Author's note: Though the prequel to this story started as a bit of a parody, Emel [Emerl] saga rewritten was fun to write so I thought I'd do a sequel and the metarex arc was perfect for it.

The following story uses the English characters and names from the metarex arc of Sonic X, but the Japanese continuity [character death isn't censored].

Chapter 1:

It had been 3 days since the sonic power cannon had destroyed the metarex and restored countless planet eggs. After the battle, the Blue Typhoon and the Egg Crimson had begun the long trek back to mobius. It had been a narrow victory, but despite that not all was at peace. Tails had spent most of the first day of the voyage in his room so Chris assumed the role of captain and took charge of the repairs. After the second day of Tails being secluded, the rest of the crew became worried and tried to talk Tails into coming out and speaking to them. He dismantled the communication speakers in his room and rewired the door shut. Amy wanted to smash her way in but Sonic talked her out of it. Mid way through the third day, Tails was so drained from his grief that he fell asleep. It didn't last long, he was quickly woken up by a terrible nightmare. As he got out of bed, Tails replayed the tragic events in his mind once again.

Author's note: The following scene is my attempt at writing an English characters version of an excerpt from Sonic X episode 77 Japanese version. The English scene was heavily edited. You can find the Japanese scene with subtitles if you Google "Sonic X 77 Japanese". I hope I did a good job on it.

Tails was sitting in the captain's chair on the backup bridge of the Blue Typhoon. The metarex tree had just grown glowing blossoms. Suddenly everyone heard Cosmo's voice "Please, fire the cannon and finish this." Chris spoke next "She's linked with Dark Oak". Vector added "That will kill her too". Everyone heard Eggman's voice on the communication line. "There is no other way. If we try to separate them the planet egg with explode. Cosmo knew this was her fate." Charmy started to cry and said "It can't be! It just can't!" Knuckles spoke angrily " This isn't right! There must be another way! A way we can save Cosmo and stop Dark Oak! Chris, can't you think of something?!" he turned to Chris as he said the last part. "I'm sorry" Chris said. Knuckles continued speaking angrly. "We can't let it end like this! There must be something! Tails, she's going to die!" Rouge suddenly spoke up, "It can't be helped. We're as upset as you are hon but there's nothing we can do." Her voice had a more serious and less seductive tone then ususal. Tails spoke slowly, like he was in shock. "Please, can everyone go somewhere else? I didn't want to ask this but I have to insist" A single tear hit the floor. After everyone had left, Tails began preparations to fire the Sonic Power cannon. Soon the cannon was at full power. "Eggman's voice sounded on the communications system. "Tails, everything's ready." Tails could hear the Sonic power cannon coming out of the Blue Typhoon's hull. Eggman spoke again, "Routing all remaining power to the cannon." Tails noticed the power suddenly spiked and figured Shadow must be helping. Eggman's voice sounded once again, "Ready, FIRE!" "Sonic power cannon, fire!" Tails said as he flipped the cap off of the fire button and tried to press it, but he couldn't get his thumb to move. His expression changed from serious to distraught, then he screamed and banged his head on the controls. The tears Tails had held back came openly now, "I can't do it. I can't hurt you Cosmo... you promised me that when this was all over you'd live with us!" He banged his fist on the controls. Eggman's voice sounded again, "Tails, do you want her sacrifice to be in vain?" Tails replied, "I can't do it. I can't shoot her" and shook his head. Eggman spoke again. "You must know how she feels about this." Tails looked at the view of the metarex tree and said "Of course I do.", his voice was very strained. An image of Cosmo appeared in front of the tree and spoke "Please forgive me Tails, for all of the trouble I've caused". Tails still couldn't shoot her. He spoke again, "You never caused me trouble! I was always happy to be with you!" Cosmo continued "Tails, shoot the cannon... please." Tails listened for a second and then replied "I CAN'T... because... because I LOVE YOU!"As much as it pained him to do so, Tails ended up honoring Cosmo's request. As the power cannon's blast shoot towards the metarex tree he screamed "COSMO!" After the explosion Tails had waited on the ship's hull for Sonic to return. Shadow had used chaos control to give both ships time to escape. Eggman was worried that he was dead too. Sonic floated back and Tails looked at him. Sonic simply shook his head.

I altered the last bit of that scene slightly since originally Sonic returns with a single seed in both language's versions

Tails hadn't consciously realized it yet, but he was taking his loss so hard because of what had happened at the battle tournament back on Earth. When he'd defeated Emel, he thought that anything was possible if he put his mind to it. However he'd tried his hardest for Cosmo, and failed. A fresh wave of tears came. Tails didn't know if he'd ever stop crying. One tear fell on the pendent he'd received from the Silver One. It glowed brightly, and Tails found himself in the sea of stars once again.