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24. The Wonders of Boredom

Ryko got a little bit better, although he had to stay at Sadie's house because it brung more comfort to him. Ryko was on the couch drink Coke-a-Cola, like always, when Sadie walked into the room.

"Hey, I have a friend from the Mobian Backcountry coming down for a few weeks. She says she managed to recover a plan for a doomsday machine by Ares.

"Convienent. We should make food. I can make cupcakes-"

"NO!"

"W-why not?"

"Sorry… I read a fanfic…"

"It scared you that bad?"

"I will never eat a cupcake again."

"Alright… I guess I can make something else…"

"You can bake?"

"Yea. I got bored one day and I was also hungry, so I wanted to make myself a cake. I found out that I'm pretty damn good at making a cake."

"Well alright then. In the meantime, what do you wanna do?"

"I don't know."

"Come on, it's about time you've seen the guys in a while."

"Nor do I want to. By the way, your friend is going to be another extremely attractive hedgehog, won't she?"

"I don't know, I guess."

"Bucc will probably do it to torture me."

"Yep. Anyways, get outta here. I heard Sonic was at the Forget Me Knots concert."

"I have to buy tickets."

"Yes, you do. If you don't like that, then Shadow is somewhere near here."

"Very specific."

"Thanks. Anyways, get out of here. I have to make preparations."

The Mobadome, 1:30 PM

"Those tickets barely cost me a dime!" said Ryko, walking to Sonic who was bobbing his head to the music.

"Your motorin'!

What's your price for flight?

Or finding Mr. Right?"

"Hey, Ryko! I thought you were still mentally unstable."

"Yea, well… what have they played so far?"

"Jukebox Hero. That's it."

"I see. So, what's going on?"

"Amy hacked onto my facebook account and changed my status to 'I love Amy Rose' "

"I saw that."

"Well, at least Sally knows that it was a hack."

"How?"

"She's a hacker."

"That statement contradicted itself."

"Whatever."

After the concert was over, Ryko and Sonic went to congratulate them all.

"Nice job, guys. Love your music." said Ryko.

"You seem to feeling better." joked Sonic.

"Yea, I guess I am."

"Well, I gotta go find Shadow."

"Why?"

"I dunno. Bored."

"Well, I don't know where he is."

"A lot of vagueness today. Oh well, I suppose I'll find him somewhere around here."

"Alright, see ya."

Central City, 3:30 PM

When Ryko saw energy blast in the distance, he knew exactly where the hedgehog he was looking for was. He was locked in battle with Doctor Finitevus.

"Hey, Shadz. Mind if I join in?"

"Yes."

"Too bad!" said Ryko, charging up a homing attack and launching it upon the man who put his best friend in stiches. He managed to hit him, with no damage.

"He's got some sort of shield around him using all that chaos energy." said Shadow.

"I noticed that." replied Ryko.

"Got any ideas then, smartass?" asked Shadow.

"Well, if you hit him with multiple Chaos Spears in a row Dragonball Z style, the impact being so great that he can't see I might be able to sneak in and hit him in an uncovered place."

"Dammit." He started firing relentless energy blast, and Ryko quickly snuck up behind him, finding a place where it appeared his shield wasn't up, which was a little place in the back. He hit it hard and the doctor wailed in pain.

"There ya go, big guy!"

"That only did a little bit."

"Well finish him off!"

"Fine. Chaos… Control!"

He teleported behind him and sent a barrage of attacks to the weak point. He ended up retreating somewhere.

"Done."

"Congrats, Shadow. Say, have you seen anybody else around here?"

"Espio is at the grocery store. Don't ask."

"I won't. See ya."

Mobix, 4:50

"Espio, what the hell are you doing at a grocery store?"

"Charmy wanted more bags of sugar and Vector wants… well, everything."

"And they sent you on this mission…why?"

"That, my friend, is a mystery I'll never solve." they both started laughing.

"Well, the only thing that would make this not boring would be if the store got held up."

"If only-"

"PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR!" screamed somebody from the back.

"Oh, it's on!" shouted Espio and Ryko simultaneously They ran to find the criminal and found him threatening a cashier. Espio ran up to him and hit him with a barrage of punches and kicks and threw him into a magazine rack. He tossed him over to Ryko who blasted him in the chin with a kick. He grabbed his collar and shoved him into some apples, which tumbled onto the floor on top of him. Ryko picked one up and bit into it.

"A job well done, my fellow purple assassin."

"Indeed."

"Well, I better get out of here. Sadie's friend will be showing up soon. If Vector makes you do this again, call me. We might just find a robber again."

"Cool. See ya, Ryko."

"Later."

Sadie's house, 5:00

"Hey."

"You just barely made it."

"Yep. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go to the bathroom."

"Ugh."

When he was done, he started to walk back to the hallway when he saw Sadie's friend walk through the door; a very light blue hedgehog with an unbuttoned plaid shirt, the sleeves rolled hair wasn't bound, just like Sadie's. She was wearing military combat boots.

"You again, AJ?" said Ryko, a smirk on his face. She stood wide-eyed for a moment.

"That's your boyfriend?" she asked skeptically, only the slightest twang in her voice.

"I'm assuming you two know each other."

"This one saved my life on a mission a year back."

"Only because you saved my father's."

"Oh, great. So, now that I don't need to introduce you, I must ask what happened on that day."

"Well, it was a standard mission G.U.N gave me…"