Introducing... SEAFOOD CHILI DOGS.

[L]

Walter moved the ladel over a hotdog, pouring the boiling chili onto it. He topped it and put it on a plate and consumed it.

Ten seconds later he erupted from his house, carrying a plate of the concoctions screaming: "HEY, EVERYONE! YOU GOTTA TRY MY NEW INVENTION! IT'S SQUIDARIFFIC "

[Lans]

And from half way accross the village, Sonic spotted Crunch carrying a plate full of what appeared to be chillidogs. A second later he had shrieked to a stop right in front of the lobster. "Hey Crunch-man, hate to break it to you, but chillidogs aren't a new invention. Though they are, past cool as they day they were invented!"

[L]

"Well, these chilidogs are different. Try one." Walter said with a smile. "They're TASTY."

The waterbug smiled widely. The chili used was made of squid, clams, and fish meat.... this was going to be pleasant.

[Lans]

Sonic picked one up, and got a good look, and whiff, of it. He grimaced, but, deciding to be polite, scarfed it down in one gulp. He stood there for a moment licking his lip. "Say, that's not-" Suddenly it looked like Sonic may have to change his nickname to the GREEN blur. "Uh, hold that thought," he said, and steaked into some nearby bushes, which was quickly followed up the the sounds of a hedgehog getting violently sick.

[Mage's Brother]

"If you get sick over a weasly little bit of fish...then you're more pathetic than I had anticipated..."

A white hare with a Military general outfit steps out of the shadows. "General Jaucht. I came to see the famouse Blue Streak. And what a nice show I've gotten." Kato claps his hands sarcastically.

[L]

Walter grabbed a chilidog off the plate and scarfed it down. "I don't see what's wrong with squid chili."

[Lans]

Sonic came out of the bushes, wiping his mouth and scowling, having heard the rabbit while he was...occupied. "Hey pal, you think you can stomach Cunch-man's cooking, feel free to help yourself," he said. He already didn't like teh looks of this guy, he looked too much like Robotnik in a rabbit suit.

[Mage's Brother]

"I've seen far more than even one like you could stomach, regardless of your two-years of physical maturity over myself. Well alright then. Care to show me some of your tactics? Your regiments? Consider this an inspection. An overdue inspection."

[L]

@walter@ Walter continued eating the creations he was supposed to be introducing to everyone else. "Tactics? I thought you just kicked butt, Sonic?" Walter asked curiously.

The hare was confusing him with all this talk of regiments. Of course that was because Walter was never a part of such planning. "... Corn?"

[Lans]

"You've got that right, Crunch-man," Sonic said with a smirk. "And just who are you to be inspecting our regi-whatsits anyhow?" he demanded of the hare.

[Mage's Brother]

"I am the commading officer of the Rabbit Armada in the regions of the north." Kato swings his riding crop a bit. "They call me Kato. And I'm here playing abassador to see the great Freedom Fighters, and learn what I can about why they're failing to often, and yet how they're all still in existence."

[L]

@walter@ Walter shot Sonic an oblivious look. "We fail?"

[Lans]

"Who, hold it! Time out." Sonic said, putting his hands into a T. "You call beating 'Buttnik's metalheads at every turn failing? Or how about wrecking just about everything 'ol lard butt has thrown at us? The Freedom Fighters haven't failed anything bud. We're still way past cool and juicing 'n jammin with the best of them!"

[Mage's Brother]

"then why does Robotnik rule the world, hmm? Why is it that every day more and more people are roboticized, and enslaved to his machine, hmm? Why is it that your attempts to combat him has been little more than a thorn in his side. Where are the results? What have you TRULY accomplished?"

[L]

@walter@ "Teeth?"

"... Extreme teeth?"

Walter's eyes shifted back and forth. He obviously had no clue what the rabbit was getting at. It'd probably be best to let Sonic handle him, since his poor insect brain was starting to hurt.

[Lans]

Sonic was starting to get seriously annoyed by this guy. "Well, hey, your Rabid Army wants to lend a hand that's fine eith us, PLENTY of Robotnik to kick around. But we've been kicking it by ourselves for a while now, so where do you get off telling us what kind of a job we've been doing!?"

[Mage's Brother]

"HAH! You tell me. Thats what I'm here for." Kato salutes. "Pull your troops together, and allow me to inspect them. My military know-how would be invaluable."

[L]

@walter@ Hearing talk of inspection left Walter with one option: He shoved the plate of Chili Dogs into Sonic's arms and stuttered off towards Bunnie Rabbot's house, which he picked at random. He made his way up the side of the house rather quickly, standing there in a crouched stance. That weird hare would probably never notice him up here.

[Lans]

"Fine, we'll gather our 'troops', and then we'll show you just what the Freedom Fighters are made of!" He shoved the plate of seafood dogs that cunch had given him over to Kato, "Enjoy the free food!" he said, then suddenly sped off in a sonic boom in search of Sally.

[Mage's Brother]

Of course, the Sonic boom knocked the plate and Kato had squid chunks in his fur. ". . . . That'll be twenty demerits for that one." And he storms off to assemble himself.

[Jamie Lee]

Bunnie looked up from the sketchpad she'd been scrawling in, her brow curling into an arch over the loud sound scratching sound that had just gone up the wall and to her roof.

"What in tarnation..." she muttered to herself, setting the pad down and standing up. At first she had crossed the room and peered out the window in an effort to see what the problem was, but when that failed exited. Covering a brow she looked up.

"... Sugah-Crunch, any lil ol' reason ya'll happen to be clingin' to the side of mah hut?"

[L]

@walter@ Walter scooted down enough to look Bunnie in the eye. "I'm avoiding inspectation. Don't tell the hare I'm here. Or Sonic."

His eyes shifted back and forth. "Bye." he scuttled back up the side of the building.

[Leda]

Meanwhile, off the banks of the Great River, a young princess rested her back against a tree and stared over the top of her journal at the foliage. Sometimes when I go for a walk alone, it's difficult to believe that Robotropolis even exists, she scrawled. The birds and trees, the warming breeze, the lapping seas... it's enough to bring me to my knees. Sally had exaggerated a little by referring to the river as a sea, but it was a short poem in her private writings, and therefore inconsequential.

She checked her watch. "Getting close to lunch time," she said to herself, closing the diary and rising to her feet. "I'd better start heading back."

[Lans]

The quiet was broken suddenly by a sonic boom trailing blue streak. Sonic looped around her once before breaking to a stop beside her. "Yo, Sal, there you are! Been looking all over for ya."

[Jamie Lee]

"Inspection?" Bunnie asked, making a confused face. "For what?"

[L]

@walter@ Walter scuttled back down and looked her in the face again. "I dunno." The waterbug said. "But he's a scarey harey. Save me from him, Bunnie."

The insectoid was now standing on Bunnie's head. "Extend-o-matic or whatever, and he'll never find us both."

[Leda]

Sally braced herself and shielded her eyes from the debris trailing after the hedgehog. Once upon a time this practice annoyed her, but given that Sonic would never, ever consider slowing down any earlier than the last minute, the habit had become little more than reflex.

The princess straightened up and looked her companion in the eye, giving him a mild smirk. "Well I suppose you weren't looking ALL over, or you'd have found me sooner. What's up?"

[Lans]

"What's up is there's some mondo rude rabbit from the..." he thought for a second, "...Rapid Armpit or something saying he's here to inspect us."

[Jamie Lee]

The rabbit furrowed her brow in agitation as the lobster suddenly hopped onto her head, but she kept her cool. "Uh, Crunch honey, Ah do hope ya'll realize I ain't no steppin' stool, hmm?"

Having given her warning she reached up and attempted to grab him to set back on the ground.

[L]

@walter@ Walter clung to her robotic arm. "I never said you were. You're just my emergency escape thingamabob. Now get me outta here before the hare gets back! He smells like death and lettuce, I tell you! DEATH AND LETTUCE!"