He is My Master

63: Where You Are Loved

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After Knuckles had recovered from his near heart attack -

("You're – you're not serious, right? You're not actually pregnant?" - "Of course not, Knuckles. That would be ridiculous." - "Oh, good, for a moment, I-" - "Obviously Shadow and I took precautions, at this stage in the relationship it's far too early for kids.")

...and Sonic had dodged the coaster that was promptly flung at his head for his troubles, plus then promised to keep any and all jokes out of the narrative (for both his audience's and his own health...) they then finally all moved back to the table, Tails joined them with the beverages and Shadow and Sonic retold their adventures. They changed and left certain things out, of course, or simply edited them a bit (most notably the exact condition the alternate Tails had been in, to avoid upsetting the fox kid, the exact species of the echidna tribe, to avoid upsetting Knuckles, and of course the details of their night in the cell – to avoid upsetting everybody).

Knuckles still raised an eye ridge at the part about their nightly confinement.

"I find it a bit hard to believe you actually managed to sit still for so long, hedgehog."

Sonic gave an innocent grin. "I can find ways to occupy myself."

"Tell us more about the sword fight at the royal dinner!" Tails demanded, and Sonic laughed, glad to oblige and entertain his audience with what could have been very well the events leading up to his death, but had fortunately just turned into another exciting adventure he could tell his friends about instead. It was about an hour later, the sun now definitely disappeared beneath the horizon, that they finally finished, Sonic telling and re-telling the parts about their fight against Devil Doom with such great enthusiasm and illustrating the final Chaos Blast by flinging his arms to his sides that Shadow several times had to dodge his flying hands.

"And then we Chaos Controlled back and ended up in Windy Valley, from where I ran back to you guys and Knuckles tried to snap my neck again. The end," Sonic finished cheerfully.

"...wow," Tails managed, the mouth of the little fox a small 'o'. Then he frowned. "But...wait. You mean you left straight after defeating Black Doom? You didn't stick around to make sure everyone was alright? I mean, I'm glad you came back, obviously, because otherwise we would have all died," Tails corrected himself quickly, "But, uh...didn't you think about maybe staying a bit longer and maybe build a better world for the people there? It sounded like it was really bad..."

"They'll have to do that themselves, kid," Knuckles interjected before Sonic could say anything. "You can't go around building a better world for people. Only the people living there can build a better world for people. If someone else does it, it's just a cage."

"Mmh. Suppose that could be true," Sonic agreed. "I at least hope they got the hint about slavery being not all it's cracked up to be, though."

"Which is very possible after one seriously ticked-off palace pet managed to put their king through the grand slammer, I should think," Shadow said smoothly, running a finger casually along Sonic's neck. The hero snorted.

"Yeah. Hopefully." This was rapidly followed by a stretch and a yawn. "But no matter what those crazies do, it doesn't change that I'm completely beat for today. Re-educating our doppelgangers will have to wait until tomorrow. I suppose you'll all stay over, right?"

"It's a bit late to try and get back up to Angel Island, yeah," Knuckles replied. "Also, I'm not too sure leaving you alone with those two is such a great idea."