As Komodo likes to put it: "The plot has been unforgivably disturbed… again."

Chapter 45- Return of the Vile Weed

Sonic walked into the living room and blinked twice. "What the hell?" he shouted, "How did I get back here?"

Liz looked up at him from where she was sitting on the couch, "Hmm? Oh right. I got sick of that plot. Plus, it would have taken too many chapters. I plan on finishing this before fifty rolls around anyway." She said as she turned on the TV.

Sonic growled angrily, "This is just like you! You try something new for once and then you drop it! You'll never get anywhere in life if you-"

"Did you already forget that I conquer the world in the future?" Liz interrupted raising an eyebrow.

"Yeah well that doesn't work out for you anyways…" Sonic mumbled as he stormed up the stairs to his room.

Just then the doorbell rang. Shadow, who was mysteriously dressed in a skirt and had a flower behind his ear, came up from the basement and opened the door. As he did, he gave out a squeal of horror, "What are you doing here?" he demanded.

Cosmo was standing in the doorway smiling at him, "Hello, Shadow." She said in her annoyingly quiet voice, "I just thought I'd drop in and say hello to Tails."

"YOU FUCKING DIED!" Shadow screamed angrily.

"Yes but didn't you see the end where Tails finds a seed and replants it?" Cosmo asked, "I regrew silly." Cosmo skipped past Shadow into the living room.

Shadow's eye twitched as he watched her go. He slammed the door angrily and went after her.

Liz looked up and saw Cosmo come in and she just stared for a moment, then she smiled in that innocent way that meant she was planning something, "Cosmo… darling, what are you doing here?" she asked as kindly as she could.

"I just came to say hello to Tails." She said, "Where is he?"

"In the basement." Liz said, "You should have passed the stairway on your way in here."

Cosmo turned around and went back out of the living room. As Cosmo disappeared Liz's smile melted into an expression of pure dread, "That vile little weed!" she shouted, "Who does she think she is coming into my house?"

Shadow pulled off the skirt and the flower and glared after Cosmo, "I couldn't agree more." He said.

Just then Tails came upstairs with Cosmo on his arm, "Guys! It's Cosmo! Can you believe it? She's okay!" he cried excitedly.

Shadow and Liz smiled falsely as Tails led Cosmo upstairs to show everyone else. Liz pulled out a metal bat and made to follow them but suddenly Rouge came downstairs and stopped her, "Don't even think about it!" she said.

"Why not?" Liz demanded.

"I've never seen Tails this happy!" Rouge said, "If he loses her again then he'll never forgive you!"

Liz stared at her, "So?"

"Just leave her alone, alright?" Rouge said, "She'll be gone eventually."

"Fine." Liz huffed. She shoved the bat into Rouge's hands and stormed up to her room and slammed the door.

Rouge gave the bat to Shadow and headed for the front door. "Where are you going?" Shadow called after her.

"Do you think I'm staying in this house while that weed is around?" she called back, "I'll be back later. Don't wait up."

Suddenly Shadow was spun around and found Sonic in his face, "Did you see already?" he demanded.

"How did you sneak up on me like that?" Shadow asked.

"Forget that!" Sonic screamed, "Cosmo is back! I thought that vile weed was dead!"

"At least it's only for a little while." Shadow reasoned, "Hopefully we'll never see her again after this."

"Hey guys!" the hedgehogs looked up the stairs and saw Tails still with Cosmo on his arm, "Cosmo has decided to stay with us permanently!" he called, "Isn't that great?" then he pulled Cosmo out of sight to find her a room.

The hedgehogs looked back at each other in fear. "Oh God, what do we do now?" Shadow cried.

"I think there's only one thing we can do." Sonic said, "We're going to need help for a job this big… but who?"

"I know." Shadow headed upstairs and approached Liz's door. Sonic ran after him and stopped him.

"Are you crazy? Liz will kill us before she kills Cosmo!" he said.

"Don't worry; she's the best when it comes to this kind of thing. You should have seen the plans she drew up when I was working with her to kill you." Shadow assured him.

"What?"

"Uh… nothing. Come on!" Shadow pushed past Sonic and knocked on Liz's door. It swung open by itself. Shadow bit his lip and went inside. Sonic followed close behind.

The door slammed shut behind them.

Shadow ventured farther into the room and found the light switch on the wall. He flicked it on and a dim light filled the room, which had changed drastically since the last time he'd seen it. The bed, shelves, dresser, and curtains were gone to be replaced by a desk, chairs, and wooden blinds.

Liz was sitting behind the mahogany desk with her feet up on the table. She was wearing a black jacket with a red rose pin on the chest. She smiled at Shadow and gestured for him to come in.

Shadow approached the desk in confusion, "Liz… we need your help. We want Cosmo out!" he said.

Liz shook her head sadly and stroked the white cat sitting on her lap, "Shadow, we've known each other many years, but this is the first time you came to me for counsel, for help. I can't remember the last time that you invited me to your house for a cup of coffee, even though my wife is godmother to your only child. But let's be frank here: you never wanted my friendship. Ah, you were afraid to be in my debt?"

Shadow raised an eyebrow, "Huh?"

"And now you come into my house on the day my daughter is to be married, and you ask me to do murder?" Liz continued.

Sonic stepped forward, "Alright Liz, enough with the Godfather parody, this is serious business." He said.

"Ah, I see." Liz said standing up. She placed the cat on the desk and walked around to the hedgehogs, "Very well, I shall give you justice."

"Liz…" Sonic mumbled angrily,

"Some day, and that day may never come, I'll call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day -- accept this justice as a gift on my daughter's wedding day." Liz said.

"Oh shutup!" Sonic shouted, "You don't have a daughter and you're not Don Corleone!"

Liz pulled off the jacket and threw it at Sonic, "Excuse me for trying to be dramatic." She said smugly, "Well, I've been expecting you anyway."

Liz went around the desk and pulled out blueprints from a drawer and laid them out, "Alright, what we want to do is get Cosmo out of the picture without Tails finding out about it. You two will have to lure him away for just long enough while I go after Cosmo and burn that little weed!"

"How exactly do you plan to do that?" Shadow asked.

Liz covered the prints with her hand, "I have my ways." She said, "By the way, why do you two want to kill Cosmo so badly?"

"I can't stand that flower!" Shadow shouted, "She made us both look like fools in that episode! She just managed to fly straight through that damn gravity field while Sonic and I were just floating there like idiots!" Shadow let out an angry growl, "It just makes me so angry!"

"Is it the same for you, Sonic?" Liz asked.

"Um… sure let's go with that." Sonic said with a shrug.

"Alright. You two just make sure that Tails is away from Cosmo at exactly 5:03 PM tonight and our little weed problem will be no more." She said with a sinister smile.

Sonic and Shadow turned and quickly left Liz's room. "She scares me." Sonic said with a tremble.

"I know." Shadow agreed.

Later that day…

Shadow glanced up at the clock. 4:35, plenty of time to get Tails away from Cosmo.

As he stood up from the couch he was sitting on he paused realizing that they didn't have a clock in the living room. Hmm… the house was doing its evil workings on his mind again…

Just then the front door flew open and Komodo, Dana, and Mel all ran inside, "HEY!" Komodo shouted, "What's with the plot suddenly ending?"

"I was just starting to like those green buttons." Dana said wiping away a tear.

Shadow groaned irritably; their presence could only cause problems…

"Liz got bored with it." He explained, "If you still want to play with the time machine it's in the garage."

"YAY!" Komodo shouted. She was about to run for the garage when Dana grabbed her arm and stopped her, "It's a trap! He's trying to get rid of us!" she explained.

Komodo glared down at Shadow, "What's the big idea, hedgehog?" she demanded.

Shadow looked up at the clock again to find it wasn't there. "Damn this house…" he mumbled. Then he looked up at the three girls, "You three should just go, alright. Sonic and I have some work to do so-"

"Don't tell us Liz has decided to type yaoi!" Dana demanded.

"OH DEAR GOD NO!" Shadow screamed, then he paused and glanced over at the sonadow fangirls in the audience who were glaring at him, "N-not that there's anything wrong with it but… Liz doesn't type that kind of coupling…"

"Then what's going on?" Mel asked, "Don't worry, we can keep a secret."

"We can?" Komodo asked.

Then Liz came down the stairs with a bucket of nails in her hand, "Ah, there you three are!" she said, "I need help constructing a death trap in the backyard."

"Is it for Sonic?" Komodo asked hopefully.

"No. I don't start construction on that for another few months." Liz replied, "Come outside and I'll explain everything."

Shadow glared after the three as they left. Just then he was hit by a falling clock. "AHA! I knew there was a clock in this room!"