"Embrace the Trinity, and true power will engulf you."

He kept on running, the horde constantly closing in on him. He looked back with his furry bangs drenched in sweat covering his face, breathing heavily as the faces of the damned followed him with screams and moans staying inside his head as they looped over and over again.

His feet constantly touched the ground, never slowing down as he ran through the lowly depths of the jungle, swaying past vines as his eyes were looking around with panic streaming across his whole body. He looked back for a moment to see her image, running among them, terrifying him as her mouth was drooling with blood, blood that leaked onto her lovely dress… her beautiful dress.

Then his mind snapped back to reality, seeing that it was just another one of them. The dislocated jaw and burning yellow eyes began to remind him of how absurd it was to mistake one for her. Where were the others? He barely thought of it, maybe they were dead, then would they join the zombies?

Shaking his head as he got into a full out sprint, panting heavily as his luck ran out, coming to a dead end where a huge wall of dirt that was the support of a higher cliff. However, he began to spin his tail around in a swaying motion before they began to spin faster and faster, becoming somewhat like propellers.

He gave himself a jump to get off the ground, flying up onto the cliff as the strain on his tails made him wince in pain. He looked back again to see if they were still following him.

A zombie that seemed to be only bones jumped up as it landed perfectly, tilting its head up as it stared at Tails. It wore a strange sort of towel on its head as it screamed extremely louder than any other zombie, making the two tailed fox cover his ears as the monster charged forward at an incredible speed.

Quickly the creature struck, cutting a small incision into the fox's forehead as he yelped from the pain, being followed by a flailing punch to the side. The distraught fox kicked at it, pushing it away for only a moment as it recovered from the blow.

Making use of the little time he had, Tails ran as fast as he could from the screaming zombie, running into an old temple ruins, walking forward without noticing the zombies that crowded in it.

He noticed too late as they began to hiss and screech at him, slowly walking through the room he had failed to see was actually a mud pit inside the temple ruins. He stopped too late as he stepped onto a pressurized plate at the entrance, revealing another one from the mud as a wall of spikes sprang up and blocked the zombies off.

Seeing his luck, the fox ran through the pit, stepping on the plates as they raised more and more to create a path through the temple. He exited out the south side, descending down some steps as he saw a bridge leading across a huge waterfall leading into a huge chasm below.

But as bad as his luck was, an assortment of flames began to shoot out form the ground, growing bigger and bigger as flesh ridden hands struck out from the ground that they sprung from. The fox only looked in horror as a new zombie ascended from the ground; a mobian fox that's body was badly burning, showing almost all of its bones and inside organs. Its eyes gleamed even brighter with the flames surrounding them, growling deeply as it was now fully emerged.

It growled menicingly as it walked slowly towards the kitsune, leaving small patches of fire behind it as its feat made a soft squishing noise as it walked. Tails backed away from it as the zombie slowly walked onto the wooden bridge, the flames starting to leap onto the easily burnable wood as he only looked back to see even more concern.

The horde of zombies had followed him out of the mud pit, running as they were only a few yards away from him. They were surrounding him in, blocking off all his paths and since flying was really not an option now, he was doomed. Clinching his fists, he closed his eyes as he strained them tightly.

Hoping he would wake up from this nightmare.

He tried not to think of it, hoping that he would at least die quickly. He heard them screaming and hissing as they began to feast on flesh, tearing through the tender meat of mobian corpses and biting down on the red covered organs and muscles.

Amidst it all, he couldn't stop thinking of her. Of all times and places, why did she show up here? Was he going insane? He laughed, unsure how he could do such an action now that he's dead.

Until he opened his eyes and saw that the zombies had scattered, leaving behind a red mess of a former person. He was startled at first, but then ran up to the body, checking to see if the person was still alive, although he knew they were probably dead.

But he was even more startled, looking at the corpse he rolled it over as the blood wasn't covering most of what was underneath. He watched with his mouth open, seeing his own body lying in his arms as the eyes were closed and the cold feeling of death was present where he was standing.

Then his corpse opened its eyes, revealing the red iris that it held. It began to utter a small chuckle as it stared at Tails, beginning to cry as it pulled its head into the young kits chest. Unsure of what to do, Tails only rubbed the back of his self's head as he looked around for the zombies.

Then he yelped as he pushed the copied image of himself, grabbing his chest as the creature had bitten him. It only laughed a terrible laugh that came to sound like his, but awfully distorted and demonic. He cringed as he store back at his chest, noticing that the bite was beginning to bleed.

The clone licked its lips, looking at Tails with a lustful stare. It slowly crawled on its four legs as he growled while following him. Tails began to crawl away from it, pulling himself away with his arms as the crazed fox behind him followed closely, whispering his name as he chuckled a soothing tune.

"La la la la, la la la…" It kept singing and following behind him as it began to walk on its two legs. Tails did the same, feeling all his energy come back as he began to sprint away from the clone of himself. It followed him as he jumped over logs and threw more vines out of the way.

He didn't want to look back anymore; he wanted to leave it behind, all of it. Why was he connecting this with her? He just wanted to move on with his life, but that seemed easier said than done. His own eyes began to get watery with tears, stopping in his tracks as he kneeled down and rubbed his eyes.

He turned his head to see behind him, expecting his death to follow behind him. But, what he saw was beyond what he really expected.

"C-Cosmo…" He stuttered, still teary as he stayed there, watching her radiant figure walking towards him.

She didn't speak, only smiled as she kneeled down with him and gave him a warm embrace. They hugged as Tails only cried more, soaking his tears into her leaf like dress. Sniffing, he pulled back as he stared into her eyes, and brought his mouth close to hers, going for that kiss that he always wanted…

Then he woke up.

A cold chill ran up his spine as he blinked consecutively, staring around him as he remembered his bearing. The blue hedgehog beside him, the red Echidna sitting across, and the brown fox still driving as he sighed a little bit of relief when he rubbed the crispy flakes of dust off of his eyes.

He noticed he had his head lying against Sonic's chest the whole time, shrugging the feeling off that he did anything wrong. He stretched his arms out as he yawned loudly, alerting the doctor who was driving that he was finally awake.

"Hello sleepy head, did you enjoy your nap on Sonic's lap?" He sarcastically asked the young fox.

"I don't know what you're talking about, Edward." Tails said as he stood up, unable to contain the blush that came across his cheeks. He wasn't very good at hiding his embarrassment.

"Ah, do not think I didn't see it, because I did. It was actually fairly cute… which I don't like… normally." Edward coughed as he uttered near the end. "Anyway, I hope you had good dreams, because we're almost at the facility."

"Good dreams…" Tails mumbled, trying not to remember the nightmare that suddenly turned into a paradise in the end. "Cosmo… why are you haunting me?"

"Excuse me?" Edward asked, turning his head around to look at the fox that now seemed to be lost in his thoughts. "Are you talking to yourself?"

Tails didn't answer specifically, just nodding his head as he sat back down. The fox wanted to ask so many questions, so many about how this started and how to stop it, but his own terrible memories had to start revisiting him again.

Richtofhen gave out a hefty yawn, giving the fake illusion that he was getting tired, but when in reality he was just bored from driving for so long. It had been hours and hours of straight driving, and avoiding the patrol along the highway close to Mobotropolis wasn't easy. Especially when you're driving one of their armored vehicles.

"So, Mister Prower, would you kindly wake up the other individuals we have carried along?" Knowing full well of their names.

Tails once again nodded, bringing his arms over the sleeping hedgehog beside him and started to shake the blue blur.

Sonic grumbled as the kit shook him all over, starting to mumble out some weird phrases as the young fox became tired of this and simply pulled him onto the floor, making a loud thump as he landed hard.

"Ow, what the he-"Sonic stopped as he saw Tails staring right at his face, carefully getting up as he rubbed his back. "A bit of a rude awakening, don't you think?"

"Sure Sonic, let's say that." Tails slyly replied to his older brother.

"Oh, my turn to wake up the Echidna." Edward shouted to the back as he suddenly increased the speed on the BTR, making both Sonic and Tails hold on as they shouted back in protest.

"Edward, slow down!"

But the brown fox did not listen, the Echidna still asleep as the vehicle went blazing up the hill, taking a large branch off of a tree as he slammed into another with full force, making all of them surge forward as they hit the front inside and hurt their heads real badly.

Of course, Knuckles woke up as he hit the wall, cursing aloud as he appeared to be more agitated than the rest with Richtofhen.

"What the hell is wrong with you, you insane lunatic!" Knuckles shouted into the Foxes face, as he wiped off some blood that seemed to drip from his nose.

"What's the point of driving if there can't be any thrills?" He insanely laughed, still cackling as he got up and started to climb out of the BTR.

"Where are you going?" Sonic asked, coughing and wheezing as he steadily recovered from the crash.

Edward didn't answer as he climbed to the top of the vehicle, jumping down onto the ground as he let out a small grunt from the impact. He stood straight as he began to wipe some dirt off of his shoulder, looking towards the facility only a few yards away from them.

"It's been too long since I was last here, so much work I didn't get to complete. Silly Maxis, maybe if you let me stay, you wouldn't be dead… if you really are, anyway." He talked to himself, caring not that the hedgehog and his friends heard all of his talking.

"Edward, this is the place? Looks like a prison, are you sure it's-"

"You're not the first one to make that observation, considering the facility was once used for that purpose. But, G.U.N found it and repurposed it for research and development of the MDT teleporter." Edward interrupted Sonic. "There are four different MDT's in there, one of which is a more sophisticated model from the other three which simply connect to the center."

"Uh… what? You're kind of sounding like Tails." Knuckles said as he jumped down onto the ground.

"Shut up Knuckles, I don't it that much." Tails snapped at the Echidna, surprised at him being so touchy.

Edward did not wait for them this time, seemingly lost in his mindful of schemes and plans to initiate at the facility, he began running up to the front gate of Geisteskranken and finally, his master plan was beginning to come into play.

"Hurry up; I don't want to waste another moment." He gestured for them to follow.

Sonic, Tails and Knuckles followed the crazy fox towards the tall standing gate blocking the main entrance of the facility. To the right of the metal coated gate was a small panel of some sort with flickering lights and a little keypad on it.

The doctor walked up to the panel, sighing as he was not very fond of all this typing and such. "Why does there always have to be button combinations? So trivial, so annoying, but at least it's simple."

After typing in some random sort of numbers from the look of it, a green light showed up on the panel, a voice sounding out as it said "Password accepted."

"Wunderbar, now we can go and-"

"Retina scan required. Place scan eye over the designated area to the left hand side, please avoid moving while scan is in progress."

"Oh… these are so annoying! Why so many security measures? Did Maxis really have to install all this?" Richtofhen complained with an irritated tone. "No matter, just have to scan my eye…"

With that, the doctor leaned forward as he situated himself right over the left hand side of the panel, looking straight at a small red light protruding out as it began moving over his entire eye. The scanning continued for about ten more seconds before the scanner went back into the panel and the voice reinitiated.

"Retina scan complete. Welcome back to Geisteskranken, Doctor Edward. We've missed you."

"Is that it? Can we go in now?" Sonic asked as he walked up behind the brown fox, who just leered at the machine with a hint of suspicion.

"I wasn't the only one to hear that… was I? I don't remember the machine saying we've missed you." Edward took note of the odd response. "Maybe it's a bug. Yeah, that's probably it."

"Wait, that doesn't explain how the voice system would just say-"

"NO MORE DELAYS, MILES!" Richtofhen shouted to interrupt the young kit, making him refrain from telling his opinion.

The gate opened up slowly, sliding to the right as a low sounding alarm blared off with its departure. The group walked into the courtyard, looking around the entire area as they saw the former facility now in ruins.

Tails took notice of the big fountain close to one of the research labs to the left, water still flowing out from it as the pool below it was filled a crimson red. He shivered at the thought of what happened there.

They walked along a small granite path until they reached the front doors, wooden in nature, but strongly reinforced by metal in the back. Richtofhen grabbed onto the handle and turned it, expecting for it to stop and inform him it was locked, but he found that the handle turned all the way and he carefully pushed the creaking door open.

Stepping inside, he placed his hand against the dirty wall of the low light room. It was a small room, another pair of doors in front of them as there were two stairs beside both left and right walls. Three pictures were situated inside the frames hanging off the walls, all of them that held a blank void, as if the images disappeared from them.

"Strange, there used to be some… never mind." Edward said as he passed the thought by.

"So, we're here. Now what?" Sonic asked, tired of this foxes excuses to ignore them when it came to this.

"I'm glad you asked. You see, the technology developed here is unique in its own way. The teleporters, as I've think I said before, are the reason for the creation of the zombies. Now, if we take that into account, we should be able to destroy the zombies by using that which created them." Richtofhen explained.

"How do we use these teleporters to stop the zombies?" Tails asked.

"You always have to ask the hard questions, Miles. Sadly, I have no idea." The fox bluntly pointed out, laughing as the rest had just found out they'd been tricked into this for nothing.

"Alright, look." Knuckles said as he grabbed the brown fox by the collar, lifting him against the wall as he readied his fist for the appropriate action. "If you really brought us here for no reason at all, I'm going too-"

"Relax Echidna; I never said I was done with helping you three." Richtofhen managed to mutter with that sly grin still on his face, beginning to get paler as the Echidna choked him more.

"Let him go, Knux." Sonic said to his tempered friend, who obliged and dropped the maniac.

"Alright Edward, you better tell us what you're planning to do, and no more secretive bullshit." Knuckles pointed his finger and cursed at the fox.

"I do have some sort of an idea on how to use the teleporters to destroy the undead menace…" He spoke with pride. "Of course, there will be work to do here. If teleporters are all linked up, then we should be done here incredibly fast."

"How fast?" Tails asked, shivering as he stood behind Sonic. "I don't like this place… It has an odd feeling…"

"Probably just the element I injected in you to ensure that you would ob- hey, am I mumbling again? I'm mumbling again, don't listen to me, the crazy doctor here, ha-ha…" He chuckled nervously, smiling maliciously as he pushed the second doors open and walked into the facility.

"Oh boy… another adventure. It hasn't been that long, but already I'm pretty sick of this." Knuckles complained.

"Richtofhen said this would be fast." Sonic told Knuckles.

"Isn't that what he said at Station Square? I don't know how long we were there, but it felt like an eternity."

"Good point." Sonic agreed. "What do you think Tails?"

"He's waiting for the second coming second coming again." Tails spoke with a cold tone.

"Huh?"

"I… I don't know; let's just follow Richtofhen until this is over." Tails mumbled under his breath, unable to get rid of that chilling feeling. "He's the only one who knows what he's doing here."

"Wonder if that's a good thing or a bad thing." Knuckles joked.

"Hello? Are you three coming in here? There's a lot of space for you to come inside, and look, there's power! Isn't that just wunderbar?" Edward called them.

"You mean, wonderful?" Sonic replied back.

"Yes, this is wonderful. Considering the luck we've had in everything being operational here will make my master plan much easier to execute. Now, we'll just need to head through these security doors towards the mainframe, then we'll-"

"Warning, power levels critical. Shutting… down…"

Edward stood there for a moment, twitching a little as his face was going through mixed feelings. Anger, frustration, annoyance, mostly the ones that made him pissed off in the end.

Then, he just stood straight, took a deep breath, coughed before looking up towards the three heroes' behind him and said "Well, everything can't always go according to plan, hm?"

Now that they all stood within the theatre room of Geisteskranken, looking around as they tried to get familiar with the surroundings.

Suddenly, the entrance doors closed shut, with loud laughing noise sounding throughout the entire facility, sending a small quiver of fear down the bones of our hero's.

"Welcome home, Edward. Looks like you've brought some friends… how fun this is going to be."

"That voice… Miles, are you saying that?" Edward said, noticing the resemblance of the tone sounding like the kits, with a little more depth to it.

"No, how could I be talking like that?" Tails answered, shifting awkwardly as he heard the distant moans of the zombies starting to draw in.

"Well, things just took a turn for the worst, and all we get are these pistols now." Knuckles complained, slinging out the M9 as he grumbled incoherently.

"Don't worry; we just need to get to the mainframe. After we get the power back on, we must reactivate all the teleporters and we win the game!" Richtofhen told them.

"Let's play our game… starting with ROUND 1!"