Cuphead In: My Speedy Ways

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Cuphead In: My Speedy Ways is the 2nd book of the series Cuphead and Sonic.

## Plot

#### A Bond Broken

The second book begins where the first book left off... Tails awakens to find himself in a dark void, Tails realizes he is throbbing in pain, and even the slightest shriek can kill him. Tails suddenly hears The Devil's voice, however unaware of who the voice belongs to. Tails realizes he is in the center of time. Tails and The Devil have a conversation with each other, before The Devil asks for his friend's souls, to which Tails disagrees. The Devil roars that he will take him (Tails) instead.

The Devil shows Tails a future of himself lying on his bed, but all grey instead of orange. Tails soon finds Shadow, who specifies he is trapped in a loop of City Escape from *Sonic Adventure 2*. Shadow says the Devil lied about him being in a limbo (as stated in "*The Glitch in the Matrix*"). Shadow leaves in which Tails gets sucked into a loop, only to be awoken by Sonic. Cuphead says Tails had been crying in his sleep. Tails explained everything he had seen, leaving everyone dumbfounded as well as surprised.

Meanwhile, in the far east, The Devil reveals the trance has worked on Werner (when he had been possessed in "*Doom Week Begins*"). The Devil then reveals he will be looking for Tails, adding he is the most important.

Sonic and Knuckles decide it would be time for a break. Cuphead and Mugman make food for everyone, but their time is soon interrupted by The Devil, who steals Tails' soul, much to Sonic's dismay, and disappears, Sonic soon breaks into a meltdown and blames himself for not being ready.

Tails suddenly whips back up in the center of time, and suddenly gets knocked out.

#### The Two-Tailed Twin

Sonic sorrowfully makes up a plan, while Cuphead and Mugman look on in guilt. In Tails' perspective, The Devil and Eggman had appeared to be arguing. Tails soon realized something bad was gonna happen to him. Tails realized he was becoming evil, and tries to make an escape, only to no avail...

#### Fate Between Two Realities

Tails tries to warn his friends about himself, only to feel guilt.. Tails is put back inside his body. "Tails" woke up, and everyone welcomes him back, but Cuphead soon realizes "Tails" had The Devil's eyes when people are possessed. "Tails" then scrapes up Grim and throws him to the wall, and looks at Sonic, Sonic and his former friend clash, only for Sonic to realize he (Tails) needed his friendship. Tails sends Sonic a message, which actually works. Sonic, realizing some of his former friend is in there, tries to talk to him.

"Tails" suddenly vanished, leaving Sonic alone again. Sonic and the rest turn their attention to Knuckles, who is feeling overwhelmed. All of them give up until Tails speaks from the stars, leaving everyone determined and underwhelmed. They all agree to not give up.

They all split up, Grim and Weepy would be watchers, the rest would hike up and defeat the two that took everything. Meanwhile, it is revealed that Sally had betrayed them. The Devil appears and possesses Grim and Weepy.

#### The "Reuniting"

Knuckles thinks about the Master Emerald, along with a million questions, Sonic takes notice of this, they soon hear screaming from Grim and Weepy, and they realize what was happening and runs back.Only to find Grim and Weepy possessed, Knuckles soon realizes The Master Emerald notices something is wrong, and they all make a run for it. Knuckles passes out, Sonic shortly after. Sonic and Knuckles finds Tails, and they all happily reunite, Sonic soon realizes it wasn't Tails, right before Tails transforms into The Devil.

The Devil then tries to transform Sonic and Knuckles, while Sonic was able to break out of the barrier, Knuckles failed to and turned evil. Sonic flew out of the dream realm and awoke. Realizing he had lost his friends, he runs into the woods crying, while Cuphead and Mugman feel more twinges of guilt

#### The Time Barrier

Eggman and The Devil are talking whilst dragging Tails and Knuckles' bodies into a machine, along with the rest of the "infected". Eggman notices the number 3 on their list had been cut off, while The Devil claims it a surprise

Meanwhile on the West Side of town, Cuphead and Mugman are looking for Sonic, who had ran off crying. Cuphead suddenly gets knocked out. Seeing a vision from a supposedly bad future, Cuphead wakes up to reality. Mugman wakes Cuphead up while crying, it is revealed they found Sonic. Cuphead explains the vision, much to Mugman's dismay, Cuphead calms him down while talking bad about Sonic's friends, inflicting hurt upon Sonic.

Sonic attacks Cuphead out of anger, as well as defense for his beloved friends. Cuphead and Sonic start a brawl, to Mugman's dismay.

#### Naive Hopes

Cuphead and Sonic brawl to they're hearts content, but Sonic stops short after Cuphead says a really insulting thing, Sonic decides he's had it with Cuphead and runs off, making Mugman angry at Cuphead, and which they start fighting..

Sonic runs up to the top of a hill to watch the sunset, but sees a phantom version of Tails and Knuckles, who calm him down and give him encouragement. Sonic runs back down the hill to find Cuphead, only to them being gone, Sonic decides to look for them