Okay, I'm adding a new chappie!

Authoress Responses:

Dark Dragon Kyra: I'm still thinking about what FanFic to put your characters in. (Dragon Blue's an idea...since one of my OCs is a sea dragon but it takes place in Sonic X.) Thanks for the review!

Sassy Sunspark: I also had a Furby and it was on the second day that I literally chucked the thing out the second story window into the driveway (Not kidding, I really did that). Thanks for the review!

LoneGunGirl88: Well, Mini is always there to drive a villain babysitter insane so I definitely think she's definitely in charge. Innocent little fur-ball (Mini: O-Q!). Thanks again!

Queen of the Sacred Flames: Glad you liked reading it! (Mini: Nyu O-Q!) Great, she said Thank You before I did...ah well...Thanks!

Ark Misadventures
#5: Tabasco Sauce Torment

(Neither Sonic nor Shadow actually got fried in this chapter. Those were their stunt doubles…)

Sonic and Shadow were sitting at a kitchen table on the Space Colony. The heroes and villains had decided to call a temporary truce since Sonic had made a bet with Shadow and vice versa.

The bet had to deal with hot sauce…

Rouge and Amy acted as the referees while Tails, Knuckles, Ivo Robotnik, and Mona were spectators.

"You're going down faker…" Sonic grinned.

"Likewise…" Shadow smirked before three different bottles were placed down in front of them.

"Alright, the game's best two out of three. Whoever manages to suppress their want of water for the longest time wins the round. The three hot sauces used are Smoked Tabasco (burnt taste buds), Tabasco (DISINTEGRATION), and Jalapeño (smoke from nose)." Amy explained.

"Once the round is over you two can rest for about a minute, by which we mean drain the hot sensation." Rouge smiled.

"Hah! No problem! I've tasted spicier…" Sonic beamed.

"Oh really?" Shadow asked before Amy unscrewed the Jalapeño bottle and dabbed a small amount of it on both plates in front of the two hedgehogs.

"Alright, round one…START!" Rouge smiled before starting the stopwatch as Sonic and Shadow immediately swiped the sauce into their mouths.

There was a silence after the two had swallowed it down.

"…how long is this going to take?" Ivo grumbled.

"Wait for it…" Mona and Tails said simultaneously.

Another long pause ensued before Shadow's eyes watered and he clamped them shut, clenching his teeth in the process. Sonic looked around the room and scrunched his face since the jalapeño sauce was beginning to have its effect.

About ten seconds later both hedgehogs were beet red from the heat until both Sonic and Shadow dove for the two water bottles on the table and chugged it down before gasping for air.

"And round one is a tie!" Rouge smiled. Mona and Tails had fallen over laughing their heads off while Ivo and Knuckles suppressed the urge to laugh as well.

"That…was painful…" Sonic groaned with his head on the table.

Shadow promptly sniffed with his head on the table as well. "…I need a tissue…"

"Round two, Smoked Tabasco!" Amy announced, dumping a glob of the sauce onto where the Jalapeño sauce was earlier.

Sonic restrained a shudder while Shadow's eyes did an involuntary twitch. Both were starting to think this was a bad idea…

"Ready…GO!" Rouge started the stopwatch and in a split second the sauce had disappeared off the plate. This worked a bit faster than the jalapeño sauce since Sonic's teeth scraped together as his pupils shrunk to the size of a flea. There was a bit of smoke coming from Shadow's ears before the black hedgehog did a frantic leap towards the sink and dunked his head into the water there.

SPLASH!

At the same time, Sonic clamped his eyes shut and let out a yell that was loud enough to shake the colony before grabbing his bottle and chugging down a whole lot of the water before slamming the bottle onto the table and slumping against the table.

"And it's a tie, again…" Amy sighed before looking at the blue hedgehog. "Are you alright Sonikku?"

"Just give me a minute for my tongue to heal, Amy." Sonic wheezed before Shadow (waterlogged) crawled back to his seat and checked his tongue which had a whole lot of burns where the sauce had landed.

"Alright the final round, the mother of all hot sauce: TABASCO!" Rouge cried in her announcer voice. Sonic looked at the sauce and let his head fall back onto the table with a THUMP while Shadow's pupils shrunk and his eyes twitched again.

"This is going to be painful…" Knuckles commented as Mona sunk lower and lower behind a table that was knocked over.

"Oh I can't watch…" She whimpered.

"Me neither…" Tails shivered and sunk behind the same table, leaving Knuckles and Ivo out in the open.

Amy looked at the bottle in her hands and shivered as the water bottles were replaced by five new ones. "This is going to be painful." She murmured before putting a small glob on the plates, closing the bottle, and diving behind a table with Rouge.

"Ready…" Rouge seemed really unsure right at this point. "…go…?"

With that, the four had ducked down, leaving the echidna and mad scientist in the line of fire as the hedgehogs reluctantly swiped up the sauce.

"…YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

A huge explosion along with two combined yells of excruciating pain ricocheted through the corridors of the ARK before settling down leaving a scorched kitchen and path where the huge flame was. Sonic and Shadow had landed on their backs and were twitching in agony and covered in burns from the extremely hot sauce/flames while Knuckles and Ivo were badly burnt and standing in one place.

One by one the four 'survivors' poked their heads up and surveyed the scene. Ivo and Knuckles coughed before falling backwards at the same time.

"I really don't think there's going to be a 'round four'…" Tails commented.

End…?

I hope you liked reading this chapter since I'm going to start up a new misadventure as soon as I can!

Shadow/Sonic: (glare at Authoress and pull out aluminum baseball bats) Five minute head start evil one...

(Hopeful) Really?

Sonic: Minutes, seconds, we're terrible at math...

(GULP!) …until then I'm going to run screaming for who knows how long… (Bolts out of room)

Sonic/Shadow: GET BACK HERE! (Give chase)

(Yelling) R&R!