Chapter 3: Brains over speed
"Wait!" I yelled, but it was no use. The scene was gone. I was back in the real world. The sky had grown completely dark. Only the full moon gave out any light. I looked up at it. It was in the same place and the same phase it was in when I first found Cosmo. The longer I looked at it, the angrier I got.
"Why? Why did you do it?" I slammed my fist into the ground. "WHY?" The anger soon turned into tears. "You didn't have to do it." I said quietly.
I got up and stood over the now burning ash from the fire. I glanced at the remaining joints. The moonlight was strong enough to see the ground surrounding me. Wondering what I was going to do with them. "Yea that's a good idea." I told myself. I lifted my foot up, ready to smash them into the ground. Right when I was about to get rid of the evidence, a blue blur stopped next to me.
"Hey Tails. Are you feeling any better?" He asked. I was still frozen with my foot up in the air. He looked down to where my foot should've been. "What the hell?" He bent down and picked up the 2 joints. When he stood up, I then did I put my foot down.
"Uh." I was stumped. I didn't know what to say. I was starting to feel terrible.
"Tails, what is going on with you? First your drinking, now this?" He yelled shaking the rolled piece of paper that held Cosmo's family.
"Look you don't know what I'm going through." I said trying to get him to shut up.
"I don't care. You can't be doin' shit like this. Your only 12 years old!"
I looked down. Rage was building up inside me. My fists balled up. "You don't get it. I've never been this sad before." I didn't look up but I could feel him starring at me.
"Tails, life gets better. Trust me it does." He said calmly. I glanced up at him. I shook my head.
"Just-"He grabbed my shoulders and turned me toward him "Now you listen to me vixen. You're going to stop doing this shit or I WILL have you arrested. You got that?" I looked into his eyes, and said "Let me guess. You screwed up with Amy didn't you?"
That set him off. He threw me onto the ground and ran off. "That got him." I chuckled. I dusted myself off when I noticed something in front of me. A folded up piece of paper. I couldn't believe it. I thought it was just a vision. How could I have that piece of paper?
I reached over to pick it up. A normal notebook loose-leaf. Just like the one in the vision. I unfolded the first fold. Then the next. Each unfolds making the paper more wide, but also more thin.
Finally the paper was completely open. I started to read what was written on it. Steps. Sonic. New machine. Everyone. Secret. Cosmo.
Every step described its purpose and requirements. And I knew how to accomplish each and every one. I stood up and refolded the paper. I started to make my way back to my place. The start of phase one has begun.
*4 days later. Middlepark. 9:16*
Tick. Tick. Tick. My watch read 9:16. I had invited everyone to the Middlepark for an apology party. I sat with my back against my new table that I have covered with a table cloth.
A pink hedgehog appeared out of the tree line.
"Ah! Stupid spiders!" She screamed. I found it amusing.
"Hi Amy!" I yelled at her waving my arm. She waved back. She then ran towards me. I stood up. With her running in her pink dress made me think about all the times I've seen her do that to Sonic.
"Hi Tails!" She said as she flew into my arms. I held her in a tight embrace. I could feel tears fall onto my shoulder. I pulled away.
"What's wrong?" I asked. She looked down.
"So...Son...Sonic...told...me off." She sobbed.
"Hey, hey look at me. Look at me." I ordered. She looked up. "I'm sorry that he did that. But don't worry; I will be getting back at him today. I promise." She smiled slightly.
"Thank you." She hugged me again. I lowered my head and closed my eyes
"Hope I'm not interrupting anything!" A voice cried in front of me. Amy instantly let go. I opened my eyes to find Knuckles standing next to the "table".
"Nope. You're good." I said back, giving him thumbs up. He nodded. "Where is everyone?"
"I don't know." He shrugged. Amy started to walk over to him. I soon followed. Once we got close me and Knuckles did a knuckle to knuckle pat. It hurt like hell. "Hey what's this thing?" he asked nudging the "table".
"Uh, it's just a table I made out of boredom."
"Hmm." He knocked on the flat surface. Metal rang out. "Why is it made out of metal and not wood?"
"Does it matter?" I said shaking slightly. He shrugged. "Guess not."
15 minutes pass. Now all of my friends are here. Sonic, Cream and Vanilla. But the Chaotix was missing.
"Hey where are the three stooges?" I asked Amy.
"No one told you?" she said back.
"Know what?" She gulped.
"They…went on a mission to finally get rid of Eggman but…they were killed before they even got a chance to attack."
"Goddammit!" I was pissed. No one tells me anything anymore.
"Don't be upset Tails, they were idiots. It was bound to happen sooner or later."
"Yeah I know."
"So why are we here?"
"Oh right. Hey everyone! Gather around!" I shouted walking over to the "table".
Everyone stopped their conversations and surrounded me in a circle. "Ok to start off. I know I've been a little moody lately and been doing things I shouldn't have." I glanced over at Sonic. His arms were crossed. "So" I continued. "I invited you all here to say…I'm sorry. It's been a tough time for me since what happened on the Blue Typhoon."
"Tails, we understand. I can't imagine what you must be going through right now." Vanilla said. I nodded
"It's going to take me some time to get used to this. But for right now, I am saying I'm sorry for everything that I have done." I looked at everyone. They were all nodding, even Sonic.
"It's all right man. We forgive you." Sonic said with a smile.
"Me too." Cream.
"Same." Knuckles.
"Ditto." Amy
"Of course." Vanilla.
"Thank you everyone." I said with a huge smile. "So come on, let's play a game."
"A game?" Cream asked confused.
"Yeah, a game. Sonic, stand in front of me." He walked over to me. His arms still crossed. "Here." I said handing him a card. He reached out and took it from my hand. He looked at it.
"What is this?" He asked.
"Just read it." I said egging him on.
"…el caos de control." Silence. "What does it mean?"
"Well what language is it in?" I asked.
"It's in Spanish."
"Right. Now what is it in English?" I got him on the ropes now. I thought. An evil smile slowly grew on my face.
"Uh, caos must be chaos." Almost. "And control must be Control. So," Do it! "Chaos Control?"
"Yes!" I yelled. The table in between us started to show lights of blue, red and green. I ripped off the table cloth. The table wasn't a table. It was a machine that had a round flat top. The table had all 7 of the Chaos Emeralds in it. Each was protected in a glass case inside the machine.
"Tails! What did you do?" Sonic asked frantically.
"This." I slammed my fist down on a big red button. The machine roared to life. Making a violent spinning noise. Then a white dome came from the top and expanded. It grew larger and larger. (Like what happened in Sonic X Ep 1) Sonic and I were starring at each other. The beautiful trees and the blue sky soon turned white.
Everyone was frozen in shock. Not frozen because they were stunned but because they were ACTUALLY frozen. I was too. I couldn't take my fist off of the button. I couldn't even move my eyes.
Then Sonic slowly started to fade away. Then Amy. Next Cream. Knuckles. Vanilla. All vanished. And it was like I was back in the vision. I started to get worried, but then blackness.
I hit the ground, Hard. I landed on my chest. The ground was itchy with grass. My eyes were closed shut. I was about to get up when I heard, "Mommy look, a fox."
