AUTHOR'S NOTE: Hey! It's here! The second chapter! Yay! Well, this one's sort of slow and it's definitely not the best I've written. It's also a bit short. But I hope you enjoy it anyway.

Tails watched in horror as everything seemed to slow down after he pulled the trigger against his will. He saw the muzzle flare and he watched the bullet fly straight at Sonic. The hedgehog was quick, but not quick enough. He tried to dodge, but Tails saw the bullet make impact on his arm. He watched the blood explode out of Sonic's arm and spatter out and some of it landed on him. Then Tails watched as Shadow braced himself to shoot.

"NO!" yelled the wounded Sonic in terror. He was on the ground, grabbing the wound in pain. Shadow fired off two shots. Tails had no idea how he reacted the way he did, but he immediately flung out his hand and concentrated on stopping the bullets. Amazingly, they exploded in the air in front of Tails with a couple sparks, like they were hitting a wall. Then Tails grabbed Shadows gun with his mind and yanked it out of his hand, grabbed Shadow's throat with his mind and threw him into the opposite wall, and then launched him into the ceiling. Shadow dropped to the floor and lay there motionless.

Then, as suddenly as it had come, the strange feeling left Tails and he was back in control of himself. But there was still a whisper in the back of his head.

"Run," it told Tails urgently. "You need to run now!" Tails obeyed it. He looked out the window behind him and concentrated on the glass. He thrust his hand at it and it exploded out of the house and the blinds went with it. Tails jumped up onto the window sill and took off, tail-choppering away as fast as he could.

"What the hell is going on in here?" asked an alarmed Amadeus as he burst into the room. He looked down at Sonic, who was sitting against a wall, breathing heavily and wincing out of pain, holding the wound in his arm.

"Tails shot him," said Shadow angrily. "Where the hell did he get a gun?"

"He said he found it under his pillow this morning," said Amadeus defensively.

"Didn't you think that was just a bit strange?" asked Shadow sarcastically.

"Well, I didn't really get a chance to ask him about it because you two came knocking before I could," argued Amadeus as he looked at Sonic's wound.

"So why didn't you tell us?" asked Shadow furiously.

"I would have had I known what it was about," said Amadeus. "But it was all 'Sorry, General, we need to talk to him alone'."

"Did you know about the Telekinesis?" asked Shadow.

"Yes, but, like the gun, I didn't get to ask him about it before you two came," said Amadeus defensively.

"No, that had to be Dragon," said Sonic quietly.

"Get real, Sonic," said Shadow, outraged. "He just shot you point blank. If it weren't for your speed, you'd probably be dead right now."

"Okay, everyone calm down," said Amadeus sternly. "Now, I'm Tails' father, so now it's my turn to interrogate you two. We're all going to be very calm about it because an adrenaline rush isn't very good for you when you have an open bullet wound."

"Sorry, General, I don't have time," said Shadow impatiently as he headed for the door. "I need to go put an APB out on your psycho son." Amadeus immediately stood up and shut the door before Shadow could leave. He turned on Shadow with a look that would have sent the biggest of thugs running home.

"You're staying right here," Amadeus spoke with an ice-cold tone that could have frozen fire. His voice was low and it sounded calm, but it was layered with pure rage. "My son just shot his best friend and flew out the window. I'm his father and I have a right to know everything that's going on. Neither of you are leaving this house until I'm satisfied with the information you give me."

"And what will you do if I refuse?" asked Shadow challengingly, moving in on Amadeus so that their faces were right in front of each other.

"Don't think for a minute that you scare me, Shadow the Hedgehog," said Amadeus coldly, threateningly. "I may be a little further along in years than you and you may have chaos powers and a gun, but I can still kick your furry ass from here to Mobotropolis with one hand tied behind my back." Shadow attempted to stare him down for a minute before he finally gave in.

"Fine," said Shadow reluctantly.

"Good," said Amadeus. "Now, I need to go explain this to Rosemary and make a few calls. I'm gonna be late to the briefing about my new assignment. Shadow, I trust you can tend to Sonic's wound there." He turned to face both of them. "Phones." He held out his hands to each of them expectantly.

"Why?" asked Shadow.

"You don't give out any info about this until I know everything you know," said Amadeus sternly. "Phones, both of you, now." Shadow growled and gave his phone to Amadeus. Sonic handed his over and Amadeus left the room while Shadow tended to Sonic's wound.

Tails was sitting against the wall of the small building on the rooftop of the skyscraper he had landed on. He felt sick. He was shaking. He had already gotten sick when he landed on the rooftop. He was scared to death right now. He looked down at his chest and hands and saw the blood that had been spattered on him from Sonic's arm. He had Sonic's blood on him.

"What the hell have I done?" he whispered to himself. He pulled his knees into his chest and wrapped his arms around them, burying his head into his kneecaps, still violently shaking out of fear and guilt. Then everything got worse.

"Well, I thought it was obvious," said a familiar voice from around the corner of the wall. Tails jerked his head up in fear and watched in horror as a black dog in a leather jacket and jeans walked out from around the corner, smiling malevolently. "You just shot your best friend." Tails was up and ready to fight in a second, defensive combat position with the gun pointed right at the dog's head.

"Careful, Dragon," growled Tails angrily. "You're right, I did, and don't think I won't shoot you."

"Oh, please, you won't shoot me," he said in a somewhat gleeful voice. Then Tails felt that strange feeling again and all he wanted to do was go to the edge of the building and drop the gun over the ledge. Then Tails figured it out.

"It was you," said Tails quietly, resisting the urge to drop the gun. "You did it."

"You're right, I did," said Dragon, still smiling.

"And did you rob the jewelry store, too?" asked Tails.

"Well, technically, you did," said Dragon. "Just like how you 'technically' shot Sonic the Hedgehog. Y'know, you're so much easier to control when I'm making you sleep walk. When you're actually awake, you always fight it. It's actually a subconscious thing for you. You just naturally question it and fight it. It's kind of annoying, actually."

"How?" demanded Tails.

"Just think about it a minute," said Dragon, feigning encouragement. "It'll come to you." Tails thought about it, not taking the gun off Dragon for a second.

"Telepathy," whispered Tails. "You telepathically controlled me. How did you learn telepathy?"

"Same way I learned Telekinesis," said Dragon with a shrug. He leaned against the wall and looked out at the view from the skyscraper.

"What are you planning?" asked Tails.

"What makes you think I'm planning something?" asked Dragon. Then he turned to Tails and looked him straight in the eye. "Drop the gun." Before he knew what he was doing, Tails had dropped the gun.

"Would you stop that?" asked Tails in annoyance. "Okay, so why did you just make me shoot Sonic? Why did you make me rob a jewelry store?" Tails sat down against the wall again and picked up the gun with his mind and spun it around in the air.

"All that was to make a nice entrance," said Dragon gleefully. "But you'll have to wait and see what I have planned. Don't worry, it won't take too long. Time flies when you're running from G.U.N." He laughed and walked away. Tails knew he was right. He was officially on the run now. It wouldn't be long before there were whole manhunts devoted to catching him. They probably thought he was crazy. They'd mobilize everything to find a murderous, psycho telekinetic.

Tails dropped the gun out of the air and pulled his knees to his chest again, now a lot calmer than before. But he was still scared out of his mind. And he had no idea what he was gonna do next.

Amadeus sat down across from Sonic and Shadow at the small table in the kitchen. Sonic was drinking a soda and Shadow had a cup of coffee. Amadeus had a cup of tea in front of him that he was stirring. Sonic's wound was now bandaged and taken care of and Shadow had an ice pack on his head.

"So, let's start at the beginning," said Amadeus calmly as he took a sip of his tea. "What brought you two here to begin with?"

"We needed to talk to Tails," said Shadow.

"About?" asked Amadeus. Shadow handed him the file that he had with him. "What's this?" He opened the file and skimmed through it.

"Witness statements, a couple other documents, a photo," listed Shadow. "A case file."

"A jewelry store robbery," said Amadeus with an understanding nod, not taking his eyes off the file. "What does my son have to do with this?"

"Look at the witness statements," said Shadow. Amadeus took a minute to read them. Shadow took a sip of his coffee while Sonic sat and watched, motionless and expressionless.

"Two-tailed fox," said Amadeus with a light sigh as he read the file. "You think my son knocked off a jewelry store?"

"Yes, I do think so," said Shadow determinedly. "And I can get him on it once I have the blood sample analyzed. And I can already get him with assaulting a G.U.N. agent and attempted murder."

"Well, I wish I could prove you wrong," groaned Amadeus quietly, leaning his head in his hands. "Unfortunately, I think I can only prove you right."

"How?" asked Shadow and Sonic in unison with confused looks on their faces.

"This morning, Miles woke up with lighter fluid on his arm, a slash down his back, a gun under his pillow, and a sack of jewelry under his bed," said Amadeus quietly.

"Where's the sack?" asked Shadow.

"Probably still under his bed," said Amadeus, pointing behind him. Shadow got up and headed for the bedroom, leaving Sonic and Amadeus alone.

"You don't actually think he did it, do you?" Sonic asked quietly. He was almost whispering.

"I don't know, Sonic," said Amadeus equally as quietly. "I just don't know." He took a sip of his tea. "So, you two came here to arrest my son? You couldn't have told me first?"

"That's not why we came here," said Sonic, still quiet. "We came to warn him. Shadow sort of ran away with it after the robbery came up. Shadow never suspected Tails until he saw the cut on his back."

"Warn him about what?" asked Amadeus.

"You remember that whole Robitnik mess three years ago?" asked Sonic.

"With that psycho dog and Miles getting shot at the cafe?" said Amadeus. "Yeah, why?" He raised an eyebrow.

"Because me and Shadow think that the psycho dog might have survived," said Sonic with a sigh.

"How do you know?" asked Amadeus.

"Look at the witness statements again," said Sonic. Amadeus read them over again.

"So, you think that he's alive based on a coincidental sighting of someone who looked like him while my son robbed a jewelry store?" asked Amadeus skeptically.

"I think it's more than coincidence," said Sonic, leaning forward towards Amadeus. "That picture in the file was given to Shadow a week ago." Amadeus looked at the photo.

"By who?" asked Amadeus.

"He doesn't know," said Sonic. "It was posted on his office door when he got it. No one knows where it came from. And that dog always had a particular interest in Tails when we were fighting him. I don't know if he told you about this, but he wanted to take him on as a kind of psychic apprentice."

"Yeah, when he took him hostage before the building was blown up," said Amadeus.

"No, before that," said Sonic. "Tails was able to escape from his cell. Dragon caught him and offered him his life if he agreed to be his apprentice. Tails told me a couple days later that the only reason he didn't go along with it was that he didn't want to make us think that he was dead."

"Really," said Amadeus quietly in amazement. "I had no idea. This changes everything, Sonic. He could have actually met with Dragon anytime between now and then. Who knows, it's possible that they've been meeting with each other in secret all this time. From what it sounds like, he handed Shadow's ass to him on a silver platter. Maybe Miles actually did do this."

"I still don't think so," said Sonic. "If Tails really was to resort to theft, which I still don't believe for a second, he'd go bigger than knocking off a jewelry store. At least not while it was open. I can see him going for cat-burglary, maybe clearing the entire store after it was closed, but that's only if he were to go for criminal life, which I could never see happening."

"Well, right now, all the evidence points to Miles doing this," said Amadeus. Sonic glared at him in angry disbelief.

"I can't believe you actually believe that your own son, Mile 'Tails' Prower, hero of the planet, committed petty robbery," said an outraged Sonic.

"Oh, I don't believe it for a second," said Amadeus. "I'm just seeing this from G.U.N.'s point of view. G.U.N. is a human-based organization. They're not openly discriminative against Mobians, but they're very protective of their agency. They're uncomfortable with foreign cooperation. The human government in Station Square is a separate government to the Kingdom of Acorn. Whenever I've worked in cooperation with them, they've always got a bad attitude towards me and anyone else in the kingdom's military. They're petty, annoying, and stubborn as hell when we're around."

"So, what does that tell us?" asked Sonic.

"That briefing I was going to that I called in late for this whole mess was to make me the leader of a small squad of soldiers that was to become a kingdom-division in G.U.N.," said Amadeus. "Unofficially, I'm their enemy."

"So, what? They set Tails up?" asked Sonic skeptically.

"No, I'm not saying they had anything to do with that," said Amadeus. "But now they have the evidence to actually convict Miles of this. That call I made postponed the entire project that would have had me and my squad sent to G.U.N. headquarters for a long-term partnership. Now they have a chance to attract enough bad publicity to possibly ruin that partnership for good. They're going to make it their first priority to put Miles behind bars."

"So what do we do?" asked Sonic worriedly.

"Somewhere out there is evidence that Miles is innocent," said Amadeus quietly. "We need to go out and find it."

"Where do we start?" asked Sonic as he stood up.

"We start by finding Miles," said Amadeus. Then Shadow entered the room with the sack of jewelry.

"Okay, everything that was stolen is here," said Shadow. "Are we done here?"

"Yes, we are Shadow," said Amadeus. "Sonic, you should go home and tell Sally you're alright before she sees the news reports. Shadow..." Amadeus tried to think of something to say, but he couldn't think of anything. He wasn't very comfortable giving advice to the hedgehog who would lead the search for his son's arrest. "... Just try and not get too beaten up by Miles, okay?" Shadow smirked and took off out the door. Sonic followed shortly after, leaving Amadeus alone in the kitchen.

"Amadeus?" said a voice behind him quietly. Amadeus turned around and found his wife watching him. "You don't think Miles did any of that stuff you said, do you? He's gonna be alright, right?"

"Of course he is, dear," he said to her quietly. "And I intend to prove his innocence if it kills me. Everything's gonna be alright." He stood up, walked over to her, and embraced her tightly.

I hope, Amadeus thought silently to himself.

"Sally!" called Sonic as he walked into his apartment. "Hey, Sal, you here?"

"I'm in here, Sonic," Sally called back from the kitchen. Sonic walked in and hugged her from behind. He kissed her on the cheek and noticed she was making something on the stove.

"What'cha makin'?" he asked.

"Breakfast," said Sally with a chuckle.

"Oh, gee, that's specific," Sonic replied with a laugh.

"Just some eggs," said Sally. "I haven't had breakfast yet."

"What time is it?" asked Sonic.

"It's about nine," said Sally. "So, what did Shadow want to see you for?"

"That's a long story," said Sonic. "And it involves me getting this." He showed her the bandage on his arm.

"Oh my god," said Sally scoldingly. "Did he take you to a shooting range or something? Ever since that agency issued him a sidearm he's always seemed a little trigger happy with it."

"He didn't take me to a shooting range," said Sonic. "But I did get shot."

"Well, I can see that," said Sally. "What happened then?"

"Tails shot me," Sonic said quietly. Sally's eyes widened in surprise and horror.

"What?" she whispered. "Wha- What happened?"

"Well, it's a pretty long story," said Sonic.

"Start talking now, then," ordered Sally.

"Alright," said Sonic submissively. He sat down at the small island in the kitchen and started retelling the story of how Shadow warned him about Dragon, how they went to Tails house, and about how Tails shot him. After he was done, Sally was sitting next to him eating her eggs, staring intently at him, her eyes wide from the shock.

"So, he's still alive?" asked Sally quietly. "But how? You told me that the entire building fell. Not only was he blown up, but a building fell on top of him. How could he survive that?"

"I don't know," said Sonic. "But I think I know a way to find out." He got up and started walking to their bedroom.

"How?" asked Sally with a cocked eyebrow.

"By making a call to an old friend," said Sonic.

AUTHOR'S NOTE: Okay, see? Not my best. But, for anyone who has read the first story, I think you'll know who the old friend is that Sonic's going call. Anyway, hoping to update again soon. Til then, remember, favorite, review, tell friends, alert, and always carry a banana around in your back pocket. Oh! speaking of bananas, I might be publishing a doctor who/Sonic crossover soon, so any whovians and/or Sonic fans might wanna look out for that. Just sayin'. It's gonna be somewhat epic. Til next time!