Mobian Legends The Series Chapter 5, a sonic the hedgehog fanfic

Mobian Legends

Story is (c) 2004-2008 John CoonFox, SethLeopard, and SallyGirl
SatAM Sonic characters are (c) 1992-1994 DiC Entertainment
Archie characters are (c) 1993-2008 Archie Comics Publications
Sonic The Hedgehog is (c) Sega/Sonic Team 1990-2007
Snively Fox is (c) "Spug" ("spug at dirtybaka dot com")
Bookshire Stormfire Draftwood is (c) 1994-2008 "Serinthia and Bookshire Draftwood" ("serinthia at foxcoon dot com")

SatAM Research and story: SallyGirl
Chief Writer: MetaLeopard
Writer: John CoonFox

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Timeline: May 12, 3241 - Tails' Adventure
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Chapter 4 - Tadashi Returns (Part 1)

"So this book can tell me how I can make a good bit of money?" The fanged australian weasel-wolf asks a fennec merchant in a desert town in the east.
"Yes. This book tells you of many different objects and items from antiquity." He says, with a heavy arabic accent.
"Now, some of these even date from before the days of fury... they'll fetch quite a high price on the Black Market." He tells the bounty hunter.
"Oh really? Thanks a lot." He smirks, paying the merchant for the book.
"Now, let's see what's in here... ancient echidna statues... furry weapons... chaos emeralds... wait a second." He smirks, looking back at the emeralds.
"Seven chaos emeralds, each with unlimited power. They are scattered across the planet, and are in unknown locations. They have been known to grant those who possess them great supernatural powers." He reads.
"I like the sound of that." He chuckles, closing the book.
He places it in his backpack and gets on his hoverbike.

As Nack drives his hoverbike across the desert, he continues to glance at the book.
"The most powerful of the Chaos Emeralds known is the Master Emerald. Standing at an amazing 2 feet wide, this gem offers nearly unlimited powers." He reads, daydreaming of the riches he could gain from catching and selling this gem.
Nack's hoverbike flies over the desert, and past an Oasis.
"The Master Emerald is held on Angel Island, and is fiercely guarded by the Guardian, an echidna." He continues to read to himself, glancing up only occasionally so he does not lose control.
"Heh. I can take care of any guardian. Easily." he says to himself, looking at the gun on his handlebars.
The weasel stops abruptly at the coast of the Western ocean, seeing a massive floating island with a mountain range on it.
"Gotcha. Guardian, your emerald's as good as mine!" Nack chuckles, looking at the floating island through his binoculars.
The hoverbike accellerates towards a nearby hill.
"I'm gonna need all the speed i can get." Nack says to himself as he drives up the hill, over the cliff, and towards the Island.

Nack's hoverbike flies off the cliff with relative ease. Fang watches around himself, roughly 250 meters above the ocean surface. He presses a button on his handlebars, firing his ramjets at full speed. He rockets towards the Floating Island, landing on its surface.
"This is going to be a walk in the park." He says to himself, adjusting his hat as he cruises slowly through the dense jungle of Angel Island.

Deep inside the the Master Emerald chamber, a solitary figure is meditating in front of the emerald. Concentrating on his duities to protect the island and all its inhabitants. His eyes open, and a terrible vibe goes through his body, resonating through him and the Master Emerald.
"Someone's coming. An unwelcome visitor." He says to himself as he stands up.
"Well, it's time I give this would-be thief a lesson." he says, walking towards the the entrance to the underground chamber.
He rolls the large boulder out of the way, and he walks out into the rainforest, looking for his nemesis.
"Alright, where are you?" he growls to himself.

Nack parks his hoverbike and hides it behind some bushes. He takes out his backpack from the trunk, getting his sunglasses, and his handgun. The weasel thief places the gun in its holster on his belt.
"It's party time." He says, walking off into the rainforest.
He is careful not to touch any plants or mushrooms, not knowing if they may be poisonous, or acidic.
"This is quite the garden." he says to hismelf.
He stops dead in his tracks, seeing another person nearby.
"Who's he?" He asks himself.
He notices the collar ring around the person's neck.
"A ha... that must be the Guardian." He grins.
His hand reaches down, grasping his gun. He then walks out into sight of the guardian.
"Howdy there, partner." He says.
The guardian gets a very bad feeling from this newcomer.
"Stand back!" he orders. "I'll defend myself and my island!"
"Relax! I'm just a visitor. Maybe you could give me a tour around here? I'm lost. The name's Nack the Weasel." He smirks, lying.
The guardian sees through this.
"Nice try. Why don't you get back on your vehicle and go back the way you came, Nack. This island is OFF LIMITS to outsiders." He says, in a defensive stance. "This is your last warning."
"Nah. Why don't you hand over the Master Emerald, boy?" He says. The guardian is shocked.
"How does he know about my emerald?" He asks himself in his head. "Not on my life."
"Very well. I gave ya a chance to cooperate." Nack says, quickly pulling out his gun, firing at the guardian.
He dodges and rolls, but is shot in the forearm, and blacks out from the pain, collapsing on the ground shortly after being shot. Nack picks up his body, places it against the wall of the grotto, and walks back into the grotto where the Master Emerald lies. He dumps the guardian's comatose body on the cold hard ground and walks towards the emerald.
"Cha-CHING, baby!" He says, rubbing his hands together.
He then stops in his tracks.
"It could be booby-trapped. Lasers, or spikes or somthin'." He says to himself.
He steps around, looking for a trap door or any sort of security system in place to defend and protect the Master Emerald against would-be thieves.
"Nothin'." He sprays for laysers with some mist.
"Hm. Nothin' still." He approaches the emerald, taking out his booklet.
He skims through it, reading that the Master Emerald is the island's source of levitation in the sky.
"Well, I would love to take you, my precious gem... you'd fetch a hefty price for me on the black market... so tell ya what. Daddy'll take ya with him. You'd like that, wouldn't ya..." He chuckles.

The weasel places his paws under the emerald and lifts, slowly taking it out of its portal. He hauls it back to his bike, where he straps it to the rear, just behind his seat. He feels the ground beginning to shake.
"An earthquake? Nah... this place is in the sky. Time for me to go, anyway." He says to himself, before taking off on his hoverbike.
He sees the island starting to lose altitude, sinking out of the air without the Master Emerald's power to sustain it and keep it floating in the sky.
"Heh. Good thing i got outta there!" He snickers to himself.

A soft groaning sound is heard echoing off the grotto's stone walls. The guardian opens his eyes, finding himself in dim light. He also feels his body wet, as half an inch of water has seeped into the grotto, along with some water dripping through the ceiling.
"W-water? What happened?" he groans, rubbing his head, feeling the searing pain in his arm and shoulder.
He also notices something odd about the room. He feels something is missing. He immediately sees the emerald is gone! It fills him with rage, as he knows the island has most likely fallen from the sky onto the planet's ocean below. He walks slowly out of the cave, seeing that part of the rainforest is under around a foot of water. He sees in the distance, the ocean. The island is slowly sinking into the sea, like a giant stone.

"Nack, I swear on my honour, that I'll get you and return my Master Emerald, and my island, or my name isn't Knuckles The Echidna!" He shouts out, not caring if the weasel can hear him or not.
He concentrates as he stands in the now waist-deep in water, his body starting to glow green.
He pictures the missing Master Emerald in his head as he closes his eyes, meditating and concentrating.
"Master Emerald, appear to me!" he says, holding his hands out towards the Master Emerald Portal. He sees the Master Emerald is in the backpack of Nack the Weasel, or "Fang the Sniper", as he calls himself, who is flying in his airbike over the ocean, towards the mainland.
"I see where you are. I will find you and return you to your rightful place." He says as he keeps his eyes closed, concentrating hard.
He then stops concentrating, having his energy drained from his concentration.
"I can't do that too often. I need that emerald back..." He growls, panting to himself, leaning against the grotto walls with a paw.

The hoverbike lands in the forest and its weasel rider steps off of it.
"That was too easy. Those echidnas are so gullible. No wonder the rest were all killed off by the dingoes." He laughs, unloading his sleeping bag.
The weasel crawls into it, placing his hat in his sleeping bag as he closes his eyes, drifting off.

In Downunda, Walt and the Downunda Freedom Fighters are planning to regroup and return to Botany Bay. Duck "Bill" Platypus is loading the canoe full of supplies.
"That's the last crate, mate." He says to Walt, who is talking with Barby and Tails.
"If that metal psycho is still there, we'll rip 'im to shreads." Barby says.
Tails swishes his tails. He walks slowly to the end of the pier, sniffing the air.
"I don't think we need to worry about Crocbot anymore." He says.
"what do you mean?" walt asks him, somewhat confused.
"I can just feel things... like the magnetic field. I can't sense his presence. He's been destroyed. But the other one's still there, though." He says.
"Pah. We can handle that silver fox." Wombat Stu says, helping Walt and Barby into the canoe.
Walt happens to notice there are not enough seats for all of them, with their supplies on board as well. One will need to stay behind to wait for a second trip, unless they wanted to walk a very long way around the bay.
"Wait, Tails... aren't you coming?" Walter asks the two-tailed fox.
"Yeah. You watch. They don't call me 'T2' for nothing." He smirks, pushing the canoe off, back towards the village of Botany Bay.
Tails pushes as he flies like a helicopter with his twin tails, running on the surface of the water.
"Oh my goodness. H-how are you doing that?" Barby asks, absolutely amazed of the true flying fox.
"I have twin tails, guys. I've been able to fly since my friend Sonic taught me when I was little." He explains, pushing them across the water with ease.
Walt stands at the bow of the canoe, scanning the area for any threats. The wallaby shields his eyes with his hand, so the sun and surf do not blind him.
"Looks like we're all in the clear." He says, watching the approaching shore slowly.

"That's it, mobians. Come back for round two of your punishment." Silver says as she waits for them on the roof of the first-aid building.
"Silver to Robotnik. The Donunda Freedom Fighters are attempting a counter-attack. What are your instructions?" She asks him over her intercom.
"Take them out, any way you see fit." He replies.
"Excelelnt." She gives a wicked smile, looking back at the furs as they arrive, starting to unload the gear from their canoe.
She punches in a numerical code on her forearm, and suddenly lifts her arms toward the sky.
"Let the fun begin!" She says to herself as she stands on the roof top.

"Oh great, she's right there!" Walt says, ducking with the others behind the pier.
"I never left, you moronic marsupial. You guys are so slow... I could've burned this place down then taken a nap before you showed up." She smirks.
They run up near the hut as she stands with her arm held high. "What in the world is she doing up there?" One of them says, noting her uplifted arm.
She looks up to the sky and cackles out. "Oh my, it looks like rain."
The others look up as well, noting a mass of storm clouds swirling unnaturally in the sky, dark with rain and beginning to crackle loudly with thunder.
"Bloody hell, is she actually doing that!?" Another calls out before Walt replies.
"She has to be, that mass of clouds wasn't on the horizon when we came in!"
Silver begins to give her crazed laughter again. "Behold, the storm module. I'd scatter if I were you... you can fight me, but you can't fight the elements.
The wind suddenly begins to pick up with gale force, and lightning begins to strike all around them.

"You guys find shelter! I'll deal with her." Tails yells out amidst the storm, the others quickly gather up and tread their way carefully to a local storm shelter, Barby giving a lasting gaze before Walt pulls her away.
"Silver, i'm calling you out, Fox to Fox." He says, standing brave and tall on the shore. "Leave them out of this, if it's a fight you want... I'm right here!"
"You're cute and brave, but foolish. It's a pity I have to kill you." funnel clouds begin to form in the sky as the rain begins to pour.
"How do you expect the fight weather, huh!? Nobody can stop mother nature. I'll generate a whirlwind big enough to turn this area in ruins!"
Tails growls, fur and clothing getting matted by the rain. "I can't fight mother nature... but I can definately fight you." He tenses up, his fur beginning to glow one again as the power rises.
Lightning strikes mere feet from him and even amdist the deafining sound he doesn't flinch, the power filling him with incredible sense of power and courage.
He suddenly shouts out and does a sonic leap up at Silver, empowered by his magic aura as he rams his head straight into Silver's flesh gut.
She cries out and tumbles off of the hut, falling down onto her feet and clutching her stomach... her weather control interrupted and the storm already beginning to fade.
"Why you... little shit." She growls out, Tails landing just a few feet behind her, quickly turning to face her.

She suddenly regains her composure and laughs. "Clever, but that's certainly not the only thing I can do."
She lashes out with a spinning kick, using her mechanical force. Tails ducks quickly, letting her leg impact into the side of the hut, throughly smashing it.
The two-tailed fox swoops up from beneath and gives a firm uppercut to her jaw. She stumbles back a bit and growls to him.
"Heh, you're strong, but most like bot-brains... you're also slow." Tails calls out to her.
She lifts her mechanical paw, opening it and showing a red orb in the middle of it which suddenly shoots out a laser beam, Tails moving around her in a circle path to get out the of the way.
The beam's powerful enough to cut holes through the building and tress around them as she holds her focus, trying to get the vulpine.
Tails makes a sudden suprise jump onto the roof of a shack behind her to try and escape the beam, but Silver is right on in her aim.
The two tailed fox yipes in pain as her excellent anticipation of his moves bring the beam right across his body and falls down onto the roof of the hut, Silver shutting down the beam and grinning.
"Ha... I got ya!" She leaps up to the hut as well, expecting to see a fox is two pieces... yet what she sees isn't quite what she had expected.
Tails suddenly slowly stands up, still glowing with his mystic power. A bloddy slash through his garments where the beam hit, but it's easy to see that the wound is only skin deep.
"I don't know what you're celebrating for... that barely even hurt." Tails says with mock grin, Silver beginning to back up in disbelief, hissing with dismay.
"Why doesn't this suprise me..." The cyborg fox calls out before leaping several yards over to the roof of another hut to plot another attack.
The other looks down over his now bloody shirt before actually slipping it off over his head and letting it fall to the ground.
Tails takes a moment to look over the present damage already done over the village, noting the badly damaged hut and several downed trees.
"Aww man, at this rate there isn't going to be much left of this place. I've gotta figure out something, and soon." He says with a distinct frown.

"Oh great, she's returned!" Walt says, ducking with the others behind the pier.
"I never left, you moronic marsupial." She smirks, shooting part of the wooden pier.
The freedom fighters quietly crawl underneath the pier, through about a foot of water as they try to escape from her shots.
"Guys! I'll take care of her. You get to safety!" Tails shouts.
"Alright. We'll meet up with ya soon, Tails." Walt says.
He crawls with Barby and the rest of the freedom fighters, reaching one of their underground tunnel entrances. They crawl into it, single-file.

Tails crawls out from behind one of the crates.
"Silver, i'm calling you out, Fox to Fox." He says, standing brave and tall on the shore.
"You're cute and foolish. It's a pity I have to kill you." Silver says, aiming her gun at him.
"Go ahead, Silver. Shoot me." Tails smirks.
Silver grins and simply fires a few dozen rounds at tails. The bullets hit his fur and fall off him, as if they were striking a brick wall.
"H-how? How could you have survived these bullets?" She asks him.
Tails grins as he takes a power-ring out from his backpack, showing his secret to Silver.
"Interesting. I'll spare you if you surrender the ring." She offers.
"No thanks. I won't let this fall into the hands of Robotnik." He says, placing it back in his backpack.

In the Void, Ixis and Snively are watching from the wizard's lair, through his liquid glass portal, his window to Mobius.
"The quickster's little brother seems to be fighting Silver quite well. However, I can't let her lose." He says to Snively.
"Shall I open the Void, Ixis?" He asks.
"No... not yet. Let's send her a playmate, though. She could use the help." He replies.
Snively nods his head. "Very well, sir."
He walks out from the lair, and into the crystalline world that is the Void.
"Tadashi, where are you?" He says in the giant cavernous world. Out of the shadows, a brown-furred jackal steps into the light.
"You called me?" He asks, calmly and with a sense of finality about him.
"Ixis wants you to assist Silver. If Robotnik's robotic fox falls to the freedom fighters... well... that will set us back considerably." He expliains.
"Very well." The jackal says, walking with Snively.
The human presses a crystal button on the wall of a cave. It opens up, revealing a portal to Mobius.
"The one you are looking for, is Tails the Fox." He tells the jackal.
"Don't mess up, Tadashi. Ixis will bring his wrath upon you if you do." He warns.
"That won't need to happen. I'll succeed." He grins, stepping into the portal.

The jackal is pulled through the whirlwind, before being thrown out, landing only 50 meters from Tails and Silver. He rolls as he lands, as to not hurt himself. He lands crouched upon one knee, with one paw on the ground. He simply grins and looks forward at Tails, knowing that he is his prey and then the other one who he has been fighting.
Tails gets a nagging feeling and suddenly looks over in the distance, spying the other in the distance.
"What... another one?" He think aloud as he new assailant actually begins flying, hovering over between the two.
"I am Tadashi, Tails. I am the last person you will see before you die." He speaks before unsheathing a sword that soon begins to give an odd blue glow.
Tails takes a defensive stance against this newcomer, then he looks back briefly at Silver, knowing he's being double-teamed, but not knowing which is the greater threat to him and his friends. His heart is pounding a mile a minute, and his face shows unease, nervousness, and even fear.
"How did i get myself into this mess? Oh man, this just isn't my day. " He asks himself.
He quickly scans his surroundings, seeing a few seemingly useless items scattered about. He ditches being afraid, trying to summon up some self-confidence. "Alright. Whenever you two are ready." He laughs, calling them onto him.

Curiousity gets the better of the others in hiding and the door to the storm shelter swings open, the freedom fighters quickly stepping out.
Walt motions back to the others to lay low as he takes in the situation, seeing not only the cyborg, but another strange mobian hovering amidst the fray.
Duck "Bill" and Barby move up closer with Walt as they peer around a hut at the damage and then out to the combatants.
"Who is that?" Bill whispers quietly.
"I don't know but he doesn't look very friendly either." Walt whispers back to him before Barby points out.
"Oh no, Tails is hurt..." She adds before Walt replies.
"Yeah, but he isn't showing it... this kid's tough stuff." He adds before the action suddenly jumps back to life.

Tadashi does a flying lunge at Tails with his sword who quickly side steps and gives a supercharged smack against him with his tails, sending him carreening into the bay with a splash.
Before Tails has time to recoop Silver is already pouncing at him which lands a successful tackle, taking him down off of the hut with her on top.
The two-tailed fox below struggles against her mechanical strength, pushing much of his power to his limbs to assist against the terrible strength.
"There's no use resisting now... your power will run out and your weak limbs will cave in like wet noodles." She hisses down to him as she fights against him.
"That's... exactly why... i'm breaking away from you... right now!" He manages to wedge his legs free and gives a powerful double kick to Silver's unarmored belly.
She cries out in pain and is hurled as well into bay, just a few feet behind them. Tails jumping back up to his feet as Tadashi resurfaces, brushing himself off.
"You are going to pay for that!" He says, sword readied as he begins to slowly walk up to Tails.
Suddenly Silver begins to lift herself out of the water as well, Tails a bit suprised to see that her cybernetic parts haven't short circuited.
"Oh... that's it... you are so dead." She growls as she approaches, blind with anger.
Tails, struggling a bit with ideas beginning to back up as the two approach him from two different angles, moving slowly.
Then suddenly, as if it were a club sent to him... a crack of lightning occurs from the freak storm above that Silver was never able to finish.

A plan now forming in his mind, Tails waits until they are less than 2 meters from him. He suddenly tenses his body, filling his twin tails with the majority of his stored energy. This sudden change prompts the other two to charge right on cue.
He suddenly releases his pent up energy, spinning his tails furiously and then using the suddenly propulsion to spin his body. He spins so fast that it creates a whirlwind around him, sucking the other two straight up to him where his tails bash against them each spin.
He leans the spin stop suddenly and holds two palms full of glowing energy towards the thoroughly dazed and bloodied foes before simultaneously letting the charges go with a bang, blasting them clear out of village.
Walt suddenly pushes the others back along with himself as the body of Silver goes soaring by them, crashing heavily into the group nearby.

Tails pants, letting the rest of the energy fade from his body as the last attack left him throughly spent, sitting down onto the ground.
"That's it... that's all I have... if they survived that, i'm in trouble." He says amidst pants.
Walt looks around, seeing that Silver isn't moving before telling the others around him. "Bill, Stu... go check out the mechincal fox and shout if she starts moving again. Barby and I will go check on Tails and see if the other's still around."
They nod and split up, running in their seperate directions.

The wallaby and koala run up to Tails, Barby looking over him as Walt looks around surveying the damage.
"You did it, Tails! Are you okay?" Barby says, kneeling down next to him "I think so, but I doubt it was enough to finish them." Tails explains.
Wombat Stu is suddenly heard from the other side of the village, calling out. Walt and Barby run back over, fearful that Silver may still be a threat to them... Tails lumbering after them.
Bill points to Silver on the ground as they arrive. "She looks really roughed up, but she's still alive."
Silver opens her eyes and looks to them and tries to sit up, digging the her digits into the ground as she struggles, just to fall back flat on her back.
"I... I can't.... believe I fell for... that." Tears suddenly start to well up in her eyes, streaming down her cheek, meeting a bit of blood from her muzzle.
"Now... now i'll never... never get my... body back." She begins to sob softly, her cybernetic systems visibly powering down even though her body is still concious.
Tails gets down on to his knees near her, looking down into her eyes. "He promised you that he'd give your body back, didn't he?" He can see real emotion and suffering in her flesh eye.
"Y-yes..." She replies before Tails sighs lightly.
"He lied to you... he's merely used you, you're not the only one he's promised such lies to... but, if you promise to give up the fight, you can truly have your body back."

The freedom fighters just kind of stand there in awe for a moment before Walt shakes his head and looks to the others. "Alright guys, we gotta look for the other one."
They begin to looks around the area, unable to find anything and soon meet back up in the center putting together plans as Tails walks back into the area, carrying the half-robotic fox in his arms.
"Hey, are you actually going to help somebody that just tried to kill you?" Walt asks as Tails walks by.
"Yes, i'm not going to lower myself to their level. I'll be back soon." He adds as he walks off, moving away in the direction of the jungle.
Barby blinks, looking toward the fox and calling out. "Where are you going?"
Tails stops and looks behind him as he replies. "The only person around here I know that might be able to help us." Before walking out of sight.
Walt places a paw on Barby's shoulder. "I don't know where he's going... but i'm sure he'll be back."

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Tadashi charges at Tails with his sword. As silver is about to snatch the twin-tailed fox, he jumps up into the air, flying above them. He jumps off the side of the roof of the First-Aid building, watching as Silver chases him, as he was hoping. He jumps down towards the ground and hits the ground running, with Tadashi and Silver close behind.
"What's he doing? And who's that other guy?" Duck "Bill" asks Walt as they watch from one of their secret hideouts.
"I-I'm not sure." The wallaby replies.
Barby Koala is cheering on Tails as he runs. He curls his tails behind him, propelling himself across the water, skimming along it like an airboat in the bayou. Silver laughs and simply runs out into the water, knee-deep. She begins to fire at Tails, who was hoping the water would have shorted her out.

"Toss me at him. I will defeat him in the water, and claim his tails as a trophy." Tadashi says. Silver complies and lifts the jackal up with her robotic arm, tossing him out into the bay.
He lands in the water, diving deep under it. Tails is now frightened, looking around for him as he runs. He goes under as the jackal grabs his foot, pulling him deep into the water with him.
"Oh no! Tails!" Barby gasps as she watches in horror from one of the other buildings, with her friends.
Tails growls and slashes at whoever is trying to drown him, struggling for breath. The jackal then swims past him, as he finds himself free to surface once again. He looks around, very scared. "Where are you?" He shouts as he swims back towards shore.
"Right behind you." Tadashi growls, about to strike tails down with his sword. Tails dives rapidly, swimming through the water with the skills of a seal. He quickly reaches shore, where Silver starts to shoot at him. Tails keeps running, looking behind him as he sees Silver diving into the bay, upon seeing some bubbles at the surface. Tadashi's trapped his foot on some seaweed. Silver rips the weeds apart, freeing the jackal's leg. They surface from the water a couple seconds later. Tails stops to catch his breath, seeing the two running towards him once more.
"I can't keep this up..." He pants to himself.
"Use your Tornado Spin..." Genra speaks to tails in his mind.

Tails waits until they are less than 2 meters from him. He curls his tails as he waits, before unleashing his energy, spinning him around like a tornado, repeatdly striking his enemies with his tails, throwing them over 200 meters back. Tadashi lands hard on his back, and Silver lands on her face in the sand. She growls in embarassment.
"This isn't over, Tails." She says to him as Tadashi slowly gets up.
They walk off into the hills, where their landing capsule is located.

Walt and the freedom fighters come out from the building.
"You did it, Tails! You beat Silver and Tadashi!" Walt says.
"For now, yes. She'll be back. I think we just got lucky this time." Tails explains.
"Well, how can we fend her off?" Wombat Stu asks.
"I have no idea. I need to go meditate for a bit, guys." Tails says, rubbing his head, very mentally exhausted.
The Freedom Fighters understand, and they let the young fox walk into the rainforest.

Footsteps are heard with the rustling of leaves. A furred anthropomorphic figure walks along the woodland trail. His tails swish slowly behind him, as he sits down on a log. Tails is walking through the forests as well, when he sees a twin-tailed fox in the bushes. He is scared, fearing that may be his evil counterpart from the test.

Tails slowly walks through the brush, approaching the older fox.
"Who are you?" Tails asks.
"I am Wesley Prower." He asks.
Tails raises and eyebrow at this.
"My name is Miles Prower, but my friends call me 'Tails'. Are we related?" He asks.
"I think so. My father was a general in the Royal Mobian Army. His name was Amadeus." He explains.
"That's my father." Tails says, opening his eyes a bit more in suprise.
"I heard he was roboticized when I was just 3 or 4... then mum disappeared when I was 11... I fear that swatbots may have caught her." He says.
"We'll get her back from them. Dad has his free will back, and living with Sonic and Sally in Knothole Village." Tails explains to his brother.
"Knothole still stands? Absolutely amazing! You guys have been the leading inspiration to survive for all the freedom fighter groups on Mobius. The guiding light in our fight against Robotnik." Wesley tells his brother.
Tails is amazed from this revelation. He had no idea that all the other freedom fighter groups looked to the Knothole Freedom Fighters band for guidance and inspiration.
Wesley realizes just who it is that Tails is carrying.
"That's Silver... why are you bringing her here?" Wes asks as the half-robotic creature rests with eye closed in his arms.
"She's just another victim of Robotnik's trechery... I can sense that she has a kind heart and seek to find a remedy for her condition." Tails explains.
Wes nods and ponders. "Well, i'm not sure if Genra has the ability to fix her, but if nothing else, he can watch over her... as for us, my brother... we have more pressing matters to attend to."
Tails arches an eyebrow. "Oh... what do you mean?"
Wes replies. "Well, young Prower... your mystic strength and skill is becoming great, but it's simply not enough to defeat the kind of foes you face. In fact, Tadashi wasn't finished in the slightest by your attack, he had simply ran away to plot a new means of attack and will return soon enough."
Another voice soon appears in the darkness, a familar deep and powerful tone.
"It will take more than your strength and skills to defeat him. For Silver and Tadashi are but your first real-world challenge, my student." Genra says, jumping down from a branch in the nearby tree... his many tails swaying behind him.
"Huh?" Tails looks to Genra with a bit of confusion.
"I mean, it's time you learned how to exceed your present forms, and morph into your more powerful forms." The wise kitsune explains.
"How can I do that?" Tails inquires.
"WIth this." He says, pulling out a chaos emerald.
"This is a Chaos Emerald. Its powers are legendary. It will help you transform into your super forms. But this gem is but a tool in the long run, for you must learn how to transform without it if you wish to truly be able to protect your friends." He adds.
"Now, let me take Silver to a secure place to heal and you, young kitsune, should rest... I can see you're quite drained and tired as well. In the morning, we shall train." Genra reaches out to take the resting cyborg from Tails' arms and walks off into the distance.

Dawn wakes the two foxes early in the morning. Tails stretches and gets up. He looks around, seeing Wesley making some fruits into breakfast.
"Where's Genra?" Tails asks.
"I dunno...I'm sure he's around here somewhere..." Wesley replies. Tails looks around, and sees Genra at the nearby stream, performing some sort of ritual on the chaos emerald to strengthen the two of them and protect them in battle.
"Good morning, Tails." He says, wiping the emerald clean as he stands up, ankle-deep in the stream's waters.
"It is time for you to free downunda from the parasite that is Ixis Naugus." He continues, walking with Tails back towards the camp.

The three furs eat their breakfast of fruits and water, and then gather in the meadow where they slept.
"Place your hands with mine, on the emerald, young Prowers. Concentrate as hard as you can." Genra instructs.
The furs do as they are instructed. At first, nothing happens.
"Err... what is this supposed to do?" Tails asks quietly.
"Hush child, focus upon the energy coming from the stone." Wes speaks to him.
"Yes, picture it in your mind that the energy from the stone is drawing up into your body. Focus with all your might but do not strain yourself."
Suddenly Tails can feel the sudden rush of energy coming from the stone and his body practically explodes with power, his fur standing on end and glowing bright than ever... the energy seeming to almost swirl around him."
"This power... this is amazing! I feel... so alive!" Tails says with enthusiasm.
"Excellent, now let your energy fade again and then try to reproduce the emerald's effects by yourself." Genra advises.
Tails lets the power fade as instructed and then tenses up again, his fur reaching the glowing state again but not up to his full super form. He struggles a bit, trying to find the feeling.
"Tails, imagine that your friends are in mortal danger and that this is only way that you save them. This kind of power is not created as a want, but as a need." Wed adds, watching him intently.
The young kitsune focuses, imagining some terrible beast rampaging the knothole and his friends screams of agony. The efforts soon paying off as he explodes once again into his altered form.
"Excellent Tails!" Genra offers his applause.
"Amazing, he's a quick learner." Wes offers with a smile.
"Indeed." Genra agrees. "My dear student, you have graduated. You are in your first level of your super forms. Keep in mind there are other states you can obtain, but you must not force them until your ready. You have the capacity but your body still plays a part in this and if you push yourself too hard too early... it may kill you." He smiles.
Tails takes heed of his warning and lets the power fade from him again. "Alright, now let's hope i'm ready for Tadashi when he returns."

Tails slowly walks through the brush, approaching the older fox.
"W-who are you?" Tails asks.
"I am Wesley Prower." He asks.
Tails raises and eyebrow at this.
"My name is Miles Prower, but my friends call me 'Tails'. Are we related?" He asks.
"I think so. My father was a general in the Royal Mobian Army. His name was Amadeus." He explains.
"That's my father." Tails says, wagging his tails a bit.
"I heard he was roboticized when I was just 3 or 4... then mum disappeared when I was 11... I fear that swatbots may have caught her." He says.
"We'll get her back from them. Dad has his free will back, and living with Sonic and Sally in Knothole Village." Tails explains to his brother.
"Knothole still stands? Absolutely amazing! You guys have been the leading inspiration to survive for all the freedom fighter groups on Mobius. The guiding light in our fight against Robotnik." Wesley tells his brother.
Tails is amazed from this revelation. He had no idea that all the other freedom fighter groups looked to the Knothole Freedom Fighters band for guidance and inspiration.
"I've also noticed you've been having problems from Ixis Naugus and Robotnik..." Wes says.
"What do you mean, Wesley?" Tails asks.
"You can call me Wes if you want... and I mean from Silver and Tadashi." He replies.
"Yes... they seem to be quite hardy little pests. They won't leave my friends alone." Tails says.
"It will take more than your strength and skills to defeat these two. For they are your first real-world challenge, my students." Genra says, jumping down from a branch in the nearby tree.
"What do you mean?" Wes asks.
"I mean, it's time you learned how to exceed your present forms, and morph into your super forms." The wise kitsune explains.
"How can we do that?" Tails inquires.
"WIth this." He says, pulling out a chaos emerald.
"This is a Chaos Emerald. Its powers are nearly limitless. It will help you transform into your super forms." He adds.
"Now, rest. In the morning, we shall train for your showdown with her." Genra says as he climbs back into the tree, making himself comfortable on a branch, watching the two foxes make beds out of leaves and shrubs before falling asleep.

Dawn wakes the two foxes early in the morning. Tails stretches and gets up. He looks around, seeing Wesley making some fruits into breakfast.
"Where's Genra?" Tails asks.
"I dunno...I'm sure he's around here somewhere..." Wesley replies. Tails looks around, and sees Genra at the nearby stream, performing some sort of ritual on the chaos emerald to strengthen the two of them and protect them in battle.
"Good morning, Tails." He says, wiping the emerald clean as he stands up, ankle-deep in the stream's waters.
"It is time for you and Wesley to free downunda from the parasite that is Ixis Naugus." He continues, walking with Tails back towards the camp.

"My students, you have graduated. You are in your first level of your super forms. I think you're ready to defeat Silver." He smiles.
The three furs walk back towards Botany Bay, looking for Silver.
"Alright, Silver... Tadashi... I'm calling you both out!" Tails yells.
"Can they hear us?" Turbo Kitsune asks.
"We'll Find out." Turbo Tails replies.
"How laughable. They think they can beat me by dressing up like super heroes." Tadashi says.
Silver scans about along the beach, looking for them. She sees two foxes walking back from the forest. The jackal and robotic fox prepare themselves for another round of fighting.
"Looks like you want more punishment, Tails?" Silver asks.
"I see he's brought a friend." Tadashi says, unsheathing his sword.
"That's alright, Tadashi. I brought one, too." Tails grins, closing his eyes, summoning a sword from seemingly out of nowhere.
The other furs stand back. Tails holds the sword firmly in his gloved paws, and he charges at Tadashi and Silver. His movements are so fast, that he is just an orange-and-white blur. He attacks and slices at over 10 times per second. Silver tries to dodge the vulpine's sword, but fails, sustaining several slashes and hits along her robotic leg and arm.

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CHAPTER 5

"You'll pay for your insolence, you foolish fox!" Tadashi yells, charging towards Tails.
Wesley pushes him aside to distract him. He quickly grabs a wooden branch to fend off the jackal's sword.
"Tails! how are you holding up?" Wesley asks.
"Not too bad..." Tails says, disabling Silver's robotic arm as she tries to punch him.
"Tails, that is the last mistake you will do!" She yells, tripping him. Tails sees Wes push Tadashi over. The fox dives towards Tails, blocking Tadashi from punching him. This buys Tails a split-second to disable the circuitry in Silver's right leg.
"What are you doing, you two-tailed twit?" She yells, seeing her leg and arm sparking.
"Disabling you. Can't have you running amok, killing everyone." Tails says.
This confuses the cyborg vixen. Her programming tells her to give no mercy, and that this may be a trick, but her organic mind tells her that Tails and his friends are good furs, and their compassion can help her. Tadashi slashes his sword towards Wes, pinning him against a tree as he drags the tip along the fox's neck.
"I think i'll make you into a nice winter coat." He laughs, drawing a bit of blood.
Wesley snarls, pushing sakura back, but not without injury. Tadashi's blade cuts along his chest and shoulder, causing him to bleed.
"Tails!" He yelps for help.
"Tails can't help you. Not in time anyway." He chuckles, going to stab Wesley.
The fox rolls out of the way, finding his sword plunging into a tree. He turns around, pulls out his longsword and slashes towards Wes a few times, causing him a few cuts.
"I guess I can't be your coat now." Wes chuckles, grabbing another wooden branch, blocking his sword a couple times.
"That simply means you'll have some extra pockets." Tadashi snarls, kicking Wes to the ground.

"Wait! Where are you going now?" She asks as tails gets up, watching the swordfight between Tadashi and Wesley intensify, with his brother starting to get cut and scraped, as he loses energy.
"Aiding my brother-in-arms." Tails replies, clutching his sword. "Hey, jackal-boy! Over here!"
Tadashi looks towards Tails, and charges towards Tails. Their swords lock, and Tails growls, pushing sakura towards the ground, overpowering the slightly larger jackal.
"Why not try making a coat outta me?" He yells, forcing sakura's sword out of his hands, landing on the ground a few feet away.
Tadashi reaches for it, and starts to crawl, but Tails' blade prevents him from moving much, as Tails presses the tip into the jackal's chest.
"Don't move. Wesley, get the sword." Tails says, watching his brother pick up the sword.
"Silver, kill them!" Tadashi orders.
The vixen remains still, conflicted on what she should do. She wants to kill them, as her commands order her to, but she wants to let Tails and Wesley live, becuase they have done nothing wrong.

With a brief flash, it's all over. Tails and Wesley look around, finding no trace of Tadashi and Silver.
"Where did they go?" Wes asks.
"I have no idea..." Tails says, looking around, noticing his brother's not holding the sword anymore.

The crystalline mirror reveals all that is going on to its creator. Ixis watches the screen intently, growing angrier and angrier.
"ENOUGH! No more of these tricks!" Ixis yells, casting a spell.
Silver and sakura appear on the ground of Ixis' lair, both somewhat wounded.
"You two are failures! You could not even quell a small rebellion!" Ixis yells.
"Sir, there was an unexpected turn of events. Miles has a brother--" Silver tries to explain.
"I know he has a brother! You were supposed to easily kill both of them." He interrupts, and then turns to Tadashi, who is placing his sword back in its sheath.
"You call yourself a master swordsman? You can't even slice a branch." Ixis says, before yelling at Silver, causing the robotic fox to disappear. "Now, BEGONE, Silver!"
He watches as Tadashi tries to crawl away from him.
"W-what are you going to do to me?" He asks, very afraid.
"I'm giving you what you deserve, you deciever!" Ixis yells, turning sakura into a crystalline statue.

Later that afternoon, Tails packs up his goods onto the Winged Victory.
"Tails, are you sure you can't stay?" Barby asks.
Tails nods in reply. "Yeah. I'm sure. Besides. I have this feeling Tadashi's decided to head back towards the Great Forest, so I have to get back there."
"I'm coming with you, Tails. I can fly while you sleep." Wesley offers.
"Alright. Now, do you guys think you can handle things without us?" Tails inquires.
"Yeah, we're good, but we're in your debt, Tails." Walt says, shaking his hand.
"Before you go, Tails, you should put this jacket on, so you don't catch cold up there again." Barby says, giving him a 1940s-style bomber flyer jacket.
Tails admires it as he puts it on.
"Wow, nice! Thanks!" He says, hugging her.
"You're welcome, hero." She says with a smile.
They watch as Tails takes off in the plane, headed straight back for Knothole and the Great Forest. Soon, the plane is far out of sight, over the ocean.