Visit From The Future
Disclaimer: I don't own the Sonic Crew, but these other you've never heard of before are mine.
Few things: To all don't bitch at what I'm about to do in the story; the things below don't apply to most people, just a few people I know in person.
To Catherine: Here you go, stop putting my business out there now, I did what you wanted, read it and keep your mouth shut about you know what from now on.
To Sasha: Same goes for you, and I swear you open your mouth about that speeding ticket, I'ma get you when come back from Chicago. And I want my $45 back, and another $10 for making me put in this couple.
To any other well-known friends or family members reading: Same goes for all of you guys, I swear you snitch on me, you better hope I don't catch at the next family reunion or get together. Not even my mom or grandma is gonna save you.
Enough with the threats, read on; (Sasha, you better pay me back.)
Chapter 13 — Another pointless day wasted, well not completely pointless.
(Sub Title: It's my friend Sasha's fault this chapter iskind of pointless.)
(4:25pm) Tails' Home; with Sonic Crew, kids, Julie-Su and Espio; Living room.
They argued and fought just like the night before; with one difference, they were hard on each other physically. Six broken windows, one cracked door, two doors kicked or slammed down. A counter area broken in half and a lot of cracked walls with huge broken imprints. Tails was enraged beyond belief. Julie-Su and Espio both fell to their knees and called it a drawn, finally ending the fight; too bad for Tails, the damage would not heal like their wounds, his cost money. So he took the money, growling and yelling at Sonic for letting him go along with the bet.
Shadow had called the doctor during the fight, five minutes before it ended; Cindy's orders, she got very concerned when Julie-Su threw Espio out the back window of the second level of the house.
Julie-Su lay on the couch with an ice pack on her right ankle. Her left arm was bandaged, and her left leg was bent as she held an ice pack beneath her knee. She groaned as her headaches would not go away.
Espio was on the ground below her, with an ice pack on his fore head and his entire right leg bandaged up. His left glove was off and his middle and index finger were bandaged up as well. His eyes closed as a Beaver was crouched next him inspected his elbow.
"Hmm." He quietly hummed as he moved the arm slightly, "Does this hurt?" He touched the elbow joint.
"No." Espio groaned as the tingling numbness started again in his leg. "Doc?"
"Yes?" The beaver continue to inspect his arm wounds. He started attending to an eye slash, below Espio's left eye.
"I thought doctors didn't make house calls anymore." He flinched as the doctor took a q-tip and rubbed something on it.
"Well, technically we're not supposed to, but when the secretary told me that a call came in about a couple that needed immediate medical attention due to fighting—"
Julie-Su sat up quickly ignoring her back pain, "—Couple? Who said we're a couple?" She shouted demanding an answer.
"The caller said you were, I believe it was him." The beaver pointed at a nervous Shadow.
"I'll give a three second head start…" Julie-Su gritted through her teeth. Shadow hid behind and used Cindy as a shield, "You better hope I don't catch you!" She started moving.
"Oh no you don't miss!" The beaver forced her to lay down flat, "You must not get up, according to you your back hurts; which means you, have to stay like this and rest for at least hour or two."
Julie-Su gritted her teeth and gave Shadow a death glare. The beaver chuckled as he wiped Espio's eye wound with a cloth gently;
"So you're not together?" He asked faking a shock, he was asking for his own personal entertainment, but he really wondered about it too.
"Of course not!" Julie-Su shouted quickly, "He's an idiot, and everyone knows I'm too good for him."
Espio scoffed, "Yeah right, this coming from the girl who would've settled for him?" Espio pointed at Knuckles standing by the steps that led down stairs.
"Hey, don't get me involved in this." Knuckles threatened. He went down two steps and sat down. "You're lucky you're injured, other wise you'd have six broken bones instead of that numb place you got in-between your legs." Espio frowned and felt that numbing pain come back, not his leg; the area where Knuckles was talking about.
"Dang, Julie you need to watch were you kick people." Espio moved his legs closer, making the pain in between there less intense.
"Well if you had just given me the bed in the first place, none of this would have happened." She replied with an attitude.
"Here they go again…" Amy groaned as she watched from the other sofa, next to Sonic who was watching happily.
"I worked harder than you; I needed that bed more than you!" Espio said loudly, making sure she heard him.
"Oh please, yeah maybe you did more work, but don't you have any manners? Don't you know how a lady should be treated? Ladies first? Ring a bell?"
"Yeah some lady you are," Espio mumbled as he obeyed the doctor's gesture to lift his arm all the way up, "What kind of lady snores—(Kick)" Julie-Su gasped at his comment, leading to a kick to his head.
"I do not snore!" She blushed; embarrassed by that possibility. "Least I don't scream like a little girl when I'm hanging upside down!" Espio frowned at that.
The beaver chuckled again. "What's so funny?" Espio asked as he noticed the beaver's hand shake a little as he laughed a little.
"I would tell you, but you would only get madder." The beaver smirked a little. He knew by saying that, they would want to know, it was personally fun doing this. "It's better left unsaid, trust me." He finished up on Espio.
"Well you two should take it easy, I mean it. No stress on any of your wounds." He said with a serious tone looking at Julie-Su and Espio.
"What ever." Espio closed his eyes. The doctor stood up and collected the bandage and scissors and other medical objects. He put them all in a secure steel medical case. Nodding politely he dismissed himself and headed towards the door saying;
"Remember, take it nice and easy."
"Alright," Julie-Su moved her body to its side, "Hey doc?"
The beaver turned around. He had his hand on the doorknob, "Yes?"
"What were you laughing about?" She really wanted to know. She didn't want him leaving the house with the thought she might be together Espio. That would be the worse for her.
"Well, do you really want to know?" Julie-Su nodded anxiously, "Alright, I'll tell your friend, he can tell you…once I leave." The beaver walked over and leaned down and spoke into Shadow's ear.
Shadow immediately started snickering and tried to hold in a humongous laughter. Once the doctor left, he fell down laughing his heart out. He hit the floor with his hand. It was the funniest thing he had heard today. His laughter died down within a minute;
"Okay laughing boy, what'd the doc say?" Knuckles asked, very curious as to why Shadow was laughing so hard.
"He-he, okay," Shadow took a deep breath and spoke with a shaky laughter, "The doctor said he-he that you two he-he remind of him ha-ha him and the Mrs.!" Shadow started into a light lighter.
A huge snickering was heard from the couch. It was none other than Sonic;
He broke into laughter, "Ha-ha! The dude says oh my god!" He wiped a tear, "That dude said you're like a ha-ha married couple!" Sonic was laughing so hard now he couldn't feel the numb pain in his leg at that moment.
Julie-Su growled and grabbed the ice pack beneath her knee. Then spiked it at him;
"Ow! Son of a bitch!" Sonic rubbed the left side of his head, chuckling now. He couldn't help but continue. "Hey Julie, it is kinda true, you guys are another version of Knux and Rouge, only more violent…at least I think…hey Knux, has Rouge ever kicked in the nuts?" Knuckles gave him a dull stare. One that said 'Dumass'.
"I do not like him!" Julie-Su blushed at all the accusations. It wasn't true first of all, and second, this author accidentally locked himself in that position. He now has two friends and a family member pushing him into it. Damn what a family…and these twisted girls that I call friends.
Espio sat up and put his back to the sofa, "Yeah…first of all you dumb mother-f—kers, I'm a chameleon, she's an echidna…that doesn't mix well. Second…Me and Julie? Third; I don't even know her like that, and fourth; Julie? Ewww…" Espio made a long gagging sound.
After moving her leg, she kicked him on the head. "What's that supposed to mean? Are trying to say something?"
"Hey, I speak the truth; and the truth hurts. Ain't I right Sonic?" Espio smirked looking at Sonic. Blue boy gave a confused look, "You…Amy…" He made a gesture that meant 'c'mon focus!'
"Shut up." He responded, frowning as he finally caught on.
"I'm bored!" Mac suddenly shouted. He was on the floor, sitting up with his legs stretched out. He had his back to the sofa Sonic and Amy were on. "C'mon…really you people are boring, all you do is deny you like each other, and argue!"
"I don't like him!" Julie-Su shouted blushing more, "Why do you people keep insisting that?"
"Cause its funny. I mean, look at you, you're just as red as Knuckles." Shadow said with light chuckle.
"Hey I got an idea! Let's record some stuff!" Mac suddenly blurted out.
Rouge, Julie-Su, Cindy, Espio and Shadow eyed the child strangely. Where did that come from? Knuckles and Sonic let out a loud groan. Knikatu, Shadow II, Crystal rolled their eyes and mumbled something about him being an idiot and stupid. Katie was still…asleep.
"No." Sonic said quietly.
"Oh c'mon dad! I'm bored, you can't leave the house! Besides, the studio is right below us!"
"Studio? You have a studio?" Rouge asked suddenly. "Oh yeah that's right, you three do those things for money. So this is the infamous place where you guys record."
"Nice job Mac…idiot." Knuckles mumbled to himself. He held his head as some of the other rambled on.
"Hey, how come I've never heard of this place?" Cindy asked outraged.
"Mac, if weren't her son I'd kill you myself! No one was supposed to know about that!" Shadow shouted at him. Cindy would not start asking questions, especially now since he knew about it before she did.
"Yeah, how come Shadow knows and I don't? I'm your wife Sonic!" Amy asked, in loud and hurt voice.
"No your not, and stop saying that!" Sonic said denying that future fact, "It hasn't happened…hopefully it won't."
"Can we talk about something else?" Knuckles asked trying to get off the subject.
"No, because I want to see this place! Tails were is it?" Rouge asked glaring at Tails for answer.
"Uh…" Tails nervously looked at Knuckles and Sonic. They both made gestures saying don't tell. "No comprendo." He faked a Hispanic accent as he shrugged.
Rouge grabbed him by the fur on his chest. "Listen up fox boy, either tell me where it is or I can make sure that rabbit girl of yours doesn't have anything to look forward to with you!" She glared at him, making eye contact, making sure he understood it.
Tails' pupils went tiny as he gulped at the threat. "Downstairs, back room, second door on left; it's the one with the sliver knob." He squeaked.
"Thank you," She said sweetly, she let go of him. She smirked as he crossed his legs and covered the area with his hands. "Relax, I was just kidding."
"Still…that's not funny Rouge." He managed to say softly.
"Well, time to see this place." Rouge smiled as she turned around leading the girls first. Shadow and Tails waited for red boy and the blue simpleton. Knuckles groaned as he was left to pick up Sonic and bring him; Julie-Su and Espio were left in their places as they started arguing again.
"Any ideas guys?" Sonic whispered as he was put on Knuckles' shoulder.
"Nope." Knuckles simply answered.
Tails shook his head.
"Well we could let them see it and check it out. What's the worse that could happen?" Shadow said seeing no harming in them knowing.
Downstairs; recording room
"'What's the worse that could happen?'" Sonic mocked as Amy and Rouge went through all of their sample discs and the kids touched just about everything. Crystal wandered around
Mac was in the recording booth awing the Microphone. Knikatu and Shadow II were watch quietly as their moms touched everything, including the very expensive wide computer board that was used to play music and increase music properties. Tails was about to cry as Rouge stared messing with the switches; it cost a lot of money, otherwise he wouldn't care;
"Don't touch it Rouge!" He finally shouted, hushing all the murmuring people in the room.
"Alright jeez calm down, don't have to yell at me. Hey Knuckles," Knuckles rolled his eyes and looked at her, "What's this one?" She held up a black disc, it had numbers in white.
"Most of our recordings." He figured if he couldn't do anything to stop her, might as well tell.
"Oh really," She said slyly, "Mind if I listen?" She grinned.
"No way!" Sonic shouted. That was the last thing he wanted any of them hearing.
"Why not?"
"Cause…cause…Mac and Crystal are here!" He pointed at Mac in the booth and looked at Crystal in front of him. She crossed her arms and raised an eyebrow, staring at him like if was an idiot, even though he already is.
"Oh please, Sonic they've probably heard more cussing from you than anyone else. You probably taught them some new ones too!" Amy with a hard tone.
"Well, I don't care; let's see what you're hiding on this thing."
"Oh boy…" Sonic groaned. Shadow crossed his arms; he had nothing to hide, he did it for the money. Knuckles gave up on trying to hide it a long time ago, Sonic still didn't want anyone to know.
Rouge pressed a random button. A small disc tray came out; she dropped it gently in place.
"Hey! How come I've never been in this room before?" A now more mature voice shouted. It used to be small and cute, almost like a squeak. Well she was twelve now. Her ears were longer and drooped backwards and rested on her back. Wearing a yellow skirt to just above her knees and a white shirt she stared in awe at the room.
"Thank you god!" Sonic shouted softly. Cream would keep them from playing the disc…for now.
"Tails, why haven't I been here before? Is this place new?" She asked spinning around as she observed all of the electronics. Cheese floated along side her, having transformed now; the chao remained in a neutral state, but much taller; for a chao that is. No bow tie anymore, it threw it away shortly after it changed.
"Oh shit! Look a chao!" Well that curse got Shadow II a nice smack. "Ow! Dang mom, what was that for?"
"For cussing!" Cindy spoke with a motherly authority, "How many times do I have to tell you not to cuss!"
"But it's a freaking chao, look!" He pointed in shock at Cheese. Cindy took another swing at him and missed, "Hey I said freaking! That doesn't count!"
Cindy gave him a little growl. He was right.
"So what's the big deal? It's just a chao." Knuckles asked. He saw plenty of chao, to the point where it got annoying, Tikal used to own six.
"Shadow, it hasn't happened yet, remember?" Knikatu said to Shadow II quietly.
"Oh that's right!" Shadow II smacked himself, "The chao haven't died out yet."
"The chao die?" Rouge gasped.
"Oh my, that's horrible!" Amy quivered at the fact.
"But why?" Cream asked suddenly as she hugged Cheese out of fear.
"Well after Eggman assaults some of the countries, the chao start to die out, no one really knows why. But in our time, chao cost like $30,000 because there are so few." He kicked the ground as he finished.
Shadow II always wanted a chao, an evil one; but where was he gonna get that kind of money? He had to pay for it, Shadow and Cindy thought that was too much money for just a chao.
"What the (Bleep)? 30 grand for a (Bleep)ing chao? What kind of shit is that?" Sonic shouted; that couldn't be true.
"Tell me about it…I would have one…I don't got that kind of money though." The child looked disappointed as he stared at the ground now.
"Wow, the future seems like some bullshit now." Shadow added. He crossed his arms and stared at Cream for a second, and then his eyes went wide as he remembered.
"The future?" Cream asked suddenly, she was confused now, "What are you talking about?"
"Aw…damn!" Shadow shouted, "Why didn't we notice she was here?" Sonic and Knuckles groaned. Everyone else looked confused;
"What I don't get it?" Cream looked around for an answer, "And who are these kids for that matter?"
"Hey isn't that Brian's mom?" Shadow II pointed at Cream. She gasped and looked at him strangely, her eyes went wide she was called a mom, "Oops…I'm in trouble, ain't I?"
"Dumbass!" Shadow smacked his son in the back of the head. "(Smack) Damn, Cindy that hurts!" Shadow rubbed his own head, smacking his son made her smack him.
"I'm sorry, but I'm confused; either this is a dream or I got drunk, I knew I shouldn't have tried that bottle!" Every stared at her strangely when she said drunk. A long silence covered them; everyone stared at Cream, "Will somebody please tell me what's going on? And stop looking at me like that!"
"Should we?" Sonic asked with a confused voice.
"Um…how about not…I don't want anyone else to know what's gonna happen." Tails said nervously.
Sonic saw right through his trembling. He smirked to himself, "Oh I get it…you don't want her to know that you and her get—(Hit) Son of a—who threw that shoe?" He shouted as he glared around the room.
"I did, now shut up." Amy said sternly as she crossed her arms, "I say we tell only what she needs to know, it's up to Tails if he wants to tell her the rest."
Sonic frowned and groaned, "Killjoy…" He crossed his arms as the though of embarrassing Tails beyond belief just floated away.
Cream had her arms crossed now, she pouted. Cheese stared at her strangely, "I'm not some little kid—"
"—Cream, you're twelve; you barely know how to use a tampon—(Smack)" Shadow rubbed the deep red handprint on his cheek. His little interruption earned him a good hard slap from Cindy. "Damn Cindy! Jeez, I think you broke my cheek bone!"
"Good. That'll teach you to be so fowl mouthed." She crossed her arms and huffed, "Sometimes I wonder, if you're even worth it."
Shadow gave a low growl. Cream was still very confused, and very mad with Shadow;
"First of all," She walked up to him. Standing at his feet, she suddenly kicked him in the shin. She continued as Shadow hopped on one foot cursing in pain, "Second of all, somebody tell me what's going on before I have to kick it out of you!"
"Cream," She looked at Sonic, "What happened to you? I remember when you were this tall," Sonic put his hand flat in the air a short height below him. He was still on Knuckles' shoulder. "And wore these little dresses and had that little annoying yet cute squeaky voice, now look at you, what happen?" Sonic sighed and then notice an angry rabbit was glaring at him;
"You're gonna hurt me aren't you?" He asked nervously.
"One more crack like that, and I'll crack your leg." Sonic flinched, that was the first threat he had ever heard from her.
"I liked you when you were nicer." Sonic with a sacred voice.
"Okay that's it; I want an answer, and no more stalling!" She finally shouted.
"Shadow you get this one," Sonic looked at Cream, "I'm scared of what she could do to me."
"Yeah right," Shadow rolled his eyes, he had stopped hopping, "Ask her boyfriend to." Shadow pointed at Tails who gave a growl in response.
"Boyfriend?" Cream gasped as a blush came to her cheeks, "I don't have a boyfriend!" She notice where this was going again, "And stop getting me off track! Tell me who these guys are!" She pointed in the direction of Knikatu, Mac, Shadow II and Crystal.
"Alright everybody shut up," Rouge finally stepped in. She walked near Cream and crouched by her side, "I'll handle this, but correct me if I'm wrong." She looked at Sonic and Shadow, "What are you two so afraid of? She can know." Cream smiled, finally answers.
"Okay Cream, listen up because it could get confusing." Rouge paused for second as she nodded for her to continue, "Okay, these kids are from the future, they belong to us," She motioned her hand in a circle at Sonic, Shadow, Amy, Cindy and Knuckles;
"They came here because they want to make sure something bad doesn't happen." Cream was skeptical now. That was the stupidest answer ever, but why would Rouge lie about something like this? "But because something happened, they're stuck with us for a while. Now can we trust you not to tell anyone?"
"Wait, two things I want to know; why are you so intent on hiding it? And how can I believe you, the future? Prove it." She suspiciously eyed Rouge.
"Knikatu!" Rouge shouted suddenly. Knikatu jumped at the sudden and very loud yell.
"Ow…my ear, mom I'm right here." Knikatu had a hand under his dreadlocks rubbing his sore ear. "What is it?"
"Cream look closely," Rouge pointed at the symbol on Knikatu's chest, "Now look at his symbol thingy." Rouge pointed at Knuckles who had his eyes closed. Sonic, on his shoulders still, who was mumbling something about cookies.
Cream made that connection, and smiled as she pieced everything together quickly, "Oh so you do like him!"
Rouge flushed, "That was not my point Cream!" Rouge took a short but deep breath, "Do you believe me now?"
"Well…yeah I guess so, but what's Tails hiding, what doesn't he want me to know?" She looked at Tails suspiciously
Rouge grinned, "That's between you and him." She winked at Tails who blushed at the thought.
"Tails? What are you hiding—"
"—hey, hey, let's do what you all are here for, all the kids need to explain to me how—" The fox began to walk towards the other end of the room, avoiding her completely. He put his hand on the door and the flinched;
"—Tails!" Cream shouted, he couldn't ignore that.
"Somebody get Espio out of here before I kill him!" The pink echidna was losing her patience. She shouted so loud that they heard her clearly from upstairs and far away.
"Now's our chance! GO now before they remember!" Sonic nudged Knuckles, "Hey guys, let's go before they tear this house apart.
Well it worked, well on most of them. Cream continued to glare at Tails for answer. The others rushed upstairs leaving him alone with her to deal this out.
Upstairs;
Well they got there just in time. Julie-Su was seating up and was pulling on Espio horn, he was yelling in pain;
"Ow! Let go!" Tugging on his horn hurt him a lot, especially in his condition.
"How dare you call me a whore?" She shouted as she tugged on it more.
"Dang, we were only gone ten minutes and they're at it again!" Sonic moved his glove up and looked at his watch, "Wait, he called you a whore?" Sonic was surprised.
"I know!" She tugged again, "How dare you?" She smacked Espio with her other arm before she let go. She huffed and crossed her arms angrily.
Espio held his horn and massaged it gently. He sarcastically whimpered a little; his cheek red and his horn was very numb now.
"Dang Espio, I didn't think you go that far," Sonic said, "Why'd you say it?"
"F—king asshole!" Julie-Su smacked Espio, "I-I—" Her voice broke.
'Ah shit…crying, this is the last thing I need! Thanks a lot Espio…' Sonic groaned as he thought of a solution…good luck.
Knuckles closed his eyes and tried to ignore the whimpering;
'I hate that sound! Why do women have to cry like that?'
Shadow's ears slightly drooped, the crying even affected him. He wanted cover up his ears so badly but he didn't want to seem like the cold-hard ass he usually was. Julie-Su's cheeks slowly began to lead tears down, her voice was gone and her whimpers spoke for her;
'Damn it, damn it, stop crying, stop crying!' Shadow was mere seconds from kicking Espio for starting this.
Amy, Rouge and Cindy watched sympathetically.
"Hey, it's okay," Cindy said coming closer to Julie-Su, "He's an idiot, just ignore him." She took a seat next to her.
"Shadow," Amy began, "Why don't you move Espio somewhere else?"
Shadow groaned, "Oh c'mon! All that work?" Amy gritted her teeth and gave a hard growl, "Okay, fine…" Shadow looked at his son, "You help me, remember I'm injured." Shadow smirked as he showed his still visible wound.
"Yeah right," Shadow II coughed, "You're just too lazy to go to a hospital."
Shadow gritted his teeth and lifted his open palm hand.
"Don't even think about it." Cindy said before he could bring it down. She was currently hugging Julie-Su who was still crying quietly, "Just get him out of here."
"Lucky," Shadow glared at his smirking son, "You better watch your back, cause I ain't finished with you yet."
"Screw it," Espio forced himself to get to his feet. He gritted his teeth as the searing pain rushed through his leg, "I'm gone. No point of me being here in the first place." He stood up straight.
"No wait," Sonic said, "First of all, you can't leave because you can barely stand, second, you better say sorry or at least stop her from crying! You started this in first place," He looked at Amy, "You invited them, so help him settle it!"
Sonic gave a sigh, and suddenly smirked, "Red boy slave!" He looked at his carrier, "To the kitchen! I'm hungry." He ordered, pointing to the kitchen.
Knuckles rolled his eyes, "Here, I've had enough of this idiot." He forcibly tossed him into Rouges arms, bridal style. He walked into the kitchen, heading towards the back door, followed by Crystal.
"Eh, I'm good here too." Sonic smirked as he looked at Rouge, trying not to stare directly at her chest, "You know Rouge; I'm not too picky, I'll gladly settle for some milk particularly yo—" He was ogling at her chest now.
"—finish that sentence and I'll break your jaw." Amy and Rouge both said in unison.
"What?" He smiled, "I'm hungry! I'm not picky, but I like natural milk more." He said slyly as he looked at Rogue who rolled her eyes. She wanted to drop him on the floor so badly in that moment, but he was seriously injured.
"To the kitchen bat woman!" Sonic pointed to the kitchen entrance;
Rouge rolled her eyes again "Good luck, I go as far as the couch," She walked to the couch and dropped him on top of it.
"Okay two things, first of all, no men in this room right now, so Shadow get Espio out of here and Shadow er…the little one, get Sonic out of here! Mac help you're him, Knikatu," Amy looked at the echidna, not knowing any other job that needed to be taken care of, "Uh…just get out of here!"
Knikatu rolled his eyes, "Pinky…"
"I heard that!"
Back Porch/deck (Whatever you want to call it.) With Knuckles and Crystal
"Why do you hate him? Why can't I see him?" Knuckles gritted his teeth as Crystal continued to ask endless questions. "I love him dad, it's fair, you can't choose who I like!"
"First of all," Knuckles said quietly, "You don't know what love is, second; I don't hate Mac, get your facts straight."
"Yes you do! He won't even look at me when you're around, what did you say to him?" Crystal growled, she didn't care anymore, "I'm not a little girl, I'm old enough to go out! I can like a boy if I want!" She paused, letting him take it in, "You say I don't know what love is, but what about you and mom?" She added that in, hopefully to kill two birds with one stone.
"Why does everyone bring that up?" Knuckles growled, making her flinch a little, "I don't hate Mac, don't you understand that Crystal?" He bit is tongue in his mouth and forced it out, "I just don't get it how it comes to you guys so easily, and I'm over here stressing my ass out trying to say something related to the subject!"
Crystal's mouth hung open;
'That was it! He said it! Dang, mom's not here! She's inside with what's her name?'
She bit her lip, trying to drag on the conversation, so he could finally admit it. "Dad, why is it so hard for you?"
"I don't know!" Knuckles groaned as he held his head. He sat down on the panic table nearby and looked at the floor. "You're thirteen, I'm twenty; it should be so much easier for me to admit something like that!" He groaned again, "I can't believe it, I'm telling my own daughter about my love issues; damn don't I feel stupid…"
It took a little for the line to hit, "Hey! What that's supposed to mean?" She glared it him, "Look, you and mom need to be alone, and talk by yourselves, it worked for me and Mac."
Knuckles looked up and rolled his eyes, "Yeah right, I'm a thirteen year 'love' struck teen," Knuckles made the air quotes gesture as he spoke.
"Dad," Crystal had her arms crossed and gave him a dull stare, "You mumble mom's name in your sleep," He blushed, "Not to mention you've kissed her out of free will." His cheeks flushed to a deeper color.
"Hey," Knuckles raised an eyebrow at her, he couldn't say anything else. She had him there, his silent mouth closed at his loss of words.
"Wait here," She suddenly got excited, "I'll be back, and don't run away!" She jugged towards the sliding door.
"Wait!" Knuckles grew nervous, "What are you gonna do?"
"Just wait, you'll see." Knuckles gave an uneasy smile as she winked and smiled mischievously.
With Shadow, Shadow II, Espio, Mac, Sonic and Knikatu
Crystal rushed by them, very excited. She ran directly into the living room. Sonic was now sitting at the table, his back to the porch and Espio next him. Espio's head was flat on the table; he was sleeping as he snored. The other guys stood around him.
"Wake up!" Sonic leaned over and smacked him;
"Wha-what? I'm awake!" Espio wiped the drool on his mouth.
"Here's the plan," Sonic spoke as if eh something intellectual to say, "We got two options, they'll both work, but eh…"
"Eh…what?" Shadow sat down now.
"Espio, you go in there; say you're sorry, give her a hug and be nice," He smirked, and spoke quickly, "Now the second option, and this is a wild stab in the dark, you know, it's just a question slash theory…oooh fancy word, Ahem, slash possibility slash I'm just going out on a limb here, because it seems like it—but do you like her?"
Espio rubbed his eyes and looked at Sonic with wide eyes, "I'm sorry come again? I think I had something crazy in my ear!" A vague blush deepened on his cheeks.
"What, it seems like it!" Sonic mischievously shrugged, "You're just like Knux, except…on a more not nice level." He looked at his face, "And you're turning redder than Knux!"
"I don't like her!" Espio fought the blush.
"Whatever…get your ass in there, and say sorry! Otherwise admit you like her!"
Espio slammed his fist on the table out of anger, "I don't like her!" A few seconds passed by…he lifted his hands, "Ahhhhh! Son of a bitch, that hurts!" He shook his hands violently trying to make the pain go away.
Crystal ran by again, tugging Rouge behind her. She rushed to the sliding door, holding so much excitement;
"C'mon mom!" She smiled, "Dad has something to say!"
Back Porch/deck
He bit his lip as he watched her come out.
"Next time," Rouge brushed herself off, "Be more gentle."
Crystal rolled her eyes, "Go on dad, tell her!" She squealed, "Just tell mom, what you told to me, it'll work trust me!"
Knuckles let the bite on his lip go. He took a deep breath,
"I…" He choked for a second, "Rouge, I have to say something—"
Downstairs; Dan, Dan, Dum!
Tails was awkwardly working right now. It wasn't work for him; it was more of a hobby and a relaxing thing. But the thing was, Cream was right there; still waiting on an answer. He looked at the clock; it was 5:00pm. He adjusted switches and tried out new sounds, mixing them, creating the instrumental, it was so much easier doing it on the mix board.
"I love it, I need it, I live it, I breathe it, I'm the truest to the newest," He mumbled, making sure the beat matched it nicely.
"Tails, answer me," She asked again, quietly this time. She was yelling and shouting before.
"Cream," He sighed, "I don't want to talk about it, I think it's for the best that you don't know." He knew that if she found out, she would automatically try to push an earlier relationship. That was something he didn't want, he was only thirteen.
"C'mon," Cream whined, "You can tell me, it's not going to affect us like that!" Tails sighed as his thoughts rambled on the same subject;
'I wish, you don't know the half of it.'
"Let's just drop it okay?" Tails adjusted the settings more, change the music greatly.
Cream took a real wild stab in the dark, "It's about the future, us isn't it?" Tails had a slight blush now, the 'us' word just made him feel weird, "Is it that bad? Let me guess, we're not friends anymore are we?"
Tails smacked himself mentally; he figured that she knew it all already;
"No…it's actually…the opposite…"He trailed off.
"What?" She asked shocked.
"Nothing," He mumbled, curing himself for letting that slip, "C'mon we should go with the others, they might need us." He began walking but Cream held out her arm and stopped him from going.
"No," She said, "We're not going anywhere, not until you tell me what you're so intent on hiding!"
Tails gritted his teeth, was he really gonna through all this just to hide it?
"You've never kept anything from me," She began, "Cheese, go upstairs," Cream waved Cheese away;
'Dang, there goes my only protection…damn now I can't get out of this one…'
"Now, tell me, or do I have to force it out of you?" For the first time in her life, Cream had a evil/sinister/mischievous smirk.
Ha-ha-ha aww…With Julie-Su, Amy and Cindy
"Stupid funky-ass purple colored chameleon," She mumbled, her tears stopped and she was now venting out her anger. "Dumass, I don't care what he tries to do for me from now on."
"He did stuff for you?" Cindy asked, overhearing Julie-Su's mumbled ranting.
"Yeah," She looked in Cindy's direction; Amy was behind Cindy, "I thought he was actually nice for once, now look."
"What did he do?" Amy asked, curiously wondering what she could have done for him.
"He covered my lunch one time when we were at this café," She hid a smile that tried to creep onto her lips, "Then we ran into each other again at this little jewel show, he was looking at this diamond chain, his buddy Vector wanted some silver dollar chain, but he ended up paying for this too."
She held out her hand and showed a diamond lined bracelet on her wrist. The girls gasped, it didn't look cheap;
"He said he didn't really care, he said 'whatever' and just bought it when he saw me looking at it."
"Yo Sonic!" Knikatu shouted suddenly spooking them all. He was standing at the entrance, listening to the whole thing.
"I'm right here you idiot!" Sonic shouted from the kitchen, "What is it?"
"Have I got some dirt for you!" He chuckled, "Hey Espio! Does a jewelry expo sound familiar?" Knikatu had an evil chuckle.
"No…why?" Espio grew a bit nervous.
"How about a 3 grand bracelet you bought for a certain pink someone ring a bell?"
'Shit…think of something, c'mon Espio, think of something!' He looked around the room. Being stared at like a piece of meat in a lion's den didn't help. Biting his lip, he gave out a nervous laugh, "Um…no?"
"You bought her a $3000 bracelet? And you said you didn't like her?" Sonic's jaw hung open, he pushed it up and continued, "Either you're loaded, and if you are, share the wealth please! Or you do like her!"
Espio slammed his head on the table, over and over, "No one was supposed to know about that!" He picked his head up and took a deep breath, trying to hide his blush.
"And people say I know how to impress a girl, dang Espio since when do you have money like that? 3 grand? God damn!" Sonic still couldn't believe Espio could just spend money like that.
"I don't…" Espio mumbled as he looked away.
"Well, you'd better start explaining, or I'ma run to the tallest building and yell it out, and believe me, people will believe, I'm well known." Shadow smirked.
"You try that, and I'll make sure you're shipped out to Mexico and El Salvador and stuffed into dog food cans." Espio growled.
"You got five seconds." Espio bit his lip as Shadow grinned evilly, "1…2…3…4…5—"
"What do you want from me? Huh?" Espio shouted.
"I want the truth!" Shadow shouted.
"You can't handle the truth bi-atch!" Mac shotued suddenly, they all stared at him strangely,"What? I wanted to be apart of the yelling."
"Shut up Mac. Now Espio, last chance!" Shadow stood up, "5…"He held up five fingers, "4…" He hid his thumb, "3…" His pinky disappeared, "2…" Espio bit his lip as he only saw two fingers, "1—"
"—alright! Damn, I like her…" He mumbled, quietly finishing his sentence.
Sonic looked at Espio with jaw hanging. Shadow was wide eyed now. Knikatu was on the verge of cracking up, Mac was shocked.
"Oh snap!" Sonic shouted, "Look a penny!" Sonic picked up a penny near a napkin and eyed it carefully. He then looked at Espio and grinned, "Oh and by the way—ha-ha! Damn Espio! Never would have though you'd like her!"
"So…" Mac said slyly, "Why?"
"Why what?" Espio looked at him strangely.
"Why do you like her?"
"That's it I'm leaving," Espio forcibly stood up and used the table to hold himself up. "I'm leaving before I do anything stupider, f—k of ya'll." Espio grumbled as he moved himself slowly.
He made it past the kitchen entrance and stopped for a rest. Leaning against the wall he ignored any eye contact made with him.
"Hey guess what?" Shadow spooked him, he came out of nowhere, and speaking loudly right next to him didn't help. "Julie, I got something—" He grunted as Espio elbowed him in the chest. "Hey, what the hell, it's better if you get it over with!"
"There's nothing to get over," Espio grumbled, "So drop it."
"I swear; we keep too many secrets from each other!" Cindy said crossing her arms, "Espio just say it, and maybe it will solve our problem."
"Yeah right," Espio said, "Not a damn chance in hell—"
"—he likes Julie-Su!" Sonic shouted loudly from the table.
'Son of a bitch…' Espio blushed violently.
"I'm sorry, say that again?" Amy shook her head, and made sure she wasn't hearing things. She did not see that coming, c'mon she can't be that clueless.
"H-He w-what?" Julie-Su said stumbling over her words.
"C'mon are you people deaf and stupid? He likes her; why else would he buy her a $3000 bracelet?" Mac said as he walked into the room with the people he considered morons now, wow ain't that weird?
Julie-Su flushed in her cheeks violently, if this isn't a weird way to find something out. Knikatu came into the room holding in a humongous laughter. He kept snickering, his face looked puffed up as he bit his lip, trying to hold in his laughter. Shadow came and tossed Sonic on the couch;
"Hey watch it buddy! I'm injured moron!" Sonic shouted shaking a fist at him.
"Tell someone who cares," Shadow looked at Espio, "So, purple boy, we liked to hear your comments."
"Is that true?" Julie-Su quietly asked, still flushed in the cheeks.
Espio looked at Knikatu who was almost blue from trying to hold it in. Sonic was snickering; Shadow was just smirking, knowing he would never live this down. Mac staring at something not interested in this subject anymore. Shadow II was in the kitchen eating, not caring.
"Ah…" Espio opened his mouth but could find any word, "I…well…" He swallowed the lump in his throat. He prayed it would not turn out like it did in his mind, "Yes?" He looked away blushing more.
Julie-Su's face was bright red now. That coming from Espio? It had to be a trick, but then again, he would play around with something like, would he?
"Umm…" She said softly, "Could everyone just leave us?"
"Hell no, I've been moved to many times, either said you like him now or do it outside." Sonic closed his eyes, this was getting old.
She stared at him wide eyed, "How would you know if I like him?—"
"—oh please don't act so innocent, when he gave you that bracelet, you knew something was up, and you probably like him because 'he's sweet and kind, but not around you guys.'" Sonic mimicked, this was getting on his nerves.
Outside finally! With red boy, little red girl and bat lady;
"Say it…" Crystal said urging him on. He had been stuck on 'I' for the past 2 minutes, Rouge was losing her patience. "C'mon you said it before!"
"Crystal just tell me!" Rouge said, she had been guessing what it could be, but she wasn't sure.
"It's not the same mom!" She said getting angry.
"He's not gonna say it, what's he's trying to say? He too stubborn for to say—"
"Oh my god just shut up! I think I love you alright?" Knuckles yelled holding his head.
"Yes! Finally!" Crystal shouted raising her hands and praising, "I did it! I got dad to admit it!"
Knuckles buried his face in his hands, his face was hot. He chuckled to himself nervously; Sonic was going to have a ball with this.
"That's it?" Rouge asked, "Knuckles I've known that for a while now."
"Say what?" Knuckles looked up, "Huh?"
"Knuckles, I think that fact that you kissed me said that," Rouge eyed them both strangely, "Crystal, what's the big deal?"
"I wanted dad to admit it and then that would make you to admit it!" Crystal was getting saddened by the minute; her true intention was to leave her mark as the one who brought them together.
"Crystal there's nothing to be said," Rouge rolled her eyes, "You're proof of that, and by the way, you're trying way too hard." Rouge head towards the sliding door;
"That's not fair!" Crystal shouted, "I was supposed to bring you two together!" She ran in after her outraged.
Knuckles sat outside, his face hidden in his palms.
"I feel like such a dumass right now." Knuckles tried to get rid of the embarrassment Rouge left him with, he chuckled to himself. "Ain't this a bitch?"
(I want my money Sasha; there's your frickin Espio/Julie-Su couple thing.)
The Espio/Julie-Su couple; don't ask me, I don't know, my friend thinks they look good together, don't bitch about it either.
This chapter was kind of pointless, kind of;
But I promise, the next chapter has and will be related to the true plot line of sending them back and fixing all problems, I will tie up and clear any things I left you guys hanging on, like Cream and Tails, Eggman and Sally.
I'm gone.