Kagome: Welcome back! Felt like letting you know I have this odd temptation to Chris bash, meaning there might be some in this chapter. And a lot of the Chris bashing will probably be OOC. Blah, blah, blah…read…

metaldragon75767: Only sorta...Well, I know more about it than my friends do except when it comes down to the animals. Before I liked sonic, I had never heard of echidnas or hedgehogs. You're lucky you can borrow games. All I have is a GBA and a gamecube, and all my friends have a PS2 except one who's newest system is the N64. I don't know how to end the story yet, so maybe I will end it kinda gay.

Turquoise Moonlight: What's Mobious? Kagome very confuseded…Yes, you can be staff! PLEASE! I'll send you an invite on Friday, the same day I post this chappie. Blaze sounds like a cool name, but not a cool cat. Especially if she's anything like Big. Can I eat my owners, then? Are kumquat even tasty. Kagome never seen one, let alone had one.

ShadowIsCool (ch. 20): Weird…almost no one starts school that early. We just have a sucky superintendent. We always do. I've had ONE snow day my entire life! ONE! Every school system in our county closed school once, except my city. That's how bad my city sux. Thanks a lot.

ShadowIsCool (ch. 19): Thanks…Yes…finish reading…

ShadowIsCool (ch. 18): Yep, fifty bucks. My comps just as crappy. Every time I type on it, the comp decides to skip around. While writing this section, it skipped up to both your ch. 20 review AND Turquoise's review. You better read the rest…

Disclaimer: I don't own the sonic copyright.

CH 20-The dinner of Chris bashing.

Unknowing what to say, Knuckles could do nothing more than look at Rouge.

"I get it…" Hurt, Rouge turned to go back to her room.

"I love you, Rouge…" Knuckles started. "But we already went through this. I can't have a relationship.

"No one's stopping you…" the bat responded.

"The Master Emerald is." Knuckles looked down. "I'm sorry."

"The Master Emerald is an inanimate object." Rouge argued. "It can't stop you from anything." Whipping a few tears away, Rouge continued. "Besides, it's not too hard to keep an Emerald safe and-"

"It's harder than you think."

"Ignoring all incidents Eggman tried to steal it, when was the last time it was stolen and/or broken?"

"Let's see…" Knuckles racked his brain for another example. "The Chaos monster."

"The Chaos monster…" Rouge thought aloud. "sounds familiar…"

"Look, it's not me, it's you." Knuckles told her. Wait…did I just say what I think I said…? "I mean! It's not you, it's me!"

Okay. Total moment ruiner.

"Whatever." Rouge turned back to the door, somehow feeling like it was her fault. "I get it."

Suddenly…a black hedgehog appeared.

"It's too late for a rematch." Knuckles closed his eyes. "I'm not in the mood anymore."

"You only wish I was here about that…" Shadow responded. "Tikal just called. She's discovered something."

"what!" Knuckles asked.

"Something about an emerald piece at the bottom of the sea." Shadow shrugged. "Who knows."

Kagome no feel like writing a section on it, so they somehow got the piece back.

That night at dinner, things were unusually quiet. Well, as quiet as things can be with a hedgehog obsessed with a world hero, the ultimate life, an annoying fox, an almost as annoying bunny, and a gay little human boy named Chris. Along with an echidna and a bat obsessed with emeralds and gems that were currently going through issues. Yep. That's the Thorndike house. Oh, and do I really have to mention Tanaka? (I'm glad he's not my butler. Then again…a butler would be nice…especially one who could teach me Japanese) so, things weren't all that quiet, but still, everyone noticed something had happened between Knux and Rouge.

"Rouge," Knux whispered. "About earlier…"

"So, Sonic, Amy." Rouge turned away from Knuckles. "How was your date."

"Horrible!" Amy replied, pulling out her hammer "Sonic stood me up again!"1

"Hey, Amy…" Chris sweatdropped. "Why don't we put the hammer down…?"

"Why? Cause you're a wuss." Amy replied.

True. So true.

"For once, Rose is right." Shadow replied. "I'm glad I beat you up back at the ARK" 2

"No Shadow." Rouge joked. "You just missed your anger management classes."

"Rouge…" Knuckles tried again in a low whisper.

"Save it, echidna." Rouge responded. "I don't wanna hear it."

"Yeah…" Cream continued. "I can't remember the last time Chris was helpful."

"Hold it." Sonic broke in.

"Thank you!" Chris said. "Finally someone's sticking up for me."

"What?" Sonic replied. "Oh, no, I'm on their side. I just wanted to say that I called the next insult."

"Wha…" Chris was confused.

"My real best friend is Tails." Sonic responded. "Not you."

Kagome: Lots of OOC in the Chris bashing! ;; Okay. Short chappie with little KnuxRouge, but I have to go to the library and update now. Friends just got here and we're going up, so ja!