Chapter 4
Sparing a Life
My name is Miles Prower. Mostly everyone calls me, "Tails", because of the fact that I had two tails.
I never knew my parents. I was raised from birth until I was about 3-years-old by a woman I can only remember from photos. After that, I was taken away and was put in a very nice orphanage for 3 reasons.
Reason 1: I was an eight-grade level student who could barely talk or even run.
Reason 2: I was clearly mutated. I had two-tails.
Reason 3: The woman wasn't "qualified" for raising a child. I searched into it later, and found out that they had just created that so they could take me away.
I met Sonic at the orphanage. He wasn't an orphan like me, but he was with his family to look for a daughter to adopt. He noticed I was being picked on by the other kids. They were about to throw me off the balcony. He stood up for me...just as I was let go. That's when I learned I could propel myself in the air with my tails.
Ever since, the guy has been both my hero, and an older brother. I wasn't officially adopted, but I got to live with the Hedgehog Family until I moved out and into a workshop in the Mystic Ruins when I was eight.
Five years. It had bee five LONG years since our last encounter with Metal Sonic. I believe the case had been called, "Sonic Heroes" by Chaotix Detective Agency.
I just sat there, staring now. Had the robot come back for revenge? Or was I dreaming? Either way, Metal stood there in my doorframe.