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Chapter Six

Strong Tank is Strong

Fang and Espio were able to lose the GUN tank, but Fang really wanted to get rid of it. The weasel stood at least two blocks away from the tank and aimed his rocket launcher at it (He had one on him after all.) The weasel smiled as he pulled the trigger and unleashed a rocket upon the tank. An explosion sounded throughout the city, but it wasn't big enough to be heard from Twinkle Park.

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Vector was busy talking to Sonic (Who was still in disguise) while Knuckles took the kids to get a bite to eat in the amusement park's expensive food area. Knuckles was slowly took a bite out of the burger he ordered while the kids ate their slices of pizza. The red echidna felt pleasant around the kids when they weren't destroying anything, well, at least Charmy wasn't. Shadow did seem to be a lot more compliant and fun to be around; maybe it would be better if he stayed an infant. Sonic did like it when he was babysitting Shadow before. But Knuckles didn't want to babysit Shadow forever and that was for sure.

"Yo Knux!" Called Vector from behind. Knuckles turned around in his chair to find Vector walking towards him with a strange blue hedgehog in a long tan trench coat following him.

Vector and the strange hedgehog walked up to the table. Finally Knuckles realized that it was Sonic wearing the ridiculous disguise. Vector explained to Knuckles why Sonic was wearing his outfit and Knuckles tried really hard not to yell 'Sonic the hedgehog is the one in the tan trench coat!' But miraculously he refrained from doing so. Sonic joined the group and watched as the kids had fun playing the games at the amusement park which Sonic could swear were 'fixed' so no one could win. But finally Vector heard a familiar voice calling out to the group.

"Mr. Vector! Mr. Knuckles!" Called out a soft female voice. Everyone turned around to see Cream running toward them with Cheese flying next to her.

Vector then immediately looked around frantically before Cream could come up to him and say the magic words that would calm him down.

"Don't worry, my mom's not here with me." Cream finally said, before Vector wiped some nervous sweat from his forehead.

Knuckles looked extremely happy. He knew that Cream was here with Tails and that Tails would have the machine that would turn Shadow back to normal.

"Where's Tails?" Asked Knuckles, without saying 'hi' or 'hello.'

"He's here, we split up so we could find you." Cream said with a smile, before looking over to see the baby Shadow. "Oh! He's so cute!" Cream ran over to Shadow and gave him a hug as if he were some sort of plush toy.

Knuckles sighed, more waiting before Shadow would be fixed. But even though it's been a day, Knuckle did get really- never mind. Knuckles didn't spend any time with Shadow at all. No sort of specific bond between the two has been created during their time together. Knuckles was just forced to take care of an infant hedgehog with no further argument. So pretty much, Knuckles will learn absolutely nothing at the end of this, but let's not get ahead of ourselves.

BOOOOOOOOOOOM!

A large explosion sounded somewhere near the park. People started to scream and run only moments later. Knuckles turned to Cream with a serious look.

"Take Charmy and Shadow and get out of here." He simply said before, he ran toward the source of the explosion, Vector followed him and Sonic threw his trench coat off, before following.

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Tails ran through the crammed spaces of Twinkle Park with a machine strapped to his back. The explosion was close to him and he ran frantically to try and find Knuckles.

BOOOOOOOOM!

Another explosion sounded and this time it caused the ferris wheel to tumble over. The ground shook as the amusement park ride collided with the ground, people fell over and children started to cry from all of the chaos that was happening so far. Parents scrambled to find their kids, while the sounds of police sirens went off in the distance. Things were starting to get really dangerous, but Tails had no idea why.

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A huge tank stood next to the crumbled remains of the ferris wheel, in front of the tank stood Fang and Espio. The weasel was busy loading another rocket into his bazooka, while Espio took out more ninja stars. During the whole fight with the tank Fang started to get angry at Espio.

"For the last toime! Your little knives and stars won't do a thing aginst it!" Yelled Fang as he aimed his rocket launcher, once again, at the tank.

"So far, your weapons hasn't done much either." Espio retorted.

Fang dropped his aim. "SHUT UP!" he yelled back.

The tank swerved its head around and aimed its main cannon at the two and fired. Espio jumped to the left while Fang jumped to the right to avoid the shell. Fang landed on his feet and fired his rocket off. The rocket smacked into the armor plating of the tank, causing a small explosion to engulf the vehicle.

"Alroight!" Fang celebrated. The smoke faded away only to reveal that the tank received a small dent on it plating. "Crap!" Cursed Fang.

A red echidna then rammed into the side of the tank, causing it to skid a good ten feet away, but it was still functioning. A green crocodile then jumped onto the tank and tried to pry the hatch open, but an electrical current shot throughout the vehicles plating, shocking the croc and causing him to jump off. Espio then threw five kunai knives at the tank. The knives stuck to the plating of the vehicle and Fang noticed a trip of burning paper on each of the knives. Moments later the paper on the knives exploded.

"Fang! Good to see you on the right side." Said a familiar voice. Fang turned his head to see a blue hedgehog standing next to him. The smoke cleared and the tank stood strong with almost no damage taken from the attack.

"Good to see you to, mate. Shall we finish this machine off?" Asked Fang before loading another rocket into the bazooka.

"Let's do it!" Sonic said happily, before charging the tank along with Knuckles and Vector.