Ark-Fox chapter 11
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Don't own any characters, if I did, Cosmo would of surivived.
"Guess the faster we get through this hysteria thing sorted the faster we can do what we came here for."
"What!" Tails and Sonic both exclaimed, both would of never expected Shadow to say those words.
"What!" Ron and John both exclaimed, both would of never expected that any of them would allow themselves to be arrested.
Shadow just calmly got in the back of the police car. Tails sniffed the air, he could smell fear on Shadow.
Now that he thought about it, Shadow had been acting strangely ever since he got here, why? Tails decided to put that question away for later, asking it now would most diffidently provoke a less than satisfactory response, or perhaps it was an unexpected side effect of his watches.
Noticing that Sonic had now clambered in the back of the police car and Ron and John were now staring at them in disbelief, he entered the car as well. The cops both jaw dropped, before John resumed eating his noodles.
"Well you guys gona arrest us or not?" Sonic smartly commented, reciveing laughs from both Shadow and Tails.
"Strange, what's got into Shadow?" Tails wondered.
"Come in doghouse... come in doghouse..." John talked into the dashboard transmitter, while Ron drove through town to what was probably 'doghouse.' People on the streets were starting to notice that the three were in the back of the car.
"Oh hey John what's up?" a female voice came over the speakers, she sounded like she was the humours type.
"Umm, hi Jane, arrr, you know that alert that was given out before?" John continued.
"Umm, yeah, the one about Sonic, Tails and Shadow?" Jane continued, Ron had just activated the sirens and was driving forcefully down the street.
"Yeah, ummm, we sorta arrested them and such, so ummm, what do we do?" John questioned, taking a sip of soda from a generic fast food plastic cup. Ron swerved crazily though crowds of people and motorists.
"Ohhh... ummm... well... what... WHAT!" Jane shouted, Sonic noticed something wet hit his leg, looking over at Tails he could see he was salivating. Sniffing the air Sonic picked up the scent of fast food, obviously the stale smell of whatever processed meat that was used to make the food for the many countless burger wrappers that littered the floor had done something to Tails.
"We arrested Sonic, Tails and Shadow... Jane, what do we do?" John questioned.
"Well I guess you bring em down to the doghouse... or foxhouse... heh heh!" heavy laughter could be heard on the other side of the microphone, everyone in the car just looked at each other weirdly. "What! That was funny!" Jane said defensively, John shut down the microphone.
"You ok there Tails?" Sonic asked. Shadow looked at Tails for a minute before realisation hit his face. "Oh crap Tails!"
"Yeah I'm fine... just a little hungry now heh heh." Tails said truthfully, rubbing the back of his neck. "Oh good going Tails, way to reassure them!"
"We'll be there in about two minutes, they got doughnuts there if you want one." John said, not having the slightest clue as to the real situation.
"If you haven't eaten them all yet John." Ron said, both cops burst into laughter at this until Ron spoke up again. "Won't we have to put them in a cell though?" Ron questioned while scratching his head, eyes clearly off the road.
"How are these guys still cops?" Shadow thought "A better question would be how are they both still alive? Mr Cardiac arrest on legs and Sir Absent minded the third!"
Shadow's metal insults were cut short however when Ron stated they were here.
A little while later.
The three had been told that they were going to see the President directly, Tails had a Jam filled doughnut and felt much better immediately, Shadow had overheard an conversation that the captain and the two cops he came here with were having, and much to his surprise when the two were told they were both getting high paying promotions, they simply said that meant they would get a deck job so the answer was no, and Sonic had been so bored of moving so slow the past few minutes he had accidently destroyed half the lunch room by moving about.
Shortly after they had all been boarded into a G.U.N. Helicopter and whisked away towards the President's office.
Fortunately for Sonic, this trip was dramatically shorter, and they were there within a minute. "That wasn't fast!"
From the altitude Tails could see there were crowds of people gathering around the President's office. Upon exiting, they were instantly bombarded by the noise of hundreds of people shouting and screaming, not to mention the amount of flashing coming from paparazzi cameras. "Good thing we're behind these gates!" Sonic commented.
They were soon led into the president's office and the thick wooden doors were closed behind them. (The office looks exactly like the oval office.) The presidents leather chair was turned away from them, and was looking out at the crowds from his window.
"Well I have to say I didn't expect you guys to come here peacefully... please sit." The president spoke, his voice had the aura of knowledge to it.
The three took a seat in front of the desk and the president spoke again, this time business.
"I hope you aren't disrupting the time continuum with your presence here!" he spoke, hands waving off to the side of the chair.
"No..." Tails spoke up "...I made sure of it, we're not doing anything to the timeline by being here, we used Chaos Control to get here by modifying the energy output of a Chaos Control to change dimensions not space with a watch I invented."
"Good, Tails I knew you'll find a way." The president said happily, hands once again waving off to the side.
"Play your games with Sonic or Shadow... President, I have you figured out already." Tails said snidely.
"There's no getting past you is there Tails? May I ask what gave me away?" The president asked.
"You forgot to put away your nameplate on the table Chris!" Tails laughed out. Both Sonic and Shadow looked at the table suddenly to see 'President Thorndyke' carved into the nameplate,then back up again to see a sweatdroping Chris.
"Whoops!" Chris said while rubbing the back of his neck, everyone laughed at this.
"Hey Chris how are ya?" Sonic asked suddenly by his side shaking his hand.
"I'm doing fine, hey you guys want some coffees or drinks or something?" Chris asked.
"You really got this official person speech thing down Chris." Shadow remarked.
"Coffee please." Tails asked.
"None for me thanks." Sonic said.
"Tea thanks." Shadow asked. Sonic and Chris were suddenly looking at him funny and Tails was scanning him with his watch. "What!" Shadow exclaimed.
"Ever since you came to Earth you've been acting funny!" Tails informed the hedgehog. "Now when you Chaos Controlled here did you experience anything funny?" Tails asked, while inspecting the watch screen.
"Tails did you kill Shadow?" Sonic said sarcastically, Shadow looked at the fox and wondered what he should say.
"I went somewhere else first when I Chaos Controlled here, It was strange, just drop it."
"But Shado..." Sonic started before being interrupted by Shadow "DROP IT!"
"Alright fine."
"Here are you drinks Master Tails, Master Shadow, Master Chris." A voice from behind Tails sounded, making the kitsune jump.
"Tanaka don't do that you frickin ninja!" Tails informed.
"Tanaka man, how ya doing!" Sonic questioned not the least bit worried about Shadow anymore, and began shaking Tanaka's free hand.
"Tanaka's been my butler ever since I got back?" Chris informed, grabbing a coffee from Tanaka's tray and sipping it. Shadow and Tails proceeded to do the same.
"So what brings you guys back." Chris said, while Tanaka set the tray down on the table and took a seat.
"Well Tails here found out he originally came from the Ark." Sonic informed, Chris instantly shot out his coffee "What!"
"You got the formality thing down too Chris." Shadow said sarcastically before taking a sip of his tea.
"Eggman went through his granddads logs a couple days ago and found a few files that indicated I might have been created on the Ark." Tails simply said, wrapping himself up with his tails and taking a sip of his coffee.
"You know Eggman was probably lying right... I mean he's not exactly the most trustworthy guy." Chris said letting out a chuckle.
"The files seemed legit, no way he could of manufactured them, plus his granddad made something called memory cards" Tails briefly paused to take another sip of coffee before continuing "pretty self explanatory really, and he found a memory of mine that was from the Ark, no way it wasn't mine."
"Well I can get you access to the Ark if you want it..." Chris said before sighing "... Reporters are going to have a field day on this you know!"
"Yeah sorry about that Chris..." Sonic apologised, his expression was mirrored by Tails.
"If I would make a suggestion, you could always just have an exclusive interview to tell the situation." Tanaka said, everyone nodded their head to this. Chris pressed a button on his table before speaking into a microphone.
"Mick, can you call in Scarlet Garcia for an exclusive interview."
"Sure thing Mr President."
"I told you to call me by my name Mickey, Call me 'Mr President' again and you're fired." Chris said harshly before taking his thumb off the button, Shadow laughed at this display
"That was a little extreme don't you think Chris?" Sonic asked
"In this job you have to be a little forceful Sonic."
"That reminds me... when did you become President?" Sonic asked, genuinely amazed Chris just laughed at him for a second before explaining.
"I've been President for two years now, when I got back from Mobius, I became an famous author and inventor, I wrote a book on how we defeated the Meterex and it became a number one hit..." Chris explained, unbeknownst to him Tails was glaring at him.
"Typical Chris!"
"...It has everything... from my arrival, to Cosmo's crash landing, the crazy party the Chaotix held for us, Knuckles fight with Yellow Zalkova..." Chris stated gladly as he continued to list off their adventure.
"Bloody typical... he probably wouldn't have any of this had he not met us, bet his inventions don't even get close to those of his uncle." Tails sighed, just realising he'll never see Chuck again. "Yeah kid, you can build some shoes, next time you single handily build a space ship and save the universe with it... give me a call."
"A lot of people were sad when they heard about Cosmo's sacrifice..." Chris continued, looking a bit downcast as he recalled the memory of that day. "Sorry for bringing it up Tails."
"That's all right Chris." Tails lied perfectly.
" I started a technology business shortly afterwards with the proceeds from my book." Chris continued.
Eggman was starting to get impatient; Rouge had told him that Tails, Sonic and Shadow had all left for Earth an hour ago and knowing full well that the time indifference would allow them to spend several days on Earth and return here to the clock only turning a few hours honestly made him a bit nervous. They could very well find out his plans by visiting the Ark and quickly returning to put a stop to it.
With any luck that information would be hard to come by. "If Tails was to get his hands on the key..."
"Dig you nincombots... DIG!" Eggman yelled impatiently while riding his Egg-Mobile.
"Oh why do we always get used for the grunt work Bocoe?" Docoe complained while swinging a pickaxe.
"I don't know Docoe." replied Bocoe while he shovelled out some dirt.
"Surely the doctor has some kinda digger robot thingy!" Bokkun complained loudly.
"SHUT UP AND WORK!"
Eggman wasn't sure this plan would work but so far it had worked better than expected, either way he was going to finally win or would be forced to surrender. It was pure stroke of luck that Metal Sonic sent off a Chaos reading at Hill Top before he was shocked by Tails and gained sentience, or so Shadow says, Eggman didn't believe it himself.
"Find Metal Sonic and return to me."
"What!" said a very confused and familiar looking red echidna.
"Find Metal Sonic and return to me Knuckles. He and you are both required for a greater plan, search out Metal and return to me."
"Ummm ok." Knuckles replied awkwardly, this was easily the weirdest things Knuckles had ever been asked to do by the Master Emerald.
"My inventions brought people around the world new ways to live their lives, medical research saved tens of thousands of lives, pretty soon Tanaka here was telling me I should pursue a political role and soon after I was in office."
"Wow that's quite the achievement Chris!" Sonic praised Chris, who smiled and laughed.
"Oh brother!"
"No, my biggest achievement was dissolving all the army's of Earth and turning G.U.N. into worldwide peacekeepers, Earth hasn't had a single conflict since I came to office." Chris said proudly.
"WHAT!" Sonic and Tails both shouted in unison.
"Chris, Mobius did that exact same thing and Eggman came around and took it over when he was made minister of war!" Sonic explained.
"I know I know, I remembered the lessons you gave me so I made a council of representatives from each country that makes the global decisions for G.U.N. any decision is made by hundreds of people not one.
"Chris... please don't make the same mistake we did!" Sonic pleaded.
"Sonic I won't..." Chris started before being interrupted by his intercom.
"Chris..." Mickey began, remembering his lesson "...Scarlet Garcia is here for the interview."
"Send her in." Chris ordered, few minutes later Scarlet entered with several camera members, audio guys and light crew. Hands were shaken, greetings exchanged and orders were given as to lighting and camera placement. The plan was for Sonic, Tails and Shadow to be interviewed in the president's office along with Chris.
The presidents table would be centrefold to the interview, while Sonic, Shadow and Tails would be seated so they looked like they were having a friendly coffee with Chris. Tanaka wouldn't be part of the interview even though he knew the trio as long as Chris had.
Miss Garcia asked plenty of questions which they all happily answered, explained why they had come to Earth, even the how's, safe in the knowledge that even if anyone on earth could replicate the technology they wouldn't be able to use it.
Scarlet seemed both surprised and shocked at the revelation of Tails and the Ark, and remembering the report she had to do on the Ark 16 years ago asked "So Shadow and Tails, what does this discovery mean to you?" Shadow looked uncomfortable at the question so Tails answered.
"We're not sure at the moment, we'd like to see what information is on the Ark before answering... so long as that's all right with Chris." Tails expertly replied to the question, getting Shadow out of an uncomfortable situation and maintaining respect for Earth at the same time.
"Sure thing Tails."
And just like that the interview was over and Chris set the trio up with accommodation for the night. the next day they would be Chaos Controlling to the Ark.
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