The military fails to stop Luna. It's all up to Tails now.

"Tails? What in God's name are you doing here?" General Shay asked.

He turned around and came down to the broken general's level. "Hello, General Shay. How are you?" he asked.

"What do you think!" he shot.

"Sorry," he chuckled. "What's been going on here? This place is a wreck."

General Shay placed his hand on his exposed head and rubbed the sweat from his face. He scrunched his face up, obviously fearing for Tails' safety. "Tails, you won't even believe this when I tell you," he said. The hardest part was trying to tell him whom they were fighting. It would destroy Tails for life; he had to do it, though. It placed a strong burden on his heart. "We were fighting all of your best friends, as well as some not-so-friendly friends that wouldn't normally do this. We tried to take them on, but they were far too strong for us. But, the thing that surprised us the most was that we were also fighting…" he swallowed down a mountain of saliva. This was the hard part. "W-we were fighting Sonic."

"I know."

He was shocked and flabbergasted at the same time. "What the…how did you know that we were fighting Sonic?"

"I thought about it for a while. It took me a while to piece everything together, but I found out what was going on. Did you see a girl out there commanding them and feeding them their orders?"

"I saw her. I don't know about General Shay here, but I sure did."

"Silence, Private Washington!" he snapped. "I saw her. She sure did look evil. Moreover, she did look like the one who was giving orders at the time. Who is she?"

"I don't know. She never told me her name, but I do know that she's the one who's controlling Sonic and everybody else. If I can stop her somehow, then I can save Sonic," he chanted.

General Shay wanted to stand up, shake his hand, and say thanks, but comparing Tails to what they were up against, he thought Tails was insane. "Tails, have you lost all of your common sense? Did you get hit in the head or something? Did you see what happened earlier? We got mutilated back there! We're the most highly trained group of military squadron out there, and they made short work of us. If we couldn't stop them…"

"Let alone, get near them," Private Washington added.

"...what makes you think that you could? I'm sorry, Tails, but I just don't think that you have it in you."

Little did they know, he had all of the necessary components to stop them. It was time to prove them all wrong. He pulled out his bombs, his arm cannon, and his duffle bag. He held it to their faces and tried to convince them that this could take them down. They still held negative thoughts about his victory. He still had one last trick up his sleeve. He opened up his yellow duffle bag, thus revealing the seven Chaos Emeralds. They were impressed. Their enthusiasm soared. The general was especially fond of Tails' chance of victory now. He stood up and saluted Tails. "Good luck out there, Tails."

He saluted back. "Thank you, general." He flew out into the thicket of evil, fully prepared to fight.

Across the boundaries, Luna was still waiting. She was becoming increasingly impatient. Someone was out there. She knew that there was someone waiting out there, but they were obviously too scared to show themselves. She was willing to go out there herself and force them to come out. She was at her final straw with this person who refused to show themselves. Action had to be taken. "I know that someone is out there! Show yourselves, now! If you don't, prepare to suffer a slow and painful death!" she shouted. Still nothing. "Okay. Knuckles, Amy, clear the area."

"Yes, Commander Luna," they said.

Tails had definitely made a poor choice. He should have shown himself when he had the opportunity. Now, because of his choice, they were going to find him eventually by destroying the rest of Station Square. He was so frightened right now. He had to tell himself that he wasn't afraid and that he had to fight. He repeated this to himself many times before he bared the courage onto show himself. He finally mustered up his strength and made a hasty jump from behind the building to the battlefield. He was panting heavily, and his heart was beating rapidly and wouldn't stop. It felt like piles of quicksand were stuck in his mouth, making his throat dry and sticky. The air made it hard for him to breathe. The smell of the poisonous gases and toxins in the air haunted his nostrils, but he needed to persevere, no matter what.

Luna got a good look at whom she was going to fight. Then, all of a sudden, she was back on the beach.

W-wh-who are you?

Someone who wants to take care of you. Come on, Tails. I won't hurt you.

That was too close! Thanks, Sonic.

No problem, Tails.

Damn it! I missed!

Once she got a more poignant view of him, she laughed at the top of her lungs. "AHAHAHAHAHAHA! Are you serious?! This is who I have to fight? This is the big hero? This is the one who's going to save us all? Tails! He can't even save himself! What makes you think that you can defeat me, Tails? You don't have a prayer!"

"Shut up! I'm the hero here!" he said.

"Hero, huh? You're the hero! Some hero! What, am I supposed to scared or something? Do you remember what happened back on the beach? Do you remember how scared you were? I can see that your little heart hasn't changed one bit!" she laughed. She almost fell over because she was laughing so hard. She expected the savior to be a bit stronger than this. She wiped the tear from her eye. "I must say, Tails, I will commend you for having the courage to have at least showed up. You're right on time to witness my brand new army destroy this pathetic planet. Are you ready?"

"No way! There's no way that you're going to get away with this, because I'm going to stop you."

She kneeled down to a subordinate's level just to joke with him. She raised her voice to that of a 2nd grade schoolgirl as she spoke. "Oh, dear. Please, Tails. Please don't hurt me. I'm just a poor innocent girl trying to make friends. Please don't hurt me. Please!" she cried. She stood back up and regained her composure. "You, defeat me? You just don't know when to quit, do you?"

Tails still stayed strong. He just kept saying to himself that he couldn't be broken and that nothing was going to stop him. Sonic would've wanted it that way. "Just wait. Anything can happen!" he shouted.

"Oh, we'll see."


It's a pretty straightforward chapter. I hope you enjoyed it. Chaper 19 is in progress.