The long wait is OVER!
*UPDATE* I kinda got yelled at by some people so I made some 'minor' adjustments.
Disclaimer: All Sonic the Hedgehog Characters are not mine, they are property of SEGA and Archie. The Character Vincent Azerite is not mine, it is property of Vincent A. Azerite.
14 years after accident.
The morning was cold and wet as the shadowy figure arose from his pallet in the middle of the grassy field. He scratched his head, trying to feel the warmth of the sun on his face but was blocked by the arctic winds coming from the east. He glanced over the grassy lands and frowned at the horizon where trees should have been but now lay the burnt remains of the last war. The figure rolled up his sack and strapped into his fairly small military style back pack and the pulled out a small black device. He pressed a few buttons as the screen lit up and several different beeping noises rang off as the map displayed on the screen.
'Hmm,' he thought to himself. 'It says it should be right over here.' looking over in the direction of the ashes and the small silver memorial. He hadn't been out here in what seemed like forever but he knew that it had only been several days before. He loaded up his pack and walked over to the burnt remains. He glanced through the blackened trees, then read the silver plaque.
'Here lies the remains of the II Eggman war, many gave their lives to help protect the Acorn Kingdom. They will be remembered...' He wiped the dirt off of the plaque, as he stood in silence.
"They wouldn't have lost if..." he muttered then resumed his searching. He walked around the burnt forest and the abandoned kingdom until he found a familiar set of trees that had not been touched by the fire. The set of darkish brown colored trees were aligned in a perfect circle and a small stump that was placed in the middle of the trees. He knocked on one of the trees and heard a metallic hollow sound.
"This is it." he said with a smile of relief. He walked over to the east most tree and pulled down the lowest branch. Many different rusty metallic sounds came from within the trees as the head of the stump lifted up and reviled a long hidden slide of some sorts. The man threw down his pack and jumped into the dangerous slide as he hugged every turn of the, smaller than he remembered, slide as he fell deeper into the dark tunnel. He finally landed in a big pile of dead hay with a headache and the bringing back of old memories.
He looked around and saw the remains of the old freedom fighters hideout. The giant lab computer, the old and very outdated equipment, and the tons of file reports laying on the ground. The man walked over a picture that hung alone on the wall with all of the old freedom fighters. Of course all of them were retired now according to the file reports. Rotor went off to join the council, Rouge was still a treasure hunter, Knuckles settled down with Julie-su and had a kid, as did Bunny and Antione. Amy became a self defense trainer, princess, or should he say Queen, Sally was forced into marring Shadow for the peace of the country, poor Sally. And as for Tails...
"Freeze!" Shouted someone behind him as a faint wine of a plasma gun charging screeched across the room. He could recognize that voice anywhere even though it was deeper and a lot rougher than the last time he had heard it. The man raised his hands in the air.
"Hello," said the man trying to hide his face and making his voice a lot darker so it would not have been recognized. "Tails..."
Tails pointed the gun at the figure in the dark hideout. His shiny leather armor and polished ble goggles on his forehead glimmered in the small ounce sunlight that came from some cracks from above. This place had been unused for years. No wonder the lights wouldn't work when he came in. He had only been here several hours before trying to reconnect the link to the new freedom fighter as favor for Nicole, she wanted to do a quick environmental scan before moving to the next sector. He left his computer so he came back to get it and found this guy. Probably a agent from the dark egg legion trying to destroy the old base.
But what Tails couldn't figure out is how this guy knew his name. Usually the dark egg legion was now a whole bunch mindless drones left over from Eggman's scrap heap, and no one had ever found this place, it's all been kept secret for so long that not even Nicole her self could find it. Tails came closer to the figure with the gun.
"Who are you?" Tails asked suspiciously. The man turned his head, jumped over Tails, spun around and in black blur the man in the cloak was gone. Tails glanced in disbelief . No drone could jump like that or even run that fast. Now that he thought about it he hadn't seen anybody run that fast in a long long time. Not ever since..."Sonic?"
The plane ride was short and bumpy, after all these years the Tornado was still up running. The yellow fox sailed through the night sky until he saw the huge black waste pit that was the new Dark Legion Kingdom, he looked at the city with disgust.
It was better when Eggman was in Rule. Thought Tails as he picked up his old black an/art13 Radio set, it was the only thing they could use if they wanted to stay 'under the radar', the kingdom had every other type of receivers besides the bc-348 receiver.
"This is Foxy Sox, I repeat this is Foxy Sox, over." Tails said into the radio. He waited awhile for response he could already predict who was going to answer.
"Tails, this is a private line you don't have to use code names." said the angry rough voice of his old friend.
"Yeah I know, I just like hacking you off." he said with snicker.
"Just get the hell down here."
"Roger, over and out." he said snickering into the set and hung it up.
Tails flew closer to the western part of the city and circled around some old abandoned warehouse. One of the huge steel doors opened up as Tails hit the runway and slowed into the warehouse, the door slid shut behind him. Tails quickly turned off the motor as the humming slowly came to halt and all was silent in the small hanger.
Tails jumped out of the cockpit and looked around the dark and decrepit room. He could already smell the sardines coming from the next room over as his face cringed in disgust. He walked up to a steel, vault-like door as he entered the code into a out dated security system with small beeping sounds after each click. After several clicks he hit the enter button as the door unlocked it self and swung open to a light filled room with the delightful sound of a television and radio swam through his ears, although the stench was unbearable. He walked into the smaller room and shut the behind him with several locking and latching sounds came from behind.
'Home sweet home' Tails thought as he entered the shelter. The shelter was old but filled with anything they needed was supplied by the queen herself. Of course it was nothing to brag about either. They had an old couch, a TV, a radio, a kitchen, bathrooms, bedrooms, and ,Tails favorite part, a full garage with tools and everything.
The gang was here, or what was left of it anyway. Rotor (looking older than he actually was) was sitting in restaurant style booth devouring the small nasty fish over a small plate. Antoine and Bunnie curled up on the large couch watching some sort of news broad cast that was probably delivering bad news, that's all they got in this city anymore. Amy sat in the love seat next to the two listening to some punk metal that was turned up way too loud as she bobbed her had to the music. Julie-Su and Knuckles were yelling about how Knuckles didn't care enough ,what else is new,in the middle of the floor and... Something didn't seem right, someone was cooking in the kitchen. Tails looked at the character with suspicion, the person wore a blue jacket and brown hair covered the body. He smiled as he walked up to the woman.
"Hey Sally, long tine no see." he said stopping right in front of her. She closed the oven door, and with surprise she wrapped around him and gave him a tight hug.
"Miles! Man it's been ages." She said letting go of her firm grip. Queen Sally Acorn, she probably snuck out of the castle just to see them, but it looked like everyone had already said their "hellos". Tails looked at her with annoyance "Oh sorry, do still like to be called Tails?" Tails nodded to her. She gave another quick hug then let go. Tails walked over to the booth and sat down on the other side of Rotor who was still shoving down sardines. Tails watched Sally work in the kitchen, all these years and she was still attractive. Suddenly Rotor gave a weird guttural sound as he wrapped his hands around his throat and slid to the outside of the table as his face gave a terrified expression. Tails leaped out of his seat grabbed Rotor around the waist, which is a lot harder than it looks, and squeezed like their was no tomorrow. A small sardine bone launched up out of his wind pipe and fell on the the plate. Rotor looked Tails with a smile.
"Thanks Tails, I owe ya one." he said with a tired expression on his face. Tails gave a little wink and a little wave. Rotor then studied him for a minute then gave another cheerful smile. "Your keep reminding me more and more of him." Rotor said hoarsely. Tails expression went from happy to confused.
"Of who?" he asked
"You know." he said pointing to the wall behind him as his smile drooped a little. Tails turned around and glanced through the photos on the wall. It was funny, he had never really looked at them before. He looked through until he stopped one particular photo. It was taken a long time ago with all the freedom fighters in the very front stood him and a blue hedgehog.
Tails could hadn't even thought about Sonic in several years. Right after Sonic disappeared Tails went to go find him in places around the world the people just told him the same thing. 'He's gone, I'm sorry.' He was so obsessed with finding him he just couldn't accept the facts. After four and a half years of searching he finally returned back to the Acorn Kingdom, when the second Eggman war broke out. Eggman of course thought he could take over the world with Sonic out of the picture. Tails fought so hard in the war and lost so many friends. They if the could kill Eggman the war would stop. It didn't. The war lasted for six years until finally Shadow threatened the Egg legion to stop fighting or else he would destroy them all with the Chaos Control power he had in his possession. They agreed soon after the Egg legion died out and was no more. The Acorn kingdom was in joy, but Shadow didn't want something for nothing. He soon married Princess Sally Acorn and he became king of the Acorn Kingdom now called the The Dark legion Kingdom. People tried to rebel, but Shadow was too powerful he killed anyone who got in his way. That's when Sally decided to reform the freedom fighters bringing us all back together. They had been like this for a year now.
Suddenly the door squeaked open behind him as a gray fox stepped into the door. Tails could feel the dark aura behind him. The fox was clothed with a pure black coat and a white opera mask the upper right side of his face. Tails spun around and ran at him like a little kid.
"Vinny!" Tails screamed running at him. The surprised Fox turned sideways grabbed Tails and threw him on the floor in self defence.
"I told you not to call me that." he said coolly. Tails got up and raised his hand to give a high five. The fox stopped beside and patted him on the head as he gave a little smile. Vincent was cold, but not heartless. The Fox then proceeded to walked over to the Queen, who was watching him carefully, and handed her some sort of file. Tails couldn't exactly tell what was going on, mostly because of the screaming that came from two echidna, but it must have been important if it was coming from Vincent.
Vincent Azerite was Tail's cousin, after the accident he disappeared for several years to "settle the score" or something like that. He also had some sort of wicked power that could kick butt at any time, Vincent called them areomancy (air powers) and pyromancy (fire powers). Tails had always begged him to burn this, or cut that but Vincent just smiled and said "Maybe later, I have work to do." Now he is just a messenger delivering files and searching for something that he just can't seem to find or so he says.
Tails watched the two across the room, Vincent talked about something and Sally eyes seemed more excited each time Vincent said something. Then she started crying, and then she looked at him. Straight at him, Tails panicked he ran over and sat by Rotor again who was reading the news paper, the head line reading "KING SHADOW PLANNING TO INCREASE TAXES". If Vincent found out he was eavesdropping on their conversation, Vincent would probably make him go on another energy gathering again. Ugh! Vincent pointed at him then he swiftly spun around walked out the door and it slammed shut.
Tails watched the door for several minutes just to make sure he wasn't coming back. Tails then sprinted over to Sally who was now bawling into a rag.
"Sally, what did he say?" asked Tails with concern. Sally just looked at him, grabbed the big yellow folder and walked into one of the side rooms. But while she grabbed the folder two pictures slipped out of the folder. Tails grabbed the two slips of the gritty floor and glanced at them with suspicion. Because those two pictures were of some sort of bomb mechanism and the other was of a spiky blue hedgehog.
Vincent walked silently out the large warehouse into the crisp night. The air felt good on his face but the smog from the chemical plants just ruined it. He walked over to the edge of the runway then stopped suddenly. He stood silent looking at the sea, he then quickly spun around and saw a man in a black cloak. Vincent walked calmly over to the man and glanced into his black hood.
"When did you get here?" Vincent asked the man calmly.
"Two days ago." the man replied in a instant.
"So you still have time."
"Yea, a little." The man said "I checked out the old base but was then stopped by Tails." he paused "He's gotten old."
"He's a lot like you."Vincent said. Their was a sudden pause. "I told her."
"You did what?" The man exclaimed "When?"
"Just now, I didn't think you would be back for another couple of months." Vincent
"Won't he find out?"
"No." There was a sudden pause.
"Fine, I will stop him this time I'm not going to wait another two years." he said turning around and vanishing with the swiftness of a striking snake. Vincent turned back towards the wind and it felt good.
'He must hurry' Vincent thought 'he doesn't have much time left...'
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