"WHY IN GOD'S NAME DO YOU HAVE TO BE SO DIFFICULT, MILEY TALIA PROWER?" he yelled at her from across the small room. The pilot's door opened slightly as the tortoise driving the jet watched for a thumbs up to signify everything was alright back there. It wasn't, but Jack made the hand gesture anyway.

Nic put up his phone and earbuds up and stood. He straightened up his jacket and brushed the dirt off his shoulders. "Will you please STOP this sh!t?" he asked calmly. "You are making this robotic epidemic more miserable than it already is."

"Shut up, Nicholas." Sliat murmured.

"Yeah." Jack concurred. He then turned back to Sliat and pointed at her. "I am not going to call you 'Sliat', young lady. Not 'Selim' either."

"I got my named changed. You have to."

"It's not illegal, Miles. This is a disgrace." Jack huffed. Sliat stared at him with an open mouth and wide eyes. Nic began to get worried. "Miles I didn't mean-"

"You think I'm a 'disgrace'?" she choked.

"Just because I'm not as smart as dad- or-or as nice as mom... I'm a 'disgrace'?" she cried. Nic sat closer to her and wiped tears out of her eyes. He had never seen her cry. It made her seem more fragile, or at least, more fragile than he had once thought.

"Hey- hey now, I'm dumb. I'm not either of those things- er- obviously..." Jack reached oit a hand to console his younger cousin. This made her shy away, duck into Nic's chest, and cry harder. "Now listen here little missy, I didn't mean nothin' by what I said." he put his hands on his hips and his attitude became stern. He relaxed after he realized nothing was really going to help his case. "Uncle Fessor's gon' kiIl me."

Nic didn't know how to feel about the situation he was in. He was currently stroking the back of the college campus bully consolingly while on a plane to a nuclear city in order to escape the zombot apocalypse. It's certainly been a crazy week.

They landed soon and already Nic felt horrible.

He ran behind the plane and threw up. Apparently, Sliat and Jack didn't feel the same way as they briskly walked towards a huge metal dome in the middle of the grassy area. The surrounding hills seemed okay. It looked nothing like the wasteland he expected. Nic spindashed to catch up to the two. Usually he didn't do that, but it was a skill all hedgehogs had.

The three entered the dome and were greeted by a rabbit and a hedgehog. Jack slid in-between them.

"Mother. Father." Sliat greeted her parents extremely unenthusiastically. Nic's eye twitched uncontrollably. He wasn't mad, just ticked. She should cherish her parents while she has them, he thinks.

"Miley! It's been years! Are you still dating that Cisneros girl?" her father asked.
"No, that was eighth grade, Dad. Remember?" Sliat actually chuckled sincerely. She had forgotten he called her by her birthname. "I'm in college?" she reminded him.

"Yes, yes, you're right." he thought for a minute.

"Who are you with now..." he thought to himself. Unable to find an an answer to his question, he whispered it to his wife.

"Oh ah think that's her boyfriend right there, honey." the hedgehog pointed at Nic. Nic blushed hotly.
"No- no. Not at all. We're jist friends. Nic's nice but he's not much of a looker if you know what I mean." Sliat assured them. Nic wasn't sure whether to feel insulted or relieved by the comment.

"How's Empire City been, hon'? Has A'nt June been good to ya?" her mother asked. She chuckled at looked down, slapping her knee. Sliat hadn't even began to speak yet, and she didn't quite get what was so funny. "Sorry dear, it's your accent. It's just so foreign. Ah guess that's what happens when ya've had it fer eleven years."

"We're just glad to have you back, darling." her father smiled. Then he remembered Nic existed. "Hallo young man, I'm Fessor. Where're you from?"

"Hill Top City." Nic replied. "Sliat and I are officially HTU alumni since-"

Fessor's expression darkened. His wife frowned. Jack removed himself from their hug and walked deeper into the dome.

"Have you been tellin' folks to call you that?" he asked Sliat. She nodded. "Why do you think you can just disrespect our ancestor, Miles 'Tails' Prower? Your namesake? He put us here in this dome during the War of the Dragons hundreds of years ago! This dome has been part of our family for generations! It protected us during the nuclear blasts eleven years ago!" Fessor grunted at the end of his rant. He cooled down at his wife's touch. "What did you want? You came here for a reason."

Sliat's mood definitely dropped a lot. Nic felt uncomfortable during all of this.
"The prototype." she answered.

"What?" he was shocked.

"The deroboticizer. I want it." she said grasping her beanie in her hand stressfully. She had taken it off when they were flying. It wasn't very surprising she was half rabbit. He could see it from her buck teeth. Now, it was his turn to insult her.

He shouldn't have at this time though, even if it was just in his mind. She was going through a lot. Sliat appeared to have heard this conversation before, as ahe wasn't quite phazed by it.

"Miley, you know that machine isn't stable yet... or else I'd've..." Fessor looked off into the distance.

"I'm not smart, Dad, but I think you could at least test it. You won't know 'til you try." Sliat said. "I want to see my brother again." she said quietly. "Please, Dad."

"Fine." he said with a heavy chest.

End of Chapter lol almost forgot that

@re

No coz drawing a ditto instead of a dolphin is out of the FIM universe and would therefore bring the picture's greatness down

@re
i wasnt, i was just saying.

i was thinking when i draw dawn she'll be beside Apollo Flare, even though hes slightly smaller despite being same age