Disclaimer: I do not own Sonic the Hedgehog in any form because if I did it would be a lot better!
Part 4 Is that you Tails?
Long ago Sonic had made the Green Hill Zone a national park in the memory of his long-time good friend Tails.
Sonic awoke to a lurching feeling in the pit of his stomach. The Hogmobile was falling from the sky. Sonic started frantically pulling levers and pushing buttons, but to no avail. Sonic gave up and pulled the eject lever just in the nick of time. The Hogmobile blew up as it hit the ground. Sonic turned into a ball and flew to the ground and observed the wreckage of the Hogmobile. "I shouldn't have let Knuckles fix it" thought Sonic. He was shocked, he looked around and saw that he was in the Green Hill Zone. Memories came rushing back to him. He remembered the good times with Tails, and how he helped tails to destroy the original three DeathEggs. He looked around and saw a plaque dedicated to Tails. He walked over and read it. He wondered who had placed it there but soon his curiosity faded as he saw a Blue figure.
It was Tails, or so it seemed. He was glowing like Obi Wan Kenobi's ghost from Star Wars. Sonic looked over at him and waved cheerily before realizing that this was impossible. He ran over to the still smoking wreckage of the Hogmobile and hid. Tails said, "What are you afraid of, it's just me ya big scaredy cat." Sonic stood up and looked at Tails, "This is impossible" he said. "No, it is not" said Sonic, "Otherwise I wouldn't be here right now, man Egghead sure changed you didn't he?" Sonic thought that he must be dreaming and that he was still asleep in the Hogmobile, but this was not so. Sonic bravely said, "No, Eggman didn't change me, only helped me until I grew tired of his usefulness. Then I had him killed." Tails looked at Sonic and said, "I have come to tell you that you will be haunted by three ghosts, the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future! Just kidding, actually I came to tell you that it's not to late to be redeemed, you have no idea what Shadow is going to do after you and him rebuilds the DeathEgg, you must not let Shadow get away with this!" "It's too late" said Sonic. You are almost as smart as him said tails, and you know that this is wrong. Sonic said, "Well… so what is Shad going to do with the DeathEgg rebuilt?" "Shad!!! You and shadow are on nickname terms?! Ugh!" Tails yelled at Sonic. "Heh heh uh sorry, but what is his plan?" whimpered Sonic. "Just like the question of how much wood could a woodchuck chuck I can't tell you, but I will tell you that he is using the Master Emerald to focus the Chaos Emeralds' power. Your IQ is up there so think of the possibilities." Sonic thought and realized now that Shadow had all the emeralds the possibilities were endless and terrifying. Tails said, "I have to go but I hope that I can count on you to do the right thing." Tails started to fade, and Sonic said, "Wait." Tails replied, "What?" Sonic asked, "What is it like being dead?" Tails replied, "You'll know tomorrow, just kidding. But seriously, it's not so bad so don't feel so bad. And with that Tails was gone.
He saw a headlight growing bigger and could see Shadow in the Sonic Advance 3 style Hogmobile approaching. Shadow yelled to Sonic, "What happened to you?" Sonic told Shadow, "You wouldn't believe me if I told you, so I won't bother." Sonic salvaged the blueprints from the wreckage and attached the Master Emerald to the Hogmobile. Sonic rode behind the Hogmobile on the way back to Sonicland but couldn't stop thinking about Tails the whole way back, and just what was Shadow planning?
Sonic got home just as the sun was rising. He told Shadow that he would talk to him tomorrow about all of this and went to bed. He wondered to himself as he went to sleep, maybe it wasn't too late for him after all.