I lay asleep in the back of the flagship, dreaming of Mom, and how life used to be. Tails was still the excitable little boy he had always been, Sonic came around every few days to hang around. I was still a senior in high school. "Mom, the Chaotix are performing at the Moaran Music Hall, I was gonna go with Amy and Max, I was wondering if you wanted to go?" I had asked one friday afternoon. Mom had looked over her book at me with a raised eyebrow, and asked, "Did you clean your room?" but she laughed after I had seen through her attempt to make me feel like a kid again, and she had said, "No, thank you, honey, I'm just gonna stay here and finish my book, but you have a good time, see if Tails wants to go." Tails had come out at that exact moment. "Go where, Riles?" he asked. "To go see the Chaotix, Espio's been dying to go another round of wrestling with me, ever since I whooped him the last time." Tails had laughed heartily. He walked out of the room with a nod. "Riley! Riles, get the hell up!" Tails was yelling in my ear so I tossed a hand at him and said, "What do you want Miles?" I got my mark and mussed his fur, pulling him towards me, he tried to pull away but I put him into my armpit.
After he had gotten free he told me that we had landed, and we were in a place called New Jersey. I rolled down the ladder and landed with a soft thump on my feet. "So, what do you think, Rileon?" Shadow laughed when I whipped around at the sound of his voice. "It's... green..." I said, not knowing that where I would go next would be called 'the concrete jungle'. "So this, this is the famed 'Planet Earth', huh?"
"Yep, this is it, big, well huge, actually, there's much more when the fog clears."
"Oh, okay, do we have anywhere to stay?"
"Yeah, we have a house here, about thirty miles away..."
"I'm driving,"
"Do you know how?"
"If I can drive the Mobius cars, I can sure as hell drive an earth car!"