Ark Fox Chapter 8

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Sonic stalked out of the house, with any luck Tails hadn't spent all night trying to fix up whatever he was working on in his workshop and the kit wouldn't be too annoyed with him when he was woken up... if he had even gone to sleep.

As it turns out, he hadn't. Tails always remembered to put the sign out when he went to sleep in the workshop.

Sonic was quite frustrated to say the least... no telling what Tails would or could do, after what happened yesterday, "Sorry, blood high, bad news, talk later."

Blood high, No biggy Sonic thought, it was an unwritten rule that if you knew someone who was on a blood high you stayed the hell away until they calmed down. It was like PMS times a thousand. Although Tails would of snapped out of it by now.

Bad news, hell... Sonic was used to bad news. But when you hear 'bad news' with 'blood high' you instantly think if you were to head down to the shops the whole village will be burnt down.

Talk later, well, no conversation had yet taken place and it was a full 24 hours since Tails had unexpectedly (and in Sonic's mind 'quite awesomely') Chaos Controlled into his living room!

And now the kitsune was sleep depriving himself. Sonic was furious.

"Well if he threatens me with any form of electricity I'm going to rip those bloody gloves right off his hands and... and..." Sonic didn't honestly know what he would do, but he would probably destroy every pair of gloves the fox owned... just to make sure.

Entering the garage he found Tails hunched over one of the many high tech computers he had been given by Rotor.

"Tails what happened yesterday?" Sonic asked the fox, tapping his foot.
"Sigh." Tails swivelled in his chair to look at Sonic. "Yesterday when the race was over, Shadow Chaos Controlled me to Eggman's base." Tails said calmly.
"What!" Sonic said, surprised at the other Hedgehogs actions. He had come to trust Shadow over the past few days.
"When I got there, Eggman had these thing called 'memory cards.' These things are little cards that can hold memories and watched later in perfect clarity." Tails explained, before chewing on the tips of his fingers.

"So I'm guessing the memory can be defined as 'bad news' then?" Sonic asked. "Yeah."
"So what was the memory, whose was it?" Sonic asked.
"Mine."

Sonic was quiet for a minute and nodded his head, before the potential implications set in. "What?"

"The memory was mine. It's hard to explain." Tails said, rubbing the back of his neck.
"What was this memory... about?" Sonic asked, worried about the answer. This could spiral out of control quick.
"I... I..." Tails started to say, completely unsure of how to tell Sonic "...I was at one point of time present on the... Ark... 50 earth years ago."

Sonic's eyes narrowed, before he turned to stare at the monitor. There was a few image files opened that showed a very young fox. The same very young fox that Sonic first met. "Eggman showed you this?"

"Yes... why?" Tails asked more than a little confused at Sonic's reaction.

Sonic couldn't believe it, what was he to do? He fell to the workshop wall and slid down holding his head. This didn't go unnoticed by Tails who instantly started eyeing him suspiciously.

"Tails found out about Miles." Sonic thought

What was he to do? What choice did he have? Lie, Truth, revenge on Eggman?

Should Tails know? Miles never wanted Tails to know about him, but should he tell him what he knew in the hopes he drops it? Sonic didn't know a lot, and this stuff about the Ark was completely new to him. how much did Tails already know?

In any light, Tails wasn't go to like the fact he never told him this, but well technically he told him not to tell him.

"Hey Sonic, yoo hoo!"

"ummm Tails, you..." Sonic started unsure as to how to explain the situation. "... know Eggman was probably lying to you right." Sonic lied, hoping Tails would buy it.

"No, no the memory I saw was real, I know it happening before." Tails said.

"I never thought this would happen Tails."

"What do you mean Soni... do you know something about this, about me." Tails said angrily, getting up.

"Yes..." Sonic whispered, suddenly finding great interest in the rug.

"What?"

Sonic sat down on a nearby couch, depressed. "I don't know much about it... I've never heard this stuff about the Ark before."

"WHAT? WHY DO YOU KNOW ANY OF THIS?"

"Tails let me explain!" Sonic begged.

It seemed to have some affect on the young fox, as he slunk back into his computer chair sculling a long cold coffee before staring into nothingness.

Sonic had to say this in the best possible way. "Four years ago, you just popped out of nowhere one day a couple hundred miles from here on a place called Cocoa Island..."

"How come I don't know this?" Tails asked.
"Because you never wanted to, Miles wanted to forget." Sonic answered glumly.
"Miles? Forget?"
"Yes, Miles. His name was Miles, but he wanted you to keep his name."
"HIS NAME! HIS NAME!"
"Please Tails, something happened in his past he wanted desperately to forget, and the only way to do so was become a completely different person."

Tails sat back in his chair, hands shaking violently.

"Your memories started when you were around four years old."
Tails simply nodded. "Who else knows?" he asked.
"Before now just me, Sally, Bunnie and Uncle Chuck."
"Why did he want to forget?"
"He never told me, just said something horrible happened in his life and he wanted to forget."
"How?" Tails finally said. "How did Miles make me, me?... how did we originally meet?... how did I get from the Ark to here?"

"When we were in the war with Eggman a few years ago, Uncle Chuck intercepted a message from the Battle Bird Armada on Cocoa Island, apparently they were being completely obliterated by a single enemy." Sonic explained.

"I'm guessing that was me?"

"Yeah... When we heard about this, Me, Sally and Bunnie went off in search of who could do this in the hopes they would help us in the fight against Eggman... What we found was a scared four year old fox." Sonic told Tails, who seemed a lot calmer now but was clearly agitated.

"It was my second birthday in the memory I saw..." Tails started before continuing "... what I saw was responsible for my current fear of lightning, but it doesn't make logical sense... I should be scared of all forms of electricity, not just lightning!"

"When we found you... you had all the Chaos Emeralds and something you called the 'Key'" Sonic informed the fox who just sat there waiting for him to continue.

"We became friends... and we agreed to your idea, we planed what your life would be like after you changed, your personality, memories, likes and dislikes, how we would meet each other, the list goes on. Then you used the power of the Emeralds and the Key to change yourself before scattering the Emeralds... and we got rid of the Key on your orders while Tails picked up an invention Miles made that led you to me... the rest is history." Sonic said tensely.

"so my persona is effectively what you dreamt up for me!" Tails growled.

"No, no no... It's not as bad as it sounds!" Sonic defended

"HOW!"

"The only big thing on the list was memories, having to fill up four years and that... but overall you were the one who decided that your personality should be nice, and your likes and dislikes were very small... you wanted to like the name Tails since it would be drawing attention to your mutation which would help you mentally against bullies, and dislike the name Miles so that way you would use Tails instead but still know your real name..." Sonic started explaining, to which Tails visibly calmed again.

"... Some other likes were like... mechanics and vegetables and stuff, small stuff and hobby's, while your dislikes included Eggman and people getting hurt. So your personality is mostly your own personality you developed after the change."

Tails just sat there listening and nodding his head. "Well it's good to know I'm mostly me, not just something a group of people dreamt up."

"What was in the memory?" Sonic asked, Tails simply gave him the memory card and said "See for yourself."

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BTW last line is not a cliff-hanger.

and also none of this is new, no one ever told Tails about Cocoa Island, And Sonic had thoughts about Miles a few chapters ago.