The Blue Hedgehog:

Discoveries

Chapter 1:

And so it Begins…

It was a windy day in Mystic Ruins, especially for the season. One could just barely make out the little path leading to the entrance of the workshop where a young yellow fox lived and worked, cleverly hiding by large waterfall. Miles "Tails" Prower had built his entire workshop himself, with dozens of rooms to make and store all of his various inventions, and connected them all with an overly complicated corridor system to ensure that he was the only one who could find their way around the place. For added security, he even redirected the flow of a nearby river to flow in to a waterfall to hide the main entrance to his workshop. He had built the place into the side of a large cliff, and with the exception of the small house on top of the cliff, where he entertained guests, his entire home was underground. He wasn't quite sure why, perhaps it was fox instincts, perhaps it was a lack of space aboveground. Whatever the reason, He liked his home & workshop, and had no intention of leaving any time soon.

Tails sat at his drawing board, completely stumped on what he should work on next. It had been days since he had finished his last project, and was now completely out of ideas. "Ugh, I cant I think of anything?" he thought aloud. Suddenly, a unusual bell started to ring. Could that be…? He thought as he followed the sound across the room. When he came to the source of the sound, he found his red plastic wall mounted telephone had lit up; however, it was making an unusual sound. Tails picked up the handpick.

"hello?"

An unfamiliar voice answered "Mr. Prower, report to Area 85 immediately, we have need of you."

Before Tails could answer, the person of the other line hung up.

"that was weird, oh well, best do what they want." He thought aloud as he

headed toward the Tornado's Hanger.

In exchange for no government interference or regulation regarding his inventions and experiments, Tails had agreed to be a science and technology consultant for the United Federation government. As a consultant, Tails had been called in on various assignments, was among the first to see mind blowing technologies, and even met the president! However, he had never before been called to Area 85 before, or any Area base for that matter. Area bases are the centers of UF intelligence for the given area there are located

in, Area 85 being the Mystic Ruins base.

As Tails flue over the base, he radioed the air traffic control, who told him that the runway was clear for to land. When he landed, he clipped his ID to his fur, and hopped out of the plane. He was greeted by a very important looking military man, and two armed soldiers.

"Ah, Mr. Prower, It is good that you are hear, please, come with me."

The man turned and lead Tails in to the base. Once inside, he lead Tails through security, down an elevator, and into the primary lab. Tails couldn't help but be absolutely mesmerized by all the high-tech gadgets and machinery. He looked up to see a very authoritative looking woman walking towards him. She had long dark hair tied into a pony tail. She wore glasses, and a lab coat.

"Is this him?" she asked the man standing behind Tails

"Yes." He replied

"Good," She then looked down at tails

"Mr. Prower, Our satellites have discovered a cylindrical object, approximately 120 centimeters in length by 75 centimeters in diameter, orbiting around 126O Latitude at an altitude of about 200 miles, in a clock-wise direction; is there any chance that it might belong to you?"

"No, I only have a couple satellites in orbit right now, and none of them

could possibly come any where near that description."

"Good to know, that is all we require of you" She then looked back up at the

man behind him

"Pleas escort Mr. Prower back outside."

"Is that really all?" Tails couldn't stop himself from exclaiming.

The woman looked back down at him, "Yes." She replied coldly. With that she turned around and went back to work.

The man lead Tails back out to the air field, where he got back in the Tornado and flue home. On the way he couldn't help but wonder what it was they found.

He landed the old blue bi-plane in his underground hanger. When he out of the plane he saw Sonic waiting for him.

"Hey Sonic, what are you doing here?"

"Hey little bro, where ya been? I've been waitin' for ya."

"Sorry, I was called off by the Government, they wanted to talk to me about something."

"I can tell, your still wearing your ID badge."

Tails looked down and saw that he had forgotten to take his ID off.

"Oh, heh heh heh." Tails unclipped his badge, and through it back into the Tornado.

"So what did they want to talk to ya about?" asked Sonic

"They found a strange UOO, and wanted to know if it was mine."

Sonic looked puzzled, "A what?"

Tails sighed. "An Unidentified Orbiting Object."

"Ooohh. So was it?"

"No, I have never seen or heard of anything like it."

"what did it look like?" Sonic asked, curiously

"Well, they didn't really show it, but the scientist described it as a cylinder, roughly four feet tall, and about two and a half feet wide." Tails explained

"So they requested you to meet in person, only to describe the object to you? Wouldn't have made more sense to just call you or something?"

"I suppose, but this is the UF we're talking about here, when have they done anything that makes sense?"

"Heh-heh, true. Anyways, the reason I came over here…