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--flash-cards-- The story thus far!

--card #1--Eggman looks at his Reject Robots

--card #2--Sonic blows up Eggman's base

--card #3--Knuckles arrives and demands his Master Emerald back

And now lets resume!

When we return, Eggman getting bored, and Knuckles wont say anything unless it has to do with getting his Emerald back.

"Give me back the Master Emerald!" Knuckles demanded yet again.

"This again...." Eggman sighed.

"Give me back the Master Emerald!"

"Were have I seen this before..."

"Give me back the Master Emerald!"

Finally, getting thoroughly annoyed, Eggman reached in Knuckles' pocket(?), pulled out the Master Emerald and gave it to the echidna. Stopping mid-sentence, Knuckles said, "Give me bac--oh...uh...Thank You." Eggman remained silent. Knuckles stared at Eggman for a few seconds, trying to figure out what had just happened, and a tumbleweed blew by. Knuckles punched Eggman and flew away. "Finally" Eggman said after getting his wind back.

Sighing Eggman dug around in the rubble of his base until he found the TV remote and a television. He plopped down on a piece of cushion from one of his Eggwalkers seats. Clicking through the channels he saw a commercial and stopped to see what gimmick they were trying to sell now...

There was a man on TV, talking about something or other, and with mild interest Eggman turned up the volume. "Are you lonely? Overweight? Full of problems and difficulties? More importantly, Do you need a friend?" The Guy on TV boomed. Eggman stared at the TV, mind racing and paying close attention to every detail. The Guy on TV continued, "If so! Call '1-800-Ineedafriend' to talk to one of our cold unfeeling automated phone operators about getting a brand new friend! only $19.99!"

Then the TV went out, Eggman had forgotten to pay his Electric Bill. But that didn't matter. Because he was finally going to have a friend! Excitedly, Eggman dug around until he found his Cell phone, and then punched in the numbers.

"Yeah, what do you want?" A-Cold-Unfeeling-Automated-Phone-Operator type person answered.

"I'm calling about the Friendship?" Eggman said excitedly.

"Well what do you want, a medal?"

"No thank you, just a Friend, please"

"I'm not being your friend you freak!"

"Just send me the friend for $19.99!!!"

"Well fine then, No need to get angry. Your friend is on the way Mr. Egg."

"Oh good good."

As soon as he had hung up, a large bulldozer made its way through the base remains followed by a big yellow truck labeled 'The Friend Mobile'. Eggman gleefully jumped up and down, wondering what his friend was going to be like. A depressed looking man stepped out of the truck wearing a bright yellow uniform with big smiley faces drawn all over it. "Are you a...... Mr. Egg?" he asked, doing a double take on the name Mr. Egg. "Sure, whatever." Eggman said distractedly looking at the box the man was holding.

"OK, that'll be $19.99"

"Oh no! I only have $19.98!" Eggman cried, searching through his wallet.

"Aint it a shame" The delivery man said, climbing back in his truck.

"NO! don't deny my only spark of happiness!!"

"Wow, You're kinda pathetic."

"Give me my friend!" Eggman yelled, and pulled out a laser gun, pointing it between the mans eyes.(hey, he is a bad guy after all, so He's allowed to do that)

"I don't want any trouble!" The depressed man threw the box at Eggman.

"YES! FINALLY! MY OWN SPECIAL FRIEND!" Eggman did a sort of happy dance.

The friend delivery man jumped in his truck and put the pedal to the metal, running over one of Eggman's feet in the process, but Eggman was in his own little happy world looking at the box and didn't notice. His hands were shaking as he lifted the flap and saw inside........

The chapter end here, aint cliffhangers fun?