A/n: I got a day off today from school yay! Also I own nothing! Oh and one more thing, for anyone wondering why I don't have school it's because it's election day in the US. If you live outside the US and don't know what that is basically its when we vote for our next president. I can't vote seeing as I'm not old enough so I'll just work on my fanfic instead. Also I forgot to make mention of this on my last update so I'll do it now, thank you to iamthedoctor482 for reviewing. Also I'[m happy you liked what I did with the tornado part. I don't think I got it from another show, then again it could be possible I saw it somewhere and my brain is suppressing it. Anyways on with the story.
When the two brother arrived at the donut shop the two walked in, were greeted by Rouge and made their way down to the lab.
Once they got down there they were greeted to the sight of Robotnik, who seemed to be in the process of boiling something.
"Doctor Robotnik!" Tails exclaimed excitedly.
The doctor turned around, "Hello Tails. Hello to you as well Sonic."
Sonic nodded his head as a way of greeting. Tail ran excitedly over to the scientist excitedly and stared at the pot that boiled the mystery substance with wonder.
"What are you boiling? A element? A new medicine?"
"Even better Tails! I am…"
Robotnik reached for a pair of tongs that was off to the side. He carefully pulled out the thing that he was boiling as the two children watched with baited breathe. Robotnik, with the utmost care, pulled out a white oval object.
"Wow, what is it Robotnik?" Tails asked.
Robotnik carefully placed the object on a paper plate.
"It's an egg."
Sonic face palmed while Tails scratched the back of his head.
'I guess that's part of the reason why Rouge calls him Eggman.'
"I better wait for that to cool off. Anyways Sonic today I would like you to spar again but this time with Silver, okay?"
Sonic nodded.
"Blaze will record what happens for me. So get to it."
Sonic nodded and made his way to the training room leaving the 8 year old and scientist alone.
"As for you Tails, I was wondering, do you have any experience in creating compounds and experimental concoctions."
Tails shook his head, "But I do have a lot in mechanics. Check out this toy plane I built," Tails said as he pulled out both the plane of the remote.
"You built this?" Robotnik asked in shock. It perplexed him how a mere child could craft such machinery with such care and attention to detail.
"Yup. I can also make it go really fast. I wanted to show you but last time I tried to show Sonic how fast my plane could go indoors, it didn't end well."
Robotnik was silent for a moment, "Follow me."
Tails followed the fat man down one of the corredores. They reached the simulation room and walked in. Robotnik walked off to the control box and after pressing a few buttons the room became a grassy open field.
"Woah!" Tails exclaimed in wonder.
"Proceed," Robotnik said as he stepped out of the room.
Tails nodded as used his remote control to get the plane into the air. Once he was sure it was high enough he decided it was time to show the scientist what he was really made of.
"Turbo speed….activate!"
Sonic let out a pained wheeze as the breath was knocked out a him. He hit the wall behind and slid to the ground.
Silver who had just delivered the blow watched in horror. He had expected Sonic to get up but he didn't.
"Uh-oh! I think I killed him!"
"This match goes to Silver," Blaze declared before she followed Silver who was running towards Sonic.
"Is he okay?" Silver asked in a worried tone.
Blaze placed a hand on Sonic's shoulder and gently shook him, "Sonic! Sonic!"
Sonic let out a pain filled groan as he opened his eyes, "I'm fine. Just a little sore is all."
"Come on. Let's get you all patched up," Blaze said as she slung Sonic's arm around her shoulder to help him stand. Silver, despite his injuries did the same and brought him out to the main lab, where Robotnik and Tails were working with an orange serum.
Tails turned his head when he heard the three come in and gasped, "Sonic what happened?!"
"Nothing Tails. Me and Silver just got a little too physical in training is all."
"Tails could you get the healing serum and inject Sonic as Silver with it? It should be on the counter."
Tails nodded and grabbed a clean needle. He poured some on the serum into it and injected Sonic. After that he got a new needle and injected Silver.
"So what did you two work on?" Sonic asked.
"Well we improved the healing serum, I helped make some changes to some of Robotnik's inventions and we even started working on a-"
"Your younger brother is very intelligent Sonic. He has a gift and is being a great help to my work. If it wasn't for him the healing serum wouldn't be able to now heal broken bones as well as minor injuries," Robotnik interrupted.
Sonic got up from where he was sitting, "Does anyone have the time?"
Robotnik took a glance at his watch, "It's about 8 o'clock."
"Well we'd better head out. Come on Tails," Tails nodded and followed his brother out.
"Bye Robotnik! Bye Silver, bye Blaze!" Tails called to the three before entering the pod
"Bye Tails. See you tomorrow Sonic!" Robotnik responded.
When the brothers got to the upper floor they saw Rouge painting her nails on the counter.
"You boys getting ready to head out?" Rouge asked.
"Yeah, see ya tomorrow Rouge," Sonic said as him and Tails turned to leave, however before he could he was stopped by Rouge.
"Sonic can I talk to you alone for a minute?"
"Um, sure. Tails I want you wait outside. If anything happens I want you to come back inside and tell me immediately, okay?"
Tails nodded and walked out. Once he was outside Sonic turned his attention to Rouge, "So, what did you want to talk to me about."
"I went down to the lab earlier to see how things were going. When I got down there I saw Tails and Eggman working on something."
"What do you mean?"
Rouge hesitated, "I can't say much. Just be careful and don't allow Tails to come with you here for a while okay?"
Sonic nodded, "Okay, but why?"
Rouge opened her mouth to speak when suddenly Robotnik came up from a pod and walked over to the two of them.
"Miss Rouge you seem tense. Is something wrong?"
Rouge put on her usual smirk and turned around, "You'd be too if you just found out you have a test tomorrow and you didn't study. Speaking of that test, you'd better head out Sonic. Catch ya later," Rouge said with a wink.
Sonic nodded and walked out. He saw Tails leaning up against the building looking at the night sky. When he saw his big brother walk out from the donut shop he asked him what Rouge wanted to talk to him about.
"Oh, it's nothing. Come on let's get home."
The teen then picked up his kid brother and places him on his shoulder. Once the eight year old was secure on his shoulders they were off. Once they got home the two changed into their pajamas, Sonics being a black t-shirt with blue pajama pants and Tails being a white shirt and black pajama pants. The two sat in front of the TV looking for something to watch.
"Hey Sonic."
"Yeah?" Sonic responded never taking his eyes away from the screen.
"I almost forgot to tell you about this really cool think me and Robotnik made."
"Really what is it?"
"Its called the Mobium serum."
Sonic snorted, "Mobium serum? What does that even mean?"
Tails shrugged, "Beats me but it's supposed to be able to merge human and animal DNA."
Sonic raised an eyebrow at that. He put the TV and mute and turned to look at Tails.
"Merging human and animal DNA? Doesn't that seem kind of…unethical?"
"I guess but Robotnik had been working on it for years and he finally perfected it."
"What does he even plan on using that for?"
"I dunno. I can ask him tomorrow. Oh wait, Sonic, Cream wants to know if I can sleep over her house Friday. Can I please?"
Sonic smiled, "Sure, I'll drop you off before I leave for work."
"Thanks Sonic you're the best!"
Sonic unmuted the TV and Tails turned his attention towards it. Sonic's mind however was somewhere else. Why would the doctor make a serum that merges human and animal DNA? What did Rouge want to warn him about? Eventually Sonic feel asleep. When he woke up he pulled his phone out of his pocket.
"8:53! Shit I'm late for school!"
Sonic looked around for his brother to wake him up.
"He must have went back to his room," Sonic said as he opened Tails door. When he got to his room though his younger brother was nowhere to be seen. Sonic felt panic start to seep in as he checked all the possible places he could be. The closet, nope, under the bed, nope, under his desk, nope.
"Tails where are you! This isn't funny! We're late for school!"
That's when it hit him, 'What if Tails walked to school alone? No that doesn't make any sense if he was going to school why wouldn't he wake me up? He knows I have school too.'
"I got it! Maybe if I drop by the lab Doctor Robotnik can help me find Tails!"
Sonic got dressed and once that was done he was out the door on his way to the donut shop.
Amy glanced at Sonic's empty seat in Chemistry worriedly. Why wasn't he here yet? He should be here by now. Amy felt someone tap her on the shoulder. She turned around to see Knuckles giving a confused look.
"Is something wrong?" He whispered
"I'm just worried about Sonic," She whispered back, "I know he's known for being late but he's usually here by now."
"Hey what's going on over here?" Rouge whispered.
"Nothing that involves you, you nosey little je-"
"Nosey little jewel thief. We get it Knuckles," Amy whispered in an annoyed tone.
"Hey what are you guys whispering about?" Vector asked in a somewhat loud voice. It wasn't that loud but it was loud enough for the teacher to hear.
"Amy, Vector, Knuckles, Rouge! Is there something you'd like to share with the class?"
Amy let out a nervous laugh, "Oh, we weren't talking about anything important, right Espio?" Amy asked the purple haired student who had been taking notes while she and the other three were having their conversation.
Espio sighed and in a monotone voice said, "Leave me out of this."
Rouge smirked, "Knuckles was just in the middle of confessing his undying love for me."
A couple of kids started to snicker while Knuckles face became as red as his hair due to the embarrassment, "I-I WAS NOT!"
"Class settle down now! I'm not sure what it is but surely it can wait until after class, is that clear?"
The four nodded and the teacher went back to teaching. Amy glanced at Sonic's empty seat once more. 'Sonic, where in the world are you?'
Sonic finally got to the Donut Shop and he took much longer than he wanted to. Usually he could use his speed to zip here no problem but there were too many people around today, most likely because it was Friday. The blue haired teen entered the shop and looked around to find the upper half completely deserted. There was no life there whatsoever. It came off as kind of creepy.
'That's strange. You'd think their would at least be someone here. Focus, I need to find Robotnik so he can help me find Tails.'
Sonic made his way down to the lab via pod. When he got to the lab he looked around, Robotnik was nowhere in sight. Usually he was in the main part of the lab.
"Hey Robotnik?!" Sonic called.
No response. Sonic walked around the lab when suddenly he heard a shrill scream. The teens eye's widened as he followed the hallways were the scream had come from. The hallways was vaguely familiar although he swore he had never been down it before. It was white, with no doors or nothing, just a seemingly endless white hallways. The further he ran the louder the screams become and the more recognizable they became.
'Those screams! They sound like-'
"S-Sonic!"
"Tails!" Sonic yelled as he ran down the hallways faster.
"Sonic help!" Tails screamed.
"Tails hold on!" Sonic yelled as he started to run at full speed. When he finally reached the end of the hallways he was met with a door. The teen tried the handle but it wouldn't budge, so he threw himself against the door again and again. No he couldn't stop, no he wouldn't stop, not until his his baby brother was safe in his arms.
"I'm not gonna give up!"
Sonic backed up and ran at the door at full speed breaking it off its hinges. He saw his brother in the middle of the room strapped down to a table. He was being injected with a orange liquid, the same one he saw his brother and Robotnik working on yesterday.
"S-s-s-Sonic…." The child on the table croaked before he took his last breathe.
"Tails!" Sonic exclaimed as he broke the restraints holding his now dead brother. Sonic let out a loud sob.
"No….Tails…..open your eyes please…Miles Prower Hedgehog if you don't open your eyes right now then….then….then….." Sonic couldn't finish his sentence before he broke down sobbing. His little brother, the last bit of his family, the reason why he kept going despite his life going to shit, he was dead.
'You just weren't fast enough.'
Sonic whipped around to see Robotnik standing there. Although Sonic couldn't see most of his face due to it being obscured by the light of the hallway and the darkness inside the room Sonic had a feeling that the bastard was smiling.
"You are just in time to witness my greatest creation."
Sonic clutched his younger brother's lifeless body in a protective manner, "Y-you bastard….You think this is a great creation? YOU THINK KILLING A INNOCENT CHILD IS GREAT!"
"How about instead of yelling at me you instead take a look at what has sprouted out of his backside and head."
Sonic then noticed something furry touching his hand. His eyewidened when he saw that it was a tail, not just one but 2 fluffy tails the same color as the child's hair, and on his head were 2 fox-like strawberry blonde ears.
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