This story was meant to be posted on Wednesday instead of now, but my internet felt liek being offline for a few days just to piss me off, good times! I wanted this posted Wednesday because that was the 18th anniversary of Sonic Twosday, a.k.a. November 24th 1992, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for the Genesis was released...and it was on a Tuesday, hence the name (give it up for Sega and their witty puns). Soooo yeah, Happy Belated Sonic Twosday everyone! I'm almost done with chapter 2, just a few more touch up things to work on, so it'll be up in a day or two. In the meantime, reviews are always nice.
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What a Strange Coincidence! Ch 1
Today was like any other: bright, sunny, Mobians laughing and enjoying themselves...as they pushed around a small fox. "What's the matter, freak? Can't you see no one likes you around here? You should just go home to your mommy and stay there...oh wait, that's right! You don't have any parents! Hahaha!" a wolf said as he mocked the young fox. "For someone with two tails, you sure have no brain!" he continued as his friends laughed with him. "Sh-shut up! M-my parents d-didn't leave m-me! They j-just went on-on vacation!" the small fox said between sobs. "They must be having one heck of a vacation without you then! It's no wonder they haven't come back, they'd have to deal with a two-tailed crybaby FREAK!" the wolf said, putting extra emphasis at the end. "They d-don't hate me! Th-they'll come b-b-baahhahahh!" the fox yelled before breaking down into more crying. "Come on guys, let's get out of here before we drown" the wolf said motioning for his gang to follow.
It took several minutes before the fox had calmed down enough to decide to do anything, which he then chose to just head home. He trudged along, sniffling every few seconds as he slowly made his way towards the place he knew he was safe from bullies like that wolf. "I w-wish my parents would c-come home...then I w-wouldn't be made fun of...except f-for those two stupid tails!" the young fox said, grabbing said items one in each paw. He then began tugging on them, expecting to pull one loose so he wouldn't be such an eyesore, only to cause himself to yelp in pain. After rubbing his backside a little, he noticed he wasn't anywhere near his home, instead he had no idea where he really was. Just then, some nearby bushes startled rustling, causing the kitsune to jump in fright. "H-hello?" the little fox asked a little scared. The only thing that answered was more rustling. The fox gulped before taking a few steps towards the bush in an attempt to discover what was behind it. "Hello? Is someone there?" the fox carefully asked as he approached it. The bush only shook some more in response.
The small fox reached out a shaky paw to pull aside the foliage and see what was behind it, but just before his paw made contact, a small explosion engulfed the plant, sending a screaming fox backwards and away. The young kitsune scrambled to his feet, shaking his head a few times to clear his vision that had a hard time staying still. As his eyesight regained its normality, his eyes grew wide at what he saw. Where the bush had once been was now a burnt spot on the ground and three BuzzBombers were slowly flying over it and making their way towards him. The small fox was frozen in fear as he watched these robots advance him with a clear intent to harm. "Unidentified life-form, prepare to be eliminated in the name of Robotnik!" one said in a monotone voice. One by one they charged up their laser blasts and prepared to incinerate the little kit. As the fox cowered, afraid that these things were surely going to kill him, a rush of wind swept by almost knocking the fox to the ground. Three metallic explosions were heard followed by lots of objects hitting the ground.
After a few seconds and realizing that the danger seemed to have vanished, the fox poked his head up from under his arms, curious to see why he hadn't been 'eliminated in the name of Robotnik'. What he saw made him even more shocked then previously. The ground was littered with hundreds of metal scraps ranging in size from big to small and in the center of the destruction was a blue hedgehog...wait, blue? "Woohoo! Three for one! I think that calls for a snack" the mysterious hedgehog said before pulling out what looked to be a hotdog covered in chili that had been buried somewhere his his mass of exceptionally spiny-looking quills. The small fox brushed himself off before cautiously approaching the hedgehog in question, afraid that he too might attack him. "D-did you beat those things up?" he asked. His cobalt savior turned his head towards the fox before swallowing his bite. "Sure did kid, scrapped those badniks faster than you could bat an eye" he said with a cheeky grin on his face. "Wow, how did you do it! I mean those things looked real nasty! I thought they were going to destroy everything! But you just came in and POW! BAM! WHAM! Took 'em out without even breaking a sweat!" the young fox said enthusiastically.
The hedgehog laughed at the kit's antics, watching him wag his tail back and forth rapidly. 'Geez, he's flopping that thing around so fast, I swear I'm seeing two! Wait a minute...' the hedgehogs expression changed from amused to serious so fast it made the fox a little uncomfortable. "Ummm, is something wrong?" the fox said, unsure as to how he must have upset his hero. "Geez Louweez! Am I seeing things, or do you really have two!" the hedgehog asked incredulously. The fox looked at him confused for a second before realizing what he was talking about. The kit looked down sadly thinking he just freaked out his idol and now he's going to run away from him or make fun of his deformity. "That is...AWESOME!" there were the three words he had been dreading, now his moment of gratitude was crushed because the Mobian who saved him now thinks...wait, what did he say? "That has to be the coolest thing in the world! I've never seen someone with two!" the hedgehog said practically jumping on the kitsune and physically inspecting the two tails. "Wow! They're all big and fluffy, too! You must keep them well groomed! But I'd be proud of having two if I was you as well! Can you do any tricks with them? Oooo, I bet if you spun 'em fast enough you could fly! That'd be WAY past cool!..oh, sorry I didn't mean to freak you out or anything, you probably get that a lot though, huh?" the hedgehog said letting go of the tails and taking a few steps back.
The fox slowly turned around to face him with a very confused expression written all over his face. "Y-you mean...you're not freaked out by my hideous deformity?" the kit asked uncertainly. "Hideous! Kid you need to get new friends, those are not gross at all. Far from it my furry little buddy, those are too awesome to think that they're in any way 'hideous'! That'd be like people thinking I'm some sort of freak for having blue quills, but I think it rather suits me, don't you?" the hedgehog said while doing a silly pose. The little kitsune giggled at the hedgehog before looking back at his tails and grabbing them. "Well...I guess it's sort of neat to have two tails...I just thought it was disturbing to have more than the correct amount of appendages" the hedgehog sighed at the fox in pity. "Look buddy, you're not helping anyone by thinking that way. Who cares what other people think if it's not something that you wanna hear?" the fox continued too look at the hedgehog as if he were crazy. "But how will I learn from my mistakes and better myself if I don't wanna hear negative opinions of others?" this caused the hedgehog to laugh since it seemed so ridiculous that such a young Mobian overanalyzed things so much.
"First off, you know what I mean, and secondly, take my advice to heart. You're only hurting yourself if you let yourself get down about what other people say. By the way, what's your name kid?" the fox looked down again before mumbling incoherently. "Come again?" the blue Mobian said, prodding the other to repeat himself. "My name is...Miles Prower. I know, stupid right?" the young kitsune said grumpily. "Well my name is M- err I mean, Sonic. Just call me Sonic the Hedgehog" Miles looked at the other with a confused expression. "Sonic the Hedgehog? Don't you have a last name? Doesn't it usually mean people with their race as their surname have either disowned their family or they're from a poor family not worth mentioning?" Sonic crossed his arms and grunted in frustration that the kit was smart enough to catch him. "Alright alright you got me...my real name is Nikky Parlouzer. I just got the nickname Sonic because of how fast I run, plus it's got a nice ring to it"
Sonic then ruffled the kit's hair before he went to make his departure. "It was nice meeting you Miles, but I gotta get going. Those badniks don't trash themselves!" just before he took off, however, Miles latched onto his arm to keep him from leaving. "Wait! Why do you have to go so soon? Why are you destroying those robots? Who is that Robotnik guy? Can I come with you?" Miles said unleashing a torrent of questions. "Well I need to get a move on to catch up on lost time, those robots are hurting other people like you and I'm here to stop 'em, Robotnik is the creator of those badniks and since I'm like his sworn enemy I'm here to defeat 'em, and why do you wanna come along for?" Sonic replied answering each of the kit's questions. "Well I got nothing here for me and I wanna help out! You looked so cool beating up those ro- err, I mean badniks. I wanna learn to do that, too! You could teach me, right?" Sonic looked at Miles for a little as if studying him. "I suppose I could teach you what I know, but won't your parents get worried about you? You're only like seven" Miles looked at Sonic with a sad and grumpy look. "I'm eight and a half...but I haven't seen my parents in a few years...I don't know where they are"
Sonic eyes bugged out at this new wave of information. "You don't have any parents! Who's been taking care of you?" Miles shrugged "I guess just me" Sonic stared at the kit for a few seconds before he shook his head a few times and looked at him with a little more seriousness. "I can't leave you to fend for yourself...even if you seem to be doing a good job. Alright kid I'll tell you what, you can come with me, but I gotta warn you it's not going to be easy" the fox looked over zealous at the mention of a new life with his hero. "YES YES YES A THOUSAND TIMES YES!" Miles said tackling Sonic almost to the ground in a choking hug. "Calm down Miles...ugh, maybe you're right about that name. I know, first order of business, let's give you a nice nickname like me. Something more suiting hmmm, Fluffy? No, too childish, how about Fur-ball? Nah, that's lame, needs to be something identifiable, maybe something to do with your tails...oh! How about Tails?" Miles' eyes lit up at the name. "It's great, it's wonderful, it's perfect!" Tails said wagging his namesakes around. "Then it's settled, as long as you and me are best buds, your name shall be Tails" Sonic said grinning and firmly grasping Tails' shoulder. The kit beamed up at Sonic, excited that he met his first true friend and ecstatic that he could ditch his lame name for one he liked a lot better, just like his new best friend did. "Well Tails, I think it's about time we get a move on, we're burning daylight!" Sonic said as Tails nodded in agreement. "Now, let's head to Emerald Hill Zone. That's where Robuttnik's trail has been leading and I'm sure we'll find him there! Let's just hope you can keep up with me!" Sonic said before dashing off with Tails following closely behind.