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Danny snuck downstairs into his family's basement lab. He new he wasn't supposed to go down their alone, but he couldn't help himself. He just wanted to see them again.

He carefully shut the basement door behind him and tiptoed down the stairs. A grin passed over the three year old's face as he stared at one of his parents' devices from behind a thick protective glass.

Three silvery white medallions were in glass spheres on pedestals around a bright green jewel. The medallions were in the shapes of different musical instruments; a guitar, a piano key board, and drum set. Every once and a while, a bolt of green electricity would jump from the jewel, striking on of the medallions, causing it to glow for a few seconds before returning to its normal color.

The room was full of the jewel's energy, it was enough to make the black quills stand up on Danny's head. But the young hedgehog felt drawl to the light show. So much so, that he didn't even notice the large figure standing behind him.

"Danny, how many times have we told you that you aren't supposed to come down here by yourself?" Danny's head turned slowly to find his father standing over him. Jack Fenton was big, especially for a hedgehog. Standing at an impressive six feet four inches he was easily the tallest hedgehog on Mobius. But other than that it was easy to see the family relationship. Both Jack and Danny had the same blue eyes and black quills, though Jack's had a bit of grey in them from age.

Danny tried to look innocently up at his father as the larger hedgehog stood over him with his arms crossed, but after a few moments a grin broke across Jack's face. "You know how much I like talking about all this stuff with you, Dannio." Jack laughed lifting the boy up onto his shoulder. "Pretty aren't they?"

"Yeah." Danny said staring at the medallions. "What are they?"

"They're going to be gifts for your Aunt Aleena's new children." Jack said as he leaned closer to the glass barrier. "They are your mother and my own inventions. Mixing technology with the mystic arts. Tools of great power that synchronize with the using and can take on many forms." Jack said pulling a silver harmonica out of his pocket. He played on it for a little bit before lowering it. It glowed a dark green and then grew before their very eyes into a long sword. The handle was still shaped like the old harmonica, even having the blow holes, but out of it came a four and a half foot double sided silver blade with a single musical half note covered into the center. Jack swung it once causing wind and music filled the air of the small basement.

"Wow..." It was all Danny could say. He had seen it before but it still took his breath away every time. Danny looked back at the medallions and tried to imagine the tools that they would turn into. The glow of the emerald reflected in his blue eyes, making them look green in his reflection.

They stood there for a few seconds, just watching the process until the door bell rang. Jack jumped excitedly and Danny nearly fell of his shoulder. "He's here!" Jack said putting Danny down and bolting up the stairs.

Danny had just rounded the corner at the top of the stairs in time to see his father upon up the front door. Standing in the doorway was a fat human man whose body looked like a metallic egg. He was bold with a huge mustache and the whites of his eyes were pitch black. It was Dr. Robotnik.

"Robee!" Jack shouted pulling the man into one of his massive bear hugs and lifting him off of the ground. Danny could have sworn he saw Robotnik's metal eyes pop out of his head for a second. "Oh, its good to see you again! It's been too long!"

"Yes... it has, Jack." Robotnik said as best he could as the air was squeezed out of him. "Could you please... put me down." He gasped.

"Oh, sorry." Jack said dropping the man to the floor. "I'm just so glad to see you again. I thought that after the accident you would never forgive me." Jack laughed, rubbing the back of his neck.

Robotnik's eye twitched and he touched a metal hand to his bold head. "N... not at all, Jack. Water under the bridge." He grumbled as he got back up. As he walked into the house he stomped hard on Jack's foot, causing the oversized hedgehog to wince and jump up and down on the hurt foot. But the smile still never left the innocent Jack's face.

"Jack, who was it?" A voice came from upstairs. It was Maddie Fenton and her daughter, Jazz, was standing right beside her. Unlike Jack and Danny, the girls of the Fenton family were both deer. Both had a chestnut fur coat but where Maddie had light brown hair framing her head, Jazz's had more of a orange hue to it.

"Maddie, you are looking as lovely as I remember." Robotnik said with a odd grin that looked rather crazed.

"Oh... Robotnik, I forgot you were coming to pick up the device that you asked Jack to make for you." Maddie said, a look of slight distaste on her face.

"Hey kids! I'd like you to met Dr. Robotnik!" Jack said slapping Robotnik on the back. "Up there is our little princess, Jazz." Jack said causing the six year old Jazz to giggle a little with embarrassment. "And down here is our son, Danny." Danny nodded from the basement stairs. The robot man's black eyes were creeping him out.

"Yes, your... children." Robotnik said with a forced smile.

"Kids, Robotnik is an old friend of me and your mother's from when we were at the Mobius Institute of Technology. We used to do everything together, we even had a band." Jack said proudly.

Robotnik shuddered. "The Skunk Heads." He said looking a little ill.

"Yeah, that probably wasn't the best name." Jack admitted. "And it might not have been a good idea to have a skunk with stage fright as our lead singer. But they were still fun times."

"Jack as much as I would 'love' to reminisce on the past... do you have it?" Robotnik asked, a hungry glint in his eyes.

"Sure thing, its down in the basement. Come on, I'll show you it in action." Jack said, before leading the robot man down towards the basement.

Danny followed them down into the basement. Robotnik kept making faces at the back of Jack's head when the older hedgehog wasn't looking. Danny thought he could hear the man muttering. "I hate hedgehogs..."

But when the reached the bottom of the stairs, the robot man's black eyes widened. "Is that a... a..." He stammered as he stared at the green jewel that was feeding energy into the three medallions.

"Yep. A chaos emerald. We recieved permission from the palace to use one in our tests. Right now we're making a few gifts for the new born royals. I assume you've heard about Aleena's triplets." Jack said proudly. "But that's all supposed to be a big secret, so I'd appreciated it if you didn't tell anybody."

A grin split across the robotic doctor's face. "Oh don't worry Jack, my lips are sealed."

"Thanks R-Man!" Jack shouted giving Robotnik a slap on the back that was enough to send him to the ground. "Oops, sorry." Robotnik grumbled as he pushed himself up off of the ground. "But you didn't come here for that stuff. I think this is what you wanted."

Jack grabbed a box from on a nearby table. "It wasn't easy, mixing technology and mystics to this extent, but Maddie and I found a way to do it." He held it over a peel of banana peels and pressed a button. Beams of light came down onto the banana peels and it slowly turned grey. After a moment Jack turned the light off. "And there you have it. Turning garbage into usable metal." Jack said lifting up one of the banana peels and presenting it to Robotnik.

"Yes... it's prefect. I would have expected nothing less from the Great scientist, Maddie Fenton." Robotnik said.

"Thank you." Jack said proudly, not realizing that Robotnik hadn't said his name. "Just imagine the leaps and bounds we could make in the industry of recycling with this technology. You were a genius to think of it. I can't wait to see how you're going to use it."

"Oh don't worry old friend, you won't have to wait long." Robotnik said and then he began to laugh like a madman. He laughed for thirty seconds before realizing that Danny and Jack were staring at him. "I mean... don't worry about it."

Robotnik left soon after. "The robot man seemed wierd." Danny said as Jack tucked him in for bed.

"Oh, don't worry Dannio, the R-Man has always laughed like that. One of the reasons he found it hard to get a girl friend back in collage." Jack laughed. He ruffled Danny's quills. "Don't worry my boy. With your Aunt Aleena at the helm for Mobius, there isn't anything to worry about. We'll make sure that the future is bright for you kids." He said smiling. Danny nodded and closed his eyes and was soon fast asleep.

Little did Jack know, that the future was not going to be bright. And the horrible things that were going to be done with the device that he had made with such good intentions.

Someone asked me to do an introduction into a DP X Sonic Underground story. This is what I came up with. I am going to add a chapter or two to finish the introduction. But after that, PM me if you want to continue it. (Not if you want me to continue it.)

Don't know if family members are allowed to be two different species in the Sonic Universe, don't really care. I did it.

Yes, Robotnik is acting like Vlad, it's a good starting point, but no he is not going to obsess over Maddie, I just wanted to make the parallel as obvious as possible.

I'm saying that Aleena is Jack's cousin, so Jack is not really royalty. More like the royal black smith.

Did anyone notice that the abbreviation for the university they went to was MIT. I did that on purpose.