"All right, everyone! Today we'll be selling a Vector: Music Machine!" Kaoru yelled excitedly as the cameras came up. "This toy is great to have around when you can't seem to get anything done! You tell the machine what kind of music you want to get you in the zone and suddenly BOOM! you get everything done that needed doing! And not only that-"

"Oh Karou~" called an unfamiliar voice from somewhere backstage.

"What the?" Kaoru turned around and stared at the door.

"Hello!"

She looked around herself. "Um, Cream, do you know what's going on?"

"We don't know," Cream told her over the speakers. "It's not our doing."

"Kaoru!" the person knocked on the stage door. "I'm respecting your privacy by knocking but asserting my authority as a designer by coming in anyway!" a few seconds later a male, cream-colored rabbit wearing a Sonic shirt burst in through the door using a battering ram. The side was painted with Knuckles as if he were punching the end, where spikes were used to break things down. "This," the rabbit said gesturing to the ram, "is my new product!"

"Um, do I know who you-"

"This is designed to break through walls for easy destructive access!"

"This place is surrounded by high-level security. How did you-"

"It's a product I designed myself and I would like you to sell it for me!"

"Oh, I honestly don't think I can-"

"And it's not even my only idea! I really think what you and your store needs is a Honey the cat doll."

"That just seems-"

"She will entertain the masses with her pure randomness!"

"I just don't think that I'm the-"

"Oh! Yes! Sorry, ma'am. I'm Tyler, toy designer and..."

Kaoru looked taken aback. "Ma'am?"

"I think we could work really well together. Now, about this Honey doll. I'm not one to set my own prices but I think it will work best for all of us if her price is 2 billion dee-bills."

"Look, that sounds great, but I'm in the middle of a lawsuit and I can't have random people just-"

"And of course, I can't be liable for any damage to people, pets or property, especially property, from her randomness or someone calling her a fancharacter when she is official."

The hare shook her head. "Look that sounds great and all but there's a lot of things I just can't do. I mean, I try to accept as many ideas as I can, and trust me, people request a lot, but there are just some that once they are built just don't work out. I built this Sonic the Werehog: Toilet De-clogger! but he wouldn't tell me what he was doing with the items that were removed and there were so many broken toilets, flooded rooms, not to mention the crazy marks that were left on everyone's behinds-"

"Uh-huh," Tyler nodded enthusiastically. "That sounds great. Also, my ram-"

"And there's also this one with Knuckles. He's a spinning top, right? He just spins and spins and spins wildly but then in the practice session someone from California got caught on Knuckles' spikes and it sent them flying to England. When he finally got there he was covered in so many cuts, scraps, and bruises that he was sent to the hospital. And sort of the same things happened when I was trying to make this one toy that involved Vector storing things in his mouth, but the toy always ended up crushing everything."

"But really you should sell some of my things, I think that it would be better for you in the long run."

Kaoru put her face in her hands and took a couple deep breaths, then reached out and put a hand on the rabbit's shoulder. "Look, you're great and all... And I think we could work really well together if we tried, but... Well... It's not you. It's me. I just can't have a designer right now without things getting really complicated. It's best if don't take this any further."

"But I really think-"

"Kaoru!" another rabbit stormed on stage from the back stage door.

"Seriously?" Kaoru asked, turning towards her. "What have you guys done to my guards? This place should be virtually impossible to get into."

"That's not important right now," she waved her hand. "Don't you know that you're in the middle of a show?"

"Well, yes. But this guy here just burst in and started-"

"You need to sit your little hare tail down and finish the show before I go crazy and kill you."

"I'm sorry?"

"You heard me! Finish the show!"

"I don't think that threatening me is the best way-"

Tyler shook his head. "She really is a procrastinator, isn't she?"

"She is," the rabbit nodded. "I'm Poppy," she told him, shaking his hand.

"I have the perfect thing for procrastinators." Tyler waved towards his battering ram. "It works really well if you want to ram a chronic procrastinator through a wall. I was just about to tell her that when you came in."

"Well, you should finish telling her what you wanted to tell her so she can finish the show. There are a lot of people watching this, you know."

"You're right." Tyler turned back to Kaoru. "So anyway, I'll leave this ram with you and you can decided the price for yourself. We'll discuss Honey and all that later. We have plenty of time to work out the details. I'll call you. Tyler out!" Tyler did a little half bow and turned from Kaoru, leaving the set.

"And I'll remember to change my number," the host muttered under her breath.

"Now finish," Poppy growled, following close behind Tyler.

"Alright. Cream!" she yelled after everyone was gone. "Can we figured out what happened to security... And can you call my phone company?" She looked down at her watch and rolled her eyes. "And that's all we have time for today, apparently. I'll see you guys next week."


A/N

So many things! I would just like to thank BinaryHedgehog, Poppy the Rabbit, Dyslexic-Carmie, and AWriterThatCan'tSpell, Ultima the Fox, and a guest for all of the things in this chapter. It was pretty interesting to add everything together like that.

I hope all of you enjoyed writing this chapter. (EDIT***: While it's been pointed out to me that I typed "writing this chapter" instead of "reading this chapter," I'm going to leave it as it is as. I don't know what I was thinking about or what I was on when I typed that but it obviously wasn't the story. XD I blame the stress of college for me slowly losing my mind... Or should the pleasure of the blame of my mental health go to this story, instead?)

Have a good day and DFTBA