Bubbles went up in the chemicals that sat in their glass homes. Computers woke from their extended slumbers; they ran endless numbers and codes across the blue screen. In the middle of this deep, dark room was a large tube. It gurgled as it filled with sterile liquids unknown to any but the mad scientist himself. This mad scientist plucked a single hair from the old hairbrush given o him with silver tweezers. The small hair drifted slowly down into the analysis tube. The bottom of the tube illuminated to a bright green as it scanned. The ping of the computer finishing its scan pleased the scientist. After more numbers popped onto the screen they began to decode themselves. It read: SYSTEM MATCH: AMADEUS PROWER. Eggman smiled a vulgar smile. Precisely, he took a pinch of the ashes in the can given to him and dropped it into the analysis tube. It once again read: SYSTEM MATCH: AMADEUS PROWER.

"Perfect. And the last bit." Eggman whispered to himself. With caution, he took his tweezers again and added a hair collected from a recent quarrel. The computer hummed in computation. SYSTEM MATCH: MILES PROWER. But then, the computer hummed louder. It began beeping and buzzing like an old machine on the fritz. BEGIN FUSION? It read on the screen. The scientist picked up a Chaos Emerald waiting patiently beside him and pushed it into an open input. Immediately it glowed. The liquid in the large tube bubbled white like a babbling brook. Eggman simply sat back, hands folded behind his head.

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Elsewhere, over the hills and across the plains, a little fox was wriggling into the covers of his bed.

"Y'know Sonic, I can't help but think we forgot something back at that haunted house." He said tiredly. His older friend Sonic put his hands on his hips.

"Well if we did I'm sure as heck not goin' back!" The hedgehog scoffed.

"Yeah, I-I guess you're right." Tails said sinking into the mattress. Sonic approached Tails and ruffled the fur on his head.

"G'night bud." He said softly and closed the door behind him when he left. The little fox drifted off to sleep quite easily, but his dreams were the exact opposite. He was in that black limbo again. Jus t like he said he would, that limbo he had gotten thrown into by Time Eater was the main character in his dreams.

The young one stood still inside his pitch black dream. But thankfully a light appeared far in the distance. It was a small, red light. One could compare it to a tiny ember strolling away from an open flame. But to anyone trapped in an endless pit of darkness, a light that small could be like the sun. Tails began walking at a fast pace toward the light; ever so slowly it grew in size. Things seemed to become more 'real' as he approached the light. He couldn't describe it, but things were more… real. When the light was about the size of a light bulb in the distance, he noticed a form behind said light. It began to look up…

Tails woke up to a sweaty bed. His sheets were completely messed up and the air was dense. The dazed fox sprang up and opened a window. Dreams like that were nothing new. Ever since the incident with Time Eater he'd learned to just brush them off and think of something else as he fell asleep. Once again the little fox drifted into a light slumber by the window.

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"Almost… Almost perfect." said Eggman in a guttural voice. He paced around the tube that continued to bubble, obscuring any insight of what was going on inside of it. Eggman's patience wore thin, and he practically smashed a blue button that read "DRAIN". The bubbling liquid rushed down the drain holes on the floor of the tube. After the roar of liquid, an orange creature was left sitting, dripping wet.

"Awaken child." Eggman exacted as he stepped closer. The ears on the creature, stitched and tattered, pricked up toward the scientist's voice. Eggman continued,

"I am Doctor Ivo Robotnik. I awakened you from your extended unrest. You will do what I say, and you will be housed and cared for."

"Loved…" The creature said weakly. Eggman raised an eyebrow at the small voice.

"Will I be loved?" The creature spoke up. Its voice was young, boy-like, and sorrowful.

"With the bottom of my heart. Tails Doll." Eggman sneered. A glint of evil sparkling on his glasses.