Chapter Two - Trouble
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Tails went downstairs to his workshop and sat in front of the computer.
"Oh the parts" Tails said out loud as he glanced at the Tornado.
A moment of hesitation occurred as Tails looked from the Tornado to the stairs.
"I'll have to get them next time..." he said turning his chair back to the computer screen.
Minutes passed yet Tails couldn't do anything.
He shut his computer off with a sigh.
"I need to think..." he said shaking his head.
Tails stood and grabbed a small mint candy from a bowl on his desk.
He popped it in his mouth before a voice startled them.
"Hey there little bro" Came the familiar voice of his best friend.
Tails jumped and nearly chocked as Sonic said those words.
"Can't you knock" Tails said a bit more angrily then he should have.
"Why did I say that... Sonic is always welcome..." Tails asked himself a little surprised as well.
"Cause you're afraid he'll find out you have his girlfriend upstairs in your bed" His conscious answered back.
Tails was going to make a remark to himself when a small candy hit him in the face.
"Getting slow there Tails, better hurry up or you won't catch this one either" Sonic said tossing another candy his way.
Tails caught the candy but set it down on the desk.
"Sorry, what did you need Sonic." Tails calmed down but couldn't look at Sonic directly.
The hedgehog spun a piece of candy on his finger before tossing it down his throat.
"I found this stuff in Station Square, the guy at the store said a two tailed fox bought the stuff."
Sonic pointed to a bag of parts that he placed by the door.
"Oh thanks, now I don't need to go pick them up."
"C'mon, Amy looked really sad, tell Sonic she's here, he should be able to help" His rational side argued in his brain.
Tails felt a twinge of something on his heart, "I'll tell him in a bit."
"Why were you in Station Square, I doubt you were just looking for some random bag to deliver." Tails saw as Sonic's head turned down.
"I... wanted to check up on someone... I mean something..." Sonic said seemingly sad.
"What happened..." Tails asked seeing Sonic's expression.
"I had to... break up with Amy..."
"WHAT!" Tails and Sonic both nearly fell over with how loud Tails had said that.
"But you just started dating three days ago!" Tails' brain began to whirl at full speed.
Sonic seemed to turn as if to run.
"I can't let her get hurt... I was wrong to try..." Sonic's words were so out of place it frightened Tails.
"Some people... aren't meant to be happy..." Were the last words he said before running from the workshop.
"I know that..." Tails said glancing over at a potted tree by the window.
Tails groaned as his head raced.
"What about Amy..." He kept thinking over and over again.
Tails sighed and looked at the setting sun.
"I'm not sure..." he finally concluded but it did nothing to ease his mind.
Another glance toward the plant by the window brought another thought to his mind.
"I'm not sure about Amy... but I'm sure about something..."
"I'm in trouble..."
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Tails had checked on Amy several times during the day.
"She still hasn't woken up, but at least she moves" he said as he closed the door to his room.
Another trip downstairs to his workshop proved useless again.
"I can't even work on the Tornado..." Tails said throwing down his wrench.
The hard metal hit the floor with a resounding clang.
Tails sat there for a moment, unwilling to do anything.
"Why can't I stop thinking about Amy..."
Then, just as the fox was beginning to be drawn into his thoughts.
"Water time" Chimed a small alarm on the shelf.
Tails looked up and turned the alarm off with a quick tap from his tail.
A gentle smile came to him and he picked up a watering can from next to the alarm.
Walking over to the window the water sloshed around in the can.
"Here you go Cosmo..." Tails said with a small tear dripping down to his smile.
He used most of the can before the plant looked like it was watered generously.
Tails sat down on the floor as he looked up at the remains of Cosmo.
The evening sun was off to the left of the plant and put it in a sort of glow.
"I don't know what to do Cosmo... I know you would want me to be happy... but I just don't know what to do..."
Tails wrapped his twin appendages around himself to try and enjoy the warmth and comfort.
"I have feelings for her... but they feel so odd, they're almost like the ones for you... but different..."
Tails let out a sigh and laid back with Cosmo's plant to be shade.
"I just wish... things were back to the way they were... with you..."
The wind blew lightly and Tails saw the plant move.
"I know, I know, I can't think like that... sorry Cosmo..." Tails let a laugh escape his lips.
"Amy was always a friend... and I did often end up being left to take care of her..."
Tails looked to Cosmo for a response but the plant stayed still without the wind.
"Sonic would rush off, then everyone would know he had it but Amy would still worry... Knuckles never really cared, Rouge and her never saw exactly eye to eye... I remember that I cared... but was it something more..."
Tails reflected on all the times in the past.
"At first, it was nothing... then... more recently... it might have been something..."
"It was something... I know that much... i'm not sure what it was... but it was something..."
Tails stood and pulled one of his gloves off.
"Thanks Cosmo, I know you'll always be with me" Tails said as he ran his ungloved hand over the plant.
Donning the glove again, Tails looked out and saw the moon beginning to rise.
"Guess that took longer then I thought" he joked and saw the plant move in the wind again.
Tails yawned and moved slowly for the stairs.
He stopped mid step and turned back to the Tornado.
"Amy is in my bed... well, looks like it's another night in the cockpit" Tails said to himself as he climbed into the Tornado to sleep.
"Good Night Cosmo" Tails yawned sleepily.
"and Amy?" his thoughts added as he drifted away.
Tails stirred in the middle of the night.
"The principle... is the reason that... you can apply the force... and get the..." he mumbled as he climbed from the Tornado in half sleep.
"Faster then light... travel means... gained mass... as you get... closer to the... speed of ligh...t..." Another line of calculations streamed from his sluggish lips as he walked up the stairs.
His sleepwalking body brought the still unconscious Tails to his bedroom.
"So the object... becomes... so heavy... it.. can't move faster..." His body stopped as it entered the room.
Tails' head was lolled to the side as if he was speaking into his shoulder.
Amy still laid there peacefully as Tails climbed in next to her.
"Making an anti-grav...ity field... it the only way... to stop the weight... from making you immobile..."
With that last line of unconscious thought, Tails drifted back to full sleep.
The morning came in several hours and Tails woke with a yawn and a stretch.
He was mid stretch when he felt something soft and warm as his arm brushed it.
"Huh..." he said groggily as he turned and saw Amy there.
Tails' eyes snapped wide instantly.
"Oh man, I must have come here in my sleep" Tails thought as his heart rate began to increase.
"Ok, Ok, Ok, this is bad, wait come on, just get out of bed!" he tried to move to leave but Amy rolled over in her sleep.
Her arm came to rest on his chest and a smile came to her face.
"This isn't so bad, I mean... it's just so peaceful... do I really... really feel this way for her"
"Sonic..." Amy said softly in her sleep.
Tails felt his heart drop.
"Oh man... this is bad!" he thought trying to move without waking Amy up.
No use.
"Tails...?" Amy said as her eyes fluttered slowly.
The fox in question instantly paled and he knew something in his head.
"I'm in" he began as Amy moved closer.
She kissed him softly on the forehead before nuzzling closer.
"Trouble"
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Sorry, this was supposed to be up yesterday... but then I got sick a little and my head was killing me.
Anyway, some people asked for an explanation, others for an update, and myself asked to NOT do spoilers.
This story, is going to be one amazing story when it works out.
I assure you that I have about four separate acts planed and we are currently in the first act still.
Don't worry, i'll let you all know when the next one comes.
Hopefully this chapter satisfied some peoples need for an explination while not revealing too much way too fast...
Also, Tails is the main character, he will be the one focused on.
And now, to dodge the axes of at least two people.
*Jumps and spins dodgeing SilverDawn and Comment Person at the same time.
Did you see what I jusBAM!
...To the owner of the baseball bat... good hit...
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Next chapter soon I hope.
- One Psychopathic Maniacal Fox