SONIC HEROES: THE SERIES
Disclaimer: Tomo belongs to Kiba Sniper.
Chapter Thirty: Dealing with Kids
The scene opens up to a new morning day at the base of the Sonic Heroes. Tails trying to focus on the breakfast in front of him, but found it difficult with Cream, who was gazing from across the table. Every time he looked up, he could swear she had moved an inch closer. Lucky for him, Knuckles and Rouge walked into the room, hand-in-hand.
"This night is something you won't ever forget. I promise." Knuckles told Rouge.
"Hey, where are you going?" Tails asked; eager to get away from Cream.
"Knucklehead is taking me some hidden palace on Angel Island" Rogue informed them.
"Why?" Cream asked; joining Tails side.
"It is Echidna tradition that engaged couples are to perform a marital ritual in the hidden palace under a full moon." Knuckles explained. "The ritual requires the approval of the chief. But since there is none, we've decided to ask Tikal."
"Can we come and watch?" Cream asked.
"Sorry, kids, but you're too young." Rouge said. "Maybe next time."
"But Knuckles is the last Echidna." Tails complained.
"Well...Sorry." Rouge said apologetically.
Knuckles took Rouge by her arm and led her away from the children. Tails knew they were heading to the storage room to speak with Tikal. Cream was advancing to Tails, but fortunately he was saved when Sonic, Shadow, and Amy walked in. All of the seemed excited over something, which Cream noticed.
"Hey, whatcha doing?" Cream asked.
"Sonic and Shadow want to see who can break the sound barrier first." Amy explained. "They're to run all around the world until no one can see them anymore. They asked me to be judge."
"That sounds cool!" Tails exclaimed. "Can we watch?"
"Sorry, bro, but you're a little small." Sonic said sheepishly.
"That's not fair!" Tails whined.
"Life isn't fair." Shadow said unemotionally.
Tails whined and stomped his feet, the hedgehogs paid no attention. Amy dragged the male hedgehogs outside before Tails began to throw a tantrum. Just then, Blue walked in.
Hey, guys. I was just..."
"Going to do something fun." Tails finished for him.
"But we can't join you because we're too small of too young." Cream continued with a grim expression.
"Can you read my mind?" Blue questioned. He gave an expression of panic and clutched his head. "Get out of my head! AAH!" Blue scream and literally ran through the wall.
"I'm not cleaning that up!" Shadow shouted from a distant.
"It just not fair." Cream whined. "Every time went want to have fun, they say we're too little."
"For once, I wish I could tell them that." Tails said.
Meanwhile, at the dreary dimension of the Dark Rulers. Nazo and his followers gathered around the stone table that held Nazo's chess board. The board had been transformed into a map of the world, the figures were scattered everywhere, and the three spaces were sticking apart from the map. One space was the Dark Rulers Realm; where their pieces were along with Shira and Tomo's, another was Silver's original time, and another was a series of islands. But the one thing that caught Nazo's attention was Omega's piece standing near a miniature version of Babylon Garden.
"What about using the chaos emeralds to create a monster to destroy the city?" Tomo suggested.
"My brother already did that." Nazo informed.
The Dark Rulers were trying to come up with a plan to fight the heroes. But so far, nothing.
"What if travel through time to turn them against each other?" Shira suggested.
"I already did that." Mephiles said. "Silver isn't affected by the time paradox."
"Let's face it, we've hit rock bottom." Erazor said disappointingly. The Dark Rulers hung their heads.
"Maybe it would be a good idea to check up on the heroes." Black Doom suggested.
"It's better then nothing." Nazo said bored.
Nazo waved his hand across the wall opposite him to open a viewing portal into the hero's base. The portal replayed all of the events that had happened that morning till it reached a point that caught Nazo's attention.
"It just not fair." Cream whined. "Every time went want to have fun, they say we're too little."
"For once, I wish I could tell them that." Tails said.
"So, they want to know what it's like to grown up, huh?" Nazo said with a sinisterly smile. "Erazor, I feel that we should help them. Don't you agree?"
"Yes." Erazor replied; equally sinister. "And I believe I have just the thing." Erazor pulled a bottle of blue gas from behind his back.
"Erazor, did I even mention how much I love your potions?" Nazo asked.
"No." Erazor replied.
"Good. That's how it should be." Nazo chuckled.
The scene turns back to the Sonic Heroes base. Amy prepared dinner as usual because they were afraid of Rouge's cooking. Last time she cooked, the meatloaf tried to bite Sonic's nose off. Sonic and Shadow were sweating like crazy when they came back. On the up side, Sonic broke the sound barrier first. Rouge spent all day trying to prepare for the ceremony later and Blue ran away screaming every time he saw the kids. But Tails and cream on the other hand were in a bad mood. They kept poking at their food; refusing to eat.
"What's wrong, you two?" Amy asked. "You haven't touched your food."
"You sure were not too small to see that?" Tails said sarcastically.
"Or maybe we're too young to eat on our own." Cream joined.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Shadow asked.
"It means you treat us like little kids!" Tails suddenly burst.
"It's because you are." Knuckles stated.
"No were not!" Tails shouted. "We've done things you guys could!"
"That's because usual Sonic or Knuckles is there to help you." Blue stated.
"I defeated Nazo's monster all by myself." Cream said.
"You're comparing us to Nazo's monster?" Rouge stifled a laugh.
"If you don't want to treat us equally, then fine!" Tails shouted. Tails jumped down from his seat and walked back to his workshop.
"Tails, wait for me!" Cream cried and followed him.
"What's up with them?" Knuckles asked.
"Not even you are that thick, knucklehead." Rouge said sternly. "It's obvious that they feel left out."
"I have to admit, they have shown some maturity beyond their age." Shadow said. "Maybe we should give them the benefit of the doubt."
"Fine." Sonic said with a sigh. "We'll talk to them after I'm done eating."
The other heroes glared at him as he continued to stuff his face. But unknown to them, Tomo had snuck into the base under her camouflage and was sticking to the ceiling above them. Tomo pulled out the bottle from Erazor and uncorked it. The gas inside the bottle fell on the unsuspecting heroes, catching them by surprise. When the gas cleared, the heroes were gone, Tomo had disappeared, and Tails and Cream returned to the room.
"I don't want to talk to them, Cream." Tails said; still fuming.
"Tails, I don't like it when you're angry." Cream said with tears in her eyes. "Just talk to them."
"Fine. But if they – Hey, where are they?" Tails asked.
Cream turned back to the table and was surprised to find that the rest of their friends were missing. Cream could have sworn she saw something move on the ceiling, but figured that it was her imagination. Just then, one of the chairs moved. Taking a risk, Tails moved to the chair and swiftly turned it to around to find Sonic. The only problem was that he was...
"A baby!" Tails yelled in fright. "Sonic's a baby!"
It was true. A baby Sonic was sitting in the chair, clapping and giggling. Tails was afraid of the question in his mind, but reluctantly turned the chair next to him. Shadow was also a baby and sucking on his thumb. Cream turned the other to find Amy, Rouge, and Knuckles all babies and Blue was a...jellyfish?
"I'm not even going to ask." Cream said; referring to Blue. "What happened to them, Tails? Why are they like this?"
"I don't know. Maybe something went wrong with Amy's cooking?" Tails chuckled lightly. Cream's expression was deadpanned. "Ok, so that's not it. I should check in my workshop for – Ouch!"
Tails jumped slightly when he felt a sharp pain in his namesake. He looked down to find Rouge biting on one of tails. He swiftly pulled it away from her mouth, but the baby bat only started crying. Cream picked up baby Rouge and cradled her like her own mother once did. As Cream looked, she found a small pointed tooth breaching from the babies gums.
"Aw, she's teething." Cream said softly. "It's not her fault. She needs to bite."
"Uh-uh! No way!" Tails exclaimed; pulling his namesake closer to his chest. "She is not getting anywhere near..." Rouge started to cry more loudly. "All right, all right." Tails gave up and put his namesake into her mouth. Rouge cooed happily. "I'll be in the workshop trying to figure this out. Just make sure they don't get into trouble."
"You got it." Cream saluted. Tails grabbed Rouge and took her with him to his workshop. Cream turned back to the children. "Don't worry, Tails will figure everything out. So why don't we just – Where's Sonic and Shadow?"
Meanwhile, in Tails workshop. Tails was examining a beaker filled with a bubbling concoction, trying to ignore Rouge's biting. Tails accidentally knocked over one of his tools and bent down to pick it up. But as he did that, Sonic zoomed in and grabbed the beaker before zooming out. Tails sat back up and found his beaker gone.
"Where'd it go!" Tails exclaimed.
Tails dropped down to the floor, hoping that it had only rolled on the floor. Unknown to him, Sonic zoomed back in and set the beaker in its proper place. Then Shadow came in and pour a number of unknown chemicals before the two zoomed out. Tails propped himself back onto the table and was surprised to find his beaker back. The beaker suddenly started to rumble before exploding in his face. The baby hedgehogs zoomed back into the room, giggling.
"I hope Cream is having a better time then me." Tails said in a low voice.
Unfortunately she wasn't. Amy kept crawling at the speed of sound, tripping Cream more then once. Knuckles was lifting the couch with his still impressive strength when Blue slithered up to him. Knuckles threw the couch away and picked up Blue before she sucked on him like a bottle.
"Knuckles, no!" Cream said sternly as she pulled Blue free. "No sucking on Blue." Just then, Amy zoomed by. "Amy! No breaking the sound barrier in the house. Ok, that sounded odd."
Cream ran into the kitchen where Amy was throwing a series of pot and pans out from one of the lower cabinets. Cream ducked under when two pots came flying, but was unable to avoid being hit in the face by a frying pan. Fuming, Cream dived and the baby pink hedgehog. Unfortunately, Amy ducked down and Cream was thrown into the cabinet. Amy unknowingly shut it and locked it with Cream inside.
"Amy, let me out!" Cream yelled; banging the cabinet door. "I mean it, Amy!"
But Amy only sat there play with the pots. Meanwhile, Knuckles and Rouge were in Tails workshop, tugging and pulling against one of the fake emeralds Tails invented.
"Mine!" Rouge tugged.
"Mine!" Knuckles tugged back
"Mine!"
"Mine!"
"It's mine!" Tails jumped up and pulled the fake jewel from them reach. "Now please be quiet while I try to sort this out."
But that didn't sit too well with Knuckles. The baby echidna picked up Tails by his namesakes and slammed him up and down on the floor. After a few brutal beat downs, Tails dropped the fake emerald and the two baby jewel lovers resumed their quarrel.
"Mine!" Rouge tugged the emerald.
"Mine!" Knuckles tugged back.
"How can it get any worse?" Tails whined.
Back in the living room, Sonic was sitting in front of the TV, watching some program. Just then, Amy came up to him and started to hug him. Upon contact, Sonic started to cry, which caught Cream's attention.
"Amy, let go of Sonic right now!" Cream said sternly.
When she refused to listen, Cream tugged on Amy until she let go. Upon the separation, Amy started to cry more loudly then Rouge. In a panic, Cream put Amy back, stopping her crying. Unfortunately, Sonic started to cry himself. Back and forth, Cream was separating and uniting them, both crying at separate times. The two kept crying until Cream was in tears herself. The two baby hedgehogs stared at her like she was crazy. a few hours later, Tails came out of his workshop with a depressive look.
"Sorry, Cream. But there was nothing I could..." Tails trailed of when he looked around the living room. The babies where wrecking the entire base and Cream was sitting in a chair in the center of the room; bound and gagged. Tails ran over to her and removed the gag, which turned out to be Blue. "What happened?"
"What does it look like." Cream said irritably. "Shadow tied me up."
"Wow, even as a baby, he's dangerous." Tails said; very impressed.
"I don't know how it could get any worse." Cream said. Suddenly, the alarm went off. "It just got worse."
A video screen appeared and the G.U.N. commander was on screen.
"Heroes! The Dark Rulers are..." The commander trailed off when he noticed the chaos around them. "Uh...Is there something I should know about."
"Never mind. What's going on?" Tails asked as he untied the ropes around Cream.
"Uh...The Dark Rulers are attacking the city." The commander said uneasily. "And we need you to stop them."
"We're on our way!" Tails proclaimed.
"But, Tails, what about Amy and the others?" Cream asked.
"Don't worry, I got just the plan." Tails smirked.
The scene changed to Station Square, which was being destroyed at this very moment. Nazo used his chaos blade to slice the buildings down the middle. Black Doom used his swift strike to cut them down to size. Erazor used his razor blade to cut them to pieces. Tomo used her dragon fire jutsu to burn them down. And Mephiles used his chaos lance while Shira cheered him on.
"My lord, this is the greatest plan you have ever come up with." Mephiles said to Nazo.
"I must also thank Erazor for providing the potion and Tomo for getting the job done." Nazo smiled evilly. Erazor and Tomo beamed at the compliments.
"But what do we do if they return?" Black Doom asked.
"Please, what can they do?" Shira chuckled.
"We'll stop you, that's what we'll do!"
The Dark Rulers turned around to find Tails and Cream, who were pushing a stroller carrying the six children. The Dark Rulers broke down laughing.
"Y-y-you must be j-joking!" Tomo gasped through her laughter.
"Tails, they're laughing at us." Cream said.
"It's not our fault we're stuck taking care of them." Tails replied.
"No, that would be us." Erazor said; stopping his laughter.
"Huh?" The two asked.
"We're the ones who used the potion to turn the heroes into infants." Nazo smirked.
"You mean...you're the reason we went through all that suffering?" Tails asked; growling lightly.
"Yeah. What are you going to do about it?" Black Doom chuckled.
Tails shoulders shook slightly as if he was crying. But when he lifted his head up, his eyes were red with anger. Cream picked up the kids and dropped out of sight. Tails got down on all fours and charged at the villains. They paused for a moment as they stared at Tails as if they in the face of death. Tails jumped on the Dark Rulers and...
The scene changes to Egg-Carrier III with Metal sitting in a chair with his squadron surrounding him.
"Sorry to interrupt, but the following was too graphic for this story." Metal Jet said.
"Instead, you get to watch us watch the fight instead." Metal Knuckles said.
Metal and his squadron looked and the viewing screen, cringing slightly when something gruesome happened.
"Ooh, he's going to feel that in the morning." Metal Espio moaned.
"I had no idea someone's legs could bend that way." Mecha said.
"That's definitely got to hurt." Metal Amy said.
"Oh look, it's over." Metal said. "Thanks for watching."
The scene turns back to Station Square and a sort of funeral music was heard in the background. Tomo had her legs bent over her shoulder, Shira was unconscious, Mephiles was splattered across the walls, Erazor had his hair snipped and he teeth knocked out, Black Doom's body was destroyed and his real form had a black eyes. Tails was holding Nazo in the air by his neck.
"What kind of monster are you?" Nazo said in fear.
"Sonic and the others..." Tails growled. "How do I change them back?"
"The potion wears off after 24 hours." Nazo said; shaking with fear. "Please don't hurt me!"
Acting fast, Nazo dissolved himself into a smoke of shadow before disappearing. The others soon followed after. Later at the base, Tails and Cream fell back on the couch and exhaled huge sighs.
"What a day." Tails groaned.
"I can't wait till were the kids again." Cream said.
"Come on, Cream. It wasn't that back." Tails said. Cream gave him a 'are-you-serious' look. "Ok, so it was. But hey, the worst is over."
The two turned back to the baby heroes. Knuckles was smashing his fists into the wall, Rouge was hanging by the ceiling fan, Sonic was climbing the book shelf to escape from Amy, Shadow was plying with a gun he found in his room, and Blue was slithering around, leaving a trail of slime behind. All in all, the base was like hell.
"I'm going to bed." Tails groaned and left the room.
"Me too." Cream said as she followed.
"Cream." Tails said.
"Yes?" Cream replied.
"GET OUT OF MY BED!" Tails yelled at the top of his lungs.
This was one hell of a day.
Sometimes its best to stay who you are. I have run out of questions so stayed tuned for the next Sonic Heroes!
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