Characters involved:

Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy, Rouge, Cream, Fan characters.

Sonic and all related characters are a trademark of Sega. Some minor Fan characters are the property of SonikkuSl aka lightning games.

Storyline however is copy write of SonikkuSl and if any elements of the story are used without permission i won't be a happy Sonikku.

Chapter 1

Sonic had been in hiding for months and now it had come to this. A blaster pointed in his face, held shakily by a certain Twin Tailed companion who Sonic thought trusted him. Tails's hand shook violently and tears rolled his cheeks, dampening the fur on his muzzle. He didn't want to shoot Sonic, but he thought he had to; it was a matter of circumstance. Sonic frowned, it was a problem for him not because he couldn't defeat Tails, but because he didn't want to hurt the fox, he loved him like a brother. This whole situation was tearing at his heart. 'Typical', he thought, 'just damned typical. I come this close and I'm between clearing my name and having it on a tombstone....' Sonic growled, staring his former friend right in the eyes, and then he jumped up spinning into a homing attack, and regrettably getting ready to smash into Tails. But before he could do this he felt tremendous pain in his side, and fell to the ground in a heap. Tails now uncontrollable with tears, streaming out like it was the last time he'd ever be able to do it. Sonic's vision became hazy, a red haze. He looked down at his side to find out what happened, in shock and not registering the smoking gun barrel of Tails's just fired blaster. Blood was seeping out and flowing down a drain. The hedgehog gave one last smile, and collapsed on the floor. Tails's scream was the last thing he heard, and it echoed in his soul.

"SOOOOOOOOOOOOOONIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIC!!!! WHY!! HOW COULD YOU KILL HER!? HOW COULD YOU!!!???"

This whole mess had started four months ago

When something equally terrible happened....

Sonic was walking through Station Square, quite content with the fact that Amy hadn't bothered him recently. She was far too busy trying to get Cream to stop crying over how Tails had turned her down. Sonic had hit 18 a month back, Amy was 16, Tails was 16, and Cream was 15, she'd turned into quite the young woman, and Tails got nervous when she asked him out and said he had other plans for the day. She took it pretty bad and for the past three days Amy and Rouge had had to try and get the poor rabbit over it.

Sonic sighed, and looked at Twinkle Park, which had just been re-opened after the Chaos incident. The park lights were calling to him but he had just had no time to go inside. Besides. The rides were WAAAAY to slow for Sonic. He brushed a hand back through his long top left spike and looked on ahead. It wasn't long before his silence was broken harshly.

"HEEELP MEEEE", a young female voice shrieked, Sonic recognised it instantly, it was Cream.

Sonic wasted no time at all, and shot off around the corner, heroically shouting "I'm Coming Cream!!" He screeched to a halt, slowing himself by standing on one foot, and looked around for Cream's 'would be' attacker. And saw absolutely nothing. Only the small rabbit looking smug on a park bench. Sonic cocked his head slightly and looked at the 15 year old.

"What's goin on?" He questioned, slightly bemused at why she would scream like that for no reason. Cream smiled a totally evil grin.

"Oh nothing.... just exercising my lungs, y'know, just in case i did have to scream....", She put on her best innocent face to counter her dark smile but Sonic was too sharp for that.

"What're you up to?" He asked, placing his hands on his hips and leaning forward quizzically. Cream tilted her head and looked totally shocked.

"What? What do you mean?" she gave herself away far too easily by glancing behind Sonic a couple of times, one of which she barely stifled a giggle. Sonic span round, staring directly into the eyes of.... Amy... He knew it was too good to be true, she wasn't helping cream get over Tails, she was teaching her how to get him no matter what he did. She smiled at Sonic rather seductively and then took a slow step forward, teasing him by tracing her finger around his chest in a heart motion.

"Hello, Sonic", she whispered. Barely audible.

"Umm... yeah, hi Amy, fancy meeting you here....", Sonic, took a deep breath, looking around for an escape route, and then his focus landed on cream, to whom he mouthed the words 'i so want to kill you'. She smiled and placed her hands behind her back, Cheese the chao fluttering onto her head from a nearby tree.

"Sonic. There's been something I've been just DYING to ask you", Amy had leaned in closer whilst Sonic had been looking frantically for an escape route, and had now pushed up against him. Sonic couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed at this. Amy had grown up well, she had a figure that most guys would have their jaws hitting the ground over, not to mention the fact that she had replaced her old dress with a similar but slightly more cleavage revealing one. Sonic looked at her for a second gulped and laughed a little nervously.

"Why don't you love me? I even changed the kind of underwear i wear for you." on that note Cream's eyes became as wide as a three lane highway, and Sonic's were only slightly smaller. Amy leaned in further, whispering lightly in his ear.

"Come with me, and I'll show you."

Sonic turned white as a sheet, which was quite an odd sight seeing as he was normally a darkish blue. He was so incredibly nervous, Amy was literally throwing herself at him, and he couldn't do much to resist. He pondered to himself something which he'd never thought about before. What Amy looked like under that figure hugging... NO!! He wouldn't think those thoughts, not about Amy. Not in public. Then a stroke of genius hit the hedgehog and he returned to his normal colour.

"Well, how about it?", Amy whispered, sounding very seductive.

Sonic didn't answer with words, but instead grabbed Amy by the shoulders and kissed her deeply, then whilst she was totally stunned and caught off guard sped off. The feeling of guilt at what he had just done was quite unbearable, plus, Amy was a really good kisser it turned out and he was having second thoughts about not taking her offer. But. None the less, he kept on running until he was safely back home in Emerald city. He slammed the door behind him so hard he nearly broke his wooden hut into a thousand pieces.

The blue hedgehog sighed and slumped down onto his couch, knocking a half eaten pizza off of the arm. He shook his head, looking at the floor, lost in his thoughts, it had been a month since Camera, his girlfriend of two years, had gone on a job and went undercover in Rouge's place. He missed her terribly, and it showed in his every motion, even those that he did when motionless. A small, slow blink. A prolonged sigh of anguish. He laid his head back on the comfy leather sofa, and closed his eyes. Shortly there after sleep caught him.

Sonic awoke with blood on his hands, staining the soft cloth of his gloves. He jumped up, somewhat startled, and looked around him. It was a back alley, in Station Square, and there was cold steel next to him, blood covering its entire form. The sword was one sonic had never seen before, the design nearly plunging into his soul, a red gem encrusted into the hilt. Sonic frowned, in the pale light he could see just enough to be confused. What time was it? How had he got here? Why the hell was he covered in blood.... Someone else's blood.... Who's blood was it?

Sonic span around, the blood dripping from his hands, and stepped slowly into the open, looking around the night area. What had happened? That thought ran through his head over and over. Until a bright light flashed into his eyes.

"You can't escape! Give yourself in and the court will be lenient!", the voice was coming from above, a police chopper was hovering over the bloodstained hedgehog's head, kicking up dust from the ground.

"What have i done!?", Sonic shouted back, it wasn't supposed to be a question, it was just thought aloud.

"Don't play games! Come quietly and you'll find out exactly what you've done! Scum!"

The last word boiled rage inside Sonic's heart, he was alone, tired, his head was pounding and he didn't know what was going on. The amount of times he'd saved the planet, after all his sacrifice. Scum? He growled loudly, looking around the immediate area, scouting out the amount of people that would be hurt if the 'copter came down. No-one. Sonic smirked, no-one meant he could get reckless. He rand up the wall behind him, twisted, and rebounded onto the side of the chopper.

"Scum huh?", Sonic retorted, his eyes showing flames to anyone who looked closely enough,

"Well if I'm scum, i guess what I'm about to do won't surprise you."

The pilot reached for his pistol, but was too late to fire, sonic rolled backwards and slammed into the tail of the copter. It twirled around hopelessly before plummeting to the ground and exploding violently. Two uniformed officers floating to the ground slowly in their parachutes. One, who was quite podgy and fell faster than his partner pulled on his radio.

"Control, this is alpha sigma 1..... We need a ride... Yes sir, he ran off before we could act.... I'm sorry sir.... yes sir, we are useless but..... Yes sir, i understand sir... inform the road block on route 128, they'll need heavy weaponry... Yes sir... very dangerous... he took down the chopper...."

Sonic had cooled off quite quickly, darting off towards Tails' workshop over in the Mystic Ruins. His mind was still a blank as to what had happened, and his gloves were still sticky with blood. He'd have Tails analyse the blood when he got to his workshop.