We'll be together again someday

Unfair Ball

It's nighttime, and Tails was in Station Square flying alone in the X-Tornado.

"The X Tornado seems to be running really great since we installed the Chaos Emerald. This has to be just about the smoothest flight I've ever been on. Huh?" he said when the Chaos Emerald started glowing. "I think it's picked up something."

Suddenly the X-Tornado started shaking.

"I can't control it! ... Something's pulling us off course!" he said and spotted a baseball stadium so he flew toward it. "Maybe it's another Chaos Emerald."

A man in the baseball stadium wove his arms.

"Stop! Stoooop!" he said and Tails pulled up in the nick of time.

"Better go down there." he said.

The man stared after the X-Tornado in astonishment.

Later, Tails landed the X-Tornado in front of the stadium and started to look around, ascending a staircase toward a bright light, which happens to be the stadium lights. He squinted at the blinding lights, but was amazed at the beauty of the stadium. He spun his namesakes and flew over to the home plate before looking around then saw the man he saw earlier, who was working on a rid able lawn mower.

"Excuse me sir!" he said but he didn't hear him. "Hello! ... You!"

Finally the man looked up so Tails put on a cute face.

"What are you doing?" he asked.

The man cowered behind the lawn mower.

"Ah! Keep away!" the man said.

"Huh? I'm sorry! It's just I was in my plane and the Chaos Emerald started glowing and- don't worry, mister, I won't hurt you." he said and the man started to come out from behind the lawn mower. "Will you please hear me out?"

Soon, Tails was sitting with the man on the bleachers.

"Sure is some story, little fella. Never would have guessed that was you flying that plane up there." the man said.

"I'm sorry if I frightened you just now, sir. I've never seen a stadium as pretty as this before. You know... the grass is practically glowing!" Tails said.

"Thanks for the compliment. Lots of folks say the turf here at Diamond Stadium is the best in the world. Which makes me happy, because I've been the groundskeeper here at Diamond for thirty years!"

"Thirty years?"

"You bet! Only I'm afraid today's my last day here at the old place." he said looking at the stadium's baseball team.

"You see, the Diamonds' manager wants to build an indoor stadium with artificial turf, so this place is gonna be demolished." the man said seeing the stadium's baseball team. "I tell you, leaving this place behind feels like the end of an era. By the way, little fella, did you mention something about an emerald?"

"Yeah." Tails said and fished out his green Chaos Emerald and held it out for the man to see. "See, I'm looking for an Emerald just like this one. It's called a Chaos Emerald."

"A wha...? Would this be what you're looking for?

To Tails' surprise, the man reached into his pocket and pulled out a cyan Chaos Emerald.

"Ah! A Chaos Emerald!" he said.

"I saw it laying next to the dumpster a couple of nights ago. Wasn't sure what it was."

Suddenly the two emeralds started to glow brightly creating a beacon of light that ascends into the air.

At Station Square Pedestrians and drivers stopped what they were doing to see the beacon.