Author's note: This story follows the events of a somewhat changed version of Sonic X. Season 1 never happened, Season 2 occurred in Mobius, and Season 3 stays the same. I'm gonna try to work a lot of Christianity into the story, so if you continue reading, don't complain please. If you have real criticism, you can offer it whenever you feel like. Please enjoy.

Renegade

Prologue

He heard Knuckles again: She's going to die, Tails!

He looked up: Everyone, please step off the bridge.

The beeping resonated through the empty bridge.

Robotnik: Tails, it's time.

Sonic and Shadow loaded themselves into the Sonic Power Cannon.

He flipped the safety off and prepared to fire. He waited for himself to pull the trigger, all the while knowing that he couldn't.

He slammed his head on the control panel and yelled through his tears: I can't do it! I can't hurt Cosmo! Wasn't it a promise? When all this was over? You would come live with us!

Robotnik: Tails, do you want her sacrifice to be useless?

I can't shoot her.

She spoke to him: Tails, forgive me for all the problems I brought upon you.

He looked out at her: Cosmo, you never caused me any problems. I've been happy with you!

Shoot me.

I can't do it! Cosmo, I love you!

He fired the cannon…

(3 hours later)

"Tails, open up." This was Sonic's fifth time trying to get to Tails. He had locked himself in his room the second he had left the bridge. He was refusing to talk to anyone. Sonic might have thought that he had killed himself but for the quiet sobbing he could still hear on the other side of the door. Sonic sighed and walked away. The only thing he could do for his best friend now was pray. Pray that he wouldn't do anything rash. Pray that he wouldn't wind up dead inside. Pray that his wounds would heal.

(2 days later)

Tails lay curled up in his bed. He would have been crying, but he had no more tears to cry. He had left his quarters three times. Twice to get some food, the other to set the Blue Typhoon on a course for home. For some reason, everyone still looked at him as the captain. He knew, as they did, that he was in no shape to command a ship. He got up and decided that he should probably pass the torch before something went horribly wrong. He wrote a note pronouncing Sonic as the new captain and slid it under his door. They would find it when they came to check on him. As he stood up, he was blinded by a sudden bright flash. As he wondered what in his room could have possibly caused the flash, he opened his eyes and gasped. There before him was an angel. Tails cowered back in fear.

"Do not be afraid. The Lord has heard your cries, and has sent me with a message."

Tails suddenly felt guilty about the last words of his note. He had been in constant prayer these past 2 days, begging God to come and comfort him, wondering why he felt alone in the dark.

"These are the words of the Lord: 'Miles Prower, prepare yourself. You are going on a journey, a journey that will take you places you may not want to go, but this journey is necessary.'"

"Wait." Tails's voice was gruff from the crying and it's underuse. "What journey? Where am I going?"

"You will be sent to a place that needs you, but you may find that you need it more." Suddenly there was another blinding flash , this one leaving Tails unconscious.

(15 minutes later)

Sonic walked slowly towards Tails's room. He was beginning to think of these check-ups as a waste of time. He knew that Tails needed them, though. He was about to knock on the door when he noticed a note lying on the floor. He picked it up and read it:

I can't go on commanding the ship like this. I'm a mess. Sonic's captain from now on. Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?

Sonic panicked. He thought that Tails had finally snapped and decided to take his life. He ran up to the door. "Tails!" he yelled. No answer. "TAILS!" Sonic knocked down the door with a spin dash and was subsequently enveloped in a blinding light. When he was finally able to see again, he gasped. In front of him stood an angel.

"Do not be afraid. You seek Miles Prower. He is not here. He has been taken by the Spirit to a place where he will find healing."

The angel disappeared as suddenly as he had appeared. Sonic couldn't believe it. He walked into the room, and sure enough, Tails was gone. He went back and picked up the note, wondering what the last sentence was, and why he felt he had heard it before. He spoke into his comlink. "Espio, your the linguist here, what does this mean?" He read Espio the sentence.

"I don't need to be a linguist to know what that means. Jesus said it on the cross. Matthew 27:46: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"