-Begin Chapter Four-
Crash Landing!
Tails looked around at the control panels in front of him. Everything seemed to be working properly. "Hey, Cream, everything alright back there?"
"Yes, Tails. How long do we have to search for my mom?"
"A day or two, but not much longer."
Cream sighed, that'd have to do. They continued their flight for a few more hours, Cream stared at the ground passing below them.
Suddenly, a small blip on one of the screens caught Tails's attention.
"What was that?"
"What was what, Tails?"
"It was nothing..." Tails just stared at the screen, the blip had disappeared, and there was no trace of an abnormal reading in the five minute play-back sensor. Tails thought he had been just imagining things, besides, why would there be something wrong with that system?
Their flight continued without a hitch for a few more minutes, then the throttle for the place started to stick in his hands. "What in the world?"
"What's wrong, Tails?"
"The throttle is sticking in my hands. It won't respond!"
"Oh my..."
The forest below them got closer to their field of view. Tails's eyes widened as he pulled back hard on the throttle, barely managing to pull out of the deep dive.
"Phew, that was a close one, Tails."
"Yeah." Tails glanced down at the instruments, a feed-back panels, nothing appeared to be wrong with the systems.
The two warily continued the flight for a few more minutes, a little more cautious, but they thought that was a one time event.
Suddenly all the feed-back machines started to go hay-wire, and when Tails glanced down at his readings, he noticed something was terribly wrong with them.
"I'm not sure its safe to continue for the moment, we'd better land."
"Right." Cream glanced over to the back of the seat Tails was sitting in. 'Everything's going to be okay, I'm sure Tails can handle this.'
Tails tried to pull the landing gear out of the plane but it didn't respond to his control. He blinked. "This might be a rough landing, Cream."
He pulled up on the throttle, trying to get the plane to go down, but the flaps on the wings were still in the wrong position for descent. Tails pushed a few buttons upon realizing this, but to no avail.
Tails pushed a few buttons on the control panels and flipped a few switches. "Arg! Nothing's working! I can't get the wing flaps to respond!" Tails cried out in frustration. This wasn't the way the plane was supposed to work.
"Um...Tails?"
"What, Cream?" Tails glanced mirror that allowed him to see the passenger behind him. Cream looked vaguely worried.
"Its...getting kinda on the warm side in here."
"Wha...?" Tails finally noticed this little fact, it was getting warm in the cockpit of the plane. The two tails kit looked down at his feed back sensors, trying to get some sort of reading out of them. The temperature was reading fine, or he thought so, considering it wasn't jumping all over the place every half a second like the other sensors. The reading it showed was about twenty degrees warmer then the engine could stand!
"Oh no..."
"What?"
"I think I misjudged the power of the Power emerald. The system is overheating."
"Oh great."
Starting from the engine, the plane started to glow white. Both passengers in the plane squinted at the brightness. Just then, explosions started to sound. The Factor X, Tails's greatest invention yet, exploded into a jet of flames.
Tails kicked the glass on the cockpit until it broke and both he and Cream were about to jump out of the plane. Before they could, however, the fire reached the more flammable, and explosive, part of the plane, and the plane exploded in a loud boom.
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Tails pushed burnt rubble off of his battered and bruised body. Every muscle in his body screamed in pain, not to mention he was extremely sore. Several singe marks appeared on his orange fur, and some of his skin had been burned as well. He winced as he stood, feeling slightly dizzy. "Ug..."
Tails sighed, ears and tails drooping as he looked around the small, charred crater that the plane crash had formed in the forest. He had probably overlooked one factor of the Factor X, and had caused all this in his rush to finish the project.
He looked around the crater, looking for Cream. He noticed a severely burned rabbit ear poking out from under one of the pieces of charred plane. He ran as fast he could with his injuries and started to lift the piece off his friend. Soon Cream herself was uncovered. Tails stared at her limp form. It was covered in more burns than he was, and her red dress was covered in black.
Cream's eyes opened slowly, and were immediately wrenched closed.
"Cream?..." Tails stared at his injured friend concernedly.
"T...tails?"
"What Cream?"
Cream sat up and massaged her temples. "My head hurts." She weakly let her head fall onto Tails's shoulder. Tails hugged his friend and smiled. At least she was alive.
-End Chapter Four-
Don't remind me of how extra short this chapter was, okay?
