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Sonic sighed. He was so bored. Bored, bored, bored, bored, bored. Nothing was going on today. Nothing. He had absolutely nothing to do. He hated waiting. He loathed it with a passion. If something didn't happen soon, he felt like he would explode!

KA-BOOM!

The sidewalk behind him exploded in a burning fireball.

POW! POW! POW!

Lasers crashed all around him. Looking up, he saw Eggman in a flying robot, blasting everything in sight. He grinned. Finally, something to DO! Effortlessly dodging a hailstorm of lasers, he jumped up and ran up the side of a building to its roof.

"Hey, Fatso! Catch me if you can!" Sonic shouted, sticking his tounge out at the Doctor. Then he sped off at super-sonic speed. "Grrrrraaah! Get that hedgehog!" Eggman screamed, slamming his fists down on his control panel. He flipped a switch and the back of the robot slid open, revealing two gigantic rockets. Huge flames shot out of them and the robot zoomed off in pursuit of Sonic, leaving a trail of thick, black smoke behind.

Meanwhile, the blue hedgehog was dashing through streets, down alleys, across bridges, laughing as he went. He hadn't had this much fun in a LONG time! The sound of an engine made his ears perk up, and glancing up at the sky, he saw Eggman and his robot directly above him. Sonic smirked. "So, he's gotten a bit faster, eh?" he said to himself. "Well, he's still not fast enough!" He revved up his legs a bit more, and was about to charge off, when a green beam from the robot sent him flying through the air and crashing into the window of a building. The robot stopped, slowly desceding to the ground, and landed with a loud thud and a rush of steam. A staircase came out of the side and touched down on the street. A door opened at the top and Eggman stepped out, a strange-looking gun in his hand, and walked down the stairs. "Come out, come out, where ever you are!" he called, looking around for Sonic.

The hedgehog he was looking for, meanwhile, had landed in a closet, his rear in a bucket and a mop on his head. Suddenly, he felt tingly all over. "What the-" he cried, as the room got bigger and bigger. No, wait, he was shrinking! "AUGGGGHHHHH!" he yelled, his voice smaller and higher pitched. He shrank down, down, down, into the bucket.

A minute later, a little blue bird poked its head out of the bucket. "Tweet?" it said in confusion. "Tweet tweet!" it yelped, looking down at itself. It was Sonic, and he was a bird! Scrambling out of the bucket, he plopped down on the ground and skittered out of the tiny room. The store was packed, and he had to constantly dodge feet to avoid being stepped on. He wasn't going to get anywhere like this! He flapped his wings a little, testing them out. They worked, and within seconds, he was flying! He flew through the air, free as a... well, bird. The exit in sight, wide open. A few more feet and he would be-

"SQUACK!" he yelped as a woman in a dark green uniform with a badge that said, "Hello, my name is Sally," snatched him out of the air. "Gotcha!" she shouted. "No pets escaping from the pet store!" Then she carried him over to an empty birdcage, put him in, and closed the door and locked it. "No more running away now, you hear?" she said cheerily, and walked away.

Sonic rushed up to the bars of the cage, grabbing them and shaking them with all his might, but to no avail. He was trapped.

Eggman opened a glass door with a sign that said "Pet Shop" hanging from it, gun cocked, ready to fight. A bell tinkled as the door swung closed behind him. He looked arond. No Sonic over there. Not there, either. Nor was he back there. He couldn't see him anywhere. "Blast!" he shouted, and turned and walked out, slamming the door behind him.

A few minutes later, Tails walked into the same store. He was here to buy a pet. After all, that's what pet shops were for, right? A lady approached him. "Hi, I'm Sally, and welcome to the Pet Shop!" she said eagerly, almost shouting. "What can I do for you?"

"I'd like to buy a pet," Tails replied.

"Sure! We've got lots of those!" Sally the overly-eager sales lady led him down the ailes. "Here's our fish," she said, pointing out animals as they went. "And frogs. And turtles. And oh, look at this cute puppy! And this little kitty-cat! And... a wrench?" The lady stopped in front of a tank which, sure enough, contained a wrench. "What's a hammer doing here?" She shrugged, and continued on. "And finally, we have the birds."

Tails's mouth opened in awe. There were all kinds of birds here, in all colors of the rainbow, from canaries to toucans. But one bird caught his attention. A little cobalt blue one, which was pressing itself up against the bars of its cage. "I'll take this one," he said to the lady, who nodded and picked up the cage, handed it to him, and led him over to the checkout counter. He paid the lady and walked out of the store, went to the train station, and borded a train for the Mystic Ruins.

BUM BUM BUM!

And there you go! What will happen next? Find out in chapter two!

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