Everybody stared at Tails, dangling the nuclear acid, and Eggo gasped.

"Tails! No!"

"Everybody stand back. This is nuclear acid, and I'm gonna drop it if you don't listen to me!" Tails yelled.

"Sonic, just listen to Tails."Amy said

"Yeah, It wont hurt, right?" Cream asked.

"It will if he drops that!" Eggo yelled.

"Okay, okay, I'll listen." Sonic said.

"Good, now get off of Eggo..."

Sonic held up his hands and got off Eggo. Eggo weakly got up, and saw Tails say,

"Okay, this isn't what it looks like."

"Yeah? What is it, then?"

"Well, me and Eggman teamed up and–" Eggo gasped.

"Tails! Its midnight!"Tails gasped.

"I'll tell you later. By Sonic! Come on, Eggo! Lets go!"

"Right!"

They huried off and Eggo said,

"Don't ever joke like that with that container again, you hear me?!"

"Sorry, Sonic wouldn't listen to me!"

"Thats no excuse. If that container slipped even a little bit, we'd all die. Then I'd have to find you in the afterlife and kill you again myself!"

"Quit complaining! I didn't drop it, did I?"

"Almost."

"Exactly"

"Shut up. We're almost there."

"Got it."

"Shh..." Eggo said. Then they braced themselves, and went in.

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Sonic, Amy, and Cream stared blankly.

"That was... interesting." Amy said.

"Yeah, why wasn't Tails happy to see us, mister Sonic?" Cream asked.

Sonic grinded his teeth getting mad.

"This has gone on long enough! I have to find out what's going on."

He sped after Tails and Eggman and saw them creeping to a room. Eggo unlocked the door, opened the door, then put his arm behind Tails' back and gently pushed him in. Then he double checked, and went in, himself. Sonic ran to the door, and tried to get in as well, but it was locked.

'I know that there's another way in, but I should get back to Cream and Amy before something happens.' he thought. He ran to them and said,

"No gain. I still don't know what's going on."

"Well, we have to figure it out, then. What was so great about midnight..."

"Huh?" Amy sighed.

"Remember? Tails was gonna tell us what happened until Eggman mentioned that it was midnight." Sonic paused.

"That's right, huh?"

"Yeah, and Tails couldn't be brainwashed. Did you hear them fight?"

"Fight?"

"Yeah. When they were leaving, Eggman yelled at Tails for nearly dropping that acid. He yelled back so that proves that he's not under Eggman's control. Eggman's trying to order Tails around, but that still doesn't explain what's going on." Cream tugged on Sonic's glove.

"Mr. Sonic? Isn't Robotnik's whole plot to kill you?"

"Yeah, why?"

"He didn't fight you back, and seemed more concerned about Tails and the time than you. Maybe Tails is right."

"About what?"

"Remember at the beginning he kept saying that this wasn't Robotnik's idea? That's why he got tazered so much; because he was looking for a way to see who it was. Remember mister Sonic?" Sonic thought about it.

"If he isn't in on this, then who is? Nobody hates us enough to do all this."

"We don't know that for sure. But Tails would never help somebody destroy the world. Especially Eggman. They're rivals and you know it. Always trying to outsmart each other..." Sonic laughed.

"Yeah, it get's pretty funny sometimes, I'll admit."

"The bottom line is, that there has to be something good in it for Tails, and something bad in it for Eggman." Said Amy.

"Maybe one of Eggman's machines went wrong and Eggman needs Tails' help." Cream said.

"Then what about the men in black?"

"I don't know, Mr. Sonic! I'm just guessing!"

"Chao!" Cheese butted in.

Suddenly the trio heard a large explosion and saw smoke coming from where Tails and Eggman had run off to. Eggman ran to them through the smoke, and said,

"Sonic! You need to hurry!"

"Huh?"

"It's Tails! He's in danger!"

"Danger?!" Sonic yelled

To be continued...

Rated "S" for "Stoopidafied"