WARNING! THROUGHOUT THE REST OF THE STORY THE VIOLENCE AND LANGUAGE WILL GET WORST. LANGUAGE WILL GET CENSORED BUT IT WILL GET USED MORE FREQUENTLY. VIOLENCE CONTAINS: Shooting, Physical and Bloody Descriptions.


This is an AU of Sonic Forces written in a realistic, dramatic way. Am in no way the best writer in the world. I'm just an idiot trying to get a story out of my head and put it into to words the best that I can. I would really appreciate some feed back on how everything is. Please.

I am Looking For Beta-Readers to help me out as I Up-Load the next coming chapters.

Sonic And Tails are alot OLDER in this STORY. Sonic is 23yrs old while Tails is 16yrs old.

I Uploaded the 1st set of chapters in one go but this is the 2nd set of Chapters is going to be chapter by chapter at a weekly basis on Friday at around 5pm PST

Forces: Chasing Memories is set after the battle against Infinite from the 1st set of Chapters.

Chapter 8 Word count is 6407 -Warning Long Chapter

Sonic and Tails are owned by SEGA.

Main Sonic Cast: Sonic, Tails.

Main OC Cast: Wally, Peanut, Zeke And Craig.

Warning/Disclaimer: This story is written with teens to adults in mind. It does contain Bad Language(Some will be censored) And Violence. You will be warned when it does get WORST.


Forces Chasing Memories

Chapter 8: A Tango With Bullets.


WARNING AGAIN! THROUGHOUT THE REST OF THE STORY THE VIOLENCE AND LANGUAGE WILL GET WORST. LANGUAGE WILL GET CENSORED BUT IT WILL GET USED MORE FREQUENTLY. VIOLENCE CONTAINS: Shooting, Physical and Bloody Descriptions.

8-1 A Harsh lesson for Peanut

Miller exits out of his Testing Facility to meet with The Leader of BOA, "The pilot never left. He was here the whole time."

The Leader tries to remain calm clenching his fist, "Sonic will be here soon." He looks at Miller with his hand out, "Hand it over."

He goes through his pocket, handing him five bullets. "You're going to enjoy them." He smiles.

He takes it and puts one into his rifle. "Do you know where the Pilot's hiding?"

"No idea. I was finishing calibrating the bullets when the alarm went off here."

He narrows his eyes to him. "Am I hearing an excuse from you?"

He takes a steps back getting worried, "No-no. He destroyed the security system. I couldn't find him with the security cameras."

Everyone turns and hears gun fire at a distance. Curtis runs from around the corner heading right to them, "They're here. Sonic's here and wrecking everything."

The Leader looks at his rifle and grips it. "Let's go welcome him."


Meanwhile Craig runs onto the base running low to the ground. He looks around and hides, moving from cover spot to cover spot. The sound of gun fire gets louder and louder the closer he gets. He stops when he hears someone's voice in pain. About to run again but Peanut was right next to him. "F&$%!" He gets surprised and then gets angry at him. "Get your ass back there." He points ordering him.

"I can take care of myself." Peanut says back refusing.

"No… you can't. Not without one of these." He shows his gun at him. "Now stay back."

"I have one." He takes out a gun.

"You what?" He looks over to Peanut holding onto a magnum. "What the-" He takes it away. "Are you out of your damn mind? Where did you get this?"

"From one of the guys that you killed and why? I know how to use one."

"Oh do you?" He hands over his Personal Modified Glock-9 hand gun. "Use this."

Peanut looks at it being smaller and looks back to the magnum. "Why not that one?"

"THIS?! It's a f&$ magnum. Two things can happen. One, you're going to snap your own damn wrist and two, you're going to knock your dumb…ass… out…" He looks at the gun. He tries to hand it back. "Number two doesn't sound so bad. Fire away."

Peanut scoots away from him. "You are evil."

Craig looks over cover again seeing Sonic. He slowly gets out of cover.

Peanut looks also and sees Sonic too; he smiles, "It's Sonic."

"Yeah, I know." Craig answers slowly making his way towards Sonic.

Peanut follows, "What are you going to do?"

"I don't know. I haven't… thought…-" He stops.

Peanut sees him stop. Wondering why he stopped, he looks to Sonic and sees Tails also. Becoming happy seeing him, "It's Tails. He's here-" looking back to Craig but he wasn't next to him anymore. He then looks even further back and sees Craig hiding again. Peanut backs off and goes back to Craig. "What? What's wrong?"

"Umm, about him… Tails. I uhh, I-I kinda… well… shot him… in the leg," he says worried looking at Tails.

Peanut looks at him in disbelief then gets angry with him, "You… you WHAT?"

"Don't look at me like that. Trust me, if you were there you would've been laughing also," he says not looking at Peanut knowing that he's giving him an angry stare. "Get up. We're going a different way."

Peanut mad about it, he gets up and refuses, "I'm going to where Sonic is."

Craig about to leave, he quickly stops and grabs Peanut, "Are you crazy?"

Peanut pulls away, "I'm going to where he is."

Craig gets mad and snarls at him, "Go ahead. That's a great idea." He points to Sonic in anger. "Go to the one person that EVERYONE IS F&%$ING SHOOTING AT! He has enough shit to worry about right now just to have YOU'RE dumbass added to the problem."

Peanut looks at Sonic and knows that Craig is right. Going to Sonic is a bad idea.

Craig gets up and walks away from Sonic. "Let's go."

Peanut gives Sonic one last looks and goes after Craig.

Peanut catches up and as Craig reaches the corner of the building turning around it, Craig looks up and getting startled. He quickly points his gun at Peanut in a panic. "Sorry," he whispers worried.

Peanut confused by it he looks around the corner and sees the Leader of the BOA looking right at them.

They all walk towards them while Craig whispers, "I'm really sorry."

The Leader stops and looks at Craig and then to Peanut. He sees Peanut without any restraints and looks back to Craig.

Curtis walks around Peanut, "Come here." He quickly grabs ahold of him by his arms lifting him up squeezing him tight. He takes him away from Craig.

"Good job Craig. You actually got him," Leader congrats him.

"It was a piece of cake," Craig says back watching Curtis shake Peanut.

"We were going to pay Sonic a visit but I didn't expect a delivery to interrupt the fun," he says staring at Craig. "Either way-" He points to Curtis "Go lock him up and get back to us quick."

Curtis nods and before he walks away, "I HOPE SONIC KICKS YOURE ASS!" Peanut shouts in protest.

Craig stands there in shock for what he said. Thinking to himself worried, Noo… Dammit kid… Why did you have to say that? He looks at The Leader slowly turns around and looks at Peanut and starts walking to him.

"I honestly can't wait to see him cuz I have something that I want to use on him. So right now theirs two things I can't wait to happen." He puts out one finger. "One… put a bullet into him…-" From one finger he goes to two. "-and as for two…-" He gets to Peanut and grins. He clenches his fist and raises it up to him.

Craig closes his eyes not to see it happen, but instead hears his fist connects to Peanut's skull making him flinch. He opens his eyes seeing Peanut unconscious in Curtis hands.

"-Not to hear your damn voice again," he puts his hand to his ear and holds it to Peanut. "One ought've two. We're off to a good start." Leader says looking at his fist clenching it.

Curtis shakes Peanut body like a ragdoll, "Want me to put a bullet into him?"

Craig stares him down in anger.

The Leader looks at Curtis, "What did I say?"

Curtis sighs. "You… want him alive."

"Right and for that… hand him back over to Craig," Leader orders.

Curtis hands him over to Craig. "Baby Sitter on my resume, who knew? Anything special you want me to do to him?"

"Just lock him up and meet back with us." Leader orders.

Everyone walks off while Craig just stands there holding Peanut unconscious. He sighs with relief and looks at Peanut. "I hope you learned something from this."


The Leader watching Sonic from a distance taking BOA Soldiers out, "There he is. Stand back; stand back and watch, as I knock him down a peg or two." He gets closer to get into position and takes aim with his rifle.

Seconds go by as he aims trying to focus… one of the Soldiers asks, "Do you need help?"

The Leader quickly un-holsters his side arm and shoots him, sending him flying back. "Quiet." He goes back to concentrating while aiming. He slowly inhales and while holding it inn… He pulls the trigger…


Rewind


8-2 A Lesson in Fear

Sonic and Wally come running onto the base while Tails flies to keep up. Tails and Wally hide from cover to cover as Sonic rushes from point to point staying close to them to keep them safe.

Boa soldiers appear firing at them. Sonic getting most of the attention being in plain sight dodging bullets he quickly runs to them taking them out with a well-aimed homing attack. Bodies go flying in all different directions from the force of the hit.

Wally hiding behind cover he fires of a few rounds and then goes back into hiding. He then asks, "Any Idea where Peanut is?"

"Nothing yet, It's still pointing further ahead." Tails answers. "Let's go." He quickly says seeing Sonic waving at them.

A Boa vehicle with a turret show up shooting at Sonic but he already rushing at them destroying the turret first. The Soldiers exit out and one by one Sonic unleashes a barrage of punches and kicks knocking each one of them out. One was unlucky enough to have his Assault Rifle taken away then smacked right back in the face with it.

More cars show up and the soldiers exit out to shoot but Sonic was moving so fast that he easily dodges every shot. Sonic then goes into a Speed Boost colliding with one of the cars sending it flying back into the forest. The impact sends any of the soldiers near it off their feet.

Curtis seeing what he just did, he gets up and runs away.

One of the soldiers shouts "RETREAT!"

The soldiers retreat as Sonic takes out the last turret from one of the cars. Once everything was safe, he rushes off back to Tails and Wally. "You ok?"

"We're doing good but we better head to somewhere else before they come back with the whole base." Tails suggest.

Sonic still alerted, he gives Tails a thumbs up agreeing. He then quickly says, "I'll do a quick lap around to check if I see anything." Sonic quickly says and speeds off.


Sonic running around the base he hears more gun fire causing him to stops to check. He looks back remembering where he came running from, Tails and Wally are over there… so that means…- More gun fire is heard. "Zeke, it has to be Zeke." He speeds off towards the gun fire.


Zeke was still hiding behind his cover of containers as bullets ricochet off of them. "Guess this wasn't such a great spot after all." He fires off a couple of rounds as warning shots.

Bit by bit the soldiers get closer to him. "HE'S HURT!" One of them shouts.

Zeke spots him and fires at him taking him out. "No one likes a snitch, asshole." He looks at his handgun out of ammo. He puts it down and grabs the shotgun. "This is getting bad." He says but then he hears yells coming from the soldiers. "What's going-" He looks over his cover and smiles in relief. "About f%#$ing time," he says seeing Sonic.

Sonic spin dashes into one of the soldiers bouncing off landing near Zeke and rolls to him. Getting out of his ball form, he then quips, "A little late? The forest is not the best place to run around in."

Zeke glares at him and points at him. "FIRST OF ALL! I have to look at the fine print if am going to be one of your friends, cuz this-" He points at his foot. "We're going to have problems."

Sonic looks at his foot then at his shirt seeing blood on it. Getting concerned he looks at Zeke, "Are you okay?"

He looks at his shirt, "Don't worry, I'm okay. It's not mine." He looks back at Sonic, "But YOU have some explaining to do."

Bullets strike their cover as Sonic looks, "One sec…" Zeke watches him dash off as someone yells in the distance. Sonic then dashes back looking at Zeke ready for what he's going to say.

"Do you have any idea who's here?"

"Umm… does it happen to be… Infinite?" He answers back with a half-smile trying to hide his worry.

Zeke gets even angrier at him and clenches his fist. "Can you get a little bit closer to me?" He asks hoping that he gets into arms reach.

More bullets strike there cover. Sonic gives an annoyed look at Zeke and speeds off again. Zeke hears more yells and a couple explosions go off. Sonic then comes right back saying. "We had no idea till we found what we were looking for, figuring it out for ourselves. He's really here?"

Zeke slightly calms down and explains, "Yeah… I saw him on camera in the security room before I f&%$ed it up. He was held up… on some kindove machine. Like they've been using him for something or torturing him."

Sonic smirks and chuckles, "Tortured huh? Gee… wonder how that's like?..." Once saying that he sees Zeke looking right back at him disappointed. He sighs, "Okay fine. I'll pretend to care just a little."

Zeke points at him, "That still doesn't get you off the hook for getting ME INVOLVED IN ALL THIS-" Bullets whiz by them again.

Sonic sees where it came from. "Umm hold that thought. Be right back." Sonic rushes off as he hears muffled arguing behind him. He runs up to one of the soldiers doing a leg sweep and while the soldier in midair Sonic follows up with a jump kicks sending him to the nearest wall.

A shotgun blast is then heard. He quickly turns to check on Zeke as he sees a body goes flying back from the shot. Zeke is then seen giving him the finger while saying something offensive… but while he's focusing on the dead soldier… another Soldier runs up and points his gun to him. In a blink of an eye… Sonic speed boosts, tackling him to the ground and then launches him smashing threw a window.

Getting up to his feet to check on Zeke, he turns right but his hip jolts to the left sending him off his feet and back down onto the ground. Confused as to what just happened. "What? What was that?" In pain he looks and sees a hole in his hip bleeding. "What?" He tries to get up and stumbles towards Zeke and collapses right next to him. "Agghahgeez!"

Zeke looks at him confused. He looks down at his hip where he has his hand, as blood runs down his leg. "No… did you just…?"

Sonic being in shock and confused on how it happened. He tries to remove his hand, only to put it right back in pain. "Ow!" …was I? …I was. That… hurt. He looks at Zeke then back at his hip and then right back to Zeke in disbelief as he says, "Getting shot… hurts."

Zeke looks at him surprised at what Sonic just said, "Really?" He rolls up his shirt sleeve and points at the scar on his arm. "NO SHIT!"

Sonic slowly gets out of cover to look and sees him… the Leader of the BOA's just standing there looking right back at him holding a rifle. Not hiding… he's just stands there looking right back at him. The Leader extends his arm and does the finger gun at him. He then raises up the gesture and points it to his own head firing it off. He then turns around and walks away.

Sonic goes back into hiding shaking looking off into the distance blankly.

Zeke looks at Sonic. "I remember that look." He lays down the shotgun. "We're f%$&ed …aren't we?"

Sonic doesn't say anything… he just sits there and nods.


8-3 Tails Dilemma

The Leader walks away from Sonic as Miller is confused as to what just happened. "Wha?... You're just going to leave and not finish him off?"

"That's right," Leader says not stopping.

"Why?" Miller asks getting annoyed.

The Leader stops. "He now fears me. Now I'm going to take his friends out one by one and by the end… I'll save him for last. I'll kill him right in front of the whole world to see. Show them what I've just done to their hero. And in one fowl swoop, I'll put the whole world in fear towards me." He turns to Miller. "Go find his friends and when you do, let me know."

Curtis watching Miller getting angry from his order, he mocks adding fuel to his anger, "What are you waiting for? He doesn't like to wait." He looks at his Sniper Rifle then back to him. "You really think you were going to use that? Hah! Once you're done playing fetch, you're just going to go back to the lab to work on whatever he wants next." He laughs leaving him behind.

Miller stands there looking at him walking away infuriated gripping his rifle. He shakes his head, "F&$% that." He looks at the soldiers that are with him as he goes through his pocket grabbing one of the bullets. He looks at it. "I f&%$ing spent this whole time making these. I'm not telling him shit." He puts the bullet into his sniper rifle. "They're mine." He loads the bullet then looks at the soldiers that are with him. "We're going hunting."


Rewind back to where Sonic about to run off.


"I'll do a quick lap around to check if I see anything." Sonic says and rushes off to look around.

Tails looks at the Tracker. After looking at it he looks up at the building and around then up at the sky then right back at the Tracker.

Wally watching him he also looks up and then realizes what he plans to do. Feeling himself get angry with him, he quickly looks right back at him giving him a stern look, "Don't even think about it Miles."

Tails hearing the tone of his voice, he gets surprised by it, "Do what?"

"Flying. That's what. Don't even think about doing it here… unless you feel like getting shot down."

He sighs and nods knowing that he's right. "The tracker pointing that way and it's moving." Tails points.

Wally starts cautiously walks in the direction that he pointed at.

"You're not going to wait?" he asks.

"If he's moving then he might be in trouble or someone has him," he turns back to Tails. "I have to make sure he's okay. I told his parents that I'll bring him back." Wally goes back to walking down the road.

Tails looks around again for any sign of Sonic but nothing. He follows Wally down the road.

Tails sticks close to the walls, but every time Wally walks too fast and far from him he has to fly to keep up with him. Reaching him he looks at his Tracker again.

"Are we getting close?" Wally asks looking everywhere for any BOA soldiers.

Having to deal with the Jammer constantly interfering, "He's… that…-" About to point, he stops. "What the… is that the…" He smiles and points being surprised, "Wally... does that belong to you?"

Confused with what he said, "What?" He looks at Tails pointing at something. "Are you kidding me?" They both look at Randy's Truck parked near a wall. Wally face-palms himself frustrated.

"Maybe you should've used bigger leaves to hide it better." Tails remarks.

"They might leave it alone if they think it doesn't work." He sighs and walks away from it, heading towards some of the buildings.

Wally stops near a corner of one of the buildings and looks around it being cautious. He looks up at all the other building around him seeing that they were two stories high. "That building over there is the tallest out of all of them. Is he over there?"

They both go around the corner and make their way towards the building.

Tails looks down at his locator. "Yeah, it's pointing at that building. He might be-" Tails looks at Wally lifting his right foot, kicking him directly in the chest, pushing him away. "Ooof!" A bullet flies right pass him as it connects to the nearest wall taking a chunk out of it.

Tails collapses on the floor. He looks up to see Wally but instead he sees a laser sight moving around searching. It quickly goes down and then goes towards his direction. He looks around and notices that he isn't behind any cover. He quickly staggers to his feet and gets behind any cover he can find as bullets come whizzing by almost hitting him.

Out in the open hiding behind a concrete structure, Tails looks all around him to see how safe he is but all around him where laser sights looking for him. He glances over back to Wally to see if he's okay but he couldn't see him. They were separated. He tries to move to his right as bullet hits part of the cover destroying it. Piece by piece his cover gets smaller and smaller. He couldn't move… not even fly. He was pinned down by snipers.

Tails needed help and needed it fast.


Rewind Right When Wally Kicks Tails.


8-4 Mental Conflict

They both go around the corner and make their way towards the building. Wally looks around heading to the building and notices something red goes right by him. "Huh?" He stops to see it again. It goes up and then to Tails and stops at his head. Getting startled and without saying anything his raises his foot and quickly kicks Tails sending him in one direction while he goes the other way. A bullet goes right between them as it connects into a wall taking a chunk out of it.

He rushes away toward the tall building and stops at the entrance. Breathing heavily he looks to Tails to see if he was okay but saw nothing. He couldn't see him but he can hear someone firing at him. He runs into the dark building and heads to exit on the opposite side to try to get behind whoever is shooting at him. "I have to stop them. Have to help Tails." Not being able to see, he trips on something that was in the middle of the hallway. "Gah!..." Stumbling onto the floor, he looks back down the hallway into darkness seeing nothing. Wondering what it was but he had no time to check. He quickly gets back to his feet and runs again. Got to help- He slows down and stop seeing something in the darkness. Focusing, to get a better look, he sees a figure just standing there leaning on a wall.

The figure looks up in pain and stares at Wally.

Looking away, he grabs his head in pain. No… why… Why now? Why?... What? He looks up at the figure. "Huh… Infinite?" He mutters painfully as he looks at the figure stumbles into the dim light revealing himself.

Infinite was staring right back at him, not saying anything.


Rewind.


Craig holds onto Peanut's unconscious body in his hands. He then walks away angry at what just happened to him. It all started after that f&%$ing experiment. I know where they're keeping him. He heads to the main BOA building.

Entering it, he makes his way to his vault. Going down one of the hallways he gets surprised seeing a dead body on the floor near the security room. Damn… that wasn't me.

After seeing that mess in the hallway he makes his way cautiously down the hallways. Trying not to worry thinking about who did that, he remains calm. With Sonic here and who knows who else is; if they see me with the kid like this in my hands… I'm probably going to end up just like that.

Reaching the lab room he approaches the vault. "I've seen them open this a dozen times."

He lays down Peanut only to have him snapping out of it causing him to whimper and freak out. "Wha? No-NO no!"

Craig tries to calm him down, "It's me, it's me. It's okay. It's me… He's gone."

Peanut rubs the bump on his head. "Where's Wally?" He asks trembling in fear trying not to cry.

"He's here somewhere. Just stay right there and let me go do something. I'm not going far."

Peanut nods staying calm and just lays there with his hand on his head.

He gets up approaching the vault and starts putting in the right combination. He opens the vault and enters it.

Inside he sees Infinite held up restrained to a machine. He gets closer walking by his mask that he used to wear. He looks directly into his eyes and Infinite blinks not saying anything staring back to him. Craig turns and hits the release button detaching his restraints making Infinite collapse onto the floor. "Go. Get out of here. Someone will find you sooner or later." He turns around and heads back out of the vault.

Exiting out of the vault he goes straight to the fuse box disabling it making sure half the building doesn't have power for lights. Once done he goes and picks up Peanut. "We're leaving."

"What was in there?" He says getting picked up.

"Nothing important," he answers exiting the lab. With the hallways now dark, he carefully makes his way back down them heading to the exit. Almost forgetting he stops, "Close your eyes."

"Why?" Peanut asks.

"Just do it."

Once he closes his eyes, Craig walks again passing by the dead body in the hallway. Heading towards the exit Craig says, "You can open them again."


Fast Forward


Wally stands there in the hallway looking at Infinite. Infinite stares right back leaning against the wall.

Wally holds his head "GAH… Ahhh!" He looks at Infinite again taking deep breaths as he feels himself getting angry. His hand goes for his gun. "NOoo… Just… NO!" He yells out grabbing and pulling his hand away from it. He stumbles to Infinite, fighting not to grab the gun. Reaching Infinite he grabs Infinite's arm and puts it around his shoulder.

Confused by it, Infinite asks, "What are you doing?"

"Am… helping… GAhh!… Am helping," he struggles to help Infinite get to the nearest exit.

"Why does it seem like you don't want to do it?"

"I do want to cuz it's the right thing to do… AHhh!" They stumble down the hallway.

"Then why does it seem that you're struggling to do it then?"

"GAh!… ow!… One side… I feel like helping you and I WANT to."

"I appreciate it."

"But… on the other side… MY OTHER side… Gah!… just wants to get this gun… and f&%$ing put a bullet into your head."

"I… feel indifferent about you now."

"But somehow he knows what I am doing is the right thing to do and he's letting me go through with it."

"You sound like you're going through some issues."

"You have no idea." They stagger closer and closer to the exit. "I'm Wally by the way."

"Wally? I could have sworn that I heard your name was Chris."

"Yeah… about my other side? The whole gun thing? That's him."

"Geez… you really are messed up in the head. Am… Zero. The name's Zero. You can call me that."

"Sounds good to me. We're almost there."

Reaching the exit he puts him next to it. "I have to go. You stay here and someone will be back."

"Thank you." Zero says as he closes his eyes to relax.

Wally runs off to go save Tails.


8-5 Hello and Goodbye

Wally runs through the building again and heads up to the second floor. He looks for a room that has a window to look through to be able to spot Tails. Finding a room he runs in and heads towards the window to check. "There he is." He sees Tails hiding behind a concrete structure. A gun shot is heard as part of structure breaks off. "Where did that come from?..."He mutters trying to find them. "…There… or there? Shit… I see… five of them-". He looks directly down from the window and sees another sniper aiming at Tails. "-Six. I have to get down there… but how?" Without thinking he backs off and looks at the window. He shakes his head, "Wait wha?… Why do I have the sudden urge to do that?"

Looking at the window he hears Tails voice say. "What's with you and going through windows?"

Wally/Chris answer. "There in my way." He fires one shot at the window and jumps through it.


He lands next to two soldiers and franticly starts firing at the sniper first.

The other Soldier gets up and runs at him about to tackle him, but in instinct catching Wally by surprise, his arm jolts upward to his side and aims. "Hmm?" He looks at his hand confused as it pulls the trigger shooting the soldier in the head taking him out. The momentum of the Soldier coming at him collides with him, knocking him down. "Gah! Oh shit." He panics shoving the body off of him. He quickly gets up to his feet and runs to the sniper to check on him. He kicks the rifle away seeing the sniper dead. Looking at the direction he was aiming to, he can see Tails hiding. Backing away he can see other snipers aiming at Tails. "I have to get to them and stop-"

"Anyone has a clear shot?" One of the BOA Snipers say through the radio.

"No clear shot yet."

"Just keep shooting his cover," One them orders.

"Yes Sir, but what if he flies?"

"Don't worry. He f&$ flies and I'll shoot him out of the damn air."

"We'll leave it all up to you, Sir."

Wally just stands there and falls to his knees. He grabs his head in pain. "No… Gah!… NO! NO! Miles… NO! MILES!" He drops the handgun and picks up the sniper rifle. "WHERE THE F&%$ ARE YOU!" He was desperately looking through the scope searching for the one that said that.

Out of the radio, "Miller, I'm about to take his cover down are you ready?

"Yes. I'm ready," Miller answers.

"F&%$ YOU!" Chris shouts as he aims at any of them. The bullet hits one of the snipers in the head.

Out of the radio the spotter shouts in shock, "WHAT THE?! WHERE DID THAT COME FROM?!"

"Shut up." Chris fires again hitting the spotter that was also next to the sniper.

Through the radio, "What was that? Say that again?"

"No idea what happen. Is someone down?"

"Sounded like it."

Chris aims again and fire taking out another sniper as he goes flying back. The spotter next to him jumps back surprised and begins to warn, "SOMEONE'S SHOOTING AT US! I REPEAT, SOMONE'S-" Chris takes him out also as his body goes flying back from the shot.

"SOMEONE IS SHOOTING AT US!" Someone else also warns.

"FIND HIM! I'll keep my eye on Tails," Miller orders.

Chris goes into hiding. He scoots himself to the side to be able to look at Miles. He sees Miles still hiding. Wanting to yell at him but he knew someone was still aiming at him. He glances over his cover to find any of the three snipers. "I see you," he whispers seeing one of them next to a jeep alone. He goes back into cover and moves to a better spot. He comes out of cover… aims… and fires hitting the sniper in the side of the head.

Out of the radio, "MAIN BUILDING! GROUND FLOOR! I F&%$ING SAW HIM! HE'S AT THE MAIN BUILDING!"

"EVERYONE AIM AT THAT SPOT! TAKE HIS ASS OUT! FORGET ABOUT TAILS!" Miller orders.

Chris goes back into hiding and rolls back to where he can see Miles. Being able to see him he shouts, "RUN! GET OUT OF THERE!"

Tails hears Wally. He looks up to figure out where the voice is coming from.

"RUN!" Chris shouts again.

Tails hears Wally again and sees him.

"RUN MILES! GET THE F&%$ OUT OF THERE!"

Tails looks back in surprised hearing his name. He quickly gets up and flies away.

With Miles gone now, he was pinned down against two snipers. Waiting for the right moment he listens to the radio for a chance to shoot.

Out of the radio "No sign yet?"

"Nothing. I saw him over there."

"…What about Tails?"

"I'll check."

Hearing his chance, he gets out of cover and aims. Seeing one of the snipers he aims and pulls the trigger hitting the sniper. Upon firing the shot, the recoil jolts him back… and in a blink of an eye… a bullet enters his arm, proceeds to follow through… exiting right back out. His whole body whips around, sending him to the ground losing the rifle.

"GOT HIM! I F&%$ING GOT HIM!" Miller shouts from the radio making the hit.

Chris lies on the ground holding his arm in pain as his hand twitches from the adrenalin.

"Anyone there... anyone? Wha the… did he take all of them out?" Miller says from the radio.

Chris grabs the rifle. He gets ready to come out of cover to aim having an idea where he is.

Chris quickly gets out of cover and aims in the direction where the shot came from… then quickly slides to the side seeing a muzzle flash. The bullet whizzes right pass his head nearly grazing his face, and hears it go right by his ear. Barely able to hold the rifle up, he looks through the scope at where the muzzle flash came from. He sees Miller looking right back at him in disbelief from missing the shot. Chris pulls the trigger. Millers head whips back releasing his rifle collapsing to the ground.

Chris gets up tossing the rifle away. He holds onto his arm and turns around seeing Miles standing there not saying anything. He looks at Miles, "Hey, it's been a while hasn't it?"

Miles doesn't say anything and just stares.

"You already know… don't you?"

Miles nods as his eyes get redder.

"You know that this is the right thing to do… right?"

Miles nods getting closer.

Chris gets closer. "Don't worry. I'm not gone… am just giving someone else the keys to the ride."

Miles hugs him and starts to cry.

Chris hugs back. "Thanks… thanks for never letting me go."

"I-I never did."

"But now you have to. You have to let me go. Goodbye Miles."

"Goo- …Goodbye… Chris."


Rewind Into the mind of Wally and Chris


Wally looks around being in a white void of memories floating around playing on repeat. "Is this it… Is this how am going to be… now?" He looks at his hands and grips them. "Can't be." He looks at the memories again trying not to get depressed.

"Weird isn't it?" A familiar voice.

Wally turns and sees himself. "This is it for me isn't it?

"What makes you think that?"

"The fact that I know almost everything about you now… and everything is becoming so clear too." Wally just stands looking at all the memories floating around him. "I've felt how sad you were. How angry you were… I also felt how scared you were." He looks up and sees a memory of Tails, Sonic, Knuckles, Amy and Trish making him smile. "I know how everyone wants you more than… me." He closes his eyes as tear runs down his face.

Chris just stands there hearing Wally.

"You have done so much and… I've… am just a nobody." He opens his eyes and looks at Chris. "I know more about you than I know about myself... a person that's NOT EVEN SUPPOSE TO F&%$ING EXIST! Everybody wants you… nobody wants me."

"You're wrong." Chris says getting closer to him and raising a fist. Opening his fist is a memory of Peanut and shows it to him.

Wally looks at it and then looks away.

Chris points to Peanut. "He will chase and follow you to the end of the world. No matter how bad it gets, he will be there for YOU… NOT ME!"

Wally raises his head slightly.

Chris raises and opens up his other fist showing Randy. "Who's going to run his shop now? He was going to hand it over to you. He cared about you. Knew that you had what it took to take over."

He answers with regret, "He took me in… and I turned him down…"

"And you came back for him… to check on him."

Wally nods. "I was the last person… he saw."

"That's right. He saw you. Not me."

Chris then raises his other fist again and opens it showing Molly, "And as for her… She's waiting for you… NOT ME! …Or did you already forget that promise? Cuz I sure didn't and am not the one who made it."

Wally just stands there trying not to break down. "No… I didn't."

"You've only been around for six months and you've done more living than I've ever done. You have something to go back to and you're going to go back to it."

Wally looks up at him and shakes his head. "That's not right. I… I couldn't. What will everyone think?"

"Whatever they want. If they have a problem with it then they can take it up with me."

Wally shakes his head again. "No… I can't…"

Chris grabs him by his shoulder. "It's not up for debate. Now go live your life." He gives Wally a couple pats on the shoulder as everything goes bright white making them both vanish.

Wally comes to his senses and realizes that he's hugging someone. He looks and it's Tails crying. Releasing him he closes his eyes not to look at Tails.

Tails looks back wiping his tears away.

A tear goes down Wally's face. "I now know… I know how much you wanted him back now… but am sorry. He didn't want to come back."

Tails nods. "I know."

He looks at Tails, "He was a great friend to have and you were lucky to have him as one."

Tails nods again, "I know." Tails raises his fist up to Wally.

Wally sees it and smiles and connects with it.

(sniff) Tails hears someone around also crying, he takes a look behind Wally to check… "There he is."

Hearing what Tails just said, he checks behind himself and sees Peanut standing there, holding onto something in his hand, "Peanut? Are you okay? What… what's wrong Shawn? …Why are you crying?"


Rewind

To Be Continued. Thanks for Reading.


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