Hello everyone welcome to another chapter! This chapter...it's a chapter I've been excited and scared to write, you'll find out why. BTW THANK YOU ALL FOR THE 100 REVIEWS! IT MEANS SO MUCH THAT YOU GUYS ARE STICKING WITH THE STORY! Let's get the reviews done and then I gotta talk a bit more about this chapter.

Aura: Don't worry you two are fine! Gold didn't mess you up that much. Well, he kinda did to Glimpse...anyway, YAY SOUP!

Glimpse: Yeah, that was some bad conditions. To be honest, Glimpse could have probably wiped the floor with Gold if he wanted to, but he didn't. BTW, how's the inside?

Alex: DEATH BATTLE REFERENCE! I was very happy they did that well, I thought they were gonna make Tails a joke and have Luigi beat him.

BADA55: Badass Tails, I approve of. Oooooo, I can use that idea later down the line...

Mario21275: BADASS TAILS FOR THE WIN!

Tail: AGAIN, BADASS TAILS FOR THE WIN! I'll use that attack later down the line. Oh if you didn't expect a badass Tails, wait until you read this chapter...

WinterBlaze313: DON'T APOLOGIZE! BADASS TAILS IS AWESOME! Wow, I'm saying badass Tails a lot, aren't I?

Newplayer100: It is original! Gold hasn't been jealous of Glimpse in any other stories except this one! Badass Tails should not be new XD

Capt: I'll have to read that fight scene again to see what you mean.

Flutterlikeanangel: I don't know what comedy pun that you mean...

Meteor: It's okay! Just catch up!

Dante: I agree entirely.

Werewolf: I think Tails should be badass ALL THE TIME!

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Okay, everyone hear me out. Do not hate me for what is going to happen this chapter. Don't do it. I plan on reversing it later on. The chapter is named the same as the title for a reason. This is going to be a dramatic, emotional and dark chapter so prepare yourselves.

Disclaimer: I do not own anything except Gold, the Eon, the plot, etc. All OCs belong to their respectful owners.

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Gold the Fox presents...

Eon Chronicles

Darkened Dawn

Chapter 13: Darkened Dawn

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Whiteness. White everything, no structures or furniture or anything, just an infinite white room. One thing that wasn't white however, was a blue fox laying in the middle of the white room. His eyes were closed. His eyes suddenly opened, revealing the ocean blue eyes he had. He stood up and started to look around the room, pacing back and forth.

"Hello?" he called out.

"Hello, Twilight, you are dead." a voice said in the air.

"Um..." was all he managed to say.

"Oh wait, wrong script! Wrong season! Hold up!" the voice said and the fox heard a clearing of the throat.

"So, where am I?" the fox asked.

"You are in no where, Gold." a different voice answered.

"Hey, is that?" Gold said.

"Yes, Gold, it is me." the voice answered.

"Well, that was a very descriptive answer you gave me, Ionia." Gold said sarcastically.

"Cut the sarcasm, or I'll send you to the Sun." the other voice said.

"No. Way. Celestia?" Gold said, shocked.

"Yes Gold. Me and Princess Celestia have been in contact since this whole incident started." the voice known to Gold as Ionia said.

"Yes, she has kept me posted on what has been happening. And recently, I'm displeased. I'm not happy with your behavior." the voice that was Celestia's answered.

"It wasn't my fault, it was.." Gold said starting to turn on his heel, only to be met with Princess Celestia standing there, looking a bit angry, making Gold jump back.

"I mean, I'm VERY displeased. You almost hit Twilight." Princess Celestia said, stepping forward.

"I didn't mean to, I just..." Gold said, stepping back.

"I thought you were supposed to be protecting them, not trying to hurt them deliberately." Celestia said angrily.

"It wasn't deliberate! It was..."

"How could I be foolish to trust you!"

"Celestia!" the other voice said.

Ionia appeared behind Gold. She wasn't in her "godly" form like she would be in the Ion, however. She kind of looked like a female version of Gold, with the same fur color and eyes, but only one tail, which was entirely blue, with no white tip.

"Celestia, we talked before this, it wasn't his fault. Mephiles basically made him." Ionia said, walking over the Gold a bit.

"Still, he could have-"

Ionia interrupted her, "Let's stay to the topic of why Gold is here."

Celestia sighed and answered, "Fine."

"So, yeah, why am I here? Am I dead?" Gold asked, between the two.

"You are here so we can warn you." Ionia said.

"Warn me of?" Gold asked.

"That's it, we are here to warn you." Celestia said.

"Not much of a warning if I don't know what is going on." Gold said.

"Besides warning you, we are here to say...sorry." Celestia said.

"Sorry?"

"Yes Gold, we are sorry for what is going to happen." Ionia said.

"Can't you stop whatever it is?" Gold asked.

"Unfortunately, we cannot." Celestia said.

"Yes you can! You both are practically goddesses!" Gold said.

"We are sorry..." Celestia said.

"SORRY FOR WHAT!"

"I'm sorry, Gold, it's your fate." Ionia said, and Gold started to fade out of the white world.

"IONIA, TELL ME WHAT YOU ARE SORRY FOR!" Gold yelled.

"I cannot." Ionia said, with actual tears in her eyes.

"PLEASE TELL ME!" Gold said, almost completely gone from the world, and his vision turned to black.

"We are sorry..."

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"Ungh, my head..." Gold said as he awakened on the couch in Tails's living room. "What happened..."

Gold sat up a bit and cringed at some pain in his head. He looked around, the room was semi-dark, with one lamp on in the corner. He looked out the window to see it was actually raining, winter was nearing its end and the rain showed this. Some snow was still in small piles and banks on Tails's lawn but was being turned into that kind of hardened snow when rain would meet with snow. Gold looked in other places of the room, and near the corner where the lamp was, was a sleeping Twilight. He smiled at how cute she was sleeping and put his gaze to the opposite couch and saw a awake but drowsy Glimpse. He was laying on his back, staring at the ceiling. Gold noticed he had some bandages and wrappings on him, but Gold had no faint idea what happened to him.

"Glimpse?" Gold said, a little groggily.

Glimpse turned his head from the ceiling to Gold and back on the ceiling again. Glimpse moved his foot a little, which touched one of Twilight's legs.

"Twi, wake up he's awake." Glimpse said, and quickly snapped his head toward Gold afterward. "Mind if I call her that, or are you going to kill me for it?"

"Why would I kill you for calling her a nickname?" Gold said, tilting his head.

Before the conversation could continue, Twilight let out a yawn, which was kinda cute from Gold's perspective and opened her dark purple eyes at the two laying there. But she noticed Gold at first and actually shrunk back a little.

"Well, good morning to you." Gold said, it not even morning.

It took a moment for Twilight to answer, "Are...are you okay?" she asked.

"I just got a headache of sorts, what happened to Glimpse here?" Gold asked, pointing to Glimpse.

"Like you don't know! You were the one to cause it!" Glimpse got up a little but laid back down in pain.

"Twilight, what is he talking about?" Gold asked.

Just then, Tails walked into the living room, looking like he was about to go to bed, but also had some wrappings on his hand.

"Yo Tails, how's the plane?" Gold asked, knowing absolutely nothing that went down.

Tails just glared at him, fixing a wrapping on his hand.

Gold lazily pointed to Tails's hand, "What happened there? Accident while working on the plane?"

"My Celestia, he actually doesn't remember..." Twilight spoke up.

"Remember what?" Gold said, looking at everyone frantically.

"Do we need to tell him the whole story?" Glimpse said.

"No, we just gotta jog his memory into remembering it. A simple action that happened from the memory can trigger it. For example, this." Tails said, walking into the middle of the living room.

Tails brought up his good hand and formed a fist and punched Gold, right across the face. Gold put his hands up to his face in pain after that.

"What the hell was that for Tails!" Gold yelled but suddenly went quiet.

The memories of what happened at the diner flashed quickly through his head, and you could see the memory being replayed in his eyes, like they were a slot machine. The whole incident flew through his mind, Gold getting a face of shock at it. Suddenly, the memory stopped and Gold's eyes went back to normal.

"There, easy." Tails said, sitting down in the other chair that was available.

Gold took a moment to take it all in, in a state of shock. He first turned his attention to Glimpse.

"Yeah, now you know what happened to me." Glimpse said.

Gold just looked at him for a moment and quickly looked away, "I'm so sorry."

"Yeah, yeah."

"For everything, the jealousy, hurting you like this, I'm...I'm sorry." Gold apologized, not even wanting to look at his way.

"Look, about the injuries, it's fine. I've been through worse. But the jealousy, I'm not trying to get with Twilight. She's nice and friendly and sweet, yes, but respect you two. You two clearly love each other, and I'm not trying to impede on it." Glimpse said, which made Gold and Twilight blush.

Gold nodded in recognition and turned his attention to Twilight. He realized from his memory that he almost had hit her with that initial Eon Blast, actually bringing tears into his eyes.

"I'm so sorry, Twi...I almost hit you..." Gold said, looking down.

"Gold it's okay, you weren't yourself..." Twilight said.

"No, it's not okay! I don't deserve you when all I'm going to do is hurt you!" Gold said, tears actually falling from his face.

Gold could then feel Twilight hugging him tightly as he cried.

"Gold, don't say that! It wasn't your fault! I love you and don't you forget it!" she said comforting him.

Gold and Twilight just hugged for a minute, with Tails and Glimpse feeling a bit awkward, until they stopped hugging and looked at each other.

"Now I want no more apologies from you to me, got that?" Twilight said and Gold silently nodded.

Gold wiped his face off and looked at Tails, and he laughed.

"How'd it feel, punching me right in the face?" Gold asked jokingly.

"I'll tell you, sometimes you piss me off, and I just feel like socking you in the face, and I did this time." Tails said jokingly, which made Gold laugh again.

"Oh really now? I'm surprised you knocked me out in two punches." Gold said.

"Well you know, you were distracted and I have been getting stronger." Tails said.

"Sure have." Gold said. "What about everyone else?"

"Well, afterward, everyone arrived at the scene, we explained what happened, some were mad, some were surprised but we didn't think that this was you." Tails said.

"Well, how did you find out that I wasn't being myself?" Gold said.

"I brought you to my lab and did a Eon check."

"Eon...check?" Gold said with a tilted head.

"Yeah, one day when you were sleeping over here, I did some tests on you and found out a way to track Eon." Tails explained.

"Wait, you experimented on me when I was sleeping?" Gold said.

"Yes, pay attention. Continuing, I did the check and saw that your Dark Eon levels were way too high and I assumed that this was actually normal because how jealous you were. However, upon some research, I discovered that it was impossible for an Eon Warrior to have Dark Eon levels so high without being tampered with. So, I learned that someone," Tails put emphasis on someone. "Had made your Dark Eon levels rise."

"I can take a stab at who did..." Glimpse chimed in.

"Yes, anyways, I told everyone that you weren't yourself when it happened and they mostly calmed down. Although, the ponies are a bit pissed off that you still opened fired when Twilight was right there." Tails said.

"I can talk to them tomorrow about it." Twilight said.

"Good, anyway, that's what happened." Tails finished.

"Well, where are they now?" Gold asked.

"Sleeping probably. You actually woke me up, it's already ten at night." Tails said, letting out a yawn.

"Oh, sorry."

"It's alright, wanted to check up anyway. Problem is, now I won't go back to sleep." Tails said with a sigh.

"Well, I don't know about you, but I want to go back to bed. My head is killing me, and I think we all need a good night's sleep after today." Gold said, laying back down.

"Alright, I'll find something to do while you guys go to sleep. Night guys." Tails said, walking into another room.

"Night Tails!" all three of them said.

Gold laid down on the couch and closed his eyes and started to doze off but was reawaken by Twilight.

"Move over, please." she said to him.

Gold blushed and moved over on the couch, allowing Twilight to sleep with him, cuddling a bit. Glimpse on the other couch rolled his eyes and turned the other way.

"Oh brother..." Glimpse said.

As Gold neared complete sleep and relaxation a voice echoed in his head.

"We are sorry..."

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It was close to dawn, but not quite. Sunlight was peeking over the horizon, sunlight going through some icicles that were left over from winter, as they dripped water from melting and the rain from last night. Grass that was now visible due to the receding winter was glistening with dew and the rain from the previous night, light reflecting of it and making the grass sparkle a dim glow. The horizon was right across from Tails's garage, opening the garage would make whoever inside blinded by the immediate Sun. It was quite beautiful actually if you were able to get a peek from inside without being blinded. It was close to, but not exactly dawn. Inside the, small from outside, big from inside, that was Tails's house, a group of three was sleeping peacefully in the living room from a long day the other day. The fox that was in there stirred and moved slightly, also making the unicorn that was next to him stir. Eventually, the fox opened his eyes to the morning and nudged the unicorn that was next to him.

"Twilight, rise and shine." Gold said quietly and sweetly.

The unicorn moved a bit without opening her eyes, and yawned while stretching. She turned around to face the fox and opened her dark lavender eyes.

"Those eyes get me every time." Gold said to her, making her giggle.

"Oh, please." a voice from the other couch said.

Gold looked over Twilight's face to see that Glimpse had awoken as well.

"Now, who is getting jealous." Gold joked.

"Not me." Glimpse said, sitting up.

"Riiiiiiiight." Gold said as Twilight got up from the couch and stretched a bit before walking to the kitchen.

"Do you drink coffee, Glimpse?" Twilight asked.

"I do, but no thank you." Glimpse denied the offer.

"Gold, would you like to make you some?" Twilight asked.

"It would be an honor to have Twilight Sparkle make me coffee." Gold said, making her giggle.

"You really know how to talk sweetly, don't you." Glimpse joked.

"I do try." Gold said with a smirk, getting up.

Twilight had already finished the coffee and slid it toward Gold as he walked into the kitchen. Gold stopped it on the counter while staring at the open door and took a sip, still looking at the door.

"Huh, Tails must have went to work on the plane and forgot to close the door." Gold said, taking another sip.

"He would really work on it that late?" Twilight asked.

"He's a dedicated worker, I'll tell you that." Glimpse said from the living room.

"Sure is." Gold said stepping in the garage.

Gold looked around and saw the back half of the plane still needed some work, but the front looked gorgeous, with propeller and engine all set in place, and the outside ready to be decorated.

"Tails definitely worked on it last night." Gold said, and took another sip.

Gold then noticed a coloration of yellow on the opposite side of the plane.

"Oh, jeez, he worked so hard he fell asleep in here." Gold called out to the two in the house.

"Did he really?" Glimpse said, taking a peek into the garage, and saw a slight glimpse of yellow.

"Yep, he sure did. YO TAILS! WAKE UP!" Gold yelled into the garage.

To Gold, it appeared that he stayed asleep.

"He always was a heavy sleeper." Gold said aside to Glimpse. "TAILS, YOU DAMN FOX, WAKE UP! THE PLANE IS ON FIRE!"

Again, he appeared to stay asleep.

"Sometimes he overworks himself, then you gotta literally shake him awake." Gold said to Glimpse and walked in further.

Gold started walking to the back of the plane when he noticed another weird thing.

"Tails, must have gone for a late night fly, the garage door is opened slightly." Gold said to Glimpse, who was also entering the garage.

"That's a little strange..." Glimpse said.

"Well, he always was a little strange like that." Gold said behind him.

Light was seeping from the semi-open garage, making some light hit Tails as he was lying there. Gold and Glimpse reached the back of the plane and looked on the other side. A glint, a reflection, a glimmer. Light was reflecting over something. Liquid. In slow motion, Gold let go of his coffee cup and it fell to the concrete ground. The ceramic cup hit the ground and shattered into pieces, like glass would, the coffee inside almost exploding from suddenly hitting a solid object, the brown liquid going everywhere in the vicinity. Imagine everything in slow motion. Gold ran toward Tails, and slid on his knees on his way. Yes, it's exactly what you are thinking, Tails was hurt. Bad. Not some accident from tinkering with the plane, not a cut from some metal, not a burn from working with metal, it was bad. A purple skinny and long crystal was in Tails's stomach, blood surrounding it, matted in his fur. (A/N don't cry cause it's bloody, I warned you in the summary! If you can't handle, then don't look.) Glimpse looked from a small distance and quickly turned around to the door and shouted for Twilight to call an ambulance. Gold meanwhile was with Tails. He was continually doing quick bursts of Eon energy into Tails, trying to wake him up or at least heal him a bit. Tears were welling up in his eyes as he looked at the bloody mess that was in front of him. He yelled shouts of anger and frustration when nothing was working. Tears had fallen down his eyes, just looking at his best friend stabbed by a crystal made him break down and actually felt a bit sick of the sight. Nonetheless, he still was doing quick bursts of Eon energy to try to heal the poor fox.

"Gold...stop..."

Gold looked up at the fallen fox's face and saw Tails's blue eyes were opened.

"Tails! Stay awake Tails!"

"Stop...trying to heal me...it's no use..."

"TAILS, I AM NOT LETTING YOU DIE ON ME!"

"It's made of...Dark Eon...you can't heal it..."

Gold looked at the crystal that was in Tails. It was indeed made of the darkness.

"See...you can't...heal...me..."

"Tails, yes I can! Stay awake!"

"It's over Gold...I'm finished..." Tails said, and coughed a bit, with some blood.

"YOU AREN'T GOING ANYWHERE!"

"Gold...just stop...please...for me..."

Gold looked at the fox and put his hands down hesitantly.

"Look...I know you know who did this..."

Gold nodded, tears steaming down his face.

"Good...do me a favor...and kill the bastard..."

"Tails, you aren't going to die! Don't act like you are!"

"Do me another favor...keep Twilight safe...you two are meant to be together..."

"TAILS STOP SAYING YOU ARE GOING TO DIE!"

"And...keep everyone safe...the ponies...Sonic...everyone..."

"TAILS STOP!"

"Last thing..." Tails coughed one more time before saying the last thing he wanted to say. "Finish...finish...the plane...for me..."

"TAILS!"

That was it. The final request. To finish the plane the two friends always wanted to do. A plane that was meant to make it possible for them to fly side by side, through thick and thin, and battle and battle. It had a certain symbolism to it, a symbol of hope, a symbol of friendship. It was the thing the two best friends started with, and now, it was the thing they ended with. Gold was continually doing what was called the Eon Revive to Tails, which is what should bring him back but it didn't. The crystal had also put Dark Eon into Tails, making it impossible to bring him back. Gold still tried however, yelling Tails's name the whole time. The garage door that was blocking the outside opened the whole way, the Sun being covered by a blinking car, the ambulance. Mobians quickly departed the vehicle and started to rush to Tails. Gold put up his hand in defense with an Eon sphere, making them back up. Gold had his full attention on trying to heal Tails and bring him back, and he wanted no one to take him and end it. Glimpse ran from inside and tackled Gold down and pinned him to the ground, Gold struggling to be free. The ambulance team worked quickly, putting the Eon-ridden fox onto a stretcher and carrying him into the back.

"NO! BRING HIM BACK, I CAN BRING HIM BACK!"

"NO YOU CAN'T GOLD!"

"I CAN, GET OFF OF ME!"

"YOU CAN'T! HE'S GONE GOLD, FACE IT!"

"I WILL NOT! I WILL BRING HIM BACK!"

"GOLD, FACE IT! LIVE WITH IT, FIGHT WITH IT, LIKE HOW I DID WITH CARLY."

Gold was paying no attention to Glimpse whatsoever and was looking past him at the ambulance that Tails was being carried into. Gold was able to kick Glimpse off of him and get up and start running at the ambulance. Glimpse quickly reacted and tackled Gold to the ground again, this time Gold's face toward the ground and his head pointed at the open garage door. Twilight was now running to Gold and laid down next to him, also crying over what just happened. Gold didn't even notice and was screaming out 'NO' constantly, as Twilight and Glimpse were trying to calm him down. The ambulance left the driveway and the Sun was unblocked.

The Sun was now risen, only a bit of it was under the horizon. The beauty of the outside was overlooked by the dire and dark scenario that had just happened in the garage. Gold was still struggling to be free when he moved his head from the ground to look at the Sun. It was a strange occurrence that had was taking place. The Sun was indeed rising and over the horizon, but was being overshadowed by a large circular object. That was the moon it its way. A perfect solar eclipse at the perfect time of dawn. The dawn was mirroring the event that just took place. A darkened dawn.

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Sonic: YOU DARK HEARTED JERK!

I said it was going to be dark! And extremely emotional! I warned you!

Sonic: BUT KILL TAILS!

You know what Sonic! I'm CONFIDENT! EVERY STORY NEEDS SOME SHOCK VALUE AND I FEEL LIKE THIS WAS A GOOD JOB BY ME!

Sonic: I'll admit, it was emotional. *sobs*

I'm gonna end this conversation right here. Thank you for reading and reviewing, leave a review if you want, please don't hate me, and, as always,

Eon Out.