Sonic moved further into the testing room and looked at another small room on the opposite side of Tails, it highly resembled that of a recording studio. He turned and walked up a few steps to reach Tails on the platform. He now noticed the satellite dishes inside the studio-like room as well as wires and tubes running across the ceiling into the enclosed room. Tails stood over a control panel with buttons and switches of all kinds, it also contained an area that showed numbers set up in a day-month-year format and below that numbers in a hour-minute-second format. Plugged into the control panel was a wire that ran up into headphones which went over Tails' head and covered his pointed, yellow years.
Sonic casually leaned on the control panel and waved at Tails to get his attention. Tails turned and looked at Sonic blankly at first but then a large smile spread across his face. He flicked a switch on the control panel and took his headphones off.
"Hey Sonic! Congratulations by the way."
"Thanks bud. You too, let' not forget how you saved the city from Eggman's Egg Walker."
Tails smiled at Sonic's remembrance of that event. Sonic may have saved the world but before that Tails had saved the city from being destroyed first.
"So what is it you wanted to show me?" Sonic asked as he looked over at the small room.
"I've created something like none other. It's a transporter and it can transport life forms but not only that..." Tails moved his fingers across the control panel and stopped it on the numbers, "it also served as a Dimensional Gate, that part is incomplete however but works like a charm."
Sonic questionably looked at the fox, "If it's incomplete how does it work?"
"Well it can't transport you to a whole other dimension just yet. According to the readings the control panel gives me it can rip through time and space but only as far as a parallel universe."
"Parallel Universe? How is that any different?" Sonic asked becoming more interested.
"Another dimension is like another universe, anybody who exists now wouldn't exist there. It's basically another time line following ours with different events, places, life form, etcetera. However, a parallel universe is one that's just like ours and is ours at one point. You see, any decision that's made could easily result in a parallel universe. Some changes do make one and some don't. Usually it's bigger events like a planet exploding in one universe and not in the parallel. Although something as simple as a birth of a baby could result in a parallel universe as well. Basically for all I know there could be millions of parallel universes. My control panel can only detect one at the moment. I've transported an apple in that room over there and according to the control panel it is now in the other dimension. Unforetunetly I can't bring it back, one of the quirks I'm working on."
Sonic scanned the control panel and then pointed towards the smaller room on the opposite side of them. "So then that's where you go to transport things?"
Tails nodded, "Exactly, it's far too complicated to explain but it works."
"Don't worry I don't need an explanation just proof," Sonic stood up, "So you said it could transport lifeforms. Does that mean I can give it a spin?"
Tails laughed, "Sure! Since I have yet to figure out how to transport objects back into the room I'll give you this Chaos Emerald to Chaos Control back here with." Tails handed Sonic the green Chaos Emerald. Sonic took it with pride and felt the energy in it run through his body. It reminded him of so many adventures. "Now, go stand in the room. Inside there'll be a red circle, stand on that. I'll give you the thumbs up when I'm ready to transport, give me the thumbs up back when you're good."
Sonic nodded and went into the small room still holding his Chaos Emerald. The door shut behind him and then vanished behind a sliding wall that came down from the ceiling. He saw Tails on the platform put on his headphones and turn the control panel on.
"Sonic," Tails began, "I'm talking to you through speakers I set up in the room. I had to put them behind the satellites otherwise they had the chance of being transported as well. When I give you the thumbs up I'll have to unplug my headphones just in case the radio waves interfere."
"Where exactly are you transporting me too?" Sonic asked.
"Station Square at this exact time. Once you're there Chaos Control back here to let me know it worked."
"You got it bud."
Tails masterfully looked over the control panel hitting buttons and moving switches to certain positions. He set the coordinates of Station Square as well. He pulled a lever causing the satellites to move in the small room where Sonic was and point straight at him on the red circle. Streams of foreign sounds played in Tails' headset. Everything Tails was doing was perfection.
Sonic waited patiently in the room with the Chaos Emerald. He examined it a bit until he heard a muffled sound from the speakers. He looked at Tails and saw him holding his thumb up in the air, the signal. Sonic gave him the signal right back and Tails smiled with excitement. He looked around the room a bit beginning to get nervous and excited at the same time. A hedgehog of his caliber who had fought giant robots, saved planets, and become Super Sonic was now getting nervous of a teleportation machine. Sonic laughed at the dumb thought and then shook it off.
The satellites above his began emitting purple electricity around them. The purple turned to green and the green turned to blue. Sonic watched at the satellites gained power. He heard hums and roars of the machines charging the satellites. The red circle below him became transparent and a blue electricity spun rapidly below him. His nerves came back but he trusted Tails. Eventually the blue electricity stopped and the rooms lights shut off. Now the only light was below Sonic. The former blue electricity spinning below him under the transparent circle was a black and purple vortex. Sonic wondered if it was ripping through time and space. It was doing that exactly. The satellites began glowing again, this time with a white light.
Sonic looked at Tails for reassurance and Tails thumbed up once more. He saw Tails take a deep breath and finally press once last button. He then stepped away from the control panel and thumbs uped again, indicating it was complete and Sonic was about to be teleported. The vortex begin swirling upward towards Sonic's feet, the light in the satellites grew brighter and brighter. Sonic gripped onto the Chaos Emerald nervously.
Tails looked down at the room with excitement. He glances at the control panel and sounds the visual chart moving at a rapid pace. At first he ignored it but then looked down once he realized something was wrong. He tried reversing buttons and switches but the data had already been sent to the other room. He frantically jumped up and down trying to get Sonic's attention. Sonic was watching the satellites, encapsulated by their glow. He plugged in the headphones to speak to Sonic, "Sonic! Sonic, do you read? The Chaos Emerald is interfering with the satellites. You have to get out!" He waited for Sonic's response but noticed that he hadn't hear him, the speakers had automatically turned off. Tails jumped frantically again.
Sonic, still looking at the light finally turned away and shook his head. He then noticed Tails jumping on the platform. His face looked worried, he was mouthing something that Sonic couldn't figure out. Tails moved his arms in a retreating motion.
"He...wants me to retreat? Oh! He wants me to get out!" Sonic thought aloud. Just as Sonic realized the vortex below him surrounded his body and the satellites's white glow became a beam of light that filled the room. It only lasted a second but the light show was unlike any other. It was like a dark tube with white tunnels connected around it had just engulfed Sonic. Within the glow though was a green light. The light of the Chaos Emerald. The light of the Chaos Emerald reacting with time and space.
"Sonic?" Tails ran to the room where Sonic once stood. He ran back to the platform and looked at the time board, it indicated nothing. He heard a crash and noticed the satellites fall inside the small room.
"Sonic?"
Author's Note: You gotta wonder who found that apple... (These notes will become more intelligent soon. I hope.)
