"Hey, hey hey... there's enough for...ALMOST all of you"
At the sound of these words the sound of the crowd grows from a dull roar to a thunderous boom as more fans rush their way forward some of them tearing tickets out of the box. The Announcer dude stands back as fans begin climbing onto the truck. In doing so he edges himself dangerously close to the edge of the truck. Sonic notices this and shouts a warning but it was no use with the intensity of the crowd droning him out. Sonic rushes forward at a speed faster than the annnouncer's, and swoops him away from the fans, leaving some tickets to distract the angry mob as they fought like animals over the little stubs of paper.
"Thank you so much, hedehog dude, here, have 2 free tickets" the announcer dude said.
Sonic smiles and takes the tickets. He tells the announcerdude to just leave all his tickets behind and let the fans swarm them. And indeed they do. Within seconds the crowds of fans gather around the ticket box, knocking each other out of the way, over 100 of them all fighting for merely 52 tickets, some of them getting ripped in the process. Sonic sighs frustrated and turns away. He should have been stopping the riot but the people brought it on themselves. He couldn't believe ANYONE could get SO involved in a football game. On his way back he hears 2 more people talking football, sounding like 2 more hopeless fans. Sonic rounds the bend and identifies the fans as...
"TAILS? KNUCKLES?"
He looks at the 2 oddly, Knuckles in a Giants jersey and Tails wearing the jersey of the SanFransisco 49ers. He stands there, his mouth agape, the 2 super bowl tickets dangling from his left hand, in plain view.
"Hey, are those..." Knuckles asked.
"SuperBowl tickets?" Tails said.
Uh-oh...
"Uh...yeah?" Sonic nervously replied.
"So..." Tails said, putting his arm around Sonic and bringing him uncomfortably close "who you bringing?"
"Uh..."
"He's bringing me Tails...after all he's a GIANTS fan" Knuckles said.
"Actually Im really not..." Sonic began.
"See? He's a 49'ers fan!" Tails said.
"Well no I dont really..." Sonic started.
"Well then? Whose going with you?" they both asked.
Sonic backs off nervously, feeling much like the AnnouncerDude all of a sudden, looking at his 2 friends, one in dressed in blue spandex and the other...well, he looked dorky anyway...
"HEY!" Tails said.
"C'mon Sonic, take me!" Knuckles said.
"Take me, dude! We're best friends, practically!" Tails said.
"No, we are!" Knuckles said.
"Oh puh-leeze, youve tried to beat him up on 3 seperate occasions..." Tails added.
"It's not my fault...Eggman tricked me!" Knuckles said.
"See? Someone that gullible shouldn't be going to a football game!" Tails said.
"So? YOU'RE gullible too" Knuckles said.
"No Im not!" Tails argued.
"AHH! THERE'S A SPIDER ON YOUR LEG!" Knuckles shouted.
"AHHH!" Tails screamed.
"HA HA HA HA! Youre so gullible..." Knuckles laughed.
"Someone ran off with the emerald..." Tails said.
"Ha! Nice try" Knuckles said.
"No, seriously...there they go..." Tails warned.
"Sure..." Knuckles said again.
"NO...REALLY..."
"What?" Knuckles asked, nervously turning around now.
"HA HA HA HA HA!" Tails laughed.
"Why you little..." Knuckles growled.
"Heh, you REALLY want to take ANY of these guys?" Shadow chuckled.
Sonic backed off more at the sight of Shadow, dressed in a blinding shade of white, on it a ridiculous fish in a helmet with green and orange stripes down his sleeve. It was the horrible sight of... a Miami Dolphins Jersey. He backs off at the sight of such a thing, the gives Shadow a creeped out stare.
"The Miami Dolphins?" Tails asked.
"They didn't even make the Playoffs!" Knuckles said.
"Exactly why Sonic should take me to the Super Bowl!" Shadow said.
They all stare at him.
"Ok so I got nothing, but please take me!" Shadow pleaded.
"No take me!" Tails said.
"NO ME!" Knuckles yelled.
The 3 of them look around to realize that Sonic had seemingly dissapeared.
Back in the apartment...
"Whew! Those guys are craazy...oh well Im sure this will all blow over tommorow" Sonic said to himself.
The next morning...
Sonic sighs and pulls himself up of his bed to see his 3 friends hanging over him already. He backs away in fear. What Tails, Knuckles and Shadow were doing in his room, he had NO idea. The 3 of them reach behind their backs and take out...trays of food...
"So, Sonic, want some breakfast?" Shadow asked.
"No! Try mine" Tails said.
"No mine's better" Shadow said.
"He doesn't want yours Shadow, it's been on the floor!" Tails said.
"No it hasn't" Shadow stated.
"Now it has!" Tails said, shoving Shadow's food to the ground.
"Well...so has yours!" Shadow said, shoving Tails back.
"Oh no you didnt, those eggs took hours to make!" Tails said.
"Eggs? Ha! Sonic hates eggs! I had made him toast!" Shadow said.
"Here, Sonic! Try MINE!" Knuckles said.
"No way, Knucklehead!" Shadow said and then shoved Knuckles and the breakfast spilled onto Sonic.
"Now look what you did! I'll clean you up Sonic!" Tails offered.
"No, me!" Shadow said.
"NO, ME!" Knuckles shouted.
"Wait a sec, where'd he go?" Tails asked.
The 3 of them look for Sonic but cannot find him. Meanwhile, Sonic ducks into his closet in fear and watches as the 3 crazed football fans leave his room. He lets out a long sigh of relief and slips out of the closet slowly, takes a look around, then head towards his kitchen which was empty and quiet...too quiet...
"Eh, Im just being paranoid" Sonic said.
Sonic pours his cereal and milk into a bowl and sits down near a glass of orange juice. Just then the milk begins to ripple, as does the orange juice. In fact the entire table rumbles, then the entire house until a piece of the ceiling hits Sonic in the head. He then turns around and sees 3 giant robots outside his house, each of them being manned by someone...
"See? My robot's better than theirs! I went to robotics school!" Tails said.
"Robotics school? Ha! I was a born mechanic! Just check out what my robot can do!" Knuckles said.
Knuckles fires a ray at Tails robot causing it to collapse onto Sonic's house. Sonic backs away nervously as the 3 battling robots corner him towards the back of his house as it is slowly torn apart by the mini war the 3 had been having over a mere football game.
"Ha! As the ultimate lifeform, it would only make sense that I make the ultimate robot! HA HA HA!" Shadow laughed.
Shadow fires a large laser at the other 2 robots but it misses them both and cruises towards Sonic. Sonic ducks under his coffee table which is blasted to pieces by the oncoming onslaught that the robots continue to unleash.
Sonic tries to speak up to end the battle but his voice is too feeble compared to the 50 foot cyborgs that continue to fire missiles at each other, many of them destroying bits of Sonic's house. Finally Sonic decides to just let them settle their differences on their own and slams the half broken door to his bedroom behind him.
"And now to show you all what this bot can really do" Shadow said.
Shadow opens a compartment inside the robot's chest to reveal a large glowing bomb. He presses a button that starts detonating the bomb. The other 2 robots back off.
"Sh-Shadow...you installed a nuclear bomb in your robot?" Tails asked.
"Yep and now that it'll detonate, youll be destroyed and I'll HAVE to go to the Super Bowl with Sonic" Shadow laughed.
"There's just one design flaw in that..." Knuckles said.
"The bomb is ATTACHED to your robot! When it explodes, you'll die too!" Tails said.
"Oh crap!" Shadow said.
And so the 3 jump out of their robots altogether as they explode sending debris and destruction into Sonic's ravaged house.
-The next morning-
"Hey, howd you get the house fixed so quickly?" Tails asked.
"Well...uh"
"Yeah it looks pretty nice" Knuckles added.
"Yeah it does" Shadow agreed.
"Anyway, we just came over to apologize for our behavior" Tails explained.
"Yeah it was stupid..." Knuckles admitted.
"Yeah...but whose gonna get that second ticket?" Shadow asked.
"See, thats the thing...I kinda had to...sell the tickets to pay for the damages" Sonic said.
"WHAT? So now none of us can go?" Knuckles asked.
"UH...no?"
"Well we could always watch it on the TV" Tails said.
"Uh...interesting thing about that..." Sonic said.
"You sold the TV too?" Tails asked.
"Well it costed a LOT to fix your mess!" Sonic said.
"So what do we do now?" Shadow asked.
"Well there was change left over to buy another TV..." Sonic said.
Sonic takes out a portable TV which Shadow snatches.
"Ooh, not bad" Shadow said.
"Hey I cant see!" Knuckles protested.
"Let me see it!" Tails pleaded.
As the 3 fight over the Tv Sonic groans and decides to leave it be. He slinks into the next room and shuts the door behind him. He sighs in comfort and slides into a recliner.
"Sure I sold the Super Bowl tickets...but what they dont know is..." Sonic said.
Sonic presses a button and a huge screen TV appears behind the wall in front of him.
"I'd take HDTV over a football game ANY time!" he smiled.
"Hey Sonic" Amy said cheerfully arriving at the hedgehog's doorstep for Thanksgiving.
"Hey Ames" he said "Come in. We were just watching the football game"
And so, Amy walked into Sonic's house, hung her coat and joined the others in the living room as Knuckles and Shadow hooted and hollered over the football game. Not being a big football fan, she kind of slid herself onto the couch behind them and watched from afar.
"So uh...whose winning?"
"DALLAS!" Knuckles shouted happily.
"Just you wait, the Bears are staging a comeback!" Shadow said.
Tails just yawned with exhuastion "Whats the big deal, guys? BOTH teams are out of contention for the playoffs"
Amy, getting quickly bored herself went into the kitchen where she saw Sonic seasoning some kind of soup and making some stuffing.
"You need any help?" Amy asked, leaning against his stove.
"No...not really" Sonic said, adding some herbs to the stuffing.
"Hm, can I try some stuffing?" she asked, smiling, as stuffing had always been her favorite thanksgiving dish.
"Sure" Sonic shrugged as he went to get some more stuff.
Amy looked down and caught a whiff of the stuffing, it smelled a bit zesty but she tried it anyway, and quickly recoiled by the bitter taste. She wasn't sure how to tell Sonic but...
"Hey Sonic! This stuffing is WAAAY overseasoned" she blurted out.
"Amy..." Sonic growled, checking on the plump turkey in the oven "Dont you have something to do?"
"Not really," she shrugged, propping herself up onto the counter "The others are just watching some game with bears in it..."
"Well its kind of hard for me to cook with you complaining the whole time" Sonic said, disgruntled.
"Im not complaining about anything...ew... is that your salad? It looks rotting!"
"AMY!" Sonic growled "Get out, Im warning you!"
"Fine..." she said, somewhat offended "Geez..."
Amy didn't know why Sonic was so mad. Sonic always had been sensitive about his cooking though, or what he had called cooking. What he really did was just throw seasoning on everything making it incredibly spicy and very hard to eat at times. Apparently some things never changed.
In about an hour, the football game had ended (20-17 Chicago on a last second field goal) and the table was all set for thanksgiving. Amy sat down to await angry looks at everyone.
"What?" she asked.
"Lets just eat" Sonic said, changing the topic suddenly. Something weird was going on...
"So...howse your STUFFING?" Sonic snapped at Amy.
"Look" Amy said, scraping her plate with her fork as she shoved some food down her mouth "Im sorry about the stuffing thing, alright? I mean your stuffing's not SO bad... I mean it's especially uh..."
POOF!
Just then Amy found herself covered head to toe, WITH stuffing. She screamed as the goop went down her shirt and into her bra, as well as in her skirt. She got up awkrardly, a giant fork laying next to her. She had been shrunk down and was now standing in a pool of stuffing. The rest of the gang looked down at her with creepy looks on their faces. Amy shook the stuffing off her arms and legs and opened her shirt to get some of that out, but she was still covered with some stickiness and grease as the Sonic gang now began to lick their chops over her.
"You guys...?" Amy whimpered, brushing food chunks out of her pink hair "What are you doing?"
"Well you didnt like the dinner" Sonic said menacingly. "So now you ARE the dinner!"
"WHAT!" she screamed, sweat pouring down her cheeks, in addition to the gunk she was covered with "You guys wouldnt EAT me, would you? I mean, we're all friends here, right?"
No answer.
Suddenly Sonic reached his hand down, trying to grasp Amy off the plate. She ran away screaming, stepping through a puddle of gravy and jumping off her plate as Tails' hand soon cut her off, him looking down at her with a hungry look.
She ran the other way, then gasped out loud as a butter knife almost impaled her. She looked up to see Shadow licking his chops vigorously, a fork and knife in hand, ready to eat her. She turned the other way and hid behind the giant wine bottle.
The whole gang now circled the table to look for her, but she was fortunately well hidden behind the napkins and wine bottle. Suddenly Sonic's eyes glared at her through the transparent glass. Amy gasped when she soon realized she had been spotted.
She ran as fast as she could from Sonic's mighty grasp and took a brief rest on a fork handle, panting and heaving from exhuastion. Just then a giant fist pounded on the silver handle, flinging Amy hard into Sonic's chest, and landing in his palm.
"FINALLY!" he said "I have you now!"
"WAIT!" Amy screamed, trembling in Sonic's hand "You dont REALLY want to EAT me...do you?"
"Of course not" Sonic said.
"Whew!"
"NOT WITHOUT SALT!"
Amy sobbed as Sonic poured salt over her entire body, the particles stinging her body as she cried out. Sonic then carried her into the kitchen.
"Id imagine youd make a great soup!" Sonic said, dropping Amy into a pool of boiling soup in a pot.
Amy screamed as the soup burned her skin. Sonic then turned the temp up and Amy screamed as she swam to the edge of the pot and hung on tight, her bottom half still submerged in the soup and seering with pain as she suffered many burns. Sonic chuckled and poured her out into a bowl.
Amy flipped herself over and swam to the lip of the bowl. She jumped out, soaked with soup and ran as fast as she could, leaving distinct drippings all over the counter.
"Oh no you dont!" Sonic said, grabbing the girl off the counter.
Amy screamed as Sonic threw her onto the dining room table. Everyone was hanging over her, waiting to eat.
"AHH!" she gasped, looking up to see she was surrounded by the hungry giants that were once her friends. "Please dont eat me!"
Sonic grabbed her off the table and glared at her, shaking in his palm. He then proceeded to throw seasoning on her.
"Down you go!" Sonic said.
"NOO! NOOOOOOOO!" she screamed, as Sonic brought her into his mouth "PLEASE DONT EAT ME! PLEASE DONT EAT ME!"
Just then, she woke up back in her own bedroom, safe from harm, she sighed with relief to know she was her normal size and wasn't about to be Thanksgiving dinner. She woke up and headed to her bedroom door when she realized... it sure was hot... she realized just then that a glass door blocked her way out. She looked out to see that the Sonic gang were looking in on her and they were gargantuan.
"Dont worry" Sonic said "Shes almost done! Just a few more minutes"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!"
"Happy Birthday, buddy" Sonic said, unleashing unto the young fox what he thought was the greatest thing he had seen in his life.
Standing before Miles was a large pinball machine, a huge one, like the ones you'd find in arcades. It had animating lights, flashy bumpers and an awesome score panel. Tails could only look at it and feel the drool drip down his face.
"Ok, it's not THAT great" the somewhat disturbed hedgehog stated.
"Not that GREAT!" the overjoyed fox exclaimed now openly embracing the machine. "Its the greatest thing Ive ever seen..."
"Ok..." Sonic said nervously, backing away from the young fox and his beloved machine "You have fun now...bye"
Slowly, Sonic steps out of the room, and once the door creaks shut, Tails looks over at his shiny new machine and grins with joy.
Within minutes, Tails, with his amazing knowledge of all things technical is able to hook up the pinball machine when suddenly a big booming voice filled the room, taking the young fox aback.
"ENTER NAME!" the voice demanded.
"Are you...talking to me?" Tails asked the machine, where the voice appeared to come from.
"ENTER NAME NOW!" the machine shouted again, it's voice seeming frustrated and impatient now.
"Uh... Tails..." he said nervously.
"Ok..." the machine responded in a surprisingly gentle voice now "Welcome...TAILS...to Pinball World Mach 2! Are you ready to play?"
"Am I EVER!" the fox exclaimed, now leaning over the machine, his fingers eagerly resting on the buttons to activate the flippers.
"Choose a mode" the machine said.
Tails looked up the screen to notice 3 options:
"NORMAL MODE" "SUPER HARD MODE" "OTHER MODE"
Tails decides to start on normal and hits the button on the screen to do just that. The pinball machine then whirs to life and the silver pinball drops just below Tails, ready to go. He releases the lever and watches it spin.
"FIRST LEVEL: GREEN VALLEY" the machine proclaimed.
Whoa! Suddenly some plastic tree bumpers flipped up into the air and a calm soothing song played. It really WAS a pinball world. Tails looked on excitedly as he flicked the ball around, the whole table suddenly displaying the valley theme. After reaching 10,000,000 points the screen began to flash.
"CONGRATULATIONS! YOU HAVE CLEARED GREEN VALLEY! NOW YOU MUST TAKE ON THE CENTRAL CITY LEVEL"
Just then the music changes and the board actually flips over changing to a city theme now. Wow Tails thought as he continued to play this wonderful pinball game, unlike any he's seen, this table must have multiple boards.
After playing a while longer Tails realized that the city themed board was a bit harder. The bumpers were harder to reach and little car sliders would move across the screen and sometimes deflect his ball back towards him quickly.
Soon enough, however, Tails would wrap up with the city level and the board would change again, into a land called "FROZEN FROSTLANDS". This level was the toughest one yet, with small icicles popping up out of nowhere to push the ball the wrong way. There were also large chunks of ice bumpers that could knock the ball backwards towards the flippers. Getting the high score here would be tough until Tails finally does it, realizing it's been about an hour since he started playing. He thought the board would change again but instead there was a disturbing cracking sound.
"BOSS LEVEL!" the machine bellowed as a giant standing Abominable Snowman creature stood, at least twice the size of the ball. The snowman boss moved around making it difficult to strike at and the icicles would occasionally surround the imaginary creature to protect it. Tails finally hits the thing only so his ball is deflected down the middle for the loss.
"SORRY. YOU MUST LOOP THE BALL AROUND AND HIT BOSS FROM BEHIND TO WIN!"
"Aw, that was my last ball too..." Tails groaned "I wish you had told me before..."
"YOU DIDNT ASK" the machine snapped back.
Confused as to why the machine was able to talk and interact with him, he still decided to play into the night. Eventually it had been 12 hours he had been playing this amazing pinball world, and the rest of the Sonic gang began to worry.
"You go in" Knuckles whispered, slinking behind the door to Tails house.
Inside it was pitch black, only the lights of the pinball machine illuminating Tails living room where he stayed leaning over the pinball table with a zombie-like enthusiasm that scared everyone who looked onward. Fact was, noone there was dumb enough to even TRY to go in there.
"There's no way Im bothering that dude..." Sonic said, backing off.
"Well SOMEONE has to go in..." Amy whined "This isn't healthy for him..."
"Then why dont YOU go in?" Knuckles asked her.
"Ok, fine. I will" she said, slowly walking in.
In the dark, all Amy could see was the pinball lights and Tails, she nervously advanced forwards towards the young fox and tapped him on the shoulder. Tails suddenly snapped his back and growled loudly, sending Amy fleeing out of the house, hiding behind Sonic.
"Not so easy, is it?" Sonic asked.
"That dude's possessed!" Amy said, still shaking.
"Someone's got to pull the plug!" Knuckles said.
"Im not going back in there" a defensive and scared Amy whined.
"Ok, I'LL go in" Sonic said "I'll just go in and try to start some small talk... then one of you can sneak in and unplug the machine..."
And thus, Sonic slinked in, completely unsure if he would ever come back alive or not. Knuckles and Amy just glanced at each other nervously, the same burning question in their minds as they sat and wondered...
"Whose gonna go in?"
"Im not going in!" Knuckles shouted.
"Well SOMEONE'S gotta go!" Amy said.
Meanwhile, inside, Sonic got up behind Tails, noticing that he was stiff and frozen at the pinball table, only his fingers vibrating to activate the flippers.
"Uh...hey Tails whats up?" he asked nervously, staying as far away as he can from the zombified fox.
"MUST...CLEAR ICE LEVEL!" Tails said, now twitching erratically.
"I see..." Sonic said, dumbfounded now. "Well uh...I guess I'll see...you around..."
Sonic looks nervously back at the door to notice both Knuckles and Amy are gone. The 2 must have chickened out, he thought, and went over to unplug the game himself.
"STOP!" Tails screamed, not yet noticing he's let his last ball slip down the hole again.
Just then the cursed GAME OVER message appears and Tails shouted cuss words in defeat, glaring at the infernal screen, then over at Sonic who was slowly sneaking over towards the outlet.
"NO WAIT!" Tails shouted frantically "I havent even tried the 'OTHER MODE'!"
Tails reached forward quickly and hit the button to activate other mode, suddenly the room went darker for a second and then lit up quickly, the machine began glowing before Tails' eyes.
"Sorry Tails, but this is for your own good" Sonic said, reaching for the plug, but soon became confused when he didn't hear Tails' screams of agony "Tails?"
He turned around to see Tails had vanished... but where had he gone?
"TAILS?" Sonic asked, looking nervously around. It had been a small room, so there weren't many places he could have gone. Just then he couldve sworn he heard the young fox's voice, but it was coming from... the pinball machine...?
"SONIC!" he screamed upwards at his now giant friend. He had somehow become... imprisoned inside the pinball machine.
"TAILS?" Sonic asked, looking down into the slot where the ball is usually loaded to see his tiny friend in there inside. He reached for the lever, unable to hear Tails screams as he pulled it back and snapped his friend into the playing field.
"LEVEL ONE: GREEN VALLEY" the machine exclaimed, the screen glowing as Tails bounced around rapidly inside the pinball board.
"You know, this IS kinda fun" Sonic said "uh...I mean...hang in there lil buddy!"
Tails gasped nervously as he slid downwards, his whole world tilted. Before he hit bottom however he would find himself thwacked hard in the back by the plastic flipped.
"OUCH!" he screamed as he spiraled into some mountainous bumpers, racking up tons of bonus points "SONIC...HELP ME!"
Tails screamed again as he was almost vacum sucked into a bonus slot and richocheted around the course. Sonic was unable to hear most of the screaming as the thick durable glass over the machine blurred Tails' feeble voice out.
"SONIC!" Tails screamed, his voice blurred by the fact that hes now swirling back and forth around a long and winding tube. He's suddenly plopped down onto another ramp where a flipper is able to smash him back into a bumper.
"I cant just let this thing kick me around!" a frustrated Tails thought as he once again fell towards the flipper, but what could he do? Maybe if he coudl muster up enough bonus points to escape the level, he could escape the machine.
And thus Tails decided to defy the rules of the machine and let his Tails fly him towards a bumper instead. He smacked the bumper with his tail a few times to add up some bonus points until...
"YOU HAVE CLEARED LEVEL ONE!" the machine said.
But just then the table flipped before Tails eyes... to the second level...
"CENTRAL CITY!"
"Ooh hold on Tails" Sonic said "This is getting good"
Tails nervously, ran upwards, trying to avoid the inevitable as he slid closer towards the flipper that would whack him into submission. Just then he gasps as he hears a beeping sound approach him. Suddenly several moving bumpers attacked him in the form of cars. He nervously dashed out of the way and sprung into some bumpers, feeling a massive headache as he tumbled down and Sonic bounced him around the arena yet again.
Finally Tails had some time to recover as the world around him transformed again into a tracherous iceland. In this world, Tails felt more scared than ever as the pinball table had become a slick and slippery hazard as he was slung around, dodging as fatally sharp icicles almost cut him in half. He closed his eyes through most of the dreaded expierience, bouncing around the arena until suddenly... the BOSS STAGE came up again and the thunderous abominable snowman appeared before Tails.
"Meep"
The huge creature advanced towards Tails knocking him back onto the flipper as Sonic thwapped him past the snowman. It was just then Tails remembered he had to hit the creature from behind, so with barely any footing he slipped himself into the backside of the snowman and hit him with this tail, causing it to let out a loud growl that repeled Tails from it as it glowed red and slid away. He had done it. He defeated the boss. That mustve meant the game was over... but it wasn't...
Just then the floor tiles glowed red and a strange mist filled the area as the area changed just one last time.
"FINAL BOSS" the machine announced "YOU MUST DEFEAT... THE PHOENIX DRAGON!"
"The what!" Tails cried.
Just then the area became a terrible dungeon with lava and traps scattered about, in addition to the annoying bumpers and in the middle of it all appeared a creature with massive wings and glowing yellow eyes. A huge bumper... er... boss, known as the PHOENIX DRAGON!
Tails gasped and fear and ran but as he ran he slipped back into the flippers which forced him into the creature who slapped him with his wings. There was no way Tails had a hope of just ramming into that thing to defeat it. He needed to find a way. Of course... he just noticed there was a side ramp he could loop up and over to land on TOP of the dragon, but the creature was continously on the move so it would take precise timing from him AND Sonic as the creature began spewing plastic fireballs towards Tails. The fireballs bounced around the course as Tails had no choice but to duck towards the flippers to avoid them. Sonic bounced Tails towards the ramp when the phoenix dragon knocked him away again.
A little more determined this time Sonic really pounded Tails with the flipper and Tails started flying up so avoid the dragon's attack and slip into the tube, he looped aroud and jumped out at the right time. The dragon tried dropping a fireball but he would fail and Tails would slam into the creature to destroy it for good.
After all this, the lights dimmed and the game was finally over. Tails was deposited out of the machine and landed in the palm of Sonic's hand.
"Woah" he said, looking up at Sonic "Im still small..."
"COOL!" a very erratic Sonic said. He then stuck Tails back into the machine.
"SONIC! NO!"
"Oh cmon!" Sonic said "This is so cool! I wanna play again...! Hey Knuckles, Amy! Come here!"
Later...
"Wow, this is awesome!" Amy said.
"Totally" Knuckles nodded in agreement.
Tails, on the other hand wasn't too happy with the end result, stuck to be the pinball inside the machine for what could be forever.
"Aw...I lost" Amy said, scooping Tails out of the machine.
"Its alright" Sonic said "Just pop him back into the machine and start another round"
"Okay" she said cheerfully sticking the young fox back into his plastic prison.
"AMY! NO!" he shouted as the machine whirred to life again.
Oh well, he thought, they had to get tired of it SOMETIME