The flickering glow of the blue Chaos Emerald cast pale, restless shadows across the cluttered workspace. Tails stood still, clutching the gem tightly in his arms as his eyes scanned the disarray of his once-flawless tech. The laser array had fizzled out hours ago, its emitter cracked and cables fried from the unpredictable surge of chaos energy. His meticulously coded systems sputtered with lines of error text, the screen on his desk stuttering between static and corrupted code. Every diagnostic he’d run ended in failure, algorithms refusing to stabilize, processors overheating within minutes. The very essence of the emerald seemed to rebel against containment, distorting the hardware around it like a living curse.

The air carried the faint scent of burnt circuitry, and the room, once humming with innovation, now pulsed with a sickly silence. Tails’ shoulders were tense, his twin tails unmoving as he stared down the monitors, watching error logs pile endlessly. All his data, months of calculations and simulation work, unraveling into useless fragments. Even his backup drives hummed uneasily, corrupted the moment they interfaced with the system. It wasn’t just a setback—it was an unraveling. A quiet, bitter weight settled in his chest as the realization crept over him: the Chaos Emerald wasn’t meant to be controlled by machines.

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