A/N: I have an announcement:

HAHA! IN YO FACE, SCHOOL! YOUR HOMEWORK WILL NEVER KEEP ME DOWN!

*ahem*

Anyway, on with the show!


The camera pans back into the warehouse where Dr. Finitevus is sitting in his favorite arm chair next to the stuffed wolf to his right and a stuffed bear to his left. He's grinning, but none knew why he was grinning. It could be because he was still thinking about the prank his dau-I mean boss played on them earlier, or he could be masking his sadistic grin since he could be thinking of ways to get revenge on the brown echidna girl. But we'll never know.

...Until later.

Nonetheless, the doctor remained professional, and was determined to go on with the show.

"Welcome back," he purrs "Ready for more? I should hope so...We're far from done here."

The camera then cuts to a black furred echidna with peach colored skin, spiked fist like any traditional echidna, and dreads stop at his mid back. He's wearing white gloves and shoes with blue rings around his spikes sitting in what appears to be a bedroom.

"This young man is Daniel," Finitevus explains "His wife found him a little volunteering work for some extra cash. But what he didn't know is that his wife had set him up as an act of revenge."

The camera then cuts over to a white furred echidna with brown skin, ice blue eyes, and long dreads with burgundy ribbons wrapped around some of them. She's wearing a burgundy V neck shirt, navy blue pants, silver heels and a few pieces of jewlry. She's standing in a living room of sorts.

"I'm putting Daniel on Scare Tactics to get back at him for the china set," the young woman says "I love you hon, but I did vow revenge."

The camera cuts back to Dr. Finitevus, who is now sitting with his legs crossed, looking smug for some reason.

"Seems like a simple night, doesn't it? All he has to do is take measurement and check off inventory." The doctor's grin grows more sadistic. "Ah, but you might want to be careful around the person who owns the house...She's a little 'clingy' to say the least..."

. . .

Central City South District

Rose Resident

6:14pm

The camera pans into a fairly small two-floored house where Daniel is being led by Silver (both are wearing vests with stickers on them to let others know that their carpetners) into what appears to be Amy Rose's home. Silver leads Daniel up to the second floor while Amy follows them. On the second floor, they go into the master bedroom, which already has a few measurement tools scattered around. Daniel - who is holding a clipboard - stands near the door to the bathroom (which was closed) while Silver stands in in front of the bed.

"So, you boys will take it from here?" Amy asked them.

"Yeah," Silver replies, taking out some measuring tape. "We're just gonna do an inventory of everything, and then we'll make the measurements before we do anything."

"Okay," Amy nods and smiles. "I'll be downstairs if you need anything."

"Sure thing."

Amy leaves, leaving the two boys alone with their tasks. Silver tells Daniel to write down a few things, such has the dresser, mirror, and other things that would be removed so the renovations could take place. Daniel writes down everything, but looks a bit bored by doing so. It was a bit too quiet for his liking.

"So...what's this for again?" Daniel asks, trying to strike up a conversation.

"Well, that young lady wanted to redecorate the bedroom," Silver explains, measuring the width of the large mirror hanging from the wall. "She's been wanting to do something with the place for a while now, but it's only until now that she actually wanted to actually do something."

"It seems odd to me that she's the only one living here..." Daniel notes, noticing that the house was a bit too big for one little hedgehog to live in.

"Yeah," Silver agrees "but I heard that she had moved in with her boyfriend a few months back, but then he went missing, and hasn't showed up at all. Since then, she hasn't left."

Daniel ponders on the information that was just given, but decides not to think about it too much. It's not like he was sticking around during the entire renovation. All the while, neither of them knew that they were being watched the entire time. Amy stood outside the door, hiding behind the small wall and peering in at both of the boys. She watched them for a few moments, looking at each of them, when her gaze lingered on Daniel for the most part. She lowered her eyes for a moment, thinking on something, before she made up her mind and left.

Back in the room, Daniel decided that standing there writing numbers down was too boring, so he and Silver swapped places. Daniel was the one doing the measurements, and Silver wrote the numbers down on the clipboard. A few minutes passed before Daniel suddenly wrinkled up his nose as if he smelled something absolutely foul. He paused, sniffed the air again, and coughed. Silver noticed this and spoke up on it, asking what was the matter.

"You don't smell that?" the echidna gagged.

"Smell wh-oh God..." Silver gagged when he caught a whiff of the odor as well.

Daniel coughed again, and moved towards the door to the bathroom a bit, where the odor grew stronger. Daniel quickly took notice to the change and looked at the door curiously. He turned towards Silver, who looked very uneasy. Daniel was just as nervous, but his curiosity proved too strong. He took the doorknob and turned slowly and cracked the door open, only to get hit in the face with a blast of that god awful odor again. Silver coughed and Daniel's muzzle was beginning to turn green, but he pressed on. He opened the door all the way, using his hand to cover up his nose to try and block out the smell (and you could guess that didn't work well). However, as they went into the bathroom, they were surprised that it looked pretty normal, if you didn't count the shower curtain completely blocking the view of the tub. Nothing was out of place, but Silver was easing his way over to the tub. Daniel stayed put, too afraid to move to see what might be in.

Silver was now in front of the tub with his hand hovering near the end of the curtain. He looked over at Daniel, who nodded at him to continue. Silver bit his bottom lip a bit, before he took a deep breath, grabbed the end of the curtain, and yanked it open. Another wave of the odor hit them both, but it was very strong by this point. But the odor wasn't what they needed to worry about...The tub was filled with a combination of blood and water, but mostly blood. And there was a body in the tub of blood as well; the body belonged to a male, but it was difficult to tell who, or what, he was. His skull was showing with a few scraps of flesh here and there, and it was obvious that his body had been there for some months, since he was far into the decomposing process.

Daniel gripped his mouth as a scream forced up his throat, and Silver fell backwards, whimpering with fear. Adrenalin took over as they rushed out of the bathroom and closed the door as soon as they were out, panting of fear. Daniel was shivering; he made his way over to the bed and sat on it, his eyes wide, while Silver paced back and forth.

"Who was in there?" Daniel asked, but his voiced cracked horribly.

"I don't know," Silver replied, his voice shaky "I couldn't tell who it was."

"It was a dude," Daniel babbled "but the body...it looked like it's been there for months!"

"What if that's her boyfriend?" Silver gasped.

"No...no way..." Daniel moaned, burying his head into his hands "That means we're in a serial killer's house!"

Silver had no idea on what they were going to do, but he knew they couldn't stay here. If their accusations were correct, then they were in more danger than they anticipated. They would have to leave...NOW.

Silver opened his mouth to say his concerns, but at the same time, Amy crept back into the room, now wearing a slick black halter dress with a ribbon around her neck, rosy-pink lipstick and knee-high stockings. Daniel's eyes widened as soon as he saw her, not really sure if she was a killer or not, but he DID notice something odd about her now...There was a look in her eyes...she looked...desperate?

"H-hey," Silver stammered "Uh...getting ready to go out or something?"

"Huh? Oh...yeah..." Amy said quietly, looking down at herself before she looked back up at the boys again. "Anyway, I came up here to ask you...did you go into the bathroom?"

Both Mobians froze.

"...No," Daniel said quickly, but Amy could tell he was lying.

"W-we were in here the whole time," Silver added, trying to back up Daniel's lie "We didn't need to go into the bathroom."

"Oh. Okay..."

"Well, anyway, I gotta go out to the truck and get a few more supplies. We're about to finish up...Daniel, can you stay here for a minute?"

Daniel shot Silver a look that was obviously him begging Silver to let him come with, but Silver gave him a look that clearly said that someone had to stay here so she wouldn't catch on to them. So, in the end, Silver made his way out (stumbling a bit as he walked past Amy), leaving Daniel alone. Said echidna was increasingly nervous; Amy didn't leave the room when Silver left, and he had no idea what to do. Deciding that sitting there looking terrified wouldn't help, he decided to make it look like he's doing something by double-checking the notes they took on the clipboard. There were an awkward silence between them before Amy inched into the room a little, looking very meek.

"So...um...you do this often?" Amy asked shyly, as if she was talking to her high school crush.

"No," Daniel replied, rubbing the back of his neck a bit "I'm just volunteering for the night..."

Amy deflated. "So you won't be back then..."

"No, not really..."

Amy shuffled her feet a bit while Daniel returned his attention back to the clipboard just to have something to look it while he wait for Silver (who might've abandoned him).

"I know you were lying earlier," Amy suddenly says in a low voice.

Daniel's head lifted. "Huh?"

"You saw him in the tub, didn't you?"

"...Uhm..."

"He was about to leave me," Amy went on, clutching part of her dress a bit "We were together for two years...and I wasn't about to throw that all away because he slept with some other whore...So if I couldn't have him, no one could."

"Can I go?" Daniel asked, but it only came out as a squeak.

"NO!" Amy shrieked, making the echidna jump. "No one's leaving me anymore! I...I can't stand to be alone..."

"W-well, you don't have to be," Daniel said, trying to remain as calm as possible "I mean, you're a young attractive young woman. I-I'm pretty sure there's someone out there for you. Just forget about that bastard and move on, y'know? There's someone out there for everyone."

"You...you think I'm pretty?"

"Of course," Daniel was slowly inching to the left on the bed (where a window was) "You should easily find someone else, right?"

"...Are you with someone?" Amy presses.

"I'm...uh..." Daniel hesitates, not really sure if he should tell her or not. "...I'm married."

"...Is your wife prettier than me?"

"Ye-NO-no, y-you're prettier."

"Do you...do you wanna stay here with me?"

Now Daniel as suck between a rock and a hard place. He silently cursed at Silver for ditching him.

"I...I can't..." Daniel stammered. "I mean, you're very attractive (notice how he put extra emphasis on "very." He's trying to get on her good side to haul his ass outta there!), b-but I love my wife...so..."

"You're shivering," Amy notes "Are you scared?"

Am I-I guess-YES I'm scared!"

"You shouldn't be..."

Silver suddenly pokes his head into the room before going "You're on Scare Tactics!"

Daniel stares at them both.

"...What?" was the only thing he could say.

"You're alright, man," Silver laughs as he walks in "You're on a TV show."

"No way!" Daniel exclaims while he laughs with Amy and Silver. "So I was set up?"

"Yeah," Amy replies "Mercury set you up."

"Where is she?" Daniel growls, though he's not mad at all.

The camera pans over to the door where Mercury walks in with a bottle of water, grinning. Daniel goes over to her and hugs her and even begins to play wrestle. The camera then cuts to where they've settled down and sitting around the bedroom.

"I can't believe you did this because of the china set," Daniel sighs "I mean, I knew you were gonna get me back, but jeez! You went all out?"

"So at what point did you started to get scared?" Amy asked curiously.

"I would have to say when we were going around the bathroom," Daniel replies "'Cause I knew there was gonna be a body in there or something. And as soon as we opened the curtains, low and behold, there's a fucking body there! And then she comes in here, and I just knew were gonna end up dead."

"So how are you going to get back at your wife?" Silver asks.

"What wife?" Daniels says, which causes everyone to burst out laughing.

. . .

The camera pans back into the warehouse, where Dr. Finitevus chuckles to himself.

"There is one thing I learned over the years with women," he said "is that you should never try to flatter your way out of it. You're just going to unintentionally reel them in. Anyway, there's a lot more to come, so stick around a little longer..."


E/N: I actually have nothing to say down here...I don't think...

...Oh, wait.

Sorry about some mistakes if I missed any!