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Chapter 36: The tragic past
Almost everything has been destroyed. No one could find a single in tact building in this area any longer. It was all but destroyed. Nothing good seemed to come from wars like this but everyone knew that once in there was no turning back.
This statement hails true for basically everyone because one of Shoui's agents has brought her army terrible news. It would seem that ever since this war started whoever goes into Coordinates 000 will not be able to come out. You may try heading back the way you came all you want but you'll end up right back to where you started.
With Eggman's army suddenly gaining a considerable lead over the G.U.N people things seem to be turning for the worst.
Coordinates 000: War Zone 12
Metal and Sonic had taken off toward the castle at their incredibly high speeds. Metal Sonic had Amy strapped to her back so that she wouldn't get away from him while he trounced Sonic into the ground.
The true blue hedgehog with the spring in his astonishingly fast step didn't see that happening anytime soon however. He remembered how incredibly frightening this guy's power was from the last time they fought. Now they're back here again only this time Sonic's got two emeralds. On the other hand Metal's got Amy and if he uses too much power on him then she might easily get killed.
'In a joking matter it sounds like a win-win. But in all seriousness I can't let Amy get hurt!' Sonic thought as he continued to pick up speed.
"I see that you're increasing your speed. Interesting. You seem to have gotten much faster since our last fight now have you." Metal spoke eyeing his competitor's feet.
"Man, you seriously need to stop talking like you're British." Was Sonic reply. Needless to say his comment confused the robot.
"Regardless. I'll be the victor. After all, my speed does far surpass yours on any given level!" Metal revved up his boosters and shot straight down the line. He bolted carelessly through numerous and crumbled buildings, which, left behind a clean, perfect, circular hole through the building's wall with no cracks surrounding it.
Sonic looked ahead and began to get a little flustered. Despite that he still felt an amazing amount of excitement when racing this guy.
"Hmph. He may know how to put a perfect hole through a wall but I bet he can't get his tongue to reach inside his nostril! HAHAHAHA!" He shouted as he began speeding up even more.
Coordinates 000: War Zone 6
Tails was… he couldn't describe it… it was too confusing… he didn't know which emotions he was feeling right now. Was it sadness related to what he might learn through Darkness' tale? Was it anger at Darkness for chuckling so carelessly while he said his parent's were dead? Was it the confusion he was facing after realizing that Darkness had decided to tell Tails this in the middle of a full-scale war?
He didn't know. There were too many emotions jamming their way into his brain for him to accurately point out which he was feeling.
All of a sudden the emotions all fluttered away in an instant… save for one. It was fear. An indescribable fear he had felt for a while now. Darkness was the last person he wanted to ask this but he felt the extreme need to ask someone.
"M-my mommy and daddy… did they…?" Tails stuttered and his tears began to come again. Why did he have to cry so much! It made him mad, so frustratingly mad!
"Did they what?" Darkness had a feeling he knew what the fox wanted to ask.
Tails forced the tears out of his eyes and faced Darkness while trying to keep his head held high.
"Did … did they … love me?"
Darkness couldn't help but chuckle.
"WHAT!? Why do you always chuckle? What's so funny about my past, huh?"
"Everything! At least to a twisted deity like me it is. In the eyes of someone like you or the humans it's likely to be considered… somewhat depressing."
Big, Froggy, and Smoke watched as Darkness began to taunt the poor little fox. Big was simply appalled by the way Darkness spoke to such a little kid. Smoke merely looked on intrigued by what was to happen next.
"I don't care what other people think! All I care about is my parents! Please just tell me! Did they love me?" Tails didn't realize it but he was now on his knees.
Darkness suddenly grew serious.
" … To be blunt, the answer is yes." The deity spoke up in a sort of sad tone, which surprised the three spectators in front of him. It made Smoke wonder if there was more to this story than he had been previously told.
Tails' eyes lit up nonetheless when he heard that his parents actually loved him. It gave him such a nice warm feeling inside.
"However…" Darkness spoke again. As soon as Tails heard that word his hopes almost shattered completely, at least until he heard Darkness continue.
" Their love for you was so ridiculously high that it began to cloud their better judgment. The fools…"
"Fools? Why are they fools? Because they loved me?" Tails wasn't angered at all while he asked it. He was just confused.
"… Yes and No."
Smoke wanted to hear what Darkness had to say. What struck him as odd was how he knew so much about Tails' parents.
Coordinates 000: War Zone 12
Metal Sonic was ahead of the blue blur. It was frustrating for Sonic to not be in the lead but he got over it from the way he frustrated Metal Sonic in rebuttal.
"Do robot hedgehog's have boogers?" Sonic asked Metal from behind him.
"No." He answered with an annoyed tone.
"Do robots ever get spanked? I have plenty of times when I was younger!"
"I don't care."
"You know, I wasn't officially out of diapers until I was 6."
"So?"
"Do robot where clothes? I do sometimes!"
"…"
"Hey Metal! Do robots…"
"NO THEY DON'T! STOP TELLING ME THIS CRAP YOU ANNOYING LITTLE BASTARD! IF YOU DON'T I SWEAR I'LL BITCHSLAP YOU SO HARD YOUR ANCESTORS' DRIED UP SKELETONS WILL BEGIN TO TINT A BRIGHT DARK RED ON ALL OF THEIR CHEEK BONES!" Metal Sonic shouted with an amazing amount of frustration in his voice. Amy, despite the situation she was in, was having a huge laughing fit on Metal's back. Sonic just stared at Metal Sonic.
"… Well! Someone has their rude hat on tonight!"
"That's it. Die already!" Metal lit up a bright pink color and shot multiple blasts of his body energy at Sonic who was still behind him.
"Action AND running! What more can you ask for?" Sonic shouted as he began to dodge the blasts that were fired at him. Some of them sent the hedgehog off balance but that was quickly regained when rivaled with his determination.
The buildings he was running on began to burst into flames as Metal's attacks missed the hedgehog and frustrated the robot even more.
"Damn! Guess I'll just have to pick up the pace even more!" Metal said while doing just that.
"Not bad. Not bad at all!" Sonic grinned as he picked up his own feet until he was moving so fast that it seemed his feet had become a nice ball shape. He moved so fast that he successfully zoomed past Metal Sonic.
"How did…?"
"See ya!" Sonic blasted himself even more which only prompted Metal Sonic to do the same. They were now neck and neck once again. All Amy was able to see was he scenery zooming past her. It looked pretty cool actually.
"Go on sonic! Show this clunker who's the real fastest thing alive!" Amy cheered.
Coordinates 000: War Zone 6
"What's yes and no mean?" Tails didn't understand. He wished Darkness would just hurry up and get to the point!
"The way your parents foolishly loved you no matter what was to befall them clouded their better judgment."
"I know! You said that already!"
"More specifically your father."
"D-daddy?"
"Yes. Perhaps it'll be better if I just… show you." Darkness waved his hand at Tails and a huge flash of light came by the fox's eyes.
Tails felt like his body just zipped through a gust of dirty wind. He opened his eyes after the irritating flash and stood in awe.
"I'm… I'm back at…"
"This awful place… your eyes do not deceive you…" Darkness muttered as him and Tails looked down.
They were both hovering over Westside Island.
It looked beautiful from above, which was odd because after what Eggman did to it the island shouldn't even look like an island anymore. This was certainly strange.
"Hey Darkness!" Came a voice from behind the two of them. They both turned around and saw a huge watery magic window sitting there with Smoke, Big, and Froggy's faces plastered on it.
"What is it?" Darkness sounded like he wasn't in any mood for Smoke's voice.
"Where are you and why has this weird window appeared out of nowhere?" Smoke demanded.
"Ugh. It's a window that allows you to see what goes on here Smokestack. However, since I don't want you interfering with my story you won't be able pass through it. Just sit back and watch it unfold in front of you." Darkness snapped his fingers after his explanation and him and Tails were now on the ground.
"This place is pretty. Much prettier than it was back when I was on it." Tails looked around in awe of the island's beauty. It was simply breathtaking.
Cherry blossoms had bloomed everywhere around the field that they were standing in. Tails made sure that he didn't step on any of them. Darkness didn't seem to care and desecrated them willingly.
"It is beautiful. Isn't it?" He said despite his sharp boots impaling the previously alive flowers.
"Yeah… it is…"
"Well then that's too bad. All of this gets destroyed not long from now. This place is your special spot."
"M-my special spot? You mean the place I went to whenever I wanted to get away from Hang Nail." Tails looked up at Darkness, a noticeable wince came across his face at the mention of Hang Nail's name.
"Yes. Indeed it is."
"How'd you know about it?" Tails really wished to know.
"I know all your thoughts Miles. A better question to ask would be how all these flowers could possibly exist if Westside Island was destroyed not long ago." Darkness said while bending down and picking up one of the pink flowers out of the ground. He twirled it between his fingers playfully.
Tails had to admit that what Darkness had suggested was a much better question. He didn't see how it was possible. These flowers were never here back when he went to his special spot. It was always just one huge field. The fact that this many flowers could've grown here so quickly after Eggman's less then human assault on the island made absolute zero sense.
The only explanation would be…
"This… this is the past… before I was born?" Tails asked while looking up at Darkness cutely.
"Indeed it is. It's quite tragic."
"Why. It looks so beautiful here."
"Here as in the past. The present timeline isn't so fortunate to have such amazing scenery. That makes it tragic." Darkness clipped the head of the flower off as he spoke the last word.
"Oh… I see." Tails looked down sadly at his feet.
"Let us take a look at what this place was like before you were born." Darkness waved his hand across the air and a flash of light teleported them to the beach.
Tails was quickly amazed by what he saw. The beach looked a little bigger. More people were hanging around here then he had ever seen before.
"Wow! People are actually at the beach! Cool! Everything looks so perfect here."
"This was all before you were born. Everything was peaceful and tranquil. This was back when Westside Island was a great tourist location and everyone was happy. Well, almost everybody."
"Almost?"
"Yes, at this particular point in the island's history the imperfect ones were outcasts. Mistreating and killing them wasn't at all frowned upon…"
"Why? Why wasn't it frowned upon?" Tails ran in front of Darkness with a pleading look in his eyes.
"This island isn't at all connected to the law systems of the government. The reason being that this place was simply perfect. This island was allowed to separate from the government's imperfect system to make sure their perfection maintained itself."
Tails let what Darkness said sink in. Then he suddenly grew angry.
"Perfect! They think that killing innocent babies and destroying families because of an extra or missing body part makes this place perfect!" Tails shouted then closed his mouth as if expecting everyone to look at him strangely.
However, that didn't happen. Tails was confused but Darkness explained it for him.
"We're unable to be seen or heard by them all. Do not worry."
Tails looked around and noticed that everyone was indeed completely oblivious to their presence.
"I still don't think it's fair." The fox let his comfortable stance emerge once again. "My life… all my life I was treated so badly… and I didn't even do anything… I thought that…"
"In a way you sort of did." Darkness spoke up all of a sudden which prompted Tails to turn to him with a freaked out look on his face.
"What did I do? I don't remember anything… was it when I was a baby… did I accidentally mess up some kind of important document… or…"
"It was the exact moment you were born that decided this island's fate."
" … "
"It's true though. This time now was simply the day before you were born. The imperfect law was only put into action a few years ago."
"Wait you mean that… this imperfection law is recent… that's…"
"Almost a coincidence. The previous leader of this island hated killing. He thought that the imperfect were perfect because they were different and he was probably right. He did everything in his power to make sure those with disabilities were taken care of. Everyone on the island agreed with his views and everyone was happy, not just the perfect people." Darkness explained.
Tails seemed to feel both sad and happy at the same time. The guy Darkness was describing seemed so nice, the exact opposite of Bear Mayor. It was a coincidence in more than one way. If he had been born during the time of that old mayor then maybe he wouldn't of hated his life so much.
What seemed like a glaring coincidence was that the old one was killed just a few years before his birth. Maybe it was just his bad luck.
"That sucks. I was having bad luck even before I was born."
"So it would seem."
"What did you mean when you said the island's fate was decided when I was born?"
"Just what it sounds like. The power within you would be sought after as soon as you were born. That's exactly the reason Bear Mayor took this island over."
Tails was beyond confused. Darkness simply chuckled.
"Perhaps we'd better start at the beginning." Darkness waved his hand and the bright flash of light overtook Tails' sight again.
Coordinates 000: War Zone 12
Sonic and Metal Sonic were reaching the halfway point. It would seem that the race could go either way. The blue hedgehog wasn't at all tired and he knew that a robot like Metal couldn't possibly have the word 'tired' written in his dictionary.
"Sorry Metal but I've got a race to win! This'll be over quick." Sonic grinned as he wiped out his two chaos emeralds and his golden ring.
"I see you have your two emeralds with you. It's a shame that they had to end up in such incomprehensible care." Metal had expected this but decided to humor Sonic by not using his emerald yet.
The hedgehog quickly fired up his two emeralds and sped across the terrain at an incredibly fast rate. A huge sonic boom went off as the hedgehog continued to run.
"I guess this makes me the winner!" Sonic looked back to see how far Metal Sonic was from him. That turned out to be a huge mistake.
WHAM!!
As soon as Sonic looked away he tripped over the edge of a building he was zipping by and crashed into a crumbled hard wall.
The hedgehog stayed plastered against the wall and let the immense pain sink in as he slid down it with a dazed feeling in his mind. He barely noticed Metal Sonic zooming past him.
"Sonic! Get up! He's going to win if you stay there! Hurry!" Amy screamed.
"I knew his cockiness would get the better of him in this fight." Metal looked back briefly before shooting toward and past the halfway point.
Back in the past
Tails and Darkness ended up in an extremely dark place. There were sounds of beeping and electric sparking. Tails was familiar with these sounds. He loved these sounds. The sounds of construction and mechanical know how usually made him feel comfortable.
However, as of now he got more of a creepy vibe from it.
"Do you know where we are Miles?" Darkness asked all of a sudden. His sudden voice startled the fox out of his thinking and he decided to have a look see. They were clearly in a lab of some sort. There was a huge computer monitor in front of them. On closer inspection Tails could make out a small insignia on the monitor.
"That face… this is Eggman's base!"
"Precisely." Darkness said.
Tails turned to Darkness with a look of extreme worry on his face.
"What does Eggman have to do with my past? Did he kill my mommy and daddy?"
"He was involved… that's all I'll tell you until we reach the point in time where your parents died. As of now look closer at the scenery in front of you." Darkness pointed to a location in the lab where secretive mumbling could be heard.
Tails ran toward the area and decided to check it out. As soon as he reached the area and saw who was doing the mumbling he almost fell to the ground in a shocked state.
"There are two Darkness'?" Tails was confused again but he quickly remembered that this was in fact the past. He looked ahead of himself and saw the second Darkness standing in front of the obese doctor himself.
"And that's Eggman." Tails looked at the two people talking in front of him as they were talking. The present Darkness came up and helped Tails regain his composure.
"Pay close attention to their words Miles." Darkness quickly warned. Tails nodded and did so.
"Who are you and how were able to defeat my robots so quickly?" Eggman asked as he frustratingly backed into a corner.
"You're referring to those annoying trinkets. A simple matter really. There weren't much depth to them. You really need better security." Past Darkness stood in front of Eggman with his trademark perfect posture.
"Well, it's not a matter of better security to me! If there weren't so many freaks on this planet then maybe I could get something's done!" Eggman shouted back angered by being accused of giving his robots no depth.
"It's no wonder you live alone with an attitude like that."
"If you have some business with me I suggest you tell me already! With my attitude you should realize that I don't like it when people waste my valuable time." Eggman began taping his foot impatiently. At this point in time his newest base was just brought down by one small hedgehog. It was frustrating that such a small creature could do so much damage. What stung even more was that the hedgehog looked like a four year old.
Seriously, he knew kids could be a handful but sheesh!
What was worse is that after some accident he was stuck in this awful egg shape and he still hadn't coped with it yet. This guy certainly wasn't making him feel any better about it either.
"I've come for your assistance." Darkness said with a full honest voice.
"Assistance? With what?" Eggman's eyes squinted with curiosity. Tails was curious as to why Darkness would need Eggman's help anyway.
Past Darkness snapped his fingers and suddenly they weren't in Eggman's lab anymore. They were now outside but it looked… different.
The sky was red, buildings were crushed and ruined, and there were skeletons lying across the dead soil everywhere.
"Wh-where is this place? What's going on? How'd you bring me here?" Eggman started to freak out as he realized how quickly his lab had disappeared.
"Calm yourself Eggman. I've simply transported you to the future." Darkness said with a slight reassuring voice. Eggman calmed down a bit and focused his face on Darkness' hooded self.
Tails was freaked as well. This was the future he saw in that one dream when Darkness told him of the destruction he would bring.
"Calm myself? How am I suppose to calm down when I know now that the future will turn out like this… unless this is just one of the cities I destroyed." Eggman considered as he rubbed his chin.
"It's not. This future was ruined by a monster of even greater power than myself."
"I assume your power was great in the first place." Eggman said as he stopped rubbing his chin.
"Yes… and as for your place in this future… well your death was quick… I assure you that you felt very little pain." Darkness didn't change his straightforward tone of voice.
"… My… death… a monster."
"A kitsune… it's a powerful demonic monster that will be unleashed upon this planet a few years from now."
"Unleashed?"
"A better word would be 'born' into this world. He will be a two-tailed fox and the birthplace is Westside Island."
"Westside Island… isn't that 'the perfect place' people keep talking about." Eggman seemed intrigued by this.
"Indeed it is." Darkness waved his hand and brought him and Eggman back to the lab.
"So, what do you want me to do about this? If he's already stronger than you and you're obviously stronger than me then there is nothing I can do about this." The doctor honestly thought such a thing seemed obvious.
"Not necessarily. For you see, the kitsune's power will lay dormant for about 4 and a half years after his birth. If you can successfully kill him before he reached four than you'd be able to prevent this overwhelming power from killing you." Darkness explained.
Eggman chuckled at Darkness' suggestion.
"Really? Don't you think that would be sort of a waste? A power like that could easily be used to create my Eggmanland project! Yes! If I could harness a power like that…"
"Do you honestly believe it will be that easy?" Darkness butted in.
"Pint sized brats are the easiest ones to have subjected to mind control. Don't worry. I can make something. Maybe a small device that I can implant in my robots so that they can take the kitsune's power at will?"
"Something like that can only be put into existence with my help." Darkness pointed out. Eggman hummed to himself then spoke again.
"Are you willing to help me create it?"
"Of coarse. I say we form an alliance."
"Really? Another alliance? That's my second one this week."
"With whom? May I ask?"
"With this guy who calls himself Bear Mayor. I found him lying in the forest with a huge amount of missing limbs. We made a deal. I fixed him up with some new robot parts and he'd become my servant. It seemed like a simple and flawless deal." Eggman explained not at all wondering how Bear Mayor ended up in his condition.
Tails couldn't believe what he was hearing. Was this really true! So many thoughts flooded his mind.
"I don't believe it! You mean that you and Eggman joined forces so you could steal my kitsune power? But I thought that you wanted me to become the evil monster?" Tails was relieved and confused at the same time.
"Well yes. I originally wanted to steal your power from you. But as of now my motives changed. A person who's had so much taken from him deserves this power for himself. It's only fair." Darkness lied unknowingly to Tails. The fox continued to question him.
"And Bear Mayor originally worked for Eggman before the nice guy who ran Westside Island died?" He asked wondering how someone as twisted as Bear Mayor could've been given the duty as head of such an important island.
"He always worked for Eggman, even when he was head of that awful island."
"W-What?"
"Look ahead Miles and walk. Eggman and my past self are heading into another room." Darkness warned as he noticed the two of them walking and talking.
"So, what do you get out of helping me harness the Kitsune's power?" Eggman had a scary looking twinkle in his glasses as he spoke.
"Me? I simply get the satisfaction of helping someone as radiant as you out." Darkness said with a chuckle in his voice.
"Right. Of coarse that's it." Eggman didn't believe this guy for one second but decided not to speak about it any longer.
The two and their unnoticeable spectators preceded down the long hallway to a steel bolted door that had the words 'Medical Robot Construction' written in bold letters on the front of it.
Eggman walked up to the wall beside it and slide open a small case that was stuck on the wall. Inside of it was a panel with beeping numbers and a small calculator screen over it. Eggman punched in a combination on the panel, which was followed by numerous beeping sounds.
They door immediately opened when he was finished. Him and his new partner stepped into the room and stood in front of a huge tube that had a brown figure inside. Tails wondered for a second who it could be then realized that he new exactly who the stranger was.
"Th-that's Bear Mayor! He's in Eggman's lab tube!" Tails shouted in amazement.
"Is this that Bear guy you were referring to?" Past Darkness asked with mild interest.
"Why yes he is." Eggman pressed a few buttons on his console and the tube slowly opened up. The Bear quickly opened his eyes and almost blasted himself from outside of the tube. Luckily all he did was a forceful jump.
Bear Mayor stretched and pushed his hands against his back so that it would crick and feel back in place.
"I feel like a millions bucks!" Bear Mayor eyed his new robotic eye (somehow), hands, and his left leg. "You did an amazing job doctor. I'm impressed."
"As you should be. This is my latest design for the recreation mechanism." Eggman said as he happily pulled the level to the machine and had the tube close itself. Bear Mayor quickly eyed his blue suit, red tie, and top hat, he remembered wearing before he was mauled by some unknown creature, sitting over a silver rail.
He ran over and quickly got dressed. Afterwards the guy took notice of Darkness' presence.
"Who's he?" He asked with a subtle voice.
"My name is Darkness. I've just formed an alliance with Eggman here. Same as you." Darkness introduced himself for the first time.
"Darkness eh? Catchy." Bear Mayor said. "So what is it that you want?"
"Darkness is here for a special mission and aren't we lucky you recovered just in time so you could take part in it as well." Eggman said while rubbing his devious hands together.
"What mission?" Bear Mayor raised his eyebrow confused.
"It's a simple one. Since this whole Eggmanland project is basically one huge dictatorship I came up with a brilliant idea. I need you, Bear Mayor, to go to a place called Westside Island and kill their current leader. Take it over and make it look like an accident so that people won't question your rule. They'll just think you're the predecessor." Eggman explained as if killing someone and taking over an island was the most common thing in the world.
"Me, Bear Mayor, actually becoming a mayor! Sounds sweet! But why Westside Island?" He asked quite confused. Eggman proceeded to tell Bear Mayor the story while Tails stood in disbelief once more.
"You mean… Bear Mayor … wasn't … the real mayor … he killed the nice Mayor and took over!" Tails sounded sad once again. Darkness simply nodded as a response to his obvious emotions.
"Yes, the previous mayor's name was Simon West. He was a very good leader. As I said before everyone lived in peace, including the imperfect people. However, when Bear Mayor came to the island he was quickly relieved of his duties and the time of depression for you birth defected people came into play." Darkness said as he waved his hand and brought him and Tails to a new location in time.
This time they were in an office. Not just an office but the Westside Island Mayor's office. Tails looked around the room and it didn't take him but a second to realize the horrible bloody corpse of Simon West lying in front of the evil and sadistic Bear Mayor.
"No … I can't … believe it …"
"What's done is done. You can't change the past Miles." Darkness said quietly and almost carelessly.
"Yes you can! You can change it! You…" Tails began pleading which prompted Darkness to yell at him.
"This isn't some kind of game! You can't just go into the past and rearrange it like some kind of careless fool! People's lives could very well be at risk by doing so!" Darkness shouted which scared the poor little fox.
"… It still isn't fair…" Tails turned back to the scene. He noticed the doorknob was being turned and so did Bear Mayor. He freaked out at the thought of being discovered and wanted to desperately hide the body. He was too late, however, and the door opened.
"Okay, mister Mayor. I looked through the files and I still didn't find anything on kit-" The man's voice stopped when he saw the scene in front of him. He stared shockingly at Bear Mayor who started to sweat bullets.
Tails knew who this guy was. He just couldn't believe he was witnessing all this unfold in front of him.
Bear Mayor was face to face with Commander SmokeStack!
"H-hello sir… I was just… uh…" Bear Mayor didn't know what to say. There was only one thing to do. He didn't want to resort to senseless violence but he was going to have to kill this guy to keep him quiet.
"What are you suppose to be?" Smoke spoke as if he didn't care that the mayor was lying dead on the floor in front of him.
"Who me? Well I… I'm… uh…"
"Yes."
"… I'm not going to tell you. Be gone!" Bear Mayor shouted as he fired up his laser eye. Smoke stood there unfazed. The frustrated bear fired a red beam straight at the commander. The beam hit directly… but for some reason it went right through him and the part he hit turned to smog.
Bear Mayor was freaked out by this and ignored the explosion that took place when his beam hit the wall outside the room.
Smoke scuffed at the weird half-robot animal in front of him. Bear Mayor got on his knees in a begging position with sweat covering his face.
"Please, forgive me sir! I was just…"
"Killing the mayor so you could take over, correct?"
"Well… y-yes." Bear Mayor looked up and saw Smoke's serious and unfazed look. It made him wonder. He then saw the G.U.N insignia on his jacket and freaked out even more. "I'm sorry for this crime I committed! Please don't make that big of a deal out of it!" Was the best he could come up with.
"I don't care about what you did to him." Smoke said surprisingly. Bear Mayor almost stood up when he heard that. Why not care?
"Really? Why not?" The bear asked with curiosity.
"This place was deemed so perfect that it was allowed to separate from the imperfect government on the outside world. That includes G.U.N. I don't have any obligation or right to take you in for what you did." Smoke explained.
Bear Mayor quickly regained his composure and stood up when he heard that. He greedily rubbed his stubby hands together and grinned at Smokestack.
"Then you won't tell anyone of the event that just took place here?" He asked with a silly hopeful grin on his face.
"I don't have time for careless gossip. I'm on a personal mission right now. If this were a legal confidential matter than I'd quickly put my work aside for the sake of justice. However, that isn't the case here." Smoke explained.
"… So is that a yes?"
"Hmph." Smoke walked right past Bear Mayor and stepped over the body of the previous ruler of the island. He made it to the desk and opened the drawer beside it. After fiddling with a few papers he slammed the drawer shut in frustration, which startled Bear.
"Damnit! Even when that fool dies and I have access to his personal files I still can't find anything!" Smokestack said with utter frustration.
"Um, may I ask what you're looking for?" Bear Mayor put his hands to his side and watched as Smoke leaned against the desk.
"Files on a kitsune. It has nothing to do with you so I'll be leaving." Smoke got up and headed for the door but Bear Mayor quickly stopped him.
"Wait! I have information on a kitsune!" Bear Mayor retaliated which prompted Smoke to turn back around and face the short animal.
"What did you say?"
"Me and my partners came to this island on the premise that there was a kitsune waiting to be born here." Bear Mayor explained. Smoke seemed interested and decided to let the bear speak.
Bear Mayor explained to Smoke everything about the kitsune, the future world, Eggman, Darkness, and all the other stuff. Afterwards Smoke didn't look like it but he was convinced.
"So I was right. He will eventually be born here." Smoke had his arms crossed as if he was considering something.
"If you could help us out by finding as much information about this as you can than I'd be very grateful." Bear Mayor could tell that just by looking at this guy that he'd be an important member to the team.
"I'll agree to join you on one condition." Smokestack said in his very serious tone.
"Oh?"
"You send money to me and my G.U.N quadrant each month to convince me. It's to prove that our alliance is set in stone."
"Money? I think that can be arranged." Bear Mayor said while smiling to himself.
"Also, if I ever find out that you sent money to the wrong place or miss even one of the months I ask for it then I'll consider it an alliance breakup. Afterwards I might even kill you." Smokestack said with reassurance that he would.
"O-of coarse! Heh heh! I'll handle it right away!" Bear Mayor yipped in fear. Smoke said nothing else as he turned and walked out of the room leaving Bear Mayor to let the breath he'd been holding in out.
Tails started to feel bad again. His family had been marked even before his birth. He knew now that their deaths were his fault.
"Mommy and daddy… I'm so sorry…" Tails muttered under his breath as he watched Bear Mayor dispose of Simon's body.
Darkness waved his hand again and a light flashed. This time they were teleported in front of a small hut.
"Where is this?" Tails looked around the forest area with the small hut sitting in front of him. It seemed so familiar to him.
"After Bear Mayor took over everything deemed imperfect was ridiculed and/or killed. Your parents lived in a secluded part of Westside Island where no one bothered them. No one visited them or even knew where they lived. However, they were all friends with your parents because they visited the main town a lot. That is until after you're birth which took place inside this hut where your parents live." Darkness explained while holding his hand out at the hut.
Tails looked straight at it and smiled slightly. This was where he was born! It sounded so amazing!
"Are they inside? Am I born yet?" Tails asked with a sense of giddiness in his voice. Darkness responded yes to both. Tails happily jumped up and down and ran inside.
He didn't have to go far to spot his parents. There they were sitting in the living room. A female fox holding a bottle to the infant's mouth she was holding sat on the couch with a blanket over herself and a smile on her face.
A male fox sat next to her with his arm around his lover and his eyes staring down at the beautiful little baby boy.
Tails quickly began to tear up. Aside from the picture that Hang Nail ripped up he had never seen his parents before. His heart felt like it was going a mile a minute. He started to ponder why this place seemed so familiar considering he was an infant when he was last here and that he shouldn't remember something from so far back.
Oh well. Who cares! His parents are here!
"The female's name is Rosemary and the male's name is Amadeus." Darkness explained with his hands in his sleeves.
Tails ran up to face them with numerous uncontrollable tears rolling down his face and on to the hard wood floor. He knew they couldn't see him but they saw him as a baby and now he can see them now that he's older.
"Mommy… and daddy… they're here… they're really, really here." Tails continued to cry and listened to them speak.
"He's such a cute little tycoon isn't he?" Amadeus spoke softly to his wife.
"I could stare at him all day. We really must do this again some time." Rosemary chuckled and winked at her husband causing him to chuckle as well.
"When the mood is right I suppose. Hahaha." Amadeus began to laugh. Tails didn't understand what he meant by 'mood' but found himself laughing as well. Even his baby self chuckled a little.
Rosemary removed the bottle and began rocking baby Tails in her arms. The slow and soothing motion caused baby Tails to yawn and drift to sleep. Rosemary tuned to look at her husband and smiled.
"Ya Know? I've always wondered what you looked like as a baby." She admitted.
"Oh really?" Amadeus seemed intrigued by this but decided to leave the topic be. After a while Rosemary spoke again, this time with a sound of worry in her voice.
"Amadeus… he is a wonderful child but… I fear we may need to escape the island in order for him to have a full happy life." She spoke truthfully. It was obvious that their son had two tails. That was an imperfection in Bear Mayor's eyes. Since Amadeus was the one who delivered their baby no one else knew of his existance. Amadeus knew this topic would come up soon.
"Yes … I knew that … ever since Bear Mayor took over it's been impossible for anyone to escape the island due to his unreasonable beach defenses. That's why hardly anyone goes to the beach anymore. Damn him!" Amadeus cursed in front of his son.
Tails began to feel depressed once again and Darkness quickly took notice of it.
"Something the matter fox?" Darkness asked already knowing what it was.
"I wish my daddy didn't have to worry so much… I know he just wants what's best for me but they didn't have to suffer…" Tails said. Darkness chuckled.
"There is something you should know about your father. He didn't want his family harmed so much that he even made a deal with someone he knew wasn't trust worthy before your birth."
Tails turned to Darkness with a shocked expression on his face.
"W-who?"
Darkness didn't hesitate to wave his hand and send Tails a few years back. When the light went away they were in an empty field similar to Tails' special spot.
Tails looked over and saw his dad standing in front of…
"It's you!" Tails was shocked to see his father standing in front of Darkness! Next to Darkness was his comrade Smokestack who didn't look at all pleased by what they were doing.
"Yes it's me. Watch this scene as it unfolds." Darkness said basically hushing Tails up.
"After all we are old army buddies so I suggest that this isn't a problem then." Smokestack said to Amadeus's face.
"I don't ever recall being your buddy." Amadeus said in a harsh tone.
"That was a joke." Smoke merely stated.
"It doesn't matter! I can't help you out!" Amadeus stated as he turned from both of them. Darkness spoke then.
"I know this must be hard for you to except but when your son is born he will be a monstrosity! His very existence will cause the destruction of the planet! Can't you see that you're carelessly pushing billions of people and animals lives aside for you're soon to be three person family?"
"But why MY son?" Amadeus turned to face Darkness with a noticeable tear in his eye.
"Because he is the chosen successor, a danger to all life on this planet! We employee you to contact one of us when your son's birth is at hand. Or would you rather have both you, your wife, and everyone on this planet die as opposed to just your son dieing and you and your wife living in peace."
Amadeus was thinking hard. He didn't want to have to kill his firstborn. It sounded so awful and his wife would be crushed. If they had anymore children they'd always be haunted by the fact that one-day they'd probably need to tell their second child what they did to his older brother or sister. It would be too painful!
But then again, he couldn't very well let the world be destroyed either. He decided that he had made his decision.
Tails watched and anxiously awaited his daddy's answer.
Amadeus turned to Darkness and whispered, "Okay."
It was loud enough to be heard by everyone however. Tails felt like someone had just stepped on his heart and meshed it against the ground.
His own daddy had just agreed to kill him as soon as he was born.
"Poor Prower family. It's so sad when a great promise at life is destroyed due to a disturbing technicality such as this." Darkness spoke.
Tails didn't respond. He was too shocked to respond. His eyes were left wide and his tears still flowed without his notice.
"Snap out of it Miles. There is still more I wish for you to see." Darkness spoke up and snapped Tails out of his trance. The deity waved his hand again and transported them to a spot in the woods.
There he saw his mommy, his daddy, and himself in the empty forest having a picnic. Baby Tails was happily nibbling on a peace of bread while his mom held his small little body. He was wearing blue baby booties and had a green pacifier around his neck attached to a blue homemade string. His tiny little baby gloves had pictures of airplanes on them as well.
"There he goes staring at the sky again. I bet he wishes he could fly." Rosemary pointed out.
"Oh yeah! You wanna fly? Well then I'll help you fly." Amadeus picked his son up and began zooming him playfully across the sky. Baby Tails dropped his bread and began laughing happily. Both him and his parents were laughing and having a good time.
Tails couldn't help but smile but immediately noticed something odd.
"That's weird. I look a little bigger than before." Tails pointed out.
"Indeed. This took place about 3 months after your birth." Darkness explained. Tails almost choked on his own saliva.
"WHAT?! B-BUT THAT MEANS-"
"Amadeus didn't keep his end of the bargain. He didn't contact me, Bear Mayor, Smokestack, or Eggman about his child's birth. Like I said he foolishly loved you too much."
Tails couldn't understand it. Was he really going to let the world die for him? Tails felt even guiltier. He watched as his baby self flew happily in his daddy's grip completely oblivious to the situation at hand.
He wished he could go back to that but instead of just him it'd be him, his parents and Sonic and his parents too.
Darkness waved his hand once again and took them to a different point in time. Tails and Darkness were now at the outskirts of the forest. The scenery was different from the usual one. The sky was red and the wind was frighteningly warm.
"Wh-where are we now?" Tails didn't like the feel of this place.
"We're on the outskirts of the forest that leads to your home. Look ahead." Darkness pointed in front of them. Tails turned and saw his daddy and Smokestack confronting each other.
"I take it that you and me meeting here means that your son has finally been born." Smokestack said which prompted Amadeus to nod.
"I see… was he just born or did you just wait 3 extra months just to piss off Darkness?" Smokestack asked. Amadeus' heart almost skipped a beat. He had hoped they wouldn't mind if he waited 3 months before he turned Tails over. It seems not though. Now he foolishly broke their promise.
"I… I just wanted to spend sometime with my son before you killed him… please… hurt me if you must but don't take it out on my wife…" Amadeus pleaded.
"… I won't … don't worry about what I would do… worry about what the other three would." Smokestack said as he turned to walk away. Amadeus knew Smoke was off to seal the deal he had made with Eggman, Darkness, and Bear Mayor before they killed his son. He stood there and let his emotions get the better of himself. He cried and cried and showed no signs of stopping.
Tails was crying too. He hadn't known that his dad was suffering so much. He ran up to his dad and looked up at him. He watched as his tears hit the dirt all around him.
"I'm so sorry… Rosemary… and you to… Miles…" He whispered.
"I'm sorry too daddy." Tails said with his voice cracking.
Darkness, much to Tails' expense waved his hand and sent them off again in another blinding flash of light.
They reappeared inside the hut where Rosemary and baby Tails was. Baby Tails was crying for some reason and no matter what she tried to do she simply couldn't quiet him down.
"Oh sweetie. Don't cry. Do you miss your daddy?" She asked as she picked up a small picture with the three of them on the front of it. She smiled and tucked it into Tails' baby bootie. "Keep that with you until I can get another photo album. It's the only picture we were able to take using our old beat up camera." She said out loud.
Tails immediately recognized the picture as the one found in his baby bootie at the orphanage. It was his most prized possession until that jerk Hang Nail ripped it up.
Tails then realized something terrifying. This hut, this setting, the sky outside, and the position she is standing in all seemed so familiar. At first Tails couldn't place it but eventually he knew what it was.
"M-my dream! This is my dream! The one I kept having whenever I'd go to sleep! This is so scary! Darkness! What's going on!?" Tails was beyond terrified now and it showed by the way he kept tugging on Darkness' cloak.
The hooded deity said nothing to him however.
"PLEASE! TELL ME!!" Tails' heart was beating so fast and he began to hear footsteps approaching the hut outside.
Tails turned toward the door, as did his mother. They both watched in horror as the door was roughly kicked in and two figures stood outside the door. One was the evil Dr. Eggman and the other was Bear Mayor!
"NO!!" Tails shouted.
"B-BEAR MAYOR!!" Rosemary screamed and backed herself against the wall.
"Where is it?" Eggman spoke before Bear Mayor could.
"I-I… I don't-" Rosemary was too frightened to know what to say.
"Where is the fox, miss!?" Eggman shouted in anger. Bear Mayor just chuckled and whipped out a handgun.
"That gun!" Tails said in a surprised tone. He remembered gunfire from his dream.
"There it is? Right there in her hands! She's covering its head with the blanket! Besides I can hear it crying too!" Bear Mayor cocked his gun and pointed it at Rosemary.
"Kindly give us the fox miss." Eggman said in a calm manner.
"No! I won't! He's my baby! I won't give him to either of you!" Rosemary shouted as she held baby Tails tighter.
"Just do it mommy! Please!" Tails begged and tried to reach out to her.
"Fine! I guess we do this the quick way then!" Bear Mayor shouted.
"What quick way?" Eggman asked but got his answer when Bear Mayor fired the gun.
BAM!
Everything was silent for a short while.
After what seemed like an eternity of tense waiting, Rosemary fell back against the wall and slid down it slowly with her baby still in hand.
She sat their motionless and literally lifeless. It was over. She was dead.
Bear Mayor laughed manically which earned him a good wallop to the head by Eggman.
"Why the hell did you do that for!? We just broke our deal with that Amadeus guy that we wouldn't hurt his wife!" Eggman scolded him.
"So?" Was Bear Mayor's response.
"SO! I take my partnerships very seriously! You should too! Not doing so could get you killed one day!" Eggman continued to argue with Bear Mayor while Tails blocked them out of his earshot. He approached his dead mother ever so slowly. The only thing he could hear was his own self's very silent sobbing and his baby self's loud crying.
"… Mommy…" Tails fell to his knees and looked her over. Blood tricked down her chest and stomach area. It was such a tragic ending.
Bear Mayor walked over and forcefully picked up Tails' baby self, still crying.
"I wish baby's would just shut up and stop being annoying." Bear Mayor stated feeling extremely bitter about what seemed like nothing. He carried baby Tails over to Eggman and started to negotiate.
"Well?" Eggman asked.
"That Smokestack dude says that he's really out to kill the kid. However, he says he won't do it until the kitsune is about ready to show its powers. Until then I'll put him into an orphanage and when that time comes you and Darkness would've already handed out your power sucking devices. Taking the kitsune's power before Smoke kills him will be a breeze."
"Of coarse. After all the contract says nothing about taking anyone's powers." Eggman smiled to himself. "Oh and what about the hut and her body?" Eggman asked with curiosity.
"Heh Heh. I'll burn this place to the ground with her still in it. That'll be something nice for her husband to find." Bear Mayor chuckled to himself.
"Harsh." Was all Eggman said while leaving the hut. As soon as he was gone Bear Mayor fired up his red eye laser and shot it at the floor. It left a small fire, which almost immediately overtook the house and escalated into a huge raging house fire.
Tails stood there unaffected by the flames physically but mentally they burned away at his heart. He couldn't believe what he was witnessing. He didn't want to see anymore.
"Come Miles. There is still one more thing I'd like to show you." Darkness waved the light in front of Tails once again, much to his dismay.
When they reappeared Tails was in the woods. Fire and smoke was shooting up from behind the trees in the background.
"What's here?" Tails asked a bit scared to find out.
"Look ahead." Darkness pointed to a particularly large tree in front of him.
Tails looked and saw Smokestack standing there and looking up at something hanging from the tree. Tails walked over, stood beside Smoke, and looked up at it too.
Tails knew Smoke was there but acted like he didn't. He looked up at the thing hanging from the tree. It had a rope tied in a lope around his neck. His body was dangling from a tree branch. A small stool was toppled over on the ground. Tails let a few more tears go as he stared at it wide eyed.
"… Daddy …"
It was indeed Tails' father.
"Your father arrived home a while later and discovered the house burning and he even made out his wife's burning body. He was devastated and wanted to throw himself in there with her so they could die together. However, he was ashamed of himself. He knew he didn't deserve the privilege of dieing next to his wife. So he ended up hanging himself in the end.
Tails got on his knees and just lost it. He cried uncontrollably in front of his father's body and beside Smokestack. He cried for what seemed like an eternity.
He eventually stood up with tears staining his face and his puffy red eyes showing how he clearly felt about this whole mess. That's when Tails heard Smokestack sigh. He turned to face the commander as he spoke.
"Amadeus Prower… I deeply apologize for what we had to put you through. No one, especially not you, should have to go threw what you did. Hopefully you'll be able to find peace in the afterlife." Smoke said as he put his hands together, closed his eyes, and prayed.
Tails quickly put his hands together and closed his eyes too. He and Smokestack stood there side by side and prayed.
The present Smokestack and Big had watched this whole time travel spectacle unfold from Coordinates 000 through Darkness' magical window. Big was crying in the background while Smoke simply stared at the scene in front of him. Both of them were praying for Amadeus Prower's well being in the afterlife.
"… That fox…" Smoke muttered under his breath as he watched the touching scene.
Eventually Past Smoke stopped praying and took off in the other direction. He felt bad for what happened but knew that this is what had to be done. His clan and everyone on this planet must remain safe.
Tails stood there with tears still staining his face. Darkness waved his hand and the light took them back to Coordinates 000.
Neither Big nor Smokestack were shocked to see the window disappear and the two travelers return.
Tails fell to his knees and just stared at the ground.
"Afterwards, Bear Mayor kept his end of the bargain to Smokestack here. He sent money to his quadrant every month for four years. Eventually Bear Mayor got a call from Metal Sonic to send the money to Central City as a means of sponsoring Westside Island as a good tourist route. Sonic got the word and headed over their expecting a vacation but instead ended up with a destroyed island and a bratty little fox. Smokestack then killed Bear Mayor for breaking their deal." Darkness explained.
Tails said nothing. Big said nothing. Smoke said nothing. Froggy didn't even croak.
"As for your parents, they were never given graves. No one was told of their death and so no one acknowledged it."
Everyone continued to remain quiet.
Darkness chuckled under his hood.
"It's too bad such a deep misunderstanding had to escalate into this."
Tails and Smoke immediately looked at Darkness in confusion.
"Misunderstanding? What misunderstanding?" Tails asked.
"HAHAHA! Don't you get it yet? I lied about your powers Tails!" Darkness said out loud.
"Wh-what?"
"It was all a part of my plan. Tricking Eggman into making those power-sucking devices so I can see how much can be taken at a time worked. Tricking you into thinking the power actually belonged to you worked. And tricking the Diox clan into thinking that the people who harbor the kitsune actually embraced their power of their own free will worked! Everything worked! Now it's too late!" Darkness was laughing like a mad man.
"What do you mean!?" Smoke yelled suddenly angered.
"I'm a deity whose lived for thousands of years due to a certain power mishap. My plan took so long to complete and finally it's here! I tricked the Diox clan into thinking that the people who were given the power of the kitsune actually wanted it! I did it so that they would attack those poor foxes without hesitation or remorse for their lives! The point was to make sure that there was always some fool who would aimlessly track down the kitsune and try to kill it. That way I could test the kitsune's abilities and power as it grew and grew." Darkness explained.
"TEST! You had a hand in killing my entire clan and the only reason was so you could TEST this monster's power!" Smoke stood up on both feet. He was completely recharged now.
"Yes. Truly. I tricked Eggman into creating those power-sucking devices so I could give him a false edge. Whenever those devices were used a bigger fraction of the kitsune's power was temporarily transferred into one of Eggman's flunkies. There were two flaws to his device however. One is that it was temporary and two was that the original owner could still control its power. I wanted to make sure that when I took the kitsune's power it would be forever lasting and could only be controlled by me. I noticed the control go down when Tails fought that Hang Nail fellow. It was a sign that the power was becoming more and more unstable!" Darkness laughed. Big understood what that meant.
"So when the power can't be controlled by Tails anymore it'll release it self and you'll take it!" Big blurted out. Darkness nodded.
"Exactly. And that leads to the biggest pawn of all." Darkness looked down at Tails who was staring at the ground and still on his knees.
"I tricked your father and yourself into thinking you were both dangers to the world. I did it so your father's affections for you wouldn't get in the way of your anger. I did it to you because I needed someone to hold on to the kitsune's power for me before I took it. You know, a carrying case."
Tails' body began to shake.
"How tragic. If you and your father only knew this…"
Tails stood up on both of his feet still shaking.
"Then they wouldn't have died! HAHAHAHA! Get it yet Miles!"
Tails just stood there.
"YOUR PARENTS DIED FOR APSOLUTELY NO REASON!!"
There was a short silence before Smokestack and Big both shouted in unison.
"WHAT!!"
"You snake!" Smoke shouted in tremendous fury.
"How could you!?" Big yelled back.
"YOU BASTARD!!"
The last one came from Tails. The fox looked up at Darkness with his pupils now red and his teeth turning into fangs. Darkness just stared at the angered fox with mild delight.
"I'LL KILL YOU!!"
Hope you all enjoyed that origin chapter. I'm going to Disney Land next week for four days! See ya!