The Mobian Casino is Open/Fat Cat Learns Sonic's Group is Alive From Fat Cat's Gang

*(In the following three days since after winning their bet and its betting money on the Grand Chawhee's birthday, Sonic's group, the Fearsome Four, Popple, and Kairi are on a great winning streak, winning more and more animal race bets thanks to Kairi's participating animal talking skills, first with a frog and toad race, followed by a turtle race, and finally, a kangaroo boxing match, and they couldn't be more happier about those. And the best part for them; Fat Cat and his goons still have no idea about them and all of this so far. After winning a lot of that money for the past three days, Sonic's group, the Fearsome Four, and Popple then remembered their promise for Kairi to help buy her new clothes and help the poor and innocent rich people via charity runs, and they did. And Kairi was as happy as a clam having new clothes for her, that she even wore a new beautiful dress at one charity run. After that's done, they proceed to help with some charity runs for the poor and innocent rich people, including those who are homeless and/or lost their homes to past storms like hurricanes. But to Sonic's group, Popple, and the Fearsome Four's confusion, they noticed that those kind of good deeds for the charities are not even helping grant Sonic's group mortality again. Regardless, however, they are enjoying their newfound rich and business life with Kairi's willing and cooperating help out of friendship and loyalty. After that's all done, they used some more of their money to help build a new casino for Sonic's group's business venture. After all that hard work designing and constructing the building, they were able to build and finish it fast thanks to the community's help, that even the police, having found out about Sonic's group's good deed work for the charities just recently, helped out in the construction. Finally, after it's all done, the casino, now called "The Mobian Casino," has finally opened, and the best part; Everyone, having heard about Fat Cat "Almost killing" Sonic's group, agreed to keep Sonic's group's still alive a secret, helping use their new casino under the guise that it's a dedicational honor for them upon their "Deaths." A week after it opened, business was booming successfully, along with Sonic's group's "Dedicational honor," with a jazz concert performing on a stage nearby and even all of their friends from Fat Cat's casino enjoying and hanging out, and Sonic's group approached the bar Popple is running, with the Fearsome Four running the casino's Gambling Section. Upon arrival at the bar, Sonic's group happily greeted one of their old friends from Fat Cat's casino, the one who asked Sonic if he and his group were supposed to be on death row, according to what Fat Cat claimed, earlier, who happily greeted them back)*

Sonic: Hey, pal!

Fred: What do you know, what do you say?

Knuckles: What do you say, what do you know?

*(The sixth male gambler then happily presented his cash he won in a fair bet from his bag)*

Male gambler 6: (Proudly) This, that's what!

Sonic: (Proudly giving a thumb's up along with the rest of the proud Gangreen Gang) That's using your head!

Tails: Good win!

Shaggy: Yep!

*(They high-fived with a brief happy and satisfied chuckle)*

Sonic's group: Enjoy!

Male gambler 6: Thanks.

*(Then he walked away to continue having fun. Then Popple and the Fearsome Four happily approached Sonic's group, feeling proud and less nervous than they used to be over Fat Cat finding out eventually, for everything is, surprisingly, working out fine like Sonic's group promised)*

Tails: Well, guys, I gotta hand it to you.

Knuckles: All that hard work on those bets was definitely worth it.

Sonic's group except Knuckles: Yep!

Bushroot: And I guess we'll hand it to you guys.

Megavolt: Everything you planned and that we worked hard on, it was, indeed, worth it.

Popple: And you were right.

Liquidator: Fat Cat and his goons *still* don't know of this.

Quackerjack: All thanks to the community's kind gratitude to us for our charity works for them by covering our tracks.

Popple: Including, surprisingly, the authorities assisting us because of said charity runs.

Megavolt: Despite, to think before, that we broke you five out of jail weeks ago, right?

Sonic's group, Popple, Quackerjack, Bushroot, and Liquidator: (Agreeing) Yep!

*(Then Kairi, wearing her main attire again, approached them, all eager and happy, with two suitcases carrying her belongings, including her new clothes they bought, and even a bag full of some of her, Popple, the Fearsome Four, and Sonic's group's money they rightfully earned from their winning bets and/or charity runs. Noticing them, Sonic's group approached them happily while Popple and the Fearsome Four got confused)*

Shaggy: All ready to, like, head out now?

Kairi: Yep!

Popple and Fearsome Four: (Confused) What's going on?

Kairi: Well, you definitely kept your promise to help me with clothes and charity runs, as well as find me new parents in the form of my aunt and uncle, which, in turn, I kept my promise to help you open your business here.

Fred: So, there's one more charity run we're going to do now before we head off to Kairi's new home and family tomorrow.

*(Realizing immediately, Popple and the Fearsome Four got happy)*

Popple and Fearsome Four: (Realizing happily) Oh, the church!

Knuckles: Where more of our friends live in.

Shaggy: They may not be completely richer, but we promised them to go help them tonight.

Tails: And the best part....

Sonic: We're having a non-formal dinner party with them at the church.

Popple and Fearsome Four: (Happy to hear that) Oh, that's great!

Liquidator: Then have no fear, Popple the Ex-Shadow Thief and the Fearsome Four are here!

Popple: We're definitely gonna run this casino in your absence, see?

Liquidator: That's right!

Quackerjack: Go have your fun!

Megavolt: We got everything under control.

Bushroot: Tell them we said "Hello.", okay?

Sonic's group and Kairi: (Bidding them a goodbye and good night) We will, and good night!

*(Then after Kairi hugged Popple and the Fearsome Four besides Sonic's group, they, Popple, and the Fearsome Four got briefly surprised by her surprise hug again, but then shook it off and happily resumed their businesses after the hug ended. Then with that, Sonic's group and Kairi left with both Kairi's belongings and money in tow. After they're gone, Popple and the Fearsome Four happily resumed their business for the casino)*

Bushroot: You know, I have to admit; That girl isn't so bad.

Megavolt: I'll say.

Quackerjack: (Pulling out a towel to wipe a section of the bar counter clean) Why else do some people say most of us, especially me, are good with children?

Popple: (Playfully) That is a good question.

Liquidator: It's like they, being 8 out of 10 people, say; You have such a way with children.

*(Nearby, while Liquidator said that, a familiar-looking man entered the casino, all amazed and dumbfounded altogether. This is Carl Car, and upon hearing Liquidator finish what he just said, he then quietly mocked him)*

Carl Car: (Mumbling and mockingly) You have such a way with children. *(Scoffs in disgust, then loudly in happiness)* Hey, guys!

*(Hearing him, Popple and the Fearsome Four noticed him and, remembering him, got all casual in a calm and nonchalant happy way with some hints of pretend sentimentality)*

Popple and Fearsome Four: (Casually) Oh, hey, Carl Car.

Popple: (Casually) It's been a while since we last saw you.

Carl Car: Yeah, well, it's been weeks, and we haven't seen ya lately since Sonic's group's deaths. What have you been up to since?

Popple and Fearsome Four: Does it matter?

Carl Car: Well, yes, it does.

Megavolt: Why aren't you at Fat Cat's casino instead?

Carl Car: Because I was just wandering by in the neighborhood to check up on you guys and Popple.

*(Then he whispered narrowly)*

Carl Car: (Whispering narrowly) And rest assured, I won't tell Fat Cat.

*(Feeling relieved calmly upon hearing him, Popple and the Fearsome Four came clean on the casino they're currently in, although embellishing it with their claims of Sonic's group "Still dead")*

Popple: Well, we've been busy building this lately.

Liquidator: And then working on this casino in Sonic's group's honor.

Carl Car: (Perplexed and curious) "In Sonic's group's honor?"

Megavolt: Yep.

Quackerjack: We may still be mad at Fat Cat for murdering Sonic's group, but we're doing our deceased friends proud.

Megavolt: Carrying on their gambling business legacy.

Bushroot: Like any good friend would.

Liquidator: We could possibly forgive Fat Cat, but we will never forget what he did to them.

Popple: Like they said, see?

*(Carl Car seemingly understood)*

Carl Car: I see. That's very sweet of you.

*(Then he placed a dollar bill on the bar counter)*

Carl Car: A mug, please.

Popple: Sure.

*(Then he pulled out a beer mug and filled it with some beer. Then after handing it to Carl Carl, he accepted it and drank some of it)*

Carl Car: (Saluting a toast) To Sonic's group.

Popple and Fearsome Four: (Saluting a toast with their soda pop cans and/or beer mugs they filled with soda pop) To Sonic's group.

*(They clinked their glasses and drank a bit. After that, Carl Car got up and left, bidding them goodbye)*

Carl Car: Have fun with your business venture, and good night!

Popple and Fearsome Four: We will, and good night!

*(Then with that, Carl Car left the casino. Once outside out of the casino's range grounds, Carl Car then suspiciously narrowed his gaze, searching for something. Then sure enough, he spotted from afar, Sonic's group, with Kairi, happily exiting a pizza parlor with some pizzas in their own pizza boxes. Immediately, he smirked evilly, now realizing)*

Carl Car: (Whispering) Perfect!

*(Then he left and met up with, shocker and surprise, Meps, Wart, Mole, Snout, and the rest of Fat Cat's goons)*

Wart: Did you find out about that new casino, Carl Car?

Carl Car: Oh, yeah. They claim it was a "Dedicational honor" to the "Late" Sonic's group.

Mole: (Confused and dumbfounded) What's with the tone representing "Quote, unquotes?"

Carl Car: Well....

*(He then whispered in a huddle with Fat Cat's gang and goons, and then as soon as it finished, the huddle abruptly ended with Wart, Snout, Mole, Meps, and the goons being shocked on what Carl Carl just told them of his discovery)*

Fat Cat's gang and goons: WHAT?!!

Mole, Snout, Meps, and Wart: Sonic's group still alive?!

Thundermyte: And *they* have the girl?!

Carl Car: Yep.

*(Later, back at Fat Cat's casino in his office, a piece of roast beef was lowered into a well-like pit on a chain and upon dunking into the water below, a school of piranhas immediately swam up to the meat and gobbled it all up, leaving it nothing but a bone. After that's done, the chain holding the bone still was then raised up by a mechanism run by one of Fat Cat's goons, and Fat Cat, sitting on his sofa chair with his nail filer and cigar sitting nearby him at a side table, was not happy at all while also giving an evil angry-looking smirk as we suddenly hear Meps, Mole, Snout, and Wart speak up in worry)*

Mole: (Sounding worried) I knew we should've just cut their hands off.

Meps: (Sounding worried) Like Snout and I suggested.

Snout: (Sounding worried) Yeah.

Wart: (Sounding worried) And I just got my order...!

*(Then Thundermyte and Carl Car approached Fat Cat and his gang, the four latters' arms and torso tied down tightly in ropes along with their hands tied tightly behind their backs and their ankles tied tightly together, as well as their own hats tied on their own heads by a rope as well, in their clutches, as they hung them upside-down by their tied ankles to a conveyor hook after removing the bone from it)*

Fat Cat: (In tranquil fury, still giving an evil smirk) I cannot believe Sonic's group is still alive. And then having the *audacity* to take the girl from me behind my back like that!

*(Then he picks up his cigar, which he lit)*

Fat Cat: (Puffs some smoke in his gang's faces, making them cough a bit) Gentlemen, you disappointed me, so it's strike two. *(Then he makes a "You're out" thumb gesture while putting out his cigar in a nearby ashtray)* And you're out.

*(Fat Cat's gang, after their coughing was finished, then got into a panic attack as they struggled to free themselves to no avail)*

Mole: (Dumbfounded in a panicked way) Strike two?! But-but...!

Meps: (Dumbfounded in a panicked way) You meant strike three, right?! Boss?

*(Then as soon as Fat Cat's gang's tied ankles are secured on the hook by Thundermyte and Carl Car, Fat Cat's gang immediately freaked out and tried to explain away)*

Wart: But first off, it's not our fault!

Snout: Secondly, we, thanks to Wart, just got...!

*(But Carl Car immediately gagged him and the other three with white cloth gags)*

Fat Cat: (To his gang, smugly, then darkly) Nothing personal, it's just business. *(To another one of his goons)* Lower them.

*(Then the goon activated the chain mechanism and Fat Cat's gang were slowly lowered down towards the piranha pit, much to their worry and panic as they struggled frantically to no avail again. As they are heard giving out some panicked muffled shouts and screams for help, Fat Cat and his goons began to chat away immediately, ignoring the four)*

Fat Cat: It's like most villains say; If you want something done, do it yourself.

Thundermyte: I'll say.

Goon 4: So, what now?

*(They begin pondering a new plan to kill Sonic's group and kidnapping Kairi again)*

Carl Car: How do we handle 'em?

Fat Cat: (Begins pondering) Possibly knives?

Goon 2: Too slow for a death.

Fat Cat: (Nods while still pondering, picking up his nail filer and using it to file his cat claw/finger nails) You're right. Poison?

Thundermyte: Again, too slow.

Fat Cat: (Finishing filing his cat claw/finger nails and then savagely throwing down his nail filer on the side table roughly) But what dumbfounds me is how the heck did they survive being run over by a car?! I mean, nobody like them, in that logic, could survive such an impact at the docks. So, how could running them down with a car at the docks not work suddenly?

Goon 1: We even saw them lifeless when we killed them that night.

Fat Cat: And yet they still survived. Why? Let alone, how?

*(In the pit, Fat Cat's gang, getting a bit closer to the piranha-infested waters, finally loosened their own cloth gags and ungagged themselves by spitting them away and then they called out to Fat Cat and the goons again)*

Wart, Mole, Meps, and Snout: Boss, wait!

Wart: We're trying to tell you, I ordered and just got a gun!

Meps: Along with us!

Mole and Snout: Yeah!

*(Hearing Wart, Snout, Mole, and Meps say that back up in the office, Fat Cat and his goons got confused that they looked down, with Fat Cat glaring in both confusion and suspicion)*

Fat Cat and goons: A gun?

Fat Cat: (To his four goons, calling out) What do you mean a gun? What kind of gun?!

*(In the pit, Meps, Mole, Wart, and Snout are almost near the water, much to their worry)*

Meps: (A bit quickly in a terrified tone) If you pull us up, we'll tell you!

*(Then their own heads submerged in the water, and then, just when, to their panic, their own heads were gonna be piranha chow as the piranhas swam up to them to try and eat them, they were then lifted back up by the chain's mechanism, although one piranha only bit onto Wart's nose)*

Wart: (Nasally with his nose bitten by a piranha) Hey, let go of my nose! You would not like the taste of warts, hence my name!

*(Upon finally making it up to the office out of the pit with Meps, Mole, and Snout, Wart finally shook the piranha off of his nose and then the trapdoor leading to the pit closed up and hidden itself away back in the office's floor)*

Wart: (Nasally while shaking the piranha off of his nose, trying to explain) We got, we got, we got, ow, ouch!

*(While this is also happening, the goons cut Meps, Mole, Wart, and Snout's own ankles free from the hook and then proceeded to cut them free from the ropes, untying them and even their hats while Fat Cat got impatient while pulling out another cigar and lighting it)*

Fat Cat: SPIT IT OUT ALREADY!!!!

*(Then he calms himself as he puts the new cigar in his mouth)*

Fat Cat: What gun?

*(Once untied completely as they rubbed their freed wrists and then reaccepted and adjusted their own now freed hats, Snout explained away finally)*

Snout: Wart literally ordered, and just got today alongside us, a Flash Gordon Thermo Atomic Ray Gun.

Wart: Based on the said infamous ray gun from the show and movie, "Flash Gordan."

*(A short pause, then....)*

Mole: We like "Flash Gordon."

Meps: It's a great old school sci-fi show and film.

*(Fat Cat then smirked evilly, not in tranquil fury this time, but instead liking the sound of using a gun, let alone a ray gun, against Sonic's group in order to kill them again)*

Fat Cat: (Smirking evilly and wickedly) A ray gun....

*(Then he chuckled evilly a bit, and as we briefly and slowly zoom into his face, some smoke surrounded his face from his lit cigar and, as if in a twisted nightmare-fueled imagination, he slowly formed into a devilish-looking version of himself, still giving out a wicked evil toothy smirk, complete with a cigar)*

***Coming up: Sonic's group and Kairi arrive at the church with their pizza dinner for their and their church residence friends' non-formal pizza dinner party while doing the church's charity run. After having a fun party and night, all the while helping a certain young female Mobian rabbit and her Chao friend teach the kids on how to share, Kairi will then later discover what Sonic had done earlier that was extremely wrong, and then as they prepare for bed at the church, Kairi has a happy daydream about having a new happy life with a new family in her Aunt Anastasia and Uncle Dimitri, who will then become their adoptive parents.***