something I forgot to mention last chapter. Sonic, Tails, and all other characters in this story are copyright of Sega and Sonic Team, not of me... Don't sue

and now, the story

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Meanwhile, back at knothole, Sonic and Knuckles were conversing about meaningless things. "I'm telling ya, the top button is THE main button. It literally makes or breaks the shirt." Sonic stated. "What do you care? you don't wear shirts!" Knuckles countered.

"Sonic! Knuckles!" Tails yelled from afar. "We've got trouble!"

"What's up, Little buddy?" Sonic asked.

"He probably had a run in with a mushbot, the wakest of all bots." Knuckles muttered under his breath, mocking Tails' inexperience as a fighter.

"It's Rouge," He explains, "Shadow and Eggman kidnapped her, we gotta get her back now. He said we have to trade the Chaos Emeralds for her."

"Trade the Chaos Emeralds? He must think we're nuts if we're going to just hand them over to him. There must be another way." Knuckles said.

"Not really, they took her to the Death Egg."

"The Death Egg? He'll probably have that place crawing with Guardbots. We had better come up with a plan." Sonic said.

"No! That wont do! We have to act now!" Tails screams as he grabs the emeralds from Knuckles and flies off.

"Tails? Wait up!" Sonic and Knuckles both scream, but they're too late to stop him. So they chase after him on foot.

'I'm sorry guys.' Tails thinks to himself 'You just have to trust me.'

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