V.B…. sorry, you're not that… 'one person'… it's actually- (got cut off) I was e-mailing him and told him everything about Kai… because he needs it for his new story… and now… we're pen pals! Yayness!

Z.A.-Umm… thanx for reviewing 'The Inside Threat'… as you've noticed, Dane is in there… umm… you weren't the first person to review… and I was hoping you would be… you came in second!

"Kai! You've actually done something smart!" Shadow said happily.

"Yeah!… Hey!" she said, noticing that it wasn't completely a compliment.

She handed out a tile to each person.

"Look, we all need to work together… cover each other… okay? Maybe get a partner…" Kai said.

Rouge and Knuckles nodded, staying fairly close to one another. Amy leaned over to Shadow. Vinny and Jayln were sooo close to one another. Kai sighed and drooped her head down.

"Fine… I'll be with Tails…" she whispered.

"Not really… you see, I'm going to be working on some way to destroy the door and the lasers… so…"

Kai looked around and found Fear. He stared at her with admiring eyes. She didn't notice it at all.

The lasers started firing them. They used the tiles to reflect the laser's beam.

Central Control Room...

"Look… Eggman… if you get in our way again… you die… how the hell do you shut those things off?" Flare asked, pointing to the screen.

Lasers were everywhere in the room.

Eggman slowly walked to the huge screens and started typing things in.

It just made the lasers even worse. Flare sighed and shook his head.

"Where are the Chaos Emeralds?" Flare asked.

Eggman shook his head, meaning he won't tell. Flare had a slight smile on.

"You shouldn't have done that… right now… I can feel the anger building up inside me… and you know what that means…"

Flare's eyes were surrounded in a black fire… he looked down to his hands… it was engulfed in the same black fire that his eyes were in.

"Tell me…" he whispered.

That room…

Tails was on his laptop again… he was trying to find a way to stop the lasers.

"Let's see… is it this one?"

Suddenly, a fire alarm went on and sprinkled water in the room. It electrocuted the lasers and immobilized them for a while. Tails stopped the fire alarm.

"I guess that works too…" he whispered to himself.

Everyone was soaking wet and was looking at him in a strange way. Tails laughed sheepishly.

Sorry I have to go! More school supplies to get… (sigh)