. She used her hand to lift herself off from the ground. The song ended as everyone cheered for her wonderful, well-done performance.

"Whoo! Thank you! Thank you so much, everyone! Wow! Wow! You are amazingly proud!" Honey bowed to them, smiling.

"You are amazing!" Freddy praised, coming over to her.

"Much appreciated. Thank you so much."

Honey was about to leave as she grabbed her radio when Freddy quickly follows her.

"Hey, can I get you some coffee or anything? My treat."

"Hmm? Really? Why?"

"Well, I just wanted to ask you about the dance you did earlier. It's really important."

Honey stared at him for a moment before giving him an interested smile.

"Okay."

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They are now in an ice cream shop as the waitresses and waiters uses rollerskates with a hint of Y/N's face on each as they're a fan of her as a way to glide across the diner with food and drinks on top of trays that were carried by them. Freddy and Honey were sitting in the middle of the diner as the Mobian female cow brought a huge order of pink ice cream with an ice cream cone in the middle of it while chocolate filled up the cone with a pink straw on top of it.

"Here you go. One volcano smoothie with an extra chocolate lava. Enjoy."

The waitress then rollerstated away as Honey was amazed at how delicious this looks.

"Shut... up."

She immediately dig in as she took a sip from the straw. Freddy pulled out money and placed them on the table.

"Here. 15 bucks. Honestly, if you could just give me some dance lessons, you will literally be saving my life."

"Wait. If you're in a real show, how come you don't have a choreographer?" Honey asked, stopping her sip and licked off the chocolate.

"I do, but it turns out he's a massive wisdom." Freddy grimaced.

"How do I know that you're not a weirdo, hm? How do I know that you're legit?"

"You should come into my rehearsal and see it yourself."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa. I'm not just gonna follow some guy that I don't know to rehearsal. I've heard a lot about you, Freddy. And your gang, but I don't know if I could help." Honey said, taking a sip of her dessert again.

"Well, how else am I suppose to prove that I'm legit?"

Honey shrugged her shoulders, slurping loudly. Freddy sighed, trying to think of something when he heard a music in the restaurant and began tapping his fingers to the beat.

"Confessing, yeah"

Freddy then began to sing, catching everyone's attention.

"Oh, I've been shaking

I love it when you go crazy

You take all my inhibitions"

Honey gazed at him in shock and whispered lowly.

"What are you doing?"

Freddy continued to sing.

"Baby, there's nothing holdin' me back

You take me places that tear up my reputation

Manipulate my decisions

Baby, there's nothing holdin' me back"

Everyone began clapping to the beat as Freddy sings the vocals.

"There's nothing holdin' me back"

Honey smiled at him, looking amazed.

"I knew you are a weirdo!"

"There's nothing holdin' me back"

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Minutes later, Honey and Freddy then made it back to the theater where the producer team are still working on the planets and others. Honey looked around with a gasp.

"Whoa! This is sick!"

"See?"

Y/N noticed Honey in the distance and her eyes widened in shock.

"Honey??"

Honey sees her and waves happily.

"Hi, Y/N!!"

Y/N comes over to her and gives her a fist bump.

"Wow! I didn't know you're going to be here!"

"Well, I'm Freddy's dance coach now! I'm here to help him!"

"Really? That's great! What happen with Hamlin?"

"Turns out he's... very, very strict and not... so helpful." Freddy winced.

"Oh, I'm sorry. Well, the more the merrier. Looking forward to see how you improve." Y/N smiled.

"Will do. So, you're making a show? That's rare." Honey said.

"Well, I just had it in mind. I'm really a big fan of Freddy and the gang. You're gonna love it."

"Oh, I sure will. Let's go, Fred."

"Good luck." Y/N said.

Freddy nodded and headed into the dance practice room where Hamlin stood as he glared at him and Honey. He was in disbelief after hearing an explanation from Freddy.

"You think some riff-raff street dancer can help you without me??"

"Riff-raff??" Honey questioned, glaring at him.

She goes to give him a piece of her mind when Freddy stopped her and calmed her down.

"Hey, okay. Hang on. She's just gonna give me some extra lessons, that's all."

"All because I, Hamlin Pig must have gotten colder and not good enough for Freddy."

"No, that's not what I meant." Freddy denied.

"Yes, I'm irrelevant to here, but just a stupid fat old piggy."

"Nothing at all!"

"I do." Honey grinned, making Hamlin turn and glare at her.

Freddy immediately shushed her.

"Please, sir. She's just-"

Honey raised her hand at him and turned to Hamlin, crossing her arms with a smirk.

"I only need two days to-"

"Two days?! Ha! Two hundred years, more like." Hamlin scoffed.

"Two days and he'll be amazing."

"Oh, really? Well if he is, I.Will.Eat.My.Hat." Hamlin declared before giving them an smug grin.

Oh, Honey will sure make him eat his hat.

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