Chapter 11: A fight of brutality

Tails kept on flying and converting wisps back to normal while following the dark mother wisp, while some of the wisps trailed him for backup. He called in many white ones to give him boosts. Dodging past obstacles and drifting through curves to turn without losing speed, he inched closer to the dark mother wisp.

The monster saw the fox approaching. With a roar of anger, she sent out a decoy of herself to hinder the chaser.

"Whoa," exclaimed Tails, dodging a swipe from the decoy's tentacles.

He sent a shower of indigo asteroids and used some green wisps to lift the enemy. Seeing that the enemy is in a vulnerable position, Tails threw some pink spikes at it.

"Pink spike snipe!" yelled the fox.

The dark mother wisp clone roared, sending a shower of dark blue cubes to block part of his path. Tails transformed into a purple chomper to gobble everything in his path. He was able to bite the decoy hard and injure it.

However, the heavy damage on the clone made it furious. It swung its tentacles hard at the fox. The latter was able to avoid most of the slams, but one caught him by his namesakes.

"Ow!" yelped the fox, hitting the ground.

He quickly sent out a magenta wisp to obscure the enemy's vision with annoying music notes. It effectively slowed down the clone, allowing the fox to finish it with a black bomb.

"Phew," he sighed, "that was intense. But I'm so far behind! How am I going to catch up to it?"

He tried to think of something that can blast him back onto Mobius at a very fast speed, while his tails were aching in pain.

"I need speed, boost, flight and homing abilities..." he said to himself, as a light bulb eventually illuminated in his head. "I can use many colours at the same time! Crimson, Cyan, Orange and White, we're heading for Mobius!"

The four wisps fused with Tails. The latter did not transform, but a gold aura appeared as he boosted at a very high speed towards his home planet. Preventing himself from crashing onto the ground, he used a green wisp to float down to the ground.

It wasn't long until he saw the dark mother wisp destroying City182. He quickly zoomed into the scene to see the citizens fleeing. The soldiers tried hard to shoot down the monster but with one powerful swipe from the latter, the government's army was crushed.

"Shoot!" yelled Tails, getting in front of the hideous creature.

Everyone looked at the two-tailed fox, shocked at his return. Tails didn't look at the bystanders. He just kept his glare focused on the massive monster, the one who killed his wisp friend and kidnapped his friends.

"Tails!" many of his friends shouted in distress. "Help!"

"Dang," interjected Jaytee, "these cages are teleport proof! Or should I say... tele-proof."

"Obviously," replied Nate, "they are stronger and smarter than Eggman!"

Suddenly, the monster roared, as a violet shell appeared around her. It shocked the fox, as the dark mother wisp became double its size. The monster flooded the city, trying to kill people. The two-tailed fox has had enough.

"That's it!" he yelled. "You've killed Yacker! You've caused damage to the city and hurt the citizens! You will pay for this!"

Then, Tails flew at a speed that broke the sound barrier with the help of a white wisp. He launched a pink wisp that damaged the armour slightly. The giant wisp responded with a slash that missed the fox by an inch.

The caged friends watched, concerned for their young friend. The latter dealt a few more hits on the monster, making it angry. She started to swing her tentacles wildly, making it difficult for the two-tailed hero to come close and land direct hits.

"Agh," cried the fox. "this is really hard!"

He attempted to do a spin attack while in his pink spikes form but was deflected by the long tentacles. He narrowly dodged the slashes. He tried shooting some orange rockets but they were reflected towards him. The two continued to clash with each other. None of them were gaining the upper hand so far.

"It looks like it's a stalemate," remarked Shadow.

"The monster is really trying to kill Tails," stated Samuel.

"I don't know how long he can last," shivered Livvy, "the dark wisp is too strong!"

Tails flew forward, using the cyan and white wisps' powers to go extra fast. He had seen an opportunity to land a hit on the monster's head. But as he progressed, his tails injury started to catch up to him.

"Agh!" he screamed in pain, slowing down.

It left him in a vulnerable position for the monster to land a direct hit. The dark mother wisp swung her tentacles, smashing the fox upwards right on his chest, and then slamming onto his back that sent him bashing straight onto the ground.

"Tails!" cried Livvy in horror.

The fox couldn't move. His vision was very blurry and he couldn't talk at all. He was bleeding brutally. He screamed, feeling the pain excruciate him. Suddenly, everything went black.

Meanwhile, everyone else gasped at the fox collapsing. Livvy, Maria, Amy and Cream were bawling their eyes out, Blaze, Rouge, Sonic and Charmy looked down in sadness, and the rest glared at the monster.

It was raining hard in the ruined city. The dark wisp roared in victory, knowing that she successfully defeated Tails. The citizens mourned for the fallen divine wisp, thinking that he was dead. Without Tails, all hope was lost... or is it?