Lost Memories: Complications

Sonic wanted to run up a hill, but stopped right in front of it. He looked back in the distance, took a deep breath and accelerated to get up. Then you would heard a loud bang, as a sign that he was in fact going faster than sound. He stopped when he was on top of it, and stared at the distance. The glorious view was absolutely stunning. There were waterfalls, a lot of animals, checkerboard shaped hills. There were even naturally formed loopings, it was amazing to see what nature can do. This calmed Sonic down a bit. Whatever happened at Tails' workshop was crazy, for the moment he was there, he didn't even know who he was. Not Sonic the Hedgehog, that's for sure.

He sat down by a tree and stared at nothing. Nothing happened when the time passed by, at least, from what you could see. Sonic's mind was racing, everything he had ever experienced was heading right back. But that was too much to be like thinking about good memories. Even things he had completely forgotten about were there. And even this time, so far away from the device, he shot that cold glare when staring. He felt like a machine. Nothing felt right, except going trough the memories. That's exactly what he did, thinking of the old memories. Even though he didn't know what to expect, he knew that the memories didn't line up. The first one wasn't the one where he broke the speed of sound for the first time or seeing his parents for the first time. In fact, it was when he met Knuckles. And it was kept like that, they didn't came in order. He knew what came first, even though all the mess that was in his brain.

Almost an hour went by with recollecting the memories. But just then, he thought about things he had never thought about before, like how he learned to talk and from who. It was a question a lot of humans asked them and he never knew the answer, but it was right there in front of him. After that one, he got a memory he never wanted to think about again; how he lost his parents. It happened almost ten years ago when he just turned five years old. He had tried his hardest to forget that one, he finally did two years ago, but all because of this, everything was back. He collapsed on the ground, and cried. He did that for hours and hours on.


Meanwhile

Tails was in his workshop sitting next to the table with the device. When he just wanted to think of a name for it when he heard someone trying to open the door. He jumped up and flied to the front door.

"Sonic!" he and the person screamed when he opened the door.  Apearantally, the other person was looking for him too. Tails recognised the voice of the figure, when he opened the door further, he saw a pink hedgehog looking for Sonic too.

"Hey Tails, have you seen Sonic?" she asked.
Tails got nervous of the question. He started to look away from her.
"Oh, hi, Amy." he eventually brought out. "What's the matter?"
He started to sweat a bit, afraid that she would get mad if she would hear what happened to Sonic. Amy looked at him, not knowing why he acted like that.
"Can I come in Tails?" she asked him.
Tails looked at her quickly and told her to come in with a nervous voice. Amy still didn't know what to do, why was. Tails acting this weird. They sat down on the couch in the lab. They sat next to each other but didn't say anything. Some time passed and Amy asked something.

"What is wrong Tails, why are you this quiet?"
Tails looked at her and finally started to speak.
"Well, Sonic was acting strange, of seeing my latest invention. The one you see there on the working table." Tails pointed at the device. Amy asked why he was so nervous about that, and he told what happened.
"What! Why, are you sure it was because of that?"
"I'm pretty sure it was, he acted really strange around it and suddenly fainted!" Tails wanted to cry, why had it to be like that. It was made for a good cause. It staid quiet after he started to cry.


With Sonic

Tails didn't know the half of what happened afterwards with Sonic, he was still there. Even though he stopped crying, he couldn't stop thinking of every single piece of memory he had. Why was it there, if it was because of the machine, then how! He didn't even touch it. His head started to ache too. He groaned and got up. He wanted to get to Tails again, when something else got his attention. It was a flicky, not just any normal one. But the one he had saved first of them all. He only could've known something like that because of the accident. That was luckily one of his great memories, since it felt like he didn't got one for years after the loss of his parents, but that wasn't true. And the flicky proved it. He smiled and kneeled down to get a closer look. It was royal blue, just like him. They 'smiled' at each other for a while. Sonic said "So long." to him and he sped off to Tails' workshop.

The awkward silence was broken and Tails and Amy were chatting with each other. It only took Sonic a few minutes to get there and he stormed inside. Though, this time more careful, which was a bit strange for him to be that cautious. But he made that up by jumping on the couch directly afterwards. The other two jumped up from surprise. Tails wanted to say something about it but thought it might be better not to. Sonic was waiting on his reaction, but it just didn't came. Tails ran to the table to put the device away. Tails and Amy had talked about some good names, but they just didn't fit. Sonic saw that and asked if he had thought of a name. He sighed and responded with a no.

"What is it actually supposed to do anyway?" Sonic asked.
"It could help on missions, but I'm not sure if we can still use it after what happened." he said shyly. They talked further about the machine, that it would be should be able to distract Eggman without putting someone in danger.
"I'm sorry that that happened Sonic." Tails put out a sigh, and looked down.
"Oh, come on Tails, I don't even think it was because of that." Sonic said, and he walked to it in hope to prove it, even though he feared it was the cause. He got near it, a shot of pain came in his head. He jumped back and the pain was gone. Sonic looked down at himself, shocked. Maybe it was because of that. Meanwhile Amy had sat down on the couch again, and Sonic sat down beside her too. Sonic held his head with his left hand, and groaned. Looking sad, not because of the device. But he knew it would break Tails' heart, he always worked so hard on his inventions, he always tried to help people with it. Seeing it, not only not being able to help, but causing his best friend so much pain. Must've shattered his heart.