As for the Parents…

"There!" Tails cried, wiping the sweat from his forehead with his handkerchief as he stood back from his machine. "Now we can find them!"

Sonic and company were in Tails lab, examining his computer interface as Tails showed them the completed machine. It didn't look much to Sonic, just a bunch of wires and nails, but Tails assured him this thing would find their children. "Err… how does it work?" Sonic asked him. Beside him, Knuckles moved a hand In to examine the object, but Tails quickly slapped it away.

"No, no, Knuckles! With your hands you could rip the wires!" Tails then turned to Sonic with a tired expression, still smiling nonetheless. "I turn it on, and then the computer has integrated the DNA of both your son and my daughter. When I turn the computer and the machine on, it will show land up to ten thousand miles east, west, north, or south of here. Then, it will target their exact latitude and longitude, and the time it will take us to get there."

"You mean by Sonic speed?" Sonic asked him.

"I err… averaged all our speeds, so it's significantly slower." Tails admitted. Sonic shook his head in sadness. "But don't worry, Sonic! You can run a little ahead of us!"

"Well, will you turn this piece of junk on already?" Knuckles said impatiently. "I need my star athlete to come back, you know."

"Alright. Systems to go… now!"

Tails clicked a button, and a green grid flashed on the screen. Soon, the general land mass of Mobius followed, and soon enough, a single red dot appeared on the map, with the label "Violet" next to it. A few second later, a second red dot labeled Sonic Jr. appeared, not too far from the first one.

The three gazed at the screen with confusion. "That's strange…" Tails spoke quietly.

"Eh? What's up, Tails?" Sonic inquired.

"Well… according to the map… Violet's practically in water… in the Hebrides Sea!

Tails began to grow very anxious, and then practically ran out of the lab. "Come on! We've got to leave, now!"

Sonic and Knuckles followed, opening up the grate that led to the underground lab. When the tree climbed up, they saw Amy, Cream, Zoran, and Cosmo, looking down at them with curiosity. "Well, did it work?" Cream asked earnestly. "Did you find out where Cinnamon and the kids were?" Her voice was very high pitched, her hands squeezing Tails' shoulder, begging for an answer.

"Hey, give him some space." Zoran told her, pulling her back a bit into his arms. He then nodded for him to continue as Cream looked at the three anxiously.

"Cinnamon, Sonic Jr. and Violet aren't too far apart." Tails informed him. "The problem is… well, Violet's practically in the Hebrides. I don't know why, but I do know that ocean has the spilled blood of millions in it in the past… it almost had her blood almost six years ago…"

Cosmo gasped, and Amy put a reassuring arm around her. "Great! So let's go and get her then!"

"It's not that simple." Tails reminded them. "Someone's got to stay and watch the dots." He knew he couldn't stay. Violet was at most a day away as it is. Even at top speed, he feared he may not make it in time.

"We'll do it." Zoran nominated himself and Cream. "I know Sonic is dying for adventure, and you can't trust Knuckles with any machinery."

"Hey!" Knuckles snapped back at him. "You want a knuckle sandwhich?"

As Knuckles raised his fists, Sonic just pushed him to the ground, laughing as Knuckles angrily got back up. The sight of Amy raising her hammer caused all three men to forget their argument.

"Thanks Amy." Tails told her. He then sighed. "Alright, the rest of us will split up. Cosmo and I will search for Violet, while the three of you can search for Cinnamon and the others. I have an advanced compass for each of us," He raised two compasses as he said this, which had a digital interface on them, and looked very much like a watch. "This will allow us to change course as necessary as Cream and Zoran update us on their location, thus…"

"Enough mechanics, Tails." Sonic interrupted impatiently, more so to avoid the technical jargon that was bound to come out of his mouth. "Let's get moving!" The blue hedgehog grabbed the compass from Tails hand, and began racing away from them. Amy and Knuckles charged after him, calling his name uselessly.

"Ooh, Zoran, I really wanted to go to Cinnamon and see if she was okay." Cream told her husband. "Next time, can you not speak for the both of us?"

"Cinnamon's fine on her own, Cream." Zoran reassured her. "Heh, fighting in school isn't bad for nothing."

"Well… hey!" Cream retorted. "Stop teaching Cinnamon that fighting is a good thing!"

"It isn't?" Zoran asked slyly. The couple began bickering as they went down the grate back into Tails lab.

Tails and Cosmo looked at each other as Tails snapped the watch to his arm. Cosmo's hand gently moved against his face, a worried expression on her face as she examined his tired expression. "Tails… I know Violet's going to be…"

"Not now, Cosmo." Tails told her, running toward his garage, hitting a button on his side. The garage ceiling began to open up, and a loud noise of an engine rang through the lot. "I'm not assessing anything till I see her." He began to spin his tails rapidly, grabbing Cosmo's hand as he gradually flew toward the plane that was slowly ascending up from his garage.

"He hasn't slept for almost a day now…" Cosmo thought to herself. "Whatever reason you left, Violet… I hope it was a good one…"

(Elsewhere)

"Can't you swim any faster?" The sea-fox wolf Tsunami asked impatiently. "I've never seen such creatures swim so slowly?"

Violet bubbled some type of answer, but it was muffled by the sea. Neither could swim very long underwater and constantly had to resurface. Tsunami rolled his eyes every time they did this.

Violet could almost place this fox… he looked familiar somehow… but she just couldn't place it.

Tsunami then signaled for them both to resurface with a signal from his thumb, and the two panting creatures gratefully did so, hardly having any idea where they were going. They resurfaced with a gasp, huffing and puffing from exhaustion, while Tsunami looked very relaxed indeed.

"What is this?" The nameless wolf growled. "If this is a trick, I will choke you to death and send you to the deepest depths of the ocean."

"No, no, in fact, we are above the sea cave now!" Tsunami told them shakily as the wolf's angry frown came too close for comfort in his line of sight. I told you to resurface because I doubt either one of you could get through without having to take a breath."

"So this is a waste of time?" The wolf growled. "Then I should kill you!"

"Wait, wait, let me explain!" Tsunami begged him as the nameless wolf lunged for his neck.

"Hey, I recognize you now!" Violet exclaimed, as the wolf stopped trying to strangle the fearful Tsunami. "You're the one that saved me when I fell off the ship! You carried me on your back towards the shoreline!"

"Well… hmm. Yes, I do remember." Tsunami replied. "You've grown a lot since."

"This isn't going to stop me from ending your life." The wolf growled.

"No, let him explain!" Violet pleaded.

The wolf sighed, glaring at the fox, who shrank away a bit. "Very well, if it is to your desire."

Tsunami gulped, and then rapidly began to speak. "Alright, all we do is dive under the water; swim through the cave entrance, and to resurface once we find a place to in the cave."

"That's it?" The wolf asked disbelievingly.

"It would be that simple if it was just me, but carrying the both of you is going to make it hard. I have to swim fast enough for your air capacity and to get away from that monstrous shark that swims round the entrance."

"Is there no other way?" Violet asked him. She really did not enjoy swimming much.

Tsunami shook his head, and reached out his hands for them to grab. "Don't worry. I'll get you there in one piece. Are you ready?"

Violet grabbed his hand. "You saved me once in the past. I trust you." The two smiled at each other.

The wolf hesitated. "I don't like trusting my life with another…"

Tsunami looked at him and shrugged. "It's the only way, wolf. Besides, I would sooner die than be the murderer of you two."

The wolf glared at him for a moment, and then sighed. "Alright…" The wolf reached out his hand.

"Breathe deeply… in 1…2…3!" The wolf and Violet gasped for a huge breath of air, and were quickly pulled into the depths by the massive fox.

He swam with the utmost grace and speed, farther and farther down… Violet feared she'd let out all her hair just from the amazement of it. She nearly did, as she saw the huge water shark, twelve feet long, staring up at them with a hunger in its eyes as it slowly sped toward them.

"Hang on!" Tsunami shouted behind him. The shark's gaping jaws opened wide, getting ready to chew all three of them up for a good meal.