ray-gun randomness

the waking

"what happened?!" tails almost yelled before remembering the echidna cub was still sleeping

"I don't know, I just went up to check on him and I found him like this" sonic said as he swayed side to side, not realizing he was doing it

Only for slight moans to be heard from the cub, signalling that he would be waking up soon

"I'm gonna call the others" tails said quickly, obviously trying to escape the upcoming situation

"tails wait!" sonic tried to call, walking behind his brother

But was stopped by the rough movement on his chest, sonic didn't know what was going to happen so he quickly walked to and placed the baby on the sofa

"tails please, I can't deal with this on my own" sonic cried out, noticing one of knuckles's little fist rise to his eye

"ok, I'm coming, I've just texted vanilla to come by since she has more experience with babies" tails said proudly, re-entering the room

"good thinking" sonic complimented

A small yawn was heard by the two mobians, causing the two to face a half-awake echidna

"s..sonic?" the baby asked, his voice was slightly softer and more high-pitched

Sonic and tails were speechless, but only for a few moments before they soon began laughing their heads of

The noise had wakened the echidna cub completely and instead of sleep his face was now full of confusion and rage

"what's so funny" the little knuckles asked as he began to stand up, but gravity was not on his side as he began to stumble and fall back onto the sofa belly first

His face was covered by his own dreadlocks and caused sonic and tails to laugh harder

But after taking some large breaths, sonic walked over to help the struggling echidna

"knuckles, heh, do you notice anything...different?" sonic asked, stroking away the echidna's hair from his face and placing him back so he could sit up straight

When knuckles had first woken to laughter, he knew something was up, as he looked more closely, he noticed a few other things, everything was much bigger and now he couldn't stand?!

Wanting answers knuckles practically exploded

"why is everything so big! What happened! where's-" knuckles started yelling, waving his gloveless fists around only to be stopped by sonic putting a finger to his lip

"chill buddy, we'll explain everything" sonic replied sheepishly, rubbing his ear feeling like he was going to become deaf

"what happened sonic!" knuckles asked angrily, calming down slightly

Sonic just looked at tails for help, hoping he would be able to explain

Noticing this tail went to sonic's side and gently told knuckles

"you got hit by Eggmans ray and it seems you have de-aged...quite a bit and..um..we don't know if it's either permanent or will change anything else to you" tails explained, but it was only after when he said it that he noticed that he shouldn't have said that last part

Sonic started at tails in discomfort while knuckles stared at the fox in horror

"I'm going to kill him, turn me back! I don't want to be stuck like this!" knuckles screamed

"way to go tails" sonic sighed

"hey, he wanted to know, it's not like I told him we called the others" tails said trying to defend himself, only to make things much worse