Knuckles the Echidna opened his eyes, the cool feeling of sea air wafting over his face. Lifting himself off the chair he found himself in, he noticed some extra weight on his chest. Looking down, he saw a pair of breasts, the very same ones that belonged to Amy Rose.
"Wha... what the!?" he shouted, leaping off the deck chair he was on. Something flew by his (well, Amy's) eyes, and quick as a flash his (well, Amy's) hand flew forward and grabbed it. He smirked slightly, happy that his reflexes hadn't been affected by the swap. Looking at the object, he saw it to be a newspaper article with a picture of Sonic at the top.
"Huh! Should of guessed Amy'd have a picture of Sonic..." he muttered aloud, before he noticed something about the picture: Sonic had a frog and a chao in his hands. He remembered them from when they were celebrating the Metal Overlord's defeat. Weren't they Cream and Big's pets?
Before he could contemplate it any longer, however, a light blue creature immediately flew directly into his face, causing him to yell and flail his arms about. After his momentary spaz attack, he grabbed the offending object and pulled from his face. Looking at it, he saw it to be Cream's pet chao, Cheese.
"Hey, what are you doing here, little guy?" he asked it, thinking that perhaps this meant that Cream was somewhere nearby.
"Little? Who do you think your talking to, Missy?" Knuckles' train of thought immediately halted. Did that chao just speak to him!?
"D... did you just talk??" he asked, somewhat fearfully.
"Of course I did! Now where's Sonic, Miss Rose?" Cheese demanded. Knuckles growled.
"And why do you want to know? And for your information, I'm not Amy! I'm Knuckles the Echidna!" spat Knuckles, trying hard to sound intimidating with Amy's voice (which, as Sonic fans should know, isn't too hard.).
"I thought as much." a third slow and monotonous voice called out. Knuckles looked up at the umbrella that he had failed to notice above him, and heard someone sliding down it. As the newcomer landed, Knuckles saw it to be Cream the Rabbit. At least, it looked like Cream.
"Cream, how did you teach Cheese to talk, and why didn't you teach him some manners while you were at it?" he asked angrily.
"I'm not Cream." she said calmly. A little bit to calmly. "My name is E-123 Omega, and from your shouts I see that your Knuckles."
Knuckles jaw nearly hit the floor. The sweet young girl in front of him was really that deranged wind-up toy?
"Now, tell us who you are. Or else." said wind-up toy orders, pointing at the chao Knuckles held and sounding unnatural with Cream's high pitched voice but Omega's slow and commanding tone.
The onion-shaped creature wrestled it's way out of Knuckles hands, before clearing it's throat. "Well, I'm none other than the greatest scientific genius known to man: Doctor Ivo 'Eggman' Robotnik!"
There was a short silence, before Knuckles immediately fell over laughing. The sound of Cheese's voice, which was usually limited to a simple "Chao, chao!" proclaiming itself as the world's greatest scientist was too much for him to bear.
Eggman turned angrily to Knuckles, before kicking him in the side. This immediately shut him up, with Cheese's body being curiosly strong for it's size. Both looked over in surrise, to see Omega stifling a few giggles.
"Omega, are you... laughing?" asked Eggman incredously. Omega quickly stopped and regained his composure.
"Of course not. I don't know what that was." he said quickly.
"Well, well, well!" the trio heard from behind them. They turned to see the large purple form of Big the Cat sitting on the edge of the pier they were standing on. "This is definitely somethin' for the books, eh?" he asked with a heavy New Yorker accent.
Knuckles immediately recognised this. "Vector?" he asked.
"Yep, Knux, it's me. Long time no see, huh?" laughed the reptile-turned-mammal.
Knuckles sighed, placing a hand to his (well, Am.. is smacked) forehead.
"Listen everyone. Somehow, we've all exchanged bodies, and we've got to find out how and how to return to normal. As much as I hate it, we've got to join forces. Okay?"
Vector gave a thumbs-up. "I'm with you, Knux. I know just how good a leader you can be!" he said, recalling the times they had on Carnival Island.
Eggman crossed his arms, looking somewhat similar to Shadow. Well, a small, flying, blue, onion-shaped Shadow. "Fine, but only until we find a way back to normal, got it?"
"Affirmative. I accept, under the same conditions as Eggman." Omega said, for once agreeing with his creator.
Knuckles smiled, happy that everyone agreed so simply. "Okay, then, let's move!"
As they left, Omega began thinking to himself. Why did he laugh at Eggman. Unless he had been gloating over the amount of destruction he caused, he had never luaghed at anything. Bah, he can think about that later. For now, he had to get back to his own metal shell, and out of this fleshy body!