Author's Note: Thanks for all the support guys! I'll try to incorporate you guys' suggestions. So, here goes! Time to advance the plot!

Disclaimer: I don't own Sega or anything else, really.

Claimer: I DO own Ferrus, Black, and Seren.

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It's been about… Heck, I don't know how long it's been since this started. A few years, maybe? I've lost count. Countless insults and injuries piling up over the minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years. It's a rare day where I come back from school without some sort of injury.

There is no "loving" God. Any loving God would have stopped this. If there is a God, he's a cruel, heartless God who likes to watch people like me suffer.

Or so I thought. All of this would turn out for the better in the end.

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Another day. I flew to school, landing around the corner and sneaking in with the crowd. I just wanted to be blissfully alone, not singled out. One of the crowd, so to speak. It was a feeling that had grown more and more desirable over time.

The usual routine of sitting through a science class while Black the Echidna found some way to make me miserable. Today it was leaning his chair back and then making it fall forward onto my feet, just so it hurt extremely, but didn't make any noise.

"Black, stop that!" I whispered, annoyed. I pushed his chair away. This made a loud squeak, which attracted the attention of the teacher.

"Whispering in class, Mister Prower? I thought better of you." The teacher said, marking me down for my "offense."

I hate my life.

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Tails walked out of his classroom. He'd managed to survive all the day's classes somehow, and now just had study hall left.

This was going to be one of the worst mistakes of his life.

Tails sat at a desk away from the rest of the students. The people here had grown to ignore him, except for three individuals: Ferrus, Black, and Seren. So of course Seren was to the right of him, Ferrus was behind him, and Black was to his left.

Tails tried to focus on his work, but whispered insults kept shattering his concentration.

"Freak. Nobody wants you here. Get out." Came the voice of Ferrus.

Tails ignored him.

"Everyone hates you. Just go away and never come back." His tormentor whispered again.

Tails quivered a bit in anger, but he calmed down.

"Just do the world a favor and die." The whisper spoke again.

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It's not true, isn't it?

Or is it?

Everyone does hate me. I'm just a reject.

"You'll never be normal. You're just a stupid freak who never deserved to live." Ferrus spoke in my ear.

I began to quiver.

I deserve life! I'm just as "Human" as you are! If anyone isn't normal, it's you Ferrus! You get pleasure from tormenting other people! You're sick!

These thoughts darted through my head. I wanted so badly to tell him off.

Or even better, to tell the teachers!

No. Then everyone would call me a tattletale.

Besides, who would they believe anyway? A normal person, or a mutant reject like me?

No! I'm not a mutant!

"You are. You're a freak. A monster. You deserve to be locked up in a cage, not paraded around like a fellow creature." Ferrus whispered, reading my mind.

I've never felt more angry in my life. I don't deserve this! Why me? WHY ME?!

I was totally enraged. Just how Ferrus wanted me. Memories of every single insult, every last torment rushed through my head.

"Just go curl up and die. Nobody wants you. Go back to whatever pit you crawled out of, and never come back. Never trouble the world of real people again." Ferrus whispered.

I hate myself.

I hate God.

I hate this school.

I hate Ferrus and his goons.

I hate everything!

I took up the book I was studying from, and spun, slamming it into Ferrus' face. Everyone looked at me as he cried out and fell.

But no, I wasn't done yet. Black and Seren jumped to their feet, trying to restrain me. I felt Black's fist slam into my gut several times, but I was too enraged to feel pain.

I grabbed Seren by the throat, pushing her over a table and into a corner. She hit a stack of chairs, which fell on her, trapping her.

Black was shocked I'd managed to muster so much strength. I kicked him in the shin while he wasn't moving, then punched him in the chest, sending him careening into a corner where he was stuck under a desk.

Ferrus had gotten to his feet again. The entire class was staring at me, stunned, wondering why I'd suddenly snapped. People were screaming and running for teachers.

I couldn't care less. I grabbed Ferrus by the neck and slammed him repeatedly into a desk. I began punching on him madly, desperately trying to pay him back for all the pain he'd caused me.

I was crying now as I continued my vengeful rage. I began screaming, recounting every single torture Ferrus had inflicted on me in an unintelligible string of maddened babble.

Teachers ran in, grabbing me and trying to restrain me. I struggled against my captors, but my strength was all gone as my fury left me.

I realized now.

Ferrus has wanted this. I wanted me to be so enraged that I'd snap.

He hadn't expected me to prove stronger than him, but he had wanted me to try.

He wanted me gone.

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We stood in the principal's office. Ferrus was covered in bruises, had two black eyes, a bloody nose, and a large welt on the back of his head. Black had a sprained ankle and a large bruise on his chest, and Seren had a black eye and several minor bruises.

"Mister Prower, might I ask WHY you suddenly decided to attack Ferrus?" The principal asked sternly.

"Suddenly? No. I've been thinking about it for a long time. Every day I've been here… Every SINGLE day! These three have constantly tormented me! They beat me up regularly! They constantly insult me! All of you teachers just turn the other way! Nobody even cares! It's because I have another tail! NOBODY EVEN THINKS OF ME AS A PERSON!" I shouted. Tears formed in my eyes.

"I was not aware of-"

"NOBODY EVER IS! You people always are worried about me, as if I'm some sort of monster! Nobody even cares what they do! None of you even care about ANYONE!" I was so enraged,

"Alright then, Mister Prower, give me an example of-"

"AN EXAMPLE?! Okay!" I shouted. I listed off the beatings and tortures of the past week and a half. "…AND NONE OF YOU EVEN C-CARE!" I shouted. My voice was beginning to crack as the tears in my eyes started to flow down my face.

"Mister Prower, just because they called you a few names doesn't mean you should fly off the handle like that."

"Oh, and it's perfectly o-okay f-for t-them to d-do as th-they please?!" I shouted sarcastically, mustering all my remaining strength to keep talking. I tried to continue, but I couldn't. I simply fell out of the chair and dropped into the fetal position, and did the only thing any sensible kid like me would do.

I cried. I cried for a long time.

"Mister Principal, I don't know what he's talking about. The kid is a freak. He's making this stuff up. He's just had a grudge against me and my friends here because his little girlfriend told him we scared her." Ferrus said with as much of his haughty dignity as he could.

"I've had enough from you too, Ferrus! I know that on multiple occasions that students have reported that you've stolen from them. I believe Mister Prower."

I raised my head. He turned to me.

"However, that is NO reason for you to attack him like that! You could have seriously injured him."

"Y-y-you don't understand. N-none of y-you understand." I murmured.

Some teachers in the room conferred momentarily with the principal.

"This institution has had it with you. All four of you are expelled!"

"B-b-but…" I began. He rudely cut me off.

"DON'T start, Mister Prower!" He said, sounding extremely annoyed.

"Don't call me Prower anymore. I've had it with that name. It's appropriate that I get a name that accurately describes me." I began, standing up. I was finished with these jerks! All there was in my blazing blue eyes was pure, empty hatred.

"Call me Tails."

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I walked home that afternoon disoriented and broken. I had so wanted to learn about machines. I'd wanted to become a scientist.

Little did I know that I'd never see home again.

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Author's Note: This is my longest chapter yet. I tried to be a bit more clear when the transition from first to third person occurred. Tell me if there are any more mistakes you'd like me to correct in future chapters.