"That's not a twin, that's Mephiles!" Sonic said as Mephiles was barely visible in the night vision footage.

"Who's Mephiles?" Scourge asked.

"Eff this." Shadow said, getting up. "You guys explain to Manic and Scourge, I'm going after him."

"Wait, Shadow."

Shadow paused at Silver's call.

"Think about this. If you catch him now, sure, you may have found the thief, but there's no way that he'll tell us where all the other items are. If we wait, we could follow him."

Letting out a groan of impatience, Shadow say back down. "Fine..."

Everyone watched as Mephiles, oblivious to the teddy bear being a camera, found and rushed toward the vase.

"It's here... I finally found another one..." Mephiles said, seemingly in shock and disbelief. Then, he grabbed the vase's lid. "I should check for any sentimentals."

Mephiles stuck his hand in the vase and reached around.

"Uh oh." Manic said.

"What's wrong?" Sonic asked.

Mephiles pulled out a small box. "Oh, that's nice, a new phone." He turned the box and read the writing on the side. "'To: Scourge. From: Manic'. Well that's sweet."

Manic blushed and hid his face. Scourge turned to him and asked, happily surprised, "You got me a new phone?"

"I was *ahem* waiting until your birthday."

Scourge hugged Manic and kissed his cheek. "Thank you, Man-Man."

"Mephiles found something else." Silver mentioned.

Indeed, Mephiles picked up something else from the vase.

"Hm." He said, examining the picture on his hand. "Sonic is hideous, but he has the most attractive friends."

"What!? I am not hideous!" Sonic said as everyone else blushed. Shadow was more red than his stripes.

Mephiles didn't feel anything else, so he replaced the lid and was about to leave with the vase.

"*Meow!*"

Tux walked into view.

"Nonononononono. Tux, go back to your room, go back..." Manic said worriedly. Scourge hugged him tighter.

Mephiles looked at Tux, frozen. "Tuck? Is that... Oh my goodness, Tuck, you're alright!"

Everyone was shocked as they saw Mephiles scoop up Manic's cat and hold him like the cat was his long-lost child.

"Tuck, I missed you so much. I was going to come back to the alley for you, I promise. I just... Wait..."

Mephiles took a better look around. There was a comfy-looking cat bed in the corner of the room. There were two bowls for food and water in the kitchen. Random cat toys were scattered through the house.

"What's he doing?" Sonic asked.

Silver answered, "Mephiles must've been taking care of Tux before Manic found him."

Mephiles looked to Tux (previously known and Tuck)'s neck and saw that he was wearing a red collar, with a tag that said

"'My name is Tux! If lost, call this number!'" Mephiles read aloud. Under the text was a phone number. He looked at Tux. "So that's your new name, huh Tuck?"

Tux meowed and nuzzled Mephiles's neck.

Suddenly tearful, Mephiles put the cat down. "Well, I promised you'd get a home. And you got one. I'm sure you like it here." He said, stroking Tux's fur. "I'm sorry for not arriving sooner. But now I can't take you with me. It wouldn't be fair to you, or your new owner."

Mephiles began to walk away, but was stopped when he felt something jump and cling to his leg.

"No, Tuck, please don't do that. This already isn't easy."

Tux meowed.

Mephiles sniffed and decided to pet Tux one more time. Tux immediately got into his back, purring loudly as his stomach was rubbed.

"Alright. Now be a good kitty and go to your room."

As if he could understand, Tux ran off.

Quickly, Mephiles took his chance and grabbed the vase.

"I'm so sorry, Tuck." He said before disappearing.

Surprised at his suddenly teary eyes, Sonic started, "Okay, now we-"

"Wait, Tux is coming back." Manic interrupted.

The grey and white cat came running back to where Mephiles just was, carrying a toy.

"Oh, he was gonna try to play with him." Manic realized.

Tux looked around and saw that his previous owner had vanished. He put the mouse down and climbed on the couch for a better view.

Confused, he called out, "*Meow?*"

Sonic had to leave the room.

Manic didn't bother hiding nor wiping his tears. "*sniff* That was so sad."

"Wow. Mephiles is way more caring than he seems." Silver said, pretty surprised.

Scourge turned to Shadow. "I didn't expect that from someone that looked like you, Stripes."

"For the last time, my name is not..." Shadow gave up. "Look, Silver, connect the tracker movement to my phone. I'm going after Mephiles."

Silver nodded and started typing on the computer.

"Done. Good luck. I'll catch Manic and Scourge up on Mephiles."

"Thanks. If I don't return in an hour, come after me."