For it's 20th year, I've started a project to illustrate every (major) chapter in the GeneX series! (sfw only)
So we start with the first story, GeneX - Tails the Fox! I'll go over each pic chapter by chapter and briefly explain them. Or you could read the fanfic. I've got pools for the stories, and bigger stories have been collected into arcs as well, like this arc here: https://inkbunny.net/s/2819546
Ch. 46 - Tails and Copter battle for control of the Chaos Tailbands. They start on the roof of Darkegg Fortress, hop in their planes and have a little dogfight, then land on the roof of Shadow Arc for their final battle. The battle is interrupted, however, when Zipp decides to blow them both up. Tails wasn't struck directly, so he landed on the ground safely, but...
Ch. 47 - Copter is badly injured. Luckily, Gemini finds him and uses her magic to heal him. He isn't particularly grateful, but the duo find themselves following Eggman into Shadow Arc together. For one reason or another, all the heroes and villains soon makes their way to Shadow Arc... Gemini and Copter both have their own issues being Ai generated, but put them together and it's a real nightmare trying to make the image come out acceptably. I had to inpaint AND image2image this one.
Ch. 48 - Shadow Arc takes to the sky, revealed as an ancient flying fortress known as Shadow Arcangel. Together, Eggman and Gunner unlock the door containing Bucky's "secret weapon." However, it's not a weapon, but Experiment 3. In the darkness, no one is able to see Experiment 3's true nature, but Tails thinks it resembles his own shadow...
Ch. 49 - Experiment 3 deceives everyone and nearly gathers the Chaos Emeralds before he is revealed as Kosmo the Morph, a shapeshifter. He's full of resentment and hate for those born naturally, and was attempting to gain power to destroy the world. Sonic stops him from gathering the Chaos Emeralds, however.
Ch. 50 - The Fake Master Emeralds that Eggman created were powering Shadow Arcangel. Kosmo used them to empower himself, becoming a terrible dragon known as the Kosmogon. Encouraged by their friends (and because the Kosmogon wounded Sonic & Shadow), Tails uses the Chaos Emeralds to become Super Tails and Copter uses the Chaos Tailbands to become Super Copter. Together they defeat Kosmo's rage, and the morph escapes into the night. Copter returns one of the Tailbands to Tails as a sign of friendship as the sun rises on a new day.
Ch. 0 (The Lost Prologue) - In the 5th anniversary story, we witness Copter's birth. This image shows him resting in his stasis pod before awakening, when Bucky straps a bomb to his wrist to ensure he will free him from prison after GUN captures them. (Oh, and Sonic and Tails appear in the chapter.)
That's it for this illustrated look at the first story in the GeneX series! Will I cover other stories? If I haven't posted another of these by February, the answer is probably no.
