Thanks for being so patient while waiting for the next part of this to come out. Now without further ado... I give you the next chapter of...
Tails Plays Sonic R!
Amy, Sonic, and Silver gathered around the Ouija Board anxiously. Silver is holding the doll of Tails with a very uneasy look in his eyes. As he attempts to swallow down his fears, a trickle of sweat parades down his forehead. Sonic and Amy give him a worried look, but as Silver catches glimpses of their pitied expressions, he nods his head, affirming to them that he is both capable and willing to take the risks that come with the method that Amy is about to try...
After sending Cream home, Amy had created a Ouija board onto the floor using miscellaneous magazine clippings and a shot glass (Knuckles' mind you) and had set up a ring of people to hold the ceremony. Using her knowledge of the supernatural, she is completely aware that Tails, new to the ghostly scene, would have a very difficult time communicating with them using the methods most commonly used for ghouls to speak to the living; however, she is also aware that if someone were to amplify Tails' spectral abilities, he could speak to them all as clearly as if he was alive. And unfortunately for Silver, he is the best one for the job. Silver has had his entire life learning how to amplify the abilities of the mind... If he can do it for himself, he sure as heck can do it for Tails. That is, if it's actually Tails in there.
Unsurprisingly, this is the first time Silver has actually tried something such as this, and he hopes it will be the last.
Or at least, that he'll still be around to not do it later.
"Are you sure you want to do this Silver...?" Amy questions, a pitied expression in her face. She knows that though Silver is the best person for the job, Sonic can probably do it too, but Silver raises his hand up to cut her off.
"I'll be fine Ames... don't worry." He smiles to her, a weak attempt at showing her that he's not afraid, and she gives him a curt nod, returning to her place in front of the Ouija board. She sits cross-legged and puts her hands on the shot glass, motioning for the others to do the same. Sonic puts his hands on, and Silver puts his left one on, holding the doll of Tails with the right. Silver's trembling a bit, but not enough for it to show.
I really hope this works you guys... Tails thinks to himself, otherwise...we're all doomed.
Amy sighs deeply, and closes her eyes, concentrating her spiritual energy. The glass on Ouija Board stays still, yet Silver seems to be getting more anxious as the seconds progress, Sonic can only wait, and he's patient about it. As long as it takes, he'll wait. He just wants to see his real best friend again. Suddenly, the glass starts to shift. And Amy bites her lip as she looks down.
H...E...L...P…
Amy swallows, then takes another deep breath. The problem with these Ouija boards is that, even if it is unintended, other spirits can infiltrate a session. Ones that you would not want to be in the room with you. These spirits could be a nuisance to Sonic, Silver, and Amy, but they can potentially kill Tails. They need to be careful about the words they use.
"Tails?" Amy asks cautiously. "Is that you?"
Tails struggles to move the glass, but, With the slight assistance from Silver's weakly placed Psychokinetic abilities, he manages to move the glass into the appropriate place.
...YES….
"Ok," Sonic reasons, catching Amy's attention. "Prove it."
"Sonic, don't talk like that-" Amy starts, but when the board starts to move again, the chills down her spine stop her short.
T...O...R...N...A...D...O
"Tornado?" Silver questions, staring at the board quizzically.
"The Tornado…" Sonic says distantly. "It's the plane I have, Tails loves that plane… He uses it all the time." While Sonic is still stunned, Tails begins to move the board again.
H...E...L...P… a pause. W...E...A...K…
Tails is weak, the amount of power Silver is giving him, though helpful, is not enough to keep him moving the glass for much longer. It's so much harder to do things without a body, and though Tails' mind is tough, it's not going to be able to keep up this ritual for much longer. As it stands, he can already barely move the glass, his spirit is just not that strong. Already, he's exerted himself by making a spark of electricity from previously, and with this, his spectral strength is draining...fast.
"He's weak." Amy says in a whisper tone. However, it's enough to startle Sonic out of his temporary stupor. Sonic just knows that it's his little buddy, the Tornado remark was enough to prove, and he's determined to do whatever he can to help him.
"Silver!" Sonic shoots curtly. "Give it more power!" He commands.
"Sonic!" Amy somewhat shrieks. "We don't know what will happen! We have to do it gradually-" She's cut off by Sonic.
"We don't need gradual, we need now! Tails Doll is still on the loose, and we don't do something, Tails is gonna be lost forever!" It might be a bit of an exaggeration, well, not really, but once Sonic gets started, there's no stopping him. "More power Silver! Do it!"
Silver, caught off guard, can think of nothing to do than what Sonic tells him. He gives a quick nod, then sighs apprehensively, concentrating a huge gust of psychokinetic ability into the seemingly inanimate doll. His body glows with the power, and Amy becomes mousy with this potentially irresponsible turn of events.
"Wait! That's too much!" But the damage has been done. Silver's power rushes through the doll, and Tails' mind amplifies immensely. Tails gains a grasp of his mind again, almost as strong as when he was not the doll. However, he is, this situation has now turned into one that can now be considered... bittersweet.
Silver releases the Ouija glass and the ceremony is broken, but the exhilaration has yet to cease. Silver grabs his head in agony, and Sonic quickly jumps to his feet, a natural response to the face of apprehension. However, what is he to do about this?
"Silver!" Amy jumps to her feet, but does not approach the ailing hedgehog, for fear that she might enhance the danger of the situation. Silver writhes and squeaks, gripping his head and grinding his teeth in. He manages to get to his feet, but all around him, small objects appear to defy gravity, floating pieces of paper and assorted pencil begin to rise off tables, and even the trashcan starts to drift off to the side. Amy is keeping Sonic at bay while this occurs, but in an attempt to the control the situation, Sonic cries out.
"Yo! Silver!" The voice causes Silver to stop immediately, and all of the small items fall to the floor in that instant. Silver's muscles visibly relax, and he rubs his forehead softly this time, as if he's trying to ease a small headache. As he stiffens out, he shakes his head side to side, and looks around the room. He takes a big sigh, ready to speak.
But it''s not his voice that comes out.
"Sonic? Amy?" Tails says through the silver hedgy. "I think it worked! I don't know how, but I've got a body again!" Tails is completely oblivious to his situation, something that is sure not to last long, however, Sonic and Amy realize this incredibly unexpected turn of events and are as equally unprepared to respond to it.
"Was that supposed to happen?!" Sonic whispers sharply to Amy.
"Nope. Nope nope nope nope nope…." Amy stutters. Meanwhile, Tails is looking around the room, mystified at having a body again, still unaware that he's in Silver.
"What's wrong guys?" Tails questions. "You look like you've seen a ghost."
Amy chuckles nervously while Sonic takes cautious steps forward, still questioning Amy.
"How did this happen?!" Sonic asks through clenched teeth, trying for Tails not to hear, luckily, he doesn't.
"I don't know…" Amy hisses, chucking anxiously between sentences. "But this is one of the many reasons why you should probably be a little more patient Sonic…"
"Are we going into this now?" Sonic almost yells, yet compressing the back of his throat to only half-yell. Amy gives him a stern look, and he realizes that yeah, it was kind of his bad, not that he has the patience to care too much at this moment. There's still one more pressing question floating around…
"Well then where's Silver?!" Sonic argues, catching Tails' attention.
"You guys lost Silver?!" The question causes the fox cub to raise his hands up in the air incredulously, an event that Sonic and Amy try to cease, but the instinctive motion was too quick even for the cobalt hedgehog to expect. As Tails did so, he accidentally gets a glimpse of his hands, seeing the lightning blue scars on his palms, marks that were never there in the beginning. Upon looking down to observe himself further, he sees the black and white striped boots that he is only familiar with being worn by another, ones he himself never put on. EVER.
As Silver's shocked expression matched Tails' emotions, he was building a great scream in his chest, but is being gradually coaxed out of it by Sonic's speedy reasoning.
"Ok Tails, I know what you're planning on doing… and before you do...look at who you're possessing... Now… I know you don't want to blow up me, Amy, or any mountains right about now… So keep yourself UNDER CONTROL… It's going to be alright...ok buddy?"
Tails lets out an exasperated breath and starts hyperventilating, trying to get out the correct words to say in an attempt not to scream.
"You...you you you you YOU! Put me….into..into...into? SIlver?! W-w-w-w-well...where is he now?! Is he in the doll now?! What how who what what what?! Guys?!" Sonic and Amy or silent, and Tails cannot resist the urge, he takes a deep breath, Sonic and Amy cringe, about ready to duck for cover.
All of a sudden, Silver's whole body locks up, and he takes a deep breath, releasing it with much duress; his arms and neck is twitching, and his pupils have shrunk quite a bit. As he grips at his head, the familiar, though audibly strained, voice of Silver comes out of the body's mouth.
"Don't even think about it...Augh!" Silver's body is shaking, yet Sonic and Amy have just realized what has become of their two friends.
"Silver!? You're still in there?!" Amy shouts.
"Yeah I'm still...ugh! In here…" Silver makes out, pushing against the other consciousness within him. "Oh myyyy… this feels so weird and wrong! So wrong! K-kk…."
"OW!" Tails suddenly shouts. "I'm in pain...I'm officially in pain now! AUGHH!"
"Guys!" Amy commands. "Behave yourselves! One at a time!"
"Noooo way Ames!" Silver disagrees. "My body, MY Rules. ONLY mine! Augh! Why do I even have to say all this?! Oh man oh man...This is soooo weird!"
"Chill it Silver!" Sonic says. "We need to talk to Tails, just give us some time!" Silver scoffs, gripping his head while leaning on the closest wall to him.
"Oh yeah?! It was Y-Y-You're bright ideas that got us into this Sonic!" Silver screams and then Tails comes back into the picture, still gripping his head in agony.
"Hey you volunteered!" Tails argues.
"NOT FOR THIS!" Silver counters in reply."SO NOT FOR THIS!"
"Silver! Please! This is the only way we can even hope to get Tails' body back, and possibly to save all of Mobius!" Amy pleas. "It will only be for a little bit! Please Silver, just until we get the information we need! I promise you… you're going to be alright."
"But! I-I…ugh…." Silver's object, still clutching his head from the quite literal mental conflict.
"Silver, please. Trust me." Amy comes closer to the uniform duo and places a gentle hand on their shoulder. Silver looks to her with yellow eyes at first, but they begin to more consistently flash to a sky hue. Silver looks wild at first, but as Amy begins to speak, his temperament begins to appease. "Silver…" Amy begins. "Trust me…You're not going to be hurt... I'm not going to let anything happen to you. You're going to be okay. But you have to trust that I know what I'm doing, and fr me to do it correctly, and with patience. Please Silver, Tails needs need you."
With her peaceful words, A simple "ok" passes through the body in Silver's voice, and then his eyes flicker more and more incessantly to a light shade of blue. Pretty soon, the shade sticks, and and body relaxes, allowing Tails to take a deep sigh.
"Tails?" Sonic questions cautiously.
"Sonic?" Tails responds with an equal level of timidity.
"Oh man, I really hope that's you man." Sonic responds.
"Pfft…" Tails retorts, crossing his arms and giving a sly smile. Something totally out of character for the coy Silver. "I hypothesized all along that that imposter wouldn't fool you for long. There's only one me, and I'm the genuine article! Well...not now, but, most of the time." Tails giggles, and Sonic can recognize that same bashful conceitedness from a mile away.
"Yeah…" Sonic says…"It's you alright."
"Tails!" Amy jumps in, knowing that Silver most likely does not want prolong this body-sharing. "I have an important question to ask of you…" Silver's hand goes up, with Tails' mind to direct it, cutting off Amy short.
"No need." Tails corrects. "I could hear everything when I was the doll… That Tails Doll android is extremely dangerous, it can take over minds just by getting people to play his game, and he burns the host body before they have the time to recover. Luckily, Sonic's general superiority complex and unwittingness came to my rescue. No offense of course.
"Eh, none taken." Sonic shrugs.
"However, once you up-linked me to the Ouija Board Amy," Tails begins again, "The dark energy bonds connecting me the doll body grew more powerful, and now I can tell where the Tails Doll is."
"Where?" Amy questions panicky.
"Hold on, I need to trace him. Give me a second…" Silver's eyes shut, and tails concentrated his mind on the strands of evil energy that penetrate his soul. He can feel his mind somewhat detach, and his little white soul zooms along the path of the glowing violet strands of energy. As the soul zips past the black void transcending nonexistence, it finds a break in the path, and immediately follows it through and through.
As this strange and mystic event ensues, Silver's body begins to glow a unfamiliar… and quite unsettling… shade of violet, something that Silver is both unprepared for, and mildly freaked out by.
"Guys… This isn't normal…." Silver comments, his body steadily changing in color.
"Silver?" Sonic asks, "Where's Tails?"
"He's searching for the connection between him and the Tails doll, but I don't think he knows this is happening... Oh man… Oh man…" The glow begins to increase in intensity, and Silver suddenly begins to feel lightheaded. As he begins to swoon, Amy and Sonic take a couple reluctant steps closer, just in case the glowing hedgehog loses consciousness. His now-purple eyes begin to shrink and grow slowly at first, then with more intensity proceeding. It's becoming increasingly worrisome, especially for the one that this crazy phenomenon this is afflicting.
Tails… Sonic thinks, You better know what you're doing man...
As Tails' small white soul transcends the dark energy, he can feel himself becoming weaker, more faint, but he presses on through the tumult, making beeline for the direction of the most powerful evil. At the last leg of his trek, he finally begins to see a light, and pursues it with enhanced vigor. As the figure comes into view, he begins to see that it is in fact an image; once clear, the sheer realization of it shocks Tails back into reality.
A shock wave from within Silver's body knocks back all the friends from their closely kept ring, and Tails's consciousness springs back into Silver's body, reeling from the effect of the mental shock wave. As soon as he gets the slightest grip of himself however, he's voicing his revelation, yelling to the group the details Tails Doll's whereabouts.
"Guys! Guys! I figured it out! I know where he is!"
Sonic springs up and quickly shakes off his head, demanding the answer.
"Where?!" Sonic yells, Amy following soon afterward.
"Where Tails?!" Amy demands.
"I forgot! oh man, I completely forgot! But how?! I had the blueprints on my desk!"
"WHERE TAILS?!" Amy and Sonic yell simultaneously, inching closer to each other as they wait for precious seconds in anticipation.
"I was trying to program a better one! I bought a second one, but never got to the project! I have a second Sega Saturn! It's completely intact!"
As the words reached Sonic's horrified mind, he stays quiet while Tails yells the last of his knowledge for the crowd to listen in terror.
"It knew! It could sense it! Tails Doll is back at my house!"