Here's chapter 24. This chapter continue the previous chapter. The Aggretsuko characters will appear, and a brief appearance of the Beastars characters.
"Uncle Clawhauser!" Nicole and Jerry said upon seeing Clawhauser having the same reactions they had with Bogo when they saw him.
They both ran towards the cheetah and jumped, he caught them just in time in his arms, while giving him a big hug. Clawhauser, unlike Bogo and Finnick, seemed to be just another kid when he spent time with the little fox and the little rabbit. Since inside his there was still that infant part of his being that he only let out when he was babysitting, it is for that reason that it was easy for him to get along with them in any possible situation, sometimes Clawhauser thought that when she retired, in those years he planned to open a daycare to take care of Zootopia's children while their parents worked.
At that moment the little black bat approached the cheetah and this one, realizing it, also took her in his arms and joined her in his embrace. When Nicole and Jerry saw the bat, they greeted her with a wave of their hand. She this she replied with a small laugh. She could be seen with the three children were about to start a new friendship, taking into account that the bat was two years younger than the fox and the rabbit. Realizing the serious conversation he was about to begin, Clawhauser led the three children to watch some television in the other room while the others chatted.
While Clawhauser took care of the three children, the others introduced themselves to each other. In the eyes of Nick, Judy, Jack and Finnick: Rouge seemed to have a mysterious but not dangerous vibe, and besides she was attractive to the eyes of Nick, Jack and Finnick, but it was not in Nick and Jack's plans to be unfaithful to Judy, while Finnick has never been interested in forming romantic relationships with anyone, and they were sure that Rouge was happily married anyway. While Shadow seemed less friendly, and even more serious than Knuckles; he seemed like at all times he was prepared to go on the attack in case something dangerous happened and he also saw himself as a lonely person. The four recalled that Sonic mentioned in his story a Shadow who was present when they were sent to this planet and they were able to deduce that those who were with him were his family.
Then they observed the children who were with them. The echidna seemed to be older than the children of Knuckles and Tikal, it already seemed to be an adult, because of the different species they assumed that Shadow and Rouge had adopted him, while the hedgehog did seem to be the biological child of both since its coat color corresponded to Shadow and Rouge's mix of fur colors, even though their eyes were yellow, guessed that trait skipped a generation, with either the black hedgehog or the white bat. The baby bat that Clawhauser had taken to the other room was the most had traits of both parents, in part they felt sorry for her, since like Nicole and Jerry if quite dangerous events occurred, she could be very harmed due to her short age. Although taking into account that her parents might go through similar situations at all times, they were sure that the baby would already be used to that.
Finally Bogo asked them all to sit down, sitting himself, Rouge, Rutan, Silver, Nick, Judy, Jack and Finnick. Shadow for the part of him stood at one end of the table with his arms crossed and his eyes fixed without saying a word. His gaze was a bit intimidating, even for Nick and Judy who were cops. For Jack and Finnick not so much since they in their past lived worse things than Nick and Judy did so as not to be intimidated so easily by Shadow's appearance. Now that they thought about it he seemed to be like a dark version of Sonic.
"Well, I can already understand why he came to Japan and because they told us, they saw what happened on the news, right?" asked Jack.
"Exactly, and as you can see Shadow and Rouge with their children had no way of getting here without one of the chaos emeralds. That's why Clawhauser and I helped them come here," Bogo replied.
"Wait, do you know all about the chaos emeralds?" Finnick asked.
"Yes, we are already aware of that, we even know about the master emerald. Although we don't know where all those emeralds are at the moment," Bogo replied.
"Well Sonic and the others have 3 of the emeralds, the master emerald is safe in the agency where Jack works, but unfortunately, Eggman managed to take 4 emeralds from us" Judy said.
"How does Eggman have 4 careful ones?" Shadow said in a rather deep and serious voice.
"Shadow, calm down" Rouge said to calm him down.
"Yes, father, getting angry won't fix anything," Rutan said.
"It's true dad, we just have to think about how to get them back," Silver said.
Once the black hedgehog calmed down, the bat looked at Zootopia's group.
"So how did Eggman get those emeralds?" Rouge asked.
This time it was Nick who had to explain everything that happened three days ago, and he still felt nervous, especially because he saw the fear reflected on the children's faces, since he could not bear to see Eggman hurt Nicole and Jerry, since he loved them both equally regardless of whether Nicole was his biological daughter and Jerry was Jack's son. He gave a full explanation and even told them where Sonic and the others were, and that for the moment they were also hidden from the public eye.
Although they didn't realize it, Clawhauser also overheard the conversation from the other room as he watched the children and was terrified to learn what his honorary nephew and niece had been through three days earlier. Now Clawhauser understood a strange feeling that came from Nicole and Jerry when they hugged him, that it felt different from previous hugs. Maybe his happy face was being used to hide the panic they experienced over the weekend.
If it weren't for the dangerous situation in which everyone was now involved, he himself would face Eggman in order to defend the children. He was terrified that something would happen to Nicole and Jerry, they were too young and innocent to be experiencing something like this. They deserved to be happy and carefree right now.
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Meanwhile in another part of the city; Retsuko, Fenneko, Haida and Ookami were at work. They had been teaching their new co-workers what to learn, and they all picked up on it easily, although Retsuko was having a hard time teaching Legoshi, and his physical appearance still intimidated her, and it didn't help much the fact that he was the quietest of the whole group of new hires, for that reason when he spoke to him he tried not to look him in the eye, and it seemed that part of it worked.
This is how they went through almost the entire work section and that was something that not only Haida, Ookami and Fenneko noticed. But also Louis, Jack, Collot, Durham, Miguno and Voss. Seeing that, Haida made a little sign for his wife to come closer and suggested if they could switch places. Retsuko was relieved, for that. So Haida left with Legoshi, while Retsuko left with Jack and Louis. At least now it was a little more relaxing for all of them in the rest of the first day of work, until finally it was time for lunch.
Once in the dining room, Retsuko was able to relax a bit from the stress she had experienced throughout the morning. Legoshi was definitely intimidating her, although she was aware that he knew it and that it was not her intention to scare her. But she couldn't feel any other way about him. She didn't think he was a bad person, but she felt a strange vibe when she was around him. She didn't know what it was about, she just hoped it wasn't dangerous, she has already gone through two horrible situations in her life and she didn't want to go through a third.
Her husband and her two friends knew what she felt, but they assured her that Legoshi could not be a bad person, and although they knew that he came from another more dangerous reality, Fenneko looked for him on social networks and luckily, he did have one, but the only thing she noticed that it was interesting was that she liked to collect insects, so she assured Retsuko that with that kind of hobby Legoshi could not be dangerous, much less someone with bad intentions towards her or towards anyone else, so she wouldn't have to worry about him.
But just when it seemed that the red panda seemed to relax, at that moment she felt the same uncomfortable presence, she only turned her head a little and could see Legoshi watching her as he entered the rest area accompanied by Jack. But there was a look of sadness on his face. At first, Retsuko thought it was because he was nostalgic for being in a different dimension, but she was able to hear a bit of the conversation between the gray wolf and the labrador retriever. And what she heard made her feel a little guilty for her behavior caused by her fear.
"I do not know why she is afraid of me, I know that my appearance intimidates since in our universes herbivores fear carnivores, but in this universe I thought that finally people would not be afraid of me, and would accept me without any fear that I hurt them" Legoshi said.
"Don't worry, just give her time, I'm sure that the more she gets to know you she will stop being afraid of you" said Jack putting a hand on the shoulder of his boyfriend.
Legoshi put one of her hands on top of Jack's hand, relaxing a bit at the feel of it.
Retsuko from what little she heard wanted to apologize to Legoshi, but she didn't know how to do it, but before she could get up and go to apologize for what was happening between her and him, Komiya appeared in front of her.
"Oh, Retsuko. Director Ton calls you and he doesn't seem very happy with you" said the meerkat showing a compassionate face.
"Yes, I'm coming" said the red panda getting up and going to the accounting area.
Komiya looked at her with a worried face. Although it was surprising, in recent years Komiya changed radically, as he stopped being sycophantic towards Ton and now worked like any other normal person. He realized that Ton's treatment of Retsuko was sexist, since when he himself married Tsunoda and had their daughter Izumi, he was terrified that in the future she would suffer from the same thing that happens to Retsuko, that's why Komiya apologized to Retsuko years ago and now they have a better relationship.
Unfortunately Ton hadn't changed in years, and it seemed like he never would.
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In another part of the city, Sonic was along with Speed, after several days of being locked up, they wanted to let their boredom out a bit and went out to an open field to run a bit. Leaving the apartment was easy, as there was no one around at the time. And when they were outside the building they started running at high speed so as not to be seen by anyone.
"So Speed, ready to see who of the two will go around the island faster first" Sonic asked his son.
"Of course, Dad. And I am sure that I will be the one who will win" said Speed.
Both hedgehogs got into position and started running, thus beginning their great race.
Well, so far the chapter. In the next one, ou will see a bit of the father and son relationship between Sonic and Speed.