this is every sonic game, tv series, and mabye the comics too. There will be hook ups, there will be break ups, there will be old faces, there be new faces, there will be cute faces, and some downright ugly faces. This is an overall sonic and sally (among others) although there will be *gags* sonic and *gags again* amy. I feel like shooting myself just for typing that. although me messing with sonic love life isn't the only one i'll mess with like shadow maybe. I'll stop rambling and get to the story enjoy.

Disclaimer: I own nothing in this story it belongs to Archie and Sega

Sonic Union

Prologue: anniversary

It was night and everyone's favorite speed demon was sitting alone on a branch. Gazing up at the night sky not moving, not blinking, doing something he rarely every does, thinking. Finally his statue like gaze broke, he blinked, leaves rustled below him. He didn't need to look he already knew who it was. Only two people would look for him and only one knew where to find him. He would never tell where to find him. And today is no different…well that's a lie today was different, especially today. The rustling below him stopped and a lone orange figure stood looking up, but he wasn't gazing at sonic, instead he was staring past him and into the sky with his twin tails swishing back and forth. (ok if you haven't figured who it is yet you're a moron) the figures stayed there for what seemed liked hours, they just…stood there as if they were incased in stone. Finally the orange one spoke "Sonic."

Sonic stayed still for a minute before answering back "yeah tails."

"everyone's worried… they haven't seen you all day." Tails looked down to take a seat at the base of the tree before returning to the stars."

Sonic still didn't move or flinch, and his voice never changed either, it stayed…sad "I figured." Listening to his voice you could feel the sad almost radiating off his voice, but you could also instantly tell he wasn't sad about the others, that is was something far deeper that was bothering him. The way his voice never changed you'd think he was on autopilot like his mind was somewhere else and left his body behind. And truth be told he was somewhere else and ironically so was tails and someone else or better yet some ones. Before them was a dark crowd and they were staring at the duo almost like they were…haunting them.

tails finally blinked and broke the silence once again "Amy is looking for you." Looking at the pair just laying there was almost depressing… just looking at their faces… the faces of failure, defeat, helplessness, grief, was enough to bring anyone just passing by… down.

"I figured"

Tails sighed all the while never taking his eyes off the sky "so… how long."

Now it was sonic's turn to sigh. He licked his lips and attempted to answer. "ei…" the word got caught in his throat. He had to blink away a tear and clear his throat before moving on. "eight…eight long years." Tails felt something drop on his head and only now did he break his gaze to look up at sonic. Only to see light reflect off his cheek. A tear. To anyone else this was a sign of the apocalypse, to anyone other than tails cause tonight it was far past normal and for lack of a better term it became a tradition. Tails fond his chest to be interesting when his vision started to blur. He brought his knees to his chest and cried into his knees. It wasn't long before he felt a comforting hand on his shoulder. Tails moved from his knees to sonic's chest. Sonic could feel the tears running down his chest and moved tails into a hug, letting tails continue crying, but he had to forcible close his eyes to keep tears from falling from his face. 'I have to be strong. I have to be strong for tails' he kept repeating the phrase over and over in his head till tails stopped crying. When tails had got over sniffling he released him from his hug. Tails returned to his seat next to sonic. This time sonic broke the silence "it seems surreal doesn't it."

Tails returned to his stargazing as did sonic "it does, like we'll wake up and everything will be like it was before, like it's just one big nightmare that never ends." Both of them let out a small chuckle and immediately got serious again. "Sonic… tell me...just how do you do it." They shifted their gaze back to each other. "I mean you lost the most and no offense but..."

"but I act like nothing happened." Sonic leaned back against the tree and returned to the stars. "Honestly tails I don't know. I miss them more than you'll ever know. But what gets me the most is that." He stopped and hung his head in defeat. "What gets me is that I let them-I…" he had to choke back a sob. "I-I failed them. I failed tails." Eight years of this and tails still wasn't used to sonic this way.

Now it was tails trying to comfort sonic "Sonic you didn't fail, you have ease up on yourself." He placed his hand on his shoulder only to realize he was shaking. 'why is he shaking it's the middle of summer it's not like it's cold or anything?' sonic got up and started to pace around.

"I didn't fail. I DIDN'T FAIL! Tails I had one job left…to protect you and bring you home." Sonic stopped pacing and faced tails throwing his arms up. "does it look like we're home tails. Here let me check." Sonic began searching the forest sarcastically. "uuuhhh nope we're not home tails. Face it I FAILED." He picked up a rock from the ground and through it into the forest as hard as he could. "cause of my cocky-brat attitude you paid the ultimate price. And there's no way back… because of me we will never see are friends, your adoptive mother, my best friend, my girlfriend ever again"

First of all sonic you have to be fair you used the same person three times. And second of all we WILL find a way back it's just a matter of time." Tails had now gotten up and walked over to the angry hedgehog.

"tails we used chaos control and ended up on the other side of the planet. We used a teleport and went to the moon. We searched every solar system in the galaxy when we went into space with the blue typhoon and found nothing. There is no way back and it's all my fault."

"It's not your…"

"YES IT IS! If I was serious and didn't let my guard down I would have seen that laser in time and got us out of the way. I just-I can't believe it, we were there tails, robotnik was defeated, his bots were gone, we won tails, we WON. And I let my guard down and we left or least to everyone else we did. And today is the anniversary THE DAY WE LEFT FORVER!"

"It's ok sonic." Tails put his hand on sonic shoulder again. He was glad he wasn't shaking anymore. "We must learn to forgive ourselves for what happened in the past. We have to learn from our mistakes. And if anyone can learn from their mistakes it's you. You never let your guard down…ever. And sometimes you…you isolate yourself from everyone ev-even me. And we will find a way"

Sonic turned to face tails and subdued his anger. "I'm sorry tails but it's just that-that other than you…every time I try to bring someone closer than a friend it feels like…like-like."

Tails stopped sonic he knew exactly how he was feeling. "Like your cheating on the others and pushing them away." Both hung their heads in guilt.

"Yeah exactly." Sonic looked up and began searching the stars for answers to unspoken questions. "I'd give anything to go back. To see everyone. To tell them just how sorry I was. And would gladly give my life twice over if it meant I could send you back." Sonic looked down at tails with a puzzled face when he chuckled.

"Sonic are you a mind reader?" tails meant sonic's stare "cause you just read my mind." Now sonic chuckled.

"They always did say we could read each others minds." He once again looked up "I guess they were right." A shooting star slowly crossed the sky. If tails' mind had been on the here and now and not in space he would've noticed something off about the star, but he didn't. And to if anyone had heard sonic and tails they would have thought that the two minds were linked, they spoke at the same time and even with the same tone. "I wish the nightmare would end."

A/N: sorry that was way shorter than I wanted it to be the next chap will be longer I swear I am happy to have finally started this. This has been bothering me for a while now.

i am soo sorry for not updating sooner but as luck would have it my word went on vacation and came back with a mental problem. so i won't get into how hard i am trying just to update for you people so again sorry