Well this is it, my first fanfic. This is a story that I've thought about for a long time and finally after alot of thought I decided to go ahead and try my best to write a fic. I dont claim to be any type of epic storyteller and I may have a few spelling and grammatical errors as well, which if i do feel free to tell me. Just read and enjoy the story and if you happen to like it then review and tell me what you think. ^^
Disclaimer: I do not own Sonic or System Shock or anything afiliated with them. This is simply a fictional story for entertainment.
The Planet Mobius.
A planet of advancing technology from both of its two main inhabitants, the native Mobians who are a race of anthropomorphic animals that have evolved into bipedal sentient beings, and Humans the race of evolved primates who have become the most populous species in the galaxy with countless planets inhabiting there kind.
Despite their differences at first the two species have come together and now live peacefully on their planet, the only source of anarchy left being a tyrannically mad human who, with his created army of robots, attempted to take over the planet. Despite his efforts though he was eventually brought down and sentences for his crimes.
With peace all across the lands the civilizations began to turn their focus towards the vastness of space, and soon accomplished this feat. After countless successful orbits around the planet, the major powers of Mobius came together and ultimately agreed that they would focus on the first orbital space station, able to house hundreds of people and allowing them to live their lives in the luxury of the technological advance outpost.
After years of work and progress the plans and dreams of many became reality and the outcome of all their hard labor was Citadel Station, the first of its kind and a beacon towards the technological progress the people of Mobius have achieved.
Most of the inhabitants of the space station were wealthy families whose money and influences have bought them their way into it, while the rest of the inhabitants were specifically chosen people who are well enough qualified to maintain the station and its many needed jobs.
After year s blissful peace in Citadel Station, its inhabitants have become happy and prosperous, and just as quickly as its own creation; the space station has grown and become the main research center for their next space explorations as well.
Now, as the shuttle from their latest exploration of a nearby planet docked with Citadel Station, the people inside had no idea the terror they were about to experience...
- Planet Mobius Orbit, Citadel Station, Medical Bay E4.
The room of the Medical Bay was bathed mostly in shadows with the exception of the glowing computer panels that outlined the walls of the room and a large cryostatsis tube that sat in the back of the room and also emitted a faint blue light. The Med Bay was also coated in silence, the only sounds being the very faint hum of all the electronics working in unison. As atmosphere of the room stayed dark and silent for a long time it was suddenly broken as the computer screen placed on the front of the cryo tube flashed on, endless streams of data flowing across the screen for a few moments before it cleared and the legible text "Deactivation Of CryoStasis Procedure Beginning".
Slowly the tube begins to spilt itself open, thick wisp of visible cold air flooding out of the machine as it continued to open up all the way, revealing the living figure that slept inside it. Soon after the figure inside began to stir, groaning as it began to wake and slowly pull itself out of the apparatus.
The sleeping character revealed itself to be a young and average sized male fox, his fur being covered in a yellow color with white tips in places; he was also wearing a maintenance uniform with a utility belt attached to it. His sleepy eyes showed he had brilliantly blue colored pupils and his head having a few long, stray strand of fur sticking out. As he pulled himself completely out of the cryo tube he stumbled and accidently fell face first to the hard metal floor, revealing not one, but two fluffy tails attached to his lower back.
The fox groaned as he felt the harsh and cold floor slam against his front side as he plummeted to the floor, his sleep in inanimate stasis draining any strength he possessed. Standing up on weak legs the yellow fox began to take in his surroundings and looked around the darkened Med Bay, wondering where he was and what was going on.
Suddenly a piercing ringing sound echoed throughout his head, the canid began clutching it as he sank back to the floor and screamed out in agony. Clawing into the floor the sharp sound continued reverberate in his mind for about a minute longer before it stopped just as quickly as it started. The fox sprawled out on the floor soon heard what sounded like faint static and a voice intertwined in the noise inside his head, just like the painful ringing he had now experienced. Shakily he sat up and the voice began to sound clearer and the static began to fade inside his mind. Listening closely he heard a stern, adult feminine voice repeating the phrase, "Hello, can you hear me?".
Speaking out loud in a weak voice the yellow fox said, "Yes, I hear you.
"Good, I see you have successfully awakened from your cryo stasis." the voice in his head said, the female's tone not sounding as if she cared how the young fox was currently feeling as his whole body continued to violently shake from the immense pain of the ringing inside his head.
"What was that awful ringing? What s going on, where am I? And who are you?" the fox quickly questioned continuously, the voice in his head apparently being able to respond.
"To answer your first question the ringing you heard in your head was your new cybernetic implants activating for the first time. New users must experience the implant fully sync with their minds when it is first turned on, the result usually ends with the user experiencing severe headaches and is often accompanied with a loud ringing." the voice answered.
"No Kidding." the fox said sarcastically, rubbing his head.
"The answers to your other questions are not a simple. Right now you are in Medical Bay E4 of Citadel Station, the Mobius orbiting space station created to be the first habitual space post for hundreds of Mobius's citizens to live their lives in in luxury." the female voice answered, "You are a maintenance worker chosen specifically like all your other employees to fix and maintain Citadel Station and you have just awaken from your medical procedure that forced you to rest in cryostasis for six months."
"What!" the fox exclaimed, "What do you mean by medical procedure?" he then asked, his mind trying to grasp his situation and the discovery of being asleep for six months creating even more question.
"Six months ago you volunteered to have an experimental cybernetic implant fitted inside your brain. Your new upgrades include a high frequency encrypted radio attached to a vocal pattern recognizer, optically integrated information capable of showing the users vitality and displaying data when linked to any computer interface, a reflex booster that allows the user to react to situations approximately three times faster than the average sentient being, and finally a neuro-strength enhancer that will unlock the minds safety instinct and allows the user to use their body to its fullest capabilities."
Sitting back in the dark room and letting all the information sink in the fox silently began to notice the subtle changes he felt, his eyes being able to see pretty clearly in the darkened room and now putting together that the voice he was hearing was from this new radio in his head.
"But why don t I remember anything about it?" he asked out aloud, his vocal recognizer allowing him to respond with his new radio.
"Do you remember who you are?" the stern feminine voice questioned.
The male vulpine nodded affirmatively, "My name is Miles "Tails" Prower, as you said I'm a maintenance worker for Citadel Station. I have been working there for about a year, but anything after that is a blur." he said, then going to ask, "Who are you again?"
The voice did not respond immediately, but soon spoke up saying, "Your lack of memory is a side effect of the procedure, but it is only temporary so don t worry. As for whom I am, my name is Dr. Janice Polito, I am the head surgeon and lead medical engineer, as well as the one behind your new implants. Right now I am contacting you from the Central Command room with an emergency frequencer." Staying silent for a few more seconds again she then finally added, "You have no idea what kind of hell is going on around you right now."
Standing up the fox began to feel to effect of his long sleep beginning to wear off.
"What do you mean by that?" he asked in a questioning and suddenly alert tone.
"While you were sleeping this station research center came in contact with a unknown species of xenomorph. While it was contained at first these life-forces have attacked and attempted to take control of this outpost by mutating its inhabitants and transforming them into something unheard of." Dr. Polito recited grimly, "Lucky for you the medical bay you have been kept in was sealed with blast doors and hasn't been opened since your suspension in cryostasis, but while you have peacefully slept the people of this station have either died horrible deaths defending their lives, or they have become something you cannot understand or wish to... I now believe you and I are the only living people left on this station."
The fox aptly named "Tails" felt his body go cold and a shiver crawl up his spine as he heard that he was now nearly alone on this huge space station.
"I don t understand..." he said softly, "W-what happened to those who were supposedly mutated as you said?"
"The xenomorphs showed to possess a type of telepathy, with this they tricked the mobians who were researching and guarding them from the rest of the population. Before they spread out to attack the others they began to us some kind of ability that let them fuse there anatomy to the mobians and humans they had current control over." the doctor began, going on to say, "The xenomorph that took over the lead researcher, Professor M. James, used his victims access to gain control of this station and shut down all communication and security functions. By the time our security forces found out about what had happened this unknown species had already begun to attack and control up to thirty percent of our population."
Tails could only listen in horror, leaning against a nearby computer panel as he tried to digest all the information.
Dr. Polito kept on though, "Once this species took control of our people they actually used our own medical technologies along with their original DNA to twist and transform this stations inhabitants into horrific mutations, crafting both organic and cybernetic monstrosities in their image as they claimed. The rest of the population attempted to survive and resist for the past six months, but with no communications and all the automated security defenses turned against us, the rest of the survivors that once happily lived here soon fell or were turned like the rest. I'm only alive right now thanks to luck, but I don t believe that will last much longer. As of now you re the only one left who can fix this situation."
The kitsune's head snapped up at this and he dispairingly asked out, "How can I possibly fix all of this? If what you re saying is true then there s no way I'll be able to survive!"
"No! I believe with your new implants you re exactly the thing we need to turn this around, and with me guiding you I know you can do it." the doctor yelled back at him. "Besides if you choose to do nothing I can guarentee you will die much quicker than if you choose to fight back."
Taking a deep breath the fox nodded and said, "Y-you re right, if all of this is actually happening then doing nothing will just kill me. These mutants you mentioned, are they still alive?"
"Yes they are. I would say about forty percent of this stations seven hundred and fifty four mobian and human populated space post are still living and have been transformed in some way, they are now stalking this ship for any more survivors, but it does seem though the ones that did live long enough to fight actually managed to kill a portion of the changed. I have been observing there activities closely and have come to the conclusion that they work in a hive like mindset, and if my theories are correct then they are trying to now organically and naturally breed more of their kind with some of these new creations of theirs."
Tails gave a hollow little laugh, and then saying sarcastically, "Great, that s just wonderful." he then went on to exclaim, "How on Mobius can I defend myself if they have already shown they can kill everyone else? Why can't we just leave for Mobius and explain what going on anyways?"
The doctor quickly responded to his questions, "We can t leave because they wisely destroyed the shuttles and escape pods as one of their first objectives when taking over, along with shutting off all communications they have succeeded in trapping us here. I believe there goal was to consume and repopulate the mobians of this station and then when planet Mobius sent a survey shuttle to see what was causing the problem they would ambush and then return to the planet, infecting it as it has done to this station."
After hearing that the two tailed fox jumped up, getting his resolve quickly back, "We can t let that happen! They could destroy everything and everyone on Mobius!"
"Exactly," Polito firmly responded, "So far planet Mobius has sent two shuttles actually, but luckily both search teams had their own ships either destroyed or disabled before they fell just like everyone else. As for how you can defend yourself though, there should be something for that in the cabinet in the corner of the Med Bay to your right."
Looking to his right Tails saw the cabinet mentioned, moving towards it he reached out to open up the panels, only to stop just before he touched it, "Wait... how did you know this cabinet was to my right?"
Dr. Polito answered him by saying, "The enemy may have taken control of the security defenses, but ever since I've been barricaded in the Central Command I have been able to take control of the cameras throughout the ship, any place that has a camera installed I can use it to visually follow. Look around and you should see it."
Looking the vulpine quickly saw the silver security camera hanging from the ceiling in one of the corners of the room, a blinking green light next to the lens showing it is active. Nodding towards it he turned back and began to open the cabinet, seeing inside it did hold a tool he could use in his defense.
"I assume you still know how to use one of these." the stern female voice said clearly in his mind.
"Of course, but how did you know I was a adept as well?" Tails responded.
Looking at the object he instantly recognized it as a Chaos Amplifier. The tool looked like a small black ball with a glowing red light in a small indented hole on the side of it and a cord with a long insertion jack at the end of it. The vulpine picked it up, it size and weight letting it sit comfortably sit in the palm of his paw as he held it upright. He smiled slightly as he thought of the little devices appearance, always reminding him of how they kind of looked like the "Death Star" from his favorite series of movies.
Dr. Polito soon stated, "Your employee workers file noted that you trained as a adept when you were child for two years before you dropped out of your lessons. That and I happened to notice the implant in your arm like other all adepts when I was working on you."
Tails held his right arm out and pulled the sleeve of his uniform up to reveal a implanted hole in the middle of his forearm, and taking the end jack on the cord of the amplifier he pushed it into the hole, feeling a strong tingling feeling spread through his arm and watched as the amplifier's light flashed brightly on. Looking at the tool he couldn t help but think of how revolutionary the devices were, allowing any mobian or human with enough training to use chaos powered abilities by transferring the bodies energy into the machine which turns it into the volatile matter for the user to manipulate, with these anyone could become an adept with chaos energy without having to use those infamous Chaos Crystals that were so sought after.
"Yeah I can kind of still use one." Tails said, "I don t know if I could do anything other than pulling a object towards me or maybe make a basic Chaos Blast."
"It will have to do." Dr. Polito stated, then telling him, "The first thing you need to do is obtain a Master Keycard, which will give you access to any of the still functioning blast doors to each different level of this station. Right now you re on Level Two which is a Medical and Research level, and your main goal right now is to get to me in Central Command which is on Level Five, Head to my office on the other side of this level and look for my keycard in my desk."
The kitsune nodded and began to walk towards the heavy blast doors of the Med Bay, pressing the button on the inside to open the hardened entrance. Watching the doors opening he heard the doctor chime in again telling him, "I suggest you try to be as stealthy as you possibly can, any confrontation will be a great threat so you re better off trying to sneak by any hostiles."
Tails nodded once again and walked out of the safety of the Med Bay.
There's the end of chapter one. ^^
I know this one may be a little dry since its nothing but explinations and plot exposition, but I plan on changing that for later chapters and getting some of the action and blood that this fic will contain in there soon. Like I said before if you enjoyed it then review and tell me what you think. If you see any real problems either feel free to speak up, I'll accept any constructive critisism as long as it's actually helpfull and not just flames. X3