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November 5, 3207 (MY)

Emerald Town, UF

7:55 A.M.

Tails' POV

After wandering through the country side for over an hour, Sonic and I had finally reached Emerald Town Square, but there was something noticeably different about it. I saw that the town square was actually full of pedestrians and there were not as many cars as usual. There were also people pumping your gas for you and checking out your car at the gas stations. Speaking of the cars… they looked like they were from 30 years ago, so was everyone's fashion. Did Emerald Town create a Throwback Holiday & nobody told me? I noticed that the broken clock on the Town Hall didn't read 10:04, but rather 7:59. Suddenly, the strangest thing had happened: The Emerald Town Hall Clock had actually rung. Sonic and I both looked at each other in confusion.

"Tails, the clock tower actually rang and the clock works, what's going on here?" Sonic asked nervously as I picked up an issue of The Gleaming Emerald; the date read November 5, 3207.

"Re-elect Mayor Elias Acorn, he will lower your taxes and promise your children lives of productivity and educational success," yelled a campaigning van with loudspeakers attached. I then confirmed that Doc Eggman's machine has sent Sonic & me back in time 30 years. The eggPhones that Doc made us didn't have any signal range since we were in the time period before he invented them. I spotted a café where in the place where a fitness center will be years from now. We then walked into the establishment.

"Hey you kid, did you jump ship?" the large purple cat behind the counter said. "What's with the life preserver you got on kid?" He was pointing out Sonic's red vest jacket.

"Do you know where I can find 1640 Empire Dr. at?" Sonic asked the large cat, who ignored his question.

"So are you just gonna stand there or are ya gonna order something?"

"I just wanted to use the phone." Sonic replied.

"The phone's only for paying customers kid."

"I'll take a Perfect Chaos Cola/"

"If you want it perfect, then why don't you write a complaint to the manufacturer?"

I should have told Sonic that nobody had invented Perfect Chaos Cola yet. But I just simply needed a laugh.

"Can you just give me something without sugar?" Sonic asked the café clerk. The clerk then handed him some black coffee. "Here you go kid, by the way, the name's Big, that cup of coffee will run you about $1 ring." (A/N: Rings are used as currency in the Sonic series.)

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Sonic's POV

Just then, I saw a green duck and a few guys following him into the café…wait a minute! GREEN DUCK, followed by three goons, I think I know who that is. "Hey Hedgehog, what do you think you're doing?" Bean Dynamite said to a black and red hedgehog sitting next to me.

"Hey, I'm talking to you, Hedgehog, you rodent bug!"

"Oh hey, Bean, how are you guys doing." Shadow finally replied.

"Did you finish up my homework, Hedgehog?"

"Um, well, I figured since it's not due for a couple of days, why not wait to finish-ahhhhh!"

Bean picked up Shadow by his shirt and then was knocking on his head like door. "Hello, anybody home, think you little spiky brat. You better have it done so I can recopy it, do you realize what will happen if I turned in my homework in your handwriting? I'd get kicked outta Emerald Town High, now you wouldn't want that to happen, would ya?"

"Of course not, Bean, why would I ever want that to happen?" Shadow said with a fearful chill running down his spine. Bean then turned towards me and said "What are you looking at, butthead?"

Then a large polar bear pointed at me and said "Hey Bean, check out the blue hedgehog's life preserver, the poor dork thinks he's gonna drown." When Bark said that it angered me, but I knew better than to pick a fight with these guys.

Bean turned his attention back to the teenaged version of my dad. "Well, how's my homework?"

"I promise to have it done by tonight and bring it to you first thing tomorrow morning." Shadow said, looking like he was gonna wet his pants.

"Not too early, I sleep in early on Sundays. Hey, Hedgehog you're shoes untied." Shadow looked down and Bean slapped him across the face. "Don't be so gullible Hedgehog and I don't wanna see you in this café again."

"Bye-bye Bean," Shadow said to the green bully as the bird and his crew walked out of the café. He noticed me staring at him and got the creeps from it.

"What?" Shadow replied.

"You're Shadow Hedgehog." I said to him in astonishment.

"Yeah, who are you?" he asked.

A red echidna approached us and started talking to my dad. "Stand tall, boy, have some respect for yourself. Don't you know that if you let people walk all over you know, they'll be walking all over you for the rest of your life? Listen to me, do you think I'm gonna spend the rest of my life in this grease spoon?" the red echidna said.

"Watch it, Knuckles," Big exclaimed to the red echidna.

"No sir, I'm gonna make something useful of myself someday, I'm gonna go to night school and be somebody someday."

"That's right, you're gonna be mayor." I said to Knuckles.

"Yeah, I'm gonna be-mayor, now that's a great idea, should run for mayor one day."

"Ha, an echidna mayor of Emerald Town, that'll be the day…" Big said, but got interrupted by Knuckles.

"You wait and see Mr. Cat, I will become the most powerful mayor in the history of Emerald Town, and I will clean up this town."

"Good, you can start by sweeping the floor," Big made a sarcastic remark to Knuckles.

"Mayor Kunckles Echidna, I like the sound of that."

Tails and I were distracted by Knuckles' speech, while my dad walked out of the café and hopped on a bike. We ran after my dad, "Hey Dad! Shadow, hey, you on the bike!" We ran and followed him through the town.

About fifteen minutes later, we appeared in front of what looked like a very familiar house. We saw that he was up in a tree with binoculars, peeping through the window of a very familiar looking purple hedgehog, while she was getting dressed.

"Wow, Sonic, your dad's a real perv if you ask me." Tails whispered to me. I laughed quietly, but then my eyes got wide when I saw Shadow fall out of the tree and I saw a car approaching him fast. "Oh no, Dad!" I panicked, so I pushed him out of the way and before I know it…BAAAAAAAMMMMM! I was struck by the car and quickly drifted out of consciousness.

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Tails' POV

I was horrified by what I had just witnessed. A middle aged hedgehog appeared from the car and said "Hey wait a minute who are you" to Sonic's dad. Shadow ran away from the scene frightened. "Stella, another one of these damn kids jumped in front of my car. Come on out here, help me take him in the house." He turned to me and asked me "You know this kid?" I nodded, "He's my best friend. My name is ummm…. Berry Gordy and his name is, Keith Sweat." We then carried Sonic into the man's house.

SORRY TO LEAVE YOU ON A CLIFFY, SONIC HAD TO BE NURSED IN THE HOUSE, WILL SONIC BE OK, FIND OUT ON THE NEXT EPISODE. ALSO IT'S EXACTLY THREE YEARS SINCE MICHAEL JACKSON DIED, R.I.P. MJ…