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As the sun on LI was setting for the day, many men, woman and children of the Life sphere were starting to head back home or preparing for events for the night. One of these people who were doing stuff for the evening was Paula, who was walking down one of the lanes of Brightwing Lane, holding a book in one of her hands named. "Zora Tales: The Fairy and the Whale." She is heading to the Library in the incomplete Town hall in the Life Sphere that was stopped midway through development due to Sunshine Circle now being the most used place for meetings or events...However after what happened in the Celebration of Life, it might be awhile until Sunshine Circle is used for those things again.


Paula was feeling a bit cheerful today despite having a bad start, this morning Paula checked out Crashed Nintendo land after finding out a spot in the park relating to her home country..Eagleland. the spot was called "Earthbound!" which was..Such a weird name, however despite the fact that she checked out the area all she found was cheesy rides and a campaign add that had Porky Minch in it for some odd reason..Well he did escape the final battle against Giygas so she just guessed that he tried..And Probably failed to run for president sometime after the war ended.


Despite finding no clues, an unnamed Schoolgirl who looked Japanese, found Mr Widdles, her pet cat who usually lies on roofs on the roof of an abandoned Pokemon centre safe and uninfected. Widdles being found gave Paula hope that more people from Eagleland would end up here..Probably caused by the earthquake she suffered while going to Onett. For today Paula wore a white dress with a green cardigan almost covering her sleeves which is covered by a green and orange coat that she is also wearing. As Paula kept walking she waved at a few people despite not waving back for some reason, some even glared at her. She soon saw the old town hall just at the otherside of the lane she was on, almost ending her short journey to return her book.


"There it is..Almost there now. Maybe i should get something else if anything interests me..If the books aren't eaten yet since today is the day people come into the library and eat books..For some reason...What a waste of literature."

[Coolshaymin]

Tails was in his lab working on some new inventions to use against the Starvia and... other threats. Well, new for one as the other was just reproducing an old tool with slight modifications. He was also thinking about what Tails Doll told him before Paula, Ammy and Zelda arrived to save him from his double. He wanted to protect him from something the Life Sphere couldn't... But what was he trying to protect him from? This question preplexed Tails to no end and he needed to find out.

Tails went to grab the training manual and noticed a book he borrowed from the library in the incomplete Town Hall about various robots from all the worlds. Tails was about to ignore it until he realized it was almost past time to return it. He must of forgotten with all the stuff that has happened recently. "I got to return this quick!" Tails said before grabbing it and running out of the lab, forgetting to take off his safety goggles in the process.

Tails was in such a hurry and had too many thoughts going to pay attention to where he was going before he crashed into someone, fell down and dropped his book. "Ow! Sorry, I am not ususally in this much of a rush..." Tails said, rubbing his head from a sitting position before noticing who it was. "Oh, hi Paula. Sorry about that, I needed to return a book I forgot about and I guess I used to hang around Sonic too much," Tails apologized with a laugh.

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Paula stood in front the old yet incomplete Town Hall of the Life Sphere, what planned to be the most used place in the Sphere quickly became the place that you could find a giant library and empty rooms that you can do stuff in for free, the roofs of the building were slowly breaking apart and falling to the grounds below showing signs of neglectfulness..Such a shame.

But Paula dose not seem to care about its state. "Well time to go in!" Paula said however before she could go into the Town Hall, Tails accidentally crashed into her, causing her to fall over and drop her book. "Ahh!" Paula said as she fell, when she looked up she noticed Tails standing in front of her apologizing at what he did and blaming not returning his book on hanging out with Sonic too much. "Its ok Tails, i was a bit forgetful too when i hanged out with Ness, Jeff and Poo..I sometimes wonder what there doing now..." Paula said sadly as she picked up her book. "Say, since were going to the same place do you want to return our books together?" Paula said wondering what Tails would say.

Never the less, Paula headed inside the Town Hall and looked around in the empty front area of the building, there was nobody in sight which gave off a creepy feeling of being watched, however there was the noise of someone using a stamp near the door in front of her, which was the door to the Library, the only room in Town Hall that has people working in it, she walked towards the door and opened it, but waited to see if Tails was coming first.

"Hmm, looks like another piece of the roof is about to fall..I hope it doesn't hurt someone."


Meanwhile somewhere in a dark part of Town hall, a mysterious man was sorting a shelf when he heard a door opening from afar, he sighed as he continued sorting.

"It seems we have more guests." He said in a gruff voice..But stopped when he noticed who the person was upon looking over the shelf despite being in a dark part of the building, he could see perfectly clear thanks to his glasses, he smiled when he looked at the person by the door that was just open.

"And its the one i'm expecting to meet.."

[Coolshaymin]

Tails was glad Paula was so understanding about him bumping into her but she always seemed kind of nice. Tails grabbed his book and stood up and brushed himself off as he listened to Paula's offer. It was a reasonable suggestion, no reason to not go together when going to the same place after all. They also had similar objectives though Paula seemed a bit concerned with something. Tails had a lot on his mind too though so it is understandable with the state this world is in... as well as some of the people... "I don't see why not. Sure," Tails agreed, following after Paula.

It seemed pretty quiet and desolate in here which was understandable given that it was still in a state of repair. Sonic, Mario and Samus getting kidnapped kind of halted it but there was not much else to be done. E. Gadd already had a lot to do and it's not like Tails could take Sonic's place since leading a ton of people was something he did not want as pressure and was not sure he could handle that to begin with. Tails was glad Sonic was safe now... even if he seemed as weird as he did before... Tails stopped thinking about it, used to shutting out any idea on that for a long while. Tails continued following Paula to the library even if he was too distracted to process the falling roof comment.

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Paula watched as Tails came over to her, she closed the door when the two went through it. She looked around in the area. "Mari the librarian of this place is probably doing stamps again, that's what making the noise, she's ordered to stamp tons of documents everyday while sorting or helping people find books." Paula said.



The Library was probably the biggest room in the Town Hall, even bigger then the supposed meeting room, just near Paula and Tails was a young woman stamping a few papers, she mumbled under her breath. "Stupid documents..I have to spend my entire lunch stamping all 50000 of these documents..At least i'll get a coupon at the end of this boring day." Mari the Librarian said as Paula walked over to her and coughed, she looked up to notice Paula and Tails. "Hey Mari, were here to return some books." Paula said politely, Mari quickly smiled. "Oh..Paula! And..Uhh, Sonic's best friend..Hows things going being that guy behind Sonic all the time, just for the record are you 35, because even if you look small you could be an age of an adult." Mari said, Paula replied back. "He has a name you know." Paula said as she gave her book to Mari. "Paula do you really think i give a crap about this Sphere or the people who live in it? Besides we'll probably leave this place someday to somewhere less depressing...I mean god everyday i see tons of people crying about how miserable there lives on this planet are..It makes me want to gag." Mari said as she walked over to Tails, wanting his book that he was going to return, Paula just gave a stare to Mari. "This lady has serious issues.." Paula thought to herself as she looked over to Mari and Tails.

"Oh, don't bother with a library card Tails, ever since Book Eating day was invented the use of Library cards became extremely low, so much that people stop using them and need to rely on scanners."

"Like mine, now give me your book..These scanners were made from radiation for some reason and it makes my hand feel weird most of the time..I also suggest you quickly let go of the book when i grab it, the radiation can quickly spread and effect you..No pressure or anything just, you know..Give me your book."

[Coolshaymin]

Tails followed Paula to the desk to meet some... the words to describe this person was kind of hard to make without sounding rude. She went on for really long periods of time without letting others speak and she was not exactly people friendly. Tails decided to ignore the question of his age since she obviously did not care by her later comment. He was only 8 anyway but it's not like stating that will help much... Though Sonic has gone through birthdays and he has been here a while come to think of it... Either way Tails always looked at that as his age though now he was not quite sure...

Regardless, the librarian person wanted the book so he should give it to her. Tails handed the book over and took his hand back as soon as the oppertunity showed itself. It was more because of the lady than the radiation if he had to be honest but luckily no one was asking so he did not have to admit that. Tails waited for Paula to do her's before speaking. "So, is there any other reason you came here? I never got much time to talk to you after stopping Tails Doll... Did you find out anything new?" Tails asked. He did noticed Paula looking at a specific place of the park as he was leaving on the Tornado but never got to ask. He figured something was the matter with it.

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Mari looked happy when Tails passed his book onto her. "Thank you." Mari said as she walked towards her desk, she then begun scanning the two books. "Now to scan more books..For the 800th time. Why am I complaining, this is the point of my dead end job." Mari said as she continued to scan Paula and Tails books, as for Paula she explained what she did after the incident with Tails Doll. "Oh I just wanted to lift my spirits up since I'm currently facing the harsh reality where I might not get back to Eagleland..." Paula said as she sighed, she then spoke again.

"Ever since I came here I wanted to find away back to Eagleland, or even wondered if Eagleland was brought here, unfortunately everytime I found hope for the answers I'm looking for always leads to dead ends. When we were dealing with the creepy doll version of you I saw an entrance to an area of the park called "Earthbound" that strangely resembled Eagleland for some reason. I checked it out this morning thinking that it might reveal its location or even people from that country that I might know being sighted around LI...But again, just another dead end...And a place filled with plants, rust...And a campaign add created by an old...Rival, named Pokey Minch...

I'm beginning to think that I might not get back to Eagleland or see my friends or family again...That is until my cat Mr Widdles was found unharmed or uninfected today, it kind of made me hope..That other people from Eagleland could appear..I still think LI will permanently be my home.." Paula said looking sad..She actually looks like she's tearing up, but she quickly fixes her mood and looks happy again. "But enough thinking of negative thoughts..What do you think Tails, do you think we'll find away back to our homeworld's one day?" Paula said to Tails wondering what he will think about Paulas question, just then the voice of Mari was heard behind her.

"Oh...Did I hear mention of a Eagleland?" Mari said as she turned back towards Paula and Tails, Paula quickly turned. "You know something?" Paula said sounding surprised. "No..I just thought the name sounds..Americanish...However we just got a history book about an Eagleland brought in from some capsule someone found just outside this sphere, the book also covers two other country's named...Foggyland and Chommo." Mari said thinking while Paula looked happy, yet stump on the word "Americanish". "First of all I don't know what American means even though I heard that word a lot lately, second I know about Foggyland and Chommo..Where is the history book?" Paula said sounding excited, Mari just turned and pointed.

"Umm, Section E in the history area of this place." Mari said as she lowered her finger..."You just pointed at a random direction." Paula said looking towards Mari. "Dont worry, just keep walking until you come across the darkest section of the Library, that's where we keep all of the history books, its been awhile since I been to the section actually...Then again I always spend my time up here, we usually hire magical people to make this Library more enjoyable to drag in more people...Anyway I cant help you anymore, Gooday!" Mari said as she walked back to her desk and sat down near it before typing something on a computer.

"Whelp, might as well try and see if I'll finally find answers about Eagleland in this history book." Paula said as she started to float slightly from the ground, she looked towards Tails.

"Want to come on this literature quest for a history book Tails?"

[Coolshaymin]

Tails listened to Paula's explanation and honestly not sure how to handle this situation. Sure, he was stuck here like everyone else but unlike Paula he had a place of familiarity and a lot of the people of his world made it here. He has been here for so long he never really thought too much into trying to leave recently. It could be the worlds themselves that are remnants here so Emerald Coast could very well be his home's remains. He figured since there was no way of telling, finding a way to leave would be a pointless endeavor. He could not tell Paula that though seeing how much she thinks of home.

"... I am sure there are other people from your world that made it safely. You just have to keep up host," Tails answered, failing to hide avoiding the question. "Now that I think about it... I think I remember," Tails began until Mari cut into their conversation. It seemed she had useful advice this time since there is apparently a history book on Paula's world here. Still, not sure how much help that could possibly be. Regardless, it was the best lead they had. Tails had to return the favor for helping with Tails Doll at some point. "Sure, let's get going," Tails said, jumping up and spinning his tails for flight.

Tails then remembered what he was going to say. There was a boy that was a major help and advantage near the end of the Subspace Emissary... He was from a place called Eagleland, right? Tails did not really talk with him personally as he was keeping low with Sonic for most of the war. Still, he had Psychic powers similar to Paula's so there may be some relation. Maybe they even know eachother. "There was a boy with a baseball cap, bat and a yo-yo that helped with the Subspace Emissary before Li was... discovered. He had psychic powers similar to your's. I think his name was... Ness? Do you know him?" Tails asked.

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As Paula and Tails kept walking further into the the almost deserted library that had not that much people reading books, Paula looked at Tails when he mentioned Ness. "Oh yeah he was in that Subspace embassy, you even mentioned it before back at Crashed Nintendo Land remember?" Paula said as she remembered Tails telling Paula about what Ness did in the Subspace Embassy back in the creepy animatronic pizza place in Crashed Nintendoland.

Tails: However, he did play a major part in the war against Tabuu. He got turned into a trophy while trying to save another boy but this made him a target for King Dedede. I made special badges to automatically revert a person back to normal when the time was right. Me and Sonic sat on the sidelines until it was Sonic's time to shine. In the meantime, when all hope was thought to be lost, Ness, Luigi and King Dedede played a major part in the Subspace Emissary.

From: Killing Prize, Tails Mysterious Dreams Awaken!

"I'm glad he did well...I just hope he's ok somewhere..." Paula said as she continued to float further into the library, however as she kept floating she noticed the library...Slowly getting darker. "Hmm..I think were starting to head to the darker parts of the library." Paula said as she suddenly stopped when she saw something in front of it.



"We found it...The sign is kind of a dad give away." Paula said as she looked up towards the sign above the two, it reads "HISTORY!" With it looking a bit old and rusty, beside Paula and Tails is a dispenser with lit torches that come out, Paula grabbed one of them before looking back at Tails. "Time to go in..." Paula said as she started to walk into the dark hall. As Paula kept walking further down the hall she shined some light on some of the books, noticing that they all look...New and untouched. "Strange..Most if not all of these books look like they never been touched..I guess nobody likes History that much that they dont come down here." Paula said as she she kept walking.

Eventually Paula found yet another sign above her that reads "A" With another beside it reading. "Keep moving forward for B-Z." It said as Paula continued to walk further, eventually Paula managed to found the other sections of the history area..Unfortunately.



There were doors to them..A lot of doors, with a letter above them that was barely readable.

"Wow...Why do they keep them through these doors instead of paths to other sections?" Paula said as she heard a growl above her. "Huh?" Paula said as she looked up and saw a silhouette fly by.

"What was that?"

[Coolshaymin]

Oh yeah, Tails did mention that, didn't he. It must of been so long he forgot he mentioned it... Well, in reality it probably was not that long ago but with all that has happened it kind of seems like it. "Yeah, I did, didn't I? Sorry, must of forgot," Tails said, rubbing his head. Tails looked at the History section as Paula brought it up and noticed how old and forgotten it looked... That was kind of strange considering there may be a bunch of type of people that like History. He knows there was a nurse at the hospital that seemed really into it for some reason...

Paula mentioned the sign being a dead giveaway but in a library it was kind of needed. Still, he did not comment on her questioning library policies. "I am not sure why they would be. There are certain people that love history. I know a few people that would probably love looking through these books," Tails replied, looking at the strange untouched look of them.

The two tailed fox then noticed something really weird. A series of doors that lead to other sections of the history section. Those were really weird to see in a library just sitting there. Miles was so confused that he did not notice something else was here until Paula said something. Tails let himself rest for a bit by landing on the ground and looking around. "I don't see anything..." Tails said, still looking.

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"Who knows." Paula said as she looked at the doors, she tried to look at the signs that had a single letter to a section in the history area, but unfortunately it was unreadable. "Hmm...I think I got an idea...Maybe the first is B, so if we follow it to three more doors." Paula said heading to the fourth door in the line of doors, unknown to her something was heard..Breathing coming from the hall that she and Tails just went out of.

Paula looked at the fourth door before looking back at Tails. "Ready to g--Tails look out!" Paula said pointing to a figure crawling towards one of Tails legs, it grabs onto it as it speaks in a grizzled tone. "Reeaaadd...Meee..." It said as Paula aimed her torch at it to reveal..An old, yet newish book. "A talking book?" Paula said sounding surprised as it spoke.



"Will..You two read meee?"

[Coolshaymin]

Tails looked at the signs as they dismissed whatever distracted Paula from their search. They seemed pretty eligible and trying to decipher them may take too much time, even with the Miles Electric. However they should probably be in alphabetical order as Paula deduced. "Sounds good to me," Tails confirmed before following Paula down the corridor.

Just when they found what was probably the right door, something really unexpected happened. He felt something grab onto his leg at Paula's warning and looked behind him to be horrified at some obsessive book. Tails instinctively curled into a ball with his tails spinning behind him before rolling forwards at high speeds to get out of the grip. While moving forward, Tails jumped into the air, still in a ball, and uncurled so he could spin his tails for flight. "What is that thing?" Tails asked, turning around to face Paula. A book was the last thing he expected to ever get attacked by.

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Paula watched as Tails reacted rather quickly to being grabbed by the book, after getting out of his grip Paula walked towards the book. "I don't think it'll try to hurt you Tails...However why is there a talking book crawling around here...Especially when there's no other books in the area that are not sentient." Paula said to the talking book, who slowly looked up to her and spoke. "Sorry...Its just that..Since not much people come down here we haven't been read for month, its slowly killing us...Not being read...We felt like we were made for nothing...But then I saw you two and used a bit of my health to become sentient so I can hopefully be read." The book said before violently coughing.

"Were sorry about your situation...Wait what will happen to you if you use all of your health?" Paula said to the book, who slowly replied. "Simple...I'll be ripped to shreds because my newly made organs will not take me being a sentient book...Unless you read me to prevent my fate?" The book said with hope in his eyes, Paula replied. "But I'm here for a different book but I'm sure my friend Tails here mi--OOHH NOW YOU DONE IT!" The book said as he suddenly floated into the air and was ripped to shreds, bits of pages landing everywhere in the area, Paula eyes widened when the book did such a thing and shook off the pieces.


"Right this is getting weird, we should continue." Paula said looking freaked out at what happened, she entered the fourth door and walked down the dark corridor that was within. As she kept walking the corridor started to be filled with light and eventually...Fog? In a Library. "What's with this fo--However before Paula could find a small silhouette from came and took her and Tail's torches before flying away. "Our torches!" Paula said looking at the silhouette, it flew out from a bit of the fog and revealed itself.




It was a book...With wings...More books with wings soon revealed itself, barking and growling each time they pass, they seem to be in the same shape of the silhouette Paula and Tails encountered earlier at the doors. "I'm getting concerned at the wizard who made this area of the library." Paula said as she kept walking forward.

Meanwhile in a dark room somewhere in town hall.


A person was staring at Paula and Tails through a very small red orb that would serve as the cameras of Town hall, the person laughed as he reveals himself to be...



Don Paolo...Yeah he dose these kinds of things now other then inventing crazy things...But he's not a wizard. "MHEHEHE...The girl and the fox who almost sounds like a girl have made it this far...But can they the book they are after?" Don said...When suddenly the door behind him opened to reveal Mari. "Don are you done spying people around here, we have more visitors...Honestly your spying is the reason we don't have much people anymore." She said bitterly, Don just turned and said. "So? Who's going to care about me spying on random folks...This Library needs to be kept safe anyway from thief's ever since library cards stopped selling." He said as he continued to look at the orb. "Oh really..So I guess our boss wont care about you skipping your shift just to spy on people?" Mari said back which caused Don to panic.

"Oh crap I guess its about time I take my shift..OUT OF THE WAY MARI!"

"Yeah..Whatever..Shift skipper..."


As for Paula and Tails, it seems the duo have finally made it to the bookshelf of the area...Even if it is a giant tower, Paula turned to Tails.

"It might take us awhile to find the Eagleland History Book..Do you know any gadgets that could make the search faster?"

[Coolshaymin]

Tails watched from the sky as the book started talking to Paula. Tails was kind of creeped out by this thing. It had sentience despite just being a book... and it developed that sentience from not being read? The nerdy fox had no idea how that was possible or why someone would make it possible. It went against a lot of things the fox tended to believe in as a scientist. And what was this about a book having... it just ripped to shreds quite literally... This was getting very weird and Tails had no idea what to say. Who would?

Tails followed Paula as flying books past overhead to blow out the torch. This place was really bizarre and starting to hurt Tails's head. If this went on, Tails might start losing some brain cells at a very early age. Soon though they made it to a tower of books and anyone of them could be the book... The only way they could find it faster is if they knew the library's sorting system... Wait! That's it!

As Paula was asking her question, Tails reached toward his two tails and brought out a yellow device. "This is the Miles Electric. It is a multifunctional handheld device that I make various programs for to make it a versatile and helpful gadget for a lot of situations. Recently I made a program directly connected to the Library's network that should have every book in the library and it's sorting number on it," Tails said before tapping it. He has used this device before on Li to find the devices Tails Doll was using to affect his dreams. "Just need to do a quick search, select the book, look for the number on the books and the search will be a lot faster and easier to narrow down," Tails said as he quickly entered the information. Hopefully this worked and this place was not any weirder than it already was.

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Fortunately for Tails, it worked, however the location of the book is on the very top part of the shelf, which due to the size of the shelf will take quite awhile to climb up to. "At least we know where its located, plus we can fly so the search can be easy." Paula said as she floated. "Lets go get that book!" Paula said, however as she started to fly up all the books suddenly stopped, causing Paula to stop as well to look at them. "That's strange...Why have they stopped moving?" Paula said as the blue sky in the area started to turn bloody red for some reason, the flying books started to growl as teeth grew from there pages, they quickly headed towards Paula and...If he was floating Tails as well.

"Ahh!" Paula said as she landed back on the ground, causing the books to stop attacking and go back to normal, the sky had also turned normal as well. "I guess they don't like flying...Possibly for security reasons." Paula said as she tried to climb from the shelf instead, however that just caused the books to try and attack her again causing her to let go of the shelf. "So how do we get up there? Its not like we can just summon a ladder to the top of the shelf..." Paula said, however what she just said caused an echo in the area.


"Summon a ladder to the top of the shelf..."

The area started to shake as the books continued as if the earthquake was not happening. "Now what!?" Paula said, however a ladder was seen charging towards Paula and Tails, Paula quickly saw the ladder and jumped away from it. "WOAH!" She said as she land to see the ladder which leads to the top of the shelf. Paula walked towards it and grabbed onto it, expecting the books to attack again...But fortunately they didn't.

"Looks like this is the only way to get the book...Climb up a small ladder to the top of the shelf..." Paula said as she started to climb.