I'm so very sorry I've taken so long to update this story but I find myself quite writers blocked on the next chapter... I promise to finish it soon enough. In the meantime

ENTERTAIN YOURSELVES WITH THIS:

"KAUTE! GET UP YOU LAZY BUM!"

Kaute jumped in surprise and found himself rolling off his bed onto the floor. He sat up only to hit his head on the night stand. He groaned holding his throbbing head with his hand. Glancing around, he couldn't find where the voice had come from, until it rang out again:

"HAHA! Man, that was freakin' hilarious!" Kaute sat up straighter and looked over the edge of his bed. There a blonde fully uniformed cashier was sitting on the dresser with his legs folded beneath him. He lowered his sunglasses and glared at Kaute with striking blue eyes, "Seriously though," he continued, "I've been trying to get you up for ten minutes. We're going to be late. Liz will be pissed."

Kaute stood up, "Why should I care?" he mumbled angrily as he snatched up a sweatshirt from the chair he'd thrown it on the night before, "She can go to hell for all I care!"

"Easy there, tiger." the other cashier warned, "Remember, you were demoted. You're stuck in the lower ranks with me and if you ever plan to get back to the top with Liz then you'd better learn how to humble yourself a bit."

Kaute glared at the boy, "Humble myself to her?!" he demanded, "As if! I spent years climbing to the top and then I get shot down and she snatches my position out of thin air! And I'm supposed to respect her for that?" Kaute growled angrily and headed towards the door.

"Where are you going?" the other cashier asked, "You don't have your uniform on." he said motioning to the black coat he was wearing.

Kaute didn't answer but slammed the door behind him and continued out of the room and down the hallway into a large living room. "Good morning, my perfect angel!" a woman cried from the kitchen, "Where are you headed off to?"

"Don't worry about it." he called back, heading out the door.

"Okay, sweetie! Have a nice day!" she shouted after him.

Kaute rolled his eyes at his mother's idiocy but continued down the road towards town. He quickly passed by the Stop and Shop on the way, hoping not to be noticed but then came to the shopping district. He glanced around for a moment wondering what exactly he was going to do now that he was here. He wouldn't go back to the store, that was for sure. He was so sick of being ordered around; he just wasn't used to it anymore.

As he looked around he paused as he spotted a familiar face in the crowd. He rushed forward and grabbed her arm, "Lorraine?" he asked.

The Science Teacher looked back angrily, "What the hell do you want?" she demanded. She hadn't recognized him out of his cashier mafia uniform.

"It's Kaute, remember me?" he asked, releasing her arm.

"Oh, I didn't recognize you." she said turning around fully, "Why aren't you wearing your-?"

"I'm taking the day off." Kaute quickly interrupted, "What about you? What are you doing here?"

"I've been selling parts of my chemistry equipment to the labs and shops down here." she admitted begrudgingly, "Nobody seems to want to hire me so money is tight."

That's understandable. Kaute thought, I wouldn't hire her either: she's a complete nut job. "That's too bad." he said aloud, folding his arms across his chest, "I've had it kind of tough too, what with Liz as head cashier, things haven't exactly been going my way lately."

Suddenly there was a large explosion down the street. The crowd of people pushed past them in a screaming rampage to get away from the smoking building. Kaute and Science Teacher, however, stayed to see what was going on. A moment later a large red and yellow robot emerged from the smoldering jewelry store holding a chaos emerald in one of its large claws.

"MWHAHAHAHAHA! Just four more emeralds left before I can take over the world with my greatest robot ever: THE EGG!" Kaute looked up to see Eggman sitting in a cockpit of the robot laughing maniacally.

"Hey there Egghead!" Science Teacher shouted, "Long time no see!"

Eggman looked down as he heard her shout, "Oh, it's you two." he said, "What do you want?"

Kaute smiled, "This is quite a coincidence, isn't it?" he asked looking at his two ex-comrades, "All three of us just happening to be in the same place... it brings back some memories."

"Some of them not so pleasant." Eggman snapped, "Well, this has been fun but I have things to do, so-"

"Hey wait a second!" Kaute called, "Don't you guys miss working together like the old days? I know I do."

"That's because in the old days you were in charge of the mafia." Science Teacher mumbled folding her arms across her chest.

"All the same," Kaute said waving away her comment, "Wouldn't you guys like to just spend one last day together? Who knows? Maybe we can actually-"

"Listen kid," Science Teacher interrupted, "I admire your enthusiasm but it's over! We've gone our separate ways. You need to-"

"Actually, it might not be such a bad idea."

Kaute and Science Teacher both looked up at Eggman, "What?" they asked.

Eggman smiled and nodded his head, "You two might be helpful!" he said, "I have a scheme for Sonic and his buddies cooking up right now anyway and you two could certainly be of assistance."

"Alright!" Kaute shouted pumping his fist in the air, "So what's the plan?" he asked eagerly.

"Hop on you two." Eggman said, "We can talk back on my Eggfleet ship."

Kaute quickly climbed up the side of the robot and joined Eggman on top. Science Teacher hesitated for a moment but then sighed, "Well, I suppose I have nothing better to do." she smiled, "And it was fun when I was working with you guys." A moment later she had joined Kaute and Eggman in the robot.

Kaute smiled and put his arms around his comrades, "Just like old times, eh?"

"Don't touch me."

A bit later...

Kaute glanced around the control room in awe, "Nice work, Eggman." he said with a smile, "Why didn't you mention these ships back when we were working together?"

"Well if we just blew up their house with one of these that would've destroyed the whole plot." Eggman replied.

"We're not here to worry about the story's plot!" Science Teacher said putting her hands on her hips in a know-it-all sort of way.

"She's right." Kaute said with a wicked smile, "I say we take these lasers and just blow Sonic and his buddies' sky high!"

Eggman crossed his arms in a pout, "But... but my plan-"

"Is probably stupid and won't work anyway." Science Teacher said, twiddling a scalpel between her fingers, "Besides, this is a sure way to incapacitate them all in one attack."

"Let's head this thing over to their house and see what sort of damage this pup can do!" Kaute said eagerly.

Eggman hesitated but then, mumbling angrily, began to pilot the Eggfleet towards mystic ruins where Tails' workshop was located.

They made a stop at Starbucks on the way to get their fill of caffeine but then were quickly on their way.

After awhile they finally spotted the island ahead and Kaute couldn't stop himself from shouting, "LAND HO!"

However, as they approached it he noticed something a bit odd, "Who are all those people?" he demanded, looking out the window to the front of the home. A large group of people were crowded onto the plateau near the house and appeared to be dancing.

"Are they having a party?" Science Teacher asked, "And they didn't invite us? How rude."

Kaute stared at her for a moment wondering about her intelligence level but quickly looked back towards the group of people, many of whom had stopped dancing as they noticed the giant ships flying just above them.

Just then a few girls whom Kaute recognized stepped forward out of the crowd. "Hey, Eggman. Let us down there." he demanded, "I'd like to have a word with them."

Eggman, who was now very sick of taking orders, glared at the pair of them, "Well, if you insist." he said pressing a button on the control panel in front of him.

Down on the ground, Komodo was staring up at the Eggship wondering what was going on to interrupt their party when suddenly two screaming people were flung from the ship and landed on the ground in front of her but because this is a fictional story they weren't hurt at all from the one hundred foot drop and simply stood up and brushed themselves off, looking just a bit annoyed.

Kaute looked Komodo up and down, "I thought so." he said crossing his arms, "You're Liz's friend Komodo."

"Well I certainly hope so." Komodo replied, "Otherwise I wouldn't know who I was really."

"Well, where's Liz?" Science Teacher demanded, "We came here to destroy her and the Sonic characters... who are all these people?"

Komodo glanced behind her at the party taking place on the lawn, "Oh... well Liz and the others are in the middle of a plot right now and cannot be disturbed... or found. So we're taking care of the house for them and we decided to throw a party for all her readers so they wouldn't feel bad about being abandoned for five months."

Kaute looked over at all the people there, "Hmm, I guess we can't blow them up then..." he mumbled, "That would certainly spell trouble for all of us."

"Yes, that's right." Science Teacher nodded, "We wouldn't want the readers to die... then there'd be no reviews... and then no chapters would be put up." (hint hint)

"I guess we'll come back another time. Let us know when they get back." Kaute said turning to go back to the ship, however he found that the Eggfleet was now flying away, "DAMMIT!" he shouted, "Now how do we get back to Station Square?"

"You could take the train." Komodo suggested.

"Are you kidding? That thing is full of hobos."