Chapter 3: Time Portal
Shadow drove in his black van. Shad and Tia were hearing loud music in their CD player. Thunder and Solo were playing against each other in Sonic Adventures 2 in their portable Nintendo Gamecube. (For real, there is a real portal Nintendo Gamecube.) Aura sleeps on Amy's arms with a Unicorn doll. Shadow reached to Tails in the Mystic Ruins. Tails was waving his hand with Cream. "Hey, Shadow. How are you?" Tails asked. "Fine." Amy and Cream greeted each other, and Amy introduced them to her children. Then, a black BMW car stopped by. "It's Auntie!" The kids ran to the front of the black car. A black female hedgehog got out. "Auntie, did you get me a new CD?" Shad asked.
Thunder pushed Shad out of the way. "Did you got me the Sonic Battle game?"
"That's it! You're going down!" Shad tackled Thunder, and the fight was on.
"Did you got us jawbreakers?" Solo asked with Tia.
"Calm down. I got you all what you wanted." The female hedgehog showed them all they wanted from her hand. "Yay!" Tia and Solo grabbed one jawbreaker. Shadow grabbed the two hedgehogs' tail to stop the fight. "Sorry, Shikuya. These two played too much fighting games." Shadow apologized while looking at Shad and Thunder with a cold stare. Shikuya gave the CD to Shad and the game to Thunder. "Nah. It's okay. Reminds me of the good last ten years when we still had fights and gone out of control."
(Shadow's and Shikuya's thoughts)
Shadow grinded on a rail with Shikuya in a race somewhere on Radical Highway with rings, a Chao Key, and with animals. Shikuya was behind, and Shadow somersaulted a lot of wooden boxes. He found a Chao box and opened it. A unicorn was in there. Shadow was about to take it until Shikuya tackled him. "That's mine!"
(End of thoughts)
Shadow and Shikuya, with an anime sweat drop, thought it is bad. "Okay. Let's go." Amy said to the kids. "Cream. May you take my kids for a tour?" Cream nodded. Amy looked behind, and Shadow and Shikuya were still thinking about the fight. She snapped her fingers in front of both of them. "Huh? Wha…?" Shadow woke up. "Hmm? What happened?" Shikuya was awaken from her thought. "Come on. Let's go." Amy said, giggling. The two nodded.
Knuckles and Rouge came to Tails house. "Hey, sorry we're late." Knuckles rubbed his head. "Well, we were not so late if someone took the wrong turn." Rouge looked at Knuckles. Knuckles blushed with a clear anime sweat drop. Then, the three kids came from behind Knuckles. KO, the eldest red echidna with green eyes, Raven, the middle young bat with purple eyes, and Knux Jr., the youngest echidna. KO was Thunder's best friend because of the same school they go to and play smashing games. Raven was Tia's friend because they had a sweet tooth. Knux was Solo's playmate. The kids got to the Hedgehog family and the Power kids, Twine, a light orange young male fox who flies a lot without getting tired, and Cherry, an orange elder female rabbit who likes cherries and berries. Shadow was looking for someone. "Hey, Tails. Have you seen the faker?" Shadow asked him. Tails shrugged. "Don't know. He said that he is gonna find someone." Shadow wondered. Who did Shadow forget? They heard a knock from the door. Tails opened the door. "Sonic! You're back! And John. Where were you?"
John smiled. "I was visiting an old friend of mine. Sonic found me 30 minutes in the middle of our conversation. He reminded me of coming over to Tails's place."
Sonic nodded. "Good thing I remind him, or he gonna be here at midnight."
The kids stopped playing. "Get the faker and Uncle John!" Shad commanded. Shad, Thunder, Solo, Raven, and Cherry tortured Sonic, while KO, Tia, Twine, Aura, and Knux tortured John. "Hey! Okay, you got us!" Sonic yelled while keeping his strength up from the hanging of the kids. The kids let go and went back to playing. Amy picked up Aura because she fell asleep again. Rouge picked up Knux Jr. for he needs his milk bottle. (Gives me a weird feeling when I was a little toddler.) "Shadow, how's your day?" John asked.
"Well, it is good. A little problem with the kids, but everything is fine."
"Mine was okay. Except…"
"Except what?"
Amy asked John after placing Aura on the couch. "Where's Whirlwind?"
John murmured, putting his hand on his forehead. "She just has to ask."
"This better be a good explanation." She was getting a little angry.
"Whirlwind…well…umm…"
When he was about explain, a knock came. "Now, who could that be?" Cream answered the door. "Hello. Is John or Amy in there?" A young boy's voice came from outside. "Yes. John, Amy, someone is here to see you." John was sweating. Amy came to the door. She was surprised. "Hi, big sister. How are you?" A red big 12 year old bird half of Tails's size , blue eyes, wearing a blue and white cap backwards, a blue shirt, and white shoes. "Whirlwind? Is that you?" Amy asked. "He changed a lot in the past 10 years," John finally answered. She starts hugging Whirlwind. "AHHH… YOU'RE BACK!" She brought Whirlwind inside. John was relieved that she didn't make him float in the air and stay there when she's angry. She introduced Whirlwind, her youngest brother, to her friends and kids. The kids were surprised that he was the same size as Thunder. They poke his feathers on his arms, and then they play with him. Tails lead everyone, except the kids, to his lab. Amy, Rouge, and Cream asked Tia, Raven, and Cherry to watch over their siblings. They handed them walkie-talkies just in case if there is trouble.
"Okay, here it is." Tails took out the drape. A time machine was in there. It was not activated yet, and it has an oval shape that makes a portal. "What is it?" Sonic, Knuckles, and Shadow asked. Everyone stared at them.
"What?"
"It's a time machine," Tails said.
"Umm… I knew that," Shadow said.
"Err… Me, too," Sonic said.
"Me, three," Knuckles said.
"This time machine allows anyone or anything to go back in time, but it can only go up to 30 years back because Twine spilled orange juice on the computer that was loading up to 60." The guys laughed, silently. "Oh, shut up. How about your kids?" Tails asked. The guys stopped laughing when Tails always say that. (That really shut them up.) Then, Tia's voice came from the walkie-talkie. "MOMMY! THUNDER AND SHAD ARE GONE!" Amy looked around. Thunder was close to the lever that opens the machine, unnoticeably, and Shad pulls his arm away the lever. Amy ran to them and pulled them away from the lever. "Thunder! Shad! What are you doing!" Shad explained first. "Okay, this is what happened."
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"Thunder, it's you're turn." Shad put down the three cards on the pile. Thunder was looking at Shad, Raven, KO, and Cherry. He raised one card up and put it on the pile.
"One 8."
KO interrupted. "BS!"
Thunder flipped the card. It was definitely a spade 8.
"Aww… crud." KO took the pile of cards.
"Ha! In your face, KO!" The smiling Thunder finally beat the card master.
"This is your first loss, KO," Raven said.
"Oh, shut up. You can't win everything," KO blushed.
"I wonder what's going on in the garage. I'm gonna check it out." Thunder stood up.
Shad, KO, Raven, and Cherry dog-piled on Thunder. "Hey! Get off!"
"Daddy told us not to go in there, stupid," Shad said.
"If you go in there, you're gonna be in so big trouble, buddy," KO pinned him down.
"My dad is not gonna like it when he sees you," Cherry gave him a stare.
"We have to stay here to watch the house," Raven told him.
"So, what?" He jumped out and skated down stairs.
"Dead meat," KO said.
"Oh, man. I have gotta get him out." Shad ran to Tia. "Tia, call mom and tell her Thunder is going inside the garage." Tia nodded. Shad ran after Thunder, like in the "Final Chase."
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Shadow stared at Thunder and Shad, ready to explode. "Thunder, Shad," he said. The two frightened hedgehogs answered. "Yes, daddy?"
"YOU TWO ARE GROUNDED FOR A WEEK!"
They groaned. "Except Shad is grounded for three days."
Thunder asked, "Why?"
"Because it was right to stop you, but she came in here without Tails's permission."
Shad was smiling. "That's not very funny, sis." Thunder shook his fist at her.
Shadow carried them back to upstairs. "Okay, you two are staying up there until we are done."