Here is chapter 48. This chapter focuses on some characters from Sonic, but with the participation of some characters from Rachet & Clank, Star Fox, Happy Tree Friends, Kaiketsu Zorori and Beastars.
Tails was busy at the moment. He was putting the finishing touches on the last remaining communicators for the people who came from other planets/dimensions/cities. It was something he had been busying himself with for the last few days and finally after a few more minutes everything was ready. This would have taken a little longer if his daughter Flora hadn't helped him on a few occasions. With all the communicators ready, it would be time to deliver them. Since it was still noon, he thought it would be a good idea to call the people he was supposed to give the comlinks to to come get them, but he wasn't going to call everyone, just a small group from each group to take care of bringing them to him. others.
The fox called through his communicator to the nine people who already had theirs. The couple of lynxes that came from another star system appeared on the screens: Ratchet and Alister Azimuth. Also a rabbit and a panther that came from another star system: Peppy Hare and Panther Caroso. Behind them appeared a green bear and his wife a red porcupine that came from another dimension: Flippy and Flaky. Then a cat dressed as a princess and a being that looked like a fairy appeared who came from that same country, but from a very hidden place: Princess Elzie and Najō. And finally a rough-looking panda bear with scars on his face appeared, who had no visible eyes and who also came from another dimension, although from the same country in that dimension: Gouhin.
"Hi, I'm sorry to bother you so suddenly, but I wanted to know if you were busy right now?" Tails asked.
They all shook their heads as a sign that they were free.
"Well, I wanted to ask you to come, I've finished with the communicators of your companions, so they can come get them and take them away" said the two-tailed fox.
Those on the comlink nodded and said they would try not to delay. Even Gouhin, who mentioned that this was his day off from work.
Once he ended the call, he took the communicators and momentarily put them away in a box. He then returned to where his wife Cosmo and his friends Knuckles and Tikal were. Since there was nothing to do, they were watching TV. The children: Flora, Alex, Locke II, Pachacamac II, Rutan, Silver and Jewell were in the other room talking with their friends without the adults knowing.
The two-tailed fox sat down next to his wife.
"So, are they on their way yet?" Cosmo asked.
"Yes. They said they'd come as fast as possible," Tails replied.
"Let's hope Eggman doesn't attack before they come," said Knuckles.
"Dear, don't be so pessimistic" Tikal told her husband.
"I'm not pessimistic. Although of all if he shows up we will give him what he deserves" said the red echidna.
"By the way, Sonic or Amy didn't call them while I finished with the communicators" asked the two-tailed fox.
"No. We haven't heard from them or from Speed," said the Seedrian.
"Since they left to help Jack with the matter of Judy's parents and Nick's mother they haven't come back" said the orange echidna.
"Well, let's leave them another half hour, if they don't show up I'll call them to find out how everything is going with that topic" said Tails.
"If it was Eggman who kidnapped them. Where would he take them? The base that we knew no longer exists," said Tikal.
"His new base is somewhere. Though Eggman isn't as stupid as he is to leave clues to his whereabouts," Knuckles said.
"In any case, if Sonic hasn't called, it could be that he already found them or at least managed to locate them" said Cosmo.
"I hope everything goes well, it would be difficult for them to lose their parents and even more so if Eggman has something to do with it" said the two-tailed fox.
"Nothing would like to lose his parents. The four of us are proof of that," said the seedrian.
And that statement was true.
Since Tails grew up part of his life without his parents Amadeus and Rosemary, and without his paternal uncle Merlin. He was separated from them when he was 4 years old under unknown circumstances. He was alone for about two years until he finally met Sonic when he was 6 years old. Thanks to the blue hedgehog he was able to meet new friends, and he got to have people I know who cared about him and who managed to help him overcome his loneliness. He was finally reunited with his parents when he turned 16. It was since then that they came to live with him again, in the home where he had been living for the last few years.
On Cosmo's side, when she was born, her father Lucas was no longer present. She was raised by her older sister Galaxina, and the other female seedrians, as her mother Hertia had turned into a tree before she was born. Unfortunately when she was 8 years old, her father became a known villain as Dark Oak that ended his own species, and even the life of her mother. Although in the end she managed to stop him by sacrificing her life in order to kill her father, she managed to revive a year later, although she no longer had most of her kind, she would discover that her older sister had also survived.
Knuckles, for his part, lost his species for several years, since when he was a newborn baby, his species disappeared from his home, only he and his paternal great-grandfather Athair remained, who raised Knuckles until he was 10 years old, age in which the guardians became independent from their parents, to continue their training. Even so, he still maintained contact with him. But it was not until when he was 18 years old when he was able to perform a ritual that brought back all the members of his kind, including his parents Locke and Lara-Le, that he learned that they had been divorced for years and that in the last few months they had gotten back together again.
And finally Tikal, her mother died when she was 2 years old. Because her father Pachacamac was the chief of the tribe she was born into and was always busy, she was raised by her paternal grandmother Aurora and her maternal grandmother Itza. When she was 12 years old, her grandmother Aurora passed away. And by that time her father was already a cold person, whose ambitions caused the destruction of the tribe two years later with few survivors. She and he were able to survive by each being trapped inside an emerald. When they were both released, her father seemed quite remorseful for her past actions. With the passage of time both would reconcile. And now they had the father-daughter relationship that they didn't have before. Not to mention that today her father remarried and now she had a stepmother named Gala-Na, with whom she finally had a mother figure, other than her grandmothers.
Their lives were definitely different, and they had no contact with their parents due to different circumstances at various different points in their lives. But for Nick and Judy it would be difficult if they lost their respective parents and even more so if it was the fault of someone like Eggman. Tails was aware that Jack had lost his parents in similar circumstances when he was 10 years old, and he was sure that with the type of relationship that he and Nick had with Judy he could have become closer to their parents and would surely be just like them as if he were their son too. And Tikal had a hunch, though he didn't show it, that Finnick was the same way. All just hoped that Nicole and Jerry weren't suffering too, children were more susceptible to despair than adults. They figured that was why Sonic and Amy took Speed with them, to try and keep Nicole and Jerry distracted on the subject.
After snapping out of those thoughts, they realized that half an hour had passed without them noticing. Seeing that, and that there was no communication between Sonic, Amy or Speed, he decided to call them, but before he could do so, someone was heard knocking on the door. They assumed that they were the ones they were waiting for. Fortunately the door had an eye on it. And by peering through it he was able to confirm that they were who they believed. So he opened the door and let them through. He then closed it before anyone in the other apartments saw who was coming there, since they couldn't raise suspicions of strangers coming to an apartment that belonged to someone who didn't receive excessive visitors, much less strangers.
Once inside, the newcomers took their seats. Alister and Ratchet had come with the little robot Clank, who had been passing himself off as a backpack all the way. Peppy and Panther saw only the two of them without the company of any member of their respective teams. Flippy and Flaky came with their 6-year-old son Fluffly, who was in the arms of his mother. Elzie and Najō came alone; although to not attract attention like the previous time, Elzie came dressed in less formal clothes, while Najō more covered so as not to look like a fairy. Gouhin came alone, even when the others saw him, some were a bit intimidated by his physical appearance.
After taking out communicators from the box, he handed them to each of the newcomers. In the case of Clank and Fluffly, Tails put them on personally, since the shape of Clank's hands prevented him from putting it on easily; while Fluffy, being a child who had never seen such things, put it on and in the process taught him how to use it, although explaining how it was used so that it was for a game, but that he should not use it unless it was a emergency. So his parents would tell him the right time to use it, and he asked him to never let it out of him sight and to have it with him at all times.
"By the way, Mr. Prower, I want to ask you something. It's about the way we ended up in this town," said Peppy.
"Of course, ask anything," said Tails.
"Well, it's still not clear to me how chaos control, as you referred to that white light, could have brought us to this specific city if we don't belong to the same dimension that you come from" asked Peppy.
"Panther also has that doubt. How did the energy get to the star system that Peppy and Panther came from to bring us here?" Panther said referring to himself in the third person.
"Well, it's a bit difficult to explain, since although chaos control had already transported us to another dimension once, it never affected people from other dimensions. Perhaps it is because the day the event occurred, Eggman was planning to send us to another dimension, since the previous time the event was involuntary. This time it was provoked. Maybe Eggman didn't have a specific dimension to send us," Tails said.
"Perhaps when Eggman's robots stumbled upon the device that would teleport us to another dimension, they must have messed up something that caused the chaos emeralds' energy to affect other dimensions, star systems, and even this version of planet earth. I just hope this isn't going to affect all the dimensions involved," Knuckles said joining in on the response.
"Could something like this happen?" Flaky said a little nervously.
"It would all depend. We are not sure at the moment," Tikal said.
"At the moment we have been more concerned with locating Eggman and recovering the emeralds he has, as it could cause worse damage," said Cosmo.
"How bad would that be?" Elzie asked.
"So much so that it could take over this entire planet," Knuckles replied.
Everyone made a gloomy face hearing that, except Gouhin who was with his normal serious face.
"But as long as he doesn't know where the three emeralds we have are, nor where we have the master emerald, everything will be fine" said Tails.
Just before he could say anything else, his comlink began to beep. For a moment he thought it would be Sonic, Amy or Speed, but when he looked at the screen to see who it was, the video call was from the head of the detective agency Jack works for. He wondered why this sudden call.
So far the chapter. I hope you liked it.