Hello Hello friend! Welcome to your first chapter in the story! I promise it'll be just as good as the last one and won't have as much gore in it! Mayde a little but no arms will be ripped off this time!

Chapter One: A Hero's Redemption

They had worked all night in hope of keeping the teenager alive and they had done just that. Tails had managed to give the teen the arm of one of the Metal Sonic drone's in place of the one he lost. For some reason Tails couldn't help but feel like he's seen this hedgehog before. Just change his quills' color to green and black and he'd look just like...

"Tails?" Sonic questioned his vulpine friend.

"Huh?" Tails said looking over to the cobalt hedgehog.

"You okay? You look like you've seen a ghost!" Sonic said

"Huh? Oh! Yeah I'm fine. Just thinking about something" He dismissed Sonic's concren

Tails then walked away from the table. And left the room entirely. Leaving Sonic alone with the sleeping teenage hedgehog. He was shaking. The thirty-two year old needed a drink. He knew it. This kid had the same quill's of Tails' old friend Ashura. But that couldn't be right. Ashura was the first to fall to Neo Metal's Rage. And it was all his fualt. Tails began to cry. He was the one who made Neo Metal Sonic's skimatics. And look what it caused him. He lost all of his friends and then some.

Tails poured himself a glass of whiskey. Something that he had found around the ruined city quite often. So they had a lot of it. But only really drank when they did something good in this hell-hole of a world. Saving a life counted as one of those rare good things in Tails' mind.

More tears fell from his eyes as he thought about his lost friends. Sally, Rotor, Antonie and...Ashura. Ashura wasn't just his friend. Ashrua was something else to him. Ashura was his...Best not start thinking about that again.

More tears fell. He took another drink of his whiskey. He had spent his whole life trying to forget what had happened to Ashura. But to no avail. He still had night-terror's about it. A sigh escaped his mouth. Ashura and Sally's death's were on his hands. His brother wife and his best friend died for him and Sonic. He started to think about the day he and Ashura met.

-FLASHBACK-

Tails was sitting on one of the many hill tops in the Green Hill Zone. A place that he and Sonic visted every now and then. He was enjoying the silence that the Zone had given him. He needed silence after the day he had. Sonic and Sally had finally tied the knot after they had beeten once and for all. A golden age was falling onto the kingdom. One that Tails would gladly accept.

He was about to lay down in the grass when a voice called out to him. Looking up he saw his good friend Silver looking down at him.

"You know there are better place's to take a nap other then the ground right?" Silver asked with a smile.

"Yeah but it's so comfy here!" Tails argued

"Still. You could get hurt or something!" Silver exclaimed.

"Oh yeah? And how would I get hurt by laying down in some grass?" Tails asked

"I'm not sure but it could still happen!"

The two continued to agrue about Tails' choice of napping grounds until a green hedgehog with black highlights walked up to them.

"You two sound like a old married couple"

-CONNETION LOST-

Tails was shaken out of his memories by his brother. Sonic had a very worried look on his face. Before Tails could ask what was wrong Sonic had grabbed him and drug him into the workshop room.

"Sonic what's wrong?" Tails finally asked.

"He's waking up!" Sonic said with a worried look on his face.

"Wait...You moved him without telling me?" Tails asked

"I DID tell you! You even said 'Yeah. Sure. Whatever.' I swear!"

"Alright then..."

"You two sound like an old married couple..." A third vioce claimed.

Sonic leapt into Tails' arms and gave off a very unmanly yelp. He then glared daggers at the now awoken teenager. The purple hedgehog began to look around before his eyes fell onto his metal arm.

"Wha-What happened to me!" He exclaimed.

Before Sonic and Tails could answer he jumped up. Climbing off of the table he ran off into another room. The two followed the teen into the main room. The Purple hedgehog was running around the room calling out for someone.

"Kathem! Kathem where are you!" He called out.

Sonic walked up to him and asked "Um...Who's Kathem?"

The boy stopped his frantic searching to look at Sonic.

"He's my little brother. I promised my parents I'd keep him safe after they..."

"I'm sorry but. I only found you. And judging by how you looked. If he's still alive We'd better hurry and find him!" Sonic proclaimed.

"Whoa! Whoa! WHOA! Before we do anything we need to make sure your new arm works properly!" Tails said before grabbing the purple hedgehog by his shoulders and pushing him back into the workshop room.

Tails made the teen sit down on the table while he hooked up a buntch of cables to his metal arm and his head. Tails then began checking a bunch of screens. He then looked over to the teen with a huge grin and said.

"It seams everything is working just fine! But uhh...You might want to stay away from water with that arm for a while. The results could be a bit shocking to say the least heh heh heh..."

"Umm...Thanks?" The teen said.

Sonic walked into the room with a smile and said

"Is everything ready? I wanna get going as soon as I can. If Kathem is still out there he's in danger."

"By the way, We never got your name. What is it?" Tails asked.

The teen walked over to his clothes that were taken off of him so they could give him his new arm. The teen put on his black sleaveless shirt and turned to them and said.

"Marco. My name is Hayden Marco."

AND SCENE! Thank you guys so much for reading this chapter and I'll see you guys the next time I'm able to update! I'll get to working on Kumori's Tale as soon as I have some down time. So Until next time. BUH-BYE! ~DSN