-Tails-
Sonic... I'm coming, Sonic! That's all I can think as we race through the corridors, following Shadow. The minute the base came into view, he started running, and I really think if it wasn't for Amy shouting at him he'd have left us all behind by now. Shadow skids around a corner, and I'm only just behind, using every trick I ever learned to keep up. There's robots up ahead – I drop my feet to the floor and skid across the slick metal, then kick off with my right foot as I near them, spinning around and around. They don't aim at me for the first few moments, too busy trying to shoot Shadow. I hear parts fall in a clatter, but I'm spinning way too fast to make sense of what I'm seeing! My balance shifting, I dip my head and push off with a hand instead of my right foot, keeping up the spin and keeping on moving forwards, or what used to be forwards – there! I've hit the first of the robots, the tips of my tails moving a lot faster than I am, since they're further from my body, and backed up by the natural energy I've learned to control to some extent, or I'd likely break them on the metal of robot legs. The impact's enough to break the shoddily-constructed robots, and parts fly everywhere as I keep moving forward, cutting a line through them. At least... I think it's a line.
I stop hitting things, and I'm glad of it. I've gotta stop; I can't keep this up any more. Used to be I could go on like this for ages and ages without getting too dizzy, but even though we're a resistance force, I haven't done half as much fighting like this as I used to, back before all of this happened. I let myself slow down and stop, kneeling with one hand on the floor and looking behind me. There's what's left of the robots, a couple still functioning, the rest so much scrap metal. Getting up, I look forwards to see Shadow already racing off, and I run after him, my tails taking over as I pick up speed until my feet aren't touching the ground any more. I've got to stay with him!
Shadow speeds up even more, and I put all my strength into keeping up with him. Even so, he keeps on getting ahead of me, but there's so many robots in here, he can't keep it up, has to keep slowing to break through them. That's all that lets me stay anywhere near him.
But when I look back, I realise I can't see Amy or anyone else behind us any more...
"Shadow!" I call to him, shouting as loud as I can. "Shadow, you've gotta stop! You've left Amy and the others behind!"
If he hears me, he doesn't do anything about it.
"Shadow! You've left Amy behind! She's in danger!"
Shadow turns off his jet boots. His feet instantly fall to the floor, and he skids along it with a screech of metal, turning as he does so that when he stops, he's facing me. There's an awful look in his eyes, a look of anger, pain, and fear. I've never seen his face this way before today. I don't know what he's thinking, but telling him Amy was in danger at least seems to have got his attention. I don't want to do this, but I've got to make him go back somehow...
"Amy's in danger, Shadow! If you don't get back there and help her, she could be killed!"
For a moment, Shadow looks utterly helpless, like a little child. Then he runs past me as if I wasn't even there. I turn around and fly after him as fast as I can. What else can I do?