Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-27049835-20171111001154/@comment-26120744-20171111015516

But the flashback was more than that.

It was Knothole village. Midnight. Buildings were burning, people were dead. Eggman, in his Death Egg Robot, led an entire legion of his machines against the Resistance. Almost everyone you can think of was there, barring Knuckles, Shadow, and anyone not directly aligned with Sonic's main group.

Tails was in his workshop, hastily repairing a gun.

"No, no, this can't be happening!" He said to himself. "Why did it have to come to this!?"

He looked out the window and saw Sonic. Fighting like the hero he was. In that moment, the sonic who watched the flashback would feel the same admiration Tails had- note: HAD - for him.

Then Eggman unleashed some kind of gas-weapon on Sonic. A fear toxin.

"Sonic?" Tails shouted from his workshop when Sonic stalled in the fighting. "Sonic! Snap out of it!"

But Sonic didn't. Whatever he saw, he ran from. Ran, and never came back.

"SONIC, WHERE ARE YOU GOING!?" Tails yelled, suddenly panicking.

He looked around at his rapidly dying home, and looked down at his hands.

"It.... it's up to me? No... no, I can't do this, I-"

Cue a mutilated corpse flying through the window and slamming into the wall. Amy.

Tails screamed and jumped back.

"No..." He whispered. He started hyperventilating from rage, and then charged outside, screaming bloody murder.

Just do what Sonic does, right? Jump up, spin into a ball, and-

And he was swatted aside by Eggman's robot. Flying into a tree. Into a branch. Which stabbed his left eye out before he fell off of it into a building.

Eggman then engulfed said building, and said fox, with a napalm cannon. Tails screamed and screamed and screamed.

When Miles Prower finally awoke from the agony-induced unconsciousness, he'd find his face utterly ruined, and his home utterly gone. Corpses everywhree.

"No...." he whispered. Then he screamed. "No! NO! NO, NO, NO!"

Over and over again, "No," while he slammed his ruined fist into the dirt and sobbed.

Eggman loomed over him.

"So here you are, the last of your kind?" Eggman asked. "You always were the equivalent of the special kid the heroes take photo opps with. You're pathetic! Far too worthless for me to even waste my time finishing off! Don't show your weakling face in my Empire ever again!"

And with a triumphant, maniacal cackle, Robotnik was gone.

Tails just sobbed hopelessly for ten straight minutes. Then he stopped.

"No..." he muttered through charred lungs. "It can't end like this. Me? Alone?"

He slowly wobbled to his feet. "Robotnik.... damn him! Damn him to hell! He takes away everything I ever cared about, and then has the nerve to mock me!? He's calling me weak!? I-I know I am, but-"

Wait. Was he weak? Sonic was the strongest person Tails had known. Sonic ran.

Tails didn't.

"No." He snarled, defiantly, speaking through his sobs. "I am not weak. I-..... I'm not! I'm not weak! I! AM! NOT! WEAK!"

And tails screamed wordlessly into the heavens.

The flashback would cut to Tails picking up a mask off of a desk in his workshop. Infinite's mask.

"That day, I gave up my old, unsightly face." Infinite's voice narrated. "I let go of the old me. The one that was so weak. The one that had always been nothing more than your slave, your hirling, so that I could become stronger. And then, at last..."

It cut to two years later, where Tail's fur grew back - black and white - and he found the Phantom Ruby.

"I obtained the power." Infinite said. "The power to finally show the world what kind of 'Hero' Sonic the Hedgehog really is. I...was....REBORN!"