Chapter 5 - Finally!

The duo was walking through a forest, still in the valley. Tails was up front while Sonic lingered behind.

"Are we there yet?" Sonic asked for the 1000th time. He was really starting to get on Tails nerves.

"NO! Stop, Asking!" Tails was really starting to get stressed.

"I'm hungry ..." Sonic innocently said. Tails turned around with a very stern look on his face, but instead of shouting at him he realized he wasn't acting his normal self. "Sorry Sonic, this body swap thing has really messed up my mind."

"Totally, I'm starting to lose my self as well, it's like I'm turning into you."

"Yeah it's freaky all right; best thing is to constantly tell our selves who we are."

The duo carried on walking through the forest.

Sonic began to think really hard, a shocked looked appeared on his face. ("This is so weird I don't ever remember this happening in my memory") Sonic was now remembering Tails memories.

Memory Flashback

Sonic was standing over a young fox cub, "Listen I can't take you in! I'm always on the move and I can't take you with me and that's final!" The little fox's ears flattened against his head and his eyes were starting to tear up. "I'm sorry little guy but I can't! But been the kind guy that I am let's get some food down you, that's the least I can do."

Tails ears perked up and stood straight up wiping his eyes with his arm. Sonic walked towards a Cafe, "Follow me kid."

("Hah that Sonic is so easy, all I have to do is pretend to be sad and I can get anything I want.")

End Memory Flashback

Sonic thought for a minute ("Nah ... That was a long time ago, I mean Tails wouldn't be thinking that right now would he?") Sonic was in deep thought and didn't realize up ahead Tails had stopped. Sonic bumped into him. "Whoops, I didn't realize you stopped." Sonic put his hand behind his head.

Tails shrugged and pointed ahead.

"Wow, that's a big drop!" Sonic looked over the edge, "Ok I hear you, grab on." Sonic spun his twin tails.

"Wait Sonic, I want a bash at this one." Tails was standing near the edge and looked like he was calculating the distance.

"What are you doing?"

"I'm going to jump of course!"

"Whoa wait a minute! That is a massive jump not even I could make that, that's at least a 1000m jump."

"Trust me like I trust you, remember?" Sonic sighed.

Sonic jumped onto Tails back. "Hold on!" Tails backed up to the forest edge and started to run on the spot until his legs were a blur and blasted off at high speed. He reached the edge and leaped with all his strength into the air.

"WHOA!" Sonic shouted, flying through the air. They were about half way across and they began to lose altitude. "We aren't guna make it!"

"We are! Don't doubt me!" Tails landed right on the edge at the other side almost falling back, Sonic spun his tails and forced them both forwards, falling to the ground. "Phew, told you I would make it!"

"You could have got us killed!" Those words hit Tails like a ton of bricks. Images began to form in his mind then the whole world around him began to fill up with darkness. ("Great not again ...") Tails fainted.

Tails stood up and looked around ("Nothing yet --- wait a minute ...") the darkness evaporated from the ground up reveling a familiar scene ("I'm floating!")

Tails was floating above a mountain base and a familiar blue hedgehog was standing back to back with a small fox surrounded by 100s of robots

"Well little buddy, looks like this is the end."

Tails turned around and hugged Sonic as hard as he could. "You were the best friend I ever had! I don't ever regret meeting you!"

Sonic looked speechless. "I feel the same way ... but I can't let you die here." Sonic picked Tails up and threw him out of the cluster of robots. "Run and don't look back!"

The robots ignored Tails and were about to fire. "Give me your best shot you bastards!" Tails thought for a minute. "Sonic quick this way!" Tails pulled out a smoke bomb from within his tails and threw it into the cluster of robots creating a smoke cloud. The robots fired but Sonic had already dodged out of the way. They ran to the cliff edge while dodging laser fire. They leaped off the mountain and Tails pulled out a bomb of his own design and threw it in the centre of the robots. "I hope we drop fast enough because that bomb is guna blow the top of the mountain off!"

As they were free falling down the side of the mountain. The top got surrounded by some kind of white light. The light exploded sending 1000s of pieces of rubble there way, Tails spun his tails and dodged the best he could then landing safely on a near by ledge about half way down the mountain.

"That was close, did I do good?" Tails said.

"You did great, you saved us. (Not really you little brat, why do you always have to show me up like that. You're only a kid and yet you're always saving me.")

The whole world began to fill up with darkness once more. Tails awoke propped up against a tree "Ugh ... how did I get here?"

"I just moved you away from the mountain edge; you were moving around and nearly fell off the edge."

Tails tried to stand then fell to his knees and held his head ("Dammit what's wrong with me ...")

"You ok?"

"Yeah just another head ache ... nothing to worry about."

"Nothing to worry about? This keeps happening I'm starting to get worri ---" Sonic closed his eyes and put his hands on his head and screamed in pain.

"What -- the -- hell ..." He fell to his knees. Tails tried to run over but he also fell to his knees in pain. A few seconds passed then everything was normal.

The duo were now sitting next to each other with their legs dangling off the edge of the cliff. "So you think we are switching back?" Sonic repeated

"Yeah, it's the only explanation."

Sonic turned to Tails. "But what if it isn't and something worse is about to happen?"

"Well its all best guess, we can't be certain what's going to happen."

"But ---"

"Let's just carry on and hope for the best, if something bad happens, it happens. I mean it's not like we can stop it."

Sonic sighed and nodded.

The duo stood back up. "Ok so where to next?" Sonic asked, Tails took out the map, "Looks like we are out of the valley. We need to go through a near by cave then we should be able to see Robotniks base. The duo walked through a nearby canyon and saw the cave.

"Whoa wait a minute it never said it was an ice cave!" Sonic pointed out. The entrance of the cave was completely covered with ice.

"Hmmm, weird."

The duo just stood there looking at the cave. "Well?" Sonic looked over at Tails.

"What?"

"Smash through the ice with your spin dash!"

"Hey wait a minute I can't, remember what happened last time?"

"Well you're the only one that can do it ..." Tails sighed.

Tails ran at the ice that was covering the entrance of the cave and smashed head first and fell to the floor. "ARGHH."

Sonic fell down and started laughing. Tails stood up rubbing his sore head and turned to Sonic. "Hey shut up!"

"Sorry that just looked so funny."

Tails tried again but this time he jumped and spun at the ice plowing a hole big enough for the duo to get through.

Sonic was about to jump through the hole but Tails leaped out and landed on top of Sonic. "Dam that's cold! It must be like -6 in there." He started jumping up and down trying to warm him self up. "Chill, it can't be that cold." Sonic jumped through the hole. "Whoa!" he leaped back out holding him self and jumping up and down trying to warm up. "You weren't kidding!"

"Well either way we still have to go ... I got it, hang on to my back" Tails jumped through the hole and starting running through through thecold cave at high speed. A few minutes later. "Dammit not again!" Tails came to a halt falling down screaming in pain, Sonic was doing the same. After about a minute the pain passed. "I don't like this at all." Tails helped Sonic to his feet

"Yeah I agree. These headaches are getting worse and worse." The duo was standing on an ice bridge and what looked like a bottomless fall. Tails looked behind him and saw Sonic was having a hard time moving due to the cold. Tails walked over and put his hand around his friends shoulder. "Come on let's carry on you can do it."

"But I'm -- so cold ..." Sonic was shaking violently. "Hop on, I'll carry us both."

"You sure?"

"Of course!" Sonic struggled to jump onto Tails back. Tails dashed off through the cave once again hoping that no more headaches would occur.

"Great a dead end ... That's all we need." Tails said.

"Try --" Sonic fell asleep. Tails looked behind him and noticed he was asleep.

"Hey wake up!" Tails nudged Sonic waking him up."

"I'm so sleepy ..."

"I know, but if we fall asleep here we won't wake up. Come to think of it I'm feeling a bit tired my self ... Ugh ... What the hell?" Tails legs failed and he fell to the ground dropping Sonic. ("Come on Tails get it together! You have Draco and Knuckles to save.") The cave began to fill up in darkness. Tails was in Sonics house inside a familiar bedroom.

"Mister are you sure I can sleep here tonight?"

"Sure! We all got to look out for each other, it's a tough world."

"It sure is with that mean ol' Dr Robotnik around. What if you were faced with 100s of robots and there was no way out?"

"I'd find some way to get out, that's one thing to remember never, give, up! No matter how bad the odds look."

Tails yawned and Sonic pulled the covers over the small fox.

The room filled up with darkness once again. (Never give up ...")

Tails woke up and prodded Sonic. "WAKE UP." Sonic jumped out of his skin and stood up he looked behind him. "Hey check it out; I got frost bite on my tails." This is no time for jokes, we need to get out of here but we are trapped."

"Try that wall, its probly iced over like the entrance of this cave."

"Good idea, stand back!"

"Tails backed up and used the last of his strength to smash through the ice and land on solid ground."

The duo were now out of the cave and saw Robotninks base at the very top of a mountain. "Well looks like we got our work cut out for us once again." Sonic sighed.

Back at Robotniks base

Knuckles and Draco were in a big dome room hanging from the ceiling in a steel jail. "Ey! Let us out of here what do you think you are trying to accomplish?" A furious Knuckles asked.

"I plan to use you as bait to lure those two pests here and kill them!"

"You're dreaming! You will never defeat those two."

"Ah but you are forgetting something, they are in different bodies and they cannot possibly win! MUAHAHAHA" Two robots stepped from behind Robotnik that looked like clones of Sonic and Tails.

"Those robots may look like Sonic and Tails but they will be destroyed like any other machine." Draco said.

"You think so? Well wait a few more hours and see for your self." Robotnik laughed walking out of the room.

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Sonic-Addict: Phew that one took a while to write, don't you just hate writers block?

Sonic: Yeah, yeah ... That's just an excuse

Tails: Yeah 'fess up! You got tired about writing didn't you!

Sonic-Addict: What me? Never!

Tails: I now your lying ... I have the foxes interwishen

Sonic-Addict: Foxes what? That's doesn't even exist your having me on

Sonic: Well, DUH!

Next chapter - Melding of the minds