Neo Sonic Underground: Season Two Earth Saga

by Ean Hufwetulyu

The adventure continues for Sonic Underground; they head to Earth in search of clues about their father and the darkness along with hunting down Mr. X, Robotnik's Master, and more. Our heroes will make new friends and enemies, face new challenges like school. Also, Sonic and Nico find the girl from their dream but is it really her. Find out this and more here in the Earth Saga!

3. Welcome to the Family

Neo Sonic Underground: Earth Saga

Episode Three: Welcome to the Family

A/N: I still want to, but sadly I don't own Sonic Hedgehog.

"Hey everyone it's your favorite, best, and coolest blue hedgehog. Ean want me to pass a little note to you so you can know what's going to be happening in this episode. First, if have been reading Ean's others stories, don't worry he will be getting back to them near the end of the year. In truth, I hijacked all his notes, so he'll be force to focus on our show, but let's just keep that little detail under our hat for the time being. Lastly, we have to give a couple more shout outs to other series that will become present in the show: Kingdom Hearts, Charmed, Naruto Saga, Code Geass, Dragonball Super, Halo, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Bleach. That's all I have, take it away narrator!"

"Thanks Sonic! I think! Ok time to get to work!"

Previously on Neo Sonic Underground:

Sonic and the gang were given the five-star treatment as the visiting diplomats from Mobius. They were able to enjoy everything from shopping sprees to elegant dinners with important political figures. The trip came to a head when they arrived in Washington DC to meet with Pres. Warren, yet Nico was able to convince Aleena to let him and his siblings head straight to New York so that they can get everything wrapped up for the UN dinner the following night. After a very electrifying set of meetings, Nico finishes their assigned duties by the Queen. Once everyone had returned to the hotel, Shadow gave them an update about the current security threats they might be facing. With nothing more to tell them, Nico told everyone to get out the room so they could go to sleep or so he hoped thanks to the very rambunctious mating session going on in the next room.

Before taking over, Sonic and Nico sat in the dreamscape talking about how their orbs could be used. Taking a cue from Sonic, Nico absorb the orb and started to understand what his father had given. The morning was very uneventful for the hedgehog family all but one 'future' member who was suffering from dehydration. The night came quickly and everyone made their way to the United Nations building. After a unanimous vote to allow membership from Mobius into the United Nations, Queen Aleena gave a riveting, tearful, and hopeful speech. In the end of her speech, Aleena made a surprise announcement about who would succeed her when she decides to step down as queen. She starts reading off the accomplishments and leadership skills of the person who she has chosen. Sonic and Nico start to get a very strange feeling hearing Aleena statement and it was only at the very in when they figured out who she was talking about.

The two were on the edge of their seats ready to scream when Aleena says, "Lastly, I know deep down even though they try their best to hide it; they have one of the most kind and loving hearts that I have ever seen. I am so proud and honored to announce that I have chosen my sons Prince Sonic Hedgehog and Prince Nico Werehog to be the next rulers of the Moboian Empire." Completely stunned by this Aleena calls in to the stage to give them the opportunity to address everyone. They give a hopeful speech about how they plan to work hard to bring forth a bright future. Once all the speeches are out of the way, the UN parties starts to kick off with a grand dinner then marvelous reception. During a happen stance, Aleena and Sonic are approach by a middle-aged gentleman named Maximilian Charles Acorn. At that same time, Sonic is introduced to Sally Acorn the agent that went rogue and tried to kill the Black Rose Ninja.

After a very interesting dance, Sally makes it clear that she wants Sonic and Nico for her own but her true intentions still remain a mystery. Not long after, Sonic Underground and Shadow Colossus started playing but the concert was quickly interrupted when an UFO comes blasting out of the sky through the UN building into the heart of Manhattan. Soon everyone learns that the menacing monstrous machine belongs to Dr. Eggman, who is Dr. Robotnik's master. Sonic and his friends all work together to evacuate Manhattan while fending off the numerous small robots. The battle seems to start going in their favor until they notice that they're not able to bring any damage to the main enemy and through some unknown method, Dr. Eggman is able to take over the GUN bots sent to help backup Sonic and his team. At the last moment when Eggman's forces have been pushed back, the evil scientist orders his robot to annihilation wiping out everything on the island.

With their backs against the wall, the four younger siblings agree that it is time for them to show the fruits of their training. Everyone is amazed to see Sonic, Nico, manic, and Sonia go into their super forms under their own will empower. The four along with their siblings and the Adairs' aid are able to bring the giant mechanize squid to its knees. Eggman promises that he will return to claim the mysterious chaos emeralds. With the battle one the only thing left is clean up; Sonic, Nico, Cortana, and the Tachikomas work together to swiftly rebuild the destroyed city. Bringing an end to the nightmarish reveal of Robotnik's true master.

Meanwhile back in San Francisco, Amy suddenly blanks out at the same time Sonic and Nico go to their level 2 super form. A moment later the pink hedgehog is back to normal telling everyone that she is fine before going to bed. After checking in on her brother, Amy makes her way to her bedroom with, Shadow's girlfriend, Rouge following behind. The sexy teenage white bat tries to convince Amy once again to join GUN. Amy replies by saying that she is too busy to handle a career in GUN. Before going to bed, she makes contact with her hacker supporters to learn that the data they got from their last attack contains some big plans, but there unable to act to disrupt them because of the increased security around their targets.

The pink hedgehog falls asleep and wakes up in the dreamscape where she sees a beautiful clear crystal in the shape of a budding rose. When she gets closer, she looks inside to see what seems to be herself sleeping in the center of the crystal. Suddenly a man in all-black appears with a shocking statement that the girl inside the crystal is her.

Who is this mysterious hooded man in black? Where will the clues lead to Sonic and Nico in their search for Sora? Lastly, what will Sonic and Nico do about the Black Rose Ninja? Find out these answers and more in this episode of Neo Sonic Underground!

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Amy steps back away from the crystal and the hooded man as he keeps his hand on the crystal looking at the young figure inside. "What did you say?"

The hooded man turns around and looks at the pink hedgehog and repeats, "You asked who is in this crystal and I gave you your answer. The person inside is you."

Amy puts her hands up and says, "Wait a minute, how can that be me in there? Wait…" Amy gives a somewhat insecure laugh and continues with, "This is a dream none of this is real."

The hooded man folds his arms, and Amy can sense a frown on his face. "Amy this is not what you call a normal dream. A dream is a place where you can be anything you want and be anywhere you want."

"My point exactly this place is not real. This whole place everything here if nothing but a figment of my imagination. All I have to do is wake up and I will be back in my bedroom."

The hooded man gives a smile and says, "Okay, shall we put your theory to the test? Go ahead wake yourself up tell yourself to wake up right here right now. If you are successful in doing this you never will hear from me again and you will know that I'm just nothing more than a figment that your subconscious is created. However; if you are not able to leave then that tells me that you are meant to be here within the dreamscape. So I will stand back and watch you do it you're going to do. Please go ahead."

Amy gives the hooded man a sour face; then she turns away closes her eyes tightly then reopens them finds herself still in the dreamscape. She does this nine more times; then screams out in frustration, "AH TO THE HELL WITH IT!"

"Having some trouble Amy?" She looks back at him with a scolding expression. He folds his arms and leans back on the crystal, "I will take that as a no. Sorry I didn't mean to interrupt please." Amy continues to try and return to her bed but she has no luck in doing so. After the thirtieth time, the pink hedgehog just hangs her head down. "Okay so you believe me now?"

"Looks like I have no choice. Alright, say I believe you. What is going on here?"

"How about this Amy, why don't we start from the beginning that way you won't be so confused about what's going on," the hooded man suggests.

"Fine with me. So if we are starting from the beginning tell me what your name is."

"Sorry Amy but that's one question I cannot answer."

Amy gives a distrusting look and asks "Why can't you give me your name?"

"To put it simply, the time is not right for me to give you my name. We were not expecting you for another 3 to 4 years, but it's only reasonable that I give you some idea about what is in store for you in the future. For the time being, you can ask me another question, that being said, hopefully I will be able to answer."

Amy walks up to the crystal and places her hand on the outer shell looking inside while asking, "You said that this is me in here how is that possible? Can you at least answer that?"

The man walks up to the crystal and gently strokes the outer shell while looking in. "Yes Amy I can answer that question. When I said that this is you inside the crystal I should have really said this is the other you or your other half. Tell me, about four years ago did you feel that you lost something, or better yet, did you feel like something disappeared out of your life?"

Amy lowers her hand but keeps her eyes focused on the Amy inside the crystal then says, "Four years ago? I don't know what it was, but one day I did feel like something was wrong. I went to bed that night and had a strange dream, I was talking with someone the next thing I know I feel like part of me disappeared. I didn't really pay it no mind I thought it was just some crazy dream, but I felt something in my heart fade away. I remembered that it was the anniversary of my parents' disappearance, and I just chalked it up to that feeling. Now that I think about it feels like something important was lost or locked away."

The man takes a deep breath and gives a soft exhale for saying, "I'm impress a girl your age was able to figure that out without any help from anyone else. In truth, it was both. You lost something and something was locked away. What was locked away was half of your power; you see the girl in there, your other, is half of the power that really belongs to you. The dream that you described, when you were talking to someone was really two people. You sacrificed some of your power to help protect them. As a result and punishment, your power was split and sealed in that crystal with your other. You told the two…"

Amy interjects by saying, "You will know no true rest or peace until you find me." Tears start to stream down her face with an aching feeling coming from her heart. She puts her hand over her heart while wiping the tears away with her other hand and says with a choked up voice, "What's the matter with me? How do you know this? This pain in my heart, what does it mean?"

The hooded figure gives Amy a Kleenex so that she can wipe her face and says, "It's your love for these two. Since you are so close to Maxine, some of the memories locked away within her are beginning to return to you."

Amy finishes wiping her face and gets her emotions back under control then asks, "Maxine? Who is she?"

"Oh please forgive me, I thought I said her name earlier. She is the girl inside the crystal your other."

"Okay so Maxine is supposed to be me, but what did you mean by she has half of my power?" Amy questions while looking back at the pink hedgehog.

The hooded man walks to the edge of the crystal pedal and sits down then he makes an apple appear in his hand and starts eating while explaining, "You see the day that you sacrificed some your power to help the two boys in your dream; you were split into two. The two, you helped saw you transform into a crystal then shatter in front of them." While he tells the story of how Maxine was created, unbeknownst too him, Amy sees the entire event unfold in front of her eyes with tears of sadness draining down her face hearing the faint calls from the two boys not to leave them. "It was at that moment that your power was divided and your ability to enter the dreamscape was sealed away." He finishes his apple then stands up and looks up at the starry sky, "It's only because of your recent actions that you have been able to regain the ability to…" He stops in midsentence to turn around to see Amy curled up in a seated position with tears draining down her face and muffled whimpers. He walks over and puts a gentle hand on her shoulder, "I am so sorry Amy. I wasn't thinking… I knew at Maxine's memories were leaking into you, but I didn't realize it would be that strong."

"Tell me," Amy says with her face still buried into her thighs, "Will they… Will she ever reawakened?"

"Yes the moment that you find the two that you are destined to be with. The two who have the key to unlocking your power and breaking the seal on this crystal; then and only then will you ever be able to wake Maxine up."

"What will happen to Maxine?"

"Well she will be assimilated into you."

Amy lifts her head up showing her tear drained face, "Wait if that happens then what will happen to her spirit?!"

"Spirit? What are you talking about?" The hooded figure asked with a confused expression.

Suddenly, a transparent version of Maxine walks out of the crystal with a smirk on her face, "She's talking about me." If the hooded figures face was revealed Amy and Maxine would see shock and surprise on his face. When Amy looks into Maxine's eyes, she notices that her eyes are crimson red. "Don't let what he said bother you. Even though I will be assimilated into you, I will have my own body the day that you have your first daughter. Until then, I will always be here with you to help you out."

"I hope you don't plan on interfering?" The hooded man inquires.

"Actually," she looks back at the man with her arms folded an evil smirk on her face, "Of course not. Since Amy has reopened the dreamscape link, I can use spirit link to talk and guide her."

Amy stands up wipes her face while the hooded man and Maxine talk. Once Amy finishes cleaning herself up, she asks, "Maxine, what do you mean by guide me?"

The hooded man answers Amy's question while ending the conversion with Maxine, "Ok Maxine, I will agree with your plans. Amy, what she means is in order for her to rejoin with you; your body needs to be recondition in order to house your full power. As of right now, you hold half of your true strength, but your body isn't able to use any of your abilities."

"Wait! I'm in perfect shape, and I am able to take down three targets one after another," Amy counters.

"Ha! Ha!" the two others laugh out.

"Hey, what's so funny?"

The hooded figure says, "Amy, did you watch the battle that recently happened in New York?" Amy nods yes, and he continues, "If were you able to use the power that you have, I have no doubt that you would be able to keep pace with the fighters."

"Hell with my help, you might have outpaced them," Maxine gloats.

"Really?!"

Maxine nods yes. The man then says, "First and foremost, you must find the catalyst that will allow Maxine to link and train you."

"Catalyst? Wait I thought you said because the dreamscape linked us," Amy inquires.

Maxine shakes her head no, "The link through dreamscape only allows me to talk with you. In order for me to train you, I have to use a catalyst to channel the energy through."

"Ok, what would I need to get to build the catalyst?" Amy inquires.

Maxine smiles, "Nothing. You already have it. The hammer charm on the necklace that mom gave us is all you need." Amy gives a dumbfounded expression; Maxine notices the change in expression on her face then asks, "What's with that face Amy? You do still have the necklace right?"

"Well, I think I've misplace it."

"What?!" Maxine and hooded man say in unison.

The hooded man quickly follows up with, "Amy finding your necklace must take top priority without it…"

"Yeah I know, I won't be able to train."

Maxine quickly adds, "No Amy, it's more than just that. Your necklace holds the key to finding our parents."

"WHAT!" Amy cries out, "THEY'RE STILL ALIVE! WHERE?"

"You are saying too much Maxine. This isn't the time for Amy to know about that!" the man states.

"Oh my bad."

Amy says to herself, "They're alive. I can't… no I knew they weren't dead. Maxine, tell me where they are!"

Amy's twin shakes her head no, "Sorry Amy, I don't even know myself where they are at."

Amy turns to the hooded man, but he only says, "Amy, I am sorry. I know you want to see you parents again, however; you have more pressing matters to focus on. Plus in your current state, you will only get in their way."

*Amy!*

They all look up into the sky hearing the voice echo through the dreamscape. Maxine looks at her other, "Looks like our time is up. Amy once you wake up, start looking for our necklace."

*AMY!*

Amy looks up again then back at to two and replies, "Ok, but before I go, what can you tell about the two I am looking for?"

"You are going have find that out for your own, however; I will give you one clue," Maxine says with a smirk. Amy gives her an inquiring expression. "Let your heart be your guiding key. It will lead you to them."

"Wait that doesn't…"

The dreamscape starts to brighten up and fade away with Amy reaching out for them. The hooded man gives Amy thumbs up while saying, "Good luck, and we are pulling for you."

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"Amy! Amy! Come on sweetie you need to wake up," Bunnie says while gently shaking the pink hedgehog. "Amy time to get up."

Amy stirs for a second then sits up while rubbing her eyes, "Bunnie what are you doing? Why are you waking me up in the middle of the night?"

"Honey," Bunnie starts while opening the blinds, "Its nine o'clock in morning."

"WHAT?!" Amy screams jumps out of bed rushing over to the bathroom. "BUNNIE WHY DIDN'T YOU GET ME UP EARLIER?! OH NO I'M SO LATE!"

"Amy."

The pink hedgehog pays not mind to Bunnie, but yelling as she races out of the bathroom with her face and some of her hair still dripping wet, "BUNNIE GET ALEX UP! HE NEEDS TO GET DRESS AND EAT! SHIT!"

The brown rabbit watches her race into the closet tearing through her clothes looking for something to wear. "Amy if you just…"

Amy cuts her off when she screams, "AHH! MY CONTACTS! I GOT TO PUT THEM IN! NO! NO! NO! WHAT I'M GOING TO WEAR?!"

Bunnie finally gets fed up steps in Amy's way as she speeds back to the bathroom. She puts her hand on Amy's shoulders stopping her so she can listen to her, "Amy calm down! First, today is Saturday, you don't go in until eleven. Second, Cream already took Alex to mom's house for the weekend. Mom will bring him by the restaurant around five o'clock. Third, before anything else you might want to put on some underwear unless you like running around butt naked."

Amy looks down at herself and freaks for a second seeing her nude body. She grabs the quilt off her bed to cover herself; then goes to her dresser to grab some underwear. She rushes into the bathroom slamming the door then calls out, "Bunnie if you knew it was Saturday, why did you wake me up so early?"

"Amy don't you remember, you asked me to go shopping with you, and we agreed to get everyone's school uniforms," Bunnie states.

Amy finishes putting on her underwear and contacts then walks out the bathroom while brushing her damp hair. "Wow! I completely forgot. My bad."

"It's all good girl, but what had your tail in such a knot?"

Amy walks into the closet and this time calmly looks through her clothes to find a decent outfit, "I had a crazy and I mean crazy dream last night."

"Oh! Come on dish girl!" Bunnie encourages. Amy shrugs her shoulders and tells everything she can remember. Once, Amy finishes telling everything she can remember then waits on Bunnie's response. After a couple minutes of thinking, she finally says, "Wow that is a crazy dream, so there are two of you, your parents are not dead, and you need to find two boys that will help you unlock your hidden power."

Amy finishes putting on her clothes then looks through her jewelry box looking for her necklace. "Yea, that's the most of it. Bunnie by chance have you seen my necklace?"

"No, I haven't seen it. So, are you going to try and find out if your dream is more than a dream?" Bunnie questions. Amy gives up looking for the necklace and grabs her purse. They walk out Amy's room then start to head out. Bunnie says while they are walking, "Amy answer my question."

As the two walk down the sidewalk, Amy smirks, "Come on Bunnie be real. Do you think I have time to follow some dream that didn't make any sense? Besides, it was just a dream not real."

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Nico sits in Aleena's office with a bored expression on his face while listening to a gentleman talk about a possible business venture that he would like to open in Mobius.

As he continues to listen to the presentation, his mind drifts back twenty-four hours ago while everyone is sitting on the hedgehog private plane heading back to San Francisco.

Flashback:

Sonic, Kenna, and Aleena sit in her private cabin as the hedgehog Queen says, "So taking your recent actions into consideration, I have decided not to implement the punishment that I was originally going to give for your disobedience. However, I cannot in full faith give you a complete pass, so I have an offer to give you. If you accept out for go the harsher parts of your punishment but if you don't well then…" Sonic agrees to go with Aleena's deferment and she explains, "Okay. Since I will be going on a worldwide tour visiting all the countries around the world, I will have you and your brother sit in for me and handle all the business propositions being made. It should be quite easy, you will have to listen to the presentation then decide if you're going to greenlight or deny their request. After that, you will send the request to the Council of Elders and you'll be done."

Nico says softly to himself after remembering the meeting with Aleena, "Easy my blue ass. This shit is boring as all hell."

The presenter stops for a moment and ask, "Your Majesty, do you have a question about the presentation?"

"No I'm following your presentation perfectly," Nico lies while pretending to look at the pad he provides for show. He motions for the presenter to continue his presentation, and after another twenty minutes, Nico says, "I am impress with your presentation and I can say I will be presenting it to the Council of Elders for final approval. With that I would like to thank you for your very informative presentation. Mika will show you out and have a very nice day."

The cat assistant comes into the office and escorts the businessman out. After she leads him out, she tells the werehog, "Prince Nico, your next appointment will be in twenty minutes and Capt. Adair is here to see you."

"Please Mika, it's just Nico."

"I'm sorry your majesty. Since you are acting in an official capacity and holding the official duty station, it is only proper that I address you by your title and station," Mika replies while putting the new pad on his desk.

Nico rolls his eyes and says gives a wave off while saying, "Fine. Please sent Kenna in."

The snow white dire wolf walks into the office wearing street clothes. She passes Mika while waving at Nico while saying, "Hey Nico how's it going?"

Nico leans back in his chair looking at another pad, "I'm beginning to think we made the wrong choice when we took mom's offer. My guess, mom had this world tour planned from the start."

Kenna leans on the desk looking at Nico, "Well, normally when you two are put in charge, things get done pretty quickly."

"Yeah, yeah, but it can be a real drag," Nico complains tossing the pad on his desk. He then turns around to look outside at the clear blue sky.

"Come on Nico it can't be that bad," Kenna states still leaning against the desk.

Nico cocks his head back to look at Kenna and says, "Oh yeah, look at that stack right there on the side of my desk."

Kenna looks at the twelve pads on the right side of the desk. She picks up one in each hand and looks at the one in her left hand first and says, "Well this person looks like they have an interesting proposal. They wanted to establish a new clothing line set in Mobius. If you think about it Sonia would definitely love this."

Nico crosses his legs still looking outside and says, "Yes she would love it she probably spent a third of her allowance each day on new dresses and outfits. She has bought over what 110 dresses since we got here on Earth." Kenna's eyes widen hearing the amount of dresses the werehog's sister has purchased. Nico continues with, "Although, read the next part of his proposal."

Kenna does as instructed, and Nico silently counts down until she reaches the part that he is wanting her to read. At the very second he counts down to zero Kenna shoots up from the desk holding the pad and saying, "What the hell with this person?!" Nico is his chair to look at Kenna and she continues her rant, "Nico is he kidding please tell me he's kidding!"

"We can't really say. I guess he didn't realize that almost all of Mobius are anthropomorphic animals, so he must've thought that people who enjoy wearing furs here on Earth might enjoy the same thing on Mobius."

"I hope you plan on denying this person's proposal."

"I don't know," Nico starts off. He places his right elbow on the table then leans his head against his hand while continuing, "I really don't see a reason why we should deny his request; although, I might inform him to change some of his inventory to be more well-suited for the people of Mobius. Check out the next proposal you'll think it's a real hoot."

Kenna looks at the proposal in her right hand, and she says after reading the proposal, "This one looks pretty promising, the petitioner wants to open up a full out car trading between Mobius and Earth."

Nico leans back in his chair again, "Yeah it is a good proposal in fact a very approved, but I have to tell them that Mobius doesn't use fossil fuels for our engines. In fact, I'm thinking that we might use some of Sonic's engineering prowess to start a company here to market this new engine idea. We can make a fortune here."

"Nico I think that you should be more focused on protecting the interest of the Moboian people than your own self-interest of making money."

He leans forward in his chair giving an understanding expression and says, "Yeah you're right, but will still keep that in my private to do list." Kenna rolls her eyes at Nico's statement and the werehog hands her another pad, "Here Kenna take a look at this one."

The she-wolf takes the pad and starts to scroll through the content not paying much attention to the finer details until she comes up to the first set of product pictures. The second she sees the pictures a shocked expression springs on her face and she gives a loud screech throwing the pad away from her. Nico starts busting out laughing seeing her reaction. From the outside Mika is doing some paperwork but she hears Kenna scream out, "NICO YOU JERK!" For quick second Mika is distracted from her paperwork hearing Kenna's yelling and Nico laughing; she hears Kenna shout, "TAKE THIS YOU JERK!" A lightning strike goes off in the office and Nico screams in pain. The cat secretary only shakes her head then goes back to work not paying no mind to the shenanigans taking place in the office.

Back inside the smoking office, the charred werehog releases a puff of smoke from his mouth with a wacky look on his face. Kenna angrily taps her finger on her folded arms while growling at the werehog prince, "I hope you remember that for the next time you jerk."

Nico shakes his head and body knocking off the black charred dust is swiftly going back to normal. He stands up and leaned against the window, "Jeez Kenna can't you take a joke, or does that bring up too many memories from the past?"

Kenna gives a threatening growl pointing her finger at Nico, "Do you want another shock?!"

Nico puts his hands up with a smirk on his face before saying, "Chill out. It's not like I picked that proposal myself it caught me off guard as well."

Kenna walks over to the other side of the room and grabs the pad that she threw. She scrolls through a couple more times and says while looking at the sample adult toys and objects, "I didn't think they would have something like this here."

Nico walks back over to his desk shuffling some papers around to look for something while saying, "Well everyone's got to have something to do. Besides I don't see the harm in it I mean we have it on Mobius it's cool that they have it on Earth."

Kenna tilts her head while turning the pad in opposite direction trying to figure out the purpose of a whole black leather outfit with two other additions in the front and the back, "What in the world is this?"

Nico walks over looking at the pad and says, "I hear it's an outfit or a suit that's used in some type of sex game or sexual activity. I think I saw something like this once before Silver's closet, but his was purple."

Kenna gives an odd look as she remembers back when she was tracking Nico and Sonic into one of the stores at the shopping mall. Her expression continues to deteriorate as she remembers going into the sex shop at the mall and seeing a similar type of outfit. She continues scroll through the pictures, "Wow, I didn't realize there were so many variations in sex toys. Did you decide whether or not to approve the request?"

"Yeah, I approved the moment I figured out what it was. Call it my way to get at mom for tricking me."

Kenna shakes her head while setting the pad on the desk. "So who is your next meeting with?"

Nico gives an angry expression, "Charles Acorn."

"What's with that look?" Kenna questions

Nico looks at Kenna, "What look?"

"Just then, when you said Charles Acorn, you had a look like you are pissed off," Kenna states.

"Oh it's nothing. I'm just tired; I have been cooped up in this office since five this morning. Plus, Sonic has been MIA in the dreamscape, so I no one else to talk to during these long ass back-to-back meetings."

"Huh," Kenna voices. "Once you finish with your last meeting, we can go out for a bit."

Mika's voice comes over the desk speaker, "Prince Nico, your eleven fifteen appointment has arrived."

Nico exhales then says, "Send him in. I'll come and find you once this meeting is over."

Kenna gives an approving nod before heading to the door. Just as she gets to the door, it opens with Mika escorting the squirrel business man inside. Charles spots the snow white she-wolf and greets her with, "Oh my, a female wolf, snow white fur, and beautiful features. You must be Captain Kenna Adair of the Royal Guard." He grabs her hand and kisses it while saying, "It is an honor to meet you face to face."

"Thank you."

Nico discreetly rolls his eyes hearing Charles greeting; then he says, "Kenna, I'll catch up with you later. Mr. Acorn please have a seat." Kenna heads out closing the door behind her. Charles sits in the chair in front of the desk, and Nico takes his seat then asks, "Mr. Acorn, would like anything to drink or refreshments?" He says no, and Nico continues with, "I have read over your proposal, and you want to build a condominium complex in East Mobius for tourist, and you want to build other tourist complexes around Mobius."

"Yes your majesty, I feel this project will generate high volumes of new income and stimulate the tourist market for both Earth and Mobius," Charles replies.

Nico looks over the pad with his proposal and notices something off, "Mr. Acorn, I am a little confused you are the CEO of Rose Corp., but you have listed here under the company name: Acorn Acquisitions."

"Yes that is my personal company. We are right now in the process of changing the company name," Charles replies.

"I see," Nico states. "Well, I have been ordered approved your proposal, but before anything else can happen the Council of Elders must approve your request." Nico writes down some information on a form then hands it to Charles while explaining, "Per protocol, you will be assigned to work with an Elder in order to make the final presentation to the full council. If they approve your proposal, then mom will make a formal announcement. With that, that will conclude this meeting."

Charles stands up before Nico and shakes his hand. Before walking out, Charles says, "Prince Nico, my daughter, Sally, wanted me to pass along that she has some free time coming, so she wants to go on a date with you when you have some time."

Nico looks up for some paperwork in the desk while saying, "Oh that's right. Umm… give Mika your private number, and she will schedule a time for us to me. Now if you excuse me."

"Of course your majesty, and thank you," Charles states before walking out the office.

After hearing the door the shut, Nico stops his fake search and sits back in his chair to look over Charles proposal. "What is mom thinking? Ah, if mom knew the kind of shit he was involved, she would drop his ass like a bad habit. So how do we get mom see the truth?"

While the werehog is thinking, Mika comes into the office and says, "Prince Nico, you have finished all the meetings for today and are free to go. Tomorrow morning, I will be bring the briefing packets for Monday, and I will also set up all other meeting for the remainder of the week. I will also contact Ms. Acorn to schedule your date. Any questions?"

Nico shakes his head no then stands up to head for the door. While Mika goes to his desk to straighten things up, "Oh before I forget, your majesty, Cortana called to let you know that a package is ready for you from DECSEC. Also, Queen Aleena says when you had some free time; she wants you to get a car."

"Awesome thanks Mika," he replies heading out of the office.

Nico heads to his room and hears Kenna call out from the common room, "Hey Nico!" She meets him the hallway, "You all finished?"

"Yup, I gonna change my clothes; then we can head out." Kenna nods then heads back to the common room. Ten minutes later, Nico comes back out wearing black jeans, red shoes, blue shirt, and a black over shirt. He walks back to the common room to see Manic and Kenna laughing with tears in their eyes. "Hey, what's so funny?"

Manic looks at Nico and says in between laughing, "Sonia and Kana are." Nico gives a confused expression, and the green hedgehog explains, "Ok, you know we went to the DMV to get our licenses right?" The werehog sits down while replying 'yes'. "Cool, so check this out. Cortana and I passed with no problem, but Sonia and Kana didn't have it as easy. To start off, Sonia failed because she used her bike from home in the driving part. The second the examiner gave the go ahead; she peeled out and left the whole course in smoke. She was burning through the course so fast that the guy was yelling at her to stop, but things got really out of hand when she accidently hits the jet booster."

"No!" Nico says while trying to his best not burst out laughing.

"Yes! The bike took off and clashed into the building. As for Kana, he failed the driving part as well, but he failed because he got into an argument with a driver who cut him off."

"An argument?" Nico questions. "He normally doesn't argues with people."

"You're right he doesn't, but he blew a fireball at the other car melting the tire."

"Oh no!" Nico laughs out.

"Yes! Midna and Kell are handling the situation, but…"

Nico finishes, "Mom and Mizu are going to rise hell the moment they hear about it." Nico stands up and starts to move to the elevator, "Kenna, let's go before Mika comes and says I need to handle this." Kenna nods and quickly follows him to the elevator. Nico and Kenna walk into the elevator still giggling at their sibling actions. After a couple of seconds, Nico gets out, "Kenna, you know where we are heading right?"

"Yeah, I have the drivers waiting in the garage, and before you complain, until we have cars the security details have to drive us around," Kenna states. They reach the underground parking area where the black SUV is waiting.

The one guard steps up and asks, "Where are we heading sir?"

"A car dealership," Nico replies while getting to the backseat with Kenna.

The guard confirms the location; then they pull out. Nico looks out the window and Kenna says, "Nico, what are you thinking about?"

"Mom had me greenlight a proposal that really doesn't sit well with us. My instincts are telling me that not to trust this guy," Nico replies.

"Why would the queen greenlight something like that?"

"I don't know, but I do know I'm going to get to the bottom of this," Nico states.

"Hold up Nico, you're planning on doing something reckless? Because if you are…"

"Wooh! Wooh! I am not planning anything. The last thing, I want to do is cause trouble for you." Kenna gives an unconvinced expression. A second later, they arrive at the car dealership. The two get out and look at all the rows of cars lined up. "So, we split up and try to find one we like?"

"No, we go together! I'm not letting you out of my sight. Queen Aleena told me to stick to you like glue. We can start in the SUV and mini SUV line first. Come on let's go!" Kenna orders pushing Nico ahead of her. An hour later, the two make their way down the final aisle of cars. "So did you find anything you like?"

"Nah, nothing here really suits our taste. What about you?"

Kenna drags Nico back to aisle five with a blue Subaru SUV. "What do you think Nico?"

"It suits you Kenna." Nico waves for a sales person; then tells her, "Hello ma`am, she will take this one."

"Excellent, come with me and we will get the paperwork out of the way." The saleswoman leads them to the office and goes over all the paperwork and ends with, "How will you be paying Ms. Adair?"

Before Kenna answers, Nico says while giving her his debit card, "It's on me."

"Ok sir, how much would you like to put down?" she questions.

"I'll play the whole amount." Nico gives Kenna a big smile, "Consider it your reward for being such a great guard."

Kenna looks at Nico with narrowed eyes then says, "Thank you."

The saleswoman finishes last the parts of the paperwork; then she smiles while handing Kenna the car keys, "Well congratulations! I hope you enjoy your new car."

Kenna takes the keys with a gleeful smile, "Thank you so much!" The three head out the office to Kenna's new car. While the saleswoman holds the door open for the she-wolf, Nico talks with the security detail while Kenna gets into her car.

Nico walks back over the with the lead detail officer, "Hey Kenna, we have a problem."

"What's wrong?" Kenna questions

Nico points at the officer and he says, "Ma`am, you don't have auto insurance at this moment, and it would be illegal if we allow you to drive at this moment." Nico has his arms fold with a scolded look on his face. He continues, "I have an agent on the way to delivery and inspect the vehicle. If you want to ma`am we can…"

"No way!" Nico exclaims. Everyone looks at the werehog and he continues, "I not going back to until I have to. Look, call off your agent and you can take the car back."

"But sir…"

"Listen I know you are doing your job, but I don't plan on having a security detail tailing us all day," Nico states.

Kenna hands the keys to the lead agent while asking, "Nico that's all well and good, but I don't want to be walking all over the place. Since you have to be by my side…"

"Yeah…yeah…yeah! I got you." Nico pulls out his cellphone and makes a quick call. "Hey, yeah. Yeah we're really close to you. Thank you so much. Later."

The lead agent question, "Sir who did you just call?"

Nico puts his phone back into his pocket, "I called a taxi. He'll be here in a few minutes."

"Sir with all due respect, you can't just go off with a random driver that has not been vetted."

*Beep*

They turn to see a taxi car pulling up and Nico heads over first then starts chatting the driver. The lead agent turns to Kenna and says, "Ma`am, you have to understand our position on this. We can't guarantee the safety of the prince if he goes off with a random person." Kenna watches Nico laughing with driver as they continue talking. "Ma`am, if you want I…"

Kenna holds her hand up making the agent pause. "Nico and Sonic are good judges of character let see who they are talking with before we jump to any decisions." They walk over to Nico and driver; Kenna then asks, "Nico do know you him?"

Before Nico can answer the lead agent says, "Prince Nico, as lead for your protection detail, I will not allow you go anywhere with an unauthorized and non-vetted person."

Nico smirks then looks at the driver, "Should I or would you like to tell them him who you are?"

"Oh no Nico, I'll handle this," the driver says as he gets out of the vehicle.

The lead agent nearly losses it when he sees the driver, "Direct…director Sisko. I didn't know that you…"

"Yes, but I am the former director," Lewis states.

Kenna quickly questions, "Do you know him?"

"Yeah," the agent states. "He is Lewis Sisko the director of G.U.N."

"So, I take it that I am vetted and authorized."

The agent snaps to attention, "Yes sir!"

"Ok, well let's get going. I have an appointment to keep plus I'm getting hungry," Nico states while getting into the backseat of the Lewis' car. Kenna gets in on the other side. "Mr. Lewis will please take us to DECSEC shop." Lewis nods yes and pulls out of the car lot.

"So, Nico are you going to introduce me to your cute girlfriend?" Lewis asks looking through his rearview with a smirk.

Nico and Kenna burn red with embarrassment and Nico quickly says, "No…No…No! We're just good friends, and she is my bodyguard."

"Wait you need a bodyguard?" Lewis questions with a joking tone of voice.

"No… not really. I'm sure that you heard about the hell Sonic and I raised that first night we got here right." Lewis nods his head yes and the werehog continues with, "Well, as part of my plea deal, Kenna is my 24/7 babysitter."

"NICO!"

"It's the truth!" Nico states. She shuns him just as they arrive at the store. "Are you coming inside?" Kenna gets out and walks in without a word. Nico stands on the sidewalk at store; he exhales, "Boy I really put my foot in my mouth this time."

"You know, I would have used another word than babysitter," Lewis states with a sly smile.

Nico gives a cross smirk, "Yeah, I kinda figured that." Nico quickly heads into the shop hearing Lewis laughing in the background. When he walks in, he sees Kenna talking with a young woman. "Hey Kenna, about that crack I made…"

Sitara looks pass at Nico and quickly says while looking at Kenna, "Oh my gosh! Prince Sonic! You're Prince Sonic's personal bodyguard!"

Kenna cocks her head back with an evil grin as Nico walks up to them, "Yup! After all, he's too much of a baby to look out for his self."

Nico rolls his eyes just as he stops next to the she-wolf, "Yeah! I deserve that. It's nice to meet you…?"

"Sitara your majesty. Prince Sonic, my friends and I were watching live stream when you were fighting G.U.N. It was so awesome!"

Nico rubs the back of his head with a smile, "Thanks."

Sitara calls to back of store, "Josh, Horatio, Wrench, Marcus get out here! Prince Sonic is here!"

A deal of shuttling and rattling come from the back before the four men come racing out. Nico watches as Horatio, Wrench, and Marcus fall over each other while coming out the door. Josh is the last one to walk out and easily steps over others. He give a quick wave then looks at his friends struggling to get up. Nico smirks and walks over to help them up while greeting them, "Hi it's nice to meet you, but I'm not Sonic. I'm his brother Nico." After they all get up, they give him a confused expression. "During that chase with G.U.N, I am the bigger and more muscled version that put the sinkhole in front of city hall. That was me in my true form." They still confused until Nico go back into his normal form and explains why he is in his hedgehog form.

Wrench says with the LED on his mask reflect his facial animated expression, "Oh I see, that is so cool! What's it's like to have another person running around in your head?"

Sitara gives him a quick shove, "What he means is what it is like to share a body?"

Nico taps his chin thinking for a second then says, "Well, it can be overwhelming at times, but at other times it can be a real game changer."

"Wow!" Wrench exclaims. "So, can I have your autograph?"

Nico snickers and signs something for everyone. Once done, the werehog prince asks, "Marcus, you sent me a message that you were able to get more data from dad's disk?"

"Yeah," the teenage hacker nods motioning Nico to follow him. They head upstairs to Marcus's personal workspace. "Ok, check this out." He pulls up the file on the computer screen. "Nico, what do you make of this?"

Nico and Kenna look at the screen and see the strange writing. Nico shakes his head, "What the hell this?!"

"King Sora must have been drunk when he wrote this," Kenna comments.

"Marcus was your computer sick or something?"

He shakes his head no and turn back to his keyboard, "No, I checked the code four times to see if it was some kind of malfunction when recompiling the data, but everything come out in the its original state."

Nico downloads the data then says, "I'll have Cortana and Sonic look at it and see if they can make heads or tails of this. By the way, how much more data is still on the disk?"

Marcus turns back around, "Here's the crazy thing. I have recompiled over eighty gigabytes of data, but its only accounting for two percent of the total disk. I have never seen a disk like this; where did he get it?"

Nico finishes the download and says, "I have no clue, but this investigation is producing more questions and answers." They head downstairs while Nico continues with, "Marcus keep decrypting disk and let us know when you have another data package ready and call us ASAP. I might…" Nico glances out the window and sees a broken down retro thunder bird with a for sale sign. He stops walking to look at the car. "Marcus, that car in your backyard how much is it going for?"

"Oh, I think Sitara's mom is selling it for a thousand dollars."

Nico races pass him heading to the backyard. The werehog looks over the car; then he is join by everyone else. "Sitara, your mom wants a thousand dollars for this car right?" She nods yes, and Nico continues with, "Tell her it's sold."

"Nico it's going to take weeks to get his car up and running," Kenna states.

Wrench chimes in with, "I can have this baby up and running in no time."

"Perfect," Nico replies then throw his arm over Wrench's shoulder as the werehog says, "While you're at it, I have a couple more toys, gadgets, and special things I want added." The two walk off and continue to talk about the mods Nico wants added. Ten minutes later, they finish their conversation and rejoin the others. Nico hears his stomach growl then says, "Hey Kenna you ready? I need a bite."

"Yeah fine let's go," she replies walking towards the door.

"See you later everyone," Nico states before heading out the door. He sees Kenna in the backseat of the taxi. He steps up to the window and sees a frown on her face. "Kenna are you still mad about what I said?" She turns her head away from him while huffing. Nico exhales while stepping back. He folds his arms thinking for a minute; an idea pops up making him snap his fingers. He leans against the backdoor while saying, "Kenna, what if I told you that I know someone who has intel on your dad." In less than a second, the door flies open knocking the werehog face first on the ground. Nico rubs his face while saying, "Ouch that hurts. Kenna…"

The she-wolf flips Nico on his back then grabs his over shirt collar while violently shaking him back and forth while yelling at him, "WHAT DO YOU KNOW?! TELL ME NOW!"

Nico grabs Kenna's forearms and says, "Kenna two things! One, calm down! Two, you might want to get off of me because people are watching!"

Kenna looks to the left then right to see a gathering crowd. She looks back ahead to see the members of DECSEC looking out the window; then she look at Nico. Her face glows beat red before she jumps off the werehog. He gets up while straightening and brushing off his clothes; then he waves at the people while saying, "Nothing to see here."

Lewis calls out to them after they get back in the cab, "Where are we heading to Nico?"

"The Golden Gate Grill please, and lunch is on me," Nico states.

As they pull out into traffic, Kenna starts to complain, "Nico, we don't…"

"Chill out Kenna, I promise it's all in the same place food and information." Fifteen minutes later, they arrive at the grill. "Mr. Lewis, if you want lunch is on me today."

"Why thank you Nico," Lewis thanks while parking the car.

They all get out of the car and head inside. The restaurant is pretty full with Cream, Blaze, and Cosmo moving from table to table. Blaze calls out hearing them come in, "Have a seat anywhere." She looks at them as they start to sit down and in a blink she rushes over and starts to yell in Nico's face, "OH HELL! NOT TO DAY! NO AND I MEAN NO! I DON'T CARE IF YOU ARE ROYALTY! NO CHILIDOGS!"

Nico starts to laugh at Blaze's statement drawing confused expressions to his reactions. He keeps laughing before saying, "I knew this would happen. Let me guess, you think I am Sonic right? Ha aha!"

"Yeah, you are Prince Sonic! Aren't you?"

Kenna and Lewis shakes their heads while giggling. From behind her, she hears Leo say, "Unfortunately Blaze that is not Sonic," he stops next to his niece and continues, "You are talking or should I say shouting at his twin brother."

"What?!" the purple feline voices. Looking at the bulker, slightly taller, and darker blue hedgehog. "You do look a little different."

He nods his head and greets her with a smile, "I'm Nico Werehog nice to meet you." Blaze nods her head in response, and Nico continues while rubbing the back of his head with a now goofy smile, "Sorry about my bro. I don't know where he gets it from, but thank you for humoring his addiction. If it's cool with you may we have some menus?"

"Oh yes! Sure one second," she panics quickly grabbing the menus and silverware.

"One for me too Blaze, I'll be joining them," Leo states.

"How long has it been Leo?" Lewis questions before drinking some water.

"Oh, give or take three years. We still need to the settle that deal between us," Leo replies.

Nico finishes drinking his water and sets his glass down before saying, "You two have beef?"

Lewis and Leo start to laugh hearing Nico statement. Lewis says, "No, but yes." Nico and Kenna give confuse expression before Lewis continues, "Leo and I have a running bet on who the better cook is. Leo has never been able to beat my Bayou Cajun Gumbo."

"Ha! Don't even try me Lewis! You know good and well that my San-Fran Fried Fish is second to none," Leo fires back with a smirk.

The men continue their friendly argument until Nico chimes in, "Sorry guys, but your dishes won't hold a candle to my Werehog Shish Kebabs." Lewis and Leo stop arguing and look at Nico with cold deadly eyes. Nico gives a confident look staring back at the two men.

Lewis slightly rises his left eye brow and says without turning his head, "Leo."

"Fully stocked and ready."

Blaze comes back to the table, but her tail flares sensing the tension three men. Nico chimes, "You think you're ready for this?!"

"Kid, you're about to enter a whole world of hurt," Lewis says with a growing smirk.

Leo chimes in after with, "Come on Nico, you may be becoming a great king and hero, but do you think you're ready to take on two masters like us."

Nico stands up from his chair while saying, "Fine then, let our food do the talking!"

"Game on," Leo and Lewis say in unison before three men head to the kitchen.

After minute later, Blaze looks back the table with only Kenna sitting there drinking her water. Blaze grasp for words while looking Kenna then back towards the kitchen. Just as she finally comes up with the right words, everything is blown away when she hears orchestra of pots, pans and other cookware ringing out from the kitchen. A second after, Big and Cream come racing out. The purple cat goes up to her older brother, "Big what happened?"

"Uncle Leo, that prince guy, and some other guy are going ham inside," Big replies looking back at the kitchen window.

Kenna starts laughing drawing their attention then looks at the restaurant workers and says, "You guys might want to take a seat because if Mr. Leo and Mr. Lewis are anything like Nico; it's best that you let them finish."

Blaze exhales and goes to check on the other customers. As Blaze walks to the other side of the dining room, Amy and Bunnie walk in. The pink hedgehog says, "Bunnie, do you really think I looked good in that red and white dress?"

"Yeah, Amy if you got that dress, boys' jaws will be dropping all over," Bunnie states as they head to the kitchen.

"Oh yeah, that's the last thing I need boys staring at me."

Blaze sees the two teenagers heading to the kitchen door. She quickly calls out, "Bunnie. Amy. Hold on, don't go in there."

They turn around to look at Blaze and Amy asks, "What is going on Blaze?"

"Uncle Leo is in cook off with two other guys."

"What?" they question, and Amy follows up with, "Who is Uncle Leo going up against?"

"Well, one is uncle's friends from the past. The other one is that chilidog nut case Prince Sonic, but he is calling himself Nico." The two girls give a confused expression. The purple cat points at Kenna and adds, "That girl came with Nico, and she said that we should just let them be until they finish."

"Ok," Bunnie states taking Amy's bag and putting it behind the counter. Forty minutes later, the grill in empty except one anther gentleman who has nose buried in the menu. Everyone else sit at different tables. "Come on, it's been over forty minutes. What are they doing in there?"

Kenna looks at her watch then says, "Hum… Normally he doesn't take this long to make food."

From the other side of her table Blaze says, "Well, from what you told me, back home Nico and Sonic have the kitchen to their selves. Here, I don't think that they can cook and prepare like they want."

"AHHH! NICO! WATCH WHERE YOU ARE THROWING THAT THING!"

"I got a sneaking suspicion that he is doing what he normally does," Kenna smirks with a snicker. "However, that could mean they are almost done."

Just as Kenna finishes her statement, the three cooks come out the kitchen with their creations on the food cart. They roll them out to everyone; then Nico says after wiping his forehead, "Thanks for waiting, so we decided that one of you should be the judge. Which one, we couldn't decide."

Leo says, "At first, I would say that Blaze should judge, but Lewis brought an up good point that she might be bias."

Nico then chimes in, "Then, I suggested Kenna should be the judge because she has eating our cooking before and can tell if my cooking is off."

Lewis says, "But I disagreed again, because it wouldn't be fair to Nico since she already knows what his food tastes like."

Amy steps forward smelling the mouthing watering food, "Then who can judge the food?"

"Hoo! Ho! Ho! Ho!" Blaze and the others cringle hearing the familiar laugh echo out. The only customer left in the diner lays his menu down stands up from the booth. The man wears brown trench and hat like something from an old spy movie. He walks up to everyone keeping his face shaded by hat and says as stops in front of them, "Only one who has the expertise of a culinary explorer can pass judgement on a competition on which food is best."

They all watch as he continues to boost about his experience, Amy voices, "Oh brother here we go."

"Only I," the man pulls off his hat and trench coat revealing a blue skin male with long white hair. He is dressed in a black and red tailor suit. He continues saying, "Whis Angel can make that decision."

Nico and Kenna give confused looks to each other, and Nico creeps over to Amy watching Whis sniff and inspect the food. Nico asks, "Who is this guy?"

Amy exhales watching him, "He is a big-time food critic and well renowned journalist for nationwide magazines. Plus no one knows, but her has the appetite of a hippo yet never gains any weight."

Whis looks at Amy and Nico, "And I have super hearing just to add." Amy's eyes bug out at hearing his statement. He then smiles and says, "It's alright Amy not many people know my best kept secret." He turns to Lewis then says, "However, you Mr. Lewis Sisko or should I say Admiral Lewis Sisko former director and founder of the Guardian Units of Nations." He walks over with a sly smile, "Not many people would know that you are not only famous for your achievements in military command, but you garnished quite a reputation for your cooking skills. In truth, like Leo, you would be considered a master in the culinary arts especially when it comes to Cajun dishes. You also have been training your son Ben in your family tradition of art of cooking." Lewis smiles in response; then Whis looks at Nico, "The big enigma or in truth the big two enigmas are you and Prince Sonic."

Nico smiles back, "What have you heard about us?"

"Your majesty, one does not give away all their secrets, but I can tell you that I have firsthand accounts regarding your skills. For the time being, I have classified the two of you as journeymen, but depending on your dish, I will determine if you should be leveled up."

"Thanks! I guess," Nico replies.

"Now, let us begin the judging," Whis states walking over to Leo's dish. He puts a piece on his plate along with some of Leo's homemade fish sauce. He looks over the dish smelling it first before scooping up an amount on his fork. He puts the food into him mouth and slowly chews savoring every bite. Once he swallows, Whis falls still and quiet until his eyes spring open wide and starts a massive praise monolog, "Oh great merciful heavens! How can something of great wonderment exist?! The taste of the golden crisp fried outer shell is so rich with herbs and spices. Each bite is filled with crispy crunchy flakey rich flavor. Oh! The meat is in a league all its own! You can taste the rich apple wood smoke in the flesh water cod. Oh, I must not forget the homemade sauce that goes with the dish. It goes without saying, but the sauce only heightens the favors within." He finishes off the sample uses his wipes his mouth. Whis sets the plate down then looks at Leo with a serious expression. "Leo, how could you be so cruel? You hided a dish this from me for years. Without a doubt, you would have won ten no twelve of the last cooking competitions."

Leo smirks, "Whis isn't it a little early to make that judgment?"

"Yes, you are correct. Lewis your dish is next," Whis states walking over to Lewis' food cart. Lewis puts the gumbo into a bowl then puts a scoop of white rice with green chives. Whis takes the bowl sniffing the sweet spicy boiled shrimp and crab. He gets a spoon full gentle blowing it to cool the food; then he puts the spoon into his mouth. A second later, the spoon is removed, and Whis chews the food savoring the flavor. He continues to chew then swallows. His eyes water feeling the heat from the spices causing his eyes close. He starts to fall backwards, but he suddenly stops then springs straight up with a glittering smile. "AAAHHHHH! Wonders of wonders! What an amazing wonder! Oh, Lewis how can this be possible?! Your food can only be described as if taken from a dimension of purity and wonder. The soup is rich with sweetness and spicy. Each of my taste buds is brought to life with these unimaginable flavors, but the wonder does not end there. The boiled shrimp turns to liquid gold in your mouth after a few bites. The buttery sweet streamed vegetables that are then boiled with the rest of the gumbo are so soft and chewy. However, the crowning top of rice and herd, balances out the powerful flavors with a calming bland taste." Whis grabs hold of Lewis' hand with tears streaming down the side of his face. "Lewis, why do you deny the world your talented hands that craft wonderful foods like this? Sir I plead to you, please become a chef for the people."

Lewis smirks, "Whis I… I will talk to Mary about it." Whis replies with a series of thank you.

"Whis!" Leo calls out getting his attention, "Don't keep Nico waiting."

The light blue man releases Lewis's hand and looks at Nico with a smile. The werehog prince has his arms folded watching everything unfold. Whis walks over to the final cart and is shocked by the unique smell coming from the kebabs. Whis' mouth starts to waters from the smell of the food. ~Interesting, the smell is so unique yet it is familiar. I must be on my guard or this dish could be overwhelming. ~ Whis picks up one of the kebabs slowly bring it to his mouth. He takes a bite of the cube steak and grilled vegetables pulling them from the metal spear. He munches down on the food then swallows. The whole room is dead silent waiting for a response from the famous food critic. After couple more moments, Whis glows with joy as the flavor of the food flows through his body. "This can't be possible! I have been a culinary explorer for twenty years. In my travels, my taste buds have experienced foods from all around the world. There has been no flavor, seasoning, or cooking style that I have ever experienced." He falls to his knees with tears of joy, "But, your majesty's dish is beyond anything I can described."

Kenna gives a quick huff and grabs one of the kebabs. She quickly gobbles it down then says, "Nico, what's going on? It tastes a little off!"

Nico exhales, "Yeah, you kinda figured out my little secret. Sonic and I normally cook these together, and I couldn't tenderize the meat with the other ingredients like normal. Plus, I was on a tight time schedule."

Nico and the others bust out laughing. Whis' face becomes shrouded in shadow hearing everything Nico just said and everyone's reactions. He stands back up like the undead and swiftly moves over to the werehog standing in front of him making everyone fall silent. Whis puts his hand on Nico's shoulder squeezing it with unseen strength making Kenna nearly jump between them. Nico waves her off before looking back at the coated face of the blue critic; then Whis says in a lone ominous tone, "Prince Nico, are you telling me that this wonder of culinary creation is not your best work because your brother was not here and you could not prepare it like normal?"

Nico nods then says, "And not enough time, but yeah."

Leo giggles adding, "I think the same can be said about mine and Lewis' dish. Right Lewis?"

"Yup, and we didn't have equipment for us to each use," Lewis states.

Whis then says while tightening his grip, "Your majesty, then I must make this one demand not just to you and your brother, Leo, and Lewis. All of you much enter the Iron Masters contest to show us the full power you possess." He releases Nico's shoulder and quickly turns around to have a what can only be described as a super bright spotlight from above shining down on Whis while he holds his hands up the heavens while saying, "Then and only then can we, culinary explorers, choses which dish is the ultimate in culinary delicacies."

Nico gives an unimpressed expression while looking at Whis with the spotlight shining down on him. "How did you… nah doesn't matter. If you're asking us to be a part of this competition, then yeah Sonic and I will do it."

Lewis fellows up with a smirk, "The Iron Masters… why not, I am retired, I wanted the chance to sharpen in my skills, and Mary will probably enjoy that I am picking up my favorite more often. Alright Whis count me in."

Leo quickly interjects, "Count me in as well! There's no way, I'm going to let you two that easy."

Whis' face brighten up with overwhelming joy, "Wonderful, I will put your names in the roster."

Cream hands out plates to everyone so they can eat the dishes. Amy quickly asks, "Hey Whis, if you came here to just get Uncle Leo to join this contest, what was the purpose of the Humpy Bulgur look?"

"Oh, I am also on assignment for O Magazine. They wanted an article on the top ten Bay area restaurants, and naturally I had to come to here."

Leo inquires, "So where do we rank?"

Whis quickly thanks Cream for the plate and puts food on his plate. "Oh come now Leo, you know I never reveal the conclusion of my research prior to writing my column. Although, I will say I did saved the best for last."

Leo smirks, "I get what you're saying. Well, I look forward to seeing the results." Everyone gives praise for Whis' decision. They all sit down before digging into their plates.

An hour and half pass pushing it close to two-thirty, and Amy, Blaze, and the others start to clean up after they wave good bye to Whis. Nico, Kenna, Lewis, and Leo sit together drinking water, tea, or coffee. Kenna puts down her cup of coffee then says, "Alright, I have waited long enough; Mr. Leo, Nico said that you know our dads and what they were doing. I don't mean to sound pushy or harsh, but I want you to tell me everything!"

Leo smirks before drinking his tea, "Well, I'm not the only one you should be grilling, Lewis was there with us on that day before Sora and Talon headed out."

"This is perfect!" Kenna exclaims pulling out notebook and pen. "Alright, what was their mission?"

Lewis is the first to answer, "At first, Sora brought his older children to be fostered in GUN. After they were settled in, Sora went to see... oh," he stops in the middle of his sentence when he glances over to Amy cleaning up a table.

Nico sees him staring off in, "Is there something wrong Mr. Lewis?" He looks at Nico shaking his head no. "So, who was dad going to meet after he dropped off our older siblings?"

"Oh that, it was an old family friend. I don't remember if Sora told me who it was."

Leo catching on, "Yeah it was someone from his village."

"Hold on! Hold on!" Kenna exclaims, "With all respect, I know the king movements are important, but what if anything does this have to do with my dad or the mission they are on?"

Leo replies, "Talon was the one coordinating everything."

"Mr. Leo that doesn't explain anything about what my dad was doing, or where he went afterwards with King Sora."

"Kenna give the man a minute to explain before you start asking a thousand and one questions."

"Nico, we have different reasons why we want to find our dads. We all know that you want to knock him out, but I need answers from him." Nico folds his arms while leaning back in his chair was a sour expression. Kenna only realizes the string of her words after looking at her friend. "Nico, I…"

"No Kenna, you're right we do have different reasons."

Leo sees the growing tension between the two then says, "Kenna, Nico, what you two are feeling right now is the same way I felt before Sora and Talon left." Leo looks out the window remembering the last moments with Sora and Talon.

---

~~~~~Flashback~~~~~

Rain slams against the window with the pitch-black sky occasionally being lite up by the flash of lightening. Sora, Talan, Lewis, and Leo sit in his restaurant. Leo hits the table while yelling, "SORA ARE YOU FUCKING OUT OF YOUR MIND!"

Lewis sits in his GUN uniform drinking coffee then comments, "Leo calm down. You are over reacting."

Leo flops down in the chair then says in a calmer voice, "Fine I'll calm down, but Sora, what you're planning is completely nuts and dangerous!"

Sora drinks his coffee then says, "I know what I am suggesting is dangerous, but to find the darkness we have to go the world-in-between. The people there may know what kind of threat we are facing."

Leo gives an unconvinced look, and Talon adds, "Leo, I am with you on this one. Sora, we are taking on hell of risk with this move. We don't know if what tribal elder Shadow Fang said about this world-in-between exists."

"Shadow Fang and my dad go back a long way so any info he gives I know it good. One the other hand Talon, you don't have to go with me on this part. I can handle it myself," Sora fires back.

Talon shakes his head no, "Forget it, Aleena was deadly clear in her orders. If you jump in a hole, I better be two steps behind you. You think I am gonna be the one to her that you got yourself lost, eaten, or who knows what. Uh huh! Hell no!"

Sora chucks, "Come on Talon, Aleena can't be that scary when she is mad."

"You can only say that because you're sleeping with her. Hell, you have a way to pacify her right in between your legs," Talon jokes back.

"Ha, remind me to tell you about how Aleena made me sleep on the couch for two weeks straight because I sneezed."

Leo jumps back in with, "That's nice and all, but Sora you haven't given me a reason why I can't go with you."

Sora holds up his hand and puts a finger up while saying, "Two reasons. One, it doesn't take a wolf's nose to tell that your ankle is still bleeding from the fight with Sharp Claw."

Leo quickly fires, "You're the one who said that he would teach me your tribe's martial arts. How was I supposed to know that the fighting style included biting?!"

Sora shakes his head and says while putting up his second finger, "Two, Blaze is going to need you."

"Lewis can handle her while I'm with you."

"Forget it Leo!" Lewis exclaims with an annoyed tone. "I have enough children to worry about."

Leo gives an equal annoyed look to Lewis. Sora lowers his hand while saying, "Don't get me wrong Leo; even with a broken foot, you would be a great help. However, you have another role to play; we need you to be our lifeline."

"Lifeline?" Leo and Lewis say in unison.

Sora nods yes and explains, "Since Talon and I are heading into the unknown, I need someone to pass on what I have left clues to help find us if we go missing." He reaches into his over shirt and pulls out a rectangle wood like pad with strange writings and the shape of fang at the bottom. He hands it to Leo, while saying, "Here take it."

Leo takes hold of the pad looking at the writing, "Sora what is this?"

"If my kids come looking for me, this tablet contains not only a clue but a part of their heritage."

"But who can read this besides you? I did you leave Shadow and his siblings a way to decrypt this?"

"No, in fact I don't think my kids here will come looking for that," Sora answers before drinking some coffee.

"Ok, so who should I be expecting to come get this pad of yours?"

Sora smirks after finishing the last of his coffee. "Sonic and Nico."

"Who?" Leo questions.

"Sora!" Talon exclaims. "Nico! I taught you sealed him away forever under the orders from the Council of Elders!"

Sora gives an evil grin, "Ha! Those assholes elders can shove it! Nico is just as much my son as Sonic is, and I will not punish Nico because he inherited my werehog genes. If they have a problem with it, then they can take it up with Nico, Sonic, and I when it comes time."

Talon smirks, "I figured you and Aleena had something planned."

Sora stands up, "Alright time we get going. Leo. Lewis. Good luck hopefully we will be able to put an end to this very soon. If anything happens to us, just make sure that Sonic and Nico get that pad. Lewis please take care of our kids. Leo please protect that tablet it will become one of the greatest treasures to Sonic and Nico. Especially for Nico because when the time comes that he wants to know who he is the tribe will help him." Sora shakes Leo and Lewis' hand goodbye. The hedgehog king summons a silver and gold long sword. He points it straight ahead of him making a beam of light shot out. The light opens a light portal with small touches of different colors. Sora looks at Talon, "You ready Talon?"

"Just one second," Talon replies pulling a letter out of his trench coat. He looks at Leo while handing the letter to Leo. "I know this a long shot, but if Aleena comes to Earth with any of my children, please give this to them." Talon walks over to the portal with Sora.

They both look back at Leo and Lewis; Sora says, "Leo also give my kids this message, 'May your heart be your guiding key.' Let's go Talon!"

Sora dashes into the portal. "Yes, your majesty!" Talon replies running behind him. They disappear into light portal then quickly closes in a bright flash.

---

"Those were the last words from them before they went into that portal," Leo finishes while putting the wood tablet and letter on the table. Kenna quickly grabs the letter and opens it. While she reads the letter, Nico picks up the tablet then looks it over. "Sora said that you should be able to read it."

"I saw writing like this earlier from a disk that dad left behind, but I can't read it," Nico states picking up the tablet. "But I'll hold on to this for the time being." He looks at Kenna who is intensely reading over the letter, and she turns the page with her eyes swiftly moving back and forth. A minute later, she finishes by throwing the letter down to the table. "Is everything ok Kenna? You look as if you're going rain down a hell of lightning."

Kenna's face sours with her arms folded, "My papa is an asshole!"

Nico smirks, "Do tell."

"Not unless, you want to be target of that lightning," Kenna replies. "Instead of worrying about my family focus on yours. If Sonic can't decipher that thing, what will your next move be?"

Nico leans back and turns his head to look at the pink hedgehog cleaning up plates. The werehog smirks quickly thinking, "I don't know yet."

"That sounds like what you would normally do," Kenna replies. She looks at her watch then says, "It's hitting near four o'clock, we should start heading back."

"What?! Come on Kenna, I have been stuck in that office almost all day."

"Nico don't you have more work to do?"

"Yeah, but I have been doing back to back meetings since I got up."

She gives a low growl then says, "Nico, you have royal duties and commitments to do and you can't…"

"Blah... blah… blah… BLAH!" Nico interrupts. "Kenna, you know me well enough that Sonic and I will always finish any kind of work that is put in front of us. Mr. Leo are there any events or activities a fun loving werehog like myself can get into?"

"NICO!" Kenna exclaims with small amounts of electrical sparks.

"Chill out Kenna. Look if you force me to go back, I'll just figure a way to escape."

Kenna continues to fume at Nico's lax view of work Lewis and Leo can't help but smile at two young people. After a minute of them arguing, Leo says, "Well there is an event happening in the park." Nico and Kenna stop arguing and pay attention to Leo as he continues, "It's called the World Music Festival. The host is a popular radio DJ Tom Joyner. If you donate money to their fundraiser, you can sing on the main stage."

Nico quickly pops up out his sit and says, "That's perfect distraction for an overworked werehog. Now if you please excuse me. BATHROOM!" Nico dashes from table straight to the restrooms.

"Kenna," Lewis says drawing her attention. "I don't know what Talon wrote in that letter, but whatever it was he told you shouldn't be mad about it."

Kenna remains quiet thinking about Talon's words. Nico comes back with a relieved look on his face. Before he sits back down at the table, Nico calls over, "Hey Amy would you please write a bill for our meals?"

Leo looks at Nico, "You don't have worry about paying."

"I would feel bad if I didn't contribute something towards the supplies we used for our cook off," Nico replies. Amy comes up to the table handing the check folder to Nico. He nods seeing the bill and puts his debit card with something else before handing it back to Amy.

Amy walks over to the register and opens the check folder to get the card and sees a folded piece of paper. She opens it and reads Nico's note. Her face is filled with surprise after reading the note then looks at Nico chatting with the other. As if sensing her glaze, Nico gives a sideway view with an evil smirk showing some of his fangs. Her shock soon turns to anger, but she quickly covers up her emotions. She swipes the card gets the receipt and writes her reply. Amy takes everything back to the table and hands it back to Nico. She quickly walks away before Nico opens the folder and looks receipt with Amy's reply. He gives a satisfied expression, and Kenna askes, "What's with that look Nico?"

"Oh nothing," he replies putting his stuff into his pocket and gets up from the table. "Mr. Lewis, are you going to come with us?"

"Nah, Leo and I have a little more to catch up on. You two go have fun," Lewis replies with a smile.

Nico nods and heads for the door with Kenna quickly on his heels. Amy walks up to Leo's table and asks, "Uncle Leo, do you mind if I take a break for about thirty minutes?"

"Sure, but you just got here. Are you ok Amy?"

"Yeah, I just need a little fresh air. All that heavy food is making me sleep. A walk will help me digest."

"Ok, just be back before four thirty."

The pink hedgehog hugs him while saying, "Thank you."

Nico and Kenna walk through the park hearing the music echoing through the air. They walk over the hill and see a ton of people cheering and dancing to the person singing on stage. They bob heads to the sound and singing. Once the song ends, a middle-age African-American man in navy blue suit without a tie walks to the center of the stage as the current singer bows then shakes Tom's hand, "Give up for Aloe Blacc!" The crowd gives another powerful cheer and applause for the singer before he walks off stage. Tom finishes clapping then looks at his paper while saying into microphone, "Alright San-Francisco, we are getting closer and closer to our goal of five million dollars for inner city school students so they can buy school supplies. If you want to donate, come down to the table near the stage entrance, and you can sing any song up on stage."

Nico smirks hearing the announcer and the gears in his mind starts to spin. A second later, Sonic appears in spirit form stretching his arms while yawning. ~Where have you been? ~

~I was up late working with the orb, so what's up? ~ Nico explains everything to Sonic and the plan that he came up with involving the festival in the park. ~My…my… my dear brother, you have grown quite clever. Alright, I am in. I'll follow your lead, but let's make sure that we give everyone a great show. After all, we have a reputation to keep up. ~

"Right," Nico voices with a smile.

"What's right?" Kenna questions looking at Nico. She quickly adds, "What's with that smile?"

Nico stutters for a second then replies, "Nothing is right! No I mean Sonic was right! No! No! I mean Sonic and I agreed that we would donate to their fundraiser."

"Uh huh… and your smile?" Kenna questions with an untrusting glaze.

"Well…" Nico trails off; then he snaps, "Hey wait what is wrong with us smiling? Kenna, we are just wanting to have some fun."

Nico states making their way down to the stage table. Kenna quickly follows behind him saying, "Nico, when you do something fun is it means chaos for some and all."

Nico smirks, "Well, a little chaos never hurts anyone."

They reach the table and a lady hands the werehog a clipboard, so he fill out his information. Kenna replies while Nico fills out the paper, "No Nico, when it comes to Sonic and you there is no such thing as small."

Nico finishes the paperwork and smiles saying, "Thank you Kenna."

She quickly realizes her choices of words and tries to clear up her statement, but one of the stage hands calls Nico's name. The werehog bolts off leaving her stuck with her last statement. Tom is handed list of the latest donators and singers. "Alright San Francisco, I have got a real treat for you right now! You heard of them one night out of the blue going two-on-one with the members of GUN and won. You saw them and their family defend our world from the evil Dr. Eggman." The crowd starts cheering wildly knowing who Tom is talking about. "Yeah! San-Fran you know I talking about! Give it for Princes Sonic and Nico!"

The whole crowd erupts in applauses and cheers when Nico walks out on stage with Tom. The werehog shakes Tom hand and is given a minute to speak. "Thank you Mr. Joyner for allowing me to be a part of this event."

"Now, I have to ask to Prince Nico what are brought you hear today?" Tom questions.

"Well, Sonic and I were going stir crazy sitting in our office, so we decided to go out and have some fun. And from the looks of this group, you're having a Mobotropolis size party! So we had to come and join this super awesome party!"

"Well we are more than happy to have you join us, so I was told that you had an announcement," Tom adds.

"Yeah! You're here today to raise money for inner city students," Nico starts off. Tom answers yes, and Nico continues, "You're goal was five million dollars right?" Tom nods yes. "The people here have shown my family and me great kindness. Since Queen Aleena is doing a world tour, she left Sonic and I in charge of public relationships. That being said, in order show our thanks, I, Nico Werehog as the crowned prince of the Moboian Empire, have donated ten million dollars."

Everyone gasps in shock hearing Nico's statement. "Your majesty, are you really serious about your donation?" Tom questions in pure shock.

Nico gives a sharp smile and points towards the grand total counter, "Check it out for yourself." Tom and crowd look at the counter and see it spike over ten million. A second later, the silence crowd erupt with thunderous cheers. Nico then says, "Educating the future generations is one of the greatest acts that we of today can do and help our worlds move towards a peaceful future."

"Prince Nico, I don't know what to say, but thank you!" Tom says with tears of joy in his eyes.

"You are very welcome! Please call just me Nico. Well, if it's ok with you, I think everyone is tired of me talking so let us give the people what they want to see."

"Of course Nico! What song are you planning on singing?"

"A song from by the last performer and Zedd," Nico replies.

"Well alright Nico, the stage is yours," Tom states before walking off stage.

The music starts to play and Nico takes center stage.

Living for tomorrow
Lost within a dream (Nico)

He makes is way to the edge of the stage holding the mic to close to him.

Tryna find the answer to the question
And it seems that love makes the world feel good (Nico)

The crowd sways to the music as Nico goes to the next verses.

Singing in the moonlight
Dancing in the rain
Let the sunshine through to lift your spirit once again
Cause love makes the world feel good

Nico jumps off the stage and walks through the audience.

Chasing after rainbows
Somewhere in the sky

He stops moving after twenty steps then points into the sky making the people look up in the blue sky. In a flash, Nico disappears using chaos control. Another flash goes off in the sky, and Sonic appears back flipping and lands were Nico was standing and starts singing.

And it feels so good
Oh yeah
And it feels so good
Oh yeah

Sonic starts dance offs with everyone.

And it feels so good
Oh yeah
And it feels so good
Oh yeah
And it feels so good

Sonic disappears with his voice still echoing through the air. Nico reappears rowing a Venice style boat for a couple as their gondolier while singing.

Riding on the river
Of hearts that beat as one
This feels like forever and we've only just begun
Cause love makes the world feel good

After they make it to the shore, Nico gives a quick bow then snaps his fingers triggering chaos control. Sonic appears in near the benches with elderly couples sitting together watching the concert.

Holding on the memories
Cause smiles are still alive

Sonic waves at smiling couples and zooms off, but Nico appears among new parents with their baby carriages. The werehog points to the giggling baby.

Looking to the future and there's happiness in sight
Cause love makes the world feel good

Sonic suddenly reappears on stage walking toward the edge with serious expression while singing.

Walking through my past life
Where the days are full of JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOY!

Sonic channels all his energy within while shouting out the last word. In a blink, Sonic's fur turning golden as he transforms into his super-form. Nico appears as well in his super form; they hover for a second then takeoff into the air with a golden trail behind them.

And it feels so good
Oh yeah
And it feels so good
Oh yeah

As they sing, Sonic and Nico fly over the cheering audience giving them an air show drawing others in the park to festival ground.

And it feels so good
Oh yeah
And it feels so good
Oh yeah
And it feels so good

(Music break)

The superheroes land and start dancing with everyone. Nico leads a version of the electric slide, and Sonic break dances with a couple of groups. When the beat speed up start, the two brothers fly into the air and high-five each other at the beat drop. They do a couple more acrobatic stunts before diving down to the stage in a corkscrew. They merge back together and Nico changes back to normal getting ready to sing the last verse, but Aloe sings it instead.

The Candyman can cause he mixes it with love and makes the world taste good (Aloe Blacc)

Nico smirks at Aloe and with it the final beat the werehog snaps his fingers disappears with chaos control. The huge crowd explodes with joy at the end of the song. Tom comes back on stage praising the two singers. Kenna looks back and forth, but she can't find the werehog, "Where the hell? Damnit!" Kenna curses while dashing off.

---

Amy watches from a hill near the bathroom stalls. "You are have a great flare for the dramatic."

"And you very well trained."

"I can't say the same for you," Amy says while pulling her gun on the werehog prince, but Nico's hand changes to its normal form grabbing the top of the gun. The pink hedgehog tries to pull the gun away from his hand, but she is amazed at the iron grip on the weapon. She tries to fire, yet the slide is moved out of place.

Nico gives a smirk and squeezes the gun to deform the weapon. A second later, he releases the now deformed gun then says, "Is a gun really needed?"

Amy looks at her gun and grits her teeth. She turns back to Nico and says, "You're lucky I just didn't shoot you on site. Besides…" She pauses while putting the gun back into her weapon pouch and pulls out the folded piece of paper, "If you got a message like this you would do the same thing." She opens the paper and reads:

We know your secret Black Rose Ninja! Come to the park in thirty minutes. We have something that belongs to you. If you don't, we will just give it to the police with the story on how we got it. Wait near the hills just outside of the festival of music. The choice is yours!

"Consider it my way of getting back at you for cracking the butt of your gun over our head while our back was turned," Nico states with a smirk.

"You jerk, so you had no plans on turning me in!"

Nico puts his hands in his pockets and says while still smirking, "Nah, we couldn't do that to you, and after meeting your brother Alex we it would be a crime to separate you two. Besides, remember what we asked you before we escaped the city?"

She gives him at first a somber expression then changes to a secret smile remembering back to that day, "You asked if I will trust you? And I said yes."

"So you know why we wouldn't turn you in." Nico takes a quick sniff and continues, "Look, we don't have much time before my babysitter tracks us down, so we'll get down to the point. We came here to give you this." Nico pulls out his closed hand and points it at Amy. He opens his hand allowing the necklace to unfold.

She grabs hold of the golden necklace while asking, "But how?" She looks closer at the necklace and sees the two extra charms making her eyes widen with shock. "These charms!"

"They are called the lost roses," Nico says and sniffs the air again. "We don't have much time left before Kenna gets here." Nico reaches into his over-shirt and grabs a slip of paper, "Take this! It is the number to a secure cellphone. Trust us, no one can trace or tap this line. Call us when you are ready to meet under less strict measures, and we will tell you everything we know. On the flip side, we have questions for you."

"NICO!"

He turns around and sees Kenna running up to them. "Times up. Hey Kenna."

The she wolf dashes then jumps up; she comes rocketing down hitting Nico on the head while yelling, "NICO YOU DUMBASS WHAT HELL IS THE MATTER WITH YOU?! WHERE THE FUCK DID YOU GO?!"

"OUCH! Damn Kenna that hurt."

"Oh get over it! Where did you go?!"

"Geez Kenna why not just use your eyes." Nico points behind him. Kenna looks over Nico's shoulder at the bathroom stalls. "Now do you get it, we had to use the bathroom."

Kenna folds her arms with a scowl still on her face, "Fine you had to use the bathroom, but why did you use chaos control to do it?"

Nico rolls his eyes, "Do I have to really explain myself?" Kenna growls while her body gives off a few electric sparks. "Alright! Alright! Just chill the light show. If I waited and walked here, no doubt I would be showered with cheers and requests for autographs. Therefore Miss. Need to Know Everything, I knew we would not make it. When we were heading back, Sonic and I ran into Amy, and we started chatting for a minute. We were just finishing up, we were about to come find you."

"A likely story Nico," Kenna fires back.

The werehog throws his hands up saying, "Ok, I am done! Amy, it was good seeing you again. Yo Sonic switch!"

"Now hold on Nico!" Kenna explains, but the werehog quickly switches out with his cobalt brother. "Sonic, get Nico back out here him and I aren't finished discussing his behavior."

Sonic shakes his head no, "Sorry Kenna, but Nico is long gone." Sonic looks at Amy with a pleased smile making the pink hedgehog unconsciously starts to blush with a little smile, "Amy, it's great to see your beautiful face again. Even if you pulled a gun on Nico."

"SHE DID WHAT!" Kenna exclaims.

"Oops! Me and my big mouth! We'll see you again soon Ames!" Sonic exclaims before running off with Kenna on his tail screaming his name and telling him to wait.

Amy watches them run off holding her necklace close to her chest. Once they are out of sight, the pink hedgehog looks down at her open hand with the necklace. ~Way to go Amy, you got the catalyst back. ~ Maxine states standing next to Amy in her spirit form.

Amy's head quickly snaps to the left looking at her transparent twin. She jumps away from her while shouting, "WHAT! HOW! WHO ARE YOU?!"

Maxine plugs her ears and sees other people in the park looking at the screaming girl. Maxine says in commanding voice, Keep your voice down! You're downing un-needed attention. Amy looks at the people staring at her. She gives a goofy smile waving the people off. You can talk to me by just saying it in your head.

Amy starts to walk while saying, ~This feels a little weird, but how is this be happening? I taught…~

~You taught it was nothing but a dream. Ha! Ha! Well sister, I got news for you it wasn't a dream. In fact…~

~It was all real. The man in black hood and coat, my past, the crystal, everything! ~

~I'm glad that you understand. Now, that you have the catalyst back I can train you, so you can regain your powers. ~

Amy stops walking to look at her twin, ~Ok, so where do we start? ~

~Hum… first hold out your hand in front of you. ~ Amy follows Maxine's instructions; then Maxine tells her, ~Now, I want you to make it like you're holding a handle. Good, get ready because I am going to help you summon it. Brace yourself. ~

Amy readies herself as small crystal shard flakes gather in her palm. In a bright flash, the red-yellow hammer appears in her hand. Amy is caught off guard at the weight of the weapon. She struggles to hold it up even grabbing it with her other hand, yet the weight proves to be too much. Both, her and the hammer, hit the ground with a thud. Amy's eyes bug out seeing the head of the hammer sinking into the ground. She looks at Maxine with pure shock, the hedgehog spirit twin says, ~What? Is something wrong? ~

~How much does that thing weight?! ~

Maxine taps her chin, ~About five hundred pounds. ~ Amy gives an intense glare at her, and Maxine adds, ~Don't give me that look. I told you, in order for your body to handle our full power, I need to recondition and train you. Once you're able to wield that hammer freely, we will continue your training. ~

Amy lets go of the hammer making it disappear in a flash of scattered crystal flakes. ~Unbelievable! ~

~Look at this way, your training will help with your extra nightly activities. ~

~What do you mean by that? ~

~For you being called the Black Rose Ninja, you sure don't live up to the name ninja. ~

~Oh and do you expect me to go around with a hammer that I can barely wield. ~

~You may have a point. People may wonder how a wanted criminal got her hands on Andre Rose's Piko Hammer. Hum… I got it! ~ Maxine snaps her fingers. ~Ok, summon your weapon. ~ Amy shrugs her shoulders then holds out hand and repeats the motions, but instead of the hammer, Amy summons a two and half foot onyx hexagon poll. She turns it up and down with a questioning expression. ~Grab the end with the pink dot. ~

Amy grabs the end and pulls revealing a jet black blade. ~A ninja sword. ~

~Yup! It belonged to our mother, Asuga Rose. ~

~What?! You're kidding! She was a ninja! ~

~Yup. She mastered a great amount of the ninja arts. ~

~Hold up Maxine! This isn't some anime like Naruto! This is real life. ~

Maxine laughs at Amy's reaction then says, ~Well, believe it because it is true! Mom and other ninjas can use ninjutsu, genjutsu, and taijutsu. The same can go for you; no real ninja uses a gun. For now, we will focus on increasing your strength, so you can wield the Piko Hammer along with learning taijutsu. ~

Amy fires backs, ~How do you know this stuff?! ~

~I have my sources, but that gets into a whole other plane of reality and fourth wall stuff. That to the side, you better check your watch because we have been out for about forty-five minutes.~

"WHAT!" Amy exclaims looking at her watch and takes off running back towards the restaurant. "Ah man! Uncle Leo is going to chew me out!"

Maxine flies alongside Amy while saying, ~Amy, don't you think you should recall your sword? ~

Amy keeps at her current pace, but she stops looking ahead to look at the sword in her left hand. "I still can't be that this thing belongs to mom and that she was a ninja. This becoming one wild day."

Maxine glances ahead and shouts Amy's name, but it was too late. The pink hedgehog clashes into Big carrying a bunch of heavy pots and cast iron skillets. Everything goes flying up and comes clashing down on Amy. "Oh no! Amy are you ok?" Big questions while moving things off of Amy. The moment he finds her with a couple of pots covering her head. Amy is out cold, and Big cries out, "Uncle Leo! Blaze! Help!"

---

Manic sits in the common room reading and writing in his portable Book of Shadows. The green hedgehog writes while saying to himself, "Ok, if I put this word here and add this from the fire spell that should work." Manic hears a ding ring out from the end of the hallway; then he hears Kenna fussing at Sonic. He jumps up from the couch with his book in hand. Manic walks into the hallway and sees Sonic with his fingers in his ears with Kenna yelling at him. "What did Sonic do this time?" Manic asks the growling wolf. Kenna grins her teeth and after a couple of seconds she exhales then explains the latest events. "Wow bro, you have been busy."

"Yeah," Sonic replies unplugging his ears while walking to the common room. "Kenna is freaking out over nothing."

"I am not freaking out over nothing. You and Nico could go to jail because you left my side!"

Sonic flops on the couch and explains, "Kenna if it was a problem, then all we need to do is explain the situation to the police, Captain Sisko, and mom. If that's not enough, check this. Since SFPD hasn't busted down the door to hall us away, I think we don't have anything to worry about." Kenna folds her arms and sits in an adjacent chair with mild sour expression. Sonic looks at Manic sitting on another couch writing in his spell book again. "Hey bro, you had your nose in that book for a bit. What new spell are you cooking up?"

Manic gives a smirks as he finishes writing. He jumps up after closing is book, "Check this out." Manic holds out his left hand making the hedgehog crest glow as he chants:

Faber bellatorem invocabo

Ferrum lapidemque invocabo

Veni fructum armea mea

Adesset certamen

Age of sol imbutus flammae

Haec pugna est iustitia

The second he finishes the chant, the long sword of golden flames appears in front of Manic's hand. Manic lunges forward grabbing the sword; he does a couple swipes then rests the sword on his shoulder. "Isn't this cool! The spell allows me to create weapons with elemental powers." Manic ears perk up hearing a growing hiss making him look at the blade. In a flash, Manic's fire sword glows bright and explodes in a giant puff of smoke. "*Cough* Wow! That wasn't supposed to happen."

Sonic busts out laughing at the sight of Manic's smoke and burn covered face. "Wow is right bro! For once you're the target of your spell backfiring!"

Manic looks at his brother, "Ha! Ha! Sonic, you're a real joker bro. Well, back to the drawing board, but I need to go wash up."

The green hedgehog continues to wipe off his face while walking to the bathroom. "Sonic," Cortana calls out walking into the common room, "I need to talk to Nico and you about the data package you sent me."

"Ok Cortana," Sonic replies jumping up off the couch.

Before they leave the room Kenna asks, "Do you mind if I go with you? I am curious about what King Sora left behind, and I want to see if there is anything about papa?" Sonic looks at Cortana and she shakes her head no. "Cortana, why not?"

"You have your own lead to follow."

"My own lead?"

"I was listening in on the meeting with Leo and you all. I know that you got a letter from Captain Adair, so you need to focus on what clues Talon left you. If we come across anything involving your father, you will be the first to know," Cortana explains. The she-wolf looks to the blue prince in the hope that he would override the AI's decision, yet Cortana adds, "Besides, shouldn't you tell your brothers about the letter? I am sure they would like to know what's in the letter as well."

Kenna gets ready to rebut, but Kana exclaims, "You have a letter from dad?!" Kenna winces hearing Kana's voice. She turns around to look at Kana's surprised expression and nods yes.

"Well, you two have enough to handle, so we'll see you later," Sonic states before walking to their room. After the door closes, Sonic puts the security chain on the door. Nico taps Sonic on the shoulder, and the blue hedgehog makes the hand signs to allow Nico appear in his physical form. "Nico put up your shield." He nods does a quick hand span making the room become coated in a lite blue coat.

"Good move Cortana. Having Kenna in here would be make things a little more complicated, Cortana have you had a chance to look over the data?" Nico questions before sitting at the desk chair.

Cortana holds up her hand with a bright glowing orb. "Yeah even the Tachikomas looked it over, but we have a major problem." She tosses the orb into the air making it explode and expand covering the whole room with 8x11 holo sheets of paper with odd lettering on the page. "Take a look. All the documents are written in a language that I have never seen before." Sonic and Nico each look over the page that is closest to them. "I have surf, search, and scan every known language on Earth and Mobius, but I came up with zip."

Nico grabs a page and holds it close to him examining the lettering. "Sonic, toss me that tablet in our pocket. Nico holds out his hand waiting to get the item while still trying to read the paper. A minute passes, and Nico calls out, "Hey Sonic!" making the blue hedgehog break his concentration. "Sonic give me that tablet." The tablet is placed in his hand; then he compares the writing. "I knew it! They're the same!" Nico exclaims before showing Cortana.

"Yeah they are the same Nico, but this doesn't mean that I can translate it," Cortana complains. She looks over at Sonic intensely looking at one of the sheets. She walks over the hedgehog seeing his eyes move back and forth as if reading. "Sonic what's on your mind?"

Sonic points at the body of text and says, "This doesn't make sense."

"Of course it doesn't make sense Sonic, it's written in another language," Nico states walking up to Sonic's side.

"No," Sonic says still pointing, "this page talks about farm irrigation and crop rotation, but the pervious page was explaining, from what I can guess, a ritual that takes place during the full moon. See, it doesn't make sense. It is as if dad took one subject and mixed it with another. The same can be said with the next page."

Cortana and Nico stare at each other for a couple of seconds; then they shout in unison, "WHAT!"

Sonic is knocked off balance surprised by Nico and Cortana's outburst. The werehog follows up with grabbing Sonic's shoulders making his brother face him. "Sonic, are you telling us that you can read everything that is there?!"

"Yeah bro can't you?"

Cortana fires out, "Sonic haven't you been paying any attention to what we have been talking about?" Sonic shakes his head no with a confused innocent expression on his face. The blue AI exhales then summons her keyboard. "Sonic before you give us any more of a heartache, tell me how the letter system is broken down."

Sonic points to a page of text:

On the night of the third full moon, new warriors are to be presented to elders and leaders of the tribe. On that night, the warrior undergoes the spirit quest. They are given an ancient potion to aid them to enter the spirit world. At the right time, all my children will have to go through test to prove their power, wisdom, zeal, and honor to claim title of warrior. I underwent this trail at nineteen. On my last visit, Talon and Leo undertook and completed the test.

54

"Yes! It worked!" the blue AI exclaims with job.

Nico quickly reads over the translated document with a big grin on his face. "This is awesome! Wow, so Talon and Leo became a members of dad's tribe. This is big and our strongest lead, if the elders that dad met with are still alive…"

Sonic finishes the werehog thought, "Then they may know what dad was going after!"

"Right on bro! Cortana how long will it take for you translate everything?" Nico calls out.

"The Tachikomas and I already on it, but translating two-thousand pages is going to take some time."

"Ok, we're counting on you all. In the meantime, show maps…"

A knock at the door causing Nico to stop in midsentence; then Kenna calls from the other side, "Sonic, come out here. You have a visitor."

Nico lowers his shield, and Sonic calls out, "Ok, give me just a minute." Nico releases his form and disappears in a poof. The blue hedgehog unlocks and opens the door. Before walking out, he tells Cortana, "We'll leave the rest to you."

The AI nods her head while the Tachikomas race around copying then translating words. Kenna looks into their before Sonic closes the door; she looks at Sonic and asks while they walk down the hallway, "What are you three doing in their?"

Sonic gives a happy grin, "We're translating dad's files. Everything that dad left us was written in a language that we never seen, and before you ask once we done with our visitor, we will explain everything afterwards." Sonic stops before walking into the common sitting room and adds, "Kenna, we found information about your dad." She fixes her mouth with an excited expression, but Sonic stops her, "Afterwards, we will explain everything." She nods following the prince into the sitting room. Sonic is surprise to see who the visitor is, "Captain Sisko, what are you doing here? Is everything ok?"

"Yes, Sonic there's no trouble," he replies as Sonic sits across from him.

"That's good to know, so what can we do for you captain?"

"To start off, I wanted to express my sincerest apologies from myself, my crew, and GUN as a whole. If we had known integrating the power cores from Dr. Robotnik or I should say Dr. Eggman's robots would cause us to lose control, we would have taken greater care to prevent us from losing control."

Sonic waves his hand back and forth, "It's all good captain. The most important thing is that we beat the badniks."

Ben shakes his head no and continues, "Sonic, it isn't all good. After Eggman's attack, the GUN director called all CO's to DC to discuss this situation, and she wasn't please by the after action report. In truth, GUN is in extreme danger along with the rest of the world."

Kenna chimes in with, "Captain Sisko, are you not being a little over dramatic about this?"

"No Kenna, I am dead serious. Gun has facilities all over the world, and at each facility we keep nearly thirty thousand robots, mech units, etc. If Eggman was about able to broadcast that same signal that overwrote our control…"

"Eggman would have a massive army at his command along with an overwhelming foot hold on the planet," Sonic concludes.

Ben nods confirming Sonic's theory. "According to our analysis, GUN would be destroyed within minutes and after three hours world leaders would be forced to surrender. To makes this worst that was our best case scenario. The worst case… just use your imagination."

Sonic looks over at Nico then Kenna. Both have shocked expressions on their faces hearing the Captain's warning. "Captain, have you discussed this with mom?"

"She was briefed about it last night," Ben replies. "But it's not all bad news, Cortana was able to stop our robots, so maybe that's our best course."

Sonic exhales then says, "In truth, Cortana wasn't really able to stop them."

Capt. Sisko gives a confused expression and ask, "Sonic what do you mean? How did Cortana not stop them?"

"After the battle, I asked Cortana to do an analysis on the GUN robots and how Eggman was able to take control. Just like we thought earlier, the giant squid robot sent out a signal that interacted with the power core and from there they were able to gain control. Cortana hit them with a virus that causes their power cores shut down. In short, she is only able to turn them off."

"Our best chance is just the hope that we can do add a kill switch on our robots. Sonic, I don't have to tell you that just doing that would not be enough to stop every single machine we have in GUN," Ben retorts with a depressed tone.

Sonic taps his chin for a second then idea pops into his head, "I have an idea. We do have a way to counteract any of the override commands that Robotnik would send out to regain control of his machines we borrowed during the resistance."

"Don't hold me in suspense Sonic."

"The best way to handle this is to fight fire with fire or in other words to fight technology with technology. Our best weapon against Eggman's control signal is Cortana."

Capt. Sisko looks at Sonic with a bewildered expression then looks towards Kenna in the hopes of getting some clarity. The she wolf says, "Cortana was born to handle Dr. Robotnik's advance technology and computers skills."

Sonic explains, "Cortana is a combination of Moboian and Robotnik technology."

"Hold on," Ben says sitting forward in his seat with the bewilderment expression gone replaced with a stern look. "Sonic weren't you the one who told me that using Robotnik's technology was extremely dangerous!"

Sonic crosses his legs while sitting back with a smile on his face, "I'm not saying this to sound smug, but we've had more experience and time handling Robotnik's technology than Shadow or them have ever had that also includes GUN. My main man Cyrus, developed a way on how to handle the technology. When it comes to Cortana, she is…"

"A fully integrated bio hybrid fully actualized intelligence," Cortana finishes walking into the common room with everyone. "Sonic, I think it's best that you leave it to me to explain from here." The blue AI fixes a cup of tea then joins everybody else. "Okay, since now you know that I have Robotnik technology in me, your next question is going to be 'How is it possible that I was not affected when Eggman sent out that signal?' Well the answer is very simple, I have a conscience and I'm a living being."

Ben sits back in his chair's rubbing his temple trying to understand what has been told to him. "Cortana I think you need to explain a little bit more in detail," Sonic states.

Cortana takes another swig of her tea then adds, "I was getting to that Sonic. To put it simply Capt., Eggman is able to take over a machine is because they lack the self-will to go against an order. I on the other hand have the ability to make my own judgment calls on whether or not to follow an order. My self-awareness is a living being is what gives me an edge over any of the machines. You see, before I was activated or born Cyrus to some DNA from Sonic and integrated it with the synthetic cybernetics in my brain from there its simple biology."

Ben thinks on what Cortana has said, and after five seconds, the lightbulb goes off in Ben's head, "I understand now, we need an AI to regulate our autonomous units."

"Bingo," Cortana signals with a wink. "Sonic."

"Gotcha! Kenna, would you please hand me that legal pad and pen," Sonic requests. Once he has everything, it takes about three minutes for Sonic to finish writing on the pad. He hands the pad to Capt. Sisko then says to Kenna and Cortana, "Kenna you to be our official witness, and Cortana I want you to record this and prepare to send it to Mika once we are done." The two nod waiting for Sonic's cue; he then says, "Capt. please read that, and then I want you to submit it to me officially."

Ben nods and reads the paper with a growing smile on his face. He grabs a pen and signs his name then nods to Sonic to get started. Sonic gives the signal to Kenna and Cortana; Ben stands up and looks at Sonic while handing him the paper and saying, "Your Majesty prince Sonic, I, Capt. Benjamin Sisko on behalf of GUN, make this formal request to the Moboian Empire."

Sonic takes hold of the pad does a quick glance over it and says while signing, "Very well Capt. will automatically approve this request. Cortana please make note of the time and date. Capt. Kenna Adair is witnessing my signature." Sonic finishes signing paper then hands it to Cortana. "Please copy this and send it to Cyrus, mom, and to Capt. Sisko." She takes the paper and summons a Tachikoma to scan it.

"Ok all done, I'll have the original sent to Mika."

"Cool. Alright Capt. you're set. After mom and Cyrus get this, we get you a copy of the Cortana's core program, but…"

Cortana jumps in, "You will need to choice to someone who will be the bio template. I would suggest either you or the director of GUN."

Ben taps his chin thinking then says, "Director Wildmen would be the best choice."

"Cool, we can... 'Rolling around at the speed of sound got places to go…' excuse me," Sonic states picking up his cellphone. "Hello… yes… hold on for a second." He puts the call on hold and says, "I am sorry, but I need to take this call. Capt., we will contact you after we have the core. Kenna please escort the Capt. Sisko out." Sonic stands up along with everyone else. He shakes Ben's hand before getting ready to walk out.

Kenna quickly questions, "Sonic, who is calling you?"

The blue hedgehog looks back and says, "A girl we know."

"Why do you have to go to take that call?"

"I will have to explain it to you at another time Kenna," Sonic replies before walking off with the blue AI behind him.

"Wait! Why is she going with you if you two need privacy? What are you hiding?!" Kenna questions, but her inquiry goes unanswered as they walk to his room and close the door behind them. She gives a soft growl at them.

"Oh Kenna once your finish please come to our room," Sonic states before closing his door again.

Kenna's face quickly changes to a positive smile after hearing Sonic's statement. Kenna leads Capt. Sisko to the elevator and presses the button to call the car. After the doors open up, they both walk into the car. While the elevator makes it way down, Ben takes note of the expression on Kenna's face. "You don't hide your jealous face very well." She looks at the man with a surprise look and he continues, "So have you told him that you have feelings for him?"

"Capt. I don't think…"

"Kenna my goal is not to pry, but call it fatherly instinct if you like him then you should…"

Kenna quickly jumps in, "I have told them, and they said that they don't know what to do or say at the moment. They keep telling me that they need time. I just want…"

The car comes to a stop just as Ben finishes her sentence, "them to make a decision and stop beating around the bush. I'll give you the same advice I gave my daughter, boys don't like talking about their feelings or emotions. Especially when it comes to girls that they might like, so the best advice that I can give you is this. If you want the guy that you like to stop beating around the bush, then you have two options either let them go or find a way to make them jealous."

"Captain…"

"Like I said it's just some advice I gave to my own daughter." Ben gets into his car and waves goodbye before driving off.

"Give up on them or make them jealous." Kenna gives an evil smirk, "This could be fun."

---

Sonic and Nico split up, and the werehog puts up his shield. Sonic puts the phone on speaker and says, "Thank you for your patience. I wanted the make sure that no one else could hear us. So, what have you decided?"

Amy says, "Thank you for your added caution to keep this just between us. Now listen carefully, you are to come alone, if I get the feeling that anyone else is with you this meeting is off. No coats, no baggy pants, no Bluetooth, no watches, and leave your phone at home."

Sonic gives an evil grin then says, "It sounds so romantic you want us all to yourself."

"You want to make jokes I'll end this right now."

"We're listening. What's the time and meeting place?"

Amy continues, "Tomorrow, Golden Gate Park at 7pm. There are benches in the tree grove. Just sit and wait until I get there."

"Fine, but if you… no we trust you," Sonic states before she hangs up the phone. "Well, this should be fun."

"Sonic maybe I should go just in case she attacks, I can use my shield," Nico expresses.

Sonic shakes his head, "If we use this jutsu, you'll be in that form. That will make you to noticeable. No, it's better if I go. Cortana have a Tachikoma keep a watch over the area. If they spot any danger, then relay it to Nico and I will hear it."

"Alright Sonic, we will go with that plan." Nico watches Sonic strips his clothes while heading to the bathroom. Once Sonic is in the shower, Nico leans against the wall and he asks, "Bro, did Ames sound different to you?"

Sonic washes the suds out of his quills before his answers, "No, she sounded normal to me. What, did you pick up something?"

"I'm not sure maybe it's my imagination, but it sounded like someone else than Amy."

"Nico, what are you getting at?"

The werehog shakes his head walking out the bathroom, "It's nothing Sonic hurry up in the shower. I need to bathe to."

*Knock* *knock*

"Sonic, I'm back," Kenna calls out while knocking. Nico quickly closes the bathroom door and lowers his shield. He opens the door welcoming her in. "Nico? Boy, Sonic and you are sure switching out a lot. Is it safe for you two… wait why do you have water running?"

Nico a gives nervous laugh, "I was just letting the water heat up when you came knocking."

"And you have the door closed because…"

"To keep the steam in the room, it works wonders on my fur. Now are you here to play twenty questions, or do you want know what we found on your dad?" Nico counter-questions.

"What did you find?" Kenna questions.

Cortana hands Kenna a pad and tells her, "Everything there contains information about Captain Adair from King Sora's documents."

"From what little, we have read; your dad became part of your dad's tribe. We translated all the documents add that with what Mr. Leo told us; we can assume that the elders know something about our dads."

"Nico that's amazing if we... Nico how did the shower turn off? Wait someone is in there," Kenna comments heading towards the door.

Nico panics blocking the door with sweat draining down his head. Kenna tells him to move, and Nico tells her, "Kenna, I want you to read those documents and find out what your dad was up to."

"Sure, but I want to know who you have in that bathroom."

Nico grabs the she-wolf's arms and stares in straight into her eyes, "Kenna, I need you to focus on me right now." The snow white wolf's face starts to turn red looking into Nico's emerald green eyes. He says in a low deep voice, "Kenna, Sonic and I are depending on you to find out what you can about our fathers. Listen, there are things we can't tell you at the moment, but we are asking you to trust us please. Don't dig anything deeper right now."

Nico leans in closer, to the point that she can feel his heated breath on her shoulder, and his strong musky scent filling her nose. She feels her blood heating up at Nico's scent and his powerful yet gentle grip on her arms. His words start to turn into to a blurring sound in her ears as she begins to lose herself into her womanly desires. ~Nico, do you know what you're doing right now?! My body… my body… no he's making it come alive in a way that… No! This is wrong, I can't! Not right now body! A wolf choices her mate on the strength and protection he can provide. It's not fair, Midna claimed Kell as hers and Shadow has been claimed as his mate. ~ She makes an effortless attempt at breaking the werehog's grip, and continues to think to herself, ~ Release me! I am strong, but your strength is far beyond mine. Just your scent is enough to drain my strength. Nico, please unleash me from this torment. Choose me… Choose me…~

"Kenna, are you hearing what I am asking you?" Nico calls out.

The female wolf shakes her head refocusing her mind; she replies, "Yeah, but who…"

The door opens and Cortana walks out toweling her wet hair, "Why are you blocking the door?"

"Sorry," Nico states moving out of the way.

Kenna looks at the blue AI while pointing to the left at where Cortana was last standing. Cortana exhales and says, "Well looks my secret is out."

Kenna rebut with, "Cortana you can copy yourself? And get wet?"

"I would rephrase that last part, but yes to all," she states walking out.

Nico opens his drawer and grabs some clean boxers, "Hey Cortana, why didn't you leave the water running?"

"I heard you talking out here, and did know how long you would be. So, I turned it off," Cortana replies.

"Thanks. Kenna I will see you in the morning, so please read over those documents. Now if you excuse me, I am sore and tired and I am going to go soak in a hot bath. Later Kenna," Nico states before walking into the bathroom and closing the door. Kenna nods her head and leaves the room. The second she is gone, Nico calls out, "Sonic, where are you?"

The curtain to the huge tub is pulled back to show the blue hedgehog soaking in the water. "Something wrong bro?"

"Nope," he replies getting into the shower.

---

Amy opens her eyes feeling minor pounding in her head. She sits up and finds herself back in her bedroom. The pink hedgehog goes to touch her head and feels it wrapped with bandage tape. "What in the world?" she questions; "OUCH!" she winches at the soreness.

Bunnie reaches into the room hearing Amy's outcry. "Amy, you're awake!" the older teen calls into the hallway, "Doctor! Rouge! She's awake! Amy don't move the doctor is on his way."

"What happen to me?"

Rouge enters the room just in time to answer, "Amy, you got hit in the head with two heavy cast iron skillets."

Bunnie asks, "Don't you remember?"

Amy rubs her head feeling the start of a headache then says, "The last thing remember was running into Big then everything went black."

"Well, we can take that as a good sign for your condition," Julian states walking into the room. "How are you feeling?"

"My head hurts a bit but overall fine. Who are you?" Amy questions while Julian uses his medical scanner to scan her head.

Rouge says, "Amy this is Dr. Julian Bashir."

"A doctor! Hold on wait!" Amy exclaims trying to move away from his scanner. "I can't see a doctor!"

"Why is that?" Julian questions stopping his scan. "Are you scared of doctors?"

"No, I have no problem with doctors. I just can't see one because that bastard Acorn will use it against me. Since my health insurance is through Rose Corp., he will be told about it," Amy explains.

Rouge steps in with, "You don't have to worry about that. Your insurance through the Grill is covering this, and Julian is no ordinary doctor."

Amy gives a confused look then looks at the plain clothes doctor; he says, "I am Lt. Commander Julian Bashir chief medical officer for Space Colony Ark."

Amy eyes widen, "You're a GUN officer?!"

He nods yes, "Rouge told me about you and your brother's situation, so I will be your primary care physician. Captain Sisko, told me about what happened to your brother when Sonic took him to the hospital. Since I am not a private practice doctor and you are using military health insurance, I don't have to tell Acorn anything."

Amy looks at Rouge to see a smile on her face. The female white bat says, "There's no need to thank me. Now, let the commander finish."

"Actually, I am all done. I don't see any brain damage or major damage to your skull. You do have some bruising from where the skillet hit. I wrote a prescription in case you have any headaches, but…" he reaches into his bag and pulls out a black wristband, "I want you to wear this med monitor for the next three days."

"Why?" Amy questions taking the monitor.

"I will be totally honest with you Amy. You got hit with three seven pound cast iron skillets on the head, but I am not finding any major trauma. I want to make sure I am not missing something. This monitor will track your heartrate, brain activity, etc.," Julian explains watching Amy put on the monitor. "Other than that, rest is going to be the best medicine."

Amy gets ready to object, but Bunnie says, "Oh she will be resting, Uncle Leo gave her a week off."

"What! Bunnie!"

"He said no if, ands, or buts! Don't worry you won't lose any pay," Rouge states.

"Rouge, he can't…"

"Good," Julian adds while getting up to walk out. "Have a good night Amy and keep that monitor on."

"Yes doctor," Amy looks at Bunnie and says, "Bunnie, Uncle Leo…"

"Amy, we can talk about that in the morning. Go get a shower and get to sleep," the teen rabbit orders.

Once the room is empty, the pink hedgehog goes into her bathroom. She strips off her clothes then looks at herself in the mirror. She gives a revealed exhale and starts to remove the bandage tape from around her head. After she unwinds the last of the tape, Amy looks at the tape to see spots of blood soaked into the cloth then looks back into the mirror. ~I made sure that we would have a scar. You can thank later. ~

~I didn't think that would have that ability Maxine but thank you. ~

Maxine watches Amy get into the shower and lets the water wash over her body; she hovers in the air in lounging position, ~Your welcome, but it's least I can do because I am somewhat responsible for you getting injured.~ Amy leans against the back of the shower with a somber look on her face. Maxine floats closer to her other half, ~Amy, what's wrong with you? You don't seem like yourself. ~

Amy exhales blowing water drops hanging off her mouth, ~That is the second… no the third time, I was helped by someone. Uncle Leo, Rouge, and those jerks *ha* Sonic and Nico… ~ "Oh no!" Amy exclaims leading off the wall, "I was going to call them!"

~Well, I wouldn't think about calling them now because it is one in the morning, ~ Maxine states. Amy starts to move; Maxine adds, ~Don't worry, I have already called them. We are going to meet them at seven tonight in the park, so all you have to do is look nice and ask the right questions. ~

~What!? Maxine are you nuts! You made the meeting tonight! ~ Amy telepathically exclaims.

~Don't worry Amy you'll do fine. ~

Amy leans back on the back wall and slides down to the floor of the shower. ~Ok, I'll make it work. He might know… wait a second! Maxine, how were you able to make that call? ~

~Oh, I took control of our body while you were knocked out. Before you freak out, I can only do that under extreme conditions. Plus, it was the way how I protected you from those attacking skillets. Anyway, you have been in this shower for going on two hours. I think you should get out before Bunnie comes here thinking that we are in danger. ~

*Knock*Knock* "Amy, you ok in there? Do you need help?" Bunnie questions.

"Yeah, I'll be out in a few minutes."

---

Amy is fast asleep in her queen-size bed oblivious to everything around. A moment later, a soft hand rubs against the side of her face making the pink hedgehog stir in her sleep. The hand continues to gently rub the side of her face on the voice connected to it says, "She is just as beautiful asleep is awake don't you agree bro?"

A deeper voice says, "Yeah she is just as beautiful. How do you like that, we found our dream girl, yet she is fast asleep." The deeper voice's giant sharp claw hand rubs the other side of her face taking great care not to cut her with his diamond sharp claws. He continues saying, "Come on sweetheart you need to wake up."

Amy starts to open her eyes, and finds herself on the bed made of flower petals outside under a bright starry night sky with the distant full moon in the background. She stretches out her arms while yawning seeing Sonic and Nico sitting on either side of her in a protective manner. She sits up looking into first Sonic's emerald green eyes then into Nico's sharp slit green eyes. The two moved to the back board of the bed leaving enough room for Amy to sit in between the two of them. She feels a sense of protection and love from the two of them wash over her. The two brothers easily support the semi-petite body and turn their head to look down at her while taking in her intoxicating scent. Amy looks up at the two and ask, "Will you tell me your names?"

Sonic snickers then replies, "No fair, we asked you first."

Amy smiles back at the blue brothers and takes holds of their free hands. She wraps them over her deepening the sense of security from the two. She leads her head onto Nico's chest then closes her eyes for a second. "Please, at least, tell me if you are close? I want the two of you to hold me like this in the real world."

Nico smiles then gives her a quick kiss on the top of her head. "I feel that we are getting closer each day."

Amy sits up then leans her head on Sonic's chest then closes her eyes. "My bro and I are working around the clock to find you because every day without you feels like a lifetime," Sonic states.

Nico looks up into the sky then exhales. The werehog looks at his brother giving him a nod. "We are sorry, but we have to go."

Amy's eyes spring open then looks at the hedgehog and werehog siblings as they start to fade away. She catches herself from falling backwards and reaches out to grab the boys. "No! Please don't go yet!"

"Sorry, but we must wake up," Sonic states as he reaches out to touch her cheek.

Nico touches her other cheek, "Be brave and no tears. We see you soon that's a promise."

---

Sonic twists and turns in bed as sun shines in his face. The hedgehog prince sits up in bed squinting his eyes at the bright light. While his eyes adjust to brightness in the room, he gets out of bed and heads to the bathroom. Nico appears on the other side the toilet in his spirit form with his arms crossed, ~Another dream about her, but this time it felt different somehow. ~

~Yeah,~ Sonic replies with a gloomy tube as he finishes then the flushes toilet. He washes up and puts on some loose fitting clothes. He steps out to the balcony overlooking the early morning city. "Are we really getting any closer or is it just a dream?"

"It's no dream Sonic," Cortana comments walking up behind him. "And we are getting closer."

Sonic leans back on the railing, "I take it you found something?"

"I am not 100% sure, but I have a theory that might give me a way of understanding the king's journal."

"Oh do tell," Sonic adds with curious tone.

"No way. Today is your day off; Nico and you have been working like crazy. If my theory pans out, I will let you know. Why don't you go shopping or explore around the city?" Cortana suggests.

Sonic sits up off the rail and pats Cortana on the shoulder while walking pass her, "I might just do that." The blue hedgehog puts on socks and walks out his room.

An hour later, Manic walks into the common room scribbling in his Book of Shadows. "Ok, if I change this word here and this phase here, that should balance the spell," Manic says to himself. His ears perk up hearing music come from the dining area. The green hedgehog follows the music and sees Sonic strumming his guitar with a piece of fruit in his mouth with his feet propped up on the open window edge. "Yo bro, I am seeing things or are you practicing?"

Sonic looks at his brother then tilts his head back tossing the fruit into his mouth. He chews then swallows; he gives a smirk and says, "Yup! Yup! We have to in order to beat Shadow Colossus at the next battle. By chance have you come up or find any new songs?"

Manic grabs some coffee and toast then heads to another seat. "Well, I have been working on a little something-something. Plus during our performance, I can use magic to make it bigger than ever."

"Right on bro, Shadow's group will never know what hit them until we are standing in the winner's circle," Sonic states with a confidence smile.

Minutes later, Kenna comes in with Mika. "Morning ladies," Sonic greets.

"Morning Sonic," Kenna states grabbing some food from the table.

"Good morning your majesty, I have your morning briefing ready," Mika states taking a seat near the table.

Sonic tilts his head over to look at the cat secretary, "Mika, you don't have to use formal titles with us. Hell, we aren't even on duty."

Mika adjusts her glasses so eyes are hidden behind the mirror reflection of the lens. "Prince Sonic, I am afraid I cannot do that. Queen Aleena appointed me as your personal assistant, and since Prince Nico and you are the crowned princes, I am tasked with making sure you are properly trained in performing the duties and have the professionalism required of the next ruling sovereign."

Sonic stops playing and asks, "So that means 24/7, we have to stand on proper note with you?"

"That is correct your highness."

"And does that mean we have to call you Ms. Ashford?" Sonic questions.

"It would be the professional thing to do."

Sonic desummons his guitar, and turns around while exhaling then says, "Understood Ms. Ashford, so what do you have for us?"

She nods and reaches into her bag and pulls out two pads. She hands one to Sonic while she reads from the other one, "Your majesty, you will have two hundred and thirty appointments set up for next week with and additional three hundred and sixty-two petition documents that are provided in your briefing pad. Are you following me?" Sonic looks up from his pad and nods yes. "Excellent. Next, you have received an invitation from some of past petitioners to a luncheon today. I have scheduled you to meet them at 1:30 today."

Sonic sets his pad on the table while leading back in his chair, "Ok, but none of that rich people food. It doesn't sit well with us."

Kenna chimes in with, "Sonic, you aren't suggesting that you all eat chilidogs?"

"It's taste better."

Kell walks into the common room in his pajama bottoms, "Sonic why not go with sushi? You said it was tasty at the UN."

"Yeah, that will work, but Kell what are you doing here? I taught you would be with Midna," Sonic comments sitting up in his chair.

"She is asleep in my room; anyway I would suggest Sanraku near Nob Hill," Kell states as puts together is plate for Midna and himself.

Kenna pulls syrup on his waffle while asking, "How do you know about this place?"

"Midna took me there on our last date."

Sonic chimes in before the two siblings continue, "Well, if you give it five stars then that's good enough for us. Mi… I mean Ms. Ashford, please let them know that we would like to go there."

"Yes, your majesty. Lastly, I have received word from Mr. Acorn's secretary that his daughter would like to set up dinner a date with you."

Sonic leans back in his chair again, "Oh right the girl we met at the UN."

"Correct. Since you will be free after your luncheon, I will schedule her in for 2000 hrs tonight," Mika states.

"Ok," Sonic states while looking back at the pad, but as Mika confirms the time Nico hits the blue hedgehog over the head. Sonic tears up from the hit; then his eyes spring open knowing the reason behind the strike. "NO!" he exclaims making Mika and the other stare at him. "I mean… we can't go on that meet with her today because… because…"

"Because… why your majesty?" Mika questions.

Sonic taps his chin then says, "Because, Nico and I were planning to turn in early tonight since we have such busy a day tomorrow."

Mika gives him a suspect glance and replies, "As you wish sire, and with that this will complete your schedule for the week. Please make sure that you complete the reading packet before returning to the office."

Sonic nods then gets up to go back to his room. "Kenna, you better get ready as well. If we have to suffer through this, then you are going to be right by our side," Sonic comments with a laugh.

"I am so honored," Kenna fires back with an unhappy tone.

Hours later, Kenna drives Sonic back to the hotel. The hedgehog prince has his seat reclined back and his eyes closed. They stop for a red light, and Sonic says, "I have to give it up to Kell and Midna. They know good sushi when they find it."

Kenna smirks while commenting, "So does this mean that sushi has replaced chilidogs as your favorite food?"

Sonic peeks open his eyes and says, "That my dear is madness you speak, no food will ever replace chilidogs as the best food in the world."

"I figured as much," Kenna replied as the light turns green. She starts back driving hearing the echoing words, 'let them go or find a way to make them jealous.' Kenna glances over at Sonic then back at the road. "Hey Sonic if you don't mind me asking, what would Nico and you think if I told you I was planning on trying to start dating someone on Earth?"

"I say go for it," Sonic quickly replies.

Kenna looks at the lounging hedgehog, "Are you serious?!"

"Yeah," he replies back. "Did I say something wrong?"

"No, I was just wasn't expecting that answer. I was under the impression at that…," she strolls off thinking about Ben's words once more.

Sonic peeks out and says in a calm voice, "Kenna eyes on the road."

"Uh?" she questions. Sonic points ahead redirecting the she-wolf's attention. Kenna's eyes nearly pop out of her skull when she sees a semi-truck heading straight at them. She tilts the wheel hard to the right steering the mini SUV out of the oncoming traffic. The she wolf pulls over to side breathily to calm her nerves. "How are you so calm? We just nearly had a head on collision!"

"I would have used Chaos Control before we hit," Sonic replies from his recline position.

Kenna exhales then drives back into traffic. As they turn down the last street to the hotel, Sonic sits his chair up and looks at the stoic expression on Kenna's face. "Where you able to make heads or tails about your dad's actions with our dad?"

"No, the pages made no sense," she replies pulling into the parking garage. "King Sora only mentions papa doing some minor things along with joining the king's tribe."

Sonic and Kenna gets out of the car then head for the elevator. As they ride the car up, Sonic says, "Yeah, dad was being quite vague with everything he left. What about the letter your dad left? What did he say?"

They reach their floor and walk out into the common room. "Well, papa told us that he was going with the king to keep him safe since he likes to jump into a situation without thinking first if that sounds familiar." Sonic smirks while rolling his eyes. "After that, papa talked about our mama, yet something he said at the end was off."

Sonic folds his arms then ask, "May I see the letter?"

Kenna takes a deep breath then exhales, "Yeah, wait here."

Kenna walks off just as Cortana comes into the common area, "I figured that was you, so how was your lunch?"

"Pretty good, you will have to try it yourself one day. How's your test theory going?" Sonic questions. Cortana hangs her head down with a dark cloud overhead. "That good uh."

"King Sora's hobby must have been code writing. I've tried over five thousand algorithms and still can't crack how his journal works," Cortana expresses flopping on the couch.

Kenna comes back with an envelope in hand; she hands it to Sonic. "Here take a look."

Sonic opens it but only finds a torn slip of paper. "Kenna where is the rest of the letter?"

She shakes her head, "I didn't want you to read it."

"Why not?" Sonic questions.

"Because it's private. Now do you want to know what I found strange or not?"

Cortana jumps in before Sonic can protest, "Tell us."

Kenna starts by pointing at the envelope, "The writing you see there belongs to papa." Sonic closely examines the writing, 'To Kenna'. "Now take a look at the writing on the paper." The hedgehog follows her order and examines the writing:

26-09-2003

1945

41.31028-123.15505 NW

"Even though they closely look alike, papa writing is clearly… Hey are you listening to me?" Kenna questions seeing Sonic and Cortana talk among each other.

"Cortana, are you seeing what I am seeing?" Sonic questions showing the blue AI the paper. "Kenna are you sure that this is everything that looked weird in your dad's letter?"

"Yeah, but what are you talking about? What do you see?"

"Cortana."

"Right!" she exclaims with a smile before running out of the room.

Sonic keeps looking at the paper. "Kenna, I could kiss you right now. Ah! To hell with it!" Sonic grabs her arms and pulls her close to him. He kisses her full on mouth making her body quiver and heat up. The kiss last until Sonic and Nico feel a powerful essence send a chill down their back. Sonic pulls away and look around in search of the source. He shakes off the feeling and looks at the bliss-filled red faced wolf. "I think I shouldn't have done that," Sonic voices to himself. "Anyway, Kenna come on get ahold of yourself." After couple more seconds, Kenna comes around and Sonic continues with while letting go of her, "Come with me."

They walk into Sonic's room with Cortana's holoscreens covering the room. "YES! Sonic it worked!"

"What worked?" Kenna asks.

"The code that's on your letter," Sonic states.

"I don't get it," Kenna confesses.

Sonic holds up the paper and explains, "Ok, check it out. The numbers here show us where to look in his journal." Kenna's expression still shows her confusion. "Look here. The date written here is our mom's birthday, but the year 2003 was when Shadow, Silver, and Midna were born."

"But what does that have to do with King Sora's journal?" Kenna questions.

Cortana turns around and answers, "The way the numbers are written match the way they are written in this date, so everything was handwritten."

"As it is, the journal is a complete and utter mess; nothing matches up: the page number order, the entry numbers, dates and times. Nothing!" Sonic exclaims.

"So we figured that the journal must have another layer of encryption, and the tablet detailed that your letter held the key. Bingo!"

"What you find?" Sonic questions walking up next to her.

Cortana pulls up thirty sheets with a list of numbers all in the same format that were written in Kenna's letter. "Everything here matches the same form from the letter. If we pull the pages that match then we reconstruct this thing into a usable form."

"Cortana, what's with all these numbers and NW here at the bottom? Can all of those be related to pages?" Kenna questions.

"I don't know; I haven't studied them yet. On the off chance they are, my job just got a fuck ton harder. Got it, Sonic here are pages that match up with Kenna's letter. While you're going over that, I'll work recompiling the rest of the journal," Cortana states handing Sonic five pages.

Sonic reads over the papers while walking over to the couch in his room. He sits down intensely reading over the text. Kenna stands adjunct looking over his shoulder. Before she is able to finishing reading the current page, Sonic turns to the next page as his eyes dash left to right over the lines. She tries to start reading the next page, but Sonic's speed reading prevents her from getting past the third line. Kenna huffs in annoyance before saying, "Sonic, I am trying to read as well but…"

Sonic gives a heavy exhale, "Don't bother Kenna, there isn't anything important in this set of letters."

"What?! Did the key not work?"

"No, the key did work. The papers are organized, but there is still something more missing," Sonic replies setting the papers on the table. "We will have to…" Sonic pauses seeing Nico appear tapping his wrist. The blue hedgehog glances at his watch and gives a quicks seeing the time.

"What's up Sonic?" Kenna questions.

Sonic looks at Kenna and says, "Its six-thirty, Nico and I have to get to work on these briefing packages, so we need to ask you to leave."

Kenna nods knowing the protocols that the two brothers have to follow. Before she can walk out, Cortana tells her while handing a single sheet for paper with numbers, "Kenna, I downloaded the king's journal to your computer. See if you can get the pages to match up."

"Right, and you guys have fun with your paperwork," Kenna comments before walking out.

"Ha! You should bite your tongue," Sonic replies picking up the briefing pad. Once Kenna is out of the room, Sonic tosses the pad on the couch then switches with Nico. The werehog weaves the hands signs to make Sonic appear in a puff of smoke. "Sonic, don't do that again."

"Yeah, I get you bro. Cortana is everything ready?" Sonic questions.

"Yea, I created a black hole in the security network, so when you're ready to go just give me the word. You will have only five minutes to get out of the security area before anyone can track you." Cortana shows Sonic a map of the area with red circles while Nico sits on the bed crossed legged in a meditation pose. "Sonic, you are going to have avoid these red areas because it sound off an alarm if you pass it."

"Understood," Sonic replies.

"Sonic keep you power use to a minimum and keep this as short as possible," Nico orders as his werehog shield powers up that only surrounds him.

Sonic gives Nico a thumbs up; then turns to Cortana before getting into a ready position. She opens the balcony door and gives Sonic a countdown. "3…2…1…GO!" Sonic takes off running jumping over the rails and disappears into the dusk red-orange sky. "Nico?"

"I have full contact with Sonic," he replies.

"Good luck you two."

---

Amy gets close to where her meeting spot and says into her collar mic, "M do you read me?"

"Loud and clear B," Marcus responses.

"B do you think this is ready necessary?" Wrench questions. "I mean he did save you from GUN, and he is a real cool guy."

"He hasn't earn our… my trust," Amy states adjusting her purse on her shoulder.

"Keep the chat short and sweet," Sirtita states.

"S, we need to find out everything he knows," Amy states before she starts back walking. Maxine appears next to Amy to watch the exchange. Sonic is sitting on the bench watching the sun setting on the ocean side of the bay.

"Lovely evening, don't you think?" Sonic questions without turning his head. Amy keeps her eyes on Sonic while he continues to look out on the water. She sits on the other end of the bench without answering the question.

They two of them remain quiet for ten minutes until Marcus says, "B say something."

Amy opens her mouth, but Sonic says first, "I guess the notion 'come alone' only applied for me."

"What do you mean?"

Sonic smirks and points to a tree behind him, "Is Wrench comfortable in that tree? Plus why does he need a sniper rifle trained on me?" Amy's eyes bug out looking in the direction the hedgehog is pointing, but Sonic adds, "Hiroto and Josh must have nose plugs on to stand that close to the portable toilets and with guns drawn."

"How," Amy states looking in the new direction.

"Marcus and Sirtana must have best seats sitting in the green car in the parking lot. Oh let me guess, they are running coms for your group."

"No way!" Wrench exclaims.

"How did he…" Josh starts.

"…know where everyone is?" Marcus questions.

"B!" Sirtana calls out.

Amy's body tenses up getting the ready for a fight, but Sonic says in a relaxed tone of voice, "Amy, tell your team to relax. I only came here to talk, and you don't have to worry about GUN. They don't even know that I am gone. Plus, Nico and I trust you, so I know that you won't intently hurt me not counting our first meeting."

Amy relaxes and turns to face the sparkling water surface with the setting sun in the backdrop. The pink hedgehog feels a wave of serenity wash over her. When Amy looks back at the blue hedgehog, her heart nearly skips a beat seeing his face bathed in the setting sunlight, the cold wind blowing his quills, and the shining bay behind him. The blue prince's heroic figure makes her heart beat louder; Amy jaw slightly drops at the sight. "Sonic, who are you?" she softly asks. Sonic looks at the pink teenage girl driving the beauty of her face, the soft expression on her face, and the gentle flow of her ponytail tie hair. Amy hears what she thinks Sonic and Nico's say in unison, 'One looking to the one that holds the other half of our heart.'

"Amy?"

Amy shakes her head focusing her mind back to the matter at hand. "Alright Sonic, I came as promised," Amy touches her necklace with three charms. "Tell me how you got my parents necklace charms."

Sonic asks without turning his head, "When did they last have the charms?"

"The day they disappeared."

Sonic slowly blinks his eyes then asks, "Do you know how or who was responsible for their disappearance?"

Amy's mind starts to recall the day that Leo told her that her parents were missing. The emotions of a frighten ten year girl flash up as she briefly relives the moment, "I don't know; Uncle Leo and his friends wouldn't tell me anything even now I can't find any solid leads about their missing plane. As for who is responsible, I know that piece of shit Acorn was behind it. I know he had this… wait this none of your business. Now stop with your probing and answer my question!"

Sonic exhales then stands still looking towards the horizon, "A jewelry merchant on Mobius showed us the pieces. He called it the Lost Roses. As to why, we could not find out because the merchant who sold the pieces disappears without a trace. Not soon after, we received a package that contained a strange message. The message told us to come to Earth to find the truth and answers behind those charms."

Amy looks at Sonic with a surprise expression as she questions, "The truth? What truth? The truth behind my parents' disappearance? The true motives behind Acorn's plans?" Without realizing, Amy is on her feet with hands around Sonic's arms shaking him while she demands, "If you know something, please tell me!"

Sonic looks down at the half foot shorter pink girl. Their eyes meet and Amy can see the soft compassionate and burning warmth within his emerald green colored eyes. "I am sorry, but we are here in search of truth and answers," Sonic replies; then he sees the small flare of hope fades away. "Amy, why did you become the Black Rose Ninja?"

Amy turns away from Sonic, "It's none your business why I do what I do."

"Ha! You're just like Shadow; you like to keep things and your emotions close to the vest. Although, the reason for you becoming a criminal won't met out the justice you want nor ensure your family's safety."

Amy turns around with a sour expression and see Sonic with his arms folded looking back out at the waterfront. "And what makes you think that?!" Amy exclaims with an annoyed tone.

Sonic glances at for a second then looks back ahead while saying, "Your quest for vengeance will only lead to your destruction."

"How the hell do you think that?! And I'm not doing this for vengeance, I'm protecting those who can't protect themselves."

"Just keep telling yourself that lie as they prepare your bed in prison," Sonic fires back.

Amy grits her teeth with anger now filling her being; she stomps up to Sonic and grabs his over-shirt pulling him down to eye level. "You have a lot of balls saying shit like that to me."

"Don't get us wrong, you have help a great deal of people, but in your rush, you didn't do your proper homework before your last mission," Sonic explains.

Amy tightens her fists as says with a growing angry tune, "What makes you think you know anything about my missions!"

Sonic turns to the pink hedgehog and lays out, "First of all, you should have seen that it was a trap setup by GUN or more direct my brother Shadow."

"His brother set B up!" Wrench comments over the comlink.

Sonic nods hearing Wrench's comment, and he adds, "This is why you need to stop because if you fall into another trap there's no way Nico and I can rescue you."

"Who said I needed rescuing?! I am more than able to protect myself!"

"Ha! After your latest performance, you would be full of holes!"

Amy's temper boils over, and she throws a straight punch at the blue hedgehog while shouting, "FUCK YOU!"

Without any effort, Sonic parries the first three punches. Maxine waves her hands trying to convince her other half to stop attacking, but Amy pays her twin spirit form no mind and keeps punching. Sonic only uses his right hand to block each one of her attacks. On the thirteenth punch, Sonic catches her fist with his right hand. She tries to pull away, but his iron grip shows the difference in strength. "Amy, think about what you are doing and what you are putting in danger."

Sonic releases her hand making Amy stumble a seat or two backwards; she rubs her sore hand while firing back, "You don't know a fucking thing about…"

"Alex!" Sonic interjects making her stop in midsentence. She mouths her brother's name, and Sonic continues with, "What will happen to him if you get caught or killed while doing this! And don't say DECSEC will be right there! How helpful were they when you were in that building?! They couldn't hack the bots, stop the alarms, or anything to help safeguard your life!" Sonic turns to look back out on the water while Amy and her backup think about Sonic's words. "Amy, Nico and I along with every member of our family and the citizens of Mobius know what it is to desire vengeance on one who did us wrong. Although, using vengeance as the center piece to fight an enemy, will bring nothing but strife and pain to everyone around you then your own destruction. I don't want you going down that road."

Amy steps closer to him sensing a strange yet familiar present coming from him. "Why do you care so much?"

"I don't know. There is something telling us to always be there for you, so you don't have to bear the pain alone."

Amy lowers head and rubs her arm while saying, "I… I… I'll be fine. I don't want to drag anyone else into this."

"So won't stop."

Amy shakes her head no. Sonic exhales getting ready to say something, but he grabs his head feeling extremely light head. She sees him grunting in pain falling to knee. Amy's heart orders her to go to his side as a wave of concern takes over she puts her hand on his shoulder, "Sonic!"

The light headiness and pain eases seconds after her touching his shoulder. Whether by instinct or conscience move, Sonic places his hand over her creating a cycle of passion between them. Sonic pats her hand standing back up. "I'm ok now thanks to you."

"What… thanks to me?" Amy questions with an inquisitive look.

Sonic is shocked by his statement, but his coughs to care his throat and get back on topic, "The Black Rose Ninja is in a dangerous spot. Sally Acorn has a toe tag with her name on it and will do anything to get put on. Shadow and GUN are also on the hunt for her as well. She will not survive against odds like that."

"I will not stop! I will not get caught! And I will not die."

Sonic looks up at the darkening night sky feeling another wave of light headiness coming on. ~Shit, not again! My energy is reaching its limit. ~ Sonic takes a deep breath then exhales. He turns to walk away before saying, "I don't have much time left, so we will again. As for the ninja, she will have a guardian just as the moon is the guardian over the Earth."

"You can't!"

Sonic gives a smirk glancing back at her and replies, "Try and stop me." Sonic makes a sign with his hand and vanishes in puff of smoke.

---

Mika paces in Aleena's office looking on the occasion checking her watch. Kana walks into the office closing the door behind him. "Ms. Ashford, you got a bit of a line forming up out there."

"Yes, I am aware. Prince Nico or Prince Sonic have not arrive for work this morning and there has been no word from anyone," Mika replies.

"Have you talked with Kenna?" he questions as he flops on the couch.

Mika walks over the desk and types in Kenna's number. She picks up the phone and greets the caller with a sleepy voice; Mika replies with, "Captain, where is his majesty at?"

"They should be at the office."

"Captain, I am calling from the office; they are not here. It is nearly ten o'clock and he has people waiting."

Kenna sits up from her bed rubbing her head with sleep still in the corner of her eyes. "Alright Ms. Ashford calm down I'll handle it," Kenna states while getting out of bed. Ten minutes later, she get to their door and starts knocking, but she gets no answer. She knocks again while saying, "Sonic! Nico! Open up! What are they doing?"

"Morning Kenna," Sonia greets.

"Sonia, have you seen your brother?"

"No," Sonia replies Kenna exhales in frustration reaching into her pocket to pull out a keycard. "Are you sure about doing that? Remember what happened the last time you went into their room."

Kenna slides the keycard and opens the door, "Yeah, but Ms. Ashford says that they are hours late for work." She walks into the room calling out their names. Sonia follows in behind her looking for their brothers. The sitting room has pads with written notes scattered over table with the strange writing one on it. ~Were they working on this all night? ~

"Kenna, I found them," Sonia states.

Kenna walks into the bedroom to see Nico in his full werehog form laying on the bed with his tongue hanging out snoring out loud. "Wow this is a first to see Nico knocked out like this."

"Well, you said that they are running late, so how do you plan on waking them?" Sonia questions.

"I have an idea," Kenna comments walking out of the bedroom. A couple seconds later, she returns carrying a pitcher of water. "Sonia, you might want to stand back." Sonia steps back; then Kenna throws the water onto Nico. The splashing cold water makes the werehog stir a bit.

"Well, that didn't do anything."

Kenna gives an evil smirk, "That's only half of the wakeup call. The other half is very charging." She holds up her right index finger with a spark of lightening cracking around it.

Manic walks down the hallway to the common room humming a happy tone. Suddenly, the green hedgehog jumps hearing Nico scream. He rushes to his brothers' room to see Kenna and Sonia laugh while smoke rises from Nico's body. "So what's with this?"

"Late morning wakeup call," Sonia giggles.

Manic looks at his brother's smoking body, "Don't you think you overdid Kenna?"

"Nah. Watch 3…2…1!"

Nico springs up yelling, "WHAT THE HELL!"

"Morning Nico," Kenna greets.

"Kenna, why did you do that?!" Nico growls out.

"Three reasons. One, we tried waking you gently but no luck. Two, it is 1045. Three, you're late for work," Kenna explains.

Nico eye bug out hearing time. "WHAT OH NO! NO! NO!" He screams rushing off towards the bathroom.

Kenna, Sonia, and Manic rush out of Nico's room to avoid getting ran over by the rushing werehog. Outside the room, the three of them here at Nico and Sonic rushing back and forth putting together their outfits. Manic comments by saying, "Those two must have been up all night, normally they don't oversleep."

"There's a first for everything," Sonia states. "The question is what were they working on?"

"They haven't told you about King Sora's journal?" Kenna questions.

Sonia and Manic are surprise to hear the news about their father's journal. Sonia starts to ask a question. "SONIC! GET OUR SHOES!" Nico screams.

"GOT IT! NICO GET THE WORK PAD!"

"Wow, they are ready going at it," Manic states.

"SONIC WATCH OUT FOR THAT BANANA!"

"WHAT? AHHHHH!" Sonic scream with a following clashing boom.

"That sounded like that hurt," Manic comments.

"Kenna, when did they find dad's journal?" Sonia questions

"The day they got here," Kenna states.

"Wow, I guess them jumping the gun paid off," Manic comments before looking into their room to see something fly through the air making him laugh. "Oh boy this is going to be good."

"I guess," Sonia replies with a concert look on her face.

Sonic is the next to year, "NICO! INCOMING FRYING PAN!"

*POW* "OOOUUCCCHHHH!"

"What's wrong?" Kenna asks.

"Sonic and Nico hide something this important from us with and hasn't told anyone but you. It makes me wonder what else they are hiding," Sonia comments.

"NICO! WATCH OUT!"

"AHH! WHERE THAT MOOSE COME FROM?!"

Kenna looks back through their door to see three figures racing back and forth. "A moose?" Kenna questions; she shakes her head and looks back at Sonia's puzzled expression. "Knowing those two, I would not be surprise if they are hiding something."

Manic looks up at two young women, "We could do what we did last time after they go to work."

"No way!" Sonia exclaims. "Remember how much of a headache that was the last time."

Kenna and Manic remembering the event. "Captain," Mika calls out walking up to the group. They all turn to face the cat secretary heading towards them. "Captain Adair, have you located their royal majesties?"

"Yup," Kenna replies pointing to into the room.

Mika looks in just as Sonic come hopping out while trying to the put on his shoe with a piece of toast his mouth and holding his work pad into the other hand. "Sorry everyone! So sorry! We couldn't help it! Ms. Ashford shall we?"

Sonic heads down the hallway with Mika right on his tail, "Prince Sonic, your appoints are…,"

"Yeah, we get it."

An hour later, Sonic leans back in his chair with his head tilted back, mouth wide open, and snoozing. Kenna and Mika walk into the office while Mika states, "They are nothing short of amazing. They got through the back log of meetings within minutes of arriving, and now we are back on schedule."

Kenna looks at the blue hedgehog and giggles while pointing, "Well, it looks like it got the better of them."

Mika looks at the prince and is surprise to see him fast asleep. "Your highness!"

Sonic awakes up, "What! Who! What happened?!"

"Sonic were fully KO'd just a second ago," Kenna states.

Sonic stretches while standing up as Mika pours some tea for the teenage prince. "Thank you. What's next?"

"You we're supposed to have your date with Ms. Acorn, but she had to cancel due to work."

"Hey that works for us," Sonic replies.

"Yes…, anyway that means you will have a two hour block before your next meeting."

"Awesome to know," Sonic comments after drinking some tea. "Well with in mind, I think I catch some Z's in the meantime."

"SONIC! NICO!" Cortana shouts rushing into the room.

"Cortana, there is no need for this shouting." Mika scorns the blue AI as she come rushing into the room.

"Yeah great advice mother hen," Cortana mocks while heading to the desk. "Sonic, I did it. I cracked the code!"

"Code?" Mika questions.

Sonic looks at Cortana, and she shakes her head no. "Ms. Ashford, I need to ask you to wait outside."

"Prince Sonic!"

"We are discussing classified information, so please step out." Sonic orders. Mika gives a quick bow then walks out. "Ok, Cortana gives us the low down."

"Right check this out," she starts off by showing them a holomap of the state. "Alright, I'm going to go through this pretty fast, so try and keep up. First, I went through the king's journals once again with the coded index that we were able to decipher from all the date and time. Now, one thing kept popping out that didn't make any sense." She points to a set of numbers at the end of the date and continues with, "these numbers here didn't correlate with anything we had. Furthermore, I cross checked it with the pages dates times everything we would normally run into when dealing with numbers like these but nothing matched up, so I took another swing at it in a different way. As you can see, some of the dates don't have all these numbers with it, so I focused on the dates with these long string of numbers at the end and here's what I found." Cortana punches something into her keyboard making a series of dots appear on the map of California. "Sonic does any of this look familiar. Or better yet do you recognize the places that are highlighted by the dots."

Sonic and Nico closely look at the map and after a few minutes they start to piece the clues together. "Yeah, this dot is located on the Golden Gate Bridge where we found dad's journal, and this one is located on the Transamerica Pyramid, and this was located on the Golden Gate Grill. Wait a minute, each of these dots correlates with…"

Cortana finishes Sonic's thought by expressing, "Places where we found a clue to King Sora's whereabouts. Now check this out." Cortana pulls up a couple of sheets that correlated with the date of the journal. "To save us reading time, I'll summarize what the king wrote here. He was talking about spots that he like to visit while in San Francisco and areas where he believed he would want to take his family when they came to visit his birth planet. Now this is where the good shit comes in, I kept seeing these numbers appear up over and over again: (41.31028, 123.15505); (42.5105, 125.55440); (43.5150, 124.15404). Each of the journal articles that were associated with one pair of these numbers made this reference, 'the place of our birth and of the moon's strengthening light.'"

Without conscious thought Sonic says, "Where the strength of the pack is always within hand."

Cortana looks at Sonic and says, "That is exactly what the next part of the journal says."

Sonic starts to pack up the papers on his desk. Kenna looks at him with a confused look, "Sonic what are you doing? Don't you still have about 10 to 20 meetings for today?"

Sonic finishes packing up and then signs on the final documents. "Ms. Ashford please come in here," Sonic orders. The feline secretary walks in and sees Sonic putting the last pads on the right side of his desk in the outbox holder. "Miss Ashford, we need you to clear our schedule for the rest of the week. All the petition requests have either signed off, rejected, or given Royal approval." Mika's face is full of shock hearing Sonic's orders and without missing a step the blue hedgehog continues with, "Any new petitions can be for it to me remotely Cortana. Cortana was status of our car?"

The blue AI smirks and says, "DECSEC says that the car is operational. In fact, I have it on the way as we speak."

Sonic nods his approval then looks at Kenna and says, "Pack a bag and anything else you need for about a week or two."

All the three start heading out the door, but Mika holds her hands out blocking the doorway and says, "Your Majesty this is complete and utter madness. You cannot just leave in the middle of the day and have all your meetings canceled just to go gallivanting on some wild mission."

Sonic says in a calm fashion, "Ms. Ashford, we don't have time for this. We have a lead on where our dad is, and we have a lot of work to do. If you have problem with it, you are free to call mom. With that said, get out of our!" Without giving her even a second to respond, the three of them will pass the door and head upstairs to get everything they need for the trip. In less than twenty minutes, Sonic and Kenna are driving off in his newly rebuilt cobalt thunder bird. Sonic looks at the mini holopad where Cortana is positioned, "Alright Cortana, what's our course heading?"

"We are heading for a heavily forested area near the sea coast," she replies before pulling up map of the area with an appointed route.

"Sonic, where are we heading?" Kenna questions watching as they leave the city.

Sonic replies without looking away, "To my dad's tribe."

"His tribe?!"

"Yup," Cortana replies. "But there is something strange about the area."

Sonic glances over at Cortana and says, "What did you find strange in the area?"

Cortana pulls up a miniature satellite photo and says while pointing towards a black hole, "for some reason the satellite picture of the area is being blocked out. I don't know exactly what it is, but if I was to take a guess it looks like someone created a way to block any type of film from to be taken of that selected area."

"It doesn't seem to be anything overtly dangerous, so we can leave that to the back burner for now." Sonic replies shifting into a higher gear to speed up the car.

Thirty minutes into their drive the comlink comes alive and Aleena's face appears on the screen. "Sonic where are you?"

"Oh, hi mom how's Geneva?"

"It's 3 am, and I get an emergency call from Mika saying that you bailed out on all your meetings," Aleena states.

"Yeah you're right," Sonic starts off. "But we finished all our work before leaving."

"So why did you leave and what are you guys doing?" Aleena questions.

"For the past couple of days, Cortana, Nico, and I have been decoding and working on a way to piece back together dad's journal. Just before we left, Cortana was able to decipher the location to dad's tribe," Sonic explains looking back at the road.

Aleena folds her arms and leans back in her chair with her eyes closed thinking about what her sons will find at her husband's tribe. After couple of seconds, Aleena opens her eyes back up and then says, "alright, I'll let you go this time. Once everything is done, I want a full report about what you found. Also, Cortana send me a copy of Sora's journal."

"It's on its way your majesty," Cortana replies.

After Aleena receives a copy of the journal, she says, "okay I got it. You four be careful especially you and Nico. Kenna, you are going to need to follow every single command that the boys give you. Is that understood?" The she-wolf nods her approval. "Good luck Aleena out."

The screen goes black, and Sonic breathes a sigh of relief. "Well that went better than I thought. I was sure mom was going to order us back."

"We lucked out on that," Kenna replies. "How long will it take before we get there?"

"About three to four hours," Sonic replies.

"Great!" Kenna exclaims reclining the seat then falls asleep.

The car comes to a stop at the end of a service road. The jolt makes Kenna wake up stretch to loosen her body. While rubbing her eyes she says, "are we there yet?" She looks to her left and sees the driver seat empty and the car parked next to a cliff overlooking the valley. She gets out the car looking for the driver, and Kenna sees someone who looks like Nico. However the teenager standing near the edge doesn't appear to be what Nico normally looks like in his concealed form; the young man standing there with arms folded looks like a dark cray blue wolf with the dirty white fur at tips of his quills, for on his wrists, and the tip of his now longer tail. "Nico is that you?"

He turns to face Kenna and says, "who else would it be?"

"You look different and you are taller. You're not having trouble controlling your transformation states are you?"

Nico shakes his head no and says, "I think it has something to do with this area for some reason my body transformed. Plus I have a feeling it will. To what it is we have no clue."

"Come on, we're burning daylight," Kenna voices trying not stare at Nico's new body.

They get back into the car; then they stop at a service station. Nico goes to pay for gas, and he is greeted an elderly wolf who looks like a little Nico's current form.

"Greeting youngling. What can I do for you?" the clerk asks.

"Hi, thirty dollars please," Nico requests handing the cash over to the clerk.

The clerk takes the money while discreetly scanning over the prince then Kenna as she comes in looking for the restroom, "So what brings you two around these parts?"

Nico looks at elder, "Well, I am looking for some possible relatives of mine. Tell me, do you know if there is a tribe in the area?"

The clerk taps his chin thinking for a minute then says, "Well, I have hear rumor of a tribe in the Valley of the Moon."

"A valley? According to our map, there isn't a valley around here. Is there?"

The elder smiles and says, "Only one who can smell the scent of the moon will find the valley."

Nico thanks the elder then heads back to the car. After they get in, Nico asks, "Cortana, does dad's journal say anything about a valley?"

"Hum… yeah it mentions it, but only says, 'Use your nose to find the valley of our people'," Cortana reports.

"Use our nose to find the valley," Nico repeats while starts the engine. "Use our nose. I got it!"

Kenna holds on tight while Nico races the car back to their stopping point. "Nico why are you driving so fast?"

"We know where to start, and we don't have much time," Nico states as he takes final three turns. Five minutes later, he stops at the cliff side overlooking the green forest. "It's here."

Sonic appears next to Nico, ~You sure bro? ~

"Yeah, I'm positive. Kenna get your backpack ready; we're hoofing it from here on. Cortana, program the car to go back to San Francisco," Nico orders going to trunk to get his backpack.

Kenna looks at the setting sun and tells Nico, "Nico it's almost nighttime how we going to find this village at night?"

The werehog prince finishes putting on his backpack and strapping the final pieces down, "actually it's better that we are traveling at night. The full moon tonight will make things a lot easier. Besides, will be able to find a village using any type of modern technology. Cortana wants the cars back at the hotel I want you to jump to keep track of us via the satellite tracker."

"I hope you know what you're doing you're telling me to stay away. Anyway, I'll do what I can to keep your location on the DL. If things start to get out of hand to set the panic button and I'll transmit everyone your location. Good luck," Cortana states before starting up the engine and driving off.

"Let's move out Kenna," Nico orders as he steps over the railing then hops down to the forest below. Kenna falls right behind Nico; then the two start through the growing dark forest. About an hour into the hike, the ground below is starting to be bathed in moonlight.

Two hours have pass since they entered the forest and Kenna soft next to tree leans while saying, "Nico we been going for two hours how much more further is this place?"

Nico sniffs the air then looks back and forth then says in a cautious tone, "Kenna, whatever you do don't drawing her sword don't fight back don't resist at all do you understand?"

Kenna gives a confuse expression, "what you talking about, don't resist at all? Are we in trouble or something?"

"No, but we will be if you resist," Nico replies. Only seconds after making that statement, to find themselves surrounded with the tips of swords pointing straight at their faces.

The warrior wolf holding the blade close to Nico's throat says in a language only they can understand, "He looks like one of us but he's too tall."

"I am only a foot taller than the rest of you," Nico says in their language.

"He knows our language as well," another warrior says. "What about the female. She is a wolf alright, but she has his scent on her as well.

"The female that you're referring to is my bodyguard," Nico states.

The warrior holding a bow burst out laughing, "you have a small weak female be considered your bodyguard. What type of warrior are you?"

"We did not come here to fight; we're here to talk with the leaders of your tribe."

The warrior holding the blade Nico's throat presses it closer to the point of nearly breaking the skin. Kenna sees a small drop of blood starts to ooze down the blade making her growl out in anger. She easily breaks away from her close captors drawing out her blades and ordering, "Release him now!" The other warriors surround her with their weapons pointing at her. She starts to pour lightening into her blade. "LET HIM GO NOW!"

Nico's capturer orders, "No you lower your weapon or he will die!"

Kenna takes a step forward with more lightening flowing through her swords getting ready to attack. "KENNA! LOWER YOUR SWORDS!" Nico orders.

"But Nico…"

"That's an order captain!"

Kenna lowers her swords, but Nico's capturer comments, "That's right you bitch! Obey!"

Nico's aura flares up looking at his capturer. The warrior and others around Nico jump back to putting space between them. Nico says in the strange tongue, "You have no right to call her that! If you continue to disrespect her, you and I will settle this here."

"Ha! The faker has fangs and claws after all," the warrior teases.

"ENOUGH!" a man's voice exclaims walking out of the woods. "Silverfang, you dishonor yourself with your actions."

Two massive built males come into sight. The black wolf male asks, "Who are you?"

Nico moves next to Kenna and says, "We are Nico Werehog and Sonic Hedgehog sons of Sora Speed Hedgehog."

Everyone gasps hearing the statement, but Silverfang counters with, "NO! HE IS NO SON OF SORA! HE IS A WEAK FAKE!" He draws his sword again preparing to attack.

"My son!"

"NO!" Nico calls out. "We will prove to him the true powers we possess. Silverfang come and face us."

Silverfang rushes of at Nico then jumps up while swinging down his sword.

Nico smirks getting into a defensive stance, "Now this is what I call a welcome home party!"

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Sonic races into the room and slams the door behind him while putting on multiple locks and breathing heavily with an uproar of angry voices coming up behind him. "Hey everyone Sonic here, first let me say sorry for the delay and I know this was to come out before Christmas but things got a little rough." The door starts to shake as the angry voices of Ean, Shining Armor, Liara, Nico Shepard, and the others scream at him to open the door. Sonic braces the door the couch the bed and other items in the room. "Alright you might be asking why I'm doing this or what the hell is going on. To make a long story short Ean found out that I hijacked his notes for the other stories and pretty much took over 2017. Unfortunately they want payback and I think my blue hide is the payment they want." The door begins to crack under the intense punches making Sonic gulp in fear. Sonic starts to back away with sweat dripping down his head in fear engulfing is full being. "Well, I hope you enjoyed this episode of Neo Sonic Underground please leave your comments and any suggestions to help us go faster. And I hope this isn't my last episode."

The door breaks open and the giant blue Na'vi followed by the others come into the room. "You all might want to want close your eyes for this one because what we are about to do so our brother is going to be considered illegal and ninety states and half of the Western Hemisphere."

Sonic begs on his knees, "Please have mercy."

"Not on your life," Ean states while cracking his knuckles.

Coming soon

Neo Sonic Underground: Earth Saga

Episode Four: How to Catch a Thief