Chapter 1: I'm Not Going to Bombard You With Clichés; This is the End of the World

It was just another day. The sun was just starting to rise by the time she had made her way out of her car and into her office building. When she had gotten up this morning she decided to take the time to make a fairly decent breakfast, she got a two cinnamon rolls for McDonalds.

She briskly walked into her office building and walked straight forward to the elevator, she pushed her floor number and waited, looking to a colleague and they gave each other that said 'good morning."

"So what are you working on today Max?" she asked without taking her eyes of the elevator door.

"Oh you know, the same repetitive paper work. What about you?" He said in a bored tone.

"Same here, although this morning I decided to get some cinnamon rolls from McDonalds." She said in a tone that got gradually happier through the statement, Max just made a whining sound while his head rocked back.

"God those sound amazing right now, I might go get some tomorrow…"

"It's hard to be in a mad mood with cinnamon rolls." She said in a sagely voice,

"That be true sister, you speak the truth." They both chuckled and fell into a comfortable silence. After a couple more minutes of stops and people coming and going they both reached their chosen floor.

Basement sublevel 125: Hive Facility

When the door opened they both walked away,

"See ya Rach."

"See ya Max."

When she got to her cubicle she sat down on the chair by her desk and then reached to a little refrigerator she kept under her desk and pulled out a bottle of Vitamin water and started to work. After about an hour of typing she got up to get some papers she had to print off a few cubicles down. One of the wealthiest facilities in the world and they had to all use one printer.

Oh the irony.

When she reached the printer however all the lights turned off. The voices of people wondering what was going on started cutting through the darkness.

"Hey!"

"What's going on?"

"Does anyone have power?"

"Dude what the fuck?"

More people started asking questions about what was going on, if anyone had power, and other questions, but then a siren started to wail while a low red light started glowing in different corners of the office.

People knew what that meant. That meant the virus was free, it was spreading throughout the facility. They all knew that if that virus was ever somehow released that they would all be quarantined. So they all stopped asking questions and just sat down in silence, some people started pulling out their Ipods and started listening to them.

After minutes, or maybe hours, no one could tell, some people started to stir and ask questions again.

How long were they going to be there?

Will anyone at least tell them what's going to happen now?

Well they ever leave?"

After that thought started to set in, some people started screaming, others started crying, and others just repeating the same sentence over and over. Somehow she had succumbed to the panic yet, after a minute she pulled out her smart phone to check if she had any signal, but she didn't. She was hoping to at least be able to call her parents or something.

But she couldn't, no one would know what happened to her. And that's when the panic started to set in. She fell onto the ground and soon started going into a fetal position while she was repeating in her mind, I'm going to die, I'm going to die, I'M GOING TO FUCKING DIE!

And then she screamed.

He can't believe he did this. He never did shit like this; he would usually be too worried to get in trouble over something like this. The two tailed fox jumped off the bus and started walking down to the street to his destination. "Miles Prowler" or "Tails" to anyone who knew him more than ten seconds was absolutely giddy.

Here he was, barely fourteen years old and extremely far from his house. His house was on the other side of town and his brother would absolutely kill him if he ever got caught. But he had wanted to explore that old mansion ever since he set his eyes on it when he was little, since he just turned fourteen his brother Sonic finally let him ride the bus by himself around town.

As long as he stayed fairly close to home of course.

But nope, Tails broke that rule thirty seconds after acquiring his new freedom. After a good thirty minutes of walking he finally found himself in front of the mansion. As Tails stared he felt as if it was looming over him, it was definitely intimidating but there was no way he was going to back out now!

He made his way through the front door, which surprisingly was unlocked. He walked inside and immediately noticed the large foyer. Its white marble floor was extremely well polished for being "abandoned". He walked through doorway and made his way through a large room that looked like it was meant for socializing. He continued to walk forward and made his way into a large library.

He looked around and made note of the four giant windows to his left, white curtains were on each window and not much light was coming through since the sky was covered in dark grey clouds. He walked over to one of the book shelves and started going through them when-

"Ouch!" He looked down to see a small grey blur disappear around a doorway. Tails sighed and look down at his ankle, that damn rat had bit him pretty good, he was bleeding, He tore a piece of the curtain and started to tie his bite mark with it.

Maybe he should have worn his skater shoes instead of his flip-flops.

After a few minutes he got up to walk out of the library when he heard a noise like a door being opened, but before he could turn around to investigate he felt something placed against his mouth and he inhaled in reflex. Almost instantly his eyes felt heavy and he lost consciousness.

Next thing Tails notices is that he's wet, then he notices that he's got a lot of somethings pressed all over his body. He opens eyes to see everything in an blue blur, he ooks over and sees a square of something that looks extremely different, thinking it was like a window in a tank, he kicked it. Hard.

He felt his foot go through glass and all the water starting to spill out. After his head wasn't submerged any more he took in a deep breath and started to cough and hack. After finally calming himself he started pulling off all the things that was stuck to his body, they looked like some type of sensors.

Tails jumped out onto the floor and started shivering, it was fucking cold…and he's naked? Well that certainly doesn't help. He looked around and noticed wherever he was looked extremely…white. Everything was a weird white, the floor, the walls, the equipment. It was weird. He started walking around and opening any door he saw in hopes of something that could at least dry him off.

"That's the wrong way."

He quickly spun around to see a human girl that couldn't be more than seven or eight years old. Her skin was very pale and her long brown hair fell straight down her back, she was wearing a simple white dress and matching shoes. Tails looked down at his naked self and immediately covered himself, a blush starting to creep through his orange golden fur.

"There's no point in covering. That means very little to me." Tails just blinked and slowly started to lower his hands, although it still felt kind of awkward.

"Um…where am I?" Tails inquired but she just turned around and started to walk away,

"Follow me." Tails just blinked again but decided to follow her; while they walked he started rubbing his arms in an attempt to make him warmer.

"Where are we going?" Tails asked starting to grow irritated,

"Locker rooms, they have showers and towels." Tails liked the sound of that, after they made it to the locker room Tails quickly ran in and turned on the hot water, it took another second of tinkering to get the temperature right but eventually he got it the way he liked it. Tails stepped in the stream and sighed in content.

After a "borrowing" some shampoo and body wash he stepped out of the shower and grabbed a towel off the table. After a few minutes of drying himself he started looking through the lockers, unfortunately the only thing he could find was a lab coat but he put it on anyway. As he made his way out of the locker room he saw that little girl staring at him.

"What?" She turned and started walking away.

"Follow me." Tails growled at her, he was getting sick of this.

"What for?" She didn't even pause her steps,

"For better clothes and weapons, you're going to need them." Silence, Tails just sat there in silence for a second until he asked growing worried,

"…Why?" this time she stopped and turned around,

"So you don't get eaten alive."

Yeah, so here's the first chapter, I'll start working on chapter 2 tomorrow.