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It didn't take Davey long to get to the chow line again, and promptly proceeded to inhale chili dog after chili dog.

Julian rests in a sunbeam in front of David recharging his batteries. "That's your fifth full plate, David Kintobor. Keep this up and you'll end up looking like my evil clone!"

"I haven't eaten in a month, Dad. I need to binge."

"But everybody is staring at you. Even the Hedgehog!"

"Oh, they're just looking at me because I'm having a good conversation to a brain in a box. You know what I'm going to do? Get you a body. And I'm not talking that Auto-Automation crap Sally found out about. I want one of those good quality android model Packbell uses."

"Looks like you'll have a lot of time to do that in the future."

"Yep."

"That do you mean," That mentioned hedgehog said while getting another full plate.

"You're leaving." Acorn found out three hours later in his office.

"Yeah, your majesty. You probably know the reasons."

Acorn settled in his chair. "You need to find yourself, I guess."

"You can say that. I know by now what I don't want to become like another Robotnik. But I have no idea what I do want to be. So I'm going away to find out what."

Acorn looked up at David. He was glad to see the fury and anger in his face gone, replaced by the hope he saw so long ago and far away. It was something he wanted David to keep.

So he's going to let him go. He misses him already.

"You're a good man, er, fox, Davey Crockett." The two shook hands as they went out the door. "It's a shame to lose you . . . Suni?"

The Fox looked at the girl hedgehog he loved once. The two share a smile.

"I heard that you're going to be with what's left of your dad for a while."

"Yeah, Suni. I don't know if you'd be--"

"It's all right, Fox. I want you two to be alone for a while, but after you caught up to date, and you come back to Knothole. Look me up, okay?"

"I will," Davey promised as the two kissed in the sunset.

It was a multiple moonlit and starry night that night, just like the night Davey entered Knothole, when Knothole gathered to say good-bye to their visitor one last time.

The hoverbike slowly tooled out of the garage and down the street with everyone in attendance providing a parade route, wishing him a good journey and hope he finds what he'll be searching for. They don't see him as a visitor anymore, nor do they see him as the son of their tormenter.

No.

They see Davey Crockett as one of their own. All of Mobius do.

At the end of the parade line stood King Acorn and Sonic. He stopped at those two.

He turned to the King, and in an uncharacteristic move, the King Bowed to Davey. He returned the bow and turned to Sonic.

After a warm pause, they shouted:

"ONE MORE TIME!!!!!!!"

The two roared off a dust-storm stirring peel out before they both bolted full tilt onto a cliff, accelerating all the way.

Sonic stopped on the dime this time, right at the edge of the cliff, and got a good look at Davey Crockett as he blown past him with a roar of light- hearted laughter that carried him over the cliff, through the air and into the trees.

Sonic watched him off into the distance, and gave a tearful good-bye as his friend sped into the horizon and out of his sight.

"Good-bye, Big Daddy"