Ok, sorry about the long wait. I've been gone most of this week. I had to go to Indaba Music and insert my band's music. We went to Kentucky and we just got back, so... anyways... Here ya go! New Characters!

Later at the Mobian Delights, Tails was sitting at a table with his computer, sipping on a banana smoothie, reading the article about Erica. GUN had a picture pasted on the article of her.

She had gray fur with odd red highlights on her bangs, the same shade as Knuckles's fur. Her bangs were curled up above her crimson eyes in an ark. She was wearing a black tank top with black jeans to match.

A perfect picture of evil.

One thing bothered Tails about her wordrobe:

She wore fingerless gloves with spikes coming out the Knuckles.

Spikes? Knuckles? KNUCKLES!

He looked at Knuckles's hands and pondered.

He looked up Jade's family tree. A standard chain full of bats.

Then he looked up Erica's family tree. He looked at the whole chain. As he scrolled down, the feeling in his stomach increased. The farther down he went, the more echidnas he began to see. When he got to the bottom, he was puzzled. Knuckles and Erica were right next to each other.

"What the hell?"

Tails printed out both chains and continued to look at the picture on his computer.
That's when the oddest thing happened. When Erica's chain printed, it also printed out about 100 more pages of nothing but a chain of Ericas.

Then Jade was a little off aim with her chaos and "accidentally" destroyed Tails's computer.

"Oops!" She said. "Sorry Tails!"

Tails just pondered.

Just then, a family of Hedgehogs came in and sat at a table across from Tails. He recognized them as Dante, Maria, and Baby Sandy.

Dante was a red hedgehog with 2 times the strength and speed of Knuckles and Sonic together.

Maria was an old friend of Tails and Knuckles. She was a purple hedgehog-bat mix. She also worked for GUN with the DNA division.

Sandy was only 2 years old, and a very smart little girl. She was like a young Albert Einstien.

Maria immediately recognized Tails and smiled. "Hey there squirt!"

"Hey Maria," Tails smiled. "Long time no see!"

Dante and Sandy both turned simultaneously to see him.
Dante got up and walked over to sit beside him while Maria picked up Sandy and sat beside Dante.

Dante ruffled Tails's fur. "Hey there little buddy."

Sandy peeked over at Tails. "Who's that mommy?"

"An old friend Sandy," Maria replied, "an old friend."

The rest of the crew didn't know that they were there.

Sandy looked over at the table that Knuckles was sitting at with Rouge. She squeeled. "MOMMY MOMMY!" She shouted, "It's Uncle Knuckles and Aunt Rouge!"

Maria chuckled. "Go see them if you want. I'm right here when you come back..."

Sandy ran over and hugged Rouge's waist. "Aunt Rouge!"

Rouge turned around to see Sandy and smiled. "Sandy?
Is that really you? You've gotten so big!" She picked her up and gave her a hug.

Knuckles looked over and gave Sandy a big hug. "Hey there little one!" He smiled. "I missed you!"

Dante walked over to make sure that Sandy was being watched.

Maria looked at Tails's broken computer. "What happened Tails?"

"Jade broke my computer with her chaos..." He replied.

Maria got out hers and handed it to Tails. "Here," she said.
"use mine."

Tails searched the gun database while Maria just stared at Jade.

She remembered that fateful night.

8 years before the crook took the jewels from the president,
Erica had payed her a visit.

Maria shuddered, remembering the pain...

the torture...

the life that was taken...

Tails looked at her. "What's wrong?"

Maria just shook her head. "Nothing of your concern..."

Tails scooted closer. "Tell me..."

That's when Maria told her story....

The sad story of a girl who lost her unborn baby...

to the hands of Erica...

MORE COMING SOON!!!

Scary ain't it?