New chapter is finally up. R&R is all I can truly say for now. PS sorry for wait. School interference really got into the way so sorry about that. Also this is gonna be the last chapter since I ran out of ideas on this story. Don't worry I m making a new one soon. It will be a crossover of Halo and Sonic though the OC will be evil instead of good. The title is 'a living nightmare.'

Darkness woke up early the next morning before anyone else and decided to think up some new areas to explore.

"Where to take Tails today?" Darkness thought to himself.

Suddenly something began to stir in the kitchen.

"Can't be XT-0466 or Tails they are asleep." Darkness said to himself.

He instinctively summoned a silenced pistol incase the intruder was hostile. Darkness silently moved out of the living room and entered the kitchen where he saw a can roll past him. He crouched down and walked slowly and silently so the intruder wouldn't notice him. Darkness moved silently past the island in the kitchen and moved his head just so he could see the other side and saw an unknown figure moving quietly through the cupboards searching for something. Darkness readied his gun and stood up saying quietly.

"You know that sneaking around is not the best thing to do with me around right?"

The intruder who was wearing black clothing and had a symbol on him turned around to see Darkness holding a gun pointing straight at him.

"Sorry I didn't know please spare me." the thief said terrified.

"Reason for being here in the first place?" Darkness said pissed off.

" I was hired to search for the chaos emerald hidden here."

"By who?"

"By someone called Eggman."

"Eggman that asshole can't do it himself so he sends an inexperienced thief how pitiful. Tell you what I will spare you if you deliver a message for me."

"Sure thing but please don't shoot me."

"Tell your employer that if he wants the emerald badly enough he should do it himself."

"Right away sir."

"Before you go."

Darkness threw a empty black container at the thief.

"Take that to Eggman and don't open it until you enter his base or the object inside will be more lethal and it is designed to hold onto the target until he reaches the correct area so hope you have no plans until it is delivered. Good luck."

Darkness threw the thief out of the house and re-locked the door.

"Now that that's out of the way. I can now decide where to take Tails. She deserves some special treatment for a change."

Darkness seeing how nothing much was out of place except for the can that rolled past him a little while ago decided to make cereal instead of what he originally was gonna go with which was pancakes.

"Can never have too much of anything you always get tired of it. At least I think that's how it goes."

Darkness thought to himself as he got out some cheerios for Tails to enjoy.

"Says here that you need to add sugar for flavor unless you like tasteless cereal."

Darkness grabbed a bowl that was red and a spoon with the milk and began making the cereal. When he was done he added the sugar and put all the stuff away. Darkness went upstairs to get Tails who was still asleep. He knocked a few times before entering and saw Tails asleep.

"She must be a strong sleeper." Darkness whispered to himself.

He walked over to Tails' bed and shook her lightly while softly calling her name. Tails opened an eye partially to see into Darkness's red eyes which were soft at the moment. Tails grinned as she saw Darkness and gave a hug while saying good morning. Darkness returned the hug and told her that breakfast was ready for her.

"Thanks Darkness. Say do you have anything planned for today" Tails asked.

"No just thinking of places to go for both of us to enjoy. Why do you ask?"

"No reason I was thinking of going to the chao gardens to play with the chao I heard Amy was going as well and I thought we all could hang out together." Tails replied.

"Very well then I had planned on going there anyway so I guess both our plans will be combined and accomplished easily." Darkness said not wanting to tell Tails about the intruder.

Darkness left the room so Tails could get ready and he entered the kitchen to see the cereal already getting warm.

"Now that won't do at all."

Darkness summoned an ice gun and cooled the cereal so it was still nice and cool for Tails when she arrived into the kitchen. It was around a minute or two before Tails came down in a green dress and red high heels. Darkness saw her and his jaw dropped a little.

"I take it you like it?" Tails asked giggling a little at Darkness' reaction.

It took Darkness a few seconds to recover but he answered yes when he was actually able to speak. XT-0466 saw what happened and started laughing. Darkness glared at him for it but he continued to laugh.

"Oh haha just wait I will pay you back for laughing at me. Maybe I will remake you into a soda can or a snack food vendor." Darkness said coldly.

XT-0466 stopped laughing and started backing out of the room because when Darkness says anything coldly he usually means it.

"That's better." Darkness said. "Listen I want you to watch over the house today cause me and Tails are going out today so I thought maybe you could stay behind this time."

"Sure thing boss have fun on your date."

Darkness fell over from the comment.

"It is not a date it is just two best friends enjoying a day out together." Darkness said hotly.

"Whatever you say but I say it is a date and that is what I am sticking with."

"Fine."

Tails was just eating her cereal while she heard Darkness and XT-0466 argue about if it was a date or not.

"Those two act like brothers in a way." Tails thought to herself as she finished her cereal.

After saying good-bye to XT-0466 the two left for the chao gardens located in a special area in central park.

"You want to use my chaos control or do you prefer walking I don't care which as long as you want to use it." Darkness said while they were walking through station square that was filled with people cars and shops.

"I was thinking of stopping at a store or something before we enter the gardens." Tails said calmly as they continued to walk around station square.

"Very well tell me the store and I will follow you to it." Darkness said trying to make sure to keep Tails happy.

The couple went into the local mall and went to a hardware store. As they entered they were greeted by a female blue cat named Christina.

"Welcome to Arnold's tool emporium hope you find what you are looking for." She said with a smile.

The cat noticed Darkness and she was already struck with a bit of fear for some odd reason.

"Sorry Shadow but you are banned from the store after what happened last time."

Darkness looked at her with a bit of annoyance.

"Sorry to burst your bubble but I am not Shadow even though I look a lot like him." Darkness said calmly even though he was getting irritated.

The cat sighed with relief and apologized for the confusion. Tails and Darkness walked through the many isles filled with tools until they got to the very back that had building material of all types such as wood, metal, and all other types you could only dream of.

"Hey Darkness do you think we should get some of this stuff before or after we get to chao gardens?" Tails asked pointing to some diodes.

"Personally I would recommend we do it after so the chao don't hurt themselves with the material." Darkness said calmly.

"Perhaps you are right I couldn't sleep at night if I knew I was responsible for hurting a chao."

The two left the mall and continued on to the gardens. When they entered the gardens the saw a pink hedgehog over playing with a red hero chao.

"Is that Amy?" Darkness asked pointing at the pink hedgehog.

"Yes it is let's go see her." Tails said before running off to see Amy. "Hey Amy I was wondering if I would be able to see you here."

The hedgehog turned around. "Hey Tails it is good to see you. Here all by yourself?" Amy asked nicely.

"No I am here with my boyfriend." Tails replied

Amy was stunned at the comment. "Tails how long have you kept that a secret? You kept the fact that you are a girl from us for the entire time we have known you but you never bothered to tell us you also had a boyfriend." Amy said.

"That is because I never had one until AFTER I told you I was a girl. He and I met a few days ago and we have gotten along well until we both said how we loved each other."

Amy now felt guilty for yelling at Tails.

"Sorry Tails for yelling at you. So who is the lucky guy?" Amy asked a bit sadly due to yelling at Tails.

"He is over there playing with some of the chao. Looks like the dark chao like him cause they are also joining in on the fun."

Amy was looking at where she was pointing and saw Darkness playing with the dark, neutral, and hero chao all at once.

"Isn't that Shadow Tails?" Amy asked while watching Darkness continue to play with the chao by rolling a ball to them.

"No it isn't his name is Darkness and he is very sweet and protective." Tails said

"What do you mean by that?" Amy asked curiously.

"Well he always makes me breakfast and always tries to go to places I might like. He also tries to protect me from anything that would hurt me like he did against Eggman. He is also funny at times like the Wave incident." Tails said happily.

"So what happened to Wave and Eggman?" Amy asked wanting to get all the details.

"Well when we announced our love to each other Eggman attacked us and Darkness nearly killed him though I saw he wasn't completely trying to kill him. Wave had insulted me badly this time and had me on the verge of tears until Darkness pulled a quick prank that involved chicken feathers and a special oil concoction he created himself." Tails happily explained.

"Sounds to me he is the perfect boyfriend for you." Amy said a bit of jealously in her voice since Tails got a boyfriend easily and she couldn't since Sonic wouldn't take her on a date even once.

"Yeah you can talk to him if you want don't worry I told him you are a friend of mine so he shouldn't attack." Tails said calmly.

"Wait so if you tell him I am not a friend of yours he might attack me?" Amy said a bit worried for her life now.

"That is what I understand about him so far." Tails said regretting what she had told Amy.

The two walked over to Darkness who got dog-piled on by all the chao who were having a blast playing with him.

"Alright little ones could you please get off me? My legs fell asleep now." Darkness said nicely to the chao who listened and got off him though after they did they tackled him again just for fun which Darkness had to admit that he couldn't ruin their fun just for his convenience.

Tails and Amy got to the mass pile of chao burying Darkness who was laughing at how funny it was that he got dog-piled twice in one day by chao. After seeing how cute it looked Amy and Tails helped Darkness out of the pile much to the chao's dislike.

"Thanks I thought I would never get out of there without having to force my way out." Darkness said calmly though he was still chuckling a little.

"Darkness this is Amy." Tails introduced Amy to Darkness who greeted her nicely much to Amy's relief.

"I take it you're Tails' boyfriend?" Amy asked

"Yeah." Darkness said calmly.

"Just be sure to take good care of her when she needs it." Amy said not paying attention as too what she had just said.

"Don't worry while I am still breathing she will be safe from almost anything." Darkness said giving Tails a hug which she happily returned. "I almost forgot. Excuse me for a second ladies." Darkness said as he walked off towards a bench and looked under it for a surprise he got for Tails.

When he returned he showed Tails a red chao egg which had stunned the fox.

"A chao egg. Where did you get one?" Tails asked

"I have my sources." Darkness said.

"Well it is getting late I think I should get home for the night." Amy said while yawning a little bit.

"Good bye Amy have a good sleep." Darkness said as he and Tails waved her off. "Think we should get back to the store for the material before it closes or do you want to go home?" Darkness asked Tails.

"I think the store then get something quick to eat before going home." Tails said holding her new chao egg.

"Very well." Was all Darkness said.

The two entered the store a few moments before it closed and grabbed the diodes. They paid for the diodes then went to Twinkle park where Darkness noticed a special shop before the Eggman incident. They arrived at a sports bar and grill named 'Ernie's pub and grill' they reached a counter manned by a black bear who looked too tired to even pay attention. Darkness had to snap his fingers a few times to wake up the bear. The bear named Harold saw the couple standing in front of him and he apologized for his sleepiness.

"I am so sorry for falling asleep while you waited. Working here at night gets real boring since no one comes in here at night." The bear said.

"Completely understandable. I think no one could stay up all night when nothing happens." Darkness said trying to make the bear feel better about his nap.

"You truly are kind. Let me show you two to a table and I will come back with the menu's." The bear said cheerfully.

"Fine by us. we can wait a little bit." Tails said still looking around the empty bar.

The bear disappeared behind the twin doors marked "Employees only".

"Well while we wait why don't we talk about what we could do tomorrow." Said Darkness trying to make small talk.

"Personally I want to stay home and work in the lab for a bit since we have gone out pretty much all this week and I didn't get much work done on my new plane." Tails said.

"Very well. I was thinking of building something myself but the problem is... I need a lot of metal and everything else like that and the only thing that sounds like it is robots made by Eggman. Then again I could surround the machine in diamond to protect the inner workings made by you or Eggman." Said Darkness now deep in thought of where he would get the diamonds and what to make with them.

Harold came back with the menu's looking like he had a hard time looking for them.

"Sorry for the wait since no one comes in during our night hours we normally just put the menu's away. Anyway have anything you like on the house." Harold said.

"Thank you Harold hope that when we leave you could write a letter to upper management to think about closing during the night. Like you said no one comes in here at night so what is the point of staying open at night?" Darkness said looking over his menu.

Just then an explosion was heard from the kitchen as fire was seen from the window. Suddenly Eggman had came out of the hole he had made and he looked really impressed with himself. Darkness just sweat dropped as he watched Eggman laugh at the destruction he had caused.

"Come back for another butt kicking Eggman or are you just wanting to cause a bit of destruction?" Darkness asked as he sighed and stood up from his seat calmly.

"Actually I came for my revenge." Eggman said looking like he was a sure win this time.

"Tsk Tsk Eggman hasn't the last near death experience taught you anything?" Darkness said.

"Personally I don't care. As long as I go to hell I want to take you with me." Eggman had said.

"If you want to go to hell then just go back to school." Darkness chuckled a little at his joke while Tails and Eggman started laughing.

"Ok now I have to admit that school was hell but I am talking about for all eternity." Eggman said still chuckling a bit.

"Um weren't we gonna fight or something?" Darkness asked Eggman.

"Oh yeah I forgot about that." Eggman snapped his fingers and a huge robot came out and shot hundreds of bullets at Darkness who dogged all of them.

The robot now taking things seriously aimed at Tails who was trying to run and get help. The robot fired and Darkness jumped in front of Tails and took a serious shot through the chest. Darkness fell and before he did he told Tails to run while she had the chance. Tails did as she was told and ran out of the bar to find someone to help.

"We will deal with her later but right now I want to see you die Darkness say good-bye to this world." Eggman said while ordering his robot to finish off Darkness.

The robot fired off a final shot that went through Darkness's skull killing him or so Eggman thought. Darkness began shaking rapidly before he started moving extremely fast still shaking madly.

"Kill him you fool!" Eggman shouted at the robot while seeing Darkness act strangely.

The robot opened fire but the bullets had no effect on Darkness at all as he made a sign appear out of nowhere. Darkness then began to jump and move fast. Once he was close to the robot Eggman made a run for it while the robot tried to fight off the new and completely insane hedgehog. Darkness had grabbed a hold of the robot's head and tore it clean off it's body. Eggman was running as fast as he could until Darkness got in front of him and shaking madly still he showed Eggman the now decapitated head of his new robot. Eggman was terrified as he saw the head of his robot. He tried to run but couldn't as the new Darkness rushed in front of him and tore off Eggman's head and began bashing Eggman's head into his own body a few times before slamming it into the ground. Darkness then rose his hands into the air and made the flaming horns symbol while still shaking. Tails had arrived being followed by Shadow, Sonic, Knuckles, Rouge, Espio, and the rest of her friends to see the carnage that had taken place a few seconds. Darkness who was still shaking saw Tails and her reaction. Quickly his injuries healed up and he returned to normal form though unconscious.

"Whoa I guess maybe I was too rash when I thought of him being a robot made by Eggman after all." Said Sonic who was looking at the now destroyed body of Eggman.

"He looks fine now. I hate to imagine what would happen if we had to fight him but I guess dating him was the best thing you could do Tails. He instantly stopped acting like a complete psycho and calmed down before returning to normal." Said Espio who looked at the now unconscious body of Darkness.

"He did this to protect me and in doing so nearly sacrificed himself in the process. I guess his promise was one that was to be kept no matter what." Said Tails.

"I wonder who it was that created him in the first place. I mean I was created by Professor Gerald but who knows who created him. I guess whoever did only added the defense power to make sure he would stay alive." Said Shadow amazed at the power Darkness had laying dormant the whole time.

"We should get him out of here and into some place safe so when he wakes up he won't be in a G.U.N holding cell. If they find him and know about his powers they could use him as a weapon and it would be catastrophic." Rouge said looking to make sure no G.U.N troops were around.

The group agreed and took Darkness to the space colony ARK where he would be safe. After a week of being unconscious Darkness woke up holding his aching head.

"Oh man what a wild ride I can't remember anything." Darkness said holding his head and looking around at his surroundings. "Wait the colony ARK what am I doing here? Last I remember I jumped in front of Tails to shield her then nothing." Darkness looked over to a corner of the room to see Tails crying into her knees.

Darkness got off of the bed and slowly walked over to Tails who was still crying. Darkness put his hand on her shoulder which made her look up at Darkness who was smiling warmly.

"Now now Tails what could cause you to be upset?" Darkness asked still smiling warmly which caused Tails to calm down a little bit.

Tails all of the sudden gave Darkness a huge hug and she would not let go of him to make sure she was not dreaming.

"I thought I lost you in the fight." Tails said crying into Darkness's chest.

Darkness rubbed Tails's back and told her that when he made a promise he would keep it no matter the cost. Tails looked into Darkness's red eyes and soon kissed him passionately. Darkness decided to not fight against this surprise and soon the two began a mad make out session that would not end. After a few minutes they stopped and looked at each other.

"As long as I am alive I will not stop protecting you and that is my permanent promise." Darkness said.

5 months later.

Darkness and Tails had decided to get married on the anniversary of their first encounter with each other and everyone cheered as Darkness in his tuxedo carried Tails who was in her bride's outfit into a limo that had a sign saying 'Just married" on the back with cans attached to the back end of the limo. The limo drove into the sunset and the screen began to fade into nothingness.

THE END.