STRANDED [ON HOLD]

Resistance

Where we left of last time...

Knuckles comes across a couple of berries on a tree. He ponders in the most cartoonish stance there has ever been as he tries to remember what Tails and Amy have said about berries on trees and bushes.

"Why did I have to get the stupid job of picking berries? They sent me, the one who they make fun of for not knowing how to read well, to try my best to grab berries that aren't poisonous. Well, I'm just going to pass them up." He thinks aloud. He hears rustling around him, on the tree branches above him then in the grass below him. "Who's here?! Show yourself!" He yells out and the perpetrator jumps out of the bushes and hugs him.

"Knuckles! I knew it was you! You look smaller, what happened?" The creature he was originally afraid of asks and his eyes widen.

"Sticks?! How are you here?!"

"Well... I swam here in a storm. Maybe that has something to do with it. All of the zombies are CRAZY!! It's probably the government's doing! They have to be conspiring with the aliens!! I had to swim all the way here to avoid the zombies!"

"Swim all the way here to avoid them? What on Möbius do you mean by that?"

"The zombies can't swim, and I can. Anyone that can't swim is not going to do great in this time of the world. The only way to get away from most of these zombies is through water, whether that be swimming or through one of Tails's crazy inventions that are going to take over one day. Speaking of, have you seen him? Or Amy? Or Sonic?"
"Yeah, they're actually in the fighting team. I'll take you there! You'll be a valuable asset since you know nature so well."

"Valuable? Asshat? Are you the real Knuckles?"

"First, I said asset not asshat, and yes. Stop asking questions, we need to make it back to the workshop."

"Well, what are we waiting for, fuck face?"

"WHERE'D THAT ONE COME FROM?!"

"Sonic's called you that before, thought it was funny."

"BEHIND MY BACK?!"

"I never said that..."

Cream's group as well as Silver and Shadow arrive back to Tails's workshop first as complete task groups. Sonic has been running the food items back and forth for a couple of minutes before finishing. Tails smiles at everyone, glad to see all of them again. He runs over to welcome them all, and points around to where all of their stuff will go. He lets them know that he built beds and small side rooms for everyone to sleep in. It's all split mostly by girls and guys, and there are two twin beds in each room. He took the liberty in making pairs, trying to keep people away from fighting each other. His list and each of the signs read: Sonic and Tails, Silver and Espio, Sticks (whom he just learned was coming) and Amy, Vector and Charmy, Shadow and Rouge, Blaze and Cream, Vanilla gets her own room because it doubles as the infirmary, and Knuckles gets his own as well because he doesn't want anyone to have to be the poor sucker that has to hear his awful snoring in the middle of the night.

"Oh my chaos! Did Knuckles find Sticks?!" Amy shouts in glee and Tails nods as he posts the list in the kitchen area for everyone to see it better.

"How is she even here?" Sonic asks. "We somehow got back to our original dimension when you built that dimension hopping machine, but it doesn't make sense how she got here."

"We'll have to ask her when Knuckles and her arrive here." Tails mentions. Speaking of them, and Knuckles arriving on summon once again, they walk in to the workshop and Amy rushes over to hug her long lost friend.