Tails and Eggman froze right there, "I said turn around so I can see who you are!" the person said again, Tails and Eggman slowly turned around, "Tails? Eggman?" the person said, it was revealed to be grandpa Chuck, he was in his night time clothes and he was holding what appeared to be a shotgun, "Chuck?" Tails said to his fellow inventor, Eggman said nothing at all as he was now in the presence of two of his enemies.
"Why are you holding a gun Chuck?" Tails asked, "Oh, I thought you might be a robber so I came out to see what it was." Chuck said, "Well could you point the gun away from me please?" Eggman said, this suprised Chuck, Eggman was asking nicely, "Okay, but i've got an eye on you Eggman." Chuck said while lowering the gun and letting it fall to his side, "Come inside, please." he said, Tails and Eggman walked inside the small workshop outside the huge mansion, they arrived inside and Chuck said, "How'd you two get here?" Tails responded with the words, "A form of Chaos Control most likely." "Most likely!? What if we can't get back!?" Eggman panicked, he didn't usually panic like this.
"No, I meant what happened to make you come here, like what were you doing?" Chuck asked, "Oh, me and Eggman teamed up-" "Temporarily!" Eggman interrupted Tails' sentence, "Right, anyways we teamed up to find out what caused this large energy spike throughout the planet, the day after the spike happened we began to search, we were flying over a ravine when we were engulfed in a bright light." Tails finished his explanation, "Well I may have something to do with the light that consumed you, somehow a Chaos Emerald wound up here and I tried using it to make a teleporter, but nothing happened so I went to bed." Chuck said, "I'm not going to ask how an emerald wound up here, but can we take it back with us?" Tails asked, Chuck pulled out the red emerald and threw it to Tails, he caught it and put it in his tails for later.
Tails and Eggman talked about ways to get back to their dimension for several hours before they realized something, "If the portal opened, then it should open again, right?" Eggman asked his foe, "Yeah, but we'll need a lot of speed to get through the portal, but if we use the emerald we could fix that problem." Tails said, they discussed the plan and then told Chuck, "It could work, but you'll need absolutely no interference from another object." he said, Tails and Eggman were going to explain what they had in mind when there was a knock at the door, it opened and Topaz walked in, Tails and Eggman hid behind a machine, "Hello Chuck, just dropping by, also there were two jet planes that escaped the fighter squadren, think you could help?" she asked, "Sorry, but i've got to go to bed, I can't work without the correct amount of sleep." Chuck said, Topaz left and Tails and Eggman came out of hiding, "Well you should probbably hurry if you want to get back home, they're probbably setting up some kind of blockade." Chuck said to them, Tails and Eggman agreed to this and began to prepare the planes.
While Tails was preparing the X Tornado, he opened his locket and looked at the picture inside, "I really miss you, but we'll be together someday, hopefully soon." Tails said to himself, he continued to prepare th planes for the journey, when he finished he walked back over to Eggman to see if he needed help or not, "Eggman, you need any help?" he asked, "No Tails i'm fine, but you really should stop thinking about that girl so much, I heard what you said." he replied, Tails became enraged at what he'd said, "Well how about you shoot the person you loved then!" Tails screamed at him, Eggman didn't respond, he actually for once felt sorry for the fox, but he shook the thoughts away and said, "Just get in your plane and let's go!"
Tails walked back to the X Tornado and got in, he began the usual start up sequence, "Bye Tails! It was good to see you again!" Chuck yelled over the sound of the engines, the two planes took off into the night sky, however a squadren of F-22's followed them and closed the distance inbetween, "Come on go faster!" Tails screamed as he pushed his plane to go faster, both planes were going about 1500 miles per hour and were outrunning the planes following them, "Eggman, get in front of the wing like last time!" Tails ordered, Eggman did as he was told, "Okay, hold on!" Tails said as he pulled the switch, the plane did the same transformation as last time and shot forewards faster than ever before, once more leaving the planes in the dust, Tails pulled another switch, and the Chaos Emerald glowed with white light, the planes also began to glow.
"Were going back home guys!" Tails screamed as the planes dissapeared into a flash of light, they emerged over the same canyon they were over th first time they were transported, "Well that was fun." Tails said to Eggman, "Yes, 'real' fun." Eggman said back, "Well at least we got a Chaos Emerald, and since I have two back at my house, we only have four left before we go after the energy spike." Tails said happily, Eggman simply muttered somethng under his breath so Tails couldn't hear him.
"Well we should probbably head back to our homes, after all we can't search without sleep." Tails said while heading towards his house, "Great, now the fox has three while I have none at all." Eggman said while flying back to his base, they would continue the search tomorrow, but as Tails went to bed, he looked at the flower again, it looked ready to bloom at any second, "Good night." he said to it while drifting off to sleep.