Me: Hey bitches! I'm back!

Sonic: Do you have to start every chapter of every story like that, AK?

Me: Yes in fact I do. Read all of my other stories. You will find the exact same first words at the beginning, and the same words at the end.

Knuckles: Doesn't anyone complain about that?

Me: I haven't gotten any complaints so far. I mean...there was one a few days ago. It said I need to lighten up on the language. I'll try to, but as for the intro and ending, that will remain there. It always has and it always will.

Rouge: You sure are uptight about that aren't ya?

Me: Got that right.

Amy: Did you finally get the next chapter of the AutoKnights V up, AK?

Me: Fortunately I did. I have always updated in less than a week on my stories and I also intend to keep THAT tradition going as well.

Knuckles: How many days does it usually take you to update?

Me: Usually five or six. Occasionally four when luck kicks in.

Tails: I still can't believe what happened last chapter!

Silver: How could Eggman do something like that?

Sonic: Silver? You're in this story too?

Me: Yeah he is. So is Blaze.

Tails: Blaze that Cat or your original character who is also named Blaze?

Me: In this story, Blaze is the cat. I named my original character Blaze before I even knew that cat existed.

Silver: Well that's weird.

Me: Tell me about it. Anyways, enough talk. Lets' get rolling. I don't own any characters related to the Sonic the hedgehog universe. If I did, things would be very VERY different. Enjoy chapter 2 and reviews are always appreciated.


Of Chao and Hedgehogs

Chapter 2: A Plan

(Emerald Hill; Chaotix Detective Agency Building; 9:00 PM)

Outside the Chaotix place, Sonic and Amy had just arrived and were walking up to the door.

"I still can't believe Eggman would hurt a poor little chao with a freakin' baseball bat." Amy said.

"I just can't believe no one in that neighborhood has reported him to the authorities." Sonic said.

"How do you think Eggman moved in there without letting anyone know?" Amy asked.

"That's what we're here to find out." Sonic said as he and Amy arrived at the front door.

Sonic opened it up and the Chaotix were all there. Vector the Crocodile, Espio the Chameleon, and Charmy Bee. But there were others there too. Among the three detectives, almost everyone Sonic and Amy knew were there as well. Everyone was sitting at a circular table playing cards. They first recognized Shadow the Hedgehog and Tikal the Echidna. Shadow was sitting down while Tikal stood behind him looking at his cards. Sitting to Shadow's left was Vector, and on his right, was Knuckles the Echidna with his own cards. Rouge the Bat sat next to Knuckles and looked at her cards. Tails was next to Rouge and analyzing his own hand. Next to Tails and directly across from Shadow, was Silver the Hedgehog. Behind him was Blaze the Cat looking over his shoulder. Silver threw in a few chips from his pile.

"I'll see your five bucks, Shadow, and raise you ten more." Silver said confidently.

Shadow smirked. He then chuckled a bit.

"I call." Shadow said as he threw in his own chips.

"I'm out." Knuckles said as he placed his hand down.

"Fold." Rouge said.

"Done." Tails said.

"Out for now." Espio said.

"What should I do, Vector?" Charmy asked.

Vector looked at Charmy's cards. He had a full house. Kings over tens. The croc only had a six high straight. Vector looked at his own pile of chips and saw that he only had two piles that reached to only an inch in height. Vector then remembered that Charmy didn't know all that much about poker yet.

"That's not really a hand you want to have, Charmy. Fold." Vector told the bee.

"I fold." Charmy obeyed.

Vector smirked as he called Silver's raise with Shadow.

"Alright. Watchya got?" Silver asked Shadow and Vector.

Vector showed his cards.

"Six high straight. Beat that." Vector said.

"With great ease." Shadow said as he showed his cards.

"Full house. Queens over fours." The black hedgehog said.

"Hey. That's like what I had." Charmy said. The bee then realized what Vector had done. "YOU LIAR!!"

"He had a full house, Vector?" Espio asked. "Why did you tell him to fold?"

"He was afraid he would lose to a six year old bee. How pathetic." Rouge said with a smirk.

"Hey, shut up, bat!" Vector shouted. "He would have lost to Shadow anyway."

"You mean how Shadow's gonna lose like this?" Silver said as he laid down his own hand.

His hand was an eight, a nine, a ten, a jack, and a queen, all in spades.

"Straight flush. Queen high." Silver said with a smirk.

Silver reached in his hands and happily took the chips that were in the center of the table. Then he looked back and kissed Blaze.

"That was a big one." The lilac cat said.

"You cheater!!" Shadow yelled. "You've been using those psycho-whatever powers to look at my cards!"

Silver sighed and slapped his forehead.

"Okay. One, it's called, psychokinesis. And two, I've told you this a million times Shadow. I can only use my powers to move things with my mind. I can't read anyone else's mind. YOU just don't know how to bluff." Silver said.

"Shadow please don't get mad." Tikal said.

"Yeah come on Shadow. Lighten up." Knuckles said.

Shadow growled and gave his cards to Espio.

"It's your deal. What's the game?" Shadow asked.

Espio thought about it while he shuffled the cards. Then Tails looked over at the doorway and saw Sonic and Amy.

"Oh hey you guys. When did you get here?" The fox asked.

Everyone else looked and saw the two hedgehogs.

"A few minutes ago." Sonic said. "What's going on here?"

"A poker party. You two were sent invitations. Did you get them?" Espio asked.

"Oh yeah." Amy said as she was hit with realization. "I got mine a few days ago. But then someone told me where to finds Sonic and I forgot all about it."

"I figured as much." Vector said. "What about you, Sonic."

"I haven't been out to my mailbox in a ling time. I haven't gone inside my house for an even longer time." Sonic said.

"Well you're here now. Pay the buy-in and join the games." Tails said.

"Aren't you a little young to be gambling?" Sonic asked.

"He may be young, but look at his chips." Rouge said.

Sonic looked at his best friend's pile. It was twice as big as Silver's. And Silver already had a lot of ships. Tail's pile went up to about 8 inches in height and four inches in width.

"Little bastard's been whooping our butts the whole night." Vector said bitterly.

"What part of the word, genius, do you not understand?" Tails said.

"Sonic. Remember why we're here." Amy said.

"Oh yeah. Guys put the game on hold for a sec. Something's going on that I think you should know." Sonic said.

"But first, where's Cream?" Amy asked. "Is she here too?"

"No she's at home." Tails said. "Her mother and Cream herself both don't really like gambling."

"Ok good. Because I don't want her to hear this." Amy said.

"Why? What's going on, Amy?" Blaze asked.

"Guess who we happened to see tonight?" Sonic said.

Sonic and Amy then told the entire group about Eggman in his new house. Amy choked up a bit when they got to the part where Eggman beat the two chao with a baseball bat. Everyone else was just as shocked as the two hedgehogs were.

"Eggman? In the suburbs?" Tails said.

"Are you sure it was Eggman?" Silver asked.

"Fat. Ugly. Stupid mustache. I'm pretty sure I know Eggman when I see him." Sonic said.

"What the hell is he doing in a normal house like that?" Shadow wondered.

"It must be some sort of plan he's cooking up." Knuckles said.

"I'm mostly concerned for those chao." Amy said. "That's why me and Sonic came here looking for you three." Amy pointed to Vector, Charmy, and Espio.

"We know you guys are detectives and we were hoping you would know how we could solve the problem in a non-violent way. The way he's treating those chao can't be legal. Can it?" Sonic asked.

"Of course not." Espio said. "It's called animal abuse. But then again. We're all animals here."

"But he's right. Abusing chao isn't legal. And it's a good chance those chao aren't even legally HIS." Vector said.

"So what should we do?" Tails asked.

"We have to do SOMETHING." Tikal said. "The chao are my friends. I will not let them be abused my some madman. You're going to help. Right Shadow?"

"You don't even have to ask." Shadow said as he took Tikal's hand. He then stood up. "Where is he now?"

"After we saw him hit the chao with a bat, he shut off all the lights in his house. He must have called it a night early." Sonic asked.

"I say we wait until tomorrow before we do anything." Blaze said.

Everyone looked at Blaze.

"Why should we wait? Lets' just go and give him a wake up call he'll never forget!" Knuckles said.

"I hate Eggman no less than everyone else here. But if we go and do something right now, someone might wake up on that house and call the authorities." Blaze said.

"WE'RE the authorities!" Vector said.

"She means the cops in Station Square, Vector." Silver said.

"And on that note, have you, Espio, or Charmy even arrested anybody?" Tails asked.

Vector, Charmy, and Espio looked away and thought about that.

"We only get hired to solve cases. We've never actually made an arrest." Espio said.

"But we have been asked by the Station Square feds to do a few interrogations here and there." Vector said. "And every time I ask the questions, I always get them no problem."

"That's because the people being questioned are probably afraid you'll bite their heads off if they don't answer." Charmy said.

Vector shrugged. "It's not my fault they're just a bunch of pansies."

"Can we please stay on topic here?!" Amy shouted.

"Oh right." Vector said. "I actually agree with Blaze. Let's wait it out until tomorrow. That way, Eggman will be awake, and we'll all be able to see for ourselves just what he's up to and how he's treating those chao."

"Wow. Hold on." Shadow said as he walked to the window.

"What's going on, Shadow?" Tikal asked.

Shadow only out up his hand as a response and stuck his head out of the window. He looked in all directions while everyone just sat and stood there wondering what he was doing. Shadow then brought his head back in and shut the window.

"No snow." He said.

"What, hon?" Tikal asked.

"Oh it's just that Vector just had a good idea. I thought all hell froze over for a second." Shadow said.

Everyone there except for Vector laughed hard.

"Hey! I've had some good ideas!" Vector shouted.

"Suuuuuuurree you have." Espio said. "Anyways, let's just wait until tomorrow to see what's going on. For now, let's just continue playing cards, shall we?"

Sonic and Amy looked at each other.

"There's not really much we can do right now." Sonic said.

Amy sighed. "Alright. But first thing in the morning, we all head for Eggman's place. But remember, not a word of this to Cream or Cheese."

"We promise. Now are you guys gonna play or not?" Knuckles asked.

The two hedgehogs shrugged.

"Sure why not? What's the buy in?" Sonic asked.

"Twenty five rings." Rouge replied.

"I don't have that many." Amy said.

"Don't worry Amy. I'll split mine with you." Sonic said.

"Really? Okay." Amy said happily.

The rest of the night, all of them continued to play poker. By the time they stopped, Tails had nearly all of the chips in his pile. All of his chips added up to 169 rings out of a possible 225. Silver had the remaining 56. Everyone left the place wondering how Tails learned how to psyche everyone out in poker. Amy however was thinking of those poor chao Eggman beat, and what would happen if Cream found out about it.

"If she finds out about what's going on in that house, she might fall into a depression so deep, she might never come out of it." Amy said to herself. "Which is exactly why we need to save them before it's too late."

With that, Amy went back to her house and went to sleep cuddled up to a picture of her and Sonic together. The next morning would arrive soon.


Blaze: Not bad AK.

Tikal: I had no idea you would be using me in it.

Me: I'll probably bring in more characters. But for right now, I'm happy with who I got in it right now.

Espio: So should we expect the next chapter in less than a week like always?

Me: Actually…no.

Charmy: What?! Why not?!

Me: Because, this weekend I'm going to San Francisco. I'm going to be away from my computer for a few days. And when I DO get back, I'm going to start up chapter 13 of the AutoKnights V.

Rouge: Is there any chance you'll bring that series here into this universe?

Me: You asked me that question before, Rouge. I'm not sure at the moment. That story is nearing the end and I just wanna get it done so I can start up VI (six).

Espio: Don't rush yourself, AK.

Me: I'm not trying to rush, Espio. I just have very big plans for six and I wanna start them as soon as I possibly can.

Sonic: Well don't write too fast. If you do, who know what might happen.

Me: I agree. Well I better get going for now. I have to pack for San Fran. I'll get chapter 3 up as soon as I possibly can. Until then, peace bitches.

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