Chapter Nineteen: Epilogue

"Done!" Tails yelled. "After a week it's done!"

As you might have guessed, it had been a week since Tails had begun to rebuild his machine. After his announcement, it only took a few seconds for everyone to arrive in the room.

"Really?" Blaze questioned in disbelief, "It's done? No explosions?"

"No explosion." Tails repeated, "You can all go home now.... Where's Marine?" he noticed the young racoon's absence, despite them having barely talked during the past week.

"She left earlier." Silver said. Tails envied his casualness.

"Something up?" this was Sonic, snapping the fox out of his momentary day dream.

"No... nothing." Tails said, unsure. "Just step inside the box and press this button." he pointed to a small, green button.

"Can't you do it?"

"No... I need to go." He pushed past his three confused friends and left the house.

"What's his problem?" Silver asked, Sonic and Blaze shrugged, although the blue hedgehog had a hunch. "Well." Silver clapped his hands together, quickly getting over Tails' obvious discomfort. "I'll go back home first then, shall I?"

"I'll miss ya buddy." Sonic said as he shook Silver's hand, grinning, "Come back soon eh?"

"Will do. I'll see you on the other side Blaze." Silver stepped into the machine and Sonic pressed the green button. There was a loud rattle, followed by a bright flash of light, and the door opened. Silver was gone.

"I'll assume that works, then." Blaze said, she turned to Sonic, "There'll be a few things that I'll need to work out, and it would be better without you," Sonic nodded.

"You'll be back, right?"

"After a week or two... Here's something to keep you going until then." She suddenly lunged at him and kissed him fully on, ruffling up his quills as she did so, the kiss (probably better decribed as the exchanging of saliva) lasted for about ten seconds before she released him. He was slightly flabbergasted.

"Still got it..." he squeaked, putting his quills back in place. Blaze neatened her hair a little and smiled.

"And if you go near that Amy girl..." she came very close to him and cupped his crotch with one hand, making the 'kill' gesture with her other hand. Sonic knew she was joking, but wasn't sure whether to be aroused or scared!

Blaze stepped into the machine, and waved as Sonic hit the green start button. There was a rattle and a flash of light, and she disappeared as Silver had done.

"Heh..." Sonic muttered and looked outside, it was dusk. He decided to hit the hay, tomorrow was going to be boring.

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"Marine! Marine!?" Tails yelled throughout the almost empty countryside as he surveyed the landscape from about twenty feet.

"Tails!?" the fox heard Marine's voice from somewhere on the ground. He eventually spotted her waving at him.

"Yeah, it's me." he landed infront of her. "The machine is done. You can go back home now."

"Oh.." Marine looked down and crossed her arms, "Erm, fine." she turned around. Tails saw the glint of plastic in her back pocket.

"What's this?" he said. He recognised it as the bottle from the Truth or Dare game, but he had already asked.

"It's... a memo." muttered Marine.

"Oh." Tails thought to himself for a few moments, and sat down on the grass. "Marine."

"What? Sit? On the grass?"

Tails sighed and took his coat off, putting it on the ground for her to sit on and then motioning for her to sit one more time. She sighed and sat infront of him.

Tails put the bottle on the floor and spun it, it eventually came to a stop, pointing to Tails. "Truth." the fox said.

Marine didn't argue and immediately demanded: "Are you involved with bunny?"

"Not at all." Tails replied. Eyebrows raised, Marine spun the bottle again, it landed on Tails once again. "Truth." he said.

"What are yer feelings towards me?" She said, crossing her arms defensively.

"Well..." Tails scratched the back of his neck and looked down, "I guess the honest answer is, I love you." he looked at her, noticing her large, watery eyes. Tails spun the bottle this time, it landed on Marine. "What do you feel towards me?"

"I... I dunno." Marine muttered. Tails lifted her chin up.

"Kiss me, then decide."

"You didn't spin the bottle."

Tails smirked, "Marine, it's just a toy."

"Shuddup Tails." she smiled and Tails went to kiss her, but the raccoon stood up. "I need to get home."

Tails caught up to Marine as they arrived outside his house and led her to the transporter. "Here it is." Tails said as he punched a few buttons, he then told Marine to step inside. "Goodbye, Marine." he said.

"See yer around." she said. But stopped Tails from pressing the button at the last second. "Look, if you're ever around my dimension, we should hang out for a bit."

Tails nodded, "I'd like that."

He closed the door, and pressed the on button, there was a loud rattle, followed by a bright flash of light, and the door opened. Marine was gone.

Tails sighed. Not a sad sigh, but a content one. All was well.

The End.

I'm sorry, I had to put this story out of it's misery. Readers, I hope you will remember this story for chapter fifteen and before that. I'm sorry it sort of tailed off into being crap, but, when I think of my next story, it will be atleast five, no, six! times better than this. I might do a school one, still not sure though. And any of you who like pokemon, I have a story based on that that's going pretty well.