Okay, disclaimers and all that legal stuff is on the first chapter and still applies to all following chapters. Just incase anyone reading has a weak stomach, there will be a bit of violence in this and later chapters, nothing big really, just flesh wounds. I'd like to thank anyone who has read my story thus far, whether you reviewed or not doesn't matter, I just hope you enjoy the 'show'. With that taken care of, on with the story….
A Visitor from Afar
Chapter 2 The Freedom Fighters
The great forest…
A tranquil location, lush with flora and fauna, it stands in stark contrast to the polluted waste land of Robtorpolis. Its massive tree and deceptively rough terrain had long stood as a difficult obstacle for invading armies to pass through; even now against the mechanized hordes of robots sent forth by the most vile of Overlanders to ever roam the planet, Doctor Robotnik. The forest's terrain was surprisingly rugged, littered with hills, valleys and cliffs creating natural choke points; something that gave well organized defenders a crucial edge. The forest canopies were so thick that the thermal energy gathered by the leaves made it impossible to use of infared scanners; the leaves retained the residual heat, even at night. Thus the Freedom Fighters, a rage-tag band of peace-loving Mobians set up their main base of operations in Knothole village, deep within the forest.
The Village itself was home to the many Mobians who had escaped Robotnik and wished to live in safety. The Freedom Fighters headquarters themselves lay within an old limestone cavern embedded within the side of one of the cliff walls of the hidden valley. There, lay nerve center of the Freedom Fighter's activities from which they planned and coordinated their attacks from. The cave itself was wide-spread, having many branching tunnels used as secret tunnels to the forest floor and to the village itself, while other cavernous chambers bore doors and were used as supply rooms, workshops and various other functions that the rebels needed.
One particular room, essentially the nerve center of the entire compound, known simply as the 'War Room' housed the communications monitors, maps, and any other equipment the Freedom Fighters needed to coordinate their attacks. Sitting before the large array of communication equipment and monitors, sat two founding members of the Freedom Fighters, Rotor the Walrus, and Antoine D'Coolette.
Behind them, her blue boots noisily stepping across the cold, hard stone floor; paced the nervous, slender figure of Princess Sally Acorn; leader of the Knothole Freedom Fighters. Across the room from her comrades, casually resting her metal legs on the top of the table, sat the half-robotic rabbit, Bunnie Rabbot. She leaned back in here chair, her mechanical feet resting on the table, aimlessly flicking cards into a small bowl on the table, seemingly calm and collected. Truth be told, she was in just a jumble of nerves as her friend Sally pacing back and forth across the room incessantly.
Bunnie could feel the tension in the room like a thick, murky fog. She could see that even as Antoine and Rotor typed away at their stations that they were just as nervous, though they were at least drowning out their tension by feverishly working at the stations. Sally on the other hand, was a different story; she had no way to channel her anxiety, and as she paced back and forth across the room, Bunnie could imagine a small runt forming in the ground. "AH think ah best break the tension heah b'fore ole Sally-girl there snaps like a lile' ole twig." Bunnie contemplated as she sot for a way to ease her friends' woes. "Sally-girl, ya'll best stop pacin' round like that, or ya'll wear a hole right though the floor." Bunnie said jokingly.
"Oh, sorry Bunnie, guess I'm a little nervous." Sally apologized, smiling warmly after she snapped out of her nervous trance.
"Sal, a little nervous is when Rotor says 'it'll be fine, what could happen?' right before somethin' blows up." Everyone grins at the memory of that incident while Rotor could only groan in embarrassment. "You, Sally-girl, look like ya could jump through the roof at the sound of a pin drop'n." Bunnie added pointing a metal finger at the chipmunk-squirrel hybrid. Sally just stared at the ground contemplating her reply, but Bunnie said it first. "Ya'll can relax 'bout Tails and Sugar' hog, they'll be fine. It's just a lil' ole recon mission after all."
"I know Bunnie, it's just that…" Sally started to reply but was cut off by a voice calling over the communications console. "Alright Sal, he's in." called the badly distorted voice of Sonic the Hedgehog. Sally spun around to face the consoles as she silently sighed in relief. "Thank goodness, at least they got there alright!"
"Good Work Sonic." Sally replied, picking up one of the microphones that sat next to the monitors. "Just remember the plan hot shot, you're to stay out of sight and distract the Swatbots so Tails can get away incase something goes wrong. No heroics!" Sally said into the mic with a greater emphasis on the last part.
The distorted voice replied shortly, "Chill Sal, he'll be fine, after all, he learned everything he knows from the best!" his voice clearly hinting his boasting.
The others couldn't help but snicker at Sonic's remark, and even more so at the irritated expression on Sally's face. "(sigh) That's what I'm worried about. Sally out." Sally could only groan in frustration at that, Sonic always did have a sizable ego, but his heart was in the right place. But his attitude drove her nuts sometimes, and for the life of her she could not figure out why she still had feelings for him despite it. Sally handed the mic to Antoine, who placed it back on the desk.
"Zo, now we wait, yes?" Antoine asked placing the earphones on his head around his neck as he looked to the princess behind him.
"Yes, Antoine, we wait. It will be awhile before we hear anything from them, so take a break for a bit everyone." Sally replied glancing at the clock hanging on the stone wall.
"Oui, my Preencess, I shall be taking my leave. I need to, how you say… break ze bathroom?" Antoine said rising from his chair only to receive blank stares of confusion from the others.
"Antoine, don't you mean take a bathroom break?" Rotor groaned. "Oui, zat too." Antoine smiled walking out of the War Room oblivious to how ridiculous he just sounded.
"Ugh, one of these days I'm going to get him to say something properly in English." Rotor laughed as he returned to monitoring Robotnik's comm chatter.
"Nah, don't bother none sugar, AH think it's kinda cute." Bunnie smiled flicking another card at the bowl. Rotor and Sally smiled, they knew full well what she meant by that, even if Antoine hadn't noticed yet. Her attraction to 'soldier boy' was fairly obvious to anyone that spent enough time with her; even though Antoine had yet to clue in. Didn't matter much, Bunnie was persistent, she'd get him eventually. "Say, Sally, how's 'bout we play a little cards ta pass the time hon?" Bunnie offered holding the deck of cards in the air.
"You know Bunnie that's a great idea." Sally's face light up at the offer; eager to get her mind off the mission. It didn't help much though as Sally's thoughts raced back to recent events. The Freedom Fighters had Robotnik's tougher creations, a Dynamic 3000 Android. It had been during an attack on a large factory supplying Robotnik with the deadly robots. After a tough fight they managed to destroy the factory, but in a lucky twist of fate the explosion of the one factory, destroyed several others, the ensuing fire devastated a large part Robotropolis' industrial sector. That happened almost two weeks ago. The factories had been rebuilt, yet Robotnik's activates remained quiet; and that told her Robotnik was up to something. Thus the reason for the mission tonight, she had to know what Robotnik was planning, otherwise they'd be caught unawares.
She had been reluctant to send Tails on this mission, to her he was still the little baby kit she had held in her arms so many years ago. But Sonic had made a very good case. Tails solo adventure to Downunda, his visit to the floating island, Fiona Fox, they all showed her that he was a capable fighter, but Sally was still very defensive for the young fox. Even after she relented to at least allow Sonic to officially train Tails in combat she still fought with her maternal instincts for Tails. But from that training Tails was proving to be an excellent scout, like Antoine; though Tails took that a little as and insult. As it turned out, Tails ended up being just the right person for the mission since the air-ducts were too small for anyone else to fit into.
Sally had been so caught up in her thoughts as she played the card game that when Antoine first called her name she hardly noticed. "Preencess!" Antoine yelled.
"Hm… what? Oh, sorry Antoine, what is it?" Sally blushed a little at her lack of attention.
"As I was saying your highness, ze hedgehog iz radioing us. He says he iz returning home." Antoine said a little exasperated from trying to get the princess's attention.
"Really, how long has it been?" Sally asked.
"It's been almost an hour since you started playing your game your highness." Rotor answered. Sally stood there befuddled, had she really lost track of time like that? "Wait… Sonic is returning home? Why's he doing that?" Sally asked as he walked over behind Antoine's station. "Antoine, ask Sonic what he's doing." Sally ordered.
"Sonic, ze preencess, wants to know what you are doing." Antoine spoke into the mic. A moment passed before Sonic replied.
"I'm on my way back to Knothole Ant, I already told you." Sally groaned,
"Sonic," Sally took the mic from Antoine and spoke into it herself. "Why are you returning, what happened to Tails?"
There was a moments pause over the comm. channel "I don't know, the alarms went off in Robuttnik's place, so I distracted the Swatbutts like I was supposed to and now I'm here…" as Sonics last words played across the speakers he suddenly appeared, unnoticed, behind the huddled mass staring at the monitors before them.
"Sonic, your voice, it has become like ze crystal." Antoine muttered observing that Sonic's muffled voice had suddenly become less garbled at the end of his sentence.
"Uh Ant…" Sonic said tapping his shoe impatiently behind the Mobians.
Everyone hears the tapping of the shoe, and look behind them at the same time in bewilderment. When they all look back everyone nearly jumps out of their skin when they see the blue speed demon standing right behind them… well, almost everyone; Antoine jumped right out of his seat screaming. "SACRE BLEU!"
"Geez Sonic, are you trying give us a heart attack or something!" Rotor panted as he tried to calm his nerves, one hand clutching the place on his chest where his heart would be.
"Sorry Rote, couldn't resist." Sonic apologized sheepishly patting him on the back in a friendly 'sorry I scared the pants off you' kind of way.
"Ah do declare, Sugar-hog, I plum near hit the roof from that one." Bunnie added equally as spooked as Rotor.
"Nah, Antoine's the one who hit the roof." Sonic joked pointing to the coyote dangling from one of the over-head rafters cursing away incoherently in French.
Everyone fought hard to control their laughter and restrict themselves to smiles, giggles and snickers, more so not to hurt Antoine's feelings then for any other reason, but their fortitude quickly faded as they all burst into a fit of laughter. Even Sally couldn't resist bursting into laughter, but as the moment faded Sally quickly took charge of the situation in her usual, calm and composed manner.
Ahem Sally coughed clearing her throat, trying to get her composure back. "Bunnie, can you get Antoine down please?" she asked looking over to the partly mechanical rabbit.
"Mah pleasure Sally-girl." Bunnie cheerfully replied as she walked beneath Antoine's perch. While Bunnie attended to Antoine, Sally turned to Sonic with a very serious look on her face. "Sonic, what happened out there?" she asked plainly.
Sonic paused a moment at the question, trying to find the right response. "Well, we got in easy enough, I opened the vent for Tails and he went in. I went and found some cover and waited there for a bit. Then I felt some sorta explosion or something from inside Robuttnik's joint, and let me tell ya it was big! It shook the ground real good." Sonic explained quickly, but before Sally could inquire about the explosion he continued. "A little while later the alarms went off, so I distracted the bots and Tails maked his getaway." He finally answered.
"But… did Tails at least say he was alright? How do you know he wasn't captured?" Sally quickly asked, beginning to sound more and more worried about the young fox.
"Chill Sal, he gave me the signal." Sally let out a sigh of relief at that.
"At least he wasn't captured while he was inside." thought Sally. "But do you know if he got out of the city?" Sally asked getting that panicky look in her eyes again.
"Relax Sal, just before I juiced outta there, Tails gave the second signal he was out of there. As soon as I got the message, I juiced home. Obviously I beat him home, no big surprise; after all, I am the fastest thing alive!" Sonic boasted.
"Hah, you are not zat fast, you over-inflated oaf, and Tails iz not zo slow either." Antoine shouted, as Bunnie gently brought him down from the rafter thanks to Bunnie's extending metal legs. Sonic hardly took notice of Antoine's insult.
"He does have a point Sonic, Tails probably had pretty good head start on you. If he was traveling at full speed all the way home, I doubt you would have gotten here before him." Rotor pointed out.
"If your right Rotor, then why would Tails be traveling so slowly? He loves to go as fast as Sonic, even on his own." Sally asked to know one in particular; in fact the 'mother' in her head was already answering that question with the kind of answers she dreaded. "Oh god, he could be injured, he could have sprained something, broke a leg…" the possibilities raced on and on through her mind like a broken record.
"How's 'bout we call the little sugar and see if he's alright?" Bunnie suggested seeing Sally's blank stare slowly filling with her growing concern.
"Good idea Bunnie. Antoine, pass me the code book." Rotor asked, holding his hand above his shoulder waiting for Antoine to hand him the book. Antoine walked over to the communication station and started rummaging through the mass of books and manuals stacked in the shelf above. Eventually he found the book he was looking for and flipped it open. He flipped back a few pages, and then started running his finger down the list of codes that the Freedom Fighters used for their communication decryptions. Finally his hand stopped on one of the codes as he triumphantly called out "Aha… there iz the code young Prower was using tonight."
The radios the Freedom Fighters used were salvaged from Robotropolis and as such were capable of operating on a variety of frequencies and encryptions. This allowed the Freedom Fighters to use a variety of signals from night to night, and kept unwanted ears from listening on their communications.
Antoine handed the code book to Rotor while still keeping his finger on the specific code. Rotor quickly adjusted his receiver, only taking a matter of seconds for the adjustment, and entered in the encryption codes. "Tails, this is Knothole, do you read, over?" Rotor spoke into the mic. There was a few moments pause as static filled the earphones of the Walrus's headset. Everyone else stood anxiously for Rotor to confirm if he heard anything. For Sally, the minute or so of silence, felt like hours, and every moment that passed by, her hope faded little by little.
Finally Rotor gave a thumps up to his friends gathered behind him, he was receiving a response. "It's Tails, one sec, I'll put him on the speakers." Rotor said happily as he flipped a switch on the console. Sally walked behind Rotor and reached over him to grab the microphone and spoke into it softly. "Tails, it's Sally are you alright?"
Heavy breathing could be heard on the other end of the reception as Tails finally responded. "I'm fine 'Aunt' Sally, I'm in the Great Forest." Tails said sounding very tired and out of breathe.
"Where are you roughly?" Sally asked, distinctly relieved to hear her 'nephews' voice.
"Not far from the hollow stump entrance." Tails replied, this time with less of a pause before responding.
"Glad to hear it Tails. Can you keep us posted next time please?" Sally said, nagging the young kit without even realizing it.
"(Groan) Sorry 'Aunt' Sally, things got so hectic I forgot to call you guys." Tails apologized. "Tails out."
Sally handed Rotor the microphone and spoke to him with an air of command. "Keep an eye on him Rotor, let me know when he gets back."
"Yes your highness." Rotor nodded switching off the main speakers. Sally looked at her beleaguered friends and saw that the evening had been tough on all of them; the stress had been quite unbearable.
This was something they didn't need; they needed a quick distraction; then she had an idea: "Alright guys, how about we go to the kitchen and get a late-night snack?"
"Sounds like a pearl of an idea Sugar, mah tummies a' rumble'n away." Bunnie replied in her interminably cheery southern attitude. Sonic's stomach made a loud gurgling noise in agreement, sealing the deal. As the Freedom Fighters laughed they filed their way out the door and walked down the hallway to the small kitchen.
The only one left in the room was Rotor, still sitting at the communications console. Sally poked her head back through the open doorway looking at Rotor and asked: "Hey Rotor, you want me to get something for you to eat?" she offered politely.
"That's alright Sally, I can't eat before I go to sleep; I end up getting nightmares from it." Rotor confessed as he glanced back at the princess. Sally nodded understandingly and was about to leave when Rotor added something else: "Besides I can't stand chili dogs anymore, and I'm sure Sonic is making those right now." Sally laughed as she bid farewell to Rotor before returning to the kitchen.
A few moments after Sally left Rotor heard Tails calling him through his head phones. "Rotor, you there?" Tails asked.
"Ya Tails, I'm here; what's up?" Rotor replied holding a hand on one of the headphones so he could hear more clearly.
"Rotor, can you have a med-team meet me at the hollow stump entrance?" Rotor's heart stopped for a moment in surprise.
"Tails, are you hurt? What happened?" Rotor asked quickly, leaning on the edge of his chair.
After a moments pause "It's hard to explain, but can you get a med-team out here?" Tails asked. "And… please don't tell 'Aunt Sally, I don't want to worry her." Tails meekly added before cutting out the connection. Rotor pondered his request for a moment. "Sally, really ought to know, but then again… she was awful nervous before, if she thought Tails was hurt, she might freak." Rotor pondered a little more, but in the end decided to keep the fox's request, if only for the time being. Rotor nodded his head in affirmation and got up from his chair. He walked over to the phone hanging on the cave wall and dialed in a series of numbers.
A few rings went unanswered and Rotor began to fear that perhaps everyone was asleep for the night at the hospital. To the walrus's relief a frazzled voice finally picked up the other end. "Knothole medical, Nurse Shrew speaking." the gruff tired voice spoke.
"Hi, its Rotor, is Doctor Quack available?" Rotor replied.
"I'm afraid he's asleep right now." Nurse Shrew replied calmly in her raspy voice.
"Could you contact him for me please?" Rotor replied a little disappointed to hear he'd have to wake Dr. Quack up.
"Very well, what should I tell him?" She asked dryly.
"Tell him to have a medical team meet Tails at the hollow stump entrance as soon possible." Rotor replied, grateful to get that out of the way. With that out of the way, Rotor returned to his console to continue to monitor the radio waves.
Meanwhile…
Deep within the dark foliage of the Great Forest, a certain twin-tailed fox rested against a large tree trunk. After Sally had contacted Tails, he had found it necessary to take yet another break. This made his fourth break on his return trip. Tails couldn't help it much though, the prone form that lay beside him was far too heavy for him to carry while running. He weighed a lot more then Sonic, even Bunnie's heavy robotic parts seemed light compared to this stranger. Luckily his powerful tails were able to overcome the extra weight nicely, but it still took a lot out of him. By sheer will, and adrenaline Tails had managed to get to Robotropolis' outskirts without taking a break, and he was paying for it now. He had carried others before yes, but not someone so heavy for so long.
Tails was panting hard from his efforts of transporting the still figure lying beside him. The strange creature was completely motionless, breathing, but unconscious; thanks to Dr. Robotnik. "Poor thing, I wouldn't blame you if you wanted payback later. But just where did you come from?" Tails pondered, he couldn't help but stare in intrigue. "The thing that puzzles me most though is how you transformed after you touched that crystal." Suddenly a thought crossed the young vulpine's thoughts that caused him to jump to his feet and smack himself on the forehead.
"Holy Abalone, I left that crystal in Robotropolis!" Tails shriek out, a mix of disbelief and a horror clinging to his words. Tails glanced back to the prone figure at his feet. "Sorry buddy, guess we'll have to get that crystal back later." He said, as if the creature could hear him. The creature's body lay in a pool of bright moonlight that gave the surrounding ground an eerie shimmer, but also allowed Tails to take a closer look (relatively speaking) at this stranger. Tails could not make out all the details on the creature, after all it was just moonlight, but he could defiantly see a strange triangular-shaped tattoo just below the creature's eyes and a different one upon its forehead. In his mind, Tails compared the way the creature had looked when he was still tied to that torture rack and now. Tails could tell it was the same creature, its' basic physical appearance looked the same, yet the subtly differences made him look almost, younger…? Tails couldn't understand what made him think that, but it just seemed to make the most sense.
"There's time to think of that later, right now this guy needs help." Tails thought as he observed the creature's breathing looked painful and ragged. Tails carefully grabbed the creature under the arms and dragged him away from the tree he had had been previously resting against. Now that he was free of obstacles, Tails wound his namesakes up and let them unwind like an elastic band. His tails spun around in the oh-so-famous maneuver lifting Tails, and creature in tow, off the ground and into a stable hover. Tails grunted as he lifted the full weight of his passenger into the air. The creature's transformation had lightened the load significantly, but the creature still weighed a great deal nonetheless. Tails found it tough going as he zipped through the trees and under low branches, but his muscular twin-appendages managed to keep going; it was just a matter of time before he reached Knothole.
At the tunnel entrance…
Dr. Quack, resident physician for Knothole Village, paced around impatiently within the cramped confines of the well-light secret tunnel. Beside him stood a grey-furred shrew wearing a white apron and a typical nurse's hat bearing a red cross. The shrew watched the nervous duck pace back and forth within the tunnel calmly as she leaned against the cold walls of the tunnel. "Where is that boy?" Dr. Quack rhetorically asked, not really directing his question at the nurse beside him.
It had been only five minutes ago that he had been asleep and cozy in his bed, then he received an urgent page from Nurse Shrew about an emergency. He quickly met nurse Shrew at the hospital to pick up a rolling stretcher and made their way as swiftly as possible to meet Tails in the tunnel that the doctor now impatiently paced within. The doctor had no idea what the emergency was, but given the history of the Freedom Fighters and their foe, it was likely nothing good.
A small clicking noise alerted the pair of the Mobians to a small circular door along the top of the roof slowly lifting away on its hinge; allowing the light of the tunnel to spill out into the dark night beyond; the escaping light illuminating the familiar face of Tails as he poked his head over the entrance. Dr. Quack sighed in relief upon seeing the young kits face. "At least the lad is alright". Dr. Quack thought. Just as that thought had passed through his mind, Tails' face disappeared back out the hole, a bit to the mallard's surprise. Dr. Quack was about to go to the entrance and see where Tails had gone, when Tails reappeared at the entrance, this time climbing into the hole, feet first. The rest of his body, except his arms and head still remained outside, against the side of the entrance.
Tail's chest leaned against the side of the entrance for a few moments, making Dr. Quack think he might be unconscious, or at least too weak to continue moving on his own. The duck and shrew ran up the stairs leading to the entrance. They reached Tails and quickly saw that he was still conscious, but it looked like he was struggling to pull something inside the stump entrance.
"Tails lad, easy there son…" Dr. Quack said as he ran up behind the young fox. The doctor reached under Tails' arms and tried to lift him off the side of the entrance. Tails look up behind him, seeing Dr. Quack, but he would not let go of whatever he was holding onto. "Come on lad, let's get you some help." Dr. Quack said trying to pull Tails away from the entrance, but Tails still refused to let go.
"No, Dr. Quack, its not me, it's…" Tails brushed Dr. Quacks grip away and giving one last heave pulling the creature into the lit tunnel. "…him." Dr. Quack and nurse Shrew stared, jaws-agape, at the creature as Tails pulled the creature farther into the light.
"What, by heavens name, is that thing?" Nurse Shrew almost shrieked staring at the strange figure. "I found him in Robotropolis, Robotnik had been torturing him." Tails explained. "He needs help." He pleaded.
Nurse Shrew and Dr. Quack looked at each other indecisively and back at Tails' desperate face. Looking at the creature, Dr. Quack could instantly see that the creature was in great pain, it needed medical attention immediately; a quick glance at Tails and his pleading eyes, and his mind was made up. "Ms. Shrew, give me a hand with him." Quack said as he grabbed a hold of the creature's shoulders. Nurse Shrew complied without any objection and grabbed onto the creatures legs. Together they lifted it onto the rolling stretcher resting its spiked head onto the soft pillow.
While Dr. Quack and his nurse placed the creature carefully onto the stretcher Tails closed off the hatch and locked the secret entrance. He walked down the wide stairs, wobbling a bit as adrenaline coursing through his veins began to wear off and his exhaustion began to take hold of him. As he reached the bottom of the stairs passing by Dr. Quack and Nurse Shrew his legs gave out underneath him. Dr. Quack managed to catch Tails before he fell to the floor and lifted the tired vulpine to his feet. "Perhaps you should hop on the cart, with your new friend." Dr. Quack smiled. "You look Exhausted." Tails nodded in approval and let Dr. Quack help him to sit on the stretcher.
"Alright Nurse, lets get these two back to the hospital." Dr. Quack ordered. The nurse nodded and began pushing the stretcher through the tunnel. "Tails, if you feel up to it, can explain to me what happened?" Dr. Quack asked Tails as he pushed the stretcher from the same side Tails was sitting on. "Sure thing Doc..." Tails voice trailed off as they moved farther down the tunnel.
Back at the War Room….
Sally had returned to the War Room after relaxing in the kitchen with the others. After they had their snacks, and made a few jokes, Sally sent them home for the night to get some rest. Rotor had informed Sally when she had come back that Tails had made it back to Knothole, much to her relief. With that good news Sally happily sent Rotor home as well.
Sally was about to leave the War Room herself when the phone rang. Sally grumbled as she walked over to the offending machine and picked up the phone. "Hello?" she asked. "Oh, hi Doctor Quack, what are you calling so late for, I thought you'd be asleep by now."
"Yes, sorry Princess, there's something here at the hospital you need to see right away." Dr. Quack said, leaning his chair back from behind his desk.
"What do you mean Horatio?" Sally asked, surprised by the doctors invitation.
"I'm afraid you'll have to see this for yourself my dear. Suffice to say, Tails brought someone very unique home tonight." Dr. Quack replied.
"Very well Dr. Quack I'll be over momentarily." Sally sighed, and started thinking on the ducks words. "What wasn't he telling her?"
"Oh, and Princess…" Sally was about to hang the phone up when she heard the doctors voice from the phone.
She quickly pulled the phone back to her ear. "Yes?"
"Before I go I thought I'd let you know that Tails is fine, a little exhausted, but after a good nights sleep he'll be as good as new. You can take him home after you're finished here." Dr. Quack replied as he casually leaned his back in his chair.
"WHAT! What is Tails doing at the hospital!" Sally screamed so loudly and unexpectedly that Dr. Quack had to pull the phone away from his ear as she continued to yell though the phone.
The screaming, near-hysterical, Princess caught the water fowl completely by surprise as he leaned back too far in his chair and fell to the floor. The phone had fallen from his grip and dangled off the edge of the desk, Sally's yelling could still be heard shouting oblivious to the ruckus she had caused on the doctor's end. The physician reached for the phone and grabbed hold, still lying unglamorously on the floor. "Princess, Princess please!" Quack shouted into the phone. The yelling fell silent, the doctor sighed and took a deep breathe. "Princess, I told you Tails is fine, just exhausted from his little adventure tonight. Tails asked me not to tell you because he was afraid you might react like this."
On the other end of the phone Sally huffed a little in anger, but she contemplated the doctor's words for a moment. "Tails had been right, she had overreacted. It wasn't like her to start screaming like that. Looks like she acted more like a mother to Tails then even she realized."
"Sorry Dr. Quack, I'll be over to pick him up in moment." She apologized quietly as she hung the phone up on the wall. "I wonder what it was that Dr. Quack was talking about that he wouldn't tell me over the phone. Oh well, I'll find out soon enough." Sally said to herself aloud, closing the door behind her.
End Ch 2
heh heh, well i found that chapter to be amusing. any way as always please send a review if you like, i'll be more then happy to read your thoughts on how i've done thus far.
