All right, in this chapter, a little more craziness... okay, well a lot more of it. Enjoy, everyone.

Sikes

Standing outside in a plant filled garden of a backyard, the furry four stood opposing Eggman. Whom was eating one of Sonic's chili dogs.

"WTH?!?!?" Sonic screeched in sheer horror. "How the hell did you get one of MY Chili Dogs!!?"

Eggman finished the last bit of it and licked his finger, completely ignoring Sonic's question. "Hm, so you're all set to battle me even though your chances for victory are slim.." Eggman mused. "Very well, veeery well… prepare to lose!"

Sonic leapt forward, carrying a very big, abnormally designed scythe. "EGGMANNNN!!!!"

Eggman nearly tripped, but he leapt from his machine okay. "SONICCCCC!!!"

Suddenly, they both pulled lightsaber's out of nowhere, Sonic using the classic red one, and Eggman the blue. Clash after clash they collided the buzzing sabers. Eventually, after six seconds, Eggman got tired and Sonic took the opportunity to kick the saber out of Eggman's hand.

"Crap…" Eggman jumped back into his ship. "NOW! Prepare yourselves!" The Egghornet fired off a torrent of missiles. Sonic and Shadow leapt out of the way, Tails flew away, and Knuckles dug.

Sonic spun into a ball and shot toward Eggman, ramming the side of the machine and ripping off strips of metal. Knuckles suddenly shot out of the ground, pounding the bottom of the ship with one powerful punch and sending it skyward. Tails placed defective trap rings on the ship before leaping off Eggman's head; an electrical current surged through the machine. Finally, Shadow leapt just above the machine and his fist glowing. "Chaos Spear!"

The golden rays blasted into the machine, where it immediately blew up. Eggman escaped from a cloud of smoke in his usual aircraft, and rammed into the side of Sonic's fence, since he couldn't see where he was going. He looked as angry, frustrated, and just plain mad as he always did when he lost a fight. "You'll pay for this!!" he flew off.

Metal Sonic slurped down another bottle of rum, tossed it over his shoulder, and staggered off.

"Well," Sonic began smirking. "that was easier than usual."

"Sonic, it's always easy." Knuckles commented.

Either way, Tails began looking around the garden before Sonic could and scream about damages. Somehow, besides the whole Knuckles dug—which he was now scraping dirt over, cat-style, uselessly—everything else seemed to be in perfect condition.

With the worry of damages out of his mind, Tails soon noticed all around the garden that the only thing planted, were peppers. He turned around, "Hey, Sonic? Why are there so many peppers here…?"

"Oh, I just like how they taste, that's all. They're sweet and healthy and…" Sonic stopped. His nose had begun to grow. He poked it back to normal size. "Nah, okay they just add that zing to the chili. You need spicy chili for good chili dogs!" Suddenly, Sonic had a devious, dastardly plan. The plan was bad. The plan was menacing. So evil, he cackled aloud and thunderclouds boomed.

"WTH?" asked Shadow.

Sonic instantly reverted to normal and the weather cleared. "Ah, it's nothing. Anyway guys, let's go back in. We haven't finished the ramen yet."

Shadow, Tails and Knuckles all started back to the house, Sonic following more sedately. When he reached the door, he picked a handful of peppers, and laughed in a evil cackle while he slowly shut the door.

"What's so funny?" Knuckles asked as Sonic came in.

"Oh, nothing…"

"Sonic, you're acting weird…" Tails said, mildly concerned as he shuffled through sodas. Tossing out full cans of anything with the name Pepsi into the trash.

"Shut up— Tails threw a bowl of hot ramen at Shadow's face. The black hedgehog rolled on the ground, covering his face and screaming.

Sonic grinned. "Anyway… just how manly do you guys think you are?" Sonic asked, his smile growing.

"What?" Shadow questioned, leaning back in a chair. Somehow, he was perfectly fine again. "Is this one of those gay quizzes? Because, I know what a gay quiz is, and I'm not gay."

"Sure, we believe you, Shadow." Tails said, smirking.

"I mean it!" Shadow growled at the fox.

"No, no," Sonic interrupted, "Not anything like that. But as men, we have to able to take a little bit of heat!"

"Sonic, that's disgusting." Knuckles said disdainfully.

"WHY ARE YOU GUYS THINKING LIKE PERVES!?! WE AREN'T EVEN DOGS!!"

Shadow thought, "Well… Tails is pretty close. The fox is related to the dog family, right?"

Knuckles shrugged, Tails fumed.

Sonic tossed a pebble at Shadow, who flicked it away harmlessly. "Shut up. What I've been trying to say is… that we should put our manliness to the test by…" he smiled ever so deviously. "…eating THESE!!" He pulled out four bright green peppers.

Knuckles gaped wordlessly, Tails dropped the Dr. Pepper he was drinking mid gulp, and Shadow's eyes widened. The black hedgehog leapt from his seat, his first and only thoughts were to get the hell out of there. He patted his pockets. Nothing. "Where's that DAMNED Chaos Emerald!?"

"You're mad!" Knuckles roared, backing away from the peppers, looking for an escape door.

"Oh no, there's no backing out of this one." Sonic insisted, now trying very hard not to laugh. "Anyone who backs out now is as gay as the Tails Doll."

They all froze up. "…That's not funny, Sonic." Shadow said helplessly.

Knuckles blurted, "Don't play around with those two things! The Tails Doll is just as threatening as the peppers!"

"So then? Which is it?" Sonic questioned, a challenging tone taking over. "A lifetime of being referred to as the Tails Doll new bi—(beep!)t? Or one week of diarrhea and five minutes of burning, agonizing, spicyness?"

Shadow, Tails and Knuckles all looked at each other. No one wanted to be called the vastly hated doll of their fox friend.

Shadow was the first. He snatched a pepper from Sonic. "All right, faker. I'm in."

"Okay, now eat it." Sonic taunted.

Shadow glared, but took down the entire green pepper of death in a few bites. The spicy juices rolled into his tongue. At first, they only stung slightly. Then a small amount of spicy zing kicked in. "Hey this isn't that bad---" Then it happened.

Shadow's eyes widened. "Uglff…. This is… nothing… I could do this all day. Your mom's fat and---OMG, I NEED WATERS!!!" The spiciness overtook him. Shadow doubled over, trying to stop himself from screaming out loud, but was failing miserably; the black hedgehog rolling in pain on the floor again and clenching his mouth.

Knuckles and Tails only stared. Sonic howled with laughter. "O-okay, okay! Your turn, Tails!"

Tails just stared at him. "You're crazy, Sonic. I'm not eating that."

"Okay, T-Doll." Sonic turned to Knuckles. "You're up, then, Knucklehead."

Knuckles glared hard. "You can call me whatever you want, Sonic. I'm not---"

"Trade you a shard of the Master Emerald I nabbed?" Sonic held up a shining green jewel shard.

Knuckles stared for quite a while, silently growling. "Damn you…"

Sonic tossed him the pepper.

Knuckles gulped, glanced at a still writhing Shadow, who looked like he was going to vomit and/or die any moment now, and then at Sonic. "…If I die, stay away from my grave, you blue bastard." He took down the pepper. After an entire minute of standing still, he bolted around the room screaming, his face a redder tint then the rest of his body.

Sonic slapped his knee and fell over laughing.

Meanwhile, Tails was playing with his slingshot… and a pepper. He had pre-broken the pepper so Sonic couldn't simply spit it out and escape unscathed. He aimed it at the hedgehog. "Hey, Sonic! Eat this." he launched it.

"HAHAHAHA…Huh?" The pepper hit Sonic in the face. Nothing happened. "HA!"

As Sonic's mouth was open with him saying the last 'HA' Tails fired another pre-broken pepper, and the instrument of death flew into… his eye.

Tails blinked at the odds. "That's not right…"

Sonic stared at Tails during his last moments of sanity and calmly covered his eye. "Tails, I hate you."

Sonic's screams were the loudest of all.

And so Sonic, Knuckles and Shadow all continued screaming in agony while Tails turned on HBO onDemand and ordered Rush Hour III. He took down another Dr. Pepper. "T-Doll – 3, Three Stooges – crapola."

As the minutes went by, Sonic and the others finally regained some sanity as the pain went down. Sonic had run up and down his street screaming eighty-three times, but during the entire two minutes, his eye hadn't stopped hurting by much.

Shadow had by some miracle made it back to the sofa in the living room, mostly by crawling since his Chaos Emerald was now officially declared as a 'Lost One'. "My… stomach…" he felt like he'd swallowed magma, and also felt he'd vomit any minute now.

Knuckles, a bit more fortunate (he had already vomited), was feeling better; only his mouth resonated with mild pain.

Sonic, holding ice over his eye, walked into the room without a word and collapsed onto the sofa.

"Sonic… you're a crazy SOB." Knuckles panted. "My mouth… is dead…"

"My stomach…." Shadow groaned, trying and failing to sound threatening. "I'm… going… to kill you…"

Tails chuckled. "You guys are such n00bs. You all got pwned."

"Shut... up… Tails…" Shadow groaned again. Tails took opportunity of the black hedgehog's state and drop-kicked him ever so dramatically in the stomach.

"Agh… I can't believe I have to gather all the Master emerald shards… again!" Knuckles complained, ignoring Shadow's wails of pure agony. Sonic clicked on the television.

"Eh, you're used to it." Sonic shrugged. "See ya two months from now!"

Knuckles was going to attack Sonic, maybe shove a pepper down his throat, but a sudden knock on the door made him stop. "I'll get it!" Tails shouted.

But then the door was blasted down.

"MY---" Knuckles punched Sonic and cut him off.

"We know, we know---your door!"

When the smoke from the blast cleared, suddenly a new face was visible. There stood an echidna, a dark shade of emerald green with a smaller, neater muzzle than Knuckles'. He was a male, with eyes similar to Shadow's, except light blue. He was wearing white boots with straps that wrapped around the lower part of his legs, and a strange, ancient picture of a half moon was on his left boot, while a picture of the sun was on the right. The tips of his quills were dark blue. And unlike the rest of the males, he wore a shirt, which looked like it consisted entirely of white bandages.

"All right, who was the bastard that kicked me?" Asked the echidna, looking rather pissed off.

"Er…" Tails stammered in utter confusion.

Sonic pointed and shouted, "Who are you?! And what have you done to my precious jewel encrusted door!?"

No sooner than had Sonic said that did Rouge the Bat swoop by and take the door. "This will look great in the lawn!"

Sonic's head was slumped as the new echidna began to speak. No one else seemed to care about the door.

"I'm what that idiot over there always lets get smashed to pieces," Said the echidna.

Knuckles gasped. He knew the echidna's presence felt familiar. "The Master Emerald?!"

Sonic checked his pocket. The shard of the Master Emerald he had snatched was gone.

"Uh, yeah." Said the Master Emerald/pissed off echidna; in the annoyed, 'duh' tone. He glanced around, "Now where's that bastard that kicked---"

Shadow kicked the echidna in the back of the head and sent him into the ground. "Hmph. Pathetic excuse of a furry… you think you can defeat---"

A giant beam of energy blasted Shadow through the wall and many a mile away.

The echidna had gotten up, his palm flashing green. He slapped both hands together and laughed. "Ah… anyways, call me Sikes."

A new/old character joins the fray! Tired of being shattered, the Master Emerald takes a more locomotive form. Is he too powerful to fool around with? Or will he fit right in? Eh, you'll find out in a day or two.