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Chapter One: Rescuing Tails
Severus Snape had never been more humiliated - not even by the Marauders.
First, a cauldron full of his current potions experiment exploded, then he was covered in a gross, congealed purple mass.
In a blast of sound and a flash of light, Severus found himself no longer in his private Potions workroom in the Dungeons of Hogwarts.
He realized that he had landed in the center of an odd forest and had shrank down so that he was at least half the height he had been. The foliage that would normally be at his ankles was now knee high.
Glancing down in confusion, he had gasped and fainted from shock.
Now, several hours later, he was wide awake and had gotten enough time to get used to his new body. Fur, gloves and shoes for clothes…he even had a tail and cat-like ears!
His fur was all black except around his muzzle, which was a soft peach color due to his pale skin color when he had been human. His gloves were white with red stripes down the outside edge and black cuffs with golden bands that clanked every time he moved them. His shoes were crimson with black trimming and golden anklets resting on top.
He was some kind of anthropomorphic animal! At least he wasn't changed into a centaur, he didn't know what he'd do if that had happened!
Severus huffed out his agitation- he still couldn't figure out how the cauldron exploded. He was a Potions Master, he avoided things like that with the experience of years of practice.
The only reason he could think of was sabotage, but who and how? His lab was warded against such things, although he could have easily done it.
Remove the wards, commit the sabotage, replace the wards. The thing was, though, that only a really powerful witch or wizard could have removed his wards.
No, that wasn't bragging, it was pure fact. Severus had used some of the most powerful wards in existence -some of which he had created- to ensure that his lab was secure. The only person currently alive who could do that- and wasn't himself- was Harry Potter, but the boy hardly knew how to cast Cleaning Charms let alone dispel his wards.
Though, knowing Potter as he did, the boy had read up on it- or had Granger do it- just to get into his private lab. Indeed, he probably thought it a great prank without realizing the consequences!
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A noise to his left caught his attention, raising the quills on his spine automatically. As quickly and silently as he could, Severus climbed the closest Elm tree for a vantage point. From here, he could easily see anything that came into the clearing without being spotted. In fact, he sat on a mid-height tree limb and watched as two humanoid robots tromped through the underbrush into the clearing.
'What are they up to?' he wondered, narrowing his eyes as he observed the robots searching for something. 'It's almost like they're…'
Suddenly, Severus remembered the comics that Lily could only read when her parents were off on business trips because they thought that comics were crap.
In those comics, there were evil robots called Swatbots that looked very much like these things. They were made by a Dr. Robotnik to kill or capture a blue anthropomorphic hedgehog named Sonic.
"Oh Merlin! I'm stuck in a bloody comic book!" Severus whispered in horror. His only positive thought then was that he'd certainly fit in with his new body, since most of the "Mobians" were anthropomorphic animals.
"Heat Source Detected…" the robotic voice echoed loudly in the silent clearing, almost deafening in it's resonance to his new ears. Both Swatbots converged on one location on the opposite side of the clearing and Severus relaxed an inch. They weren't after him, and likely didn't know he was there.
"Hey, let me go!" a youthful voice cried out as one of the Swatbots picked up an anthropomorphic fox by it's tail…
Make that one of it's tails!
"Tails?" Severus wondered quietly in awe. He had followed the Archie Comics version almost religiously- regardless of the fact that England had it's own version, he liked the American version better since Sonic wasn't as big an ass- the two years he had known Lily before they had gotten their Hogwarts letters. Tails, or Miles "Tails" Prower, was Sonic's youngest collegue in the fight against Robotnik's tyranny. He was still really young, not even Hogwarts age yet, probably close to five or six. Sonic would be ten or eleven and would have met most of his friends barring Silver and Blaze.
"You just wait! You'll get what's coming to you when Sonic gets his hands on you!" Tails went on bravely.
However, Severus knew that Sonic wasn't around to save the kit, since he was off helping people alone in a city halfway across the world!
'Even if Sonic had been notified of Tails' capture, he wouldn't have known which two 'bots had kidnapped him to punish,' Severus thought. 'Plus, if I remember correctly, Sonic got lured to Robotnik's base because of Tails and gets hurt- failing to save Tails and getting himself hurt in the process.
Shadow the Hedgehog had to break in and save them both.
"You'll see! You'll…," just then, the 'bot that held him smacked Tails face to shut him up. Severus growled quietly, his quills standing up on end again and his fangs bared in a snarl. Tails was only a kid!
No matter how tough Severus was on his students, he had never raised a hand to the little snots and hated child abusers with the passion of one who had experienced similar. That slap would be the last thing that robot would ever do, this he vowed.
Utilizing his spy training, Severus dropped silently to the leaf strewn and damp ground. Sneaking up behind the lead 'bot who still held the whimpering Tails, he concentrated his magic through his hand. Having mastered wandless and nonverbal spells, he used this to his advantage and caused a short-circuit in his target.
As the kit fell from the robot's loosened grip, Severus sprang forward and caught him before he hit the ground then dodged the laser fired from the partner.
"Ha!" he grunted, using his right fist as a conductor for a Blasting Curse. The curse hit the robot's head and deactivated it- the thing hit the ground with a ringing clang and sparked around the head for a bit.
"Woah!" Tails whispered in awe, tails wagging excitedly. "How'd you do that?"
Severus snorted as his quills relaxed, but otherwise ignored his question before setting him down. "You should be more careful, kid."
"Hey! I was hiding from another set when those two found me!" Tails huffed, fluffing up as children do when they feel like they've been accused wrongly. Severus almost snickered though, since the kit's fur literally fluffed, causing him to look like a little fluff-ball with twin tails.
Severus sighed to cover the snort of laughter and rubbed his forehead to keep the ruse going. "Do you have shelter nearby, kid?"
"Yeah, I live in this forest. And the name's not Kid, it's Tails."
Severus smirk flashed across his face for a second before falling back into his impervious mask. Now he could call Tails by his name without rousing suspicion.
"Alright then, Tails. Lead the way."
"Sure."
Tails marched around Severus and stomped on the downed Swatbot as it was in his way, leading Severus deeper into the forest.