#sorrowfulsidekick

[powered-by-prower]

"I did what needed to be done, to secure a better tomorrow."

Doodles done by @red-eclipse

Featuring:

Tails - @powered-by-prower

Blossom - @red-eclipse

Chronos - @timeclipsed

Kit - @sorrowfulsidekick

[run-muse-dot-exe]

from here with @sorrowfulsidekick

"That's what I thought."

Leaning back on the wall beside her bed, arms resting behind her head, Surge's current plan is to have a nice cat-nap before going on one of her self-imposed patrols. That would have to be after she ate, though, can't run around heroically saving people's lives on an empty stomach!!

"..."

She's bolt upright, and running out the door after the fox.

"HEY!! HEY!! He didn't even ask what milkshake I wanted--!"

[timeclipsed]

Are you Kit's father?

— ;; ESSENTIALLY BECOMING STONE UPON HEARING the query, hands positioned over a saponaceous, waterlogged sink briefly lose their understanding of feeling, dropping the kitschy mug beneath the depths. Swiveling around instantly, panicked eyes landing on the little fennec of mention, those wired shoulders drop with slight relief upon noting that he (seemingly) hadn't heard, attention glued to the coloring book with a mammoth box of untrodden crayons as his tools to aid him in filling in the printed pictures. Prickling nausea expeditiously stems from the idea of the imminent conversation had those words have been heard.

Heaving the deepest of sighs, he turns back to resume cleaning the dishes that remain in the sink. Dinner had concluded close to thirty minutes ago— honey garlic chicken—, not that it was any good in his own self-chastising opinion. Sonic had always been the cook back home, a damn good one at that, a feat that Chronos simply could never hope to compare against no matter how many years pass. Dunking hands beneath the lukewarm water, brushing the sponge through the bristles of forks and unto the surface of sauce-laden plates. Seeing the face of the mug reemerge gives him pause yet again. One of the countless Christmas gifts he'd gotten for Kit, previously filled with a specially-made glass of chocolate milk from his own hands.

Of course the answer is no, right? They're brothers. He's big bro; the cool older one who buys candy for his little sibling with his allowance just because. The one who beats up the bullies on the playground and makes all the other kids in the schoolyard jealous when he rolls in at pickup time in his cool ride.

It shouldn't matter that he's also the one who tucks Kit in at bedtime, who reads him all the bedtime stories in the softest voice, who rocks him back and forth and sings the lullabies when he wakes up screaming and crying. It's natural for him to be the one to make all three meals and to do all the laundry and keep their living space neat and tidy. There's nothing unordinary about the way he spoils Kit rotten, holding his hand tight from the point where they cross the street 'til they wheel the grocery cart up to greet the cashier, picking up anything he finds interest in along the way and then takes him out to spend the day having fun after chores.

It's all normal. It's what Sonic had done for him at that age, after all.

...Sonic, the man he now proudly refers to as a father.

Dawning realization hits Chronos like a truck. Sonic had literally, in every sense of the word, given up what remained of his youth to raise him. He had done what Chronos is doing now. And how much of a presence Sonic had become to his young self left an impact so colossal that even now he finds himself mimicking those behaviors instinctively.

To Kit, he isn't just his big brother. He's his mom, his dad, his white picket fence.

❝...I don't want to answer that question,❞ he says plainly after the longest silence, wide eyes shuffling from the water to the stranger, ❝please leave.❞

[fortruechaos]

starter for @sorrowfulsidekick!

There are lots of abandoned warehouses in Sunset Heights. Former Resistance outposts that have since been unmanned. Unprotected. The Wisp-on weapons that had been used during the Resistance are being kept by the hundreds here, shut away in crates for safekeeping--or, well, not-so-safekeeping, since Shadow's been called in due to reports of massive amounts of the inventory going missing. Which doesn't mean that it's a box or two that's suddenly vanishing--this isn't something that can simply be chalked up to some trainee misplacing a box on occasion.

The hedgehog warps on the top of one of the warehouses, squinting down at the small paths between the block-like buildings, trying to discern the path the culprit might be taking. Of course, he can't account for things like entrance via the sewers here, or perhaps the culprit being a chameleon, or maybe a bird, but at least here he can get a good vantage point on possible points of entry. Once he's satisfied, he jumps carefully down and uses a set of Chaos Control warps to blip in through the warehouse, keeping his steps few and those that he does take very quiet as he checks the rows for any suspicious activity.

[powered-by-prower]

Story Event: The Easter Incident, and Everything Afterwards

Okay, so it's been a bit of time since this happened, and work has been a bit draining, so sorry that I've taken so long with this. However, this is going to be a brief writeup on the main events that have happened since a house party Tails threw on Easter.

All of this has taken place on Discord between myself, @red-eclipse, @timeclipsed / @dreamingofeos and @sorrowfulsidekick.

Warning: This is an exceedingly long post. View at your own risk. The two main points are this - Tails now has four tails and a new ability, and Fleetway Super Sonic has been introduced into the AU.

Me: I feel like I should put more in this TLDR but idk what @timeclipsed: Also add never let Jackie cook

On Easter this year, Tails offered his house to a big get-together with his friends and family. Even with the Robotnik from Freedom Planet harassing this universe, and tears in the sky coming from the merging of both Tails and Chronos' dimensions, they didn't want to cancel the plans because this was going to be a big chance for all of the children in each family, mainly Sonic and Amy's kids, Knuckles and Rouge's kids and Kit, to all enjoy themselves.

Things were going off without a hitch for a good while, and Kit was even the one to get the most eggs in the Easter Egg Hunt. However, Chronos had been having small flashes of his sickness all day, trying to play it off like he was fine. However as he was asked to get something for Sonic from the house, it would eventually be too much for him to handle, causing him to collapse on the way back to the yard.

Everyone ended up rushing to his side. Cream being medically trained was one of the first on the scene, with Tails, Skyros and Kit not far behind. Another one to realize what was happening though was Shadow. He's very familiar with this, and gets frustrated with Tails because he wasn't informed about this. Shadow had started an NIDS research foundation and would have been willing to help with Chronos' condition... but Tails had kept it a secret at Chronos' request.

An argument between Tails and Shadow breaks out. Shadow wanted to help, both because he was familiar with the condition and because Chronos is close to his adopted son, Skyros (the Silver of this dimension), so he has an interest in helping Chronos. Tails fights against this because he's already working to help Chronos and was asked to keep his condition a secret, something he had wished to uphold.

With tempers high and Tails dealing with his own issues(which will be mentioned below), Tails had said something in the heat of the moment that has set Shadow off. In response, Shadow made a move to attack Tails with an uppercut to the gut... but Chronos, who had been trying to get up and brush off everyone's concerns about him, decided it was his time to pay Tails back for his efforts, taking the hit instead.

Up until this point, Tails had been starting to feel a fourth tail come in from his kitsune blood. This had come with growing pains as they always did, with him feeling the tail there but not being able to utilize it. The power it was associated with was a mental one which, on occasion, would also cause Tails' own mind to become... hazy. He'd lash out, he would be more forgetful, and would all around just be a bit harder to deal with. In the moment he was arguing with Shadow, these pains would start to creep up yet again, causing him to insult Shadow personally. "I don't need the help of someone who clearly has forgotten which side he was on. Or do you wear the coat of your sister's killers ironically?"

That hit caused a dozen things to happen all at once. On a more personal scale, Tails lost control of himself in his anger. This caused a sudden surge in power, with his fourth tail suddenly sprouting and granting him access to a new ability, dubbed Brainshock. It's essentially a mental ability that, at the moment, really only has use in massively disorienting his target. This gave him the upper hand, allowing him to beat Shadow down in response.

Tails would eventually come to his senses and, despite promising Chronos he wouldn't have to deal with medical facilities again, had to get Chronos entered into emergency surgery. Tails would remain at the hospital until he was released.

On a larger scale, the attack from Shadow accelerated the dimensional merge. Chronos, and the residents of Freedom Planet as a whole, are massively imbued with Chaos Energy, and when Shadow struck him, it caused a powerful enough surge of energy to cause even more problems. Among them was Proto, the "Blaze" from timeclipsed's Sol dimension, who had ended up trading places with Chronos.

Tails would eventually figure out that Chronos wasn't in the hospital anymore, having been swapped out for Proto, who had shapeshifted into him. After a confrontation in the hospital, she would soon reveal that she had sent Chronos out to gather information on various sites around the world that had started to transplant themselves from Freedom Planet into Tails' world, most of which seemingly being Chao Gardens. Investigation is still ongoing... though there have been hiccups.

The other major event to happen is that there was the discovery of an underground civilization, which only came to light after the events of the attack on Easter because the sudden urge in Chaos Energy caused a large crevice to open up. This allowed Sonic, or rather the remnants of Sonic's Super Form, to escape from his underground prison.

When Sonic had lost his Super Form after the incident that lost Tails his arm, it had literally separated itself from his being and formed another being entirely. This would be in the form of a child who was taken in by one Lord Sidewinder, a character from the Fleetway comics run, before he would be trapped underground.

When "Super Sonic" came to the surface, his presence was announced with a random attack against Metal Sonic and Sage, who had both been out of trouble for years. Showing up at Tails' door, Chronos fixed Metal Sonic before deciding to try and get to the bottom of things. This, as well as a few other scattered events, would lead to the group meeting "Super Sonic", said Sonic harassing Chronos into being "his Tails", and the two eventually coming up with a plan to find Sidewinder and bring him to justice.

This plan never really came to fruition however, as Chronos had intended to go alone with nobody but Super Sonic, even fighting for the chance to do it himself, however after a few days of radio silence and jammed signals blocking calls upon arriving at the base, Skyros had arrived to try and help Chronos... which just caused Chronos to leave.

Sidewinder is still at large, but is also just really pissed off at Chronos for essentially ignoring him and just going home. He is now just an extremely petty, extremely old man.

[powered-by-prower]

Colette, out of the loop: "Wait...you're a dad?" Her tail puffed up as she asked the question.

Mentions @red-eclipse, @timeclipsed and @sorrowfulsidekick

"Huh? Y-yeah, I've got three kids. Blossom, she was grown from a seed from a girl I... u-used to know... she's an alien, the last one I know of existing. The last two I sorta... took in after saving them from Robotnik. I don't know if they really see me as their dad, and I am trying to get them home, but... at the very least, I'm literally all Blossom has to call a dad."

[run-muse-dot-exe]

[[ the worlds tiniest sidekick ]]

[run-muse-dot-exe]

with @sorrowfulsidekick from here

"Fine, fine. I'm--"

Breathing. Light through the tiny window of their dwelling. How did she feel...?

"...I'm fine, pipsqueak. Stupid dream, that's all... M-must have been fighting somethin', y'know? Kicked so hard I did it in real life, hah..."

No reason to give the kid an anxious spiral over her condition...