Bam! One more, coming at ya! :D


-Chapter 4: Planning-


"Tails," Sonic pinched the bridge of his nose and tried to gather words. "I can't help Knuckles."

His younger fox friend nodded. "I see." Sonic had let him in on what he thought was troubling the big guy. Knuckles had broken off from the group after they ate so he could work on his inverse-cardio routine; he was a bit short with them when doing so. "I guess this means you haven't told him about Amy yet?"

Sonic shook his head, "Or Sticks;[but that's because she may think it's some kind of alien embedded in her stomach. I'm still thinking about how to deal with that-]anyway! If I'm right and this is what's on his mind, there's nothing we can do to help him."

"A valid point, but not abysmal. You and I were both adopted and we turned out to be wonderful people, who were raised by wonderful people. We could position it to him like that. He can become a parent even if the child isn't biological."

With a skeptical look and hum, "Hmm, I don't think that's going to help him. The idea of passing down your gene's to the next generation is something totally different than just becoming a parent via adoption. I've heard him brag about having good gene's on numerous occasions. Though I doubt he knows what that really means, I imagine he's got the idea that he needs to be a direct part of passing that on for it to matter."

"You may be reading into this too much."

"Am I?" He stood up, "AM I!?" hands raised up high!

"Because you're 'expecting'," Tails pointed a finger at him.

Sonic crumpled back into the chair, hands on cheeks, "I'm still trying to get my head around it." Sonic had only found out about Amy's pregnancy a few days ago. It was still new news to him too. "I guess I'm being sensitive, but it's better safe than sorry."

"True," Tails took a moment to ponder. "Cloning?"

Sonic held up a hand, "That's a slippery slope."

"Also true...hmm...well...there is one other option that's really 'out there'."

"What? Anything!" Sonic paused, "Except for building a robot to look like a female echidna, tricking Knuckles into thinking he's not alone, then impregnating her and faking an entire family for him until the day he dies!"

Dead pan stare ensued. "...I told you that you were being sensitive."

"Tails! I'm serious!"

"I know-I know. I would never be able to do that to someone, anyway; probably mostly because I wouldn't know how," he started pacing, "There's only one problem with my plan." He knew it was dire.

"And that is-" Sonic trailed off.

"You."

"Me?"

"It's a whole two day long boat ride to get there."

Sonic stood up and said, "Great talk Tails. Really a shame we can't help Knuckles. Talk to yo-"

Tails put a hand on his shoulder and sat him back down. "It's to get to an archive. There's a big library I know about on the mainland that has birth records back further than 200 years. If any other echidnas exist in this world, we'd be able to find out there. I'll call ahead to see if they still have the family trees."

Sonic was panicked. "...and I NNNNNEEEED to go with you for this?"

"There's a lot of books, we need all the hands we can get." Tails shrugged. "I bet Amy will want to come along with us; are YOU going to let your pregnant girlfriend travel alone?"

"You're right..." Sonic paused, "I feel sick."

"You'll survive. I'll go make the call and see if things are a-go for the archives."

Sonic put his head between his knees. "Ooooh, not good."

"You're gonna be fine. Just please, don't puke on my floor."

He pointed a finger upward, "I can promise you that...but not if I get on a boat."

Tails pat his blue-green friend's back, "At least you know how Amy feels right now."

"And for the last week, this's been her mornings...okay, fears and puking aside...I can do this...I can't do this well...I wan-...want to do this."

Tails was now on hold with the library. "We'll get you though it, don't worry," he said as he rubbed Sonic's back and waited for the library to respond. He nudged a trashcan under Sonic's head, put on the speaker phone and jacked up the calming hold music.


I literally only found out that Sonic was hydrophobic a few weeks ago. I played water levels in the game I owned and it never came up, plus I never saw it in any series, that I can recall, because it was forever ago.

But the fear is REAL! Like, never saw Sonic lose his cool before dealing with water higher than nipple height before, REAL!

Thoughts?