(OOC: I'm afraid I've been thoroughly left behind by this rapid development. I hope Knuckles is still in the same time frame as he was, or Tail's machine may not be there. It's wasn't designed to track people through time. Hopefully if it's the future, it'll still be running, but he'll appear in the future lab, not the present day one.)<br/><br/>Tails was surprised by the sudden turn of events, but had little time to do anything after Cybelle and the others left, as a signal went up from his scanners. A large force of Black Arms were approaching from the sea in Gunships, and deploying Air Saucers and other troops. He immediately raced to the living room, stating orders as he went.<br/><br/>All his turrets deployed, and shield generators spun up. An automated transport was being loaded with a spare shield generator, powered by a fake Chaos Emerald, one he'd empowered the last time he had his hands on a real one. He jumped into the elevator, which simply opened up underneath him, and dropped to the main workshop level, slowing down at the bottom with his tails.<br/><br/>He plucked a headset from a waiting droid and hooked it on as he ran to the Hyper X Tornado. Tornado-tan was standing beside it, and gave him a thumbs up. She'd run her own pre-flight check, and all he had to do was drop into the cockpit. Even as his tails hit the seat, the Tornado was being shunted into the vehicle lift. He chose an alternate exit point, so rather than carrying him up to the regular hangar, the lift switched tracks and carried him to a set of under-sea launch doors. Switching to sub mode, the X Tornado was shunted through locks and out into the open sea where it headed for the surface, reverting to jet form as it broke from the waves, behind the main force of Black Arms.<br/><br/>His automated defences were already pulling a number on the invading aliens, turrets blowing Air Saucers out of the sky, while missiles hammered the Gunships.<br/><br/>"Okay, Tornado-chan, let's look for the highest signal traffic, that's gonna be the command ship. We fry that and the rest of them will fall to pieces. Send a message to GUN to keep an orbital watch for satellite lasers. Is Foxhole detecting anything?"<br/><br/>"Back-tracking... No these bozos came out of a portal, no sign of the Black Comet, or orbital support."<br/><br/>"Let's hope it stays that way, while we're engaging them, the trandsport can head for Angel Island and get the shield generator to Knuckles."