I hope this story goes over well. Not sure where exactly I'm going with it, but I do know how it's going to go for a bit.

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Everyone was out in the living room, circled around the couch, watching the television like they did most lazy afternoons and nights. Amy, Cream and Cheese, and Rouge dominated the couch; while the boys, Knuckles and Sonic, took the floor in front of them.

"Pass the chips," Knuckles grunted, holding his spike-gloved paw up towards the couch.

"What's the magic word?" Rouge teased.

"Now." The chips were thrown at him by a slightly offended bat. He completely ignored this and dug around in the bag, pulling out a handful of chips and stuffing them in his mouth.

Afternoon turned to night and before they all knew it, it was almost nine o' clock. Sonic saw everyone to the door and waved goodbye. "Thanks for the dinner, Ames!" He closed the door and turned back to the kitchen to clean up. As he was picking up the dirty plates, he noticed one untouched one and frowned.

Tails never came to dinner…

Sonic dumped the dirty plates off in the sink and grabbed Tails unused plate. He went to the kitsune's workshop and knocked on the door. There was a small response from inside and Sonic went in. It didn't take long for him to find his two-tailed buddy, on his knees, screwing a nut into place on his newest invention.

Without taking his eyes off the thing he was working on, Tails mumbled, "Just set it on the table." Sonic glanced to his left and did as Tails asked.

Before the hedgehog left, he stood next to Tails for a second or two. "What're you working on, bro?"

Tails finally sat back a little from his invention and stood, wiping away the dirt and oil on his usually white gloves. "I'm working on a time distorter," He cocked his head and frowned. "But I still have a long way to go with it before it'll be finished,"

Sonic nodded slightly, studying the machine. Right now, it only looked like a small, iron cube with no buttons or anything. Very plain. Very intricate. Very boring. Sonic had to suppress a yawn.

"So what's it supposed to do exactly?" he couldn't help but feel polite to ask.

"Well, it's basically a wormhole—a tear in the spacetime continuum—that is transversable through time. It should allow superluminal travel by ensuring that the speed of light is not exceeded locally at any time," he paused and mumbled to himself, "Though I can't seem to get both ends of the wormhole at a high enough velocity… Probably because I'm not done with the other two stabilizers yet…"

Sonic scratched his head at all this. "Uh, what?"

Tails gave a small laugh. "In other words, it's a time machine."

Sonic's eyes widened. An actual time machine? He knew Tails was smart, but he never would've guessed his little buddy was genius enough to build a time machine. The only time Sonic ever traveled through time was with the held of the Chaos Emeralds and even so, that was in highly drastic situations.

"That's great, Tails! How long do you think it'll take before it's finished?"

Tails grew silent. He looked almost…annoyed. But Sonic ignored it, shifting awkwardly from foot to foot, waiting for the answer. Finally, Tails spoke, after taking a short breath of air. "As long as it has to. I'm not stopping 'till it's done. This could help so much with our fights with Eggman or any other bad guys."

"Don't work too hard there, buddy. Remember to get some fresh air and food every once in a while, too."

Tails sat back down to work on the machine again. "Right, Sonic." He mumbled.

Sonic crossed his arms. "Good. It's getting late too. Your dinner's on the table over there, you should eat it before it gets cold, then head to bed. I'm going to head back home, okay?"

"Okay."

"See ya!" Sonic patted the young kitsune on the back before zipping out of the workshop. Tails ignored it and continued working on his invention.

By the time he went to bed after finishing only about half of the first stabilizer, the sun was beginning to rise. His food was never touched.

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I know this was a pretty short chapter, but they should get longer by the next couple of chapters.

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