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When Sonic and Tails find an ancient gemstone that turns them into giants, it brings out their competitive sides
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Sonic & Tails: Giants of Green Hill
By Sokz
With a titanic crash, Eggman’s giant robot careened through the temple’s huge stone door. It landed with a thud, its internals smashed, its circuits sparking, and a blue hedgehog standing victorious on top.
“That's the best you had, Egghead?” Sonic said with a grin. “No giant snake, no three-headed dogbot? Just your average oversized baddy? I’m almost disappointed.”
Eggman gripped his fists as he flew above his nemesis. “This isn’t the last you’ll see of me, hedgehog!” He turned and flew from the temple. “Mark my words! The secret of these lost people will be mine!”
“Yeah, heard that one before!” Sonic shouted as the doctor became another sparkle in the sky. Tails fluttered up to the robot and landed with a thud next to his friend. “You see any more readings, little buddy?”
“None from Eggman,” the fox answered. He looked at his tablet and inputted a few commands. “But this hidden temple is filled with them. The ancient people must have had some amazing technology.”
“Hey, how come all these ancient civilizations vanish even though they have such amazing tech?”
“Hm… good question,” Tails said. He turned toward the inner chamber of the temple. “It might be from natural causes, like earthquakes, volcanoes, or disease. Or it might be a story of their technology going out of control. Who knows, maybe they had their own Eggman, but no blue blur to stop him.”
Sonic shivered. “Earthquakes, I can deal with. But a world with just Eggman ruling over everything? Nope. Don’t even want to imagine it.” He shook his head, then looked at the inner walls of the temple. “Where are we, anyway?”
“A ritual sight, I think,” Tails said. “There’s a strong reading from here. Something with a lot of power. My guess would be that glowing gemstone over there.” He pointed toward the center of the room where a twelve-sided gem hovered in mid-air.
“Hmm,” Sonic hummed. “Strange gemstone hovering in the center of an ancient temple surrounded by a powerful amber glow. Yeah, I bet that’s our power source. What do you think will happen when I grab it?”
“I’d bet a temple guard comes down and fights you. There’s always a final guardian.”
“My money is on a giant stone snake.”
“I’d say a stone wolf. I saw some iconography on the walls a while back that looked like a huge wolf standing over a city.”
“Let’s find out.” In a blur of speed, Sonic dashed to the gemstone, grabbed it from its place, and returned to his spot beside his buddy. They waited for something to happen, each looking around the hall expectantly.
“Huh,” Sonic said after a few seconds. “Guess there wasn’t anything. Odd.”
“Maybe it was damaged by Eggman’s robots,” Tails offered. “Or the ancient people just didn’t set a trap for once.”
“I don’t know, seems too easy.”
“I could summon an army of buddy bots, if you want.”
“Na. I’m hungry anyway. Let’s get back to your place and have lunch.”
“So…” Sonic said as he leaned against Tails’ workshop wall. “Any idea what it does yet?”
“Not yet,” Tails said as he leaned closer to the stone. He had his goggles pulled over his eyes as he hooked up another set of wires to the twelve-sided gem. “It’s strange. It has a similar energy reading to the Chaos Emeralds, but it has a very specific frequency and pulse pattern. It’s almost like it’s trying to do something specific, but I can’t figure out what.”
“Is it trying to summon a chilli dog? Because you promised me lunch twenty minutes ago.”
“Just give me a few more minutes. This is one of the most interesting things we’ve ever discovered. There’s no telling what this thing could do! I bet if I take the time to analyze all of its capabilities, perform tests on its frequency response when stimulus is applied, and then measure its reaction in comparison to known quantities such as the Chaos Emeralds, I can deduce it’s…” the fox paused as Sonic yawned. “Sorry, I know this is a lot.” He smiled apologetically as he turned to his friend. “But I promise, this could be huge!”
His tails bristled in excitement as he said it, and an errant flick thumped one of them into the stone. It rolled off its place on the table. “Hey!” Sonic shouted, but the gem was already falling. It landed on the ground with a smack, then filled Tails’ lab with a blinding amber light.
Tails stumbled backward from the stone. He felt energy surging through his body, and it made him feel strange as he fumbled to find his footing. When the blinding light faded and he was able to blink his eyes open, the fox gasped.
The world looked different. His gadgets and computers were tiny, barely a tenth of their size. No, they were even smaller than that! He tried to stand to his full height, but he bumped his head on the lab ceiling. “Ow,” he said as he rubbed the spot. “What happened? Why is everything so small?”
“Uh, buddy?” a voice said from below him. Tails looked down to see Sonic standing by his paws, except the hedgehog was smaller than his toes. “I don’t think everything’s small. You just grew.”
“I… I did?” Tails looked down at himself in amazement. “This must have been from the gemstone! That’s the frequency I was reading! It has the ability to alter the spatial dimensions and expand them!”
“In other words…”
“It made me grow huge!” As he finished the exclamation, another surge of energy radiated through him. This time, he kept himself balanced as his figure shot upward, slammed into the roof, and broke right through it.
Bits of metal and stone tumbled from the broken ceiling as he dusted himself off. “Sorry,” he said as he carefully ducked down and crawled out of the lab. The sand from the nearby beach cushioned his body. “I must be a hundred feet tall. I can’t believe this.” He chuckled as he stood back up to his full height. Whenever he shifted his weight, his huge paws thumped into the sand and left massive craters.
Sonic darted out of the lab and looked up at his once tiny buddy. “Wow. Tails, uh, how do you feel?”
“Honestly, great!” he said. “I can see so far from up here, and I feel strong. Like I could punch through a mountain if I wanted to.” He chuckled. “Don’t worry, I’m not going to.”
“Well, that’s a plus at least. Stand still for a second!” With a quick dash, Sonic raced up his friend’s leg, along his back, and landed on his shoulder. “You’re right, the view is pretty good from up here.”
“Yeah. But I should probably try to reverse this. A growing effect could be amazing in a tight fight, but I won’t be able to get much done at this size. Do you see the stone anywhere?” He turned to his left. The sudden movement was enough for Sonic to stumble and lose his footing. The tiny blue hedgehog gasped as he fell off Tails’ shoulder and tumbled past his belly. “Oh!” Tails moved his hand at the last moment and caught his buddy in the center of his palm.
“Sorry,” the giant fox said as he lifted Sonic toward his face. “Guess I don’t know my own strength yet.”
“Yeah,” Sonic answered, nervous. “Just be careful, bud.”
“I will. But just in case, try to stay away from my feet. I don’t want to step on you by accident or anything.”
“Right. That would probably hurt.” His smile betrayed a hint of his nerves.
“Let me put you down.” Tails lowered his buddy to the sand, and Sonic hopped off. “I’ll have to research what caused this transformation and how to reverse it. Maybe I can take the signal from the gem and invert it, but that sounds a bit too easy.”
“Yeah, I bet,” Sonic said as he backed away from his friend. “Do you need any help?”
“Probably,” Tails answered. “It’ll be a bit hard for me to type anything with these massive fingers.”
“No problem, I’ll be your hands for as long as…” Sonic paused as his foot accidentally kicked something. He looked down to see the gemstone resting just behind his sneaker. “Oh no.”
“What’s wrong?” Tails asked as the gem started to glow.
“You’ll see in a second. Man, I really have to watch where I step.” The gemstone erupted in light, and even Tails had to shield himself from it. The world shook, the air trembled, and power radiated from in front of the giant fox. When it faded, Tails saw a new titan standing in front of him.
“Huh,” Sonic said, his voice booming as he looked down at his huge body. “Not a bad look if I do say so myself. What do you think, little buddy?”
Tails pouted as he crossed his arms and looked at Sonic. He grew by about the same factor as Tails, making him a full head taller. “And just when I was getting used to being the big one.”
Sonic snickered as he ruffled the fur on Tails’ head. “Not yet, pal. But I have a feeling this’ll make it harder to turn back to normal.”
“Yeah. We’re more likely to smash a computer to bits than get it to run a program.” He looked around the landscape. “Maybe I can use a few trees to cobble something together.”
“Or…” Sonic began, “I could dash over to Knuckles and get him to do the tiny stuff.”
“Two problems. First, I don’t know if Knuckles is the best for complex computer work.” Sonic nodded at that. “And second, if we run off now, we might destroy half the town!” Tails shifted his weight, lifted his paw from the ground, then placed it carefully. “I already destroyed most of my lab, and you trampled those bushes to dust.”
“Eh, they were just a few shrubs.”
“And if it were someone’s house?”
“They could rebuild.”
“Sonic!”
“I’m kidding.” He laughed as he put his hand around Tails’ shoulder and pulled him close. “We’ll be careful, and we’ll walk along the beach. The most we’ll stomp on are a couple crabs. Okay?”
Tails sighed. “I guess. But only because I don’t have a better idea.”
“Exactly.” Sonic hopped forward, his feet leaving deep craters in the ground. “Come on! I still haven’t had lunch, and there’s no chillidog in the universe that’ll fill me up now!” He turned and jogged along the beach, leaving Tails behind.
“Sonic, wait! Just watch where you’re…” He cringed as Sonic stepped on a pier jutting into the ocean. The wood snapped and crumbled under his weight. The fox gave another sigh. “Never mind.” He jogged to catch up.
As they walked along the beach together, Tails couldn’t stop thinking about the footprints they left in the sand, the feeling of the ground crushing between his toes, and all the tiny things that might accidentally wind up under their giant bodies. Were they squashing tiny crabs every time their feet came down?
Usually, he’d be concerned about that and take every precaution he could, but now… now it didn’t seem that important. It was like crushing a bug. Sure, he didn’t go out of his way to trample the ants in his path, but if it happened, he wasn’t going to lose sleep over it.
“This is kind of fun,” Sonic said as he hopped forward and kicked a boulder resting at the edge of the beach. It launched into the air, struck the side of a nearby mountain, and exploded in a hail of pebbles and rocks. “I bet we could take out Eggman’s entire army at this size.”
Tails smiled at the concept. “I bet even his biggest robots would break if we stepped on them.”
“Imagine the look on his face when we kick down his door.”
“I bet Orbot and Cubot would run away screaming.”
Sonic smirked, “Until we stepped on them.”
“Ha. What about Metal Sonic? I bet he’d fit perfectly between your… oh Sonic, watch where you’re…” Crunch.
Sonic froze, his foot planted on top of a collection of broken pieces of wood and furniture that used to be a beach house. His stomp completely smashed it, leaving the frame destroyed and the foundation crumbled. The house's owners managed to scramble out of the way in time. They were thrown onto their backs, forced to look at the pair of tightans looming over them.
“Huh, look at that,” Sonic said. He leaned forward and smooshed his foot side to side, grinding the house even further to dust. “My bad.”
“Sonic…” Tails said. “You really shouldn’t do that.”
“Why not?” Sonic asked. “Look how tiny it is. And the crunch. Oh man, the crunch! Tails, you gotta try it out. Look, there’s another house over there! Stomp it!”
“What!? But someone lives there!”
“Yeah, a bug. Come on, trust me.”
Tails made a nervous sound. This all felt so strange, and these houses were so small that they didn’t even register as real. He wanted to listen to his friend, but some small part of him was still holding back. “I don’t know.”
“Come on, little bro. Have I ever steered you wrong?”
Tails turned to his friend, then looked back at the house. “Fine. And I’m not little.” As he stomped over to the nearby beach house, he wondered why the comment made him feel so prickly. Sonic called him his little buddy all the time, but now it felt different. He didn’t want to be little anymore.
He stood over the beachhouse as the residents scrambled outside. They shouted up to him and begged him not to destroy their home, but Tails could barely hear their squeaky voices. All he could think about was Sonic smirking at him, and that annoying comment. Tails lifted his foot, moved it over the house, then SLAMMED it down. The explosion of sand and dirt sent the house’s owners tumbling down the beach.
“See?” Sonic said. “Pretty fun, right?”
“Yeah,” Tails agreed. “I get it.” There was another house only a step away. Tails moved forward, lifted his other paw, then slammed his foot into it. The structure crumbled as soon as his toes crushed into the roof.
“Now we’re having fun.” Sonic hopped forward, jumping into the air, then came down HARD on the next house in line. “How many do you think are in this little village?”
“A couple dozen,” Tails said as he looked at the collection of houses and buildings on the edge of the beach. “Bet I can stomp more than you.”
“Think you can keep up?” With that same smirk, Sonic hopped onto the next house and broke it apart. Tails didn’t waste any more time and jumped onto the closest one. It crumbled and cracked under his weight before he pivoted and aimed for the next.
Tails didn’t think about the people still inside the homes, or how traumatic each of his footfalls must have been to them. He didn’t care that he was stomping through their lives, destroying their homes, and crushing them under his paws. They were bugs, and their entire existence seemed pointless compared to Sonic and Tails’ game.
When he stomped twenty-two houses into the dirt, Tails looked over at his friend. Sonic was ahead, but only by a few crushed homes. The blue hedgehog stomped through another small building and swung his foot over a nearby street where a cluster of tiny humans were trying to run. Tails stood and watched as Sonic’s foot smashed down onto them, pressed them into the buckling concrete, then lifted to reveal the splattered remains.
For a brief flicker, Tails felt his old self return. He wanted to tell Sonic to stop, and that they needed to focus on returning to normal before they went too far… but then he’d lose their game. Tails made up his mind as Sonic kicked through a small hotel and sent part of its wall flying into the surrounding landscape. He couldn’t let Sonic win.
“So, how many did you destroy?” Sonic said as he stood with his hands on his hips. “I counted thirty-seven, though I really think the hotel should be worth more.”
“Nope, counts as one.”
“Alright, then what’s your number, little bro?”
Tails felt his fur bristle again. The real number was about thirty-three, but he wasn’t going to listen to Sonic chuckle about it. “Forty.”
“Wait, really?”
“Yep. Sonic, you know me. I never lie about this sort of thing.”
Sonic crossed his arms. “I guess so. Congrats, buddy.” Tails was beaming. The town lay around them, now a wasteland of huge footprints and broken streets. “We really did a number on this place. But you know the strangest part about it? I don’t even feel bad.”
“You said it before, they’re basically just bugs.”
A tiny dog citizen scrambled out of the debris near Sonic’s feet. With a simple, casual motion, the giant hedgehog reached down and plucked the person from the dirt. “Yeah, but I don’t step on bugs if I notice them.” He held the squirming dog between his forefinger and thumb. “Like this little guy. Look at him. Doesn’t he just look so…” he searched for the right word, “Squishable?”
Tails laughed. “Then squish him.”
“No, I got a better idea.” Sonic opened his mouth and tossed the tiny inside. The dog’s shouts were silenced as soon as the giant’s lips closed behind him, sealing him in his wet, spit-filled maw. Sonic moved him around and squashed him into his cheeks, then he tilted his head back and swallowed. “Ah~ He didn’t taste half bad.”
“Huh. You know, if you had swallowed someone before, I would have been mortified. But now… now I just want to try it too. Is that bad?”
“Maybe?” Sonic said with a shrug. “When things get complicated and morally weird, I just do what my gut tells me. It usually works out. What’s your gut telling you, buddy?”
“My gut wants me to eat some of these people.”
Sonic smiled. “Bet I can eat more than you.”
“You’re on!”
Silver saw the dust cloud on the horizon as he flew toward the source. He didn’t know what was happening, but there were reports of something huge rampaging through the coastline and destroying entire towns. Where were Sonic and Tails? Their base was right by there, so they should have handled the situation long before Silver arrived.
The hedgehog flew across the landscape, then over the hills separating the main continent from the coastline. He gasped as soon as he saw the ruin on the other side and the titans that caused it.
“S… Sonic?” he said, wide-eyed. He couldn’t believe what he was seeing. Sonic and Tails were massive, bigger than almost any robot in Eggman’s army, and they were stomping through a town without a care. No, it was worse than that. It looked like they were enjoying it.
“This must be some sort of trick,” Silver said. “Eggman’s controlling them, or they're just robots! It doesn’t matter, I have to stop them before they hurt anyone else!” The psychokinetic aura around his body increased in power as he darted toward the titans.
He had to swerve to avoid some of the stones and bits of debris kicked up by their terrifying stomps. He flew in front of Tails’ face with his arms outstretched. “Tails, stop!” he shouted. “What are you doing!?”
“Oh, hey Silver,” Tails said with a smile. “What does it look like? I’m destroying the town.”
“But why?”
“Because it’s fun.”
Sonic, from the opposite end of the town, called out, “What’s going on, bud?”
“Nothing,” Tails answered, his voice so powerful that Silver had to cover his ears. “Silver wants me to stop.”
“Oh, Silver’s here? Cool.” Sonic darted next to his buddy and looked down at the flying bug. “You can help us keep score. I think Tails is cheating.”
“I am NOT!”
“Are so.”
“Am not.”
“Are so.”
Each syllable, no matter how inconsequential or juvenile, slammed into Silver’s body like a punch to the chest. He tried to shout for them to stop, but their argument drowned out his voice. He only managed to draw their attention when he used his powers to throw a boulder at Tails’ head.
“Stop it!” Silver yelled. “You can’t keep doing this. You guys are heroes!”
Sonic shrugged. “We’re still heroes. Just… different.”
“Different how?”
“Well, for one, we don’t let bugs tell us what to do.”
Tails laughed. “Ha, yeah. Buzz off, Silver.”
Silver looked between the giants with horror. “How can you two say that? This is your home! These are your people! And… and if you’re not going to protect them, I will.” He gripped his fists and lifted a cluster of debris into the air.
Sonic just laughed. “Let me take care of this, Tails.”
“Sure,” the fox said.
Sonic looked down at the smaller hedgehog, tilted his head back, then shot a glob of spit directly at him. Silver didn’t have time to react. The glob slammed into him before he could even scream and dragged him down to the earth, where he slammed onto the concrete.
He tried to squirm as the giant boys’ laughter echoed around him, but the spit was too sticky for him to do anything. His movement became more erratic as his lungs started to burn. He clawed at the surface of the spit bubble, but it wouldn’t break no matter how much he tried.
“Look at him,” Sonic said. “He can’t even get out.”
“That’s just embarrassing,” Tails said.
It was the last thing Silver ever heard before his eyes closed and his lungs filled with spit.
“Mmmm~” Sonic hummed as he shoved a handful of people into his mouth, spit running down his lips as he sucked on the people trapped inside. He swallowed them with a sinister moan, then leaned back and patted his belly. “And I thought chillidogs were good.”
“Hey!” Tails said. The fox stomped his foot in frustration, causing a nearby apartment complex to tumble. “Sonic, you said everything north of the park was mine to destroy!”
“Yeah? So?”
“So? Why are your footprints all over the forest? And you just ate a handful of guys from that construction yard, didn’t you?”
“Maybe.” Sonic shrugged. “Who cares?”
“I care! Those were my snacks to eat. You always eat my snacks! First it was my mint ice cream, then it was the chocolates I hid in the cupboard, now it’s my people.”
“Stop yelling,” Sonic said. “Just chill out, little bro.”
Tails’ fur ruffled at the comment. “And I TOLD YOU to stop calling me that!”
Sonic hopped to his feet, causing the earth to shake below him. He was about to answer his fuzzy friend's accusation, but he felt a spark of power growing from inside him. With a smirk, Sonic allowed the gemstone's power to surge. It grew him once again, turning him from a giant into a true titan. By the time the glow faded, he loomed over the city as well as his little friend. Tails was barely even a foot tall compared to him.
“What was that, little bro?” Tails didn’t answer, but he gripped his fists in anger as his ears flicked. “Yeah, that’s what I thought.” Sonic put his hands on his hips. “How about you chill out, while I do whatever I want?” With a laugh, he turned and stepped across the horizon.
Tails was knocked to his butt the first time Sonic’s immense feet landed on the ground. The hedgehog continued moving, leveling entire forests and crushing houses between his toes. The shockwave from his movements alone was enough to rip apart entire villages of people.
“I’m starting to get why Eggman built all those robots,” he said as he kicked a mountain apart, sending a hail of burning debris into the fields beyond. “This is amazing!” He turned toward a nearby lake, jumped up, and landed in the center of it in a splash that vaporized water and sent a tidal wave surging through the neighborhoods bordering it. “Oh no, it’s a giant hedgehog,” he said as he lifted his foot over another village. “Do you run or throw yourself on the ground and worship? I’ll give you a hint, it doesn’t matter. You’re bugs either way!” He slammed his foot down and decimated another town, crushing a swathe of houses under his dirty sole while countless more were ripped apart by the pressure wave.
“Sonc, stop it!” Tails shouted as he ran toward his friend’s foot. “You’re destroying everything!”
The blue hedgehog snickered. “I know! Isn’t it great?”
“You’re not leaving anything for me.”
“And why should I care? You’re acting almost as annoying as Silver. Want to drown in my spit, too?”
“Stop being a jerk!” Tails kicked Sonic’s foot, but it didn’t do much. “You always do this! Everything’s always about you, while I just have to sit in the background and watch. You get all the medals, you’re the one who gets recognized wherever we go. It’s always Sonic Heroes, and never anything else.”
“Want to know why?” Tails huffed, and Sonic continued. “It’s because I’m the fastest, coolest, smartest, funniest, and now, well, I’m not the size of a very puntable football.”
“What?”
Sonic lifted his foot, took aim, then with a cruel grin, he launched his foot forward. It slammed into tails with the force of a falling mountain and launched the little fox into the air. He flew over the countryside until he crashed into the ground in a flurry of dust and broken houses. His body continued to tumble until it reached the outskirts of Freedom City where he shattered skyscrapers, ripped up streets, then finally came to a stop as he slammed into one of the supertall towers near the heart of the metropolis. Tails’ head spun as he tried to recover from the blow.
“There!” Sonic called across the miles separating them. “Just stay over there and play with those buildings or something. I don’t care, just stop bugging me!”
Sonic returned his attention to the pathetic bugs squirming on the ground below him, but a burst of light made him look back toward the city. All his cocky bravado and bluster drained out of him as he watched Tails grow larger. The fox expanded until he was as big as the city’s towers, then he was as huge as Sonic. He didn’t stop growing until he stood almost three times the hedgehog’s height, his head in the clouds and his fists clenched.
“What was that?” the fox's voice boomed, causing the very air to reverberate with its strength. Windows shattered for miles in every direction, and the land buckled when he took a step closer. “Stop bugging you? Funny, since you’re about the closest thing to a bug I see.”
“Hey, wait a second, Tails. I didn’t really mean all…”
“Huh? Going back on what you said already?” He stepped closer to Sonic, closing the gap between them until he was almost on top of the hedgehog. “Come on, hero, I can’t be any scarier than one of Eggman’s robots.”
“Tails, just calm down for a second and…” Sonic trailed off as the fox leapt toward him. Though the hedgehog was the fastest thing alive, Tails’ movements were lightning quick for something so unspeakably massive. The fox grabbed him by the shoulder, shoved him to the ground, then rolled with Sonic in the tackle until Tails came out on top and pinned Sonic’s shoulders to the ground.
“Huh, I thought you’d put up more of a fight than that,” Tails said with a smirk. “Guess you’re not so fast at this size.” Tails shifted his position and thumped his butt onto Sonic’s chest. The impact was enough to drive the air out of the boy’s lungs as Sonic squirmed under the impressive weight of his former friend. Tails looked down at him, his head eclipsing the sun. “Say I’m cooler than you.”
“What?” Sonic tried to squirm out from under Tails, but the boy’s body was too heavy. “No way!”
“Come on, say that I’m cooler! Say that you wish you were as awesome as me!”
“No!”
“Fine.” Tails lifted one of his paws and plopped it onto Sonic’s face. “Then you can just lick my paw.”
“Gah! Tails, stop it!” Sonic tried to turn his face away, but the fox pressed his other foot into his nose whenever he tried. Sonic couldn’t escape the onslaught of his friend’s paws as Tails forced them against his cheek and nose. His lips rolled over the soft paw pad as Tails gripped his nose between his toes.
“Kiss them.”
“NO!”
“Kiss them!”
“I’m NEVER going to…” Sonic stopped as another burst of power surged through him, just in time. The boy expanded again and grew large enough to finally throw Tails off him. He continued expanding until he towered over his friend, standing five times his size, at least. He dusted himself off and looked down at his buddy. “You know, for a genius, you sure do some stupid stuff sometimes. But since I’m the real hero here, I’ll be nice. If you like this part of the world, then fine. You can play with it however you want, and I’ll just take the rest of the planet. Enjoy your section, little bro. Just let me give you one last parting gift.”
Sonic jumped into the air, curled into a ball, then slammed into the ground with the full force of a homing attack. The world exploded as his energized quills impacted the ground, turning the world into a swirling dust cloud of kicked up dirt, fire, and debris. Tails tried to shield himself, but even someone as massive as the fox was swallowed up by the avalanche of broken earth.
Shadow stood on the ridgeline, his arms crossed and his scowl deep as he watched the carnage. Sonic laughed as he stomped across the landscape, destroying entire cities with a single footfall. His body towered over the clouds and cast a monumental shadow across the world. He looked more like a force of nature than something alive.
“Shadow,” the voice in the dark hedgehog’s communicator said. “Come in, Shadow.”
“I’m here,” he answered.
“We have reports of a giant monster rampaging through…”
“It’s Sonic. I already saw him.”
“Sonic? Fine. Whatever it is, you need to stop it.”
Shadow sighed. “It won’t be easy, but nothing ever is.” He lifted one of the chaos emeralds and looked into its red surface. His distorted reflection stared back at him. “At least I have this. Chaos control!” In a flash, he disappeared from the ridgeline.
He reappeared in a city nearby. The streets were packed with people screaming as they ran from the earthshaking impacts of the nearby titan. Buildings were on fire, water mains erupted, and power lines fell onto bushes. Shadow didn’t care. He turned toward the horizon and called out, “Sonic! This ends now!”
But he did not understand the full difference in their scale. He only realized his error when Sonic’s body appeared in the sky above him, the titan’s chest and face obscured by the blue haze of the atmosphere as clouds crashed against his chest. Sonic didn’t notice him. How could he from so far above?
Then the hedgehog lifted his foot to take a step. Shadow’s jaw dropped as he saw the massive blue sole hover over the world, sprinkled with rubble, dirt, and the leftover remnants of all the civilizations he had already crushed. Shadow turned and ran, but even his super speed wasn’t enough.
He couldn’t even outpace a single one of Sonic’s steps.
The giant’s foot came down in a world-ending impact. It destroyed the city and threw Shadow into the air. The dark hedgehog tumbled, screaming, until he bounced off the debris and found himself stuck in some place dark, humid, and crushing.
Though he tried to scream and squirm his way out, there was nothing his tiny body could do.
He was trapped between Sonic’s toes, reduced to grime, as his former rival went to take another step.
“Ugh…” Tails groaned as he pushed the remnants of a skyscraper off his head. He was a little dazed, but a quick shake removed most of the rubble. “That stupid, arrogant jerk,” he grumbled. “Why does he always have to do this? Why can’t he let me be big, for once?” He crossed his arms and pouted.
Then he slowly looked up from the ground, a sly smile on his face. “Wait a second…” he said as an idea took shape. “I know how to fix this.” He laughed as he hopped to his feet and ran across the landscape, heading towards his lab.
“I don’t like that dust cloud,” Knuckles said as he looked at the distant horizon. The Master Emerald rotated slowly behind him, but offered no solace. “What is that? Another one of Eggman’s robots? No, Tails would have called me. Then what? A volcano? Do volcanoes make that type of… I don’t know, dust thing?”
He wasn’t sure, and that frustrated him endlessly. Part of him wanted to jump into the sky and glide over to the disaster zone so he could find out what it was firsthand. But no. If he left his watch, something might happen to the Master Emerald, and he couldn’t accept that.
“Wait…” he whispered as a shape appeared on the horizon. It looked almost humanoid, but it was immense and moving quickly. The world shook as it came closer and closer, until Knuckles recognized the silhouette. “Sonic? What!?”
He barely had time to shout his confusion before the titanic hedgehog ran full speed into Angel Island and broke it to pieces against his chest.
Sonic didn’t even notice.
“This might be a little harder than I thought,” Tails said as he came to his lab. At least he was pretty sure this was where he built the lab. He recognized the hillside and the beach, though it was pockmarked by his and Sonic’s footprints. Everything was just so hard to see at Tails’ scale, and even something as large as a building was a tiny little dot amongst the rest of the landscape.
He carefully lowered himself onto his hands and knees, crushing an entire forest in the process. “Where is it…” he whispered as he bent closer, one eye closed as he looked at the collection of different landscapes. “I thiiink this is it?”
Tails tilted his head to the side. Why didn’t he add more flashing lights to his lab, or maybe a siren? Then he could at least pick up the sound with his oversized ears. In a huff, he bent down even closer so that his face almost touched the ground.
“What am I doing?” he said. “Even if I do find my lab, I can’t do anything at this scale. And the gemstone is definitely microscopic. So then… huh, guess I just have to do it.” The fox closed his eyes, lowered his face to the ground, then let his lips part. His wide, pink tongue emerged from his mouth and pressed into the ground near the spot where he believed his lab rested.
The flavor of dirt spread across his tongue as he licked the surface of the earth and dragged countless houses, buildings, and people into his mouth. It wasn’t the best taste, but he closed his eyes tight and forced himself through it. After a few coarse chews, he swallowed the mouthful. “Bleh,” he said. “That had better work. If I licked the ground for nothing, I’m…” he trailed off as he felt his body reacting to something inside of him.
A smile spread on the fox’s face as the swallowed gemstone's power erupted from within his belly. His scale increased in a burst and only ended when the world became a patchwork of smeared colors below his body. When he stood, his feet carved craters into the ground that were so deep, magma burst from below.
“Now here we go,” Tails said with a grin. “I must be three… maybe four or five times Sonic’s height. Time to finally put that little jerk in his place.”
“You guys don’t make the best seat cushion,” Sonic said as he squished his butt into the city. The cracks and pops of skyscrapers erupting felt interesting, but it wasn’t exactly comfy. “It’s like sitting on bubble wrap.” He laughed, lifted his butt into the air, then slammed it down with a globe-shaking impact. Whatever was left of the city was ground into dust and reduced to paste under his hedgehog behind.
He was content to lean back and take a break from destroying the world, at least for a little bit, but then he felt the tremors. “Hm?” Sonic hummed, glancing over his shoulder. Tails strode across the landscape, his fluffy paws mesmerizing as they lifted and thumped forward. “Oh, if it isn’t my most annoying sidekick. What’s up? Came to lose another wrestling match?” He popped back up to his feet and faced the boy.
“I kind of thought you’d be more intimidated.” Tails stopped when he was a pace away from Sonic, the clouds moving around his legs as he looked down at the comparatively small hedgehog. “You know, since you don’t even come up to my knees anymore.”
“Tails, Tails, Tails,” Sonic said as he shook his head. “Don’t you ever learn? Sure, you’re bigger than me right now, but give it a minute. Then I’ll have another growth spurt, and you’ll be my shrimpy sidekick once again.”
“Maybe I shouldn’t let you get that big, then.”
Sonic laughed. “What are you going to do, squish me?”
“Hey, look at that. You can say smart things sometimes!” Tails lifted his paw over Sonic’s head.
“Oh wow, you’re not kidding.” Sonic leapt out of the way as the fox’s foot landed with a blistering impact. It eradicated everything directly under his pads and scorched the ground for miles in every direction. “Watch it!” Sonic shouted.
“And what are you going to do about it, pipsqueak?” Tails lifted his other foot and took aim. Sonic braced himself and jumped out of the way at the last second, just like last time.
“You were never that good at one-on-one fights, were you?” Sonic laughed as he hopped out of reach. “Tails, buddy, you realize the spot you’re in, right?”
Tails sighed. “I’m sure you’ll explain it to me.”
“You’re as hopeless as Egghead. All I need to do is keep out of your way for a few more seconds, get my next burst of size, and then I can kick your fluffy butt all the way into outer space. At least then I won’t have to listen to you babble about gizmos and tech stuff all the time!”
“Ah!” Tails groaned, his frustration getting the better of him. “All you ever do is complain and say how cool you are! I’m so sick of it!” He jumped toward Sonic and tried to tackle him, but the hedgehog dodged out of the way just in time, leaving Tails to land on a huge chunk of the landscape and crush it under his belly.
Sonic flicked his nose and tapped his foot impatiently. “What’s wrong? Am I too fast for ya? Just wait until I’m ten times your size again.”
“That isn’t going to happen!” Tails pushed himself onto one knee and prepared another jump.
Sonic held up his hand. “Oof, bad luck little bro. I think you’re out of time.” A flash of light surrounded the hedgehog as a burst of size enveloped his body. He doubled in scale, then rose even higher until Tails had to look up at him.
When it ended, Tails was barely as tall as one of Sonic’s feet. “So,” Sonic said, his voice dripping with confidence and his smug nature. “What was that about stepping on me? How about I sit on your chest for a bit? And if you lick my toes, maybe I won’t kick you into outer space. How does that sound, little bro?”
Tails looked up at Sonic, but his expression wasn’t one of fear or concern. Instead, he smiled. “I don’t think so.”
“Why? What do you think you can do to me?”
“Oh, Sonic. Poor, dumb Sonic. While you were running around and being your cocky, annoying self, like you always are, I was using my head. You should try it sometime.”
“Wow,” Sonic laughed. “You’re cocky for someone so small.”
“Not for long. Watch this.” Tails lifted his hand and pointed at Sonic.
“What’s that supposed to do? You gonna blast me with a ray beam or…” the hedgehog trailed off as light began to move around his body. “Wait…” slowly, he started to shrink. “Wait, wait, wait!”
The shrinking increased rapidly, forcing the hedgehog to dwindle to Tails’ size, then half his height, then a quarter, then a tenth. His expression grew more horrified as his scale was stolen.
“See?” Tails said as he loomed over his former friend. “I ate the gemstone, so now I can control its power. I can grow myself…” he snapped his finger and instantly doubled in size, “or I can shrink you to the size of a microbe.” Another snap, and Sonic was reduced all the way back to his normal three-foot-tall size.
The blue blur screamed as he plummeted thousands of feet through the sky until he finally landed in the middle of an open field. When he pulled his head out of the crater he formed on impact, he looked upward at the largest thing he had ever seen. Tails didn’t even look real anymore. Everything past his toes was cloaked in the blue fog of the atmosphere, with clouds breaking apart around his digits. He was taller than mountains, bigger than oceans, a true god of the world.
“Get it yet?” Tails said, his voice so powerful that it cleared the clouds below him and forced Sonic into the ground with every syllable. “You can keep calling yourself a hero if you want. I’ll stick with god.” The fox laughed as he lifted his foot and hovered it over Sonic. “Don’t worry, little speck. I don’t mind if you live on my foot for the rest of your life. You can squeeze between my toes, or clean the gunk from under my claws, or whatever you want. But you’ll never boss me around again.”
“Tails, wait!” Sonic shouted, but there was no hope that his buddy could even perceive him, let alone hear him.
“See ya, Sonic.” Tails’ paw lowered until the sky was replaced by his pink paw pad, dusted with countries and continents, ringed by the glowing plasma created by air rushing around his foot at speeds far exceeding the speed of sound.
Sonic couldn’t run. He couldn’t fight back. All he could do was watch as his tiny buddy treated him like a microbe crawling around in the dirt.
Like millions before him, Sonic was flattened under the hulking paw of a god sized fox.
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Sonic & Tails: Giants of Green Hill
By Sokz
With a titanic crash, Eggman’s giant robot careened through the temple’s huge stone door. It landed with a thud, its internals smashed, its circuits sparking, and a blue hedgehog standing victorious on top.
“That's the best you had, Egghead?” Sonic said with a grin. “No giant snake, no three-headed dogbot? Just your average oversized baddy? I’m almost disappointed.”
Eggman gripped his fists as he flew above his nemesis. “This isn’t the last you’ll see of me, hedgehog!” He turned and flew from the temple. “Mark my words! The secret of these lost people will be mine!”
“Yeah, heard that one before!” Sonic shouted as the doctor became another sparkle in the sky. Tails fluttered up to the robot and landed with a thud next to his friend. “You see any more readings, little buddy?”
“None from Eggman,” the fox answered. He looked at his tablet and inputted a few commands. “But this hidden temple is filled with them. The ancient people must have had some amazing technology.”
“Hey, how come all these ancient civilizations vanish even though they have such amazing tech?”
“Hm… good question,” Tails said. He turned toward the inner chamber of the temple. “It might be from natural causes, like earthquakes, volcanoes, or disease. Or it might be a story of their technology going out of control. Who knows, maybe they had their own Eggman, but no blue blur to stop him.”
Sonic shivered. “Earthquakes, I can deal with. But a world with just Eggman ruling over everything? Nope. Don’t even want to imagine it.” He shook his head, then looked at the inner walls of the temple. “Where are we, anyway?”
“A ritual sight, I think,” Tails said. “There’s a strong reading from here. Something with a lot of power. My guess would be that glowing gemstone over there.” He pointed toward the center of the room where a twelve-sided gem hovered in mid-air.
“Hmm,” Sonic hummed. “Strange gemstone hovering in the center of an ancient temple surrounded by a powerful amber glow. Yeah, I bet that’s our power source. What do you think will happen when I grab it?”
“I’d bet a temple guard comes down and fights you. There’s always a final guardian.”
“My money is on a giant stone snake.”
“I’d say a stone wolf. I saw some iconography on the walls a while back that looked like a huge wolf standing over a city.”
“Let’s find out.” In a blur of speed, Sonic dashed to the gemstone, grabbed it from its place, and returned to his spot beside his buddy. They waited for something to happen, each looking around the hall expectantly.
“Huh,” Sonic said after a few seconds. “Guess there wasn’t anything. Odd.”
“Maybe it was damaged by Eggman’s robots,” Tails offered. “Or the ancient people just didn’t set a trap for once.”
“I don’t know, seems too easy.”
“I could summon an army of buddy bots, if you want.”
“Na. I’m hungry anyway. Let’s get back to your place and have lunch.”
“So…” Sonic said as he leaned against Tails’ workshop wall. “Any idea what it does yet?”
“Not yet,” Tails said as he leaned closer to the stone. He had his goggles pulled over his eyes as he hooked up another set of wires to the twelve-sided gem. “It’s strange. It has a similar energy reading to the Chaos Emeralds, but it has a very specific frequency and pulse pattern. It’s almost like it’s trying to do something specific, but I can’t figure out what.”
“Is it trying to summon a chilli dog? Because you promised me lunch twenty minutes ago.”
“Just give me a few more minutes. This is one of the most interesting things we’ve ever discovered. There’s no telling what this thing could do! I bet if I take the time to analyze all of its capabilities, perform tests on its frequency response when stimulus is applied, and then measure its reaction in comparison to known quantities such as the Chaos Emeralds, I can deduce it’s…” the fox paused as Sonic yawned. “Sorry, I know this is a lot.” He smiled apologetically as he turned to his friend. “But I promise, this could be huge!”
His tails bristled in excitement as he said it, and an errant flick thumped one of them into the stone. It rolled off its place on the table. “Hey!” Sonic shouted, but the gem was already falling. It landed on the ground with a smack, then filled Tails’ lab with a blinding amber light.
Tails stumbled backward from the stone. He felt energy surging through his body, and it made him feel strange as he fumbled to find his footing. When the blinding light faded and he was able to blink his eyes open, the fox gasped.
The world looked different. His gadgets and computers were tiny, barely a tenth of their size. No, they were even smaller than that! He tried to stand to his full height, but he bumped his head on the lab ceiling. “Ow,” he said as he rubbed the spot. “What happened? Why is everything so small?”
“Uh, buddy?” a voice said from below him. Tails looked down to see Sonic standing by his paws, except the hedgehog was smaller than his toes. “I don’t think everything’s small. You just grew.”
“I… I did?” Tails looked down at himself in amazement. “This must have been from the gemstone! That’s the frequency I was reading! It has the ability to alter the spatial dimensions and expand them!”
“In other words…”
“It made me grow huge!” As he finished the exclamation, another surge of energy radiated through him. This time, he kept himself balanced as his figure shot upward, slammed into the roof, and broke right through it.
Bits of metal and stone tumbled from the broken ceiling as he dusted himself off. “Sorry,” he said as he carefully ducked down and crawled out of the lab. The sand from the nearby beach cushioned his body. “I must be a hundred feet tall. I can’t believe this.” He chuckled as he stood back up to his full height. Whenever he shifted his weight, his huge paws thumped into the sand and left massive craters.
Sonic darted out of the lab and looked up at his once tiny buddy. “Wow. Tails, uh, how do you feel?”
“Honestly, great!” he said. “I can see so far from up here, and I feel strong. Like I could punch through a mountain if I wanted to.” He chuckled. “Don’t worry, I’m not going to.”
“Well, that’s a plus at least. Stand still for a second!” With a quick dash, Sonic raced up his friend’s leg, along his back, and landed on his shoulder. “You’re right, the view is pretty good from up here.”
“Yeah. But I should probably try to reverse this. A growing effect could be amazing in a tight fight, but I won’t be able to get much done at this size. Do you see the stone anywhere?” He turned to his left. The sudden movement was enough for Sonic to stumble and lose his footing. The tiny blue hedgehog gasped as he fell off Tails’ shoulder and tumbled past his belly. “Oh!” Tails moved his hand at the last moment and caught his buddy in the center of his palm.
“Sorry,” the giant fox said as he lifted Sonic toward his face. “Guess I don’t know my own strength yet.”
“Yeah,” Sonic answered, nervous. “Just be careful, bud.”
“I will. But just in case, try to stay away from my feet. I don’t want to step on you by accident or anything.”
“Right. That would probably hurt.” His smile betrayed a hint of his nerves.
“Let me put you down.” Tails lowered his buddy to the sand, and Sonic hopped off. “I’ll have to research what caused this transformation and how to reverse it. Maybe I can take the signal from the gem and invert it, but that sounds a bit too easy.”
“Yeah, I bet,” Sonic said as he backed away from his friend. “Do you need any help?”
“Probably,” Tails answered. “It’ll be a bit hard for me to type anything with these massive fingers.”
“No problem, I’ll be your hands for as long as…” Sonic paused as his foot accidentally kicked something. He looked down to see the gemstone resting just behind his sneaker. “Oh no.”
“What’s wrong?” Tails asked as the gem started to glow.
“You’ll see in a second. Man, I really have to watch where I step.” The gemstone erupted in light, and even Tails had to shield himself from it. The world shook, the air trembled, and power radiated from in front of the giant fox. When it faded, Tails saw a new titan standing in front of him.
“Huh,” Sonic said, his voice booming as he looked down at his huge body. “Not a bad look if I do say so myself. What do you think, little buddy?”
Tails pouted as he crossed his arms and looked at Sonic. He grew by about the same factor as Tails, making him a full head taller. “And just when I was getting used to being the big one.”
Sonic snickered as he ruffled the fur on Tails’ head. “Not yet, pal. But I have a feeling this’ll make it harder to turn back to normal.”
“Yeah. We’re more likely to smash a computer to bits than get it to run a program.” He looked around the landscape. “Maybe I can use a few trees to cobble something together.”
“Or…” Sonic began, “I could dash over to Knuckles and get him to do the tiny stuff.”
“Two problems. First, I don’t know if Knuckles is the best for complex computer work.” Sonic nodded at that. “And second, if we run off now, we might destroy half the town!” Tails shifted his weight, lifted his paw from the ground, then placed it carefully. “I already destroyed most of my lab, and you trampled those bushes to dust.”
“Eh, they were just a few shrubs.”
“And if it were someone’s house?”
“They could rebuild.”
“Sonic!”
“I’m kidding.” He laughed as he put his hand around Tails’ shoulder and pulled him close. “We’ll be careful, and we’ll walk along the beach. The most we’ll stomp on are a couple crabs. Okay?”
Tails sighed. “I guess. But only because I don’t have a better idea.”
“Exactly.” Sonic hopped forward, his feet leaving deep craters in the ground. “Come on! I still haven’t had lunch, and there’s no chillidog in the universe that’ll fill me up now!” He turned and jogged along the beach, leaving Tails behind.
“Sonic, wait! Just watch where you’re…” He cringed as Sonic stepped on a pier jutting into the ocean. The wood snapped and crumbled under his weight. The fox gave another sigh. “Never mind.” He jogged to catch up.
As they walked along the beach together, Tails couldn’t stop thinking about the footprints they left in the sand, the feeling of the ground crushing between his toes, and all the tiny things that might accidentally wind up under their giant bodies. Were they squashing tiny crabs every time their feet came down?
Usually, he’d be concerned about that and take every precaution he could, but now… now it didn’t seem that important. It was like crushing a bug. Sure, he didn’t go out of his way to trample the ants in his path, but if it happened, he wasn’t going to lose sleep over it.
“This is kind of fun,” Sonic said as he hopped forward and kicked a boulder resting at the edge of the beach. It launched into the air, struck the side of a nearby mountain, and exploded in a hail of pebbles and rocks. “I bet we could take out Eggman’s entire army at this size.”
Tails smiled at the concept. “I bet even his biggest robots would break if we stepped on them.”
“Imagine the look on his face when we kick down his door.”
“I bet Orbot and Cubot would run away screaming.”
Sonic smirked, “Until we stepped on them.”
“Ha. What about Metal Sonic? I bet he’d fit perfectly between your… oh Sonic, watch where you’re…” Crunch.
Sonic froze, his foot planted on top of a collection of broken pieces of wood and furniture that used to be a beach house. His stomp completely smashed it, leaving the frame destroyed and the foundation crumbled. The house's owners managed to scramble out of the way in time. They were thrown onto their backs, forced to look at the pair of tightans looming over them.
“Huh, look at that,” Sonic said. He leaned forward and smooshed his foot side to side, grinding the house even further to dust. “My bad.”
“Sonic…” Tails said. “You really shouldn’t do that.”
“Why not?” Sonic asked. “Look how tiny it is. And the crunch. Oh man, the crunch! Tails, you gotta try it out. Look, there’s another house over there! Stomp it!”
“What!? But someone lives there!”
“Yeah, a bug. Come on, trust me.”
Tails made a nervous sound. This all felt so strange, and these houses were so small that they didn’t even register as real. He wanted to listen to his friend, but some small part of him was still holding back. “I don’t know.”
“Come on, little bro. Have I ever steered you wrong?”
Tails turned to his friend, then looked back at the house. “Fine. And I’m not little.” As he stomped over to the nearby beach house, he wondered why the comment made him feel so prickly. Sonic called him his little buddy all the time, but now it felt different. He didn’t want to be little anymore.
He stood over the beachhouse as the residents scrambled outside. They shouted up to him and begged him not to destroy their home, but Tails could barely hear their squeaky voices. All he could think about was Sonic smirking at him, and that annoying comment. Tails lifted his foot, moved it over the house, then SLAMMED it down. The explosion of sand and dirt sent the house’s owners tumbling down the beach.
“See?” Sonic said. “Pretty fun, right?”
“Yeah,” Tails agreed. “I get it.” There was another house only a step away. Tails moved forward, lifted his other paw, then slammed his foot into it. The structure crumbled as soon as his toes crushed into the roof.
“Now we’re having fun.” Sonic hopped forward, jumping into the air, then came down HARD on the next house in line. “How many do you think are in this little village?”
“A couple dozen,” Tails said as he looked at the collection of houses and buildings on the edge of the beach. “Bet I can stomp more than you.”
“Think you can keep up?” With that same smirk, Sonic hopped onto the next house and broke it apart. Tails didn’t waste any more time and jumped onto the closest one. It crumbled and cracked under his weight before he pivoted and aimed for the next.
Tails didn’t think about the people still inside the homes, or how traumatic each of his footfalls must have been to them. He didn’t care that he was stomping through their lives, destroying their homes, and crushing them under his paws. They were bugs, and their entire existence seemed pointless compared to Sonic and Tails’ game.
When he stomped twenty-two houses into the dirt, Tails looked over at his friend. Sonic was ahead, but only by a few crushed homes. The blue hedgehog stomped through another small building and swung his foot over a nearby street where a cluster of tiny humans were trying to run. Tails stood and watched as Sonic’s foot smashed down onto them, pressed them into the buckling concrete, then lifted to reveal the splattered remains.
For a brief flicker, Tails felt his old self return. He wanted to tell Sonic to stop, and that they needed to focus on returning to normal before they went too far… but then he’d lose their game. Tails made up his mind as Sonic kicked through a small hotel and sent part of its wall flying into the surrounding landscape. He couldn’t let Sonic win.
“So, how many did you destroy?” Sonic said as he stood with his hands on his hips. “I counted thirty-seven, though I really think the hotel should be worth more.”
“Nope, counts as one.”
“Alright, then what’s your number, little bro?”
Tails felt his fur bristle again. The real number was about thirty-three, but he wasn’t going to listen to Sonic chuckle about it. “Forty.”
“Wait, really?”
“Yep. Sonic, you know me. I never lie about this sort of thing.”
Sonic crossed his arms. “I guess so. Congrats, buddy.” Tails was beaming. The town lay around them, now a wasteland of huge footprints and broken streets. “We really did a number on this place. But you know the strangest part about it? I don’t even feel bad.”
“You said it before, they’re basically just bugs.”
A tiny dog citizen scrambled out of the debris near Sonic’s feet. With a simple, casual motion, the giant hedgehog reached down and plucked the person from the dirt. “Yeah, but I don’t step on bugs if I notice them.” He held the squirming dog between his forefinger and thumb. “Like this little guy. Look at him. Doesn’t he just look so…” he searched for the right word, “Squishable?”
Tails laughed. “Then squish him.”
“No, I got a better idea.” Sonic opened his mouth and tossed the tiny inside. The dog’s shouts were silenced as soon as the giant’s lips closed behind him, sealing him in his wet, spit-filled maw. Sonic moved him around and squashed him into his cheeks, then he tilted his head back and swallowed. “Ah~ He didn’t taste half bad.”
“Huh. You know, if you had swallowed someone before, I would have been mortified. But now… now I just want to try it too. Is that bad?”
“Maybe?” Sonic said with a shrug. “When things get complicated and morally weird, I just do what my gut tells me. It usually works out. What’s your gut telling you, buddy?”
“My gut wants me to eat some of these people.”
Sonic smiled. “Bet I can eat more than you.”
“You’re on!”
Silver saw the dust cloud on the horizon as he flew toward the source. He didn’t know what was happening, but there were reports of something huge rampaging through the coastline and destroying entire towns. Where were Sonic and Tails? Their base was right by there, so they should have handled the situation long before Silver arrived.
The hedgehog flew across the landscape, then over the hills separating the main continent from the coastline. He gasped as soon as he saw the ruin on the other side and the titans that caused it.
“S… Sonic?” he said, wide-eyed. He couldn’t believe what he was seeing. Sonic and Tails were massive, bigger than almost any robot in Eggman’s army, and they were stomping through a town without a care. No, it was worse than that. It looked like they were enjoying it.
“This must be some sort of trick,” Silver said. “Eggman’s controlling them, or they're just robots! It doesn’t matter, I have to stop them before they hurt anyone else!” The psychokinetic aura around his body increased in power as he darted toward the titans.
He had to swerve to avoid some of the stones and bits of debris kicked up by their terrifying stomps. He flew in front of Tails’ face with his arms outstretched. “Tails, stop!” he shouted. “What are you doing!?”
“Oh, hey Silver,” Tails said with a smile. “What does it look like? I’m destroying the town.”
“But why?”
“Because it’s fun.”
Sonic, from the opposite end of the town, called out, “What’s going on, bud?”
“Nothing,” Tails answered, his voice so powerful that Silver had to cover his ears. “Silver wants me to stop.”
“Oh, Silver’s here? Cool.” Sonic darted next to his buddy and looked down at the flying bug. “You can help us keep score. I think Tails is cheating.”
“I am NOT!”
“Are so.”
“Am not.”
“Are so.”
Each syllable, no matter how inconsequential or juvenile, slammed into Silver’s body like a punch to the chest. He tried to shout for them to stop, but their argument drowned out his voice. He only managed to draw their attention when he used his powers to throw a boulder at Tails’ head.
“Stop it!” Silver yelled. “You can’t keep doing this. You guys are heroes!”
Sonic shrugged. “We’re still heroes. Just… different.”
“Different how?”
“Well, for one, we don’t let bugs tell us what to do.”
Tails laughed. “Ha, yeah. Buzz off, Silver.”
Silver looked between the giants with horror. “How can you two say that? This is your home! These are your people! And… and if you’re not going to protect them, I will.” He gripped his fists and lifted a cluster of debris into the air.
Sonic just laughed. “Let me take care of this, Tails.”
“Sure,” the fox said.
Sonic looked down at the smaller hedgehog, tilted his head back, then shot a glob of spit directly at him. Silver didn’t have time to react. The glob slammed into him before he could even scream and dragged him down to the earth, where he slammed onto the concrete.
He tried to squirm as the giant boys’ laughter echoed around him, but the spit was too sticky for him to do anything. His movement became more erratic as his lungs started to burn. He clawed at the surface of the spit bubble, but it wouldn’t break no matter how much he tried.
“Look at him,” Sonic said. “He can’t even get out.”
“That’s just embarrassing,” Tails said.
It was the last thing Silver ever heard before his eyes closed and his lungs filled with spit.
“Mmmm~” Sonic hummed as he shoved a handful of people into his mouth, spit running down his lips as he sucked on the people trapped inside. He swallowed them with a sinister moan, then leaned back and patted his belly. “And I thought chillidogs were good.”
“Hey!” Tails said. The fox stomped his foot in frustration, causing a nearby apartment complex to tumble. “Sonic, you said everything north of the park was mine to destroy!”
“Yeah? So?”
“So? Why are your footprints all over the forest? And you just ate a handful of guys from that construction yard, didn’t you?”
“Maybe.” Sonic shrugged. “Who cares?”
“I care! Those were my snacks to eat. You always eat my snacks! First it was my mint ice cream, then it was the chocolates I hid in the cupboard, now it’s my people.”
“Stop yelling,” Sonic said. “Just chill out, little bro.”
Tails’ fur ruffled at the comment. “And I TOLD YOU to stop calling me that!”
Sonic hopped to his feet, causing the earth to shake below him. He was about to answer his fuzzy friend's accusation, but he felt a spark of power growing from inside him. With a smirk, Sonic allowed the gemstone's power to surge. It grew him once again, turning him from a giant into a true titan. By the time the glow faded, he loomed over the city as well as his little friend. Tails was barely even a foot tall compared to him.
“What was that, little bro?” Tails didn’t answer, but he gripped his fists in anger as his ears flicked. “Yeah, that’s what I thought.” Sonic put his hands on his hips. “How about you chill out, while I do whatever I want?” With a laugh, he turned and stepped across the horizon.
Tails was knocked to his butt the first time Sonic’s immense feet landed on the ground. The hedgehog continued moving, leveling entire forests and crushing houses between his toes. The shockwave from his movements alone was enough to rip apart entire villages of people.
“I’m starting to get why Eggman built all those robots,” he said as he kicked a mountain apart, sending a hail of burning debris into the fields beyond. “This is amazing!” He turned toward a nearby lake, jumped up, and landed in the center of it in a splash that vaporized water and sent a tidal wave surging through the neighborhoods bordering it. “Oh no, it’s a giant hedgehog,” he said as he lifted his foot over another village. “Do you run or throw yourself on the ground and worship? I’ll give you a hint, it doesn’t matter. You’re bugs either way!” He slammed his foot down and decimated another town, crushing a swathe of houses under his dirty sole while countless more were ripped apart by the pressure wave.
“Sonc, stop it!” Tails shouted as he ran toward his friend’s foot. “You’re destroying everything!”
The blue hedgehog snickered. “I know! Isn’t it great?”
“You’re not leaving anything for me.”
“And why should I care? You’re acting almost as annoying as Silver. Want to drown in my spit, too?”
“Stop being a jerk!” Tails kicked Sonic’s foot, but it didn’t do much. “You always do this! Everything’s always about you, while I just have to sit in the background and watch. You get all the medals, you’re the one who gets recognized wherever we go. It’s always Sonic Heroes, and never anything else.”
“Want to know why?” Tails huffed, and Sonic continued. “It’s because I’m the fastest, coolest, smartest, funniest, and now, well, I’m not the size of a very puntable football.”
“What?”
Sonic lifted his foot, took aim, then with a cruel grin, he launched his foot forward. It slammed into tails with the force of a falling mountain and launched the little fox into the air. He flew over the countryside until he crashed into the ground in a flurry of dust and broken houses. His body continued to tumble until it reached the outskirts of Freedom City where he shattered skyscrapers, ripped up streets, then finally came to a stop as he slammed into one of the supertall towers near the heart of the metropolis. Tails’ head spun as he tried to recover from the blow.
“There!” Sonic called across the miles separating them. “Just stay over there and play with those buildings or something. I don’t care, just stop bugging me!”
Sonic returned his attention to the pathetic bugs squirming on the ground below him, but a burst of light made him look back toward the city. All his cocky bravado and bluster drained out of him as he watched Tails grow larger. The fox expanded until he was as big as the city’s towers, then he was as huge as Sonic. He didn’t stop growing until he stood almost three times the hedgehog’s height, his head in the clouds and his fists clenched.
“What was that?” the fox's voice boomed, causing the very air to reverberate with its strength. Windows shattered for miles in every direction, and the land buckled when he took a step closer. “Stop bugging you? Funny, since you’re about the closest thing to a bug I see.”
“Hey, wait a second, Tails. I didn’t really mean all…”
“Huh? Going back on what you said already?” He stepped closer to Sonic, closing the gap between them until he was almost on top of the hedgehog. “Come on, hero, I can’t be any scarier than one of Eggman’s robots.”
“Tails, just calm down for a second and…” Sonic trailed off as the fox leapt toward him. Though the hedgehog was the fastest thing alive, Tails’ movements were lightning quick for something so unspeakably massive. The fox grabbed him by the shoulder, shoved him to the ground, then rolled with Sonic in the tackle until Tails came out on top and pinned Sonic’s shoulders to the ground.
“Huh, I thought you’d put up more of a fight than that,” Tails said with a smirk. “Guess you’re not so fast at this size.” Tails shifted his position and thumped his butt onto Sonic’s chest. The impact was enough to drive the air out of the boy’s lungs as Sonic squirmed under the impressive weight of his former friend. Tails looked down at him, his head eclipsing the sun. “Say I’m cooler than you.”
“What?” Sonic tried to squirm out from under Tails, but the boy’s body was too heavy. “No way!”
“Come on, say that I’m cooler! Say that you wish you were as awesome as me!”
“No!”
“Fine.” Tails lifted one of his paws and plopped it onto Sonic’s face. “Then you can just lick my paw.”
“Gah! Tails, stop it!” Sonic tried to turn his face away, but the fox pressed his other foot into his nose whenever he tried. Sonic couldn’t escape the onslaught of his friend’s paws as Tails forced them against his cheek and nose. His lips rolled over the soft paw pad as Tails gripped his nose between his toes.
“Kiss them.”
“NO!”
“Kiss them!”
“I’m NEVER going to…” Sonic stopped as another burst of power surged through him, just in time. The boy expanded again and grew large enough to finally throw Tails off him. He continued expanding until he towered over his friend, standing five times his size, at least. He dusted himself off and looked down at his buddy. “You know, for a genius, you sure do some stupid stuff sometimes. But since I’m the real hero here, I’ll be nice. If you like this part of the world, then fine. You can play with it however you want, and I’ll just take the rest of the planet. Enjoy your section, little bro. Just let me give you one last parting gift.”
Sonic jumped into the air, curled into a ball, then slammed into the ground with the full force of a homing attack. The world exploded as his energized quills impacted the ground, turning the world into a swirling dust cloud of kicked up dirt, fire, and debris. Tails tried to shield himself, but even someone as massive as the fox was swallowed up by the avalanche of broken earth.
Shadow stood on the ridgeline, his arms crossed and his scowl deep as he watched the carnage. Sonic laughed as he stomped across the landscape, destroying entire cities with a single footfall. His body towered over the clouds and cast a monumental shadow across the world. He looked more like a force of nature than something alive.
“Shadow,” the voice in the dark hedgehog’s communicator said. “Come in, Shadow.”
“I’m here,” he answered.
“We have reports of a giant monster rampaging through…”
“It’s Sonic. I already saw him.”
“Sonic? Fine. Whatever it is, you need to stop it.”
Shadow sighed. “It won’t be easy, but nothing ever is.” He lifted one of the chaos emeralds and looked into its red surface. His distorted reflection stared back at him. “At least I have this. Chaos control!” In a flash, he disappeared from the ridgeline.
He reappeared in a city nearby. The streets were packed with people screaming as they ran from the earthshaking impacts of the nearby titan. Buildings were on fire, water mains erupted, and power lines fell onto bushes. Shadow didn’t care. He turned toward the horizon and called out, “Sonic! This ends now!”
But he did not understand the full difference in their scale. He only realized his error when Sonic’s body appeared in the sky above him, the titan’s chest and face obscured by the blue haze of the atmosphere as clouds crashed against his chest. Sonic didn’t notice him. How could he from so far above?
Then the hedgehog lifted his foot to take a step. Shadow’s jaw dropped as he saw the massive blue sole hover over the world, sprinkled with rubble, dirt, and the leftover remnants of all the civilizations he had already crushed. Shadow turned and ran, but even his super speed wasn’t enough.
He couldn’t even outpace a single one of Sonic’s steps.
The giant’s foot came down in a world-ending impact. It destroyed the city and threw Shadow into the air. The dark hedgehog tumbled, screaming, until he bounced off the debris and found himself stuck in some place dark, humid, and crushing.
Though he tried to scream and squirm his way out, there was nothing his tiny body could do.
He was trapped between Sonic’s toes, reduced to grime, as his former rival went to take another step.
“Ugh…” Tails groaned as he pushed the remnants of a skyscraper off his head. He was a little dazed, but a quick shake removed most of the rubble. “That stupid, arrogant jerk,” he grumbled. “Why does he always have to do this? Why can’t he let me be big, for once?” He crossed his arms and pouted.
Then he slowly looked up from the ground, a sly smile on his face. “Wait a second…” he said as an idea took shape. “I know how to fix this.” He laughed as he hopped to his feet and ran across the landscape, heading towards his lab.
“I don’t like that dust cloud,” Knuckles said as he looked at the distant horizon. The Master Emerald rotated slowly behind him, but offered no solace. “What is that? Another one of Eggman’s robots? No, Tails would have called me. Then what? A volcano? Do volcanoes make that type of… I don’t know, dust thing?”
He wasn’t sure, and that frustrated him endlessly. Part of him wanted to jump into the sky and glide over to the disaster zone so he could find out what it was firsthand. But no. If he left his watch, something might happen to the Master Emerald, and he couldn’t accept that.
“Wait…” he whispered as a shape appeared on the horizon. It looked almost humanoid, but it was immense and moving quickly. The world shook as it came closer and closer, until Knuckles recognized the silhouette. “Sonic? What!?”
He barely had time to shout his confusion before the titanic hedgehog ran full speed into Angel Island and broke it to pieces against his chest.
Sonic didn’t even notice.
“This might be a little harder than I thought,” Tails said as he came to his lab. At least he was pretty sure this was where he built the lab. He recognized the hillside and the beach, though it was pockmarked by his and Sonic’s footprints. Everything was just so hard to see at Tails’ scale, and even something as large as a building was a tiny little dot amongst the rest of the landscape.
He carefully lowered himself onto his hands and knees, crushing an entire forest in the process. “Where is it…” he whispered as he bent closer, one eye closed as he looked at the collection of different landscapes. “I thiiink this is it?”
Tails tilted his head to the side. Why didn’t he add more flashing lights to his lab, or maybe a siren? Then he could at least pick up the sound with his oversized ears. In a huff, he bent down even closer so that his face almost touched the ground.
“What am I doing?” he said. “Even if I do find my lab, I can’t do anything at this scale. And the gemstone is definitely microscopic. So then… huh, guess I just have to do it.” The fox closed his eyes, lowered his face to the ground, then let his lips part. His wide, pink tongue emerged from his mouth and pressed into the ground near the spot where he believed his lab rested.
The flavor of dirt spread across his tongue as he licked the surface of the earth and dragged countless houses, buildings, and people into his mouth. It wasn’t the best taste, but he closed his eyes tight and forced himself through it. After a few coarse chews, he swallowed the mouthful. “Bleh,” he said. “That had better work. If I licked the ground for nothing, I’m…” he trailed off as he felt his body reacting to something inside of him.
A smile spread on the fox’s face as the swallowed gemstone's power erupted from within his belly. His scale increased in a burst and only ended when the world became a patchwork of smeared colors below his body. When he stood, his feet carved craters into the ground that were so deep, magma burst from below.
“Now here we go,” Tails said with a grin. “I must be three… maybe four or five times Sonic’s height. Time to finally put that little jerk in his place.”
“You guys don’t make the best seat cushion,” Sonic said as he squished his butt into the city. The cracks and pops of skyscrapers erupting felt interesting, but it wasn’t exactly comfy. “It’s like sitting on bubble wrap.” He laughed, lifted his butt into the air, then slammed it down with a globe-shaking impact. Whatever was left of the city was ground into dust and reduced to paste under his hedgehog behind.
He was content to lean back and take a break from destroying the world, at least for a little bit, but then he felt the tremors. “Hm?” Sonic hummed, glancing over his shoulder. Tails strode across the landscape, his fluffy paws mesmerizing as they lifted and thumped forward. “Oh, if it isn’t my most annoying sidekick. What’s up? Came to lose another wrestling match?” He popped back up to his feet and faced the boy.
“I kind of thought you’d be more intimidated.” Tails stopped when he was a pace away from Sonic, the clouds moving around his legs as he looked down at the comparatively small hedgehog. “You know, since you don’t even come up to my knees anymore.”
“Tails, Tails, Tails,” Sonic said as he shook his head. “Don’t you ever learn? Sure, you’re bigger than me right now, but give it a minute. Then I’ll have another growth spurt, and you’ll be my shrimpy sidekick once again.”
“Maybe I shouldn’t let you get that big, then.”
Sonic laughed. “What are you going to do, squish me?”
“Hey, look at that. You can say smart things sometimes!” Tails lifted his paw over Sonic’s head.
“Oh wow, you’re not kidding.” Sonic leapt out of the way as the fox’s foot landed with a blistering impact. It eradicated everything directly under his pads and scorched the ground for miles in every direction. “Watch it!” Sonic shouted.
“And what are you going to do about it, pipsqueak?” Tails lifted his other foot and took aim. Sonic braced himself and jumped out of the way at the last second, just like last time.
“You were never that good at one-on-one fights, were you?” Sonic laughed as he hopped out of reach. “Tails, buddy, you realize the spot you’re in, right?”
Tails sighed. “I’m sure you’ll explain it to me.”
“You’re as hopeless as Egghead. All I need to do is keep out of your way for a few more seconds, get my next burst of size, and then I can kick your fluffy butt all the way into outer space. At least then I won’t have to listen to you babble about gizmos and tech stuff all the time!”
“Ah!” Tails groaned, his frustration getting the better of him. “All you ever do is complain and say how cool you are! I’m so sick of it!” He jumped toward Sonic and tried to tackle him, but the hedgehog dodged out of the way just in time, leaving Tails to land on a huge chunk of the landscape and crush it under his belly.
Sonic flicked his nose and tapped his foot impatiently. “What’s wrong? Am I too fast for ya? Just wait until I’m ten times your size again.”
“That isn’t going to happen!” Tails pushed himself onto one knee and prepared another jump.
Sonic held up his hand. “Oof, bad luck little bro. I think you’re out of time.” A flash of light surrounded the hedgehog as a burst of size enveloped his body. He doubled in scale, then rose even higher until Tails had to look up at him.
When it ended, Tails was barely as tall as one of Sonic’s feet. “So,” Sonic said, his voice dripping with confidence and his smug nature. “What was that about stepping on me? How about I sit on your chest for a bit? And if you lick my toes, maybe I won’t kick you into outer space. How does that sound, little bro?”
Tails looked up at Sonic, but his expression wasn’t one of fear or concern. Instead, he smiled. “I don’t think so.”
“Why? What do you think you can do to me?”
“Oh, Sonic. Poor, dumb Sonic. While you were running around and being your cocky, annoying self, like you always are, I was using my head. You should try it sometime.”
“Wow,” Sonic laughed. “You’re cocky for someone so small.”
“Not for long. Watch this.” Tails lifted his hand and pointed at Sonic.
“What’s that supposed to do? You gonna blast me with a ray beam or…” the hedgehog trailed off as light began to move around his body. “Wait…” slowly, he started to shrink. “Wait, wait, wait!”
The shrinking increased rapidly, forcing the hedgehog to dwindle to Tails’ size, then half his height, then a quarter, then a tenth. His expression grew more horrified as his scale was stolen.
“See?” Tails said as he loomed over his former friend. “I ate the gemstone, so now I can control its power. I can grow myself…” he snapped his finger and instantly doubled in size, “or I can shrink you to the size of a microbe.” Another snap, and Sonic was reduced all the way back to his normal three-foot-tall size.
The blue blur screamed as he plummeted thousands of feet through the sky until he finally landed in the middle of an open field. When he pulled his head out of the crater he formed on impact, he looked upward at the largest thing he had ever seen. Tails didn’t even look real anymore. Everything past his toes was cloaked in the blue fog of the atmosphere, with clouds breaking apart around his digits. He was taller than mountains, bigger than oceans, a true god of the world.
“Get it yet?” Tails said, his voice so powerful that it cleared the clouds below him and forced Sonic into the ground with every syllable. “You can keep calling yourself a hero if you want. I’ll stick with god.” The fox laughed as he lifted his foot and hovered it over Sonic. “Don’t worry, little speck. I don’t mind if you live on my foot for the rest of your life. You can squeeze between my toes, or clean the gunk from under my claws, or whatever you want. But you’ll never boss me around again.”
“Tails, wait!” Sonic shouted, but there was no hope that his buddy could even perceive him, let alone hear him.
“See ya, Sonic.” Tails’ paw lowered until the sky was replaced by his pink paw pad, dusted with countries and continents, ringed by the glowing plasma created by air rushing around his foot at speeds far exceeding the speed of sound.
Sonic couldn’t run. He couldn’t fight back. All he could do was watch as his tiny buddy treated him like a microbe crawling around in the dirt.
Like millions before him, Sonic was flattened under the hulking paw of a god sized fox.
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