Chapter 4:

Before I went to the shop I checked out a few things with my new body. It turned out that once the costume bonded with you, you could remove the shoes, although I only found more fox pads. I also noticed that I was shorter than my original height, about three inches.

I have to get to the shop before it's too late. I said to myself.

I went out my apartment door and made sure that no one would see me. It was easy to get to my car, but I was worried that someone would see me in the car. Its Halloween I said to myself no one will be suspicious. I drove to 1111 Fake Street, and when I got there I looked into the window to see if anyone was there. Sure enough I saw Henry Hallow, but when I started to head for the door I saw two other people in there.

Crap! I said to myself. If anyone saw me it wouldnt be good. I was deciding what to do for a few seconds and that's when it hit me. The back door! If I went to the back door I could get the old man without them noticing anything.

I went around back and sure enough there was the back door right there. I turned the handle and saw the flaw in my plan. The doors locked! I decided to give my claw a test run and picked the lock on the door. After a few failures a finally got the door unlocked.

As I went in I heard Henry's voice. "Yes another person has been successfully transformed… if they had the costume on."

"It's kind of bad that they are being separated from their family, but at least theyre happy afterwards." Said a more deep voice that was full of kindness

I knocked over a few boxes purposely to get the old mans attention. After a few seconds I heard footsteps on the tiled floor. The old man came in alone and was going to see the mess when I came from behind the boxes and went over to him. With my shrunken height I was still taller, but I was now looking almost straight into his face.

"Can we talk?" I whispered.

"Sure" he whispered back. "Come with me I have a guest for you before you leave."

"G-guest? Wait leaving? Where am I going?" I whispered every question but he just smiled and led me to the front of the shop. Were those two people are.

"Here are your guests Mr. Grant…" he said as calmly as ever.

My eyes went wide. Standing in front of me was Katie and her older brother Kyle.

"W-wait!? What's going on here?" I asked wondering why my friend and her brother were standing in front of me.

"Grant!? Is that you? Your costume transformed you!" said Katie

"Wait? Slow down! I have a lot of questions…" I said very confused

"OK, ask." Said a calm Katie

"Why are you here?" I asked

"Uncle Henry asked me to come over to say goodbye…" that answered one question but raised a few more.

"Uncle? Goodbye!? Why did I turn into a tails look alike?"

"Hes our uncle." Started Kyle. "And he is my boss. He answers people's wishes through his costumes."

"Wait I didnt wish for this!"

"Ah! But you did young Grant. You always wished that you would meet tails, and tails always wished he had a brother."

"A brother…?" I said "Tails! He wished he had a brother!? But why me? And why didnt I know of this until now?"

"You see…" began the old man "tails was always lonely whenever sonic went somewhere on one of his hero trips, which eventually got turned into a video game. So he did a favor for me and I agreed to answer his wish. He said that he wanted somebody who would love to be his brother, which is why he picked you. You didnt know of this until now because we thought you would chicken out of it and not put the costume on." He finished

"But"

"Look Grant…" began Katie "you're going to be tail's brother, and there's no changing that, but I hope that youll be happy in another world."

"Now-now…" the old man began "we have to get him to the portal soon or he could miss the chance to go." With that he led me to a back room where I saw a glowing blue orb of light. "Go ahead and touch it, grant it'll take you to where you belong now."

"I'll miss you Grant" said Katie

"W-well by everyone…" I said heading towards the miniature blue sun. "I'll miss you too, and I hope I'll be in a video game!" at that Katie rolled her eyes and I touched the blue orb. As soon as I did I felt a rushing sensation come over me. I looked and saw that there was rushing colors like I was going a gazillion miles an hour. Then I stopped and the force of the ride made me faint.

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"Is he OK?" said a rough voice

"I don't know but he landed pretty hard." Said another

"He looks OK he just lost consciousness" said a younger voice

"Ugh…" I began but I was too weak to move or talk

"He's waking up!" said the younger voice

"h-hello?" I said getting out of my awkward face down position, and getting up to see a blue, red, and yellow blur. I finally focused in and saw sonic knuckles and tails standing right in front of me! "Wha! Oh… sorry you startled me. Shaking off some dirt from my face and body.

Out of nowhere tails hugged me and said "I finally have a brother…" I saw a tear in his eye.

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To this day tails and I are still friends. Although I'm not in any video games yet, this is kind of a bummer. But I still have fun helping tails upgrade his tornado. Yeah the walker in sonic adventure battle 2? That was my handy work! Tails got me some gloves exactly like his, which fit perfectly I might add.

Well my names Grant and I'm tails new brother!

Well that's the end of my short Halloween special! Hoped you liked it! And dude… FOR THE LAST TIME PLEASE REVIEW!!