Chapter Three: Home, sweet home
"Done!" Tails announced, grinning and holding up the small container proudly to his friends.
"Looks like a coffee mug." Silver deduced. Tails glared at him.
"Just because I put a handle on."
"Oi think it looks ripper mate." Marine gave Tails a reassuring hug, and winked at the others while her head was behind his.
"Thanks. Anyway," He turned to Sonic, and gestured to the Sol Emerald, "Put it in."
Sonic complied, and the instant Tails closed the lid, a white flash engulfed all five people. Less than a second later the surroundings had changed, they found themselves in a forest, trees sprouting up to reach forty feet in the air and covering most of the bright sky.
"Hoo boy..." Tails looked rather uncomfortable, of course Blaze was the first to question why:
"What is it now, Tails?"
"Er...heheh." The fox scratched the back of his neck nervously, "I didn't think this through..."
"What?" Blaze's voice was actually rather intimidating when annoyed.
"We... can't get you home....untill we get a chaos emerald." Tails flinched, from the looks of Blaze's face she was about to slap him. Thankfully she didn't.
"You're taking this well, Blaze." Sonic put his hand on her shoulder, but immediately recoiled from the heat that was surrounding her.
"Are you ok with this Marine?" Tails attempted to change the subject.
"Oi'm ripper as long as oi can stay with you."
"No problem."
Well, that changed the subject, for about four seconds, Silver was then glad to break the silence. "Not that this isn't boring... but I'm gonna go exploring." He then walked off in a completely random direction.
"Marine? I'll show you my house if you want."
"Er, sure." The raccoon happily accepted Tails' offer to get away from Blaze - she looked quite annoyed.
Sonic looked over his shoulder to check that they had gone, then put his arm around Blaze, who then looked confused.
"Aren't I burning you?"
"Badly..." the cobalt blue hedgehog said through gritted teeth.
Blaze lowered her temperature to give Sonic some relief, he sighed and came closer. "What's up anyway?" He put his head on her shoulder childishly.
"Well. we're stuck here aren't we? The Chaos Emeralds are in my world."
"Nope. They'll have come to this world to disperse, I talked to Tails about it earlier." Sonic grinned.
"Oh." Blaze paused, "I look stupid now don't I?"
"Well, I'm not one to judge. But yes, kinda."
"Mm hm." Blaze nodded. "So can I stay with you until I can get back?"
"Heheh, er, problem there." Sonic grinned again nervously, "I usually sleep in a tree. Tails' place if it's cold."
"Fair enough." Blaze folded her arms.
"You're ok with it?"
"I'm not soft you know. And it's not like I'd be too cold." The cat glared slightly, and was put out by the hedgehogs grin.
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"Whoa! This is awesome!" Marine jumped for joy the second she walked into Tails workshop, the vulpine blushed sheepishly.
"It's nuthin' really... heheh." He scratched the back of his neck as Marine took a look around.
"Ooh. This looks good." She found a desk which was covered in papers and scrap metal, she eventually salvaged the item that caught her eye. It was hand held and just over six inches long (no, it's not what you're thinking of), it had what looked like a small tazer on the end, which was radiating blue electricity, it also had a bunch of red buttons on it.
"Ah, that... doesn't work." Tails awkwardly looked down.
"What is it?"
"It's supposed to be a level four containment field generator. Point it at someone and press the button and it should surround them with electricity, paralyzing them until you turn it off. At the moment it just... explodes."
"Got a screwdriver?" Marine held out her hand, not looking away from the contraption.
"Erm," Tails looked in a draw, pushing aside endless pencils, papers and plyers, he came out holding a small screwdriver and placed it in her hand and to his amazement, she got to work immediatley.
"Done!" She proudly put the back back onto the device and handed it to an astonished Tails.
"What did you do?"
"Simple circuitry, a few of the wires are too close so they were short circuiting. I just rearranged them." She had an ear to ear grin which Tails actually found rather cute.
He tested it out on a nearby book, waiting for an explosion. The explosion didn't come and the device worked perfectly until he turned it off. Tails looked in awe at the still grinning raccoon.
"Told yer oi'd study hard."
"Not bad..." Tails kissed her on the cheek as he walked past and handed her the C.F.G. (containment field generator) "Not bad at all."
Marines grin was interrupted by something that seemed like a squeal. She jumped around to see Tails running toward a massive, silver plane.
"Oh, my baby, my baby." He hugged the landing gear, in his own world. "I missed you so much."
Marine coughed loudly, waking him up, "You have two planes?"
"Hey when you hang aroound with Sonic," he patted the wing, "you're gonna need a plan B."
"Ah."
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Silver walked through the forest, with absolutely no idea where he was or how he was going to get back.
"Well, I'm lost." He announced to himself, "Now all there is to do is stand here talking to myself like a nutter." He then saw someone in the distance, and hurried towards them. "Er, hey. I'm-"
"Sonikku!" Silver felt himself be squeezed by the pink hedgehog as she began to ramble on about how lost she was without Sonic.
"Erm, lady?" Silver caught his breath as the hedgehog realised who he was and backed away.
"Oh, heheh, sorry, I thought you were-"
"Sonic? I figured."
"You know Sonic! I'm his girlfriend."
"So you're Amy?" Silver scratched the back of his neck.
"Has he talked about me?" The girl perked up even more.
"A little... look, there's something you should-" He was cut off as he felt an iron grip on his arm.
"C'mon! You can help me find him."
Well, I guess she can find out the hard way... Silver thought, rolling his eyes, "Amy, last time I saw him, he was this way." he took her in the opposite direction, Amy emitting a mere squeal of glee.
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"This is a beautiful world..." Blaze took a look at the trees and bushes, along with the blue sky as she walked with Sonic in no particular direction.
"Isn't it basically the same as your world, isn't it?" Sonic raised an eyebrow.
"I'm not sure. Maybe it's because I live near the sea."
Sonic shrugged, then jumped after hearing an all too familiar piercing shriek.
"Soniiiic!" Amy wrapped her arms around the unsuspecting hedgehog with great force, leaving Silver a few feet away, unable to keep up.
"Um... eheh, Amy..." Sonic pushed her off lightly, and gestured to his hand, which was holding Blaze's, Amy looked at it for a few seconds, then got mad.
"Get off my man!" She pushed Blaze off Sonic, this of course, made her hands set on fire as Amy grabbed her Piko Piko hammer.
"Whoa whoa whoa!" Sonic pushed the two away from each other as he forced himself between them, then turning to Amy, "Amy, I'm sorry. I'm with Blaze. That's final."
"But..." Sonic's somewhat harsh stare faded as he saw her eyes tear up. It didn't take long for her to run away, crying, "Oh dear..." he walked away, then turned to Blaze, "I'm gonna hafta-"
"But what if you-"
"Look. I love you, remember that." He smiled and stuck his thumb up before running away.
"Hmm..."
Silver finally caught his breath and came to Blaze, "He's telling the truth Blaze." The cat nodded yet stayed silent. They both looked down as a rumbling sound was heard, Silver held his stomach, "Have you got any food? I'm starving here."
"Can you ever shut up about your stomach?"
"Fine." Silver crossed his arms like a small child as the two awaited Sonic's return with no idea where they were.
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