Sonic and Knuckles sat on the clean ground of the Floating Island, exhausted. The hedgehog pretended to look at a watch and remarked,

" I'm waiiiiiting!!!"

The echidna groaned. Sonic impatiently asked,

" Are ya going to narrate this story or not?!"

Knuckles glared at him.

" You're right. It'll be corny. Let's just skip it."

The other protested,

" But you said ya would, in the last story."

" I did?"

" You sure did."

" Okay, but don't blame me if whoever reads this "accidentally" drops it in a bonfire."

Sonic nodded and Knuckles began to type..

" Geez, my keyboard broke!"

He found another one and began to type again.

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" I woke up. We fought. I left and asked someone a question. He answered it and he left. THE END."

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sonic snickered, and coaxed Knuckles to do it right.

" You write it or the narrator says it."

A gleam of horror formed on Knuckles' face. He lifted his fist and yelled,

" Shut up! From now on, I'm telling it."

The narrator grabbed his microphone and stalked away, muttering,

" I'll narrate the next damn fanfic!"

" Okay, that settles it. I'm gonna write this stupid thing and be done with it. Here goes!"

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" Sonic the Hedgehog in Hedgehog from Hell "

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How does that sound, Sonic?"

" It's way past extreme, Knux! I didn't bother you for THAT long. And I didn't to the point that you wanted to kill yourself! 'Sides, you were way past annoyin' back. Plus, size 72 letters are a bit big."

" It's a fact that titles are extreme! They must convey the natural emotions bursting from the author's heart and mind, connected together, to form a phenomenon on the world."

" Say what?"

" It's not too extreme, or too big. It's an attention-getter as well as something to tell feelings. I mean, who couldn't see that? It's big enough for a BLIND person to see.."

" Oh."

" Besides, you stayed on the island for 7 whole days! That's enough to drive anyone, even Mighty the Armadillo, nutty! Then again, the robot duplicate was the cause of trouble the first day. Then from that day on, you were the only one left to annoy me, simple as that. And you did a real good job at that. If there was an award, you'd get first prize. Okay. Here goes.............."

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" I woke up. It was nice and bright, quiet and peaceful. All that was horribly shattered when Sonic came storming through the woods, playing a boom-box. I moaned and demanded,

" You're not gonna make like Vector now that he's left, right?!"

He turned it off and answered,

" I'm not gonna make like Vector, Knux."

I sighed happily, knowing that I would finally be able to guard the island in peace. Then he said the worst possible thing someone could ever say.

" I'm gonna make like myself."

" Nnnnnnnooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!! No! No! Not for 6 more days! I won't stand for it! I'll book you on an emergency flight to Knothole! I'll put you in the way of the next hurricane! I'll......"

Sonic tapped his foot and waited, for a good hour, then he stuffed an apple in my mouth and said,

" Chill, piggy."

I spat the worm-filled thing out, and complained,

" Yuck! I hate apples! And I hate them even more if something has already been inside it!"

He cracked,

" They keep the doctor---"

" Don't even say it, hedgehog. Robotnik comes here usually when someone actually eats an apple !"

" Maybe he forgot his lunch, and he looked across all of Mobius for it. And he can't find it 'cause the apple turned brown with his breath, and it blended with the ground! Or, maybe he ripped his suit and needs something red to replace it. Nah, an apple's too small. I spy with my big eye something perfect for 'Buttnik's suit. YOU!"

" Then he burst out laughing. He thought he was so clever. Actually, I don't think I could come up with an insult like that. I was about to give him my fist for an answer, but I got a better idea that was much more rewarding than a fight. You ask what could be more rewarding? A melee! Wait, that's a fight! Oops. Anyway, I asked him if he could sing a song for me, the silliest song he knew. He agreed 'cause he thought it would annoy me. I ran off and I found a very strong microphone with an attached ampliflyer, which I gave to him. He started to sing, and his voice could crack steel! What a racket! Plus, I don't think it was a real song, just a stupid parody of one of those shows on, uh, what are they called? Oh, yeah. TV. Right now, as I'm writing, Sonic is begging me to not write the song. Since he--'scuse me! You don't need to drop a stone on my head! One of these days I gotta teach that--Hey you're pushing delete! Don't erase this! I'm doin' fine! Since WE tortured the other for so long I think I'll write the song.

So the hedgehog made a jackass outta himself for singin' this; half the island heard it., and they're STILL talking about how funny it was! In some places, that's all they ever talk about.

He got a tuba and blew a few loud blasts, and then sung,

" IF YOU LIKE TO FIGHT WITH ECHIDNAS, IF HIS MOAN CAN MAKE YOU SMILE, IF YOU'D LIKE TO PUNCH THE OTHER'S HEAD OFF, GO TO HIS SO-CALLED FLOATING ISLE..........."

And so on and so on and forsooth......Whoops, that's so forth. He finally got what was coming to him: a ticket from the dog mentioned in the last fanfic. The ticket fined him for 799 chili-dogs. You might think that's a corny sum, but to Sonic it was a zillion-trillion-billion-million-thousand-hundred-tens-ones-tenths-------You get the point, right? It was like a lot of money. So he came and asked ME for help.

" You owe me a favor, big-time! I didn't mean to wake the whole island in the middle of the night! C'mon! I only have 798 dogs! Please! Just tell me where I could find one, just one?"

Blackmail was ineviitablee.

Oh, geez. Sonic's telling me that I spelled the word wrong. This is a fanfic, not a English lesson! He says that he's being the spell-checker. I'm telling him to spell "ineviitablee". He's spelling it " i-n-n-e-v-e-t-u-h-b-u-l-l". If he's the spell-checker, then I'm Wash-Your-Pants-And-Bring-A-Ton-George. That doesn't sound right. In fact, it sounds backwards. Oh, well.

So I told him that the only chili-dog that was left on the Floating Island was in Mt. Infernoocean. He actually believed me and took off. But I suddenly realized that he would be as hot as a dog, no, hotter, than a dog if he went into there to try to retrieve the chilled dog, I mean the chili-dog. But I thought, Not even Sonic the Hedgehog could even be stupid enough to jump into a volcano. On second thought, he could.

So I ran off in the direction of Lava Reef Zone. I approached Mt. Infernoocean and saw it. Sonic was nowhere to be seen! I sat down on a rock and buried my face in my hands. I looked at the rock and words were engraved in it, that read,

" You've disgraced your ancsestors, stupid. What do you have to say for yourself?"

Then I looked at the writing and groaned. There was only one guy on Mobius that could write things THAT fast, 'cause I was on that rock about five minutes ago and nothing was written. I looked around, and knew that he was watchin' me with his dopey-looking eyes. The next second he got the drop on me, a bucket of more-than-freezing water, complete with a straw and a cherry. I jumped up and smacked him squarely in his jaw. Then a fight started, but it was interrupted in the middle.

" Uh, Brain-Dead-Locks, don't ya think we should fight somewhere else? The volcano looks like it's gonna hurl!"

" That's what I was gonna say 2 hours ago, but you had your hand in my mouth!"

" You had YOUR knuckles in---aw, forget it, it's private! (Ain't I disgusting?)"

The volcano bubbled and--uh, bloobed. Not again. Sonic's tellin' me that I should have a better sentence than "The volcano bubbled and bloobed." He's sayin' that it should be, " The volcano, boding death, threatened to bathe all of us in magma." Actually, that sounds good! I'm writing it: The volcano, boding death, threatened to bathe all of us in magma. Then it rumbled and we took off.

And we looked back and saw what looked like Mighty and Charmy come out of the volcano and say something like,

" Allright! That'll keep those two off each other's throats for a while."

So we walked and walked and walked and walked and walked."

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" That's not it, Knux! This is confusin' enough! It doesn't need to get more confused! 'Sides, if I wrote a story like that with the word "walked" a zillion times, I'd get hired to write a story that's called, " I'm unemployed". Do it right or I'll narrate it, if you keep on havin' this word block. Or I'll tell the narrator to come back. Y'know, the blue tiger with a 9 on his hat?"

" Allright, allright. Don't do that, please! Just give me a minute."

" Do you know what a minute is? You took a whole hour! And will ya stop makin' it like a diary?! It's a fanfic!"

" Don't worry, hedgehog! I've got good ideas this time."

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So we walked and walked until we came to a rotten chili-dog under a rotten log. He ran off to tell the dog, but then he was thrown in jail for three days 'cause he paid the fine on July 4, 3233, (or was that 3234?) Hmm. So he paid it at 10:00:01 when it was due at 10:00:00. I'd hate to think how long would've he been there if he came a minute late! Ooooooh. He called the policedog names that I wouldn't even call Robotnik! What a scary thought!

When got out, the first thing he could think of doing was to whup my butt, and that took a whole morning! He felt his stomach and said,

" I'm hungry!"

So I gave him a knuckle sandwhich complete with mayonasal, uh mayonaise. Geez, my nose is stuffed.

And then I made something.

" What's that?"

" It's a calender! I'm gonna count off the days 'till Saturday!"

Sonic pouted and said stupidly,

" Aw, you don't like me here, do ya?"

" What do you think, Doofus? You've been way past---AAAAGHHH!!!! I'm gettin' you on the brain! I'm starting to speak like you! This is a nightmare! It's one of the worst things that could happen! I'm---I'm---going overboard! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"

Then I fell in a lake off a tiny little small boat, and Sonic laughed but then he jumped in 'cause he knew I fainted and I would drown in the water. But the second he rescued me he said,

" Do ya need swimming lessons, Knux? You sure could use them when you fall into a lake! 'Cause the next time you do that, I would've forgot my floatie."

" (ppphhht) You (ppphht)can't(ppphht)even(pphht)(phhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhtttttttttttttttt)......."

Then he asked me,

" Are ya goin' to do that the whole story?"

" .............swim."

" Neither can you! You fell in like a lead weight!"

" Wait a second! Wasn't that joke already in the other fanfic? You know, how you kept yawning and then I asked you......."

dnA os no dna os htrof......I mean and so on and so forth.

I counted the days. Two more days with the hedgehog! TWO more! I wouldn't be able to stand one more hour with him. First, he sang a song about a "Lun-dun" bridge fallin' down, then he sang "Twinkie, Twinkie, Little Star", then he sang one I really hate:

" A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L,............"

And so forth and so on, I mean and so on and so forth. Finally I couldn't stand it any more and yelled in both his ears:

" WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?!!!!"

He grinned and answered,

" You don't think I was gonna give up on the idea that you might leave, did ya?"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH......"

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" Knuckles! That's overdoing it! It's worse than the "HA, HA, HA" thing with Robuttnik!"

" Yeah, that was damn annoying."

" Right. 'Sides, if you yelled for that long, your lungs would've gone "splat". So don't overdo it, okay?"

" Who's writin' this thing, you or me?"

" You, but it would've sounded better if you cut down on all the "AAAGGHH"s! Sheesh!"

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Sonic promptly punched me in the mouth, and unable to stand my "guest" any longer, I went out to get help, or else I might've got a nervus breakdownus. That's not right. Oh, well. This story isn't right, either.

So I told Mighty to guard the island and 'specially the hedgehog. He said,

" Don't be gone long, Knuckles. Even I have only so much patience."

" Check, Mighty. Later!"

I jumped off the island, landed in the ocean, swam real fast, 'cause sharks were mad at me for jumpin' in their home. So I went ashore, and saw Downunda. I walked along, there didn't seem to be any company, which suited me just fine. After Sonic, a walk on the moon would seem like a party. I walked and walked and walked and walked and ealked and waslked and wsdfled and wdfdfdlessdfdfasfded........."

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"Sonic! What the Hell are you doing?! Give the mouse back right now!!!"

" You had your chance, Knuckle-Brain, but you can't seem to get through your knuckle-brain that there are knuckles in your brain that can't let you write the word

"walked".

" But you don't even know what happened! You were on the island!"

" You told me what happened when you came back!"

" No I didn't! I told Vector! And he must've------Ooh, wait 'till I get my hands on him!"

" Actually, I blackmailed him. If he didn't tell me what happened, I would've stolen his CD player and get him a phonograph for his birthday!"

" I oughta......."

(powbambiffgrabcrashsmackhitwhompbashbloodbludgeonassaulthomicide)

"Ha! I told you that you couldn't kill a fly!"

" Yeah, but only you could write a story this bad!"

" There's someone writing all this down, what we're sayin'! I bet he/she/it would love to meet us! It must be the narrator!"

" Oh, no. Please don't kill me! I'll stop trying to make a story out of your story! Please? AAAAAAHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.......................................Ow, you................ *******************************************************************************You broke my tooth! Why you **************************************"

" Okay, Knux. You can narrate------Hey, wait a sec'! The narrator's still doin' it!"

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So I walked across the happy--no, pleasant desert sands until I came to a large crater. I thought I didn't wanna come here! I was gonna ask Princess Sally if she could take Sonic back.

Then the ground rumbled, I fell down into another stupid mudhole,(Why it had to rain there is totally idiotic!), and out from nowhere popped my favorite echidna to bump into, you know, the one that's always predicting the future and's wearing beads like a cross-dresser? (Boy, I'm bad.)

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"Hold it! Knux, I think that's way past extreme! I mean, he's not the only one that wears things in his spines!"

" Yay, it's the censor to the rescue. How come you're bein' so strict?! You're not always like this!"

" 'Cause I took "English Teacher" pills. Want some?"

" Over my dead rotting corpse!"

" And about echidnas with stuff in their spines. There's Dimitri, or Enerjak, or whatever his name is, there's your mom----"

" Where is she? I haven't seen her since-----"

" Oh, yeah, wrong time. Then there's Sojourner--Hey! Is that a human or an echidna? Ha, ha, ha! Oh, and there's that cute pink echidna......"

" Don't go there, hedgehog, or I'll make sure you're minus a mouth!"

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So I saw Athair. He stood there, chanting his moronic head off. Then he saw me and said,

"Ah, Knuckles! You know I can read your thoughts. Do not think ill of my

ancient------"

I corrected,

" Prehistoric."

" ----ancient dress."

" Well, since I think so ill of you, I think I can think ill of your clothes."

" We have no time to speak of this. The world is in peril!"

" Yeah, I know that."

" Oh, you know about the line of future events that will eventually come forth and bring the ultimate downfall of Mobius?"

" All I know is that Sonic's driving me up the wall! And across the ceiling and along the floor, too!"

" That's not what I was talking about! Tomorrow, when the sun is driven away by the black night, the ones who call themselves the Freedom Fighters will be driven from their will they have always called their own!"

" (sigh) English, Great-Grandfather!"

" They will be captured by the evil one tomorrow night, and technology will be used to convert---"

" They'll be roboticized?!!!"

Athair nodded his ugly head, and continued,

" Only both you and the rodent you drive your distrust to can save them from the power of the evil one's technology!"

" Me and Sonic rescue them?!? Are you off your rocking-chair?!?"

"(sigh) Must you keep yelling?"

" Sorry."

" Only the combined strength and speed of you both can prevent the destruction of Mobius!"

" How bad could it be? They get roboticized and that's it. They don't leave Robotropolis or anythin', right?"

" I forsee that you would be a dastardly candidate for "Secretary of Foreign Affairs". If the core fighters are transformed into mindless mechanoids, the hedgehog will have even less help warring against the doctor, he will eventually also be captured and will wreak havoc over Mobius. So, their affairs concern you too, Knuckles."

" And you SEE all this? Geez!"

" So, go! Repair matters with the hedgehog, for the fate of this planet rests in his

feet and your fists."

So I took off, reminded myself to take headache medicine when all this was over, and to never leave the island to ask a question again.

It was the next day when I came back to the Floating Island. Everything looked intact. Then I saw Sonic and Mighty walking to me. This was it. I would have to patch up now.

" Sonic, we need to talk."

" No way, Rad Red. If we talk, then we end up with fists in our faces, and I don't feel up to fightin' today."

I couldn't believe it.

" What're you up to now?" I asked sternly.

" I'm up to sleepin' after I kick you in that mudhole over there."

" And what the Hell do you wanna do that for?!"

" I think you have a very short-term memory. Whenever we see each other, we have to do something. That's what friendly nemesises do."

So he kicked me in the mud, and I tried hard to keep my already exploding temper.

" You son of a-----growllll......Sonic. I just heard something that'll happen tonight!"

" What is it? You'll throw me off?"

" Yeah, that too, but, listen! The FFs'll be roboticized tonight."

"WHAT?!!!???!!! Hey, wait a sec'. How do I know that you ain't foolin'."

" My great-grandfather told me."

" A great-grandfather?! That's funny! You look old enough to be a great-great-great-grandfather! Your grandfathers and great ones and great-great ones gotta be dead now!"

"Your BRAIN is the thing that's dead, ya blue pincushion! But you gotta listen. So my great-grandfather told me the only way to stop this from comin' true was to (gulp) work together."

There was a yell heard through the whole island.

" Are ya serious? I wouldn't fight with you even if you could shoot lasers outta your wrists!"

So he started for the edge of the island to get to Robotropolis, and I called,

" That's how we're ALL gonna be if we don't do it! And did you ever think how to get down?"

" Like you're gonna glide me down there? You think I'm nuts?!"

" Nuts and bolts soon!"

" (sigh) All right, echidna. Let's do it to it."

Once I asked Espio, Mighty, Charmy, Heavy, and Bomb to guard the island, we were up in the air, Sonic holdin' onto my fists for his life.

Even with that, he still managed to get a remark in.

" This is Island Airways, flight 1415507. Your captain is Knuckles the Echidna, the best thug to fly a plane. His flights are completely safe, with his arms as seatbelts and fresh air for seats, and even open windows to get the best view of a mountain..........Knux, look out!!!!"

I was so busy listening to Sonic that I didn't notice that we were getting the best view of a mountain : a close-up. I couldn't help but exclaim,

" Oh, shit!"

We smacked right into it, and as I got knocked out, I heard Sonic's sickly groan, as we fell,

" We will be landing shortly. Buckle your seatbelts, thank----"

He couldn't finish it, 'cause we landed sooner than we thought.

I woke up in a bed with bandages over everything, and saw a walrus that needed to run a marathon starin' at me. I heard a sweet voice somewhere, and than a sweet one that turned strong. Then I heard a real goofy one that sounded French, and another goofy one that sounded like she knocked her brain outta her skull and it came back, only upside-down. It was slow, but then my vision was right again. Hmm, this part didn't seem to have much humor. Then I saw Sonic, who was all bandaged and was mutterin' something.

" Knuckles should be fired."

I tried to chuckle at the statement, but my pride and temper got in the way so I didn't. I lay down again. My head was ringing and I saw pictures of Sonic running around in Robotropolis. Then I remembered. I sprung outta bed and demanded,

" What time is it?!"

" Knuckles, be a good boy and get back in bed," the walrus told me. I ignored him and asked the question again, this time cracking a joke about his weight. He was about to--uh--retort when just then, Sonic yelled to me,

" It's 8:00 PM!!! Sal, what time are ya goin' to Robotropolis?!"

The slim squirrel stared at him with her blue eyes questioning the inquiry. She firmly spoke with her brilliantly molded voice------"

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"Wait a sonic second! Knux, you've been doin' good so far, but now you're doin' great! And it's when you're talkin' about Sal! If you're doin' what I think you're doin', then DON'T GO THERE. AND IF I'M TYPING IN ".DOC" VERSION, THEN

THIS IS IN RED BOLD PRINT. SO STOP EYEIN' SAL!!! And also--what the--it's in blue! Knux, fix the damn thing!"

" Oooh, you swore. Hey, I can't read this! There, that's better. Wait a second! It's worse! This oughta do it. Can you see it, Sonic?"

" Bright and purple, Knuckles! Now, as I was sayin', you're mixin' absolute humor with absolute serious stuff! That ain't good! And this teal ain't either! Knux, do somethin'!

"You crazy hedgehog! It's scarce better than the white print!"

" I wonder who could be doin' this?"

" The narrator! Boy, when I get my fists on him he'll never use a crayon again!"

"There he is! Knux, grab 'im!"

" I'm gonna press delete."

" Did ya drink regular today? If you delete it, the whole fanfic will be gone!"

"There're no bathrooms on the island!"

"I saw an outhouse 4 miles away."

" Four miles?! At the rate you type, ya might as well use it here. And the outhouse is filled up already. So, use it here."

" Are you crazy?!? I'm not gonna make a fool of myself!

"You're the one that's crazy! Remember the first time we met, you got the jump on me? Then had to pay my hopital bill 'cause of you messin' around! "

"Who suggested that I narrate the story?"

" Some people say that."

" Funny, I was gonna ask you the same thing....What's up with mine? First it's in color, now it's warped!!!"

"Mine is weirder than yours! What the Hell is this kind of font?"

"I have no idea! Whoa, this one is way past cool! Too bad this'll probably be in .txt version."

"Damn it, Sonic! This is the worst fanfic in the world, thanks to that son-of-a-bitch! When I get my fists in him, I'll whomp his/her/its ass! Then I'll kick him all the way to Hell, and I don't care if he comes back and does the same thing! I can't stand these damn warped fonts anymore. Aw, shit! He's makin' me turn red! I hate this guy's ass! I'll kill the son-of-a------"

" This is not funny! IF the damn narrator doesn't quit this, i'm declaring war on him/her/it right now!!! Oh, he didn't say anything? I'm blowing my war horn!!!"

" Okay, okay. If you give me my job back, I'll quit hacking. I just wanted to play with the fonts. So, about the deal. Whaddya say?"

And so, the echidna and hedgehog were able to type their fanfiction in peace.

" Here we go, Sonic. The grand finale!"

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sally answered Sonic,

" Right now. Why?"

" You're gonna be roboticized!!!"

She rolled her eyes and answered,

" Unfortunately, that's a risk we all must take. Now stay here and don't annoy Knuckles too much."

I couldn't let her get out the door.

" Sally, wait! I know it sounds weird, but he's tellin' the truth! Don't go!!!!!!"

She left, closing the door, and how it seemed, closing their lives.

We could see from the window that she got that annoyin' fox and cyborg rabbit and stupid sounding fox and that even stupider sounding dragon and fat walrus to go with her. That would be a lot of prisoners, we thought sadly.

Sonic struggled to get outta bed, and I followed him. Slowly, we headed for Robuttopolos."

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" Knux, get it straight! It's Ro-bo-trop-o-lis!"

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" As we were going, I thought many thoughts, each swimming around in my head. How'd we survive fallin' off the mountain? Oh. geez, I hope we aren't too late for the Freedom Fighters. Why do I have a bump as big as Mt. Everest?

It took us a long time, but thanks to Sonic's endless insults and jokes we got there faster.

" Hey, Knux! I'll take away your pilot's license! You ran outta gas 20 feet above ground, and didn't even have life vests! OOooooooooooowwwwww!!!!"

" Well, who'd take a vacation on the Floating Island, hmmm?"

" What has THAT got to do with it?!"

" 'Cause you came there and left your friends behind, so they didn't have you to back 'em up."

"Say what?"

I was feeling idiotic.

" What say?"

But that hedgehog was feeling idioticer. He started to sing another fake song, at the top of his lungs,

" Oh, say can you see by the night's early dark, what so proudly we hated through the last deeecade, whose broad man who sees stars, through the perilous fight, o'er the grouuuund we whacked that had some serious meaning, and the city's black glare, the fire bursting in air, gave proof, through the day, that the man was still there. Oh, say can we defeat this terriibleee knaaaaaavvvvvveeee......O'er the ciiiiiiitttttyyy of the deeaaddd, and the hommeee of theeeeee enslaved!?!!?!!!?!!"

I had enough and with all the strength I had I punched him from where we were standing to the city he was so vigorously singin' about. He wasn't in the mood for any more brawlin' and ran to me and dragged me along the ground by my tail ; he was THAT fast. I hit stones and logs, and my head looked like paper that was cut with scissors when we got to Robootopllingis."

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"Ro-bo-trop-o-lis!! Get it straight!!!"

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" When we got there, the FFs were already surrounded by Swatbots! Leave it to Athair to always get things right. So we started to fight. I bashed one in the chest, then stomped two.

Sonic jumped in the air, and two bots collided. Then he looked around at the FFs, and noticed two were missing.

" Sal! Tails! I'm comin'!"

He ran to Robotnik's roboticizing room, running over my head in the process. See why I call this "The Hedgehog From Hell"? But I got up in an effort to protect the four remaining Freedom Fighters. That wasn't easy, 'cause---------"

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" Hold it, hold it!" Sonic yelled.

" What'd I do, now, Chili-Dog breath?!?"

Sonic frowned and complained,

" Stop mixin' humor with serious! It doesn't sound right ! Look, what if I said,

" A dog fell into a pool of shallow water. Sadly, he drowned." That ain't right, is it?"

Knuckles frowned and nodded his head. Then he contradicted,

" But you weren't with me at that point! So there couldn't of been anythin' funny!"

" True."

" And if ya interrupt once more, I'll punch right through your nose!"

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Sonic screeched into the room, and sure eough, saw the liitle fox and squirrel, trapped inside the giant machine. He was enraged and ran straight for Robotnik, and tried to buzz-saw into him, and got grounded into the ground by the fat doctor's ground grounding grounder. (his robotic hand)

Meanwhile, I beat all the bots and sent the FFs home (that's quick) and took off after Sonic, 'cause I knew that Athair said that we would have to rescue them together.(What a scary thought!)

I looked at a map of Robotnik's main center, you know, the weirdo egg-shaped big thingamajig of his. It took me nearly a whole minute to find the damn room, and when I found it, I saw Sonic and the eggy locked in---a tango? Yeah, a tango! I was thinkin' what could've happened, when that hedgehog took Robotnik, bounced him like a ball, and tossed him foward, and he knocked into me, and went crashing into the wall.

" What the Hell's goin' on here!" I yelled, muffled. Sonic grinned and said,

" When 'Buttnik said he wanted a fight, I gave him a dance competition! First prize goes to me!"

But the other hog-head wasn't done havin' fun.

" Wrong, boy. First prize goes to me."

He had a hand on the Roboticizer's switch. By instinct, we rushed to him and I smashed my fist through the switch, while Sonic distracted him and ran circles on his shiny head. Then he freed Sally and---uh, what's his name again, uh, oh yeah, Tails. Hmm. For a hedgehog that probably came from Hell to destroy us all, he's pretty cool.

So, the Freedom Fighters counted their losses : none. Everyone was glad about the successful mission. No one died, no one turned into a metallic slave, no one even broke their arm. Oh yeah, that's not true. I broke mine!

Before I left Knothole to where I belonged, (No, it wasn't Hell.), Sonic actually thanked me, minus any remarks, but he did kick me in another mudhole, and then I punched him back, and then we woke up the whole village, and got kicked out for a whole hour, and then we fought some more. (sigh) Would things ever change? Maybe, and maybe not. Besides, I just like that hedgehog the way he is. Sometimes, anyway. THE END"

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Knuckles saved the file and sighed heavily. He seldom thought so hard in his life, so he wanted good comments from the other. He wearily asked,

"Whaddya think? And no smarties, smarty-spines."

Sonic tapped his foot and replied,

" Pretty good, Knux. Except for one thing. I still think that size 72 letters are a bit big!"

"If this thing ever gets on a few websites, since most allow .txt, it wouldn't matter if the letters were size 8! They won't even see the color fiasco."

The blue hedgehog commented,

" You think this story was too short?"

Sonic yawned, and there was his answer.

Then the computer mysteriously beeped and buzzed, then deactivated, but not before the narrator could type Sonic and Knuckles starting to swear horribly.

THE END

In my opinion, I didn't really know what I was thinking when I wrote this, maybe of a nightmare. Yuck. This was the worst fanfic ever written! Even worse than The Birds of the Ocean! It was even worse than Cumbersome Croc! Oh, I ran out of words to say. Until next time......Hey! I got to play with the fonts! Yay!

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