Chapter 5: the inside
When everyone woke up the next morning they found that a lot of the main leaders of the were in the base so like usel they left them to what they were doing and inside Bonnie, Rotor, and Sally were looking into Tails room checking if he was awake or not only to find him sitting on the top of a nearby drawer
"Before you ask I have no clue" Tails said before he used his tails to fly down then they looked onto the bed only to find Td still asleep
"Hey Td we need to wake up" Rotor tried to wake the little doll up but stopped when he saw one red eye looking at him
"You try and wake me up and I'll rip your throat out" Td said and one of his paws grew razor sharp claws that looked like they could very well cut into anything Rotor instantly backed off then rolling his eyes Tails moved forward and pulled the bed up on one side causing Td to fall off
"There know you're awake" Tails said smiling innocently while Rotor backed up more
"Darn it Tails" Td said getting up and glaring at Tails before he slumped
"Huh I was getting up any ways" Td said and glared at anyone that would think otherwise
"Sure you were" Tails said before walking over and putting Td on his shoulder
"Hey I'm not a small fry" Td said with a pout this caused Bonnie to almost instantly move forward and cuddle him this caused a slight smile to appear on Td's lips and Tails could see he was trying to fight it then the group went out into the main base only to find Sonic asleep on the couch
"Wait you wake me up but let him sleep" Td said looking at Sonic then glared at Tails who had sat down beside him
"Well did you stay up most of the night watching out in the woods to see if anyone followed us to nothole" Tails asked and instantly Td went quiet
"So what are we up to today" Tails asked sitting up and moving over to the computer where some of the maps and plans he had going through his mind was
"Well we we're planning on following this signal to see if it was more resistance but thanks to these now we know that is a trap" Sally said pointing at a area in the dessert with a robotnik symbol and written on the side of the map was some notes with the plans on them
"Okay anything else" Tails asked then he watched as Sally shrugged
"Don't really know yet we still have some planning to do" Sally said then shrugging Tails went past Sonic who was still asleep this caused Td to almost instantly jump onto Tails shoulder and he was halfway out the door before he felt a arm on his shoulder and looking over he found Bonnie looking down at him
"Hold on there sugar I have something that I'd like us to test out" Bonnie said and nodding Tails followed her to Rotor's mechanics shop and he found a circle had been made in the middle of the place
"Okay what we are doing is now that you have more of a fighter chance I guess but we want to see how well you can do in a fight" Rotor said coming out of the back this caused Tails to give them an almost insane smile
"Oh I think I can fight pretty well" Tails said and quickly Td jumped and seemed to float for a moment before he landed on a rafter and looking down he giggled gleefully and a little unsettled Rotor went onto the other side of the mat
"Okay know get ready to go down Tails to the might of Rotorrrrrr" Rotor said before Tails rushed forward and sent a punch at him and he sent the walrus flying until he crashed into the couch holding his stomach
"Opps sorry Rotor I'm still adjusting to the extra strength" Tails said and nodding Rotor leaned over and laid down clutching his side and stomach and instantly Bonnie moved forward her robotic arm forward
"Okay know sugar this won't be as easy" Bonnie said and Rotor tried to make some sound of disagreement but instead groaned and laid back down while Bonnie moved forward swinging her arm forward and instantly Tails moved and if Bonnie hadn't been watching she would have thought that he was just casually waving her away but then Tails arm hit hers and she had to physically fight back the force that his arm gave out and while that was happened a warning in Tails head popped up
'What the warning exceeding normal strength don't do to keep hidden' Tails read before pushing the warning away along with Bonnie who quickly used her robot legs to stop from falling and quickly she charged Tails swinging her right arm to hit his stomach area only for Tails to block then he pulled back and punched Bonnie's stomach but unlike before he figured out how to tone down his strength so Bonnie just went flying and landed beside Rotor out of breath
"Shesh what are you made of" Rotor asked getting up and wincing and shrugging Tails went to a nearby computer and looking around to make sure no one in the know was around waved his friends over and pushed a button on his chest and they watched as it opened and they found the freedom fighters symbol before Tails took it of showing the usb port
"Okay I don't know whether that's cool or creepy" Rotor said looking down at Tails as he attached a cord to himself and the computer
"Well if you think that's creepy think about how I was made" Td said jumping down and all three of them shivered
"Yeah that's more creepy" Tails said before looking through his folder skipping the mission and other stuff till he found how he was built
"Huh okay I'm made of a special titanium and also have a feeler metal that's probably why I can still feel the bandages and also have a regrowable fake skin/ blood that is connected to the feeler metal" Tails said this caused both to stare before Bonnie started muttering
"He didn't care if any of his other robots or even his roboticized citizens" Bonnie said rubbing her robotic arm not feeling it then she looked up
"Huh hey does it explain how to" Bonnie was saying before she saw the screen which showed the schematics and how to make them
"I'm already looking for it and I think we can fix you up with it by tomorrow I guess" Tails said looking too Rotor and after he looked at all of the materials
"Yeah I think we could it should take a bit but I can set it up as a side project that I can work on when we don't have anything to worry about" Rotor said moving over to his workplace and while he and Bonnie was talking Tails started saving all of his files to the computer until he spotted a exoscan of himself
'Well I guess it wouldn't hurt to see what I look like under this skin' Tails thought before clicking the folder and when the image popped up Tails stared before a cry broke out making Bonnie and Rotor look over only to find Tails running away from the computer having disconnected himself and shut the latch while forgetting his symbol and moving over Bonnie checked what had made Tails run before she gasped at what was on screen it was what Tails looked like under the skin and in fact it slightly scared her he was completely yellow with long claws but his eyes were wrong they were pitch black except for two red dots in the middle and the scariest part was the sharp toothed smile
Bonnie could see how this could give any kid nightmares but finding out that was inside them Bonnie instantly froze before running after Tails and quickly finding him in his room with the door locked
"Tails it's me" Bonnie said hoping for some form of reply
"Go away Bonnie please" the tearful voice came from the door and reluctantly Bonnie left to find Sally and Sonic talking
"Hey we have a problem" Bonnie said bringing out the laptop they had been using and showing them the screen
"What is that another machine Robotnik has planned for it looks a bit creepy" Sonic said but what Bonnie said next made him instantly change his opinion
"No that's what Tails looks like under his skin and he just know saw this" Bonny said this caused both to wince
"I'll go talk to him" Sally said moving out of the room and to Tails room and quickly she knocked
"Go away" Tails said and ignoring him Sally used her key to open the door and when she was inside she found the room was darkened by the drapes having covered the windows but even then she found Tails sitting in the middle of the room
"Aunt Sally do you think I'm a monster" Tails asked and Sally found that he was holding another laptop with the image on it and he was staring at it
"No I don't think you are a monster" Sally said sitting down beside Tails and exiting out of the image
"After all it's not looks that describe the person it's what you discid to be" Sally said then she watched as Tails leaned forward and started a song on the laptop it looked newly made and know that Sally looked at the laptop it didn't look like any of the ones they had around in fact it looked like the kind the civilians had before the war then the song started (Monster by Imagine Dragon)
Ever since I could remember
Everything inside of me
Just wanted to fit in (oh oh oh oh)
I was never one for pretenders
Everything I tried to be
Just wouldn't settle in (oh oh oh oh)
If I told you what I was
Would you turn your back on me?
And if I seem dangerous
Would you be scared?
I get the feeling just because
Everything I touch isn't dark enough
If this problem lies in me
I'm only a man with a candle to guide me
I'm taking a stand to escape what's inside me
A monster, a monster
I've turned into a monster
A monster, a monster
And it keeps getting stronger
Can I clear my conscience,
If I'm different from the rest
Do I have to run and hide? (oh oh oh oh)
I never said that I want this
This burden came to me
And it's made it's home inside (oh oh oh oh)
If I told you what I was
Would you turn your back on me?
And if I seem dangerous
Would you be scared?
I get the feeling just because
Everything I touch isn't dark enough
If this problem lies in me
I'm only a man with a candle to guide me
I'm taking a stand to escape what's inside me
A monster, a monster
I've turned into a monster
A monster, a monster
And it keeps getting stronger
I'm only a man with a candle to guide me
I'm taking a stand to escape what's inside me
A monster, a monster
I've turned into a monster
A monster, a monster
And it keeps getting stronger
After the song finished playing Sally hugged Tails patting down his fur while he cried
"You're not a monster if anything you are the best little robot I have ever met" Sally said rubbing Tails ears after he calmed down enough and he gave a small smile
"Oh and what about Nicole" Tails joked still with tears in his eyes this caused Sally to smirk
"Nicole is much bigger then you are after all" Sally said opening a folder on the computer and showing a date on it
"You're only 5 years old my little baby robot fox" Sally teased and Tails instantly sat up straight and grabbed the computer staring at the number
"Oh you're kidding me" Tails said this caused Sally to laugh out loud then she watched as Tails slowly changed back to the image with his endoskeleton and before he could stare at it long Sally moved over and changed the program to paint and quickly she drew on it's heart the symbol of the freedom fighters over his heart
"You might look scary underneath but your heart will always be apart of the freedom Fighters and your heart will always be big and large just like how kind you are" Sally said hugging Tails who had changed his view from himself to the symbol and soon enough he started smiling
"You do know my 'heart' is made of metal and is basically a engine" Tails said looking up with a bit of a smile this just caused Sally to laugh
"Yes but it's still a heart Tails" Sally said playing with his hair and he instantly leaned into the caress and both stayed there for most of the day neither noticed that Sonic had been watching and had left them alone while taking up a lot of Sally's work for her that day besides Tail's needed her more
Wow I put a lot of emotion into this chapter I am actually impressed with myself I didn't know I could put this much emotion into one chapter well I hope you guys like this one I honestly already knew that a chapter like this would pop up because while Tails know know's everything Robotnik put into his computers he still has his own memory's as well so he's still a kid a extremely smart kid but a kid so I knew this would happen sooner or later and you guys know I was just waiting to put in a song somewhere in this story so without further ado see you guys