Tadaa! Another Chappy for you! This Chapter is a little longer than the last one, and some more romance goes on here, but there's always the funny! Can't forget the funny. If I do forget the funny, remind me to put it back in, okay?

Enjoy :)

Disclaimer: I don't own Sonic the Hedgehog or any related characters. They are (c) of Sega, kind of like how I want to copyright "Bickles" (See profile page) . The Wizard of Oz is not owned by me, it's owned by ... someone ... Anyway, I will claim ownership of the two Shadow clones that appear in this chapter. They are unnamed as of now ...

Chapter 5 !!!!!1!!!11!!!!!1! An Axe-Man With Anger Issues

The small party had stopped on the edge of an orchard to take a rest and to sew Scarecrow's arms back on. Unfortunately, Cream sewed them on backwards. "Oops, sorry mister Scarecrow," apologized Cream. Scarecrow sighed.

"It's okay, I guess," he said the last part under his breath so Cream couldn't hear him. Cheese on the other hand was enjoying the fresh air that was entering his lungs. He would not be able to live through another trip like that. He was trying to figure out how to convince Cream not to latch onto his neck to carry him. But before he could contemplate that, Cream was unknowingly strangling her pet chao again and dragging the scarecrow into the orchard.

"Chao chao, chao, chao (I promise you, Cream, you will pay)!" sputtered Cheese as he was slowly choking to death. Of course, Cream was oblivious to Cheese's pain, and continued skipping along, but Scarecrow noticed that Cheese was turning purple.

"Uh, isn't it bad for chao to change colors?" asked the scarecrow.

"Oh, he's been doing that since we got here. I think it's because the author doesn't know what color Cheese is suppose to be, so she keeps going between purple and blue." explained Cream.

"Author? Now I'm really confused, what are you talking about?" said Scarecrow with a puzzled look on his face. The Author, by the way, felt very insulted, and stormed off in a huff.

"Never mind, it's really complicated fourth wall stuff," replied Cream. Cheese had since stopped struggling in Cream's grip. No, he's not dead yet, he has just become dumbfounded by Cream's clueless ness again. And like last time, he was violently attacking Cream in his head as his outward appearance reflected an unconscious person.

"Um … okay then," said Scarecrow. As he mentioned before, he's been lost since the word 'author', and decided that it would be best if he didn't continue with the conversation. Cream smiled at him and continued skipping merrily down the road into the orchard. Unbeknownst to them, they were being watched.

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The trio had decided to take a rest in the middle of the 'orchard', which turned out to be a dense forest. "I thought that this was just an orchard," thought Cream aloud.

"Yeah, it certainly looked that way at the entrance," Scarecrow agreed. He was sitting on a rock next to Cream as Cheese lie on the ground, gasping for air.

"I'm hungry, let's go pick some apples!" said Cream. She got up and skipped over to the apple tree in front of them. As she grasped an apple though,

"Hey, watch it!" yelled a voice. Cream jumped away from the tree and looked around.

"Who's there?" she said.

"Who do you think you are, thief? You can't have my apples!" The voice said.

"What do you mean? Who are you?" asked Cream.

"The tree, you idiot!" Cream turned around and noticed that the tree now had a face, a very gnarled and angry face, that wasn't there before. It had no real eyes, but it had holes where eyes should go, a knot for a nose, and some twisted bark that curved to form a mouth. "And you can't have my apples!" he finished.

"Please, mister tree. We're really hungry and would just like to have a couple of your apples," explained Cream.

"Chao (Who's we)?" said Cheese bitterly.

"Then grow your own apples! These ones are mine!" barked the tree. At that moment, people around the world groaned at the horrible pun. Meanwhile, an apple had hit Cream right on the back of her head. She let out a yelp and turned around to see who threw it.

"Here, you want our apples, take them!" a voice hollered, and another apple came flying through the air at Cream. This apple hit her in the arm.

"Cream! We have to get out of here!" Shouted Scarecrow. An apple then hit him in the head and knocked him off the rock he was sitting on.

"Then GET OUT!" yelled a nearby tree, as more apples began to fly through the air. Cream ran over to Cheese and scooped him up, but couldn't find Scarecrow.

"Mister Scare- Ow!" hollered Cream, as she was hit in the leg with another apple, causing her to fall over. Just then, a blue blur rushed after Cream and picked her up, and vanished as quickly as it came.

Cream looked up at her savior and noticed that it was, "Mister Scarecrow!" she exclaimed upon seeing his face. He winked at her and then abruptly stopped. "You can run, now!" she stated.

"Yup!" was all he could say, before falling flat on his back.

"Oh! Are you okay?" Cream asked while helping Scarecrow back to his feet.

"Yeah. I'm just kind of tired," he replied. While pulling him up, Scarecrow's arm ripped off yet again and he fell to the ground with a thud. Scarecrow and Cheese braced themselves for Cream's screams and claims of blood everywhere, but they didn't hear anything except,

"Oh dear, it fell off again, huh?" said Cream in a rather calm voice, "Well, you sew it on, and lets get going." she finished. Cream dropped Scarecrow's arm onto him and picked up Cheese by the throat again. "Why were those trees so mean to us, anyway?" asked Cream as Scarecrow stitched his arm back on.

"They must have been crab apple trees," replied Scarecrow. The author was then flamed for putting another terrible pun into the story, but she tried to tell the people that Sonic is sort of cheesy like that, but they didn't listen. Cream then looked around to try and figure out where they were when she spotted a figure a little ways up the road.

"Hey look!" she said as she pointed in the figure's direction, "There's someone there!" Scarecrow turned to look in the direction Cream pointed in, whilst Cheese was trying to escape Cream's grip again.

"Hmm … maybe they know the way out of here." said Scarecrow. They began to walk down the road towards it. When they got there they noticed that it was not exactly a person, but a creature made out of tin that Cream noticed resembled Knuckles. He was frozen in place, holding his axe as that was stuck in the stump in front of him, while a beer can was sitting on the stump next to his axe. It appeared that he was chopping wood before he became stuck.

"Oh, it's just a statue," said a disappointed Cream. As they got closer, they could hear noises coming from the "statue".

"Are you trying to say something?" asked the scarecrow. The tin man (or rather, echidna, but man is much easier to type) then sounded like he was screaming at Scarecrow, but his mouth was shut, so they couldn't understand him.

"… meer … phan …" said the tin man.

"Meerkat?" asked Scarecrow. This guy had him stumped. The tin man screamed at him again.

"Chao! Chao chao (No! Beer can)!" shouted Cheese while pointing to the beer can next to the tin man's axe.

"You think he wants beer, Cheese?" asked Cream. Cheese nodded frantically, and then Cream let go of him to go grab the beer can.

"Oh, I know! A Mirror-Fan!" said Scarecrow excitedly, he thought he finally had it right. The tin man began to scream even louder and began rocking back and forth slightly. Cream then walked up to him and opened his mouth slightly and poured in the beer. The Tin Man paused for a little bit.

"Mirror-Fan?" the tin figure said softly, but then he shouted, "MIRROR-FAN?! What the hell is a mirror fan? I should rip you apart for your stupidity!"

"Well, I don't have a brain, so I think my idiocy is justified." Replied Scarecrow.

"If you don't have a brain, how can you know big words like 'justified'?" asked the tin man. The author then erased this argument from their memories so the plot hole could not be discovered. All four of them stood there, staring a one another.

"Hey, I can move again!" Exclaimed the tin man.

"Why were you stuck that way, Mister Tin Man?" asked Cream.

"The wicked witch's flying hedgehog put a spell on me while I was working, so I wouldn't be able to sneak over to the witch's anymore." Grumbled Tin Man.

"Why would you go over to her place anyway? She's so mean!" said Cream, quite confused.

"We kinda had a thing going on. I was so close to getting some from her." explained Tin Man, " But apparently, her stoolie was getting jealous, and put a spell on me to keep me from getting to her. Stupid Hedgehogs …" Tin Man mumbled under his breath so Scarecrow couldn't hear the last part.

"What were you trying to get?" asked Cream innocently.

"I was trying to fu-" began Tin Man, but then his mouth stopped moving, so he reached over to get the beer can.

"I don't think she needs to hear that …" began Scarecrow. Tin Man had sipped the beer and looked over at Scarecrow.

"She's gonna learn about it eventually. Why not now?" suggested Tin Man.

"Well, I don't think she's old enough to understand those things yet," said Scarecrow.

"She's like, 13 isn't she?" wondered Tin Man.

"I'm only 6, mister Tin Man." answered Cream.

"Oh! … yeah, you're a little young …" said a shocked Tin Man. An awkward silence filled the air. "So, um … what are you guys doing here, anyway?" asked Tin Man.

"We're off to see the Eggman!" Announced Cream. "I'm hoping that he'll be able to send me and Cheese home to Station Square!" she finished.

"Chao chao chao (I hope he gives me a machete)!" said Cheese.

"I'm going to ask him for a brain!" interjected Scarecrow.

"Hmm … you think he could give me a heart?" wondered Tin Man.

"Why would you need a heart, Mister Tin Man?" asked Cream.

"Well, if I had a heart, I could kill that flying hedgehog and get the witch to come back to me!" explained Tin Man. Awkward silence filled the air once again.

"… I don't really see how that works out. Why would you need a heart for that?" asked Scarecrow.

"None of your business! If I think it'll work, it'll work!" yelled Tin Man angrily.

"Then lets get out of here! This forest is starting to get really creepy." suggested Cream.

Tin Man mumbled something under his breath again, but when everyone else left, he followed. Then there was a rustling in the bushes.

"Did you hear that?" asked Cream, who began looking around.

"Nope, probably the wind." said Scarecrow cheerily.

"Hmm …" said Tin Man. The group continued their way along the yellow bricked path paved beneath them.

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Rouge the Bat was taking a nap on her couch, snoring quite loudly, when there was a horrendous banging noise coming from the window that woke her up. "Urhh, what now?" said a very annoyed Rouge. She rolled off the couch and let out a squeal when she landed face first on the floor. She forced herself to get up as the banging noise from the window grew louder and more frenzied. The banging was also accompanied by yells. "Shut up! I'm coming!" Rouge screamed at the window. The banging and shouts still continued however, and Rouge eventually got to the windows and flung them open. She looked out and noticed that no one was there. "God damn it!" She yelled, but then 2 flying hedgehogs with similar markings to Shadow appeared in the open window while rubbing their heads.

"Ow, that hurt," said the one with deep blue markings.

"Why the hell are you disturbing me!" yelled Rouge, which made the winged hedgies flinch.

"Sorry, wicked witch, but it's an emergency!" proclaimed the one with fluorescent yellow markings.

"Well, I'm waiting …" said Rouge, tapping her foot impatiently. The two hedgehogs turned to each other.

"I think we should handle this delicately, you know. Kind of bring it on slowly so she isn't that mad about it. And then she might not tell Captain about it because then he'll go ballistic, so let me do all the talking," whispered the fluorescent-marked hedgie.

"Yeah, okay." agreed the dark blue-marked one. They both then turned to Rouge, and as the fluorescent marked one opened his mouth, he heard his partner blurt out:

"The rabbit freed the lumberjack and now they're off to see The Eggman!" he said all in one breath. Rouge's face drained of all it's blood as she took in the information. Meanwhile, the dark blue marked hedgehog was receiving a series of blows to the head from his companion.

"I told you to let me do all the talking!" he yelled at him.

"I'm sorry! The pressure to be silent was too much!" sobbed the other. "Hey. Where'd the witch go?" The fluorescent striped hedgehog stopped the beating and looked around the room as well and noticed that Rouge was in fact not there anymore.

"I … don't know …" he replied.

"Hey, let's get out of here before she comes back. She's probably getting a mace or something to beat us with." suggested the dark blue-marked hedgie.

"Yeah, let's go!" agreed the other. They both jumped off the window ledge and flew off to the bar. At that moment, Rouge came back in to the room with Shadow following closely behind her.

"… and they said that Cream had- … where did those two go?!" Rouge said, exasperated.

"Don't worry. Just check the crystal ball and find out yourself." suggested Shadow.

"Oh, right. I have a crystal ball," she said partly to herself. They walked over to the crystal ball in the middle of the room and gazed into it, only to find out that the two hedgehogs were telling the truth. "Oh, crap! She really did break the spell! She's a lot smarter than I give her credit for," Rouge mused.

"What are your orders, Rouge?" asked Shadow. He was standing directly behind her again, a little too close for Rouge. She turned around blushed slightly when she realized this.

"Uhm … well …" she sputtered out as Shadow wrapped his arms around her and pulled her close to his body. She looked into his eyes and leaned in closer to him. Their lips were about to meet when suddenly,

"Captain! We finished building that robo-" started one of the cloned hedgehogs who just burst though the doorway, but then it stopped and gawked at Shadow and Rouge, who were entangled in each other. "Uhh, am I interrupting something?' asked the clone. Shadow had let go of Rouge and unwound himself from her form.

"What were you saying, Midnight?" asked Shadow, sounding as if nothing had happened.

"Uh, oh yeah! We finished that indestructible robot that you asked us to build." replied the winged hedgehog.

"Good, bring it in," commanded Shadow. The clone saluted and left the doorway. Then several hedgehogs came in through the door, wheeling in a giant robot on a dolly. They unhinged it from the dolly and set it onto the ground so it was standing upright. The robot was mostly black with red trimming on it, and has the omega symbol on each shoulder.

"Robot?" asked Rouge. She was staring at the giant hunk of metal that was only a couple of inches from the ceiling.

"Yes. I had my clones build a robot to go after Cream for you, incase she released the lumberjack." explained Shadow. He turned to the robot. "Activate, Omega." The robot's eyes flashed a bright red.

"Systems rebooting. System analysis complete." proclaimed Omega in a monotone voice.

"Your target is Knuckles the Tin Man. You must annialate him." explained Shadow. Rouge watched in awe as a satellite dish unfolded from the robot's head and began spinning around.

"Target located." cried Omega. The robot then sprang to life and began charging at the wall. Omega then crashed through the wall and began hurtling towards the earth. Rouge and Shadow ran to the hole in the wall and looked down in time to see Omega collide with the ground below and promptly explode into a million pieces. Rouge then looked at Shadow.

"I guess it wasn't so indestructible, huh?" asked Rouge. Shadow was still staring at the smoking pile of twisted metal that used to be Omega. Shadow then turned to look at his clones, but they had already left. For once in his life, Shadow was at a loss for words. Tears began to stream down his face, mixing with the blood that poured from the wound on his cheek. Rouge then realized that Shadow got stabbed with a piece of flying metal. She "gently" yanked the shard from his face, which made Shadow give out a terrible yelp. "Sorry, I didn't notice it." she said while she shoved a towel onto the wound to slow the bleeding.

"Next time, I'll have to make the robot smarter, too." said Shadow. He was incredibly embarrassed that Rouge saw that poor excuse for a robot.

'Poor Shadow,' Rouge thought to herself, 'It'll all be worth it once I get those boots from that wretched little rabbit.' she thought bitterly. Rouge sat Shadow on the couch, tending to his wound, while the clones were all down at the club, spreading rumors that Shadow and Rouge were "totally into each other", and in the crystal ball, the gang was skipping merrily thought the thick forest. Well, Cream and Scarecrow were skipping. Cheese was suffocating in Cream's grip and Tin Man was trudging along behind them, plotting ways to kill Shadow.

I smell a battle brewing! ... no ... that's my dad ... ew ...

You'll definetely a little more of Tin Man's obsession next chapter, and hopefull the third sidekick! Hopefully you haven't lost interest yet and will be looking forward to the next chapter. See you there!

Edit: I just watched The Wizard of Oz again and I realized that I have swiched around some events in the story. I'm too lazy to go back and fix them, so bare with me. I'll try and keep the events after chapter 6 in order.