Chapter 22: Long time no see... sister? Part 2

Sonic opened the door and let Sonia walk in. Before entering, though, she grabbed her baggages, which she threw near the entrance before breaking in and tackling Sarah.

Sonia entered first and Sonic went behind her. She had already been here, and the house hadn't changed much, so she went to the guest room and started unpacking.

"So, for how long are you going to stay here?" Sonic asked her, standing on the door of the room.

"Our parents let me stay here until school starts, ugh, I hate to remember that vacations are almost over." She said unpacking more of her stuff.

"Yeah, well, I've never gone to high school, but I wished I had. I mean, there's a lot you know that I don't, and I didn't hang out with friends like you do, unless destroying Eggman's robots counts." Sonic chuckled.

"See? That's what I would like to do! Smash robots, run around the world at supersonic speed, meet famous people..."

"I don't meet famous people." Sonic replied.

"Oh, really? The president, the gun commander, the ultimate life form, heck, you even dated the popular singer Mina Mongoose! And you say you don't meet famous people?" She said as she finished unpacking the first baggage.

"Okay, Okay! My life is awesome, but what about your friends?"

"Nothing as special as you, but they are nice." She said as she started unpacking her second, and last baggage

"I heard a little bird saying that you have a boyfriend." Sonic said in a playful tone, making Sonia blush.

"Lies, I don't have a boyfriend!" She lied.

"Oh really? Someone told me you had a boyfriend whose name is Danny." Sonic said still using a joking tone. Sonia blushed so much, that her fur was a purple color.

"Ok, right! I have a boyfriend, are you happy?" Sonia said annoyed.

"Yup, and even though I may not be living in the same house as you, I will be watching that boyfriend of yours like a hawk." He said leaving the room.

"Yeah, right, I'm not letting you!" Sonia shouted.

"Who said I needed your permission?" Sonic shouted back.

"Hey Sonic, you haven't told me about YOUR girlfriend."

"Er... Ehm... We will discuss that later!" He said nervously, running at top speed out of his house.

But as he rushed through the door, he crashed with someone, making them roll onto the ground. Sonic ended up on top of Vanilla, Cream's mother.

"Oh sorry! I didn't meant to..."

"Don't worry, I'm fine." Vanilla said standing up. "I just came to pick up Taylor."

A gigantic grin spread through Sonic's face, remembering what happened yesterday after the incident with the taser, more specifically, at the end of Sarah and Shadow's very short term relationship.

"Hey, Taylor!" He shouted in a playful voice. "Vanilla's here to pick you up!"

After a minute or so, she replied.

"Ok, but I couldn't find any of my jeans, could you help me find them?"

"Just a second!" Sonic went to the fridge to pick up some juice, but he saw a note in the fridge. He picked it up and read it.

"Taylor, I have bad news for you!" He said.

"What do you mean?" She went downstairs with her baggages. Taylor was dressed in a long yellow dress and white shoes.

Sonic gave her the note:

I hope this teaches you to not EVER make me fall for that idiot again!

- Syra

P.D. Yeah I hid your jeans. ^-^

Taylor seemed annoyed, Sonic couldn't help but feel bad for Tails, Sonia came downstairs to see what happened and Vanilla knocked on the door.

"Is there any problem?" Vanilla asked from outside.

"No, there isn't!" He said grabbing Taylor's hand and pulling her outside.

"Aww, isn't she cute!" Sonia said. "Who is she?"

"Tails' cousin, her name is Emily but due to her five tails over here." He said showing her Taylor's five tails. "And the fact that his cousin is named Tails, she called herself Taylor."

"Nice storytelling Sonic." Taylor thought.

"Wow, five tails!? That makes you very special. I believe you can fly faster than Tails"

"Yeah, I..."

"Let's cut out the chat." Sonic said. "Remember there is someone waiting for you."

"Where is she going?"

"She is going to spend some days at Cream's house."

"The cute little rabbit? Oh my god! I wish I could be there!"

"They aren't plushies Sonia..."

"But..."

"End of conversation!" Sonic said pulling Taylor by the hand.

He opened the door and Taylor walked towards Vanilla.

"Thank you, I really believe Cream will appreciate it."

"Yeah, and I know she and Taylor are going to have so much fun." He smirked. Taylor faked the best smile she could.

"Well, goodbye." Vanilla said grasping Taylor's hand and walking to her home with her. She also helped her with her baggages.

Sonic sighed. "That kid is going to have a hell of a weekend." He said closing the door behind him.

"Yeah, she's gonna have lots of fun with Cream, I wish I could be there!" Sonia said.

Sonic just ignored her and sat on the couch.

"Sonic, I really want to meet that girlfriend of yours..."

"Later, she's having a jog by the forest and she wants to have time for herself." Sonic said turning on the tv.

"Ok, tell me when she arrives so I can take a photo of you with her and send it to our parents." She said going to the guest room.

Sonic panicked. How was he going to let her sister take a photo of both him and Sarah if they were the same person. Then it hit him.

*Phone ringing*

"Hello?" Asked a female voice on the other side

"Tails, I need your help!" Sonic asked him over the phone.

"*Sigh* What do you need?" She asked annoyed.

"Do you have a cloning machine/potion or something? Sonia wants to take a photo of me and myself together, which is actually not possible."

"Hmm... I believe I did that once didn't I?" She wondered.

- Some months before

Sonic was sitting down on the couch grasping his morning coffee. He turned on the tv to see the news. Tails sat next to him.

"Sup' Sonic?" He said

"Sup' Tails?" Sonic said taking a sip of his coffee.

"And in other news, the citizens have reported a massive crowd of yellow two-tailed foxes in the city..."

Sonic focused on the image in the tv.

"Sup' Sonic" Said Tails next to him.

"I already said... Wait, weren't you at my left?"

"I am at your left!" Said the first Tails.

Sonic looked at one and the other, grasped them both. Until another Tails broke in the house on a rocket and crashed with the tv.

"Oops, sorry!" He say before falling unconscious.

"TAILS! I NEED AN EXPLANATION!"

- At the moment...

"Now that you ask me, I don't remember how we settled that issue." Tails asked herself

"Not important right now, where did you kept the machine?"

Tails told him the exact position of the machine, which was hidden in a corner of the garage with a blue mantle. Sonic hang up to find out it was actually true.

"Well, places hidden at simple view really are well hidden." He said, not even understanding the half of it.

He lifted up the blue mantle and found a pod like the one Tails used to scan Sarah's biometrics.

He opened the crystal door of the pod and entered inside.

"Now, how do I turn on this thing?" There was a red button inside the capsule that said "copy".

"Ok, that question was silly." He said pressing the button. But then, he forgot something important. He sped out of the capsule to get a bucket of cold water, he splashed it over himself and entered back inside the capsule before it could do anything else.

The capsule started filling with smoke, until nothing was visible. As the seconds went by, she started to feel a nice sensation over her.

"Hey, it feels good here." She said. After some minutes, the smoke disappeared. She stepped out of the pod.

"Okay, what now?" Outside the capsule, there was a green button that said 'create copy'.

"Thanks author!" No problem, just don't break the fourth wall again. -.-

"Ok." She pressed the button and the pod started filling with smoke again.

"Sonic! It seems we ran out of hot water!" Sonia yelled from the bathroom.

Okay, now that was very bad luck! It seemed she would be stuck like this for a while.

"Great, just great..." She went to her room (remember Sonic and Tails have a room and Sarah and Taylor have another) to pick up clothes for her, but before, she covered the machine with the blue mantle. She dressed herself up with her usual blue tank top and light blue skirt. Just after getting out of her room though...

"Hey, Sarah! Nice to see you again!" Sonia said after leaving the bathroom.

"Oh hi! I forgot you were here." She replied. "By the way didn't you took a shower?"

"Yes?" Sonia replied confused.

"Then how come you are using the same clothes you were wearing when you came here?" Sarah pointed at Sonia's clothes, which were exactly equal to the ones she had when she came there.

"Nah, they aren't the same ones. They are alike but not the same, like all of Sonic's running shoes. All the same, all different."

Sarah took a moment to try an decipher that phrase. A moment later she shook her head.

"Let's just forget about it." She said. Before Sonia could reply, a noise came from the garage.

"What was that?" Sonia asked.

"I don't know." Sarah replied nervously. "Maybe I should check it out while you go for Sonic so you can take the photo with me and him that he told me that you wanted to take. "

"Great idea! But where is him?"

"He told me he went for a quick jog."

"Ugh..." Sonia growled annoyed, then took off at supersonic speed.

Afterwards, Sarah ran to the garage and lifted the blue mantle, just to find herself naked knocking on the door.

"Hey, faker! Let me outta here!" She said.

Well, Sonic was in a middle of a really big dilemma. She was still a girl and there was no hot water, not mentioning that if Sonia came back and found the 2 of them she will have to explain. What the hell was she going to do?

On a side note, that clone really had Sonic's attitude.

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Offpanel: The Chase Part 2

Shadow and Sarah were walking down the streets. Sarah was hugging Shadow's arm while smiling peacefully. Shadow found her obsessive love strange, but he just smiled.

For the luck of Sarah, Shadow, and the police, Shadow still had his fur painted in blue, so people didn't recognized him, crazy fangirls included.

"It is so good to spend time with you Shadow." Sarah said quietly.

"Well, we have only walked in the city, I don't know what's so interesting about that." Shadow said confused.

"Walking with you by my side." She giggled playfully.

"If we only had some privacy..." Sarah whispered so lowly that Shadow didn't heard him.

She gazed at a nearby bench. There was a familiar human looking at the newspaper, and next to him was a wolf playing with a gun in his hand. She looked up to see that a two-tailed fox was flying over her, and a lynx was jumping from building to building.

Sarah faked a smile. "When are this guys going to stop stalking me!?" She said in her mind.

"Tell me Sarah." Shadow spoke. "Why do you challenge me to a race, beat me, then make me die my fur in blue, and now all of a sudden you say you love me and want to spend time with me?" He asked more confused than ever.

"Well, you challenged me." She said in response. "I couldn't just let you walk away saying that I am a slowpoke."

"Ok, got me there." Shadow replied. "But how come you are so fast? I don't think that even Sonic can reach that speed."

Sarah gazed at one of his pursuers and suddenly got an idea. She pulled Shadow into an alley.

"Wow, she is just making the work easier for us! But why?" Tails asked himself. They all went to the alley... just to find that Shadow and Sonic were gone!

"What the..." Ralik paused for a moment. "How did they escaped?"

"Wait, doesn't Shadow has a Chaos Emerald?" Amy asked.

"That explains it..." Tails sighed. "But where do you think the Chaos Control left them?"

"We gotta find them fast! Only god knows what could those 2 do alone." Ralik said.

Everybody shaked their heads and shrugged of from their minds the thought of what could Sonic and Shadow do together with Shadow not knowing that Sonic is a girl. Afterwards, they all split up and tried to search for the couple on the run.