Post Game 5: Together At Last

Central City, Nine Years After Sonic's return

Sonic and Tails were both relaxing in Tails' home in Central City.

"I'm telling you bro! You should just ask her out!" Sonic said.

"I… I can't just do that! Who knows what she would say!" Tails responded.

'She would say yes…' Sonic thought. "You're just being paranoid! Trust me, it will work out just fine!"

"You don't know that!"

'Yes I do…'

"Seriously, when did you get so stubborn?" Sonic asked. "Listen dude, after how cool you looked during that fight with Shadow, and with how you saved her, I would not at all be surprised if she fell for you."

"You don't know that for sure!" Tails said.

'I do know that for sure…'

"Listen, all I am saying is, you're better off saying something now than waiting and regretting it!" Sonic retorted.

"Oh come on! What's the worst that could happen?" Tails asked.

"I don't know… but isn't that her calling us now?" Sonic said as he pointed to the monitor in the other room.

"Really?!" Tails said a little too excitingly as Sonic chuckled a bit.

"You're always so excited to talk to her, you really do have it bad, huh?" Sonic teased.

"Oh shut up!" Tails said as he went to answer the call.

"Tails?! Thank goodness you picked up! I need help over here!" Tangle said through the communicator.

Sonic and Tails were both very worried now. Tangle never sounded so… panicked before.

"What's going on?!" Tails asked.

"Eggman! He's attacking my village! I don't know how long I can hold him off by myself! Get over here, quick!" Tangle said before the call got cut off.

"Let's get over there, and fast!" Sonic said, but Tails was already out of the room and prepping the tornado.

"What are you waiting for?! Let's go!" Tails shouted.

And with that, the two were off towards Spiral Hill Village.

After a short amount of time, the duo arrived at their destination, and they did not like what they saw.

"TANGLE!" Tails shouted as she was chucked into a nearby building.

Eggman, deciding to continue his assault, fired multiple missiles at the same building.

Deciding that they needed to do something, Sonic and Tails leapt into action, and got to work on stopping the missiles.

However, they were just barely not fast enough.

A single missile managed to get past them and collided with the building, almost completely destroying it.

"TANGLE!" Tails practically screamed as the building came down.

'No… no no no!' Sonic thought. 'I was so close!'

"EGGMAN!" Sonic shouted as he charged at the machine.

As Sonic was fighting, Tails went into the building's rubble and began pulling some aside, trying to find Tangle.

Eventually, he found who he was looking for.

"Ugh… hey Tails… what took you so long?" Tangle groaned out.

"Thank goodness you're ok!" Tails said, before pulling her out from the rubble.

He then noticed that her tail was stretched out, and wrapped around something… despite it being in really rough shape.

"Please… tell me Jewel's alright…" Tangle said.

Tails didn't even realize that this was her museum.

Taking great care, Tails unwrapped the tail and got a good look at Jewel.

"She's a little banged up, but it's not that bad. You're in much worse shape…" Tails said.

"That's… good…" Tangle groaned out before passing out.

"Tangle? TANGLE?!" Tails said growing increasingly worried.

Meanwhile, Sonic had just finished destroying Eggman's robot and began rushing over to Tails.

"Tails! Is she alright?!" Sonic shouted.

"She's in really rough shape! We need to get her to a hospital right now!" Tails practically shouted.

"Right! I'll take her as fast as I can, you take Jewel!" Sonic said, just having noticed the beetle's presence.

Taking great care to not agitate the lemur's injuries, Sonic scooped her up, wrapped her tail around her arms so it wouldn't drag on the ground, and began to run.

Later

Tails had just arrived at the hospital, and the doctors had taken Jewel to get the treatment that she needed.

Deciding to leave them to it, he decided to find Sonic to see what's going on with Tangle.

"Hey." Sonic said when Tails walked up to him.

"Any news?" Tails asked.

"No, sorry." Sonic said.

"Oh… ok…" Tails said, looking down.

Sonic sighed. "Listen, you know as well as I do that Tangle is a fighter. She'll be fine, I'm sure of it."

"But… what if?"

"There are no what ifs here Tails. You need to have faith in her, just like she always has faith in us!" Sonic said. "Or, are all of those times that you told me how amazing she is just lies?"

"They weren't lies!" Tails said defensively. "I just… can't help but worry…"

"… and that's fine." Sonic said.

"…Do you remember what you said about telling her before I regret it?"

"Yeah?"

"I'm… starting to think that you were right about that…" Tails said. "It never really hit me until now but… what we do, fighting Eggman, saving the world, all of it… it's really dangerous, huh?"

"Yeah, it is. We've had a lot of close calls over the years, this is just the newest one." Sonic said.

"Yeah… so… I think I'm going to talk to her when she wakes up… see if we can make it work." Tails said.

Sonic smiled at this. "Whatever you want to do Tails… good luck."

Tails smiled back.

"Just know, I will be right here for you, no matter what happens." Sonic added.

"Right, thanks Sonic." Tails said before he pulled the hedgehog into a hug.

"I have faith in you little bro." Sonic said before getting up. "I should probably let Amy know what's happening here so she can get to work on rebuilding their village."

"Oh right, since Jewel's hurt, Amy should probably be informed of this." Tails said.

"Yeah, let me know if anything changes, ok?" Sonic said.

"You got it." Tails said.

And with that, Sonic sped off.

Two days later

Sonic and Amy were just walking out of Jewel's room and was on his way to Tangle's. The Beetle had woken up the day before, and Amy wanted to check on her, as well as keep her up to date on the restoration of Spiral Hill Village. Sonic was just checking on his friends.

"So what time do you think Tails got here?" Amy asked.

"He said he was coming here as soon as he woke up… and knowing him…" Sonic said.

"He was here right as visiting hours started, wasn't he?" Amy asked.

"Oh yeah." Sonic chuckled out.

"Geez, he really has it bad, doesn't he?" Amy asked.

Sonic just gave her a pointed look.

"…Ok yeah, I have it bad for you too." Amy said.

"That's better!"

"But seriously, I hope they get together soon…" Amy sighed out. "They both have had it really rough, and they deserve it…"

"Well, Tails DID say he was gonna try asking her out soon… let's just hope he goes through with it." Sonic said.

"Yeah, le- wait… is he talking to someone?" Amy asked suddenly.

The two had just arrived at Tangle's room, and peeked inside to see that Tails was talking to a very much awake Tangle.

"Oh thank goodness she's awake!" Amy whispered.

"Shhh, let's just listen for a bit!" Sonic whispered back.

"Seriously? Smart, beautiful and strong? If I didn't know better, I would think that you were trying to say that you had a crush on me!"

"Well maybe I am!" Tails suddenly said back.

As the room was filled with silence, Sonic couldn't help but fall back and sit down as he groaned at how much of an awkward confession that was.

"Oh… my… gosh!" Amy squealed. "He actually did it!"

"Gosh that was awkward though!" Sonic groaned out.

"Yeah, but that makes it even more cu- oh, she is SO flustered right now!" Amy said.

After another moment, Sonic was able to get up off the floor, and went over to watch the rest of the conversation. When Tangle went and gave Tails a kiss on the cheek he couldn't help but smile.

"I'm proud of you bro…"

Two Weeks Later

"Well, don't you look nice!" Sonic said as he walked into Tails' home. "Got something special planned today?"

"Sonic… you know my date with Tangle is today…" Tails said with a blush on his face. "We were gonna do something casual, but Knuckles and Shadow are insisting on me taking her to this nice restaurant that Rouge got us a reservation at."

"Ohhhh… ok!" Sonic said. "Now, remember what I told you, the best part about the date…"

"Is the company, I know." Tails said.

"Great! You're ready!" Sonic said. "Go get em tiger!"

"Wish me luck!" Tails said.

"You don't need it, but good luck bud." Sonic said as Tails left. "Thanks for helping him out you two."

"Don't thank us yet… Rouge just wanted to spy on them." Shadow said.

"Oh…" Sonic said before smirking. "Can I come?"

"…This is boring…" Sonic said with a yawn.

"Hey, you were the one who wanted to come…" Amy said. "We are just making sure that everything goes well."

"That, and you wanted to 'watch their romance blossom' as you put it." Rouge said.

"Well, maybe the two of you could go treasure hunting together every now and then." Tails voice suddenly said through Rouge's radio. "You love adventure, and he is an expert at it, so it would be a great way for you to start replacing everything in the museum!"

'So this is how they started doing that…' Sonic thought.

"Huh… having a treasure hunting partner might not be a bad idea." Knuckles said. "Of course, I still gotta guard the Master Emerald though… but every now and then it might be a good idea."

"Heck, I bet you can get him to donate the Master Emerald to the museum! A gem that big oughta bring in quite the crowd." Tails said.

"Yeah! That's a great idea! Heck, I bet he wouldn't mind if I just went ahead and took it!"

"Well, looks like you won't have to worry about guarding it anymore Knux!" Sonic said with a laugh… but then he noticed the incredibly angry face Knuckles had, and knew that they were in trouble.

"WHAT?!" Knuckles practically screamed.

Everyone then looked at the Echidna with a look of shock and horror.

"… I just blew our cover didn't I?"

"Oh absolutely…"

After getting an earful from the couple, they were about to walk away from the group to finish their date when Sonic walked over to them.

"Hey, real sorry about that bud…"

"Don't be, I should of expected that kind of thing from you." Tails said.

"Still, it wasn't right that I joined in on that, so I'm sorry." Sonic said.

"It's fine." Tails said.

"Just go and have some fun with her, ok?" Sonic said. "But not too much, I'm not ready to be an Uncle just yet!"

Tails' face then turned beet red. "S-SONIC!"

"Later Tangle! Have fun!" Sonic said before speeding off.

While running away, Sonic watched as Tails lifted Tangle into the sky and onto a nearby rooftop, and saw that they were enjoying the sunset.

"Heh… they'll be just fine…" Sonic said.

Then he noticed that their faces were drifting towards each other.

"TOO SOON BRO!" Sonic shouted, causing the two to jump away from each other, faces red.

"SONIC!" Tails shouted back.

Sonic just laughed as he ran away.

The Next Day

"Wow, one date and she is already moving in, huh?" Sonic asked as he entered Tails' home. "I knew you were good, but not that good!"

"I-IT'S NOT LIKE THAT!" Said a very flustered Tails.

"It really isn't." Tangle said from the chair, as Jewel was changing the bandages on her foot.

"Their house is still wrecked from the fight with Eggman a couple of weeks ago, so I offered to let them stay here until it is fixed!" Tails explained.

"Really? I woulda thought that you would of had it fixed up by now." Sonic said.

"Well, I figured the two of us would be out of commission for a while, so I told Amy to have them fix up our houses last." Jewel said. "Restoration takes time Sonic, it doesn't get done over night, and that attack really caused a lot of damage."

"Right, right. Sorry." Sonic said. "And you know I just like to tease you, right Tails?"

"Right…" Tails said, slightly embarrassed by the hedgehog's antics.

"Anyways, I just wanted to check in on you, so I'll be on my way!" Sonic said. "Try not to have too much fun you two."

"S-SONIC!"

"WHOOP! BYE!" Sonic said before speeding out of there.

End of Post Game Chapter 5

Not much to say here, I hope you enjoyed!

See you next time!

Outtake

"EGGMAN!" Sonic shouted as he ran straight over to Eggman's robot.

"Oh ho ho ho!" Eggman laughed. "So, what are you gonna…"

"You get a time out mister!" Sonic said as he punched Eggman's robot with all his might.

And just like that, he was gone.

—

"Ugh… what happened?!" Eggman said as he looked around the dark room

Then, he heard something… he turned around, and sow a terrifying, green creature.

"…awww man…"

And it then blew up in his face.

—

"So uh… where did he go?" Tails asked.

"Sent him to Minecraft." Sonic said with a shrug as he walked away.

"…wat"

SONIC CAN SEND PEOPLE TO MINECRAFT BOIIIIIIIS!