The Alien of Darkness

5 Years Later

5 years later; Raven, Navy, and Petunia are now 10 years old and in 5th grade class in elementary school. Raven's little brother Neptune started kindergarten at age 5 years old.

Knuckles and Rouge got married 5 years ago and they have their 4 year-old echidna-bat hybrid child. She was a pink echidna with bat wings on her back as well as bat ears too; she even has her mother's eyes. Her name is Citrine and unlike her father she is not as angry as him.

Silver and Blaze were also married 5 years ago of the day when they came back to Earth from their mission. They have their 4 year-old hybrid hedge-cat son named Zinc; he resembles a bit like his father but has his mother's eyes, purple highlights on his forelocks and the tip on his cat tail. And of course, they have a 2 year-old hybrid daughter named Ashley. She resembles a bit like her mother but has her father's eyes. White tips on her cat tail and her short ponytail.

Today, the kids are outside having fun in the playground while the parents watch them.

"I hope kindergarten is a good place, Neptune" Citrine said.

"It is. And you'll love it. One more year and we got school" Neptune said.

"Okay. Because most of the time my daddy can be overprotective" Citrine said.

Ashley was holding her brother's hand since she has just learned how to walk properly.

"Ashley, be careful" Zinc said.

"Big Brother, I can't run yet" Ashley whines a bit.

"Okay sis" Zinc said and let go of her hand, "Come on, try taking a few steps towards mom and dad"

Ashley looks at her parents and caught their attention as she began walking to them.

"Come on Ashley. You can do it" Silver tells his daughter.

"Ok Daddy" Ashley tried her best to walk to her parents. Unfortunately, she falls over and fell on her stomach. She got back up and tried again, this time she succeeds.

"Good girl. You did well Ashley" Blaze picks her up.

Raven and Navy were having a race at the baseball field, going at 40 mph so that they won't cause damage by going too fast.

"Whoooohoooo!" Raven cheered by running alongside Navy.

"Is that the best you can do?" Navy said and ran faster.

"Hmm..." Raven smirked and teleports in front of Navy, "Surprise!"

"Hey, that's cheating!" Navy complained. He ran past her again in full speed.

"Boys these days" Raven chuckled and teleports again in front of Navy, "Gotcha!" she tackles him.

"You cheater!" Navy playfully wrestled with Raven.

Sonic shook his head at these two arguing, "Sometimes you just can't keep your cool" he chuckled.

"I guess" Nebula said.

Raven and Navy grunts and struggles from tackling each other but Raven managed to pin Navy down, "Pinned ya. But next time, don't run at 100 mph, please"

"Oh yeah. You should not cheat by teleporting" Navy said.

"Okay then. But if you don't start fight" Raven said.

"Bro, check this one out" Petunia said, climbing up a tower in the playground. The climbing tower was five meters tall and they saw how Petunia bravely climbs to the top, "Who's next?" Petunia asked.

"I'll try!" Neptune said. He then tries to climb the tower despite being half as old as Petunia, Raven and Navy. When he was about half way on the tower, he looked down to see if it was not high enough for him.