Chapter 3: Hey, No Build Errors This Time!

Me: Hmm, it looks like I finally got it to work for once... The place didn't explode during the compilation!

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It has been an hour since the group of 4, Sonic, Malcolm, Brock, and Lauren, have left the temple. "Man, how much further is it? I don't even run this much in the Tournament!" Lauren exclaimed as they kept running in the same direction, to Tails's workshop.

"It's not that much farther! I usually can get there in a minute, but since I have to show you guys the way, it takes a lot longer. Maybe about a couple of hundred feet, it's just around the corner!" Sonic replied. His running speed was much reduced from having to let the team behind him follow without being left behind, making him a little bored. "I thought you had that one thing you called Adrenaline Combos, and one was for speed?"

"Yeah, but we used the adrenaline earlier, pretty wastefully too..." Malcolm said as he sighed, shaking his head over the group's earlier Rambo tactics, wasting all of their precious adreanline combos on such a weak enemy.

"So, a couple hundred feet you said? It's been a couple hundred YARDS by now!" Brock complained.

"Just shut up Brock," Malcolm said, tired of Brock's complaints.

"Whatever..."

"Hey, I see the place! It's just right there!" Sonic pointed to a small-ish warehouse-like place (at least, a warehouse resembling the DM-Flux2 warehouse). "Tails should be right inside, but I've gotta call him out. Security, I guess..."

"Right..." Brock said, rolling his eyes. "How secure do you need to be when all you need is a Flak Cannon, and about 20 shots for it?"

"Eh? Flak Cannon? What is that?" Sonic asked, completely confused.

"This." Malcolm pulled out a weapon, showing Sonic. Sonic frowned a little.

"I don't use guns at all, but Tails only uses them rarely, but only his own custom made ones. Like this one arm cannon he had. But... it got broken when it was smashed under a rock that fell on the workshop. It took him months to fix the place up, but he just finished it yesterday, so don't blow the place up!" Sonic said, grinning.

"We don't plan to..." Malcolm said, looking over to Brock.

"What?"

"You KNOW what." Lauren replied for Malcolm, knowing how many times he's said this to Brock, and still Brock forgets.

"How many times do I have to keep saying this! I won't destroy anything!" Brock yelled defensively.

Malcolm just sighed, while Sonic laughed near silently. "How many times have you actually listened?"

"Ouch. Touche Malcolm." Brock said, pointing a finger at him.

"Hey, it's funny listening to you argue Brock, but we gotta get going!" Sonic said as he dashed to the front door of the shop and his a litttle call button.

A speaker turned on, and a younger male voice began to say, "Who is it?"

"Hey Tails!" Sonic started, "It's me! And a few other people I met a while ago."

"You're back already Sonic? I thought you were still looking for the 3rd Chaos Emerald last time I checked!" The voice, Tails, said enthusiastically. The door suddenly opened, and the Tournament team was in for yet another surprise, the person Sonic called Tails was a young anthro fox with TWO tails!

"Just how screwed up is this place?" Lauren whispered to Malcolm. Malcolm just looked over to her, ignoring the rude comment to this interesting planet. It was actually a place Malcolm was starting to enjoy, since it had stuff that was unexpected. Malcolm liked to find out more things that were unexpected, and this planet was just chock full of surprises for the Tournament veteran.

"Yeah, I got a little help from those 3 over there. They helped me beat Eggman again, and I was able to get the 3rd Emerald before him!" Sonic smiled, gesturing over to the trio behind him. Lauren gave a 'hey!', Brock gave just a hand wave, and Malcolm just... nodded.

'A little bit of a boring group, but I dunno just yet...' Tails thought to himself, mentally taking notes. They looked a little menacing at first glance, but the girl looked friendly, while the older guy looked like he was expecting something to happen out of the ordinary, which was very true. And the middle guy? He seemed to be a bit of a serious guy who was both friendly looking and looking to be a trouble-maker. An eccentric group to Tails, forgetting his own oddness with his two tails.

"Hi!" Tails said, giving a bit of a wave back to the trio. "My name's Mailes Prower, but call me Tails. I hate it when people call me by first name... who're you?"

"I'm Malcolm, this is Brock, and here's Lauren. Watch out for Brock, he likes to stir up a bit of trouble usually." Malcolm said, smirking on the last comment.

"HEY!" Brock yelled at Malcolm, "What's that all about?"

"Well, it's true."

"..."

"Aside from that, what exactly are you guys doing right now? I think we could be a little bit of assistance if needed," Malcolm offered.

"Hey, what about us getting back to.. you know where?" Lauren asked Malcolm quickly.

"I doubt we'll find a way just yet, and I think they could use a bit of help here, I mean, look, we ARE for hire outside the tournament," Malcolm explained to Lauren on the situation.

"Oh, really..." Brock rolled his eyes again. Turning back to the duo just watching them argue, Brock asked the same question, "you need help on whatever you guys were doing, since our leader apparently has decided to try to help out?"

"Uh, it's up to you Sonic..." Tails said, backing off.

"Sure, the more, the... uh, I'm not even gonna finish... reminds me of that one stupid time..." Sonic said facepalming in his remembering the time Eggman kept saying that over and over and over and over again.

"Oh god, not that again!" Tails said, also remembering that horrible memory, along with how he was nearly squished by a bomb landing near him in a different time.

"What's wrong with saying the more the merrier?" Brock asked.

"Brings back BAD memories... ugh, I'd shoot myself if I had to hear that again... even though I never use guns..." Sonic said.

Lauren whacked Brock upside the head promptly. "HEY! What's with everyone hitting me today! First the stupid Skaarj when I walked into him by accident, then the Juggernaut, and now this!"

"Just... shut... up." Malcolm said, REALLY getting tired of Brock's complaints. "Now, are we able to help?

"Uh yeah, but you guys gotta come with me because Sonic's better when he works alone." Tails explained.

"Right... hey, I'm gonna go look for that 4th Emerald now, so cya guys!" And with that, Sonic was gone...

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Chapter 3 end! Review people! There were no new item, so no descriptions this time. I'm going to start putting in new descriptions in the chapter itself when they are needed, so as to make the chapter itself longer and not have a bottom section...

William: What about me?

Me: You're fired. Go back to the RPG.

William: string of curses