Disclaimer and A.N.: I own Saldar and Gyia, Imperfection07 owns Mona, and SEGA owns the rest. I'm very happy about how the holiday season worked out for me. I mean I really didn't get to spend time with my true family this year but I got to spend it with some of the best friends I could ever have. I know once this year long tour here is over that I will miss everyone. I still have 7 months left and this tour is going fast. My next assignment will be told at a later date so I will leave that as a susprise to everyone. Well, thats enough chit-chat for now and yes, Imperfection07, Sonic is okay and you wil just have to wait and see about Tails and Shadow. On with the story.

Chapter 20: Gender Repair?

Tails hung up the phone as she jumped up in down in celebration. "What's got you in such a good mood?" Gyia asked as she picked her head up from a bunch of documents in front of her face and looked at the overly excited woman.

"Sonic has just awakened," Tails said as a smile beamed across her face. If it got any bigger than it would have split her face in half. Gyia had to let out a giggle at the sight.

"Well then, get on the phone and tell the others," Gyia said as she pointed towards the phone in Tails hand. Tails quickly got the idea and dialed away. Two hours pass as the two wait in their living room for the others to arrive.

"What's with the sudden call?" Rouge asked as she was the first one to arrive shortly followed by Knuckles.

"I'll tell you once Mona and Shadow get here," Tails said as she shook Knuckles by the shoulders and pushed him in.

"One would think she found the cure to all diseases in the world," Knuckles said as he got pushed towards th couch. Rouge just shrugged as she followed behind.

"If you didn't just stand around all the time, then I don't think she would be pushing you," Rouge said with a snicker as she saw Tails almost throw him on the couch. She silently sat next to him and placed her hand onto his that was crossed over his chest in embarrisment.

"I just want to tell you that both Shadow and Mona are already here," Gyia said as she walked into the room and threw the documents she had onto the table., "I lead them into the back room for them to wait."

"I'll be right back," Tails said as she ran towards the back and within moments had ushered both of the guests to the front room. Appearently they had came from the back door.

"Now can you tell us what this is all about?" Knuckles asked as he started to get a bit flustrated due to the young woman's endless bounds of energy began to get on his nerves.

"Sonic's awake," Tails said in excitement which made Mona's eyes grow wide. She couldn't believe what she heard. Sonic has awakened. "Amy's with him now," Tails said as she seemed to explode with happiness.

"You're really excited about this," Rouge said as she smiled towards the happy scene, "You going to go visit him tonight?"

"I just might but I plan on letting Amy spend some time with him alone," Tails said in response, "Besides, I have other news."

"What's the other news?" Shadow asked as she raised her right eyebrow as a sense of confusion came to bear. 'If its anything else thats stupid, then I might just scream,' she thought as she looked towards the woman.

"I need Shadow to stay here for the night," Tails said as she turned her attention towards the other gender confused teammate.

"Why me..." Shadow said in defeat as she remembered the last time she had help Tails out with an invention and look what happened.

"I'm almost done on a device that might change you back," Tails said as she nodded her head with a smile.

"Did you just say 'you' and not us?" Shadow said as he caught the part of the conversation that everyone else missed.

"That's true," Rouge said as she thought about the statement as well, "Don't you want to be male again?"

A slight blush came over Tails face and she dove her head down to try and hide it. "I don't want to be male again," Tails said as she turned her head towards the group while looking them all in the face one at a time, "Ever since I've been like this, I actually feel normal now. I don't feel like I don't belong anymore. I feel like this was how I was suppose to be and not how I was. I'm still the same Tails that you all knew and will never change from that except I plan on staying like this."

"If thats how you feel," Rouge said with a shrug as she got up from the couch and walked over towards her. "Is that why you waited so long to recreate the device to turn you and Shadow back to normal?" she asked as she reached out and placed a hand on Tails shoulder.

"The device was almost finished within the first week since we've been like this," she said as she looked towards Shadow who sat there with a stunned angry look on her face. Mona was struggling to hold her back.

"You mean you could have turned my husband back but you didn't because you wanted to find where you belonged?" Mona yelled in an angry tone as she glared daggers towards the young lady. If it wasn't for he being 6 months pregnant, she would have gotten up to strangle the woman.

"Think about what you just said," Gyia said in a warning tone as she glared daggers back towards Mona and Shadow. Rouge did the same thing as Gyia as she realized that Gyia was right. Tails had to find herself and this was the only way for her to do it.

"What do you mean by that?" Mona said in a hiss like tone.

"You just said that she needed to 'find where she belonged'," Rouge said as she stepped inbetween the two so as to stop a fight. Mona just grew quiet as she thought about her statement and then realization shot through her eyes as she noticed that she had hit the nail on the head. Tails was lost in herself and had to find just what she was.

"I had to do that once," she said in a small whisper that susprised Shadow, "When I once fell in love with Shadow, I had to find where I rightly belonged. Was it with my original life or was it with Shadow?" Shadow just shook her head. She couldn't believe that Mona was saying none the less admitting to this but just shrugged it off as a woman thing.

"Were you really that concerned over it all?" Shadow asked as she placed her hand on Mona's shoulder.

"I was," Mona said as she turned her face towards Shadow, "Thats why I really hurt right now, because of you being like this."

"I'll have the device completed by morning," Tails said as he pushed past Rouge and looked Mona in the face while ashamed of her actions, "I didn't know you were hurting over this."

"Just finish the device," Mona said in a slight wavery tone as she looked down towards her swelling belly.

"I'll except your offer and join you for the night at your lab," Shadow said as she turned her head up from Mona and towards Tails. The night went on without anyone else making a sound. Amy had called and asked why everyone else had not visited yet but was susprised by the reply they gave as they wanted her to spend some alone time with Sonic. She almost cried into the phone but all could hear that they were tears of happiness. Morning broke before anyone could have realized.

"Time to test the device," Tails said as he turned his attention towards the crowd that gathered in the living room. Mona had gone home the day prior and picked up a few items of clothes for Shadow to change into once the transformation was complete, because she didn't think he would like to still be in woman's clothing once it was done. The device looked like a sortof wristband that was placed on the persons arm. "Let me explain," she said as she held out Shadow's arm towards everyone, "This device allows the bearer to transform his/her appearance to what ever they like permently with just a push of a button. All they have to do is visualize what they want to look like and they will transform into that."

"Can it transform us back into our Mobian forms?" Rouge asked as she looked towards Tails in glee.

"If I reconfigure the wavelengths, then it might just work that way," Tails said as she took her free hand and placed it against her chin in thought.

"That could come in handy," Knuckles said as he looked down at his hands, "I really miss my spikes."

"I'm sure you do," Rouge said in a slight giggle as she ran her hand down the side of his arm.

"I don't even want to know," both Tails and Shadow said as they sweatdropped at the scene before them.

"Why don't you imagine what it would be like to have spikes on your hands," Mona said but quickly knew she said the wrong thing as she saw Shadow with an evil look on her face.

"What is she thinking about?" Rouge asked as she saw the look.

"You don't even want to know," Mona said as she drooped her head a little.

"Get that thought out of your head and get what you use to be like back in," Tails said as she grabbed his arm with both hands this time, "If I configured this thing correctly, then if you remember how you use to be as a human then it should turn you back."

"Just get it over already," Shadow said as she grabbed one of Tails's hands and placed it on the device.

"Okay," Tails said as she pushed a few buttons and it began to glow. The glow became brighter and brighter as it quickly encased the room. Everyone who was not involved with it had to shield their eyes. Tails had stepped a good five feet away from the device to make sure it didn't affect her. Within ten minutes, an unconscious male Shadow could be seen laying on the floor. "It worked," Tails said in excitement as she ran over towards the laying man and placed a vial of smelling salts under his nose. With a start he shot up and cried out in susprise.

"What happened?" he asked as he looked towards Tails as she was seen with a smile over him.

"It worked," Tails said as she grabbed the man's wrist and wrenched off the device, "Now I'll be right back in about a hour."

"Why a hour?" Rouge said as she got up to try and follow the young lady.

"I'm going to destroy this," she said as she began to push a sequence into it and began to run towards the basement area. Inside, she had built an area where she could test her devices without them blowing up the house. Right now she was glad of that. As she descended the stairs, Rouge could be heard yelling from above.

"We need that," she yelled as she began to give chase after the device in Tails's hands, "I want to be my old self again."

"I only created this device to change Shadow back," Tails said as she landed on the floor and took off towards the left and into a room which made a locking sound as Rouge crashed into it.

"GIVE US THAT DEVICE!" Rouge yelled as hard as she could just so she could make sure she could be heard, but Tails just stood on the other side of the door holding the device as it ticked down from 30 seconds. Just infront of her was her testing room. It normally took her about 20 seconds to open the doors but as she is now, will that be enough time?

End Chapter 20

I'm feeling kind of generous right now, so I thought I would change Shadow back but I wanted to make more of Tails's feelings known. Please don't flame me for what this chapter is about. I might re-write this one at a later date but as of right now, this is the best I can do. I'm suffering from a sortof writers block and it hinders me just a little. Once I'm over it, I will probably re-write this again. See you next episode.