Sonic turned to Manic wondering if he know what Robotnic meant by Reese's 'dear sweet Manic'. Manic didn't give any shock by the name, so Sonic come to the conclusion that he knew. Reese waited an exact second or to before walking upstairs to get the Sonic Underground.

Sonia was the first to get out of their hiding place. The pink hedgehog saw another door next to the hidden room. The girl's curiosity took the better of her and she walked inside before Reese got up stairs.

The room was simple but nice. A canopy bed sat near the door with a plant in the window. Sonia didn't go near the window of course but she took a few more steps. A closet catch her eye and Sonia opened it. Inside was much larger the she had expected. On one side it was full of old ragged clothes, while the other side had a few fancier dresses. Sonia eyed a long light blue gown prefect for a ball. A dark red banquet dress, another was pink, and there was a sparkly little black one that what most likely to go to majority of events. Two pairs of heels and another pair of working boots. Sonia was impressed by the hidden side of the girl.

The pink hedgehog looked up and saw a cardboard box on a shelf overhead. Sonia pulled the box down and looked inside. A pair of broken sunglasses, some old small tools for a child to fix with, an old tore-up dress, and at the button there were some photos. Most had some type of minor damage and were of a small grey hedgehog. A few had the girl's parents in with her and some where of when she was working on a machine. But underneath those was a Manila envelope. Sonia opened it reviling five more pictures.

By now the rest of the hedgehogs had come in. Sonia's two brothers were without Reese as she was finishing up what she had started on their van. "What you got, Sis?" Manic asked as they walked over to her spot on the floor.

She showed them the new pictures and asked, "Is that you and Reese?" Manic looked at the photographs. Indeed it had been him and Reese. The green hedgehog simply nodded. It had been a long time since he had seen that innocent girl in the photo. Sonic looked at the images. The first one was of a small green hedgehog with an equally small grey hedgehog in a white and green dress. Little Manic had on a pair of black sunglasses and was sitting on a bench with Reese on the end as he played her a beat. They both looked happy. The second picture Sonic looked at was of young Manic with his nose up in the air and little Reese's back was to the camera. They were in want looked like a fight. The next photo handed to the blue hedgehog, had Reese laughing with Manic's sunglasses on her face. Manic looked a little upset but at the some time happy that she was happy. Sonia then handed him a picture of Manic on the floor with an upset Reese. It looked like someone had probably calling her some name, most likely Geese-Monkey, and now she was mad as Manic stood by her clueless as ever. The last picture was of the two hedgehogs somewhat few away and they had an arm on one another's shoulders.

Manic remembered everyone of those moments. They were the good old days, when there was a little most in life then just surviving. Back then, Reese was a bit less rough. She was sweeter and would come by every chance she could escape from her mother's proper life style. He liked it when she come. She would always bring new stories about her funny fancy world.

After a few more minutes of reminiscing, Reese came up to find them. When she got up there she saw the box and images in their hands. "Find anything interesting?" Sarcasm was leaking from her lips. The three siblings looked up at her. Geese was on her face and gloves as well as on her overalls. No wonder they called her a geese-monkey!

Sonic wanted to laugh. "Ya, I didn't think you and Manic were this close. What happened?" The grey hedgehog gave a sigh. Manic looked just as intersted as his siblings. He didn't know either.

"My parents' divorce finally went to court and I was sent away so that I wouldn't get in the way. When I got back, I looked in our old hang outs but I never saw you. I thought that you were mad at me. I also had to spent some more time with my mother. I made a deal with her though, so that I could do some mechanic work. I had to be a proper woman in the eyes of the public or no more fixing machines. But I never really forgot about you." The girl stopped. Manic looked at her with disbelief. He thought that her mother had final gotten though to her and made her think that he was a bad person.

Manic took a step forward. Reese looked like she had been holding that in for a while. Her eyes looked depressed. Manic got closer until he could reach her and them preceded to hug the sad girl.

"You still that weird girl, who's butt I had to save?" He half whispered. She let out a laugh.

"You got it backwards again, Man. I was always yelling at you to get you ass back inside and deactivating those stupid drones."

Reese's eyes started to tear up as she was finally able to spit out, "I'm glad I got to see you again. I thought you…" the poor girl was enable to finish her sentence. She missed her only friend for so many years and she was so happy to finally have him back in her arms.

Manic's siblings look at the two. Sonia thought that she was seeing love blossoming before her eyes. But Sonic just felt better knowing Reese had been there for him; even if wasn't for their whole childhood.

End.