This story is original, but may seem a lot like Spyder by Renz. But then again, I'm sure Spyder sounds like many other stories before it. Sorry if this is an inconvenience to anyone. I've NEVER liked Tails, and I don't know if I ever will. But no one else will fit this story's theme. I don't know the outlay of Archie's comics, so I'm going to make my own map up.

WHAT CHANGED IT ALL…

There he was. A short, skinny, orange, twelve year old kitsune. Walking down the school hallway, paying no mind to the rants of a few kids near him. 'Freak!' and 'Deformed freak!' were a few of them. What he didn't get is, why did they all say freak? Nothing was original anymore. But, he did know why they were screaming these things at him.

He had two tails.

Two tails, eh? Nothing wrong with that in reality, for that just made for better balance and the ability to fly.

Oh yeah. He could fly.

He made his way down the hall towards his locker, which he would soon leave behind. He opened it up with his key, threw his books into the locker, and slammed it shut. From then on he just walked away. He barely had to stop to do all of it; it was one swift motion. Because of getting chased down by bullies so often, he learned to unlock the locker and do all the necessities in less than 7 seconds.

He approached the end of the hallway, where the doors leading to the outside world stood before him. He opened the doors and immediately smelled the fresh air before him. He proceeded down the small flight of stairs onto the sidewalk below, turned left, and stopped. There, waiting for him by a small tree, was one of the most beautiful tings he had ever seen. Her name… Arieal. Another fox, but slightly lighter in color, and lack of hair extruding from her forehead. To him, she was beautiful. Of course, he had never really thought of dating, for she was just a friend. But she was still beautiful in his mind. As was the pink hedgehog approaching her. He started walking towards her and the hedgehog, named Amy, and Tails met Arieal at the same time. The female kitsune smiled at the two.

"Hey Tails! Hey Amy!" she said happily. The fox and hedgehog replied with another hello. They talked for about two minutes about homework until another light purple fox came up to them. A female kitsune, once again, who was a twin to Tails. Her name was Kari. Kari Prower. Everyone greeted her and continued to talk for a minute before proceeding unto their day ahead. They started walking in the general direction of the royal palace, also known as Acorn Palace. Tails, if I forgot to mention, was best friends with a one, and only, Sonic the Hedgehog.

Sonic had found Tails and Kari in the great forest, trying to fix a weird transportation device that had broken. After short talk and the mention of the foxes not having a home, Sonic took them in. Isn't that what a normal, loving, ignorant fellow would do? Nice to the world- it's his only friend. Ever since, Tails and Sonic had been best friends.

The four kept headed towards the Acorn Palace, eager to see Sonic and do something enthralling for the day. The only enthralling part of the day was right after school, except for the times Sonic and Princess Sally took the three on some kind of trip, whereas they would be gone for up to two days.

Sonic had become a hero to Tails. Tails wanted to be like Sonic in every way, besides species and the fact that he had two tails. He wanted a place in the Freedom Fighters like Sonic and Sally. Sonic admired this and had taught Tails all he could manage about Freedom Fighter techniques, hand to hand combat, and Tails had his own little technique; Aerial assault.

Tails, Amy, Kari, and Arieal continued on, talking about various things for ten minutes, until they came within twenty yards of the palace.

Then, a flash. The three stood in confusion until Tails yelled. Eventually the light was reduced to smoke, and through the smoke the three female twelve year olds could see a large metal object carrying what looked like Tails in its arms. The two yelled after it, but nothing. Sonic, Sally, and a brown coyote, Antoine D'Coolette. They saw the three girls and asked what happened. Arieal answered first.

"That swatbot! It's got Tails!" And with that, Sonic was off. He looked for about five minutes and saw nothing. But as worried as he was for his pal, he continued looking. After an hour, he found nothing. He returned to a very worried group, which was most of the Freedom Fighters and Tails' two friends. After hearing the news, everyone felt worried, and the young ones and Sally started to cry. Tails was like a family member to Sally and Sonic, and Amy, Kari, and Arieal too. But Sonic would not cry. He never had, and he never would. He settled everyone down and got them all to come inside for a relaxing break, but throughout the whole thing no one was truly relaxed.

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Tails awoke on a metal bed, very uncomfortable. He looked around the metal, shiny room, full of tubes of liquid, chambers, and all sort of other contraptions, until he noticed he was chained to the table. 'What in the heck is going on? Oh my God, this can't be!' Worried and scared, he struggled to get free. But this shortly stopped after a familiar figure walked into the room, accompanied by two swatbots. Tails gasped. 'Oh, Jesus…' There, standing beside him, was Dr. Ivo Robotnik. He was very good with machines, like Tails. They both had high enough IQ to be labeled geniuses, but only Robotnik admitted so. Tails was too modest for that.

Robotnik smiled. "Miles. Miles 'Tails' Prower. You must be wondering why you're here." Tails was sweating and scared, but nodded anyways. "Ahh, I see. Have you been getting tired of all those bullies lately?" Miles didn't know he knew about the current issue. Robotnik continued on. "Well, I want to make you stronger. Stronger, so that you can handle those bastardic kids, and teach them a lesson when they mess with you…" Tails gulped. "… you will be able to defend yourself. Take care of them when they pick on you. You can show them NOT to mess with you anymore!" Tails wrenched around, trying to escape once more. Robotnik laughed. "Ahh, Tails. You won't be getting out of that. I am going to make you a warrior." Tails stopped moving.

"Sonic is not going to let you get away with this! He's going to come here really soon, just watch!" Robotnik laughed and pulled out an injection needle filled with purple liquid. Tails flinched.

"You don't have a choice." With that, Robotnik injected Tails with the liquid. Tails screamed and fidgeted for a minute, but eventually passed out.

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Sonic ran through the lair of Ivo Robotnik, his greatest enemy in Mobius. He had not been in the building five minutes and all of the guards were neatly taken care of thanks to his stealth. He slowly inched around the nearest corner, and looked down the hall. There were three hallways that this one broke out into, but at the end there was a room labeled 'Security'. The door was wide open. He ran down to it as fast as he could, and found two swatbots in the room. He took them out with ease. He then walked over to the control panel, which had twenty or so screens above it. He scanned the screens looking for his best friend. 'Come on… Tails, where are ya?'

Just about then, he spotted a screen that showed some sort of lab, apparently one where he robotisized Mobians, and made them of his army. And the very last chamber, filled with green liquid, contained an orange two-tailed kitsune. Sonic's eyes grew wide. 'TAILS!' he screamed in his head, and ran down the hall and took the second left. He ran to the end, and took a right. He then entered the first door on the left. He walked through the lab, figuring out where his friend was on display. He found him at the end of the room, unconscious in the chamber. The liquid looked as though it was feeding him with air, so that he wouldn't drown. Sonic was disgusted. 'How could Robotnik do this to someone?' he thought as he broke the glass and grabbed the fox. He laid Tails over his shoulder and ran out of the room. He ran his way to the nearest exit of the lair and continued to speed home.

About ten minutes later, he was back in Knothole. He ran quickly into the palace and to his room while the other Freedom Fighters and the three children followed him. He entered his room, and laid the fox on his bed. "Tails! Tails! Are you ok?" He nudged the unconscious kitsune and continued to call out to him for a good three minutes until he finally woke. He opened his eyes and looked around. He groaned.

"Sonic? What in the heck happened?"

Sonic didn't waste time in explaining. "Robotnik captured you. Apparently he was going to robotisize you. I broke in and took you out before he noticed." Tails thought for a minute. He remembered. The table. Then the chamber filled with the green substance. The substance that felt like water, but could enable him to breath. The fear, when he woke in the liquid. He hugged Sonic and thanked him.

"Thank you Sonic!" Sonic hugged him back and replied with a 'your welcome'. Kari and the other two then burst in, and they all exchanged hugs. Not long afterwards, everyone had a nice dinner before Kari and Tails were sent to bed while Amy and Arieal were sent home. Everyone said goodnight and went to their seperate rooms.

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Tails jerked. He squinted his eyes while having this nightmare. The same kind of nightmare that he usually had. Just random kids walking around, throwing things at him, kicking him, beating him. He let this go on, and continued to jerk in his sleep. And then his dream took an unexpected twist. He overpowered them. He stood up and grabbed a book off of his desk. He then swung at two of the kids, knocking them out with just three hits each. He then moved on to the next one, blood running down his face, and his gloves stained with the same red liquid. Then he used the same method and took out at least five other kids. Then, he faced his biggest bully- Branson. The raccoon begged him not to hurt him, but Tails refused. He threw the book down and grabbed a random pencil of someone's desk. The look in his eyes, if anyone were to really see them, was one of pure evil. A scary look, none the least. He raised the pencil, and with a scream from Branson, stabbed the raccoon with the pencil, and slashed it to the other side of his head. He smiled with a scary smile that showed no mercy to anyone.

Outside of his head, right there in his bed, a mist rose from his body. This mist soon turned orange and started to shape like Tails. After a few minutes of modeling, the figure stood next to Tails. It looked just like him, except his eyes were a darker blue, and they showed no sign of friendliness.

This clearly, in the words of psychology, was Tails' Shadow.

The shadow is an unconscious complex that is defined as the repressed and suppressed aspects of the conscious self. It is one of four Archetypes of one's self. There are constructive and destructive types of shadow.

On the destructive side, it often represents everything that the conscious person does not wish to acknowledge within themselves. For instance, someone who identifies as being kind has a shadow that is harsh or unkind. Conversely, an individual who is brutal has a kind shadow. The shadow of persons who are convinced that they are ugly appears to be beautiful. On the constructive side, the shadow may represent hidden positive influences. This figure of the kitsune's was clearly destructive.

The figure smiled evilly at Miles as he slept before slowly climbing out of the window, shutting it as he flew away. It flew straight towards the school, the same evil smile on it's face the whole way. This night was proving to be going absolutely nowhere until this unknown figure decided to unwillingly extrude from it's host, meaning to cause harm in such's life. It reached the school and climbed in through the first window it saw. From there, it made its way to Tails' classroom. It smiled even more evilly than before.

And this is where Tails' life changed forever.