Tails in: Big Hero 6

Scene 3: Bigmax

[Time has passed. The camera shows Lucky Bat Cafe with people walking around, cars passing by as normal, unaware of the untimely death of someone special. TAILS, who was sitting on a windowsill, drags himself up crosses his room glumly, holding Omochao in his left glove. The Hedgehog room is dimly lit, with windows closed, allowing minimal light to filter in, and things are tossed around like usual, but TAILS lacks the energy or will to do anything about it. He lazily plops down into a red beanbag chair, his tails falling on his face, but he doesn't remove them to see any better, either. He examines Omochao with a hollow expression, moving one of its limbs just slightly back and forth, until there's a knock on the wall of their room and the voice of ROUGE brings him back to reality for a moment.]

ROUGE: Hey...

[TAILS puts Omochao behind the beanbag chair so ROUGE doesn't find it and turns to her, clenching a fist and attempting and failing to muster a smile.]

TAILS: Hey, Aunt Rouge...

ROUGE: [walking forward with a plate of food for TAILS, wearing an apron and trying to smile] Mrs. Masuda's in the cafe, she's wearing something super-inappropriate for an eighty-year-old. 

[At this TAILS fakes a smile for her sake while she crosses past him to get the plate full of food TAILS didn't touch from the meal before and replaces it at the windowsill. Shrugging, she adds,] 

That always cracks me up. You should... come down!

TAILS: [unmoving] Maybe later.

ROUGE: Oh. 

[Stopping to open a window] 

The university called again. It's, uh, been a few weeks since classes started, but...

 [Lifting the acceptance letter in a way TAILS will see it]

...they said it's not too late to register.

TAILS: [faking another smile] Okay. Thanks. I-I'll think about it.

[ROUGE pauses for a bit, takes a deep breath and flicks her eyes to TAILS for a second, as though she wanted to say something else, but swallows those words and heads back over to the stairs to the cafe. As she leaves slowly, TAILS is back to looking glum and hollow. He takes Omochao once more and closes the window ROUGE opened, then sits back down at his table, turning on his computer. It is still at the website that was last opened, which was a bot fighting website. A new message arrived on his desktop as he was moving his mouse to schedule a bot fight and he clicked on the notification to receive a video message from AMY, WAVE, SILVER, and GADGET.]

AMY, WAVE, SILVER, GADGET: [waving] Hey, Tails.

AMY: We just... wanted to check in and see how you were doing.

GADGET: We wish you were here, buddy.

SILVER: Tails, if I could only have one super-power right now, it'd be the ability to crawl through this camera and give you a big hug--

[TAILS turns the computer off again and stands up. He looks at Omochao, sitting clumsily by the acceptance letter, and slowly takes the letter into his hands before tossing it in the trash. He grabs Omochao, but before he can go anywhere, one of its limbs fell off, several little red blocks spilling out, and landed on his bare toes, causing him to cry out in pain.]

TAILS: O-ow...!

[Suddenly, BIGMAX's purple containment box is activated and BIGMAX inflates at the edge of SONIC's bed, causing TAILS to turn around, confused. BIGMAX notices that he is in a small, cramped position, so he attempts to move someplace with more room, squeezing somewhat successfully around the bed and knocking over some things SONIC had on the table across from it with his tail and butt, and occasionally looks up at TAILS, moving his ears up and down as he does. TAILS watches him, surprised, and his mouth hangs open for a tad as he eyes BIGMAX to see what he'll do. After knocking over SONIC's books, BIGMAX adjusts himself slowly so that he can walk over to TAILS and begin a diagnosis.]