Knuckles sat on the couch in the living room of Tails' Workshop. Tails was sitting on the floor of the living room examining Knuckles' damaged Extreme Gear board. Amy was there, because she could? "Knuckles, How did you do this? Half the board is gone! Seriously! I expected something like this from Sonic, but you!" Knuckles looked offended "Lava is hard to board through! What should- I didn't think it was actually lava anyway. Besides like you won't if it were you in that race!" The young fox gave an exasperated sigh, then proceeded to face palm. "Knuckles, if it looks anything remotely like lava, you shouldn't let it then sink even more into it!" Amy who was previously had been making sure she would look perfect for her 'Sonikku' said "Tails, it's better the board than Knuckles, right?" Tails gave a small nod, and turned back to the board, obviously trying to salvage anything that was left.
The doorbell rang saying someone was at the door. Odd, since no one ever seemed to actually use the bell. "Knuckles would you?" Tails asked without looking up. "Yeah, yeah I'll get it." The tempered echidna got up to see who was at the door while grumbling the entire time. He opened the door in surprise. "Shadow! What are you doi-" The ebony hedgehog walked past him as if he wasn't there. Looking up from the hoverboard Tails' eyes widened in surprise.
"Shadow? What are you doing here? Don't you have some GUN stuff to be doing?" he said to the hedgehog leaning against the wall. Shadow rolled his eyes, then with a huff of exasperation said, "Didn't The Faker tell you I was coming over?" Knuckles, who had resumed his spot on the couch answered, "Sonics went out for a run. Not that unusual for his speed to get in the way of things."
Shadow rolled his eyes and muttered something that sounded like 'typical'. "Soo, Shadow," Amy started in a voice that sounded slightly threatening, "Why did Sonic ask you to come over?" Without batting an eye he said, "At least he invited me." The pink hedgehog clenched her fists tightly, knowing that technically he was right. They continued like this for a while trying to get Shadow to tell them why he was here but failing.
The door burst open to the workshop, revealing a blue hedgehog. "SONIC!" The blue hedgehog then was trampled by the pink one. "Amy! Get off!" Sonic practically growled at her. Upon closer inspection Sonic had some circles under his eyes, and his natural blue was slightly off in color. "Sonic, I-" he cut her off with a frustrated huff, "Amy, I'm kinda stressed and tired, I've got to talk to them," he gestured to the echidna and fox, "Alone, so would you mind leaving?" Amy looked slightly mad and offended.
"So, you can tell Shadow, but not me!" Sonic rolled his eyes. "Shadow already knows, and that wasn't even on purpose. Just, Amy, I need to tell Tails and Knuckles before I tell anyone else!"
The pink hedgehog gave a small nod and walked out of the door of the workshop. After watching her go Sonic turned to the other three mobians in the room. "Okay," Tails started after looking at Sonic, "What's going on? What do you have to tell us, that apparently we don't know, but Shadow does?" The azure hedgehog reached into his quills and pulled something out and tossed it to Tails.
After looking at it a moment the fox said, "Sonic, this a bottle," he swallowed, "A Pill Bottle"
