It's finally been updated! Got caught up in school. My first year with blocked schedueling…confusing!

I don't own Sonic the Hedgehog or Kids Next Door. They belong to people with amazing skills in animation and story plots.

6

Agent Poison

"Hello?" we had been standing at Rouge's door for five whole minutes. Sonic kept on knocking on the door, ringing the doorbell, anything.

"Sonic, there's no point." Amy finally said "I'm getting tired of standing up."

"Then I give you permission to sit on my car this once. Just don't try to do that bikini model thing, there's kids around, and I wasn't impressed the last time."

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"You don't wanna know."

"Well, Sonic, for once I've gotta agree with Amy. All of the lights are off." Tails added. Number Two nodded in agreement.

"Tails, she's a bat! She probably likes the dark!" Sonic argued.

"Maybe she's not home?" Cream asked.

"Yeah, perhaps she isn't here. Is there anywhere else she could be?" I asked.

"…I guess you're all right." Sonic gave one more look at the door before he walked away. "Let's try someplace else…"

Rouge carefully landed the black and white helicopter on the top of a building. Turns out Rouge 'owned' a helicopter. Knuckles was sure she stole it, even though she denied it.

Once we came out, some adults in gray uniforms walked out of a nearby door and greeted us. I was a bit nervous, and so was Number Five. After all, they were holding guns. So we pressed ourselves against the hull of the helicopter.

"Guys? Are you alright?" Knuckles asked, looking a bit concerned.

"In our world, all the adults are trying to make kids their slaves or something like that. They just don't like us." Number Five said.

"Yeah!" I agreed "Like the Crazy Old Cat Lady I mentioned yesterday!"

"Oh, now I see what you meant then…they're not gonna hurt you. They're here to help us find your friends."

"If you trust them, I'll trust them." We peeled ourselves off the side of the helicopter and nervously walked forward. A man came over and shook our hand. He wore a navy blue suit with a few army medals pinned to it. He had alley cat eyes; one green, one brown.

"I believe you come from Earth." He said.

"Yeah…" I said.

"May we see Shadow?" Rouge asked.

"Yes; I think he'd be very interested in this case. Come with me." The man led us into the building and we basically played 'Follow The Leader; Serious Version' inside the base until we stood in front of the door. It was painted black and red, and had a weird symbol on it that looked like a curl with points coming off of it in just about every direction you can think of.

"Agent Shadow?" the man called, knocking on the door. All we heard was something soft and muffled, like shouting. Then there was a crash. "Agent Shadow? Are you alright?" now there was silence. Rouge pressed the large symbol in the middle of the door. It lit up and the door opened…and revealed a theft.

We found a black and red hedgehog tied up in rope and chains in front of a desk with duct tape over his mouth. His eyes were half-closed and he was kicking feebly at the floor. A black and red guitar with the same odd symbol that was on the door on it lay smashed on the floor a little ways behind him. Worst of all, a really fat old man with a greasy mustache was stealing stuff out of a nearby filing cabinet! At first I thought it was Captain Stickybeard, but he didn't have a beard with candy in it, and he was wearing a classic gas mask.

"Dr. Eggman?!" everyone else exclaimed. The man in the suit, who I figured must be pretty important, proceeded to order everyone around.

"Rouge, get rid of Eggman and take care of Shadow. Knuckles, make sure there aren't any of Eggman's goons around, and if you see any, destroy them. I'll check on the other agents."

"He's gonna kill 'em?!" Number Five exclaimed in shock. In the background were the sounds of Rouge beating up the fat man.

"No, they're robots." Knuckles explained before he left

"Oh…can we help?"

"Are you up to it?" the man asked.

"Anything, anytime! Let's go!" Number Five and I ran after Knuckles, who was already punching the bolts out of a orange robot. Various soldiers shot at the robots behind random desks and things, and some of the robots actually shot back.

"Hey, Knuckles?" I asked after awhile.

"Yeah, Number Four?"

"I don't know too much about this world, and I'm not an expert on air conditioners, but are they supposed to be leaking that green gas?" Knuckles froze and looked up, eyes widening once he saw the wispy green smoke coming out of the air vents.

"Yo, everybody!" he shouted. Everybody nodded their heads to show that they were listening. "There's a deadly gas coming through the air vents! Evacuate immediately!" all the soldiers ran out the room. Knuckles spotted and Emergency Fire lever, and pulled it down. Water immediately sprayed through the building. It short-circuited the robots and watered down the gasses until they were supposedly harmless.

We all then ran to Shadow's office, where Rouge was now bent over him. He was wearing a gas mask, but was completely knocked out.

"Sir, I'm not sure if he's breathing." She said. I saw the hedgehog's ear twitch. Anybody could have missed it, so it was a good thing I didn't.

"Wait! I just saw his ear twitch!" I exclaimed.

"It did? Shadow, can you hear us?!" the general asked.

"Hm…sir…" the hedgehog moaned. Then he opened his eyes a bit, and I noticed they were blood red. "Wh…where am I? Why are there three of you, sir?"

"That can't be good."

"Shadow, how are you feeling?" Knuckles asked.

"Like I just came back from the dead. I've felt better before."

"Do you have the necklace Tails made you?" Rouge asked.

"You're bringing this up now?! Why do I even have to wear this thing?!" Shadow groaned, holding up a silver-chained necklace. It had the same weird symbol he had everywhere else as a charm.

"Press it."

"This isn't one of those things that call the hospital, is it?! I'm not some old cat lady!" Number Five and I laughed at that one.

"Press it!" Shadow started, groaned, and pressed it. Immediately, his quills neatened, a small cut on his leg was gone, he stopped twitching, and even his guitar fixed itself.

"What the—how did it do that?!" he exclaimed.

"It's a mini-healer, for when you get hurt in a battle. Sonic, Tails, Silver, Knuckles, Blaze, Amy, Espio, and Mighty all have one, too." Knuckles held his up for support. It looked like a bunch of grapes. How I hadn't noticed it before was a mystery. "You can also use it to communicate with anyone who has one. And it's a tracker."

"So now Amy can stalk Sonic twenty four-seven now, huh?"

"Oh, Shadow…its for if your considered MIA. Then we can save you."

"And if all nine of us who have one happened to get kidnapped at the same time?"

"…then you're screwed."

"Hey! Have you ever thought that Sonic might have the kids?" Knuckles suggested.

"What kids?" Shadow asked.

"Us." Number Five said "There's five of us. I'm Number Five, and he's Number Four."

"Hi." I greeted.

"So we're looking for a three, a two, and a one? Or a six, a seven, and an eight?"

"One, Two, and Three…oh, and there's Number Two's little brother, Tommy!"

"As soon as one of you two teach me how to," Shadow pointed at Knuckles and Rouge "Then I can call him using this."

"Just put it on a flat surface and say the name of whoever you want to call." Knuckles said. Shadow put it on the table and said "Call Sonic." Soon, a hologram sprouted up from the necklace and Shadow jumped back, as there was a giant green eye in the screen.

"Hey, Sonic, uh…move your giant head!" I heard someone exclaim. Sonic was holding up a necklace with a charm that looked like his head a little.

"Gosh, sorry! Tails, where's the camera on this thing?" he asked

"It's right in the middle of the left eye." Sonic held it a bit farther away. "Try putting it on a flat surface, and it turns into a hologram."

"Hm? Oh, okay!" Sonic took the necklace off and put it on the dashboard before stopping at a red light. Soon, a hologram popped up, showing a black and red hedgehog with a tuft of pure white chest fur and piercing red eyes. He was sitting at a desk. "Yo, Shadow, what's up?"

"The sky. Anyways, Knuckles and Rouge came to ask about a bunch of kids named One, Two, and Three, I believe.

"Number One, Two and Three!" I heard a voice say.

"Whatever, Knuckles! Anyways, you heard him. We've got Numbers Four and Five over here at the base, so-"

"What did you do to them?!" Sonic exclaimed. The other hedgehog leaned back in the chair with his hands up in surprise.

"What are you, their mother?! Gosh, I'm not a child molester! I just so happened to be almost dead when they came in!"

"Really?! What happened?!" Tails asked, getting into camera range.

"What's a child molester?" Number Two, Three, Cream, and I asked.

"Nothing you need to worry about, guys. But if a stranger asks you to get in their car, don't get in." Amy said, turning her head to look at us.

"Anyways, I was working when Eggman barges in with a gas mask on. Before I could do anything, I was tied up and he gagged me and started looking through the filing cabinet. Then this green gas comes through the air vent and I black out. Next thing I know, I wake up with the General and Rouge trying to see if I'm even still alive!"

"Oh, bummer. But I do have Number's One, Two, and Three in the car with me right now. You want me to come over?"

"Nah, I've heard that the place is a wreck right now. How about at the Chaotix's place?"

"Why would we want to go somewhere chaotic?" Number two asked. The black hedgehog's eye twitched before he broke down in laughs.

"Yeah, with Vector and Charmy in the same building, it is kinda chaotic. But it's a detective agency."

"So, what time?"

"I'll go now, so I guess you should go too. I dunno, with you being the second Fastest Thing Alive."

"Really?! I thought he was the first…" Kuki said. Sonic just scoffed.

"Shadow, you're the Second Fastest Thing Alive."

"Am not! I'm the coolest! You're, uh…you're okay."

"Whatever, Shadow, think what you want to. We all know that I'm the coolest!"

"If you're the Coolest, then I'm the Ultimate!"

"Hmph. Whatever, Shadow. I'm out. Later!"

"Adios!" the hologram disappeared, and Sonic put the necklace back on before looking at the red light.

"This has got to be the longest red light in history!" he groaned. Then it turned to green "You ready?"

"For what?" I asked.

"Are we going to Rainbow Monkey Island?" Number Three asked

"What's that?"

"No!" Number Two and I shouted.

"Uh…just hang on!" Sonic stomped his foot on the acceleration and we flew down the road.

"Whoa!" I exclaimed, gritting my teeth and gripping the seat. Right then I was glad I had on a seatbelt.

"Whoohoo!" Sonic exclaimed, thrusting his fist into the air.

Woot, woot! It's finished!...this chapter, anyways. It's a miracle! And I'll probably finish the next chapter even quicker!

I don't own Sonic or Codename Kids Next Door.