"Tails are you in here" asked Silver as he peeked into Tails's workshop.
"Yes, I'm just grabbing something so I can work on the Tornado" answered a voice, the young fox was nowhere to be seen. "Need something Silver"
The silver colored hedgehog walked into the workshop and closed the door behind him. "Where are you?" asked Silver as he looked around to find the twin tailed fox. After a few seconds he changed the subject as he continued to look for Tails. "Anyways Amy and Cream are looking for you, don't you remember promising them that you would hang out with them today."
"I'm over by the mechanical parts shelf" answered Tails, but then there was a moment of complete silence. "Really, thats today? I forgot all about that" sighed the young fox.
"Yeah Amy asked me to go get you" said the hedgehog as he made his was over to the mechanical shelf.
"She forced you didn't she" asked Tails, he though knew the answer already.
"That hammer of her's is something fierce" laughed Silver sheepishly as he rubbed his head. He soon spotted Tails who was a wooden ladder.
It had been about five months since the mission, everyone had to start move on with their lives including the twin tailed fox. The first few months though were probably the hardest for him, but he didn't complain. Tails had not only the physical wounds that he had gotten from the mission but he had to deal with the emotional turmoil of loosing his best friend. Everyone was hurt by the loss of Sonic but Tails was probably the most effected by the whole issue. Sonic was not just a good friend of the twin tailed fox, but more of a older brother to him. Tails had no other family so with the loss of the blue blur, the twin tailed fox had lost the only family he had known. He though had to be strong for everyone because Sonic would have wanted that. Tails found that out easier said than done, without him thinking about it he started to pull away from everyone. Cream though had come up with a plan a few days ago that Amy and her would spend a whole day with Tails. The young rabbit thought it would do both Tails and Amy some good to get out and have some fun. Amy had been torn up over the loss of Sonic as well, she cried for weeks but like everyone else she started to move on as well, although it is still hinted that she is still touchy and emotional over the subject. Everyone though found it to be best to never say Sonic or anything that relates to him in front of her. As to where they planed on going, Cream kept it a secret from him.
Tails spotted something on one of the higher shelves, it looked like an ordinary plain cardboard shoe box but something was telling him that it didn't belong there. It sort of looked to be out of place on the shelf. He figured that he should see what was in it but the ladder didn't go high enough for the fox to reach it. He stood on his tippy toes but the shoe box laid just out of his reach. Tails couldn't use his twin tails to fly and get it because they didn't work too well inside, especially in his workshop. He continued to try and grab the shoe box, each time he leaned more towards it. After several attempts he had himself leaned enough so he was able to grab it. One thing he didn't think of though was once he grabbed the shoe box it caused him to loss his balance. Tails tried to catch himself but it ended in vain and he came toppling down onto the floor hard.
The force that was made by Tails's fall caused various objects to fall off the self and towards the young fox. He had no time to move out of the way so he watched the objects come towards him. Silver made an green colored aura appear around himself and then the same aura appeared around the objects, which caused them to stop in mid air. The hedgehog used his psychic power then to move the objects away from Tails and released then onto the floor a few feet away. When he released the objects the aura around him disappeared.
"Tails are you okay" asked Silver as he glanced over to the twin tailed fox.
"I'm fine, thanks for the save Silver" replied Tails as he sat up, besides almost being trampled by various objects that came off the shelf the fox was fine.
"You're welcome, so what is in that box anyways" wonder the hedgehog as he pointed to the box that was in the fox's hands.
"I don't know actually" muttered Tails.
The twin tailed fox glanced at the shoe box for a second and then removed the lid. He saw something wrapped in a dark navy blue cloth, which was the only thing that was in the box. Tails unwrapped the cloth and all of a sudden his expression changed. A surprised expression came across the young fox's face as if he could not believe what he was looking at.
"What is it" said Silver in an impatient tone as he walked over to Tails and tried to look see what the fox had. Tails though had in concealed from the hedgehog's view.
Tails grabbed the object out of the box and held it up, the hedgehog saw why the fox had been taken by surprise. The twin tailed fox held a red colored emerald which shimmered in his hand a bit, it was one of the seven all powerful chaos emeralds.
"Sonic gave me it a few days before that you know what" said Tails as he looked at the emerald, he sort of looked to be lost in though as he gazed upon the jewel. "I guess with all that had happened over the last few months it sort of got forgotten. He gave it to me so I could study it, so I could get a better understanding of them. I've been able in the past to create look-a-like chaos emeralds but they had no where near as much power as a real one. They both have similar qualities, but mine tend to shatter if they use up too much of their power. Although to be fair, I've seen my chaos emeralds able to perform chaos control, which did save Sonic from a tight situation when Robotnik launch him into space, but they tend to drain the power of the user. If I improve them they could be a very useful source of energy though"
"So do you have these fake emeralds somewhere" asked Silver
"Yeah, I keep them in my workshop. Don't worry this one is a real one" said Tails as he looked over to the hedgehog , he knew that he kept the real on from the fake ones and since this one was wrapped up it and put into a shoe box was the one that Sonic had given him. A idea came across the young fox's head. "Hey Silver, do you want to see if using a chaos emerald would help" asked Tails as he offered the red emerald to Silver.
Silver took the chaos emerald that Tails offered to him and glanced at the powerful tool that laid in his hands. "Its worth a shot"
"Mr. Tails, Mr. Silver are you here" asked a voice shyly . It was no doubt that the voice belonged to Cream. A door closed, although it was shut so softly that it was hard to tell that it had been closed, and footsteps were heard clearly though.
Silver put the emerald in his left hand and offered Tails his right hand to help the fox off the ground. The twin tailed fox looked at the hand that the hedgehog offered for a moment before he took the hand that was offered. Silver pulled Tails up off the ground, after he helped the young fox up Tails pulled his hand away from the hedgehog's. Cream must have heard them because a few moments later the workshop door opened.
"Thanks, so I guess I'll clean up workshop later and we can try out the chaos emerald later as well" said Tails as he dusted himself off "It wouldn't hurt the plane if I postponed tuning it up for a few hours either or maybe I should just tell them I'll go another day "
"It would do you good to get out, alright Tails" replied Silver "Besides I've been waiting five months, a few hours won't really matter to me. The plane won't die if you postpone a few hours and I'll clean up the mess, nothing to worry about."
"No, I said I'll clean it up" snapped the twin tailed fox. He sort of resented Silver a bit, he felt that the hedgehog tried to take Sonic's place at times. Tails knew that all Silver wanted to do was to help but sometimes it would be too much for him. No one could take Sonic's place, not Silver not anyone. Tails though felt that he was a bit harsh on Silver. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to snap at you"
"Its fine, I'll leave it for you okay" sighed Silver. It was no use in him fighting with the twin tailed fox, besides he felt sorry for Tails. It must be hard to lose someone that close, even being the outsider that he was Silver could see their bond. The hedgehog could not remember is he ever had a bond like that with anyone. He was staying with the fox only because Sonic had invited for him to stay, which only about a few days before that mission. Sonic had found him in an open grassy field unconscious, which was weird within itself because Silver could not even remember how he got there in the first place. Then only to find out that he could no longer time travel and that he was stuck in this time period, after the the mission had ended. Which was another weird thing, since the hedgehog had a natural ability to time travel even without the help of a chaos emerald. Tails though kept the invitation open that Sonic gave him that he could stay at their house, since Silver had no where else to go.
The footsteps came closer until Cream and her pet chao Cheese came into their view. When she saw both Tails and Silver, her face lite up with a smile. "Oh there you two are, Mr. Tails lets get going okay" said the long floppy eared rabbit as she looked at the twin tailed fox. The young rabbit turned her attention to Silver for a moment. "I almost forgot to tell you Mr. Silver, mama is looking for you. I was going to tell you earlier but I couldn't before Ms. Amy hit you with her hammer and told you to look for Mr. Tails" Cream noticed that Silver had a chaos emerald in his hand "Where did you get that Mr. Silver" she asked as she pointed to the red emerald in the hedgehog's left hand.
"Tails found it" replied Silver as he looked at the emerald. He then picked up the navy blue cloth out of the shoe box and wrapped the red colored chaos emerald in it. He then placed the re-wrapped chaos emerald back into the box and put the lid onto it. The hedgehog picked the box off the ground and placed it on Tails's work desk. "Well then lets get going, you two have plans along with Amy and I have to find out what Vanilla wants me for" said the hedgehog as he turned to look at the two.
Once the three of them got outside, a certain pink hedgehog waiting for them. She wore he usual cherry red dress and her matching boots, in her hands though she was holding a picnic basket. It was probably safe to assume that she was with Cream and had been waiting there since the young rabbit came into the house.
"Took you long enough" scuffed Amy, she then glared at the silver colored hedgehog " I can't believe you can't follow a simple, go get Tails". Silver rolled his eyes at her comment.
"Sorry, I forgot that it was today" admitted Tails, he though decided to stand up for the psychic hedgehog "Silver did come to get me, but we ran into something in the workshop"
"The important thing Ms. Amy is that now we're ready to go" interjected Cream before Amy had a chance to react, she didn't want anyone to start fighting. Cheese nodded in agreement.
The pink hedgehog let out a sigh. "You're right Cream" she replied as she looked away from Silver.
"So where are we going" asked the twin tailed fox
"Isn't obvious, we're going on a picnic" said Amy as she held up the basket as if to show it off. Today seemed like it was a perfect day for a picnic. The sun shined and there was not a cloud to be seen. The temperature was favorable as well.
"Don't worry Mr. Tails, you'll love where we're heading. It'll be fun" said the long floppy eared rabbit with a smile.
"Chao, chao" added Cheese in happily
"Silver, I figured if I followed the noise I would find you" laughed a voice in a well manner tone.
The sudden appearance of someone caused them all to stop talking. They all turned to see who it was, only to find that it was Cream's mother Vanilla. She looked just like her daughter just an older version. Vanilla, like her daughter, wore a dress except her's was longer and looked very formal. It was purple and she wore a burgundy colored vest with a white piece at the top of the vest. She wore a orange colored neck tie which matched her daughter's and she also wore fancy pointed dress shoes, which matched the color of the vest.
"You saved me the trouble of looking for you Vanilla" said the psychic hedgehog once he identified who had spoke.
"Sorry about surprising you kids like that. I figured it would be better for me to go get Silver, I would feel bad for making him look for me" said Vanilla in a apologetic tone
"So what do you need" asked Silver
"I need some help moving some big objects around the house, they're too heavy for me to move by myself. Vector and the rest of the Chaotix are still out of town with Knuckles on a case. Usually Vector helps me, but he and the others haven't come back. I wanted to see if Silver would mind helping me"
"I wouldn't mind helping you move some things Vanilla" responded Silver.
"Thank you Silver, thats nice of you" said Vanilla as she gave him a warm smile.
"So they're still on that case, its been a few days hasn't it" interjected Tails. He was still stuck on the thought on why the Chaotix wanted Knuckles for the case. Usually Vector the crocodile, Charmy the bee, and Espio the chameleon were capable on doing their cases on their own. It was something to ask the Chaotix when they got back.
"Yes, its been a couple of days. I guess it must be a hard case they are on" answered Vanilla.
"Come on Tails, if we don't leave soon we won't have anytime to do anything" said Amy as she handed the basket to Cream. She then grabbed Tails be the wrist and started to drag him along, the twin tailed fox sort of let her drag him because he didn't put up much of a fight.
"Why do I have the feeling I'm being kidnaped" sighed Tails as he continued to be dragged along by Amy.
Cream saw that the two were leaving and she started to go after them. Before she took a step forward she glanced over to her mother and Silver. "Bye mama, bye Mr Silver we'll see you later" said the young rabbit as she gave them a wave good bye and then she head off to go catch up with Amy and Tails.
"Chao" exclaimed Cheese as it waved and followed behind Cream.
Vanilla and Silver waved back and watched the three and the chao disappear into the distance. After a few moments the two of them headed over to Vanilla and Cream's house to start on the house work.
A/N: Yeah I made Silver's time travel ability that he is able to perform it without a chaos emerald. I'm pretty sure he can do it, just don't kill me over it(I mean I only saw him in Sonic 06 and it looked like Shadow and Sonic could time travel too, but only with the chaos emeralds. I wanted to give Silver some awesomeness all to himself, so he can time travel with or with a chaos emerald okay 8D) . That though doesn't matter much now.
Cheese has been referred to as male and also female before, so its an it here because that whole gender thing just confused me. Also aren't chao genderless anyways? Sorry about Cheese not having much of a part here, I sort of added the chao after I wrote the chapter. I kind of just wrote it in so Cream would have her Cheese because she always has it with her.
Anyways I hoped you enjoyed this chapter :)