Back to Mobius

"Ooh… my aching, wooden face…" said Aku-Aku, slowly floating up next to Crash, who was already standing up, "Wait… where are we?"

"This is Eggman's old lab. We must be back in my dimension." replied Sonic.

If Aku-Aku had hands, he would do a mask-palm. "Great…" he said, "Now we're the ones stuck in the wrong dimension."

"At least your Big-Headed Bozo is here, too. If we can nab that gun he used to get here, then we can send you two, and him, to your home." said Sonic.

"Then a plan has been established." said Aku-Aku, "Now, follow me to the… the… err… why don't you lead the way, Sonic." said the mask.

"Alright, first we need to see Tails. He's the genius around these parts." said Sonic, then the team of three were led to Tails' lab after about a half-hour of walking. "Hey, Sonic!" said the two-tailed fox, "Who are these two?"

Sonic replied, "These two are Crash and Aku-Aku. They're actually from a different dimension, and we're trying to send them, along with this big-headed ego-maniac, back."

Tails put his hand to his chin, pondered for a moment, then said, "Eggman did this?"

"Yup." said Sonic, knowing Tails' response before he even said it.

Tails responded, "I should've known. He must've escaped the Center of Time somehow with a chronological flux that occurs when something from a completely different time period is in another one, in this case, you can't be more off-time than where time originates." Crash scratched his head in utter confusion, the started using his finger to make his lips sound like a motor-boat while he crossed his eyes and began hammering his head with his other hand, repeatedly. "So Eggman was the one who caused this, not Dr. Cortex?" asked Aku-Aku.

"I'm afraid so, that is… if the guy Sonic just mentioned is Dr. Cortex." replied Tails.

Meanwhile, Sonic was raiding Tails' fridge, as usual, and discovered no hot dogs were in there to make chili dogs. "Ah, come on!" yelled Sonic, forgetting that Tails' house was on a hill, where echoes traveled great distances all around. Then, the ground started shaking, making Sonic especially nervous. "I think you may have caused an avalanche, Sonic!" shouted Aku-Aku over the rumbling.

"No… it's just Amy." responded Sonic.

"Amy?" asked Aku-Aku.

"Amy?" asked Crash, no one noticing he actually spoke normally.

"SONIC!" a loud fan girl voice shouted from a distance. Sonic and the others looked, and saw a pink hedgehog in a red dress, and holding a giant yellw hammer, running for the blue hedgehog. She then shouted once more, "SONIC!"

"That is a comedy-sized mallet!" exclaimed Aku-Aku in fear.

Amy tossed the hammer behind her, and began to hug Sonic in a death-grip. "Oh Sonic, where have you been, I saw you go into a portal and I tried to go after you but then the portal shut and crashed into a wall by mistake…" Amy ranted on about her life without Sonic for those few hours, while Crash began making kissy faces with his palms, putting them together.

"Sounds like what Coco did back on Wumpa Island, but more violent." commented Aku-Aku.

Amy paused, released Sonic, and said, "'Coco?' Who is this 'Coco' that mask just mentioned? Well?"

Sonic tried to word his way out, but Tails saved his skin by saying, "Whoever Coco is, I'm sure she doesn't…" Tails made a gagging face, "… 'love' him as much as you do, and I'm sure there's nothing between them."

Sonic, rubbing his arm, replied, "Yeah… what he said."

"Oh really? Hey, mask guy, do you know this, 'Coco?'" asked Amy with a sneer.

"Yes, she is Crash's sister. Yes, she has a crush on Sonic, she even kissed him…" said Aku-Aku. Amy grew furious, and pulled out her hammer, about to pound Sonic in the head, when Aku-Aku said, "… against his will. He does not like her, 'that way'. This is the truth. I saw what happened with my own artificial eyes." Amy quickly calmed down, and quickly grasped Sonic once more in the death-grip. She then began ranting on what she was saying before.

"Uh… not to interrupt, but we still have Eggman and Cortex to find." said Tails.

Amy released again, and said, "Um… who's Cortex?"

"Just got their coordinates on their new laboratory!" said Tails, right after Amy said what she did.

"We'll explain on the way to Knuckles'." replied Sonic, and the new team of five headed towards the shrine of the Master Emerald.