Chapter 1
One day Miles "Tails" Prower approached his computer/TV with the hopes of wasting his life way before his vibration-wracked speakers and a Plasma TV hooked to a CPU. He was going to play Runescape, his favorite game. Upon logging in, he discovered that somehow his parental controls were activated. Tails sometimes used these controls for limiting his time when he needed to go somewhere important. But this was strange; he never had activated a one week ban before. This worried him slightly but he typed in his password to release the ban… it didn't work. Feverishly he tried again, making sure to hunt and peck each letter TECHNOFOX38497/I_AM_COOL… still nothing, a red invalid password continued to flash on the screen. This was not good, he would not be able to kill a single giant or demon or even a giant rat for possibly a whole week, maybe longer. "Ah, what am I so worried about" Said Tails to the mostly empty soundproof game room, "I can handle a few days without Runescape" and got up and strode confidently out the door and into his room, where he began to draw out a blueprint on his work bench.
In the room across the house, Shadow and Sonic the hedgehogs where crouched beside a small TV, observing through the eight hidden cameras, the scene in Tails' room. "I've got to hand it to you Sonic, this is getting good already" said Shadow, sitting back and smiling maliciously "and thanks for the help with the tech end of it Rouge" he continued to a cell phone propped up on a cup. "Don't mention it boys" came a husky female voice accompanied by the image of Rouge the bat "but Shadow, I still expect you'll hold up your end of the bargain on Saturday this week" she cooed "Remember, I'll be waiting at the movie theater at 5:30 sharp, see you there" and ended the call. Sonic was still watching Tails doodle absently on the blueprint he was making up. "Hey Shadow, you better get outta here, or Tails might suspect something's up" he said as he unplugged and handed Shadow the tiny TV. "OK, I'll see you tomorrow to take tonight's CD" and out Shadow rushed out through the window and skated down the street.
Hours later, Tails was finished, doing nothing, he had started working on a simple never burn toaster, but the precise lines and angles had begun to curve, and very soon Tails had drawn an accurate representation of what his screen would look like right now if he could play Runescape. After drawing this, he seemed to come to his senses and immediately proceeded to push the desperate drawing into the paper shredder. "Sonic aught to be back from the store by now" Tails realized, and went upstairs to find him. Sonic was sitting in the living room, watching one of his favorite documentaries, the one regarding the space colony ARK incident not one year ago. "The ARK was falling to earth at nearly 2,000 miles per hour, and had it hit, it would have devastated the entire planet, but it was stopped by Son—"Sonic paused the DVD, looking over at Tails with his usual cheerful smile. "Hi Tails" he called as he got up "I made dinner for us so we can eat, were you playing that Runespace thing?" He asked as he walked into the kitchen and uncovered several hot dogs, some chili, shredded cheese and lettuce. "It's Runescape Sonic" sighed Tails as he picked up his plate and put together his chili cheese dog. "And no I didn't" he said as he sat down and began to eat halfheartedly "Alright! Trying to beat your addiction to that thing?" Said Sonic as he sat back and gobbled his chili dog with enthusiasm. "NO!" Tails shouted, almost making Sonic drop his next chili dog "Someone hacked into my account and locked me out for a week, and I can't do anything about it!" He was half screaming, half crying and began to bang his fist on the table. "This is nuts, what exactly could he be missing that's more fun than the real world?" Sonic thought to himself, "I'm going to bed" said Tails as he stomped off, leaving Sonic to finish his and Tails' uneaten chilidogs and clean up.