Disclaimer: *still running from the lawyers* I said I didn't own them!!!
A/N: I noticed that I made a teenie weenie boo boo. I had forgotten that Sonic is three years older than Amy, but I didn't want to make her seem younger and wanted to put her at the same level as them. So just ignore that please? It is an AU fic after all. Thanks!
A special thanks to my first reviewer Suzaku no miko!
And to my other reviewer Nibbs: No worries! Tails will be in this fic. He's coming later as well as Cream. Sonic is seven years older than tails so I'm trying to keep that within the story so please bare with me whoever else is waiting for them. ^_^ and thank you very much for your reviews they make my day!
As The Years Go By....
Chapter Two: Cookies and Naps
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A pair of emerald eyes peeked out carefully, its owner not wanting to be seen. Then, with perfect timing, it attacked.
"Hi pwetty girl!!" it shouted happily right into the ear of the taller red echidna whose back it was clinging to.
"Grr. Get off Amy! I no pwetty girl! I'm a boy!"
"But Knuckles, you are wed!" (A/N: wed=red.)
Knuckles looked at his red fur confused by the pink hedgehog's explanation. "So?"
"Wed is for girls! So you a girl, a pwetty girl!"
It was then that Knuckles let out a scream of frustration making a nearby Maya laugh since this conversation went on everyday.
"I'm wed cause....cause I'm wed! But I'm a boy so there!"
Puffing out her cheeks in frustration as well, Amy quickly answered, " Kay you big meanie girl." Then she walked away leaving Knuckles grabbing his head in annoyance.
Walking into another room Amy stumbled upon another argument underway.
"Like this."
"No, like this."
"Like this."
"No, like this!"
"Like this!!!"
"No! Like this!"
Cocking her head to the side in confusion, she could not understand why the placement of building blocks was so important. Yet the black and blue hedgehog continued to argue. Irritated by their yelling she decided to interrupt.
"Hi Sonic, Shadow!" she chirped cheerfully.
"Hi Amy...." answered Sonic sulkily as he watched Shadow yet again rearrange the blocks.
"Say hi." he demanded impatiently.
The black hedgehog looked up momentarily barely casting his soft crimson eyes in her direction and shrugged his small shoulders. "No."
"No?!? Why not, you meanie!"
"Cause I'm cool."
"Nuh-uh I'm cool. I can wun fast."
"I can wun fast too!"
"Pwove it!" Sonic shouted happily before he suddenly dashed off with Shadow quickly following matching his speed. The building blocks which had caused the fight in the first place flew off in different directions by the force of their take off, immediately forgotten. Amy sighed; she would never understand boys she concluded as she began to pick up the blocks.
Meanwhile their caretaker and surrogate mother was busying herself with making snacks when a strong wind nearly knocked her off her feet and she immediately knew the cause. "Boys! No running in the ....." She stopped to cringe as she heard several things being knocked to the floor making a thunderous noise."....house."
She sighed audibly knowing that the sonic boom they were causing was going to make her have to spend hours cleaning. She suddenly smiled reminiscing on the fact that Sonic had gained his name because of that same sonic boom he always made when he ran and Shadow had earned his by being the only one able to match his speed making him like a shadow.
"They did it again." complained a tiny voice snapping her out of her thoughts.
As she turned around the kitsune had to bite her tongue to keep from laughing. Knuckles stood behind her with patches of his fur standing on end and his tiny dreadlocks pointing in odd directions, an after effect of being past by the two runners.
Amy soon walked in as well looking somewhat the same, even her dress was ruffled. "My pwetty dress is messy!" she declared not noticing her own fur and quills.
Giving them both a caring hug, Maya began straightening them out, her mind once again drifting to the way they had gained their names. Amy...her full name being Amy Rose, had gained it because it fitted her sweet personality. Knuckles had earned his when he had once thrown a terrible tantrum, cranky from lack of sleep. As he started to kick, he also pounded on the table he was sitting at, but the surprising thing was...the table broke in half under the pressure. It surprised them all and calmed him immediately having left him stunned. Needless to say she avoided his tiny fists whenever he got upset.
Hearing hysterical laughing she looked down at the two toddlers who were now laughing at her. It was then that she noticed that her own fur had gone on end and with a chuckle she began brushing it down. After a while she noticed that the sound of tiny feet running was coming closer.
Sonic suddenly launched himself at her leg laughing in victory. "I won! I won!" he cried playfully sticking his tongue out at Shadow who was frowning at him.
"Nuh-uh you pushed me!" he protested.
"No I didn't."
"Yes you did!" Shadow exclaimed, his frustration making him stomp his foot.
"No I...." Sonic suddenly lifted his small nose in the air sniffing deeply. "Whats that?" he asked turning his eyes to Maya as he held out his arms wanting to be carried and perhaps get a better view of whatever was making that great smell.
Maya shook her head with a smile as she gently picked him up. He never could keep his attention on one thing for too long. "I made you guys some cookies but I guess you don't want them since you are all so busy fighting...." she teased.
A quick chorus of "Pwease!!" soon followed making her laugh. However as she sat them all down she noticed that a certain set tiny paws was not reaching out for a plate with a cookie or a cup of milk. Looking around the room she quickly spotted him sulking in a corner with the largest pout she had ever seen on him.
As the others sat happily munching away she grabbed a cookie along with a cup and made her way over bending down to his level. The small crimson eyes looked up at her and then almost immediately looked away. She tickled him softly making him give a quick laugh as he turned to her again.
"Don't worry Shadow, you'll beat him next time." she said with a warm smile and a wink as she offered the snack.
This made Shadow give her a tiny smirk as he took the cookie and surprising her, gave her a quick hug before walking over to join the others.
Laughing and playing the children ate the cookies succeeding in smearing more of the chocolate chip cookies on their faces then actually getting it in their mouths. She waited patiently for them to finish, knowing that she would have to conserve her energy for the fight that was going to start soon after they finished eating.
Looking out the window she saw her friend Simone walking with her group of children in the small farm area they had, probably teaching them how to pick vegetables. The children in her group were older; in fact all the other children were older than hers. It had become obvious to her over the three years that had already passed since she and the little ones first met. It became clear that she had the youngest group when all the others had begun to walk and talk clearly; her group still crawled and babbled with incoherent baby noises. It was a shame that none of their true ages was known except for those few who were old enough to know.
With Maya it was easier to say that everyone in her group was about three years old. She was glad that they were so young because she did not think that right now she could handle sending them to do assignments for their resistance like the adolescents were already doing. Within the three years since the start of the program, these young girls and boys would go and steal supplies from the still oppressed city, saving those they could as well. However they still didn't feel confident in their numbers to launch a full blown attack yet. It was also felt that more training and preparation was needed for such a thing. Maya was just happy that they had been lucky, their little village had yet to be discovered and the official officers of the resistance had become more confident that they would be successful one day giving a ray of hope to everyone.
A sudden chorus of "Uh-oh." quickly snapped her out of her thoughts and she quickly turned her attention to the small table. Apparently someone had knocked their milk over and it now spilled all over the table and onto the floor.
The children looked up at her silently, unmoving. She had never physically reprimanded them, but on an outing they had once seen a disrespectful child get reprimanded in such a manner and since then they had always feared making their mother so angry that she would do the same.
Maya raised an eyebrow at them and shook a finger at them. "All right you little buggers which one of you did it?"
Their response made her fight back the urge to laugh as they each pointed an accusing finger at the other. "Well then.......you will have to be punished....." This only made their eyes widen as they looked at her fearfully. "By the tickle monster!" she suddenly yelled making them squeal in delight at the game and quickly run off in different directions. She quickly chased them, but soon gave up all hope of ever catching Sonic or Shadow.
After a while she snuck away leaving them to play the game amongst themselves, to prepare one of the things she knew would be sure to wipe the smiles off of their faces and be sure to give her a headache for a while.
When she walked back into the playroom she found them tickling each other or playfully wrestling. "Okay it's now time." she announced clapping her hands with a very happy smile.
"Time for what?" asked Sonic he head cocked to the side in curiosity.
"It's.....naptime!! Yay!" Maya called out with as much enthusiasm she could muster hoping that it would make them excited about it as well.
It was a hopeless cause.
"No!! No nap!!" Was the third unified chorus for the day. They then proceeded to run off again this time with a purpose, to hide.
Her tail swishing in slight agitation, she knew she would have to give chase yet again like she did everyday. Thankfully these chases always ensured that they would sleep soundly when caught.
"Peek a boo I see you." she said with a smile to the two tiny emerald eyes that peeked out of the toy box.
Amy huffed as she allowed Maya to gently carry her to her bed. She was always the first one to be found even when she and the boys played hide and seek for fun.
It was harder to find the other three boys who were constantly changing their hiding spots unlike Amy who always chose the toy box. A tiny sneeze made her ears prick and her gaze traveled to the sofa. She looked under it to find it empty and was confused for the moment until she heard the sneeze again and saw a tiny black nose just slightly sticking out from under the cushions.
She gently teased the little nose making its owner sneeze again. Laughing she reached under the cushions and hugged the little being. "Nice try Knuckles." He merely sniffled before yawning in her face.
He was nearly out as soon as she laid him on his bed, but he refused his small body to sleep until the other two were caught. They always had to wait till everyone was there before going to sleep. It wasn't for a feeling of security, it was making sure that they weren't being cheated or treated unfairly and that everyone had to take the much hated nap.
A good fifteen minutes went by before Maya finally found her next target. It was a total accident actually. As she passed the bag of laundry, she accidentally knocked it over spilling the clean laundry and a certain little curled up with a blankie, already sleeping little black hedgehog onto the floor.
Smiling at the sight she gently picked him up and tried to remove the blankie, but he had a firm grip on it so she let it go quickly. Another fifteen minutes later Maya was sitting on the couch watching a blue blur zip around the room. "Sonic.....please stop you need to take a nap!"
"No nap!" the blur exclaimed as it disappeared into the other rooms and quickly returned teasing her as it zipped around in circles around the couch.
She sighed; this was another routine of everyday life. "Aren't you tired? Don't you're feet hurt and eyes feel sleepy?"
"Nuh-uh!!" he shouted happily as he continued to run around making Maya begin to feel dizzy.
"If you stop, I'll give you an extra cookie tomorrow!" she tempted hating to resort to bribery but there was no way she could catch him unless she tried to tackle him and that wasn't going to happen, his body was too small and she doubted it would work anyway.
"No!"
Sighing she decided to do what she did everyday, wait. Sure enough within the next five minutes the blue blur suddenly stopped revealing a face planted sleeping Sonic. It was like this everyday, he would run around crazily refusing to sleep only to lose the fight and be the first one refusing to get out of bed when it was time to get up.
Tucking them all in, she took the time to rest and began to read a book on the couch. Half way through the book she cringed realizing that she would have to go through the same fight when bedtime came around.
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A/N: Well there it is! Hope you liked it! Please review and I'll give you a giant cookie with no nap attached lol.
A/N: I noticed that I made a teenie weenie boo boo. I had forgotten that Sonic is three years older than Amy, but I didn't want to make her seem younger and wanted to put her at the same level as them. So just ignore that please? It is an AU fic after all. Thanks!
A special thanks to my first reviewer Suzaku no miko!
And to my other reviewer Nibbs: No worries! Tails will be in this fic. He's coming later as well as Cream. Sonic is seven years older than tails so I'm trying to keep that within the story so please bare with me whoever else is waiting for them. ^_^ and thank you very much for your reviews they make my day!
As The Years Go By....
Chapter Two: Cookies and Naps
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A pair of emerald eyes peeked out carefully, its owner not wanting to be seen. Then, with perfect timing, it attacked.
"Hi pwetty girl!!" it shouted happily right into the ear of the taller red echidna whose back it was clinging to.
"Grr. Get off Amy! I no pwetty girl! I'm a boy!"
"But Knuckles, you are wed!" (A/N: wed=red.)
Knuckles looked at his red fur confused by the pink hedgehog's explanation. "So?"
"Wed is for girls! So you a girl, a pwetty girl!"
It was then that Knuckles let out a scream of frustration making a nearby Maya laugh since this conversation went on everyday.
"I'm wed cause....cause I'm wed! But I'm a boy so there!"
Puffing out her cheeks in frustration as well, Amy quickly answered, " Kay you big meanie girl." Then she walked away leaving Knuckles grabbing his head in annoyance.
Walking into another room Amy stumbled upon another argument underway.
"Like this."
"No, like this."
"Like this."
"No, like this!"
"Like this!!!"
"No! Like this!"
Cocking her head to the side in confusion, she could not understand why the placement of building blocks was so important. Yet the black and blue hedgehog continued to argue. Irritated by their yelling she decided to interrupt.
"Hi Sonic, Shadow!" she chirped cheerfully.
"Hi Amy...." answered Sonic sulkily as he watched Shadow yet again rearrange the blocks.
"Say hi." he demanded impatiently.
The black hedgehog looked up momentarily barely casting his soft crimson eyes in her direction and shrugged his small shoulders. "No."
"No?!? Why not, you meanie!"
"Cause I'm cool."
"Nuh-uh I'm cool. I can wun fast."
"I can wun fast too!"
"Pwove it!" Sonic shouted happily before he suddenly dashed off with Shadow quickly following matching his speed. The building blocks which had caused the fight in the first place flew off in different directions by the force of their take off, immediately forgotten. Amy sighed; she would never understand boys she concluded as she began to pick up the blocks.
Meanwhile their caretaker and surrogate mother was busying herself with making snacks when a strong wind nearly knocked her off her feet and she immediately knew the cause. "Boys! No running in the ....." She stopped to cringe as she heard several things being knocked to the floor making a thunderous noise."....house."
She sighed audibly knowing that the sonic boom they were causing was going to make her have to spend hours cleaning. She suddenly smiled reminiscing on the fact that Sonic had gained his name because of that same sonic boom he always made when he ran and Shadow had earned his by being the only one able to match his speed making him like a shadow.
"They did it again." complained a tiny voice snapping her out of her thoughts.
As she turned around the kitsune had to bite her tongue to keep from laughing. Knuckles stood behind her with patches of his fur standing on end and his tiny dreadlocks pointing in odd directions, an after effect of being past by the two runners.
Amy soon walked in as well looking somewhat the same, even her dress was ruffled. "My pwetty dress is messy!" she declared not noticing her own fur and quills.
Giving them both a caring hug, Maya began straightening them out, her mind once again drifting to the way they had gained their names. Amy...her full name being Amy Rose, had gained it because it fitted her sweet personality. Knuckles had earned his when he had once thrown a terrible tantrum, cranky from lack of sleep. As he started to kick, he also pounded on the table he was sitting at, but the surprising thing was...the table broke in half under the pressure. It surprised them all and calmed him immediately having left him stunned. Needless to say she avoided his tiny fists whenever he got upset.
Hearing hysterical laughing she looked down at the two toddlers who were now laughing at her. It was then that she noticed that her own fur had gone on end and with a chuckle she began brushing it down. After a while she noticed that the sound of tiny feet running was coming closer.
Sonic suddenly launched himself at her leg laughing in victory. "I won! I won!" he cried playfully sticking his tongue out at Shadow who was frowning at him.
"Nuh-uh you pushed me!" he protested.
"No I didn't."
"Yes you did!" Shadow exclaimed, his frustration making him stomp his foot.
"No I...." Sonic suddenly lifted his small nose in the air sniffing deeply. "Whats that?" he asked turning his eyes to Maya as he held out his arms wanting to be carried and perhaps get a better view of whatever was making that great smell.
Maya shook her head with a smile as she gently picked him up. He never could keep his attention on one thing for too long. "I made you guys some cookies but I guess you don't want them since you are all so busy fighting...." she teased.
A quick chorus of "Pwease!!" soon followed making her laugh. However as she sat them all down she noticed that a certain set tiny paws was not reaching out for a plate with a cookie or a cup of milk. Looking around the room she quickly spotted him sulking in a corner with the largest pout she had ever seen on him.
As the others sat happily munching away she grabbed a cookie along with a cup and made her way over bending down to his level. The small crimson eyes looked up at her and then almost immediately looked away. She tickled him softly making him give a quick laugh as he turned to her again.
"Don't worry Shadow, you'll beat him next time." she said with a warm smile and a wink as she offered the snack.
This made Shadow give her a tiny smirk as he took the cookie and surprising her, gave her a quick hug before walking over to join the others.
Laughing and playing the children ate the cookies succeeding in smearing more of the chocolate chip cookies on their faces then actually getting it in their mouths. She waited patiently for them to finish, knowing that she would have to conserve her energy for the fight that was going to start soon after they finished eating.
Looking out the window she saw her friend Simone walking with her group of children in the small farm area they had, probably teaching them how to pick vegetables. The children in her group were older; in fact all the other children were older than hers. It had become obvious to her over the three years that had already passed since she and the little ones first met. It became clear that she had the youngest group when all the others had begun to walk and talk clearly; her group still crawled and babbled with incoherent baby noises. It was a shame that none of their true ages was known except for those few who were old enough to know.
With Maya it was easier to say that everyone in her group was about three years old. She was glad that they were so young because she did not think that right now she could handle sending them to do assignments for their resistance like the adolescents were already doing. Within the three years since the start of the program, these young girls and boys would go and steal supplies from the still oppressed city, saving those they could as well. However they still didn't feel confident in their numbers to launch a full blown attack yet. It was also felt that more training and preparation was needed for such a thing. Maya was just happy that they had been lucky, their little village had yet to be discovered and the official officers of the resistance had become more confident that they would be successful one day giving a ray of hope to everyone.
A sudden chorus of "Uh-oh." quickly snapped her out of her thoughts and she quickly turned her attention to the small table. Apparently someone had knocked their milk over and it now spilled all over the table and onto the floor.
The children looked up at her silently, unmoving. She had never physically reprimanded them, but on an outing they had once seen a disrespectful child get reprimanded in such a manner and since then they had always feared making their mother so angry that she would do the same.
Maya raised an eyebrow at them and shook a finger at them. "All right you little buggers which one of you did it?"
Their response made her fight back the urge to laugh as they each pointed an accusing finger at the other. "Well then.......you will have to be punished....." This only made their eyes widen as they looked at her fearfully. "By the tickle monster!" she suddenly yelled making them squeal in delight at the game and quickly run off in different directions. She quickly chased them, but soon gave up all hope of ever catching Sonic or Shadow.
After a while she snuck away leaving them to play the game amongst themselves, to prepare one of the things she knew would be sure to wipe the smiles off of their faces and be sure to give her a headache for a while.
When she walked back into the playroom she found them tickling each other or playfully wrestling. "Okay it's now time." she announced clapping her hands with a very happy smile.
"Time for what?" asked Sonic he head cocked to the side in curiosity.
"It's.....naptime!! Yay!" Maya called out with as much enthusiasm she could muster hoping that it would make them excited about it as well.
It was a hopeless cause.
"No!! No nap!!" Was the third unified chorus for the day. They then proceeded to run off again this time with a purpose, to hide.
Her tail swishing in slight agitation, she knew she would have to give chase yet again like she did everyday. Thankfully these chases always ensured that they would sleep soundly when caught.
"Peek a boo I see you." she said with a smile to the two tiny emerald eyes that peeked out of the toy box.
Amy huffed as she allowed Maya to gently carry her to her bed. She was always the first one to be found even when she and the boys played hide and seek for fun.
It was harder to find the other three boys who were constantly changing their hiding spots unlike Amy who always chose the toy box. A tiny sneeze made her ears prick and her gaze traveled to the sofa. She looked under it to find it empty and was confused for the moment until she heard the sneeze again and saw a tiny black nose just slightly sticking out from under the cushions.
She gently teased the little nose making its owner sneeze again. Laughing she reached under the cushions and hugged the little being. "Nice try Knuckles." He merely sniffled before yawning in her face.
He was nearly out as soon as she laid him on his bed, but he refused his small body to sleep until the other two were caught. They always had to wait till everyone was there before going to sleep. It wasn't for a feeling of security, it was making sure that they weren't being cheated or treated unfairly and that everyone had to take the much hated nap.
A good fifteen minutes went by before Maya finally found her next target. It was a total accident actually. As she passed the bag of laundry, she accidentally knocked it over spilling the clean laundry and a certain little curled up with a blankie, already sleeping little black hedgehog onto the floor.
Smiling at the sight she gently picked him up and tried to remove the blankie, but he had a firm grip on it so she let it go quickly. Another fifteen minutes later Maya was sitting on the couch watching a blue blur zip around the room. "Sonic.....please stop you need to take a nap!"
"No nap!" the blur exclaimed as it disappeared into the other rooms and quickly returned teasing her as it zipped around in circles around the couch.
She sighed; this was another routine of everyday life. "Aren't you tired? Don't you're feet hurt and eyes feel sleepy?"
"Nuh-uh!!" he shouted happily as he continued to run around making Maya begin to feel dizzy.
"If you stop, I'll give you an extra cookie tomorrow!" she tempted hating to resort to bribery but there was no way she could catch him unless she tried to tackle him and that wasn't going to happen, his body was too small and she doubted it would work anyway.
"No!"
Sighing she decided to do what she did everyday, wait. Sure enough within the next five minutes the blue blur suddenly stopped revealing a face planted sleeping Sonic. It was like this everyday, he would run around crazily refusing to sleep only to lose the fight and be the first one refusing to get out of bed when it was time to get up.
Tucking them all in, she took the time to rest and began to read a book on the couch. Half way through the book she cringed realizing that she would have to go through the same fight when bedtime came around.
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A/N: Well there it is! Hope you liked it! Please review and I'll give you a giant cookie with no nap attached lol.