Protocol Cy-Fox is a Sonic the Hedgehog Alternate Universe fanfic by Cy-Fox. Set 20 Minutes into the Future in the 22nd century, it revolves around two-tailed Keplerian fox Miles "Tails" Prower who enters the Keplerian Republic Space Navy as a way to escape from his father's plans to follow in his footsteps as an army officer. Further complicating things is his feelings for Maria Robotnik, a human childhood friend, who he has to leave behind for a few years. Also down the line, an origin story for Dr. Ivo Robotnik is in play, where he ends up in an Alternate Universe where there is a much different Kingdom of Acorn from what he recalls historically, fighting a war against Overlanders. Acting with good intention at first, Ivo progressively goes insane and decides to try to take over Mobius (sound familiar?). Later on after attempting Time Travel, Ivo finds himself back 'home' and teams up with the Acornian Remnant to try to take over his home timeline as well.
Tails finds himself the Unexpected Successor in command of the destroyer Campbeltown and has the ship evacuated before ramming it into what was assumed to be Robotnik's command ship, but ends up restored as an AI rather than permanently dead.
Out of all things, the earlier version of the fanfic, Immorality Protocol Cy-Fox, (specifically this part
) is where the memetic line, "Obama chucked. 'You mean the Chaos Emeralds?'" came from.
Tropes:
- Brits with Battleships: Tails (and later Maria)
- The Captain: Lieutenant Commander Keann Zincks of HMSS Campbeltown, Lieutenant Miles Prower of the HMSS Campbeltown
- Colonel Badass: Amadeus Prower starts as this, then upgrades to Four-Star Badass.
- Cool Starship: HMSS Warspite, the first British space battleship. Later upgraded to a temporal battleship with Time Travel abilities and redesignated as HMTS Warspite
- Darker and Edgier: It may be the 22nd century and a near-utopia but with slavers, the Acornian Remnant, xenophobes and an Ax-Crazy Eggman, it's definitely not going to make a good bedtime story for little Timmy.
- Four-Star Badass: In spades, Field Marshal Amadeus Prower, Admiral Crow Seetan and Rear Admiral Miles Prower.
- Love Interest: Tails and Maria Robotnik to each other.
- Mind Uploading: How Tails survived being killed by his sacrifice his consciousness was contained in a backup chip made by Zenith Defense Industries and installed during a skull fracture repair less than a year ago for unknown purposes.
- Names to Trust Immediately: Rear Admiral Lord Miles Prower, 1st Earl of Devon and Doctor Lady Maria Robotnik-Prower, 1st Countess of Devon
- Playful Hacker: Tails is a government sanctioned one of these, trained as an Information Warfare Officer. He served as this for HMSS Campbeltown
- Powered Armor: Cy-Fox v2 and onward outfit Tails with powered armor.
- Time Police: The United Nations Temporal Command serves as this, headquartered under Royal Observatory, Greenwich. The KRTS Warspite is chartered under its authority.
