Ultra Sonic 14

Morning After

As he hovered in the air, he could see Sonic running towards him. Suddenly, a couple robots jumped up and before he could warn the hedgehog, they were already scrap metal from the blue spines.

With the essence of cool, Sonic hurried over to Tails. Tails was just in awe watching his hero run like that, the fastest living thing on earth. But, as the hedgehog was only mere feet away from, a glow started appearing. Ignoring it, Tails waved his hand to Sonic.

"Hey Sonic!" Tails yelled happily. His best friend was here to help him, like always.

"Hey Tails, I've got a slight problem..." Sonic said, reaching the two tailed fox.

"What is it Sonic...?" Tails managed to say before he had to look away. The light had gotten really bright all of a sudden, and it appeared to be coming from Sonic. When it had finally died down Tails turned to look again.

He saw Sonic, but he was all white. He was now Ultra Sonic, his pupils seemingly missing from his face, leaving just the white of his eyes, and a maniac grin with rows of teeth filled his mouth. The same exact image he had seen from Tiefa City imprinted in his mind, and now into his dreams.

Ultra Sonic grabbed Tails by the neck, lifted him up a little, and then whispered into his ear, "I'm tired of helping you anymore, little buddy."

Holding Tails at arms length, Ultra Sonic lifted his other hand, and soon began to charge a beam attack, inches away from Tails' face...

"Wakey Wakey, eggs and bakey!" Amy sang as she nudged Tails' shoulder.

"Aaah!" Tails suddenly yelled as he was finally roused from his sleep. Amy looked closely at him and noticed that he was breathing hard and had a cold sweat.

"Tails, did you have a nightmare?" She asked quietly, so only Tails can hear. Tails didn't want to answer, but he did give a small nod. "I did too..." Amy quickly said to him before she got up and walked towards a door. "Knuckles and I are having breakfast in the next room. Come in when you're ready." And with that, she left.

Tails looked around. He was still in his workshop, he could see the seat by the window that Amy had took to sitting in after she awoke yesterday, and he could see the spare bed that Knuckles had slept in. The sheets were neatly folded already, probably from Amy.

Turning behind him, he could see the Tornado II. It had gotten pretty damaged from the day before, so he had to reconfigure a few things and even take a thing or two out. Currently, it looked like he hadn't finished it before he fell asleep sometime during the night. There was only one thing left to do really, and he picked up his wrench to try and finish it quickly.

"...And there you have it folks, the one and only hero Sonic, now an evil monster!" said a voice from the television as Tails walked into the room. "Some say it may have been a double, like the incident with the cannon from space colony ARK, but eye witnesses swear that it is Sonic, the world's fastest living thing, who not only found what appears to be a new super form, but also is using it to cause chaos and destroy cities!"

Amy looked up from the table to see Tails had walked into the room, and became alarmed at how much he might have heard from the TV. "Knuckles, I think the TV should be off, I think we've heard enough."

"And I think we haven't heard enough until we get a clue to where ever Sonic might be." Knuckles was sitting in a corner, looking away from both Amy and Tails, and the TV. He sat there, appearing to meditate.

"Um, here Tails, I kept your breakfast warm." Amy said, getting up from her seat and offering it to Tails. Tails simply plopped down and started to slowly eat. The food was slightly cold.

As Tails ate, Knuckles stayed motionless in the corner, and the TV ended up making all the noise for the room. Amy stood away from it all, watching their obvious depression. She found herself barely holding back tears.

Soon the noise of nothing other than the TV finally got to here. "So, what are we going to do today?" She inquired.

"Find Sonic." Both Tails and Knuckles said at once. She wasn't sure if they noticed they had spoken at the same time, but they didn't make any indication of it. She started to say something more, but then a certain phrase from the TV caught her attention.

"That's right folks, the president has just hired G.U.N. to make a full investigation on the matter. They already said that they would start by interrogating Sonic's known best friend, Tails, who is currently residing somewhere in the Mystic Ruins."

"Wait, G.U.N. is coming?" Amy said quietly.

However, that was all it took to make the other two look up. The three looked at each other for a moment until they could hear something from outside.

"This is G.U.N.! We have you surrounded! Come out with your hands up!"

Alarmed, the three quickly jumped to their feet. Surprisingly, Tails was the first to speak.

"Knuckles, quickly run outside and try to distract them. Amy and I will get into the Tornado II and come out to help you soon." Tails said, grabbing Amy by the arm and turning to run out of the room before he had even finish his sentence.

Knuckles didn't have any complaints, as he was about to say the same exact thing.

"This is your final warning! Come out with your hands up!" yelled the G.U.N. officer once more. He waited for another few seconds before he finally gave the order for one of the robots to open fire. But before it could even pull the trigger, a red flash erupted from the house and in the next second the robot was destroyed.

The red flash continued running through the robotic flanks blowing up everything it went past until it finally stopped in front of the officer.

"Knuckles the Echidna, ah, we were warned you might be involved. So, we brought back up." The officer calmly said.

Suddenly an assortment of other G.U.N. robots jumped out of the nearby trees and quickly headed in Knuckles' direction. Turning to face them, Knuckles just barely saw a shot fire at him before he was able to dodge in time. As he rolled across the ground, another shot fired at him, and he realized he wouldn't be able to move in time.

Luckily for him, Tails had finally gotten the Tornado II to get moving. In mech form, it fired and deflected the shot fired at Knuckles, and sent a couple volleys of its own at the impeding robots. Knuckles also rose and threw himself at them.

It didn't take very long for that wave of robots to appear, but no sooner had they arrived that another wave appeared, and another, and another. Soon, the heroes moved into the forest, jumping past trees and firing upon multiple robots from behind. They kept this momentum up, until jet planes could be heard from above.

"Tails!" Amy yelled from the back seat as she pointed up at the sky. Tails knew that if they sent jets here, they could either drop tons upon tons of G.U.N. robots until they were overwhelmed, or even just bomb the forest until they got them.

Quickly turning, he signaled to Knuckles to jump on, and as Amy worked the controls and fired missiles in Cream's place, Tails quickly initiated the transformation sequence, and very soon they were off the ground, with Knuckles riding atop a wing.

Tails jetted into the sky, firing past the jets as Amy fired upon them, and soon cleared the sky with Knuckles hanging on for dear life. With the skies finally clear, they started to fly away from the area, taking their chance to escape from G.U.N.

As they flew, Knuckles noticed something on the ground below. Without even thinking, he signaled for Tails to head down in the direction he pointed. The plane very soon reached close to the ground, and Knuckles reached out from the wing to grab...Rouge.

"What are you doing here!" Knuckles demanded more than asked.

"I came here to find you, and to tell you all that Sonic's safe, but maybe not for long." Rouge quickly said.

"So, you know where Sonic is right now?" Tails asked.

"Not exactly, Metal Sonic and Silica found where we were hiding and we spilt up, me coming after you guys, and Shadow leaving with Sonic in the direction I of what I think is Tiefa City."

"Was Tiefa City..." Amy said quietly. All four of them didn't say anything for a moment as they remembered what had happened.

"Anyway, Knuckles, like I said, I came to look for you."

"And now you've found us." Knuckles answered, turning away. He was concentrating more now on getting to Tiefa City, and he could already feel Tails increasing his speed.

"I mean you, you smelly redhead! Pay attention." Rouge said, annoyed by how quickly he lost interest in what she had to say. "Look, while Shadow and I were on the ship, we found some files from Eggman's computer, and what it might mean is that there's a way to help Sonic, but I need your help."

Knuckles turned to look at her once more. For some reason, he felt more as if she just wanted him to come along, rather than needed him. He couldn't help but hoping it was the former.

"Ok, where to?" Tails answered for Knuckles. "I'll drop you off there on the way."

"Back at that pyramid base that Eggman found the tablet in."

"Ok, we should be there within the hour."

Tails suddenly veered off of the direction he was going, surprising everyone else and causing Knuckles and Rouge to nearly fall off. But he didn't really think about that right then. At that moment, the most important thing wasn't even finding Sonic, it was trying to find a way to restore his best friend to how he was, as his hero.

This time, instead of Sonic helping him, he would help Sonic.

It didn't take long for the Tornado II to break the sound barrier.