I'm so popular! Thank you, thank you all for your kindness! Maverick, Ultrafan X, thank you so much for the weasels! I'm sure Scales will love having them for dinner. I'm glad you all approve of the addition of Stripes, even if he is a minor tag-along who probably will be of no use in battle. Anyway, here's the next chapter! Disclaimer: Yawn.

Day 2, 1:15 PM

Scales and Stripes reappeared at the bottom of the exposed levels of decks. As they did so, the Carrier started flying away from the mountain, towards the sea. They looked around, impressed. "Wow, this thing's even bigger up close!" Stripes nodded in agreement. "So, uh, where do you think we should start? We can't wreak vengeance for the deaths of your family and the other people and Chao if we don't know where we're going." They both thought a moment. Stripes looked up and far away and started yelling. Scales looked where he was indicating. "Yeah, I can see that hole over there. You think we should head up there?" The Chao nodded. "Well, it's as good a place to start as any. Who knows, we might find an entrance to the bridge. Let's go buddy."

Stage 8: Sky Deck. Mission: Reach the bridge.

Scales walked to the edge of the platform they were standing on and jumped to a catwalk. As she started down the catwalk, some cannons lowered from hatches and started taking potshots at the duo. Stripes wailed, warning Scales as the guns began to blow out the walkway beneath them. Scales frantically dashed across the catwalk, jumping over cannon fire and leaping from falling deck sections before they could drop from the ship. They reached a pillar at the end of the walkway, with a ladder leading up the side. Scales quickly climbed up the ladder, out of the range of fire. She stepped off the top of the pillar and onto another walkway. More cannons activated and started firing. Once more, Scales raced across the catwalk, avoiding the fire, until she reached another pillar. She climbed up the ladder and away from the guns. She looked around at the top and saw a trio of floating platforms on her left. She hopped across the platforms, smashing a Bladed Spinner or two, and leaped to the base of another pillar. She climbed up and saw a long path on her right. More cannons were primed and ready. Taking a deep breath, Scales ran down the catwalk. She saw there were hurdles intentionally left in the path and jumped over them as the cannons constantly fired, blasting out the deck behind her. Avoiding shot after shot and jumping over the hurdles, Scales made her way along the walkway until she finally jumped across a small gap at the end, landing on a platform. Nearby were some smaller platforms that led to dead ends and a few pillars floating around. Stripes pointed out a chain of Bladed Spinners leading across the large gap to the base of a pillar. Scales Homing Kicked along the Spinners and dropped to the pillar base, climbing up the ladder and finding another section of walkway. She ran across the walkway as the cannons blew it out behind her, making it safely across and reaching the bottom of a winding yellow staircase. Scales turned right and started running up the stairs. Stripes shrieked a warning, and Scales was almost killed by a giant mace that had been hovering above a step, waiting for a kill. She smiled at the Chao. "Thanks for the warning. I'll make sure to watch where I step from now on, okay?" Stripes nodded. Scales kept going up, walking around the shadows of maces and reaching a landing. Walking around the shadow of the mace on the landing, she went up the next set of stairs, going in the opposite direction of the last set. After dodging more maces, she came to a gap at the top. She saw another stairwell across the gap. She jumped over and continued climbing up, still dodging the maces and going past a landing before reaching the end of the stairwell. She saw a monkey bar on her right. She jumped to the bars and was shocked as it suddenly swung down, a cannon shooting away one of its supports. Scales almost panicked, then saw a platform below. She jumped down and saw a row of Bladed Spinners leading to a new walkway. Scales Homing Kicked across the Spinners, landed on the walkway, and started running immediately to avoid the cannon fire. After jumping from a plummeting section of deck, Scales reached another pillar. She climbed up it and saw another walkway ahead of her. She ran down the path, jumping every other second to keep from falling away or getting hit by the shots, and reached the bottom of another pillar. She climbed up and saw another long catwalk on her left. Growling, she quickly dashed down the walkway, getting halfway across before a single shot was fired. When the cannons did go off, she was already at the other end. She climbed up another pillar and saw a spring at the edge to her right, pointing straight at the rim of a narrow ledge circling a huge column that had one of the propellers keeping the ship aloft at the bottom. She bounced off the spring and landed on the rim. As she carefully edged along the rim of the cannon, heading to her left, she was almost hit by a huge blast from a giant cannon on a higher deck. Scales frantically kept edging along the column, finding a catwalk on the side of the column. She started running down the column, attempting to dodge the shots from the huge cannon, very nearly falling from the ship. After leaping off of multiple falling deck panels, Scales made it to the base of another huge propeller column. She ran around to the back of the column, out of the line of fire. She saw a ladder and climbed up, coming out on a similar ledge as the one below. She worked her way along the ledge and unfortunately came in sight of the big cannon. She made it to another walkway as the thing fired again, nearly killing her. She made it across the catwalk as the giant cannon blew it up, making it to another propeller column. She edged around the ledge and out of the cannon's range, finding another ladder. She climbed up and worked her way around the next ledge, avoiding fire from the giant cannon and finding another catwalk. She ran across as the really big gun fired again, blowing out another section of deck. Running ahead of the big cannon's shots, Scales made it to another propeller column before the whole catwalk collapsed. She quickly worked her way out of the ledge and away from the cannon's range, climbing up another ladder and working her way around another ledge, once again into sight of the cannon and in front of a catwalk. She started running immediately as the cannon blew the first few feet of deck to oblivion and kept going until the reached the base of a pillar. She climbed up the pillar and turned left, dodging not only shots from the giant cannon but from smaller ones on her right. She made it to the base of the next pillar and found that there was a floating mace suspended almost right in front of the ladder. Moving very, very carefully Scales got around the shadow of the mace and onto the ladder. The guns couldn't shoot at her near the pillar, so she was safe for the moment. She climbed to the top of the pillar and gulped. Right across from her on a big platform was the giant cannon. A short catwalk extended from the pillar, ending in a missile aimed right at the cannon. As Scales ran for the missile, more small cannons came out and started shooting at her while the giant cannon started turning around, moving its barrel to face Scales. Scales got to the end of the catwalk. The smaller cannons stopped firing. Just as the barrel of the giant cannon was facing her, Scales stomped on the missile's launch button, shooting it down the barrel of the gun. It exploded, leaving the platform clear. Scales jumped to the platform and saw a spring at one end. She ran to the spring and bounced into the air, grabbing a pulley. She was elevated through the hole in the ceiling, reaching the top of the ship. Scales looked around. "Good eye, Stripes. Nice job finding this hole." The Chao cooed. Scales walked forward, moving a little slower than usual to avoid the crosswind blowing across the ship. She passed a column and was immediately hit from both sides by a pair of cannons. Scales screamed and fell to the ground. The cannons prepared to fire again. She got up and jumped away just in time. The cannon shots passed each other and destroyed the other cannon. She saw the area ahead of her was full of cannons, each turning to set their sights on her. Scales quickly retreated, hiding behind the column as the guns fired at once, blasting away at the column. Covered by the column, Scales curled into a ball and started spinning in place. Stripes mimicked her, trying to spin as well when lights started racing around Scales. After a minute, she got up and started glowing. "This is for you, Mother!" She yelled, unleashing the Light Attack. At the speed of light, she blasted through every cannon on the nearby deck, a spiraling red orange ball leaving a trail of green light. When all the cannons were destroyed, it was safe to proceed. Scales' way was blocked by a large wall. She saw a ramp going up the wall to her right. When she reached the top, she saw a monkey bar above her, leading to a ledge with a spring pointing up. Scales jumped up, grabbing the monkey bar. As she started swinging across, a blast from a giant cannon fell over the wall, obliterating the large section of deck that had once been full of smaller cannons. Gulping, Scales dropped to the ledge and bounced to the spring, landing at the edge of a long portion of deck with a few fighter planes parked on top. In the distance and to the right, she could see the giant cannon. The cannon turned and fired at her. Scales started running immediately. The cannon aimed ahead of her and fired, blasting the large portion of deck she was on. Scales quickly jumped to her right before she could fall, running over a dash panel and getting off the deck section when another cannon shot destroyed it. She raced along the deck, barely managing to jump off each large section as the cannon constantly blew it apart. After several very dangerous jumps and runs, Scales got to the end of the deck and ran to the right as one last shot from the cannon destroyed the entire area. She was now on another portions of deck with four cannons, three medium sized ones and a single giant gun. As the cannons started firing at her, Scales saw a missile pointed at the giant cannon. She ran around the area, dodging shots and smashing the smaller cannons until she got to the missile. When the giant cannon's barrel was pointed at her, Scales stomped the launch button, firing the missile down the gun barrel. The cannon exploded, leaving the lizard and Chao safe for the moment. Scales panted and saw the next section ahead. She walked over through a gap in a barrier, smashing a small cannon on her way through. There was a large wall a bit ahead, blocking her way. Looking around, Scales saw a spring next to an elevated walkway. She went over to the spring and bounced off it, landing on the walkway. She followed it, stopping at the end, which was facing the wall. The gap ahead was too wide to jump, so how would she get across? Then she saw a pair of hooks swinging by from nearby cranes. When one of the hooks swung closer, Scales jumped to it and held on as it swung back and forth. She shifted her body weight around to dodge the fire from cannons that suddenly activated and shot at her. When she got close to the second hook, she jumped to it and held on as she swung closer to the wall, still trying to avoid cannon fire. She jumped off the hook and used a Homing Kick to get to the top of the large wall. She was now on a deck with three large blocks moving back and forth on tracks. At the end of the deck was a wall that went straight up to around the height of the moving blocks, then turned into an upward slope. Several conveyor belts were on this slope. The ones on the left side of the wall were going up, the ones on the right were going down. Scales jumped to the top of a moving block and waited as it moved down its track. She jumped to one of the blocks closer to the left side of the wall and waited as it got closer to the conveyor belts going up. She jumped off the block and landed on the wall, allowing the conveyor to move her up the slope. At the top of the wall, she jumped off the conveyor and was now on another deck with lots of Bladed Spinners flying towards her. Scales killed the Spinners with a number of Homing Kicks, then ran to the end of the deck, smashing a medium cannon and two small ones before reaching another tall wall. There were several monkey bars and springs on ledges at multiple points up the wall. Scales bounced from a spring at the bottom, grabbing a monkey bar above her. She swung along the bars to her right and dropped to a spring. She bounced from the spring and grabbed another set of bars. She swung across the bars and dropped to another spring. His process repeated several times until she reached the top of the wall. A pair of Bladed Spinner, who quickly met their doom, assaulted her. The top of the wall was kind of narrow, another wall right ahead. Scales carefully walked to her left, coming to a spring pointing at the top of a ramp at the end of the wall. She bounced off the spring and landed at the top of the ramp. She walked down to a downward sloping plank, walking carefully so as not to fall off the narrow walkway. After a minute or two, she reached a landing with a switch. She hit it and another catwalk lowered into place, leading to another landing. Scales walked down the plank, turned at the landing, and went to another plank, walking down until she reached a door leading inside. She entered.

(STAGE CLEAR.)

She was now in a corridor, a door at the other end. She went through the door and was at the bottom of a spiral staircase. She went up the stairs and through another door, entering a large room that could only be a bridge. Unfortunately for Scales, there was nothing in the room but a few robots that ran screaming when she burst in. The captain's seat was empty, and it looked like the ship was on autopilot. Scales growled. "Dammit, where is he?" Stripes shrugged. Scales sighed, disappointed, and sat in the captain's chair to rest for a moment. She was surprised when the seat suddenly moved forward! She jumped off and saw the chair was moving along a track. It stopped, revealing a switch and a door where it had been sitting against the wall. Scales smirked. "Well, maybe we'll find our villain after all, eh Stripes?" Scales pushed the button. The ship rumbled. Some control panels folded up in the bridge, the wings came back together and all the decks on the outside of the ship became the body of the Snivel Carrier III again. The door opened, beckoning the two inside. After exchanging glances, Scales and Stripes went through the door. They went up a short stairway and came out in a large room with several cables and large conduits along the walls and a closed door at the other end of the room. Tikal suddenly appeared in her ethereal form, getting Scales' attention. "Scales, I have an important tip for the next fight!" "What is it?" Scales asked. "Remember that electricity can be both your friend and your foe. Good luck!" Tikal vanished. Scales looked at all the cables and conduits lining the walls and quickly understood Tikal's clue. The door opened, and a robot walked out. Scales wasn't surprised at who it was, she had been expecting it for a long time now. It was Shadow, roboticized. "The Chaos Emeralds...you have them. Give them to me." He said. Scales narrowed her eyes. "Where is the master of this ship?" The roboticized Shadow chuckled. "He's not here. He's safe in his secret base, somewhere you'll never get to. Will you give me the Emeralds, or will I have to take them?" Scales scowled. "Shadow, I really don't want to hurt you. You're my brother, but I'm sure you can't remember any of that now." She sighed. "I'm sure you won't stop obeying your master no matter what I say, so let's just fight for the Emeralds, shall we?" Mecha Shadow nodded. "Splendid idea. Let's begin, shall we?"

Mecha Shadow

Mecha Shadow instantly pulled out the green Chaos Emerald. "Chaos Control!" In a flash of light, he had frozen time. Before Scales could follow suit, she screamed as one of her cables severed and Mecha Shadow appeared behind her. The robot hedgehog chuckled. "I so love being able to work outside of time. Chaos-" Scales lashed out with her tail, hitting the android in the chest. He grunted, almost dropping the Emerald. She jumped up and hit him with a Homing Kick, knocking the robot across the room. As Mecha Shadow got up, Scales quickly charged up her attack. She cupped her hands and pointed them at Shadow as he got up. "Serpent Strike!" The green snake shot forward, exploding on contact with Shadow and sending him hurtling into the wall, smashing some cables. He screamed as electricity from the ruptured cables poured into his body. He fell to the ground, panting and smoking. "Pretty good," he wheezed as he got to his feet. "But not good enough. Chaos Control!" He vanished, freezing time. "Chaos Control!" Scales yelled half a second after Mecha Shadow, also freezing time and causing the robot to appear before her. Before the machine could recover from his surprise that she had followed him in coming out of synch with the flow of time, she ran over and bowled him over with a spiked somersault. He groaned and got up, freezing as his own Chaos Control time ran out. Scales whacked him with her tail before time resumed for her as well, adding a little damage to the robot as she returned to the proper flow of time. Mecha Shadow winced a little and launched at her with a Homing Attack. Scales jumped in the air, deflecting her brother's attack. Mecha Shadow somersaulted towards Scales. She jumped over hi, and hit him from behind with her tail. Getting angry, Mecha Shadow started running away. Scales almost followed, then headed for a wall, getting an idea. The robot curled into a ball and rolled towards her in a spindash. Scales waited as the metal spiky ball got closer and closer, then jumped out of the way, causing Mecha Shadow to collide with some more electrical cables and get shocked again. The robot growled. "No more games! Chaos Spear!" A humongous bolt of green lightning shot from the Chaos Emerald, hitting Scales and giving her a taste of electrocution. She screamed and backed away, smoking. Stripes moaned, worried. Mecha Shadow recharged and was ready to fire again. "Chaos Spear!" Scales jumped away in time, causing the lightning bolt to strike and dance across the wall, rupturing more cables and conduits. As Mecha Shadow recharged, Scales hit him with a Homing Kick. Startled, the robot fumbled and dropped the green Emerald. Before he could grab it again, Scales snatched it up and put it away. She grinned. "My turn, brother! Chaos Control!" Time froze. Scales grabbed Mecha Shadow and threw him at a wall. As time unfroze, Scales was able to see the robot crash into a wall and get electrocuted again. He screamed in agony and fell down, hitting the floor. His armor sizzled and sparked before falling apart, revealing Shadow. As the thrill of battle faded, Scales turned sad as she walked over to the prone form of her younger brother. "It looks like being a robot made your combat skills rusty." She said miserably. "I doubt I could have beaten you otherwise." She heard clapping. Stripes yelped, and Scales turned around, seeing a new figure had entered the room through the other door. It was the last of the Demonic Four. "Let me guess. You're the last guy you're boss has left to try and collect my Emeralds?" The monster nodded. "You got it. Name's Beelzebub and I'll be taking your jewels and your life today." He smirked. "I must say, I've been looking forward to fighting you ever since I saw how you beat my brothers. I thought the whole sibling duel was great, but let's see if you put up as good a fight as your brother did when he beat the crap out of me." He unholstered his guns. "I should warn you, I'm much stronger than any of my brothers, so I doubt you'll be beating me anytime soon. Let's get this over with."

Beelzebub

The monster started firing his guns at Scales. Scales started running around Beelzebub, drawing his fire. The bullets kept missing her, hitting and rupturing more cables. After a minute or so of trying to shoot Scales, who was moving in ever-tightening circles towards him, he found he was out of shots. He paused to quickly get another few rounds from one of his jacket's pockets and reload the guns. Scales took the monster's pause as an opportunity to attack and launched at him with a Homing Kick, causing him to not only drop the guns and new bullets he had been feeding the pistols, but also knocking him across the room. He growled and ran towards her, jumping and hurtling at her with a kick. Scales was hit in the jaw by Beelzebub's kick, snapping her head up. She stumbled back, allowing the creature to grab his guns and finish reloading them. He started shooting at Scales just as she had recovered, nearly hitting her. She started running around him again, trying to get him to run out of ammunition. Not about to fall for the same trick twice, Beelzebub waited until she was about to pass him and fired a shot, getting a direct hit on her chest. She flinched and came to a stop. Beelzebub blinked. "Huh? I shoot you in the stomach and all I get is a flinch?" Scales shrugged. "Well, I'm made of stronger stuff than most people." The monster grinned. "What a coincidence. So am I." He suddenly fired a bullet at Stripes. The bullet ricocheted off the bubble and hit the floor harmlessly. "Damn it! What good are guns if you can't hurt things with them?" Angrily, he started firing again. Although a couple of bullets in her body wouldn't hurt too much, a well-placed bullet around her life support system or head would do Scales in. She began her circling run again. Beelzebub kept on shooting, trying to pump as many bullets as he could into the lizard. A few bullets managed to hit her, but the majority of them just further damaged the conduits. When Beelzebub ran out of bullets, he tried to reload quickly and got hit in the chest with a Homing Kick, knocking the weapons from his hands and causing him to fall back. He recovered his balance and punched Scales in the face, giving him time to run over and grab his guns so he could reload them. As Beelzebub started firing again, Scales was tired of the whole circling game. It was good for wasting ammunition, but she was worried a stray bullet or two would hit Shadow. While his hide was as tough as hers, she didn't want him to get a bullet in the head like the last time, he might not survive again. She somersaulted and knocked Beelzebub over, though he still held his guns. When he got up, she hit him with a strong tail whip, knocking him back a few feet. Before he could squeeze off a shot, she then launched into a Homing Kick and hit him squarely in the chest. Beelzebub flew backwards, smashing into some conduits and getting a taste of electricity. He screamed as the electricity rolled over his body, turning the metal parts of his clothes and especially his guns into dangerous objects. The gunpowder in the guns exploded, destroying the weapons and burning the monster's hands. The creature broke free from the wall, his precious jacket severely damaged. Some jolts of static still ran up his body, causing him to twitch now and then. His spiky hair was even worse due to the conduct from the cables, looking nasty. Beelzebub now looked extremely pissed off. "Okay, that's it! You're really going to get it now!" He ran towards Scales, his claws glowing purple. She jumped out of the way of his charge, whipping her tail around to knock Beelzebub over. He flipped off the ground and landed right in front of Scales, his arms raised and ready. "Darkness Claw!" He slashed downward, his claws leaving a trail of purple light, slicing into Scales' flesh. She screamed and backed away, the attack leaving purplish scars on her chest. He grinned and ran towards her, giving a strong punch to her jaw while she was still in shock. He followed that one up with several more, forcing her back with each hit and finally delivering a big kick to her chest, knocking her into the wall. Scales shrieked as the electricity from the damaged conduits went through her life support and body, causing circuitry everywhere to short out. Scales fell from the wall, kneeling and gasping in pain. Beelzebub smirked and strolled over, intending to finish her off while she was weakened. Stripes, desperately thinking of a way to protect his mistress, flew in the monster's face, trying to distract him. Beelzebub scowled and swatted the Chao away. Stripes just flew back, filling Beelzebub's line of sight and yelling loudly. Growling, Beelzebub swatted him away again. As he took another step forward, Stripes flew back again, yelling even louder. Angry, Beelzebub grabbed the Chao's bubble and started shaking it violently, trying to shut Stripes up. The Chao wailed as he was rattled all around in his bubble, screaming for help. Beelzebub grinned, enjoying causing the cute thing fear. That's when he got struck in the face by a clawed foot, knocking him back. Stripes flew back to the revived Scales, cheering. Scales looked kind of bad, but she was obviously not down for the count. As Beelzebub recovered from her kick, Scales snarled and pounced at him, angry that he had tried to hurt her Chao. The monster dodged and spun around, hitting her with his rat tail as she got back up. She grabbed him by the rat tail and spun him around, throwing him into the wall as she let go. Beelzebub screamed as he was electrified again, quickly getting away from the conduits before he could get damaged too badly. Scales smirked. "What's wrong Beelzebub? Don't like a little static?" Beelzebub snarled. "I'll kill you if it's the last thing I do, bitch!" He ran towards her, charging up his special attack again. Scales tensed, getting ready for her move. As Beelzebub was about to slash her with his claws, she jumped, using his head as a springboard and using a Homing Kick to get across the room. Growling, Beelzebub turned around and ran towards Scales, his claws fully charged and ready for slicing. Roaring, he charged at Scales. She didn't move. He kept coming towards her. She didn't move. Beelzebub was almost there, his claws ready to rip into her flesh. Scales still didn't move. Beelzebub started to slash. Scales jumped over Beelzebub's head right as he unleashed the Darkness Claw, causing him to slash into the wall, severing quite a few cables and conduits and getting his claws imbedded in the metal wall. Simply put, he could not move from this spot and was now screaming in excruciating pain as the electricity went all over him. He frantically tried to free himself from the wall, but his claws were in too deep. Wincing at the screams, Scales cupped her hands towards Beelzebub. "Serpent Strike!" The green snake exploded on the back of the jacket, ripping it open and revealing a metal back! The force of the explosion had ripped a hole in this back, exposing vital machinery to the electric current, frying Beelzebub from the inside. The monster, now truly perceived as a robot, writhed in unbelievable pain as the current ripped through his interior. His body thrashed, wracked with small explosions, blowing off chunks of the fake skin covering his metal body. The screams started cracking as the electricity shorted out every system in Beelzebub's body. Finally, the damage was too great, and the robot slumped, dead. Static still played over the prone machine. Scales blinked and looked at Stripes. "Did YOU know he was a robot?" The Chao shook his head. "Oh well. I'm a bit surprised, but I guess that explains why these Demonic Four guys were so damn durable! Come on Stripes, let's see where that door goes." But before they could head for the door, a speaker came on, the voice of the mystery villain blaring out. "Very good Scales, very good. Yes, I know your name, no need to be surprised. I must admit I am very impressed that you managed to kill Beelzebub, my most powerful servant, and found out his true nature and that of the other Demonic Four. They are indeed robots, built to serve me and steal the Chaos Emeralds." Scales grimaced. "Look, I'm sick of all this running around! You've killed way too many people today, monster! Where are you?" The villain laughed. "Oh, but if I told you that, you might have a chance of stopping me. In any case, I can't afford to let you see anything that might be revealing on this ship, so I'll just have to blow it up." Scales and Stripes gasped. "Blow it up?!" "Yes, the explosives should go off in 10...9..." Exchanging a glance with Stripes, Scales started running for Shadow. "7...6..." Scales picked up Shadow and slung him over her shoulder. "4...3..." "CHAOS CONTROL!" Scales yelled, warping away. "1...0." The Snivel Carrier was ripped apart in midair, hundreds of explosions reducing the giant airship to scrap metal, which fell into the ocean below.

How was that chapter? Cool, huh? The secret of the Demonic Four is finally revealed, the Chaos Emeralds are all together, and all four captives have been reclaimed. Of course, it's not over yet, not by a long shot. Scales: hey, aren't we going to do the interview? Me: Huh? Oh, right. Scales, what did you think of this level? Scales: It was finally a challenge for me. The boss battles were radical as well, I'm glad Shadow at least put up a good fight. (Smiles at Stripes.) And I'm happy Stripes helped save my life in the fight with Beelzebub. Stripes: (Coos happily.) Me: Were you surprised that Beelzebub was a robot? Scales: Yeah, I was expecting him to be bioengineered or something. I think I'm lucky to have beaten him, he was really tough! Me: You think he's tough? Wait till you get a look at the final boss. Scales: Can I have a hint? I'm dying to know what I'm going up against! Me: Sorry, no. Scales: Ah, man. Me: As a consolation, how about I give you a gift from our author friends? Scales: What? Me: (Holds up a large bag full of grumbling swindler weasels.) Our good friends Maverick and Ultrafan X gave us a lovely present of all these weasels. They are yours. Do with them as you wish. Scales: (Licking her lips.) Thank you Ultrafan and Maverick! Me: (Tosses bag to Scales. Grabs Stripes and shields his eyes as Scales starts violently consuming the weasels.) Thank you for your patronage, and we'll see you soon. Please review!