Tails and twilight got off of the train and started walking back to the library. Tails looked to twilight "so do you think that the others were successful" he asked. Twilight nodded "i have faith in our friends" she said. Tails smiled "you're right I've known sonic, knuckles, and shadow for a long time, I believe in them" he said. Twilight frowned when she heard shadow's name. She was trying not to hold that story tails told her against him but it was hard for her. Tails got her attention "hey twilight are you okay, you were frowning" he said. Twilight smiled nervously "yup I'm great, nothing wrong" she said. Tails wanted to press farther but they had already made it to the library, he'll ask about it later. Twilight opened the door and walked in to see everyone else waiting.

Sonic hopped off the couch and approached tails "hey buddy how did the mission go" he asked. Tails smiled and pulled out his emerald "it went great" tails remembered something "by the way we encountered some badniks" he said. Sonic chuckled "so did everyone else, except for me and dash, thanks to some giant eels" he said. Twilight walked up to him "does that mean that eggman also has some way of tracking the chaos emeralds" she asked. Tails thought for a short moment, then he pulled out his miles electric "just as I thought" he said. Twilight raised an eyebrow "what is it" she asked. Tails showed them the screen "I'm not getting a reading from the last emerald" he said. Twilight gasped "what happened" she asked. Tails turned the screen back to him "there are two reasons why I wouldn't be able to track it. 1. it's deep underground or 2. it's high in the sky" he explained. Sonic rubbed the back of his neck "so what's the plan" he said.

Tails started thinking but he wasn't coming up with anything. Twilight got an idea "wait if he can track the emeralds then he'll come here for the one's that we have, and when he does, we'll kick his butt and he'll go back to where he's keeping it" she said. Everyone just stared at her "well I g-" she was interrupted by tails "twilight you're a genius" he said. Twilight blushed "r-really" she asked. Tails nodded "yeah, if I make a tracker and attach it to him we can follow him back" he said. Shadow got up "so you want us to just wait for him to attack" he said. Twilight walked up to him "do you have a better idea" she said with slight anger in her voice. Shadow looked at her with silent anger. He walked past her and towards the door "fine then, who knows when he'll attack, but you're free to waste your time" he said as he walked out. Tails was worried about twilight. He tried to walk up to her but she walked up stairs silently. Tails turned to the others "we'll contact you guys if we see something" he said.

Everyone walked out except for rarity who walked up to tails "'I'm worried about twilight, check on her for me, okay" she asked. Tails nodded "i will" he said. Rarity nodded and headed out the door. After a few seconds tails looked towards the stairs and walked up them.

He walked into twilight's room to see her in bed with a blanket over her. Tails could tell that she wasn't asleep "twilight" he said. His words were met with nothing "twilight please talk to me" he asked. Twilight sat up and faced him but didn't sat anything. Tails sat next to her on the bed "what's been bothering you" he asked. Twilight decided to tell the truth "ever since you told me that story about shadow, I've been angry at him" she said. Tails tilted his head "why, I've already forgiven him why can't you" he said. Twilight started tearing up "i don't know, but every time I see him I just feel angry" she said. Tails put his arm around twilight "i appreciate the fact that you feel that way because of what he did to me but I already made my peace with him, so please try and do the same" he said. Twilight smiled "you're right thank you tails, I lo-... I appreciate you" she said. Tails smiled and stood up. Twilight held onto his arm "wait" she blushed "can you stay a little longer" she asked. Tails sat back down and held twilight close.

Shadow was walking to nowhere in particular. Pinkie caught up to him "hey I found you" she said. Shadow was getting really tired of these ponies. He turned to her "why do you insist on following me, I don't want to be your friend, I don't care about you, I HATE YOU" he yelled. Shadow expected something stupid to come out of her mouth but instead a tear fell from her eye. Seeing that seemed to drain all the anger from him. Pinkie was about to speak but ran away instead. Shadow just stood there stunned. He should feel thankful that she left but all he felt was regret. For some reason he wanted to go after her. After about a minute he decided to go after her.

He was outside of her room. He sighed and walked in and saw her in a chair. Her hair didn't seem as fluffy as it was before. Shadow walked up to her "look I don't hate you, the purple one just got on my nerves" he said. Pinkie looked up at him, a frown still on her face "I'm sorry about annoying you, but I just really like you" she said. He turned his head away from her "i don't mind you, just smile again alright" he said. Pinkie sniffed and gave him a big smiled. Shadow gave a very slight smile, but pinkie saw it "thank you shaddy" she said. Shadow nodded at her "don't mention it...pinkie" he said. Pinkie's hair returned to it's normal puffy state.