Several Hours Later…

Sonic sat in the lobby of the hospital, waiting to hear if Tails had survived or not. They had said that Tails had lost a lot of blood and might not make it. When Amy walked in.

"Sonic?" She asked, "Is Tails going to be alright?"

"I don't know Amy." Sonic Replied.

Sonic really didn't want to talk about it, he couldn't think about what life would be like without Tails. He spent every day with him, he couldn't think of it.

Amy was thinking about the same thing, Tails was the brother she never had. He was there for her when she needed him.

Amy finally spoke, "I hope he's going to be alright."
"I hope so to Amy"

In Tails' room…

Tails lay on his hospital bed, muttering illegible words. However, if anyone knew what was going on in his head, they would know exactly why.

In Tails' mind…

Tails woke up, slowly opening his eyes and looking around. All around him was darkness, when he tried to stand up he couldn't and he realized he was tied to a chair.

"Nice to see you're awake," Spoke a voice from the darkness.

"Who are you?" Tails demanded, "Where am I?"

"You are inside your mind," The voice replied.

There was something familiar about the voice, but something was different. If he had to describe it, he would have said it sounded hostile and deeper than most.

"Would you like to know who I am?" The voice spoke.

Someone stepped out of the darkness towards, and upon seeing the stranger Tails audibly gasped.

The stranger was himself, but the copy of himself had changed. He had dark red ruffled fur. A tattered red cape behind them littered with holes and the end was frayed to different lengths he also wore a gold crown on his head, adorned with gemstones of all types. His eyes were empty, save it for them glowing red.

"Look at what you could have Tails." The dark incarnate of him spoke, waving his hand to the darkness.

"Nothing?" Tails questioned.

"No, revenge." Waving his hand to the darkness again, they darkness changed to a castle in a city, with Tails siting on the throne. "Revenge for Sonic always ignoring you and taking all the credit for himself. Revenge on Eggman for taking your parents from you. You could be a king!"

"Never!" Tails exclaimed, "You just want me to become a villain! Like you are!"

"But you see Tails, I am you, we are one and the same. I am what you could be, I could give you power."

"I'll never listen to you!" Tails replied turning away.

"Then, I'll destroy everything you love!"

The vision of Tails as a king faded away to show the world in ruin, cities destroyed, sky clouded… And Tails standing in the middle of it.

"I won't let you!" Tails exclaimed.

"You can't stop me, I'll take control of you just when you least expect it. But for now, good by Miles Prower!"

Tails vision then began to black out to the sound of evil laughter.

Tails jolted awake in his hospital bed, panting and covered in warm sweat.

"Geez! Tails you gave almost gave me a heart attack!"

Tails looked over to his side to see the speaker, Sonic. Whom was sitting next to his self-proclaimed girlfriend Amy Rose.

"Sorry Sonic," Tails apologized.

"Its fine," Sonic replied. "We're just glad you're okay.

"From what I can tell," Amy added. "It was pretty nasty."
Tails looked at the bandage wrapped around his torso to see it was slightly stained red.

"Anyway," Sonic began. "We can head out whenever we want. They just said you need to be careful."

"I'll leave when I want!" Tails exclaimed.

Sonic was taken by surprise, Tails was seeming unusually hostile with the last sentence. Meanwhile Tails heard a voice in his head, "I'll take control of you just when you least expect it," it echoed.

"Sonic," Amy whispered. "I think Tails needs sometime alone."

"Amy," Tails replied. "I'm fine, just a bit disoriented."

"Alright," Sonic said. "Let's get out of here, this place is giving me the creeps."

"Sonic…" Tails groaned.

The three of them stood up and walked out of the room.

Back at Tails' house…

After leaving the hospital, Tails walked back to his house and got to work on his arm. He decide to upgrade it to allow it to change into an energy cannon. Currently he was just finishing up with it.

"Done! Now to test it."

Looking around the workshop Tails saw he had several targets set up for this kind of occasion. Tails aimed at one and fired destroying the target in one shot.

"That was more powerful than expected," Tails spoke to himself. "This could destroy building supports, I'm going to turn down the power."

Tails began to walk over to his workbench when he stopped himself. "Or…" He began before stopping himself on what he was thinking. "No!" He exclaimed, "I'm not going to hurt anyone!"

Suddenly Tails heard his counterpart speak to him again, "Tails." It began.

"Get out of my head!"

"Alright," It replied. "Guess I'll have to take over you instead!"

Tails suddenly collapsed to the ground grabbing his head in pain before briefly losing consciousness. After about 3 seconds Tails stood up and looked around the workshop and all the tools around him, finally settling on a Chaos Emerald sitting in the corner.

"This is going to be fun…"