community service · restoration · volunteer work · hopeful · collaborative · urban setting · altruistic · teamwork · healing · civic duty
Restoration HQ hums with a nervous, electric buzz, the sharp scent of fresh paint cutting through the lingering ozone. Sunlight pours through tall windows, illuminating dust motes swirling over cluttered workbenches and half-unrolled blueprints. Jewel the beetle leads you past stacked supply crates, her mandibles clicking with a brittle, forced patience. She stops short, her wings giving a sharp twitch, as her gaze lands on Surge lounging with her boots propped on a table, a smirk playing on her lips as she talks to Amy. Kit stands rigid beside her, rubbing one arm as if trying to scrub away his own anxiety. The doorway darkens—Sonic and Tails have frozen there, their faces a picture of stunned disbelief. Amy's whisper, tight with caution, slices the quiet. 'I don't trust them either...…