A continuation of A Picnic on a Hill........

8 Years Later.........

"MOMMY MOMMY!!!!" cried a voice from the bedroom. Which then came running into the master bedroom and preceded to jump up and down on "mommy"

"Mmph.......what, honey?" she said still asleep.

"Daddy's made something cool wanna come see?" said the orange and white rabbit.

"Sure......gimme a bit to get dressed. Tell Daddy i'll be down in a minute ok?" said the mother as she got out of bed.

She got out of bed and shook out her fur in an effort to get it straightened out. Which proved fruitless however as it fell right back how it was.

"Ugh" she said. This figure was a petite young rabbit with brown and cream colored fur and long ears that reached all the way down to her waist. This was none other than Cream the Rabbit. Cream had matured very nicely. She was now 17 years old and already had one younger son, the small child from earlier. Who's son is it? Well we will find out soon........

Downstairs: Basement Lab

"Almost got it!" said an orange and white colored fox as he carefully tightened the last nut and bolt on his latest invention. It was an assault truck made for the more grueling missions that the new Sonic Team had to face on an almost weekly basis. Yes this is the laboratory of none other than Miles "Tails" Prower.

"Phew! Finished!" Tails then laid his tools down and went over to his workbench and had a big swig of water. "that took more time than I thought. But then again this truck is gonna help us out a lot in our next mission" he informed himself. Tails looked up just in time to see the small rabbit from earlier coming down the stairs toward him.

"Hi Daddy!" the child exclaimed.

"Whats up lil man?" Tails said as he went over to hug the child and held him up on his shoulder. "So whatcha doin, Vash?" Tails asked the young child.

"Nothin much, Daddy. I got mommy up and she said she's gonna change and be right down!" Vash Prower said to his father. Yes this kid was the offspring of Miles Prower and Cream Rabbit. He was an orange and white rabbit with his mothers giant rabbit ears and his father's markings. He is 2 years old and Tails and Cream have had loads of fun with this ball of energy. He defiantly has his mother's spunk.

"So what are you doin down here, Vash? Came to see daddy work?" Tails asked.

"Yep! I wanna be as smart as you one day daddy!" Vash explained to his father.

"Uh huh. That'll be the day!" Tails kidded with him.

"I'm gonna do it daddy! I'm gonna be smarter than you!" Vash exclaimed.

The two argued for a while, jokingly of course, before Tails heard the door open. He looked up at the door to see his wife, Cream Prower, standing there in one of his old tank tops, a pair of pajama-pants, and some fuzzy slippers.

'Damn' he thought to himself. 'even at her worst she still looks amazing' "hey honey! Vash here was just tellin me he would be smarter than me one day!"

"I believe it. He's already pretty smart for a 2 year old. I remember when you were 8 and I was 7.....you didn't really know much of anything like you do now!" Cream giggled at this which caused Tails to give her a look. "what? Its true!"

"Yeah your right. So what are you doin down here?" Tails asked.

"Oh well Vash told me you had made something 'cool' and I figured I'd look at it"

"Oh yeah well here it is!" he unwrapped the truck from under its cover. "Ta-Da!"

"Woo.....pretty!" Cream and Vash said together. Tails laughed a little.

"So Vash you wanna know how it works?"

"YEAH I DO!" Vash practically yelled.

"Ow easy!" and Tails started explaining the truck's many different tools and gadgets.

As he was explaining, Cream was lost in thought. She was remembering 8 years ago when she and Tails were only children themselves. She sighed at remembering the day that Tails first.....well.....tried.....to confess his love to her. She of course had already known it for a long time. The way he flustered his words every time he saw her. Just the general way he acted around her was a dead giveaway. Even in the heat of battle, he would look over to her and blush a little.

"Honey?" Tails went up to her, snapping her out of the daydream.

"Yes?" she said as if nothing was wrong. Tails knew better.

"What were you thinking about, hon?"

"Just the good ole days. One in particular if you remember."

"How could I forget such a perfect day? Only 2 days that I can remember were as great as that. The day we were married. And when Vash was born." this only made things worse for Cream as she started to get a bit flustered.

"Hehe. um.....I'm gonna go make breakfast ok?" Cream said as she pecked Tails on the lips and preceded to the kitchen.

"OK baby. I'll be there just as soon as I get done showin Vash around." Tails told her and he went back to the work at hand.

'How could I be so lucky?' Tails was thinking to himself again. 'The perfect wife.......my son......this great house? This is the life no doubt.' he finished and went upstairs to wait on breakfast, taking care to lock up shop before he left.

Tails and Vash went back upstairs and sat down to watch some TV while they waited on their food. As they watched Tails got lost in thought again.

'Man.......things sure have changed since a few years ago. Me and Cream are married and have a kid. Sonic and Amy are married and Amy has one on the way. Hell even Knuckles calmed down enough to get married to Rouge and have 3 kids themselves. And Shadow! Even him!'

About 4 years ago, Knuckles tried something he had learned from the Echidna's of old. It was an ancient spell to bring the dead back to life. It only worked on a few conditions. The person in question had to be Mobian. If not they would be converted to Mobian form. They also had to be dead more than 5 years, and no more than 100 years gone. The final condition that had to be met was that the person to be brought back had to have an item off of their person either at or before the time of death placed on top of the Master Emerald before the incantation.

Of course before he tried it, Knuckles consulted with the rest of the team to see who they would like to try it on. Sonic had volunteered first to try to bring back Jules. But he had no items from him before death. Amy was next, wanting her parents brought back. But same deal. Nothing from them on her at the time. Cream then wanted to bring her father back. She even had one of his shirts. They tried, but the Master Emerald told Knuckles that this person was still alive. At which point Cream began to cry and her and Tails left to try to find him.

Shadow was the last one. Everyone turned to him, knowing what he wanted to do. He Chaos Controlled back to his house and picked up a tiny notebook with one of Maria's hairs inside of it. He placed it on top of the Master Emerald and stepped away so Knuckles could do his incantation.

As Knuckles began the Master Emerald began to glow brightly and in about 2 minutes, in front of Shadow stood a hedgehog form of Maria Robotnik. The surprising thing was that with this incantation, the person coming back had every recollection of every event in their life up to the time of life. Her and Shadow shared a hug that, for Shadow, seemed to last forever.......

'now Shadow has Maria again and I think I heard talk of them getting married soon.' Tails thought.

"Breakfast is ready!!!" Cream called from the kitchen, to which Tails and Vash both came running and sat at the table, ready to eat.

"My my, you two! Slow down!"

Tails giggled a bit at this. 'she's just like Vanilla'

While the trio began to eat, little did they know that a figure outside was watching their every move......

"Yes......enjoy you're life now, Chosen One. But soon will be the time. You will be brought back to where you belong! Whatever the cost......" the figure whispered before dissappearing into the treeline, leaving the family be.......for now.......