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Blurring the Lines

Introductions

"So you're saying you two came here through a portal?"

"As far as we're aware, yes. There should be at least one more of us."

"Well what do they look like? I can probably help you out."

Sonic, after having his life saved by Chris, grabbed Sally and brought her back here. Chris seemed helpful enough.

"He's an orange fox with two tails." Sonic described, "He's one of our only chances to figure out what's going on here."

"Alright, I don't think I've seen a two tailed fox around, but I can start asking. You guys are welcome to stay here while you look for him."

"Thank you," Sally began. "We'll be out of your way as soon as we do."

"Its not a problem really, no one's going to be here for a while. My parents are both out on business trips, my uncle is watching me right now and I'm sure he'd be fine as well."

"You might change your mind with this one here." Sally noted, pointing to Sonic.

"I'm not that bad am I?"

"I'm just more concerned about your ego showing after a while."

"I don't have an ego! I just know I'm awesome!"

Sally sighed to herself, sometimes, she wondered why she put up with him.

"Anyways," Sally continued "We need to find Tails, he could prob-"

"Wait, his name's Tails? That's a little on the nose don't you think?"

"You say while standing next to a hedgehog named Sonic."

"Good point, do you think my uncle could help you guys? He's pretty smart."

"Any help would be nice, maybe he and Tails could-"

Sally was interrupted by a door opening.

"Chris! You here?"

"I'm here!"

"Good I don't want you out while those aliens from yesterday are-"

A taller man with graying hair, green shirt, and tan shorts, appeared in the door from the door. He stopped himself and simply stared at Sonic and Sally for a bit.

"Chris, can you please explain why they're here?"

"They didn't have anywhere to stay! They're not scary!"

"Well, at least you've gotten to know them."

The older man sat himself on the couch. "Let's start this over, my name's Chuck, I'm Chris' uncle."

"I'm Sally, and this is Sonic."

The duo explained their situation to Chuck who nodded in response. "I think I might be able to help you, I heard on the news that G.U.N. located a… It was Mobian, right?"

"You got it right. Also, quick question, what's G.U.N.?"

"G.U.N. stands for Guardian Unit of Nations, they're responsible for keeping peace."

"Alright, so about Tails."

"We don't know it is Tails, they haven't released any images."

"Right…"

"All we know is that they've taken them to a base out nearby."

"So we break in and bust them out!" Sonic added.

"We cant just go breaking in." Sally interjected.

"Why not? What are they going to do? Catch me? I'd like to see them try. Tails is in trouble, and I'm not just going to sit around here."

Sonic dashed out of the house at high speed, only to return a second or two later.

"Just realized I have no idea where this base is."

"I'll show you," Chuck continued. "Only after I give you some equipment."

Chuck stood up and motioned for the two to follow him. Sonic and Sally followed him outside to the garage. Chuck opened the door revealing a workshop.

"This place is huge!" Sonic spoke, before turning to Sal, "You know Tails isn't going to want to leave if he sees this right?"

"I'm aware, I'll make sure he doesn't pass out or anything."

Chuck led them over to a desk of sorts before grabbing a small glass headpiece.

"Alright, Sonic, you're going to need to wear this." He added, placing it on Sonic's head. "Normally it's used for checking infrared lasers for smaller devices, it should be able to let you see any lasers they have laid out as well."

"Cool, anything else?"

"He handed as far as I'm aware, not really, I don't want to weigh you down too much. I can only help you get to the base, once you're in you'll be on your own."

"Sorry to break it to you Chuck, but I don't think I'm going to find this place much of a challenge."

Chuck looked at them with a confused expression.

"Long story," Sally added. "I'll catch you up after we get back."

"Fair enough, let's get going."

The four of them loaded themselves in Chuck's car and they set off outside the city, eventually arriving where they could see the base in the distance.

"Alright, that's it." Chuck finally spoke pointing toward the base on the horizon, "I'll let you guys out here, just meet back at the garage when you're done."

"Cool!" Sonic replied as he jumped out of the truck. Sally followed closely behind as the truck sped away.

"So what's the plan?" Sally asked.

"Do I need to have one? Get in, find Tails, get out. That's all I need right?"

"I suppose with you it is, just don't get yourself hurt."

"I won't, this place even looks like an Eggman base, do you know how many of those we've trashed?"

"I lost count somewhere in the hundreds."

"This should be easy."

Sonic was instantly off in a cloud of dust, Sally accelerated to follow behind him.

The duo burst through the gates to the compound at blinding speed. The guard on alert triggered the alarm, causing red sirens to begin to blare throughout the structure.

Sonic lead the group as they avoided any corridors with human guards, as much as Sonic wanted to, Sal stopped him from hurting anyone.

Automated defenses however were a different story, anything they came across was designed to deal with regular humans or vehicles, not a hedgehog who could move at the speed of sound. None of the security measures stood a chance, eventually, Sonic and Sally found their way to what appeared to be a holding area.

"Look around," Sally noted. "He's got to be around here somewhere."

The duo searched through the cells, finding nothing of note among them. Sonic started to get nervous.

"What if he's not here? Could they have taken him somewhere else?"

"Not likely, there's not real reason to move him. But that doesn't explain why he isn't here!"

Guard started to pour into the room, they didn't have a shot at hitting their targets, but eventually, Sonic knew they could get lucky.

The two blasted out of the room and split up inside the base, looking for any sign of Tails, eventually, Sally found herself in a warehouse of some sort. Looking around she was suddenly struck in the side.

"Sorry, sorry!" A familiar voice yelled. "I thought you were another guard!"

Sally looked over to the voice and spotted Tails, she rushed over to him.

"Tails where have you been? We've been looking all over for you!"

"I broke myself out! But after I heard the sirens go off and I hid in this box here." Tails patted his hand on one of the nearby cases.

"Well, that's good, but you scared us." Sally, looking over Tails, spotted a small red spot on his forehead. "Are you hurt?" She asked, pointing to the spot.

"Not really, got hit by a wrench shortly after you fell through the portal."

Sally parted the fur to better view the injury, it looked worse then Tails obviously thought it was, but it wasn't anything some bandages wouldn't fix.

"Alright, let's get you out of here."

"What about Sonic? We need to tell him you found me."

"He shouldn't be hard to find."

The two set off together, after running for about a minute, they came across Sonic.

"Found him, who's the fastest now?" Sally added as he noted the two of them.

"More like luckiest, now let's get out of here."

Tails carried the two of them over the outer fence, one at a time. Once they were both over, the trio dashed back to the mansion.

"Looks like you found him." Chris added as they entered.

"Yep!" Sally answered. "Do you have any bandages that we could use?"

"I think, let me get you some."

Chris left the room to go search for bandages.

"Sally, I told you it doesn't hurt." Tails remarked at the question.

"Maybe it doesn't, but we can't let a cut like that just sit in the open."

Tails pouted in response, but eventually gave in to her requests. After a moment, white bandages were wrapped around the fox's head.

Chuck returned just as she was tightening the last bandage.

"You must be Tails."

"How'd you guess?"

"Your name kind of gives it away."

Tails suppressed a chuckle at the statement as Sally finished securing the bandages.

"Something tells me that you two," She spoke, pointing to the two of them. "Are going to get along very well."

"You're probably right, we have some things to get done first." Chuck stated.

"What do you mean?"

Chuck motioned for the kitsune to follow him outside, Sal just waited for them as she settled herself down.

-X-

Tails and Chuck returned a few hours later, Tails was still incredibly excited.

"Did I die? Cause it feels like I just went to heaven."

Sonic couldn't contain himself and burst out laughing at the question. "What'd you think?"

"It's awesome! It's so much bigger than the one we have at home!"

"I've got to credit you here Tails," Chuck spoke. "You thought of some ideas I would have never even dreamed of."

"Thanks Chuck!"

"So, now that you guys are best buds, what did you find?" Sally questioned.

Tails' face took on a more solemn expression at the question. "Sooooooo, we could be stuck here."

"What do you mean?"

"Sally, the vortex didn't just teleport us across the world, it brought us to a parallel dimension!"

"You're kidding, right?"

"No joke, we did the math to back it up. That's not all either, the portal seemed to be getting stronger before I got pulled in so we did some calculations based on what I got on it and it's pretty bad."

"How bad?"

"Not sure about that yet, but we know we wont be the last ones through that vortex."

"It seems to react differently when exposed to, what Tails taught me, was called Chaos Energy." Chuck continued, "If we're right, it should try and bring anything with a large connection to Chaos Energy with it."

"Which is?" Sally anxiously questioned.

"The Emeralds themselves for one, any anybody that's had prolonged contact with them."

"So everybody we know then, shoot, this is bad."

"That's what I said!" Tails added, throwing his hands in the air.

"Is there anyway you can send us back? Creating another portal for example?"

"Well first I'd need an emerald, that alone could be a while."

"I'll let you know if we find any, they're bound to show up."

"Alright, I'll be with Chuck in the workshop." Tails spoke before practically skipping off.

Chuck smiled to himself before following the kitsune. He could get used to this.

Alright, that's it for this chapter! Be sure to leave a review so I know how I'm doing and stay tuned. Until next time!