Shadow left soon after and we all went home. I was in need of a good long nap. No such luck.

As soon as I laid down, I heard someone knock at the door. Tails was already down and answered it.

"Torin?" he said. Indeed, the antelope was standing in the doorway.

"'Sup loser?" he said.

"Torin!" I snapped.

"You'll never believe what happened today!" Tails said. As if on cue, Thalia woke from her nap (how come she got to sleep?) and looked over at Torin standing in the doorway.

"Is that?" he asked, trailing off at the end of his sentence.

"It's my long lost twin!" I said.

"Hey, this is great!" Torin said.

"I know right!" I said excitedly.

"Now since there are two of you, Tails and I don't have to fight over you! We can just share." he said. I was shocked.

"Excuse me?! I am not some object! Have you even considered the fact that I might not like you or Tails? Maybe I like someone else? Who knows! And I'm not like my twin! If that's how you feel, it's over between you and me, Torin. It's over." I said angrily. Torin looked hurt.

"N-no, that's not what I meant!" he stammered.

"Then what did you mean?" Thalia snapped.

"Well, um..." he stuttered.

"Just what I thought." Thalia said. "Get out."

"Then, I'm sorry. I hoped you would fall for me so you could be protected." he said.

"We don't need protection." I said, putting my arm around Thalia.

"You do. I'm sorry it had to end this way." he said. He threw a small metal object into the workshop. It started beeping.

"Bomb! Take cover!" I yelled. I grabbed my twin's and Tails' hands and pushed them out of the door in the blink of an eye. The beeping a accelerated and the bomb went off. We fell flat to the ground as the heat seared our fur.

"Torin! Get back here you filthy traitor!" Thalia shouted. We got up only the find nothing but a small paper half-hurried in the sand. There was no sign of the antelope.

I unearthed the slip of paper. It was a message.

"'The invasion begins now.'" I read out. "Signed Chimera"

We all fell silent.

"I guess this means war." Tails said.