A/N Hey guys hope you enjoyed the last chapter. Let's get this done.

If anyone was wondering, or possibly forgot since it's been awhile Metal Sonic was confirmed to be the real Sonic a long time ago. Thought maybe someone out there may have forgotten after so long.

"I'm going to turn you to scrap!" Silver yelled in rage.

His hands began to glow intensely dozens of the destroyed robots beginning to lift into the air. His previous injuries and fatigue seemingly gone and replaced by his rage.

"I'm gonna destroy you!" he screamed his eyes even beginning to glow green.

Normally Blaze would have told him to calm himself but she knew how close Silver and Shadow were, she wasn't gonna stop the hedgehog, she didn't even want to, that was more than just a cheap shot, it was cruel, and Shadow didn't deserve that. What made it worse was it was Sonic doing it…. Or atleast what used to be Sonic.

Once again Sonic just laughed at Silvers idles threats, he was confident that he could smack down the rest of them with ease. Even Silver.

"Don't laugh at me! I'm gonna turn you to scrap metal!" after a second of focusing Silver launched the robotic debris at Sonic in waves.

Sonic quickly ran to the side avoiding the first wave then burst forward. The second wave of debris flew straight at him but he wasn't deterred. With speed and grace the metal Sonic just barely adjusted his path avoiding the first few. He then hopped over another entering a spin dash and smashed through the last piece of debris.

Silver was quick to react and his third wave was meant to intercept Sonic before he landed.

Unfortunately even with his jet pack gone Sonic had a few minor jets on his feet. He used it to spin dash at the highest flying piece of debris. He knocked aside the chunk of metal and bounced off, the rest of the debris passing under him with the help of the extra air.

Now high above the ground he fired his feet jets again zooming straight towards Silver. Curled back into a ball he'd be essentially a wrecking ball.

Silver had been to angry to think of a backup plan and could do nothing but brace for the hit.

The loud thud of Metal crashing into flesh and bone was heard and Silver was thrown several feet across the room. He landed flat on his back and slid to a stop after a few feet.

He wasn't knocked out, but he wished he had. His entire body felt like it was still vibrating from the hit. His arms had taken the majority of the hit since he braced for the attack. His hands were so hurt, they felt like any extra force would break them.

He growled clutching a wrist, but that only made it hurt more so he let go hissing in pain.

"You're pathetic" Sonic said standing over the helpless hedgehog.

Silver just continued to hiss "Atleast I don't go for the cheap shots"

His robotic eyes squinted down at him "You think that was a cheap shot, wait until your hands are crushed into dust"

Silvers eyes showed fear for a fraction of a second. But his snarl came back. Although he was basically helpless. Too hurt to focus his powers "You know… Shadow told me a lot of things about the original you, he had mostly good things to say, but now all I see is a man who has given up on his morals. You're no hero now"

"Sometimes heroes aren't what the world really needs" Sonic said back, his foot raised to crush Silvers head…

"STAY AWAY FROM HIM!"

A purple blur tackled Metal Sonic and sent him sliding on his back.

The blur was none other than Blaze defending Silver. Her fury finally unleashed and her claws lit in flame. Before Sonic had even stopped sliding across the floor she was clawing at his face. Scratching at the glass covering his sensitive optics.

"Don't you dare hurt him!" she screamed slashing at his face, with seemingly random and rage filled strikes she had attacked him quite a few times before he was able to respond.

When he did he pushed her off with his powerful arms with ease. She yelped from the strike and was launched backwards. When she hit the ground she rolled backwards and ended up back on her feet. Her snarling face a heavy contrast from her normally calm and focused expression during fighting.

Sonic was back to his feet but Blaze already lunged forward and began swiping at him again. Her swipes missed, due to them being somewhat inaccurate and undisciplined in her rage. Sonic was able to easily dodge them. He easily kept out of range toying with her.

Finally Blaze was seeing the futility in her attacks, but as she finished her final strike to change her strategy, Sonic grabbed both her wrists with his quick and near perfect reflexes.

"Let go!"

"In a second" Sonic said, if he weren't a robot he'd have a terrible smirk right now.

Giving her no time to respond or retaliate he spun around lifting his arms up. It caused her to be thrown around. But he didn't let go. Instead he slammed his arms again forcing the cat into the cold metal ground.

But he wasn't done and he lifted and smashed her down again, and again. After the third smash he then spun her around and finally let go of her wrists. The action causing her to be thrown away and into a wall. Unlike Silver who had stayed conscious, she was completely knocked out, most likely with a few broken bones.

The brutal attack caused Fiona to attack next.

Coming from behind Fiona smashed the back of one of her pistols into the back of Sonics head. While it wasn't much it made him flinch and turn.

Fiona gave him no time to react, her second gun firing as he turned and he took another close range shot to the face. Her following shots missed due to his fast reactions.

Fiona just shoulder checked him instead of backing off. She managed to predict his movement, but the attack hurt her as well. His fast movement and metal frame caused her to yelp in pain from the hit. It stopped him too, if only briefly.

Needless to say Fiona wasn't the most qualified to fight Metal Sonic. He recovered faster than her and lunged forward. He grabbed her by her shirt and prepared another punch to her face.

The fox saw it coming and instead shot Sonic point blank with her pistol again. Once again the bullet ricocheting off the glass visor causing another crack to appear.

The constant attacks to his face were causing cracks to form all along his protective visor, it was really starting to effect his vision. That didn't stop him from retaliating. Despite the ricochet off his face he wasn't slowed down or distracted and lifted her up into the air leaving her with little options to fight back. She'd have shot again had his second hand not grabbed her wrist and wrenched it. The force of his metal hand on her wrist forced her to drop the weapon.

With her helpless he stopped to insult her.

"Did you really think you could somehow redeem yourself by doing this?" the robotic voice asked "You betrayed us, and in the process turned my little brother against us all. Did you really think you could take it back somehow by doing all this with him? Do you think it will bring you back to his good graces, that he'll love your again!?"

Fiona growled at him. She struggled to break free but he had an iron grip, so her hands tried anything to break free, and her legs flailed in defiance.

But her eyes locked into his own and said with a smirk "Ironically, that wasn't why I started this, but against all odds, he and I are closer than ever…" her gaze hardened as she gripped hard onto the wrist that was keeping aloft "… Isn't that right, Tails!"

She suddenly lifted up both of her legs and shoved both her heels into the hedgehogs face. Sonics visor cracked again, causing most of his vision to be obscured. He tried to leg of the fox but her grip on his wrist kept her from falling as she kicked into his face a second time. Not nearly as hard, but causing a bit of damage again.

Meanwhile as Fiona was doing that Tails appeared from stealth sliding under her and tripping the robo-hedgehog with his foot. Only once Sonic began to fall forward did Fiona let go and drop to her feet.

Sonics face crashed into the floor from the fall only adding more damage, the glass was going to break any second now.

Tails quickly got up from his slide double backed and went to jump on Sonic and pin him, but the quick robot spun and smacked him away mid flight with his hand.

It wasn't the worst hit in the world, the precision and force weren't too bad, subtly showing the robot was panicking. He made a move to stand up, only to find Fiona attempting to pin him as well. She attempted to stop on his chest but even with his heavily obscured vision he managed to grab it before she could make contact.

In the split second she was over him, she could see his visor was almost entirely cracks now, it was amazing he could see at all. But before she could try he threw her away again and got to his feet.

"You…. you…. Why do you have to be so difficult!?" Sonic Yelled placing a shaking hand over his visor "I wanted you all to see what I see now, I convinced Eggman to give me a chance to change you over!" his other hand balled into a fist "I wanted to believe I could make you see that while this may not be the nicest choice, to work with Eggman. I hoped you'd see that it was the only way to save this world"

Tails was already back to his feet and panted out "I hoped, there might be a little of the old Sonic left in you, but I was wrong. You're nothing like he was"

Sonic turned and pointed at the two tailed fox, his finger outstretched and pointing "Don't talk to me like I'm Metal Sonic! I am the real Sonic, I just see now that freedom and democracy was what made us weak. Only a single strong leader can save this planet! No kings, no queens, JUST EGGMAN!"

Tails' gaze hardened on what used to his friend, a sad sigh escaped his lips "You may have been Sonic once before, but not anymore" he clenched his fists "I'm sorry I left so long ago and left you to this fate" a tear began to spill out of his eye "If the real you can hear me, I'm going to lay you to rest for good and free you from this"

Sonic just laughed "You can't beat me 'little brother" his tone was heavily condescending "I was always the best. Remember?"

"I've grown since then, and learned a lot" the fox replied.

"We'll see…"

The two stood in place, staring at one another for who knows how long. Almost like neither of them could make the first move. Tails knew what he had to do, but could he actually do it? Could he destroy Sonic once and for all…. Could his kill his mentor and best friend?

But what kept coming to mind was what other choice did he have. Eggman already said he fixed Sonic to never be able to change back to good. So it was hopeless trying that.

No, there was only one answer. Just like Sonic had said, it wasn't the nicest choice, but it was one that had to be made. He and everyone else hadn't come this far to be stopped by Sonic now….. but Sonic was right, he was faster and stronger, it had to end now, or he'd win.

So if it had to end right now, it would. Tails Snapped forward and ran at Sonic. Probably the fastest he'd ever ran. Clearly the distance in a second, and his helmet folding down over his face.

Sonic braced himself, clawed hands ready for the attack. But it wasn't quite what the hedgehog expected, and with his vision heavily obscured his reaction was just slow enough to fail.

Instead of a strike to the face like he had expected Tails went for the tackle, ducking down and shoving his shoulder into the hedgehogs stomach at the last moment. His arms wrapped around the hedgehog to keep him in place spearing the robot off his feet and forcing him to fall on his back.

The two feel to the floor with a loud clang of Sonic back hitting the metal floor.

Before Sonic could respond to any attacks Tails leaned back and threw his head forward at the robots face. The resulting head butt finally shattered the visor protecting his delicate optics. Though whatever vision he had was immediately obscured by Tails' gloved hands trying to reach inside. Only the robots quick reflexes managed to half his hand. His hands gripping on Tails wrist to keep him from pushing further down. He knew that if those gloves touched his inner workings, the electric shock would actually destroy him. His outer armour protected against surges of energy. But inside, it was vulnerable.

The struggle lasted for awhile the only noise coming from them was the occasional grunt from Tails who was using all of his force to push his hand down. He'd have used his second hand but it was keeping his arm steady for any attempt to shove his hand aside.

But, Tails was slowly winning, every little attempt to get him off proved to only assist him as he got closer millimeter by millimeter.

"Tails! Wait, please don't do this. I promise if you just stop, you'll be ok, all of you will be ok" Sonic begged.

"Don't listen to him Tails!" Shadow had remained conscious despite the broken bone and could hear the exchange "He's lying, take him out of his misery, now!"

Tails agreed and kept getting closer, the hedgehog couldn't hold him off much longer.

"You have to see that Eggman is right!" he yelled "If he's gone, it will be chaos, he controls everything. They'll all rebel! They will get their freedom and do what we always have, cause chaos and pain to eachother!"

The fox growled "I'd rather they be given the chance to prove you wrong"

Finally after struggling for so long Tails finger got close enough to touch his optics.

"Buddy! Wa-ZZZZZZZZZ" the electric shock caused his arms to give out and causing Tails hand to cave into the robots head crushing the sensitive materials inside, leaving no chance Sonic could be brought back, all his memories in a chip, crushed under Tails' hand.

The fox froze, he'd done the only thing he could do, but he still regretted it deeply.

"I'm sorry" his whispered, he was sorry for a lot of things, so many things he wished he had time to apologize for. Being a jerk to him and eventually leaving, becoming something he never wanted him to become, not being there when Eggman destroyed the world.

But it was all to late now…

Through the entire struggle his eyes become more and more filled with tears and now they were finally spilling out of his eyes. His hand slowly pulled out of the robots head, revealing the catastrophic damage of fried circuits and crushed inner workings.

He couldn't look at that and fell backwards kicking away from the destroyed robot to slide away. When he stopped he was a few feet away trying to catch his breath. He ended up tearing off his helmet and dropping it next to him to help him breath.

In an odd way he was relieved, he had freed Sonic from that metal prison for good, his soul had truly gone to rest finally. He atleast found some comfort in that.

It was far more comforting to heel a hand softly get placed on his shoulder.

"Tails…"

He knew who it was, Fiona. He turned his head to her taking in hitched breathes "I-I'm o-ok"

She kneeled next to him sadness in her eyes. Both foxes hugged eachother instinctively. Despite the bad blood she had with Sonic in the past, she was shaken by his final demise as well.

Meanwhile Silver had gotten himself to his feet and limped over to Blaze. He kneeled down next to her and chcked to see if she as breathing. He let out a relieved breath when he felt her breathing steady.

"Blaze…. Blaze can you hear me?" he nudged her earning a moan of pain as she began to wake up.

"Mmmmm, what happened?" She tried to turn over to lay on her back, Silver had to help.

The white hedgehog looked down at her and smiled "Tails and Fiona finished off Sonic"

A pained but relieved sigh left the cats mouth "Good…. Are you alright?"

Silver just chuckled a bit "Me? What about you?" she clearly was in worse shape.

"I feel like I was hit by a brick wall" she groaned.

"More like a metal wall" he replied "…. A couple times" he mumbled afterwards.

Blaze tried to sit up, fighting through the pain. With Silver help she was sitting against the wall "Go help Shadow, I'm fine"

"Are you sure?"

"I'm sure, now go help him" she commanded.

The silver hedgehog nodded and tried to get back to his full height. It was hard. He was tired and sore. But all things considered he was better off than both Blaze and Shadow. He walked over to his mentor keeping his balance with his wobbly legs. As he approached it looked like Shadows eyes had glazed over staring at the destroy robot Sonic.

"Shadow" he called taking him out of his trance "Don't move, It's only gonna make it worse"

Shadow growled at him but took the advice, but then replied "You lost your temper"

Silver rolled his eyes, still trying to be a mentor, or trying to deflect his problem right now "Ya because he hurt you so bad"

Shadow breathed in harshly through his teeth, his leg was pulsing pretty badly "I know…. I just…." He sighed "Thanks"

Silver just smiled "No problem" but he got back to more important things "Is there anything I can do?"

Shadow hissed again and said "No, there's nothing you can do for me at the moment…" he grabbed Silvers arm and pulled him closer and growled out "Except finish this, promise me you will do whatever you can to finish this today"

His strong grip hurt his arms but he just nodded "I'll do everything I can, I promise"

Before the dark hedgehog could reply back the large monitor on the wall turned on again revealing Eggman just as before. This time Scourge was in the background. The sight of him caused them to collectively growl.

Eggman didn't look too angry though, in fact he looked rather pleased with himself "Excellent work fur balls, but ultimately futile. You should have let him kill you, cause those doors aren't gonna open up again"

Tails wiped away his own tears from his eyes. As much as he was angry at Eggman, he was far more angry with Scourge, how could he have betrayed them? They gave him a place to hide, they treated him like a team member, even put up with his bad attitude. Worse off he betrayed Nicole, who had clearly put her trust in him.

Scourge was hard to read, he didn't bother to look at the screen. He was looking in various directions, but never at the screen.

"We fight to the end" Tails said back, his words full of venom "Unlike the coward next to you"

Eggman just laughed at them "He is a survivor, did you really think one of your worst enemies would be your friend?"

Fiona narrowed her gaze "I thought he had changed, I really did, but he betrayed me again"

Oddly enough a smirk was on Scourges face, only making his former teammates even more angry. By now Blaze forced herself to her feet and was standing next to the two foxes. Silver had left Shadow to do the same, though helped keep Blaze standing straight.

Scourge just chuckled darkly "I'm full of surprises, and I'm smarter than I seem. I see an opportunity, and I take" He drifted a bit out of frame as he said that, a good eye might notice he was reaching into his pocket as he left the camera view.

"That's right" Eggman laughed again, that annoying laugh, the one they were all too familiar with "You naïve rodents trust too easily and now it's all over. You are trapped and Nicole is mine again. I. Have. Won"

Tails' hands balled into fists, no this couldn't be it. There was always a way, they always got through stuff like this, but even he couldn't see an answer. They were trapped, with doors too strong for Silver to open.

On screen Eggman revealed a chip and said "Scourge was so nice to give me Nicoles memory chip, I'll integrate her back into the system and use her just as I did before"

The thought of that horrified the heroes, Nicole sentenced to the hell, she'd probably be tortured into submission just like Sonic. But what could they do?

Suddenly Scourge re-entered the frame and was scratching his head "Wait, you wanted Nicoles memory chip?"

Eggman paused with confused face before turning in his chair "Yes, of course I did, what other chip do you think I'd want?" he slammed his fist on the arm of the chair annoyed by the interruption from his final monologue.

"Oh, I thought you just wanted a memory chip, but don't worry…" he smirked "I did you the courtesy of putting her into the system myself"

For half a second Eggman went blank faced "No…. YOU DID WHAT?"

Scourge smiled with a sly grin "What was I not supposed to do that, I'm soooooo sorry about that" his tone sounding quite sarcastic now.

"Do you know what you-" Eggman stopped, his gaze hardening on the green hedgehog "You sniveling wretch!"

Before Scourge could respond the screen cut out to Nicoles head floating on the screen "I'm opening the doors, and shutting down defenses. Hurry!"

Through the entire exchange heroes slowly began to realize what was happening. When Nicole finished her message Tails yelled "That green bastard, that brilliant green bastard!" Moments after a door under the large screen began to slide open.

"Go now! I don't have control of the eggbots yet. Eggman has called them to the command centre to kill Scourge… no! He's attempting to use an emergency escape ship. You'll need to split into two groups!"

Tails immediately answered "Silver and I will chase Eggman, you two help Scourge" he was already moving towards the open door when Silver asked "What about Shadow?"

Shadow yelled "Don't worry about me, stop him NOW!"

There was no time to argue the four ran towards the open door which led to a hallway. Where the hallway ended it split left and right. Nicole took control of the speakers in the halls and said "Tails, go left, Fiona go right!"

Tails slid to a stop as he reached the end turning left as he did then entered a full sprint again. Fiona did the same for the right. Their respective partners were right behind them. Blaze running slower than normal due to her injuries, while Silver kept pace with his powers.

After a few moments Tails heard Nicole again over the speakers "Eggman has some kind of wrist control that has some override control that I can't beat. Some of the defenses will be activated when you near the hanger. I'm worry I can't stop them"

"It's ok Nicole, we got a battering ram" he looked back at Silver "Right!?"

"I'll give it everything I got!" he replied back.

Nicole continued to give them directions, either by speaking to them, or by closing doors ahead of them and keeping the correct paths open. Tails' lungs burned, he'd never run this fast before, but this was it. It had to end today.

Soon enough Nicole warned them "After the next corner there will be laser and turret defenses. Silver quickly began to fly in front of Tails and projected a psychic shield infront of himself. They'd blow through these defenses. They turned the corner and sure enough several turrets began firing hails of bullets at them, lasers joined in trying to destroy them.

Silver shield worked stopping everything. As they ran forward the turrets will destroyed by the shield crashing into them. It was a heavy strain on Silver, but with the end so close he was gonna push himself to his limit, and more.

With ease the two mobians passed the defenses and Nicole said frantically "You have to hurry, he's reached the jet, he's beginning the start up sequence!"

Elsewhere…

Blaze and Fiona neared the control, according to Nicole. The sounds of gunfire could be heard so they guessed that was true. Turning a corner they could see an Eggbot entering the control room, past it flashes of light be seen alongside the sound of gunfire. Atleast Scourge was still fighting.

No time for talking the duo ran forward to meet the danger. Fiona went first tackling the unaware eggbot causing it to tumble forward. She finished it off with a double tap of her pistol, aiming for a weak spot in the back of its head.

Blaze jumped past her, despite the pain she was in her flames were ready, igniting her hands. She planted her feet and began firing at any eggbot she could see. Her aim was good and most shots hit their mark super heating the metal, frames.

A green blur bounced around the walls, and various eggbots helping to clear the room.

In no time the room was cleared, and luckily not much of the equipment had been damaged. Blaze collapsed to her knees having completely lost all of her stamina. Fiona was just finishing off the final eggbot firing a bullet into its optics while it laid on the floor.

Leaning against a wall to support himself, Scourge was panting. His jacket had a fresh bullet hole in it, but he was unscathed.

"Nice…. Of you to…. Show up" he said in between breathes.

Fiona took in a deep breath and looked at Scourge "You are an asshole you know that?" but then her gaze softened "But a smart one…. Could have atleast told us what you were doing. A minute ago I wanted to rip your head off"

Scourge just smirked looking quite pleased with himself "What and possibly tip him off cause you guys weren't believable enough? No way" he chuckled, but then he looked around "I assume Silver and Tails are after Egg-breath?"

Fiona nodded holstering her gun "Yes, Nicole how are they doing?"

There was a short pause "…. They're doing something crazy"

Back with Tails and Silver…

Taisls and Silver finally reached the hanger, but to their dismay the jet was just beginning to take off, currently hovering higher and higher so it could blast away out of the hanger.

"Stop him!" Tails ran towards the jet, yelling over the roar of the engines "Throw me on!"

Silver nodded and with the last of his energy, his hands began to glow motioning towards the fox. In turn the fox was lifted into the air, and was somewhat ungracefully thrown at the jet.

Just as the fox was thrown at the jet, it's exhausted began to position to push itself forward and make its escape. Just in time, Tails landed and planted his feet down.

"Activate boot magnets!" he commanded. Not a moment too soon his feet planted on the hull flat as the jet blasted forward from the hangar.

Behind him Silver unable to make it in time, his stamina had finally given out. It seemed it was all up to Tails now. Well he ended up falling backwards from the jet shooting forward, his boots kept him locked to the jet though.

"Ok…. Ok" he thought to himself "Just need to think quick…. And stand up straight"

He tried to think and eventually realized that his morph gun could help a bit…. Actually, no it could be exactly what he needed. He reached behind his back and carefully grabbed it incase the wind blew it out of his hands. He then deployed it into the sticky bomb form. He then finally used it like a cane to get him back to a more standing position.

The wind was very strong so he had to crouch forward to try and catch as little air as possible. This was getting harder as the jet sped up.

He immediately aimed straight down with the barrel right on the hull of the jet. Dropping a small explosive. The same he'd used to destroy the walls that surrounded the town Silver and Shadow were at.

Once that was done he slowly walked along the hull placing another bomb every few steps. They weren't super powerful explosives, especially since he had a suspicion this jet had a reinforced hull. It was his emergency escape craft after all. He had no idea what Eggman had planned if he escaped, or what facility he had to run to.

None of it mattered, if he got enough he could end this now, once and for all. Then maybe the ruined childhood, heartbreak, all the death and destruction…..Just maybe it'd all be for something.

He planted a four bomb when suddenly the jet jerked trying to throw him off. Apparently Eggman had detected him on the hull, or maybe the bombs had been detected.

Either way the sudden whipping of the planes wings caused him to nearly be thrown off the plane, only one leg managed to keep him on the hull.

"Oh no, atleast one more!" Tails forced his feet back down, and managed to keep his balance. He quickly fired straight down again, half a second later another jerk of the jets, much more forceful this time threw him off the plane.

For a short moment Tails screamed for his life, but he immediately entered free fall. He was safe from any backwash or getting hit mid air. Time to end this…

He flipped over to face the sky, so he could see the explosion. Despite falls through the air he smirked and hit the button on the side of his morph gun. In an instant fire explosives went off. The flashes obscured his vision for a moment. When the light disappeared just a moment later, he saw exactly what he wanted to see. The wing braking off, flames spewing out of the wing.

It immediately began to roll to the right and fall from the sky….. Damn it was glorious. Tails flipped back over and began to spin his tails and slowly came to a halt in mid air. He then looked back up to find the plane had nearly fallen as far as he had by now.

He kept watching as it feel, he kinda wished he hadn't thrown his helmet away after he beat Sonic, he could have zoomed in and watched every piece fall off the plane.

It finally crashed too the ground. Up until now it had kinda been the perfect dream for him, but he was given a bit of a surprise. The plane wasn't completely destroyed or blown up after hitting the ground. It miraculously came to a sliding landing.

As improbable as it was, Eggman could survive that…. So now he had to go down there and make sure he was dead. Couldn't have been the picturesque ending so he could return home.

So with an annoyed sigh Tails began to descend towards the crash.

By the time he landed the crash sight had a few fires. But none of that really mattered, he had to find Eggman and conform he was dead. No miraculous close calls this time.

He walked through the wreckage, a couple weapons, a broken computer, papers burning. He wanted to find out what the plane was for, but no distractions.

Finally near the front of the wreckage he was very displeased to find the fat man. Or atleast partially displeased to find him alive, but his leg was pinned under some wreckage.

"Good a patrol, help me you useless- Oh…. Tails" his tone went from excited to entirely displeased.

"Hello doctor, you seem to be in a bit of a spot" the fox stopped a few feet from the man, honestly now that he was here and had the chance to finish him off he didn't know what to do.

Eggman sighed "So…. I guess this is where you give me a heroic speech and then arrest me"

Tails grit his teeth hearing that, how arrogant was he? He was only making this easier "Not this time Robotnik, never again"

"Hohohohohoho" the man laughed, god it was grating on the ears "You, Miles Tails Prower is threatening to kill me? You were softer than Sonic and he could never bring himself to kill me. I don't believe you"

Hearing him speak out Sonic name, it only fueled the fire in his heart "That was then, and this is now" the fox said emotionally.

"You sound tough, but you're just standing there" he taunted.

"SHUT UP!" the fox raised his morph gun aiming it at the helpless doctor "If you think I'm going to let you walk away from this crash after everything you've done, then you truly are crazy" his hands were already shaking "Because of you my entire childhood was taken from me! I had to grow up so fast! You've killed most of my friends and family, you've destroyed my home, my city! Killed millions of people and burned the world to ash! All so you could be in charge and what?" he mockingly chuckled "To bring some kind of peace!?

The fox growled after the speech and said "You are not leaving this place alive"

The doctor sighed in annoyance "And yet I'm still here and alive. Go ahead, kill me and become everything Sonic and Sally didn't want you to be"

"DON'T SAY THEIR NAMES!"

"Or what, you'll remember you are supposed to be a good boy and take me in alive? Your high and mighty morals have done what? They've done nothing. You let me live and escape over and over and all I ever do it escape and come back. So make the choice. Go against everything they ever wanted you to be, or take me in and start this all again"

Eggman had the most smug and evil smirk on his face, it disgusted him so much, he hated everything about him…. And yet, his hand was shaking, and his finger was seizing up. What was happening? He was right, if he did that he'd be everything Sally and Sonic hated.

When he was younger he believed in their ideals. He had asked once in awhile because it did start to bother him that nothing changed, but he truly believed in their ideals. Then he moved away from the team and he decided killing the bad guys was the only solution.

But now he had the choice in his hands right now. Yes, death was the sure fire answer, but could he do it now. He'd come so far since Fiona showed up.

"I'm getting bored" Eggman yelled again…. But was that a bit… fear in his voice.

Tails broke from his daze and looked at the doctor again and realized something…. Was that gasoline he was laying in. His ear twitched and looked to the right.

That's why he was scared. The fire was getting close.

That's when he realized something, as much as he found it dis-tasteful it would be poetic and solve his dilemma.

He looked to Eggman and said "You know what? I can't kill you…"

"Great now get me-"

"But I also don't want to save you today" Tails mockingly cracked his back "It's been a rough day, I'm sure you'll do fine without me" he put the morph gun on his bak and began to saunter away "Good to finally see ya again Eggman, always nice to see an old ya…. But something tells me that we won't see eachother again"

"No- NO… You rat, get back here. You can't do this!" the sound of struggle could be heard "No-no-no-no come back, please come back it's getting closer…. No…. NOOOOO"

Tails closed his eyes as he walked way, within a few moments the sound of terrified screams could be heard. He thought that it would be like music. But now it felt bitter sweet. Like, he was finally gone, but it was kinda late and didn't mean much, there wasn't much of a future for this planet now. And it was this day, and that mans death he'd been fighting for so long to see…. And now all of his friends were gone.

He sighed as the screams drifted away as he walked, he was so tired in mind and body. He just wanted to fall over and fall asleep, maybe it'd wake up and find it was all a dream.

But it wasn't, there was no denying that.

He opened his eyes again and continued to walk. Atleast it wasn't all bad, Eggman was gone. His brother was finally at rest, the world was free again, and he had a girl waiting for him.

He smiled…. Ya…. That made it bearable.

Now if only he could find a way to bring the world back to being green, with some luck Eggman had some seeds laying around. They'd had a good string of luck…. They all survived this last mission…. Just a bit more and they could truly save the world.

He smiled a bit more, that's what kept him walking. Maybe there still was a future….

Ok it took a long time, I kinda forgot about the story and when I did I was like "I'll do it later"

So no, this is not the end, I got something else I wanted to do and also a bit of an epilogue. If you lasted this long and been patient I really must thank you…. and also ask how you can be that patient.

No seriously thanks for reading, no promises the final stuff will come quick, but hang in there.

Live long and prosper

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