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"This is terrible! This is a disaster! This is the worse thing that has EVER happened!"
For the last hour now, Topaz had been doing this.
"What's so wrong about all of it?" Kevin asked bitterly.
"What's wrong? Our world is in great danger now because the Sonic Underground has been turned into toddlers!" Topaz yelled.
"Ah c'mon, they're just little angels." Nazz said, feeding Sonia.
"They sure don't smell like angels." Kevin commented.
"Nobody asked you." Nazz said.
"When are you gonna change their diapers anyway?" Kevin asked Sarah.
"Oh no, we girls do the feeding, you boys get to do the diaper changing." Sarah said.
"What? We don't know how!" Kevin yelled.
There was a quick blue and Shelby had Sonic in her hands, and they noticed a clothespin on her nose.
"Watch closely guys, next time you're doing it." She said.
She placed Sonic on the floor and began changing his diaper with the guys watching, but there was a slight problem: she was moving too fast for them to see. She then made a quick dash outside and returned with out the dirty diaper.
"What you do with it?" Johnny asked.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"What was that?" Double D asked.
"Just Sleet and Dingo finding out that a put a diaper in their alley." She said, leaning on a wall.
"Alley?" Eddy asked.
"Yep, now that the Kankers are doing Robotnik's dirty work, he's having them as a cleaning crew." She smirked. "And after that alley is done, I'm pretty sure R'butt'nik is gonna have them do an inside job."
The others noticed that she and Topaz were holding in snickers.
"What's so funny?' Sarah asked.
"By inside job she means…HA, HA, HA!" Topaz couldn't even get it out.
"And I quote from the last time they got replaced:" Shelby said. "The bathrooms in my headquarters…haven't been cleaned in months HA, HA, HA, HA!"
The Peach Creek kids couldn't help themselves. They burst out laughing, so hard that some of them were rolling on the floor.
"I wish I could have seen Sleet's face!" Topaz howled, hitting the floor.
"I can't breath!" Knuckles yelled.
After a few minutes of laughing, Eddy noticed baby Sonia had crawled up to him.
"Papa." She squeaked and kissed him on the nose.
"AAAAAAWWWWWWWWW! HOW CUUUUUUUTE!" Most of the girls chorused.
"I'm liking this!" Eddy said. "Can we leave 'em like this?"
"NO!" Knuckles yelled.
That was when lips started quivering from the four baby hedgehogs.
"Oh no." Kevin whispered.
All four erupted into cries. It was so bad that almost everyone covered their ears and screwed their faces in pain.
"Okay, I take it back!" Eddy cried.
"What do we do?" Double D panicked.
"Can any of you play anything musical?" Shelby asked.
"What?" Double D asked.
"Can you play?" She asked again.
"Double D can play steal guitar!" Eddy pointed.
"Well can any of you play the drums?" Topaz asked. "Or are any of you good at sight reading?"
"Yeah, most of us." Nazz said.
"Good enough!" She said, pushing them forward.
"What are you doing?" Double D asked.
"You're gonna have to play a song with us, we only have two of three of the instruments we need for the song we need to make them stop crying!" Topaz answered.
"But we can't play rock!" Johnny said in slight panic.
"Don't worry, you'll catch on real quick." Shelby said.
"Are you sure?" Double D asked.
"Yeah, we caught on the very first time we played it." Topaz smiled.
"Topaz, your drums." Shelby said.
"Gotcha!"
Topaz reached into her tails and pulled out her hypercube. She pressed a button on the side and a complete drum set came out.
"You play drums?" Double D asked.
"You can say that." Topaz said. "I can play but I can't play them AND the keyboard at the same time."
"Topaz." Shelby scolded.
"Alright I can but it's hard!" Topaz admitted.
"How can you do that?" Double D asked.
"With my hands at the keyboard and my tails at the drums." She said cutely. "I can also play the violin." And she pulled the instrument out of the hypercube.
"Oh, I can do that!" Ed said, taking the violin.
"NO!" The Peach Creek kids cried.
Too late, Ed had begun. Ed was doing terribly. Everyone, even the babies, covered their ears and screwed their faces.
"ENOUGH!" Topaz roared, taking her violin back. "THAT is NOT how you play a violin! This is!"
Topaz began playing and what Ed had done seemed to reverse at once, however it did nothing to stop the baby hedgehogs.
"Ah, nothin'." Topaz wined.
"We've gotta play one of the Sonic Underground's songs, that'll make 'em stop." Shelby said.
"What song are you suggesting?" Double D asked.
"Children Light the way."
"That's an easy one." Topaz said. "You guys should be able to do it fine."
"How will we do that?" Eddy asked.
"You'll see." Topaz said cutely.
Shelby took more guitars, keyboards, and drums out of her hypercube and handed them to the Eds. Double D, Sarah, and Nazz, were given the guitar, Eddy and Jimmy the keyboard, Ed, Johnny, Kevin, and Rolf got the drums. The girls claimed they'd catch on extremely fast.
"One…two…one, two, three, four!" Shelby cried and they began.
Shelby: "Nothing's quite as beautiful as the laughter of a child,
or the wonder inside every little smile."
All: "They love, and hope, and tenderness or laugher soon will lead,
Children want a world to grow where they feel free.
Teach the children light the way.
Double D: "Help them make a better day."
All: "Show them how to help each other when they fall.
Learning how to get along."
Sarah and Nazz: "To show love yet be strong."
All: "Helps the children light the way for us all.
Teach the children light the way."
Eddy: "They deserve a better day."
All: "Show them how to help each other when they fall.
Learning how to get along."
Sarah, Nazz, and Topaz: "To show love-"
Double D and Shelby: "Yet by strong!"
All: "Helps the children light the way for us all."
Double D: "Let the children light the way for us all."
When they were done, they were stunned. Had THEY done all that? There was only a single sound echoing in the hideout. They looked to see Shelby with a happy smile on her face. She was clapping.
"Very, very good." She said happily. "You guys are NATURALS! Where did you learn to play like that?"
"We…never had a lesson." Double D admitted.
"Really? I'd never have guessed!" Topaz agreed.
"Yeah, I'm ESPECIALLY amazed with one of you." Shelby said.
"No need to point me out." Kevin bragged.
"I wasn't, you're not the one I'm talking about." Shelby said.
Kevin fell out of his seat at once.
"Don't tell me it's dorky!" Kevin cried, pointing to Eddy.
"It's not." Shelby said. "It's him." And she pointed to Double D. "His voice was that of Sonic's."
Everyone just stared at her for a moment. They blinked once. Twice. They couldn't contain themselves any longer. They all fell over laughing.
"Stop laughing!" She snapped. "It's true! His voice sounds just like his majesty's!"
Everyone was starting to calm down by now.
"That was a good one." Eddy said wiping a tear from his eye.
"I'm serious!" She snapped. "Double D, sing that last line again!"
"I…I don't know, I mean it doesn't seem possible." Double D stuttered.
"Just do it, just like you did before."
With a hint of doubt, Double D repeated the line
Double D: "Let the children light the way for us all."
Everyone stopped at once. She was right, Double D COULD sing!
"I think I'm gonna faint." Nazz said, starting to sway.
"Me too." Jimmy said, swaying as well.
"Oh get over yourselves." Shelby groaned.
"Yeah, besides, it put them to sleep." Topaz said.
"Put who to sleep?" Ed asked.
"Sonic, Sonia, Manic, and Shadow!" She snapped.
"How do get them back to normal anyways?" Eddy asked.
"I've got sources all over, one of them is bound to know something." Shelby said.
"How do we find them?' Nazz asked.
"That's the problem, they're all over Robotropolis! It would forever to find them all! At least with only ONE super sonic hedgehog! And even with Chaos Control." Shelby pointed out.
"What if we split up and find 'em?" Tune asked.
Shelby thought for a moment.
"From now, it would probably take 'til…a little far sundown." Shelby calculated.
"You still have those maps of where we can find them, don't you?" Topaz asked.
"Yeah." Shelby said. "Topaz…what are you suggesting?"
"We could use those maps to find them! We could take different ones!" Topaz said.
"Yes, but if we ALL go, there leaves a 'small' problem." Shelby said in a voice that meant there was going to be trouble. "Who's gonna take care of the babies?!"
"Oh, right." Topaz said worried.
"Well I elect the dorks to take care of them, there's enough of them." Kevin growled.
"So you're staying with them, Kevin?" Shelby asked in a knowing voice.
Kevin thought for a moment, and got what she was saying.
"I'M NOT A DORK!" He yelled.
"That's not what I see." She grinned.
"I…AM NOT…STAYING…WITH…THEM!" Kevin roared.
"So, who wants to stay behind and help the Eds out with the kids?" Shelby asked.
No one stepped forward.
"We should leave at least one female with the Ed boys incase a feminine charm is required." Rolf said.
That made sense. One of the girls was going to have stay.
"Don't look at me." Nazz said. "I've never babysat a baby before, let alone four."
"I'm not very sure on what to do at all." Nova whimpered.
"Sarah and I are too young to even try some of this stuff so we're both out." Topaz pointed out.
"So that just leaves me." Shelby said.
"Looks like it." Double D said.
Shelby sighed and said, "Alright, but I'm keeping you three under strict orders to take care of these guys."
After a few minutes of gathering supplies and handing out maps, the others were ready.
"You sure none of you want to stay and help out?" Eddy said in a slight begging voice.
"Don't worry Eddy." Nazz said.
"Yeah, besides, they'll probably sleep 'til we get back." Topaz said and the others took their leave. But as soon as the door closed,
"WWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"Great." Eddy groaned.
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Looks like they've got their first taste of being parents. Time to learn how to taker care of kids. How will they survive? And Double D has Sonic's singing voice? What's that all about? Keep reading to find out. R&R.