Chapter 2: confusion and catastrophe

It was two days after the Seattle city bombing, two days after the evacuation. The now vacant bomb charred city was now marked down as apart of the outland sector and completely empty of its inhabitants, not a single life form remained in the city Accept for one. A two tailed yellow and white fox, which somehow was able to sleep through the bombing rounds and get missed by the evac teams in an underground parking structure.

He finally woke up 2 feet away from a gaint iron beam that belonged in the ceiling, he got up and brushed himself off but had a painful migraine that kept bothering him he felt a little dizzy. He was a bit confused about where he was at and what happened. He then realized that he couldn't remember a single thing about himself or what had happened. this made him very scared. he tried to set his growing fear As he looked around him and saw that there were several signs with flickering images of an arrow leading out of the structure. He decided to follow them and made his way out of the crumbling parking lot, avoiding car fires and ruble piles.

He continued to navigate through destroyed walkways and smashed cars. He stopped to look around at some of the cars and noticed that they were highly advanced. none of them had wheels and all looked very sleek. One or two of them didn't even have a scratch. he thought for a split second to try and drive his way out by taking one of the cars but they were far to advanced for him to drive, added the fact that he doesn't know how to drive period and that the structure was too decimated to be able to drive through, so he continued his way up. While he was walking he kept hearing something rattle on his back making a metal clicking noise. He reached behind himself and felt around for a bit and he realized that he was wearing a metal necklace with dog tags hanging on them. He reached back and pulled the dog tags around to his front and looked at them carefully. There were three of them. The first one had a print on it that looked like someone tried to scratch it out, it said "Miles" the second dog tag had a word scratched into it, and this one said "Tails". The young Kitsune wondered if that was his name. With nothing else to go on he assumed so and named himself tails.

He looked at the last dog tag which was quite different from the others, it was gold with odd symbols that somewhat resembled a circuit board on the back of it, and on the front he saw a very mystic symbol, it looked the side of a fox head with star behind it and a triangle pointing down on the outside of the star. Tails had no idea what it meant or why he had it but from what he could guess it was that it was of some importance to him. So he kept it close to him and walked on.

Finally he reached the exit, but only to see that it was blocked by a fence, he grabbed it and tried shaking it, that didn't do anything, he then tried digging his fingers under it and lifting it up, but it was too heavy. He then glanced through the fence and looked around and tried to call out for help, but no reply he then noticed there was a booth next to him a few feet away. He went to open the door to get in and it fell of as soon as he touched it. he walked into the booth were he saw a large blank panel where the controls should be. It seemed to be a touch screen controller but it had a large crack in it ensuring that it was busted. Tails looked closer at the screen and it instantaneously kicked back on, scaring him. It made static noises and the screen was rapidly flickering through different various screens. It displayed in big bold words "shutter door malfunction". Tails tried to touch the screen but it did not respond to his finger. And soon enough a touch turned into a poke, a poke turned into a push, a push turned into a shove, and then when that didn't work he punched the screen, making the fragile crack slightly bigger and smoke spit out of it. The screen then turned off again, and did not come back on. then a loud grinding noise could be heard by the gate. The fence jerked a little and started to slowly lift up. Tails then came out of the booth and waited anxiously to get through. Just when the gap from the fence to the ground was big enough for tails to slide under. An explosion sounded and the gate dropped back down and what ever lights were still on in the parking complex shut off making it very dark down there. Not only did the fence drop back down but the entire fence itself came unhooked and dropped to the ground opening the exit.

Finally tails was able to leave but as soon as he got out he wish he didn't because There on the outside he found nothing but leaning burning buildings and dead bodies lying everywhere. Tails was not in shock at this gruesome sight nor was he pleased. He didn't know what to think, He didn't even know who he was, it had become apparent that he had suffered from a major case of amnesia. He walked around the shattered city till night fell, Trying to find any clue of who he was and what had happened, As he advanced through the condemned city the devastation got worse. People hanging from burning wreckages, blood splattered all over walls, burning cars with dead bodies of women and children still in them. He couldn't turn the corner without seeing a pile of dead bodies. There was a massacre on every street.

The fox then quickly remembered what fear was like and covered his eyes and ran away from the gore covered streets ready to vomit. It was almost completely dark and a sandstorm was starting to brew. With what knowledge he had still intact had left he quickly figured out that he needed somewhere to take shelter. The two tailed fox had to find somewhere to hide before the sand consumed him and buried him. He eventually spotted a good enough building to take cover in, it was one of the buildings that was barely hit by the blast; it was an abandoned radio broadcasting station with mostly the emergency lights on. He was scared but he had no choice. He raced into the building with quick speed and shot up to the third floor trying to avoid overturned chairs and other debris. He finally calmed down and analyzed his surroundings. He looked out the window to see nothing but a sandy abyss encasing the glass, making a consistent scratching noise against it looked like the sand was alive and it was trying viciously to get him and consume him. It scared him. Trying his best not to look out the windows He walked around the building trying to find something to make as a makeshift bed out of all while trying to avert his gaze from the outside. He finally stumbled upon a coat closet and work desk with running power.

He removed all the clothing from the closet and bundled them up into a nest like shape. He then pointed a computer monitor on the desk slightly at the nest to provide sort of a night light. Soon a screen saver popped up on the monitor and displayed a beautiful tropical beach with a sunset. There was the noise of an ocean breeze coming from the monitor, it barely drowned out the eerie whistling noise coming from all around him. this gave tails a false sense of security. Just before he went to sleep he pulled out his necklace and glanced through the tags again he mainly focused onto the ones with the names printed on them, he then thought about it enough and decided his official name be Miles but always be referred to as Tails. He then held the gold one in the light and just stared at it as it cast a reflection of the light on him making the gold sparkle even more. He recited his name to himself and continued to question himself.

"Who am I, and what am I doing here?"

Tails then put the tags away, curled up in the nest, and fell softly to sleep.