Aloha!!! This is my first posted fanfic, so not everything's quite right, but it's still as crazy as it would be if everything were… Anyhow, point is, I did this a long time ago and it's weird, so be forewarned! This is set in the DX Director's Cut gamecube game and that's as updated as it gets. Other than that it veers off so far… it's almost scary. Lol. And yes, the chapters are short. Like, VERY short… gomen nasai!

Disclaimer: no, I don't own Sonic. But I DO own May… and the storyline… but only cuz no one else wanted 'em.

Also Lindsay helped with the story too! So Domo Arigato to her!

So, yes, here it is!

Sonic's Sympathy Story: Death Taken Tikal

Chapter One: Long Dead Love

When Sonic went into the Past, he saw Tikal, and fell madly in love with her instantly. It was an unexplainably, irrational, deep and all-consuming infatuation that fell over him like a blanket… or, perhaps, more like a ton of bricks.

Sonic had been missing for a week, and Knuckles was getting worried. He looked for Sonic everywhere- then he thought to look in the Past. Knuckles went back to the Past. The Past was a recreation of the Past, a world of holograms, meant so it could be studied and analyzed on how it affected the future or present. Knuckles looked around; the place was deserted. Then he heard frantic shouting.

"TIKAL! TIKAAL! COME BAAACK!" That sounded like Sonic's voice! But he usually wasn't this insane- maybe a little, but not this much. Knuckles slanted his head, straining to hear better. He heard a bird's faint twitter, rustling leaves, and an odd, repetitive thumping noise that almost sounded like feet pounding the ground at an inhumanly fast rate… Then, he was almost knocked over as a blue blur raced past him, chasing after a hologram of Tikal. It didn't appear to realize that she wasn't actually real, for it was madly pursuing her as if its life depended on its catching her.Was that Sonic? Indeed, it was. The blur ran into the graveyard, as the hologram faded into a grace marked in chipped, dusty letters: Tikal. Knuckles walked into the graveyard, sat on a tombstone and watched Sonic in a sort of amused fascination. Sonic, completely unaware that Knuckles was watching him, frantically dug through the grave with his fingers, dirt flying everywhere. Knuckles let him go on for another half a minute. It was rather, amusing, really. Then, Knuckles hopped off the grave and walked over to Sonic. He placed a spiked hand on Sonic's shoulder.

"She's gone, Sonic. She won't come back. Get a grip already" after all, he added mentally. It's kinda illegal to dig up a grave. Not to mention more than a little disturbed. "she was never real in the first place, you know. She lived a hundred years ago-"

"She can't be gone!" Sonic howled, sobbing, apparently not having heard Knuckles' last sentance. "Noooo!" he collapsed in front of the grave, his body shaking with shuddering sobs. Knuckles transported them back to the Present.

For the next few days, Sonic moped around, mourning for Tikal. He was acting like it was the end of the world. He was wandering around Mystic Ruins, sulking. Some people were milling around, a couple was having a picnic. Sonic then froze, having thought of something.

"KNUCKLES!" he raged to no one in particular. "YOU KILLED TIKAL! YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS!" the people at the wooden station looked over at him, slowly edging back a little. The couple having the picnic jumped to their feet and slowly packed up their food. Knuckles stepped off the train, and was nearly barrelled over by the picnic couple. "DAMN YOU, PICNIC MORONS!" Sonic bellowed up. "I'LL GET YOU FOR THAT, RIGHT AFTER I REVENGE KNUCKLES FOR KILLING THE LOVE OF MY LIFE!"

"he's a madman" the couple yelled to Knuckles as the train doors slid shut. Knuckles strode down the stairs and walked over to Sonic.

"Calm down, alright? You're insane!" he said. Sonic flung himself at Knuckles and started attacking him. But his weak-wristed slap attacks, while done in a flurry of hi-ya's and take that!'s, were little more effective than being hit in the face with a fish by a two-year-old.

Knuckles let Sonic continue the little one-sided slap-fight for a few more seconds, then calmly stepped aside and left Sonic to his childish tantrum. But there was fire in Sonic's eyes- he was set on revenge!

Wooo, cliffhanger. K, so maybe not. This is just the start of the crazy stuff that happens. Review, pleeaassseee!