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What's the plan Tails?
The room was adorned with various computer equipment and testing devices. There was a huge computer monitor embedded in the wall at the end of the room about 3 meters in width with a large console to input data into it at the base. Tails wheeled over a chair to elevate himself to the console and stood on it.
Tails: Are all of the sensors and cameras in this place hooked up to this terminal?
Dr. Albert: Yes.
Tails: Thank you.
Tails started typing on the keyboard at about an average of 160 words per minute. Tails quickly broke through the firewall and hacked the security system.
Dr. Albert: Wait, what are you doing?
Tails: I disabled the security system in this complex because it is the only way to keep Eggman from seeing and hearing what we are planning.
Dr. Albert: You mean Eggman hacked our system already?
Tails waved his head yes. "Yep, and he already knows that we are here in this cave. Luckily, he doesn't know where this cave is."
Dr. Albert: We need to get out of here and let the others know!
Tails stopped typing and turned around in the chair to face the human scientist. "Dr. Robotnic is always a step ahead. The only way to get a step ahead of him is to use your head." Tails turned around in the chair to face the monitor again. "Just give me a few minutes to look through your data, then we can worry about Eggman spying on us. We may not get another opportunity to use a console like this to plan an attack."
Albert was visibly torn on whether or not he should listen to this child like fox or run out and warn everyone about Eggman. However his concerns about the competency of the fox soon waned because he recognized the equation that Tails was calculating. "Wait, you will need help with that. It took us weeks to figure out…" but before he could finish his sentence Tails had already solved the equation and achieved more than he had in months. His eyes widened as he watched the puzzle unravel before him.
Tails sighed, "It's a well conceived plan you humans have but it won't work."
Tails: Wait. What's this capsule that Chris Thorndyk was working on! Where is it?
The scientist pulled it out of his pocket in a small box with a clasp on it. Tails opened the box and admired the sight before him. It was a high tech piece of equipment shaped almost exactly like a pill that you swallow. A mystical glow emanated from it and seemed to shimmer different colors in response to the environment around it. Tails teared up at the sight.
Tails: Chris told me that he was working on something big… Something he couldn't tell me about yet because he was afraid that Eggman would find out soon. I never knew what it was and always just assumed that Eggman got a hold of it. I'm glad to see that it ended up in your hands doctor.
Dr. Albert: We never could figure out what it does. We have had the worlds top scientists study it for decades and they never could decipher it's programming.
Tails: Why? Is it encoded?
Dr Albert: It is, but we eventually figured out the language. It's the complexity of the code itself that baffled us.
Tails turned around to face the doctor again with a visibly pained look in his eyes. "Chris Thorndyke was a good friend of mine, killed by Dr. Robotnik.
Dr. Albert: I'm sorry.
Tails: It's alright doctor. The pain of a lost loved one never completely goes away. What you probably don't know is that Chris Thorndyke became the greatest scientific mind of either mobias or earth.
The Dr. was intrigued. "Greater than Dr. Robtnik? Greater than, um, you?" Tails smiled at the scientists' assessment of his intellect.
Tails: You flatter me doctor. I don't know if I am smarter than Robotnik. I haven't really had the time to find out the past 5 years. What I do know is that Chris became far smarter and wiser than even Eggman. It is probably why Eggman took Chris's life. Do you have a pair of pliers doctor?
Albert went over to the tool bench, picked one up and handed it to Tails.
Tails: It's time we find out what Chris was planning.
Dr Albert: Are you sure that's a good idea? We don't have much time.
Tails: Believe me doctor; this time couldn't be better spent. It could be our only hope.
Albert looked up at the monitor, oblivious as to the meaning of most of the equations that Tails worked through. Then Tails started calculating through equations that no human could solve for years. However, he did understand the results of the equations, and the results stunned the Doctor. Dr Albert walked over to Tails and fell on his knees before Tails.
Tails turned around in the chair, surprised to see the full-grown man bury his face into his tiny sneakers, sobbing.
Dr Albert: Please tell me it isn't true Tails. Please!
Tails gently reached down, gently rubbed the mans hair with his gloved hand and used his good tail to reach around and lift his chin.
Tails: I'm afraid it is true doctor. These two worlds are going to intersect with each other and both will be completely destroyed.
Dr. Albert: I have a family and kids! I've worked my entire life to build a better world for them! Now none of it matters!
Tails: There is hope doctor.
Albert raised his teary gaze to meet Tails'. "There is?"
"It's going to take me, Sonic, and…" Tails reached down for the small pill like device and enclosed it in it's case again, "…the help of a long lost friend."
Dr. Albert: What do we do?
Tails: You are going to have to trust me doctor.
Dr. Albert nodded, "I do."
Tails: Ok, the humans out there aren't going to understand if we tell them there has been a change in plans. So, we are going to have to make them think we are carrying out their original plan while secretly performing ours.
Dr. Albert: Ok.
Tails: Here is the plan…
