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you a something. I noticed some new reviewer's thank you Casino Nights, CloakedViper and Sallee, and another huge

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It was a bright day, both figuratively and metaphorically for one fox in particular, after their conversation Rotor had given him some of the blood he had left over from testing, he had left the room before ripping in to it for Rotors sake, he was full, happy, and didn't feel quite like the monster he had always believed himself to be, the sun even stung a little less after feeding. He wondered what to do; the world seemed absolutely full of possibilities now, he could go back to the lab and help Rotor with one of his inventions, though their working atmosphere had shifted they both still found it very enjoyable. He could meet up with Sonic, maybe go for a run, or help aunt Bunny or Sally with something. He paused in simple thought, the few clouds fully puffed and white passed overhead, he heard the crunching of grass and looked from his reclined spot on the grassy hill. He saw Antoine walking up the hill, the few metals on his chest clanking on his way up.

"Bonjour Tails, ow eez you doing?" Tails laughed, the accent always had that effect on him, it really was just that atrocious, he smiled and it came easily when he replied. "Really great Antoine thanks for asking." A thought crossed the twin tailed fox's mind, if Rotor had been so accepting would everyone, was he just paranoid all these years, how would Antoine react, if everyone knew and accepted him then he could live here forever, it was a wonderful thought, but he knew he should still be wary. "Hey Ant, you think I'm good right?" Antoine was puzzled, he wasn't certain what he meant, he replied in an unsure tone. "Oui, zue are ze fantastic mechanic no, we couldn't be getting the on without you." Tails Chuckled again, Antoine was a chicken, but a nice chicken, he was about to reply that, that wasn't what he meant when a sound hit his and Antoine's ears, it was a bell, the emergency bell, the if this bell is ringing you should be running bell, they took off in the direction of Knothole Tails quickly pulling ahead.

The sight that greeted the two was horrendous, swat-bots marched down the middle street and everywhere buildings were burning and charred and bleeding bodies lied tossed aside like leaves. Blood ran through the street and the air was heavy with smoke and the scent of charred bodies, a Mobian lie on the ground a swat-bot pointing its laser at her head, the swat-bot was flung away in an instant, and the person saved, standing over her was Tails a grim look on his as he pulled the Mobian to her feet and told her to run to the shelter. Antoine finally catching up panted for breath as he spoke. "You…(huff) are fast as ze hedgehog almost, no (huff)" In order to help her he had gone faster than he normally let himself, he could probably lie about adrenaline later, but now he had lives to save and swat-bots to scrap, and as he ran through Knothole this is precisely what he did. There was still a risk of being discovered he knew, if enough adrenaline ever actually got into his system, he would progress through most stages of vampirism, he would gain full access to his abilities, but his true nature would be obvious to all observers, he would need a lot of blood to make up the deficit and get him back to the level he was currently at, so with this in mind after totalling about 13 swat-bots he took a breather to calm himself.

It was then a boom was heard, a very familiar boom as a blue blur crashed into a crowd of swat-bots and metal limbs flew off in all conceivable direction, standing atop the pile of mutilated robots was Sonic, a look on his face that almost could be considered serious. "Hey ya lil bro, what are you doing out here, you should head for the shelter." He quickly yelled out while in the middle of spin-dashing a swat-bot, Tails shook his head, he was going to help as many people as he could, it was the least he could do for Rotor, for Sonic and everyone else, he heard more swat-bots and leapt at them doing several impressive homing attacks before back flipping off one and using his tails to keep in the air before dive bombing another. Sonic's had his jaw almost hit the ground, his little bro was trashing swat-bots almost as fast as he was, Sonic picked up the pace and retrieved his jaw from the floor and quickly continued his own assault. "Sonic three beh…" before his sentence was complete the three were thrown away by a rather angry looking bunny. "Howdy sugar hog, hope I'm not too late" She looked over and saw Tails finishing off another swat-bot that had been about to attack a little girl probably no older than 5.

"Phew, hey Bunny, nice timing, come on we've got to help Knothole, you coming Sonic." Sonic almost let his jaw fall again, this person was so unlike the Tails he had been used to, brave, making rational decisions, fighting swat-bots, saving people, he was turning out more like him by the day he thought a smile plastering itself to his face. "Right, let's speed keed." They rushed off in the direction off Knotholes center where Sally likely was, Sonic running quickly and again surprised to see Tails keeping pace with the other falling behind, after this was done he would have to have a race with Tails he thought, "he might actually make me work". They reached Sally's hut and cut through the bots surrounding it, Sonic spin dashing, Tails with homing attacks and Bunny straight punching with her robotic arm. The area was clear and they kicked down Sal's door and came face to face with her holding a laser pistol almost shooting them on site, she let out a sigh and lowered the gun as she motioned them to come towards her. "Ok I'm glad you're here and everyone's alright, but we have to get everyone out of here, Robotnik somehow found out where Knothole is, I think it's best if we just move to the fallback area, the tunnel is in the shelter, I already called and had the others go ahead, when we get their go through, I'll go through last and collapse the tunnel behing us so the swat-bots can't follow. Any Question?" All in attendance shook their head as they made it into the shelter via the stump and moved down the ladder into the darkened pit, Tails in fact felt more comfortable in the dark where he could see clearer than the others, he would protect them with his life.

Faint rumblings could be heard overhead but from the sound it was mostly over, they followed the multitude of foot and paw prints which led down the tunnel using the light of Nichole as guidance, they went on until light could be seen up ahead and as they walked into the light Sally who had been periodically placing explosive's on the sides of the tunnel pulled out a detonator and clicked the button and a faint red glow was seen before the sound of falling rock was heard. With the way here safe they looked over the area, a backup Knothole which had been constructed over time, almost no huts were up but a large number of tents could be seen, this place was prepared for just such an occasion and Sally doubted the swat-bots could move all the rubble, this was safe enough for now. Sally turned to Sonic and gave him a hug which he returned as Bunny bent down and hugged Tails, all the fighting had him excited and his fangs were about halfway out so if he opened his mouth he would be in trouble, as long as he had time to cool down, everything would be fine, he hugged Bunny, and was about to let go when a low whistling sound was heard. It was one of Robotnik's collection ships for transporting large numbers of Mobian's to the Roboticizer, Sonic let out a sigh as he spoke "Well a heroes work is never done" he got out of the hug and prepared to head out, when he stopped, Tails had always asked to go on missions, after seeing what he had done to those bots he was sure he could handle himself. "Hey little bud, how about you come with, well juice some more tin heads?" Tails was knew he wanted to help people and to do it beside Sonic was the best possible kind of bonus he thought, still he would need to keep calm while there, he knew it was dangerous, but he wanted to keep helping. "Sure thing Sonic, let's do it to it"

Before Sally had a chance to protest all there was, was a large dust trail, she watched it as the rest of her friends came to greet her and help her settle in, Antoine, Rotor, Dulcy, Rotor spoke up worry in his voice. "Uh Sal, where's Tails?" Sally responded a little annoyed they hadn't consulted her "He and Sonic took off to rescue anyone Robotnik is trying to round up, they had better be careful, maybe… get a small team ready, were going to follow them, they're going all the way through the woods since the tunnels closed, if we take that hover car you fixed Rotor we should be able to catch up."Weaving in and out of trees was tiring even for the great blue hedgehog, he even had a bead of sweat dripping, he looked back and right on his heels was Tails, weird he thought, it doesn't look like he's sweating at all.