I forgot to put this in last time but shhh, don't tell anyone. I do not own
any characters in this story, Sega and Archie do. Yadayadayada.
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Sonic is on his way back to the Emerald Hill Zone, riding on the wings of his plane, the Tornado, which is being flown by his young, new friend, Tails. "So, you looking forward to seeing you're new home?" Sonic asked, having to shout due to the noise and the wind. "Yeah, how far is it?" Tails replied excitedly. "Not far now, just a few more minutes." Sonic began. "Listen, there's someone I've gotta' clear this with first, so I want you to wait with the plane 'til I call you, okay." "Okay, who is it, you're boss?" Tails asked, curious to Sonic's slightly concerned tone. "You could say that." "Will I still be able to stay with you if he says no?" He asked, starting to get a little worried himself. "Well she can be a little tough at times, but don't worry, I think I can sway her into letting you stay." Sonic replied confidently. "Hey look, there it is, time to bring her down Tails."
Steadily, Tails brought the Tornado down for a smooth landing on the luscious green grass, right next to a small, low plateau, following Sonic's directions. As soon as the aircraft had stopped, Sonic leapt from the wings and landed on the plateau, lifting a hidden handle and opening a small hatch, he quickly dropped down inside, landing on a short chute and sliding to the bottom. When he reached the bottom, a furious looking female greeted him; she was of slim build and almost as tall as Sonic, the permed red hair, giving her a little extra height, she wore a blue waistcoat and matching boots. The squirrel/chipmunk hybrid marched towards Sonic and opened her mouth.
"Where have you been?" She started shouting. "You said you were going to be fifteen minutes, and that was two hours ago. I thought Robotnik had got you." "Whoa calm down!" Sonic said holding his hands up, finally being able to get a word in. "I just had a few Badniks to take care of and I had a little trouble with one of the locals. Anyway, as if Robuttnik could catch me." "Well it wouldn't be the first time." She replied. "Okay, okay, so I've been caught before, but I escaped didn't I." He said, trying to regain some of his pride. "Anyway, I brought someone back with me, someone that can help us fight against Robotnik." He said in an excited yet serious tone. "You have? Well where is he?" The squirrel questioned. "Tails! You can come down now." Shouted Sonic, turning and calling up the chute.
They both waited, eyes fixed at the bottom of the slide, she was expecting to see a character of great strength, honed fighting skills and a bad attitude to match, but was dumfounded when a small two tailed fox cub came sliding down. "Wheeee!" He rejoiced with a big smile on his face as if he were at the park. "This is your new ally?" She yelled. "You think this little fox cub is going to help save Mobius from Robotnik?" "Now Sal is that any way to treat a guest." Sonic mocked, intentionally trying to get under her skin. "Tails, I'd like you to meet Sally Acorn. Now you've got to treat her real nice 'cos she's a princess." "Wow, you are, I've never met a princess before." He exclaimed excitedly while trying to bow. "Well don't tell anyone you have, because it's supposed to be a secret." Sally whispered, kneeling down to talk to him. "Okay, I won't." He said, bowing again. Sally stood back up, grabbed Sonic's arm and walked him a few metres away. "What were you thinking, bringing a child here of all places, he could get hurt, or give our location away." She scolded. "Look, he'll be fine, he's real smart, he messed about with the plane and now its faster than ever, and he's fast, and I mean really fast." Sonic explained. "He even beat me in a race around his island." He continued, now whispering in Sally's ear feeling a little embarrassed. "Just give him a chance."
Sally looked at the kit, who was exploring his new surroundings, then looked back to Sonic. "Okay." She finally whispered. "He can stay, but he's not going on any mission until he's older." Sonic nodded in agreement. Sally walked back towards Tails. "You must be tired after your journey, want to see your room?" She asked, offering her hand. Tails took it carefully. "Okay, Princess Sally." "Just call me Sally okay." She said, walking him to his room. "Okay Sally." He cooed again as they both entered the room, which was ready for anyone who was prepared to join their group, or anyone that needed to hide from Robotnik for a while.
After casting his trainers off, Tails jumped onto the bed and clambered under the sheets and nestled himself in the middle, letting Sally tuck him in tight. She headed toward the door, but stopped when Tails called her name. "Sally," He began. "Will you.read me a bedtime story?" Sally was a little surprised, "A bedtime story? Aren't you a little old for that?" She asked, sitting on the edge of the bed next to him. "I'm only four and a half," He admitted. "And I've never been read one before."
Unfortunately the underground base had no storybooks, as they were never needed until now. So Sally had to tell him one from memory, one that her father had told her when she was younger, with a few alterations of course. She began to tell him a story of a brave young fox with two tails, who was the hero of a large kingdom, but before she finished describing the place, Tails had fallen asleep. She stopped narrating and carefully got up off the bed, walking backwards out of the door, while closing it. "Goodnight Tails." She whispered. "Goodnight.Aunt Sally." He quietly yawned back.
Sonic was placing the red emerald in a cool box with the other five they had, they needed to be kept in the freezer because a while ago they had discovered that when together, the emeralds become unstable and disappear back to the Special Zone. Sally came and sat down at the table in the middle of the room, Sonic soon joined her.
"Listen," He started. "I know you don't want him to go on any missions, but could you at least let him fly me to far away zones, at least then I wouldn't have to worry about keeping my plane safe." "Fine, I'll let him do that, but he comes straight back, I don't want him staying out there." Sally instructed. A short silence hit the room, until Sonic finally broke it. "He's tougher than you think you know." "What do you mean?" Sally asked. Sonic began telling Sally about all of the things he had learnt about Tails while he was with him, but this didn't have the effect Sonic wanted, instead of Sally becoming more confident in him, she began to feel more protective towards the kit, not wanting him to go through any more of the grief he had received.
The next morning Tails woke up feeling refreshed, that was the best nights sleep he'd had in a long time, he slipped on his trainers and wandered through into the main room, ready to greet his new friends, but Sonic and Sally were nowhere to be seen. But on the table was a small note, Tails clambered onto one of the chairs and picked it up, it said:
'Dear Tails, we got word that some of Robotnik's badniks are attacking the Green Hill Zone, so we have gone to check it out. Be back soon. Love Sally.'
Tails looked a little disappointed that he'd been left on his own, but his hopes picked up when some of the ink smudged onto his white glove. "It's still wet, they cant be that far away."
He crawled over the table and climbed up the ladder next to the chute, as his head poked out of the second hatch, he spotted them walking away. "Wait!" He called, almost falling out of the base. "I want to come too." He said running up to them. "Go home Tails." Sonic said sternly. "We need you to look after the base." He quickly added, trying not to upset the fox. "But, but." He stuttered, trying to think of something to say. "But what if Robotnik comes and finds the base while you're away, I'll be all by myself and he might turn me into a badnik or something." He said while moving some earth around with his foot and looking up at them with puppy dog eyes.
"Fine." Sally sighed, unable to withstand those eyes. "But stay out of the way when we get there, Sonic may make it look easy, but fighting badniks is harder than it looks." "Don't worry, you wont even know I'm there." Tails said excitedly, bounding up to Sonic.
Sonic grabbed their hands and sped off towards the Green Hill Zone, instantly creating a sonic boom. It didn't take them long to arrive at the zone, and a good job too, it was like a miniature war going on, and the inhabitants were losing, Badniks were chasing the poor people all around the zone. Some of the villagers were even being escorted to transport ships by troopers, which would take them to Robotropolis for roboticization and badnik processing.
Tails gasped at the terrified people and the merciless robots, he wanted to try and help them even though he knew he would be no use. "Stay back Tails." Sonic said, putting an arm in front of the fox to stop him from getting to near. "Go sit over there somewhere, and keep your head down." He continued, pointing over to an area out of the way. Tails nodded and wandered over to the spot Sonic had pointed to, he sat down and hugged his tails as Sonic and Sally began attacking the Badniks.
After a few minutes, most of the badniks had been destroyed and Tails was transfixed on his friends and how skilful they were, while he was in his awe, an unspotted Motobug slowly crawled up behind him, making sure that its large wheel didn't make a noise. Once close enough, it began to raise the two blades on its front, the sun glinted off the blades, but Tails was still oblivious, Sonic however, caught the reflected sun in the corner of his eye, and saw the danger Tails was in. He quickly dashed down the hill he was on, picking up speed as he neared the bottom, he was less than a few minutes away when the badnik was about to strike, and Sonic curled up into a ball, ripping through the robot when its blades were only an inch away from Tails' head.
Sally had seen what had happened, and marched over to the kit looking a little cross. "I knew we shouldn't have brought you along." She growled. "We've been here less than twenty minutes and you're already getting in danger." "Huh!" Tails squeaked, a little confused, the only thing he had notice was a strong gust of wind a second ago. "I haven't been getting into danger, I've just been sat here." He exclaimed. "Look behind you pixel brain." Sonic piped up. Tails looked over his shoulder and saw the long trail of badnik parts stretching a few metres to his right. "Oh." "As soon as were done here, you're going." Sonic started, but stopped when they heard a loud cry for help.
It didn't take them long to find its origin, a villager had been chased of the edge of a cliff by a badnik, and was now holding on for dear life by a large root that had burst through the cliff face. "We save 'em once now we've gotta' save this guy again in less than a minute, that's gotta' be a record." Sonic remarked. "There's no way we can reach him, he's too far away from the top and bottom." Sally exclaimed. "Just wait for him to fall, we can catch him." Joked Sonic. "This is serious Sonic." Sally scolded. " That root could give way any minute, we need to think of something fast!"
"I could." Tails started, but was cut short by Sonic shushing him.
"But." he tried again, pulling on Sally's waistcoat.
"I said quiet Tails, we trying to think of a plan." Sonic barked. "But I could get him down." Said Tails, finally getting a word in after Sonic stopped telling him off. "Oh here we go. So what are you going to do pixel brain? Fly up there and bring him down?" Sonic mocked. "Yeah, how did you know?" Tails replied innocently, much to the shock of the two teenagers. But Sonic soon started laughing. "That's a good one Tails, you almost had me there, as if foxes could fly." He chortled.
"But I can, watch." The fox said, sticking his tongue out to concentrate. He looked over his shoulder at his Tails, then coiled them around each other, then quickly spun them around like helicopter blades, slowly the kit began to lift off the ground, dangling his arms and legs beneath him. "See."
Sonic and Sally were lost for words and just watched as Tails flew over their heads and up towards the hanging villager, calling out to him once he gets there.
"Take my hand." The villager was shocked to see a young fox floating by his side and was too afraid to reach out, until the root began to pull out from the cliff and he was more than happy to grab Tails' hand. The two dropped sharply as Tails took a moment to get used to the extra weight, but he soon slowed his descent. "Boy, you're really heavy." Tails groaned as he struggled to keep them both in the air, his shoulders feeling like they were about to pop out of their sockets. "I can't keep this up." He gasped, getting more and more tired by the second. He eventually had to give up and let himself coast the rest of the way down, luckily the villager was only a few metres from the ground and managed to land without injury, as soon as his hands were free, Tails let himself drop, landing neatly in Sonic's arms.
"Told you.I could.get him down." He panted, before falling asleep through sheer exhaustion. Sonic smiled. "So that's how you beat me, you flew over the woods."
The remaining Badniks and troopers had fled from fear of being destroyed and the zone was now at peace, so Sonic and Sally decided they would go home and let Tails nap there. It was a few hours before they reached their home, but they were shocked when they did, the village was a mess, it looked like it had been ransacked, but worse than that, it was totally deserted, not one Mobian was left in the town. Sonic lowered his arms, dropping Tails in shock, the fox yelped as he hit the floor.
"Ow, that really hurt, and I was enjoying that nap." He moaned, before looking to the town himself. "Hey, where is everyone?" He asked while picking himself off the floor. "I think it's obvious that Robuttnik's behind this." Sonic growled. "The attack on the Green Hill Zone must have been a diversion." Sally thought aloud. "We've gotta' go save 'em." "But how?" Sally began. "We don't even know if he's taken them to Robotropolis, he may have taken them to an outpost. We're better off waiting until tomorrow." "But Robotnik could have Roboticized them, or put them into Badniks and send them to attack us by then." Sonic argued. "I know, but if we go now, we could end up getting caught, we need rest." She said, grabbing him by the shoulders. "You're right." Sonic sighed, though hating to admit it. "But I'm not just gonna' sit here, I'm gonna go talk to my contacts, see what I can find out, you stay here with Tails and see if you can train him up a little." "Oh no, he's not going anywhere." She shouted, grabbing onto Sonic's arm before he could run away. Now it was Sonic's turn to do the convincing. "Look I know that you're afraid that he might get hurt, but now that we know he can fly, he could come in really useful, and if you train him, then he's less likely to get hurt."
It was obvious that Sally was still not happy about the idea, but she knew Sonic had a point, the rescue mission would be a lot easier with three of them. She slowly nodded and let go of Sonic's arm, letting him run off into the distance.
While Tails was resting, Sally had gone into the base, after a few minutes she came back out carrying a large sack, full to bursting with who knows what, tied tightly at the top with a piece of string. "This," She began, dropping the bag in front of Tails. "Weighs about the same as Sonic, I want you to fly it up to the top of that loop." She continued, pointing to the nearest 360-degree structure. Tails grabbed the neck of the bag and started to twirl his tails, he pulled hard slowly lifting it off the ground. Straining to keep it a few inches in the air, he looked at how far away the loop was and groaned. He eventually made it to the structure, setting it down with a thud and collapsing onto his back, panting.
"Good." Sally commended him. "Now bring it back." "Can't I rest first?" The fox moaned. "Not if you want to come with us." Tails let out another groan and picked himself up, slowly taking the sack back down to Sally. She made him do this for over an hour before finally letting him rest, as she knew he was genuinely exhausted, rather than just being lazy. After fetching him a glass of cold water, Sally began to walk away, shouting over her shoulder. "I'll be back soon with the next part of your training."
She was gone for about two hours, during which, Tails had found time to have a nap in the sun and had only woken up when a butterfly had landed on his nose and made him sneeze. She ran up to him, slightly out of breath, Tails just looked over her, expecting her to be holding something.
"So where's the next part?" He asked "There." She replied pointing to where she had just ran from. Tails could see several objects getting closer and closer to them, he struggled to see what they were at first but soon realised that they were Badniks, he looked up at Sally with worried eyes. "Don't worry," She said. "I'll be right with you if you get into trouble. Now you better hurry and destroy that Buzzbomber before it fires at you." She warned while pointing up.
Tails took to the air and flew as fast as he could towards the Badnik, but before he could reach it, it aimed its abdomen and fired, Tails was just quick enough to move out of the way of the shot and looked back down to Sally with pleading eyes. "Just fly into it fists first." She shouted up to him, noticing his discomfort. Tails swallowed hard, not really believing that he was about to take on a badnik by himself. He sped through the air in the few metres that were left, and again the badnik aimed it's abdomen at him, but he was to close to move out of the way, so he shut his eyes and hoped, stopping dead when he heard a bang. He winked open an eye and looked over his body, open the other when he realised he wasn't hurt, he quickly noticed the pieces of metal falling toward the ground and Sally looking pleased. The fox felt a rush of confidence in him, he had actually done it, and if he could destroy one, then surely the others would be no problem.
He dropped down from the sky and got ready to attack the other approaching badniks. "Now with the rest, the best way to destroy them is to jump on there backs, but make sure you avoid the sharp parts, like their spike and blades." Sally instructed. Tails attacks the badniks head on, though not as fast as Sonic or Sally, he finds it quite easy to destroy them, when he reaches the final two, Sonic returns from his visit to his contact, and is pleasantly surprised at how Tails is doing.
"He's looking good." He said to Sally. "Of course, I'm training him." She replied. "Yeah, but he would have looked better if I had trained him." Sonic received a light punch on the arm for that comment. "Hey, Tails!" He called. Tails looked over to him and waved, then stopped as he hurriedly hopped backwards to avoid a Motobug's attack. "Come here a sec."
Tails ran to Sonic, who concentrated on what the Badniks were doing. "So, do you wanna' know how to do my Spin Attack?" "Yeah!" Tails nodded excitedly. "Now watch me, I'm going to do it slower than normal, so you can see what I'm doing." Sonic ran towards the nearest bot, a Crabmeat, when only a few metres away he leapt into the air, curling up tightly into a tight spiky ball and bouncing hard off its back, destroying the badnik, uncurling and landing neatly on his feet. "Now you try, go for that Caterkiller, but make sure you hit the head, otherwise we'll have to find some tape to patch up the holes it made in you." Sonic warned. Tails followed Sonic's movements to a tee, and even though his spike less body wasn't as effective, it still worked, bouncing off the robot's head with some force, and landing neatly on his back.
"Uh.Tails, you're supposed to land on your feet dude." Sonic mocked. Tails just turned and stuck out his tongue, making Sonic chuckle. "So where are they?" Sally asked, finally getting tired of waiting for Sonic to tell her. "He took them to Robotropolis, but he hasn't done anything to them, he's waiting for us to do something 'cos he's got some new type of Badnik." Sally looked down at her feet; she knew that tomorrow would be difficult. "We should get some sleep." She said, noting how low the sun was getting. The three of them went inside their base to get some needed rest.
The next morning, Sally enters Tails' room to try and wake him, she gave him a little poke, but the fox just grunted and rolled over. "Wake up Tails, its time to go." She whispered. The fox ignored her and continued to snooze. Sonic got tired of waiting and barged his way into the room and next to Tails' bed. "Let me handle this." He said, holding up an air horn to Tails' head. He pushed the button and a deafening noise boomed out of the end, Tails skyrocketed out of his bed and attempted to cling to the ceiling, failing that he fell back down and landed on his bed with a thud. He sat up out of breath and frightened to death, his eyes wide open, and his pupils smaller than pennies. Sally gave Sonic a glare. "What? He's up isn't he?" Sonic chortled, walking out of the room.
After a quick bite to eat and after Tails had calmed down, the three set out towards Robotropolis to rescue their friends from the clutches of the evil Dr. Robotnik, not knowing what new machine he has waiting for them.
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Sonic is on his way back to the Emerald Hill Zone, riding on the wings of his plane, the Tornado, which is being flown by his young, new friend, Tails. "So, you looking forward to seeing you're new home?" Sonic asked, having to shout due to the noise and the wind. "Yeah, how far is it?" Tails replied excitedly. "Not far now, just a few more minutes." Sonic began. "Listen, there's someone I've gotta' clear this with first, so I want you to wait with the plane 'til I call you, okay." "Okay, who is it, you're boss?" Tails asked, curious to Sonic's slightly concerned tone. "You could say that." "Will I still be able to stay with you if he says no?" He asked, starting to get a little worried himself. "Well she can be a little tough at times, but don't worry, I think I can sway her into letting you stay." Sonic replied confidently. "Hey look, there it is, time to bring her down Tails."
Steadily, Tails brought the Tornado down for a smooth landing on the luscious green grass, right next to a small, low plateau, following Sonic's directions. As soon as the aircraft had stopped, Sonic leapt from the wings and landed on the plateau, lifting a hidden handle and opening a small hatch, he quickly dropped down inside, landing on a short chute and sliding to the bottom. When he reached the bottom, a furious looking female greeted him; she was of slim build and almost as tall as Sonic, the permed red hair, giving her a little extra height, she wore a blue waistcoat and matching boots. The squirrel/chipmunk hybrid marched towards Sonic and opened her mouth.
"Where have you been?" She started shouting. "You said you were going to be fifteen minutes, and that was two hours ago. I thought Robotnik had got you." "Whoa calm down!" Sonic said holding his hands up, finally being able to get a word in. "I just had a few Badniks to take care of and I had a little trouble with one of the locals. Anyway, as if Robuttnik could catch me." "Well it wouldn't be the first time." She replied. "Okay, okay, so I've been caught before, but I escaped didn't I." He said, trying to regain some of his pride. "Anyway, I brought someone back with me, someone that can help us fight against Robotnik." He said in an excited yet serious tone. "You have? Well where is he?" The squirrel questioned. "Tails! You can come down now." Shouted Sonic, turning and calling up the chute.
They both waited, eyes fixed at the bottom of the slide, she was expecting to see a character of great strength, honed fighting skills and a bad attitude to match, but was dumfounded when a small two tailed fox cub came sliding down. "Wheeee!" He rejoiced with a big smile on his face as if he were at the park. "This is your new ally?" She yelled. "You think this little fox cub is going to help save Mobius from Robotnik?" "Now Sal is that any way to treat a guest." Sonic mocked, intentionally trying to get under her skin. "Tails, I'd like you to meet Sally Acorn. Now you've got to treat her real nice 'cos she's a princess." "Wow, you are, I've never met a princess before." He exclaimed excitedly while trying to bow. "Well don't tell anyone you have, because it's supposed to be a secret." Sally whispered, kneeling down to talk to him. "Okay, I won't." He said, bowing again. Sally stood back up, grabbed Sonic's arm and walked him a few metres away. "What were you thinking, bringing a child here of all places, he could get hurt, or give our location away." She scolded. "Look, he'll be fine, he's real smart, he messed about with the plane and now its faster than ever, and he's fast, and I mean really fast." Sonic explained. "He even beat me in a race around his island." He continued, now whispering in Sally's ear feeling a little embarrassed. "Just give him a chance."
Sally looked at the kit, who was exploring his new surroundings, then looked back to Sonic. "Okay." She finally whispered. "He can stay, but he's not going on any mission until he's older." Sonic nodded in agreement. Sally walked back towards Tails. "You must be tired after your journey, want to see your room?" She asked, offering her hand. Tails took it carefully. "Okay, Princess Sally." "Just call me Sally okay." She said, walking him to his room. "Okay Sally." He cooed again as they both entered the room, which was ready for anyone who was prepared to join their group, or anyone that needed to hide from Robotnik for a while.
After casting his trainers off, Tails jumped onto the bed and clambered under the sheets and nestled himself in the middle, letting Sally tuck him in tight. She headed toward the door, but stopped when Tails called her name. "Sally," He began. "Will you.read me a bedtime story?" Sally was a little surprised, "A bedtime story? Aren't you a little old for that?" She asked, sitting on the edge of the bed next to him. "I'm only four and a half," He admitted. "And I've never been read one before."
Unfortunately the underground base had no storybooks, as they were never needed until now. So Sally had to tell him one from memory, one that her father had told her when she was younger, with a few alterations of course. She began to tell him a story of a brave young fox with two tails, who was the hero of a large kingdom, but before she finished describing the place, Tails had fallen asleep. She stopped narrating and carefully got up off the bed, walking backwards out of the door, while closing it. "Goodnight Tails." She whispered. "Goodnight.Aunt Sally." He quietly yawned back.
Sonic was placing the red emerald in a cool box with the other five they had, they needed to be kept in the freezer because a while ago they had discovered that when together, the emeralds become unstable and disappear back to the Special Zone. Sally came and sat down at the table in the middle of the room, Sonic soon joined her.
"Listen," He started. "I know you don't want him to go on any missions, but could you at least let him fly me to far away zones, at least then I wouldn't have to worry about keeping my plane safe." "Fine, I'll let him do that, but he comes straight back, I don't want him staying out there." Sally instructed. A short silence hit the room, until Sonic finally broke it. "He's tougher than you think you know." "What do you mean?" Sally asked. Sonic began telling Sally about all of the things he had learnt about Tails while he was with him, but this didn't have the effect Sonic wanted, instead of Sally becoming more confident in him, she began to feel more protective towards the kit, not wanting him to go through any more of the grief he had received.
The next morning Tails woke up feeling refreshed, that was the best nights sleep he'd had in a long time, he slipped on his trainers and wandered through into the main room, ready to greet his new friends, but Sonic and Sally were nowhere to be seen. But on the table was a small note, Tails clambered onto one of the chairs and picked it up, it said:
'Dear Tails, we got word that some of Robotnik's badniks are attacking the Green Hill Zone, so we have gone to check it out. Be back soon. Love Sally.'
Tails looked a little disappointed that he'd been left on his own, but his hopes picked up when some of the ink smudged onto his white glove. "It's still wet, they cant be that far away."
He crawled over the table and climbed up the ladder next to the chute, as his head poked out of the second hatch, he spotted them walking away. "Wait!" He called, almost falling out of the base. "I want to come too." He said running up to them. "Go home Tails." Sonic said sternly. "We need you to look after the base." He quickly added, trying not to upset the fox. "But, but." He stuttered, trying to think of something to say. "But what if Robotnik comes and finds the base while you're away, I'll be all by myself and he might turn me into a badnik or something." He said while moving some earth around with his foot and looking up at them with puppy dog eyes.
"Fine." Sally sighed, unable to withstand those eyes. "But stay out of the way when we get there, Sonic may make it look easy, but fighting badniks is harder than it looks." "Don't worry, you wont even know I'm there." Tails said excitedly, bounding up to Sonic.
Sonic grabbed their hands and sped off towards the Green Hill Zone, instantly creating a sonic boom. It didn't take them long to arrive at the zone, and a good job too, it was like a miniature war going on, and the inhabitants were losing, Badniks were chasing the poor people all around the zone. Some of the villagers were even being escorted to transport ships by troopers, which would take them to Robotropolis for roboticization and badnik processing.
Tails gasped at the terrified people and the merciless robots, he wanted to try and help them even though he knew he would be no use. "Stay back Tails." Sonic said, putting an arm in front of the fox to stop him from getting to near. "Go sit over there somewhere, and keep your head down." He continued, pointing over to an area out of the way. Tails nodded and wandered over to the spot Sonic had pointed to, he sat down and hugged his tails as Sonic and Sally began attacking the Badniks.
After a few minutes, most of the badniks had been destroyed and Tails was transfixed on his friends and how skilful they were, while he was in his awe, an unspotted Motobug slowly crawled up behind him, making sure that its large wheel didn't make a noise. Once close enough, it began to raise the two blades on its front, the sun glinted off the blades, but Tails was still oblivious, Sonic however, caught the reflected sun in the corner of his eye, and saw the danger Tails was in. He quickly dashed down the hill he was on, picking up speed as he neared the bottom, he was less than a few minutes away when the badnik was about to strike, and Sonic curled up into a ball, ripping through the robot when its blades were only an inch away from Tails' head.
Sally had seen what had happened, and marched over to the kit looking a little cross. "I knew we shouldn't have brought you along." She growled. "We've been here less than twenty minutes and you're already getting in danger." "Huh!" Tails squeaked, a little confused, the only thing he had notice was a strong gust of wind a second ago. "I haven't been getting into danger, I've just been sat here." He exclaimed. "Look behind you pixel brain." Sonic piped up. Tails looked over his shoulder and saw the long trail of badnik parts stretching a few metres to his right. "Oh." "As soon as were done here, you're going." Sonic started, but stopped when they heard a loud cry for help.
It didn't take them long to find its origin, a villager had been chased of the edge of a cliff by a badnik, and was now holding on for dear life by a large root that had burst through the cliff face. "We save 'em once now we've gotta' save this guy again in less than a minute, that's gotta' be a record." Sonic remarked. "There's no way we can reach him, he's too far away from the top and bottom." Sally exclaimed. "Just wait for him to fall, we can catch him." Joked Sonic. "This is serious Sonic." Sally scolded. " That root could give way any minute, we need to think of something fast!"
"I could." Tails started, but was cut short by Sonic shushing him.
"But." he tried again, pulling on Sally's waistcoat.
"I said quiet Tails, we trying to think of a plan." Sonic barked. "But I could get him down." Said Tails, finally getting a word in after Sonic stopped telling him off. "Oh here we go. So what are you going to do pixel brain? Fly up there and bring him down?" Sonic mocked. "Yeah, how did you know?" Tails replied innocently, much to the shock of the two teenagers. But Sonic soon started laughing. "That's a good one Tails, you almost had me there, as if foxes could fly." He chortled.
"But I can, watch." The fox said, sticking his tongue out to concentrate. He looked over his shoulder at his Tails, then coiled them around each other, then quickly spun them around like helicopter blades, slowly the kit began to lift off the ground, dangling his arms and legs beneath him. "See."
Sonic and Sally were lost for words and just watched as Tails flew over their heads and up towards the hanging villager, calling out to him once he gets there.
"Take my hand." The villager was shocked to see a young fox floating by his side and was too afraid to reach out, until the root began to pull out from the cliff and he was more than happy to grab Tails' hand. The two dropped sharply as Tails took a moment to get used to the extra weight, but he soon slowed his descent. "Boy, you're really heavy." Tails groaned as he struggled to keep them both in the air, his shoulders feeling like they were about to pop out of their sockets. "I can't keep this up." He gasped, getting more and more tired by the second. He eventually had to give up and let himself coast the rest of the way down, luckily the villager was only a few metres from the ground and managed to land without injury, as soon as his hands were free, Tails let himself drop, landing neatly in Sonic's arms.
"Told you.I could.get him down." He panted, before falling asleep through sheer exhaustion. Sonic smiled. "So that's how you beat me, you flew over the woods."
The remaining Badniks and troopers had fled from fear of being destroyed and the zone was now at peace, so Sonic and Sally decided they would go home and let Tails nap there. It was a few hours before they reached their home, but they were shocked when they did, the village was a mess, it looked like it had been ransacked, but worse than that, it was totally deserted, not one Mobian was left in the town. Sonic lowered his arms, dropping Tails in shock, the fox yelped as he hit the floor.
"Ow, that really hurt, and I was enjoying that nap." He moaned, before looking to the town himself. "Hey, where is everyone?" He asked while picking himself off the floor. "I think it's obvious that Robuttnik's behind this." Sonic growled. "The attack on the Green Hill Zone must have been a diversion." Sally thought aloud. "We've gotta' go save 'em." "But how?" Sally began. "We don't even know if he's taken them to Robotropolis, he may have taken them to an outpost. We're better off waiting until tomorrow." "But Robotnik could have Roboticized them, or put them into Badniks and send them to attack us by then." Sonic argued. "I know, but if we go now, we could end up getting caught, we need rest." She said, grabbing him by the shoulders. "You're right." Sonic sighed, though hating to admit it. "But I'm not just gonna' sit here, I'm gonna go talk to my contacts, see what I can find out, you stay here with Tails and see if you can train him up a little." "Oh no, he's not going anywhere." She shouted, grabbing onto Sonic's arm before he could run away. Now it was Sonic's turn to do the convincing. "Look I know that you're afraid that he might get hurt, but now that we know he can fly, he could come in really useful, and if you train him, then he's less likely to get hurt."
It was obvious that Sally was still not happy about the idea, but she knew Sonic had a point, the rescue mission would be a lot easier with three of them. She slowly nodded and let go of Sonic's arm, letting him run off into the distance.
While Tails was resting, Sally had gone into the base, after a few minutes she came back out carrying a large sack, full to bursting with who knows what, tied tightly at the top with a piece of string. "This," She began, dropping the bag in front of Tails. "Weighs about the same as Sonic, I want you to fly it up to the top of that loop." She continued, pointing to the nearest 360-degree structure. Tails grabbed the neck of the bag and started to twirl his tails, he pulled hard slowly lifting it off the ground. Straining to keep it a few inches in the air, he looked at how far away the loop was and groaned. He eventually made it to the structure, setting it down with a thud and collapsing onto his back, panting.
"Good." Sally commended him. "Now bring it back." "Can't I rest first?" The fox moaned. "Not if you want to come with us." Tails let out another groan and picked himself up, slowly taking the sack back down to Sally. She made him do this for over an hour before finally letting him rest, as she knew he was genuinely exhausted, rather than just being lazy. After fetching him a glass of cold water, Sally began to walk away, shouting over her shoulder. "I'll be back soon with the next part of your training."
She was gone for about two hours, during which, Tails had found time to have a nap in the sun and had only woken up when a butterfly had landed on his nose and made him sneeze. She ran up to him, slightly out of breath, Tails just looked over her, expecting her to be holding something.
"So where's the next part?" He asked "There." She replied pointing to where she had just ran from. Tails could see several objects getting closer and closer to them, he struggled to see what they were at first but soon realised that they were Badniks, he looked up at Sally with worried eyes. "Don't worry," She said. "I'll be right with you if you get into trouble. Now you better hurry and destroy that Buzzbomber before it fires at you." She warned while pointing up.
Tails took to the air and flew as fast as he could towards the Badnik, but before he could reach it, it aimed its abdomen and fired, Tails was just quick enough to move out of the way of the shot and looked back down to Sally with pleading eyes. "Just fly into it fists first." She shouted up to him, noticing his discomfort. Tails swallowed hard, not really believing that he was about to take on a badnik by himself. He sped through the air in the few metres that were left, and again the badnik aimed it's abdomen at him, but he was to close to move out of the way, so he shut his eyes and hoped, stopping dead when he heard a bang. He winked open an eye and looked over his body, open the other when he realised he wasn't hurt, he quickly noticed the pieces of metal falling toward the ground and Sally looking pleased. The fox felt a rush of confidence in him, he had actually done it, and if he could destroy one, then surely the others would be no problem.
He dropped down from the sky and got ready to attack the other approaching badniks. "Now with the rest, the best way to destroy them is to jump on there backs, but make sure you avoid the sharp parts, like their spike and blades." Sally instructed. Tails attacks the badniks head on, though not as fast as Sonic or Sally, he finds it quite easy to destroy them, when he reaches the final two, Sonic returns from his visit to his contact, and is pleasantly surprised at how Tails is doing.
"He's looking good." He said to Sally. "Of course, I'm training him." She replied. "Yeah, but he would have looked better if I had trained him." Sonic received a light punch on the arm for that comment. "Hey, Tails!" He called. Tails looked over to him and waved, then stopped as he hurriedly hopped backwards to avoid a Motobug's attack. "Come here a sec."
Tails ran to Sonic, who concentrated on what the Badniks were doing. "So, do you wanna' know how to do my Spin Attack?" "Yeah!" Tails nodded excitedly. "Now watch me, I'm going to do it slower than normal, so you can see what I'm doing." Sonic ran towards the nearest bot, a Crabmeat, when only a few metres away he leapt into the air, curling up tightly into a tight spiky ball and bouncing hard off its back, destroying the badnik, uncurling and landing neatly on his feet. "Now you try, go for that Caterkiller, but make sure you hit the head, otherwise we'll have to find some tape to patch up the holes it made in you." Sonic warned. Tails followed Sonic's movements to a tee, and even though his spike less body wasn't as effective, it still worked, bouncing off the robot's head with some force, and landing neatly on his back.
"Uh.Tails, you're supposed to land on your feet dude." Sonic mocked. Tails just turned and stuck out his tongue, making Sonic chuckle. "So where are they?" Sally asked, finally getting tired of waiting for Sonic to tell her. "He took them to Robotropolis, but he hasn't done anything to them, he's waiting for us to do something 'cos he's got some new type of Badnik." Sally looked down at her feet; she knew that tomorrow would be difficult. "We should get some sleep." She said, noting how low the sun was getting. The three of them went inside their base to get some needed rest.
The next morning, Sally enters Tails' room to try and wake him, she gave him a little poke, but the fox just grunted and rolled over. "Wake up Tails, its time to go." She whispered. The fox ignored her and continued to snooze. Sonic got tired of waiting and barged his way into the room and next to Tails' bed. "Let me handle this." He said, holding up an air horn to Tails' head. He pushed the button and a deafening noise boomed out of the end, Tails skyrocketed out of his bed and attempted to cling to the ceiling, failing that he fell back down and landed on his bed with a thud. He sat up out of breath and frightened to death, his eyes wide open, and his pupils smaller than pennies. Sally gave Sonic a glare. "What? He's up isn't he?" Sonic chortled, walking out of the room.
After a quick bite to eat and after Tails had calmed down, the three set out towards Robotropolis to rescue their friends from the clutches of the evil Dr. Robotnik, not knowing what new machine he has waiting for them.