To The Future And Back Again

Chapter 3

Once they reached Tails workshop, Tails opened the door he switched several light's on since it was so dark in the place, the corrider seemed rather dusty, Tails lead Sonic through the corrider then he punched numbers into a control panel which opened a large metal door and that took them to a large room that was sort of like a garage and this is where he kepted the X - Tornado.

Sonic whistled when he saw all the machines that were scattered around the place "wow Tails did you create all this?" Sonic asked as he walked over to the X -Tornado it seemed different from when he last saw it.

"Yeah..it's all I've really been able to do now," Tails replied sadly.

Sonic turned to Tails who was now sitting on a stool and leaning against a worksurface, "so...What happened to this place?" Sonic asked.

"Well.." Tails had started but interupted by someone calling out for him.

"Tails?" The vocie sound quite deep, Sonic and Tails turned to the door where a shadowed figure stood at the the metal door, Sonic mouth fell when the shadow had walked into the light.

"There you are Tails I've been looking every where for ya...Huh who are you?" Knuckles asked he walked in further and he saw the blue hedgehog standing near Tails.

"Uh Knuckles...don't you recongize him?" Tails asked trying to get him to look closer.

"Wait...I do...No it can't be...Sonic is that you?" Knuckles was surprized to see him and happy too, Sonic got a closer look at Knuckles, he was a lot taller and just an inch taller than Tails, his fur was a dark red colour and his dred locks were longer.

"Hey knuckle-head, I see you haven't changed a bit," Sonic greeted and smirked.

"Hey I have changed I'm much taller than you!" Knuckles frowned.

"Hey I'm just messing with ya!" Sonic chuckled

"Yeah I know..It's great to see you again Sonic." Knuckles replied.

"So what brings you here knuckles?" Tails asked.

"I had to get away from that bat she's driving me crazy, she wanted me to rearrange the furniture again..I just can't see why she can't keep it in same place, it looked good the way it was," Knuckles said rubbing his head.

"Daddy where are you?" Called a tiny voice, Knuckles turned his head towards the sound.

"In here Shade."

A small echindna with bat like wings ran over to Knuckles, his fur was coloured red and his wings were white "hi uncle Tails." Shade greeted happilly he hadn't seen Tails in a while "where's aunt Cream?"

"Hey Shade...Oh I don't actaully know where she is at the moment,"

Shade had spotted Sonic "are you Sonic?" he asked rather exitiedly.

"Uh yeah," Sonic was amazed and shocked to find out that Knuckles had a kid and that he was with Rouge the bat.

"Hey where's your sister?" Knuckles asked Shade cause normally those two played together.

"Oh..She's...Hey Jess we're in here," Shade called out for his sister who was currently looking for him.

"Shade, I'm not playing any more!" Jess yelled annoyed then noticed Knuckles and she ran over to him, "Daddy, Shade left me by myself again!" Jess was just like Shade execpt she was a ligther shade of red and she had green eye's like Rouge's

"Did not!" Shade replied.

"Did too!" Jess yelled back.

"Ok you two cut it out!" Knuckles yelled in frustration, "and Shade what did I say about leaving your sister alone."

"Uh not too," Shade said while thinking.

"Right..and where's your mother?"

"I'm right here Knuckles..and you two what did I say about running off or flying off I should say!" Rouge laughed a liitle as she flew in door and landed at the entrance and walked in, Rouge was just an inch shorter then Knuckles, her fur was a now a lighter shade of white and she was wearing a red dress that came down to her kness.

"Sorry mum," they both gave Rouge an apoligetic look, Tails smiled at them and walked over to them.

"Hey why don't you two play upstairs?" Tails offered.

"Can we play the Wii?" Jess asked.

"No the play station?" Shade also asked.

"Sure just don't make a mess ok," They both nodded and ran up the stairs.

"Thanks Tails..I would've done anything to keep them quite," Knuckles sighed but Rouge nudge him the ribs "ow! What was that for!"

Rouge folded her arms "you don't want them to be quite all the time!"

"It's much easier to rasie them if they are," he muttered.

"Sonic is that you?" Rouge asked when she finally noticed Sonic.

"Yeah it is...Wow when did you two get together and what else have I missed?" Sonic asked Tails as he was going to explain what happened.

"Well as I was going to say before Knuckles came, after you had disappeared we all had to try and stop Eggman from taking over, but he had created something that was unstoppable by using the emeralds and this thing has destroyed everything, everywhere you look it's a total waste land and the clouds are so thick that the sun dosen't shine through," Tails said sadly.

"He's succeeded in creating his Eggman Empire," Knuckles exclaimed.

"What happened to everyone else?" Sonic asked.

"Uh well Cream and cheese are all grown up now and Cream I think is visiting her mother right now...The Choatix are still around but they don't come out much these day's, we don't see much of Blaze and Silver and there together by the way...Who else is there?"

Rouge hugged Knuckles and whispered something to him and he nodded and sighed "and Amy..She's..Well we haven't seen her since you disappeard, Shadow looked for her non stop, we don't even know if she's," Knuckles didn't finish cause Rouge had started crying he put his arm round her.

Sonic looked at ground with his eye's closed 'no she can't be gone' Sonic started heading for the door "Sonic where you going?" Tails asked.

"I Uh..I just have to be alone for a bit don't worry I'll come back later," Sonic said with a hint of sadness in his voice then he zoomed out the workshop.

"I guess he's upset," Tails said as he looked on as Sonic had ran out the workshop, Knuckles was trying to comfort Rouge who really missed her since the two were good friends.