Disclaimer: Janet's character is my own, but she's for lease. Contact me by e-mail for details. Everyone else, well, you know.
Author's note: Sorry for the lag. I'll make a new story right away.
Chapter 1: Ten Years' Change -
It had been ten years since "the Emerl incident". Emerald Town had developed into a city. Sonic and his friends were older, and had gone in different directions. A lot of changes can happen in ten years.
Tails, for example, was president and head designer of an electronics company, which is an amazing position for an 18-year-old. On this day, he sat at his desk, using a ruler to sketch a new blueprint.
The phone rang, and Tails answered it. "Prower Electronics, how may I help you? … Hi, Sonic. Going on another date with Amy? … Well, you go out with her every Friday afternoon. Are you going to marry her someday or what? … Yes, I suppose you're right. Where are you going? … The museum's new jewel exhibit? Isn't it run by Rouge the Bat? … Oh, okay. Goodbye."
Like I said, a lot of changes can happen in ten years. Not only was Sonic no longer running away from Amy, he was going on dates with her every Friday afternoon.
A short time after hanging up, Tails finished his blueprint and hit the intercom button. "Janet! Janet, get in here!"
Only seconds later, the door swung open, and a 17-year-old blue-green fox wearing a tiara and a yellow skirt entered the room. She was this close to violating the company's dress code, but Tails didn't object.
"Janet W. Bernelli at your service," she said, bowing. Janet was Tails' assistant. She occasionally showed a few signs of love for him, which Tails acknowledged but politely dismissed.
Tails adjusted his reading glasses, and then spoke. "Janet, I've just finished some new blueprints. Deliver them to engineering."
Janet nodded, grabbed a sheet of paper from Tails' desk, and started to leave.
"STOP!" Tails interjected, and Janet returned.
"What's the problem?"
"I told you to take the blueprints. The blueprints are right here. You grabbed a crossword puzzle I was working on."
Janet laughed a little. "Oops. My mistake. I'm sorry, it's just that whenever I look into your eyes, I don't pay attention to anything else …"
"Well, work on that. Save your flirtations for after hours."
Janet quickly traded the crossword puzzle for the blueprints and left Tails' office.
It seemed that almost everything had changed over the course of ten years. As mentioned before, Rouge owned an expansive jewel exhibition that was displayed in the city museum.
Knuckles was still guarding the Master Emerald day and night. That hadn't changed. What HAD changed was that he allowed tour groups to give tours of the area (just as long as they didn't get too close to him or the Master).
Cream was running a Chao adoption center not too far from Prower Electronics. In fact, Janet sometimes considered adopting a Chao, but she couldn't because she didn't know anybody who could look after it when she was at work.
Shadow was a warden at the city jail. He got around the jail so quickly, prisoners had little chance of escaping. The job was also a backhanded slap at the time when the government mistook him for Sonic. I'll give you three guesses who was imprisoned in jail cell 993 (which, by the way, is EGG turned upside down).
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Well, it's a good setup, but I'm still working on what comes next. See ya!