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Dear Uncle Merlin,

I hope you are well. I had to tell you about the day I’ve had- though you’ll probably never believe it! Remember how I told you in a previous letter about Sonic’s friend Doctor Kintobor? The nice scientist who became Robotnik? Well today I had a run-in with one of Kintobor’s old experiments!

I was off having a kick-about with my ball when I accidentally booted it into the long grass. I went to fetch it and I found a computer monitor in the grass! The Kintobor Computer- that’s the hologram version of the doc, remember?- says the monitors are spread all over Mobius as part of the original Kintobor’s relay system, but something weird must have happened to them after the doc’s invention, the Retro Orbital Chaos Compressor, went haywire and blew up. Now they usually display pictures on the screen. Sometimes if you break them stuff comes out.

Well, this one had Sonic inside it! So I broke it and, sure enough, out popped my friend!

Only problem is, it wasn’t the real deal! Doctor Kintobor had been working on something he called the Extra Life. The idea was Sonic’s memories would be recorded on a computer and uploaded to the network, so if anything awful happened to Sonic, we could revive him by downloading the memories into a new body. Pretty neat, huh? Sorry if this isn’t making a lot of sense, I know the Nameless Zone isn’t exactly well versed in technology, this must all sound a bit much.

But, like I said- this was a bad version of Sonic! Something must have got corrupted in the network, this guy was jealous of the real Sonic and wanted to ruin his name. So he started ransacking the Green Hill Zone! He pushed our friends in the mud, broke carts in the market, wrote rude graffiti on a wall- oh, it was terrible! It’s a good thing I showed up when I did to vouch for the real Sonic ‘cause he wasn’t around!

Fortunately, Sonic did show up to confront his double. Now that I think of it, the Extra Life had kind of pointy teeth and his spikes weren’t as well groomed. Sonic’s pretty vain, he likes to brush his quills constantly.

Anyway, Son I had a really brilliant idea- we used the relay monitor’s Undo function and sucked the Extra Life back inside the monitor! Of course, nobody really wanted a big monitor with an angry Sonic staring out. It was a bit like one of the horror movies Sonic picked out for scary movie night, actually, The Girl Who Needed A Haircut.

Since the Extra Life was something Kintobor designed for Sonic, I let Sonic decide what to do. I’ve told you he’s got super speed, right? Well, he used it to wind up a super fast kick and punt the monitor into space! I sure hope it doesn’t come down and land on someone’s head. Maybe I should talk to my sidekick about being reckless!

Anyway, Sonic says he’s getting pretty tired of all these duplicates of him. We already fought Silver Sonic and Robo Sonic and Sonic says before that there was the Sonic Eraser. Now the Extra Life as well? Oh well, I’m sure that’s the last evil double of Sonic we’ll see!

Gotta go- I found my ball and we’re gonna have a footie tournament! I sure hope Sonic doesn’t use that wind-up kick against us…

Write to you soon!

Miles

“Tails”

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