Line #9 Literature/TheAdventuresOfFoxTayle


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2	[[caption-width-right:305:Chasing gang members in UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco.]]
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4	''The Adventures of Fox Tayle'' is a 42-chapter story (plus an epilogue) that can be found on Platform/DeviantArt. It was written by wannabemustangjockey, also known as Jay. The basic premise of the story (which seems to be finished) is that Fox Tayle was just an ordinary fox. This company that was working for the U.S. government took him in under "Project Plume". Fox, along with a German Shepherd and a wolf, are put through tests and experiments designed to turn them into tough soldiers that can be used in combat. The rationale being that animals don't have families you have to write home to when they die. At the peak of the project's success, TheGovernment ordered Project Plume cancelled, and guards came in guns blazing to the (relatively nice) cells where Fox, Shep, and Wolf were being kept. Shep and Wolf are killed instantly, but the sound of the shots that killed them warns Fox with enough time to escape.
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6	He escapes in a truck stolen from the [=BioCon=] parking lot, with a guy holding a {{BFG}} firing after him. He escapes, and after driving for a short time, his truck breaks down. An animal activist named Wanda Meyers takes him in and shelters him in her trailer (in southern California) for a few months. The government later discovers where he is, though, and they send a missile for her trailer. Fox hears it coming, runs in the house, and runs out the other side with Wanda, but when the missile hits, he gets injured and a piece of Wanda's trailer hits her in the back of the head. After mourning the loss and burying her, Fox heads closer to the UsefulNotes/LosAngeles area. He takes a Chevy El Camino from a used car lot and drives it up to the Wal-Mart in San Bernadino. After taking a rifle, ammunition, and some food (he'd pay if he had time and if cops and store security weren't after him), he heads north for the UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco ASPCA. There, he meets Diana Foxworthy. He stays at the SF ASPCA for a few weeks, but the FBI somehow finds him again. In short, his next two stays include a really environmentally-minded couple, and an Extended stay at a Motel 6 in Oakland. It is there that he learns about a group known as [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom furries]] which will be meeting at a certain hotel in San Jos[=é=] in January 2006. Initially, he thinks he'll find refuge with "others like [him] out there," and finally escape the FBI chasing him.
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8	Unfortunately, at the convention, he is caught and tranquilized by the FBI. He wakes up with a breathing tube inside a circular glass tank filled with water. It is there he meets the [[BigBad antagonist]]: Dr. Theodore Cardiff. One other important character that is introduced later is Carlos Padrino. Later on in the story, Fox also travels (with Diana and Carlos, but he leaves sooner than she does) to many other locations in North America during the course of the story, including UsefulNotes/LasVegas, Nevada; Denver, Colorado; Bonnyville, Alberta, Canada; Dearborn, Michigan; Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Most of this time spent traveling is due to being pursued relentlessly by FBI agents or local police.
9	Put another way, it's [[Film/TheBourneSeries The Jason Bourne trilogy]] [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog plus a whole bunch of other stuff (like a tiny bit of ''[[Film/GForce G-Force]]'', for example).
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11	The entire story, plus other related things, can be found [[http://wannabemustangjockey.deviantart.com/gallery/28972763 here]].
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13	Now available on Amazon as an eBook: https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Fox-Tayle-ebook/dp/B09F63S141
14	And as a paperback book: https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Fox-Tayle/dp/B09F1G41P3/
15	The Amazon version is updated and expanded, with additional details in almost every scene, and an expanded opening that covers more backstory that was glossed over in the first publishing to Platform/DeviantArt.
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17	For the record, Fox Tayle is a borderline FunnyAnimal / BeastMan.
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19	!!'''Tropes used in The Adventures of Fox Tayle:'''
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21	* AllThereInTheManual: Wanda's last name, Meyers.
22	** Not true anymore as of the official book printing.
23	* ArtEvolution: The story illustrations from the first chapter to the twenty-eighth one. (After that, there are no illustrations.)
24	* ArtificialAnimalPeople: Fox Tayle used to be a normal fox, until he was experimented on by "Project Plume", an initiative run by the shady [=BioCon=] group and funded by the U.S. government to transform animals into lethal soldiers. Now not only is he intelligent and sapient, he can also walk upright and has hand-like paws, essentially making him a FunnyAnimal.
25	* AuthorAppeal: There are many different cars in the story, all real makes and models (and sometimes years, too). For example: The four main cars Fox drives during the story are the previously mentioned red Toyota truck and the yellow Chevy El Camino. Later on, he also gets a Ford F-150 [=SuperCrew=] truck and then a green Subaru Legacy.
26	* AxCrazy: Agent Pynebox, who breaks away from the rest of his FBI team to personally go after Fox - with a gun, a knife, his fists, and even a switchblade.
27	* BadassNormal: Fox doesn't have any super powers. He's just really well-trained for Army combat, possibly even Navy SEAL level.
28	* BananaInTheTailpipe - Except that it's a juice box and it only prevents the engine from starting, making this TruthInTelevision.
29	* CanonDisContinuity - the poem the author wrote for an English class that is about Fox Tayle.
30	* CaughtOnTape - [[spoiler:Jack Killian Archer is caught on tape in an EngineeredPublicConfession telling Fox and Diana how he did everything and what he still plans to do to them, in his campaign bus, while DoubleAgent Bob Farley sits in the shadows with a tape recorder. The recording is later crucial in convicting him of attempted murder and tax evasion.]]
31	* EveryCarIsAPinto: Used at least more than once, but the most memorable example is when Fox is driving a sea-foam green Honda Accord, is chased by the FBI, and the car tips over. With gas leaking out of the tank, an FBI guy fires at the car and it explodes in a "vivid fireball".
32	* FoxFolk: The main character is a fox.
33	* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: [=BioCon=] Corporation, the place that "made" Fox.
34	* GovernmentConspiracy: ''Someone'' high up in the government wants Fox dead. (But it's not the President.)
35	* HassleFreeHotwire: Fox attempts this once or twice.
36	* InhumanableAlienRights: In chapter 26, Fox quotes the "We hold these truths..." section of the Declaration of Independence to Bob Farley, stating he wants his freedom. Bob responds "That text only applies to humans, which you are not." Fox basically retorts with "What difference does that make?"
37	* InterspeciesRomance: Either between Fox and Wanda, or Fox and Diana. However, Fox seriously questions (at both instances) his involvement with them and how far he should go.
38	* InvisiblePresident: So far, George Bush has only been mentioned twice, and one of Fox's main goals is traveling to Washington, D.C. to talk with him and get the FBI to stop chasing him. [[spoiler:In chapter 40, he achieves this goal.]]
39	* LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy: Fox (after Shep and Wolf were killed) is the only anthropomorphic animal on the planet. Here, though, he isn't an UnusuallyUninterestingSight - people take notice.
40	* LemmingCops: Kinda. The FBI persues Fox relentlessly for most of the story, but they're not extremely stupid about ruining their Chevy Tahoes. Police officers across the country are reasonably smart when chasing Fox, too, but they usually don't know exactly who it is they're dealing with.
41	* NewAgeRetroHippie: Randy and Carly, except they're only just super environmentalists. Randy converted his VW Vanagon Westfalia camper to run on French Fry frier grease.
42	* PrecisionFStrike: If Fox swears (which happens so often you can count the occasions on your hand(s)), there's always a good reason for it.
43	* SlowDoors: During his first escape from [=BioCon=], Fox sets off a lot of alarms. He slides under a slowly-lowering door as the guards shoot at him, and he shoots back with a gun he stole from another guard he knocked out. Of course, the guards are stuck on the other side after he escapes.
44	* SpeciesSurname: It's not really made clear how Fox got his name, but he was obviously never intentially given a less generic name. The same goes for the two he trained with: Shep the German Shepherd and Wolf the wolf.
45	* TalkingWithSigns: When Dr. Cardiff has Fox floating in a water-filled container and a breathing mask (Chapter 15), he gives Fox a waterproof writing pad and grease pencil to talk with.
46	* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman - Fox used to be a regular normal fox, but then he underwent experiments to turn him into a lethal soldier. He escaped, and now the FBI and [=BioCon=] are trying to kill him. Mind you, he's very intelligent, sapient, and ''[[BerserkButton pissed]]''.
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