After another failed attempt to get everyone to hit a bullseye (a feat no one had yet accomplished) James asked them all to go to room 203 but told them to take the elevator. Even if it was a weird instruction, the group decided to follow it. Everyone got onto the elevator, and they pressed the button to get to the second floor.

"Why do you think James said to take the elevator?" Silver asked the previously unspoken question. "Maybe something's wrong with stairs?" Sonic said. "All the stairs?" Shadow raised his eyebrow. "Well, I don't see you coming up with an explanation." Sonic threw his hands in the air. As he did, the elevator came to a quick stop, making everyone fall to the floor. "Rouge, your wing is poking me." Shadow told her in annoyance. "Maybe you're poking my wing!" She grumbled. "Everyone get up." Blaze commanded.

There was a beep of an intercom coming online. "See, if you had all cooperated with each other instead of being at each other's throat, I wouldn't have had to do this." James's voice came on. Shadow found the security camera and glared at it, correctly assuming that James was watching them. "What did you do?" He growls dangerously. "Stopped the elevator where you can't get out." Came the reply. "WHAT!" All six shout. "How long are we going to be stuck here?" Knuckles asks. "As long as I say." James told them. "You trapped us in a confined space with Sonic! He can't stay still to save his life!" Rouge shouts throwing her hands up in defeat. "She's being mean but she's right!" Sonic stared at the camera. "I'm gonna die in here."

"Knuckles, open the door." Blaze tells him. Knuckles did as he was told but was faced with a wall. "He knew exactly where to stop it so we couldn't get out." Silver says. "Shadow, put me on your shoulders." Sonic tells him. "What?"

"Just trust me."

"I don't trust you at all."

"Yeah, well, you want out or not." Shadow thought for a moment before kneeling down so Sonic could climb onto his shoulders. Sonic reached for the ceiling and pressed on the tiles. "What are you doing?" Shadow asked him. "Saw this in a few movies." Comes the reply and Sonic succeeds in finding the elevator tile that gives access to the outside of the elevator. When he pushes it, it opens enough to show that's what it is supposed to be, but it doesn't open up enough for a human to fit through. "Well, that idea was a bust." Sonic says. "So does that mean you can get off me know?" Shadow asks. "I mean I guess but…" Shadow knocks him off his back, and Sonic falls into Knuckles waiting arms. Sonic just looks at Knuckles. "Do I even weigh anything to you?" Sonic asks. "No, it's like holding a couple of grapes." Knuckles puts Sonic down. "Now what?" Silver asks. "Guess we're stuck until James lets us out." Rouge says. Sonic sits down on the floor and leans against the wall. "What are you doing?" Blaze asks him. "I'm not gonna stand for hours on end waiting for James to let us out. At least we can rest our weary bones, cause I don't know about you but the last week has been exhausting." There were murmurs of agreement and everyone sat down.

"What do you think James wants us to do?" Silver asks everyone. "Probably another dumb bonding idea." Shadow tells him. "How does this…" Rouge gestures to the whole room, "get us to bond?"

"We're all stuck in a confined space with James being our only way out. We all already worked together to try to get out, even if our attempts were fruitless." Blaze told her. There seemed to be a silent agreement between the group.

"We should play a game." Sonic suggested after what felt like hours (it was three minutes since Blaze spoke and ten since they were trapped). "Absolutely not." Shadow replied. "Don't be a party pooper." Rouge complained. "I won't."

"Well, we got to do something, because sitting in silence probably won't make James let us out." Sonic reasoned. "Please tell me you don't want to play what I think you want to play." Knuckles groaned. "I say we okay truth or dare." Rouge told everyone, to which Shadow and Knuckles voiced their displeasure. "Let's take vote. Those who say we should play truth or dare, raise your hand." Sonic and Rouge raised their hand. After a moment, Silver raised his hand. "All those against." Knuckles and Shadow raised their hands. "You've been outvoted." Sonic told them smugly. "Blaze didn't vote." Knuckles pointed out. "Because I don't care either way." She tells him. "Fine! Rouge, truth or dare." Knuckles turns to her. "Truth."

"Did you steal that carrot from me when we played killer bunnies?" She looked at him in shock. "Are you still on that?" Rouge asks. "Knux, that was six days ago." Sonic says. "I must know." He tells his friend. "Yeah, I did."

"HAHA! I TOLD YOU ALL! I WON THAT GAME!" Knuckles says. "Congratulations." Rouge says sarcastically.

"Shadow, truth or dare." Rouge looks at her friend. For a minute he doesn't grace her with a reply. "Don't tell me you're chickening out." Sonic taunts. Shadow glares at him. "Dare." Shadow says, not letting go of his death glare on Sonic. "Compliment Sonic." Rouge says simply. Everyone looks at her in surprise. "That's it?" Silver asks. "I can't wait to see this." Knuckles turns and looks. Shadow looks at Sonic, contemplating what to say. Shadow could say a lot of things. He could say that he likes Sonics determination, his hair, his speed, his ability to always know exactly what to say. He could compliment Sonic's eyes, his hard-working nature, literally anything but his cockiness.

Sonic watched as Shadow was swimming in his thoughts. He began to fear that his rival wouldn't even be able to come up with anything, and he didn't like that idea. Expecting the worse, he didn't expect, "You have eyes." Sonic blinked and watched as Shadows face flushed red. Rouge couldn't hold in her laughter, Knuckles let out a laugh, Silver laughed a little, and Blaze snorted (to which she would later deny). Sonic just stared. What was he supposed to say? "Thank you?" He questioned. "That's not what I meant." Shadow said. "I'd be concerned if it was." Rouge said. Shadow gave her a death glare. "I meant to say you have nice eyes." Shadow didn't even look at Sonic, but if he had, he would see a very flustered one. Sonics face was almost as red as Knuckles hair. Knuckles gave him a look that said, "I told you so." Sonic looked away. "Thanks." Sonic muttered. After a moment of awkward silence, Rouge spoke up. "Shadow, it's your turn to target someone."

"Knuckles."

"Dare, I am not afraid of your pathetic dares." Knuckles challenged. Shadow glared and thought for a moment. He wanted to make him pay for his words. And he came up with a great way to make Rouge pay for her previous date as well. "Rouge has to sit on your lap for the rest of the game." They both looked at him, jaws hitting the floor. "Absolutely not!" Rouge looks at him. "I refuse." Knuckles stated. "I thought you weren't afraid." Silver taunts Knuckles. "I'm not, I just don't want to. And she doesn't either, so it doesn't work." He reasoned. "Would you rather it be the other way around?" Shadow questioned. "That's even worse!" Rouge shouted. Sonic was dying of laughter. "You certainly both seem afraid." He cackled. This broke something in both of them. They looked at each other. Knuckles crisscrossed his legs and picked up Rouge and placed her there. "I can move myself." Rouge told him. "And I must prove that I am indeed not afraid." Rouge laid back against him, choosing to at least be somewhat comfortable. Knuckles face flushed for a millisecond, but Sonic caught it, and he was totally going to bring it up later.

"Sonic, truth or dare?" Knuckles looked at his friend. "Dare." He said trying to catch his breath after laughing so hard. "Pretend to be Amy until your next turn." Sonic smiled for a millisecond, because he was going to enjoy this. He did his best impression of her voice "How dare you ask me play this game. A queen would never do such a thing." He sat up tall, crossed his arms, and did his best frown, causing the group laugh. "Because a queen doesn't participate in such games, I will not ask Princess Blaze if she would rather do a truth or a dare." Blaze looked at him confused. "That's his work around." Knuckles told her. "Oh, uh, truth." She shrugged. Sonic was a little disappointed, because there were so many good questions he could ask if he wasn't pretending to be Amy. He thought for a minute about what Amy would ask. "Who do you have a crush on?" He asked, still trying to do his best impression of his sister. Blaze paused. "I don't really know?" She said, clearly unsure of her answer.

Blaze turned to Silver. "Dare." He said, answering the unspoken question. "Share your best pick-up line." Silver thought for a second. "Are you on beautiful on the inside as you are on the outside?" Sonic made a note of that one for later.

"Alright, Shadow. Truth or dare?"

"How is it already back to me?" He asked. "Because I said so." Silver smirked. "Dare." Shadow told. "Tell us your darkest secret."

"Isn't that more of a truth?" Rouge asks. "No, I'm not asking him what his darkest secret is, I'm telling him to tell us his darkest secret."

"No." Shadow says. "Are you chicken?" Silver taunts. "I'm not, I'm just not telling you my darkest secret. I'd rather lick my own foot than tell you all my darkest secret." Silver started making chicken sounds. Shadow quickly tried to think of something, anything, to get them off his back. "I'm only half royal."

"That's not a secret." Silver says, feeling cheated. Shadow shrugs. "Rouge?"

"Dare."

"Pull out your phone."

"What?"

"I know you have it. Pull it out." Rouge frowns and pulls out her phone. "ROUGE!" James is heard on the speaker. "Yeah, well, if you didn't want it stolen you shouldn't just leave them in your room. And it's not like I gave any confidential information." She frowns and crosses her arms.

"Alright Handsome, truth or dare."

"Dare."

"Give me a wing and back massage until your next turn." Knuckles frowns at her. "This week has been a struggle and sitting against you hasn't been amazing for my wings, so yes, I am daring you to give me a massage." After a bit more glaring, Knuckles obliged, and Rouge melted into the touch. "Blaze?"

"Truth."

"How do you feel about James?"

"In this moment, he is not my favorite person, but when we aren't trapped in the elevator, I would say he's fine."

"It's for your own good." James said over the intercom. The group chose to ignore him. "Sonic?" Blaze asked. "I'll go with... dare." Sonic pretended to mull it over, happy he could finally stop pretending to be his sister. She was thinking when Silver whispered something in her ear. She looked at him. He smiled. Skeptically she looked back at Sonic. "Silver says..."

"No, Silver does not say." He defended. "But you did say." She turns to him. "Silver did not say that your dare is to give Shadow a kiss on the cheek."

"I'm confused." Sonic says. "Your dare is to give Shadow a kiss on the cheek." She points to her own cheek to emphasize her point. Sonic flushes red, had he been looking, he would have seen that Shadow did as well. He wasn't going to back down, so he scooted close enough to lean in and quickly give Shadow a peck on the cheek, leaving both of them very red in face. Sonic scooted back to his corner. Leaving the rest of the group snickering quietly.

"How long have we been here anyway?" Sonic asks. "You guys haven't even hit the twenty-minute mark." James tells them over the intercom. Sonic groans. "Let's just keep playing, then maybe I can stop massaging Rouge." Knuckles grumbles. "And you're doing excellent by the way." Rouge told him. "Silver, truth or dare?"

"I'll go with truth."

"What's the scariest thing in the world?"

"Spiders. I hate spiders." He shivers. "It's true. One time he started a fire in his castle to get rid of one."

"I thought we agreed to never speak of that again." Silver looks at Blaze offended. "It's funny." She tells him. "Rouge, truth or dare." Silver says, wanting to move on. "I'll do truth."

"Have you had your first kiss?"

"Yes." She says simply. "Shadow, truth or dare?"

"Dare."

"Show us how far you've gotten in your training." Shadow grumbled. He flexed his fist, and a very tiny spear (like three inches tall) came out. "Hey James, truth or dare?" Shadow asks the camera. "Uh, dare."

"I dare you to let us go!" He shouts. "Fair enough." The elevator starts moving. The six of them start cheering. "You know, we should do this again sometime. The truth or dare cliche, not the getting trapped in an elevator." Sonic says. "That doesn't sound horrible." Shadow says. Sonic looks at his rival in shock. "Yeah, I know, I can't believe I said it either." The group let's out a laugh and the door to the elevator opens. "I'm hungry, anyone else want some food?" Knuckles asks. "I could eat." Silver says. "Agreed." Blaze says and they head towards the cafeteria.