Chapter 3
He lost…he became enveloped in the world of fantasy created by Jagex® ltd and all became lost. He got up from his bed gibbering and salivating, his eyes had gone blank and stared into empty space, he was then imagining himself not in his cozy little room under his and Sonic's house, but in his player home in Runescape. He staggered off to his workshop, calling up all the technical data he would need from his computer. His maniacal laughter filled the room as each of his many work tables filled with sparks from the torches of his robot assistants, and the soundproof walls hid every sound from the sleeping blue hedgehog that might have been able to save the world again, before it needed saving…
The next morning Tails was in a cheerful mood despite the fact that he was tired and had been working all night. The plans from his insane and fragile mind were nearly complete, and Sonic would be the first to suffer, and as the world's greatest recognized hero, he would make a good hostage… "Hi Sonic!" said Tails as he entered the kitchen. Sonic greeted him in turn "Hi Tails! Guess what?" He asked. "What?" asked Tails in return as he sat down, hands together. "Eggman is planning to attack Central city today! This'll be so much fun!" he yelled, jumping up. "Yeah, I'll fly you there in the Cyclone" Tails told Sonic "Of course! What a fool I am!" thought Tails, "Eggman will be competing with me too!" and of course even that fat man had never given up, even when beaten down hard, but It was lucky he only kept himself going using robots, human troops would be much harder to eliminate. "Let's get on patrol Tails" said Sonic and rushed to the garage and the Cyclone full transport unit. Tails radioed his final instructions to his helper robots "Continue working, as fast as you can, keep all completed units in the high-capacity storage chamber and run full system checks there, I want no mistakes". An acknowledgement came through the speaker, and Tails boarded the Cyclone.
On patrol, they noticed what looked like an advanced version of the Egg Carrier, it had many more missile pods and advanced laser turrets. But all were bells and whistles compared to Sonic. He grabbed a ring and he was off, Tails going to land somewhere else. He settled the super-advanced craft down and began to focus his mind. His resentment at his lack of game time, his revenge plans against whoever shut him out of Runescape and the wrath he would soon unleash. His Golden fur became a purplish, Smokey black, and a shade of purple fire wreathed him as his eyes disappeared into his white rage. This was Dark Tails form, and with it he had calculated he was more powerful than all of his friend's super forms combined, for those who had them. Using his ultra enhanced senses, he confirmed that Eggman was on the bridge of the battle cruiser. He took off, not with his tails however, but with the pure will that such a rage gave him. He was moving much faster than Sonic ever could on foot, and as he shot past, he amused himself at how Sonic was having trouble with the carrier's advanced targeting and weapons systems. This was good; Tails would have more time with Eggman.
"HO HO!" boomed Eggman as he observed the dilemma of the speedy hedgehog on his monitors "So my advanced weapons are much more effective to deal with that blue pest!" he chuckled at his own genius, the secret to his weapons is that they predicted and learned, not mindlessly targeted and fired like his previous designs. Suddenly he heard a crash of smashing Plexiglas and the cries of astonishment from his robot assistants. "What! Sonic here so soon?" thought Eggman as he turned around to face the intruder, it was not Sonic of course, but a short fox hidden in shadow against the sun. "HO HO! Very clever Tails, so Sonic caused a diversion did he? Well I am more than ready fo-" he stopped mid sentence as the fox approached him, hovering slightly. Eggman gasped, he couldn't help it, he'd seen this sort of thing before, and he had helped Sonic escape from its terrible grasp. "Tails?" he questioned timidly "NO!" replied a cold, cruel, and slightly robotic voice "I am TECHNOFOX38497! And you shall bow before me, or be destroyed!" the insane fox continued to hover towards the frantically retreating man. "NO!" shouted Eggman, scared but defiant "I want to take over the world, and that's what I'll do, I will let nothing stand in my way, much less you"! Tails considered him for a long moment, head cocked slightly, fire still emanating around him, then, in a blur of superfast speed, he grabbed and pinned Eggman to the wall, holding him there by the collar of his bright red jacket. "Then doctor, we have nothing more to say to each other, goodbye" an energy ball gathered at the tips of Tails' fingers, charging, charging. "Tails?" came a voice from the smashed window, Tails whipped around to meet this new threat, and saw Sonic… Tails fled down the corridor at the back of the control room.
"What was that? Who was that?" thought Sonic as he approached Dr. Eggman triumphantly, "Beat you again doctor" he joked in a cool voice "better luck next time"
"Sonic" replied Eggman
"I know, I know, you little blue pest, most annoying thing alive, blah blah, blah…" Sonic cut him off. "Sonic!" Eggman bellowed "this is no time for games, your friend Tails has gone off the deep end!"
"Doctor, you wouldn't be able to tell if someone was batty if Rouge was here" retorted Sonic. "Listen Sonic, Tails has tapped into the power of his dark energy, you nearly left us too when you went like that". Sonic remembered, he had gone insane, had wanted to rip the entire world apart to save his friends, and yet it felt so good, until Eggman of all people had brought him back to his senses. "Sonic" Eggman spoke again "I'm leaving now" he tossed something small and black to Sonic "this is the remote detonator for the self-destruct of this ship, I'm getting out of here, Tails was planning something big, I don't know what, but I sure don't want to be here to find out" and with that he sat down in his command chair, which immediately became the egg-pod and shot out of the roof.
Sonic pondered Eggman's words as he handed the detonator over to the G.U.N agents arriving on the scene, on the run he took back to the cyclone, and then there he was. Tails had his feet propped up on the console of the Cyclone, reading this month's issue of POPULAR MECHANICS "Hi Sonic, back already?" Tails inquired, putting down his magazine. "Yeah, it was kinda harder this time, but I still got through OK" Sonic spoke without even knowing what he was saying, and climbed into the back of the Cyclone with great unease. They flew back to the house, and little more was said, and both Sonic and Tails retreated to their respective rooms.
