Book Title: Sonic: Collection of Short Stories

Chapter Title: See You Again

Main character/s: Sonic and Tails

Written By: PurpleAntiheroine

Idea Taken From/Insipred From: The Song, "See You Again By: Charlie Puth and Wiz Khalifa©" and the movie, "Fast and Furious 7©."

Requested By: (None)

Rated: PG-13

Disclaimer: I don't own the characters included in the story.

Characters are owned by SEGA©

OC's belong to their rightful owners.

Hope you all like it!


"No!" That piercing cry was all he heard as darkness enveloped him.


It was supposed to be a normal day, Sonic knew it too well. He had it memorized: he'll stop old Egghead's 'evil' schemes, eat his favorite chilidogs, get chased by his fans and admirers, run away from them, and do it all with his bestfriend, no, Tails who is like a little brother to him. It was supposed to be like this but Sonic realized that it might not be always like this. Though, he didn't expect this'll happen sooner.


"Tails, do you copy?" Sonic asked through his communicator as he continued to avoid Eggman's missiles, where they reached the mountainside near the forest.

"Yep. I'll be there in 5 minutes." The young fox replied through the other end.

Sonic sighed in relief, thankfully, Tails was there to back him up. He has been running from Eggman or hours and it's starting to exhaust him. He looked up at his opponent and was just in time to barely dodge an upcoming missile. It exploded nearby, trapping the speedy hero in a sticky substance that he couldn't remove himself in.

He stared in horror at his arch-nemesis, who was now laughing wickedly at his supposed victory. Luckily, his little brother arrived just in time and fired his own missiles. The villain dodged the missiles, sending more at the two-tailed fox. This went on for a while until the evil doctor fired heat-seeking missiles.

Sonic felt himself smile for he knew his little brother could easily dodge it especially being a great pilot... no, he was wrong; Tails wasn't able to evade the missiles. The tornado, Tails' infamous plane, crashed to the forest, where Sonic couldn't see.

Hope slowly faded as he desperately shouted Tails' name and received no response. Sonic struggled to release himself but no avail, Eggman slowly made his way to him, his robot army following behind. He waited for it to end, to wake up from this nightmare.

Eggman slowly raised his hand to give the order but a blast stopped him. He turned to see the barely standing yellow fox, holding a gun. The evil scientist commanded his army to attack but Tails acted quickly. With his quick thinking, he fired a blast to the rocks above them which caused a rockslide, burying the army and, hopefully, Eggman for good.

Tails hobbled to where his dear big brother was and freed him with his gun as the blue blur took notice of the injuries and wounds. Sonic couldn't care less whether his hair is still covered with the gooey substance or he's exhausted, what's important for him: is to hug his little brother and bring him home with his remaining strength.

"Let's go home." Sonic said as he wrapped Tails' arm to his shoulder. "I got you, little brother." Sonic whispered to comfort the injured fox.

He carefully supported his little brother, whose right leg, left arm, and one of his tails was injured. He tried to contact their friends but Sonic realized that his communicator must have been damaged from the fight and Tails' communicator was destroyed along with his plane.

Their remaining strength and luck for them to arrive safely were the only things they could rely on. Hopefully, their friends will took notice of their long absence.

They came across a huge gap and the only way to get to the other side is through a giant log which acts as a bridge. Sonic felt a bit of guilt since the bridge that once made it easier to cross, was destroyed during one of his fights with his nemesis.

They carefully crossed the bridge to avoid falling to the depths of the gap. Sonic's foot suddenly slipped as they made it halfway.

'Damn it. Damn it. Damn it.' He cursed internally because he knew he couldn't correct himself.

Luckily, the log had a branch and he grabbed it while clutching Tails on his other hand.

Tails looked in horror as he saw Sonic's grip slowly slip. "S-Sonic. Let go of me." He tried to contain his tears.

"W-What are you talking about?" Sonic asked in panic.

"You know exactly what I'm talking about." Tails replied.

"I'm not gonna do it!"

"But I don't want you to die!"

"Neither do I!"

"The citizens of Mobius need you! Our friends need you! So you need to live!" Tears streamed from Tails' face.

"But without you, I'm already dead inside! Tails, I'm not letting you go! You know, you've been a brother to me."

"I know but as your brother, I'm encouraging you to do the right thing."

"By letting you fall to your death?" Sonic exclaimed, tears starting to well up.

It was ridiculous to see a man crying or anything dramatic at all, Sonic grew up believing it. But now, seeing his little brother grasping his hand for him to live was heartbreaking. He was left with 4 options: use his remaining strength to save his brother, loosen his grip from the branch and let themselves fall to death, try to save both of them from their end, or to save himself.

Surely, he wouldn't pick the last option even though Tails suggested it himself; he knew the third one is impossible; he considered the first option since Tails' is too young to die and he's got a long life ahead of him.

"Please, do it for me." Tails whispered.

"There must be another way."

"I hope there was but this is reality. One way or another, death is inevitable. It is always bound to happen. Sonic, please live your life, be the hero you are always meant to be."

"Tails..." Sonic didn't know how to reply anymore.

"Thank you, big brother." Tails said softly. He loosened his grip from Sonic's and closed his eyes.

"No!"

Tails smiled as he let himself fall, hoping his brother would honor his death by granting his last request.

His eyes widen as memories flooded his vision. He realized that it was true that you could see your entire life flash behind you as your end comes.


Amy was pacing back and forth on the porch while Knuckles and Cream sat on the stairs.

"It's been hours since we saw them. Maybe, we should go search for them." Amy said anxiously as she stopped.

"Ms. Amy's right. What if something happened to Mr. Sonic and Mr. Tails?" Cream asked while patting Cheese's head.

"We shouldn't worry too much. They're both capable of protecting themselves." Knuckles assured.

"No offense, Tails is intelligent but he's not that strong." Amy said.

"Mr. Sonic wouldn't let anything happen to him." Cream replied, seeing Amy's anxiousness grew.

"Who knows, they must be on their way back." Knuckles stated.

Amy sighed, "I hope so."

Their eyes travelled back to the pathway and noticed a figure walking its way to them.

"Sonic/Mr. Sonic/Sonikku!" They exclaimed and ran up to him. As they reached him, they took note of his present state: purple substance splattered on his quills, his once bright emerald eyes were dull and hopeless, and more importantly, Tails was nowhere to be found. The trio knew right away that something's wrong.

Amy spoke up, "Sonikku, what happened? Where's Tails?"

And with that, Sonic broke down crying on his knees. As they saw the grieving speedster, it quickly clicked on their minds. They comforted Sonic and ushered him inside. There, he tried to narrate what happened.


(Next day...)

Cream and Knuckles enlisted the help of Shadow, Silver, and Blaze to find the two tailed fox's remains. Sonic described where Tails died so Shadow used his chaos emerald and teleported themselves to the bottom of the pit. Blaze used her pyrokinesis and shed some light to the dark place.

The sight before them was horrible to say the least. The bloodcurdling devasted body of a yellow colored fox, despite the blood covering it was recognizable, was no doubt the body of their fallen comrade.

Cream gasped and covered her eyes, Knuckles eyes widen and his body was frozen in shock, Silver couldn't believe his eyes, Blaze gazed at the sight with sadness in her eyes, Shadow wore his usual stoic self and looked at the body with his cold eyes, Amy gasped and hugged Sonic to cover her eyes from the sight, and Sonic stood there, staring helplessly. Silver offered to carry Tails with his ESP but Sonic insisted otherwise.

He said with depression in his voice, "Let me carry him, Silv."

The snow white hedgehog didn't object since he knew how significant the young fox is to the blue blur. Shadow teleported themselves again, this time to Sonic's house. Amy suggested to hold a funeral to commemorate Tails' death, the others agreed to it and promised to help the best they could. They planned to do just that and left Sonic with Tails' body for some privacy. Sonic stroked his little brother's head and wept softly and bitterly.

During the next 2 days, Amy finished the plan and started executing it. Silver and Shadow did their best and made the coffin themselves, using some parts from Tails' plane which they found around the forest the other day. They modeled the coffin to look like his plane and the others were proud of their work.

Cream and Blaze decorated the place where they will held Tails' funeral for a few days and also adorned flowers to the coffin that will hold the young fox's corpse.

Amy and Knuckles decided to made the funeral private so they personally invited each of the friends they knew. Their friends replied condolences as they invited them and promised to attend the funeral.

After, Amy and Blaze cleaned Tails from the blood staining his body and they even tried to stitch up his open wounds as Cream seeked her mom, Vanilla, to make a presentable suit for Tails to wear which the older rabbit didn't hesitate.

The day of the funeral came, the funeral was held at Tails' place, it was neatly decorated with flowers so was the biplane shaped coffin, a podium was beside Tails' coffin and chairs were lined before the coffin for the invited guests. The fox himself was laying on the coffin as if he was cursed to sleep eternally; the once cheerful young fox wore a white colored suit.

Their other friends arrived some time later, greeting condolences to Sonic and the others, and looking at the peacefully slumbering inventor before sitting on the chairs.

A few minutes later after all the guests showed up, Amy approached Sonic and said, "Sonikku, it's time to deliver your eulogy." Sonic didn't reply but nodded.

Amy stepped on the podium and spoke up, "Good afternoon everyone, we're gathered here today to commemorate the death of our fallen ally, Miles "Tails" Prower. To tell us more of our friend, I have here Sonic to deliver his eulogy."

Amy stepped down the podium and handed the stage to the blue speedster as their guests applauded a bit. Sonic took a glimpse of his dear baby brother and sighed heavily.

"Good afternoon. Honestly, it gives me great sadness to even deliver this eulogy." He started. "But since Tails was special to me, I'm going to do this for him." He paused for a few seconds before continuing, "We all know Tails, that's for sure, that's why we're all here after all. He was an aspiring inventor, the youngest and the best one to be exact; he even built his own plane at a very young age. He was also a great doctor, heck, he could even be a mother hen sometimes." He smiled softly as he remembered a flashback; the guests also smiled a little.

"He's also a pilot, the one and only pilot of his own invention which he named: Tornado. He's also an ally to all of us; a friend to many; a fighter, who may not be the strongest but one of the bravest for he faced enemies that might be out of his league but did it anyway. Most of all, he's my beloved little brother although most of you knew it already. We had great adventures together, we travelled across the world and he was always there to help the best he could." He paused again as tears threatened to fall. He continued, "We will miss you brother. I know someday we'll be together again. That's all, thank you." Sonic politely said and stepped down the stage as his closest friends excluding Shadow hugged him. He finally broke down sobbing as he let them hug him.

Hours passed, they decided to bring Tails to his burial place. Silver insisted to carry the coffin with his ESP, Knuckles and Vector offered to help as well; Sonic agreed. Vector, Knuckles, and Silver carried the coffin with their strength, ESP in Silver's case, as they had promised. Everyone else trailed behind, they were either crying, just lost in thought or swallowed by sorrow.

As they arrived at the burial site, the trio carefully placed the coffin in its proper place to be lowered down slowly later. While everyone took some rest, Amy and Cream offered their friends some flowers for them to throw to their friend later, which they gladly accepted. Amy walked to Sonic who sat on his chair looking lost.

"Sonic. It's time." Amy reminded him softly. Sonic looked up at her and nodded a bit. He slowly made his way to the coffin and placed the flower on top of it. Knuckles cranked the coffin to lower it down as Amy placed the flower.

'Why did you have to go? Sonic needed you the most rather than the rest of us combined.' She contemplated as she gazed at the coffin.

Cream placed a flower too and began thinking, 'Mr. Tails, like Mr. Sonic said, you were a valuable ally and friend. I shall never forget the things you did for us.' She went back to her seat while

Knuckles quickly threw a flower as he continued to lower it down. Knuckles' mind began to wonder too, 'Team Sonic may never be the same without you.'

Shadow threw a flower since the coffin has been a bit lowered to the bottom, he reluctantly looked with cold eyes but deep inside he also regret to see the fallen two-tailed fox. 'Of all the things you've done, this was far the worst. Though, faker would've done the same if you didn't volunteered to die first.' He thought.

Silver and Blaze threw a flower too. 'Sonic's a total wreck without you. What you did was pretty self-less; rest in peace, Tails.' Silver thought.

'You have a pure heart, no wonder you have a special place on Sonic's heart.' Blaze thought.

More and more of their friends threw flowers and spent some moment of silence to commemorate Tails' death. Knuckles finished lowering the coffin. Now, Shadow and Silver covered the hole with dirt as some decided to leave with a heavy heart.

Amy thanked their friends for coming as she smiled forcefully. The two hedgehogs finished covering the hole, Blaze invited them to go home, which they did together with Knuckles and Cream.

Amy then walked up to Sonic, who stood in front of the Tails' burial place; she put her hand on his shoulder and said softly, "Sonic, let's go home." Sonic nodded bitterly as he gave one last look to his little brother's grave.


Sonic stared at the ceiling, looking tired for he had long sleepless nights. For days after Tails' funeral, he wasn't able to sleep for he blamed himself although Amy and some of his friends tried to talk to him about it; he just snapped at them angrily.

Shadow even talked to him once saying, "You should be happy, faker. Even though Miles died, Eggman was killed too and it was all because of him. You should be proud of him."

Sonic thought of what he said but to lose his friend and supposed brother even though his arch-nemesis died, wasn't going to make him happy even a bit. For he preferred to beat up Egghead nonstop everyday and have Tails by his side to do it than his current situation right now. But Shadow is right even though Sonic knew it before, Sonic is proud to have Tails. And with that, Sonic cried his heart again.

His grief soon stopped as his eyes closed and sleep took hold of him.


(Sonic's dream)

"Hello?" Sonic called as he walked around but he couldn't see anything besides a white background. Then he turned his head and saw a figure, its back facing Sonic. Sonic's eyes widen as he saw two familiar tails from the stranger.

"Tails?" Sonic inquired. The figure turned to him with a smile which made the speedster, for the first time since Tails' death, smile. Sonic ran to him, wasting no time, and hugged him as tight as he could. Automatically, tears fell from his eyes and slid down his face.

"I-I missed you so much." Sonic said as he felt Tails' touch once again.

"I know." Tails replied, smiling since he could feel his brother again.

"I-I'm so happy to see you again." Sonic said as he unwrapped his arms from Tails.

"I've noticed." Tails chuckled softly.

"I-I don't know what else to say. Y-You're here." Sonic said as he placed his hands on Tails' shoulder.

"Yes, but not for long." Tails replied.

"Y-You're leaving, again?" Sonic asked.

"I never left. It's true that I died, but whenever you need me and even if you didn't, I am always by your side, watching and making sure you're alright." Tails explained as he cupped Sonic's face with his hands.

[A/N: I'm reminding you, NO Yaoi (M/M) here.]

"They always say that. How could I even know if you're here by my side if I couldn't even see you?"

"You just need to feel with your heart that I'm gonna be here for you. You just need to believe it. Besides, I'm not the only one here for you, our friends are there for you too. You just need to let them help you because they are willing to." Tails replied with a smile then he continued, "It's time for me to go and for you to wake up. I promise, I'll visit you in your dreams whenever I can and I will always watch you. Oh before I forget." Tails opened Sonic's palm and said, "Here." The young fox closed Sonic's hand and smiled, "Goodbye, brother."


Sonic opened his eyes and slowly sat up on his bed. He felt something on his hand, he slowly opened it, he gasped but smiled afterwards. He stood beside his window and said, "You're always in my heart, little brother." He smiled as he looked at the sky, holding a golden ring given to him by his beloved little brother.