HEY! I'm back from my vacation and feeling better than ever! Disclaimer: I don't own Sonic or Mario. The parody song Cat's in the Kettle is by Aaron Wilburn. I don't know who does the original song, Cat's in the Cradle, but it ain't me. So I don't own that, either.

The next day, the remaining campers got up woozily. "Good morning campers!" Chris yelled, holding up two flags. "Today's challenge: A scavenger hunt! Since Sonic heroes have five players left and Sonic Villains have three, the heroes will have to loan the villains a player for this challenge."

Without hesitation, Sonic, Shadow, Amy, and Espio shoved Tails over to the Villains side.

"Oh, give us the crazy, good-for-nothing fox, will you?" Ix ranted. "I see how you are!"

Tails giggled madly and started licking Ix's leg.

"We don't want a crazy guy on our team!" Scourge whined. "Why do you think I bribed Mean Girl to take Bean out?"

The other two villains looked at him, shocked.

"You bribed her to pick Bean?" Ix asked. "But I bribed her to pick Bean!"

Mephiles narrowed his eyes. "We've been had!" he said angrily.

"As I was saying," Chris continued as if nothing had been happening, "Each person gets a bowl."

Everyone was handed a paper bowl from a tired looking Chef. It stood to reason; if one didn't count the Unpaid Interns, Chef was the only one who worked on the island. And since the unpaid interns don't count, poor ol' Chef really had a lot of work to go through all by himself.

"Each team will go out into the woods and find these items. First team to fill the bowl completely to the top with the items wins!"

Sonic took his paper and looked at it. "Team Heroes list: Get worms." he read aloud. He blinked and gave Chris a funny look.

Mephiles read his own paper. " 'The popular Dunk Tank at Total Island's Fall Festival will be sponsored by Waste Management?'"

"That's mine," Chef said quickly, taking the paper and handing Mephiles a different one. Mephiles cocked his head and read, " 'See Team Hero's List."

"Are we sure we should want worms?" Amy asked. "That medicine tastes terrible."

"Unfortunately, we won't be searching for those kinds of worms today—although that might make a good challenge," Chris mused. "I'll have to make a note. This challenge involves digging for Earthworms. First team that fills all four bowls to the top wins!"

"…I hate you," Scourge said.

"And the feeling's mutual. Now get out there!" Chris ordered, pointing towards the woods as the campers grumbled off.

*Toilet Cam*

Amy's POV

"Don't tell anyone, but I hate bugs—especially worms. It's going to be a nightmare touching them!"

Mephiles' POV

"In 2008 I was unleashing a giant fire monster and literally controlled the whole world. Today, I dig in the dirt to find earthworms. What's wrong with this picture?"

Tails' POV

(Luckily, they have a hidden cam so Tails doesn't see it. Besides, he is too busy shoving his tails up his nose to care much anyway.)

Sonic's POV

"I'm really starting to worry about Tails. He seems unstable."

Bean's POV

"Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, I guess I'll go eat worms! HERE'S JONNY! I AM BACK, WITH A BRAND NEW PARODY! YOU EVER HEAR THE SONG CAT'S IN THE CRADLE? THIS IS NOT IT! IT'S A PARODY!"

Back at the camp, the challenge was being held up, because nobody could find Tails. You and I know he went to shove his feet in peanut butter, but nobody else knows this. That meant the Villains were short one member.

And then Bean showed up.

"Hi, everyone! It's me again. My next parody is Cat's in the Kettle, a parody by Aaron Wilburn."

"Bean!" Scourge shrieked. "How'd you get back on this island?"

"The same way Izzy got back on the island in the first season," Bean said matter of factly.

"E-scope!" A feminine voice hissed from the bushes, then they all heard something or someone rushing off.

"Wait-a for me, Izzy—I mean-a, E-scope-a! I don't-a know my way around-a this island without-a you!" cried another voice, and another set of footprints rushed off.

"O-o-ok. Well, Bean is here and Tails is not; so Bean will take Tails' place, since Tails won't get his tails over here," Chris said, as Chef handed Bean a bowl.

Bean took the bowl graciously…and started singing his new parody song. "Didja ever think when you eat Chinese, you might be biting into a fat Siamese?"

"Bean, the singing contest is over," Ix muttered. "So please stop singing.

Bean giggled and continued. "But the food taste great so I don't complain, but that ain't chicken in your chicken chow mein. Oh, I think I ordered sweet & sour pork, but Garfield's on my fork. Yeah, he's purrin' on my fork."

"And…Begin!" Chris called grandly and the campers started into the woods to look for worms. Earthworms, that is.

Mephiles was cursed. Or perhaps just being punished for the whole 'unleashing a ravaging monster to destroy the earth' incident. Whatever the reason for his present conundrum, he was certainly not happy.

For, no matter how hard he tried, Bean kept right on his heels. And he wouldn't stop singing that stupid song!

"And there's a Cat in the Kettle in the peking room, the place I eat every day at noon. They can feed ya cat and you'll never know, once they wrap it up in dough. Oh, they fry it up in dough."

"Bean, if you don't shut up in five seconds, I will KILL you DEAD."

Bean giggled. "That's an Oxiclean!" he cried.

"What? You mean oxymoron."

"I wouldn't say that if I were you," Bean warned. "The ox won't like it."

Mephiles glared at Bean, wondering what the crazy duck was talking about. "What ox?"

"That one," Bean replied, pointing behind Mephiles. The Dark turned around and saw the biggest ox in the world. Seriously, if this ox was a human, other humans would have elected him the Governor of California. And the ox was certainly not pleased at having been called a moron.

Mephiles quickly turned and darted into the woods, Arnold Swartzenoxxer hot on his heels. Bean watched the two of them go and shrugged. He yanked up some moss and found enough earthworms to fill up both his bowl and the bowl Mephiles had abandoned when the Oxinator started trying to gore him.

To help pass the time, Bean continued his song. "He asked me if I wanted more, as he dialed up his buddy at the ol' pet store. I said not today, I lost my appetite, there's two cats in my belly an' their havin' a fight. was eatin' a tongue and a liver or two when I thought I heard it mew. And that is when I knew…"

Amy was very nervous about having to touch icky earthworms. So naturally, she was following Sonic and refusing to get less than five inches away from him.

It made earthworm digging extremely difficult for the cobalt blue hedgehog; particularly because whenever some small, crawling thing ran by, Amy shrieked and literally climbed up his back.

It is not very easy to look for earthworms with a *WARNING! NEVER GIVE A GIRL'S WEIGHT ON THE INTERNET* pound hedgehog jabbing her knee into your upper rib cage and dislocating your lungs. Sonic said as much.

So, after that unfortunate little incident, Sonic was now trying to find earthworms through his swollen eyelids and was graciously allowing Amy to use his back as a buffer between her and the icky crawling creatures. He's really quite the gentleman.

But, as it's particularly hard to find earthworms with two swollen eyelids while trying to gently ask your friend to remove her elbow from your spine, as you might need to use it at a later date. So great was his distress that he actually used the 'D' word in his request. You know…D-A-T-E. (As in, 'I might need to use that at a later date'.)

Amy squealed in excitement. "A DATE! YOU LOVE ME! I LOVE YOU TOO, SONIC! OF COURSE I'LL MARRY YOU!"

Sonic was both horrified and intrigued. He was horrified at the thought of Amy actually thinking he loved her, or even remotely liked her. And he was intrigued as to how Amy had turned a request to move her elbow into a marriage proposal.

But, Amy's ability to hear only what she wants to hear is part of the reason we all love her. Except Sonic. As previously stated, he doesn't like her all that much.

"And you'll love our house!" Amy replied. "Just think, a mere million dollars between us and a debt-free existence."

"What house?" Sonic spluttered.

"The one I bought with your credit card, silly," Amy giggled.

"I don't have a credit card!" Sonic shrieked.

"Oh, I got you one!" Amy squealed. "It was easy. All they needed was your name, date of birth, and social security number."

"HOW'D YOU GET MY SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER!"

"I got it because I love you, of course," Amy said, like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

Did I state that Sonic didn't like Amy very much? I was right.

Scourge and Ix found a small worm colony. (No, not the worms you need to drink the yucky medicine to get rid of. Earthworms. Geez, what's wrong with you sickos, anyway?)

Shadow got back to camp, his bowl of earthworms tucked under his arm. As expected, Espio had gotten there first. But unfortunately, Shadow was the last one there. Sonic and Amy were there, arguing over whether or not they were having a marital dispute for some reason, and neither of them had any earthworms.

Mephiles hadn't caught any worms, either, but Bean had filled his bowl up for him. So the Villains won.

"Heroes, we'll see you at elimination campfire tonight. But Villains—your challenge is not yet over! I have in my hand four checks for 10,000 rings. You will all get the money right now if every member of your team eats his entire bowl of worms. Without milk. What'll it be?"

"Ten thousand rings for eating earthworms?" Scourge asked. "What the heck. I've done more deplorable things for money."

"To echidnas, earthworms are a delicacy," Ix said matter-of-factly.

Mephiles gave a slight nod to indicate his willingness.

"EAT THEM?" Bean gasped. "But…but what if one of the worms is a Daddy worm? Like this one?" He grabbed one of his earthworms and dangled it in midair. "It could have a baby worm waiting for it." He took both ends of the worm and pulled it apart. His eyes widened as he looked at the two pieces of earthworm in either hand and then he chuckled nervously. "Look, kid!" he yelled. "Two daddies!"

"Would you stop being a idiot?" Mephiles asked.

"Eat the worms so we can get the money!" Scourge snapped.

"NOOOO!" Bean shrieked, grabbing all the bowls and flinging them into the woods. "BE FREE, BROTHER WORMS!"

"So, I take it that's a no then," Chris said, ripping up the checks. "Heroes, see you at the elimination round."

*Toilet Cam*

Amy's POV

"The bad news is, we lost the challenge. The good news is, I'm going to marry Sonic!"

Sonic's POV

"Marry Amy? Nuh-uh. No. Never in a million years. Nope."

Scourge's POV

"Bean just cost me 10,000. His days are numbered. Again."

Bean's POV

"There's a cat in the kettle in the peking room, the place I eat every day at noon. They can feed ya cat and you'll never know, once they wrap it up in dough. Oh, they fry it real crisp in dough."

Baby Earthworm's POV

"Daddy?"

We now take you to the Elimination Campfire, right after Chris finished explaining the rules. He took the first marshmallow.

"Shadow."

Shadow smirked and grabbed it.

"Espio."

Espio nodded slightly and took his marshmallow.

"Amy."

Amy squealed with glee and grabbed a marshmallow.

"One marshmallow. Two campers."

"We know already! Just get on with it!" Sonic ordered, as Tails wiggled his peanut-butter covered toes with contentment.

"Sonic."

Sonic somehow had gotten the marshmallow in his mouth before Chris had called his name.

"Tails, the campers have spoken. You must—"

Tails laughed and jumped into the newly refurbished Boat of Losers. It took him all the way back to his workshop, where he walked in and instantly regained his sanity. He's currently wondering why there's peanut butter on his toes, but I digress.

Back at the Island, Chef and Chris were conversing with each other after the rest of the campers were asleep.

"One good thing is, that loser Mario didn't show up," Chef said. "I think the punk's finally figured out that we don't want him on—"

He stopped abruptly as he saw a portly plumber in overalls in the middle of the path, a bowl of earthworms in his hands and several of them hanging out of his mouth.

"Mm-mm," Mario said. "Tastes like-a spaghetti!"

"YOU FOOL! GET OFF THIS ISLAND!" Chef screamed, and he and Mario disappeared into the night.

RR, please!