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-Chapter 98-
Prinny Mask made his way to the bathroom. It had been a long space trip...a looooong space trip. Ever since he joined up with the gang, he hadn't had the opportunity for the alone time he desperately needed. He had nearly crashed the ship from all the distractions swarming around in his head right now.
"Finally, some time to relax..." Prinny Mask entered the bathroom and removed his space suit. He went on from there, as the thoughts swirled through his mind...but he began to feel light-headed. He blushed as the blood rushed to his head. He was on the verge of fainting, but he was so close...
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"What's your plan, Tails?"
"We need to get out of here before Laharls catches up" Tails told Niney. "If we make it to gamefaqs, we'd be outside the reach of his admin powers and can take care of business before he would be able to stop us."
Tails stopped and closed his eyes. "The easiest way to get there is to teleport, through Jinjo Base..." Tails thought long and hard, concentrating on his destination.
But nothing happened.
"Are you sure you really want it?" Ninetails asked.
"Huh? Yeah...it must be because I'm expecting Jinjo Base. It only shows up when you're not :\"
"Oh. Well, what about opening a new window?"
"Yeah, GM's lab should have that 'browser' thing that makes portals. We can try that."
The two took off towards GM's place.
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Meanwhile, Brandon was following close behind.
"I think they went this way, Master." Umbreon pointed west.
"All right, Brandon. We'll get your stuff back, and those thieves will pay for taking what isn't theirs. Hey, what's this?"
Their path was blocked off by a large crowd of assorted anthropomorphic characters.
"Out of my way!" Laharls started swinging his hammer to clear a path. "What is this, some kind of smut parade?"
"From the looks of it, yeah." Brandon looked out into the street as a limo slowly rolled down the street.
"The 3094313 is going on here?" Laharls walked up to the limo and tapped on the window. It rolled down, revealing...FDR?
But Laharls recognized Nitro from his IP address as he stepped out of the vehicle.
"ALTSSSSSS!!!" Laharls raised his hammer.
"You hatin' on FDR? Look at my smile, Laharl."
Laharls was briefly entranced by FDR's charm, but he managed to snap out of it.
Nitro was surprised. "Why isn't it working?"
"Because conservatives don't fall for the flashy charms of liiiiibs! I'm banning you for offensive impersonation of a fellow member of the White House!"
Nitro removed his mask, tossing it aside. "Come at me, bro!"
Laharls set his hammer to stun, so he could have a bit of fun while he was at it. Nitro dove at Laharls while he was busy doing so, sending the hammer flying. Umbreon went to retrieve it while Nitro and Laharls engaged in fisticuffs. The crowd of scantily-clad furries cheered on Nitro, playing keep away with Laharls_hammer and giving Umbreon some problems. A few of them started to playfully fight each other, with wrestling of the mud variety.
Finally Brandon got the banhammer back and tossed it to Laharls, who swung at Nitro and sent him flying through the front window of his limo.
"Had enough?" Laharls asked, as Nitro got back on his feet.
"Fine, if I'm just going to be relegated to the sidelines and make an embarrassment of myself every time I show up, I might as well stop trying!" Nitro hopped in his limo. "C'mon ladies, we're going to e621! 3094313 this place!"
"Thanks for nothing, Nitro! What an ass...well, now we
really need to hustle if we're going to catch Tails and his alt."
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Meanwhile, Ally wanted to catch up with Tails as well, but for different reasons. Before that, she had to make sure Ferret would be all right without her help.
"So what happened?" Ferret asked as Ally arrived back at the station.
"People showed up again and things were less boring for a while
say ferret, with your training you'll be okay on your own for a little bit, right? I may be going off on some important business, soon."
"I suppose I'd be fine. But could you walk with me back to my house before you go?"
"Sure ^_^"
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Tails picked up the broken pieces of GM's portal maker and sighed.
"What happened to this thing? Looks like it's been through a wood chipper."
"Beaten to a pulp with a baseball bat, actually." Spin remarked as he entered GM's lab.
"Hey, what are you doing here Spin?" Ninetails asked. "And what's the sack with a dollar sign on it for? Oh I see, you're sneaking in to make an anonymous donation to the GM Science Fund! ^_^"
"Yeah that sounds about right. And I'm dropping off this crowbar too, for recycling
you'd never guess what they can do these days with recycled crowbars."
Tails hmphed. "Guess we're going nowhere, then..."
"Maybe Renegade could help you get back there."
"Sorry but I'm NOT doing that again, unless Tails takes the kicks this time." Ninetails instinctively covered his groin.
"Fiiiiine, maybe you could ask Ferret. Back when I was stalking Laharls on gamefaqs, Ferret showed up through a new window or two."
"Well then, I guess Ferret and I are going to meet!" Tails pointed toward the exit. "Whoa, check out the nice paint job on that door! Now where were we? Oh yeah, to Ferret's place!" Tails pointed again.
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"Come on Ferret, tell me more about the spirit world!"
"Ugh. How about you stop bugging me about it?"
Ally sighed. This conversation had gone downhill; Ferret was being too defensive. If only he wasn't so churchie, she thought.
"Hey. Ferret! Just the guy I wanted to see!" Tails waved from down the road.
Ally smiled. "...And just the guy
I wanted to see."
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"So you want to go to gamefaqs again. Any reason?"
"Stuff" Tails replied. Ninetails nodded with him in unison.
"All right...good luck with that stuff." Ferret fumbled around for a new window.
"Hey Tails, mind if I come with?" Ally asked.
"Dunno...this is something I have to do alone."
"Mmmmm, but if I came along, we could-" Ally was interrupted by a banhammer smashing through ferret's window.
"Stay right where you are, Tails!" Laharls shouted.
"As if, meanie!" Tails opened up a new window and ran into it with Niney. Pyro tried to follow but had to step back when Laharls tossed his hammer at the portal, which missed as said portal closed.
"Awwww no
" Ally sighed.
"Hey, look out!" Brandon shouted, when he saw that Laharls_hammer was boomeranging back in Ally's direction. Ally turned and let out a cry, raising her hands to shield herself as the hammer flew right at her.
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Ally sat up and looked around. Where was she? Had she been banned? If so, is this what it felt like?
She rose to her feet and looked around. Hearing a few voices off in the distance, she ran to find them and came upon a clearing. Tails, Renegade and Ninetails were there.
Tails stood and walked over to her. "Ally? How did you get here?"
"I don't know. The last thing I remember was a giant hammer coming at me, and I thought about how I just wanted to be with you...guys, and how I never got the chance to tell you, um...stuff."
"I see?"
"Heh...I bet you could've protected me from that big hammer if you had still been there..."
"Uh, maybe?"
"Wanna cyber?
"
"What!?"
Renegade cleared his throat. "It appears we've been unexpectedly saved by Jinjo Base yet again
"
It's a Festivus miracle!And there was much rejoicing.
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"So where are we heading, wave?" Espeon asked.
"Somewhere better. I want to get out of all this-whoa!" Wave shouted as he found himself caught up in a snare.
"Don't worry, I'll get you down!" Espeon called up to wave. Focusing her mind, the branch started bending...
Her concentration was interrupted by the approach of several strangers. And from their thought patterns, they didn't seem to be friendly...they came at Espeon with nets. She struggled and managed to hold them off, but they were persistent.
"Espeon, run!" Wave yelled.
"No, we can't be separated again!"
"It's better than me having to see you caught again! Go get help!"
So Espeon ran. The men, not willing to give chase, directed their attention to Wave. More people arrived, including someone wave could distinctly make out as having red hair.
"Excellent," said the red-headed man. "This one will make for a good specimen."
-End of Chapter 98-
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Spinning round and round like the deadly hands of a radium clock. 
say ferret, with your training you'll be okay on your own for a little bit, right? I may be going off on some important business, soon."
you'd never guess what they can do these days with recycled crowbars."
" Ally sighed.