Ok guys, little recap for ya. (jokes; it's big, like my...)
Go to the very end if you want to read some new stuff, it'll be lined.
Da story so fars... (in chapter order.)
Chap 1
1) Do not disturb the sleeping Kitsune, or live in fear of taser attacks
2) Eggman made the shocking, yet predictable discovery of Tails have once being on the Ark. (given the story summary, surprise faggots.)
Chap 2
3) After being lost in space for eight months, shadow returned from space using fake meterex emeralds.
4) It is also revealed that Shadow has a flaw... he needs to have orders, or he gets bored.
5) Sonic is prepared to face the taser; to move his adopted brother into his soundproofed bedroom in order to stop the lightning induced nightmares in "that evil, scheming, bundle of tasering fluff"
6)
"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 likethatcould 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."
Chap 3
7)
"Yes Doctor?"
"I want you to find Tails, kidnap him and bring him here..."
Chap 4
8)
"Look Shadow!"
"Shoes?"
"Yes silly, shoes, your feet must get awfully cold having to walk around on the Ark's cold metal with your bare feet all the time so I..."
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"Which is also part of the reason I don't want you to pull them apart. Last time I checked you were a mechanic, not a loafer."
"Hmm well then I challenge you to a race. Prize is I get to look at them, no screwdrivers or anything."
"What!"
"What!"
"Tails simply because you have those new shoes, doesn't mean you have an actual chance against Shadow or for that matter... Me, cos if there's a race I'm in!"
Chap 5 – 6 (race)
10)
He saw Sonic snoozing quietly without a care in the world, And his mission target Tails, no his friend Tails, shake about and flinch in his sleep.
For some reason Shadow wanted desperately to wake him and tell him it was all right. But before they had all gone to bed... Sonic had pulled Shadow to the side and told him about this.
Apparently the fox had nightmares at least once a week ever since Sonic had known the poor kitsune and this was normal behaviour for him, "Do NOT wake him no matter how bad his dream may look! I know it sounds bad but it doesn't affect him that much apart from some sleep loss, and he'll hate you for it if you do, I've learnt to only wake him on special conditions..."
Shadow zoned out of the speech around then, being able to briefly recall something about taser's, oak trees and I won't help you out if it if you do wake him.
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Sonic saw what Shadow was up to and knew Shadow could feel the Chaos Energy surrounding the region better then he could, he knew he couldn't risk it however as he wouldn't be able to tell where the lava would be and unfortunately this meant Shadow was going to be in the lead shortly, he of all people should know... Sonic had been underneath Hill Top before.
Sonic really didn't want to think about it that much, he made a promise to a friend he wouldn't try to remember... and he was right, some secrets had to remain buried...
He never really talked about it before he changed, and something told Sonic he would have never wanted to listen. The horror he experienced by the simplest things, some of that terror Sonic reminded himself, still survived to this day...
When Sonic first put his hand on Miles shoulder... he sunk his canines into his arm before he realised what he was doing. His mind was made up after that, Miles made him promise... to never tell him what had happened.
12)
scans indicated his thought patterns had been changed when he was struck by Tails device before. Although it seemed it wasn't detrimental, it worried him greatly.
13)
Shadow finally worked it out, Metal now existed... although the amount of palace guards surrounding him now questioned the future of that.
"Hey hey guy's it's cool, I built Metal here and he's all safe" Tails lied, but the guards brought it and started dispersing, before Princess Sally opened a door violently (Smacking Sonic's head with it in the process, waking him up.
"What the hell is going on out here!" she yelled (mainly at Sonic.)
Shadow noticed that Tails, Metal and Cream were all now sitting on a park bench in front of a tree and decided to join them. Screams of "bringing a race to Castle Acorn without my permission!" and "you guys are so irresponsible!" were heard behind him. Obviously Sally had not noticed only Sonic was there.
"Nice work Metal, you sure showed the faker back there." Shadow laughed, he couldn't help but feel peaceful at the sight before him. Several flicky birds were playing with Cheese, Tails seemed to have a grasp on the flicky language and was talking to a flicky that was on his ungloved hand, and Cream was having a conversation about chocolate cake with Metal."If only that squirrel would shut up!"Shadow thought.
At that moment however the nearby clock tower struck twelve. Eggman's distraction would be starting around now. Shadow was pleased to see Metal didn't try to kill Cream suddenly.
A few moments later, Shadow saw a distressed coyote dressed in a blue army uniform run up to Sally and seconds later Sonic was gone. "Well that worked better than expected!" Shadow said out loud as he walked over to the others. "you put up a good fight today... fox, enough to earn a look at my shoes, if you want I can take you straight back to your workshop with a Chaos Control."
Tails looked at Shadow, sighed, than looked at the tree behind him, rubbing its bark. "Yeah sure, ok I guess, I need to get out of here any way!" walking forward Shadow could see his eyes were slightly glazed. "Bye Cosmo."
Chap 7
14)Fire in the disco, fire in the disco, fire in the... gates of hell... fire in the disco, fire in the disco, fire in the... taco bell...
15) Dr Gerald had been working on and perfecting the designs for something called "memory cards" as one of his many side projects aboard the ARK. these devices of course would allow one to store thoughts inside of them for later viewing.
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Turning to look at the machine, I saw a brief flash of blue white light, and heard a massive thunder crack. I could feel the energy moving around me...
"Quite a change... yes... that's not the only thing that changed, I used to enjoy looking down at the Earth when there was thunderstorm."
Chap 8
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"Don't try to move Tails, the memory cards are somewhat dangerous and difficult to control..."
"... in layman's terms, when they are used they trick the mind into believing everything in the memory is actually happening, your body put itself into a state of shock after Miles was zapped by the Chaos Engraver, just like the machine did to him... well you."
"Which could make our task slightly more dangerous."
Our task?
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Griping onto Eggman's table, I was finally able to pull myself up. He looked slightly alarmed, and the E-series aimed its guns at me...
... for good reason, there was blood in my mouth.
We try to go our whole lives without the taste of flesh and blood.
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I didn't even know what I did, I just ran on auto-pilot the whole time I was doing it.
Was this what Chaos Control felt like for Shadow and Sonic?
20)
"...this means that Tails DNA came from Mobius in the first place... Mobius species evolve quickly you see... that's how every species here can breed together without detrimental effects..."
"... This means there's a high probability your DNA is from here as well... which explains where you're from... but not how you're DNA got from here to there, unless the Black Arms have some kind of inter-dimensional portal." Eggman finished, as Shadow spoke up.
"Nor does it explain how Tails got here."
Chap 9
21) 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.
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"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.
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"Because you never wanted to, Miles wanted to forget."
"Yes, Miles. His name was Miles, but he wanted you to keep 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."
Chap 10
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"Well technically the orders were not to see him and carry out your mission for a week!"
Shadow mulled this idea over, it wasn't exactly hard to find a loophole in something that allowed him to break orders without actually breaking them. But it was foreign to him to consider actually going through with it.
He was taking a break... that was it...
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"My machine comes with me... hehe, now I want everyone in here tomorrow when I reveal it... hopefully by then I'll come up with a good name too." Tails said, rubbing the back of his neck.
"Why haven't you named it yet." Shadow simply asked, the fox suddenly looked very embarrassed.
"Ummm... contrary to popular belief... my projects turn to molten slag more often then you'll think." Tails laughed, everyone suddenly looked very scared at the prospect of using Tails new machine.
"hey hey... don't worry about it, it'll be fine." Tails tried to say in a comforting manner.
"Guys..."
...
"I call it the X-Slag because you won't die while using it..." Tails began explaining, showcasing a simple silver watch with several buttons on it. "...It's a simple wristwatch that allows Chaos Users to move in-between dimensions by changing the Chaos energy waveform to that of moving between dimensions, not between space." Tails said proudly.
"The watch is completely waterproof, runs off magnetic generators, is shock resistant, and can survive a sudden velocity change from 0 to 4000 mph..." Tails talked himself up once more, oblivious to the fact no-one had yet said anything.
"So I guess we can't come with you then." Amy said sadly.
Chap 11.
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"You know those two funny reoccurring cops from Sonic X, the laid back ginger and the fat one with the epic stache who was always eating burgers or doughnuts... well I'm not sure if they had names but I'm calling the moustache dude John, and the ginger one Ron. I would call them by their real names, but couldn't find them anywhere."
"It took Chris 6 mobian months to get to Mobius, I'm guessing it took something like 2 months for the Meterex thing to end, and in my fic it's 8 months after that.
So with the whole 12/1 Earth Mobius time conversion it's been 16 years Since Sonic and that have been to Earth."
Taken from authors note.
27)
Something was wrong with this place...
Glancing around, Shadow could tell this wasn't an ordinary place, it just felt odd.
Shadow watched as the hooded figure got up and started moving towards him.
"You!... you said this would happen, I guess I shouldn't be surprised!"
"He's been waiting down there for you for a long time."
TAILS THE FOX
BELOVED HERO
LOVED BY ALL
EXAMPLE TO ALL
LIVED A HARD LIFE AND NEVER GAVE UP GIVING
DIED OF OLD AGE ON 6THJUNE 3053
BIRTHDATE UNKNOWN
FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS
28)
"So Tails?"
"Yeah Sonic?"
"What was that you were saying before we left home?"
"Ummm don't know what you're talking about..."
"You know the thing about us not being seen by humans or else it'll cause a flash mob or mass panic or G.U.N. to come after us and we don't want that because we probably won't be here that long." Sonic explained.
"I don't remember saying anything like that!" Tails said, rubbing the back of his neck.
"Sure?" Sonic asked
"Yeah."
"Well perhaps you should have listened to whoever did say that..." Sonic said condescendingly, clearly annoyed at the fox.
"What do you mean?"
"You know, when YOU DECIDED TO CHAOS CONTROL US INTO THE DIAMOND STADIUM WHEN THERE'S A GAME ON!" Sonic yelled.
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If Sam was paying attention however, he would of noticed the radio crackle something about Sonic being seen at Diamond Stadium, A blue hedgehog land on the top of his highly tuned car and Shadow and Tails both come up to the side of him.
Instead he was eating fries at well over 400mph while listening to Ozzy Ozbourne's 'Let me hear you scream' at extreme volumes and complaining to himself about what a boring night it was.
After half a minute of Sam driving along obliviously, Sonic knocked on the windscreen, achieving a very loud response from Sam when he saw the hedgehog poking his tongue out at him.
Without a word, Sonic jumped from the car and over a concrete barrier, joined by Shadow and Tails.
"Huh, eyes must be playing tricks on me!" Sam said as he turned the radio to an easy listening station and threw the fries to the side.
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"Hey Ron, you believe this thing about Sonic coming back?" asked a slightly obese officer who obviously spent too much time in the sun, while eating noodles from a generic Chinese noodle box.
"Yeah John, sure hope we see him tonight, too bad we got orders to arrest him though!" Ron replied. Both burst out laughing at this, the duo were currently in a parking lot outside of a dairy.
The three heroes chose this moment to stop by the two.
"hey guys..." Sonic began "...What's going on?"
"Hey Sonic, see I told you he was here Ron..."
"Hey I never said he wasn't John..."
"Arghh guys" Tails complained.
"Yeah foxy?" Ron asked
"What's the story on us?" Tails asked.
"Well you caused quite a stir apparently and hundreds of people are going crazy down at the stadium..." John informed, Sonic shot a nasty glance at Tails "... and we got orders from the president to arrest you guys and bring you in." John finished while slurping his noodles, Tails had a toothy grin plastered on his face.
"So what do guys think we should do" Sonic asked Ron and John.
"I'll say get in the car and see what the president wants, but we're not stupid enough to try chasing you." Ron said while laughing the last bit out. This time it was Shadow who replied, although his voice was shaking it was what he said that confused everyone else.
"Guess the faster we get this hysteria thing sorted the faster we can do what we came here for."
Chap 12
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"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.
"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!"
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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.
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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.
Chap 13
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Out of all the creatures on Mobius perhaps the Flicky is the least understood, little to nothing is known about these sentient birds, however what we can pull up on them is quite unique.
Believed to have evolved to sentient status only recently, they show stunning signs of intelligence, showing a complex variety of signals, chirps and gestures that are used in conjunction to communicate with each other. The common Flicky's nest is almost always ingeniously designed, often encompassing to the surrounding climate.
However the most notable feature about the Flicky is perhaps its body's ability to hold Chaos Energy, the Flicky uses its reserves of Chaos Energy to escape predatory danger by fooling the minds of these lesser animals, byutilising it'sability todetect the motives of anything around it.
The personality of the Flicky is timid and shy however, and only a few friendships from a Mobian to a Flicky have ever been recorded, however when a friendship is developed, the Flicky will often show a lot of respect and trust towards this individual.
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"Why do I keep coming here old woman? Who are you and what is this place?"
"You see, it's this place, the Graveyard of Heroes... It's a pocket dimension that warps reality."
"The Graveyard of Heroes is simply a grave that commemorates the biggest heroes of all the dimensional Zones."
"So you can see me and I can't see you?" Shadow answered, hands coming out to his sides.
"When you get back, don't tell anyone about this... I know you won't as you never did, please just think of what you saw today. When the time comes you will make the right choice."
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"What was on Miles mind, truly, how much did he go through, do I even want to know?"
Half a minute later, Tails was at the entrance to Gerald's secondary lab, according to his map anyway. Looking around at the empty hallway, Tails felt his fur drop, remembering the tickle attack from Shadow, It was hard to know this was part of his childhood.
Entering the lab, he could see various beakers and papers littering the tabletops, a few Bunsen burners were visible in a glass cupboard and a few unimportant looking consoles in the back. All in all, it looked unused and neglected. Little did Tails know he was now being watched.
Upon finally reaching the Engraver, Tails noticed a panel on the side of the machine, plying it off quickly with one of his claws, he noticed a stand that would presumably contain a Chaos Emerald. Understandable Tails thought, it was called the Chaos Engraver after all. But this was probably the only thing worth looking at in here, and Tails didn't want to spend any more time in here then necessary.
Dooms Eye only just managed to escape detection from the fox by flying back into the ceiling.
Chap 14.
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It was the same room Miles slept in.
Strange really, that room should be almost unbearable to him, why did it feel strangely welcoming? There was no taint of fear in that room, none. It even looked scary, like something out of an insane asylum, padded walls and floor. There wasn't even a bed, just an extra soft part of the floor. So why was it the only place on the Ark Tails truly felt safe? Maybe he was never bothered when he slept.
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"So why am I here again Knuckles?" Metal questioned uncertainty present in his voice; him, Knuckles, Cream and Amy were all standing at the Master Emerald altar. Knuckles briefly thought about how far the tin cans sentience went before answering.
"Because the Master Emerald asked me to bring you here... and if you didn't come I'll smack you!" Knuckles grumped.
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Tails couldn't believe the info he was pulling up, neither could Sonic.
Test records, research goals, anything he wanted to know about his time here. Tails had unknowingly stumbled across the very computer station he used to hack Space Colony Ark. Hundreds upon hundreds of files all on him were in the palm of his hands.
What came up as a surprise was the fact two donor profiles came up, Rosemary and Amadeus Prower. There pictures came up on the screen and Tails quickly printed a copy. Rushing back to the desk and returning to his reading, he saw that they were both infertile. According to the Data, their DNA was taken over two centuries ago. When the Black Arms came and promised to help them create a child with their DNA, they both jumped at the chance.
The other third of his DNA came from a Black Arms leader, named Black Doom.
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Gerald's goal was to use the Chaos Engraver in order to change Miles into a form similar to Bio Lizard, demonstrating the power of the Chaos Emeralds to G.U.N. for a new type of weapon. Countless subjects had all been used beforehand, anything from simple rats and cockroaches to sentient beings like Miles and Poison Croc.
Unfortunately for Gerald however, Chaos Emeralds were unpredictable, and the Emerald in the machine used Positive energy instead of Gerald's desired negative energy.
The test was deemed a failure, and G.U.N pulled its support from the Ark.
Two weeks later G.U.N. stormed the Ark, killing Maria and most of the scientists onboard. Gerald was executed two weeks later, but not before reprogramming the Ark to crash into Earth.
Something about the fact it was the last file accessed on the console, combined with the fact it detailed Maria and Gerald's death along with Gerald's plan in great detail, set off alarm bells in everyone's head.
Opening up the consoles access logs, Tails discovered that this particular file was last accessed 54 years ago, it had been 66 years since the Ark incident.
Chap 15.
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Ironic really, he had all the answers he could want in his hand, but had no way of accessing them. Realising this was getting him nowhere; Tails embraced the oddly comforting padded floor. "I have to remember to get something like this back home."Tails thought, wrapping his tails around him to use as a blanket while using his elbow as a pillow.
One minute later, Doom's Eye heard the soft purr like snoring of the kitsune as he watched on from the small ventilation shaft near the ceiling. Without a doubt, this was an older version of Miles, even if he went by the name 'Tails' now. Strangely, he didn't seem to wield any of his powers. "Although, he did force the hedgehog to forget his past, could he of done the same to himself!"
A single thought emanated through his mind, and Black Doom knew the situation instantly, being connected to his master like this did have its perks.
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"... This thing as you put it Bocoe!" Eggman started, adding emphasised anger to the robots name "... is the key!" Eggman paused, waiting for someone to interrupt him, which to his great surprise didn't happen, disgruntled he continued. "It's an ancient alien device that taps into the Chaos Emeralds power!" Eggman said proudly, holding up a thin silver cylinder, engravings in an unreadable text decorated the surface beautifully and if you looked close enough a small white glow was visible in these words.
Eggman looked around, both Bocoe and Docoe were silent; to Eggman's dismay, he wanted a exclamation or crazy question of some kind from them which he would of answered while ignoring the fact they spoke "And people say I'm not nice!" Eggman thought. He decided to take his anger out on Bokkun who was struggling to open a candy wrapper, clearly not paying attention.
'CLANG!'
"OW!"
"OH HO HO HO!"
Placing the giant hammer on the table with a smile, Eggman continued. "The key... once I find out how to use it... will allow me to absorb ten times as much Chaos Energy from an emerald, and if I get all 7 emeralds... OH HO HO HO! The universe's ultimate power is unleashed!"
Demonstrating the power of the key, Eggman pulled out the blue Chaos Emerald, and brought it close to the key, seconds later a high pitched whine was heard, wisely Bocoe, Docoe and Bokkun jumped behind cover, just as yellow energy engulfed the room.
When the smoke cleared, Dr Eggman was covered in soot, his glasses askew and his moustache bent, broken and on fire.
"Ouch!"
Fluffy couldn't help but perform the Flicky form of laughter, which is to say 'chirp chirp chirp-chirp chirp chirp-chirp.' Before shutting up and quickly regaining his silence.
Coincidently, no one noticed (that is to say) the small group of ants now drawing what appeared to be cave paintings in a hole in the wall.
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"Knuckles this is so boring" Amy complained.
'Fwash' Chaos Control enveloped Knuckles, Metal, Cream, Cheese and Amy.
"Why can't we do anything, like maybe you could talk to your stupid rock and tell us why we're here?" Amy continued.
"Amy?" Cream said quietly.
"Shush Cream, in case you haven't noticed we've been sitting here for..."
"Amy?" Cream said a bit more loudly this time.
"Shush Cream... sitting here for a whole day, shouldn't we be doing somethi..."
"Amy!" Cream yelled assertively this time before continuing "We're not at the shrine anymore!"
"Arggrgh, where are we!" Amy screamed while jumping into the arms of Metal.
"She always like this?" Metal asked Knuckles, who simply shrugged.
"Yep, but that doesn't matter, what matters is where we are." Knuckles pointed out, where they were was impossible to put into words however, the best attempt was red rock and cavernous.
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"Look Tails, I've been thinking."
"Oh, I see why that worries you Shadow."
"What are 'we'?"
"You mean our relationship?" Tails asked, confirmed by a nod from Shadow. "Well... I honestly don't know... I mean we must have gone through the same kind of stuff on the Ark... So I guess that take away your excuse for being an anti-social ass to me." "While I was in the memory, I... I... I... enjoyed being you 'little brother' Shadow, if that's any help."
"I looked happy Tails, looked like I was having 'fun' and..."
"So... bros then Shadow?"
"Bros."
"No-one knows do they?"
"Not a soul Tails... not a soul."
Chap 17.
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Being captured, was not Knuckles cup of tea, looking around he could see it wasn't Cream, Cheese's or Amy's either, and Metal...
"You won't take me allliiivvvvvvvveeeeee!" Metal screamed loudly, flinging his arms around for good measure and smacking a few of the guards accidently.
This could take a while.
"Why the hell did the Master Emerald send us here?"Knuckles thought angrily, he had never been betrayed by the M.E. before. Why should it start now?
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Click...
Tails instantly felt something he hadn't the first time, a new body.
Adjusting to a new body suddenly was not an enjoyable experience. To say the least a body of another species and gender, it was difficult to get your head around. Shadow must have felt something like this when he used his memory card.
"Hey Miles, I heard a rumour that today's your birthday!" Shadow said entheasticly.
"Yeah apparently, I just heard about it myself." Miles said, giggling.
"And since I have you to thank for these shoes..." Shadow continued, picking the fox up.
"This was the last time I ever saw Miles like this!"
"... I think it's only fair you get to see how fast I can go in them!" Shadow finished. I had little time to react.
"No Shadow, You'll scare him he's only two remember!" I said as I tried to grab a hold of him, Shadow looked at me with an evil smile, while Miles looked less then pleased at the prospect of not travailing through the Ark at over the speed of sound.
Just as I about to grab Miles arm, Shadow pulled away and was going the other direction, thankfully at much less than top speed. Insane laughter could be heard from both Shadow and Miles, and Maria made a mental note to thank Shadow later. Miles would never know that he wasn't travelling anywhere near as fast as Shadow could move.
"I should go down to the kitchen and start preparing Miles birthday cake, now what kind would he like?"Maria thought, both Shadow and Tails could tell this was an original thought. The memory went black for a few seconds before continuing.
Maria was now nearing the kitchen, when a small boy caught her eye, she had never seen this boy before.
"Hello, what's your name?" Maria said joyfully.
"Oh, ahhh, hi... my names Abraham, what's yours?"
"My name's Maria, nice to meet you Abraham!" Maria exclaimed while shaking his hand, secretly she wanted to ask why his eyes were both different colours, but kept it to herself. "If you don't mind me asking..." Maria started, to which Abe sighed believing he knew the question that was coming "... What are you doing on the Ark, I've never seen you before!"
Abe looked at Maria strangely before speaking.
Chap 19.
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"Stay outta this Shadow!" Tails snapped, his fur was suddenly stuck up and his canines were bared.
"What the hell Tails... he hit you!" Shadow yelled angrily.
"What the hell was that for!" Tails demanded, clawed finger pointing at Sonic.
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.
Both fox and hedgehog stood still for a second, before both drew each other into a hug, both crying.
"Please, Sonic, tell me what I am... I need to know now!" Tails begged,
"You're Chaos!"
"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..."
"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!"
"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..."
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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.
"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.
Chap 20.
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'Munch... munch... munch...crunch...munch...munch...munch..."
Two sets of eyes him angirily; the idiot in question had somehow acquired a packet of chips and was eating them VERY loudly.
"Crunch... munch... munch... munch..." Bokkun continued eating, oblivious to the dangerous situation outside the cavern walls, a small blue fist smacked him across the face.
"Ow! what was that for!" Bokkun complained loudly, Cheese the chao smacked him across the face again while Fluffy flicked a rock down his throat to stop further noise escaping Bokkun. Bokkun coughed and gagged for a minute before managing to spit it out.
"What are you doing you stupid bird... I could have choked!" Bokkun complained, all Fluffy could think was 'you're a robot... howcan youchoke?'
Cheese and Fluffy looked at each other, both wondering how they got stuck with this idiot.
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Removing his glove, the black claws on the ends of his fingers were almost invisible with the charcoal fur on his hands, the sight before him reminded Tails was a natural born killer, a natural born murderer. It also made him briefly wonder how powerful he truly was, if Miles was able to alter his very mind so successfully, so easily, and add an almost hypnotic suggestion that he should go on a rage every time he tasted blood.
The first thing Tails wanted to do once he got his hands on the key and had unlocked his powers was to remove the whole 'blood high' thing. The second thing he would do would be visiting KFC; foxes were notorious for their taste for chickens.
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This particular brand of evolution was incredibly rare, but humans accidently managed the impossible when they nuked their own planet. They were doomed from the start, their will to survive, their will to protect themselves, inevitably ended the human race. The unpredictable and uncontrollable effects of radiation affected a small species of mosquito, which spread across the globe and affected every species on what used to be earth.
The mosquito was genetically affected by radiation, altering its ability to draw blood from its host. It took DNA from one species and placed it in the next, altering the genetic build-up of everything on Mobius until everything had the same DNA. Every animal species on Earth were slowly becoming a single species, 'the Mobians', while at the same time the humans killed themselves off.
"Funny how the all the different species became one and how animal types are simply races and breeds!"
Humans were going extinct, but their DNA served a useful purpose in the end, if it wasn't for their mistake Mobians would never existed in the first place, they'll still just be a bunch of dumb animals.
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Tails had studied his room well the past few days, the vent near the roof ran straight to Maria's room, that was the most probable reason for the claw marks leading up to it. he just hoped Miles gave her a sense of privacy, she was a young woman after all.
It was his plan to head straight to the mainframe and start looking up anything that could help him against Black Doom, the situation was bleak. Somehow the Black Arms managed to capture his friends... along with Metal Sonic, Eggman, Bocoe, Docoe and Amy.
A giggle suddenly emanated from Tails despite the situation, the thought of Amy being an enemy was too much for the fox, every time she saw Sonic and screamed 'Soniku' at the top of her lungs.
But Black Doom did have his friends, along with the key which was very worrying.
When he had his power... Miles was a god, plain and simple. That amount of power could not rest in Doom's hands.
But what could he do?
Tails was normally good with coming up with plans, but these Black Arms were unknown enemy's and also had a lot of leverage on Tails situation. Friends, the Key, knowledge on Miles, and if they travelled between dimensions they could already have some Chaos Emeralds. He could sense Fluffy on the Black Comet as well.
Just like that Tails was depressed again.
Cosmo's sacrifice had hit him hard, and the situation felt like the whole Meterex situation. The last thing Tails wanted was to see was someone he love die so he was actually considering heading back to Mobius to get the emeralds, which would most likely take less than a day given the fact Eggman wasn't there to conveniently turn up and cause hell as soon as they were found.
Drowning down his coffee, Tails got up and headed out his room, he'd been sitting on his ass too long and he needed to come up with a plan soon.
Chap 22.
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"Why are you getting the emeralds Tails?" Sally re-questioned, her eyes narrowing slightly. She knew about Tails newfound Chaos Powers, almost all of Mobius had heard by now. And she couldn't help but wonder about the circumstances and his obvious nervousness.
"Because..." Tails swallowed, "Because... for once I don't think we can win without loss of life..."
Chap 23.
A wild, annoying as all hell author appears.
Ending tease.
A green flash came, a loud 'fwash' as the blackened silhouette of our two tailed fox kit came tumbling out from within the otherworldly, anomalous glow known as chaos control... Not that anyone else was around to see it; the seats of Diamond Stadium were all vacant on this particular night and the only light source for the darkened stadium was coming from the moon above. (Which was significantly dimmer then 16 years ago, thanks only to Eggman blowing half of it up with the Ark's "Eclipse Cannon" in a futile attempt to take over the planet Earth.)
The fox briefly shivered, unconsciously wrapping his arms and namesakes around himself, even his thick fur couldn't block the effects of temperature shock along from chaos control.
Something wasn't right... he could sense something was wrong. His fur was on end and a feeling of dread was slowly overcoming his consciousness. Looking around however, Tails only eyed empty seating and soft green turf. "Is anyone there?" the fox asked, shakily, "Hello? Is anybody around?"
The only reply he got was his own voice bouncing off the stadium walls, walls which were constructed on an angle especially for that reason; the resulting reverb was an eerie, taunting echo that managed to send chills up the kit's spine. "Why am I so scared..." the fox wondered, "...no one else is around."
...
The world suddenly started fading from the fox's view. The last thing he noticed was the black and red aurora surrounding him and the stadium.
Hope you recapped.
Hope you're prepared.