[Hey, hands off the fur. His expression returns to a neutral one, though.]

As long as you don't try any more world domination stunts or try to hurt people? I won't.

But if you do, you know what'll happen. [And it always does. But hey Eggy? Tails is a little different now. He ain't putting up with that crap anymore.

Call it still getting over the Lost Hex incident, maybe. But he was just tired of Eggman at this point.]