Tails

Two years passed like hazed memories. Of course, everyone mourned the death of their favorite hero, especially Amy. She fell into a rut of despair and disconsolation. Not even Cream could help her. She left three months after the memorial service. No-one knows where she is, and given our current situation I don't think anyone cares anymore. I admit Elias did send a search and rescue team out, but it wasn't really for the sake of Amy, than the sake of his stability as Regent King of Acorn. Knothole and Metropolis were devastated by the battle between Sonic and that-tha-th-that thing that took my brother away from me. I know the truth about what happened. Knuckles knows what happened. Amy knows. And probably Shadow. But that's it. Everyone lives in ignorance of Sonic's sacrifice. Even now, they are still looking for the monster that did this to Mobius, saying they will 'bring them to justice' and all that yada-yada. What they don't know is that he was in fact S-.

...I can't talk about this. Can we change the subject?

"Of course."

Thank you. Maximilian, the Old King, was killed and most of the Royal Council were as well. Knuckles went back to being same old boring Guardian of The Master Emerald, being lonely as he always is. Cream and Vanilla went to the countryside to live with The Chaotix, saying they needed some time to 'reflect'.

"Do you still visit them?"

Yeah, a little. Cream kinda forced me to, what with all the letters and whatnot. But it feels stale.

"Stale? How do you mean?"

It just doesn't feel the same. Without him. He knew how to bring out the best in everyone. He could turn any frown upside down. But now, he's...gone.

"It's okay, Miles."

DON'T CALL ME THAT! My name is Tails, it was given to me by...

"I understand...Tails. What about the others?"

Eggman's gone, unfortunately not dead-gone, just gone. He disappeared when Sonic's body was found in the rocks. I honestly don't care. I hope he's dead, because what he did to Sonic gives me anger enough to kill him myself. Shadow's missing as well. He and Rouge went on a mission, (don't ask me what, it's classified) and only Rouge came back. She keeps on saying it was her fault, it was her fault. She won't tell us what. Silver and Blaze went travelling around places. Marine is still in her pirate ship, this time with Sticks, a badger of some sorts. Princess Sally is probably with Elias or something. I don't know 'cause I haven't been in touch with anyone other than Cream for about six months. I just work in a mechanic's shop.

"What about Tikal?"

What about her?

"How is she? Don't you know about her?"

I don't want to talk about her.

"Why not?"

She let it happen.

"I don't under-"

She let it happen.

"What do you mean by-?"

SHE LET IT HAPPEN! She watched as the first person that I called family jumped off a cliff and killed himself. She could have helped, BUT NOO, because she's apparently an entity connected to some stupid gem, she can't interfere. She's sorry, she says. Rubbish, I say. She had no friends other than that Chaos thing, so she decides to take one of mine. Then she has the audacity to come up to Sonic's memorial and say fake words about how 'he meant the world to her'.

BULL-CRAP.

"Don't you think-"

Don't tell me how I should think! No-one needs to tell me how I should think! Just because they think I'm a stupid kid, I suddenly can't think for myself. Well, lemme tell you something...I know more about the world than you will ever. You just think life is simple: get a deadbeat job, marry someone, have children, and then the cycle continues when you die. That is not life. Life is about adventure, romance, action, that sort of thing. We enjoyed the fast life, defeating Eggman and his goons. We used to travel everywhere, while we were saving the world. We were all inseparable. But now, Sonic's gone...we broke apart. We started slowing down.

"I think we should stop now."

Yes, we should.

The therapist got up, shaking slightly.

"Same time on M-" she started, her voice wavering.

"Don't bother," I reply, suddenly tired, "This isn't working."

"I understand, Tails." She walked out of the blank room silently.

I slowly got out of the lavender sofa as well and started trudging towards the door. As I opened the door that led to the reception, I noticed someone sitting on a chair. She had her hat over her auburn hair, as if trying not to be seen, and her piercing turquoise eyes scanned everything in her sight. She slowly locked her eyes on me. I couldn't tell what species she was. She looked like some squirrel crossed with a chipmunk hybrid...Oh.

"Hello, Sally," I said, walking to the figure.

"Hello, Tails, how are you?" Was the curt, polite reply.

"Meh."

"Good."

There was a silence as the other Mobians in the room chatted away.

"Look, Sal, what do you want? I kinda have a job, I'm meant to be at." I was getting impatient.

"Let's talk on the way."

"What's this about?" I didn't have time to move. If she was going to tell me, it has to be now.

Sally sighed and handed me a paper. There was a red seal on the folded paper. I looked at it twice, then looked at Sally.

"What is this?"

"The king's letter of recall," Sally replied.

"Why does he want me for? He hasn't needed me for two years."

"Circumstances have...changed. And it's not just you. We've sent for Bunnie, Rotor and Knuckles."

"So..."

"So, it means," and Sally said this part with a smile, "the Freedom Fighters are reforming."