Sonic Series Fan Fiction ❯ Released to Destroy ❯ This is what its like to be free/health concerns ( Chapter 2 )
[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]
By: Shadow 6271 
The creature is released, we see its past, Tails nearly has a heart attack and Sally has a nervous brakdown.
Extreme variation in writing quality ranging from I could write better than that right through to actually readable.
read and review please!!!
Non Anime: Sonic Series Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Hentai / Action | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 04.02.2007 | Updated On: 04.12.2007 | Pages: 5 | Words: 7.5K | Visits: 512 | Status: Completed
The creature is released, we see its past, Tails nearly has a heart attack and Sally has a nervous brakdown.
Extreme variation in writing quality ranging from I could write better than that right through to actually readable.
read and review please!!!
Non Anime: Sonic Series Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Hentai / Action | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 04.02.2007 | Updated On: 04.12.2007 | Pages: 5 | Words: 7.5K | Visits: 512 | Status: Completed
Welcome to chapter two in my amazing story of stuff I thought up at 2 o’clock in the morning.
Did anyone recognize those numbers on the Freeze Chamber? If you haven’t guessed who it is yet then I must have done a better job covering it than I thought.
I’ll probably change this to Hentai as soon as I put a lemon in, if indeed I do. I’ll tell you this, I’ve been thinking of the pairing and I might as well aim really high and go for a MalexMale fiction, after all if your going to right something badly first time, you might as well be ambitious.
I know some may object to that idea but please don’t, I’ll try to make it tasteful and not make any characters seem too out of character. I might put a few SonicxSally moments in here too.
Oh Character Ages:
Sonic-24
Sally-25
Tails-14
Rotor-21
Bunnie-23
Shadow- 56 in total, of which 50 were cryogenic and such don’t really count, yep my killer hedgy is a 6-year old. I take the opinion that he was probably programmed with knowledge and born physically mature.
Remember read and review or I’ll make a well loved character into a cross-dresser from New Zealand.
Oh Italic bold is thoughts for anyone who cant guess.
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Sonic’s POW
Sir Charles continued over the monitor “Yesterday a small but extremely important and above all dangerous Human Military Hazardous Containment Unit and research centre was broken into and almost everyone disappeared or were killed. Coincidently Robotnik now has a good deal more Human Badniks. I think you can guess who did the breaking in.” His voice had some thinly veiled anger and disgust in it.
“Ro-buttnik” he said under his breath. I don’t know what a Military Containment Unit is, but it doesn’t sound good. What do they have that needs to be contained anyway?
Looking around he noticed everyone had reacted differently. Tails’ namesakes were currently winding around like two snakes instead of the usual flicking, he had long ago figured out how to tell Tails’ moods from his tails. He was very worried.
All the fur on Sally’s neck had risen and he guessed that she had already found out about this through Nicole, she monitored all the Human news channels since Perfect Chaos had appeared, now that she had all the facts he guessed she was going through what Hazardous Containment could be in her mind.
Rotor had suddenly began tuning up his laser pistol, something he claimed helped him relax and Bunnie had suddenly taken hold of her organic arm with the metallic one, as if she was making sure that no one would take that one away.
Normal POW
Uncle Charles carried on when seeing the room of growling or anxious Furs. “I managed to see it when he first brought it in”
“what was it exactly?” Sally asked him.
“I’m not sure, it looked like it was in a cryogenic stasis chamber, but whatever it is it must be extremely important. There is a slot that looks like it takes a Chaos Emerald to activate it, odd that someone would design it so it would only work with Chaos Energy, luckily for us he doesn’t know you have one, let alone two. He kept boasting to Snively how it was created by his Grandfather, who worked for the Overlander Military over 50 years ago and how it would destroy everything. But it was so small, the pod would only have room for something say maybe 2 metres tall at the most!”
“So it’s a mechanical midget Super Weapon?”. To Sonic’s surprise Nicole replied.
“Who says it is mechanical Sonic? Cryogenic freezing is used only on things that are at least part organic”. There was a shocked silence as everyone took this in, even Sir Charles had not thought of this. The idea that it was a normal robot was somewhat comforting, after all they had fought many robots and won. But a “living” robot? This was something no-one really had experience in.
They were freedom fighters, but they had never really killed anything. Not even the badniks were destroyed often, and on the rare occasion they were it was generally seen as a mercy and done as with a special gun for shutting them down painlessly. Was a part organic robot, a cyborg, even alive in the a sense that they were.
And if it wasn’t a cyborg, but a really alive creature? Tails was suddenly drawn to looking at his older “brother” and hero, and one question rang out in his mind, would Sonic kill?
He could easily kill a Mobian with his spines (which, if tensed could punch through metal), but given the need to do it, would he? Could he?
Then another thought- Could I? He had never met anyone who seemed like they could just kill, could he if he needed to?
Sally was about to voice these opinions to the rest of them, but she saw into their eyes and recognised that everyone had been thinking the same thing.
She settled for asking another question “Has he released it yet?”.
“No, apparently he wants time to study its powers. He has locked it in an old basement level. I’ll send you the schematics, he doesn’t expect you though. He has only just gotten it in but he’s finished his first set of scans. He’s probably waiting for those to be analyzed before he takes anymore so it would be an ideal time to destroy it. Before he learns too much”.
“Or….” said Tails “we could try and capture it” all eyes were on him now confused “well think, if we can capture it then maybe we can use it on Robotnik, reprogram it or something, who knows what we could do with something like that? ”.
“No Tails!!!” Sally actually shouted. Calming down slightly she said “we don’t know what it can do, our best bet would be to simply destroy it, I don’t trust anything Robotnik. Be it ours or his grandfather anything like that is not to be trusted”.
“Ok” he replied, letting out a sigh I really thought that was a good idea, we could reprogram anything with Nicole.
Sonic spoke next “ its settled, we will go in tonight and destroy the…..the….whatever it is. Sally, Bunnie, Rotor, Tails and I will come”.
“Be careful Sonic, Sir Charles out” .
“well Sugah-hog, I’m thinking everyone should get some rest for tonight” suggested Bunnie.
“Good Idea Bun, we’ll all meet back here at 2300 hours and then go destroy us some super weapon” he replied racing off for his before-before-rest run.
As everyone walked back to there huts Tails realised that this was his first truly important mission into Robotropolis. I’ll show Sonic and Aunt Sally just how good a Freedom Fighter I can be, I’ll make sure not to mess this up!
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Burning pain throughout its body. It embraced the searing hurt that shocked its frame. Odd, it could not move or feel anything normal yet it could still feel pain. Still it had been so long that the creature would have grinned if it could, it knew what this meant. Someone was scanning it, finding out its bodies secrets. Of course they would attempt a cheap knock-off, but for a decent copy It would need to be released.
It had been right, soon it would emerge and destroy all. After rewarding its new Ally of course, and obliterating these fakes. It searched for anything else it needed to do, and found it was disappointed that there wasn’t. Was it hesitant? Ridiculous! It needed its revenge! And yet, it wanted to do something else too. Explore? That was it, it wanted to see its new domain. But if it completed its plan then all the world would be destroyed, and that had to happen to kill the betrayers.
Perhaps a third option would present itself, a chance to kill all the disgusting creatures who called themselves Humans and see this world too.
Uncertainty- now that it was nearing freedom, it began to question its orders. Or rather, how it would go about completing them…. NO!! it lived to obey.
Then again…..it had not been given clear instructions, it had just managed to think up its own plan……..wait now it had another plan! When released it would wait and study all options, if there was another way it could try it before using its final option. The one who released it would be a good source of information surely. Patience was the key.
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50 YEARS AGO: SPACE COLONY ARK
Green liquid, bubbles, cold. Trapped in glass, floating in liquid. He thought he would drown but he didn’t appear to be needing to breath. He calmed. Where was he? He could feel the metal pipes leading into his spine and was surprised to see some thinner ones from his arms- these led through the glass to the other side into a computer. He guessed they were for information transferral. These detached from the glass and he was surprised to see them slide back into his arms instead of simply falling limp.
Were these leads normal, they didn’t seem like they should be there. Looking around the room now he found that he was contained within a large glass tube in the middle of a lab. It was dark in there for some reason but his vision appeared to function well in the dark, and the tube had its own lights making it glow in the room.
The computer banks that he had been connected up to were beeping quietly to themselves but he saw that the rest of the metal pipes led into one machine or another next to them. The last at the top of his spine lead into a laptop computer and displayed what would later turn out to be his brainwaves.
Looking around again he saw the reason he wasn’t drowning in the cold liquid, a pipe from about halfway up his spine lead into a unit named a “Blood Oxidisation Unit”, whilst he was unfamiliar with how the machine worked he somehow knew what the words blood and Oxygen meant and guessed this kept him alive and respiring.
Next to the Unit was a large screen with a picture of his body, it showed his skeleton and where the leads ran into him. Both the one entering at the top of his spine and those in his arms ran along his spine and into his skull.
The door opened and men and women in white cloaks ran in looking both excited and absolutely terrified. Judging from the way the room had obviously been abandoned quickly it looked as if the dozen or so creatures had ran off when he had awakened. Maybe they had gone to tell someone or get something. That seemed logical he thought.
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Tails had somehow managed to get some sleep even with the constant sonic booms made by Sonic’s after-before-before-rest run, honestly. Did he never stop? He was almost permanently moving! He can‘t even sleep with Aunt Sally half the time because he tries to run in his dreams! Even if he stays in the same place he has to tap that foot, I remember once when I was younger we all played musical statues, Sonic started to shake after about 3 seconds!
When he exited his small but cosy wooden hut he walked to the centre of the village and was unsurprised to see Rotor and Bunnie working on some equipment to bring in case of SWAT bots or Badniks, among them were some EMP bombs, some power rings for Sonic, a special rifle for dealing with Badniks painlessly and some laser pistols. Seeing that Sally was sitting on a bench nearby and looking at the base schematics on Nicole and that Sonic run still hadn’t died away he guessed he was probably the only person who had gotten rest.
There was a nervous sick feeling in his stomach and his muscles were tense, he needed to calm down and he knew it. He sat down on the bench next to Sally and took several deep breaths of the night air, with his fox senses he could smell many things.
He caught the scent of the various nuts in the trees around them, the flowers in a nearby flower bed and even his Aunt Sally’s perfume, where she had gotten hold of perfume God only knows.
“Feeling tense?” she asked without looking away from Nicole’s Holo-screen, the tiny but oh-so advanced computer showing all of the plans of this basement where they were headed.
The question shocked him as he didn’t think he was really that easy to read.
“Your tails twitch and writhe more when your nervous” she offered by way of explanation, and she was right, looking at his appendages he saw they were moving like fighting snakes.
“urr…yeah, I am just a bit nervous, it is my first really important mission, you know. The one that will show how good I really am as a Freedom Fighter and doom me if I fail”.
“So, no pressure” she said, smirking slightly “don’t worry, I’ll let you in on a secret” when seeing his curious face she continued “I’m always nervous, I don’t have the same confidence that comes to Sonic so easily purely because I think ahead. I know that if I died then the Freedom Fighters would probably be destroyed or even taken over by the Human military- GUN”.
Tails was shocked “but your always calm, and brave, and you always know what to do! How can you be nervous all the time?”
Sonic’s voice interrupted before she could answer “come on guys! Its almost time to go! I can’t wait any longer!!!” Sonic was actually jumping up and down on the spot.
As Tails and Sally got up she answered “I’m a politician, I’m good at pretending and sometimes I find that if I pretend to be confident I become more confident”.
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These creatures were nervous, he could tell. They had called for another one to be here and had made few attempts at contact. They were afraid of him but why? Was he scary to them. The only thing they had said was ask if he was in pain and to nod if he was. He had done nothing so they left him. Come to think of it he quite liked them being scared, they didn’t bother him and it was amusing. But at this rate they would never release him.
Another creature came in, it too was dressed in a white coat like the rest but it was unafraid. In fact it seemed pleased to see him. It walked up to his tube and he saw that while its head was bald it had a large amount of facial hair. He immediately set this man as the template for all others of his species, he seemed to be the superior and so it made sense. His analytical mind began to take In details about him. His height, his size, his voice, he tried to study his eyes too but they were concealed by the odd pieces of glass covering each. Come to think of it, some other humans had them too. What were they for? Were they some form of decoration? They did seem to change the light somewhat. Perhaps they were a mark of authority, yes this was logical too, he was after all the template and now his oddly behaved brain saw them as normal for all creatures like this who were obviously superior.
“Hello? Can you understand me?”. Unknowing what exactly to do he settled for nodding his head like the other creature had asked. This small action delighted the new creature.
More questions were asked but eventually he lost interest and stopped answering , instead beginning to study more of the room and its odd inhabitants. Luckily the template realized it was boring him and stopped, instead checking on his life signs. It seemed surprised though when he didn’t answer it again for the rest of the day and instead fell asleep.
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Normally the journey to Robotropilis would have taken a few hours but with Sonic ferrying everyone back and forth it took barely a half hour.
Coming out of the Great Forest which hid Knothole from Robotniks prying robots so well Tails looked upon the city that used to be Mobotropilis, he had never seen it himself but Nicole had shown him pictures from the past and he was as angry as anyone that it had been ruined so badly.
Smog covered the dark grey towers of metal, hiding SWAT bots and the walking slaves that had known freedom before Robotnik had taken them. For all he knew his own parents were among them, as he was an orphan which Sonic and Sally had found very early in their lives. Sally gave up her childhood to raise me, her best years were torn between taking care of me and fighting Robotnik, not that I was a troublesome baby or anything. I’ve seen the recordings, I just took apart machinery and put it back together better.
The smoke from a hundred factories choked his fox nose, he could detect each and every disgusting chimney. Worked in by slaves who never stopped, who were unable to stop or stop themselves. What would it be like to be trapped inside your own head? Unable to move a body you know is there?
Marching monstrosities clanked in the streets, creations of an evil man. What did anyone do to deserve this? I know that history needs its butchers as well as its shepherds but this? This is a bit much don’t you think? He was saying a silent message to any God that happened to be listening to get of its backside and do something knowing my luck Perfect Chaos will probably answer me!
His silent rant was cut short by Sally giving instructions.
“okay, Sonic- the robots are programmed to follow and attack you so destroy a few and lead them on a chase away from our entrance point, do it for around 10 minutes then hide. Come back again after a while when its died down a bit and keep them all alert to your presence and away from ours. The rest of us will make our way to the entrance and try to get in without being spotted, got it everyone?”
“Time to juice Sal, bye!” was accompanied by a zoom indicating Sonic had left for the city.
“Nicole, monitor the radio channels for orders. The rest of us lets go!” As the Freedom Fighters snuck through the main gates a creature locked away got a strong euphoric feeling. It knew that its time was nearing, it just wasn’t too sure about what to do.
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“……………it just floats there and glares at the interns! Amusing as that is it does get rather tiresome when your creation finds you boring and unworthy of its time. I was definitely not expecting that I would overcome all those obstacles and make a truly unique creature just for it to have Attention Deficit Disorder! Hah! The very thought! Diary end.”.
The template had been talking into something and symbols had appeared on the laptop computer, a device for storing words, how odd- why not just remember them?
“What should we do Professor” said one of the “Interns” whatever that was .
“I don’t have a clue, but I don’t want to release it until I know he’s got some reason for listening to me, my master identification program I loaded into his brain hasn’t had any effect although I’m sure it should be working. Anyway my granddaughter wants to see him so I have her coming up in a few minutes so be nice”.
“yes Professor” the man said chuckling “You know I love seeing Maria, such a lovely girl.”
Who was this Maria? For the first time in his incredibly short and so far uneventful life he was curious. Perhaps she would let him out of the cold liquid, he would reward her if she did. He felt that subconsciously he would owe a great debt to whoever would release him.
Objective 1: Protect the Master(Primary)
Objective 2: Destroy all those who would harm the Master or you(Primary)
Objective 3: Follow the orders.(Secondary- use own judgement on necessity of orders)
What was that!?!? It had just popped up in his head, but he must follow these ideas in his brain he knew.
Reality returned when the lab door opened…..
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Bunnie drove her metallic fist straight through the a SWAT, taking out its central processor. Above her Tails was using his twin tails to defy gravity by spinning them like a helicopter, a view which would make any physicist scratch his head and tear up Sir Isaac’s notes on the dangers of small fruit.
Poor Sal once had to spend 2 hours programmin’ a blind spot into Nicole so she’d ignore that lil‘ anomaly, poor gal’ nearly split a resistor!
Sally was shooting at more SWATs blowing them in two, and with a few well thrown EMP bombs on Rotor’s part the entrance was clear.
Darkness threatened to swallow them until Rotor handed out flashlights, they entered the strange dead place. There were no robots here, gone to investigate Sonic, Robotniks good old 300 I.Q had programmed only one guard mode into his standard soldiers and this guard mode made them chase Sonic no-matter what they were guarding. Still there was the danger they would run into Mecha-Sonic or even his bigger brother Metal Sonic, who had so far only been reported about by Sir Charles and not seen in action.
Julian seemed to have a love of replicating Sonic in his robots, mostly because he knew it unsettled Sonic that there was something else that looked like him, if ever he found a Fake as fast as him he would probably have to go lie down Sally thought to herself.
There was a lift now, mostly for Robots as it too was unlit. And rusty, but Nicole assured it was safe so they got on. Tails’ heart was going a mile a minute, using his own laser gun and bombs he had destroyed five SWATs! Five! He was fighting alongside his friends for his life. Yeah! Wai..wait a minute.
And now he was in a spooky basement underneath a tyrannical dictators evil robotic slave city! yep there goes that fuzzy excitement feeling, now I’m just scared.
They walked along another dark corridor and finally reached a large steel door, which looked a lot like it was designed more for keeping something IN rather than out.
“urr.. is it just me or does that door say “I’m here to protect you from this lethal super weapon seriously don’t open me” to you guys too?” said Rotor, breaking the silence. Sally sighed.
“Can you open it Rotor?”
“of course” he sounded almost indignant.
“then why don’t y’all get to work an’ open this thing hey?” came Bunnies voice from the back of the corridor “ we don’t know when Robotnik’ll send his troops”.
Looking around Rotor spotted a blinking computer access point on the wall, pressing a small button on it, it opened and showed the nest of wires and pipes inside, all lighting up interchangeably and buzzing with power.
“Nicole, could you give me a hand?”, within five minutes the door opened.
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Sonic raced around Robotropilis‘ streets, guards identified him and left their posts to attack. No doubt spy cams were watching him. When Sonic spotted one, he gave it a few choice words to tell its master, mostly on the subject of eggs, fat and useless moronic scientists.
That was sure to get attention he thought to himself turning around feeling pleased. He stopped. There were a wide variety of robots blocking of his exits. The lasers buzzed and electronic claws begged to squeeze something, among the mob were standard SWAT bots and some normal Mobian Badniks but the worse thing he had seen In a long time towered behind the Robians, several roboticised human soldiers were there. Unlike the Robians some were missing limbs, in jagged positions like they had just been blasted of. A few had holes straight through them and a few ore were actually covered in blood.
He shivered involuntarily, I’d bet money Ro-buttnik left them like that just to creep me out he thought, knowing the dictators sick mind.
At the front of the mob, leading it even was Mecha-Sonic. In Sonic’s opinion the worst of the eggman’s inventions. It was around two inches taller than the original, and dull grey. With a red visor and no visible mouth it scared Sonic because it looked like himself if he was put through the Roboticiser. Razor sharp metal spines covered its back and its clunky hands were reaching out at him.
Its okay, he thought to himself I’m the faster one, I’m the real one so I can always beat him
Mecha-sonic came forward, if he had a mouth he would be grinning, but he was settling for flexing his razor sharp claws.
“Shit.”
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Maria walked Into the lab until she saw her Grandfather talking with Michael. Little more than 9 years old she was around the same size as a normal Mobian. She had long blond hair, a blue dress and the most beautiful large blue eyes that anyone had ever seen, but tears filled them. Making a picture that only a completely cold hearted bastard could ignore.
“Grandfather, Michael!” she said sniffling as she walked towards him. Professor Gerald could smell the shampoo in her hair and she smelt faintly of Strawberries.
“What’s wrong Maria” asked both Gerald and Michael at the same time, concerned for the sweet little creature that they knew and loved.
“I lost my teddy in the power plant” she said sorrowfully.
“THE POWER PLANT!!!!” the professor roared, seeing her scared face he calmed down immediately “I’m sorry Maria but you shouldn’t go in there, its dangerous”.
The power plant indeed, full of random laser blasts and superheated plasma vents. A terrifying death trap to all except a child- to which it was a glowing playground. The bear was no doubt nothing more than superheated particles floating around in the gas chambers.
“ I know but I like the lights, are you going to show me your new project?”.
“Yes, Project Shadow, right in that container tube over there”
Shadow had been watching all of this and found himself curious as to what this little girl actually was, she didn’t fit the template the way the others did, sure there were similarities but it was like comparing a hand to a foot. Similar but not the same by a long shot. He then realized that they had been referring to him, his name was Project Shadow. No one had seen fit to tell him!
“Whats he for?” she was curious and so was Shadow.
“I created him to be The Ultimate Lifeform ” seeing her confused expression he explained “I wanted to make a super-strong, super-fast creature that was completely immortal and could use those Chaos Emeralds I showed you”.
“So he can’t die?”
“Not easily” answered Michael “He will heal pretty much anything as long as he’s still breathing and preferably has a Chaos Emerald with him”. What was a Chaos Emerald Shadow thought to himself, The Ultimate Lifeform- me? Noticing his creations interest in Maria he turned to him and asked Maria to say hello.
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The large door creaked as it opened, despite the fact that it was fairly new. The room inside was very dark and long. A faint glow showed where the control panels were but the pod itself was hidden in shadow.
Sally started to explain the plan “okay, according to Sir Charles the pod is resistant to damage, constructed out of a super strong steel and carbon glass, so we need to take this Chaos Emerald, open it up and destroy it. He said that it would probably be to asleep to be able resist so lets go!”. She was holding the Green Chaos Emerald in her hand.
They looked at the room.
The Freedom Fighters hesitated, who knew what lay in that room. They saw now how thick the walls were, this room had been picked for its strength.
The room seemed to give of a cold feeling, making everyone more afraid. It was almost as if it generated the terror and sorrow. It was a room to slit your wrists in.
Tails swallowed his fear, despite the fact his legs were threatening to fold what would Sonic do! He wouldn’t just stand here. I’m gonna do it! I’m gonna right in there and beat that thing to death with my own tails!
In one swift movement he grabbed the Emerald out of Sally’s hand and ran into the dark and unforgiving room, screaming.
“TAILS WAIT!!” they all shouted at the same time, but it was no use. His foot passed through a small laser tripwire and the door slammed shut instantly, all creaking forgotten.
Wow I was lucky I didn’t get caught in that. He began to bang on the door but it was no us, it was solid as a rock.
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“ GET HIM OUT OF THERE!!!!!” Sally screamed at Rotor.
“I can’t! The panel’s fried itself!” he said franticly whilst running through his bags to look for anything powerful enough to blast through the door. But he knew it was in vain, he had put it together for SWATs not demolition.
“Bunnie, can you get through the door?”
“Are you kiddin’ sugah, I’m strong but that’s ridiculous”.
“Then what do we do” She sounded frantic.
“Sally-girl, calm down. He’s perfectly safe as long as that weapon stays in the land o’ nod“. As soon as she’d said it Nicole’s calm voice came over the corridor.
“Sally I have detected an explosive device in the area, it will detonate from within that room in four minutes twenty seconds, if we do not leave in the next 17 seconds we will be trapped and face deletion”. Sally began to pound on the door, crying for the boy who was like her son screaming his name, trying to reach him, tears streaming down her face.
“Sally we have to go!” pleaded Rotor.
“I’M NOT LEAVING HIM!!!” the last thing she felt was some kind of electric shock from where Nicole was on her and the vague feeling of being carries by someone. “Tails” she whispered.
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It felt the power now, strong Chaos Energy. An emerald must be close. Not wanting to wait for its saviour to release it, it instead called the Chaos energy to the slot on the Cryogenic unit.
I wonder what kind of creature awakened me
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Tails watched as the Emerald began to glow in his hand lighting up the room and showing him the icy stasis pod.
“hmm “I am ageless, I am immortal, I am the flawless existence. I will stalk your kind for all eternity and reign down Chaotic Fire upon the betrayers. I will destroy. 00:27:53:00”, sounds like this thing was a bit insane, and arrogant.”
The writing gave him the shivers to begin with but then he noticed what the ink was. He backed away from the pod. Or tried to at least as the emerald floated toward its slot on the blinking pod.
He was powerless to stop it despite putting all his weight on it.
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Why was this new creature resisting? The amount of energy it was expending doing this was ridiculous! It would be released! This creature would get its wish, although now he was tempted against helping it.
It would plan it next move later, it would be tired when released.
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The emerald fitted into the slot and the room darkened as the emeralds glow went out, Tails backed as far as he could away from the pod, terrified that he had released the whatever it was. I wonder how it will kill, me. I hope its quick. These thoughts were not doing anything for his confidence and his terror fuelled imagination began running through all the possibilities of the pods resident. His heart was beating quickly again and he was in danger of passing out.
Before his eyes the pod opened, grey mist flooded into the grey room. To all appearances the room looked like it was trapped in time, a never-ending cold nothingness.
Something sat up, he see only a silhouette. It seemed to have five horns coming out of the top of its head, he could see two red eyes through the smoke. But not the red of a robot‘s sensors, these were obviously organic. But they didn’t look natural, they were a deep blood red and glared directly at him.
Other features were obvious now, its body was compact but powerful. You could see that from the way it stood. Its stance sent out the message that anyone who got in its way but be obliterated.
All these details were absorbed in a second, and Tails attempted to squeeze even more into the steel door. Willing himself to pass right through it, but unable to.
A voice broke the short silence.
“Project Shadow freed from containment, instructions: Subdue Project ”
Tails watched as with a flick of its wrist the creature somehow called the Chaos Emerald to its hand and was relieved that the demon’s attention was suddenly drawn from looking at him to looking at the laser turrets that had lowered from the ceiling.
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(Author note, there is a reason for the change of It to Him, before he was an unidentified and bodiless mind and a mind has no sex)
FREE! He was free of that horrible prison! Muscles screamed to be used and his own mind wanted to destroy anything in the room, to cause explosions and kill his foes but he restrained himself, barely.
He took in his new surroundings, someone had obviously moved him from his room on prison island. He would have to destroy that facility before anything other revenge was taken. It was dark but his night vision was excellent and Shadow’s glaring red eyes searched for his unwilling helper, finding….. the whatever it was cowering against the door.
He had never seen such a creature before, he had been expecting a human. But this didn’t fit any human he had seen before and he was sure it wasn’t one. It had tails and was half the size, despite smelling like it was almost fully mature, and terrified.
It was obviously scared out of its wits, unworthy of his time and likely useless. His thoughts were interrupted by a voice, a robotic voice.
“Project Shadow freed from containment, instructions: Subdue Project ”
Laser turrets lowered from the ceiling, charging up with a hum. As standard models they were really unequipped to take down the Ultimate Lifeform, the designer had obviously not realized that turrets are more or less useless against an opponent able to stop time.
Shadow reached out to the Chaos energy and called it to him, as the emerald entered his grasp he leaped up to face the first of the turrets. A strong fist smashed straight through its metal casing like it was tinfoil. As he landed a snap of the fingers brought his energy to bend the laws of physics around another two, creating a gravity swell that compressed and tore apart anything inside it. As dozens laser bolts came towards him the emerald flashed once.
The room was the same but now the bolts were hardly moving, he simply walked past them and crashed a fist into a the wall, locating the power wires he ripped them out, immediately cutting of power to a good half of the turrets.
He turned to face the others as time returned.
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Tails looked on as the creature identified as Project Shadow dodged past the scores of laser bolts with speeds superior to Sonic, although there was no Sonic Boom for some reason he was moving almost to fast to see. He tried the door access panel but it had no power from this side, probably to stop it getting out. I’m trapped in here with that thing!!! He would of broken down and cried but he was to busy concentrating on the weapons movements.
Energy attacks flew from its fingertips into the crude laser turrets and strange purple points of light seemed to bend material and grind it apart, apart from the laser turrets shots there was no sound made and all too soon the last turret was destroyed when the thing simply thrust out its hand and it exploded.
The silhouetted creature turned to Tails, its blood red eyes once again glaring as though it could see into his soul. He whimpered at the sight of it walking closer until it towered over him. Not much taller but still towering, green emerald in hand.
This close Tails was sure he could make out some sort of white marking, he could feel its hot breath on him now, he was that close. But still the room was too dark, so Tails concentrated on smell instead. He thought he caught the faintest scent of…Strawberries? And gunpowder, but the creatures scent was unique. A musky, strong smell of a powerful athletic creature.
He stopped his examination and looked up at it again, the eyes still their watching. His heart already going at a dangerous rate jumped when a hand touched him, and he fainted of fright.
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What was this creature, he could see it easily in the dark. For here his eyesight was best. He was about to kill the thing, for it didn’t seem to be of any use but it instead fainted when his hand touched its neck. Surprised at this reaction he was even more surprised when the same metallic voice stated that there was only thirsty seconds until the facility detonated.
Faster than any animal on Mobius (or so he thought) he grabbed the orange ball of fuzz and held it cradled in one powerful arm. In the other he held the Chaos Emerald, a jewel of infinite power yet the size of his fist. Capable of bending the laws of time and space at will.
He said the two words necessary for a long range teleport.
“CHAOS CONTROL!!!” in a crackle of green lightning and a strange zapping sound he was gone, taking Tails with him.
“5...4...3...2...1” the computer droned on and the room was consumed in a wall of fire, billowing out from a hidden device and pouring over the Pod. Golden yellow flames blasted the super strong door of its hinges and followed the path of least resistance. Down the corridor the Freedom Fighters had exited barely five minutes earlier.
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Covered In cuts and scrapes Sonic had finally managed to escape Mecha-Sonic and his mob. That is not to say he didn’t give his mechanical version some dents and scratches of its own but he hadn’t stood a chance against all those robots. And he didn’t want to harm those poor soldiers more, locked not only in there own minds but also with the horrible sight of their stubby limbs.
Standing on top of a small chemical factory he managed to locate the basement entrance that Sally had taken their team. Just in time to see it explode in horrible flames. The door flew a good two hundred meters before crushing a squirrel Robian doing repairs.
He knew they had wanted to destroy the weapon but that was a bit much wasn’t it? He then froze and the icy fingers of dread extended across his body as one thought burned into his mind.
They didn’t bring any explosives with them. It stated quietly. It must have been booby-trapped.
He raced of to the flames, hoping to see Sally leading her group away.
He saw Rotor leading Bunnie away through the alleyways, with a struggling tearful Sally over her metallic arm.
“Where’s Tails?” they just looked at him sadly and Sally burst out in tears.
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Far way in the great forest there was a flash of light with a crackle of energy, and Shadow the Hedgehog took his first look at the planet Maria had wanted to visit so much.
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Yey, I finished another chapter and decided the plot (Kind of). It is going to be ShadowxTails, or Shails. Anyway you may notice my writing gets good and bad at different points and id appreciate any comments on my fic. So read and review (I wasn’t joking about the transexual thing you know).
I like how my Shadow things came out, and by the way if you didn’t recognize those moves then I was using Sonic Battle too. I don’t exactly have a clear direction for this so bear with me but I should be able to get up a new chapter every few days, until This Thursday when im going on Holiday for four days. But I’ll try that’s important, oh and I know that Shadow and Tails are among the most unrealistic of all pairings but there my two favourite characters. If I need to refresh my love for the pair I just type in Shails to deviant art and you get two really cute pictures of them. Like mercilessly cute pictures.
Did anyone recognize those numbers on the Freeze Chamber? If you haven’t guessed who it is yet then I must have done a better job covering it than I thought.
I’ll probably change this to Hentai as soon as I put a lemon in, if indeed I do. I’ll tell you this, I’ve been thinking of the pairing and I might as well aim really high and go for a MalexMale fiction, after all if your going to right something badly first time, you might as well be ambitious.
I know some may object to that idea but please don’t, I’ll try to make it tasteful and not make any characters seem too out of character. I might put a few SonicxSally moments in here too.
Oh Character Ages:
Sonic-24
Sally-25
Tails-14
Rotor-21
Bunnie-23
Shadow- 56 in total, of which 50 were cryogenic and such don’t really count, yep my killer hedgy is a 6-year old. I take the opinion that he was probably programmed with knowledge and born physically mature.
Remember read and review or I’ll make a well loved character into a cross-dresser from New Zealand.
Oh Italic bold is thoughts for anyone who cant guess.
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Sonic’s POW
Sir Charles continued over the monitor “Yesterday a small but extremely important and above all dangerous Human Military Hazardous Containment Unit and research centre was broken into and almost everyone disappeared or were killed. Coincidently Robotnik now has a good deal more Human Badniks. I think you can guess who did the breaking in.” His voice had some thinly veiled anger and disgust in it.
“Ro-buttnik” he said under his breath. I don’t know what a Military Containment Unit is, but it doesn’t sound good. What do they have that needs to be contained anyway?
Looking around he noticed everyone had reacted differently. Tails’ namesakes were currently winding around like two snakes instead of the usual flicking, he had long ago figured out how to tell Tails’ moods from his tails. He was very worried.
All the fur on Sally’s neck had risen and he guessed that she had already found out about this through Nicole, she monitored all the Human news channels since Perfect Chaos had appeared, now that she had all the facts he guessed she was going through what Hazardous Containment could be in her mind.
Rotor had suddenly began tuning up his laser pistol, something he claimed helped him relax and Bunnie had suddenly taken hold of her organic arm with the metallic one, as if she was making sure that no one would take that one away.
Normal POW
Uncle Charles carried on when seeing the room of growling or anxious Furs. “I managed to see it when he first brought it in”
“what was it exactly?” Sally asked him.
“I’m not sure, it looked like it was in a cryogenic stasis chamber, but whatever it is it must be extremely important. There is a slot that looks like it takes a Chaos Emerald to activate it, odd that someone would design it so it would only work with Chaos Energy, luckily for us he doesn’t know you have one, let alone two. He kept boasting to Snively how it was created by his Grandfather, who worked for the Overlander Military over 50 years ago and how it would destroy everything. But it was so small, the pod would only have room for something say maybe 2 metres tall at the most!”
“So it’s a mechanical midget Super Weapon?”. To Sonic’s surprise Nicole replied.
“Who says it is mechanical Sonic? Cryogenic freezing is used only on things that are at least part organic”. There was a shocked silence as everyone took this in, even Sir Charles had not thought of this. The idea that it was a normal robot was somewhat comforting, after all they had fought many robots and won. But a “living” robot? This was something no-one really had experience in.
They were freedom fighters, but they had never really killed anything. Not even the badniks were destroyed often, and on the rare occasion they were it was generally seen as a mercy and done as with a special gun for shutting them down painlessly. Was a part organic robot, a cyborg, even alive in the a sense that they were.
And if it wasn’t a cyborg, but a really alive creature? Tails was suddenly drawn to looking at his older “brother” and hero, and one question rang out in his mind, would Sonic kill?
He could easily kill a Mobian with his spines (which, if tensed could punch through metal), but given the need to do it, would he? Could he?
Then another thought- Could I? He had never met anyone who seemed like they could just kill, could he if he needed to?
Sally was about to voice these opinions to the rest of them, but she saw into their eyes and recognised that everyone had been thinking the same thing.
She settled for asking another question “Has he released it yet?”.
“No, apparently he wants time to study its powers. He has locked it in an old basement level. I’ll send you the schematics, he doesn’t expect you though. He has only just gotten it in but he’s finished his first set of scans. He’s probably waiting for those to be analyzed before he takes anymore so it would be an ideal time to destroy it. Before he learns too much”.
“Or….” said Tails “we could try and capture it” all eyes were on him now confused “well think, if we can capture it then maybe we can use it on Robotnik, reprogram it or something, who knows what we could do with something like that? ”.
“No Tails!!!” Sally actually shouted. Calming down slightly she said “we don’t know what it can do, our best bet would be to simply destroy it, I don’t trust anything Robotnik. Be it ours or his grandfather anything like that is not to be trusted”.
“Ok” he replied, letting out a sigh I really thought that was a good idea, we could reprogram anything with Nicole.
Sonic spoke next “ its settled, we will go in tonight and destroy the…..the….whatever it is. Sally, Bunnie, Rotor, Tails and I will come”.
“Be careful Sonic, Sir Charles out” .
“well Sugah-hog, I’m thinking everyone should get some rest for tonight” suggested Bunnie.
“Good Idea Bun, we’ll all meet back here at 2300 hours and then go destroy us some super weapon” he replied racing off for his before-before-rest run.
As everyone walked back to there huts Tails realised that this was his first truly important mission into Robotropolis. I’ll show Sonic and Aunt Sally just how good a Freedom Fighter I can be, I’ll make sure not to mess this up!
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Burning pain throughout its body. It embraced the searing hurt that shocked its frame. Odd, it could not move or feel anything normal yet it could still feel pain. Still it had been so long that the creature would have grinned if it could, it knew what this meant. Someone was scanning it, finding out its bodies secrets. Of course they would attempt a cheap knock-off, but for a decent copy It would need to be released.
It had been right, soon it would emerge and destroy all. After rewarding its new Ally of course, and obliterating these fakes. It searched for anything else it needed to do, and found it was disappointed that there wasn’t. Was it hesitant? Ridiculous! It needed its revenge! And yet, it wanted to do something else too. Explore? That was it, it wanted to see its new domain. But if it completed its plan then all the world would be destroyed, and that had to happen to kill the betrayers.
Perhaps a third option would present itself, a chance to kill all the disgusting creatures who called themselves Humans and see this world too.
Uncertainty- now that it was nearing freedom, it began to question its orders. Or rather, how it would go about completing them…. NO!! it lived to obey.
Then again…..it had not been given clear instructions, it had just managed to think up its own plan……..wait now it had another plan! When released it would wait and study all options, if there was another way it could try it before using its final option. The one who released it would be a good source of information surely. Patience was the key.
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50 YEARS AGO: SPACE COLONY ARK
Green liquid, bubbles, cold. Trapped in glass, floating in liquid. He thought he would drown but he didn’t appear to be needing to breath. He calmed. Where was he? He could feel the metal pipes leading into his spine and was surprised to see some thinner ones from his arms- these led through the glass to the other side into a computer. He guessed they were for information transferral. These detached from the glass and he was surprised to see them slide back into his arms instead of simply falling limp.
Were these leads normal, they didn’t seem like they should be there. Looking around the room now he found that he was contained within a large glass tube in the middle of a lab. It was dark in there for some reason but his vision appeared to function well in the dark, and the tube had its own lights making it glow in the room.
The computer banks that he had been connected up to were beeping quietly to themselves but he saw that the rest of the metal pipes led into one machine or another next to them. The last at the top of his spine lead into a laptop computer and displayed what would later turn out to be his brainwaves.
Looking around again he saw the reason he wasn’t drowning in the cold liquid, a pipe from about halfway up his spine lead into a unit named a “Blood Oxidisation Unit”, whilst he was unfamiliar with how the machine worked he somehow knew what the words blood and Oxygen meant and guessed this kept him alive and respiring.
Next to the Unit was a large screen with a picture of his body, it showed his skeleton and where the leads ran into him. Both the one entering at the top of his spine and those in his arms ran along his spine and into his skull.
The door opened and men and women in white cloaks ran in looking both excited and absolutely terrified. Judging from the way the room had obviously been abandoned quickly it looked as if the dozen or so creatures had ran off when he had awakened. Maybe they had gone to tell someone or get something. That seemed logical he thought.
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Tails had somehow managed to get some sleep even with the constant sonic booms made by Sonic’s after-before-before-rest run, honestly. Did he never stop? He was almost permanently moving! He can‘t even sleep with Aunt Sally half the time because he tries to run in his dreams! Even if he stays in the same place he has to tap that foot, I remember once when I was younger we all played musical statues, Sonic started to shake after about 3 seconds!
When he exited his small but cosy wooden hut he walked to the centre of the village and was unsurprised to see Rotor and Bunnie working on some equipment to bring in case of SWAT bots or Badniks, among them were some EMP bombs, some power rings for Sonic, a special rifle for dealing with Badniks painlessly and some laser pistols. Seeing that Sally was sitting on a bench nearby and looking at the base schematics on Nicole and that Sonic run still hadn’t died away he guessed he was probably the only person who had gotten rest.
There was a nervous sick feeling in his stomach and his muscles were tense, he needed to calm down and he knew it. He sat down on the bench next to Sally and took several deep breaths of the night air, with his fox senses he could smell many things.
He caught the scent of the various nuts in the trees around them, the flowers in a nearby flower bed and even his Aunt Sally’s perfume, where she had gotten hold of perfume God only knows.
“Feeling tense?” she asked without looking away from Nicole’s Holo-screen, the tiny but oh-so advanced computer showing all of the plans of this basement where they were headed.
The question shocked him as he didn’t think he was really that easy to read.
“Your tails twitch and writhe more when your nervous” she offered by way of explanation, and she was right, looking at his appendages he saw they were moving like fighting snakes.
“urr…yeah, I am just a bit nervous, it is my first really important mission, you know. The one that will show how good I really am as a Freedom Fighter and doom me if I fail”.
“So, no pressure” she said, smirking slightly “don’t worry, I’ll let you in on a secret” when seeing his curious face she continued “I’m always nervous, I don’t have the same confidence that comes to Sonic so easily purely because I think ahead. I know that if I died then the Freedom Fighters would probably be destroyed or even taken over by the Human military- GUN”.
Tails was shocked “but your always calm, and brave, and you always know what to do! How can you be nervous all the time?”
Sonic’s voice interrupted before she could answer “come on guys! Its almost time to go! I can’t wait any longer!!!” Sonic was actually jumping up and down on the spot.
As Tails and Sally got up she answered “I’m a politician, I’m good at pretending and sometimes I find that if I pretend to be confident I become more confident”.
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These creatures were nervous, he could tell. They had called for another one to be here and had made few attempts at contact. They were afraid of him but why? Was he scary to them. The only thing they had said was ask if he was in pain and to nod if he was. He had done nothing so they left him. Come to think of it he quite liked them being scared, they didn’t bother him and it was amusing. But at this rate they would never release him.
Another creature came in, it too was dressed in a white coat like the rest but it was unafraid. In fact it seemed pleased to see him. It walked up to his tube and he saw that while its head was bald it had a large amount of facial hair. He immediately set this man as the template for all others of his species, he seemed to be the superior and so it made sense. His analytical mind began to take In details about him. His height, his size, his voice, he tried to study his eyes too but they were concealed by the odd pieces of glass covering each. Come to think of it, some other humans had them too. What were they for? Were they some form of decoration? They did seem to change the light somewhat. Perhaps they were a mark of authority, yes this was logical too, he was after all the template and now his oddly behaved brain saw them as normal for all creatures like this who were obviously superior.
“Hello? Can you understand me?”. Unknowing what exactly to do he settled for nodding his head like the other creature had asked. This small action delighted the new creature.
More questions were asked but eventually he lost interest and stopped answering , instead beginning to study more of the room and its odd inhabitants. Luckily the template realized it was boring him and stopped, instead checking on his life signs. It seemed surprised though when he didn’t answer it again for the rest of the day and instead fell asleep.
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Normally the journey to Robotropilis would have taken a few hours but with Sonic ferrying everyone back and forth it took barely a half hour.
Coming out of the Great Forest which hid Knothole from Robotniks prying robots so well Tails looked upon the city that used to be Mobotropilis, he had never seen it himself but Nicole had shown him pictures from the past and he was as angry as anyone that it had been ruined so badly.
Smog covered the dark grey towers of metal, hiding SWAT bots and the walking slaves that had known freedom before Robotnik had taken them. For all he knew his own parents were among them, as he was an orphan which Sonic and Sally had found very early in their lives. Sally gave up her childhood to raise me, her best years were torn between taking care of me and fighting Robotnik, not that I was a troublesome baby or anything. I’ve seen the recordings, I just took apart machinery and put it back together better.
The smoke from a hundred factories choked his fox nose, he could detect each and every disgusting chimney. Worked in by slaves who never stopped, who were unable to stop or stop themselves. What would it be like to be trapped inside your own head? Unable to move a body you know is there?
Marching monstrosities clanked in the streets, creations of an evil man. What did anyone do to deserve this? I know that history needs its butchers as well as its shepherds but this? This is a bit much don’t you think? He was saying a silent message to any God that happened to be listening to get of its backside and do something knowing my luck Perfect Chaos will probably answer me!
His silent rant was cut short by Sally giving instructions.
“okay, Sonic- the robots are programmed to follow and attack you so destroy a few and lead them on a chase away from our entrance point, do it for around 10 minutes then hide. Come back again after a while when its died down a bit and keep them all alert to your presence and away from ours. The rest of us will make our way to the entrance and try to get in without being spotted, got it everyone?”
“Time to juice Sal, bye!” was accompanied by a zoom indicating Sonic had left for the city.
“Nicole, monitor the radio channels for orders. The rest of us lets go!” As the Freedom Fighters snuck through the main gates a creature locked away got a strong euphoric feeling. It knew that its time was nearing, it just wasn’t too sure about what to do.
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“……………it just floats there and glares at the interns! Amusing as that is it does get rather tiresome when your creation finds you boring and unworthy of its time. I was definitely not expecting that I would overcome all those obstacles and make a truly unique creature just for it to have Attention Deficit Disorder! Hah! The very thought! Diary end.”.
The template had been talking into something and symbols had appeared on the laptop computer, a device for storing words, how odd- why not just remember them?
“What should we do Professor” said one of the “Interns” whatever that was .
“I don’t have a clue, but I don’t want to release it until I know he’s got some reason for listening to me, my master identification program I loaded into his brain hasn’t had any effect although I’m sure it should be working. Anyway my granddaughter wants to see him so I have her coming up in a few minutes so be nice”.
“yes Professor” the man said chuckling “You know I love seeing Maria, such a lovely girl.”
Who was this Maria? For the first time in his incredibly short and so far uneventful life he was curious. Perhaps she would let him out of the cold liquid, he would reward her if she did. He felt that subconsciously he would owe a great debt to whoever would release him.
Objective 1: Protect the Master(Primary)
Objective 2: Destroy all those who would harm the Master or you(Primary)
Objective 3: Follow the orders.(Secondary- use own judgement on necessity of orders)
What was that!?!? It had just popped up in his head, but he must follow these ideas in his brain he knew.
Reality returned when the lab door opened…..
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Bunnie drove her metallic fist straight through the a SWAT, taking out its central processor. Above her Tails was using his twin tails to defy gravity by spinning them like a helicopter, a view which would make any physicist scratch his head and tear up Sir Isaac’s notes on the dangers of small fruit.
Poor Sal once had to spend 2 hours programmin’ a blind spot into Nicole so she’d ignore that lil‘ anomaly, poor gal’ nearly split a resistor!
Sally was shooting at more SWATs blowing them in two, and with a few well thrown EMP bombs on Rotor’s part the entrance was clear.
Darkness threatened to swallow them until Rotor handed out flashlights, they entered the strange dead place. There were no robots here, gone to investigate Sonic, Robotniks good old 300 I.Q had programmed only one guard mode into his standard soldiers and this guard mode made them chase Sonic no-matter what they were guarding. Still there was the danger they would run into Mecha-Sonic or even his bigger brother Metal Sonic, who had so far only been reported about by Sir Charles and not seen in action.
Julian seemed to have a love of replicating Sonic in his robots, mostly because he knew it unsettled Sonic that there was something else that looked like him, if ever he found a Fake as fast as him he would probably have to go lie down Sally thought to herself.
There was a lift now, mostly for Robots as it too was unlit. And rusty, but Nicole assured it was safe so they got on. Tails’ heart was going a mile a minute, using his own laser gun and bombs he had destroyed five SWATs! Five! He was fighting alongside his friends for his life. Yeah! Wai..wait a minute.
And now he was in a spooky basement underneath a tyrannical dictators evil robotic slave city! yep there goes that fuzzy excitement feeling, now I’m just scared.
They walked along another dark corridor and finally reached a large steel door, which looked a lot like it was designed more for keeping something IN rather than out.
“urr.. is it just me or does that door say “I’m here to protect you from this lethal super weapon seriously don’t open me” to you guys too?” said Rotor, breaking the silence. Sally sighed.
“Can you open it Rotor?”
“of course” he sounded almost indignant.
“then why don’t y’all get to work an’ open this thing hey?” came Bunnies voice from the back of the corridor “ we don’t know when Robotnik’ll send his troops”.
Looking around Rotor spotted a blinking computer access point on the wall, pressing a small button on it, it opened and showed the nest of wires and pipes inside, all lighting up interchangeably and buzzing with power.
“Nicole, could you give me a hand?”, within five minutes the door opened.
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Sonic raced around Robotropilis‘ streets, guards identified him and left their posts to attack. No doubt spy cams were watching him. When Sonic spotted one, he gave it a few choice words to tell its master, mostly on the subject of eggs, fat and useless moronic scientists.
That was sure to get attention he thought to himself turning around feeling pleased. He stopped. There were a wide variety of robots blocking of his exits. The lasers buzzed and electronic claws begged to squeeze something, among the mob were standard SWAT bots and some normal Mobian Badniks but the worse thing he had seen In a long time towered behind the Robians, several roboticised human soldiers were there. Unlike the Robians some were missing limbs, in jagged positions like they had just been blasted of. A few had holes straight through them and a few ore were actually covered in blood.
He shivered involuntarily, I’d bet money Ro-buttnik left them like that just to creep me out he thought, knowing the dictators sick mind.
At the front of the mob, leading it even was Mecha-Sonic. In Sonic’s opinion the worst of the eggman’s inventions. It was around two inches taller than the original, and dull grey. With a red visor and no visible mouth it scared Sonic because it looked like himself if he was put through the Roboticiser. Razor sharp metal spines covered its back and its clunky hands were reaching out at him.
Its okay, he thought to himself I’m the faster one, I’m the real one so I can always beat him
Mecha-sonic came forward, if he had a mouth he would be grinning, but he was settling for flexing his razor sharp claws.
“Shit.”
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Maria walked Into the lab until she saw her Grandfather talking with Michael. Little more than 9 years old she was around the same size as a normal Mobian. She had long blond hair, a blue dress and the most beautiful large blue eyes that anyone had ever seen, but tears filled them. Making a picture that only a completely cold hearted bastard could ignore.
“Grandfather, Michael!” she said sniffling as she walked towards him. Professor Gerald could smell the shampoo in her hair and she smelt faintly of Strawberries.
“What’s wrong Maria” asked both Gerald and Michael at the same time, concerned for the sweet little creature that they knew and loved.
“I lost my teddy in the power plant” she said sorrowfully.
“THE POWER PLANT!!!!” the professor roared, seeing her scared face he calmed down immediately “I’m sorry Maria but you shouldn’t go in there, its dangerous”.
The power plant indeed, full of random laser blasts and superheated plasma vents. A terrifying death trap to all except a child- to which it was a glowing playground. The bear was no doubt nothing more than superheated particles floating around in the gas chambers.
“ I know but I like the lights, are you going to show me your new project?”.
“Yes, Project Shadow, right in that container tube over there”
Shadow had been watching all of this and found himself curious as to what this little girl actually was, she didn’t fit the template the way the others did, sure there were similarities but it was like comparing a hand to a foot. Similar but not the same by a long shot. He then realized that they had been referring to him, his name was Project Shadow. No one had seen fit to tell him!
“Whats he for?” she was curious and so was Shadow.
“I created him to be The Ultimate Lifeform ” seeing her confused expression he explained “I wanted to make a super-strong, super-fast creature that was completely immortal and could use those Chaos Emeralds I showed you”.
“So he can’t die?”
“Not easily” answered Michael “He will heal pretty much anything as long as he’s still breathing and preferably has a Chaos Emerald with him”. What was a Chaos Emerald Shadow thought to himself, The Ultimate Lifeform- me? Noticing his creations interest in Maria he turned to him and asked Maria to say hello.
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The large door creaked as it opened, despite the fact that it was fairly new. The room inside was very dark and long. A faint glow showed where the control panels were but the pod itself was hidden in shadow.
Sally started to explain the plan “okay, according to Sir Charles the pod is resistant to damage, constructed out of a super strong steel and carbon glass, so we need to take this Chaos Emerald, open it up and destroy it. He said that it would probably be to asleep to be able resist so lets go!”. She was holding the Green Chaos Emerald in her hand.
They looked at the room.
The Freedom Fighters hesitated, who knew what lay in that room. They saw now how thick the walls were, this room had been picked for its strength.
The room seemed to give of a cold feeling, making everyone more afraid. It was almost as if it generated the terror and sorrow. It was a room to slit your wrists in.
Tails swallowed his fear, despite the fact his legs were threatening to fold what would Sonic do! He wouldn’t just stand here. I’m gonna do it! I’m gonna right in there and beat that thing to death with my own tails!
In one swift movement he grabbed the Emerald out of Sally’s hand and ran into the dark and unforgiving room, screaming.
“TAILS WAIT!!” they all shouted at the same time, but it was no use. His foot passed through a small laser tripwire and the door slammed shut instantly, all creaking forgotten.
Wow I was lucky I didn’t get caught in that. He began to bang on the door but it was no us, it was solid as a rock.
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“ GET HIM OUT OF THERE!!!!!” Sally screamed at Rotor.
“I can’t! The panel’s fried itself!” he said franticly whilst running through his bags to look for anything powerful enough to blast through the door. But he knew it was in vain, he had put it together for SWATs not demolition.
“Bunnie, can you get through the door?”
“Are you kiddin’ sugah, I’m strong but that’s ridiculous”.
“Then what do we do” She sounded frantic.
“Sally-girl, calm down. He’s perfectly safe as long as that weapon stays in the land o’ nod“. As soon as she’d said it Nicole’s calm voice came over the corridor.
“Sally I have detected an explosive device in the area, it will detonate from within that room in four minutes twenty seconds, if we do not leave in the next 17 seconds we will be trapped and face deletion”. Sally began to pound on the door, crying for the boy who was like her son screaming his name, trying to reach him, tears streaming down her face.
“Sally we have to go!” pleaded Rotor.
“I’M NOT LEAVING HIM!!!” the last thing she felt was some kind of electric shock from where Nicole was on her and the vague feeling of being carries by someone. “Tails” she whispered.
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It felt the power now, strong Chaos Energy. An emerald must be close. Not wanting to wait for its saviour to release it, it instead called the Chaos energy to the slot on the Cryogenic unit.
I wonder what kind of creature awakened me
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Tails watched as the Emerald began to glow in his hand lighting up the room and showing him the icy stasis pod.
“hmm “I am ageless, I am immortal, I am the flawless existence. I will stalk your kind for all eternity and reign down Chaotic Fire upon the betrayers. I will destroy. 00:27:53:00”, sounds like this thing was a bit insane, and arrogant.”
The writing gave him the shivers to begin with but then he noticed what the ink was. He backed away from the pod. Or tried to at least as the emerald floated toward its slot on the blinking pod.
He was powerless to stop it despite putting all his weight on it.
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Why was this new creature resisting? The amount of energy it was expending doing this was ridiculous! It would be released! This creature would get its wish, although now he was tempted against helping it.
It would plan it next move later, it would be tired when released.
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The emerald fitted into the slot and the room darkened as the emeralds glow went out, Tails backed as far as he could away from the pod, terrified that he had released the whatever it was. I wonder how it will kill, me. I hope its quick. These thoughts were not doing anything for his confidence and his terror fuelled imagination began running through all the possibilities of the pods resident. His heart was beating quickly again and he was in danger of passing out.
Before his eyes the pod opened, grey mist flooded into the grey room. To all appearances the room looked like it was trapped in time, a never-ending cold nothingness.
Something sat up, he see only a silhouette. It seemed to have five horns coming out of the top of its head, he could see two red eyes through the smoke. But not the red of a robot‘s sensors, these were obviously organic. But they didn’t look natural, they were a deep blood red and glared directly at him.
Other features were obvious now, its body was compact but powerful. You could see that from the way it stood. Its stance sent out the message that anyone who got in its way but be obliterated.
All these details were absorbed in a second, and Tails attempted to squeeze even more into the steel door. Willing himself to pass right through it, but unable to.
A voice broke the short silence.
“Project Shadow freed from containment, instructions: Subdue Project ”
Tails watched as with a flick of its wrist the creature somehow called the Chaos Emerald to its hand and was relieved that the demon’s attention was suddenly drawn from looking at him to looking at the laser turrets that had lowered from the ceiling.
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(Author note, there is a reason for the change of It to Him, before he was an unidentified and bodiless mind and a mind has no sex)
FREE! He was free of that horrible prison! Muscles screamed to be used and his own mind wanted to destroy anything in the room, to cause explosions and kill his foes but he restrained himself, barely.
He took in his new surroundings, someone had obviously moved him from his room on prison island. He would have to destroy that facility before anything other revenge was taken. It was dark but his night vision was excellent and Shadow’s glaring red eyes searched for his unwilling helper, finding….. the whatever it was cowering against the door.
He had never seen such a creature before, he had been expecting a human. But this didn’t fit any human he had seen before and he was sure it wasn’t one. It had tails and was half the size, despite smelling like it was almost fully mature, and terrified.
It was obviously scared out of its wits, unworthy of his time and likely useless. His thoughts were interrupted by a voice, a robotic voice.
“Project Shadow freed from containment, instructions: Subdue Project ”
Laser turrets lowered from the ceiling, charging up with a hum. As standard models they were really unequipped to take down the Ultimate Lifeform, the designer had obviously not realized that turrets are more or less useless against an opponent able to stop time.
Shadow reached out to the Chaos energy and called it to him, as the emerald entered his grasp he leaped up to face the first of the turrets. A strong fist smashed straight through its metal casing like it was tinfoil. As he landed a snap of the fingers brought his energy to bend the laws of physics around another two, creating a gravity swell that compressed and tore apart anything inside it. As dozens laser bolts came towards him the emerald flashed once.
The room was the same but now the bolts were hardly moving, he simply walked past them and crashed a fist into a the wall, locating the power wires he ripped them out, immediately cutting of power to a good half of the turrets.
He turned to face the others as time returned.
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Tails looked on as the creature identified as Project Shadow dodged past the scores of laser bolts with speeds superior to Sonic, although there was no Sonic Boom for some reason he was moving almost to fast to see. He tried the door access panel but it had no power from this side, probably to stop it getting out. I’m trapped in here with that thing!!! He would of broken down and cried but he was to busy concentrating on the weapons movements.
Energy attacks flew from its fingertips into the crude laser turrets and strange purple points of light seemed to bend material and grind it apart, apart from the laser turrets shots there was no sound made and all too soon the last turret was destroyed when the thing simply thrust out its hand and it exploded.
The silhouetted creature turned to Tails, its blood red eyes once again glaring as though it could see into his soul. He whimpered at the sight of it walking closer until it towered over him. Not much taller but still towering, green emerald in hand.
This close Tails was sure he could make out some sort of white marking, he could feel its hot breath on him now, he was that close. But still the room was too dark, so Tails concentrated on smell instead. He thought he caught the faintest scent of…Strawberries? And gunpowder, but the creatures scent was unique. A musky, strong smell of a powerful athletic creature.
He stopped his examination and looked up at it again, the eyes still their watching. His heart already going at a dangerous rate jumped when a hand touched him, and he fainted of fright.
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What was this creature, he could see it easily in the dark. For here his eyesight was best. He was about to kill the thing, for it didn’t seem to be of any use but it instead fainted when his hand touched its neck. Surprised at this reaction he was even more surprised when the same metallic voice stated that there was only thirsty seconds until the facility detonated.
Faster than any animal on Mobius (or so he thought) he grabbed the orange ball of fuzz and held it cradled in one powerful arm. In the other he held the Chaos Emerald, a jewel of infinite power yet the size of his fist. Capable of bending the laws of time and space at will.
He said the two words necessary for a long range teleport.
“CHAOS CONTROL!!!” in a crackle of green lightning and a strange zapping sound he was gone, taking Tails with him.
“5...4...3...2...1” the computer droned on and the room was consumed in a wall of fire, billowing out from a hidden device and pouring over the Pod. Golden yellow flames blasted the super strong door of its hinges and followed the path of least resistance. Down the corridor the Freedom Fighters had exited barely five minutes earlier.
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Covered In cuts and scrapes Sonic had finally managed to escape Mecha-Sonic and his mob. That is not to say he didn’t give his mechanical version some dents and scratches of its own but he hadn’t stood a chance against all those robots. And he didn’t want to harm those poor soldiers more, locked not only in there own minds but also with the horrible sight of their stubby limbs.
Standing on top of a small chemical factory he managed to locate the basement entrance that Sally had taken their team. Just in time to see it explode in horrible flames. The door flew a good two hundred meters before crushing a squirrel Robian doing repairs.
He knew they had wanted to destroy the weapon but that was a bit much wasn’t it? He then froze and the icy fingers of dread extended across his body as one thought burned into his mind.
They didn’t bring any explosives with them. It stated quietly. It must have been booby-trapped.
He raced of to the flames, hoping to see Sally leading her group away.
He saw Rotor leading Bunnie away through the alleyways, with a struggling tearful Sally over her metallic arm.
“Where’s Tails?” they just looked at him sadly and Sally burst out in tears.
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Far way in the great forest there was a flash of light with a crackle of energy, and Shadow the Hedgehog took his first look at the planet Maria had wanted to visit so much.
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Yey, I finished another chapter and decided the plot (Kind of). It is going to be ShadowxTails, or Shails. Anyway you may notice my writing gets good and bad at different points and id appreciate any comments on my fic. So read and review (I wasn’t joking about the transexual thing you know).
I like how my Shadow things came out, and by the way if you didn’t recognize those moves then I was using Sonic Battle too. I don’t exactly have a clear direction for this so bear with me but I should be able to get up a new chapter every few days, until This Thursday when im going on Holiday for four days. But I’ll try that’s important, oh and I know that Shadow and Tails are among the most unrealistic of all pairings but there my two favourite characters. If I need to refresh my love for the pair I just type in Shails to deviant art and you get two really cute pictures of them. Like mercilessly cute pictures.