I'm spending so much time with friends, I can't even write a chapter a week for this!

As the door to Knuckles' room opened, the three stooges went inside to look around. Knuckles declared "There's your next friend!", pointing to a teddy bear on his bed.

Sonic looked at it for a second, then asked "…What?"

Knuckles picked up the bear, saying "This is my best friend in the whole world! Take care of it today, OR I WILL DESTROY YOUR SOUL!" Sonic and Tails backed away abruptly.

Sonic took the teddy, then said "This'll be easy!" before tripping onto the floor, sending the teddy flying out the window.

Outside the building, some teamsters were searching for the cocaine stash they had been promised. One asked "Ok, where's the bear?"

Another inquired "What bear?"

"The bear that has the stash hidden in it!" They then saw a certain teddy bear fly out of a window. They ran towards it, ignoring the teddy bear lying on the ground right next to them.

One drive-off later, Sonic went out and found a teddy bear on the sidewalk. Assuming this was Knuckles' bear, he took it in.

A few hours later, Tails was acting a little crazier than usual. The usual would be smashing the TV. Now he was setting it on fire, then smashing it.

Sonic asked "What the hell are you doing?"

Tails shouted back "That teddy bear is great! It dispenses this awesome powdered sugar that makes you feel alive!"

One drug discovery later, Sonic decided to not tell Knuckles about this. Tails asked "Well, what do we do about this stuff in it?"

"I don't want a hyper Knuckles, so…let's get rid of it!"

"How?"

"Duh…burn it!"

As Sonic started burning some of the white powder in this ingenious plan, he soon felt strange. For some reason, he felt high. He assured himself "But…I'm burning the drugs. Therefore, there's no way I could get high off of them!"

You idiot…

Sonic blinked, then said "Oh!" before stopping the fire. "Well, what now?"

For plot convenience, let's send you to the teamsters' headquarters!

Sonic shouted "What? Why can't I just throw it away? How would I even know where they are? Why would anyone be stupid enough to-" and the next second, he was in their headquarters with the bear. "I hate you."

The teamsters were currently busy dissecting Knuckles' bear, looking for the stash. One of them decided to snort the stuffing, assuming the drug was in that form. One vomiting later, the teamsters were back to being confused.

Sonic tried to sneak by, but of course conveniently tripped and knocked over some crates. The teamsters turned around, saw Sonic with the bear, and began shooting.

Sonic waited until the gang stopped shooting, then held up the bear with a lighter in his other hand. "Stop, or I'll burn the drugs!"

One of the teamsters held Knuckles' bear at gunpoint, saying "Then we'll shoot this!"

Sonic gasped at this. Another teamster turned to the hostage-taker, saying "How did you know he cared about that?"

"No idea. Plot convenience, I guess."

Sonic walked up to them, saying "Well, I guess it's time to trade hostages." A few minutes later, he was walking out of the building with Knuckles' teddy.

Hey, what's going on?

"What do you mean?"

You…you had a "trading the hostages" situation!

"And?"

And you actually went through with trading the hostages as intended!

"So?"

Haven't you watched anything ever? The "trading the hostages" situation NEVER works out as intended for both sides! Never! Either the hero does something really badass, or the villain kills their hostage, or something like that!

"Well, it worked out here, so CENSORED off!"

So the day ended happily, with the bear safely tucked away in some closet.

However, Knuckles was watching from behind some nearby bushes "Little did you know, Sonic, that this day was all a ruse so I could plan out tomorrow! I'm tired of this wait….so tomorrow, it's going to be everything or nothing! By the end of tomorrow, I will be the triumphant one! MWAHAHA-" before coughing. He then said "Man, I've got to get something to drink!"

As the summer wraps up, so shall this fic!