Disclaimer: *Sigh* Why do those dumb lawyers make us poor writers make
these stupid things? Bah! Anyway, I don't own Miles 'Tails' Prower or any
of the StarFox team, although they are barely involved and Tails is almost
my character (after I added a few touches to him).
PS: Thanks for 'some dude' for correcting me on Tails' last name!
Introduction: Well, my brain was kinda hyper after I played Sonic for about six hours straight at a friend's house AND watched 'We Were Soldiers' the other night, so I just decided to write something about our overshadowed Tails. Poor little guy; he doesn't get much attention. This is centered a bit more on StarFox than it is Sonic, so I'll just file it under StarFox. As always with my stories, this has no reference whatsoever to my other fictions. This is based on an alternate universe setting. Oh, don't worry, you don't have to know anything about Tails. Frankly, I don't know anything about him either. Ack, must I say more? He didn't meet anyone in the Sonic series, and he is a loner, a bit. This is set when Tails was thirteen and a war is brewing. Somehow, he is dragged in with all the commotion going on, and in the battlefield, he meets with an escapee, who is kinda hot...
The year is 2073 CE, or Common Era. The Lylat System has been entirely colonized, even the barren wasteland, Venom. Humans look upon their achievement with awe and respect, building bonds between each other. Technology has advanced so far as to making single-piloted jets fly safely in space and making pulse laser guns for combat ease, since clips are larger and damage is increased dramatically. Despite these feats, mankind still has a lot to fix, like the constant rebellions on Venom and the dramatic rise of the AIDS (Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome) virus that attacks the white blood cells in many humans. Granting Venom an individual government (their preferred, imperialism, defined as having a single leader or emperor) easily solved the first major problem, but the second difficulty was much harder to overcome.
AIDS did not have a cure. It was also spread quickly, as you cannot know if a fellow person had the virus until about three years after being infected. It dramatically reduced the life span of anyone infected by almost fifty years. Drugs to ease the effects of the virus are hard to come by and very expensive. The populations of all the planets were slowly, but surely, declining. The elected president of the United Planets of the Lylat decided it was time for something to be done.
All the planets still under rule by the Cornerian Legislative Government, Corneria, Katina, MacBeth, Fortuna, Titania, Aquas, and Zoness, had come together and volunteered their best biology scientists to find a vaccine for the AIDS virus. They first thought of the idea to find another similar but curable virus to infect people with so their immune system would recognize the AIDS virus and isolate infected cells. They failed after two years of trial and rat (a somehow close genetic relative of humans) testing.
The second idea was to find a powerful drug that can kill off infected cells in the early stages of the virus. It did not work either, for all the rats and mice died minutes after being exposed to such a drug.
The third idea was the most radical, but the most likely. The doctor in charge of the entire project, Dr. Toad, thought he could alter the genetic code of humans using animal chromosomes to make white blood cells completely immune to the virus. It was highly possible, as doctors noted that most animals could not be infected with the virus, and those who can be do not show symptoms.
Dr. Toad worked nights on end to perfect the process. He needed human subjects, uninfected by the virus, in order to test his genetic-altering design. Unluckily for Dr. Toad, many subjects showed strange, yet harmless, mutations but did not become immune. Dr. Toad found his flaw: He did not alter enough chromosomes. So, he finds an average, uninfected person, and starts his new process...
**
"Don't worry, Mr. Hare, this won't hurt a bit. Just relax, and try not to move while I take your blood," Dr. Toad cleared his throat and stuck a small syringe into Mr. Hare's artery. Popping a pressure cap, Dr. Toad allowed the thick, bright red liquid to flow into the tube. Mr. Hare twitched his moustache unhappily as Dr. Toad took out the needle.
"It did hurt," Mr. Hare harrumphed. Dr. Toad chuckled at his impatient patient. Closing the pressure cap again, Dr. Toad, the young male scientist with a bucket cut, stuck the tube into a machine and it started whirring.
His peers gathered around to watch as the blood flowed from the tube into a very thin plate. The screen blinked open to reveal Mr. Hare's blood. Taking another tube of blood, labeled Snowshoe Hare, one of his fellow scientists stuck that into the machine as well. A second screen on the machine flicked open as well, revealing the rabbit's blood sample.
Smiling contently, Dr. Toad pressed a big red button in the middle of the machine and microscopic needles punctured red blood cells in both the blood samples and drew out the nucleus of the cells, primarily B Cells and T Cells. Next, the needles cut open the nuclei and produced two strands of tiny DNA and the machine magnified again. Dr. Toad's face fell.
"What's the matter, Doctor?" A young biologist asked. Dr. Toad shook his head.
"Big problem. It appears that in order for the whole thing to work, I must replace more than 40% of Mr. Hare's DNA. That has a very high chance of changing his appearance," Dr. Toad glanced over at Mr. Hare, who was still sitting on the surgery table with his arm exposed, "I hope you don't mind having fur."
"As long as I don't have that damn virus," Mr. Hare snorted, frowning at the bare white floors and walls. The only decoration was the table and the big machine.
Dr. Toad breathed out heavily and started pressing buttons rapidly. Tinier needles took the delicate chromosomes and switched them around. After about ten minutes, the process was complete and the nuclei were ejected back into the cells, then back into the blood samples, and finally back to Mr. Hare's bloodstream.
"I'm sorry to report, Mr. Hare," Dr. Toad said slowly, with every eye in the room fixed on him, "That in three months, you will have the fur, the ears, the eyes, the snout, and the footpaws of a Snowshoe Hare."
**
And so Dr. Toad, with help from his colleagues, of course, transferred human DNA with animal DNA, making people immune to the virus. Now, though, they cannot be called humans anymore. Every subject turned into the animal of their choice within three months, but they were still able to walk on hind legs and use their hands and brains properly. They also were granted with special attributes of their desired animal, such as moles, being good diggers but with bad eyesight, or avian, being able to fly and such.
Soon, the entire population of the Lylat had been transformed into half-animal, but still capable of doing their old jobs. Now, they went along their lives with a bushy tail dragging behind them, not that many of them minded having fur or feathers. The un-evolved animals were placed in reserves or zoos to remind us of what we once were. No pure humans were left, but society continued. Lives continued, and the AIDS virus was depleted from the entire solar system. Everything went peachy, with the worst crime being a bank robber on the loose, until 2765 CE, when Venom started preparing an army.
The reason for their sudden movement was unknown, and they did not do anything with the rest of the system, and I mean nothing. No contact, no trade, and not even a single jet flew past the space boundaries between the democratic planets and the imperialist planet. Soon, the army was forgotten in the United Planets of the Lylat and life went on. But something happened close to twenty years later that shocked the entire free system. Something that the people of the Lylat though that the emperor of Venom, Dr. Andross, exiled for his horrid experiments, would never do. Dr. Andross was vengeful, and the poor people of Venom were tortured and abused until they joined his army. Dr. Andross turned against the Cornerian Legislative Government. The Cornerian Army was tiny, as they had never used it for over seven centuries, compared to the Venomian Army, and when Andross attacked, Corneria was overwhelmed.
Since it was 2786 CE, and after years of calculation, it was the year that Corneria was nearest to Venom, but the other planets were lined up on the other side of the sun, preventing help for over a month. Andross was ready; he was preparing for thirty years, and the time for unnecessary war had come.
Amidst all of this, a little fox-human that lived in the city that Andross attacked first was dragged into battle. It was a time for desperate measures, and Corneria needed all the help they could get. This little fox, not more special than any other teens other than his double tails that allows him to fly, will fight in the war. The afternoon that Andross attacked: That's where Miles Prower's, along with the unlikeliest of a companion, tale begins.
Introduction: Well, my brain was kinda hyper after I played Sonic for about six hours straight at a friend's house AND watched 'We Were Soldiers' the other night, so I just decided to write something about our overshadowed Tails. Poor little guy; he doesn't get much attention. This is centered a bit more on StarFox than it is Sonic, so I'll just file it under StarFox. As always with my stories, this has no reference whatsoever to my other fictions. This is based on an alternate universe setting. Oh, don't worry, you don't have to know anything about Tails. Frankly, I don't know anything about him either. Ack, must I say more? He didn't meet anyone in the Sonic series, and he is a loner, a bit. This is set when Tails was thirteen and a war is brewing. Somehow, he is dragged in with all the commotion going on, and in the battlefield, he meets with an escapee, who is kinda hot...
The year is 2073 CE, or Common Era. The Lylat System has been entirely colonized, even the barren wasteland, Venom. Humans look upon their achievement with awe and respect, building bonds between each other. Technology has advanced so far as to making single-piloted jets fly safely in space and making pulse laser guns for combat ease, since clips are larger and damage is increased dramatically. Despite these feats, mankind still has a lot to fix, like the constant rebellions on Venom and the dramatic rise of the AIDS (Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome) virus that attacks the white blood cells in many humans. Granting Venom an individual government (their preferred, imperialism, defined as having a single leader or emperor) easily solved the first major problem, but the second difficulty was much harder to overcome.
AIDS did not have a cure. It was also spread quickly, as you cannot know if a fellow person had the virus until about three years after being infected. It dramatically reduced the life span of anyone infected by almost fifty years. Drugs to ease the effects of the virus are hard to come by and very expensive. The populations of all the planets were slowly, but surely, declining. The elected president of the United Planets of the Lylat decided it was time for something to be done.
All the planets still under rule by the Cornerian Legislative Government, Corneria, Katina, MacBeth, Fortuna, Titania, Aquas, and Zoness, had come together and volunteered their best biology scientists to find a vaccine for the AIDS virus. They first thought of the idea to find another similar but curable virus to infect people with so their immune system would recognize the AIDS virus and isolate infected cells. They failed after two years of trial and rat (a somehow close genetic relative of humans) testing.
The second idea was to find a powerful drug that can kill off infected cells in the early stages of the virus. It did not work either, for all the rats and mice died minutes after being exposed to such a drug.
The third idea was the most radical, but the most likely. The doctor in charge of the entire project, Dr. Toad, thought he could alter the genetic code of humans using animal chromosomes to make white blood cells completely immune to the virus. It was highly possible, as doctors noted that most animals could not be infected with the virus, and those who can be do not show symptoms.
Dr. Toad worked nights on end to perfect the process. He needed human subjects, uninfected by the virus, in order to test his genetic-altering design. Unluckily for Dr. Toad, many subjects showed strange, yet harmless, mutations but did not become immune. Dr. Toad found his flaw: He did not alter enough chromosomes. So, he finds an average, uninfected person, and starts his new process...
**
"Don't worry, Mr. Hare, this won't hurt a bit. Just relax, and try not to move while I take your blood," Dr. Toad cleared his throat and stuck a small syringe into Mr. Hare's artery. Popping a pressure cap, Dr. Toad allowed the thick, bright red liquid to flow into the tube. Mr. Hare twitched his moustache unhappily as Dr. Toad took out the needle.
"It did hurt," Mr. Hare harrumphed. Dr. Toad chuckled at his impatient patient. Closing the pressure cap again, Dr. Toad, the young male scientist with a bucket cut, stuck the tube into a machine and it started whirring.
His peers gathered around to watch as the blood flowed from the tube into a very thin plate. The screen blinked open to reveal Mr. Hare's blood. Taking another tube of blood, labeled Snowshoe Hare, one of his fellow scientists stuck that into the machine as well. A second screen on the machine flicked open as well, revealing the rabbit's blood sample.
Smiling contently, Dr. Toad pressed a big red button in the middle of the machine and microscopic needles punctured red blood cells in both the blood samples and drew out the nucleus of the cells, primarily B Cells and T Cells. Next, the needles cut open the nuclei and produced two strands of tiny DNA and the machine magnified again. Dr. Toad's face fell.
"What's the matter, Doctor?" A young biologist asked. Dr. Toad shook his head.
"Big problem. It appears that in order for the whole thing to work, I must replace more than 40% of Mr. Hare's DNA. That has a very high chance of changing his appearance," Dr. Toad glanced over at Mr. Hare, who was still sitting on the surgery table with his arm exposed, "I hope you don't mind having fur."
"As long as I don't have that damn virus," Mr. Hare snorted, frowning at the bare white floors and walls. The only decoration was the table and the big machine.
Dr. Toad breathed out heavily and started pressing buttons rapidly. Tinier needles took the delicate chromosomes and switched them around. After about ten minutes, the process was complete and the nuclei were ejected back into the cells, then back into the blood samples, and finally back to Mr. Hare's bloodstream.
"I'm sorry to report, Mr. Hare," Dr. Toad said slowly, with every eye in the room fixed on him, "That in three months, you will have the fur, the ears, the eyes, the snout, and the footpaws of a Snowshoe Hare."
**
And so Dr. Toad, with help from his colleagues, of course, transferred human DNA with animal DNA, making people immune to the virus. Now, though, they cannot be called humans anymore. Every subject turned into the animal of their choice within three months, but they were still able to walk on hind legs and use their hands and brains properly. They also were granted with special attributes of their desired animal, such as moles, being good diggers but with bad eyesight, or avian, being able to fly and such.
Soon, the entire population of the Lylat had been transformed into half-animal, but still capable of doing their old jobs. Now, they went along their lives with a bushy tail dragging behind them, not that many of them minded having fur or feathers. The un-evolved animals were placed in reserves or zoos to remind us of what we once were. No pure humans were left, but society continued. Lives continued, and the AIDS virus was depleted from the entire solar system. Everything went peachy, with the worst crime being a bank robber on the loose, until 2765 CE, when Venom started preparing an army.
The reason for their sudden movement was unknown, and they did not do anything with the rest of the system, and I mean nothing. No contact, no trade, and not even a single jet flew past the space boundaries between the democratic planets and the imperialist planet. Soon, the army was forgotten in the United Planets of the Lylat and life went on. But something happened close to twenty years later that shocked the entire free system. Something that the people of the Lylat though that the emperor of Venom, Dr. Andross, exiled for his horrid experiments, would never do. Dr. Andross was vengeful, and the poor people of Venom were tortured and abused until they joined his army. Dr. Andross turned against the Cornerian Legislative Government. The Cornerian Army was tiny, as they had never used it for over seven centuries, compared to the Venomian Army, and when Andross attacked, Corneria was overwhelmed.
Since it was 2786 CE, and after years of calculation, it was the year that Corneria was nearest to Venom, but the other planets were lined up on the other side of the sun, preventing help for over a month. Andross was ready; he was preparing for thirty years, and the time for unnecessary war had come.
Amidst all of this, a little fox-human that lived in the city that Andross attacked first was dragged into battle. It was a time for desperate measures, and Corneria needed all the help they could get. This little fox, not more special than any other teens other than his double tails that allows him to fly, will fight in the war. The afternoon that Andross attacked: That's where Miles Prower's, along with the unlikeliest of a companion, tale begins.