I guess you've figured this takes place in a Sonic X/Archie/Scewd(spl?) Next Gen type world... really... this was supposed to take place in Sonic X, but I just kept writing, and all my knowledge and intrests in Sonic just... came out...
Originally, there was going to be a moment where the curator of the museum keeps eyeing Shadow, like this is his fault. Shadow finally snaps off with: "IT WASN'T ME THIS TIME!" :D... But that got written out when Tails snapping was written in instead.
As a sidenote... I hope you caught my Halo 3 moment... that kinda breaks the forth wall, y'know "Not everyone's played it, yet!" lol
Did anyone catch Big's cameo in chapter two? I felt that nobody pays attention to him much... he needed at least a paragraph.
The point of this story, now that you know that Tails is the main focus, is that I was kinda tired of not finding many good Dark Tails fic-ys... So I came up with this, where on paper... it started much like how Shadow broke into the Museum, in either Sonic X or SA2B, hence Shadow's involvement in this story.
Before I forget... Thanks from:
Baron Von Beef Dip
Konafox
For the reviews... I'm kinda sad about only getting two, though... but I'll give it time...
Tails was playing his iPod. Bring Me To Life was blaring out loudly in his ears. He mouthed the words silently as the guy's part each time it came up, letting the girl's part go unnoticed.
(Wake me up...)
Wake me up inside...
(I can't wake up...)
Wake me up inside...
Call my name and save me from the dark...
How appropriate... He thought rather grimly. He ran his finger on the scroll wheel, and went through the list of songs.
If you want to... I can save you...
In a perfect world... This could never happen...
Don't waste you're time on me... you're already the voice inside my head...
I would trade... Give away... all the words... that I saved... in my heart... that I left unspoken...
The day you slipped away... was the day I found it won't be the same...
No... No matter how far we've come... I can't wait to see tomorrow... with you...
He stopped on one...
I'm just drunk enough to let go of this pain... to hell with this pride... let it fall like rain... from my eyes...
"Tonight... I wanna cry..." He sang aloud to it.
Shadow was still out of it on his couch.
What I've Done started to play. He pulled the earbuds out of his ears, and shut off his iPod to save it's battery. That song was just too appropriate for his situation. He didn't need to hear it just yet.
He switched the ice pack for Shadow, because the current one was beginning to melt. Shadow groaned and opened his eyes slowly, blinked for a few seconds and stared confusedly at Tails.
"You hit your head outside of my window."
"...What... was I doing there?"
"You wanted to check on me after my outburst at the Museum this morning..."
"...Did I?"
Tails nodded grimly.
Shadow gripped his head in one hand, and let out a low groan of pain, before opening an eye to stare at the twin tailed kitsune wearily as he sat up slowly, wincing as he did so. He felt the bandages wrapped around his head.
"... Geez... why does it always have to be the head?"
Tails couldn't help but laugh a little. Shadow glared the best he could without making his headache any worse.
"...That wasn't a joke, Miles..."
Tails twitched a bit, and brushed it off.
"...Sorry... It's just you always have a habit of hitting your head..."
"Really? I can't seem to remember that...maybe I've hit it too much to really notice..."
Sarcasm.
The both of them laughed at this a bit.
"So, how long have I been out of it?"
"A good couple hours... I suggest you not to try any Chaos based attacks, or anything strenious for the next couple of days, at least until you feel up to it..."
"I'm fine..." Shadow got off the couch and made a good, but feeble attempt to stand. His legs shook for a moment, but a deep breath helped him to stablize. He looked at Tails. "See?"
"All the same, I suggest you should let me watch your Emerald for you, just to help you from trying to use it."
"I'm fine." Flat and final, as always expected from the ebony and blood colored hedgehog.
"Fine... you want me to call Rouge to pick you up... or are you going to walk?"
"Actually... I was... uh... damn!" He almost said he was going to Chaos Control, but he remebered that was out of the question. He sat down on the couch roughly, and crossed his arms irritably. "Call Rouge."
Tails laughed for a moment, before Shadow's patented "Death Stare" caused the laugh to take a nervous turn and he left the room to call up Rouge. As he waited for her to pick up, his thoughts wandered to Shadow's green Emerald. Well... he tried to see if he could trick him to give it to him, but it didn't work... he would have to try later, maybe save it for last and-
"Hello?"
Tails was yanked roughly from his thoughts as Rouge's voice sounded on the other end of the line. He shook his head and began to explain.
"... So he just woke up, and I think it would be best for him if you just came to pick him up... And let him crash at your place again, and not let him strain himself..."
"Okay... I'll be over there in a few minutes..."
"Thanks, Rouge..."
Tails hung up, and headed for his living room. Shadow was holding a Chaos Emerald above his head. Tails felt his heart stop for a moment, but then saw it was still the green one. He let out a quick breath of relief and quickly confronted Shadow.
"What do you think you're doing?"
"I'm going to at least see if I can still do a Chaos Control... I have to at least be able to do that."
Tails was immedatly worried. As much as he wanted that Emerald, he wasn't going to let a friend get hurt on his account. Tails toke a running jump at Shadow and tackled him to the ground. He tried to wrench the Emerald out of Shadow's hands, for the moment, for his own safety.
"Dammit, Shadow! Why do you have to be so stubborn!" His hand swiped at the Emerald, just inches away.
"It's what I do! Since when do you curse? That's my job!" Shadow struggled wildly, keeping the Emerald just out of the fox's reach.
"Does it really matter?!" Tails yelled as he swung his hands at the Emerald. With luck, he should be able to stall him until Rouge came.
"It should!"
"Why?!"
"Get your arse off me, Miles!"
"Take that back!"
"No!"
"SHADOW!"
Shadow stopped short. His eyes widened when he realized he was busted.
This voice was different. It was Rouge's. She was standing at the door, her arms crossed, staring sternly at the dark hedgehog, as her booted foot tapped the ground impatiently.
Tails snatched the Emerald from Shadow's hand as the hedgehog stared sheepishly at his bat friend, he didn't notice.
"H-hi... Rouge..." He waved a little by wiggling his fingers. He sweatdroped a bit.
"I was told by Tails that I had to take you to my place to recover from a head injury... so... would you mind telling me what is going on?" She looked at the two of them. Tails spoke up first.
"Shadow was trying to see if he could still Chaos Control... I didn't want him to further injure himself... so I had to tackle him to the ground... Sorry..."
"That's okay, Tails... I would have done the same thing..." Rouge glared at Shadow, who felt himself shrink in her presence for the moment. God... she was scary when she was mad...
"Rouge... I... I didn't push myself much... "
"When we get back to my place... I wanna talk to you..."
"Yes... Ma'am..." Shadow hung his head, knowing that the conversation was finished for now.
Rouge grabbed his hand and laced his arm over her shoulder. Shadow blushed profusedly.
"Rouge... I can walk just fine, I-"
"I don't want you to hurt yourself... I'm half carrying you..."
Tails had to laugh... he thought those two made a cuter couple than Sonic and either Sally or Amy... Rouge just cared too much about Shadow. He waved at them as they left, not remebering the Emerald in his hands until they were gone from his sight. He shrugged and placed with the one under his bed, and turned his iPod back on. The next song was Bleed it out. He sighed loudly and began to sing along.
"I just remebered! I left my Emerald at Miles' house!" Shadow quickly remembered as they stood outside of Club Rouge. Rouge shook her head.
"It's too late to go back, now... besides, I'm sure Tails won't break it or anything. Besides... you won't be able to do and Chaos stuff now... so your recovery is deffinatly insured now."
She pushed open the door, and half lead, half pulled Shadow to her couch.
"Great... more couches..." Shadow muttered. Rouge glared. Shadow caught himself. "N-n-not like that's a bad thing! I love your couch!"
She set him down a little rougher than nessesary.
"We'll talk about this later..."
"Yes, Rouge..."
ooh... looks like Shadz in the doghouse!
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