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 5 - Tadashi Returns (Part 2)

Tails walks back to Botany Bay after his training lesson and looks around as he enters the village, finding the Downunda freedom fighters busy at work doing repairs to the huts damaged by the previous fight.
"Well, well... the little stud returns. Erm, where's Sakura?" Walt greets.
"She's being tended to somewhere safe." Tails replies, giving a brief stretch of his limbs.
"Nothing personal, mate... but I just hope to never see her again." He adds as Barby climbs out of one of the huts and soon joins up with them, carrying a small pile of clothes with her.
"Hey Tails... I have these for you. Since your last shirt got ruined I figured these least I could do you could was replace it... and as it just so happens, we have this from the previous member of our group we lost back at Doomsday. I'm sure they'll fit you."
Tails looks at the clothes them down at his throughly dirted up pants. "Well, good thing... these have seen better days." He adds before taking the clothing.
Barby giggles a bit and points over to the hut she cames from. "I'm sure Walt wouldn't mind if you changed in our hut... just leave the old clothes outside and i'll wash them when I have the time."
Walt shakes his head. "Nah... go ahead, just, you know... don't touch anything."
Tails smirks a bit and walks away, going into the hut to change.
Barby looks to Walt smugly, thinking his statement was rude. Walt look back and blinks.
"What?" Walt replies a bit in confusion, flicking his ears a bit.
While inside, Tails can't help but look around a bit... noticing their hut is quite the comfy place and notably there's what looks like an artist's rendition of Walt and Barby next to each other with a deep smile.
Tails looks down for a moment and gives a sigh, beginning to feel a distinct loneliness, shaking his head before slipping into the outfit provided for him.
The outfit a rather simple outfit, mainly blue in color with a soft sleeveless shirt and leather pants, buckled up neatly. Amidst it was also a new pair of boots and gloves, black in color. He slips off his old sneakers and white gloves, replacing them with the others before looking in the mirror.
"Hey, not bad... certainly nothing fancy, but whoever this used to belong to certainly wasn't hesistant about showing himself off." He speaks before blinking to himself as he notices something, looking closer in the mirror.
"Wow, I can't believe how much my body is changing. I know i've done quit a bit of training out in the woods in these past few years, but man... I look like i've been a martial arts expert my whole life or soemthing." He mumbles to himself as he notices his sturdy build and healthy muscle tone, his features making him look older than he really is.
"It must be the kitsune power, it must be molding my body somehow." He adds, reaching up to rub the strange green gem-like marking that appeared on his forehead when Genra first showed him how to use his powers.
He hmmms audibly after a moment of studying himself and turns to walk outside.

The kitsune steps outside and spies the group of furs now clustered together at the center of the bay village and walks over to join them.
As he moves closer, he sees the jackal from the previous attack. He looks around to the others as they speak with the assailant.
"Hey look you, we've had enough problems here already. How dare you walk back here like you own the place!" Barby points and growls accusingly to the one in question.
The jackal smirks as he gives his reply.
"There's no need to get your panties in a knot, i've not come here to start trouble... I am not like those idiots of Robotnik's my dear, I am a warrior of class." He says with a stuffy aire.
"Oh yeah? Then what was all that about last week!?" Walt asks, slightly angered by the jackals tone.
Before Tadashi can give his rebuttle, he spots Tails as he joins the crowd.
"Your friends are quite uptight, aren't they? I guess all those years of Robotnik's mindless assaults have taken their toll on them." The jackal speaks as he crosses his arms.
The two-tailed furrows his brow as he figures out just what's going on.
"Err, well yes... but just how are you different anyway. You did just kind appear out of the blue last week when I already had my paws full." The kitsune speaks with a bit of a frown in his features.
Tadashi gives a bit of a girlish giggle as he replies.
"...and you handled it well, I could sense your fraustration but you aren't exactly dead, now are you?"
Tadashi looks over the crowd of others and then over Tails himself, his look lingering a bit, noting their confusion.
"Anyway, let's cut to the chase. Lord Naugus wants you dead... so rather than go on a mindless rampage I would just rather challenge you to a duel." He adds with a bit of a grin.
"A duel?" Tails replies with the others mumbling amidst themselves.
"Yes, a duel, away from the village where nobody else can get hurt in the wake." The jackal clarifies.
Tails gives a skeptical look and then nods, agreeing to the terms.
"Alright, it's nice to see a foe with a sense of taste for a change... that is... if you mean what you say."
Tadashi gives another giggle. "My advice, don't lose, and you have nothing to worry about." He gives Tails a wink before suddenly flying backwards toward the jungle.
Tails glances to the others as Walt speaks to him.
"Be careful mate, i'll bet this is a trap." Walt advises him.
The fox gives a nod before concentrating a moment, his fur beginning to give the faint glow once again before running off into the trees with great speed.
Tails rushes through the trees, trusting his gut feeling and following the sense of thee other as he moves. It takes only a moment before he runs into a clearing, Tadashi standing there with his back to him.
The fox skids to a halt a few feet away from him, his fur enchanted fur glittering in the afternoon sun.
"Alright then, let's do this." Tails says as he takes a secure stance.
Tadashi giggles a bit and turns around to face him. "What's the hurry? You don't even know the terms of this duel."
Tails blinks a bit, not used to any kind of rules in a fight.
The jackal suddenly pulls back his red cape and pulls free the sword from before.
"This shall be done with swords... I sure hope you have one." Tadashi smirks.
"No... I don't exactly even own one." Tails replies, feeling a bit discouraged then suddenly thinking of something.
"But, I believe I can improvise." He suddenly adds.
"Ah, so resourceful... I'm starting to like you, fox boy." He takes a stance, sword ready.
Tails charges up his interal energies, it noticable shifting to his hands that begin to glow brightly around the gloves.
An awkward moment of silence passes before the jackal makes a sudden lunge at Tails with the sword, the fox quickly moving out of the way.
The fox counters with his hand, two fingers extended forward in a paw that would otherwise be a fist. The glowing finger slicing through the air from it's mystical charge, just like a blade would and catches the edge of the shoulder area of the jackal's cloak, causing a small tear.
The jackal looks at the tear on the cloak as the finger pass through it, a bit shocked by this before making another quick angled swing of the sword.
Tails shifts out of the way just to see another lunge coming in his direction, throwing up his paws just in time, catching the blade between them with a firm grasp.
Tadashi growls a bit and tries to pull it away from the paws, Tails giving his best to resist, grunting a bit from the strength of the jackal.
"You are... pretty strong for a... little guy." Tails mumbles out as he struggles to hold the blade just to feel a firm kick to his chest from the jackal, forcing him to let go of the blade.
"I was just thinking the same." Tadashi says before giving this time a powerful swing, coming down with a woosh. The fox jumps back in suprise, narrowing missing the end of the blade which is soon impaled slightly in the ground with a loud thud.
Tails takes the opportunity as the jackal works it loose, jabbing his charged finger toward the jackal which lands right in his upper chest.
Tadashi cries out, reeling back with freed sword in his paw. He looks at the wound, seeing it bleeding but doesn't appear very deep. The blood from the insertion literally burning away from Tails fingers.
The jackal suddenly pauses, giving a deep grin before making another charge, this time much faster. His body moving so fast that it creates a wind around him.
Tails cringes at what he sees, narrowing managing to get his paws up to make a block... the force of the blade cutting right through his aura and partially into the glove.
"Ergh!" Tails says as the sword is withdrawl, taking a moment to hold the cut paw with the other, feeling the blood flow from a shallow yet painful wound.
"Well, i'll give you one thing foxie... had you been a few milliseconds slower, that might have taken off your head. However, if that's all the power you have... then there's no way you can beat me." Tadashi says with an evil chuckle.
Tails shows his teeth a bit as he holds the paw and speaks to the other, just to let it fall back to it's normal position afterward.
"Believe me, it's not going to be quite that easy." "Well now, we'll just see about that." The jackal hisses before making another lightning fast swing.
This time Tails ducks out of the way with time to spare, giving a sweep to the legs of the other. The sweep failing to knock the other off of his feet, instead his stumbles forward.
The fox spies the opportunity and makes one paw back to a full fist and brings a charged uppercut to the jackal, who in turn falls back, crying out.
"Aaaugh!"
The jackal lowers his head and begins to pant a bit, feeling over his jaw and wiping a bit of blood from it.
"Well now, that's more like it... that one really hurt." The statement followed by another evil chuckle. Tails narrowing his eyes at the fact that he can still laugh about such a blow.
Tadashi takes a new stance and the sword begins to glow blue just like it had the previous day.
"Now, let's if you can handle this." As soon as the statement is finished he gives a yell and swings the sword one again, this time from a distance.
Tails flicks his ears as the sword leaves a barely visible trail as it's swung, the force swaying the grass below. The fox suddenly cringe in pain as he feels as if the blade had actually hit him, crossing over his chest.
The foxs looks a bit confused as the new wound has appeared, the riddle solved as he looks behind him, several trees split from their base and falling to the ground.
"What... what in the world?" Tails mumbles out, voice trembling a bit from the new pain.
"Oh my, and to think I held high expectations from you... your inexperience is all so obvious." Tadashi cackles out in a mocking tone.
"What an absurd trick." The twin-tail replies through clenched teeth.
Tails shakes off the pain of his wounds the best he can before opening his paw, the glow suddenly shifting above it as he creates another destructive energy ball like he had before.
The jackal eyes the light pensively and hmms. The light growing bigger as he expends more of his mystic energy and suddenly cups with both paws.
The light is suddenly bolted from the paws of the fox, charging toward the jackal with a roar. Tadashi smirks and turns enough for the light to roar past him.
"Oh, what a predictable attack, do you actually think that... YAHHH!" His banter is suddenly broken as the balls suddenly hits him from the rear, having turned around behind him. The jackal is forced down into the dirt as the energy violently explodes, the sword dropped and skidding away from the jackal, landing near Tails as the glow from it fades.
"Yeah, about that... an new trick of my own, I knew you would be able to dodge that easily." Tails speaks with a smirk.
The jackal pushes himself up to the feet, a furless mark on his back and a hole in his cloak from where the energy exploded... the shock felt through his whole body.
Tadashi begins to giggle once again and suddenly flicks the twice damaged cloak away.
"Not bad... but i'm still not convinced. All in all, this barely even hurts... I could do this all day."
"What!?" Tails speaks out in shock.
Tadashi notes the shock in the other's features and just shakes his head.
"Look foxie, enough childsplay. I know damn well that you're holding back, I noticed from my senses last week that you are more powerful than this. So lets see you apply these skills of yours at your best so that we can bring this to a close."
The fox ponders this for a moment and thinks to himself. 'He knows about my super form... but I didn't even know how to tap it then. I wonder else he's been able to sense'
Tails goes back to a more idle stance and looks the jackal in the eyes.
"Very well then, have it your way." He speaks as he tenses his body and closes his eyes, growling a bit almost instinctively as he struggles to bring forth the idle powers within him, just like he had done before at the training session.
The fox's fur begins glow brighter as the power within his power increases, the jackal able to feel all of the changes, watching with great anticipation.
The power starts to flow much greater and more fluidly from his body as it grows before it suddenly explodes, giving a slight roar and moving dirt and debrit around the fox as it comes forth. His fur beginning to stand on end and glowing brightly.
The fox begins to shout out as the warmth and feeling of life greatly increases as he ascends in form.
"It's... it's unbelievable, it's even more than I sensed." The jackal mumbles in mixed exitment and fear.
The wind sturred from his power increases causing the trees several yards behind them to sway as if hit by a gail wind, before Tails relaxes his body again and opens his eyes, now having a glow themselves.
'This might have been a bad idea, but it doesn't make sense... how can something so young hold that much power, he is definately some incarnation of kitsune.' Tadashi thinks, a bit of sweat forming upon his brow.
"Well now, i'm ready... let's get this over with!" Tails takes a stance again, feeling all the more confident as the power gives him warmth.
The jackal suddenly charges, unnerved that his aura became so strong.
He leaps up and gives a flying kick toward Tails face, which is quickly intercepted, moving swiftly and snatching the other's leg from midair and proceeding to fling the jackal into the ground behind him, his face hitting the dirt hard enough to make a crater and skid a foot.
Tadashi shakes a bit and presses himself up from the dirt, his face now cut in several places. He pants a moment and suddenly leaps high into the air, landing back in his previous spot and holds out his arm toward the sword, which flies back up into his paw and glow once again.
"My face... my beautiful face! You are going to pay for that!" He suddenly gives another swing of the sword, the phantom wave rushing forward the small space between them. A bit of a static sizzle heard as Tail's aura totally absorbed the energy.
His growls a bit in fraustration, feeling the blood trickle down his muzzle as he holds his sword out, making an energy charged rush as fast as he can, creating a wind that traces his direction.
The fox grasps out at the last moment, actually cupping the jackal's neck and bringing his rush to a halt, body extended out just enough to feel only the very tip of the sword brushing through his fur and just before his flesh.
"Is this what you really wanted, to see my power!? I know what you were thinking, you were thinking that you still had the upper edge and that taking me down would be easy. Naugus has made you strong, but if you intend to destroy someone destined to be a guardian to this planet... think again."
Tails rants out as he holds Tadashi prisoner in a brightly charged paw, giving his neck a squeeze. The jackal grunting and choking as he forms a broken reply.
"You... are merely lucky... you have... no idea what... you're up ag-against. Naugus... could still... break you... so easily. You are... far too... inexperienced and weak to beat... him now that... he has become... the true... lord of the Void."
Tadashi coughs as wiggles as he's held, the force of the hold causing him to drop the sword once again.
Tails narrows his eyes a bit as he ponders what he just said.
"Maybe so... but as long as he intends harm to my friends, we will find a way to beat him! I will NEVER forgive Robotnik and Naugus for what they've done!"
Tails charges up another ball of energy in the other paw, this one growing much faster and becoming more powerful, flickers of lightning like disturbance around it.
"Tell that ridiculous wizard to stay in the void and never send his puppets to threaten the world again... and as for this duel... it's over, you lose."
He thrusts the ball of energy against Tadashi's stomach at point blank range, letting go of the creatures neck and bracing for the backlash from the explosion as he releases it.
Tadashi cries out in pain as he is blown all the way across the clearing and lands, skidding and hitting his head against a tree.
The jackal lays panting and cringing from the incredible stinging sensation through his body from the energy blow. Wordlessly laying there as he revels in his defeat.

From the Void, Naugus has watched the fight in the crystalline mirror and has become incredibly angry at the outcome.
"What!? ...how can this be? This wretched kitsune has already better learned to tap his powers!" He says with a sneer before sending a telepathic message to Tadashi from his place in the void.
"You miserable furball, you have failed me! How dare you coax him to draw out his power when you had the foresite to know that he might be able to overpower you, i'm bringing you into the void for a fitting punshiment!" The angry tone of the wizard echoing in his head.
The jackal appears next to the wizard who immediately turn to him and scowls.
"Please, master, please forgive me... I didn't honestly think..." He whimpers, steeping backward with ears lowered.
"W-what are you going to do to me?" He asks, trembiling a bit.
"Fool, I am going to give you what you deserve!" He motions with his normal hand and Tadashi is suddenly totally encased in crystal, a terrified look etched in his features.
"It looks like i'm going to have to take care of that overpowered mobian myself ...and then, the quickster and the rest of them will be mine to use however I see fit." He grumbles as he begins to form a plan.

Later that afternoon, Tails packs up his goods onto the Winged Victory. Bandaged up beneath a new shirt and glove upon the previously damaged paw, the wounds still a bit sore but healing abnormally quickly.
"Tails, are you sure you can't stay?" Barby asks.
Tails nods in reply. "Yeah. I'm sure. If such powerful foes were sent here to get me, there's a chance Sonic and the knothole freedom fighters might have a similar predicament and I can't afford to sit around while they may be in trouble. Sonic can take care of himself well... but these guys are tougher than anything they've encountered before."
"Alright. Now, do you guys think you can handle things without us?" Tails pauses as he finishes his loading, inquiring.
"Yeah, we're good, but we're in your debt, Tails. Next time we'll be better prepared if something like that shows up." Walt says, shaking his hand.
"Before you go, Tails, you should put this jacket on, so you don't catch cold up there." Barby says, giving him a 1940s-style bomber flyer jacket.
Tails admires it as he puts it on.
"Wow, nice! Fits great. Oh, and thanks for everything." He says, hugging her.
"You're welcome. You're nothing short of a hero and you have definately earned your place amoungst the Downunda Freedom fighters." She says with a smile.
"Definately, mate. You come back soon, alright?" Walt says with an equal 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.