This is my newest story that I had in mind for a long long time. I finally decided to just make it. I was gonna wait until I finish my other story, but I decided, 'What the hell.. why not..?'

EDIT: YAY! I finally edited chapter 1. What do you guys think now!? Much better? I even added some things to it as well. Check it out! I'll get around to the second chapter later, M'kay?

Hope you all take a liking to my story!

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TRAPPED IN A VAULT


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CHAPTER 1

"So guys what do you think of my new vault I built?" Tails asked, looking at everyone. Apparently, Tails had just finished on this new "super cool" (pretty much what he keeps calling it) invention that he had just finished a few days back. He was just so ecstatic about it that he just HAD to invite the guys along for them to check this out.

"Why the heck did you make a vault?" Knuckles curiously asked. This took a huge persuading for Knuckles to come down here. This better be good... 

"So I can put all my top secret inventions in here. Pretty cool, eh?" he replied with the brightest smile that Knuckles has ever seen from him in sometime.

Knuckles didn't seem fazed by this brand new, built-in installment. "No.." Tails sagged. "Is this why you dragged us all the way down here? To show us some stupid vault that none of us really care about?" 

"For once, I agree with Knuckles," Shadow said.

"Hey!" Knuckles yelled.

"Aww come on guys! It's not so bad! It's looks really cool, Tails." Sonic said trying to cheer up Tails. Tails smiled at him.

"Whatever.. I'm outta here," he said as he began walking over to the only exit of this laboratory. "Thanks for wasting my life." As soon as he was leaving, Rouge and Shadow didn't hesitate to join in, for they too didn't give a rats ass about some stupid vault.

"Wait!" Tails yelled abruptly. "You guys wanna go inside and see what It looks like?"

"Heh, why not?" Sonic shrugged, walking over to Tails's side with Amy and Cream close behind. Cream smiled sweetly at Tails before walking over on the opposite side of him. Tails brightened. He turned over to his computer, placed the code in and the door slowly opened, revealing an... empty room, the lights instantly flashing on. The other three, though, didn't budge from there spots near the stairs.

"Why the hell would you guys want to go in a empty vault?" Knuckles asked them, obviously aware of the emptiness of the vault. "Very pointless," he finished as the others walked inside.

"Would you shut the hell up for once, Knuckles!" Amy shouted over to him, then walking inside. Knuckles stared a little shocked by her, surprised by her sudden outburst. She never does that.. unless Sonic does something stupid, or if anyone disrupts her moment with him.

"Took the words right out of my mouth," Rouge muttered to herself, chuckling.

 Sonic took a moments to stare at his surroundings. "Pretty cool, Tails" he told him. Truthfully, though, Sonic was a bit hesitant about entering this room. It was kinda small, and no windows either. He felt like he was cramped, even though he had plenty of space of where he was walking. He didn't like the feeling of being cramped. Stuff like that can drive him insane. Being able to be free is, like, his life, man! So instead of speaking the truth, he pretended to simply enjoy the inside of it. He walked over to one of the walls placing a hand on it. "Man, this would probably be hard to break!" He grinned and looked over to Tails. 

"Yep! It's so strong and sturdy that say... Knuckles can't even break it." he laughed and looked over to Knuckles for his reaction. And he got one, too.

"What?! Let me see!" Knuckles said, storming inside. He gathered up as much strength as he can and threw a stong punch at the wall. He whole body suddenly began to shake and he fell to the ground, not even cracking the metal.

"Told ya sooo!" Tails grinned.

A loud laugh was heard from the outside and they all just glared as Rouge walked into the vault heading towards the fallin' Knuckles. She leaned over against a wall and gave that teasing look again. "Poor Knuckie... not strong enough to rip through a simple metal wall. Such a shame."

Knuckles opened his eyes, greeted by two feminine pair of eyes. "Oh, and you think you can do better?"

Rouge smirked. "I don't think, I know."

"Well then," Knuckles sat up from the ground and leaned against the wall, crossing his hands. "Do show."

Rouge shrugged. "I can, but... I don't want to waste my energy over on something frivolous such as this."

Knuckles was about to retort, but she was quick to reply again.

"By the way..." Rouge thought for a moment before speaking again. "This wall was able to withstand Knuckles power. If I'm not strong enough I can surely use this kind of metal. What do you say, Fox boy, can you help install it for me? It can sure come in handy from all of those who dare try and stop me from my hunting." She said, looking directly at Knuckles.

Knowing where she was going with this, Knuckles quickly shot up from the ground. "WHAT?! Tails, for your life, you will not, I repeat, will NOT help her!!"

Tails was surprised to be suddenly sucked into this. "Uh.. N-No, No! I mean... Er... even if I agreed to it I couldn't anyway. I don't have any extra's. Plus it's really hard to get. I had to do a lot of persuading to get this kind of metal, you know.."

"Well... your sure as hell good at the persuading part since you managed to get us all here." Shadow's faint voice was heard from out of the vault.

Tails sweat dropped. "Uh... yeah.."

Rouge sighed. "Oh, how disappointing. I would have really enjoyed the new installment for my boots."

Knuckles glared at her. "What's that suppose to mean?"

Rouge's smile widened. "I think you know exactly what I mean, Knuckle head. Kicking your ass would so make my day."

Knuckles growled. "Why you--!"

"Come on guys, cut it out. Now isn't the place to start fighting." Amy said.

Knuckles just hmphed and looked away while Rouge kept her eyes on him.

"What kind of metal is this?" Cream asked, changing the subject.

"Oh! Well I'm glad you asked, Cream! This is Tungsten. Supposedly the strongest metal known to man at this time. The word "tungsten" is taken from the Swedish word, tung sten, meaning "heavy stone," and is a tough, steel-gray to white metal. Tungsten is known as the metal for making filaments in common incandescent light bulbs. The application takes advantage of the fact that tungsten has the highest melting temperature of any metal. It's temperature can--"

"Hey, hey, hey!" Knuckles interrupted. " She asked. "She just asked what the metal was called! No need to get into any detail about it!"

Tails flushed. "Oh... sorry. I guess I did get a little carried away there, didn't I?"

"Fox boy, how do you close this vault?" Rouge asked.

"Oh, all you have to do is press that big red button out there and it'll immediately shut."

"You mean this button?" Shadow said, pressing the very well noticed button, causing the door to shut on everyone.

"Huh? Shadow what are you doing?!" Sonic began to panic. Like mentioned earlier, he didn't like being cramped the feeling of being cramped in this vault, and the door being shut just made the feeling much worse for him.

"Something I've been wanting to do a long, and I mean long time ago." he replied.

"Come on Shadow really, this isn't funny. Open the door, all right?" Tails laughed.

"No."

Tails grin instantly dropped. "Shadow?"

"..."

"Shadow!" Tails ran over to the door. Sonic and the rest immediately joined him. Tails knocked on the door. "Serious Shadow. Please open this door."

"No way, Tails. Your little persuading ain't gonna work on me this time."

"Bobba!" Tails yelled out randomly.

"Mr. Shadow, please open up," Cream tried this time, "I was told to be home before it gets dark and I don't want my mom and Cheese to worry about me."

"Hmm.... hold on, let me think about this - No."

"Shadow! This is Rouge, your best friend. Will you at least let me out..?" Rouge said hoping he'd concur. Everyone glared at her selfish request.

"No." he said plainly.

"Shadow please!" Tails yelled while banging on the door. Everyone else quickly joined him, yelling at Shadow.

Shadow couldn't help but chuckle at there crys. "Sorry guys.. gotta get goin. See ya." and with that, he left the lab, ignoring every yell he's got.

"SHADOW! SHADOW! YOU GET BACK HERE! SHADOW! SSSHHHHHAAAAAADDDOOOOOWWWWW!!!!!!" Everyone yelled at the top of there lungs as they all kept banging on the door.


There you have it peeps. The First chapter. Sorry It was short.. The next chapter will be longer. It should be funnier too. Hope you guys enjoyed this! Oh, and If you wanted to know who is stuck inside I'll tell ya. Knuckles, Rouge, Sonic, Amy, Tails, And Cream. Team Chaotix will be in this later. They actually have a little story of there own in this. You shall soon see later.