(I don't own Sonic or Sega)
The next morning everyone woke up in a really good mood, Sonic still had trouble getting out of bed from his wounded arm but he was still feeling on top of the world today. "Well this is the last of the food." Amy said as she was cooking the eggs and bacon. "It's a good thing I finished this." Tails said as he was pulling out the rosary. "What is it?" Knuckles asked. "Oh a necklace I hope it's for me." Rouge said looking right at the rosary. "Actually it's a rosary, the jewel inside it has chaos emerald energy infused with it, so you just put it over your neck and you can walk outside so now we can hunt for food and find out what exactly is going on here." "So who is going to hunt for the food?" Cream asked. "I'll do it." Sonic volunteered as he was holding his arm in pain. "No Sonic, you're still hurt from yesterday." Tails scolded. "I'll go." Knuckles volunteered. "Ok i'll go too." Tails said after Knuckles. "But how will you go outside?" Amy asked. "We still have the chaos emerald don't we?" "Yeah but why do you want to go." Amy asked Tails looking confused. "What i'm thinking is if Knuckles goes and hunts then I can go and search for chaos emeralds and information on what exactly is going on." Everyone nodded in agreement as Tails started explaining to Knuckles the plan. "Ok once it hits sunset we need to meet up at Angel Island, there we will see how much food we have and if we don't have enough then we can keep looking for another hour but after that we will have to go back." "Do you understand?" Tails asked looking at Knuckles who was looking out the window. "Gotcha." Knuckles replied. "Here I have something for you." Sonic said to both of them. "You'll need this." Sonic said holding out two hunting knives. "Thanks Sonic." Knuckles thanked. "Here take this too." Amy said holding out a brown jar. "What is it?" Knuckles asked. It's a jar of rub-on medicine, you use it for open wounds, oh and take these too." Amy said giving them wrapping bandages. "Thanks Amy." Both of them thanked. As they started to head out the door Tails gave them some last minute directions. "We'll be gone all day so Cream I need you to keep watch of the last resort shield." "Ok Tails you can count on me." Cream said winking to Tails as he started to blush. "Amy I need you to keep watch of Sonic, make sure he doesn't do anything stupid while we're gone." "Ok." Amy said looking really happy. "I can still hear you!" Sonic shouted. "And Rouge keep guard and make sure nothing happens while we're gone." "You don't have to worry about a thing." Rouge replied as she winked at Knuckles. "I know you guys will come back fine." Tails turned to Knuckles as he started to blush. "Tails you two be careful out there." Cream told Tails. "Ok thanks, see ya." Tails said waving his arms goodbye to everyone as they took off outside. "Ok now to find out what's up." Tails thought running towards the north.
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Some time had past as Knuckles was at the polluted river trying to catch fish and Tails had entered Eggman's ruined fortress to see if he could find anything, outside the fortress Tails had set a trap if anything should come by and he didn't see it. "Hello." Tails called out only to hear the echo of his voice. "This is creepy." Tails thought to himself as he came upon the security room. "Maybe I could find some clues here." Tails thought as he started searching through the video tapes, he found only two that weren't destroyed. "These were from the day of the explosion!" Tails said as he saw the dates on the tapes. "I wonder why Eggman dates his security tapes?" "Eh it doesn't matter, anyway I better get out of here." "ROOOOOAAAR." The loud noise scared Tails into bolting out of the fortress until something glowing caught his eye. "A chaos emerald in between the machine!" Tails exclaimed happily. "I need to hurry and get it though." Tails then reached for the chaos emerald not realizing how tight it was wedged. "Almost got it…" "There!" Tails pulled out the chaos emerald and put it in his bag with the other chaos emerald and ran out the door, he then checked the trap to see if he had caught anything. "Three snakes, well not the best choice but what are you gonna do?" Tails then took each snake and sliced it's head off so it wouldn't have to do it when they got home. "Now gotta get back to Angel Island." Tails said as he ran off to Angel Island."
"Knuckles there you are!" Tails shouted as he approached Knuckles. "So what did we get?" Knuckles pulled out his captures for the day to show Tails. "For whatever reason I found a ton of snakes, but I did manage to catch a few fish in the process." Tails looked surprised as to how many snakes he caught. "Why are there so many snakes?" Tails thought. "Well no matter, Knuckles we have enough food to last us for a while so let's get." "Move out of the way!" Knuckles shouted as he punched Tails out of the way. "Ow, what was that for?" Tails asked furiously. "Look for yourself." Knuckles said as Tails got up to see a horrifying sight, an army of Snakes. "Knuckles, grab on to me!" Tails shouted. "Why?" Knuckles asked as he was being snapped at by the snakes. "We're outnumbered, if they're poisonous they'll kill us!" Tails shouted. "No way i'm not losing to no stupid snake, wha, hey!" Tails had grabbed on to Knuckles flying him and his captured food back to the house. When they got back inside everyone but Sonic rushed over to them and started asking questions. "Are you ok?" Amy asked. We're fine but it's more dangerous out there than we thought." Tails replied. "What do you mean?" Cream asked. "We were attacked by a hoard of snakes!" Knuckles yelled. "Shh!" "Sonic's sleeping." Amy scolded Knuckles. "A hoard of snakes?" Rouge asked. "But there's more I found these tapes at Eggman's fortress and I was gonna show them to everybody, but since Sonic's asleep we should wait till tomorrow." Tails said to everyone as the clock went off ten times. "It's late I think i'm going to bed." Amy said walking upstairs to Sonic's room. "I think i'll go to bed too." Rouge said going to the guest room. "You coming Knucklehead?" Rouge asked. "U-uh yeah I need some sleep after today." Knuckles said Tails just sat on the chair for a minute and thought. "So wait Sonic and Amy are sleeping together tonight and so are Rouge and Knuckles, so does that mean?" "Tails?" Cream asked as Tails turned over to her. "Are you going to bed?" Cream asked. "Well I might as well we've got a long day ahead of us." Tails replied. "Can you sleep with me again?" Cream asked. "Sure I will." Tails replied without a second thought. As they went downstairs they settled into the bed and said their good nights. "Goodnight Cream." Tails said. "Goodnight Tails." Cream said as she kissed him on the cheek. "You were very brave out there today." Cream said looking tired. "Thanks." Tails said as they both lied down and fell asleep within a few minutes not aware of the shocking revelation of what was on those tape.
What could be on that tape? you'll just have to see in the next chapter. Anyway I hoped you enjoyed this chapter and I hope you'll still enjoy the story that's still to come.