Author's note:

Hi guys! We are almost to the end!
BEFORE I POST THE EPLIOGUE, I will be going over this fanfic to correct any grammar or misspelling errors and somewhat remaster this fanfic a bit. Don't worry, the story will remain the same; plus, we still have 1 or 2 more chapters to go. This is to make sure this fanfic is a bit more clean. And, I need your guys help. If you all notice any spelling or grammar errors, PLEASE respond to me through either review or PM! I would really appreciate it! Thank you guys in advance!

Shout-outs:

Bajy - I wonder what will happen indeed. So many things happening in one. We shall see what happens next. ^^

Chrisj32347 - Yes, yes Saura. *nods*

Fanakatsuki - Dang, that was fast. 0.0 I'm glad you are enjoying the story so far!

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Chapter 26: Illusions & Reality

Saura opens her eyes as she pulls herself up to her knees. She wondered what happened and how did she get here. Speaking of here, the wolf has no idea where she is. The moment she starts to lift her head a bit, she only sees darkness. Lifting herself up to her feet, she looks around for the others. "Infinite?" she calls out for the jackal first. She waited for a reply, but it was only silence. "Infinite?" she tries to call out again! However, she once again hears only silence. Now, the wolf begins to worry. "Sonic?! Tails!? Amy?" she now calls for the blue and pink hedgehogs and fox! There was silence which only got Saura scared. "C-Commander?! Silver?! Espio?! V-Vector?! Ch-Charmy?" she then tries to call for the echidna, white hedgehog, chameleon, crocodile, and bee! When there was nothing but silence again, the wolf starts to shiver. "R-Rouge?!... Omega?!... Sh-Shadow?!" she tries to call out even though she won't hear a reply…

"There is no one here," a voice replied. The voice sounds familiar, but also not familiar to Saura. There is also something off about their tone… The wolf looks around for the source of that voice but sees no one. "Then again, no one really cares, so why should you?" the same voice asks.

Saura glares a bit as she continues to look around for the source of that voice. "Th-that's not true! They are my friends! They wouldn't abandon me," she shouts at the voice in some anger! "Who are you to judge if my friends cared or not?" she asks with a little growl.

"What happened to you?" the voice replies with a question. "You used to be so quiet and mind your own business… Now, look at you. You're getting weaker and you allowed them to collect pieces of you. They can turn that information against you," the voice added. The voice sounds a bit… emotionless.

However, Saura only got a little angrier to think about the voice's tone. "They would never do that! You don't know them like I do! You don't even know anything about me," she says to the voice!

"That's where you're wrong. I know everything about you. You've been through a lot. And after everything I did to help you find a way to end it, you still refuse to give in," the voice answers. To Saura's surprise, the voice sounds closer. "And because of these "friends," you now continue to move further away. So, I decided to come out before he finishes it," the voice added.

"Just give in…"

Saura starts to shiver a bit as she backs away while that memory of Nevil's voice replays while the area brightens up to that memory and fades back to darkness when it's over. The wolf looks around for the one who spoke. "Wh-who are you?... Wh-why would you know anything a-about me?" she asks.

"That's an easy question to answer," the voice says. Saura suddenly feels someone behind her. Not only that, the voice sounds like it's behind her as well. She looks around and now shows a shocked and spooked expression. The blond wolf sees another blond wolf looking down. Its bangs are covering its eyes so it's hard to see the eye color. This blond wolf had long hair-like fur that covers her upper back and wears short sleeve black shirt and long black jeans. There are cuts everywhere on her wrists and they appear to be bleeding! Saura takes a step back as she continues to watch this blond wolf. "I know you-" the blond wolf looks up as there is also a cut on her neck that also appears to be bleeding. The blond wolf then opens her blue, soulless eyes. "-because I am you," the voice replies as the blond wolf's mouth moves along with the voice.

Infinite awakens and realizes he's in a cell. Growling, he tries to break out of the area but realizes he no longer has the Phantom Ruby nor his sword to help. So, he starts using his own strength to break out. Unfortunately, it wasn't successful. The jackal has to think… how did this happen? The last thing he remembered was holding on to Saura. And then…

*Flashback*

Infinite watches Saura finally lost consciousness and shivers in fear. The wolf better not die!... she can't… He then hears the echidna and white hedgehog finally arrive with a couple other resistance members. One of them appear to be a lavender male dog and two are bears, one black male and brown female. They appear to be carrying some kind of equipment. One of the bears appears to be holding a weapon similar to Saura's, but it looks like a hammer with the color blue instead of yellow. When the group arrived, the newcomers noticed him! The black bear with the hammer looking wispon starts charging towards the jackal in anger but was suddenly stopped by Silver.

Knuckles mentions for the dog and other bear to follow him. As they got close, the lavender dog and brown bear get tensed when they are near Infinite. But seeing Sonic, their confidence returned as they look at Saura's arm and side and anywhere else they might see injuries. Infinite grips a bit on to Saura gently. After examining the wolf, the dog and brown bear look at each other for a bit and then back to the echidna. "She has serious wounds on her left arm and waist. She also appears to be lacking oxygen since she lost some blood in the process. However, she shouldn't have lost conscious this fast with this amount of blood loss. We'll need to take her back to HQ to properly treat her wounds and see what else is going on Commander," the male dog says to Knuckles.

Knuckles thought about what the lavender dog said. He is not a doctor but hearing about that does have him a bit concerned. The echidna nods to the dog. "Alright then," he says to the male dog and female bear. He watches the two nod back as they got ready to get Saura.

Apparently, Infinite pulls Saura closer to him as he protects her while growling. Sonic frowns at Infinite's response. "Infinite, we are trying to help Saura. You have to trust us," he says to the jackal. Infinite didn't listen to Sonic and continues to growl. Then, the blue hedgehog shows a shocked look. "Wait, don't do-" was all Infinite heard until he was hit hard in the head. The attack was enough to knock him out.

*Flashback end*

Infinite glares madly at the ground as he pounds his fist to it. He knew he shouldn't trust them. Then again, he did use to be their enemy and did a number of damage on them. Knowing there is nothing he can do now, the jackal leans towards the wall and watches the outside of the cell. He's really worried about Saura as he recalls what the male dog said earlier. If blood loss isn't the cause of her loosing consciousness, then what was?

Sonic, Tails, Amy, Silver, Vector, Espio, Charmy, Shadow, Rouge, and Omega continue to chat with each other in the computer room. They soon hear someone coming in and see Knuckles. "Finally, an end to this endless battle," he says in relief. "Everyone can go back home and relax. There's no need for the resistance," he added with a smile.

Silver jumps off his seat and steps forward. "Hold on, there's still a lot we need to do. We're just getting started," he says to Knuckles with a serious and concern look.

Espio nods in agreement. "Silver's right. We still have Infinite in the cell. Not to mention, we still don't know what's wrong with Saura," he says to the group.

Everyone then sees someone walking in and noticed a cream and orange colored female rabbit, wearing a purple outfit, white gloves, and maroon boots, walking in with a purple female cat, that has a red gem on her forehead, purple outfit, white spiked gloves, and pink heels. Amy walks up to the two. "Vanilla, Blaze, how is she?" she asks as the others wait for a response.

Blaze, the purple cat, sighs while Vanilla, the cream and orange rabbit, frowns a bit. "That wolf's wounds are now healed thanks to the medics, but she is still unconscious," the cat replies to Amy as she sighs a bit.

Vanilla places her hand on Blaze's shoulder. "I'm sure with rest, she will be as good as new," she says to the cat. The rabbit then looks to the others. "We're also glad to see you all still alive. Cream and Cheese were worried," she added with a small smile.

Sonic, Tails, Amy, Knuckles, and Silver smile at the thought of their other friends. Those two were too young and innocent to understand what was going on when Infinite took out Sonic and Eggman conquered most of the world. "How are they doing?" Tails asks.

Vanilla continues to smile. "They are doing fine. They wanted to watch over your friend while the poor dear rests," she replies. "Cream was curious about your new friend," she added with a little giggle.

Sonic and his friends smile at the idea of Cream meeting Saura. The young rabbit would get along with anyone. The group was soon interrupted by a male red mobian bird came into the room with a look of worry and shivering while holding a tablet. "S-sir, we figured out what is going on with the wolf," he says to the group but mostly to Knuckles.

Everyone looked towards the red bird mobian to let him know they are listening. "Well then, what is it?" Knuckles asks.

The red bird mobian sighs as he looks at the tablet and then back to the group. "I'm afraid Miss Saura is going through a symptom called derealization, an anxiety symptom when one is trapped in another world made in their minds. That is the cause for Miss Saura's unconsciousness," he says to the group with a frown.

Everyone showed a shocked look as it grows to worry. "B-but how? She shouldn't be feeling any anxiety. The war is over," Amy says with disbelief.

"Perhaps it's something she's scared about in the future or something that had been going on before the war," the red bird replies with a frown. He then looks at the tablet as the frown increases while quickly looking away from it. "So, my team and I decided to do a little research on Miss Saura to find the issue, but… I don't know how you guys will handle it… well, my team and I didn't," he suggests.

Sonic questions what the red bird meant until he remembers what he and Infinite saw back at the fortress… To be honest, when he saw all of those dead mobians, he thought he failed them. Seeing those lives sacrificed for that one final battle had crushed him. He stayed positive for the sake of his friends, but it still hurts to see it. But when he realized it was something Saura thought of, he was concerned about what she went through… "We had to go through a war here soldier," Sonic hears Knuckles say to the red bird. The blue hedgehog looks to the red echidna. "What could be worse than a war?" Knuckles asks.

Sonic looks down with a frown. "Torture..." he mumbles out. Feeling his friends' gaze at him, the blue hedgehog looks up to them and sees frowns and expression less looks. "I'm not talking about me. I'm talking about Saura," he added. Now everyone is showing a confused look. Sonic looks to the red bird. "I saw "it" while I was battling against Infinite. All of that… "stuff" she went through along with who planned them," he says to the red bird.

The red bird stares at Sonic in shock. "H-how? All of that stuff had h-happened thirteen years ago," he asks. Everyone looks to Sonic and the red bird as the confusion continues to grow.

"It was the Phantom Ruby prototype Saura had that showed it. I think it somehow activated when Saura thought about something of her past," Sonic explains. He then looks to the red bird with a sad expression. "And, she's been with it more than you think… at least mentally," he added.

Once he puts it all together, Tails looks to Sonic with shock then fear and shivers. He remembers now: back at the tower Saura was trapped in. All of those dead mobians, some with missing parts, others just dead. And then, that brown wolf who had done it all and attacked him. Saura has been through all of that for thirteen years?! "Tails are you alright?" he hears Knuckles ask.

Sonic looks to Tails when he heard Knuckles ask the fox if he's alright. When he sees the look of fear on his little brother's face, the blue hedgehog realizes the fox knows what he's talking about. Sonic walks to Tails and hugs him. "I'm sorry you had to see that," he mumbles to the fox.

Tails start to have tears in his eyes until he feels Sonic hug him. He hugs the blue hedgehog tightly while shivering. Knuckles watches the two hug with a confused look. "Guys, what are you talking about? What happened at the fortress?" he asks Sonic and Tails with a confused look.

Sonic looks to Knuckles and the others who still showed confused looks. The blue hedgehog sighs as he releases Tails to look at the red bird. "Do you mind if I show it to them?" he asks.

The red bird showed a shocked expression. "I-I'm not sure if that is a good idea M-Mr. Sonic," he says while shivering as he looks back at the screen of the tablet. He then looks back up to Tails and Charmy. "Plus, I don't think everyone should see this," he added for he's worried about the fox and bee.

Sonic looks to Tails for he already knows Tails can't handle it and Charmy is too young. He looks to Vanilla. "I hope you don't mind, but can you take Charmy and Tails to check on Saura?" he asks the rabbit.

Vanilla blinks a bit, but she nods to show she understands. Charmy showed a confused look as he sees Vanilla mentioning him and Tails to follow her. The bee follows the rabbit out of the room with the fox. Once the door shuts, Knuckles watches Sonic ask for the tablet from the red bird and receives it. The echidna crosses his arms in annoyance and confusion. "Sonic, what's going on?" he asks suspiciously.

Once Sonic finishes looking through the screen of the tablet, he frowns. The information is just the same as when he saw it at the fortress. Sonic then hears Knuckles's question as he returns the tablet to the red bird. He turns to his friends and noticed they are looking at him with confused expressions. The blue hedgehog sighs as he looks to the others. "Guys, what we're about to see isn't pleasant. I think this kind of stuff is a little worse than the war we fought against Eggman," he announces.

Sonic watches his friends look at each other in confusion and then back at him. "Sonic, there can't be anything worse than war," Knuckles says as he eye narrows. The echidna then looks to the red bird. "Put the information on the big screen soldier," he requests. The red bird mobian nods nervously as he starts to tap a few things and connects the tablet to the big screen of the computer room. Once the screen successfully loaded, everyone in the room, aside from Sonic and the red bird, stared in shock.

Saura stared at the blond wolf with shock. "Th-that can't be," she mumbled as she took a couple steps back. There is no way that this wolf is her! That's impossible!

"But it is," the blond wolf replies with no emotion. "I have been with you for quite some time watching you," she added.

Saura shakes her head multiple times as she glares at the wolf. "That's a lie! The one who has been watching me was Nevil, the wolf who's been tormenting-"

"You mean uncle Nevil?" the blond wolf questions while still looking straight at Saura with soulless eyes. The wolf watches Saura show a confused look. "You know who I am talking about. He is our uncle," she says with the emotionless tone still there.

Saura growls a bit. "Biologically yes," she admitted in shame. "However, he lost the rights for me to say that now," she then tells the wolf in front of her. "And he is not "our" uncle because you are not me," she added.

"But I am you. I'm the you who should've gave up the moment our parents died," the blond wolf explains. "The you who is free from all the pain and destruction along with hurting anyone else," she continues.

Saura frowns with shock. This is the "her" that chose differently on that day… the day of her parents' deaths. She looks at the blond wolf and thought about the words said. Saura had always yearned for that freedom, free from all of that suffering and despair after the way everyone treated her because of her voice. But…

"...your voice is quite lovely..."

Flashes of Infinite appeared around Saura and the blond wolf as she remembered the phrase Infinite said to her twice. Saura looks around for the jackal, hoping he is around. "Infinite?" she tries to call out to the jackal! She hears nothing. "Infinite," she calls out even louder!

Saura suddenly sees the other blond wolf appear in front of her! Before she had the chance to look behind her, the blond wolf's hand was covering her mouth. "I'd be quiet if I were you. Do you want him to know we are here?" the blond wolf asks while eye narrowing. Saura blinks in confusion. "You know, him…" the blond wolf added.

Saura continues to look at the blond wolf with a confused look. Before she could ask, both, her and the blond wolf were suddenly flown away a bit as Saura landed on her back and the blond wolf landed on her stomach. Saura feels the left side of her stomach and arm hurting a bit. Groaning, she sits up and looks to the blond wolf. "A-are you okay?" she asks the blond wolf.

Saura doesn't hear a reply, so she starts shaking the blond wolf but got no response. She turns the blond wolf a bit in order to see the front. Saura then gasped a bit in horror! The blond wolf's cut on her neck increased in size along with more blood seeping out of it. The blond wolf also appears to be having trouble breathing as she tries to get up and grabs Saura's hand with her non-gloved hands! "L-let go of h-him… U-uncle Nevil will… n-never leave us… a-alone until we d-do," she tries to say to Saura.

Saura frowns once she understood what the blond wolf said. "B-but how?" she asks. How can she let Nevil go after everything he put her through both physically and mentally? Saura then notices the blond wolf stopped breathing and falls to her arms. Saura shivers in fear as she watches the now dead wolf until the wolf disappears into little red pieces of light and flow into her.

Saura flinches a bit at what just happened until she remembers the recent attack. Looking up, she sees a male brown wolf with hazel eyes and black gloves and shoes, the same wolf who's been tormenting her. "You know what I told you about speaking Saura," the brown wolf says as he pulls out his whip. Saura shivers as she backs away from Nevil, the brown wolf. She looks around for a way out but remembers there is nothing but darkness in the area around them. "You can't escape Saura. You should know better than that," he added with a dark chuckle. The blond wolf sees the brown wolf about to use his whip at her. Gasping a bit, she quickly dodges the attack.

Once Saura successfully dodges, she hears herself step on something. Recognizing the stench, she yelps a bit and quickly moves away but hears another one. Covering her mouth with her hands, she tries to move away from that spot as well until she got hit by the whip. Groaning from the pain, the blond wolf stands where she's at and looks at the spots she was previously at. She then sees two dead mobians: one is an orange dog, but the ears are completely torn off and bleeding to death while the other one is a wolf, but it's hard to tell what color fur it is due to all the blood on it! Saura feels her anger rise since she now glares at Nevil. "Y-you monster," she shouts at the brown wolf and tackles him hard!

Nevil wasn't expecting an attack from Saura. He falls to the floor and glares at the blond wolf. "I will make sure you regret that, you bitch," he says to the blond wolf with a growl. Saura growls back at Nevil as she tries to find her Lightning Wispon but realizes it isn't on her. The blond wolf showed a look of shock until she snaps out of it to use her grabbling hooks. Saura became stunned when she discovers her bracelets don't have the grabbling hooks. She then hears Nevil getting up while laughing as she backs away. "You fool, what are you trying to search for?! There is nothing for you here," he says while laughing!

Saura shivers as her confidence starts to fade away. What's going on here? She's been through so much during the war! And thanks to it, she's made a bunch of new friends: The legendary hero Sonic and his friends and Infinite! Did all of that really happen… or was that all an illusion? Just something out of her- "No," she shouts as she slapped both sides of her cheeks a bit! She then glares at Nevil as her confidence returns! "Stop with your l-lies," she shouts at the brown wolf!

Saura noticed Nevil's glare deepening at her for talking as he stops his laughter. She noticed he's about to use his whip and starts dodging them as he uses it. The blond wolf growls and tackles the brown wolf again. After the impact, Nevil growls as he gets up. "What makes you think I'm lying? I know you've seen it too, how you are so afraid of the world," he states as he attacks again.

Saura received the impact yelps a bit from pain. She glares at Nevil. "I am not afraid of that, not anymore! And, I'm also not afraid of you," she yells out! Noticing the whip, the blond wolf quickly dodges it and tackles the brown wolf again. "Thanks to my friends, I now know I can't let fear take a hold of me forever," she shouts!

Nevil growls madly at Saura, not from the tackles he's receiving, for talking too much. "Shut up you stupid bitch," he shouts and rapidly uses his whip at the wolf! The blond wolf dodges Nevil's attacks the best she could until he manages to hit her a few times. Yelping, Saura tries her best to endure the attacks, so she won't scream. "You know nothing of the world! You barely made it when my pathetic brother and your mother had died," he shouts as he continues to attack! The brown wolf then noticed the blond wolf had managed to catch the whip in her hand which caused him to deepen his glare. "What makes you think that you have a chance now?" he asks with a glare.

Saura, while deep breathing, glares up at Nevil and holding the whip. To be honest, she has no idea on what to think…

Tails and Charmy arrived at the medical room with Vanilla. Tails thought about what Sonic and the others will see and shivers. Just imagining it already got the fox spooked. When they arrived to one of the recovery rooms, they see a young female cream rabbit, and a blue chao with a red bow tie flying next to her as the two stood next to Saura, who is still unconscious but deep breathing a bit. "Cream, Cheese, did the doctor say you can come in here?" Vanilla asks.

Cream, the young cream rabbit, nods. "Yes Mom. When the doctors came out of the room, they started to mumble to each other and allowed me and Cheese to go see her if we want to, but we can't wake her up," she explains.

"Chao," the chao, Cheese, cooed in response. The little chao flies down a bit to Saura as he watches her with curiosity as the blond wolf unconsciously grips on to the bed a bit while groaning quietly.

Cream noticed this as well and looks to Vanilla. "Mom, what do you think she's dreaming about?" she asks the older rabbit. Tails flinches at the young rabbit's question. He knows what Saura is "dreaming" about. The fox looks back to the wolf with a worried expression.

"I'm not sure sweetie," Vanilla replies to Cream. The two rabbits continue to watch Saura with Tails, Charmy, and Cheese. The two rabbits then hear someone groaning a bit more.

Tails suddenly hears it as well. From the sound of that groan, it's coming from Saura. The fox walks up to the unconscious wolf as his worry expression grew. He tries to wake her up a bit, but it wasn't working. "In…," he hears the wolf mumbling. Tails had a confused look, so he leans a bit closer to hear what Saura is mumbling about. "Infinite…" she mumbles again.

Tails had a surprised look. Saura might be trying to call out for help! And the one she wants help from is Infinite… If he remembers correctly, Infinite is currently in the prison room. But, Knuckles told him and the others to not let him out unless Sonic or Shadow are with them… The fox looks to the wolf as she starts to show a look of pain and then back to the exit of the room back and forth. Finally making up his mind, he looks to Charmy. "Hey Charmy, do you have a map of the HQ?" he asks the bee.

Charmy looks to Tails with a confused look as he pulls out the map. "Yeah, but I thought you already know around the-"

"Thanks," Tails interrupts Charmy as he quickly takes the map from Charmy's hand. Before the bee can stop him, the fox quickly runs out of the room as he looks through the map on where to go. He knows he needs to be cautious, so he needs to get there and ask several questions. He hopes his friends can forgive him.

Charmy tries to stop Tails, but the fox was faster than him. "J-just bring that back when your done so Vector doesn't get mad," he shouts to the fox. Vanilla, Cream, and Cheese watch Tails leave with a confused and concern expressions.

Infinite hears a couple of resistance members walk by as they glare at him. He glares back at them until they are gone. Once they are gone, the jackal sighs as he looks back at the entrance. Whatever it is the resistance are planning to do, they better get it over with; he's tired of waiting.

Infinite then hears someone coming! He hears a few complaints on one of the guards. "I-it's okay. Kn-knuckles asked me to," he hears a voice reply to the guard. The voice actually sounds familiar… and out of breath. After a few rattling noises, he hears someone coming in. To his surprise, it was the fox who always follows the blue savior, Tails!

Infinite watches Tails with suspicion. "What do you want?" he questions the fox. He watches the fox shiver a bit with a gulp, but he remained silent. "Well?" he asks impatiently.

Tails stiffens a bit until he stops himself to take a breath. Once he does, the fox looks to Infinite. "Infinite, we need your help," he says to the jackal.

Infinite glares at Tails. "Pathetic, why should I help you?" he asks with a growl. "You and your friends do not trust me since you all decided to lock me up here," he states while crossing his arms.

Tails looks away with a frown. Infinite did have a valid point. The jackal has every right to not trust him and his friends since they locked him up in a cell. The fox has to find a way to convince the jackal to trust him… Once he thought of someone, Tails looks back to Infinite. "Y-you don't have to help us… But, can you help Saura?" he asks the jackal.

Infinite stiffens when Tails mentioned Saura. He watches suspiciously at the fox. "What do you mean by that? Your pathetic resistance has "medics" that are helping her as we speak," he says with a bit of confusion. The jackal watches the fox frown as he looks down while shaking his head a bit. Now, he's getting concerned as his fear grows. Growling, Infinite walks to Tails until he reaches to his cell door and grabs on to the bars. "What's going on?" he asks the fox.

Tails shivers at Infinite's growl. "I-I can explain everything, I promise. B-but, I need you to t-trust me," he says nervously. Man, if Sonic was here, Tails would feel a bit more confident… Hearing the jackal growling more, the fox's shivering increased. He then remembers the red sword Infinite use to have and where it is at now. "W-wait here," he says to the jackal as he flies to the storage area in the prison room. Using the keys he got from the guard, Tails easily got the storage open and immediately spot the red sword. He gets the sword and flies back to the cell the jackal is in.

Infinite sees his sword in Tails's hands and looks shocked as his glare lessens a bit, but his anger is still there. "Return that to me," he says while shaking the bars in his cell!

Tails moves back a bit. "I-I will hand it to you, but you have to trust me," he says to Infinite. The jackal starts to growl again while trying again to shake the cell bars. The fox backs away a bit from the raging jackal as he looks back to the room he came out from. He doesn't know how much time he has left before Sonic and the others finish looking through the research the doctors found. Not only that, he doesn't know how long Saura will last through her derealization issue. He shivers a bit as the frustration and anger rose as he throws the sword to the ground. "Why don't you stop and just think about the problem we're having! No one besides you, Sonic, and I know what happened back at the fortress when that red mist surrounded one of the towers! And as of now, Saura is going through some kind of symptom that's making her see those illusions all over again," he exclaims! The fox then thinks of the possibilities that could happen to Saura if he were to fail and has tears in his eyes. "She's… she's calling for you and needs your help… But she can't get to you because of the derealization issue she's in," he explains as he tries to wipe the tears off. Little did Tails know, Infinite stops his actions with a stunned expression the moment the fox mentioned Saura's condition. Once the fox calmed down a bit, he sighs while looking down. "S-so, if you don't want to help, th-that's fine… My friends will think of something else," he says as he finishes wiping his tears and gets ready to walk out.

"Wait," Infinite shouts to Tails as he held his clawed hand out! When he heard about Saura might be suffering from the same experience back at the fortress, he stopped his tracks to think about what the fox said. She's calling for him, but she can't reach for him. And if what Tails said is true, she's in trouble, mental trouble. Noticing the fox had stopped and looked back at him, the jackal grips on to the bar a bit. "I will help," he says while looking away. He looks back to Tails and noticed the fox looks surprised with a small smile. "However, I am only doing this for Saura. No one else," he states with a tiny growl.

Tails still shows a tiny smile despite Infinite's growl. Tails gets out one of the keys and uses it to unlock the door to Infinite's cell. Once the jackal is out, the fox remembers the sword he threw and picks it up. "S-sorry I threw your sword," he apologizes as he hands the red sword to Infinite.

Infinite watches Tails hand him the red sword while apologizing. He sighs a bit as he gently takes his sword back. "It is I who needs to apologize for my little behavior earlier," he says to the fox while looking away. He looks back to Tails and noticed the fox look at him with surprise as his smile returned and increased. Growling a bit, Infinite shows an impatient look. "Well, take me to her," he states while taping his foot.

Tails had to hold in everything from chuckling at Infinite's behavior. It reminds the fox of Sonic's impatient behavior sometimes. He then has his hand to Infinite's free wrist. "Come on, follow me," he says as he starts running to the medical area of the HQ. On their way out, the fox and jackal hear the guard shouting at them to stop; however, it fell deaf to them. After all, someone needs their help.