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Blurring the Lines

The Plan

"Dang it!" Tails added as he threw his hands in the air. "How is it that I can accidentally do it, but when I actually try, nothing wants to work!"

"I know that feeling," Chuck replied. "We'll figure it out."

"I hope so, it can't be this hard!"

The two had been at work for days now, and they were no closer to having a working portal.

"I'm gonna take a break," Chuck added. "You should probably take one as well."

"I'm fine, you can take a quick one if you'd like."

"Suit yourself, I'll be back in a minute."

Tails nodded at the statement, before returning to their work. Moments later, Chuck reentered the room.

"You need to hide, now!"

Tails looked at him for a second before taking cover underneath one of the nearby desks, he waited there as the door to the workshop opened. Chris accompanied a man in a red jumpsuit with ginger hair into the room.

"Chuck! I haven't seen you in a while!"

"Hey Sam, what are you doing here?"

"Just getting here early for our little get together, you didn't forget did you?"

"Of course not," Chuck lied. "But you're not supposed to be here for another hour or so."

"Well, you know me." Sam added, walking further into the workshop. "So what you been working on? I can see you've got something going on here."

Sam had pointed at the portal he and Tails had been working on.

"It doesn't actually work now, so I don't think I can show you."

"Well, could you tell me?"

Chuck didn't really have a great backup explanation for this situation so he tried to make one up.

"It's a, power plant, it should be able to produce clean energy!"

Sam looked over at him, "That's cool! I knew you'd make something like that someday. Well, I'll be back in a few hours."

"Alright."

Chris lead Sam back out of the workshop and Chuck relaxed, Tails reemerged from underneath the desk.

"Who was that?" He asked.

"That was Sam, he's my brother."

"What was he talking about when he said you guys had something?"

"I totally forgot about it, Sam's bringing some of his in laws over, we need to think what we're going to do with you guys."

"What's wrong with us?"

"Nothing, it's just I'm not sure about letting him know you guys are here, you know that car Sonic said tried to catch him when he first got here?"

"Yeah."

"That was Sam, he's part of the police force called the Speed Team, they basically are just like standard police but drive dragsters instead of regular police cars."

"So what happens if he finds out we're here?"

"More than likely, I'll have G.U.N. breaking down the door within a few hours."

"Alright, so what's the plan to stay hidden from him, there's no way you could hide all of us right?"

"We'll have to find something to do, I'm just as stumped myself."

"Maybe… If we could find somewhere to put everyone. Could we finish the portal before then?" Tails suggested.

"I don't think so, especially at the rate we're going at."

"You've got any ideas in mind? I'm totally stumped on any plans."

"We could… Who am I kidding? I'm stumped as well."

"Well, if you could maybe stop them from coming out to your workshop, we could stay out here."

"That, might work... You could still work on the portal as well while you're at it."

"Exactly!"

The more the two of them thought about it, the better the idea seemed to be.

"Alright," Chuck began. "So, we keep everyone in here, I head out and act like nothing's wrong, and hopefully everything stays mostly under control in here."

"Basically, I like the sound of this."

"I'll go tell everyone our plan, you want to come with?"

"Sure, might as well." Tails shrugged.

They both entered the main room, only for Tails to instantly be grabbed by Sonic.

"Finally!" He added, "You two have been out there for hours!" He started ruffling the kitsune's bangs.

"Hey, it hasn't been that long! Watch the ears!" Tails happily replied.

Tails was eventually released by Sonic, he and Chuck decided to discuss their plan with him. Sonic agreed with their sentiment, only to bring up his own issues.

"Here's your problem," He began. "How do you plan on everyone staying there?"

"So, the plan has some holes." Tails admitted, "But it's a start!"

"Well, you're going to want to get those holes patched, otherwise we'll just end up in the same place you started."

"I guess you've got a point there… " Chuck interjected, do you have any ideas Sonic?"

"Well, if it were up to me, I'd just try to avoid them, would remove the hassle of needing to keep them out of somewhere."

"No offence Sonic," Tails began. "But I'm not sure about keeping you on watch for anything since last time."

"That was one time, one time!"

The two of them explained to Chuck that the last time they had allowed Sonic to keep watch on something, they got ambushed by Eggman's robots.

"You'll probably just fall asleep again somehow!" Tails laughed.

"Ok, ok, so I'm not the best watch. You know who is though?"

Tails did not get who he was implying toward.

"Geez," Sonic continued. "And I thought you were supposed to be the brains of the three of us, Knuckles!"

"Of course! All he does is guard that rock all day! Sonic you're a genius!"

"Thank you, I try."

Tails darted off, leaving Sonic and Chuck in his wake. Quickly scouring the mansion, he found Knuckles upstairs.

"Hi Knuckles, what you up to?"

"Trying to figure out where the Master Emerald could be, considering the fact that it's more than likely not on Angel Island any more."

"Well… I was kind of hoping you could help us out. Chuck has some people coming over later and he needs us to keep watch for them just in case we need to hide, he doesn't want us getting found. I figured you would be a great choice."

"I'm kind of busy seeing if there's any way we can get back. Considering someone got us stranded here."

The kitsune's tails lowered themselves to the ground behind him. "I know, this is my fault. But I thought nothing crazy would happen if I-"

"I don't want to know why you thought it would be a good idea, the fact is you did exactly what I told you not to do and this happened."

"I know I shouldn't have done it, but we still really need your help, could you please just help us for one second?"

Knuckles looked over at the kitsune, "Alright… Doesn't mean I'm over this though!"

"Thanks Knuckles, I'll find a way to get us all back, promise!"

Knuckles didn't seem amused by his response, Tails left the room before he could change his mind and went to find Sally, she needed to be in on the plan as well. After a while, he found her laying out back.

"Hey Sal," he began. "What you up to?"

"Cloud watching, you want to join me?"

"Sure, I think I've got a second."

The kitsune laid himself down next to her on the grass, placing both his tails behind his head to rest on. Nothing was said between the two for a bit before Tails spoke up.

"Hey Sal, Chuck has a few people coming over later and he says we need to stay out of sight of them for as long as they're here, I've got Knuckles to keep watch for us, but we could be stuck somewhere for a while. Just warning you now."

"Cool, thanks Tails."

"No problem."

Everything was silent for a second before Tails spoke again. "Sal, is it my fault that we're stuck here?"

"I guess maybe a little bit, I mean, Knuckles did tell you not to mess with Chaos Energy after all… But, you did what you thought would be safe, so at least you tried to prevent it, and I can tell you're doing everything to get us back home."

The kit smiled at the reassurance. "Thanks."

"Hey, it's what I'm here for."

Tails stood back up, "Alright, I'm going to get back to work, we'll come get you when we need to move."

"Alright, see you later."

The kit walked back inside, leaving Sally alone to her own thoughts. She as a matter of fact, was taking a moment to reflect on her life and everything she'd done. Becoming friends with Sonic, meeting Tails, fighting Eggman. The trio had been through some fun and tough times together. Sonic and Tails had grown to see each other almost like brothers, Tails clearly saw her as a mother figure of sorts. He would always come to her whenever he needed to be comforted or assured about something. Sonic viewed her with a different mentality, viewing them as mostly friends, it would be lying to say they hadn't been romantically interested in one another at some point. Eventually however, they decided it would be a little strange to date somebody you practically viewed as family and lived with.

The two had grown quite a bit from when they had first met, Sonic had been much more brash, always itching for a fight and completely full of himself. While he still had much of that personality in him, he had learned to better control it. Tails on the other hand, had grown more physically. He was much taller than when they had first met, and his fur had darkened slightly to it's current shade of orange.

As for herself, she had been noticing a bit of Sonic rubbing off on her, having spent so much time with him, his wisecracking and ability to lighten up any situation were things she noticed she was starting to replicate. While she was nowhere near Sonic, she was starting to develop the habit. Tails, for obvious reasons, copied Sonic quite a bit in what he did, he practically idolized him. It was probably because he viewed Sonic as a father figure of sorts. Did he? She would have to ask him at some point, preferably after they got back home.

The Robian allowed her mind to wander a bit more before her thoughts were interrupted by Tails. "Sally, they'll be here any minute, you're going to need to come inside."

"Got ya, coming." She replied, standing back up and the kitsune escorted her inside. Time to see if the little plan of theirs would work.

Alright guys, that's it for now, also, sorry for the excruciatingly long wait on this one, I hit a serious wall with what to write for it, I rewrote it about three or four times, using a different episode or idea each time. I just kept going at it and eventually settled on this, things should hopefully go much smoother from here. Anyways, if you enjoyed this chapter, leave a review so I know how I'm doing! Until next time!