Tails stared at his only remaining piece of Cosmo, his precious flower, "Why did you have to go!?" he screamed as loud as he could, although he was unaware that his cry of sadness had awakened an ancient evil, because deep underground there was a room, it's walls were cracked from trillions of years of holding back the dirt outside, in the center of the room was a figure that at first appeared human, his arms and legs were bound by chains of an unbreakable magic and only one thing could free this 'man', if someone was despairing ove a loved one for a long enough time the figure would awaken and offer them the chance of a lifetime, the time to wait was ten years, although Tails had only been crying for ten days his screams were loud enough for the figure to hear, and the figure had had enough, "That's it! I will do wahtever it takes to stop that kid from crying!" the figure screamed so loudly that pieces of rubble fell off the walls.

The figure yanked at his chains and they snapped under his immense strength, the figure stepped into a small patch of light that led to the outside world, his features were clear and they would make even Shadow run in fear, the man had short brown hair, was more than twice Tails' height, wore pitch black battle armor that had been scarred, scratched, and dented over the years, but never pierced, with a barely lighter extremely tattered and massive cape on his back, his skin was white and his hands were silver metallic claws that could slice through even Dark Oak's armor like it was paper, his eyes were hazle and he had a red scar over his right eye with a black eyepatch covering that eye, there was a blood red gem in the chestplate of his armor, no-one had survived an attack from this man before and his reputation was feared by everyone, even the master of the metarex.

The figure walked over to the nearest wall and smahed it open with his fist as the hole that let in light was too small for him to fit through, the walls broke away and the ground above tumbled down and landed at the man's feet, he walked out and into the moonlight, and at that time however not more than five feet away, Eggman and Sonic had been battling a fierce battle, but when they saw the figure they froze in fear, "I-It can't be!" Eggman screamed in terror, "N-No, this c-can't be happening!" Sonic too screamed in fear, the man let out awicked laugh that could paralyze even Dark Oak himself.

Both of them ran away as fast as they could, Eggman left so fast he left the massive robot Sonic had been fighting, the robot was powerful enough to defeat both Super Sonic and Super Shadow, which is why Sonic was being destroyed so easily, "Ha! What a pathetic machine!" the man said before he extended his left hand, dark purple lightining shot out and completely destroyed the robot in less than a second after it hit, "Now to do what I came out to do in the first place." he said before turning around to see Tails' house, he began to walk towards it, as he was halfway there he sensed someone behind him, in less than one-fourth of a second he whipped around and sent the person into the ground, the person struggled greatly to get up, when they finally did it was revealed to be Knuckles, he couldn't follow the figure however because he was being bound by the same type of chains the figure had been bound by.

Tails however heard Knuckles scream the words "Tails get out of there, he's coming!" Tails didn't know who Knuckles meant, but he heard his front door blasted off it's hinges and he saw it fly by in the hallway, there was a massive hole in the center of it and seconds later he door disintegrated, "Oh my god." Tails said while clutching the flower close to him and he backed into the shadows behind him, he saw the figures shadow on the floor, "Who is that?" Tails said, but seconds later the man entered the room and Tails was immediatly struck with immense fear, everyone in the galaxy knew the figure in front of him, and Tails knew no-one could survive his attacks.

Tails was trapped in a corner and the only escape was the window next to the man, or the door behind him, either way the man would strike him down as soon as he emerged from the shadows, "Come out Miles." the man said in a creepy voice that paralyzed him, and Tails didn't move an inch, "No? Then i'll find you." he said before the darkness Tails was hiding in began to dissapear, Tails knew he had no choice, "I'm right here." he said while steeping out, the figure smiled wickedly.

"W-What do you want Mark?" Tails asked while clutching the flower even closer to his heart, Mark simply said, "I need you to stop crying in sadness, so even though it hasn't been ten years i'll offer you the same chance." Tails didn't know what Mark meant, his answer was given as the words, "Time travel." Tails remembered what Mark did for those who cried over a single loved one for long enough, "A-At what cost?" Tails asked, he knew Mark never did anything without a price being paid, Mark simply pointed one of his metallic fingers at Tails' flower, "Two things, your flower being one of them, the other is that if you fail what this opportunnity is for, then your soul is MINE forever." he said, Tails stared in horror at the blood red gem in Mark's chest, countless people had failed and their souls absorbed inside,"Fine, but know that I will not fail, h-here's the flower, take care of it." Tails said while handing him the flower, he placed the flower into his cape and it disapeared without a trace, "Now at what point in time would you like to return to?" Mark said while his hand glowed with a drak energy, "When Shadow tried to kill Cosmo, I think that should give me enough time to prepare for the final battle."

Mark nodded and opened a large swirling vortex of dark energy, "Do not fail." he said, Tails turned around to ask what he meant but the last thing he saw was Mark shoving him through the vortex, he screamed in pure terror as the world went black for him, but on the outside back at his house Mark was looking at the flower, "You have no idea what you just gave me, but I may as well follow you to make sure you follow my 'rules'." he said while stepping through the vortex as well, no-one knew what Mark really had planned, this was the last time he did this before activating his master plan after being locked away for such a long time.