Hey guys, this is kobiee, Domi's best friend and I'm typing up this next to her because the idiot got herself a concussion. I'm rather sick of running to the doctor whenever something like this happens, and now she won't be able to answer your reviews because she's been temporarily blinded. She told me to take care of them, and she's not telling me to tell you not to be alarmed if you get the response message from a complete weirdo, because it's going to be me. Capishe? Don't worry, I don't bite… often.

Her work, not mine.

It's a Technician Thing

Something Missing

"No…" he cried, watching as Wave rubbed at her elbow nervously, "Why the hell didn't you tell me?"

"I didn't want to upset you…" she murmured timidly, eyes darting away from his own as she tried to make her way to the door. The sun was going to rise soon. a feint line of orange blurring the lines of the horizon.

"I'm not exactly happy now am I?" he growled crossing his arms over his chest. Wave pushed back her fringe and tied on her bandanna, stepping out the door, "Wave! Listen to me!"

"I am listening to you! For the love of God, I didn't think you were going to act like this," she sighed in irritation, fists clenching.

"Act like-WHAT? Immature? Childish?" he screeched, eyes going wide with rage and hatred, "You're the one who told me that you're leaving today!"

"You know me," she shrugged, lying through her teeth, "procrastinator. And yes, you are acting childish," she growled, grabbing her gear by the door and storming out of his workshop. It was right before sunrise and she needed to get to the zeppelin.

"You're a liar! I'm the procrastinator, and I can't believe you would do this to me! Wait a sec-What do you expect? I'm only twelve!" the fox slipped the closest jacket he could find on, which happened to be a red chequered flannel over a worn band t-shirt and rugged black jeans. It was the fastest thing he could pull on at this moment.

"Yeah… I forget sometimes," she muttered, forgetting that Tails had really good hearing.

"Is that supposed to mean something? Hey! I'm not done ranting!"

They were already halfway to where the zeppelin was parked and Tails was still yelling at her. He was furious; maybe she should have said the information sooner. Wow, that must have been the understatement of the century.

"I timed it! Since you're going back to school in three days, you're going to be too busy to annoy me," she explained, pleading for him to understand.

"Annoy? Is that what I do to you?" he snarled.

"At the moment; YES!"

They landed near the entrance to the zeppelin where the rest of Team Heroes, Amy and Cream were waiting for them to depart. This only infuriated him more, "Oh awesome! Tell everyone else but me!"

She threw down her gear, surprising everybody, "God dammit Tails! Listen to me!"

He narrowed his bright blue eyes, arms stilled crossed over his chest, hair and clothes still rumpled from being waken at three o'clock. The people around them silenced to allow the both of them some concentration.

"Do you know how long the Babylon Rogues normally stay in one place?" she asked, voice very quiet and calm, the very opposite of him in that moment.

Tails thought over it for some time… answering hesitantly, "You… you've been here for seven months…"

"A week. We normally stay in one place for a week."

"What has that got to do with-?"

"The reason that we've stayed here for so long is because I made up some bullshit reasons to stay here," she pleaded, placing a hand on his shoulder and leaning down, "with you."

He growled, swatting her hand back, "I-I didn't ask you to!"

"Well then it's alright for me to leave then?" she asked playfully.

"NO!" it sounded more like a choked sob than anything else,"I… I don't want you to go!" her heart sunk. He was crying.

"Tails…" she whined, her voice getting softer, "Jet made me promise at the end of the first month that if I got six months here, the moment we got a huge promotional chance; we were leaving. C'mon, I'll be back by the time the school year's out."

"But… Chu Nan is on the other side of Mobius," he murmured, wiping the tears from his eyes.

"But it's paying the most cash for our appearance, and they've developed some amazing technology for trick development! I'll send you some! And post cards! And we'll web chat whenever we can, okay?" she had a feeling that her sales pitch just wasn't working.

"It's not going to be the same…" he mumbled, another tear sliding down his cheek.

In the background she could heart Sonic talking, saying something along the lines of, 'Gods… Tails hasn't cried like that since Cosmo died.'

Oh shit.

It hurt her; it really did, seeing her best friend like this. She could feel the tears welling up in her own eyes, she didn't want to be away either, but Tails was only twelve and he might have been ahead grades by two years-just like she was-but he still had the emotional capacity of a child, and she had a job to do, she couldn't just drop it like that.

"Just four more months Tails," she assured, bringing him down for a hug.

He pushed her away, eyebrows crinkling together as he brought the collar off his flannel to his eyes, his hands obviously weren't working in the drying department, "Go away, I hate you."

Wave paused a second, honest hurt in her eyes as she watched Tails pout and turn away, giving up on wiping his tears away and simply hiding under his bangs.

"Just give up, Wave." Jet grumbled, waving her over.

"I'll miss you," she whispered, just loud enough for only Tails to hear. His head snapped up from staring at the ground, wide blue eyes watching in horror as she curled her fingers in a small wave and turned around, following Jet into the zeppelin.

Her heart clenched, she didn't want to leave their relationship like this.

And then…

She felt a hand on her wrist.

Yanking her around.

A hand around her neck.

Lips on her own.

"Me too."

He let her go and waved her goodbye, wiping the tears away with his wrists, "I'll be waiting for you when you come back."

So the injured hospital patient's being impatient, wanting me to notify her reviewers that her question to win the artwork she's willing to draw is;

Pretend you are a Sonic character that hasn't appeared in It's a Technician Thing and they are encountering either Tails Doll 2 or Tails!Chocolate-Frenzy-Style for the first time. How do they react?

NOTE: you can choose a character that's only had one cameo (ie. Nicole, Bean, Bark, ect.) but we'd prefer those that weren't (eg. Silver, Blaze, Espio, Fiona?(that's actually me and my sick desire for conflict), Cream, Bunnie, Manic, ect.)

And about Wave leavin'? The Babylon Rogue's are nomads, it totally makes sense.

Good luck, have fun, and Domi might not get back to you guys in a while… I'd give it like, three days.