Author's Note: Tails is currently ten years old and this takes place two years after Robotnik's (Eggman's) last attempt at world domination.

Chapter Nine

A Two Fronted Assault

In a dense part of a forest, two objects were traveling at an incredible speed. One was the world renowned hero Sonic the Hedgehog and the other was his mechanical double known as Mecha Sonic. The forest had become very thick and it made travel for them almost impossible. Mecha decided to use an energy sword to slash through the forest while Sonic had to bounce off the trees in order to keep up.

"Give it up! You can't win!" Mecha mocked.

"Don't count your chickens before they hatch, Mecha!" Sonic sarcastically remarked.

They both came to a lake and Mecha flew over it while Sonic had to run over the top of it since it would take too long for him to go around. Lasers started to fire at Sonic and he had to dodge them as they tried to halt him from making it to the volcano where two hostages were held captive. Now missiles started to tail Sonic as he had exited the jungle. He picked up several rocks and hurled them at the missies as he ran backwards. They hit their targets and Sonic increased his speed to catch up with Mecha.

Sonic caught up but Mecha launched out an attack on Sonic and Sonic had to back off. Sonic then tried to hit Mecha with his signature move, the Sonic Spin, but again, Mecha deflected the attack with a force field. Sonic recovered and continued to race Mecha from behind.

"I thought you wanted a race, Mecha!" Sonic sarcastically yelled at his mechanical double.

"I never said it was going to be fair!" Mecha replied with no sarcasm.

Elsewhere, two more figures were traveling at incredible speeds as they entered the dense forest. One was the infamous Dr. Robotnik and the other is only well known for a deed he has done in a city, Tails. Robotnik had taken a pair of twin five year old foxes hostage in his tentacle-like appendages and took off with them. Tails followed him with almost pure rage as he chased after him.

Robotnik came to a very thick part of the forest where he took a steep climb as he chuckled to himself thinking that he was not being followed. The twin foxes cries for help fell on deaf ears and a steady beeping was heard and that silenced the two foxes.

"What the?" Robotnik cried out as he checked his internal radar.

Robotnik quickly changed direction and he flew backwards but his pursuer was still on him. He realized that he was being followed by his arch nemesis's 'partner in crime,' Tails. He changed direction again but his attempts to elude his pursuer have failed. Tails quickly increased his speed and he caught up with him.

"Give it up you oversized, rotten egg!" Tails yelled.

"Catch me if you can, fox brat!" Robotnik replied and he increased speed.

Tails climbed until he was above Robotnik as he followed to keep up. Although, Robotnik was faster but Tails persevered as he pushed himself harder until he was above him. Tails then launched an attack at Robotnik and he hit the two rockets on his back with both feet. The force of the impact had dislodged Robotnik's grip on the two foxes and Tails quickly caught them. Robotnik recovered after he had done several forward rolls that almost made him nauseous.

"You will pay for that!" he yelled after he had recovered and charged at Tails.

Tails stopped spinning his tails and he dodged the attack as gravity took over. Robotnik then followed after him as Tails plunged headfirst toward the ground with the twin foxes close to him.

Meanwhile, our two speedy hedgehogs were now climbing up the mountains and toward their final destination. Sonic had been tailing Mecha the entire race and he couldn't even pass him without getting killed. Sonic then go an idea on how to slow down his double. He picked up a rock as he passed it and forced himself to go faster so that he could throw the rock at him. He knew that he couldn't throw it now or he would hit himself in the face. Sonic caught up with Mecha and threw the rock into the rocket on his back. That caused the rocket to explode and it slowed him down.

"See you at the top!" Sonic said as he passed Mecha as he look at what just happened.

In the crater of the volcano, there were two pink hedgehogs held by their wrists to the crater wall. The lava slowly creped towards their feet. Then they heard a sound that sounded like a passing object. They saw a figure land on the opposite side and it vanished before their eyes.

"What happened now, Amy?" a voice was heard and above them was a blue hedgehog. He was untying the bounds on one of the hedgehogs.

"Sonic! You came," the pink hedgehog that he was untying said sounding relieved.

"Yeah, but what happened?" he asked again as he lifted her out of the crater and proceeded to untie the other hedgehog.

"Eggman decided to use me as bait and try to get to you with that mechanical fake of his!" she replied.

"So this is Sonic the Hedgehog," the other pink hedgehog said as Sonic lifted her out of the crater sounding almost surprised.

"You are?" Sonic asked.

"I'm Samantha Rose and I'm Amy's cousin. Please call me Sam or Sammy," she replied.

A drone of an engine was heard and they turned to see a mechanical hedgehog. Amy coward in fear behind Sonic as the hedgehog landed on the opposite side of them.

"So, you beat me again Sonic, but I cannot allow you to escape. I also found this in your biplane, Sonic," he held up a yellow emerald and Sonic knew what it was, a Chaos Emerald.

Mecha replaced it as his power source as he approached the center of the crater and he began to let out a vile laugh as the Emerald's power started to surge through him. Then his body exploded and the pieces of his body fell into the crater below.

"What just happened?" Amy's cousin, Samantha, asked.

"Later! Let's get out of here before the volcano erupts," Sonic said as he took the hands of Amy and Samantha and sped down the side of the volcano.

Elsewhere in the thinning forest, a small group of friends were walking past a small lake.

"That was so unlike him to leave his diary behind. He rarely trust anyone with it," the amber colored vixen said.

"True but it seems to me that he did try to save our lives," the light purple walrus said.

"The question is, why did he jump off without a parachute?" the dark red fox asked.

"Don't anyone answer that," the older vixen said as she broke out into tears.

High above them, two figures were falling above the lake. Tails held onto his precious cargo, which consisted of two five year old foxes, while he was being pursued by the evil Dr. Robotnik. Tails pulled out of the dive and Robotnik passed him. However, Robotnik used one his tentacle arms to grab Tails by the leg and pull him down with him. They all hit the water with a loud splash and that startled everyone in the area.

"What happened?" the uniformed fox asked.

Two figures came up to the surface; it was the two five year old foxes. They came up sputtering out water as they came to the surface. They struggled towards the shallows where they were helped by their parents. Their mother was very scared and happy that they were both okay.

"What happened?" she asked scared as she continued to kiss them and hug them.

"He saved us!" the male fox said.

"And we were flying!" the young vixen said.

"Flying! Foxes don't fly!" their mother said.

Something came out of the lake with a loud splash. It was a fat bald man shaped like an egg. He was gasping for air and spitting out water.

"I will get you for that fox boy!" he yelled not even noticing that he had guests.

Then a waterspout came up from below him and it picked him up. He was picked up to the treetops and he landed headfirst in the lake with a loud splash. He came out of the lake and ignited his rockets. He was scanning the water as he looked down from above.

"Where are you!" he yelled at the water as he fired his blaster at the water.

Something then hit him and he was knocked backwards. His attacker was a fox and he was flying above the water. Robotnik then charged are him but he missed him and he hit the water.

"See!" the young five year old fox said pointing to the fox.

"I don't believe it!" his father said.

"C'est impossible!" the coyote said with a French accent.

"That defies the laws of physics," the walrus said in awe at the sight.

A tentacle came out of the water and tried to grab the fox but it failed. Several more came out but they couldn't get the fox as it nimbly dodged the attacks. The man came out of the water and he came level with the fox.

"How can you stay underwater for five minutes?" he asked the fox.

"Years of practice, Eggman," the fox replied.

"I suggest that you call me Dr. Robotnik you twin tailed freak!"

"I heard better insults than that!"

The man named Robotnik started to fire on the fox but he couldn't even get a hit on him as he continued to dodge with ease. Tails then charged at him and hit him with a shoulder charge that forced Robotnik into a nearby rock. Pieces of the armor started to fall off from the impact. Robotnik became enraged at the attack and he shot out something invisible that encased Tails in an orbed prison.

"Any last words before I drown you?" he asked with a rotten smile.

"Just two," Tails replied and he let out a loud whistle. It wasn't a wolf whistle but a whistle that is used to get someone's attention.

After the whistle, the fox-like Chao that was dressed like a pilot started to viciously attack Robotnik's face. The twin five year olds tried to call him back but he ignored their calls.

"Attack his hands and get me out of here!" Tails commanded and the Chao obeyed his command.

The Chao attacked the hand that had imprisoned him and it set Tails free. The Chao then attacked the other hand before he continued to attack his face. Robotnik tried and tried to get the Chao away from him but all of his attempts failed.

"Return!" Tails ordered and the Chao came to his side.

Tails hovered there with his hands crossed with an angry look on his face while the Chao mimicked him. Robotnik recovered, he had scars up and down his face and his mustache was no longer straight.

"Where'd you get that Chao?" Robotnik asked enraged.

"That's for me to know and for you to find out!" Tails sarcastically remarked.

Robotnik then launched a barrage of laser attacks but they seemed to miss their targets. Tails then elbowed Robotnik as he charged at him and the action was too fast for anyone to see. Robotnik hunched over after the attack before Tails hit him with both fists on the back of the head. As Robotnik went towards the water, he shot out a tentacle that grabbed Tails by the leg. Tails struggled to keep himself from going underwater too. The Chao attacked the tentacle and it snapped; freeing the captive fox. Robotnik came out of the water enraged.

"You will pay for that!" he yelled and his arms transformed into blasters.

Meanwhile, Sonic and his friends, Amy and Samantha Rose, walked towards the resort town of Padre City. When they came there, the city was now overrun by robots that were twice their size known as, SWAT-bots.

"Stay here!" Sonic ordered his two friends before he charged off toward the city.

"Leave me behind again!" Amy yelled.

"Amy, we shouldn't get involved," Samantha timidly said. She held her cousin back before she could leave her side.

Sonic charged toward the resort as he took out each of the SWAT-bots without them realizing that they were under attack. Sonic freed the captive prisoners and they ran from their current location in order to get away from the city.

"Priority One, Hedgehog!" one of the SWAT-bots said in a monotone voice as it raised its blaster (think of it like Buzz Light-Year's laser blaster from Toy Story but without having to use the other hand in order for the blaster to fire).

It couldn't even hit Sonic as he attack the robot and he had to dodge more robots that seemed to swarm the area. Sonic became surrounded by SWAT-bots and he jumped as they opened fire. They destroyed each other and Sonic landed as he continued to destroy the robots in city. Sonic then became surrounded again by SWAT-bots. Something then landed by him and he recognized it like a grenade. He jumped and the grenade exploded taking out all of the SWAT-bots. Figures started to approach the area. They were dressed in uniforms and they were armed with blasters.

"Alright men!" a bulldog in an uniform commanded. "Destroy all robots and free all civilians!"

"Yes Sir!" his men replied as they began to assault the SWAT-bots.

Sonic continued his own assault on the SWAT-bots as he went through the resort. He freed more civilians and helped soldiers that were surrounded by the robots. He reached the center of the town and found where the source of the SWAT-bots came from. They seemed to come from a small manufacturing plant. The SWAT-bots that were patrolling the area spotted him and they started to open fire on him. Sonic easily dodged the barrage of laser fight and was able to get himself in between them and the manufacturing plant. They opened fire on him but they hit the control panel of the manufacturing plant when Sonic dodged the attack. The manufacturing plant exploded halting the production of more SWAT-bots and it also shut down the SWAT-bots.

Soldiers had now swarmed the area after Sonic had disabled the control panel. They spread out over the area and some of them even pointed their blasters at Sonic.

"Stand down men!" it was the commander of the army.

"Sorry!" the commander said while he saluted Sonic. "You must be Sonic the Hedgehog."

"Yes… sir," Sonic replied.

A blast was seen from the forest then a beep was heard from the commander. It came from a communicator that he had on his belt.

He turns it on and a voice was heard over it, "Sir, there is a nearby disturbance. Permission to intercept. Over!"

"Permission granted. Over!"

Sonic left without a word to the commander and proceeded toward the site where the blast came from.

Elsewhere, the battle between Tails and Robotnik had now become one-sided. Robotnik's armor had almost been destroyed by Tails' and the Chao's assaults on him. Robotnik shot a laser at Tails from his only blaster on his hand but missed again. He tried to shoot again but something went wrong with his blaster and it couldn't fire again.

"Sic'em!" Tails commanded the Chao and it attacked Robotnik's face.

The Chao repeatedly attack Robotnik's face and Robotnik tried to swat it away from him. Tails quickly went behind Robotnik and kicked him on his rockets that kept him in the air. Robotnik was knocked towards the water but he was able to stop himself from hitting the water. The Chao had returned to Tails' side after it had recovered. Tails tried to make an attack on Robotnik but he missed his target. He stopped himself from hitting the water.

Meanwhile, Sonic made his way toward the area where Tails was fighting Robotnik and he was joined by several men of the army stationed there.

"Give it up, fox boy!" Robotnik yelled and he charged at Tails.

His attack miss and he tried to charge Tails again. Tails then hit him as soon as he dodged the attack and hit him in both of his rockets. The attack shut down the rockets and sent him towards the ground. He hit the ground and left a rift in the ground. The sound of cocking weapons were heard and he was surrounded by members of the army.

"Dr. Ivo Robotnik, you are hereby under arrest for crimes against humanity," the bear said as he held his weapon at Robotnik's head.

Robotnik let out a low growl, then he fired one last blast at Tails. Tails quickly dodged the attack, but not before he grabbed the Chao as he dodged the attack. Robotnik was then pounced on by several members of the army as he tried to struggle to free himself but it failed and he was taken away with an armed guard.

Sonic stood where he stood as Robotnik, his arch nemesis, was taken away. He could now almost take a long vacation now but his attention soon turned to Tails. Tails had now landed on a rock in the shallows of the lake and he was now cuddling the Chao that he had with him. Although, Sonic could not hear what they were saying, but he could almost tell that Tails needed time to himself.

Later that day, when the sun had started to set, there was a small family of foxes sitting on the beach as they watched the sun set. One of them was Tails and the others were the five year old foxes that he had saved from Robotnik along with their parents.

"Your father and I really missed you, Miles," their mother said.

"I missed you both, too. I also miss you too, Ace," Tails replied as he stroked the fox-like Chao that was laying against his side on the sand.

"That was really brave and at the same time; really stupid what you did, Miles" the father said.

"That's what I get from hanging out with the world's fastest hedgehog," Tails replied as he continued to stroke the Chao named Ace.

"I hope that you're not thinking of doing anything like that again?" the father asked.

"Only if necessary," Tails replied.

"How did you get back here?" the mother asked.

"We, that is Sonic and I, took a biplane here that I built and flew. That is also the truth," he added at the surprised looks on their faces.

"Built and flew?" the mother struggled to ask.

"I'm a natural when it comes to flying and I loved to built things since as long as I could remember."

"If I remember right," the father started, "you always loved building model airplanes."

"I think it's time I get dinner ready before it gets too late," the mother said as she rose to her feet. "Are you going to help me fix dinner?"

"I'll be there later since I would like to be alone for a few minutes," Tails replied as he continued to stroke Ace.

The rest of the foxes left to that he could be alone. Although the twin five year old foxes tried to call Ace to them but he didn't obey their calls. They felt hurt that Ace didn't obey them but their parents would tell them why Ace didn't obey them later.

Tails sat where he laid as he continued to stroke Ace.

"Well Miles," voice said to him and he turned to see the amber colored vixen that he had seen earlier, "I could tell that you needed time alone before I approached you to return your diary," she continued as she handed him his blue diary.

"Hello Amber, it has been too long since we last spoke," Tails replied.

"Yes and I never seen you so happy. That was very brave of you to stand up to that foul villain like that," she said.

The most fear scientist in the world Dr. Robotnik has been taken away and sent to prison. What will the world's fastest hedgehog do now that his arch nemesis is behind bars? Can Tails readjust to a new life with family and old friends that he has not seen for five years?

Preview:

This is Tails! I just been reunited with my family and I am going to spend time with them for some family bonding. There are many activities that I can participate in on the beach. I now have to content with Bruise's, Amber's twin brother, insults toward me. What will Sonic do now that he has more time for fun? Can I readjust back to family life?


Copyright: Sonic, Tails, Amy, Robotnik (Eggman), Metal (Mecha) Sonic are all copyrighted by Sega. Bruise, Amber, Samantha, and the two unnamed twin foxes are all copyrighted by me. The Chao named Ace is also copyrighted by me. Tails' parents are not copyrighted by me. The SWAT-bots are copyrighted by Archie comics.
Post Author's Note: I prefer to call Metal Sonic 'Mecha' since it sounds more menacing than 'Metal.' I also prefer to call Eggman by his given name of Robotnik. That is the name I grew up with and I always liked better than 'Eggman.' I will call him Eggman, but only if it is in dialouge. If you want to borrow any of my characters; email me (I will allow my email to be visible on my profile) and be sure to put a subject to it or I will delete it. Put "Fancharacter Request" as the subject and put your user name within the text of your email so that I can make sure that you are not stealing them (if not; then I won't send you the character you have requested). I will give you the profile for that character and I hope that you comply with the profile I give you for that character.