Yadda yadda yadda. So I don't own anything. And the whole "Chosen One" ordeal isn't critical to this story at all, just letting you know. Okay, disclaimers are done! On with the story!
Sonic sighed, lying in his bed with arms under his head. 'Man, he thought, 'am I bored! There's really nothing to do.'
It had been pretty quiet in Knothole for the past few weeks. There was really nothing to do anymore.
Even if things had gotten pretty strange lately…but that was another story entirely.
At that moment, though, there really wasn't anything to do, and it was driving Sonic up a wall.
Sitting up, he realized that he hadn't seen Tails around all day. Wondering where his little buddy was, he sped out of the house, looking for the twin-tailed fox.
The blue hedgehog noticed something by the lake. Heading over there, he found the young fox sleeping by the shore of the tarn.
Sonic sighed, shaking his head. He couldn't blame Tails, really. After all, the young fox seemed really tired lately. Maybe because he wasn't getting much sleep.
Bending over, he was about to prod the little fox awake, when he suddenly was jolted out of his sleep by a nightmarish vision, sitting up quickly.
"Whoa!" the fox said, panting for air, trembling.
"Tails!" Sonic said, holding the fox-boy's shoulders. "Tails, are you okay?"
He looked up at his friend. "I…I-think so, Sonic," he replied meekly.
The blue hedgehog helped the fox to his feet. "Was it that nightmare again?"
"Uh huh…"
"The one with the dark cave?"
"In the storm…yea…"
"And the glowing eyes?"
Tails nodded. "What do you think it means?"
Sonic shrugged. "Dunno…Why don't we head home and talk about it?"
The fox nodded again, as the two of them slowly headed home.
As they were walking, Sonic's foot happened to dislodge a large pebble. He would kick it ahead of him, catch up to it, and kick it again. It was stupid, but it was something to do.
"Still thinking about the dream?" the hedgehog asked after a while.
Tails nodded. "I can't help but think about the dream. I think…I think it's trying to tell me something."
"Like what?"
"I'm not sure. It's like…a location of some kind…"
"A location? For what?"
"That's the part I don't understand."
An unnerving silence settled over the both of them, as the pebble clattered on the ground after Sonic had kicked it again.
He then kicked it again, a little harder than the other times. It sailed through the air, crashing through one of the glass windows of his house, and landed inside.
"Uh oh…" Both knew that there was at least someone in the house who would find the pebble and the broken window. They just hoped it wasn't…
"Sonic! Miles!" Sonic cringed at the sound of his mother's robotic voice. Even though Bernie was roboticized, she still acted like a mother.
She was standing at the doorway, holding the pebble. "Mind explaining, Sonic? Miles?"
'Miles' was the name used only when someone was really mad. Other times, the fox was just known as Tails.
Sonic was about to say something, but was interrupted by Tails. "Were you talking to me?" the fox asked.
Bernie through the pebble to the ground. "You and Sonic."
"But you called me 'Miles'."
Bernie nodded. "That's your name."
But Tails shook his head. "No it's not. My name is Tails."
Sonic looked over at him. "That's the nickname I gave you. You're real name is Miles."
But Tails shook his head again. "My name is Tails," he repeated.
Sonic was getting a little confused now. "Tails, you do know that that's just a nickname, right? That's the nickname I gave you when we were little."
"Tails is the name my parents gave me."
And Sonic could tell that that's what he really believed. The set look in his cerulean eyes gave that away.
'What's going on?' Sonic wondered.
TBC
I was talking with Ken Penders one time (at a comic convention) about the whole Doppelganger-Tails thing, and he told me that the Doppelganger had no idea that his name was "Miles," and he could have believed that his name was something else. I liked this idea (although I didn't like that suggestion of names that he gave me), so I put it in here. That's the only way they could find out something was different about him anyway.
Sorry if this seemed kinda weird. I promise future chapters will be better.
