[Opening theme]

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[Sattellite of Sega]

[We see Sonic lying on a sofa, hands folded on his chest. Knuckles is sitting at a desk, wearing a pair of glasses and taking notes.]

SONIC: I've been a Freedom Fighter since I was little. I was emotionally abused by Robotnik, who called me names like 'impudent rodent'. He caused me much mental stress by threatening to take over the world, and trying to collect all the chaos emeralds for himself.

KNUCKLES: I see. Go on.

SONIC: It's not easy being the hero all the time. I'm always having to rescue people and use my super speed to save the day. Sometimes I don't feel like saving lives. I don't want to be the hero all the time.

KNUCKLES: So, you're saying that your current lifestyleconflicts with your inner peace?

SONIC: Yes! Yes! I'm tired of always being the protagonist! Can you help me, doctor?

[Knuckles looks grave] I'm not sure, Sonic. Your case is serious. But I'll tell you what would help. [He takes a notebook out of his desk and tosses it to Sonic. It hits Sonic in the face.]

SONIC: Ouch! What'd you do that for? I'll sue for malpractice!

KNUCKLES: Sorry about that. What I want you to do is take that notebook and write a story in which you are the villain, doing everything you can that is opposite your normal personality.

SONIC: I think that's already been done and it stinks.

KNUCKLES: Why?

SONIC: Because! I turn out worse than Robotnik! I'm eviler than MECHA, even!

[Knuckles shuts off desk light and takes off glasses.] I think you've just solved your own problem. [He walks out.]

[Sonic is left sitting on the couch, bewildered.] Huh? [He looks at camera for the first time.] Oh, hi there. Welcome to the Sattelite of Sega! We'll be starting the show in just a minute.

[Commercials]

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[They enter the theater]

SONIC: I don't know what you meant, Knux. Solved my own problem? I don't get it!

KNUCKLES: Oh, drop it. The lights are dimming.

TAILS: Just don't say the show is good. Anything but that.

SONIC: Okay.

SONIC: Ally McBeal from the side.

Despite of it being unable to see, hear or feel its surroundings as other living beings;

SONIC: So it's blind, deaf and dumb?

TAILS: Sounds like it.

it could sense its prey. As it always had. What made its relationship to its preys so unique, was the high difference in the hunter's and the hunted's form of existence. The remarkably unaware hedgehog

TAILS: Nothing new about that.

SONIC: Hmm?

now nearby the invisible predator was made of something the beast could never understand; something different to its capacity of understanding, something aggressively unknown. Thousands of years alive had unchanged the hunter; it would never resemble anything who would keep this young planet as his home.

SONIC: What?

The hedgehog, one of the planet's common inhabitants, left a dark ripple in the hunter's bright vision of its surroundings. There had been many similar to the hedgehog on the hunter's way; bringing darkness into its life with their unique material, but it had fiercely charged the black rifts, ending their source of life and then, fading the darkness away.

TAILS: It ate 'em! Cool!

But it would never stop. Darkness was everywhere.

KNUCKLES: Sure. It's hunting at night. Duh.

And the hunter wouldn't rest until all of it would be dead. If it would have freedom of thought, it probably would consider leaving the impossible task. But as it had not such, and laid its survival on instincts, which were lightyears ahead in development than any of the creature's with dark halos-----

SONIC: What's it talking about? Dark halos? I don't get it.

KNUCKLES: It's discribing a creature that sees non-living matter as light, and living things as dark. So it attacks the dark things.

SONIC: Why does it do that?

KNUCKLES: If it didn't, we wouldn't have a plot.

TAILS: It looks like a flagpole if you turn your head sideways.

Sonic's foot hit a

TAILS: Passing diesel.

root under the water. He went down with a splash, sprawling headlong in the cold, menacing water.

SONIC: Ahh! My walkman is ruined!

For an instant his head was submerged, and a sound hit his ears--

KNUCKLES: It boxed both of them until he passed out.

an undenighable sound of heavy breathing. Slow, inhale, slow exhale, like a giant version of Darth Vader.

TAILS: Hey, I didn't know Star Wars stuff was in this!

SONIC: Cool! [Darth Vadar] Tails, I am your father!

TAILS: [as Luke] I certainly hope not, Darth!

[Sonic and Tails jump up and pretend to duel with lightsabers]

KNUCKLES: Okay you two, we'll watch Empire Strikes Back after this.

SONIC and TAILS: Yay!!

The hedgehog ripped himself

TAILS: In half.

out of the water, gasping, with one thought on his mind--get out of that water!

SONIC: How could he mistake the sewer pond for the pool?

He couldn't seem to outrun it--the entire forest seemed sunk--so maybe he could climb out of it.

KNUCKLES: Sure, Sonic, climb to the highest part of the Titanic if you want to survive.

SONIC: Good idea! I'll remember that next time I'm on a cruise ship.

He leaped for a tree nearby with low branches and

TAILS: missed and fell and hit his nose and broke his wrist on the rocks and cried and ran home to mommy and ...

[Sonic smacks him]

swung himself up. He could climb like a squirrel when he really wanted to,

KNUCKLES: Of course. He'd NEVER climb like a hedgehog.

and he shot

TAILS: To the moon!

almost to the top of the tree. Only when the branches bent and creaked dangerously under his weight did he

SONIC: Fall and get eaten by the thing in the water, the end, let's go home now.

stop to catch his breath and look about him.

Then his heart froze in his chest, cold as a snowball.

TAILS: Sonic, has your heart ever frozen like a snowball?

SONIC: Sure.

TAILS: When?

SONIC: Well, I was in Robotropolis, running from the SWAT-bots ... see, I had blown up something or other on a mission Sally sent me on, did I mention that Sally is from the comics and not the games? Yeah, see, Sega and Archie comics ...

TAILS: Sorry I asked.

The water below his tree was thickening.

KNUCKLES: Somebody added instant oatmeal.

It seemed to be piling up on top of itself, forming a wavering, rippling, shapeless mound of liquid.

TAILS: [Singing] J-E-L-L-O!

But how? Water didn't do that!

SONIC: Duh-hee.

"No," he thought, "but something IN the water might." As he watched, the hill of water seemed to congeal, forming a partial solid. Before his eyes a Creature appeared. Its head looked something like a moray eel's, but it's body was a shapeless water-glob with arms.

SONIC: Hey, look, it's Chaos zero with Perfect Chaos's head!

KNUCKLES: Obviously this author hadn't played Sonic Adventure.

TAILS: Yeah, this is that NetRaptor person. Stalkers probably don't play Sonic games very much.

It opened it's sea-green eyes and looked up at him.

KNUCKLES: I hate puns.

The hatred and senseless malice was so intense Sonic's eyes reeled back from the encounter.

SONIC: Watch this! [rolls eyes in circles and slumps against the back of his chair] That's how your eyes reel back from an encounter.

TAILS: Did I ask?

SONIC: No, but I thought you might.

"Who are you?" he asked.

KNUCKLES: [the thing] I am the ghost of Christmas Past.

The Thing looked at him for a long moment, unblinking. Then it gave a long-drawn cry, so loud Sonic clapped his hands to his ears in agony.

SONIC: This idiot author never played Sonic Adventure. Chaos roars. He doesn't scream.

TAILS: Except when you blow his head off.

SONIC: Well, sure, then.

He did not feel the tiny prick of a dart at the back of his neck. He did feel when the Thing suddenly flung itself against the trunk of the tree. The tree shivered as if a tidal wave had crashed against it.

KNUCKLES: It wasn't a tidal wave, it was a tsunami. There's a big difference.

Sonic rocked back and forth, clutching at anything to steady himself, but his balance was already gone.

TAILS: So he rocks back and forth, although he's already lost his balance and is falling. Hmm. Writer's logic.

The twigs slipped past his fingers. Suddenly he was unable to fight--his strength was gone.

KNUCKLES: His steroids gave out.

He made one more effort to catch himself on a limb as he toppled from the treetop, but could not hold himself on.

Limp as putty and fading fast toward unconsciousness, he fell like a rock toward the awaiting Creature ....

[Tails and Knuckles jump up and down and yell "Eat him! Eat him!"]

SONIC: I'm not enjoying this.

Thud.

TAILS: Sonic's head bounced away from the scene of the crime.

The forest became dead silent. No more swooshing.. no more gurgling.. the terrible monster seemed to have seeped into the very soil itself. But why? It had sensed more 'dark halos' approaching. Possible re-inforcements. It left to gather its energy.. become strong enough for a group attack.

SONIC: Of course, it had the energy to flood the whole forest, but not take on a few more wimpy dark halos.

It wouldn't be long... It left Sonic alone on the ground, a long thick dart stuck out of the back of his neck. He was asleep. The sound of laughing could be heard...

TAILS: By who? Sonic's out and Chaos is gone!

"I got 'im, Baz! Look at that!" came one voice. "Ripper!" came another. Two stubby scrub turkeys emerged from the bushes, wearing

SONIC: Feathers.

green suits and knee-high boots. The taller one was armed with a hunter's dart gun.

KNUCKLES: We all know that hunters use dart guns and never lethal weapons, like, heaven forbid, RIFLES.

"Beauty, Floyd!

TAILS: I'm gonna have 'im stuffed and sent to the Smithsonian as a new species!

Now, let's get this guy back to the jeep, shall we?" The turkeys grabbed Sonic, one arm each, and began to drag him. A figure stepped out behind them. "FLOYD! BASIL!" it shouted. The turkeys quickly turned their heads, and breathed a sigh of relief when they recognized the character. "Geez, Myron!" shouted the shorter one. "You scared the freakin' willies outta me!" The figure stepped out of the shadows. He was an echidna. He had jet-black skin, and a heavy old english accent.

[Knuckles shudders] If I saw a black echidna, it'd scare me, too. [He looks at his red fur proudly]

SONIC: Have you ever seen another echidna, Knux?

KNUCKLES: Well, no.

TAILS: So you mean, if you saw another echidna at all, it'd scare you.

KNUCKLES: I guess you're right.

He was dressed from head to toe in a hunting uniform,

TAILS: Including a mask and cape to hide his identiy.

and carried a huge double-barreled elephant gun.

KNUCKLES: Just in case that troublesome hedgehog showed signs of waking up.

He grinned. "That's because you two are a couple a' brainless cowards!" he said. "Brainless??" shouted the turkey known as 'Floyd'. "You ain't the one who captured the flippin' hedgehog, now are you!" Myron frowned. "Might I remind you why the Governess sent me here?

SONIC: [as Myron] She wanted it her way, and they don't have Burger King in the future!

To keep you two outta' trouble! Now, I see you have

TAILS: Two heads each.

the hedgehog!" The shorter turkey, known as 'Basil', produced a large grin.

KNUCKLES: From the bag on his back, where he also carried his Angry Eyes, just in case.

"That's right, Myron! He's sleepin' like a baby!" "Excellent!" replied Myron. "In our time, we're the best hunters in the world.. now we'll get this haul to the Governess, and we'll be the _richest_ hunters in the world!"

[All engage in diabolical laughter]

The three hunters began to drag Sonic through the forest. It was unusually quiet... Myron stopped dragging, and stood up to sniff the air, motioning for the others to stop.

SONIC: [as Myron] Okay, who did it?

"What's up, Myron?" asked Floyd. "Somethin's out there." Myron replied, sniffing again.

TAILS: I thought he had an old English accent.

He grabbed his gun, and loaded it. "Like what?" asked Basil. "Dunno." replied Myron. "It's coming towards us. It seems the hunters have become the hunted." Floyd and Basil began to back away, leaving Sonic behind.

SONIC: Hey! You're not just gonna leave me there, are you? Hey ... HEY! Don't leave me!!

They both took shotguns from their backpacks and loaded them. Suddenly, water began to spill out from the bushes behind them. "What the freakin' hell is that?" shouted Basil.

KNUCKLES: "Freakin' hell'. Sounds like some place in Arizona.

[Sonic, still fretting over his being left] They just left me! Now I'll drown, and it's all their fault! [Begins to sob into his hands]

The three backed up to higher ground. The water formed a stream around them, like a moat. It moved quickly. There was a gurgling sound, like a muffled roar. "This ain't no stream, men." assured Myron. "Dunno what it is, but it ain't water."

[Tails and Knuckles chant] "AIN'T AIN'T A WORD AND I AIN'T GONNA USE IT!

[Sonic is still sobbing]

The liquid began to do something that water couldn't.. it rose up into a shape. A stream of water poured through the air towards the hunters. It stopped before Myron's face, and formed a creature's head, looking kind of like a dragon/eel creature. Myron cocked his head to one side. Slowly, the liquid head did the same. Myron cocked to the other side, and the liquid head followed again.

KNUCKLES: Aww, how sweet! The alien from The Abyss is trying to make friends!

Suddenly, Myron jumped back, aimed his shotgun, and pumped two rounds into the creature's head.

[All jump]

TAILS: Oh. That was nice of him.

The formation popped like a water balloon, but the liquid began to bubble. Myron jumped around, shooting bullets into the bubbling liquid. "We got ourselves one heck of a beastie, here!" he shouted. "Woo-hoo! I haven't had this much fun since the hunt of '83!"

KNUCKLES: When Myron joined a company called InGEN to go to an island and capture dinosaurs.

[Sonic is pretending to cry now and watching the movie through his fingers]

The liquid formed more strange formations.. angry formations.

TAILS: What's an angry formation?

KNUCKLES: Waves on the ocean during a hurricane. Sonic, if you don't stop crying I'm going to pound you to pulp personally.

SONIC: Solly.

"Might I remind you that we're hunting a hedgehog, not a freakin' sea monster!" shouted Floyd. Myron jumped back and retreated, shooting the creature again every so often. "Yer right, let's get outta here!" he shouted. "This thing's just eatin' my bullets, anyway!" The hunters fled, but their prize, Sonic, was left in the center of the liquid. In the center of the bubbling moat, which was slowly but surely closing in on him...

[Sonic becomes hysterical again] Look, LOOK! They left me! I'm gonna be Chaos chow and nobody cares! [Jumps at the screen and is yanked back by his companions]

KNUCKLES: The kind of splinter you get jammed under your thumbnail.

SONIC and TAILS: Ouch!!!

Sally was having a hard time.

SONIC: She got her comb stuck in her bangs and couldn't pull it out without damaging her hairdo.

She had gone to see Tails, but had found his hut empty. Of course, she knew where the fox would be. He had gone to mess around with Pip, the local village bat, last of her species.

TAILS: Why is it that every fan-made character is the 'last of their species'?

SONIC: Because it sounds cool. It doesn't really mean anything.

The two kids put together could cook up more mischief than everyone else in Knothole put together.

KNUCKLES: Pip operated the stove and Tails ran the blender.

The problem that she was having was trying to get them to open the door. They had apparently barricaded themselves in using the furniture.

SONIC: Little brats.

"You could be the monster," explained Pip, apologetically.
"But you know me!"
"You could be a shape shifting monster," answered Tails, knowledgeably.
"How do you know about the monster, anyway?" asked Sally, suspiciously.

KNUCKLES: Amazing. Three characters in a row have used adverbs!

TAILS: Hope they don't keep it up. Adverbs make me sick.

There was an embarrassed silence which Pip eventually broke.
"Funny things doors... sometimes you can hear through them as if they weren't there at all..."

SONIC: That's true. You wouldn't believe some of the things I'VE learned.

[Tails and Knuckles stare at him]

Glaring at the door furiously, as if it was it's fault, Sally asked them the question that she'd come to ask them.
"Have you seen Sonic, only I haven't seen him since he went out.

KNUCKLES: Only I haven't seen him since he went out. Everybody else has. Have you?

SONIC: Sure! I've seen him! Hmm ... have I seen him?

TAILS: Not unless you've looked in a mirror lately.

SONIC: Are you kidding? I'd have nightmares!

I thought that he might have come to see you."
"No, we haven't seen him. Why'd he go out anyway? Isn't it dangerous with a monster hanging around the place?"
"That's why he went out, to find out what this is all about. He's obviously braver than some people around here. Barricading yourselves in your hut indeed!"
The two young animals heard Sally walk away.
"Was she calling us cowards?" asked Pip.

TAILS: Brilliant deduction, Holmes.

"I think so."
"Right. Help me move this furniture out of the way, Tails."
"What are you doing?"
"Proving that we're not cowards."
"How are we going to do that?"

TAILS: [as himself] "Don't tell me--we're going to walk barefoot across a bed of hot coals.

"By finding Sonic."
"Where will he be, then?"
"Good question."
They stood thinking for a while.
"I've got it!" yelled Tails suddenly, making Pip jump.

TAILS: [as himself] He's barracaded HIMSELF into HIS hut!

"He must have been captured by the gang from Robotropolis!"
"That's it," agreed Pip. "It's the most likely thing that could have happened to him."
They spent a busy ten minutes taking away the furniture. Then they quietly sneaked out of the village and headed for Robotropolis.

[Sonic moves a finger in a circle around his ear.] Batty. Just plain batty.

[Knuckles glares at him.] I hate puns.

SONIC: [sarcastically] Oh, does that upset you? I AM sorry.

SONIC: Another of these engravings on a stick. What are they? Wands? Batons? Bludgons? Maybe some kind of handheld computer game? With my luck, it's a hand grenade.

TAILS: Take a bow, Mr. Boston Low!

[Sonic bows]

KNUCKLES: You guys are weird.

Meanwhile on Mobius, different place, different time.

SONIC: Miss Scarlet in the library with a lead pipe.

      The large, diagonal glass wall revealed

KNUCKLES: The fiery explosion of a gas-filled zepplin.

the sight of an abandoned Mobian metropolis from fourteen floors high.

TAILS: Doesn't it mean, 'fourteen floors up'?

SONIC: Synonyms will get you every time. Synonyms, antonyms, M&Ms. You know.

The
      futuristic cityscape had given up in front of the regrowth of nature;

SONIC: It put up its hands and was executed by a firing squad. Nature is merciless.

a new rainforest had taken over the city years ago,

KNUCKLES: Actually, that's impossible. It would all be secondary growth. A real rainforest takes hundreds of years to get established.

SONIC: Thank you, Prof. Knuckles.

      long after its inhabitants had panickedly evacuated underground and to inside their shelters. The only building left
      contained in open air,

TAILS: Contained in open air? Isn't that an oxymoron?

SONIC: What did you call me?

TAILS: I didn't call you anyth--

SONIC: You called me an oxymoron, didn't you??

TAILS: No! I didn't call you--

SONIC: You little creep! [He jumps on Tails and they are enveloped in a cloud of cartoon dust]

KNUCKLES: At least he didn't call you 'Crash Bandicoot' ...

[The dust settles, and Sonic and Tails are back in their seats, completly calm and unruffled.]

SONIC: What'd you say, Knux?

KNUCKLES: Nothing.

and could still support life was the Governess' skyscraper.

TAILS: You could still see the marks on the sky where the building had scraped it.

      A lone character sat in her chair, facing the window and so hiding her face and outlook from possible visitors.

SONIC: The female Bill Gates.

He
      watched silently her city -

KNUCKLES: He watched silently her city. Oh yeah, that makes sense.

the city what had once flourished with life - but was now dead. All because of her unthought
      actions years ago; the last solution to destroy her only enemy had been to let lethal SLR-gas,

SONIC: Beans and cabbage get you every time.

otherwise used as a
      special fuel, to take over the streets, hoping that it wouldn't let any Freedom Fighter out alive. Instead, it had taken
      down hundreds of her loyalists and sparkled an uprising against the 'insane' governess. The only way to keep her
      position had been violence - and that well-known recipe to her made her rule strongly dictatorial.

TAILS: Idiot. She killed her friends and her enemies at the same time! What was she, crazy?

KNUCKLES: Sure. Everybody knows that females who lose their looks go insane afterwards.

SONIC: Cool.

      A signal

TAILS: Blinked, and a minute later the subway roared through her office.

called out of the intercom. The Governess was silent.
      "Come in." She finally let out with a rugged female voice. In the another end of the Governess' chamber, a door slid
      open with

SONIC: A snarl.

TAILS: A moo.

KNUCKLES: A recitation of the Gettysburg Address.

a hiss.

A character walked in,

SONIC: Duh, but which character?

towards the dictator, with slow but determined steps. The echidna, Myron,
      stopped in a safe distance from the Governess' desk, took his hat out and waited.

TAILS: Why did he take his hat out? Does he wear it indoors or something?

KNUCKLES: He wanted it out of the way of his gun in case the Governess had him mugged.

SONIC: Cool.

      "Yes?" Called out the female voice behind the chair.

KNUCKLES: She had a mortal fear of strangers and was hiding back there.

      "Governess...I..." Myron opened his speech.
      "You failed." The Governess predicted, with her low tone of voice; a negative sign. Myron cleared his throat.
      "...But we..I ran into a problem.."
      "You failed." Governess repeated. "I should kill you for this, Myron." She spoke as nothing.

SONIC: Yeah, kill him! Kill him! He shot me with a dart! Let's see some gore and violence! Let's see him torn limb from limb! Let's see him--

KNUCKLES: Sonic, you're scaring Tails.

SONIC: Cool.

      "...But, uh, Miss Governess, there is still a way for us..."
      "I know." The voice replied quickly. "But time travel is expensive. I don't want you to waste any more of my people's
      rare wealth

SONIC: Rare wealth?

TAILS: Yeah. Remember the treasure Dash said he wouldn't steal?

SONIC: Oh. [frowns] The Governess is a dirty thief!

KNUCKLES: And murderer and dicator and ... should I go on?

by sending you into Sonic's earlier life."
      "But how---how can---" Myron started.

KNUCKLES: How can I continue this plot without further funding?

      "The time void is still open, for my recall. As I also suppose that your companions locate still in the time where you
      were miserably trying to catch the hedgehog from."

SONIC: The grammer is so poor I almost can't understand it!

TAILS: Uh, yeah. [whispers] Knux, did you understand what he just said?

KNUCKLES: Nope. Just smile and nod.

[Tails smiles and nods]

      "Yes." Myron swallowed.

[Sonic tries to swallow and say 'yes' at the same time, and accidently swallows his tongue.]

SONIC: Ulll, I allloweg eye gung!!

[Tails smiles and nods]

      "In my generosity I give you - as well as your men - a change to overcome the problems you confronted in that time,
      and to bring....

KNUCKLES: Sssssonic ...

him here. I won't command my scientists to open another time void...so come back with the
      hedgehog...or don't come back at all."

TAILS: That saves me the trouble of killing you myself.

KNUCKLES: How will he get back if the scientists don't open another portal? Walk?

SONIC: I ALLLOOWEG EYE GUNG! ELLLP!

[Tails smiles and nods]

      "But, Miss Governess, our problem is special."
      "I am listening...."
      "There was this special 'thing' - and which kind of even I haven't ever seen; as I am supposed to have hunted almost
      every creature in our time, I if anyone know when a new species is discovered. It's body consisted of water-like liquid,
      and it could reform it's body after every gunshot I blammed at it...and it has the hedgehog captured..."

SONIC: Oool.

[Tails smiles and nods]

      "...as long as I'm interested. Now go!"

[Sonic grabs Knuckles's arm and shouts something unintelligible. Knuckles socks him in the stomach.]

[Sonic, wheezing] Thanks, Knux.

KNUCKLES: No prob.

[Tails smiles and nods, then pauses and thinks.] Wait, I understood that!

KNUCKLES: Dead air.

Tails and Pip flew out of Knothole and, from high above, followed Sonic's tracks in the dirt.

SONIC: They had special hedgehog-tracking binoculars. "Too fast for the naked eye ..."

[Tails and Knuckles sing it for him] "Sonic the hedgehog! Sonic, he is really rude! Sonic, he's got a bad attitude! Sonic, he is the meanest thing alive! He's the meanest thing aliiiive!!"

SONIC: That's not how it goes, you jerks!

KNUCKLES: Thats the version hedgehogs get when they sing their own theme songs.

      A few minutes later, Tails found Sonic, who was falling from a tree branch into a pool of water. He called to Pip to let
      her know that Sonic had been found.

TAILS: Haven't we already seen this scene?

      Some hunters ran up to the hedgehog, and then the water seemed to form a shape. Loud gunshots were heard, and
      Tails sped up. The hunters ran away from the water. A flash obscured them for a moment, and suddenly they were
      facing back towards the water and heavily armed.

KNUCKLES: Oh, I get it. The hunters went into their timewarp and came back out at the same second they left, re-armed!

SONIC: Still, I don't remember Tails and Pip being there. They might have saved me from being Chaos chow.

      "SONIC!!!" Tails yelled.

SONIC: [as himself] WHAT, TAILS?

      Sonic noticed Tails and, fighting off the tranquilizer, got ready to jump.

TAILS: Okay, so he's sound asleep, but managed to notice Tails anyway.

Myron shot another dart towards Sonic,

KNUCKLES: Duh, where would he shoot it? Up in the air?

but the
      hedgehog was too fast. The dart hit the pool instead. Tails swooped down, carrying Sonic away from the scene. The
      hunters aimed for the flying duo, but each was knocked to the ground by a blast of water that was held together in a
      solid shape.

SONIC: Cool! Chaos ate the losers! Go Chaos!

[They wait. Nothing else happens.]

TAILS: Is that it?

SONIC: I guess so. Here, I know what happened--Chaos ate them all and lived happily ever after. The end.

KNUCKLES: The world's shortest fanfic. Well Sonic, was this part as good as last night's?

SONIC: Naw. It was too hard to understand. [pauses and thinks] I still think Chaos is cool, though.

TAILS: So do I, I think. Maybe it's because I'm thirsty.

KNUCKLES: [moans] Now I'm the only sane one left ...

[They exit the theater]

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