The next morning, Tails woke up and checked on the flower, however when he looked at it he thought he saw the village Knuckles had seen, but as soon as he saw it the village dissapeared just as fast, "What was that?" he said to himself while swinging his legs over the side of the bed, Tails went downstairs and into his workshop to uncover one of his earlier inventions, he walked over to a large tarp and pulled it away to reveal a silver jet plane with the wings folded in for storage, the X Tornado.
"I haven't seen this thing in forever, but it's my only hope to find the emeralds seeing as the Cosmic Tornado isn't completely finished." Tails said as he moved the plane into the center of his workshop, after making sure everything worked properly he went into his house, "Okay, i've got about an hour before Eggman should be here." he said while looking at a clock on the wall, Tails decided to get himself some brekfast, he made scrambled eggs and toast with a glass of water, he started to eat when his doorbell rang, "Coming!" he called, he opened the door and saw Sonic standing there, "Hey bud." he said, "Sonic? You're early today." Tails said to his friend, he hoped he could get rid of him before Eggman showed up.
Unfortunately, luck wasn't on his side that day, "Can I come in, say for about and hour?" Sonic said to Tails, "Um, sure I guess." Tails said, he let Sonic inside and they went to the kitchen, "So, I heard you were looking for the emeralds." Sonic said as he sat down at the table, "How'd you know?" Tails asked, he hoped Eggman didn't decide to come early, "Oh, just some certain hot headed echidna told me, he didn't say why though." Sonic said, he noticed Tails was constantly looking at the clock on the far wall, "You expecting someone?" he asked, Tails nodded, and being a fox he heard the sound of Eggman's Egg-mobile approaching his house, Tails began to panic but didn't show it, "Hey, I think I see, um, Amy outside, she's looking for you." Sonic instantly said, "Well gotta go!" and dashed out the backdoor and off into the distance right as Tails' doorbell rang.
Tails opened the door and as expected, he saw Eggman, Decoe, and Bocoe in the Egg-mobile with Bokkun walking below them, "Hello Tails, you told me to come by." Tails nodded and let them in, he didn't like having Eggman in his house, but then again he didn't like the mad scientist at all, "This way." Tails said and led them to his workshop, he showed them several things, one being a tracker so they know where the other person is at all times, the last thing he showed him was the X Tornado, "So when do we start searching?" Eggman asked, "Right now." Tails replied, he got in the X Tornado with his equipment, while Eggman, Decoe, Bocoe, and Bokkun got in one of Eggman's jets.
Tails accelerated down the runway and both jets took off into the sky, "So Tails, where will we search first?" Eggman asked as they flew over a ravine, "Well first we should find the Chaos Emeralds to give us a better chance in any fights we might get into." Tails said, but right after he said that there was a flash from down in the canyon, it engulfed both planes inside of it, when they emerged they were over the ocean, "Where are we Tails!?" Eggman demanded to know as he thought Tails had tricked him and he'd been lead into a trap.
Tails on the other hand was distracted by what he saw in the distance, "Tails? Tails answer me!" Eggman screamed, thinking somehow Tails had died, "I think we're back on Earth." he responded, "Impossible! The gateway only opens once in thousands of years, I predicted it myself." Eggman declared proudly, but Tails was certain, he recognized every building of Station Square, the city hadn't changed at all, the only difference was a few new buildings in the southern district, the city lights reflected off of the water as it was midnight "I know we're back on earth, there's no other city like this." Tails said, just then however he heard something from behind him, he looked back and saw a fighter squadren of five F-18's armed with missles, clearly they thought they were enemies.
"Eggman, do you know much about piloting planes?" Tails asked his rival, "As a matter of fact I know the basics, how do you think i'm flying this thing?" he heard him say, "Then you'll need everything you've got, look!" Tails shouted, Eggman looked behind him and saw the jet squadren, "I think you're right!" Eggman said while flying faster, however the F-18's came even faster, "Eggman, get in front of the wing!" Tails ordered, "Why?" Eggman demanded, "Just do it!" was Tails' reply, Eggman flew his jet in front of the X Tornado's wings, "Time to say goodbye!" Tails said while pulling a switch underneath the controls, a hatch on the underside of the plane opened uprevealing another engine and the second Cockpit rose up somewhat, the plane shot forewards and Eggman's jet was stuck on the wing, the F-18's were too slow to follow the plane and dissapeared in only a few seconds.
"Yeah! How do ya like that!" Tails shouted as they left the fighters in the dust, Tails' and Eggman's planes flew low near the street through the city, Tails however had forgotten one thing, he'd need a landing spot, they flew higher and Tails searched for a landing spot, "There!" Tails screamed as he pointed to a long stretch of road with palm trees, "Okay Tails, do your thing." Eggman said while setting his plane on auto-pilot since the X Tornado's wings would guide them down.
Tails put the switch back in place and the plane reverted to normal, Tails came lower and lower towards the road, he and Eggman extended the landing gear on their planes and touched down on the road, they slowed to a stop, they both got out and looked around the area, Tails immediatly recognized th place they'd landed and th familiar white house off to the side, "We're definatly back on Earth." Tails said, but they heard a familiar voice behind them say, "Who are you? Turn around!" and soon after heard the sound of a gun being loaded.