This will consist of untold tales taking place while Sonic and friends were fighting the Metarex. If the Metarex got strong from contact with water like Dark Oak said, then why didn't Cosmo over show any signs of getting stronger? She didn't end up in the water on Planet Breezy, or save either Sonic or Amy at the end from the Dark Planet. I may jump back and forth, but I'll say at the beginning of each story which two episodes it takes place between. There'll probably be three chapters per "episode". Archie used this idea on their Sonic X series, but never got to the Cosmo episodes. And wouldn't she have been perfect for those environmental tips in that one issue, instead of Cream, Cheese, and Vanilla? If you're familiar with my stories, you already know that Cosmo will be important to this one.

LOST TALES FROM SEASON THREE

Episode 56 ½, Part One of Three

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The Blue Typhoon sped through space. Everyone seemed to be acting a bit strange today, Tails thought, as he checked the stabilizers. Well, none of them had ever been in outer space before. Except for Sonic, and he'd been up there only a couple of times, and certainly nowhere near so far from Mobius.

Tails set the cruiser on automatic pilot, then got up. He felt stiff, and decided to walk across the ship to get the kinks out. Sonic did it constantly, but then, that was Sonic.

As Tails turned a corner, he nearly bumped into Cosmo. "Oh! Sorry!"

"Oh!" Cosmo cried. "I wasn't paying attention to where I was going!" She bowed. "I am so sorry, Tails-san, I'll try to do better!"

"Oh, um, that's okay," Tails said. "But you don't have to call me Tails-san. I'm just Tails."

"I'll try to remember that," she said. "Excuse me, please." She passed him quickly.

"She's so pretty," Tails thought. "Too bad I'm such a nerd, no nice girl like that would ever look at me!"

He continued on his walk, wondering if he'd ever find a girl. The only one he'd ever liked had turned out to be a real witch. He wondered why he'd fallen for her? Because she was the first fox he'd seen since he was four? Well, there was his deadbeat brother, but who needed that guy?

Cosmo, heading towards the little room Tails had given her, looked back at the inventor. "He's so clever," she thought. "And…cute!" She blushed. "I always wondered what boys were like. My sisters never really told me too much about them." She turned, and kept walking. "That's probably why I wouldn't talk to Tails at first. Why I wouldn't even give him my name. And why I jumped out of his plane to see Sonic. Sonic's a hero. Heroes never look at girls like me. But Tails…" She sighed. "He'd never notice me, either. None of the boys on this ship would. I'm a plant, and they're all animals! Oh well, I can dream, can't I?"

In her room, Cosmo reached under her pillow and pulled out a small book with a green binder. It had a lock on it. She reached under the bed, and pulled out the key. She opened the book, and looked at the first few pages. She had described her feelings, knowing that her people, her family, were all gone. She was alone now. She found her pen behind the little potted plant in her room. Cream's mother had given it to her as a gift when they'd left. Cosmo laid down on her bed, and started to write.

Dear Diary:

Vanilla-sama invited me to live with her and my new friend, Cream-chan. I am honored, but I feel unworthy. I could not even carry supplies to this wonderful ship Tails-san built. I am ashamed that I am such a clumsy weakling. And a coward as well. Because I have a strange feeling I am still alive because of my cowardliness.

The creatures on this ship are all enigmas to me. Wait, is that the right word? Well, anyway, they are all animals, and my poor dear sisters warned me not to trust animals. But despite their oddities, they seem so nice to me. Well, except the one called Knuckles-sempai. I am ashamed that I lost my temper and aided Cream in holding him down so that Amy-san could strike him with her hammer! I must apologize to him, but I am afraid he will yell at me. He is large and powerful, and what if he strikes me?

Amy is perhaps the most confusing. She is sweet and kind at times, but then, it is as if another person comes out of her, and she becomes a screaming nightmare! I must remember not to anger her.

Sonic-sama, the legendary hero I came searching for, is not at all as I expected. I thought he would be much older and taller and more serious. Instead, he is very nearly a clown! I hope he proves to be as wonderful as I have heard him to be. He must! Or everyone is doomed, the same way my people were!

Cream is so sweet, I was caught off guard at first. I feared she was mocking me. But now I see there is nothing false about her. It is almost as if I have gained a new sister. Although, of course, she cannot replace the ones I have lost.

Chris-san. I just don't understand him. He talks about…dimensions? I think that's the word. And traveling to other worlds, not through space, but through a space/time…continue? I'm sure that must not be the right word, but I'm too embarrassed to ask anyone what the correct word is. Chris-san says he is much older than he looks, but he made a mistake connecting a device on his world with the Master Emerald, which powers Tails-san's ship. I don't understand.

Tails-san. How do I describe him? He looks younger than me, although I believe we are the same age. His mind is unbelievable! To think that he built this great ship I am traveling within! Once or twice, I've noticed him look at me. Then he quickly turns away. I'm afraid I must annoy him. Perhaps if I stay out of his way, he won't be angry with me. Oh, I hope we can be friends! Even if anything else is impossible because we are just too different.

I'll write later, dear diary. I'm tired, and I think I'll rest for a little while. Good night. Well, there actually is no day or night in space. We eat when we're hungry and sleep when we're tired here. So I'll just say, until we meet again.

Love,

Cosmo

Cosmo locked her diary, put the book, key, and pen away, put on her nightgown, then crawled into bed.

"Good night, everyone," she said softly to her family. Tears rolled down her cheeks as she thought that she would never see any of them again. "My onee-samas, you gave and gave to me, and I couldn't help you in the end when it mattered the most. Please look after one another until the day I see your smiling faces again, in the world beyond this one. I love you, Galaxina, Sunflower, Nova, Starla. Mother. Oh, Mother!"

Cosmo cried herself to sleep.

"Hi, Tails!" Sonic said, racing past him. "Bye, Tails!"

"Uh…yeah, you too, Sonic," Tails said. He shook his head. Sonic was always on the run. He wondered sometimes what his best friend was running from. In this case, however, he soon found out.

"Sonic sonic sonic sonic sonic!" Amy Rose crashed into Tails, knocking him into a wall. "Out of the way, slowpoke!" she cried. "Sonic sonic sonic sonic sonic!"

Tails felt his nose. "Wow, Amy, obsess much?" he said to no one. He'd have told Amy that sort of behavior was just going to scare Sonic away, but what was the use? Oh well, Sonic had said that Princess Sally had been pretty cold to him since they'd come back from Earth. Tails suspected she was planning to break up with him. Maybe Sonic would take Amy yet.

Tails had no idea that Sally had already called it quits with Sonic. He was glad for the chance to keep busy. It would prevent him from thinking about how his relationship with Sally had gone wrong. Had she fallen out of love with him while he was on Earth, or had they been having trouble before that?

"Get back here, and KISS ME!!!" Amy shrieked.

"Go 'way, Amy!" Sonic yelled. "I mean it! Quit chasing me!"

Chris was just double-checking the instruments when Sonic whizzed past him. "Hey, Sonic!" Chris cried. "What's the hurry?"

"Sonic Sonic Sonic Sonic Sonic!" came flashing past him.

"Ah," Chris said, "well, that explains a lot."

Knuckles had fallen asleep in the engine room. He was dreaming it was raining grapes every color of the rainbow, and he was gathering handfuls of them. "Ahh…six colors of grapes!" he said in his sleep. Then a breeze came up in his dream. "Hey! Don't blow my grapes away!" Then a grape landed on his stomach. It must have weighed a ton. "Blaugh!" He opened his eyes in time to see Amy run out of the engine room. She had just stomped on his stomach without even noticing him. "You oughtta be committed!" he yelled, shaking his fist at the empty air.

Cream got up to get a glass of water. As she wandered sleepily down the hall, she heard moaning.

"No! Sisters! Galaxina! Where are you? No! Don't shoot her!"

Cream opened the door to Cosmo's room. Cosmo was halfway out of her bed, blanket wrapped around her. She was struggling as if it were a snake. "Let me go! Galaxina!"

"Cosmo!" Cream cried, shaking her. "Wake up! You're having a bad dre…oof!" Cosmo had sprang on her, knocking her to the floor.

"Give them back!" Cosmo screamed. "Give me back my sisters!"

"I don't have them!" Cream yelled, wrestling with her. They rolled across the floor and out of Cosmo's room. They ended up at Tails' feet.

"Wha-what's going on here?" Tails asked, shocked. Cream fighting with Cosmo? He thought they were friends. Cream would never pick a fight with anyone, and he was sure Cosmo wouldn't either.

"She's having a nightmare!" Cream yelled. "Wake up, Cosmo!"

"What? Huh?" Cosmo said. She opened one eye. "What am I doing here on the floor?" She opened the other eye and looked around. "Out in the hall? In my nightgown?" She noticed Tails. "Oh no!" she thought, horribly embarrassed. She tried to run back into her room, but she was still twisted up in her blanket, and fell on her face. "Oh! Ow!"

"Are you hurt, Cosmo?" Cream asked.

"Only my pride," Cosmo said. "You both must think I'm crazy!"

"I'm sorry," Tails said. "Did I scare you?"

"He must really think I'm a pathetic creature," Cosmo thought sadly. "Well, I suppose I am." Out loud, she said, "I was dreaming about the Metarex attacking my family, and…" She realized what must have happened. "Oh no! Cream! Did I…did I attack you?"

"You were having a nightmare," Cream said, patting Cosmo on the arm. "It's okay." She flexed her biceps, something she'd picked up from watching Knuckles. "I'm a whole lot tougher than I look! Do you want to talk about it? Sometimes it helps."

Cosmo shook her head. "No. No, it wouldn't help. Nothing will ever help! Everyone I cared about…everyone! I'm all alone! For the rest of my life! Alone!"

"No, you're not!" Cream said loyally, hugging her new friend. "You've got us. We'll be your family from now on, won't we, Tails?"

"Uh..sure," Tails said. He'd just noticed Cosmo only had two toes on each foot. Most Mobians had three, although they were usually covered with fur, so they were rarely noticeable. "You don't have to be scared anymore, Cosmo. We take care of our friends. Sonic and Knuckles will stop the Metarex. You just have to believe, okay?" "Say something nice to her!" a little voice deep inside told him. "Say she has pretty hair or something." But he pushed it back, and said nothing more.

Tails and Cream helped Cosmo to her feet. "You'd better sleep in my room tonight, Cosmo," Cream offered. "Tails, help me move Cosmo's bed into my room."

"Oh, no, Cream, Tails, please, I don't want to be a burden to you!" Cosmo said.

"Friends help friends," Cream said firmly. "And you're our friend, right, Tails?"

"Right!" Tails said. "And friends help friends." D'oh! He'd just repeated what Cream had said. Being around Cosmo tended to turn his brain to mush.

Once Cosmo's bed was in Cream's room, the little bunny said, "Well, good night, Tails. Don't let the bed bugs bite!"

"Bed bugs?" Cosmo asked, looking horrified.

"Oh no," Cream assured her, "it's just a saying Chris' grandpa says." She looked at Tails. "Tails?"

"Ah…" Tails said, wanting to tell Cosmo something, anything. His normally brilliant brain had just shut down, though. "Uh…"

"Say good night, Tails," Cream said.

"Good night, Tails," Tails said. "Idiot!" he scolded himself.

"Good night, Tails," Cosmo said. "Um…see you in the…well, not morning, I suppose. Uh…see you when I wake up?" She gasped. "No! That's not what I mean!"

Whatever either of them might or might not have said next, it made no difference.

"Sonic! Knuckles! Tails!" came Chris' voice over the ship's intercom. "Metarex sighting! Hurry up, you guys! Red alert!"

"Gotta go!" Tails cried. "I'll see you!" As he raced for the bridge, he thought, "Smooth move, stupid! You're never going to get a girlfriend that way!"

"Should we go too, Cream?" Cosmo asked. "Chris didn't call us."

"Well," Cream said, yawning, "I guess we can go up to the bridge. If they don't need us, we can come back and sleep. I'm really tired."

Cosmo yawned. "Me too," Cosmo said. "But I have to keep fighting until the Metarex are stopped!" she told herself. "Let's go, Cream!"

Stay tuned for the second part of this lost episode, coming soon!