Chapter Fourteen
They walked out of the portal, with it closing after the last one left it, and gathered together closely.
"Oh how original, trees everywhere you turn." Sonic sighed as he looked around with some disappointment for he wanted someplace cool to be.
"We might as well try to find our way out." Silver said with a small frown as, like Sonic, wanted to be somewhere other than in a forest of trees.
So the zone hoppers began to walk forwards and all avoiding uprooted roots on their way out.
Half an hour later...
"Please say we are almost out now." Sonic whined as he dragged himself and getting very bored.
"For the last time we don't know!" Shadow shouted in frustration as Sonic asked this only three minutes ago.
"How about now?" Sonic teased with a grin at Shadow.
"I swear if you ask that question one more time then I will beat you into unconsciousness and leave you here after taking your emerald!" Shadow threatened with a deadly serious expression at Sonic.
"They argue like some married couple." Knuckles whispered to Silver with a grin.
"You don't know the half of it." Silver sighed as, living with the couple, he witnesses a lot of arguing and sometimes fights.
"Hey Shads...are we close to, ahh!" Sonic began to say then quickly dodged a punch heading his way.
"I warned you Faker now come take your punishment!" Shadow called out as he moved closer to Sonic with a hand curled into a fist.
"Nah you're alright love!" Sonic called back as he rushed off ahead and now being chased by Shadow, both doing their best not to trip as they ran.
"If they fight then why are they even together?" Zonic said with a shake of his head as the couple were now too far ahead to be seen.
"They love each other so much that they have to find any excuse to touch the other." Zhadow said with a light laugh.
"More like Sonic knows how to wind up Shadow, I swear that hedgehog loves being slapped about by Shadow." Knuckles mumbled while stepping over a root.
"At least neither of them use their full strength on one another." Silver sighed with a shrug and was glad of that for he did not want to come home to one of them bloody and unconscious.
Ten minutes later...
"You both are just so hot and cold with each other." Knuckles said as they all stopped and looked over at the couple making out against a large tree.
Of course hearing Knuckles' voice made the two break the kiss and look back at them.
"What can I say, make Shadow mad then submit gets me a very pleasurable make out session." Sonic said back with a wink as he was released from being pinned against the tree.
"Oh shut up Faker." Shadow calmly said as he took Sonics hand into his then all began to walk once more.
Another ten minutes later...
"Sweet Mobius we made it out of here!" Sonic said with relief as they all left the forest and stood in a line.
"I'm getting déjà vu." Silver muttered as they looked out at the small village like place in the distance to where they were standing.
"Oh please say we are not back here again." Both Sonic and Zonic said together and was hoping strongly this was not the zone where a female Sonic lived.
"Shall we proceed?" Shadow said with high amusement in his tone while smirking at his boyfriend beside him still holding his hand semi firmly.
Sonic and Zonic groaned and forced themselves to walk towards the village, well Sonic was dragged by Shadow. They reached the start then froze as the small amount of people that lived here were gathered and looking at them.
"Our protectors have finally returned!" One called out then all cheered.
"Daddy!" A child called out and ran over to Knuckles then wrapped his small arms around the wide eyes echidna.
"Erm..." Knuckles said and was just too shocked to even say anything else to this deep red echidna with dark purple bat wings.
"Mama!" A little girl called out happily as she ran towards the group then threw herself at Shadow.
"What?" Shadow said with just as much shock as Knuckles, looking down at the pale blue hedgehog with faded pink tips on each quill.
"Daddy!" The hedgehog happily said as she let Shadow go then threw herself at Sonic with a very bright smile.
"Cool I'm a daddy." Sonic happily said then picked up the girl and hugged her back.
"Hey hun, how did it go?" This worlds Rouge asked as she stopped walking and stood in front of Knuckles with a soft loving smile.
"It er it went ok?" Knuckles answered and was so lost in what to do or say right now.
"We are not who you think we are ok." Silver calmly said as he could tell both Knuckles and Shadow were freaking out.
"Silver it is about time you got back!" This worlds Amy came walking over while rubbing her pregnant belly, stopping at Silver and embracing him happily.
"Ok now I'm getting freaked, is she my pregnant wife here?" Silver thought as he stayed still and didn't hug back.
"We are from a different zone and have unintentionally travelled here." Zonic seriously said as he crossed his arms and looked over at Amy and Rouge of this world, Amy having just broken her one sided hug with Silver.
"Huh?" Both Rouge and Amy of this world raised brows and looked confused.
Twenty minutes later...
"So you all are from a different dimension from this world and travelled here using the chaos emeralds to make portals to different zones." This worlds Amy said with huge disappointment in her eyes at the zone hoppers, mainly at Silver.
"Yep pretty much." Sonic cheerfully said with a thumbs up at both Amy and Rouge.
"And you all will be leaving very soon?" Rouge asked with a sad look in her eyes, looking mostly at Knuckles.
"I'm afraid so yes." Knuckles sincerely said with a small frown back at Rouge.
"Do you think you could spend a little time with Rubin and Charlotte before you go?" Rouge asked as she looked at Knuckles and the couple with a pleading expression.
"Give me one good reason why I should reduce myself to being called mama?" Shadow seriously asked with a deep frown, crossing his arms firmly while waiting for this good reason.
"Babe come on, the poor kid has been without her parents for like a week so far. Even you cannot be that heartless to deny her some time with her mama and daddy." Sonic said as he grabbed Shadow, wrapped his arms around him and looked up with sad begging eyes.
"It would be lying for we are not her parents and what exactly would we tell her when it is time to leave her once more?" Shadow sighed and was slowly giving into this request.
"We'll just tell her something has come up and we need to go like save someone important. Come on love, I know you want to." Sonic cheerfully said with a bright happy smile while still firmly side hugging Shadow.
"Or are you afraid you will get too attached and won't want to leave?" Sonic teased with a grin, earning rolling eyes from Shadow.
"Yes Faker, that is exactly why I don't wish to play the roll of mother to Charlotte." Shadow dryly said as he looked into Sonic playful eyes.
"Well I don't have an issue spending time with Rubin." Knuckles said with a shrug.
"See even Knuckles is ok with pretending so why can't you babe?" Sonic whined as he let go of Shadow and once again gave Shadow a sad begging expression.
"Please Shadow, it would mean so much to Charlotte." Amy said with a hopeful look in her eyes.
"Yeah Shadow, play the role of mother." Zonic said with amusement.
"Alright ok I'll do it." Shadow groaned as he gave up and relented.
"Great so where are our temp kids?" Sonic very happily asked with a huge smile at Rouge and Amy.
Five minutes later...
"Play tea parties with me mama!" A very happy Charlotte asked as she held a tea set case in one hand while looking up at Shadow.
"Have to say we have a pretty cool set up here." Sonic said while entering the small living room after checking out the entire house this worlds Sonic and Shadow shared together.
"Yes." Shadow sighed as he answered Sonic.
"Yay, I'll set up." Charlotte said with excitement thinking Shadow was giving her that yes then rushed off to the coffee table and began to get everything ready.
"Aw you playing tea partiers, you are so adorable babe." Sonic purred into Shadows ear while also wrapping arms around Shadow from behind, watching Charlottel happily set up.
"Unfortunately." Shadow mumbled as he too watched the child take out tea cups and whatnot.
"Come on babe, I know you want to." Sonic whispered and was sounding a little seductive in Shadows ear.
"No I do not." Shadow mumbled with a deep unhappy frown in having to play tea parties.
"Go on love, have some tea." Sonic said with a light laugh then pushed Shadow towards the coffee table gently.
Shadow sat down in front of his cup, crossed his arms and mumbled under his breath that no one could understand. Charlotte looked over and deeply frowned too then looked over at Sonic.
"Daddy stop upsetting mama." Charlotte seriously said making Sonic raise his brow in surprise.
"Huh, maybe having a minion wouldn't be all that bad after all." Shadow though while smirking and casually picking up the plastic cup to take a sip of imaginary tea.
With Knuckles...
"So." Knuckles calmly said as he looked down at a happily smiling Rubin.
"So." Rubin beamed out cheerfully while looking up at Knuckles.
"Want to annoy your mother?" Knuckles grinned deviously as he spoke to his temp son.
"Yeah!" Rubin excitedly said back.
With Silver, Zonic and Zhadow...
"Right so our counterparts were requested by this king to track down some guy and bring him in to be punished?" Silver related the highlights of what Amy had not long ago said.
"Yes pretty much, they do a lot of work for our king and were knighted as the worlds protectors. They had to do an oath and swear their loyalty to the king." Amy softly said with a smile at the three sitting opposite her on the sofa.
"That sounds similar to what me and Zhadow had to do before becoming zone cops. Shame Zhadow breaks the rules at times but he has yet to be caught." Zonic calmly replied then took a casual sip of his tea.
"That's because I'm super awesome and know how to cover my tracks." Zhadow said with a grin and sounding quite proud too.
"Yeah I suppose you are good at that but being super awesome is questionable." Zonic teased with amusement while glancing at Zhadow next to him.
Back with Knuckles...
"And when your mother comes out here she will trip the wire and that bucket of water will come crashing down on her head, giving her a lovely cold shower." Knuckles explained as he and Rubin stood outside and far enough away from the back entrance to not get wet and have a better chance in running from Rouges rage.
"This is going to be fun daddy, should I call for mummy now?" Rubin said with a big smile up at Knuckles and was getting a little too excited.
"Yeah go ahead, we are all set." Knuckles replied with a wink down at the child.
"Mummy, come see this!" Rubin called innocently then he and Knuckles waited and took two steps back just to be sure.
"I'm coming sweetie. What's so, Ahhhh!" Rouge said as she made her way out of the house and tripped the wire, having a very cold shower as a result.
Both Knuckles and Rubin laughed while looking at a shocked Rouge staring back at them. Then Rouge narrowed her eyes and began to take slow threatening steps towards the two.
"Oh crap, run!" Knuckles said then quickly picked up Rubin and began to leave fast, with no particular destination in mind.
"You both wait until you get back, I'm getting revenge!" Rouge shouted as she stopped and watched Knuckles disappear then turned and walked back into the house to dry herself.
Back with Sonic and Shadow...
"Yes having a minion is wonderful." Shadow thought as he watched Sonic once again get told by the five year old girl.
"Daddy it is not nice making fun of mama because he is playing girl things." Charlotte said as she was semi glaring at Sonic sitting on the sofa behind Shadow and was looking quite shocked he was being told off by a five year old.
"Yep definitely Shadows daughter alright, she is damn right scary." Sonic thought as he could do nothing but look at the clearly annoyed child.
"Now say sorry to mama." Charlotte seriously said as she crossed her arms and slightly narrowed her eyes at Sonic.
"Yeah there is no mistaking who her mother is." Sonic thought as he concluded this fact for definite.
"Huh you are right, I shouldn't tease your mother. I am sorry Shadow and later I will make it up to you." Sonic faked a sorry tone with a sigh to sell this so the child would be satisfied with the apology.
"More like he is going to tease me more over actually showing enjoyment in playing this game with my minion." Shadow thought as he faked a smile and turned to look at Sonic.
"Apology excepted my love." Shadow cheerfully said with a fake smile which told Sonic to not dare tease further.
"Great now mama would you like more tea?" Charlotte brightly said with a huge smile then picked up the tea pot as she asked Shadow.
Two hours later...
All the zone hoppers were gathered in Amy's home with Rouge looking after her son and Charlotte at her house. The reason why their time here was cut short and they had to get there fast was because this worlds Sonic, Shadow, Knuckles and Silver returned.
"Thanks again for spending time with Charlotte guys, we appreciate it a lot." This worlds Sonic said with gratitude towards Sonic and Shadow.
"It was a pleasure and she is very good with putting him in his place." Shadow smirked as he pointed a thumb at his boyfriend.
"Oh most definitely, I'm so proud." This worlds Shadow said with an amused smirk.
"I'm going to miss my little minion." Shadow thought and was growing a little sad over that but never allowed it to show.
"She is definitely something special and damn right scary, just like Shads can be." Sonic said with a slight shudder of the way Charlotte was towards him.
"Yeah thanks bro, Rubin always misses me a lot when I have to go serve the kings request." This worlds Knuckles softly said with a smile at his counterpart.
"And before we go, Rouge might be in a bit of a mood, me and Rubin pulled a prank on her and she ended up wet." Knuckles grinned deviously as he looked back at his counterpart.
"We are so alike but don't worry, I know how to defuse her." This worlds Knuckles winked with a grin.
Soon good byes were made and the zone hoppers were chaos controlled by Shadow away from the little village so the swap back can be done without the kids knowing about it.
"So shall we go to the next zone or would Shadow like to have one last game of tea parties?" Sonic said teasingly while making sure he wasn't too close to his boyfriend.
"Do you want me to get my little minion onto you Faker?" Shadow pleasantly replied with a scary sweet voice at Sonic.
"To the next zone!" Sonic slightly shouted to signify he did not want that.
The couple whipped out their chaos emeralds, crossed them ,called out chaos control then all watched a portal form fast. They entered casually, as there was no threat, then after the last one it closed shut.
