When Amy and Iltinis woke up, they went to check on the twins, and discovered them both in Senzace's room, Sentimento's arms wrapped around him, tracks of salt going down his face, showing that he'd been crying the previous night. They exchanged a glance as they exited the room. "Sentimento heard him and I didn't?" Asked Iltinis, frowning.

"I guess so, either that, or she felt it."

"Oh yeah," Iltinis went to wake the kids while Amy went to make the breakfast.

Dark Gaia hummed to himself as he buzzed around the Chaotix Detective Agency. "Vector, breakfast is ready." He thought he heard a muffled 'oh no', but dismissed it as impossible. Next he flew to Espio's room, here's where he had a bit of fun. Sticking his head inside the room, he saw that his finely rigged trap was still in place. He sucked in a deep breath, "ESPIO!" The chameleon shot up into a sitting position, which allowed the cream pie that Dark Gaia's machine had launched to hit Espio squarely in the face. The bee/god fled, laughing hysterically.

As soon as the fight was resolved, they sat down to breakfast. Blackened bacon and eggs with buttered toast, which Dark Gaia tucked into with a will. Vector and Espio exchanged a glance, then forced themselves to eat the black messes on their plates.

At the "Rose" residence, breakfast was a lot better. There were two options, French toast and cereal (if you hadn't had enough), or make your own breakfast. Everyone chose French toast and cereal. Senzace did not like milk with his cereal, saying it made it horribly soggy. This confused Aaron, who liked his cereal to be soggy. That was when Sentimento said something that made the rest of them stare. "Do even you know what cereal is made of? All those curly shavings you find in pencil sharpeners."

"Wha......?" Senzace asked, not getting it.

"I have no idea why I said that," said Sentimento, looking puzzled.

"You quoted Willy Wonka!" Said Noah, "And the voice was perfect!" He looked awed by this. "Can you do any others?"

"I'm not sure, my dear child. Say, sistah, where we going today?" Asked Sentimento. Amy, or as Sentimento had called her, 'sistah', smiled at the vampire's enthusiasm.

"Well we could go to the beach."

"What's that?" Asked Sentimento.

"It's the shoreline."

"And that would be....?" Sentimento asked, looking at Senzace.

"It would be sand, you know, where the ocean meets the land? That thing Dad taught us?"

"He taught us that? I don't remember."

"That's because you didn't pay attention."

"Oh yeah. Dad tends to drone a bit when he teaches you something doesn't he?"

"Well.... a bit."

Shadow really hated the fact that even though the vampires were out, his body was still getting used to the fact, meaning that it was still pretty jerky at times. "I've got some exercises you can do Shadow," said Tails nervously, not wanting to be in the room if Shadow blew up. He handed the black hedgehog the folder and scurried out, closing the door behind him. Shadow flipped through them and sighed, then started the first one.

After breakfast, the kids disappeared, making Iltinis sigh in frustration. They were supposed to be going to school, and they knew it. So started the scavenger hunt (of sorts). "I wonder where Iris could be....?" He asked out loud, knowing that she always revealed herself when this question was posed. By force of habit, she came out from behind the couch.

She whispered to him that Aaron and Noah were under the couch, which made it one of the faster scavenger hunts. He presented them to Amy, who quickly cleaned them up, and then he went outside and plunked them in the car. Senzace ran out and slid into the car as well, wanting to see more of the sights. Sentimento decided to stay, though she was a little uneasy about it.

Amy suspected it had something to do with Senzace's crying the previous night, but didn't mention it. The car shot down the road, Shadow's one day of driving lessons for Iltinis had influenced him more than he realized. Amy and Sentimento smiled and waved, just smiled and waved.

Senzace's grip on his seat was a white-knuckled one. "Where did you learn to drive?"

"With Tails, and for one day, Shadow."

"That explains it," said Senzace, lightly clamping his teeth on his tongue so he wouldn't end up swallowing it. The kids were laughing and saying things about "wheelies" in the back seat. Senzace was too busy praying he'd survive the ride to actually pay attention. They finally arrived at the school and Iltinis waved at them.

"Have fun!"

"We will Dad!" They ran towards the school, Noah carrying Iris's art project for her while Aaron was pulling ahead, already at the stairs. Iltinis smiled and stretched his arm into the back, they'd forgotten to close the door.

"Did you want to go anywhere in particular Senzace? I promise I'll go slower, that was just so they'd get there on time." Senzace thought for a minute.

"I'm not exactly sure," he admitted. Iltinis thought for a minute, drumming out a tune on the steering wheel, then he brightened.

"Why don't we go get you an iPod? Amy insisted on me getting one, and I like it a lot."

"What's an iPod?" Iltinis chuckled as he merged with the traffic again, the black ferrari (which had been a present from Shadow) seeming to growl as it waited for the light to change to green.

"You'll find out."

"Alright brother," Iltinis looked at Senzace, who was now looking out the window. Brother, it still seemed kinda hard to accept.

Finitevus crowed triumphantly while Knuckles just glared at him. "Where are we Finitevus, and what are you doing?"

"We are in another dimension, one that must also pay for it's crimes with emerald fire. One individual in particular, it's his fault I failed last time."

"Who is he? I want to give him flowers," said Knuckles, smirking when Finitevus looked irritated.

"Iltinis Jarnhand, hedgewolf, and a pain in the butt. If the pictures I had of him I would show you what he looks like."

"I have one," said the Puppet Master as he enterred the room. He was tall, and unidentifiable, thanks to his hooded cloak that obscured any features. He wore gloves, so you couldn't see if he had fur or not. He held a picture in front of the cage. "This is Iltinis," then he turned to Finitevus. "It seems he has started a family, and two new editions have been made to it." He held up pictures of the vampire twins. "These two came from Shadow, we're not sure how. They seem to be vampires, my puppet among their friends was very informative, seeing as they were there when they explained who and what they were."

"You must tell me everything," said Finitevus urgently, heading towards another room. Even though you couldn't see his face, you could tell the Puppet Master was smiling.

"No I don't, but we are partners, so I will." He walked across the room in a few strides and was through the door before Finitevus, causing the white echidna to frown. The Puppet Master seemed to be more in control than he was, as Knuckles called to him from his cage.

Senzace was oblivious to any sounds except those coming from his headphones, which Iltinis found amusing. His vampiric brother was listening to "Right By Your Side" by Eurythmics, and was watching people, interest plainly showing on his face. Suddenly he frowned. "Iltinis, someone's nervous in that bank."

"What do you mean?" Iltinis pulled over, and, ignoring Iltinis's questions, went inside to see a man pulling a gun from inside his jacket. He barely processed this before he pounced, falling to the floor with the man and pulling the gun from his hand. The security guards, who'd looked shocked at the gun, now looked relieved.

Iltinis came in and pulled the man up, holding the guy so he could get handcuffs put on him. "Well Senzace, I didn't know that you could read sensations well enough to tell when a man was going to pull out a gun for a bank robbery."

"I could feel his nervousness, I'm not sure why. But when I felt him put his hand on a trigger, I just..... knew." Iltinis steered his brother out before the security personnel could start questioning him and they got in the car and headed away.

"How did you know he had his hand on a gun?"

"I saw it in my head." Iltinis nodded, and seemed to accept this, then a grin spread across his head.

"Well hero, how about we go get some pizza?"

"What's that?"

"Something you'll like, trust me."

I didn't originally plan the robbery prevention, but it just seemed to fit when it popped into my head. I DID do little asterisks to divide the sections, but if they don't show up.... then I have no idea why it's like that. I can only assume it's some sort of problem with my files or my account or something. Hope you liked this chapter, and anyone have any ideas for powers for the kids to have? I know Iris has to have something along the lines of moving things with her mind, formulating weapons of energy.... that sort of thing. R&R please!

Disclaimer: All characters are owned by SEGA except Iltinis, Iris, Noah, Aaron, Sentimento, Senzace, and possibly the Puppet Master. Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart are Eurythmics, so there's another mystery solved for me, and lessee.... oh yeah, CrazyNutSquirrel owns the story idea, while DgShadowChocolate must be given credit for the title of this sequel.

Thanks Dg! And thanks SEGA for making the Sonic characters, though I wish I owned them......... :3

Finitevus: I'm glad you don't.

Sure you are.