The sounds of repetitive hammering and soldering rang from a little workshop in the town square of Daffodil Town, Flora's national capital. The peasants heard the familiar noise of hard work and sweat coming from the shack, and they smiled to themselves, going on about their duties and errands. They know that it's their most favored and most revered inventor and youngest boy genius in all of Flora creating another useful tool to improve their everyday life.

Miles 'Tails' Prower focused on the soldering of a strange machete shaped object, altogether pouring an unknown substance along with the heating magma. His room was filled with tools of all kinds, bottles whole with liquids of different colors, transportation devices sitting in every corner, books and books on the opposite wall, anything that even the world's most loved genius would dream of.

As he was finished, Tails looked at his work. Gleaming with glory in the sunbeam was a silver and ivory sword, its handle bejeweled with rubies and amethysts, its luster hardly on the side of dull. He picked it up and slashed it into the air. The sword's appearance then took on a new, alien presence, around it a golden halo.

"Perfect", he spoke softly, "Just the way I wanted it. Sonic would be glad to have this in his possession. Now, let me just wrap this up for him when he comes-"

Who would have thought it but Sonic coming along into the scene, checking out what his longtime buddy was doing so far.

"Hey Tails! What has the boy genius got for me this time?"

"Boy am I glad you're here! You're just in time to see it. I was about to wrap it up for you in case you came but you spared me the energy! Now back to business; want to see your own weapon with new renovations?"

Sonic knew Tails was trying to tease him, so he folded his arms and tapped his feet many times. Tails got the message. He proceeded to the workshop, with Sonic following suit. As they arrived to the velvet drawn bundle, Tails halts him to a pause, telling him to stand back. Taking off the elegant cloth, Sonic couldn't believe what he was seeing.

Sonic excitedly picked up the sword and set it to the sun. What a marvelous shade of silver it gave off! "Tails thank you! This is an incredible sword you've just made. Now I know I'll fight better carrying this around with me."

"You know Sonic, it never rusts nor does it ever go dull. Plus, the shine just stays on forever, so you'll never have to polish it. It can slay anything with just one or two slashes, so its diamond blade for now is the strongest and impenetrable sword of its kind! But that's not all of the sword's abilities Sonic. Here, give it to me."

Sonic handed the sword to Tails, waiting on what would happen next. Tails closed his eyes and repeated the same slaying routine he did before. The halo started up again and glowed stronger with every shine. Sonic was awed with the bright light surrounding the valiant blade. He took it from Tails and stuttered, "How-how-how did you do that?"

"Well, take a look on the handle Sonic," Tails replied.

Sonic stared down at the jeweled handle and saw a milky like mirror appeared in the center. In it contained a picture of Princess Amy Rose, holding a daisy to her face. Sonic smiled at this, and then got confused as to how this was connected to the sword's unknown power. He looked at Tails for an excuse.

"Well, I figured since you always fight for the Flora Kingdom, I knew that maybe you need a burst of motivation. I configured the mystic mirror minerals from Thistle Mountain, and then I obtained the princess's picture to put them together in the handle. But I knew I wanted to add something else to benefit the sword itself, you know, so it won't look like it's an ordinary sword. That's when I found out about Golden Ring Dust, the dust you gave me when you were on your last battle. I knew about its harrowing powers and connected it with the mirror mineral, triggered by a particular slashing movement, afterwards the princess's picture showing up and voila! You got yourself a very powerful weapon to use!"

Sonic was glad that Tails made this just for him. His elated face directed from the glorious blade to Princess Amy's picture. Then his face turned into sorrow and regret. Sonic closed his eyes as he shook his head very slowly.

"What's wrong Sonic? You don't want it?" Tails asked.

"No I love it Tails; I just about love everything you create in your own free will. It's just…" He glimpsed at Amy's permanent gaze and closed his eyes again. Tails looked at his best friend and saw what was wrong.

"Is it about the princess? What is it? Maybe I could help."

No Tails, there's nothing to help now or fix. What happened took place and I can't go back in time to reverse it."

"Come on now - tell me what happened," Tails said as he gave Sonic a trusting look.

Sonic opened his eyes and told him about what he told Amy: the Umbra Kingdom, the royal family, their order of things, their son…

"And I never got to notice it but she had that sneaky way about her when she wants to find out things she wants to know more about. And I failed to even ask her if she would never set foot on there. Plus, what I did was against the law and I'll be disrobed of my knighthood for this. Even worse, Amy will probably get hurt finding out about them. This is my entire fault."

Tails had a look of pity and wariness about him, so he patted him on the back and chuckled a little.

"It's okay Sonic; no one has to know about this. Maybe Amy won't go over to the other kingdom. Maybe she was just being curious. Just because she wants the whole truth from you doesn't necessarily mean that she will do something that she knows is dangerous. Trust me; she's got a lot more sense than that."

Sonic's chest inflated by what this 10 year old had to say, so he sucked it up and forwarded his mind on the sword. "Sooooo….what do I have to do to trigger the picture?"

"All you have to do is start thinking of Amy - and it will appear, allowing you to do the slashing technique."

Just as he was about to think of a memory of Amy, the princess herself busted through the door in her usual wrapped up self, with Cream by her side. Her face flustered and tired from all the running she did to get to Sir Sonic and her tiara almost lopsided in front of her face and her dress ruffled, Amy looked ready to burst with the information she had in store.

"Amy! What is it? What's wrong?" Sonic urged, sword ready in hand.

"I-pant-found-pant-a-way-pant-to-pant-get-pant-to the-pant-Umbrian Castle to-pant-find-pant pant-the prince!" exclaimed the tired princess.

She handed him a piece of paper of what seemed to be a thrown away invitation. Sonic looked at Amy, then looked straight at Tails with a 'see what I mean' glare. Tails just shrugged his shoulders in shock and wonderment.

The princess was actually doing this. Amy smiled slyly at the genius of her grand and elusive plan…