Fire and Ice 2: Redemption
Chapter 7: Return to Green Hill Zone
Tails Felt panic rise up in him, as the floor bounded strait for him. He fought the panic down, and flicked a switch, and pulled a lever. The mech folded into a plane, as the bottom screeched against the tarmac of the road. He pulled up as hard as he possibly could, his reflexes were sharpened due to the adrenaline high. He barley made it, as he saw the other mecha explode on collision. He opened the emerald tray, to see it empty. His mecha needed it for flight... What could have happened to it? He shrugged, and flew back to his home and workshop in mystical ruins to ponder what to do next...
Upon arrival, he picked up his emerald monitor, a small PDA about the size of his palm. He saw most of the emeralds, including his own all moving together... There were two which weren't with the rest... He picked one to get, it was off the western coast, on a small island in Polynesia. He thought he remembered it distantly...
He jumped in the plane, blasting out of the shed and down the runway, sharply taking off, and swirling around until he was heading west. It was a medium length journey, which was greatly shortened simply due to the fact it was mostly at mach 3.
Upon landing he jumped out. He was sure he knew this place... He looked around, and one think caught his eye. A strange rock shape... It looked the loop on a roller coaster... The rock had a strange chequered pattern to it... It was with dark and light brown... He jumped up, and flew with his tails, looking on the radar for any signs of the emerald.
He saw it in a clearing, near a strange metallic wreck. He picked up the stone, then examined the wreck. It looked to be a chequered ball on a chain... It was rusted... But it was quite obvious... Tails then saw another rusty shell. On close inspection it seemed to be a chassis for a car or some vehicle... It has four wheels and a section at the front... Which seemed to be designed to hold something. A metallic glint caught his eye, as he saw a drill head embedded in a small trench, which it apparently made. Tails stopped. He thought. He remembered.
Sonic looked Robotnik in the eyes. "Can't catch me, RoBUTnik, can ya?" The doctor was fuming, and slammed his foot in the accelerator, chasing the hedgehog, trying to impale him on the drill. Sonic backflipped, and booted the control panel, before landing behind the vehicle. Robotnik spun around, and faced the hedgehog. One more hit and he was finished... He pressed a green button, and the drill on the front fired off. This caught Sonic off guard. The drill was heading strait for him, and would tear him up like a rottweiler tears up a ragdoll. He couldn't react, he was finished. Suddenly, something collided with him from the side, knocking him clear of the drill, which embedded itself in a wall. He looked up to see the 10 year old face of Tails, smiling down at him...
Tails sighed... That was a day gone by, in the past... He seemed more solemn as he began to walk back to the plane. "Intense isn't it?"
He looked around for the source of the voice, there was nobody there... He carried on walking.
"How times change..." He stopped. He wasn't imagining the voice... Just then Sonic stepped out from behind a tree.
"Sonic?" Tails seemed surprised... His face straightened suddenly. "What do you want?"
"Look Tails... I'm sorry for being a jerk... Just remember, if there is any way I can make it up to you..."
Tails sighed, and walked to the plane, flying home... Wait... Why was Sonic there anyway...? He ignored the thought, and concentrated on flying.
