Prologue
It's not easy for me to admit, but…I've made a big mistake. My name is Fiona Fox, and, once long ago, I was a Freedom Fighter. I used to live in the kingdom of Mobotropolis when I was little, and that should be enough to tell you that I didn't live a normal childhood. I was there when Robotnik invaded, and I was amongst those captured by his swatbot battalions. I was then locked away in a small, dark cage, alone and scared. I spent nearly a decade there with little to no chance for escape, but, thanks to a strong dose of determination and a little luck, I got out, and I swore vengeance against the mad doctor.
After some lesser exploits including treasure hunting, I finally found a place where I could belong: The Freedom Fighters, a ragtag group of goody-goods led by Princess Sally Acorn and Sonic the hedgehog. Heck, I even had a momentary relationship with the Blue Blur himself, and that should have been it. "We all lived happily ever after" like the old saying would go, but it wasn't the case.
Unbeknownst to my new, quote unquote, friends, I actually harbored a severe grudge against them. I mean, how many times had they raided Robotnik's fortress, and never once did they even think to look for prisoners? He even made a robot duplicate of me to fool Tails Prower once, and it still didn't click. I mean, come on, some of them were supposed to be really smart. Where was the common sense?
*SIGH*
But I digress. The longer I stayed with them, the more my hatred continued to grow. They called themselves heroes, and I had spent the majority of my childhood locked up like an animal. Some would say I probably overreacted given what all the Sally and her band had been through prior to my joining, Sonic had even allegedly died at some point, but, in some ways, I still feel justified. But things all came to a head when I met…him.
He had it all: that black leather jacket, those killer shades, a smile that could cut stone, and the most glorious green fur that just made you melt inside to see it. Scourge the hedgehog was his name, and boy was he something. He came from an alternate version of Mobius, and he more or less conquered his world with little to no opposition. He was everything Sonic wasn't: savage, ruthless, and completely unwilling to compromise. After conquering his world of Moebius, he had apparently set his sights on our world, and he asked me if I wanted to help. Given at the time I had an axe to grind against both Eggman and the Freedom Fighters, it wasn't so much a question for me, but it was more than just simple revenge for me. Scourge treated me a lot differently that other people had. I felt his feelings were actually genuine for me, as opposed to the lukewarm feelings I got from my then current boy toy, and I felt for the first time in my life that I had actually found true love.
Naturally, the Freedom Fighters didn't take my betrayal well, and I will admit that looking back I took it too far when I slapped young Tails on my way out. The kid had a crush on me the entire time I was there, though I found him just a smidge too young. After all that, I was a member of Scrouge's Suppression Squad fulltime. I met his other teammates, all of whom were alternate versions of the Mobian Freedom Fighters, and we had all tried to take out my former comrades and conquer Mobius. It…didn't end well. Alicia and her crew turned on the both of us, and in the end Scourge was banished to a Zone Patrol prison. Naturally, I went to some severe extremes and busted him out. What should have followed was him showering me with thanks. What should have followed was us running off into hiding while the heat wore down. What should have happened was us finally settling down and having the happily ever after I had dreamed of ever since those cold nights spent in that lonely, dark cell. But, unfortunately, I had forgotten something very important. For girl's like me, there's no such thing as happily ever after.