Alright alright! Here we are, second chapter of the rewrite. Everything seems nice so far! I think...
Alright, Imma just start writin' away now. :D
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Also, this chapter is still in beta mode and is subject to change!
Blaze woke up feeling rather relaxed and energized, ready to start a new day. She opened her eyes at a normal pace and hopped outta bed.
"Wait...I can't quite put my finger on it, but there is something VERY different about my room..." Blaze turned and saw a bed that wasn't hers and a fox climbing out.
"Good morning Blaze." He droned. The fox looked rather sleepy still.
Blaze gasped and looked down, she was wearing clothes thank god. A pair of red flannel pajamas that she looked rather cute in. They fit her figure loosely and the pant legs were slightly too long so they sat in a bunched clump where her feet were. The arms were too long so they went down past her fingers when she held her arms down. Her fur was slightly ruffled as well. Then the memories came back to her, she sighed, her expression became more relaxed. "Oh."
"You're rather chipper this morn, feelin' any better?" Tails asked with a slight concern, mostly of her rather sudden start to the day after she could barely make it up the stairs last night.
"Ya, I feel great! Actually." Blaze said . "I haven't slept that soundly in a LONG time."
"Certainly seems like it! Well, good morning then." Tails took a look at his alarm clock, yep, up nice and early like usual. Although slightly later in early since he did not set his alarm clock last night. It was 7:23 AM. The sun sat low and shone directly through the window of his room. An audible rumbled reverberated from Blaze, Tails looked at her. "Hungry?"
Blaze drooped her ears and held her stomach. "Yes."
"Me too, I am going to go get breakfast started." Tails walked to the door and first headed to the bathroom to do his usual morning routine like anybody else. Then headed out and down the steps to start breakfast. Blaze followed suit and headed to the bathroom herself. She headed out and met Tails in the kitchen downstairs. He was at work flipping pancakes.
"Hope you like pancakes cause I had to finish off the batter that has been sitting in the fridge for a week." Tails said. Flipping a pancake over his head on accident, he spun and caught it on his spatula then flipped back over his head the other way, it splatted on the pan and shot batter everywhere. He stared at the pancake for a second, Blaze stared at him while he was doing that. She dismissed it and opened her mouth.
"Alright, I am just grateful that I am ever being fed. You know Miles, you REALLY, don't have to do this for me. I feel better, maybe I should collect my clothes and leave." Blaze insisted, her fur was straight and in its usual style now, but she still wore the pajamas.
Tails averted his eyes from the mutilated pancake and flipped another, perfectly this time. Then spun to look at Blaze. "You can call me Tails, you're a friend. Also, where are you gonna live if I let you go? You haven't got a place to stay." Tails said with concern in his eyes. He was beginning to really care for this cat.
"Fine, but I don't wanna overstay my welcome, tell me when I get on your nerves so I can leave." Blaze said. "Wait, Imma friend?" Her voice lifted up like a hot are balloon as she said that. Her eyes sparkled.
"Of course Blaze, why wouldn't I be your friend?" Tails said, unloading the first round of pancakes onto a plate. He was preparing to make another since the pan was not so big as to be able to make enough for both Tails and Blaze.
"I thought I was just a guest, for the time being." Blaze admitted. She was really not used to any sort of hospitality at all. She was for the most part scum on her planet, of course nobody knew exactly what her job was since it was secret. All they knew was the she was different, they never thought unique, they thought different. And she was shunned for that.
"You are definitely a friend Blaze. I am really beginning to take a liking to you." Tails admitted, squashing down a newly flipped pancake, also while blushing slightly.
"Y-you are?" Blaze stuttered out. Tails looked in her direction and beamed.
"Absolutely!"
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"Alright, what is my little bro doing today, we haven't talked in a month!" Sonic exclaimed loudly. He was busy zooming through the forest, headed to Mystic Ruins, the location of Tails' home and airstrip.
Tails had called Sonic two days ago and made plans for having him over today. First, he had to show him his new plane, the Hurricane. Secondly, Tails wanted to hang out with Sonic for once, they hadn't seen each other in a while.
Sonic whizzed through the forest at an unimaginable speed, he was literally a blue blur at the time. The green and brown of the foliage and earth shot past him as he approached the sound barrier.
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BANG!
"What was that?" Blaze asked, forking in a pancake.
"Sounded like a sonic boom?" Tails said, doing the same. He had finished his pancakes and now had a plate in front of him and was sitting at the table next to Blaze. Then a knock on the door sounded. "OH YA! Sonic's here, I invited him two days ago. Be right back." Tails got up and walked to the door, leaving Blaze with her food. Tails walked out of the kitchen, across the living room, and opened the front door.
There, of course, was the famous blue blur. "Hey Tails, whats up? Do I smell pancakes?" Sonic said, lifting his nose. Sonic walked himself in, and wandered near the kitchen.
"Hey Sonic, wait up. I did not make enough for you too!" Tails said, shutting the door and running after Sonic. He turned and gave him a questioning look. "Sorry, I forgot you were coming here. Things have been getting a little exciting around here. Lemme show you why." Tails said, walking past Sonic and motioning for him to follow. Tails made his way to the kitchen. Where Blaze was sitting, patiently waiting with her hands folded together, almost as if she were praying. She had her head down as well with her eyes closed.
"Hey Blaze." Tails tried to get her attention. No response. "Blaze!" Tails gave her a shake. She popped her head up as she awoke.
"Sorry, I fell asleep." She replied simply, now staring at her empty plate.
"That's OK. I don't mind, probably still a little tired." Tails said, he pushed Sonic forward. "Sonic, this is Blaze. Blaze, Sonic." He said, presenting them the other.
"Hi Blaze, nice ta meet ya!" Sonic said with a wink.
"Nice to meet you too Sonic." Blaze shook Sonic's hand.
"So Tails, you say you have a new plane to show me?" Sonic questioned.
"Oh you bet! It has got to be the coolest little thing I have ever made!"
"Plane? that sounds pretty neat." Blaze said.
"Ya, just lemme grab my pancakes, then I can go play show and tell." Tails announced. He snatched his plate off the table along with his fork. "Lets go!"
The group of three walked through Tails' living room, then out the front door. This had been Blaze's first time getting to see his yard. As she stepped outside she took note of her surroundings. To her right was a driveway, and beyond that was a fairly large hanger. She looked straight ahead and saw a pond that was to the left of the driveway, the pond seemed to wrap around the house to the left even more. As she followed Tails and Sonic to the right she got a glimpse down the driveway, it seemed to run perpendicular to a long shortly cut grass airstrip to the right. And in the other way it led out to a dirt road, at the end there was two large trees on either side.
She followed the two up to the doors of the hanger, they were great large sliding doors that were suspended from rails. in the middle of the left door was a smaller door, one like the door to a house. Tails walked up and flipped the knob on a standard combination lock three times. Then popped the lock off and opened the door.
"Welcome to the land of tomorrow..." He announced, opening the door and leading the other two in. The other two just stood there, looking at him a little funny. "Jokes." He got behind them and pushed them inside, then forked in a pancake from the plate he was still carrying. He reached around with his foot and shut the door behind them. Tails walked through the dark without running into a single thing, when he reached the far left wall, he hit a light switch. The other two stood there, unable to understand how he did not trip over anything. After the lights were on, they saw the path he walked through, he went around two planes, around a stack of wood, and many other tripping hazards.
"Alright Tails, lets see this plane already." Sonic was growing impatient.
"Okey dokey Sonic, keep your blouse on, jeez. No need to be in such a hurry." Tails walked across the hanger to the right side, sitting pretty on that end, was a monoplane. Tails lead the others over to the aircraft.
"This is, the Hurricane. My new aerobatic sport aircraft!" Tails introduced his, in his mind, greatest creation yet! The plane was decorated with red paint scheme. The side had artfully placed yellow racing strips going down the side. On the top and bottom of each wingtip was an emblem consisting of a gold ring with the words 'Prower designs, model 3B, Hurricane' underneath it. It was artfully decorated with a cartooned version of the Tornado flying up out of the gold ring, with Tails sitting inside as the pilot. He was smiling and winking while giving a thumbs up. There was blue sky and fluffy white clouds in the background.
"I don't see what makes it better than the Tornado or Tornado II, Tails. What makes this plane so special?" Sonic instantly covered his mouth, for Tails now had a perfectly good reason to ramble, his favorite sport.
"Well Sonic, I specifically made this plane for precision aerobatics while remaining stable at extreme angles of attack. Note the perfectly straight leading edge, no wing sweep on this plane. This is to keep the performance of the wing up even during extremely aggressive pitching maneuvers. I made small wing fences for the plane, these sit on the wingtips as seen." Tails pointed out the wing fences on each wingtip. These were simply plates of carbon fiber on the wingtips that stood vertically. It was around this time that Sonic's eye started to twitch and he felt like ramming his head against a wall. "They angle out as well to help destabilize the yaw axis of the aircraft, for an easier knife edge." Knife edge is when you fly a plane on its side, using the side of the fuselage as the wing." I also designed it so that the center of gravity on the plane is also not only one third back from the leading edge of the wing but it is also one third back from the front of the plane too. Again, to help with knife edge flight performance. Also, the more easily seen thing is the fact that this plane has only ONE wing, not two like my Tornado or Tornado II. The advantage of having one wing is a greater efficiency of lift, which means that the plane needs less power to fly, as well as less throttle to hang on the prop. It ALSO means more aileron authority in a tipstall, because it has a larger wing span that a biplane and therefore the ailerons get greater leverage." Tails stopped his ramble for Sonic's own safety. He looked at Sonic who looked like he had just been given a calculus test. Then at Blaze, she looked deeply interested on the other hand.
"Keep going." Blaze insisted, Tails smiled. "I am taking mental notes." Sonic stood in the background, he plugged his ears and turned around.
"Thanks Blaze." Tails gave her a wink and kept up with his talking. "Lets talk about other things I did with the main wing. For instance, the main wing is in the vertical center of the fuselage and has no dihedral, or up sweep, in the wing. This keeps the plane flying neutrally during inverted flight as well as level flight. Now lets move to the tail surfaces on my plane..." Tails continued
"The rudder is my favorite, as you can see, it not only flares up off the plane, but down as well, this makes for a cleaner knife edge. I also have these counter balances on here." Tails pointed to the part on the top and bottom of the rudder where it stuck out ahead of the hinge. "These allow the rudder to be moved faster, and easier since these make it less wanting to be pushed back to center by the wind. So that means less strain on the pilot, as well as snappier rudder movement. I have done the same with the elevator, which has no incidence and is on the same horizontal plain as the main wing, giving equal inverted and upright pitching behaviors. Aerodynamically, that is all I have done." Tails concluded.
"That is very interesting Tails, I would like to see it fly. As long as I am not in it." Blaze said, examining the plane.
"Why don't you want to ride in it?"
"I am terrified of heights." Blaze said simply, then put a hand over her mouth. "WHY did I tell YOU one of my weaknesses!" Blaze felt like she was loosing her mind. She would never just tell somebody things that they could use against her.
"I'm your friend Blaze, I would never use that against you." Tails smiled, he had some plans for a terrified kitty cat in the future.
"Whatever." She turned and folded her arms.
"What's her problem?" Sonic asked, glad that Tails geek-speak was finished.
"She doesn't trust me yet. Oh well." Tails shrugged his shoulders, not fully caring. "So Sonic, ya want a ride in it?"
"OH YES I DO!" Sonic rushed up and hopped in the back seat, "LETS GO!"
"Get outta there! I gotta put the canopy on right now." Tails commanded, Blaze jumped slightly. She had never seen Tails be stern before, she was...a little scared.
Sonic's ears drooped. "Sorry Tails." Sonic hopped out of the plane and and just paced around, looking at the various things in Tails' hanger.
Tails himself, strode over to the right wall of the hanger, where various parts sat on there respective shelves, all the way to the ceiling. There where vertical columns labeled with numbers, then rows that were labeled with letters. Tails walked toward the rear of the hanger to column 17. Then his twin tails began to spin faster and faster and he started to lift off the ground. Blaze almost fell over, 'TAILS CAN FLY!' She shouted incredulously in her head. Tails reached row "Q" Then reached forward and lifted a large clear elongated glass dome of some sort, it had hings on the right side. He slowly descended and touched ground with the object. Then strode over to Blaze, who was standing right next to the Hurricane at the time.
"Okey dokey, I just need to remove that windshield that is on there right now and install this canopy. This will give it a cleaner knife edge quality and I wont have to blink every half a second from all the high speed air smashing into my face." Tails said, he set the canopy on the wing right next to the left side of the fuselage, then climbed up on that himself. He walked toward the front of the plane, standing on the wing, then hopped into the pilot's seat. "DARNIT! Hey Blaze, could you grab me a 1/2 inch wrench and a pair of vise grips from that tool box over there." He pointed to the tool box on the far left side of the hanger, the toolbox was a large one on caster wheels. "Actually, just wheel it over here, it's on casters."
"Alright Tails, I will be right back." Blaze jogged over to the toolbox, Tails watched closely. 'Why does she have to be so attractive.' Tails whined in his head. In a second she was back with the toolbox, she had walked it over since it was a little hard to get going and stop because of it's weight.
"Alright, in the top drawer, there should be three different ratchets on the far left side, grab me the one in the middle. Now, next to that, there are a variety of labeled sizes of ratchet heads, grab me the one labeled '1/2' from the row adjacent to the medium sized ratchet." Blaze did as told, then hopped on the wing to hand Tails the tools. "Ok, now I need a pair of vise grips, on the second bottom drawer there should be a pair of them, it's labeled so it will be easy to find." Blaze did as told and returned with the tool. "Thanks so much Blaze."
"Anytime Tails. In return you have to let me watch you though." Blaze presented the deal.
"Of course, I enjoy an audience, well, not really. But you're an exception." Tails gave her a wink. As much as she would deny it, Blaze felt her face heat up a little. In return, Tails blushed and looked back at his work. He clamped the vise grips under one of the mounts for the wind shield on the plane, to keep the nut from spinning as he unscrewed the bolt. He placed the ratchet with the newly installed head on it and flipped it back and forth, unscrewing the bolt.
Over the next ten minutes, Tails worked on replacing the windshield with the full size canopy. With Blaze as company, she was sitting in the back seat and allowed to bolt on the hinge back there while Tails bolted on the one right next to the front seat.
Sonic was looking around the hanger and spotted the two working together in the plane. He snickered and whistled a cat-call. Neither Tails nor Blaze noticed at all, too busy talking and working. 'Wish I had somebody I liked come outta nowhere like Tails got. Lucky him.' Sonic was a little jealous, not of the fact that Tails got Blaze, but just of the fact that Tails had somebody and he did not.
As if on cue, the little door that entered the hanger was burst open, Sonic's self proclaimed girlfriend swaggered through.
"TAILS!" Amy whined in her "sweetie pie" voice as she ran over to the plane and jumped on the wing. "Do you know where Sonic is and-" She noticed the fact that there was a lavender cat in the seat behind him. "What do we have here? A new girlfriend Tails?" Amy teased. Tails blushed.
"Uh, umm, I don't think Blaze likes me like that. And what do you mean 'a NEW girlfriend' I have never had one before." Tails said, smartly dodging his own feelings.
Blaze was in a flustered panic, things to say whizzed through her mind faster than they ever had before. She did not want to hurt Tails feelings, and she was not one to dodge her own. After a small while of blushing and hesitating, she spoke. "Tails is a friend, that is all for now." Tails smiled stupidly.
"For now?" He said.
Blaze looked the other way. "For now." She started working on tightening the last of the four bolts for the hinge on her side. Tails was already done.
"So Tails, where is Sonic?" Amy asked. Tails smirked, he loved giving Sonic a hard time.
"Right over there." He pointed over by the door, where Sonic could be seen trying to tip-toe away. He turned and saw Amy, who with a sound resembling "ping" was now right next to.
"Hey Sonic!" Amy said with flirtatious inflection in her voice. "Ya wanna go out to a movie tonight?" She said, pushing the top of her head against his face.
Sonic rolled his eyes and smiled. 'Maybe this will work, I'll give her a chance. With all her determination, she deserves it!' he thought. "Alright Amy, you pick the movie too." Tails jaw nearly fell off his face, Blaze looked at him funny and lifted his jaw shut. Amy felt her heart nearly explode with happiness!
"YES!" Amy squealed like she was 5 again. "Thanks so much Sonic!" Amy wrapped her arms around him and hugged him with ferociousness.
"Alright alright, just get off me!" Sonic pushed Amy off of him. "Tails said he was getting his plane ready to fly now, I wanna see and get a ride in it. So we can go tonight."
"Can I watch Tails' new plane too?" Amy asked kindly.
Tails piped up in the background "Sure Amy! I don't mind!" He shouted across the hanger. Blaze had finished tightening the last bolt on her side, for the hinge that held the canopy on.
"Alright Tails, I'm done here." Blaze said neutrally. She reached up to pull the canopy down by the handle that was in the back right over her head. Tails had a handle up front too and he grabbed that to help. The canopy came down easily and the latches that were already on the plane caught it nicely and made a good seal, locking it in place.
Tails turned to look at Blaze and speak. "Well that worked well, didn't it?"
"It did." Blaze agreed. "Now how does it open?" Blaze asked, pushing up with a gentle but stern force.
"I have the device that opens it in the front seat, here." Tails pulled a little handle up front and the canopy popped up and sprung open sideways, more specifically, to the left. But not very fast since Tails had built in dampeners in the spring hinges. Tails hopped out and stood on the root of the right wing. Blaze followed suit. Both of them walked toward the back of the plane and jumped off the back of the wing, where it was closest to the ground. Blaze in front, the two walked to where Amy and Sonic where, by the small door that led out of the hanger.
"Is it ready to fly yet Tails?" Amy asked politely.
"It sure is!" Tails exclaimed. "Just let me open the big doors and I can go show off some." Tails walked to the far left of the barn and up against the wall was a button. He pushed it and the doors jarred for a second, then began to slowly and smoothly open. The bright Mobian sun flooded the hanger, it seemed to bother everybody as they squinted and looked the other way. Tails, however, did not seem to notice.
"Alright, who wants a ride in it first?" Tails asked, walking past the group. Sonic stepped forward.
"ME ME ME!" He exclaimed, and ran to the plane then hopped in the back seat. Tails sighed heavily and walked toward the Hurricane.
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BAM! DONE! Second chapter of the re write is now finished. HOORAY! I got to show off some of my plane designing knowledge in this chappie, yay! When I build my foam models I incorporate a lot of what I had said up there, sometimes other things too.
The Guy in the Background, out.