"Welcome to Station
Square." Said the female digitized voice of the train system. Getting off
the train was easy for Tails since he and one fat man with glasses in a
explorer's outfit were the only passengers on this train trip.
The Fox Kitesune had been spending
every usable waking hour on the bi-plane/fighter, Tornado 3, Sonic wanted
the by-plane to rest in peace, but Tails was determined to resurrect the
air craft.
Now he had finally
finished the majority of the work and the plane was ready to fly at long
last. Except he had no one to show it off to. Knuckles couldn't care less
about the fox's 'new toy', Big when he could be found was more interested
in the latest fishing gear, as for Sonic, Sonic Adventure 2 was keeping
him VERY busy. It had to have been months since they had gone snow boarding
together. And Tails had all this free time for one simple reason, he just
wasn't in Sonic Adventure Two, more than that, he was scrapped, canned,
terminated. He was gone.
He was Tails,
the fox Kitesune who had been with Sonic since after Sonic 1. Most people
thought of them as inseparable, guess not, the most recent polls said people
recognized Knuckles more than him. That was a shocker. He guessed
a rival was more interesting than a side kick. The real reason he had spent
so much time on Tornado Three was because he didn't want to think about
this bad dream he was in. He kept hoping to wake up.
He thought his role in Sonic Adventure One
was a prelude to something bigger, turns out they just wanted to end his
career on a high note. Sonic Shuffle was a joke.
He had taken the train leaving Mystic Ruins
last night and had ended up sleeping on the way over, he had dreamed about
the REAL first time he had met Sonic.
On Westside Island where the fox
kitesune had lived his whole life he had seen a air plane go down, while
the other animals ran away Tails went to it curiously. That was when, when
he got to the beach that he saw something fast coming up the beach, Tails'
animal fear temporary took over and he hid behind some bushes, that
was when he saw the "thing" was a blue hedgehog. Incredibly the first thing
that entered Tails' mind was: 'I can run faster than that.' Twirling his
Tails behind him, Sonic didn't realize he had a follower until he got back
to the Tornado One which he had left to scout out the island. When Tails
saw it he fell instantly in love with its mechanics. He had also made a
new friend. Amy didn't know it. Few people did. But Sonic CD had been a
prelude to him. He had his 'See You Later' image in the game as an Easter
Egg. Few people ever found it, though.
The morning
light over the ocean was a spectacular sight, but Tails wasn't there for
vacation. A funny thought now that he was on a permanent one. There was
one person left who didn't have something to do and *maybe* could relate
to the new and improved Tornado Three.
It four forms now, and Tails had even fixed it so it could land
in it's x-wing shape, along with some booster rockets and also made out
of tougher yet lighter materials.
And that person was Amy. True,
she totally ignored him in Sonic Adventure, and he had done the same, but
he had to admit she was cute. He wondered if she felt the same. Tails realized
he was blushing when he felt the warmth in his cheeks.
Only a car or two occupied the roads in front of the train station facing the beach side, mainly because
most people hadn't even had their morning coffee yet.
Tails walked down the station steps ignoring the other passenger,
but he did hear a little girl yelp 'Daddy' and turned around to see the
fat man hugging a little girl.
Tails shrugged, thinking of how long that girl had waited for her father
to return for *once* in Sonic Adventure, he was also pleased to see he
had survived Perfect Chaos, the city had needed major rebuilding and repopulating
after that nightmare.
He knew where Amy's apartment was, and entered the hotel without
any problems. The place had been repaired and rebuilt almost to be identical
to what it was before, except for that ladder next to the welcome desk
leading up to a storage room at Tails' guess.
Walking up the stairs,
Tails counted doors until he came to Amy's apartment number. He knocked
a few times but no answer came. He tried again with similar results. He
listened though the door and heard nothing, Amy could've been asleep. She
and Sonic were more alike than the two of them knew and being a late sleeper
was just one of the many traits they shared along -with ego to name another. But Tails ears were known for being acute, and he didn't even hear breathing
inside the apartment.
"Amy? It's me, Tails.
I want to talk to you . . . . . you home? OK, I'm coming in." Then Tails
realized that was stupid since he didn't have a key, then he was shocked
to find it unlocked. For Amy to forget to lock her door wasn't like Amy,
true, a shoe sale could take her mind off things if a nuclear bomb was
on the way (OK, that's pushing it to the extreme, Tails knew she was a
ditz, but she was not a dingbat.), but forgetting to lock her door wasn't
like her.
Coming in quietly, Tails looked around at the apartment. It was
obvious that Amy hadn't been taking care of this place, or herself. He
took hold of a bottle he recognized from last year's New Year's party off
the kitchen table that was a right next to the door and took a whiff and
covered his nose. Yep, it was the same bottle alright.
Tails entered Amy's
room and found clothes everywhere, but no sign of Amy, he looked the three
room apartment over carefully, but no sign of Amy. Where could she be?
Tails felt a sick feeling in the pit of his stomach.
"Amy . . ." He whispered.
note: orginally I had the Tornado III as a pure x-fighter, but I decided
to change it to fit in with SA2.
Flames, comments, and the occasional constructive crictizem all welcome.
