After a few hours they found the nearest Town Yeller Ridge, the sun was beginning to set and most of the people were inside. "Sonic I hope you heal soon even I don't move this slowly," Espio said. Sonic rolled his eyes and replied "The fastest thing alive is very well aware of that." Espio smirked "Well you weren't the fastest thing today that's for sure." Sonic's muzzle turned a bit red. "Alright I get it what's the plan now?" "Well First I'm calling Victor to give him an update on what's going on, Second, seeing that it's late and we still have this ink crap on us, we're just going to find an inn to stay at then tomorrow we're continuing back home." Sonic yawns, "Sure that sounds fine, I'm getting bored to sleep."
Espio finds an Inn nearby and gets two rooms. As Sonic goes into his room Espio stops him for a second. "Don't go awol on me got it?" Sonic just yawns and says "Chill ninja boy, I'm too tired for that crap." He was telling the truth he had no intention of leaving. "Good that makes everything easier for the both of us," Espio turned around and goes into his room. Sonic walked in and immediately showered off the ink from the Klanken, dried himself off, and went straight to bed. As Sonic was laying there he couldn't help but think 'Was he trying to torment me or just kill me?' He closed his eyes and went to sleep immediately.
When Sonic's eyes opened next he heard screaming. 'Who is that?' he got up and started heading towards the sound 'Tails?' Sonic just broke out running as fast as he could and found Tails in a desert tied to some train tracks "I got you buddy!" He quickly untied him and got him off the track right before the train came. He turned to look at the train pass then back at Tails but he was gone. "Help me!" It was Tails' voice again Sonic ran after him he tore across city streets and traced the voice to the top of a building. Sonic ran right up the building and found Tails chained to a rocket. Without hesitation he spin dashes across the chain, breaking it. The rocket was shot into the sky without Tails on it. "Whew that was close!" He watched the fireworks go off in the sky. "What's happening can someone help?" Sonic ran after the sound of his voice which led him to a castle Sonic ran in and saw him in a cage being suspended over lava guarded by a bull with a spiked turtle shell "Hey what are you doing?!" It responded, with a crooked smile "Making roasted fox you want some?" "Hell no that's disgusting!" "HA HA HA HA HA more for me then!" He grabs a lever and it drops the cage sending it towards the lava. Sonic runs and kicks the cage out onto the bridge over the lava. 'Tails is safe, now for this jerk.' Sonic runs toward the beast, goes right up his leg, then his front to knee him in the jaw. "Take that!" Sonic turns and runs towards the cage but he finds it empty. "SONIC!" Sonic turns and looks around and sees across far away metal scrapyard.
He runs in that direction as fast as he can, there are spikes in his path he dodges and jumps over them and keeps running. "Tails hold on!" An army of badniks and drones are in his path. Without losing any momentum he curls up into a ball and rips through them, and he propels himself and keeps running. He's getting closer Tails' cries are louder. A large Golden Eggpawn blocks his path "GRRRAAAAAAAAAAAGH!" He cries as he launches himself and curls up and slams into the eggpawn. This only moves it a bit but Sonic violently increases his spin and cracks the shell. Sonic starts to glows as he forces his way inside, increasing velocity. He keeps this up until he's inside and it looks as if there's a light coming out of the chest. The Eggpawn looks around frantically and scrambles to get his arms in his chest but then, "GO!" Many section of his body started to pop out as Sonic ricocheted inside the robot and blasting out through his backside and Sonic keeps running as the robot explodes behind him.
As he gets closer a security door drops down he slides under it. He sees him "Tails I'm right here buddy!" Tails' arms and legs were strapped to a wall with a bomb vest on there was a timer on it as well 5 seconds and counting. "No more time to waste!" He runs directly at him but a bunch of robots grab onto him it slows him down "Get the hell off me!" He dashes forward leaving them in scraps but more keep coming to drag him they can't hold on to his feet but they grab him around the waist and neck slowing him down. "Geez!" He punches them away. Sonic is getting closer and closer but the robots kept piling on him. There were so many all at once and they kept coming he couldn't reach he was slowed to a walk. He tries to jump out but it was too much weight and he was so close to Tails he could almost press the release button. Sonic could barely move he inches closer as timer counts down to 0. He stares into Tails eyes and Tails is staring back and manages to say "Soni-" Tails exploded right in Sonic's face and the hot blast blows in Sonic's face. "rAAAGh!" Sonic jumps out of bed and runs right smack into a wall. He rubs his head and opens his eyes, and looks around his room. "Tails…" Sonic lays motionless on the ground frozen as tears begin to fill his eyes. Not bothering to get up he then curls into a ball and sits there.