Hey everyone! I'm back and I have an update for you all! It's been a long time and I hate to leave you off on some parts for a while, but it's hard here in the real world... Also, hope you all will have a good Memorial day tomorrow and honor the ones who died for us, or the ones who we lost and loved.

Mo-Ty: I know! I'm having fun with making Shadow cute!

xXDarkAngleKittenXx: Adorbs!

kenny hilferty: I loved that part, too! I can't stop laughing at how I wrote that! XD

Amilina Rosery: It is cute how he said it...in a wrong way, but it's almost like her name. XD

puppydog4: Thank you!

Savvy0417: I loved your chappies! And I'm sooooo with you on that! I pick him up and run away like hell saying 'HE'S MINE!'.

xXKira The DragonXx: Don't faint on me! It's just getting good!

aqua9597: Thanks, sissy! XD

Chapter 7 Baby Talk.

After the long talk in the living room, the boys were in the basement where Tails kept his workshop in and the girls were outside in the front yard playing with the baby life form. There were some more fights with Knuckles and Rouge with having to deal with the M.E. being used and her stealing the chaos emerald, but Tails assured him that nothing will harm the large gem with the high tech around to keep it from danger. Alicia had to help with the brute force to get him to understand. She didn't hurt him, but with a fireball inches above his head, he was dead serious about going along with it.

Outside, the girls were sitting on a large hand-made quilt that Amy had made over the past few years playing with baby Shadow. Amy sat criss-crossed with a small ball in her hand, "Ok, Shadie! Get the ball!" she said tossing the ball to the baby that was in the middle of the four.

Baby Shadow raised his tiny hands at it, but the poor thing missed the ball only to have it roll pass him to Cream who was behind him sitting like Amy. She caught it and held it up to him, "Here you go." she smiled.

Tiny hands reached forward to grab the ball. Baby Shadow took it and held it in both looking at it in amusement. Amy clapped her hands getting his attention, "Come on! Pass it!" He hear her looking at his older 'girlfriend/mother', then threw it at her just a few inches from her grip.

Rouge couldn't stop laughing at how her old partner was this cute and actually playing like this, "Oh this is too much!" she laughed, "I wish I had a camera for this so I can show him when he gets older!".

Cream glared at her from the side, "Ms Rouge, don't be so rude!" she scowled.

The bat only waved her hand at her, "Oh don't worry your little puffy tail! I'm not rude at all to this cue little ball of fur.".

Alicia sat right next to Cream and Amy laying on her side holding her head up in her palm and elbow bent resting on the quilt, "It is kind of strange." she spoke up watching the little baby in front of her giggling happily, "Shadow is the kind of person who wouldn't be caught dead doing this sort of thing.".

Amy sighed losing her smile a bit holding the ball in her hand, "I know...and I've always wanted to ask him if I can have a family with him, but I just don't really know if he wants kids." Cream gasped.

"What?! But, mr Shadow would be a great father!" she said getting everyone, but baby Shadow's attentions, "Remember how he helped you when you were a baby, ms Amy?".

The bat snickered to herself, "That rhymed.".

Amy stared at her with a sort of bored look on her face, "Yeah...I highly remember, but I also remember being tossed back and forth between Sonic and Shadow, because they were battle over me..." she accused.

The angel wolf snapped her fingers, "Now I remember! Sonic said that he challenged him to a 'yo mama' duel, and a paint ball match." she said.

Cream nodded, "Not to mention a 'chili dog eating contest'." she noted.

Nodding, Rouge spoke up, "And yet, Shadow had one Amy over.".

The said hedgehog looked down at the baby with a slight blush on her cheeks. Baby Shadow stared up at her with his large red eyes she loved so much. He began to crawl up to her and sat up on his knees holding himself up with his tiny hands on her knees, "Emi...?" he spoke.

Amy smiled down at him and leaned down to kiss his forehead, "It's ok, Shadie. Your still a wonderful baby boyfriend." she joked.

The baby giggled and sat back on his bottom holding up his hands for the ball. Alicia smiled at the sight, kinda seeing a bit of a mother and son sort of thing, "Amy, you make me jealous sometimes..." she said.

She looked over at her angel friend confused, "What do you mean?" she asked. Alicia sighed sitting up on her knees.

"Well...Shadow isn't your baby, but he looks like he's your son. I just feel jealous cause I want a baby, too...".

Rouge smirked at her, "That's pretty bold of you saying that." she joked crossing her amrs, "Lemme guess, you want a small little chameleon running around your feet?".

The wolf's face beamed with red, angered and embarrassment, "Sh-Shut up!" she growled at her, "So what if I wanted a baby like that?! I think a sweet, cute, and adorable chameleon baby is what I want!".

Amy giggled, "At least your honest, Lia." she said calling her by her old nickname, "And I guess that Shadie is almost like my son. I wish I could have a son, or daughter with him someday...". The rabbits eyes sparkled.

"Me, too! I've always helped my mom with the babysitting when we had neighbors around with kids! I'm old enough so I can find a special someone to have a family!".

"Maybe a certain fox we know is that 'special someone'." Alicia smiled at her making Cream's face blush deeply.

All eyes turned to Rouge who was quiet for a while, "What about you, ms Rouge?" Cream asked.

The said bat shrugged, "I guess it's ok to have a child." she answered, "Besides, I think a child will be good to help me steal more jewels than ever..." a sly smirk crept across her face.

Amy rolled her eyes, "Now I'm worried for her future child..." she groaned.

"But do you think mr Knuckles is suited" Cream asked.

The look on the bat's face grew making the girls' spine tingle, "Oh yes...he'll help very nicely. Since I know he is very good in bed..." she smirked.

"ROUGE!" Amy snarled grabbing baby Shadow and picking him up holding him close.

She only laughed out loud having the others groan in annoyance, "I'm kidding! I'm kidding! But I think Knuckie is a good person to start a family. He just needs to get his 'friend' to answer to my needs...".

"ROUGE!"

Knuckles, inside shook uncomfortably. Sonic, beside him, noticed placing a hand on his shoulder, "Knux? You ok?" he asked.

He breathed in a few times before answering, "Yeah...I'm fine...but I felt a chill for some reason..." he groaned.

Tails, standing at the end of the room holding up a wrench in his hand, "Ok, so what I need is the M.E. to be put right on the side so I can hook it up to a few cords here and there, then a few chaos emeralds around like what happened last time..." he mumbled to himself.

"Uh, Tails...mind telling the brainless one here and the cool one next to him?" Sonic spoke up pointing at his friend next to him.

Knuckles nodded, "...HEY!" he growled at him finally understanding his joke.

The fox turned to them now holding a screw driver in his other hand, and holding up a large tool box with one of his tails, "Sorry, guys...I get like that a lot when I'm stressed." he answered, "But what I'm saying is that I need the M.E. to be right beside the machine I used to change Amy back to normal before.".

The three turned to the large machine that was now upgraded since before. It was taller and more sturdier with tons of buttons and cords sticking out of it. It had a door that was locked and a small window built onto it. Sonic whistled in amazement, "Daaaayum! Tails, you've been working on that?!" he asked walking up to it.

Tails smiled with a slight blush, "Yeah...I was woking on it to see what else I can do with it. Like maybe a power enhancer, or something like that. But after hearing about Shadow and turning into a baby, then I had to work on it since it got a bit older.".

Knuckles stood next to the machine and knocked on it carefully, "Looks sturdy. So where is the Master Emerald supposed to be set?" he asked.

Walking up to the side of the machine, Tails grabbed a chalk from the tool box and marked down an 'X' on the ground, "Right here." he answered, "And when we get it inside, I'll hook up the cords to it so the power inside the gem will power the machine a lot faster.".

Sonic nodded, "That's a good idea. So where will the emeralds being placed?".

"Actually, I wanted them around the machine like last time. Hopfully things will be able to work out. Shadow's different than Amy's transformation, so...".

"So...?" Knuckles copyed.

"So...it might work, but there's a 50/50 chance it might not work..." Tails said with a little worried tone.

Sonic shook his head, "Hey! Don't be like that! Your the smartest kid in this whole world! I'm sure you can get ole 'Shadie' back." he smiled patting his little brother on the head.

Tails chuckled pushing his hand away and fixing his spiked hair, "Thanks, Sonic...I'll do my best!" he proudly said holding his hand up fist pumping the air.

The blue blur chuckled crossing his arms, "That's the spirit, little brother." he smiled.

Knuckles, behind them, cleared his throat getting their attention, "It might work and all...but I have one question." he said.

The fox nodded, "Sure, what is it?" Knuckles crossed his arms.

"How will we get the Master Emerald in the work shop...?".