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Yeah, I know it's still not that long, but at least this chapter is longer than the last one! There's not really much to say about it, except thanks and enjoy!
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Chapter 12: Reunion
"Where did you go?" Sonic asked as Knuckles appeared next to him. "Did you get lost in the transportation?" Sonic looked around frantically. "Where's the Chaos Medallion?!"
"I kind of lost it," Knuckles replied, a little embarrassed.
"How could you have lost it?!" Sonic cried. "I just gave it to you!"
"After you left, Drake came up on the cliff and stole it from me," Knuckles added, trying to be a little more truthful.
"And you just let him?" Sonic said, confused. "That's not like you." After a moment of thinking, he raised an eyebrow. "He tricked you, didn't he?"
"You don't know that," said Knuckles.
"Oh, I can tell," replied Sonic. He sighed and put his head in his hands. "Either way, now Drake has two, and I only have one. This is bad."
He was just about to yell at Knuckles, when a familiar voice called, "Sonic!!!"
Sonic looked up and saw Amy running towards him. She zipped up and flung herself around his neck. "Oh Sonic, I missed ya!"
"What happened to you?" Sonic asked. "I thought you got sucked into that portal."
"I did," Amy replied. She sat down on a rock. "And I came out in this strange new world or somethin'. I met this weird pole-vaultin' echidna girl, and she taught me howta run fasta. It's a story anna half, I tell ya!"
Sonic wrinkled his nose. "Why are you talking so funny?"
Amy covered her mouth. After spending so much time with Ruth, she had begun to talk like her! "Uh…sorry. Anyways, get a load of this…" She told Sonic and Knuckles all about arriving in the other world, meeting Ruth, obtaining the Swift Boots, and smashing Omochao.
"So you finally destroyed that little twerp?" Knuckles said, interested. "Good job!"
Sonic felt disappointed. Amy had met a friend of Drake's. If it had been him, he would've tried to pry as much out of her as possible. What a wasted opportunity!
"Oh, wait!" Amy cried. "I forgot about this!" She pulled out the silver Chaos Medallion from Lost Egg.
"You found one!" Sonic exclaimed. "That's good, because we just lost one." The three of them walked off towards the forest. "Ha!" Sonic cried. "We're even now, Drake!"
Tails was suddenly awakened as something shook his tree. He'd been in this tree since last night. Part of him thought that he'd never find Sonic and Amy again. That part was convinced that they must've drowned in the tsunami. The other half insisted that they were still alive somewhere, and he should go look for them. The two sides had been waging war all day until he finally decided to just go to sleep again. Tails flew out of the tree, alarmed. A familiar voice reached his ears.
"Amy! Will you stop whacking into all those trees? You're going to scare the local wildlife."
"Sorry," Amy's voice answered. "I wasn't looking where I was going."
"As usual," Knuckles' deep voice added.
Tails's heart leaped. He flew down into the forest and landed right in front of Sonic.
"Tails!" he cried. "Where have you been? Were you sucked into the same portal as Amy?"
Tails didn't answer for a while. He just hugged Sonic and Amy and mumbled how happy he was that they were still alive. Finally, they found a small forest clearing and Tails told them his side of the story.
"I have another Chaos Medallion," Tails said, showing Sonic the green one from Emerald Park.
"What happened to the other one?" Sonic asked. "You know, the red one, the first one we found…?"
"I gave it to Drake," Tails answered.
Sonic nearly fainted. "You gave it to Drake?! Just gave it to him?!"
"He said he needs them to save the world," Tails told him. "And he looked very distressed. He's not a bad guy; he doesn't act like one."
Sonic took a deep breath. "You didn't realize he was trying to trick you?!"
"But he looked so sincere…" Tails said, softly.
"People may look sincere, but that doesn't mean they are sincere!" Sonic cried. He shook his head. "Sheesh, Tails, you're getting to be as big a sap as Knuckles!"
Knuckles scowled at him.
"That means the score is still even," Sonic decided. "Drake has three, and we have three. If these Chaos Medallions are similar to the Chaos Emeralds, there'll only be one more medallion to find." Sonic drew little figures in the sand with a stick. "I'm afraid there's going to be a big showdown with Drake for the final medallion, wherever it is. However, there are four of us and only one of him. It should be easy to take him down."
"How do you know?" Tails asked. "We don't know anything about Drake; he might have some kind of special power."
Sonic thought for a while. "Well, while we were fighting that big robot back at Twinkle Coast, we saw him fire a beam, lash out with his dreadlocks, and rocket-jump with his shoes. What more powers could he have?"
Nobody said anything for a long while.
Tails was thinking about having to attack Drake. Would he be able to, after that meeting? What if he called him Foxaroni again? He didn't think he could stand that.
Amy was thinking that if they fought against Drake, Ruth might come to help him. She didn't think she'd be able to fight Ruth.
Knuckles was just thinking that he'd crush Drake the next time he saw him; he didn't care what kind of special powers he had.