In response to a question I thought I should add this:
Tails, Cosmo, and all other Sonic characters are copyright SEGA
Mark is copyrighted by me
and Nazo was to supposedly appear in the series but never did
Tails slowly opened his eyes, "Good morning Cosmo, huh?" he said as he didn't see her at first, but when he looked down somewhat he saw she'd nestled into his fur over the course of the night, "I hope I can keep her alive this time, I really can't bear to see her die again." Tails said as he crawled out of bed with a crimson blush on his face. He stepped out into the hall and immediatly ran into Knuckles, "Good morning Tails." he said, "Good morning Knuckles, how's our guest doing?" Tails said while referring to what happened yesterday, Knuckles noticed he was blushing and ignored his question, "Why are you blushing Tails, something happen?" he asked, Tails tried to answer but Cosmo came out of the room, "Good morning." she said, Knuckles simply began to crack up laughing, confusing Tails and Cosmo, "What's so funny?" they asked him.
Knuckles simply said with a laugh, "Wait till the others hear about this." then walked off, leaving Tails and Cosmo more confused than ever, "What do you think he was laughing at?" Cosmo asked, Tails couldn't figure it out, no matter waht he thought of it didn't make sense for Knuckles to start laughing like that and just walk off, "I don't know." he replied while starting to walk to the command bridge ith Cosmo following soon behind, when they got there everyone was on the floor laughing as hard as Knuckles, even Dark Oak was laughing behind his armor, when Sonic noticed the looks on their faces he said, "Mornin' Tails, Cosmo, did you sleep well?" Tails nodded as did Cosmo, which made Sonic laugh harder and them confused even more. But then a sound alerted them of a transmission, Tails answered it and on the screen appeared Mark, "Hello there, I thought you'd like to know you're running out of time, because in exactly twelve hours I wil fire this!" the screen then showed an all too familiar half circle in space, "The ARK!" Sonic and the others exclaimed, the Eclipse Cannon was pointed at an anomoly that Tails remembered too well, it was the center of the galaxy and if it was destroyed, so was the galaxy.
"But how did it get here?" Knuckles demanded to know as the last time they saw the space colony it nearly did a kamikaze on Earth, this was much worse, then everyone noticed an extension on the ARK's round top, it was Mark's massive ship, the ARK was still larger but not by much, "That's how." Tails said grimly, with both combined the firepower would be unstoppable, it could go around destroying planets and who knows what else. Cosmo was clearly confused as to why they were so worried about something that seemed harmless at first, "I will first target your home world, then Cosmo's, and finally the center of this galaxy! Even though you know my plans you cannot stop me!" Mark boasted while the transmission cut off, "Three targets!? How are we gonna stop someone that powerful THREE TIMES!?" Sonic panicked while pacing back and forth at the speed of sound, "Calm down Sonic. We will stop him, and there's no way he'll stop us from stopping him," Tails said calmly, "Mark can't fire the cannon without the access code, and we have it." Knuckles just pointed out one thing after the other when he said, "That makes things worse! He'll force that information from us before we can set a foot on that station!"
Tails leaned against the wall and countered with, "Maybe that's what we need, we can give him a fake code and make the cannon lock itself forever, then he'll never be able to fire it and everyone has a happy ending, until Dark Oak continues his plans that is." he then walked down the hall, "This plan just has to work, if not then not only does Cosmo die, but everyone else as well." he said to himself, he passed the entrance to the secondary comman room where he pushed the button that took her life. Tails stared at the doorway for several minutes before turning away from it, "I can't let my emotions get the best of me." he told himself while continuing to walk, he reached his room and walked inside, he opened a drawer with his most prized possesion (besides the flower) and took out a small purple badge, "The Rythem Badge." he told himself as he held it in better light to see it after so long, it allowed him to become stronger and do more powerful attacks than normal, "I'll need to use this if I want to have a chance, Mark's one of the most powerful beings in the universe and everyone he fights is killed." Tails returned to the bridge and told them his plan to attack Mark, unaware mark was creating his own plan.
"Now that they know i'm here with the eclipse cannon, I have no doubt they'll charge in here, that's when I kill them off and take my revenge!" Mark said while entering something into the Eclipse Cannon's computer terminal, only to recieve an 'ACCESS DENIED' message, Mark became enraged and stabbed it with a spear of darkness, it exploded and Mark went to the backup controls, this time he checked for the access cod ein the ship's computors, "Hm? What's this?" he said as he looked through computor files, they were labeled as the following:
Project Shadow
Biolizard
Mechanizer
Eclipse Cannon
Nazo
Project Hades
There had been much more gong on in the ARK tahn previously thought by anyone, he opened the file titled 'Mechanizer' first, inside were blueprints of a machine that had several rows of tubes, he opened a journal entry and listened as Gerald Robotnik spoke about the project, he said, "People that grow old have a better chance of dying, like myself, since the body mainly relies on vital organs and none of the senses I have started to create a machine that replaces those organs with machines that will last for two-hundred years," the screen began to flicker and this confused Mark, "but in order to crelattte somethnig likake-" the screen then switched to a long line of data and then a message said 'DATA CORRUPTED', this made Mark furious, but he managed to hold it inside of himself and opened the next file which was titled 'Nazo' the file that played showed Gerald with a pure white hedgehog behind him in a cylinder tube going upwards along the wall, "We have finally created the life form that we were trying to accomplish, but as a result the exess energy created this other hedgehog as well, we have placed him in suspended animation and will terminate him later, he has been given the code name Nazo." Gerald said, the video ended there as it was the shortest one. Mark clicked on the next one and it intrigued him greatly, "Intersting." he said to himself, after watching Gerald's explanation he went to the room where the project was located.
When he got there he saw a tall, cubic machine with a glass tube on it's side where the product appeared when the machine finished it's job, "Hah, now i'll be able to blackmail that black and red hedgehog, Shadow I think." Mark said while placing a piece of light blue fabric in the machine, it activated and Mark hoped it worked as it had never been tested before, there was a bright flash and when it died down Mark was pleased it had worked, "Now there's no-one to stop me as they can't ignore a hostage situation!" he said while opening the tube with a figure faling to the ground afterwords.