Boop! This one more chapter of the family set up and we can finally get the plot kicked up.

The two lovers went to bed and in the morning they called up Amy to watch over Allison as they ran their errand.

"What are you guy's planning? It's a little early in the week for date night, well morning in this case." She giggled.

Sonic lead the girl inside and cupped his hands around her ear. "Don't tell, Ally but.. we're going to see if Tails can make a machine like Eggman's to get another baby."

Amy gasped and looked to Shadow to confirm if she heard that right, which the other nodded at.

The pink female squealed in delight. "That's amazing! You're trying to have a-!" She was silenced by Shadow quickly placing his hand over her mouth.

"Shhh.. Allison can't know.. If she finds out and it turns out Tales can't do it, it would crush her."

Amy nodded and the dark hedgehog removed his hand.

"It's still amazing!" She whispered.

Daddy? Pops?" Ally called coming down the stairs. She stopped and gasped when she noticed the female in the living room. The toddler then zoomed across the room into Amy's arms nearly knocking her over in the process. "Aunt Amy!" She squealed.

"Whoa! N-nice to see you Ally! My, you're getting faster everyday just like your fathers!"

Allison giggled. "Pops says when I'm bigger I can race him!"

"He did?" Amy smiled. "That's great! Keep at it and one day I'm sure you'll be able to out run him!"

"Well," Sonic chuckled. "I don't know about tha-" Before he could finish Shadow lightly nudged him in the shoulder. "Yeah maybe one day!" The hero corrected.

"Pops and I have some errands to run, be good for Aunt Amy, ok?" Shadow said.

The toddler nodded and waved her hand good bye for now. "Ok, daddy! I love you!"

"I love you too, we'll be back soon." The dark hedgehog said. He closed the door behind him and Sonic as they left the house.

"You don't think she'll be faster than me do you?" Sonic asked.

The hero's ebony boyfriend placed his hand on his shoulder and leaned in to give the other a kiss on the cheek. "Dear, you're being paranoid take your breaths."

Sonic sighed and took several deep breaths. "Ok.. I think I'm good."

"Good." The other replied.

The two then sped off for Tails's workshop.

The fox inventor was making a few adjustments to one of his inventions when he heard the doorbell ring. He got up off his work stool, dusted himself off and went to answer it.

"Hey, buddy!" Sonic greeted at the door.

"Sonic!" Tails gave his big brother a hug. "What brings you both here? Not that I'm not happy to see you or anything." The inventor moved aside to let his friends inside the large shop full of tools and all kinds of machinery.

Sonic and Shadow took a seat at one of the few work benches and Tails pulled his stool over so he could sit across from them.

"Tails, remember how Allison was born?" Shadow asked.

"Yeah." He replied. "Eggman used some sort of machine to extract your DNA and chaos energy to create her, like you said."

"Well." Sonic started now holding his boyfriend's hand. "Shadow and I wanted to have another baby and we were hoping you could make a machine like the one Eggman made so that it could happen."

"Wow, I'm glad you came to me instead of trying to sneak back into his base." Tails chuckled.

"Hey!"

"Anyway, I'd be glad to help! I'm going to need some help though. Are you two up for it?"

The two lovers looked at each other and smiled. "Of course!" They said simultaneously.

The three spent the rest of the day working, Sonic helping Tails design the device and Shadow remembering the various parts of the machine. Miraculously, by the end of the day they managed to assemble a good chunk of parts and a design for the invention. That would be the end of their luck though. For the next several weeks the three built prototype after prototype and assembled part after parts. Sonic felt bad about asking Amy to babysit so much that he started tipping her for for her time. She's got her own life to live after all, even though she claims it's not a big deal. Shadow mentioned maybe having Rouge watch Allison but Sonic reminded him despite popular belief that he was not made of rings.

"Ok.." Tails said writing on his chalkboard. "Attempt number 53.."

The current model of the device was set up with three central glass domes, one on the left, right and center with the center one hooked up to the left and right via slinky like tubes. The plan is Sonic and Shadow walk into each cylindrical dome and with the flick of a switch their essences should be extracted and combine into the central glass where it'll hopefully fuse into a new single being.

Tails walked up to the control panel, he pushed multiple buttons and hesitated to pull the switch. The fox took a breath and pulled the switch into the on position. After a few seconds of starting up noises the machine began to work!

"Aha! Guys, now's your chance!" Tails called.

"Ready?" Shadow asked.

Sonic nodded and the two walked into their designated domes. The capsules shut behind them and the familiar weak feeling suddenly came over the two. A blue aura was coming off of Sonic and up into the tube. He leaned his hand against the glass as his knees began to buckle. Shadow wasn't doing much better. A black aura came off of him and he was on the ground trying to push himself up.

Through blurred vision they were able to see the black and blue masses beginning to swirl and mix together in the capsule between them. Something small began to form, it grew larger and absorbed the essence that was being sent it's way through the machine. The fetus began developing ears and a tail, it grew blue fur matching Sonic's. At this point it was easy to tell the baby was female. She had tan arms and her head quills began to grow in, Two blue upturned quills with black stripes on them along with long downward quill that curled at the bottom. Her forehead quills took up most of one of her eyes and it also had a black streak going through it, there was a slightly smaller quill on the opposite side of her face.

Tails shut down the machine when the newborn infant didn't make any further developments. Sonic and Shadow were both collapsed on the ground gasping for air.

The capsules opened up and the inventor immediately went to help his big brother walk. "Oh my, goodness! Are you ok, Sonic?!"

"Y-yeah.. don't worry.. how's, Shadow..?"

"Let's see.." Tails replied.

The two slowly walked over to Shadow, Sonic struggling not to trip over his own feet. The hero knelt down to his boyfriend who seemed to be breathing a lot more calmly.

"A-are you ok?" Sonic asked.

Shadow nodded and slowly managed to get up.

"Well we're doing better than when Eggman did it, we passed out for who knows how long.."

"Yeah.." His dark lover replied.

After taking a few minutes to recuperate the two got up and looked at the new infant hedgehog floating in the capsule. She blinked and her eyes were revealed to be a bright ruby red like her father's.

Shadow took Sonic's hand in his own the hero nodded to his little brother to open the capsule that contained their new daughter.

The fox wiped a tear from his eyes and pressed the release button.

Shadow gently took the infant into his arms. "She's beautiful.."

"Yeah.. she is." Sonic agreed.

"What are you going to name her?" Tails piped up.

"Do you mind if I do it this time?" The dark hedgehog asked.

"Go ahead." Sonic smiled.

"Pandora.. Pandora the hedgehog." Shadow settled.

"Can I choose the middle name?" The hero asked.

"Sure, I chose for Ally last time."

"Maria." Sonic said simply.

Shadow jumped for a second in surprise. "...Sonic?"

"Yeah..?" He said hesitantly.

"I love you. "

Ok..finally! Next chapter we should, should get the plot actually started. And I'm thinking of doing some non canon chapters like Halloween stuff and birthdays and first days of school. I'd obviously label them differently to avoid confusion. What do you guys think?