I can't kill my own character in its first story!

Although Muctarr's got to go… kidding!

And here's the next chapter,

Where we even find out a little about Tyler's past…

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"Where am I?"

Tyler had finally woken up, but to find him trapped in darkness. Tyler got to feet and looked over himself. All his cuts and bruises were gone, like the fight never happen. Tyler looked around, seeing nothing in every direction.

"Am I…dead?" Tyler started to walk around, but the scenery didn't change; it stayed pitch-black.

"Well, either I'm not dead and unconscious,…or Heaven lied in their brochures!"

Tyler was still walking, except walking in darkness made it seem like he was walking in place. All of a sudden, a light appeared in the distance.

"Oh, God! Don't go into the light, Tyler! Whatever you do, don't go into the light!"

Tyler turned and ran away from the light, but the light grew brighter and brighter, Tyler tried running faster, but the light was catching up to him.

"No! I can't die yet! I have to save my brother!" The light engulfed Tyler, and Tyler covered his eyes to avoid going blind. The light soon faded, and he finally un-covered them. He looked around to see that he was no longer in nothingness, but in a forest. The forest wasn't that thick, a few trees were towering over others. The forest was covered by the night-light, but Tyler was still able to see a little.

"Where am I now? Wait a minute…"

All of a sudden, rustling came from the bushes. Tyler got his fists up and prepared to fight. The creatures came out of the bush and ran right pasted him. Tyler turned and gasped. The creatures were foxes, one was a female fox, carrying an baby fox, no more than a year old, in her arms, and another was a male fox, holding the hands of the female fox and… a little kid fox. The kid was an orange fox with four bangs and orange shoes. Tyler stood in disbelief as he saw that him and the kid had something in common, they had two tails.

"That's…me. This must be just right after Tails was born. But that would mean…"

Suddenly, the trees behind him were knocked over, as robots came through chasing the animals. A small hovercraft came following after. "Don't let them get away!"

"Oh my God. This was when we were captured! I got to help mom and dad!" Tyler took off in the direction his parents and the robots went. He immediately came to a clearing where the robots had surrounded the family. Tyler ran and jumped in between the robots and the foxes.

"Stand back! I won't let you near them!"

Eggman raised his finger and pointed to the foxes. "Seize them!" The robots charged, as Tyler braced himself for the attack. He let a fist fly forward at the closest robot, as his hand passed right through it. Tyler fell to the ground as the robots grabbed the family. Tyler turned around to see his family already in cages. Eggman had captured them and he ordered his robots to take them away. Tyler looked in the cage, as he saw the three sad foxes being taken away. 'Wait, three? Of course, where's Ta-' He sentenced was interrupted by a baby's cry. Tyler looked over to a bush at the edge of the clearing, where the crying was coming from. Tyler ran up and looked in it. There was Tails, still wrapped up in a blanket, and he was crying softly. Tyler reached out his hands to pick him up, only for them to pass through him. Tyler stared at his hands.

'What's going on? Why am I back here? And why am I like a…ghost?'

Tyler looked at Tails again. The small fox had fallen asleep, sucking on his thumb. Tyler's view was cut off by another light, just like the first one. Tyler blocked his eyes to the bright light, to open him and find himself, again in a different location. This time he was indoors, surrounded by a bunch of machinery. He remembered this place, as it haunted his mind every night in his dreams.

"This is where he…" Tyler was cut off by a door opening, and Tyler turned to see his kid-self, his mom and his dad being led in by three robots, with Eggman leading them in. The pointed to two tubes on the other side of the room, and the robots grabbed his mom and dad and carried them over to the tubes. The tubes opened as the robots tossed them in, the tubes sealing up as they landed. The other robot was still holding on to the kid-Tyler, who was looking around confused on what was going on.

"Mommy, when are we leaving? This place scares me."

Eggman sat down to the controls, and started to enter commands into the computer. "If you think this place is scary, just wait until you see what happens to your parents!" The doctor's voice sent a chill down the kid's spine, as it did to Tyler. Tyler knew what was going to happen next. Eggman pushed the final button, as shockwaves were sent through the tubes, causing his mom and dad to shriek in pain. The little kid got real scared.

"Mommy, Daddy, what happening?"

Tyler's mom opened her eyes and looked over to her child. "You have to get out of here!"

"But Mommy-"

"Just do it, son!" yelled his dad. He again screamed in pain as the shockwaves enter his body. His dad took one last look at his son. "Take care of your brother, Co- AAAHHHH!"

Tyler couldn't bear watching anymore. He turned away as he continued to hear the screams of his parents, tears forming in his eyes. The picture of his parents being roboticised was still trapped in his head, as he remembered watching n horror as a kid. It was then that he escaped the robot's grasp and ran, and ran far. Tyler dropped to his knees as his tears came flowing out of his eyes. The screams faded as darkness surrounded him once again. Tyler didn't even notice as he was crying his eyes out.

'How could I let this happen? I should have done something!' Tyler opened his watered eyes as he saw darkness again.

"And now I'm probably dead while my little bro is in danger. I've let him down." He was crying harder now. "I'm so sorry mom, dad! I've failed!"

"So, you're just going to give up?" came a voice.

Tyler's ears perked up. Tyler lifted his head to see himself, a little more serious version of himself. Tyler wiped the bottom of eyes as he stood up.

"Who are you?"

The look-alike crossed his arms. "I'm your inner voice. I'm one of the things that keeps you going when the going gets tough."

"Well, why shouldn't I give up? I've already let my parents down!"

Tyler's inner voice walked up to him. "Dude, there was nothing you could of done. You were only four! I don't see how you could have done something!"

Tyler turned away. His inner-self was right; there was nothing that he could have done that would have saved them. Tears came back to his eyes. His inner-voice appeared right in front of him, making Tyler jump a little.

"Look, you got to snap out of this. Right now, your little brother is in danger. You need to go and save him!"

"How? I'm probably dead…"

"Man, you're not dead! You're just unconscious! Now, if I were you, I would wake up, and go and save your brother!"

"So, what, it's just as easy as saying that I want to wake up?"

His inner-self sighed. "Only if you believe hard enough, man! Look, I've done I can do. My job is to try to get you to do something, but it's up to you to decide if you want to snap out of this and go save your brother."

Tyler turned away again. His inner-voice sighed. "Alright, if that's what you want… I'm sure Sonic will go and save him!"

Tyler snapped around. "What! No way is that hedgehog going to beat me in saving my little bro! I will be the one to save him! I will be the one!

Tyler's inner-self smiled, as a light appeared on his chest. "Alright, if that's what you want to do, then…" The light grew brighter and brighter as it engulfed Tyler.

"Wake up!"

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"Please, Tyler, wake up!"

Kristen, Jerred, and Muctarr were all surrounding the bed, where Tyler laid. Amy was also in the room, as well as Sonic, who felt a little guilty for what he did to Tyler.

"Man, Tails is gonna kill me after he finds out what I did to Tyler!"

Amy was trying her best to comfort him. He's been beating himself up for the past two days, as it was three days ago when he and Tyler fought. Sonic was knocked out from Tyler's Chaos Blast, but had woken up the next day.

"Sonic, it's not all your fault. If Tyler would have told us that Tails was taken captive, this wouldn't have ever happened."

"Well, it also wouldn't have happened if I just trusted Tyler and given him the Emeralds."

It was yesterday that Kristen, Jerred, and Muctarr had finally found Sonic and told them of what they found at Tails's house. It all made since to why Tyler would suddenly want the Chaos Emeralds, and why Tyler wouldn't ever give up in the fight.

"C'mon, Tyler, get up! I know you can do it!" pleaded Jerred.

Tears started to form in Kristen's eyes. "Please, Tyler. You're one of my best friends!" I don't want to lose another!"

Everyone was in their own little pile of sadness, not noticing that Tyler's eyes had started twitch, before finally opening. Tyler squinted as the lights blinded him, and he looked around to see everyone around him looking sad.

"Jeez, who died?" asked Tyler.

Everyone looked at Tyler, who was wide awake. The tears stopped flowing from Kristen's eyes, as they filled with anger. Kristen punched Tyler right in the shoulder.

"OW!! Hey, what was that for?"

"For scary us like that! We thought that you would never wake up!"

Tyler sat up in his bed, wincing a little from the pain of the still healing cuts and bruises. "Aw, c'mon, you all know that nothing can stop me!"

Sonic stepped up to the bed. "Look, Tyler. I'm sorry for what happened. But if you would of told us why you wanted the Emeralds, we could of made up a plan on how to save Tails."

Tyler's tilted to the side in confusion. "How'd you know that Tails was captured?"

"Ahem!" Tyler looked over to Kristen, Jerred, and Muctarr. "We knew that something was up when we found you and your Chaos Emerald missing, so thought what could of happened that would make you take your Emerald, and we went over to Tails's house and found that note."

"Heh. You guys are smarter than I thought you were!"

"Sheesh. He's been out for days and already cracking jokes!"

"Actually, I was serious." Kristen made a movement for Tyler, as Jerred and Muctarr and held her back. They were interrupted when the door opened, as Mavrik came in.

"Good, you're awake. Now, we can go over the plans on how we are going to save Tails."

Tyler tried getting all way the way, but moaned with pain trying. "No way, this is something I gotta do by myself!"

Mavrik laughed. "If you try to infiltrate Eggman's base by yourself, you'll end up back here, but in worse condition."

Tyler had finally been able to get up all the way as he got out of the bed. He was leaning up against the side of the bed, since his one leg was still hurting. "I think I'll manage!"

Mavrik walked up to Tyler and tapped him with a finger. Tyler fell back and hit the ground. "Yeah, I don't think so, at least seeing how you're still recovering."

Tyler managed to grab on to the side of the bed, as he pulled himself back onto his feet. Mavrik had gone to the table on the other side of the room, laying out blueprints of Eggman's base. Everyone surrounded the table, as Tyler stood by the bed. Sonic hadn't walked up to the table yet, but instead walked to Tyler.

"Here, let me help you over."

Tyler stared at him for awhile. 'Why all of a sudden is he so nice to me? This still doesn't make up for his actions earlier.' Tyler sighed as he threw his arm of Sonic, and Sonic walked him over to the table. Amy had gotten a seat for him, and her and Sonic helped Tyler sit down. Tyler looked across the table to see Mavrik, who was staring right back at him.

Tyler finally gave in. "Okay, what do I got to do?"

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So, we learn a little bit about what happened to Tyler when he was captured with his mom and dad. Really sad, very touching…

Oh, and don't say anything about what happen to his Tyler and Tails's parents, I know that's not exactly what happen to them, but that's the way it goes in my story.

Anyway, in the next Chapter –

Now that everyone's in on saving Tails, the team makes up a plan to infiltrate the doctor's base. And when they set that plan into action, will they be able to get in?