(Ok, I know I said I wouldn't be updating for a while, but I thought that I might as well try to write. After all, I still have my left, right?)
Hello, audience. As you can see, there is nothing wrong with my voice, nor is there anything wrong. Everything is normal. What am I doing again? Oh yeah, I'm supposed to narrate this story. So, the contestants are awake at this time, awaiting the challenge for today. "Good morning victims, you are expecting a challenge today, aren't you?" Sonic asks the still grumpy and tired contestants all mumble a yes. "Well, you all are wrong," Sonic tells them. "Because today is the second rejoin of the game!" Sonic cheers and Shadow shoots confetti everywhere with a disappointed look on his face. Espio, Vector and Wave still are disappointed, but Silver and Cream gleam with happiness, because it means that Blaze or Tails has a chance to come back. "So, you guys get to watch the eliminated contestants compete to come back," Sonic tells them, and leads them to where all of the eliminated contestants are.
Knuckles, Metal, Rouge, Amy, Charmy, Blaze, Storm, Robotnik, Tails, and Jet are all in a line, waiting for Sonic's order. "Alright, eliminated contestants. You are here because everyone on your team/ in the contest decided that you were not fit to be in this game. However, you get a chance to rejoin the game in this challenge," Sonic began. "This challenge is a very simple one; paintball," Sonic announced, as Shadow pulled out a paintball gun, and shot it at Metal, but hed dodged it. "Hey, you almost hit me, you know!" Metal informed Shadow. "That was the point," Shadow said back to Metal. "Anyway, back to the subject: You will be given a paintball gun with limited ammo, and sent into the forest. This challenge will go on until one person is left, and that person will rejoin the game," Sonic explained to them. "Now, time to give you the guns," Sonic said, and Shadow handed each of them a paintball gun. "Now, you have 30 seconds before peacetime is up, and you can shoot at each other," Sonic informed them, and everyone rushed into the forest.
Knuckles, with black paint and camo clothes on, (don't ask where or how he got those,) and slowly walked through the bushes, making sure he was stealthy and concealed. Silent as a mouse, as he would say. However, Jet soon noticed him as he passed by. Now, normally, the normal thing to do was to shoot Knuckles, but since this is Jet we are talking about, he thought to follow Knuckles. Knuckles hid in a bush, peeking his head through the bush. "No one will ever suspect me to be in a bush," Knuckles said out loud. Jet stood there for a few seconds, blinked, then raised his gun to Knuckles, and shot him. "Ow! What the-," Knuckles said, as he felt his backhand, and felt the paint on him. He turned to see Jet there. "Annnd Knuckles is eliminated from the competition," Sonic said through a microphone that sent the message from megaphones throughout the forest. "Whatever, I didn't want to play this stupid game anyways," Knuckles said in an angry tone, crossed his arms, and walked back to the dock.
Charmy was not used to being alone in a challenge, let alone competing to come back for the solo competition. What he really cared about was impressing Vector. Sure, they did argue a lot, and they disagreed about a lot, but in the end, Charmy was inspired by Vector. He really did look up to him. And the only way he could show his worth was to win this rejoin and help Vector reach the prize. So he flew in the forest, holding his gun with as much might and will power he could muster and searched for targets. What caught him off guard was the bushes behind him rustling. He turned around, but they suddenly stopped. A sudden shadow whizzed by him, and he turned to his side. He was confused about what this creature was. Suddenly, he heard footsteps behind him. He turned around…, and saw a little bunny. "Oh, hi there little guy! You scared me for a second there," Charmy said with a sigh of relief and started to pet it, but was interrupted by him getting shot with a paintball. "Ow! Oh, wait. I got hit!" Charmy said with realization and turned to see Metal standing there. "Annnd Charmy is out," Sonic announced through the microphone. "Oh, you were the person in the bushes," Charmy said to Metal. "What? No, I just heard the bushes rustling over here and came to check it out," Metal corrected the bee.
After Metal had eliminated Charmy, he had continued to search for targets. While walking through the forest, however, in the corner of his robotic eyes, he saw a cardboard box. Curious, he walked up to it. On the top of the box was written, "Opun mez," in what Metal would describe, kindergarten handwriting. "Am I that stupid to open this box in the middle of the woods that is most certainly a trap?" Metal asked himself very loudly. "Of course I am!" Metal answered his own question, then, like a child on Christmas, tore up the box, to reveal a paintball gun-sniper hybrid of some sort, in the model of a Barret 50 cal. It even had a scope. Metal thought for a moment, before glancing to the mountains, and he came up with an idea.
Tails was, very quietly, walking through the woods, just not to be heard. He needed to get back in the game, at all costs. He heard a twig break behind him, and Tails quickly turned around and found nothing. Footsteps were heard behind him, and he turned around to find…, Amy. "Tails?" "Amy?" Tails asked her, aiming the gun down. "I thought you were someone else," Amy told him. "Same here. Well, I guess since we're here, wanna team up until the final 2?" Tails asked. "Of course I d-," Amy was about to answer, but Jet's screaming and him running out of the bushes promptly scared them both, shutting them up. "Aha! It is I! Jet! Surrender now, or I-," Jet was very aggressively screaming until suddenly, he got shot in the head. He fell to the ground and was confused about what happened. "Jet is out of the challenge," Sonic announced through the megaphones. "What was that?!" Tails asked in shock, and the camera cuts to Metal, reloading his new sniper with more paint, and aiming at Tails. "Luckily, I played enough Call of Duty to know how snipers work," Metal said to himself, and shot another paintball at Tails, but missed. "Sniper!" Tails cried out, and they both ducked in cover.
Rouge was never keen on walking through the forest. Then again, she was never keen on having to work, either. She trouted through the forest very slowly. She suddenly got hit in the arm with a paintball. "Rouge is eliminated from the competition," Sonic announced through the microphone. "Oh wow, whatever. I guess I'm out," Rouge said in a sarcastic tone and turned to find who did it, which was Storm. "Oh come on! I get eliminated by you!" Rouge complained and shoved him out of the way as she headed back to the dock. "Someone's salty," Storm said with sass, but not loud enough for Rouge to hear.
Blaze had purposely avoided combat for the whole challenge, just so she could go as far as she could. However, while walking through the forest normally, she got shot at but was missed. Quickly, she hid in a bush. She couldn't get a sight of who was shooting her, because every time she tried to peek her head, the person would fire a couple of shots at her. Finally, though, she saw it was Robotnik, hiding behind a tree. She took a couple of shots, and Robotnik quickly hid behind the tree again. After Blaze ducked behind the bushes again, Robotnik took another peek, firing more shots, then went back into cover. He took a look at how much ammo he had left, and it was very limited. 'I have to think of some way to distract here,' Robotnik thought to himself when he saw a stick on the ground. He came up with an idea. He grabbed the stick and threw it a few feet away. Blaze, not knowing what Robotnik did, heard the noise of the stick hitting the ground. She sprung up, and fired a couple of shots, but then realized there was no one there. Robotnik jumped out of cover and shot her in the arm. "And Blaze is out of the challenge," Sonic announced, and Blaze gave a defeated sigh. "I'll give you credit, that was a nice move you did there, Egghead," Blaze…, complimented Robotnik? What would you even call it that? Well, whatever it was, she said it. "Well, you were a worthy adversary, furball," Robotnik complimented back to Blaze back, in a way? Is…, Robotnik being nice? Gosh, what did I miss being in that close-, I mean, taking a break from narrating.
Meanwhile, with Tails and Amy, they were both still suppressed by Metal sniping them. They couldn't move from the cover, nor did they know where it was coming from. Metal was still on the mountain, of course, still sniping at them. What he didn't hear was Robotnik sneaking upon him. He finally reached up to him and pointed his gun at him. "Metal, you were a good creation, but I need to be back in the game," Robotnik told the robot, and he turned around to see his master. "Wait, master, plea-," Metal tried to beg, but Robotnik shot him, and the paint got in his circuits, causing him to short-circuit. "And Metal just got eliminated by his own master," Sonic announced through the megaphones, and Amy and Tails, not getting sniped after a little while peeked a bit from their cover. "Is it over?" Tails asked, his hands shaking from the tourment.
After Robotnik had dealt with his own creation, he traveled back down the mountain. However, he saw Tails and Amy, who both didn't see him. He then jumped out from his cover and sprayed at Tails and Amy, which all of his shots missed. They ducked behind cover again and braced themselves from the barrage of shots. "I'm going to risk it and try and shoot Eggman," Tails told Amy. "Wait, Tails!" Amy tried to warn Tails, but he stood up and also started to fire, and got hit in the face. He fell backward, onto the ground. "Tails is eliminated from the match," Sonic announced, and now it was 3 left. "Tails!" Amy cried out. Robotnik stepped over and pointed a gun at her head. "Say goodbye to that 1 million," Robotnik told her, and he pulled the trigger. And yet, no paint came out. Confused, he turned his gun around and saw no paint in the gun. Seeing her opportunity, she aimed her gun at Robotnik and shot him in the head. "Eggman is eliminated from the competition in a surprising turn of events!" Sonic cheered through the microphone. "You already know it," Amy said sassily but got shot in the arm. And the person who did it was Storm. "And Storm has won the challenge!" Sonic announced through the microphone. "What?!" Amy screamed in confusion. "Yes! I get to come back!" Storm cheered and started to do the Macarena.
Espio, Silver, Wave, Cream, and Vector all awaited in line. "The rejoin challenge is over. There is one person who will be coming back," Sonic explained to them. "Well, who is it?" Wave asked impatiently. "Well, surprisingly, it's… Storm!" Sonic told them, and Storm walked up to them, beaming with pride. "Storm?!" Everyone asked in shocked. "Yup, he gets to come back to the game," Sonic said to them. "Well, congrats Storm," Wave congratulated Storm, and shook his hand. "Thank you," Storm said to her. "Now if you excuse me, I gotta go back to my nap," Wave excused herself, then went back to her cabin.