A/n: Funny thing, I didn't notice this last chapter but I actually live near a town called Greenville which is kind of funny because I based the name off of Green Hill Zone, haha. Also sorry for not updating last week...I forgot...sorry. I own nothing. Thank you to everyone who reviewed, foavorited, followed and even is just reading.
IcyPinkFlower- They actually already know Tails has fox tails now. They found out in chapter 12, they just don't about Sonic have hedgehog spikes now. Also you are the only one reviewing. Although I wish more people were reviewing as I worked on this for six months before releasing it at least I know someones enjoying it.
Greenville was a quaint little village. It was small, quiet and peaceful, something Sonic was thankful for. It seemed like it was frozen in time and had a vibe that everyone knew everyone. When Sonic checked into the local inn he was handed the keys with a friendly smile by the innkeeper. Said innkeeper also offered to help the pair with their bags, which they politely declined. When they got to there room they were pleasantly surprised. It had 2 twin sized beds, a tv, a bathroom, a window, 2 chairs and a table. Okay, so it wasn't 5 star but it was still something. Plus it had a simple charm to it that couldn't be replicated with flat screen tvs and king sized beds.
"I'm so happy we have beds again. I never thought I'd say this but I really wanna take a nap," Tails said as he placed his backpack on my floor.
"Yeah but first you should take a shower. Your kind of dirty from sleeping outside and you smell like chlorine," Sonic stated.
Tails rolled his eyes, "Okay. Just make sure you take one too."
Sonic nodded and his brother made his way to the bathroom. Sonic grabbed the TV remote and pulled up one of the chairs and started to flip through the channels. He stopped when he saw what looked to be the hotel they stayed at last night on a news station.
"This should be good," The teen said, turning up the volume.
"-suspects say they saw a boy with silver hair demonstrating psychic abilities such as moving things with his mind. They also say that he looked demonic-"
Sonic was unable to hear the rest as he broke out laughing. There were many things Silver was but demonic was not one of them. This must have also been a big middle finger to Eggman due to him wanting to keep his lab a secret and all.
"I can only imagine the look on Eggheads face right now!"
"Grrrr, SILVER YOU FOOL!" Eggman growled slamming his fist down on the armrest of his chair.
Silver flinched, "Sir, you don't understand-"
"I understand perfectly that you don't take your job seriously! If the G.U.N finds out about my activities and that I'm still alive it'll be catastrophic!"
"Doctor, if I remember you told us to catch Tails no matter the consequences. Silver was only following orders," Blaze stated.
Eggman whipped his head in Blazes direction and sent her a menacing glare.
"Don't think you can talk to me like you're all high and mighty! Don't forget your sisters are at my mercy."
Eggman pressed a button on his chair showing both Marine and Sticks in a cell. Blaze's mouth dropped in shock as she saw them sitting in a cell, both curled up in a far corner. Eggman looked back Blaze with a satisfied and sadistic grin as Blazes body started to form fire.
"You- you bastard! You said you wouldn't hurt them!" Blaze yelled out in rage as fire started to radiate off of her body.
"Why I don't know what your talking about Blaze. I never hurt them, I simply kidnapped them and brought them here. Think of it as...a reminder or compensation in case you decide to betray me."
Blaze clenched her teeth together. She wanted to kill him. She wanted to tear him apart limb from limb. She wanted to burn the fat bastard to a crisp but she knew if she laid a single finger on him her sisters would have to pay the price, so all she could do for now is do what he wanted and pray he kept his end of the deal.
Eggman cleared his throat "Now as I was saying before, due to Silver's incompetence," Silver winced and Blaze took a step in front of him as if she was expecting something to pop out and attack him. "The spybot that I had recording the battle was destroyed during his little scene in the dining room of that hotel. Not to mention now that G.U.N most likely saw that and knows I'm alive they'll be searching for me."
"Doctor, if you'd just give us another chance-" Blaze started only to be cut-off by Eggman.
"You've proven to me how useless you two at the time being. The fact that my specimen can apparently fly makes him even more valuable. I need to bring in the big guns," Eggman turned towards the corner of the room where a figure with black hair with red highlights leaned against the wall, arms crossed and eyes closed. "I'll need you to find Sonic by locking onto his chaos energy. Think you can handle it?"
The figure opened his eyes revealing their color to be a deep dark crimson.
"Surely."
Sonic entered the hotel room followed by Tails who closed the door for him. Sonic was carrying a box, filled with at least two dozen chilidogs while Tails just trailed behind him with a smile.
"I really like it here. This place is beautiful and I still can't believe that guy at the restaurant gave us all these chili dogs for free!" Tails exclaimed happily.
Sonic placed the box on the table and turned around to face Tails, "Yeah well don't get too comfortable. After breakfast tomorrow we're leaving."
"I know. Hey Sonic do you think our friends back home miss us?" Tails asked.
Sonic sighed. He had been so busy constantly moving that he never really thought about everyone back home, "They probably do Tails."
"Will we ever go back?"
Sonic paused. Would they ever go back? Would they ever see everyone again? This was the second time in his life he didn't have an answer. The first time he didn't have an answer was when their parents died. He remembers him and Tails laying the there parents bedroom that night. Tails had been crying while Sonic held him close trying not to cry himself. He was a big boy and he had to be strong for his little brother who needed him the most after that traumatic experience. He remembered the at the time 4 year old Tails (or as as he and his parents called him at the time, Miles) looking up at him and asking, "Sonic, are we going to be okay?"
Sonic shook his head to dispel the memory and focused his gaze on Tails who was staring at him, patiently waiting for an answer.
"I….I don't know…."
Tails looked down, feeling a little disappointed, "Well, I'm sure we will someday once this all blows over. Then we can see Knuckles and Cream and Amy and everyone and things can go back to the way they use to be."
Sonic smiled at little at his brother and ruffled his hair, "Let's eat before our food gets cold."
Tails nodded and sat down and the two began to eat their dinner.
After they were done eating Sonic took out his phone and checked the time.
"It's 6:30. Time sure does fly when you actually get to relax for once."
Tails nodded in agreement, "I wish we could stay here forever. Its so peaceful."
Sonic got up, "You wanna take one last look around?"
"Sure," Tails responded.
The two left the hotel and started to make there way around the village, soaking in the lush greenery and beautiful imagery that came with it at twilight. They eventually reached the park that Sonic and Tails had been at Tails saw it for the first time he begged his big brother to take him there. Sonic ended up doing so since he felt after everything they'd been through Tails deserved to be a kid for a while. Earlier the two brothers had spent hours looking around, playing with each other and overall acting like kids, something the elder of the two didn't get to do often. Tails made his way over to the swings and sat down. Sonic sat down on the swing next to him and the two just observed the now empty park.
"Hey Sonic," Tails started.
"Yeah Tails?"
"Thank you, for everything."
Sonic smiled softly, "Don't mention it."
Right after he said it there was a bright flash of light in front of the two. Tails yelped in surprise and ended up falling off of his swing while Sonic stood and squinted trying to make out what was going on.
When the light finally dissipated there stood someone who looked to be about Sonics age with black hair with red highlights, wearing a black and red jacket and black jeans.
"Shadow?" Sonic asked in disbelief.
Tails shakily got up and hid behind Sonic. He didn't know who this guy was but considering the vibe this guy gave off and the death glare he was giving the two Tails found him to be kind of scary."
"S-Sonic who is that guy?" Tails squeaked out.
"What are you doing here, Shadow?" Sonic asked ignoring Tails question. Despite asking Sonic had a feeling he knew what or who Shadow wanted.
"You know exactly what I want," Shadow glanced at Tails who let out a squeak of fear in response and gripped Sonics shirt. Sonic simply got into a defensive stance in front of Tails and glared at Shadow.
"Tails, run now. Run as far away from here as you can and no matter what don't look back," Sonic ordered.
Despite his fears Tails didn't want to run. He wanted to help fight, "But Sonic, you saw what happened back at the hotel, I can hold my own."
"Now is not the time to argue with me! Get out of here now!"
"But Sonic-"
"MILES, NOW!"
Tails flinched at the use of his real name and sprinted away leaving the two teens.
"Before we fight, I have one thing to ask you. What was with that bright flash of light?" Sonic asked.
"Its called chaos control."
"Chaos what?"
Shadow let out a groan, "Your aren't that bright are you? Chaos control is like teleportation, to do it you must lock onto someone's specific chaos energy."
"Chaos energy?"
"I don't have time for your stupid questions. Lets just get this over with."
Sonic nodded. He had to focus. Silver and Blaze were tough but beatable. To beat Shadow however, Sonic would need a miracle.
"Chaos control!" Shadow yelled.
Sonic didn't know what happened next. One minute he was standing and the next he was on the ground and his face hurt. Before he could get up Shadow roundhouse kicked him in the face sending him back to the ground.
'Shadows showing no mercy,' Sonic thought to himself as he tried to get up from the ground only to get stepped on.
"Hmph, pathetic," Shadow spat.
Sonic grabbed Shadows leg and yanked on it, actually knocking him off balance. Sonic then attempted to kick Shadow but Shadow caught his leg.
"Hmph, did you really think that wou-"
Shadow was interrupted mid-sentence by Sonic throwing a rock at his head. It didn't hurt him but it did daze him giving Sonic enough time to push Shadow back and create some distance between the two.
'I can't beat him using punches and kicks but maybe I can outsmart him.'
Sonic curled into a ball and spin dashed in Shadows direction. He didn't hit anything and staying in his spin dash position changed direction. He tried it one more time and again nothing. Sonic couldn't stay in the position for very long since it made it hard to breathe so after three times of not hitting anything he unfurled himself. That turned out to be a bad decision because once he did he saw Shadow right in front of him before being uppercut in the chin.
The blue haired teen landed on the ground battered and trying to regain his breath. Shadow walked up to Sonic and placed his foot on the others chest to prevent Sonic from getting up. Sonic reached his hand out in an attempt to grab Shadows ankle which only caused Shadow to apply more pressure to the teens chest.
"I expected you to put up more a fight," Shadow said before grabbing Sonic by the front of his shirt.
"What are ya gonna do? Kill me?" Sonic asked in a condescending tone.
Shadow rolled his eyes, "I see no reason too."
"Fine, but before you knocked me out or whatever answer me this. You seem strong enough to defeat Eggman and you don't have someone to protect like Blaze and Silver do so why do you go along with the doctors plan?"
Shadow let out a sound as though he were disgusted and said, "You I don't have to answer to you," before headbutted Sonic knocking him out cold.
Shadow dropped the now limp teenagers body to the ground and got up. He closed his eyes and concentrated trying to find the doctor's experiments chaos energy...There! Shadow opened his eyes and yelled, "Chaos control!" before teleporting away.
Tails ran as fast as he could through the woods. He had no doubt that Sonic would beat that guy but still, that Shadow guy or whatever his name was, was kind of scary. Tails skidded to a stop when a bright flash of light appeared in front of him and suddenly vanished revealing the very thing Tails had been running from.
"Sh-Shadow!"
Shadow walked towards Tails slowly causing the child to back away.
"What are you doing here? What happened to Sonic?" Tails demanded to know, trying to hide the fear in his voice.
"He's fine, but you're coming with me."
"O-oh yeah? Well, we'll see about that!" Tails exclaimed as he started to fly using his tails. Apparently while he was running he had managed to get his two appendages free from his pants.
Before Tails could get very far however Shadow started hovering and very easily caught that child-fox hybrid and forced him back down to the ground.
Tails struggled as hard as he could but not matter how hard he tried the eight year old was no match for his captors strength.
"Chaos control!"
"Soni-"
Tails never got to finish his last cry for help before he was whisked away by Shadow and brought back to Eggman's lab where he knew unimaginable horrors awaited him…
"YOU MEAN YOU SAW A BLUE HAIRED TEENAGE BOY HERE!"
The employee manning the checkout counter at the inn slowly nodded his head and he started to slowly edge away from the counter. He was starting to get the vibe that this pink haired lady was mental.
"MY SONIC IS ALIVE! WHERE IS HE!" Amy demanded to know.
"Erm...miss I'm not allowed to disclose that information," The employee replied nervously.
Amys face became blank and she pulled out her piko piko hammer and asked in a deathly calm voice, "Whats did you just say to me?"
Vector and Espio pulled her away from the counter and towards where the others were waiting while Knuckles handled the rest.
"Amy, you can't act like that towards people," Cream scolded as her big sister sat down on the couch.
"I know, I know, I just got so excited when I heard Tails and Sonic where here. I'm worried about them."
"We know Amy. I can't wait to see Mr. Sonic and Tails again either," Cream replied.
"Yeah me neither, when I see Tails I'm gonna ask him if he wants me to teach him how to skate. That way his Tails tails will look elegant as they trail behind him!" Charmy exclaimed.
"Hey keep it down buzz brain! Do you wanna wake up the whole joint!" Vector yelled causing everyone in the lobby to shush him. Vector crossed his arms and looked away muttering that 'Charmy started it.'
Knuckles walked back over and once he did Amy got up from her seat.
"What did he say?"
"Well he said that he wasn't allowed to tell us Sonics room number but he said that Sonic wasn't here right now."
"So, I guess we just wait here until he comes back," Rouge stated from her seat on the couch.
"Ugh! I hate waiting around!" Amy exclaimed.
"I know it sucks but we got no choice. Maybe you should go for a walk to let off some steam," Knuckles suggested.
"A walk? Can I come too?" Cream asked before yawning.
Amy smiled softly at her little sister, "How about tomorrow? Right now I just wanna be alone."
Cream nodded her head, "Okay Amy."
Amy turned towards the rest of the group, "I'll be back within a hour. I'll call you guys if something comes up," She stated before leaving.
"So what are we supposed to do to wait for sonic and tails to get here?" Vector asked. For once he didn't feel like listening to music.
The group suddenly heard the sound of cards being shuffled and turned in Espios direction to find that indeed, he had shuffling playing cards.
"Poker anyone?"
Amy had to admit, the town was very pretty and coated in plants that brought the village the color of a lush verdant. However after walking for awhile she, like her sister, started to tire.
"I should probably get back to the inn," Amy said as a yawn escaped her lips.
She looked around and noticed that a lot less lights were on where she was walking and it was kind of dark out. Amy Rose wasn't afraid of a lot of things but anyone would be spooked if they became lost in a new place at night.
She noticed not to far away that their was a park that had street lights. She dashed over to it and pulled out her phone and dialed Knuckles number.
"Hello?" Knuckles greeted.
"Knuckles it Amy. Listen it's kind of dark and I need you come and get me," Amy stated as she walked through the park.
"Since when have you been afraid of that dark?" Knuckles asked is a slight mocking sort of way.
Amy huffed, "Knuckles!"
"Alright,alright, where are ya?"
"I'm at the local park near the-oof!"
Amys phone clattered to the ground when she tripped. She turned around to see what she had tripped on and in the dim light she saw a outline.
"What the heck?" Amy asked as she picked her phone back up. She could hear Knuckles concerned voice asking if she was alright.
"I gotta go. Just hurry up," She said.
"No Amy! Wa-" Was all Knuckles could get out before the line went dead.
Amy turned the flashlight on her phone on. She wanted to find out what that thing was. When she saw was it was, or who it was she let out a horrified gasp and once again her phone clattered to the ground. It was Sonic's battered and bruised body.
A/n: I'm done with this chapter and I left it on a cliffhanger cus I'm evil. By the way if any of you guys are wondering how Shadow was hovering it's because he can get the hover shoes in Sonic adventure 2 as a upgrade/power-up, remember? Also one more thing, before anyone tells me in the reviews that someone can't use Chaos control without a chaos emerald, don't worry, how he did that will be explained...eventually. I'm also taking some artistic liberties. I think in this case I'm allow to, I mean the characters are humans instead of animals. Anyways I'm tired so later guys!