Things got so outdated but this can be salvaged. If there's any plotholes it's demiezz's fault. I may or may not have enjoyed doing this again, so maybe another in a week.
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-Chapter 96-
"Hey...wake up already >_>"
Ninetails poked Tails in the esophagus. Tails mumbled and turned over. "How long was I out?"
"Pretty long. They asked us to leave a while back but you kept mumbling something about testing standards. So they kicked us out ^_^'"
"Mm..." Tails rubbed his head. "Too many root beers."
"Yeah, well...back to looking, right?"
"What's the point in looking? We've looked everywhere and found nothing. It's too late now, anyway."
"But you control this thing, right? So why not just conjure up one?"
"Dagnabbit Niney, that's lazy! There has to be conflict! Besides, summoning's not in my job description."
"Okay, but you gotta do something because doing nothing is lazy too."
"Pff I dunno. Let's just go home...maybe renegade can portal us back to SFD..."
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"Y'know, if you would just go through the Laharls_anus expressway we could be done with this by now." Spinbel peeked in.
"I'm not, nor will I ever, go through that." GM replied.
"Your loss. I'm off to see the Tailses. My super hearing has picked up on someone calling out the name of a good friend of mine."
"You have super hearing? Since when?"
"Since I drew these super ears on the side of my head!" Spin showed off his new ears.
"I thought I took that marker away from you."
Spin shrugged. "I thought I'd take it back...for official business purposes of course."
"Riiiight..."
Spin portaled out. GM got back to fixing the portal maker.
"This is really stupid, to have a marker that can make portals but only to known destinations...and this portal maker could calculate where the coordinates but it'll take forever to rebuild...wait! y34yrh! h;rhddhldf;,bdf;vl!"
GM facepalmed. "Spin! Get back here! I want you to draw me a new portal maker with that marker! SPIIIIIN!!!"
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Renegade stepped out of the shadows. "Did someone mention me?"
"Yeah we wanna go home ^_^" Ninetails answered.
"Hmm...Perhaps that can be arranged. But I want something."
"Umm ok '>_>" Ninetails took out Tails's wallet. "How much?"
"Hey!" Tails snatched his stuff back.
Renegade chuckled. "I don't do this for the money. I do this...FOR TEH LULZ!"
Ninetails eep'ed. He received some curious looks.
"Whaaat...it sounded dramatic, the way he built up to it '>_>"
Renegade rubbed his chin. "You can go back...IF I get THREE free kicks to the groin that I can use any time I want."
"One."
"Four."
"Deal!" Niney shook on it. "Wait you meant Tails right
"
"Weeeelll...you shook on it, soooo...
If I do this right you'll save money over more costly neutering procedures"
Niney eep'ed again.
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"Guess you guys get to go home now..." Brad tried not to cry again. "Promise you'll visit again?"
"Well..." Laharls thought, "it's kinda hard to say, with it being so hard to go between our universes (plus this place sucks)-ow!" Brandon kicked Laharls from behind.
"I mean, yeah. We'll see you again...sure you'll be okay without Laharlseo?"
"Yeah. Espeon will help me out if I mess things up."
Laharls thought to himself. If Brad and Espeon got together in
this universe, did it mean Brandon wouldn't ever get with Espeon in theirs? Then again, this wasn't a complete opposite world...
"Delivery for Alex and TaiIs!" Chromeo came in with the box. "Sign here, please."
"Is that the magic box? The one that gives anyone anything they want?" TaiIs asked.
"Sure is" Alex smiled.
"And...you're not concerned with what I could do with it?"
"Nop." Alex put on his coat and super solvers hat. "I have deduced what you've really wanted, all these years...and I think you'll be pleasantly surprised."
TaiIs opened the box cautiously, suspecting some sort of trap. Suddenly, the box swelled and its contents burst forth.
"SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCKS! Thankyouthankyouthankyou!!" TaiIs rolled around in all the socks.
"Wait, he did all this for the socks?"
"Yes, apparently" Alex said.
"Why were you so mean to us?" Ninetales asked TaiIs.
"Sock withdrawal can do bad things to a person."
"You wanted to conquer the world though..."
"To enslave everyone and make me a bunch of socks in my factories! But somewhere along the way, I lost sight of that...I have a new feeling, something I haven't felt in a long time...thank you." TaiIs heart grew three sizes that day and moved up past wind and water on his list of priorities. "But what if you had been wrong about what I wanted?"
Alex shrugged. "In that case, I had Chromeo ask for you to sign so I'd get control over the story back, as a precaution."
"Well-played. Screw the story, I have socks. It's all I really wanted."
"Wait xd" Prinny Mask intervened. "This guy has committed a ton of violations. What are we going to do with him?"
Chromeo held up a bible. "Seeketh the Lord's forgiveness and it shall be granted!"
"Ugh...this place...I
so wanted to arrest someone today...tie them up...and go from there...so are we going, or what?"
"Yeah, we should probably be heading back to our universe...but before I go, I want to try this box out." Laharlseo reached in and pulled out a shiny new banhammer. He grinned mischievously.
"Hey, quit hogging the box!" Brad rushed at it but Chromeo lifted the box out of his paws.
"Now now, do not be greedy lest you incur the Lord's wrath."
"Myes, we shouldn't abuse the box" Alex chimed in. "But surely after all we've gone through, we deserve some stuff of our own?"
Chromeo set the box down and the three of them reached in. All of them pulled out engagement rings. Brad blushed as he looked over to Espeon, Alex as he turned to Ninetales, and Chromeo as he remembered he left Pyreo back with an unstable Ferris, who had probably exposed himself by now. Laharls went back into thought. If everyone here was together, did this mean his universe would be one where everyone was forever alone? Oh well. At least he had a new banhammer...
"I'm gonna miss you, Laharl" Brad said.
"Buck up, Brad." TaiIs approached and handed a sock to Brad, and a sock to Laharls. "As long as you have these magic socks, you can visit each other anytime."
"Hmm, a bit of a tight squeeze, isn't it?" Laharls asked. "Better than nothing I guess. Time for goodbyes..."
After their farewells, the gangs parted ways and Laharls loaded up his group on the spaceship.
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Pyro smiled as Ferret stepped out of the bathroom. "Did your shower go okay?"
"Yeah, it was fine..."
"Are you SURE you don't need any help in there?
"
"Everything's alright, thanks."
"Aw are you worried I'll see your naughty bits? I could blindfold myself if that's a problem."
"If
you can't see anything either, what's the point of having you in there?"
The building began to shake. "What is it now?" Ferret asked.
Pyro looked outside and saw a spaceship touching down. "Yay people are back! Hold my beer." Pyro ran outside while Ferret quickly got the can out of his hands.
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"I'm baaaack!" Spinbel teleported into GM's lab. "And I brought friends!"
"Cool, Tails and Ninetails...why are they knocked out?"
"I plead the fifth."
"Alright, whatever. So I was thinking maybe we could use the marker to just draw a portal maker, instead of spending all this time fixing stuff up."
"Okay. Say, what's that?" Spin pointed out the window.
GM shook his head. "I'm not falling for that again."
"No really, what is that?"
"Looks like the spaceship!"
"How about that. Well, here you go, one poorly-drawn portal maker. We can bring them back now right?"
GM stood motionless for half a minute, then took a bat to his portal maker.
-End of Chapter 96-
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