Tails and Cosmo fell off of the glider and Shadow dismounted it. Cosmo lay in Tails' arms, shaking over the horrifying experience that she had just miraculously lived through. Tails looked down at her. Though the battle had been won, his mind still couldn't rest. Come on Tails! This would be the perfect moment! She is upset; she is in your arms; she obviously cares for you. So why don't you make a move? It is so simple. Four little words that could change your life… Just say them… Tails only sighed at his thoughts.
Cosmo was very upset. Why did Tails choose me over Sonic? Does he love me that much? But, Sonic? Sonic the Hedgehog? Sonic, the adopted brother of Tails? How could Tails do that for me? I could barely believe that he managed to kill me that one time. But, this time, he had a choice, and he chose me… Cosmo looked up at Tails and he looked down at her.
"Tails… Why did you choose me? And how could you let Sonic…" Cosmo trailed off. Tails help her tightly as she began to cry.
"It's ok Cosmo…" Tails replied.
"It's all my fault isn't it? If I weren't for me ever appearing here in the first place, you never would have fallen in love with me, you wouldn't have had to shoot me and get broken up like you did, and you wouldn't have had to choose between me and Sonic! Once again, I find myself in a position where I shouldn't be born. All of the trouble I cause, it hurts others so much…"
"Cosmo! Who was it that ensured our victory over the Metarex? And who was it that helped me whenever I got stuck and Sonic wasn't there? It was you! You have helped us in ways that you don't realize. And even if killing you was hard on me… I-I can't forget all of the good times we had, and are still having. Th-the last few months have been the greatest in my life, and I wouldn't trade them for anything." Tails had begun choking on his words as he knew what was soon to come out. "Things like this, and feelings that you give me… They compel me to do something very out of my league, something bold, brazen, and definitely not like me, but they push me onwards anyway."
Cosmo had stopped crying and listened carefully to what Tails was saying. Oh please! Please say it! I can almost see it at the tip of your foxy tongue! Please! Ask me!
"Cosmo, I love you very much. And now I must ask… Cosmo, will you marry me?" Tails felt faint, his arms were trembling, though he wasn't sure if it was him, or Cosmo… It felt like an eternity as he waited for a response.
"Oh Tails! Thank you for asking it! Yes! Please! I accept! Take me away as your bride! I have been waiting for awhile now for you to ask it. But, I wasn't sure how long I could wait… You… You're just…" Cosmo hugged Tails, and the two fell merrily over hugging and kissing.
Shadow watched as the two fell more in love with one another than ever before.
"Shadow? Is that a teardrop I see?" Sonic asked quietly, not to break up the mood.
"No, but it may seem so, the water from the ocean must have got onto my face." Shadow was wiping the water away.
"Sure it did." Sonic said laughing a little. Shadow seemed a bit embarrassed, but his usual blank expression hid it well.
"Believe what you will, but the two have something to celebrate over. And it is a happy moment for them."
"Tails finally asked her? Right?"
"How'd you?"
"I'd know my little brother pretty well by now." Sonic smiled at the two. Cosmo looked up from her new fiancé for the first time since he proposed.
"Sonic! You're alive?" Cosmo was filled with even more glee.
"Yeah, I don't die for some reason. I just don't have time for it I guess." Sonic said in his usual cool tone.
"But how?" Cosmo asked.
"You see Cosmo, your back was turned for the event. I threw Sonic the chaos emerald to escape while I saved you." Tails smiles warmly at his soon-to-be-wife.
"You mean, you knew?"
"Well, I had a good hunch that Sonic would live, he usually gets lucky like that." Sonic smiled at this truth.
"Wow, I couldn't have done that. It was too risky."
"But it did work." Sonic stated.
"So when exactly should we get married?" Tails asked Cosmo, who scratched her head in thought.
"Though I fantasized the wedding, I never gave too much though on when exactly."
"Well, if you two don't mind, as soon as possible would be nice. We all know how I hate waiting…" Sonic said as he began doing something other than standing around. Tails looked at Cosmo with expecting eyes, suggesting the though again. Cosmo nodded in approval.
"Yes. Soon as possible would be tomorrow. Is that soon enough for you?" Tails spoke for them.
"That is perfect." Sonic began to walk off. "See you Tails, and Cosmo!" Sonic ran off, Tails and Cosmo heard him shouting as he ran. "Tails is getting married! Yahoo!" Sonic laughed as he ran through the forest in the dark of night. Shadow likewise mounted his glider and headed back to his base.
XT, who was in a tree watching the event, wanted to shed a tear to the event. His mind was filled with new tasks. Mission completed. Leave? No. Tails is not married, engagement shall end tomorrow. Must attend wedding. Plan: create wedding of their dreams. Where? Cosmo will blurt out. Follow for more information. He silently followed the two as they pranced, arm in arm, back to their house, which was miles away, in the romantic twilight.
Cosmo's mind was in a state of ecstasy. She was finally asked, by Tails, the husband of her dreams, to be married. And she accepted. Now, the two were skipping and dancing their way home, arm in arm. Nothing could make this occasion happier for them. Though, Cosmo had lots of planning in her head to do. She wanted to make this wedding perfect for her and Tails. Questions such as: Where is the wedding going to be held? What time is it going to be at? And, how should everything be set up for it? She couldn't hold it in much longer, so she began to ask Tails these questions.
"Tails? Where is this wedding going to be at?"
"Do you have any preference as to where? After all, I will be happy with it so long as you are." Tails smiled at her.
"Well, do you know anywhere that is like a garden?"
"Um… If we get a few people to help us, we could turn a section of the forest into a garden, fit for a wedding." Tails suggested as Cosmo's face lit up brighter than the sun.
"That would be perfect! And we could have little benches covered in flowers and the vines could be like banners! And we could use the stumps of trees as tables. Oh Tails! That is perfect! Who are we going to invite? And who's going to be your best man?"
"More than likely Sonic, I mean, he is the closest friend I have. You, of course, are closer though." Cosmo blushed.
"I'm thinking about inviting Amy. Cream would have been my choice, but, because she tried to kill me, I think Amy deserves the honor more. Who else? I mean, we can't just have two people come…"
"Well, we could have Knuckles, who most likely wouldn't want to miss this for anything. Shadow and Rouge could come if they wanted. But other than that, I'm not sure that many people would want to. If Cream's mother comes… Cream will be able to control herself, and might be ok with being there… But it's just a thought."
"Yeah, Cream can come. But I don't want her behind me. She can be in the crowd." Cosmo stated reluctantly.
"Still, wow. We're getting married! Isn't that cool?" Tails said, almost cheering.
"I know. But, can we legally do this? I mean… How old do you have to be?" Cosmo said worriedly.
"I don't know…" Tails looked downwards glumly. "But… there are benefits of being anthropomorphic creatures. We can lie about our age, and the government has to believe us. I mean, most foxes, though not anthropomorphic, only live to about ten. So, in theory, I'm like ninety in human years. Which is obviously not true, but still, they have no way of knowing my exact age. And you, you're an alien life form, so nobody knows your true age, but it's safe to say that you're not a normal flower."
"Right, I'm an anthropomorphic, human like flower. So how old would that make me?"
"Old enough to marry." Tails stated jokingly.
"Sounds good to me!" The two laughed at their conclusion as they slowly paraded on home.
XT wondered at their ideas. He waited for the two to go out of hearing range and he began to have a conversation with himself.
"Hmm, her ideas are good. But visualize them, I cannot. I must see exactly what she wants. Then their dream shall become a reality. This wedding shall be perfect. While she's sleeping in her bed, I shall see what's in her head. Her dreams, her thoughts and all of her wants, shall come out through me and into a reality. Ha! I love rhyming!" XT flew off to cut them off at their house.
Tails and Cosmo had just reached their house. It was about midnight, but their happiness overcame their exhaustion. Tails immediately went to the shower to wash off, and give Cosmo her fuzzy pillow. After running through the same procedure that he did early this day, he got out of the shower dried himself off. Cosmo had just finished changing into a pair of nighttime clothing, which was more or less a blue gown that contrasted off of her hair, but matched her eyes when Tails walked in.
"Your pillow is here!" Tails called as Cosmo ran, jumped, and clung to him like a magnet.
"So fuzzy…" Cosmo yawned as tiredness after a long, exciting day finally caught up to her.
"Ok then, let's go to bed. We've got a big day tomorrow." Tails stared down at Cosmo, dressed in her nightgown.
"Like my dress? I got it for special nights…" Cosmo asked with alluring eyes.
"It's really pretty Cosmo…" Tails yawned, half tired, half entranced by Cosmo. A wave of sleepiness came to both of them as they tried to woo one another.
"Tails… I feel abnormally… tired…" Cosmo yawned uncontrollably.
"So… do I… Why? Cosmo? Did you… put on a… new perfume?" Tails asked yawning.
"No…" The two both were knocked out cold, unable to do anything but sleep and dream of each other and their upcoming wedding. Little did they know, their culprit for their sleepiness was a pink, gaseous cloud.
XT walked into the room, a bit carelessly, but he knew that Tails and Cosmo would be out cold for at least three hours.
"That gas works nicely doesn't it?" XT asked the sleepers. "Nice to meet you in person again Tails, and Cosmo. Now if you don't mind, I need to see what's in your mind. This isn't as painful as it does seem, but it will allow me to see your dreams…" XT's arm adjusted to fit Cosmo's head. His fingers split into probes and entered her head. Cosmo made a slight flinch at this, but then remained unmoving. XT's eyes flipped over to reveal projectors that instantly began playing.
All of Cosmo's wild fantasies appeared on the wall. Her dreams for the wedding, the dress that she wanted, the dress that she wanted Tails to wear. Nothing was kept secret from this small procedure. XT saw exactly where in the forest Cosmo wished the marriage, also, she had two dreams. One was the marriage of Tails and herself in the forest. But, there was a nightmare that she had. In the nightmare, it was all too complicated for XT to sort out, but Cosmo seemed to be violently reacting to it on the bed, Cosmo and Tails were just about to get married, but then Dr. Eggman came in, and evaporated the rain with fire. Tails had been burnt by this fire and Cosmo too. She continued to burn until she was nothing but a pile of ash. But when Tails saw her like this, he turned away from her and went on to marry Cream. Cosmo was at this point in real life, shaking violently, enough to almost hurt herself because of XT's integration.
To stop her thrashing, XT took a cord from his head, and attached it to Tails, and then hooked that same cord to his arm that was inside Cosmo's head. On the projection wall, Tails reappeared, and in the middle of the wedding, a shady figure resurrected Cosmo, and she went to the wedding. In the middle of Tails and Creams wedding, Tails saw Cosmo again, and the two got married. It was then that Cosmo stopped shaking, and XT removed all of the cables and cords from them.
"Thank you for your time, I leave with a new quest. And I swear to you both, that this marriage will be the best!" XT left their house with a skip in his step and flew out, over to the forest. His work would take him through the night, and almost not be enough. But, he couldn't fail, so he succeeded.
It was now morning, and the sun was just about to rise. The forest, which was once a small clearing with a brook and a few trees, was now complete with flowering vines spread about the treetops, dazzling water features, brilliant flowers of perfect colors were organize to make an altar and a path leading to it, there was also a lot of benches. XT knew something that Tails and Cosmo didn't, or at least, not in the intensity that they imagined. Tails and Cosmo's wedding would be huge, far larger than they expected. And XT was going to help trigger that.
XT flew off to Cosmo's and Tail's house. When inside, he saw how the two were no longer under the influence of his anesthetic. He picked Cosmo up and flew her off to the city, making sure to keep her asleep.
He flew to Amy's house and dropped Cosmo off there. Amy was already awake.
"Hello Xavier! Did you hear the news? Cosmo's getting married!"
"Shush, she needs her sleep, when she awakes, get her to the tailor's shop and buy her the dress of her dreams. I will give you this much to pay for any extra." XT handed Amy a ton of cash.
"Whoa! Where do you get this much?"
"I manufacture it on my own, but keep that part quiet, and no one shall know… Go into the forest, if you can't find the place where the wedding shall be held, Cosmo knows it. Goodbye, and good luck." XT jetted off into another part of the city.
XT landed in front of the building of the government. He marched in, regardless of the time.
"Can someone please help me? I'm looking for a person who can legally get two married." XT announced to the seemingly empty building.
"Little robot, we only serve living beings at this place." A human answered.
"I work for live beings though, and will not leave here until my mission is complete."
"Fine then, who is it that you serve?"
"Miles 'Tails' Prower, and his girlfriend Cosmo."
"Wait, are these humans? Or anthropomorphic creatures? It is a different process for anthropomorphic creatures."
"They are indeed anthropomorphic creatures."
"Then you need to fill out this form, it is different, and will be categorized into the anthropomorphic creatures census, not the human census."
"Fine, give me that…" XT grabbed a pen and hastily, but accurately, filled out the form. "There you go sir."
"Thank you, and as of this time Cosmo and Miles are legally married. May I ask sir, what is your name? And how do you know the two?"
"I am Xavier; model number XT-421 of the Rinocian Empire. I am a fully sentient artificial intelligence robot. I am on a mission; to heal the hearts of beings throughout the universe and beyond. I hope we need not meet again sir, good day to you." XT left the building with a renewed disdain of discrimination.
"And now, a new outfit for me for the big day. Yay!" XT walked over to the tailor's place and entered.
"Is there a person to help me get an outfit?" XT asked to the open space that was the tailor's house.
"Yes, for a small price." A cheery voice chimed in.
"Ah, thank you. I am in need of a set of robes, preferably silver and lavender, that comes with a hood."
"Um, this may take a bit…"
"Do you have the materials? A little girl by the name of Cosmo is going to be married today, and I mustn't be seen, or known, by her."
"Yes, I have them, but not fabricated into clothing."
"Then I can do it myself. Here, could you make the dress shown in the hologram?" XT handed over some of his barely authentic currency to the tailor, along with a small disk that gave off a shimmering image of Cosmo in her wedding dress.
"Ok, sure, it'll be ready in about an hour, but she'll have to come here to get it fitted." The tailor said as he walked away.
XT went to work immediately. Like a spider, his legs and arms were working in perfect harmony as he spun his hooded robes. When he was complete, he left, putting the clothes into a compartment inside his chest, for later use. It was now about seven o' clock, and XT had one last thing on his agenda; to tell everybody about the wedding. He began manufacturing flyers, advertizing Mobius's greatest sidekick's wedding. XT knew that this would attract people and fans alike. So he worked with great haste as he flew through the city, and beyond posting the wedding flyers.