Chapter 4

Sonic, Amy, and Tails were all at Amy's house when Eggman dropped in on his Eggmobile. He looked terrible. As if he had gotten influenza, but worse. They dragged him inside Amy's house, but not before Amy argued with them about getting eachother sick. They laid him on on the couch, putting a blanket over him.

"I almost feel sorry for the guy," Sonic said. Amy elbowed him in the rib cage. "Ouch. What was that for?"

"He may have attacked innocent people before, but he needs help," Amy said angrily.

"Amy is right, Sonic," Tails agreed. "Besides, this doesn't look like a trap. I mean, look at the guy!" Amy and Sonic looked at him.

"Maybe your right, Tails," Sonic said. He looked back Eggman."I think you should do some tests on him."

"I will do all that I can, Sonic," Tails said. Tails went into Amy's kitchen and got out a knife. He went back into the living room and made a small cut on Eggman's arm. For some reason, Eggman didn't move or make noise at all while Tails was cutting him.

"I need a bag to peserve some blood in," Tails said.

"I'll get one," Sonic said. He ran into the kitchen and looked for some plastic baggies. "Hey, Amy! Where are the little plastic baggies!"

"There in the second-to-last drawer on the bottem-right side," Amy yelled back. Sonic found some and took one. Sonic ran back to Tails and he let some blood drip into the bag. Tails closed it and sighed.

"I'm sorry to say this but," Tails looked at Amy. "I need to get to the workshop and observe this closer. I'll need Sonic to help me get there faster. So Amy, you're going to be alone for a while."

"Ok," Amy said. Then Sonic grabbed her hands.

"I want you to take out the Piko Piko Hammer, just in case it's a trap," Sonic said. All Amy did was nod her head. Sonic let go of Amy and grabbed Tails. "You ready?"

"As I'll ever be," Tails replied. Sonic shot off like a rocket, out the door and into the dirt road. Amy went to the door and looked outside with a worried look on her face.

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As soon as Sonic and Tails got to the workshop, Tails went straight to his lab and poured the blood under a powerful microscope. After two minutes, Sonic heard Tails talk to himself.

"Oh my god," Tails said. Sonic walked next to him.

"What's wrong?" Sonic asked worriedly. Tails looked at Sonic.

"I want you to call Knuckles, Rouge, and Cream and tell them all to come to Amy's place," Tails ordered.

"Ok," Sonic said. If Tails wanted everyone together in a situation like this, then it must be something big. Sonic ran to the phone and dialed Knuckles and Rouge's number.

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Knuckles and Rouge were in their new house that they just built. Since Knuckles is the guardian of the Master Emerald, they built their house next to the shrine. Knuckles was practicing on a new punchbag that looked like Eggman. Rouge was reading a novel that she just bought. Then suddenly, the phone rang.

"I'll get it," They both said at the same time. They both ran to the phone but stopped to avoid hitting eachother. Knuckles smiled.

"I'll get it," He said. Rouge smiled back.

"Ok, honey," Rouge said while walking back to the chair she was in.

"Hello?" Knuckles said.

"Hello, Knuckles," the Other user said. Knuckles knew it was Sonic.

"Hey, Sonic. What's up?"

"A lot is up right now Knux. Listen you need to go to Amy's place and bring Rouge with you."

"Why? What's going on?"

"We'll tell you when everyone else is here." Knuckles waited a bit.

"Ok," Knuckles answered. "We'll be there in a little bit, hopefully."

"See you when you get there," Sonic said and hung up. Knuckles hung up the phone and turned to Rouge.

"Rouge, we're going to Amy's. By the sound of it, it's an emergency," Knuckles said.

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Cream was playing outside when her phone rang. Vanilla, who was cleaning the dishes, answered it.

"Cream, it's for you," Vanilla said. Cream ran inside and took the phone from her mother.

"Hello?" Cream said.

"Hey, Cream it's me Sonic."

"Oh, hey Sonic!"

"Listen, we need you at Amy's place. Ok?"

"Umm sure."

"Tell your mother it's an emergency."

"Ok, I will. Goodbye."

"Goodbye, Cream," Sonic said. He hung up the phone afterwards. Cream hung up the phone and ran to Vanilla.

"They need me at Amy's place," Cream said.

"Ok, Cream," Vanilla said. "Be careful out there."

"I will mommy," Cream said while running out the door with Charmy following close behind.

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Once Sonic and Tails got back to Amy's, the noticed that Amy was outside. When they got to her they asked for news of Eggman.

"He's dead," Amy said looking at the ground. Tails ran inside to look at the body of Eggman while Sonic just stood where he was. Then Knuckles, Rouge and Cream arrived.

"What's the probelm Sonic?" Knuckles asked. Sonic looked back and stared into Knuckles' eyes.

"Go inside and you'll find out," Sonic said with grief in his voice. Knuckles, Rouge, And Cream ran into the house while Sonic and Amy walked in.

"Oh my god," Rouge said with her hand up to mouth. They all stared at the corpse of Eggman.

Eggman laid on the couch with little meat on him. His face had no expression on it. Theres was a weird black liquid coming out of his mouth.

"Ok," Tails said, who was next to Eggman's corpse. "Let me tell you what's going on." He stood up and walked into the kitchen, everyone followed. "Here," He pointed to the table, "Sit down please." Everyone sat around the table.

Sonic and Amy were holding hands while Cream sat next to them. Knuckles sat arched foward, his elbows on his knees. Rouge just sat in her chair, arms folded.

"So, here's the deal," Tails started. "This is no ordinary virus, this is what I call a 'superflu'. It has the ability to kill it's host within hours if not minutes. The superflu has the ability to just kill the host's immue system. The host's body begins to dehydrate because the virus dissolves the liquid within the cells and tissue."

"Wait," Knuckles said with shock in his voice. "Can't you make a cure?"

"Yeah," Sonic said. "Your the boy with an I.Q. of 300!"

Tails just shook his head. "I'm sorry, it's impossible."

"What do you mean 'it's impossible'?" Rouge said.

"The RNA changes every two minutes yet the effects on the host remain the same," Tails explained. "What were dealing with is an epidemic of massive proportions."

"Then how come were not sick?" Amy asked.

"I don't know guys...I don't know," Tails said.