This is very odd, Sonic thought. They were house cats. It a weird house. And No one seemed surprised. And Eggman couldn't have just decided to keep them around cause they were cute, could he? And why was he feeding them yummy food? Maybe it was poisoned. No, that was unlikely. If they had just eaten poisoned food, he would have made some huge triumphal yell or something. "Ha HAAAA!!!!!!! My pussies, my plan has worked! You have just eaten poisoned food!!!" Yeah, plus they'd all be dead.

And Amy. Amy hadn't been all over him the past few days. She was calm and sweet. She was always hanging out with Blaze. She was very pretty, too.

Sonic was feeling strange. Amy was calm. Shadow was flipping out for Maria. And Eggman was being NICE!!?!?!

He heard a yowl. Better go on back home, he thought.

Knuckles had yowled for everyone to come. He stood up on the coffee table, making sure everyone was here.

Sonic stood up.

"What do you want?" he said, flipping his tail.

"Well," Knuckles began, "I think Eggman has some explaining to do. He's here to tell us everything."
Knuckles leaped down from the coffee table and fell four inches into a thick rug. He curled up on a footrest he threw Tails off of.

"Well," Eggman said, "I guess I should say that I can't just let you stay here. Do you need a pet license? Or treatment? Shots?"
No one said a word, because everyone was very smart and knew that if they went to a veterinary clinic, they would all get trapped in a sterile room on a metal table while a sterile vet with a sterile outfit and sterile gloves would stick sterile q-tips up their butts and stick sterile injections in them and clean their ears with sterile swabs and if they didn't all die of annoyance or terror they would die from sterileness.

Then Maria said, "Don't they need to go to a vet?"

Then, comic relief occurred. Everyone in the room turned and glared at Maria (Except Dr. Eggman, Shadow, and of course, Maria.)

Eggman nodded. Then he went and got his cat-carrier-0-matic and put everyone in a cat carrier except Shadow because Shadow bit him when he tried to pull him away from Maria.

So then they all went to the vet's office.

A very nice lady stood at the counter. "Hello. How can I help you?"

Sonic snarled at her and then began ranting about the dangers of sticking things up people's butts. The lady very gently reminded Sonic that he was an animal and that it was not dangerous to a cat. (Why the lady was not alarmed by a talking blue cat we will never know.)

Maria told the lady all she needed to know, and then they all sat down in the waiting room. Then a blonde vet came out with a fat assistant.

(Before I go on, let me say the vet is modeled after my old math teacher. She was a snob and acted like she could tell everyone what to do. Her assistant is modeled after her friend who she bossed around a bit as well, who was also a teacher. I disliked them both)

"I'm Mrs. Rush the vet. What can I do for you?" The blonde said in a very grumpy voice.

"Uh.. these are our cats…" Maria said nervously. The assistant grabbed Sonic's carrier and Eggman's robot heaved the rest of the cages in.

"Hmm…" The vet said, glaring it to the cage. She opened the door and using her secret alien powers made Sonic come out. She grabbed him before he could dart back and set him on the table. She hissed at the vet and backed away from her.

Maria sat down on the table. "Sonic," She said gently, "Please calm down. The vet won't hurt you." She stroked Sonic's bristling fur. The vet smirked an evil smile. Suddenly, the clerk came in.

"I'm going on lunch break. Be back in thirty, OK? Kaylie's on duty." In truth, Kaylie was the evil assistant. Sonic fluffed his tail nervously. He saw the evil vet, but not one escape plan came to his mind.

Oh great. Evil vets, now evil clerk. Suggestions are welcome. Please review!