Prelude to Destiny
Disclaimer: I own nothing of Sega of America, Team Sonic, MGM nor anything else associated with any franchise mentioned within. The only thing that I own is the name Kerra. It is mine and if anyone steals it I will not hesitate to get creative on the torture. Also I do not own the original idea for the Mjolnir armor, that belongs to Microsoft and Bungie. That's how Kerra got the idea for her own version of it.
Chapter 1
Not so Wonderland
Sub-level 28, Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado
Scientists, military and civilian alike, were moving around the cavernous space that once housed an inert ICBM. Standing on one wall at the far end of the room was a strange ring-like device that had been found near the Pyramids of Giza in 1937. Originally the device had been thought to be some kind of weapon, one that the Americans wanted to keep out of the hands of the Nazis at all costs. Now, after having Egyptologists translate the hieroglyphs on the massive cover stones that were found over the device, they figured out that it was a transportation device, and that the symbols on the ring were points in space. However, making the device work was another matter entirely.
No matter what combination of symbols they tried, all the team could do was make the ring spin and the room shake. So you can imagine their surprise when the device started to dial itself, and then when a wormhole was established with a massive splash back of energy before stabilizing into a shimmering, water-like surface. That's when the hero of our story came tumbling through.
Tails, finishing the step that he had taken when he went through the wormhole on Mobius, entered the room on Earth.
Or, he would have, had there been a ramp leading up to the gate. Instead he fell, face first to the cold, hard concrete floor that the event horizon of the wormhole sat three feet above.
Needless to say, not the best entrance you can make when you arrive on a new world.
The scientists began to slowly approach the figure that had just come through the device. They were all shocked to find out that they were not alone in the universe like most people thought.
That and they all figured that their first encounter with an intelligent alien race would be more dramatic than it was.
Tails was finally able to collect his senses enough to shakily stand up and look around the room filled with humans. Nervously he stepped forward to the nearest one and extended his right hand and said, "Hello. Ummm, stupid question, where am I?"
The scientist, a geneticist named Alexis Halsey, took the fox's hand and shook it as she replied, "You're on a planet called Earth. How do you know our language?"
"Your language? This is the language that we speak on my world. I guess our two worlds have a lot in common." Tails replied.
"Hmm, I guess so. My name is Dr. Alexis Halsey, what's your name?"
"Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be so rude." Tails said scratching the back of his head nervously. "My name is Miles Prower. But my friends call me Tails for obvious reasons." He finished as he wagged his twin tails.
"My word, does everyone on your planet have multiple tails?" Alexis asked.
"No, as far as I know I'm one of a kind. Believe me; these things caused me a lot of pain and heartache before I met Sonic."
"Sonic? As in Sonic the Hedgehog?"
"Yeah do you know him?"
"Actually, he's a comic book and video game character. Pretty popular too."
"Wow, that'll be something to stroke his ego with when I get back to Mobius. Wait, how do I get home?" Tails asked as he realized the seriousness of the situation.
"You won't be going home." A commanding male voice said as a general entered the room.
"What? Why not?" Tails demanded as he rotated his namesakes to hover at eyelevel with the general.
"Because you are the first alien to come to this world and survive longer than a few minutes. The last ones that came here crashed their ship and either died on impact or shortly thereafter."
"General, are you saying that Roswell actually happened?" Alexis asked, putting aside the thoughts that were running through her head of trying to figure out how the fox was able to fly just by spinning his tails.
"Yes it did. The body were disposed of after we found nothing that could help cure disease or accomplish what your failed super solider experiment tried to do."
Alexis went red at the mention of her failed experiment. She had to choke back the emotions that welled up at the thought of the young men and women who had died due to her miscalculation.
"So what's going to happen to me?" Tails demanded, letting his frustration leak into his voice.
"We're going to find out what makes you tick, and what we can learn to help our own race." The general replied matter-of-factly.
Tails felt the blood drain from his face and what seemed like a lead weight develop in his stomach.
The next thing he felt, was the prick of a dart filled with a sedative, and his body hitting the concrete for the second time in less than an hour.
The general looked at the body of the young Mobian, with disgust. "Airman, take this thing to the holding cells and guard the room with your life."
A young airman snapped to and replied, "Yes sir!" before picking the fox up by the shoulders as his partner picked him up by the ankles before they headed to the holding cells on one of the upper levels.
"General was all that really necessary? He's just a child." Alexis asked.
"If you care about the thing so much, maybe you can get it to talk. I want as much information as I can about his race and if they are a threat to us." The officer told Alexis.
"Very well. I'll talk to him when he wakes up. Just give me your word you won't kill him." Alexis said giving the general a look that could melt diamonds.
"Very well, he gets to live for as long as he decides." The general said.
"Thank you General." Alexis replied with a sweet and innocent smile that belied her true intentions if harm were to come to the young anthro.
A/N: Okay folks here's the first chapter. I know it's a cliff hanger but I want so real feedback about what you think and whether I should continue with this story.