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I've run out of chapter intros.

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Come on! I accidentally press "tab" and an entire half-hour of work is GONE! Now I have rewrite more than half the chapter! Just freaking great! *sigh* Oh well. I guess it's not as bad as accidentally deleting the majority of your writing CCPM test, eh? I'm just lucky I'm usually a better writer the second time around, so I probably got a better grade than I would have the first time. Hopefully same goes for the chapter and it will be better than the first. Not to mention this time I'm listening to music, which is scientifically proven to make you preform better and think better. But will this chapter really end up better than what I had at first?

Cross your fingers.

Wanna know how much I actually screwed over? Up to paragraph 7 was the only thing that remained. Pretty bad, considering I was almost finished with the chapter, eh?

Tails' POV

I woke up and looked at my cl- Oh right, I broke my clock. I looked at my watch which was next to where my clock was and saw it was... 10:36. Right. Since I smashed apart my alarm clock, it didn't go off at 7:30. I got up, yawned, and went downstairs. I saw Sonic, Shadow, and Amy sitting down at the table. "Come on, Sonic, for all we know, Tails was making the whole thing up and he's the thief!" yelled Shadow. You can miss some crazy things when you sleep late. "Why would he steal his own Chaos Emerald?" asked Amy. "To give explanation to a dissapearing Emerald he's using for an evil scheme!" yelled back Shadow. "Tails? Evil? Are you joking, faker?" asked Sonic. "I think you're the faker here, Sonic!" I leaned against the wall and continued listening in on their little conversation. I swear, these guys are completely clueless sometimes.

"You know, Shadow, as much as it can be Tails, it can be you," said Sonic. "Well, as much as it can be me or Tails, it can be YOU!" yelled Shadow. Whoa... I never thought of that... I thought. "You're blaming innocent Sonic? He'd never do such a thing! He's the hero of Mobius!" exclaimed Amy. "Shut it, Rose. It might as well be you," said Shadow. I decided to jump in. "It could be anyone," I said. The three turned to me. "Oh, uh, hey buddy! Uh, how long have you been standing there?" asked Sonic. "Since Shadow first accused me of stealing my own Chaos Emerald for an evil scheme," I said. "Hey, I'm not wrong. It's possible that it's any of us," said Shadow. "Except me!" Sonic turned to Shadow. "Oh, please. Out of us four, you're the most likely to have stolen it here," he said.

"Hey, let's cut the thief talk. I have a plan, all I need is an Emerald, and a few supplies. For now, I'm hungry," I said. I poured a bowl of cereal and sat down to eat it. "Well, I'm out of here," said Shadow. He pulled out his green Emerald, and said, "Chaos, Control!", and dissapeared. "I better go. I need to do some shopping," said Amy. She got up and walked out. "Pff. Girls and their shopping," said Sonic through a mouthful of cereal. "Yeah," I said. "Though watching you, I guess it isn't complete crap for them to not speak when they're eating..." I said as cereal and milk dribbled down Sonic's face. "Eh," he said, and continued eating.

"So, why wake up so late?" asked Sonic. "My clock. It's broken, remember?" I asked. "Right," he said. When I finished eating, I went to the living room and sat on the couch.

Over the next two hours, all I really did was watch TV, so let's just skip that part.

Later that day, I went to the store to buy some things for my master plan: a surveillance system! It would be an infrared camera system that would detect heat and record the scene of the thief taking the Chaos Emerald! Well, that was the original plan, anyway...

When I went to the cashier with all the stuff, the total was over $200. I only had 50 bucks. So I dropped most of the high tech gear and just got two cheap, simple cameras that were still rather usable. They were pretty small and easy to hide, and the best affordable cameras I could find. A little grainy, but included a decent night vision mode, which was good for me and my plan.

I walked home and looked around, trying to find a way to hide the two cameras. I also needed to figure a way to hide the wires, because unplugged, the batteries last a crappy 15 minutes. I looked around and found a bunch of colored duct tape. Perfect. I could duct tape the wire to blend in with what it's on, like brown on cardboard, and white across the walls. I went to work.

I got out my pocket knife and cut a hole into the spine of a binder, then set the camera to look through the hole. I set it on a bookshelf and covered the wire with both brown and white duct tape, to blend it in with the bookshelf and the wall. It didn't need much, since the thief would come to steal the Emerald at night.

The second camera, I set inside a cardboard box, slightly peeking out the top. I duct taped the whole thing brown to blend in, along with the wire, which ran out a hole in the back of the box.

It was perfect! The thief would be caught red-handed! Maybe literally, depending on what Emerald I manage to find. But with that, I still needed one more thing, the key component to it all! The bait, a Chaos Emerald!

Sonic's POV

I ran down the sidewalk of Station Square, listening to music and singing along to it as I sped by the people walking around. It was quite nice, until a few moments later...

I turned a corner to be greeted by none other than Shadow and his leg. I tripped right over his leg and faceplanted straight into the ground. Shadow gave a low chuckle and pulled out his Emerald. "Chaos, Control!" he yelled, dissapearing from sight. "Man, I really hate that guy..." I said, getting up. I started running and singing again. I turned a corner to see Shadow again.

This time, he was the one caught by surprise! I jumped up and spindashed him right into the ground, then started running off, just as a Chaos Spear flew dangerously near my head. "Hah! You're too slow!" I yelled back to Shadow, who was getting up. "That line's old, faker!" he yelled back. He Chaos Controlled away and I continued running.

I stopped to see Tails with a Geiger-counter-looking device in his hand. I put down my headphones to around my neck and went up to him.

"Hey, buddy, whatcha doin'?" I asked him. "Oh, I'm looking for a Chaos Emerald with my Emerald Tracker!" he said. "Oh, cool. Hey, I'm gonna go grab something to eat. Wanna come?" I asked him. "Nah, I really need to find an Emerald for my plan," he said. "Alright, see ya later, Tails!" I said, speeding off to the nearest chilli dog stand.

Tails' POV

I kept walking around Station Square searching for a Chaos Emerald. Then it hit me. I stopped, and dropped the Tracker to the ground. I don't need a real Emerald! I just need something that seems just like the real thing! I thought. I grabbed the Tracker and ran back to the house. I opened up a secret hatch that led to the basement- my secret laboratory. I went down, closed the hatch, and set the Tracker on a table.

I needed a fake that seemed just like the real thing, so I got to work immediately. I used a 3D printer to get a model of a Chaos Emerald, the purple one, and grabbed various chemicals and materials. I split open the 3D model and poured some chemicals into and onto it, causing it to glow purple. Satisfied with this, I quickly assembled a small battery device that gave off a lot of energy. I set it into the fake Emerald and held it. It felt equal to Chaos Energy emanating from a real Emerald, but the fake was too light. I grabbed some heavy crystal and slipped it into the frame, taking and adding more until the weight was equal to that of a real Emerald.

Satisfied with the weight, I examined my fake Emerald. There was something missing. I looked over to a furnace with barrels of different smeltable materials. I grabbed some glass and melted it, then put it carefully over the fake Emerald. I put the Emerald in water, cooling the glass. I took it out of the water and examined it. The glass gave the shine of an Emerald and the texture of a crystal.

"Perfect! I've done it! This Emerald will be the bait, the thief will never realize it's a fake until he tries to use it!" I exclaimed. I put the fake Emerald into an Emerald Box, and made sure it shined just the same as a real one when I opened and closed the lid. Perfect.

I went and replaced the Emerald Box just in time for Sonic to come home, eating a chilli dog. "Hey, Sonic!" I said. "Great news! I got a Chaos Emerald!" I showed him the fake. "Good work, Tails!" he said. "I don't know what your plan is, but I'm sure we'll catch that traitorous Mobian!" I smirked and set the Box away in it's hiding place. Perfect. He thinks it's a real Emerald! Of course the thief will fall for this, and we'll figure out just who he or she is! I thought. "Well, now that that's done, let's go get some dinner," I said. Sonic gulped down the rest of his chilli dog and said, "Alright! Let's go!"

I swear, that hedgehog's stomach is a bottomless pit.

Well, there's a chapter done! Huh. Second time around actually took a lot less than the first, and it sure does seem better than the first to me! Win-win situation!

But now what? Will Tails' plan work? Will the thief fall for the fake Emerald? And will this thief's identity be revealed?

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Keep watch for The Traitor: Chapter Four!

Edit- Four- make that FOUR followers! :3

Edit edit- Odd, the site shows 3 followers even though I could've sworn there were four following e-mails. Oh well, maybe one of them only favorited it. Doesn't matter, this story's bound to get more followers the more people come to read it!