Chapter 35- Authoress Powers to the Rescue!

A blonde boy dressed in a trench coat on a street corner hung up his cell phone and turned to a red headed girl garbed in the same coat behind him, "Just got word from the boss. We've gotta find an orange haired girl heading this way." He said.

"Well? Who is it?" the girl asked.

"He said it was Tails… but that can't be right, can it?"

"Well if it is Tails it's important we catch him… or her…" the girl said taking out a katana.

"Shana! Put that away!" the boy said, "If Tails sees you with it he'll know we're cashiers!"

The girl, Shana, glared for a moment but then put the sword back under her trench coat. "We have to be stealthy with this attack."

Just then Tails sprinted past them screaming.

"DAMN! GET HER!" The two pulled out their swords and ran after her.

Sonic closed the script and just stared at the wall, "Wow… I'd have thought it would be more bloody and violent…" he mumbled staring down at the cover page.

"I think you misunderstood the conditions upon which your death occurs."

Sonic spun around to see Liz sitting on the back of the couch behind him and smiling nastily at him, "I don't think you read how another character dies the exact same way and how painful it was." She said. Then she held out her hand expectantly.

Sonic blinked twice in confusion but then realized she wanted her script back, so he put it in her outstretched hand and she grabbed it.

"You're… you're not mad I read through all the ideas for your future stories?" Sonic asked.

Liz laughed cheerfully, "Are you kidding? I'm furious!" Then she stood on the couch cushions and jumped down to the floor, "But there's really nothing I can do now while you're bigger than me though." Then she went calmly up the stairs towards her room to put her scripts back in the vault in her closet.

Sonic stared after her in puzzlement. Was this a good or bad thing?

Shadow, who had been watching from the kitchen doorway, began laughing, "Congrats Sonic. You just earned yourself two weeks under the porch." He said. He laughed evilly and then turned and headed back into the kitchen.

Sonic looked back up at the stairs where Liz had disappeared. This was defiantly a bad thing.

Later…

Sonic came into the kitchen cautiously. Amy looked up from the dinner she was making and smiled at him. "Where's Liz?" he asked.

"She went off with Shadow somewhere." Amy said, "She took a car so I guess they went off to the city."

"Why'd she take Shadow?" Sonic wondered.

Knuckles came in from the living room and overheard, "Hmm… They're probably plotting your death." He reasoned, "After all, Liz wants to cause you endless suffering for reading her script and Shadow just hates you."

"And you also tried to kill him during lunch today." Amy added.

Sonic glared at her, "Well Shadow gave Liz a Voodoo doll of me!" he argued, "Speaking of which I have to go steal those instructions from her room while she's gone!" with that he turned and ran past Knuckles into the living room.

Downtown…

Liz and Shadow walked into a café and glanced around, "Not the best place to plot the doom of your enemies but… it'll have to do." Liz said with a smile.

"How did you talk me into this?" Shadow asked.

"I promised you could beat Sonic with a metal bat."

"Oh! Now I remember!"

Liz glanced at the girl behind the counter who was glaring at them from behind her newspaper. "Did we offend her?" she mumbled to Shadow.

"I don't know… but what's up with all these foxes?" he asked.

Liz looked over at the tables with tons of foxes strewn across them, "This must be where the fox army gets their coffee." She said.

"Whatever…" Shadow mumbled. Then he headed for the back and pushed a drunken fox off a table and sat down while pulling out some blueprints, "So, here's my prints for a trap for Sonic. Of course the slingshot won't work unless Sonic weighs less than fifty pounds… though I suppose we could starve him for a few weeks before hand so he'll shed the extra weight but-"

Shadow glanced up and saw Liz was nowhere in sight. He glanced around and finally spotted her in one of the corners hugging a squirming Akeii.

"STOP OBSESSING OVER THAT STUPID STORY!" Shadow screamed at her.

"You're just upset because you aren't in it!" Liz shouted.

Shadow groaned and stood up to leave but paused as he heard someone crying. He glanced around the shop but didn't see anyone.

He looked behind him and saw a doorway labeled 'employees only.' Shadow went over and pressed his ear against the door.

'Let me go! I won't tell anyone, I swear!'

Shadow pulled away; it sounded like Tails! Shadow felt a hand on his shoulder and turned to see the girl from behind the register glaring at him, "What do you think you're doing?" she demanded, "Can't you read the sign?"

Shadow glared right back, "Sorry." He said sarcastically. Then he went around her towards where Liz had Akeii in a death hug.

"Liz, I think I heard Tails behind that door over there." He whispered, "He… She sounded like she was in trouble and I think that cashier is involved."

Liz released Akeii who ran and hid under a table, "Hmm, we should investigate."

"Alright, but we should be subtle. We don't want whoever's in there to-"

BANG!

Shadows turned around to see Liz had kicked open the door and run inside, "FINE! DON'T LISTENT TO ME!" he shouted running after her.

He stopped in the doorway as he saw Tails chained to a chair and Eggman, Kaute, and the Science Teacher staring at Liz who was just staring right back.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?"

Shadow wasn't sure who had said it but it sounded like everyone. He glanced at Science Teacher and backed up into the shop again trying not to be noticed.

Liz smiled at the three standing there, "Well… how nice to see you all again." She said, "But I'm in a bit of a rush so if I could just grab Tails and go then we'd just be on our w-"

Kaute pulled out his katana and stepped between her and Tails, "Tails here isn't going anywhere!" he said.

Liz blinked twice in surprise. Then she stepped up to Kaute and pushed him down, "Don't mess with me cashier!" she said glaring down at him. Then she stepped over him and approached Tails.

Science Teacher tried to stop her but Eggman held her back, whispering something in her ear. Liz just smiled, "So glad you've learned your place Egghead." She said. She snapped her fingers (A/N: Authoress powers! w00t!) and the chains fell off Tails. She stood up and ran out of the room screaming.

Liz turned and followed her out, slamming the door behind her.

Kaute turned on Eggman furiously, "Why did you just let her take Tails like that?" he demanded.

"Did you see how she just snapped her fingers and the chains unlocked themselves?" he asked, "She has authoress powers; she can instantly make anything she wants to happen. It would have been useless to fight her."

Kaute turned away staring at the wall, "Then we'll just have to figure out a way around it then." He said.

Liz walked down the street with Tails next to her, "So Tails, what happened anyway?" Liz asked.

"I walked into the shop and Kaute was there with Eggman and Science Teacher; they were talking about forming an alliance to destroy us!" Tails said, "Then Akeii, that idiot, called my name and gave me away so I had to run. But I was captured by some other cashiers while trying to get home."

Liz raised an eyebrow, "Who's Kaute?" she asked.

"That cashier." Tails said, "He's their leader."

"Well, I guess we should head h-" Liz paused and glanced around, "Wait where's Shadow?"

Shadow has his own problems…

"Let me go you stupid fangirls! Hey, haven't you ever heard of personal space? AAAH! NOT THERE! NOOOOOOOOO!"

Who wants to rescue Shadow from the fangirls?

-Crickets chirp-

Great! We'll continue to chapter 36 once the crickets rescue Shadow.