Ark-Fox chapter 1

Sorry I should have put this stuff on the last chapter, but being my first fanfic, I forgot to put the story details at the start.

This is based on the Sonic X universe but has aspects of SatAm, assorted comics, etc etc for it to look like they're on Mobius, roughly 8 months have passed, and the gang is at peace... well apart from Eggman but that doesn't count. Or does it? I have no idea how this stories going to turn out, so sorry in advance if it doesn't go toooooo well.

don't own any characters, else this would be a comic or game or something

special thanks to jakeroo123, prowerboy and Sierra Zanimalini14 for reviewing the last chapter, now on with the show, so to speak

(Green Hill Zone)

Sonic was sitting back and sleeping against the side of a palm tree in the Green Hill Zone.

"Was" being the key word here of course, as a sudden flash of green light appeared before him and Shadow the Hedgehog appeared before him, looking his usual angry self.

"The first person I see when I got here would be you wouldn't it? Faker." Shadow asked in his trademarked dark tone. "Well well well, nice to see you too shadow..." Sonic retorted, not the least bit phased by Shadow's statement, after all he was used to it from Shadow. "... but where have you been all this time, dude it's been like eight months since I saw you last!" he continued.

"Wouldn't you like to know. Faker." Shadow simply replied. It wasn't a rhetorical question either, more or less a statement, but Sonic the Hedgehog wasn't going to give up that easy. "Yeah actually I would Shadow." "No." "Yes." "No." "Why not?" "Because." "Because why?" "Because you blue freak I don't want to talk to you!"

"Shadow! Come on."

"If I told you... will you shut up and go away?"

"Ok" Sonic replied, as he sat down against the palm tree he was snoozing quite peacefully against one minute ago.

"sigh in the final battle against the Meterex I used the last bit of my chaos energy to teleport away... to take care of some personal business..." Shadow started, he didn't want Sonic to know he was visiting molly's gravesite. He had a reputation to keep after all. "I was left without a way back home without a Chaos Emerald however." Shadow informed the now snickering Sonic.

"But... how did you use Chaos Control just now?"

"I was able to find a Meterex base, filled with fake Emeralds"

"Oh" Sonic said flatly. He could tell Shadow wasn't telling something, but he wasn't going to press it. "So where are you going to go now?" He asked.

What was he going to do now? Hate to admit it; Shadow hadn't thought past this moment, he was probably just going to go to work with Eggman again.

Shadow, the ultimate lifeform, had a flaw he wished no one to ever discover, he had to have orders. He felt lost whenever he had no one to give him orders, he needed something to pass the time, someone to tell him what to do. What else was he supposed to do? Get a nine to five job at a fast-food joint for the rest of his ageless, unending, nearly immortal life. "Would you like fries with that?"

Shadow shuddered at the thought, which didn't go unnoticed by his blue 'friend.'

"You ok there Shads? You're shaking a bit there!" Sonic asked, with a look of worry plastered on his face as he quickly jumped up to help out, if need be. Shadow quickly wondered about the Hedgehog in front of him, Sonic was cocky and arrogant one second, and then worried the next. "Are all super heroes like this?" he thought... before the words of Sonics used caught up with him.

"You ever call me 'Shads' again and your one sorry hedgehog, faker!" Shadows voice absolutely dripping with anger and disgust. A swift punch to Sonics face accompanied the statement, then he started to cruise off towards god knows where.

"Yep he's okay, hey WAIT WHERE YOU GOING SHADS?" Sonic yelled, though it was no real use since Shadow was running away faster than sound anyway. Sonic was about to go chasing off after him, you know do the whole generic epic battle thing, how's it going, what did I ever do? And insult him a bit. But at that exact moment a rain drop chose to fall on his nose. Sighing he blasted off towards his and Tails house as he had no intention to get wet, also he secretly wanted to put a bag of ice on his face.

"Damn that Hog can hit!" he said to himself, not that anyone could hear him anyway. He slowly decelerated to a subsonic speed as he approached the house, however. He was living in fear of the taser after all, and the brat behind the attacks had been up for the past 3 and a half days. "If that kit ever turned evil... God help us all"

As he slowed to a stop at the front door, he saw the warning sign hanging on the garage door. Thankful for the sound damping tactics he used earlier. But he couldn't help but feel bad, after all, 'that evil, scheming, bundle of tasering fluff' was his adopted brother. And had just spent the last 3 and a half days working himself into the ground to try and forget... her... Cosmo...again.

Sonic had regretted giving the kit that hammock, he knew he did wrong as soon as the kit spent the entire week after Christmas in there. The hammock probably just told the fox he could stay in there for as long as he wanted, not dealing with his problems.

But he was showing signs of recovering from his depression after a lengthy eight months. He was starting to talk to people again and was smiling more, actual smiling as well, not ones that looked the least bit forced.

He was still to hear a laugh however, well a good one anyway, if the fox did laugh it was because of some sick humour, or the joke was about death. But he was getting happier by the day, and would soon be his normal happy self again... hopefully.

He realised he'd been staring at the sign for a few moments now, with the rain pouring down around him "Wow is that what Tails feels when he's staring out to space?" he asked himself. He turned to enter the house as a flash of thunder and the eventual rumble quickly got his attention. Now he really didn't know what to do. Wake the fox and put him into his proper bedroom, which was soundproofed to help prevent thunder induced nightmares in the astraphobic Kitsune, (and he reminded himself, potentially face the taser.) or leave him in there and hope he sleeps through it.

The fox had been awake when he'd come to check up on him around 3 and it was 10 past 5 now, so he couldn't of been sleeping for that long. No he had to wake him, the Kitsune deserved a proper rest anyway. Tails had pulled his sorry blue butt out of the fire personally so many times that he'd lost count. Tails was his best friend in the world, and he loved him enough to wake the potentially hostile fox in order to make sure he was all right.

"Here goes."

Sonic, hero of Mobius and Earth, walked up to the garage door and opened the door slowly and noiselessly and closed it behind him in the same fashion "Do not disturb the sleeping Kitsune, or live in fear of taser attacks" sounded suspiciously like "abandon all hope ye who enter here!" to him.

He located the slumbering demon at the far corner of the workshop which by the way was quite large and full of inventions, parts completely littered the garage floor and each looked quite loud should they be knocked or kicked over. "It's a frickin minefield in here!" he muttered to himself, just loud enough for his voice not to carry any further then a few metres. He moved slowly forwards towards his potential death, thunder lighting up the window behind him.

He slowly and stealthily made his way through to the other side of the garage, sudden bursts of light occasionally bursting through the large windows, and the still slumbering form across the room visibly flinched. As he approached the shivering form of the sleeping fox a sudden thought entered his mind "The kit is 9, how can he still be scared of lightning like this?"

he pushed it aside for later as he started to shake him.

"Tails?"
"Mnurgh."
"Hey Tails?"
"MNURGH!"
"Tails, buddy wake up."

Sky blue eyes cracked open slowly, a simple slow, quiet and very groggy "sonic?" accompanied this.

"Hey little bro, I've come to put you in your proper bed."

"? Whaay?" Tails said mixing up 'what' and 'why', as he looked at his wall clock, the question was answered for him when a distant thunder crack was suddenly heard, along with an overly surprised "epp" that managed to escape his own mouth. "That's why Tails, come on..." Sonic then proceeded to pick up the fox, all Tails experienced was Sonic picking him up, then appearing suddenly in his own room, then being placed down on his bed.

"Thanks Sonic."

"That's ok bud. Sorry to have to wake ya like that... but know that when you wake up you're not going back in that workshop for a while." Sonic told the fox, unprepared for the retort "Buuuut Sonic... if you were to give me half an hour, those shoes will be done and we can take em for a test run... maybe find Eggman and shave off his moustache." This was greeted by a chuckle from Sonic and eventually Tails himself. At that moment several thoughts popped through Sonics mind

1. Sneaky bastard... playing to my weakness, Going all cute-wide-eyed like that. Half an hour doesn't sound too bad, and he's just going to pester me until I let him, well not like that could stop him anyway.

2. He's been awake for three and a half days and can say something like that, gees he really is a frickin genius.

3. Shave off his moustache, pahh that's hilarious... wait is he laughing as well?

4. He wants to fight Eggman again, is he back to normal? No maybe after a few months of this.

"Night Fox, you get half an hour when you wake up... that's it."
"Thanks Sonic, you need not live in fear anymore."
"Thanks, Miles..."
"Please don't call me that."
"Goodnight Tails."
"Night."

As Sonic left the room he couldn't help but laugh at the fact that the thunder had woken up Tails more effectively then what looked like fifty coffees could do. But as soon as he was tucked in and his head moulded into the pillow, he was snoring peacefully and sounded like a sleeping kitten. "Everything about that kid is just so damn cute."

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