Its another boring day for the fox. Why not spend a little time playing with a continent shrunken down to the size of his room?

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Tails’ City 2

By Sokz

It had been another long, slow day for the fox. Tails sat at his lab table, his eyes half closed as he tried to read the paper in front of him for the tenth time in a row. No matter what he did, he kept zoning out halfway through the sentence.

Just outside, he could see the sun on his front yard, with palm trees swaying in the wind and the beach not too far away. It was the perfect day to do anything other than just sitting around, reading. But there was still a lot of stuff he needed to get done, and the little fox was anything other than lazy.

Still, he needed a break. Something to distract him from this tedious research paper, even for just a couple of minutes. Normally he’d look for Sonic and goof around with him for a while, but the hedgehog was halfway across the planet, looking into some half-baked rumor that Eggman was trying to create an evil robot army out of chilidogs. Tails was sure that it wasn’t true, but it wasn’t like running all the way so it took much effort for the supersonic hedgehog.

That left Tails without anything to do though. He sighed as his eyes moved around his lab, over the different inventions in various states of completion, his chipped tile floors, the papers that he knew he should organize one of these days, then finally to the computer waiting in front of him.

“Hm…” the fox hummed as he thought of something fun. “Do I have time?” He glanced around the room, satisfying himself that no one else was around. “Sure, why not? Just a quick one won’t hurt.” He grabbed the mouse and woke the computer up, then navigated to a partially hidden program on his desktop. It opened when he clicked it, a screen displaying a bunch of interesting settings.

“Alright, what should I put in today?” He hummed to himself as he began typing on the keyboard. “Location? Doesn’t really matter. Let’s just pick here. Duration? Ten minutes should be enough. Hm… better make it twenty. Size?” The fox paused as he came to this box. Normally, he was pretty happy with taking a small city and shrinking it down, making the inhabitants barely even recognizable. But, as he stared at that box, he felt something building in him. He licked his lips as he typed in the number.

“Let’s go small,” he whispered. “Really small.” He ran some math in his head and came out with the proper conversion. This would be insane, the largest landmass he had ever shrunk. But it should work. After all, he was the one who designed this machine.

“One to three mill… no, that’s bigger than a million. Whatever, one to three times ten to the eleventh power. That should be just enough to shrink down an entire continent to fit in the room.” He giggled to himself as he pressed the button and saw the machine start to load. It hummed for a minute, calculating and scanning everything it needed to, before a box finally popped up on his screen.

It read, “Machine ready. Would you like to activate?”

“Yes,” Tails said as he clicked the button.

Beside him, the machine hummed to life, a few lights flickering on. After only a few seconds a beam shot out from the nozzle and landed on the floor, a small patch of blue quickly building up. From his stool, Tails watches as an entire continent was built upon his floor, complete with mountains and rivers, oceans and cities, all at a size that was absolutely minuscule.

It took only a minute, then the machine turned off, that glow fading. It was done. Now, on Tails’ floor, there was an entire continent full of millions of people. And the fox couldn’t have been happier.

He glanced down at the tiny world below him. Some spots were left in shadows cast by the absolutely colossal machinery that had been placed around his lab. Others were in direct sunlight, shining through the open windows above him. To the untrained eye it might have just looked like a really detailed carpet, or some unique floor printing. But Tails knew better. Though he couldn’t see movement, though he couldn’t hear anything below, he knew what was down there.

With a sly grin, he turned towards the inside of his lab, his shoes dangling over one section of the world. Slowly, he began to slip one of the oversized sneakers off of his huge foot. The edge of it moved over his heel, exposing the soft skin below. Then, with a gentle kick, he let the huge object slide off of his foot and fall to the ground below.

For him, it was nothing. His sneaker fell to the ground and bounced before coming to a stop, a small cloud of dust spewing up around it. To anyone who was below, it would have been like a mountain plummeting from the sky.

As he slid his foot out of his other sneaker, he thought about the small modifications he had made to his machine since last time. Before, he had made a copy of whatever he was shrinking, then stomped on it like it was dust. Though he knew he was only killing duplicates, it had still given him a strange feeling. So, this new update fixed that. Somewhere across the world, everyone who had been teleported here had fallen asleep. Their consciences had been transported and scaled-down, and new bodies created for them. That way, when Tails crushed them into tiny little blood splatters, they would simply wake up back in their hometown like nothing had changed.

The only slight issue was that the people would all remember what happened, though it would be a bit hazy and muddled, like a dream. But Tails didn’t mind that too much. For the little fox, it felt kind of nice knowing that every once in a while, an entire city had the same dream of being crushed under his feet.

Slowly, and as gently as he could manage, he slid off of the stool. His toes touched the ground first, their weight enough to crush into the ground and create craters the size of mountains just from their touch. Then the balls of his feet made contact, then his heel. Finally, he slid off of the stool completely, his weight shifting onto his feet, his soles digging into the weak ground that supported him.

He felt the crunch as an entire region was crushed under his titanic soles, hundreds of people probably smooshed into nothing as he simply stood on them. At this size, he would have been immense to them. Bigger than a mountain, bigger than a city, or even a country. When he stood on top of them, it was the weight of a celestial object, the size difference hard to even

comprehend. They were nothing to him. Absolutely microscopic, their actions meaning no more to him than that of a bacteria.

A small smile came to his face as he looked at the land, at the mountains that had formed around the craters of his feet, at the rest of the continent he was free to walk around in. This was going to be a fun break.



“Huh, this is pretty strange,” Sonic said as he walked through the street of the city, glancing around at the suddenly changed environment. Though he couldn’t exactly put his finger on it, something had definitely shifted. “What’s going on?” he hummed as he looked at the buildings.

Eggman's super-secret plan had turned out to be nothing, as it so often did. So, after messing up what little the doctor had in place, Sonic had darted off to the nearby city to do some sightseeing. After all, wasn’t every day he found himself on this side of the planet.

It was a more modern city, with huge towers that loomed over his head made of metal and concrete, with people packed into the streets and hastily moving around. There were humans and animals alike, all with things to do and places to be.

Honestly, he preferred life out in nature, but this type of thing was a nice break now and then. What he couldn’t explain was the sudden shift in lighting. Just a few seconds ago the sun had been right overhead, and bright as anything. Then there had been a sudden jolt, and now everything looked much more… gray. “Almost like we’re inside,” the hedgehog said as he kept walking. “But that doesn’t make any sense.” he laughed at the idea. “What building is big enough for all this?”

Still, he couldn’t shake the feeling that something was up. And the more he looked into the sky, the more that feeling prodded him. It was almost like he could see shapes in the distance, huge objects that dwarfed even the super tall towers that were all around him. But they were blurred and hard to see, the thick atmosphere between him and them making it impossible to tell if they were really there at all.

He was about to shrug and forget the whole thing when he felt the ground vibrate. Everyone in the city came to a stop as a vibration trembled, stronger than an earthquake, shattering glass as it rippled through the world. “What was that?” Sonic said, the vibration stopping as soon as it started.

His heart was racing as he looked around again. “Alright, something is definitely up.” Another vibration came, this one slightly more powerful, throwing some people in the streets onto the ground. This time Sonic was able to feel the direction and turned towards it. He squinted into the distance, looking off as something moved.

Then he realized what it was. At the far reaches of his vision, obscured by the miles and miles of atmosphere, was a gigantic fox.

Sonic’s jaw slowly dropped as the realization dawned on him.



Tails took a deep breath, preparing himself for what was about to come. His foot slowly lifted into the air as his eyes searched for a good place to step. He saw it soon, a tiny little area about an inch in diameter that looked different than the more natural environment around it. One with little veins of gray that traveled into and out of it, one where he could almost see a bit of texture.

An entire city fell into shadow as he moved his huge bare paw over it. He held it there for a second, allowing the inhabitants to see the underside of his sole, allowing the small specks of dirt and stone that had been adhered to his foot to break free and tumble down, the rain of earth shattering buildings and causing untold damage. But that was the least of these people’s worries.

The fox brought his foot down. He focused on the feeling as it collided with the ground, as it slammed into the earth and caused a ripple from the point of impact. His sole dug a huge crater, one bigger than the tallest mountain and wider across than any city. He could just barely feel the crunch under his sole, the smashing of trillions of pounds of metal and concrete, the shattering of glass, the breaking of a couple million bodies with only a single step.

He simply stood there, leaning on the city, his weight compressing it further into nothing. It was hard to imagine that there really were that many people under his foot. So many lives smashed to oblivion, so many people that probably screamed up in terror a moment before their cries were snuffed out by him simply taking a step.

Though he couldn’t see the people at all, there really was something intoxicating about the knowledge of his status, the realization that he truly was a god.

He lifted his other foot and swung it forward, then planted it into the earth the same as the other. A huge hole was formed as an area of land was crushed into nothing, homes and roads pulverized, schools demolished, hospitals and offices smooshed and compacted into nothing. How many towns had he crushed with that step? How many more people suddenly woke up back in the real world, their memory that of a giant fox foot eclipsing the sky, then falling on them.

He continued to walk, taking one step after another, savoring the crunch of each footfall as he simply moved. There was no way of knowing how much destruction he was causing with each step. No possible way for him to count how many lives were ended under his sole. But he almost liked it that way. His steps were so powerful that their impact wasn’t even measurable.

His eyes caught a faint line below him, one that he glanced at and realized was an entire mountain range that cut the continent. It must have been a huge structure to the people living below, a natural barrier that required time and effort to cross, if it could even be crossed at all. Tails knew that it must have been some of the tallest objects on the planet, since they were the only things that even barley stuck out from the nearly flat plane he tread on. Yet even these barely even came up along his smallest toe.

The fox knew that he could simply walk over them, but he had another idea. He planted his feet down, bent his legs, then leapt into the air. With the force of a celestial body impacting the globe, he came down on the mountain ridge, his feet slamming into the stone and compressing millions of years’ worth of geological activity into a thin sheet of molten rock. He watched as a shockwave traveled out from his feet, decimating the nearby structures and flattening even the mountains that had avoided his soles. In an instant, the entire superstructure became nothing. And that was with only a single jump. He turned back to the rest of the room and continued his walk.

He crossed to the other side of the room, then glanced back at his handiwork. Behind him was an entire trail of footprints scaring the earth, deep craters with the hot glow of lava at their lowest point. “Huh,” Tails said as he looked at them. “Guess the mantle is thinner than I thought.”



Sonic looked up from his place in the city, horror painted on his face as the earth trembled below him. The giant was walking. It seemed like such a meaningless action, but each footfall sent a mind-numbingly powerful earthquake through the ground, one that shook buildings and knocked people off of their feet. But that wasn’t what made Sonic so worried.

It was the fact that the giant was walking right towards him. “T… Tails…” he whispered, his mind struggling to make sense of what was happening. How was his friend so massive? How had he grown to the size of a god? This shouldn’t have been possible, yet he was seeing it with his own eyes.

He watched as the fox lifted his foot, then slammed it down relatively close by, the earth shaking violently with the impact as his huge toes loomed in front of him like the biggest mountain range that had ever been created.

“Tails, don’t you see what you’re doing?” Sonic said, panicking as he saw the fox lift his foot for another step, entire cities stuck to the bottom of his sole. There was no way he knew what was happening. Tails was the nicest guy he had ever met. To cause this much destruction would be insane!

He needed to get his attention, and he needed to do it quickly. “Luckily, quick is my middle name.” Sonic sped off as fast as he could, knowing that his only chance would be to go at full speed.



Tails smiled as he playfully took another step, this time slamming it down into the ocean. There was a splash, the type of thing that meant nothing to the fox, but meant a cataclysmic tsunami for everyone that happened to be on the coast nearby.

He could barely even feel the water under him. It felt more like a thin puddle than an ocean, if that. More like the thin film that comes when he spilled his water onto the ground.

The fox was about to take another step as a flash caught his eye, something on the ground near his foot. “Huh?” he whispered as he glanced down towards one of the cities that rested nearby one of his footprints.

It came again, a small, almost imperceptible burst of blue light. “What could that possibly…” The fox paused, a realization hitting him. Though almost all the lights of the world were nothing to him, there was one thing powerful enough for him to see. One blue object that could move fast enough to cause that burst of energy. “Sonic…” he whispered.

At first, he wasn’t sure how to feel. He hadn’t expected Sonic to shrink along with the continent. If anything, he was supposed to be halfway across the world. But that didn’t really change what he saw. Somehow, Sonic was here, tiny, on the ground by his feet.

The fox’s smile grew as he watched more bursts appear. Normally he wouldn’t even consider hurting Sonic. The idea would never even pop into his head. They were best buddies, brothers to the very end. But it didn’t really make sense to be best buds with a microbe, did it?

Besides, it wasn’t like he’d really hurt him. Sonic would wake up just like everyone else, this entire ordeal only a faint dream.

With a sly grin, Tails lifted his sole again, moving it over the tiny blue blur.



Sonic watched as the giant fox looked around the world, his huge eyes scanning the massive environment while Sonic ran through the streets, trying to build up enough speed that he’d be noticed. So far it wasn’t working. No matter how much energy he produced, Tails’ attention was on other things.

Eventually he found a stretch of flat, straight road. “Perfect,” he said to himself. “I can really accelerate on this!” He tore down the road, building more speed than he had before. He felt the energy erupting around him in a spark, one that he could only hope was powerful enough to get the giant’s attention.

Sonic skidded to a stop and looked back up at the titan, his heart racing as he panted for breath. Then, to his amazement, Tails turned to him. “Ha, yeah!” he shouted, feeling overwhelmed. “Tails, buddy, down here!”

Slowly, his joy turned to something darker. Tails was looking right at him, his blue eyes unmoving. Yet his face didn’t look like Sonic expected. Instead, he had a sly grin. The mountains in front of Sonic moved suddenly, the sky eclipsed as Tails lifted his foot and moved it overhead.

Sonic felt the blood drain from his face as he looked up at the horrible sight, trillions of tons of mass hanging above his head. Around him, he saw boulders and clusters of dirt drop from the fox’s sole, each one larger than a small town. It was a horrible sight, something apocalyptic, yet Sonic knew that it was just his little buddy taking another step. “No, Tails!” he said, realizing what was about to happen.

He turned and ran as fast as he could, hoping he would avoid the stomp.



Tails slammed his foot into the ground, grinning at the satisfying crunch once again, wondering if his buddy had been under it. Tails knew that Sonic was fast, but even he would have a hard time getting out of the way soon enough.

And if he was still under Tails’ foot… Well, there wasn't much chance he was still conscious. The fox grinned wider as he wiggled his toes, feeling the ground scrunch up between them as he played with the world.

Then he saw that blue spark once again, only about an inch from his sole. “Huh,” the fox said, looking down. “Guess I missed.”

He debated trying to stomp on the blue bright spot again, but felt like there was something better he could do. With the force of a planet, he took a step forward so that the tiny blue speck was right between his two paws. His legs bent as he crouched down, looming over the world.

In a whisper he said, “Hey Sonic. Enjoying the view?”



Sonic had been thrown to the ground by the tremendous stomp, tossed onto the dirt. He felt the ground shake as Tails moved forward, then looked up as the fox crouched over him, his massive, fluffy body looming overhead like an impossibly huge god. It was impossible to see Tails as the cute little fox he had called his friend. Now he was a titan with feet big enough to destroy the world.

The fox’s mouth opened, and deafening words vibrated through the world, causing the hedgehog to grab his ears. “Hey Sonic. Enjoying the view?”

“W… what?” Sonic said as he turned back to the fox. “Wait, you know I’m down here?” Sonic watched as the fox stood back up to his full height, an absolutely incomprehensible size. “No, Tails, what are you doing? Why are you…” Again he was stopped as the huge sole lifted over his head, the fox’s toes wiggling. “Stop!” he called out, desperately, as he turned to run again.



Tails was enjoying his little game of cat and mouse. It was pretty simple. He’d lift his foot and move it over the tiny blue blur, then bring it down just slow enough that he could run out of the way in time. If he really wanted to, he could probably slam his sole down and catch the little guy, but what would be the fun in that?

He laughed as his toes came down less than an inch from the moving blue glow, the ground shaking violently with his footfall. How many times had he stepped across this continent already? The ground was littered with pockmarks, hundreds of millions of people crushed under his sole.

“Well, I guess this has been fun,” Tails said to himself. “But I should probably get back to work.” He glanced down at the blur again. He could just stomp him and let the game end, but there was another idea he had in mind. Something that seemed absolutely ridiculous, but fun just the same.

He turned back towards his computer, ignoring the bacteria-sized hedgehog below him, and walked back across the continent. He felt the crunch of every footfall, but his mind was focused on something else.

“Alright, just change this setting,” he said as he reached his computer and began typing on the controls. “Edit this… and… there!” He pressed the start button and the machine began to glow again. “You thought I was big before?” he turned back to the world with a sly smirk. “Just wait.”

The beam fired, and the tiny world began to glow as well. Tails watched as it shrank in size even more, shrinking from the size of his room to only a few feet across, then only a foot, then only a few inches, then… a small little patch of brown and green barely even half an inch in diameter.

He walked over to this minuscule amount of land, reminding himself that every person who had avoided his footfalls was right there, all in this nearly microscopic-sized continent. Something so small he could crush it with a single toe.

And that was exactly what he was going to do.



Sonic’s heart was racing as he looked up at the sky. It was different once again, those objects that had once been far away on the horizon had disappeared, replaced with a gray space that looked alien, impossible. He had no idea where he was anymore, or what was happening. All he knew was that things were very, very wrong.

Then he saw something above him. A single fuzzy shape that was so large it didn’t even make sense, an object that might as well have been an entire universe, moving impossibly fast, with an impossible amount of energy in it.

Sonic didn’t even move as the titanic toepad rose over him. He looked up at the slight ridges in Tails’ toe print, each wider than an entire planet. He stared at the continent-sized pebbles stuck to his sole, at the universe-sized globs of sweat that rolled over his foot. There was no point in trying to run. He knew that it was pointless. Even at full speed he could sprint for hours and hours, and not even make it halfway across that huge toepad.

Then it came down.



Tails smiled as he felt the smallest crunch under his big toe, the skin making contact with the continent, crushing it completely with barely any force at all. “Ah~” Tails said, sighing longingly at the feeling. With a single motion, a single flex of his toe, an entire continent had been wiped out of existence.

If that wasn’t the definition of a god, Tails didn’t know what was.

But his break was over. That had been fun, but it was time to return to the real world. “Alright,” he said as he stretched. “Right back to it.”

“Uh…” Sonic said as he pushed himself off of the street, his head spinning. “What the heck was that?” He blinked, then looked around. He was still in the city and everything looked normal. There were people all around him, the sky was overhead. He could see clouds and towers, birds that flew in formation. And, most importantly, no giant foxes overhead.

“Huh,” he said, smiling slightly. “That was strange. Guess it was just a dream though.” He shook his head, amazed at the entire ordeal. “Pretty weird one though. I wonder why I thought Tails was so… eh, whatever.” He brushed the whole thing away. “That fox will get a kick out of it when I tell him.”

He began walking back towards his home city, halfway across the world. That little dream had been more than enough adventure for one day. Though, as he walked, he couldn’t help notice a small pebble that had been lodged in his shoe. He let a small smirk grow as he stepped on it, feeling it press into his foot just a tiny bit.

He was sure it was just some random rock, but still, it was fun to think about how much bigger he was than it.