Chapter 13: Oh my God.

Sonic sat on his bed, Amy had gone home. He was looking at the empty ring box that was in his hand. I wasn't gonna ask her for a few months anyway I guess... He threw the box in the bin with a sigh. Trying to think of other things, his mind strayed to Mephilles. How could he have come back? He made a mental note to ask Tails about it, perhaps this was only the tip of the iceburg.

And Eggman, is he dead? Sonic doubted it, perhaps he should have checked, but at that moment in time he had decided that Amy was more important. Tails was almost finished fixing his machine, so then Silver and Blaze could go home, maybe Blaze would stay, he wasn't sure.

These many thoughts plagued his mind as he eventually drifted off to sleep.

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A few days later, Tails had gathered the group together at his workshop. He proudly uncovered his machine, which looked as good as new. "Now my friends," he announced, "With Silver's help, I've managed to fix the machine in only two weeks!" Silver smiled.

"Finally," he said, sounding very relieved.

Tails pulled a chaos emerald from behind his back, "The other chaos emeralds are with Knuckles at the altar, but I convinced him to let me keep this one." he placed it in the machine as he had done the first time. After a lot of whirring and clicking, the machine burst into life with a giant crack as a portal appeared inside it, exactly the same as before. After a lot of goodbyes, handshakes and hugs, Silver stepped through, and went back to his own dimension. Blaze looked at Axel, "I've got to go too, just for a few days." she said hesitantly.

Axel was about to protest, but he remembered. She needs to see her family too, plus she's a princess, she must need to wrap some things up. He thought, partly upset, he just nodded, and gave her a kiss before she dissapeared into the light. Axel sighed, then felt a hand on his shoulder.

"Y'know its only a week." It was Sonic, he stuck his thumb up and smiled.

Axel forced a smile back. He understood that Blaze had to go for a while, but that didn't mean he liked it.

Seconds after Blaze had gone, however, the machine became louder all of a sudden. It started to screech and rattle wildly.

"What's going on?!" Axel panicked, "Tails!?"

Tails looked mortified, "Oh dear, oh dear." The machine had quieted down by now, but had almost completely fallen apart, the light had dissapeared and all of the parts had sparks flying from them.

"Tails!?" Axel looked desperately at the fox.

"Axel, I'm so sorry... This will take me weeks, if not months to fix," Tails observed the machine closely. "I think Blaze got back to her dimension ok though."

Axel was relieved that Blaze was ok, but months!? "Is there no way I can communicate with her at all!?"

"I've been working on a phone that can communicate between dimensions," he looked around in a drawer and pulled out a mobile the size of a brick, "But other than that..."

"Damnit!" Axel punched the floor, then whimpered in pain. "No.."

"You could phone her now if you want." Tails gave Axel the mobile.

"Mind if I take it home?" Axel didn't look up.

"Uh... sure, no problem." Tails said as Axel slowly walked out of the door. Sonic and Amy thought it best not to say anything.

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Axel lay on his bed, looking at the phone in his hand, I hope this works, he thought as he put the phone to his ear. "Hello?" Blaze's voice came from the phone.

"Blaze? Its me."

"Axel! What happened?"

"I'm so glad you're ok," Axel sighed, then went on, "Tails' machine broke, he says it might take months to fi-"

"No!" Axel could hear Blaze weeping over the phone.

"Blaze, Blaze." Axel tried to calm her down. "Shh, come on its ok. It'll probably just be a couple of weeks."

"Axel," Blaze calmed her self down,"I was going to tell you when I got back after a couple of days...

"What is it?" Axel tried to keep his voice calm to make Blaze feel better.

"I think I'm pregnant." she whispered.

There was a long pause...

"Well, that's great!" was all Axel could think to say. Isn't it? He thought.

"I guess it is," Blaze said, her voice was still quiet.

"I'll talk to Tails later, maybe it'll just be three or four weeks." Axel heard Blaze whimper on the other side of the phone, "Come on, you've got Silver, Marine, your family. We can still talk on the phone every day."

"Ok," Blaze cheered up. "I love you."

"I love you too." Axel smiled, "Bye, Blaze."

"Bye."

Axel put the phone down and sighed.

Oh my God.