Chapter Two

Even though it took months to travel in space to find the Chaos Emeralds, it only took two days to get back to Mobius, since they knew where they were going straight away.

For the first time in 48 hours, Tails came out of his room for the descent onto Mobius. No spoke to Tails except Cream since she was still worried that Tails might be hurt.

'Hey Tails.' Cream said 'How are you feeling?'

'I could be better, but I am all right though' Tails replied. 'How have you been, Cream?'

'A lot better now' the rabbit replied cheerfully.

Tails went to the bridge and sat down without another word to anyone. 'Everyone prepare for landing' came Tail's voice over the intercom.

As everyone slowly came onto the bridge, they all did their best not to look at Tails, but everyone had to look at least once.

'Tails is looking a lot better now, I guess I misjudged him' Chris thought silently.

As the Blue Typhoon landed, everyone, except Tails since he didn't really care, was surprised to see a welcome party.

Princess Sally was standing there with her guards, Ms. Vanilla and a crowd of people that were roughly 30 – 50 people.

Cream ran out of the ship the second she could and hugged her mother.

'Mum!' the little rabbit cried

. 'Cream! I am so glad you are safe' the older rabbit responded.

'Sonic!' Princess Sally yelled as she hugged Sonic.

Sonic wasn't really expecting Sally to hug him so he tried to get her to let go. 'Sally I know I have been away for a long time, but if you don't let go then Amy might…' Sonic's voice trailed off.

'Sally' Amy said with an evil laugh while summoning a piko-piko hammer.

While everyone else ran off into the crowd, Tails silently walked off, until… 'Where are you going?'

'Back home Rouge, were else?' Tails replied

'Come on, we beat the Metarex. Can't you at least enjoy yourself?' Rouge asked cheerfully

'NO, I CAN'T! COSMO IS DEAD!' Tails realized that he was shouting as loud as he could.

Everyone was silent.

Tails looked at his hand 'I don't care what happens to me, I'll look after Cosmo's plant and make my decision when it matures.' Tails said and he ran off.

'Tails!' Cream tried to run after him, but Sonic stopped her. 'Mister Sonic…' Cream started but…

'Let Tails be, he needs to think.' Sonic interrupted.

Everyone started walking away a few minutes later. Everyone went home except Sonic, Sally and her guards.

'Sonic, I didn't want to say this in front of everyone else, but…' Sally trailed off.

'What, if you love me then Amy will flatten you and I am sure your brother won't hesitate to agree with her.' Sonic said.

'No, no it is nothing like that' Sally said, blushing. 'It is that a few days ago Knothole was destroyed'

'What?' Sonic asked 'Destroyed, gone, wiped off the face of the earth!' Sally yelled.

'Okay, okay. Chill Sal. Well, who did it, Eggman?' Sonic asked

'No, it wasn't him, but we do have some leads. All we know is that it was someone wearing a robe with a hood.' Sally said calmly.

'Anything else?' Sonic asked.

'No, nothing else' replied Sally.

'Why didn't you tell everyone else, Sally?'

'I hoped that you would be able to deal with this by yourself. I don't want everyone panicking.'

'Okay, well I'll get on it then.'

'See that you do.' Sally walked away silently with her guards.

'I'll go see how Tails is going.' Sonic thought to himself.