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Chapter Two
April Fools!
by John Wainscott
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Time line - Three weeks later, April 1st.
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     "This will scare him!" Bunnie quietly stated as she typed away at
Rotor's computer. "There, all done. Now all I gotta do is wait." Bunnie
grinned and shut the computer off. Later that day, Bunnie went for a walk with
Sally to talk about some April Fools jokes to play on someone.
     "So, what do you have planned for your sugar hog, Sally girl?"
     "Oh, I don't know. You got any ideas?" Bunnie and Sally thought for a
minute and then both smiled at the same time.
     "Hey Bunny," Sally laughed. "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
     "Only if you're thinkin' of pokin at Sonic's ego a bit!" Sally and
Bunnie laughed and kept walking. They both started to think of a way to trick
Sonic good.
     "Okay, now all we have to do is get Rotor in on this. Do you know where
he is?" Bunnie looked back at her hut and looked back at Sally.
     "Yeah, I think he's home havin a chili dog with Sonic. Oh Sally girl! It
almost slipped my mind, I wanted to tell you what I did to Rotor's ole
computer." Sally looked at Bunnie with curiosity. "I set it up to make him
think that his hard drive crashed! He's gonna jump out of his skin when he
turns that thing on." They both giggled when suddenly, they heard Rotor scream
from his hut.
     "I think he turned it on!" Sally giggled.

     "No! I can't believe it!" Rotor yelled. Sally and Bunnie came running in
as they saw Rotor typing faster than he has ever typed before trying to
recover what he had lost. Sally leaned over to Bunnie and whispered in her
ear.
     "So, I guess it went well?" Sally and Bunnie tried their very hardest to
keep a straight face while Sonic tried to help Rotor see what's wrong with the
computer.
     "I'm getting nowhere! All my work is lost!" Rotor sat back in his chair
and stared at the text-filled monitor when it went blank and a message
scrolled across the screen as The Liberty Bell March played in the background:
     "APRIL FOOLS, ROTOR! LOVE BUNNIE!" Rotor felt angry, but relieved.
     "Man, I shoulda known!" Sally and Bunnie started to laugh as Tails
walked in.
     "Hi, guys. What's up!" Tails asked in his usual good mood.
     "Hello, sugar! I just played an April Fools joke on Rotor!"
     "Did it work?" Tails looked at Rotor's computer and smiled. "Oh, I guess
it did. I forgot it was today. That means I gotta lot of work to do. I gotta
go! See ya!" Tails started to fly back to his hut when he saw Nina, Mindy, and
Jessica walking by so he decided to land and say hi.
     "Hello, Tails." Everyone said in unison. They thought he was very cute.
     "Hi, Nina." Mindy and Jessica were whispering something to each other.
     "What are you doing right now?" Nina asked in hesitation.
     "Oh, nothing much." Replied Tails. He was doing something, looking for a
prank to pull on someone. He also knew that they had something that he didn't
know about... an April Fools joke perhaps?
     "I was just going to... um, have lunch with Sonic. I gotta go." Tails
started to take off when he saw the girls laugh to themselves. "They'll never
get me! I'm too smart for that." Tails said to himself as he flew through the
air.
     When he got back to his hut, he sat down and started thinking of what to
do to someone.
     "Maybe Nina would be a good victim." He thought to himself. "I bet she's
getting a prank setup for me."

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     Back in Rotor's hut, Sally, Bunnie, and Rotor were discussing a plan for
a joke on Sonic.
     "Okay, Bunny," Sally started. "Sonic has to see you and Rotor get in a
fight and break up." Before Sally could continue, Rotor jumped in.
     "Are you sure, Sally? Bunnie and I have been together for over a year
now."
     "Don't worry, It's just a joke!" Explained Bunnie.
     "Well, okay. I hope this works." Sally continued with her plan.
     "After that, I'll find something to argue about with Sonic, then when it
gets really good, I'll say I want to break up."
     "Just don't let it get outta hand, Princess. You don't want him to do
anything stupid!"
     "Don't worry, Bunnie! I won't let it go too far."
     "Okay."
     "When that's over, you'll start flirting with Sonic. Got it, Bunnie?"
     "Sure! Sounds like fun." Rotor looked at Bunnie.
     "Hey!"
     "Come on, Rote. It's just for today." Rotor calmed back down.
     "And Rotor," Sally started to look at him with a big smile. "You... and
I... will fall in love too." Rotor became a little nervous. Then Sally bursted
into laughter followed by Bunnie then Rotor.
     "I knew they were up to something!" Mumbled Sonic as he sat under
Rotor's window outside. "I guess I'll just have to play along." Sonic got up
and slowly walked home. As he opened the door to his hut, Tails jumped in
front of him and tried to scare him.
     "April Fools!" Yelled the small fox.
     "Hi, Tails." Sonic said in a calm voice, unaffected by Tails' attempt.
     "Aw! C'mon. Didn't I scare you?" Whined Tails.
     "Keep tryin, bud." Sonic rubbed Tails' head and made his way to the
refrigerator when he heard a small explosion from Rotor's hut.
     "What's wrong with you?!" Rotor yelled as he glanced at Sonic's hut. "My
computer! Why did you wreck my computer!?!"
     "Ah'm tired of you playin those silly video games all the time! Why
can't you spend more time with me?" Sonic ran to Rotor's hut and looked in the
window. He smiled and thought to himself.
     "Well... at least they're trying."
     "Don't I spend enough time with you?" Rotor yelled.
     "No! You don't! If you can't find time to spend with me, Ah don't want
to see you any more!"
     "FINE!" Rotor yelled.
     "FINE!" Bunnie yelled as slammed the door on her way out hoping that
Sonic heard the argument. Rotor hoped the same.
     "Sonic!" Sally yelled from her hut.
     "Here we go again." He happily thought to himself.
     "SONIC!" She yelled louder this time. Sonic opened the door to the hut
and went inside.
     "What's wrong, Sal?"
     "I'll tell you what's wrong! I'm tired of picking up your dirty smelly
socks every day!" What else could she think of. That was the only thing that
popped into her mind at the time. "Besides, you always leave the toilet seat
up! You know how much I hate that!" Sonic knew exactly what was going on.
Besides, that was a pretty poor excuse to start an argument like that so he
decided to have a little fun with her.
     "You complain too much." Sonic calmly folded his arms and leaned against
the wall.
     "WHAT! I do not!"
     "Yes you do."
     "What are you talking about?" Sally thought that her plan was going a
little too far.
     "You complain too much." Sonic repeated. Sally couldn't take it anymore.
     "I don't want to see you anymore!" Sally yelled and stormed out of the
hut. She thought she was in big trouble. Tails was still in Sonic's room while
the argument occurred and didn't know that it was a joke. He came up to Sonic
crying.
     "Sonic. Why is Aunt Sally mad at you?" Tails sniffled and wiped his
eyes. Sonic was surprised.
     "You were in my room all this time?" Tails nodded his head. "Oh, don't
worry, kid. Sally is tryin to play an April Fools joke on me and she doesn't
think I know what's goin on! Even Bunnie and Rotor is in on this!" Tails
stopped crying.
     "It's just a joke?" Asked Tails as he wiped the last tear from his eye.
"She fooled me and the joke was for you!" Tails laughed.

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     "Hey, Nina. You got that fog horn?" Asked Jessica.
     "Yep. Right here." Nina held up the small can and gave it to Jessica.
     "Cool. You know what to do, right?" Asked Nina.
     "Yeah, lets go."
     "This has to be perfect!" Mindy handed Nina a cheap brass bracelet and
she put it on.

     Tails was looking for Nina because he knew of a perfect joke to play on
her. He found her sitting at the ring pool.
     "Hi, Nina. Whatcha doin." Tails asked as he saw Nina on the dock.
     "Oh, hi Tails!" Tails as he sat next to her. Nina pretended to sneeze
and the necklace fell off.
     "How come I've never seen you wear that?" Tails asked.
     "Because it makes too much noise against my metal body when I walk."
     "Oh." Before Tails could play his joke on her, Jessica snuck up behind
them and blared the fog horn. Tails screamed and Nina dropped the bracelet
into the lake.
     "Jessica!" Tails yelled as she ran back to the village. Nina grabbed
Tails' arm before he could chase her and pointed at the water.
     "My bracelet!"
     "I'll get it!" Tails took off his shoes and dove into the water. About
ten seconds later, he surfaced and climbed back up.
     "I can't see it. I'm going to get Sonic's goggles." Tails spun his two
tails spraying water in a circle. Nina tried to block the spray. Tails flew
back to his hut. He opened the door and then accidentally slammed the door on
his tails, pretty hard too. Tails yelled as loud as he could and began
shouting obscenities at an alarming volume, attracting Bookshire, who just
happened to be walking by at the time. He opened the door and looked at Tails.
     "Ow! I crushed my tails!" Tails held them up to show him. They already
began to swell.
     "Well, I can understand that. But still, that wasn't nice. Now let's
take a look at that." Bookshire knelt down and examined his tails.
     "Well, I think you have to come to my hut." Tails and Bookshire walked
to his hut and Bookshire got a closer look at his tails. By this time, Tails
had forgotten all about Nina and her bracelet.
     "Tails?" Nina walked in.
     "Oh, shoot! I forgot."
     "That's okay. You can get it later. What happened?" Bookshire pulled out
a bottle of rubbing alcohol and placed it on the table."
     "He caught his tails in the door and bruised them pretty bad." Bookshire
pulled out a cotton ball, put some alcohol on a small cut and dabbed it on one
of his tails.
     "Ow!" Tails grunted as he squeezed the goggles, breaking them.
     "Hey, Tails. Maybe you're stronger than me!" Laughed Nina.
     "Very funny, Nina."
     "Tails, go get a towel out of the bathroom dry off." Tails jumped off of
the table and ran into the bathroom.
     "Um, Bookshire, you know that it's April Fools day, right?"
     "Yeah."
     "You wanna get Tails?" Bookshire looked at Nina and considered her
offer.
     "Okay. What do you have in mind?" Nina leaned to Bookshire and started
to whisper in his ear. Bookshire only smiled and Tails walked back in.
     "Tails, I think you're going to need a cast."
     "What?" Tails asked surprised as ever
     "Looks like you broke your tails. You need a cast."
     "...No I don't."
     "Yes you do."
     "No I don't."
     "Come here."

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     "They look fine!" Nina said as she was trying to hide her smile.
     "This sucks." Tails walked out of Bookshire's hut with two casts on his
tails. They looked somewhat like two white baseball bats sticking from his
rear.
     "C'mon, lets show Sally." Nina tugged Tails' hand.
     "Oh, great!"

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     Sonic walked by the garden and noticed Antoine reading a book under a
tree. He wanted to get a laugh in for the hour.
     "Hey, Ant! Dulcy landed through your roof and wrecked your oven!"
Antoine dropped his book and jumped up yelling.
     "Aack! When will she ever learn!!! Zis is dee second time dat des as
appened!" Antoine started running for his hut when Sonic bursted out laughing.
     "April Fools! Ha ha ha ha!" Sonic fell down and laughed even harder.
     "Sonic, dat is not funny!"
     "Then why the heck am I still laughing?" Asked Sonic as he sat up.
Antoine picked his book up and started to leave.
     "Sonic, zat ez a cru-el thing to do, you know. Besides, your shoes are
untied."
     "Oh, please! That's the oldest trick in the book!" Sonic turned around
and started to run off when he tripped on his shoe lace and landed flat on his
face. Sonic made an attempt to get up, but then fell unconscious to the
ground. Antoine walked up to Sonic and nudged his leg with his foot.
     "Sonic?" Antoine shook his arm. "April Fuels, right?" Antoine asked.
"Oh, no... I killed him!" Antoine ran for Sally and Bunnie. When they all
returned, they brought Sonic to Bookshire's hut.

     "He's going to be fine." Bookshire walked up to Sonic and placed a roll
of gauze on the table.
     "Well, Sally girl, Ah don't think that this ole jokes gunna work when
your sugar hogs snoozin away."
     "Bookshire, can you revive him?" Sally asked as she sat on the bed next
to Sonic.
      "I'll try." Bookshire leaned down by Sonic's head."WAKE UP!" Sonic
jumped up and accidentally kicked Sally off of the bed.
     "Oh, man. Where am I?" Sonic asked as he put his hand on his head
finding the bandage.
     "You're in Bookshire's hut. You tripped and fell pretty hard." Sonic
looked at a mirror on the wall and saw a bandage on his head with a small
blood spot in the center of it.
     "Who are you?" Asked Sonic as he turned around.
     "What?" Sally was shocked.
     "What's your name?"
     "C'mon, Sonic! Quit foolin around!" Bunnie stood up and walked closer to
him.
     "What? My names not Sonic. My name... is, uh. Oh, no! I don't know my
own name! What happened to me?" Sonic sat down and Sally, Bunnie and Bookshire
stood around him.
     "I musta hit my head harder than I thought!" Sonic looked nervous. Sally
took Bookshire to the side and started asking questions.
     "Please tell me what happened." Sally grabbed both of Bookshire's arms.
     "Sally... I think he has amnesia."
     "No! Not Sonic!" Sally started to cry.
     "I'm sorry. There's nothing I can do." Bookshire walked over to Sonic.
"Now, Sonic, do you know where you are?" Sonic looked around.
     "No. What happened to me?"
     "Do you know who I am?"
     "No! What happened to me!" Sonic started to get angry.
     "Earlier today, you tripped in the garden and fell. You hit your head
and was knocked unconscious. I think you have amnesia." Sonic calmed back down
and looked at Sally and Bunnie.
     "Oh, perfect! Now what do I do?"
     "Maybe I could show you someone who you might recognize."
     "Won't hurt to try. Sure, lets go." Sonic, Sally, Bunnie, and Bookshire
left the hut to walk around the village.
     "Sally, go get Uncle Chuck. Oh, and tell him what happened to Sonic
before he sees him." Sally ran for Chuck's hut and knocked on the door. He
opened the door and happily greeted Sally.
     "Well, hello, princess. What brings you here?"
     "Sonic... Sonic hit his head and lost his memory. Bookshire wants to see
what happens when he sees a familiar face." Chuck put his hand on his chest
and gasped.
     "This has got to be a joke!"
     "I'm sorry."

     "Hey, if you don't mind me askin, but what happened to you?" Sonic stood
back and got a good look at Bunnie.
     "I'll tell you later, sugar."
     "Sonic! Are you okay?" Charles ran up to Sonic. As soon as he saw the
robot run towards him, he jumped behind Bookshire and held him in front of
him.
     "Sonic, this is your Uncle Chuck! Don't you remember?" Bookshire asked
as he pulled Sonic's hands from his arms.
     "A robot? For an uncle?" Charles grabbed Sonic's arm.
     "Sonic! Robotnick roboticized me a long time ago. You have nothing to
worry about." Sonic calmed down a little bit. Dulcy was passing by and saw the
group so she walked by and decided to say hi.
     "Hi guys, what's up." Sonic turned around and saw a dragon five times
bigger than him stand in front of him.
     "RUN!" Sonic yelled as he turned and ran in the opposite direction
towards the Great Forest. Before Sonic could really get anywhere, Charles
chased and tackled Sonic pinning him to the ground. He also noticed that he
didn't run as fast as usual.
     "Sonic! Look, Now I know that you don't know what's going on and you
don't know anybody here! But that's no reason to get scared by everybody you
see. Now, the only thing you really have to be afraid of is a big, fat guy
named Robotnick and a human android named Packbell! And I'm pretty sure you'll
know who they are when you see them." When Chuck was just about to let Sonic
up, Rotor walked out from nowhere and saw Charles and Sonic on the ground.
     "IT'S ROBOTNICK!!!" Sonic screamed and kicked Chuck off of him. Bunnie
wasn't too far away from them so she grabbed Sonic's arm before he could run
and lifted him from the ground.
     "Calm down!" Bunnie shook Sonic for a second and held on tight. Rotor
forgot about the "fight" between Sally and Sonic and asked her what was going
on.
     "Sonic," Charles stood up and dusted himself off. "We're all your
friends here, and we'll tell you when to run! Now chill out!" Bunnie dropped
Sonic and he landed on his tail. Sonic was too tired to do anything but sit
and do nothing.
     "Sonic, this is Rotor, and this is Dulcy. They're our friends and they
won't hurt you." Before Sally could continue, Rotor and Dulcy asked at the
same time,
     "What's going on!?!" Tails asked the same question as he came into view
dragging his tails behind him.
     "Hey, kid." Sonic laughed. "Why do you got two baseball bats tied to
your butt?" Tails got angry at Sonic for asking such a rude question.
     "Rotor, Dulcy, Tails, come with me." Sally walked around to the back of
Bookshire's hut followed by the small group of Freedom Fighters.
     "Guys, something happened to Sonic earlier today. He hit his head and
apparently... he has amnesia." Rotor and Dulcy gasped and Tails looked
confused.
     "What's amnesia?" Sally knelt down in front of him and held his hands.
     "... Amnesia is when you lose your memory after getting hit on the head,
and Sonic hit his head pretty hard." Tails lowered his head and there was a
long pause. Finally Tails looked back up at Sally and a tear ran down his
cheek.
     "How did it happen?"
     "He tripped on his shoe lace after Antoine warned him about it." There
was a slight smile on everybody's face then soon went away. Sally, Rotor, and
Dulcy walked back to where Sonic was when Tails ran into the forest.
     "Tails!" Dulcy yelled.
     "No, it's okay. Let him have some time alone." Sally said.
     "Sally, come here!" Charles angrily yelled. "Let me see Nicole!" Sally
took Nicole out from her vest and handed it to Charles.
     "Nicole, display a picture of Robotnick." Almost immediately, a five
inch tall hologram of Robotnick appeared from Nicole.
     "Nicole, display a picture of Packbell." A hologram appeared of
Packbell. "Now, Sonic, everybody else is our friend, okay?" Sonic stood up.
     "Okay."

     After everybody showed Sonic around Knothole, he found some time for
himself, so he decided to look for Tails. After about fifteen minutes of
walking through the Great Forest, he found Tails sitting under a tree messing
with his casts.
     "Oh, hi Sonic." Tails rudely said to him. "I suppose you don't even know
who I am, right?" Sonic walked up to Tails and sat next to him.
     "Come on! You actually believed that I had amnesia?" Tails joyfully
looked up at Sonic and gave him a hug.
     "Sonic! It was a joke?"
     "Yeah. Sally, Bunnie, and Rotor were going to play a big joke on me
today. Remember?" Tails nodded his head. "Well, I guess now it's not gunna
work! They're gunna have a heart attack when they find out that I'm okay."
     "What about your head?" Tails pointed at the bandage.
     "What, this?" Sonic pulled off the bandage from his head ripping the
scab off.
     "AAAAHHHHH! Wow that hurt!" The wound started to bleed again.
     "I guess I got hit harder than I thought. Hey, let's get back home so I
can get this fixed. Oh, remember, you don't know that I'm okay, okay?" Tails
crossed his arms and a greedy smirk appeared on his face.
     "Well... what's in it for me?"
     "What? You're not gunna turn me in, are you?"
     "Maybe."
     "Well, if you play along, you can get in on the joke. That means you
could say that you knew about this the entire time." Tails thought for a
second and accepted his offer.

     "Bookshire! Sonic needs another bandage!" Tails screamed as he ran from
the forest with Sonic running behind him
     "Well, lets have a look... ouch, that looks bad, come on in." Bookshire
walked into his hut followed by Sonic and Tails. Bookshire cleaned the cut and
replaced the bandage.
     "Thanks, doc. How long will it take to heal?" Sonic asked as he began
poking at his cut.
     "Oh, about a week or two. You'll be okay." Tails saw Nina through
Bookshire's window as she was walking by.
     "Hey, I'll see ya later, guys." Tails said as he walked off to visit
Nina.
     "How's your tails?"
     "They stopped hurting."
     "Oh, that's good." Nina smiled.
     "What's so funny?"
     "Oh, nothing."

     "Oh, Sally girl, you two can still be friends." Sally kept crying.
"Cheer up! I'm sure Bookshire can do something."
     "But what if he stays like this forever? Then what do I do?"
     "Don't say that! Think positive, that's what you always say to me. And
everything turns out just dandy!"
     "I guess you're right, Bunnie. It's just that... he doesn't even know me
anymore."
     "Oh, you'll get back together again, you'll see." There was a short
pause.
     "How do you cheer me up like that all the time?" Bunnie and Sally
smiled.
     "Magic?"
     "I wouldn't doubt it."
     "I was just joking!"
     "I know."


     That night, Antoine invited everyone to dinner at his hut. He made a
meal fit for a king.
     "Antoine, you're not going to put anything funny in the food, are you?"
Sally asked as Antoine as he poured her wine.
     "Don't worry, my princez. I'm not one for jokes. And to guarantee that,
you can arrest me if I do." Antoine said with a smile holding her hand.
Obviously, he was taking advantage of Sonic's misfortune.
     "I believe you." And Sally smiled too. Sonic was seated at the head of
the long table with Sally and Tails siting next to him. After everybody was
seated, Sonic stood up.
     "Before we eat," Sonic announced "I would like to say just one thing...
APRIL FOOLS!!! I never had amnesia!"
     Everybody was shocked and didn't know what to say. Sally stood up,
belted him in his face with a right hook and gave him a long kiss. After Sally
finished, Sonic fell back in his chair and was amazed at what she has just
done to him.
     "Wow, Sal! I didn't know you had it in ya!" Sonic stood back up.
     "Why did you do that!" Sally had her hands on her waist and was tapping
her foot on the floor.
     "Just gettin ya back for the one you were about to pull on me!" Sally
calmed back down a little bit.
     "How did you do it?" Bookshire asked "It was too perfect!"
     "Well, today, I actually woke up about ten minutes before you thought I
did. That gave me enough time to think of a joke to play on you guys. I also
had Tails help me with this one." Tails sat back in his chair and started
laughing. Sonic continued with his story and everybody had a good time while
they were eating. They were all relieved that Sonic was really okay.

     "...and that's how I found out Sally was goin to play a joke on me."
     "You sneaky little rat." Sally held Sonic's hand and they both smiled.
     "I can't believe nobody tried to play a joke on me!" Tails commented.
Nina and Bookshire looked at each other and smiled.
     "Um, Tails?" Nina laughed. "There's something I hafta tell you. That
bracelet, it was just a cheap toy Jessica loaned me." Tails got angry and
pointed at his casts.
     "So I broke my tails for nothing!?" Bookshire cut in and explained what
happened to him.
     "That was also a joke. You're fine. You can take those silly things off
right now. Nina suggested it to me. You could thank her for that." Tails
pulled off the casts and hit Nina on the back of her metallic head with one.
     "Hey!" Nina took the other cast and started poking Tails with it.
     "Ow! No fair! You got armor on." Nina and Tails started batting at each
other and running around for about ten minutes until Sally stopped them.
     "Hey, Rote! Tell me something, Bunnie smashed your computer today.
Howdja pull that one off?" Sonic curiously asked.
     "Oh, that was just an old monochrome monitor she smashed. I had in the
back of my closet."
     "That was pretty good, I wouldn't have thought of that!"
     "Of course not! You hate going into my closet." Sonic and Rotor laughed
and drank more wine.

     "I don't think your fat, Rotor." Rotor looked at his gut and back at
Bunnie.
     "What brought that up?"