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Sonic, Tails and Knuckles were all sleeping inside Sonic's house peacefully. It was the early morning, and birds were beginning to chirp outside. The sun was creeping up, and a beautiful dawn was on the horizon. Then the peaceful morning quickly changed its tone when Shadow crashed his tank into Sonic's living room.

Shadow jumped out of the tank coughing, an Sonic groggily got up while shouting "What the hell, Shadow? It's CENSORED 6 in the CENSORED morning!"

Tails also shouted "Yeah, CENSORED!"

The other three looked at Tails for a second before turning to each other to argue some more. Knuckles asked "Why did you have to crash it into our house? Couldn't you have hit the neighbors' house instead? I swear that lawn gnome over there is out to get me…"

Shadow grinned and said "I-I think this is an improvement to your h-house. Just think…w-who would want to rob your house if they saw a tank in th-there?"

Sonic paused for a second, then said "You're drunk again, aren't you?"

Shadow hiccupped, then said "Like a fox!" Sonic then turned to Knuckles while scratching his head in confusion. Knuckles shrugged, and they turned back to Shadow.

Sonic said to Shadow "Umm…how many weapons do you have on you right now?"

Shadow replied "P-plenty!"

Sonic then muttered "CENSORED! He's a danger to the public! Well, I guess I'll have to keep him in here until he sobers up!"

Knuckles coughed to interrupt Sonic, saying "You haven't forgotten about today's friend on the list, have you? You have to spend the day with Charmy!"

Sonic then asked "Well, what do I do? I can't let Shadow go like this! Unless…maybe you two could take care of him?" Tails and Knuckles were instantly replaced by two puffs of dust as they sped away.

Shadow then collapsed onto Sonic's shoulder, saying "H-h-hey, man! Wh-where's the party?" Sonic rolled his eyes, then decided to take Shadow along to Charmy's place.

Once there, Sonic got out of his car just in time to see Espio and Vector flee out of the house. Vector gave Sonic some keys, saying "These are the door keys. Charmy's in his bedroom, the food's in the fridge, and the TV is in the living room!"

Just as Sonic opened his mouth to ask some more questions, Vector and Espio ran off. As they both went over the horizon, Sonic thought he could distinctly hear Espio shout "We're free, Vector! Free at last!"

As Sonic and Shadow headed inside, they saw a mess. Empty food wrappers were strewn all over the rooms, and rubble could be found in every corner. As Sonic asked "What kind of monster could do this?", Charmy popped out from around a corner.

Sonic fled to a corner and started crying. Shadow just stood there blinking. Charmy laughed for a few seconds, then said "Let's play! I want to watch TV! I want ice cream! I want cookies! I want chocolate! I want more video games! I want-"

Sonic responded "You're worse than Tails!"

Shadow hiccupped before saying "Dude…this bug thing is c-creeping me out! I've got to calm down and g-go to the bathroom!" He fled to another room, and Sonic turned on the TV. While Charmy was distracted by this magical device, Sonic went to the kitchen and started sobbing again at his cruel fate.

After a few minutes, Shadow burst into the living room stumbling more than ever before. Sonic walked up to Shadow and asked "How can you be getting less sober?"

Shadow held up a bottle of whiskey and said "I found out how Vector and Espio have survived Charmy for this long!" before passing out on the couch.

Charmy then yawned and said "I'm bored! Let's do a road trip around town!"

Sonic immediately jumped up and said "No way!"

Charmy sighed, then said "Well, if we don't go on a road trip then I guess we can go instead to Disneyworld-"

"A ROAD TRIP IT IS!"

As the car pulled out onto the street, it started swerving all around the road. Inside the car, Charmy asked Sonic "Um…should you be texting while driving?"

Sonic looked up from his phone and said "Of course! Texting while driving is perfectly safe!" while his car hit three mailboxes, a pedestrian, and a stop sign.

Charmy then wondered "Are you sure about that?", noting the number of cars heading toward them as Sonic drove in the opposite lane.

Sonic looked up from his phone again and replied "Yes, I'm sure! Now I need to tell Knuckles about how I'm still winning the bet!". Sonic went back to his phone while his car tore away some corn stalks in the farm field that the car was now driving through.

Shadow woke up in the backseat, and said "Hey! Driving like that is -hic- dangerous! I-I'll drive for the rest of the way!"

Sonic pulled over alongside the bleachers of the stadium that they were now driving inside. As Sonic and Shadow switched seats, Sonic asked "Are you sure that you're not too drunk to drive?"

Shadow responded "O-of course I'm not, officer! You-you can't arrest me until you've read me my Miran…muh…Duran…da…thing rights!" before driving through a farm silo.

As Charmy noticed the falling silo behind them, he asked "How did you get a tiny car like that to knock over that giant farm silo?" Shadow just shrugged and continued his drive through some office cubicle walls.

Sonic shouted "It's his bad driving skills! His driving controls suck in both Sonic 06 and Shadow the Hedgehog!"

Shadow gave Sonic the finger, then shouted back "Well, my game still is better than your most recent one! A Werehog? The writers totally messed up on the wording, so it means "Manhog"! So in that game, you become "Sonic the Manhog"? That sounds to me like the premise of a bad yaoi fic-"

Sonic's eye twitched as he shouted "Don't you dare mention those!"

One horribly banged up car later, Shadow pulled the car into the driveway at Charmy's place. While Charmy and Shadow jumped out, Sonic was still sobbing in the backseat while thinking of what he would have to pay for car insurance from now on.

Charmy looked around, then said "That…was…AWESOME!" Shadow was too busy being passed out on the front step.

A few hours later, Sonic drove his car that now looked like Swiss cheese back into his driveway. As he was greeted by Knuckles and Tails, he asked "Are you ready to just quit and give me the money now? You can't get much worse than Charmy!"

Knuckles grumbled "Damn it, you're right! Well…I'm not giving it up yet!"

Inside Sonic's head, he thought "Hmm…I'll probably be paying thousands of dollars more from insurance thanks to staying with this bet so far, and this bet is only for two hundred dollars, so…this bet sounds totally worth sticking to!"

And so thanks to Sonic's stupidity, the story was able to continue for yet another day…

I'm stuck choosing between a few characters for the next chapter, but I'll have that figured out soon!