Don't own anything. Blah blah blah.

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Sonic was glad to be home. He had what he needed to get the farm running again, and he couldn't wait to see his friends.

Sonic ran to where his farm was, and came to a sudden stop.

His house was gone. So were the other buildings. He ran over to where his house was and found the remains, burned to ashes.

Everything had caught on fire and burned down.

Gripped with panic, Sonic ran over to the Poultry Farm to get some answers. He then noticed it had also burned down.

"No…Amy…Knuckles…"

Sonic looked around. He could see the Animal Dealer and the Blacksmith from where he was standing. It didn't look like anything else had burned down.

Not knowing what else to do, Sonic ran to the inn. He went inside.

Vanilla saw him. "Sonic!" she said, running over to meet him.

"My farm…Amy…Tails…" was all Sonic could get out.

"Don't worry, everyone is all right. Even the animals," Vanilla reassured.

Cream came out of the back. "Sonic, you're back!" she said.

"Cream, could you take him to the others?" Vanilla asked.

"Of course," Cream said. "Follow me!"

Cream took off out the front door, Sonic following close behind.

They went to the lake. It was the same lake that Amy and Cream went to in the morning sometimes. They went into the cave.

In the cave, he found Amy, Knuckles, and Tails. Tornado and Sonics chickens were there, along with a bunch of chickens that Sonic guessed were from the poultry farm. Even Omochao was there.

"Sonic!" Amy said, running over to hug the blue hedgehog.

"I'm glad to see everyone is alright," Sonic said, "but what happened? Our houses…"

"Burned down," Knuckles finished. "One day, we were working on your farm, when the stable caught on fire. It spread across the dry grass and caught all the buildings on fire. We scrambled to get all the animals out. We didn't have anywhere else to bring them, so we brought them to the cave."

"Once we got them to safety, Cream flew to us and told us that the Poultry Farm was on fire, so we saved all those chickens too," Amy said sadly.

"So then what happened?"

"After the fires were put out, Officer Snively investigated. He ruled that the fire in the stable was electrical," Amy answered.

"Sonic, there was no electricity in the stable," Tails said.

Sonic thought about it. There wasn't a light or an electric outlet in the stable. That building never had any power.

"And then," Knuckles said, "he said a piece broke off of one of your buildings, flew over to our place, and caught it on fire. I looked, that seems to be highly unlikely, given the distance between your buildings and ours.."

Sonic went over to pet Tornado, while trying to figure out what to do next.

Sally was walking down the street. She heard the farm burned down, along with any hope of the town surviving. She kept hearing herself say "Do you want fries with that?" in her head.

She passed by the mayor's house. "Good job on that farm," she heard Eggman say.

What was that about the farm? She hid in some bushes under his window and got out Nicole. She turned down the volume so that Nicole wouldn't talk. Sally then pressed a button to record the conversation.

"Yeah, everything burned down to ashes," a voice she didn't recognize say. "You'll have those factories up in no time."

"Excellent," Eggman said. "It's time to bring this dump into the modern world."

Sally was shocked. The mayor was behind it all?

"Snively!" she heard Eggman yell. "You left the window open! Get it closed before someone hears us!"

"Yes sir," he replied. She saw Snively poke his head out the window. She put her hand over her mouth to keep from gasping.

Snively looked left and right but didn't see anyone. He never bothered to look directly down, where Sally was. He then closed the window and the curtains.

Sally got up and quickly took off for the inn.

Vanilla was watering some indoor plants when Sally came running in.

"Excuse me, but do you know when Sonic gets back?" she asked quickly.

"Oh, he's already back. Why do you ask?" Vanilla said. She knew that Sally wasn't the nicest person in town.

"I've got some important information about the fire at his farm," Sally replied.

Vanilla looked surprised. "I'll go get them. Wait here," she said, and took off.

Soon, they were all in Cream's room, upstairs with the door locked. They were listening to what Sally had recorded.

"It's time to bring this dump into the modern world," they heard Eggman say on the recording. After the part where Snively closed the window, Nicole announced the end of the recording.

Sonic and Knuckles both were visibly angry. Eggman, Snively, and this other character that they recognized as that weasel Nack had torched Sonics Farm. Knuckles was sure that they had done the same to his poultry farm.

"So what do we do now?" Tail asked.

Sonic thought for a few minutes, then snapped his fingers.

"Guys, I have a plan."

"Really? What?" Sally asked.

"Not yet," Sonic said. "I'm going to go get some help. I'll be beck in about half an hour, then I'll fill you guys in.

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If I remember in time, I'll upload the next one. . . sometime.