Upon reaching the door of the Hedgehog residence, Tails Doll is dripping with sadistic joy, yet doing an excellent job at keeping his intentions from his newly stolen face. Though, he does not resist entirely, keeping a fairly sized smile on his face to allow Sonic to fall into his trap comfortably. His plan starts replaying itself once again in his head, and each time he repeats the thought, it seems much clearer and much more sinister. But the devilish computer virus pondered happily on the dreadfulness of the scheme, in fact, he reveled in it. As he chuckled with glee, Sonic mistakes it for his best friend being excited about spending time with him. And indeed, his best friend is, but he is dangling helplessly in Sonic's hand, desperately wishing that Sonic does not have a change of heart and decides to give him back.
Sonic inserts the silver key into his lock and slowly opens the door. Tails Doll becomes impatient and pushes Sonic out of the way, swing the door wide open himself. It's dark, and suddenly, the lights turn on, and voices echo throughout the room.
"SURPRISE!" They yell. Standing over a plate of cookies on the kitchen table, Amy, Silver, and Cream are bright-eyed and cheerful, wanting to cheer Tails up from the fact that he could not go to the convention he was planning for weeks. By the look of it, Tails is standing in the room, speechless. Because of his face, they assume that he is just surprised and too happy for words, but in his mind, Tails doll is cursing them for making his plans so much more complicated. Even so, he works at keeping the grimace off his face, and thanks Sonic in false admiration.
"Wow, Thank you Sonic! Really, this was too much..." No kidding... Tails Doll added in his mind. But Sonic brings him into a bear hug and smiles.
"No problem buddy, what're friends for? I couldn't let you sulk all day in your house, come on, join the party!" Sonic shoves Tails Doll playfully over to the group of friends and Sonic walks over to Cream. She looks up at him with bright hazel eyes and speaks with her frisky and soft voice.
"Hi Mr. Sonic!" Cream says, stepping away from the plate of cookies. "What's up?"
"What's up? That's my little bugger." Sonic kneels down and pats her on the head, she wags her tail and giggles.
"Hee hee, you're silly Mr. Sonic!" Cream says smiling.
"Oh? What's that behind your ear?" Sonic brings out the doll he had in his possession and Cream grabs it before Sonic has the chance to explain.
"Is it for me?" Cream says, hugging it tightly.
"Yep! All yours."
Thank you so much Mr. Sonic! Oh, I love it! I love it!" Cream twirls around with it in her hands and runs over to the couch. Sonic gets up and sees that Amy is looking at him in that same way she always looks at him. Sonic is about to make a 180, but Amy stops him for a moment to inquire about something.
"Where'd you get the doll?" Amy asks.
"Oh," Sonic responds, turning back around to meet her gaze. "Tails didn't want it anymore, so I thought it would be cool to give it to Cream when we got here." Of course, this was only the half-truth. For some odd reason that Sonic is still tossing around in his mind, Tails wanted to burn the doll, a lot. Thinking it was more of a private problem than a public one, he let it be as something that he would return to later. But little does he know that the Tails Doll is not going to wait for later.
In the living room, Tails doll is plugging in the Sega Saturn console to the T.V, trying to start the game in attempt to have Sonic play it. As he gets the wires arranged though, he finds that he is having... issues.
What the- Tails Doll thinks frustrated, for unlike his counterpart, dealing with helpful everyday technology proves to be a cumbersome inconvenience. How does work? Does this wire plug into...no, wait do I put the game in...after? Or before? What is this?! Ugh... These tails keep getting in my face! That's it, I can't. I guess I'll just have to get someone else to... Glancing over his shoulder, he sees Silver sitting on the couch, drinking a soda and shuffling a deck of cards with Cream next to him. Tails Doll carefully meanders to the couch, careful to avoid spotting the doll of Tails in Cream's possession; it would only serve to distract him from his current goals.
"Hiya Silver," Tails Doll says, once again assuming the identity of his true counterpart," Could you do me a favor and set up the SEGA Saturn to the T.V? Silver stops shuffling his deck and looks at Tails quizzically.
"Why?" Silver says with his slightly pitchy yet sophisticated teenage voice, made a little more so by the question. "This stuff is child's play for you Tails, why on Earth would you ask me to do it?" Tails Doll, hurriedly scrambling his brain for an answer, comes up with a bold-faced lie.
"I have to ask Amy something," Tails Doll says, "and I don't know how long it will take for me to finish, Please?" His bright and big blue eyes persuade the grey-tinted hedgehog to fulfill the short task, and in the meantime, Tails Doll approaches Amy, thinking of a question, as to not make Silver suspicious when he finishes installing the game.
"Amy?"
"Yes Tails?" Amy asks, her voice proper yet squeaky, annoying to the Tails Doll.
"So...uh..." He finally comes up with a topic. "Why would you guys decide to do this for me? I mean, you really didn't have to..." In his mind, he repeats the word really followed by a nasty yet undefined remark.
"Well Tails," Amy starts, "you know how much we care about you, and we knew that you would really be down if you didn't have anything to do. So Sonic decided we needed to throw a little party, just a small one, you know, to cheer you up." Amy giggles after this, but the Tails Doll didn't listen to any of it, he simply stared at her forehead and pondered his evil intentions, waiting for the background noise to subside so he can give a vague yet acceptable answer to the pink hedgehog.
"Oh." He finishes.
But despite Tails Doll's vile nonchalance towards Amy's heartfelt explanation, another guest, an unknown sixth visitor in the room, is utterly touched. He would undoubtedly be tearing up if not for his unfortunate predicament. Tails, though looking at nothing but the inside of Cream's soft arms, hears clearly what the others are saying and doing. On one hand, he is very sad and angry at the fact that the Tails Doll has taken his form, yet at the same time; he is filled with cheerful gratefulness knowing that his friends sincerely care about him, and want to make him happy. During these thought, one slightly humorous other circles his still overly-active mind. Ooh boy, If I still had a body, I swear I would have had a heart attack by now... He chuckles inwardly.
All of a sudden, Cream picks up Tails by the crooks of his armpits and hoists him up in the air.
"Oh Dolly Foxy!"
Is that what she's calling me? Ugghh... Cream hugs the doll lovingly and turns to Sonic.
"Mr. Sonic, can I play with it in your computer room?" Cream asks, gaining an amused smile from Sonic.
"Sure Cream, just don't be long, Tails wants us to play a video game together." Sonic says, not knowing the evil behind this seemingly typical act. Tails Doll turns and grins at the doll of Tails, who he can tell is terrified even without seeing his expression change. And indeed he is, but he's also calculating, and he's calculating just how he's going to convince the others that the Tails with them is not the Tails they've known for so long.
As Cream walks into the Computer room, Tails notices that it was super clean, barely touched. It had a desk, a computer, a white couch, and a white rug, its walls were light grey, and even the floor was bright, you guessed it, white tile. His mind momentarily remembers that Sonic hardly ever uses it, what with all his adventuring, and that even when he did, it was probably just to check and see if it was still there. Cream closes the door and plies a bunch of pillows from the couch in the chair so she's eye-level with the laptop. Cream starts the computer and sets Tails down near it, face away from the monitor. Cream goes to YouTube, and Tails is surprised that at her age, she knows what that even is. Then again, he's building planes and is only to years older, but still, he's admittedly a freak of nature.
"Ok Mr. Foxy," Cream says, and Tails almost forgets that it's his name now. "We're going to watch 'My Little Pony, Friendship is Magic,' I think you'll like it." As she's typing it into the search box, Tails can only think about face palming and groaning to show his discontent.
Oh...ugh...no... Tails can't stop it though, because the event is already in motion. My Little Pony? Really? Tails thinks. If I was to watch YouTube, I would rather watch How to Design and Patent an Airplane Model. Yeah, that sounds fun. Tails is stumped out of his train of thought when Cream makes a confused murmur.
"Huh?" Cream says looking at the keyboard quizzically. "Dolly Foxy... look." Cream lifts Tails up to meet the screen, and he can barely believe his own eyes. Right there in the search box, instead of 'My Little Pony' there are the words, clear as day: 'How to Design and Patent an Airplane Model', just as what he was thinking before.
"That's kinda creepy Mr. Dolly, I think I'm gonna..." Before Cream could do anything, a Notepad File opens up on the computer, and a word quickly types itself on the page. WAIT!
"Wait?" Cream says, carefully reading the word on the page as if it were not real. Before she could question it, more words appear on the screen.
I need your help Cream, Please. says the screen. Cream scooches her chair back a little bit, slightly scared by the unusual occurrences.
"Who are you?" Cream asks, and Tails has a tough time answering this question. If I tell her it's me, Tails thinks, then she'll try to tell Sonic, and they're not going to believe her. But if I can't say that, then what do I say? Not wasting any time, Tails mind-types the first thing that he can think would work.
I'm a Magical Fairy. And I'm here to say something important.
"A magical Fairy?" Cream says bewilderedly, but not showing any signs of disbelief. "What is it?" Tails, content that Cream had bought the...fib, he thinks hard about what he has to "say", without of course, startling Cream. And, because of the way he had set up the situation, he has to sound like he's some sort of magical fairy.
I came from the Magical Land of Spagonianna, Tails would laugh inwardly while coming up with this, but he doesn't as this is no time for messing around. But an Evil Fairy trapped me in the computer; I need you to help me out.
"Oh no!" Cream gasps, she closes the door to the room and lowers her voice to a whisper. "What can I do to help Mr. Fairy?" While she talks Tails pauses for a minute while thinking of what to type. While thinking, he hears something interesting going on in the living room, but it's too faint.
Open the door Please? Tails typed, and after Cream got back up off the chair, she did. Cream and Tails listen carefully, trying to make out what the others were saying.
"Palm-reading Amy? Really?" Tails is fairly certain that the voice is Silver's.
"Oh come on, it's harmless." Tails knows that it's Amy.
"How...Sonic can't do it?" Silver says. Tails hears Sonic's awkward chuckling as Amy explains.
"Because... to know that Sonic's heart...and he's got good intentions." Amy says, a little too quickly to catch all of what she's saying.
"I think it's a load of bologna." Tails recognizes the voice as his own, but not that insensitive attitude.
"How about you try Tails?" Tails definitely knows this voice to be his best friend's. But Tails is slightly more interested in how his imposter reacts to this question.
"Ugh...Nah. I mean, I'm busy...uh... setting up the game." Tails Doll says with a less than calm demeanor. With this less than enthusiastic statement, Tails finds the 'Eureka' he needs.
Ok Cream, Tails telepathically types, Here's what I need you to do...