Chapter Four "Familiar Faces"
Older versions of Flame and Mint were standing there in front and they about fell backwards.
"TAILS?! But you disappeared ages ago!" said Mint.
Mint looked very much the same but she wall taller and she sounded much more like a teenager but her memory didn't fail her, she was wearing a tied blue bandana over her ear and one on her wrist and one on her foot over her white sock.
Flame on the other hand looked very warrior-like even in the way he was standing, he sounded older and had a bandana over his arm and he was wearing wraps and a few of them were red in various spots, the wraps were worn as a belt and a few were around his tail and on his ear and wrists and around his ankle.
Tails wasn't as surprised he thought that Mint would be ok but he was happy to see Flame safe on the other hand seeing them completely different was strange for him.
"I'm glad you guys are alive." said Tails.
"We should be saying that about you." said Mint.
"I'd love to spend time chatting but those security cameras are awful fixed on us!" said the freedom fighter.
He was right the alarms went off quickly.
"No worries I can turn up the heat now that I'm free of that metal with no heat limit." said Flame who simply pointed at the camera.
It blew up after he shot at it with his fiery power and the alarms couldn't lead the soldiers that might come.
Suddenly they found traps waiting for them like an alarm-system's way of ensuring no escape, spikes opened up from under them and they were running out of places to stand.
"This is an easy fix, everyone hold on to me!" said Tails.
They all grabbed on and Tails was up and flying carrying all the freedom fighters with him.
The General who was talking now witnessed them all escaping at the last minute through the open doors which Flame aimed at in the air making them so.
They were outside and rushed out as fast as they could nobody was falling behind but there were people hot on their trail.
Their pace quickened and they were out of sight now.
"Mint open the trap door!" said Flame.
Mint whistled and a tree opened up like a slide, Tails was having trouble since he didn't expect to fall through a tree stump but when he got inside he was relieved and everything seemed to slow down.
"Am I lucky you can fly." said the freedom fighter.
Mint wasted no time and got straight up to the point.
"Tails how did you get here?" said Mint.
"I got here by that girl fox Anna." said Tails.
"Well now we finally understand what her first mission was." said Mint.
"You guys look different." said Tails.
"You don't look like you aged a day since we last saw you Tails." said Flame.
"Well you look like you're twenty-five." said Tails. "And you look like a teenager."
"We are silly." said Mint.
"You mean it's been that long? Wow I sure am in trouble now." said Tails.
"Oh no we forgot Amy! Sonic will be annoyed." said Mint not really paying attention.
Tails' ears perked up.
"You mean Sonic's here?" said Tails overjoyed.
"Course the blue dude's the man in charge, literately." said Flame enjoying his joke.
"Well when can I see him?" said Tails.
"Well the base he's in charge of is all the way in sector V of our bases so it's a while away." said Flame.
"But I can take you there." said Mint still very happy to see Tails. "Follow me alright Tails? You can see Sonic and in the meantime I'll give him the updates." said Mint.
Tails was pleased but very curious.
"This is all really new isn't it, is Flame coming with us?" said Tails.
"Oh Flame's got a big long list of things to do he's in charge of this sector, you see there are sectors all along in the trees but the enemy didn't think of looking underground and we stay invisible because we have somebody who can work on jamming system screens so this place is off radar, but anyway lets get going." said Mint grabbing a hold of Tails and rushing off.
Mint was very different but had the same cheerful personality; Flame seemed more distant like the past eleven years really affected him.
"Well at least I get to see Sonic." thought Tails in high spirits.
End chapter
