Ark-Fox chapter 18
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Also remember the previous chapter happens after this one.
Don't own any character, if I did, coming up with these is harder than it looks!
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"Ummm, Hi Sonic..."
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"Sonic...?"
"I thought I told you not to use any memory card before I'd seen it first!" Sonic grumped, his arms were folded and he was clearly PO. Both Shadow and Topaz were completely silent,
"This is my past Sonic... not yours!" Tails stated.
"This is my past as well Tails, I had to go through you wiping your own mind!" Sonic said, getting protective.
"So! Get over it, that wasn't me!" Tails growled, getting up.
"That was you...!" Sonic yelled. "...He had your personality, do you have any idea what it was like? To have to make friends with the same person again?"
"Do you have any idea what it's like to have four years of your life a lie? Do you?" Tails retorted. "And you said it yourself; you were the ones who made my personality!"
"No... I said we made your memories, Miles made your personality!" Sonic shot back.
"Sonic..." Tails started, but was knocked down by Sonic's fist.
"SONIC!" Shadow growled, starting up a spin dash and started spinning towards Sonic, only to be intercepted by Tails smacking him across the room with his tails.
"Stay outta this Shadow!" Tails snapped, his fur was suddenly stuck up and his canines were bared. He had never been hit by Sonic before, not even when he misbehaved as a kid.
"What the hell Tails... he hit you!" Shadow yelled angrily, before proceeding to charge Sonic again, Tails used the opportunity to Chaos Control above Shadow, upper cutting Shadow's head with his foot and sending him into the opposite wall. Topaz ran over to Shadow instantly and began holding him back.
Shadow was understandably shocked, he'd never met anyone who was able smack him down twice in less than three seconds, if it wasn't for the fact that Tails was his 'brother' now.
"What the hell was that for!" Tails demanded, clawed finger pointing at Sonic. Sonic wasted no time in trying to spin-dash Tails, but was smacked away at the last possible moment by one of Tails appendages.
Now Shadow was impressed, seeing Tails smash Sonic away like that seemed was extraordinary in itself even if it was potentially explainable by adrenaline; however the fact that Sonic just shook off the attack like it was nothing seemed to tell another story.
It could be that it wasn't out of the normal for Tails to be able to attack like this (though this was the only time Shadow had ever seen Tails fighting hand to hand, besides the time Tails was protecting Cosmo from him.) it was possible given the fact Shadow spent a large portion of the last Mobian year in space and Tails might of trained.
Sonic burst up to Tails and smacked him hard in the guts before he could react, causing him to slide back at least a metre, as Sonic willed himself up for another punch he burst forward again, only for Tails to flip his tails out, grab his feet, pull him back and smack him hard in the jaw with his palm on the way down.
Surely this was the only explanation, young and naive as he was (and Shadow reminded himself, still was.) Tails obviously loved Cosmo with all his heart and gave it his all trying to protect her. The way he effortlessly sent Sonic through the opposite wall showed he had improved in strength and power since he last saw him on the Typhoon. How the hell could those fluffy appendages hold so much power?
Tails just stood there, staring into the hole he made by flinging Sonic into the what was probably steel wall, tails swinging violently behind him.
"I don't want to hurt you Sonic, I don't want to fight you!" Tails yelled into the wall.
Silently, Sonic exited the wall with clenched fists.
"Why the hell did you have to go and CHANGE!" Sonic asked. "And not at the same time!"
"What the hell is wrong with you Sonic?" Topaz yelled, only to be ignored.
"Why the hell did you have to use the key to change yourself!" Sonic yelled threateningly, tears falling down his cheeks. Tails instantly started walking towards the blue blur, every step he took seemed to drone on like an eternity... four meters...
Three metres...
Two metres...
One... both fox and hedgehog stood still for a second, before both drew each other into a hug, both crying.
"Sonic, I know you know what I am... whatever I chose to forget..."
"I know Tails..." Sonic said, voice strained and broken.
"Please, Sonic, tell me what I am... I need to know now!" Tails begged, pulling away from the hug so he could study his face for any sign of a lie. Sonic sighed and waited for a few seconds before replying.
"You're Chaos!" Sonic said bluntly. Everyone in the room was silent, Tails looked as if he wanted to speak but no words would come.
"WHAT! YOU MEAN THE WATER MONSTER THAT DESTORYED STATION SQUARE ALL THOSE YEARS AGO!" Topaz freaked out while pulling her hands to her head.
"NO!" Sonic said, turning towards Topaz. Tails just fell to the ground with his hands in his face, a mental block removed; he knew what he was now.
"No Topaz..." Tails said lightly "... the Chaos Engraver, exactly what it says on the tin..."
"Huh!" Shadow exclaimed, the obviousness of it all now... it left him speechless.
"Shadow was never intended as the ultimate lifeform... I was..." Tails said even quieter, as if it would make Shadow's reaction slightly less emo and hateful. His stare was menacing but he remained in place with clenched fists, allowing Tails to continue. "My DNA was chosen... specified... by the Black Arms... they waited for Gerald to make the mistake of sending me into that chamber..." Tails continued.
No-one in the room spoke, Sonic could truthfully say he'd never heard this part of the story before.
"The Black Arms never told Gerald I was the intended ultimate lifeform... instead they gave him schematics for the Chaos Engraver and told him what to do... the requirements Gerald set for it and the intentions by both party's... I was supposed to become a monster... but the Emeralds... they don't call it 'Chaos energy' without a reason you know! The unpredictably of the emerald, the yellow emerald, made me what I am now! I should have become an evil uncontrollable monster, instead I became the embodiment of Chaos... a living, breathing God!"
"What!" Topaz said.
"That's why I chose to forget, I was too powerful, I used the key to blank my mind and lock my powers away, but I knew it would have to be used again, I knew I had to go to Mobius in order for prophecy to play out, it was inevitable, to save the multiverse from utter destruction I had to face Black Doom first..."
In the vents, a red and yellow eye was focusing dead centre on Tails.
"How do you know all this?" Topaz questioned the fox, whose hands were still buried in his face.
"Miles left a few memories in my head, only now can I remember them, he put a mental block in my head so I wouldn't know until now." Tails replied. Topaz looked ready to argue, but whatever she was going to say to Tails changed to "What the hell are you!" when Doom's Eye burst out of his vent.
"Who the hell are you?" Sonic demanded angrily, now standing in front of Tails who was still on the floor and seemingly oblivious to Dooms Eye's presence. Topaz had her gun pointed at him while Shadow had a Chaos Spear at the ready.
Doom's eye scanned the room desperately, this was not a high percentage move on his part but he had his orders.
Suddenly a hologram shot out of his eye, showing Eggman, Docoe, Bocoe, Knuckles, Cream and Amy on their knees with several guns pointed at them from behind, but the hostiles holding them were out of view, the gang were all bound and gagged and Cream had tears running down her cheeks.
"Explain yourself now!" Shadow demanded.
"Quiet..." a dark voice was suddenly heard "... Hello Miles, do you remember me?"
"No... I don't." Tails replied, getting up, as Black Doom came into view on the hologram.
"I suppose you don't, you did wipe your memory after all." Black Doom responded darkly, eyes scowling.
"Skip the pleasantries, who the hell are you and what do you want!" Shadow demanded again.
"I am Black Doom... and what do I want Shadow? I want the Chaos Emeralds... all of them." Black Doom said simply.
"They always want the Emeralds don't they?" Sonic asked, hands on his hips with his head shaking, seemingly forgetting the prisoners in the back.
"Get me the Emeralds, or I'll kill your friends!" Black Doom simply demanded with his fist clenched around the key.
With that the hologram stopped, and the bright green aura of Chaos Control surrounded Doom's Eye.
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