#so sonic runs trying to get him help and BOOM tails wakes up and he became a demon????

[tornado1992]

Hmmmm. Unbreakable bond Kimetsu No Yaiba (Demon Slayer) AU.

[lyrarizi]

My take on sonic prime season 3:

sonic prime fanfiction rewrite

Warning: im not naturally english so please dont mind my weird senteces and wrong grammer!

After sonic sacreficed himself he quickly went downhill. The chaos council betrayed them and got sent to the dark pit in the void. Nine gives sonic a communicator and they hug goodbye. The Roses help sonic and shadow to get back to greenhill. After the ship gets damaged shadow picks up sonic (bridal style ❤️) to get him to the gate. After sonic flirts with shadow on the verge of death he faints. Shadow holds sonic even tighter and makes 3 sonic booms. Shadow and sonic get though the portal and are back in green hill. (the moment they enter is just when the crew got blasted away from the prism. They fall to the ground and see shadow crash in holding sonic protecting him from the fall into the ground.) Shadow and sonic Come out of the paradoxprism and crash into the ground. The crew stands up and look confused at shadow but then realize that sonic is dying. They quickly run towards them and help shadow up. Shadow asks if it worked but then he sees sonic is still dying and runs towards him and shouts his name. Eggman stops with pulling the paradoxprism and looks at the scene. Shadow and the crew are trying everything to keep him alive but then he breathes his last breath out. Shadow is in disbelief and the crew cries. Sonic slowy sparkles away but then the paradoxprism shoots a energy blast at sonic. Sonic is rising up while the blast is surrounding him with Light (in the colors of the prism) and gets resurected. (how that happens is kinda like: he rises up and his arms and legs get pushed down as if he reclames his soul. Hope i explained it good 😅) Sonic falls to the ground but before he touches it shadow catches him. He puts sonic down and hugs him and says:" Dont ever do that to me again please!" Sonic hugs him back and responds:" Don't worry, i would't dare." Shadow frees sonic from his hug. Sonic sees his friends and stands up and runs towards them with tears in his eyes. The crew is confused but accepts the grouphug. The groupshug is interrupted by eggman who attacks them. Sonic nods to shadow and he nods back. Together they defeat his robot in no time and the crew is even more confused. Rouge asks:" Okay, what the hell happended between you 2?!" Sonic answers:" I promise i explain everything later but can i please sleep for a whole week first? Sonic faints of exhaustion and shadow picks him up (bridal style ❤️.... Again) and says:" Il bring him home." Shadow leaves and the crew is left flabbergasted. Shadow puts sonic is his big hammock and tucks him in but then he feels a hand around his arm and sonic pulls shadow in the hammock and says:" Stay, please." Shadow gives in and joins him in the hammock. A couple of 10 minutes later rouge and tails enter and see the scene. Tails is really shocked and rouge is like: OMG omg omg SO cute expression. Tails tries to wake them up but rouge takes his arm and shakes her head. Tails gets the message and leaves them alone. A couple days later they wake up and sonic checks the time and realizes they slept for days. (like 2 or somth) Sonic and shadow go to the crew who are chilling at the palmtree. Sonic and shadow explain everything and the next shot you see is the reaction of the crew who are flabbergasted. (again 😜) The next thing what happens is the communicator going off and we hear nine saying:" Sonic, we are all at your gate could you open it?" Sonic sprints to the paradoxprism and takes some power to open a portal. All his friends enter his world and sonic says:"Hey guys! Let me show you my friends and my world!" Rebel en knux let out a tear because they are back in greenhill. Everyone arrives at the palmtree and sonic introduces them all.

The episode ends with them hanging out and having a beach party. (BTW, sonadow is canon)

End.

And how is that for a finale? I decided to not be this the modern sonic crew because i want this to be a seperate universe. And now since this is a seperate universe they just cross over from time to time . And with all the flirttension between sonic and shadow i made them canon in my universe.

thanks for reading my take on sonic prime season 3 finale <3

feel free to make art if you want with my ideas but please ask first so i can see it :D

Reposting now allowed but no stealing please, let's be nice and respect each other ideas

[000marie198]

Boom

Ooh, that's gonna be fun. This is in addition to that 'What if Tails Squad in Tails centric episodes' ask, right?

Ep1. The Sidekick

Boom Tails' alternate buddies would be very upset and angry and keep spying on Sonic. While some others would be just standing among the villagers but glaring at Boom Sonic as he passes, some would pop up in his path to interrogate and guilt trip the poor hedgehog. Another two will be keeping an eye on what he's planning and reporting it back to Boom Tails' with the last one trying his best to cheer the boy up and giving him hope that Sonic probably didn't mean that. He wouldn't be that upset, knowing his brother well enough to figure out that something is amiss but his counterparts are more than protective. He learns from them that Sonic is searching for a sidekick and decides to apply for it, humorously learning that his friends have been overwhelming the candidates and Sonic by appearing for application constantly. Poor Sonic unable to figure out whether they are repeating or all the Tails that appeared are different. It's rather entertaining to watch. In the end Tails asks them to leave it to him and they comply, not interfering and the rest of the episode goes as it did. Meanwhile, the Tails Squad is celebrating off screen.

Ep2. Can an Evil Genius Crash on Your Couch for a Few Weeks

The image of a bunch of super tried and sleepy Tails yawning and suddenly falling asleep in a cuddle pile at random moments while on mission is way too adorable. Nobody has the heart to wake them up so Sonic only seeks help from his own Tails. They either get startled awake or curl up tighter with a whimper when Eggman blows the whistle. Only to fall asleep afterwards with a whine or a grumble.

Ep3. Translate This

Poor Eggman has to deal with a bunch of purposefully mischievous lab assistants while Team Sonic has to deal with an army of UTs running around the place. They regret having disliked their younger friend's invention and now they're paying for it by having mini heart attacks as these bots almost reveal their deepest darkest secrets only to pull back at the last second and sassing back by saying something like, "Man I am so embarrassed".

The worst part of it is they cannot find any single Tails to turn them off and the only Tails they can find turns out to be a manipulative genius.

Ep9. Guilt Tripping

Is this episode Tails centric? It feels like Sonic and Tails centric but I guess it still counts? Anyways. If the whole Tails Squad was present alongside Sonic instead of just Boom Tails, I think they would be pulled into the guilt tripping too. Until they have to fight back, then the guilt tripping one on one would also include some sad puppy eyes and using the Gogoba's weapon against them. Cue the Tails squad driving the village nuts in the background while Sonic and SatAM Tails are playing guilt tripping with the chief. Why not Boom Tails? Because the younger child is a manipulative genius bigger than Boom Tails. Now let's pan to the village where sounds of chaos and screams are coming from. The Tailses are pulling an uno reverse on everyone by breaking something and then overdramatically crying "Oh no, my poor squished tail! If only this massive table wasn't set up in the middle of the village. But that's okay. Placing this piece of furniture in the town square where it takes up space was more important than my ability to fly which has saved this world countless times."

*Breaks a window* "Ow my arm! If only it didn't get stuck in this now broken window but that's okay. It's not like I needed that arm to make an entire security system for this village that cannot be self sufficient enough."

*Drops a wrench in the fruit* "My favorite wrench! No! Oh well, not like it was a gift from the first person who became my friend and holds precious memories. I guess wasting away the fruit that took a lot of time and effort to grow just for guilt tripping a bunch of humble helpful heroes was far more important than caring about nature and it's gifts."

(Sonic taking a glance at the chaos happening behind him: "Yeesh. Remind me never to get on you guys' bad side.")

They would be absolute menaces to the point the Gogoba's would beg them to leave and never think about seeking them out.

Ep12. Circus of Plunders

After Tails leaves to fix his invention, two or three of his counterparts go with him to help and some stay behind, unsure what to do when Sonic is telling everyone to go easy on Tails. When T.W. Barker appears, most of the fox squad left behind feels suspicious and refuses to join, a couple of them also trying to subtly tell the others that they have a bad feeling about this. The Boom crew don't heed their warnings and end up roped into the circus. Tails Squad keeps an eye on Barker and their Boom friends, trying to keep it subtle and keeping themselves hidden away. They figure out even before the betrayal happens about the traps and act accordingly by informing Boom Tails and messing around with the circus equipment so it backfires.

Ep16. How to Succeed in Evil Without Really Trying

They all get grounded along with their Boom counterpart for using too much tech. They all have to work on the garden.

And once Tails gets invited by the Lightning bolt society, the Tails Squad knows exactly what is going on but plays along anyway, pretending to be Boom Tails' team of minions and availing the chance to do crazy pranks which they aren't allowed to do otherwise. They whine in disappointment with the same energy a kid gets when he is told by his parents that it's time to go home at the moment when Tails figures it out and tells the LBS that he is not a villain.

Ep28. Blue with Envy

Not exactly a Tails centric episode but boy will every single genius two tailed fox in the Tails Squad will go feral protective for the counterpart of their big brother and form a Swifty Hate Club to cheer up Sonic.

Ep34. Just a Guy

Not exactly a Tails centric but Sonic's friends should have supported him instead of just joining the villagers into ganging up on the poor hero. So I believe if the Tails Squad was present, they would've fought back for their big brother. And they would be expressing they are mad at everyone by not helping with anything they would usually help with and turning with crossed arms and a hmph! whenever Knuckles or Amy tries to start a conversation with them. And if things go south, instead of helping out or saving the day they would've already left the village and if someone asks them for their help with it, literally any of them would sarcastically go, "Oh no! What tragedy. If only the entire fucking town hadn't forced their hero to the point of quitting, none of this would be happening! But Alas, what can you do?"

If Tails Squad was present, the ending wouldn't have been this quick and satisfactory and Sonic would've received a collective sincere apology.

Ep36. Beyond the Valley of the Cubots

Tails gets a helping hand. Also, the sass on these fox kits! Simply wonderful.

Ep40. Tails' Crush

The squad hatch an operation to help hook their counterpart up while sneakily pulling at stuff from the sidelines. It's hilarious to watch unexplainable things happening like out of nowhere appearance of roses or romantic violin music that accidentally gets blasted on the speakers all around town by one Tails while another facepalms as he's hiding behind the crate. All their plans are crazy cliche and keep confusing Zoey more than making her feel courted and Boom Tails, the poor sweet child taking ineffective advice from his world's friends, is too smitten to notice the chaos happening around him.

Ep43. Fire in a Crowded Workshop

Again, not a Tails centric episode. But! The Tails Squad is there. And they're all munching on popcorn and snickering while listening to everyone's version of the same story, watching it like a comedy show and outright leaning on each other while trying to hold in the giggles at some of the silliest parts. Sonic and Knuckles don't realize that they are being recorded for blackmail purposes.

Ep45. Robot Battle Royale

Every fox kit signs up for the RBR to probe that he is a real inventor! Stop saying he's not, he'll prove it that he's a real inventor. And they all get competitive and get too into it. No other candidate has the slightest chance to move up the rounds and then these boys end up having to compete against each other. It's endearing and hilarious to watch them dramatically throwing one liners at each other and then the one who loses overdramatically falls to his knees with a, "NOOOOOOO," while the winner Tails keeps up the tirade of a smug winner. "Tch. You thought you could bring this flimsy excuse of an invention to fight against me? Ha! You should have thought twice before competing against Miles Tails Prower."

"It is alright *Sniff* You will always be the best robot to me. You shall be missed. *Sniff*" (The bot isn't even broken. Just defeated.)

They've all just turned into theatre kids fr. In the end though, they all do end up needing Knuckles' robot.

Ep50. Cabin Fever

The squad is terrified of thunder and poor Sonic keeps getting tackled due every Tails clinging to him. He doesn't mind though, it's endearing. Also, they all join in on the pretend play.

.....

That's it for season 1.

[cattyanon]

So eventually Sonic wakes up standing at (some place) which is deserted. Knowing what this means he feels like throwing up. He’s being used as a puppet to kill people with the excuse of survival.

He sprints into a forest as he thinks about what he’s going to do next. He’s clearly too dangerous to be near people right now. Sonic settles on isolation for the time being. He doesn’t want to risk hurting anybody with something he doesn’t know how to control.

For a moment he considers staying with Tails before he remembers that’s impossible. He had momentarily forgotten about what he was forced to do, too focused on not hurting anybody else.

And without the parasite there to distract him, what happened hits him all at once.

Tails.

T a i l s .

His brother. Gone.

And he couldn’t even do a thing. He just stood there and watched it happened. There was a feeling of pure terror he felt just thinking about it. He couldn’t save him. He couldn’t do anything.

And the terror he felt only grew when he felt his tails droop and hit the ground. Another horrible reminder of what happened. He hates it. He hates it so, so much. At this point he’s crying.

He wishes he didn’t have those two tails. Thinking about them being there felt so wrong and yet for reason they were so easy to move and he absolutely hates it. Why does it feel so natural? It shouldn’t feel so natural, none of this is natural! 

He needs help. He doesn’t want to but he knows he needs it at this point. But who? Who does he go to for something so horrible?

Thinking about it he eventually decides that Amy might be his best bet for this. I mean, she did accept him even in his werehog form. He’d have to be careful though. He doesn’t want to hurt anybody else.

Shit, now I gotta figure out where tf Amy lives... aaaand the only mention of where she lives is in Sonic Boom which is not the canon this takes place in. I guess I’ll just base it off her house in that then? Let’s just go with that.

So Sonic arrives at the house near the beach Amy lives in and stands in front of her door for awhile. She’s going to immediately question him on what happened when she saw his eyes. 

Was he even ready for this? Chaos, was it even a good idea to get Amy involved?

Sonic is starting to think that maybe he should just leave when the door suddenly opens. It’s Amy. And as expected, once she realizes who it is, bombards him with questions.

He gets her to calm down with the questions and they both walk inside. Amy comments that she was about to go shopping but whatever reason Sonic has to be here must be important.

He sits on the couch and Amy notices something very strange she didn’t notice before. She’s extremely tempted to ask but... it probably has something to do with why Sonic is here. She’ll just ask him if he doesn’t bring it up.

And since she knows this is Sonic, the one who doesn’t like sharing his feelings, she knows she needs to go slow.

Amy is patient and with time Sonic eventually recounts everything that’s happened that he remembers. She tries to hide it but she’s absolutely horrified. And it definitely happened too. There’s no way Sonic would joke about something like that regarding Tails.

So Amy is barely keeping it together as Sonic laments that he doesn’t know what to do. He doesn’t want to hurt anybody but eventually this thing is going to come back and make him hurt more people.

“It’ll insist I’ve run out of reserves eventually. I don’t want to hurt anyone but I don’t know how to make it stop either!”

Amy asks him to give her a moment to think up something.

She eventually gets an idea. “Well maybe if you eat more than usual that’ll keep you filled up? You should probably also try and get a handle on these giant shadow hands you’ve told me about too.”

Sonic then thanks Amy for her advice and says he’ll think about it and asks if she doesn’t mind him sticking around for awhile. He can’t bring himself to go back to the workshop. Just thinking about it makes him feel queasy.

Amy agrees and says that while Sonic thinks about it that she’s going to do her shopping. (And now she’s also going out to wrap her head around what she was just told because wtf)

So Amy heads off to go shopping while Sonic walks along the beach contemplating about what Amy said.

And what she said definitely made an amount of sense. If he ate more than he already does it would probably fill up whatever reserves the thing (he doesn’t know it’s a parasite) was talking about.

Then there’s the whole learning how to control those weird giant shadow hands. It was probably possible. He did do it that one time in Station Square even if it was an accident.

Eventually Sonic comes to a stop. He really didn’t want to do this, it would just serve as a reminder of what happened, but he couldn’t risk hurting somebody again.

He couldn’t risk doing that to Amy as well.

With a new found resolution, Sonic decides to give controlling the hands a try. He can’t end up hurting somebody close to him again. (What he doesn’t know is that it wasn’t him who actually used the hands to snatch up Tails. That’s right, I’m making him feel guilty for something he didn’t actually have control over at the time. Mwahahaha!!)

Anyways Sonic ends up looking like an absolute maniac from an outsider’s perspective while trying to summon a hand. 

I think I’ll leave it here so I can try to really get into the details of Sonic summoning a hand for the ‘first’ time. I wanna try writing how it’ll feel. Try and hone some writing skills in the process, you know?

Anyways there will be angst coming up. If you’re interested in what the next super angsty thing is gonna be just look in the tags.

[comixconnection]

Choose Your Three Free Comics!

At long, long last...Free Comic Book Day is here! Unlike the usual “first Saturday in May” celebration that has defined the even in normal years, due to issues with the ongoing pandemic the folks in charge have decided to move this year’s celebration back to August 14th. Want a sneak-peak at the books...?

The following titles will be available at Comix Connection on Aug 14th (while supplies last!). Everybody gets to pick three! Unlike previous years, we will NOT be accepting FOOD DONATIONS in exchange for additional comics. Instead we will be collecting monetary donations to give to the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank. For every DOLLAR donates, you may select an additional free comic book!

We know the line for the FCBD comics can get long (if you want to come in and shop first, you can skip the line and head straight inside!) so in an effort to both entertain you while you’re in that long line and to help it go a little faster by giving you a preview of the various titles so you can decide ahead of time what looks good, the Comix Connection Counter Monkeys have read and reviewed all of the available FCBD books! Take a peek!

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Who Sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott? gives a sample of the upcoming graphic novel by the same name, a tale telling the true story of the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement,” Rosa Parks! This excerpt features the immediate aftermath of Rosa’s arrest, and her decision to start a legal battle that would change the course of American freedom! [All Ages]

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“My name is Grace, not ‘Kyle's little sister’!” Having a good-looking, friendly, outgoing older brother sucks--especially when you're the total opposite: someone who likes staying home and playing video games. Your parents like him better (even if they deny it!) and everyone calls you "Kyle's little sister" while looking disappointed that you're not more like him. Grace was really hoping she'd get to go to a different middle school, but no such luck. At least she has her friends...until he finds a way to ruin that, too! What will Grace have to do to get out of his shadow?! [All Ages]

Jewish mythology has it that when God created the universe, He left one corner of it unfinished. Opinion is divided on why, but everyone agrees that the Unfinished Corner is a dangerous place full of monsters. Twelve-year-old Miriam is too busy preparing for her Bat Mitzvah to care about the Unfished Corner. She spends her days wrestling with whether she even wants to be Jewish--until a peculiar angel appears, whisking her, her two best friends, and her worst frenemy off to this monstrous land with one mission: finish the Unfinished Corner. [All Ages]

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The Last Kids on Earth and their friends each tell their own best story of the Monster Apocalypse, including Jack's high-stakes baseball game, Globlet's attempt to take over the world, Quint's bad-day-away invention, Dirk's bragain with a witch, and June and Skaelka's creepy carnival--plus a surprise story from some bad guys on the run... [All Ages]

Being the new kid is tough, even for a superhero/ward and heir to a billionaire, Damian Wayne (aka Robin)! Join Damian as he struggles to learn patience and understanding from the students at Gotham Metro Academy, including star student and all-around Great Guy, Howard! Plus, an adventure of Amethyst, princess of the mystical realm of Gemworld by bestselling authors Shannon Hale and Dean Hale! [All Ages]

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In Edge of Balance, a new High Republic story set in the wake of the Hyperspace Disaster, meet new Jedi and their enemies 100 years before the events of the Skywalker Saga! Young Jedi Knight Lily Tora-Asi is assigned to help displaced civilians relocate to Banchii in the Outer Rim. She and her padawans will face more threats there than just anxious settlers, from the insidious Drengir to the Nihil! And in Guardian of the Whills, encounter Baze and Chirrut before they join the Rebellion against the Empire in Rogue One! Presiding over the Kyber Temple on Jedha, the Guardians of the Whills had hoped to maintain the balance despite the growing presence of the Empire in their Holy City. Yet when a rebel named Saw Gerrera appears, Baze and Chirrut must decide if they're willing to compromise for peace, or if Saw's plan is too dangerous to risk. Read the first chapter of these two new Star Wars Manga Graphic Novels here! [Teen]

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A fascinating graphic adaptation of historian Timothy Snyder’s book On Tyranny, a collections of essays and reflections on lessons from history and how they can help America steer away from the course of authoritarianism. Recommended for anyone looking to learn more about how tyrants all through history have manipulated people and systems to take away the freedoms of others. [Teen]

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Crewed by teenage geniuses frozen in cryosleep, the JEMISON is on a mission to terraform other worlds and provide hope for the human race. But when the ship is mysteriously stopped over a planet that isn't on any of their maps, the crew finds themselves suddenly awoken ten years early. One half remains behind to try and assess the damage and the other is dispatched to the planet below to figure out the answer to a perilous question: What stopped the ship, and is it friend or foe? [Teen]

As the earth dies, salvation is offered to five thousand children who will be spirited away from our planet’s apocalypse -- but what of the other children, still hoping to find one of the bracelets that give them their ticket off planet? In this wistful one-shot from the sci-fi hit We Live, go into the Broken Lands with a group of friends...but there are four of them, and only one bracelet to be found. How will they decide who gets to leave? Then, preview the Rainbow Bridge graphic novel where Andy has to help his beloved dog Rocket save eternity! [Teen]

“The comic adventures of Max, Chloe, and Rachel from the award-winning video game Life Is Strange continue in this exclusive lead-in to an epic new story arc! This FCBD special features the first comic book appearance of an all-new character who will feature heavily in the Life is Strange universe in 2021! This FCBD issue contains exclusive original material!” [Teen]

“To reclaim the Dungeon that fell to the scheming William Delacour, the plan is simple: Marvin the dragon, Isis, and Herbert the duck must find some magic “fugus purit” and use it to dislodge the current occupants of the fortress. But is this really the Guardian's plan? Our heroes will have to fight against everyone to save the Dungeon. Meanwhile, will Marvin succeed in his engagement blast-of-firebreath 'Tong Deum'? Preview the new series here!” [Teen]

See the next chapter of the super-powered scifi epic The Resistance, and then meeet the “Moths”: a subset of the super-powered Reborn. The pandemic that granted the Reborn their gifts during The Great Death gave power to people like  Emily Kai and the rest of the Moths, too...but the moment they use their gifts, their clock starts ticking and they have six months to live. Also, get a sneak-peek at the just-released Not All Robots futuristic techno-depressive-thriller! [Teen]

The second semester of School for Extraterrestrial Girls is in session! Peer into the lives of Tara Smith (fire lizard!), Misako Sato (extra-dimensional fairy!), Summer Cortez (pink tentacle void beast!), and Ekaterina and Zvenislava (anthropomorphic Russian kittens!). They’re all normal teenage girls...except that they’re all aliens stuck on Earth, and since Tara partially destroyed their old school they’ve been sent to bunk at the School for Extraterrestrial Boys while it’s repaired...that’ll go fine, right? Read the first issue here! [Teen]

This official spinoff manga of Rent-A-Girlfriend, the rom-com turned hit anime, features fan-favorite Sumi, the shy girl longing to come out of her shell. Written and illustrated by original creator Reiji Miyajima! Catch up on the manga before the Rent-A-Girlfriend anime returns for a second season, coming soon! [Teen]

Zom 100 is a violent and funny take on the zombie apocalypse! Its main character, Akira, is so depressed in his soul-crushing job that he uses the undead hordes as motivation to finally complete his bucket list! Also included is a sample of the hit fantasy manga Demon Slayer. [Teen]

“Known as the the Weakest Hunter of All Mankind, E-rank hunter Jinwoo Sung's contribution to raids amounts to trying not to get killed. Unfortunately, between his mother's hospital bills, his sister's tuition, and his own lack of job prospects, he has no choice but to continue to put his life on the line. So when an opportunity arises for a bigger payout, he takes it...only to come face-to-face with a being whose power outranks anything he's ever seen! With the party leader missing an arm and the only healer a quivering mess, can Jinwoo somehow find them a way out?” [Teen]

In the small Pennsylvania town of White Ash, there isn’t much going on aside from mining...and keeping the fact that there are elves and dwarves living in the town secret, of course! In this pre-launch of Season Two of the ongoing series, a romantic rendezvous for the grieving dwarf Alex and mischievous elf Lillian doesn’t go as planned...with potentially disastrous consequences! Also read a preview of The Game, a new series where your every action affects impacts the score of your life! Plus a sneak-peak at some vampiric troubles in colonial America in Stake! [Teen]

World of Zorro gives readers a peak at the upcoming titles for the legendary masked swashbuckler, both new stories (that range from the familiar to supernatural horror) as well as newly-translated classic tales! [Teen]

For FREE COMIC BOOK DAY, enjoy this special expanded edition of the hit IMAGE series, STRAY DOGS! Stray Dogs is a comic thriller that features art inspired by classic Don Bluth-style animation, telling the story of a group of dogs brought together by a mysterious loner. Rather than behave like four-legged humans, the brilliance of Stray Dogs is that it gets inside the heads of its canine characters, showing the human world from their perspective. Unique, entertaining, and creepy. [Teen]

The undead Vampirella has been around since 1969, and as the celebrations of her 50th anniversary draw to a close, Dynamite presents a reprint of the first issue of their series that kicked-off her modern adventures! [Teen+]

Take an inside look at everyone’s favorite bipedal shark god, King Shark (aka Nanaue)! Suicide Squad’s many-toothed muscle is currently inside Belle Reve prison, but he won’t remain there for long. PLUS: a sneak peak at the just-released Suicide Squad miniseries Get Joker! [Mature]

“After 20 years of antics coming out of Sunnyvale trailer park, the underground TV phenomenon Trailer Park Boys is finally coming to comics! Full of short stories and activity pages, several of comics' finest join to create a series of comic book specials in 2021 and beyond honoring Ricky, Bubbles and Julian and everything fans have come to love about the series.”  [Mature]

Fungirl is a humor comic that is as unpredictable and hilarious as it is observant and smart. Cartoonist Elizabeth Pich’s creation does as much smashing the patriarchy as she does dreaming of delicious donuts and being spit on by llamas. [Mature]

“Tensions between the clans are high, so when Cecily Bain, an enforcer for the Twin Cities' vampiric elite, takes a mysterious new vampire under her wing she finds herself in over her head and dragged into a massive undead conspiracy! Meanwhile, on the outskirts of the city, a rebellious found-family of clan-less vampire cast-outs investigates a vicious killing.” [Mature]

“Preview the forthcoming full color, original Space Pirate Captain Harlock series from ABLAZE, personally overseen by the legendary Leiji Matsumoto!  In this brand-new Captain Harlock adventure, planet Earth is threatened by an upcoming invasion by the Sylvidres and despite being banished as a pirate, Captain Harlock won't give up trying to save the world. Will Captain Harlock and his crew manage to solve this mystery and save the Earth from yet another menace?  Also includes teasers for 3 highly anticipated upcoming manga/manhwa releases from ABLAZE, including The Breaker Vol 1 omnibus (critically acclaimed martial arts manhwa), Versus Fighting Story Vol 1 (Capcom e-sports shonen manga) and Crueler Than Dead Vol 1 (zombie horror seinen manga).” [Mature] 

“An evil so profound it threatens all mankind... the mightiest heroes on the planet uniting to defend us all... a secret crisis of such utter finality that a countdown to civil or infinite war seems unavoidable... but have you ever wondered what really happens during Crossovers? The Seven, Payback, Teenage Kix, Fantastico and every other supe on Earth team up for an annual event like no other... and where the supes go, can a certain "five complications and a dog" be far behind? Vought-American prepare to make their move, in a story that will change the world of the Boys forever: Herogasm #1. The first-ever Boys spin-off mini-series features the pairing of Ennis with Hitman artist John McCrea and covers by Boys artist and co-creator Darick Robertson!” [Mature]

“The most eagerly-anticipated series of 2021 gets the FCBD treatment with this ALL-NEW "bonus" issue of the series! Featuring 33 pages of comics produced exclusively for FCBD, from the creator of Hip Hop Family Tree and X-Men: Grand Design, designed as a perfect entry point for new readers and a must-have for those already on board. Aided by the anonymous dark web and nearly untraceable crypto-currency, there has emerged a subculture of criminals who live-stream and patronize webcam murders for entertainment. Who are the murderers? Who are the victims? Who is the audience? How do we stop it? An outlaw, splatterpunk masterpiece, as seen on Piskor's YouTube channel sensation, Cartoonist Kayfabe!” [Mature]

“An award-winning comic and soon to be Netflix anime series!  When dusk arrives in the city of Manila, that's when you become the most likely prey of the underworld. Kidnappers and thieves will be the least of your worries. Beware the criminals that can't be bound with handcuffs nor harmed with bullets.  Beware the ones that crave your blood, those who hold your heart ransom, and the ones that come to steal your soul. When crime takes a turn for the weird, the police call Alexandra Trese. Featuring a preview from TRESE Vol 2: Unreported Murders, a section on the forthcoming Netflix TRESE anime series launching this summer (including an interview with Director Jay Oliva), bonus pages with w/ background about the monsters of Philippine myth as told by TRESE creators Budjette Tan and Kajo Baldisimo, and a teaser on TRESE Vol 3: Mass Murders, coming this Sept from ABLAZE!” [Mature]

“2000 AD Presents All-Star Judge Dredd is a thrill-powered showcase of the past and shocking present of the iconic lawman of the future! Witness the birth of the world of Judge Dredd in an incendiary preview of upcoming prequel graphic novel Dreadnoughts by Michael Carroll with art by Watchmen's John Higgins. Fan-favourite Judge Hershey travels to the ends of the earth to dispense her own brand of justice in long-anticipated blockbuster spin-off, Hershey: Disease by Rob Williams (Suicide Squad) and Simon Fraser (Doctor Who). Along-side these teases for Fall 2021 epics enjoy a bone-rattling all new stand-alone Dredd caper from elite writer Al Ewing (Immortal Hulk, Marvel's Empyre) and Caspar Wijngaard (Star Wars, Home Sick Pilots)!” [Teen]

“Four titanic tales of pure fun and entertainment for everyone to enjoy! First up. It's no dog and pony show here! Bringing back the iconic puppets from the San Francisco Bay Area "Charlie and Humphrey"!! The modern-day Gumby and Pokey! A true love for al ages featuring a tale by Justin Sane and John Hageman! Next up is "Red Dawn" Written and created by Brandon McKinney, with inks by Bill Anderson and vibrant colors from Ross Hughes!! The government has created the first "controlled" superhero doing the bidding of a shadow operation until things go bad leaving our hero to blame and now on the run. The following story is only exclusive to this FCBD edition. Written by Greg Boucher and illustrated by Victor Moya they bring you "Rock and Roll Biographies: FIGHt" See how a troubled Rob Halford leaves the world biggest heavy metal band to form his own supergroup and take metal back!! Our last preview is written by Mel Smith, illustrated by Frank Cirocco/Alex Sheikman and hand colored by Gerhard! "Becoming Frankenstein" takes down the journey of a troubled Victor Frankenstein as he grieves the loss of his mother while harvesting the body parts of victims to create life again for his monster! Learn the tales of the victims and who they were before they became what becomes Frankenstein's ultimate creation! : This will be the only edition to feature this Rock and Roll Biographies story featuring FIGHT “ [Mature]

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[latin-dr-robotnik]

“Sonic the Hedgehog, I can’t believe you think those awful things! [...] After everything I do for you, you don't appreciate me?! Why am I even here?”

No joke, that’s one of my all-time favorite moments from Sonic Boom.

Imagine realizing one of your best friends, and the person you pretty much built an entire life with (in your mind), goes and supposedly say some nasty things about you. Yeah, an 11-minute kids cartoon won’t elaborate on that and it plays it more for the laughs and some ship-teasing, but that little spark of conflict is something that really goes right up on my SonAmy angst alley.

I cannot express enough how on point Cindy’s delivery throughout the entire sequence has always been (that “why am I even here?” is wonderful), in addition to Roger’s stuttery Sonic reactions and that beautiful “So now you're gonna trust some bucket of bolts over me?” (agh! That kinda stuff feels so nice to hear!) line. Bingo! 

I feel like any other iteration of Sonic wouldn’t feel the need to prove UT wrong so hard as Boom!Sonic did, because something like Adventure!Sonic (or even Archie!Sonic, ugh) would’ve defused the entire situation in his most nonchalant, “You know who I am, and I’m still your hero at the end of the day”, kinda way. But Boom!Sonic doesn’t just want to be Amy’s hero, he wants her to trust him there’s something more, he wants to say something to her, that something that keeps the ship teasing alive and would spoil the fun should he actually find the words to express it (even though the entire fandom, shippers and non-shippers alike, would turn on their heads should Sonic ask Amy out, at least speaking in short-term). Also, this whole scene sets up another favorite scene of mine, the one later in S1 with Eggman teasing Sonic he’s not gonna win “that couch for that whiny little girlfriend of yours”. Amy may have come across as whiny in episode 3, but I felt it was well-deserved for her to react in such a volatile way, you can’t mess with Amy Rose’s life plans so easily.

Sonic Boom’s 5th anniversary has filled me with some of the best memories I have from this decade.

Also this picture is great lol.

On a final note, this episode always left my imagination running wild since 2014. 

I always had this little Boom one-shot in mind of Sonic and Amy arguing so hard they actually can’t go back and be friends again, causing Eggman (who was watching the entire thing, of course) to fire a barrage of rockets in frustration from his lair to Sonic’s shack, completely wipping it out, and forcing him to stay at Amy’s place meanwhile Tails and Knuckles try to help him rebuild it (Tails also kinda cuts Sonic off of staying at his place on purpose, putting excuses like his house was a mess or he had to lock the place down for the night because he had to go to the cinema with Zooey). This set up leads to Sonic and Amy trying to talk things out that same night, but at first they fail to reach a middle ground for both, so she frustratingly goes to sleep while Sonic stays up watching TV. By the climax, Sonic falls asleep on Amy’s couch and Amy can’t quite find sleep. Amy feels that she may not have been fair to him, she gets up, walks up to Sonic, tries to cover him a little bit, he wakes up, they use the moment to talk seriously again, reach some consensus and fall asleep together while watching TV (cuddling, maybe? hee hee!). Next morning, they wake up together with the entire village watching them from the window. Sonic’s shack has been restored, but their secret is out now!

[thoughtsoftheantagonist]

A Song For You

A/N:I know its been a long while but im back. After losing my mother in march then my brother in December of last year it took alot out of me and i had to find a new way to live without them. Thank you all for sticking with me and i hope you enjoy. alot of other things to come as well. 

To catch up my A Song For You  Masterlist is right HERE

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Juan's Pov

There are many things he has learned in his life, most recently he has learned how to be a man, and how to love a woman like his wife. Strong and wild as a hurricane he remembers one of the best pieces of advice he had gotten the day of his wedding. As his best man Chibs had pulled him aside and gotten him to calm the fuck down, apparently he had been annoying the fuck out of the guys all day with his squirrely behavior and Chibs gave him a blunt and a beer. Once his nerves had released him he stood with his brother and was heading back to the set up area when Chibs stopped him. "Let me tell ya one thing to always remember when it comes to a woman like Joy." He nods and gives Chibs his full attention "Love her but keep her wild. She is a woman and we all want to protect our women but at the end of the day she is a force of nature that granted you the privilege of standing close enough to be in awe of her and live." 

When Chibs walked away he stared out across the reservation where he stood, Chibs was right, he wasn't worried about how any of this went. He was more worried about his wife coming to her senses and taking off in the other direction then he was standing but that was his old doubts about himself. But like Chibs said, Joy was a force of nature, and she chose him to pour her love, life and energy within. Why the fuck was he looking that gift horse in the mouth? He grins as he stares at his wife as she throws her leg over her Dyna in their driveway, she doesn't see him move to lean on his bike and looks back at him over the top of her ray bans. "You ok handsome?" He shakes off his nostalgia and walks over to stand at her side, his hands automatic coming up to braid one side of her mane of wild curls while she does the other. "I'm fine babe. Just a lot of thinking. Must be getting old."

He chuckles when his father in law slaps a hand down on his shoulder as he passes him, having spent the night in the guest room "Shut the fuck up you toddler." He puts the hair tie around the bottom of his wife's pig tail braid and kisses her temple as she snickers. Pinching her thigh in retaliation and jumping back as she swipes at him, climbing into his bike he shoots her a wide grin before putting his helmet and glasses on, peeling out of the driveway with her on his tail. Catch me if you can baby.

Joy POV

She heads up the stairs to the second floor with Bobby on her heel. Once again asking the age old club question…..what the fuck are you wearing kid. She speaks over her shoulder to the older man " I couldn't help it that my  good taste offends your eyes. But i refused to sacrifice that to the all black of the club colors." Apparently that had tickled bobby as they marched up the stairs to grab their hiding leader. Jax had called them all here and wasn't even down stairs. But she knew where he would be. She knocks on the door and peeks inside with a grin. " everyone is here brother." He nods and stands, she sees him pocket his small journal, walking by her he grabs the side of her head and places a kiss on the top of her head. " Hmmmmm apples. Not bad." She snorts and shoves him, then he gives her a loaded look as his blue eyes scan her face. "You ok? Sleep alright." She knew he meant the nightmares, she sighs with a nod "Yeah Juan had me smoke two blunts myself and I was knocked the fuck out." He chuckles and looks between her and Bobby "Let's get the day locked down. Gonna be a huge one. Bobby anything from Galeen?" She and Jax move to leave but Bobby's voice stops them " Meeting is at two. Something we gotta Handel first." She arches a brow "What's up?" He doesn't look at her, speaking only to Jax "Bringing Clay to the table." She feels her hand twitch at the look on Jax's face. "Excuse me?" Bobby continues "He is gonna admit what he did with the nomads. Too Joy and Tara, all of it and we vote." She is stunned, he went behind Jax's back. Knowing what it could mean he went to Clay anyway. She clenches her fists, hissing through her teeth "Bobby what are you doing?" He glances at her as he moves to go down the stairs "My job kid."

She and Jax share a loaded look, this wasn't fucking good. They practically trip over each other as they head down stairs. She doesn't get time to tell her father or Juan what is going on before they are seated, but the way her husband is gripping her thigh, and the way her dad is trying to get her to look at him and not Clay at the end of the table leads her to believe they have an idea something isn't right. She can't take her eyes off of him as he speaks "I was lying in a hospital bed, thinking about all the shit I lost. I wasn't ready to let it go. I reached out to Frankie Diamonds. He was the one that suggested the home invasions. We figured we could rattle some of the folks close to the club, make it look like the MC was gonna hurt Charming and that Jax couldn't protect his own. Frankie pulled in Gogo and Greg. I promised to split my percentages when I got the gavel back." She grind her teeth, her hand clenching hard into fists at her side she knew her nails were drawing blood as Bobby talked, his eyes on the table " And attacking Unser at your house took the focus from you?" Clay nods, she snarls, her now bloody palms slamming down onto the wood of the table, making everyone jump as she stands, her voice like a sonic boom off the black walls. "And what about me Clay? Diamonds shot me point blank in the fucking stomach. If that had been Rita, her and the life of her unborn baby would be on your fucking head that I would gladly rip off your fucking shoulders given the smallest chance! Juan get the fuck off me!" She struggles as her husband yanks her down onto his lap, his arms locking around hers to keep her from struggling to much as Clay speaks directly to her "I didn't know you were buddy buddy with Eli's old lady, when they picked up the East Dub crew, I thought that was a good way to put the attacks on to Pope. And now with Jax working with him, I figured I could use it to help sway the club my way. I never wanted anybody to get hurt." She knows the sound of her half manic cackle bouncing off the walls isn't helping the situation. But she just can't believe the horse shit coming out of his mouth, Juan grabs her bloody hands in one of his and slaps his hand over her mouth she freezes through as Tig speaks for the first time since Clay started speaking " But they did. You hurt a lot of people." Seeing the pain in Tigs eyes as he looks over at her she lets the fight drain from her body, feeling the change Juan lets go of her mouth and just holds her in his lap. His grip is tight but comforting as Clay replies.

"You know, I-I don't expect anyone to believe this, and I ain't saying it wasn't 'cause of my pride and my greed, 'cause it was, but the main reason I was trying to push out Jax was because I didn't think he was ready to lead. This cartel shit, the pressure with the Irish, I didn't think he could handle it. I was wrong. He's proving to be a better leader than I ever was. I'll be in the garage." She watches him walk out, her eyes narrowed as the door closes. Moving from her husband's lap she yanks a black bandanna from her bag by her feet. Wiping at the bloody crescent shaped marks on her hands she listens to Jax "We heard his story. Vote has to be unanimous. Does anyone else have anything they'd like to say? All in favor of Clay losing his patch?" The vote is a solid yes across the board. She looks up as Jax says his next words "As far as the mayhem goes let's hear pros and cons." She is shaking as her eyes scan the table, her eyes locking on Chibs as she speaks " He's a traitor. I ain't buying this humble, "for the good of the club" bullshit. He's done." She nods, tears welling up in her eyes and spilling over as she grabs her husband's hand on her thigh. "I want to see the life drain from his eyes Jax. I can't fucking sleep at night without doping myself up because of the shit he set in motion almost killed me. If I don't I wake up screaming for my dad and husband because I'm scared they are next. Hell my god damned husband wakes up in cold sweats and shakes me awake just to make sure I'm not dead. I want him dead so this butterfly affect he started can fucking die with him." She rests her head on Juan's shoulder, his lips pressed against her forehead as she tries to slow her breathing.

Jax stares at her for a moment and nods "All in favor of Clay Morrow meeting Mr. Mayhem." Six yea, she looks to Bobby and her whole body goes numb as he speaks "No." She stares at him for a moment as Jax's bangs the gavel, barely hearing Chibs as he goes to get Clay. She stands. Bobby turns to her, his mouth open to speak but her hand claps against his cheek, some blood she had missed on her hand now on his reddened cheek.. She shoves him out of the way. Not realizing Jax was right behind her along with her husband, she almost runs into Clay as him and Chibs come back. She feels more then sees Jax move past her and fly into Clay, watching the two men grapple she feels her blood pump, standing back she doesn't move to help Chibs as he tries to yank Jax off Clay, the dull thud of Jax fist against the side of clays face gives her a sick kind of satisfaction. But it's cut short, she curls her lip as Chibs and Tig successfully yank Jax away from Clay. She walks over to Clay as the others are preoccupied with Jax, standing over the man she sees blood dripping from his temple and arches a brow "Looks like it hurts." Before he can speak the heel of her boot comes down and the sound of his nose breaking makes her smirk before she is yanked up off her feet by her father. " Enough Mija." She nods, she got her lick in, and the way the bastard was clutching his face made her anger levels drop somewhat. She feels Jax's hand on her arm, she lets him yank her away from the others and back into the clubhouse, looking back she gives her husband a look as he tries to follow. Jax needed her, only her it seems. He releases her as he shoves the doors to church back open, he all but collapses into his chair, she watches him with narrowed eyes as she closes the double doors behind her gently. The sound of her docs on the floor almost painfully loud as she makes her way to her seat.

Sitting she stares at Jax as he twirls a gold lighter between his fingers. She doesn't speak, and neither does he for the longest, but as she feels the silence about to swallow her and him whole the door opens. But as the person enters she wishes they would have stayed out if she was honest. She feels her whole body tense as Jax's chest starts to rise and fall rapidly, his body tense as his voice sends an uncomfortable chill down her spine. "You made a deal with him behind my back." She almost jumps as Bobby tosses Clay's jacket onto the table, she watches him with a heated glare. He refuses to look her way, keeping his eyes on Jax "We couldn't prove shit. We both know that. And there's no way that you could let Clay sit at this table. Me either. The shit he's done. He needed to go away, and if I didn't make this deal, you would've killed him as soon as we were finished with Gaalan." She slams her hands down, making their gaze jump to her "Wrong Bobby. You seem to think you're the only one who is looking out for Jax. I would do it because I want to watch his insides bake on the concrete outside." Bobby sighs " But kid Do that once, next time just becomes a little easier, and before you know it, this thing that we have is pointless. I stopped jax from becoming the guy that you both wanted to kill. All your doing is being his god damned dog on a leash like Tig was for Clay." She almost leaps over the table to get at Bobby's throat, no one talked about Tig infront of her…..no one. But Jax's hand on her tattooed arm stops her. "You think this vote protects Clay?"  She moves her arm out from under Jax's hand. Bobby looks between her and Jax, and for the first time she really looks at him. He looks tired, worn down and her anger slowly drains from her body. "You want him dead. Seems like the only choice today. But I know you, Jax. The right thing settles in."  

She jerks as Jax's voice echos off the wall. Making her grind her teeth "And how is letting him walk the "right thing"?" Bobby holds Jax's gaze "I know you see it as betrayal." She feels her nose wrinkle and her eyes sting as he looks at her across the table "i know you both do. And I took that risk because I love you, both of you. And this club needs you two. We're broken." She clenches her eyes shut, trying to stop the tears, but Jax's next words rip a gut wrenching sob from her lips, " I've had a hard time feeling any love or brotherhood since Opie died." She slaps a hand over her mouth, her other hand resting on her stomach as she tries to keep it together. "You're just lost your way a bit, brother." She angrily swipes at her eyes, not caring if she looks a mess now, she sees Jax's eyes, bright and wet as he locks eyes with her and shakes his head "No, I found it, finally." She sniffs as he turns to Bobby "Opie was right. The gavel corrupts. You can't sit in this chair without being a savage." She feels like her world is crumbling as Bobby stares a Jax, tears in his eyes as he sighs "I know." She reaches across the table, her hand gripping Jax limp one as he sniffs. "You don't know shit." His grip slowly tightens on hers as he continues, the tears falling from his eyes make her heart break for him. "You counsel from fear. You want me moving in comfortable, cozy circles, and I can't do that." By the time he turns away from Bobby and releases her hand his grip was painfully tight on hers, turning the skin of her hand ashen gray from lack of blood flow. She turns her damp eyes to Bobby, staring at him hard for a moment she clears her throat, still flinching slightly at how raw her throat feels. "You should go."

She watches Bobby as he leaves, turning her eyes to Jax once the door clicks shut. His cheeks are wet and his eyes red. But he has no more tears now, she reaches into her bag, grabbing the pack of make up wipes she yanks one from the pack and scrubs at her face. Seeing Jax watching her with an odd look she glares and tosses it at his face, making him jerk a little and toss it off his chest where it fell. She couldn't help but chuckle, locking eyes with him again and she fell silent, her hand coming down to rest over his for a moment. "I'm with you brother." He nods, moving his hand out from under hers he pats it and turns to the door as it pushes open. Seeing her favorite Scott's men she gives him a weak grin, he nods to her and leans his hand on the chair in front of him. "Jackie boy. Sorry to bother you but August just called, and Pope wants a Meeting at Charming Heights." Jax turns to face Chibs. "When?" The Scott sighs "Now." He nods and turns to her "I need you to stay, chibs is going to come with me. I want you to get the guys ready for the deal later with Lin. He is closer to you than me so I want you at my side for this. Not Bobby." She nods, getting to her feet she leans down pressing a kiss to the top of his blonde head she pat Chibs on the arm as she passes. She needed to see her husband.

He wasn't far, she found him on the swing set. She leans against the gate as he stares off to the side, a blunt hanging from his lips, his hand grip the chains on either side of his head as he swings slightly, the sun gleaming off the multiple rings on his fingers, she glances at his eyes, seeing them already low lidded so she knew it wasn't his first one. He doesn't even notice when she takes the seat beside him, but when her fingers glide along his forearm to his hand he grips it tightly, letting them fall between them to swing. Turning to her he gives her a small grin. His dark brown eyes scan her from head to toe and she felt it like a warm caress. He brings her hand in his up to his lips, using his other hand he hands her the blunt while he kisses the back of her hand. " You've been crying." She nods, taking a deep pull she holds it, holding it back out to him he shakes his head, keeping her hand by his lips he presses kisses to her wrist and fingers. Making her smile. Her sweet husband, trying to heal her pain with good weed and kisses. What a man. She giggles and he smirks, his teeth biting down on her thumb playfully. Making her rip her hand back with false and over dramatic out rage, forgetting she was on a swing she shrieks as she falls back into the wood chip ground with a grunt, her calves resting where her ass used to be in the swing "Jesus Joy!" Her husband scrambles to get to her, kneeling on the ground next to her he lifts her head onto his lap. He calms when he realizes her body is shaking from laughter, he grins and picks wood chips from her hair as he tries to not wheeze as she starts to snort she was laughing so hard.

"I sometimes forget how much of a klutz you are until you do shit like this." Her giggles intensify as her free hand comes up to smack at his shoulder. The other one bringing the blunt she somehow managed to not drop to her lips with a smug grin. "Didn't drop the blunt though that's talent " his eyes locked with hers for a moment and he gave her a leering grin. "No what you do with your tongue that's talent." She stares at him gobsmacked before she is on him, forgetting about the blunt she drops it and starts smacking at her husband, cursing in rapid fire Spanish. And that's how her father found them when it was time to go. Never a dull moment for the Ortiz/Lowman bunch.

Henry Lin's Warehouse (Joys pov)

As her bike pulls to a hard stop in the Lin warehouse she grins, she remembered so many deals here. She also remembered unloading a good amount of the legal shit here as well. Everything she ever did before the club was to be ready for redwood. Every odd job, everybody she dropped had been to be here, standing full circle with Henry across from her this time. She accepts his hug and waves to the others behind me, receiving nods and grins in return. She steps to the side as Jax beings Romeo over "Henry Lin, Romeo Parada and his  associate, Luis Torres." She take her place against the far dock door, pulling a pack of cigs from her her back pocket she watches Henry work, letting out a whistle of appreciation at the hardware his men were uncovering not being able to stop herself for speaking along with Henry "Russian Kornet with articulating tripod. Thermal sight, 9M133 missiles." Everyone turns to her, she shrugged, her guys grin and turn back to the deal. She stares off to the side, her mind wandering, keeping her focus somewhat on what was going down, until she hears two words that made her want to throw shit. " Three months." She tilts her head back, tossing her cig out the open dock door. She didn't even have to look at Romeo to know that was not what he wanted to hear.

She sighs, her eyes watching Romeo's back from behind her shades as he speaks lowly to Torres for a moment before turning to Henry "Ten Kornets. Hundred missiles. Two dozen Brownings, two dozen KS-Vs with quick-release silencers." Henry nods, everyone turning to watch Torres as he speaks, a black duffle in his hand "Once you figured out the Hamas express, we'll want drops every two weeks. Mayans MC will handle the transport. 250 down payment. Just let us know the balance." Henry shakes bother their hands " Absolutely. Looking forward to doing business with you."  Romeo nods "You should. We're gonna make you rich."  She is about to get on her bike as Romeo and Torres head towards Jax, Bobby and herself but Jax's hand grabs the back of her cut, keeping her in place. Asshole. Romeo locks eyes with herself for a moment then Jax "Galindo's getting pushed on two fronts by Lobo Sonora. We just lost Tubutama; we can't wait three months for them Kornets. We're gonna need another shipment of RPGs from the Irish before we kill that tie." She sighs, her hands on her hips, she stares past the guys, plans forming in her mind, possible outcomes of how this could work. That Irish fuck head will not be happy to hear about Clay being out, and when he does he might not give them what they need. She is shaken from her thoughts when Romeo's voice shakes her "Is that a problem? " She is about to yell yes but Jax beats her "Shouldn't be. I'll ask Gaalan at the pickup." Romeo shakes his head, a hand coming down on Jax's shoulder, making her hand twitch for her glock "Don't ask him. Tell him."

As the two men walk out and away she drops her mask of indifference and curses, her head falling back as Jax combs his hands through his already slicked back hair, his eyes wide and moving around rabidly as he thinks almost as if he was seeing his own thought process before his eyes. Her husband comes to stand next to her, his hand going up the back of her shirt to rest on her lower back. His warmth was a slight comfort. Jax finally nods and turns to the rest of the group. "All of us need to head back to the shop. I want Chibs and Bobby to get this shit rolling. Joy, can you go check on Tara for me let her know what's going down." She nods, turning to her husband as the guys head for their bikes, wrapping her arms around her husband's narrow waist she sighs, her cheek resting on the warm leather of his vest. His chin rests on her head. "You ok baby girl?" She nods, leaning more into him as one of his hands brushes down the back of her head in soft swipes, over and over again. "I'm ok. Just thinking about it all. Once I get it all cleared in my head I'll give you a peek inside. Ok?" She feels his chin brush her head as he nods. His lips pressing to the top of her head before he releases her reluctantly. She gives him a half hearted wave and sighs as he and the other drive off, turning to Henry as she sees them heading out as well. She nods her head and moves towards her bike, time to check on Tara.

The Hospital

She is laid back in Taras office, her body draped across the beige couch as she scrolls through her phone waiting for Taras break. When the woman in question sees her she smiles. "Joy. I see your making yourself at home." She smirks at her phone screen. "I have the amazing power of not giving a fuck where I am. I'm always comfort." Tara chuckles and walks over, gently pushing the other woman's legs from the seat so she could sit next to her, joy shoves her phone into the inner pocket of her cut and grins at Tara "So Jax got the deal locked down with henry and the cartel." Tara nods but she see the slight pinch in joys face and sighs "I hear an invisible but in there." Leaning back into the couch she sighs, closing her eyes she blurts out everything, just ripping it off like a band-aid. "But the guns won't be here for a while so now Jax has to meet with the kings and get them to drop a load of guns out their tight freckled fists one more time. And with clay not here that means Galaan will bitch so this might not go well."

When she doesn't hear a groan or even a sigh she peeks one eye open seeing Tara looking at her blankly she opens them both. "Don't look at me like that. The past few days haven't been exactly conductive mentally for either of us so forgive me if i expected a violent reaction….ass." Tara snorts and looks off to the side. "Sorry to disappoint you with not having another mental break down. My body just doesn't have it in it right now." She snickers and nods, but stops when Tara gets a nervous look on her face. "I know that look. Talk. What's wrong." She is surprised when the normally stand offish woman grabs the hand closest to her and holds it tightly. Joy is more worried than ever, her other hand resting on top of the on gripping hers. "I have still been working on the papers for the other hospital. And through all this and talking to the club lawyer today something occurred to me. If something were to happen to me or….to jax."

The hitch in Taras voice makes her pat her hand, as much and no one ever wanted to think about their family or partner dying that sadly never helped. All it did was make you more lost when it happened. "If that happened i don't know who would have Able and Tommy and Joy that scares me. I have no other blood family and I won't let Gemma raise them i won't. And with blood Wendy could possibly take Able and I don't want that either Joy. " She nods. No Gemma might have the deepest love to give like any other mother but hers had long been tainted by something inherently Gemma….something wrong. And wendy would have to take Able from her cold dead arms. When Tara turns her face to joy she sees tears in the woman's eyes and she yanks her hands from taras, her fingers wiping at the woman's pale cheeks, not understanding how to help. Until Tara's next words make everything click into place. "So talking with the lawyer i have named you and Juan as the people who will be their guardians." She feels the hot tears as they glide down her cheeks. Her hands move from Taras face to her own as she swipes at her cheeks roughly. Looking over she sees Tara watching her closely and she realized Tara actually thought she wouldnt want them. She sniffles and shakes her head. "I already love them like they were mine without overstepping. I would open my house and heart to those boys and Juan would too Tara. They would need or want for nothing because both of us would do anything to keep them happy. So if this gives you peace, do it. I already know Juan would be overjoyed, shocked but overjoyed." The woman's smile is bright and right there She sees the woman Jax sees all the time. As stern and logical as Tara was she was warm and beautiful when happy. Leaning over joy kisses her cheek with a nod. "Yeah. I have not one objection to that. But just know. Me and Juan might never leave here hun. Your boys would grow up here. Are you ok with that honestly?"

Tara stands, turning she leans back against her desks and sighs. "I know that. And if i'm honest it was one of the reasons i hesitated, and if i'm honest the only reason. But then i remembered how you grew up. Knowing about this life, it was never hidden like a secret or something shameful. And despite what you say about yourself your not a monster. Your good to my boys and everyone in that club who deserves it. And you dont shield able from it you let him know this isn't for him right now and send him on his way like the morning after Otto. So no.....i wouldn't mind them growing up here with the right mother and father besides Jax and myself." She stares at her rings as she twirled them around her fingers. She didn't realize the others knew she struggled with her nature. Sure Juan and maybe her father but to know on some level it was plain as the nose on her face made her want to hide away. Like a piece of her armour had been knocked off in battle. She speaks to Tara, her eyes still on her rings. "I struggle everyday with what i do for this club and to survive. Im not exactly martha fucking stewert. I don't know shit about kitchen knives but i know what blade to use to flay a man…..but i swear i would always love those boys and do right by them. Not manipulate but always have my hand out for them to grip on for balance. And thank you….it means alot to me." Tara is about to continue when her burner goes off, pulling it from her cut she sees Jax's name. Opening it she speaks "Im coming." Into the phone before hanging up and standing. Walking over to Tara she presses another kiss to her cheek." I love you Tara." She doesn't give the woman time to answer as she leaves, she had to slam down the gates on her emotions. The day isn't over yet.

The Barn

She gets to the barn just as the truck pulls up, she almost falls off the bike as shs skids to a stop in front of Jax and the other. Her prez was obviously worried she wouldn't make it, He practically yanks her off the bike as he hugs her. "Cutting it close sis." She pats his side as she hooks her sunglasses in the collar of her shirt. "I know. Got caught up talking to Tara." They make their way inside, she winks at her husband as he passes behind her. Smirking when his hand pats his ass as he does. She moved to follow him but Jax grips the back of her cut, keeping her on his left with bobby on his right. She sighs. She should have just kept the god damn patch at this point. "Where's Clay?" She and Jax both turn a sharp eye to Bobby. Clay would fucking be here and useful for once of bobby hadnt done what he did this morning. Bobby tosses the duffle of money on the ground between themselves and Gaalan. "He turned in his patch.It's been coming for a while."

Gaalan arches a salt pepper brow, his eyes bouncing between her and Jax. "He's out of the club?" She sees Jax sigh before finally speaking, her hand coming to rest on his back out of sight from the group before them. But very visible to their club behind them. "Look, Gaalan. I know you blame me for Kellan's death. And you're right, events in Belfast spun out of control.I just want to say, I liked the priest. He loved my dad. He sacrificed himself for my son-- I know that." She nods. She was proud of how level jax sounded. She tilts her head, a teasing lilt to her voice as she speaks makes Gaalan zero in on her. "And after you and our dear prezs little game of grab ass and your rambo impersonation i was personally hoping it might ease some of this tension." The man chuckles, she sighs. Her hand falls from Jax's back and she speaks plainly to Gaalan.

"Look Gaalan dispite what you might think about me i fucking hate the cartel. Mexican or not they are fucking up our day to day we all hate them.Romeo wants this shipment, one more. We give him that and we're done. No more them and everyone in our shit. Just The MC and the IRA can go back to business as usual. Sound?"

She wasn't surprised at his look of surprise at the use of irish slang. Her mom might not have raised her but she did her own research about the other half of her heritage. And as much as she might dislike Gaalan as well, a part of her felt kindred to him, his and chibs heavy broug as different as they might be, made her want to watch the old videos of her mother when her father would pick at her about her strong accent. She is shaken from her melancholy as the older man nods "Aye. Tis sound lass. For a little halfling your not all bad are ye." She opens her mouth to curse him but the doors on either side of the bar open. Both glocks are aimed on either side of her before they fully open and she starts cursing internally as Jax speaks to Romeo, his hands gently pushing her arms down. She doesn't put her guns back though. "What is this?" Romeo sighs "Talked to Damon Pope. Heard all about Clay. Thought we should come by and make sure the deal was moving forward. “I told you I would handle it."  Jax’s tone was very obviously pissed but neither irish or catel cared as they glared at each other.

Luis eyes Gaalan with a curl of his lip "We know how stubborn the Irish can be." Gaalan turns to look at the other man with a wide wicked grib "And we all know how ignorant you muppets can be." Romeo practically growls as he points to the gun crates "Put the guns in the truck." Gaalans voice echoes off the wooden walls "Don't touch the bloody guns." She grunts as she elbows jax back behind her towards her father and husband. Knowing if shit got wild they would yank him behind cover. Her voice is practically a hiss as she speaks pointedly to luis and romeo “We all want the same thing here! You two pendejos aren't helping for shit. We had this under control until you put your size twelves in it pulling this macho man shit." Having not listened to shit she said Romeo instructs the man closest to Luis to grab a crate. She sees the gun in Gaalans hand just as he fires it. She doesn't think, turning to Jax she rams into his chest. Knocking them both back into her father and Juan. Her father yanks Jax down next to him. She presses tight into her husband's side as bullets fly over his head. She sees her father and Phil book it outside to safety. She sees a blur running towards bobby and jax and she roars "Bobby get down." The man hits the floor as she lays out one of Galindos men. All fire stops and she looks over to see Gaalan at gunpoint. She shoves her guns back into their holsters and watches with narrowed eyes as Romeo snatches up the duffle of money. Yelling for the man to put the crates in the truck, he grins at her and Jax who was radiating pissed off like a furnace. "This buy is on the MC. For killing my guys, and the inconvenience of our wait. We'll call it even." Jax yanks her back as she lunges for Romeo. He had no idea what he had set in motion, the kings won't let this slide.

As luis yells for Gaalan to get his pasty white out of there Gaalan passes her and Jax. Giving Jax a loaded look he stops "This is on you, boy." Jax just nods, as prez it was his mess. Didn't stop her from moving to shoulder herself between him and Gaalan. He wasn't an ally anymore. He turns his jade eyes to her, his gaze grows harder. It wasn't in her favor that she looked so much like the men currently holding him at gunpoint "Sons are gonna feel this on both continents Lass. Know that." She nods as he leaves, her body slightly shaking from the adrenaline drop as she and Jax turn, both of them coming face to face with a wary looking bobby. She cant help her angry at him, a part of her doesn't want to put it all on him. But if clay had been here. If the meeting had ended moments before the cartel showed. Maybe things would have been different. But they weren't. Like Jax she shoulders her way past bobby outside. The guys following behind closely. She and Jax glare down the men loading the truck for the next ten minutes, a cig hanging limp between her lips as she locks eyes with Romeo. Dead eyes. She inhales deeply for the last time and tosses it to the side. Turning as Jax marches back behind them to the group of men she turns to watch as he paces for a moment. Walking closer she leans against the precut logs chibs was sitting on as he too watches jax. When he sees everyone is close,he starts pushing out orders, his eyes bouncing between her and chibs. "Lock down the shop and alert families." She and chibs nod. He would take care of teller morrow, all she had to do was send a text to one person and the phone tree would set on fire. She had spent months making plans for anything. Deaths to club threats but this was the most ambitious, she made sure everyone involved in the club only had two people on speed dial. The person next on the list and her. Once each call was made she would get a text to confirm until the last person on the list confirmed the texts kept going. Opening her phone she sends a message to Lyla a simple phrase 'Start the fire.' She puts her phone away as jax turns to Tig his voice raising the more frustrated he gets "Get Tacoma down here." Tig walks off without a word and Jax steps closer to chibs and herself. "Gaalan is gonna try to hurt us." He was right. Gaalan didn't seem the kind of man to make idle threats. Jaxs puts his hand on chibs shoulder "I need you find Gemma, you have her call me. Ok everyone roll out and get packed. Be in by lock down or be locked out. She quickly heads for her bike her husband and father hot on her heels all of them stop as Jax calls Juice back. "Juicy, I need you for something. Sonshine go get his shit packed, we will all meet at the club house." She hesitates for a moment as her dad heads off with a nod. She lets her husband pull her tight to his chest as he kisses her forehead. "Go baby. You know what to pack. Get sonny ready and i'll be there before you have time to miss me." she snort, pressing a kiss to his shirt covered chest. "Too late." She pulls away from him and locks eyes with Jax. "Keep my husband safe." He grins "always darlin." She rolls her eyes and walks off as the man laughs. These guys wouldn't know safe of it gave them head.

Clays house (Juan pov)

He and Tig had decided to give Clay, Miles and Rat and escort back to the shop. Well Tig wanted to do it and Juan didn't want him alone. As they make it to the cabin Tig knocks, he hangs back his shade covered eyes watching their surroundings. The irish were sneaky bastards. Once the door is open he and Tig quickly file in and lock the door. Walking over to rat and miles he sighs "Fuck the rest of his shit. Galindo fucked up the Irish deal and no Son is safe anywhere. Get his clothes and ill pack his guns, i know what he uses. Get moving we don't have much time until lock down." He watched the guys split up and he looked around as Tig and Clay talked about what happened. Seeing Clay's gun bag he opens it up and freezes. He sees the reaper holster, the nine and he grins. He is shaken from his memories by Clay's voice "You always did like it." He nods, watching clays large hands pull the gun from the holster. Bright silver with the black reaper handle. Shit was as beautiful as he remembered.

He watches clay aim it towards the wall before putting it back in the holster. "Piney gave it to me for my five year. I always thought I would give it to opie." He nods, his throat closing up, he clears his throat to fight back the sight of opies face. Not now, stay focused. He sees the gun being held out to him. "Clay come on." He shoves it back but the man passes his hand and presses it to his chest. "I get I'm not like a dad to you no more kid. Things i did to joy and you destroyed any of that but least i can do is give someone something i cant use anymore. So take it. Hell give it to the kid. She might put it in a shadow box with the day i died on it." He smirks and shoves the gun and holster into his inner pocket. "Or kill you with it." The older man chuckles. "Looking forward to it." He snickers and grabs the gun bag, and heads for the van. Making sure everything is in he heads for the bike. Lock down was approaching fast and if he knew his wife he knew she would shoot anyone who tried to close it with him outside of it.

Teller Morrow Garage

She volunteered to watch the outside as her father, Chucky, Unser and her father got the grill hot, with the amount of people here best idea was to have a potluck and bbq. Old rap plays from her phone next to her, her head bobbing and lips moving as her eyes scan the still open gate and full parking lot keeps her hands on the table under her, both her glocks next to each hand. She hears the bikes before she sees them. She smirks as Tig and her husband pull up in front of the van holding Miles and Rat. As Tig and her husband pull their bikes into the line. She nods to the guys as they pass her and go into the club house. When her husband and tig walk up with clay not too far behind her smile drops. Her husband kisses her cheek with a chuckle, his lips brushing her skin as he whispers "Down cujo. Gaalan called him on the way here." She arches a brow over her husband's shoulder to clay as he passes them without a word. "Fine….but he breaths wrong im playing baseball with his kneecaps." She lets her laughing husband pull her inside as miles and rats come back out to take over her watch duty.  

Everyone had been here for about an hour now and despite the reason for being here it was fun and everyone laughs all around. She hugged a few of the Tacoma boys she recognized, Kozik being one of them. She had missed him when he went back but he seemed to be keeping on the straight line where drugs were involved and she was so proud of him. She was watching her father talk to Lyla with a grin, he was leaning back against the pool table as Lyla lined up a shot. When the ball hits the pocket she smirks at one of the Tacoma prospects who thought she had been an easy target, poor kid. She bumps fists with Nero before turning back to talk to Happy. She feels her husband come up behind her, his hands snaking around her waist to rest low on her stomach. She turns her head to the side, kissing the side of her husband's stubble covered cheek as he rests his chin on her shoulder. "Why are you grinning like that beautiful?" She giggles, taking her bottom lip between her teeth. She places her hand on the side of her husband's face, making his gaze line up with hers. She knows he sees them too when he hums. "Now that's different. But oddly enough would make sense." She smirks. "exactly. I doubt much will happen for now. With Opie and all which i agree with, grive fully and never rebound. But i see something….something good in that possible future." She closes her eyes as her husband presses kisses to her cheek. "Look at you. Little miss matchmaker." She snorts and turns in his arms, wrapping her arms around his neck she gets on her tiptoes to press a kiss high on his cheek. Beaming up at him she says "Matched myself up with you didn't I?" He nods with a grin, his hands rubbing her ass before he surprises her and yanks her up by the thighs. She shouts as he heaves her body up his torso, her thighs clinch his sides as he carries her through the crowd of laughing sons, her protests and threats of body mutilation falling on deaf ears. When he plants her on the pool table she goes to swipe at him with her nails but he catches her wrist and holds it to his chest as he catches her lips.

All the fight leaves her body, her free hand gripping the side of his cut she yanks him closer. The world falls away as he surrounds her, his hand gripping her now limp wrist moves to the back of her neck. But their moment is short lived as one of the balls from the table hits her left thigh making her jump and look that way. Seeing a smirking Lyla with a chuckling nero and Happy over her shoulders. She nero's her eyes at her father. "Et tu, Brute?" Her father shrugs and grabs the pool cue from Lyla as Nero pats her shoulder "We're currently hiding the corner pocket Leona." She smirks at the nickname, Lioness. Well played Nero. She slides off the table Jax walks by them but she clenches her eyes as he freezes next to her, the venom in his voice makes it obvious who he is speaking too. "Why is he here." She pecks Juans lips one more time before turning to plant herself next to Jax. Clay looks even more broken than she remembers. Hunched over be tilts his head at Jax "Gaalan reached out to me. He wants the guns or the money or wendy is dead." She whips her head around to stare wide eyed at chibs, he makes a snatching motion and she sighs. She must have been at the hospital, she would grill him about it later. "Does Gaalan know wendy isn't Jax's wife?" Clay chuckles "Believe me kid i could hear wendy in the back shouting that and a lot of other stuff about Jax to prove as much. He says do it anyway or Able will be going back to Belfast." She snarls, jax holding his arm out in front of her to calm her. But her anger and frustration builds as Bobby chimes in "four hundred and seventy five thousand dollars. We pay back the Italians and Nero we ain't even close." She moves to stand behind chibs as Tig adds on "And there is no way we are getting the guns back from Romeo." She plants a hand on Chibs shoulder, his hand comes up to pat her. Chibs always knew how to center her, help her pull herself out of panic. Even without a word. Forever her mentor and guide.

She looks up as Nero clears his throat, pool cue in hand, his eyes bouncing around to lock eyes with them all before settling on Jax "I'm sorry. Couldn't help but overhear and I may have a solution." She locks eyes with Jax. She sees him tossing thoughts around and finally his eyes clear and he nods his head to the door before looking at Clay, she heads for the door as Jaxs tells Clay to get out. She sees her husband off to the side, headphones in his ears as he works on a few hard drives on the table before him. Leaning against the far wall she watches him from afar. He was deep in his tech mode and she refused to break that trance. She smiles as his lips move rapidly as he raps along to something she can't catch from how fast his lips move, but his grin is amazing. She feels someone at her side, the scent of clove and sandalwood makes her arch a brow. "Tiggy. Do you trust me?" Tigs arm lands around her shoulder as he leans on the wall next to her. A beer in his hand he takes a deep pull before replying. "Without question kid. Why?" She tilts her head to the side to look up at him. "I know none of us but Clay will be delivering that money when we get it." Tig nods, people doubted him so much but he was quicker than people gave him credit for. "Go with him. I don't trust him alone, let alone around Gaalan. So if he goes. Go with him. If not for the club or Jax. For my peace of mind?" Tig thinks on it for a moment before pressing a kiss to the side of her head and heading off into the crowd. She knew he would, she hated putting him so close to Clay so soon. But Tig was Clay's right hand for years. Clay wouldn't think twice of Tig going with him. She scrubs her face with her hand before pushing off the wall she sighs. So much to do and only so many hours.

Many hours later (Teller Morrow)

Wendy had been rescued and left twenty minutes ago in a huff, muttering to herself about fuck knows what. The last of the Sons from the lock down had hit the road and she was currently restocking the bar and her husband and father talked behind her. Something about new ink for Juan. Tara and Jax had yet to come down and that worried her. Turning to grab another bottle of turkey she sees Jax and the look on his face makes her pause. He speaks to Nero and Chibs for a moment before locking eyes with her. He shakes his head, she nods and gets back to stocking the bar as her father speaks to Jax. She feels someone at her side a moment late. She knows its jax from the scent of Marlboro and that damned hair gel he used that was a little too spicy for her nose. Once the shelf is stocked full she turns to him, he is leaned next to her and watching everyone. "You know I believed you earlier today." She arches a brow and chuckles "I said a lot of shit i meant earlier today. Refresh my memory brother."

She leans her upper body down on to the bartop. He stands next to her and copies her, their arms touching as he stares at the movement around them. "When you said you were with me. I know you are Joy. I don't doubt you on any front. I just…" She wants to look at him, but she knows it won't help. Bless these tough men they didn't understand how to communicate without showing fierce emotion. "I just don't know how to work this all out without Opie. I could say any idea or do any dumb thing and he would be there to help me realize why it was dumb in a way that would get through to my thick skull. And now that he is gone. Im worried about the gavel joy…." It took her a moment to understand what the last part meant. Then she remembers in church with Jax, Bobby and herself. The Gavel corrupts. Saying a mental fuck it to pretending this wasnt a serious conversation she turns to Jax, even as he refuses to do the same she speaks direct at him.

"The gavel will change you Jax. It's a hard and heavy weight that can crush a weaker man or woman. And you werent ready at all and didnt fucking want it. But  jax the way you're doing this. Getting it spread out among the other groups so everyone can get some food in their mouth. It's amazing Jax. Be proud of that." He nods, having enough of him not looking at her she moves around the bar to stand before him, grabbing his face between her hands to stop him from moving. Hazel meets blue as she makes sure he understands her "And trust that I will keep one of my last promises to Opie. Too keep you grounded, to be a solid wall to slam against when you cant fucking stop yourself. Always know that i have no issues stopping you." She gives him a grin "Even if i have to break a few bones. You'll live to redeem yourself in my eyes." he gives her a very weak grin and pulls her hands from his face. Grabbing the back of her head he pulls her in to kiss her forehead. "I'm sorry in advance for breaking your heart sonshine." She remembers what she said to Tig and Chibs. "But you all wouldn't be mine if you made it easy to love you." He nods, looking past her she turns to see Chibs with a phone in his hand. "Heres Tig Jackie." Jax grabs the phone from him and heads towards the doors to church. She sighs as Bobby goes to stop him, she leans back against the bar as Bobby calls to him when he refuses. "Jax we gotta talk this shit out." The way Jax halts his steps set her on edge. And the face that turns to greet bobby isn't Jax. It's their new president, a man she is only just beginning to learn was a whole other man all together. "I said no." He closes in on bobby and she shakes off chibs as he goes to stop her. She wasn't letting shit slide anymore, she was done running. As she closes in on them she hears Jax loud and clear "Im sure the right thing will settle in. But right now if i'm alone with you VP i'll tear your goddamn head off." Getting next to them she places a hand on Jax's arm holding the phone. Keeping her eyes on Bobby who is currently watching her with dark narrowed eyes "Go talk to Tiggy jax. I got this." She felt Jax's arm tense under her hand but didn't ask why. It wasn't the time. She makes sure the door is closed behind her firmly before she speaks to the older son before her.

"Did you honestly fucking think he would want to talk? Not hours after your screwball set a shit ton of butt ugly on our heads?" The man just stares hard at her, refusing to reply. "You are obviously not thinking through shit bobby. You want this club to be better, I get that but the way you did it. Behind his back out the gate fucked up any possible trust in you as his VP." She expects him to see reason, if not the main reason Jax is angry. The new prez had fought his way through the lies of his family, the people meant to never wish you harm, found a plot to kill the mother of his children and also the possibility that his father was also murdered. By the same man. He had hoped to find a new family, build from us a family that wouldn't l harm him. That would support and the first act of his new VP is a plan behind his back. Another scheme. It was the act and the person it saved that was the hardest part to swallow for Jax. She got that, maybe Bobby just couldn't. He steps into her space, his voice the angriest she heard directed at her before. "Don't presume to tell me what I should do, Joy. At the end of the day you gave this patch up willingly to me. So stand down."

Pressing her pink nailed hands to his chest she shoves him back hard, he didn't expect it and falls back into the pool table. Her husband and Chibs make their way over as she speaks directly to Bobby. "Don't speak to me like a goddamn child Elvis. I gave that patch to a man I thought would do right by not just the club but the man who stayed to keep us all out of jail at not just his expense but his wife and children's as well. Man the fuck up and speak your fucking mind next time you have opinions. Don't pull that shit again Bobby or I swear to god I'll take you back to the table for my god damn patch back and to save trouble I'll tear it from your cut while it's still on you!" Her husband, having heard enough, wraps his large arms around her middle, locking her once waving arms to her side. She wasn't done though.  "Because I'll be damned If you hurt him or this club again." She lets her husband drag her out, the cold air makes her overheated skin break out into goosebumps. She stands next to her father's ink station in the garage. Juans hands rub her upper arms as she watches her father pull on his black gloves, her body slowly losing its tension as the machine comes alive and the buzz is a soothing note in the air. She sees two guns and arches a brow, looking at her father again she sees him holding a pair of gloves out to her and she smiles. She had learned to do tattoos by watching her dad do them. Her first tattoo she did on a body was on her father. Around his collar bone area there was a phrase "I live, I die, I kill for my family." The letters were blocky and some funny looking but he let her do it without thought and she loved him more for it then he would ever know.

Pulling the pink velvet scrunch from her wrist she holds it behind her to her husband as she grabs the other low roller chair next to her dad. Pulling on a pair of gloves like her dad he points out things and asks her to name it just to make sure her knowledge on the subject hadn't slipped. Once she proved herself to her father he goes back to setting up the ink cups. Everyone looks up as the garage office door opens, she hadn't realized the guys had trickled in during the pop quiz her father gave her. The garage was filled with sons. All eyes on Clay as he makes his way to the chair between her father and herself. When he plops down he glances at her, looking down at the black kabar on her thigh before locking eyes with her again. With a roll of her eyes she slides the kabar from its sheath and flips it mid air, grabbing the blade loosely she hands it to Clay and watches as he slides the strap of his black tank, revealing the reaper on his shoulder blade, he stabs her blade roughly into the wooden table top and she arches a brow but says nothing. No one spoke as she and her father went about roughly blocking out the reapers on the older man's skin. Blood and black ink leak onto the black gloves on her hands, making the once matte latex glint in the light. Once her part in all this is done she put the gun down, her body felt as if it had been drained, any rage or possible sympathy she felt for the man before her was gone. Seeing the once proud man reduced to a black ink splattered shell soothed a lot of the pain she carried around recently. Pulling the gloves from her hands she stands, walking over to her father she kisses the top of his tattooed skull, locking eyes with Bobby she stands to her full height. Now that the rage wasn't pounding in her ears like a heartbeat she could see the conflict and lost look in Bobby's face. She walks over, knowing her husband wasn't far behind she kisses the older man's bearded cheek and walks away. As good a sorry as she could give knowing that everything she said had truth to it. She had a sinking feeling that another change was coming. How big would that change be? Only time would tell.

Next morning (Joy Pov)

Warmth, that's the first thing she feels as she wakes, and when she finally reaches full consciousness she realizes why. Looking to her side she sees Juans pillow is missing its namesake. But looking down she sees a lump where her stomach is, it makes her grin. For a moment she looked pregnant until the lump moved and she pulled the covers up slightly and could not help but feel her heart melt a little. Her husband's head was resting below her breast, his arms curled under her back as he clutched her in a tight but comfortable grip. Watching him sleep she takes in the beauty of him, his soft skin being revealed bit by bit as she pushes the covers off of them. Making her husband curl into her more to steal more of her warmth. She brushes her fingers along the tattoo on the left side of his scalp, she knows he is slowly waking because he is nuzzling his face into her stomach. A poem comes to mind and when he looks up at her with sleepy, heavy lidded eyes, a small smile is his gift to her. She smiles as the words spill from her lips. "You're next to me and I'm half asleep, wondering what I did to deserve this moment - to deserve you. And while you're here, breathing easily. All I can think about is what I can do tomorrow to be better for you then I was today."

He gifts her with open mouth kisses along her belly button and hips over her boy shorts, his hands having pushed her sleep shirt up to her chest to get access to more bed warm skin. "Fuck i love when you do shit like that." She giggles as he speaks into her skin, his hands sliding under her lower back, forcing her to arch and her legs to fall open more as his kisses move upward. His hands shove her shirt over her head. Tossing it off the side of the bed he hovers over her as she tries to get her hair out of her face. Looking up at him she sees his once sleepy eyes are watching her. The smile on his face is blissful and only for her. Reaching her hands up she holds his face between them, the way he leans into the gentle touch pulls at her heart. Her beautiful strong husband was such a gentle man, she hoped this life wouldn't rob him of that. She would give up her humanity to protect him if she had too, as long as he was always going to be here, like this. His lips on her forehead wash away her dark thoughts like rain water.

Her eyes, which she hadn't realized had closed to prevent him seeing the pain in them blink open, seeing him watching her. "Welcome back." She cant help but sigh, which quickly turns into a gasp as he rolls them, his strong grip on her hips keep her from toppling over as he now lays with her straddling his lean hips. The way he folds his hands behind his head and smirks up at her makes her bite her lip and her cheeks flushes as his eyes take in her bare chest, even after living with and being with him he still made her body heat with a look. Moving her hair over one shoulder she lays her chest flat against her husband's, her head under his chin. His hands are now combing over her head and curling her hair around his fingers. For a moment they are still except for his fingers curling into her hair and her body rising and falling as he breathes deeply. She is slowly falling back asleep when the chest under hers vibrates as her husband speaks "Jax is up to something involving clay." Curling a fist under her chin she uses her other hand to grab the discarded blanket and pulls it back over her now naked back. "What makes you think that." He isn't upset she questioned him, in fact it made him grin. "When Jax asked me to stay behind the other day after the irish he only wanted to ask me a favor. 'I need clays gun. No questions right now. I need it.” she lifts herself up enough to get more comfortable, stretching her legs out she moves to his side to rest her head on his shoulder, looking into his eyes she arches a brow. "The one currently at the shop wrapped up in a shirt." He smirks and kisses the tip of her nose. "Yes nosy shit." She snickers and smacks his chest, he laughs and rubs the sting away. "He wanted me to get it to you. I don't know why but he wants you to put it in his side saddle on his bike." She sighs, he was plotting alone again. She was getting so fucking tried of this behind closed door shit that had been going down since the cartel popped up. She can't say Jax wasn't doing good things but the way he was doing them was gonna make her go grey. "Your right. I'll see whats up but if i'm honest we won't know much until shit pops off and we all have to drag his ass out of danger." She cups her husband's cheek and pulls him in for a kiss when her phone rings from the nightstand. She growls under her breath and reaches back for it.....let the games begin

Time Jump

Once she got to the shop things had been crazy. She barely had time to do what jax asked her but she did it. And now hours later she stood beside Nero as he spoke to the shop owner "Nero they fuck up my shop, come in and take anything they want and now Dante says we have to pay triple two for protection?!' The pretty hispanic woman sighs "I mean we all know you split but what are we supposed to do now?" Nero sighs and holds up his hands “Okay. I get it, Carmella. I'm sorry I let this happen but i'm here now. I swear." He grabs her hands and holds them "We will handle Dante, Mi vida." She tosses her cig to the street as Nero walks over to them. "So what's the plan boss man." He brushes a hand down his face. "We need to cut off the goddamn head. Dante, he's running out of a rag warehouse, two blocks, at the end of Palm. Fights are in progress." She nods, Juans hands squeezing her shoulders. "Is he there now? Anyone scooping him out?" The man next to Nero shakes his head"Not sure. All of our faces are too well known around here to play double o seven" she snickers, looking over to Jax when he taps her arm as she is the main one next to him. "Ok let the white boys and slightly tan girls." She hisses at him and smacks his shoulder. "Tan!?!? I am a light sepia goddess. You redneck Tarzan." He grins but ignores her, he continues on. "let us go in, just a few fight fans. We'll see what we're dealing with."

Nero nods and she walks over to her bike, she strips off her cutte, her black lace up side high waisted jeans cover her lower stomach, but the cute pink halter crop top with the words 'brat' shows enough of her stomach to keep her cool on this hot day. bobby asks "How big is this crew?" Nero tilts his head for a second before replying "Last i knew fifteen." She is shooting off a quick text message as the man next to him shakes his head. "Nah they have been busy. More like twenty." She is pulling off her thigh and chest holster as hands her guns to her husband since her outfit wasn't loose enough to hide anything. Nero replies "If that's true with just us it's a little light." Her phone goes off and she yanks it from her back pocket with a grin. "Think again." Everyone turns to see her waving her phone with a grin "Cholo Calvary is inbound." Her husband smirks and reaches over to pat her on the ass. "That's my girl." Making the guys chuckle as she smiles brightly, her hips doing a little wiggle at the praise. Her father reaches over to yank her head close enough to kiss her temple.

Once they get to the place and on the lift of the building the sound of dog barking makes her reach out for the closest hand. Tig grips her hand back just as hard as Bobby opens the lift door. The others scatter to different corners but she and Tiggy don't release each other as they watch with Horror as the poor dogs tear each other apart. Her mind flashes to sonny. Her sweet little prince in the dog's place and seeing the raging bloodlust on the shouting mens faces makes her stomach roll. The fight is over quick and she watch a dark skin man lift the wounded white dog and walk away. She knows what happens next. Tapping tig are rapidly she whimpers "Tiggy. We can't let him." He nods and he gives her hand a reassuring squeeze and they both follow behind them man. Not realizing the others saw them. They make it to the back and her legs give out as she sees the trash cans filled with the bodies of precious dogs. All torn and slaughtered. She doesn't realize Alex has left her until she hears him say "I'll blow your goddamn head off." Her husband and father see her on the ground and rush to her. She points to the trash cans and her husband curses and helps her off the ground. Standing between her and the trash cans he holds her face in his hands "I know baby. But we can't help them now. But you saved one. Come on." She nods and lets him drag her around the corner as Tig points behind her and Juan as Jax grabs his head to make him focus "Look at this shit its so wrong." Jax nods "I know but it's not what we are here for." Walking over she grabs Tigs gun from him gently. He locks eyes with her and she nods to the beautiful dog in the kiddy pool by her feet who was licking her father's hand as he spoke softly to it. "Watch her." He nods and she walks over to the man knelt on the ground. Pressing the gun between his eyes she arches a brow "One question dickbag. Dante. Where is he?" The man points behind him "Through there. Uses the supply room as an office." She nods and hands the gun to Tig. "Piss off. And leave the dog." The man takes off as she kneels down to gently hold the dogs face in her hands. Smiling as the dog licks her cheek. "Hello love. My friend phil here is gonna carry you to your ride ok. Your not gonna fight anymore." The dog keeps licking her face and Jax taps her arm "Let's go mother pupresa. We got work to put in." She nods to phil and takes her glocks from her husband as she stands. Making her way in she sees Chibs break the lock and all hell breaks loose. Her father levels a man rushing them and she holds her guns on Dontae as Jax yells. "Put the guns down!" Dante just stares and she smirks, getting in front of him she holds one gun to his head the other to his dick. "Cough wrong. Give me a reason." He curls his lip but tells them to lower the guns she hears Jax yell and she naturally runs, smart move on her part as the room floods with Dantes crew as he yells

"I WANT THE BITCH. KILL THE OTHERS!" Making it outside she sees the gate bust open. And moves to the side as Nero and his crew take out of a few of the men following behind. The remainder of Dante's crew are quickly held down by the Mayans. She laughs and they roll through on their bikes whooping and shouting. "Fucking love you crazy bastards!" Her joy is short lived as Dante and another man run back inside and lock the door. She takes off at a full sprint as she yells over her shoulder "Dantes running. TAKE DOWN THE REST." It's quiet as nero,chibs, jax and herself move around the high stacks of boxes. All of them take different paths she is just about to turn down another way when the sound of a punch makes her take off back behind her she sees Chibs as he stabs the man who was with Dante. Using all her body weight she shoves him against one of the boxes, her fists crack against his cheek and temple. He grabs her by the hair making her shriek but the pain is short lived as he is yank off of her by Jax. She watches with glee as the man's face is shoved into a bag of nails. His screams making shudder at the agony in them, but her mind flashes back to the trash cans of dogs and she feels nothing again. They all jump into action as Nero's voice fills the warehouse "He's running!" They take off towards the sound. Shs stares at Neros back as he takes off after Dante and finally catches him at a window. She releases a short burst of laughter as Nero laughs as he pushes Dante through the window. Mother fucker was nuts. Once they all get through the window she sees a woman yanked from her van. But lucky her own dog was inside. And currently using Dante as a chew toy. Nero holds the door with his body and she leans next to him with a smirk. "That's gonna leave a mark." She leans down to watch the dog as Jax chuckles, punching her arm as she coos at the dog "Whos a good protector. You are. Good doggo." Nero heaves a sigh, his lip twitching as he tries not to laugh "We should probably let him out yeah?" Chibs smirks "That would be the good catholic thing to do." She snorts and shakes her head "I'm neither good nor Catholic so i guess he is puppy chow." All the guys around her laugh.

Back at Teller Morrow

When they got back to the club house phil, tig and herself went straight to the pool table with Dr.Chibs. She laid on her side on top of the pool table as the dog rested next to her, she gently brushed a hand over her ears and head as Chibs worked on the animal's leg wound. Her husband's hands grip and rub her thigh as he stands behind her. He knew she was shaken seeing so many dead animals. Killer his wife may be but when it came to animals. She was so sensitive to them. Thats where her and Tig bonded alot. She reaches down to grip one of her husband's hands in Silent thanks as she coos to the dog as it whimpers. "Its ok baby. Chibs is just gonna make you all better. I know it hurts." Tig pats her arm as Jax walks over "So that was one of Nero's boys. He found the breeder who is supplying the dogs. Wants us to shut it down." She nods and sits up as Tig replies "I'll gut that bitch." She grabs her bowie knife of the coffee table "i call his balls." The guys all shifted a little at that, knowing she wasn't joking. She and Tig grab their weapons of choice on the table and head for the door. Just as Chibs speaks "Lets go." Jaxs stops him "I'm gonna take Tig and Joy." Chibs shakes his head "Notta chance. You don't know what your walkin into." Jax stands firm and soon enough they are pulling. Up to a warehouse. She and tig strip off their helmets and walk ahead of Jax just as she hears a gun be cocked.

She reaches for her own but Jax's voice stops her making her turn to see the one thing she never wanted to see. One gun trained on her, another on Tig....and Jax holding both. Her face pales as Tig tries to move towards Jax and Jaxs hisses at him "Dont fucking move. Either of you." Her hands shake as she holds them up. He locks eyes with hers and nods "All weapons down. And kick yours away Joy your aim is too good to trust." She and Tig follow instructions. She keeps quiet as Tigs breathing picks up and he finally yells "What is going on Jax!?" She hears the approach of a car and her eyes narrows at the unmistakable Rolls Royce kicking up dirt and it all clicks into place. How they got out, how tig made it out with them. Jax was gonna go in but Opie some how did it first......Tig was always the chip. Because of what happened with clay. Forcing Tig to take action and kill Pope daughter. To do what he thought was right. Once again Clays lies were catching up to them.

Her rage is violent as she yanks Tig back behind her and Snarls at Jax "I'll kill you if they touch him. Ill fucking kill you all." Tigs arm wraps around her shoulder as she shakes, Gripping his arm she eyes the men getting out of the car as Tig groans. "Jax no. Come on man." Jax shakes his head "I'm sorry." She seethes "No. But you will be." Pope snaps and two men appear next to them. She and Tig are ripped apart and she shrieks, she is held back as the other man searches Tig. She is then searched herself before being tossed back at Tig. She wraps her arms around his middle. Gripping onto the man for dear life, her body shakes as Tig combs a hand over her head. Trying to calm her in a moment when she should be comforting him "Your really gonna give me to him Jax? After what he did to my Daughter. Its could have been Able, fuck it could have been sonshine here if hap had done it you bastard!" Jax yells at Pope to shut tig up and she crumbles to the ground with Tig his kidney is hit from the back. Using her legs she kicks out at the man who hurt Tig "Leave us alone you Bastard i swear to god ill bathe in your entrails for this." She is dragged away from Tig by her legs, she lands a kick and crawls back to him sobbing. He holds her on the ground with him as Jax speaks to Marks. He rocks her "Don't cry kid. Please kid don't cry." She grips a hand into his cutte. Whimpering when she and Tig are both pulled up from the ground. "Tie him up on the garage." She shrieks as he is being pulled away but Jaxs stops him "I want the Cutte." She growls and jerks in the arms holding her back. "Have you not taken enough from him Jackson for Christ Sake!?" The man approaches Tig and she struggles more "Please." The men stop, staring at the shaking and sobbing woman, for once looking her young age and her Golden eyes lock with Pope. "Let me take it off him. I'm all he has left." She was surprised when pope nods. Walking over on shaking legs she looks at the two men on either side of Alex. He reaches up and holds her face in his hands. Giving her forehead a hard kiss he whispers. "i love you kid. Best friend i ever had." She whimpers and slides the Cutte from his shoulders. He is instantly jerked away from her and into the warehouse. Her legs give out and someone catches her, apart of her knows it's Jax and she wants to struggle but she can't. Crushed under the weight of losing another brother all she can do is sob "Alex......Tiggy." Jax buries his head into the side of her hair and she hears him talking. She tries to stop sobbing and shaking to hear him "Trust me. Its hard but trust me ill fix it i promise." She pushes him away and stands. Clutching tigs cutte to her chest she watches Jax with narrow and tear swollen eyes as he walks over to his saddle bag and something clicks. Clays gun. As tumblers fall into place she watches Jaxs in slow motion as he paints the side of Popes car red with brain matter. Seeing him race into the warehouse she uses the hand not clutching the cutte to grab a silenced glock and runs after him. Seeing him take out one of Pope men she kills the other. Tig, who was thankfully alive, rams Pope as he tries to shoot them. Falling his gun lands at her feet, holding her gun on him she grins wildly "Do it. I dare you." He jerks and Jax appears at her side to grab the gun on the floor. She watches Jax as he hands Clays gun to Tig. Pope growls at Jax "You redneck bitch. Do you have any idea what will happen to who ever kills me?" A small smile ticks up Jaxs lip "Im counting on it."

She moves away as Tig blows Pope brains out the back of his skull. Walking over to Alex she wraps her arms around him. His arm not holding the gun grips her cutte. Hearing movement next to her she lifts her head, her gun held between Jaxs forth and fifth rib. "Give me one reason not to kill you prez. One."  He holds his hands up "I couldn't tell either of you. He would have picked up on it if Tig was off or if joy wasnt like she was. You know that." She did but the Image of Jaxs holding a gun on her still made her gun hand shake "He could have shot him right away Jax. Then what!?" Jax nods "But he didnt. I know that's not the best thing to say but he didnt and the plan worked. Im so fucking sorry to do that but i had to be done. We would never be free. Tig wouldn't get closure." Logic, sense, it was shooty but planned out. Pope dies at the hands of a man she and Jax want dead more than anything. And with Pope being an OG the bounty would be set and Clay would be dead before his hearing. Releasing Tig she lets him hug Jax, their eyes locked over the man's shoulder. Today something changed. Today she saw how far Jax was willing to go on his own. And she didn't know how to feel about it

The club house

Sitting across from her husband in their old room he stares in wild eyed shock as she nods, her wet hair dripping onto the sheets. She had felt so dirty when they got back that she had passed everyone and went upstairs to shower. Now dressed in some cotton shorts and a hoodie she lights up a blunt, inhaling deeply. She told him everything, her father would be next but she needed Juan right now. "Jesus baby. I didn't know he was going to…..i.....i never would have let you go with him alone if i knew." She lets him yank her onto his lap, her legs thrown over the side as She held out the blunt for him, he tilts his head and lets her hold it for him as he inhales. His hands to busy rubbing and gripping her legs, sides, her face as he tries to calm himself. Holding his inhale he replies "I love you baby. Im so fucking sorry you had to live that. Fuck i could strangle him. Was Opie not enough?" She exhales the smoke along with him. Filling the room with the smell of gas and apple wrapping paper "Apart of me knows he was right. Pope would sniff out a fake performance for a mile. But i feel so hollowed out. I know tig is alive, i know Jax didn't really betray either of us but i still feel it." She waves a hand "Maybe it's that i feel used by him. And that alone makes me feel dirty."  He nods and presses his lips to her forehead. Taking the blunt from her he takes another hit. "And your allowed to feel how ever the fuck you please. Jax knew what might happen if he did this. Trust and loyalty only go so far until the broken pieces just don't fit right anymore. So your going to heal from this. And i'll be right here if Jax has anything to say i'll handle him." She cant help but grin watching her husband blow smoke off to the side, his jaw tight and sharp she cant help but draw her tongue along its shape making him look at her with wide eyes. "You have no idea how hot you look when your angry daddy." he chuckles and shakes his head, taking in her low lids and dopey smile. "And you're cute when you're a high and horny baby." She snorts as his hands and rests her head on his shoulder as he takes the last deep hit from the blunt before tossing the roach into the ash tray to break down later. She uses her hand to turn his head as he gets ready to blow the smoke out. He smirks and fists a hand into her hair, his other hand palms her bare breast over the hoodie as he blows the smoke into her mouth.

*She couldn't hold it as she moans, her skin was sensitive and her mind was only focused on his hands. She scrambles out of his lap and crawls up the bed, but she doesn't get far as quickly grabs her ankle and yanks her back with a chuckle. "Where do you think your going?" She takes her bottom lip between her teeth as she tries not to smile. He yanks his shirt over his head and crawls over her, her fingertips ghost up his sides as he claims her mouth. She could taste the weed on his tongue, and that ever present mint. She groans as his lips leave hers but she arches as he pushes the hoodie up to expose her bare chest to his eyes. Leaning down his tongue circles one nipple before blowing on it, making her still shower warm skin break out into goosebumps. He presses his face into her sternum and drags his tongue along the anarchy A that rests there as his hand slides down onto her shorts, she feels his grin when he finds no panties in his way. She is hot and slick as he slides two thick fingers inside. "Yes touch me!"

He lays on his side, his arm propping his head up as he watches her writhe and moan as his pace picks up. Pressing his nose against her temple his lips brush her ears as he speaks lowly. "Do you have any idea how sexy you look like this?" She shakes her head, her eyes wide and glazed as she stares up at the ceiling, one hand rolling her own nipple, the other gripping his forearm, the feel of his muscles moving under his skin as his fingers fuck into her driving her higher. "Legs spread wide for me. Wet little pussy gripping my fingers like you never want me to stop." She shuddered and groans "I don't want you to stop. Please daddy. Fuck me?" He smirks and removes his fingers much to her dismay. As she turns to pout her mouth falls open as she watches him suck his cum covered fingers into his mouth. She quickly strips off her shorts and reaches for his pants and belt. He chuckles at her enthusiasm and she swats his stomach making him curl up and laugh harder. She giggles and stops trying to strip him. "Your such a dork Juan." He nods and reaches down to quickly undo his own pants, sitting up he leans his back against the headboard and shoves his pants down enough to free himself and yanks her onto his lap. Holding his cock steady he lets her slide down onto it, watching her face as her eyes fall closed at the stretch. Her hands gripping his neck and shoulders as she grinds down onto him. "Jesus you feel so good."

His hands slide up the sides of her smooth thighs to her waist, the hoodie pulls up with his hands until her lower half is exposed, her rocking hips in full view, using his hands he slowly starts to set the pace. His eyes taking in the image she made. Sun streaming through the window made her bronze skin glow, her wet curls bounced as she rode him. Lips red and kiss swollen from his lips. One of his hands leaves her waist to grab her jaw making her blink her eyes open.. "Open your eyes baby. I want to see them as you cum." Her brow is drawn and she can't control the sounds falling from her mouth, but she nods. Her hands claw at his shoulders and he gives in, needing to hold her closer, his arms wrap around her yanking her to fall into his chest. She places her hands on the wall next to his shoulders and starts to quake over him. Her lips trimble and he releases her hips and grabs her face in his hands. "Your close aren't you baby." She nods, a whine falling from her lips. She watches him watch her as she rides him as hard as she can. Her body was so close but she couldn't reach it. "Juan.....can't."

He grins and moves a hand down between them, his thumb strokes her clit and she shudders with a cry. "Come on baby. Want that pretty pussy to come. Come Joy." She groans and her bodie tenses, her thighs quivering against his hips as she arches. His thumb keeps up its circling. Making her jerk and dig her nails into his shoulder, with a growl he jerks up into her hard. Forcing a breathless cry from her.

"Do that again I'm gonna get you pregnant." He says it through clenched teeth and closed eyes but the way her fingers freeze for a second before digging harder. His head jerks up and he stares at joy. Her eyes were glazed and her lip was between her teeth as she slowly rolled her hips down onto him. Her body jerked every once in a while as his thumb pressed down hard. He watches her for a second and he smirks. "You want my baby inside you Joy?" She nods and he growls, his hands hold her waist as he pushes her back. Keeping himself inside her as he gets her on her back. His forearms hold her legs back as he pounds into her, her head is tossed back as she screams. The thought of pumping her full, watching her stomach grow. Fuck he was close. Looking down at her he he groans "Look at me." She whimpers and forces her eyes open. The hazel eyes staring up at him look so gold in the light from the sun outside and he pants. "I want my baby to have your eyes."

Her back arches violently off the bed as her whole body quakes under him, a flood of her juices soak his cock and her grip is so tight he can't hold off as it milks him. Shooting inside her he groans, laying on his side he rolls her to join him.* His lips brush her forehead as they both pant, he watches the light slowly fade from the room. His mind clear and his body lax he barely hears his wife as she whispers. "I want them to have yours Juan." He grins, pressing a kiss to her forehead. "Guess we are spending the night. Good thing Tig got Sunny from the house. He will be good for Tigs dog i think." She nods, looking down at her body and his she giggles at his boot clad feet on the pillow. "No shoes in bed you street rat." He chuckles and slowly pulls away from her, his limp cock sliding from her making her hiss and narrow her eyes at him. "Don't give me that look. No shoes in bed." She rolls her eyes and reaches over the side of the bed to get her discarded shorts. Pulling them on she shoots a text to Tig to  feed Sonny for her and plugs up her phone to charge.

Curling up she drifts until Juan returns and from the smell of his skin he showered, but she doesn't have much time to think more on it as she finally slips under. She jerks what she feels isn't a moment later but when she opens her eyes she sees nothing. Pitch black and the sound of Juans snoring and her phone going off. With a groan she grabs it and rolls onto her back. "Hello?" She sits up straight at the voice on the other line, making Juans arm draped across her stomach fall off. Waking him with a grunt as he looks around. "We have a problem Joy." She feels a cold feeling settle in the pit of her stomach as she replies "Jax what's wrong?"

Jax's House

Their bikes couldn't move fast enough, she barely puts down the kick stand before running towards the house, she stops short as she hears her name being yelled. Looking over she sees Tara and she races for her, her eyes stinging as Tara looks up at her with bright wet eyes. "What do you need me to do." Tara looks past her for a moment, she was worried she might have gone into shock but when Tara looks back at her she is all there. Her lips move and Joy focuses on them to read her lips and her face hardens as she gets what she says "Protect them from her." She nods and brings her fingers to her lips to press a kiss to them before smacking them on the window and walking towards the house shouldering past officer's as she went, hearing Teddy stop them from grabbing her. She pats his arm as she passes into the house. Finding Jax sitting at the kitchen table, Able rushes to her side and she lifts him up and sits him on her hip as he presses his wet face against her soft hoodie. Juan presses a kiss to the side of Ables head before going to get Thomas who was crying in the back room.

She bounces on her feet to rock Able, the hand not holding the child up is rested on Jax's shoulder as he holds his head in his hands. "She gave me papers...naming You and Juan guardians of our kids, if something happens. I signed them as they knocked to come get her. What are we going to do Joy?" She sighs, resting her cheeks against the child's cheek. "What you are going to do is leave this to Lowen. This is her area, do what the fuck she and Tara ask of you. Tara isnt stupid, she knew what this life meant when she stayed Jax. All you can do is stand by her like me and her did for you and Juan while she is inside. Stay the course, and get the fuck out of Charming the second you can. You hear me?" He nods, his hand reaches up to grip hers. If he had looked up he would have noticed her eyes weren't on him, but the door. Locked in the gaze of another woman. Gemma glares at her and she stands her ground, she wasn't scared of Gemma. But Gemma should be scared of what she has just done, because karma is a bitch. And she was its Messenger. Gemma would answer for this if it was the last thing Joy did.

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That’s this new chapter. Im working on the next one as we speak. again thank you all for hanging with me. 

[roxywashere]

Knee Deep in the Dead

Roxy takes a Vacation

Contrary to what you might think, Hell is a veritable Paradise for an Angel. Especially those Angels who take pride in and derive enjoyment from their ability to slay Demons.

Roxanne is one such Angel. And she had one Hell all to herself, after the associated Earth and Heaven attached to it had disappeared from the face of the Multiverse, leaving only the Demons and their prison behind. However, she’d been an Angel for so long that she had started growing bored with her personal, as it were, Hell.

Lucky for her, she wasn't limited to one Hell. She had infinite Hells to pacify.

Roxanne stood on a cliffside in her private Earth, barren of humanity, which she had christened Altar. She unsheathed her magic sword, Dawnherald, and pointed it out over the cliff, which faced a pristine blue ocean.

She spoke to the sword. “I think it’s time we took a vacation, eh? You pick this time. Try to surprise me.” She released the hilt, leaving the blade floating in the air. Dawnherald then minutely vibrated, in an increasing frequency and tightening amplitude, until it’s subatomically sharpened point snagged on a subatomic wormhole and then ripped an orange-red swath through the blue sky.

Roxy peered through the portal and examined the universe Dawnherald had chosen. “I’m intrigued... tell me more.”

Dawnherald continued ripping open the wormhole until it completely enveloped Roxy, bringing her into the world Dawnherald was proposing. She saw an endless plain of sulfur, interrupted only by towers of sulfur spitting clouds of sulfur like smokestacks.

The air smelled of sulfur, and napalm, and melting flesh, and burning plastic.

She saw movement, in small patches, on the edges of the horizon: Imps, scrambling towards the holy presence of Roxy and her semi-animate gear, enraged at her consecrating effects on their infernal home.

Roxy pointed at Dawnherald and traced a curve from where it was now to it's sheath on her back, which Dawnherald followed until it clicked snuggly into its home. Roxy took a calm, deep breath, and then rocketed towards the squadrons of imps so fast she left a vacuum which sonic-boomed in her wake.  

She stopped among a group of imps as fast as she had gotten going, knocking to the ground all but the one she had stopped in front of and held still by wrapping her ethereal wings around it. Her hand was outstretched towards it, her pointer and index pressed gently against its forehead, and her middle finger was pinned towards her palm by her thumb. When she released the coiled-up flick, the minor Demon's head exploded backwards in a jet of steam, literally vaporized by the energy Roxy's smallest possible attack had imparted.

“Come on, put up a fight. Make me earn my vacation.”

The Demons snarled and indulged her, all attempting to pounce on her at once. She grabbed one, palming its face, and used it as a club to bludgeon the rest. Its neck failed after only three Demons, the body detaching from the head and flying off into the near distance. She then pitched the head at a tight cluster of imps, splattering the head through all 6 of them.

These imps were no challenge for Roxy at all. As soon as she realized she had already exhausted her enjoyment from this particular encounter, she reached back to Dawnherald, pressing the button to release it from its sheath and help dispatch the imps.

As soon as the last imps splattered across the ground, Roxy heard a steady, rhythmic pounding. She smiled. “There we go...” She zipped in the direction of the sound, and as she grew closer she tracked it as coming from beneath the ground.

She set down on the sulfuric stone, and punched down at it, shattering the relatively thin floor she had been standing upon, revealing the chamber below.

It was massive.

It was several hundred feet across, and the bottom of the chamber was so far down that it was obscured by the glowing smog of sulfur dioxide that filled the low-lying regions of this world. She could see flickering sources of light, and shifting shadows, but no details.

The walls of the chamber were smoothed and shaped sulfides, with a whole wall of pure carved native Sulfur. The Sulfur wall had a door 50 feet tall, and behind that door was the source of the pounding.

Roxy wedged her fingers between the crack of the doors, and ripped a hole through it, the soft stone crumbling in her grip. As soon as she did the great fist of some Greater Demon punched through the door, grabbed her, and pulled her into the pitch darkness. It drew her close to its face, and opened its eyes, revealing six charcoal flames, and then opened its mouth and snarled, revealing a bright furnace burning white-hot.

It exhaled rocket exhaust at her, and her semi-mortal flesh melted away, stripping her down to little more than a golden skeleton wearing golden armor, which the demon released to watch clatter to the ground.

The skeleton dropped down to the floor, and then instead of collapsing jumped back up and head-butted the Demon. Roxy pulled her disk shield, Aegis, off her back and held it up, where it surrounded her with an impenetrable sphere of light.

As Roxy’s flesh reconstituted behind the barrier, she slowly paced around the Demon, examining it in the new light. It was 30 feet tall, with skin like bubbling tar, the face of a gorilla and the horns of a ram, cloven hooves, and fingers like foot-thick obsidian blades.

“You couldn’t have picked a more typical form,” she enunciated as soon as her lungs, throat, and mouth had grown in. “Got a name?”

“Ba’al-Beirut,” it growled in response.

“I’m Roxanne. Tell your friends.” With that said, Roxy took Dawnherald and smashed it against Aegis. The two rang out with a thundering clang, and the sphere of light exploded, sending Ba’al-Beirut flying through the ruins of the door and down into the chamber below.

Roxy’s human form had completed repairing. She walked up to the edge of the chamber, just in time to see Ba’al-Beirut scamper off whimpering before the sulfur dioxide smoke filled the Ba’al-Beirut-shaped hole that had been punched through it. She dropped down into the darkness. She landed in a gentle kneel among the smog, surrounded by hundreds of pairs of embers.

“Hello, boys. It’s time to fucking party.” She reach back towards Dawnherald in its sheath, and without even touching the catch pressed it and then flicked her wrist upwards, an action Dawnherald mimicked, launching into the air. “Shine.”

Dawnherald ignited with the light of a sun, blinding every single one of the five or so hundred Demons in the chamber with Roxy. Roxy could still see perfectly, however. While they were all still stunned, Roxy zipped around obliterating the Demons in approximate order of ascending power. By the time she had eviscerated the imps, the other Demons had recovered.

They all competed to be the one to kill her, accidentally attacking each other in their frenzy. Roxy took advantage of the confusion by hovering in places that would lead to more collateral damage when they missed her. She managed to kill almost a quarter without laying a finger on them.

It wasn't much of a challenge, but it wasn't effortless either. Once Roxy had almost completely cleared the room, the surviving greater Demons turned tail and ran.

“You fucking cowards,” Roxy yelled at their backs. “You call yourselves Demons? Get back here!”

She took her time tracking them through the endless system of sprawling tunnels under the surface of this Hell. She slowly, patiently, paced every foot of the 100,000 miles that quest required, killing a million other Demons along the way. But after 10 years, more or less, she found them all, and killed all but one.

She had left Ba’al-Beirut alive, out of some fleeting whimsy to see what his driving fear of her would lead him to do.

She saw him journey across Hell for 20 years after she had finished killing the other Demons she had first come across. He consulted with hundreds of Demon fortune teller and magisters, seeking what it would take to get this implacable Heaven-Spawn off his trail.

Every place Ba’al-Beirut passed through would be shortly thereafter wiped from the infernal map, so the longer his quest drew on the more resistance he found from other Demons not wishing to be marked for certain annihilation at the hands of a bored rogue Archangel.

But eventually his quest led him to the answer he thought would work best.

After utterly destroying the demonic temple that had given him his final solution, Roxy caught up with him as he was adding the final touches on an enormous magic circle.

It was a massive pentagram made of crushed up cinnabar, with lettering in greek, arabic, and norse runic along the edges, and surrounded by more geometric shapes extending out almost a hundred feet from the center. Ba’al-Beirut had spent a day tracing it, making sure that each line and curve were perfectly drawn, to minimize the chance of failure. Thousands of other Demons had gathered to watch.

Roxy recognized this ritual: she'd seen it attempted six dozen times across the Omniverse before; it was the ultimate ritual of local Multicosmic Demonism. Never once had she failed to stop it.

But this Hell was a sandbox. She wanted someone else to play with.

Roxy sat in the air above the circle, legs crossed patiently. When Ba’al-Beirut stopped to run and cower, she zipped into his path, still sitting lotus.

“Finish the ritual,” she commanded of him. Not only did Roxy not interfere with the process, she actively aided it: when Ba’al-Beirut reached the final step, and went to kill a random imp for blood sacrifice, Roxy stopped him.

“He’s more likely to answer if it’s somebody he knows,” she advised. She stood in the center of the pentagram and used Dawnherald to slit her own throat so deeply her head technically wasn't connected to the rest of her body. Her blood pooled within the pentagram, not spreading past its 5 sides. It poured out of her until her heart ran dry. “Call to him,” Roxy ordered.

In an ageless and multiversally spread infernal tongue, Ba’al-Beirut cried: “<Therion, I summon thee.>”

There was a flash of light from the center of the pentagram, and a crack of thunder, and the cinnabar dust started glowing.

The blood started roiling and churning, as if it wasn’t only mere centimeters deep. A shape slowly rose out of the liquid, looking like it was composed of the blood itself. It was vaguely human-shaped, though many things often were, but as it rose higher it’s features became sharper. The face of a man became distinct, already smiling wickedly, and before it had risen completely its eyes snapped open.

Therion leapt forward at Roxy, not yet fully formed. His arm shot forward like a tentacle, which materialized into a hand around Roxy’s neck. She still had Dawnherald in her hand, so she swung it to cleave the gripping fist.

She zipped backwards, out of his reach. “I thought She forbade you from entering any Hell?” she interrogated.

“She let me back in as a reward for my good behaviour,” still half-blood Demon answered disingenuously. “I thought She forbade you from using your wings under foreign suns?” he then asked in return.

“She gave me new wings.”

“Well, I guess that all our questions have been answered.” He examined his surroundings, and himself, still partially solidifying out of Roxy’s blood. He saw the figure of Ba’al-Beirut towering over the much more minute Angel. “Though it was her blood that drew me here, the voice that summoned me was not hers. I presume that was you?”

Ba’al-Beirut was in a state of obvious confusion. “I summoned the Demon King, God of Evil, the Immortal Dragon. What is this buffoonery?”

Roxy and Therion shared a rare smile over their mutual amusement at the situation.

Ba’al-Beirut gestured at the random assortment of Demons that had surrounded to watch the ritual. “Kill this imposter!”

Roxy gave him some space, flying straight up to not be in the way, and Therion spread his arms and cackled as hundreds of imps and middling Demons converged upon him and ripped his finally completely solid body to shreds.

Roxy landed upon a hill a fair distance away. Ba’al-Beirut turned his back on the frenzy and walked for a long minute to confront her. “Why did the spell fail? You said he would answer.”

“And answer he did, you stupid impish emberling. Look again, and see for yourself.”

In the minute that Ba’al-Beirut had spent stomping over to Roxy, the scene behind him had changed dramatically. No longer was there a legion of imps tearing at the flesh of some random human, but there was instead an enormous form standing above the imps, stretching up into the sulfurous smog until it could only be seen as a shadow against the ambient glow of this Hell’s atmosphere.

Everything had gone silent. The enormous shadowy figure had never made a sound as it had come into being, and the imps had ceased their squawking out of awe.

A shadow leaned down out of the smog, revealing a colossal draconic head beset upon a long thick snake-like neck. The head was itself beset by a crown of four curved horns. Six other nearly identical heads then leaned down around the first head, their only difference being having a single pointed horn instead of four.

The central head spoke, with a deep, but genial voice. “Therion, The Beast from the Pit, The Seven-Headed Dragon, the King of Demons, at your infernal service. I see you have already met my opposite.”

Ba’al-Beirut fell to his knee and genuflected. “Forgive me for my disbelief-”

“Up! Stand up! We don’t have time to be formal, we’ve got a Legion to organize! No time to waste! Go, rally as many as you can!”

As Ba’al-Beirut scampered off to obey his command, Therion leaned even further down to Roxy. “You think yourself so clever, driving a Demon to insanity to draw me into a far-flung realm and imprison me...”

“You’re the one calling me clever, here,” she responded. “I only wanted to see what would happen if you were summoned to where you were forbidden. I thought maybe the process would finally destroy you.”

“If only.”

Roxy sighed in commiseration. “If only indeed.” Roxy cracked her neck and fingers, her joints popping as loud as firecrackers. “Let’s get to business, shall we?”

Therion reared his six single-horned heads back up and inhaled deeply through all of them. At the very end of the inhale, his four-horned head quietly said “Let’s,” and then roared with all the Wrath and Pride he exemplified, the sound spreading out over this Hell for thousands of miles.

[multifandomimaginesforevery-blog]

a long way from home | part 1/?| a walking dead fanfic

summary: Coraline Brums is a genus Astrologist who get’s caught in the middle of Rick Grime’s life when she offers to help find his family along with her own. She is just an innocent civilian trying not to let the apocalypse change her but her need for survival might do just that.

a.n: hello everyone who has stumbled upon this fanfc. It will take place from season 1 till whenever I see fit for it to end. It is either going to be a Rick love story or a Negan one, I haven’t made up my mind. If you are looking for a quick read then this is not for you because I want it to be long. If you want something quick you can request it in my ask box. Enjoy the story!

this chapter is rated PG-13 so read at your own risk!

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    When the dome to the observatory opens, it’s like coming home or running into the arms of someone you love. My brother Mason likes to say that I was born into the wrong species. That my soulmate resides somewhere in space. That I spend more time looking at space than I do at earth. But he’s wrong. If I were to be born an alien it would be different, I wouldn’t see space the way I see it now. It’s the fact that everyday I go to work I get to travel to different planets, stars.     Ever since I’ve been little I’ve always dreamt of getting a closer look into the unknown. That’s why I became an astronomer, to escape from earth. It took a total of 10 years of college, not to mention the two years of school I just finished to get my associates degree in diesel mechanics.     You see, I’ve always been a pretty ordinary person. I grew up with both of my parents in a small city and went to a public school. I’ve never gotten along with my parents very well. They’re both dead now.     I’ve always been really outgoing, a class clown, optimistic in a way that's almost ignorant. Almost. I was everybody's friend. I grew up with my older brother, who I’ve never gotten along with. He is not outgoing and is embarrassed to go out in public with me in fear of  being judged. It’s been that way since we were young. My parent always tried to convince me otherwise but it was obvious. He would never have friends over to the house. Matter of fact, he was never home himself; barely able to be around me. So despite thinking I grew up normal, I know that there is something different about me, I’m just not sure what that is. But family is family and we’d both do anything for each other. At least I would him.

    After I finish some papers on the satellite I’ve been assigned to babysit I close the dome after getting another good look at my favorite planet, Jupiter. Once it’s completely closed I heave a sad sigh. Before I can go down the stairs I hear the emergency sirens blare throughout Cynthiana, Kentucky.     Confused I open the dome again, warm air hitting my face, blowing my wavy, dark red hair out of my face. After my parents death a month ago I dyed it red and got it cut into an even bob with my bangs. I grab the weakest telescope off of it’s stand to get a good look at the city that is about a mile away from me. I push my glasses up into my hair and look into the scope.     Even from here I can hear the sirens of firetrucks, police cars, and ambulances. When I look into the scope I can see cars lined up on the highway, heading towards the town over.     People are standing outside of their cars. What the hell is going on? I jerk the scope away from my eye when I hear a sonic boom coming from the city. The large explosion came from the jet from above the city. The large mushroom of fire raises from the middle of the city I was raised in. The park I used to run away to when thing would become too much with my parents.     I realize that my brother is at home right now, still in the city. We don’t live near the explosion but I have no idea what’s going on down there. I quickly close the dome, grab my bag and leave. I shove the telescope in my belt loop, just in case. I run down the stairs quickly, the tail of my lab coat whipping behind me. When I reach outside I turn around and fumble to lock the Observatory.     I quickly get into my red jeep (that my father kindly left in his will) and stick my keys into the ignition. Throwing the key to the Observatory in the glove box I race out of there. I don’t even bother with the highway knowing that it will be packed full of vehicles ready to leave Cynthiana for some unknown reason. I tap my hands anxiously on the wheel as I drive into the city, or should I say chaos? To my left there is a group of people with blood covering them trying to corner a couple that looks terrified.     I usually would have stopped and done something but in this case I couldn’t, seeing as this was happening around every corner I take. When I reach about a block away from my house I see a flash of blue before the world turns black.

    I wake up with a gasp. Looking around cautiously I see a blue Cadillac that I smashed into. Oh shit, I hit the driver's side. I see a body slumped against the steering wheel but I can’t tell if they’re still breathing or not. I open the door and step out. Hit by a sudden nausea and dizziness I fall over and heave out stomach acid.     Stomach acid? That doesn’t make sense, I’ve eaten today. Then it dawns on me; I’ve no idea how long I’ve been out. Minutes, Hours, Days? I check my watch but I see it’s been broken during the crash. It’s early morning, and the streets are deserted. Something makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. It’s the noise. It’s gone completely silent. There are no birds chirping or the usual buzz of the cars on the highway that’s nearby. I can still see the smoke rising from where the explosion had happened.     Slowly I stand to my feet, hand braced against the door of my truck. I swallow my own spit to soothe my raw throat. That’s when I feel it, sticking out of my stomach. I didn’t feel it per-say, on my stomach. In fact, I don’t feel anything on the whole right side of my torso. I bring my hand down to feel the long hunk of metal that is sticking out of my lower right side. There’s a bit of blood surrounding the area but the metal is blocking off most of the flowage. I can feel all the colour leave my face. I can feel myself going into shock.      After twenty minutes of just standing here, trying not to go into shock, I take a scarf that I found under my seat and tie it above the wound as tight as I can. I curse under my breath. I attempt to walk again, finding great difficulty in keeping my balance. I remember my dad had a limp so he kept a cane behind his seat. I find it with little to no problem. This should do, it’ll have to. Before I leave I grab the key to the observatory and throw it in my bag and begin the one block hike to my house.     When I pass the Cadillac the driver to the car, who I had forgotten about, starts to growl and snap it's teeth at me. I begin to walk closer cautiously. “Hey, is everything alright?” I yell out, only a yard away. I notice the pale, veiny skin before I notice his pale eyes. “Jesus.” I mutter. I must be really losing it.     I take my cane and poke his (it’s?) face. He snaps his teeth towards me as if he were trying to eat me. “What the hell?” I speak quietly. The seatbelt is holding it hostage so I leave him where he is.     I begin to cry softly as I walk towards my house. I think I killed a man. My house is unharmed and empty. I checked all the rooms in the house and there is no sign of my brother. I sigh in relief when I find all his clothes missing and a bunch of food from the pantry gone too. He ran. My brother is resourceful, he made it through all the chaos, I know it. What I am sure of is that I need to go to the hospital.     I notice my brother took his car (which is a good sign he's alive.) I walk to the garage with great difficulty. I know that there's my fathers Harley in here somewhere. Thankfully I find it at the front in all it's red glory.  After a couple weak tries of starting trying to start it up it comes to life. I almost fall over attempting to walk it our but eventually I get the strength to kick off and head to the hospital.

[jolienjoyswriting]

Sonic CD - Shake the Planets, Ch. II

The final chapter of "Shake the Planets," a Sonic the Hedgehog CD fan fiction story.

As I said, this isn't the story I wanted to write.  But, you know something?  I'm glad things turned out this way.  I like this so much that I may, in fact, write some more stories in this "timeline," later on. … Tails, you did keep Robotnik from getting those Time Stones… right?

Word count: 4,258 – Character count: 24,077 Originally written: October 5th, 2019

Tails and Amy continue to entertain each other as they wait out the horrible storm outside.

Amy Rose/Rosy the Rascal created by Naoto Ohshima and touched-up by Kazuyuki Hoshino Miles "Tails" Prower created by Yasushi Yamaguchi, Sonic the Hedgehog created by Naoto Ohshima "Sonic the Hedgehog," "Sonic the Hedgehog CD," and aforementioned/related characters and concepts © Sega Games Co., Ltd.

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    “Amy… please… have mercy…!”

    In a fire-lit cave somewhere in the rocky plains near Never Lake, a two-tailed fox found himself being tortured by a crazy, pink hedgehog girl.

    “I’m not stopping ‘til I find what I’m looking for…!”

    The fox whined and squirmed, his ears pinned to his head and his eyes watering.  Even with those big, white gloves of hers… the girl’s hands were doing a number on him.

    “I-I’m sorry about your c… car…!” he gasped.  “J-just… s-stop and I’ll–”     “And you’ll what?” she asked, the grin on her face staying in place.     “N-no… not there…  Not there…!”     “What will you do, Mister Hero?”     “I… I… ah…!”

    The girl giggled as the fox jolted from her touch.  Her original idea was to poke around in his tails and try to find what he was carrying.  However… when he seemed afraid of her, she decided she’d give that orange-furred boy something to be afraid of!

    “S-stop-stop…!” he begged.  His voice was cracking and his eyes were showing actual tears…  She was wearing him down.     “No way, Miles!  Not until you–”     “H-hee-hee…!”     “There it is…!”     Tails tensed, realizing what a mistake it was to let that laugh slip.  Before he could try and convince the devilish girl not to… she made her move.     “Aaaaah-ha ha ha ha haaa…!!”     And started tickling him all over.

    “What’cha gonna do, now, Mister Hero?” she teased as her gloved hands poked, prodded, rubbed, and teased him under his arms, around his tails, and behind his ears – all very ticklish spots on his body.     “I… I… I…!” he panted as his howling laughter echoed in the cave.  Even if he’d had a response to that question… it would have been impossible to give, considering.

    “Kitchy-kitchy-coo!”     Amy had been tickling the fox for a good three minutes.  In that time, he’d collapsed into a laughing, crying, red-faced ball-of-fluff, barely even putting up a fight as he resigned himself to his fate.  The girl had him completely overpowered.  That is…     “Ahh…!!”     Until he heard a bolt of lightning.

    “M… Miles…?” the girl nervously asked.  “Wh-what’s gotten into you…?!”     Her companion was shaking like a leaf, his body trembling and his arms, legs, and tails wrapped around her.  He whimpered a little, keeping his eyes closed until he felt something run along his head.     “There there…” she quietly told him. “It’s okay…”     He blinked a couple of times.  The tone of Amy’s voice had changed dramatically.  She’d gone from scary to soothing…  Between that and the gentle strokes along his hairline and down his head, he found himself rapidly calming down…  It wasn’t long after that he untangled himself from the girl, then looked away with a shamed blush.

    “It’s okay, Miles,” she repeated as she continued petting him.  “It’s okay…”     “S… stop that…!”     She giggled as he batted her hand away.     “I… I-I’m sorry…” was the next thing he said.  “I just… I hate lightning…!”     “There there–”     “Stop that!”     Amy couldn’t help but laugh a little more.  He’d stopped her from petting him, again.     “It really is okay, though,” she said as she returned to the fire, sitting with her legs resting at an angle.  “Lots’a people are scared of lots’a things!”     “I-it’s… it’s embarrassing, though…”     Tails sighed, sitting next to her and closing his eyes.     “I wanna be brave, like Mister Sonic… b-but–”     Another crack boomed across the plains and into the cave.  And, just like before… Amy found herself “wearing” her friend.

    “It’s okay,” she said in that same calming tone.  “I mean it.”     “S-sorry…” he apologized, letting her go.  When he tried to pull away, though…     “U-um… Amy…?     She wouldn’t let him.     “It’s okay to be scared, sometimes…” she whispered as she held the fox in her arms.  “We can’t all be brave all-the-time…  I heard it’s not good to do that.”     “But…”     “Say, Miles…”  She looked at him.  “I never did thank you for saving me, did I?”     “Wh-what?”  The fox blinked a couple of times.  “I-it’s okay.  I–”     “Maybe… maybe the cards didn’t lie…”  The girl hummed.  “Maybe… I misread them?”     “What…?”  He was starting to sound like a broken record.     “I thought they said I’d meet Mister Sonic on that planet… but, the cards I drew…”  She paused.  “What they really said was if I traveled somewhere, I’d meet someone.  Miracle Planet was definitely that ‘somewhere…’ so, maybe that someone was… you?”     She warmly smiled, leaning in.     “Either way… here’s my ‘thank you…’”

    The fox practically turned to stone.  Without much any warning, Amy kissed him on the nose.  No one had ever done that to him, before… much less a girl.  He had no idea how to react to it… or if he even should.

    “Miles…?”     Amy blinked as she leaned back.  Tails was staring off into space, mouth hanging open and body completely still.  It was kind of adorable, in a way… but also kind of worrying.     “Miles…?” she repeated, giving him a nudge.  “Are you okay?”     “You kissed me…!” he squeaked, almost inaudible.     “Of course, I did!”  She covered her mouth with one hand and giggled.  “You’re a hero and heroes get kisses from pretty girls!”     His face became visibly red, causing her to laugh.     “Guess you liked it, huh?”     She sighed…     “You’re no Mister Sonic… but I’m glad you saved me.”     Her eyes closed and she snuggled up against the fox-boy’s side.     “Thank you… Mister Hero…”     “Uwah…”

    Amy’s eyes went wide and she gave a surprised yelp.  When she sat back up and looked down, she noticed something… that made her grin.     “Did you really just faint?”     The fox’s eyes had rolled back and he’d fallen over, completely limp and red-faced.     “Gosh…” she said with a giggle.  “I wonder if I can get Mister Sonic to do that?”     She happily hummed to herself, her eyes looking the young fox over.  She had to admit… he was kind of cute.  Plus, she liked how soft his fur felt.  Which got her wondering…

    “Hmm…”     Another mischievous grin spread across her face.     “He… shouldn’t wake up if I do this… right?”     The girl looked one way, then the other, before scooting up beside him.  Without any more delay, she laid down perpendicular to him and rested her head on his belly.     “Sooooo soft…” she cooed before giggling.     As she lay there, enjoying her new “pillow,” she reached up and ran a hand over his chest while she nuzzled into his stomach, treating herself to all that super-plush fox fur.  She was in absolute heaven.  However…     “I wonder…”     She soon got another idea…

    As much fun as getting lost in that fox’s pelt was, she thought it could be even more fun if he joined in!  Instead of waking him up, though, she took him by the wrist and brought his arm around her side, making him limply hug her.  She smiled and faintly blushed…  There was something super-cozy about what they were doing.

    After enjoying that fox’s fluffy for a little while longer, she sighed, then cuddled up beside him.  One arm wrapped around his shoulders while the other reached up and played with one of his ears.     “I should stop…” she told herself.  “I could get used to this!”     Despite that… she didn’t.

    With Tails’ unconscious body as her disposal, the girl got a wild idea…  Without so much as a word, she slipped from his side and climbed atop him.     “Oh, Mister Sonic…” she whispered as she formulated a fantasy scenario.  Her hands pulled the fox’s arms around her, again, and she snuggled closer.     “I love you so much…”  Her face warmed and she grinned before asking, “You… want to what?  A-are you sure?  Goodness…  I… o-okay…!”

    The redness in her face increased as she quietly leaned inward, keeping Tails’ nose pointed her way.  Her eyes slipped shut, her lips puckered, and she kept moving closer to that unaware vulpine…  Then, as she drew to within a breath’s distance of kissing him…     “Ah… ah– ah!!”     The sleeping fox woke with a start and shoved her away!

    Amy blinked, watching as Tails sat up, rubbing his mouth with one hand and excitedly panting.  His face was bright red and he seemed a little upset…  When his eyes eventually pointed her way, she shrunk down, blushed, and nervously giggled…     “Wh-wh-what did you do…?” he suspiciously asked with folded ears.     “Nothing…” she lied, trying her best to sound innocent.     The fox somehow got redder.  “What do you do…?”     “Nothing!” she repeated with a huff.     “Amy!” he called, his face breaking into anger.  “What.  Did you.  Do?”     She bit her lower lip.  Then, all-at-once, she blurted out her response.     “I-I didn’t kiss you– I was gonna, but you woke up– I saw you faint and I got curious and thought– I cuddled you and used you as a pillow– I wanted to kiss you to practice for Mister Sonic and… and… a-and…!”     She whimpered… then, just as quickly as she’d started talking…     “Waaaaah…!!”     She started crying!

    Tails’ eyes shot open.  Almost immediately after the girl covered her face to sob, he stood up and walked over to her just to sit nearby.  As he reached out to touch her… he ended up going rigid, again.  Without warning, she’d buried her face into his chest and hugged onto him, just like that!  Not knowing what else to do, he cautiously reached up, and…     “Th… there-there…?”     He started stroking her head from the red scarf behind her ears to the tips of her quills.

    Amy must have cried for a good few minutes before calming down.  When she finally quieted, she sat up, rubbing her eyes with an arm, then shyly looked his way with a warm face.     “S… sorry…” she sighed.  “I…”     “You’re such a crybaby…”     “Wha–”     The girl opened her eyes, staring in shock.     “I am not!” she yelled.  When she crossed her arms and pulled away, the fox just grinned.

    “It’s okay, Amy,” he said in a reassuring voice.  “I’m scared of lightning and you cry a lot.  We’re not so different, huh?”     She shot him a dirty look…  When she noticed him smiling, she sighed and nodded.     “I still think you’re brave, though,” the fox added.     “Th-thank… ah… ah…”     He tilted his head… only to wince as she sneezed right in his face.     “Oh, gosh!”  She gasped, covering her mouth with one hand.  “I-I’m so sorry!”     “Ick…  Girl germs,” was his response to that.     For some reason… that just made her giggle.  However…     “Hey… are you okay?”     Tails noticed… Amy was starting to shiver.     “I-I’m a little cold…” she said before sneezing away from him.  “I’ll be fine!”     The fox wasn’t sure why…  The cave was pretty warm, to him.  Then again…     “Oh!”     The girl blinked.  Her friend had spoken up, all-of-a-sudden.     “No wonder you’re cold, Amy!  Your clothes are soaked!”     “What?”     She blinked, again, then looked at herself.  He was right…  Her green blouse and orange skirt were still very heavy with water.  Even the red scarf she used as a hairband was still wet.     “You should take ‘em off and let ‘em dry!”     For once, it was the hedgehog’s turn to imitate a statue.  Her eyes locked wide open and she tensely looked right at the fox.  Then, as her brain finally processed what he’d said…     “Kyaaaaa…!!”     She slapped him and curled against the nearest wall.

    “Ah…!  Wh-wh-what was that f–”     “Pervert…!!” she screamed, her face red and her body trembling in fear.     “P… pervert…?”  Tails blushed, letting his ears droop.  “No… No, I–”     “I was warned  about people like you…!” Amy screamed, cutting him off.  “You want to see me naked…!  Y-you want to touch me in ways or places that make me uncomfortable!  You want to… want to…!”     She paused, blinking.     “W… well…” she said in a calmer voice.  “I dunno what, exactly…  B-but…!”     Her voice raised back up and she hugged herself, screaming…     “Y-you’re a pervert…!!”     “I-I’m not a pervert…!” Tails protested.  “I just want you to take your clothes off!”     “Kyaaaaa…!!”     He winced, then.  That was clearly the wrong thing to say…

    “L-look, Amy–”     “Stay away from me, you pervert…!” she immediately snapped.     “Amy…”     “Keep your hands off me…!” she shouted… despite the fox not being anywhere near her.     “Amy.”     “That’s my purse!” she cried, sounding somewhat confused.  “I don’t know you…!”     “Amy Rose!!”     The girl flinched before looking up.  Tails was glaring at her, again… but, something was off.  He didn’t seem particularly angry.  In fact… he almost looked ready to cry…!  Why?     “I’m not a pervert, darn it…!” he huffed, sounding hurt.  “I j-just don’t want you to catch a cold and get sick!  I-I’m sorry for caring, okay?!”     With that, he spun around and walked over to the campfire, angrily plunking and keeping his back turned away from the dumb girl.     If she’s gonna be like that, who cares if she catches a cold?  Hmph!

    Things felt tense in that cave…  Tails had gotten so upset with Amy, and Amy… didn’t know what to think.     He told me to take my clothes off… she thought as she shivered from the cold dampness of her outfit.  H-he’s a pervert…  B-but… but…     She whimpered.     But, who was the one playing with his fur while he slept…?  Who… who wanted to use him for kissing practice…?     “I’m the pervert…” the girl quietly said.     When she heard Tails give an unconcerned “What?” she shuffled over toward him.     “I… I said…” she shakily started, “I’m the pervert…”     “I… what?”  The fox blinked in confusion.  “That’s not what I–”     “I… I played with you like a doll, after you fainted…”     As she sighed, Tails just blushed and folded his ears.  He wanted to accept the apology… but something kept him from saying anything.     “Y-you’re right, though…” she continued.  “I-If I stay like this… I-I’ll get sick.  So…”     His blush brightened as she softly… shyly whispered…     “N-no peeking…  ‘kay…?”

    Tails felt his heart pound against his chest.  His ears flicked and his tails twitched…  He could hear something behind him.  It sounded an awful lot like wet fabric being rustled… then discarded on the ground.  A couple of moments later… he felt something press against his back.     “S-sorry, if my quills hurt…” he heard the girl say.  “B-but, if we sit back-to-back…”     “N-no, no, I get it…” he said after she trailed off.  “I-it’s less likely I’ll accidentally see something you don’t want me to.  Right?”     She hesitated before telling him, “R-right…”     “Good thinking.”  He smiled to himself.  “Your quills aren’t hurting me, by the way…”     “G-good…  I… tried to push them down… and…”     She trailed off, again.  The girl wasn’t in much of a mood for talk, anymore, it seemed.

    The storm outside raged on, water crashing to the ground, thunder rumbling, and lightning cracking.  To Amy’s surprise, Tails kept to himself during the course… though, after three-or-four flashes of lightning, he was shaking kind of hard.  She felt so bad…     “Gimme your hands.”     “W-w-w-wha’…?”     “Your hands, Miles,” she repeated.  “Lemme see them.”     He wanted to ask why… but he decided to leave it be and just do as she asked.     “I can’t hug you with us back-to-back,” she whispered as she gently slid her fingers between his, “so just hold my hands…  Hold them as tight as you want!  We’ll face this dumb storm together and laugh!  Ha ha ha haaah!”     The fox stopped shivering…  Hearing her be so brave when he felt so afraid inspired him to try a little harder.  Despite that… he took her up on her offer, squeezing her hands tight.

    “Amy?”     “Yeah, Miles?” she called after he spoke her name.     “I’m sorry…”     “About what?”     “I’m sorry for putting you through this dumb stuff… for making you think I was a pervert… for not being very nice when I met you…  I’m sorry for breaking your car, I’m sorry for m-making you sit in this stupid cave… I… I…”     “Miles…?”     The fox whimpered… then, after a short delay… he broke.

    “There, there, Miles…”     Amy gently rubbed her thumbs over his hands and leaned against him.  She couldn’t see it, but she could hear him quietly crying behind her.  It made her feel bad, but…     “Once this whole thing is over,” she told him, “we’ll get outta this cave, fix my car, and go find Mister Sonic!  How dare he make us… wait… for…”     The girl blinked as she slowed.  She had every intention of saying something inspirational, again…  However, something stopped her.  For some reason… she just couldn’t muster the energy for it.  In fact… she realized that, at that moment, she didn’t even care about Sonic.  Just about the only thing she wanted, right then… was to make her friend feel better.

    Tails’ jolted, his face suddenly warming.  He looked down, noticing a pair of tan-colored arms wrapping around his chest.  The next thing he noticed was something warm brushing against his face.  He glanced to his right only to blush a little more.     “A… Amy…?” he called.  “Wh… what are you…?”     “Hush,” she said in a calm voice as she affectionately rubbed cheeks with him.  “I wanna tell you something.”     He quieted, listening…     “When I set out on this dumb adventure, I hoped I’d meet Mister Sonic.  I hoped he’d find me and we’d fall in love.  He never came… but you did.

    “Right now?  You’re a better hero than Mister Sonic, Miles.  Know why?”     She tightened her grip on him.     “‘cause… you’re my hero.”

    The fox blinked a couple of times as she kissed his cheek before going back to rubbing.  He didn’t feel tense or even particularly embarrassed…  He just felt kind of… warm.  That girl hugging him didn’t care that he wasn’t Sonic…  It almost sounded like she was glad he wasn’t, in some way.  He was her hero… and that made him feel really special.

    “Miles…?”     The fox sighed, leaning back as his two tails curled around his friend’s body.     “Sorry for not warning you,” he said in a calm voice.  “I just… really wanted to hug you!  You’re… really amazing, Amy…”     The girl softly giggled. before whispering, “Ditto…”

    After a great many moments of Amy holding Tails while his tails hugged her, the former turned back around.  Once she found his hands, again, she happily sighed…     “This isn’t so bad…”     “There’s worse places to be during a bad storm than in a cave with a friend, I guess,” he said with a soft laugh.     “No, I mean… the whole failed adventure.”     “Yeah…?”     He squirmed as he felt her do the same.  He didn’t want to say anything, but… she’d finally jabbed him with a couple of her spines.     “I didn’t meet Mister Sonic, but…”  The girl beamed.  “I got to meet a cute boy, anyway!”     “A-and… I got to meet a cute girl…?” the fox replied, sounding unsure.     Said girl giggled before saying, “Hey, Miles…”     “Yeah?”     She hesitated, nibbling on her lower lip.     “If… if you wanted to peek…” she shyly told him.  “I… I wouldn’t be mad.  Promise!”     Tails delayed before replying, “Amy?”     “Y… yes, Miles?”     “I… still wanna hug you.”  He paused before asking, “Do you, um…”     “O-okay…!”     He blinked as he got an answer before he even finished asking his question.  He chuckled and heard Amy giggle.  Shortly after, they pulled away from each other, releasing one another’s hands.  Slowly, they turned to their sides.  Before they could face each other, though…     “Huh?”     Tails did something clever.

    “M… Miles…?”     The fox grinned, still blushing.  “I… I know you said I could peek, but…”     He squirmed, his thick, bushy tails shuffling as they pressed against the girl’s front.  The only part of her that was clearly visible, then, was her head.     “You’re so sweet…” she said with a bright smile.  Then, not a second later…     “Ack…!”     She tackled him, reaching through the twin tales and snuggling that adorable fox-boy for all he was worth!

    Eventually, the two realized that the storm wouldn’t be breaking anytime soon and Tails suggested they get some sleep.  When he tried to set up a place for himself…     “Amy?”     He found the sweet girl hugging him from behind, again.     “I don’t wanna sleep by myself…” she shyly told him.  “It’s cold, and I’m scared.  Can… can I sleep with you?  Pretty please…?”     “Well…”  Though he was blushing from the idea, he tried to rationalize it.  “I-if we sleep close together, we can stay warmer for longer–”     The girl cut him off with a sudden sneeze.  She gasped, then, before rubbing the back of his newly-moistened head.     “S-sorry…!”

    “As… I was saying,” he continued, “if we sleep close together, we can stay warmer for longer… share body heat, and stuff.  So… so… i-if you’re okay with it…”     She giggled a little before squeezing him.     “O-okay, then.  U-um… you can use my tails as a blanket, or a pillow, or–”     He blinked, again.  She’d pushed him down, then pressed her body against his, tucking her head against his chest.  Curiously… she brought one of his tails between her legs, kind of using it as a blanket, as he’d suggested.     “This is good,” she said as she looked at the fox.  “A-are you comfy, though…?”     He continued to blush.  That smile of hers was so disarming…     “Y… yeah…” he said with a smile of his own.  “L-let’s get some sleep.”     She giggled, then she hummed…     “G’night, my hero…”     His face warmed a little more.  “G’night…”     Then, the two fell into a quiet, calm rest.

    Sun burst into the cavern the following morning, waking Tails from his sleep.  When his eyes fluttered open, he looked around…     “Amy…?” he called.     “Miles!”     He was glad he was already laying down when the perky girl tackled him.  As she hugged, though, he noticed she’d already gotten dressed.  That made him far less shy about returning the tight hug she gave.     “You’re up, early,” he said with a yawn.  “What time is it, anyway?”     “Dunno,” she said as she cuddled him.     “Well, we should probably head out…”     He blinked as he found himself unable to sit up.     “Amy…?”     “Do… do we have to?”     He blushed as she ran her finger in a circle through his chest fluff.     “Can we just… stay here?  Just a little longer?  You and me…?”     “Y… yeah…?” he nervously asked.     “Good boy…”     With that, the girl smiled and tucked her head under his chin.  She really liked cuddling that fox and, honestly?  He was starting to like cuddling her, too.

    A small part of the morning was spent just lying in that cave, the two kids quietly enjoying each other’s company and casually chatting.  Neither one of them seemed in too much of a hurry to leave the cave, much less the other’s arms.  Eventually, though… they did.

    “Hey, Amy!  I found your car!  Or… w-what’s left of it…”     As the sun made its way overhead, Amy and Tails left the cave and began the search for the broken vehicle – Amy from the ground and Tails from the air.  It didn’t take too long before the latter found it and called the former over.

    “Oh, my car…!”     The girl’s face fell.  There wasn’t much left of her little blue joyrider.  It had practically been smashed flat by the ovular hunk of metal laying on top of it!     “It’ll be alright, Amy!”     “How is this going to be alright?!” she yelled as she gestured to what was once a car.     “I… I’ll make you a new one?” was the fox’s hesitant response.     “Hmph!”  She turned away.  “I wouldn’t need a one if you hadn’t been so reckless!”     “H-hey, this wasn’t my fault!  Not… not entirely, I mean…  Besides!”     Tails offered a a smile.     “I’ll make your new one even better!”     The girl looked over her shoulder.  “Oh, yeah…?”     “I’ll see what I can do!” he assured her.     “Well… okay!”  She spun back around, brightly smiling.  “I trust you, Mister Hero!”

    With the car situation sorted, Amy and Tails decided to head out of the area.  The former gathered a couple of Sonic souvenirs from her destroyed vehicle – a “mirror buddy” and a gearshift knob in the shape of his head – and the two went on their way.

    The trip back to civilization was a long one.  Amy didn’t have super speed and Tails couldn’t fly fast enough with a passenger to make it worth the effort, so they had to walk.  Along the way, the latter got to show off his combat skills by busting a few Badniks, impressing the lady in the process.  Once they found a town, Tails called Sonic via the Tornado’s satellite phone, and a while later, he arrived to pick the fox up.

    “Sonic?  This is my new friend, Amy Rose!”     The pink hedgehog deeply blushed, nervously waving as she tapped the toe of her foot against the ground.  “H-h-hello, Mister Sonic…!” she greeted, feeling nervous-beyond-belief.     “Hey, kid,” the blue hedgehog greeted from his biplane.  “Ready to go, Tails?”     “Not yet.”  He turned his attention to Amy.  “I guess this is ‘goodbye,’ huh…?”     She hummed, staying otherwise silent.  Then, all-of-a-sudden…     “Ah…!”     She threw her arms around him and kissed his nose.     “Thanks for everything, Mi– Tails,” the girl said in a sad tone.  “It was fun!”     Sonic winked and gave a thumbs-up as the young fox blushed and flustered.  He couldn’t believe she’d done that in front of him…     Shortly after, everyone went their separate ways.  But, as Amy called to get a ride back to her home, she had a feeling, someday, they’d all meet again.  Hopefully, sooner than later…

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Sonic Boom Spoiler Review: Do Not Disturb

Do Not Disturb had funny moments. The episode definitely didn't go the way I expected it to. The episode starts off with a funny gag, where Sonic is having a nightmare about being redesigned. He was muttering stuff like "You're evil, stop coloring my arms!" LOL! Sonic wakes up and comes across an ugly looking species in his house. Fastidious Beaver shows up, and reveals he's part of an environmental protection service, and points out how the creature is endangered, and decided to make Sonic's house a part of it's nesting area. Fastidious then requires Sonic to leave his house, until the creature finds a mate. Sonic then sees Amy show up, and hopes she can help, but it turns out she's a part of Fastidious's environmental group as well, and clarifies that Sonic needs to respect the creature. Sonic then decides to barge into Tails's house, and decides to crash there. The whole episode then turns into an episode where Tails realizes that living with Sonic is actually a nightmare. Tails is a neat freak, while Sonic is a bit messy, and starts getting on Tails's nerves. Tails decides that if he wants Sonic out of his house, then he'll need to help get Sonic's house back. Tails, Sonic, and Amy then team up to try and find that endangered species a new mate. Tails makes a mating call device to try luring another one of those endangered species to hook up with the other one in Sonic's shack. The mating call works, and attracts another one, but it turns out that the two creatures don't like each other. Sonic, Tails, and Amy then try setting up a romantic evening for the two creatures, complete with turning Sonic's shack into a fancy restaurant, while Sonic, Tails, and Amy are dressed up like fancy waiters. The dinner turns into a mess, and leaves Sonic and Tails to get a bit annoyed with each other, to the point of the two snapping at each other, and revealing how awful they think it is to live with each other. This marked the first time in the series, where Tails and Sonic got absolutely annoyed with each other. We've seen a few instances of stuff like this in episodes like "Cabin Fever", but it didn't last very long, and it felt a little too forced. In this episode, they kind of did a better job at setting up the tension between the two. Meanwhile, Sticks contacts the gang, and tells them that Eggman is attacking the village.  While Sonic and pals try fighting Eggman, a third one of those endangered species show up, and stands in the way of Eggman and Sonic's gang. Fastidious jumps in, and prevents Eggman and Sonic from fighting, Eggman and Sonic try taking the fight a few steps over, but once again, the creature steps in, and causes Fastidious to interfere. I kind of laughed at how Eggman told Fastidous "Get bent, beaver!"  Suddenly, a stampede of those creatures show up, and start ramming through the village. Tails realizes his mating call worked a lot better than he thought. Sonic then questions Fastidious and Amy about the number of creatures, and asks "I thought you said they were endangered?" Fastidious then points out that there needs to be at least 50 of them, along with signs of a mating male and female, in order to be declared as no longer endangered. However, the one at Sonic's house still isn't attracted to any of the other 48 creatures, and Sonic and the gang decide they need to find another male, and hope that one can fix things up with the one in Sonic's house. More heat comes off between Sonic and Tails, up until Amy thinks Knuckles, Sticks, and herself should give Sonic and Tails some space to sort their problems out. Sonic and Tails then insults each other, only to eventually break out into laughter. The two apologize, and declare that just because they're horrible room mates, doesn't mean they still can't be friends. Tails and Sonic come across an alpha male version of that endangered species, and Tails uses his communicator to replicate the mating call, to lure the alpha male over to the other one in Sonic's shack. The creature comes charging at Tails, but Sonic picks Tails up, and runs him back towards his shack. Sonic and Tails succeeded in uniting the two creatures, and the two fall in love, and get ready for their mating session. Fastidious then points out how they'll have to wait until after the two are done mating, before Sonic can move back into his house, and it takes over 1 week for the creatures to get finished with mating. So Sonic is stuck with Tails for another week.  The episode had funny moments, but I felt the ending was kind of dumb.

[ohshimaacademy]

Sonic Boom Return Of Lyric part 2

After happened yesterday team sonic was at meh burger but something felt....wrong. Team Sonic :....... Tails: eating meh burger isn't the same without sticks. Knuckles: yeah it's not the same without her blabbing about aliens. Amy:...hey it's soar. the gang turns there head to see soar talking about something. Soar: rumors been going around saying that the robots belong to Dr eggman or...lyric! Team Sonic:...... Tails wait lyric?..he's dead Knuckles: yeah...right? Tails: he fell of his ship remember? Knuckles: yeah..wait..no sorry. Soar The Eagle: that's right lyric,i bet you folks are peeing your pants...well if you..whatever *turns head to sonic and his friends* and here they are the freedom fighting team...team sonic. The Villagers: *cheering* Soar: so is it true,is lyric back? Sonic: well if snake breath is back well stop him and get everyone back! The Villagers: *cheering* Soar: well there you have it team sonic is going for round 2 with lyric,until next time see ya later...soar out. little did they know EggMan was watching them. Dr...so the rumor's where true. it was nighttime and  sonic Amy and knuckles was called over to tail's workshop. Tails: it's a possible chance that if lyric is back he may go after the chaos crystals again. Sonic: so where are they? Tails well the first crystal is in the museum. Amy: well. ???: help!!! Dr EggMan is attacking!! team sonic headed to tail's airplane and headed off to the village Dr EggMan: there's no way I'm letting snake breath get that crystal. OrBot: now that we have the first crystal. CuBot: we only have..uhhh....i lost count Sonic: ehh *bites on chili dog* whats up doc? Dr EggMan: your whats up...robots attack!! buzzbombers mortar bugs and crab meat started attacking team sonic. Sonic: I'll take care of egghead. sonic went after EggMan while his friends took care of the robots. Dr EggMan: finally! Sonic: not so fast eggy mo beggy. Dr Eggman: rrrrrr *grabs crystal* EggMan grabbed the crystal and flew off into the jungle. Sonic: get back here egghead! sonic ran after EggMan then jumps onto the eggmoblie. Sonic: I'll take that *grabs crystal* Dr EggMan: that's mine! Sonic: no mine! Dr EggMan: noooo...MINE!!! EggMan almost had the crystal but sonic managed to pull it out of his hands EggMan then pulls out a laser gun,but sonic kicked it out of his hands which made it fire at EggMan. Dr EggMan: ahh! Sonic: egghead! eggmablie: this will self destruct in 3 2 1! Sonic: *jumps of eggmobile, lands on ground* it's probably a robot...hmmm,all right come on out. the mysteries figure comes out revealing the mongoose girl he saved yesterday. Sonic: ahhh!!!.. a Girl you've gotta be kidding me! Chloe:..*gives him the cold shoulder* Sonic: sorry but those robots are out on patrol Chloe: ask me if i care. Sonic: hey--wait a minute don't i know you? Chloe: * sits down* Chloe mongoose remember you saved my life yesterday. Sonic: ohh yeah,what are you even doing out here? Chloe: i went out to go find my mother i couldn't wait any longer i--what why are you giving me that "what a wimp look" listen here i--hey isn't that the chaos crystal that belongs in the... Sonic: hey i--*pushes Chloe out of the way* Chloe: get off of me! sonic and Chloe looked up to see those robots from yesterday. Chloe: oh no! Sonic run! before they could escape she gets caught by a camouflaged ComBot, while another ComBot uses an electromagnetic device to attract the crystal into its hands. Sonic: oh no you don't! sonic quickly spin dashes into the robot then four more robots in a blink of an eye. Chloe: that was..kinda cool. sonic smashes the robots into bits. However, he suddenly gets beaten up by more camouflaged ComBots. Chloe: sonic *runs over to sonic* sonic wake up!! we gotta go... Sonic: *moans* Chloe: *picks up sonic* Chloe ran of with sonic and found a log and went inside. Chloe:....... ComBot: we've got the crystal master *fly's of* Chloe:..*sigh* that was close. Sonic: *moans,wakes up* what happened? Chloe: they have the crystal. Sonic: I'll get it back,you go back home. Chloe: yeah right you stole it. Sonic: i didn't steal it EggMan did i got it back before he could get away. Chloe: well if those robots belong to lyric then my mother should be  at his hideout. Sonic: your probably right. Chloe: I'm coming with you. Sonic: no way! Chloe: she's my mom and I'm coming!!! Sonic ...OK sonic and Chloe fallowed the robots meanwhile Amy knuckles Amy and tails are just about done finishing of EggMan's robots Amy: I'll right done with that..but whats taking sonic so long? Tails: we should go look for him. Amy knuckles and tails headed of into the jungle to look for sonic...speaking of sonic he and chloe managed to find where the robots went. Sonic: looks like there building a...well building. Chloe: looks like you think it could be lyric back? Sonic: i don't know but what i do know just wait here I'll go get the crystal Chloe: and me? Sonic:...i don't know yet,stay out here *runs of* Chloe:...fat chance blue boy...* looks up* are those meteors? meteors started falling out of the sky which caught sonic's attention Sonic: *runs of* sonic dashed threw the meteors trying to get inside the mysteries building. Sonic: almost- before sonic could get inside a meteor crashed right onto him!! Chloe: sonic? The End...for now...again.

Sonic and Chloe managed to find where the robots went they've found out that the robots are making a robotic building for their master sonic then headed of to get the crystal back and everyone this person captured. but before he could do that he was crushed by a meteor...is sonic dead? with knuckles he was climbing a mountain As he reaches the top, he is startled as he sees two "meteorites" falling from the sky. Knuckles: whoa!!...uh oh knuckles ducks as they land ahead of him. He gets over the cliff to see that a building right in front of him. Knuckles:...sonic are you in there? Chloe: sonic!...son-oh knuckles. Knuckles:...I'd like to give you a autograph..but duty calls. Chloe: I'm not here for an autograph I'm looking for sonic. Knuckles: *gasp* he's cheating on Amy. Chloe: i'm not dating sonic. Knuckles: ohhh..sooo you're not dating sonic. Chloe:*sighs* sonic...son- she was caught of when she and knuckles felt rumbling Knuckles: mobiusquick!!! *jumps in Chloe's arms* Chloe: *looks at knuckles,drops him* to there surprise sonic came from the ground covered in oil. Sonic: wow that was awesome! Chloe: waitaminute meteors fell from the sky and the only thing you can say is awesome?..how,d you survive anyway!!! Sonic: well before that meteor could crush me i spin dashed threw the ground there i was stop bye these...drillbots i fought them off sonic style and here i am. Chloe: that's sounds cool and all but *points to building* Sonic: right before they could enter the building tails and Amy found them. Amy: sonic are you OK?..there was- Sonic: I'm fine. Tails: *sniffs* ugh and stinky. Chloe:..guys! Sonic: right! team sonic and Chloe headed of into the building Sonic: alright stay close Chloe. Chloe: i can take care of myself. Sonic: you mean how you almost got captured. Chloe: says the guy who almost crushed. Sonic: hey! Amy: shhhh,look. team sonic looked behind a wall to see mobians being  robotized. Chloe: *gasp* how awful. Amy: what kind of monster would do this? Chloe:..where's my mom? ComBot:...*looks over to team sonic* intruder alert intruder alert!!! ComBots started running over to our heroes and started firing at them Sonic: there's way too many!! Amy: sonic's right we can't take them all out. Sonic: RUN! team Sonic ran off but the door closed before they could get out. Sonic: uh oh. Tails: looks like we gotta find another way out! Sonic: I'll get the crystal!! Amy: come on Chloe! Chloe: right sonic ran off to get the crystal while the others before the ComBots could get them,with sonic he was fighting of the ComBots while finding the crystal. Sonic: *pulls up middle finger* Combot: Resistance is useless surrender or be taken bye force Sonic: fat chance!! sonic ran up a wall then did a backflip then jumped on a ComBots back. ComBot 2: surrender! *fires at sonic* the 2nd ComBot fires at sonic but accidentally fires at the first ComBot,sonic then ran of dashing thru more ComBots. ComBot 7: fire when ready.....FIRE!! *fires laser* the ComBots fires at Sonic but sonic jumped and swung on a chain,with the others tails found a control room and ran over to bypass the code to open the door. Tails: alright this should take four- computer: access granted! Tails: or 2 seconds...huh? *looks at 2nd screen* guys i found the crys-- tails was cut of when ComBots started firing at them. Amy: we have to get out of here. Chloe: but my mother. Amy: I'm sorry Chloe we have to go,but at least we know she's alright. Tails: she's right. Chloe:....don't worry mom we'll come back for you. Amy tails,knuckles and Chloe ran passed the ComBots and found sonic fighting more ComBots. Tails: sonic lets go! Sonic: great *dodges* laser* also i have the crystal. Amy: great job! *ducks from laser* team sonic and Chloe found the door and managed to leave and made their way back to the village. Sonic: are you OK Chloe? Chloe:..yeah i just--at least she's alright. with the crystal sonic and his friends walked back to tail's workshop. Tails: one down six to go. Sonic: where's the 2nd? Tails it might take awhile,give me time. sonic amy and knuckles left tail's workshop and headed to meh burger. Sonic:*bites burger Adequate burgers today. Knuckles: Yeah, you can barely taste the shredded newspaper. Amy: *Bites her burger* Ugh, I said No Mayonnaise! Sonic *beep,turns on Communicator* Tails: Sonic you there?.. i need your help. Sonic: on my way! *runs of* Knuckles: and I'm gonna get a refill. while Sonic ran of to tail's workshop beaver policeman: where is he? Amy: who? beaver policeman: Sonic The Hedgehog! he's under arrest for stealing the crystal and for the death of doctor EggMan! Chloe and Amy:.... beaver policeman:....well where is he? Knuckles: *walks over to table*...what are we talking about? beaver policeman: Sonic. Knuckles: oh sonic he just left- Chloe: *coughs* knuckles shut up *coughs again* beaver policeman:....well? and just like that sonic came back. Sonic: hey gu- beaver policeman: sonic the hedgehog! your under arrest for stealing the crystal and for the death of doctor EggMan! Sonic: wh--oh crap. Amy: wait I'm pretty sure there's a explanation for this. Chloe: Amy's right Sonic's not a thief or a murderer. beaver policeman:..ohh really we had footage of the last battle they had and it clearly shows that Sonic blew up the eggmobile with EggMan in it. Amy Chloe and knuckles: *gasp,looks at Sonic* Chloe: wait wait this doesn't seem ad up. beaver policeman: oh really do have any proof? Chloe:..well..... beaver policeman: Sonic The Hedgehog! for stealing the crystal and for the death of doctor EggMan i place you under arrest. without any proof he took Sonic away. Chloe: what now? to be continued...

[kisaki-yazmin-motou]

No, no me den mas ideas por favor.

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¿¡Saben lo desgarrador que sería todo?!

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Bueno ¿Quien seria Muzan? Porque algo en mi me impide ver a Eggman como ese demonio.

Además ¿Se conserva lo de las respiraciones?

¿Quién encuentra a Sonic y Tails ese terrible día?

Ya saben ¿Quién tomaría el papel de Giyuu? ¿Shadow? ¿Knuckles?

Me iría más por Shadow... Queda bien con el pasado de Giyuu... Demasiado ahora que lo pienso...

Hmmmm. Unbreakable bond Kimetsu No Yaiba (Demon Slayer) AU.