#post second genesis wave

[sunnylighter]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Here's some art for my fic, Clear as Mud. AKA, what happens in the post-reboot Archie comics if both Sonic and Silver remember the old timeline and do not explain it to their very confused friends.

It was getting to the point Sally had to physically stop Tails and Rotor from pulling together a murder board.

"Just ask them," she said one evening while playing keep-away with the corkboard and ball of red yarn they wanted to use. "It's not that hard."

"Actually, Sally-Girl, it is," said Bunnie, who wasn't totally willing to go full conspiracy, but not about to stop the boys from doing it either.

"Every time we try to ask, zere is some interruption or ze answer simply leaves us with more questions," Antoine agreed.

Sally rolled her eyes. "It can't be that bad."

"Silver implied I might be royalty the other day," said Amy, throwing up her hands in exasperation. "I need a straight answer here."

"Sonic implied the same thing about Charmy when we were talking about the Chaotix the other day," added Tails. "And he shut Silver up when he started to ask about someone named 'Fiona' with me around."

"For some reason, they think I should be afraid of orcas and thought there was a Freedom Fighter branch up north," said Rotor.

"I don't know who zis Geoffrey person is, but Sonic seems to dislike ze man with a great vehemence," said Antione.

"An' he had Silver help him use what Ah can only assume was a dummy o' him as target practice," added Bunnie.

Even Nichole piped in to say sheepishly, "I may have overheard a conversation that may have implied a debate on if a variation of Metal Sonic might have had a crush on me. I'd like to know a little more about why they would think that."

Sally stared at all of them and was also reminded of a strange moment where Silver had apparently mistaken her for someone named Elias, and then had gotten distraught when he realized she wasn't him. She'd done her best to console him, and would really like more of an explanation for it, but hadn't wanted to tread on what was clearly a sensitive subject. (Her current theory was that Elias was her future descendant, and she hoped Silver's reaction didn't mean something bad happened to him.)

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Safe to say, Silver's time period did not exactly give them something to look forward to.

"It used to be worse," Silver told them as he led them down the steps to his friend's lab. The lab's owner apparently had all the equipment they'd need to find another Genesis Portal back to their own time.

"That's not exactly reassuring," Rotor told the psychic hedgehog.

"Well, good to know all that time travel wasn't good for something," said Sonic dryly.

Seeming to miss the sarcasm, Silver nodded and continued, "Yeah, I know that doesn't mean things here still can't be better, but I'm hoping we can change things here in the present instead of having to go back to fix it this time. Well, once the Genesis Portals are all taken care of, at least. But if I happen to make things better here while I'm in the past, I won't complain."

Before the Freedom Fighters could make a comment on that hopeful plan, Silver reached the door to the lab and opened it, ushering them inside.

Inside, a red-haired and teal-skinned human(?) and a golden tenrec with a circular mark on her forehead looked up at their arrival.

Immediately, Tails and Rotor's attention was stolen by the sight of the tech around them, and the two geniuses practically started drooling. "I've died and gone to technogeek heaven," Rotor said in awe, and Tails nodded in agreement as three tiny and cute robotic hedgehogs swarmed around them curiously.

"Vy zank you," said the green man, looking flattered.

The tenrec, however, looked at them nervously and the symbol on her head glowed slightly as she glanced over at Silver. "Silver? Who are they? Why did you bring them here?"

Everyone but Silver and the green man jumped as they heard that question ring out not from the tenrec's mouth but from inside their heads.

Apparently, the tenrec was telepathic.

"They're some of my friends from the past," Silver said to answer her question, apparently used to that way of speaking, and sweeping a hand to indicate them. "Meet Sonic, Tails, and Rotor." He then looked to the Freedom Fighters and said, "Guys, these are my friends in my time. Meet Professor Von Schlemmer and Gold the Tenrec. I wouldn't be able to handle the Genesis Portals without them."

[sunnylighter]

Clean up after the fight was subdued, with no one really knowing what to say.

The Jules-shaped robot was taken to Tails' lab to be chained up and examined from every possible angle short of reactivating him. Tails, Rotor, and Nichole were thorough in their examinations, fixing the damage and deactivating the weapons. At the moment they were busy purging any form of connection to the EggNet and attack protocols from the bot's systems, removing any form of control Dr. Eggman had with it.

But… they still hadn't turned it on.

It was unanimously and silently decided that turning the robotic hedgehog back on would be Sonic's call, and Sonic still wasn't sure how to feel about that.

The injury to his leg had turned out to be mostly superficial. A cut that, while deep, hadn't needed stitches and would heal in a few days so long as he kept it bandaged and didn't push himself.

For once the doctor didn't need to worry about that. Sonic had been practically haunting Tails' lab since the fight, just staring at the machine.

The robot that might not just look like his dad, but actually be his dad.

I drew a scene from my fic, Sunken Treasure, from the Lost in the Waves series. I’m trying to go back and add art to all of them. Link to the fic is below.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/62857219

[sunnylighter]

Then Sonic arrived at the scene of the attack.

The first thing he saw was the target of the attack, and any good feelings he had from dinner were erased and anger took its place when he saw a bruised Uncle Chuck crouching protectively over his apprentice, Muttski.

Then… he saw who was attacking them…

In all the ways Sonic thought he'd see his father's face again, this was the one out of his very worst nightmares.

"Dad!" Sonic said breathlessly.

The splitting image of Jules loomed above Uncle Chuck on the attack until Sonic arrived on the scene. He turned to face the blue hedgehog, and if his actions weren't proof enough, this was not Sonic's father in control, the long-hated utterance of, "Priority One: Hedgehog!" being spoken in his father's voice made it clear.

I drew a scene from my fic, Sunken Treasure, from the Lost in the Waves series. I'm trying to go back and add art to all of them. Link to the fic is below.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[sunnylighter]

However, he was just getting elbow-deep in the Tornado's engine when a frantic knock on the door startled him right out of the zone.

Worried some new disaster had happened, Tails rushed to the door and flung it open.

Only, instead of one of the Freedom Fighters, he was startled to see an unknown, but beat-up-looking fox girl dressed in orange on his doorstep.

Or rather, she was on his doorstep for a second before she shoved her way inside and slammed the door behind her, pressing against it like she feared something would soon come bursting through after her.

"Wha-?" Tails started to say before the strange teenager wrapped her arms around him and pulled him into a desperate embrace.

"I left him," she said in a broken-sounding voice. "I promise I left him. It's over, you were right."

"Left him?" asked Tails, wondering what the heck she was talking about.

The girl sniffled and wiped a tear from her eye. "I should have listened to you. To Sonic. He was just using me. Just another way to get one up on Sonic. I never should have-" she broke off and just looked devastated.

"Hey, hey, just tell me what happened. Let me help you," Tails said, putting a comforting hand on her arm to lead her to a couch he kept in his workshop for Sonic to lounge on, and snagging a box of tissues on the way there. He may have no idea what was going on, but if she was really in trouble he'd help how he could once he had a better idea of what was going on.

The girl gave him a beautifully grateful smile. "Oh thank you, Tails. I knew I could come to you. You're such a good kid."

Another bit of art for my Lost in the Waves series. This one in the fic, Pond Scum. In a nutshell, Fiona and Scourge survive the Second Genesis Wave, and try to take advantage of Tails crush on the former. Unfortunately for them, since this is post-reboot Tails, he has no idea who Fiona is.