Hello! Welcome to Chapter 25! To be honest, this is an amazing milestone and I never thought I'd see the day one of my stories had 25 chapters! Let's not waste any more time!

Guest: Yeah, sorry about the really long wait on the last chapter. I had a lot going on, but I should be able to update much more consistently now that I'm out for the summer!

Dinner: Robotnik is certainly up to something, I wonder what it could be?

TheGameNguyener: Tails and Fiona getting over their bad blood should allow for some more fun moments between both of them! Robotnik does have something in the works to help deal with the heroes!

Alright everyone! Let's get going!

Subject #4261

Snow Day

Two weeks had passed since Finitevus' rescue and no major events had passed, they had completed another two raids on Robotropolis in that time. It had also gotten colder, threatening snowfall, until one night, where it finally happened.

Tails yawned as he woke up, Fiona was seemingly already out of the room. He got himself dressed and ready for the day. Some of the other Freedom Fighters were gathered in the main living area. He rubbed the sleep out if his eyes and joined them.

"Hey Tails," Fiona began, ushering him over. "You slept well I assume?"

The kit smiled, "Yeah, why us everybody awake so early?"

Fiona pulled him to his feet and lead a somewhat confused Tails to the exit door, the kitsune expected to see the usual brown and oranges. He was surprised to find everything covered in thick white snow. The kitsune took a step outside and jumped back as the snow touched his feet. Fiona laughed at the reaction.

"What? You ever seen snow before?"

"I have, it's just, I didn't think it was this cold!"

Fiona then had a devilish thought and pushed the kit over into the snow, causing him to fall. He quickly panicked and jumped upright, the snow clinging to his fur. He glared at Fiona, whom was trying hard not to laugh at Tails. He shook off and stepped inside.

"You should have seen the look on your face!" Fiona spoke.

Miles let a soft smile cross his face, it was a bit funny now that he thought about it. "Let me get my boots."

He put on his boots and wrapped a spare brown scarf that he found around his neck. He didn't necessarily need much when it came to winter clothing, his fur would keep him pretty warm as it was. Returning to the entry way he found Fiona already waiting, the two stepped outside. They sat in a comfortable silence for a bit, Tails simply admired the snow around him.

"You have seen snow, right?" Fiona asked, noticing his confused expression.

"I mean, yeah but, most of the time, it was a nuisance at best. Robotropolis didn't get much snow, mostly because of all the pollution making it hard for clouds to get close enough. It rarely snowed, but it would be cleaned up quickly."

"So you haven't really gotten to really, experience it?"

"No, I actually think this is the first time I've stopped to really take it all in."

While Fiona could help but watch his childlike fascination with snow, she felt a bit bad for him he hadn't really gotten to live what could be considered a normal life. Tails walked over to her with a somewhat uneven ball of snow in his hands. He seemed proud of himself, which prompted a smile from Fiona.

"He's like a child." She thought. Tails flopped down into the snow, leaving a imprint of himself. He stood back up and ran over to Fiona.

"This is actually really fun!" Tails began.

"You seem to be enjoying yourself at least."

"You bet!"

Fiona waited a moment before continuing, "So, I've always wondered, how did you get another tail? It just seems really odd."

"I was just born with it. It's a side effect of the growth enhancer Robotnik grafted to us."

"Us?"

"Project: Synthesis, that's what he called us at least. I wasn't the first."

"Who was?"

"I don't know much about her, I know her name was Sonia, but not much else outside of that, she didn't live more than a week or two so there's not much data available."

"You mentioned a growth enhancer?" Fiona asked.

"It let's Robotnik skip the less desirable parts, quickly ages us while its active. It's done with a injection that he normally gives us just as we wake up for the first time. Goes through four or so years of physical and mental growth in just a week or two. There's a sight modification to my DNA that allows my body to handle it, with anybody else, there's no telling what it would do."

"Makes since, so, how old are you exactly?"

"Physically? I think about thirteen, though I'm not completely sure. As for how lone since I was created? Eight, I forget the exact date."

"Didn't you ever think what you were doing was wrong?"

"Sometimes, Robotnik kept the details from me." Tails responded.

"Did he give you the Tails nickname?"

"Luckily no, that was Sonic's idea. Originally I didn't really like it, but I think its grown on me."

"It's a perfect nickname, calling you Miles just feels a little odd now. I've got one more question, if that's alright. Why even bother?"

"What do you mean?"

"Why did Robotnik go through all the trouble to create another living being rather then just giving the job to a robot?"

"He was tired of being bested, now that I look back on it, he's a bit too full of himself. He doesn't realize it's his mistakes that cause failure. I guess if he wasn't so overly confident, I wouldn't have been made in the first place. He figured that since his robots couldn't get anything done, living things would be better. Now obviously, he can't use prisoners or robians for different reasons. So he needed one from scratch, the idea was they would be more insightful then robots and be able to adjust plans on the fly. I guess he forgot that giving me my own freewill was a bad idea. I looked up to him, but finding out what he was actually up to broke the illusion."

Fiona thought through her response for a moment, "I guess that makes sense, well, it's nice having you here." She pulled the kit into a light hug, he returned the gesture.

"Same goes for you! It's nice meeting all of you!"

Fiona did have to admit, his enthusiasm was contagious and it was starting to rub off onto her.

About an hour later, the two foxes returned to Knothole. Both completely coated in snow from the falling crystals in the air, and because they had a small snowball fight during their time out. Sonic couldn't help but notice the two, still chatting away as they entered.

"I take it you enjoyed yourselves?" He asked, before Fiona could respond, Tails already had.

"Yeah we did!" The kit exclaimed. "How have I not done that before?"

"Good to hear that bud," Sonic responded. Pulling the kit over and ruffling his bangs. "Well, you're going to get to see more of it, we're doing another strike on Robotropolis later today, once it gets dark."

Tails nodded, and continued explaining to Sonic what had happened. Fiona left, she decided to prepare some of her stuff early. As she was getting everything ready, Sonic stepped into her and Tails' shared room.

"Where's Tails?" Fiona asked.

"He went back outside, I don't think he's still over his excitement."

"You should have seen him earlier."

"Yeah, but I'm not exactly here to talk about Tails. I'm here about you."

"What about it?"

"I've just noticed I don't know a lot about you, heck, I know more about my once mortal enemy then my own teammate!"

"Alright, what do you want to know?" Fiona responded.

"Well, what's your motive, I know Robotnik killed your parents. But it can't be that simple."

"I just want his destruction to end, specifically, ruining people's lives. I just want the peace we had before Robotnik back. How about you?"

"If he wins, it'll mean the end of all life as we know it. I want to protect not only those lives, but their freedoms as well. Back to you, how'd you live during the time you were on your own?"

"I stole, really whatever I could get my hands on. I learned to fight and how to live on my own. I did what I had to."

"Yikes, it was really that bad?"

"It sucked, that's why I wanted revenge on Tails for so long." Fiona responded. "Alright, my turn. Why do you keep doing this? Fighting Robotnik, haven't you already done enough?"

"Its something that me and Sal discussed at one point, but then we had a question we presented ourselves. 'If we don't fight, nobody will.' We weren't about to let that happen, we've gotten this far. We're not stopping now!"

Fiona smiled, "Well then count me in!"

-X-

The group approached Robotropolis just as night had fallen and one by one they vaulted the wall. Sally lead the group as they began their advance, taking out sets of robots with their advance as they approached the arms depot and primed it with explosives. Sally proposed a new plan.

"Considering we haven't set off any alerts, I think we could split up and hit several other targets."

The rest of the Freedom Fighters agreed and continued listening.

"Sonic, Antoine, and Bunnie, you'll take the warehouse just North of here. Rotor and I will move East and do the same. Tails and Fiona, there's another weapon depot North as well, I want you to get that."

They all nodded and after some brief instructions, headed off toward their targets. Tails and Fiona climbed onto a nearby roof top and began to approach their target. The snow underfoot crunched with every step. As they moved, the city alarm activated, somebody had been spotted. They jumped into the depot and prepared the explosive charges and clambered back onto rooftops, it would be safer.

Suddenly, Tails felt something hit him in the back of the head, a pinprick if he had to describe it and suddenly his entire body and eyelids felt incredibly heavy. He instinctively tried to yell to Fiona, who was in front of him for help but his voice refused to respond. He felt the world fall out from underneath him as he collapsed onto his stomach, unable to keep the darkness at the edges of his blurry vision at bay.

Fiona looked backward moments later and found Tails lying on the ground behind her, she noticed a dart was stuck out of the back of head, tranquilizer if she had to guess. Which meant…

She quickly dodged to the side and a second dart flew past her head. As she turned around a dark figure appeared on the rooftop across from her. He wore a cloak, and as such it was difficult for her to make out any of his appearance. She watch him draw what looked to almost be a sword. Utilizing what combat abilities she had, she swept the attacker off his feet. The figure swung at her from the ground and she pinned his arm down with her foot.

However, she suddenly felt a light impact on her arm, it was another dart, he quickly removed it but the sedative had already done its job. She suddenly felt woozy, and almost instantly she collapsed. Before she did however, she could have sworn her assailant vanished in a cloud of red smoke.

Alright guys, that's all for now! I wanted to write some fluffy moments at the start! Let me know what you thought! Be sure to follow to receive updates when I post another chapter! Until next time!