Foxes get sick, too! - (5 Parts)

[cheetah]

Oops. Well, uh, I'm back from the dead.

Tomorrow.

*sleeps*

[Dye]

I'm back from my holiday aaaaand

*waits for living topic again*

[cheetah]

NYAAAA GODDAMNIT I HAVE NO WILLPOWER WHATSOEVER.

It just occured to me that Sonic and Tails don't have a house. So...uh. It is now...Tails' workshop. With his room in it....Yeah.

Chapter Something I Have Promptly Forgotten

When Plans Backfire

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"Can't you do that a little more quietly?" Shadow snapped irritably at the white bat. Rogue gave a tut, continuing to twist the cameras with just as much noise.

"Calm down, Shaddy. It's all part of the plan."

"What plan?" he frowned. "And don't call me that."

"The plan where we get Eggman to come to us, Shaddy." Rogue said as if she had actually told Shadow.

"The plan where we what?!" Shadow hissed. "Do you have a death wish?"

"Thing is," Rogue paused, in the middle of pushing a camera before simply punching the glass. "It's not like we can just sneak in when he has most of the emeralds, thus will be on his guard. We trick him in to lifting the defence."

"By making it attack us? What kind of plan is this?"

"Let me finish, would you? Once the defence comes, we chaos Control out of there with your emerald, grab the rest, you go super and we blow the joint."

"We do what?"

"We blow up the base," Rogue groaned.

"Right." Shadow outstreched a hand a focused.

Nothing happened.

He frowned and tried again.

Nothing.

What was...

"What are you doing, trying to Control out without an emerald?" Rogue laughed.

"That's just it, stupid- I don't have the emerald!" That wiped the grin off her face.

There was a loud clank from behind them. The two shared a glance before slowly looking behind them.

"Well, well, well. How cute."

It was Eggman.

"Iktchuuu!"

They're very squeaky, aren't they?" Sonic grinned.

"Hmph." Tails sniffed in reply. He seemed to have abandoned full sentences in embarrasment of his own voice. "Thanks."

"OK, I'm sorry..." Sonic sighed, turned and put his feet on the windowsill.

"You can leave, you know..."

"Heheh, no. Not right now." the hedgehog grunted in reply.

There was a short silence.

"'Hkicsh!"

"I wonder what Eggman is doing?" Sonic suddenly cut in.

"Pr...icshu! Kitschhu! Ihchuu!" The kit abandoned his attempt at answering and burried his muzzle in a tissue, attempting to stifle his fit while Sonic stared on, somewhat concerned.

"Because, you know, he could be taking advantage. I'm surprised that he hasn't been rubbing it in. Maybe..." he shook his head. "Forget it."

Tails sat up, holding the tissue to his nose, but said nothing, thoughts clouded by drowsiness and misery. "I'm probably going to sleep...you can leave if you want..."

Sonic nodded gratefully and slipped out. He stepped away towards the Tornado's garage before yelping and tripping over something sharp.

"Sonic?!" Tails cried from the room.

"Just tripped..." He sat up, frowning at the sharp thing before raising his...eyebrow-like lumps.

The Chaos Emerald.

Shadow's Chaos emerald.

He picked it up, tossed it up, then caught it and shrugged.

He could always give it back. There were six more after all, he mused, as he placed it on Tails' workbench.

Shadow couldn't need it that much.

* * * * *

"This is so your fault."

"My fault?! You're the one who made the stupid plan without telling me!"

"Pfft. It would have worked if not for you."

"Well? If you're such a great plan maker, then you think up a way to get us out here!"

The argument continues in Eggman's prison cell.

* * * * *

"Ih'chu! Iksch! Ischoo"

The noise was muffled but audible. Sonic's ear flicked, but he guessed Tails was still asleep. He gave the tornado a short pat.

"Heh...ischtu!"

Maybe he could fly the tornado somewhere...he did own it, after all...

"Leave them alone!"

...asleep?

He didn't really say anything that time, he just screamed hoarsely.

Sonic sighed.

What was in that water?

"Ischhu!"

* * * * *

Knock knock knock

"Another one?" Sonic mused at the door.

Knock knock

"I'm coming, I'm coming..." he mumbled.

Knock whack-bang

"What the-"

"Sonic?" a somewhat sheepish voice called. He walked up to see a gloved fist in through the door.

"Knuckles, you just..."

"Punched through the door, yes. Now let me in."

Bemusedly, he opened it. "Why are you here?"

"Why would I be down from Angel Island, stupid?" Knuckles groaned.

"Uh, holiday?"

"The master emerald's gone, dummy!"

"Oh. So I take it this is not a friendly visit." Sonic frowned. "I thought you were guarding it."

Knuckles snarls silently at the hedgehog.

"Riiiiiight." Sonic nodded. "Well, I-"

Tails coughed from the next room. Knuckles turned to Sonic. "What-"

"Cold. Who took it?"

"Uh..." Knuckles was silent for a moment.

"You don't kn-"

"It was probably Rogue!" he snapped. "It's not my fault, I-"

"It's not?" Sonic grinned.

"This is not a joke, Sonic!" Knuckles growled.

"Right." he sweatdropped.

Tails got in to another sneezing fit. This time Knuckles looked in that direction. "Is that Tails?"

"No, it's someone else in his lab who sounds like him. What do you think?"

"Hmph. What happened?" then before he could reply, "It's your fault, right?"

"Why do you have to assume?" then a pause. "Uh, partly."

Knuckles snorted. "Well?"

"Well what?"

"Help me find it, stupid!"

"F-find what?" a meek voice called. Knuckles pushed past Sonic before he could cut him off and stuck his head in to Tails.

"Hey, kid." he paused. "Wow, you look a-"

"I know," Tails moaned. "No need to make a point of it."

"Right." Knuckles glanced back uncomfortably.

"Kischt! Aren't you looking for something?"

"Yeah, it's-"

"Yes he is." Sonic pulled him back. "Say bye, Tails."

"Bye?" he answered meekly.

"See you, kid, just got stuff to take care of with blue boy here, no need to worry." Knuckles said hastily.

"No need to worry." Sonic echoed. "Be back in a little."

* * * * *

"So." Shadow grunted.

"What?"

"Did you have the master emerald?"

Rogue paused.

"I did..."

"Oh?" Shadow almost grinned at how fidgety she suddenly was. "So it was stolen?"

"Yes, Shaddy, just like you lost your emerald. Although somebody actually did it." Rogue snaped.

"Hah. So-" Shadow cut himself off. "Wait...if he has the emerald, and you got it from Knuckles-"

"Knux is going to come here? Pfft. We failed. He probably will."

"You should probably be rooting for him." Shadow shrugged.

"Why?" she frowned.

"Because he's probably our only ticket out of here."

As of yet to be continued...

[Dye]

Oh mai. It liiives! Score! Great chapter~ Love how Knuckles punched through the door, the silly stubbon hardheaded echidna that he is. (*knock*...*knock*...*knock*... GRRRAAAAHHHH *smash lol*) I wonder what will happen to Tails whilst Sonic is gone... Eagerly awaiting the next installment!

[caligulasArmageddons]

-Manages to speak in between laughs-

Eyebrow...like...lumps!!

Also, it's good to find someone who...um...-Thinks about next sentence- anyway, I use the thing where...Um...Characters who aren't sick speak in sick voice to sick characters!!!! Whew. Anyway, similar writing tactics. Cool.