"ta..."
Soft...

"hey ki..."
Gruff...

"lil bu..."
Comforting...

"Won't you take me to..."
Weird and scary...
"Funky town..."
Really weird and scary...

"WAKE UP KID!" Knuckle's yelled,
Gruff...

"eurggh..." Tails moaned, cringing as his neck clicked when he looked upwards, it took him a few seconds to realise that he was shackled to a rock wall. "I'm up, mummy..."

"Oh good, he's conscious..." Sonic commented.

"oh won't you take me to... funky town..." Metal sang.

"To this torture?" Knuckles asked. "Great place to be conscious... Eggman finally managed to make something pure evil."

"Shut up knuckles..." Eggman yelled angrily, before turning his attention to Metal. "Shut up you stupid tin-man nuisance, or I'll have you melted down and used to make 'cube bots'!" Eggman threatened angrily.

"Don't you yell at Metal like that!" Cream growled defensively.

"You dare to tell the great and powerful Eggman what to do?" Eggman retorted hastily, cheeks reddening brightly and moustache flapping wildly.

"Hey, how come no-one ever defend me?" Knuckles questioned.

"Shut up Knuckles..." everyone yelled.

"oh won't you take me to..." Metal continued, oblivious to the fight.

"You al'right there buddy?" Sonic asked, seemingly ignoring Eggman's rant and his doppelgangers horribly off pitch singing.

"huh...?" Tails groaned groggily, it felt like he was hit by a truck; "I have no idea what's going on..." he answered. Looking around, he was in a cavern of some sorts, containing dark, crimson red rock walls, along with a few cave like doorways... "What happened."

"Not sure, we sorta just... got dragged here unconscious... don't ask how..." Sonic replied, "one minute down on earth, next minute... chained to a wall, apparently..." Sonic stated, growling.

"I'm not complaining, I don't care what happens so long as I have my Soniku back!" Amy stated, the girl practically had hearts in her eyes.

"I remember seeing some kind of... black and red mist..." Tails claimed, ignoring the pink hedgehog's antics as he shook his head in hopes of waking up faster... whatever knocked him out sure had some kick to it.

"We all did... it knocked us all out." Knuckles affirmed, "cept Metal who got picked up with a magnet... or so he claims."

"Hey, I did so indeed my good follow chaparoo." Metal stated quickly, Tails just had to wonder what kind of effects the lightning gloves and Master Emerald had on Metal Sonic.

"Whatever." Knuckles sighed; this was met with Metal changing his 'irises' to an image of the middle finger; causing the hot headed Echidna to return fire with certain expletives that no doubt shouldn't have been heard by Tails or Cream.

"Guys... shouldn't we be planning on how to escape..." Cream yelled, attempting to stop the swearing; "since we're all... you know..." Cream didn't finish that sentence, only able to look around with cute wet eyes as tears threatened to spill.

"Guess we should..." Sonic agreed bravely, attempting to well the tears before they had a chance to exit her eyes.

"Hey wait... where's Shadow?" Tails asked curiously... looking around he could see Sonic, Eggman, Amy, Docoe, Knuckles, Bocoe and Metal were all chained to the wall's and rocks surrounding him...

"Shadow's behind you, sulking because he managed to get captured." Sonic gladly stated, a huge smile appearing on his face.

"Shut up faker, you have a great insignificance to me; yarda yarda and blah blah... chilli dog's suck... other assorted insults pointed in your general direction." Shadow said boringly, a response that took everybody by surprise.

"Um... ok Shadow..." Sonic replied, unsure of himself; "...that's nice."

"Cheese, Bokkun and Fluffy?" Tails asked, causing Cream to 'break the wells' accidentally at the mention of Cheese. "Where are they?" he finished, less enthusiastically.

"Hey! Where is Bokkun!" Docoe asked curiously.
"Yeah, I haven't seen that flying food dispenser anywhere lately!" Bocoe added angrily.

Eggman looked at the two boltheads momentarily before answering, asking himself why he ever designed them in the first place; "Because I designed that 'flying food dispenser' for situations exactly like this!" Eggman growled sarcastically. "Don't you ever read the stuff I give you?"

"Reading's boring!" Bocoe said, shrugging his shoulders.

"Even if you can get through a hundred thousand words a nanosecond!" Eggman screamed angrily, "how can you two be so incompetent!" the obese doctor questioned.

"Because you made us maybe?" Docoe stated daringly, in the hopes he was safe enough from his tyrannical leader by three metres and heavy tungsten alloy shackles.

"Cheese is around somewhere..." Amy interrupted... briefly glancing at the doctor currently suffering a paroxysm. "Flew off with a Flicky some time ago I think... was that Fluffy?"

Tails looked around, he could sense that fluffy was in the area... but couldn't pinpoint his location. "Yeah, that's him." Tails replied; after a few seconds lapse.

The cavern soon went quiet...

... That is to say, until Metal noticed the silence.

yes yes yes.. filler. I'm evil I know... but you know where trying to write the entire ending in one go got me last time.

anyway thanks to "prowerboy," "Cheep the Hedgehog," "Kratos Pwns," "DaddlerTheDalek," "Sierra Zanimalini14," "Tailsismyfave," "Tamara Alto," "willow wolf of the wind" and "Sigma-del-Prisium" for reviewing chap 22.

thanks to "Skagui the sniper," "Sam Breanna and me," "Kratos Pwns," "Tamara the Hybridian," "jakeroo123," "sonicdude10," "prowerboy," "Sierra Zanimalini14," "Supersaiyaninfinitygohan" and TatlTails for reviewing chap 23.

thanks to "Kratos Pwns," "Tamara the Hybridian," "Supersaiyaninfinitygohan," "prowerboy," "DaddlerTheDalek," "Sierra Zanimalini14," and Syaoron the Fox for reviewing chap 24.

that's a lot of names.

next stuff is planned, just not sure how I'm going to implement it... the next chapter or the one after could take a while (most likely the next one, as I'm sick of bullshitting you guys around with filler.) and will be one of the hardest chapters I've done.