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Sarah and Scourge's gang belong to me, BlackPetals23. Alicia belongs to aliciathewolf45.

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Chapter Fifteen:

Fuzzy Wuzzy Is a Bear

The helicopter rose and fell with the wind while the pilots looked out and tried searching through the trees on the tiny hills and colossal mountains.

The first pilot was a yellow hedgehog with shaggy brown quills and deep blue eyes. His partner was actually his twin sister, who had her long, brown quills tied in a ponytail.

"Do you see anything, Zoe?"

"Nope."

"Nothing on this side either, guys," a voice from the back came through the head gear.

A black bat with ice blue eyes was in the back, seated by a grey hedgehog with brown eyes. The grey hedgehog had quills like Manic but positioned in a more type of fashion that said something like: "I just woke up." The bat's hair was spiky and pointed up.

"I thought Scourge said they might be in the mountains," Zoe complained.

"I thought he said they were lost," the grey hedgehog chuckled.

"Mike," Zoe warned. "Not now."

Mike shrugged and glanced at his watch. "I thought Garratt and Lora were coming to help?"

The black bat turned to look at his friend slowly. "Dude….Lora's pregnant."

"So?"

"Like…really pregnant."

Mike rolled his eyes. "I know."

"Really pregnant."

"AND!?"

"She went into labor this morning, idiot!" Zoe's twin yelled. "Now shut up and let me fly this damn thing!"

"Great," Mike mumbled. "First Lora now us."

"What are you talking about?" Zoe eyed him up and down.

"The fuzz, dude…ette," Mike paused to finish the sentence.

The bat nodded. "If they see this isn't our helicopter and that Luke here doesn't even have a license, we're toast. Until Scourge bails us out of course."

"Thanks, Sam," Luke nodded sarcastically with a thin smile.

"Hey, without his help we wouldn't have been able to get this "damn thing"."

Luke stared at his sister. "I knew you should've stayed with Belle."

"She's babysitting. I didn't want to," Zoe said.

"Yeah, well, you should've. You're annoying to me."

"Yes, but not to the guys!"

"I bet so."

"I bet not."

"So."

"Not!"

"So!"

Mike and Sam looked back and forth between the two siblings arguing.

"Guys?"

Sam shook his head at Mike to warn him not to even try.

"NOT!"

"So—Hey!" Luke pointed out the window.

Zoe and the other two gazed out their windows, following his finger. Mike had to look over Sam's shoulder. "What am I looking at?"

Sam shoved his face away while Zoe gasped, "Look!"

"I'm looking!" Sam yelled but fought with Mike.

Luke rolled his eyes. "Every day is an adventure as Mom says."

Zoe stared out the window some more. Two Mobians, a crocodile and a cat were shoving bags into a hole. "Luke?"

"Yeah?"

She ignored the two fighting in the back and glanced at her brother. "Did Scourge say if the people we're looking for are murdered or are the murderers?"

Luke didn't answer her. Instead, he grabbed his phone from his coat pocket.

Silver whined, tripped, wailed, yelped, tripped again and repeated the cycle.

He was tired of walking. He knew he should've stayed put like Shadow told him to instead of following the shiny light of a fox trap.

He wasn't sure if it was legal to hunt fox in the summer but he didn't care for it right that instant. He was staring through the bushes right then at the two Mobians that were digging a hole and putting the black, plastic bags in the ground.

"He's as good as dead," the cat said.

"Yup," the crocodile replied.

Silver scowled disgustingly.

Who were these guys? Criminals, obviously, but really. Were they for real? These guys decided to kill some other guys, put them in a crate and drive all the way out here in the middle of nowhere basically just to put them in plastic bags and dig a hole for them?

He didn't get it.

I'm sure I would if I were them but I'm not so I wouldn't think that way as if I were them because…I'm not. Ugh…

The silver hedgehog wondered at these times about things. Things like why the crooks were out here and here specifically? Were there other bodies around this area that Silver would meet if the murderers here found him? Would they find him and kill him just to dig him a hole too? Would Blaze cry and never ever ever ever ever ever ever date another guy in her life because she was so in love with Silver?

Well, he'd like to think that, wouldn't he?

How could Blaze stand a guy that thought of some many questions in little time?

Silver blinked and kept pondering. Did Blaze love him? Or did she love him not? Should he propose? Would they have a family together? He wanted a pet chaos. He'd named it Sparky. Sparky's a good name. He'd like Sparky.

He blinked faster to get out of his trance.

God…it's times after thinking like THAT that I don't know what to do with myself. So many different topics just burned straight through. Oh, yeah, I'm a pro.

"Shadow?"

"What?"

"Can we stop and rest?"

"Yeah, just to get out of this wind?"

"Fine."

Shadow pulled over to rest beside a tree while Knuckles, Sonic and Tails searched for a place to rest. Sonic pointed through the trees. "Cave."

They walked towards it slowly—as if they already walked fifty million miles. This was kinda true. Let's have a small recap here. So they followed the killers in the trees but jumped off the truck before being noticed and walked to the first cave. Then they lost Silver the next morning who walked back in the direction of the road (smart move) while his friends walked further into the mountains, following along the slopes and dips of the land (not so smart move).

Tails shimmied into the cave along with Sonic. Knuckles had to squeeze through the small opening with Shadow before they rested inside.

"Well, we can just wait for the wind to stop."

Tails stared down at the ground. "Do you think they're looking for us?"

"Must be," Knuckles replied. "They love us don't they?"

Shadow glanced away and ignored Knuckles. Tails sighed. "I guess. Maybe not so much with Amy and Shadow but-"

Shadow cut him off by grabbing his throat. "Zip. It."

"Got it," Tails choked. "Loud and clear," he finished when Shadow let go, Sonic there to help pry him off.

"Good. And remember that the next time you-"

Shadow was cut off, but it wasn't by any of his friends. They looked, Sonic having to turn, back into the cave where something growled.

"Uhhh," Sonic glanced to the opening and then to the breeze he felt on his cheek.

"Sonic," Tails squeaked. "I don't think we're safe here."

"I don't think we're welcomed," Knuckles whispered as Tails ran through the opening.

Knuckles shoved himself through as did Shadow while Sonic followed out, screaming like a mad man. A brown blob followed them down the hillside. Tails was matching speed with Sonic now and Shadow and Knuckles stayed in the back.

"Tails!" Sonic yelled. "How fast can bears go!?"

They heard the panting of the beast behind them, getting closer and closer.

"Uhhh, that would depend on what type of bear, I think!" Tails hollered back.

"GRIZZLY!" Shadow shouted at the top of his lungs.

"We're screwed, how about that!?" Tails yelled.

"Knuckles! Sacrifice yourself!" Shadow yelled.

"But then the baby will be fatherless!" Sonic laughed.

Knuckles growled. "Rouge isn't PREGNANT! We're ENGAGED!"

"What!?" Shadow yelled at him. "And you didn't think of telling us until we're being chased down by a bear!"

"They're carnivores, Knuckles! Why didn't you wait until after he was picking us out of his teeth!?" Sonic glared.

"Actually, bears are omnivores," Tails leaped over a log along with Sonic.

"Tails! Not now!"

"So all along, you two were engaged?" Shadow yelled, jumping over the same log now.

Knuckles was right behind him. "And we won a trip!"

"WHAT!?" the three yelled.

"Yeah, to the East Mobius beaches!" Knuckles yelled.

"Oh, now I'm really pissed!" Sonic glared at the red echidna.

"Any resort we want! Everything for free! It was Rouge's boss who set us up, really," Knuckles almost tripped over a stick. "You see, her boss is going on a family vacation for a reunion and he had to book at one spot before switching to another because his wife made him."

"Let me guess," Shadow looked back to see the bear keeping up the chase. "He couldn't undo the first booking so he gave it to Rouge because she's the best journalist on the job!?"

"Yeah!" Knuckles yelled, feeling the bear slobber on his back.

"So, technically, you didn't win the trip, Rouge was just given it!" Tails was up front now, about ten feet away from them.

They wondered how he got so fast. Knuckles tried nodding but they were going downhill soon and he didn't want to lose his footing and become bear chow. "Yeah! Whatever!"

"How many people were in his family?" Shadow asked, calmly going over another log.

"Enough for all of us to go," Knuckles rolled on the ground and missed the bear's claws by an inch. "How long do you think he'll keep this up!?"

Tails shrugged. "Just run!"

Knuckles groaned at the words but glanced at Shadow who smiled slightly while panting. "Better than five-year-olds with paint balloons and a 4.0 in destruction class!?"

Knuckles chuckled. "Hell, yeah!"

"Hmmm…"

"Hmmmmmm…"

Fiona waited beside Amy, who was seated on a boulder with Sarah. Cream was in a chair with Rouge and Blaze beside her. Sonia was sitting down and blew through her mouth. "Where is he?"

"Guys!"

They twisted their heads and smiled. Alicia ran to them with Scourge, who was wincing from the bruise on his hip. Fiona smiled at him after hearing the story. "You are a softie."

Scourge rolled his eyes. "Just wait until we go home."

"I'm gonna miss this Scourge," Amy hugged him tightly before releasing.

"But now I think it's time we find our boyfriends," Blaze said, stepping up.

Scourge nodded. "My friends were in that chopper."

"Friends?" Rouge folded her arms and leaned on her leg. "Who are they? Smokers? Bikers? Alcoholics?"

Scourge glared a tad. "No. Mike, Luke, Sam and Zoe. Garratt and his wife Lora are at the hospital."

"Yeah," Fiona nodded. "Mike and Luke are skateboarders around South Mobius while Zoe owns a craft store down there. Garratt's working to be a lawyer and Lora is going to be a stay-at-home mother."

"Oh," Cream slowly nodded. "Sure."

Rouge raised an eyebrow. "And how do you make friends like that?"

"They hang out at clubs," Scourge shrugged.

Rouge nodded with a smirk. "There's what I was looking for."

"Well, not everyone at clubs is bad," Fiona folded her arms.

Rouge stared until the fox sighed, "Fine, besides Scourge and me."

"More like just Scourge," Blaze coughed.

"Hey, I saved a life," Scourge growled. "And without my help, you guys wouldn't have that helicopter circling around here for your dumb boyfriends."

"Fine," Amy stepped in front to be almost a foot away from him. "But I just have one question, Scourge."

"What?" Scourge sneered.

Amy smirked, tilting her head to the side. "Where'd they get the chopper?"

Zoe stepped onto the ground and peered in through the trees. The cat and crocodile were busy paying attention to the helicopter now that reappeared.

Mike had put down the rope while Luke went to the ground as close as possible while his sister went down the rope with Sam. The bat was beside her, being her muscle in case something bad happened—though it wasn't like Zoe had no muscle herself. She went to the gym three times a week and half of the guys were envious of her guns. She was just more athletic than them.

"What's the plan?" Zoe whispered.

"Get that doofus out of here," Sam whispered back, motioning to Silver in the bushes.

He hadn't spotted them yet but it was a matter of time when he finally got out of his fantasies and noticed them staring at him. The cat muttered something and kicked the dirt. "I actually liked working with him."

"Too bad, the boss said we had to kill him. He was a spy."

"Well, that's too damn bad!" The cat yelled. "I quit! I quit! I can't kill people for a living! I have a family-"

"A pet gecko is not a family," the crocodile said. "So quit being a baby, George, and get this last guy in the ground already!"

The cat glared at him. "Spit is a good family member."

The crocodile snorted and lifted the body in the last bag. "Spit is a dumb name."

"Spit! Ha! Your name is a dumb name, Buffy!"

"Hey, Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a good movie."

"She's a chick!" George laughed shakily.

"You know what, go screw yourself," Buffy said.

George put his nose in the air. "Hmph! I can't believe you'd work under these circumstances!"

"Hey, after my cousin gets that dumb job with his idiot of two friends, I'm not letting anyone in my family be better than me. He's next on my list."

"He's not even your cousin," George put his hands out.

"He's like a second cousin twice removed or something," Buffy waved him off.

"What's his name again? Probably better than yours."

"Shut up!" Buffy threw a rock at George and missed him.

"Vector! That was it!" George snapped his fingers. "Him and his little detective crew and whatnot! Am I right?"

"Yes," Buffy moaned.

Silver's mouth hung open.

Vector had a second cousin twice removed? Wait, no. Vector himself was a second cousin twice removed.

Silver watched Buffy dump the bag into the hole and put dirt into it. He frowned and cocked his head to the side.

No wonder why Vector didn't talk about him.

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"Got it?"

Zoe nodded. "Grab the doofus and make a mad dash for the helicopter. Got it. What about you?"

"Doesn't matter. Just remember me," Sam grabbed her face and she blushed. He chuckled and let go. "Just kiddin'! I already have a girlfriend!" he ran out of the trees with Zoe whacking him on the back.

Buffy and George looked somewhat surprised and somewhat pissed off that someone else was here. Well, someone alive that is.

Sam yelled like a mad man and ran to tackle Buffy, pushing him in the hole that would have to be deep enough to stall for now. Sam than turned to George who took out a knife.

"Oh, a scary little pocket knife," Sam snickered and took out a six inch switchblade that was bigger than George's tiny pocket knife. "Here's my baby."

George dropped the knife and ran for it, clashing into to Silver who was drug out of the open by Zoe. Sam grabbed George while Zoe and Silver ran for it. Climbing the rope again, the two made it in the chopper with Sam on their heels after knocking out George.

"Hey!" Buffy yelled but another helicopter. When he saw the side of the chopper that said in big yellow letters, 'POLICE DEPARTMENT', he sank down in the hole.

"We're out of here!" Zoe said in the machine.

Silver shook his head. "Not yet."