Jazzerman here, I do not own any of these characters, they are owned by their respected companies, blah, blah, blah. You've heard this sht before.

But I do own this story.

A Wily tale, 6 Years later.

Part 1

"Miss Ali! Miss Ali!" A young echidna ran through the finely decorated halls of the hotel she worked at, upon reaching her employer she dropped down to her knees in exhaustion, completely out of breath.

Ali-Su was now the owner of this Hotel. Not that she needed the money, it was just something to keep her busy. "What is it Car-Li? And how many times have I told you I don't like being called miss?"

"Sorry Ali-Su... It's just I saw an Overlander walking up the driveway! What should we do?" Car-Li was clearly frantic, having never dealed with an Overlander before. But she had heard that they were violent, strong, and unpredictable.

"I'll call the Guardian, and until he gets here he is to be treated like a guest." She glared at the younger echidna. "Is that understood?"

"Y-yes ma'am." The young maid ran off to tell her fellow employees what Ali-Su had told her.

The tall 'Overlander' entered the hotel. He was wearing a white lab coat that was missing the right sleeve, a black shirt underneath it, faded blue jeans, seemingly home made brown shoes, and a pair of sunglasses that covered most of his face. But the thing that really put the hotel staff on edge was the shiny metallic arm that was clearly visible because of the missing right sleeve.

Car-Li gulped and straightened her red uniform. "M-May I h-help you?" She asked, her voice nearly breaking due to her nervousness at seeing this rather intimidating Overlander.

He simply smiled at the young echidna. "I believe there's a reservation for Wily." He spoke very warmly and calmly, trying to calm the frightened girl down a little.

In an instant Car-Li was looking through the hotel's computer database. One of the reasons she was hired was because she was so good with computers. So when Car-Li didn't have anything to do she often helped the people a the front desk. She gulped when she found that he DID have a reservation. "R-room sixteen B..." She stammered as she shakily handed the keys to the room.

He smiled and gently took the keys from Car-Li with his left hand, not wanting to scare her with his powerful metal arm. He dug out a tiny black bag and set it on the table.

"I would appreciate it if you could tell anyone looking for an 'Overlander' to meet me by the pool." As he walked off he added; "And thank you miss for the trouble."

Car-Li was surprised at how mild mannered he was, having been told all her life how bad Overlanders were. "I guess they aren't all bad..." She then looked at the black bag. ""Must be a tip." She opened it to see a huge wad of cash, there must've been at LEAST 1K in there! Car-Li felt faint and sat down, staring at her computer screen. She didn't even notice the two smaller figures following the new resident of the 'Waning moon' Hotel.

He laid down in a lounge chair next to the pool, pleased at just being able to relax. Most of the other residents had gathered up their things and children (if any) and left as they saw him enter, but he preferred to meet his friends without any outside interference.

"I see you're enjoying yourself Jonny."

Jonny leapt to his feet and turned to see Ali-Su standing behind him. She was wearing an orange shirt with the logo of the hotel on the back and black shorts.

Jonny smiled warmly at Ali-Su. "Hi Ali... How's your vacation away from Down Town?"

Ali-Su responded by wrapping her arms around her husband. "I missed you so much..."

Jonny smiled and put his arms around Ali-Su. "I missed you too Ali."

"Momma! Momma!" Two small children cried as they clung to Ali-Su's legs.

Ali-Su and Jonny broke their embrace and picked up the little kids. The boy who only a year older than his sister looked like an echidna, he was covered in brown fur (very much the same color as Jonny's hair) and was wearing a black T-shirt and a small pair of jeans, showing how much he idolized his father. The little girl was only five, she looked almost nothing like her brother. She was human in appearance, with hair as golden as her mother's fur. The traits they shared were both of them had speckled eyes, and both had five fingers on each hand. Clearly their father's genes were very strong in them.

"We missed you momma!" The children cried, nuzzling their mother's cheek, as she had often did to them.

"I missed you too my babies... " Ali-Su said, giving the children each a kiss before setting them down.

"Well isn't that precious..."

The human/echidna family turned to see two familiar faces.

Knuckles came through the door, Julie-Su was right behind him along with two small echidna girls.

Knuckles was wearing that old hat he had got after his grandfather Hawking's passing. The two girls hid behind their mother's legs. They had never seen a human before and where kinda scared of Jonny's metal arm.

"I see you got my invitation Knux. Glad you could make it." Jonny grinned, extending his hand

"It's been too long Jonny." Knuckles said, shaking the human's hand, hoping Jonny'd be careful with that mechanical hand. But his fears were laid to rest when Jonny let go.

"Indeed. Six years is too long to see one's friends. How have you been Knux?" Jonny said, smiling down at the small children around Julie-Su's legs. "I see "

Knuckles smiled back at his wife. "Not bad, since the Legion moved off the island to start a country for themselves things have been quiet. And what about you?"

"Alright. I see you have some children of your own." Jonny said motioning to the concealed girls behind Julie-Su.

"Yeah. Riki-Le and Lara-Su are kinda skittish around new people." Julie-Su said.

"That's understandable." Ali-Su said. "They've never seen a human before."

"Most of Mobius has never seen a human before Ali." Jonny told his wife of six years. "And those that have wouldn't know a Human from an Overlander."

Knuckles tried to peek around at Jonny's kids but they hadn't seen other echidnas, their mother excluded, in a long time and hid from him. "So these are you're kids? I thought my dad determined you two couldn't have kids?"

"Yeah, he told us that our reproductive systems were too different, what with echidna's laying eggs and humans not." Jonny smirked at the memory, glad that Locke was wrong. "But let's just wait until our other guests arrive until we get into that. I don't feel like explaining it twice."

Knuckles and Julie-Su nodded, letting Jonny know they understand.

Julie-Su bent down to the children, smiling warmly. "So what are your names?" She didn't think it was her implants that were spooking them, their father had an artificial arm after all.

"Jack..." The little boy squeaked. His little sister didn't respond at all, she just peeked out from behind Jonny's legs at Julie-Su then ducked back behind her father.

"Aw... She's shy. That's so cute." Julie-Su said. 'She kinda reminds of that Overlander girl the Wolf pack picked up... Aerial I think was her name...'

"I could say the exact same about your kids Julie." Ali-Su pointed out.

Julie-Su smirked and pushed her daughters in front of her. "Say hi to our friend Jonny and Ali-Su."

Both red and pink girls gave a weak 'hi' and would've dashed back behind their mother if they hadn't become curious about the children behind Jonny's coat tail.

Jonny turned around and confronted the two children who were hiding behind him. "Now then, you two can play with Riki-Le and Lara-Su while we wait for Uncle Sonic and Aunt Sally to get here. Just stay away from the pool okay?"

The children nodded and quickly made friends with the Guardian's children and only began to play as more guests arrived.

To be continued...