Author's Notes: I own nothing (except any OCs).
Key:
"Hello" = Demonic voice
"Hello" = Robotic voice
Note: When TD is the only Tails Doll around, his full name will be spelled out sometimes but not always; when it is two Tails Dolls in the same location, "TD" will mean the good Tails Doll and "Tails Doll" will mean the evil one. Thought I'd clear that up so people don't get confused.
Chapter 3
Next Day...
Tails Doll opened his eyes and found himself on a small bench and he sat up and noticed his arm was reattached, fresh stitches signifying someone had reattached it recently...or a few hours ago, given by how they didn't hurt when he touched them. He jumped when he heard a door open and saw Bunnie enter the room and send a glare at him and he cowered a bit under the half roboticized rabbit's gaze.
"Cream says your different than that other Tails Doll and Ah'll admit, you've managed to convince almost everyone except Antoine and Sonic, but we still don't trust you completely and if you try anything funny..." said Bunnie before she had her robotic arm turn into a Laser Cannon and pointed it underneath TD's neck, "...you won't live to do anything else, got it?"
Tails Doll nods vigorously as his gem is bright white.
"Also, Cream seems to trust you because you saved her and Ah'm giving you a little bit of my trust but if you harm her, you're dead. Got it?!"
"Yes ma'am!" said TD saluting, "Um...quick question. Why are you so protective of her?"
"She was an orphan, Ah decided to take her in."
"Who stitched my arm back on?"
"She did."
"I'll go thank her." said Tails Doll jumping off the bench and walking off. After leaving the room, TD found that he wasn't in a hut, more like a massive house with multiple rooms and more than once he had to backtrack before he finally found Cream's room and knocked on the door.
"Come in." came the voice of Cream from inside the room. TD opened the door was embraced into a death hug by Cream.
"Thanks for saving me yesterday." said Cream releasing TD from the hug but pulled him into her room.
"No problem." said TD smiling, revealing his sharp teeth before he covered his mouth, "I forgot! People get scared of me when I smile! Sorry!"
"It's alright, besides you're kind of funny."
Tails Doll's gem turns pink as his cheeks flush.
"Why are you blushing?" said Cream and TD turns away and crosses his arms.
"I am not!" said TD, his gem turning a light red.
"I'm just teasing. Cheese, come say 'hello'." said Cream calling over to the Chao hiding underneath the bed.
"Chao! Chao!" cried Cheese.
"There's nothing to be afraid of. This isn't that mean doll that tried to eat me yesterday."
"Besides, I don't eat kids or friends, I only eat robots or criminals." said TD smiling at Cheese who screamed and latched onto Cream's head shivering in fear.
"Why don't you two get to know each other and I'll be right back." said Cream setting Cheese down next to Tails Doll and left the room...and locking the door behind her.
Cheese was shivering violently as he cautiously and hesitantly looked at Tails Doll.
*Horrible Monster Sounds*
Two Minutes Later...
*Lock clicks*
Cream enters the room to see TD sitting where he was when she left but Cheese is seen clutching onto the ceiling light for dear life, his eyes wide in utter terror and the poor Chao looks like he could die from sheer fright.
"Did you scare Cheese?" said Cream looking at TD.
"No..." said TD innocently as Cream brought the traumatized Cheese back over and then turned her back on them.
*Horrible Monster sounds*
Cream turns around and sees TD twiddling his thumbs while Cheese is holding onto a crucifix and pointing it at TD. She looks at the two of them before she turns around...
*Horribly Monster Sounds*
...and then turns back around quickly to see TD whistling as he carves a small statue of a horse form a chunk of wood and Cheese is seen holding a Chao-sized sword and shield and shivering violently.
"This isn't funny anymore." said Cream sternly and TD's gem turns yellow.
"What isn't funny?" said TD tilting his head.
"You're scaring Cheese when I turn my back on you aren't you?"
"No...yes. I can't help it. It's an old habit and besides, I haven't been able to terrorize any robots or criminals for six years."
"I'll go ask Sally if you can...do what again?" said Cream picking up the traumatized Cheese and heading towards the door.
"Um...terrorize criminals or robots?"
"Right...wait right here." said Cream leaving and TD got up and looked around the room before he saw a book that caught his attention and picked it up and opened it and began reading.
Tails the Machine Universe; New Mobotropolis Palace...
The door leading to the throne room was violently ripped off its hinges as an enraged Tails stormed into the room, his fur and flesh slowly covering his halfway revealed metallic face, robotic arm, leg, and right tail.
"HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I TOLD YOU GUYS TO ALLOW THE CITY'S DEFENSES TO ALLOW ME TO ENTER?! EACH TIME I COME NEAR THE CITY, I GET BLASTED!" yelled Tails, "AND HOW COME METAL DOESN'T GET SHOT AT YET I DO?!"
Metal Sonic slowly edges out of the room.
"Tails, you know its hard to when you don't let us get a transponder signal on you for the defenses to allow you entrance into the city." said Eggman, the chief defense advisor of New Mobotropolis. (1)
"WELL MAYBE I DON'T WANT ONE!"
"Tails, what do you want?" said Sally calmly despite the robotic fox's anger. Tails takes in a deep breath and then exhales.
"I may have made Tails Doll mad and well, he messed with the portal device I was working on and it sucked him into some other dimension or universe and the control panel short-circuited before I could see where he was sent and I came here to see if I could get some help." said Tails.
"I'll go. Being cooped up in a palace is a life-long dream of mine but now that I've accomplished it in a way I never expected, I find it boring besides, Metal can deal with any attacks launched by Robuttnik. Man, I enjoy that. Ha hah ha, ironic or what?" said Eggman getting up.
Metal froze as he was halfway near the exit and slowly turned to look at Eggman and the reformed doctor pointed at the control room and Metal "sighed" before he walked into the room and began monitoring the city's defenses.
"Come along Tails, we have a portal to fix." said Eggman leading Tails out of the palace.
"We should work on a way to make sure Tails doesn't get shot at by the city's defenses." said Sonic looking at his wife, Sally.
"You're right, but how?"
"Ask Egghead when he gets back?"
*Blaster Fire Outside*
"GET THOSE DEFENSES OFF MY TAILS!" yelled Tails as he ran and dodged laser fire.
Back with (Good) Tails Doll...
After Sally had denied his request, Tails Doll decided to walk around the village and see what was different and what wasn't. So far, the only thing different from the one he knew was the state of the village but as he was heading back to Cream and Bunnie's house, he spotted a large metallic structure and approached it. The large steel doors opened and he cautiously entered the building. After walking through a decontamination room, he came upon a large tube holding Tails and he looked at it quizzically before he walked over to the control panel and started looking things up on it.
His eyes widened as he learned that the Evil Tails Doll had nearly stolen Tails' soul and ravaged the two-tailed fox's body in the process and TD looked up at the fox sadly.
"Is that why Sonic hates me? Because of what the evil Tails Doll did to you?" asked TD to the unresponsive Tails, the only noise in the room being the sound of the heart monitor beeping. TD then pulled out a small vial and looked at it thoughtfully.
'Should I use this? All test runs on forest animals show that it has no unwanted side effects but...is it a good idea to use on a Mobian?' thought TD to himself as he looked at the vial before he sighed and put it away but did think of something instead and disappeared before he came back with a bunch of computer scraps and parts and began working on the tube.
One Hour Later...
TD backed away from his work and turned the computer on and then an image of Tails' face appeared on the monitor.
"Tails, can you hear me?" said TD calmly and the fox's eyes opened on the monitor and he instantly looked terrified and Tails Doll made a 'shushing' gesture with his hands.
"I'm not the Tails Doll you know, I'm a good guy. I mean you no harm." said TD calmly.
"H-how do I k-know I can t-trust you?" said Tails.
"Well, you're not dead and the fact that I kicked Tails Doll out of Knothole yesterday and saving Cream in the process...I'd say that's grounds for some trust right?"
"I guess so...what are you doing here anyway, the only one who comes in here is Sonic."
"Sonic? He hates me. I haven't done anything wrong and he treats me like you guys treat that other Tails Doll, with hate and suspicion and I don't like it. I'd never hurt anyone except Robotnik, robots, or criminals who really deserved it."
"He's that bad? With how he treats you?"
"Yeah, everyone else is mildly trusting of me but he...he sends me glares and I bet he flips me off behind my back. I wonder if he was spying on me when I terrified Cheese?"
"You scared Cheese?!"
"Harmless fun. I meant no harm, old habit. Besides, Cream figured me out after the third time when Cheese was holding a Chao-sized sword and shield. Hah ha hah ha, it was funny seeing his eyes as he held those."
"I can imagine. But what are you here for?"
TD pulls out the vial and shows it to Tails.
"I made this and I tested it on injured forest animals and it healed them with no unwanted side effects twenty weeks after the treatment and I would occasionally check back on them another twenty weeks later with no unwanted side effects still and well...first Mobian field test?" said TD hesitantly.
"You do realize how dangerous that is right?" said Tails.
"Yes, but I never got to test it otherwise and well...why not now, I mean, the only side effect I ever noted on the animals was headaches."
"How would you know that?"
"Animal translator collars."
"No way you're that smart."
"I have a friend who is...just as smart as you but he cared more for his inventions than me. I bet that's why he let me get sucked into the portal device, so I wouldn't bother him anymore..." said TD, his gem turning blue as his eyes watered.
"You aren't like that other doll, you actually show emotions and have feelings. That's something the other one doesn't." said Tails before he looked thoughtful, "Alright, test that stuff on me. It's boring inside this tube anyway."
TD's gem turns a slight green before he looks around for pumping system for the tube before he finds it and gets ready to put the substance in the vial into the pumping system before his ears twitch and he sets the vial down gently after putting the stopper back into it and gets grabbed by the throat and slammed into a wall by Sonic.
"I knew it! You planned to finish off Tails! What was that stuff? Some type of poison?! Answer me!" yelled Sonic as a dark aura surrounded him.
"Sonic, stop! He was trying to help me!" said Tails as the monitor turned to face Sonic and the hedgehog's eyes widened.
"T-Tails? W-what'd he do?" said Sonic in shock.
"Made a way for me to communicate I guess, but that's not the point! He was trying to help me, now let him go." said Tails sternly.
"Why should I?! He's probably planning to double cross us at any moment and then report back to Robotnik!" snarled Sonic, the aura coming back. Suddenly claws erupted from TD's hands but they stopped and curled against Sonic's body, leaving only impressions on his fur and flesh and TD grabbed Sonic by the throat as he changed.
"Listened to me you revenge-obsessed hedgehog, if you threaten me again, I won't hesitate to knock some sense into that thick skull of yours. I won't kill you, but I will beat to within an inch of your life and throw you into a dumpster! Got it!?" snarled TD, his razor sharp teeth an inch away from Sonic's face and the hedgehog nods vigorously, "Good! NOW LET ME HELP TAILS!"
TD threw Sonic out the door and the hedgehog skidded across the ground, face-first.
TD shrank back to his normal size and dusted himself off before he picked up the vial and let a small drop drip into the pumping system as the liquid changed from blue to a light blue-green.
"It might take awhile for the healing factor to kick in but it should feel like you're on a nice sunny beach with sun beating down on you, gently though. See you later." said TD waving goodbye to Tails as he left the building.
"Goodbye." said Tails before he sighed and then...
"Wow, he described the feeling perfectly; it does feel like I'm on a nice sunny beach with the sun beating down on me, gently though. Wow, that stuff feels good." said Tails as he felt the healing effects of the substance and then the monitor went dark, followed by sounds of snoring emanating from the monitor.
END CHAPTER
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(1) Like I said, this is a spinoff from Tails the Machine and I suggest you read that first to understand some concepts; like how Eggman and Metal Sonic are good and in (Good) Tails Doll's universe.