Author's note: Phoo, doesn't it seem like so long since we heard from Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles? I know, it's been so ridiculously long. However, all they were doing were looking for any of Robotnik's old functioning bases. You know how that saying goes… once beaten, an evil doctor might return to one of his old discarded base to heal and make up a new plan to take over the world in which the hero probably is aware of but never actually checks it out and then the dastardly plan goes into action and again it's up to the hero to save the day!
Yeah. You hear that one a lot.
File 6 Crashing Waves
Entry 3 Safeguard
Talon and Railside were so close! Tails could hear his heart beat faster and faster. 'Here goes!' he thought.
He stepped out from behind the plane, to face an older graying fox and a young brown furred fox. Tails widened his eyes at them, surprised to see their two sets of two tails swishing out from their full body armor. They gasped in shock.
"You…You're…!" said the younger brown furred one. That was obviously Talon. He had long fur extending from behind his ears that was thrown carelessly into a ponytail. He blinked. "could it be…?"
"Who are…you?" Railside, obviously the older, graying fox, gasped. Railside had cream colored fur with large patches of gray. His full body armor had so many enhancements in so many colors that he looked more like a skittles rainbow than a fox. Tails was surprised pieces of candy weren't falling from the ceiling.
"I'm Tails." Tails said, slowly. "Miles 'Tails' Prower."
"Miles Prower!" Talon said. "It's an honor to meet you!" And both of the foxes bowed down on their knees. Tails was confused, but he figured that he could save Sonic with his new control.
"Listen…" Tails said, slowly. "I came to get one of my friends."
"What?" Railside looked up. "A friend of yours? On board our ships? But we left the homeland only a couple hours ago. Since no one there actually knows you, you have no friends, except for your admirers, aboard this ship."
"No, my friend's a hedgehog. A blue one. He's got green eyes, and shoes like mine. He, uhm…He ejected by accident and went flying into your fleet. So I came to save him and"
"What luck! We had that hedgehog! Don't worry, Miles!" Talon said. "He's going to be exterminated soon!"
"Exterminated!" Tails cried. He jumped over the two bowing foxes. "No way! I'm coming, Sonic!" He ran to the door where Railside and Talon had come through and into the boy of the ship.
Twists and turns everywhere! Tails couldn't stop to stare, but he had no clue where he was going. He dashed through endless hallways, turning back several times before finally reaching a big set of silver doors. He pushed them open a crack and peeked inside.
They had caged Sonic up! He was in a big test tube sort of thing. Tails couldn't think of the word right now. He was no rocket scientist, but he had seen enough of this stuff in the sci-fi movies Amy rented, to know that was bad. A gaggle of foxes swinging their tails around huddled in a corner.
Sonic made eye contact with Tails. His mouth opened in shock, but he said nothing. Tails didn't have anything to save him with, but he could exert his newfound control over the scientists. Still, if they didn't know he was there, that would be better. It wasn't like a whole colony would believe in two foxes anyway.
Like a secret agent, Tails entered the room, his back rubbing a very cold wall. Sonic watched. Tails saw a machine he could hide behind. He quickly somersaulted behind it.
"…Hear something?" Asked one of the foxes on the other side of the room.
"Oh, no." Someone else said. "But…" they went back to murmuring in the corner. Tails peeked out to see Sonic kicking the side of his test tube. Tails understood. 'It must be some sort of super strong glass! But WHAT kind?' Tails thought. 'Resistance? Bulletproof? One way?'
Upon further inspection Tails noticed something. Crouched behind the machine, he could see diagonally into the glass. And he could see that the glass at the top wasn't the same heavy-duty stuff than at the bottom, where Sonic was! Which meant, if he wanted to free Sonic… all they had to do was break the glass!
He tried to tell Sonic, but Sonic obviously didn't understand. He stared at Tails as if he was playing the tissue comb (a hard to play instrument, I'm sure). Tails sighed, a very bad move.
"Did you hear that!" one of the scientist asked.
"Was it that hedgehog?"
"Stupid thing. It probably can't even understand us!" Said a third.
"Yeah, right, I can't understand you!" Sonic yelled. "Lemme outta here!"
"Did it SAY something?" Asked the first scientist.
"Shock it!" the other two cheered.
Tails couldn't take it. "Oh no you DON'T!" He cried, spinning his two tails. "I've gotcha, Sonic!" Tails flew into the thinner glass at the top, shattering it completely. Sonic dove out of the test tube thing.
"THAT was what you were trying to tell me?" Sonic panted.
"Yeah…" Tails said, smiling. His arm hurt where he had rammed the glass.
"YOU! Who are you?" One of scientists yelped.
"Press the button!" another said. The third had already fisted a red button.
"INTRUDER ALERT! INTRUDER ALERT! INTRUDER ALERT!" a siren wailed.
"Aah! Better get outta here!" Tails said.
"You're not going anywhere!" Two of the scientists said.
"Young man," said the first one, "you should be back at the homeland, with your mother. Now who are you?"
"I'm Tails!" Tails said, sighing. "Miles 'Tails' Prower."
"…WHAT!" all three scientists said together.
They huddled up.
"It can't be!"
"but it is!"
"Yes, it must be true, I've never seen him before anyway!"
The door that Tails had sneaked through burst open. In walked Railside, Talon, and some other assembled guards.
"Seize the hedgehog! He's trying to hurt Miles!" Railside commanded.
"No!" Tails cried. "Don't touch him!"
Sonic looked dazed at the reaction of the whole group. They stared at Tails like he had two heads.
By this time, the siren had stopped wailing. There was scuffling coming from the hallway.
Foxes crowded into the room. Murmuring started, and their eyes widened and they started bowing.
"What in the world is going on here?" Sonic muttered.
"…No idea." Tails said. "But this isn't gonna be pretty…"