I bet you all thought I had died or something with how long it took to update last time. Well, sorry about that, motivation is an issue. Not that I plan on abandoning this thing ever, but that sometimes there are other things I'd rather do.

OH! I got an idea for a new story, and this one might be good! I know! When do I come up with good ideas?

Alright, after the author's note and teaser, time for this story to start again! How 'bout a quote? From the book I am reading. "Man is the only creature that consumes without producing." Old Major, from the book Animal Farm by something Orwell. I forget his name. But that had better make you think, and I know it does. Doesn't it?

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Tails grabbed Blaze's hand. She looked at him curiously in response. "Well?" Tails said, noticing her curious glance.

"Oh, right! The Sol emerald." Blaze said suddenly, understanding the meaning of Tails' actions. She withdrew the Sol emerald that started this entire adventure in the first place. She glanced over at Tails, who looked prepared. He was looking towards Jenny, about to talk to her.

"Alright Jen, seeya in a little bit. Blaze and I are gonna go grab her folks." Tails said cleanly, like this was an everyday sort of thing. Soon after his eyes shut and he went into his imagination. Blaze did the same, as if by instinct. Their inner minds mingled together and Blaze provided the backdrop for Chaos control. It seemed to be a dusty western style town, the scene they saw consisted of a tall wooden building right in front of them.

"Alright..." Jen said sort of out of it. She hadn't a clue what they were doing, all she knew was that the terrific flash that soon followed was pretty amazing. Especially being followed by them being here no more.

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In Tails/Blaze's imagination.

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"Ready Blaze?" Tails asked. She nodded and a panoramic scene materialized before their eyes. The southern headquarters, or just outside it. The wooden building appeared well kept yet still maintained a wild west look. In a blink they were actually there.

"Alright, lets get your parents and Marine together so we can get out of here before things get any more complicated." Tails said, he seemed in a slight hurry.

"But that's the thing." Blaze began as she lead the way toward the front door of the building. "Marine and my father split from my mother. She is out looking for you, and Marine and Dad went looking for me. They managed to find me. While my mother went the other way." Blaze continued. Both her and Tails were now at the front door of the large wooden building.

"Oh great, why do these things always gotta be so darn complicated?" Tails asked, not expecting an answer. Blaze knocked a few times on the door.

"Because." Blaze replied. Well, that really wasn't an answer, so that doesn't count. The door opened, revealing the face of Stephanie. Who had on a brown western style hat and a brown jacket.

"Hey Blaze, who's yer friend 'ere?" She asked.

"The name is Miles Prower, pleasure to meet you." Tails responded for Blaze, he took Stephanie's hand and shook it politely. He was personally neutral, as well as his entire group. He knew very well that these were the bad guys for Jen's side but did not feel like making a fight over it. But then there was the fact that she looked just like Bunnie, but knew that could not be possible... Could it?

"Mah name's Stephanie Rabbot. Likewise." She said warmly. Tails tried his best not to act surprised. Rabbot... That is Bunnie's last name as well. Another big surprise. At this point the character similarities were too uncanny to believe they were in another dimension. This was simply another zone... And this was simply this zone's Bunnie.

Stephanie motioned for Tails to step past her into the house. Blaze gave her a look that said 'Back off' as she walked in behind him, Stephanie just smiled sinisterly at that. "Ah ain't that wild Blaze. Ah know my boundaries. Besides, he's to young fo' me."

"He better be." Blaze growled with a frown.

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With Jen and Nack

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"Hey Jenny!" Nack announced, walking into the large shed/barn/house that was off to the side of the main house. He scanned the area fast. Before Jen could respond, Nack's eyes found her going over the nuts and bolts on the small plane that sat in the barn/house/shed. She was making sure that they were all tight and had a locking spring washer behind every one. To prevent them from backing out when the engine started.

"Yes?" Jenny responded with a lethargic tone. She was using most of her concentration making sure all the parts on the plane were in working order.

"Where are Tails and Blaze?" Nack asked curiously.

"They went to get their buddies, should be back soon though." Jen replied. Nack nodded in response. PANG!

"OW! Goddamnit!" Jen shouted while letting the wrench she was holding drop to the ground. She held out her now bleeding hand. Nack was quickly at her side with a concerned look on his face."I'm fine, stupid wrench slipped off the nut and wedged my hand in between the frame and itself." She put a bandage over the cut that was across the side of her index finger, no real harm done.

A few seconds went by before Jen spoke again. "Do you think this silly contraption'll fly?" She asked, looking at the bandage and hoping that it would not let the blood soak through.

Nack looked at it for a second. "Ya." Silence for a moment. "Tails helped you build it? Right? It'll fly. I really should tell ya how I know the fox in the first place shouldn't I?"

Jen got a very nosy curious look on her face. "I would love that!" She announced exuberantly.

"Alright alright, simmer down. Lets just say I am from the same place he is. From Mobius Prime. Now, I dunno much about the entire idea of zones and how they work, but technically speakin' this is Mobius, but in a different zone, at a different time than the one that Tails and I came from. Every unit of time creates a new zone, because every unit of time is a zone in itself. There are infinite versions of this place, at an infinite number of different times. I came from one of them, the chances I ended up here was one in a million." Nack explained. "Ask Tails 'bout the zones. He can explain it in a more complete detail than I could."

"And what about our buddy Mogul?" Jen asked.

"Hahmmm, not much I can tell ya other than he came from the same place I did. I happened to be too close to the guy when somethin' happened with his Chaos Emerald and we both wound up here. I went my ways and he went his. He took advantage of there apparently being no Sonic the Hedgehog here and is in the process of controllin' the entire planet like he enjoys doing." Nack sighed out.

"Ya wanna go fly it?" Jen asked after a pause. Nack shook his head.

"Nah, you better wait for Tails, I dunno how to start such a primitive machine and you don't have any flying experience. Or the knowledge to start it." Nack said sternly.

"B-but, I can start it!" Jen said, displeased. She walked over to the front of the aircraft. "Tails said that all you had to do was flip the prop..."

Jen moved the prop till it was just against the compression, then pulled over as hard as she could. The prop moved a little, then her hands slipped and the prop bounced off the compression stroke of the engine. All in all, she fell on her backside.

"Just wait for Tails."

"Ok."

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"So that's it then? Ya'll just gonna up and leave?" Stephanie said, she sounded slightly displeased, thinking that they were gonna be help. She eyed the group of Tails, Blaze, Marine, and Evan (Blaze's father) with suspicion.

The first thing that happened when Tails and Blaze arrived at the door of the large wood building was a greeting from Stephanie. Then the duo earned an over-eager hug from Marine, who had missed them dearly. Marine had said she was absolutely worried sick. Evan gave Blaze a fatherly hug and Tails a firm handshake. He said it was a pleasure to meet him. Tails eyed Blaze curiously in response to that, she had given the message that he was gonna be a total dick. He seemed like a nice enough guy.

"Sorry Steph, but this zone could get unstable with us in it. We are from this same dimension, this is just another zone at another time. Which means we gotta haul arse outta here before the zone cops stop by." Tails explained.

"Zone cops? Now yer makin' that up." Stephanie said, with her arms folded.

"You may not have come to realize their existence, but you hop on the interdimensional high-way you start to learn things." Tails continued.

"Are you serious about this Tails?" Blaze asked, slightly doubtful. That was the least believable excuse she had heard yet. She placed a hand on his shoulder while looking into his eyes to try to see the honesty of his statement.

"I'm afraid he isn't joking." Evan commented. His black furred face had a completely serious look on it. "Getting in trouble with the zone cops is no fun. Think about a police force, that can appear anywhere, at any time, given that they have your exact location. While they can be klutzy and inefficient, they can get very troublesome, and annoying."

"You speak from experience?" Tails asked.

"I speak from another man's experience." Evan responded smoothly. "Why make my own mistakes when I can observe others."

"Who's experience do you speak from?" Tails pressed.

"None of your business." Evan responded, completely dismissing his question. "Sorry Stephanie, we mustn't hang around here now that our way out is back. It is time for us to leave." He said, standing up.

"He is right, we have to go now, sorry we could not help." Blaze said, making eye-contact with Stephanie.

Tails glanced at Blaze, who tossed him the Sol emerald that they had. Evan's eyes shot open as he saw the valuable item be tossed through the air like a plaything. When Tails caught the thing, he held it up and everyone but Stephanie disappeared in a flash of green light.

"Aww, Evan didn't even give me a hug goodbye..." She mumbled, her long rabbit ears slumped down. She got up and walked into her kitchen to prepare a small snack for herself.

"Had all this really happened?" she questioned in her mind, it seemed so surreal. "Ahh well, at least I don't have to feed those guys anymore."

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All stood still in Jen's workshop, nothing moved. Well, nothing but Jen, Nack, and Jen's wrench as she continued to go over her craft as thoroughly as she could. Making sure there was no loose parts. Nack was watching over her shoulder, to see exactly what she was doing.

"So, uhh, Jen. How does this thing work anyway? How does it fly, there are no thrusters on the bottom..." Nack questioned. A picture of his old speeder-bike appeared in his head, he had known how that worked. It used thrusters on the bottom for lift, and a thruster on the back for forward speed. And the bike used its own ground effect to stay stable, similar to an extreme-gear.

"Well." Jen started, lifting her wrench and pointing at the front of the craft. "That airscrew on the front there, it pushes the air back behind itself when it spins. This creates forward thrust for the machine. Now, while it is moving forward, the wing will move through the air." She returned attention back to making sure the mounts for the seat were tightened down. But kept on explaining. "If you take a look at the wing, you will notice the curved top and flat bottom. According to Tails... The air up top will speed up because of the curve, causing the pressure to drop. Then the higher pressure air underneath the wing will push it up. Also the control surface in the back can adjust the angle of attack for the main wing. Adjusting this can increase lift by upping the displacement of air downward. This acts on a different principle that the pressure differential effect."

"Ummm, alright. So it flies, nice..." Nack said, kinda confused by what Jen had said. It hadn't really made sense actually.

"Plane goes forward, plane goes up. How's that?" Jen re-worded.

"Ahh, I see." Nack smiled, proud of himself for understanding. Jen just sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose.

FWASH! A brilliant green flash of light filled the barn, accompanying it was the aforementioned onomatopoeia. When the light died away there stood Tails, Blaze, Marine, and Blaze's father.

"Hey Jen, we're back." Tails said happily.

"Hey Tails, when can we fly this thing?" Jen said, trying to get to the point. "Uhh, who're your friends?"

"Ahh, this is Marine, who is Blaze's most bestest buddy from her dimension/universe/zone. I gave up on trying to figure it out." Tails said, he placed on hand on Marine's should while gesturing in her direction with the other. He had to bend down slightly since she was a little shorter than him. Then he turned his attention to Evan, Blaze's father, he did the same kind of gesture but they were of equal height. "And this is Evan, Blaze's father."

"That's Mr. the Cat to you though." Evan interrupted.

"Of course it is." Tails mumbled quickly under his breath.

"Alright, now about the plane you helped me build?" Jen said, her voice lifted with hope.

"Well, actually... Blaze, Marine, Blaze's father, and I have to get going, like as soon as possible. I completely forgot about the Zone Cops... We stay here long enough and they find us here, that could be bad..."

"Wait, what about my wife, we can't leave her here..." Evan said, slightly worried.

Tails sighed. "Well, I can't stay here. If I do I will be arrested. And if I get caught helping you, you will be arrested too. I-I could leave you here, and come back later to pick you up. But you must hurry, if you spend too long in this zone you will be marked down as this being your home zone. Right now you do not belong anywhere, you added to the matter in our universe. So the Zone Cops have not set a place where you need to be."

"That'll work..." Evan sighed, he was deep in thought. He thought about where Blaze would go. Heck, even where Marine would go. He was already quite certain of sending Marine with Tails, but what of Blaze?

"Alright... Well, I am going to have to hold onto the Sol emerald. That is my only ride home." Tails said. Then he turned to Blaze, who immediately returned eye-contact. Tails stepped forward and embraced her in a warm hug. "As much as I will miss you, and as much as you hate me taking your Sol emerald with me. I think you need to stay here, and help find your mother."

"I-uhh... Okay, I will. I am going to miss you too Tails; just when we find each other again we have to be separated once more? Its not fair." Blaze said sadly, she rested her head on Tails' shoulder.

"I know..." Tails said slowly, patting her back and returning her affectionate gesture. "But look at it this way. We will be really happy to see each other when this is all over. Its like when you are gonna go out for dinner at your favorite restaurant so you don't eat lunch so you'll be extra hungry when you get there." Tails said, trying to see the silver lining of it all.

Blaze lifted her head from his shoulder. "When you put it that way, seeya." She said, separating and sauntering over to Marine. Tails smirked in response.

"Marine?" Blaze poked.

"Aye mate!" She responded happily.

"You should go with Tails, it is a little dangerous here and you would be safer back where he lives." Blaze explained sympathetically.

Marine's happy face turned around, she responded to Blaze's reasoning with a less motivated "Aye mate...".

In the mean time. Evan, Blaze's father, was thinking closely about how disappointment it must be for Blaze to be pulled from Tails so soon. Though he had not known Tails particularly well, he must be an excellent young man if Blaze would do something as intimate as that with. Friends don't gingerly rest their heads on each other's shoulders. Hmm... whatever happened to that Silver fellow? Evan pondered these questions for a short time before something broke him from his brainstorming.

"I must say my goodbyes now. It is time for me to leave." Tails said.

"I'll miss ya Tails!" Jen said, she ran up and wrapped her arms around him for a hug. Tails yelped and stumbled back slightly.

He sweat-dropped. "He-he, I'll miss you too Jen. But! I will see you in a month, so don't worry too much." Tails reassured. He gave her a pat on the back for good measure.

"B-before you go..." Jen said slowly, then quickly kissed him on the cheek. "That is for being such a nice guy."

Tails smiled back at her. His thoughts turned to Blaze, and how he hoped she had not taken that the wrong way. Just to have a little fun, he decided to guess her reaction. A vision of Blaze smirking came into his thoughts. To see if his suspicions where confirmed, he glanced toward the aforementioned lavender feline. Who had a cocky smirk on her face.

"Well, heh. Goodbye everybody. Come with me Marine." Tails said. Soon after pulling the Sol emerald from his person.

"Wait, Tails. If a friend gets to kiss you goodbye. Then I do as well." Blaze said. Tails ears perked and his attention turned to Blaze, who by now was right in front of him.

"Well of cou-" Tails was cut off. Blaze wrapped her arms tightly around Tails and gave him a passionate kiss. Right on the lips of course!

Tails was immediately caught off guard, he had not known Blaze to really be a very spontaneous person. But this proved him wrong. Now, about the kiss. Tails had really enjoyed the fact that he was kissing Blaze, a person he really cared for deeply. But that really was not what Tails was enjoying the most. He was much more into the hug itself, with Blaze gently rubbing his back as they made out. Completely forgetting the other people in the room. The twin-tailed fox decided to return the gentle back massage that came along with their hug.

"Ahem, father, right here." Evan said, he choked his words out slightly. It was such a sweet thing to see those two like that... But not anything more!

Hearing Blaze's father speak up led to the immediate separation of the two. They were each embarrassed that they would do that in front of their friends, and Blaze's father...

"Alroight! Lets go Tails." Marine said, she waved everybody goodbye and gave Blaze a hug.

"Yes, its time for us to leave. I will see you all in a month!" Tails winked. He clutched he Sol emerald in hand and held it up. Then over-zealously shouted, "CHAOS-"

But wait! Right as Tails started to announce the two famous words. Evan and his brainstorming came to an end. I an instant, I mean, faster than lightning itself, he gave Blaze a gentle shove toward Tails. Tails took notice and made eye-contact with Evan, who gave Tails a wink. Tails eyes said a thank-you all by themselves. All of this happened in between the "A" and the "O" in chaos.

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Yes, I know, it takes forever for me to update, so long in fact that probably many of you have started reading the story, then lost track of what was happening because of the long updates. Sorry, what can I say? I am a man of many interests.

WAIT WAIT WAIT! IMPORTANT AUTHORS NOTE!

I know what your saying, "What the hell was that train for?" "Where the hell is Shirley, Evan's wife and Blaze's mother?" "Did that silly thing Tails built fly?"

WELL...That is for another side arc I do believe. For those that actually care about it, that will be the next arc in this story. Though the real next arc to what Tails is doing goes in another story, cause the category changes a little.

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