Chaos Uncontrolled

Chapter 17

"Ok let's do this." Sonic took a deep breath. "You ready Tails?" His eyes flicked over to the fox.

After a moment Tails nodded as he looked up from the miles electric. "As ready as I can be right now." His tails swished slowly behind him. "And you're sure Super won't go crazy and attack me or anyone else?"

Sonic crossed his arms. "Wasn't it your idea to have us train?"

Rubbing the back of his head, Tails nodded again. "Yeah... I'm just worried is all."

Sonic waved off the concern. "Don't worry. I have a good feeling about this."

One of Tails' ears flopped down as he shot Sonic an unconvinced look. "If you say so. Let's do this."

Nodding Sonic relaxed himself as best he could. "Ok Super, uh do your thing I guess?"

"Ugh, finally." Sonic heard Super reply in his head before things went blank.

"This is weird." Super glanced at Tails as he suppressed the urge to leave and go hunt down someone. Probably Shadow, but as he thought about it anyone but the fox would do really. Ugh, Sonic must be affecting him more than he thought if he was mentally exempting Tails from being a target.

Tails flicked an ear and nodded. "Yeah..." Slowly he approached and checked on the arm band around Super's arm. "Is Sonic still..?"

Super tilted his head to the side. "Ayo blue, you aware in there?" There was no response. Super shrugged and looked back at Tails. "Guess not."

The fox shot him a concerned look. "You guess not? Is... there a way to make him aware?" He tried, backing up a little.

"Probably." Super shrugged again, taking a couple deep breaths to try and keep himself... civil. "I think that's more on him than me though."

"How so?" Tails perked up in minor interest.

Super sighed in mild frustration at the small spark of satisfaction that look gave him. "Well it's not like Sonic gives me permission to be 'aware' when he's in control, so there's not much I can do. He's stubborn enough that he'll figure it out eventually I'm sure." Super started floating and leaned back with his hands behind his head, crossing his legs and closing his eyes. "For now? I guess we can just wait. As much as I want to, I'm not trying to overpower him or anything."

Tails hummed in thought. "So there's nothing you can do to help? We... just have to wait for Sonic to figure it out?"

"Best I can do is not get in his way." Super cracked one eye open. "You might wanna get comfy."

"Ah, right." The fox sat down, crossing his legs. He pulled the miles electric into his lap and began tapping away at it. "Also uh just in case." Tails started, and Super looked down at him. "You're able to give back control to Sonic quickly right? Just in case anyone comes over?" The fox rubbed the back of his head. "We uh, haven't exactly told anyone else about this plan."

Super scoffed. "That seems like a bit of a risk huh? If I decided to break our deal no one would even know until it's too late." Tails frowned and shot him a serious look. "Fine, fine." Super glared. "Yes I can give Sonic back control quickly. Happy?"

"Very." Tails nodded and relaxed a little more. The two sat in silence for a while with Super occasionally mentally prodding at Sonic to see if he'd figured it out yet. Honestly he was starting to feel a little annoyed at just how long it was taking the hedgehog to do this, but he couldn't let himself get too upset. He didn't want to risk breaking their deal; for now anyway. He'd prove he could be better than that liar Shadow. Eventually he got something back from Sonic after one of his prods. A general sense of grogginess that was fading quickly. Guess he'd just woken up.