LATE CHAPTER ARGHHHH Oh well, it's only a few hours late :T Anyways, welcome back to the story, this chapter was indeed typed out pretty late so don't blame me more lack of detail or stuff xD

Ki: Don't forget Tails is a little older than usual in this fanfic, and the fact that he's a mechanic of sorts makes me think that he would speak a little differently.

Captainawsum9999: Same for you too! ^^

Shadowisepicz: I KNOW O_O *passes the Skittles*

Ok, happy reading!

(Mild adult joke in the fourth paragraph! Maybe I should change the rating xD)

Jet answered the door as the doorbell rung. "What did I tell you? We're attracting people alre-Oh, it's just that rabbit…ugh." Jet aid disappointedly.

"YO!" He called. "What do you want?"

"Nice way of greeting somebody…" Cream said. "And as you asked SO NICELY, I might as well tell you! Is Wave there?"

"Uhm…yeah. Why? Your time of month?" Jet was greeted by a boot to the head and almost fell out of the blimp. "AH OK I'LL GET HER!"

Cream waited patiently and her mind was about to wander off into dreaming when a rope ladder was dropped down and Wave slid smoothly down the ladder. "Now why on EARTH do you need ME?"

"Well…" said Cream cautiously. "To put it mildly, one of Tails' machines looks like it screwed up and him, Sonic, Knuckles and Amy went missing. All we know is that they were trying to travel to a different world but it looks like they blew up while trying."

"One of Shorty's machines blew up eh? That's a first…"Wave snickered. "Fine, I'll see what went wrong. But it'll cost ya?"

Cream sighed. "How much?"

"Nothing. But you'll have to listen to Jet singing the entire way back to Tails' library."

"Is it too late to ask another engineer?" Cream said weakly, half laughing, half in tears at her demise which was soon to come.

-Meanwhile in Eque-OK,you know the drill by now-

While Tails and Twilight were setting off to check on the supposed Chaos Emerald, Knuckles was out on Sweet Apple Acres, punching trees. No, he was NOT trying to pretend he was in Minecraft, he was helping out Applejack with her apples as it was apple bucking season and seeing as, well, echidnas aren't the best buckers in the world, Knuckles was doing what he loved best and was punching trees for his life.

It took a while, however. Knuckles had to introduce himself to Applejack before he started or he would probably be in court for defacing others property. So he introduced himself, and they began telling each other about their lives.

"Hey, Applejack." Knuckles grunted as he knocked 10 to 15 apples into a basket he had strapped onto his back. "I bet you 15…uh…'bits' that I can clear 10 trees faster then you can!

"A challenge, eh partner? Well who am I to refuse!" Applejack said, and got into a sprinting pose.

"OHHHH! A RACE!" The echidna and pony were startled by the sudden voice that had come out of nowhere. They looked up to see Rainbow Dash, with Sonic directly underneath her.

Suffice to say that nobody saw Sonic looking up and drooling.

"So? How many laps?" Rainbow said.

"If by laps, you mean trees, then 10." Knuckles said.

"Ok, I'll be the judge of that!" said Sonic. "You better win…" He whispered to Knuckles as he walked by to judge the race.

"ON THE COUNT OF THREE!"

"ONE!"

"TWO!"

"THR-"

Sonic was interrupted by a flash in the sky. He immediately noticed it, as it looked oddly like a Chaos Emerald…wait…it WAS a Chaos Emerald! Sonic took off with no explanation after the precious gem, speeding through the damp fields with no care, just the need to find that emerald. He could feel it's power, seeing as he was one of the few biological beings that could truly harness it's strength.

He finally reached the spot where it landed, and was surprised to see that there was a dent in it. True, the emeralds had been drained of their power but they had never seen a dent in one of them.

"Sonic!? What was that about? You took off like you just seen a ghost! Rainbow stood behind him, confused and a little hurt by Sonic just running off like that.

"Sorry Rainbow," said Sonic meekly. "but I'm going to have pay a visit to Tails right now…"

-Twilight's Library-

Meanwhile, at the library, Tails was examining the Chaos Emerald. He had verified it as one of the original 7, because of the sheer power emanating from it.

"Well, I could probably harness a machine to find the others, if I found some scrap metal lying around," Tails said. "But for now I'm wondering how on earth the emeralds even got here in the first place. It was only us in the teleporter: How could the emeralds have found their way to a different dimension?"

"I might have an idea as to how they came into Equestria Tails. But help me fill in the blank parts, ok?"

"Sure…what's your theory?"

"Well, what if the gravitational polarity of the emeralds was at a frequent dimension the exact same to the emeralds, so that when the machine was turned on, the machine attracted the emeralds slowly…." Twilight started for Tails.

"and that's why we've found one so far! So they're still stuck in a tear between time and space, and they could arrive at any second!"

"Exactly!" replied Twilight

"But wait, that means…"

"What?"

"It means that there's a portal stuck back in Mobius from the energy released by Chaos Power…meaning that any being could be teleported to this world if they went near the portal source!"

"Only people, I'm guessing?"

"Yes because Chaos Energy only reacts to living beings, well, teleportation-wise anyw-"

"TAILS STOP IT MY HEAD'S GOING TO EXPLODE!"

Tails whipped around to see Sonic and Rainbow, Sonic clutched over in pain, holding his head with his free hand and with the other, holding…a chaos emerald!

"Sonic,you found a chaos emerald! We have one too!" Tails said.

"How on earth did they get here?" said Rainbow Dash.

"NO RAINBOW DON'T! HE'S GOING TO TALK IN THAT DIFFERENT LANGUAGE AGAIN AND MY HEAD WILL BURST IF HE DOES!"

"JEEZ, OK!"

Late chapter, probably not my best either but I can't, and WON'T let you guys down! ;D

-Aaron