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It had been a few hours since Sonic had brought Tails to Nicole so she could save his life. Just the thought he would die kept Sonic pacing back and forth since the beginning of the operation. Sally had showed up some time ago and could not for the life of her could get him to relax, though she wasn’t relaxed at all either. The fact that Shadow and Knuckles were both being treated was no help either.

“Sonic? Are you all right? Tails wouldn’t want you to worry yourself sick.” Sally said, trying to get some kind of response out of him. He even refused medical treatment because he was so worried.

“I know he wouldn’t and I think the same way. But you and I both know that he would do the same thing.” Sonic countered, continuing his pacing throughout.

“Yeah, you’re right. He’ll be fine Sonic, if he held them off for a whole day he’ll pull through this. I know he will.” She said attempting to comfort him and herself.

Sonic sighed heavily, running a gloved hand through his quills in order to relax himself, finally he chose to stop pacing and placed himself on the seat next to Sally.

“That’s true, hey Sal can I ask you a question?” He asked, unsure if his decision was the right one.

“Of course Sonic, what is it?”

“Well I…I uh, don’t want to leave in case Tails gets done with surgery. But I want to go and talk to Fiona, you know, so I can figure out why she was even brought in here in the first place.” He was worried definitely, but he really had to know why she was here.” Nicole didn’t know and he couldn’t just go waltz in to a surgery in progress and ask.

“Fiona? Oh jeez, I completely forgot about her. I need to post some guards outside her room. I believe she’s in room twelve. But I don’t know if she’s even coherent.” She said, having done something similar to Sonic when she dropped everything else and came here. Though she would have to leave soon for damage control.

“All right…I’m still going to wait until Tails surgery is done-” Sonic was interrupted by a very relieved looking Nicole.

Immediately Sonic and Sally were asking her questions relating to Tails health. “He’s fine you two, just exhausted.”

“That’s great news but how? He had a freaking hole in his chest.” Sonic asked, relieved immensely.

“We were pretty surprised too, what took most of the time was the hole. Most of his sternum was gone so we had to get a graft until we can put a replacement in. Other than that he didn’t need anything else. He just needed a patch job on all of his other wounds and he was good. Though he’s lost a lot of blood so he could be out a while.”

“That’s a relief, can we see him?” Sally asked.

“Unfortunately no, he’s still completely out of it. But he is alive and because of that we can all rest easy.” Nicole answered, having to crush her hopes of seeing him.

“Well if we can’t see him then I have some unfinished business to attend to.” Sonic answered before walking off to room twelve.

It turns out that room twelve was on the other side of the hospital. Not very far by Sonic’s standards but still a lengthy walk. He followed the signs that eventually lead back to the lobby that listed the room numbers on each floor. It was creepy seeing as how the usually well-staffed hospital was working on a skeleton crew in the middle of the day. It turns out Tails’s cure doesn’t work very fast for some people, for those people it barely worked at all, but it did thankfully.

Eventually he found himself outside Fiona’s room and suddenly he found himself feeling nervous. But he pushed those thoughts out of his head and opened the door to find Fiona happily snoring away in her hospital gown. The sight brought a sweat drop to his face.

‘Seems she’s recovered, better wake her up.’

Out of curiosity, Sonic checked the clipboard hanging on the railing at the foot of the bed. Everything seemed to check out until he got to the bottom. Still looking at the clipboard in slight wonder, Sonic lightly shook Fiona awake. Listening as her snoring broke and she wined like a small child the first day of school.

“What *yawn* do you want? I’m supposed to get as much rest as my body will let me.” Fiona asked, rubbing the crust out of her eyes and raising the mechanical bed so that she was at least eye level with the, now sitting, hedgehog.

“Nothing much, but do you really need a full on heart transplant like it says here?” Sonic asked, pointing out the spot it said on the paper.

“Yeah I do, Miles’s is a total prick. Is that all you wanted to know?”

“No, I want to know a few more things. Like first off, why were you here in the first place?”

“What the hospital? Tails-” He cut her off.

“No, I mean why were you even on Mobius in the first place?”

“Promise you won’t get mad at me? Arguments raise my blood pressure and turn the few days my heart has left, into hours.”

“Depends.”

“Well…the bad blood between Miles and Scourge was reaching a boiling point but Miles couldn’t do anything about it because Scourge had the entire Destructix on his side, including me, and he couldn’t convince anyone of the old suppression squad to help him.” Fiona began. Having to pause from long winded speeches as even those wore her out.

“All right. I got that, but why would that make me mad?”

“I’m getting to that. So at this point Miles was powerless, but just a few days ago Eggman gave us a call for a team up. Scourge hastily accepted and forced Miles to come along with us. I’m surprised he didn’t do what he did to me earlier. So after Tails brought a couple of buildings down on us we all got separated. Miles found me and we found Tails.”

“Ok, starting to get a little upset. At Tails, not you. Though I guess it bought him enough time for the rest of us to heal and get out there. Go on.”

But instead of continuing Fiona shook her head. “That’s pretty much it. Other than me attacking Tails with a steel pipe and Miles stabbing me that’s it.”

Sonic sighed, trying not to get physical with the person next to him and control his more violent instincts. Funny though, usually he always acted on those instincts.

“I was kinda hoping that you didn’t attack him before he saved you. I’m gonna be honest here. If you did that to me I would probably have let you die. Tails is more of a mobian than me when it comes to that sense.” Sonic answered without shame, he wasn’t one to dance around the question.

“You know, while I was watching him fight, I thought he had really grown up. But after he risked his life to save me I knew he was just the same kid in an adult body. Thinking and acting the way he was yesterday is what’s going to get him killed one day. Hey, he isn’t dead is he?” While she was alone in the hospital to recover, she had a lot of things to think about. Now she had someone to discuss them with.

“No he isn’t dead. What do you care though?”

“I wanted to thank him. I also realized something, From what you said Tails not only lost, but he was beaten within an inch of his life. I came clean to him before he brought me here and told him that I came at him with the intent to kill him, but I couldn’t even imagine myself doing it. I realized that I’m not like those guys at all…” She had to pause again because a sensation of breathlessness hit her like a truck. Fortunately there was an oxygen mask for her to get her breath again.

“I don’t have much time left to talk Sonic so I’ll make this quick. Do you think I could get a second chance?” It was a long shot, yeah but it wasn’t impossible.

This caused Sonic to look at her and stare at her as if he was appalled just by the question. But he looked away and seemed to actually ponder the decision.

“Well Fiona that isn’t my choice, the others besides me have to say yes. But I say no, I don’t know about the others, Tails might say yes but I don’t know. See ya.”

“Well thanks for being honest.” With those parting words, Sonic left Fiona back to her own devices and decided to turn on the news to hopefully catch the carnage that Tails’s battle had created.

One Week Later

Sonic had kept the fact Fiona wanted a second chance with all of them a secret until Tails was better and they could have an official vote on it, because she had just had a full heart transplant the day before, and he wanted to give her plenty of rest before any real questioning began.

For some reason, even though he was fully awake and was nearly fully recovered, Tails hadn’t seen anyone of his friends. Though they all had tried at one point, well several, but Tails was allowed no visitors at his own request. Rumors had gone around that Sonic had grabbed Tails’s moebian counterpart instead but it was recently silenced by Nicole performing a DNA test and it came out that, yes it was Tails in the hospital. He just refused to let anyone see him.

But that was the past, this is the present. Though this present involved a very frustrated Sonic attempting to see his hospitalized friend, to little success.

“Come on, why can’t I go see him?” Sonic asked, beyond the point of annoyed.

“Because, it’s policy to adhere to the wishes of the patient. Considering what this particular patient is in here for, I believe we will adhere to his wishes particularly strong. He does not want visitors, though if it makes it any better he’s getting released today.” No sooner did the mouse receptionist finish, did the very subject of the discussion wander into the lobby, casually watching as a hospital security guard was stopping the mob of people at the entrance.

He glanced around the lobby, as if surveying it, and his eyes stopped on Sonic for a moment before walking towards him as a small smirk played his features.

“Well, it looks like my savior is here. How’s the recovery on the city going? I heard about it on the news I was unfortunately only able to watch.” Tails said.

But instead of answering, Sonic wrapped an arm around his friend, beginning to lead him to a backdoor to avoid his fans. His beaming smile showing how excited he was to see him again.

“Pretty good, I talked to Fiona a week ago and she told me most of what you did. Shadow and Knuckles filled in a little more, but all of us are still amazed how you pulled it off. So, how did you do it?” He asked, opening the back exit absentmindedly. This was something he had to do a lot back in the day.

But Tails did not answer him, gazing at his hands as they clenched and unclenched nothing but air. Smiling brightly and quickly hiding it, only for it to reemerge again seconds later.

“Yo Tails? I’m talking to you, are you in there?” Sonic asked, snapping his fingers in front of his face, removing his arm in the process. Bringing him back to the world with a surprised jerk.

“Pardon me, I’m kind of just as surprised as you that I pulled out of this alive. The way I see it, they saw that it was just me and heavily underestimated what I could do. Once Miles and Scourge realized that they need to stop playing around…well I started getting my ass handed to me because by that point I was exhausted.” Tails breathed a sigh of relief, extremely glad that the whole ordeal was over.

“Well that’s what most of us figured but it doesn’t make it any less amazing. We’re here.” The ‘here’ Sonic referred to was the Acorn Castle, it’s relative hugeness and lavishness making the both of them feel miniscule in comparison. Regardless of how easy both of them could bring the building down.

“There hopefully isn’t some sort of welcome home party waiting for me is there? I’m not in the mood for something so ridiculous.” Tails said, harshness in his tone that was clearly picked up by Sonic. But was brushed off as him never being a party goer.

“Of course there isn’t.” Sonic reassured as they approached the entrance, the guards noticing the entrants and happily opened the door.

“Are you lying?” He said as the doors opened.

“Yes.” Sonic answered. He knew full well where and when the party was, he was the delivery boy.

The doors fully opened, revealing the entirety of the freedom fighters in the ballroom. The room was silent as the two of them walked in, only with the place returning to normal once the massive doors were shut. Quickly Tails found himself drowning is a sea of thanks and pats on the back, as well as handshakes, hugs, and kisses on the cheek form the more confident women. More than one of those women had the room number he would sleep in that night whispered into their ear as they walked away.

All of the faces of his actual friends, those he actually performed missions with, were lost as they were far too spread out to remember where they were. After what seemed like hours of his patience being driven to the breaking point, his savior came in the form of Sally Acorn stepping up to a microphone and getting everyone’s attention.

“While I’m sure that everybody here wants to personally thank Tails for his actions not long ago, keep in mind he has only just been released from the hospital. So I would like for him to come up here to accept an award please.” She said into the microphone, the room darkening as a spotlight homed right in on where he was standing. Applause ringing out, almost deafening, while he stood there slightly glaring.

The applause slowly died down as it was obvious he wouldn’t be moving. “What’s the matter Tails? You’re supposed to come up here!” She said. Eventually he conceded and vanished in a flash of green and reappeared in the same flash next to Sally. The action bringing about more applause by close to over ten thousand people.

“As acting Queen of the Acorn Kingdom, I am well within the right to offer you this very prestigious award. The Acorn Medal of Honor!” Sally said, ringing out even louder applause as Antoine D’ Coolette appeared with the gold star shaped medal on a very lavish, red, velvet pillow with gold trimmings.

The applause didn’t die down even after Tails accepted the medal, they only got louder and made his head hurt to the point he couldn’t be quiet about it.

“Would you all kindly shut the hell up? Do you have any idea how loud you are? I have a pounding headache and it physically hurts to be here.” Tails said directly into the microphone. Just as he wished, the applause and noise died down almost immediately with most of them getting the picture and remembering how he had only just been released from the hospital’s ICU only an hour ago.

“Thank you, even though this is a prestigious award, and if memory serves me only five other people have gotten this award, I really don’t care about it so Sally you can have it. I honestly don’t care about any of this, I can’t even make myself fake it.” His words had struck a particular nerve with his self-appointed aunt whether or on purpose he didn’t really care either way.

“You don’t care about any of this? That is the most inconsiderate thing I have ever heard! I don’t really care what you want, you take this award and you like it!” Murmurs of confusion spread throughout the crowd as the medal was thrust back into Tails’s face.

The crowd watched in stunned silence as Tails’s expression turned to slight anger as he smacked the medal right out of her hands and onto the floor. Sally’s shocked face did nothing as Tails addressed her, and to a lesser extent the audience with the microphone picking up every word.

“Guess what? I don’t care jack shit about what you think. Try and tell me what I like again and you’ll be sorry. I’m done here.” Tails said as he walked out of the ballroom leaving everyone silent and confused.

Later

“Where is he?” Sally said visibly fuming as Sonic tried desperately to calm her down from Tails’s stunt earlier.

“Listen Sal, it’s not his fault. He just got released from the hospital today, we probably just sprung this on him when he didn’t have the energy to do it. I know I wouldn’t.” Sonic said, desperately trying to defend him from Sally’s wrath.

“I don’t care. He didn’t have to be such a jerk about it!” Nothing would stop her from unleashing her anger on Tails, not even Sonic.

“But Sal-” Sonic began, attempting to reason with his very angry fiancé.

“No buts Sonic. Here he is, Tails open up this door right now!” Sally almost shouted, barely stopping herself from kicking his door in.

“What do you want?” Tails said, opening the door and staring daggers at her. He was not in the mood for something this trivial.

A few extremely tense moments passed where Sally simply stared at Tails like she was trying to shoot lasers from them. Tails responded with the same gusto while poor Sonic was simply left scuffing at the lush carpet with his shoes.

“Well?” She began.

“Well what?” He answered.

“My apology? I want an apology right now because of how you treated me up there. All I was trying to do was honor you and thank for what you did for all of us and then you treated me like that!”

Tails just stared at her, completely unmoved by her rant. “Leave me alone.” He growled out before slamming the door in her face.

Sally was taken aback, staring at the door with a stunned look on her face. Eventually she tore herself away from the door and stomped off. Barely even glancing at Sonic as she walked past. Leaving him to cast a longing glance at the door before walking away.

One Week Later

A week passed and Sonic had noticed a fairly drastic attitude change in his best friend, in fact everybody noticed it, and nobody liked it. He was acting very distant and whenever someone would try and talk to him he would either ignore them or be a bit of a hardass.

That was the case, until Sonic brought up the meeting involving Fiona’s second chance to Tails in hopes of getting a conversation out of him. It worked to an extent.

“Really now?” Tails asked, stopping and turning around to face Sonic with his arms crossed and an eyebrow raised in curiosity.

“Yeah, I’m going to bring it up everybody later today. You might have to be there.” Sonic responded, crossing his own arms.

“Well I’ll be sure to be there then. I was actually on my way to speak to her now as a matter of fact. Heard she’s due to be released soon so I thought I’d drop her a visit.” When Tails finished speaking his plans Sonic was unable to keep a small grin off of his face.

“Figures, I knew you hadn’t changed. Anything that involves her you want to be a part of…” Sonic finished, leaving his last words hanging for effect.

“Hey can I ask you a question Tails?”

“Depends what it is.”

“Why’ve you been avoiding everybody? Better yet, how come you won’t talk to anybody?” Sonic asked, casting a slightly concerned look at him.

“I don’t want to talk to them. Is that hard to figure out?”

“C’mon man, I stuck up for you when Sally was going to chew you out. The least you could do is tell me what’s eating you up.” Sonic asked, almost begging, while placing a comforting hand on Tails’s shoulder.

Not all surprisingly, Tails shrugged off Sonic’s arm and question, turning and disappearing down the neighboring hall.

‘Why won’t you talk to me…’

At the Hospital

“Room number three-oh-two. She must be a lucky lady to have you come visit her if I have to say so myself.” Said the slightly star struck raccoon receptionist when she saw Tails enter the hospital. She, like many other women, had come to worship the ground he walked on ever since he defended the city single handedly.

Tails grinned a little bit before he buried it in a, not too convincing, façade of indifference. “She is a lucky girl, I saved her myself during the attack. You aren’t the first person to look at me like that today either miss…I haven’t caught your name actually, may you humble me with it?”

“Jenny, it’s Jenny. Could I ask you a question before you leave?” The newly name Jenny said.

“What is it?”

“My shift is over in three hours, would you like to kill a little time with me?” She asked, suggestively waggling her eyebrows.

Tails raised an eyebrow himself and fought down his massive grin with great effort. Jenny was fairly attractive, slim, big tits, a nice round face with very kissable lips, and fur that shined. Yeah, he could kill some time with her.

“Sure, I’ll meet you at Knuckle’s bar at ten. Have fun looking toward that.” He was here for a reason unfortunately, and Tails managed to pry himself from the very…flirtatious receptionist, and make his way towards room three hundred and two.

Once there he didn’t bother knocking on the door and just let himself in to the small surprise of the red furred vixen inside. She set her pudding down on the tray beside her and hit mute on the television before a small smile found its way to her lips.

“Well, if it isn’t the city’s hero. Pray tell, why he so graces me with his presence?” Fiona said, a giggle nearly working its way out.

“If memory serves me, this hero is your savior as well.” Tails answered, playing along with a smirk on his face.

“Well that may be, but I’m more concerned with the city’s hero tarnishing his reputation by speaking to me. You must leave before you are spotted.” Fiona said with an over exaggerated wave of her arms.

“This hero cares little for his reputation, only for your well-being my queen.” Tails said, kneeling down and taking her hand in his in a ridiculous fashion.

“I’m a queen now?”

“To me you are.”

“Aren’t you sweet, your queen orders you to hug her.”

“Gladly milady.”

The embrace lasted for but a moment before Fiona began giggling and they separated.

“Boy Tails, you’re something aren’t you?” She said, her laughter dying down.

“I aim to please. So, down to business.”

“C’mon, I haven’t had any body to screw around with since I got here. Let’s bullshit a little bit.” Fiona asked, pretending to pout like a child denied an expensive as fuck toy.

Tails rolled his eyes and pulled up a chair before relaxing in it. “Sorry, I don’t have too much free time today. I’ve got a date at ten, well more like a booty call. A materials meeting at six. Then after that we have to decide whether or not to let you back in. Plus it’s already four, got a busy evening.”

“All right, so why are you here? Going to drag me behind a dumpster and pull the trigger or what?”

“Give me some credit, I came here to see how you were holding up. Then when you got released tomorrow I was going to take you to dinner, show you some of the stuff you’ve missed this last decade.”

“Sounds to me like you’ve got a lot of plans for little old me. What makes you so confident they won’t burn me at the stake?”

“Oh just that I saved their lives and my opinion is probably going to hold a lot of power in a lot of future plans.”

“I appreciate your nice words and big plans, but Sonic already told me his answer when I asked him and it was ‘no’. So forgive me for not having all that much confidence in my future.” Fiona wouldn’t look into his eyes no matter how much she wanted to. It was pretty obvious to nearly everybody that she would end up in prison.

“Look at me.” Tails sternly said.

Expectedly she looked back at him with a barely noticeable defeated look; a look he planned on erasing from her mind.

“I care about you, I saved their lives from two different threats; you and that fucking plague. If they won’t listen I’ll turn the public on them. Pretty sure they don’t want that. Besides, Nicole seemed all right with you and they’ll know that I’m confident about you. So don’t worry.”

“Well…what about what happened all those years ago? Nearly everybody knows about what happened with me and the freedom fighters all those years ago.”

To her credit, that was a large and already established event, but to Tails credit he had a lot of influence at his disposal. Influence he planned on maliciously abusing.

“Fiona c’mon now, If I wanted to I could make you as respected as I am now. Ahem.”

Tails got up and straightened an imaginary tie.

“If it wasn’t for the brave actions of the deep undercover Fiona Fox, Tails Prower would never have been prepared for the attack and we would be dead as of now. We owe her our lives as much as the Mobian who fought them off.” Despite the satire Fiona could tell he was dead serious.

“Tails…you’d do that for me? I…I don’t know what to say. That’s not even true.” She said, deeply touched at his devotion. Had he been like this even after so long?

“Yeah I would, it might not work on some of the freedom fighters. But it would work damn well on the public. Plus-” Tails was surprised when Fiona cut him off with a nearly bone crushing hug. He was also aware of the few damp splotches on his shoulder.

Nothing was said between the two, even after they parted and Fiona had calmed herself down enough to keep her voice level. Eventually though, Fiona had found her voice again.

“Thank you Tails, I mean it too, no one’s ever done something like that for me. Not Sonic or Scourge, nobody. I can’t wait for dinner tomorrow.”

“Neither can I.”

The meeting went exactly as Tails said it would, even though originally it went the way Fiona predicted it would go, Tails had flipped the tables on them and reminded them that without him they’d all be dead and that they owed him a just a little. He even scheduled the undercover agent message.

After the meeting, Tails had his date with Jenny to look forward too. Turns out she was an egotistical bitch, looking down on every woman that passed by her because she was eating dinner with someone famous. He ended up leaving her with the tab and walking out. Turns out she didn’t bring her wallet either.

‘I have standards lady.’

The next morning Tails was waiting at the lobby, laughing internally at the furious glares that the receptionist sent his way, and waited for the clock to strike twelve for Fiona to be released.

Honestly, her reaction at seeing him there was actually quite surprising to him. She waved, came over and gave him another vice grip hug that he happily returned and winked at him. She then went to the now even more livid receptionist and signed out the Hospital officially.

She walked back over to Tails and intertwined her arm with his and walked out of the hospital, apparently oblivious to the even more livid receptionist.

“So, I remember something about dinner?” Fiona asked, simply happy to be a free Mobian again.

“You’re right. Where should we go first?”

“I couldn’t care less where we go. But I have to go find a decent apartment to stay at.”

“I’ve actually taken care of that, you’ve got an apartment to stay at. It’s my bed at ten-ow.” Tails said, rubbing the shoulder she just struck in mock pain. He could see through her fur that her cheeks had tinted themselves slightly pinker than normal.

“Be serious, I actually need a lot of things before we can go to dinner now that I think about it.” Fiona said.

“I was serious when I said I got you an apartment, you’ve got a steady paycheck coming in your name too. Courtesy of the freedom fighters. Congratulation by the way.”

“You really want to get our date on the way don’t you? Do you think I’ll be in your bed at ten that easily? Give me a little bit of credit here. Besides, I need something other than these clothes, they’re too plain.” She was right, she was wearing a white t-shirt and jeans. That’s pretty bland for a fancy dinner date.

“Well, want to go cash you’re first check and by some necessities? I’ll get the more expensive stuff because your actual pay is kind of small.”

“You’re a real gentleman, you’re trying so hard to get me in that bed tonight.”

“No Fiona I’m not, if I wanted you in my bed it be like that.” Tails said, snapping his fingers for emphasis.

“A lot of confidence compared to what you used to have. You were hardly able to talk to me when I first joined and look at you now. You playing with people and you do it like a professional.”

“Oh god what have I done…” Tails said, placing a hand against his head to steady himself.

“What? What’s wrong?” Fiona said worried.

“I’ve agreed to go shopping with a woman and use my money to pay for most of it. I’ve got six figures in my account and I’m about to lose it all.”

“You dick. I was worried.” Fiona said, punching his arm and chuckling.

Fiona showed admirable restraint when it came to getting clothes, unlike every other woman on the planet he had bought stuff for, and was very hesitant about letting Tails buy a flat screen for her. But in the end when they returned to Fiona’s apartment, which was fairly under furnished, she had a modest amount of outfits and a much more appealing home to call hers. Sneaky bastard bought furniture to be delivered there too when she wasn’t paying attention.

“I appreciate all of this Tails, I really do, but you didn’t have too.”

Tails held up a hand to stop her. “Fiona if you bought that stuff I bought you today it would have cost six figures. It cost me ten grand for this apartment, the furniture, your clothes, and all your appliances. That is literally what I make in a month. I’m the one who’s financially stable and I am perfectly happy doing this for you.”

“God Tails you really make it hard to not kiss you.”

“I’ve been told.”

“I’ll see you in two hours at that restaurant that we passed.”

“You sure? I’ve already dropped a good amount of money on you and you seem kind of hesitant about me dropping anymore. That place is expensive.”

“It is? We’ll find somewhere else to go then.”

“Fiona, I planned on taking you there anyway, it’s got the best view and it won’t be expensive for me. Like five star food at fast food prices cheap.”

“I’ll see you there then.”

After Tails left he looked at his wristwatch and saw that it was almost four o clock.

‘I better make myself presentable. I suppose I can wait for a little longer. She’s definitely worth the wait.’

An hour later Tails had called the restaurant and made their reservation for two and found himself a decent looking bowtie that didn’t look stupid, replaced his normal everyday gloves with fancier special use gloves with his initial embroidered on each, and decided that his shoes were fine. He wasn’t changing his shoes, they were too useful and he was confident he’d wear out a normal pair on the walk to the restaurant.

Fiona had told him to meet her at the restaurant and Tails had agreed, so he now found himself outside of the Davelli Supreme with twenty minutes before his date. When he walked in he unfortunately found many pairs of eyes focused on him and his lack of a date. The rules at Davelli’s were simple, you had to have a date.

A waiter came up to him and cleared his throat, speaking in a professional manner he said. “My apologies sir, but the rules here state that you must have a date to this establishment and you lack one. I must ask you to leave.”

“I know the rules, I’m meeting her here in ten minutes. I had a reservation for the bird’s nest table. It should be under Tails Prower.”

“I’m aware of who you are and under the circumstances I’ll allow you to wait for your date here as a thank you from the establishment instead of requesting you to leave.”

“I was planning on waiting in the first place.” So he waited, for nearly twenty minutes before he rubbed his hand down his face in a moment of realization.

‘Fuckin’ hell, she’s probably lost. How long has it been since she’s even seen this city like ten-’ Tails thoughts were interrupted by someone tapping on his shoulder and eventually pulling on his arm.

Aggravated Tails turned around ready to tear someone a new one when his train of thinking was completely derailed. It left him standing there with his mouth slightly agape as he stared at the Mobian in front of him.

“Sorry I was late, I got a little lost but the phone you got me had GPS on it so I’m good now. So, like what you see?” Fiona said with a little spin that drew more than Tails’s eyes.

Tails took in the sight in front of him. Fiona was wearing a form fitting green dress that sparkled and went all the way down to her ankles. It had a slit up the side so she was almost always showing a little leg. She had made her hair go down her back but left its wavy nature alone. The way she stood and acted made her seem like a professional at making men look stupid, which she was.

“You…you look great.” The waiter from earlier didn’t give him any more time to compliment her as the two of them were led to their specially reserved table that overlooked the city square.

“Wow, it really is a nice view from up here.”

“That’s why I reserved it. Oh, I’ve got a surprise for you after dinner.”

“You wouldn’t tell me what it is would you?”

“No, you’ll have to wait.”

The dinner preceded along extremely well, with Tails and Fiona simply content with catching up on the lives they missed out on. It was comforting for Fiona, she was able to talk normally with someone she used to despise and he wasn’t shy about talking about the more painful moments of his life. Which meant she had to return the favor by bringing up a few touchy subjects of her own. It was a little hard to believe though, that someone so gentle and loving could be so powerfully monstrous in battle. It just seemed like those two things shouldn’t mix. But overall, the date went fine.

“Well it’s six, I think that your surprise is almost ready.”

“Come on! Tell me what it is already you prick! Dinner’s basically over.”

“You’ve got to wait a little bit. I mean you’re going to be famous soon…oops.” Tails buried his head into his hands once he let his surprise slip.

“Tails…you didn’t.” Fiona said, not believing that he had done what he promised he’d do. To tell the truth, she had gotten some ill looks from people she had known all those years ago, but they weren’t all that awful.

Sure enough ten minutes later the announcement ended and several hundred people began applauding her. It was official, she was famous now and was probably branded a hero at the level Tails is.

“Come on, let’s go somewhere a little more private.” Fiona said, after she got up and grabbed Tails she nearly dragged him out of the restaurant.

“Were are we going?” Tails asked once they had left the restaurant. The two of them were now walking with their hands intertwined but Tails could feel Fiona’s heartbeat through her hand hammering away like crazy. She was apparently nervous about something but he couldn’t place it.

Eventually the two of them ended up at Fiona’s apartment and Tails had an idea of why she was nervous but he wasn’t sure.

“I’m doing this because it’s you.” She said before making their lips touch and pushing the two of them into the bedroom.

Later (Don’t expect me to put that in there with your dirty mind.)

Tails found himself staring into the mirror at Fiona’s apartment, thinking deeply about his future actions and what he had planned them to be.

He wasn’t having second thoughts, but he was going to be a little more devious. So with a plan set in motion he went back into the fairly messy bedroom and kissed Fiona’s forehead in her sleep. She smiled and it brought a dark grin to his face before he walked out into the wee morning hours of the day fully intent on enacting his plans.

The Acorn Vault

With a fairly loud explosion of chaos energy Tails blew off the doors to the acorn vault, the location they kept the chaos emeralds, and stepped inside where he quickly placed the emeralds into a briefcase. He could leave right now and be gone without a trace, but he had to send a message. So when the guards ran in he threw a chaos spear into the middle of the group that exploded violently and blew them all towards the wall unconscious or dead.

He then used chaos control to appear outside the castle and pulled a small remote out of the briefcase he was holding. He pressed the button and began walking away and behind him the Acorn castle had half of the building completely destroyed by a foundation shaking explosion.

He had set it up to damage Nicole’s sensory abilities once he left the city limits and it worked beautifully. Most likely they knew it was him by now and were attempting to search the castle. As he walked he continued pressing the button and buildings around him were bursting into flames or exploding violently.

He began cackling with glee at the terror he had caused. The destruction of the city he once held dear was like a perfectly orchestrated symphony to his ears now. Suddenly he hesitated before he pressed the button on his remote. Shrugging his shoulders he dropped the remote and stepped on it, breaking it into tiny pieces. He had plans for her and he wanted to watch her suffer rather than just killing her out right.

He had reached the city limits now and only then did he turn to survey the damage. Easily fifty mobians had been killed and hundreds, maybe thousands, were injured. He had taken Fiona shopping yesterday not for her sake, but so he could plant his bombs all over the city without being suspicious.

Eventually, just like he knew they would, the freedom fighters showed up and stared at him with too many mixed expressions for him to tell what the general consensus was. Though shock and betrayal were common ones. Damn near every freedom fighter had showed up to find him and when they did he couldn’t help but bust out into an evil laughter that pierced the hearts of everyone around to hear it.

“I suppose I’ll be leaving now, my first step is complete and now I need to move on to step two. I bid you adieu my once great friends. But I’ll leave you with one last parting gift.”

Tails suddenly snapped his fingers and hundreds of chaos spears floated out of the ground and surrounded the freedom fighter group. Unfortunately for them though, nobody in that crowd could manipulate chaos energy at all. Let alone manipulate it enough to either block his attack or dodge it.

“Chaos control.” Tails said, as the chaos spears rained down upon the crowd ripping them to pieces and disintegrating and who were near. Before he chaos controlled away Tails sent one maniacal grin to his once closest friend who had arrived moments too late.

One Month Later

Most of the damage from Tails’s attack had been repaired. But that was physical damage, mental damage on the other hand wasn’t even beginning to heal. Sonic had isolated himself to his room and even Sally hardly had spoken a word to him. Mainly because she was in disbelief.

Though it was a toss-up between Sonic and Fiona who felt worse. No one knew Tails and Fiona had literally become an item less than a day before Tails betrayed them all. It was driving her mad, he had used her and she couldn’t even make herself hate him like she wanted too.

Tails had recently made an open declaration of war to every faction of the freedom fighters on an open radio channel two days ago and if they wanted to stop him they only had to come and get him or else he would roboticize every Mobian on the planet. Everyone was unsure of how to react, well those that were left that is.

No one was too surprised when Sonic came into the meeting room and asked a simple question.

“Where is he?”

“In the mountain ranges twenty miles from here. He’s taken up one of Eggman’s old bases.” Sally answered him.

“The five of us in this room are leaving soon to go confront him.” Sally said

“Good.” Sonic made a move to leave but Fiona stopped him with a question no one wanted to ask.

“Sonic, if it came to it, could you…kill Tails?”

Sonic didn’t move or make any motion to answer her question. His only movements were the enraged tensing and relaxing of his quills.

Suddenly though, Sonic sighed heavily and turned to face the four people in the room he would be assaulting his closest friend with.

“I don’t know Fiona. I saw what he did, I watched him kill almost ten thousand Mobians. Nearly all of our entire standing freedom fighters are dead. I watched him fucking grin at me when he did it too.” Sonic sighed again, leaning heavily against the wall but ultimately sliding down it to sit and cradle his head in his hands.

“He’s the closest thing I have left to family. Something about the way he looked at me seemed so horribly wrong I wanted to puke. He enjoyed what he did and that thing is supposed to be my little brother! Now look at him! He’s a fucking murderer.” Sonic wanted to scream at Fiona, blame her for everything that happened because it was her fault Scourge and Eggman even bothered to show up.

But she told everyone what Tails did to her and he didn’t have the heart to bring her down any more than she already was.

“Whatever that thing is it isn’t Tails. I know it did something to him and I’ll beat the answers out of him!” Sonic lost control of his anger at the end of his tirade and punched the wall hard enough that his hand went straight through.

“Shadow, Knuckles, Sally, and you too Fiona; I want you to stay out of this fight until I tell you otherwise. I will rip him apart and find out what happened to Tails. Come on, we’re leaving right now.”