div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" As Tails entered his workshop, he was extremely creeped out when he saw the Tails Doll sitting on his bed, playing on an Xbox. Tails didn't even have an Xbox, so that did not even make sense./div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "What's going on?!" Tails yelled. The Tails Doll turned his head slowly to look at Tails whilst creepy boyish laughter filled the room./div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "Asari…" He mumbled, although he didn't have a mouth./div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" Tails was extremely creeped out. He slammed the door and began flying off somewhere./div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" Maybe I should go back to Angel Island, he thought, since I don't know where Sonic went and I want to know what's going on with Knuckles…actually, Knuckles has been getting progressively grumpier since I first met him…that's sort of weird, actually… /div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" Tails landed down on the weird floating island and looked around, however he could not see anything or anyone./div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "Hello?" He yelled. "Knuckles?"/div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "Oh, hello, little cutie!" Exclaimed a familiar creepy woman voice. Tails turned around./div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "Rouge!" He growled. "What do you want? Why are you here?"/div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "Nothing, really, just hovering around as usual." Rouge replied./div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "What do you know about Dr. Eggman's plan?" Tails asked. "What's the condition?"/div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" Rouge walked up to Tails, got really freakishly close to him and tried to wrap her arm around him, but he backed away. "Cutie, dear, you are much, much too young for that." She whispered./div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "What?" Tails cried. "Can't you just tell me what Eggman's doing, then?" /div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "No." Rouge mumbled, backing away from Tails. "It's a secret…"/div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "Yeah, right!" Tails argued. "For all I know, he's not even doing anything!"/div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "Oh, no, he is doing something, all right…" Rouge said as she began flying away./div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "Oh no…" Tails mumbled. A feeling of dread began to creep up him. Something just didn't seem right lately. Dr. Lee Thompson, Knuckles, the lip ad, Rouge…what's going on? Tails thought. Are these strange things connected, even? Or are they not related? Something just seems really…off…/div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "Knuckles!" Tails shouted again. "Hello?"/div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "What?!" Someone shouted from behind Tails. He turned around. /div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "Oh, hi, Knuckles…" Tails exclaimed. "Hey, where's that stupid emerald thing? Please don't tell me it got stolen…"/div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "No, I hid it a while back before we went to that weird giant egg building…" Knuckles said. "But really, I have a feeling Eggman doesn't really want it anymore, which is weird…what do you want, anyway?"/div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "Well, when I got back home, the Tails Doll was in my room and he freaked me out so I decided to go find someone, and…Knuckles, what's going on?" Tails explained./div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "What do you mean?" Knuckles asked./div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "Well, why have you been acting all grumpy lately? Like especially about your parents and the 'one condition' thing…" Tails replied./div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "Because I don't want to talk about either of those subjects!" Knuckles shouted./div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "Why?" Tails asked./div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "Because I just DON'T! What part of that don't you get?" Knuckles replied./div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "Fine!" Tails cried. "By the way, did you see Rouge a moment ago?"/div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "Yeah, why?" Knuckles asked./div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "What was she doing?" Tails wondered./div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "Being annoying as usual…" Knuckles muttered. "Telling me about the condition…"/div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "Why is she so obsessed with that, anyway? What is it?" Tails wondered./div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "Nothing!" Knuckles yelled. "She's obsessed with it because she's Rouge! Actually, she's been obsessed with it ever since I first met her! It's so freaking annoying! It's partially why I hate her!"/div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "Wait…she's been mentioning it from the start?" Tails exclaimed. "How come I've never…"/div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "Yeah…" Knuckles grumbled. "I freaking hate Rouge."/div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" Tails stood there in thought for a moment. "Hey, you know when before we got to the giant egg building, and you were saying that you felt someone was following…wouldn't that have been Rouge? I mean, she did suddenly appear in the top room of that building…"/div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "Well, she was stalking me at first, but when I said it felt like someone was following us, it didn't seem like it was Rouge…" Knuckles explained. "But then again, I guess it might have been. I don't know."/div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "I wonder who else it could have been…" Tails mumbled, suddenly feeling uneasy again./div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "You know, Tails…" Knuckles began, "how you always go on about how you're 'not a big fan of romance'?"/div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "Oh, please!" Tails moaned. "If you're going to tell me how 'I'll like it when I'm older', then I might as well just leave now!"/div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "I never said that!" Knuckles cried. "I was just, um, wondering…why?"/div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "Because it's annoying and weird, and, well, people act all weird when they're in love, and I don't like kissing! It's gross!" Tails exclaimed. "I mean, maybe I will like it when I'm older…I don't really know… I just know that I don't right now."/div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "Well, you probably will…un…"/div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "What?" Tails said./div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "You know, a lot of kids think the same thing that you do, Tails…" Knuckles remarked. "But like, ninety-nine percent of them end up liking it anyway…then there's just that one percent that don't…"/div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" Tails looked around as it suddenly became awkwardly silent. "Well, then." He exclaimed. "I'm kind of scared to go back home with the Tails Doll being all creepy while playing a shooting game on an Xbox."/div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "You don't even have an Xbox!" Knuckles exclaimed./div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "I know! I don't know where it came from!" Tails cried. "Well, it could take ages before finding Sonic…do you mind if I could just um, wait in your, um, home while I try to get a hold of Sonic?"/div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "Um, no…" Knuckles mumbled. "How are you supposed to get a hold of Sonic?"/div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" Tails magically pulled a strange cellphone-looking device out of his fur as they began walking to wherever Knuckles' home was, since Tails couldn't see it anywhere. "This amazing device I built!" He exclaimed. "See, this antenna sends off waves…" He began babbling on about how his device worked./div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "Tails!" Knuckles cried./div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "Oh, sorry." Tails mumbled. "Long story short, it's pretty much like a phone thingamajigger."/div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "Uh, okay?" Knuckles said./div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" Tails began looking behind him. "Quite a nice view from up here, huh?" He exclaimed. "Knuckles?" He looked back, noticing Knuckles had suddenly vanished. "Where are you?" Maybe he ditched me? Tails thought. No…I don't think… Suddenly he noticed a hole in the ground with stairs in it./div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "Oh, of course!" Tails exclaimed randomly. "I was wondering where your home was…" He walked down the stairs into Knuckles' "house" thing./div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "It's kinda dark in here…" Tails complained./div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "So?" Knuckles said. /div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" Tails began to call Sonic on his device. However, after a few long moments, he did not appear to have any luck getting a hold of Sonic. He sighed./div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "Sometimes it just doesn't work." He grumbled. He began to sit down, however he accidentally knocked over something which seemed to be a box and he noticed a random hole in the wall./div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "What's that?" Tails exclaimed. "Where does it go?"/div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "Oh, uh…" Knuckles mumbled. "That goes to my old house…like where I grew up…"/div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "Can I go over there?" Tails asked excitedly, already beginning to climb inside./div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "Uh, Tails, are you sure you really want to go over there? I mean, it was blocked for a reason…" Knuckles asked./div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "Why, is it haunted? Did someone die there?" Tails shuddered at the thought of ghosts./div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "What? I don't know…I mean, uh, actually, someone did, now that I remember…" Knuckles mumbled./div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "Who?" Tails asked quietly./div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "Just go check it out!" Knuckles exclaimed, trying to get Tails away since he did not feel like talking about it./div
div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" "Okay…fine…" Tails began crawling through the tunnel over to Knuckles' old home./div