Tuesday, November 30; 5:20 p.m.

Sonic, Knuckles, and Espio are sitting at the kitchen table, going over some plans. Plans to rescue Sonic's baby brother, in fact. The blue hedgehog has been thinking about the various plans all day in school. He's told some of them to Espio during recess and lunch since they're in different classes, but none to Knuckles due to Knuckles being in first grade instead of kindergarten. Sonic's plans have ranged from pranking Eggman, spraying Eggman and Robot with hot cheese from a hose, taking selfies for no reason, and so much more the blue blur can think of! It's just that...he doesn't know where to start.

"Hey boys," Jacob greets as he walks into the kitchen to make dinner.

"Hey Dad," Sonic says without looking over.

"Hi, Mr. Mc'Newman," Knuckles and Espio also greet, and also without looking over.

Then Sonic turns around to speak to his dad, "Hey Dad...?"

"Yes, Sonic?" Jacob wants to know.

"Um...do you want to help us make plans to rescue our brother?" Sonic asks, "My friends and I don't know what to do."

Jacob suddenly stops because what Sonic asked him was pretty important. His new son did go missing yesterday, while his other two kids didn't get a chance to meet him. He finally responds back, "Sure; I'd love to help."

But just as Jacob is about to help, Lisa walks into the house, entering the kitchen.

"Hey boys," Lisa greets, "How was school and work?"

"School was great," Sonic, Knuckles, and Espio answer the orange hedgehog.

Jacob bluntly answers, "I didn't have work today, remember? I'm on my maternity leave."

"Oh, that's right!" Lisa facepalms herself, "How long is that?"

Jacob knew his sister was referring to the maternity leave and so he answers, "Over a month. It ends somewhere after New Year's. (changing the subject) Why are you here, exactly?"

"I'm here to see Sonic and Sonia," Lisa answers, then looks around seeing that Sonia is not in the room, "By the way, where is Sonia?"

"In her room," Jacob says, "She's having a time-out because she keeps complaining about the baby being a boy instead of a girl."

Lisa is disappointed at this, "That's too bad. I was looking forward to seeing her."

Jacob sighs and thinks about this for a while and then says, "Fine. You can go see her."

"Thanks!" Lisa responds back as she happily runs upstairs.

"Anyways," the green hedgehog starts, "What kind of plans do you boys have in mind?"

Knuckles was the first one to come up with an idea.

"Mine's the best one, Mr. Mc'Newman!" the red echidna says as he lays a sloppy colored picture of his plan on the table, "What's gonna happen is that Sonic is gonna run to whichever room the baby is in, while Espio and I just take a bunch of selfies while Sonic's doing all the work. Isn't that an awesome idea?!"

Jacob runs his fingers through his quills for a few minutes, thinking about this stupid idea. Finally he says to Knuckles, "That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard from you."

"WHAT?!" Knuckles shrieks.

"Why would you make Sonic do all the work, while you and Espio just get to slack off?" Jacob wants to know.

Then Espio gets in the conversation, "Yeah? I actually want to do stuff!"

"See? At least Espio wants to help out Sonic," Jacob says, "Alright Espio, what's your idea?"

"My idea is that we all dress like ninjas. Sonic can get the baby, while Knuckles and I beat up Eggman and Robot," Espio explains.

"Hmm...interesting," Jacob says, "Now let's go on to Sonic's plan."

"Thanks Dad!" Sonic says, "Alright...my idea is that one of us gets to spray hot cheese on Eggman and Robot, one of us gets to beat up Eggman's other robots, while I get the baby! Isn't that awesome?"

Just like the first two ideas, Jacob takes a long time to think about this. Finally he answers, "That's nice...but how are we going to spray hot cheese on Eggman and Robot?"

"By using a hose, duh!" Sonic answers back.

"A hose?" Jacob has no understanding of this whatsoever. So then, he gets an idea, "Hey kids. I have an idea."

Everyone leans close to the green hedgehog in order to hear him correctly.

And that was Chapter 5! What did you think of it? What did you think of everyone's ideas? What do you think Jacob's idea is going to be? You'll just have to wait until Chapter 6!