The Darkened Past

Warning: None this chapter

Summery: A recount of how Tail’s met Sonic but with many darker themes, for surviving in a world that hates you it is only the beginning for a lot of darker intentions… This will be a darker than normal fic Pairings later, Warnings on each chapter

Disclaimer: Don’t own Sonic or any of the characters only the plot I have delved into


The darkened past
Chapter 9: Apprehension
Feelings are apart of us, but are they a curse or a gift?

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Ears twitched as the sound of something being crushed was heard faintly, eyebrows furrowed as lids slid open revealing dull blue eyes that stared into nothing. Hearing a yell he pushed himself up onto his hands and knees as he tilted his head, the crystals still glowing brightly around him. Frowning he decided he had imagined it and curled his arms around his legs that had been pulled up against his torso.


Resting his head on his knees, his ears drooped at the ends as a sigh came from his chest, rubbing his face Tail’s grimaced as he remembered his breakdown not too long ago. A yell that was closer and definitely not of his imagination caught his attention and he uncurled from his position, ears straining foreword to get any other sign.


The crunching of rock was heard as a lot something’s made of metal bounced off the rock wall in front of him, Tail’s on his hands and knees crawled foreword and placed his hands upon the wall. Placing an ear to the rock he listened carefully his eyes shut.


A yell was heard quite close to his position and his eyes shot open as he realised someone was near to where he was trapped. Breathing in sharply Tail’s looked downwards and swallowed, clearing his throat so he could call out to the other side, but when he pulled away he missed the whistling in the air as something came towards the rock wall at an incredible pace.


A CRACK was heard and Tail’s eyes went wide as he looked upwards, his ears sinking back in fright as the whole of the wall seemed to shudder. Yelling out he curled into a ball hands over his head as the wall seemed to explode, rock flying in all directions into the tunnel. Tail’s gritted his teeth as rock’s bounced off of his fur and body the whole place shaking.


For a whole five minutes he was curled up as dust from the rocks flew up into the air, covering everything. The shaking slowly stopped but the sounds of battle grew louder, and the yells that had been muted along with the metal crunches of bullets could be heard clearly.


Breathing in he coughed the dust getting stuck within his throat, lowering his hands he shook his head. Dust slid off his fur that had coated it several inches think, sniffing again he sneezed sending him backwards onto his backside as he rubbed his nose trying to get the irritable matter out of his sensitive sinuses. Ears flicking towards the battle that was outside the cavern, he pulled himself towards the fallen rocks that had been a wall and slowly raised himself up as he looked out, squinting in the bright midday sun.


At first nothing could be seen as he blinked to let his eyes adjust to the light, but then slowly things came into focus. Tail’s blue eyes went wide as though he could not believe what he was seeing, he swallowed as he pushed himself further up to make sure what he was seeing was not an illusion.


Trees, rocks, plants, everything was either uprooted or destroyed, it was a sorrowful sight and everything in the area that he could see had been torn apart. The clanging of metal could be heard and he gripped the upper part of the broken wall as he leaned out to look to his left. Eyes widened and he ducked back in as something came flying past, crashing into the dirt and making a long groove upon the floor.


Ears sank back as he looked upon the hunter robot that was lifting itself up from the crevice that had been created. Parts of the armour were falling off and most of the weapons were torn off or destroyed, but still it was a formidable machine.


“YAHHHH!” A blur shot out from the same side the hunter robot had come from, it sped around in a circular formation before crashing into the robot, the metal squealing under the pressure as the machine brought up a clawed hand and whacked the blur away, sending it into the rock’s just beside where Tail’s resided. Ducking his head so fragments of sharp rock would not hit him, he soon enough looked out once more and was horrified at the vision that met his gaze.


The blur had in fact been the blue hedgehog Sonic, who looked worse for wear. Blood coated his torso, one arm and part of a leg; his head had blood that was running from a gash, gloves were ripped but still useable, trainers were dirty but not touched. His quills were flying in every direction some of them matted from the blood and dirt that had gotten into them. Ears were laid back against his head as he bared his teeth at the robot as he got into a position to try his homing attack once again.


The one thing that would stay with him was the determined look in the Hedgehogs face, glowing Green eyes were narrowed with a resolution to not give up and they seemed to glow with the presence of the Hedgehogs spirit. Blue eyes were wide as he watched the hedgehog run full tilt towards the robot, he swallowed hoping the other could win when the hunter robot did something that none of them had guessed it would.


The back panel slid off, it fell to the ground with a crash and the attachments to it stopped moving, a jetpack slid itself out and blasted off. The robot shot foreword towards the hedgehog and he could not evade in time. A CLANG was heard as the metal robot’s clawed hand pinned the hedgehog to the rock, Tail’s watched in horror as the other struggled fruitlessly to get out of the precarious hold the metal being had on him but the grip was too strong.


Looking left and right, Tail’s climbed out of the hole of the wall and jumped down to the dirt floor below, barely making any sound as he landed. A cry of pain caught his attention and he saw the hedgehog trying not to scream as the robot crushed him slowly in torture. Snarling to himself, blue eyes taking on a slit like feature, he through himself onto all four paws and raced towards the two, hoping he would be in time.


Eyes narrowed as the hedgehog paled as the other metal hand was brought up and was transformed into an apparatus that the hedgehog recognised but he did not.


:Highest Priory – Extraction of Hedgehog Genetic Sample and Destruction of Subject: Growling Tail’s pushed himself to his limits, in speed as the apparatus came closer and closer to the panicking mobian. As he reached them something sparked within his mind and a small memory of the spin dash attack that the hedgehog had used before came to the forefront. Instantly he through himself up into the air and curled his body backwards, roaring with all his emotion the through himself foreword and sent himself into a fully fledged spinning ball.


Zipping foreword he crashed into the metal hunter and sent it flying, as well as loosening its grip on the hedgehog that slid down the wall to land upon his feet beside Tail’s. The kit was on his knees after collapsing, feeling slightly dizzy and somewhat sick from the spinning, that attack had taken a lot out of him.


“Hey kit you ok?” Panting he looked up into Green eyes that had a concerned looked in them, nodding he turned his attention back to the hunter that was getting back up once again.


“Just doesn’t quit does it?!” He agreed with the statement the hedgehog had said, lifting his lip in annoyance of the hunter robot that still would not stay down; he tilted his head as he watched the armour that was on the robot crack and fall to the ground in pieces.


“Is there any way to defeat it?” He was looking at the hedgehog once again who nodded though the green eyes looked worried.


“Yeh there is, but it involves a team of two. Before I always had another with me and we were able to take these bots out with no prob…” Tail’s ear’s twitched as he analysed the weaknesses of the robot and the possible choices the two of them had.


“What about if I help you, will it make a difference? The robot is already heavily damaged from the last attack I gave it.” The Hedgehog placed a gloved hand upon his chin in thought as a foot tapped a rhythm upon the dirt.


“I don’t think it would be a good idea kit, unless…” Green eyes lit up and Tail’s looked warily at the grinning hedgehog.


“What?” He was cautious whatever the hedgehog had planned could not be good, for him at least.


“Those tails of yours, can they hold the weight of two for a short period of time?” Tail’s tilted his head as he thought it over.


“I’ve never tried… but” The hedgehog looked at him with a raised brow, before switching his attention back to the robot that was slowly making its way over to where they stood.


“Make it quick bud, that bot won’t wait forever you know.” Looking round Tail’s glared at the robot as he slid into a fighting stance he had used in the past, his ability’s ready to be used.


“Perhaps, from my calculations I could for a very short time.” A smirk came upon the hedgehogs face as he moved beside the kitsune, green eyes glittering with joy.


“This is what I have in mind….”


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Tail’s sighed as he spun his tails pleading that they would be able to hold him in the air and last with what he was going to achieve. Looking over his shoulder he made sure that he was spinning to his maximum capacity and jumped into the air, hovering in place he grinned, tilting his body he raced to where the hedgehog was waiting a short distance from the robot that was making its way towards where he stood.


Coming up to the hedgehog at speeds even the kit did not know he could reach, he reached out with his hands making sure to focus on the hedgehog who was keeping his eyes upon his flying form. Just as Tail’s flew over, the hedgehog began to run and leaped into the air, arms above his head, hands outstretched.


Flying downwards he caught the others gloved hands with his own and immediately felt the burn not only from his hands but from his tail’s as well. Gaining a strained look, he kept on going foreword determination in every pore, then at a certain distance that had been calculated by his mind he began to spin in the air. His hands were gripping tightly to the hedgehogs and soon enough he went faster and faster.


Teeth were gritted as he kept his mind on where the target was, one hand had let go and he clutched both of his over the other hand, still getting faster, then when he felt the burn reach a peak he let go and the hedgehog went flying towards the robot. Immediately he spin dashed and ran straight through the robot shattering it to pieces and explosion sounding shortly afterwards.


Tail’s on the other hand did not see any of this, he crash landed on the hard ground bouncing several times and when he got to his feet could not keep his balance from the dizziness that over took him. Tiredness was in every part of his body and he sat down with a thump, parts of him scraped from his fall from the sky. Lifting a hand to his head he groaned as the world would not stop spinning.


Curling up he ground himself, muttering he would never do something like that again, he opened his eyes and yelped seeing green eyes right in front of his own. Braking out into guffaws as the kitsunes startled look made the other glare at him, snarling quietly at the laughing hedgehog he slowly got to his feet.


Feeling a hand on his arm stabilising him made him freeze, memories running through his mind. A high pitched whimper was heard as the kitsune wrenched his arm from the other and ran off on all fours. A shout was heard but he did not hear it nor the sound of a running river that he was getting close to.


His pupils were pinpricks as he saw things that were not their, trees turned to buildings, bushes turn to trashcans and fences. In his mind he could hear the jeering of the people, the dreaded running footsteps of the mobians and the laughter at his plight from the teens and kids. Then suddenly arms were around him and he shrieked in fright, yelping and crying to get away fear coming from every part of him.


But then a voice broke through the madness that was his mind, stilling his yelps and cries turning into whimpers as tears burned a path down his cheeks, he listened. It was soothing, there was something about this type of voice he had never heard before and it calmed him drastically. The visions began to fade that were around him and blackness came fourth as nightmares took hold.


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End Chapter 9