The Tails Collision
Chapter 4
Everyone was huddled around the couch. Tails in the middle, Sonic and Knuckles next to Tails, Cream next to Sonic and Amy stood behind the couch.
"I…I did…what?" Tails was very weak from the negative energy overcoming him and on top of that, from getting beat up by Sonic and Knuckles.
Tails couldn't believe what he was hearing.
"I couldn't have hurt you guys! You guys are my best friends!"
"But you did," Knuckles said, "and you were relentless." Tails put his head down in disbelief. Sonic put his hand on Tails' shoulder.
"C'mon, Tails. It's okay. Don't beat yourself up for it." Sonic smiled.
"Why should I? You guys already did it for me!" They all laughed, Knuckles especially since he was practically going to kill Tails.
"Cream and I got scared so we hid upstairs until things settled down." Tails put his head down once again. Amy felt awful.
"Oh, Tails…I'm…"
"Can I…speak to Cream alone, please?" Cream blushed and looked at Tails.
"Uhhh…yeah sure," Sonic said while getting up, "Alright, you hear the man, up, up, up!" He led everybody outside by rolling his wrists and pushed everyone outside and closed the door so that they could have so real privacy. Cream slid next to Tails.
"Yeah Tails?" Tails lifted his head and turned towards Cream with a heartbreaking look on his face. Cream knew that this couldn't have been good.
Outside, everyone was waiting impatiently to go back in.
"What do you think they're talking about?" Amy asked.
"Probably something about their love!" Sonic said while puckering his lips. Amy sighed and looked in the window. They were just talking.
Inside:
"Cream…I'm sorry…"
"Please Tails; I don't want you to think that I don't like you anymore because of what's been hap…"
"I broke our promise." Tails closed his eyes.
"Tails…"
"No…I did. A…and I'm so sorry. Now with everything going on now, I've decided on one thing that'll keep everyone safe."
"What?" Cream got closer to Tails to the point where they were shoulder to shoulder.
"For everyone's safety and yours especially, Cream, I've decided that…we should separate…" Cream started to tear.
"No. No! Tails, you can't do that! I like you too much…I…I…I love you." She put her head down and cried harder. Tails put his arms around her and pulled her into a tight embrace. Wishing that he wouldn't her go, she cried at her very worse. Tails felt completely horrible. Could Cream and he live separate? Cream couldn't, she couldn't go a day without her Tails. He rubbed her back fur, feeling how soft and warm it was, and kept on saying that he was sorry, but it was something that he had to do. All she could do was cry on his chest and worse and worse about what was happening now and what her future was going to be like without Tails.
"Tails…I don't want you to go…you can't…YOU CAN'T!" Tails held her closer.
"Please Cream," he said while brushing her hair back. She looked up at him with her tears flowing from her eyes, down her face, and down Tails' chest, "no more crying. This is getting harder than it should be. I don't want you to be sad; I just want what's best for everyone.
"Well what's best is not best for everyone, especially us. Tails, you can't leave. I…It's just…not right. I would be miserable without you. I couldn't deal with that. I feel so alone when I'm not with you."
"Yes, I know, but it's better than you getting into harm's way or worse…killed." Tails started to chock on the word and started to tear. (But not a lot) He looked down at Cream and she looked up at him. Now they truly knew how beautiful each other's eyes were. They sparkled from their tears and the sunlight. The both put on a small smile, leaned closer and closer to each other until their lips met and came together into a kiss. They knew that this may be their last kiss, so they made it nice and long. Of course Tails didn't forget to wrap his tails around Cream's slender waist. Their blushes washed their faces. They wouldn't let go. They didn't want to. They wanted to spend the rest of their lives together.
Of course they really didn't have that much privacy at all with everyone looking through the window and watching them make out for probably the last time.
"Aww…how cute!" Amy said while looking at Sonic.
"He finally found someone. I'm glad. Who knew it would be Cream." Sonic said. Knuckles said nothing and didn't even look because he had already seen them kiss before. He was just hoping that he and Rouge will bond the same way. Amy and Sonic got out from the window. They started to hear footsteps coming closer to them and heard buzzing. It was Vector, Charmy, and Espio. Since it has been about 7 years, Charmy had gotten much bigger, but still has the same immature and energetic attitude as he always had. Vector had not changed that much, he only got bigger, tougher, bossier, and is going out with Cream's mom. As for Espio, he had mastered many ninja and martial arts techniques and has also grown taller which made him faster.
"Hey! Why's everybody outside?" Vector shouted.
"Well, if you must know, Tails and Cream are having a little alone time inside." Amy said with a snobbish voice.
"Oooooooooooh! Heh heh heh!" Charmy laughed at the sound "alone time."
"What's so funny?" Espio said while looking up to Charmy.
"N…Nothing!"
"Hey! Don't forget the real reason why we're here!" Vector slammed his hand on top of Charmy that sent him descending down.
"Uhhh, I think they already know that Tails and Cream are boyfriend and girlfriend!"
"What makes you say that, Espio?"
"Well, they are having some "alone time" aren't they?"
"Vector…we already know they love each other. You didn't need to come all the way over here to tell us!" Knuckles still didn't move and inch since they ere out there.
"So…you wouldn't mind if we stepped in the house now, would you?"
"NO!" They all shouted but Vector came closer to the door anyway.
To the inside!
They broke the kiss and stared at each other's eyes again. Cream had stopped crying a little. Same goes for Tails.
"Tails…don't go…please."
"I'm sorry, Cream, but it's something that I need to deal with on my own. I don't want you to get hurt anymore. I'm sorry."
"Tails…"
"Good bye, Cream." He pulled away from her, got off the couch and started for the door.
"Tails! Wait! PLEASE COME BACK!" Tails turned his head.
"I'm sorry…it's what has to be done…"
"NO! TAILS!" Just when Vector was about to open the door, Tails came out, running for the X-tornado, and leaving a trail of tears behind him. Everyone was in shock and Vector had been hit hard by the door, bending his snout a little. Amy was disappointed, Knuckles didn't care, and Sonic was sad, furious, and confused all at the same time.
"Tails! TAILS! Where are you going?" He didn't acknowledge him and didn't stop running. Tails was almost at his ship when Sonic appeared in front of him and spread his arms out, like when Tails went evil. Tails still didn't stop and pushed Sonic out of the way knocking him to the ground. Tails boarded his ship and quickly closed the cockpit. He started the ship and took off. All Sonic could do is watch as his brother took off to who knows where for who knows why. He shook his head in incredulity. He walked back towards the door and entered the house. Everybody was already inside and saw that Cream was nowhere to be found. Amy went upstairs to see if Cream was there. She was in her room baling her eyes out. Amy knocked on the door.
"GO AWAY! NOBODY CAN COME IN BUT TAILS!"
"But Cream…"
"GO!" Amy stepped away from the door and headed downstairs. Knuckles was sitting on the couch and Sonic was staring out the window as he saw the last of the X-tornado's engine smoke. Amy was disappointed about how everyone was acting. She was depressed. She walked over to the couch and checked what time it was. It was 5:30 p.m. Knuckles got up.
"Well, I need to go get ready to meet Rough by this fancy place for dinner tonight. If Rouge sees me with blood on gloves, it's over."
"So, it's like a date?" Any perked up a little.
"Yeah, a date." Knuckles was hoping that it was going to turn into a night he would never forget.
"Gotta run Sonic, See ya!"
"See ya, man." Knuckles ran out the door, into his car, and drove over to his apartment. Sonic got away from the window and sat on the couch next to Amy.
"I feel really bad for Cream. It's not like that for Tails to run off like that!" Amy looked at Sonic.
"Yeah. Who know what happened to my bro. They were just doing fine making out on the couch and Tails wasn't "evil" when he came out. He was just sad. He flew off without saying good bye." Sonic thought about what had happened just a few minutes ago with Tails and started to get enraged.
"Fine. If this is the way he wants it to go, then best just leave him and Cream alone." Amy was disappointed at what Sonic had said.
"Sonic...You can't just let them go with at least giving them some comfort. I heard Cream upstairs in her room. She was crying her eyes out. We have to do something." Sonic shook his head.
"I think they should just solve this problem on their own."
"Well, I'm helping." Amy got up and walked up the steps. Sonic shook his head one more time. He watched Amy go up the stairs and then got up. He ran out the door and went to find Tails.
Tails Time:
Tails sat in the seat in the cockpit of his ship. He was still tearing a bit from what had happened. His hands were grasping the controls tightly.
"Why…why me? Why did this have to happen to me? It's ruining my life! I can't be with Cream anymore, and I need to stay away from my friends, too! Cream…the one girl I loved, besides Cosmo. (Sigh) How will I be able to make things right? I can't do this on my own though. I'm going to have to seek help. Someone that is a little smarter than me. Him. He'll know what to do. I'm just afraid to know what might happen when I ask him." Tails had many thought rushing through his head. He then spotted Sonic on his radar. He was following him. Tails didn't want Sonic to get caught up in his problem.
"Sonic…please go away. I don't need your hel..." Then, it hit Tails. What he feared the most had happened now. Tails had yet another surge of negative energy speed through him. He fought it as much as he could because he knew what would happen if his "evil side" had taken control of the ship.
"G…et…out of my…body…you…basterd!" Tails couldn't control himself any longer and snapped. He wasn't Tails anymore. It was him again, and now he knew that this was the perfect time to destroy Sonic for good.
"Well look who's in control now." He looked at the radar to see that Sonic was still following him.
"Hmmm. Looks like a certain blue hedgehog wants to play." Tails made sure he loaded his rocket launchers and set Sonic as the main target. It didn't matter to him if anything else got ruined.
"I wonder where Tails is going." Sonic kept his eyes on where he was running and the ship. Suddenly the ship spun in the air leaving a trail of missiles hurdling towards Sonic. Sonic's eyes grew wide and quickly ran a different direction away from the missiles. The missiles exploded on impact, leaving giant craters in the ground.
"What is Tails thinking?" Then Sonic realized that it probably wasn't Tails, it was the person control him.
"That guy has been giving me trouble but this is insane!" Sonic ran faster to try to get closer to the ship, but it increased in speed and was escaping Sonic's sight. Sonic ran faster and faster as he got more furious at Tails.
"Looks like regular missiles won't work for such a speedy hedgehog such as him. Let me try some heat-seeking ones. Let's se if he'll out-run them!" Tails launched 3 heat-seeking missiles. Sonic noticed them and tried to quickly equivocate from those. They followed him. He ran in circles, zigzags, and other weird paths until the missiles got too confused and blew up. Sonic let out a sigh of relief and caught up to the ship again.
"Ah, a pesky little thing you are! How about I just shoot you down instead?" He prepared his guns, lasers, and any other rapid fire weapon you can think of, and they all aimed for Sonic.
"Ready…FIRE!" Bullets, lasers, and cannons were all firing at Sonic.
"WOAH!" he sped up to get away from the projectiles. They were catching up to him. Sonic ran through a few allies but the projectiles still tried to bring him down. He had to find some shelter. He couldn't find any shelter that Tails could shoot down, so he hid in the sewers. He fell down and landed in a pool of sewage waste.
"Ewww! This smell's going to sty on me for awhile. At least I lost that crazy fox." He poked his head out of the sewers and saw the ship fly by. This was his chance to try to get on board. He ran towards the ship, jumped roofs, getting higher and higher until he finally grabbed onto the wing of the ship. He pulled himself up and worked his way to the cockpit.
"Damn! What in this blasted ship will destroy that hedgehog?" He looked at off the cockpit window to see that Sonic was on the X-tornado.
"Well, looks like he never gives up for the ones he loves. Screw this plane; I'll just deal with him myself." Tails put the ship on Auto-pilot and climbed out of the cockpit. He walked towards Sonic who standing his ground now that they were on a much dangerous place.
"Well look who came up to play; it's my old friend, Sonic."
"WHAT?" Sonic could hear him because of the loud noise from the plane flying.
"I said, look who came to play, it's my old friend, Sonic!"
"WHAT?"
"I SAID, LOOK WHO CAME TO PLAY, IT'S…OH FORGET THIS!" Tails moved closer to Sonic and said it normally.
"Well, look who came to play; it's my old friend, Sonic!" This time, Sonic heard him.
"Where's Tails?"
"Him? Oh, well, he's not here at the moment. But, I'll gladly substitute for him!" Tails got ready to fight, same goes for Sonic. They had to be careful; either of them could fall off.
Tails ran towards Sonic, slid down and grinded his foot across the steel of the ship to trip Sonic. Sonic jumped in the air, avoiding Tails, sped balled down back to Tails. He looked up to see Sonic hurdling towards him. He jumped out of the way and Sonic crashed down onto the ship leaving quiet a dent in it. He quickly recovered. Tails ran up to Sonic and grabbed him be the neck. As he was running, he pushed Sonic against the ship, grinding him against it. He pushed Sonic against a wing of the ship and charged his hand. Sonic shook his head to recover. When he saw Tails' hand hurdling to his face, he quickly stopped him by grabbing his arm. Surges of negative energy run up Sonic arm and electrocuted his body, causing him to let go of Tails arm, allowing him to Sonic into the wing enough to break the wind in half, which it did. There was an explosion, the wing fell off the ship, and Sonic was struggling to get up. He was on the edge of the ship. As the smoke cleared, Sonic could see Tails' figure coming closer and closer, his bright red eyes lighting through the smoke. Sonic was getting scared. Finally, Tails appeared out of the smoke with an evil smirk on his face. He knew he had Sonic cornered and he could do nothing about it. He walked closer to him until he was right in front of him.
"Now, to finish you off once and for all you pest!" Tails bent down slightly and grabbed Sonic's neck and held him off the edge. If Tails let go, Sonic would fall to his death.
"How does it feel…to be helpless and scared? I should know…out of all the times I had to save myself! But now look, who's going to save you now? Not me, not anymore." Sonic was dreading every moment of this. He never thought that something like this was going to happen, especially with Tails. He was bleeding from different parts of his face and his arm.
"T…Tails…don…don't you remember me? It's me…S…Sonic! Your friend…your brother…"
"Of course I remember you…and I always will…even after death." Tails let go and Sonic fell. He watched as he fell lower and lower and lower. Tails kept the same evil smirk on face.
"Good bye, Sonic the Hedgehog…" Tails walked back to the cockpit, brushing the snow on his fur. While walking back, he felt and urge of good race through his body.
"Uhhh! You stay out of this! You're not coming back out again!" Tails held on to the fur on his chest. His body was getting very weak. He dropped to his knees, trying as hard as he could to stop Tails from getting back in control. He fell on his side and kept on trying to get Tails away from him.
"GET OUT OF MY BODY YOU DAMN FOX!" Finally, Tails couldn't hold Tails' strength any longer and gave up. He returned back to normal.
"For a moment, Tails just lay there on the cold, steel of the ship. It was warmer by the engines in the back of the ship, but Tails was at the other end though. He then got up and put his arms around him, shivering.
"W…what am I doing…up here?" He looked in the cockpit to see that the ship was on auto-pilot. Since Tails was up there, he might as well just enjoy the view. He kept his arms around him tightly, looking over the edge at the snow covered forest. Then Tails remembered.
"Oh yeah! I have to see Eggman!" Tails walked over to the controls and, well, took control of the ship. He flew off into white sky...with him right behind him...
