Forces: Chasing Memories is the 2nd set of chapters. After the dust has settled after the battle with Infinite, everything should've went back to normal, but unfortunately it didn't. Not for a two tailed fox. Unable to come to terms for what Chris has done for his sacrifice, but what if there was a way to bring him back? Luckily for there is, but at what cost?

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WARNING/DISCLAIMER! This is written with TEENS to ADULTS IN MIND. Bad Language is UNCENSORED.

In Context: Tails in this story is 16 yrs old. With that in mind. Sonic and everyone else are in their mid-twenties close to thirties. Reason for that is due to the tone of the story is Suspenseful Drama, Violence and Language. But don't worry they don't swear. Worst thing to come out of them is Damn. But... the OC's? Get ready to see that F-word quite a bit.

The Story is Drama first, Suspense and Action. In that order.

Another thing is that there aren't any Wisps elemental weapons of power. The weaponry is typical weapons used in military. Knives, Pistols, Assault Rifles, Sniper Rifles, and Shotguns.

Same goes for Super Powers. Sonic and Friends are still intact. Sonic super-fast, Tails can fly... etc, etc, but the OC's don't. They are just average nobodies trying to make a difference.

Chapter 7 Contains: 7,492 words

The Sonic Cast is: Main: Tails and Sonic.

Side Characters are: Knuckles.

The OC Cast is: Main: Wally(Green Hedgehog) and Peanut(Pomeranian) Zeke(DarkGrey Wolf)

Side Characters: Trish(Dalmatian), Molly(SkyBlue Hedgehog), Randy(Brown Rabbit)

New Chapter will be submitted EVERY FRIDAY.

Forces: Chasing Memories

Chapter 8, Final Chapter: A Tango With Bullets.

8-1: A Harsh Lesson for Peanut

Miller exits out of his Testing Facility and meets with Leader who was exiting out of his jeep. Upon reaching him, he informs, "The pilot never left. He was here the whole time."

Leader, clenching his fist, he tries to remain calm and says, "Sonic will be here soon." He looks at Miller with his hand out, "Hand them over."

Miller goes through his pocket, handing him five bullets. "You're going to enjoy them." He smiles.

Leader takes it and puts one into his rifle. "Do you know where the pilot's hiding?"

"No idea. I was finishing calibrating the bullets when the alarm went off."

Leader narrows his eyes to him as he warns, "Am I hearing an excuse coming out of you?"

Miller quickly takes a step back, getting worried. "No- no. He destroyed the security system. I couldn't find him with the security cameras."

Everyone turns and hears gunfire at a distance. Curtis runs from around the corner heading right to them, "They're here. Sonic's here and he's wrecking everything."

Leader looks at his rifle and grips it. "Let's go welcome him."

Meanwhile, Craig dashes into the base alone, running around with his stance low. He looks around and hides, moving from cover spot to cover spot. The sound of gunfire gets louder and louder the closer he gets. He stops and hides when he hears someone's voice in pain. Able to see Sonic, he prepares to run again, but Peanut blinks into existence right along next to him. "Fuck!" he yells out getting startled. He points back towards the forest, demanding, "Get your ass back there."

"I can take care of myself," Peanut says back in refusal.

"No… you… can't. Not without one of these." He waves his gun at him. "Now stay back," he orders again while focusing on Sonic.

"I have one," he hears Peanut say back.

With his focus robbed and now replaced with concern, he asks, "You what?" He turns back to Peanut seeing him holding onto a Desert Eagle Magnum that's too big for his two hands to hold onto. "What the-" He franticly takes it away. "Are you out of your damn mind? Where did you get this?"

"From one of the guys you killed and why? I know how to use one."

"Oh, do you?" He hands over his personally modified glock-9 handgun. "Use this."

Disappointed, Peanut grabs ahold of it seeing that it's smaller and lighter. He looks back to the magnum and asks, "Why not that one?"

"THIS? It's a fucking magnum." He points at it, warning, "This thing will literally fuck you up. It's either - one, going to snap your wrist or two, its going to knock your dumb… ass… out?" He looks at the magnum and ponders momentarily. He tries to hand it back to the kid. "Number two doesn't sound so bad. Fire away."

Peanut scoots away from him. "You are evil."

Craig looks over cover again seeing Sonic. He slowly gets out of cover.

Peanut checks also and sees Sonic too. "It's Sonic!" he says with excitement.

"Yeah, I know," Craig answers, slowly making his way towards Sonic.

Peanut follows close, "What are you going to do?"

"I don't know. I haven't… thought…-" Craig's eyes widen as he freezes in place.

Peanut sees him stop. Wondering why he stopped, he turns back to Sonic and sees Tails also. Becoming happy, seeing him, "It's Tails. He's here-" looking back to Craig, but he wasn't next to him anymore. He then looks even further back and sees Craig hiding again. Peanut backs off and goes back to Craig. "What? What's wrong?"

"Umm, about him… Tails. I uhh, I- I kinda… well… shot him… in the leg," he says worriedly, looking at Tails.

Peanut looks at him in disbelief then gets angry with him, "You… you WHAT?"

"Don't look at me like that. Trust me, if you were there you would've been laughing also," he says, not looking at Peanut knowing that he's giving him an angry stare. "Get up. We're going a different way."

Peanut, upset about Craig did to Tails, gets up and refuses. "I'm going to where Sonic is."

As Craig is about to leave, he quickly stops and grabs Peanut's arm. "Are you crazy?"

Peanut pulls away. "I'm going to where he is."

Craig gets mad and snarls at him, "Go ahead. That's a great idea." He points to Sonic in anger. "Go to the one person that EVERYONE IS FUCKING SHOOTING AT! He has enough shit to worry about right now just to have YOUR DUMBASS ADDING TO THE PROBLEM."

Peanut looks at Sonic and knows that Craig is right. Going to Sonic is a bad idea.

Craig gets up and walks away from Sonic. "Let's go."

Peanut gives Sonic one last look and goes after Craig.

Peanut catches up to Craig as he reaches the corner of the building, but once he turns around it, Craig looks up and gets startled. He quickly points his gun at Peanut in a panic. "Sorry," he whispers fearfully.

Peanut, confused seeing the gun being pointed at him, looks around the corner and sees the leader of the BOA looking right back at them.

They all walk towards them while Craig whispers, "I'm really sorry."

Leader stops and looks at Craig and then to Peanut. He sees Peanut without any restraints and looks back to Craig.

Curtis walks around Peanut. "Come here." He quickly grabs ahold of him by his arms lifting him up squeezing him tight. He takes him away from Craig.

"Good job Craig. You actually got him," Leader congratulates him.

"It was a piece of cake," Craig says back watching Curtis shake Peanut.

"We were going to pay Sonic a visit, but I didn't expect a delivery to interrupt the fun," Leader says, staring at Craig. "Either way-" He points to Curtis. "Go lock him up and get back to us quick."

Curtis nods and before he walks away, "I HOPE SONIC KICKS YOUR ASS!" Peanut shouts in protest.

Everyone remains silent, with the only thing that can be heard being gun fire in the distance.

Craig was in shock after what Peanut said. It really worried him. He didn't know what to do. He simply stood there looking at Peanut. 'Noo… Dammit kid… Why'd you have to say that?' He turns his gaze back to Leader, seeing him turn slowly to Peanut and begins to walk towards him.

Leader mocks as he approaches Peanut, "I honestly can't wait to see him 'cause I have something that I want to use on him. So right now, there are two things I can't wait to happen." He puts out one finger. "One… put a fucking bullet into him…-" From one finger he goes to two. "-and as for two…-" He gets to Peanut and grins. He clenches his fist and pulls it back…

Craig closes his eyes so he doesn't see it happen, but he has no choice but to hear Leader's fist connect with Peanut's skull, causing him to flinch. He opens his eyes, seeing Peanut unconscious in Curtis' hands.

"…Not to hear your damn voice again." Leader puts his hand to his ear and holds it up to Peanut. "One outta two. We're off to a good start," he says, looking at his fist clenching it.

Curtis shakes Peanut's body like a ragdoll. He eagerly asks, "Want me to put a bullet into him?"

Craig stares him down in anger.

Leader looks at Curtis. "What did I say?"

Curtis sighs in disappointment. "You… want him alive."

"Right and for that…" he looks over to Craig, "hand him back over to Craig," Leader orders.

Curtis hands him over to Craig. "Babysitter on my resume, who knew? Anything special you want me to do to him?" he asked, disguising his relief.

"Just lock him up and meet back with us," Leader orders.

Everyone walks off while Craig stands there holding Peanut's unconscious body. Once everyone is gone, he sighs with relief and looks at Peanut. "I hope you learned something from this."

Leader watches Sonic from a distance taking BOA Soldiers out. "There he is. Stand back; stand back and watch… as I knock him down a dozen pegs." Inch by inch, he gets closer and into position. He raises up his rifle and takes aim.

Seconds go by as he aims, trying to focus… one of the soldiers asks, "Do you need help?"

Leader quickly un-holsters his side arm and shoots him, sending him flying back. "Quiet," he demands and goes back to focusing on aiming. He slowly inhales and while holding it in… he pulls the trigger.

Rewind…

8-2: A Lesson in Fear

Sonic and Wally come running into the base while Tails flies to keep up. Tails and Wally hide from cover to cover as Sonic rushes from point to point staying close to them to keep them safe.

BOA soldiers appear firing at them.

Sonic gets most of the attention, being in plain sight and dodging bullets as he quickly runs to them taking them out with a well-aimed homing attack. Bodies go flying in all different directions from the force of the hits.

Wally hides behind cover as he fires off a few rounds and then goes back into hiding. He then asks, "Any idea where Peanut is?"

"Nothing yet, it's still pointing further ahead," Tails answers. He then sees Sonic waving at them. "Let's go."

A BOA vehicle with a turret shows up, firing, but Sonic quickly leaps into the air and homes into the turret destroying it first. The soldiers within the vehicle exit out as Sonic unleashes a barrage of punches and kicks, knocking each one of them out. One was unlucky enough to have his assault rifle taken away then smacked right back in the face with it.

More cars show up and the soldiers exit out to shoot, but Sonic is moving so fast that he easily dodges every shot. Sonic then performs a speed boost, colliding with one of the cars and sends it flying back into the forest. The impact sends many of the soldiers near it off their feet.

Curtis, seeing what Sonic just did, quickly gets up to his feet and runs away.

One of the soldiers shouts, "RETREAT!"

The soldiers retreat as Sonic takes out the last turret from one of the cars. Once everything is safe, he rushes off back to Tails and Wally. "You ok?"

"We're doing good, but we better head somewhere else before they come back with a whole base worth of soldiers," Tails suggests.

"But first we have to find out where they are." Wally eagerly adds.

Sonic, remaining on his guard, he gives them a thumbs up in agreement. He then quickly says, "I have nothing to worry about, but-"

Not saying a word, Tails goes through his pouch showing him the Particle Bullet as a reminder.

"Oh… right… that. I'll be careful. I'll do a quick lap around to check if I see anything. You two head to somewhere safe 'till I get back." and speeds off.

As Sonic Speed Boost's around the base, he hears more gunfire, causing him to stop and check it out. He looks back, remembering where he came from. "Tails and Wally are over there… so that means…-" More gunfire can be heard. "…Zeke, it has to be Zeke." He speeds off towards the gunfire.

Zeke was still hiding behind his cover of containers as bullets ricochet off of them. "Guess this wasn't such a great spot after all." He fires off a couple of rounds as warning shots.

Bit by bit, the soldiers get closer to him. "HE'S HURT!" one of them shouts.

Zeke spots him and fires at him, taking him out. "No one likes a snitch, asshole." He looks at his handgun that was out of ammo. He puts it down and grabs the shotgun. "This is getting bad," he says, but then he hears yells coming from the soldiers. "What's going-" He looks over his cover and smiles in relief. "About fucking time," he says seeing Sonic.

Sonic spin dashes into one of the soldiers, bouncing off and then lands close to Zeke, proceeding to roll to him. Getting out of his ball form, he then quips, "A little late? The forest is not the best place to run around in."

Zeke glares and points at him. "FIRST OF ALL! I have to look at the fine print if I am going to be one of your friends, cause this-" he points at his foot and then sighs, "we're going to have problems."

Sonic looks at Zeke's foot then then up to his shirt seeing blood on it. Concerned, he asks in a worriedly, "Are you okay?"

He looks at his shirt. "Don't worry, I'm okay. It's not mine." He looks back at Sonic, "But YOU have some explaining to do."

Bullets strike their cover as Sonic glances away, distracted. "One sec…"

Zeke watches him dash off, as someone yells in the distance soon afterwards.

Sonic then dashes back, looking at Zeke, ready for what he's going to say.

"Do you have any idea who's here?" Zeke begins in a stressed manner.

Sonic answers back with a half-smile, trying to hide his worry, "Umm… does it happen to be… Infinite?"

In disbelief, Zeke has come to a terrible realization as to why… Sonic has so many enemies. 'He…he knew? HE FUCKING KNEW? I'm going to kill him.

I fucking crashed the plane after Zander told me not to fly over the damn forest. Now he's going to kill me… all because of Sonic.

I'll strangle him with just one hand… WHILE I BEAT THE EVER–LIVING-DAYLIGHTS OUT OF HIM WITH THE OTHER.'

Zeke clenches his fist. "Can you get… a little bit… closer… to me?" he asks as calmly as he can, hoping that he gets into arms reach.

Couple of bullets strike their cover. Annoyed, Sonic look at Zeke not uttering a word and speeds off again. Zeke hears more yells and a couple explosions go off. Sonic then comes right back, saying, "We had no idea until we found what we were looking for, figuring it out for ourselves. He's really here?"

Zeke slightly calms down and explains, "Yeah… I saw him on camera in the security room before I fucked it up. He was held up… on some kind of machine. Like they've been using him for something or torturing him."

Sonic smirks and chuckles, "Tortured huh? Gee… wonder what that's like?" Once saying that, he sees Zeke looking back at him, disappointed. He sighs, "Okay fine. I'll pretend to care just a little."

Zeke points at him. "That still doesn't get you off the hook for getting ME INVOLVED IN ALL TH-"

Bullets whizz by them again.

Sonic looks where it came from. "Umm hold that thought. Be right back." Sonic rushes off as he hears muffled arguing behind him. He runs up to one of the soldiers, doing a leg sweep and while the soldier is midair, he follows up with a jump kick, sending him into the nearest wall.

A shotgun blast is then heard. He quickly turns to check on Zeke as he sees a body flying back from the shot. Zeke is then seen giving him the finger while saying something offensive… but while Zeke is focusing on the dead soldier, another soldier runs up and points his gun to Zeke. In a blink of an eye, Sonic speed boosts, tackling the soldier to the ground and then launches him, sending his body smashing through a window.

Getting up to his feet to check on Zeke, he turns right but his hip jolts to the left, sending him off his feet and back down onto the ground. Baffled to what just happened, "Wh-what? What was that?" In pain, he looks and sees a hole in his hip bleeding. "What?" He tries to get up and run, but stumbles along the way instead. Once reaching Zeke, he collapses right next to him. "Agghah-geez!"

Zeke looks at him confused. He looks down at his hip where he has his hand, as blood runs down his leg. Surprised by it, he asks, "No… did you just…?"

Sonic, unsure and confused on how it happened, he tries to remove his hand, only to put it right back in pain. "Ow!" '…Was I? …I was. That… hurt.' He looks at Zeke then back at his hip and then right back to Zeke in disbelief as he says, "Getting shot… hurts."

Zeke looks at him surprised at what Sonic just said. "Really?" He rolls up his shirt sleeve and points at the scar on his arm. "NO SHIT!"

Sonic slowly gets out of cover to look, and sees him… the leader of the BOA's standing there, looking right back at him while holding a rifle. Not hiding - just standing there, with a satisfied gaze.

Leader extends his arm and does a finger gun at him. He then raises up the hand gesture and points it to his own head, firing it off. He then turns around and walks away.

Sonic goes back into hiding, shaking and looking off into the distance blankly.

Zeke looks at Sonic. "I remember that look." He lays down the shotgun. "We're fucked… aren't we?"

Sonic doesn't say anything… he simply sits there, and nods.

8-3: Tails' Dilemma

Leader walks away from Sonic as Miller is confused as to what just happened. "Wha…? You're just going to leave and not finish him off?"

"That's right," Leader says, not stopping.

"Why?" Miller asks, getting annoyed.

Leader stops. "He now fears me. Now I'm going to take his friends out one by one and by the end… I'll save him for last. I'll kill him right in front of the whole world to see. Show them what I've just done to their hero. And in one fell swoop, I'll put the whole world in fear towards me." He turns to Miller and orders, "Go find his friends and when you do, let me know." He then continues his walk as other soldiers follow.

Curtis notices Miller getting angry from his order; he mocks, adding fuel to his anger, "What are you waiting for? He doesn't like to wait." He looks at Miller's sniper rifle that he's holding onto, then back to him. He scoffs, "You really think you were going to use that? Hah! Once you're done playing fetch, you're just going to go back to the lab to work on whatever he wants next." He laughs leaving him behind.

Miller stands there, looking at him walking away infuriated while he grips his rifle. He shakes his head. "No… Fuck that." He looks at the soldiers that are with him as he goes through his pocket, grabbing one of the bullets. He looks at it, as the particles glimmer within it from the sunlight. "I fucking spent this whole time making these. I'm not telling him shit." He puts the bullet into his sniper rifle. "They're mine." He loads the bullet then looks at the soldiers that are with him. "We're going hunting."

Rewind back to Tails and Wally just when Sonic runs off…

"I'll do a quick lap around to check if I see anything. You two head to somewhere safe 'till I get back." and speeds off.

After Sonic dashes off, Tails then looks at the tracker. Next he looks up at one of the buildings and all around, then up at the sky before looking right back at the tracker.

Wally, who was watching him the whole time, also looks up and then realizes what he plans to do.

'Don't you fucking think about it.'

Wally, feeling himself getting angry with Tails, he quickly looks at him, giving him a stern look demanding, "Don't even think about it Miles."

Tails, hearing the tone of Wally's voice, gets surprised by it. "Do what?"

"Flying. That's what. Don't even think about doing it here… unless you feel like getting shot down."

Tails sighs and nods knowing that he's right. "The tracker is pointing that way, and seems to be moving." He points.

Wally cautiously walks in the direction that Tails was pointing at.

"You're not going to wait?" Tails asks.

"If he's moving then he might be in trouble or someone has him." He turns back to Tails. "I have to make sure he's okay. I told his parents that I'll bring him back." Wally goes back to walking down the road.

Tails looks around again for any sign of Sonic, but spots nothing. He follows Wally down the road.

Venturing into the BOA's Base, Tails remains close to any walls of the buildings, all the while trying to maintain the same pace of how desperate Wally is. He looks down to the bandage on his thigh, being out of place. Tucking his tracker under his arm, he pulls on the bandage, putting it back into place. Once done, he looks back up to Wally seeing him further away. He hurries to catch up. Upon reaching him, he looks at his tracker again.

"Are we getting close?" Wally asks, looking everywhere for any BOA soldiers.

Getting frustrated, and dealing with the jammer constantly interfering, he informs, "It shows… that he's…" About to point, he looks away from his tracker and stops. "What the… is that the…" He smiles and points in surprise, "Wally… does that belong to you?"

Unsure with what he said, "What?" He looks to where Tails is pointing at. In disbelief, he face-palms himself frustrated muttering, "Are you kidding me? Why is it here?" They both look at Randy's truck parked near a wall.

"Maybe you should've used bigger leaves to hide it better," Tails remarks.

"They might leave it alone if they think it doesn't work." He sighs and walks away from it, heading towards some of the buildings.

Wally stops near the corner of one of the buildings and looks around it cautiously. He looks up at all the other buildings around him, seeing that they were two stories high. "That building over there is the tallest out of all of them. Is he over there?"

They both go around the corner and make their way towards the building.

Tails looks down at his locator. "Yeah, it's pointing at that building. He might be-" he notices Wally quickly lifts his right foot and directly kicks him in the chest, pushing him away. "Ooof!" A bullet flies right past him as it connects with the nearest wall, taking a chunk out of it.

Tails collapses on the floor losing his tracker. He looks up expecting to see Wally, but instead sees a red laser sight moving around, searching. It quickly goes down and then goes towards his direction. He looks around and notices that he isn't behind any cover. "No!" He reaches out to grab his tracker, only to have it get shot right out of his hand. "GiieeYOUCH!"

He quickly staggers up to his feet, holding onto his hand. Bullets whizzing by almost hitting him, he dives behind any cover he can find.

Hiding behind a concrete structure, Tails looks all around him to inspect how safe he currently is, but all around him are laser sights looking for him. He glances over back to Wally to see if he's okay but he couldn't see him. 'Where did he go? Is he ok?' He tries to move to his right as a bullet hits part of the cover, destroying it. "GAH!" Piece by piece his cover gets smaller and smaller. He couldn't move… not even fly. He was pinned down by snipers.

Tails needed help and needed it fast.

Rewind right when Wally kicks Tails…

8-4: Mental Conflict

They both go around the corner and make their way towards the tallest building. Wally looks around heading to the building and notices something red goes right by him. "Huh?" He stops to see it again. It then goes up to Tails and stops at his head.

'NO… MILES…'

Without saying anything due to the startling red omen, he raises his foot and quickly kicks Tails, sending him in one direction, while he goes the other way. A bullet goes right between them as it connects with a wall, taking a chunk out of it.

Wally rushes away towards the tall building and stops at the entrance. Breathing heavily, he looks back to Tails to see if he was okay but couldn't spot him. He couldn't see Tails, but he could hear someone firing at him. He runs into the dark building and heads to the exit on the opposite side to try to get behind whoever is shooting at him. 'I have to stop them. Have to help Tails.'

Unable to see, he trips on something big that was in the middle of the hallway. "Gah!" Stumbling onto the floor, he looks back down the hallway into darkness seeing nothing. He wonders what it was but he didn't have time to check. He quickly gets back to his feet and runs again. 'Got to help-' He slows down and stops, seeing something in the darkness. Focusing to get a better look, he sees a figure just standing there leaning on a wall.

The figure looks up in pain and stares at Wally.

Looking away, he grabs his head in pain. "No… Why… Why now? Why...?-"

'Infinite…'

"What?"

'Infinite…'

He looks up at the figure. "Huh… Infinite?" he mutters painfully as he looks at the figure stumbling into the dim light, revealing himself.

Infinite was staring right back at him, not saying anything.

Rewind…

Craig holds onto Peanut's unconscious body in his hands, terrified from The Leaders presence.

Once the orders were given, Craig had no choice but to follow through with it.

Primary Objective: Imprison The Kid. …In Progress

With his eyes still locked onto Leader… Curtis walks in-between his line of sight, grabbing his attention.

Curtis looks back and flips him off.

Craig glares right back. Once losing sight of everyone, he looks down to the kid in his hands then to where the prison building is located.

Primary Objective: Imprison The Kid. …Abandoned.

New Primary Objective: Protect The Kid. …In Progress.

He walks in the opposite direction away from the prison building angry with what just happened. 'Whoever thinks about touching this kid, I'll fucking end them. But for now there's something I have to do.'

New Objective: Find and Free Infinite. …In Progress.

'This all started after that fucking experiment. I know where they're keeping him.' He heads to the main 3-story building.

Heading to the back rear door, he glances down noticing a trail of blood. 'What the hell?' Following it with his eyes, it goes to the door then it trails off to the open window.

Taking a couple of steps back to piece everything together, his back brushes up against bushes. With a quick glance to them, he goes back to the blood stain only to ring his neck right back to the bushes startled to see what's in them.

A massive hand was sticking out of one of them.

Slowly pushing the branches away checking who lies within it, "Gah!" he quickly hops back in disbelief seeing Levi's unconscious body in them. "Are you fucking kid-" he hears the crunch of glass under his feet easily putting the mystery together. He looks up seeing the broken window on the 3rd floor.

He quietly mutters, "The Pilot does have balls. He never left the base. He made 'em go on a wild goose chase."

As he approaches the locked door, he needed to go through his pockets to grab his key card. Taking one arm off of the Kid, he goes through his pocket only to lose his grip, nearly dropping him.

"Shit!" He holds on tighter, holding him upside down as his arms dangle. 'Are you fucking kidding me with this? How are you this heavy being dead weight?'

With a successful swipe of the card he finally enters the building.

Entering, he makes his way to the vault. Going down one of the hallways he gets surprised seeing a dead body on the floor near the security room. 'Damn… was that him too? It can't be Chris or even Sonic. It has to be somebody else.'

After seeing that mess in the hallway, he makes his way cautiously down the other consecutive hallways. He remains calm by trying not to think about who did that. 'With Sonic here, and who knows who else is… If they see me with the kid like this in my hands… I'm probably going to end up just like that.'

Reaching the lab room he approaches the vault. "I've seen them open this a dozen times."

Gently, he lays him down next to the vault only to have him snapping out of it causing him to whimper and cry out, "Wha? No-NO no!"

Craig tries to calm him down, "It's me, it's me. It's okay. It's me… He's gone."

Peanut rubs the bump on his head. "Where's Wally?" he asks, trembling in fear and trying not to cry.

"He's here somewhere. Just stay right there and let me go do something. I'm not going far."

Peanut nods, staying calm and just lays there with his hand on his head.

He gets up approaching the vault and starts putting in the right combination. He opens the vault and enters it.

Inside he sees Infinite contained within a violet transparent cube. Inside of it, he's being held up restrained to a machine by cords attached to his back and onto his limbs.

As he gets closer walking by his mask that he used to wear. He looks directly into Infinite eyes as he blinks right back, not saying anything. Hand on the controls, Craig flips one of the switches deactivating the cube.

Infinite looks all around and then right back.

Craig then hits the release button, detaching his restraints and making Infinite collapse onto the floor. "Go. Get out of here. Someone will find you sooner or later." He turns around and heads back out of the vault.

Exiting out of the vault he goes straight to the fuse box disabling it making sure half the building doesn't have power for lights. Once done he goes and picks up Peanut. "We're leaving."

"What was in there?" he says getting picked up.

"Nothing important," he answers after exiting the lab. With the hallways now dark, he carefully makes his way back down them heading to the exit. Almost forgetting something, he stops. "Close your eyes."

"Why?" Peanut asks.

"Just do it."

Once he closes his eyes, Craig walks again, passing by the dead body in the hallway. As they head towards the exit, Craig says, "You can open them again."

Objective: Find and Free Infinite. …Complete.

Fast Forward…

Wally stands there in the hallway looking at Infinite staring right back, leaning against the wall.

Wally holds his head as pressure builds again needing to look away. "GAH… Ahhh!" He looks at Infinite again, taking deep breaths as he can feel himself getting angry. His hand goes for his gun. "NOoo… Just… NO!" he yells out grabbing and pulling his hand away from it. He puts a hand on the wall, as he remembers the brutal beating that he got from Infinite. 'Wrist snapped, nose shattered, ribs broken.'

But still, Wally tried to remain calm even with sheer agonizing pressure in his head.

Wally stumbles to Infinite, fighting not to grab the gun. Reaching Infinite, he grabs Infinite's arm and puts it around his shoulder.

Confused by it, Infinite asks, "What are you doing?"

"I'm… helping… GAhh…! I'm helping." He struggles to help Infinite get to the nearest exit.

"Why does it seem like you don't want to do it?"

"I do want to because it's the right thing to do… AHhh!" They stumble down the hallway.

"Then why does it seem that you're struggling to do it then?"

"GAh…! Ow…! One side… I feel like helping you and I… WANT to."

"I appreciate it."

"But… on the other side… MY OTHER side… gah… just wants to get this gun… and fucking put a bullet into your head."

"I… feel indifferent about you now."

"But somehow he knows what I am doing is the right thing to do and he's letting me go through with it."

"You sound like you're going through some issues."

"You have no idea." They stagger closer and closer to the exit. "I'm Wally by the way."

"Wally? I could have sworn that I heard your name was Chris."

"Yeah… About my other side, the whole gun thing? That's him."

"Geez… you really are messed up in the head. I'm… Zero. The name's Zero. You can call me that."

"It is? I thought it was Infinite."

"It was… but… that's what my other conscious has called himself. I kept it as a reminder for him."

"Zero… sounds good to me. We're almost there."

Closer and closer to the exit, Wally stops as they both look downward, seeing a dead body in the middle of the hallway.

Zero slowly looks at Wally as Wally shakes his head back muttering, "It wasn't me."

Reaching the exit, he puts Zero down next to it. "I have to go. You stay here and someone will be back."

"Thank you," Zero says as he closes his eyes to relax.

He hears Wally running into the darkness… as he then hears him trip and stumble. "Ahh, gawd… are… are you kidding me?"

8-5: Hello and Goodbye

Wally runs through the building again and heads up to the second floor. He looks for a room that has a window to look through to be able to spot Tails. Upon finding a room, he runs in and heads towards the window to check. "There he is." He sees Tails hiding behind a concrete structure.

A gunshot is heard as part of the structure breaks off.

"Where did that come from?'' he mutters trying to find them. "Umm… there? Or there? Shit… I see… five of them-" He looks directly down from the window and sees another sniper aiming at Tails. "-Six. I have to get down there… but how?" Without thinking he backs off and looks at the window. He shakes his head, "Wait wha…? Why do I have the sudden urge to do that?"

Looking at the window he hears Tails' voice say, "What's with you and going through windows?"

Wally/Chris answer, "They're in my way." He fires one shot at the window and jumps through it.

He lands next to two soldiers and frantically starts firing at the sniper first.

The other soldier gets up and runs at him about to tackle him, but by instinct, his arm jolts upward to his side and aims, catching himself by surprise. "Hmm?" He looks at his hand confused as it pulls the trigger shooting the soldier in the head, taking him out.

The momentum of the soldier coming at him collides with him, knocking him down.

"Gah! Oh shit." Wally panics, shoving the body off of him. Quickly getting up to his feet, he runs to the sniper to check on him. He kicks the rifle away seeing the sniper dead. Looking at the direction the sniper was aiming at, he can see Tails hiding. Backing away, he can see other snipers aiming at Tails. "I have to get to them and stop-"

"Anyone have a clear shot?" one of the BOA snipers asks through the radio.

"No clear shot yet."

"Just keep shooting his cover," one of them orders.

"Yes Sir, but what if he flies?"

"Don't worry. He fucking flies and I'll shoot him out of the damn air."

"We'll leave it all up to you, sir."

Wally just stands there and falls to his knees. He grabs his head in pain. "No… Gah…! NO! NO! Muh-Miles… NO! MILES!" He drops the handgun and picks up the sniper rifle. "WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU!" he shouts desperately, looking through the scope searching for the one that said that.

More voices come from the radio. "Miller, I'm about to take his cover down, are you ready?

"Yes. I'm ready," Miller answers.

"FUCK YOU!" Chris shouts as he aims at any of them. The bullet hits one of the snipers in the head.

Out of the radio, the spotter shouts in shock, "WHAT THE? WHERE DID THAT COME FROM?"

"Shut up." Chris fires again hitting the spotter on the side of the head that was also next to the sniper.

Through the radio, "What was that? Say that again?"

"No idea what happened. Is someone down?"

"Sounded like it."

Chris aims again and fires, taking out another sniper as his body goes flying back releasing his rifle.

The spotter next to him jumps back getting splattered with blood and begins to panic, "SOMEONE'S SHOOTING AT US! I REPEAT, SOMEONE'S-'' Chris takes him out also as his body also goes flying back from the shot.

"SOMEONE IS SHOOTING AT US!" someone else also warns.

"FIND HIM! I'll keep an eye on Tails," Miller orders.

Chris goes into hiding. He scoots himself to the side to be able to look at Miles. He sees Miles still hiding. 'Shit. Someone's still fucking aiming at him. I can't tell him to leave yet.' He glances over his cover to find any of the three snipers. "I see you," he whispers, seeing one of them next to a Jeep alone. He goes back into cover and moves to a better spot. Quickly coming out of cover… he aims… and fires, hitting the sniper in the side of the head causing him to smash through a window by force.

Someone voices from the radio, "MAIN BUILDING! GROUND FLOOR! I FUCKING SAW HIM! HE'S AT THE MAIN BUILDING!"

"EVERYONE AIM AT THAT SPOT! TAKE HIS ASS OUT! FORGET ABOUT TAILS!" Miller orders.

Chris goes back into hiding and rolls back to where he can see Miles. Being able to see him he shouts, "RUN! GET OUT OF THERE!"

Tails hears Wally. He looks up to figure out where the voice is coming from.

"RUN!" Chris shouts again.

Tails hears Wally again and sees him.

"RUN MILES! GET THE FUCK OUT OF THERE!"

Tails looks back in disbelief, hearing his name. He quickly gets up and flies away.

With Miles gone now, he was pinned down against two snipers. As he waits for the right moment, he listens to the radio for a chance to shoot.

Out of the radio, someone asks, "No sign yet?"

"Nothing. I saw him over there."

"…What about Tails?"

"I'll check."

Hearing his chance, he gets out of cover and aims. Seeing one of the snipers he aims and pulls the trigger hitting the sniper. Upon firing the shot, the recoil jolts him back… and in a blink of an eye, a bullet enters his arm, follows through… and exits right back out. His whole body whips around, sending him to the ground, and losing the rifle.

"GOT HIM! I FUCKING GOT HIM!" Miller shouts from the radio making the hit.

Chris lies on the ground holding his arm in pain as his hand twitches from the adrenalin.

"Anyone there... anyone? What the… did he take all of them out?" Miller says from the radio.

Chris grabs the rifle. He gets ready to come out of cover to aim, having an idea where he is.

Chris quickly gets out of cover and aims in the direction where the shot came from, then quickly slides to the side seeing a muzzle flash. The bullet whizzes right past his head, nearly grazing his face, and hears it go right by his ear. Barely able to hold the rifle up, he looks through the scope at where the muzzle flash came from. He sees Miller looking right back at him in disbelief from missing the shot.

With no hesitation, Chris pulls the trigger.

Miller's head whips back, releasing his rifle, collapsing to the ground.

Chris gets up to his feet, tossing the rifle to the side. He holds onto his arm and turns around seeing Miles standing there not saying anything. He looks at Miles. "Hey, it's been a while hasn't it?"

Miles doesn't say anything and just stares right back.

Nothing but silence surrounds them, as the calm breeze blows right by them.

Rewind into the mind of Wally and Chris…

Wally looks around a completely white void, with memories floating around playing on repeat. "Is this it… Is this how I am going to be… now?" He looks at his hands and grips them. "Can't be." He looks at the memories again trying not to get depressed.

"Weird isn't it?" a familiar voice comments.

Wally turns and sees himself. "This is it for me isn't it?

"What makes you think that?"

"The fact that I know almost everything about you now… and everything is becoming so clear too." Wally just stands looking at all the memories floating around him. "I've felt how sad you were. How angry you were… I also felt how scared you were." He looks up and sees a memory of Tails, Sonic, Knuckles, Amy and Trish making him smile. "I know how everyone wants you more than… me." He closes his eyes as tear runs down his face.

Chris stands there, listening to Wally.

"You have done so much and… I've… I am just a nobody." He opens his eyes and looks at Chris. "I know more about you than I know about myself... a person that's NOT EVEN SUPPOSED TO FUCKING EXIST! Everybody wants you… nobody wants me."

"You're wrong," Chris says getting closer to him and raising a fist. Upon opening his fist, a memory of Peanut appears. He shows it to him.

Wally looks at it and then looks away disappointed with himself.

Chris points to Peanut. "He will chase and follow you to the end of the world. No matter how bad it gets, he will be there for YOU… NOT ME!"

Wally raises his head slightly.

Chris raises and opens up his other fist showing Randy. "Who's going to run his shop now? He cared about you. He was going to hand it over to you. He knew that you had it in you to take over the reigns."

Upon hearing his question, Wally slowly looks down to his business shirt, seeing an RHD symbol on it. He answers with regret, "He took me in… and I turned him down…"

"And you came back for him… to check on him."

Wally nods. "I was the last person… he saw."

"That's right. He saw you. Not me."

Chris then raises his other fist again and opens it showing Molly. "And as for her… She's waiting for you… NOT ME! …Or did you already forget that promise? 'Cause I sure didn't and I'm not the one who made it."

Wally just stands there trying not to break down. "No… I didn't."

"You've only been around for six months and you've done more living than I've ever done. You have something to go back to and you're going to go back to it."

Wally looks up at him and shakes his head. "That's not right. I… I couldn't. What will everyone think?"

"Whatever they want. If they have a problem with it then they can take it up with me."

Wally shakes his head again. "No… I can't…"

Chris grabs him by his shoulder. "It's not up for debate. Now go live your life." He gives Wally a couple pats on the shoulder as everything goes bright white, making them both vanish.

Wally comes to his senses and realizes that he's hugging someone. He looks down and sees that it's Tails, who is crying. Releasing him he closes his eyes trying not to look at Tails.

Tails looks back wiping his tears away.

A tear goes down Wally's face. "I now know… I know how much you wanted him back now… but I'm sorry. He didn't want to come back."

Tails nods. "I know."

He looks at Tails. "He was a great friend to have and you were lucky to have him as one."

Tails nods again. "I know." Tails raises his fist up to Wally.

Wally sees it and smiles and connects with it.

Sniff!

Hears someone also crying, Tails takes a look behind Wally to check… "There he is."

Hearing what Tails just said, he checks behind himself and sees Peanut standing there alone, holding onto something in his hand. Concern and in relief, he asks, "Peanut? Are you okay? Are you hurt? What… what's wrong Shawn? …Why are you crying?"

Rewind…

To Be Continued.

Status Report of Current Cast:

Sonic: Injured

Tails: Injured

Wally: Injured

Peanut: Injured

Zeke: Injured

BoA's

Leader: Normal

Miller: Dead

Curtis: Normal

Levi: Unconscious

Craig: ?

End of the chapter. Thanks for Reading. Let me know how it is. I would really appreciate it.

Next: Chapter 8: A tango with Bullets Part 2: 8-6 You are a Hero