Author's Note: I'm sorry that it took so long to update but I had my reasons. I had to study for tests and I had work to go to. Plus I had a case of writer's block and I needed to plan out this chapter due to the dialouge in it. As I said before, these next chapters will take time to plan because of what I have in mind and I have to type on my free time when I'm not working. I will not be putting a copyright notice anymore unless there is a character created by me.
Chapter Fourteen
A Meeting Between Counterparts
The Great Forest, a lush green and beautiful forest, is said to hide many secrets from history. Currently there is one secret that has been concealed by the refugees of a city that has been taken over by a demented human whose name is synonymous with evil, Dr. Ivo Robotnik. Currently, Dr. Robotnik is missing in action or presumed dead after his Doomsday Project was destroyed by the banished monarch's daughter and a speedy hedgehog, who has been a thick thorn in Robotnik's side. Right now, there is a small group of friends walking in the Great Forest to an arranged destination by a contact that four of them have seen.
"Let me get this straight," the light purple walrus began, "that there is another Robotnik here, but this one is from another dimension."
"That's what we seen. Another Robotnik not like the one we know and our contact is the one who asked us to meet him," the brown squirrel replied.
"But dimensional travel is only theoretical," the walrus replied.
"True, but is seems possible," the squirrel replied.
"Did you also say that the contact we are meeting looks like Tails?"
"He may have Tails' twin appendages, but he doesn't act like Tails at all," the blue hedgehog spoke sounding offended that someone looks like his best friend.
"Sonic," the squirrel spoke with her hands crossed, "he may have Tails' twin appendages, but he seems to be almost as cocky as you. Although he says he is not as cocky as you."
"No one is as cocky as me. Whatever it means."
"It means being overconfident and with your recklessness; they go hand in hand."
Sonic didn't say another word as they continued through the forest until they came across a small meadow sparsely populated by wildflowers.
"Uh, Sal," Sonic asked and Sally turned to face him, "I don't think this is the correct place. Call it a hunch but I have a feeling that our friend is talking about a different meadow. There is another one not far from here and I think that is the correct meadow."
"Are you sure, Sugar-Hog, this is the only meadow that we know of?" the half robot rabbit asked with a southern accent.
"I came across it years ago and I never forgot the site of all the flowers there. I will take the blame if I am wrong," Sonic replied.
"Very well Sonic," Sally said with a heavy sigh, "I just hope that your hunch is correct and I don't necessarily want to split up at this time in case we are ambushed."
They left the meadow with Sonic in the lead as he lead them towards the place where he says is the correct rendezvous point. They walked for several minutes until they came across a vast meadow populated by numerous species of wildflowers. Anyone present could see that it was a beautiful site.
"Oh mah stars, it's beautiful!" the rabbit said as she bent over and smelt the flowers.
"I know what you mean Bunnie," Sally said, also lost in the beauty, "and Sonic," she pulled Sonic away from the others before speaking in a whisper, "why did you think that this is the right place?"
"Two reasons," Sonic replied also in a whisper, "anyone with a thing of beauty would be here," he used his speed to pick up a small bouquet of flowers and gave them to her, "and the second reason is; I found Tails in this exact meadow."
"Sonic," she began but she lost her voice after she had sniffed the flowers.
"I found him in that hollow tree stump," he pointed to a tree that had a full bloom of fruit and at its base was a hole big enough for a very small body to fit in, " and our contact would be here for one reason or another."
"You never told him," she asked after recovering her voice.
"Every time I try, I chicken out since I don't want to hurt his feelings and sooner or later he will find out that Tails is just a nickname. You did warn me of this but I never gave it much thought until seeing another look alike."
"Sonic, you need to tell him because he needs to know."
"I know, Sal," he replied with his voice cracking and Sally dried a tear that was trailing down his face.
Nearly half an hour had passed as they sat under the tree as they waited for their contact to come, except for Sonic; who had been pacing and tapping his foot at such an incredible speed that no one can tell how many taps he did.
"Our contact should be here any minute now," Sally said as she check the time on a small computer that had been attached to her boot.
"I'm glad you came," a voice spoke above them a few minutes later.
They all looked to the treetops to see a figure sitting on a tree limb in the shadows. His features can easily be seen. He looked exactly like Tails except for the blue eyes that made him look like a different person.
"Tell me something," the fox drops to a lower branch so that he was in the sun, "what has happened to Mobotropolis?"
"Well," Sally began and giving out a sigh, "the Robotnik here was once a trusted friend of my father, but that was just a ruse. He betrayed him years later and changed our city into the city you now see today."
"That foul fiend!" the fox spoke with one hand clutched tighter on the limb he was on.
"He is foul but we think he perished when his Doomsday Project was destroy and we didn't find him in the wreckage."
"I don't think he should of met his end like this."
"What!" Sonic yelled sounding annoyed at what the fox had said and everyone turns toward him. "If you knew what he was capable of; you would change your view!"
"I have my morals but elucidate for me why I should change my view."
Sonic stood there silent like he hasn't understood a single word the fox spoke.
"Clarify why I should change my view!" he sounded annoyed as he raised his hands in the air exasperatedly.
"He stole technology my uncle made that he wanted to use in the medical field, but it was used to turn anybody it was used on into a mindless robotic slave that only obeys him," he replied as calmly as he could but there was a hint of anger in his voice.
"I just hope that the Robotnik from my dimension doesn't take that technology back with him and uses it against his enemies. I also won't change my views. He should at least be sent to prison for his crimes because no one that evil deserves to perish in an explosion."
"Hold on," Sally spoke before Sonic could argue and looking back at the fox, "you mean that this Robotnik doesn't have the technology to turn anyone into a robot."
"Not to what I know of and it's a good thing I caused enough chaos in that city before leaving."
"I was meaning to ask you if you had a hand in those explosions."
"Of course," he drops down to a large rock near the tree where he sat down, "when I first saw what the city was; I felt angered that someone could be so cold hearted. I sent out probes that I made that I programmed to seek out major targets needed to cripple the city. I also planted a computer virus into the systems in case he gets the power back and when he tries to download any information that would be useful to him," he cracks a very mischievous smile.
"That's something we never tried before; a computer virus, but we never had the resources to make one."
"The virus and the majority of the inventions I have are experimental and I needed an excuse to use them. They seemed to have worked perfectly when my probes destroyed parts of the city."
"What is your side of the story and how did you end up here?"
"One minute I was locked in combat with that fiend and the next minute I was blinded by a bright light. When my vision became clear, I was in this field and I decided to find out who else was taken along."
"So we know of two who came along and anyone else. What do you think you are doing insulting that Robotnik?" Sally sound angry.
"I know of no one else who came along and I'm not the first one to make that insult. I just picked it up over the years and use it just to anger him, but at the same time make him screw up his own plans."
"Let me take a wild guess that your Sonic was the first one to make that insult?" the fox merely nodded. "Figures," she takes a look at Sonic before turning back to the fox, "and how long have you fought against this Robotnik?"
"Since I was almost eight and I only fought him for a year whenever he came up with a plan for world domination. He had been hiding for the past two years and it has been peaceful."
"You fought against him alone?" Sally said raising an eyebrow and sounding shocked at the information that was said.
"No, I had help and this was the first time I had help defeating someone with an evil plan when I first met that fiend."
"Who was your first?" the young twin-tailed fox named Tails asked his double.
"Tails," Sally said firmly, "now is not the time to be asking that kind of question. Now is the time for us to strike back at him since his security will be down. Who was he trying to call before you decided to show up?"
"I agree since now is the time to strike back before he gets the security back up and running. To answer your question, he was calling a mechanical double he made of me to attack. I managed to short circuit the robot back getting it wet. I wasn't able to completely destroy it before the alarm went off. That would be his third robot he made to look like someone else and I won't say who else since know is not the time," the Tails double spoke. "Also," he continued as he jumped off the rock he was sitting on, "I would turn a few heads if I was with you the way I am since it's, from what I've seen, it's rare to see a twin-tailed fox walking around; let alone two."
"I suggest that we tie your tails together," Sonic jokily said.
"I think not," the fox spoke and took out a watch from his backpack. "This is a holographic watch and I will use this to disguise myself until a time I see to remove it off of me."
He puts the watch on his left wrist and presses a sequence of buttons. One of his tails vanished, his fur turned to a dark shade of red, and his sneakers turned completely white.
"Also," his voice had become slightly deeper, "I should go by a different name so that it doesn't cause confusion. I choose the name Amadeus."
"Your reason?" Sonic asked.
"I have my reasons," the fox simply replied.
The Tails double, now named Amadeus, had been blindfolded despite Sally's protest. Sonic and the coyote, named Antoine, had insisted since he couldn't be trusted by what he said, but Amadeus knew that Sonic didn't like him, yet. Antoine wanted to be sure that Sally was safe from him since… let's just say he wanted Sally to like him more.
"So," Sally asked Amadeus as they walked away from the meadow, "who was your first."
Tails turned his head slightly so he could hear better.
"I thought now wasn't the time?" Amadeus asked.
"We have time to talk since it's a bit of a walk."
"Very well," he took a sigh and began to tell her his side of what happened before he had met Robotnik. He began when he had become stranded on an island and how he kept his sanity by making things out of the downed transport. He then told her about an army called the Battle Bird Armada and how he had gotten around them despite being scared at first. Although, he left out crucial details that he didn't want them to know as of yet. Tails listened in intently as they walked, but turned his eyes forward when he caught Sonic looking at him. Sonic on the other hand didn't seem to believe what Amadeus had just said.
Our hero now named Amadeus now has some new allies on his side. However, there are two who seem to not trust him. Sonic doesn't trust him for some unknown reason. Antoine doesn't trust him for an unknown reason. Can Sonic trust him well enough to be an ally? What would this dimension's Tails learn from our hero? Can they stop this Robotnik before the can set his plan in motion?
Preview:
This is Tails! My new allies and I plan for the raid that will stop Eggman before he can get around my computer virus and get the city back up and running. I now have to content with this Sonic since he doesn't trust me since I look like his best friend. Aren't I his best friend too? I just hope that everything goes as planned so that I, and unfortunately Eggman, can return back to where we belong. Find out if we succeed!
Post Author's Note: I hope the characters are in character since I have a tendency to make some out of character.
