Sonic groaned as he woke up. His head and stomach ached.

"Man, what did they put in my dinner yesterday?" the blue hedgehog said to himself.

As he got out of bed, he could hear the moaning of Tails, Knuckles, and Eggman. Guess they had a bad meal too.

"Alright guys" Sonic shouted to his team. "We're lagging behind in the Olympics, so lets show Team Mario the real super power of teamwork!"

His half-awake teammates mumbled with lacking enthusiasm, walking off to get some breakfast. Sonic shrugged at their reactions and followed them. But he had a strange feeling something important happened yesterday, but he couldn't remember what it was.

-

"Welcome to day three in the Beijing Olympics!" Gary Goomba announced. "I am Gary Goomba, and this metal fellow here is my partner, E-08 Reportertron."

"Hello" beeped Reportertron.

"We at the side-lines of the Olympic Green Archery Field, where the archery course will be taking place!"

"Statistics show the last two days have been hectic. The percentage of this day being hectic as well is very high."

"Enough talk, my dear friend. Let's start the match!

-

The only event in archery is… well… the Archery event. Each player has four turns, with three shots to use in each turn. Wind blows during the event, and may likely alter on who wins and who loses. Daisy and Shadow are today's participants.

The ultimate life-form had his turn first. He pulled back the bow and let go, the arrow flying forward until it pierced the center of the target. The attempt wasn't so successful as the next arrow struck the side of the target. The last one was a not-quite-a-bull's-eye as well. In the end, Shadow got nineteen points.

Next up was Daisy. Her first shot was terrible, in fact the arrow hit the wall instead of the target! The second one was able to hit the target. After one last shot, Daisy had a total of fifteen points.

"Alright Shadow, time to show this girl your ultimate power!" said Eggman at the sidelines. "Go and use your Chaos powers and create a storm!"

"I don't think I can make a storm" said the black hedgehog.

"But you are the world's ultimate life-form! You're suppose to do anything!"

Shadow sighed. "Alright, I'll try."

The hedgehog finished his turn and waited Daisy to go next. As she pulled back her arrow, Shadow decided to strike.

"Chaos… storm!"

Shadow stared as he saw that it did absolutely nothing. With the yellow-clad princess undisturbed by mystical effects, she quickly finished her turn. After Shadow finished up another turn, he prepared himself for another attempt with his Chaos powers.

"Chaos… gust."

The sky mocked the hedgehog by blowing no wind at all. Shadow completed his last turn with embarrassment. Now he had one final chance to cheat in this event.

"Chaos……. Huff and puff and blow some house down?"

The hedgehog didn't even expect anything to happen that time. His confidence hurt, he awaited the total results.

Gary Goomba announced "winning by twenty one points higher than the opponent's score, Shadow has won the archery course.

"Way to go, Shadow!" congratulated Eggman. "For a second there I was positive your attempts at making a storm were complete failures!"

Realizing the doctor believed he managed to cheat, Shadow played along and lied "eh, I was expecting it to be more challenging."

"Both teams are tied once more" stated E-08. "There is still more courses yet to be performed this day, so do not change that channel."

"We'll be back after these commercial breaks!" said Gary.

-

"Mr. Espio?" Cream spoke her fellow referee. "One of the Fuwa wanted to speak with you over there."

"Thanks Cream" said the purple chameleon, off to meet one of the five Fuwa.

The young rabbit's directions led to a pitch black room with a door that had hundreds of locks and bolts and walls that were completely sound proof. Not paying attention to the suspicious surroundings, Espio went inside.

"Hello? Is this about the assassination attempt yesterday."

"Why yes it is…"

Suddenly the door slammed shut, and dozens of voices gave out a war cry. The kung fu chameleon soon felt himself being smacked around by who knows how many people. With his sense of sight blinded and his invisibility completely useless, Espio fell to the floor. A bottle of liquid was forced onto Espio's mouth, his throat swallowing every last drop. With a gasp of confusion he fell unconscious.

One of the ninjas in the darkness pulled out a cell phone and dialed a number. "Master Waku, the last witness has been taken care of."

"Good" replied Waku's voice on the other side of the phone. "Take him to the medical center. Please make sure no one sees you."

"As you wish, Master.'

And with that, the ninja hung up.