Tails yawned as rays of sunshine crept over his face. He sat upright and his eyes adjusted to the light. "Well, what's gonna happen today?" He asked himself while swinging his feet over the side of the bed. Upon opening the door he found Cosmo leaving her room exactly at the same time.
"Good morning Tails." She said with a warm smile.
"Anything planned for toda-" He began to ask, but before he could a small black robot flew in through the window. "What Bokkun?"
"Eh, some guy's got a message for you. It's not Eggman but somehow he convinced me to do this for him." The robotic messenger pulled out a piece of paper and handed it to the fox.
"No exploding TV?"
"We ran out of 'em." With that he flew off through an open window. Tails folded the piece of paper and put it in his tails.
"I'll read it later. Now as I was saying, do you have anything planned for today?" Cosmo shook her head.
"I'm free for anything."
"Well, you think you could help me finish the replacement X Tornado?" He asked, she nodded happily.
"I'd love to help you Tails! After all, you've helped me quite a lot in the past." He shrugged as Cosmo said that, then walked downstairs with her.
"First though. We should eat something." Tails made them toast began to eat with Cosmo.
"You think we'll ever see Shadow again?" Tails looked up from his food and tilted his head at the question.
"Why would you ask that? It's pretty likely since he survived a fall to earth." Tails explained as she shrugged.
"I'm done. Should I just go wait for you in the workshop?"
"No need to Cosmo. I just finished." Tails replied, seconds later they began to laugh happily about the lack of wait time. "Okay, let's go." Tails and Cosmo once more headed into the Workshop, this time to a half completed X Tornado in front of the Blue Typhoon. "Cosmo. Do you think you could handle putting in the emerald adapter?"
"I'll try Tails." With that Tails and Cosmo worked together to finish the plane. Hours went by until at long last they finished.
"Thanks a lot Cosmo!" Tails hugged her, to which she gladly returned. Although it didn't mean neither of them blushed from being shy, but, they didn't take notice this time.
"Tails. You're blushing." Cosmo said as she finally noticed.
"Well, so are you!" He shot back in a friendly manner. Tails began to laugh and she joined him soon after. "Ah...You're very helpful you know." After minutes of just talking, the fox and seedrian went back upstairs into the main house.
"You want to read that note Tails?" Tails retrieved the note and unfolded it, reading the words aloud.
Dear Tails and Cosmo,
Bet you weren't expecting to hear from me but, i've got something in my world that I want you and your friends to be here for.
~Mark
"Something he wants us all there for?" Cosmo shrugged with a confused expression on her face. After gathering Sonic, Knuckles, and Amy, Tails explained what was happening in detail, even that Bokkun had delivered the message instead of Mark himself.
"I don't think i've heard that name before. But why does it sound familiar?" Sonic scratched his head for answers.
"Same here!" Amy and Knuckles stated at the same time.
"Well, let's get going then. Everyone to the X Tornado!" They all loaded themselves into the jet and took off with Sonic riding, as usual, on the outside of the cockpits.
"Alright Sonic, you may wanna hang on to something. Because we're going trans-dimensional!" Tails shot a purple ring out of the area where, normally, a ring for Sonic would be shot. The ring created a portal and they flew through without hesitation.
Mark's world
The X Tornado landed near the same area Mark had been seen on their last visit. "So where is this thing he wants us here for?" Sonic was about to start running when a series of colorful lights filled the red sky.
"He wanted us here for fireworks?" Cosmo said, a tad bit annoyed with Mark's urgency and making them think he needed help.
"Sorry if you thought there was trouble. But we were celebrating an Earth holiday that we wanted to have you partake in." Mark said while stepping up onto the plane and crouching to Sonic's eye level.
"And just what is that?"
"The fourth of July. Also known as Independence day." He shot off a firework from a nearby setup.
"Well, if you want us here let's get started!" Sonic ran into a nearby open area filled to the edges with fireworks. He began to ignite them and eventually after enough had god off, they made an outline of his face.
"Oh yeah. I forgot to mention our fireworks have abilities that let them make shapes any other fireworks can't." Mark gave an explanation for the colorful outline.
"Come on Tails!" He and Cosmo ran forwards and ignited many until they formed the shape of two fox tails and a flower.
"Wow..." Tails said in awe. Never before had a firework outline been so accurate.
"Let's launch these fireworks until the end!"
Two hours later
"Cosmo. Go ahead and light the last one." Tails told the girl next to the last remaining firework
"No Tails you do it." She insisted
"Or, we could do it together." They both agreed on that idea and lit it at the same time as one another. The firework flew higher and higher until it split to create full body outlines of Tails, Sonic, Cosmo, Amy, and Knuckles.
But soon after Tails began to yawn from sleepiness. As a result, everyone began to fall asleep. Tails and Cosmo fell asleep cuddling each other until tomorrow came.
"I guess i'll send them back..." Mark put them all into a seat of the X Tornado, with the exception of Tails and Cosmo who were in the same seat.
"Chaos control." he used the power of the Chaos Emerald in the plane to teleport them back after a long night.
Honestly, why wouldn't I do an Independence Day special? Even if it is bad.
