Chapter One

Sonic looked worriedly at his sneakers as he listened to Tails bawl inside his house in Freedom HQ. The fox hadn't come out of his house in 15 hours. He just sat there, crying. Sonic hadn't the foggiest idea why, but he was getting ready to find out.

Sighing, the blue hedgehog knocked on Tails' door. No answer. Sonic quietly opened the door and peeked inside at his friend.

Tails was a mess. His eyes were just about bloodshot. His pillow, which he had been crying into, was soaked with tears. The two tails drooped over the side of the bed. Sonic walked over to his bud and put his hand on his shoulder.

"Tails?" he asked softly. "It's me, dude. Sonic." Tails looked up with a furrowed brow. "Go away," he said shakily. "I really don't want to…talk to you right now." Sonic looked away momentarily to compose himself.

"Yeah, but if I did that, we wouldn't solve anything, would we?" Sonic softly pulled Tails' head up and looked into his teary eyes. "Will you at least tell me what's got ya?" The fox wiped away some of his never ending tears.

"I thought that…I…had a second chance," he said. "I thought there was hope. I thought there was that silver lining. I thought…well, I thought it wasn't over." Sonic looked quizzically at his friend, who was starting to tear up again.

"C'mon, don't start again. What's the matter?" Tails looked up into the hedgehog's eyes, nothing but sheer misery filling them.

"Fiona. She's…she's marrying Scourge!" Tails slapped his eyes and started bawling again. Sonic didn't know what to say. He was at loss for words.

"How, uh, did you find this out?" he said, not knowing how to comfort his friend. Tails walked over to his dresser and pulled out a slip of paper. He handed it to Sonic.

"The wind blew this into Freedom HQ today," he explained. The blue hero looked over the paper. It seemed to be an invitation. It read:

You're invited to…

The wedding of Fiona fox and scourge hedgehog.

Taking place on Friday, September 28 at 9:00am sharp.

Located at Meriwether church.

"Well, bud, you…um, you kind of knew it would come to this, and…" Sonic didn't have the heart to go any further. He just sat with Tails while the fox cried his heart out for the lost love of his life.

It seemed like hours before any of the two said anything. Finally, Tails broke the silence. "It's just…so hard to believe," he said in between sobs. "I thought that Fiona still had some good in her…that somehow, someway, the Freedom Fighters would influence her, but…" Sonic nodded in silent agreement.

Suddenly, Tails got off his bed and walked over to the door. Sonic raised an eyebrow. "Where are you going?" Sonic asked. The fox didn't turn around.

"When I was younger, you taught me to have a solution to any problem I encounter. I know what to do to find my solution." Sonic sighed. He knew exactly what Tails was going to do.

"You…you want me to come with you?"

"No. I can get out of anything I encounter."

"Alright."

"And, don't wait on me, either. I can take care of things myself."

"OK. See you." But as the two-tailed fox walked out of the door, Sonic wasn't so sure that he would ever see Tails again.