Woah, that took a while. I rewrote this once and edited it a ton before I was even remotely satisfied. It was hard to make it not seem cheesy, but I think it still does a little. Anyhow, I did the best I could without rewriting it again which could have taken another two or three weeks.

I beg of you to read the bottom little note thingy from me!!

Chapter 21: Unrestrained Power

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During the past few moments, everyone had forgotten about Tails. Everyone on the Blue Typhoon assumed that Shadow had taken him somewhere, but they didn't know why. Even Doctor Eggman was unaware of where the young fox was.

He was, in fact, not that far away. On a tall cliff that overlooked a mostly destroyed city and a waging battle, he laid out cold and unaware of his surroundings.

Tails sat cross legged in the middle of a dark void. He almost appeared to be floating, suspended in the middle of nowhere.

Suddenly, the yellow kitsune opened his eyes and looked around. With a sigh, he ran a hand through his hair until he touched the spot where he was hit. Quickly, he pulled his hand away and hissed, looking at the small droplets of blood on his glove.

"Hmph, no wonder I'm out" he mumbled quietly.

After a few minutes of nothing, Tails leaned back and rested his body on his hands, leaning his head back in a bored manner. He had been sitting here for a while, and nothing had happened. Judging by the bump on the back of his head, he could be out for a while. He was none too thrilled about being asleep for a few days.

Sighing, and after taking a quick look around, he stood up and started walking around.

"Hello?" He called out, the only reply being his echo.

"Well, at least I'm still alive, I think. I guess Shadow or somebody moved me away from Dark Oak."

After staring into space for a few seconds, a sudden click noise caused him to snap his head around. Three of Eggman's new robots were standing in line a few yards away.

Tails turned fully around and got in a ready position. His expression showed that he was wondering why they were in his head.

Suddenly, the three machines started flying towards him at high speeds. Tails braced himself, ready to defend against the attack, but before they could reach him, a blinding white light erupted around him. Caught off guard, he closed his eyes and instinctively got ready to be hit, but instead of pain, he felt himself get lifted by something.

Tails slowly opened his eyes after a second of silence to see what had happened.

The first thing the young fox noticed was the thing he was laying on; the middle of a giant, otherworldly flower of some sort. He looked over the edge and saw that the previous black floor he had been standing on was now covered in tall grass and other assorted flowers. As his gazed continued over, the three robots could be seen, each tangled and impaled in large, thick vines.

"What?"

"Time to wake up, Tails" said an ominous voice that seemed to come from everywhere. It was feminine, and vaguely familiar to Tails.

As if on cue, another blinding light suddenly burst into Tails' eyes, except this time it was the sun.

The young fox jolted upwards. As his eyes focused, he realized what was around him. All of the same strange plants, including the one his was laying on, as well as the three robots with vines wrapped around them. Everything was the same as it was in his dream, even the fragrance. The only thing different was that the rest of the world was added.

"What?"

Tails jumped up and stood on the flower, trying to figure out where he was.

He was standing on the same cliff where he stood before breaking Cream out of Eggman's base. Most of the buildings that he had used for cover were now nothing but ruble on the ground. Past all of that, the Blue Typhoon and Eggman's starship could be seen hovering, apparently not fighting at the moment. Even the X-Tornado seemed to be harmlessly buzzing around, almost like it was looking for something. One thing that really caught his attention was that there was no Dark Oak or Shadow. The three remaining Metarex leaders were standing in line in front of thousands more of lesser robots.

Tails was about to fly over there, but he suddenly remembered something. He held up his hands and realized that his chaos emerald was gone.

With an aggravated sigh, he started to fly towards the battle, hoping that things were better than when he was knocked out.

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Many miles away, a tall figure was walking through the shadows of trees in a stalking manner. Its green eye slowly scanned through the area. A sudden bright flash caught its attention for just a second.

Dark Oak emerged from under the shadows. The ground where the flash had come from was ruffled and disrupted as if something prickly had rolled through. When it bent over to look closer, it plucked a small pinch of curvy, black and red quills from the ground.

Without a hesitation, it jumped into the air and flew off fast enough to bend the trees it flew past.

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Eggman watched the incident and was frantically trying to get a hold of Dark Egg over the radio, but all that responded was static. After a few minutes of nothing, the aggravated scientist slammed his fists down on his control panel.

"AH! What did that miserable hedgehog do to my robot!? Where did they go!?"

Filled to the brim with rage, he grabbed his microphone and started shouting to the ship opposite him.

"WHAT DID HE DO?"

"Um, we don't know. We're just as clueless as you" Rouge responded.

It was true; no one knew what Shadow had done. But Eggman didn't buy it. Loosing whatever rationality he had left, he slammed his fist down on a button on the control panel.

The entire starship started to rumble slightly. Eggman, now completely calm and a smile on his face, he slowly lifted his hand and spoke into his microphone.

"The beginning to a beautiful, beautiful end."

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Back on the Blue Typhoon, everyone was puzzled by Doctor Eggman's words.

"What is he talking about?" Amy asked, annoyed.

Rouge was looking around for any change and realized the large cannon on Eggman's ship had begun to glow intensely.

Her heart dropped into her stomach. "Oh no."

"Hm?" Amy looked up and saw Rouge staring blankly out the window. She followed her gaze and also saw.

"What is it, Amy?" Cream asked.

Suddenly, Sonic's voice blared through the bridge. "ROUGE! MOVE THE SHIP!"

Up in the sky, it was easy for Sonic to notice, so he quickly started firing on the cannon in hopes of stopping it. After one pass, Eggman boasted out loud that there was no way Sonic could stop it.

The large machine shuddered one last time before it launched a bright flash of energy.

Amy, Rouge, Cream, and Knuckles watched in horror as the beam made contact. A bright light filled the room, the entire ship shook violently, and then everything was engulfed in flames.

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"No…"

Tails had arrived back to the main battlefield but had only reached the side. He watched in complete and total disbelief as the beam of light tore through his ship like tissue paper, and his friends. Small explosions rippled through the ship as it slowly started to descend.

He fell to the ground, distraught. "I… was… so… close…"

The Blue Typhoon kept falling as fire and smoke poured out of it.

"Knuckles, Rouge, Amy, Cream…"

It started falling faster, getting closer to the ground with every second.

"I failed everyone."

The once proud vessel hit the ground with the terrible sound of twisting steel. The fires on it grew and more and more explosions continued to shred through it. Finally, the entire ship burst into flames as the engine exploded. Dust, fire, and other debris shot out into every direction.

Tails covered his eyes. When he looked up, the only thing left was the burning carcass of his beloved ship, with his friends still inside it.

Overcome with sadness, Tails fell to his side and curled into a ball, breaking his promise to never cry again.

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"EGGMAN YOU BASTARD!"

Sonic flew the X-Tornado right in front of the bridge of Eggman's ship and fired as many bullets as he could. The blue hedgehog also watched as Eggman slaughtered his friends, and wanted his revenge.

However, the bullets harmlessly bounced away and Eggman simply laughed.

"You stupid hedgehog. You have lost, and now I will end this fight and the world will belong to me!"

Inside the bridge, Eggman pressed a button and a swarm of missiles left the ship, chasing after Sonic.

Sonic quickly put the jet into full throttle and started flying around to avoid the missiles. Unfortunately, they were too fast and trailed him by just a few feet.

Getting desperate, he started looking around for something to help him. When he noticed the bag full of fake emeralds still in the back, he remembered an event that occurred five years ago in space. He landed in a Metarex base full of fake emeralds and turned into something dark. It gave the blue hedgehog an idea.

Grabbing the bag, he set it on his lap and unzipped it. He gripped an emerald and tried to remember how he obtained the power he had last time. Eggman warned him that he shouldn't but he had no choice.

He squeezed the emerald tighter. "I can't do it. Why isn't it working!?" Last time he was so blinded by rage that it just happened. Concentrating on all of the negative feelings in him, the emerald started to emit a dark glow.

But it was too late.

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Tails lifted his head when he heard his jet fly over him. The X-Tornado was being chased by a missile trailing close behind it. The yellow kitsune quickly turned his head away before it hit. All he heard was a small explosion and the sound of metal falling around him.

"No no no!"

He started sobbing uncontrollably. All of his friends were dead. Not just one of them now, all of them were.

"Why did this happen?" Tails could only whisper to himself. "Why did they have to die? Why couldn't I save them? Terrible things like this are not supposed to happen to good people like them. THEY DIDN'T DESERVE IT!"

Slowly standing to the ground, Tails faced the man who killed everything he cared about. His eyes were red and puffy, his cheeks were stained with tears, and his fur was ruffled and dirty. All of the scratches and small injuries on his body showed all of the wear he had been through. His eyes were so helpless and confused and his lower lip quivered dangerously. He looked utterly helpless and pathetic just like his was those five years ago.

How could something so evil exist? Something that would so easily take live away in their quest for power should not exist. It didn't make sense at all to Tails. He just could not grasp the idea of something like that.

"Oh, so there is the little furball!" Eggman call out into his microphone. "You are so pathetic, Tails. All of your friends are pathetic thinking that they could fight me. You and Shadow disappeared for five years and just because you came back and learned a few tricks you think you can simply overthrow my armies in one battle!? Well as you can tell by the sudden, um, absence of your friends, you were wrong!" Tails couldn't see it, but Eggman had a very wicked grin on his face.

"Why? WHY DID YOU DO IT!?" Tails was slowly making a transition from sadness to anger.

Eggman always struck him as someone who would lock someone up to keep them out of the way, but not kill them.

"It's very simple. You and all of your friends were in the way. You and that miserable blue rodent have kept me away from my goal for years. Now that one of those problems has been burned to a crisp, all that's left is you; a pathetic little fox who has no one to back him up."

Tails winced as if he had been punched in the face.

"You will pay."

All that filled his mind now were thoughts of revenge, desires for vengeance, and a very powerful sadistic urge to make Eggman pay for everyone who he has hurt. But along with all of those feelings came a feeling of power. He could feel many pulses of power around him. The power was cold and dark, but it felt so good.

A bunch of shining objects started to lift off of the ground. They were the fake emeralds that were in the back of the X-Tornado. There were a ton of them. Every single emerald that Tails had made they had brought, and were now fueling his rage.

They flew over to Tails and started to slowly rotate around him.

Something is inside me, something dark, cold, and fierce. It wants out. It wants revenge. I want revenge. It offers power. I want power. I crave power. I need power. Power feels good.

"Power… feels good."

Up in his ship, Eggman watched this strange phenomenon.

"What are you doing, fox boy?"

Tails' head shot up and glared at the ship with unnaturally colored eyes. His once ocean blue eyes had darkened to such an extent that they could be considered purple. The fur on his body started to slowly stand on end and darken also. The white fur on his chest and muzzle stayed white and also pointed upwards. His tails slowly rose off of the ground on their own and spiked out threateningly.

Eggman watched with a curious expression. He had seen this before. He remembered the destruction Sonic caused when this happened.

"Oh no you don't!" Eggman quickly smashed down a few more buttons and a small wave of missiles flew from the ship.

Tails just watched with scarlet eyes as the missiles plowed into him.

A large explosion engulfed the dark fox's body. Smoke and dust covered everything for a few seconds. Eggman quickly tried to see through the thick cloud of debris, but it was too thick.

Suddenly, the wind picked up a little bit and small purple sparks crackled around the cloud. The ground started to tremble and beams of dark light pierced through the cloud.

"WOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!"

The dust and debris were blown away and the surrounding ground shook to the point of cracking. Even Eggman's ship rumbled in the air and his armies felt the ground vibrate underneath their metallic feet. Strong gusts of wind cleared everything away and revealed that Tails was still standing.

If only the cold and heartless will triumph, then I will be coldest and the most heartless.

The dark kitsune's fur was now all completely back except for the tips of his tails, his muzzle, and his chest. His pupils had disappeared and his ears and spiked out to a maniacal degree. Black fire surrounded his body in a blazing torrent and sparks of purple lightning crackled 

around him. All injuries that he had endured today vanished, even the one on his head. Only a little blood remained on his chin and he slowly wiped it off with a fisted glove.

Eggman looked down at what Tails had become. Chills ran up his spine and sweat trickled down his face. For the first time today, he wasn't sure he could win this battle. After all, his main weapon had disappeared with Shadow.

Just as that thought crossed his mind, a sudden beeping caught his attention. The round doctor looked down at his radar and breathed a sigh of relief. As he looked out the window of the bridge, he saw Dark Egg levitating with its sword ready.

"Ah, good. I was worried for a moment."

"You should still be worried, doctor" Tails replied, every trace of his former, innocent self gone.

The human just plopped back down in his chair and raised a brow. "Oh, really? Kill him, Dark Egg."

Tails started to float up into the air, not having to use his tails to fly anymore. He grinned a wicked grin with unnaturally long fangs exposed.

All innocence that Tails had managed to hold on to through his hard life was replaced with anger and sadism. The thought of taking that sword from Dark Oak and driving it through Eggman's chest brought a twisted sense of joy to his heart. The negativity from the fake emeralds had multiplied all of his negative feelings to the extreme, creating what he is now.

"I swear on the graves of my friends that you will not walk away from this fight, Eggman!"

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Hey, if you want to see what Dark Super Tails looks like go to my bio and click on the link to my DeviantArt and it's my featured deviation. However, if you happen to read this a few weeks after I posted this chapter, it may be moved and if you still want to see it, you may have to look in my gallery.

Also, this story is going to end in a few chapters, and I'm not sure what to do next. I have a poll in my bio with a few options. I'd like to see what other people would like me to do.

See ya!