The sun rose over a quiet green hill and the landscape lit up with the recent rain reflecting the light, all was peaceul…but then like a streak of lighting passed a blue bolt of pure adrenelin, it had come and past out of site in an instant.

"Alright! Now this is speed!" chuckled Sonic as he ran like a blue slash across the land, he then came to a stop almost instantly, the wind that followed him now rushed through his quills like a hurricane and almost stole the footing of the orange preteen fox who he had stopped so abruptly to meet.

"Could you maybe slow down a bit before stopping next time? You'd knock the Tornado on it's side if you did that any quicker" complained Tails as he plucked several leafs from his hair, Sonic looked amused.

"Sorry buddy, you know me! Never a…"

"Never a slow moment, yeah" interupted Tails, who could not help but grin at Sonic's enthusiasm.

"So, you say you saw Egghead heading out this way huh?"

"Yeah, I was tracking him in the Tornado until I flew into a storm and I lost him" said Tails

"But I KNOW that his base is somewhere around here since he began to slow down here before the storm hit, and nobody can cover ground faster than you soo…"

Sonic grinned in his usual cocky attitude "Don't worry Tails, I'll do this faster than the plane EVER could…oh, and speaking of which, where IS the Tornado?" Sonic noticed smoke emenating faintly from over a hill.

"Oh…well, umm…you see…it was kinda…and I…well…" Tails stuttered for a minute before mumbling something that Sonic could not hear but could easily guess.

"You crashed?" asked Sonic, confused as to what could bring down such an ace pilot

"Well…I didn't crash it….technically…" Tails mumbled, his voice filled with hesitation "But it was a…umm…thunder storm…and…"

"You bailed, didn't you?" Sonic sighed, even he himself was somehow embarrased by this "I didn't think you were still afraid of lighting"

"Yeah, well how about I talk you through my fears over a nice swim in the ocean?" Tails responded sarcasticaly.

Sonic chuckled "Heh, too-shay!" he then looked out towards the horrizon with adventure in his eyes "So, shouldn't take too long to find "baldy mcnosehair" in this place, whatcha think Tails?"

"Yeah, it-wait…what?" Tails cringed a little as he stared at Sonic in confusion "Baldy mc-what?"

"You know, baldy mcnosehair! That little translator error at his amusement park?" Tails stared at Sonic, clueless

"Ugh…entertain yourself" Sonic grunted

"Indeed!" echoed a smug, booming voice

"What the!?" Sonic shouted before a huge robotic mostrocity landed with a crash, the robot towered over the pair as a circular window opened up revealing an all two familiar moustach clad scientist "I was planning on luring you into my trap but you were far to long!"

Sonic gritted his teeth in rage "You calling me slow!?"

"No, just foolish" Eggman replied, not bothered by Sonic's outburst "Allow me to show you my latest, greatest invention yet!" the robot Eggman was piloting let loose a pair of electrical looking whips from its arms, they spewed electricity and caused an odd distortion in the air around them.

Sonic chuckled before putting on an expression of mock terror "Oh no! How will I ever defeat you?" Eggman merely grinned at the cocky hero, this made Tails feel uneasy.

"I call them temporal whips! Anything that gets caught in them ceases to exist entirely! Completely erased from time and space!"

"What?" Tails gasped, unable to grasp what he had just heard

Sonic snorted "Relax buddy, he's just bluffing"

"But what if…" Tails started before being the robot swiftly lashed one of the whips towards the duo, Sonic grabbed Tails and narrowly evaded the mysterious weapon.

"Tails, I'll handle Egghead" Sonic said in a reassuring manner "If you really think he's serious about those whips you know what to do" he winked at the fox who then smiled and flew out of site.

"Alright…" Sonic started, set to go at an instant's notices "You wanna go? Then let's go!" Sonic burst into action, breaking the sound barrier on the spot as he began to flip and dive out the way of Eggman's attack.

"You've always underestimated me hedgehog!" Sonic skid between the robot's legs, avoiding a massive flourish from the golden whips "Have you forgotten how it was I who nearly ended on the ark? That it was I who caught you in your super form and trapped you like bug in a jar? That it was ME who nearly erased you from time once before!?"

"No…" Without warning, Sonic grinded up the back of the robot and bluntly kicked it's head sideways "But have you forgotten how no matter how many times you've had me cornered…" Sonic hit the ground and spin dashed the robot's leg open, causing it to its knee "And no matter what you've thrown at me…" he then rocketed into the air and began to dive in for the final blow "I've always bounced back and kicked your sorry butt?"

Before Sonic could hit though, the robot lashed the whips around Sonic, binding him like a fly in a web "No" the doctor said proudly "But soon I'm pretty sure I will once we're done here…"

The whips began to glow brightly around Sonic, the doctor laughed hysterically but not before the robot began to shake and Sonic grinned, still alive "Ummm…you sure about that doc?" Sonic gestured downwards and Eggman's eyes followed to see a wrench sticking out of a vital maintenance panel with Tails standing next to it, smiling smugly.

Something in Eggman's mind snapped at that moment, this was supposed to have been his ultimate triumph, he had put more work into this weapon than any other creation, hours of sleep lost and countless prototypes made and bested in his pursuit of perfection, but none of that mattered now, all that mattered now was the death of the hedgehog.

Eggman turned back towards the still bound Sonic with a murderous gaze that actually caused Sonic's grin to shift into a look of fear, with the slam of a button the whips lit up like the sun and Sonic let out a deafening scream "BURN you stupid rat! BURN!" Eggman shouted psychotically before in a flash of blinding light, Sonic was gone…and ashes fell to the ground.

All Tails could do was watch in silence as the only family he had ever known blew away into the wind, scattering out of site "Sonic…" he whimpered before falling to his knees and crawling to scrape up the already cold remains "No…Sonic!" tears began to pour from his eyes as his voice broke and he screamed into the ground "SOOOONIIIIC!" he then looked up towards the mechanical horror and into the cockpit of the deranged mastermind, he had a vile, twisted grin on his face almost as if to say; you're next.

He then began to run, it didn't matter that the robot's mobility was impaired, Tails ran with tears flying out of his eyes and fragments of ash occasionally flying from his locked shut hand, even long after the robot was out of sight, he didn't stop running…