[Everything is back to normal and Tom and Maddie are fixing their house from the attack a couple of days before]

Tom: You got enough there?

Maddie: Yes, Mr. Manager.

Tom: Need any more? [Playfully sticks a roller brush in front of Maddie]

Maddie: You get that away!

[Suddenly, a knock at the front door. Tom answers it to find Commander Walters on the doorstep]

Commander Walters: Mr. and Mrs. Wachowski?

Tom: Yes?

[Commander Walters reaches into his coat and hands them an envelope]

Commander Walters: A token of appreciation for your government for keeping quiet about recent incidents which never occurred.

Tom: Wow! [Takes the envelope] Wonder what it is.

Maddie: Money to fix the house?

Tom: Letter from the president?

Commander Walters: You'll see.

Tom: Okay.

[Tom opens the envelope, revealing a $50 gift card to Olive Garden from Uncle Sam]

Maddie: Olive Garden.

Tom: Yeah, heh. The way you said "You'll see" made me think it was something better than the things we said.

Commander Walters: Have you tried their Never Ending Pasta Bowl? It never ends!

Tom: That sounds... fancy.

Maddie: Mm-hmm. Well, thank you. We appreciate the gesture.

Tom: Oh, hey. I guess we can close the file on that Robotnik guy, huh? Just disappeared.

Commander Walters: I'm sorry, but no such person exists or ever has existed.

Tom: I wish that were true.

Commander Walters: You haven't, by any chance, been in contact with a certain alien creature since the incident, have you? Uncle Sam would love to have a chat with him. Very casual. Brunch, perhaps.

Tom: Oh, you mean the little blue guy? No. No, nothing. No.

Maddie: Mm-mmm.

Tom: Doubt we'll ever hear from him again.

Maddie: Mm-mmm.

Commander Walters: Very well.

Tom: Okay. Thank you.

Maddie: Great.

[Commander Walters glances inside the house but Tom slowly closes the door]

Tom: Yep.

[Commander Walters tries to peek inside a little more, but the door is now fully closed]

Tom: To be honest, I'm pretty pumped about the pasta bowl.

[Tom and Maddie walk into the living room and Sonic and Mika pokes their head up from behind the couch]

Sonic: So, do you guys wanna watch a movie or what?

Mika: Maybe, Moana.

Sonic: Oh yes I always wanna see it!

Maddie: Sorry, buddy. It's a school night. It's time for you to go back to your cave.

Sonic: What?! [Jumps up from behind and sits on the couch next to Ozzie] It's 3:00 in the afternoon!

Mika: Yeah plus I don't even go to school because my new form.

Tom: You know how you get when you're tired. Come on.

Sonic: Me? I'm not like anything. Ugh, you guys are so uncool!

Tom: Yeah, yeah, we know.

[Sonic starts making his way to the front door]

Mika: Hey, Sonic, where you going?

Sonic: Dount Lord said I have to go back to my cave.

Tom: We did.

[Mika, Tom and Maddie smile. Tom opens the hatch to the attic and they let Sonic go in first, and he is visibly surprised that all of his possessions from the cave in the woods are now in the attic]

Sonic: Oh, my-- Are you kidding me? I can't believe it. How did you-- It's-- it's all here.

[Mika, Tom and Maddie climb up as well and Sonic starts zipping around his possessions and furniture]

Sonic: Look at this! Are you kidding?! And the beanbag?! No way! How did you even get this?! And you got it all the way over--

[Sonic laughs, does a funny dance on his bed and jumps up and down a few times]

Sonic: I love it, I love it, I love it, I love it!

[Sonic lays down and then sits up as Mika, Tom and Maddie sit next to him]

Maddie: Well, welcome home.

Sonic: Thank you, so much.

[Ozzie starts barking]

Sonic: Oh, no, you don't! No second-best animal friends allowed in my room.

[Ozzie barks again]

Sonic: Wait, what are you doing? Stay away from me! Stop it! I'm warning you, I've got nunchucks! Hey, stop! Okay, you can stay!

Mika: And Sonic?

Sonic: Yeah?

Mika: My dad told me that on your bucket list that you wanna to find your childhood friend/crush?

Sonic: Oh umm?

Mika: And I'm your childhood friend.

Sonic: Yeah when we were kids I kinda had a crush on you and still do.

Mika: Awww Sonic. I gonna say that I like you to

[Sonic blushed and the two hugged each other laughing]

MEANWHILE IN A HILL OF MONTANA

[The camera zooms out of the view of Green Hills before showing leaves rustling as a Ring portal opens and a yellow two-tailed fox and a green heagdehog pops out, which is revealed to be Tails and Sage, and they is reading the energy levels from Sonic and Mika from a small handheld device]

Tails: If these readings are accurate, they here. 

Sage: We found them! We just hope we're not too late.

[Tails uses his tails like a helicopter to fly over the forests as Sage held Tails hand and into the town and the rest of the credits roll]

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