Sonic was astounded by the sight of an object that should have been long gone. "I better not stop and question it, I gotta speed!" he took off, leaving Knuckles behind.

"SONIC!" Knuckles shouted after him. But he didn't stop running.

"Sorry Knuckles, someone may be in a bit of trouble." Sonic ran faster and faster until his feet were blurs of motion. "Alright whatever you are, here I come!" he soon came upon Eggman's new base

Eggman was outside his main base in the grassy hills he'd built it near. "Nothing better than to relax before initiating the rest of my plan." Sonic sped by and knocked Eggman into the ground, he raged at the blue hedgehog that was long gone before he even started talking.

"Hah. Sorry doc, but i'm in a hurry so i've got no time to play around." Sonic passed many places he'd been to before, Angel Island in the distance, Eggman's wrecked Sky Fortress, and even his and Tails' old home from when they didn't have anywhere else to live.

After a lot of running in one direction Sonic came across the object that had fallen, and he could only say one thing. "No way!"

Green Hill

"This is nice. Just relaxing in the sun." Tails stated as Cosmo ate the rest of her food.

"I guess I was right, but I still don't see the point in bringing the Chaos Emerald." Cosmo stated as she finished the last of her food.

"As I said before, we may need it in some way." he said with a simple shrug. Cosmo shrugged as well.

"You wanna go anywhere else?" Tails' question made Cosmo think hard. Hm...actually, I really don't have the slightest idea of where we are now, what I got as a look of Sonic's world wasn't that long. Tails interrupted her thoughts. "How about we go home. It's getting hotter out since it's summer."

"So? I like being outside in the sun. Remember?"

"Yeah I know, but i'm a fox not a seedrian. We have fur so it makes it a lot hotter until we lose our winter coats, or something like that...i'm not entirely sure how it works with Mobian Foxes but that's how it works with normal ones on Earth."

"Ok let's go then." Cosmo and Tails began to walk back to his house, since they hadn't taken the Tornado it would take much longer, but they both liked to be athletic in some ways.

They walked for quite a bit until Tails began to pant from the heat. He spotted another path and immediatly ran to it since it had shade where it was cooler. His panting stopped and Cosmo walked into the shade with him. "Let me guess, too hot right?"

"Yeah, good thing there's always one way to fix this. But first let's get back to the house." after walking in the shade the rest of the way, they finally made it back to Tails' house where Sonic was standing at the door waiting for them. "What is it Sonic?" Tails said while running under a small patch of shade near the door.

"I found a-nevermind what it is Tails you need to get inside. In case you haven't noticed we're having a heatwave. All that fur is going to be bad in this."

"Well I think Cosmo noticed that before me." he replied while opening the door and walking inside where it was much cooler.

"Wait a second. Tails, I may not know much about animals but aren't foxes warm-blooded?"

Tails nodded, "Yeah. But the heat makes it uncomfortable beyond belief when it gets too hot. Plus, too much heat isn't a good thing for animals." he replied while referring to a roasted chicken on the last part.

Cosmo followed Tails into the house and Sonic sped off, forgetting to tell them about what it was he'd found.

"I'll be upstairs Cosmo, see you in a bit." she nodded and Tails went upstairs to fix his problem with the heat.

Fifteen minutes later

Tails walked down the stairs and arrived in front of Cosmo. "Can you tell any difference?" he asked. Cosmo tilted her head back and forth, trying to figure out what Tails had done to himself. The fox looked exactly as he did when he went upstairs.

"Um...not really."

"Heh, well it was pretty simple. I lost my winter coat that normal foxes shed. Unfortunately I don't naturally since my extra tail kinda messed that part of me up."

"Doesn't that bother you at all?"

"Not one bit." he replied. Cosmo giggled and made Tails confused, "What's so funny?" he asked her.

"I don't know, but you're such a silly fox sometimes." she walked upstairs seconds later and the fox sat on his couch.

"I sure am lucky to have someone like her for a friend." he told himself, "But I still don't know what Metal Sonic was freaking out about, I guess I may never know..."

An unfamiliar voice from behind said the words, "But you do Tails. You saw me not so long ago." Tails turned and saw nobody.

"I don't recognize your voice."

"What about this morning, hm? In your strange dream?" Tails immediately knew who had to be talking to him.

"Alright I asked you and you gave no answer! Who are you!?" he shouted at the voice.

"Why don't you ask your human friend? He knows who I am..." with that the voice went silent, leaving Tails overwhelmed with thoughts. Which human? I know so many! he thought. He thought and thought until he came back to a conclusion.

"Hey Cosmo! Could you come down here for a sec?"

"Just a minute!" she called back. When she stepped down the stairs it appeared as if she had something behind her back, but Tails shook it off.

"What is it Tails?"

"We're gonna have to go somewhere to get an answer."

"Where are we going?"

Tails replied to her with as much confidence as he could. "We're going inter dimensional."