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 14, 3241 - Late Spring (Flashbacks are in July 22nd, 3224)
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Chapter 8 - Returning Home

"Tails to Knothole. Tails to Knothole." Tails speaks into the radio.
Rotor is listening on the other end. He picks it up. "Knothole responding. What's your status, T2?"
"Mobotropolis has been liberated. Ixis is on the run, and the people want to rebuild their city." He tells them.
"That's great news! I'll tell the King." Rotor says.
"Well, tell him that Ixis and Robotnik are also intending on burning down our forest for fuel. I'll explain when we get back." Tails speaks.
"Very well." Rotor replies, not liking the last part of Tails' message.
Tails flies straight for the Great Forest, when he sees something to the east leading from the city of Mobotropolis, into the Forest.
"T2 to weasels. What is that on the ground to the east?" Tails asks.
"Looks like a construction crew of some sort." Nack replies.
"I'm checking this out. You guys get to Knothole, and tell the others they're in danger. Snively's right." Tails says, flying straight.
"Tails, I thouht were were going to stop them." Sonic asks.
"We are, Sonic. My plane's almost out of fuel, though." He replies.
"We don't have time to go back to Knothole. We'll have to jump from here. Can you bring us in lower, Tails?" He asks.
"Can-do, True Blue." Tails replies, bringing the plane to around 20 feet above the roadway. He slows the cruising speed to 120 kilometers per hour.
"Alright, guys. I can't go any lower or slower without crashing. Good luck!" he says.
"We'll see ya in a bit, T2." Sonic says.
Bunnie, Knuckles, Sonic, and Sally time their jump precisely, and leap from the plane, to a safe landing on the pavement. Tails looks back to see that they're alright. He then picks up speed and altitude to head back to Knothole.
"Tails to Weasels. I'm heading back to knothole. Almost out of fuel. Proceed with me into the village. We'll alert King Acorn." Tails instructs them over the radio.
Nack hits the gas on the van again, and heads back into the Great Forest.
Sonic then takes out his pair of binoculars.
"Oh god, no..." He says, watching the robotic construction crew cutting down the trees, lighting some on fire.
"How many are there, Sonic?" Sally asks.
"Only a few dozen. We should be able to take 'em." He smirks.
"Here's the plan, then. I'll disable their machinery. You guys have to distract or restrain the robots." Sally Says. They approach the crews, but discover it's not Swat Bots or construction robots, but roboticized furs.
"Robians??? This is sickening." Sonic says.
"How do we stop 'em from cuttin' down our beloved trees?" Bunnie asks.
"We neutralize them and I'll destroy their hardware." Sally says.
"How do we do that?" Knuckles asks.
"Sonic has a Power Ring in his backpack. We know that power rings can help robians regain their free will.
"I got it right here." Sonic says, taking his ring out, showing his friends before putting it back in.
"Good. Let's go." Sally instructs them. "We need to be careful, guys. We could be walking into a trap, or get ambushed." Sally tells Sonic.
As if someone was reading her mind, some roboticized furries see them as they work the road and forestry equipment. A few hop down, and walk towards Sonic and the Freedom Fighters. One of the robians is Tails' father (Amadeus Prower.
The robian that was Amadeus Prower steps in front of the rest, looking particularly hostile.
"Surrender. Priority One: Capture Hedgehog." he says in his robotic, monotone voice.
"Alright. Let's get to work." Sally says, hopping aboard one of the pavement machines. He quickly disables the machine, and hops to the next one, repeating her actions, with Knuckles and Bunnie providing defenses for her while she works.
"Sal-gal, how's progress on those machines?" Sonic asks as he fends off some of the Robians.
He knocks a couple out cold. Bunnie, Knuckles and Wes try to cover Tails, by surrounding him while he disables their massive machinery.
"Almost done, Sonic. Just have two more to go..." She says, hopping up into one of the two automated forest harvesters.
The female squirrel looks around the control panel quickly for any sort of "emergency stop" or "abort" button.
"There it is!" She says, pressing it, causing the forest harvesters to shut down.
"Sonic, I'm done here." Sally says.
She helps fight back with Bunnie and Knuckles, as the Robians try to capture them. The blue hedgehog runs over and body-checks one of the Robians.
"We're done here. Maybe we should get back to Knothole?" Knuckles asks.
"Alright! I'll get us there in no time!" the very enthusiastic hedgehog proclaims.
He starts to run, but is surrounded by the robots and roboticized furries again. This time, Amadeus stops and holds his hand out in front of Sonic, like a traffic-cop. Sonic comes to a quick halt as he carries sally.
"Uh... we have a problem."
"What's that?" Sally asks.
"Stop at once, for Lord Robotnik." He announces. If the roboticized fox could growl, he would be doing so.
Sonic holds sally close to him in her arms, guarding and protecting her with his life as the Robian surround them and come closer.
"Robotnik must have become an even greater sicko lately. The robots approaching aren't swatbots, but roboticized mobians!" He growls, very angrily.
"Sonic, don't use your bombs against them... Let me think of how to neutralize them without hurting them..." Sally tells her friend as he goes to reach back for another metal bomb. Sonic looks closely at the silver-brown robotic fox approaching them, apparently the leader of their squadron.
"Sally... Why does that one robian look familiar?" He whispers to her."
"I'm not sure." Sonic says, being reminded of his little "brother" Tails for some reason by this robot.
At once, something clicks inside his brain, the pieces all falling into place.
"My goodness... that's Tails' father! What do we do?" He asks her.
The robotic fox pauses briefly at the word "Tails", unnoticed to the two Freedom Fighters.
"I don't know, Sonic... I know we can't leave him here... perhaps uncle chuck can restore his free will..." She tells him.
"I hope so. I'll get Dulcy to take him back." He says, coming up with a plan.
"But how will we neutralize him? He'll attack Dulcy once he sees her. She's a Freedom Fighter." Sally says.
"Hm. That's a problem." the hedgehog says. He then gets an idea.
"Sal! My power ring! pass it to me, please." He says.
Sally reaches into his backpack and gives him the power ring, unsure of what Sonic has in store. He holds out the power ring towards Amadeus, who tells the rest of the robots to stand back.
"Sonic, are you crazy? He'll take the ring back to Robotnik and he'll use it against us!" She tells him as the robian reaches out towards the ring.
"No, he won't, sal. I won't let go of it." He grins, holding tight and re-affirming his grasp on the power ring.
Amadeus reaches out to the other end, grasping onto it with a grin, looking somewhat scary with his red electric eyes.
"Do you surrender, Sonic and Sally?" He asks the hedgehog and chipmunk by name.
"Nope, but I have something better for you." The hedgehog replies.
"The location of Knothole?" Amadeus says, very annoyed.
He starts to rab the ring, pulling it a bit closer to him.
"Nope. It's your son, Tails." Sally says, hoping this jars the fox's memories.
"I don't have a son. I'm a robot sworn to protect Robotnik and his blossoming empire." Amadeus replies, his memories completely erased and brainwashed by Robotnik's sinister processes of roboticization.
"You don't *remember* your own son, Tails?" Sonic asks the fox, pulling the ring a bit closer to him.
He starts to think to himself as he holds the power ring, grasping it hard to use its energy.
"Please work. Please restore Tails' dad's free will. Please, power ring. Work!" He thinks to himself as the ring starts to glow a bit.
"Sonic, he was captured the day Tails was born. I don't think he ever saw him." Sally tells sonic, whose ears perk up and eyes go wide from hearing that.
"'Buttnik, You'll pay for that." Sonic growls and whispers to himself, concentrating.
"You don't know your son, Miles Prower?" Sonic asks the fox, using Tails' real name.
The ring starts to work, glowing brightly.
"I--I..." Amadeus stumbles for words through his memory banks, as he flashes back through his life, beginning to recall everything, before things go completely white in his vision for a split second.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It was a nice summer's day in Mobotropolis, as it was once, properly, known as back in 3219. The Riverfront Park was filled with people for a commemmoration by none other than King Maximillian Acorn himself!
"Ladies and Gentlemen, I wish to thank you all for coming here on this fine day, from all across the land, to our great city. We in the government are honouring those that fought against tyranny and fascism in the Great War. Some are here with is, and sadly, some are not. But this is the reason we are thanking them: their efforts will NEVER be forgotten!" He speaks into the microphone, with a group of furs standing in a row behind him.
The proudest of all is General Amadeus Prower, 52nd Infantry Division, a fox male from Knothole. He is aged 21, and expecting a child any day now. He beams with pride of serving his country, saving his king, and his loving wife from death in the war.
"I wish to honour those that have not survived to this day, after the war. Supreme General Ian Saint John was killed in the line of duty while evacuating my family to the Sky Sanctuary Zone on the Floating Island." The king speaks of the highest-ranking fur killed in battle, the third-in-command of the Mobian Armed Forces.
He also tells of Sir Jules Hedgehog, an ace pilot killed in battle, among many others. Amadeus recalls Jules and Ian, his best friends since they were pups. He even wipes away a tear, knowing of the grief Ian's family goes through. His wife and eight-year-old son, Geoffrey are left behind without a father. Amadeus, however, is not without battle scars. When the battle was raging into its third year, he was leading a crack team of commandos to destroy the First Mobian Bridge across the Mobotropolis Bay, when an overlander sniper shot him in the head, losing his vision in his left eye. He survived with the quick-thinking actions of Sir Charles Hedgehog, uncle of Sonic The Hedgehog.
He looks back up, seeing Ian's wife stepping from the front of the line as the King introduces her to the podium, adorning her and her son Geoffrey with the Mobian Medal of Honour.
"Thank you, Sire." She says, holding her son's hand, both looking very sad, understandably.
"Miss Saint John, Geoffrey, the Kingdom of Mobius is forever grateful for Ian's duty. He protected the royal family, my family. He died for his country to save you, and the rest of us." He says as he gives her and Geoffrey a comforting hug after saluting each other.
The tone of the commemmoration so far, has been very low-key, solemn, if not repsectful and mourning of those that lost their lives. It is not of the "tailgate party", or the "victory festival" that many furs thought it would be. Amadeus shakes himself out of his daze, reminding himself he's thankful for his friend Sir harles Hedgehog for being there at all.
"Next, I wish to honour a very tactical and crafty fox. His bravery and intelligence saved the Kingdom from certain destruction, by destroying a bridge before advancing troops could capture and use it. His personal sacrifice is recognized by my government. General Amadeus Prower, I wish to bestow upon you and your family, the Golden Badge of Courage." He says, pinning the badge onto the fox's vest, next to his other military credentials.
"Thank you, sire. I was just doing my duty to protect my kingdom and way of life." He replies honestly, being a very humble and modest fox.
"Your actions are most appreciated, General Prower. An echidna guard approaches King Max with a message.
"Sir, Amadeus is needed at the Mobotropolis Central Hospital." The echidna tells the king. Max then turns to Amadeus.
"You're needed at the hospital, my friend." He tells him with a smile.
Amadeus nods his head and salutes his king, returned with a salute from him. They shake hands and the fox walks off the stage in the park. He walks through the parking lot to his car and opens the door. He starts his vehicle and backs out carefully, shifting into drive. He plans to make it a few minutes later at the hospital, when his cellular phone rings. He stops at a red light in downtown and answers.
"Hello, this is Amadeus Prower." He says.
"Amadeus, this is Julian Kintobor. There are secret classified war documents in my laboratory that need to be sorted and either destroyed, or de-classified. You're needed immediately!" The human replies.
"Are you sure no one else can handle it, Julian? I'm on my way to the hospital. My wife's going to have her cub any minute now!" The fox tells the warlord.
"Congratulations, Amadeus! However, I'm sorry. You know I need a second signature and person to do this." He says, stating actual protocol. Amadeys closes his eyes and nods with a sighs.
"I'll be at the castle in a few minutes." He says, hanging up. He turns his left-turn signal on and turns towards the castle with traffic. On the other end of the cellular phone, Julian starts to laugh.
"Very soon." He says to himself.
"Very soon, what, Uncle Julian?" a whiny nasal voice asks.
"Snively, do NOT call me that. You are to call me Lord Robotnik when the furs are not around. Do you UNDERSTAND me?" He stares down his shorter nephew, who is cowering from his uncle's wrath.
"Y-yes, sir." He says softly.
"Good. Now, to answer your question... within a few minutes, the roboticizer that I have perfected will be ready to test on a living, breathing person." He chuckles.
"I understand, sir... but why Sir Amadeus Prower?" Snively asks.
"His resourcefulness, intelligence and ingenuity are things I badly need to train my robotic army. With him in the lead of them, under your direction, I'll take over very quickly." Julian replies.
Amadeus walks in a few short minutes later.
"Good afternoon, Warlord Julian, Assistant Snively." he nods to both of them.
"Let's please make this quick. My wife's going to have her cub any minute and I want to be there for them both." He says. Snively approaches him and shakes his hand.
"Congratulations, General Prower! You must be so proud!" he says enthusiastically but honestly, shaking his hand. The fox is slightly ruffled from this, but fine otherwise.
"I-I am. Anyway, let's get to work on these documents, gentlemen." Amadeus says.
Julian steps a bit cloesr to him. Something about him today just doesn't seem right. The whole scenario doesn't seem right for some reason. A part of the fox's better instincts tell him to bolt for the door. His life is in grave danger. He ignores it and shrugs it off as just memories resurfacing from the commemmoration earlier.
"Amadeus, they are in this room. Follow me." Julian steps through the door and walks down the hall.
He enters a classified room. Amadeus raises an eyebrow, as no one normally goes in there without the King himself present.
"After you, sir." He says, knowing something's up, and doesn't want to fall for any traps.
"Very well." Julian replies to the smart fox, walking in first, with Snively following him, shutting the door.
The short fellow then withdraws a Luger hand gun.
"Now, don't try anything funny, furball." Snively says.
Amadeus steps back, hands in a defensive stance.
"Julian, arrest him!" Amadeus asks his superior to fulfill his duty to protect the crown.
Instead, Robotnik pulls out his own Colt .45 millimeter handgun.
"I don't think that will happen, fox." He chuckles. Amadeus stands down, being unarmed, and with traitors in his midst.
"Amadeus, come with me." Julian says, moving behind him, the gun against the fox's back.
"I won't hesitate to paint the walls with your blood." He says into the fox's ear.
Amadeus folds his ear back from hearing this, walking forward with him.
"What do you want from me, Julian? Is this about the commemoration?" Amadeus inquires, getting a couple of laughs in reply.
"Oh no, Amadeus. It's about something far bigger than that." Robotnik tells the fox.
"A couple of arrogant hyenas. That is what's holding me hostage." He thinks to himself.
They approach the until-then abandoned Roboticizer prototype that Sir Charles built. The difference is that it looks perfected.
"What do you plan on doing with this? How do I fit in with this machine?" The fox inquires.
"You are going to step inside, stupid canid." Snively tells him, with a hateful glare from Julian.
"And if I don't?" Amadeus asks. Julian steps closer to him.
"Your blood will become a nice new coat of paint for these walls, and I'll have a nice fur coat to wear." He chuckles.
Amadeus growls back to him, snarling.
"You monster! I'll show you who wears me!" he lunges for Julian, who swats him and sends him flying into the wall.
Amadeus hits his head and blacks out briefly. He awakens in shackles, his military suit taken off of him, and his head hurting a great deal. He sees that he's stuck in the roboticizer.
"Let me out of here!" He yells, pounding on the glass with his fists, still not completely aware of what is going on.
"Snively, throw the switch and end his life as an organic being." He chuckles. Amadeus tries in vain to break his way out of the chamber, hearing the machine turning on.
"Snively! Don't throw that switch!" He yelps, almost dislocating his right shoulder when he charges the plastic alloy chamber door.
Snively simply walks to the other side of it, pointing his gun between the fox's eyes, before laughing and putting it back on the table. Robotnik simply grins as he watches the fox try to escape, proud of his newphew's actions.
"Why are you doing this? What do you want from me?" Amadeus asks from inside the roboticizer.
"I'm going to use this machine to experiment on you. If it works, it will turn you into my lead army robot, Prower. You will train my other robots to lead a revolt against the King, and throw him into the Zone of Silence. After that, I'll become the supreme ruler of this planet. I won't even stop there, either. With my robotic army, I will then set my eyes on the stars..." Robotnik tells the fox, almost daydreaming towards the end.
The fat future dictator then snaps out of it and turns to Snively.
"Do it." He orders his smaller nephew.
The chamber starts to warm up. Amadeus can feel the magnetic waves increasing dramatically as electrical current surges throught he machine, his whole body starting to tremble in fear as his fur stands on end.
"Oh god, no! Rosemary, I'm sorry." He lowers his head.
Pain then surges through his body, causing the poor young adult fox to howl out. His body begins changing from carbon-based to silicon-titanium-based, right down to the cellular level. He enters such pain that he cannot even move, every part of his body being transformed into a mindless slave. The last thing he sees in his mind, are his loving wife, King Max granting him the Medal of Courage, and the two traitors to the realm ending his life as a living creature. He sees electricity shooting out all around him, surrounding him as he blacks out.
Just as soon as the pain surges through his organic body, it ceases. The chamber door opens with a bit of steam flushing out.
"Well, well. Let me see if my little "experiment" worked, Snively." Julian says, inspecting Amadeus.
The large human checks the robotic fox from his head, ears, muzzle, down to his feet and tail. He speaks to the robian known as Amadeus, eye to eye with him.
"Who is your new Lord and Master?" Julian asks the robotic fox. "Lord Robotnik is my controller and master." The former fox replies. He starts to laugh insanely.
"It worked! Snively, it is time we put my plans of domination into action." He says.
Snively nods slowly, still somewhat frightened of his uncle. He fears that he may be next to share a similar fate.
"Sir, what shall we do with Amadeus? What of his family?" He asks.
"Amadeus? He was in a car accident and severely burned. We used this machine that Sir Charles was so kind to give us, to save his life. However, there were a few problems maintaining free will, as Sir Charles had previously described." he grins.
"This is a great plan, sir. One of most high genius." Snively says, sucking up to his uncle.
"Snively, shut up." He replies, dressing Amadeus back up in his clothes.
"I think we should pay Rosemary a visit." He says, walking with Amadeus out the door.
The fox starts his car with Julian in the passenger seat, and snively in the back. He drives towards the hospital, aware of his actions, but unable to stop them. Outside, he shows no emotion, being robotic, rather than human. Inside his head, however, his mind and soul reside within his roboticized brain. He is crying unconsolobly inside.
"I'm sorry, Rosemary! I'm sorry for failing you! This is a fate worse than death! I should have just had them shoot me. Now i'm a danger to you and our child! I'm hideous and unlovable now! I'm sorry. I beg of you and our child for forgiveness." He thinks to himself. He tries to resist as Julian's programming takes over the routines in his head, shutting down his last bits of resistance. He watches as the Robotnik pulls into the parking lot of the Hospital and turns the car off.
"Good. Open the door, and walk with us to see your wife, Prower. Let her know that everything's fine." He growls, opening the door as he and Snively get out.
They walk into the lobby, where Julian tells the fox "respond to others as if you were yourself, Prower." The fox nods and walks up to the receptionist, altering his voice patterns to sound close to normal.
"I'm sorry. I got here as soon as I could. I'm here to see my wife." He says.
The mongoose at the desk replies "Room 329. take the first elevator then hit a left."
Amadeus walks with Robotnik and snively towards the elevator, and ride it up to the third floor.
"Do you know what will happen to your family, Prower?" The fox remains at attention in the elevator, emotionless.
This is just how Julian wants his robotic slaves.
"She and your child will end up like you, mindless robotic drones, whose only purpose is to serve me. After all, I'm not one to keep family members separated." He laughs.
In his mind, Amadeus is going absolutely insane from what Robotnik is saying.
"All living things on Mobius will bow to their new ruler. And when I get old, I'll roboticize myself if I can maintain my own free will, to make sure my rule is permanent." Robotnik says to Amadeus and Snively.
"Sir, We must not arouse attention. We're in a Hospital." Snively interrupts his uncle.
"Snively, don't interrupt me when I'm talking." He says, as the doors open.
The two humans and fox walk into Rosemary's room, Rosie the Nanny and a couple canine doctors are observing her, having given birth already to their son with two tails.
"Amadeus! I'm so glad you could make it." She says, cradling her pup in her arms, wrapped in a blanket.
"Doesn't he have your ears?" She asks him.
The sight of his beautiful newborn foxcub causes Amadeus to break down inside, wishing he could actually meet him, instead of being a prisoner of his own body.
"Yes, he does, my dear. I just don't want to get close because I have a slight cold." He lies.
"I understand hun." She replies, cradling her cub closely.
"I think I'll name him Miles." She smiles to him.
"That's a lovely name." He replies.
"I do hate to cut this short, but we have a great deal of work to resume with back at Castle Acorn." Julian Says.
"Um... Alright..." She says, laying back in bed with her cub as the three exit the room. She then turns to Rosie, the royal nanny, a chipmunk.
"Rosie, I don't trust Julian or snively. And Amadeus isn't acting himself. He didn't even look right, either..." she says.
"I know, dear. I know. Something's not right." The elderly chipmunk replies.
"I can feel something bad is going to happen, but I'm afraid for my cub. If something ever happens, please take Miles to our hideout in Knothole Village." She asks her friend.
"Of course I will, Rosemary." Rosie smiles warmly to her, with an almost motherly or grandmotherly aura about her.
Snively and Robotnik then turn to the roboticized fox.
"If you behave and serve me completely, I *may* spare your wife and son." Robotnik glares to Amadeus, who replies obediently.
"Yes, sir." Inside, he snarls.
The robotic fox is ready to lunge at the large human for even mentioning his wife and child, but is unable to, restrained by the coding in his robotic mind.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sonic places sally down, standing next to her as the robians start to close in again. About three seconds later, Sonic breaks the silence to the still robian, grasping the Power Ring with him.
"I'll ask again, General Prower. You don't even remember your own son?" Sonic growls. The robian fox's eyes glow intensely from red, slowly fading towards a dull blue colour. His vision scrambles and goes static before seeing Sonic in true-colour vision, much like a living person would.
"Sonic, what's wrong with him?" Sally asks.
"I don't know... I think he's coming to. Come on, General Prower... fight it. FIGHT IT!" he replies, eagerly cheering the fox on.
He watches as the fox places both of his paws on his head and doubles over, growling lowly before releasing his head from his hands.
"S-sonic? Is that you? where am I? What on Mobius happened?" The fox asks.
Sally and Sonic look at each other in astonishment as his free will is apparently restored.
"Welcome back, Mister Prower. Robuttnik turned you into one of his mindless robotic slaves." Sonic says angrily. Sally then helps him up.
"We're bringing Robotnik down, sir. It's good to have you back with us." She says, shaking his metallic paw.
"Robotnik?" He asks.
"You know him as Julian, but he's pure evil." Sonic tells him. A roboticized leopard then snarls and pounces her, shackling her hands together.
"Sonic! Help! Let go of me!" She yells, trying to struggle and break free from the robian.
Amadeus then grasps the leopard with incredible strength and tosses him off of the Princess.
"All of you, STAND DOWN NOW." He orders his brigade of controlled robians.
"LINE UP!" He shouts.
"Sir, do they have free will?" Sonic asks.
"No, sonic. Robotnik put me in control of this troup of Robians. He's (a sick bastard) playing mind games now. He's not using his swatbots or Combots anymore. He's using Robians against furries now. We are his mind-controlled soldiers, and very dangerous since we are your brothers, sisters, friends and family. Your loved ones. He is going to play your emotions agianst you by using your own friends to kill you. He knows that you would be hesitant or even unable to strike your friends, so his army would be nearly unstoppable. He has hundreds of regiments like my own. About 390,000 furs in all." Amadeus tells them.
"There's no way we're going to let that happen, right sal?" Sonic snarls.
"No way, Sonic." She replies.
"You two had better act quick. Julian-- err, Robotnik, isn't wasting time with this plan." Amadeus tells the two furs as he groups up his robotic comrades.
"Mister Prower, what will you do? We won't leave you or the Robians here." Princess Sally asks.
"I will handle them. They will stand down and surrender to the Freedom Fighters." Amadeus says.
"Sounds like a plan." Sonic and Sally say to the robotic fox, placing their hands together.
The Freedom Fighters head their separate ways, Amadeus ordering his troop "after the hedgehog" towards the Great Forest, knowing they will give him total obedience from Robotnik's programming. Sonic starts to run off towards the doomsday machine with Sally, bombs in tow inside his backpack.
"What are we going to tell Tails?" Sonic asks sally.
"We'll have to worry about that when we come to it. We have greater threats right now." She replies.
Sonic nods his head in agreement as he runs, looking back to make sure the robians are chasing him.
Bunnie and Knuckles lead the Robians to Knothole, with Sonic and Sally.
"Alright, Rotor. We're back. We need y'all to open up the Great Oak Slide." She says.
Rotor hears her and he opens up the slide.
"Come on down, Bunnie." He replies.
The walrus stands back as his friends land.
"Now, Rotor. We captured several Robians. They are under our control, so they won't attack us or try to capture us." Sally tells him.
He watches as the Robians enter Knothole through the slide. One looks familiar to him.
"Who is that? Why does he have a power ring?" He asks Sonic and Sally about the roboticized fox holding a power ring.
"That's Amadeus. He's a robian we found in Mobotropolis. Sonic was able to help him regain his free will." Sally tells Rotor and Bunnie.
"Amadeus... Amadeus? Why does that name sound so familiar?" Tails wonders to himself as he approaches, overhearing things.
"Only he has his free will restored. The rest are operating under his orders, by Robotnik. They don't know he's on our side now!" Sonic tells his friends.
"Still, if they find out, then he's in danger, and so are we." Rotor says.
"That's where you, Bunnie, and Antoine come in. Amadeus told us to capture them, and him, in case they became a danger to us, or if they came too close." Sonic explains to his technologically inclined friend.
"Alright. Antoine, we'll need vines and fast. Bunnie, levers, pulleys, and wooden beams. I'll do the building and camouflaging. We're going to net us a few robians." Rotor says.
"Tails, let's get something to eat." Sonic says, about to lead him on a walk to a picnic break, when Sally places her hand on her friend's shoulder.
"Sonic, Can we speak? Alone?" She asks him.
"Sure, Sal." He says, walking briefly closer to her.
"Sonic, I think you should tell Tails about his father." She says to him.
"I dunno... think he'll be able to handle it? He may be mature for his age, but he's still young." the blue blur replies in return.
"I know he's only 16, but he needs to know the truth, Sonic." She replies.
Sonic nods and walks back to Tails.
"Little buddy, I think there's something you really need to know." He says, kneeling down next to his friend.
"Wh-what is it, Sonic?" Tails asks, curious and nervous.
"Tails... you know that roboticized fox we captured?" Sonic explains carefully to Tails.
"Yeah..." Tails nods his head.
"Well, he's your father, little buddy." He says, holding tails' hand with his own.
Tails stays silent for a minute, many thoughts running through his young mind at the same time "Did it hurt him when he was roboticized? Is he ok?" Tails asks.
"Yeah. It hurt him, but he's alright. He has his free will back." Sonic smiles a bit, hugging Tails warmly.
"What about my mom? Do I have any other siblings out there?" Tails asks sonic.
"I don't know..." Sonic trails off, unsure how to answer.
"Did you find your parents?" he asks, whispering.
"Nope. Not yet, anyway." Sonic replies as he sits next to the young foxpup, handing him an apple as they start to eat lunch.
"I know we'll find 'em, Sonic." Tails says with a smile as he eats with his best friend, getting a warm hug from Sonic.