A/n: IT'S 4 IN THE GOD DAMN MORNING! ARE YOU HAPPY NOW? You are all lucky I can run on little sleep really well. No update because I was lazy, forgot about the story and then got my motivation back at the beginning of August. Oh well longer wait means longer chapters so oh well.

Why did the gods or whatever made the decisions of this world hate him so? Orphaned at birth, love of your life breaks your heart, parents are found and killed in front of him, and now after finally winning over Fiona…she was to die, with him to following shortly after.

"What a fitting end for such a pathetic woman." Eclipse said in his mocking tone, but this one sounded different…almost disappointed.

Tails felt his whole world crashing around him, only adding to the already terrifying realization that he would die within a few minutes to an hour at best, if he wasn't killed first. He had failed, failed at succeeding in his life-long goal of avenging his parents. Killing Scourge was only half of it. He only had one chance left.

'Charles …if you can hear me…please tell me.'

'Having trouble?'

'Charles…thank god I'm not out of options yet.'

'What?'

'Long story short….'

'What? Say something.'

'What happens to you if I die?

'If you are trying to blackmail me it won't work.'

'Care to explain?

'Because of my ability to switch minds with you at any time I really wanted, just switching bodies with this mindless one was an easy way for me to obtain a body of my own again. It was linked to your mind so switching over and severing the link was fairly easy. I no longer need to save your ass to live anymore... probably, not sure yet.'

'I expected an answer…something like that. Does that mean you're not going to help me?

'I don't need to help you. Don't you understand? You have all the power you need to kill that big mofo."

'Tell me though…what happened to Foxie?'

'Miles took her; this body was far too weak to challenge him, one unfortunate downside. I will outgrow it eventually though.'

'What plans does he have for her…

'Depends...'

'Since you've been inside me my entire life…please tell me what happened that night Scourge killed my parents. I don't remember hardly anything about it after I saw Scourge inside my house.'

'I've been wondering if you would ever ask me that…but I simply don't have the time. But I'll make a deal with you, I'll watch through your eyes and if you kill that man while saving Fiona at the same time…I'll tell you.'

'Why do you…want me to save her so bad?'

'Because she is important to you and you have lost too many people that hold a piece of your sanity.'

'But…I can't…I'm not strong enough.'

'Pathetic is what you are. Scourge had you beaten and what did you do? You killed him. What's any different now?'

'A lot of things-'

'Stop making excuses.'

'I'm not making excuses! My body is broken and beaten and I'm pretty sure I have a fucking rib in my lung!'

'You told me you would save her no matter the cost. Did you lie to me?'

'No I…Didn't lie to you…but I can't use my arms, and he crushed my amulet…I just…well I didn't want to resort to that option.'

'What option are you talking about?'

'A one way street without Fiona's amulet, I won't be recovering from this either.'

'Do it.'

Back in the real world no longer inside of his own mind, Tails waited until Eclipse was no longer looking at him to strike. Once Eclipse finally looked over at Autumn to give the go ahead and kill Fiona, it gave him the second he needed to escape the large panther's iron like grip.

"Let go of me." Tails said

Before Eclipse could respond, he had suddenly found himself being launched straight into the group of baddies that was huddled around Fiona. As well as knocking right into the fairly shocked Autumn and most of the baddies behind her as well.

Fiona seeing the chance to escape started to run towards Tails while everyone was distracted. But upon seeing Tails she stopped dead in her tracks, in front of her was something she didn't believe was her Tails any longer.

The creature that stood before her was in possession of Tails's body but was no longer his calming golden colored fur; it was now all pitch black surrounded by a searing hot black flame. Only his eyes and his stomach were not black, they turned blood red. Along with three demonic shapes or creatures that resembled birds. Before she tried to turn and run one of the baddies had noticed she was running and grabbed her and forced her to the ground and with her hands behind her back she couldn't really fight back.

Before the mobian could do anything a hand had wrapped itself around the man's throat and effortlessly picked him off the ground before violently squeezing the man's throat effectively cutting off blood and oxygen to his brain.

"You don't have the right to even look at her." Tails threatened the fire around him intensifying enough that Fiona could smell the burning flesh on the poor mobian's throat, but for some reason the flames didn't hurt her at all, they actually made her feel safe and serene. Eventually he stopped kicking and sputtering and by that time Eclipse had recovered and didn't look happy in the slightest.

After throwing the dead corpse away Tails turned his attention to undoing Fiona's cuffs by melting them with his hand. "Leave, I'm not putting you in danger again."

"No, no I won't leave…I know what will happen to you after you power down. You can't make me." Fiona stated crossing her arms to further drive her point.

"Fine, I understand." Tails smiled at her while placing a hand on her shoulder. "That's one of the reasons I love you." He then snapped his fingers and watched with a heavy heart as she vanished from this dimension to the one both of them were born in, knowing full well that this would probably be the last time he saw her.

Tails could hear the seething rage behind Eclipse's voice the he was desperately trying to hide now that his trump card was no longer within his grasp that he could use against the super powered fox glaring daggers at him at the moment.

"Where did she go? You can't use your powers here without some kind of repercussions."

Tails shrugged "I'll never tell you, and I'm pretty sure that the pure amount of chaos energy I drew simply neutralized the small amount of anarchy energy, in comparison, around here. So until I power down than I, well I'm pretty much invincible."

"I…see…then I am fine. If that is your super form, as you call it, then allow me to show you mine." The only change that Tails saw from Eclipse's transformation, other than the large power boost, was that his black fur had changed into a golden color.

"Am I supposed to be impressed by what I see here? Even if this is your most powerful form then you are severely outmatched."

"Cocky aren't you? No matter I'll make this quick." To Eclipse's men it seemed that he simply vanished too fast for their naked eyes to see until what sounded like a sonic boom resounded from where Tails was standing.

"Surprised? I guess you would be, I mean usually this is the other way around for you. Isn't it?" To Eclipse's great surprise Tails had grabbed his fist and stopped his attack dead in its tracks and his golden fur, along with his skin, was beginning to burn from the fire that surrounded Tails and was clawing its way up his arm.

Eclipse quickly pulled his hand away from Tails, or tried to if he wasn't holding onto his hand and squeezing with bone crushing force.

"Let go!"

Tails smirked devilishly "Why of course, after all I need to thank you for popping my shoulder back in." True to his word Tails released Eclipse's hand and in a flash disappeared from sight. Only to reappear by the crowd of support that Eclipse had and used a smaller version of chaos blast against them, vaporizing all of them without a sound.

"Aha…ahaha...this power…it's amazing, I knew these things were stronger but not this much. I think I need a little better of a test than a bunch of weaklings." Tails stopped his maniacal thoughts long enough to focus them onto Eclipse and have a feral grin threaten to split his face.

"Eclipse, neither one of us will walk away from here alive. Now show me this untouchable power that everyone is so afraid of." When he finished he popped his other joint back into its rightful place

"Very well, maybe it is you who will finally show me power worth destroying. Who knows, you may even be close to matching me."

"You fool, I didn't match you. I surpassed you."

With Fiona back on Mobius

A quick bright flash of chaos energy had alerted Sonic that someone had just crossed the dimensional border and he expected to see both Tails and Fiona if the footage that Rotor was able to recover was genuine. What he didn't expect was a single person to show up right in the middle of his study, and he certainly didn't expect to see just Fiona to appear and begin to frantically search herself and looking for something he was unsure of.

"Um, Fiona would you care to explain why you're having a panic attack on my study floors?"

"WE-" Using his supersonic speed Sonic managed to put a hand over her mouth before she woke anyone in a ten mile radius.

"Shh, calm down and speak a little quietly, if this were normal circumstances I would have killed you just now for sending Tails to that deathtrap. But Sally told me to trust you and Tails. Now I'm going to remove my hand but I want you to be quiet."

She nodded in understanding and after Sonic removed his hand from her mouth took a few deep breaths to steady herself. "We need a guaranteed way to and from Moebius."

"Where's Tails? He left with you didn't he?"

"He told me to leave a fight that was way over my head and I refused to leave him and he used chaos control to send me here. He can't stay there or he's gonna die after he's finished with his fight. Please I know you two are like family, he needs help right now. He has my warp ring but he probably won't remember, not like he'll be able to move afterwards anyway."

Sonic raised a hand to stop her rant. "Enough, the only reason I need to help Tails is that he needs it. He and I may have our disagreements but like it or not, we've been family for a long time, and unfortunately I'm really the only thing he has left since that day. I refuse to abandon him, let's go follow me."

Sonic led her to a bookshelf where he drew an apparently random book and listened as an audible click was heard as it was pulled after so far. "Really? A secret bookshelf passageway? So overused?"

"Just come on, there's a warp ring down here. Kept it in case we decided to destroy Moebius for good. How are you gonna find out where to go once we come out by the way?"

Fiona noticed how he emphasized that she was going back to that world. "It's Tails, I'll see their fight from a mile away. He's really flashy."

"Just go, you and Tails may have made amends but I still hate your fucking guts. So get going." Sonic said not even looking at her while he started up the star gate.

"Geez aren't you a barrel of sunshine."

Just before she jumped through the portal Fiona looked back towards Sonic and mumbled "thanks."

She wasn't sure he heard but just as the portal closed Sonic mumbled "you're welcome."

Back to Eclipse & Tails

Multiple loud clashes in mid-air showed that Tails and Eclipse had started their brawl to the end, although one of them showed serious strain after each clash.

"Wow even with the super emeralds you're still so fast. Maybe I should bring this up a notch."

'He was holding back!'

"I'd like to see you try." Eclipse attempted to keep an illusion he still was in control of the fight.

Something black and blurry tackled into Eclipse with enough force that he could feel multiple ribs crack under the pressure. He attempted to bring his elbow down on the back of Tails's neck but before he could a chaos spear had sent him crashing through a few trees before exploding.

Tails laughed darkly at the new hole in the landscape that currently was burying his foe. "This is pathetic, so pathetic that it almost isn't worth toying with you to destroy your pride. Almost. Now get out of there, it'll take more than that to finish you."

After nearly a minute of no movement from Eclipse's crater, a small thinner version of an anarchy spear flew out of the rubble and caught him severely off guard at the blistering speed that it currently was flying at him, but luckily he was faster and managed to bring his hand up to deflect it. But unfortunately this spear had much more piercing power than a normal spear and ended up going through his hand and his shoulder.

"FUCK!" Capitalizing on Tails's slipped concentration Eclipse appeared behind him and brought both his hands on the back of his head and watched as he hit the ground with a satisfying show of destruction of the terrain.

After landing a good distance from the wounded fox, which other than the wound in his shoulder and a small gash on his forehead which a steady amount of blood flowed from caking down his fur mixing with the sweat from his first fight, looked no worse for wear.

"It looks like you're not as fast as I originally thought. I think that was a good warm-up either way. Shall we get serious now?"

"Yeah, let's go."

'I'm growing tired of watching, let me kill him already.'

'Silence, just be a bit more patient. Or would you rather be severely outmatched? After all you lost to Eclipse once in his base form what makes you think you could take him like he is now?'

'That was only because you forced me to lose to him!'

'Shut up and just wait a little longer.'

Both Tails and Eclipse fired a spear at each other and the resulting explosion created a large dust cloud. And suddenly on Tails's side of the cloud one of the thin spears flew out again, but this time he was smart enough to dodge it. Having enough of waiting Tails charged straight through the cloud and into Eclipse, who this time was prepared for it and braced himself for the impact.

Once they had hit the ground Eclipse used both feet to launch Tails into the air, but something he didn't see was Tails wrap his tail secretly around his leg until it was too late and he was slammed face first into the ground. When he attempted to roll over his head was crushed under Tails foot into the dirt again and again until he could no longer see properly and cutting up his face badly.

He could vaguely tell that Tails's hand was green and he realized he needed to step it up a notch and threw out a desperation punch, hitting him in the face and making him drop Eclipse. Wasting no time he threw multiple of the tiny anarchy beryls with only one being able to make contact, going through Tails's stomach, in his confused state.

Tails surrounded the two wounds on his body with his healing chaos energy and suddenly realized a sure way to kill Eclipse for good would be to flood his body with chaos energy and kill his body permanently…but it would drain his power ridiculously fast. Killing any chance he had to get back to his dimension before he would be killed by the massive amount of anarchy energy he would absorb once he powered down.

"Alright I'm through with you!" Tails shouted as he fired a chaos spear that hit Eclipse dead center while he was trying to stand.

The spear didn't go very far, it just hurt very much when it exploded and shot him back into the crater Tails created when he exploded. When he stopped rolling he weakly attempted to stand but before he could, Tails landed on his chest hard enough to break on of the injured ribs from his first tackle, and puncturing his lung.

"There, you're finished. I've won. I can't keep wasting energy on you."

'Now, take him out.'

'With pleasure.'

"Any last words Eclipse? I'm willing to give you that. "

"Just…a-"

"No you don't." Too fast for Tails to react Miles had landed directly behind Eclipse Miles had slashed his throat with his claws.

Looking at the only being on the planet that had the answers he had come to this godforsaken deathtrap in the first place for in the first place bleeding to death, filled him with anger a nearly bottomless amount of it to boot.

"MILES!" Tails screamed out, his anger fueling the fire swirling around his form the temperature rising to a ridiculous degree forcing Miles himself to cover his face and back away from a fear of burning to death from the intense heat.

"I needed him to get the answers I needed to find out the mystery behind my parent's murder! And you just destroyed the only chance I had of getting those answers!" The angrier Tails got, the more his flames temperature went up forcing Miles to keep backing up.

"Listen I have news you'll actually want to hear!"

"WHAT!"

"It's about your parents!" Tails did what Miles had expected him to do and calmed down, if only for a moment.

Finally being able to take his arm out from in front of his face Miles breathed a sigh of relief and began explaining. "Your parents, or at least your mother, are alive."

If he expected any kind of negative reaction from Tails, he expected something other than just a blank stare.

"Where- Suddenly Tails's entire body erupted in an incredible blaze that was so hot the ground where Tails would pick up his feet; the ground had turned to glass. -do you get off trying to lie straight to my face like that?"

Unfortunately Miles had expected this kind of reaction and began the hard and dangerous part of calming down a walking tank aka Tails.

Raising his hand over his eyes again with just a small gap between his fingers so he could see Tails Miles kept his pace even with Tails stepping back only when he did to not out run him or go slower and burn to a crisp by getting close.

"I don't know if your father found a way to survive that night but I know for certain that your mother is alive. I can tell you exactly where-oof!" Suddenly Miles found it extremely difficult to breathe. With speed only capable from his dark hyper form had punched Miles in the stomach hard enough to keep him alive, showing considerable restraint considering how angry he was, but just barely.

Spitting up a frightening amount of blood through his mouth, Miles collapsed to his knees holding his stomach before falling face first into the pile of blood he had just coughed up. "I noticed you couldn't take the heat." Tails paused to pick Miles up by his chest fur so he could look in his eyes while he spoke.

"So I turned it off for the moment just so I could feel your bones crunch instead of melt."

'You're fucked.'

'Shut up!'

Tails placed Miles down so he could stand on his own, and immediately afterwards hit him in the face it a frighteningly powerful punch that sent him out of the crater by a mile. Upon hitting the ground he rolled and bounced painfully across the dirt leaving a large scar in the terrain, directly in front of a certain squirrel/chipmunk hybrid and her men.

"What the fuck? What is that…" What was left of Alicia's sentence died in her throat when she saw what Miles now looked like. The bionic eye in his head was smashed from the punch and his right arm had been ripped off at one of his falls at the elbow and leaving nothing but ripped wires and destroyed circuitry sparking everywhere. Along with numerous cuts and lashes across his body.

Despite her own hatred for the fox she still found herself running over to him and attempting to place his head on her lap and called for a medic over from her squad. "N-No medicine…he's…he's coming…run…Alicia." Miles managed to sputter out. Fear visible in his one eye.

"Shh Miles, don't talk she'll take care of you. Wait who is coming?"

"T-Tails."

"Wait, HE did this to you?"

Miles weakly nodded "It was my fault…I should have thought…more about the…consequences of saying something… like that to him."

"Don't worry he'll pay for what he did to you."

"ATTENTION!"

All of Alicia's men suddenly stopped their idle conversation and stared at her. "When Prower shows up, kill him and his bitch Fiona after."

A loud "YES MA'AM!" was heard from the men as they fiercely obeyed their leader's orders.

"No don't kill…him. I'm not sure… you can. But don't kill…him before…oh no." The pure unbridled terror in Miles eye was Alicia needed to know he was here.

"Boy I hit you hard, well harder than I intended at least." Just then Tails noticed Alicia and her army behind her.

"Well…this might be a pain. I don't want to kill a bunch of innocent people."

Alicia was seconds away from giving the order to fire, but seeing Tails as he is now had frozen her temporarily in fear. Fortunately for her on of her men fired anyway.

"Not happening." Tails merely laughed as he deflected the bullet straight back through the barrel of the unlucky bastard who fired. The gun exploded his hands shrapnel wounding multiple men near him leaving them furiously burnt and bleeding profusely.

"Who here has family to return to?" The random question had brought about many questioning faces in the crowd.

"Answer the fucking question!" Quite a few people shook their heads in fear of any future outbursts.

"All right, quite a few of you have families. How many of your family members know where you are? What you do? What you're fighting against?" Only a few people could directly answer the questions, the others seemed to begin developing itchy trigger fingers.

"How many of your families would be happy that Eclipse is dead?" Nearly every person shook their heads in agreement, the others however…

"What the Hell is the point of this!? There are a couple hundred of us here, we could easily overpower you. Why do you keep asking us questions?" One of the soldiers at the front had said, a fox like himself only red and yellow where yellow and white normally would be.

"I'm getting to that if you had any sliver of patience or common sense. I just deflected a god damn bullet and you think all of you alone could overpower me? Regardless, how many of you there are. How many of you know that Eclipse is already dead?" Murmurs and shouts of shock and disbelief was all he could hear before he shut them all up by firing a rather harmless chaos spear into the dirt in front of the crowd.

"That's better, if you want to know who killed the black smear of stupidity that he was. Ask that guy over there being cradled by your leader. He did it." After finishing his sentence he walked over to where Miles was sitting and simply held his hand out for something. But Miles simply shook his head.

"There's none of it left...It takes months to make it...I'm sorry."

"…Then where is my mom? I'll see if you actually lied to me."

"My arm…there is a compartment in it…but I don't know where it went…she told me to give that to you when Eclipse was killed."

"I have a good idea of where it landed. But why didn't you tell me anything about this when I first came."

"That has to be explained by her…I just wasn't allowed to speak of it. Help me to my feet Alicia." Eventually he managed to get back on said feet, shakily but he did.

"I suggest leaving…before zone stops you." Miles warned before weakly walking away.

At this Tails eyes widened in realization and fear. He had just sent Fiona through another interdimensional portal back to his world and he had already felt the portal she opened to get back here.

But he hasn't been able to feel her presence since it opened and that confused him. Usually her presence was the easiest for him to keep track of. But for some reason as soon as she reappeared she vanished.

'Dammit! Charles are you there?'

'What…What do you want?'

'Eclipse is dead, Fiona is safe, I'm gonna die, you have some explaining to do.'

'No time…get here quick…Fiona…Foxie got away…they think I'm Miles…play along when you get here.'

"Figures, family or Fiona…god dammit...this isn't fair." For a moment Tails almost decided to get Miles's arm then and there. But something inside of him felt like it died when he was about to choose his mother.

"Fiona…I'm coming." Tails then snapped his fingers and chaos controlled himself to Charles.

Appearing at the location he believed Charles was had brought him to the area he had entered the dimension in the first place. But waiting for him was a very shocking surprise. Beside the zone police was Sonic with his arms crossed with a large frown on his face, almost as if he regretted his presence.

The only noticeable officer was Zonic for he was the only one with no helmet. "Miles Prower." He began, "you are wanted for attempting to destroy the anti-Mobius world and everyone dwelling in it. Therefore you are sentenced for life in the Zone Prison."

Tails scoffed at Zonic's claim. "That's absurd; ever since I got here I've done nothing but fight for this fucking place! I didn't even want to be here until she pulled the guilt card."

Fiona knew perfectly well who 'she' was and she completely agreed. If she wouldn't have gone to him in the first place he wouldn't be in this position.

"But I don't regret coming here. I had forgotten what helping people felt like, I became so self-absorbed when mom and dad died. I refused to fight for anyone anymore." Tails noticed Fiona's depressed expression so he indirectly told her that he was glad she went to him for help. By the smile on her face he knew she understood.

"Touching, but I'm not here to hear you preach Tails. Do it." Zonic nodded to the guard holding Fiona prisoner. He attached a small collar like device to her neck and after pressing a few buttons, noticed Tails was beginning to make a move.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you." The mobian said, the voice sounding strangely familiar.

After he said that he pressed a button on the keypad and Fiona obviously received a large electrical shock nearly sending her into a fit. The other guard attempted to place the same collar on Charles but he had head butted him hard enough to crack his helmet down the middle.

"Don't fucking touch me!" Charles said spitting on the guard's uniform. With the helmet broken and removed Tails could see that the officer was the zone version of himself. While Charles attention was focused on the zone officer, he didn't see Zonic kick him in the back of the skull and slip on a collar while he was on the ground, and giving him what appeared to be the same level of shock delivered to Fiona.

"Fiona, Charles…I wouldn't do that again if I were you Zonic or whatever your stupid fucking name is. How did you find us anyway?"

"Why don't you say why, eh Sonic?" Zonic said looking back towards Sonic.

"I called them Tails, you needed to be stopped. You were destroying-"

This is where Tails temper finally snapped. "Sonic, you and I may have not been on the best of terms lately. But I never stopped thinking of you as family. You saved me from certain death as a child. For that I will always be grateful." Once again the flames around Tails's body erupt again fueled by his anger.

"But this I cannot forgive." Just as Tails was about to launch an attack he noticed the glint in Sonic's eye the very glint he used to look up to when he was younger and he understood everything.

The second he saw Sonic flinch…they moved and in a few moments the zone officers would be useless.

Tails ducked an officer's pitiful attempt at a sneak attack to place the collar on his neck and gave him a uppercut to the jaw landing the assailant on his back. Sonic had to use chaos control to move fast enough that Zonic couldn't keep up with him and laid out the two guards standing by Charles in a manner of seconds.

Nearly in an instant the zone version of Sonic and Tails were all that remained. "You bastard! You lied to me!" Zonic said in barely restrained fury.

"Do you honestly think I would stab family in the back like that? I could barely think of an excuse on the spot. I also knew, thanks to Rotor that you were going after Tails soon so I devised a plan with everyone." Sonic explained rubbing his nose just to anger Zonic.

But while Zonic fumed the zone version of Tails began to giggle and then laugh crazily, before suddenly tackling Tails at speeds only visible by Tails. Leaving Zonic against 3 to 1 odds, minus one hyper form fox.

"All right this seems a little more fair don't you think?" Zonic said grinning.

"What makes you think you can fight all three of us and win?" Sonic questioned with a confused look.

"Well for starters, you're an old weakling." Zonic said pointing at Sonic. "You don't have a chance in Hell of fighting at my level." He said pointing at Fiona. "And you…I don't really know how powerful you are."

Slowly a grin broke Sonic's face as he threw off his cape and crown adopting his old look when he used to fight Robotnik. "Let me show you how much an old fogy like me can fight when I get serious."

Fiona simply shrugged. "I'm standing between two people that can break the sound barrier with ease. Do you not think I'm outclassed?"

Charles didn't grin; he went a step further and super grinned. "I have a promise to keep so I can't die here."

'Charles, he's got one too. This is as strong as I can make your body right now.'

Charles felt as though his strength had doubled. 'Whoa, now that's a difference.'

"All right, let's go." Zonic said as his prime self and Charles charged him.

With Tails

He had caught him off guard at first but once he had started to get serious, he realized he severely outclassed his opponent. He was just hard to fucking kill. No matter how much damage he did to him he kept getting back up and healing almost instantly.

He dodged another swipe his claws from his opponent and delivered a quick series of swipes of his own to his neck, chest, and stomach sending muscle skin and a fuck ton of blood flying. His foe dropped to his knees grasping his throat trying to stop the blood flow before collapsing.

This is how he fought; take a lethal blow, regenerate, surprise attack. It was a different amount of time each time, getting shorter and shorter but still unpredictable. "No mercy." After saying that Tails flew up above his foe and dropped from a ridiculous height directly to his foe's spine. He felt the spinal column break and even snap where he had landed.

Getting a small amount of joy from hearing his foe's bones break and hear him gasp as multiple vital organs getting punctured by bone fragments. He knew that hurt like a bitch. Rolling him over Tails crouched down and stabbed his hand past his ribcage and wrapping his hand around his heart.

Eyes shooting open just before the organ donation Tails had to let go to avoid a nasty swipe aimed at his jugular vein. In frustration he yelled "what the fuck are you? A fucking vampire? What does it take to kill you?" In his ignorance he nearly got his head taken off from a series of slashes delivered with faster speeds than the last volley of strikes.

Getting tired of dodging, Tails grabbed the attacking limb and viscously pulled on it to draw him in close enough to knee him in the stomach as hard as he could. When he collapsed unable to breathe Tails tried something different and sent a small amount of chaos energy into his system. Surprisingly he immediately did a full turn and finally managed to hit Tails, several times, in his face finishing with a kick that Tails was able to stop while retreating a good twenty feet.

'The Hell is going on…he just keeps taking and taking and he just keeps getting up stronger each time!'

Wiping the small amount of blood from his mouth he decided that engaging this…thing in close quarters was quickly becoming a bad idea. "What is your name? I know damn well what you are. Fucking demons are crazy."

"My name? Strange thing to be asking in the middle of a fight. But I suppose this is just a way to stall for time while you figure out how to beat me. It's…do you want my name or his name?" He said, his demeanor changing almost on a dime.

Tails was a little surprised on how quickly he could change his demeanor in the middle of a fight to the death.

"Your name. Whatever it is you're called in hell, or wherever it is you're from."

At this his bloodthirsty smile and insane giggles came back, before he stopped suddenly and answered Tails's question. "You don't need to know, but it's like everyone else's name from my world. It's Ziles or Zails, whichever you prefer."

That was all the warning he got before Ziles charged him again. Giving him as little time to react to his attacks as possible. Luckily they were back to being as slow as when he had tackled him. "All right I'm sick of this!" Becoming fed up with Ziles's constant regenerating Tails took drastic measures.

After slicing open Ziles's throat again, before he could collapse again Tails reached out and pierced Ziles's chest with his hand and out through the other side. Finally he could see that he had struck some kind of fear judging by the looks of his eyes. But suddenly Ziles smirked and before Tails could figure out what it meant. He felt both of Ziles's tails pierce his body ended up puncturing his lung and his chest.

Even in hyper form like he was Tails could see the sides of his vision becoming blurrier before he fell to his knees, arm sliding out of the hole in Ziles's chest cavity, and could only watch as Ziles pulled his tails out of his body and slip the same collar on Tails's neck that was on Charles and Fiona's neck.

Before he passed out the last thing that he felt was going out of his hyper form, meaning that he was never going to wake up or find out if his mother was real. No he was going to spend the rest of his life in the zone prison. Holding out for as long as he could Tails eventually succumbed to the darkness.

Back with Sonic, Charles, Fiona and Zonic (Rolls right off the Tongue don't it?)

Zonic was not faring very well at all, sure he had his body permanently frozen in its prime, and he constantly fought people of equal or lesser skill. But even he wasn't able to stand up to someone who knew his fighting style move for move, or expect to fight someone nearly twice as strong as himself.

Giving in to his injuries Zonic finally collapsed to a knee bleeding profusely from a cut on his forehead and a large gash in his stomach that resembled a stab wound from a large tail. "You…won't get away…with this." Zonic spat out with so much venom in his words it almost dripped from his mouth.

Letting his younger, cockier, and more arrogant self take dominance over for a bit Sonic rubbed his nose. "Well it's like this, when you fight for the right reason you can't be beaten. It's like a law or something."

Zonic was about to retort when he noticed in the corner of his eye that his fellow officer had succeeded in subduing their largest threat. Getting a little cocky himself Zonic smirked victoriously before slowly rising to his shaky legs.

"If that's the law, then we just broke it." Zonic said putting emphasis on we.

Charles was the first one to notice the victorious glint in his enemy's eyes, he had seen it many times when warriors he thought had potential to become strong had challenged him for his right to rule the crown and lost. After they would return that very glint would always appear before he wiped the floor with them, thinking that they were finally strong enough to stand a chance.

"What do you mean…oh fuck." Reaching a frightening conclusion Charles turned around only to have his suspicions confirmed.

Tails had been beaten, and now they were outgunned completely. "No…what how…how did you beat him?" Charles said before an unfamiliar sensation coursed through his body, grief and fear. Two things that back in Hell were something he had only ever felt once in his life time.

Fiona noticed Charles's words first and turned around to see something that not even the strongest person in her life that she had ever met was unable to do. She was shocked beyond words; if Tails had lost to him what chance did the rest of them stand?

'Damn…'With Tails out of the picture, Charles was now the only one remotely strong enough to challenge the other fox, but was it possible? Tails had been in a nearly invincible form that dwarfed his own current power.

"All right Ziles…let's wrap this up." Nodding his head in agreement Ziles dropped the body of Tails unceremoniously to the dirt, causing his previously damaged body even more pain as he coughed up more blood. But said cough put an end to Fiona's fear that he had died relieving her beyond words.

Bad luck seemed to follow around the blue hedgehog as the other zone police were beginning to regain consciousness and before they knew it all three had been surrounded by ten highly skilled fighters; forcing the three of them to squish together back to back. "Fiona, give Sonic your charm or whatever it was called. It won't kill you to not have it for a while."

Reaching into her back pocket while keeping her eye on the officers in front of her she handed the charm to Sonic's waiting hand. "What's this for?" He asked.

"It'll let you use your powers here; when Tails tried it without a crystal it hurt him to use his powers. Pretty badly I may add." Charles answered.

"You three take him…you three take her, Ziles and you two take him…and you help me out here." Zonic ordered with a tone that reeked authority.

Sonic didn't respond but he did slide the charm over his head and ended up with three of them that looked as stupid as they were muscular. Charles ended up having to face off with Ziles and two others he didn't label as a threat. Fiona seemed to get the luckiest, maybe because they underestimated her, because she had to deal with two female looking cops and an actual guy with funky looking gloves with points on the end of each glove.

"Spilt up on three, it'll become a complete clusterfuck if we don't." Charles whispered just loud enough for the others to hear.

As he said this they all decided to get ready for a really good fight. "One."

"What's your name man? You seem close to Tails."

The zone cops began getting ready to charge. "Two."

"It's Charles, remember it. When you're done get back here as fast as you can."

They charged them. "THREE!" All three of them shouted, Fiona using her superior agility to use the male's body as a flipping board and getting behind all three of them and taking off running drawing the cops away from the clearing into the forest. Sonic spindashed through the legs of one of the muscle head's legs tripping him up and taking off away from the clearing as well heading to his own clearing a distance away.

Charles, on the other hand, simply gave finesse the bird and tackled Ziles into the nearest tree. While his opponent was stunned Charles swung his claws at Ziles's neck attempting to eliminate the biggest threat quickly. Unable to respond quick enough to dodge the strike completely, Ziles took most of the claws to his back, ripping his back muscles to shreds.

Charles backed off in order to dodge the attack of one of the other cops kicks aimed at the back of his head. He grabbed the offending leg in mid strike, surprising the officer when he was thrown straight at Ziles who was attempting to get back up without using his back. Fortunately for Charles the last one was much slower than he was and he was able to counter him by delivering a swift series of punches and kicks to various parts of his face and torso. With a final high kick he took the helmet off of the cop as well as making him leave the ground blood flying from his face.

Upon closer inspection it was obvious that his last kick was powerful enough to permanently incapacitate his foe. 'One down, two to go.'

When he looked back towards the other two he could see that both of them had gathered there senses and saw their defeated comrade. Ziles looked furious with him while the other one simply vomited onto the ground out of fear.

"I was under the impression that you guys were the elite of the elite. Guess I was wrong." Charles had been right when he labeled the other two as nothing near a threat.

"Maybe now, you realize just what you're up against." Charles threatened killing intent spilling out of his body and he could see the officer next to Ziles quake in fear. Ziles though, visibly snapped and broke the neck of the mobian next to him.

"I've grown sick of his cowardice, and I've grown sick of you too! I'm gonna enjoy beating you like I did him."

At this Charles smirked victoriously, if he could smirk anymore it literally would have went around to the back of his head. "I don't think you are going to be beating anyone."

Ziles smirked right back at him. "I'm not sure you've noticed, he sure did, but…thanks to him I'm immortal."

"What do you mean him?"

"Heh, you know he asked the very same question, I didn't answer him either. But enough talk…It's time for some bloodshed." Ziles finished pointing at the weakened form of Tails

When Ziles finished talking, Charles could feel the atmosphere change and suddenly, he didn't feel very confident in his own abilities. "What are you talking about? No mortals are immortal only a few beings even I know of can be immortal…and none of them are loyal to me."

At this Ziles actually looked confused. "Loyal? The only person stupid enough and begrudgingly strong enough to even attempt to forge an alliance with my people within recent memory was Hell's present king Charles something or other. He failed then and never tried again."

"Because your people's immortality is a power that is to be feared and respected. That strength of your race allowed you to defeat even my father's army, even mine…I don't even know where to begin with you."

"Are you saying that you are Charles? HA! That is hilarious! The all-powerful king of ours, trapped in a mortal's body? By a race as weak as the collectors? That is so-" Unfortunately for Ziles his monologue session was rudely interrupted by Charles fist sending his opponent tumbling back a few yards.

"The collector's as a whole were weak yes that is true. But they are easily the most feared species to ever exist. But the collectors I met…" Charles was almost unable to stop himself from talking about them. If he did that, then everything would have been ruined.

"YOU BASTARD! I was fucking talking! All right I'm done with you!" Ziles then charges the unmoving Charles who refused to acknowledge the oncoming threat. Surprisingly though he stopped the offending hand with his right hand and kicked Ziles knee in the direction it wasn't meant to go, also making the bone stick out at an odd angle.

"The collectors I met would've killed me and you both by now." Charles then squeezed Ziles hand hard enough to begin cracking the bones in it, bringing Ziles to his knees, well knee, and crying out in pain as his hand was crushed. Even if he was immortal it still fucking hurt.

"So what! The collectors were a bunch of weaklings-AH!" Charles once again cut off Ziles rant by squeezing hard enough to completely fracture his hand and keeping a progressively harder squeeze on the mobian's hand kept him from being able to regenerate it.

"Shut your mouth and answer my question. Can you regenerate a lost limb?" At Ziles's silent reaction he took it as a no.

"Thought not." Immediately Charles kicked him as hard as he could while pulling in the opposite direction with his hand equally hard. Although it didn't have the intended effect of ripping off Ziles hand, it took his whole arm instead.

"It looks like I can kill you after all, I thought your race was immortal…I guess it isn't after all." Charles mocked his severely wounded opponent who gave him such an angry glare, it made him laugh.

"Dammit! Zonic! Help me!" But after no response Ziles began looking furious, curiously Charles looked back and saw an unmoving Zonic with a smirking zone officer twirling an empty syringe. But on closer inspection Charles saw that the cop was actually someone much better.

With Sonic and the Three Stooges

Sonic had developed a very easy way to fight giant muscle heads much stronger physically than he when he was a teenager, spindash all three at once, bounce from one to the next giving each of them a good smack.

But that didn't seem to be the case with them who after losing most of their brain cells to multiple kicks and punches to their already relatively empty heads, they seemed to react less and less to his attacks, almost as if they were adapting. Quickly figuring out that his attacks seemed to no longer be doing any damage he was forced to back off into the trees to reconsider his attack pattern.

'Alright, this has happened to me before…should I just say fuck these guys and start using some chaos energy? What's that shaking?' Sonic's train of thought had been rudely interrupted suddenly when the very tree he was standing on was picked up and hurled with him still in it straight towards the clearing he just ran out of.

Yeah it was a good time to start throwing around some chaos powers, starting with the giant buffoon in front of him who…had another tree? Thankfully his brain was miles ahead of any other person's in reaction time he was able to jump off the tree and spindash straight through the tree/bat of the mobian in front of him, and watching stupidly as the other piece fell on top of him completely obscuring the giant mobian from view. Bringing relief to the hedgehog's mind as he realized he would only have to fight two more of the goons. After landing he saw the bloody puddle around the area where the goon was crushed under the tree.

Eyes widening in realization that he had just killed someone, Sonic collapsed to his knees where he promptly vomited on the ground in front of him. Fortunately he wouldn't have to worry about the fact he killed someone later, but unfortunately the remaining two goons had appeared and both kicked him in the stomach and sending him into the air. Coughing up blood Sonic thought to himself 'oh my god, I haven't been kicked that hard in years.' While Sonic was lost in thought one goon jumped up to where he was launched and brought both of his hands down on him sending him rocketing straight into the fist of the other goon on the ground, sending him through several trees and back into the forest.

Several hundred yards away from where he just got the punch of his lifetime, he was attempting to get back up and back into the fight. But simply kept falling down, forced to heal himself with the chaos energy he had to draw from his world which took time, time he may not have, was risky if Charles's warning was genuine.

"I…I will not resort to killing them…maybe I can just incapacitate them…worth a shot." He then crawled into his signature ball form and began spinning in place, drawing energy from the very light around him to use his favorite attack

Suddenly he stopped and when he did his body had a dim blue glow all around his body. "Let's go." Sonic then blasted off breaking the sound barrier after his second step.

It somewhat surprised him just how far they had actually hit him, but his distractions were gone the moment his foot made solid connection with one of the cops' faces, sending blood as well as the cop. But he wasn't done yet, oh fuck no. Using the momentum of his last attack Sonic kicked him into the air enough so that when his chaos control put him above the cop he could give a quick downward kick to make him crush his buddy with enough force to make a nice cozy hole for them to nap in.

After Sonic was done thoroughly beating the ever loving piss out of his enemy, he examined the bodies of both of the fighters and fortunately found one of them unconscious and the other trying valiantly to escape, but with multiple broken bone it was proving difficult, too difficult, and suddenly the cop passed out.

Casting a sad glance back at the body of the first cop he accidently killed, Sonic dashed off to attempt to save his best friend, hopefully it wasn't too late.

Once Sonic was clear of the area Miles looked out of the top of a tree and smirked to himself as he relaxed and decided to catch a quick nap since he wasn't actually needed. 'Tough old fart, wonder how the others are doing? Can't believe he lost to that freak.'

With Fiona

Things on Fiona's hand were not going very well in her odds. Sure on of them was out cold but the guy of the three was on a whole different level than her. She hadn't even been able to touch him but on the good side he hadn't been able to touch her either, hell even the last female was leaning against a tree with her arms crossed examining her fucking fingernails of all things.

"Are you going to surrender peacefully or am I going to have to beat you into submission? I don't like hitting women." The male said nonchalantly.

"Fuck off." Fiona said bitterly, she wasn't the kind of girl to surrender until she couldn't physically move.

"Then I have no choice but to speed this up." He charged her again but this time had a much more neutral expression.

He opened with a roundhouse kick aimed at her head, Fiona ducked but immediately afterwards had to roll out of the way of a punch that he followed up with attempting to stomp on her head. Unfortunately she wasn't able to evade his hand and he grabbed her by the front of her shirt and threw her into a tree. But with the air knocked out of her lungs and unable to refill them, she missed the cheap punch, the female from earlier, gave her causing her to trip over a root in the ground and narrowly miss getting her head taken off by the male's lightning fast kick.

Quickly recovering and using her hands to flip back up onto her feet she stared both of the zone police right in their eyes, or visors and spit the small amount of blood that had filled her mouth. Sweat dripped from her brow as she contemplated her next move. 'Out of my league… out of my mind…out of luck…god dammit I hate being on the receiving end of this shit. How does Tails do this shit?' Completely out of options in her book, Fiona did the only sensible thing at that point, run.

"Hey! She's getting away, after her!" The male screamed. Fiona thanked all of the gods she could think of off the top of her head for giving her speed on her feet. Stealthily she picked up a rock and hid behind a tree.

When she heard rushed footsteps coming towards her she came out swinging and hit the other female cop in the side of the head, knocking her out cold if not killing her outright. "Fuck." Fiona mumbled hoping she would have taken out the male cop, but she wasn't lucky enough.

Suddenly she could hear the other cop yelling for her to show herself and by his voice she could guarantee it was the man who whooped her ass. She slid behind a tree and took a small break attempting to calm her nerves. "Found you!"

Before she could react Fiona had been kicked through a tree and left a sizeable dent in the one behind it, she could also feel several ribs and a least one backbone crack under the force. She fell face first into the dirt and finally decided to call it quits, she was beaten and that was the best fight she could put up, this guy was just too far ahead.

"All right stop! I give *cough* I give! Just stop kicking me." Fiona said defeat laced all throughout the words.

"All right it's about time, I'm getting sick of following your sorry ass. Now-" The rest of his sentence was cut off as a loud sound that was similar to hitting a baseball bat against a steel pipe rang in her ears as the male slumped over unmoving with a slowly size increasing pool of blood around his head.

"He gave you quite the run for your money didn't he, eh cowgirl?" That god forsaken name, only one person called her that and it infuriated her.

"Alicia…what are you doing here?" Fiona asked.

"Saving you." She simply replied.

Fiona was almost too tired to ask but Charles's and the other Tails's fight was going on and she had to get back there. All though when she tried she simply fell under her own weight and just let Alicia half carry half walk her back the way she came.

"What about Tails? Is he okay?" Fiona asked worry edging its way into her voice.

"If by fine you mean half-dead, then yes he's fine, well if Miles is right of course." Alicia answered seeming to have no real concern one way or another.

"But I thought you and Miles weren't on speaking terms, for lack of a better phrase."

"That was before I found out that I never really got over him and that he was a double agent and couldn't say, although a lot of people died over this and I guess when I saw him so beaten and hurt I felt everything come back to me, but Eclipse is dead now and that's all that matters."

'Double agent? Was he really a double agent?' Though she was curious, she wouldn't let her curiosity get in the way.

"So why are you helping me? Why bother with getting in trouble with the zone cops?" Fiona asked.

Alicia shrugged, "don't know, he said that he owed Tails his life for some reason, maybe they fought together and he saved his life. Miles is weird about that debt complex."

"What about Sonic and Charles, who is helping them?"

"Miles is with Sonic, and the you look alike is helping Charles and I got stuck with you."

"Charming, I think I can walk now." But when Fiona tried to keep walking on, Alicia pulled her back into the forest.

"Shut up and look don't draw attention to yourself, they're still fighting." Alicia pointed towards an area out of her view. But when Fiona strained her eyes enough she could see that Charles was fighting the armless zone officer.

And he was losing.

With Charles

Dodging a kick aimed at his midsection and a follow up slice with his other arm, Charles was still amazed how he was unable to attack someone with only three limbs. But with fewer limbs came unreformed fighting, especially with someone against four limbs.

After a wide slice that Charles back stepped, he grabbed Ziles's arm and was about to start yanking when out the corners of his eyes he caught Ziles smirking, just before Ziles's tail punctured his throat and let go of his arm while dodging the tail, mostly.

Unfortunately Ziles's tail went straight through his stomach instead of the throat, the other tail was coming right towards his head but he managed to grab it out of the air along with Ziles's last arm and managed to put himself in a deadlock.

"Now I've got you! Then she's next!" Ziles shouted.

"Fuck you…ohh…" The intense pain of having a fairly large hole in his stomach he remembered something, this wasn't a real body…but would he return to Tails's mind if this body died? Fuck it, no pain no gain.

It was at this point Fiona and Alicia nearly ran face first into the bloody fight. "I win." Charles then, with lightning fast speed, let go of Ziles's arm, ripped off both of his tails, but wasn't fast enough to stop his hand afterwards and ended up taking claws to his throat.

As his vision blackened more and more he grabbed the top of Ziles's head and twisted and pulled as hard as he could and heard bones breaking, muscles ripping, and Ziles's screams stop suddenly as Charles finished ripping the head off, before he passed out.

It was also at this time Tails regained consciousness. "Ugh…my head…my body…everything…fucking hurts." Sitting up proved to be a challenge but as soon as he did his whole body filled with pain as something small, red, and beautiful blur tackled him and smothered him a bone crushing hug.

"I didn't think you would wake up from that." Fiona said tears almost spilling out from her eyes.

Once he knew what was hugging him Tails had a flurry of emotions hit him all at once like surprise, frustration, acceptance, but mostly he felt loved. Returning her hug with just as much emotion Fiona put behind hers.

"Fiona…I still don't understand…how you got here…or what I did to deserve to be alive right now…but at this point I don't care." They stayed like that for what felt like hours to Alicia but when they eventually separated she got their attention the old fashioned way, by smacking them.

"Hey you two, what are we going to do about that guy? Charles or whatever." Alicia said pointing to the damaged body of Charles and Foxie attempting to close the wound on his neck and stop the blood.

"Get away from him! I said-mmph!" Fiona shut him up by placing a hand over his mouth.

"Relax, Alicia said she was good, my look alike actually. What's your name?" Fiona said directing the end of her sentence towards Foxie.

"Me, I'm nobody important but my name's Foxie. But Tails can't you do anything?" Foxie asked worry creeping its way into her voice.

But when Tails crawled over to where Charles was and attempted to reabsorb the clone of himself back into his own reserves, but as soon as he started channeling enough chaos energy to heal Charles, a strong electrical current went all throughout his body. "FUCKING THING! I was afraid of that." Before Tails could say anything else Charles hand shot up and squeezed his arm a lot harder than he should've been able to without all of his blood.

"I owe you…answers…shoot." Charles said his voice scratchy after having it almost clawed out.

But Tails shook his head. "Forget about that for now, Fiona. Do you have one of these collars too?"

After he saw her shake her head in agreement he was about to ask for her amulet but she interjected with a question. "Yes, why do you need it?"

"I've somewhat figured out from my fight with that one cop, me, and when I tried to kill him off outright with an overdose of chaos energy. It didn't even affect him; I think the zone police are immune to any forms of poison whether it is anarchy or chaos poisoning. I'm pretty sure these collars allow anyone to live anywhere because it filters out all forms of energy regardless of its origin."

Pretending to understand everything he just said Fiona answered with a simple "oh."

"Fiona, give me your charm."

"Sonic…has it."

"What? Why?" Tails asked confused.

"Because Tails, he would've died without it." Fiona answered for him, sliding up next him to try and help Charles.

"Damn…then…I can't do anything."

That wasn't something Charles had wanted to hear. "What do you mean?" He said through gritted teeth as he started to fight to stay conscious.

"You severed the only internal connection to my mind you had when you switched to this body." Tails answered his head hanging down as he clenched his fist hard enough to draw blood.

Fiona and Foxie saw this and neither knew what to say or do. "It's up to Sonic then…please let him get here in time.

"Damn…" Then Charles lightly laughed before he went into a small coughing fit. "Figures…I only…let him get that close…because I thought you coul…d…bring…m…me back."

It was then Tails's previous anger started resurfacing again. "Why did he call them in the first place? Why bother…I was going to come back to my house and finally just live again and maybe even find my mother but no…I can't have everything. All we can do now Charles, is wait…and pray."

A/N: Oh dear god, not waiting that long for an update again. I am terribly sorry I stopped updating for so long. Forgive me it's just life, school, and good old writer's block mixed with not having my writing muse for so long. Oh well, the next chapter won't be nearly this long.