Here's chapter 72.
There was an air of awkwardness for Retsuko and Haida. Since Retsuko's father was looking at them with a serious face. They regretted not having been on the phone a little lower. They knew they must have left the house to answer the phone. The female red panda and the hyena watched as the male red panda sat on the bed. Retsuko noted that he wanted to be serious since he always sat and stared at someone to get the full attention of those who were looking at him. They were just waiting for him to blurt out the first phase of the conversation, as they both didn't know what to say and couldn't get a word out.
"I know you have a little problem on your hands. And don't worry, I won't tell anyone" said Retsuko's father making his daughter and his son-in-law relax a bit.
"Really father?" Retsuko asked.
"Yes, and I can help you with this problem that you are having right now, so you don't have to worry" replied the male red panda.
This left Retsuko and Haida very confused, what kind of help Retsuko's father could give them in a very dangerous and even difficult situation for the mobians. They didn't think he could be serious about this situation.
"I heard that you and Koka were invited on a little trip these days and you can't go because you're afraid my wife might ruin the parent-son relationship if she insists on accompanying you, or I'm wrong?" the male red panda asked.
Hearing that, the female red panda and the hyena relaxed a bit, they got flustered at all, in the end it was just what the male red panda wanted to talk to them about. At least the weight of knowing they had been found out was gone, but now they wanted to know what he had in mind on this subject. They both just nodded their heads at the question.
"Well, you'll be glad to know that if you want to go on that trip with Koka, I can help you go," Retsuko's father said.
"What can you do?" Haida asked his father in law.
"Well, if you tell me what day the trip is, I could make a reservation at a restaurant to take my wife and mother-in-law and you can leave as soon as we leave. If the trip only lasts a few hours maybe, when we return home you will already be back" said Retsuko's father.
Retsuko walked up to her father and gave him a hug in thanks. Definitely changed quite a bit compared to the time before she got married and became a mother, before he was like a male version of her mother, but now he was different. It seems that becoming a grandfather changed him quite a bit. In those moments she wondered if any of her grandfathers or grandmothers had been the same in the past before she was born.
Haida, on the other hand, though he knew that would get him out of trouble for the trip, then remembered that his own family would be there next weekend, and so would the rest of Retsuko's family. Something told him that Retsuko's father was not aware of that plan that his wife made. It would be better if he talked to him when Retsuko wasn't around, to see how he could help with this situation, because he didn't want to stress Retsuko about it, not right now. I could trust him on this specific issue.
"Well, I'll call Fenneko again to find out what day they're going to then tell you" Retsuko said as she reached for her cell phone again.
As I waited for a few seconds, the fennec finally answered the call.
"Retsuko? Did something bad happen? I didn't expect you to call so soon after the last call," Fenneko said.
"Not all it's rigth. Even things got better" Retsuko answered with a happy tone of voice that the fennec fox knew very well so the worries of something bad happening were gone.
"So what's the good news?"
"Well, my father heard the previous call and said that he could take care of my mother, but we need to know when the trip to the beach is. Since he could take my mother and grandmother to eat at a restaurant and thus give us the opportunity to go with all of you."
"We had agreed to go at 10:00 in the morning next Saturday. We would meet at Director Gori's apartment."
After that, Fenneko could hear Retsuko on the other end of the phone telling her father the day and time. After not hearing anything for a few seconds she finally heard her friend's response.
"Then it's all settled. I'll call Director Gori to let her know you can go. I can already imagine how she will be when she finds out".
"I can imagine it too." Retsuko said remembering the occasions where Gori gets quite emotional and how peculiar she gets in those situations.
Once they finished their second call, they both closed the call. Now that that part was done, they could break the news to Koka, but it would be better to do it at the time he was already going to sleep, since it is usually Haida and Retsuko who put him to bed. There they would give him the news that they would go to the beach next weekend where he could meet Hana outside of the regular days where his grandmother takes care of her there at home and reunite with his new friends. So it would be a fun day for all of them. And it would be in a place where no one would bother them. Although they wondered what kind of place it would be and where it would be located.
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Gori was on the phone with Washimi at the time. She was telling her that Fenneko had just told her on the phone. About how Retsuko, Haida and Koka could always attend the trip. Washimi, through the video call, could be that she was happy or at least that was what she was showing at that moment, since it was practically difficult to notice for those who did not know her. Only Gori, who had known her longer, knew the difference between her expressions despite what monotonous as her face might be to the naked eye. And yes, Gori could confirm that Washimi was happy at the time.
While both friends were talking, Speed, Flora, Alex, Locke II, Pachacamac II, Rutan, Silver and Jewel were in the room. They were watching Hana's favorite show on TV, before they left Tokyo Summer Land, she had told them about her favorite show and what time it was on TV. So they decided to see it to see how it was. It wasn't bad, it had its interesting things. Although there were certain exaggerated things, although perhaps because what they did in the program they haven't experienced things like what they have gone through, although it is understandable, since these types of situations don't usually occur on this planet, unlike Mobius. By the standards of what life is like on this planet, the show was accepted in their view. Because even the backstories of the characters were interesting. Although taking into account that it was made for children and teenage, they already saw why Hana liked that program. Supposedly according to her, her friends Koka, Izumi and Daisuke also liked that program.
Once they finished watching the show they agreed that it was entertaining. As long as they were in that dimension and didn't have to fight Eggman and his robots they could watch that show. At the end of the day they had plenty of free time with respect to what they could think about. It didn't seem like Eggman was going to show up for now and even more considering the pathetic attack of his robots. If Eggman had planned that, the distraction would have been very different. But at least these quiet times could behave their age and have their moments of fun. They wondered what it would be like if these moments of peace and quiet lasted 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 12 months a year.
Secondly; Sonic, Amy, Tails, Cosmo, Knuckles, Tikal, Shadow and Rouge were gathered in the kitchen. They were talking to the chief of the agency that Jack, Honey, Hugo and Morris worked for. Although she had already received some information from the striped rabbit, she wanted the mobians to tell their part of what they witnessed earlier that day. It was almost similar to what he heard before, but what caught her attention was the device that Tails mentioned that was able to make the presence of the robots unnoticed while staying outside of Eggman's new base.
"That kind of device, Eggman had already used in many of his previous plans. Although what he doesn't know is that we do know where his Eggmobile appears, since the detection radar of the master emeralds is used to detect his ship, and even does so when he enters the perimeter of a large city, but like us we didn't have it on hand during the time we were in Tokyo Summer Land we didn't realize his robots were in the city at first" said Tails.
"And have you ever tried to locate his base with that radar?" asked the chief of the agency.
"Yes, we have tried, but due to how far away his base must be, the radar has not been able to detect it, even when Jack took us to the agency to meet you, which was before Eggman's original base was destroyed, we were also unable to locate it, it only has a specific range where it can locate the ship, as I mentioned before it is large enough to know when it enters the perimeter of a city, but since we don't have a reference point on where Eggman has his base we cannot use the radar to detect his ship inside."
"And you haven't tried to search for his base with radar?"
"That crossed our minds. But there is a problem, we only have this single radar. We can't afford to use it to search for Eggman's base, because if we lose it, we'll also lose our only way to locate the missing Chaos Emeralds. Although I could make a new one, but I need the right materials to build a similar one that works just like the one we already have."
"Are they difficult to get?"
"No, but the problem is that we don't have the money to get them and we can't go out and buy them without attracting anyone's attention."
"Well, if that's the case, I can talk to Agent Savage about helping you get some of the things you need."
"It won't be too much trouble for you and him."
"Not for the agency."
"And for me neither" said a voice when Jack suddenly appeared on the screen speaking from his own communicator.
The striped rabbit had had a hunch that his boss would be talking to the mobians at that moment. And for some reason he knew that he must know what they were talking about, which is why when he located the communication channel he connected to the call, but without showing any indication that he listened to everything unless necessary. That was practically how he discovered the plans of all the criminals that he had to catch in the past.
"It's good that Agent Savage has joined us" said the boss not very surprised, since she was aware that Jack did things like that on his missions, and perhaps he considered this as part of it. "I guess he is already aware of what we were talking about."
"Yes, ma'am. And I promise to help the mobians in this. I just need you to send me the list of what you need me to look for and tomorrow morning I will get everything" said Jack.
Seeing that he could do them a favor, Tails began to mention what he needed while Jack wrote everything down on a piece of paper. It was several things, but it was nothing he couldn't get.
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Meanwhile in another room of the agency. Skye was looking at the master emerald, the agents who were guarding the great jewel were with her. There were still many questions in her head about this jewel, one of which was how she could keep an entire island populated mostly by echidnas floating in the air. As those questions flew through her head, she began to notice something in the jewel, suddenly the silhouettes of various people in the jewel were beginning to appear. She knew that this is something that the mobians had to do, so she decided to tell her boss about it.
So far the chapter. I hope you liked it.
