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Hands curled in fists and firms at your side, you sat down in the cafeteria, munching on some much needed breakfast. Olive stopped by to deliver your usual uniform as you left it on a rack on the ship after Amy gave you the spy gear.

It was nice to feel warm, as the lighter layers of the uniform made the dank air of the old base you infiltrated cold to your fur. Your helmet was still nowhere to be seen unfortunately. You still missed it.

"Heard about the success (Y/n)!" A voice called behind you. Whipping around with a mouth full of (favorite breakfast food), your body seized up in embarrassment when you looked like this hungering ball of (f/c) fur, gouged with food. You were already about done with it.

You managed to swallow. "Hey Sonic, thanks. It went pretty well."

Yep, Sonic had walked in and was less shiny than before. He had probably just gone for a run. He was careful not to touch anything and stood at the end of the table, unable to sit down on the make-shift wooden seats, "I also heard about the emeralds. That's a problem."

"It is- and it honestly scared me when I first saw them all together in the wrong hands."

"Rightfully so. We'll get them back. I promise! We'll win this fight no problem." Classic Sonic- there was never a thought of defeat in that blue hedgehog's eyes. His confidence made you smile. "AND since you got that awesome data drive, we can get Tails more information for his cure."

"I think that's the part I'm most excited about. There's a complete diagnostic of the virus. It's coding make-up, etc." You took another bite of your meal, hopefully not disrespecting your conversation cause god- you were hungry.

"That's even better news!" Sonic cheered. "Hey, do you wanna go give him the drive?"

Your eyes widened, thinking about being face to face with the young fox again. As of the last time you two spoke, you weren't exactly on good terms. "I- thought Amy would give it to him."

"Aw come on, let's head over. Are you done eating?" He waved his hand for you to follow. And yes, you were done, and hopefully with Sonic nearby you and Tails could get on better paths.

Placing your tray in a dish buket, you followed the hero towards Tail's lab. A massive space with various machines, vehicles, and other marvels you were honestly excited to see.

On your way, you bumped into some familiar friends. The reptile duo, Vector in the lead as they headed in the direction of an exit.

"He- Vector? Where are you going?" You stopped and looked to your friends.

Vector stopped and waved to you, "We're going to find Charmy."

"WHAT!? Why? Not only is he dangerous but who knows where he could be." You yelled, confused at why the two would even think of going anywhere outside of HQ that wasn't a critical mission.

"Yeah, that's not a very good idea" Sonic agreed, stopping in the hallway as well.

"We can handle it." Espio gives you and Sonic a thumbs up, before ushering Vector to press on so they could get going.

You and your blue friend stood in the hallway, worried... Concerned, you spoke up, "Should we stop them?"

"We'll tell Amy- she'll figure them out." Sonic pushed back his quills and sighed, tapping a communicator and letting his friend know that, "Vector and Espio are training to leave to get Charmy back."

You could hear a sigh on the other side of the microphone, and Sonic nodded. "Amy's got it covered."

"We can only hope, those two are persistent." You nodded as well, and both continued towards Tail's lab. When the double doors opened, Tails had his back turned to the entryway and was working with something hot.

Sparks flew sporadically in front of him. The fox was wearing a bright shield mask and working with metal. The two of you had to stand in the doorway until he was done, as not to startle Tails while he worked with the heavy machinery.

Sonic began to appear impatient, his foot tapping rapidly on the ground and staring at Tails. You looked back and forth between the two, before sighing and knocking on the doorway loud.

Knock. Knock. Knock.

Tails was totally fine. He stopped firing off the sparks and lifted his mask up as he turned around. He smiled when he saw Sonic but not as much when he saw you.

"Hey buddy!" Sonic went up to his best friend and almost gave him a high five. 'Oops, sorry."

"It's alright. What brings you to the lab?" Tails draws his hand back and swivels around on his revolving chair.

"(Y/n) has some important data for you." The hero gestured to you and you nodded, holding up the data drive.

"It's got all the information from the old base and the Faceship on it." You held your hand out, palm open, so that Tails could pick up the device. He took his welder mask off and placed it on the table. Standing up, he made his way over to you, hesitantly holding his hand over yours to grab the device.

Tails finally grabbed it, and nodded as a thanks. He then went to plug it into his side computer. The fox was facing away but you could tell, he was bewildered. Wide eyes and surprised by the information presented to him.

Instantaneously he began scrolling through all data, "This... this is major!" Tails began to ramble on a bunch of sciencey words, some you understood, most weren't especially to Sonic.

"Ok buddy, focus. Can you use any of it?" Sonic got the attention of Tails back, who was still energetic about the overflow of information.

"Absolutely. It will just take a little while because..."

"Eggman tech is notoriously weird." You all spoke at the exact same time. Sonic and Tails laughed and you chuckled like a casual group of friends.

"Thanks for bringing this down Sonic." Tails clapped his hands together and smiled to his blue friend.

"Actually, (Y/n) was the one to steal the information on the drive and bring it on home." Sonic gave you a thumbs up as the attention was tossed back to you.

Your (f/c) stood on end and you became slightly weary.

"Oh, well, thanks (Y/n). This helps a lot." Tails held up the device in a gesture of thanks and took a step closer. His expression was monotone but you knew he was about to say something in regards to your relations. Tails sighed and continued...

"I'm sorry if I've been angry towards you (Y/n), it was just hard to trust you at first." Tails looked down and averted his gaze from yours.

You smiled down at the small, young fox, kneeling to his level and tried to get his eyes to meet your again. "It's alright Tails, nobody needs to trust me after what I did, but I'm glad that I'm still here to help."

You placed a hand on his shoulder, and stood back up.

"Ok." He muttered, shaking his head, he perked back up to his old self. Sonic smiled too, seeing his best friend let go of the past even just a little bit more. "(Y/n)?- We can be friends right?"

Giggling gently, you smiled at the young fox, "Of course Tails."

Another Art Chapter! Plus we're getting some more official canon character interactions. But- where's dragon dad??? 🤔

(I actually don't know what to do with him rn)

And WHOA 500 READS?!? Thank you all to those who spends their time taking a peek at my crazy adventure story here. I love you all^^ :D

Chapter Length @1310 Words