Amy smiled as she looked at the pictures in her wedding scrapbook. Everything still felt surreal. She couldn't believe that she had actually married Sonic the hedgehog. A lot of their friends couldn't believe it either . Sonic had tried to run away from Amy's advances for years. Amy couldn't really blame him though. After awhile she decided the whole thing was silly and stopped after giving Sonic an apology. Ironically after she stopped doing this he became much more drawn to her. Everything had been going great so far. They were working as freedom fighters and lived in a nice home.

Amy looked up from her book to look out the window. Earlier Tails had notified Sonic that he had found Eggman's latest base. So Sonic went off to go destroy it. Amy wanted to go with him but he was confident that he could handle it himself and insisted on going alone. Amy was a little worried but she was confident that Sonic would be fine.

Meanwhile Sonic had just reached the center room of Eggman's base. It had taken him a while to reach the center because the doctor had set up a wide array of traps and obstacles along the way. He figured that Eggman had used the traps to stall him while he completed some large and dangerous project but after looking around the room he saw nothing but the doctor in his egg mobile.

"You've really outdone yourself this time. What's the occasion doc?" Sonic asked with a smirk, although he secretly worried about a possible device lurking behind the bare walls.

"Well what can I say Sonic? I like to go out with a bang!" in an instant Eggman pulled out a device and pressed the button. He flew out from a hole in the roof in the base taking along some extra cargo as the base exploded below him. The whole thing had been a trap.

"Sonic!" Tails had been watching from outside and ran over to the debris. Hoping to find Sonic among the wreckage. He searched until sunset but there was still no trace of him.

I'm sure he got away Tails tried to assure himself he'll come back here, or maybe he went home. Maybe I'll check to see if he's there. If he's not home I'll get Knuckles and Amy to help find him.

Tails turned around to go to Sonic's house and found himself face to face with Eggman.

"Hello Miles." he sneered

"Where's Sonic? What did you do to him?" Tails demanded

"I finally got rid of the pest!" Eggman exclaimed proudly "I came back here to pick up a few things and I noticed you were here. You can tell all of your friends that they won't be seeing me around anymore. I'm getting old and Sonic's gone so I'm retiring. I never took over the world but you can't have everything in life. I'm satisfied with what I've accomplished. Enjoy the rest of your pathetic life if you can and I will do the same." with that he went to his egg mobile and flew away.

Tails was in complete shock. He couldn't believe that Sonic was really gone. He sat there until nightfall wondering how all of this could have happened until a voice broke the silence.

"Tails what happened?"

Tails turned around to find Knuckles standing among the wreckage.

"S-sonic's gone." he stammered with tears in his eyes "Eggman blew up the base and now Sonic's gone!" Tails broke down sobbing.

Knuckles took a moment to process the information then sat down with Tails.

"We have to go and tell the others and you need to go home. Cosmo was worried about you and called me."

Tails was so wrapped up in his own grief he had forgotten about the others, including his own wife and Amy. "Poor Amy!" he cried "They were so happy together! Why did this happen? Its not fair!"

"I know Tails I know but we have to go back. I'll take you home and tell everyone what happened."

The two walked home in the moonlight heads hung low in grief. Knuckles took Tails home and explained everything to Cosmo. He then went back to Angel Island to tell his wife Julie-Su what had happened and to ask her to come along to help break the devastating news to Amy.