Author's Note: First of all, I want to thank Brent-Ka for the complement about getting Tails' past correct and as for giving the history. I felt it necessary to give the reader a short history of what that character has accomplished. I have played most of the Sonic games, but I have not played the Advance games. I feel lost when I see a character I have not seen or heard of before. I actually picked up that habbit from reading the Harry Potter series, and Rowling gives the reader a short history of what had happened in the previous book. If you see something like that again; bare with me since this is how I write and you will see some of my own twists to the history in later chapters.


Chapter One

Westside Island Revisited

Westside Island, an island in the middle of the vast ocean, has a mysterious history. An ancient civilization inhabited the island, but it mysteriously vanished. It was said that the inhabitants were divided into seven tribes and each had a mysterious jewel called the Chaos Emerald. They lived together in peace for centuries, but soon the peace ended. Greed soon consumed the tribes for the mysterious emeralds since legend said that a miracle would happen if all seven were gathered together. The ancient deities, fearing bloodshed, on the island took the Chaos Emeralds from the tribes and hid them in a parallel universe so that greedy hands could not acquire them. The Chaos Emeralds sat in their parallel prison for centuries; until someone sought for them.

A demented scientist whose name would become infamous worldwide Dr. Robotnik (aka Dr. Eggman) needed them to power his weapon for world domination, the Death Egg, but his attempts failed when an old nemesis stopped him. Sonic the Hedgehog, a cool, blue hedgehog with incredible speed, gathered the seven mystical emeralds with the help of his new friend, Miles Prower, a young blue eyed, twin tailed fox, in order to stop the demented scientist's attempts at world domination. The island's inhabitants enjoyed a peaceful time since the demented scientist's attempts to take over the island. A resort was set up on the island since it was a stopping point for passing aircrafts from the east and west of the island.

In the resort town of Emerald Hills, a blue hedgehog walked along the dirt path as he past several shops as he looked at what they had to offer. It was peaceful here as the inhabitants of the resort went about their business, but that was soon about to change. An explosion was heard nearby and panic went through the town of Emerald Hills as small aircrafts began to bombard the island.

"Great," the blue hedgehog thought as the inhabitants of the resort scattered, "just what I need. Someone trying to take over the island again and I just know who is behind this."

He took off with his incredible speed as he went on top of the enflamed huts and began his attack on the small aircrafts, but they were not aircrafts. They were birds in armor and they had explosives attached to them as they all bombarded the island. A vile laugh was heard and he turned to see a figure silhouetted against the sun, but there was a glitter of light from what the figure was holding. The hedgehog scanned for a way to reach the figure and came across a ramp that he could use to reach the figure. He ran up the ramp and curled into a spiked ball in an attempt to attack the figure. Just before he reached the figure, he was batted back down to the ground by something or someone.

The silhouetted figure came down to the hedgehog's level to reveal that he was a big muscle-bound duck as he continued to maliciously laugh as he came down. "Who are you, landlubber?" he asked in a deep voice.

"The name's Sonic the Hedgehog and the most important question is: Who are you?" the hedgehog sarcastically remarked.

"My name is of no importance of you, landlubber! I will tell you that I am the leader of the Battle Bird Armada, and our sole goal is to rid the world of those who are not born to fly. That would include a plane that I found on the beach and I found this," the duck said holding an emerald in his hand and the hedgehog name Sonic knew what it already was; a Chaos Emerald.

"Give that back, or else!" Sonic yelled pointing a finger at the duck.

"Or else what? You can't get me and I am protected by a force field that keeps out all foreign attacks!"

"Why do you need the Chaos Emeralds?" Sonic asked in an attempt to keep this maniac busy until he can come up with a plan.

"Why? We need them to power our fortress, and since another landlubber destroyed our first one. We also need slaves to get another one built and ready for our plans," the duck cracked a malicious smile. "Now our meeting is over and you must be destroyed," he snapped his finger and several armored birds came to his side. "Dispose of him!"

The armored birds opened their hatches and revealed missiles. Sonic prepared himself for the ensuring battle, but a loud explosion was heard overhead. Everyone's attention was directed to the explosion and something became attached to one of the birds. Sonic gave a quick look and it looked like a mine. The next thing that happened was an electric current going through the bird and it spread to everyone in the air. The armored birds dropped to the ground like stones; their armor and weapons useless.

"What's wrong with my force field!" the leader said as he pounded on his control panel in an attempt to revive his force field.

Sonic was about to use this moment to attack, but something hit the aircraft; knocking the leader out of his seat and onto the ground with his aircraft following him as Sonic's emerald eyes followed the duck to the ground. He landed face first on the ground and came up spitting out dirt from his mouth. He looked up to the sky to identify who had hit him and he looked practically enraged.

"YOU!" he shouted pointing his finger to the sky.

Sonic looked up to see what looked like a fox flying. Yes, flying or hovering over them as he had his hands crosses and he casually drummed his hand on his arm.

"YOU!" the duck repeated. "YOU! Ruined my plans once before and you will not get away with this!"

"I suggest you return that emerald; unless you want to regret your actions," the fox casually said.

"Never! Guards, get him!" the armored birds on the ground couldn't get off the ground to obey their leader.

"Their armor is now useless, and they won't be able to fly with it on. Unless, they remove it and attack me."

"RETREAT!" the leader shouted as he jumped into his vehicle while his guards abandoned their armor as the leader activated a smokescreen that consumed both Sonic and the fox.

They both began to cough as the smoke consumed them both. As the smoke cleared, Sonic was on his kneels, coughing, and the fox was on the ground also coughing.

"Tails," Sonic called out the fox as he approached him, "are you okay?"

"I'm alright and we must stop him before he gathers six more Emeralds," the fox named Tails replied.

"We will, but first; where do you know that maniac of a leader?"

"I met him on an island I found and this was before we met. We must stop him from gathering six more Emeralds or else. The planet is doomed."

"Doomed!" Sonic sounded shocked.

"Yes, each of the Chaos Emeralds comes in sets. They each have their own unique energy signature and if a set is complete with a foreign Emerald. The ensuring power imbalance is enough to level the island and the send a massive tsunami that could devastate the entire planet."

"How do you know all this?" Sonic asked completely shocked at the news.

"I studied them and I found out over the years that this planet has several sets of Emeralds. The planet itself, Westside Island, Angel Island (the Floating Island), South Island, Flicky Island, and the island I met the Armada on each has its own set of Emeralds. We must gather a minimum of two Emeralds from here before they find six more and cause total chaos around the planet."

"Okay, let's go!" Sonic said and he took off with his incredible speed with his friend flying behind him about a foot off the ground. "By the way, were you the one who attack that waterfowl?"

"Yes, I've been working on several inventions in my spare time and I needed an excuse to use them. This is the perfect time to use them and also to perfect them," Tails said as they past through the chard remains of the once peaceful resort.

A new adventure on Westside Island has begun. The Battle Bird Armada is on the warpath to destroy all those who are not born to fly. Can Sonic and Tails find the minimum of Chaos Emeralds they need to stop them before the Armada finds six more? Can they survive the Armada's assaults to stop them? At what lengths would their leader go to stop them from succeeding and what about his revenge against Tails?


Preview:

Yo, this is Sonic! Tails and I are attempting to halt the Battle Bird Armada's attempt to gather six more Emeralds to power their fortress. We are able to recover the Emerald that maniac of a leader stole from us and we now must halt them before they gather the rest. I even meet some old friends I have not seen in a long time and they join Tails and I to stop the Armada's invasion force. Now with our new allies, we must stop their mad plan from succeeding. Find out next time!


Copyright: Sonic, Tails, Dr. Robotnik (Eggman), and the Battle Bird Armada are all copyrighted by Sega. The leader of the Armada is not mine and I am trying to get him as close to his appearance in Tails' Adventure as possible (I have not played the game and I can't find a picture of the Armada's leader). Any weapon Tails uses is copyrighted by me.


Post Author's Note: This chapter may be short, but I don't want to go too fast and spoil the upcoming fun. As for Tails, he may be acting out of character, but I feel that it is necessary now since he is a little more mature than he was two years ago (Sega's timeline). This is necessary since I feel this is how he should be acting now since he has been friends with Sonic, but that is just me.