Eggman?
Dark Hallway
Tails was walking alone in a corridor. He was scared, yes, but he kept it together and walked through. He looked around for a second and noticed a glass divider, or what Tails thought was a mirror. He started making faces and the reflection had copied everything he did. This was going on for a few seconds until Tails knocked on the glass.
"Well, well, well, if it isn't little Tails." a voice was heard. It echoed across the room.
"Eggman?!" the reflection was heard talking and it creeped Tails out.
"I've kidnapped your friends. If you want them, come save them." Eggman started cackling. Tails flew into the door where his voice was coming from.
"Huh? The me in the mirror is..." Tails saw himself? Or at least someone who looked like him. "He beat me to the door." Tails was confused and went back from where he came.
Launch Base
Tails was on a platform that was rising to the Death Egg from his previous adventure. He looked around because he knew what to expect. Eggman was in one of his creations, Big Arm, and was ready to fight. He charged up a punch and Tails successfully dodged it. Tails performed a spin jump and damaged the robot. The first hit caused Eggman to start falling. He came back behind Tails and punched him hard enough to lose all of his rings. He barely collected them and hit Eggman once more. Eggman had enough of it and started flying back and fourth to try and grab Tails. If he grabbed him, he was going to slam him into the floor of the platform. Tails could not let that happen. He was successful on hitting Eggman's cockpit enough times to make him slow down a bit, but wasn't enough to actually defeat him. Eggman started shooting rockets, something that wasn't in the previous design. He dodged all of the rockets and used a spin attack on his cockpit again. Eggman's robot was starting to short circuit and Tails blasted through the robot itself. The robot had fell back to the ground below and Tails followed him. Both Eggman and Tails reach the launch base and Tails watched Eggman slam into the ground.
"*cough* *cough* *cough*" Eggman was coughing. Tails stepped forward a little to see if he could help him, but was blown away into the water by an explosion. Eggman was engulfed inside of a purple cloud.
"What? No! No! Tails! Help me!" Eggman had pleaded with Tails to assist him in escaping, but was in vein as it pulled Eggman into a portal. Tails flew out of the water back onto the catwalk and looked at what remained of Eggman's robot. Another portal opened and Tails jumped into it back into the white world.
White Space...
Sonic and Tails walk out of the boss gates and are met with many eyes. The other Sonic walked up to them.
"I can't believe there's two of me." Sonic looked at the other one, who was giving a thumbs up.
"Aha! I think I figured it out!" the little Tails said.
"Yeah, me too!" the bigger Tails added.
"Doubles of us..."
"Places and enemies from our past..." Both Tailses come together and conclude "We're travelling through time and space!"
"How did this happen?" Knuckles asked.
"I think it has something to do with that big thing that just kidnapped Eggman." Tails suggested.
"It sounds like the same thing that kidnapped your friends. I mean, OUR friends... you know what I mean." the little Tails was confusing himself.
"How did you know that Eggman was kidnapped?" the little Sonic asked.
"I heard Eggman pleading for help earlier." Tails replied. The ground started shaking for a bit before the monster from before was revealed. It came from a portal, waved its hand and caused a rip through the purple cloud that was blocking the path forward. The cloud revealed five more locations and three more figures standing in front of the second, third and fifth locations. The monster disappeared in another portal and left everyone speechless.
"Where'd it go?" the little Tails questioned.
"We need to find that thing, and fast!" Sonic concluded. The group proceeded to the next area before being halted by Amy.
"Wait a second, since there's eight of us, how will we address each other without getting confused?" she asked.
"Yeah, we won't know who is who!" Tails said.
"Maybe we can figure out something..." Sonic thought to himself. An idea sparked in his head. "How about this? Due to plot convenience, the little uses can be Classic, and we'll be Modern." Everyone agreed and kept proceeding to the next location.
