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Chapter 2: Fix the Present, Go Back to the Past

10 Weeks Later...

Tails walked through the metallic streets of Robotropolis in the rain. Despite his hatred towards Eggman, he wanted to ask the doctor a favor and due to the fact he was one of Eggman's robots too now, none of the city's guards stopped him as he rode the elevator to the top of Eggman's tower.

'Now I know why alarms where suddenly tripped whenever we came here during the time of the Freedom Fighters.' thought Tails sadly as the elevator came to a stop and he got out to see Eggman working on a device.

"Ahhh, Tails. Glad to see you here. Listen, I'm willing to make up for my mistake by sending you to the past to fix everything." said Eggman with a friendly smile.

"Why do you want to do that? With Sonic gone you can take over the world without anyone interfering." said Tails.

"Yeah...about that...the truth is...is that I miss fighting Sonic and Shadow's no fun because he is too serious, no taunts, no nothing. Besides, I want to make up for ruining your life and what better way than sending you back to fix some things and possibly growing up without having to worry about killing Sonic when you're twelve?"

"Can I kick your butt while I'm at it?" asked Tails with a smirk.

"You and the Freedom Fighters did a pretty good job back then with that! Ho hoo ho! I remember when I tried to splatter Sonic with Mega-Muck yet that completely backfired. Anyway, you want this chance?"

"Sure, but I plan to change my appearance a bit."

"How-?"

Tails ripped the right side of his face off to reveal the robotics underneath and then he ripped the flesh and fur off his left arm.

"There."

"B-but what if the Freedom Fighters attack you?!"

"I won't fight back."

"Okay...just take Tails Doll with you."

Said doll then came flying in and hugged Tails' on the back.

"Won't he cause mayhem and sabotage?" said Tails looking at Eggman confused.

"I removed that chip from him before you came here. You and him will have absolutely NO loyalty to me in the past. Besides, I may be a evil genius planning to take over the world but even I have limits. What I did in the past with you was too much. I made you and Sonic become best friends and brothers and then I tear you apart? Worst plan ever. By doing this you can prevent it from happening. Just be careful okay Tails?" said Eggman.

"Sure doc. See you in the past!"

With that Tails and Tails Doll disappeared into the portal and Eggman leaned back in his seat with a soft smile on his lips before...

*EXPLOSION*

A red and black hedgehog stood in front of the ruined elevator, glaring at Eggman.

"S-Shadow?!" stuttered Eggman caught completely off guard.

"You'll pay for what you did to Tails you evil, sociopathic mad scientist!" snarled Shadow creating a ball of Chaos in his hands (1).

"Wait! Shadow, don't-!"

"CHAOS BLAST!"

*EXPLOSION!*

In the Past; Great Forest

A orb of red-black energy appeared in the middle of nowhere and Tails and Tails Doll stepped out of it before it disappeared and the two took stock of their surroundings.

"Where are we?" said Tails Doll hanging onto Tail's back while he looked around, his gem yellow.

"The Great Forest. Come on, let's see if I remember where the entrance to Knothole is." said Tails walking north, with T.D (Tails Doll) hovering next to him.

The two keep walking until they come upon a fairly large hollow log and Tails' switches over to using his robotic vision and scans the log and tries to match it up with memories from the past and it matches 100%.

"We're here." said Tails switching back to normal vision and he entered the log followed by T.D.

The two go done a long slide of loop de loops, corkscrews, and zig-zags until they come flying out and land in a pile of hay.

"Ptew! I forgot how much fun that was!" said Tails getting up and brushing hay off himself as T.D gets up also with a green gem.

"That was fun! Let's go again!" yelled T.D before Tails clamped his mouth shut.

"Shhh! You'll give us away!"

Suddenly Freedom Fighters surround the two and Tails puts his hands in the air while T.D cowers behind him with a white gem.

"How'd two robots find our hideout?" said a walrus with utility belt and a yellow baseball cap.

"You'd be surprised by what I know Rotor." said Tails with a smirk before a sword is pressed against his throat.

"And what iz that zupposed to mean?" said Antione in his French Accent.

"I know each and every one of you. But I'm not an enemy, I'm an ally."

"And how do we know we can trust you? You might be one of Buttnik's spies for all we know!" said Sonic tapping his foot impatiently on the ground.

"You're suspicious of your own brother Sonic?" said Tails with a smirk and everybody gasps.

"W-what?! Tails?!" said Sally in shock.

"Yep. How do I look?"

"L-like you've been roboticized! What happened?"

"First. I need to have a talk with my younger self, is that okay?"

"Y-yeah...I guess."

The group moves out of his way and he walks towards the small nearby lake and Tails Doll follows quickly, his gem yellow/white.

Younger Tails was sitting on the shoreline, his feet dangling in the water when he feels a hand on his shoulder and he looks to the right to see a metal hand yet he doesn't scream or pull away, he looks up and sees somebody who looks like him but with a half robotic face and a smile on his face.

"Enjoying the water Tails?" asked the older look-alike.

"Yeah. Want to join me?" said Tails and the older double sat besides him.

"You look up to Sonic?" asked the older fox.

"Yeah! He's my hero! Someday, I'm gonna be just like him!"

The older fox smiled before a tear dripped from his robotic eye, surprising the younger fox.

"Why are you crying?"

"Sorry. I'll tell you when you're older. Now hold still, this won't hurt." said the older fox, squeezing the area around the younger fox's neck, knocking him unconscious. The older fox then opened a hidden compartment on his younger self's head and removed a chip with Robotnik Empire Symbol on it and crushed it before he closed the compartment and shook his younger self awake.

"H-huh? W-what happened?" said Tails looking around confused.

"Nothing. Just a bee on your back and I didn't want you to panic." lied the older Tails.

"What's your name?"

"Just call me Miles."

"Hey, that's my first name! But I prefer Tails."

"I know that. Anyway, mind showing me around?"

Tails gets up and grabs Miles' robotic hand and pulls him along and T.D follows the two.

Nighttime; Tails' Hut

Tails was tucked into bed and Tails Doll was laying by him, his eyes closed.

Tails Doll begins singing "Can you feel the Sunshine?" when Tails pulls him close and the Doll's gem turns yellow before it turns a bright green and keeps singing.

"~Can you see?

The sun is shining on me

It makes me feel so free

So alive

It makes me want to survive~

~And the sky

It makes me feel so high

The bad times seem to pass me by

'Cause today is gonna be a brighter day!~

~Can you feel the sunshine?

Does it brighten up your day?

Don't you feel that sometimes,

you just need to run away?~

[Tails Doll keeps singing]

Miles who is watching this scene leaves with a smile on his face before he bumps into Sonic.

"Sorry." mutters Miles before he keeps walking but a hand on the shoulder stops him.

"Why have you been avoiding me Tails? What's with you?" said Sonic.

"It's nothing Sonic. Just...worry about yourself, okay?" said Miles not meeting Sonic's gaze.

"Yeah okay. If you want to talk about it, you know where I am." said Sonic before he zoomed off as a blue blur.

Miles sighed before he walked over to the hut recently built for him.

Meanwhile; Downunda

"Oooooohhhh...my head...what happened? Wait! Shadow!" said Eggman shooting up and looking around.

"Drat that hedgehog! With his meddling, everything is now messed up! It was only supposed to be Tails going back in time, not all three of us!" said Eggman as he fixed the hover ship that was somehow warped with him.

"Actually doctor, it is four of us." said Oorbot popping out of ball form.

"Shut up before I turn you into scrape!"

Eggman continued working on the hover ship before it hovered off the ground and he got in it.

"Computer, locate subject Gamma-59B."

"Scanning...Subject Located: Great Forest; Knothole" aid the ship's onboard computer.

"Great. Just what I need. Oh well, since I'm from the future I guess I can switch sides, besides it's the least I could do for Tails. Set coordinates for Knothole!"

The hover ship then took off.

END CHAPTER

Yeah, I know what some of you will be like; "Why are you making Tails Doll and Dr. Eggman good guys?" Well my answer is this: This is a seriously messed up story, so those two will be good guys, no other characters on the side of evil will switch over, expect those who do in the actual storyline. By the way, this is before Bunnie Rabbot is saved from being roboticized.

(1) I bet some of you are wondering why Shadow cares for Tails. Well, he does have a heart, its just hard to open.

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