Horror Tails
Chapter 1: The Beginning
My name is Miles Prower, but most people know me as Tails. It's June 20 of the year 2010. I live in the large metropolis of Station Square now. I moved here a few years ago when I decided to work on some of my inventions to help the people in the city instead of just all for myself. I still my friends often enough, since they hang out in this city all the time. Sonic comes over to my house still all the time and we continue to hang out and be best friends. He's grown a bit more in this time, and so have I as well. Also, a large number of other furries such as Sonic and myself have moved into this city, they just about equal the number of humans here now too. I've really started to enjoy city life and as well working at this new job at the tech place where I build things and give support to all the people that need it. So with all of this, I am rather busy now a days, but when Sonic comes and says we have business we need to take care of, people will just have to make way and let me go. That is because there are things that have to come before my new job. I am still a hero and Sonic's sidekick, so I need to be there when he needs me and give him a hand when I can. But who knew that the events of this next battle, would lead to some other much great colossal events, ones that I will not soon forget.
One week ago, of this month and year, I was at my job working on someone television, repairing it. It seems like they must have poured some soda down in the circuitry in the back. Idiots, I can't believe what people will do to their electronics." I thought as I sat there working on the device. But about five minutes into my work, there was a loud burst behind me of someone coming into the room. I turn around and see it is Sonic here at my job, and that can never be good. "Tails! Come on bro, I need you to come with me, Eggman is coming near the city in some odd looking robot, and we are going to have to stop him before he gets here." said Sonic as he rushes over to me and jerks me some making me drop my tools in his haste. After regaining myself some I look to him again. "Sonic, be a little easier on me next time. I'm not as rugged as you are ok." I say as I get to my feet fully now. Sonic nods to me some now. "Sorry bro, but come on, I'll take you there myself." says Sonic looking like he was going to grab my arm and rush out of the building at the very moment he said that, but I did manage to stop him from doing so. "Don't worry Sonic, I still have my tornado outside and can get there in no time, I use it in car mode a lot more often, but it still works, so you go on and I'll catch up in a bit." I say to Sonic. It appeared that he did understand I was serious there as I said that and did let my arm go. "Alright, but hurry Tails." says Sonic and rush back on out the door at his usual fast speed, nearly knocking the door off the hinges as he runs out.
A few moments later I was outside the door and rushing to the Tornado outside in the parking lot and jumping inside of it. I quickly start the machine up and drive out of the parking lot and into the street at a very high rate of speed. After I had gained a bit more speed I pressed a button inside the Tornado and it quickly transformed out of the car and into my old familiar plane. It quickly takes off into the air and I quickly fly over the tall building tops and speed as fast as the plane can go towards the outskirts of the city. It took a few minutes for me to reach the edge of the city because the city has grown so much with all the new buildings and houses all surrounding it. I was amazed myself when I saw how fast this place was growing, but hey, it's a big city, what can I say. All cities are like this at some time or another if they are successful.
Not long after I left the city limits, did I spot a large robot trekking towards the city at a very slow face and Sonic not far from it keeping an eye on it and trying to keep it from getting there. As I flew into view of both Sonic and the robot, Sonic immediately sprang into action towards the robot, as it was looking at me flying around in the plane as well, knowing I had an advantage since I was in the air above it. Sonic was slamming into it as hard as he can, but it was not giving very much damage at all, just a few dents here and there. It looked like Eggman had really reinforced this robot for some reason. He usually chooses speed over slow and very powerful like this. As I got near in my plane, he holds up one of his large arms on the robot and starts firing at me furiously. He obviously able to see the threat of an airborn attack would be like. Sonic thought was trying his best to continue on his assault of spin dash and kicks all over the robot, which was throwing off its aim pretty bad. This was giving me time to try and line up my own shots so I could return fire to the robot so I could try and loosen it up some for Sonic, and also hopefully find the pilot seat, because if we could find and unveil that, Eggman would be toast.
About ten minutes into the battle, Eggman was getting kind of close to the city now and are attacks would have to be fast and powerful if we hoped to break through his armor and defeat him soon enough or he may start to break some houses and that would not be good for any of us, especially the people of the city. We really couldn't figure this armor out either. I was firing everything I had at the robot that the Tornado could muster up, but it was just dinging off and making dents all over his metal coating that was surrounding him. Sonic was starting to get worn out some too after so much attacking that didn't seem to be doing any good. I knew he wasn't going to be able to hold out much longer, but there had to be a way to take this thing down. There is no robot or metal that is unbeatable, so this robot must have some weakness somewhere, and I had to find it fast or there was going to be some big trouble. I turned my scanners on in the plane and just fly around no longer firing at the moment, because I needed as much time as I could to scan this robot to find some weak point that I could exploit. Until I could find it, Sonic was going to be on his own.
I could see Sonic below fighting with the robot still. Eggman just barely seemed to be concentrating on Sonic at all though, he seemed more interested in getting to the city and myself flying above him, especially since I was no longer firing at him. My scanner soon starts to beep and I press a few buttons and soon a picture of the robot comes up and it starts to light up on a red area on the back of the robots knees. If I could hit it there, I could at least stop it from moving at the moment and that would be great if I could stop it myself. Just then though Eggman resumes his firing up at me again. He obviously figuring it out that I must be up to something if I'm no longer attacking him like I furiously was a few minutes before. But him concentrating on me, was something I want him to do, because he was facing me, and that gave me the shot I needed and fired off a bunch of rounds right at the knees of the robot, and it only took a few bullets before the knees armor breaks off in big chucks and the knee gives way and the robot's legs collapse on that side and it falls over on it's side making a large crash and cracking the roads nearby some as well making a crater where it fell.
I could see Sonic immediately start to dash and pound the robot as it hit the ground, but after only a few pounds, the armor was now starting to crack off and parts of the robot being shredded now by Sonic. It appears that the large crash from it falling over had severely weakened the armor, and now Sonic was able to pierce it easily. After a few minutes of this, the top of the robot opens up and Eggman comes flying out in his hovercraft scowling down at Sonic as he flies over head of him. "You and your little fox friend think you're so smart in finding the one place on this machine that I didn't make totally hedgehog proof and blast proof. But hear this hedgehog, if you think this is the end right here, this is only the beginning. I have some very big and wide scale plans coming up, and you and your friends won't be as lucky as this one, I can be very sure of this. I know it will work." said Eggman still sounding very angry about his robot. I was grinning myself some as I landed my plane and jumped out and quickly ran over to near Sonic and stared up at Eggman hovering there, I myself quite angry at him as well because of his attempt again to hurt innocent people. Sonic though was smirking as he usually did when listening to Eggman's threat as always. It always impressed me at how calm he always was in the face of danger and threats. It was like he was not afraid of anything. I on the other hand am not like that. I can get scared still pretty easily, and sometimes am not all that brave and tend to rely on Sonic too much. I wish that I could be more like him and not be so timid at times, but hopefully, that will come in time.
Sonic eventually responds to Eggman after he was done rambling on with his threats of how he was not over with us, like that was anything new to hear from him. "Come on Eggman, just beat it before I have to beat you and humiliate you even more than you already have yourself, so just get out of town!" says Sonic in his jocular yet serious like voice he seems to always talk with Eggman with. Eggman surprisingly didn't seem to get as upset as he usually does and instead turns his hovercraft around like was actually going to do just that, which shocked us both. "You may have won this round Sonic, but I assure you, you wont next time, so be prepared for my next attack, it wont be as easy next time." said Eggman and just casually seems to be flying off into the distance, which was still strange to us both. Sonic then turns back to me with a smile on his face. "Thanks for the help bro, you did good." says Sonic and rubs my head some which felt very good and made me smile. "Thanks Sonic, I did my best." Sonic took his hand off and glances over at the robot again and looks back at me again. "That's all I can ask for, we did took this thing down, and that is all we can do is help these people live normal lives." he said. I nod in recognition at that and stare at the robot myself some admiring its design, but knowing it is just a bad machine that should be destroyed as soon as it could. "Well, you going to dismantle this thing, or you going home or something?" asks Sonic as he kicks some debris to the side with this feet. "I think I'll let the clean up crew come and take him apart this time. I'm a bit tired after all that, and my job will understand my leave and not returning after what they seen we had to do." Sonic nods again and turns looking like he was about to leave. 'Well, if that is all, I think I'm just going to go about my business Tails." he said to me in a cheerful voice.
Just as I was about to say my goodbyes back to Sonic as well, there is a click behind me and a long syringe shoots out of the corpse of the robot and right into Sonic's back and making him scream so loud that everyone around could have heard it. I start to run over to help him, but he quickly pulls the syringe out of his back, throws it to the ground and stomps on it breaking it, though nothing was in it. "Damnit I can't believe Eggman being a cheapskate and shooting me in the back with a dart. What is this one of his idiot, not funny jokes." said Sonic angrily right there in front of me. It kind of scared me too since I never heard Sonic talk like that before, and it worried me. "Sonic are you ok? Are you hurt?" I ask him in deep concern for him. Sonic though just shakes at me and walks forward a few steps. "No Tails, I'm fine, just one of Eggman's pitiful attempts to hurt one of us I guess, but it didn't work. I'm going home to rest myself ok." he said to me sounding a bit grumpy when he said it. I nod to him, not wanting to upset him more and he quickly speeds off back into the city heading for his home.
Seeing that happen to Sonic did really worry me, but since he was already gone and on his way, there was probably nothing wrong at all with him, so I am probably worried over nothing. I am on my way back over to my plane when I hear what sounds like running water or something. I turn and walk over to the giant robot again and get on my knees and look under it some and I can see something leaking out from the bottom of it and onto the ground and street some too. "Oh, that's all it is." I say out loud and just get back up to my feet. It's probably just oil leaking out of the engine of the robot. That would be nothing new at all. A lot of Eggman's robots leak things once they are beaten and trashed. I should know since I've had to clean those oil spoils and other greasy things up before, and believe me, oil and grease are murder to get out of your fur. So I finally just shrug it off and head over to my plane and climb on inside and get ready to start up. I figure that the clean up crew can come and scrap the robot and dispose of the waist as well, and if not, the oil will just go into the sewer or something, where it's fine for that to go as well, but either way, it was fine. I finally crank up the tornado and transform back into car mode once again and drive nice and slow back towards the city so I could head for home.
That night I slept really well and proud of myself for all the help I had done in getting that robot down to its knees and helping Sonic destroy it. It was some of the best work I had done in quite awhile, and I'm sure Sonic would remember it for awhile yet. And I'm sure I could brag about it to all of my friends the next time I saw them as well. The next day though when I called to check on Sonic on the phone, he didn't answer, but I didn't let that bother me or anything, because getting Sonic on his home phone was very rare anyways. So I figured that he was already up and about and would call later or the next day. Two days later though I finally did get him on the phone, and he sounded a bit sick or something to me, because he was coughing some. I did offer myself to come over and help him get better or something, be he reassured me that he was fine and would be over it soon, and so I just accepted it and let him be. But three days later, I could not longer reach him at home again, so I figured he was up and about again, but I still was concerned more when Amy called me too and said she hadn't seen him around at all either. Sonic and Amy may not be the closest of friends or something, but Sonic at least let's Amy get a glance of him speeding around every now and then, just to say hi like he does to all his friends, but now no one was seeing him all or hearing from him. So I figured I'd go and visit him today and see what was up and make sure my best friend was alright and just out on some new adventure, because I was pretty sure that what it was, so the night before I went to bed pretty early to get some extra rest to be prepared for the next day, who knew, I was going to need that extra time for what was in store for us all the next day.
To Be Continued….