woo! next chapter! this is a long one. i was going to submit this the next day but im busy the next day(good friday) i really want to update because this is good( i guess). anyway disclaimer: i do not own Tails or sonic they belong to sega. only Tails friend that will be revealed in this chapter belongs to me(yay). i do not own halo it belongs to bungie. ok now you will be surprised my friends.

--update 3-26-08--

no chapter 4 but people that came to check what got updated get something special.

i have made drawings of Tails and Kaliey in their armor. go check at -- my username is-- raptor 227. they are pretty good.

--NOTE: hey people somethings happened when i wrote this chapter but the name i intened to use for Tail's friend wasn't put in. i forgot what i was going to use so i asked one of my friends. i also looked around and thought on my own. so we are calling Tails's friend Kaliy( "a" sound is like in "cat" ). the name might change if i find something more more suitable for Kaliy's personality .also i made a small change at the end of this chapter( uuh. first story and its already messing up. hopefully everything goes well from here.)

Ch.3 We are coming Home

10 months after Tails's departure...

Sonic, knuckles, amy, and cream were at Tails's house doing their usual thing. sonic was watching T.V. since he was ready, knuckles was resting, amy was making herself look pretty, and cream was outside playing with cheese. 5 months ago a message was sent from Tails saying that he was on Human military planet, Reach and they just finished Training the spartans for the SPARTAN-ll project. Tails said that he would be returning in a few days. The next day they got a message from Lord Hood saying that Reach was destroyed by The Covenant fleet. well some of the fleet anyway. none of the Human ships came back to earth. Reach had gotten glassed. one month ago sonic got a message saying this-

"the war is almost over. we are winning. i miss you all. but i warn you, im not the same kitsune you remeber me as.

--miles "Tails" prower

27th ODST battalion"

Sonic was so excited, he ran off and told all his friends. he complete forgot the last part of Tails's message. when sonic told everyone, they were all so happy to find out their friend was still alive. yesterday, sonic got another message-

"the storm has passed. the war is over. we are coming home."

Sonic then remembered That some Mobians were on earth too. some were probably coming back to mobius with tails.

some mobians started arriving outside tails's house. sonic turned to see the time. its almost noon.

"hey guys its almost noon! come on lets go outside" sonic said. cream was already outside waiting. knuckles got up to leave. amy was still busy. "come on amy he's almost here!!" sonic yelled. " hold on sonic im almost...done" amy said but got cut off by something else. The lights in Tail's house started to flicker again. "just like when he left..." sonic said as he ran out. amy ran out too, not caring that she wasn't satisfied how she looked.

(has anyone played halo 3, if you have, you know that music that plays when FORWARD INTO DAWN comes down to drop off the scorpions on the level THE ARK, that music plays during this part.

if you have the halo 3 soundtrack, its the song "behold a pale horse" 2nd part.also try 4 the song )

everyone was outside on a large field, waiting for their relatives. sonic, knuckles, cream, amy, shadow, and rouge were their waiting. the babylon rouges were also their for some reason. someone pointed out at the sky "hey! here they come". everyone looked up, there was a grey dot in the distance."THE AGEUS FATE!!" sonic yelled. .

Tails smiled at an idea he had."This should surprise them." he said as he piloted the ship at the crowd of mobians. sonic noticed something about the ships path. It was coming down and...TOWARD THEM!! "take cover!" sonic yelled. the small dot turned into a huge ship as it approached the crowd fast. the ship stopped over the crowd, sending dirt flying everywhere. soon the ship was floating over the crowd. everyone stared at it. a platform started coming down from the underside of the ship. on it were mobians. that finally came back home.

"look there he is, holding onto the bar!!" yelled amy. everyone looked up to see a twin-tailed kitsune holding onto one of the bars holding up the platform. something looked different about him. he jumped off before the platform reached the ground. when it did, the mobians on the platform got off and started having reunions with families. sonic and his friends started looking around for Tails. sonic looked around until they found him standing where he was. "hey guys he's over here!!" sonic yelled to everyone else. everyone came out of the crowd to and saw tails. as they running to greet their long-gone friend they started to slow down as they saw Tails's appearance up close.

Tails was a little taller than he use to be. He had dark fur marks on his right arm--scars. a circle shape. He also had small burn marks on his tails. His bangs(those hairs on his forehead right?) were black. So were his ear and tail tips. he had different shoes on. they were black combat shoes. but these werent the ones you bought at the store. they were the ones that only ODST's used, the ones you used in combat. Tails had chest armor on.it was a black camoflage color.parts of the armor were missing. mostly noticeable a slash starting from the top right going down towards his left side.he had pants the same color. Tails also had a belt on. it had a knife on the left side and a little hook on the right.on the hook was a little silver thing that looked like a sword handle. light was coming from the top and bottom of it. there was also a hook on the back of his chest armor. There was a little circular device in Tails's left ear. There were a few burn marks on his face too. also a 2 slash marks on the right side of his head. But the one thing that caught everyone's attention was his necklace. besides the dogtags, Tails had on the necklace cream gave him. but it looked melted and deformed. it still had its original color though. There was also a Lightly colored bandana on his right ear. it was green.

everyone was standing in front of Tails. he was resting against the lowered platform. "hey Tails!!" sonic yelled. Tails got in a fighting stance but as soon as he realized it was only his friend he backed down. sonic noticed his eyes were green but went back to blue when tails noticed his friends." tails, what happened to you?" sonic asked him. Tails looked up at him. "alot" tails simply answered.

cream took Tails bye surprised and gave him a more-painful-than-bone-crushing hug."Tails your back!!"

she yelled "its...okay...cream...can you...please stop...killing me?" tails said. she let go of him "sorry." amy snuck up on Tails and gave him a killer hug too. "hi...amy...can you...stop...i need...to...breaa..." Tails said. amy dropped him and tails gasped for air. "sweet oxygen. why does everyone want to hug me to death."

everyone greeted tails and more attempts at to kill the fox by hugs were made. soon they went inside tails's house. amy and cream set up a party for the returning soliders. as tails walked inside a fox followed him."hey tails wait for me!" she yelled as she entered the house. tails was inside sitting on the couch. sonic and knuckles came over with some food."hey tails have this." sonic gave him some soda and a chili-dog. tails drank the soda and tried the chili-dog. to everyones surprise, he choked on it, then spit it out. "ugh...god it..." tails said but cutoff by sonic."what, is it old?" he asked."no, it burns my throat". tails said then drank some water. sonic tasted the soda. "taste fine to me." sonic answered."yeah, well you didn't go 10 months without this junkfood." tails answered. everyone looked at him confused but then the babylon rouges walked in. "hey everyone!!" said jet. wave looked over at tails.while she walked to him tails was in deep thought.

flashback

AHHHHHHHHHH!! GET IT OFF SOMEONE GET IT...hrghrhhhrrrrRRRRAAER. tails shot the marine. AAAAAAHHHHH get it out!! please get it out!! tails turned around to see a yourng female rabbit with a gapping hole in her chest. tails walked over to her as she fell to the ground."please, i...i don't want...to be like those...things...". tails looked at her. she was already being infected. "you won't be, i'll be sure of it." tails pointed his shotgun at her chest. he started to cry."im sorry" tails told his friend. she smiled. tails pulled the trigger...

flashback ends

"hey there shorty." she said, this woke tails but the image of his friend was still in his head.

"whats wrong, shorty?!" wave said."SHUT UP " tails yelled at her. wave stepped back. everyone looked at tails."GET AWAY FROM ME!!" tails yelled. he took out his silver object and turned it on. a blade of energy came from the top and bottom of the handle. it was an energy sword. when he noticed everyone was staring at him. tails noticed what he was doing and sat back down."sorry wave" tails said. everyone looked away. cream walked up to him and sat next to him."tails are you okay? you've been acting...different." cream asked him."ive been through...alot" he simply told her. that image was going through tails's mind when he heard a familiar voice that snapped him out of it."hey tails there you are" tails looked up to see a fox.

she had the same armor tails had. a year younger than tails. she had short black hair. her eyes were crystal green. Her fur was green. she also had a few burn marks on herself. she only had one tail. a little smaller than tails's. her tails was cat like. the tips of her tail and ear tips were a little less black than Tails's marks. her comms(radio) was the same style as the one tails. she had a little darkly colored bandana on her right ear, like the one Tails had, but this one was yellow.

"Kaliy, is that you?" tails asked her. "yeah, its me. did you remember...her" Kaliy told him."yeah. it keeps coming to me." tails said in a sad voice. she lifted his head by his chin. she smiled at him." you know you forgot to turn off your HUD". "huh, oh yeah" tails said, then his eyes went back to being blue. "i like using my natural sight anyway." tails said then continued. " you know, you always knew how to make me happy again." tails told her. sonic walked up to him. "hey tails, who's your friend?" sonic asked."oh this is Kaliy. she was my friend during the war." she got on tails's head. "yup, i was with him the WHOLE time" she looked down at Tails. The only time i wasn't with him was the worst time. she knew what tails had been through.

"hey tails remember that time i stuck a grunt with his OWN grenade and he ran into his friends freaking out." she told tails.he laughed out loud "yeah then he realized it was fake and then i shot the glass and then they all fell under the bridge." tails told her. "yeah, now that...was entertaining" Kaliy said. they were both laughing when tails's ears perked up.

Tails ran outside. sonic, and everyone else, staring at the door. Kaliy ran after him."not again" Tails got outside, weapons-free(which means he has his weapons out and his HUD is on). Tails noticed no one was outside. Kaliy came behind him."what is it?" she asked. "i thought i heard them." Tails answered. "tails you know that they were all killed when the ARK exploded." Kaliy said. "yeah, but you know what happened at Voi. i don't want that to happen again, not here." tails told her as he put his weapons away. they both walked back inside Tails house to sleep. everyone left since the party was over. Kaliy had no where to sleep. "you can sleep in the guest room, if sonic didn't destroy it yet" tails said and went to his room to sleep. he was tired. two days ago he was still fighting on the ARK. Kaliy saw no bed in the guest room. she walked to Tails's room. "hey tails there's no bed in the..." she said but Tails was already asleep on his stomach. he had already taken his armor off. she quietly giggled seeing how he sleept like...well a kitsune. she was about to get on his bed when a voice stopped her." you think i can't sense you" tails told her." well their was no bed in the guest room so i was wondering if i could...sleep... with you?" Kaliy said then blushed. so did Tails but he turned his face away from her. "well...i...er..s-sure" tails told her. she took her armor off and then jumped on tails, who was still on his stomach."OW! didn't see that coming." tails said. she was ontop of him, making an X shape."night" tails said, "good(yawn)night..." Kaliy was already sleeping. Tails then put his head back down to sleep but something was shaking. Kaliy was shaking from the cold, Tails then wrapped his Tails around her and she chuckled a little."thanks Tails" she whispered. then they both fell asleep. an hour later, tails was starting to stir in his sleep.

somewhere in space, about 2-3 days from mobius-

a battered up covenant ship was drifting through space, green fog coming out the rear. the ship was heading straight to mobius.

well there you have it. please R&R people. i could use it. also the scene that just happened-THEY ARE NOT NAKED!!( fur covers those parts so they are NOT sleeping together naked, more like how animals would sleep together. so shut up if your a perv. if your not this statement does not apply to you.) And that flash back tails had was only a proluge to what happened to Tails. if you've played halo 3. you know that this won't end well. TXC fans: this story doesn't involve cream alot. she is one to worry about her friends. if you know her and watched sonic x. she'll be more of a friend in this story. sorry.

P.S. chapter 4 got deleted on friday( thats what happens when you let someone turn off the computer and they DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW) and since school is starting i might not update till the weekend. bare with me ppl.