"I...I didn't do it..." Tails' feelings had been devastated. He watched on the screen as his friends believed the so called 'evidence'. "I didn't do it!" He screamed and slammed the off button for the TV. "They actually believe i'm the culprit, i'm still so young. How could anyone think I tried to kill someone?"

Tails pulled himself together, and laid down on his stomach, stretching himself out on the couch. "Even Sonic..." As he heard knocking at the door, Tails didn't even bother to get up since he knew who would be waiting. "What do you want?" His voice was filled with sadness.

"Tails, listen to me," Sonic began to explain what he thought, "i'd like to believe you didn't do it-"

"You heard me?" Tails began to wonder if anyone else had heard him scream.

"Yes, I heard you. But the evidence points to you as the criminal. The police sent me here to talk to you about if you were willing to bring yourself in."

Tails buried his face in the cushions, Sonic had been like a brother to him for so long. But now he was siding against him. "I'm not going to confess to something I didn't do!" Tails would simply refuse to believe the evidence, he knew it hadn't been him. "I can't believe you, Sonic." His friends no longer trusted him.

"Okay, Tails. Since you won't come willingly, i'll be back with the police force later. But i'll give you enough time to calm down." Sonic, instead of speeding off, simply walked away from his former friend's house.

"I guess that will be enough time for me, but I won't be here when you come back, Sonic. I'll be long gone when you return." Tails sat upright on the couch, and stretched his arms out above himself. "Since Sonic doesn't trust me, he's expecting to catch me off guard." He concluded before realizing what that meant. "I'm going to have to leave earlier than I thought."

Tails snatched up the rose and walked up the steps to his room, knowing he would have to hurry to get out safely. "I won't be able to take much, otherwise they'll think i'm even more dangerous than i'm supposed to be." With this in mind, Tails retrieved only a few items from his room. A blanket, a picture of him and his friends to remind him of the good times when he felt lonely, and a heart shaped photo frame with a picture of Cosmo inside.

"I can get food and water from the trees and rivers." Tails told himself before heading towards the first floor. "Goodbye everyone, you won't be seeing me again for quite a while." He turned out the lights in every room of his house, then walked towards the workshop underneath. "I won't be coming back here for a while either." Tails pulled a switch on the wall and tarps dropped over everything in the room.

"I'm leaving now, Sonic. You won't find me anywhere near here." Tails left through the backdoor and into the outdoors, he immediately took off running away from his house into the wilderness. As he ran though, he decided to check the time. The sun was beginning to set, and Tails realized he'd need a place for the night.

"Why didn't I arrange this before I left?" Tails, once again, got no response. He ran through the forest until he spotted something out of the corner of his eye, upon turning that way Tails made out a cave entrance. "That will have to do." Tails ran into it and sat down on his rear.

Sonic however, was just arriving at Tails' house. "Okay guys. Just go in and please, don't mess with too much of his stuff." The police force nodded and walked over to the front door, a man standing to the left and right of it. A third twisted the door handle and found it to be unlocked. "Why would Tails leave it unlocked?" Sonic followed the police inside to see what they'd found.

"He's not here!" The lead officer informed after realizing that the back door had been opened. "We'll send out a large scale everywhere within the distance he could have gone. Sonic! you will search on the ground and if you find him, bring him in." Sonic slowly nodded before running out the backdoor.

Tails, where did you go? Was Sonic's one thought as he ran through through the trees, searching for his former two tailed buddy. "Tails!" Sonic called his name, but knew that he was smart enough not to reply.

Tails sat in the cave, staring outside as clouds began to roll over the sky. "How could I be accused of such a thing?" He tried to think of an answer, but came up empty handed. He heard the noise of a helicopter and receded further into the cave. Which didn't go that far in, but had a few large rocks. It passed overhead without the slightest sign of knowing Tails was there. "I need to find someplace a bit more hidden. Someplace that almost nobody goes to." But as he thought, he heard Sonic calling his name.

"Tails! If you're here, come out!"

Tails hid behind one of the rocks in the cave, barely managing to hide himself. "No way am I revealing myself." He whispered so he couldn't be heard. Sonic began to walk past the cave, but not for long as Tails let out a sigh of relief, thinking Sonic had passed him by. "Come out, Tails."

"Sonic! We need your help back at Tails' house. Come right away!" Sonic gave an annoyed look at the radio he'd brought before scurrying back towards the fox's house.

"That was a bit too close for my liking." He rearranged the rocks in the cave so that there was a type of barrier between him and outside, but still a way in and out if need be. "Well, I don't think I can do much else." Tails laid down on his stomach and placed the blanket on his back, he moved one tail to use as a pillow while using the other one to move Cosmo's rose closer to him. He soon fell asleep in that position.