Chapter 13: Fools
.: At Tails' Lab in the Past:.
Sonic was still out running so Rosy, Flash and Dash decided to go and look around with the rest of the kids. Xavier, Cream, Sun and Tails were still inside, along with Vanilla and Knuckles. The kids tottered out of the house and congregated on the lawn. Maya and Inca wandered off towards the tree and were trying to climb it.
"I know! Let's look around and stuff! I wanna see what everything looks like!" Flash said eagerly. Dash rapidly nodded his head,
"Yeah! I wanna go and see Mommy's old house and go to the beach and see old movies!" The two began to skip off when Maria grabbed them by the hats, and dragged them back,
"Fools. Try to stay on the property. We can't let anyone see us since we're already screwing up the time/space continuum. Let's let Sun, Xavier and Uncle Tails have their moment before booking it." Jem spoke up,
"Uh...I'm all for that plan Maria, but..." he gestured to Lily whom he had carried out of the house and was now in his arms, "As long as Lily's knocked out, we can't do anything," Xavier stroked his chin,
"Yeah, and if she knocks herself out from using Chaos Control then it usually takes around a few hours to days in order for her to wake up again," Xavier noted. Rosy sighed in annoyance,
"Great...so what do we do now?" Galexia chattered and Roseanne narrowed her eyes at her,
"No. Not that. I was being serious," Galexia folded her arms in annoyance,
"Um...excuse me?" All of the children froze. Maria felt her blood freeze. She could recognize that voice anywhere.
The girl who had spoken was a peach echidna with clear blue eyes. Said eyes were clouded in confusion, and her head was tilted sideways. She also wore regal looking clothing and a crown with a topaz in it.
This was Tikal.
"Do any of you know where I can find Knuckles the echidna?" Dash was about to speak but Rosy beat him to the punch,
"Knuckles? He said that he was going to Station Square!" Rosy said as she laughed nervously. Tikal smiled gratefully at the pink hedgehog,
"Thank you so much," She then did a double take and looked around, "Wait...do I know you from somewhere?" Roseanne gulped nervously, "You all look kind of familiar..."
"N-Not at all!" She shook her head wildly. Galexia nodded in agreement. Tikal laughed,
"Well alright then. Good bye!" Tikal waved before walking back in the direction she came in.
"Weird...she looks exactly the same..." Dash said as he rubbed his head. This entire episode was really starting to boggle his suck his tongue out at her retreating figure. Xavier just stared at her retreating figure. Hearts appeared in Jem's eyes.
"Aunt Tikal sure was pretty when she was younger..." Jem swooned as Maria punched him,
"Stop Jem, that's my Mom you're hitting on!" Maya and Inca had finished climbing the tree and had toddled over to Maria's side. Maya looked up at Maria,
"Who was that?" Maria couldn't face the small child in the eyes,
"Nobody to concern yourself with..."
Jem placed a comforting hand on Maria's shoulder, "You know that she's not the same here..."
"I know..." Flash and Dash shook everyone out of the silence,
"Stop hitting me! Rosy! Dash keeps hitting me!"
"I'm not hitting him! He's hitting me!"
"Am not!"
"Are too!" Rosy growled as she stormed over to the twins,
"Why can't you guys just ever stay out of trouble?!"
Maya sat down on the ground and began to pick flowers, while Inca jumped into the tree and began to do flips from the branches. Maria and Jem both looked back to the house,
"How's Knuckles?" Jem grinned,
"I still can't believe that old Mr. I'm so Tough and Strong fainted. But I put him in one of the guest rooms and he's in there resting. Ha! I wish I could've gotten it on camera! His face was priceless!"
Suddenly Tails came outside, a bit teary eyed, with Sun and Xavier standing next to him.
"Okay guys...so I think we need to come up with a plan on how to get you guys back..." He then glanced at Sun who smiled at him brightly,"I think I've got an idea...but we need to head to Angel Island.
"Cool, but what about my Dad? He's still knocked out. Should we wait for him to wake up?" Jem asked. Tails nodded,
"That's right...I totally forgot he fainted. Sonic can you wake up...Wait...where's Sonic?" Rosy, who had finally separated the twins, looked at Tails and shrugged, "I don't know...he just ran off a couple of minutes ago." Tails sighed and whipped out his watch,
"Its okay, I'll call him." He pressed a few buttons on his watch which also doubled as a communicator,
"Sonic. Sonic, can you hear me? Can you come back to Vanilla's place? I have a plan to get the kids back to the future."
There were a few more minutes of silence so Tails tried calling again,
"Sonic, can you hear me?"
A few more minutes passed in silence. Galexia looked at everyone else warily. Finally he responded.
"On my way Tails," Tails nodded, but then did a double take,
"Sonic are you okay? You're face is all red-" Tails's eyes widened. "He hung up on me!"
:With Sonic and Amy:
"Sonic...what? Did you..." Amy's face was completely red as she stumbled for words. Sonic just looked at her with wide eyes,
"Did you...what?" Suddenly Sonic's wrist communicator buzzed to life.
"Sonic. Sonic, can you hear me? Can you come back to Vanilla's place? I have a plan to get the kids back to the future."
Sonic eyes barely shifted to his watch. His attention was on Amy,
"K-Kids from the future? Sonic confessing his love for me...? This...this can't be happen...ing..." Amy's words slowed as her eyes rolled back into her head. Sonic moved out of his frozen state long enough to catch Amy.
"Sonic, can you hear me?"
"I've got you Amy"
Sonic said softly as he caught her and sprinted into her house, and laying her on her bed. He looked at her for a second, before placing a kiss on her forehead and sprinting out of the house. He then checked back with Tails,
"On my way Tails,"
"Sonic are you okay? You're face is all red-" Sonic's eyes widened as he shut of the communication. He couldn't go back to the kids with his face as red as a tomato! Crap Crap Crap Crap Crap! I just kissed Amy. The kids are going to definitely know something's up! The image of Galexia appeared in his mind and he shuddered, That chao will kill me, if she finds out I'm hiding something from her. I'd better just run it out... Sonic said before kicking up his speed 10 notches,
"WOOOOOO! This is the LIFE! " Sonic shouted as he let himself and his thoughts of Amy go, as he ran in the wind tunnel, and let the wind carry him.
Twenty minutes later, he felt the blush was gone from his face and he decided to go back to Tails's lab. He said that he had a plan to get the kids back to the future right?
Hopefully, as soon as the kids were gone, then these weird feelings would pass...
After a 5 minute sprint, Sonic arrived back at Vanilla's house,
"Papa!" Flash cried out as he and Dash ran up to him and jumped on his legs. Sonic laughed and ruffled their heads,
"Hey squirts," Sonic grinned, already he was getting used to the twins and their unique tendancies. Suddenly Galexia popped onto his shoulder,
"Chao chao?" Were you with Amy? Sonic gasped,
"Lords of Chaos, Galexia, you gave me a heart attack!" Sonic sweated, "Rosy, can you get Galexia?" he called out in an attempt to avoid answering the chao's ominous question,
"Sure thing Dad," The girl replied as she walked outside, "Come on Galexia, stop scaring Dad..." Galexia looked at Sonic warily,
"Chao..." I've got my eye on you mister...you better not be screwing up their future...Or I'll screw up yours, Comprende? Galexia growled, as Rosy called her one more time, before she went to her master. Sonic's face whitened,
How could she say all of that with one word?!
Dash shook Sonic out of his trance, "Come inside Papa! Uncle Tails said that he has a plan to get us back home, but first he needs you to wake up Uncle Knucklehead," Sonic's face returned to its normal color as he grinned,
"Wake up, Ol' Knucklehead, eh?' Sonic's knuckles began to crack as a mischievous smile grew on his face, "Squirts, you wanna play the best prank of your lives?" Flash put on the biggest grin his face could contain,
"You bet!" Dash was still enthusiastic but wavered,
"I hope Uncle Knucklehead doesn't kill us...I still wanna eat Mom's chili dogs..." All three hedgehogs nodded to that, muttering in agreement before creeping into the house. Once inside, the three hedgehogs walked passed the living room, Sonic debriefing the twins,
"So once I get the garbage bag, you take the plastic wrap and wrap the-"
"Uncle Sonic what are you doing?" the monotone voice of Maria clipped in. Sonic yelped out of surprise,
"W-What? W-We're not doing anything...yet...why what's up?" Sonic stumbled, trying to hide their plans,
"What?" Flash whined, "Papa, you said that we were going to prank Uncle Knucklehead!"
"Yeah, Papa! You said so!" Dash chimed in, with his high voice. The twins were so adorable in that moment that even Eggman would've cooed.
"Are you going to go prank Uncle Knuckles?" Maria asked, her tone unwavering. Jem, however was a little more enthusiastic,
"You're gonna go prank my old man? Not without me!" Jem almost cheered as he joined the group of scheming hedgehogs, "What's the plan Uncle Sonic?" Maria sighed,
"Just don't get yourself killed Jem..."
Sonic gave Maria a thumbs-up, "No worries! The most he could do is put me in a coma! And he probably won't kill his own kid," he laughed, "So Jem, we were thinking about getting some chainsaws and a paintball gun...you think Tails has any of that?"
"I don't know but I can ask!"
"Great! If he doesn't, then there's always plan B which involves whipped cream, a cup of water and some food coloring!"
Five minutes later, the boys were all carrying an armful of pranking materials, Sonic slipped into the door, and placed a bucket of water on top of the door, and the boys slipped in without toppling it,
"Phase one complete," Sonic grinned at the kids "Now, Flash go set up the bathroom while Jem flies to the ceiling to hang the paint and Dash goes and covers his face in whipped cream, Quickly now before he wakes up-" he turned to face the bed,
Only to find himself staring directly into Vanilla's smiling, yet eerily scary face,
"Hi Vanilla, what's up-"
"What are you doing Sonic?" Sonic and the kids blanched, Her face was smiling, yet her voice was unnaturally deep and threatening and a black aura was surrounding her,
"We were just going to wake up Knuckles," Sonic said, tone unwavering, though his smile did falter. Vanilla's tone seemed to pierce his and the twin's eyes, which widened in fear, as their pupils dilated.
"Is that a bucket of water I see up there about to rain on my recently polished hardwood floors?" Dash sprinted and grabbed the bucket, without spilling a drop,
"Ah, well...you see..." Sonic said, as he rubbed his nose,
"And what of these piles cluttering my cleanly swept carpet?"
"That's...uh..." Sonic suddenly couldn't keep eye contact with the rabbit,
Flash quickly grabbed the pranking materials off of the ground and piled them into his small hands,
"And what was that of spilling paint in this recently refurbished room?" Jem looked like he was about to cry.
"...that was just for show..cause-" Sonic stammered
"Were you about to prank someone in my house, Sonic?"
"W-Well you see-" The blue hero was kicking his sneakers, acting like a little kid as well, clamping his mouth shut in a last ditch attempt to stay calm.
"Sonic, I will count to three and if you and the children are not out of here and cleaning my kitchen until you can eat off of the ground, you will wish that you had never stepped into this room. There is no pranking allowed in my house. Is that clear?" By this time, Vanilla, was quite literally on fire, hunching over Sonic glaring at him even though she was still smiling. Flash and Dash were huddled in little balls in the corner of the room and Jem had wrapped his wings around his body in an attempt to cover himself from the flames. Sonic looked like he was about to run from the room with his palms growing wet spots from sweat and his pupils almost tiny dots,
"Y-Yes sir-I-I mean ma'am, I mean Lord Dictator sir ma'am-W-We'll be going!" Sonic stammered before grabbing each child's hands and escaping from the room as fast as he could.
The fire died down instantly as they left, and Vanilla still with her smile on her face, called out, "Sunflower? Cream? Can you come here?" The pattering of feet and the light murmur of talking echoed in the hallway as Cream and Sun walked down the hallway to the room,
"Yes mother?" Cream asked in her high pitched voice. Cheese was off with Galexia.
"Can you wake up Knuckles please, dear? But please be gentle, I don't think he's grasped the concept of the children yet. Sunflower, you stand by in case he faints again," Vanilla said sweetly,
"Okay," both girls chirped, as Vanilla left the room, and walked towards the kitchen, to find Sonic, Flash, Dash and Jem all frantically scrubbing the floors, walls, windows and dishes of the kitchen. They all stopped when they heard footsteps, and when they all turned and saw that it was Vanilla smiling at them, they all gasped in fear and continued to work even faster, Sonic, Flash and Dash moving their brushes at Sonic speed, while Jem had two brooms attached to each hand and was sweeping double time.
Back in the guest bedroom, Cream began to speak gently to the unconscious echidna,
"Mr. Knuckles...?Mr. Knuckles its time for you to get up now," Cream said softly. Knuckles grumbled and began to stir lightly,
"Kid...kids...my kid..."
"Uncle Knuncles! Wakey-wakey!" Sun sang,
"Urgh..."
"Mr. Knuckles-" Cream said as she grabbed his shoulder,
Suddenly Knuckles was up in a flash,
"CREAM!? Where's that bat?!" The red echidna shouted as he grabbed Cream and started to shake him,
"O-Over in the k-kit-chennnn!" Cream warbled as Sun stood back in fear. Knuckles sprinted to the kitchen to find the three hedgehogs and bat quickly finishing up the kitchen. Knuckles slid into the kitchen doorway, and began to shout,
"You!" He snarled as he pointed his finger at the white bat. Jem turned around startled,
"Oh, hey dad-" Only to get a sock to the mouth. Jem fell to the ground and Sonic instantly ran over and grabbed Knuckles,
"Hey, Knux! Whattaya doing?! That's your kid you just punched!"
"I refuse to believe that that white bat is the future emerald guardian!" Jem's face flickered with hurt for a second before masking it with a grin,
"Its okay Uncle Sonic, you can let go of him,"
"Jem, he might kill you-"
"If he wants to fight me, let him. I'll show him I'm worthy of being guardian and his son," Sonic nodded before grabbing Flash and Dash,
"Hey Papa! What are you doing?"
"Yeah, Papa, I wanna see the fight!" The twins grumbled as Sonic swept them out of the room,
"C'mon guys. This is something that they have to do alone. Lets go chill with the others," Sonic explained as he left the kitchen in a second. The kitchen crakcled with pure intensity as father and son stared each other down. Knuckles was standing in a battle stance, his fists clenched tightly together, while Jem was casually leaning against a kitchen counter,
"Hey! If we're gonna fight, then show some effort!" Knuckles shouted. How could such a nonchalant bat be his kid? This had to be another one of Sonic's prank...
"Hey, I'm ready," Jem said before smiling, "And I'm gonna prove to you my true strength. Raaaagh!" The bat shouted as he lunged at the echidna.
The fight was under-way.
Hee-hee. I'm ending the chapter here o.o LOL Gotta keep the tension up. Who will win? Jem or Knux? What was Tails' plan? Will Lily ever wake up? xD
Anyway, this chapter is for Sonic! Happy Birthday! I hope you get some chill presents! I was studying for my finals yesterday so I couldn't update...so here's your belated brithday present! A new chapter! Yay! Also, today was my last day of school so you'll probably start getting updates again. Double Yay! I called this chapter 'Fools' but the 'F' also stands for 'Filler' cause I had to remember how to write, LOL! Prepare for some intense action and plot development next chapter!
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~GTC
