Here's the next chapter! I finally decided that there is going to be one more chapter after this. As always, enjoy!

Chapter 12:

Insanity at the Mall

The next day everyone was bored and it was only 8:00a.m. Knuckles and Shadow were amazingly up and there was a section in the newspaper about it. Everyone was sitting in a chair bored out of their wits.

"How about we go to the mall?" Rouge asked.

"Why not? There's nothing to do here?" Radar agreed.

"I can't believe I'm saying this, but… let's go to the mall…" Shadow said. "I've been scarred for life." He added.

The rest agreed and they all walked outside to remember they didn't have a car. They towed Chris' car away and Shadow's car burned to ash.

"Of course... something has to go wrong." Knuckles muttered.

"Let's just take the bus." Cash suggested.

Everyone else agreed and they went to wait for the bus. It pulled up and the bus driver opened the doors.

"Oh, I'm sorry. Only humans are allowed to ride this bus." The bus driver said.

Shadow became angry. He pulled out his gun and aimed it at the bus.

"Prepare to be annihilated!" Shadow yelled. "Let us on the bus or I'll shoot the bus!"

"Okay, get on! Don't shoot my poor bus!" the bus driver said.

Shadow smiled and got on the bus. Everyone else followed and sat down. In 5 minutes they were at the mall. The bus driver seemed happy to have them get off. The gang met up in a circle to decide what to do.

"Do we have to stick in this big group or can we run freely?" Cash asked.

"Let's stay in at least groups of two or three." Tails said.

"No, we're not using the buddy system!" Knuckles said.

"Okay, then let's call it something different. How about the cool system?" Tails asked.

"The 'cool system'?" Sonic asked.

Tails nodded. Everyone began to laugh. Shadow had to hold on to Knuckles from not falling on the floor.

"What's so funny?" Tails asked.

"The 'cool system'?" Sonic asked.

"I thought it was a good name…" Tails said quietly.

"Oh, yeah it's a good name just… not what we were thinking of." Rouge lied.

"Like what?" Tails asked her.

"You know what? Let's get off the subject." Radar said.

"I agree. Let's stick in groups of three or two and just not call it anything." Espio agreed.

"Okay, let's see there are eight of us. Maybe groups of two wouldn't be a bad idea." Sonic said.

Suddenly, Amy appeared out of nowhere.

"I want to go too!" she squealed.

Sonic yelled and jumped behind a fake plant. Knuckles pulled him out and told him it was just Amy.

"Okay, now we have to do groups of three." Cash said.

"Then that's what we'll do. Let's decide who's going with who." Knuckles said.

"Actually it's who's going with whom." Tails squeaked.

"That's it I'm not going with you!" Knuckles yelled.

In the end the groups were Knuckles, Espio and Shadow (group 1), Radar, Cash and Tails (group 2) and Amy, Rouge and Sonic (group 3). They all split up.

Amy and Rouge had agreed to let Sonic pick where he wanted to go first since he didn't want to be with girls. They ended up in front of a map and Sonic having a dilemma on where he wanted to go.

"For Pete's sake Sonic, just pick a store. We'll go to other stores beside girl stores." Rouge sighed.

"I have to make sure it's a store you all hate so I can go with Tails or Knuckles." Sonic said. "Aha!"

"What'd you pick?" Amy asked.

"Bath and Body Works!" Sonic yelled.

"Um, FYI we love that store." Rouge said.

"Yeah, I thought you were going to pick a store you like." Amy said.

"I like Bath and Body Works." Sonic said.

Amy and Rouge exchanged a worried glance. Sonic liking Bath and Body shop? What next Knuckles, Espio and Shadow all were shopping in Claire's?

Meanwhile, Espio, Shadow and Knuckles were in Claire's. The reason they were in there was because Espio had promised Vector he'd buy something for Vanilla because he couldn't do it himself. Knuckles and Shadow were doing all they could so they wouldn't go on a rampage and tear down the store.

Knuckles had his eyes shut and was trying to imagine himself at the beach dunking Sonic in the water, but an image of perfume kept appearing in the water. Shadow was clutching his gun and trying to imagine he was about to kill Sonic for making him eat popcorn. Espio wasn't enjoying himself either. He finally picked out a pair of earrings and they bolted out of the store once it was paid for.

"I… HATE… THAT… STORE!" Shadow yelled sitting on a bench.

All the people around them quickly scurried away afraid of the black and red hedgehog. Knuckles was trying to strangle himself and Espio was drowning himself in a nearby fountain.

Once they all agreed that they'd never go in there again. They went into Hot Topic for their own enjoyment. The person behind the desk looked oddly familiar. He was a green crocodile and looked a lot like…

"VECTOR?!" Espio yelled.

Knuckles and Shadow turned to see it was indeed Vector working at Hot Topic.

"I thought you hated this place?" Espio asked him jumping up on the counter.

"I do, but I needed a job and they had a spot open." Vector said in his weird voice.

Espio, Shadow and Knuckles just stared at him. Vector finally got freaked out by their stares and hid under the counter. Espio, Shadow and Knuckles left him to cower by himself and went to look around the shop.

Tails, Radar and Cash were in KB Toys. Cash and Tails were enjoying themselves, but Radar was constantly muttering curse words. He despised this store. The only good thing about it was that Cash had finally shut up and Tails was saying math problems anymore.

In the middle of a very threatening thought, Cash came up to Radar holding up a video game.

"Hey Radar can I get this game?" He asked.

Radar looked at it. He had no idea what it was but it was rated M. He threw it behind him and kneeled down next to Cash.

"How many times have I told you… M means mature. You can't play those games because you're too young. How many times have I told you that?" Radar whispered trying to not loose his temper.

"About 57 times to be exact." Cash said.

"Then… why don't you get the point?!" Radar yelled

Cash shrugged and walked off. Finally Tails and Cash decided on something to buy and they left the store to Radar's relief.

Next, Radar dragged them into FYE. Tails, actually happy about this choice ran off to find a book about mechanical crap. Radar ran off to the music section and Cash went to look for more M rated games so he could get on Radar's nerves again.

Back with Sonic and the girls they were still in Bath and Body Works. What was a perfectly good idea to Sonic in the first place and turned into the worse one possible. Sonic had been turned into the perfume tester. Yes, Rouge and Amy sprayed perfume on him if they wanted to test it. To them, it was a dream. To Sonic it was a torture chamber. He'd rather have Shadow beat him up than this.

Sonic was currently hiding behind the counter so he couldn't be sprayed any more. Although the aroma that came from him would draw any girl to him. He was now receiving weird glances from the clerk.

"Please don't tell the bat and pink hedgehog I'm back here." Sonic whispered.

"Hey." The clerk said.

Rouge turned to her and she pointed below her. Sonic smacked himself in the forehead. Rouge and Amy poked there heads around the corner and saw Sonic.

"I was wondering where that nice smell was coming from." Rouge smirked.

"It's your fault." Sonic muttered.

Amy sprayed perfume in his face and Sonic fell on the floor coughing, gagging and wheezing.

"It's in my mouth! It's in my mouth! I'm dying!" Sonic yelled turning green and literally flattening out so he looked 2D.

Rouge and Amy backed away from him and started whistling acting like they didn't know him. They went off to test more perfumes on random people. Sonic got up and sighed.

To Sonic's relief they finally left and met outside to decide the next store to go to.

"Victoria's Secret!" Amy yelled.

"Yeah!' Rouge agreed.

"Help me, lord!" Sonic yelled.

Rouge and Amy both smacked him in the face.

"We're going there no matter what!" Rouge yelled.

Amy grabbed him by the wrist and began dragging him to his doom.

"Noooo! I don't wanna go, I don't wanna go! Ahhhhh!" Sonic cried.

Rouge kicked him in his stomach and he fell silent (probably because he was unconscious).They walked into Victoria's secret and laid him down on a pile on pink underwear.

The group had been at the mall for eight hours now and they had all met up at the food court. They were about to buy their dinner. Everyone had enjoyed themselves except Sonic who smelled like watermelon, vanilla, strawberry, peaches, lemons, and coca all mixed together. He had also had to be tortured by sitting on a pile of underwear while Amy and Rouge shopped in Victoria's Secret for five hours.

"Where should we eat?" Shadow asked covering his ears for Tails' yell of a cheap place.

"MCDONALDS!" Tails yelled.

Shadow, behind him, pulled out his gun and was trying to resist shooting him in the head. He calmed down and just patted him on the head instead. Tails turned to him and smiled.

"Uh, Tails. There isn't a McDonalds here. They tore it down like three years ago remember?" Sonic asked.

"Noooooooooooo! I'm gonna starve!" Tails yelled.

"No you're not. Just go eat somewhere else." Knuckles said.

"Okay!" he said and zoomed off to Sbarro along with Cash and Espio.

"I'm going to Tumbleweed." Radar said and ran off along with Rouge.

"Where do you guys wanna go?" Knuckles asked Sonic and Shadow.

"Somewhere where faker isn't going." Shadow said.

"Well, I'm going to the bathroom to rinse this stuff offa me." Sonic said zooming off.

"That was easy." Shadow smiled.

"Where do you wanna go?" Knuckles asked.

Shadow looked around and walked off to Subway. Knuckles decide to go to Asian Chao. He walked to the counter and saw and Asian looking chao floating behind the cash register. In fact, everyone working at the place were Asian chaos! Knuckles didn't think much of it.

"Hi, I'd like an order of rice please." Knuckles ordered.

"Chao chao chao!" the chao said.

"Pardon?" Knuckles asked.

"Chao chao chao!" the chao repeated.

"I can't understand you what?" Knuckles asked.

"Chao… chao… chao." The chao said more slowly.

"Speak any English?" Knuckles yelled at it.

"Chao!" The chao said.

It then blew up. Knuckles blinked and then became angry.

"That's it; I'm going to Subway!" Knuckles yelled and stormed off to Subway.

Everyone got there lunch and sat down to eat. Knuckles joined them last (because of the incident with the chaos) and began eating in silence.

"What's the matter Knux?" Espio asked.

"They have chaos working at a restaurant and you can't understand a darn word they're saying!" Knuckles said.

"Oh." Espio seemed surprised by the answer.

After their dinner, the gang headed home. Sonic was relieved to return home and not have to be around the perfume anymore. He got most of it off in the bathroom at the mall, but there was still some on him. He jumped in the shower and sighed.

That night everyone went to bed in a happy mood ignoring that the sky was a pinkish color when it was midnight. O.o

Why is the sky pink and why was Vector working at Hot Topic? You may never know… Actually you might if you continue reading once I update:)