Rouge wandered around, trying to find something of value. Maybe a discarded ring or necklace. She detested going to these petty levels, but work was hard to find

Gadget shoved his hand into one of his tool pockets, kicking a pebble. Why did I decide to come back here? There's nothing to come back to. He let out a sigh, when he noticed a shadow move across him. He looked up, and his eyes lit up with recognition. He waved his tail. "Hey! Hello up there! Hi Rouge!" He called.

Hn? Ah, hello scruffy. She said, clearly rather tired

"Uh... not to be rude or anything, but actually," Gadget replied in an as-a-matter-of-fact tone, pushing his glasses up a bit. "I prefer 'Gadget' or 'Rookie', thank you very much. Anyway, how have you been?"

Ill keep that in mind, she said. And could be better. You?

"Likewise. This was around where I used to live, so I thought I'd see how restoration efforts are going... turns out they arn't," Gadget's ears went droopy a moment, then perked up again. "What brings you to these parts?"

.:he walked up to them:. ' 'yeah?' '

(I'm sorreh I've been a busy bee! >^<")

(Yer ok, I feel ya *cough*highschool*cough*. Shall we continue?)

Knuckles glanced at Shadow, hesitated, and entered, setting the files on the table beside Tails. "Er... Shadow and I were raiding Eggman's old base and we found these. It looks like intell on the Phantom Ruby, but neither of us can make any sense of it..." he hesitated again. He still wasn't entirely used to asking for assistance on anything, and if he did ask, it was usually indirect or he was being forced to.