Chapter 4- The Deepest Love
Station Square
Tails sat, perched on the roof of one of the tallest buildings in Station Square. He sat near the edge to get nice view of the city. It was late in the morning and the sun shined pleasantly over the city. Tails enjoyed soaking up the rays of the sun. He could lie down and bathe in the sun's radiance all day. It also helped take his mind off the events that happened a few days ago. That scene with Knuckles was still nagging in the back of his mind.
"Why does that guy have to be a total jerk? How many times did I help him protect the Master Emerald? How ungrateful can you get? I have a good mind to go right back to that island and just steal the Master Emerald right from under him."
Tails got up and started pacing back and forth over the roof, still thinking.
"No. I can't just go and steal it. Even if I could get away with it, it's not my way to steal things. I could ask Rouge to do it for me. No. That doesn't change anything. Getting her involved with this would make everything too complicated."
Tails walked over to the edge of the roof and sighed. "I can't think about this anymore. I should just relax right now.I know. I'll go see Sonic."
Sonic's House
"It's been days since I last spoke to Sonic. Let's see what he's up to."
Tails walked up to Sonic's doorstop and opened the door without even ringing or knocking. He knew Sonic wouldn't care.
"Hey, Sonic," Tails wave and yelled out a hearty greeting.
"Hi, Tails," Sonic returned the greeting. "What's up, bro?"
"Not much. Just wanted to see ya. It's been awhile and the last couple of days really sucked. I didn't want to just be alone thinking about it, so I decided to see how you were doing."
"Actually, I'm still recovering from my birthday party from last week," Sonic said with a laugh as he rubbed his forehead.
"I hear that. That was the craziest party we ever threw. You were such a drunkard."
"Look who's talking. You drank like an animal, too."
Tails blushed. "It was the first time I ever had alcohol. I didn't know what would happen. But I never threw up," he said proudly. "You're lucky you didn't get arrested for serving alcohol to minors."
"Tails, we were all minors. Besides, you fight evil and build starships. You design weapons that are probably illegal. The term 'underage' doesn't really apply to you. Anyways, I thought you'd appreciate being treated like an adult for once."
"I do appreciate it, Sonic. You stopped acting like a parent and started becoming more like a friend. And that's what I've always wanted. And as you're best friend, I should warn you, you can do some pretty crazy things when you get drunk."
"Yeah? Like what"
Tails chuckled just by thinking about what he was about to say. "Well, ummmm, you did this really exotic dance. I'm not sure what it was called. Amy knew the name. By the way, you were hitting on her."
"What?"
"And Cream."
"Really?"
"And Knuckles."
Sonic scratched his head and looked bewildered. "You're really serious about all that? I don't remember a thing."
"It's no big deal, Sonic. Amy was tipsy also. Cream's mom took her home before it got too crazy. And Knuckles passed out on the couch and forgot everything. Did you know that he passed out after only one beer? He's a total lightweight."
"Really. Heh. That Knux. He'd probably lie if he was asked."
"So what else have you been doing besides sobering up?"
"Actually, I've been pretty busy lately, buddy."
"Doing what?"
"I've been having fun with the new birthday present you get me, bro." Sonic motioned his hands towards the big computer on his desk.
"Oh, yeah. I forgot all about it. I worked around with it so it would give you the fastest internet connection ever."
"I would never use it if it weren't that fast," Sonic proudly answered. "It's one of the best birthday presents I've ever got."
"Wait a minute," Tails said as he gave a sly smile. "I know what you've really been up to. You've been looking at porn on internet, haven't you?" Tails pointed an accusing finger at the hedgehog.
"What?" Sonic yelled in disbelief. "What makes you think I would do that?"
"Come on, Sonic. You can't fool a computer whiz. If you've been looking at porn, I'll be able to tell."
Tails jumped onto Sonic's chair and started playing around on his computer.
"Let's see how many gigs you've downloaded already." Tails said as he browsed through Sonic's desktop. "Well, I'll be. You really haven't been looking at porn. My bad," Tails grinned sheepishly.
"Told ya. Now get, off," the hedgehog commanded. "I've got a lot of fan mail to answer."
Suddenly, Tails felt a rumbling in his stomach. "Yeah. That reminds me. I'm staaaaaaarrrving," Tails moaned as he rubbed his stomach. "Ya got anything to eat?"
"Check the fridge," Sonic pointed his finger towards his kitchen.
Tails hopped over to the kitchen and opened the fridge door with enthusiasm. It was empty, except for an expired bottle of milk and some old Chinese cartons.
"I swear, I've known him my whole life and I don't get him at all. How could anyone have an empty fridge with nothing but rotten food? He must have eaten everything already and he's too lazy to go shop again."
"There's nothing good in your fridge," Tails whined. "Don't you have any birthday cake left?"
"You ate the whole thing, remember?" Sonic scolded. "I didn't even have any."
"It must not have been a very big cake then. You should try something larger next time," Tails rebutted.
"It was a wedding cake!"
The vulpine let go of the cake argument after he heard that and changed to a different topic. "Do you have any ice cream left? I'm sure nobody finished all of that."
"You left it out last time and it all melted."
"So? They turn into milkshakes! They're great!"
"You're hopeless," Sonic sighed.
Tails opened the freezer door and found a bunch of chili dogs lying in the back.
"Hey, Sonic. I found some chili dogs. Can I eat them?
"Were they in the freezer?" Sonic hollered back.
"Yeah."
"Don't eat those. They're like three months old," he cautioned.
"I don't mind. I'm sure they taste just fine. I mean, they were in the freezer and all."
"Fine," Sonic shrugged. "But don't blame me if you get sick."
Tails ignored Sonic's warnings and threw the chili dogs in the microwave.
"So what's eating you, anyway?" Sonic continued the conversation from across the room while he worked on the computer.
"Eating me? No Sonic, I'm the one doing the eating right now. Although I hear that when you get really hungry, you technically do start to eat yourself. Your body feeds off the reserves of fat that you have inside you or something. I read about in-"
"No. I meant what's bothering you. You said you were upset."
"Oh, yeah. But I came here because I wanted to forget about that right now. It's not a big deal. I just got into a fight with Knuckles. That's all."
"Well, I'm glad you're not letting him get to you, little bro. I'm proud of you. It's good to know when to be cool and not let things get to you. Being chilled out has always been my specialtAAAAAHHH! Damn it to Hell!"
Sonic let out a painful scream just as the microwave dinged to tell Tails that his chili dogs were done. "Sonic! What's wrong?" Tails grabbed the chili dogs out of the microwave, threw them on a plate, and heroically dashed into the living room, with chili dogs in hand. "Don't worry, Sonic! I'm coming!" he cried.
Sonic was just sitting at his computer, but his head was hanging low, trying to avoid looking at the screen.
"Sonic, what's wrong? Did something happen?"
The hedgehog pointed towards his computer screen and in a grumpy voice said, "Look."
Tails stared at the screen. He didn't see anything strange. Then, he noticed that an AIM thing was on screen. He bent down to get a closer look and read it. The message was written in pink and the screen name was Amyrulz.
Amyrulz: Hi, Sonic!
"That's it? You're freaking out because Amy is online?" Tails asked as he bit into a chili dog.
"What do you mean 'that's it?' This is a big deal Tails. What am I supposed to do?"
Amyrulz: r u there?
"You know she's never gonna go away. I'm gonna be stuck talking to here all day. Damn it! Why did I sign up for this thing in the first place?"
Amyrulz: Sonic! I know you're there. Come on out
"Just talk to her, Sonic."
"OK. OK," he groaned and reluctantly typed in a response
Blublur15: hi, amy.
Amyrulz: hi, sonniku
"I hate it when she calls me that."
Amyrulz: I miss you, sonikku. I haven't seen you in a week.
Blublur15: gotta keep running. you know that.
Sonic looked really down. He was not enjoying this. His face was resting on one of his hands, while the other hand did the typing.
Amyrulz: when will I get to see you?
Blueblur15: I dunno
Tails swallowed his chili dog and bent down to speak into the hedgehog's ear. "Sonic, just tell her you'll go on a date and she'll go away."
"Yeah, but then I'm gonna have to go on a date with her."
Amyrulz: I miss you, sonniku.
Blueblur15: uh-huh
"What a dull conversation. This is really pathetic," Tails lamented and he bit into another chili dog. "That's it, I'm taking over. Step aside, Sonic."
Tails shoved Sonic out of the way and sat down on his chair, still with a chili dog in his mouth.
"What are you doing Tails?" Sonic yelled.
"Being your little bro for once," Tails said as he typed away on the keyboard.
Blueblur15: Let's go on a date tomorrow, amy
Amyrulz: oh, sonic. I've been waiting forever for you to say that
"Tails! No!" Sonic cried out. But he knew it was futile at this point.
Blublur15: We'll spend all day together
Amyrulz: oh, sonic.
"All day? Is that really necassary?" Sonic felt like he was going to faint.
Blueblur15: We'll start by going shopping
Amyrulz: oh, sonic. I luv u
Sonic slapped his forehead
Blublur15: in the evening, we'll have a romantic candle light dinner. Just the 2 of us
Amyrulz: oh, yes
Blublur15: And then we'll top it off with a walk on the beach
Amyrulz: yes, sonic. oh, yes. It's like a dream come true
"This is a nightmare. This isn't happening. He can't be doing this to me," Sonic kept telling himself that to comfort himself, but his eyes were wide with panic.
Blublur15: but wait. there's more for us, amy rose
Amyrulz: oh, sonikku what is it?
Blueblur15: then we'll get down and have mad sex right there on the beach
Sonic gave a look of utter shock. His emerald eyes disappeared, leaving a white blank stare. His jaw could have rocketed right through the floor.
Amyrulz: OMG! SONIC!
Blublur15: like crazed monkeys
Amyrulz: What?
Tails's mouth was opened wide with a smile and his tongue was hanging out of it and he started to drool as he typed. His two namesakes were wagging furiously. Those cobalt eyes gleamed with a sign of mischief. He knew this was making Sonic go crazy. Sonic, meanwhile was banging his head against the wall several times.
Blueblur15: you know how much I love it when you flash your panties. i expect to see much panty flashing tomorrow
Amyrulz: SONIC! I can't believe you're saying this. You're making me blush
Blublur15: That's what I'm lookin' for
"Tails, you'd better got off that thing right now!"
Tails took a quick glance tosee Sonic's angry face. He returned it with a bored look, his eyes half closed. "Eh. Knuckles was angrier than that," he thought to himself. "Now to top it off."
Blueblur15: I have some good pornos we can rent to put us in the mood
Amyrulz: Sonic! I can't believe what you're saying
Blublur15: believe it, babe. just get ready tomorrow night. I'm gonna rock you and take you away to another dimension. It'll be so hardcore. I'll have to turn supersonic for this.
Amyrulz:...
"That does it!" Sonic picked up Tails and threw him across the room, where he landed safely on the couch. The hedgehog picked up a pillow and slammed it into the vulpine's face. Tails fell off the couch onto the floor, cracking up. Sonic quickly sat down to his computer. He hoped maybe he could fix some of the damage that was done. He looked at his screen. It read:
Amyrulz has signed off at 11:58 AM
"I think she might have died from shock," Sonic said as he logged off from his computer. He then turned to face Tails.
"Do you realize what you've done?" the hedgehog screamed.
"Hahahahahahahahah," Tails tried to give a coherent response, but he was rolling on the floor laughing. "Yeah. I've just ignited the spark of your love life," Tails said in between laughs. "You'll thank me later."
Sonic pointed his finger towards the door and said, "Tails, it's time for you to go. You've done enough already."
After hearing that remark, Tails found that it was a lot easier to make his laughter subside. "Aw, come on, Sonic. There's no need for you to get so upset. Spending the date with Amy isn't gonna kill you."
"If you think it's that easy, then you can date her."
"But Sonic," Tails tried to reason as Sonic escorted him outside the door, "Amy doesn't have the hots for me. There would be such a bad chemistry between us. And I hate the color pink. Besides, if I was going on a date tomorrow, I'd have to take a bath."
"If those are your only problems with dating Amy, you should count yourself lucky."
"Anyways, I don't feel like dating anybody these days. I still have Cosmo on my mind."
"Listen, buddy, "Sonic put his hand on Tails's shoulder. You're still only ten years old. There's no need to rush and find a new girlfriend, but one day, you're going to need to let Cosmo go."
Tails brushed Sonic's hand away from him gently. "Sorry, Sonic. Right now, I just can't do that. I'd try to explain it to you, but I don't think you'd understand."
"Come on, pal. Try me."
Tails changed the goofy expression on his face. Now he looked deadly serious. "I feel her spirit with me. It's such a strong feeling. At first, it made me sad, bit now, I'm not mourning her loss. In fact, it gives me such joy to feel Cosmo's presence around me. I can really feel her with me. Maybe she's not really gone."
"Tails, you saw what happened that day. Cosmo is gone."
"Yeah, I saw what happened, but we don't know anything about her species. Maybe she could survive or regenerate."
"Those are just dreams, Tails."
"Or maybe there are things that go beyond science and technology."
"OK, buddy. Now I'm starting to lose you. Even when Shadow and I used chaos regeneration, all we got was a small seed."
"And that just proves that we just need to use more advanced methods of chaos control," Tails replied.
"I think you're talking about something that's too big for us, pal."
"I'm just theorizing, Sonic. I never planned on bringing Cosmo back to life. Just sometimes I wonder." Tails started to look up at the clear blue sky and just kept staring. "I mean it when I said Cosmo would talk to me. She would talk about me. Sometimes she talked about you."
"Oh?" Sonic really didn't know what to think of all this, so he went along. "And what did she say about me?"
"She talked about you and Amy. She would go back to that day when we were on that planet. Amy learned about some kind of spell that would make two people fall in love forever if they would dunk in the magic waters. She prepared a trap so that you and Amy would fall into the water and you would be in love forever.
"Yeesh! Amy really went through all that trouble?"
"Yup. Except her trap was sprung too early by Cosmo and me and we were the ones who fell into that pond. Then we looked up at the full moon, and everything between us was different.We were able to share our ture feelings for each other. I'm not saying that the spell made us fall in love. Maybe it wouldn't even have worked on you. I had feelings for Cosmo before that happened, but there was something special about sitting together in the sparkling waters and gazing at the moon. Cosmo told me that we had very deep love. She said that it was meant for you and Amy to also experience this love. Amy feels this. She knows it. Even if she doesn't know she knows it. I know she acts like a silly fan girl. But inside her is something very deep. You have the potential to bring that out of her."
Tails's eyes started to get watery. "Wow! He's really serious about this," Sonic thought.
Tails pushed back his tears and said, "It could be the deepest love in the world."
"Is that why you did all of that back there?" Sonic didn't want to mention what exactly "that" was.
"Like you said, Cosmo isn't here anymore. I can't have a relationship with here like I used to. But Amy is here. And she's here for you. It would be a shame to lose her like I lost Cosmo. You can't let these opportunities disappear."
"All right, Tails," Sonic conceded. "I hear what you're saying. Tomorrow, I've got a date with Amy Rose."
"Glad to hear it. And you know, Sonic," Tails said with a sly smle as he inched closer to Sonic, "if the date turns out to be a disaster, you can always come to my place and have some of my 'special grass,' if you know what I mean." He then gave the hedgehog an elbow in the stomach and winked.
"Pilot, matchmaker, and a drug dealer. You're a cute kid, Tails," Sonic laughed
"Awww. That's so sweet of you to say that, but you should save the sweet, mushy talk for tomorrow. You'll need to use it."
"Don't worry, pal. It's Amy. Anything I say is like music to her. I don't even need to try," said the hedgehog.
Tails yawned and stretched his arms, "Well, I'd better get going," he said. "I've got a lot of stuff to work on. Hey, Sonic. Did I ever tell you about what I found on Angel Island?"
"Not a word."
"Oh. I'll tell ya about it later, I guess. I don't wanna bore you with all the technical details. But I just wanna give you a heads up. Keep an eye out for some new kick ass inventions of mine." With that, he waved goodbye to the hedgehog and flew off.
"New stuff, huh? I wonder what the little guy is up, too." Sonic asked himself.
Mystic Ruins
Tails flew back home to the Mystic Ruins. "Man, I'm beat" he said to himself, breathing deeply. He left the X Tornado at home, so he did all his flying for the day with his tails. Now was the time to rest. He headed straight for his kitchen and opened up the fridge, which was filled to the brim with food. All of it unhealthy in some way or another. He reached for a can of soda, opened the tab with a satisfying spritz and guzzled it down. "Man, that's good," Tails said, as he wiped his muzzle. He opened up the pantry to grab a snack. There was a tremendous hoard of junk food inside." Hmmm. I shall choose the cheesy poofs." He opened the bag of cheesy poofs with zeal and stuffed some of the little orange spheres into his mouth. "Nobody knows this, but there's lies a power inside cheesy poofs that is strongr than even the chaos emeralds," he laughed to himself. "But on to business." Tails walked out of the kitchen carrying his soda, cheesy poofs, and a unopened box of powdered donuts into his study. A pile of mystical scrolls was sitting on his desk. He took another sip of soda to wash down the cheesy poofs and sat down at his desk to begin his studying.
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Mystic Ruins, Tails' Workshop 9:00 PM
Night fell as Tails spent all day poring through the ancient scrolls. He had managed to skim through every last one of them and had gone through in depth quite a few of them. He was at the point where he could read the language of his ancestors efforltessly. One particular scroll caught his attention. Unlike the other scrolls, which were written in ink, this one was written in blood. "This one's pretty intense. Every technique here is completely forbidden. Creating zombies, placing undead curses, summoning demons, blood rituals, mind slaves, covering the lands in darkness. This is very heavy stuff. I should read everything just for the sake of reference. Maybe there's some tricks here about how to negate these things," the kitsune covered his mouth that had just let out a big yawn. "Man, I'm tired. I'll just keep reading for a little while while longer, but before I forget, I'd better call them." Tails reached for his phone and dialed the chaotix. After a couple of rings, he heard a voice on the line.
"Yello," it was Vector.
"Hiya, Vector. I'm glad it's you. No. No. The quest is still delayed. I'll have to worry about the Master Emerald later. In the meantime, I have another job for you."
End of Chapter 3