Before they were in a relationship, but were already falling for one another.

"Move it, you stupid mountain!" Wave the swallow screamed behind him. They were inside the waiting room, finally ready to go and partake on the next competition. Tails was thankful too, this room was rather uncomfortable for him, but now the Swallow came to ruin his day.

Tails just sighed, very loudly, well aware that this was annoying the Swallow. "Like an annoying little insignificant bug ringing on my ear." Tails replied, while turning around, meeting his eyes with hers.

"I will give you only little. Naturally little, unlike you, you steroid abuser. Just wait a couple years until the nasty side effects destroy you."

"I worked unbelievable hard to get like this." He replied, flexing his arm a little, making his muscles bulge. Wave wouldn't admit it, but she wanted to wrap her hands around it. "But it didn't matter how hard or how much you juice yourself, since you are a little girl."

"My Tails! I did not take you for a sexist! How can people think you are good guy anymore?"

"Says the woman who is a total Bird Bitch to everyone. What right do you have to judge if I am good or not?"

"It's called being consistent and treating everyone equally. That's better than what you are doing!"

"They are it again." Knuckles said, as they just continued to scream at each other.

"Come on, let's move." Sonic told him.

"Aren't you worried about them?" Knuckles asked.

The blue blur just shrugged. "He can absolutely handle her."

Meanwhile, both Jet and Storm were looking at them interact, Jet in particular looking concerned.

"Boss, if we don't move, then no one is going to compete. We are going to get disqualified and Team Heroes wins. We should move." Storm was trying to negotiate.

"I don't care. We are entering all as a team." Jet stubbornly replied. There was a silence until...

"You are not having faith in Wave." Storm said, knowing this was a sore topic for him.

"Don't you even there..." He wasn't going to let himself be manipulated by this like other times.

"Wave thinks so too. She doesn't need us against him and we should go and win for the team."

"... Sometimes I hate when you actually make sense." And with that, they moved to their next race.

Meanwhile, both Wave and Tails just kept discussing, distracted from everything around them, so much so that neither of them realized that the race started and finished, before they finish fighting with each other. At this point however, the fox was starting to get tired of this. "Seriously, how can such a Beautiful Bird be this combative?"

"What?!" Wave, for the first time in their entire discussion, was shaken by something he had said. Tails needed a second to process and realize what worked on her.

"Beautiful Bird, you know, exactly what you are. Sure, your body makes many people water their mouths because of how hot it is, but your mind, your bright and creative brain, might be the most beautiful part of you." Wave suddenly hit the wall with her back. She had not realized it, but she was walking backwards. The thing was that the distance between her and the fox never changed, as he was following her pace, so that's how she was fooled.

Then, the yellow anthro raised his arm and moved it, slowly, until his hand landed on the wall, just at the side of her head, without touching her. Her best guest was that he was self-conscious due to the large size difference between each other and was trying not to intimidate her. "That's what makes you so unique." Tails could feel his heart beating like crazy. He knew he was red on his face, but it didn't matter, he felt like he was winning.

Wave's heart was also beating like crazy and was not thinking all that straight, and, in a way, felt like a cornered animal. As such, she decided to go into the offensive, and grabbed Tails' arm, right in it's biggest area. This shook the fox a bit. "Says the man with arms that could arm-wrestle GUNs massive Mobile robots and beat them with ease!" Wave stated, hands always into his arm.

It was hard. He was softly putting his hand on the wall, not applying much force, but his arm was like a large rock either way. She had wrapped a hand on each side of the harm and extended them as far as she could, but he was so big her fingers were far from touching. Meanwhile Tails was in conflict: He really wanted to put some distance from Wave, to get her to stop touching him with her hands, but that also felt that would be like giving her a win in their current situation. If he was right of mind, he might do something else, but right now, he wouldn't. And it was really, really starting to get unbearably hot.

And her fingers, her hands, they were small, they were very feminine, but yet, he felt a strength bigger than he would have thought. He wasn't too surprised though, he knew she was very strong despite her petite body, from her workout regimes, as well of her work as a mechanic. "Speechless, beefcake?" Wave teased, as Tails had not replied in a while. "That is fine though... So strong, so smart, yet something like this makes you feel bashful. So pure." Then, she stood on her tiptoes to be as close to his face as possible. "That is what makes you so unique." She shot back the praise he had given her.

At this point, Tails was breathing heavy, that really hit him right in the spot. Except, his vision was getting blurry, he felt like it was a struggle to remain standing up. This was not because of the game, something was wrong with him, but he couldn't back down, not yet, not from this mess of a game that he and the swallow were playing. He was going to do one more attack, even if it was the last thing he would do.

He lifted his other arm and, managed to wrap it around Wave's tiny waist. His body wanted to land on her large ass, however, even now, he used the last bit of self-control to wrap it elsewhere more acceptable. Her waist, it was so small. He had heard from Rouge, Honey, heck even people less superficial like Blaze or Surge about how they envied this body part in particular.

With legs and ass that rival Rouge's, a fit upper body, decently big boobs and that tiny waist, people were convinced that Wave had surgery or something to keep her body like it was. Tails knew it was her natural body with hard work.

The last action made Wave gasp, and the fox didn't allow her a second to recover. He bent forward, putting his mouth right on the bird woman's ear and whispered. "Other woman have touched my muscles, only you made my heart go crazy."

And, he was done. His legs gave out. He managed to push himself with the arm still on the wall and unwrapped Wave with the other, to make sure he didn't drag her and let himself fall on his back. Not long after, he lost consciousness. Wave's mind had completely crumbled, completely unaware of her surroundings. Then, she ran out of the room with all her might, not realizing that when she opened the door she almost hit her teammates. She just kept running and running. This angered Jet.

"Alright you stupid fox, what did...?" He pulled his arm feathers, as if they were a shirt sleeve, but noticed that the fox was knocked out in the floor. Now, he was really confused.

Sonic and Knuckles quickly went to the fox' side and checked on him. "Did Wave kill him or something?!" Storm asked, genuinely concerned.

"Nah, he overheated." Knuckles said, while Sonic moved his arms at incredible speeds to blow wind at his brother. "Sometimes it happens because he is so big now, specially in this room without air conditioning or windows."

With that, Jet just ran out of the room and looked for Wave, though he wasn't sure where to begin with.

"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHH!" Suddenly he heard her voice, though that was the girlyest, excited scream he had ever hear from her. With that, it was easy to find her.

She was in a little private spot, where she might be hard to find, if she wasn't so loud. The birdwoman was jumping on her spot, unable to hide her excitement or happiness at all. "He likes me! He likes me! He really likes me! I drive him crazy! Yeah!" She screamed, though with her excited, hyper fast voice that most people couldn't understand, repeating these over and over again. Jet had heard her enough with this to know how to understand her. He was hoping that she would confirm the name. It was probably the fox, but he wanted to be sure.

But then, Wave noticed him. There was an awkward silence before Wave just rode her board and flew as fast as she could. "Wait!" Jet ordered, but it fell on deaf ears, so he just followed her.

Meanwhile, the fox introduced his head into a bucket, which due to his own overall heat, started to boil and some fumes started to emerge from it, though it only evaporated a little bit. Tails pulled his head out, let go a sigh of relief and relaxed a bit.

"Better?" Sonic asked.

"Much." Was all the fox could say.

"Anything good happened while we were away?" The older one asked. This made the fox face turn red again.

"What makes you think that?"

"Because while you were out, you also had the biggest smile on your face." He said, with a rather devious smile. Tails tossed his head again into the water, before reemerging again.

"That woman exhausts me."

"To be fair, you always look happy when you are exhausted." Sonic joked. Tails didn't want to admit it, but he was right about that.