Here's chapter 25. This chapter continue the previous chapter. This chapter focuses primarily on Sonic characters, with a brief appearance of a Zootopia character.
Sonic and Speed have run a long way, not to be noticed by the inhabitants of the city, their race was circling the city limits. Even if someone had been around, they would only have felt the two gusts of wind pass by them, since their speed had only caused a strong gust of wind that made the plants and trees that were in their movement move road. They did not take long to reach the goal and as expected, father and son arrived at the same time. That was normal for them, since they always ended a draw, but that did not stop them having fun.
"Well, we definitely needed a bit of this, right, Speed?" Sonic asked.
"Of course, I missed spending time with you doing this" Speed replied giving his father a hug, which was reciprocated.
And it was true, since they arrived in this dimension they both had to keep a low profile together with their wife / mother and their friends so as not to be discovered by the inhabitants of this dimension or endanger the inhabitants if Eggman realized that they were there. But after so long locked up and hiding out it felt pretty good to do his favorite hobby in father-son quality time.
"Father, out of curiosity we cannot buy some chillidogs, we have not eaten one for three months since we got here" asked the purple hedgehog.
"You know we can't go to suddenly appear to buy one, but I have a surprise for you, since in the morning before you woke up I asked Gori to buy some, so you can eat them tonight" said the blue hedgehog.
"Really? You are the best dad in the world" said Speed, jumping up and landing in the arms of his father, who quickly caught him. "You think we can share them with Mom, Flora, Alex, Locke, Pachacamac, Aunts Cosmo and Tikal, Uncles Tails and Knuckles, and with Miss Gori."
"Of course, why not. It will be more fun to eat them together with friends".
"You think Nicole, Jerry, Koka and Hana will like it if they get to try it."
"Well, when we see their parents again, I'll ask them to bring them so they can test them, what do you think?"
"Yeah, that would be great, dad."
"Well, what would you think of a second race?"
"Of course, you know that I would never reject something like that."
Speed jumped out of his father's arms and got into position to start the race. Sonic got into position. After counting down, they began to run around the city limits, but now in reverse.
But as they both ran they did not realize that they were being observed by a small camera like a fly that would go unnoticed in front of anyone who was nearby. It was following them to see which way they were going. But they were only going back to where they started, and they didn't do that once, but several times.
That was another of the many fly chambers that Dr. Eggman had built to monitor his enemies. He was trying to find out where Sonic and Speed had the remaining chaos emeralds hidden, all these days he tried to locate them without any success. He supposed that they hid them in some kind of container to prevent the chaos emeralds from being easily tracked down, but if they were, then he would have to find out where they kept that container, perhaps in its hiding place. But to add something more to Eggman's annoyance is that it did not appear that the hiding place of his enemies was near where the two hedgehogs were making their run. He had been trying to locate it for days, but to no avail.
While Eggman was keeping an eye on his enemies; Decoe, Bocoe, and Bokkun were finishing some repairs on some of the ships they found when they reached this dimension. There were a total of eight, of which seven of them were single-pilot ships, while the last was a mothership that was a space aircraft carrier, which inside had a space to store the seven small ships, but also had rooms, kitchen, dining room, gym, a command room, and many more interesting things.
They didn't know who those ships might belong to, but they looked like something Eggman might have created, but they didn't seem to come from their dimension, as they all had logos they had never seen before. But at least they were lucky to find them, since when they reached this dimension the ships had appeared in the same place where they appeared, since it was a stroke of luck, since they could serve for any plan they had in the near future, and they could be of more help when they locate where their enemies took the master emerald.
A plan that Dr. Eggman had for these ships was to install a system to control them remotely without any pilot inside. Those ships were too valuable to allow anyone to fly, as traitors always appeared who could steal them, and Eggman did not plan to take risks in any way. If luck had smiled on him by practically putting them in his hands, he was not going to miss out on that opportunity. He would just have to find the right time to use them and not before or after. But definitely his enemies would be in for a big surprise when he appeared to attack them.
Eggman was still watching the races that Sonic and Speed were having, in part he was a bit bored, but in part he was also interested in seeing which of the two would be faster, if it happened that Speed beat Sonic, that would mean that with age Sonic would lose the ability to run, and could use that to his advantage any day, which would mean that he would get rid of his worst enemy once and for all. Although at the moment and according to what he saw that hypothetical scenario would be difficult to carry out at the moment, Sonic was just as agile as always in those moments.
But at that moment he could see something that caught his attention, since just when Sonic and Speed finished one of their careers, Tails and Knuckles who had come to look for them suddenly appeared in the place, unfortunately as the spy camera did not have headphones so that Eggman could listen, even so taking advantage of the fact that they could not see the cameras he could see where they would go and what would be their hiding place. He just hoped that the camera did not lose sight of them when they left, since surely Sonic would take his friends and his son holding their hands while he ran to get there faster, and just as he did. supposed it happened. Luckily for him, Eggman had more of those fly cameras all over town, so he would see where they would go.
Finally they all met, but not in Gori's apartment, if not in the abandoned factory that was their previous refuge until four days ago. Upon arrival, the respective wives of the adult boys were already there: Amy, Cosmo, and Tikal, And the missing children were also there: Flora, Alex, Locke II and Pachacamac II.
"So, I suppose something important happened for us to meet here, right?" Sonic asked.
"Yes, Judy called us half an hour ago, she didn't say she wanted to tell us something, but she wanted her to come here," Amy replied.
"She said she was not long in coming," Tikal said.
"And she also said that she would come with some companions" said Cosmo.
"Didn't he tell you who she was?" Sonic asked.
The three girls shook their heads.
"Well, we just have to wait a bit," said Tails.
"I hope it's true that they won't be long," Knuckles said.
"Well, you don't have to wait any longer, we're here," said Judy's voice.
They all turned around and were surprised to see Judy, who was accompanied by old acquaintances, since there were Shadow and Rouge with their three children: Rutan, Silver and Jewel. The inhabitants of Mobius were surprised, since after three months without hearing from them, they had finally found them and it could be seen that nothing happened to the two hedgehogs, the two bats and the echidna. And it even seemed as if they had last seen them only a few hours ago.
At that moment all the inhabitants greeted each other, except Shadow who continued with his cold gaze and crossed arms. He simply just looked at them without saying anything, which did not seem strange to the others at all, but to Judy, since she understood why the black hedgehog was like that with them and the other inhabitants of Zootopia, since they were people who he had just just met and he didn't trust them totally, but he was the same with the people in his universe, outside of his own family. Judy had a suspicion that Shadow went through something horrible at some point in his life that caused him to behave like this.
While the inhabitants of Mobius were already gathered, they began to tell each other everything that happened in that reality and what they did in the last three months that they have been there, with the exception of Shadow who was naturally without saying a word. Practically everyone went through similar situations. Although in the case of Sonic, Amy, Tails, Cosmo, Knuckles and Tikal, with their respective children; they understood why they had not found the others, since it had not ended up in Japan because of the chaos control, if not in Zootopia, fortunately as they had found some of Nick and Judy's co-workers, it was how they could get to Japan.
A reunion that was truly significant was that of Knuckles, Locke II and Pachacamac II when they saw Rutan safe and sound, since Rutan was a distant nephew of Knuckles, and a distant cousin of Locke II and Pachacamac II, and despite the dark origin from his family and subsequent adoption by Shadow and Rouge, he was still attached to them, since they were part of his biological family, there were even times he would visit them on Angel Island to spend time with them.
After that, Shadow and Rouge mentioned to them that they already know what happened here during these days, and that Judy with her companions already informed them of what happened in these two days. But what they said next caught everyone by surprise, including their own children.
"Sonic, we need you to stay with Rutan, Silver and Jewel" said Rouge.
"We will have to leave, as we will search for Eggman on our own," said Shadow speaking for the first time since they entered that abandoned warehouse.
Inadvertently their entire conversation was being witnessed by one of Eggman's fly cameras. He knew that they were planning to see how the black hedgehog and the white bat, they left their three children with Sonic and then left. And that had to do with the search for him, but he could never find him taking into account the place where his base was located and the security system that he had prevented being located by any satellite or radar. The only way to detect it would be through the chaos emeralds that were in his possession, that's why he had them in a specific container for them.
At that moment he got up from his seat and went to the ships that his robots were fixing. He saw that these were resting were hours of work. Eggman took out of a box of tools, the heaviest that he could find and threw them at him. As they were robots, the blow was not painful, but he made them go into alert when he saw that his boss was in front of them. After being reprimanded for resting at work, Eggman began whispering to them the plan of what they would do next and how they would carry it out. And he threatened them with what he would do to them if they failed in this mission.
Well, so far the chapter. I will not give much information about what will happen in the next chapter to make it a surprise.