Visit From The Future
Disclaimer: I don't own the Sonic Crew, but these other you've never heard of before are mine.
I would like everyone to know; I am mean, but I love ya'll (Not in that way, idiots…) I think it's cool that some people have a story of mine on their favorites, and better than that, me as an author. So if my mean comments here and there didn't tell you, with love (Not that kind) the Snowman thanks you guys for spending valuable time reading this.
Enough of this sappy bull crap lets go back to my original ways.
My longest chapter ever, damn…I'm impressed myself again.
Last Note: For those of you reading Life After: Sonic Crew, chap 23 will take longer, its big chap; I've got a lot planned in that chap; so be patient with me.
Chapter 12 — Still in denial? Why?
Tails' House; Next Day
Sonic had gone to the hospital with the only person that would go, Amy. Knuckles didn't want to go because 'he felt he should get the worn out Crystal home.' (What a load of bull.) Rouge and Knikatu tagged along with him. Shadow was being a hard ass, refused to see a doctor, saying that his wound heal by itself. Espio and Julie-Su took Mac and Katie home, to Tails place. Cindy took Shadow II with her to her home and sent Shadow to Tails' home because she didn't want any blood dripping or rubbing against her furniture; shows how much she loves him.
Tails' house was in chaos the night they came home.
Julie-Su was at war with Espio. Neither left that night because they were too tired, and Amy invited them to stay (Amazing that they actually said yes.) without Tails' permission; but that not it; problem was, Tails only had one extra bed, and in short; Espio isn't a very good gentlemen.
After taking the bed from him, Julie-Su; at exactly 1:00am was thrown out of the bed and tied up and put on couch. Espio slept upstairs for about half an hour, till Julie-Su managed to slip out of the rope. She then used it on him, tying his legs up and hanging him from the edge of the house's roof gutter.
Espio wasn't finished yet. After escaping his hanging problem, he once again tied up Julie-Su. He locked her in the downstairs closet, and took the bed. Julie-Su was in the dark, cramp room losing her mind as she tried to undo the rope. Finally after biting through the rope, she kicked the door down. Everyone covered their heads with their pillows as smacking, and kicking sounds came from the room with the angry female echidna beating up the male chameleon and then getting his ass thrown out the window.
Now, they weren't quiet through all this. Katie takes after her father; she hates getting woken up; so when all this fighting and cussing kept going till 3:00am, she finally decided to put a stop to it. She grabbed the rope that wasn't chewed up and using her speed she tied up Julie-Su and laid her on the bed. Not only did she tie her feet and hands, she knotted the fingers. She did the same to Espio and threw him on the couch.
They muffled curses and threats to them selves as everyone else slept soundly, for a few more hours.
8:00am
Sally was downstairs now and away from Amy, she was talking with Tails about the whole Eggman situation. She wasn't exactly happy to see Amy. Sonic lay on the couch, one leg wrapped tightly in cloth. The bullet removal was quick but it still stung after.
"How you feeling?" Amy asked the dazed hedgehog, medicine given to him made him drowsy at points in time.
Sonic rubbed his head and frowned, "I got one hell of a headache."
"Do you want anything to eat?" She asked sweetly.
Sonic groaned, "Na…I don't feel too hungry."
Amy went back into the kitchen/dining room area, "Alright, just call me if you need anything." She yelled from the other room.
Sonic closed his eyes and tried to rest. But two annoying voices, kept talking, and talking;
"Can someone untie me? I've been here forever!" Espio yelled wiggling on the couch.
"Yeah, same thing here! Katie, it's eight in the morning, wake up!" Julie-Su started nibbling on the thick rope on her hands, "This is all your fault Espio!"
"Oh don't get me started—" Espio sat up on the couch and gave her a threatening look.
"—if you had just been a gentleman and given the lady the—"
"—lady? What lady? All I see is a pink brat!" Julie-Su glared back at him.
"Both of you shut it!" Sonic groaned, ending the argument, "Damn, you two argue more than Knux and Rouge!"
"Yeah, can you two shut up?" Mac rubbed his wounds as he sat on the steps, "I can't go back to sleep anymore, these two keep waking me up! Whose idea was it to let them stay and sleep here?" Mac's wounds were minor, and didn't need serious medical attention. He groaned as he rested his head on his arm.
"It was mine, it seemed okay at first but now, I regret it," Amy shook her head as she came back into the room, "Mac, are you hungry?"
"What's cooking?" He said lifting his head slightly.
"Nothing now, but I can make something if you want." She said with a smile.
"Sure, eggs and whatever." Mac hid his face and waved his hand randomly as he finished his sentence.
"Okay," Amy walked into the kitchen again, "Is Katie awake yet?"
"No, she's still sleeping." Mac scooted down a few steps and rested his head on his arm again.
"Hey," Espio whispered as he noticed that Sonic's eyes were closed, "Psst! Mac, I'll give twenty bucks to untie me!"
"I'll give you forty!" Julie-Su whispered cutting in before Mac could respond to Espio's offer.
Mac was still half a sleep, but was very drawn in now, "Hmm…why should I even untie you?"
"Cause I will give you twenty dollars," Espio was talking a bit louder now, "You can't trust her! I'm a friend to everyone here, she isn't! You untie me; you'll get your money."
Julie-Su huffed at his remark, "Trust you? What a load of bull, Mac, he's a ninja; the art of deception and stealth, you could never trust him! I'm very humble and I'm offering more money!"
Mac rubbed his chin, his sleep need was gone, "I…dunno know…hmm, forty?"
"I'll give you fifty!" Espio shouted softy;
"One hundred!" Julie-Su quickly added before Mac could take Espio's offer.
Outside; Backyard
Shadow snored as he slept soundly on a comfortable hammock. Cotton in his ears kept the shouting and yelling from the night out. They may have been fighting for the bed but Shadow will be damned before he lets anyone take his sleeping area. He rolled over as he adjusted his body to a move comfortable position.
His hand still wrapped in the cloth from before, hanging from the side, it wasn't bothering him anymore. Still the dumbass should see a doctor about a bullet wound.
This guy is lazy beyond belief.
Cindy's Home
Shadow II was wide awake and was doing anything that came to mind. He had eaten food, played the X-Box, Game cube, and PS2 his mom had and was bored within thirty minutes of playing each game;
He played every game she had and found them all boring, Halo 2, Black, NBA Street 2, NBA Ballas, Dance, Dance Revolution, Rainbow Six Three, True Crime: Streets of NY and LA, Grand Theft Auto: San Andrea's, Need For Speed: Most Wanted, 50 Cent: Bulletproof, NBA Live, Kill Zone, Mortal Kombat: Deception, Metal Gear Solid: Solid Snake; Sons Of Liberty; Snake Eater, and Conker Live And Reloaded, Kingdom Hearts II (Mickey Mouse looks so gangsta in that black cloak on the cover, to bad he doesn't use it, that game is eh…)
(Two Notes: Wow, she has a lot of violent video games, Two: Matter of fact, a lot of those games, I like, I just used them because most of them were right next to me and the computer, except 50 Cent: Bulletproof, that game was shit, I sold it back; waste of my good money.)
He was currently on his mom's laptop, surfing the web. He was looking up videos;
"Hmm…dumass crashes into tree at 5 miles an hour." Shadow II rolled his eyes and scrolled down the page, "Girl beats the shit out of guy," Shadow II rolled his eyes again;
"Screw this," Shadow II switched to downloading music off of lime wire.
"'Have a Party'," He typed as he spoke, "'Put Them In They Place', 'Me Against The World Remix', 'Ass Like That', 'I'm Sorry Miss Jackson', 'Runnin', 'Get Throwed', 'I'm In Love With A Stripper Remix', 'Rompe Remix', 'A Lil' Eazier Said Lil' E'"
He started clicking the results that came up. He knew a couple of old songs that would be in this time line. He sighed as he previewed to see if the were clean or not. When he heard that they weren't he turned up the volume on the laptop.
"Hope I can hear it," He was referring to the low sound on the laptop he was used to, he skipped a couple seconds on the songs till he found the verse he wanted;
Bun B:
UGK see I'm an underground king, with the crown,
And we ain't givin this bitch up, we holding it down,
And we ain't hidin in the crib n—a, we rollin around,
Ready to put ya mind by ya soul in the ground,
Go home and lay yo ass up in the bed with ya wife,
You ain't trill and you ain't neva had the feds in your life,
When indictments came down you could beat that shit,
And when you couldn't you was man enough to eat that shit,
See I've been doing this longer then most men trying,
Wonderin why n—as better than me was dying,
And yet these, punk, p—y n—as is still lying,
They make wanna run up in they studio with the nine n'
You ain't Pac, you ain't Big, you ain't Screw,
You ain't platmelow or Steve, n—a who the f—k are you?—
"Shadow The Second!" See that's why you don't play music out loud.
Shadow II smacked his face, why didn't he turn it down when he had the chance?
"Yea?" He said innocently as turning the computers volume down.
"What are you listening to? And why so loud?" She had just woken up, not good; Cindy was cranky in the mornings.
"Nothing." Shadow II continued to scroll down internet pages.
"Yeah, I'm sure you are," Cindy walked closer to the laptop and looked at the screen, "Did Shadow ever come home?"
"I dunno," Shadow II closed a few pages and shut down the laptop, "Mom, can we do something today, as in something not boring?"
"Everyone's exhausted from our little 'trip'," Cindy yawned as she walked towards the kitchen area, "What did you have in mind?"
"I don't know." Shadow II stood up, in hopes that they could do something right that second.
"Well unless you give a suggestion, we're staying home till Shadow comes home." Shadow II groaned as he fell back in his seat. So damn bored and couldn't think of a thing to do.
Dominic's home: With Knikatu & Dominic 9:50 am
"Where the hell you been? Called your house like six times yesterday and the day before." Dominic sat down on the concrete stoop of his house; he was wearing a long blue tee-shirt and black pants. His shoes were black with blue designs. He had a blue bandana wrapped around his hand to his arm.
"No where," Knikatu sat next to him, "What have you been doing?"
"Nothing…ain't nothing to do around this place," Dominic dusted his shoe, "Too quiet around here, I'm not used to it."
Knikatu could tell what he meant, "Where you from?"
"Compton," Dominic rubbed his eyes, "Moved here couple of months ago, my mama wanted to get out of our old neighborhood, too much shit happening for her." He looked down at his stomach and felt it growl, "Damn I'm hungry, let's go to McDonalds," Dominic stood up and stretched, "You wanna walk or drive?"
"What kinda dumass question is that?" Knikatu stood and looked up at him.
Evolved mammals (Mobians, whatever, same thing, they're animal like.) weren't as short at their non-evolved counterparts, they usually made it to 5.4-5.7 for men and women made it to 5.1-5.5, but there were exceptions sometimes, it was just usual heights, averages but among those were those that were even shorter and some even taller.
Dominic was 6.1, so Knikatu being 5.2 looked like a midget compared to him, "Why the hell do humans get to be so damn tall?"
"Don't be jealous." Dominic responded with a chuckle.
"Of what? A species that can't control their sex drive and keep their things tucked in?" Knikatu showed off the fact that he didn't need to wear a shirt or pants.
(Personally I like clothes. But girls are fine without them.)
Dominic started walking to his left, Knikatu continued to mouth off, "Yeah you know I'm right, keep walking blacky!"
"Man shut the hell up before I shove my size 13 up your ass."
Knikatu chuckled, "That the best you got? I'll throw you and your oversized feet over the house."
"Ay, don't make me step on you." He chuckled again and pressed a switch that operated the garage door. Inside was a white Corolla, Dominic pulled out his keys and opened up the car. Knikatu stepped in and sat down in the passenger seat; he started adjusting the seat a lot.
"You need a booster seat, you short son of a bitch?" Dominic said laughing a little at how much Knikatu was fixing his seat.
"Shut the hell up and take me to McDonalds."
"Angry ass midget," Dominic started the car, "Hey, the cops show up at your house after we kick that punk's ass?" He put it in reverse and pulled the car out.
Knikatu yawned, "Nope, they don't even know who we are. Neither did that guy."
"Well lucky for you. Cops came to my house looking for a tall black guy," Dominic chuckled, "You should have seen my mama, she's only like 5 foot and they were so scared of her. When they came over and started asking questions and said I fit the description, she went off on them. I've never heard so many cuss words used in ten seconds."
Knikatu looked out window, "Well, what happened after?"
"They said 'We'll be around.'" Dominic stopped at intersection, "How money you have left?" The moved forward again.
Knikatu rubbed his eye, "I don't know, maybe like 120, I spent some of it," He sniffed air again, it wasn't him, "Damn man, you some air freshener."
"For what?" Dominic sniffed the air, it was normal as always.
"You mean to tell me you don't smell that? The bud dumass, strong as shit!" Knikatu looked at as he rubbed his nose, "Your mama ever ride in this car?"
Dominic opened the window, "If it smells like bud in this car, what you think?"
"Weed head," Knikatu opened his window, "You got any left?"
"Ha-ha, you wish," Dominic slowed down as it came to a turn, "Man if I got green, I smoke that day, I never save that shit."
"We going inside or drive-through?" Knikatu said as he thought.
"Man you acting like I'm paying for you!" Dominic reached in his pocket as he drove the car into the drive through, "Only got…let's see," He looked at all the bills in his hand, "Hundred thirty…seven, na I can't buy anything for you."
"What the f—k? You got more than hundred!" Knikatu looked at the menu, "Just get me coke and ham and cheese thing."
"Damn! Fine," Dominic glared in his direction, "You owe me, half pint."
"Shut the hell up and get my food." Knikatu looked out his window as Dominic put in his order. The pulled forward as they moved up the window, "Deeamn!" Knikatu shouted as he stuck his head out more to get a better look.
"What?" Dominic looked out Knikatu's window, "What the hell are you looking at?"
"Her! The yellow one, with that short–ass skirt!" Knikatu pointed at a yellow hedgehog wearing a white top and a small white skirt standing at the bus stop on the other side of the road.
Dominic looked away disgusted, "Aww man, I don't wanna see that! That's a f—king animal man!"
Knikatu rolled his eyes, "Hey, I don't bitch like that when you guys drool over a human."
"There's a difference between humans looking at humans and animals looking at animals—hold up, damn, who's the girl next to her?" He pointed to another girl walking to the bus stop now. She stood there waiting next to her and seemed to have started a conversation.
"Wanna go see?" Knikatu smirked at him.
Dominic grabbed the bag from the clerk gave him and then took two cups, "You know it but first, this car do smell like some weed. See if I have anything in that glove compartment." Knikatu opened it up and saw a spray can. And also saw something underneath it;
He took it out and unfolded the long roll, "Son, how many times do I have to tell you. Just because the rubber says XL, doesn't mean yours is gonna grow to be an XL." Knikatu chuckled as he read some of the labels.
"Man, what the f—k is wrong with you? Put those back, damn." Dominic smacked him on the head, "And who you calling son? Man, I'd be ashamed to be your son."
Knikatu rubbed his head, "Damn calm down, shit! You got some anger issues." Dominic looked outside Knikatu's window, "Well you want go get them or what?"
"I don't know man," Dominic rubbed his chin a little, "I've never actually picked up a girl like this," He kept staring at the girl, "What if she thinks were like some kidnappers or some shit like that?"
Knikatu tilted his head back and covered his faced as he laughed, "Oh my god!" He laughed in between most of his words, "You're frickin scared! Man, I did not see this one coming, what are you scared of rejection?"
Dominic flinched, "What? Hell no. I just wanna go over there and seem like some dude trying to get a hooker or worse."
"Well then, let's go over and talk to them, offer them a ride." Knikatu rested one of his elbows on the door, "What have you got to lose?"
"Them? What the hell you mean them?" Dominic looked at Knikatu strangely, "I ain't gonna pick up that yellow one; god knows what you might end up doing."
"Oh hell no, so your not gonna go pick her up and help ya boy out?" Knikatu looked at the back seat, "Besides, it's messed up if you just offer her the ride, least let me get the back seat with yellow one then."
"Whatever," Dominic shook his head and waved his hand towards the back seat, "Get your ass back there and control yourself," He sighed as he started driving again, "Better not get any of your nasty animal stuff on my interior."
"You act like I'm gonna f—k her right here in the back seat!" Knikatu leaned his seat back all the way and moved to back seat.
"Man, knowing you, you gonna end up doing the same thing you did with that one green girl," Knikatu groaned as he remembered what also happened that one day, "Yeah, you know what you did, you lucky she said no. Other wise you would've kept going beyond kissing and dry humping, Dominic started laughing lightly; "It was soo funny how she rejected your ass after."
Knikatu frowned, "Man shut up, its over."
Dominic snickered loudly, "'I don't like guys who can't control themselves, no offense; you're too much of a rabbit for me.'" Dominic laughed as he remembered the tone the green echidna used.
"Man shut up and get us over there before the bus comes." Knikatu crossed his arms and closed his eyes. He could remember the slap the girl gave him for reach under her skirt when they were kissing;
"Hey Knikatu," Dominic paused for a few seconds, "Hey!" He mimicked the echidna's voice and added a sound effect as he mimicked the hard slap she gave him. Knikatu kicked Dominic's seat, who was laughing harder now.
Angel Island; Angel Forest (Same time)
"Daddy!" She cried, "That's not fair!"
Knuckles mumbled to himself. He was reaching his annoyance peak; this was the sixteenth time she had asked, in the past five minutes;
"I told you once, I said no." He hopped up onto a trees branch. He began to hop from branch to branch, from tree to tree. The area was like an endless ocean of deep green with dark brown tree trunks. The grass was also a dark green color.
Crystal jumped up onto a branch and chased after her father, "Dad, stop running away." She panted as she tried to keep up with his fast pace. She was only thirteen, not even Knikatu who was fifteen could keep up with their mother, who in their time, was more laid back. So keeping up with Knuckles was even harder right now, he trained daily and greatly surpassed Crystal's skills.
He sighed and hopped down once he was near the lake. He landed on his feet and walked closer to the edge of it. Crystal made a large amount of noise as she caught up;
"Dad, please!" She ran up next to him and caught her breath.
"Not bad…your pretty fast Crystal, especially for someone your age." Crystal blushed slightly as she was complemented for the first time ever by her father.
She sighed and continued again, "C'mon, why can't I go?" She took his arm and started tugging on it.
He crossed his arms, "Because I don't want you around Mac."
Crystal shook his arm loose, "Why?" she shook it more, demanding an answer.
Knuckles had been refusing to let Crystal go see Mac. He said when they all go together later, in a few days, she could see him. She kept asking because she wanted to see him now, when he wasn't near Mac.
You see the thing is; Mac is terrified of Knuckles. After the incident at the mall, Knuckles put a little bit a fear and a certain form of respect in Mac, though he made him promise not to tell anyone that Knuckles said a thing to him. But short, simple answer: Mac will not say a thing, let alone kiss Crystal if Knuckles was in a 100 foot distance. Knuckles doesn't care about the fact that Crystal forgave Mac and made up with him. To him, even if they are together, Mac better not even touch her.
Knuckles had really only showed that sign of a father figure so far. On the inside, he didn't trust Mac not to hurt her again, but he'll rarely ever let on;
"I don't want you around him, simple as that." Knuckles pulled his arm away from her and took off his glove. His knuckle barbs were bare bone. His fore hand skin and palm were colored red. He flexed his fingers and crouched down and ran it through the water.
"I want an answer dad!" Crystal was getting mad now, "Why do you hate Mac so much?" She started hinting off of that.
Knuckles made a low growl like sound, "I don't hate him, I don't want you around because," He paused, he didn't want say why, but he forced it out, "Because I don't trust him…" Well, part of it.
Crystal groaned when she heard it. This was the father protection thing again; she always hated dads like that. A lot of her friend fathers were like that, she had always hoped that Knuckles wasn't like that. Too bad for her, he was much, much worse;
Let's take a very quick flash back to after the night Mac and Crystal made up about the thing in the mall, just so you know, this scene was cut out from that chapter:
Flashback
(Chapter 3)
Angel Island: Early morning
Mac opened his eyes and looked up at the ceiling. Crystal was right next to him, still asleep. She had an arm around him now and made little noises that couldn't even be considered a small snore. She rested peacefully, facing him as he remained awake.
He wanted to get up and go home. Amy was going to be pissed if he didn't come home soon. Correction, he had to get up, now. He gently moved her hand; she groaned a little as she turned around to the movement. He sighed with relief; that was easy, now it was time to get home, before his mom finds out he was gone the whole night, and with Crystal…alone by the way.
He hopped up to the window edge and hopped down on the grass. He left the made his way into the thick forest. It was the only way to get to the edge and from there he could get to the mainland.
He walked kind of fast and a bit worried. He never liked Angel Forest when he was alone. He had been in the forest no more than 2 minutes when something grabbed his ankle and flipped him over and flung him up in the air.
Holding his head from the speed rush of the flip, he looked up and saw Knuckles tying a rope to a tree branch. He let his hands hang down like his blue quills. Knuckles jumped down in front of him, Mac was hanging at least four feet in the air. He moved the quills that hung in front of his eyes;
He chuckled nervously, "H-Hey, Knuckles…was-up?" Knuckles gave a growl back in response, making him flinch. "Ah! What did I do Knux?"
"Don't call me that," Knuckles flashed his teeth, they looked like fangs in that moment, "I got a bone to pick with you blue boy."
Mac smiled nervously and paid attention now, "Uh…sure…" Knuckles leaned closer to his face and gave a low growl, "Ah! Don't kill me!" Mac blocked his face and parts of his body quickly.
"I'm not going to kill you…yet," He put his glove in front of Mac's face, "She may have forgiven you, but I'm watching you kid," Knuckles gritted his teeth again, "This is your first and final warning, if I find out your hurt her in anyway again; the world ain't big enough for you to hide in…"
"Eh-he-he…look, man I'm sorry!" Mac lifted his arms and made gestures as he spoke, "I didn't mean too, I didn't mean to get caught with that girl—no wait—that's not what I meant! I mean—" Knuckles growled as he flicked something on the knot around Mac's ankle, dropping him down.
"You're just like Sonic, you know that right?" Knuckles crossed his arms and stared at him.
Mac stood up immediately, taking the comment as an insult, "Hey look, I love Crystal okay? So don't compare me to my dad on matters like that okay?"
Knuckles rolled his eyes and scoffed at him, "Please…kid like you doesn't even know what the word means."
"Yeah, and you do?" Mac crossed his arms as well, "Yeah, your relationship with Rouge proves my point." He smirked.
Knuckles closed his eyes and growled, making Mac flinch again, "I'll give you a six second head start." Knuckles opened one eye and saw that Mac was still there, confused by what he meant, "Six seconds, get the f—k outta my sight."
With that said, Mac was gone by the second. All that was left was burn line from his running.
End Flashback
"You can't do this to me!" She shouted suddenly. Knuckles pulled his hand out of the water.
"I can, and I am." Knuckles put his glove back on, "I'm going to get something to eat, you; don't leave this island." Crystal stomped her foot and growled, "Second of all, don't you ever growl at me, understand me?"
Crystal flinch at the quick response she got from her growl, "Yes sir…" She pouted. She followed Knuckles as he walked back towards his home, "Still not fair…" He heard her mumble;
"I don't care, what I say goes." He said sternly, he suddenly heard her whimper a little, "And don't even try a fake cry, otherwise I'll really give you something to cry about!"
(My father always threatened me like that when I was young.)
"Yes sir…" Crystal obeyed as she followed him, still pouting.
Tails' home; with Sonic, Tails and Sally
All was relatively calm, considering the fact that Julie-Su and Espio paid 200 dollars each just to get out of the rope. Sonic was still immobile due to his leg. He lay on the couch next to couch Tails was sitting on. Sally sat on the arm rest of the couch Sonic was on. Amy would be present but Sonic told her himself in a yell, she can't be anywhere near Sally, same went for her too. He did not want them fighting, at all, he had too much of a headache to be dealing with that.
"Who sent us Espio and Julie-Su for help…I'm just asking you know." Sonic suddenly asked.
"I did, I knew Espio or Julie-Su would be able to find you. I didn't know all this happened though." Sally said referring to what they said happened on the island.
"Well, thing is, fat man is getting serious now," No matter how serious a conversation could be, Sonic always brought a humor thing into it, "From what I saw, he had been recruiting people, training them as soldiers and even hired two assassins."
"But what now? According to what Sally was told from the assault Intel, it doesn't look like Eggman is even on the island anymore!" Tails said pointing out that they were getting no where.
"Yeah, that might be true," Sonic scratch his head, "Eggman killed one the assassin's partners and she was after him. She was the one who freed me."
"Where would Eggman run? He's lost everything, where would he run?" Tails leaned forward and rested his elbows on his knees.
Sonic started getting completely off track, "Tails, did you ever find a way to get these kids home?" Sally sighed a little bit when she heard that. She never wanted to accept that fact but it was there, whether she liked it or not.
"Huh? Oh sort of…" Tails looked at Sally quickly, "I went back to the area where they came from and scan the energy levels, very high. We need the kids over here, all of them. They need to explain to me what processed happened from them to come to this time." Tails began to think about that, "They probably used the Chaos Emeralds to as a power source, the energy levels I read were off the charts, and that was yesterday, days after they came."
"Amy!" Sonic called, saying that made Sally flinch. Amy quickly came into the living room;
"What is it?" She was panting.
"Can you get all of these kids over here? Everyone's I mean, Knux's, Shadow's, you know what I mean." He noticed her panting, "You okay?"
"No…" She groaned, "Espio and Julie are at it again and now Shadow is involved!" Sonic groaned upon hearing that;
"Alright I got this one, just get everyone over here." Amy nodded running back out the door.
"Shadow, put that bat down! Julie let go of Espio and the chain!" Sonic rolled his eyes as she continued to shout.
Sally sat awkwardly on the couch. She sighed again; she had to get this over with, "Tails, can I talk to Sonic in private?" Tails got up slowly, knowing where this was going;
"Okay, I'ma go help Amy for now." He walked into the kitchen that led out to back porch.
Sonic crossed his arms. He wasn't mad, but this is the last conversation he wanted to have. This was a war in itself, he didn't want to deal with this, he was only seventeen; he shouldn't have to deal with his future marriages and love issues. Right now he wished he had recorded that speech he made to Crystal about how he didn't care, what happens, happens. He couldn't say to her, not to her face, it was a completely different situation.
"Sonic…" She began with a weak tone, "I-I…" She looked down and away from him, "I need to know…do you love me?"
'Damn Sally, why don't you just have me decide between my mom's life or an innocent baby's…what to say…I mean I like her, but love? And what about the future, if I say I do and then break her heart, what then?"
He bit his lip as more thoughts pondered in his head.
"Sal…I can't answer that…" He couldn't go on;
"So you don't?" She rubbed her nose that began to grow hot.
"No, no! Well I don't know Sally. I mean I don't want to hurt you, if I say I do and then something happens in the future…then what? I would have lied and broken your heart and that's worse. I don't want to answer to anyone, not even Amy." He sighed as he notice her eyes water a little, "Sal…believe me, this is worse for me than it is for you."
"Sonic, you have no idea what it feels like to me right now—" Sally was cut off by Sonic's out break;
"—hold up don't even go there, alright? The shit I'm going through right now is worse, you cannot imagine the crap I have to deal with, the fact that I don't want to hurt you or Amy because I care about you both." Sonic moved his legs forcibly before Sally could speak again, "How could you or Amy expect me to make a decision when both my friendships are on the line? As of now, we are not gonna even bring up this subject anymore. Here's my bottom line, I am not dating anyone, and I love no one, not you or Amy! Do you both understand me?" He looked behind Sally and made sure Amy heard him too.
They both were silenced now. Sally stood up and stroked her hair. The speech made its impact; she tried to fight it;
"Alright then…Sonic, I won't talk about it anymore." She took a deep breath and let out a sigh, "You guys know how to reach me, I'll let you know if anything changes," She looked at Amy with a straight face and nodded once, "Amy, good-bye."
Sally slowly walked towards the door and opened and closed it behind her as she left. Amy leaned on the entrance of the kitchen. She had never seen Sonic have an outburst like that, he was usually the one who ignored it and played it off. This must be really bugging him for it to make him this upset;
"Are Espio and Julie still fighting?" Amy nodded quietly as he stared at her, she didn't say anything so he wouldn't get madder. He could see her very shocked expression, "Amy, look I'm sorry but…I just couldn't take it." He forced his leg back into a more comfortable position on the sofa, "The way I see it, if I say yes to one and no to the other, I win a girlfriend but I lose a close friend at the same time." He looked at the coffee table, trying to make less eye contact, "I rather just let crap happen instead of messing it up now."
"Alright," She said softly, "I called Rouge, she said she can't come just yet, she doesn't know where Knikatu is and Cindy isn't answering her phone."
Sonic cracked his knuckles out of boredom, "Alright, get Shadow to get his kid, and I guess we'll just have to wait Knux and his people…" Amy nodded, "And if Espio and Julie don't stop tell em' I say to get the hell out of here!" Amy couldn't help but roll her eyes as she walked towards the back porch.
Later with Knikatu and Dominic; Dominic's neighborhood;
"Wait how come I've never seen you around here before then?" Dominic asked Asian girl in the seat next to him. She was kind of short in height. She had straight black hair and had a slight tan. She wore a dark blue short jean skirt and a white spaghetti strap tank top and wore white shoes. Her name was Kikki.
She had a lollypop in her mouth, "I don't like to stay around here, nothing ever happens around here." Why she said yes to a ride, I have no idea, "I always go somewhere else."
"So why you heading back home now? It's only eleven." Dominic said as he looked at the digital clock on the dashboard.
"I don't know…I'm so bored," She looked at him, he looked at her, she had brown eyes. "What are you doing later?"
"Nothing, unless this fool comes up with something," Dominic pointed his thumb behind him, pointing at Knikatu, "And by the looks of it, I'm not gonna be busy." He rolled his eyes after he took one look in his mirror.
Knikatu had been talking to the yellow girl. She was hedgehog, with a few white quill strands on her head. Her eyes were blue, bright blue. Wearing a short white skirt and a white top; Knikatu could not resist. Like you read, he had been talking to her, but Dominic noticed that now he leaning towards her. He had one hand on her hip and was kissing her.
This kid works fast.
(I don't want to make it look like girls are easy to get, because they're not, so don't be offended if that's what it seem like.)
'Damn, you are one horny animal' Dominic chuckled to himself and rolled his eyes.
"Which area do you live in?" He asked the girl he dropping off.
"Take a left up here and go straight." She said in soft voice as she pointed to the turn.
"Damn, you live right near me, and I've still never seen—" Dominic stopped talking as he notice a dark blue car in a drive way.
The house was white and one level; there was navy blue car in the short drive-way. The house, where Dominic lived. The door was wide open.
"Shit," Dominic gritted his teeth, "Look I'm sorry but I gotta stop here real quick." He said pulling into his drive-way stopping quickly behind the blue car in his drive-way.
"Hey, what are you doing?" Knikatu asked suddenly. He had broken off his kiss earlier. He stepped out of the car;
Dominic did the same and slammed the door shut, "Yo, what's going on?" Knikatu asked as he watched Dominic speed walk into the house, ignoring his question.
The two girls had gotten out of the car already. They followed Knikatu out of curiosity. The three wondered why Dominic was in such a hurry to get inside.
"What do you think is up?" The yellow hedgehog asked putting a hand on Knikatu's shoulder.
"Hold up," Knikatu walked up the porch steps and looked inside the house.
There was turn right at the door, Knikatu looked to the side and saw Dominic and his mother arguing with someone. Dominic's mother was short, dark, and slightly thin, she had her black hair in a bun on her head. She had on a long orange skirt and a black long sleeve shirt.
There was a talk black man in the center of the room. He was maybe about Dominic's height, 6.1, 6.2, something like that. He looked much older than Dominic, he had a light and yet dark beard. He voice was deep and rough. He was wearing a white tee shirt and had on old faded jeans.
"What the fuck are you doing here?" Dominic yelled as his mother kept holding him back.
"You two were not supposed to leave! You were supposed to stay with me! Monica? Why did you leave me?" He asked outraged.
"She left because you were beating her!" Dominic snarled, "And now I find you stalking us? You better hope I never see your face around here or I'ma—"
"—Dominic stop right now! Don't get involved in this!" His mother said in a worried voice. She stood in front of him, looking up at his face as she tried to push him back.
"I'm not leaving till you two come with me!" The man walked right up Dominic and moved his mother out of the way;
"Get the hell outta my face and outta my house!" He shouted in his face, "Now get your ass out that door before I make you." The man frowned and mumbled a threat.
"Charles stop!" Dominic's mother shouted at him.
"Shut up!" He slapped her, "This doesn't inv—" Dominic threw a punch to his cheek and made him stumble back towards the house entrance.
"Don't you ever," Dominic punched him again in the face before he could react, "Hit my mother," Charles recovered and moved quickly to the side and tackled him to the ground. Dominic pushed Charles off of him tackled him onto the ground outside.
Knikatu helped Dominic's mother up and followed him out side. Charles hit Dominic in the stomach as he got up and threw onto the ground and started punching him. The two girls backed away from the fight as Dominic pushed Charles off of him. Dominic threw punch to Charles cheek again, and made him stumble towards onto the car. Dominic ran into Charles and slammed back into the car.
Growling a little, Charles got hold of Dominic's waist and lifted him up a little. He spun him half way and slammed Dominic on top of the car; he locked his arm Dominic's neck and began to choke him;
Dominic's mother, out of fear, dare not go near the fight. She could only whimper and shout for them to stop, but this wasn't something Dominic was going to back away from.
Knikatu growled as he watched his friend kick and continued to try to pull off Charles arm off. Dominic's movements began to slow down, and became more slum-like. Both girls gasped quietly as Dominic's hands drooped down and his eyelids came halfway down. Knikatu rushed in and broke the grip by punching Charles; the knuckle bars on his hand made Charles' cheek began to bleed.
Dominic opened his eyes fully and saw Knikatu hit him; he had fallen slowly off the car and was not as light headed as he was. He stumbled getting up and suddenly pushed Knikatu away from the recovering Charles.
Charles was groaning as he wiped his cheek. Knikatu held back in his punch, he could have hit him harder but then he could have done a lot more than just cut him. He looked at Dominic, who had just pushed him away, questionably;
Within seconds of gaining his full-straight sight, Dominic started throwing punches again. Charles caught off guard was only able to block one; all of the others caught him in the face and his stomach. His lip was bleeding now, and he felt like he could throw up; he stumbled away. Dominic went after but Knikatu and the girls stopped him;
"Yo! Stop, you already beat the shit out of him," Knikatu started. He looked at the stumbling man, "Let him go."
"Stay the fuck out!" Dominic shouted loudly, "Don't ever let me catch you around my mama again," He wiped his lip from the little bit of blood that ran down, "Stupid punk-ass bitch." He said quietly to Knikatu who was next to him.
"Oh my god," Dominic's mother groaned, "Boy, what have I told you about getting involved with things like this!"
"What, you want me to just stand there while this man stalks you and tries to beat you again?" Dominic pointed in Charles direction, "I don't want him hitting my mama, ever!"
His mother sighed, "See look at you now. This is why I tell you not to get involved!" His mother walked towards him. He was leaning downward already, panting, "Thank you." She quietly mumbled as she stroked his face and inspected his lip.
"Damn…" Dominic whispered as his lip stung a little. He looked at the girls, "Um…Knikatu, you wanna help me out with an explanation?"
"Man, I'm just as lost as they are," Knikatu said shrugging.
The girls looked at each other strangely, "What is exactly going on?" The hedgehog asked, very confused;
"Old family problems," Dominic looked at Kikki, "Give me a sec and I'll take you home, unless…" This was the most awkward situation she had ever been in; she didn't know exactly what to do.
"Who's this Dominic?" His mother asked, now noticing the yellow hedgehog and Kikki.
"We uh…" Dominic couldn't just tell her that she picked them up at a bus stop. And how to explain why they are here witnessing a fight, "Me and Knikatu…uh…picked them up…at a…bus stop." He said very quietly. He looked away, he couldn't think of anything at that right moment;
His mother held her head now, "Oh lord…oh lord…" She shook her head, "You did not just tell me you picked up a complete stranger at a bus stop…" Knikatu couldn't help but chuckle a little. He received a glared from Dominic, "Do you know what you could have looked like? You probably looked like a bunch of guys trying to pick up a hooker!" She said very disappointed as she looked at Knikatu.
"What?" Knikatu backed away, "It was all his idea!"
"Bullshit—" Dominic was cut off as his mother smacked him for cursing, "Ow! Damn (Smack) Ma, don't smack me, Jesus!"
She smacked him again, "Boy how many times do I have to tell you, don't ever use the lord's name in vain!" She smacked him again, causing Knikatu chuckle louder, "And don't ever tell me what to do!"
Dominic groaned as he rubbed his head, "Alright…sorry." He was breathing normally now, he touched his lip. It was still bleeding, he looked at Kikki, "I'll be right back, let me get something for this and I'll drop you off."
She nodded, with a small smile. The little arguments with his mom were funny to her. He said no more and walked towards the house and inside;
His mother sighed heavily, "No matter how hard I try…that boy will never have any manners," She looked at all of them, "Would any of you like anything to drink?"
"Yea, sure." Knikatu answered.
"I was asking them, Knikatu." Knikatu crossed his arms as Dominic's mother pointed at the girls.
Kikki and the hedgehog nodded politely;
Dominic's mother led them towards the house. As the walked up the porch steps, Dominic came out suddenly, "Where's everyone going?" His mother smacked him again, making him flinch, "Yo, dang ma, what'd I do?" He wiped his lip with a damp napkin he had in his hand.
"Boy where are your manners!" She smacked his arm; she wasn't tall enough to hit him on the head when he stood up straight. Dominic looked at his mom strangely, "How are you gonna let these people stay around here and not invite them in? Get inside and make them something to drink!" He mother pointed to the entrance harshly.
Knikatu tried not to chuckle. Please notice the word tried, "Man shut up and help me, she's your guest not mine." Dominic pointed at the yellow hedgehog;
"It's not my house, so I can't touch anything without permission." Knikatu smirked; he thought he had him now.
Dominic held the damp napkin to lip and laughed sarcastically, "Ha-ha—no! Now git yo butt inside and help me make some Kool-aid!" Dominic walked inside, leading the grumbling Knikatu into the kitchen;
"You can't make Kool-aid on your own? Damn, you're stupid." Dominic ignored him as he took off the bandana on his wrist and unfolded it. It was very big, he put it on his head; covering his cornrows and wore it as a do-rag now.
"Get me the Kool-aid thing," Dominic looked in the dishwasher near the sink for a pitcher, "If we don't have the tub thing, get me four packets and the sugar then."
"You got a little bit in the tub," Knikatu said peeking inside the Kool-aid container, "How much are you gonna make?"
"Two pitchers," Dominic pulled a pitcher out of the dish washer. He placed it on the counter and then opened a cabinet underneath the counter, "Give me that and three Kool-aid packets." He pulled another pitcher out.
With Knuckles, Crystal and Rouge;
Knuckles was sitting at the table, his feet stretched out underneath the table and his left hand gripping the edge of the dinner table gently. His right hand had a fork, Rouge had finally, for once throughout this whole experience; she cooked him something. And that was only because Crystal forced her into doing it, Knuckles ate his plate of chicken quietly. He would come out of his thoughts once in a while;
"Dad!" Crystal finally shook him, "Sonic called, mom just said."
Knuckles rubbed his eyes and shook his head, "Huh?" He looked at Crystal and remembered what she said, "How long ago?"
"About ten minutes ago," Rouge crossed her arms as she leaned against the wall behind him, "He said Tails wanted to talk to all this kids about something important."
"Okay," Knuckles started, then he remembered; he let Knikatu go to a friends, "Aw, damn…I have no clue where Knikatu is…"
Rouge eyes went wide, "You let him go without knowing where he went?" She began to yell, "Knuckles what is wrong with you? You already know he can't be trusted to be by himself!"
Knuckles rolled his eyes at her complaints, "He's fifteen he's not a little kid!" He turned in his seat and looked at her, "How important is this?"
Rouge shrugged, "Don't know, he said they'll wait on us though."
"Well, that kid better come home soon," Knuckles looked at the clock on the microwave in the kitchen area nearby, "It's already one in the afternoon, he's been gone for more since eight." Rouge let out a loud groan upon hearing that, "What is it now?"
She closed her eyes and rested her back on the wall, "You're such an idiot! How are you going to let him go out after all he's done?"
Knuckles stood up and spoke harshly, "What's your problem huh? You've been against me this whole time! Why?"
"You're a bad father that's why!" She stood up straight and began to yell, "He's out there smoking and doing who knows what right now and you couldn't care less! Don't you get it? He is your son, from a different time! Whether I or you like it or not, we have to take care of them, if this has to happen I don't want someone like this to the father of my children!"
Knuckles shouted in an even louder voice, startling Crystal, who watched from the couch, "I die! Don't you remember? I'm not going to even be there to be a father to them! At least you live, I die! Do you know how hard that is for me to deal with?" He had a soft tone now as he continued, "I finally have a family and I don't even get to enjoy it, do you have any idea how fucked up that is for me?"
Rouge looked away, shamed in a way. She had completely forgotten the fact that the kids travel there was to prevent their father's death. Knuckles eyes had a tiny amount of fluid in them, "I have been alone my entire life," His eyes refused to let the water flow, it was his nature, "I have seen death, love and bullshit beyond belief! My entire life has been surrounded some damn piece of rock that I have to take care of." He wiped the small amount of water in his eyes;
"I have never even seen my mother or father. I don't even know their names! Since I can remember it's been me, the green rock and sometimes Sonic, Tails and some others! And you? You've lived life like you've wanted; you've enjoyed the fruits of the world, and me? I've fought for my survival and for what I have, and then I find out that I will a family, and as soon as I could taste the goodness of life I end up dead!" His eyes were slightly red; he closed his eyes and ran his glove across the top of his cheek. He kept them closed and groaned softly; he let it out, too much info given.
Rouge couldn't respond to that. It was true; she had fun all her life and did what she enjoyed. He had never left this island for long, and when ever he did it involved the Master Emerald. The idea that he wouldn't be there in the future began to engulf her mind. The kid's visit the past had confirmed one small hope she had. She never wanted to admit it but in the back of her mind she knew how she felt about him. She never thought that it could happen, but it does happen, the kids were proof of it. She had a life with the guardian; which was a little big compared to what she hoped, in a way it was better, but at the same time; marriage was a big thing to find out.
"Knuckles…" She couldn't find any words to say. There was nothing she had to respond to him.
He slowly opened his eyes and stared at the ground. Taking a deep and silent breath he moved for the door;
"I'm going for a run, don't wait up for me." He opened the door, "Just take Crystal and Knikatu; don't look for me right now." He closed the door as he stepped out.
"Mom—"
"—not right now Crystal." Rouge quickly responded. Her ears had drooped down as he was yelling at her. Dealing with her emotions and not wanting to admit it was difficult, but Knuckles had to deal with the knowledge of his death, and knowing that there was the possibility that he could do nothing about it.
Crystal stood up and walked over quietly to her mother's side. She could tell that Rouge was in deep thought now, taking in how bad this could be for Knuckles. She gently shook her mother's arm as she spoke;
"Mom," She began, "Just tell him, it's not going to kill you." Rouge looked down at her with a nervous look, "Besides, you'll both feel better."
Rouge gave an uncertain sigh, "I don't think I can…" Its one thing to say it to someone else, but to the actual person is a whole different thing. "Where do you think Knikatu is?"
Crystal frowned a little at the subject change, "I don't know but—"
"—Crystal…I don't want to talk about it okay?"
"Mom, you're weird, you know that right?"
For a moment Rouge perked up and gave her a dull stare, "How? And how dare you call me weird?"
Crystal crossed her arms and gave her an 'all knowing' stare, "First you say you hate dad, then you kiss him." Rouge blushed a little, "Why do you say you like him to me but you say that you hate him to him? Why do you argue with him in front of the others but in front of us or alone, you're more…" Crystal searched for the right words in her head, "More 'at ease', if you know what I mean."
Rouge felt like a piece of paper right now. She had been read thoroughly and double checked, and by her daughter of all people;
"Should we go and meet up with Sonic? We could just leave a note for Knikatu," Rouge said trying to ignore Crystal's speech.
"Sure, but I'm going to force it out of you and dad before we leave." Crystal responded with a small glare.
With Dominic, Knikatu, Kikki and Monique (Yellow hedgehog)
They were on the road now. Finally leaving that house after 1:25, Knikatu had to get home and so did the girls.
Dominic sucked his teeth as the alcohol soaked rage his mother made him used touched his lip wound. Kikki sat next to him; Monique sat next to Knikatu in the back seat. Knikatu was in controlling himself this time.
"Man, f—k this!" Dominic threw the rag on the dashboard and rubbed his stinging lip. He startled everyone in the car, for it was quiet at the time.
Kikki rolled her eyes, "You shouldn't touch it," She grabbed the rag, "It's gonna get infected if you touch it. Just do like your mom says Dominic." She held the rag next to him, instating silently that he take it.
"Shit stings though." He grabbed the rag and bit his lip as he obeyed her.
"Whipped!" The white echidna sneezed. Dominic held a middle finger up with the hand that had the rag. He held it up where he was sure Knikatu would see it.
"This it?" Dominic asked Kikki as he slowed down near a white house with blue doors and windows.
"Yeah," She said sweetly, "Thanks."
"No problem, sorry bout the thing that happened." Dominic quietly as she stepped out of the car.
"It's okay, you got my number right?" Dominic smiled as he picked up his cell phone from in between both seats. She gave a small smile, "Hope you feel better; don't forget to call me."
He chuckled softly, "Don't worry," She waved good bye and turned around and jogged towards her house. Dominic leaned more towards the seat next to him and stared at Kikki as she jogged, he smiled mischievously.
"Yeah, stop drooling, and get us home before you flood the car."
"Alright, calm down you midget," Dominic looked at the Monique, "Where do you live?"
Because I don't feel like going into details about the area of station square and maybe other surround areas, you insert the following; street, turns and a house description.
"Damn, all far and shit," Dominic looked a Knikatu and then at Monique again, "So why you come along? I know you didn't stay cause this idiot."
"Actually," She smiled a little, "I did; he's sweet." She made Knikatu blush with such a mushy comment.
Dominic laughed to himself as he turned around to drive off.
-L-a-t-e-r- (1:55)
Knikatu had moved up to the front seat after they had dropped off Monique. He smiled to himself as he looked at the number in Dominic cell phone book;
"You better write that number down somewhere, shit, I'm deleting it tomorrow." Knikatu rolled his eyes.
"Where do live?"
Knikatu wasn't thinking in that moment, "Angel Island." Dominic stopped the car suddenly, making Knikatu the dash board with his head. "Arrgh, son of a bitch! What the hell?"
"What the f—k? You live on Angel Island?" Dominic knew what that was, "You mean live on that floating place with Knuckles?" Being a friend of Sonic's, Knuckles was known; but famously like Sonic.
Knikatu groaned to himself, "Damn," He held his head, trying to think of an answer. "C'mon man, it ain't a big deal." Knikatu tried not to make eye contact, "C'mon, I got to get home!"
"Hmm," Dominic eyed him strangely, "I can't drive you directly there; no roads. But I can get you to the train station, it ain't too far there."
"Whatever," Knikatu sighed with relief silently and closed his eyes, "Wake me up when we get there."
-A-g-a-i-n-L-a-t-e-r- With Knikatu and Dominic
"Wake up!" Dominic said suddenly smacking the sleeping Knikatu causing him to jump and shout;
"What the hell man!" He shouted, "I said wake me up not smack me, the f—k is wrong with you?" He rubbed his head very irritated now.
"Damn," Dominic raised an eyebrow, "What is wrong with you?"
Knikatu relaxed a bit. He a glimpse of the dream again, it always made him tense. Dominic turned down the music even more; making it almost silent, "Yeah, damn my head hurts…I think I had a nightmare is all."
"Whatever…now get out!" Dominic said in joking voice as he pointed for him to leave. Knikatu rolled his eyes and scoffed at him, "Ay, wait up a sec."
"What is it? Man I got to go." Knikatu said with a yawn.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, you said tons of times," Dominic said sarcastically, "Listen, my ma wants me to invite you to our family cook out, but the thing is; it's not here."
Knikatu was more awake now, food, "Where is it?"
"My old neighborhood, Compton, it's like a 2 hour drive from around here, or if you drive like me, 40 minutes. So you wanna come?" He smirked a little.
"Just me?"
"Man, invite your family and friends, f—k I don't care, just make sure you bring at least something," He handed two small pieces of paper to him, "That's the place, and the girl's number, told you to write it down but nooooo. You lucky I'm looking out for you…dumass. I'll call you later, and you better pick up the phone."
Knikatu took the papers and smirked as he gave him the finger, "Yeah, yeah, stop bitchin' thanks for the ride."
"Yeah, you can pay back in gas money."
"Oh snap, look at the time!" Knikatu said in a fake shock. He jogged off before Dominic could collect his dues. He looked back as he saw the car make a 180 turn and speed off.
Angel Island (Don't ask how he got up there if he has no wings, you figure it out.)
He growled to himself, that was the most embarrassing thing ever. How did they even get up there? Why was he on their records? Why was he even in their data base? This was Angel Island, somewhere no one ever went, nobody ever came here for two reasons, it was hard to get to, and also cause he was there. Knuckles waited on the side of the door, arms crossed and his breathing silent;
'Must of have been Rouge, she probably gave out the info when she put them in the schools. Waste of time, they're not even in school right now, so what the hell was the point of it? Man, when I find him, I'm gonna kill him. Doing the same shit we told him not to do.'
Knuckles opened his eyes as he remembered as he thought 'we', meaning him and Rouge. He felt so confused on that matter that he tossed it aside. He kissed her, out of free will but he denied it sometimes; usually in public, mainly around Sonic and Shadow. But that was no important at the time, Knikatu; was starting to show his more troublesome side, he seem like good and quiet kid.
Yeah right, he's quiet but a handful as it seemed now.
Two police officers showed up at Knuckles' door, asking for Knikatu or his father. He answered as his father. He received a gift; a 600 dollar fine for property damages and a possible lawsuit for robbery and assault. Turns out Knikatu and someone else, not only went around breaking car windows, spray painting gang symbols and other thing on cars and houses and walls, but the robbed a club bouncer; he had about 375 dollars on him at the time, they took most of it. They got him when he was going by an ally, it took a while to identify anyone as a suspect, all the police officers had to go on were; a white mobian; echidna most likely wearing a blue or black bandana over his face and a tall black kid wearing white and black and also a blue or black bandana; in the dark the bouncer could not tell the exact colors.
They injured him, not very serious but they weren't light injuries either. He was determined to find out who attacked him. The police managed some how to narrow down which high schools these kids most likely went to. And in time; they narrowed it down to seven people; Knikatu was the only positive suspect they had, the others were being checked out.
He could hear steps. The door handle jingled a little. Knuckles had taken off the note Rouge had left. The door opened towards him slowly, hiding his presence.
He walked in coolly, yawning a little. Knuckles growled in his throat;
"What the hell is wrong with you?" He said spooking Knikatu.
He jumped as he turned around, "Dang dad! Don't scare me like that!"
"What the hell is wrong with you?" He asked again with a stern voice.
"Wha?" Knikatu looked confused, "What are you talking about?"
"What did you come here for?" Knuckles stepped closer, "Did you come to save me or just cause a shit load of trouble?" Knikatu still looked confused, "Two cops just came here and gave me this and told me that you robbed someone and did about 600 dollars in damages!" Knuckles threw paper at him; it floated side to side slowly coming to the floor.
Knikatu picked up the paper, there was long and small printed, three column list; on one side with numbers. The other side was a short paragraph summery;
"Didn't think you get caught did you?" Knuckles said with authority, "Now before I get madder, what the hell were you thinking?"
"I…I needed the money," He was fearful right now. Knuckles was mad, and Knikatu feared his mother in their time. Now if she was more at ease in their time; and her getting mad made Knikatu fearful, you can imagine how he felt right now with Knuckles.
"Needed the money? For what? You mom gives you everything you needed for now!" Knuckles was only moments away from breaking, "Give me one reason for why I shouldn't whoop your ass right now!"
Knikatu kept quiet. He couldn't think of an answer or for that matter anything to say. Knuckles let out a growl, that spoke to him, telling him to speak;
"I dunno." He said quietly, in a shamed way.
Knuckles wanted to just smack him on the head and hope he wouldn't do it again. "You're fifteen; there isn't much I can do that's gonna effect you. So guess what, until I say so, you are only going to be with me, or your mother. Remember that because that doesn't include Mac, Shadow or anyone else, even your sister. You only stay here, at school when you go back or with me or your mom. If you disobey me, I swear I'll start raising you like I was. Which means, you disobey me; no home, and you get your on own food. Not even your mother is going to stop me."
Knikatu nodded quietly. He now saw the side of his father that everyone talked about. His anger side, one that made every nervous, he had never seen it until now. It was scary to him, in the time he was here, he had never seen Knuckles so serious and mad before.
"Now c'mon, Sonic wants at his house." Knikatu nodded once again and followed his dad out the door.
Later (3:00pm) Tails' house; with everyone, including Espio and Julie-Su who are having their little war.
Amy and Tails were trying to get Julie-Su and Espio to stop fighting. The house had two broken lamps and the coffee table was broken in half when Julie-Su slammed Espio on it. Sonic had made his threats; no good. He had given up on it already. Cindy tried to help every now and then but it was no good. Shadow watched them and got a couple of laughs, he thought about video-taping it. Shadow II was watching TV in the basement level. Katie…was still asleep. Rouge was outside on the hammock she kicked Shadow off of, was happily watching the sky as she thought.
Mac was on the sofa. Crystal was on Mac's lap, giggling a little as he talked to her. Mac was glad Knuckles wasn't there.
Suddenly from the entrance of the kitchen Espio came out flying through the air. His crash landing startled the love birds on the sofa and woke Sonic who had drifted into a light sleep.
"You want some more punk?" Julie-Su yelled jogging in, "Huh, do ya?"
"Arrgh, damn that hurts!" Espio growled as he held his hurt arm. He was about to charge at her when Tails ran quickly and pushed him up against the wall and pinned him there.
Amy held Julie-Su's arm in a lock. She made it uncomfortable for Julie-Su to move her arm;
"Both of you calm down!" Tails yelled pushing on Espio a bit more making him gag a little, "Now, I'm going to let you go, if you don't calm down I swear I'll both tied up in chains and thrown in the nearest lake. Will you calm down?"
"Yes! Can't breath, air I need!" Espio said in a wheezy voice.
"And you?" Amy asked Julie-Su harshly, she was getting sick of the broken things and the fighting.
"Oh come on, it was just getting good." Shadow said walking in, softly rubbing his wound.
"Shut up Shadow!" Amy glared at Julie-Su, "Will you?"
"Yes." She gritted through teeth. She grunt as Amy let go of her arm. She glared at Espio from across the room.
Shadow II walked up the steps, drawn in by all the yelling earlier. "Dang, what happened to the table? It was fine 20 minutes ago!"
"These two, but we finally got them to stop." Amy said with a bit of pride in that big accomplishment.
"I'll give them ten minutes before they're at it again." Shadow quickly added on.
Julie-Su growled at him. Before Shadow could speak, the door bell rang.
"I…can't…get it." Mac said as kissed Crystal, who was still on his lap. Everyone rolled their eyes. Espio walked over to the door and opened it. Standing there was Knikatu, with no Knuckles;
"Sup people!" He came in and ignored Crystal and Mac. He seemed kind of happy, "Where my mom? And what is it you need use for?"
Mac stopped paying attention to his words and focus back to his more important matter. He kissed her back with love, lots of love, making her giggle at times. His eyes drifted towards the door and her saw a red figure standing there. Arms crossed and a serious glare;
"Ah!" Mac yelped suddenly. He broke the kiss and zipped over to the couch next to him so fast; Crystal fell on the sofa three seconds later.
Everyone looked at Knuckles and then at the thirteen year old hedgehog on the couch. He was curled into a little ball, shaking violently. He whimpered aloud as he rested a large couch pillow on him, trying to hide. He returned into his safe-ball and shook continuously.
"Wow," Sonic said looking at him, "Damn, Knux, he took one look at you and now he's over here shaking."
Amy growled; she could already safely assume he did something to Mac. "Knuckles what did you do to my son?"
"Nothing," He said calmly. "I don't know why he's acting like that, maybe you should ask him for answers, Mac—"
"Don't kill me!" He shouted with fear as he shook more in his little ball.
"Okay…weird." Knuckles began to walk towards the entrance of the kitchen, "I'ma get something to eat."
Mac waited only two seconds and sat up quickly, "Is he gone—Ah!—don't kill me!" He took two more pillows and surrounded himself in a pillow fort. He saw Knuckles standing in the entrance and returned into his little ball, shaking again. He whimpered some words that had to do with mercy.
"Dad, what did you say to him?" Crystal shouted furiously as she stood up.
"I don't know what you're talking about."
"Mac kissed me earlier and now because you're here he's over there hiding! What did you say to him?" Crystal fearlessly stood in front of her dad now.
"I'm gonna get something to eat," He said turning around ignoring her.
"Dad! You better answer my question!" She shouted, he still ignored her, "Fine! I'm telling mom!"
"Mac?" Sonic asked poking at the pillow fortress, "You alright man?"
"Ahem!" Tails suddenly interrupted, "Back to matter at hand!"
"What is it?" Knikatu ask remember what Knuckles told him on the way there.
"Okay how did you exactly get here—"
"—ah-ha! Gotcha!" Espio suddenly shouted as he flipped Julie-Su on her back, slamming her onto the floor.
"Told ya," Shadow smirked as he watched them being to fight again.
"I got ten on Espio!" Shadow II shouted.
"Five on Julie!" Knikatu said as Julie-Su tripped Espio. She grabbed his ankles and threw him into the kitchen, "Make that twenty!"
"Eh, why not, fifteen on Julie." Shadow said pulling out some money as he followed the sounds of punches and kicking.
"Hold up, I got five for Espio!" Mac said suddenly jumping up and following the others.
"Arrgh! I give up! You people are morons!" Tails shouted. He groaned as he took a seat next to Sonic on the couch;
"Chill man," Sonic closed his eyes, "Relax buddy, we got some time, here." He handed Tails 30 dollars, "Put that on Espio, all of it."
Tails couldn't help but chuckle to himself, "Whatever, I got ten on Julie."
"Let me know who wins!" Sonic said as he heard a loud thump in the kitchen.
Shadow II was doing the sporty announcer voice, "And she's got him and choke hold! No wait, he's just tripped her, she's going for the-the-the-the ladle! She hits him with it!" Shadow II flinched as Espio threw out on to the back porch;
"Damn! She's outta here! He's going after her! It's anyone's game now! He's got her in a head lock! No wait, she flips over and kicks him!" Those who betted cheered as Espio flew about ten feet skidding on the grass outside. Espio slowly stood up and continued the fight.
Knuckles was now a smirking as he watched as well. This was funny to him. Crystal had been following them, she rolled her eyes as she walked towards the hammock, which cradled her sleeping mother. Cindy sat next to her; she had nothing better to do.
"Morons…" Amy whispered to herself as she walked away from the crowd cheering idiots. "Have you people forgotten why we're here?" She shouted. Everyone ignored her and cheered as Julie-Su slammed Espio into the wall of the house and was pinning him against it;
"I'm surrounded by idiots…"
Daaaaaammmnn! Long ass chapter. Don't worry we're almost there, all Eggman, Sally, the kid's way home and most other questions will be answered!
I'm done here, for now, hoped you liked it, R&R!
I'm gone!