Visit From The Future
Disclaimer: I don't own the Sonic Crew, but these other you've never heard of before are mine.
Hey people, oh god its been forever hasn't it? Trust me, this chap has been very hard getting to, well; vactions to third world countries are not the best. I got sick, and you know how that goes. Well here we are! Enjoy and review people; c'mon I'm open to ideas or suggestions.
Chapter 15 — Daddy Practice?
Tails' home; (7:00pm)
The house was quiet. Sonic lay on the couch with a dish of beef and broccoli on the floor. His dinner plate was on his lap. Tasty beef glazed in the juicy flavor of homemade spices and herbs. The broccoli steaming as he ate it with his fork. He had a few napkins under the lap to lessen the heat of the food that made the bottom of the plate hot. He ate silently, eyeing Espio on the couch every once in a while.
The violet colored chameleon had three take-out style boxes with him. Two had only two wings in them. The one on his lap had three wings and pork fried rice underneath the wings. But that was before he began eating. Now the box had the carcass of a chicken wing. Bone had been taken apart from their respective joints and the meat on them once had been devoured. Now, on a small section of the carry out box bones lay next to the small amount of the pork fried rice. Two wings left and still hungry, Espio continue to eat his food, slowly now.
In kitchen/dining room, Mac and Julie-Su bickered in silence over who got how much of what was left of the chicken and broccoli. As Julie-Su reached with fork to get more chicken, Mac would smack it away growling a little. Our pink echidna tried to eat her fill with the two wings she ordered. She said she would pick off of Mac's dish…but she didn't ask Mac. Amy and Katie shared one meal, both giggling quietly at Mac and Julie-Su: Julie-Su would reach for more, and Mac would smack her hand down instantly. It was random and repeated which is what made it funny.
Cream didn't eat; she was waiting on her step-father. The crocodile was about ten minutes late, and Cream was grumbling. Tails was downstairs, working. He had no idea that everyone was upstairs eating. The fox was grumbling something about calling someone to call and talk Amy…
"Mac," Julie-Su hissed silently, "Stop hogging all the food!"
"It's mine!" Mac said pulling the chicken and broccoli dish towards him.
"Can't you just share? I gave you a hundred dollars!" She glared at him.
"Whoa, hold up a sec. That was for something completely different." Mac ate more of his chicken. He talked with his mouth full of food, "You paid me to set you free. Dis' chicken, twenty bucks a'ight?" the young blue hedgehog swallowed his food.
"Idiot," Julie-Su grumbled as she reached into her glove. She pulled out a bill, "Here," she grumbled tossing it to him. "Why do you even talk like that? Where are you from?" she noticed his language was different, in a way.
"I'm from Cali'," he said eating more chicken.
Katie immediately rolled her eyes and scoffed. "Oh please," she mumbled, "Yeah right." She ate more of her orange chicken.
"Cali'? You mean California?" Amy asked after swallowing her food.
Katie scoffed again, "Oh please. He was conceived, born and lived there for a couple of years. Now he thinks he home grown California ghetto boy." She ate the last piece of broccoli on her plate.
"California? What do you mean conceived—oh…never mind." Amy blushed. She reminded herself what conceived meant. "What was I doing in California?"
"You, working I think. Dad stayed with you. He said we moved there for you, and moved back because you missed Station Square." Katie finished the rest of her chicken on her plate.
"Katie, don't hate cause you born here in Station Square." Mac smirked as he leaned back in his chair.
"Yeah, it's not that you idiot." Katie spat, "You act like you're all that! Just because you born in California doesn't mean your cool or whatever! It just sooo annoying that he thinks he the shit because he was born there."
"Jealous," Mac said smiling.
Katie rolled her eyes, "Your nothing but a stupid wanna-be-Crip."
"Crip? Hang on sec here," Julie-Su said, "Mac you're a Crip?"
"Of course not!" Mac crossed his arms, "I would never put my mom through something like that."
"Yeah, he's just a wanna-be." Katie said sarcastically, "17 guest appearances on Mix-tapes prove it."
"I need money, just because you don't have to talent to have 170 grand at the age of thirteen don't mean you gotta hate. Don't hate the playa', hate the game."
Katie growled as she tapping her fingers on the table. Gritting her teeth as her fingers tapped in a sequence.
Amy jaw hung open, "170 hundred thousand?" the child was rich on his own. "Okay that's it! I've heard enough change of subject." This was too much. Amy let out an annoyed sigh, "My son's richer than me, I never thought this would happen." She rolled her eyes.
Mac leaned back with his eyes close. He took a deep breath and yawned. Julie-Su took advantage of his unaware position. She reached over the table and touched a piece of glazed chicken;
"Back off," He mumbled with his eyes closed, "I'm still eating." He blew upwards, moving the three thick quill bangs that hung in front of his eyes.
"How does he do that?" Julie-Su shouted, "C'mon all I had was two wings and a soda! I'm hungry!"
"Here, stop yelling." Espio tossed one wing on her plate as he walked by. He wasn't having much trouble now; he walked with a slight limp. Everyone stared at him as he had his back to them as he opened the refrigerator;
"Hey thought you were hurt?" Mac asked sitting down normally now, "How come you're walking normally now?"
"I ate," Espio mumbled as he grabbed a cup nearby and a 2 liter of soda, "And I heal fast."
"O.K. I'm bored!" Mac shouted suddenly, "Dad I'ma use the Xbox and the 'Live' thing okay?"
"Whatever," Sonic with a mouth full of food, "Just don't use my bed!"
"Yeah, yeah you said it last night," Mac jogged up the steps.
"You gonna eat that?" Espio asked leaning back some and pointing at the wing on Julie-Su plate with his cup, "'Cause I'm still hungry."
"Huh?" She looked down at what he pointed out, "Oh thanks! Almost let it slip," The pink echidna immediately began to tear the wing apart. Eating the meats as if she had not eaten in days, "What?" She lowered the wing bone from her mouth and looked at the wide eyes in the room staring at her, "I'm hungry!" She blushed.
Cindy's Home; (Minutes later.)
"C'mon pass the controller mom!" Shadow II groaned, "It's my turn and Mac called for an online game! C'mon I wanna do stuff with people!"
"Well we could do co-op if you want." Cindy said her fingers moved expertly on the Xbox remote;
"You're my mom; you're not a person in my book!" The teal streaked hedgehog grumbled, "It's already disturbing enough that you play these games, just let me play online with Mac!" Cindy rolled her eyes and pressed pause on the controller.
"Fine," She stood up from the sofa, "Play your game and hate your mom."
"Finally!" He flung his hands up. Ignoring a huff he changed the game disk and put in the game that they planned to play.
His screen had a colorful picture of the level setting and area. Underneath was simple but complex map of the entire level. Certain spots had red dots; targeted assault points. Some had yellow ones; investigation spots; blue ones meant a checkpoints or ally stationary post, there were only six; their difficulty was set on very hard; Stealth Vipers.
The young hedgehog put the headset on navigated through the game options and logged in under his own name: '#1Shdw'. He sighed and waited under the private chat room Mac said to wait in. His head set let hear a message;
"Yeah give me a sec, Knikatu's arguing with his mom." Mac sighed, "Hey, it's gonna be boring with just us three, get someone else; its four player co-op max right?"
"Yeah I think, Knikatu," He spoke to the other person online, "Just log in and we'll wait for you."
"What?" his friend responded, "My mom's yelling, I can't hear a thing! Mom wait up at sec! (Rouge: Don't you tell me to wait up, I said—)" Shadow II couldn't make out the rest of the background noise.
He saw to names appear on the side of the screen; 'Blue-226' and 'LA-BLZ'. He knew 'Blue-226' was Mac, he always used that name. 'LA-BLZ' was Knikatu; he always used the Bloodz gang in his game I.D.s. He waited awhile, sending out an 'Open slot' message to a chat room. He sighed once suddenly perked up when a name appeared; 'C-Girl', they didn't say anything so he decided not say anything else; waiting for 2 minutes someone finally talked;
"Finally," Mac groaned over his headset, "Dude, your mom is mean." He said to Knikatu.
"Yeah I know," He coughed, "Who's 'C-girl'?"
"I dunno, someone who joined a few seconds ago."
"Hey good lookin'" Mac teased, "You got a boyfriend yet?" He smirked as he started the game countdown.
Everyone's name slot was coated in blue. As the numbers beeped as they reached four, 'C-girl's name changed from blue to black on the number 2.
"Yo what the—!" Knikatu shouted over his head set.
They were all cut off, "C' its co-op what are you?—"
The screens went black as they left the chat rooms and the game started.
The level was a war torn city. A very crowded area of buildings and tight corners was a small area. Another part was a more open parking lot that led into a bridge area. Roads and alleys were everywhere through the level. Constant factors were destroyed cars, crumbled buildings, cracked streets with faded paint on them and few dead civilians and corpses of soldiers that had tried to pass by. Some buildings were on fire while others were crumbling. Others stood with the front-side blown open exposing the offices inside. Blood stains on the cars, walls and the floors varied in sizes and lengths. The carcass of tanks and war vehicles were on fire and crumbling on the roads as you passed by.
"I can't believe it." Shadow II grumbled over the radio.
"Dog, that's twisted, she changed at the last second!" Knikatu ranted.
"Man, you know how hard this story is when there's a controlled player on the opposing team?" Mac groaned.
"Damn," Knikatu groaned, "Well just roll with it, we'll get her in the end." His character picked up a black, war-scraped AR-15, "Yes! Found it—only one clip? What the hell."
"Ha-ha idiot, that's why no one uses the AR, unlike that, this baby." Mac's character walked in front of him holding a MP-5, "This baby starts with 4 clips, I'm set!"
Each character looked the same. Gray, black urban street style camouflage. A black mask covered their faces and their eyes covered by night vision goggles. The glass' view pieces had a faint yellow reflection.
Faint but readable name tags distinguished each person's identity when they were targeted or directly aimed at.
"Shut up and let's go," Shadow II's voice cut in with radio like static. His character held a MP-5 like gun, but the barrel was longer and the gun seemed to hold more firepower.
"Let me know if you find a clip for this alright?" Knikatu's person moved down the street they were on. Hiding behind cars and nearby walls, they waited on the other's signal to move.
"Dang I hate this level," Mac complained, "Its always different, never the same!"
"You chose it," Shadow II's person moved ahead of them, planting him self up against a small piece standing wall.
"Hey, there's a couple up here, I can take them all out! Look." His person leaned back tossed a grenade in the distance. Soldiers dressed in full black scrambled for the sides.
"Shadow you dumass that's the—" Mac sighed as his character cocked his gun and slammed to the floor, "Tank scouts…great, this is not what I wanted to do right now." A violent rumble came as a Tank broke through a brick wall behind the soldiers and immediately fired in their direction. Missing but causing a huge explosion from a car and sending these running; the soldiers aimed at were dead but now they had to deal with a Tank.
"Shadow you idiot!" Mac violently controlled his person, moving the controller in the air, even though it had no effect, "How are we supposed to take that thing down? The rockets and land mines are at the fourth post!"
"Well it's Stealth Viper level; hint, hint stealth Shadow!" Knikatu grumbled as his person snuck around the corners firing at the tank from different areas and angles; confusing it.
"Oh please, how the hell is an AR-15 stealth?" Shadow's character ran backwards firing randomly at the heavily armored tank. It did barely any damage; it was like the sparks were the result of the bullet being absorbed into it.
"Mac, can we cut through the buildings?"
"Yeah, open a door lets go!" Knikatu character rushed a door and broke it open.
Immediately they fired upon seeing soldiers on the other end, caught off guard, the three won easily. They ignored the steps and ran through the lower hallways.
As they passed a steel door they saw their hope on the floor. An RPG and heavy armor piecing assault gun on the floor before them. Mac rushed for them;
"Hey, I've never found this before—" Mac's character's back had a sudden diagonal-upwards slash appear. Mac saw his screen go blurry as his first-person view fell to the ground and to the side. Blood surrounded him suddenly, his screen saw clear but blurry foot and shin shapes walking backwards. His gun fell out of his arms as the screen went black;
"Aw! Bullshit, it's cloaked! Knikatu, Shadow it's an Assassin; using the all purpose camo' thing use the—" His game ended and he was taken out of the screen as his words were cut off. He threw the remote against the wall, making his dad yell.
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"Damn it! I can't see crap, it's gone!" Knikatu's person looked around wildly.
"Mac said it's invisible, and an Assassin—" He cursed as he saw Knikatu's character go limp. Hanging off of an invisible sword, the blood on showing its shape. It snapped it back and 'LA-BLZ' dropped to the floor was expelled from the game.
Shadow II fired wildly at the area where he saw it. His gun ate the clip's bullets up and he before he could reload his screen when dark red. As it faded back to a blur, he saw 'C-girl' above an Assassin dressed in black and blue skin tight ninja style suit. His controller vibrated as his first person view was violently lashed up as a large red slash appeared on his screen. Another one followed; crossing it at the bottom in a sloppy fashion brutally forcing him to look at the ground again. He growled as the screen went black.
Yelling while throwing the remote against the wall made his father come.
"Son of a bitch! How'd she get us?" Shadow II growled.
"You suck, that's why," He turned his head and glared at his dad.
"You act like you could've taken her," Shadow II grumbled, "You don't even know how to play."
"I don't play games against Cindy, it makes me depressed when she can kill me twenty times before I get three kills."
"What are you talking about?" He raised an eyebrow.
"Your mom is 'C-girl', didn't you know that?"
"Mom?"
The teal colored female came up from behind and hugged Shadow's neck. Giggling she smiled evilly, "Yep, 'C-girl' kicked your butt!"
"You—but—how—I was using the Xbox!" He stuttered wildly as he couldn't believe the truth.
"I have two, this game too; I have a lot of little nephews that like to play that game," She grinned, "That's what you get for kicking me off! How rude of you!" She giggled once more as the child pouted.
"I can't believe it. My own mom can kick my butt in video games…" He pouted more as he leaned all the way back on the sofa. He gritted his teeth as she tried to keep her giggles down.
"C'mon let's go," She said silently to Shadow. They headed for the doors.
"Go where?" Her child asked asked.
"Don't worry about it." Shadow grumbled; angry with the subject.
"Whatever, just bring me food!" Shadow II shouted as they opened the door and walked out.
"Eh…if I remember," Shadow shouted as the door closed behind him, "You'll live if I don't get you anything—(Smack) Ouch! Cindy that hurts!"
Angel Island; Living room; with everyone;
"You don't throw stuff like that around!" Knuckles spat, "That cost me money, unless you plan on buying me a new one; don't ever throw it at the wall again. It's just a game."
"Don't you understand? I was beat by a girl!" Knikatu snarled at the thought, "A freaking girl!"
"Don't hate on the betters," Rouge said smirking. Her eyes were closed as she rested on the sofa. Knuckles and Rouge had been relatively calm with each other, but they did have their usual arguments, over nothing of course. The thing that freaked the kids out is that after they had a brutal verbal fight they would be at ease and comfortable with each other within a few minutes. In Knikatu words;
"They're like a pregnant woman…moody, angry, loving, and confusing like shit…"
"What's the big deal? It's just a game—"
"—what do you mean betters?" Knuckles said cutting in;
"Women are the betters, I've told you before, just accept it."
"He we go again," Knikatu rolled his eyes and stood up, "I'll be outside." He tried to walk by his dad quickly but was yanked back by a huge tug on one of his back dreadlocks, "Ow! Ow! Let go, dad that hurts like hell!" He tried to pull Knuckles' grip off.
"Ha-ha very funny, you ain't going anywhere," Knuckles said sternly, "You stay with me or your mom, and that's it! Remember?"
Knikatu sucked his teeth; the pain in the back of his head was very agonizing;
"Man," He whined, "Can we do something then?"
"Ask you're mom, I'm going to sleep—no wait, I got a job for you."
"Am I getting paid?" The white echidna asked very interested now.
"No, while I go to sleep; you and Chaos are gonna guard the Emerald."
"Aww man…I don't like Chaos, why not Tikal?" Knikatu pouted at the thought.
"Because I know Chaos can be mean, that why I want him watching you." Knuckles grinned, "Don't worry it'll only be till I wake up—"
The child scoffed, "—yeah right, that be days from now." He rolled his eyes as Knuckles began to drag him out, "Yeah, the back of my head is numb, can you let go of me now?—(Smack) Ow!" Rouge and Crystal could only giggle as several smacking sounds could be heard as Knuckles dragged him out.
"Do you think we should help him?" Crystal asked, feeling slightly guilty about not trying to stick up at all for her brother.
"No, Knuckles has a ways of proving his point," Rouge yawned, "Even if he wasn't right about doing this, he's way too stubborn to back out now."
Outside (Little later): Shrine;
"Eh…why not, what are the limits?" Chaos asked.
"Just don't kill him or break too many bones." Knuckles responded, eyeing the angry child sitting on the steps of the shrine. "Yeah, that's about it…"
"Okay, scratch my version of cliff climbing. Can I spar with him?—"
"—not a damn chance in hell!" Knikatu shouted.
"Chaos, just make sure he stays out of trouble and try not to hurt him. He's not one of the chickens so don't water whip him either."
"Jeez Knuckles, Rouge has sucked all the fun out of you hasn't she?" The water figure crossed his arms, "I'm glad I don't have to go through your 'love' emotions. Well go on, Tikal's out doing something, never said what." He looked at the white echidna, "He'll be fine."
Knikatu gulped, "Dad…can I go look for Tikal?" Chaos' form slowly changed to, similar to his present size, only in his ultimate form, the water dragon.
Knuckles already had his back to them as he walked away yawning. "Don't worry, Chaos isn't that mean with kids." He slowly disappeared into the trees heading back home, not noticing Chaos;
"Let's play a game," Chaos said evilly in a deeper voice.
"Aye, Chaos, back off man," Knikatu scooted back, "Look I know how to hurt you. An-and I will too!" Chaos grinned and moved closer to him;
"Fine," He quickly returned to his normal form, "Wuss," The thing retorted when he heard Knikatu whimper.
"Man, don't do that! I hate that form; you almost killed me when I was little kid man! I don't trust you at all!" Chaos proceeded to walk up the shrine steps.
Chaos stopped suddenly and stretched out his arm. Grabbing Knikatu; he held him up by an ankle. He chuckled once as he stretched out another arm and smacked him twice. Chaos morphed to his water dragon quickly and swallowed him before Knikatu could react.
Inside the lord of destruction's watery stomach the echidna swam around in terror. He looked around wildly, trying to find a way out of him. He continued to swim around the creature's stomach, he felt his air lower, he yelled under water; bubbles coming. Chaos laughed and smiled; he opened his long mouth spat the child out. He was trembling violently; he hated being inside Chaos like that; no way to escape and no air.
"F-F—k you chaos!" His voice was shaky, "Man, I hate that! Don't ever do it again!"
"Like I said," Chaos walked up the steps of the shrine, "Wuss."
"Where's Tikal?" Knikatu growled, "I don't want to be here alone with you."
Chaos stared the Emerald slowly rotating in place, "Eh, stop whining, you didn't die. It's better if she stays out anyway, less hassle on me—" He let his hand become whip like, like a tentacle; he moved it without direction in the air.
"Hassle you? Chaos all you do is have watery cartoon fights with yourself." Knikatu's savior had arrived; the orange glowing echidna princess huffed as she crossed her arms.
She had adopted a more, modern attitude due to Amy, Cindy and slightly Rouge. She still retained her humble and sweet nature but also had that like sassy side the every girl has. She stood behind them, at the foot of the steps.
(It's true, don't deny it ladies.)
"Thank you god!" Knikatu ran over to her, using her as shield.
"Huh? Knikatu? What's wrong with you?"
"He tried to drown me!" He pointed at Chaos, "H-He swallowed me and almost drowned me!" He was still trembling; he was nervous and cold.
She gasped, "Chaos what have I told you about doing things like that?" Tikal put a hand behind her and on Knikatu's head, "It's okay, he's just playing around."
"I don't like small spaces! Not to mention in inside him, floating in water with no way out!" He shivered.
"Wuss." Chaos crossed his arms. "I wish Knuckles was here to see what kind of a wuss his son is." He huffed and walked around the Emerald.
Tikal stomped her foot, "Oooooh stop it Chaos! Leave him alone, he's just a kid," She turned around and took a knee, "Its alright Chaos just plays ruff, did you swallow any of his water?"
"No," He shivered again as the wind blew.
"Why are you with him anyway?"
"He's on punishment."
"Why?" Tikal asked, slightly shocked.
"Cause he's a dumass." Chaos said stretching his body upwards, "He did some stuff and now he can't be left alone." He sat on the emerald that rotated slowly. "Knikatu, wanna go for a swim?" He chuckled.
"Hell no! You'll just possess the water and try to kill me again."
"Don't worry," Tikal spoke sweetly, "He won't try anything as long as I'm here."
"Oh shit!" Someone yelled, very surprised, "Yo look out!" The three looked up and saw a blue hedgehog falling down like thrown brick. He landed like one too; he tripped as he tried to keep running to prevent it himself from falling face down. Too bad he tripped, he landed face first and it hurt pretty badly.
"What the hell are you doing here?" Knikatu asked looking at him strangely.
"Where'd you come from?" Chaos said looking at the sky and the trees that he flew down from.
"I jumped it," Mac groaned with pride, he slowly got to his feet.
"What, are you trying to break another ankle?"
"Man that only happened once when I hit that one tree." Mac got to his feet and dusted himself off.
"What do you mean you jumped it? From the mainland?" Tikal asked not believing him.
"Yeah, I've been doing it since I was like what six?" He asked Knikatu for conformation.
"And counting, you'd think breaking an ankle and an ass-whupping from your mom would be enough to make you stop but then again, you're not the brightest crayon in the box." Knikatu responded.
"Isn't bulb? Or something like that?"
"Okay, new one, when it comes to brightness you're about a 2 watt." He smirked knowing the idiot would have to ponder about it.
"…" Mac paused and thought about the statement, "Hey!"
"Wait," Tikal was still confused, "You can jump from the mainland to the island?" She looked off in the area of the mainland, not believing a child could do that.
"Yeah, all I need is to jump at full speed, why do you seem so surprised?"
"Mac…" Tikal said cautiously, "Have you ever thought about; if you ever missed?"
"…" The young hedgehog's eyes went wide, "That would be the coolest dive ever! I gotta try it one day!"
"That was not my point!" Tikal shouted rather frustrated, "What if you die on impact or hurt yourself really bad?"
"Eh, I'm too good for that!" He smirked and waved her worry away. He got a better looked at Knikatu, "Why are you all wet?"
"Chaos." The white echidna mumbled rather angrily.
"Whatever, wuss," Mac said causing Chaos to chuckle, "Where's Crystal?"
"My dad's here," Knikatu said killing his joy.
"Does he ever leave her alone?" Mac complained.
"Not since that night you had together…" Knikatu yawned suddenly, "He thinks your after her for other reason's, personally I don't care, just as long I don't hear "I'm 'Blank'", then I'll kill you." He squeezed the remaining water in his soaked dreads out.
"Jeez thanks Knikatu, what a true friend you are…so helpful and know just the right thing say." He said sarcastically. "How's the punishment coming along?"
"Shitty…" Knikatu mumbled absent minded, "How'd you know?"
"I was talking to Crystal before I came over." Mac kicked the dirt out of boredom.
"Aww that's so cute!" Tikal squealed as the two talked, "It's just so cute to see you two together."
Mac raised an eyebrow at her, "Yeah…don't use that word please…"
"But it is!" Tikal looked at him with great excitement, "Puppy love is the cutest thing ever!"
"What?" Mac shouted, blushing slightly, "It is not puppy love!"
"So is it real?" Tikal said almost evilly.
"Lady I'm only thirteen, I have no idea what to call it but I know it ain't puppy love so don't say that!" He said pointing a finger at her.
"What do you think about when you see her?" Tikal asked, knowing the question had endless amounts of multiple 'ideas' and thoughts.
"Okay, change of subject, I don't want to keep hearing you two argue about my sis," Knikatu said very disturbed with the very out-of-character question from Tikal.
"Fine," Tikal smiled, "Where is Knuckles?"
"Inside…sleeping…" Knikatu said with an angered flat tone.
"How are things between him and Rouge?" Tikal asked sweetly.
"How the hell am I supposed to know?" Knikatu shrugged.
"Have they admitted it yet?" Tikal asked hopefully.
"I dunno; dads been so damn pissed at me that I've only been watching my back to see if he's gonna beat me…" He said miserably.
"What did you do to get him so mad?" Tikal tilted her head.
"Shit." Knikatu mumbled.
"You know," Tikal said positively, "You're too negative and you curse too much."
"Yeah and?" He glared at her sideways, "Listen, you have no idea the shit—" She smacked him.
"—will you stop using that word?"
"What shit?" Mac asked, confused about it.
"Yes!" Tikal stomped her foot, "Stop using that word!"
"You're worse than my mom Tikal and that's saying a lot." Mac started tapping his foot.
"Whatever," Tikal coughed, "Have you figured out a way to get home?"
Mac scratched his head, unsure, "Sort of," He crossed his arms and continued to tap his foot, "Tails is working on it. I'm sure he can figure it out, but the thing is time."
"I see," Tikal stared at him, "Can't you sit still?"
Knikatu chuckled, "Tikal, his A.D.D. is so damn bad that he'll lose attention in a war,"
"A.D.D?"
"Yeah it means he's easily distracted and easily amused or outsmarted." He smirked and pointed Mac who was starting at an eagle flying by.
"Oh," Tikal said simply, "Like father, like son I guess."
There came a silence over them. Tikal really didn't know anything that she could talk to them about besides their parents; and Knikatu was too mad to talk about it. Mac was…just…uh too Mac for her to even communicate with the child.
Elsewhere; Shadow and Cindy
Shadow was in the least pleasant mood. Not only was he spending money on an egg that he could care less about, but he screwed up and realized that this was 'his' gifted to his son. Cindy thought the two needed to bond more or at least be in the same room without silence or a smart remark.
"What's the point?" Shadow mumbled, "He probably never gonna feed it. It's probably gonna die, not that I care but that's money wasted!" He held the egg up and observed the hard red shell. He put it down and followed the woman who owned him.
Cindy rolled her eyes and looked at all the eggs in the room. She picked up a green one; she frowned gently and put it down, "A shiny one!" She said quietly, "I want to get him a shiny one."
Shadow sighed and looked to the left; there was dark black egg with a yellow swirl mark the covered the whole egg. He yawned and looked throughout the room. Every egg sat on a cushioned area in this super-clean environment. There were three levels of eggs; some on the floor; some on a shelf about four feet above the floor and others high up on a shelf. Most of those where incased in glass; they where eggs with specialized abilities.
"Shadow," He rolled his eyes when he heard that type of voice. It was a pleading voice, he turned around.
"Let's get this one, please?" She held an egg. It was dark blue with white/with sky blue edge stripes that started from the bottom and swirled to the left and slowly around the egg as they made it towards the top. It had light green shine or glow; or both; he couldn't tell.
He eyed her suspiciously, "Wait," He gritted his teeth, already knowing his answer, "How much?"
"It's for your son! Does it matter?" She brought it closer to him.
He pushed her, and the egg she pushed out to him, back a little, "How much?" He raised an eyebrow.
"4790, plus tax." She said quickly.
He coughed and looked at her with wide eyes, "Are you crazy? My shoes don't cost that much to fix!" She pressed the egg to his chest like a little girl would to her dad with a toy. She looked up at him with begging eyes. He growled and looked away, "How much is tax on an egg?"
"I think its 13 percent on eggs," She smiled as he sighed, "I'll pay you back, I promise."
He frowned and closed his eyes, "Forget…not like it's really my money in the end anyway." He rolled his eyes, "What makes this egg so damn special anyway?"
"It has a special ability to move water and it has green glow and shine!" She smiled and looked at the egg. She was really excited about it;
"Fine," Shadow groaned, "Let's just pay for it and leave." He took the egg and walked out of the selection room and back into lobby room. He walked to a counter and placed the egg half-gently on the counter and ringed the bell. A gray and black female bat who seemed to be in her 40s came in from another room.
"Did you find what you were looking for?" She asked sweetly as she typed something on the computer she worked at.
"Yeah," Shadow grumbled, "This one," He pointed at the to be bought egg.
"Okay, just give me a quick sec to bring this up," She typed in a couple things and then looked at the egg, and typed in a few more things. "My, my, big number; tell me, did your girlfriend pick it out?" She chuckled with her mouth closed.
Shadow blushed and looked around for Cindy but she wasn't in the room. "Yeah…" He mumbled as he looked around for her, "How'd you know?" He mumbled.
The bat took the egg and examined it carefully, "Well, from experience; I've learned that about 90 percent of the men that come in, are usually here to buy a gift for their girlfriend. The others men are in relationships that want practice for a family. Or like you;" Smirking she pointed at him, "She seems to have dragged you along for this one. Let me guess, don't like chao?" She waited for his answer.
"No I don't," Shadow said with pure hatred for the creature inside the egg. He even glared at the unborn chao.
The bat giggled and looked to his right, "Well, then don't look to right." She quirked her head twice to his right.
He looked and his jaw dropped. Shadow smacked his face and groaned, "You've got to be kidding me," He glared at her, "Who's this one for?" He growled his question.
Cindy blushed and looked at the white egg with yellow/with black edge diagonal stripes in her arms, "For us," The bat raised an eyebrow, "That one is a gift," She answered the bat's questioning look.
"Wait, wait, wait," Shadow narrowed his eyes at her, "What do you mean 'for us'?"
Cindy giggled, "Like she said, its practice and they're so cute! C'mon, let's get it; it'll be like raising a baby!"
Shadow closed his eyes and groaned, "How much?"
"550," The bat answered and typed in something else, "Which brings the total to $5962.70," She giggled, "Umm, check, cash, card?"
Shadow slammed his face on the desk counter, "Card…" He grumbled. His fingers went into his right glove and pulled out a blue card, "It's a check card…" he smacked it down on the counter and grumbled something.
"Thank—you!" The bat said sweetly and took the card and slid it through the computer. "Okay, sign here," She pulled out a receipt and gave him a pen for the proof of purchase slip. Shadow didn't even lift his head; he grabbed the pen and signed the slip without looking. She chuckled at him, "Aww, I'm sorry; how about I throw in some fruit; hero, dark, or chao fruit?"
Shadow grumbled a curse and lift up his head;
"Dark," Cindy answer before he opened his mouth. The bat grabbed a bag and threw in four dark fruits. She gave it to Cindy. Shadow took the dark blue egg and Cindy took the white one
"Thank you, bye-bye now; don't worry, you like it in the end." She waved them off.
---Outside---
Shadow growled as he held the stupid egg in his arms. He bit his lip and grumbled curses and threats at the egg in his hands. Nearly 6000, that was too much; and just for his son's egg?
"Oh Shadow!" Cindy nudged him with her shoulder as they walked towards a yellow Neon, "Don't act like that; Shadow's going away soon and this'll be a good way for you to bond with him." She opened the car door, carefully with the egg in her arms.
Shadow glared at the costly egg, "Since when does bonding cost 5000 dollars?" His glare fixed on her, "And since when do you want practice for a baby?" He sat in after opening his door.
She smiled and spoke sweetly as she placed the eggs in the back seats. "Well since this," She kissed him quickly on the lips and sat back and started the car.
Shadow wiped his lips and crossed his arms and pouted, "Whatever…"
He licked his lips, "Cherry number 3 lip gloss…my fave," His frowned slowly became a straight line.
"I know," She winked, "Why do you think I use it?" He blushed and looked away as she pulled out of the parking space.
Tails' Home;
"What the hell do you mean all the food is gone?" His stomach roared with hunger.
Amy nervously scratched her temple, "Uh, everyone ate it all?" Tails frowned, "I'm sure there's something in the fridge though!" She laughed nervously.
"You come to my house," He glared, "Have your kids live here—"
"Hey watch what—never mind," Sonic began but gave up. He saw no use in even arguing about it anymore.
"Live here," The angry fox continued, "Eat all my food, then you order food; and you don't even leave any left for me? And even after I've been working all this time trying to get them back home? What the hell is wrong with you?" Amy looked away, embarrassed and ashamed;
"What am I supposed to eat?" Tails groaned.
Amy shrugged nervously, "I don't know!"
"Some friends you people are…" Tails groaned as he looked around for food. His stomach growled, begging for the tasty flavor of food. "Hate you all…" He grumbled
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That's for now; you gotta wait to see how I tie up the loose ends; where is Night? How is Espio gonna deal with Julie-Su? Will Shadow get his money back? Will the chao like him? Will Tails ever eat?
Who knows…
N' I'm out, peace!