The next morning, Tails woke up and checked on the flower, it was just starting to bloom, "Good morning." he said to t, he treated his precious flower like it was his life and when he wasn't doing anything else, it was all he cared about, "I wonder where the next emerald is?" he wondered aloud, as if the answer to his question a vision flashed before his eyes, when it ended he fell backwards out of shock, he'd seen Knuckles' so called village and was shocked at one of the people in it, he'd seen the area around it and recognized only one thing, the blue ocean near the planet's equator.
"Am I dreaming?" he said while pinching himself, "OW! Okay definately not a dream." he said after only managing to hurt himself, he went downstairs and began to eat brekfast, but unknown to him Eggman had decided to pay an early visit, Tails heard the doorbell ring so he answered it, "Hello Tails, I decided to come by early and-" but he was cut off when Tails said, "Sorry Eggman, deal's off, I found what I believe to be the general location of the energy spike and i'm heading there later today." Eggman was furious that Tails had beaten him to finding the energy spike, "Then once more we're mortal enemies!" Eggman said, he was about to kidnap Tails when he heard a familiar voice say, "What ya doin' doc?" he turned around and saw Sonic standing there, "For your information i'm going to capture your friend and force him to lead me to what I want." he said, but before Sonic could respond something hit Eggman and sent him flying into the distance, he dissapeared in a twinkle of light.
Sonic looked at Tails and saw he'd been the one to hit Eggman away, "Nice one Tails!" he said, Tails just walked back inside and closed the door behind him, Sonic decided he was tired and left him alone.
But farther away, Eggman had hovered back to his base and was now in his command room thinking of a way to find the energy spike, then something hit him, "Why didn't I think of this before!?" he said while pulling up a map on his screen, "Since that fox won't tell me where the energy is then i'll just track it myself using my satellite." the screen then showed a red dot that represented the energy, "Well, time for me to get to work on a ship!" Eggman said while walking down to the hangar and beginning to rebuild one of his more succesful ships.
But while Eggman rebuilt his ship, Tails was packing supplies and an emerald radar in the X Tornado as he still hadn't finished the Cosmic Tornado, "That should do it!" he said while putting the last of his supplies into the plane, unaware that there would be several challenges ahead of him on the journey to the equator, as Tails was about to take off however, he looked back at his plant, "I can't leave it here, it's all I have left of her right now." he said while picking it up and taking it with him into the plane.
Tails took off into the sky and headed straight for the equator, he flew for several hours then noticed something below him, it was shining brightly and Tails recognized it as a Chaos Emerald, he checked his radar and sure enough it was an emerald, "Great, now I know where a fourth emerald is." he said excitedly while heading downwards, "X Tornado, transform!" he said while pulling a switch, the plane's engines faced downwards and the stabilizers on them did a 180, the rear cockpit was elevated higher than before, the lower set of wings folded inwards and a hatch on the underside opened to reveal an engine of some kind, the X Tornado had transformed into the X Cyclone.
"Alright where are you?" he said while using the Cyclone to walk around the area looking for the emerald as the radar couldn't tell him exactly where it was, he searched for quite some time as night fell upon him, "Now how can I-" he started to say, but was cut off as a large robot emerged from behind a boulder, it was one of Eggman's clearly as it had the logo on it's chest, but the one thing that had caught Tails eye was it was holding the emerald in it's hand, "Give it up!" Tails demanded from the robot, but it simply ignored him and began to walk away from Tails.
"Fine, i'll take it then!" he said while firing his machine guns at it, this got the robot mad and it alerted several others, one of them was massive, it looked was a giant version of Eggman's bird robot BonBon, Tails remembered how hard it was to beat the last one and that the Cyclone had been almost crushed, but this time Tails knew it's tricks so he could dodge the attacks, he kicked and used his machine guns on the smaller robots until only the giant BonBon robot was left, it started it's fan in an attempt to blow Tails away, but he knew better than to just stand there so he hid the X Cyclone behind a rock big enough to hide him completely.
"How can I beat it this time?" he asked himself, last time Sonic had knocked it over and it stayed there for a while until it was finished off, but this BonBon was far too big to knock over even if Sonic and SHadow tried together at full force, as he was thinking however the rock he was behind fell over and Tails had to jump out of the way and into the wind the fan was creating, he struggled to keep the Cyclone in place as this fan was much stronger than the last one.
"Come on, think Tails!" he said to himself, but then he noticed something, there was a large rock behind BonBon, if it fell it could potentionally crush the robo bird, Tails leapt into the air and fired as he flew back from the fan's force, the blasts hit the rock and it tumbled over, crushing most of BonBon, "Yes!" Tails said, all that was left of BonBon were scraps of metal, a few fan blades, and several wires, the rest of the robot was under the rock and would stay that way forever.
Tails got out of the plane and walked over to the crushed robot, he then walked over to the Chaos Emerald on the ground, he picked it up and to his dissapointment it shattered in his hands, "A fake, I can't believe my luck." he said while lowering his head, "But no matter how many fake emeralds or challenges fate throws in my way, I will get to that village!" Tails said while reassembling the fake emerald, he could use it for something actually.
He dashed back to the Cyclone and transformed it back into the X Tornado, he flew towards the equator once more, hoping he got there before Eggman.