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ALWAYS LOOMING

[doubletailpilot]

And with that, Tails could actually feel his heart leap a little.

From the looks of it, this may be a different Sonic... but admittedly, Tails was always happy to see his best bud, no matter what form, no matter what world.

The fox grinned a little. Sleeping, huh? Well, hopefully he knew how to fix that.

Wasting no time, the fox Bended up a fresh hot chili dog. Extra cheese, just for the occasion.

"What d'ya think, Sonic?" Tails asked loudly, fully intending to be heard as he held the chili dog not too far above the hammock. "Think this'll wake you up and hold ya over? At least, for about a half hour or so."

[athletictape]

He wanted to nap but his stomach had other ideas judging from the loud grumble it gave. Sonic sat up in defeat and looked around blearily for the source of the best smell in the world. There was a chilidog afoot.

It took him but a moment to notice a familiar fox hovering nearby. "Tails?" Blink. Blink. "Uh." He rubbed his eyes. Was it just the sleep in his eyes, or did Tails look waaaay younger than when he'd seen him earlier in the day?

"Huh. If Amy's tellin' you to use some facial gunk to make yourself look younger, you should stop. It's workin' too well." He held his hand out for said chilidog. Priorities.

[doubletailpilot]

Welp. Can't say that it didn't work every time!

Grinning, Tails brought himself into a small hover before landing smoothly, namesakes going still at last.

"Yeah, about that," he said, though he at least offered the chili dog. "Same as you're not the Sonic I know from my world, I'm... prob'ly not the Tails you know from yours. But that's the kinda stuff you expect outta Nautilus by now."

And really, he was gradually getting used to meeting different people from different zones, by now. He was starting to get an inkling of how the Autobots felt whenever different versions of their friends popped up.

"I, uh... I guess that's another explanation in itself though, huh?"

[athletictape]

Sonic put a hand to his forehead. Another Tails. Nautilus. Other versions. He took a deep breath in and whistled out. "This is what I get for eatin' that triple chili chilidog before bed. Man, this sure is a weird dream."

[doubletailpilot]

Tails sighed. Well, another day, another explanation.

"It's not a dream, Sonic," Tails replied, shaking his head a little. "I mean, I know it feels kinda crazy, an' at first I thought I'd wandered into another weird Special Zone, but Nautilus is... well, it's kinda like a city that exists between zones. And the worlds an' zones we know aren't the only ones out there."

He was trying to hold off on any technobabble, honest.

[athletictape]

He might've felt better with the technobabble. At least the technobabble was a staple of the Tails he knew.

Sonic lifted the chilidog to his mouth and took a bite. He slowly nodded his head. "Mmmmfmmm."

"So this isn't home, it's another place. You're Tails but you're not Tails." He gave a laugh and shrugged. "Next you're gonna tell me that Eggman is a guy who takes care of animals for a living and Knuckles has some weird Jamaican accent and wears, I dunno, a stupid hat."

[doubletailpilot]

Tails laughed at that. "Far as I know, Knux hasn't done that, yet," he said. He would just keep the whole 'tutu' incident under wraps, for the time being. COUGH. "But don't worry, no matter how many versions of us show up, it's about the same. Robotnik hasn't been here for a long time, but when he was, he was still up to his usual tricks of makin' robots and gettin' his butt kicked by us."

Heck, some days, he almost outright MISSED Robotnik.

"Has anyone told you the other stuff about the city? Just 'cause Robotnik's not here doesn't mean it can't get dangerous sometimes."

[athletictape]

Oh, good. At least that made sense.

After polishing off his chilidog and swallowing, Sonic shook his head. "Haven't seen anyone else. Well, besides you, Mini-Tails-dude." It seemed weird calling him 'Tails' if he wasn't the Tails from back home. "I got here many 20 whole minutes ago. So I've practically been here forever."

[doubletailpilot]

The fox blinked at that. "Uh... wow. Hate to see how you'd measure my time bein' here," he said, before grinning a bit sheepishly. "If twenty minutes is forever, then five years is probably a whole ten forevers for you!"

Which never failed to make him stop and marvel that he'd actually been in the city for that long, but... well, time had a way of flying past you.

"But Knuckles has been here a while, too. I'm pretty sure he's not from your zone either, though."