Chapter one: Goodbye Forever
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Sonic gazed up at the huge metal monster; had really outdone himself this time. He had to win this or it could be the end. He gazed around Eggman's base, everyone was fighting a decent amount of androids, but he could easily tell that they would not be able to hold them off forever. He sighed he had to end this right here right now; he got up from his knees and faced the blue menace.
"I've been waiting for this for a long time." He beeped; he clenched his metal fist in excitement.
Sonic wiped the dry blood from the corner of his mouth. "Well than let's do this." He smiled a cheeky smile and ran towards him at top speed.
The robot wasn't stupid, he expected this, he jumped down and in a ball spin dashed him into the ground. The robot brushed some dirt off of his metallic shoulders and dared him for another round.
Sonic's body couldn't take another round; he laid there still until a plan popped into his head; it was risky but it just had to work. He got up from the ground and ran over to Tails and Knuckles, who were currently trying to fight off at least fifty robots at one time.
"Tails, I need you to listen to me." He yelled as he kicked a robot in the stomach, the room was filled with the sound of metal breaking; it was very hard to hear anyone.
"Ya." Tails yelled as he punched a robot's head in.
"I need you to gather the rest of the group and run as far away as you can." He jumped up and dropped kicked 3 robots who crashed into little metal pieces.
"No we can't leave, were a team, we never leave one of our members, ever." He said as he leaped over Knuckles to kick one of the robots in the face.
"Tails I need you to do ok, please. If you don't more than our lives will be at stake; the whole world will be at stake! I just need to buy you some time to go get the emeralds and stash them somewhere safe, ok. By the time you get back everything will be under control." He jumped up and crumpled an aerial robot in a matter of seconds.
Tails looked at his pleading face, he was dead serious. He sighed and started to signal everyone to the entrance of the base. When they reached the automatic door, Sonic pushed the button. The door began to close.
"Sonic, what are you doing." He turned back to the robots that were closing in fast.
"No, you can't to this alone; we need to help you!" Tails screamed in anger, he couldn't believe he was being so stupid at a time like this.
He sped quickly to the ever closing door. "Tails I'm sorry, but this needs to happen. Before I go let me tell you 2 things , 1 you are the best brother a guy could have and 2 I want you to lead this group well ,ok " He smiled a cocky grin and headed back towards the action.
"Sonic Nooooo." Tails yelled but the doors had already closed, he banged on the doors repeatedly, but it wouldn't budge, even Knuckles tried, and nothing happened.
"No, no, noooooo' we need to get back in there we need to help hi-"He was cut off by a hand grabbing him by scruff of his neck. He turned to face the person dragging him. It was Knuckles.
"Knuckles we need to go back, let go of me," he struggled in his grip," let me go back."
"We need to respect his wishes Tails weather you like it or not, he's our leader." Knuckles shouted, who dragged him as fast as he could to catch up with the rest of the group. When they reached they hill that was moderately far enough away Knuckles turned back to help the cerulean hedgehog.
But before he could reach it, the whole base exploded into in a large inferno scorching everything. Knuckles tried to get close to the base but the flames were too hot. He ran back up the hill, were Tails was waiting eagerly to see his brother, Knuckles came back empty handed. Tears flowed freely down his cheeks as he slumped onto his knees onto the cool grass... A hand firmly gripped his shoulders; it was once again Knuckles who was starting to tear up a bit.
"Tails, he made his choice and he followed it, we can't do anything about it." He weakly said, he was very close to that blue hedgehog ,they've known each other since they were 10 He was going to miss that blue devil, a lot actually. Tails' sobs grew louder by the pacing moments.
After the fire died down, Knuckles and Tails walked down to see if the hedgehog was alive, but found no trace of the hedgehog; only dozens of scattered robots, even metal Sonic laid in a crumpled heap.
"Sonic!" Tails screamed, but no answer came to greet him.
"Tails look." Knuckles said as he walked quickly to something that was on the ground, It was a white glove. Most of it was burned in the scorching heat, but they still knew who it belonged to. Knuckles picked it up to exam it.
He looked inside and found a picture, the most of it was burned but he could still tell what it a picture was of. It was a picture from a few summers' ago; it showed the smiling blue hedgehog with his team standing right behind him, Amy, Rouge, Tails, and him grinning also. Shadow had taken this picture, it had been just a few months after the ark incident and this was his first summer on Mobius. Knuckles turned back to Tails who was standing behind him. His eyes had a look of sadness in his eyes.
"Tails, he's dead…. He risked his life for us, all of us." He whispered slowly, he didn't want to alert him.
"Noo, it can't be" Tears began to fall and splatter on the metal floor of the base.
They walked back up to tell the others, Amy was the one who took it the hardest, her heart hurt the most. It was getting late so they decided to fly home, Rouge carrying Amy and knuckles being flown through the air by his hands.
When they reached Tail's workshop, they parted ways. Rouge decided to stay with Amy to comfort her while Knuckles needed to have a talk with tails.
"Tails, I know it hurts, it hurts us all too but he would have wanted us to be strong, right?" Knuckles consoled, Tails cringe at the sound of him using the past tense.
"I-I- just need sometime alone." He whispered, Knuckles nodded, left the kitsune and headed back to the master emerald.
Tails slowly entered his workshop and slumped down on his couch. He looked around him, Pictures were lined up everywhere of him and Sonic going on another one of their fantastic adventures all over the world. His wondered why he listened to his order and why Sonic was so stupid; why he didn't think first. These questions ricocheted in his brain until he heard Sonic's last words. They repeated themselves over and over in his head; he then got up and started to scale the stairs to his bedroom. He slumped on his bed and laid there for hours, awake.
The greatest friend he could ask for was now dead and gone forever.
Author's Notes: Umm Ya so please read and review that would be great, this story will probably have a lot more action than the other one so look out for thanks too, Thanks ^.^ !