TDI: Special, Part 4

As Vector was heading back to the campgrounds to declare victory, he halted in his tracks when Tails’ group stood in his path. All of them were still tied together, but they all looked determined.

“I believe you have something that belongs to US!” Tails snapped, pointing at the case in Vector’s hands.

“Come over here and get it!” Vector sneered, closing his eyes mockingly. Tails chucked a chicken wing at his face, which struck him right in his snout. The crocodile blinked in surprise, wiping away the teriyaki sauce that had come with the chicken wing. When he did, he grinned at Tails. “Is that all you got?”

“No!” Tails said bravely, waving his fist.

“Uh, where did you get that chicken wing?” Big whispered, looking down at Tails. The little fox grinned and help up several of them.

“I saved some from the party; you want one?” he asked. Big made a face and shook his head, but Froggy eagerly took one for himself.

“GUYS, FOCUS!” Shadow snarled, glaring back at them before whipping his head back around to stare down Vector, “We have a case to take back, and your little tricks aren’t going to work on us this time!”

“Yeah, now you give us that case right now, or we will mess you up!” Big said, putting up his dukes.

“No,” Vector said simply, narrowing his eyes at Big. Tails, Shadow, Froggy, Big and Jet all stood there for the moment, doing nothing, then they all looked at one another.

“Uh…what do we do now?” Big asked, scratching his head. Jet, who was still in the lead, suddenly had an idea. He grinned innocently, then quickly to Vector’s left.

“Look at that, Vector!” he laughed, “The paparazzi is here to take your picture for the papers!” As soon as Vector heard that, he quickly whipped his head around and grinned stupidly, striking a weird pose. Then, quick as a wink, Big, Froggy, Jet, Shadow and Tails all ambushed him.

“Pleasure doing business with you!” Jet called behind his back, laughing with the rest of the guys as Tails grabbed the case out of the air as he and the other boys trampled the unsuspecting crocodile. They ended up running all the way to the top of the cliff that they had all jumped off of on the first challenge of the show.

“Oh no! Now what?” Big asked, scratching his head. Then, from behind them, there was a loud growl. Everyone looked and gasped. A bear was walking right towards them, looking very hungry.

“Oh, I bet it’s Cosmo in there!” Tails laughed, looking at the frightened expressions on Big, Froggy, Shadow and Jet before grabbing the bear’s mouth and forcing it open, “COSMO…ARE YOU IN THERE? CAN YOU HEAR ME?” In response, the bear roared yet again, spraying Tails’ face with saliva. “Uh…it’s not Cosmo!” That’s when Tails was the one to start screaming his head off. He let the bear go and ran away wildly, which, unfortunately, made him run right over the side of the cliff.

Thinking quickly, Jet reached out and grabbed the side of the cliff before they could all fall to their deaths. However, the little green hawk was gasping in pain as he was being forced to hold up the combined weights of Shadow, Froggy, Tails and Big.

“Little hawk guy…pull us up!” Big cried, clutching Froggy in fright as he swayed in the rope that held them all together.

“RIBBIT, RIBBIT!” Froggy croaked, shaking horribly. Jet squeaked in pain and desperately started pulling the entire group up to the top of the cliff. However he was holding them up was beyond anyone’s imagination. However, it was all for naught, as the next moment, the little piece of cliff that Jet was holding on to snapped off, sending the whole group screaming and falling downwards.

A moment later, everyone stopped falling. Tails groaned in pain as he felt something pulling his leg off. They all opened their eyes and saw that a hot air balloon had snagged them out of the air. Tails’ right leg was snagged on the same microphone line that Emerl had used to knock Rouge on the head. Now, they all looked up to see the grinning bat in the balloon, waving at them.

“Rouge, quick, pull us up!” Jet called, looking desperate.

“Give me the case, and I will!” Rouge grinned, looking at Tails, since the little fox was the one holding the case still.

“No way, you mean girl!” Big cried, shaking his head.

“Okay then,” Rouge shrugged, using a cord on the balloon to make it go even higher. All the boys screamed and clutched one another in fright even more.

“Rouge, stop this at once!” Shadow yelled up to her, “I might be the ultimate life form, but even I couldn’t survive this fall! You wouldn’t let us fall to our deaths, would you?”

“Oh yes I would, Shadow!” Rouge yelled back, somewhat insanely, “To be perfectly honest, I don’t even like you very much!”

“Guys…I think we should offer to split the money with her or something…” Jet said weakly, looking at the others to see if they agreed.

“NEVER!” Big yelled, holding his head as though it hurt him to even think about it.

“Ribbit, ribbit, ribbit!” Froggy agreed, nodding at Big.

“Don’t worry guys!” Tails suddenly said, “I can save us! All these weeks of not using my tails has made me physically stronger! Here, watch!” He put the suitcase in his mouth and grunted as he began reaching up to grasp the microphone line. Amazingly, Tails was managing to lift up the combined weights of Jet, Froggy, Big and Shadow, and he was much smaller than Jet! To everyone’s shock, he managed to pull up his whole body and grab the line. He then proceeded to pulling his entire team up the line until he got right up to the hot air balloon itself. Grinning, he took the case out of his mouth and held onto the side of the balloon, amused at the horrified expression on Rouge’s face.  

“Now that’s what I’m talking about!” Shadow grinned, “You aren’t such a little nerdy weakling after all, Tails! Oh, and Rouge, we’re keeping the case!”

“WE’LL SEE ABOUT THAT!” Rouge roared, looking angry beyond words. She took hold of the same cord on the balloon and started heading for the forest. The bear, which was still on the cliff to watch the action, growled in fright and started running off. However, as the entire team of boys ended up crashing into the side of a tree and getting covered with pine needles (but still hanging onto the side of the balloon), the bear ended up getting snagged by the foot due to the dragging end of the microphone cord.

“B-B-BEAR!” Tails screamed, pointing to the bottom of the microphone cord. Everyone looked down and gasped in fright, and the bear roared and began climbing up after them.

~~~

“Sonic, sweetie, I’m really sorry I knocked you off the cliff,” Amy said guilty, walking behind the angry Sonic. The blue hedgehog was now sporting a huge bump on his head and his patience had worn thin with the pink hedgehog behind his back.

“Oh, no worries, Amy,” Sonic said through gritted teeth, “It was a pretty SOFT rock!” He glared back at the pink hedgehog, but she gasped and pointed past him.

“Look, it’s a little moose!” she cried. Sonic looked and indeed saw a little moose in the clearing just ahead. It was trying to get on its hind legs to get at the foliage in the trees above, but couldn’t. “Aw, Sonic, it can’t reach the branch!” Although Sonic was angry beyond belief, he still had his kind heart inside of him. He slowly walked over to the tree and grabbed the branch, then slowly lowered it down towards the happy moose.

“There you go, little guy,” he said softly, smiling at the animal. Amy giggled softly and walked up behind Sonic, but then ended up tripping over a root. She crashed into Sonic and sent him flying right into the now-scared moose. Sonic slammed the poor creature down onto the ground and lay on top of it. In no time, the little moose started to cry. Then, Sonic looked up and saw the mother moose standing over him; it was huge and did not look very happy at all.

“Uh…this isn’t what it looks like!” Sonic gulped, but only received a very-angry snort to the face from the mother moose.

Sonic: Okay, let’s talk about Amy, shall we? She does have her sweet side, I guess, and she’s pretty down to earth, too. Plus, she loves animals and she tries to make friends with everyone. But…SHE’S DRIVING ME NUTS! I’D MUCH RATHER BE FIGHTING EGGMAN THAN BE WITH HER! I REALLY THINK SHE’S GOING TO ACCIDENTALLY KILL ME BY THE END OF THE DAY!

Sonic screamed and began running away from the moose, with Amy leaping onto his shoulders as he ran, since she didn’t want him to run away from her, due to his speed. The angry female moose chased them from behind, looking like it desired nothing more than to tear them to shreds.

~~~

In another part of the forest, Blaze’s group was quickly running towards camp, having heard Bokkun’s last clue. However, all four got shocked as Decoe and Bocoe came riding up on their tractor cars, looking around crazily.

“Hey, have any of you punks seen a hot air balloon go by?” they asked, looking at all the campers closely, “Rouge took it from our cameraman, Emerl!”

“Rouge has a hot air balloon?” Blaze groaned, “She’s totally going to win!”

“She has the case, too!” Decoe and Bocoe both stated, “And she’s heading towards camp right now. If I had to place my money on anyone right now to win, it’d be…” Then, they both got knocked out from behind by Storm and Omega, who were both holding large sticks they had picked up from the ground.

“Well, what are you all waiting for?” Storm asked, grinning and getting on one of the tractors, “We have a suitcase to go and get!”

“Yes, very accurate deduction, Storm,” Omega stated, getting on the other tractor. Blaze and Silver looked at one another, nodded, then each got on one of the tractors as well. They all started zooming off towards camp, leaving the knocked out Decoe and Bocoe behind on the ground.

~~~

“Why are we wearing these things again?” Espio groaned, wearing the same goggles and antlers from back in the paintball deer hunter challenge.

“I feel kind of dumb,” Metal Sonic snapped, looking at his garb in disgust.

“You’re wearing it so that stupid crocodile doesn’t see you coming!” Cosmo yelled, wearing some camouflage of her own, “Now, when you see him in your sights, ambush him and dump these buckets of fish guts on his head! Then, take the case back! Do you both understand that?”

“Yes, sergeant C-Scope!” Metal Sonic and Espio both yelled, giving Cosmo salutes and holding onto their buckets of fish guts with pride.

Cosmo: Oh, I just love this commando stuff! Have I told you all that I have a passion for sneaking up on people? It’s one of my many hobbies, I swear! Once, I snuck up behind this old man in a coffee shop and he wet his pants! Man, that was totally awesome! I laughed so hard that milk came out of my nose! Hehe, this is gonna rock!

~~~

“Chao chao, chao chao chao?” Cheese snapped, glaring at Cream from behind, “Chao chao, chao chao chao chao chao!” The little chao kept yelling insults at Cream, who simply grinned at the nearest camera at how stupid and foolish Cheese was making himself look. The two friends were still pretending to ignore one another, but then, Sonic ended up rushing by with Amy still on his back.

“RUN, CREAM AND CHEESE!” Sonic and Amy both screamed.

“Run from what?” Cream asked, scratching her head. She and Cheese looked behind their backs, saw the rampaging moose, freaked, then started running after Sonic. The blue hedgehog led the two friends to the same ladder that was overhanging the same tub of tomato sauce from the scare challenge weeks before. The tomato sauce was shockingly still in the tub.

“Quick, hurry up!” Sonic yelped, ushering Cream and Cheese over. The little chao quickly began climbing up first, closely followed by the scared rabbit. Next, Amy started up the ladder, and Sonic brought up the rear. The moose just missed running into them as it raced on past into the campgrounds.  

“Cheese, I’m sorry for fighting with you!” Cream suddenly yelled up to Cheese, “I’m so glad we can be friends again!”

“Chao chao, chao chao chao!” Cheese called down, smiling lovingly at Cream.

“GUYS, THAT MOOSE IS GOING TO BE BACK VERY SOON!” Sonic yelled, “CONTINUE YOUR LITTLE CHAT LATER, OKAY?” Cream and Cheese both gulped and climbed all the way up onto the diving board. Amy and Sonic both joined them shortly after making it up, too.

“Remember this place, Amy?” Cream grinned, “It’s where you let our team down by not jumping down into that tomato sauce…which, oddly enough, is still down there!”

“Thank you so much for bringing that up, Cream!” Amy growled, not really amused.

~~~

Soon, Rouge’s hot air balloon made it into camp. The bear had climbed all the way up the microphone cord now, but Tails had just managed to pull everyone up into the hot air balloon before the vicious creature could reach them. Now desperate, Rouge angrily grabbed Jet and started squeezing him tightly in a headlock.

“GIVE ME THAT CASE!” Rouge snarled, “I GOT US INTO CAMP; I DESERVE IT!”

“No way, evil birdie girl!” Big snapped, “You touch that case and I will mess you up!”

“Uh, guys, maybe we can come to some sort of arrangement…” Jet began, wincing in pain from being in a headlock.

“NO!” Rouge, Tails, Big, Froggy and Shadow all roared, glaring at Jet.

~~~

“Look, is that a hot air balloon?” Charmy asked, rowing the canoe up to shore and scratching his head.

“They have the case!” Wave gasped, “And…a bear? C’mon, Charmy! Let’s go get it!” Charmy nodded, then got out of the boat with Wave.

As the two flying friends began racing towards the campgrounds, Omega and Storm both arrived on their tractors, with Blaze and Silver on their backs. As soon as Omega saw Wave, his eyes flashed red and he lose control of himself.

“LOCKED INTO DESTRUCTION MODE!” Omega roared, grabbing Storm’s tractor and slamming it into his own, “OMEGA REQUIRES YOUR TRANSPORTATION DEVICE! OMEGA IS GOING TO TEACH THAT LITTLE BIRD A LESSON ONCE AND FOR ALL!”

“Uh…Omega…what the heck are you doing?” Storm cried, looking vary scared.

“I think we should get out now!” Blaze yelped, quickly leaping off the tractor along with Silver and Storm. It was a good thing they did, too, since Omega officially lost it. He stood up with one foot in each tractor and sent them flying towards Wave and Charmy.

“THIS IS FOR CALLING OMEGA A BIG-BUTTED, NO-BRAINED, IDIOTIC, LOUD-MOUTHED PIECE OF TINFOIL!” Omega roared, opening up his laser cannon and pointing it at Wave and Charmy as the tractors bared down on them. Wave and Charmy both shrieked in fright and started running in the opposite direction, towards the dock of shame.

“WHY ARE YOU RUNNING, CHARMY?” Wave cried, “YOU CAN ACTUALLY FLY, UNLIKE ME, SINCE I DON’T HAVE ALL MY FEATHERS!”

“I WON’T ABANDON YOU, WAVE!” Charmy yelled back, looking at her. Wave felt something in her heart at that moment, but was in no situation to explore it. The next moment, both she and Charmy grabbed one another and leapt off the dock of shame. Omega soared past them on the two tractors, yelling maniacally and firing blasts from his laser cannons into the distance.

“THAT ROBOT…IS CRAZY!” Wave gasped, resurfacing a moment later in the water, hugging Charmy close to her chest.

“Maybe so…but that was still wickedly awesome!” Charmy giggled, hugging Wave back. Wave looked at Charmy, and Charmy looked at Wave. They then looked at what they were doing, and gulped. Wave quickly let Charmy go and turned away, while Charmy giggled and blushed.