Chapter Two "The Pocket Watch"
The floor was cold and he couldn't see very well because the lights above were always flickering and he felt more nervous after the shouting had stopped dead silent.
He was already out of the box but it seemed to him there wasn't much of a difference it was still freaky waiting out there so he tried walking along the large metal hall.
"What is this machinery? I've never seen it before but it looks somehow familiar." said Tails admiring the machine exterior of one of the automatic doorway doors.
There was a faint sound of somebody that about made Tails jump, he quietly walked down the hall looking in each door he came across, but all of the rooms looked the same, a table with two chairs in the center with a swinging light above, the walls were metal like the hallway. The next room looked the same but passed it there was no more doors, he decided to explore inside the room.
"This place sure looks lonely." thought Tails.
Something sparked his interest, he thought he saw something underneath the table, it looked like a pocket watch only made of pure metal and the hands didn't work.
As he felt around trying to figure out what it was he suddenly heard a scream and shout again, but he didn't know where it was coming from he looked around in all the rooms already.
It was out of pure luck Tails found this pocket watch he was very familiar with machinery and when he looked down at the logo on the side a compartment opened up.
"Streak?" said Tails reading the logo.
Inside the pocket watch was a small machine that probably would not have been found if Tails weren't so handy with fixing things, it was a square cube smaller then his thumb, he tried picking it up but it knocked itself over, and a hologram appeared.
"I am glad you have received this message for once, is your screen working yet?" said the message.
On it appeared in the hologram was somebody very unexpected it was Tai.
"I thought he was on our side?" thought Tails.
"What are you doing? Is your other end broken again? How annoying, General turn on your text messenger on the watch we're behind schedule already." said Tai.
Tails grabbed the watch panicked for not having it on already, it nearly slipped out of his hand but he pulled the minute hand forward and out popped a mini keyboard he didn't know what to do but he was lucky that Tai thought he was somebody else.
"Yes I am here." Tails typed.
It appeared next to the message in hologram form like Tai who was appearing himself not in text.
"Good, I hate when your screen gets broken remind me to do something about that later, anyway I am outraged with the resent death of my former commander, I want to know if you have gotten news of who caused it? I realize he was on the other side but when I pledged a second time my honor forced my respect for him, and well…I didn't what THAT to happen to him even if he was on the other side..." said Tai.
Tails gasped.
"I didn't know that had happened." Tails typed in a reply.
"What are you talking about? I thought your people were there." said Tai confused about the reply.
Tails typed quickly.
"Sorry uhhh a moron was playing with my watch." Tails typed after remembering how the General talked.
"Well then have him fired, anyway do you or do you not know what happened?" said Tai.
"I don't have any details." Tails typed in very cleverly that way he would not have to explain something he wasn't present for.
"Well have your people call my people I don't have time to be clueless." said Tai. "What about the fox Trixie? I heard of her appearing again from one of our spies I had thought she was dead, also have you captured the blue hedgehog?" said Tai.
Tails had to think on his reply this time, but he was relieved hearing Trixie was safe.
End chapter