AN: I know my authors notes are random sometimes, but sally is a cross between a squirrel and a chipmunk, for those of you who didn't know. Also, when Sonic blew up the dial, tails was 7 then.
"Sonic? Sonic, wake up. SONIC!". Sonic lifted his head quickly and almost slammed into a rock. "I'm up." He said as he looked at the two people in front of him. They were two foxes. "You two look familiar." Sonic said. "You probably don't know us. But your parents would." "Oh, your Tails's parents." Sonic said before grabbing Mr. Prower's shoulders and yelling "WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN THE LAST TWELVE YEARS?!". "You don't know where we are, do you?" "No." "The other side of the universe." Mr. Prower said. "So, i'm not exploded?" "No, the quantum dial worked almost like a teleporter, and beamed you here.". Sonic sighed and flopped on his back. "At least the worked didn't go through a black hole, but I did." Sonic said as he stood, straightening his bandanna. He shook his head before asking "How long should it take for me to get home?". "No way of telling, but it will definitely take awhile. you're exactly 849,627 lightyears away from mobius, and you were asleep for a long time." Mr. prower said. Sonic seemed lost in thought for a minute. "Something wrong?" Mr. Prower asked. "Just thinking." "Is that something troubling you?" "Just thinking about how my friends are doing."
Back on mobius.
"I won't accept it." Tails said as he sat down in Sonic's house. "He isn't dead. Is he?"
"It just ain't the same without Sonic." Bunnie said. "He turned me back to normal, and took out robotnik.". "Yes, I agree with you, but it is just ze facts, Sonic has a bad case of ze D.E.D. dead." Antoine said as he spun his sword in his hand.
"Mom? When is dad coming back?" "You said he would be here by now.". Manik and Sonia were constantly bothering Sally about when Sonic would get back. "He might not come back." Sally said as she knelt in front of the statue of Sonic.
Back with Sonic.
Sonic was walking with mr. and mrs. prower through an alien camp, where Sonic noticed the aliens staring at him. Sonic was then dragged to a large ship with the prowers. Sonic blinked a few times, and prepared to speak when one of the aliens said "I am captain oe, and welcome to the magestrom. we are taking you to mezzo jillion, the largest trading hub in the galaxy. a large explosion then shook the ship. "Captain, a star just exploded in our path! We need to evacuate!". Captain oe turned to Sonic and the prowers. He then used his scorpion-like tail to sting Sonic and the prowers. They were temporarily paralyzed. Captain oe then put them in three separate escape pods. When they launched, Mr. and Mrs. prower launched towards mobius, and kept going. Sonic was launched into a planet about a mile from the ship. When he landed, the pod said "Warning. Do not exit. Environment highly toxic.". Sonic looked around before saying "I'll sleep for awhile until my distress signal gets out." and then fell asleep.
When Sonic woke up, he couldn't believe his eyes. "This is blowing my mind!" He said. "Time must go really fast here!". Sonic said stepped out, observing the futuristic city. He then saw one of the green, three eyed aliens. "Hello." Sonic said. The alien seemed to be astounded. "You have finally awakened, blue spined immortal. Then, what looked like all the city's inhabitants surrounded Sonic. "You were sleeping for the longest time, moving so slow, that you were believed to be inanimate." "i'm just trying to get back to my home planet, mobius." "We can build you a ship." "Won't that take years?" "Not necessarily." The alien said before pressing a button on his wristwatch. The aliens then built a spaceship at lightning speed around Sonic. Once it took off, Sonic said "That's one step closer to home.".
Two days later.
Sonic awoke to the sound of a large boom. He was entering the atmosphere of mobius. He could see the ground coming into view. A large robot was attacking the forest. Sonic ditched the ship and got in spindash form in midair. When he slammed into the robot, it completely exploded, leaving a thick smoke screen. Sonic walked from it and said "I'm hoooome!"
He kept walking for awhile until he reached knothole. it looked almost as futuristic as the planet he had been on. Many people were walking around, but nobody seemed to recognize him. Then one kid walked by him, typing something on a handheld device. He looked a lot like "Tails?" "How do you know my name?" "How do you not know mine?". "Tails then looked up from his screen. His jaw dropped to the ground. "Sonic?" "That's me." "It took you long enough." "What do you mean by that? It only took me two days to get home." "It took you exactly five years, Sonic." "Tails." "Yeah?" "Where's Sally?"
I should've known.
Sonic stood ten feet from his statue, watching Sally crying next to it. Two smaller animals, one, a blue hedgehog, the second, a brown chipmunk/squirrel, were next to her. Sonic cleared his throat. All three of them turned around. "S'up. Like the new look, sal." (See STH #256 and after) "It can't be." "It can be." Sonic said. Sally ran up to him and hugged him. "Things were crazy without you." Sally said. "Crazy? I fought myself (See STH #126), are considered a god on a planet that evolves a hundred years every second, met tails's parents, and survived a gigantic starship explosion, and you're saying it was crazy here?" Sonic said. "Who is that?" Manik asked. Sonic and Sally both started lightly laughing. "Who does he remind you of?" Sally asked Manik. "Me, but..." Manik's eyes widened. "My birthday wish came true!" "I wanted to meet him too." Sonia said with a stern look. "But mine was priority." "Who says?" "Me! I'm older!" "By thirteen seconds!". Sonic then turned back to Sally. "What really happened while I was gone?" "Not much. Sonia and Manik wouldn't stop bugging me about when you would come back." "Is that it?" "Mostly." "You're dodging." "Dodging what?" "Tell me, how many more cyborgs there are that live in new Mobotropolis." "How did you know about that?" "The hedgehog knows." "Two." "Well-". Sonic was then interrupted by a robot flying into him and shoving him into the trees.
to be continued