A/N: So last chapter wasn't much but like I said this is slow build, and I don't want to give too much away to quickly lol. Also I'm on Instagram doing Sonic fanart these days so if your curious stop by. I'll be doing artwork for this fanfic mainly cuz I might make it into a comic on Deviantart.

Chapter 2: Discovery

Tails spent the next two days stuck in a serious head space.

He worked endlessly on the Tornado and Sonic even carried up his sleeping form away from the plane when he found the fox hanging from under the plane by a self made swing chair. By the third day Tails burst from his room flying downstairs and into the garage. Knuckles and Sonic shared a look as the door slammed behind the fox and shrugged. Two hours later, Tails still hadn't emerged from his lab and his friends were starting to get a little concerned but they knew better than to disturb the fox when he was intensely trying to work something out.

Eventually it was getting dark and Silver had stopped by with a tray of home baked muffins.

"Amy and Lily baked these for Sonic."

The said hedgehog came up behind Knuckles from where he was standing at the front door. As they were munching away at the muffins the garage door slammed open and Tails came out scratching his head. It was clear he didn't like what he was looking at. Sonic walked up next to Tails looking over his shoulder.

"What's up bud?"

Tails brushed off crumbs from the paper work that fell from Sonics mouth as he ate while looking at the readings.

"I just don't get it… I was sure there'd be something…"

The others sat up in their seat curious of just what could have gotten the fox so stumped. Silver aimed his wrapper for a trash can by the door way asking the question Sonic had just asked moments ago.

"Well, what's wrong?"

Blue eyes looked up in deep confusion.

"It's the results from the tests I ran on Sonic. They're… negative."

"Negative of what?" Knuckles asked.

"There's just nothing... I was sure there was going to be traces of sedatives or something at least…"

Sonic frowned and flung his wrapper towards the trash can.

"You know Tails, the way you're talking about it, makes it seem like you wanted something to happen to me out there."

"That's not what I meant Sonic. I'm just saying if the tests came back with nothing… We don't know what actually happened to you out there…"

Suddenly things became very apparent and the men in the room all went completely still looking at each other with worried expressions. Sonic stood from his seat on the couch and went into the kitchen. They could hear the fridge door open and close before the crisp snap of a soda can being opened was heard. Knuckles shook his head in disbelief.

"Stubborn hedgehog… I know you don't want to hear it Sonic but this could've been more serious…"

For a moment they waited in silence and a few minutes passed before they finally heard movement down the hall. Sonic walked back into the room holding a can of soda with one hand in his pocket. He had a nonchalant casual appearance but Sonic was quiet and they knew he was thinking deeply on the matter.

"I'm not weak…" Sonic spoke out softly and Tails sighed.

"I know you're not, but we're worried. Maybe you should consider being a little more careful when you go out on your own."

Silver smiled and tried to lighten the mood patting Sonics shoulder.

"Hey, maybe you can come over and help Amy take care of the kids."

Everyone laughed but deep down they were all worried for the blue hedgehog.

A few months passed and still no one had heard a peep from Eggman.

People for the most part didn't really mind, in fact they kind of liked not having the egg shaped burden destroying places on the regular and it was actually starting to have a positive effect on the citizens.

Though the crazed scientist had gone quiet, G.U.N was ever suspicious. A secret conference was held with the higher ups and Rouge was appointed with a mission. She was delighted they called her up and to her surprise Shadow hadn't been assigned which was a bonus for her. It was rare they trusted her alone on missions and it was with good reason since she always itched for a little mischief.

"Chill guys, I'll be in and out before you even start to miss me."

Rouge smiled and waved as she flew out of an open window.

The bat didn't need a map she had worked with Eggman on a number of occasions and she knew her way around the scientist supposedly secret bases. Rouge giggled to herself in thought, of course she was proud of her detective skills even though Eggman hardly made it a challenge.

She ripped up the map letting it fly away behind her as she took off west towards the remains of Eggmans Empire.

A salmon pink hedgehog with gold eyes wearing a cute sailor top and blue frilly skirt skipped downstairs excitedly. As soon as the front door was opened Amy stepped back letting the girl fly into a blue hedgehogs open arms.

"Sonic!"

The blue hedgehog chuckled spinning the girl happily.

"Hey Lily, you're getting big."

She giggled as she was embraced and set down as they walked inside the house. Silver followed in with a jealous scowl and grumbled while messing with his quills. Amy shook her head at the two and walked over to kiss Silver sweetly on the lips. The hedgehog instantly melted happily and followed them into the kitchen sitting at the table.

"Silver honey, what's this about?" Sonic frowned from his seat with Lily brushing his quills. Amy laughed with a nervous wave. "Not that I don't love you coming over Sonic, you're always welcome!"

The pink hedgehog laughed nervously but looked over at her husband awaiting a response. Silver looked over at Sonic and they shared a look making Amy fidget in her seat. She worried the topic wasn't safe for her daughter. Sonic noticed this brushing back Lily's salmon quills and reached into his pocket taking out a roll of starburst candy.

"Here, take this and share with your brother we gotta talk for a bit. I promise as soon as I'm done I'll find you guys for a game of tag."

Lily smiled taking the candy happily and hugged Sonic and ran off.

"Okay, but you better keep your promise or I'll get you!"

Sonic laughed and smiled as the girl skipped off looking for her brother. As soon as she was gone though he turned back to the couple with a more serious expression and Amy knew this had to be serious.

"Tails sent me out to check on Eggmans bases a few months back. Since he's been MIA lately I figured it be quick, no sweat, and it was. Everything was going good till I reached Eggman Island…"

The blue hedgehog crossed his arms and looked away. Silver Smiled apologetically at Amy's quizzical stare but continued for Sonic.

"Well, that's the thing Amy… We don't actually know what happened. Sonic said he was walking around the island but Tails called me up and we had to go look for Sonic ourselves. We found him just laying by a tree like nothing."

Amy blinked and wanted to laugh but Sonic looked at her from the corner of his eye making her second guess her remark.

"Okay, what if Sonic simply took a nap? He does make himself comfortable wherever he goes."

Silver laughed in his seat causing Sonic to smile.

"What can I say Ames, the outside is just more relaxing."

The pink hedgehog giggled along with guys but they quickly became serious again staring at the table with pensive expressions. Amy was the first to speak breaking the silence.

"So you guys think something actually happened out there? But what about Tails? What dose he have to say about this? Shouldn't he have ran some tests?"

"Woah Ames one question at a time, but ya Tails ran every possible test he could think of and everything ran up negative. The CCTV footage around the areas don't show anything either."

Emerald eyes finally connected with jade and the pink hedgehog realized the worlds greatest hero could actually be a little worried. It scared her too and she looked away nervous trying to brush back her long pink quills. Silver caught the action, he knew her well enough to know all her little nervous ticks and playing with her hair was one of them. He wondered if she was worried for Sonic and mixed the thought with his insecurities.

It was stupid the gray hedgehog thought, he was married to the bright pink hedgehog and they had two amazing kids but he was always self-conscious of the Amy's love for the blue hero. They'd known each other for years and he wondered how he could ever compete with Sonics many heroic feats enough to impress Amy at an equal level. He sighed brushing off the thought.

Amy reached out for Silvers hand with a smile and his doubts slowly drifted away making him blush. Sonic chose that moment to cough making them look away nervously. The pink hedgehog cleared her throat putting on her sweet voice as she spoke.

"Alright this is interesting and all but why did you guys come here? Did you guys need me for something?"

The male hedgehogs blinked at each other and Silver let out a nervous laugh scratching the back of his head.

"Well Rosey, honey, I thought Sonic could hang over at our place more often…" Amy eyed Silver down with unamused eyes making him squirm. "Just to keep an extra eye on him you know? Heh? Buddies gotta… stick together?"

Sonic tried to hold in his cackle while Amy crossed her arms staring down her husband. The gray hedgehog glared at Sonic grabbing the kitchen rag and flung at his face grinning madly as it made a satisfying wet smack.

"Dude Silv, that's gross!"

Amy shook her head with a sigh as Sonic took the rag and wacked Silver repeatedly with it. She was about to speak when suddenly a white hedgehog that looked like Silver with Amy's eyes ran in being chased by Lily.

"Zero you jerk, I'll get you!"

The boy laughed and stuck out his tongue running to Sonics side of the table.

"You're too slow Lily, nah~!"

The older hedgehogs watched the salmon little hedgehog quickly become red faced and angered. Sonic noted she definitely had her mothers temper. The girl slapped her hands together and a giant baby rattle materialized out of a puff of baby blue glittery smoke that dissipated quickly.

Sonic blinked impressed glancing over at Amy and Silver to see their expressions. It was apparent they had seen this before but this was new to him. He didn't know the kids had developed any abilities yet.

"Lily, sweetie, why don't we put away Baba? We don't want you guys destroying the house again okay?"

Silver tried to speak to the little girl kindly but whatever happened made her pretty upset and she pouted gripping the handle of her rattle tightly.

"Daddy… grrr… but he!"

The boy at Sonics end of the table stuck out his tongue making the girl go red again and she raised the rattle throwing it as hard as she could towards the boy. Amy and Silver panicked but Sonic was fast to grab the rattle mid flight before it hit the boy in the face.

"Lily! What I'd say about throwing that thing in the house!" Amy turned to Sonic with an apologetic smile. "Thanks Sonic, I'm sorry Lily and Zero can be a handful sometimes."

The blue hedgehog waved her off with a chuckle as he inspected the rattle in his hands. It was surprising light despite its large size but he figured Lily could adjust the weight to her preference.

"Its cool Ames, I raised Tails after all."

Amy smiled walking over to her son inspecting his face with concern.

"You weren't hurt were you Zero hun?"

The boy smiled sheepishly beside Sonic as his mother wiped his face of dirt from plaing outside.

"Nah, I'm okay mom. She didn't hurt me."

The boy gave Sonic and Amy a wide grin and ran over to Lily smacking her back with an evil laugh.

"Tag you're it!"

Lily growled teary eyed and the rattle that was in Sonics hands disappeared and reappeared in Lily's hand as she ran off after her brother like a bat out of hell.

"Oooh Zero, you jerk!"

The older hedgehogs in the kitchen laughed as they watched the kids run out the back door and into the yard. Amy looked over at Sonic, his green eyes still focused on the door the kids ran out from with a pensive sweet smile. She crossed her arms with a smirk as she spoke making his blue ears twitch.

"So when are you going to have kids Sonic? You're not getting any younger you know."

The male hedgehogs shared a look before laughing.

"Good one Ames, but me and kids? Im not really sure that's my thing…"

"You took in Tails when he was six. That's practically adopting."

Silver snorted at the two and burst out laughing when the blue hedgehog made a scrunched face.

"Ya but we're more like brothers, I never acted like a father to him."

The pink hedgehog laughed taking out some glasses and poured lemonade in them. She passed them out to the hedgehogs who happily accepted the drink. Again the room was quiet but it was a comfortable silence. Sonic could hear the kids playing outside and it brought back his thoughts to Lily's ability, did Zero have any he wondered. Sonic looked over to Silver and Amy, of course they had their own strengths and abilities. Amy with her Pikko Pikko hammer plus her tarot reading and Silver with telekinesis, they were bound to have kids with awesome powers. He excitedly asked the parents about Zero.

"Lily's rattle is pretty cool, what about Zero though? What's his ability?"

The blue hedgehog watched as his friends looked at each other and turned away with worried and sad expressions. Silver messed with the bracelet of his gloves, golden eyes looking away as he spoke.

"I don't think he's getting any powers Sonic..."

Sonic suddenly felt awful and Amy bit back with her own words on the matter.

"Don't say that Silvy, we don't know if Zero wont get any abilities! He's still very young!"

Sonic felt the sweat beads beginning to form on his face as the two looked at each other ready to start a heavy conversation that maybe he shouldn't be present for. Unfortunately he was and he decided instead to remedy the situation by trying to cool down the pink hot headed hedgehog.

"Calm down Ames, and Silv, she's right. Zero's only like what, seven? There's still loads of time before he even develops anything. Don't worry about it guys I'm sure he'll grow into his own when the time comes."

The pink hedgehog smiled beaming at her once biggest crush. Silver still had a concerned expression but for Amy's sake he sighed and smiled.

"Ya, I guess Sonic's right. He's still got a long way to go."

Amy smiled thankfully in Sonics direction and stood up from her seat dusting off her mint green dress.

"Well, since you're here, want to stay over for dinner Sonic?"

The blue hedgehog grinned excitedly, Amy was an amazing cook thanks to Vanilla's teachings and he sat forward in his seat.

"Sure thing Ames, I'd love too."

Rouge flew in through an open air vent and continued her way in crawling through tight spaces. There was a few tight squeezes because of her large breast but she made it out alright walking into the building undetected as always. The heels of her boots clanked with ever step and her hips swayed as she walked. Rouge smirked scanning the area. It seemed quiet and everything was dark save for a few blinking lights from buttons and switches along the many walls of tech.

Its been a while since shed been back to this Island. but she still knew the layout of the place and she walked out into a dark corridor looking for anything suspicious. As she walked through the building she came across a door that was faintly lit from the bottom with a soft blue glow. Curious she came closer inspecting the area worried that it might be guarded but the hall way was empty not even a camera insight and she walked up to the wall punching in some keys trying old passwords till it opened and the bat stepped in as the heavy sealed metal door unlocked and hissed.

Rouge took in the room, it wasn't much but the typical room full of computers and tech until she moved further back into the room where the glow was coming from and froze. Hot pink lips gasped and blue eyes went wide as she put her hand against a warm glass. It was a tall glass cell and inside floated a midnight blue female baby hedgehog. Rouge stared at the little creature in wonder walking around the cell in fascination and that's when she noticed the second cell with a smaller lavender hedgehog. This one was a baby as well but it wasn't as far along as the female but Rouge could tell this one was a boy.

"Who are you guys?"

She spoke curiously into the empty room and walked up to a monitor near the kids trying to find any information on them. Gloved hands typed fast and opened file after file skimming through information till she found what she was looking for and she paused stepping away from the screen in disbelief.

"No way… There's no way…"

Rouge turned looking back at the kids floating in the cells feeling concern flood every corner of her mind. With what she knew about these kids she couldn't just leave them for Eggman to train and brainwash, and if G.U.N discovered them they'd be terminated. She had to do something. Rouge reached in between her breasts pulling out a flash drive and plugged it into the computer copying every useful file she could find. When the bat was finished she turned around pocketing the drive away giving the kids one last glance before she took off.

Back somewhere in Central city Tails sat at his desk working on a random device he was building for fun. It was late and the house was empty. Knuckles had gone to check on the Master Emerald and Sonic was visiting with Amy and Silver so the fox decided he'd just get some old unfinished projects done. The music from his playlist drifted softly in the background and he hummed along to the tune of some song he had heard Sonic listening to one once before.

He was so lost in his little world he hadn't heard the garage window open and close. Suddenly he felt hands slither around his shoulders and hug him gently. Tails jumped with a blush covering his face. His nose picked up the scent of sweet expensive perfume and he groaned knowing exactly who it was.

"Rouge…"

The woman giggled releasing the teenager.

"Hey handsome, miss me?" Rouge winked making the fox blush and he scratched his neck sheepishly with a nervous smile.

"It's always a pleasure to see you Rouge but could you at least use the front door when you come over?"

The bat laughed putting a hand on her hip but she sighed quickly turning serious and the fox gave her a curious stare till she reached in for the flash drive and held it out to the fox.

"I know this might be sudden, but you need to see this."

Tails stared at the hot pink heart shaped flash drive in the womans hand curiously before returning the bats serious expression and took the flash drive and ran up to his computer plugging it in.

"What's in this thing anyways? Did you find Eggman?" Rouge leaned a hip on a counter.

"Just take a look for yourself kid, you'll see…"

The fox frowned not receiving the answer he wanted but he quickly opened up the files reading over the information. She watched as the kids calm light blue eyes went small and bulged, sweat beaded from his face and he turned his head back to look at the bat with concern and disbelief.

"You're joking right? Heh, Good one Rouge you almost got me"

"I saw them."

Tails stopped laughing and they stared at each other before he looked back to the open files of information on the screen. The soft glow from the giant monitor lit up Tails face in the dimly lit room. Bright blue eyes glance down at his hands inches away from the keys and they curled making fists as his thoughts swirled around the information he had just received. If what the files said was true, they had an obligation to do something. he quickly thought back to his older brother, what would the blue blur do? The thought made him sigh, Sonic had a right to know about this. Tails turned back to woman who was now looking over the files behind him.

"Why did you bring this to me? Why didn't you take it and show it to G.U.N?"

Rouge looked away sadly, her arms crossing almost as if she were holding herself and she spoke, the flirtatious tone gone from her voice.

"Because I know what they did to Shadow… And If they find out about them… if they knew…"

Rouge didn't have to finish her sentence for Tails to know exactly what she was talking about and he looked away a little upset he had even asked in the first place.

"Alright… I'll call up the group and we'll figure this out then. Don't worry Rouge, you did the right thing."

The woman smiled besides the boy she only hoped her college thought so as well. Shadow was a far more difficult to convince.

"I'll call Shadow, maybe that'll make a little smoother."

Tails nodded with a nervous laugh as he sent out messages to his friends for the meeting.

"Heh, ya that might be a good idea. Please don't tell him anything, I'd rather we all discussed this together. At least with both of them in the room at least."

Rouge smiled with a hand on her hip, as she scrolled through contacts on her phone.

"Ya, ya… I know we don't want him coming over to murder us all."

Tails frowned.

"That's not funny Rouge…"

The woman only walked out of the boys homemade garage lab and into the house somewhere to make a call. Tails looked back at the data on the screen feeling odd. What could something like this mean for them? Did this change things? Would he lose his brother? He'd been with Sonic for as long as he'd remember, to suddenly have to share his brother seemed like such a foreign concept. Of course he was always cool with Sonic leaving and having other friends but he looked back up at the screen looking at the data feel rather uncertain and sighed, this was different though right?

Having a family, could change everything.