Sonic Boom!

Curse of the Cross-Eyed Moose

Sticks the Badger smiled to herself as she collected water in a bucket. Hearing grunting noises, the female badger turned around to see a moose with its eyes crossed, staring at her.

"MOOSE!" Sticks screamed as she ran off in fright, leaving a confused moose.

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At Amy's house, Penny watched as Sonic, Amy, Tails, and Knuckles did a hold-your-breath contest.

"Ready?" Sonic asked. "This time for the record. Penny, set the timer!"

"Aye aye, sir!" Penny smirked as she pressed the button on the watch. For a few moments, all was peaceful, until Sticks broke into the house, screaming about a moose. Startled, Tails and Knuckles lost. Knuckles glared at Sticks. "Sticks! I was this close to winning a pointless game that has no significance! Thanks for nothing!"

"I saw a moose!" Sticks said, looking paranoid as ever.

Everyone stared at her. Sonic and Amy kept playing the game.

"A CROSS EYED MOOSE!!" Sticks screamed.

"So?" Tails asked flatly.

Sticks growled. "Crossing paths with a cross eyed moose brings a curse upon the moose crosser and a non moose cross friends! Don't you people know anything about science?!"

"Sticks, I don't think that's science." Penny said, still looking at the stop watch.

"Um, Sticks, curses aren't real." Tails added. Sticks was already on a roll, though. "Then how come you just lost the breath holding contest?"

Knuckles gasped. "The curse! It all makes sense now!" He whimpered, clinging his head. Penny just shook her head and rolled her eyes.

"You can doubt me," Sticks said. "But I'll protect you anyway. Because I'm a good friend! And it distracts me from the government agents who are replacing my plants with violins!" She looked back and forth, and yelled, "That's right! I'm on to you, buddy!"

And just like that, the paranoid female badger walked out the door and slammed it, causing Amy's vase to fall and break. That caused Amy to loose the contest. "Ah! My vase!" She cried.

"I win!" Sonic said happily, letting out his breath.

"Like always." Penny smirked with another eye roll, high fiving Sonic.

Knuckles looked thoughtful. "Hmmm. Maybe the curse broke the vase?"

"Yeah." Sonic smirked. "The curse of the lunatic badger!"

"Uh oh!" Knuckles gasped. "Now there are two curses!"

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The next day.....

Amy smiled as she walked to her door, her bag in hand. When she tried to open the door though, she curiously couldn't open it. When she finally budged it with all her might, she looked surprised and annoyed to see huge animal traps outside her door. She sighed as she called everyone else.

"Hey, Tails, is your house....."

"Surrounded by Sticks's crazy traps?" Tails answered. "Yeah. Sonic, Penny, what's up with you?"

"Just hanging around." Sonic said flatly, eating his sandwich. Turned out that Sticks's trap had set him off his feet for once.

"Yeah, and I'm just playing netting." Penny growled as she tried to get out of a net that surrounded her.