Wave rolled on the bed once more, the talk she had with Shadow still lingered. He didn't stay that long, apparently GUN was a lot more restrictive to him because the people no longer trusted him. He never got to clarify that the Shadow that joined Infinite was a fake one, not him, so he was under constant vigilance. He said something about a robot Shadow that Tails sent that could blow up the entire facility in seconds. The longer he stayed here, the more likely the robot would starting causing troubles. It was official; there was nothing that Wave could take like a joke right now.

He also explained that they were a lot less lenient on anthros. The reputation that the heroes had created was gone, a lot of those vigilantes were ordered to stop or joined legal armed forces. Rouge had actually stopped working with them because her number of crimes was too big for them to ignore. He was confident she was fine. He ended explaining that no one was the same. Some way or another, everyone had changed a little, usually for the worst. They still had some recovery to do. Oh, lets also not forget about the advise of not pressing Tails bottoms too much. Or that she might regret it.

*But how will I be able to do that? That the best part of being close to that idiot.*She thought. Another spin on the bed and she decided to do something useful with her insomnia.


Tails was at a dark forest, running as fast as he could. He tried to ignore the cuts caused by the branches, which pierced through his skin and fur. His was dragging around his famous pair of tails, the pair was broken and damaged, each step bringing him pain. The adrenaline in his mind was the only thing permitting him to keep going. In the distance, you could hear the squeaks of birds: these were endless, unnerving and constantly growing.

"There he is!" Miles heard. A pair of unclear shades were a little further away. He stopped and scanned his surroundings, searching of an escape route. Behind him, another group of shadows loomed and was getting closer.

He went to his right, were he hoped to lose them. Instead, he found a dead end, a cliff was the only thing in front of him. If he were to jump, the fate would be to land on sharp shaped rocks and/or drowning in the sea. He turned around, the humanoid shadows just became bigger and bigger, now reaching the size of giants. For each step they took, Tails did a back step too, the horror of them catching him was unbearable. He made up his mind. He bent back and let gravity catch him, feeling the wind that represented him falling start. Barely a second happened before… something surrounded him, felling like tiny bullets grazing his body and cutting him even further, his whole body feeling in fire. That wasn't the scariest part, however: the scariest part was that they were pushing him back up. The thing that he couldn't understand was defeating gravity and slowly but surely, put him back at the reach of his attackers.

He tried to lift himself, try anything to escape or fight back, but before he could achieve anything, they put a foot on Tails head, heavily. The rest joined him, stomping him all over his body, laughing as they humiliated him. In the pain, in the suffering, he kept hearing a single thing among the chaos. A single word kept ranging and ranging, growing in volume, clear even if everything else was becoming more and more blurry. "Kill." The word kept repeating itself on his head. "Kill. Kill. Kill"

Tails woke up, sweat all over his body, his breath was ragged. He checked his arms, noticing that he had no injury in them. *Kill.*His head started aching, each pulsation was like a hit in the head, hits that were getting worse and worse. *Kill.* He opened a drawer from the night table, one containing syringe. He immediately injected himself in the arm. *Kill.* He lifted himself from the bed, feeling nausea and sickness. However, the headache diminished, the voice going softer and softer. *Kill her before she gets youuu* The voice finally subsided, as well of the pain. He sat on the floor needing a minute to restore his strength.

"It´s Ok. It is ok. You knew this would happen. Nothing you can't handle." He told himself between breaths

He considered going back to sleep but with that scary dream still present, he thought to walk a bit. "Maybe something to eat won't hurt."

So he went to his kitchen, grabbed a donut and went back to bed, or that was the plan until he saw a light coming from a dark room. The computer room.

Wave was typing instructions as a madman, trying to bypass Tails passwords and firewalls and failing so far. Suddenly, the lights went on. She froze in place, gulping. "Shit."

"Couldn't wait until morning?" Tails asked smiling, a -busted- smile on his face. Wave remained silent for a moment, processing the fact that Tails was shirtless only wearing pj pants; the only thing happening on her was that her eyes were slowly going lower and lower over the fox. "Um, Wave, my eyes are up here."

"You are fat!" She shouted in disbelief.

"That´s… all you can say?" He said in a disappointed way. He knew he had added a few pounds, his stomach looking plump and squashy instead of slim and defined as it once was. But he wasn't that fat.

"YOU ARE SO FAT!" She repeated, still not fully processing it.

"It is called skinny fat, for your info."

"YOU ARE FATTER THAN BIG THE CAT."

"I am not that fat!" He shouted, completely losing his composure.

"Fat!" She said before slapping his Stomach. Miles head turned completely red.

"Stop that!" the fox shouted and tried to hit the girl´s hand but she was fast enough to avoid it.

"You are too slow." She mocked in a singing manner, a victory for her. Like she had thought before, touching his bottoms was the best. "You will thank me later. I would also avoid mid-night snacks if I were you." She commented when the fox was about to take another bite at his donut. He stopped and gave it a look, almost not eating it. He still did.

"Whatever."

"That reminds me, why are you wearing clothers? Shadow was also wearing clothes at all times. And you are wearing pants right now. I forgot to ask Shadow."

"Some crazy princess from a place called Soleanna obsessed over the idea of anthros and humans having cross species relationships. Intimate relationships. I think no man wanted to get laid with her." He explained, a bit of frustration coming out of his body. "The trend spread like fire, but now, people started saying that clothless anthros are teasing people and are ´vulgar´ so now all anthros must at least wear clothes to hide the private areas."

"That´s bullshit."

"I know, right?" He answered.

"Seriously, a world barely managing to keep itself together and that´s what has people concerned?"

"To be fair, the world has been literally broken apart before and we managed fine."

"One would think that nothing could take us by surprise at this point. Yet somehow, more and more absurd things keep going on and on and on."

"Yeah." Both remained silent for a moment, feeling surprisingly comfortable with the other. The whole demeanor that Tails was boasting before was lost. "Soooo, what were you trying to do in the computer?"

"...You aren't going to murder you if the thing I wanted to use it is not of your liking?" The tense atmosphere was back in that instant.

"I might do something dire if I don't get an answer."

"Look, I just wanted to look the news. It is clear that I don't know everything that has happened even with Shadows explanation. And, I am apparently your prisoner so what options do I have?"

"There was a TV with cable in your room."

"Nobody sees TV anymore. Did it suddenly grow back in popularity?"

Tails looked at her with a careful eye. He then sighed. "The password is tailsgottagofast. All in lowercase, replace t with seven and o with zeros." Wave answered by lifting one of her eye lashes, not telling him anything else. "Look, if I know you like I think I do, you won't rest until you get access to anything here. That would mean that you would tear everything apart to do so if necessary. I prefer to let you in peacefully rather to start a war in my house."

Wave blinked twice. The young fox looked and acted differently. More approachable. It was not the wannabe Eggman he was just that evening. She introduced the password and finally the computer entered. "OK. Why is your password gotta go fast? Like seriously?!" She quipped.

Tails smiled weakly at her remark, with an honest smile. "Goodnight Wave. Don't burn down the house in my sleep." He said as he walked away.

"Wait." Wave said, and Tails stopped and turned around. She actually stopped to reconsider what she was about to do, since the fox was so unpredictable and changing. She decided to keep with her plan. "Do you keep in touch with everyone? Like, you know where they are and what they are doing right now?"

"With the majority, yes."

"How is Cream doing? And her mother Vanilla?" The moment the words left her mouth she immediately regretted asking. Tails opened his eyes a lot, looking surprised. He looked away, not wanting to talk about the topic. Wave knew that she had just fucked up big time.