Chapter 8: And There You Have It!

.:In the Future at the Koala Palace:.

"And that's why we need your help Lily! We need to go into the past!" Sun said as she finished explaining. Lily gave her an astonished look,

"So…you want me to leave my post as princess to go into the future to rescue Rosy, Flash and Dash, when Uncle Sonic and Uncle Tails are already on it?" Lily recapped, her head tilted to the side. Sun nodded while the other three sweatdropped,

"Now that you put it there, it sounds kinda stupid doesn't it?" Jem said mostly to himself

"This plan was already stupid from the start…" Xavier muttered underneath his breath. Maria angrily turned towards Sun,

"Sun you didn't tell me that Tails was already working on a way to get them back!" The hedgehog said furiously as she shook the seedrian,

"I didn't think it was important…" Sun said as she began to get dizzy.

"Not important?!" Maria said, her teeth flashing and her mouth curling into a snarl. "We wouldn't even be in this mess if you had mentioned it! Why are we even doing this!? Sunflower you're such an idiot! Now I'm really going to get in trouble with my dad!" Xavier then stood in between the two of them,

"Now now…lets not go crazy…we're already this far in we might as well go through with it," Xavier said as Sun's eyes began to sparkle,

"Wow Big brother! You believe in my plan!" Xavier sighed,

"Well, you're getting all of the blame if we get in trouble so I don't really care what happens." Sun pouted, she had forgotten about that deal that she had made.

"I don't care as long as I don't have to watch the Master Emerald…" Jem trailed off. Lily then took back the conversation,

"Great. Now that there's no need for you to need me, you guys should be on your way home now. You should probably get home before your parents get really worried and send out the SWAT team again." Lily said before she picked up her bag of vegetables and began to head inside the gates to the palace. Everyone shuddered at the mention of the SWAT team. It wasn't a favorable memory and it hadn't been pretty. Sun shook off the discomfort and called out to the cat,

"Lily, wait!" Sun called out, hand outstreached. The cat didn't turn back. Xavier put her hand down,

"Let's just go Sun. She's not going to help." Maria sighed,

"Glad that's over…" Jem however, turned towards Lily's retreating figure,

"Time to turn on the charm…" The white bat ran up to Lily, "Hey Lily," Jem purred. Lily stopped in her tracks as she turned around,

"What do you want Jem?" Jem closed the distance between them,

"I want you," Lily blushed from the close space,

"W-what do you mean?" Jem smilled his award winning smile and batted his eye lashes,

"Won't you help us," he put his hand on top of hers, "Beautiful?" Lily was Knuckles red at this point,

"S-sure," Jem smiled,

"Do you promise?"

"Of course I promise!," Suddenly the Jem induced spell wore off of the cat,

"H-hey! You used your flirt tactics on me!" Lily cried out in astonishment, "I can't believe I fell for that!" Jem grinned,

"Either way, you said you'd help us. Princesses don't back out of promises do they?" His grin turned a bit evil and Lily shuddered. She then turned her head,

"Fine. As my duty to never break a promise I'll help you guys out…" Lily shuddered, "Mom's going to kill me once I don't show up to Self-Defense practice…Ugh…everyone gather close," Sun, Maria, Xavier and Jem gathered around the lavender cat and joined hands. Lily let out a deep breath,

"Chaos…Control!" All of a sudden a portal appeared out of nowhere, and the five of them were sucked into it.
On the other edge of the field where the fivesome had just stood, two peach echidnas watched them. They nodded at each other before sprinting towards the portal. Their tiny feet thudded against the grass as they jumped into the portal just before it closed.

.:Back to the Past:.

"Ah…" Lily breathed, "A success…" she said before her eyes rolled into the back of her head and she fainted.

"Lily!" Sun shouted as she ran over to her and felt her pulse. Xavier, Maria and Jem crowded around her in concern, "She's alive…just unconscious!" She then felt a tug on her leg, and turned down only to see Maya and Inca,

"Isn't that good Maya? …wait Maya?!" Sun said incredulously, "And Inca?!". Maria's eyes widened as she grabbed the two twins and swept them up in her arms,

"What are you two doing here! I told you not to come! Now you'll get in trouble with Mom and Dad!" Maya looked at her before taking out her lollipop,

"I'll never leave a friend that needs my help," She said to her sister before placing the lollipop back in her mouth, Inca nodding in agreement with her words. Sun, all but squealed as she ran up and hugged them,

"Maya and Inca! You're both so cute! Kya! I can't believe it!"

"Stop smothering my siblings! Xavier control your sister!" Xavier sweat dropped,

"Sun, stop it…" Sun pouted once more,

"Okay okay…"

"On a more important note…" Jem said as he looked around, "Where are we?" Everyone stopped bickering and looked around,

"Hey…" Xavier said as he began to squint at a white slanted building in the distance, "Isn't that-"

"Rosy!" Sun shouted as she ran to hug a magenta colored hedgehog that was running towards them in the opposite direction. Rosy accepted the hug and began to drag her by the arm,

"Sun! What's going on? Never mind, its probably a long story. Right now you need to follow me! Everything's gone crazy! We're in the past!" Roseanne rambled as Sun called for everyone else to follow them. Sun tried to follow Roseanne, but it was hard to. After a few more minutes of running they reached Vanilla's hose and Roseanne led them inside.

The children gasped as they saw Cream and Cheese, Vanilla, Knuckles, Tails and Sonic. Cream, Vanilla, Knuckles, Tails and Sonic stared back.

Finally, Roseanne, feeling uncomfortable with all of these eyes on her, gestured to the group of kids behind her,

"Guys…this is the Sonic team from the Past. Sonic team from the Past…these are your kids." Everyone was deathly silent, until Knuckles groaned and fainted. Jem ran up to him,

"Dad? Are you okay?" Jem said as he caught his body before it hit the ground. Sonic and Tails almost fainted at the sight of the white bat calling Knuckles 'Dad' but managed to keep it together. Rosy cleared her throat,

"I'm just going to introduce everybody. I'm Roseanne, but you can call me Rosy. I'm Sonic's eldest daughter," she pointed to the two twins sittingon the couch, "Those two idiots," a groan of protest could be heard, "Are my twin brothers Nick and Jake but everyone calls them Flash and Dash." Roseanne pointed to Sun,

"This is Sunflower-" Sun cut her off,

"I wanna do mine!" She giggled, "My name is Sunflower! But I prefer Sun! Sunflower is a mouthful! Cosmo's my mom and Tails is my dad!" Tails' eyes widened. Did that mean that Cosmo was alive in the future?! Suddenly Sun's pupils dilated, "Uh…" Xavier sighed, "Skip me okay?" he said quietly. Sun nodded,

"Next to the green fox is Maria!" Sonic held up his hand,

"Let me guess. She's Shadow's daughter right?" Sun's eyes widened,

"How did you guess?" Sonic smirked,

"It was kind of obvious!" Sun frowned a bit, but still continued, "The two cute echidna twins next to her are Maya and Inca-"

"Knuckles's right?" Sonic interrupted once more. Sunflower smirked, "No, still Uncle Shadow's." Sonic looked flabbergasted. There were no other echidna's except for Knuckles…right?

"Maya's the one with the star clip and Inca's the one with the moon clip! Anyway, the bat holding up Uncle Knuckles is Jeremy, but we just call him Jem. He's Uncle Knuckles' and Auntie Rouge's son. Then we have Lily," Sun said as she gestured to the passed out cat in Maria's arms, "She's Auntie Blaze's and Uncle Silver's daughter and the Princess of the Koala Kingdom. She's passed out because she had to use time travel to get us here! And that's all of us!" Sun said before bowing and sitting down next to Cream. Vanilla shakily stood up,

"So…are you kids hungry? We have French toast." Flash and Dash spoke up for the first time since the other kids arrived,

"Yeah! You guys have to try it!"

"It's so amazing that it's almost better than our Mom's!" Sun clapped her hands excitedly,

"Really!? Almost better than Aunt Amy's" Sonic winced at the name, "I wanna try it! Let's go get some-" Suddenly she saw Tails sitting down on the edge of the couch, still in shock,

"Are you going to come Sunflower?" Cream asked. Sun nodded,

"In a second. I have to take care of something first!" Cream nodded and walked towards the kitchen, Maya, Inca, Maria, Jem, and Lily following her. Vanilla, Sonic and Knuckles noticed that Sun had indirectly asked to speak with Tails in private so they followed the kids into the kitchen.
Sun sat down next to Tails, and for a few minutes, they sat in silence. Finally Tails turned towards Sun,

"You look just like her," he said, his eyes glistening. Sun blushed a little bit,

"Yeah…I get that a lot…" Tails sighed,

"Tell me…is Cosmo…"

"No," She said softly. Tails looked heart broken, "The seed she left was me. You know, the one you told me you kept in a pot?" Tails nodded, he did keep her seed in a pot. He watered it and watched it everyday, hoping that it would grow into her, "You always tell us stories about her, and we have pictures from her days on the Blue Typhoon. Mom sounds like a great person, saving the world like that!" Sun said as she smiled. Tails eyes leaked as he thought back to his last memories with Cosmo,

"S-She was," Tails said before he grabbed Sun into a hug and cried on her shoulder, "She w-was s-such a great wonderful beautiful person! She didn't deserve to die!" Sun wrapped her arms around her dad. Even though it was pretty awkward for her to have her dad crying into her shoulder, she did remember him telling her that this was a very emotional time for him. Therefore she let him cry on her for as long as he wanted. After a few more sobs, Tails pulled back, his eyes now red from crying, and an embarrassed blush on his face,

"Sorry Sun…that must have been weird for you…" Sun smiled,

"Its not a problem. I remember you telling us about how this was a tough time for you. Its natural to cry." Tails nodded, but his ears twitched at the word 'us'.

"Us?" Sun gasped,

"Oh, yeah! That's right! I wanted to tell you about Xavier…" Tails tilted his head,

"Who's Xavier?" Sun sighed. The topic of Xavier was always an awkward one…

"He's the green fox with the grey eyes." Tails nodded. He remembered now. He was the one that Sun didn't introduce to everyone. He thought it was kind of weird but he soon became absorbed with the other children,

Sun groaned, "Ah…how should I put this?"

"Sun, its okay. Let me say it," Sunflower's and Tails's heads shot towards the voice. It was the green fox himself,

"Hey Xavier…" Sun muttered,"Hi Dad…" Xavier said before sitting on the couch next to Sun. Tails scratched his head, "Wait…I'm confused. Sun, you're Cosmo's daughter right? But you were born from a seed…so Xavier were you born from the seed too? But that doesn't make sense…how could Cosmo create a fox child when-" Xavier cut him off,

"I'm adopted." The air in the room chilled as Xavier spoke those words. Tails was pretty sure his eyes couldn't have become any more wide,


Ha! I bet none of you guys were expecting that! I know everyone thought that Cosmo was going to come back to life, but I thought that would've been really predictable. So, tadah! My own spin on the Tailsmo situation ;P

The next chapter is one of my favorites...Xavier's story, eeee! I

Chao for Now!

~Galexia