"It's done," Tails says. He sounds exhausted. The ring is finally complete. With the help of Amy and very small laser that Tails created, he was able to craft a golden ring. The hardest part of this was the engraving done to the ring. He made it match the flower pattern on May's kimono and this took him hours of work. After he finished doing so, he took a shortcut. Instead of wasting his time trying to carefully set the jewel on the ring, he used a special adhesive to get it on. The ring looks perfect and it's almost impossible to tell the difference, but there's one problem. He forgot to wash his hands. He walks upstairs and looks out the window. It's nighttime. Stars are everywhere across the sky and the moon is shining brightly. Knuckles is asleep on the sofa. Tails decides to the fly upstairs in order not to make footsteps which would cause him to stir. He slowly opens the door to the bedroom and finds Amy sleeping with Sonic. This didn't surprise him at all. In the corner is where Amy's hammer is. He grabs it and flies through the window to the backyard. Once he gets outside, he tries tapping on the hammer. Nothing happens. He slams the hammer on the ground. Nothing happens. He throws the hammer a small distance. Nothing happens. He shakes the hammer and nothing happens once again. He sits down and stares at the night sky while scratching his head.
"How am I going to get May out of the hammer?"
A whirlpool comes out of the hammer and May appears.
"I'm here Amy-sama," she screams with a big smile. She then looks down. "Oh, it's you Master Tails. What is it?"
"I, uh, want to give you this," he replies while putting his head down. He has a little box in the palm of his hand. She picks it up and opens it.
"Oh, you finished the ring! Thank you so much Master Tails. It's beautiful!"
"Eh, heh, you are welcome," he says while blushing. "Try it on, ok?"
Once she puts it on, the hammer starts to rumble. The tail end of her is thrown out of the hammer and she starts to fall. Tails makes a sliding catch. May came out looking exactly like Amy except for the clothes and the height. She's a little shorter than Tails and she retained the kimono. Tails lets her down.
"That was some catch," he remarks. "Are you alright?"
She moans out in a cry that makes Tails nervous. He can't tell if it's a cry for pain or one for pleasure.
"Let go of my tail," she says in a small, weak, cute voice.
"Your tail?" He looks down and sees his right hand still connected to her tail. He can't open it. "Uh oh." He chuckles for a bit. "I forgot to wash my hands after putting the jewel on the ring. I'm sorry, but we are going to be stuck like this for a bit."
"It's ok Master Tails. Just don't be too rough with my tail. When you squeeze it or pull on it, it makes me feel weird."
"Good weird or bad weird?"
"Good weird."
"Don't worry about it. I promise to be careful." After saying that, he manages to tighten his grip by mistake and that makes her moan again which makes him very nervous. He picks her up and flies her back towards the house through the window in Sonic's room. He takes her down to the lab.
"You know, I never let anyone else come in here. I'm sorry, but it's a bit messy," he says. "Oh wait, we forgot the hammer."
"That's ok Master Tails. I am the hammer. When Amy-sama calls out my name I'll revert back to the hammer."
"That's cool. Ok, maybe I can try to free my grip. We need to sit down first. Let's go on the bed."
They sit down and Tails goes to work on trying to get his hand free. It's impossible to tell if May likes it or hates it. It seems like she never told him to stop trying so that does say something. Tails has been desperately trying to get his hand free. He tried opening his hand. He tried pulling her tail. He tried prying his fingers free with his other hand, but that isn't helping either. All the time, May is moaning and groaning. They are continually shouting directions to each other. Tails stops every now and then to make sure that May is ok. This could pose a problem if someone was standing outside of the staircase leading to the lab.
Knuckles wakes up because he fell off of the sofa during one of his crazy dreams. He walks over to the fridge to get some water then he hears some talking and other things. He can't see through the door or make out the words since they are so faint, but he's curious. The house is pretty much completely dark aside from the light seeping in from the moon and stars. He slowly opens the door. Tails or May don't even notice due to all of the commotion. He hides under the staircase. He still can't see a thing, but he's close enough to hear.
"Oh, sorry," Tails says. "I must be trying too hard. I'll try to be a little gentle with it."
"No wait, Tails," May says. She moans once again as Tails slowly tries to get his hand free.
"You ok. You want me to stop?"
"No, keep doing it." The sounds coming from May is music to Knuckles' ears. He looks to his left and sees popcorn. He eats it while resting his back against the wall. A whole hour has passed and Tails gives up on freeing his hand. May is panting. She's all out of breath and she's tired.
"You don't mind if I sleep here with you Master Tails."
"We don't have a choice. Can we try again tomorrow? It looks like this was very exhausting for you."
"Yes Master Tails. We should try it again."
Knuckles is so giddy after hearing all that for one hour. He stays quiet for a bit to ensure that they are sleeping then he hops through the door and bails out before he is seen.
The next day, Knuckles is the first one to wake up. For some reason, he thought the events of last night were a dream. He thought his eyes were fooling him. He confirms this by sneaking into the laboratory. He jumps under the staircase and sees Tails and May sleeping together. What makes this more convincing is the fact that May is clinging on to him. He slowly backs out of the room. He looks out of a window to notice Amy outside. He runs out as quickly as possible. She's staring at the sunrise. The sun is starting to come in over the horizon. There are multiple shades of blue and orange with not a cloud in sight.
"Amy," he screams with a huge smile.
"Oh, Knuckles. I need some help. My hammer is missing," she says. "Did you see it?"
Knuckles laughs uncontrollably. He starts to hold his sides. "Tails has it," he replies while wiping tears from his eyes.
"I wonder why," Amy asks. "I'm going to go see."
"Wait a second," Knuckles orders. "Let me give you some tips. Open the door to his lab slowly. Jump under the staircase then slowly peek your head around the wall. Do not wake up Tails."
"Whatever," she says.
She keeps wondering about Knuckles' strange directions as she approaches the door. Even though she doesn't trust Knuckles, she follows his directions perfectly. She slowly opens the door. She jumps under the staircase. She slowly peek her head around the wall and sees exactly what Knuckles did. May is clinging on to Tails. This time her legs are wrapped around his as well. Amy's brain is pretty much about to explode at site of this, so she just gets out of the room. She slowly walks outside back to Knuckles as if she has been traumatized.
"I can't believe what I have just seen," she says in disbelief. "Tell me all that you know."
"I went to get some water last night and I heard stuff coming from the lab. I opened the door and hid behind the staircase. May was moaning and stuff while Tails would stop and ask her if she was ok or if she want him to stop and things like that. Other blurts I won't mention. May permitted him to continue every time. This lasted for about an hour, but who knows how long it was going on before that."
"Woah," Amy says with her hand over her mouth. "This is weird."
"I don't see it as weird. I feel like congratulating Tails for a job well done," Knuckles exclaims.
"I'd expect that coming from you," Amy remarks.
Tails yawns and opens his eyes. There's no windows down here so he can't tell if daytime or nighttime. He tries to stretch but notices that he can't move his right arm. He looks to his right and sees May on top of it. Being this nervous and confused in the morning is not good for him. He then remembers what happened last night. He slowly rolls May off of him without waking her. He then tries to free his hand. It doesn't work again. Because he tried to free his hand, May wakes up.
"This is surely bad. My hand is still stuck," Tails says. "What are we going to do now? I have to take a bath and stuff."
"That's ok Master Tails."
"What," Tails screams. "I mean, ok."
Amy and Knuckles enters the house.
"I think we should talk to Tails about this. It was probably just a huge misunderstanding," she explains.
"I hope it wasn't," Knuckles says. "They should be up by now. Let's go check the lab."
They enter the lab and find no one there. To the right of the bed is the bathroom down here. Amy and Knuckles being the curious people they are slowly open the door. They didn't really look around, but they did both May's kimono and Tails' shoes. Knuckles walks away and struggled to hold in his laughter while Amy is still in denial.
"It can't be real," Amy says. "It can't be."
"They are taking a bath together. What more proof do you need? Oh wait, I hear something."
Tails decided to give another go at trying to get his hand free. He's tried everything he could think of. He tried using the water to help him out. He tried using soap. He tried everything he could think of except for one other thing. He ran her tail through some very cold water. Low and behold, this did the trick. His hand slips off of her tail and he has never felt so free and alive, but now it finally kicks in to him that's he's in the bathtub with May.
"Well, I'm glad that's over," he says nervously in the corner.
"Yes, it great that you got your hand free," she replies. "But I'll kind of miss that feeling."
"Um, if you want I could massage your tail for you every night," he says while blushing. He's also congratulating himself inside of his mind for having the guts to say such a thing. He starts to build confidence. "You could also still sleep with me if you are not being Amy's hammer at the time."
"I would like that Master Tails," she replies with a smile.
Amy is sitting on a chair in across from the sofa. Knuckles is laying on the sofa. Tails and May walks in. Knuckles is just plain staring at him with a huge grin. Amy turns around with her eyes wide open. She pulls out her older hammer.
"You pervert," Amy screams with her mind clouded by anger. "Knuckles and I know everything!"
"What are you talking about," Tails says.
"You did things that are unspeakable to May. We heard them. We heard them all. Explain before I bash your head in!"
"Amy-sama, Tails hand got stuck to my tail." She turns around to show Amy that she has a tail. "To us spirits, our tails serves as a, well I don't know how to explain it but it feels weird in a good way. Tails spent all night trying to get his hand free. That explains what you probably heard. This morning he was able to get his hand free by running cold water while in the bath."
"And why was your hand stuck to her tail," Amy asks.
"After I finished engraving the ring, I decided to take a shortcut and stick the jewel to the ring. This was easier than trying to carefully place the jewel onto the ring. This way I was able to finish quicker. I was so happy about finishing that I forgot to wash my hands after finishing. I gave May the ring and she rocketed out of the hammer. The hammer disappeared so I ran and tried to catch May before she landed. That's how I got a hold of her tail."
"Explain May clinging on to you in your sleep," Amy says.
May starts to get embarrassed. "I cling onto the nearest thing in my sleep. It's an annoying habit of mine."
"Oh," Amy says. "See Knuckles, I told you it was all a big misunderstanding."
"What a total letdown," Knuckles remarks. "I actually thought you did something."
Tails just gives Knuckles a blank stare without saying a word. He kind of wished he did do something, but now he has a greater chance.