Title: Blast to the Past

Chapter 15: A Giant Mistake

"Father..." Maria whispered as her and the twin's faces went white. A floating ball of white appeared next to Shadow before materializing into a peach echidna, "And mother...oh great..."

"Hey Shads!" Sonic grinned, before being sacked in the stomach by the irate hedgehog himself, "Okay, okay, I deserved that one…" the blue hedgehog groaned as Rosy helped him to his feat,

"What did I say about the stupid nicknames, Faker?" Shadow asked in a threatening voice. Sonic sighed before looking around again, "Oh! Tikal's here too! Perfect! I wanna introduce you two to some special people, " Sonic uttered the sentence, oblivious to the high tensions emitting from Shadow's kids

"Ah, really?," Tikal smiled, "I can't wait to meet them!" Maria's face contorted into a grimace,

Sonic grinned, "Alrighty then, Shadow; Tikal, meet your kids!" The hedgehog gestured to the three children who were gawking at them, "Maria the hedgehog, Maya the Echidna and Inca the Echidna," There was a lapse of silence as Sonic's words sunk in. Tikal's palm flew to her mouth,

"W-What? I am able to produce children...Chaos, this can't be happening..."

However, once Shadow registered Sonic's words, he angrily punched the blue hedgehog in the stomach once more,

"What in chaos was that for Shadow?!" Sonic shouted as he doubled over in pain again. Shadow ran up to Sonic and held him by the throat,

"What kind of sick joke is this Faker? What kind of prank are you trying to pull!?" Sonic just gasped and spluttered as his face began to turn from blue to purple. Tikal and Tails ran over to Shadow,

"Shadow please let go!" Tikal whimpered as she held his arm. Shadow's grip somewhat relaxed but Sonic was still choaking,

"Shadow stop! Hear me out! Its true! These kids have all come from the future!" Tails cried out, in an attempt to convince him. Shadow shook his head,

"The Ultimate Lifeform is unable to re-produce! Those can't be my kids, its genetically impossible-" Shadow's sentence was stopped dead in his throat when he glanced around at the three kids and stared at Maria,

"What in the world…" He finally released his choaker hold on Sonic who fell to a heap on the ground. Rosy, Flash and Dash cried out and ran to their dad,

"Daddy!"

"Papa!" Shadow ignored the cries as he looked at Maria and began to walk slowly towards her, stopping until his eyes were glaring into hers,

"Child what is your maker number?" Maria looked at him oddly,

"What are you talking about? I don't have a maker number-" Shadow threw a chaos spear at Maria, which she quickly dodged. Vanilla shrieked as the Chaos Spear charred once of her walls.

"Don't play games with me robot! Are you one of Eggman or Gerald's creations? Another ultimate lifeform?" Maria quickly shook her head, her quills flying,

"No! I'm your daughter! Maria the Hedgehog!" Shadow's eyes widened at hearing her name, before his face changed into one of pure hatred,

"Who gave you that name Robot?" he growled,

"You did, because you're my dad!" Maria said exasperatedly, knowing full well that she wouldn't be able to convince him. Shadow practically roared,

"I'll kill you for ruining her name!" Shadow charged at her full speed. Maria who was in shock at the venom in his voice, failed to dodge quick enough, and felt the blunt of his attack. Maria gasped and fell to the ground, and Jem, Maya and Inca ran to her, surrounding her. Vanilla ran up to Shadow,

"Shadow the Hedgehog! What do you think your doing!? There is no fighting allowed in my house! You will pay for your destruction!" Shadow barely payed attention to the rant of the irate rabbit and began to stare at the girl who was on the ground, her hand grasping her side,

Where blood was staining her white glove,

"Chaos…" He ran to her instantly and pulled out his red chaos emerald over her wound. The wound healed up almost immediately. Maria glared at him,

"Was my blood proof enough that I am your kid? I mean for Chaos' sake, I look practically just like you, except my highlights are the color of her skin!" She shouted while pointing to Tikal. Maya and Inca helped her to her feet, "These echidna twins are also your kids, or do you have to also practically kill them in order to prove that?"

The room went quiet as Jem looked at Maria warily. Shadow was just gawking at the fact that he was able to have children in the first place, and even more surprised with the peace loving Tikal. Tikal looked at Shadow and blushed heavily, not one child, but three? She didn't know what to say. Finally after staring at the now equally embarrassed hedgehog, she looked back at her kids.

She went up to Maria first,

"Hello Maria. It's nice to meet you, but I believe we have already met before," Maria just mumbled. Tikal, a little surprised by the less than warm welcoming, continued to prod, "Are you the eldest?"

"What does it look like Mother?" Maria spat, hatred in her voice. Tikal jumped back, noting the severe harshness of her tone

"I'm sorry…did I say something hurtful?" Tikal then thought back to their initial encounter outside, where she had only asked them where Knuckles was and at the time Maria did even speak to her. Therefore it must be a future action of mine that makes her hate me, Tikal reasoned,

"I apologize if something I will say or do will cause you to dislike me Maria, but I hope we can learn to get along during this time we have together," Tikal said, smiling at her. Maria just scowled before blasting off. Jem got up from the couch and dashed off after her. Tikal's face fell. Whatever had happened in the past must have been severly harsh if it caused her daughter to hate her so much. Shadow, on the other hand was examining the echidna twins. Maya looked up at Shadow with curiosity etched on her face, as he pulled at her quills and prodded at her arms.. After poking and examining the twins and deciding that they weren't robots, Shadow stood up,

"Do you speak at all?" Inca shook his head no, while Maya shook her head yes,

"Inca's taken a vow of silence!" Sun chirped, "But Maya's just shy." Shadow's head jerked towards the voice of the seedrian,

"And who are you? A re-incarnation of the previous plant girl?"

"No, my name is Sunflower. I'm her daughter!" She chirped, "I came out of her seed!" Shadow again was in awe. Even though Chaos Regeneration had not brought back Cosmo herself, at least it had brought back something of her…

"Once Jem comes back with Maria, we will de-brief everyone about Young Tails's plan," Lily said as she massaged her temples. Shadow nodded as Tikal looked sadly at the ground, wondering how was it that her daughter could have such strong hatred towards her.

.:Meanwhile with Jem and Maria:.

"Maria! Maria, wait! She's not the same here! You know that!" Jem shouted as he chased after the black hedgehog, "She said that she apologizes! She wants to get along!" Jem was trying to catch up to Maria to no avail. After all she was one of the fastest hedgehog's in the world, with the genes of the Ultimate Lifeform in her veins.

"I don't want anything to do with her, past, present or future…I hate her!" Maria shouted as she burst off even faster,

"Maria! Stop! You don't hate her, don't say things like that!" Jem cried out as he forced his sore wings to fly even faster,

Maria's eyes stung from the fast pace that she was running at, as well as from unshed tears. She didn't want to hate her mother but…the things that she had said to her father…

Why couldn't we have had another echidna child! Why do we have this abomination as a daughter? I wish she was never born!

The harsh words pierced her memory once more as Maria choaked out a sob, and slowed down to a jog. Jem quickly caught up to her and held her in a comforting hug,

"J-Jem..S-she doesn't even want me…she said that I was an a-abomination…" The girl stuttered as tears ran down her cheeks. She rarly cried, and only let down her stone barriers when alone with Jem.

"She had said that, yes, however, this is the past…you can do something to change her opinion about you. After all the future is not set in stone,' Jem said softly into her ear. The two friends stood like this for a while until, Maria pulled away from the bat and wiped her eyes; now regaining her stoic outer shell.

"Your right…we'd better get back anyway…I'm sure that your parents want you home as soon as possible and we'll get home faster once we hear Tails' plan," Jem noted the use of 'your' instead of 'our' but didn't say anything. If there was one thing he knew about his cousin was that she was stubborn as Chaos, and it would take her a while to let the idea of her and her mother making up actually seem possible.

She then turned around and dashed off in the direction that she had come in. Jem sighed before following her.

They made it back to Tails' workshop in a matter of minutes. Once they entered the living room, they sat down without a word, no signs of tears on Maria's face. Tails sighed, it had taken at least three chapters to finally get to explaining his plan,

"Alright…so is everyone here? No running off?" Everyone nodded/grunted in response as Tails, stood up.

"Alright, so after thinking for a while about our situation, I believe our best bet in order to send the kids home would be to build another time machine. I would ask Lilly to once again use her time travelling powers, but she is still exhausted from sending the children here and a return trip would cause severe bodily harm and may result in her becoming paralyzed or worse. However, the future me was only building a prototype version of a time machine, so I have no clue to how long building a time machine will take,"

Sonic let this information sink in before asking Tails a question, "What about Silver? He's more experienced with time travelling than Lily is, right? Couldn't he take the kids back to the future?"

"Based on the stories that my Father has told me…during this point in his life, he was still stuck in the future and had not discovered yet that he could time travel without the help of a chaos emerald…so he would not even be able to reach our time period, yet, rather than send us all father into the future, " Lily said to the blue hedgehog, "I think our only option is to help Tails build his machine. With the help of Eggman-"she stopped herself, "Oh, wait. Eggman is still evil yes?"

Everyone in the room nodded yes, but pondered her words. Would Eggman turn good in the future?

"Ah, then forget I said anything. Our only option is to help Tails, like I said. With some of my knowledge on advanced technology, we should be able to help Tails speed up the building process." Lily said.

"What a smart girl," Tikal said, "May I ask what your name is?"

"My name is Lillian the Cat, Princess of the Koala kingdom, and daughter to Blaze the Cat and Silver the Hedgehog. You may call me Lily, though, due to our close family like relationship. You have not met Blaze or Silver yet Aunt Tikal, but you will in the near future," Tikal nodded,

"Right,"

"So…" Tails said in an attempt to get the spotlight back, "Does anyone have any suggestions?" Jem who had been sitting quietly next to Maria suddenly spoke up,

"Hey…I know that in the future, the Master Emerald is able to sense disturbances in Time, since whenever Lily is practicing her time travelling, it flashes really brightly…Maybe the Master Emerald could help send us back?" Knuckles nodded,

"Yeah. When Sonic's kids came, the Master Emerald shined so brightly that I couldn't sleep!" Tails grinned,

"Wow! That's great! If the Master Emerald has the power to sense disruptions in Time then it could be able to sense the origin from where the children first came from, which means that we could be able to send them home!" Tails began to babble happily, "I think we have a plan here guys! It might take some time, but I think we can send you home!" The kids cheered, save for Maria and Lily, who just nodded.

Everything was turning out to be okay…

.:However in the Future:.

The parents of the missing children had all gone to Tails' house to look back at the tapes from when Rosy, Flash and Dash had disappeared.

The tape, showed Flash chasing Dash around the lab. "Flash stop it! You're so mean!" Dash cried as he ran around Tails's lab, Flash chasing him while holding a bundle of roses, "You know how I'm alleregic to those thorns!"

"Don't be such a baby!" Flash said as he closed in on his younger brother, "They're only roses!" Dash weaved around a table filled with glass beakers. Rosy suddenly ran into the room.

"Yeah but Mommy said that if I get pricked with one then I have to go to the hospital!" Suddely, Rosy ran in between Flash and Dash,

"Both of you shut up! Mom's going to get really mad if she hears that we were fighting and Uncle Tails won't let us back in here if we break something!" Rosy said as she grabbed the roses from Flash's hands and threw them in the trash. Flash narrowed his eyes and folded his arms, "Flash grow up! You know how Dash is sensitive about his allergies!"

"Fine…but its not my fault he's a baby…" Rosy sighed.

Galexia said something which made Rosy roll her eyes, as she grinned mischiviously.

"Galexia says that if Dash is a baby then that automatically makes you a baby too. You know, the twin factor and all…" Flash looked shocked and Dash began to snicker. Rosy then grabbed her little brothers's hands and began to lead them out of the lab room,

"Come on guys, let's go play outside." Rosy said as she tried to avoid stepping on any wires that were laid strewn around the room,

"Okay Rosy!" The twins chimed in unsion. Galexia flew onto Roseanne's head and began to rest on it. Just as they were out of the lab, Flash caught sight of the roses. They were in the trash but the rosebuds were just out of the trash can head, so he could grab them. Suddnely the small hedgehog snatched the roses out of the trash and threw them at Dash. Luckily, Dash saw Flash take them out of the trash and dodge them before the throns could scrape him. Rosy, surprised by Flash's actions yelped, "Flash! What did I tell you about the thorns?!" Dash, while trying to get away from the thorns accidentally pressed a button on one of their uncle's machines. There was a loud whirring sound, a bright flash and then the foursome had disappeared.

The machine then began to malfunction and exploded. Minutes later, Sun ran into the room, "Hey Rosy! Flash? Dash? Are you guys in here?" a small seedrain child asked as she peeked through the doorway, "You guys know you're not supposed to be in my dad's lab…" the seedrian trailed off. . The seedrain gasped, "Dad! Something happened to Roseanne, Flash and Dash!" the girl shouted before running off to find her father.

"So that's how the kids originally went back…" Amy sighed, "When I find Flash, that boy is in so much trouble," she growled as a vein began to pop on her forehead,

"Why is Roseanne always dragged into these messes?" Tikal sighed as well, "She's such a good girl ,"

"Well, the boys will be boys, I guess…Making trouble is what they're supposed to do. I remember all of the trouble I used to have with Jem at that age…" Rouge reminiscence, as her eyes teared up, "I really hope they're okay,"

The girls were reviewing Tails's security tape while the boys and Blaze tried to pin-point the location of the children. Knuckles was chanting to the Master Emerald once more, which indicated that the children were in Tails' house, while Blaze tried to harness the Sol Emerald in order to further sense how far back in time they went. However she didn't have Chaos Sense, so the process was much harder and more agonizing than it would be for Silver or Shadow.

"Emerald of Sol…hear my plea…find the children of Chaos…tell me, thy guardian where they are…" The Queen panted as sweat poured down her face. Once again though, the Sol Emeralds would only show her that there was a spike in the timelines, but not how far away it was, "Chaos…nothing again…" Silver then got up, held Blaze by the shoulders and led her out of the room,

"My love…why don't you take a break? You look exhausted," Silver pleaded as he held her close,

"I…I can't rest…Lily…and the others…" Blaze began to breath raggidly, "They could be…lost and…scared…"

"You've trained Lily well in fighting and Maria, Roseanne and Jem all know how to fight. I'm sure they're fine." Blaze just looked at Silver and for the first time since this entire ordeal she looked at Silver with tears in her eyes,

"I'm just so worried Silver…my baby girl out there…stranded in time…" She then nuzzled further into his arms, and clung to him with all of her might; her tears falling onto his fur. Silver returned the hug, tears also in his eyes, though they did not shed,

"Blaze, we will find them," he muttered into her shoulder as she pulled apart from them once more and kissed him with all of the passion that she could muster. Silver eagerly went into the kiss, noting how long it had been since he had last kissed her like this. The two broke away a few minutes later, blushing deeply.

"You don't know how long I've waited to do that," Silver said sheepishly, his face red. Blaze looked at him, reflecting the love in her eyes that she saw in his,

"The same here…I've forgotten how good it was to kiss you…Its just…the kingdom and everything…" Silver put a finger to her lips before kissing her again, this time being more gentle,

"I understand. You know that I do," Blaze's face turned redder,

"I love you Silver, "

"I love you too Blaze,"

They leaned in together for another kiss when Rouge's voice rang out,

"Guys! I think I found something important!"

Instantly Blaze and Silver broke apart and ran back into the living room where Rouge and the girls were all surrounded by Tails' laptop which contained the files of the surveillance camera.

"What is it Rouge?" Tails asked,

"I paused the video by accident and I noticed that next to the side of the machine there are some numbers, like a code that were punched in by accident," She moved so that Tails could see the panal as well,

"I think they could be a date or something, that was randomly entered when Dash pressed the button by accident," Tails eagerly looked at the numbers which the bat had pointed to and gasped,

"Rouge you're amazing! This is a code which tells the machine how far back to go in time! With this information I can figure out where the children are!" Tikal got up and hugged Shadow in comfort,

"Shadow, we will be able to see Maria, Maya and Inca," Shadow smiled as he hugged her,

"That's right," Shadow's deep voice said as he returned the hug gently.

Amy jumped into her husband's arms and cried loudly into his chest,

"Ames, Ames, what's wrong? The kids are going to be alright" Sonic asked soothingly,

"I-I Know..I'm just s-so g-g-glad!" Rouge smiled as Knuckles came up to her and hugged her,

"Great find, Rouge…" Knuckles muttered as he kissed her forehead,

"We're not done yet, Knucky. This is just one step in the right direction," Rouge said as she turned to face and kiss him. Tails looked at the heart warming scene in front of him, before walking back down to his lab. If he was going to find the kids, he would have to start working on his prototype quickly.

.:Sometime Later:.

Tails wiped the sweat from his brow as he tightnened the last bolt and went over his calculations for the third time,

"I think…I think I've done it! Sonic!" Tails shouted happily as he dashed upstairs. While the kids were gone, everyone had agreed to stay at Tails' house in order to comfort each other and be close to one another.

Sonic, being the early riser that he is was sitting on the couch flipping through the TV channals, bags underneath his eyes,

"What is it Tails?" Tails' eyes sparkled,

"I finished it!" The sleep instantly evaporated from Sonic's eyes as he hugged Tails quickly before racing to wake everyone up,

"The machine is done! Everyone wake up!" Everyone instantly got up and raced to the living room where Tails was.

"Is it really done Tails?" A sleepy Cream asked, "Will we get to see all of the kids soon?" Tails nodded,

"Yes, I am all finished. Thanks to Rouge's great find, I was able to pinpoint the-"

"Okay, okay enough jabbering Tails! I wanna see my sweet Jem!" Everyone sweat dropped, before walking into the lab. Once in the lab next to the machine, Tails turned to Cream,

"Cream…are you sure you want to come with us?" The room went silent. Everyone knew that once Vanilla had passed, Cream had been devastated and everyone was aware that Vanilla would be alive where they were going.

"Tails…I know it's probably a bad idea...but I want to just see her again…" Cream looked down at the ground, "I know I can't forewarn her about her …d-passing….but I just want to see her again," Cream looked up Tails with her brown doe eyes and he couldn't say no,

"A-Alright then….Now everybody, join hands," Everyone did so and the air was tense. Tails pushed some buttons and turned some dials and joined hands between Cream and Sonic.

"Time until departure, 10 seconds. Ten…nine…eight…seven…"

As the timer counted down, the parents looked at each other with conflicting emotions in their eyes, not knowing what to expect,

"three…two…one…"

Then there was a flash of light and they were gone.

.:In the Past, Five Minutes Prior to the Departure of the Parents:.

"Guys! I'm done!" Tails shouted as he raced into Vanilla's house. After de-briefing everyone of his plan, the kids decided to stay at Vanilla's house while he and Lily worked on the Time Machine with Knuckles and the Master Emerald.

"Why, hello Tails," Vanilla smiled, "Care for some breakfast, we only just started eating,"

Tails rapidly shook his head, "I can't eat now, Miss. Vanilla, the kids have got to go back right now! There's only a small window frame before we lose this chance-" Vanilla's eyes widened,

"Oh, my. I'll go wake up Flash and Dash then!" Vanilla said before rushing off to the bedroom. Lily came stumbling after Tails, panting heavily,

"I was never a runner like Rosy or Maria Young Tails…" Lily panted before shouting, "Rosy, Maria, Jem! We gotta go!" Rosy raced out of the kitchen, toast in hand, Cream, Jem, Maria, Maya and Inca following them.

"What? Right now? But we haven't even said our goodbyes yet! And Galexia's missing!"

"Who is there to say good bye to? We'll see everyone in the future," Maria deadpanned. Jem shook his head,

"Not everyone Maria," The room went quiet, as Vanilla returned with a sleepy Flash and Dash, and energetic Sunflower.

"We have everyone, right?" Tails called out. Vanilla counted and shook her head,

"Not everyone. Xavier isn't here!"

"Neither is Galexia!"

"What?"

"Are you kidding me?" Sun ran outside, and began to shout, "Xavier! Where are you?" She then ran up to the nearest tree, "Xavier we're leaving! Right now!" The green fox, was once again relaxing in one of the great oak trees besides Vanilla's house,

"Mother..." Xavier sighed, "I hope you're alive and well here in the past...I wish I had gotten to see you...I know it would've made the tear in the Time/Space Continuum even worse but..." A tear fell from the green fox's eye, but he wiped it away quickly. He sighed once more before jumping out of the tree.

"Alright Sunflower, I'm ready," Sun noticed the somber tone in his voice, but didn't say anything as the duo ran into the house, where everyone was saying their goodbyes to the Rabbits.

"Goodbye Auntie Vanilla and Auntie Cream," the children chimed as they gave both Cream and Vanilla hugs,

"We shall see you in the near future right?" Vanilla smiled. The children smiled, but the smile didn't reach the eyes. For Vanilla wouldn't be there in the future with them...

"Uncle Tails, where is Papa and Uncle Shadow and Uncle Knuncles?" Dash asked,

"They're waiting for us at my lab, kiddo," Tails said as he ruffled Dash's bangs,

"See you guys later!" Cream chimed, Cheese replying. Galexia suddenly flew into the room,

"Galexia!" Rosy shouted as she clung to her chao, "Where have you been? We were about to leave without you!" Galexia began to chime about Chao in Space and Secret Spy missions but Roseanne shushed her,

"Okay. Can we go now?" Lily asked with annoyance, "This is our only chance,"

"Yes, yes we can finally go." Rosy said as she gave one last hug to Vanilla. Maria whipped out her Chaos Emerald,

"Okay, Chaos...Control!"

There was a flash of light and Tails and the kids were all gone,

.:Inside Tails' Lab:.

The flash of light died instantly and revealed the dark and spacious lab. Inside the lab was the Master Emerald, hooked up to a huge machine. Knuckles was chanting to the Master Emerald and Sonic and Shadow were powering up the Chaos Emeralds.

"Dad what is this?" Xavier spoke up,

"Its the new and improved Time Machine! Its set up to send you guys ten years back into the future! Based on Lily's data I believe that's how far back you guys came," Tails said proudfully.

"Master Emerald, please...! Send these children back to their parents in the future! I beg of you!" The Master Emerald shined brightly as Knuckles finished his chant, "Tails! The Master Emerald is ready! We're waiting on your command!" Sonic and Shadow, who had also finished channeling energy into the Chaos Emeralds, also nodded,

"We're ready here Tails," Shadow grumbled as Sonic struck a pose. Maya and Inca ran up to Shadow and jumped on his legs. Maya took a lollipop out of her mouth,

"Daddy, where is Mommy?" Shadow blushed (although his dark fur hid it quite well),

"M-Tikal's out distracting Amy and Rouge so that they don't come and disrupt the Time Space Continuum even more," Maya pouted,

"Does that mean that we won't get to say good-bye to Mommy?"

"Tikal looks exactly the same in the future though," Shadow grumbled. Maya lip quivered and Inca's eyes went down-cast. Shadow sighed, "Okay, fine. I'll tell her that you two said goodbye, okay?" Maya nodded as she and Inca gave Shadow a hug,

"Good-bye Daddy," Maya whispered as a surprised Shadow patted them on the back awkwardly. Maria, who watched her siblings jump off of her dad, smiled softly. Shadow and Maria made eye-contact and gave each other a slight nod.

Rosy, Flash and Dash however, were eager to say their goodbyes,

"Papa!"

"Daddy!" All three kids shouted as they jumped on top of Sonic,

"Whoa!" Sonic let out a startled shout as he toppled to the ground. Galexia then came up and began to kick him in the sides, "Galexia! What are you doing! Stop!" Galexia let off a mischevious grin, before she stopped kicking him,

"Bye bye Papa!" Dash said as he hugged him. Sonic nuzzled both of the twin's heads,

"You better practice those sprints for our next race!" Flash's eyes lit up,

"You got it Papa! I'll beat you and Dash for sure!" Roseanne laughed at the twins antics before giving her dad an Amy Rose hug,

"See you later Dad!" Sonic returned the hug,

"Keep on keeping those boys in check Rosy," Roseanne blushed,

"I'll do my best!"

Sunflower turned to her dad,

"Are you alright Daddy? Why are you crying?" Tails's eyes went wide in shock,

"Am I? Sorry," he sniffled and wiped his eyes, "I'm just gonna miss you two. It'll be a while until I see you again," Tails said as he hugged Sun and Xavier,

"Hey Dad..." Xavier whispered,

"Yeah Xavier?" Xavier looked down at the ground,

"I don't know if this is asking for too much but...watch out for my Mom okay?" Tails went still for a second before nodding,

"I'll do my best...but I can't make any promises,"

"Okay okay! No more crying guys!" Sun said as she tightened the hug, "I'll miss you too Daddy! Be good!" Tails laughed,

"I should be saying the same thing to you! Don't give me so much trouble in the future, okay?" Sun pouted,

"I don't know if I can make that promise...hey wait! I'm not a trouble maker! Flash is!" Flash heard his name and looked up,

"Hey Sun! That's not true! Dash is the trouble maker!"

"I am not! You started this whole thing!"

"I did not!"

"Did too!"

"Did not-"

"Hey!" Rosy pulled on both of the twin's ears, "You can't stay out of trouble for five seconds can you?!"

Jem who had stood off to the side next to Knuckles, chucked at the sight. Knuckles growled,

"What are you laughing at half-breed?"

"Your ugly mug," Jem retorted, while still looking at the antics of Rosy and her brothers. Knuckles was enraged,

"What did you just say?!" Jem laughed before facing his dad,

"Stay cool Mr. Master Emerald Guardian," Jem teased before walking over to the group. Knuckles's face was fuming red and he forced his anger out on Tails,

"Tails! Don't they have to go back now?!" Tails was shooken out of his thoughts and nodded,

"Right! The portal is going to close soon. Now, I need all of you guys to join hands," The kids formed a big circle and intwined their hands. Tails, ran over to the Time Machine and pushed some numbers and buttons,

"Ten seconds until departure...Ten...nine...eight...seven...six..." The kids all closed their eyes and imagined being re-united with their parents, "three...two...one..."

And then there was a bright flash of light.

And the kids were gone.

Tails looked at Sonic, "So...that's it?" Sonic shrugged,

"Guess so dude-" Sonic was cut off by Knuckles' voice,

"Wait! The Master Emerald is flashing brightly again!" The lab was once again re-illuminated in light,

However, this time when the light died down, all of the parents of the kids were standing in a circle instead.

Older Tails was the first to open his eyes, "Ah...wait...yes! Sucess! We're in my old lab!" Everyone's eyes flashed open as they looked around to face a surprised Tails, Sonic, Shadow and Knuckles.

Knuckles's eyes met the swollen stomach of Rouge and he went into a dead faint. Rouge sighed,

"Yep, we're definately in the past alright. Knuckles did the same exact thing when I first told him I was pregnant," Amy ran out of the circle and straight to Young Sonic,

"Sonikku!" Amy giggled as Young Sonic froze for a second before pelting away from Older Amy,

"S-Stay away from me!" Amy pouted as her hands went to her hips,

"Are we still at this phase Sonic? Don't worry, you'll fall in love with me soon enough." Older Sonic sweatdropped. Older Shadow cleared his throat and brought everyone back on topic,

"Young Tails, do you know where our children are?" Tails sweatdropped,

"How should I say this...Well..." Tails gulped, "We just sent them back to the future!"

"WHAT?!"

.:?#$ ^6dsdfjaf2 #Rq:.

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When the light died down, Jem was the first to open his eyes,

"Ahh! Home sweet h-" Jem's voice cracked as he looked around at his surroundings. Xavier, hearing the crack also opened his eyes to look around,

"Guys...where are we?" His voice shook with fear as he looked out at a desolate wasteland.

Buildings that were toppled over or ruined littered the area. Flames forty feet tall licked the ground. The air was hot and steamy and the children began to struggle in breathing. The sky resembled a blood red hue with black evil clouds on the horizon and the only sounds was of metal creaking and bending from the swealtering heat.

Sun yelped as a spot of fire esacped from a pillar or lava and almost singed her skin. Instantly she ran for her brother for a comforting hug.

"I-I have no clue...I don't remember reading anything about this place," Lily said softly, her intelligant eyes wide with fear. Maria, Jem and the echinda twins all stood in a shocked huddle, with Jem standing protectivly in front of the twins and Maria holding the twins hands,

Everyone stood in a cold stupor. Rosy grabbed for both of her brother's hands. The twins looked up towards her to see her face set in a stone mask.

"Rosy," Flash said after a silence,

"Yeah, Flash?" Roseanne replyed, looking down at the blue hedgehog her face unchanging,

"I don't think we're in Mobius anymore," Dash finished.


END OF PART ONE


Yay! Here is the climax chapter! The kids have been sent back...but to where? Ahh! You'll just have to wait until part two comes out! Part Two is also where the new couples begin to form. I also added Silvaze, because they have really been understated in the story so far, and I really wanted to bring out the idea that people can be re-united through tragedies...

What else...Oh! Monster chapter! Practically 6000 words! Wow! The beginning of Part two will come whenever I get around to typing it...no promises, although I hope this monster chapter will make up for the wait!

Also, I did get this chapter to you guys before the end of the month...it is the last day, but August is August *smiles sheepishly*

...Oh! Before I forget about it! I have a new poll, please check it out on my profile! The Question is, what do you do when you see my stories? I would really appreciate the feedback! *gets shot for advertising*

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~GTC