MT: Well here we go again.
Omega's Turn
Chapter Two:
One turn After Another
This is bad. Very bad! Bad, bad, bad, bad! Shadow thought himself as he paced in Tails' living room.
After he had explained everything to the two tail fox, Tails has taken Omega into his work shop, insuring Shadow that Omega would be find. After that, Tails would only leave his workshop to inform Shadow that Omega was still fine, and to get something to eat for breakfast.
Just how long have I have been here? Shadow asked himself.
Truthfully Shadow has lost all track of time, only knowing through Tails that it was around breakfast. He was just worried for Omega. The robot was the closest thing he had to a friend. Outside of Rouge that is, and he consider that more of a working relationship.
"Shadow!! Will you stop that pacing! It's giving me a Master Emerald size headache!"
Shadow blinked twice and looked to his right. Sitting on Tails' couch was the echidnas Knuckles, and his same times partner, Shade, who was once from a tribe currently tripped in a place called the Twilight Cage. Strange thing is that each of the older echidnas has a toddler echidna in their laps.
Knuckles were holding an aqua blue echidna with green eyes. His quills were in a strange style, with most of his quills forming into pigtails like statures that reached down below his waist. His head has a small but noticeable point to it, and a pink strap that start at the center of his pointy head, and divided in half, running down his pigtails. The toddler has no shoes or gloves, but he did have the sharp knuckles that all of male echidnas seem to have.
The blue echidna toddler was struggling in Knuckle's lap, trying to get free, and attack another young echidna that giving him funny looks. That other young echidna is Steven, the hyperactive, short attention span son of Knuckles. Much like Shadow's son, Steven was once a machine, until he was also turned into a toddler by one of his creator's machines.
He now lives with Knuckles, and is said to drive the older echidna more crazy then Sonic could ever hope to do.
Shadow turned his head slightly and looked at the other toddler, the one on Shade lap, and who was quietly looking at the old phonograph that Tails keeps for reasons only he knew. She was obvious female from the attire she wore. Her fur was a light tan color and her blue eyes were glued to the antique. She had six quills that formed into a loose hair style, and there was a white ring on the outer quills.
The young echidna was fully dressed, wearing a multi-colored long skirt and a white sleeve shirt that didn't cover her stomach. She wore a pair of purple bracelets, one on each wrists. Finally the young echidna wore a gold necklace, and a gold crown. The young female looked like something out of an ancient tribe or something. Or that how she looked to Shadow.
The darker hedgehog cocked his eyebrow ever so slightly as he looked up at the older echidna. Shadow took note that Knuckles' fur was damp, like he has been in the rain or something. He looked more angry then normally does.
Before anyone could get a word in edge wise, the randomness that is Steven the Echidna decided to make things interesting. While the blue echidna was busy looking at Shadow, the child echidna took the change to gave the toddler echidna's head thing a strong tock. The toddler let out a piercing scream, one that even surprised Shadow.
But what came next, really surprised Shadow. There was a nearby bucket of water, one that Tails had put there to catch rain from a open hole. Suddenly water from the bucket rose up, forming into a baseball size shape, and stuck Steven right in the face. The young Knuckles look alike yelped in surprised, and accidentally pulled on the younger echidna's head tail.
This cause the toddler to let out an even louder cry then before. Shadow found himself covering his ears and wondering if the floor was shaking? Shadow noticed that Shade had cover the other echidna's ears, but seem to be suffering a lot from the wailing. Even Knuckles was having trouble, trying to calm the blue echidna down. Of course it wasn't helping that Steven was constantly pulling on toddler's head tail.
"Okay! THAT'S ENOUNGH!!" Shadow screamed as he raced to the echidna bunch.
He then grabbed Steven by the wrist and took the blue echidna's head tail, and force them apart. It was probably a little to forceful, as the toddler let out one more, glass shattering wail. Suddenly the bucket from earlier came flying right at Shadow's head. He sensed the on-coming object, and just took a quick side step to his right. The bucket hit Knuckles right between the eyes. The older echidna let out a light cry as he head fall back, unconscious.
Water that spilled out of the bucket when it hit Knuckles, was somehow guided, splashing down on Steven. Satisfied, the blue echidna toddler got comfortable on Knuckles' lap, and quickly went to sleep. Steven glared daggers in the toddler's direction, but decide against it. One of wisest move he have, and probably would make in his life.
Shadow looked at Shade, and saw that she had put herself into some kind of warrior's trance, probably to block of the toddler's wailing. He notice that the female toddler was also close to falling asleep herself.
The black hedgehog sighed and turned away from the entire crazy mass, and looked at a nearby clock. His eyes opened wide by a hair when he saw it was about quarter to noon. If he remembers right, it was close to four when Tails took Omega into his workshop. So, it couldn't have taken him nearly six hours to run some simple tests?
"Okay, I have enough of this!" Shadow said to himself.
Shadow walked up to the door leading to Tails' workshop, ready to bust it open, when it suddenly opened, whacking the black furred hedgehog right between the eyes.
Shadow heard bells ringing and bird chirping as he fell float onto his back. He lay there for a few second, seeing chirping robins flying in front of his eyes.
"Shadow? Are you okay?"
Shadow gave his head a quick shake to get rid of the birds, and looked up at Tails. In the fox's hands was the still sleeping Omega. Shadow quickly snapped to his feet, glaring at the young cub.
"What take you so long?" Shadow asked in an angry, but low voice as not to woke the sleeping toddlers.
"Well…" Tails looked over his shoulder at his massy workshop.
(A couple of hours earlier)
After Shadow had handed over Omega to Tails with a warning that nothing better happened to the former robot, or else, Tails head into his workshop.
The hours were like a cloud in the sky to Tails, he knew it was there, but could care less about them. All he was focused on was the robot turned into a hedgebat, or was it a bat-hog? Tails shook his head quickly. Worrying about meaningless questions like names wouldn't get him anywhere. So, he once again focused on the task at hand.
More unkempt hours ticked as Tails did more tests, both on Omega and the gun that Shadow had brought with him. But after many long, but safe tests, Tails was lost. Well, lost wasn't the right word for the problem Tails was having.
"It's so strange. It shouldn't happened again, but I can't deny the proof right in front of me," Tails muttered to himself, looking to his right, where the former robot slept soundly.
The two tailed fox then turned his head slightly to the left, looking at the device that cause all of this. The device's internal wiring were all fried beyond repair. He was lucky to get the information that he did.
"So, this gun had done something like that, huh? I wonder if Eggman was aware of what he did?" Tails asked himself, returning his focus completely to his work. "Also there seems to be traces of Chaos energy running around in Omega's system. I wonder what that could mean?"
Before Tails could continue with his research, a familiar frog suddenly jumped onto his keyboard. The frog immediately begin to hop around the keyboard, massing up all the data on Tails' computer.
Froggy…" Tails growled as his right eye begin to twitch.
Tails reached for the annoying, unwanted houseguest, ready to make good on his claim to turn the little pest into frog legs, when suddenly a second frog appeared on the keyboard. The second Froggy saw the second frog, he become really happy, and begin jumping in the keyboard. So, he was joined by his friend, massing up Tails' work.
"FROGGY!! NORTON!!" Tails could feel a massive headache coming on as he recognized that voice right away.
Sure enough Big the Cat came walking into view a few seconds later, looking for his pet frogs. His big eyes lit up in happiness when he saw the two frogs, and he hurried over to them, knocking over a table with some equipment that Tails recently brought.
Froggy! Norton! There you are!" Big exclaimed happily as he scooped his pets into a hug.
Tails looked at his monitor. There was nothing but letters, and numbers, all randomly around the screen. Tails' eyes begin to twitch something fierce as he felt his headache jumped to Angel Island. All of these hours of research, wasted in just 5 second flat by two little frogs.
"I'm so happy, I have my buddies back!" Big song in a voice that was worse two sets of nails on a single chalk board.
The young fox felt his headache jump another foot, as Big continue to sing that song. Not getting much sleep because of a certain hedgehog, was now starting to mix with his unwanted guest off key singing, causing him to loose his temper something fierce.
Tails reached under his computer desk, and pulled out a metal rod. He grinned almost evilly as he turned on the device, causing a small electric charge to source around the tip of the device. He turned to Big, the fox's grin growing ever so slightly as he closed in on his unwanted houseguest.
Suddenly, Big did a surprisingly graceful spin, barely just avoiding Tails as he swan. The rod contacted with a piece of large scrape metal, causing the electric charge to backlash into the holder.
For a belief second, Tails' skeleton can be seen before he dropped the rod and pulled his hands to his mouth, blowing on them. Luckily, he has his glove inculcated some time ago, and was only mildly shocked.
"I So happy! I so happy!" Big kept right singing that annoying song.
Tails felt his headache jump another foot, and his eyes was twitching like there was no tomorrow.
"Big." Tails spoke in an eerily calm voice as he faced the oversized cat. "STAY OUT OF MY LAB!!"
The angry fox then grabbed one of the many mops he keep to ward off unwanted guests (meaning Big and his pets), and begin chasing the cat. Tails chased Big around his lab for the next 12 minutes, causing an even bigger mass, (not to mention, Tails' tails turning pink from a spilled chemical), before the young fox got Big out of his house.
Tails dropped the broken mop and looked around, feeling his headache getting 1000 times worse then before. Everything was a mess! It would take hours to clean up, maybe even days.
"What's the point in clearing up, when that darn cat is going to mess everything up again?" Tails asked himself sarcastically as he walked back to where the former robot slept. Tails was surprised to find Omega still sleeping. In fact, it looked like the hogbat wasn't even bothered by all of the noise. Tails immediately forget all about his headache as curiousness and concern took over.
"I think I need to run a few more tests." Tails set down at his computer once more, and begin running a new series of tests.
(Now lets fast forward)
"…Lets just say, I had a few 'problems" that's all," Tail said sheepishly as he kicked closed the lab door.
"Tails, I could care less about that overgrown cat and his weird hobbies," Shadow said rudely. "I just wanted to know what's happened to Omega!"
Tails sighed and handed the still sleeping Omega over to Shadow. He then walked over to the living room where he kept some Aspirin. He stopped and stared at the bunch of echidna on his couch. He let out another sigh as he realized that he probably wouldn't get any sleep this day.
"Tails…" Shadow spoke in a low and dangerous tone.
Breaking into a cold sweat, the young fox turned to face his semi-friend. Shadow was glaring a "tell me now, or you're going to be sleeping with the fishes" glare to his head. The young fox took a moment to calm himself and collected his thoughts, knowing that one wrong word and he could be hanging by his toes above a bottomless pit.
"Well, the best I could figure was that the device, having recorded you're DNA when it blasted you, was able to draw on the power of your Chaos emerald to change Omega into a toddler, base on the sets of DNA stored in the device I installed," Tails explained nervously.
Shadow nodded his head, deep in his own thoughts. A few mouths ago, Eggman managed to capture the black hedgehog by using a failsafe device he had installed in all of his machines. He use the failsafe to gain temporally control over Omega and use it to take Shadow hostage to force his son to gave him his chaos emerald.
(For more on that matter, check out StarVix's story: Metal We Toddlerized Ourselves)
Now, that the ultimate life form thought it about it, was probably the good doctor's only truly brilliant move, a move which nearly cost him his son.
After the entire thing was over, Shadow took his friend to Tails to see if anything could be done with the device without harming his friend. Unfortunately, the device was wired in such a way, that if someone would try to remove it, Omega's entire OS software would be erased. So to get around that, Tails installed a DNA scanner with a piece of Shadow's DNA in it, to active when someone activated the failsafe device.
Wait? Didn't Tails say that that there was a set of DNA? Shouldn't there be only Shadow's DNA?
"Fox, mind telling me why there's more then my DNA in that device you installed in Omega?" Shadow asked in an eerily calmed voice.
Tails begin to sweat so badly that a small puddle was starting to form.
"Well…" Tails suddenly become hesitant to answer as he avoided eye contact.
"Tails!" Shadow voice become sharp, and the two tailed fox could feel the black hedgehog's eyes on him.
"Rouge made me put her DNA in the device as well!" Tails said in one breath, and then held his hands in front of his face. "DON'T HURT ME!!"
About 30 seconds of not feeling Shadow beating on him, Tails cautiously lowered his hands. He saw Shadow, once more in deep thought, looking at Omega. The young fox couldn't help but wonder what was on the older hedgehog's mind. Suddenly, the darker furred hedgehog took off, running, straight through a wall. Tails sigh when he saw the hedgehog shaped hole next to another hedgehog shaped hole next the one that was recently patched up. From the whole, he could see Silver the hedgehog coming, with two people who looked like Blaze the cat. One of the Blazes appears to be holding something.
"Yet another hole I need to fix," Tail said dryly, and looked at the bunch of echidna when he heard mourning.
(…)
"Isn't this lovely," Amy Rose said with a Romanic sigh. "Just me and the men I love."
Sonic the hedgehog, mouth filled with chili dogs, just nodded, and made some noises as he continue to inhale his favorite food. Currently the "couple" were in Station Square park, having one of their "dates" as Amy likes to call them. Sonic was just happy to have a chili dog in hand.
Sitting between the two older hedgehog was a third, who looked nearly like Sonic, say for a few key difference. This is Nick the Hedgehog, and he was once a machine, named Metal Sonic, and was changed a few years ago into the form you see now. Since then he had lived with Sonic and Amy, who, in turn, are his real parents.
To most shock and anger, Nick has nearly adapted all of his father most annoying traits. As such, he was nearly eating an entire plate of chili dogs as fast as his father.
It at their sides were the Chao pets, Zombie, the mixed breed Chao, and Brisa, the Shadow Neutral Chao. Zombie was resting against Sonic side, drooling with a big toothy smile on his face. Brisa was near her owner, watching as Nick tried to beat his father at the "who-could-eat-the-most" game.
Suddenly, Nick begin chocking as a piece of his dog become stuck in his throat. Instantly, both of his parents were on him, trying to get the piece of meat down. Nick manage to force the clutched piece of meat down with one massive gulp, and then begin gasping for air.
"Slow down, sweetie," Amy said in concern as she rubbed her son's back, trying to comfort her son.
"Yeah, Nicky, no need to eat something to delicious like chili dogs like their going out of style," Sonic said knowingly.
He then begin to stuff himself with chili dogs like there were going out of style. Amy gave her partner in parenting a look that says "you're-one-to-talk" and then continue to rub her son's back. Sonic paid no attention to his stalker as he continue stuff his food.
Sonic picks up another one, when suddenly something very fast, and black, run into Sonic's back and continue onwards like nothing happened. This had to unfortunate side-effect of knocking Sonic down, and sent the chili dog he was holding flying. Where the piece of food landed in was in some place that wouldn't be all that nice for a child to see.
The three hedgehog fell into a tense silence as they looked where the chili dog landed. Amy's face turned three different shades of red in under a second, and she begin to trembling with anger as she saw that the chili dog had landed in her dress, right between her, umm, 'secret spots.'
"Sonic…" Amy growled lowly as her body lit up in in a fiery aura.
"Wait, Amy!" Sonic said nervously. "It wasn't me! It was, it was…Shadow! Yeah, Shadow bumped into me!"
But Amy wouldn't hear any of it. She was to angry to listen to reason.
"Sonic! You no good-" Amy couldn't finished her sentence as she swan her hammer with all of her might.
Sonic let out a quick yelp as he dodge object. To bad, Zombie was flatten worse then any pancake, and yet he continue to sleep, his grin getting bigger.
Sonic dodge another blow from Amy, and took off running. Surprisingly, Amy was able keep up with her love interest, causing Sonic to pray to any higher power there might be.
Nick watched as his parents disappeared into the horizon, and the let out a lit shrug. He then reached over and grabbed his father's half full plate of dogs, and dragged it over.
"More for me," the young hedgehog said with a grin.
He watch with half interest as Zombie return to his normal shape with a soft pop sound, splitting up some drool into a small geyser in the process. Nick shook his head, wondering, not for the first time, how such an odd creature could exist. He shrugged it off after a second and went back to eating.
(…)
As my system came online for the day, I quickly realize something wasn't right. I couldn't across any of my internal operations like I normally could. I usually follow a routine, starting by checking all of my internal system, followed by checking outer systems. Another thing that "worried" me was that I was feeling something against my body, something I normally couldn't do.
After a few seconds, I manage to activate my optics, but instead of my vision fading in like normal, but optics opened. What I next saw was a little "surprising." Shadow the Hedgehog, my "friend", was several times larger then I recorded from the previous night. Also, he had lifted me up, and was currently carrying me. During my last check, I weighted nearly 6 tons, not an easy weight to lift, let along carry.
So, how was Shadow being to carry me? He maybe the ultimate life form, but even he has his limits. It was around this time that I noticed that my hands were no longer metallic, but flesh and fur, covered in a glove. A quick scan of my body confirmed that I was now an organic being: a toddler no less.
A memory file clicked on the back of my processor, as I recalled Shadow once motioning this. He had said that Andy was once a robot turned into an organic toddler. He also said that it was a flunk and shouldn't have occurred again.
Something foreign began to surface at this point. I suddenly felt like something was going to try and grab a hold of me. This foreign element caused my new organic body to tremble uncontrollably, and I sub-consciously pushed myself closer to Shadow. I couldn't explain it, but being this close to Shadow made this foreign element go away.
"Sh'od?" My voice! What's wrong with my voice?
Shadow looked down at me with something strange in his eyes. It took me a moment to realize what that something was. It was worry. He was worried about me. Seeing that worried look caused that foreign element to emerge again.
I finally realized what that element was. I have only witnessed it from afar, but this was my first time experiencing it. And it was quite a frightening experience. It was fear. I was afraid!
"Shadow, what are you doing here? And what's with the kid?" I heard a familiar voice asked curiously.
I looked to my right and saw Rouge the bat, looking at me with a mixture of curiosity and concern. Seeing that expression caused the fear in me to grow even more, and I once again cling to Shadow. The ultimate life form didn't pay me much attention this time, his glare fixed on the bat in front of us.
"It's Omega!" Shadow replied angrily.
I heard Rouge let out a soft gasp, and looked at her. I watched as her mouth slowly moved up and down, like she was trying to say something but nothing came out. Eventually she closed her mouth, and her eyes slowly looked down at me. I didn't know what emotions I was seeing in the bats eyes, but I did know for some reason I was afraid again. This emotion caused me to cling to Shadow once more, for reasons I still don't understand.
And for the first time since my construction, I was afraid: truly afraid.
(Author's corner)
M: Okay, I will be the first one to admit this; I'm not very good with comedy. So, I will read the way I know best, and hope that it all works out. Oh, and next chapter will begin a sub-plot involving Zombie. Why you ask, just before I think it would be funny because Zombie is one funny little dude.
