Day: June 6, 2184
With the bright light dimming away, Tails and Shawn were slowly able to regain their vision. As the light faded, an object laid across the floor, not moving and lying still. Tails walked closer to the object on the ground as its presence slowly became clear.
"C-Cosmo?" Tails said. The object didn't respond. Slowly, this object was clearer to see, with it now phasing into a body.
"Tails, what is that?" Shawn asked. He looked and saw Tails face. Slowly it turned from confusion to excitement.
"Cosmo!" Tails yelled as he threw himself on top of the body. Shawn walked up closer to the body to see who it was. When he walked up, he saw a girl with green hair and red roses at the sides of her head. She was wearing a green and white dress along with it.
"Wait, what?" Shawn asked Tails.
"Do you remember the girl that I was talking about? The one that died?" Tails asked Shawn, "This is her! Oh my god, I can't believe she's here!"
"Hold on a moment." Shawn said. Shawn walked out of the room, and returned a few moments later with his helmet in his hands.
"Computer, check organs of new subject." Shawn asked.
"Yes sir." The CPU said, "Do you want me to tag this as a friendly? If so, what do you want it to be profiled as?
"Yes, computer. Save it as an ally." Shawn looked at Tails and smiled, "Her profile name is Cosmo."
"Very well sir." The computer saved Cosmo's motionless body as an ally and checked her vital organs.
"Check complete. Cosmo has a healthy heart rate and blood is pumping fine. She is knocked out, however. I don't know why, but she must've used a lot of energy to make it out of that plant. She probably won't be awake for approximately 6 hours."
"Thank you computer." Shawn said.
"Should we tell the others?" Tails asked.
"I'll tell them." Shawn said, "I'll give you some alone time so you can be right by Cosmo when she wakes up." Shawn said.
Tails looked at him for a few moments then tightly hugged him.
"Oh, uhh." Shawn said, not sure with what to do. Tails let go and looked at Cosmo, then back at Shawn.
"Thank you Shawn." Tails said.
"Well, it's kind of the respectable thing to leave you two alone." Shawn said.
Tails laughed at Shawn saying this, "No, not for that, but for always supporting me, no matter how much opposition I have faced so far."
Shawn was shocked, no one had been nice to him besides his old family back on Herthia, at least that's what he called them.
"No problem." Shawn said, "One thing though, you and I have a lot more in common than you think."
"What?" Tails asked.
"I'll tell you later." Shawn said as he smiled and left the room.
A few hours later, everyone went to the kitchen for breakfast. The girls gave Shawn the day off since he cooked last time. The guys, everyone minus Tails, walked in to see pancakes topped with whipped cream, strawberries, and syrup. As everyone indulged into the delicious pancakes, Cream stayed back and looked out a window. Shawn saw this and was concerned for Cream.
"Hey, what's wrong with Cream?" Shawn asked everybody.
"You didn't hear?" Amy said, "Cream told Tails she loved him in the middle of that battle with the dark monsters."
Shawn was in shock, now knowing that Cosmo was back, this was going to change everything.
"Well, what did Tails say?" Shawn asked.
"Tails told her he didn't feel the same way." Sonic said, "And she hasn't spoken to a soul ever since. Shawn looked and saw that Cream was staring right at them; he then began to feel very uncomfortable in there.
"Well, she isn't going to like what I'm about to say then." Shawn thought to himself. He then stood up and began speaking to the group.
"Everybody, I have some important information regarding our team." Shawn announced. Cream looked over and made her way to everybody else.
"As we all know, Tails has brought a seed that has belonged to Cosmo. Well, I am here to notify everyone that the flower has sprouted." The group was in shock, they didn't know what to think of the news they just heard.
"Well, what did it become?" Amy asked, now on the edge of her seat.
Shawn smiled, "When the flower sprouted, a bright light came from the flower, and when it did, Cosmo came out." The group then began cheering and clapping, now knowing that their friend that they thought would never return has re-entered their lives. Everyone was happy except for Cream. She knew that Tails loved Cosmo, and that even if she still had a chance after the incident on the battlefield, all of those chances were now gone.
"Let's go see her!" Knuckles exclaimed.
"Not yet." Shawn said, "Apparently, Cosmo used all of her energy to get here, so she is currently sleeping in Tails room. So I want to surprise them."
"What exactly do you have in mind?" Sonic asked.
"I say we throw a welcome back party for Cosmo!" Shawn declared.
"A party!" Amy exclaimed, "Oh how I would love to have a party, it's been so long since we had one!"
"I'm up for it!" Sonic exclaimed.
"I guess I am too!" Knuckles said, agreeing with the rest.
"Just make sure you don't demolish everything this time!" Sonic snickered.
"It wasn't my fault! It was the Chaotix that made me do it!"
"Yea, whatever." Sonic said, "So Shawn, what exactly do you have in plan for this party?"
"Here, I'll show you." Shawn said. He then pulled out a hologram of ideas he had for the party.
Meanwhile, back in Tails room, Tails sat in his room, eagerly waiting for Cosmo to wake up. He looked up to the clock in his room; the time said 7:58 am, so it should be around time for Cosmo to wake up.
"Please wake up soon." Tails said, "I just want to hear your beautiful voice again." Tails then looked over to Cosmo, who was beginning to slowly open her eyes.
Cosmo slowly sat herself up as she looked around, "Ugh, where am I?" She wondered. She then looked over to see Tails, his face filled with excitement.
"T-Tails?" She said.
"Cosmo!" He yelled as he ran up to her and almost tackled her as he embraced her tightly and fell on top of her on the bed.
"Cosmo!" Tails exclaimed, "I've missed you so much!"
"I've missed you to Tails!" Cosmo said, returning the embrace. Tails slowly realized what he was doing, and began to wildly blush. He let go and went back.
"S-Sorry Cosmo." Tails said as he blushed, "I'm Just really happy to see you."
"It's okay Tails." Cosmo replied, "I've missed you too."
The two sat there in an awkward silence for a while, not sure what to say since they were still in shock that they were both here, staring into each other's eyes.
"So," Cosmo said, trying to break the silence, "Where are we? Are we still going back to Mobius after the final battle?"
"No." Tails said, "We're fighting something new now."
"Oh" Cosmo said, "What are we fighting now?"
"We are fighting these things called the dark monsters. These things want nothing more than to engulf the entire universe into eternal darkness so that they can rule everyone and everything."
Cosmo Then looked scared. No, terrified, the group sounded terrifying and vicious.
"Tails, be honest." Cosmo said, "Do you think we can stop them?"
Tails smiled, "Of course we can, with our teamwork, we can't be stopped!"
Cosmo then smiled, "I've missed your enthusiasm."
"And I've missed you overall." Tails said. Cosmo smiled and embraced Tails. Tails returned the embrace.
"Cosmo," Tails said, "Do you remember anything from when I shot the sonic driver at you?"
Cosmo let go of the embrace and thought about it for a little bit, "No, actually. Why?" She asked. Tails knew that if she didn't remember the end of it all, she didn't remember him saying he loved her.
"N-Nothing." Tails said, "I was just curious."
"Oh okay." Cosmo said, "Listen, I have some new powers that I want to show you."
"Wow!" Tails said, "What are they?"
"Well," Cosmo said, "I can now heal people of any injuries, from cuts to broken bones." Cosmo looked at Tail's arm and saw a cut on it.
"Here, I'll show it on your cut." She said, "Hold my hand." Tails began to blush, but listened to Cosmo as he placed his hand in hers. Cosmo then closed her eyes. Soon Tails then felt a tingling feeling on his arm and he looked at his cut. He was amazed to see that his cut was healing.
"Impressive!" Tails exclaimed.
Cosmo smiled, "Not only that, but watch this." She then stood up and held her hands straight out at the flower pot her flower once resided in. She slowly moved her fingers and branches began coming out of the plant.
"This is incredible Cosmo!" Tails said.
"I'm glad you like it." Cosmo said with a smile, "So how are we going to tell everyone that I'm back?"
"Shawn is introducing you to everybody!" Tails said.
"Shawn?" Cosmo wondered, "Who is Shawn?"
Tails laughed, "Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, we have a new friend named Shawn. He wears this suit that allows him to gain strength and fire weapons! Isn't that amazing?"
"Yes, it's quite intriguing." Cosmo said. Tails then realized something else with Shawn: he used to work for the metarex. He knew he had to tell her.
"There's something else about him." Tails said, "but I need you to stay calm and let me say everything before you react."
"Sure, what is it?" Cosmo asked.
Tails took both of Cosmo's hands and looked into her eyes, "He used to work for the meatrex. But let me finish, it was only because he was brainwashed, but now he isn't and he helps us on our adventures." Cosmo was shocked and scared. She pulled away from Tails and covered her mouth.
"But Tails, are you sure he's reliable?"
"I promise." He said.
Cosmo put her hands down and calmed down, "Okay." She said.
"Tails and Cosmo," Shawn said over the intercom, "please report to conference room one immediately."
"Shall we?" Tails said.
"Let's go!" Cosmo exclaimed as they ran down the hall. Tails almost forgot how happy he was whenever Cosmo was around. He was glad she was back.
Tails opened the door to see everyone standing in front.
"Surprise!" Everyone yelled. Cosmo jumped and threw herself into Tails. Tails blushed wildly as he held onto her. She looked again to just see that it was a party.
"Welcome back Cosmo!" Everyone said. Each and every person walked up to Cosmo and hugged her and welcomed her back. Music then started up as everyone began to dance. Tails went with Cosmo and danced with her. While Shawn danced with the rest of the group, he looked at Tails, happily dancing with Cosmo. He smiled as he walked over to where the music was playing.
Amy chased Sonic around the dance floor, "Come on Sonic, please just one dance?" She pleaded to Sonic.
"Fine." Sonic said, "We can dance to the next song. I mean, come on, it's not like it's gonna be a slow dance or anything like that."
Shawn came back a second later and walked up to sonic, "Well think otherwise." Shawn said. Suddenly, a slow song came on as everyone got a partner and danced. Shawn sat down where the food was and indulged on the sweets.
When the slow song came on, Tails was shocked as he looked at Cosmo. She held out her hand, requesting Tails danced with her. Tails blushed as he took her hand. They then held each other, blushing at what was happening. The emotions going through Tails were indescribable. He was so happy, embarrassed, and excited. He looked over to Sonic, who was slow dancing with Amy. He looked at Tails and gave him a thumb up. Tails smiled as he continued to dance with Cosmo for the rest of the night.
End of Part 14