Nightmare Ending

Chapter 4

Tails p.o.v.

I still remember the day I died. I still wonder why Sonic had to go and kill the five of us. I mean... sure we were under Frank's influence but couldn't something else have been done? I still don't understand his logic. I was laying underneath one of the trees with my hands behind my head since we finished out practice for the day.

"Hey Tails." I looked up and saw Cream come sit down beside me "What are thinking about?"

"Just how we died." she frowned then looked up at the sky

"Yeah, I wonder about that all the time." I put my arm around her and she chuckled

"Do you think that we can figure out why he did it?"

"I don't think we'll ever get told why." we both looked over to see Rouge, Knuckles and Shadow all walk to us and sit down "I mean, now that he was banished and all."

"I get what your saying Knuckles but we have to at least try to get some answers."

"Unless Sonic really did go insane but he doesn't want to admit it, I don't see what his motives were." Shadow shrugged

"Maybe it's because of the old rule." Rouge suggested

"You mean the one about taints?" I asked and she shrugged

"Could be." Rouge looked at Knuckles and kissed him

"Yuck! Get a room!" Shadow called and Knuckles gave him the evil eye

"Don't like it, well, too bad." they glared at each other then Shadow tackled Knuckles and they rolled on the ground

"I bet Knuckles might win this one this time." Cream whispered to me and I giggled

"Like he ever will." we watched them wrestle until a thought came to my mind "Do you think we could go to Sonic and stop all this madness?" Cream and Rouge both looked at me like I just committed a murder and the wrestlers stopped tossing and turning.

"Are you alright Tails?" Knuckles said while shoving Shadow off him and walking to me

"I'm fine." he put a hand on my forehead but I slapped it away "Really, it's just... isn't this what we've been training for our whole lives to begin with?" they nodded and I sighed

"What about D? He won't let us get too far without putting us back on a leash." Rouge suggested and Shadow hummed

"Why don't we sneak out?" we all looked at each other then back at Shadow "We can go tonight if that's what your thinking."

"Yeah that might just work." Knuckles commented and we agreed. We all talked about our plan and stood up once we saw D come back and went back to the house.

Time Skip: At Night

I opened my eyes as I felt Knuckles shake me and nodded as he went to wake everyone else up. I pecked out the door and watched as Shadow jumped down from the window followed by Knuckles. Rouge flew into the air and caught Cream as she jumped out. Once they landed, I closed the door and ran to the window, spinning my namesakes and floated down to the ground. We all nodded and started to walk away.

"Where should we go first?" Knuckles whispered once we got far enough away from the house

"I overheard D saying that his castle was on one of the other planets but I never heard him say which"

"Maybe we could try to look around?" Rouge suggested

"Um... guys?"

"We don't know how to teleport yet, remember? We haven't gotten to that stage of our training." Shadow said