Alright, so what do you think? Chapter ten special? Hell no! Ha! However, I do recommend going back and re-reading the last part of the last chapter, it got re-edited. I told ya everything is still in beta mode, didn't I? But, you will still get what is going on if you don't, won't be the hugest deal if you don't go back and read it.
Anyways...The quote of the chapter is... "Bad ideas indicate and open mind." House M.D.
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3rd person view. Because lets face it, I like being god. Well, I already am but when in third person I am a more projected godlike figure of sorts. You know? No, of course you don't...
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Blaze and Nack sat patiently on a train, rather, their train. Or soon to be their train. Not quite theirs yet, ya know? First they had to shove everybody off and take it somewhere remote, where nobody lived. Actually he did mention someone living there... Nack says he has a spot picked out, but that will be a secret for now.
Blaze sat with her face jammed against the window, the weight of her head pushing it against there. She was taking an uncomfortable nap, it was only a matter of time before she woke up. The train jostled suddenly, cramming Blaze's snout against the window violently.
"OW!" She wailed, sitting up. "Are we there yet?" She asked, one hand on her nose. She removed it and placed it again, making sure it was not bleeding.
"Almost there." Nack said calmly. 3 hours on a train had not been part of Blaze's plan. It was getting rather boring and dragged out.
Blaze just sighed. She stared out the window longingly. As a matter of fact, she wished for nothing more than to simply roll back time to when they left Marine's house, maybe giving them another ten minutes. They could have walked through that entire mess. Instead of this huge complicated thing. The thought of how confusing this was, aroused one more thought from Blaze. Where was Mother? She had not been with Father. So where could she be? Blaze did not know, nor would she spend her time wondering. Shirley is a tough woman, she can take care of herself. But there was still the question, where was she?
"Alright Blaze, I am headin' for the front area of this train to play the 'hero'" Nack said, giving her a wink. He got up and disappeared from sight. Blaze sighed again, she was in no mood for such a devious plan. She got up and moved to the back of the train. Several passengers watched her suspiciously as she strode to the far rear of the train. With a simple flick of the wrist, a firestorn erupted from the subject in question. Of course none directed to actually hurt anybody. But rather went blasting through the roof in a terrifying, riot inducing manner. The temperature in the car she was in went up to a scorching 125 degrees. Hot enough to scare the crap out of passengers, but not kill them.
Blaze watched everybody's eyes open wider than wide, as well as do their best to cram through the door onto the next forward train car. Blaze inhaled and prepared for a hearty maniacal laugh to really sell the cake. Also, now that there was nobody left in the car, she made haste properly combusting it. Quickly too. In a raging red and orange inferno, the entire rear car exploded. It disconnected from the forward cars in the process. Blaze launched from the flaming wreckage and sped along the ground at an ungodly pace. Rapidly catching up to the forward cars.
If Blaze's calculations where right, then Nack had huddled everybody into the last 4 cars on the train, that left two still attached to the train. This carried some sort of freight that Nack had wanted to obtain. What it was precisely was none of Blaze's concern, whatever got her closer to making herself known the better. That meant Tails might find her.
Blaze made quick work of finding the last four cars on the train. She fire-boosted a good forty feet in the air and shot a stream of white hot flames in a narrow sweeping beam...
(With Nack)
"Alright, now calm down you guys, I have this totally under control." Nack said, making sure nobody was in the second car but him. He had everybody crowded in the last four cars, just like the plan had called for. "Now, I want you all to keep a nice distance from this car right here, something exciting is about t-
Nack was interrupted as a white hot stream of jet-fire sliced cleanly through the link that held the second car on the third. A thump was heard as Blaze swiftly landed on top of the second car. She smiled at the victims as she watched them pull away from her. The third car as well as its follows simply coasted down the track at an even pace. The terrified looks on the faces of the disconnected bunch of cars was not very pleasing for Blaze to see. This was not her usual role, being the bad-guy. The smile on Blaze's face faded and she flipped into the car next to Nack.
"Why the long face kitty?" Nack asked. Turning to Blaze as she started for the first car.
"Please Nack, I'm not in the mood." Blaze retorted in a monotone. She kept toward the front car. Nack followed her, giving a worried look.
"Don't be a bitch about it." Nack snapped lightly, trying to lighten the mood with his rough humor.
"Shut it." Blaze said. "Now how do you want to go about getting the engineer out of the engine?"
"Go in there and kick him out, easy as that." Nack said simply, shrugging his shoulders. "How 'bout you tell me what's on your mind first Blaze."
"I just..." Blaze fumbled with a few words, trying to come up with a good excuse. "I just wanna get outta here. Something about this job is making me worry. Like we're going a bit too far." She lied. Although not completely, she was worried about this big job they were doing. Stealing a train isn't like robbing a convenience store in the middle of the night.
"Naw! We'll be fine. Now c'mon I gotta give the engineer a hell of a headache." Nack said, stepping past Blaze and motioning for her to follow. She shrugged her shoulders and walked after him.
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After the obvious. Blaze and Nack had another 4 hours to go. And so most of that for Blaze was a power nap, and Nack appeared to be thinking.
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Jen's face changed to one of a look a dread. She listened closely to the train. 3 whistle blows that are 2 seconds apart, then 3 more in one second.
"That's... Tails! In the closet over there! Quick!" Jen started jamming and shoving Tails across the room and into a closet. It was full of greasy engine parts to a few of her old attempts at an engine.
"Hold up, what's go-
"Shut it! Don't make a sound! Or move! Or ah'll raise all hell!" Jen shouted, slamming the door in Tails face. Lucky enough for the twin-tailed fox, the closet door was vented. So he could see slightly through the slits in the door. Therefore he could easily eavesdrop on the situation. Whatever that situation may be. Cause Tails was pretty darn befuddled right now.
A few minutes went by. Tails saw nothing but the plane he and Jen had so painstakingly built. He smiled to himself, not bad for two-weeks worth of work. Huh? Especially starting with rivets and cast iron parts, glad he had convinced her to go to a different building material. Although he had not really seen anything of interest. He heard a train slow down to a stop. Also two people jumping out. Their voices were smothered and difficult to hear. He could not make out any of them. But the one thing that Tails was truly being stimulated by was the fluctuations in Chaos energy. It took much of his will to keep his Chaos emeralds at bay, for they were threatening to light up like a Christmas tree.
Where could all this Chaos energy be coming from? Also, whoever was in possession of something with this much Chaos energy must be struggling to keep themselves or their whatevers from going insane. Cause Tails was emanating far more than this other person.
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What the heck! Blaze shifted uncomfortably. She had forgotten she was assimilated with the Sol emerald. Something was making a frickin' hell handbasket's worth of Chaos energy and she felt about ready to let the emerald go. Something in her was strangely satisfied and attracted to the Chaos energy. It was channeling its energy through her Sol emerald and it made concentrating nearly impossible. Her surroundings were strangely blurred. But she could make out a large barn of some sort, they were standing in front of it. Nack was right next to her on her right. And a brown female Lynx that almost bounced with each step came out the barn.
"Hey Nack!" She practically sang out.
"Jen! Uhh, why are you so excited? Finish your witchcraft yet?" Nack asked. "Or are you just happy to see me?"
Jen smiled mischievously and rotated playfully on one of her heels while not making eye-contact. "Maybe." She announced.
"I'll see it when I believe it." Nack said. He had a disbelieving look on her face.
"You might. But, uhh, who's your friend?" Jen asked. Tails description of Blaze popped into her head. This strange cat matched it almost exactly, if not exactly. The might-be-Blaze looked very out of it though, she was holding her head and wincing. "And is she OK? She looks a little uncomfortable."
"Uhh, hey Blaze, you alright?" Nack said, reaching a hand out. She swatted it away and stumbled toward the barn.
"Y-you got chairs in there?" Blaze fumbled. Jen who had just heard her name nodded with wide eyes.
"Go right on in." Jen insisted. Then turned to Nack to stop him from following. "I picked up some stranger that fell down that cliff of there. He knows Blaze and is in there right now. Lets leave'em alone. I figure we can let Tails in on our operations later. Surely you told Blaze what we are doing."
"Tails!" Nack said, very surprised. Jen gave Nack a quizical look, the way he said that sounded like he had met Tails before, and that perhaps it was not on good terms. "Oh ya, and I never told Blaze much of anything. Using her as free work, she is undercover for them southerners, crazy redneck confederates." Nack mumbled.
"She is? I doubt she understands the situation. I have her lover in that barn right over there. He never had a sort of 'enslave the human race' mood about him." Jen said deductively.
"Never would have guessed that pesky two tailed fox could score such a good looking cat..." Nack said, looking over at the barn. Jen put her hands on her hips and looked at him disapprovingly. "Hehe. You look great too." Nack said, trying to come up with some sort of excuse. "Uhh, better, actually."
"Oh really?" Jen said, hands still on her hips. She glared at Nack, who was avoiding eye-contact. "Why don't we just go ahead in my house over there and catch up a little, haven't seen ya in forever."
"Alright Jenny." Nack said in a happy tone.
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Tails' eyes nearly fell out of his head, he almost passed out. Blaze stumbled through the large doors of the barn/shed looking rather dazed and confused. She plopped down on a seat holding her head and wincing.
Tails started unconsciously opening the door that separated the two. They were literally ten feet apart, verbally separated by a simple door. However, he stopped opening the door and just watched her for a sec. Perhaps his eyes were playing tricks.
Realization set in, she was really here, right there. Barely a measly ten feet away. Tails heart fluttered with an excited giddiness. But wait, she did look rather uncomfortable, in pain even. What was wrong with her? Oh yes! The Chaos energy issue. Tails opened the door and gave the Sol emerald a quick tap, discharging and leveling the energy in his Chaos emeralds and her Sol emerald. The fact that Blaze was there was still so surreal.
Speaking of the cat, she began to open her eyes and her vision started to clear...
"Hey Tails." She said, thinking this was just another one of her hopeless dreams...
"It is great to see you Blaze. Thought you had gotten yourself hurt!" Tails said excitedly, expressing child-like joy through his big blue eyes. He gave her a tight hug.
"Nope, this is not real. I am just gonna wake up in that lonely bed at the saloon and miss you some more." Blaze held her head and blinked tightly. Trying to wake up from her dream.
Tails released her and gave her a good look in the eye. Blaze opened her eyes, she was still here. So she tried pinching herself.
"Ow." She moaned dully. Tails was still there, giving her a quizzical look.
"If this is a dream then at least make the most of it." Tails announced, squeezing her tightly once more. "Its great to see you, even if you are in a delusional ramble." He smiled.
Blaze thought this was a bit real for a dream. Dream-Tails also had a point, might as well make the most of this nocturnal hallucination. "Love you Tails." She said, hugging back tightly.
"That was a bit out of the blue. But the feelings are certainly mutual, love you too Blaze." Tails said, separating from their embrace.
Blaze blushed lightly, giggling a little bit. While Tails had a thoughtful look. "Where are your parents and Marine Blaze?" Tails asked.
Blaze quit the happy and realized they were not out of the waters quite yet. They needed to round up Mom, Dad, and Marine and high-tail it the hell outta there. "Dad and Marine are still out at the southern area headquarters." Blaze said.
"We can Chaos control them here and get the heck out. I gotta say my goodbyes to Jen though..." Tails said with his head drooping slightly. Blaze felt a possible twinge of jealousy. That was not exactly an unattractive lynx she saw outside, in fact, it was quite the opposite. Tails' head sprung up as he realized something. "Where is your mom Blaze?"
"..." Blaze was still flaming Jen in her head... "Oh. Her? I haven't a clue. Also, we cannot just Chaos control them here, these are the bad guys." Blaze said.
"For some reason I doubt that." Tails said questioningly, remembering all the hospitality that Jen had showed him.
"No, its true. I am working undercover with Nack, he is a bou-"
"Bounty hunter." Tails said with a scowl. "Ya, They are bad guys. I know Nack, he ain't some saint. In fact, more of a self-loving coward." He seethed.
"Wow, he certainly isn't that bad. He actually almost had me thinking he was a good guy a while ago." Blaze thought back to how once you got past his occasional sexist/racist remarks, he wasn't such a bad guy. There was the few times he asked her how she was feeling, for instance. "No, no way is Nack that bad. He even asked me how I was feeling a few times. Sincerely too. I haven't been a very happy camper since we got separated..."
"I dunno, I've seen him hold guns to people's heads... Sonic's, Sally's, some of my best friends..." Tails went on.
"Maybe he has changed. I mean, sure he has held guns to people's heads, I've seen him do it. But I have never seen any actual threat in his eyes. He has never seriously been about to kill anybody." Blaze said. Then remembered something. "There was that one time he tried to kill me..."
"WHAT! I'll kick his face in!" Tails shouted, standing abruptly.
"No stop!" Blaze grabbed him and pulled the two-tailed fox back into his spot on the bench next to her. "He still has a burn from what I did to him. He has gotten a good enough spanking." Blaze smiled.
"Alright, never mind him. They are the bad guys?" Tails questioned. Wondering what 'Bad' was at this point. Perhaps Blaze had been on the wrong side. "No, they cannot be the bad guys. I mean look at the team work involved in that." He motioned toward that plane that was sitting pretty, taking up most of the room in the shed. "That was going to be a search tool, a search for you. Jen let me help her with that and in return I got to use it to find you." Tails said.
"Wow..."
"Yes, this arises many questions that I do not know how to answer. That is not an often occurrence." Tails said, petting his fluffy chin.
Blaze laughed a little. "You're kinda cute when you do that."
"Do what?"
"Stroke your chin like that, so sophisticated." Blaze joked. She was smiling wide and feeling happy right now. Tails was here, and she was pretty sure it was not a dream. Also the road to home was ever closer than what it had been a while ago.
"Hehe, your just cute all the time." Tails said softly. Blaze's face lightly changed color and she smiled at him.
"Stop it! You keep making me blush you jerk!" Blaze whined playfully. She was mock hitting Tails with the palms of her hands, which Tails was leaning back in an effort to dampen them. Although they were of no threat he leaned back anyways as a reaction. "Haha!"
Tails grabbed her hands as they playfully swung at him. Blaze gave him a look of innocence as he held onto her. Tails gave her a confident look in return. She was starting to feel a little overpowered, a feeling she never thought would be enjoyable. But for some reason, that idea of not being in control was a real turn on for her, the anxiety of it all was thrilling. Tails pushed her over onto her back on the bench they sat on.
Blaze felt like she was starting to go a little crazy with desire, she was blushing and panting lightly. "You alright Blaze?" Tails noticed that she was starting to get a little too into this for her own good, they could not go too far, not here, Jen wouldn't like a mess on her bench...
"I-I'm fine. Just a little anxious." She replied needingly. Blaze was totally open for whatever Tails had in store, ideas went through her mind, only making the way she felt a little bit less in control.
"Sorry, we can't go that far here." Tails said, slightly disappointed. Then again, he was only 15... "Perhaps we could kiss?" He asked.
Blaze did not need to be asked twice. She happily accepted Tails proposition by wrapping her arms around his head and cramming their faces together. They each made out in a pretty standard way for about a half a minute, just kissing each other deeply. Then Tails, and his infinite wisdom, brought a hand up to lightly pinch the tip of her ear. Blaze happily accepted that treatment and responded with a back rub for her fox lover. They were each enjoying each others ministrations so much they had failed to notice the door slam and a certain lynx walk right on in.
"Sheesh! You two should cool it a bit, don't ya think?" Jen's voice said. Suddenly as if it were to take place instantly, Tails and Blaze were sitting on opposite sides of the bench. Each looking the other way. Jen laughed lightly. "You two were the cutest thing, you didn't even notice me walk in here, then slam the door!"
"Why does this seemingly always happen?" Tails moaned, the moment being destroyed like that was very annoying, and frustrating. No, this moment was not just frustrating, it was embarrassing too. His face was still red and he pouted as he looked the other way, eyes full of disappointment. He really had preferred it if that moment had been able to go on for about another thirty minutes.
Another...Spellbinding...Thirty minutes...
"Maybe fate don't like you very much." Jen said, shrugging her shoulders absently. "Now, listen up, I need to tell you a story."
"Listening." Blaze and Tails droned in unison.
"...Good." Jen said, first hesitating with a blank stare of frustration. "This nation of Mobius is divided into two regions, a northern Republic and a southern Modified Communism. Nack and I are agents for the Republic, we are here to protect and serve for our area. My job is to coordinate Nack to different locations for him to do his job correctly. In return I get part of his earnings, I did not get this house for free you know. Now, Nack says Blaze is working undercover for the Modified Communist fighters. Which is a legion under the rule of Mr. Mogul." Tails jaw dropped open.
"Mammoth Mogul? How the hell did he get here?" Tails asked, that man was really scary. Perhaps he came here because he knew he would never win with Sonic around... "And what the heck is a 'Modified Communist' Communism never works out."
"I don't know how Mogul got here. It is called Modified Communism because the government monitors and owns way more stuff that you would have in a Republic like this. They own all houses, which are of poor condition. Yet people are allowed to buy and trade amongst each other all they want, but all land belongs to the government. Really, they did a good job making Communism actually work, they honestly did. But getting the Mobian population all of equal social status had some downfalls..." Jen said.
"Like what?" Tails asked, now curious.
"You see, the general Mobian population is pretty stupid, they want to be equal. Because there has to be professional jobs and simple working in the field jobs, the citizens were not happy with being under a few of there fellow citizens. So now they force children and ALL humans to toil in the fields. Children do this whenever school allows it. But the humans are starved and forced to work in the fields. They treat them worse than field animals." Jen continued.
"Where I come from, there really isn't a human population, and most of the ones that actually are there live far from us, and the one that I know all too well is a real tyrant." Tails said.
"Well this is your past world, isn't it?"
"No, different universe. AND past." Tails corrected.
"So what do we do now?" Blaze interrupted, tired of the political and history babble.
"I suggest gathering the last of your friends, and getting out of here. This isn't your fight, and I will not allow you to stay." Jen said completely serious.
"You're right, we need to leave." Tails agreed, he glanced at Blaze. She nodded in agreement.
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That chapter took way too damn long to write. WAY too damn long. I don't even have an excuse for it either. Now, uhh, don't expect fast updates, heading into winter I usually have a lot of projects going on and less time for writing FanFiction. ya know? Plus I just caught a horrid cold...
~The Guy in the Background that likes to procrastinate~