The Adventures of Haley the Foxhog
By: Kathryn Ismall
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LEGAL STUFF: All "Sonic The Hedgehog" characters and related indicia (c) and TM Sega and Archie. All used without permission.
Haley and all additional characters are (c) N. Kipphut and are not to be used in anything other than this story or its sequels.
This document may be freely distributed, so long as it's not altered in any way or used for profit making purposes.
"The Adventures of Haley the Foxhog" (c) 2002. All rights reserved.
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AUTHORS NOTES:
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: This is a story I wrote a long time ago when I was in fifth grade after watching the old cartoon "The Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog." Since the minor details and some characters are very fuzzy to me and since I don't get Toon Disney, you will only be exposed to a few of the characters. This is also based on a dream I had from which I had originally written the story. It also has some connections to the Archie comics.
WARNING: This story does contain language and violence, so it is rated PG-13.
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Before you get really confused while reading this, this story switches between Haley and Tails, and a character that shows up later on in the story. The parts where there are 3 * are the parts where there is a scene and/or character change.
This is set in a different Sonic universe so that I'm not working with just a narrow setting. This is when Tails is 16 years old, but Robotnik is still in power.
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One day I was running in a race with the boys on my street. We flew down the beach, the sand dragging at our feet and slowing us down as we ran. I was breathing heavily as I ran towards the finish line. I was in the lead and ahead by at least three feet! The adrenaline was pumping through my veins, giving me more energy and bringing me further ahead. I was exhilarated! I was the only girl in the race and I was winning!
The finish line drew closer. Ten feet. Seven. Four. Two. Finished!
Only when I crossed the line, I realized I wasn't on my beach anymore. I stopped and stared at the area in front of me.
I was standing in a suburban housing track that had a huge hill with a faint outline of a factory of some kind on top. There were huge gates at the bottom, and they were open. I shivered.
I began to walk down the street slowly. It was quiet and the only sound came from my footsteps. This neighborhood looked so different from mine. In fact, it was quite different from any suburbia I had ever seen.
As I walked, a voice broke the silence. "It worked! Scratch, Grounder! Seize her!"
I ran. Footsteps echoed on the sidewalk behind me as I flew down the street, my breathing becoming heavy with the panic. I glanced over my shoulder and gasped. Two robots were chasing after me and gaining. One was a short, green, and barrel-like machine while the other was tall, and resembled a shiny humanoid chicken.
My muscles screamed in agony as my pace began to slow. I continued to run, but now I was barely at a jog. The two robots caught up to me easily, and the tall robot grabbed my arm. When my muscles finally gave way to exhaustion, it just let go of my arm and I fell to the ground.
My vision swam as I struggled to stay awake. All I remember is seeing a blue blur fly over me and around the two robots, causing both of them to hit the ground. Then, just before I slipped into nothingness, a tan fox scooped me up into his arms and I faintly heard him telling me that everything would be all right. Then I blacked out.
* * *
I woke up in a large bed. The room was a little dark, but a little bit of light slipped in from underneath the door and underneath a pair of curtains on both windows. I stretched, almost reluctant to get out of bed. Then I remembered where I was. I jumped out of the bed and threw open the curtains to make sure I wasn't dreaming. Light poured in the room, revealing a street wasn't the one I had been on before, but I could already tell that again, it wasn't anything like that I had ever seen before. I ran to the door and was about to turn the handle when someone knocked. I froze in my tracks, and the person back. Then a voice from behind the door said, "You have to be awake by now. We made you something to eat, but I need you to open the door."
I opened the door slowly. I looked down when they tugged on my shirt and informed me that I needed to get out of the doorway so that he could set the tray down. I backed away quickly as he walked into the room and set the tray down on the nightstand next to my bed.
His fur was blue, except for his face around his mouth and stomach, which were tan. He had a small black nose and big, white eyes with little black ovals. Down the back of his head all the way down his round lower body were four curved spikes and ended with a small tail. He had white gloves on his hands and red shoes with a white stripe. He came to about my shoulder, but I'm not really a very large person to begin with.
"Don't be afraid. I won't hurt you," he said gently. He walked towards me slowly and I continued to back up.
"Who are you?" I demanded quietly. "And why am I here?"
He motioned for me to sit down. I did, but hesitantly. "My name is Sonic the Hedgehog. My friend is Miles Prower, whom I call Tails. We have been watching a large man named Dr. Robotnik closely after hearing that he would be performing an experiment to bring someone from past Earth to here. You are on the planet Mobius.
"He almost caught you, but we got there just in time. You were very lucky we got there when we did," he said gravely. Then a wicked smile spread across his face. "Now, who are you?"
"My name is Haley," I said quietly, looking into his eyes.
"Well, Haley, welcome to our home," he said, still grinning. "You should be safe here."
A small tapping noise came from the door and I jumped. Sonic looked at me strangely and said, "Come in Tails."
A young fox walked in. His fur was brown except for the ends of his two tails, his stomach, and the face around his mouth, which were tan. He too wore gloves on his hands and red shoes, with white on the end where the toes were. I could tell that him and Sonic were different in a couple of ways just by looking at them. Tails appeared to be more quiet and younger, while Sonic appeared to be more of a major smart ass and somewhat older.
"Hello," Tails said quietly.
"Tails, this is Haley," said Sonic.
I couldn't take my eyes off the young fox for some reason (well, he actually wasn't young; I later learned they were both older than me). My voice almost caught in my throat as I said, "Pleased to meet you."
Then I reached over to the tray of food. Surprisingly, I found that I was quite hungry. They talked quietly to each other as I ate. I can only remember a little of what was said.
"Robotnik must have planned to do something... Could he have planned the person?" Tails said.
"Who knows, Ro-butt-nik is always planning stuff like this. Only he could have done something this stupid. Why worry so badly? She'll be safe here," Sonic said.
I stood up when I was finished and they both looked up. "Okay, now what? When are you going to find me a way home?" I asked.
They looked at each other in a kind of "uh oh" sort of way. Then Tails looked at me and said, "Haley, we don't know if you can go home."
"When we said we've been watching Robotnik, we had only an idea of what he was doing. I don't know if what he did was reversible," admitted Sonic.
I staggered in shock. Why hadn't I thought of this before? ::God, I am so screwed,:: I thought as tears began to form in my eyes.
"I'm sorry Haley," said Tails and I put my hand on my shoulder. I shook my head to get rid of the tears and said, "Don't be. This isn't your fault. What's more important is the fact of why I'm here, and if Dr. Robotnik can get stopped from bringing others here since he doesn't have me."
"Let's go get Ro-butt-nik!" said Sonic enthusiastically and laughing, we all went downstairs.
* * *
BUZZ! My commlink buzzed on my wrist. "Yes?"
"Still no sign of the robots that chased me before," Haley said.
"Okay, I'm right above you," I replied, my two tails twirling around, keeping me above the crowd.
Sonic's plan had been to lure out Scratch or Grounder, using Haley as bait. I had not agreed with the plan, mostly because it was too damn risky. But Haley had agreed with the plan, so I was forced to go along with it.
Besides, Sonic had had enough to worry about with Princess Sally being missing for so long. Sonic was scared to acknowledge the fact that she might be dead, but I knew he would never admit it out loud, and I didn't have the heart to tell him.
I continued to watch the street. I saw Haley being pulled into an alley by someone. My commlink buzzed again, only this time it was Sonic.
"See anything?" he asked.
"She's being pulled into an alley by someone and I don't think its Scratch or Grounder," I replied, flying closer.
"I'm on it," he said, and I saw a figure move towards the alley. Then another.
"Sonic, they've been waiting for her! It's a trap!" I screamed and dove towards the alley.
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"Are you sure you want to buy this cloth? It's very expensive," said the vendor.
"What about this one?" I said, looking around at the nearby people while picking up a piece of beautiful dark blue velvet. I felt suddenly crowded in by a growing group of people. I dropped the cloth and the vendor grabbed my arm and pulled me into the nearby alley. Two others followed us in.
"Sonic, they've been waiting for her! It's a trap!" I heard Tails yell above me.
"He's too late," hissed the vendor into my ear as he pulled a brick from a wall, which revealed a series of buttons and switches. He pressed a switch and a hole opened in the ground.
The two other men picked me up by my arms and legs. I struggled, but my efforts were wasted. They threw me down into the hole and I slid down a long metal tube. After only a few minutes I landed on a hard metal floor and fell on my face. I bit my lip and it began bleeding profusely.
"Welcome to my hell," said a booming voice. I looked up from where I lay and gasped. Before me stood a fat man clad in yellow, red, and black. He wore a red cape and an enormous orange moustache. His eyes were black with red pupils, and on his face he wore a malicious grin. "You just might be staying here for a while."
"Screw you, you fat bastard," I said and spit the blood from my mouth at his feet. "What the hell do you want with me?"
He kicked me in the gut and I doubled over in pain. He leaned over and said, "Tsk, tsk. That's no way to get information out of someone, now is it?" He snapped his fingers and two robots picked me up off the floor and threw me against a wall. Each grabbed a chain and slapped my wrists into the cuffs.
By now the blood from my mouth had poured and splattered all over the front of my shirt and the floor. Robotnik shook his head at the mess I had made. "Pitiful, pitiful," he said softly. Then he got about an inch from my face. "I will not hesitate to kill you or make you my slave. Those freedom fighter brats won't find you easily."
I gathered what little bit of moisture I had left in my mouth combined with the blood from my lip and spit at him again. This time it landed in his eye. He raised his fist, and it stopped a hair away from my nose.
"You will only get more pain here by being a bitch. I have plenty of ways to make you scream," he hissed and walked away. As he walked out the door, he whispered something to the guards. I couldn't make out his words, but I knew it wasn't good.
* * *
"Sonic, where is she?" I said anxiously, wringing my hands in worry.
"Tails, I don't know. He's pulled a new one on us," he replied. Then he slammed a fist into a wall. "Ol' Butt-nik actually came up with something that we didn't think of!"
I paced back and forth in a kind of frenzied behavior. She had just disappeared in that alley and we had searched the whole thing for over an hour and still found nothing that could have given a clue to her disappearance!
::If only I had gotten there faster, we could have saved her!:: I thought in frustration.
I looked over at Sonic, and I could see a familiar expression on his face. He had the same look on his face the day Aunt Sally disappeared.
We had been freeing a bunch of people from Robotnik's prison. Sonic and Sally were together on the ground and I was airlifting people up to a ledge where they would be safe from his SWATbots. When we had finally airlifted all of the people, I took both Sally and Sonic up at the same time. Sonic had a hold with one hand on my leg and Sally on the other. But her grip on his hand slipped and she fell into a swarm of bots. She tried to fight and get free, but they captured her. Sonic knew he had to stay with the people we had freed, but the expression on his face was one of defeat. He is strong, and he holds it against himself when we're is beaten, even when it is not his fault.
I put my hand on his shoulder. "You're not to blame, Sonic. It was no one's fault. Let's just work on getting her back," I said quietly, hardly able to keep the frustration at myself from showing through.
He nodded and said softly. "Butt-nik's gonna pay, that stupid fat jerk-off."
We walked out of that alley and back towards our hideout.
* * *
My side hurt every time I breathed. The asshole had bruised at least two of my ribs. My lip had finally stopped bleeding and the blood was dried around my mouth. My legs ached and I desperately needed to sit down. I pulled on the chains and they actually came forward so that I could sit down. In fact, I could also put my arms down.
After I sat there for a few minutes Robotnik came back into the room.
"Comfortable, are we?" he said with a hint of amusement in his voice. He held a pitcher and a glass in his hand. When he saw me eyeing it he said, "Don't worry, it has nothing lethal in it. Or any drugs for that matter."
He poured me a cup and handed it to me. I grabbed it and gulped it down, now realizing how thirsty I was. I wiped my face with the back of my hand and handed the cup back to him.
"I can be quite generous when I want to be, you know," he said.
"What do you want from me?" I demanded, cutting him off as he started to say something else.
He grinned in a sinister way. I stood up and glared at him. He laughed. "Are you standing up to me, you puny little human? You are more foolish than I thought." He turned to his robots. "Take the chains off, but bind her hands. We are going to go for a little walk. Also, fetch me Scratch and Grounder."
The chains were removed but my hands had no time to regain any feeling they might have had, for they tied a length of rope around my wrists and left about three feet of rope for him to hold on to. I felt like a dog out for a walk with her owner.
I was forced to walk beside him down a hallway. "You know, if you play your cards right and join me, we could easily vanquish those brats," he said.
"Robotnik, you are as stupid as you are fat," I snarled. "I will never join you."
He yanked on the rope and I yelped in pain as my arms were yanked backwards. "Never talk to me in that tone of voice, you stupid bitch. You have no idea who you are messing with."
"Screw you asshole," I hissed as we stopped in front of a new door. The door opened from the inside and he grabbed me by the shoulder and threw me into the room.
I hit the floor full force on my arm and a new wave of pain and nausea swept through me. Then he untied my hands and I got up off the floor and rubbed the feeling back into my wrists.
Robotnik called for Scratch and Grounder, the two robots that had chased me the day before. They both came and stood by his side. "Now, girl, you have two choices: You can either become my experiment again, OR you can become a robot. You have ten minutes to decide."
* * *
Sonic and I were flying through the air up towards the mountain. He had a hold of my hands as we flew up towards Robotnik's fortress.
"That's odd," said Sonic as we drew closer. "I don't see any bots; Butt-nik's expecting us."
A knot appeared to be in my stomach and it was growing with my sense of dread. ::I hope Haley's all right,:: I thought as I placed Sonic down in front of the door. I landed beside him as Sonic looked for controls that would open the door from the outside.
He found a little box underneath a pile of blackened gush that were polluted leaves. He opened it to reveal a button. He pushed it and the door creaked open. We walked in and were instantly greeted by Scratch and Grounder.
"Hello Sonic. Hello Tails," said Scratch in mock politeness. "His evilness has been expecting you."
Sonic ran into Scratch and knocked him over. "Okay metal brain. You have two seconds to tell me what Ro-butt-nik wants with the girl or you will be scrap."
Grounder smiled. The damn bot always found things like this amusing. "His rudeness only instructed up to bring you to him. You have the honor of Dr. Robotnik that neither of you will be harmed."
"And what if we don't believe you?" I demanded, anxious to get in there and get Haley out.
"Then we will have no choice but to call in the SWATbots and make you go," replied Scratch with a more-than-obvious note of panic in his voice.
"You'd better not be lying," Sonic snarled, but let Scratch up.
The two robots led the way down a shadowy hallway. We soon stopped in front of a door. It opened from the inside when Scratch tapped on it and we walked in.
On one side of the room, there was the dreaded roboticizer. The machine was capable of turning live Mobians into robots to work for Robotnik. It was everyone's fear that they would meet that fate, and it would be worse than hell.
On the other side of the room were two glass tubes that ran from ceiling to floor. In one side was Princess Sally, and in the other was Haley!
"HALEY!" I screamed and ran towards the tube. At the same time, Sonic had yelled for Sally and ran towards her tube.
The bots held us back as we struggled to get to the two girls.
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"You have one minute to decide, so what's it going to be?" Robotnik repeated in frustration.
"I'd rather be your experiment than your slave, you stupid tub of lard," I yelled. "Is that what you wanted? Happy now?!"
He grinned nastily. He pointed at a monitor where Sonic and Tails were standing in front of a huge door. "Oh, look. Your friends are just on time." He rubbed his hands together with glee. "I have a little surprise for the hedgehog." He snapped his fingers and two robots grabbed me under the arms and picked me up. I struggled and kicked. Two holes opened up in the floor and two long glass tubes came up. One already had a figure inside. The other was empty.
Robotnik pushed a button and a door opened in the side of the tube. "Put her in there, but gently," he ordered his bots and they walked over and set me into the tube. The door closed as soon as I got in there.
I watched Scratch and Grounder leave and return a few minutes later with Sonic and Tails.
"HALEY!" Tails screamed and ran at my tube.
"SALLY!" Sonic yelled and ran at the other one.
Both of them were held back by two of Robotnik's robots. He walked over and stood between the tubes. I cried out to Tails, while Sally remained silent.
"What have you done, you sick twisted freak?" shrieked Sonic.
Robotnik smiled. "Oh, the Princess is not dead. But you are about to witness a new creation of mine. First, I need a hair from both of you to place in the computer." He walked over and plucked a hair from Tails and Sonic. I don't know how he managed it since they were both struggling a lot against their bots. He then walked over to the computer and placed the hair in a tube, which seemed to absorb and copy the DNA.
"Don't worry. This won't kill the girl," he said and flipped a switch.
A scream ripped from my chest as my body was engulfed with pain. I was aware that my body was changing. My spine extended and then split into two at the extension. My long brown hair disappeared and I could feel fur growing all over my body. My shirt ripped when huge spike-like curves grew from my back. My hands and legs shrunk and my entire body became smaller. I was aware that the process was over when the door opened in the tube and I fell into someone's arms.
I opened my eyes and looked into Tails' face. I reached a hand up and brushed the tears running from his eyes. Then I just succumbed to the gentle blackness of sleep.
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"Tails, please," Haley cried. Then Robotnik flipped a switch.
The scream that came from Haley's tube was enough to raise the dead. I watched in horror as she changed. Two tails were growing out of the bottom of her spine. The hair on her head disappeared and blue-and-tan fur began to sprout all over her body. Her face elongated into my muzzle, and her arms and legs were Sonic's. She had my tails and also the spikes along Sonic's back and head. She also had his body.
When Haley was finished changing, she slumped against the side of the tube. Robotnik pressed a button. Sally tumbled out of her tube and Sonic was there in an instant to catch her. He pressed another button and Haley tumbled out. I flew over and caught her. Despite my efforts, I was crying. She opened her eyes and lifted a hand to brush the tears from my eyes. Then she fell unconscious. I leaned over and cried into her shoulder.
Robotnik called to a tiny human that was behind him. "Snively, please escort the hedgehog and the fox to the door."
Sonic picked up the Princess and I had Haley in my arms. The little pointy-nosed nephew of Robotnik kept getting in the way of our progress towards the door.
"All right, needle nose, get out of the way!" said Sonic in frustration and shoved Snively out of the way with his foot.
"You're lucky I have my orders not to harm you or else you'd be dead, hedgehog," the little prick snapped from the floor.
"Have a nice day," Sonic replied and kicked him in the stomach on the way out the door. As soon as we were out of hearing distance I said, "Screw the hideout Sonic. We need to get these two to Knothole."
"We could risk the entire village!" he protested. "Buttnik would have a freaking party!"
"If we want this REBELLION to survive, then we need to get them to Knothole. At least do it for Aunt Sally!" I argued.
I could almost see the gears in Sonic's head turning as he thought. "All right, we'll go to Knothole."
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I woke up in a dimly lit room. ::Heh, déjà-vu. It's a glitch in the Matrix, Neo!:: I thought to myself and giggled.
A light turned on. "You're awake. Good," said a new voice and a yellow duck walked over to my bed.
"Who are you, and why am I here?" I demanded. "And where are Sonic and Tails?"
"Calm down, Haley!" he replied. "You are in the village of Knothole, home of the freedom fighters. Sonic and Tails brought you here after Dr. Robotnik performed an experiment on you, which I am quite surprised that you lived through."
I put my hands to my face. Where my nose and mouth should have been was a muzzle. I looked at my hands and arms. They had no fur, but they were very thin and light. I ran to a mirror and stared at the monstrosity that was my reflection.
"My God, what the hell has he done to me?" I said quietly as panic began to rise in my chest.
"To tell you the truth, I really don't know," the duck replied.
I ran to the door and threw it open. I ran into the middle of a circle of small houses. Before I realized it, someone had come up behind me and knocked me down. It definitely got my attention and got me back to my senses. "Sorry sugah," said the person who had tackled me. "Ah had to stop ya before ya went completely nuts."
I stood up. Before me stood a person who was half rabbit, half machine. Most of her fur was a darker yellow, while her ears and stomach were pink. One of her arms and everything from the waist down were encased in metal.
She shook my arm. "Are y'all right?" she asked.
"Yeah," I replied and put out my hand. "Hi, I'm Haley."
She shook it. "Mah name's Bunnie," she replied and smiled. She the persona of one who knew how to make others feel better.
"Haley!" called Tails as he ran from the woods. "Are you all right?"
"Would people stop asking me that? I'm fine!" I said in annoyance. When Tails looked crushed, I said, "I'm sorry Tails. I shouldn't have snapped it's just..."
"It's okay Haley. I understand," he replied quietly. I reached over and squeezed his shoulder.
"Haley, if you are now calm, then will you please come back so that I may be able to examine you further?" called out the annoyed voice of the doctor.
I blushed. "Yeah. Sorry doctor." I went back and Tails and Bunnie followed me.
"Come over here," said the doctor and lead me to a machine.
"It's ready, doctor," said a purple walrus. He nodded at me. "Hello, Haley, I'm Rotor."
"Okay Haley, let's hook you up to this thing and see what Robotnik did to you," said the doctor and began to attach wires to my arms and chest. Tails pulled out some chairs and he, Bunnie and I all sat down. Tails sat right next to me, which made me feel more at ease because I had no idea what the doctor was going to do with me.
The doctor turned the machine on and instantly I felt as though I was in some kind of void, and I was standing in the middle of a swirling storm of thoughts. I could literally see the images of memories, emotions, and dreams flying around. I reached out and touched one that was close to me and I was instantly standing in the memory.
Tails was standing there looking at me while I slept. I could hear voices in the background; echoes of what went on after Sonic and Tails had brought me to Knothole.
"She's been out for almost two days," Sonic's voice said, eerily echoing. "The doctor has no idea if she'll even wake up."
"She will," Tails said defiantly.
"You have a thing for her, don't you?" an unfamiliar female voice said.
"I don't know, Aunt Sally," Tails replied, but his thoughts betrayed him to me. ::Yes, I do. God, no one knows how much I care for her. They just think that I'm a kid that knows nothing.::
"Okay sugah," said Bunnie amusedly. "Ah can see ya got the hots for her from a mile away."
"No I don't!" argued Tails. "Please leave me alone!"
Then the memory ended and I was standing in the void again, the images swirling around me. I was suddenly aware that my own memories and thoughts were being added to the swirl of colors.
I reached out and touched a different reflection. This time it was Sonic's.
He was standing at the edge of a forest, wondering if he should run, even with Sally out of her coma. He felt that he should stay with her, despite the fact that everyone had told him to take a break. Plus, he was worried about Tails. Haley had been out for four days since her ordeal with Robotnik and Tails was looking more and more on the verge of snapping. Everyone had tried to do everything to pry him away from her, but so far nothing had worked. The little Prower was smitten with Haley, almost as much as he was with Sally, although he'd never admit it out loud to anyone. Sonic shook his head and began to run, knowing that it would clear his head. Then that memory ended too.
I stood in the void and thought out loud to myself. "I need to get out of here!"
I was abruptly aware of the sudden burst of white light in front of my eyes and voices yelling, even though I couldn't make out what they were saying. Slowly the light faded and I could see the room again. Tails was in a corner and crying while Rotor and the doctor unhooked me from their machine.
"What the hell happened?" I whispered angrily.
"I don't know what happened," the doctor said, a hint of panic in his voice. "Your vital signs had dropped and we don't understand why. Your mind was going through rapid eye movement, or REM. That was the only thing that stopped your brain from not functioning." He looked worriedly over at Tails. "He said that something was in his head and was terrified."
"Tails," I called, my voice barely above a whisper, but he heard me and looked up. "Come here." He walked over and stood next to me. I grabbed his hand. It was then that he knew I was the one was in his mind. I calmed him with little telepathic messages from my mind.
He pulled his hand away and walked out. I got up, despite the doctors relentless complaints that I should remain there. I finally turned and told him to be quiet. He did, and I walked out of that house in search of Tails.
* * *
I couldn't stop thinking about how Haley had just entered my mind like that. She had to have known by now. She had to have known that I was in love with her. I had flown to a high ledge where I often when I am upset. I sat there thinking.
::Tails, what are you going to do now? She can't possibly feel the same way,:: I berated myself. ::She couldn't possibly love you!::
I got up and paced back and forth, so deep in thought that I didn't hear Dulcy the dragon land. "So young Tails, what is troubling you?"
I jumped. "Oh, it's you Dulcy. Nothing's bothering me."
She rolled her eyes and sighed. "You should really know by now that you can't lie to a dragon."
I blushed. "I know, I know. It's just that, there was this problem with Haley..."
"Ah, yes. The young human," she said. "Go on."
I shifted my feet uncomfortably. "And I kind of well... I love her Dulcy."
Dulcy smiled. "Tails, I can sense you are now telling the truth. I believe that your love is true, and that it will be returned. In fact, I think she's looking for you right now."
I smiled, happiness rising in my chest. "Thanks Dulcy!" I said and jumped off the ledge. I twirled my two tails around and flew from the ledge back towards the village.
* * *
"Oh, where the hell could Tails possibly be?" I said out loud in frustration. I was flying through the air, but it was very shaky. Already I had collided into a few trees because I couldn't control myself. Still, I was convinced that the only was I would find the fox would be to fly.
I looked towards the ground just in time to see a blue streak fly across the surface. "Sonic!" I yelled. The streak stopped and looked around. "No, up here!"
He looked up. "Haley, what are you doing up there?"
I sighed. "Attempting to fly. Have you seen Tails?"
"No, I haven't," he said and then his eyes widened. "Haley, look out!"
I looked up and a black bot was hurling through the air at me. I twirled my two tails, but I wasn't fast enough. The bot was gaining! Then Tails slammed into me and we the hit the ground. We then rolled until we stopped.
When we stopped rolling, the black bot was above us. Then Sonic went into a Sonic Spin and cut the robot in two. But we weren't really paying attention much to Sonic or the bot.
I was looking up into Tails' eyes. He had landed on top, and we both just kind of lay there for a moment. Then he leaned over for a second and his face hovered over mine, almost hesitantly. Then he kissed me. It was like magic. I knew he had almost no idea what he was doing, but it was still wonderful. I can't even begin to describe how I felt. My new telepathic abilities sent feelings sweeping through both of us, as though we were one.
By: Kathryn Ismall
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LEGAL STUFF: All "Sonic The Hedgehog" characters and related indicia (c) and TM Sega and Archie. All used without permission.
Haley and all additional characters are (c) N. Kipphut and are not to be used in anything other than this story or its sequels.
This document may be freely distributed, so long as it's not altered in any way or used for profit making purposes.
"The Adventures of Haley the Foxhog" (c) 2002. All rights reserved.
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AUTHORS NOTES:
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: This is a story I wrote a long time ago when I was in fifth grade after watching the old cartoon "The Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog." Since the minor details and some characters are very fuzzy to me and since I don't get Toon Disney, you will only be exposed to a few of the characters. This is also based on a dream I had from which I had originally written the story. It also has some connections to the Archie comics.
WARNING: This story does contain language and violence, so it is rated PG-13.
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Before you get really confused while reading this, this story switches between Haley and Tails, and a character that shows up later on in the story. The parts where there are 3 * are the parts where there is a scene and/or character change.
This is set in a different Sonic universe so that I'm not working with just a narrow setting. This is when Tails is 16 years old, but Robotnik is still in power.
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One day I was running in a race with the boys on my street. We flew down the beach, the sand dragging at our feet and slowing us down as we ran. I was breathing heavily as I ran towards the finish line. I was in the lead and ahead by at least three feet! The adrenaline was pumping through my veins, giving me more energy and bringing me further ahead. I was exhilarated! I was the only girl in the race and I was winning!
The finish line drew closer. Ten feet. Seven. Four. Two. Finished!
Only when I crossed the line, I realized I wasn't on my beach anymore. I stopped and stared at the area in front of me.
I was standing in a suburban housing track that had a huge hill with a faint outline of a factory of some kind on top. There were huge gates at the bottom, and they were open. I shivered.
I began to walk down the street slowly. It was quiet and the only sound came from my footsteps. This neighborhood looked so different from mine. In fact, it was quite different from any suburbia I had ever seen.
As I walked, a voice broke the silence. "It worked! Scratch, Grounder! Seize her!"
I ran. Footsteps echoed on the sidewalk behind me as I flew down the street, my breathing becoming heavy with the panic. I glanced over my shoulder and gasped. Two robots were chasing after me and gaining. One was a short, green, and barrel-like machine while the other was tall, and resembled a shiny humanoid chicken.
My muscles screamed in agony as my pace began to slow. I continued to run, but now I was barely at a jog. The two robots caught up to me easily, and the tall robot grabbed my arm. When my muscles finally gave way to exhaustion, it just let go of my arm and I fell to the ground.
My vision swam as I struggled to stay awake. All I remember is seeing a blue blur fly over me and around the two robots, causing both of them to hit the ground. Then, just before I slipped into nothingness, a tan fox scooped me up into his arms and I faintly heard him telling me that everything would be all right. Then I blacked out.
* * *
I woke up in a large bed. The room was a little dark, but a little bit of light slipped in from underneath the door and underneath a pair of curtains on both windows. I stretched, almost reluctant to get out of bed. Then I remembered where I was. I jumped out of the bed and threw open the curtains to make sure I wasn't dreaming. Light poured in the room, revealing a street wasn't the one I had been on before, but I could already tell that again, it wasn't anything like that I had ever seen before. I ran to the door and was about to turn the handle when someone knocked. I froze in my tracks, and the person back. Then a voice from behind the door said, "You have to be awake by now. We made you something to eat, but I need you to open the door."
I opened the door slowly. I looked down when they tugged on my shirt and informed me that I needed to get out of the doorway so that he could set the tray down. I backed away quickly as he walked into the room and set the tray down on the nightstand next to my bed.
His fur was blue, except for his face around his mouth and stomach, which were tan. He had a small black nose and big, white eyes with little black ovals. Down the back of his head all the way down his round lower body were four curved spikes and ended with a small tail. He had white gloves on his hands and red shoes with a white stripe. He came to about my shoulder, but I'm not really a very large person to begin with.
"Don't be afraid. I won't hurt you," he said gently. He walked towards me slowly and I continued to back up.
"Who are you?" I demanded quietly. "And why am I here?"
He motioned for me to sit down. I did, but hesitantly. "My name is Sonic the Hedgehog. My friend is Miles Prower, whom I call Tails. We have been watching a large man named Dr. Robotnik closely after hearing that he would be performing an experiment to bring someone from past Earth to here. You are on the planet Mobius.
"He almost caught you, but we got there just in time. You were very lucky we got there when we did," he said gravely. Then a wicked smile spread across his face. "Now, who are you?"
"My name is Haley," I said quietly, looking into his eyes.
"Well, Haley, welcome to our home," he said, still grinning. "You should be safe here."
A small tapping noise came from the door and I jumped. Sonic looked at me strangely and said, "Come in Tails."
A young fox walked in. His fur was brown except for the ends of his two tails, his stomach, and the face around his mouth, which were tan. He too wore gloves on his hands and red shoes, with white on the end where the toes were. I could tell that him and Sonic were different in a couple of ways just by looking at them. Tails appeared to be more quiet and younger, while Sonic appeared to be more of a major smart ass and somewhat older.
"Hello," Tails said quietly.
"Tails, this is Haley," said Sonic.
I couldn't take my eyes off the young fox for some reason (well, he actually wasn't young; I later learned they were both older than me). My voice almost caught in my throat as I said, "Pleased to meet you."
Then I reached over to the tray of food. Surprisingly, I found that I was quite hungry. They talked quietly to each other as I ate. I can only remember a little of what was said.
"Robotnik must have planned to do something... Could he have planned the person?" Tails said.
"Who knows, Ro-butt-nik is always planning stuff like this. Only he could have done something this stupid. Why worry so badly? She'll be safe here," Sonic said.
I stood up when I was finished and they both looked up. "Okay, now what? When are you going to find me a way home?" I asked.
They looked at each other in a kind of "uh oh" sort of way. Then Tails looked at me and said, "Haley, we don't know if you can go home."
"When we said we've been watching Robotnik, we had only an idea of what he was doing. I don't know if what he did was reversible," admitted Sonic.
I staggered in shock. Why hadn't I thought of this before? ::God, I am so screwed,:: I thought as tears began to form in my eyes.
"I'm sorry Haley," said Tails and I put my hand on my shoulder. I shook my head to get rid of the tears and said, "Don't be. This isn't your fault. What's more important is the fact of why I'm here, and if Dr. Robotnik can get stopped from bringing others here since he doesn't have me."
"Let's go get Ro-butt-nik!" said Sonic enthusiastically and laughing, we all went downstairs.
* * *
BUZZ! My commlink buzzed on my wrist. "Yes?"
"Still no sign of the robots that chased me before," Haley said.
"Okay, I'm right above you," I replied, my two tails twirling around, keeping me above the crowd.
Sonic's plan had been to lure out Scratch or Grounder, using Haley as bait. I had not agreed with the plan, mostly because it was too damn risky. But Haley had agreed with the plan, so I was forced to go along with it.
Besides, Sonic had had enough to worry about with Princess Sally being missing for so long. Sonic was scared to acknowledge the fact that she might be dead, but I knew he would never admit it out loud, and I didn't have the heart to tell him.
I continued to watch the street. I saw Haley being pulled into an alley by someone. My commlink buzzed again, only this time it was Sonic.
"See anything?" he asked.
"She's being pulled into an alley by someone and I don't think its Scratch or Grounder," I replied, flying closer.
"I'm on it," he said, and I saw a figure move towards the alley. Then another.
"Sonic, they've been waiting for her! It's a trap!" I screamed and dove towards the alley.
* * *
"Are you sure you want to buy this cloth? It's very expensive," said the vendor.
"What about this one?" I said, looking around at the nearby people while picking up a piece of beautiful dark blue velvet. I felt suddenly crowded in by a growing group of people. I dropped the cloth and the vendor grabbed my arm and pulled me into the nearby alley. Two others followed us in.
"Sonic, they've been waiting for her! It's a trap!" I heard Tails yell above me.
"He's too late," hissed the vendor into my ear as he pulled a brick from a wall, which revealed a series of buttons and switches. He pressed a switch and a hole opened in the ground.
The two other men picked me up by my arms and legs. I struggled, but my efforts were wasted. They threw me down into the hole and I slid down a long metal tube. After only a few minutes I landed on a hard metal floor and fell on my face. I bit my lip and it began bleeding profusely.
"Welcome to my hell," said a booming voice. I looked up from where I lay and gasped. Before me stood a fat man clad in yellow, red, and black. He wore a red cape and an enormous orange moustache. His eyes were black with red pupils, and on his face he wore a malicious grin. "You just might be staying here for a while."
"Screw you, you fat bastard," I said and spit the blood from my mouth at his feet. "What the hell do you want with me?"
He kicked me in the gut and I doubled over in pain. He leaned over and said, "Tsk, tsk. That's no way to get information out of someone, now is it?" He snapped his fingers and two robots picked me up off the floor and threw me against a wall. Each grabbed a chain and slapped my wrists into the cuffs.
By now the blood from my mouth had poured and splattered all over the front of my shirt and the floor. Robotnik shook his head at the mess I had made. "Pitiful, pitiful," he said softly. Then he got about an inch from my face. "I will not hesitate to kill you or make you my slave. Those freedom fighter brats won't find you easily."
I gathered what little bit of moisture I had left in my mouth combined with the blood from my lip and spit at him again. This time it landed in his eye. He raised his fist, and it stopped a hair away from my nose.
"You will only get more pain here by being a bitch. I have plenty of ways to make you scream," he hissed and walked away. As he walked out the door, he whispered something to the guards. I couldn't make out his words, but I knew it wasn't good.
* * *
"Sonic, where is she?" I said anxiously, wringing my hands in worry.
"Tails, I don't know. He's pulled a new one on us," he replied. Then he slammed a fist into a wall. "Ol' Butt-nik actually came up with something that we didn't think of!"
I paced back and forth in a kind of frenzied behavior. She had just disappeared in that alley and we had searched the whole thing for over an hour and still found nothing that could have given a clue to her disappearance!
::If only I had gotten there faster, we could have saved her!:: I thought in frustration.
I looked over at Sonic, and I could see a familiar expression on his face. He had the same look on his face the day Aunt Sally disappeared.
We had been freeing a bunch of people from Robotnik's prison. Sonic and Sally were together on the ground and I was airlifting people up to a ledge where they would be safe from his SWATbots. When we had finally airlifted all of the people, I took both Sally and Sonic up at the same time. Sonic had a hold with one hand on my leg and Sally on the other. But her grip on his hand slipped and she fell into a swarm of bots. She tried to fight and get free, but they captured her. Sonic knew he had to stay with the people we had freed, but the expression on his face was one of defeat. He is strong, and he holds it against himself when we're is beaten, even when it is not his fault.
I put my hand on his shoulder. "You're not to blame, Sonic. It was no one's fault. Let's just work on getting her back," I said quietly, hardly able to keep the frustration at myself from showing through.
He nodded and said softly. "Butt-nik's gonna pay, that stupid fat jerk-off."
We walked out of that alley and back towards our hideout.
* * *
My side hurt every time I breathed. The asshole had bruised at least two of my ribs. My lip had finally stopped bleeding and the blood was dried around my mouth. My legs ached and I desperately needed to sit down. I pulled on the chains and they actually came forward so that I could sit down. In fact, I could also put my arms down.
After I sat there for a few minutes Robotnik came back into the room.
"Comfortable, are we?" he said with a hint of amusement in his voice. He held a pitcher and a glass in his hand. When he saw me eyeing it he said, "Don't worry, it has nothing lethal in it. Or any drugs for that matter."
He poured me a cup and handed it to me. I grabbed it and gulped it down, now realizing how thirsty I was. I wiped my face with the back of my hand and handed the cup back to him.
"I can be quite generous when I want to be, you know," he said.
"What do you want from me?" I demanded, cutting him off as he started to say something else.
He grinned in a sinister way. I stood up and glared at him. He laughed. "Are you standing up to me, you puny little human? You are more foolish than I thought." He turned to his robots. "Take the chains off, but bind her hands. We are going to go for a little walk. Also, fetch me Scratch and Grounder."
The chains were removed but my hands had no time to regain any feeling they might have had, for they tied a length of rope around my wrists and left about three feet of rope for him to hold on to. I felt like a dog out for a walk with her owner.
I was forced to walk beside him down a hallway. "You know, if you play your cards right and join me, we could easily vanquish those brats," he said.
"Robotnik, you are as stupid as you are fat," I snarled. "I will never join you."
He yanked on the rope and I yelped in pain as my arms were yanked backwards. "Never talk to me in that tone of voice, you stupid bitch. You have no idea who you are messing with."
"Screw you asshole," I hissed as we stopped in front of a new door. The door opened from the inside and he grabbed me by the shoulder and threw me into the room.
I hit the floor full force on my arm and a new wave of pain and nausea swept through me. Then he untied my hands and I got up off the floor and rubbed the feeling back into my wrists.
Robotnik called for Scratch and Grounder, the two robots that had chased me the day before. They both came and stood by his side. "Now, girl, you have two choices: You can either become my experiment again, OR you can become a robot. You have ten minutes to decide."
* * *
Sonic and I were flying through the air up towards the mountain. He had a hold of my hands as we flew up towards Robotnik's fortress.
"That's odd," said Sonic as we drew closer. "I don't see any bots; Butt-nik's expecting us."
A knot appeared to be in my stomach and it was growing with my sense of dread. ::I hope Haley's all right,:: I thought as I placed Sonic down in front of the door. I landed beside him as Sonic looked for controls that would open the door from the outside.
He found a little box underneath a pile of blackened gush that were polluted leaves. He opened it to reveal a button. He pushed it and the door creaked open. We walked in and were instantly greeted by Scratch and Grounder.
"Hello Sonic. Hello Tails," said Scratch in mock politeness. "His evilness has been expecting you."
Sonic ran into Scratch and knocked him over. "Okay metal brain. You have two seconds to tell me what Ro-butt-nik wants with the girl or you will be scrap."
Grounder smiled. The damn bot always found things like this amusing. "His rudeness only instructed up to bring you to him. You have the honor of Dr. Robotnik that neither of you will be harmed."
"And what if we don't believe you?" I demanded, anxious to get in there and get Haley out.
"Then we will have no choice but to call in the SWATbots and make you go," replied Scratch with a more-than-obvious note of panic in his voice.
"You'd better not be lying," Sonic snarled, but let Scratch up.
The two robots led the way down a shadowy hallway. We soon stopped in front of a door. It opened from the inside when Scratch tapped on it and we walked in.
On one side of the room, there was the dreaded roboticizer. The machine was capable of turning live Mobians into robots to work for Robotnik. It was everyone's fear that they would meet that fate, and it would be worse than hell.
On the other side of the room were two glass tubes that ran from ceiling to floor. In one side was Princess Sally, and in the other was Haley!
"HALEY!" I screamed and ran towards the tube. At the same time, Sonic had yelled for Sally and ran towards her tube.
The bots held us back as we struggled to get to the two girls.
* * *
"You have one minute to decide, so what's it going to be?" Robotnik repeated in frustration.
"I'd rather be your experiment than your slave, you stupid tub of lard," I yelled. "Is that what you wanted? Happy now?!"
He grinned nastily. He pointed at a monitor where Sonic and Tails were standing in front of a huge door. "Oh, look. Your friends are just on time." He rubbed his hands together with glee. "I have a little surprise for the hedgehog." He snapped his fingers and two robots grabbed me under the arms and picked me up. I struggled and kicked. Two holes opened up in the floor and two long glass tubes came up. One already had a figure inside. The other was empty.
Robotnik pushed a button and a door opened in the side of the tube. "Put her in there, but gently," he ordered his bots and they walked over and set me into the tube. The door closed as soon as I got in there.
I watched Scratch and Grounder leave and return a few minutes later with Sonic and Tails.
"HALEY!" Tails screamed and ran at my tube.
"SALLY!" Sonic yelled and ran at the other one.
Both of them were held back by two of Robotnik's robots. He walked over and stood between the tubes. I cried out to Tails, while Sally remained silent.
"What have you done, you sick twisted freak?" shrieked Sonic.
Robotnik smiled. "Oh, the Princess is not dead. But you are about to witness a new creation of mine. First, I need a hair from both of you to place in the computer." He walked over and plucked a hair from Tails and Sonic. I don't know how he managed it since they were both struggling a lot against their bots. He then walked over to the computer and placed the hair in a tube, which seemed to absorb and copy the DNA.
"Don't worry. This won't kill the girl," he said and flipped a switch.
A scream ripped from my chest as my body was engulfed with pain. I was aware that my body was changing. My spine extended and then split into two at the extension. My long brown hair disappeared and I could feel fur growing all over my body. My shirt ripped when huge spike-like curves grew from my back. My hands and legs shrunk and my entire body became smaller. I was aware that the process was over when the door opened in the tube and I fell into someone's arms.
I opened my eyes and looked into Tails' face. I reached a hand up and brushed the tears running from his eyes. Then I just succumbed to the gentle blackness of sleep.
* * *
"Tails, please," Haley cried. Then Robotnik flipped a switch.
The scream that came from Haley's tube was enough to raise the dead. I watched in horror as she changed. Two tails were growing out of the bottom of her spine. The hair on her head disappeared and blue-and-tan fur began to sprout all over her body. Her face elongated into my muzzle, and her arms and legs were Sonic's. She had my tails and also the spikes along Sonic's back and head. She also had his body.
When Haley was finished changing, she slumped against the side of the tube. Robotnik pressed a button. Sally tumbled out of her tube and Sonic was there in an instant to catch her. He pressed another button and Haley tumbled out. I flew over and caught her. Despite my efforts, I was crying. She opened her eyes and lifted a hand to brush the tears from my eyes. Then she fell unconscious. I leaned over and cried into her shoulder.
Robotnik called to a tiny human that was behind him. "Snively, please escort the hedgehog and the fox to the door."
Sonic picked up the Princess and I had Haley in my arms. The little pointy-nosed nephew of Robotnik kept getting in the way of our progress towards the door.
"All right, needle nose, get out of the way!" said Sonic in frustration and shoved Snively out of the way with his foot.
"You're lucky I have my orders not to harm you or else you'd be dead, hedgehog," the little prick snapped from the floor.
"Have a nice day," Sonic replied and kicked him in the stomach on the way out the door. As soon as we were out of hearing distance I said, "Screw the hideout Sonic. We need to get these two to Knothole."
"We could risk the entire village!" he protested. "Buttnik would have a freaking party!"
"If we want this REBELLION to survive, then we need to get them to Knothole. At least do it for Aunt Sally!" I argued.
I could almost see the gears in Sonic's head turning as he thought. "All right, we'll go to Knothole."
* * *
I woke up in a dimly lit room. ::Heh, déjà-vu. It's a glitch in the Matrix, Neo!:: I thought to myself and giggled.
A light turned on. "You're awake. Good," said a new voice and a yellow duck walked over to my bed.
"Who are you, and why am I here?" I demanded. "And where are Sonic and Tails?"
"Calm down, Haley!" he replied. "You are in the village of Knothole, home of the freedom fighters. Sonic and Tails brought you here after Dr. Robotnik performed an experiment on you, which I am quite surprised that you lived through."
I put my hands to my face. Where my nose and mouth should have been was a muzzle. I looked at my hands and arms. They had no fur, but they were very thin and light. I ran to a mirror and stared at the monstrosity that was my reflection.
"My God, what the hell has he done to me?" I said quietly as panic began to rise in my chest.
"To tell you the truth, I really don't know," the duck replied.
I ran to the door and threw it open. I ran into the middle of a circle of small houses. Before I realized it, someone had come up behind me and knocked me down. It definitely got my attention and got me back to my senses. "Sorry sugah," said the person who had tackled me. "Ah had to stop ya before ya went completely nuts."
I stood up. Before me stood a person who was half rabbit, half machine. Most of her fur was a darker yellow, while her ears and stomach were pink. One of her arms and everything from the waist down were encased in metal.
She shook my arm. "Are y'all right?" she asked.
"Yeah," I replied and put out my hand. "Hi, I'm Haley."
She shook it. "Mah name's Bunnie," she replied and smiled. She the persona of one who knew how to make others feel better.
"Haley!" called Tails as he ran from the woods. "Are you all right?"
"Would people stop asking me that? I'm fine!" I said in annoyance. When Tails looked crushed, I said, "I'm sorry Tails. I shouldn't have snapped it's just..."
"It's okay Haley. I understand," he replied quietly. I reached over and squeezed his shoulder.
"Haley, if you are now calm, then will you please come back so that I may be able to examine you further?" called out the annoyed voice of the doctor.
I blushed. "Yeah. Sorry doctor." I went back and Tails and Bunnie followed me.
"Come over here," said the doctor and lead me to a machine.
"It's ready, doctor," said a purple walrus. He nodded at me. "Hello, Haley, I'm Rotor."
"Okay Haley, let's hook you up to this thing and see what Robotnik did to you," said the doctor and began to attach wires to my arms and chest. Tails pulled out some chairs and he, Bunnie and I all sat down. Tails sat right next to me, which made me feel more at ease because I had no idea what the doctor was going to do with me.
The doctor turned the machine on and instantly I felt as though I was in some kind of void, and I was standing in the middle of a swirling storm of thoughts. I could literally see the images of memories, emotions, and dreams flying around. I reached out and touched one that was close to me and I was instantly standing in the memory.
Tails was standing there looking at me while I slept. I could hear voices in the background; echoes of what went on after Sonic and Tails had brought me to Knothole.
"She's been out for almost two days," Sonic's voice said, eerily echoing. "The doctor has no idea if she'll even wake up."
"She will," Tails said defiantly.
"You have a thing for her, don't you?" an unfamiliar female voice said.
"I don't know, Aunt Sally," Tails replied, but his thoughts betrayed him to me. ::Yes, I do. God, no one knows how much I care for her. They just think that I'm a kid that knows nothing.::
"Okay sugah," said Bunnie amusedly. "Ah can see ya got the hots for her from a mile away."
"No I don't!" argued Tails. "Please leave me alone!"
Then the memory ended and I was standing in the void again, the images swirling around me. I was suddenly aware that my own memories and thoughts were being added to the swirl of colors.
I reached out and touched a different reflection. This time it was Sonic's.
He was standing at the edge of a forest, wondering if he should run, even with Sally out of her coma. He felt that he should stay with her, despite the fact that everyone had told him to take a break. Plus, he was worried about Tails. Haley had been out for four days since her ordeal with Robotnik and Tails was looking more and more on the verge of snapping. Everyone had tried to do everything to pry him away from her, but so far nothing had worked. The little Prower was smitten with Haley, almost as much as he was with Sally, although he'd never admit it out loud to anyone. Sonic shook his head and began to run, knowing that it would clear his head. Then that memory ended too.
I stood in the void and thought out loud to myself. "I need to get out of here!"
I was abruptly aware of the sudden burst of white light in front of my eyes and voices yelling, even though I couldn't make out what they were saying. Slowly the light faded and I could see the room again. Tails was in a corner and crying while Rotor and the doctor unhooked me from their machine.
"What the hell happened?" I whispered angrily.
"I don't know what happened," the doctor said, a hint of panic in his voice. "Your vital signs had dropped and we don't understand why. Your mind was going through rapid eye movement, or REM. That was the only thing that stopped your brain from not functioning." He looked worriedly over at Tails. "He said that something was in his head and was terrified."
"Tails," I called, my voice barely above a whisper, but he heard me and looked up. "Come here." He walked over and stood next to me. I grabbed his hand. It was then that he knew I was the one was in his mind. I calmed him with little telepathic messages from my mind.
He pulled his hand away and walked out. I got up, despite the doctors relentless complaints that I should remain there. I finally turned and told him to be quiet. He did, and I walked out of that house in search of Tails.
* * *
I couldn't stop thinking about how Haley had just entered my mind like that. She had to have known by now. She had to have known that I was in love with her. I had flown to a high ledge where I often when I am upset. I sat there thinking.
::Tails, what are you going to do now? She can't possibly feel the same way,:: I berated myself. ::She couldn't possibly love you!::
I got up and paced back and forth, so deep in thought that I didn't hear Dulcy the dragon land. "So young Tails, what is troubling you?"
I jumped. "Oh, it's you Dulcy. Nothing's bothering me."
She rolled her eyes and sighed. "You should really know by now that you can't lie to a dragon."
I blushed. "I know, I know. It's just that, there was this problem with Haley..."
"Ah, yes. The young human," she said. "Go on."
I shifted my feet uncomfortably. "And I kind of well... I love her Dulcy."
Dulcy smiled. "Tails, I can sense you are now telling the truth. I believe that your love is true, and that it will be returned. In fact, I think she's looking for you right now."
I smiled, happiness rising in my chest. "Thanks Dulcy!" I said and jumped off the ledge. I twirled my two tails around and flew from the ledge back towards the village.
* * *
"Oh, where the hell could Tails possibly be?" I said out loud in frustration. I was flying through the air, but it was very shaky. Already I had collided into a few trees because I couldn't control myself. Still, I was convinced that the only was I would find the fox would be to fly.
I looked towards the ground just in time to see a blue streak fly across the surface. "Sonic!" I yelled. The streak stopped and looked around. "No, up here!"
He looked up. "Haley, what are you doing up there?"
I sighed. "Attempting to fly. Have you seen Tails?"
"No, I haven't," he said and then his eyes widened. "Haley, look out!"
I looked up and a black bot was hurling through the air at me. I twirled my two tails, but I wasn't fast enough. The bot was gaining! Then Tails slammed into me and we the hit the ground. We then rolled until we stopped.
When we stopped rolling, the black bot was above us. Then Sonic went into a Sonic Spin and cut the robot in two. But we weren't really paying attention much to Sonic or the bot.
I was looking up into Tails' eyes. He had landed on top, and we both just kind of lay there for a moment. Then he leaned over for a second and his face hovered over mine, almost hesitantly. Then he kissed me. It was like magic. I knew he had almost no idea what he was doing, but it was still wonderful. I can't even begin to describe how I felt. My new telepathic abilities sent feelings sweeping through both of us, as though we were one.