Despite Soar's coverage of the puppies of Mayor Fink's adopted puppies having puppies, Sticks did not have any regrets about quitting the news reporter business. If she'd been on board any longer, she would have continued to become "the man", the one doing all the fluff pieces, and no thanks to Dixon and freaking D.B Platypus.

It was frustrating, she'd dedicated her news show to telling the truth, only for the network to pick Sticks up and make her do "happy" stuff while covering the Gogoba Chief's cart accident. At least the badger was crazy enough to realize she was being used.

Good darn, if anyone from the network got on Sticks' nerves, it wasn't just Dixon or someone like Soar, it was Platypus, and the badger couldn't believe she had to deal with him again. Even though he didn't have the whistle this time, he was still annoying as ever, especially when he started to do those quote fingers.

Regardless of the fact he was collaborating with Dixon, Platypus irked Sticks the most, and he irked her so much, the feral jungle warrior couldn't get his mind off of him while having tea with Amy.

"You look like you were thinking of the network." The pink hedgehog remarked.

"Is she?" Knuckles asked stupidly, he was hanging around Amy's place as well.

"I was..." Sticks said at last, she sipped some tea, "...and during my brief stint with 'em, you wouldn't believe who was working with the man."

"Dixon." Knuckles piped up.

"DB Platypus." Sticks growled.

Amy's eyes widened. "HIM AGAIN?!" She shrieked, "What was he doing?!"

"He was collaborating with Dixon to 'improve' the news network's image..." Sticks explained, her anger rising to the surface, "...And he was doin' 'em quote fingers while he goaded me to telling 'happy' news stories before going further when I learned Eggman was sponsorin' me and he was the one who made me wear the Eggman hat."

"Just as bad as the whistle!" Knuckles exclaimed.

Amy shot to her feet and set her tea aside, eyes wide with fury, and she pulled out her hammer. "THAT STRICT-HEADED, WHISTLE-BLOWING, RESTRICTION-ENFORCING DUCKBILLED TOTTER!" The pink hedgehog yelled, "Oh, that explains how my BFF got the Eggman hat."

"Uh, Amy? Calm down?!" Tails suggested.

Amy was storming out of the house in seconds, without listening to another word. Sticks sipped her tea, then she sipped Amy's tea, and bolted after her. The badger's instincts told her that the hammer-wielding hedgehog was heading to the studio, to have a "word" with Platypus, and her hammer would be registering a complaint on Amy's behalf.

Sticks hadn't forgotten the last time they'd dealt with Mr. Platypus, and they'd given him a hard beating after sending Eggman and his goons packing... after they dug him out of that trash can. Man, she could not wait to see Platypus in the hospital pretty soon.

At the Bygone Island news studio, D.B. Platypus was watching one of Soar's fluff pieces with Dixon while they thought about what they were going to do now. Just then, right before Dixon was shutting the TV off, the door exploded off its hinges and an angry Amy Rose entered the room with her hammer.

"D.B. PLATYPUUUUUUUUUUUS!" She yelled.

"Excuse me, we're having a 'meeting'." Dixon gave quote fingers.

"And we're busy!" Platypus added.

"AND YOU'RE IN MASSIVE TROUBLE!" Sticks announced as she entered the studio.

"Well, look who's back." Dixon remarked sarcastically.

Sticks threw her boomerang and knocked the ferret out cold. Platypus stepped back with wide eyes, and Amy launched herself at him with her hammer swinging wildly. The pink hedgehog came down on a stunned DB Platypus, and bashed him on the top of the head. Platypus grunted, and toppled over as a lump grew above his forehead.

"YOU ARE ONE OF THE WORST PROFESSIONALS ON ALL OF BYGONE ISLAND!" Amy shouted, "AND HOW YOU TREATED TEAM SONIC WHILE TRAINING US JUST SHOWS HOW YOU ARE A BAD EXAMPLE, ESPECIALLY WHEN EGGMAN WAS ATTACKING, AND AS IF THE ROLE MODELING WASN'T ENOUGH, YOU JOIN THE NETWORK!

"AND YOU DO ALMOST THE EXACT SAME THING YOU WERE DOING WHILE MAKING US 'BETTER ROLE MODELS', ALL THE WAY TO WHEN EGGMAN GETS INVOLVED, STRICT RESTRICTION ENFORCES, ESPECIALLY ON STICKS! YOU NEARLY MADE HER WHAT SHE WAS FIGHTING, NOW KNOCK IT OFF!"

Platypus fainted, and he woke up in the hospital sometime later with a bandage around his head. The green-furred humanoid platypus groaned and muttered, "I quit the network. Why did that hedgehog have to hit me?"

The door opened, and Doc stepped towards Platypus. "A Mr. Dixon is here to see you." The wolf doctor told him.

Dixon entered the room and Doc left them alone. "I didn't get it too badly..." The ferret chuckled, "But that hammer had more punch than the boomerang, huh? So, what are we going to do now?"

"I'm going into vacuum selling." Platypus remarked.

"You're leaving the network?!"

"This job and the last job all led to be being very hurt. The first time, I got thrown into a garbage can, then they dug me out and beat me up. And this time, I got hit on the head by a hedgehog with a hammer AGAIN... and this is far from the first time I took a one-way trip to the hospital."

Dixon pulled out a package. "Eggman sent us this package, if you're interested." He told the platypus.

"It better not be an Eggman bomb." Platypus muttered.

The ferret and his associate unwrapped the package, and found a box with an Eggman symbol on it... along with an exploding bomb image. Dixon and Platypus heard a ticking sound, and their eyes widened. It was an Eggman bomb, and the countdown was quickly nearing zero.

KA-BOOM! (Don't worry, DB Platypus and Dixon survived b/c cartoon logic, LOL!)

The End