Chapter 3

"AAAAGGGHHH!!!" the shrill sound of May's screaming echoed across the cave. Tails' eyes snap open and he jumps to his feet. Miles searches the cave with a panicked glance until he finds Mayhem staring eye to eye with a wild bear. Not an anthromorphic bear like Bark the Polar Bear no it was a bear that a person would find within movies and documentaries. The fox curses audibly as he charges toward the wild animal. Spinning his body hard Miles' namesake makes contact with the bears body so hard that the bear is sent careening into a nearby wall. Looking the bear over the fox sighs in relief. "I don't see him getting up anytime soon. Are you okay?"

The fugitive waits for moment but after a few moments of not receiving an answer he turns around. Shock plays amongst his eyes as the sight of his feline companion is no longer present. Spinning back around Tails finds himself no longer within the confines of the cave but in a large field. Grass and trees surrounding him plants swaying in the wind and animals playing happily. That was until a loud rumbling disturbed the scene. The sight of a series of large metal trailers and trucks comes zooming across the field.

(Wait…What was that? Wasn't that the Egg Caravan? No! No I destroyed that three years ago.)

Miles takes a look over his body. He had lost a few inches in height and his fur was a bit longer. Turning around he notices that he is no longer in the field instead he is now in an empty room with walls made of reflective metal. Noticing his reflection the fox realizes he is no longer as old as he should be.

(No! Please no! Anywhere but here! Please! This is where…This is where I…)

A sudden feeling of pain overtook the young fox as he falls to the ground with the air being forcefully removed from his lungs. With a groan the fox gets to his feet. Looking up he finds a hedgehog covered in blue quills identifying the newcomer immediately the fugitive shouts "Sonic! What? What's wrong?" The Hedgehog doesn't respond instead he smirks and runs at full speed toward the fox. Tails, not being able to match Sonic's speed, couldn't dodge or defend himself so the young teenage howls in pain as he is brought to the ground a second time. Miles looked on as his idol decided to make a few more passes at him. Prower found it difficult but he managed to avoid a few of the attacks but he couldn't evade them all. Within a few moments Tails began coughing out his own blood.

Tails looked at his mentor and watched in horror as Sonic began to charge his signature spin dash. Miles stood back and braced himself as the hedgehog shot off at bullet speed to him. Miles closed his eyes for a split second but within that moment he witnessed the one thing he never wanted to see. His hero stood before him with a smile donning his features and a fox's tail in his throat and another through his chest. The warm blood slowly ran down his fur. A loud scream filled the room and Sonic continued to smile. The hedgehog said something to the boy but whatever is was he couldn't hear as the scream only seemed to increase in volume. As Sonic's eyes closed for the last time one thing never left his face. A satisfied almost grateful grin.

(No…No! Please…no no…no…no…NO!)

"NO!" Tails gasps loudly as he sits up from the ground. He looks around to find May looking at him worriedly. Tails sighs and shakes his head, moving onto his feet he rewraps himself within the cloak. The feline places her hand on her companions shoulder grasping him firmly before asking. "Tails are you okay?" Nodding Tails just shakes his head. "Yeah I'm fine just a bad dream".

May was about to say something when a voice from the entrance of the cave disturbed them. "After I'm through with you, you're going to wish you were still dreaming you murderous bastard". The two travelers turn to look at whoever made that statement. The were greeted with the glare of an enrage red echidna.

(Knuckles? What is he doing here? Unless…Oh crap.)

Knuckles roars loudly as he charges toward the kitsune throwing punch after punch his way. Miles manages to dodge a large flurry of blows, ducking left, bobbing right, and jumping a sweep. The echidna growls as he begins attacking with greater force. During this Tails manages to yell out, "Knux, Please listen to me". "Shut up traitor. I'm going to get you back for killing my best friend". "Please he was like a brother to me". Knuckles eyes at that moment was filled with a feeling of far greater loathing as if to say how dare you. "So you kill members of your own family?!". The enraged assailant then throws a punch that manages to make enough contact with Miles' chest that the fox is sent spinning into the nearest cave wall.

May watching in complete awe and horror tries to shake off the buckling in her knees as she realizes that Tails needs help. With a frightened battle cry she leaps into the air and onto the echidna's back. She then begins slamming her fist down repeatedly on top of his head. Knuckles merely shakes off the attack and throws the emerald colored cat into the cave wall front of him. With a loud sickening sound May falls to ground limply. Tails struggling to get up tries to run to Mayhem's aid but fails as Knuckles returns his attention to the fox and pins him to the wall.

(Of all the places I've could've gone with Chaos Control I end up on Angel Island. One of last places I wanted to return ever since Sonic's death. My old friends aren't exactly happy to see me.)

Knuckles gripped the fox by his throat and reeled his fist back ensuring that the two spikes on knuckles would bore a hole out of each of his eyes. Tails shut his eyes and tried to brace himself as much as he could for the final blow however Knuckles snarled, "Wait, before I finish you. You were saying something to that girl about being in possession of a Chaos Emerald." Miles shakes his head a smirk slowly crossing his features. "What about it?" Knuckles glares and pulls the fox up with both hands. "Where the hell is it? Where is the Chaos Emerald?" With a wild smirk Tails answers, "I'm not exactly hiding it. You could say the girl is more in possession of it than I do" "What?" "I would love to explain it to you but you would never believe me or understand. You've always been kind of slow Knucklehead".

The echidna roared and threw a punch wildly at the fox's head. In his rage however Knuckles released Tails giving him a chance to duck the punch which created a creator in the wall behind him. Knuckles may have been quick on his feet and tongue but his mind was always a few days behind. Tails wastes no time, being quick in intellect and footwork, as he throws a series of punches and tail jabs that hit the echidna with such force the red guardian coughs a bit of blood before falling to the ground with a loud thump.

(I'm sorry man. I never wanted to do this. I wish you'd understand)

Tails knelt down by Knuckles side and patted his back and sighed. "I'm sorry Knuckles, But I have to go. If you really want to know about the Chaos Emeralds though. You should probably ask Cream I'm betting she can simplify things for you". Standing up the fox walks over to his companion and lifts her off the ground. Carrying her to the mouth of the cave he growled cursing his luck as he heard. "C'mon guys we can't let him get away". The loud snarl of the newcomer echoed through the cave.

(Just my damn luck).

End Chapter 3

Author note: Here we are the rewritten chapter three. I think things are going great so far. I'd like to thank all the people that read this and request people review to tell me what you think and or what I should do to improve this. Thanks again to my loyal reviewer Nicend your encouragement really helps. Yeah thanks to a review I didn't notice that the whole chapter was underlined. Sorry about that but hopefully this fixes things.