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Official Sonic characters belong to Sega. Luna and Zakio belong to me :)

Chapter 4 – Shopping and Babysitting

"So now we need to get the seven chaos emerald before Mephiles does." Tails said.

"But what will he do with the chaos emeralds? Ibilis is gone." Knuckles said. While they were having the chat, a spy bot was spying on them secretly outside. The person who sent the spy bot was the villainous Dr. Eggman. He was sitting in his base, listening to the conversation.

"It's best to gather all seven emeralds just in case Mephiles will use them for some evil purpose. Who knows what he will do next?" Tails said.

"So, Mephiles is back." Dr. Eggman said with a evil grin on his face. "A BRILLANT plan has hatched!" He jumped off his chair as he exclaimed. "GAHAHAHAHAA- ah *cough, cough. I gotta stop laughing too hard…" Dr. Eggman sent an order to the bot to head back to the base and the bot did as his master ordered.

"We should go now! He might have already found a chaos emerald already!" Knuckles exclaimed.

"We're going… but not now." Amy said.

"Huh? Why not?" Knuckles asked.

"First, since Sonic, Shadow and Silver are babies now, they need some baby care. We need to go shopping to buy some baby care items such as baby formulas and milk bottles. And after that, it's too late to go out and search for the chaos emeralds." Amy said with a strict voice. Knuckle has no choice but to admit that Amy is right.

"Now, Cream, Luna and I will go shopping while you guys will take care of the babies." Amy ordered.

"Luna, are you going to be alright?" Cream asked.

"Chao, chao?" Cheese squeaked.

"I'm fine, Cream. Thank you for asking." Luna said.

"No problem! Just remember we're friends and we're always here for you!" Cream smiled.

"Chao~"

"Alright girls! Let's move!" Amy said as she marched out.

"Be careful out there. Mephiles might be there to ambush you." Tails warned.

"Bai bai!" Silver said. Cream and Luna waved.

-The girls-

Amy led Cream, Cheese and Luna to the town and went to the supermarket. They went to the section which sells baby equipments.

"So, what should we buy?" Amy asked.

"We need to buy baby formulas, milk bottles, diapers, baby wipes, some toys, some baby food just in case, bibs (just in case you don't know, bibs are those towels that wrap around the neck of a baby to prevent drools or food to fall on the clothes.) and maybe a baby car if you want one." Luna said.

"That looks like a long list." Cream said.

"Chao." Cheese squeaked.

"Then, we'll just have to find them all!" Amy said. "Come on! Let's start with the baby formulas."

Amy and the girls started to look for the shelf which have baby formulas.

-At home-

Sonic and Silver were playing together while Shadow was sleeping. Sonic saw Shadow sleeping alone on the couch and decided to wake him up. He crawled towards Shadow and Silver was looking at Sonic, wondering what he would do.

Sonic used poke.

…

Nothing happened!

Sonic used poke.

…

Shadow moved a bit.

Sonic used poke.

…

Shadow cooed a bit.

Sonic used yell, "WAK UP!"

Shadow woke up! But he's mad.

"WHY U WAK ME!" Shadow yelled.

"Cuz u sleepy!" Sonic said.

"U nuby!" Shadow scolded.

"What's a nuby?" Sonic asked.

"It means u stupeed!"Shadow yelled.

"I no stupeed!" Sonic yelled.

Silver was watching the whole argument suddenly…

"WAH! U ALL MEANY!" Silver yelled.

Blaze sat beside Silver and tried to calm him down, "there, there… shhh… You two stop arguing!"

Shadow and Sonic stopped and looked at Blaze.

"He starty it." Shadow pointed at Sonic.

"I no start it!" Sonic yelled.

"U did!" Shadow yelled.

"NO DID!" Sonic yelled.

"That's it!" Blaze yelled. Blaze put Shadow in his bedroom and Sonic in his bedroom.

"Those two just won't change…" Tails said.

-The girls-

"Ok! We've got 3 cans of baby formula, 5 packs of diaper, a blue milk bottle for Sonic, a black milk bottle for Shadow and a white milk bottle for Silver. We're half way there!" Amy said.

"Here's the bibs!" The shelf was full of different bibs. There are some plain colour bibs and some bibs with some patterns on them.

"Luna, why don't you choose the bibs for us?" Amy asked.

"Okay!" Luna thought for a while and took a blue bib with some birds on it, a black bib with some puppies on it and a light green bib with some kittens on it.

"Great! Now we've got the bibs, let's get some baby wipes!" Amy said. Since the shelf for baby wipes is close by, they quickly got 3 bags of baby wipes.

"Next, we need baby food!" Amy said.

"But what if they won't eat it?" Cream asked.

"Hmm… good question." Amy said.

"It's not really necessary to buy baby food." Luna said.

"Then let's just skip that. Let's go and buy a baby car."

They arrived in an area filled with different types of baby car.

"We should get one which can let us put two babies in it. The third baby can be carried by ourselves." Amy suggested.

"We can take turns to carry the babies." Luna suggested.

"Good idea!" Cream said.

"Chao, chao~" Cheese squeaked.

They bought a yellow baby car and head for the counter to pay their goods. After that, they head back home by taking the forest road.

The sun was setting and everything turned golden yellow. Amy and the girls was walking back at Amy's house. Suddenly, a purple-ish giant worm appeared out of nowhere!

"Ah! What's that!" Cream yelled!

"I think it's one of Mephiles' creatures!" Amy said.

The worm chased them and the girls ran into the forest. They kept on running until they went into a dead end.

"We're trapped!" Luna said.

The giant worm quickly catch up by going underground.

Amy took out her hammer, "Get away, you monster!"

Amy took a swing at the worm but the worm dodged it. The, the giant worm knocked off Amy's hammer.

"Oh no! My hammer!" Amy yelled.

There was nothing they can do. The giant worm came closer and closer. The girls were terrified and yelled loudly.

-At home-

Shadow and Sonic were still isolated from each other. Silver was sleeping at Blaze's lap. Suddenly, Rouge erected her ear.

"What's wrong, rouge?" Knuckles asked.

"I think I heard Amy and the others yelled!" Rouge said.

"What?" Everyone exclaimed, making Silver to wake up.

"Mephiles! We've got to help them!" Knuckles went out.

"Wait what about the babies? That might be a decoy to make us leave the babies." Blaze said.

"Then, we'll just have to take them with us!" Knuckles said.

Blaze took Silver while Tails and Rouge took Sonic and Shadow respectively.

Luna's POV

'I'm scared. What should I do? We can't just sit here!' Luna thought.

'I need to protect them. They're my friends!' Luna's eyes were filled with determination. She was determined to protect her friends. She took something from her sleeves, it sparkled a bit,

Knuckles and the others quickly head towards the place where the voice was.

"Amy! Woah!" Suddenly, a sharp, silver blade went through the worm and went over Knuckles head. The worm disappeared into black smoke. When the black smoke disappeared, it was revealed that Luna was the one who threw the blade. Her face showed anger, then returned to normal.

"What was that?" Knuckles and the others were shocked of what happened.

"Amy! Cream! Cheese! Are you guys alright?" Tails asked.

"What happened?" Amy asked.

"Luna threw a sharp blade and destroyed the creature." Rouge explained.

"That … is one sharp blade…" Vector looked at the blade which went through a tree.=, making a hole on the tree. The blade was silver in colour, it was long and shaped like a feather. (Try thinking it like Lord Shen's blade in Kung Fu Panda 2)

Espio went towards the blade and pulled as hard as he can to remove the blade from the tree.

'Such power…' Espio thought.

"Can I have it back, Espio?" Luna asked.

"Where did you get this blade?" Espio asked as he handed over the blade.

"Well… my daddy has a friend who is also a ninja. He taught me some ninja skills and he made me these blades for me for self-defenses." Luna explained.

"Can you tell me your father's friend's name?" Espio asked.

"His name was Zakio the chameleon." Luna said.

"Z-Zakio? That's my father!" Espio said.

"Really? Funny I never heard he had a son…" Luna said.

"Why haven't you two met each other then?" Charmy asked.

"I don't know. When my father went to the training hall which he spent most of his time at I went to the forest to train. Maybe that's the reason I never saw you." Espio said.

"Have you ever know you got a girlfriend like that?" Rouge asked Shadow. Shadow shocked his head.

"It's good to know each other better but it's best to head back at Amy's house before another monster comes." Knuckles said.

Everyone agreed and went back to Amy's house. Since it's getting dark, everyone needs to head back home. Amy will take care of Sonic, Luna will take care of Shadow and Blaze will take care of Silver. They divided the baby items equally and went back home. The next day, the adventure begins.

Espio : You gave me a father! :o

Me : ...yes?

Espio : :D

Charmy : You're smiling!

Espio : .

Luna : Please read and review. :3