"Here we are, home sweet home!"
"At least until we beat Robotnik!"
Double D walked past Manic and Sonic and into the small building. It wasn't quite what he had in mind but it was better then nothing.
"Yo, you guys want a soda or something?" Manic asked as he walked into the kitchen.
"Sure, what do you got?" Eddy asked.
"HEY! Who raided the fridge?" The green hedgehog yelled to his siblings.
"What are talking about, Manic?" Sonia asked.
"Someone took all of the soda!" Manic said.
"Well don't look at me!" Sonia said.
"Yeah, me neither!" Sonic said. "I haven't had a soda all week!"
"Well someone got their sticky fingers on our soda and it wasn't me this time!" Manic said, placing his hands on his hips.
"That, was these guys!" A voice sprang up.
The triplets turned to the area that served as the living room.
"KNUCKLES!" The three happily cried at the sight of the echidna.
"You got it!" Knuckles said as he leaned against the wall.
"Knuckles, what are you doing here?" Sonia asked.
"Yeah, shouldn't you be on the Floating Island watching the Chaos Emerald?" Manic asked.
"I was until someone stole it!" Knuckles said.
"Stole it? How?" Sonic asked.
"Well, I found these two idiots on the island and then it was stolen." Knuckles said as he pointed to an armadillo and woodpecker who, were sitting on the couch in the living room.
"You think they were in on the theft?" Manic asked.
"No, they appeared nearly an hour before." Knuckles explained. "Besides, according to the story they told me, they ended up on the island on accident."
"Accident? How?" Manic asked.
"Well, you guys might find this hard to believe but they're from another world." Knuckles explained.
That caught the Eds attention. They peeked into the living room and saw the echidna and his friends for the first time.
"What are their names?" Double D questioned.
"Who are these guys?" Knuckles asked.
"They're some new friends we made." Manic said. "Their story is the same."
"Well, to answer your question, their names are Kevin and Johnny." Knuckles said.
The Eds looked at each other. At the same time, Kevin, Johnny, and Plank perked their ears.
"I answered your question now will you answer mine already?" Knuckles asked.
"Oh, yes. Pardon my manners." Double D quickly said. "My name is Edward but everyone just calls me Double D and these two are my friends, Ed and Eddy."
"Hey Kevin!" They heard Johnny cry. "Double D and the other two are here!"
The woodpecker ran in from the living room and almost knocked the triplets down along the way.
"Hey guys!" Johnny said when he was closer. "Did you guys change too?"
"A woodpecker makes sense for melon head here." Eddy said.
"How so, Eddy?" Double D asked.
"Remember? The 'poke poke poke' thing?"
"Oh, yes."
"The dorks are here too?"
The Eds snapped to attention upon hearing Kevin's voice.
"Please let him be a puppy or something." Eddy whispered.
"No such luck, Eddy." Double D said when he saw the armadillo.
"Are those freaks supposed to be the dorks?" Kevin asked.
"'Dorks'?" Sonia asked.
"Don't ask, please!" Eddy said.
"I think that might be a good idea." Manic said.
"So I take it you guys know each other?" Sonic asked.
"What do you think?" Eddy asked.
"I'm gonna pound you guys for sending us here!" Kevin said, stepping forward.
"Hold it, buddy." Sonia said, stepping in the way. "There will be no fighting in this hideout."
"What? Why are you standing up for these dweebs?" Kevin asked.
"These so called 'dweebs' helped us stop a group of SWATbots." Sonia explained. "It's probably more then you've done since you got here."
"It's their fault we ended up herein the first place!" Kevin replied.
"Do you really think that we intended on sending us to another planet?" Double D asked.
"As a matter of fact, yes." Kevin said. "And I'm not about to let anyone get in my way. Especially not some snort nosed pink little hedgehog freak."
At that moment, Sonic, Manic, and Knuckles knew that Kevin had said the wrong thing. Sonia's spines were puffed up to almost twice their normal size and her cheeks were dangerously red and normally it would be harder to see against her pink fur but this time it was very clear. Sonia let out a growl and Kevin responded with one of his own. Sonic, Manic, and Knuckles knew what was coming next.
"Better take cover, guys." Sonic whispered to the other boys in the room.
Taking the hedgehog's word for it, they crept back into the kitchen before the mud started flying. That's when Double D noticed that Johnny was carrying around a small blue creature.
"Johnny, where's Plank?" He asked.
"He right here, Double D." Johnny said, holding up the small creature. "Knuckles called it a chao! Looks like Plank became something too, huh Double D?"
"Um…indeed Johnny." Double D said trying not to sound TOO worried.
Two minutes later…Sonia walked into the kitchen in a simple stroll.
"Uh…Sonia?" Knuckles asked. "Where's Kevin?"
"I think the question is: WHAT did you do to him?" Sonic said.
"Oh, nothing fancy. He's just going to have a little break in the closet. And he's going to wear those ropes weather he likes it or not." Sonia said.
"You mean you…" Eddy's voice trailed off.
"Uh huh." Sonia simply stated and nodded her head only once.
The boys burst out laughing at that. Double D did his best to hold his in but to no avail.
"That guy has had that coming forever!" Eddy laughed.
"I have to admit, I didn't see it coming." Double D said as he wiped a tear from his eye.
"Nice one sis!" Manic said with a laugh. "We know him for less then ten minutes and he already knows that you don't take that kind of mouth!"
"I-I-I-I can't breath." Sonic said laughing.
"It hurts." Ed laughed.
"You get Princess Sonia mad and you get 'it'." Knuckles laughed.
"Oh you guys are making me blush." Sonia said.
"When are you going to let Kevin out?" Johnny asked.
"After we over throw Robotnik." Sonia joked. "But seriously, I'll let him out after an hour or so."
"We could use someone like you back home." Eddy said. "There aren't enough girls like you."
"Indeed. Only Nazz has ever shown any concern towards us." Double D explained. "The Kankers are madly in love with us but we'd rather them not be. As for Sara, she-"
"She hates us." Eddy said, cutting Double D off. "She beats us up whenever she can."
"Baby sister hurts Ed and friends many times." Ed said.
"You guys get beat up by this guy's baby sister?" Manic asked.
"Well she isn't a quite a baby but she is still younger then us but she can beat us up. I think she gets it from all that martial arts, and boxing that she did a few years ago." Double D said.
"So how tough is she?" Manic asked.
"She could probably single handedly tear a SWATbot apart and turn it into scrap metal." Eddy said.
Manic simply whistled.
"The Kanker Sisters are just as bad." Double D said. "They're the school bullies, constantly skip school, beat up on poor little Jimmy, once tied Kevin to a tire-"
"And once tore apart the whole town just to find their missing ship in a bottle that Ed got stuck on his finger because of his walking and sleep eating thing…AGAIN!"
"'Sleep eating'?" Manic asked.
"Yes, that's when he sleep walks and goes around and eats all the found from different people's houses." Double D explained. "Which he did do TWICE!"
"The whole town was in ruins because of them!" Eddy went on. "The sky turned red for Heaven's sake! They even set up sirens that went off when those three were spotted."
"Very well put, Eddy." Double D said.
"Well, if they're as bad as you say, then they probably found their way to Robotnik." Sonia explained.
"Lets' just hope they didn't." Manic said.
"Yeah, Ro'butt'nik's already got Sleet and Dingo." Sonic said.
"Who and who?" Double D asked.
"A couple of bounty hunters that Robotnik hired to catch us." Sonic explained.
"They're a big ugly dog looking kind of guy and a little sleeze ball." Manic said.
"Dingo has also got the brain of a flea." Sonic went on. "Once Dingo sent him in a room after us and when he told him to Dingo asked through the door and Sleet replied: no through the wall!"
"And he took it literally!" Manic said. "He charged right through the wall!"
"That's the two wolf faces for you, no muscles for Sleet and no brains for Dingo." Knuckles said.
"They sound like the Kankers, only they're all muscles. And publicly humiliating people." Eddy said.
"Oh? How so?" Manic asked.
"Manic!" Sonia snapped.
Manic just shrugged and gave her a worried look.
"Don't worry, we're used to it by now." Double D said.
"Yeah, but our bodies aren't." Eddy grumbled. "I still have lip bruises in some places!"
"I know a female hedgehog who's just like that." Manic said.
"And who would that be?" Sonia asked.
"Oh, you don't her." Manic quickly said. "Her name's Amy, Amy Rose. Whenever I saw her, she would just be talking about Sonic and that he would one day be hers. Anything that had Sonic on it that she had had lipstick and kiss marks all over it."
"YUCK!" Sonic cried. "I'd rather be hit by a train."
"Yeah, well the Kankers are BIG pains!" Eddy said. "They hang out n the school's basement so their mom doesn't know they skip school!"
"Yes, they are quite horrible at times." Double D said.
"Mushy gushy girls!" Ed cried.
"Don't worry, guys. Soon those girls will be running after me." Sonic simply said.
"In your dreams." Manic mumbled.
"What was that?" Sonic asked.
"Nothing." The young green hedgehog quickly said.
"Knowing them they probably became weasels or something." Eddy said.
"What I'd like to know is why we changed." Double D said.
"Well…" Manic said. "I did once hear that each world has different properties and stabilization. If something isn't stable enough for the world they're on they might die. Some times a person's body will change because it isn't stable enough. Either they're too dense or not dense enough. Either way, it's just an idea."
"Is that even possible?" Sonia asked.
"It sounds like something out of a horror movie Ed may have once seen." Double D said.
"I say we go to the Oracle, maybe he can give us some answers." Sonic said.
"Who's the Oracle?" Johnny asked.
"The Oracle of Delphious is a friend of ours'." Sonia explained.
"Yeah, he knows more then he lets on. I bet he'll be able to tell us a thing or two." Manic said.
"How long will it take us to get there?" Double D asked.
"About an hour, he lives in the coldest part of Mobius, so you might want to bundle up." Manic said.
"We'll have to take the van, we have quite the hull." Sonic said.
"I'll get some extra coats." Sonia said.
About an hour later…"Are we there yet?" Eddy asked for what seemed the hundredth time.
"And here I thought Sonic had trouble with waiting." Manic said.
"Hey, I resent that!" Sonic snapped.
"Chill bro." Manic said. "Besides, we're here."
"It's about time." Both Sonic and Eddy said.
"I don't know which is worse: having Ed around or those two." Sonia said as she climbed out of the van.
"I don't think either of them are as bad as Kevin." Knuckles said as he followed the pink hedgehog. They had brought the jock along but others would have been happier with leaving him in the closet.
"So, where is this guy anyway?" Kevin asked as he jumped into the ankle deep snow.
"He lives in a cave nearby." Sonic said as he jumped out.
Eddy, who was finally getting used to his wings, had decided to try and fly out but it was taking a lot of energy and he had very little control.
"Don't worry dude, you'll get the hang of it." Manic said as he left the van.
"SANTA!"
Those outside looked back to the van and saw Ed come running out.
"SANTA! MAKE ME AN HONORARY ELF!" He cried as he an around in circles.
"What's he taking about?" Knuckles asked.
"Please don't ask we don't need to relive what happened LAST Christmas." Eddy said.
"Christmas?" The mobians asked.
"You guys don't know what Christmas is?" Eddy asked, almost having a heart attack.
"No." They simply said.
Eddy fell over, clutching his chest.
"Oh dear." Double D said as he looked out of the van.
"Well, are you going to tell us or what?" Sonic asked.
"Each Christmas we bring winter inside!" Johnny cried as he ran around the hedgehogs and echidna. "A little thanks to Mother Nature for everything she's given us!"
"Never mind Johnny." Double D said as he finally left the van. "Each family does something different for Christmas. It's mostly spending time with those you care about and giving each other gifts. Sadly, Eddy hates it because each Christmas he gets clothes for Christmas."
"Well, that stinks." Manic said. "But lets' just find the Oracle and get out of here before we freeze."
Sonia grabbed Eddy and carried him on her back as she went. Double D then noticed that she was blushing slightly and that Knuckles looked pretty ticked because of it. Ed was still busy running around in circles until Double D grabbed him by one ear and pulled him along. Johnny just caught snowflakes on his tongue with Plank, while Kevin tried to keep the falling snow out of his eyes. After what seemed like many hours to most of them, they finally arrived at the Oracle's cave.
"Be careful guys." Sonic warned. "This guy is really crafty and can use all sorts of different magic. Heck, he even once sent us to another dimension!"
"Please don't remind me." Sonia said.
"Yeah, that Manic was creepy enough I don't need to remember it." Manic said as he rubbed his arms.
"What are you guys talking about?" Eddy asked. He had recovered from his shock after a few minutes and was able to walk on his own again.
"A few months ago, the Oracle sent us to another dimension where Robotnik was the good guy and we were the bad guys." Sonia explained. "They were mean, greedy, vain, and bossy."
"Yeah, they were real music haters." Sonic continued. "They sent taxes sky high! Their Sonia even threw a jeweler and his family in the dungeon just because he couldn't deliver her a necklace!"
"Can we please stop talking about it?" Sonia asked. "We're here to see if we could find the others, not talk about what happened months ago."
"Alright already!" Sonic said.
CRACK!
The group looked behind them. An avalanche had started!
"Everyone in the cave!" Sonic cried.
Everyone ran as fast as they could into the cave to avoid getting crushed by the snow. They were suddenly shot out of something it felt like and they were sent flying right into a wall. They crashed and ended up in a big pile.
"OUCH!" Sonic cried when something fell on his head.
"Whoa, major da ja voo." Manic said.
That's when Double D became aware of an aqua light in front of them. He looked up from the feathers that were being forced into his face and saw something that was about as shocking as everything else had been. An old, warty, reptilian anteater but in his eyes it looked more like an alligator or a crocidile. He was green and had a dark cloak covering most of his body.
"Well, well, well, now. This is a surprise." The Oracle said in a wise voice.
"Oracle, we need your help." Sonia said as she pulled herself out from under her brothers. "You see, our new friends, they-"
"They're from another world." The Oracle said, cutting the princess off.
"Who'd you know?" Manic asked. "Wait, don't answer that."
The Oracle chuckled heartily at the green one's confusion.
"Well, Orc?" Sonic asked. "You got an answer or what?"
"Yes, there was a rift between our two worlds." The Oracle said and waved his hand.
In an instant, they all suddenly found themselves floating in what seemed to be an entire universe. They could see galaxies, cosmos, stars, black holes, worm holes, and so much more.
"As you can see," The Oracle began. "There are many universes. Ours' is here." He placed his hand under a star system. "And yours' is here." He then placed his hand under another star system not too far away. "Now this next part is important so pay close attention." Everyone, even Sonic, Eddy, Ed, Johnny, and Kevin watched. "Now this next part may be hard to believe but our worlds are in the same positions in both universes. Both planets are similar but different at the same time. Just a few hours ago I felt a shift in the balance of our world. A rare event has taken place. Somehow, the lines between our worlds have been warped and a rift between both worlds has appeared. It would seem that you and your friends were somehow sucked into this world through the rift."
"It must have happened during the storm." Double D said. "I saw a number of flashing lights but I don't what they were. I know that they weren't lightning. It must have been when or bodies changed! I felt strange and I passed out because the flashing was taking away my energy."
"Any ideas on what it was?" Sonic asked.
There was just a bunch of shaking heads.
"Interesting." The Oracle said. "I have a feeling that this 'light' might have had something to do with all of this. I must look into look into this. In the mean time, you must find your friends and try to find out what you can. I have a feeling that a very powerful force was responsible for this."
That was when Double D noticed that the room had turned back to normal. It must have happened when he wasn't paying attention.
"Can you tell if it was good or bad?" Sonia asked.
"I'm afraid not." The Oracle said. "I wish I could be of some more help."
"Do what you can and call us I you find anything out that might help us." Sonia said. "We'll take care of the rest."
"We will?" Eddy asked.
"No worries, we'll find out what's going on and fix everything." Sonic declared.
"Good. The Oracle said.
"Say, Oracle, do you think you could find the Chaos Emerald that was on the Floating Island?" Knuckles asked.
"I'm afraid I cannot." The Oracle said sadly. "Only the guardian can locate the emerald that was on your island. I have no power there."'
"That's okay." Sonic said. "We'll come across it at some point or another."
"I hope that it's soon." Knuckles said.
"Don't worry, Knuckles, you'll get it back." Sonia said, placing her hand on his shoulder.
"Thanks Sonia." The red echidna said.
"Let's head back." Manic said. "Cyrus might be able to help us out."
"Cyrus?" Double D asked.
"He's another member of the Freedom Fighters. One of the brightest and most brilliant." Sonic explained.
"Yeah, he's built all sorts of stuff." Sonia agreed.
"He's way past cool." Manic finished.
"Okay then, lets' head back to the city and find him." Knuckles said. "Maybe we'll learn something new."
The others just nodded in agreement.
"Good luck to you all." The Oracle said. "I will contact you if anything comes up. I will also be on the look out for your friends."
"Thank you." Double D said.
The Oracle raised both hands and pointed them at the group. They glowed with an aqua light for a few seconds and then there were a few quick flashes and then they suddenly vanished. Before they did, just for a split second, Double D thought he saw a purple hedgehog somewhere in the room.
The next thing they knew, they were back at the van.
"How'd we get here?" Kevin asked.
"The Oracle used his magic to send us here." Sonia explained.
"Normally I would go against such talk but seeing as how things are in this world." Double D said.
"Don't worry about it." Sonic reassured. "Now lets' get out off here!"
The blue hedgehog quickly climbed into the van and the others quickly followed, not wanting to take the chance of being left behind.
"I'll be glad to get back, I hate the cold." Sonic said.
"As do the rest of us." Sonia said.
As the large van drove away from the cave, double D looked back and saw a cloaked figure standing tall as she watched them go her long purple hair blowing in the wind.
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The episodes they were talking about was 'Six is a Crowd' the one where they go another dimension and 'Jingle Jingle Jangle' where Eddy puts himself up for adoption Christmas Eve but you probably knew that already. Either way, R&R people and no flames.