disclaimer: i don't own sonic or Tails. they belong to sega. i don't own halo or anything with it. it belongs to bungie. i own kaliy though. anyway sorry for taking too long. thanks for the ppl that did review. so still maybe only 1 out of every 16 people left a review. seriously? please review!! can you review on Kaliy? what do you think about her? anyway if you didn't check last time, there are drawings of Tails and Kaliy in their ODST armor. its on my deviant art. my username is raptor227 (no space). anyway thanks everyone!

Chapter 4: The first day off

" were going down! were going down! hold on everyone!" Tails yelled to the marines in the back. Kaliy yelled something to him, but he couldn't hear her. several instruments stopped working. warning lights were beeping. the altimeter's numbers were getting smaller. and the altitude indicator was spinning out of control. Tails looked at the cracked glass of the window. they were about to crash into a huge wall! it looked forerunner-made. it was in the midlle of the desert. "Tails! pulled up!" was all he heard. he pulled back on the control stick. they missed the wall, but ended up hitting the top of rock formation. the pelican did a perfect left barrel roll. tails got through out of his seat and looked up only to see another wall in front of them."AAAAAAAAHHHHH"

"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!" tails screamed and fell off his bed. Kaliy, who was still sleeping on him, fell off the other side."wha? what happened?" she asked. tails looked over at her to see her half asleep, her eyelids dropping and her eyes trying to focus. "Tails are you okay" she looked at him. apparently, Tails landed on his head. " night-night mommy..." tails fell on the floor sleeping again. "argh, that hurt." kaliy said as she rubbed her back. she then smirked a little. she came back with a bucket. she then crouched down to Tails's ear. "hey tails?" she whispered. "yeeah..." Tails barely answered. "...WAKE UP SLEEPING BEAUTY!!" whe yelled and emptied the bucket over tails. "AAAAAAAHHHHHH! COLD! COLD! IT BURNS..er...FREEZING!!" tails yelled out, now fully awake. he glared at kaliy. "WHAT WAS THAT FOR!" tails yelled. " 1. the cake incident at earth, 2. you knocked me of the bed, 3. it was really funny, and 4. it was really, really funny." kaliy said.

"point taken." tails said as he got up, and he just realized that he was soaking wet. "well, might as well take a shower." tails left to the bathroom. Kaliy went downstairs to the 2nd one. Tails finished first. since he didn't have to fight anymore, he took off his armor. all he had were his shoes, his belt that held weapons. he didn't wear it, but he kept the top chest plate that held larger weapons on a rack near the door, if he ever need it. Tails was going down to make breakfast. he got out some supplies and stared at them for a moment. its been awhile since he cooked. usually he ate MRE's and the last time he cooked... hey, Kaliy just came in. "trying to cook are we?" she asked him, one brow raised. "uuhh?" tails started. "exactly, last time you cooked was back on the savannah in africa." she stated. tails started to rub his stomach- "man, that snake meat was good." he said. "it was, but anyway, i'll cook." Kaliy said. Tails nodded. and left to his workshop. i wanted to cook something nice for her. man, maybe i'll never get to tell her how i feel. Tails thought to himself.

when Tails became a ODST, he was givin a partner, like other mobian soliders. he was partnered up with Kaliy. tails was excited to see another fox. he had seen her before in basic training. when they were partnered up, they were friends, but didn't know each other well. until, one day it changed...

Kaliy was sniping some brutes from a cliff edge. it was in a jungle. she didn't notice the brute chieftan with an spiker rifle behind her. it smacked her on the side of her head with it's left arm. she was disarmed and the brute was about to kill at her. the brute raised it's weapon and was about to fire, when an yellow blur swooped by, leaving a trip mine that the brute shot. "aww cra--" was all it had time to say before the mine exploded. Tails and Kaliy rolled down a steep cliff, into the bushes below. he was holding her close to himself before they landed on his back. "uuuh, my head. huh? tails are you okay?" she asked him. " uh, my back. but yeah im fine, YOU apparently don't know the most important thing for a sniper- shoot, then MOVE from your spot!!" he said, she was chuckling a little before they realized the postition they were in. he was on top of her(shut up) and their faces were nearly touching. "uuuh...yeah." she said. they both blushed." oh, im sorry." tails said meaning it. he was about to get off her using his arms but then yelped in pain." GAH! MY ARM!" he yelled and rolled on the floor.Kaliy got up to see a spike in Tails's right arm. " oh my god, Tails are you okay!" she asked him. "yeah, its nothi-ARR" he winced in pain. "stay still, you might bleed out." she told him. he nodded and closed his eyes to relax. listening for anything in the area. Kaliy looked around to find her medikit. the radio, now broken, had saved it. "looks like were gonna be here awhile." she told him getting ready. "this might hurt a little... well actually, it will be kinda painful." she said. tails chuckled a little. she took some tissue and removed the spike. "GAAAAR" tails yelled. she patched him up and gave him a supplement injection. soon Tails got back up. holding his hurt arm, tails got some wood for a fire. it would be awhile before anybody found them. that night they sat until Kaliy broke the silence. "so, where did you come from?" "i came from mobius. the humans asked me for help." tails answered. "oh." they sat a few more minutes until Tails spoke. "so how are you?" "im fine, but i should really asking you the samething." she answered. "my arm will be fine by morning. but it'll probably leave a scar." he answered. she giggled at him. they talked for the night and the next day while walking back to base . they had gotten to know each other and saw they weren't so different. they became best friends and the best team of mobian ODST's. they could do anything together. Kaliy had gone through training with him, as well as the entire war, well most of it. they did everything together. Tails didn't trust anyone but her. Tails found himself having a crush on her. he thought it would go away. it didn't.

Tails was going to finish the upgrades on his workshop. he was applying what he learned from the covenant and forerunner technology to his own inventions. he walked in and was greeted by a moniter. " Hello Tails. i am glad to report that everything went swell. if your help, we could finish upgrades by noon." It was a copy of a human A.I. construct, like cortana. but he had an old moniter body from installation 05. Tails just called him sparky. "thanks sparky, i really needed rest." Tails went to work on a device attatched to a rocket. Kaliy was done with breakfast. she noticed that the doors looked different. they had green lights on it, signifiying that it was unlocked. the one to Tails's workshop was red. it was locked. "breakfast is ready" she yelled. then the doors lights turned greened and opened up. Tails ran through to the table. he skidded to a stop, but ended up crashing into the counter. "im okay." Tails crawled on his seat while Kaliy snickered at him. PANCAKES!! my favorite!, tails thought to himself. when they finished Tails's watch started to beep. "you might want to hold on to something." Kaliy knew what he was talking about and held to the counter and giggled seeing tails holding onto himself to be funny.

Sonic, knuckles, amy, shadow, and rouge were walking up to Tails's house. "hey, knuckles, did you see that scar on tail's right arm?" sonic asked. "i don't have a clue, maybe you should ask him." he answered. "he probably fell on a pebble" amy told them, snickering. sonic was about to add when the ground started shaking. they looked up to see a rocket lifting off from Tails's house. they ran to the door thinking he left again, but relieved to hear laughter inside. Tails was on the floor and Kaliy was near the counter. Sonic tried to walk inside when he noticed their wasn't a door knob. "uuuuh, how do you use this" he asked. everyone looked over to see a big metal door with red lights where the front door was. there was a green button next to it. " maybe tails can open it from the inside" knuckle thought and pressed the button. no noise. then little lights came up on each side of the door. they scanned everybody and a high pitched beep. the red lights on the door turned green. sonic walked up to the door. it opened by itself. "WOW!! thats cool!" he said. everyone walked in to hear another door close. "they must have went outside" amy said. they went to the back door when they heard a loud BANG. everyone jumped on the floor on instinct, except shadow, who was familiar to the noise."that came from a sniper rifle" he said calmly. everyone got up and ran to the door, thinking that the worst happened.

They opened the door, but only saw Tails with a gun and Kaliy with some disks. "whoa!" tails said, surprised by his friend bursting through the door, fell and shot, missing his target. "crap, and i was on a roll" tails said. " sorry, anyway how ya doin' little buddy" sonic said. "hey sonic, hows it going." Tails answered. "we just dropped by to visit, so we can catch up." sonic said. "oh okay, wait here. we'll stay outside since it's a nice day." tails said and ran inside. he came back with some seats, food, and a grill. Tails and Kaliy sat down, but everybody hesitated to sit on the seats. there were 3 parts to it. the part that touched the ground, the part that you sat on, and a purple haze was between the 2 pieces. the top part seemed to float on nothing. "uuuh, tails. are you sure we can sit on these?" rouge asked. "huh, oh yeah. it won't fall off or anything". everyone sat down, surprised to see that they didn't fall. "Tails, how do these things work?" sonic asked. Tails looked over. " oh, it has an antigravitiy-propulsion system." Tails answered. everyone looked confused. "a wha?" amy asked. "oh yeah that reminds me!" Tails ran to his workshop and came back with a crate full of weapons. "i broght something for everyone." Tails answered.

everyone got excited as Tails dived into the box, literally. "lets see, no, no, oh this is good, OW! stupid needler! ah, here one of them! knuckles!" Tails popped up, holding a Tall hammer. "what...is...that?" he asked. everyone was staring at the huge hammer with blue lights. "its huge." "thats what she said" "shut up sonic!". Tails handed the hammer to knuckles. "it's called a gravity hammer. when you hit something, it releases a burst of anti-gravitational energy. it packs alot punch. trust me, i know from personal expirence." Tails said. "you used one?" knuckles asked. "no, i go hit by one." tails said, rubbing his left side. everyone looked at Tails as he dove back into the crate. " hey shadow! catch!" tails threw a large object at shadow. he caught it to see what it was. 2 long barrels and the letters SPNKR imprinted near the rear."its a Rocket launcher" Tails told him. shadow smiled at new weapon. "thanks Tails. i'll enjoy using it." he said. Tails dug through the mess for some more items. he gave Rouge dimonds he found on The Ark. since it was destroyed, they were the only of their kind, which made them valuable. amy got a needler that stabbed tails while he was in the crate. "hey sonic! take this!" tails said, handing him a device that was flashing yellow. "its an invincability. i modified it as best i can, so it only last for about 30 seconds, instead of 10. when you have this on, you can take on of eggmans rockets head on and not feel a thing! once you use it, you'll have to wait for it to recharge." Tails said. "thanks buddy!" sonic said giving Tails a thumbs up.

Kaliys POV

the group talked for awhile while tails talked to his friend sonic. then i saw Tails blushing, sonic giving him a wink and thumbs up.

i wonder what they are talking about? the two came back and we all chated for awhile until Tails's friend amy asked something she really shouldn't have. "hey Tails? where did you get that dark patch of fire on your right arm from?". Tail's smile quickly went to a frown. he had on that face he has when he was fighting against the covenant. anger. "its a scar" he said with a little anger in his voice. Tails told me how they like to tease him. "what? you fell on a pebble?". amy said trying to be funny. it wasn't. "No. you do not know what i've been through." Tails answered. i could tell he was getting pretty angry. "aww, poor Tails tripped" amy said. "i think you should stop if..." I told her but amy cut me off. " hey! we all know Tails. he probably started crying like the little kid he is..."

she just took it TOO far.

normal POV

before Amy finished her sentence, Tails grabbed her by the neck and was holding her against the wall. "TAILS! WHATS WRONG WITH YOU..." before sonic finished his sentence Tails kicked Amy toward the left. she got back up only to be punched square in the face. her head looked right and as soon as she looked back to where Tails was she took a palm right to the jaw. Tails slammed Amy's head into the ground. Tails growled at Amy and stomped back inside, breaking the door when he slammed it.

"what...just happened?" rouge asked as she picked up the cowering Amy. "Tails...what happened to him?" sonic asked. Kaliy sighed and signaled everybody to sit down for her to explain. she explained what happened with Tails when he took a spike to the arm, leaving out the embarassing parts. she took out a spiker from the crate Tails had bought while explaining The Brutes. everyone stared at it. it was a grey weapon with blades at the sides. she shot some spikes at the ground to show them that they were extremly hot when fired from the weapon. she took one out of the ground to show everyone how big it was. "that...went through...Tails's arm?" sonic asked while imagining how painful it must have been. "poor kit, can't believe he's been through such grusome things." shadow said. "that weapon doesn't look very high tech." rouge said. "its not about how high-tech it is, its about how...brutal.. it is." she answered. "and these..Brutes...how brutal are they?" shadow asked. "well, they're 7-foot tall, and their name isn't enough to describe it." she answered. Kaliy went back inside to talk to tails while the others examined the weapons in the crate.

Tails and Kaliy walked back outside. "sorry about almost killing you Amy." he said. "its not your fault. i went kinda far." she told him.

they talked for a little more until it was sunset. everyone said goodbye in their usual way but sonic asked one more question."hey buddy, what happened to that necklace that cream gave you." he asked. Tails looked at it for a second, ripped it from his neck and handed it to Amy. "tell cream...i owe her my life." he said. sonic and amy stared at him. "i was in the jungle when a jackal sniper with a beam rifle tried to get a headshot on me. luckily, it went through the diamond and shot back at it." tails said. "WOW. you must have been lucky." sonic said. Luck-Tails thought to himself. everyone left and Tails and Kaliy walked back inside.

Kaliy's POV

i was walking behind tails. we were going to make a snack and hit the sack. hey! that rhymes! anyway. i was about to walk in the kitchen when Tails stopped me. "hold on! you made breakfast. i'll make dinner." he answered and shut the doors. i was left in the living room to think. snake meat would be good. ever since what happened on that day with the chieftan that had a spiker. i've started to enjoy his company. he always made me happy when things were down. he comforted me, he kept me going, even when things were looking bad. even when he's hurt! he still tries to help me. him ever since-no-love?him? ARRRRGH! i want to tell him but i just can't take the rejection! besides, he's my best friend! maybe i'll ask his friend Amy for help. she's with sonic, i think. maybe she can help me. huh? the doors open. wait! that smell. is that...

normal POV

"SURPRISE!" tails yelled. kaliy fell to the ground being completly surprised. Tails held out a hand to help her up. they both blushed when their hands meet. "OH! do i smell meat?" she asked. "yup! beef! freshly cooked!" tails pointed to a tray of uncooked meat, a grill with a fire under it, and meat that he just took off the grill. " yay! foods!" she said excitedly. they both eagerly ate the food. as they finished Tails asked her something. "so...K-Kaliy..would you like..to go...somewhere tomorrow?!". Kaliy choked hearing this.

is he really asking me out?! she thought excitedly, almost jumping up and down, but kept her cool. "yeah sure" she said. "okay, goodnight!" tails told her heading to his room. she actually said yes!! he thought to himself. he jumped in his bed and sighed happily. half an hour later Kaliy got tired a went to Tails's room to sleep. she knew he didn't mind. That night, Tails did not stir that much.

next week: The Last day off